skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, no I would not expect more rationality. I am an alum. I am long since out of academia and have no idea what is behind this. However, if I had to guess, I bet there is some inner politics. Just 'cause it is MIT doesn't mean it is is free from human nature. And, truthfully, I've seen some petty things get all sorts of dramatic.

We are humans. We're not rational beings, we're rationalizing beings. We like to pretend we are better but there is a valid reason that they say science progresses one death at a time.
If it's a matter where the definition is a matter of regulatory authority then a redefinition cannot apply retroactively for purpose of criminal action. Ex post facto does apply.

OTOH, if it's just an existing statutory definition that the SEC looks at and says that this new thing fits into it, then there is no change in definition. Prosecutions might proceed based on the exosting definition based on acts before the SEC applied that definition to the acts in question, though it would be a question for the court whether the existing definition was being applied correctly.

I am not going to express an opinion, at this time, on whether any securities laws apply to ICOs in either way (either clear inclusion one existing statutory definitions or areas that are, under statute, open to regulatory action.)
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It sounds like you use React well and it's reasonably light and performant. The current project I'm on has a React frontend where typing in a text box is laggy due to how horrific the code base is. You're correct in saying that React is not to blame only it's misuse, however it is becoming a common cause of slowness.
The problem historically is that these increased options tend to go hand in hand with efforts to crappify the experience for those not paying extra in an attempt to "encourage" them to pay more. See "economy plus" ie. "Cram in more seats to shrink seat space except for a few that will stay the same that we can charge more for".

This is also a part of the game to avoid listing high fares on affiliate travel sites but then charging more through upcharges like this in an attempt to mask overall increases to average fare prices.
I have been leading a remote team for past few years and the best tool for me is a long 2 hour call Wendsday afternoon, we start with status and project updates and after that we just chat about everything else including venting against the company, books, sporting events, the weather and I find this to be the best bonding tool for the team... good luck!
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The time varies widely. The remove card notice comes as fast as 3 seconds, I find 6 seconds more typical, and up to 15 seconds for the local grocery, and nearly 30 seconds for small pizza, sandwich, liquor stores.

There is no possible way it was taking this long for swipe authorizations; or even NFC authorizations which seemed faster than swipe but were probably the same, but more secure.

I still think the U.S. did this exactly wrong. 1. we were late to the game; 2. had started adopting better NFC technology; 3. instead of building on that, regressed to an old slow contact chip-based system; 4. instead of moving directly to PIN entry, retained signing, hence chip & sign, rather than chip & PIN. It's idiotic.

And that's just the customer size idiocy. The merchant idiocy is even worse. They paid for this transition. Not the banks, the processors, or EMV who ensure they make money hand over fist no matter what. If a customer has a chip card, and your POS does not support chip reading, the liability for fraudulent transactions is shifted to the merchant.
> If you want to discuss overall impact, you can't simply leave out things that are hard to measure

They're not leaving out things that are "hard to measure." They're being honest about the limitations of their data:

"Employers are required to report actual hours worked for employees whose hours are tracked (i.e. hourly workers), and report either actual hours worked or total number of hours assuming a 40 hour work week for employees whose hours are not tracked (i.e. salaried workers)" [1].

These data allow these researchers to make incredibly accurate measurements about the price and quantity demanded of labour. Because "the data identify business entities as [unemployment insurance] account holders...firms with multiple locations have the option of establishing a separate account for each location, or a common account." This means the researchers could only "identify business location only for single-site firms and those multi-site firms opting for separate accounts by location." Excluding multi-site single-account businesses from the analysis avoided muddying the precision of the hourly and quarterly wage data with geographic uncertainty.

In any case, the study only purports to measure employment effects amongst "single-site businesses," which "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].

[1] http://www.nber.org/papers/w23532.pdf page 13

[2] page 14
So low wage workers are getting cut but unemployment is still at 3.2%? Which is ~1.5% lower than the national average?

Kind of sounds like this study might be looking at only half the story.
If you still want a Jolla tablet, there is an indie project started. They had all the blueprints and designs of the original tablet device. Licensing of Sailfish OS should have been taken care of. The first step is to bring out a device with most of the same hardware as the Jolla batch. In the future there might be updates on the hardware, most probably with a 3G module.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=99214
I suspect you're getting downvoted, and not getting replied to, because

> the jobs [being] cut because of the collective actions of spiteful business owners who don't wish to pay their employees that much per hour

...just doesn't make any kind of sense. You might find an occasional individual small business owner who's willing to cut off his nose to spite his face in this fashion. To imagine it happening on a collective basis, whether in organized or spontaneous fashion, is fantastically absurd, and seems necessarily rooted in so little experience of actual business proprietors that it's hard to imagine any kind of productive conversation proceeding from this point.
KeePassXC restricts chromeIPass to localhost, so data should be safe. Still, chromeIPass exchanges encryption keys in base64. Basically that's plain text. These are the only keys used, so technically it's possible to steal those keys (if not localhost). But if someone has permission to read your loopback or local packet traffic, your info is gone..

Other than that, chromeIPass uses quite old libraries and depricated API functions. Those haven't been updated in ages. keepassxc-browser should fix all issues mentioned above :)
The successful Scandinavian model doesn't have any minimum wages for a reason.
Thanks for raising this. Anecdotally text in both cases appears to render first which makes sites workable. Images are consistently the laggards. In the AMP case the text content is always reasonable (i.e. formatted well) whereas in the non-AMP case you're beholden to whatever CSS the author applies which if it's lagged can cause re-draws - which are quite jarring.
Don't take away the only entry point to employment in the economy that those people have until we actually have a good answer to that question.
There's more to the story, too: advances on top of CRISP may give us better tools to self-improve the species, accelerating evolution.

Personally, I'm bearish about AGI because I believe we will eventually realize that the brain is a glorified linear regression too, with a custom wiring to help learn language and vision.
Wow - 2603:4000::/24. That's the largest block of IPv6 addresses I'm aware of being handed out to a single entity.

Normally, ISPs get a /32, from which, they hand out /48s to their customer. And, with pretty much zero paper work, and ISP can get a second /32 (usually adjacent with their first /32 so they can summarize as a /31).

So - an ISP might get 2001:1868::/32 and then hand off 2001:1868:0209::/48 to a customer.

Because a /48 allows 2^16 or 65k networks, each network containing (effectively) an infinite number of hosts, pretty much every single geographic region company can be effectively served with a single /48. The /32 allows the ISP to have 65K customer (each of which has 65K networks).

What on earth is MIT going to do with a 2603:4000::/24? I'd love to hear the story behind why they got such a large block.

edit: according to https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html this is considered a "medium" (WTF?) allocation with a cost of $4k/year.
What is the probability for this to happen? Or how could I estimate the time it takes for random code to hit this bug at least once with a probability of over 90%?
You don't need to run a Tor relay in order to run a hidden service. I have thrown in this idea as it's a dead simple (cheap/free, and you don't have to coordinate with anyone) to get your stuff publicly, let alone for experimental purpose.
Can you elaborate on the Reddit issue? I experienced something similar (just a white page, no app opening, etc). Curious if this is the same thing.
tldr;

* The study uses more precise data than similar prior studies and comes to a sharply different conclusion.

* Economists generally want to disbelieve this study, because the results aren't promising, but the method used is largely credible and the data is more precise.

* The impact, according to the study, is that to compensate for the higher wages employers are continuing to hire but only highly skilled candidates thereby displacing the lowest wage earners or "removing the bottom rung".
i agree. i can't help but think this sort of legislation just increases the rate at which companies like mcdonalds pursue fully automated franchises.
Whatever the underlying paper says, this article is terrible. It never explains why a bunch of low paying jobs being replaced with the same number of high paying ones is bad, other than some hand-waving about low skilled workers being left out. Where did all these new high skilled workers come from?
How to Create an Improved Education System of the Future
It is extremely inefficient to just read a book 5 times, it is like throwing mud to the wall hoping that it sticks.
It's much more effective to focus on each topic and try to remember and repeat the informations just read.
Having a general mental framework on the book on the other hand is very helpful.
I used to do (2), before I did a recent India trip with my wife. I have been lucky all my life when it comes to having nice co-passengers, but this guy shattered my track record. He had the middle seat, and was willing to exchange it for the aisle (but not the window) seat. Among the things he did to me were wake me up every 30 mins on a 15 hr flight, drunkenly pour a drink on my pants and use my shirt as a napkin after a cutlery-less meal.

YMMV (and I hope it does)!
The problem I have with the minimum wage is that it transfers wealth from the very poorest to the mid-working class/lower middle class.

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? I would effectively be guaranteeing that she stays unemployed/homeless. Regardless of practical effects (which are ambiguous at best), it's wrong on moral grounds.

On the other hand, the minimum wage definitely benefits middle class teenagers on their first jobs (if they can get a job), and has questionable benefit for millennial humanities college grads who have yet to start a career. For them, the higher wage comes with fewer hours, according to this study.

In the long run though, the more we raise the minimum wage, the sooner the local price inflation catches up. Getting a casual meal in Seattle is NOT cheap right now.

EDIT: I'll throw in that I think a very basic income with no minimum wage/unemployment/other welfare is much smarter fiscally and economically, and is the only way to largely eliminate extreme poverty. And it's sad that HN readers flagged this article because it challenges a conventional liberal talking point.
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Really interesting post. I'm going to look for a video or see if there's even more detail on some of these stages.
Except that oil is scarce to due to the laws of nature and that gives it it's price, whereas ether is artificially scarce. You could make a new piece of software called Blether that provided the exact same service and you could instantly 'double' the supply. Whereas with oil, you can't 'magic' your way into more of the resource by deploying some code.
>>1. Correct, I mean opt-in from the publishers, who seem to be the exclusive people complaining

There are all kinds of complaints on this very page about how AMP negatively alters the user experience (stupid urls, broken scrolling, bar covering 1/3 of the content, broken UI, inability to turn it off, etc).

Those don't sound to me like "exclusive" publisher complaints.
A healthy organization needs a mix of old and young, a mix of rogues and steady hands, etc.
That's precisely what was used to benchmark it.
I really dislike this framing. By any contemporary definition I'm a "liberal":

* I support higher taxes, particularly on higher income people, almost for its own sake.

* I oppose almost all military intervention abroad.

* I believe the federal government needs to intervene with local governments to prevent police abuses.

* I strongly support public schools and oppose public-funded charters.

... and I could go on and on this way.

On the other hand, I do not believe in a high national minimum wage, or in a small number of other "liberal" orthodoxies^h^h^h^h^hidees fixes (like universal college tuition, or single-payer health care).

Why am I meant to feel like my "team" lost something when a study confirms something that most economists have been saying for decades?
If your business cannot pay employees a livable wage, it does not deserve to exist.
You say that like that’s a choice they can make without any consequences.
Nor does Germany with some of the best working conditions in the world...
OTOH if they draw conclusions from data that only very poorly reflects the Seattle labour market the study's got a problem
That's awful, but it doesn't seem related to this tactic. If you had booked two adjacent seats, he would have just ended up in the third, and you'd have the same problem.
I'm sure there are other reasons, but the big one is that your scripts may get called in an environment other than your normal logged in shell.

Cron, for example, doesn't have the same $PATH as your login shell. So no full paths means you can fail to run some commands, or run the wrong copy of one.

There's also the security aspect. If your script has "." in it's $PATH, or something else writeable, I may be able to coerce it to run an imposter command.
I am not completely sure, but I think I doxxed her by accident on public IRC on 2013-07-06 ( http://gnusha.org/logs/2013-07-05.log ; someone else edited the public logs ("strangeland") to try to minimize my damage to her).

I recognized the rotated scihub admin profile picture because I had met her in person at a Harvard conference in 2010. She was on my pidgin buddy list, of all things.

Opsec is super important, y'all. Even someone who likes scihub (such as myself) might accidentally doxx you when they get all excited about finding who you are (such as I did). I get the sense from the rotated profile pic and subsequent self-publicity that maybe anonymity hasn't been a top priority for her the whole time, maybe she had her name on it earlier than 2013?

I should have exercised more caution.
Apps still need to add the INTERNET permission to work. It's just now it's one of those that are automatically granted without action from the user. I suppose there could be some hack to disable it for certain apps though.
I was wondering also. That image looks more like a shiny smooth blob.
Unfortunately encouraging better design won't do much to most of the web. You have to guide with a heavy hand.
Naming the future of freelance
To add to this conversation, you can parlay consulting into software without a ton of problems.

Do work for customers. While doing work, try and find a shared pain point across your industry/customers. Build software for it and use your existing relationship to sell it. Or sell it and then build. Whichever.
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Effectively taxing all customers. The poor buy stuff too...
Wish I had access to such resources during my education ! Too bad they are breaking their own system.
"Economists" want to disbelieve the study? Can you support that with evidence? There are definitely liberal economists and conservative economists, but I don't think it's at all clear that the mainstream of economists broadly support a sharply increased minimum wage.
Why do you think they messed it up?

Chip+sign is a solution to a real market problem with chip+PIN in the US: the the typical consumer has many credit cards. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-median-number-of-credit-ca... claims an average, not median, of 3.5 per cardholder, and that matches the numbers at http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/ownership-statis... . Heavy credit card users have a lot more: it's common for stores to have store-brand cards that give you a discount at that store, so a number of people end up with a dozen different cards for stores they commonly shop at.

Expecting people to remember this many different PINs is not realistic. So every card issuer was worried that users would just stop using their card because they could not remember the PIN. This is the problem chip+sign is meant to solve.

In other countries, patterns of credit card use are quite different. http://www.theukcardsassociation.org.uk/wm_documents/UK%20Ca... page 6 claims an average of 2 cards for the UK, for example. So the "can't remember the PIN" problem was not as big a deal.
> I'd say U.S. banking is, if nothing else, generally at the forefront of digital technology despite heavy regulation.

Transferring money with ACH takes multiple business days, this is not at the forefront of digital technology.
I'm not much of a gamer but I would buy this for the nostalgic factor alone.

I hope Nintendo actually produces enough to meet demand this time and doesn't cancel it after a few months like they did with the NES Classic. But then again I have a gamer friend who is still looking to buy a Switch and can't even find that in stock... perhaps Nintendo needs some help with their supply chain.
Docker Networking Internals: How Docker Uses Linux Iptables and Interfaces
can you elaborate on this capital gains tax loophole?
That second one is genius, thank you! I was reading the first two sentences like 'ok, but what if...' then I got to the third and '...oh. Well played!'
If I was having coffee with a PhD in ML and NLP who has years of experience in deep learning, I would ask this:

What are the most valuable, unsolved problems in the field?
As a predominantly frontend developer, I sometimes (just for giggles) check to see the page load of pages I visit. It always dismays me to see a site's own resources only take 200-500kb of bandwidth... and then all the ads and associated requests take another 25MB. It's quite common and I keep thinking there must be a better way..
Nope. It is the sensation I (myself) got from reading the article.
Opponents of a minimum wage need only believe that increasing the price of a thing tends to proportionally decrease the demand for that thing. This is simply a statement of the law of supply and demand, which is (though weaker) the economic equivalent of physics' F=MA.

Proponents of a minimum wage need to believe that in this particular case, raising a price does not proportionally decrease demand. While this may be true (economics ain't physics), the burden of proof lies with the proponents, since it would be a contradiction of probably the most well established "law" of economics.

If you feel that the data in this and similar studies are inconclusive, to the extent that you respect the discipline of economics, you should oppose a minimum wage.
There is an excellent free (and very short) book, "Economics in one lesson" by Henry Hazlitt, which explains very logically why minimum wage, rent controls and other "band-aid" economical measures always end badly:

https://mises.org/system/tdf/Henry%20Hazlitt%20Economics%20i...

It is like 2-hour reading, but very enlightening.
I'd strongly disagree. If you hit them where it hurts, they'll change. I'll even argue that we haven't really tried encouraging sites to be better.

If Google ranked load-time/page-bloat much heavier in their algorithm, and started punishing bad pages, then sites would adjust.

I currently see very little action from Google in this direction.
First, just from skimming I see that this hasn't been peer reviewed yet.

Second, it is coming from WaPo which is a very neoliberal, anti-worker paper (see the 900 anti Bernie Sanders stories it put out right as he was gaining momentum vs the neoliberal, anti-minimum-wage Clinton).

Third, the fact that people are "earning less" could also be interpreted as meaning that the people are earning enough to take some time off for leisure, which has many benefits both monetary and otherwise.

Fourth, it appears there were exclusions of large-scale corporations with facilities inside and outside of the city, which seems to miss the main target of a raised minimum: the corporations which can objectively easily afford it, and who employ the lion's share of workers in major cities.

Finally, this non-pier-reviewed, dubiously filtered study goes against the vast majority of research on the subject performed to date. Not to mention it violates common sense, which says that our incredible increase in worker productivity should have seen corollary rises in worker pay over the last 40 years. In fact, we have seen the opposite.
Tim: Any tips/online resources for someone starting out with ML? How did you learn?
> We need mixed-use developed walkable neighborhoods. We need our work places to be mixed within our neighborhoods along with our parks, convenience stores, and everything in between.

I strongly endorse this. I'd argue that it's totally compatible with expanded housing, though.

The population density of Somerville, MA is 18,000 per square mile. It's the 16th densest municipality in America, only narrowly behind San Francisco itself (18,600). That's almost 3 times Berkeley, CA (6,400), and 7.5 times Palo Alto, CA (2,400).

Somerville is also a pleasant, human-friendly city devoid of skyscrapers. It's a perfect example of mixed-use urbanism. The tallest buildings are ~12 stories, and that's government housing on the edge of town - almost everything is far shorter. That's nuts - it says we can massively increase population density while maintaining a Strong Towns approach to urban design.

Somerville cheats a little bit, because so many residents work or go to school in Cambridge and Boston. (Workplaces obviously kill density, since they're sized per-person but exist parallel to residences.)

But Somerville's real advantage is being old -
older than stupid zoning laws. There are only 22 residences in all of Somerville that would be legal to build today, despite those old, illegal residences being livable and massively in-demand.

http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/

I don't think there's really a dichotomy between "live in NYC/SF style skyscrapers" and "overpriced housing with urban sprawl". You can relax zoning restrictions without getting highrises and tenements. It just requires careful planning and a willingness to abandon suburban, parking-lot filled design.
What’s your biggest regret with this app? What are you most proud of?