skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'd like some real criticism of the UW study, the author of the Berkeley one has published a letter which goes over a lot of the methodological problems.

http://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2017/Reich-letter-to-Robert-F...

Here's the best points, I'd say the UW study is quite problematic.

The UW report excludes multi-site businesses from its dataset, which removes 48 percent of Seattle’s low-paid workforce out of their study.3 This major exclusion raises a big red caution flag about the representativeness of their sample and therefore about the interpretation of their findings. Yet the UW report provides essentially no evidence that their sample is representative of all jobs in Seattle and Washington.

In the UW data set, workers who leave a single-site business for a multi-site business to benefit from the higher wage mandate or because they received a better offer are not counted in the wage gains, but are counted in jobs lost. Seattle's policy essentially sets a higher minimum wage for all multi-site businesses, counting them as large employers.4 The exclusion of multi-site businesses, which is not standard in studies that use these data, may therefore create major biases in their results. Of course, some employees may move from multi-site businesses to single site businesses, but this mobility direction is likely to be smaller. It is not possible to estimate the size of this bias without access to the underlying data.

The UW report focuses only on jobs that had paid less than $19, which surprisingly is much too low. Table 3 of the UW report indicates that the number of jobs paying under $19 in all single-site businesses fell by about 6000 between 2014 and 2016. Yet the number of single-site jobs at all pay levels in Seattle increased by about 44,000 in the same period. This pattern of average higher pay and more employment appears also in food services: a decline of about 150 jobs paying under $19 from 20014 to 2016 and a simultaneous increase of about 4,500 jobs in all pay levels at single-site food service establishments.
These numbers represents very good news: Seattle’s pay levels and job numbers both went up, at least among single-site businesses. We want to know, though, how much of this upgrading in overall pay and employment at all pay levels can be attributed just to the minimum wage policy.

The UW report nonetheless finds an unprecedented impact of wage increases on jobs, ten times higher than the average in 942 published minimum wage and non-minimum wage estimates, and triple that of minimum wage critic David Neumark
I doubt anyone failed to draw the intended meaning from the government messaging around Stuxnet.
Everyone is biased. The people spilling gallons of ink, proclaiming doom and gloom for Seattle are, too.
Amazon Go already sells "meals in a box." It's only a matter of time before Whole Foods Express (called it) totally takes the wind out of their sails.
I have to respectfully disagree. From the video (the only source of information we have about the company's plans), it focuses on automobile-centric high speed transportation (as opposed to, say, efficient public transportation).

If there's anything we learned in the last ~30 years of urban planning is that building cities at car scales isn't the best way to promote healthy city life and community. There are many reasons for this. There's probably books that focus on just this, but if you want a better idea of how city design has affected community living in general, I recommend The Great Good Place [0].

I read somewhere else in this thread that The Boring Company is obviously something intended for Mars. I am more ok with that idea, since it might be impossible to do anything other than underground individual transportation in a place where the environment is hostile.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Good_Place_(Oldenbur...
Part of the reason for the job craze in the us for programmers it that there are increasingly fewer opportunities for unskilled or low skilled labor in the us, as compared to europe. we rarely have internship programs at high schools, and companies are often desperate to find skilled machinists. But also the fact that we pay so much to good devs - that pay is only because of the tremendous worker shortages.
Oh, yeah, that's fair. I guess I just thought it was obvious. But that's fair. It is in service of the point they're trying to make.
> prices are usually out of their control

Is that the case? I wouldn't think large franchises would be viable if they don't already allow for local cost of living in their prices.
Regarding 2, the reason the tactic is effective is because it is trivial to write C&D letters, but non-trivial to determine if they have merit. So they are effectively used as a denial of service attack by big corps.
We should stop hiring vaccine researchers that actually want to cure diseases.
That's not a false flag, it's just a refusal to accept responsibility.
Yeah I do agree. However amyjess reasonably brings up an important aspect of this case. SCOTUS has distinguished between satire and parody. If this goes to court it is likely Zillow will claim this is satire and not parody since parody claims of copyright exception have a long history of vigorous acceptance. However this all relies on an interpretation that only photographic composition and metaissues are acceptable criticism targets and the actual subject of the photo is somehow not related to the content. That is a novel argument and unlikely to prevail should this be adjudicated.
All scientists are biased. We're human and we're opinionated about our fields. Unless you can show their bias affected their results, it doesn't matter.
Interpreting Deep Neural Networks Using Cognitive Psychology – DeepMind
Cultures sometimes develop, believe it or not, without examining the rationality of a cultural norm.
The short answer is 'that's the culture'.
Bittrex.com is the best I've found.
Thank you for stating this. What people forget is that the early Android Browser was really, really bad. Chrome helped considerably, but it wasn't released until several years into Android. Also remember that Chrome was not preinstalled when it came out; you had to download it.

Firefox had an opportunity to become what Chrome for Android eventually became; the better 3rd party browser. But they made 2 critical mistakes (as an outside observer):

1. They didn't take mobile (and specifically Android) very seriously at first. Fennec felt like a side-project at best.
2. XUL didn't work very well on Android, and it took them a long time to make the switch to native.

I believe things could have turned out very differently had they done the right thing from the beginning.
This is a hack job, an out-and-out piece of propaganda trying to dismiss a study the author doesn't like the conclusions of.

> First, their data exclude workers at businesses that have more than one location; in other words, while workers at a standalone mom-and-pop restaurant show up in their results, workers at Starbucks and McDonald’s don’t.

The UW report actually discusses this:

> Multi-location firms may respond differently to local minimum wage laws. On the one hand, firms with establishments inside and outside of the affected jurisdiction could more easily absorb the added labor costs from their affected locations, and thus would have less incentive to respond by changing their labor demand. On the other hand, such firms would have an easier time relocating work to their existing sites outside of the affected jurisdiction, and thus might reduce labor demand more than single-location businesses. Survey evidence collected in Seattle at the time of the first minimum wage increase, and again one year later, increase suggests that multi-location firms were in fact more likely to plan and implement staff reductions. Our employment results may therefore be biased towards zero.

It's irresponsible to criticize the report for not including multi-site employees without mentioning the conclusions of this survey data.

> Second, the University of Washington team does not present enough data for us to assess the validity of its “synthetic control” in Washington — that is, the set of areas to which they compare the results they observe in Seattle.

The synthetic controls are probably the most complicated part of the report, and the part that seems the most open to criticism. But the UW report used two different controls for for changes in employment, and both of them lead to similar conclusions about the effects of the minimum wage. It's possible that there are other synthetic controls that yield different results. The WaPo article says that the "Berkely researchers take a better approach" to synthetic controls, but doesn't note that the UW study can't use that approach because the data that enabled the UW study isn't collected nationally.

Also, saying "the new studys' findings are out of step with a large body of research" ignores that the UW paper duplicated the findings of that large body of research, and discussed how the more expressive dataset they had (being able to actually identify low-income workers instead of using a proxy like "restaraunt workers" or "teenagers" is the biggest difference between this and other studies) leads them to different conclusions. And saying the UW study has "important limitations," but not saying the same thing about the Berkely study, which was only able to look at workers in one sector (restaraunts), is a pretty clear indicator of where the author's sympathies lie.
I don't use Facebook, so I wouldn't know. I've come to the conclusion that the function of the media has shifted over time from reporting news to just peddling narratives, all while also showing me irrelevant ads. So I shut off those news sources for which narrative peddling is the primary function. I would shut off Fox, but Google seems to not show anything from them even if they're not in block list. My news feed now mostly consists of science/tech and local news. I like it that way.
Network Engineer and GSAR (glacier search and rescue). I did an AMA down there that hit the front page of Reddit if you're interested in learning more about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5656e1/iama_i_dont_ha...
You are being downvoted substantially, but I think that, although it's not a huge deal, you're right. A better title is simply: 'Guardian: "Flawed Reporting About WhatsApp"'
Should we disregard every capitalist's study that comes out pro-capitalism?

If we chose to follow that rule we would end up with very few studies in economics, and the world would be poorer for it.
There are studies that avoid assuming perfect, instantaneous markets. They, too, show nuanced but negative long term effects of min wages.

http://voxeu.org/article/long-run-employment-effects-minimum...
I'm the same way with electronic components, though I tend to buy certain often-badly-counterfeited parts (e.g. logic-level MOSFETs, TTL-to-RS-232 converters, etc.) from reputable sellers like Digi-Key since I've run into a lot of issues in the past.

For stuff like resistors, capacitors, some microcontrollers, power supplies, etc., the Chinese sellers are pretty reliable.
I did exactly the same. Not on a regular basis though, but on days when work was tiring I used to head out to the parking lot and sleep in the back of my car. Typically 20 min. That made me much more productive than I should have been w/o the nap.

When one of my co-workers found out, he started borrowing my car keys (he didn't own a car then) to sleep in my car :) - apparently, he thought it was a great idea.
I feel you on cooking not being a hobby. However where it clicked for me: Once I got good enough at it, I realized I could 80-90% of the time cook food that tasted way better and was a lot cheaper than what I could find out at a restaurant. Then it didn't become a matter of hobby but a matter of practicality. Some of my own personal specialities: Omelettes and steak. Almost every restaurant I have been to has no idea how to properly execute an omelette. They are suppose to be light and fluffy, not wrapped-up scrambled eggs. Also, most restaurants have no idea how to grill a steak, especially if it is a thick cut. When you learn about the reverse sear technique, you'll never waste money buying a 50$ steak dinner out again.

The only other problem left at this point is the efficiency equation -- can I think of, buy and then execute on the ingredients faster than it takes for me to drive, get seated, and eat my meal at a restaurant. I am finding the more I do it, the more the answer becomes: yes.
For another piece of context, the latest numbers I found for online grocery shopping in the US overall was about $7 billion annually--though forecast by many to increase fairly rapidly.
>> The other option is that there is some unknown type of "energy" (boy, do I hate that word, BTW). And our bodies are some sort of receiver.

> Ok, so test this.

I heartily agree.

I'm approaching this from my own perspectives in working with the occult. For me, I personally know its true, however this stuff must absolutely be not only measurable, but quantifiable and comparable. That's the basis of science. That's the problem with this area, given that you are the only one in the study.

I've highlighted a few areas that seem interesting and possible to detect. I'm working with the basis that when psychics talk of energy, I'm assuming something within Strong/Weak/gravity/EM with regards to energy. EM is probably the easiest to construct sensors, given that Strong/Weak are extremely short range forces, and gravity sensors are... expensive.

The first area I've determined that shouldn't be as hard, is to construct a way to see an aura in a camera system. It's rather easy to train oneself to see it, occult speaking. But there are some significant difficulties in even this. (One difficulty: Some can see the aura of a jpeg of a person, but when the image is cropped significantly, the aura disappears. What's going on?)

I'm keeping an open mind about this, but also trying to incorporate science in quantifiable ways.
One of my colleagues recently fired up dosbox and showed me his old level editing tricks for a ton of DOS classics. I was mildly annoyed at my young self for having never considered trying this!

Similar simple edits often work on save file data from games of this era as well, and often don't need a hex editor etc.
Did the study determine which way the relationship went though? Only McDonalds that are making a profit will be able to afford to pay more than minimum wage, a struggling one will obviously not be able to do that very easily.
I see the button and it has mouseover text, but it's not actually clickable. Chrome Version 59.0.3071.115 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 7.
Yeah, that's bull shit, 26 is not too old. I'm 50+, just quit my last job where I was a principal software engineer, did 4 interviews, got 4 offers, took the one that made me director of a project (I have previous management experience too). If you keep coding and don't become just a manager, the world is open to you in software.

I have many years of experience and built up expertise, but I was in grad school until I was almost 30!
Gay marriage and the six rules behind Angela Merkel's political longevity
Emulation: Windows 10 on ARM
How do you imagine the content the newsreader is supposed to read? Isn't it hard to produce random coherent content in your mind?
Scala Days 2017 Videos (Chicago and Copenhagen)
I'm willing to bet that one of the ones he was thinking of is Go
Pick your future
(numbers = worldwide revenues, Bn = Billion)
I read a lot of report recently to figure it out and classified what we could do in the future by market revenues,

what do you think ?

Esport market in 2020 : $1.5Bn

Civil drone service market in 2025 : $8.25Bn

Delivery and takeaway market in 2025 : $20Bn

Global SVOD market in 2021 : $32.18Bn

Higher Education Market in 2020: $70.62Bn

VR market in 2021 : $74.8Bn

Phone app market in 2020 : $101Bn

Connected car market in 2020 : $141Bn

IoT Healthcare Market in 2022 : $158.07Bn

Cloud infrastructure market in 2022 : $209Bn

IoT market (network) in 2020 : $267Bn

AR gaming only market in 2023 : $282Bn

Specialized digital assistants and bots in 2020 : $600Bn

Digital Advertising market in 2020 : $724Bn

Digital Commerce transactions (mobile and digital payment...) in 2020 : $8Tr (Trillion)
It's within a few percentage points. I recall as a teen that McD's corporate came down on my store for running some kind of insane loss leader promotion like selling burgers for 50c one day a week. Apparently they made the money back on volume and addon purchases, but they had to stop it anyways.
Agreed. The facts borne out by the University of Washington study are what they are. The counterpoints in this article appear weak, and designed to support a specific political point of view held by the Washington Post and many of its readers. They are essentially saying that the Berkley study used a different methodology, and that they like the Berkley methodology better (because it produced results they agree with).

Cherry picking studies that support your own point of view isn't journalism, and it is irresponsible. It's done by both sides, and has helped create the dismal state of political discourse in the US.
Relevant blog post from 2009 shared on HN from time to time:

"The Elves Leave Middle-Earth - Sodas Are No Longer Free"

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
Hi HN,
Any suggestions, or bugs you find, I am all ears. I built this as I was having an issue myself of having too many browser tabs left open at all times, since I didnt get enough time to finish reading all the articles that I want to, from HN. Having a community, who has already taken the time to read those articles and create a summary and helping others save time and gain objective knowledge from the articles is what summary brew is all about.
I'll try this out locally and see if we can identify the problem.
Just renewed my membership to the EFF yesterday. Through the 4th of July, they have discounted rates to become a member [0]. I encourage everyone to donate, looking through cases they've been involved in within the past year, the money is being used well.

[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/be-prepared-summer-sec...
> That's what I did when I supported myself at a minimum wage canvassing job that really sucked.

Good on you, mate. I've had similar experiences myself.

> Why are they only worth helping if they live in cities?

Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's reading a bit much into what I'd said. I don't think I said anything that could even remotely merit such an interpretation.

There is, of course, a spatial proximity of learning centers to population centers but that is just a byproduct of practicality.

> I doubt very much you'd make the same statement [about social support systems coming up short] about the urban poor.

Is there some reason you think I wouldn't make similar assertions about the urban poor? If people live in systemic poverty, then their social support networks have largely failed them. I would argue such a point remains true regardless of a person's origin.

I think perhaps you've misread tone. I was born and raised in a rural resource community, one of the most remote in the U.S. I'm not anti-rural, by any measure.
The same thing you do if physical tax/medical/financial records get lost in a fire, or any other data for that matter. It's a major loss, maybe even an economic crisis for some, but not an unrecoverable one. Worst case scenario you move foreword with less data and insurance does what it can. Create countermeasures so it doesn't happen again. Said data should also be backed up for this very reason.

Also, just because devices are on the same network does not mean they're homogenous. A Windows vulnerability won't take out a Linux server or an IoT webcam. For everything to truly "die at once due to the same bug" you'd need a network layer attack. Compromising the internet protocol itself, even if possible would cut off the attacker as well, so that leaves us with denial of service attacks, which are common. But services like Cloudflare already effectively defend against such attacks, and even compromising an entire major cloud platform (as in the author's AWS hypothetical) will simply result in the cloud provider as well as other interested parties pouring all possible effort into fixing the problem as quickly as possible.

Imagine that your monoculture crop could develop immunity to a new disease within hours, days or weeks, with immunity developing faster for more serious diseases. Then all you need is a big enough field to absorb any potential losses.
A federal-level anti-SLAPP law would be nice, though.
The city that solved homelessness
Speaking of security, the new possibility of a Google Drive backup for WhatsApp messages and files has been quite overlooked imo.

This backup is not e2ee, which means that if the other part is backing up data in Google Drive, then at least part of you WhatsApp history is not e2ee. Yes, it might be encrypted whithin Google Drive by whatever secure methods Google chooses, but not by you.
EITC has a massive downside that you're ignoring. The ability of municipalities to act as laboratories in social policy is essential to effective governance. Seattle can raise their minimum wage far easier than having Congress change the Federal minimum wage. And then we can see how it works in Seattle. Expanding EITC has a huge affect, and is both harder to enact, and if needed, harder to rollback.
$670,000 is the average home price, not the minimum home price, so you're chasing the wrong goal.

I would also argue that chasing home ownership for everyone, in a city, is the wrong goal. I don't care about owning a home, I care about saving for retirement, and living in a home that's adequate for my family. Home ownership is great for some, I encourage it, but let's not pretend that it's the only way to live.
"I want to physically train my reaction speed, my hand-eye coordination, my racquetball score"

I get all that, but this example sticks out because it's not really "racquetball" and I couldn't help but question myself about why I didn't go play real racquetball, or go to real concert.

And, as far as war is concerned, I find it far to easy to imagine the experience in an all to real way and do not want to dwell on that or see or suffer the real effects of participating in it.

"When I am putting on a VR headset, if I am not doing so to teach myself, I am doing so to give the opportunity for someone else to teach me with unprecedented access to my sensory system."

That may be true to a point. It's also a great description of a "brainwashing" machine.
Much of the configuration in OSX is hidden, compared to Windows; some of this being a result of Window's dominance at the Enterprise level. That's why you need Terminal to Show Hidden Files.

OSX has a different strength: simplicity. It's why I told my dad to buy one. What you paint here is a false equivalence.
>I'm sickened by my "pro science" party rushing to ignore results that don't agree with our ideological intuitions.

It's possible it's valid, just as it was possible that all those studies that cast doubt on global warming were valid.

Both are, of course, are very profit friendly results.
Curious about this - and I mean it in a 100% sincere way - how much waste does Blue Apron generate, and why is it unreasonable? How does it stack up to other common forms of waste generated by households?
Redfin is a far better map in the markets where it's available.
The letter was written to freak her out - threatening with CFAA etc. - and it accomplished that well.
Why are you attacking the Berkeley authors' honesty with a phrase like "On The Other Hand"? The WaPo piece only addresses the arguments and evidence, not the credibility of the UW authors.
I guess that makes you a bad person, huh?
Hunting and gathering seemed to work pretty well too.
Thanks, good stuff to think about.

Do you think React is something to learn together with Node or would you recommend just getting to know React on its own?
How physics is validating the Labour Theory of Value [pdf]