skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to see a few other things:

1. Even though it made some people better off, and others worse off, did it reduce the number of people who need assistance?

2. Even if the amount of assistance is the same, if the number of people who need assistance is reduced, this would be a win.

To put it another way: if some people are not getting a living wage, and raising the minimum wage doesn't help them, then the only way to help them is direct payments (and, maybe education which has to paid for).

But if raising the minimum wage reduces the total number of these, it sort of "clarifies" who needs the help and who has skills that can be deployed.
A friend sent me the bitcoin address, they've already collected 2600$.

[EDIT] Now 3230$

Source: https://blockchain.info/address/1Mz7153HMuxXTuR2R1t78mGSdzaA...
My CIA cookbook begins potato recipes with first blanching them in water prior to roasting, sauté, etc, which is apparently an effective mitigation.
A GOP consultant named Aaron Nevins requested and received detailed campaign data from Guccifer 2 that was hacked from the Dems.

This included the Dem voter turnout model, "worth millions" according to Nevins.

Guccifer 2 forwarded Nevin's analysis to Trump associate Roger Stone.

Story at Wall Street Journal, May 25 2017. Short non pay wall version on Ars Technica.
Agreed. Universal for healthcare is one thing, because it's about people's lives. However college in my opinion is mostly a waste of money. You can learn the same thing on YouTube for free. It would be a terrible misallocation of resources to make college free for everyone. I hope college degrees go out of fashion, not that everybody gets one.
I know, my implicit argument is that this specific argument isn't really valid because these circumstances have happened before and I don't believe the decision against Microsoft is controversial in 2017. I do believe that something like Google, while obviously having alternatives, is often the place people search, so it is in many ways a monopoly and should be heavily scrutinized to ensure it's not using its position for its own gain at the expense of its competitors. I don't know anyone who really uses Bing, and I only use DuckDuckGo because I don't prefer to be in the Google ecosystem, but I am not most people.
I learned React Native by copying the PGA Tour's live scoring app for my group of golf friends -- we'd run weekly tournaments (there are about 20 of us), but we only would ever find out who won when we got back to the clubhouse. Whelp, now we track our scores on the course and have a live leaderboard just like the pros.

One tremendous benefit was that it made it so easy to focus on just the "learning part". With a clear example I was trying to copy, it was surprising how much easier it made it to know what exact "target" I was trying to achieve, and to slowly pick apart all the things that I didn't yet know. "Hmmm, when you click the player's name a sub-view scrolls down to reveal hole-by-hole details.... ummm.... so how do I animate things?" And on and on. Often when learning some of this stuff, you have to kind fight your way through the weeds, and it is oh so tempting in these side projects to then just change the spec all of a sudden. Trying to copy the app kinda held my feet to the fire many times, and gave me the persistence to fight through it.

The other benefit was that since I was learning by copying a polished and well-thought out UX/UI, every step of the way felt like real progress, and not just like I had spent all of this time grokking this thing only for it to look/feel like shit.
This is cool, but one thing that may be useful is a "last commit" instead of "Last Update".
Explaining what is looked at for "last update" that would be great too.
Some repos that I follow that are very dead have a very recent "last update" as they are still hammered by people due to being high up in search engine results and linked to from lots of places.
Plenty of places in the developing world simply don't record birth dates. When these people need official documentation (e.g. World Cup or Olympic athletes), they'll record either January 1st or July 1st depending on which season they were born in.
One way of looking at corporations is islands of central planning in a sea of market forces. It is not always entirely obvious which functions should be optimally bundled together inside corporations. This is why you can get a lot of controversy around these decisions.
this made the rounds yesterday.

if anyone read the paper, they subjected exclusively fast food workers, and excluded employers that have locations out of state.

now let that sink in. exclusively local fast food places.

yet lots of places were probably forced to report it. one newspaper even reported it ironically. the title had a quotation in quotes to read something like "a 'very credible' study says..." .
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I agree - I think it's a reaction to the similar stories that started blowing up on blogs recently that claim that the minimum wage increase had no effect, with similarly minimal evidence or review.
This is an interesting project. It appears to me, based on the README and the name, that it was primarily intended to profile backend services in a web app.

I have a question for hacker news. Does Python still have a lot of momentum in this area? I love Python and use it whenever I can, but I find these days that most web frameworks assume right off the bat that you are using Node. The frontend landscape is so heavily tilted towards using js (and tools such as npm, etc) on the backend that fitting it into a Python flow is difficult, especially for beginners. In addition, we have the relatively fresh trend of using isomorphic code on both Node and the client. It seems like my beloved Python is being pushed to the background. Is there any truth to this? I would very much like to keep investing my energy into what I know, but if it is wasted effort, I will stop.
In reality, it doesn't even require that one be a criminal, merely a suspect.
Trump may make the national optics look bad, but that doesn't change the optics completely at the state and city level.

For instance, on the renewable energy angle, according to the American Wind Energy Organization, five states now regularly generate 20%+ of their energy from wind. (http://www.awea.org/MediaCenter/pressrelease.aspx?ItemNumber...) That number would've been unthinkable 10 years ago.

(Note that the windy states tend to be Republican voting rural mid-west ones. That doesn't mean that Trump isn't going to stop mocking wind energy (as he just recently did). Rather, it does mean there is bipartisan support in these states for wind energy, and that Trump's negative comments on wind in Iowa didn't go down very well with Iowans and Iowa politicians from both sides of the aisle -- https://apnews.com/a2b500b82d5a44eeb9759ca31d0b4a33)

Having a national leader that seems hostile to anything environmental certainly doesn't help matters, but it's not all doom and gloom.
The hit rate of targeted click bait is much higher. In companies without proper precautions it can be as high as 50%
I vaguely remember that when I read about soil moisture sensors, they all needed to be cleaned and dried after every use. Basically, you couldn't leave them in the soil. Seemed odd to me, but I never dug further into it.

Is that true? If so, that would explain why the sensor doesn't work here, but leaves me wondering why I've seen so many projects try to use the sensors that way.
Finally a NewRelic competitor... Their prices are killing me at scale
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So what are they basing that ban on?

I assume things like this:

Kathryn Guyton, a senior toxicologist in the monographs programme at the IARC and one of the authors of the study, says,
“In the case of glyphosate, because the evidence in experimental animals was sufficient
and the evidence in humans was limited, that would put the agent into group 2A.”

From http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-20..., thanks to https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18329/does-roun...
Isn't that the exact type of situation we want to avoid though? A single corporation shouldn't be able to extort the whole EU...
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Ask HN: Why is battery life on iOS major betas so poor?
I wonder why battery life on iOS major betas are still so bad.

On the app level, Apple apps have strict power profiling. I've spoken to Apple's app engineers, and one of their biggest constraints in feature delivery is rejection by "battery police". So an app's power profile should be measured even in development.

On the OS level, several advancements like coalescing and App Nap are making the system more power efficient.

I can understand that beta builds are different due to:
* debug builds having symbols and more overhead in processing
* certain power profile restriction could be lifted

But those probably don't account for allowing a huge drop in battery life. Fundamentally, if the OS restrictions are strict, then any bad code should be prevented from draining the battery life too quickly. Why hasn't that happened? Or am I missing something?
I think the line is drawn pretty clearly.

The point is not that their service was in prominent position, but it was done so that it appeared as natural result of the search.

It's somewhat like doing a search in a search engine and being shown paid results on top, without any indication that they are paid.
That you're somewhat free to switch doesn't actually matter. But if it did, I'd point out that Google's customers are advertisers, and they do not have the freedom to switch easily, considering they are forced to go wherever their customers are.
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I'm looking for project-ideas to practice coding JavaScript during summer, when I'm on vacation.
Do you guys have any ideas? Thanks in advance!
End-to-end testing tool for chatbots
Seems really interesting but a lot of companies are not willing or not able to send this to an unknown un trusted party.

Would it be possible to host this on premise?

Sentry seems to do quite well with a business model where customers are free to host it on premise. That might be worth a consideration.

I for one am interested but for me to become a customer I would first need to be able to trail it on my staging environment. Providing a docker container that I can host on premise would go a long way towards being able to do that.
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You were probably shouted down because your argument is bad. First, you cite anecdotal evidence of one case. Next you claim to not be an expert in oncology, but you somehow have more knowledge on the subject than them. There may indeed be a link, but you are supporting your case poorly.

Condolences for your father.
>So why the heck would you not support an action that stops a giant corporation from stiffling the most important mechanism of capitalism?

Because it's not the government's job to unclog the market. It's the entrepreneur's opportunity to disrupt the market and kick Google's ass.
> you want to respect the person that was ill knew something about what was going on

> and respect their memory after they are gone

Dead people can be wrong. That's totally okay - it doesn't tarnish their memory in the slightest. And just because you're the one that's ill doesn't mean you suddenly have greater medical insight or training. Me getting cancer doesn't give me the slightest idea what caused it.
Your own fault if you didnt patch out eternalblue. No sympathy for hacked orgs.
Counterpoint:

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/06/26/25238844/the-morn...

Michael Reich, a UC Berkeley economics professor who was lead author on the Berkeley report, said he found the UW team’s report not credible for a number of reasons.

He said the UW researchers’ “synthetic” Seattle model draws only from areas in Washington that are nothing like Seattle, and the report excludes multisite businesses, which employ a large percentage of Seattle’s low-paid workforce. The latter fact was also problematic, he said, because that meant workers who left single-site businesses to work at multisite businesses were counted as job losses, not job gains in the UW study.

Reich also thought the $19 threshold was too low, and he said the UW researchers’ report “finds an unprecedented impact of wage increases on jobs, ten times more than in hundreds of minimum wage and non-minimum wage studies. … “There is no reason,” he said, that Seattle’s employers of low-paid workers “should be so much more sensitive to wage increases.”
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Security researchers matched parts of the WannaCry code to previous viruses that were thought to originate from NK. Of course they also said anyone could of copied and pasted the code and just made it look like that, but the media ignored that part.
> But who are the people here that keep defending it?

In recent times, people have become afraid of being perceived as anti-science. See it all the time.
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WaPo have just published a story about the attacks https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ukraines-governm...
Don't use immutability in JS. Though, use Ramda, since it's much better than plain JS.

This, then, would solve almost all of the problems mentioned in the article, yet remain functional friendly.

Ramda functions never mutate the object by always returning a new object, this is very simple to reason about, and it's pretty close to immutable programming without the overhead yet only one API.
Case in point is http://forked.yannick.io/flot/flot and https://github.com/flot/flot. Dead project with seemingly no active forks, listed being updated 2 month ago. Last commit was in 2014.
These things really don't work at the emotional, nationalistic level that people often ascribe to them.

I'm not going to find it again, but if you check the list of the largest cartel penalties imposed by the EU, 9 of the top 10 are European companies (plus one asian, I believe).
There is tons of python work available (I weighed the unwritten src myself). Maybe the node/js news headlines are creating a recency bias?
>>Damn, I hate this trend of making you comments appear more controversial.

I take it as a way of saying "this will probably be a controversial opinion here, but..." which is totally fine.
Why computer vision of plant stress is better than fancy sensors.
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> Cryptography is a lot trickier than most other topics in computer science.

Is that actually true? Or is it that most software development isn't really about topics in computer science. Like if you wanted to design your own distributed database wouldn't most of what you said above also apply?

Isn't this really a case where "hard topic is hard"?
But, but they are "natural"...
They are if you send them offsite. Backups with version history are great if you can swing them.
Writes to boot sector? Care to elaborate? Sources?
Or.. you can use a $2 Arduino Nano clone, a 1¢ 10MΩ resistor and some aluminum foil strips to build one yourself.

http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/CapacitiveSensor
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As someone affected by the ransomware - did anyone else notice empty console windows popping up from time to time the days before the ransomware triggered the encryption?
I made this prototype in response to a post I saw at:

https://www.demandrush.com/problems/api-save-files-url

but never heard a peep back from demandrush. Before I shut this web-service down, does anyone here think anything of it?

It's trivial to modify it to send you your web page snapshots via email or whatever. As it happens, the MHTML format is especially suited to email.
It was a hack, I was getting a nice regular supply of probes from Brazillian addresses, connect to port 22, try 5 different passwords on several different ids ad naseum. So I hacked the openssh server to start mutating the response packets. (very trivial genetic programming where the 'fitness' function value was time to respond between calls, longer = better) That went on for a while until the mutated response was somewhere around 10K bytes and then the call would just stop. A couple of weeks after that I got DDOS'd from a Brazilian botnet. Fail2ban cleaned that up but in practical terms it was easier to just use fail2ban on all of that.
I get and agree with what you are saying. But we're still talking about people who can afford to go to IKEA and pick and choose among new sofas and kitchen counter tops. That is a relatively affluent group already.
What matters more than the absolute sum is the amount of "pain" it causes. It's therefore tied to size more than just "evilness".
I'll drink a teaspoon of vinegar and salt every day, you drink a teaspoon of glyphosphate every day.
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a visor with (very, very) bright IR LEDs over your face could hide you from camera sensors; i've seen something like this used to defeat license plate scanners, and i know that LEDs have greatly improved power efficiency in the last decade, but i don't have any experience in this kind of thing. maybe someone can pick up this idea and run with it if it's feasible.

this wouldn't defeat something like gait detection though: http://www.geradts.com/html/Documents/gait.htm
Basically accessing private (or any other non public in scope where you don't have access) field or method.

Usually bad in application code, but quite a lot of libraries and frameworks do it.
Agree.

Alittle more details about watering:

IIRC many plants grows best in the long run if watered thoroughly and then left to dry up a bit in between.

The reason for the drying is the drying causes the roots to grow. And the reason for why it should be really soaked when watered is so that the roots will stretch towards the bottom instead of spreading out on top.

(Correct me if I'm wrong, I left farming school almost half my life ago && English is not my mother tongue.)
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That is a hard question to answer, I think you have to start looking at the big component (the data warehouse) and see what fits best for you.

At least what has worked best for me is using BigQuery and building custom tooling around that. Using Airflow, some simple python tools, .json.gz archives, and a mix of streaming data and hourly/daily exports has worked well and not been a huge task to keep operational. Of course, every situation is different; ymmv.
>on a massive scale.

Usually you can't to manipulate elections "on a massive" scale to win, regardless of the format of the ballot. If the polls are 50/30 and the 30 ends up winning the elections, it will always be too obvious. Elections are usually stolen on the margins, look at most apparently-rigged-but-not-obviously elections in history.

>At this point your country probably has worse problems and they won't even bother counting ballots, but announce wholly fabricated numbers.

And yes, usually, when an election rigging scandal comes up, the country has more serious problems than vote manipulation.

>With electronic voting, it becomes trivially easy for a single hacker to falsify the entire election in one fell swoop.

But yes, I wouldn't say "trivially easy", but yeah, a lone wolf would never be able to falsify paper vote elections.
Hi -- I'm one of the editor's at IEEE Spectrum. You're absolutely correct: as the article does make clear, it was the first 16-bit HOME computer. We should have been more specific in the headline, our bad.
Except it was the citizens who explicitly and separately vote for this one, and explicitly chose to allow suing over it.

They tried to do the same thing with GMO labeling, which would have had an identical result (lawsuits and everything being labeled GMO no matter whether it was or not)
Thankfully, it lost the vote.
You might have been correct if the title had said "HM" instead of "HMS".
It's almost never the technology that makes a company, it's the market.

Only a small group of tech startups need to care about 'defebsibility'. If they didn't then patents would actually be useful in the software world.

The initial software built that addresses the problem is always easy to reproduce for nearly all tech startups. It's all of the supporting systems, marketing, lessons learned from putting it into production, etc, etc that make any company difficult to duplicate.

I wish building startups was only about the technology and defending it.
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One of the photographers that I'm intrigued by is Michael Wesely ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wesely ) who takes ultra long exposures (a two week long exposure is "short" - his flower photographs are in that range). The museum of modern art was about two years. http://www.amusingplanet.com/2010/08/unusually-long-exposure...

You can see the tracks of the days and the cloud cover in those photographs. Note that the multiple year ones have multiple days going over a single track.

Aside from the extreme reciprocity failure in the film, its "only" about three stops from a one day exposure to a one week exposure... and another two stops to a month, and then another three and a half stops to a year.
> California cognitive dissonance

I was born here over 40 years ago, and I've lived here since then except for a 15 year stint in the south and midwest.

I love my state; but this place is objectively crazy in a lot of ways.

Maybe that's one of the core ingredients to the many other awesome things here.
how else could it spread? flash exploit? Skype?

Wanna cry spread to computer connected to network but individuals at home probably aren't connected to a local network unless there are multiple computers
My understanding --- which is casual and mostly comes from Dave Arnold rants on Cooking Issues --- is that acrylamide is produced any time you brown a potato. So: you can eat boiled or mashed potatoes, sure, but if you roast them you're exposed.

This is equally true of meat, and other vegetables.

You essentially can't avoid acrylamide if you cook. Labeling it is silly.
Right, I thought you were principled. My mistake !!
It has nothing to do with US/EU. The US has a long tradition of anti-trust laws which work essentially the same as the European.
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Almost study about minimum wage uses just restaurants. Even the most famous Card and Krueger did just fast-food in NJ. It's common practice.
While I'm sure that wasn't the intent, the net result is .. you're not wrong about that.
Gotcha. Good to know. Thanks!
What is interesting? you're not showing anything about how the site works.

Should I join purely because it's "stronger, safer and better" ?
Hi -- As I noted above, I'm one of the editor's at IEEE Spectrum. And you're absolutely correct: as the article does make clear, it was the first 16-bit HOME computer. We should have been more specific in the headline, our bad.
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