skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a reasonable criticism, it would indeed create an unfortunate incentive to trade benefits for salary. It's not ideal, but I still think it would be better than the status quo since it would still be voluntary. I wouldn't take a high-stress poor quality job even if it payed really well. The companies wanting to hire people do have to pay enough to win the lottery, but still have to offer enough benefits to entice the in-demand worker.

It would increase inequality (marginally, H1B pool is still small), but I only think inequality is bad insofar as the poor are worse off. This just creates more wealth since in theory Google would only pay $200k+ if they're at least that productive at developing new useful things people want to pay Google money for. The US also gets more tax dollars, and more "innovation" insofar as that is a thing.

You could still argue it's better to give the large salary increases to poorer people though. I wrote another comment elsewhere with a list of reasonable potential arguments against top N sorting and this was one of them.
I love Toronto, but its subways (and transit as a whole) need improvement as well. Not just that, council seems hell-bent on throwing 3+ billion dollars down the morass that's the Scarborough extension.

[rant over]
The answer is simple game theory. For a situation where corporations are forced to fix conditions, there has to be a significant large scale reduction in supply, which is an implementation nightmare. Unless that happens, one person quitting a job in protest is just an opportunity for another.
> Borrowing at the scale of NYC probably gets rates lower than inflation.

hah. vanguard's VNYTX (NY long term bonds) has historically done better than inflation, and that's after costs and such.

spot checking MTA bonds available on etrade, i'm not seeing anything nearly as low as inflation. (looks like ~4.5%? not a rigorously computed mean.)
Not sure why US requirements are relevant to Newfoundland. Here are the Canadian requirements:

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2005-134/...

Automatic Identification Systems (AISs) 65

(2) Every ship, other than a fishing vessel, of 300 tons or more that is engaged on an international voyage shall be fitted with an AIS.

(3) Every ship, other than a fishing vessel, of 500 tons or more that is not engaged on an international voyage shall be fitted with an AIS, but if it was constructed before July 1, 2002 it need not be so fitted until July 1, 2008.

I've emphasized the part about fishing vessels because that is particularly relevant here. The waters around Newfoundland are huge fishing grounds.
We didn't return because we didn't feel it was Zenni's fault. There was no defect with the glasses, they just didn't happen to fit my wife's face and couldn't be adjusted to.

I was just posting to point out an inherent flaw with the entire concept of online glasses ordering and one I have no solution to.

I'd love to imagine a future where they can 3D scan a face and produce bespoke frames.
What's the point if anyone can just publish the log?
The hindsight is in which mitigation would have been effective. In a different disaster, perhaps the generators would not have been the missing piece.
If you look at the TTC system as a whole it's the streetcar lines that take a lot of flack, but I blame that on:

* General age of the fleet (not helped by Bombardier's delayed deliveries)

* Lack of dedicated streetcar lanes; it's still shocking to me that streetcars packed full of passengers are allowed to be held up by single-passenger vehicles
If you don't mind me asku, what sort of problems were you having with sourcing from freelance superhubs?
> Instacart has agreed to pay at least several million dollars to settle the lawsuits, which will result in a typical settlement payout of a few hundred dollars per worker. The attorneys who brought the lawsuits, by contrast, stand to make millions.

This seems like an unnecessary and out-of-context dig at lawyers. Also, the citation provided doesn't square with the claim: the settlement they linked to allowed total damages of $2 million, and capped the attorney's fees at 25%, so the maximum payout is half a million.
That only applies to people wealthy enough to cap out a HSA at $6750/year.
Not necessarily related to the problems discussed by the article, but I could definitely see a logical split in terms of the non-Facebook.com platforms that Facebook has acquired (Instagram, Whatsapp, etc).

Facebook being able to eat up any and every new form of social media is worrisome in its own right. This recent article in particular discusses some pretty solid points: https://stratechery.com/2017/why-facebook-shouldnt-be-allowe...
I often wonder what uplift the U.S. economy gets because consumers are lured by an initial low price that doesn't include service fees, taxes, gratuities, etc. It's like an accepted form of bait-and-switch, which is a proven tactic that increases sales.
Why not link to primary evidence? How can someone make an informed decision without seeing it?

It is strange logic that shining a light on something supposedly reprehensible actually helps it. This 'I won't show you the thing I am criticizing but trust my description of it' shouldn't be accepted. It seems like someone won't show what they are talking about is afraid that people may come to a different conclusion then they did.

This is about a pattern I have seen, rather than any one specific thing. People criticizing something without giving a name or a link because it might give it exposure. If someone is criticizing something legitimately, then giving it exposure is precisely what they would want. The 'trust my description but I won't show it to you' should be called out when it happens.
In the US, the price of unskilled labour has been deliberately driven down by decades of non-enforcement of immigration laws. Even a year after the election of a President who was supposed to deal with this issue there's been very little action.

In Australia we have control of our borders and the price of unskilled labour is more respectable.
Nice pick :) Added to http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Uh, mind sharing where you got those numbers? The budget for TfL I see here says a total operational cost of 10.2 billion pounds (http://content.tfl.gov.uk/transport-for-london-budget-2017-1...)
Does that account for depreciation, maintenance, and fuel for his car?
Not gonna downvote you. I am from the US, and am deeply ambivalent about the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It may have ended the war sooner; it definitely killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese people. Not many of the European Allies said much at the time. That's war.
I guarantee no amount of self-driving cars, Uber, or any other car-related technology will make people stop taking the subway in New York.

The car bridges and tunnels into and out of Manhattan are at full capacity all day long. It is vastly faster to take the subway in most normal cases.
LOL. I'm a cis white dude, 39, make ~300k year, skipped grad school, mild child prodigy, am in decent shape and am very tall. From my experience, women in major cities, especially in the U.S., are predominantly jaded, lack (or feign) general life-skills, life-experience, purpose, respect, manners, direction, trustworthiness and reciprocity. To me, the biggest turn-offs (sans personality disorders): materialism, strategic self-/other-sabotage, ignorance, uncoolness, selfishness, infantilism, lack of introspection and autonomous behavior. The hook-up pool for me is virtually all but the dating pool for me is basically zero.

Unreasonable, non-reciprocal selfishness compared to value offered (ie sanity, health, intelligence, etc.) isn't worth arguing with. Plus, gold-diggers feel entitled to "their half" in community property states.

For dudes looking for life-partners (sans marriage), look at other countries and college towns. If you just want to get laid, pay for it... it's much cheaper and simpler. If you want to make more money, find a decent woman whom is supportive, honest and fun and isn't divorce-oriented, one-side relationship-lazy or has a wandering eye.

For dudettes for the same, they ought to sex/relationship tourism or relocate to male-heavy ratio places like the SF Bay Area.

For both, don't get married or have kids, except after long-term stability.
Maybe not - but - the state will grab up people's passports for whatever reason they want, whenever they want.

Of course this happens everywhere, but it's a pretty big deal when it does happen.

I think China is kind of odd - because you don't immediately get the sense that the government is watching everyone. I mean - there are far fewer people in prison. But the 'eye' is there and if you do specific things ... well ... the silent alarm is tripped.
Are you suggesting other companies build their own subways?

A subway seems like a natural monopoly to me.
Print the Value of a Tensor Object in TensorFlow
World's cheapest electricity is Mexican solar power
He's right. NYT flips from a reasonable centrist publication to a war monger at the first hint of fighting. How many bodies do they have on them from lending legitimacy to Afghanistan and Iraq let alone Vietnam?
In regards to your second point, it is a web page rather than a book, and it states that it is intended as a living document.

IRC has changed a lot over the years, and this is an attempt to document the subset of the protocol that is currently being used in most implementations (hence the "modern" title).
wait you paid 3 dollars for an hour of uber? How does that make sense? The minimum wage is way more than that.
I'd like to think that programmers back then most likely "graduated" from using punch cards, hence they have a higher mental guard against typos and mistakes when writing their program (or essays), compared to programmers that grow up with unlimited undo/redo. Back then if you had a typo you'd most likely have to wait overnight, or even days to get the notice so you spend a lot of time proofreading your text, and over time it becomes a second nature to write something right (most of the time).
Very unusual exceptions? I'd say it's far more common than that - read this story (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/starbucks-...) and think about how often someone with this schedule is going to make it to parent-teacher meetings. Think about how well the 15% of adult Americans who are functionally illiterate[1] are going to use the internet or help even their elementary school student with homework. To pretend that we're just talking about parents who can't 'fully understand calculus' is just wishing away the problems.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/international/reports/2014-piaac..., definition of 'below level 2' at https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/litproficiencylevel.asp
I don't think, "questionable opinions about other people's choices which don't affect you at all," count as personal experience. Unless by "personal experience," we mean, "all possible utterances."
Indeed, I should’ve grabbed the Canadian requirements. Mea culpa, I sail out of the US.

AIS has been slowly rolling out for almost 13 years now, and is pervasive enough that you can be fairly confident most, of not all, large ships are announcing themselves with it. I know several blue water cruisers even with sailboats in the 30-50ft range that have it installed to prevent “death by cargo ship” in the middle of the night.
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Well, according to the Christian Bible, god was lonely, so created humankind. If you believe that origin story, then our purpose is to be entertainment for a cosmic intelligence.
I don’t know what you’re talking about but it sure isn’t Nyc
What's the point of any encryption if any of the participating parties can publish the plaintext?
Banks used to be able to loan you money but have it guaranteed by the government. I think that ended in 2010.

Wells Fargo does offer a type of student loan, but it looks like you have to have someone cosign it with you (probably your parents).

Back in the 90s over 90% of student loans were Federal. I'm not sure what the percentage is now.
You are right. My comment was more towards the ircv3 wg.
You're supporting rape and slavery by ensuring that any attempt to address it will be labeled as hate. Your racial worldview that downplays crimes by non-Whites has led to more suffering and tragedy than a million burned crosses. SHAME ON YOU.
It might be true that the NYT can't be trusted to regulate itself for the same reasons raised in the article - primarily that it has no incentive to do so, and lots of incentives not to. That said, I care a lot more about Facebook being properly regulated than I do about the NYT, simply because of the amount and scope of data that Facebook has.
The thing is, I don't think anyone is really getting confused about `this` in your simplistic call-site left-of-the-dot model. They get confused when they do exactly the code I put, or similarly in a DOM event handler. And then there's weird cases, like calling bind on a bound function does nothing...

If we what to talk about what we wish it looked like, I wish it was more like Rust, where left-of-the-dot is an implicit argument to an explicit parameter within the function.
Show HN: iOS UserDefaults library for Swift 4
"Public" education in upper-class, predominantly white/Asian neighborhoods, with property taxes funnelling in significant money are hardly "public" in the grand scheme of things.

For example: Stuyvesant is a public high school. But is it actually? There's a 3 hour test you take in order to be admitted. 900 or so kids are admitted. How is this "public?"
I'd take that. Is there a third party we can use to make it legit?
In terms of the analogy it’s not an isolated system. There is an energy input; the active suppression of information. Therefore the second law does not apply.
First, plenty of people succeed despite public school, not because of it.

Second, how do you define success? If you define success in terms of money, education and intelligence play a very, very small role. The correlation of financial success to who you know and who you are related to is orders of magnitude higher than how smart you are or how much knowledge you have. The vast majority of PHDs are much more intelligent and educated that the vast majority of millionaires.
I just told the Dr. I didn't like any of the styles they had. Hard to argue with that.
I don't use `gem`. Are these available in a format other than hardcoded into the source code?
I noticed this last year getting my first pair of glasses in the bay area. My VSP plan doesn't cover high index lenses which is $100 upgrade, which is mandatory for my prescription, and there's non covered add-ons for scratch resistance and glare for ~$70. So my out of pocket cost after my VSP premiums is still $170 IIRC.

I tried to shop around quickly but I was informed that optometrist had put a hold on my insurance preventing me from getting another quote. I asked for my prescription and they were hostile. Turns out I can get a pair of glasses online at zennioptical without using my insurance for less than just my out of pocket cost using my VPS plan. I wonder how much my employer is paying for this 'insurance' plan that requires me to pay more for glasses than online retail.

That's a pretty terrible insurance plan if you ask me.
The most relevant example would be the break up of NBC / ABC [1] in the early days of broadcasting. They were simply split into two companies that do exactly the same thing, but were now natural competitors

We could do the same with Facebook. Force them to segregate out different demographics (maybe by continent)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Red_Network
I agree these may be uncomfortable for some. But they're definitely SFW.

I'm ok with some things being uncomfortable. We got past the idea that women can wear trousers to work. We can get past this as well. Some progress can be uncomfortable.
Generally Googlers edited and reviewed a changelist (which is like amending a commit that hasn't been pushed yet) and then submitted when it's considered ready to deploy. You're expected to run your project's test targets (which might include a few critical dependents) before you submit, but if you have a huge set of dependents there's no way to be certain none will break—their tests might be flaky or fail for reasons that aren't your fault, and there will be hundreds of new changelists submitted (including changes to your own dependencies!) while your tests were running.
https://gist.github.com/globalcitizen/dba12c237722811e64fb86...
The NYC subway system was mostly privately constructed by 3-ish private-ish organizations, and later joined under a state monopoly. You can still see vestigial underground signage that says stuff like "To IRT Lines" or "BMT Lines -->," referring to now-defunct private subway operators.

This is also why the rolling stock and tracking are visibly different from line to line.
So dumb...
Make people care more about reason and logic than emotion when making product purchasing decisions? I don't think we'll get very far with that goal.
Saudi Arabia has been diversifying out of oil for at least a few years. Everyone sees the same thing. We are one battery technology breakthrough away from gasoline being unnecessary.
People who lament how public schooling sucks often want government to fund higher education without realizing results would be horrible.

Public schools work only for Asians and white because they live in good neighborhoods and take responsibility of their children's academic performance. For Blacks and Hispanics the situation is very very bleak and these people are simply be defrauded by the government.
Funny I do web dev, mostly haskell and javascript and feel like haskell is a solid rock and javascript is unbearable.

Part of the explanation may be ease of initial interchangeability (javascript: oh yeah we can glue that to this no problem, it's all just like json or whatever man) versus maintainability (haskell: here is your type contract, the closest thing you can get in code to the fundamentalness and immutability of 2+2 =4).
I have a slack channel for freelancers, you are welcome to join and pick our brains for info if needed: freelancehangout.com

Sorry about the typeform!
A rather obvious male example would be the Jensen guy, whose Twitter often contains a good few photos that some might raise an eyebrow at (including leather!): https://mobile.twitter.com/aphyr

Sure, it’s unusual, but not, I think, particularly suspicious. There are a lot of unusual people in tech.

Edit: I notice someone already gave the same example as me; oops.
no one mention passman.cc ?
I have always said America is a rich 3rd world country. The politicians in NY are no different from Mugabe's Zanu PF in Zimbabwe.
I honestly don't either. It feels like everything we do costs 10x anywhere else for 10x the time. You would think the cost of building a few light rail lines in a city like Seattle would cost less than a cross-town subway in Japan. In my short life I've never seen America really build anything impressive in transportation - BART, the NYC Subway, the interstate highway system, and most of our airports seem like they were all built from the 40s to the 70s (and some earlier than that).
It's only really possible to make a determination about whether it was hindsight or not after seeing the prominence of the recommendation. Suppose I tell someone a thousand times, "you should wear seatbelts," and once to fix their taillight. Then they are killed in an accident after being flung from a vehicle while not wearing a seatbelt. It would not be hindsight for me to say, "they probably should have worn a seatbelt." Maybe it would be if they were killed in a freak accident involving an unfixed taillight.

Unfortunately, given I have only second-hand knowledge of these reports' existence, and given they are probably not in my native tongue, I'm not really in a position to validate what the situation was vis a vis the generators. However, generators positioned on the coast, behind a low seawall, in a country that is regularly inundated by tsunamis, appears to be an entirely predictable failure mode. Not quite to the degree of not bringing a parachute on a skydive, but in that direction.
Two stories that I remember about this:

1. Sextortion scam for personal gain
Back in 2002 i was using MSN Messenger as a teenager, being like 17yo and full of testosterone, I accepted any girl wanting to share intimate details with me. There was one local girl, chatting with me for 2 years, but always had excused for not opening her cam. I was sharing intimate details while being on cam, but finally stopped, as she never wanted to meet me, despite living 20km away. She always had excuses.
Two years later, I was dipping again into script kiddie stuff and trying out some trojan generators, combining it with an exe cryptor to make it undetectable for the early anti-virus tools. I contacted that girl again, and told her I had some new videos of my holidays. Sent it to her (holiday-in-france.avi.exe) and two mins later I was on "her" PC.
Turns out it's a local guy, 5 years older than me, having like 100 folders named after local boys, where he kept videos, screen grabs and photos neatly organized. Most of them underage.
Fortunately I found a word document with his resumee, even with a photo of him.
I reported that guy to the feds the same day.

--

2. Sextortion with the wrong guy

Years later I migrated to an asian country. I now speak the local language and have a second Facebook and Skype profile that I only use for local contacts here, that I barely know and who are not family, friends or business contacts.

Every now and then some fake russian/eastern european girls try to add me on Skype or Facebook randomly. This time those girls are real, they even start a real webcam conversation.

But this time I'm prepared, being interested in infosec and online since the early 90ies and prepared because I was scammed before (see story 1.).

Those girls quickly start skype video calls, where they try to scam guys. Me, knowing this scam for years, had a laugh and continued the video chat, also sharing intimate details with them, and who says no to watch a beautiful girl undress herself and sharing her sexual preferences?

After usually 20-30 minutes of showing off on the camera, asking my sexual preferences and begging to add me on Facebook, they will change the tone of the conversion and try to blackmail me. Since I knew the scam, I was laughing and telling them, that my whole online presence is fake and all the profiles they have from me are filled with fake friends. They swore at me and immediately blocked me on Skype and Facebook.

Happened several times.
Could you put up a calendar of similar pictures at your work desk? If not, like most of us then it's not SFW.
Maybe he's saying that he drove himself for $3 in gas (while conveniently ignoring all the other costs of car ownership, not to mention the massive externalities).
> There's a 3 hour test you take in order to be admitted. 900 or so kids are admitted.

There is nothing wrong in segregating kids based on their ability. Public universities use tests to take the best kids and this should happen at all levels. A black kid who is smart should not be held back just because he lives in bad neighborhood. He should get into a better school if he can score more.
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