skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The poverty rate was declining for decades before the War on Poverty began. After its start, when its programs were still small, it continued declining for a decade. Then the decline, which had been in place since long before the WoP began, ended, and has never again resumed, despite social spending only growing.

More extreme poverty began to increase decades into the War on Poverty, when social programs were far larger than they were at the beginning.

And in addition, there has been a major increase in single parenthood, which a lot of research indicates is largely a result of government low income subsidies making single parent households more economically viable. Single-parent households are associated with much worse socioeconomic outcomes that increase future poverty, incarceration and government dependency.

So my conclusion is that these policies are most likely harming the poor, by wiping out the poverty reduction that would otherwise be happening, and moreover, that there is very good reason to doubt that they're "progressive".

>>Cutting the Poverty Rate from about 22% to about 12% is hurting the poor. Got it.

The poverty rate was declining before the War on Poverty began. There's no reason to conclude that it is responsible for the continuation of that trend for a decade longer. There's plenty of reason to blame it for the cessation of that trend of declining poverty rates, rising wages and low rates of single parenthood.
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It varies by college but what you've described is basically how it works in the U.S. Take my alma mater for example:

http://rose-hulman.edu/academics/academic-departments/comput...

A while ago they split the CS degree program into three tracks---computer science skews towards research topics, software engineering is more process oriented, and international computer science combines the two with study abroad---but the three programs overlap so much that you could have a CS graduate go into industry with zero problems, and you could have an SE graduate go into academia just as easily.
What if they automate the search and copy all your data for further mining and save all that info to see if you're not "desirable" for the "people in power"?
Since his DoB is 1946 he'd be 17/18 in 1963. What's fishy?
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As a former Googler: bullshit. If anything, Google gives women all the help they can possibly get, including preferential treatment during recruitment, hiring, and promotions. If this is not enough, I'm not sure what else they could do to boost the numbers of women in higher paid roles.
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I want to treat carefully as this is a hot button issue - and I'm not trying to defend Google at all but:

>>But other male software engineers who were less qualified than Ellis or at the same level were promoted into Level 4 and higher positions, according to the suit.

What is the proof that this is the case? Did Google admit that these candidates were "less qualified" than Ellis, or is it just the perception?

Just because two people graduate at the same time from the same program and have similar experience does not mean they are equally qualified.

Again, I'm not saying Google is in the right - but just because something appears one way does not make it so.

>>But Pease herself was denied a promotion to a technical position, the complaint said: “Ms Pease’s two interviewers, both men, did not ask her any technical questions, and one interviewer did not even bother to take notes of the meeting with her.”

This is the part that carries the most weight imo. It's pretty clear that interviewing processes in tech are biased at best. Maybe the course of action here is to encourage more blind interviewing processes, or bring in a larger pool of interviewers.

Its sad to see that this rampant sexism is so prevalent, especially at one of the most publicly visible companies in the world.
What about all of their other corporate abuses, including pitching infant formula as safer and better than breastfeeding (an outright lie no matter how you spin it)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott#Baby_milk_...
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unless the judge allows them to move it out of small claims court

How common is this?
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> This author starts with the implicit premise that change is bad and all conclusions are the result of that.

Where in the article do you draw this conclusion from?

Change isn't bad. The article doesn't say change is bad. Change introduces complexities. And unclear or ill-defined objectives (aka, requirements) make change more likely.
AtriumLTS appears to be working on tools for lawyers, however; wouldn't you agree that's a much easier sell for regulators? As opposed to a LegalZoom or even Clerky model?

Now, if they're trying to gin up some "big data" tools, and using Atrium-client data as inputs for those tools, that raises really sticky questions. There would need to be a whole lot of education and disclosure about to clients about AtriumLTS's access to, and use of, the client's information, and the profits generated from that. You just can't monetize lawyer-client relationships like you do in the finance field.
Nothing in console https://imgur.com/a/mXUIC

It takes me to /equifax-sent/ but title is 500 Error
Reminds me of this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Laptop-Backpack-Spigen%C2%AE-Klasde....
People really have no idea.

4	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area	7,233,323	6,426,214	+12.56%

5	Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area	6,772,470	5,920,416	+14.39%

Note, the areas above them top out at 3% growth. They could very easily be bigger than Chicago (3) in 15-20 years.

and:

24	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area	2,429,609	2,142,508	+13.40%

31	Austin-Round Rock, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area	2,056,405	1,716,289	+19.82%

There is a single area with growth rates above that preceding them in the list.

One day Californians are gonna wake up and wonder how the hell everything moved to Texas. We'll take your industries, too. ;)

Actually, it's a little unnerving. The area is getting busier and busier, you can't drive 10 minutes down the highway without seeing numerous new apartment. I hope our metros can deal with these pops, but we'll see. Austin has gotten the worst of it. Thankfully we've been good about investment in things such as light rail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistic...
Java could have libraries almost as easy to use as python, but doesn't.

However, some things can't be as easy as in Python, such as sympy, which does symbolic processing of in-python expressions (differentiation, integration etc).

I actually don't find python easy to use - every time I use it, I have to look up how to do for loops (what? range? zero-based? does it include the last one?), and the docs don't have links for arguments (even though they require specific types), because no static types.

But the libraries absolutely are easy to use. And because many are written in C (unlike most of Java's librries), you're arguably running C.
I often say yes, just as there are great companies and horrible companies, there are great unions and horrible unions.

If we aren't discouraging the first, why the second?
If they're being downvoted, it's likely because Vivaldi is closed source.
Small nit, some folks without water for 'gardening' can't live. See some of the city farms for examples of this.
Ruby needs Matz's 3x3 yesterday as it's haemorrhaging mindshare all over the place. Node is eating its lunch in web development, Golang is encroaching on the niche held by Chef and Puppet and Elixir offers the missing concurrency. Consequently Ruby is slipping, little by little, in the job statistics. There are just too many alternatives for it to grow unless Truffle Ruby or Substrate VM come up with something soon.
We're closing in on only a single order of magnitude difference between the concentration of copper in a copper mine and the concentration of copper in random crust. Considering that you used to be able to find pure copper deposits, I think your data supports my point.
Microservices are great, because you can enforce static typing within their interfaces. \s
Sure. There's not much to say beyond "It is very expensive to do Eminent Domain takings in the US, especially in areas where market values for property are high."

The US is not a place where the state actually owns all the property, nor a place where the state has an indefeasible right of first refusal to purchase all property for a nominal sum.
He would have been around 17. That's reasonable, given that many/most didn't get an SSN back then until they started working.
Encourage them to try other languages. Let them choose something to do, then choose the best language for it. That's the best way to learn, IMO.
FYI - when you dodge the question this way, you look as bad as equifax. What is in it for you? Do you take a percentage of the judgement?

I'll probably end up paying a lawyer to advise me on the best way to get back at Equifax. But, I'm not going to do business with you because you're shady and won't disclose your interest in this case.
"The transaction of you working for me is still voluntary."

Only in the most extreme interpretation of the word.

"No person forced you to work for me. "

Maybe not, but the idea that I will be fired if I don't do what you say means that it's not entirely voluntary.

"I can only "force" you to work 20 hours a day if all your other options are even worse, and I am the one who improves your options the most."

Again, that's not voluntary. That's exploitation.

"If however I put a gun to your head and tell you to work 20 hours a day I actively make your options worse by force."

Guns are not the only way to exercise force. Company towns were full of force. Just not physical.

"such as systems in which I am allowed to put a gun to your head."

Guns are not the only expression of force. Failure to see that is a huge fallacy.
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The reason it's longer is because they're routing it via Austin and San Antonio. In their vision, San Antonio functions as an intersection for the lines from Dallas and Houston, as well as another from Laredo.

Not sure why they went for this configuration. Leaving Laredo out of it and adding a direct Dallas-Houston branch to complete the triangle would make more sense to me.

There is also this competing high speed rail project, which seems more realistic to me:

http://www.texascentral.com/
I have a Chrome bag which is great for durability, is waterproof, and fits well. But has poor protection for the laptop. It has minimal padding, and no top protection if the pack falls upside down. I now my laptop in a sleeve after denting it when the pack fell off a chair.
Those are the kind of regulations that should help create a consensus around the utility of the european union.

Giant corporation, spending tons of marketing money to make everyone think they're trying to help the world, while behaving like scammers with regards to personal data, and like white collar criminals with regard to tax should be prosecuted to death.
For those that are interested, the full original journal article is available here: http://sci-hub.io/10.7326/M17-0212
As an investor in my first startup once put it: You want to build a company in the US because you have access to a market of 300,000,000 people right from the beginning. In Europe markets are much smaller. Munchen and Berlin are completely different markets. Germany and Spain? Fuggetaboutit.

Yes you can't address that big of a market immediately, but if you're into the whole rapid expansion VC thing, having a big market helps a lot more than having a thousand tiny markets does.

Where I'm from, Slovenia, basically nobody builds startups for the local market anymore. You go straight for global and that shit's hard. Would be nice to have a bigger local market that you can experiment with.
Depending on who you ask, though, "airport time" could be 2+ hours. Especially DFW airport. And IAH isn't really in an area of Houston anyone wants to go to...it's far north of most of Houston. A 90 minute train would be a no brainier decision for me.
I remember them getting in trouble a couple years ago in the EU, I wonder if this the result of it. Back then, every website that had a Facebook button, would put a Facebook cookie on your machine. So it was basically cancer, and everyone had it. I think Twitter and G+ did/do the same thing too.
> B- Why did you decide to target lawyers vs. directly to startups like Clerky [2]

They didn't. Atrium's customers are (currently) startups needing legal services, not other law firms.
Isn't picking out a short period with the largest gap between compensation growth and output growth the cherry picking?

85% is a very high level of correlation. The original comment claimed:

>>But labor productivity growth doesn't cause any wage gains anymore,

Labour productivity growth obviously does cause wage gains. The data shows that the primary cause of the slowdown in wage growth has been a slowdown in labour productivity growth, not a decline in labour's share of revenue.
> You'll have to provide some backing examples for this. And also an explanation for why you believe the Screen Actors Guild, for one, has failed.

SAG-AFTRA largely does operate this way, but aside from that, it also has received a number of special exemptions enshrined in law (both at the state and the federal level).
A more or less self sufficient LEO colony could also become the primary means of travel between Earth and Mars. Put some engines on it (using asteroid water for propellant) and slowly kick it into interplanetary space on an Aldrin Cycler orbit. After that it provides nearly free travel between the planets. Still needs some high-G taxis to jump between the station and the surface as it flies by but that is unavoidable.
I'm not a lawyer, but don't you have to prove that you've suffered material losses to prevail in court? I'm not sure you're entitled to anything just because you've been put at risk for identity theft.
>Her article is about how we've voluntarily given private companies our private data with no control of how it is used, and that this information is used to power algorithms that affect our lives in ways we can't predict.

Which is "mishandled."
If you disagree with this definition of voluntary, that's fine. Let's choose another string of letters to denote what I wrote in the previous comment, and change my other comment and replace the string "voluntary" with that new string of letters.

> Maybe not, but the idea that I will be fired if I don't do what you say means that it's not entirely voluntary.

Being fired is simply no longer engaging in the transaction where one party trades their money for the labour of the other party.

> Guns are not the only expression of force. Failure to see that is a huge fallacy.

I did not say that they were.
Whitespace is no issue with a good editor (Sublime, vim, emacs...).

I dislike the many inconsistencies in Python. You mentioned one. Others: sort vs sorted (destructive vs non destructive). Also: not being able to chain methods because many don't return a value. (Scheme, Elixir or even Ruby are imho much more elegant.)

But all in all Python is a very useful programming language with a rich eco system.
You're thinking 45 corridor...
LineageOS's security story is appalling though.

https://cve.lineageos.org/kernels is their tracker for CVEs in non-deprecated kernels they ship in officially supported devices: no kernel they ship has 100% of CVEs patched, and both mean and median are about 49% of CVEs patched. And this is before we start even considering the firmware blobs that are shipped that haven't had security updates in years.
Apple thinks it has the only patent on innovation.

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Also, from that article, it talks about how palm failed to secure good contracts with carriers.. I'd be willing to bet all my iPhones that apple worked behind the scenes leveraging its power with carriers against good carrier contracts being available to palm.

I think that back-door deals between major device players and carriers are common-enough that its just chess at this point that they likely all enjoy.

Given the track-record for these companies to leverage their size to their benefit...

With that said, I'd say that a bigger failure than the palm pre was the facebook phone.
See for example how the workforce of Volkswagen is organized in germany. While I would not call it the most innovative company there is very little evidence that the political leverage employees have would have stifled innovation that much.
Organized labor has a stigma in the US because it is the reason you own a Japanese car. The unions killed a huge part of american life and that stigma is not going away.
Can you imagine if that route was built? Montreal real estate is affordable and Toronto is not. But, if you could travel to Toronto in 30 minutes from Montreal... that might change :)

https://www.livingin-canada.com/house-prices-canada.html
I do both. =]

It seems many times people use chargebacks as a form of cancelling their account. Instead of logging in to cancel, they seem to think a chargeback will have the same effect.

I'm wondering if this is the same for other subscription merchants? Any tips to combat?
That can be true in extreme circumstances, but I'm sure you can see there is already a natural remedy to that problem.

The problem is when the company is a monopoly, which should be carefully monitored.
No customization presents a simple tool that, hopefully, just works and can be accepted with its flaws and limitations. Once customization starts being added in, it's easier to see annoyances and "why isn't this feature present".
I think you are inferring more tone than was intended but I will edit it because it could be considered rude.
You're explicitly making a semantic argument. When people say "water is a human right" or "Internet is a human right," all they mean is that governments should use public funds to improve (or guarantee) access to those things.

Of course you're correct about the way the word "right" is generally used in philosophy and ethics. But that's absolutely not the definition being used here.
> Who really wants to take a Hyperloop from Houston to Dallas?

Presumably people living there, about 12 million of them.

> And even if you can, then you need to rent a car just to get around, or spend several hundred dollars on Uber/Lyft.

Are you joking or describing LA?
I'm guessing they aren't messing with first-party cookies, just third party ones.
Poll: Did you freeze your credit report after the Equifax incident?
Yes - I've frozen it at all three major agencies.
No - Haven't taken any special actions.
N/A - My credit was already frozen.
Breitbart's Coroner conveniently died of arsenic poisoning after a few months too. Here is him singing a song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3urLA9Ca_vM

But yeah, it was just a coincidence. Only powerful people in Russia and China kill journalists. In the US, they just die of accidents and natural causes.
There's a lot of people that see the government do an awful job in so many areas (over budget, over time, etc), and worry that the same would happen with healthcare; _"Have you seen how poorly the government handles 'abc'? I don't want them in charge of my health, too"_

I'm somewhat of the mind that the government couldn't possibly do it worse than it's being done now. However, looking at the constant issues with VA healthcare, I'm not sure of my opinion either.
What if I want the X - but I do not was faceID and what if I cover the dot projector with tape?

If I can disable faceID on MY phone, if I pickup/look-at/have my picture taken in a selfie with another person and their phone - is it auto-tagging my face in those?
Hey! As you'll find on our website, we take a third of the judgment as a contingency stake, as per our usual practice.
Of course. Both Hyperloop and Boom are feasible both economically and physically. Not to mention Theranos and uBeam. LOL. OK, I cheated: at least physics is not against Boom. It just fits in this arch.
And I don't get exactly what it means to declare water a human right. There are certainly people in the world not getting the clean water they need. But how do you solve this? You set up an international agency to acquire water for them. But where do you get the funding for this agency? If it really is a _human_ right, is this agency above local laws? What are the restrictions on this agency? Can this agency ban the building of a dam that would deprive even one person of a suitable source of water?

It's weird because other rights are what others _can't_ do to you, but this right is what others _must provide_ you. Who and how just aren't clear.
> Before, or while. If the health agency is the final player stuck with the bill, you can bet there will be a strong push and leverage) to contain costs.

Not really - in fact, the current pricing situation is exacerbated by Medicare, not alleviated by it.

Medicare sets its reimbursement rates at whatever level it decides to pay (there isn't really any "negotiation" that happens), and providers are required, by law, to charge insurers and uninsured patients more than what Medicare pays. Unsurprisingly, this results in Medicare paying rates that are below COGS (and therefore literally unsustainable), and private insurers and uninsured patients make up for the difference.

The situation is so bad that Medicare has not one but two special programs to compensate providers who mostly or exclusively treat Medicare patients, because otherwise they would literally go out of business because they couldn't pay for their supplies, let alone rent and staff wages.
Verve is also really good and just opened an SF location
That's a ridiculous hypothetical with many opportunities to avoid the unlikely conclusion. If you wanted, you could just say it's "an Acer" or "an Asus", and mention GalliumOS in the same breath.
I get 500 too. And there is no console log at all...
Profits are revenues minus costs. The costs of building a Hyperloop through Silicon Valley, the most expensive land in the United States, with probably tens of thousands of regulatory hurdles, is a lot lower than building through the middle of Texas or the middle of the desert.
It's also worth pointing out that iOS already has an option to erase your phone when the PIN is entered incorrectly a certain number of times. A lot of companies enforce this if you receive your work email on your device (eight times in my case). So if you are in a situation where a PIN is being demanded there's still a way to keep secure.

Your phone can be easily restored from an iCloud backup once you've got access to wifi. You can always restore from another device or backup if there's data you don't want seen if somehow you can be compelled to do a restore.
+1 for PyCharm. With it I realized how much I was missing with Vim/Emacs/Sublime (even though I configured a lot in those editors).
If windows can be built to survive it, so can PV. Might be prohibitively expensive, but wouldn't a potentially sacrificial layer of plastic or wire reinforced glass a few cm above the PV panels suffice?
Upload is too simplistic by default (input type=file), other solutions (html5) are somewhat problematic to implement. Also, recursive download requires some thinking.
The EU and many of its members have plenty of programs encouraging entrepreneurship. Stuff like http://startupeuropeclub.eu/

Whether they're actually able to lead to the creation of European Googles and Facebooks is a different question.
> The Screen Actor's Guild doesn't work that way.

SAG-AFTRA has been specially exempted from key provisions in labor law.
Glad to see it happening, props to Apple actually standing up for their customers.

Then again, I'm sure it's fairly easy for a company that doesn't rely on scraping data from their customers.
How am I supposed to know what court I'll be filing in?