skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real wages for everybody have been roughly flat for decades even as productivity and GDP/capita have skyrocketed.

I wouldn't necessarily call this exploitation since I think there's a broader issue in play, but it's not exactly like everybody, except this one isolated discriminated segment, is just thriving. And in particular I thinking framing this as an issue of discrimination works as a red herring against the aforementioned broader issue. That issue being that general increases in productivity and the percent of qualified individuals are resulting in a downward pressure on wages. The rapid growth in outsourcing, increases in foreign workers, free trade, and other such things also work to compound these issues.

I do not believe there is any clear solution, but I think it's a shame that the focus is rarely placed on this issue. And when it is, it's often more in the context of jingoism than the issue itself.
Ditto for @jackfraser's comment.

In the Let’s Encrypt era who is going to spend money on a certificate?
Ask HN: What Theory, Phenomenon or Idea Blows Your Mind When You Think About It?
Space-X makes the Dragon engine block by 3D printing.

It makes sense. Rocket engines are mostly a big single piece with lots of internal voids. The fuel is used as a coolant, so there are channels inside the engine bell and some other sections. It's mostly plumbing.

That's the kind of part where 3D printing is useful. Making a big object with internal plumbing out of multiple parts is a fabrication headache. NASA's engines have vast amounts of welding work in them. High-pressure joints are always a problem. Making something with few or no joints is just better. It still has to be inspected, but that's what industrial-sized CAT scanners are for.

(Most of the real-world problems in both rockets and nuclear power involve plumbing and welding.)
They might be doing that, of course, but given human nature, I'm sure we'd see those stories in either case. Uber has a lot of drivers, and some of those drivers are bound to get unlucky and have this happen to them by pure chance. Some of them will get very unlucky, and have it happen repeatedly. Those drivers will understandably think that something shady is going on. And someone who gets struck by lightning five times might start to think that the sky has it in for them.

There's also a pretty obvious mechanism for selection bias here regarding which type of situation we're going to hear about. Few people are going to write up a post saying "I got close to my bonus, and then I got more rides, and I got my bonus, and it was fine", whereas people who feel like they're getting screwed tend to be very vocal. So the existence of these stories tells us next to nothing.
Sure. This is my view. I want to know nearby resturants and their reviews. I want see photos of the dishes. I want to see the decor. I want to see discounts if any. I want to see open hours. I want to search based on location, cusine, pricing etc. i know Google does this now, but Yelp was the first to make all the above well in one place. Google doesn’t have an app dedicated at all, just search. Yelp solved my problems. I think you can agree with me you would hear “let’s yelp it/check on yelp” when someone looks for resturants. I also use Yelp beyond just resturants. I was looking for a new dentist and I found him on Yelp after some reviews online. I got to see the good reviews and photos of his office. I was lucky those reviews were real. If I were new to a city I might check out Yelp and TripAdvisor for some reviews and recommenations.
Superheroes BMX Bicycle: Impossible Space Tracks
Welcome to the space where you ride an amazing sports cycle in this Superheroes BMX Bicycle: Impossible Space Tracks and enjoy the cycling in space. Superhero bicycle rider complete interesting levels on high tracks in the space.
I care deeply about the victim but the predator already showed up. How do you get the predator off the street? I care about rebuilding there life, but the person who torched it needs to be gone. You cannot have closure if you can bump into that person during a business meeting. You want silence and that hasn’t worked.
What are the in-app purchases? The App Store page doesn't show a list
Helping NASA and JPL bring the surface of Mars to your browser
Only as much as TVs, newspapers, radios, and hell, the Greek theater have destroyed generations.
Thanks will give it a try!
The oracle of the NoSql world.
MongoDB has the BI Connector https://www.mongodb.com/download-center#bi-connector
You had the start of a decent point, and then you ruined it by getting insultingly political.
You can't avoid being exploited by just "not being an idiot". There is a huge power and information imbalance between an individual and a company that has been used to exploit labor so much labor unions had to form to stop it.

There's no reason to add partisan flamebait either.
You are putting words in my mouth. I said nothing about wanting silence.

My position is that we need to focus on prevention, not retribution. But when it has happened, the victim's first duty is self care, not falling on their sword to theoretically help others who may not benefit at all.

Their right to choose must be honored. If you cannot abide by the imperative to "first do no harm," then please stay out of such things entirely.
It's like working as a stripper. Ask any stripper about "stage fees".
Thinking the "market will fix everything eventually" is like thinking democracy will eventually fix a dictatorship.
Yeah my startup is working to help devs test/deploy dApps on private blockchains. https://loomx.io
He's considerably harder on Wansink than he was on Cuddy, actually.
> The mods might ask people in underrepresented minorities

What makes you think we don't?
Ponzi schemes are defined by the fact that you can earn some revenue but not enough to sustain the employees at the base of the pyramid while having some means to bring in new players who will help you earn enough to keep going usually by contributing some part of their income to you.

Its a scam because their is a finite pool of potential idiots and when you run out the bottom of your pyramid collapses taking subsequent layers with it eventually.

If a multi level marketing company actually provides enough wealth for the bottom level to function then it isn't a ponzi scheme.
> Yes, this. The antidote to bad men is good men. It doesn't help to tar all men with the same brush for simply being male.

I'll add that there are plenty of otherwise good men who might do bad things when shitfaced or on drugs, and I can't help but worry that separating men into bad and good doesn't acknowledge the very real risk of good men forgetting that they can do bad things too.

(of course this applies to people in general, not just men)
Avoiding the silly title, a better question is the smartphone fundamentally different then those other mediums? The ability for addiction seems to indicate, to me at least, that the smartphone might be different.
I think the previous commenter is incorrect based on the wording shown in the article. That said, since this is part of a study, it does seem somewhat plausible that they'd do an offer like that just to see what the psychological impact was.
I always kind of got their point, but if I say "I used to run Debian Linux in a virtual machine, now I can just run Debian under Windows subsystem for Linux" there is no ambiguity, no one should be confused.

Nobody just runs Linux + the gnu environment compiled from source themselves. People use a distribution, which has a name.
Trump’s recent attempt to torpedo obamacare by allowing multi-company group plans seems like an opportunity here.

WeWork should offer a group plan to tenants. It creates lockin, and most tenants are young+healthy, so this would be a great deal all around (cheap premiums, low barrier to entry for older workers).
If you think something is particularly good you can always email us. We probably didn't see it.
First it was Generation Me in 2006 [1], then The Narcissism Epidemic in 2010 [2], and now iGen in 2017 [3]. All three books follow exactly the same pattern: stick a vapid and insulting nickname onto the latest generation, call that generation lonely and narcissistic, and blame it all on the latest technological innovations while completely ignoring the broader economic and social context. Each book directly contradicts the previous one and directly contracts her own previous studies [4], while simply reusing the same arguments and switching the target from generation to generation.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Americans-Confident-Assert...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Narcissism-Epidemic-Living-Age-Entitl...

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/iGen-Super-Connected-Rebellious-Happy...

[4] https://www.livescience.com/52771-why-teens-are-happy-adults... "Very quickly, Twenge said, a pattern emerged: The eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders of today are happier than the eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders of previous decades."
My old employer once had a batch of L512, they did not feel great. X or T series got much more love from Lenovo and should be easy to get pre-used.
I think you can disable the auto-open in app settings. I have that setting. I'm on Oreo
Call for mass withdrawal to pressure Spanish government
> The Management Engine (ME), part of Intel AMT

Not hugely consequential, but Intel's product line is confusing enough without any help. AMT for years has been an application that runs on ME (unless something has changed). From the authoritative book, Platform Embedded Security Technology Revealed: Safeguarding the Future of Computing with Intel Embedded Security and Management Engine by Xiaoyu Ruan, a security researcher with the Platform Engineering Group at Intel (2014)

The list of old inventions finding new applications in new domains goes on. The new applications benefit a much wider population and improve more people’s quality of life.

When Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) first appeared in 2005, it was marketed as an advanced system management feature for Intel 82573E series gigabit Ethernet controllers. In 2007, a new embedded coprocessor, namely the management engine, was introduced. Originally, the management engine was designed primarily for implementing the AMT rather than running security applications. At that time, the main problem that was supposed to be resolved by the embedded engine and AMT was the high expense and difficulty of system management by network administrators. The management engine was a component of Intel chipsets with vPro technology. The Intel AMT implementation was moved from gigabit Ethernet controllers to the management engine and became a feature of vPro.

Intel AMT is not the only application on the management engine. The first security application on the engine was the integrated TPM ...
Definitely not suggesting that! Sorry for the ambiguity. Of course it's fine for people to share their own work here (assuming it's on topic—but anything intellectually interesting is on topic).

By 'naively tries to promote on HN' I mean things like asking friends to upvote and passing links around on Twitter. Those tactics don't work (or at least as far as I know they don't) and usually hurt the submission rather than help it. Does that make sense?
The announcement that includes the name change (from bash on Windows of all things) is pages long.

They could have said "run a Linux Distribution" or "run Debian/RedHat/Centos".

This is aimed at technical people, who should either know or be able to understand that Linux is the name of the kernel and is explicitly not part of this - WSL is (claimed to be) free of any Linux source.
You can become addicted to TV and this is widely portrayed in arts and entertainment
I don't think anybody is disagreeing with that.
There are a lot of successful software businesses built on terrible products. In fact, in my experience, a lot of startups put far too much emphasis on software quality. As painful as it is for many developer/designer entrepreneurs to hear, if your product solves the customer's problem at a price they're happy to pay then more than good enough to sell to them, even if it's absolute garbage from a tech perspective.

There are plenty of reasons to write good quality code (it's more maintainable, moves faster, more secure, requires less resources, more fun, etc) but "because you won't be successful if you don't" really isn't one of them.
But they are usually called Linux Distributions - and then more specifically by their distro name.
New definition of OS: theme + shortcuts + Linux.
I understand that they want to control the UI, why not just release a package that anyone can install on top of the preferred Linux distro?
What about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor#Security_co... in Purism 5 phone?
Because of evidence.
It is not hash, I welcome criticism! This is how we improve!! And yes, my TLDR is mostly based on the last pages. The rest just seems to present the ideas that helped reach this conclusion.

Regarding renormalization, there are many things I (wrongly?) call a renormalization - even doing a PCA and dropping the components that add little to the variance of the data. This destructs some signal, unless you believe that is just noise and the data should only be analyzed along say the first 3 PCs.

I'd call that a renormalization in a 3d space.

Maybe this is an improper use of the word in this context?
If those things aren't charity, then let the red states relinquish the extra money they get from the blue states (+ texas), and see what happens to their police and other government services.

I am playing a little fast and loose with the definition of charity, yes, but so is the OP. "Charity" isn't "free money for you to play with" (that's "philanthropy"), it's "giving help to those who need help". Governments in the developed world have significant welfare costs, so it is just plain wrong that charity isn't the role of government.
Boing is one of the most subsidized companies in the world. Funny how they have even the courage to point this out against Airbus. This shows that to be a big company it is not enough to get government money, you need to be shameless.
I think television and video games can be just as addictive.

Edit: And video games don't enable me to call my parents, look up a recipe, or check a map.
Thank you. I agree.

Pithiness and nuance are not friends. My preference overall is to focus on good vs bad behaviors, plus best practices, without drawing larger conclusions about individual moral worth.
Also, the whole "article" is an obvious advertisement for the author's book, your link #3.
Ask friends to upvote? Surely that was never a thing.

Edit: my comment upthread was unclear so I added a bit.
The situation is known and will be fixed when the JVM gets value types, with minimal value types already on the horizon.

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/valhalla/Minimal+Value...

Until then it is an issue that we have to live with.
> should never be used when an RDBS would do the job

The hate comes exactly from that. The "hipster" just use it for everything. Try reading some "modern" webdev tutorial without seeing it used wrongly.
Oops! A very fair point and I actually meant to include that myself, because I don't know and didn't want to presume.

Gimme a break; I'm writing Internet comments not dissertations. Some things slip through the cracks. :)

EDIT: Also, re-reading my comment, I see it's all pretty critical. HN is the best forum on the Internet, IMHO, in large part thanks to the guidelines and moderation; but at the same time the competition is pretty bad and I think HN can be even better. My hope is that by developing and demonstrating effective practices, and then by sharing them, HN could improve discourse throughout the web. It sounds fantastical, but why not - the practices cost nothing, websites and online services everywhere are starving for a solution, and HN is in a very visible position and has a technically sophisticated team, a backing organization that loves innovation (YC), and an audience that can appreciate it.
Talk about putting words, the justice system and the people around the victim better not consider it falling on the sword.

How are you going to prevent? About the only way is an armed person, because sexual predator are going to be predators. They will do it again, that’s part of what makes them so heinous. That is the psychology of these monsters. There is no “one and done” to this sickness.
Or shock causes a supercap lead to shear off, etc. I guess everything could be epoxy potted but then it isn't repairable.
Its not, there are less players in the market and therefore good for them.
Because "shut up or find yourself another job".

I thought this too until recently -- got fired after trying to protect my employer from a toxic exec.

There are some that do not accept anything but yesmans or silent codemonkeys. It sucks but it pays. If you are not willing to lose your position, just let it go.
Having a 19% stake in selling 6000 planes (as the article mentions), is worth a lot more than a 49% share in selling 300 planes. Also, Bombardier had to constantly discount the plane and take lower margins just to get airlines to buy, which with Airbus's sales and support network will no longer happen. Plus a lot of the uncertainty of the project has magically gone away.

This is a great deal for Québec.
Well, I agree that in practice the public system has been sabotaged down to the very core, I’m thinking of the ridiculous demand that it should be managed like a company to perform better. But giving up and handling the keys over to Corporate is a step too far.

I don’t think there’s a solution that doesn’t include reevaluating the idea of public commons, in a world without there’s absolutely no reason to spend a dime outside of corporate subsidy
What are some creative ways to raise funding for our non-profit?
>And instead of switch statements you had to derive a new class for each case call a virtual function. Very "OOP" but it led to the OOP equivalent of spaghetti code.

I disagree. Switch statements are fine to react to incoming data, but terrible for everything else. If you add a value to an enum you have to change every place where the enum is used in a switch. And the code inside the switch is not reusable (Unless you make it a method, at which point you're close to the "OOP" way anyway). I agree that religiously avoiding switches lead to spaghetti code, but mindlessly using them does so too.
You guys are getting pretty weird commenting on a fellow user and this crosses the line. Can we just not go there please?
Toronto added 400k people in last 5-year census period, for a total of ~9% growth. The 5 years before that were similar. It is both the largest and the fastest-growing city in Canada.
We added a new metadata format for this release to deal with translatable metadata, feature graphics, screenshots, etc. The server tools output the old and new metadata to the repository webroot though, so the old version will still be supported for some time. I'm not aware of any plans to completely deprecate and remove it.
"Chrome for Android now supports Widevine L1, allowing sites to play encrypted media in a secure way."

Really? If I want visitors to play encrypted videos in a secure way, I serve them through HTTPS using a codec that does not have patent issues!

Widevine is not a matter of allowing anything. This sentence is an horrible way to describe what it is for.

Good article otherwise, except for the annoying top bar.
I was raped once, 40 years ago. I was 12. As an adult, I have never been assaulted.

Your lack of knowledge about how to do this is not evidence it cannot be done. If you are genuinely interested, there are links in this very discussion to some of my blog posts that talk some about prevention. It isn't a topic easily summed up in a paragraph or three.
Alibaba OSS + ECS, along with Nanoc, a static site generator, this is the best choice in China.
Izzydroid repo has been a good addition to my F-Droid, a lot of very useful apps: https://android.izzysoft.de/repo

Some great apps I've been using through F-Droid:

* Battery Charge Limit (Stops charging at a desired level) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.slash.batterychargelimit

* Mi Manga Nu (Manga reader) - https://f-droid.org/app/ar.rulosoft.mimanganu [ Stable, usable, without annoying ads - consistently better than manga readers from play store I've tried. ]

* NewPipe (Lightweight YouTube frontend) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.schabi.newpipe

* SeriesGuide (keep track of your favorite TV shows and movies) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.battlelancer.seriesguide

* Slide (Companion app for reddit) - https://f-droid.org/app/me.ccrama.redditslide

* Termux (Terminal emulator with packages) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.termux [sounds cool, haven't had a chance to use this yet. ]

* XDA Labs (XDA Labs: Forums & App Store) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.xda.labs
How is this not a Pay to Work Scam? [0]

[0] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0243-job-scams
Ask HN: Tear down the design
We have operated under a lot of constraints...Any feedback will be useful...I don't where else to go apart from usability testing..that is why I am reposting this here. Feel free to critique this. I am here to learn :) Thanks again for taking time to see this.

URL: https://www.dropbox.com/s/arh897v0yoknh9k/FabMath-Final-Home-Page.jpg?dl=0
I don't have the luxury to pay attention to most media or opinions administered by anyone older than 45, neuroplasticity loss can be really blatant when paired with decades of alcohol use, and they're all going to be dead or vegetative by the time a crisis comes, where in the past wiser and less pampered elders could have led us.
> The ability for addiction seems to indicate, to me at least, that the smartphone might be different.

Why is it different? Don't you remember folks sitting in front of TVs the whole day or night about 20 years back?
>They aren't best in class in any of the metrics we think of as mattering.

MongoDB is the best in class at how programmer-friendly it is. Its API is easy to work with. This is especially the case if you are using node and javascript.
And their experienced sales team, which will have value globally.
Except all the actors you mentions create centralized closed system for profit to replace standard vastly compatible simple primitives.

So i'm not sure it's a win
Especially when I know that WhatsApp system is built in ErlangVM, which is famous for its ability to maintain being functional across updates..
Where I write code we use git hooks to run linting and unit tests on pre-commit and integration tests on pre-push, and anyone using --no-verify gets a stern talking to. No one gets code in to the repo if it breaks the tests.

I'm still working on a way to stop commits that drop the coverage below a threshold so even new code can't be added if it isn't tested.
Everything that Uber is doing to employees, will be done to ALL employees in that not too-distant future.
Yeah I wonder if the Gnome guys can use all this material for their commercials. I didn't really see any non-Gnome fancy-ness.
Many businesses can't use Let's Encrypt for various reasons. I am not talking about certs just for someone's personal blog. I don't think Let's Encrypt can provide equivalent functionality to an EV SSL cert, for example.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/?field.tag=unity8-desktop&...

They look like they have only had half a dozen bugs lodged in the last six months. Doesn't seem too vibrant for an actively-developed desktop.
Which is why the year of desktop Linux will never happen, because everyone wants to differentiate their product.

The way things went with netbooks and nowadays with Android, Jolla, Tizen,... shows what happens when OEMs try to sell Linux distributions.

I can clearly imagine Dell Linux, HP Linux, MS Linux, Huawei Linux, Samsung Linux, .... each with their own "value added" and update policies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15467478

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15044224

We eventually ban accounts that ignore our requests to follow the site guidelines. Inflammatory usernames catalyze that.