skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone else find the open new tab and resize the page for each item in the list to be annoying?
No it doesn't lead to inflation (maybe inflation in products that the $10/hour employees mostly use) but the general rate of inflation should be the same.

Raising the minimum wage redistribute the wealth from the rich to the poor. The disadvantage is that it creates a Deadweight loss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss) resulting in unemployment and lost economic value.

In a perfect, competitive and free market there should be no minimum wages. However, as a liberal capitalist, I think we should keep some standard.
> Filing a fraudulent lawsuit

Who says that they'd all be fraudulent? I'd bet that there are more valid DMCA requests submitted than invalid. Sites like youTube would be buried in lawsuits.
Yet, Germany also has very strong labor protection laws. If you have no minimum wage and no labor protection laws, it leads to sweatshop situations. You see some of the same thing in a lot of IT-oriented positions not located in IT epicenters: 24/7 availability, entry level wages, and ultimate responsibility for when the shit hits the fan -- even if you've been warning your boss that it'll hit the fan for the past eight months.
You can be involved in military operations without being involved in actual combat. Even during WWII that described about 95% of the life of an infantryman (to say nothing of those who never went to the front lines).

And either way once you've put yourself in a military status in conflict with another power you've lost the right to have to agree about where the next battle starts; either party gets to decide until a later peace agreement/cease-fire/etc. is reached.
I disagree with the partisan politics part; I honestly think that he's thinking domestically.

Here's the problem. We have a group of Americans that may at some point be slaughtered by our government (more specifically, our president, as there is no other oversight). We also have intelligence services that answer only to the President.

This is a major problem. There are more important things than the security of all individuals. Unfortunately, not all share that opinion.

On Rand Paul: he's one of the least partisan politicians I've ever seen. I wouldn't have voted for him had I had such a right, but I am glad to see him in the Senate.

As a side note: I've done a lot of political campaigning and am fortunate enough to know a lot of people on the Hill. I've also worked and am friends with "DOD contractors."
To take a line from Bartlett: that's why we need more retraining programs.
Ask HN: How should I accept donations on my website for my website?
We'd like to provide an easy way for satisfied users of our website to donate a little money to help us cover operating costs. What services are easy to set up, charge low fees, and protect our privacy? We'd rather not have our personal paypal address or phone number available to anyone who donates.
I think you might be too optimistic. "It can only go up" is pretty much the hallmark phrase thrown around right before something goes...down.

Unless you also share the cousin belief that things can become "too big to fail".
I think the main reason to go to a conference is to immerse yourself in a certain type if culture. I attended a query conference last weekend and I came out of it so motivated to work on new things. It is easy to get bogged down sometimes by the daily grind at work and these events feature speakers who can show you a different side of things - things that excite you. And the best part is that you are there with others that share your enthusiasm. It is sometimes infectious.

I would say that the type of person that attends a Google i/o conference appreciates the cutting edge in terms of mobile and web technologies.
With PoE you lose the power three times instead of just once. You have an AC-to-DC brick for the PoE injector (or similar inside of a PoE-enabled switch), then resistive loss on the cable (about 2.4W lost for every 12.5W that reaches the device[0]), then another DC-to-DC converter at the device itself.

Now, don't get me wrong. I really like PoE, and would love to have something similar for lighting, but PoE itself can't handle the current required for primary lighting.

How much power is lost with all of those dumb little DC bricks all over the place right now?

According to http://what-if.xkcd.com/35/, as a rule of thumb, any DC transformer that's not warm to the touch is wasting less than a penny of electricity per day, and a cellphone charger, if not warm to the touch, less than a penny per year.

[0] http://www.connect802.com/ethernet.htm
Why Squid behind the cloud code servers? Are you moving from MongoDB to Cassandra?
This is after the Google vs Oracle, the 2nd court case of API Neutrality enforcement.
http://api500.com/post/31465739810/what-is-api-neutrality
It wouldn't be a choice between a cardboard box and tedium if we'd give the human race a fucking chance to do its thing.
The links are in the original comment. Isn't that what we've been talking about?
I'm pretty sure there's a setting in PuTTY to increase the size of the scrollback buffer. Memory is cheap these days.
You can also post your request here, which they monitor quite frequently http://pathtest.uservoice.com/forums/192337-feature-requests
> you don't seem to think your site falls into the "if
> you're not paying for it, you're the product" bucket.
> [...]
> People aren't paying for your product, and so you are
> making money by serving them ads. By the nature of it,
> any ad-supported site falls into that bucket. You require
> more user impressions/eye balls and that is what you are
> "selling" to advertisers/Google. This is not inherently
> evil, and I don't think one needs to prey on their users
> to leverage advertising.

Saying that users are "the product" implies a predatory relationship. Predatory relationships are considered evil (or at minimum extremely undesirable) when the prey are human beings.
https://developers.google.com/events/io/help#reg_ions
"I/ONs have attended at least five of the following as a paid attendee: Google I/O 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and the 2007 Google Developer Day in Mountain View. I/ONs receive a limited time opportunity to purchase a ticket during pre-sale registration. Eligibility as an I/ON is at Google's discretion."
You shouldn't be writing this if you have a poor understanding of economics yourself.

Raising minimum wages doesn't raise productivity. It redistribute wealth from the rich (investors) to the poor (employees). It does create more spenders in the employees level and less spenders in the investors level.

Actually considering the Deadweight loss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss), we'll end up with more unemployment and less GDP
I think the biggest constraint on a vic-20 would have been memory. The apple II had the same CPU with some fairly impressive 3D-esque games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQLFwUu5cTY

...but yeah, I actually knew someone with a VIC-20 and the software for it was truly abysmal even at the time.
Slightly offtopic, but why doesn't amazon.com have the caret auto-focus on the search box for typing, like google.com does?
This. SXSW can be an incredible time. Even if you're promoting a startup, music and film are great.

Austin is gorgeous this time of year. (except last year for the several days) You can wake up and sit in the yard at 9am in shorts and a t-shirt.

I've done SXSW by sleeping on floors, having a company pay for expensive dinners and lodgings and using startup capital to cooperatively rent a house as well.

You can learn a lot of great tricks there, such as how to get into events without a ticket. For example, last year I was able to quickly meet and join some vip's to catch A$AP Rocky on the spotify roof party. That won't happen again.

Also, they are kind of tired now but Fun. played the relatively small icanhaz party months before they were on repeat on the radio. Reptar did a tiny free show they only announced on their FB page behind a bar in the sun. You can feel the energy in crowds at shows at SXSW and they are very cool and tuned in.

You can also make key introductions. We learned about an event critical to our startup that ultimately led to a pitch competition and an award and publicity. We also met the fellow who helped us with our banking partner there.

The press from this year about how startups aren't putting capital there is good. If you don't have the traction already, you're unlikely to get it out there. And if you haven't raised a solid amount of money yet, you should be making it last. But people should still go!

Notice, I haven't said anything about actually attending the conference.

Sitting at home working on code, going over customer feedback is no substitute, nor necessarily a better use of time and money.
Computational biophysics - When it's just our lab working on a paper, we tend to use LaTex, but the real headache is when collaborating with experimentalists. They seem deeply invested in Word/Endnote, and it's quite difficult to get them to consider using any other tools (even thought they often hate what they are using).
Have you already been there? what did you learn, make, or who did you met that you could only do there?
I love cutting edege technologies and I watch Google I/O videos on Youtube, but I want to understand here why I would pay $900 for attending.
Does it make you feel morally superior to reduce warfare to such facile terms? Maybe you should become a pacifist.

You haven't answered the question on the morality of bombing Peenemunde (the V2 construction facilities), over 700 Polish civilians were killed in one bombing alone. Do you have an answer?

I refuse to shy away from the moral complexities of warfare, but that doesn't mean I refuse to acknowledge that there are moral issues in warfare. There very much are. And right now our country is installing legal and formal precedents which are sincerely disquieting in that regard.

In regards to your quip, the phrase "individual suspected terrorists" should have about 10 metric fuck-tons of asterisks after it. Because "suspected terrorists" are pretty much anyone the administration designates as such. And "individual" is pretty much defined as "anyone within the blast radius of a hellfire missile when a 'terrorist' is chosen to be executed". Not that drone attacks are even the entirety of the problem. Go read up on the war we've been fighting in Yemen and in the horn of Africa for the past several years.
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That's not bait and switch.

> "Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud used in retail sales but also practiced in other contexts. First, customers are "baited" by merchants' advertising products or services at a low price; then customers discover the advertised goods are not available. Other products are "switched" for them; however, these items are often costlier." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait_and_switch

Bait and switch means that you're promised or enticed with one specific thing, but that thing is not available and you're offered something different. The idea is that you wanted something, so fuck it just buy it and get it over with. And of course some people won't even notice the switch.

Free now pay later and the other schemes are not bait and switch. When you get there/sign up, you have the free version right now, exactly as advertised. And there is no attempt (usually) to hide the fact that free is only for N days, after which you'll need to sign up.

Similar for free/paid for reduced/enhanced. You're getting exactly what's being offered.
It's got nothing to do with need. It's whether it would be useful or not.

Consider programming. You don't need anything more than punch-cards to program. You don't need anything more than assembler. But higher-level languages can be useful, because they can make the task easier, give you greater leverage.
Curl is not going to send different request headers to the server based on whether its stdout is redirected to a file.
I don't understand this view. Every time I see people spending hours of their time watching harlem shake videos or any other silly nonsense on the web, I am heartened that there are infinite jobs in entertaining each other and providing "non essential" services. OK sure, robots will take over construction and heavy lifting, leaving only a "super class" of surgeons and whatnot still able to get any of the jobs we recognize today. But I think we are far away from robots taking away other very human jobs. I pay for a twitch.tv subscription so I can see StarCraft games in 720p+. I literally pay other people to play video games. This is not some strange oddity, this is the future.

Remember: once upon a time it was a full time job for just about everyone in a society to get food, take care of children, and just generally do the bare minimum to survive. I'm sure they look at the world we live in today as "post-scarcity" the same way we imagine a world of tomorrow where robots do all of our duties. When agriculture introduced surplus into our society, it didn't cause a collapse. It instead allowed art and science to be born. Just as those early humans would have scoffed at Michelangelo getting a paycheck for putting colors on walls, so to does this possible future seem frivolous to us. But it is no more frivolous than all the current people employed in our current economy convincing each other to buy things we don't need.

If or when machines do everything we consider essential now, I assure you we will find new things to do with our time, some will be better than others at these new things, and thus we will pay each other to do them.
Do people fear increase in government power because it's actually bad for them, or because they've been told that government is bad in general?

I've been beginning to think it's not only the TSA types who employ the "state of fear" philosophy to drum up support for their cause.

In any case drones aren't even a tenth as destructive as helicopters. I don't even care what rule people pick at this point but it would really help my own blood pressure if we could at least just choose to be consistent for once.
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Return of the Neanderthals
http://jobzey.com An easier way to find job opportunities through all of your social networks. Searching through LinkedIn and Facebook for friends who are career assets shouldn't be that hard. Now it isn't.
> You have to reason in a roundabout way, possibly building some abstraction.

You're assuming that computers can't handle abstractions.
>there's practically nothing we can do about it because modern warfare is such a complete clusterfuck.

One thing we could do is stop deploying soldiers...
Congress hasn't done it 'in effect', it did so very explicitly:

Now, therefore, be it resolved by [Congress]:

[Section 1 is the title of the act]

Section 2 - Authorization For Use of United States Armed Forces

(a) IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.

It's not the case that Congress declared war and the executive branch granted itself authority by extension. The phrase 'be it resolved ... [t]hat the President is authorized...' is the grant of authority.

A lot of people think this is so broad as to amount to a blank check, and I agree. But neither the Bush nor Obama administrations have have had to perform any legal conjuring tricks to derive this authority. Congress gave the President the authority in very clear terms. The President's authority to determine who is or is not a target under this legislation is absolute; it's not subject to qualifications or review by other branches. The language of the legislation is about as plain as it gets.
Whooo, easy. I'm not arguing with anyone. Yes, I could be wrong. But what will happen if an alternative to Bitcoin shows-up. Or 10. Won't that bring the price down? You have to admit, this "freedom" is kind of hard to control at the moment and it's moodier then a women. It crashed before and it can happen again. I'm not against or for it at the moment(maybe slightly the second), I'm just waiting to see what will happen.
Off topic, but the Reddit post about Neox Screen using the ShareX source code and asking for donations is quite disheartening. Not that anything illegal occurred, just the level of deceitfulness.

http://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/17qmek/my_friend...
TEDx talks discredited: Sheldrake speaks, argues that speed of light is dropping
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What's up with HN?
For the last 20 minutes or so, the list of new items has had an amazingly fast turnover rate and most articles only have one vote, two at the most. Trip the light fantastic! What's going on?
Our goal is to reinvent the article online.

One thing that really needs to change is that figures need to come to life. While there are a few ways too accomplish this, one is by using javascript libraries such as d3.js to render dynamic images.

As an example of things to come, have a look at: https://www.authorea.com/522

Does not work in Firefox at the moment.
It's not quite as bad as Maxima (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29), though, where it almost feels like the project was intentionally named in a way to make googling difficult.
The answer is Yes, where "OK" is directly proportional to "uniqueness/novelty" factor. When judging, a novel gameplay idea will win me over before anything else. Good gameplay trumps all, but it's the toughest thing to get right, especially with the terribly limited interface you have on mobile devices.

This equation also works, sadly, when you replace "uniqueness/novelty factor" with "boobs." Look at the top apps and see that this is true.
I thought the first one was solved at least 3 different ways over now, and that we should just pick one of [bcrypt, PBKDF2, scrypt]?
You just compared the reaction of viewers of a theatrical event in a fictional action movie to reality.
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Somebody needs to nail sub menu ux in Mobile. I haven't seen anything that is impressive. Facebook menu is good.
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My favorite so far was Marco Rubio quoting a line in the godfather:

"... 'A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.' Now, I don't know how the hell that relates to this argument, but I thought it was a good quote."
They exist but they are far rarer than mere retardation. Rare enough that I'm just going to punt. The answer for them doesn't matter in the big picture.
And a bonus question: what are good Canadian-friendly trading platforms?
Per app sharing is great. I found myself wanting the sound coming from the app to be shared as well.
> But The jobs are going anyway - software is eating the jobs as well as the world

This sounds very familiar, it reminds me of the arguments from the technocrats back during the industrial revolution who made the argument that that machines and factories, by making people more efficient would cost people their jobs and would lead to massive unemployment as human jobs would be replaced by machine jobs.

With hindsight its not hard to see that they were obviously wrong, the jobs that the machines and factories may have destroyed in the short term were more than made up by the jobs and economic growth that came with it in the long term.

What do you think makes your argument different then those of the technocrats?
Interesting idea. I could potentially make this happen at a for-profit university, but would need to sell the idea to some executives.

Where could I read more about the risks and challenges that a company attempting to do this would face (open sourcing a customer facing app)?
You did, but only after making an incorrect assertion that you didn't have to, and that their argument was completely invalid.
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It's OK to rewrite an application from scratch (sometimes)
Some of us have been loyal since it was just developer days at the GooglePlex.
I tried Emberjs and Angularjs recently, as both framework offered two-way binding between view & model, at client side.

Angularjs was easy to pickup and I have completed what I wanted to do in about half a day, except one issue, angularjs template rendering is DOM driven. I wanted server-side templates, hence I have to boot phantomjs at server-side. I didn't quite like booting phantomjs for server-side templates.

Since Emberjs offered, handlebar based templates, I was happy that I could render my templates at server-side. So tried emberjs, it took about 3 days, to get it done. Many out dated tutorials & documents spread across internet about older versions of Emberjs. Documentation at emberjs.com is minimal and not helpful. I started looking at source code of discourse.org and try to understand how they used ember.
I felt the power of emberjs when I needed complete control of context and rendering of nested templates. It was real beauty.
yes, that's very "mid-period facebook" to force invitations on three friends (indeed I'm not sure that Facebook allows that any more for apps because of the annoyances).
I'd also like to try it too, otherwise, since it's for both Jewish and Allies, as it were.
Stickers?!?!? Seriously?

C'mon Richard - your employer can do better than this.
There is a factor in the ever-expanding hiring process that the article does not touch upon: the ever-increasing set of liabilities and regulations that accompany each new employee.

Today there are tens of thousands of pages of federal and state regulations that pertain to hiring and firing, including regs pertaining to taxes, discrimination, work hours, retirement funding, facilities, materials, health care, leave, wages, and more. Each one exists for a good, defensible reason, but in aggregate they have an effect on companies.

As more and more potential liabilities come in the door with each new employee, companies feel more and more pressure to get it right--because if they don't, they could easily be facing a lawsuit or criminal prosecution.
Well, I know this is not the typical use case, but the need I had for it was to perform some experiments on the quality of recommender systems suggestions.

In this case, as the experiments involved people and the intend was to publish the results, the "workers" had to be anonymous.
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This is backtracking a bit, but what are the goals of raising the minimum wage?

The implied goal seems to be to help the poor, but as others have pointed out, other policies (EITC, guaranteed minimum income, negative income tax) are better suited to that goal. So, do proponents of the idea have a different (or additional) goal in mind? Do proponents believe that these other policies are not more effective solutions?

I would like to hear others' opinions on the answer to this question, especially if you support the raise.
i've used cavirtex.com before