skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, so NOW correlation is causation. Great, I'll go correct my notes so I don't forget, it's always so confusing.

There's one thing lacking here, and that is, of course, a causal link. It would be nice if they went down the line and compared employee wages relative to corporate profits on a per company basis. It might be that there are different things at play here.

There's a lot of data missing from this incredibly shallow analysis. Not that I dispute the results, but the argument isn't well backed by the data.

Edit: as a side note I think a lot of problems with employment in the developed world today are due to extremely outdated labor laws that prove to be more damaging than helpful. The expectation of the entire system is that workers will be locked into employment at a particular company for life, will work 40hr/wk on average week in week out, and will rise in pay incrementally over their career. Those assumptions result in worker benefits being tied to employers. They're why the government can get away with hiding half the tax rate of the payroll tax from workers behind the "employer contribution". They're partly why savings rates have fallen so badly over the past few decades. And so on. A lot of which is ultimately to the detriment of the individual worker. If workers were more independent and more mobile, able to self-employ more easily, and so on then they'd tend to have much higher wages on average, I'd wager. The current system doesn't reward independence, it punishes it, but independence is precisely how workers gain an upper hand once they've built up a considerable amount of experience.
CNBC reporting with quotations from various commentators about what is going on in China just now:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101364585
It's weird reading that thread and coming across a comment written by my 6-years-younger self on the very day that I founded my startup and thinking "Man, I had my head screwed on better back then. The 5 years I spent at Google just makes me a blowhard. I hope I have the opportunity to be small again."
Hacker News? (Maybe I'm not getting it. That happens a lot.)
You bet! We've got a whole duplicate NodePing monitoring stack watching our NodePing monitoring stack.
The (lack of) health benefits from using soy bean oil instead of pure olive oil may be significant, or at least misleading.
American prisons are a disgrace and a national shame, and prison rapes are one of the most viscerally appalling reminders of that.

These statistics are likely misleading, though: it only includes the 9k or so cases that jail administrators reported. That's likely at least an order of magnitude less than happen in reality, and it's likely that the small minority that are actually reported by administrators have special aspects of them that make them highly non-representative of all sexual violence in prisons. They've passed through (at least) three filters already, for instance: the prisoner deciding to report it at all; the guard reported to seeing fit to report it to higher ups; and the higher ups deciding to report it to the overseeing agency.

Not sure which direction that'd go in, for the record, but it's worth keeping in mind while parsing this report.
my mouth is watering at the thought of eating prosciutto right now. Thank you! :D
Considering the negative connotations of the word "hacker" in the justice system, what with the federal penitentiaries and all, this news is relevant.
True, in fact many states have laws that call it rape, no matter if any consent was given.

On the other hand, you have men locked away for decades and willing female guards.
as far as I can tell, this really doesn't make any difference in the end

Unfortunately, that's not the case. When olive oil is adulterated with oils that have lower smoke points, and that adulterated oil is then used under heat, for cooking, the adulterant oils can break down and yield toxic compounds (e.g., aldehydes and hydroperoxids). [1]

EDIT: Also, as noted by a sibling comment, the Ω3:Ω6 ratios for some of the adulterant oils can be wildly different from olive oil, in sub-optimal, or even deleterious ways.

EDIT 2: And what about food allergies? Suppose someone with a hazelnut allergy buys hazelnut oil-adulterated olive oil (they're fairly similar in terms of fatty acid contents, so it's a somewhat common adulterant). Still think it doesn't make a difference?

(Also edited for tone.)

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050617065306.ht...
Modern prisons are, ironically enough, reverse panopticons. Governments do very little to monitor and protect the people it's placed under bodily control, even going so far as to create vast dark privatized spaces where it can maintain a careful ignorance of all the horrible things that go on in them.
Was Apple’s 1999 Power Mac G4 Really Classified as a Weapon?
Did anybody else read this as "Goodbye Articial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M"?

Google to Buy
Google Buy
GooBuy ~ Goodbye
This brings up the question, how can a relationship be considered willing when the person is imprisoned against their will?

Let's see the numbers for those released that continue the relationship, call THAT consensual instead. What the article speaks of is sexual assault.
Same talk on YouTube if Vimeo is slow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PSyu7booU
I was rather disappointed to see that they were animated gifs. I would much rather see them in a format where you can run them with independent speeds and framerates.

I figure it would be better to represent the image as a bunch of shapes with changing position/rotation. In fact using these animations as a base It might not be too hard to automate the process to identify the shapes and the connections between them.
see also: #humblebrag, #whitegirlproblems
-wolong- is probably on the other side of the trades buying up cheap. Herding a flock of sheep to shear.
I am in no way in favor of staff-inmate relationships, but in most relationships the power dynamic is uneven. For example, in most marriages with children the breadwinner has significantly more power, but that does not make sex an assault.
Most Keto folks really care about what cooking oils they use because of different fat contents, but most of them aren't using olive oil and using coconut oil for everything anyway.

Personally I'd be really pissed about getting cut olive oil because usually it's Sunflower or Safflower oil and both (along with Grapeseed Oil) have massive quantities of highly-undesirable Omega-6. Might as well have gotten the substantially cheaper corn or soybean oils because they're just as bad for you.
I don't recall any dog food consumption in American Psycho. But it's a long time since I read it.
Which websites do you visit before work each morning?
I rotate between checking email (Gmail), CNN, Quora, HN, KnoxNews (local) Twitter, a quick Duolingo lesson, then my guilty please of a few subreddits I'm subscribed to. 1 hour tops and that's a full morning rotation. Any other useful websites I should add to it?
Okay, I've updated the "app" and it now only runs the tests when code has been modified. I'm using fswatch and the entire thing still fits into a tweet :)
Could the correlation be due to "the dreaded third thing"?[1] (a common cause)

Perhaps large corporations are now deriving a large portion of their income and profits from government-derived sources, and relationships between executives and government officials or regulators; if this is true, there is no reason to give raises to employees, as the low-level workers are relatively unimportant.

[1]http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/10/oster_on_pregna.htm...
Needs TITS verb now to complete the picture.
Keep in who is doing the monitoring, guards who look to be often involved sexual assault. See comment on consent I responded to in this article's thread. The situation of the victim is one of imprisonment, nearly every variable of their life is defined by the (sometimes rapist) guards.

Correctional facility is what they call them, yep.
When the bread-winner imprisons his/her partner that is considered a crime. Lets not start with crappy analogies.

edit: Bring a response instead of a down-vote. This community's weak point is when discussion is put to the wayside in favor of a quick and easy up or down vote. More to the point: Eff off anonymous down-voters, a prison guard is not a bread winner in a sexual assault relationship. This is just a really bad analogy that shouldn't be given support.
Google Makes Another Major AI Aquisition
Something about the placement of this cigar... http://i.snag.gy/MiSuO.jpg
I really love the direction UI/UX is going in, more and more based on science. There is already good amount of work done in the human factors and ergonomics area -- I would love to see this knowledge applied to web and mobile apps.
Eh, I've been contacted by them too. Probably a large portion of the HN audience has. It's called throwing out a big net, it's not like they're personally begging you.
Ah, I'll buy that. Thanks.
Yes! Thank you, I get annoyed when people think there is one definition of good design/art/beauty ...it's a thinly veiled display of narcissism. It's like trying to tell someone what kind of food they like, or who they find attractive- there are trends, and sometimes it seems like there are rules, but nothing is ever 100% universal as far as I can tell.
" The flavor can't be counterfeited at all, so it doesn't really matter what's on the label . . . . You might have 5 different olive oils in your cupboard depending on what you're using them for, but you didn't buy any of them based on their label!"

Huh? What world are you living in? I mean, maybe you have five different olive oils in your cupboard and maybe their labels had nothing to do with the ones you chose. But do you really think that the average reader on HN (or average purchaser in US) chooses which brand of olive oil to buy by taste? Holy moly, out of touch. I suppose next you'll be telling us that a wine or winery's name or a wine bottle's label have nothing to do with why people choose it? Welcome to the world of "marketing".
To begin with, it's a column store, which has all kinds of cool implications for data that repeats itself a lot, such as analytics.
Why, it would give you a traceback if your worker process collects it, as a reasonable worker would. Since workers are probably non-interactive, they can't exactly receive a Ctrl+C. The dispatcher process, OTOH, will. I suppose a pool should kill all processes on SystemExit.

When you think about more details, you grow more and more sophisticated solution that best suits your needs. But the point of the post is different: it's a dead simple way to start. Starting is often the hardest part.
EVOO already has a low smoke point as far as oils are concerned, processed soy/canola/corn/etc. oil all have significantly higher smoke points.

I can't imagine a scenario where a manufacturer would be adulterating EVOO with another oil that has a lower smoke point -- there just aren't any that would be make economic sense, as far as I know.
True. But usually when you judge others, the assumption is that you personally would pass the same judgement.

E.g. the speck in your brother's eye vs. the plank in your own.

I was admittedly assuming you work in the tech industry, just given that most HNers do.

Which, yeah, I was going to have to eat crow if you work in orphanages all day.
what does GTFO stand for?
Because of this stuff, I only buy my oil at this point from makers who I personally have a connection with, and I know are selling 100% legitimate stuff (a good friend's family has an organic olive grove and press in Sicily, so I buy from that mostly now).

I'm constantly saddened by the fact that more countries don't enforce food labeling regulation, either internally or for import. The US alone could probably fix this problem really fast by banning the import of mislabeled food products with high penalties for the import of poorly labeled ones.
The point is not, who is President of the US, but who says what the President of the US has to do.
It's a decent enough gamble on HN. Most of the younger east-coast and scandinavian techies that I know are very much into foodieism. "Foodie Dice" was an incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign. Younger folks are starting to care a lot more about ingredients than the past few generations it seems.
Black holes should be redefined, says Stephen Hawking in new paper
Upvoted but disagree on behalf of Youtube, Android, Keyhole, etc.

Some exist independently, others are absorbed.
I work on the Dart programming language team. I hack on libraries and applications that come with the platform. In particular, I worked on the documentation generator, unit test package, and an arg parser. These days, I mostly work on the package manager and asset build system. That stuff is all written in Dart. :)
Nothing from "Why Simple is Scientifically Easier To Process" down is backed by any of the actual research papers he mentions. He's also mixing studies of (at least) two different things here. The Google and Harvard studies both looked at flashing up images of websites, and were about judging aesthetic appeal, not recall. Meanwhile, the papers on fluency are about recall of information presented (items on a restaurant menu, for example). The former set of papers don't mention any connection with Miller's 7+/-2. In fact, those papers don't posit a physical basis: they're empirical studies. This stuff about photoreceptors seems entirely irrelevant.

If you want to do something scientific, why not actually test your website? It's what the researchers in those papers did, but it's missing from his recommendations.
"More than $500M"? That contradicts Re/code.
NSA engaged in industrial espionage, claims Snowden
Is he calling for just jail time for the "deniers" or the death penalty like this professor http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/professor_calls_for_d...
sunflower and safflower oils, the two most commonly substituted oils for olive oil (as far as counterfeiting goes), have a similar or _much lower_ smoke point than olive oil in an unrefined state. 225F, in fact. That's almost 100 degrees lower than olive oil.
Right. Snag root or sudo password. Download rootkit. Execute.
Floorplan Light Switches
Turn subconscious sparks into creative fire
I think he was talking about this [1].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZVkW9p-cCU
My experience: "Hey, there are a bunch of dots at the bottom, just like my iPhone. The left one is lit up. I'll try tapping right. Oh, neat."

Honestly never even noticed the giant right arrow on the right side.

My wife (who didn't see me navigating about), within ~2 seconds of looking at the page, said she'd tap the giant arrow to go to the next page.

While I think they could certainly have done better, I don't think it's as bad as you're making it out to be.

My biggest complaint is that on mobile the pages snap in rather than sliding in as you swipe.
How the U.S. Maps the World's Most Disputed Territories
Snowden says he might face U.S. retaliation for his disclosures
I work for Virtru (https://www.virtru.com/get-secure-email), which allows you to send encrypted email from your existing email address (e.g. gmail). I use it daily for testing, but I use it at least weekly for actual use cases. For example, emailing my roommate a shared password, emailing sensitive business information, or simply sending messages to a friend which I don't want sitting on a 3rd party server in plain text.
This play on words is a pretty okay joke.
I don't think you get it -- that's my point. If your "average purchaser in the US" can't tell the difference, then it won't matter to them anyways, right? And if they can tell the difference, then they're already buying by flavor.

EVOO isn't Coca-Cola. There's no standard flavor. It's the same as complaining about counterfeit wine -- if it tastes good for the price, does it ultimately matter if it's "counterfeit" or not? The flavor is the flavor.
I cook eggs in butter. Eggs in olive oil isn't something I enjoy. And people really are looking for neutral flavors (how else is 'extra light olive oil' a thing?).

I'm not really aware of any reason to prefer monounsaturated fats vs polyunsaturated fats (and other oils beat olive oil on unsaturated vs saturated).
What does "DMMT" stand for? You made me think, dammit!
Why does the US government disallow dynamic languages for secure projects?
> * SQL - The raw database/sql package in Go is very low-level. It is a terrible experience to use in a project that makes anything more than a handful of simple queries. I'm not asking for an ORM, but it would really benefit the community if there was a SQLAlchemy style (the non-ORM part of it) library for Go. It should be MUCH easier to make basic queries to SQL and get out results.

I can highly recommend https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx which allows you to easily unpack results into structs/maps, or pass in a struct/map and insert it (using struct tags + named queries). If you're writing a CRUD application this covers a lot of the basics. There's also https://github.com/eaigner/jet which is a 'micro ORM' (and very light on the ORM part).

> "html/template" doesn't support things like inheritance, didn't even support comparison operators until Go 1.2, etc.

I grew to like html/template over time, but the lack of comparison operators pre Go 1.2 was a huge sore point and I had I been working on this little project a year ago I'd have been extremely frustrated. The lack of inheritance was a bit of a pain for me too—I ended up splitting my templates into many (!) smaller pieces so I could at least re-use the portions I needed to. Hopefully something "Jinja-esque" comes in time.

There's an (unmaintained) Mustache port and a Mustache-alike in Mandira (https://github.com/jmoiron/mandira) but I've not seen anything like Jinja yet. If there's one thing html/template has going for it is that I can trust it (as much as one can) to be 'safe'.

I wouldn't say web apps in Go should be avoided at all costs, but I would say that you should consider the scope/scale and do a bit of research first. Sometimes Django/Rails or Flask/Sinatra might make it easier on you.
This article is full of logical holes in it.. im kind of lazy right now to argue about it.. but its trying to prove a point it dont prove, and yet.. it argues about a lof of other things that have nothing to do with their first statement..

For instance, if we really think in social inclusion, we can reform our educational systems, in a way it will matter less the individual social class, and more its talent and its own potential..

So maybe the people that would be real out of the DWYL would be the less "gifted" people and not the individual in the lower social classes..

And for people that didnt find its own way in life.. may experiment to work with the DWYL folks.. doing some work that are more manual.. they may find their own ways like that.. experimenting..

Also, when im washing the dishes for instance.. its a very good time for me to do some zen meditation.. it really clean up my head.. and i have new perspectives over things im thinking of..

What i've noted is that, by starting to do one thing that you love (and i do not come from upper class) , i started to love other things that i do not love at first..

And in my "past life", where i did not like most things i was working on.. (for several different reasons).. it starts to bitter even sweet things with time.. and i've stopped before everything became bitter.. myself included..

So no, thank you! The people that created this article can do what they dont want if they like.. because of the greater good.. you will ending doing what they tell you.. you know.. the big guys in whatever game you are on..

I believe in organic structures.. if you stop to observe nature.. things are pretty well organized.. and working very well (we are a proof of it) without anyone managing it.. everything fits well, and each individual do whatever it has to do.. there some inherent natural order in it.. we have it too.. and we can do it even better giving the amount of intelligence we have
The thinking tends to imply that somewhere, workers wages are being set by a central committee, who is more interested in profits than wages. Such thinking is wrong.

I agree that there may be some cause that makes profits go higher and wages go lower, or they could be totally unrelated. But the driver of wages is competition for hiring people. It's no surprise that in a time of relatively higher employment, there has been little or no wages growth. What is surprising is that corporate profits have expanded. But then, if you have a monetary regime where printing money (QE) is designed to re-inflate the capital of financial institutions via devaluing the currency, then it's not surprising that profits go up for those with first bite at the new-money.

Is that the cause? I doubt it. But can someone hold down employee wages for the sole purpose of increasing their profits? No.

Solve unemployment, and you will solve stagnant wages growth.
California Olive Ranch makes good stuff that is highly price competitive with the imported Italian stuff which is always more questionable anyway.

Great comment. I've been buying California Olive Ranch oil since I first read about olive oil adulteration a couple years ago.

This review: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/dining/californias-olive-o... is very helpful.
you want humanity to be the terminal phase of sentience in the galaxy?
To quote an excerpt from that link:

" Virgin olive oil was, amongst all the oils studied, that which took longer to produce this type of compounds and produced a lower concentration of them."

I am going to assume (and hope) that that was an off-the-shelf sample, which includes the adulteration you are talking about. Unfortunately, there no further information available.
Off the top of my head I'd say not.
So Deepmind $400M but Snapchat $4Billion? So Google thinks Snapchat is more important?
If your "average purchaser in the US" can't tell the difference, then it won't matter to them anyways, right?

So, "Fuck 'em if they don't know enough to know they're getting cheated?" Nice.
I assure you, you are in no danger of Google security officers pointing a gun at you and saying "You're going to work for Google now."
I had to comment on this due to the large amount of misinformation in this thread.

Many people think that companies should be kind, and pay more than the market wage for their workers. This is false and unreasonable. Companies try to minimize their costs, including wages.

Now if in some industry, some company is making huge profit margins, and paying low wages, what is the cause, and what is the solution? In economics, profits go down until they reach 0 or close to 0. Why? because if there are huge profit margins, more firms come in, to compete. Therefore in all industries, profits go down to a lower level.

Now why doesn't this happen in practice? The answer is artificial barriers to entry. Political agreements and regulations benefiting the big companies. So what is needed here is an easier path for new companies (Which are people after all). This will always ensure that profit margins stay low, and wages approach the true market rate.

The solution is not donation. Why would a company pay 9 dollars to a worker who is willing to work for 8? Why aren't YOU donating money to poor people in Africa? The answer is not minimum wage either. This distorts markets. If you want to alleviate poverty, in a more economically reasonable way, do it though universal income.
For those interested in a system:

http://www.bulletjournal.com/
We've always had problems with labeling on food products where demand is vastly ahead of supply. The olive oil situation isn't nearly as bad as the honey situation.
No, it's what passes for the web-equivalent of the newspaper graphic.