skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if he aligned with the Nazi goals necessarily but he certainly loved his rockets enough to look over the fact that tens of thousands of forced laborers worked under terrible conditions for his toys and thousands of people died in Britain.
The reason they excluded it was because the data they were provided for those companies did not differentiate between workers in Seattle and workers outside. That said the economics of hiring an extra shouldn't be significantly different for a big company. Costco and Starbucks probably have some wiggle room to cut down on the number of staff at a certain time.

Also, to quote from the study: "as shown in Table 2, in Washington State as a whole, single-site businesses comprise 89% of firms and employ 62% of the entire workforce (which includes 2.7 million employees in an average quarter)" [2]."
I see it too. I think it's my content blocker (I use Firefox Focus). Easy enough workaround: tap the link icon at the top, then tap the link, and you'll open the page directly without Google's bullshit proxying. Still quite annoying, though. Any time I do a Google search and there's a choice of AMP and non-AMP results, I go for the non-AMP ones. I like having pages that load fast and aren't full of junk, but not as much as I like having pages that scroll properly.
> Thank goodness the early Pentiums stopped that madness

The idea of a separate co-processor that only did floating point ended with the 387. The 487SX (that was the coprocessor for the 486SX) was actually a 487DX (i.e. a full 486, with an FPU) that took over the system entirely and disabled the 486SX. But that whole scheme was still its own special kind of madness.
Thanks largely to the internet, fewer and fewer can.
> I just believe (rightly or wrongly) that Amazon's customers are more price sensitive that is commonly believed and the merry-go-round of constant reinvestment isn't going to be something that can be stopped for that reason.

Maybe. But the 70M prime members whose numbers just keep going up and we will see that number break 100M at some point. They don't account for a majority of Amazon's revenue but Amazon is doing over $6B in subscription revenue alone on them right now. Those members aren't as price conscious. And there's many people who aren't willing to pay the $80-100 yearly fee but still use Amazon as a default like Prime members. Those two groups combined most likely account for a majority of Amazon's ecommerce revenue and profit.

> I always thought Amazon was fairly valued around $300-400/share

But you quoted my part saying AWS itself (and technically I included the subsidiaries) is worth that much in share value itself/themselves. At $300/share you're talking about just a $150B market cap. At that point, whose values are you killing off? Amazon retail, value of all the prime members, AWS, Alexa/Kindle/Fire ecosystem, subsidiaries?

Their PE would be at 60 at that point. People once balked at FB's PE for being in the hundreds. Now it's at a cool 40. PE of 60 is about double Google's. Who coincidentally have been going harder in recent years on cutting spending with their latest CFO and continue with trying to raise profits of their golden goose.

Putting that into context, your thinking of $300-400 a share is too low. AWS has a lot of competition. But it's currently still growing and profit margins are huge. Most business don't seem to mind AWS's high prices.

Amazon is still growing too. They bought Souq, the Amazon of Saudi/ME. They are investing billions to fight for India. Google I believe has already won south east Asia.

Their retail/ecommerce revenue alone is around $100B. Overall, they are going to top $150B this year. Without AWS which is their primary profit machine right now, they are still at $135B+ in revenue. Don't you think if they wanted to, they'd be able to eek out a few billion in profit from that remaining $100B+ in revenue if they decided to go that way? That would get their PE below 100. I will note I don't think PE matters that much for Amazon right now. Just look at Netflix's or Salesforce's PE ratios now and in recent years.

I agree, Google's profitability much like Facebook is extraordinary. But they are the two main internet advertising companies. Apple is even more insane, but they only intersect in certain aspects. Finally, Google and Amazon had around the same revenue at the beginning of this decade. By the end of it, Amazon will be double (or just about) Google's revenue. Comparing them isn't as simple as apples to apples.
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Why would two people in the same family book seats not next to each other?
I agree with most of the article, but I think that my browsing experience with news (and similar) websites has been improved overall by AMP in a way that I almost regret visiting websites that offer no support for it. On the other hand, I also think that publishers need more control over their content and how they serve it to their users. Having said that, if AMP were to be integrated with GCP it could improve the service for everyone involved, not only publishers and consumers (yes, even for Google itself); for example, a publisher could have an AMP Cloud Storage bucket configured under the domain of the publisher in order to use the its identity and not google's one. On the consumer's end it could be as simple as a switch to turn off amp results for a single session or for every single one. At the end of the day, lets not forget that it is a fairly new approach to improve the web experience (and not a bad one at all) and there are options and many paths that AMP could follow in order to become a better experience for everyone.
I look forward to these selling out before I've had a chance to buy them at MSRP, then finding them resold by the dozen on eBay for hundreds of dollars.
I'm pretty sure that was the goal of OpenAI Gym. Gym tries to provide a generic interface for RL environments, and imho it does a nice job. I am working on Python bindings for µniverse now, which should allow µniverse to integrate with Gym.
You aren't telling the homeless person that they are legally forbidden from working in cheap labor. You are telling businesses that they are not solvent if they rely on ultra cheap labor.
Would you happen to have a link that goes into further detail?
Granted, I'm a redneck from the back woods, but there are lots of people I know that don't make $15/hour in skilled trades, let alone minimum wage jobs. If you're going to pay minimum wage of $15, then all other wagesshould correspondingly increase
I had an independent Yahoo email for years before having SBC/ATT. When I signed up they offered to tie my yahoo email into their system. What they didn't tell me was there is no way to unconnect when you cancel ATT services. So now, many years later, my login always redirects to an ATT/Yahoo! page for whatever I'm trying to view (news, email, etc.)
And very ideologically biased...
Your commment implies they were cherry-picking the data, which isn't true. They only included data that could definitively be marked as within Seattle vs outside Seattle.
>Who am I to tell a homeless person that she is legally forbidden to engage in a voluntary, hourly employment contract for less than $15/hr?

Someone who hasn't unterstood minimun wage fully?

Minimum wage covers exactly this situation: You will have to pay at least that amount, even if the person you're employing happens to be homeless at the moment. If an employer is not willing to pay that, than that's not an issue with having a minimum wage...
Let's be clear here that Hazlitt is not himself an economist.
All of the economists said Ford was nuts for offering higher wages and less hours. I would argue it worked well.
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Staff your team with people who are articulate and resourceful. Then, relax :)
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Long-term capital gains are taxed lower than normal generic income (at rates lower than the same person would pay in income tax) which in turn taxed lower than labor income (which is, in addition to regular income tax, subject to payroll tax.)

Closing the capital gains tax loophole is, presumably, a reference to stopping some or all of this favorable treatment.
+1 for the shortcuts.

Also one should take a look at rlwrap after becoming comfortable with the keyboard shortcuts.
I've noticed this too. It's blazing compared to the average Verisign
>Almost anything that's valuable on-line is either a marketing expense or done pro bono.

So, like Netflix?
From a user perspective, the speed of AMP is nice but I absolutely hate not being able to see the original URL of a site.

I want to see the original URL, certainly not a CDN mirror URL that could obfuscate or muddy the source.
Businesses that serve the poor can't do that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14638000 :)
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Ethereum Is Struggling with Scaling, Despite Lack of Actual User Base
(Author here). I hadn't realized that the engineers were laid off. Where did you find this out?
The post isn't objecting to the firewall, though.

I totally understand the need for a campus-wide firewall. The MIT network is a juicy target for botnets, and individual students are not good enough at running security on their own computers. The old approach to IP assignment was that you needed to get your IP approved and made routable by IS&T anyway, and if they detected botnet activity on your computer, they'd manually intervene and make it unroutable again. That sounds like a lot of work.

If computers end up with firewalled but publicly routable IPv6 addresses, that sounds perfect.
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That image is quite stunning. As the 2008 press release [1] states, this image was one of the first successes at direct imaging an exoplanet. It raised some interesting questions, such as why such a massive planet could be found so far out (330 AU!) The scientific paper for this observation can be found in [2] for those interested more astrophysical detail.

I feel compelled to offer an astronomer's clarification though. The planet in this image is not "resolved" in the technical sense. A resolved image usually means that fine details about the object are discernible spatially. For example, unresolved images of Betelgeuse provide a point source image, without details; a resolved image of Betelgeuse allows you to find spatial features such as that enormous bubble. Another example is, say, Jupiter: by eye or with a very modest telescope, Jupiter is a (bright) point of light. But with a moderate increase in resolving power, you can see all sorts of interesting features, such as the Great Red Spot, and the various cloud layers that vary with latitude.

Individual exoplanets are simply too small to resolve, even with JWST. Even being generous - assuming that the planet is bright enough to detect and that the host star doesn't overwhelm the signal - the angular sizes of exoplanets are miniscule. Lets assume some very generous numbers: a hypothetical exoplanet ten times the diameter of Jupiter (very large), and very, very close to Earth - let's say, 10 lightyears for simplicity and generosity. In arcseconds, the angular diameter of such an object on the sky is about 0.003". Smaller planets at more reasonable distances are even smaller. (The angular size of an object is just small angle trigonometry: in radians, about the width of the object divided by its distance.) Currently, science-class telescopes usually require about 1" resolution. JWST has about 0.1" resolution [3]; an interferometer like ALMA can, at its very best, achieve maybe 0.02" [4], though interferometers (as mentioned in other answers) sacrifice some things in exchange for spatial resolution.

This isn't to say you can't just detect exoplanets - you can, even with a ground based telescope like Gemini - but you probably won't resolve them, at least in this generation of telescopes, including JWST. But you can do a lot without spatial resolution - for example, you don't need to resolve the object to measure its spectrum, and spectral analysis can tell you a great deal.

[1] http://www.gemini.edu/sunstarplanet
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1424
[3] https://jwst.nasa.gov/faq.html#webbbetter (question 25)
[4] https://almascience.eso.org/about-alma/alma-basics (section: spatial resolution)
I wonder if any of this is related to the new NIST Standards[1], which have to be followed by research labs who receive government funding. I could see MIT, already having to retrofit a lot of their research networks, also changing around the network architecture in other places aswell.

[1]:http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP...
At the very least, something with lots of wide fast DDR4 and lots of PCIe lanes.
Besides the obvious answers of just reading the manual, looking up howtos, and stackoverflow I can recommend some habits that might increase your uptake of bash.

1. If you are not running a unix as your default OS switch to one (ie Linux or Mac).

2. Create a bin (~/bin) directory in your home directory of all your shells scripts and source control it. Any script you ever write put in that directory. Even if its not bash (ie python, perl). I find that it is critical to look at how you did things previously to help you learn as well as it saves time.

3. Any command that is complicated one liner that you create or see on the internet... create script and put in the bin directory mentioned above.

4. Optimize your personal bin directory and review frequently.

5. If you run Linux build your system from scratch (ie read Linux from scratch).

6. Bonus to the above: Automate the creation of your personal system through Packer and Bash!

7. Find where things are not automated.

8. Bash is more than just the shell. A knowledge of GNU coreutils as well as tmux/screen is worthwhile and highly recommended.

9. Learn the readline shortcuts. Particularly "ctrl-r".
I look forward to getting into a brawl at Gamestop at 1am to get one.
Germany recently got one.
It sounds like the study doesn't take into account cost of living. Even for a minimum wage employee, time is money. Assume for the sake of argument that this study accurately describes wage losses. [1]

Assume that the average minimum wage worker was working 2 different jobs for a total of 40 hours a week with no benefits. That's a total of 160 hours a month, or $1440. A loss of $125/month equates to $1315, or 102 hours a month at $13/hour. [1] So the worker loses $125/month and gains 58 hours. To translate that into one dollars example, childcare in Seattle costs around $10/hour.

There are of course lots of ways to save money with that free time. More sleep means fewer minor accidents leading to injury and sickness around the house. Childcare costs around $10/hour in this city, so by that metric there was basically no point in going to work before this wage increase if you had children to take care of. Saving 50 hours of work equates to saving $500 dollars. Obviously, it's not going to be 1:1, but even assuming you were spending just 15 hours in childcare would make our hypothetical worker better off, with an extra 35 hours to go to school, or just relax and keep their health.

[1] It sounds like this study is looking only at small businesses, for whom the rate is $13/hour. Since it ignores most businesses that actually must pay $15/hour, the headline seems wrong by definition.
Every single site these days has a modal or overlay that obscures/distorts the content.

People have learned that clicking that little X gets rid of the obstruction so they can view the page as it was intended.

You probably dismiss hundreds of these EU cookie notices per week.
Many have trouble making ends-meat because they lack skills that the market will pay for. Long term solution: Get more people skills that employers will pay for.

Another solution to help low wage/low skilled workers, is a negative tax rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit
This is an unusually facile remark for you.

Here's Max Ehrenfreund's publication history at WaPo. Take a glance across it, and then decide if you're convinced he's essentially a fraud, reporting in bad faith to promote the viewpoints of Jeff Bezos. I wonder if he's ever even met him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/max-ehrenfreund/?utm_t...
A local bar I favor added a 5%! "minimum wage surcharge". It's just an excuse for business to raise prices without actually improving the income of the servers. (Let's be realistic the 5% is not gonna go all to the servers and people will tip less out of spite)
I'd be shocked if Apple's official stance was that tapping the status bar to scroll to the top of a page is wrong and should be fixed.
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I'm super excited for the opportunity to see it announced that they're available, only to discover that they're sold out by the time I make it to an online retailer to purchase one.
Misunderstanding also exists, though, at many stages of the game. There's a pair of famous books - counterexamples in topology and another on analysis - dedicated entirely to counterexamples which dispel some common mis understandings.

And these misunderstanding are not limited to undergrads; often they stand in the way of progress at the edge off research, simply because we don't actually know what's possible. Research level math is often guided by folklore: important conjectures and shadows of what might be. And when the folklore is wrong, we go down the wrong track until someone finds a counterexample...
Hey, Eternal Terminal developer here :-)

A one-time shared passkey is sent over ssh and then this passkey is used to encrypt/decrypt the data in both directions. The server and the client have different initial nonces.
Perhaps minimum wage proponents need to frame it like that to justify it, but in reality, it goes both ways. You ARE legally forbidding a homeless person from working at a price of their choosing, just as much as you are forbidding a business from purchasing labor below a certain price.
>Of course the tradeoff is loss of scrollback.

That could always be buffered on the server side.
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I sometimes really like the approach in Singapore better. Instead of mandating a minimum wage, which essentially tells businesses that they have pay their workers a minimum, the businesses can pay their workers at the market rate and the government gives the workers extra income-based subsidy. This strikes me as better than minimum wage: operating costs for businesses remain the same, yet workers have the equivalent of a minimum wage.
What a terrible book. Naively written, leaves the impression that the author is more showing off that he can write about every sci-fi meme in existence ("I'm a big boy now, I know about that topic too!"). Unfocused, meandering plot. Nonsensical end. I regret wasting my time with it.
This seems like an interesting study, but I'm not sure its conclusion makes sense to me. Am I understanding the facts correctly:

1. Employment stayed about the same.

2. Employees overall were payed a lot more.

3. The number of low wage employees (which I assume means those making the new minimum wage) dropped. However employees overall were payed more. My understanding is that this means that employers switched to paying more of their employers above the minimum wage.

4. They say that the average low payed employee made $125 less. However, its not clear to me what that means in light of the other points.

5. The study did not include larger corporations that have employees in multiple cities.

Several different interpretations were suggested:

1. Companies are hiring more skilled employees for higher wages and pushing less skilled employees out of the market.

2. Small businesses are being hurt and large businesses are taking their place.

3. Companies are paying employees more.

4. The results are due to some aspect of the economy that wasn't controlled for.

It seems to me that the conclusion that this is bad for those who advocate for higher minimum wages isn't very strong unless they could show that it was actually pushing low skilled employees out of the market.
Part of my point is that some people very loudly point out the flaws of minimum wages - and they have some valid arguments - but them seem to hem and haw a lot about finding better solutions for that subset of people who are in real trouble.
If the payload is small enough (compared to FH), will it be possible to SSTO? Then you could park in LEO, and return to LZ when it's clear!

Edit: no. Falcon Heavy has more than one stage.
Perhaps you don't understand [1].
This is b.s. for numerous reasons:

- You can have the PIN reset for all of those cards so that they all match, (or better we should be using PK based push notifications to a smart phone app; plug in the card, and you get a push notification to deny/allow on your phone, instead of entering in a PIN.)

- Signatures aren't even verified the vast majority of transactions. They only come into play if you catch fraud and report it. So it's used after the fact, not in advance.

- Signatures are predicated on pen on paper on a flat writing surface perpendicular to gravity. Your signature is not at all the same to a handwriting expert if you change any of those things, and in particular the digital capture of signatures is complete utter bullcrap: no angular, or pressure information is captured. We should just use smiley faces on all such POS systems, in lieu of even attempting a signature (it is in fact what I do).

Digital signatures are Tonka Toys. They are nothing like a finger print.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w23532?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_mediu...

Total payroll fell, so your explanation is not consistent with the data.
What kind of projects you work on? I think I'd have some difficult coding on a machine with 2GB of RAM.
> Then why are they doing NAT?

Because they sold their IPv4 addresses.
Except that there are numerous cases where raising price doesn't proportionally drop demand (it can even raise demand), and very well understood reasons for that.

Pretending that it's a "law" of economics we can blindly apply to any situation is absurd.
If someone says 'my labor isn't worth 15$ and I know you won't hire me at that rate so I want to work for 10$' they are legally forbidden from this, right?
Examining public perceptions of autonomous vehicles using hypothetical scenarios
MongoDB Stitch is a great new BaaS offering. They even have some great tutorials online to use it.

Have a look at their sample PlateSpace app:
https://github.com/mongodb/platespace

Very cool new service and some excellent tutorials as well, for example for the PlateSpace web app: https://docs.mongodb.com/stitch/getting-started/platespace-w...

I'd definitely recommend having a look.
When a person is desperate, 'voluntary' starts to lose all meaning.

If you are dead broke and half starved and I offered you a take it or leave it offer to work carrying rocks for $2 an hour so you can get a sandwich and you agree, is that really voluntary?

I do agree with you about teenagers and other people that don't need the money in order to live. For dependents and people that agree not to get public assistance (e.g. retirees), I don't think there should be any minimum wage at all.
Perhaps. I haven't seen public discussion on the plans to use the fund though, other than vague promise that it will be used on Internet things.