skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be very wary about investing my time and resources on a platform with such a corrupt CEO. Just a few months ago he was blatantly lying* about the massive security issues they were having.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13721644
What is cloudflare's endgame for investors? For some reason I don't think there are enough enterprise customers for cloudflare to become a multi billion dollar company.

Why not?

Also, Cloudflare has literally millions of web sites, APIs, applications using it. We are not limited to enterprise deals at all.
The 50-Year-Old Engineer
The tip of a mechanical pencil with the graphite retracted is the perfect size for fixing bent pins.
Depends on your family situation but android/ios phones shuold all have a DND mode that you can put on a schedule and allow exclusions for "favorites" or something of the sort. I have mine on DND from bed time through end of work day with only the wife and immediate family excluded. leave it in a bag or out of site and only check it at defined breaks. strikes the balance for me.
Please keep partisan flamewars off HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643682 and marked it off-topic.
> so as long as Whole Foods/etc can offer home delivery, then yeah there's nothing stopping them

If only a company with a battle tested home delivery network would acquire them...
And then someone uses you in an DoS amplification attack instead of going after you directly.
Interesting, perhaps not too surprising with some lines of work.

I'd be interested to know how it has impacted broader economic activity in the region.
Apps announcement: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-apps-2/

Fund announcement: https://blog.cloudflare.com/developer-fund/
Will this put even a slight dent in the zeal of the $15 minimum wage folks? Their platform was not based on any kind of economic analysis to begin with, so I suspect that additional data in that field will not affect their desire to see this pushed through.
Now that I've said something nice, I'm going to follow that up with a big F U to this app: https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/noadblock

EDIT: a little pre-debate warmup for anybody that wants to get into it. Point 1: Users have the right to block. Counter-point: Content provider have the right to deny access. Point 2: Ads are bad for users. Counter-point: there is none, ads are bad for users.
I check these all the time. It's not my job to verify who was first to publish and who deserves credit for novelty. There are groups that do that which divy up acknowledgment. It's my job to get up to speed with as accurate information as I can with the limited time I have.
You are right, i edited my comment. I think it's wrong for most perspectives- cost, power use, complexity, security, but it's a good choice if you need high-level programming environment or extensibility.
Microsoft broke free Office 365 Skype minutes four months ago, still not fixed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14637873

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14642828

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14645866
That's the point, it certainly does tamper with the market price. If somebody is receiving EITC & food stamps, they may be willing to accept a job paying $2 an hour because that $2 an hour will allow them to buy a little bit of meat to go with their rice & beans.

Without EITC & food stamps and other assistance $2/hour wouldn't cover food & rent even working 2 jobs, so they'd be forced to turn those jobs and look elsewhere, most likely to crime.

EITC & food stamps to the employed are a subsidy for the employer and distort the true market price for labour. Perhaps less than a minimum wage does.
I did the same: Content that is NOT organic search results is marked on the right side in Google’s colors: https://s3.kuschku.de/public/serp_annotated_web.png

Notice how 2/3rds of the page is taken by the app’s own UX, and of the shown results, another 40% is taken by embedded content.

The page shows only 9 search results, and zero above the fold.
Accented rural southerners would have no trouble whatsoever in NYC. This is one of those analogies that sounds like it should be true, but has no basis in fact.

It's also a super weird comparison. Southern intolerance is subtextually about animus towards African Americans and Latinos. Nobody is arguing that a Scandinavian would have any trouble in Mobile.

Further: Mobile is a weird choice for a comparison as well, since it's comparatively urban and well-educated. Mobile is more diverse than many parts of Chicago. When we talk about Southern racism, we're generally not talking about the urban south.

Finally, and I want to make this point gingerly, but if we want to drag US political parties into this discussion, the Republican party is almost mathematically determined to be more racist than the Democratic party, which is a coalition of labor, minorities, and liberal whites. It's also just empirically true that the Republican party harbors more overt racists, but we don't have to dive into a lot of value judgements about conservatism and nationalism to conclude that; we can just observe that the Democrats have African American and Latino voters as one of the foundations of their constituency.
This sounds bad. Any info in the text related to the visual representation will be unreadable i guess. Hiding such for diff review is helpful but not enough. Because in merge conflict resolution one may not have the luxury to neglect it.
The push for a national $15 minimum wage is so unhinged from reality, yet so politically popular, that it's terrifying. People living in coastal America just don't realize that they'd essentially be banning work in large swaths of the country. An hour of work simply isn't worth $15 in many places. Those places also have very low costs of living.

If a $15 minimum wage was imposed nationally, these communities would collapse and you'd simply have millions of additions to the ranks of urban poverty.
This study is really, really, really bad. Here's an analysis:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/0...
It doesn't necessarily have to be multiple UIs (although that's probably better in the long term) but there are x-platform options like:

1) Eto.Forms (https://github.com/picoe/Eto)
2) Avalonia (https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia)
That's really too kind to it. "Don't lets facts get in the way of whipping up hatred and getting a few more clicks" may be its motto...
Correct. It's a lose-lose situation, and therefore should be avoided.

Your "speeding tickets" example demonstrates this beautifully. We all know people who need an externally imposed speed limit, a scalar number that is so OBVIOUSLY SILLY it doesn't even take into account primary safety factors such as the weather, surrounding traffic situation, vehicle condition etc (as drivers do instinctively). People who worship that number as the source of "safeness"... because some bureaucrat somewhere said so. These are sad, broken people; actually dangerous to be around when driving.

Put differently: a person who cares about the fines and "points deducted from their license" more than their own safety and self-preservation, is a great adept for the Darwin Awards. Applies to businesses equally.
The nice thing about awk is that it's really only suitable for simple record processing. You therefore stop using fairly quickly when the problem reaches sufficient complexity to use a better suited language.

It's like a very neat, small domain specific language for use processing simple record based text files. And within those limits it's super useful.
I can see expert systems as hybrids of deep learning and predicate logic. For example: how to boil an egg: find egg carton in refrigerator (train deep neural net to recognize egg cartons). Find expiration date ( deep neural net ocr ). If egg carton expired, discard and terminate and alert. Otherwise continue etc.
This is another dupe of the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14637873
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Beijing sets the broad emissions/pollution targets and then leaves it up to the regional governments to decide how to make it happen. If the regional leadership does well they get rewarded, and if they fail they get replaced.
It's hard for Swedes to get a visa to visit the US? When did that happen?

>I can't believe anyone on the US Visa offices actually doing their research on the person.

Suspect Palantir, or some other contractor having some shitty software to score applicants based on social media + web searches + magic sauce.
Not surprised there's so much life below! I went to Antarctica earlier this year. I thought it would be a barren landscape and not much wildlife to see. I'm glad this wasn't the case.

It was more like being on a wildlife safari. I saw several different species of whale. Humpbacks very close to our zodiak. Seals everywhere and different species. At one point, one got right into my face and I could even smell its horrible fish breath as it breathed on me.

Several different species of penguins and birds. It was fantastic and full of wildlife.

I highly recommend going down there if you can. Such a pristine piece of the earth teeming with life.
Where is the Postgres community?
Another trick: use google scholar or a similar citation graph.

Unfortunately the citation graph sites won’t show all the outgoing references from a particular paper (I assume because they’re afraid of copyright issues?) but looking at the incoming references for a paper can be very useful. If you can find an old classic paper in some subject, then most major later papers will have cited it, so you can start from google scholar search’s list of references to the classic paper, which will be sorted by citation count. Doing keyword searches within such a list of references can often quickly surface the most important papers on a subject, especially if you go a couple hops into the “cited by” graph. Often among the most-cited papers is some kind of review paper with a clear explanation of the context, overview of the literature, and extended definitions of important terms.
Economists have been warning this for more than decades[1]. There are extensive studies about it. There are even former Marxists who talked about it, like Thomas Sowell[2]:

>Sowell has said that he was a Marxist "during the decade of my 20s"; one of his earliest professional publications was a sympathetic examination of Marxist thought vs. Marxist–Leninist practice. His experience working as a federal government intern during the summer of 1960 caused him to reject Marxian economics in favor of free market economic theory. During his work, Sowell discovered an association between the rise of mandated minimum wages for workers in the sugar industry of Puerto Rico and the rise of unemployment in that industry. Studying the patterns led Sowell to theorize that the government employees who administered the minimum wage law cared more about their own jobs than the plight of the poor.

Why do almost everybody think they can go against the laws of economy?

[1] 50 Years of Research on the Minimum Wage: https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/c876c468-ffca...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell#Education_and_ca...
Would have been nice with a comparison of typical command line scenarios and perhaps even speed comparison.
Why I think components are the right choice for developing front end applications
Really? Even if they are say from Germany, Japan, or China?

Or do they mean only the people from Middle East, since nobody cares that those people are assassinated.
Really? Nobody benefits from AMP? I mean I get the complaints from developers and publishers, but even on HN I have seen support for AMP.

This goes to the broader point though that Google wants to service the end user better based on their feedback (most sites are too big/load too slowly), so they created something simple that gives end users a faster, better and cheaper (lower mobile data cost) solution.

In fact Google seems to be moving faster here because companies keep creating large websites to serve rich content that users find annoyingly slow.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/11/google-amp-fac...
Yes, the apps were under simulated CPU load, memory allocations, etc. The good thing with sampling profilers is that overhead stays relatively stable even under high load.
Trouble is, food that comes from far away tends to be the type that has been bred to look good and last a long time before spoiling but actually tastes like food shaped nothing.
> Interestingly, WPP mandates all it's employees to shut down their computers – irrespective of the OS.

Smart (-ass?) employees will also turn off their smartphones...
Genuinely curious: if employers are simply cutting back hours to save paying the extra wages, what's happening with those hours that aren't staffed anymore?

One possibility is that the businesses were already overpaying for labor by staffing more employees for more hours than were needed. But that just turns a minimum-wage hike into a convenient excuse to roll back hours/staff (much as economic downturns tend to be used as a cover for companies to lay off people they no longer needed anyway).

Another possibility is that more hours are being assigned to salaried employees since it doesn't cost extra to have them work more. But that would actually be a good thing -- it would increase the demand for salaried full-time employees, and being a salaried full-time employee is much better than being a minimum-wage hourly employee.

Another possibility is that businesses are just closing down more often rather than pay people to keep things operating. But that seems unlikely.

So what's actually happening?
Thanks! Vote data is stochastic. Even heavily upvoted comments like yours get some downvotes mixed in. Who knows why? Sometimes people just misclick.
Yeah the Tektronix HV probes used to come with an aerosol can and you had to fill them up.

Technically frequency compensation is required across all voltage dividers for scopes so not to accidentally create a low pass filter with the parasitic capacitance in the cables and input circuits. It's all quite fun.

Disclaimer: was an obsessive compulsive scope collector for a while.
To me the more interesting questions are around other workers and buying power. Does this devalue wages of the $20/hour EMT that went to a technical school for 2 years? Have prices gone up in relation to this wage increase or are businesses just cutting hours (service levels) to compensate? If prices are rising because of this, does this decrease the buying power of these minimum wage workers since they are likely to shop and patron many business that also employ these minimum wage workers?
Nice product, and nice KISS approach.

For those who don't want to / can't pay for it (eg the developing world), burying unglazed pots will also work. It's probably the most water-efficient method in arid land. The technique is at least 4000 years old.

https://www.treehugger.com/green-food/unglazed-clay-pots-cre...
Not sure that's working. A lot of GC designs need access to program state, like what's currently on the stack, that's not available in WebAssembly.
If it gets big enough then people just hear from each other
if paying unlocks the data or not.

The best way to end ransomware is to get serious about security. In many cases, being attacked by a ransomware, is paying a low price compared to if it was a targeted attack.

edit: Also, I imagine it gets easier after you wrote one i.e. many ransomewares come from the same author. So he could gain a reputation by signing messages saying that yes, this is our ransomware, we always unlock after receiving the payment.
Bitcoin, if it had arrived about ten years earlier, would have been one way for the people in Venezuela to store some value and it may one day allow people who want to run away from their country to bring more of their wealth with them.

However crooks are always going to be among the early adopters, so I my guess i my answer would be that it has limited value, right now.
> a courage that deserves our total admiration. It is what separates them from the rest of us.

I am not a native speaker and cannot find out whether this is a real statement or sarcasm/humor.
Most likely relying on second-hand info that was just wrong. I doubt he based that post entirely on searching the caches himself. That whole incident was a mess though, tying up a lot of peoples' time who didn't work for CloudFlare. Centralization of services is always painful when things go wrong, and that may be a reason to avoid CloudFlare.

The only other beef I can think of against CloudFlare is how they play both sides of the DDoS game, hosting the sites selling them (free speech!) and charging the victims for protection.

PS. CloudFlare does deserve some flak / second thoughts for the whole Cloudbleed thing, but I don't think your response is quite on target.
Define monopoly, Google is the largest search engine, Amazon is the largest eretailer. Personally I don't think Google has a monopoly, as there are alternatives (a monopoly is supposed to be when their exist no competitors, not just when a business is so much better than everyone else that people choose to use them). Plus, switching search engines takes literally seconds.

Amazon used to only push other's products, now they push their own as well, often making use of their front page to do so. It's the same, if not worse, than what Google is doing.
> Patches were released in March, but many seem to have put off security-critical patching.

In fairness to some of the unpatched - the last round of Windows 10 updates refused to install on some machines (well, mine and some others on Twitter), and trapped me in an endless loop of download-install-fail-download. When this happened my landline internet was down, so this was happening over 4G tethering, and burning up $20/day in cellphone data until I just turned off my internet/tethering.

I'm not saying don't patch (you should!), just that even people trying to stay patched and do the right thing can find they're unable to do so.
"Put a google map in a browser with no code"

Because copy pasting the markup / js was so difficult?
"Sure, it's cold—but to a fire, everything is cold"
https://what-if.xkcd.com/155/
Minimum wage isn't really Marxist afaik, and people go against 'laws' of economy because they aren't laws in the same sense that say, thermodynamics or gravity seem to be. We have trends that arise out of messy and massively complex systems, and people feel free to believe that whatever variables were at play in some other situation aren't in theirs.

Edit: This is aside from any opinion about how good or bad the content of the article is, just pointing out why I think people are increasingly okay with ignoring economists' opinions.
Probably not so much electrocuted as poisoned with metal ions.
Switching is different in this business though. In the group deal business, as a customer you're buying individual deals all the time. As soon as not-Groupon has a better deal than Groupon, you switch.

In meal-kit business, you're a subscriber of one service. Switching to a new one means entering all your info again, choosing from the list of options, and waiting for the kits to start shipping to you.
The milkweed concern isn't over drift. It's over monocultures, which is a different argument entirely. As for studies 1 and 2 below, I'll look into them more, but as cited above, there's also plenty of science indicating the opposite.
Which pesticides do you refer to? I'd love to read and share exactly that sort of data.
It's not just acquiring the ingredients; there's value in having someone else plan the menu for you. Deciding what to cook can be a challenge! I host an ~8 person dinner party roughly once a week, and it is not unusual for me to spend as much time digging through recipes, trying to decide what to cook, as I put into actually preparing the meal.

Yes, of course you need other groceries beyond the meal kit itself, but that's not the point - the point is that you've paid the meal service to deal with all the boring parts of the process, which often includes the decision-making, so you can just enjoy the cooking and eating.
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Very interesting. I know a lot of people think that EITC is a much more effective tool for helping the poor than high minimum wage.
The use of decorators in Anguar 2/4 is also very well done, IMHO. They allow your class to focus on its business logic, rather than the minute details of how Angular expects it to interact with the rest of Angular.

There's a reason all the most common languages have them, concealing complexity is a way to reduce cognitive overload and therefore, bugs.
That would be akin to running Windows XP. People running Anfient Monftrosities should not get cocky in general, attacks on old systems are only getting worse with time.
There is a huge variety in the quality of writing in scientific papers, but most of it is bad, or at least totally opaque, so I'm not sure that 3 papers will give you a sense of what is good, or even have a high probability of containing a paper that you can use as an entry point, although I think your premise is correct.

Probably the best evidence that a paper is a good entry point is whether or not the author cared about the abstract. A lot of scientists treat it as a chore, picking some key points from the premise, methodology, and conclusion sections, and haphazardly pasting them together into a miniature version of the paper. An abstract is a sketch of your argument. It's supposed to be how the author thinks about the work they are doing, in terms of how it relates to the work everyone else is doing. Look for an abstract which presents an argument in plain english and isn't afraid to give a little background or motivation. It might take dozens to find one though.
The State of Victoria (Australia) had a $14.50 minimum wage when I lived there, and most baristas and servers I knew wouldn't take jobs that paid less than $20. It's important to note that's the entire wage as AU doesn't really have a tipping culture. Melbourne has been voted 'most livable' city multiple times.

Seattle's situation is much more complex. Condos are going up and ST3 is funded, but the city needed that rail system a decade ago. The biggest problem in Seattle, as is the Bay Area, is growing income inequality.

When the fishing industry grew in Seattle, so did local shops, bars, hotels and all the other industry that gets paid various wages across the board to support each other. Seattle is a tech capital, and those jobs are very high demand. People in tech often get paid more than lawyers and even doctors.

I remember a lawyer telling me very few of the police he's met live anywhere near the areas they work in. People who bought houses decades ago for $150k are watching their neighbours take buyouts and leave, selling their places for $800 to over a million.

The disproportionate amount of income given to those in high demand fields hurts everyone else across the board. Seattle is building a lot more housing, unlike the bay area, but there is still a considerable amount of single occupancy housing in the city that's empty simply because the owners won't sell it or bring it up to code.

It's more than just minimum wage. There are a lot of complexities in that city where you can't just focus on a couple of numbers.
indeed interested in this too
While I agree with the sentiment of the article, it misses a larger argument. Perl is reasonably good at "making common things easy and hard things possible". Meaning if the needs might vary, it's not a stretch to evolve the code to match the requirements.

And despite having a strong affinity for Perl, I don't think it's productive to just bannish Awk to the trash: part of being well-rounded is knowing many tools—which can overlap to some degree—and appreciating the sweet spot of each one. For some one-liners, Awk is just as (if not more) elegant as Perl.