skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study was commissioned by the city of Seattle after the passage of its MW ordinance - there is every reason to believe that the "desired result" was "the MW raise is good and justified and has no net negatives". That's a part of the reason that the results of this study are so surprising.

The exclusion of multi-site businesses was because of the inability to distinguish a business's physical location from its account location, which would have confounded the results:

> The data identify business entities as UI account holders. Firms with multiple locations have the option of establishing a separate account for each location, or a common account. Geographic identification in the data is at the account level. As such, we can uniquely identify business location only for single-site firms and those multi-site firms opting for separate accounts by location. We therefore exclude multi-site single-account businesses from the analysis, referring henceforth to the remaining firms as “single-site” businesses.

(This suggests that a locally owned and operated Domino's franchise would be classed as a single-site business and included in the study, while a non-franchised Walmart would be classed as a multi-site business and excluded.)

Furthermore, survey evidence suggests that multi-site businesses may be more likely to contribute to the "negative" effects:

> Survey evidence, discussed below, indicates that multi-site employers were if anything more likely to report staffing reductions in the wake of the minimum wage increase...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.

Skepticism is good, but let's give the researchers credit here: they've done a pretty stellar job of mitigating confounding variables and justifying why they've made the choices they have in which data they chose to study.
CoinDash CEO Says Ignore the Conspiracies After Coin-Sale Hack
Consumer expenditure survey illustrating the income divide
Yes, that's part of it. On desktop with ad blocker on, there is an awful lot of white space: http://imgur.com/jQV5fqy

There is less whitespace if you turn ad blocker off -- it turns out one of the things uBlock Origin is blocking is a social media widget on the left hand side. http://imgur.com/ip093TX

However, that ad in the middle of that screenshot pops in and out of what you are reading as was described by the OP. It's very annoying.

With adblocker on the whitespace is not optimal, but at least the user experience is not terrible.
I can definitely understand the simplicity argument; it is much lower barrier to just throw something together than to start reading some spec that has lot more stuff than what you need.

Designing things yourself is enjoyable and educational, so that is also a good reason.

The flipside here is that keepass format has passed quite a lot of scruitny over time, so the design should be pretty decent at this point (especially from security perspective). All that complexity that might feel overwhelming at the beginning also gives you room to grow over time.

As long as your code is well architected and your featureset somewhat conservative, switching out the storage layer shouldn't be too difficult if you ever change your mind. So from that perspective it makes sense to keep going with your own format as long as you feel like it, and focus on more important things.
And that's why nobody makes fakes or knock-offs, right? Because they'd lose their customer base once their customers purchase the product and find out it is not genuine.

They're are large profit margins to be made off of either cutting drugs (if you're nice, with something inert, if you're not, just with something cheap) or for things like LSD, selling research chemicals that are similar yet different and massively cheaper to manufacture/buy than the real thing.
The strange geography of content delivery networks
I've updated to be more specific.

Are such levels of specificity required when talking about other illegal transactions which have a potential to be victimless?
I hope that the documentation for ShareLaTeX stays online; of all the resources on LaTeX available, their documention stands above the rest in terms of clarity. The other day, I wanted to know how to do a proper quote, made a quick Google search, and I was happy that the first result was ShareLaTeX and I found the answer to my question.
Indeed. This is so obvious that the fact that its not the case raises concern.
Or will the value halve after the split?
Not sure why I'm being downvoted, does noone remember this? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...

Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors
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The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed
I'm glad to see this getting more attention because it has been brewing for months and 1Password is essentially doing what they promised they wouldn't - forcing users to the subscription/online model my phasing out support for local vaults.

I'm not mad at the subscription. I'd pay them the few bucks a month happily for what is an excellent application cross-platform. I AM mad at the forced cloud sync.

My current plan is to keep using 1PW 4 on Windows as long as possible and then re-evaluate when I absolutely have to. KeePass is a close alternative, but nowhere near as polished at this point.
You haven't answered the question. Nothing you say is evidence of any impairment due to insufficient carbs.

Edit: My mistake, it looks like someone else made the following mistaken argument, first - not you. My apologies.

[ Elsewhere in this thread your invocation of kidney problems was already corrected, and yet you invoke it here, again. This has everything to do with over-consumption of protein, nothing to do with a supposed "carb deficiency". This is not evidence of any alleged "impairment" resulting from insufficient carbohydrates. ]
EV patents are irrelevant to the discussion. EVs are still cars. Public Transport offers an alternative to automobile based transportation. It is in his best interest for governments to invest their infrastructure dollars in automobile based infrastructure instead of alternatives.
You can grant employees shares regardless of how you raise outside capital. Whether or not you do so is a decision of the company leadership, not a result of how you raise money.
> Conversation is action, not thought.

I think the distinction here is a pretty dubious one. Consider, as a hypothetical, a situation in which one can actually tell "what someone else is thinking" based on a more advanced form of EEG. Would it still be "thought" as opposed to "conversation" if two people are doing it to each other simultaneously? Why is transcoding in terms of pixels on a monitor different from transcoding as sounds? Is the key difference for you whether the transcoding is active or passive on the part of the thinker of the thought?

Put another way, if we define "thought" as being limited to those things which have no perceptible effect on the world at all, then we run into the separate question about whether this "thought" thing exists in the first place.
Happy Friends Day HN
In my experience, everything but "yes" means no.
> Would it be helpful if a team adds a slide to the effect of "Here are reasons why you might NOT want to invest in us"?

No. Having a list of risks and assumptions you can send folks is good, and shows maturity. But it doesn't belong in the deck, which should be for introducing yourselves and telling your story.
masturbating.
It is a little bit of an exaggeration, there are going to be a lot of people that will get caught and a lot that will get away. The point of the statement is to reduce confidence in dark net markets so they are more likely to fail.
That is not quite what that means. Usually that means "We kind of like your idea/team, but we don't have the technical resources to fully diligence it (or manage the board after funding), so we want to wait until someone more competent is willing to take a risk on your company".
Take-away: if you're doing something illicit you'd better reconsider being dumb about passwords. Or would just user names / IPs have done them in?
Renamed types in Go
There is no point in calling something like this "racist". It is either true or false. It makes no subjective judgments or propositions.

Perhaps someone may, at some point, attempt to use such a fact to justify their own subjective value judgment about something, and then you can address any potential racism associated with that.

People should not be discouraged from exploring, sharing, or understanding anatomical realities just because someone somewhere may use those realities to draw unfair conclusions. Address the unfair conclusion instead of trying to stop people from understanding themselves and their world.
Designed is very different from available in any form. If I couldn't buy a router that supports it with any amount of money, NAT was my only answer. This was the existing state of the world for a long time.
Advice for beginning painters, who might otherwise be inclined to overuse black, has no relevance to typography. Printer toner is made from carbon black, which is as close to pure black as you're going to get without very exotic materials.
There is currently an epidemic in Vancouver (among other cities) of overdose deaths from a drug called Fentanyl that is several orders of magnitude more potent than morphine. People want it because it is so potent, but the problem with extreme potency is that the difference between an imperceptible difference and a lethal dose is orders of magnitude smaller in terms of weight.

My guess is 'poison' was a slight hyperbole.
Hair review
I'm failing to see how static Python addresses any of the concerns you listed.

In fact you seem to defeat your own argument when you state:

>A lot of the failures in space that were caused by software weren't actually programming errors...

Indeed this is true. I work in aerospace (though not in a software development role) and I can tell you a lot of shops are using C/C++ for embedded applications with strict style guides to attempt to mitigate the flaws in those languages.

I think the fact that many aerospace-related problems aren't due to programming errors says that current practices are working.
Well, I'm highly skeptical of that number, but that's not the point here - I don't think anyone disputes that some people have a higher resting energy expenditure than others. Just to be clear - are you arguing against my point? Because if you wanted to lose weight, you'd 'just' have to eat less (quotes because of course it's not really easy. It's like the engineer's meaning of the concepts 'very hard', 'hard', 'trivial' etc.) Which is all I'm saying here - the relationship between weight and caloric intake.
Sockeye – Amazon Neural Machine Translation with MXNet
they'll give you a 4g lte cellspot for free, yes, it will use your internet connection (which might matter if it's metered), but you'll get perfect connectivity.
> Socialist and communist governments in the 20th century went to great lengths in order to remind us of that.

Fundamentally, I think it comes down to power relationships. The market economy is a proxy for power relations. Communist (and fascist) governments removed the market economy and replaced it with authoritarian servitude. God shifts from the Economy to the State.
Watch this two tutorials!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JzknmjYOcE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FNUxEfvd48
The title isn't "don't overuse black," it's "never use black." Black is an unappealing colour to look at.
So, what would be required to use this outside of GCP? All documentation on BBR only discusses GCP.
If you skim through the whole thread, you can get a feel for where this poster is coming from. The comment is "hand waving" because the fact of the matter is: Carbs are not an essential nutrient, and the parent poster was correct to say "carb deficiency is not associated with any impairment or disease"
Agreed, and it's not how he earns his income
"An awful lot of very hard work went into making iOS work like this. It’s a huge technical advantage that iOS holds over Android."

It would be good if Gruber just stuck to cheering Apple moves, because he shows his ignorance when he goes outside of the lines.

Android includes process freezing and, in a worst case of memory exhaustion, dehydration/rehydration. What Apple later added is virtually identical to what Android had already done in v1.0. Samsung for some odd reason buys the gimmick of process managers and aggressively kills background apps -- even when there is an overwhelming surplus of free memory -- but that doesn't make it a problem of Android.
Should we disallow use of DNA to exonerate the wrongfully convicted? If it is complete nonsense we should shut down the Innocence Project.
The irrational Java hate has led to this fantasy that Kotlin is going to take over the world because Google mentioned it.
Which is why you should subsist on a diet of biodiesel.
One can also break out of the LOOP and return the so far accumulated value:

CL-USER> (loop for i from 1 below 10
sum i
when (= i 6)
do (loop-finish))
21
I mean, you say that, but after having oink go down on me, and more recently what, I've given up on pirating music, and I have to imagine others have done the same. You might be right about the next one being harder to shut down, maybe, but I would also expect the next one to be smaller because of the changing climate.

Edit: I mean, yeah, $10/mo for unlimited streaming was a factor. There are comparisons to the drug trade there, with regards to the number of legal sources increasing over time. My point stands.
In my experience, even one followup is risky after a California No, your specific wording doubly so (I've received "why don't you take the hint" to a single, very similar, followup the next day). I no longer follow up and tend to follow a policy of never asking for business or personal asks over text-based media, because a California No is harder to pull off in person. It evolves in person, though, to a "yeah, that would be fun, let's do it sometime" (and the examples in the article) to buy time until the California No can be successfully executed. I did mention the physical harm and am aware there are a growing number of folks who react violently and offensively to being rebuffed by internalizing it and taking it personally -- I know this because I've had to make conscious efforts to not tie rejection to my self-worth (I've been guilty in the past), and I've repeatedly seen rejections turn very, very ugly. So I am sympathetic that folks are often trained to -j DROP instead of -j REJECT.

Also, the situations are strongly related. It's a general theme of being unable or unwilling to say no, whether in business or personal relationships. It transfers the ambiguity of the situation to the asker: are they saying no? Did they lose their phone? Did the e-mail go to spam? Did the investor's mom die? Am I being too persistent by following up? This must be balanced against feeling entitled to a response, though, because nobody owes you anything. It's a fine line.

My personality type strongly prefers closure, and open issues like this nag me incessantly through no control of my own. I literally lose sleep over California No, trying to think of the explanation, whether business or personal. I cannot control that despite much effort. Was it something I said? Then I replay the entire conversation in my head. Then it's 4AM. The next generation is already learning that it's normal, and those of us who like (nay, need) "no" are now the diminishing minority.
Or, you know, just don't do illicit things.
Right. If you read the rest of the thread though you'll see that that's because they're not actually required to check. (Or at least, it's certainly arguable that they're not.) Any other CA could have done the same thing and that would be considered perfectly acceptable behavior per the Baseline Requirements.
What a shitty article, it is not even for Spain, it is a new initiative from Catalan government to rationalize the daily schedule for their inhabitants.

Catalonia is an region of Spain.
Usually the better pitches have a discussion on risks/challenges to overcome, and how you are going to use the current VC round to do that (and the timeline, etc). "Big risk item is delivering T tech by D date, requires P person for M months (usually a specific person), who we will hire at time T_1 after getting our funding round"

If most of the VC's concerns are on your list of challenge milestones, then they will be more likely to believe the rest of your pitch as being accurate.
> Wouldn't even the shadiest of dealers want to keep their customers/hosts/victims around to, you know, keep bleeding money?

Most illegal drugs are potentially deadly, and some share of users are going to die from them. Even rationally, cutting with cheaper but more toxic material can be justified if the increase in profit per transaction is sufficient to outweigh the reduction in the expected number of transactions per customer.

Of course, also, drug dealers may not always act rationally, and may not even understand the hazards (either in isolation or due to combination with the drug in question) posed by ingredients used to cut drugs.
t-mobile hookup ;)

heck, I was a t-mobile customer that transferred all my lines out to google voice just to be able to get this :)
Can games actually boost your brain? Not really
Hansa has already taken AB's place.
I dunno, working life of the author seems fair to me at least, if not life of the author, or "life of the author or 50 years, whichever lasts longer". If people love your work enough to keep buying it, why should you not get to keep profiting off of it for at least as long as you're alive? Considering people sometimes lose the ability to do work or also have families that depend on them, it doesn't seem so unreasonable to me. Now, these time periods that last what feels like 200 years, definitely absurd.

I don't mind the notion of a copyright entering into the hands of a company, either, but if a copyright was originally an individual's, and then transfers to a company (either through purchase or through contract, etc.), I think the copyright should expire after about 10 to 20 years. Let the company make money off of it for a decent amount of time (otherwise there's not much incentive to buy it), and then send it to the public domain.
Maybe. In any case involving TOR, I would not dismiss the possibility of parallel construction.
This is obvious when your Macbook'd up designers demo something on a crappy projector, without having tested it there first. Entire areas of the design just... disappear.
> The arguer's credibility does not affect the truth value of any statements

It is evidence which you should weigh in deciding how much credence to give their statements.

> so it's always more useful to argue over why someone is wrong.

It's a tradeoff, so there's no obvious bright line with which everyone will agree. But certainly there are some people for which some arguments or claims can be reasonably dismissed out of hand, relative to the preferences of the person making this decision.
Yep, there's no way that we'd remove all of this! It's taken us a long time to build up that documentation, and it will continue to be maintained and updated.
Boy do I disagree with just about everything here. You need to keep your skills up to date, this is correct. Absolutely.

I think it's a much more important skill to acknowledge that you don't need things like microservices, node, and react when you can deliver a simple, robust solution without any of that stuff.
Elon Musk Claims U.S. Approval for World’s Longest Tunnel
Turn an Android Device into a Web Server
My bad it's a "patent rider". I should know better.
There's a strong economic incentive in business to distinguish oneself from one's competitors by any means necessary because (whisper it) capitalism is a zero-sum game.

Have you ever noticed in science-fiction and other speculative genres, computer systems almost invariably have clean consistent user interfaces. That's what consumers want - relatively simple UIs that work the same for all the content they deal with. that's why things like Bloomberg Terminal are popular, that's why people fall in love with the UIs in videogames.

What retailers and other businesses want is to be different and stand out from their competitors. Since the costs of entry to the web are much lower than those for print (billboards or magazine publication) there is correspondingly more visual clutter. But this isn't a new thing with the web, it's been around as long as there have been magazines. I suffer from severe ADHD; I tend to avoid large racks of magazines in stores because looking at all that imagery and typography at once is very similar to being screamed at by a crowd of people.

This does not mean I hate all graphic design and typography, far from it. But where we went wrong (imho) is that the web became about making every page distinctive instead of concentrating on hypertext and letting people customize it at the client end. Facebook beat MySpace because FB is consistent and graphics are subordinate to the white-and-blue color scheme. Wikipedia succeeds in larger part because it's visually consistent. GeoCities is a graveyard because it wasn't.

The basic problem is that absent other incentives money typically flows towards novelty. But competition alone rarely yields optimal results; rather it tends towards a lower common denominator.
Thanks for writing this. I got a lot out of reading it.
but all that seems to be silly. why try to force feed patches to make python something it was in no way designed for? it seems like the completely wrong approach from a design point of view.

and your dismissal of the power of type checking systems seems strange. seems weird to say that it doesn't really help when python has nothing of the sort. even a "static python" wouldn't reach the power of some existing systems. even for dynamic languages, python is behind the times for things like that. for example, look at racket versus python.

and then there's languages like idris, which go well beyond what even haskell can do. something like idris would be wonderful for critical embedded systems. and if you really want flexibility and a dynamic language, python seems well below lisp/scheme. i would love to see racket and ML-based languages to move towards embedded development over something like python.

finally, both lisps/schemes and ML-based languages are very readable. many would argue they are more readable than a language like python. so your implication that type systems incur a readability penalty isn't generally accurate.

> But what I believe a language can do for you is help you express your thoughts in such an simple, structured and readable way that the cognitive load is reduced to a minimum, freeing up thought-power to check your logic.

basically what i am getting at is that a language like racket or idris fulfill this requirement very strongly, even moreso than python. and additionally, they come with advanced language features that no version of python will ever likely touch on.