skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly -- economics is a science. I don't pretend that the world is perfectly modeled by classical macroeconomic laws, but the burden of proof is on the pro-minimum wage camp to disprove the laws of supply and demand in this situation (labor market), rather than the other way around.

If you are not familiar with what classical economic laws would suggest about a minimum price control on labor (minimum wage), it would

1. reduce the demand for labor

2. create deadweight loss (net value changing hands decreases)

The politicization and down-voting of ideas that people (particularly liberals, in this case) disagree with has a chilling effect. As Warren Buffett says, the human mind is best at interpreting all information such that prior conclusions remains intact.
Again, you're missing the point. Most publications (newspapers etc. that also publish hard news) indicate that it is an opinion right in the title of the article so that there is no mistaking it.
Similarly, if it worked so well, why did we all make the switch?
>Do you believe in it yourself, in absolutely every case, or do you follow it just because it is a rule? I'm not trolling, just curious.

I don't think you're trolling. I understand your viewpoint. I'm against selective enforcement. If there's a rule, and it isn't applied evenly to everyone all the time, it is a weapon of oppression. It is like the electronic form of white privilege.
Show HN: Outready Radio – find upcoming shows by music, not by artist's name
Conspiracy theories aside, WaPo published the initial release of the working paper yesterday (June 26) with a favorable headline:
A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle’s $15 minimum wage has bad news for liberals [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/new-s...
We can disagree with whether or not there is value in decentralizing certain systems, or whether a specific project or team is actually working towards creating value, but the idea that "If they succeed it will be bad for society, it will unfairly and unreasonable transfer wealth to the "early adopters." is just crazy.

First movers, early adopters, investors, these folks are providing funds to create things. They're taking a risk and if that risk pays off, and something valuable is created, should they not share in that value?

One of the truly game changing features of the business models blockchain enables is the alignment between creators, investors and users. All have an opportunity to profit if the thing works. That alignment is the wild card in all of this, how much value does having a large community of owners, folks with skin in the game and a desire to make something popular and work, bring to the process of adoption of a new tool or system? I think it's a big one.
I created this radio because I don't know every music band and sometimes I miss some awesome shows. Now I listen the radio, if I like music I go to a show.
They didn't do that, I just recently sold a home, and I had to dual-upload my pics to Zillow (where other sites like Redfin picked them up from Mibor)
>Are Bitcoin or Ethereum really good as a currency, though? They're quite volatile.

They're mostly used as speculative capital trading right now, and can't be compared to any traditional currency in terms of volatility. If the dollar was magically swapped for one of them in an instant, and we all carried on transacting with it like we did with the dollar it would be a different story.

Volatility isn't an inherent property of a currency. It's a function of market dynamics.

(I'm not an economist so excuse potentially poor terminology and I hope I'm conveying this well)
This is much like Nina George's novel, The Little Paris Bookshop [1], which is a pleasant and occasionally thought provoking read.

From the publisher's description:

"Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O0286MS
Introducing Emotely – the social network for sharing emotions
> WaPo allowed this guy to make a statement of fact in his headline with zero indication that it was an opinion.

No, they didn't. “...actually working just fine.” is inherently a claim about how facts fit into the speakers subjective value framework; it is not a fact claim.
On speeding up your feed, how about adding another belt prior to the main belt, with a variable speed?

You drop parts onto the variable speed belt from enough sources to get a good feed rate, and constantly vary the speed of that belt with video feedback to drop them onto the main belt with reasonably even spacing.
Motion sound. Great motion need great sound :)
Your points are valid, but they ignore the fact that there was a more permissive company culture, then it was changed to be more restrictive.

Behavioral economists have studied this type of change and it can seriously affect relationships (there was a famous study of an Israeli day care that started charging parents a fee if they picked up their child late, then tried to change back to the previous policy). Having a benefit then losing it makes people feel like something is being taken from them (even if Jet can still have off-campus happy hours).

That said, I don't know how much I care. WalMart has a reputation and if you are part of a company that chooses to be bough out by WalMart, you have to expect that some big things will change. Hopefully the Jet execs set expectations correctly.
Debian without systemd: https://devuan.org/
That's really cool! Thanks for making this website, it's absolutely useful, it might save a lot o projects. I can tell that because I have myself posted on Show HN and my submission never made it past the /shownew. Probably because it was not that interesting to HN's audience, but I can imagine how many really cool projects end up buried in there.
Exactly. Terrible city design is the underlying problem. Electric cars, nice as they are, mostly treat the symptoms.
Banks (where people type on keyboards most of the time) are also AFAIK alcohol-free.

And so are Lawyers firms, accountants, and more or less every kind of work involving mostly typing, exception made for some start-ups, possibly limited to the US.

A glass of wine or beer at lunch may of course be OK, but surely not drinking in the office or happy hours.
Dube, Lester, Reich did a study that accounted for booms and busts by looking at a series of minimum wage increases across state borders between 1990 and the present.
Debian without SystemD

https://devuan.org/
Maybe this was retaliation for Wannacry which exploit (EternalBlue) was developed by the west and causing havoc through a ransomware. It would follow a tit-for-tat escalation strategy in cold-war style. The NSA did not intended to have wannacry but I can easily see if an other nation do not care about the distinction.

International laws would be nice. Few'er hospitals would be crippled by tax supported malware development. Focus could be spent on improving security and patching fault rather than hording and exploiting.
-Your metabolism is going to slow down, so stop eating so much
-Don't smoke, it negatively affects your desire to workout (you will get fat)
-Don't waste (too much) time at the bar
-You're going to drift apart from your friends
-Cultivate experiences that you can talk about (ie. not chess)
-Understand cities, live somewhere walkable
-Understand money. (ie. Tax on labor vs tax on capital gains.)
Basically, there are a bunch of plastic bags, an ice pack, some mylar-type bubble wrap, and the cardboard box. Personally, I find the waste complaints overblown. I suspect you'd find a whole lot more waste with restaurant cooking for example and I actually reuse a fair bit of the BA packaging for other purposes.

There are other services that have more of a focus on reusable containers but I have to wonder how much boils down to virtue signaling. I'm a bit skeptical that a reusable insulated package that UPS needs to make an extra trip to pickup is really that much less wasteful than what BA does.
Ask HN: Health insurance for 3 months in U.S to take part in an accelerator
Hello there,

We are a Canadian startup that recently got accepted into a U.S based accelerator. We would be in U.S only for the 3 months duration of the program and we plan to return to Canada immediately after the program is over. I was wondering if any other Canadian HNers who have done this know what is the best option to get a temporary health insurance in the states.

Thanks
Whats what Redox is, pretty much. The trick to understand in the GNU/Linux world is that C is sacred - it is so sacred Gnome developers write desktop applications in C. It is absolutely a religion.

A lot of it is legacy, of course. The steering heads of projects have been around for over 30 years in many cases. These are people who dedicate their lives to a cause, and a lot of it is relation to a vision of the perfect OS circa 1990 - albeit, systemd doesn't follow that philosophy, but the participants in the project are cut from the same cloth, with some new blood and ideas mixed in enough to cast aside the unix philosophy but not enough to change course away from C.

And its all free software, after all. The developers of coreutils, Linux, Mesa, GCC, systemd, NetworkManager, Samba, NFS, and so many other services and applications in use by millions all at least started out as a project of passion. They chose C because that is where their passion lay. We are seeing a new age of such passions emerging around Rust, which is great to see. Whether or not Redox or similar projects can develop the momentum to approach the C lineage is something to be seen (and I would add the permissive licensing is not helping their situation) but the spark is definitely there.
>A thing you two aren't considering is the that US and the UK are the world leaders on the offensive side of this same technology

Exactly, on the offensive side. I'm not particularly concerned about our ability to retaliate proportionally.

But what good is a deterrent if it fails to deter attackers? Our defensive capabilities are clearly lacking, as these past few attacks have shown.
I'm surprised that Marge is consistently higher ranked than Lisa.
I think that is a bit of a straw man- a sugar lobby represents economic interests. Why would this man's ideological interests not match his academic interests?
>The UW study was actually able to duplicate the results of previous studies

That's not really true. The negative effect on employment demonstrated in the UW study is much larger than most previous studies have shown.

>There are still possible flaws with the UW study, but the UW study addresses many criticisms in advance

I believe it's much more than "possible" flaws and some of them are really quite damning. I don't think many people that read this criticism by Michael Reich (the author of the Berkeley study) could conclude that the UW study is really worth considering.

[pdf] http://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2017/Reich-letter-to-Robert-F...
On failure and resilience
Is it uncommon in your country to have kitchen areas where you can prepare/heat food and eat it? At work maybe half of the office bring or buy food and eat together. Some make a quick salad. Others eat together at a restaurant or alone.
An API perspective on how Kubernetes works
A good opinion piece doesn't cherry pick either.
My friend and I used to be unbeatable at Taboo, and similar games, because we could use Simpsons references to get to just about any word.
Maybe because "those other problems..."

1. Aren't the ones we're talking about here on Hacker News at the moment.

2. Don't nearly hurt the poor as much as the minimum wage does (after all, many people like it when we create money out of thin air, until it goes bust every few years).
> What's stopping them from pursuing online education or skills training in their current location?
New grad moving to SF. Thanks for this (:

And yes, I am absolutely posting this with the intent that someone from Zillow sees this and knows that this is costing them a real customer.
Intro to Postgres
It doesn't have anything to do with Nazis to at least a billion people in India. I'd even bet that the majority of people around the world associate swastikas with non-Nazi stuff.
To be fair, the USPS is only "losing billions" on retirement funding due to the pre-funding obligations imposed by Section 8909a of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006, not obligations owed to current employees or retirees. [0]

There was some speculation at the time that this was a regulatory attempt to "tie their hands" on investments to address the online shopping market, which has more than offset the decline in carriage due to email. For example, during the 10 year period covered by the pre-funding obligation, UPS managed to increase revenues on domestic shipping by ~45%. [1]

Excluding these mandatory payments, the USPS is actually slightly profitable, to the tune of (conservatively) $92M as of 2015 [2]. In this context, a $79M loss is a major portion of their annual profits, although still a drop in the bucket compared to their gross revenue.

[0]: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/hr6407/text

[1]: http://www.investors.ups.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=62900&p=irol-re...

[2]: https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/annual-reports/...
So Federal Income tax is a relatively old tax policy, weighing in at a hearty 104 years of age. And modifying it and understanding the ramifications of changes to the tax code is easy? We have a congressional shitstorm whenever either party wants to raise or lower taxes. And the old adage about getting three answers when you ask two economists what'll happen is still true, even discounting ideological baggage.
Georgia is a wonderful state to make movies in. Low taxes, low costs, excellent people, and beautiful scenery. The food might kill you in the long run but boy does it taste good..
Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm's website from searches
Bruce Wayne... Bill Cutting... Darth Maul... the possibilities are endless!
The RedHat bug tracking this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464185
or Spanner-like guarantees which I heard might be possible with CockroachDB. I'm not really sure how the two compare, and whether or not there is anything out there with similar strong consistency guarantees.
As a former teacher, I found that it was easier to teach kids concrete things and try to get them to glean the abstract then vice versa.

In other words, you might learn how to code in order that you then know how to give clear instructions.
It's not a book, but if you poke around the Unreal Engine source code you can learn quite a bit:

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/tree/release/Engin...

You need to join the org first, https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup
GNU Shepherd is an init replacement written in Guile, a dialect of Scheme. Guix ships with GNU Shepherd. Anything that runs in place of init should in principle be small, and hence not too difficult to write and maintain. So you are right that it is not any technical issues, but rather the disinterest of system software programmers in anything other than C, and the disinterest of language X programmers in system software, that is the main culprit.

https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix.html
It seems to me that browsers are a counter-example: there was IE and Firefox and all of a sudden, Chrome wrecked both of them.

I believe they succeeded thanks to their huge resources, their popularity and their good insight, but which of these factors was the main one?
The studies on that are mixed (see Card/Kreuger). But it's worth noting that the UW study was able to explain the results of previous studies that showed no effect on employment: those studies did not have access to info about hourly wages and hours/week.
They only seem to support the same currencies as CoinBase.
OpenLedger.io has a good exchange,including tokens that are pegged assets to USD and EU
Interesting research on how hallucinations relate to "an increase in tiny movements in the muscles associated with vocalization".

Maybe the movements and the brain activity causing that happen first, and the "consciousness" just try to interpret that in the best way it can.(I think there are some patterns here that is much like the "interpretations" described in the split brain studies [1]). When the signals get too weird and does not fit in to any interpretation that is defined as "normal", we go into the Schizophrenia territory.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/split-bra...
Negotiators are Born and Bred
Forex markets are basically as liquid as you can get -- of course some exceptions, but I think the idea still holds.

While an existing fiat currency might derive its confidence from different sources than that of a digital currency (taxes, military, etc. vs. blockchain, mining, contracts, etc.), it does not make them that different. People still declare the coins value on that confidence/demand.
> Zillow has brought a knife to a gun fight.

Pillow to a gunfight, possibly?
It's a mixture of all the answers. It's hype. It's FUD. It's pump and dump. It's groundbreaking technology. It's real world use-cases, and it's vaporware. And it's the greater fool theory on a grand scale. It's all the things simultaneously. In other words, it's a market.

TenX is actually, despite it's name, probably not a pump and dump, for instance (disclaimer: some of that 30M in 1 minute is mine). It's a credit card that links up to various cryptocurrency wallets, and allows you to make real world purchases using them. The token you buy in the ICO entitles you to a portion of the fees collected from processing the transactions.
I agree with your point about burden of proof, but economics is not a science. Setting aside economics and science, common sense demands the burden of proof go to those who say raising wages won't decrease demand.
It actually rendered very slowly here.
IMO you should step back and ask: what is your end goal?

1) To make games (commercial games) or other realtime graphics application?

2) To make 3D rendering software or other semi-non-realtime software?

3) To have fun / learn?

4) Etc.

If you just want to learn/have fun, my personal recommendation is to write your own software, from the ground up. Ignore DirectX and OpenGL (unless you need them for a context to get pixels on the screen).
Use a fast, native language like C/C++.

Teaching yourself and exploring is 100x more fun than reading a book, IMO (at the same time, you may learn faster using a book).

Try working with a naive projection algorithm to get 3d points on the screen. Like y' = y +/- z (Zelda-esque bird's eye view). When you are comfortable with matrices and vectors, learn "real" projection algorithms.
To add to this point, I contacted a realtor through Zillow, had two email exchanges with him where I asked specific questions about a property. Each time, my questions were ignored, and his responses can be summarized as "are you pre-approved?" In the second email, he politely redirected me to another realtor that it appeared he was managing and I never heard from them again.
it won't be the next time.
In his Mars colonization plan announcement he himself said that the majority of money is going to come from the government (if I'm remembering right). In many ways Musk is a salesman for a certain vision that a lot of people seem to be buying in to right now. Some might even call this leadership.
East vs West, Cold War, Politicians, "Cyber".

Does anyone else find it foreboding that attacks like these are still being primarily framed within the terminology of a legacy 50+ year old threat model?

"World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."

-Marshall McLuhan (1970)
Next week there will be a study refuting the MIT study, then another refuting that study, back and forth. It seems no matter the study academia publishes, and how much it is lauded for its clarity, breadth, and quality, another study will come along ripping it to shreds that another group will heap praise upon.
I disagree entirely with what your current top response is.

If they're "deeply flawed as a currency" I'd love to hear an explanation as to how, especially compared to traditional currencies that are manipulated by commissars? That's not a political assertion, it's a mathematical fact demonstrated in developing nations more acutely if other examples are needed.

With that said, you can copy the entire cryptocurrency stack that makes up Bitcoin and just rename it. Many of these new coins are just that, clones for pump-and-dump schemes.

And many actually offer legitimately new and intriguing concepts that may have good use cases.

It seems like you already understand it? Is you're question whether they're all flawed or all functional and useful?
Nope. Eventual Consistency seems to be the best policy.

The constant "C" isn't changing (or if it is, it's not much). that means there's a definite amount of time for a DB to be consistent to cover transit around the world. When the 3 DB machines are in the same rack, sure, we can approach 11.8"/nanosecond latencies, but the latencies are still there.

The larger and more global (and soon, interstellar), the more these C related lags become. And it is glaringly obvious to me, that "eventual consistency" is the big solution here.

The only case where it doesn't seem to be good, is transactional stuff like banking and investments. In those cases, seem to require CP and hardware like atomic clocks to verify every copy of the DB is on the same page.. Or perhaps an internal blockchain would be more appropriate, since it enforces consensus. But I digress on that one.
20 million caught in famine does not mean 20 million dead.

The Great Famine of China in 1959-1961 is 15 million dead according to official statistics, but is generally estimated in the range 20-40 million dead. With many, many more malnourished, hungry and so on.

I gave several others elsewhere in this thread. (Cambodia, Rwanda, Congo.)

North Korea in the latter half of the 1990s is comparable to this one.
The general consensus, I think, is that the acquisition of Jet is Walmart stepping into the online retail space to fight off Amazon.
sorry you're being downvoted. hypocritical, really.

i assume you are being downvoted because you are preaching faith: something you feel which is hard to quantify and prove.

I call this behavior hypocritical because I'm sure none of your naysayers would argue we don't dream- something we only know exists because we've shared our experiences with each other. if they want to deny we dream- well- at least they're consistent.

my plea: just because we cannot currently quantify something does not mean it's unscientific to discuss it.

> "I'll wait for you deniers to explain consciousness. I'll be waiting."

well said. I am tired of "we don't know so don't dare try discuss it." that kind of logic will hurt science more than it will help.