skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UW researcher, Jacob Vigdor, whose research is dismissed in this article, has responded to common criticisms in this interview:
https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2017/6/26/what-should-we...
I like that theory. Maybe much of what we associate with the word "consciousness" are the mental models which cannot exist without language, like the social aspects Yuval Noah Harari talks about.
Mozilla did take a principled stand against DRM. It proposed an alternative to EME that involved watermarking content rather than client-side DRM. But the combination of Google, Microsoft, and Netflix was enough to win over the W3C, and by the time that the developer community at large finally got up in arms about it (late 2012, early 2013) it was already too late to change course; by that point, Chrome was already shipping EME for use with Netflix. The tragedy is that Mozilla did try, and nobody cared. And, frankly, even if they had cared, I don't think any amount of dev outrage would actually counter such an influential industry consortium (but maybe I'm just cynical).
yes, i'm aware of bsd init, sysvinit, upstart, systemd et al.

systemd & upstartd all aim to replace pid 1/init. Which as far as i'm concerned anything beyond bsd init is over complicating things, and these are the results.
None of those are selling points to customers, though (well, perhaps the CIA one, but even then, most don't care). A manufacturer wouldn't take on a Firefox phone for those reasons, it needed a compelling consumer selling point, and it didn't have one.
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It hasn't hit $15 yet. The current studies are on the increase to $13.

The studies when it was $11 didn't show no noticeable effect, they showed mixed effects. Basically, at $11, the studies suggested that it produced losers and winners, and the winners slightly outweighed the losers.
Zillow brought a crayon drawing of a knife to a gun fight - childish threats with absolutely no chance of doing any actual damage.
Thanks for not telling me what I'm missing, guys! Stay classy.
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Doesn't seem like it: http://www.shikadi.net/moddingwiki/Commander_Keen_1-3_Level_...

http://www.shikadi.net/moddingwiki/RLEW_compression

Looking at a hexdump of the Keen1 file matches those specs. Keen 4 uses another, more complicated kind of compression, too: http://www.shikadi.net/moddingwiki/Carmack_compression

They might be thinking of earlier Id software games. Some of those weren't compressed, and you could at least edit them with a hex editor pretty easily.
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Isn't that just called "Seamless" or "Delivery"
The minimum wage affects both high school students looking for some extra cash, and people desperately trying to support a family. The latter is where an effective policy would concentrate its help.

I'm not sure what the best answer is.
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I heard Trump did this to many of his contractors.
I think Zillow brought a knife to a state where concealed carry is the norm and they're finding out how many people have guns :)
You can break reading, writing, math, and code all down to the simple act of logical reasoning.

Reading is a man made system of information conveyance. To master reading, you master the rules of it, while understanding the intent and purpose. Writing is the same - a man made system of information conveyance, except for creation rather than consumption. It has rules, and you need to understand intent and purpose to master it.

Math is the patternized structural implementation system of the universe. Again, to master math, you learn the rules, and understand the intent and purpose.

Code is a man made system of information conveyance meant to implement math for practical applications. You need to learn the rules and understand the intent.

All of your examples just demonstrate that fundamentally, education starts and ends with the ability of someone to understand a system - to interpret it rules, understand its intent, and use that knowledge for purpose to apply the rules with intent.

That fundamental abstraction is horrifying, because it becomes so obvious that these stills are never acquired. I'd postulate a majority of public school graduates in the US cannot use structured logic to adopt new ideas and structural systems in a consistent way, which belays the fundamentals of what education is meant to accomplish.

More punctual orators call this "learning to learn". It is a lacking subject in almost all educations, something you are meant to hopefully acquire on your own, but the absence of which is worse than any other failure of development. Living without critical thinking is akin to a failure to thrive.
Serpent_AI-Watch a computer learn to beat Monstro (Binding of Isaac) by itself
Yeah same back home in Texas (Houston, not Austin). NYC and SF are different stories :-)
> Why even have swearing if it cannot be used?

I think the point of having words which are not supposed to be said is to create a sense of risk around using those words. Because swear words are mostly considered taboo there is a social risk to using those words (your listeners might be offended) that helps to emphasize the importance of the issue to the speaker (that they're willing to take on risk because it's important).

For example it would be acceptable in a meeting to say:

"That is a bad idea."

But if you want to add in some social risk to emphasize your point you could say:

"That is a really fucking bad idea."

The latter statement would be considered rude and unprofessional in most work settings and, depending on the social environment, could even be grounds for termination.
I agree, but I can't see how you would enforce this, whatever mechanism you put in place would be worked around immediately. Plus, it's not like US corporations who are benefiting from what is next-to-slave-labor are going to be terribly vigilant in making sure their manufacturers are compliant. In the end, greed almost always wins, even in the most "advanced" societies.
Two good marginal revolution posts on this: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/06/sea... && http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/06/min...
There are companies that pay negative wages. Most notably MLMs.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hazlitt

Henry Stuart Hazlitt (November 28, 1894 – July 9, 1993) was an American journalist who wrote about business and economics

He attended New York's City College, but left after only a short time ..
The article is a summary of the paper. The full paper is available here:

https://www.chicagofed.org/~/media/publications/working-pape...
Apparently WaPo's name for the "Opinion" section is "Perspective" which is somewhat misleading. Also most people reading online won't care to look - I had to go back and look after reading this comment, because it isn't mentioned at all in the headline that this is a biased opinion piece.
I equate these guys with spammers so from that perspective I'm not surprised. Simplest explanation is often the right one.
Install cost, not ongoing per kwh. Cost per kwh generated comes out to be between 1-2 cents.
Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?
Pretty much every single person I know outside of the Bay Area and not working in tech believes that the government and the corresponding corporations running the service are reading all of their messages on:

* Whatsapp
* FB Messenger
* iMessage
* Hangouts

They also all believe that the police can look at their Facebook posts because they have special access.

This is precisely why there was minimal reaction to the Snowden revelations - what revelations?
Ah! Nice find. I need css to make it a pointer. Will push a fix for that. You should be able to click the button anyway to hear the audio.
In theory it is not unidirectional, in practice it is. When it was written, all they really had to go on was theory.
> the threat letter from Zillow is total BS. But that doesn't mean Zillow "doesn't get it

I'd argue that sending a BS letter is literally not getting it.

> That's just what attorneys do. I thought everyone knew this.

Attorneys waste everyone's time by making demands without any legal basis?
Thanks. The definition of "the same market" you provided sounds very sensible, and so I retract my belief that those searches should be "the same market" (which is what is relevant to tge EU ruling). I still think they fit the same interface, in the "wall socket" sense.
Are you maybe think about prices per Watt hour you are paying? 65 cents/watt is a measure how much the module costs to buy per rated output power, not for an unit of energy (obviously, from the units).
If all of Musk's endeavors amount to nothing more than just a means for a rich playboy to waste his time and money, it still makes me wish that more rich playboys had nearly as ambitious and constructive ways of wasting their time and money rather than spending it all on yachts, mansions, parties, and private jets.

At the very least, it is inspiring and on the face of it aims to make the world a better place for all humanity. That's a worthy goal, even if it doesn't work out.
I'm amazed that companies allow alcohol at work. It has to affect product quality and safety. Nobody in manufacturing allows that.
That's absolutely true for most new Federal economic/tax policies that are relatively untested. But, the EITC has been around since the mid-to-late 70s. We've got loads of data on its effects under all sorts of different economic scenarios, some of which are included here:

http://www.epi.org/publication/ib370-earned-income-tax-credi...
Again, how many people are doing this? Most people read the article and headline and move on with their day. WaPo allowed this guy to make a statement of fact in his headline with zero indication that it was an opinion.
It really depends on your needs. I think you would get more helpful responses if you included more information about the purpose of your project in the question.
EFF gets my smile.amazon donations, along with a standard membership. At least a couple times a year I see that choice affirmed in the news.
Optical sorting in Ag with devices less than $1,000 ... not common.
> it isn't mentioned at all in the headline that this is a biased opinion piece.

Claims of bias simply for expressing a point of view in an opinion piece are amusing.

How many opinion pieces have you found which in your view do not advocate for a point of view, i.e. biased?
Short version. A member of the San Jose teacher's association thinks one of two academic studies is wrong, because... we already have a consensus.

The one point raised in the article about multi-site employers is acknowledged by the article's favored Berkeley study: "some multi-site businesses report payroll and head counts separately for each of their locations, while others consolidate their data and provide information as if their business operated only at a single location."

Oh and by the way:
"This report was prepared at the request of the Office of the Mayor of Seattle."

http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-most-s...
> So he's very clearly biased toward proving minimum wage increase's success.

You may not have meant it this way, but that sentence implies you have already dismissed any point he makes purely based on what he believes in. Without any evidence, you've implied that any conclusions the author makes are automatically devalued because he will be incapable to undertaking objective research.

Would you write a similar sentence about say a medical researcher? 'Researcher is a member of the medical industry and is very clearly biased toward proving vaccines are safe and necessary'.

(Note: I think it's very important to be aware of influences and biases in hearing opinions - an important part of critical evaluation. Your comment does that for the most part ... it's just the last sentence I have an objection to)
Wow, shipping from the US from 16€? That's about the same as the actual shipping costs US sellers want.
Incidentally, I wondered whether the Guardian has blocked the site or did something stupid, since the page took so long to load. I thought AMP stands for ACCELERATED?

Edit: Actually, repeated loads take exactly as long (seven full seconds); but the scrollbar already has the correct page size. Probably some buggy scripting.
Maybe if you limit your scope to this single event. There is a large body of prior evidence and theory to suggest that disemployment was likely to occur from such a large increase in the minimum wage, so I don't think it's really proper to act as though two studies represents our entire universe of human knowledge about these sorts of policy changes.
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Some of those would make great posters.

I wish I could see the same for Jazz Jackrabbit.
>Uttering 'fuck' when something hits your foot is completely different than using it as a verb in a story, in front of other employees.

Maybe the employees didn't demonstrate the same level of judgement. Act like children, get treated like children.

Another possibility is they want people near clients and visitors to be more proper.

I don't know I hope it's more than just not trusting the employees.
Manufacturing is a tiny bit more dangerous than typing on a keyboard.
> True, but it's interesting that the headline doesn't say "Opinion:..."

The section header above the headline includes “Perspective”, a common journalistic synonym [0] for opinion.

[0] Well, not quite synonym: “opinion”, “analysis”, and “perspective” are related not-just-the-facts categories, with subtle differences (but frequent overlap) in how they are generally used, but lumping then all together is useful in contexts where the interest is distinguishing from “straight” news reporting.
Should we disregard every candy company's study that comes out pro-sugar?

Maybe we should, maybe we shouldn't but the studies for sugar and minimum wage spread wide enough that it's easy to see these convenient conflict-of-interests everywhere.
My wife and I bought our house using a Redfin agent. They were as hands-on or -off as we liked. We could look at listings online and schedule tours and we could ask the agent for any recommendations that might fit what we're looking for, but maybe not where we were originally looking. They also helped with negotiating and closing (as you'd expect of any Realtor, but it was nice dealing with the same 2 people the whole time).

> Zillow has brought a knife to a gun fight.

:) I wonder if this will have any outcome for ToS, as that's was one of Zillow's complaints.
Thanks, will look into Openstack.

I'm also struggling with selecting the correct certification to start things off - Software Architect or Developer?
It is incredibly difficult to experiment in economics because you can't control for a single variable. If I like minimum wage, I'll look for employment data during a boom to mask the negative effects. If I dislike it, I'll look for data during a bust. That's over simplifying, but it is why we have multiple studies both showing minimum wage helped and hurt.
To keep it simple: will China finally have to pay more (because they are also shipping across the sea) to ship a package to middle America than an American at <wherever the port is where the Chinese goods are unloaded>? Or will it just be less of a subsidy.
Yes maintain focus on heartbeat, breathe, whatever works for you. If you drift off, just return back to your focus as soon as you notice.
from the screenshots I assumed it was an app. my bad
> In this case of course the UW study was commissioned several years ago by the city of Seattle. Then, apparently, in mid-June, after seeing the results of the UW study (but before they were publicly released), the mayor of Seattle commissioned this second study, this time from UC Berkeley's IRLE.

That's what really bugs me. They commission the UW study, they see the results, and then they commission this other study hurriedly to release six days before the UW study. If you keep asking the question until you get the results you want, you're going to get the results you want.
Is this based on a similar rationale as the other response with Openstack?
Cached version of the page to get around BI's anti adblock bullshit http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
"This is great! And all I've done is enter my name-Thrillhouse!"
> but Tesla has negative P/E!

P/E is a single number and doesn't tell a whole story. You're the exact type of investor that is frustrating a lot of people with your shortsightedness.

Every penny they make is going back into the company for R&D. Unlike Ford and GM, Tesla is actually innovating. They're also expanding like crazy. Their earnings are low because they haven't produced much yet, but those earnings will skyrocket once the Model 3 gets released and all those reservation holders start ponying up the remaining money for their car.

> the Falcon wing doors probably adds $20k and 6 months to the launch of the Model X.

The Model X is already launched. It launched two years ago.

> Disclaimer: I work for a Tesla competitor.

It explains your FUD. At least you're honest.
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Here's a guess at the motivation for the... eccentric, design: it's a weird contrast to see something so trivial and incompetent looking displaying information about Musk's very non-trivial, competent work.

I found it amusing personally.
wow, it's pretty affordable. How do you write multiple pages on it?
Hm, ok. Would it have been OK if I hadn't posted it under "Ask HN"? Surely this site supports sharing opinions like this one in some contexts -- it's not like this was a political shitpost or something. Right?
It isn't media bias, it is bay area hacker news "I'll flag articles that don't agree with my worldview and upvote those that do" bias.
"There's lies, there's damned lies, and then there's statistics..." Mark Twain
>>That said, excluding multi-location employers from a minimum wage study just seems to me to be so obviously flawed as to border on pure dishonesty.

Please elaborate why. Generally, it is believed larger employers benefit from minimum wage laws because they can afford to pay more while small mom and pop employers can't. This reduces the pool of available employers for workers to choose from.
The earned income tax credit is essentially a tax credit for low income parents. It isn't billed that way and it isn't technically limited to them, but if you look at the formula, for any tax filer with no children the maximum credit is $506. That's about twenty five cents an hour for a 2000 hour work year, 12.5 for a 4000 hour work year (i.e. for a two earner household). This peak credit is reached at $6,610-$8,270 for a single filer and $6,610-$13,820 for a married couple. It is phased out to zero by $14,880 and $20,430 respectively.

Now maybe when you say we need to make the EITC much more generous you include as part of that fundamentally changing the nature of the program. But it is worth noting what it is and isn't today. And that's a refundable child tax credit, not a general negative income tax program.
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That would be nice. But walkable megacities themselves do not transport food to feed ten billion people. Even in your megacity future, only oil can. The moral imperative is to move beyond that.
>Take the nap before or after the release; or after service is restored. It's not that complicated.

But if it is indeed a potential productivity booster, why would you skip the nap during service interruptions or product releases?
> there's no better way of sending money, no strings attached

Is this true? I've never been able to figure out how to turn my BTC back into GBP without submitting documentation for KYC laws. I never had to show Paypal my passport, and paypal sucks.
This upset me so much I'll have to walk down my publicly schooled ass down the publicly funded street protected by a government police from sole proprietorship street fundraisers.
Some considerations of the minimum wage movement:

1) The higher it gets the more likely and quicker the minimum wage jobs will be replaced by AI/robots/automation.

2) The cost gets passed on to the consumer. So if everything costs more and everyone is paying more in taxes, that's not good either. Some companies may keep prices the same and take from profits, but the lower the margins, the less attractive creating and running a business becomes.

3) What works in one area like Seattle won't necessarily work across the country. There has to be a sweet spot in each area and we have to be honest with ourselves to say that the feel-goodness of a higher minimum wage does have its limits. And that limit is what we are debating. We don't need to do a study to know that a $50/hr minimum wage is unreasonable.

In any given city, what minimum wage provides fairness for individuals, businesses AND the local economy as a whole? And how can we develop a model framework for cities across the country to use?
> There is just an ugliness in [...] the harsh consonants that intrinsically reflect the ugliness of the words

I won't comment on the rest of the post, but come on.

What is the ugliness in, say, "shit", that is not present in "shot" or "sheet"?
Here again, though, you have the same correlation/causation problem. People without a close social circle may not have one because they're too sick to get out much, or they're on a drug regimen that makes them drowsy or grouchy.
I’m curious to hear about how programming is taught in other non-English speaking countries, and whether anybody shares my concern about the difficulty of modifying names in many programming environments being a threat to productivity and creativity.
Why does this read to me as an advertisement for cloud spanner?
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We don't need new technology to alter our consumption as a civilization, though. We need to change our attitudes and habits. There's this assumption everyone needs to drive around in their own personal automobile, and EVs provide a marginal benefit over gas powered vehicles, but it's still a 3 ton hunk of metal being used to move what is usually a single occupant and does nothing to curb sprawl and the energy costs associated with that.

How about bicycles, trains, and higher density, walkable development? There's nothing fancy or high-tech about any of this, it's all waiting for us to implement it whenever we feel the moral imperative to do so. As far as I'm concerned it also leads to a higher quality of life, but many who grew up with cars and the burbs have a difficult time imagining things any other way.
The paper itself is much more nuanced. Their model predicts the results of Dube, especially in industries where few of the employees receive salaries near min wage. It also predicts the minimal disemployment effects (or non-existent disemployment effects, as in Dube) in the short run.

Where it differs is in the long-run in industries where 1) many employees receive near min wage, and 2) capital can easily replace labor.

So, Aaronson finds disemployment in low cost / fast food restaurants in the long run, but not in expensive sit down restaurants (which can absorb additional labor costs).
I think Montreal already has a bunch of tunnels under much of the city, for use in its relatively hostile winter environment. Paris also has lots of tunnels underneath. That's not to mention all the sewer systems in virtually every city and subway systems in many major cities.

So not only is boring tunnels under cities doable, but it's already been done.
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They probably didn't demonstrate the same level of judgment. Most people are clueless.

I have a coworker who uses "fuck you" as a casual insult or joke. Can't get him to stop and no one will make him stop because "he doesn't mean any harm by it".
So.. completely ignoring the Trillian Instant messenger?