skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Matlab/octave also include everything but the kitchen sink, especially if you're on an academic license. You can certainly replicate this with a python stack, but it involves a fair number of external libraries.
I'm in SV and I've never met an engineer here who was a climate science denier. I've met conservatives (not many) but not a full on earth is cooling denier. On the interweb, sure.
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Why would being a socialist mean that he is biased in favor of minimum wage? In no way is minimum wage a requisite for socialism. Plenty of social democratic countries (not technically socialism, I know) have no minimum wage because they have a system of organized labor that renders it unnecessary.
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> Cherry picking studies that support your own point of view isn't journalism

This is in the opinion section.
I was disappointed by their redesign and I think I won't be using it much. There is too much wasted space, the banner at the top is useless (for how I use the site) and the selection of article for a story is too limited, only 3 compared to a dozen in the old design.

At least this afternoon I still had access to the old design by disconnecting.
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But would those "gatekeepers" still be a thing? Congresspeople are very busy today BECAUSE they are a career politicians, and with that, multi-year/decade lobbying of a politicians staffers pays off. After all, they need you to scratch their back every 4 years.

But if every 2-4 years the ENTIRE system is flipped like a compost heap, you would have a completely different staff, and a different NON-career politician who doesn't need your support for the next run for office. No amount of money will select me next turn-over (assuming it is a truly random selection).
Didn't realise so many HN commenters were anti-minimum-wage
Agreed! Their valuation tool is better than Zillow as well.
And for some western countries Google IS the Internet.
The consultation would likely be free, but if she wanted them to do anything it would be a few thousand to retain them. Maybe that's a good chunk of change for her?
I have strong memories of installing it on fedora 16 long before the 17 release was announced. I don't know about intent but I was a very avid fedora user and I was pro-journald before it was forced down my throat.
Considering most of our congresspeople are lawyers, any sort of tort reform in this country is basically a pipe dream.
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At the risk of oversimplifying, limited algorithmic complexity leads to compositional languages. Very nicely written article.
Problem is the university lobby is now massive. Tons of free money, using the only non-dischargable debt there is. The flaws in education are the flaws in politics at large - too much corruption that is too detached from the suffering of the commons. All major structural social issues trace back to a broken incentives structure and an absence of transparency and accountability at all levels that produce policy.

Of course, that means changing the framework of that decision making, which is constitutional. And the established structure is wholly intentional, it is not just some mistake the people just need to "wake up and realize is wrong, and then we can all fix it". There are antagonists who prosper under the establishment, who now wield controlling influence in all spheres.

The question for humanity in the 21st century looks to be how to fix that kind of structural misalignment of incentives towards the will of power.
It would be interesting to read how many of those criticisms were addressed in the Berkeley study itself.
This happened to me and I sent the lawyer a cease and desist letter.

He wanted me to take down my experiences I had with the company on my linkedin. After explaining to him that I have proof that I've worked on those projects the lawyers came up with bs reasons. I got angry for wasting some time of my life for proof of my work experiences so I sent him a cease and desist.

The loser sent one last email and I told him to get the fuck out of my life. And that was that.

I ain't ever using Zillow or Trulia.

These people are in alt-fact reality.
the other price is creativity. some ideas don't translate well- or can't translate to English. when logic and language becomes your core cognitive filtering mechanism, you start filtering "nonsense", as defined within the formal constraints of logic and language.
Mozilla failed projects as an argument is not really valid as the others (like Google or Microsoft) fail a lot too.
My impression is that it's supposed to be intentionally bad to be funny.
Don't play dumb, David. The list of signers is extraordinary and surprising, especially to people like us who actually work in the field. This isn't a bunch of random Twitter people.

More importantly: your comment leaves the impression that there were notable people in the field who had a problem with the letter. If an expert working in messaging security didn't sign it, you and I both know that's probably just because they weren't aware of it (or, at the time, The Guardian's story).
Our company was acquired by old-school finance firm. They banned alcohol and happy hour beer-Friday's we used to have. It doesn't sound like a big deal, but all the millenials work elsewhere now (especially given the competitive nature of the Boston market for technology talent). I'm not going to put all the blame on the banning of alcohol Fridays, but there was definitely a culture shift, of which this was one thing. Which sucks, because we had some really good coding talent.
I learned to code at 18. I did not fall in love with programming: this owed at least in part to Fortran IV, punch cards, and a Burroughs mainframe that was often under maintenance. But I coded a craps game simulation, and passed.

I relearned to code at 31 or so. There was data over here that I needed in a different format over there, and didn't care to retype. I taught myself some minicomputer assembler from the instruction set reference. At that same job, I learned to write macros in the OS's command-line interpreter. I found that I enjoyed programming. And I went back to school.

That was a while ago, long enough that the second or third language that I learned on my own was Perl 4. I would never have called myself a ninja or a rockstar. Yet I have over the years written some very useful code.
The GP means that since the author is not literally being paid by capital for a capitalist's desired outcome (e.g. https://www.propublica.org/article/these-professors-make-mor...) their research is biased and conclusions suspect.
> It's not like we're making fun of homeless people for having dirty clothes.

Ok.

> Plus those damn houses are visible

Like the dirty homeless people? At least with homes they are on private property.
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People change. I think you need proof of current ideology to make a case. Soviet propaganda pre 1980:s managed to convince a lot of smart people to go ultra left. For instance, one of the most prominent bankers in nordic countries, Bjorn Wahlroos, was originally at far left in his political leanings.[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Björn_Wahlroos
I didn't think it was a big deal until I spent significant time around swearers and non-swearers. There is just an ugliness in swearing both in the harsh consonants that intrinsically reflect the ugliness of the words and the general attitudes surrounding the spewing of the words. I remember a non-swearer who shared with me the misperception she often felt was falsely accused on her. This surrounded her use of other words to express frustration or pain or anger or what have you that the underlying emotions of those softer words were curse oriented, just sugar coated or something to that extent. She told me that was a perennial confusion with her, that it just was not the case, her emotions did not reflect the harsh swearing attitudes/content. Pretty interesting thought, I used to think that internally they had all the rage/etc but just repressed it or whatever. I learned apparently cursing does reflect an internal state of one's heart that could very much be lacking entirely in others.
Counterpoint:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Walton#Automobile_incide...
Noise is mentioned as a problem. That said, hearing it sing to its lego would be interesting.
True, but it's interesting that the headline doesn't say "Opinion:..." like most publications of this stature do. This author made a statement of fact in his headline, and proceeds to justify it with an incredibly biased opinion.
How can you tell? I don't see any sort of indication that it is.
A minimalistic OS intended for high security ought to be much smaller and should lack almost everything a general purposed OS has. This should make the attack surface pretty minimal.

If that OS gets reused by many people so it gets vetted by time I think that would be best. Perhaps a very stripped down Linux or BSD could fill the role. There is absolutely no reason to have things network configuration wizards, wobbly windows or other fluff. I think there are already systems and tools to help someone construct a custom minimal Linux OS (Yocto) and perhaps people already use these to construct appliances for highly sensitive systems.

I don't think we are that far away, at least some industries are pretty well covered already.
I just want to point out something that I heard on NPR/Public Radio on my drive home the other night. Essentially the studies that have been done around Seattle show that $15 was probably too high, but when it was raised to $11 it had no noticeable effect.

Now of course, confidence in the studies matter, and I am going to assume the worst and that these studies weren't conducted in the same manner. But if the above holds true, the implications are immense.
Yes, but that's more of a fortunate side-effect.
And think of how many of those actually have administrative staff around them to take care of all of that too. The perks of being a programmer anywhere but google pale in comparison to the perks of the average high end professional.
Strange, I got down-voted for thanking :|
Generally, livable wage is not defined as "you won't starve to death" but a wage high enough to support a normal living. In the context of prison, this is a little abstracted because you can't really abstain a normal state of living.

I took a quick look at what people are sending their SOs in prison to spend at the commissary to buy things like deodorant and snacks (http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-682271....). The numbers ranged from lower ($40) to several hundred a month. Assuming $100, they'd have to work over 11 hour days.
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Clearly they can. Google especially likes throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks."

Having worked there for 11 1/2 years, i can tell you this is not really accurate (it was until ~2007).

It certainly may appear that way to the outside, however :)
"More recently, some researchers (e.g. Dube et al. 2010) exploit differences between counties sitting on each side of a state border where one state raised their minimum wage and another did not. Many, but certainly not all, studies that use these approaches deliver SMALL disemployment effects."

Daniel Aaronson, Eric French, Isaac Sorkin from your article ^^^

Dube et al 2010's ACTUAL result:

"We compare all contiguous county-pairs in the United States that straddle a state border and find NO adverse employment effects"

This a pathetic piece of weasel wording, although not something I'm terribly surprised to see from them specifically.
That's the one! I was blown away when I first saw it!
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That's the difference between a phonemic and phonetic transcription [0]. The former is bracketed with slashes (//), and the latter with square brackets ([]). To use Wikipedia's example:

Phonemic transcription of English "pot" is /pɔt/, and "spot" is /spɔt/. However, a phonetic transcription is closer to [pʰɔt̚] and [spɔt̚]. Note the addition of aspiration on the initial /p/ in "pot", and marking the /t/ as unreleased in both. But you don't need to differentiate stop aspiration in English, because they are conditioned allophones. And all final stops in English are unreleased, so you don't need to mark those phonemically either.

Basically, your first sentence is entirely correct, but your second sentence is a bit inappropriate. It serves it's purpose of a standard, but you must keep in mind that most transcriptions are not phonetic but phonemic. And a phonemic reading is not meant to be independent of the language -- there are plenty of languages for which [p] and [pʰ] are not allophones and must be distinguished in even a phonemic reading. You should be familiar with the phonemic conventions of a language in order to actually render a phonetic reading.

And even then, a phonetic reading will be dependent on things that boil down to individual speaker differences. That is, there is not any standardized, singular mapping of a phonemic transcription to a phonetic one, in either direction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme
> Yes there are type annotations, but they are just that at the moment, annotations. There isn't, as far as I know, a good type checker

Mypy is a good type checker.
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It seems wild to me that there's someone with a single black 2x4 brick in their inventory: https://store.bricklink.com/Teo.92&itemID=119350903#/shop?o=...
typically good voice: "this feels bad, get your shit together so you can avoid this in the future"

typically bad voice: "this feels bad, maybe god will notice you if you start setting things on fire"
I feel that it took long because the security "issue" is not discussed on technical merits anymore.

The technical side of the study is very well understood by practically anyone. People have different type of opinions on the matter not because they misinterpret the technical details but because they have different expectations on how the privacy situation will end up being for different groups in the light of this knowledge.

So all of this makes it way harder to define if the story was overblown or not. Apparently Guardian editors ended up thinking that it was indeed, after giving it a long consideration. This is not a technical fact (and it cannot be), it is just their interpretation of it (and also the interpretation of many security experts but that's not the point).
Look at this from their point of view, not yours. Most people have this understanding that lawyers are expensive and Zillow is a big company, it is natural and reasonable to expect that fighting or resisting Zillow is going to be expensive and it is better to shut down first and find out what to do next.

You're also making a huge assumption that even if the lawyers agree it is BS, Zillow would not pursue this matter further, causing them to retain a lawyer that will require money.
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> Do you arbitrarily categorise words as "bad," then you ban such words in a lot of everyday circumstances, and therefore such words are made pointless.

The other view is that without cultural pressure to restrict their use, swear words lose their gravity. Think about how many words we've gone though to express that something is very good -- we're currently on awesome.
It made maybe $10,000, from the Bitcoin tracker.

As for damage, Maersk container terminals worldwide are still shut down on the truck side, not accepting containers for shipment. Maersk is so down that their web sites with status info aren't being updated to show that they're down.[1] Their Twitter feed has general statements.[2] The only good info seems to come from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is telling truckers not to come to Maersk's terminal today, Wednesday.[3]

Understand what this means. The biggest container ports in the US and Europe have been down for two days. There's no announced re-opening date yet.

Nobody else seems to have been visibly hit as hard as Maersk, other than the Kiev subway fare collection system.

[1] http://www.apmterminals.com/en/operations/north-america/port...
[2] https://twitter.com/Maersk
[3] http://btt.paalerts.com/recentmessages.aspx
Cool, thanks for the reference. I recently read the PLDI paper, and it didn't mention anything about hoping to support GC in the future.
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I agree with you. That's why I said: "I think the second approach will cause trivial change, at best". From my observations as an outsider living here for 6 years or so, even widespread knowledge that factory conditions are bad will cause only a trivial reduction in sales.
Prices elasticity doesn't need to be linear, nor do markets need to be perfectly efficient for higher labor costs to lead to lower employment. If you want to make an honest argument for higher minimum wage, you need to address the cost of lower levels of employments for the very poor.
WaPo posted a descriptive article on the UW study days ago.[0] The OP is an op-ed by a member of a left-leaning think tank in a section called "PostEverything Perspective," described as "Discussion of news topics with a point of view, including narratives by individuals regarding their own experiences."

Let's not make accusations of media bias without any basis at all.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/new-s...
The writing of laws can be left to staff, who may be lawyers, the impetus to have them written and passed need not be left solely to those who benefit from there being an abundance of them.

It doesn't take an Engineer to recognize that a bridge needs to be constructed.
But, does Walmart actually care?

I'm not super familiar with the details of the acquisition but I thought it was more landgrab to extend their online presence than acquihire.
As the "Elves Leave Middle-Earth - Sodas Are No Longer Free" post mentions, it's not enough to just undo the change. Because the change itself is enough to get people thinking about whether they should stick around.

For now, you can drink and swear in the office (I guess). But who knows what other weird changes are looming...
> “But when people buy direct from China that’s adding nothing to the American economy.”

Wait a minute... This argument doesn't make any sense. The post office is delivering to a US citizen that supports said postal services through paying taxes. If they choose to purchase from China, Amazon, or eBay that is their choice.

Maybe people who are not citizens and have not paid any taxes benefit from this but I suspect those are extreme edge cases.
Mouse over "Perspective" at the top of the page and you will see:

"Perspective: Discussion of news topics with a point of view, including narratives by individuals regarding their own experiences" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think the future will be industrial sized kitchens that cover a large neighborhood, with individual meals delivered by drone to your home or apartment within a few minutes. I could imagine apartments with no or minimal kitchens built to rely on that. Throw in some high quality reusable containers and you have much higher efficiency and sustainability than any current meal delivery service.
This being one of my favorite examples of why not to trust Zestimate - https://www.inman.com/2016/05/18/zillow-ceo-spencer-rascoff-...
That is what PostEverything Perspectives is. The description for PostEverything itself on the main page is "The conversation is bigger than you think."

Or as I said above in response to a similar comment:

Mouse over "Perspective" at the top of the page and you will see:
"Perspective: Discussion of news topics with a point of view, including narratives by individuals regarding their own experiences"
That's just insane, especially for someone that can afford to have a personal driver on staff.
65 cents/watt is cheap? I'm paying about 216 times less than that for electricity from my electric company.
How good is the model they are using? They are making all of the conclusions based on a model but data on the model doesn't seem in the scope of the article
I have no problem with banning alcohol at work. Even though it was present in almost every office I worked at, I failed to see the benefits, and I did witness some of the drawbacks. I have nothing against consuming it, just do it somewhere else, and not near people you'd be embarrassed to work with the next day.

As for swearing, I never really understood the PC approach in offices. English is my second language, so English swear words were used daily when I grew up. When I just started working in the US, I had to train myself to avoid uttering 'shit' when something hit the fan. But the I found out some people are offended by 'damn', and 'hell' (will never get that. Do they think they won't go there if they avoid saying it?).

So everyone has words that offend them - big whoop. I'm offended by words like 'synergy', 'disrupt' and 'scrum' but I never told people to avoid them near me.

However, in certain contexts, swear words can create a negative work environment. Uttering 'fuck' when something hits your foot is completely different than using it as a verb in a story, in front of other employees. As with alcohol - do use, but in moderation, and at the right time and place.
Citizens are more likely to support a war if the affects are felt at home. Every child that dies in a hospital that is under attack will be a rallying cry for the masses.
It has to be flagged enough to get that tag. As to 'commenters are commenting', that's not the criterion for what makes a good post. You're basically trying to stir up a silly fight. Sure, that gets upvotes and comments. It's still bad.
Seems to me that it's partly an art project + joke. I thought it was amusing and actually pretty efficient at conveying its information—once I figured out the basic model for navigation. In any case, it's clearly not an attempt at strictly optimizing usability.
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>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.

And the UW study was consistent with the Berkley study--for food service workers. It appears food service workers really weren't hurt by the increase, but non food service workers were.
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> Follow-up question: Is language necessary for thought?
Try forming thoughts without forming any words in your head.

For three years at University, I studied American sign language (ASL). It changed how I thought.

There's a spectrum of how people sign, from straight transliteration of English words to signs, to the other 'pure' side where ASL has a very different grammar and way of communicating. The school I went to taught the 'pure ASL' side, figuring we already know English grammar.

When signing, my internal voice was much quieter, or if I did hear it, it was using far fewer words and more ideas. Thinking felt different to me.

After I graduated, I moved cities and have rarely needed to sign much since then. But I still sometimes dream in it, strange as that sounds.
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Microsoft can't get "more secure". The issue isn't Microsoft, it's the fact that we now live in a world where exploits get publicly released in a time frame that no device manufacturer can possibly keep up with while adhering to fda regulations. Do you want stable or fast? You aren't getting both.
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"This kinda reminds me of the GCC/Clang thing. If I recall right, Clang got a huge influx of attention, in part, due to Stallman's unwillingness to allow GCC to export its AST.
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This is one of a number of reasons, yes.