skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the very least, the "control group" in this study seems problematic:

"But a quick look at the data suggests something else may be going on. Between the second quarters of 2014 and 2016, earnings in Seattle grew by an incredible 21 percent, as opposed to 6 percent in parts of Washington outside the Seattle area. And the first quarter of 2016 was exactly when the very large gap in overall wage growth between Seattle and rest of the state (where the control group comes from) really opened up, coinciding with the timing of the job loss found by the University of Washington team. At this point we don’t know enough, but clearly there are some missing pieces to this puzzle."

And, I'm kind of surprised they are matching to the rest of Washington rather than against Vancouver, Tacoma or Spokane only. The rest of Washington is so different that I just can't imagine it being a useful "control".
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Yes. Much of the political rhetoric about the minimum wage seems to ignore obvious questions like, "What happens to the people whose labor is only worth (e.g.) $12 per hour, when the minimum rises to $15?" What problem are we really trying to solve by making it unlawful for people to hold a job, people whose labor is worth less than the minimum wage? Making it illegal to work (for a certain wage) is certainly a roundabout way to help poor people, if that's the goal.

There are certainly people in any economy whose labor is not worth the total cost to an employer, for any given price. For an obvious extreme, consider a minimum wage of $1000/hour: this would not magically make everyone rich; instead, it would create a giant black market for labor. Intuition says that $1000/hr is obviously the wrong number. But what really is the justification for saying that $5 or $10 or $15 per hour is the right number? If the goal of such a policy is to help the lower class earn more, then minimum wage seems like a very indirect and blunt instrument by which to effect it.
I think people are missing the point of the article. I summarize that the sharing economy is not a good way to make a living. In search for the lowest price we have people that can't make enough to get an apartment and raise a family. Raising a family has become a luxury for some people. Try to raise 2 kids and you fall into poverty status.

The scary part is that it's possible to see a future where a big chunk of the economy is powered by gigs. The uberizing of the economy is just starting.

People say that all these workers will eventually get better jobs but that's not the case. We are hundreds of years into the industrial revolution yet low/unskilled work is still something society needs. For whatever reason, some people just can't get enough skills to move up the food chain.

I wish the new tech entrepreneurs would find a better way to fix the low skill problem rather than find a way to reduce services/costs to the bone.
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I'm not aware of any actual mafia. They were almost certainly metaphorical and they must have been just bashing the local government. Because what they do is really a shame. One of the lines is de facto in a life threatening condition. Trains caught fire multiple times. Instead of being replaced, the 40 year old cars are being refurbished/modernized. This has something to do with the EU (they gave money for this, but not that). There was a tender, but miraculously it was the Russians who won it, despite their offer was quite a lot more expensive than that of the Estonians. And of course, as it happens with corruption, they failed to deliver a properly working version, so after a few weeks of testing, the first few trains were sent back.

About the security (or rather the extremely low quality) of the eTicket system: that was developed by a 3rd party that belongs to the Deutsche Telekom group, and that company is indeed quite a high profile system integrator working with a lot of large companies, banks, etc. So it's a bit of surprising (even if corruption is involved) that they released it in this form. Actually I'm surprised by these bugs even for a prototype that was forcefully pushed out of the door, because you just never do these things in the first place.
Hey,I'm one of the maintainers of the project and can ensure you its very much alive :)

Erik the original creator of The Odin Project, has moved on to focus on Viking. But theres a bunch of us working on improving the project.
I never messed with Symbian too much. You think it actually had a chance at being decent in the post iOS world?
Hah. Makes sense.
I'm confused by his request as well, I can't understand why he asked it. Any context?
As a user I quite enjoyed the UI concept of Windows Phone. It felt refreshing then especially because of its apparent simplicity, and focus on typography, which was a stark contrast from the skeuomorphism of iOS then.

Too bad there were never enough apps, IE mobile was buggy, and I felt that my Lumia never had the build quality Nokia was once famous for.
Why didn't you report it?

Seems somewhat negligent - at the very least from a Good Samaritan™ point of view
The idea is that people should be pushed up the value chain of productivity as well as just being paid more. Yes, we don't allow for $1/hour productivity like other countries (even when allowing for PPP) because that is just not acceptable use of human labor in a developed country.

So minimum wages do create pressure to stay productive enough to keep employed, which is entirely intensional.
What about covfefe?
As a windows 10 user, I would have definitely moved to a 'windows phone' anytime before ~2010. What would have gotten me to move would have been some sort of seamless 'handoff' from my desktop computer to my phone. I still think the opportunity is there for them to do that. I dont mean the ability to run desktop apps of course, but maybe some new take on 'remote desktop' which had a ios like UI. I just imagine leaving my house and going to work where I take my phone out and just plug it into some dock and I magicly have my home environment. And when I am on the go, I have some 'ios-ified' version of my home setup.

The only other phone I know of that kind of tried to do this was the atrix, which afaik was a failure
>The Fed has the final say on every matter.

Not on every matter but the matter which is purview of the Fed. I.e. on the matters, which the Constitution gives to the Fed. It's been stretched quite far through the commerce clause but at the end the Fed's interior power is limited by design.

Practically it does not matter since the Fed has to rely on the states to enforce the law. So even with the immigration, which is in purview of Fed, we have 10s of millions of illegals (the exact number is not even known, think about it for a second) still in the country because states prevent the enforcement.

>Beyond just technical authority granted by the constitution, you have to remember that the Fed controls around a third of state budgets through various forms of federal aid, meaning they can withhold funding... See Kate's Law for an example of that.

Exactly. See if it will ever pass. And if it passed - see a multi-decade legal battle waged by states to kill it in courts.

The only practical solution I see is to shift welfare to the state level. Then the states will become interested not only in the quantity but also the quality of their population. Though the states are going to fight it even harder than the direct immigration enforcement IMHO.
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Developing on WinCE in the early 2000s and developing on Windows based server apps at the same time was actually somewhat efficient. APIs had some consistencies between the platforms -- not mentioning shared toolsets.

The WP7 -> WP8 thing was unforgivable.
That page probably cost a lot more than 10K.
Posted in a previous thread, but I still don't understand this whole "Minimum wage is good/bad" conversation, and it's really bothering me (especially from economists).

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Every minimum wage increase is different!

Even the staunchest free market economist wouldn't claim that a hypothetical minimum wage increase from $.10/hr to $.50/hr in Seattle would increase unemployment. And even the staunchest socialist economist would not claim that a minimum wage increase from $8/hr to $800/hr wouldn't increase unemployment.

Similarly, how can you compare an increase from $5-6 in New jersey in 2005 to one from $11 to $13 in Seattle in 2017? You can't just make blanket statements about this stuff.

The question is not "Are minimum wage increases good in general?" the question is "Given the potential tradeoffs, is this specific minimum wage increase good?"
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Someone approached us for building multiple apps for windows phone presumably on behalf of Microsoft.

We would get paid for having our app on store. Seems the person who reached was a middle man and was more interested in making money for himself than getting good apps built.

I knew there was no way they could recover from that situation.
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The problem is with people claiming discrimination exists solely based on the outcomes "very few women in STEM" without any evidence of actual discrimination existing.
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For something that is more oriented toward patches and network defense see http://archive.darpa.mil/cybergrandchallenge/ .
And you may be assuming those who wish to fix and use the building have the capital required to do so.
That's probably the weirdest browser behaviour I've seen on any browser! I don't even know how I would describe that to someone :/
I have ones I find useful turned on

But my default answer to, "can I notify you?" is, "no".
followup nice.
Reporting these things can get you in trouble. Once burnt twice shy.
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Look at the ransomware and DDOS botnet epidemics though. If these programs were to infect and control self-driving cars all sorts of science fiction level bad stuff could happen.
I came across this CMU presentation on why the purported ubiquity of power laws must be taken with a grain of salt:

https://goo.gl/23PP7v

Check from slide 32.

As someone who doesn't have significant experience in statistics, I'd be grateful for an expert's opinion on the arguments presented in this presentation.
I get upset because of the binary thinking, as well as the what aboutism, but mainly the binary thinking.

It's like, the USA executes people, china executes people too, so they must be the same. Ignore the fact that china executes a hell of a lot more people than the USA (even on a per capita basis), they aren't the same at all. Likewise, the USA has corruption, so does china, but the scales of the problems are completely different. Talking about the USA's censorship problem in the context of China's is like talking about a flu in the context of terminal brain cancer. Ya, they both suck, but one sucks a lot more than the other.
> Instead of being replaced, the 40 year old cars are being refurbished/modernized.

Age seems like a bit of a red herring to me. Here in San Francisco BART cars are about that old, Muni runs 90 year old Italian trams and American ones that are close to 70 years old. And, of course, the cable cars. BART bears about the worst of it because many parts are no longer available.
I have no idea what you're basing your comment on. My career started when I was 25* and it's only been getting better.

I never once had to look over my shoulder for fear of younger fresher talent.

Quite the opposite, in my experience, the younger and fresher talent tends to be less valuable.

The level of respect awarded to intermediate level developers is several times that which is awarded to junior developers. Junior developers are practically treated like replaceable labor.

* I took a few extra years to finish high school and university, so when I graduated I was already 25.
What he means is that typically the people who apply for loans are of the lower income bracket. You won't find higher income generators applying for these types of loans, therefore, selection bias.
>I'm of the opinion that far too many people on both sides of the issue argue their positions from ideology rather than empiricism, to our collective detriment.

And some of us just use math. If a company is barely profitable already, being required to pay more for labor probably won't work too well.
"In this alternate reality, Microsoft easily kills Android with one simple headline:
Windows Phone Now Free"

It's worth noting that Microsoft did actually do this in 2014 - they made windows free for devices sized 9 inches or less: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-officially-makes-windo...

Granted, this is long after Windows Phone 7's initial release back in 2010.
I'm sticking with the combo of being late to the party and not having even a solid fraction of the top apps on iOS/Android. I believe Windows Phone could've survived if it had enough of the top app support. A distant third. But still enough to warrant continued investment.

So in my eyes if they could've gotten top app support from coming out with W7 earlier or just somehow getting that support when they did release things, it would've salvaged things. The insane Nokia purchase price would still need to be heavily written down along with a lot of layoffs. Just not as much as what actually happened.

Ah well. Most of all I will miss webOS, then Windows 8 Mobile.
A thread about Ruby! Quick someone write a post to bash it up, STAT!
Other policies which accomplish the goals of the minimum wage are redistribution and a jobs guarantee. And much more than half the ink spent on the minimum wage has been spent on redistribution. We only talk about the minimum wage because it is actually less politically fraught than the alternatives.
> Hearn mentions this mechanism three times in the article. He even discusses the tradeoffs of ignoring this versus rejecting the block. Hardly misleading.

Hearn mentions the nVersion mechanism? Specifically in https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050... ?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any mention of the word "version"

> He said "essentially tricked", and I think his explanation is clear.

I think you're misunderstanding my point: everything you raised above is negated by the fact that the soft-fork mechanisms we use are designed to give warnings to users and miners who are not running the new(1) protocol. For example, in addition to the nVersion mechanism I mentioned, segwit transactions are intentionally designed to be not standard transactions, and thus non-segwit miners will reject them. This is an important feature to ensure that those miners don't unintentionally create invalid blocks.

1) I say "new" rather than "upgraded" to avoid making the claim that soft-forks are necessarily an upgrade.
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What are you doing to make others lives more meaningful and productive? My experience is that refocusing my attention away from myself, and towards others has the unanticipated benefit of lifting my own well being.

As a start, volunteer one hour every week at an organization that interests you. Do the grunt work. See what the effect is after a month and grow from a simple base.
Someone already posted styletron which to me is a lot better, but anywho the point of it is to minify your CSS a lot more. If you have something like `margin: 10px` in several different places, it will refactor it out into a new class and apply it to all of those elements. In a big project, it saves a lot of space and you end up with a pretty small CSS file.

Admittedly, I have no idea how well this performs with code splitting though. I like the fact that with code splitting, each page will just load the assets that it needs for that page to render and function.
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I'm one of the maintainers of the project, I think that Ruby is still a good language for beginners to learn programming.

Ruby has very expressive syntax, allowing beginners to focus more on the core programming concepts. Its object model also makes it a nice language to learn the basics and best practices of OOP.

The resources out there for beginner programmers and Ruby are also top notch and the community is very friendly to beginners.

This is completely anecdotal, but we've had a fairly decent number of students come into the chat rooms telling us they started with javascript as a beginner but weren't getting it, ruby was much easier for them to get up to grips with.

I admit that I've seen a few students put off with the magic in Ruby, but those really have been a very small minority of students compared to those who really embraced learning it.

In saying all this, we have plans to focus more of our efforts on Javascript and give students the option to choose a javascript track in the curriculum.
If he reported it, he runs the risk of the company turning on him (as was the case in the article above). If he doesn't report it, nothing happens.

It's a choice between the certainty of no loss vs the possibility of great loss.
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It seems that Microsoft's moat is shrinking. If people don't develop Windows native applications, then what is the power of the Windows Operating System as Business Moat? It seems like their future is Windows Azure or bust.
Found this opposing pov: http://thebulletin.org/fusion-reactors-not-what-they%E2%80%9...
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> That there are about as many black men as white women (or less) in a given tech field is one example of this.

The problem with your line of thinking is you are looking at the outcome as if it was evidence. The unspoken assumption is that all humans are the same, or if not, then you're assuming that "skills" are distributed the same way across all populations.

There's no reason to think this, and there's lots of evidence to the contrary, but it doesn't get any attention because anyone who talks about quickly gets labeled as racist. Which might be true (that scientists and authors who talk about IQ differences across population could be racists), but doesn't make the facts less true.
Men write, direct, and play the lead in most movies. They write the news, journal articles, books, speeches, and laws. Then, they're more likely to hold those speeches, break those laws, and peer-review those journal articles.

They hold more power deciding which job gets paid how much, which group of people gets a parade on July 4th (soldiers, not nurses), and which profession to glorify in the next credit card commercial.

So, yes: our impression of a job's prestige is formed by culture, and that culture certainly was–and largely still is–dominated by men. And yes, of course that culture has the same impact on mens' and women's views. They are people, you know?
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The funny thing about your statement (which I generally agree with) is that it applies in Microsoft's favour on the desktop.
Then pass the fee on to the customer.
A scene in Star Trek IV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvkYTJYcYzY
More like three times. The intro of phone 7 gave the middle finger to the pocketpc platform that by then were fairly well established.

It was really sad to see the established players freak out like that.
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...which a person can reasonably find and use in the US?
You're often opening up yourself to a LOT of bad exposure, where you'll be accused of hacking the software (along with the 20+ jail term this might eventually entail) and just generally putting the spotlight on yourself as a potentially dangerous person.

Better to report anonymously, or report directly to someone who might appreciate or is responsible (and hope they appreciate responsible disclosure).
True, it's a bad idea.

But we're getting to the heart of the issue now. What enterprises insist on being able to do is at odds with the security the TLS working group is trying to give users (and service providers like Google and Apple). These must-decrypt-tls-traffic enterprises should do it in a way that costs them, in a way that exposes them to risks - not in away that puts risks on other users and service providers.

For just debugging, they can have the endpoints which they are debugging dump the plaintext, I agree that's a better way. But let's be honest, they're mostly not debugging, they're trying to deal with intrusions, outbreaks, and untrusted employees.
Are you honestly saying that commonly available technology in the early 90's was capable of replacing as many jobs as it is today?

My only "prediction" is that, as has been the case since the beginning of recorded history, business owners will always try to reduce their expenses as much as possible, and that capabilities of technology will continue to increase as time goes on. I'd say those are fairly safe assumptions. With those basic and reasonable assumptions in place, minimum wage increases today will cost minimum wage jobs.
The fact that you need a sexy word is indicative of the problem.
Maybe you need to share your life with someone else.

Maybe you need to work on something that helps people.

Maybe your work is the wrong variety. Maybe you need to do work where you shower after your shift, rather than before.

Maybe you need to work for yourself, rather than a company.

Just a few thoughts, maybe one clicks.
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Think about it: it's not just the work, it's the quality of the housing and the food, and everything else. Sure, someone could "work" for $1/hour but they could never live on that in a rich country. There is a bottom on labor productivity below which labor is not viable for the minimum standard of living for the country.

Pushing up the min wage forces productivity improvements as well as standard of living increases. Otherwise, we would have something like India, supporting a wider variety of living standards; I.e. We wouldn't be a developed country anymore.

Below that level of employability, social services are supposed to take over, but this being America....
I've had fond memories of S40. It had a good-ish browser (Opera Mini) and lots of Java apps.
I think it is a Star Trek reference.
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What I worry about is that Venmo is an expression of "everybody is too poor to actually cover each other", and that's a damn shame if true.

The way we, now aged, uncool, unhip folks used to deal with this was that we would cover people like you discreetly.

One of the better off folks (read: professional receiving a paycheck rather than starving grad student) would take charge of the "pot", would figure out what was lacking and generally "tell" a couple of the other better off folks what to put in. I never had an issue covering an entire bill for someone and neither did any of the other folks. 1) We asked you to join us because we appreciate your company and 2) people probably did this for us when we were the poor ones.

This works very well unless you have someone freeriding who shouldn't (we had two people in our group who were really well-paid programmers who did this). When that happens, I would itemize the free-rider in excruciating detail and if he didn't put in every red cent, I would call him out on it.
Does anyone know, if I'm on a WPA2-PSK wi-fi, do other devices that are also on the same network can "sniff" my traffic.
For unprotected networks it's obvious, but what about protected?
Couldn't agree more. There are lots of other nefarious tactics, like "resort fees" at hotels. We're the land of the fee, I suppose.