skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I just wanted to point out the phenomenon of conflating it with musical talent. I'm not suggesting it's an uninteresting concept or isn't worthy of thought/discussion
>It's pretty easy to find research coming to a different conclusion than the Card/Kreuger paper that most pro-minimum-wage-increase people cite

It's usually riddled with methodological flaws, however, or not in the slightest bit empirical (as your last link so perfectly demonstrates - the guy doesn't even WANT empirical data!).

Neumark/Wascher, while empirical, was a crock of shit that restricted and modified Card/Krueger's data set in an attempt to change the outcome.

Card/Krueger has also, incidentally, been repeated across multiple state borders and has held up.

Of course there is a very good reason why there is a consistent effort to push the idea that hiking the minimum wage causes unemployment despite it being clearly false...

It's SAVAGE towards profits:

http://164.36.50.178/lowpay/research/pdf/NMW_profits_and_pri...

This is why Mankiw and other intellectual frauds in the hock of corporate lobbyists will always push this lie.
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I agree with you completely but one of the things I always struggle thinking about is what a potential alternate to CSS even looks like. Although there are so many things wrong with it, you can pull off just about any look and feel you want with it. I mean, at least we're not using Swing or handing the decorating off to the OS or something.

In an ideal world, what's the best way to decorate HTML?
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Since the parent article is mainly a set of quotes from the underlying site/twitter feed:

http://lolmythesis.com/

or

https://twitter.com/lolmythesis

I'd recommend just going to the underlying source.
Fedora has the ability to install python3 alongside the system python2.7, so there is probably an official rpm you can just pull from the Fedora repos.

edit: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/python3
I don't disagree with you, really.

I think we both agree that any company that is willing to compromise its users to any entity, for money or otherwise, is not a company that should be entrusted with security. I will never deploy an RSA product, and will encourage my customers to choose other options (we support 2FA in our products, as of a couple of months ago, so we have the ability to determine what potentially millions of users choose, though realistically only a few hundred of our users have enabled 2FA, thus far; we don't support RSA).

So, yeah, it's also possible that the NSA's super secret input data they used for this RNG will be revealed or will be compromised by some powerful attacker (China, for instance, who would have very high incentive to compromise a large percentage of major corporations in the US in one fell swoop).
This cannot be understated. Different company and a smaller niche, but proprietary file formats have plagued the GIS industry for decades. The most widely used format (shapefile) is about as terrible as it gets as far as functionality goes, but it is used everywhere. There has been a mounting effort to persuade governments to use open formats for publishing data, but it has been slow going.
>In Singapore for instance it seemed rare for somebody to take more than a week or two to find work.

It took me a LONG time, and the work I ultimately found was much lower paid than it would be in Australia, the US or Europe.

Singapore is a perfect example of what happens if you have no minimum wage. The majority of the country's wealth gets diverted towards profits. Wages all around are lower.

The only reason it doesn't cause massive social instability in SG is because the government keeps housing, health care and education affordable by rigid price fixing.
>Without absolving the textbook industry (prices are nuts, have been for ages, dig up Supreme Court Justice Stephens' essay on the topic from the 1960s/1970s), this is in some ways a problem of the market-capitalist system.

The textbook industry is different, even from other publishing, since the book is chosen by the teacher, who gets the book for free. Whether a professor teaches from his or her text is largely irrelevant.
When you run dig @www.facebook.com news.ycombinator.com, it must query the default DNS for www.facebook.com; however, the ISP must return the real IP for www.facebook.com or the HTTPS establishment will fail because they cannot MiTM that connection.

So now dig has the actual IP for www.facebook.com, which it is now going to use for it's DNS query for news.ycombinator.com. The commenter observed this query is intercepted because it works (which it shouldn't).
The 2nd and 3rd results on Bing the same as the 1st one on Google.
I don't think anecdotes are that helpful at understanding Gates's message here. Yes, today there are open source versions of pretty much all developer tools (and that's something to celebrate, since I remember when a "cheap" C compiler was $500). But there's still plenty of software that has no open source equal; if we had a world where nobody paid for software, much of it wouldn't have ever been written.
While we're on this topic, are GroupOn's API Branding Requirements in violation of Google's webmaster policies?

http://www.groupon.com/pages/api-branding-requirements

They make it a requirement of using the API that "nofollow" is not used: "Don’t ‘nofollow’ your links to Groupon."
Yeah, it's clear he knows what's he doing and that's about it. It's not intended to be a tutorial, merely proof of repeatability.
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I've had a similar experience after a minor head injury, and thought I was losing my relative pitch (and since I sing, this was somewhat worrying). After some experimentation, I realized that I was hearing a slightly different pitch in each ear [1], and this had the effect of producing on oddly atonal perception of music (almost like a record playing at the wrong/inconsistent speed).

It cleared up in a few days, but was very disconcerting while it was happening (especially as I was in the middle of composing a piece of music).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplacusis
For the time I was working there I'm quite sure most of the tools were internally made by MS:
- they had their own map reduce
- they had their own service deployment and management system
- their own db and nosql
- etc...

about the search and relevance they are updated quite fast, sometimes with big code replacement. This means that even if powerset tech was used as a start (and I do think it was not, it was possibly adapted and integrated -- i believe the base code was msn/live) it is now changed in most of its pieces.
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There was a good write up of the context surrounding this letter in Steven Levy's book, Hackers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer...).

It pissed off lots of people in the community and seemed to be against the spirit of what the hackers were doing at the time (writing and sharing code).

I recall another programmer being irritated by the letter and writing his own basic interpreter and asking $5 for it (which was far less than what Gates was asking).

Book is worth reading for the historical context of computing if you weren't around to see it.

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Edit [Relevant part of wikipedia page]:
Tiny BASIC: Altair BASIC was an interpreter that translated instructions from the BASIC programming language into assembly instructions that the Altair 8800 could understand. It was developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the founders of Micro-soft, specifically for the Altair 8800 and it would fit in 4K of memory. Unlike previous hackers and against the Hacker Ethic, Micro-Soft and MITS felt that people should pay for BASIC just like they paid for any add-on card. Many hackers had in fact put in orders for BASIC, but still had to wait for the order to be shipped. During a show put up by MITS, someone got hold of and copied a paper tape containing Altair BASIC.

The tapes were duplicated and passed around freely before the commercial product was even shipped to customers. Gates and Allen did not appreciate this turn of events since they were actually paid commission for each copy of BASIC that MITS sold. Gates responded by writing an open letter titled “Open Letter to Hobbyists” that considered the sharing of software to be theft. Tiny BASIC was a similar interpreter that would fit in only 2K of memory as it supported a subset of the functionality of Micro-Soft BASIC (which itself was a subset of Dartmouth BASIC).

It was developed by Dick Whipple and John Arnold in Tyler, Texas and distributed freely in PCC magazine. Many more people sent in improvements and programs developed in Tiny BASIC to be published. This eventually led to the creation of Dr. Dobb's Journal edited by Jim Warren that distributed free or very inexpensive software in response to Gates' claims of theft. Tom Pittman was someone else who did not take kindly to Gates' words. He wrote a version of Tiny BASIC for the Motorola 6800 microprocessor.

Although he sold it to AMI for $3,500, he retained the rights to sell it to others and decided to charge only $5 for it. He received many orders and even money from people who had already gotten a copy and simply wanted to pay him for his efforts. Pittman also wrote the essay “Deus Ex Machina” on the AI and hardware hackers and what tied them together. Lee Felsenstein and Bob Marsh banded together to create a fully contained computer for an issue of Popular Electronics that they called SOL that sold for under a thousand dollars.

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Yeah - CMake adds more problems than it solves, IMO. I keep an XCode project and a VS solution and just deal with it.
Read it and find out.
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I think perfect pitch can be acquired as an adult, I just think it becomes exponentially harder. I started to learn guitar around 12 years old, and became interested in perfect pitch after reading Steve Vai internalised A=440Hz by having a tape start to play the tone as he slept. I definitely don't have full perfect pitch, but after a while I could:

- Tune a guitar, no matter how out of tune to concert pitch without a reference pitch.

- Recall the pitch of any song I heard once, not by name, but by singing it in the key I heard it in, this includes different versions, e.g. covers, transposed into different keys. I'm not sure how common that is, but a singer I was dating could also do this too.

Most excitingly I was recently listening to Spotify while out walking when "Mr. Crowley" began to play. As Ozzy began to sing it instantly came into my head that the root of the song is D. Obviously, I was hugely excited by this!. I checked it against an instrument when I got home and sure enough I was correct. I was delighted!
Seems a bit sloppy on their end and ripe for social engineering trickery. If an employee is debating publishing/sending something labeled "Confidential and Proprietary", but then sees a dozen of "Confidential and Proprietary" documents in Google-approved public repositories, they might lower their guard on what the words actually mean.
Empirical studies that show no rise in unemployment do actually disprove that.

This attitude that empirical study doesn't matter, that only the accepted dogma of the economic establishment matters is primarily responsible for the disastrous state of the world economy.

People with your staunch beliefs would do better studying at a theological college where less harm will be done.
Ask HN: Salary stipulations attached to seed deals?
This is something I have been wondering about. Say you are an unmonetized company and you take a $1mm seed round. Your company may be unmonetized, but if you are working full time, you need to pay yourself to live. Generally speaking, who decides the amount of your salary?

Is this a stipulation that goes into term sheets? Is it based on labor market value? e.g. if you're a software engineer, you pay yourself max $100k?

Just wondering how this works.
It's dog-simple to do with Xcode and Homebrew as-is. I just brew install something and it ends up in /usr/local/{lib,include}.
Yes send me your resume to hemant @ [above domain].
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There are lots of people on the web design via graphic design that fit into this category. Of course there is a range of competency in this group, but at the top end you have the sort of people that can do absolutely amazing things with just HTML and CSS. As someone who focuses on backend and can build an acceptable looking front end, I am blown away by a lot of the examples I see on codepen from people who use no javascript at all.
Ah, c'mon, don't pin it on The Bearded Guy! That stuff predated him (see Ricardo's Law of Rent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent). The Bearded Guy was after all the last of the Classical Economists :)

He also didn't think wages would make it to subsistence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages#Socialist_cr...
It's not a problem. Negative income tax and EITC is another way of saying "I'm ok in theory with giving more money to the poor, but let's not divert the money from corporate profits to do that".

(that being the normal outcome of a hiked minimum wage)

It's a distraction in other words. A way to stop people demanding for a minimum wage hike.
Warhol would do things like mass-produce objects that looked very much like other things, example: screen printed Brillo Boxes - and then photograph them in say, a super market. It's similar, but different - Duchamp, as the story goes, would just buy the object and call it art. There's some controversy over that, as some of these Found Objects aren't so commonplace, but have key differences in them, to make them more aesthetically pleasing - they may be actually one-ofs, that only look like something commonplace and mass-produced, giving Duchamp the last laugh. That's what happens, when a chess player starts makin' art!

Also see the Warhol's Campbell Soup cans - he just really liked Campbell tomato soup. Speaking of canned things, see, Piero Manzoni's "Canned Shit", where, well, it's what it says on the tin, I guess. I guess, as I haven't actually opened one, myself,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit

Warhol would use many different mass-production (cheap!) techniques to produce his art. One of my favorites is xerox'd photographs of flowers, he would almost give away for free - certain that they would be both collectable, and that people would simply throw them away, because hey: it's just some cheap photocopy. The one's that survive are worth quite a bit. Incidentally, he didn't get the copyright to the original photograph, so lost money on the whole thing.

I think warhol's biggest, "Readymades" were the actors of his films, who would get little, if any direction and they would just film them doing their thing. See, "Chelsea Girls"

> Justin, (author of Dada Mail)
Just like how Perl 5.x is dead and Perl 6 is the way forward? /s
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First mkautzm , thanks for the comments on this. Honestly, I'm glad to see debate as it allows me to really challenge how I feel about this beyond a short blog post. Just want to feedback on a few points:

>It's considered normal and there is kind of an unspoken agreement between everyone that a .doc or .docx file is acceptable.

I disagree. Maybe in a corporate world, applying for the paper distribution business in town or the IT support department at the accountancy firm up the road. But in the startup community, don't hackers all kinda share a sense of "innovation"?

>If you ask 99% of employers to telnet into your CV, they are probably going to tell you to kindly fuck off, and so you don't.

Wouldn't you want to work for that 1% who didn't?

>'They’re going to complain about overtime'

Don't quote out of context. There's an unlimited vacation policy at Trak.io.... take all the time out you want and need. But yeah, when the AMS MongoDB goes down and Digital Ocean aren;t allowing new droplet provisioning in AMS, I expect all hands on deck while we spin up on AWS. Because we all care about the product, our customers uptime, their data

>In the real world, people do want jobs. People do want jobs they love, and they are willing to give up a lot for jobs they love, and you might be providing them with one, but you need to come down to earth and realize that this isn't the only job they will ever apply for and expecting to be super impressed by the way they apply for the job is unrealistic, unfair, and I dare say, 'out of touch'. These people also have lives outside of work. Hobbies, family, friends and such take time and if you are hiring people that are willing to give up all of that in the name of work, I'd be really concerned for them.

What can I say.... I've learnt that when you're building an early team, you need a small team of amazing people because the overhead of a few OK people doesn;t even come close to the output of one amazing, passionate person.

I'd happily piss off 99 applicants to find no.100 who's amazing and who actually put at least the same amount of time putting an application together as I'll spend researching him/her online :-)
Do you have perfect pitch? How can you assess the utility if you don't possess it? Perfect pitch would be very useful IMO, can you imagine what it would do to one's compositional abilities for example?

Relative pitch is just recognition of intervals between notes and the qualities of different chords, but you're right in that perfect pitch and relative pitch are quite unrelated.
Exactly my point... I ONLY want those people who are willing to take an extra step :-)
Big C/C++ fan here, although I'm sure writing software for PC in C is extremely painful. Personally for PC soft I'm using C++ (Qt) but I actually really had to learn some 'higher level' language for this particular job.
However, my main area of interest are microcontrollers and there is NO other option than learning C (C++ compilers costs too much for a hobby projects).
When I read the OP's comment all I could think about was what it would be like writing a decent web app in the bad ol' IE days if it also had to work in most of those crappy symbian flip phone browsers. I agree with you completely. Meeting expectations today is really tough, but the expectations are much higher in most ways.
I don't know about shaking up internal structures. Certainly in terms of who has been excommunicated, there has been no change.

What he has done is moved the economic teachings from a branch of Catholic social teaching into a more central role. I think that's easy to understate. But that's not the same as taking a new position on the issues. And I think the liberals have vastly overstated the way in which Francis seems to be one of them (he has excommunicated a bishop for calling for the ordination of women for example).

> "What is clearly changed is the willingness to harshly criticise the North-American model."

I don't know. Rerum Novarium, Centicimus Annus, etc. all included similarly harsh language. That's not something I see as different. It's just that Popes were ignored when they said this. In fact John Paul II complained heavily that such criticism of Capitalism were ignored by so many Catholics....

> "Bergoglio himself represents a South-American view of the world which is much more critical of traditional US policy in all sectors, including economic ones."

I think that's an important point actually, and I think it puts his attacks on independent retirement as poisonous fruits of capitalism (i.e. a society that "throws away old people") in a certain context. But the corrolary here is that he has legitimated Dorothy Day's withering attack on Social Security and thus attacking causes even more dear to the American left than abortion.
> What it means is that if you’re a woman and want to spend 3 months working on the kernel, you can get involved in kernel development without any prior experience, and get paid a bit ($5000).....If you’re not a woman, Google Summer of Code is similar.

Translation: If you are a man and you're reading Path 3, stop now and go to Path 4.

The rest of them seem pretty decent though, so I'll get working on rustboot and such.

[edit: Downvoters, can you explain how someone without any prior kernel experience is supposed to apply and get into the Google Summer of Code program to focus on kernel development? That is an invalid path. See this answer, for example http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/193zdh/ho.... The only realistic way to get into GSoC is if you have a very clear idea about what sort of contribution you are going to make. Preferably, you should have made some already.]
>Yes they can. This is because we can discuss what higher prices do-invariably they cause market actors to seek substitutes. If you push a $15 minimum wage it stands to reason that there would be demand for any machinery that would allow for cost savings

Wake me when there's an affordable machine that can clean my office as well as a human. And no, I don't mean a Roomba - they're toys.

This capitalist techno-utopianism is totally divorced from the real world. Even automated checkouts (which have been around for over a decade) still haven't eliminated cashiers and for good reason - because people suck at using them.
Right. However, it won't be the established players or even the VC-funded startups that can do this. It will be a shift from investment-funded firms to lifestyle businesses, and it won't be sector specific.
This. Google's updates recently have made the results worse than ever. I wish there was a solid alternative.
For other people who were as curious as I was:

"Breathe" by Fabolous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8zRiaLOkfc

"Crime of the Century" by Supertramp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLcHStXAaNg (the sampled bit seems to start about 2:07)
You don't need convincing proof, just reasonable suspicion to file a lawsuit. (There's something called Rule 11 to discourage frivolous lawsuits, but it's a pretty low bar.) You can then determine actual infringement during discovery.

This has some problems however:

1) As you can imagine discovery may not turn up any actual infringement, making it all a huge, expensive waste of time.

2) The unfortunate reality of patent lawsuits is that if you can't prove infringement just by looking at something, you might as well have already lost. Anything that requires expert witnesses to provide input on often comes down to which sides' witness the jury finds more likable, and that's pretty much a roll of the dice.
hah, your point is completely oversimplified.
Unions haven't mattered to politicians in decades.

However, corporate lobbyists do - they largely control Congress and the executive branch.

Wanna know why they're against a higher minimum wage? Because it's inversely proportional to their profits.
You refer to perfect pitch and absolute pitch like they're different things -- do you realize that they're the same thing?

My brother and I are both musicians with perfect pitch, and we've found it useful in a variety of circumstances. To name a couple, it really helps if you're jamming and want to pick up a progression quickly, or if you're DJing and want to key match. I will concede that Traktor recently got key detection, which is nice, but especially when playing live I find that key segues will pop into my head without having to search for the next song in the right key.

Even the best relative pitch cannot help you exactly memorize a melody -- if you are unable to remember what note it actually starts on, you haven't remembered it fully.
No, I'm going to go register and join the discussion.
Why obscuring error/debug messages? Couldn't production just go without it?
So you're saying Australians who have a MUCH higher minimum wage and MUCH lower unemployment should move to America?

Heh.
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