skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember reading an article in Forbes back in the '80s that cited a study comparing the profitability of McDonalds franchises that paid minimum wage, and those that paid somewhat higher. Guess which were more profitable? The ones who paid higher wages.
I am assuming that you were 18 in the 70s?
Did you read the article? They are literally responding to this study.
It seems to be a good match for the observed events.
I would advise the 18 y/o me to learn programming seriously and to spend less time on Anime (Damn you Death Note and Code Geass)
In Firefox you you can go to about:config and set layout.css.sticky.enabled to "false", which is helpful.
Apparently some chains are starting to do this and I've also seen them at a "organic" urban grocer.

I agree with you though. Stores already carry a lot of semi-prepped vegetables, marinated meat and the like. Selling an everything you need kit with a recipe card seems a pretty logical next step.
I have one single big advice: learn how to be an entrepreneur and go with this as early as possible and keep it running.

Don't wait 10 years to realize that no one will ever implement your ideas. In IT times, this is similar with an eternity.
It's not a contradiction, they are responding directly to that report.
Don't consider it a freebie. Think of it as an untaxed benefit. When you look at it that way, how would you feel if your employer cut other benefits.
I will come back with a link when I'm not mobile, but solar just hit a new low cost at 65 cents/watt in India.

EDIT: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Solar-Costs-Are...

Energy has to come from somewhere, but we are awash in clean enegy.
> If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to eat out.

Sure, if you only go to places where it is proper to tip, but there are plenty of places to eat out where NOT tipping is appropriate.

I believe that tipping should be based on the level of service provided, not on the financial status/need of either the provider or the consumer. If I'm getting takeout, I rarely tip more than a dollar. If it's a place where I bus my own table and pickup my food at the counter, I don't tip at all. On numerous occasions where I felt I got wonderful service, I've tipped $20 on a 10 dollar meal. Generally, I'll tip 15% - 20% based on service level.
Spend the dotcom recession years in grad school instead of 2 years at that lame job that set your career back.
Please note that this guy is a troll and has been called out for not knowing what he's talking about in the past[0]

[0]: https://medium.com/@davidtstrauss/how-to-throw-a-tantrum-in-...

Thanks.
Probablie
Companies only hire enough labor to service their need to start with. They either will already cut labor or the can't and still profit.

If minimum wage labor is 20% of your costs and it increases in price by 50% prices you can make up the difference by increasing prices by 10%
Thanks, I'll check that one out. The Memory Code is one of the best books I've read. Highly recommended.
From observation, the movement of alt coints on exchanges or during an ICO don't really reflect the inherent value - they reflect the level of hype.

People or groups expect a coin to do well, or they expect that enough other people expect it - so they buy.

Some fractional subset are sincere in their beliefs that it's the Next Big THing. A larger group of buyers are convinced by the passion of the original group. But the majority pile on because they expect to make short- to medium-term profit on price fluctuation.

Very similar to the stock market.
The media aren't making a great case that we should listen to them. I understand that "the media" is not a monolithic block, but certainly any of the "popular" media channels are so clogged with noise it's a sisyphean effort to find the signal.

It goes back to human nature (the way we focus our attention) and the power structures we have in place. I think decentralized power and decentralized media would solve many of the information access problems we have today, but the powers that be will do as much as they can to prevent that.
30 small ISPs urge Ajit Pai to preserve Title II and net neutrality rules
There is low barriers to entry, but Diamond referenced above at least has 3M in transactions, so it doesn't seem quite like a copy-and-paste cryptocurrency. There are 800 or more cryptocurrencies, most of them are probably junk. The top 10 by market cap are probably interesting. There are many that fit a particular niche (gaming, banking for legal pot, medical records in blockchain, privacy, smart contracts).
> Why not?

Personally I couldn't care less about the "Guardian admits…" narrative. The article is a genuinely informative analysis that would be done a disservice to be framed as support for an apology.
God vs devil aside, there was a reason for it in that particular story, and Abraham was given an alternative in the end.

That being said, there are numerous other stories where God did tell people to kill (David vs Goliath, the Isrealites vs the various peoples inhabiting the Promosed Land, etc).
I'd make it The Beast from Krull.
Reply to the DeepMind Paper “Cognitive Psychology for Neural Networks”
> So where do cryptocurrencies provide value? Well, the main one is in areas where traditional, government-backed fiat currencies can't be used. In other words, mostly illicit cases - drugs, money laundering, etc. Otherwise, especially for those in nations with more developed financial infrastructure, there's no compelling reason to use bitcoin other than purely ideological motivations.

Definitely. Tack ransomware onto that list too.

There's legitimate use cases too though which do present at least a few compelling cases - for example I've had large purchases outright refused because the seller thought there was a chance I was a credit card fraudster. Nothing says "the money is yours now" like a cryptographic proof of that. They straight up told me, even after I gave them proof of ID - "sorry, too risky, pay with bitcoin".

I've also been flagged by maxmind and similar anti-fraud tools before when I made VPS purchases over Tor. But because I paid in Bitcoin support was able to approve the transaction without a second thought - no more fraud risk could occur.

Of course - these types of purchases aren't that frequent - but they do occur.
> The further you go back in time the less relevant the question is.

As Hoare so elegantly described at his Turing award speech, regarding Algol compilers, done in 1981:

"Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980, language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."

Algol dialects like ESPOL and its successor NEWP where used for systems programming the Burroughs B5500 in 1961, 10 years before C was born, nowadays still sold by Unisys as ClearPath MCP.
Where can we get access to this dataset and time series?

I would like to run my own analysis too!
Docker 17.06 with multi-stage builds released
People got by pretty well with sunlight and lamps to light their homes, too.
Thank you, you are right about the software versus system piece. I hadn't thought about it that way. I'll grab a copy of that book and take a look!
A. Flexner – The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939)
Hyperbole. I already had abandoned it, but gave a shot because of the 3033.

But come on... A 370 booting DOS?! After a painstaking physical reconstruction?

To be fair, I already noticed their use of MDA fonts for the Zenith machines.
You should try actually reading the WaPo article. They spend about half the article discussing that exact report.
Therapy isn't just for crises. Take the time and seek the conversation to figure yourself out, because until you do, nothing's going to be enough.
Facebook’s secret rules mean that it’s ok to be anti-Islam, but not anti-gay
scnr: Good we have a little redundancy there =)
The distinction you point out is part of the problem I have with Snopes because those statements are not fully qualified.

We really do not know the long term effects of exposure and to dismiss that aspect ignores the cautionary principal which has been ignored far too much in this debate.

We can look at DDT as an example of what can happen when ignore and dismiss long term results. It is true DDT didn't affect those who wallowed in it and that was used to "prove" it was safe, but it is also true it affected their children, especially females, and not until they were adults did those effects become apparent.

It is also true that eating food is not the only source of exposure for everyone. And it's also true that homeowners and farmers don't always follow the instructions and laws for using these products.

So, if we read Snopes "Fact Check" on this issue it's very easy to come away thinking all those who've done independent research are wackos and glyphosate is "Safe" and may even lead some of them to say they believe it's "Safe to drink a quart of it" and therein lies the problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM
They work fine as currency, they can be exchanged between people easily. Where they have a problem is value storage, due to volatility.

Most proponents believe that developing countries will be the biggest adopters of crytocurrencies, and drive their values higher. This makes sense as many of those countries already have volatile currencies that are difficult to trade on the open market at low volume. For this reason, USD and Euro are highly sought after for even low income individuals in many less stable countries. Anecdotally, I can offer that many Egyptians with any wealth at all try to hold some foreign currency. It's possible cryptos can replace that need.

Plus, the black market was valued at $10 trillion globally in 2011. If it had an official currency that currency would be worth quite a bit.
The graph of the Dollar also doesn't look like this https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1400/1*esoUPhcZiG3pEk1cz...
You should stop posting your useless suspicions everywhere.
So in the end you'll get : html, css, python and sql :-D

Much better. Oh wait...

(not criticizing your own comment of course)
My answer would be decentralization of power structures and the elimination of any unnecessary hierarchies. It is only for legacy reasons that a few media groups have our attention. With the internet it should be in principle possible to construct a decentralized system, as was the original goal. Of course new efforts are underway to block that, but with both political efforts (EFF, ACLU) and technological development (but how do we fund it?) we can push back.
I have been homeless 5.5 years. I have a chronic illness and two special needs sons that are on the street with me.

We are getting healthier and I have been paying down debt. My student loan was paid off just days ago and things will start getting better for me in July because of that. In fact, they have been getting gradually, slowly better the entire time I have been on the street.

I am author of the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide. I have been interviewed by reporters on 3 different occasions because of it, though, so far, none of that has resulted in a published article promoting my work.

The class I took involved an internship in a homeless shelter in Vacaville and I continued to do volunteer work there after the class ended. I was instrumental in getting them a proper website set up.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/05/how-to-effec...

http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/

I am sorry you are bitter and were never able to figure out how to effectively help people solve the root causes of homelessness in their lives. That is not evidence that I am clueless.
I've only used zeppelin for spark so far, but it's been a joy to work with.
Yes, but when my bank fails, the government backing that paper will pay up the deposit up to €50k... if the government is strong well there you go...

Ask MtGox users what happened with their "currency"... and it's not even a big case in terms of amount of money gone.

The thing is, yesterday I sent USD from US bank to UK and received it in less than 30 seconds paying less than 1% in total on fees (including FX), using Transferwise. Coinbase wants to charge me 4% and will take its time...

A month ago I made a typo when making a transfer. The money bounced back in 3 days. Try sending BTC to your ETH wallet and see what happens.

The problem that cryptocurrencies solve can and is being solved because the technology is at that level now so it's possible. Yeah banks suck, we need new, better banks. Transfers suck, we need more like Transferwise.

Blockchain is a different story though...
Study physics, statistics, and computer science. Meditate every day. Read Seth Speaks and Law of one. Go to South America and find a shaman to give you Ayahuasca tea. Don't get married until you're 50.
I agree with you about the UI/UX. For security, it depends on your threat model.

My threat model emphasizes ease of security by normal users. For example, is it easy for my teammates to see when they're in a public area or private area? Can my teammates manage access controls the ways that they want? IMHO Ryver is better at this than Slack.

My sec team's threat model emphasizes the underlying platform getting hacked. IMHO Ryver and Slack are both SaaS, so both in the same boat on this: the info is outside the firewall, which incurs legal issues, compliance issues, revocation issues, etc. I believe that SaaS providers can be excellent at security, yet the SaaS target is much bigger, and the alerting is murkier, and revocation is not thorough. This is why we chose Mattermost for secure chat.
It absolutely was a thorough mea culpa. You are also absolutely correct that it was not, at all, a timely mea culpa. The lack of timeliness makes it a much less impactful mea culpa, as public consciousness of the issue is likely drastically reduced, and there will likely be many who now remember the initial uproar but never see the correction.
At what point does the law of diminishing returns kick in, though? McDonalds fries are good, but not THAT good, so at some point it's just not worth going there any more.
I don't believe it's possible with science. What is needed first-of-all is a massive amount of regulation on social networks to get the propaganda (aka the old name for fake news) under control.

Social networks must have adequate human support teams capable of speaking the languages of the countries their users are, they must delete (or, as in traditional media, offer corrections to) fake/defamating posts, they must react to illegal content (e.g. hiding by country as Twitter does is pretty fair game to avoid the censorship debate), and there must be a legal way for people to get appeal in case of accidental misclassified stuff.

For example, my telco provider has no right to terminate my service unless I'm 90 days behind in payments given the importance of telecommunication, so why should a social network not be subject to the same terms, given the importance of social media to modern society. Final terminations of service must be subject to due legal process.

Fix social media and the "classic" media will follow.
Vote with your wallet. Donate to the EFF. Boycott companies like Zillow/Trulia who behave like this and use their position to harm the community.
Makes sense.

I have a contractor for one of my companies that I pay $20/hr for doing mostly CMS edits. She's been pressuring me for more hours. We asked her to get more acquainted with Snapchat and other things to get more hours but she pushed back.

We gave her a way to get more hours but she only wanted the easy ones that she already knew. If her rate was less, I'd have her do more things. Time to part ways unfortunately.
Technologies are neutral, not moral. But most of the time they tend to be used for positive things.

Do you not think that the invention of the gas-powered automobile 100 years ago was a positive thing for society, especially at the time?

If we want to go the negative route we could also say that personal EVs are not moral, but electric public transport vehicles are, because manufacturing them and then charging their batteries is still negatively impacting out environment right now, even if it does it "less".
It does qualify as clickbait given that it being billed as "the worst" over a period that includes the great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. Estimates of how many died are in the range 15-45 million. In other words more DIED in that famine than are likely to be HUNGRY in this one.

The projected death toll is also below what actually happened to Cambodia in the late 1970s, in Rwanda in the 1994 genocide, during the second Congo War from 1998-2004, etc.

This is really, really terrible. You can say that without having amnesia about how many other really, really terrible things have happened.
You can buy tomato paste in a squeeze tube. Great for that sort of thing. :-)

As I said in a comment yesterday, I suspect that Blue Apron deliberately puts somewhat oddball ingredients, often in small quantities, in their recipes precisely to discourage people from thinking "Oh, I can just pick these up at the grocery store."
Yes, it would have similar results. It seems that some of these combo drugs have shorter patents (and will have a generic equivalent sooner), so in the first 3 years it would still be cheaper to complain to the prescriber about cost and have them prescribed separately. There are slight differences in the release, for example, in the Namzaric example I gave, both ingredients are extended release (as opposed to immediate).

I know 'kickbacks' are in theory illegal but there is some kind of soft money / incentives happening. Pharmaceutical sales reps and medical science liaisons keep track of what their doctors prescribe.
In my case it was pretty much always the opposite: "assume the program takes infinite amount of data..." with one exception: entrepreneurship class.
I still can access it just fine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170327154501/https://support.m...

(I have javascript disabled anyway)

However the article is:

>Article ID: 307010 - Last Review: Nov 15, 2012 - Revision: 1

>Applies to
Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2002 Standard Edition

So it seems like a bit out of date anyway, having been originally devised for 2002-2005 products.
Unpaid interns effectively pay transportation and other associated costs. I've always insisted on paying a little bit to kids who come in to shadow us, and something a bit more substantial for kids who actually sit and do useful work.
Take that with a grain or two of salt: see http://www.epi.org/publication/the-high-road-seattle-labor-m...

"Data limitations and methodological problems bias new analysis of Seattle’s minimum wage increase"
As someone who opens most links in new tabs (particularly when scanning the HN front page), my reaction was "Wow, that finished loading really fast!" based entirely on how long it took the favicon to replace the spinner in the tab.
I like to think this is because the workers are more inspired to work harder to "earn their keep". I'd say it's more likely the boss is keeping a closer eye on the workers' productivity and insists upon a bit more effort. I think it's a win-win but my lack of faith in humanity (read: cynicism) causes me to worry about those not interested in putting that much effort into a "minimum wage job".

I understand the perceived need for something like a $15 minimum wage but as a guy who has always considered himself quite benevolent when paying subcontractors their actual value, I have a hard time swallowing the whole deal. Again, probably my own shortcomings but it would be interesting to understand how this might affect the attitudes of your typical "minimum wage worker".
Show HN : Apple WWDC17 Student Scholar Experience and Tips for Future Applicants
It's a column/opinion not an article, an not from someone on staff at the Washington Post.
Windows Template Studio 1.1 released
The absence of evidence is not a proof, in either direction.

If someone believes something without evidence, and you do not believe it because of the lack of evidence, then you are both guilty of the same thing.

If you flip a coin, and it lands out of sight, someone may choose to believe it is heads, and you may choose to believe it is tails. Both are choosing to believe something without evidence.
For smaller coins, it reflects the level of pumping and dumping.

Buy a coin, hype it, buy some more, then dump your stash on the market.

I think there were twitter accounts before to do this, like voting rings.
That depends what the idea is. If the idea is an idea for an article for a blog that exists to showcase your business or interests, then yes, absolutely, in that case how many people are attracted to the article and learn about what you do and your skills should be a major measure of success.

> If only all those people in history thought like that, we'd still be living in caves.

If "all those people" through history had measured the impact of what they did and done more of what worked and less of what didn't, instead of writing things off as useless based on belief, we'd be far further ahead.

In this case, what he did worked - his site specifically exists to showcase his professional skills and his work [1], and here we are discussing an article he invested time in writing 16 years ago

[1] https://www.marksimonson.com/info/about
He might be developing time travel too..
Some of those inaccessible parts of older game maps drove me up a wall as a kid. I'd see a hint of them, and then... how?!?!?
Convenient of this article to ignore that the Berkley study only looked at food service workers while the UW study looked at a much wider range of jobs than previous studies.

I'm sickened by my "pro science" party rushing to ignore results that don't agree with our ideological intuitions. Obviously the UW study has flaws. Let's give economists a little time to figure out WHY the results are so different from previous studies before we draw any conclusions.
How big does this data end up being? Couldn't you store it in a bunch of double arrays in memory?
"POSIX Has Become Outdated", ;login: issue:
Fall 2016, Vol. 41, No. 3

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine...

https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/fall2016/atlidakis
If so, wouldn't the approach be correctly demonstrating that these values are only trivially important?

Vegans and various religious people make different purchasing decisions because of values they actually find important enough to change their lifestyles for.
Those people step up only for objective technical criticism. Writing software systems/utilities is for others.
Don't be afraid of hard work - when you're overburdened, work hard and get it done. It will payoff later, you'll learn how to do the same amount of work in less time.

Don't stay in one place too long, changing jobs every 1-2 years worked out pretty well for you!

Trust your gut feeling about people. If someone feels shady, they probably are. You got burned a few times not trusting your gut.

Call and hang out with your friends and family more. The days when people will reach out to you first will start to end and all the days will start to feel the same.
Usually I'm kind of annoyed by the HN peanut gallery when they mostly ignore the content of a really interesting page to complain about the typeface or how it looks with Javascript disabled, or whatever.

But ye gods -- this is probably the worst UI/UX I've encountered this decade. What the hell were they thinking?