skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If wages were left to market mechanisms, there would be no need for a set minimum wage. The fact that there is a minimum wage, and that many earn just that, is a clear indication that the market price of labor isn't negotiated between parties of equal strength.

To be clear: regardless of who sets the minimum wage, there is a minimum wage, and you aren't free to take a job under that level. To be honest, it would seem easier to "control" the union of which you are a member, than to adjust the minimum wage. It's just two organizations where one (congress/parliament) feels larger and further away.

A huge drawback of a single minimum wage (not differing between different parts of the labor market) is that it will spel trouble for companies when businesses on different parts of the cycle would be treated the same.
As an example, here companies relying on export such as truck makers are hugely sensitive to drops in global economy, and unions will accept frozen wages to limit layoffs as soon as bad times hit, which it does early in the cycle. Meanwhile service jobs or the public sector may be at a completely different point in the economy cycle, with perhaps 1-2 years before bad times hit. To use the same wages in both parts of the labor market would be a rather blunt solution.
We have that too :)
Congrats on getting it out there. Where'd you learn iOS? just using Treehouse? any other resources?

Congrats again!
We don’t need net neutrality; we need competition
I believe the dessert names are the actual release names if I recall so a code name like 'L' is more internal and subject to change.
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Really no mention of docx4j http://www.docx4java.org/
> "You have the blessing of knowing what the right thing looks like. I envy you that experience."

Thank you.

I try to pass it on, just like I was taught. We had a young couple live in our spare room some time ago. Right now we have a divorced mom in one room and teen parents in another. I think one of the most important things I can do for the future is mentor those who either haven't had the experience or have struggled to follow it.

If there's anything I can do to help you figure out the details, e-mail me (it's slightly obfuscated in my profile.)
Microfluidics. It's been a thing since the late 80s.

http://www.rsc.org/ej/LC/2009/b911553f/b911553f-f1.gif

Here's an early paper to use as a root for citation-chasing:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/09254005908...

Here's a conference that has been going strong for 7 years:

http://www.microtas2013.org/general.html

The technology has already been developed and proven in an academic setting. It's mature enough that you can find cheap textbooks for it. Microfluidic assays (which can be combined, like circuits, on a silicon chip) for every conceivable metric of interest have been developed, debugged, and sold to incumbent diagnostics companies. It was only a matter of time before someone integrated them, but the "usual suspects" were tripped up by market kinetics:

No academic group has been sufficiently capitalized to pursue an "Integrate All The Assays" (IATA) project. A lab typically pursues 2 or 3 assays at a time, which they will often integrate into a "µTAS" which is academic slang for IATA but should get its own term because typical µTASs measure 2 or 3 things which is far below the potential of the technology (what I'm terming "IATA").

Industrial groups that were in a position to go IATA already had hard-won silos in the payola+bundling ridden rat's nest of the medical supply industry. They wanted to keep those (payola+bundling = low competition and high margins) and they didn't want to fight the war-on-many-fronts that would arise if they tried to invade everyone else's silos at once. The big risk is that their competitors in every silo could undercut/outmaneuver them in individual silos faster than they could weave a political network to unify purchasing across silos.

Well, now someone has figured out how to do just that. Strategy: lots of money, lots of connections, and a killer entry strategy. It's all in the execution, as always.

Two interesting questions to keep in mind as this plays out:

1. Now that someone has gone IATA, will the medical device supply industry become truly competitive again? I think there's a nonzero chance of that happening. That would be a dream come true for consumers and medtech startups alike.

2. How much of the proceeds will filter back to the people who actually developed the technology? Obviously the answer will be "a teeny tiny fraction," but the amount in absolute terms will be an important indicator (to me, personally, and I suspect others) as to how well the patent system works in this sector. Will it be like the software sector (patents discourage implementation AND don't encourage innovation) or will it be like the drug sector (patents function more or less as they were intended albeit with the caveat that a lion's share of the proceeds flows, as it always does, to capital)?
Yup! The eBook is here: http://www.packtpub.com/haskell-data-analysis-cookbook/book
This is an interesting one. The lead programmer work(s|ed) for Microsoft, and is making good on some interesting innovations.

Even Chris Pirillo vlogged about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vM...
The definition that searching google gives is "the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims", which drone attacks certainly fit into.

I think the point is that drone strikes (targeting angry people with guns and bombs) are meaningfully different than someone blowing themselves up in a a crowded market or mosque (targeting people whose religion is slightly different from his or her own).

You can say they're the same because they're "the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims", but there's something of a different quality to those political aims that warrants a distinction.
I've mailed him about the E-6B flight computer missing in his database and collection. The E-6B is still in production and widely used, not only for pilot training. I'm using it for sailing, and have not yet found any other intuitive modern calculator for drift/vector calculations(1). Smartphones have big problems with sunlight, and with wet fingers. Not to talk about the problem that most smartphones dislike water.

(1) Lets say your boat runs 7 knots, you have a current of 2 knots from 123⁰. What course do you talk to reach a target 321⁰. Those type of calculations are trivial on the backside of an E-6B. And the frontside contains all those practical conversations between imperial, nautical and metric systems, e.g. whats the weight of 10 gallons of fuel in metric tons would be a question that is trivial to answer on the frontside.
To be fair, the 'competing' angle was mostly from my interaction with snowwrestler below, but there's elements of it wherever philosophy is given a stigma. I've seen similar positions from other scientists. The odd thing is that if there's a scientist who's of the opinion that their science is the only one that's important or true, it's usually a physicist. I haven't seen a biologist or chemist or the like take this position. Strangely, I have seen it from a psychologist.

I found the context of the article to be more talking about philosophy the field with occasional mentions of philosopher the occupation. In any case, I haven't read a lot of stuff from 20th C occupational philosophers - but it was talking to a philosopher that opened my eyes to the seeds of questioning my own stigma of the field. That lead me to more investigation of the methods and histories and reasoning of why we do science the way we do, and realising that understanding the process means you know why you're doing it that way, and where you can appropriately modify your methods

For example, I've butted heads here on HN before with people who think that the only way to 'do science' is with a null hypothesis and a double-blind trial. For some cases in medicine, this isn't possible (usually due to both low n and ethics), so case studies are used. Case studies are recognised as not being as robust and subject to a number of caveats, but they still give us knowledge that can be used to make predictions and repeatable actions. Keep in mind the caveats, and you're drawing from a valuable pool of knowledge. The difference here is understanding what you're trying to get (robust, repeatable data, preferably published), rather than having a golden method that is the One True Thing and any departure from it is straying from the right path.

But back to the question of what occupational philosophers have given to society recently, I don't know. But philosophy has given us astounding amounts, including most of the egalitarian and civil rights advances we've seen. I get the impression that occupational philosophers 'keep the flame alive', and that their work infiltrates other fields via philosophy fans in those fields. Certainly for physics and science in general, most of the philosophical problems have been solved, though there are still some hanging about, like how do we define consciousness? In order to study it, we need good definitions, and this one eludes us with great agility - philosophical discussions on this at least help nail down what it isn't.
> Good architecture is almost timeless.

Never dismiss the dangers of over-engineering. While not as terrifying as under-engineering, how useful is a feature that exists only for the purity of design?
Bearing an icelandic middle name seems like a painless workaround, it's kind of beautiful to acknowledge your icelandic roots that way too, isn't it?
"This task looked incredibly daunting on the face of it; we were running many thousands of instances in EC2, with new ones spinning up every day. In order to minimize downtime and operational complexity, it was essential that instances running in both EC2 and VPC seemed as if they were part of the same network. AWS does not provide a way of sharing security groups nor bridging private EC2 and VPC networks. The only way to communicate between the two private networks is to use the public address space."

That is essentially what Neti does, except instead of static mappings, its dynamic and software configurable (which is pretty much the only way to go when you're entire environment is virtual and the underlying network equipment is out of your control).
If a name isn't legal then there is an "Icelandic Naming Committee" which can approve the child's name.

Names are used differently in Iceland, they always reference to people by the first name. There are thousands of pre-approved names by the way: http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Icelandic_Names

Icelanders also speak on their in-breath, I tried that just now and it seems like it might be possible to kill people by naming yourself a certain word they have to say while breathing inwards. (joking, kind of)

I'm not trying to be mean but this in no way relates to anything Hacker News is about.

It's a very slipper slope to cat pictures.
I would love to talk with someone understanding Spidermonkey's inners to optimize the code! Javascript optimizations are pretty hard since they can suffer huge variations across browsers.

Anyway, I also have a lot of work to do to achieve Grantgalitz' performances even in Chrome, so it should improve over the time :)
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Right, because stars on github are a perfect indication that a plugin will work for me.
This is a giant mess waiting to happen. Eventually the pace of development will slow to a crawl as incoherence of the technical decisions made build up. Then when the developers leave, forcing the next guy to work to understand now-legacy projects, all of a sudden the velocity the company has heretofore enjoyed will be gone.
Cardboard has no intelligence. It's just recycled trees.

People bring context to things. That context is occasionally interesting to some. Sometimes it's interesting to many. When many people find something interesting, it is called 'bandwagon bias'. Bandwagon bias is so common we have a word for it: meme. To be upset about a meme, well, that says something about YOU. The companies who, as you say, 'need to get over themselves' are just having a good time living life and talking about the things that interest them.

Filling up the media sphere is very difficult, but I wonder why one or maybe a few individuals think they should be able to dictate what fills it. Moreover, I wonder why these individuals find it OK to make blaming statements of others?
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=theoceancleanup.com#!/story/foreve...
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Fair enough, I disagree with the Icelandic government here. However... It's a name that's not native to the language.

Let's, for a thought experiment, go on a bit of a slippery slope and consider someone whose name is outside Unicode's BMP. Would you support it too? What about a name that can't be normalised to Normalisation Form C, but only with composing diacritics? How about the topic of Han Unification - the TRON character set containing code points that aren't in Unicode? What about someone whose name has a transliteration that would blow Soundex out of the water, not that that's a particularly hard thing to do to begin with?
Browserify has had source maps since v2: http://thlorenz.com/blog/browserify-sourcemaps

Just pass {debug: true} to build function.
Agreed. It really just tags a particular version of the language. It gives zero commitment from Google about how the language will be evolved or deployed. Unless they do a lot more to make the language into a commons, it's really just a PR move so they can say 'but standards'.
In what capacity? Speed, ease of use, libraries, safety?
Personally, I really fell out of love with Heroku when reading their justification for not providing VPC compatibility. https://discussion.heroku.com/t/deploy-failure-from-heroku-e...

In short, Heroku thinks that firewalls encourage people to be lazy about security, and leaves people crippled if the firewall is exposed. Due to this philosophical difference, they would rather force everyone to rely on SSL for all secure communication, and leave every machine accessible to the internet, including (for example) your database server.
Going Native
Browserify's --debug flag sets up source maps per-file and works just fine for me with transpiled CoffeeScript files (mapping to the original .coffee)

I'm not sure if there's something different about TS and React but I'd imagine if they have source map support it should work similarly?
Thanks! I lazily only clicked through to Amazon and didn't see it there.

I don't know what's involved in getting the Kindle version into Amazon's store, but it might be worth it, as their buying experience is very slick - one click and you're reading the book in 60 seconds.
It has been this way for 10 years and predates me working there. The pace of development remains unchanged as far as I can tell over the time I've worked there, regardless of whom left and was hired.

I was pointing this out not to say it was a good thing but rather that the premise of [Quality == Speed] is flawed.
This sounds like a local implementation of cloudflare's railgun - https://www.cloudflare.com/railgun
Running a revocation service is an annoyingly fiddly job, but all of that needs to be setup and running before you become a CA. Pretty much all of the faffing around is in the need to regularly regenerate (including signing with the CA key) CRLs and OCSP responder certificates. Like the rest of a CA's operation, revoking an individual certificate should be a miniscule incremental cost, modulo the larger CRL size due to the added fingerprint. I was rather surprised that so many people are sucking down CRLs, but clearly they do (http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-hard-costs-of-heartbleed).
Seems to be missing some obvious things:

Under virtualization:
XenServer -- it has Xen, but most SysAdmins wont use raw Xen, but instead a complete hypervisor such as XenServer or VMware, etc.

XenServer was recently re-rereleased and now is 100% open source (all features). Now you get all the "enterprise" features in the freebie Open Source version.

Under SMTP Servers:
Zimbra - excellent top-of-class email server, and open source.
My experience with KDE was always that it was prettier than GNOME 2 (at that time) but a massive resource hog, so I always ended up uninstalling it. I am curious how KDE has come along in addressing the bloat issue.
The original point being debated is the idea that you don't 'own your own phone', and the answer is that nobody is preventing you from owning your own phone, and such phones are available, but we also have the option to choose a phone where someone else controls the software if we think that gives us a better experience.

What you are proposing is government intervention to take that right away from people - to limit their choices.

We currently have multiple different options with different levels of corporate control, and the most popular operating system currently allows alternative app stores to be installed.

Your position is to limit the allowable contracts between both consumers and device makers and is strictly anti-market. Since the proposed remedy is already enjoyed by the majority of consumers, there is absolutely no justification for such a position.
It seems a tad silly to argue about price when it's free, no? ;)

If you pick up a single tip that saves you an hour of effort you've paid for the book.
Very true, hence the term 'Anglo-Catholic':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Catholicism
I'd assume it's aimed at folks who have already decided to get married, but dont' know when or how they want to do it, and want "a unique experience".
1. The code I wrote was to download the NSA database. Script really.
2. The army was the Russian Army.

signed

Ed Snowden
personal liberty issues and freedom from censorship, government oppression and the likes are fairly regular subjects on HN. I don't think this is vastly different.

Personally I found this interesting and educational. The conflict between preservation of a society, language and its heritage against the personal freedom of parents to name their children. Quite different from cat pictures I'd say.
I don't know what the Docker team are working on, but this is the PID 1 process we use in Baseimage-docker: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/blob/master/imag...
It's a custom system we wrote specifically for use inside Docker.
libraries. I expect Python and R to have much more available libraries for machine learning than Haskell/
It does, if you consider that spicyj worked on this and that he's a core React contributor =).
Revocation for X509 certs is a very different matter to that of revoking PGP keys. For X509, the CA can revoke the cert unilaterally, or at the request of the subscriber without the need for the subject private key. In fact, I'm not aware of the existence of a subject-side revocation process that doesn't involve the cooperation of the CA.
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It's merely an opinion, to each their own. If AMD works well for you, that's great.
Interesting, I didn't realize that Ajenti charges for commercial licensing of their web hosting addon.

http://ajenti.org/licensing

It's on github separately but without a license: https://github.com/Eugeny/ajenti-v
Sign me up. I'll commit 6-8 hours, how to contact you?
It's a joke.

Here, install Plasma Workspace 2. Open the background chooser. Make it full screen. Laugh your ass off at KDE's supposed attention to detail.

That 3x3 grid in the screenshot? Yup, 3x3 even at 4K resolution.
I didn't see any Keuffel and Esser slide rules listed. They were one of the leading brands back in the day. Here's a link for those who are interested in exploring more slide rules:

http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/ke-sliderule.html
Using a VPN would still be an option. Why write essentially your own VPN (neti) instead of using an existing VPN solution? VPC is not the only VPN you can use on EC2.
tell us what you've taught yourself. you never know who's reading. i'm hiring.
As they relate to technology, yes. That one qualifier is what separates HN from every other political board out there. Flagged for that reason - this is just plain old politics.
Haha, this is an epic typo :) Sorry, will fix.
I have a big 2U server running VMware ESXi with PCI pass though for a freenas VM. It also it my router (pfsense). I have a Ubuntu cm with plex, transmission, couchpotato, and slick beard as my media server.
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isn't this just mostly a copy of Prepros: http://alphapixels.com/prepros/ :/
What the company does sounds great. Maybe I skimmed through it too quickly but it starts out talking a lot about patches that measure the response to drugs. But then the company seems to just be doing blood tests quickly and cheaply. There was a pivot in there somewhere, right? Hard to tell with all the fluff around it.

The article also mentions how they do it is trade secret but I'm curious what the innovations are here. They throw some things out there though, like bypassing FDA hurdles and shrinking equipment and blood sample size down. It sounds like they're just streamlining a sleepy, well entrenched industry? A noble endeavor but the juicy details would be nice if we could get them.

Some day I hope that we can get these tests small and cheap enough that they could be purchased OTC and run easily and frequently at home. Collect a few hundred samples points while you check your weight in the morning and ship the data off to Amazon for data mining. It would wipe out surprise "I've had diabetes for the last 10 years and didn't realize it" diagnosis and that's a huge, huge win. Not to mention what the QS crowd would do with it.

Not sure what to make of that bit about the restaurant. If she's really testing her blood after every meal, then I don't see how she could miss the impact her veggie, carb, low-protein, no-fat diet.
I think it has more to do with the fact that there are a standard series of private IP blocks.
Personal liberty issues etc., are fairly regular subjects on HN?

I'm not sure they should be (despite the irony this presents).
I would recommend getting a used sever off eBay for about $400. Busying some hard drives and running VMware EXSi with PCI pass though for freenas. This is what I'm running at my house. And it works wonderfully.
Right, but if everyone used IPv6 there would be no need to use non-routeable private IPs for anything, you could just use non-conflicting IPv6 addresses and not route them.
I think you're underestimating her intelligence and capabilities. Clearly she had the background and the initiative. There are super smart and dedicated people out there. She sounds like one of them.

Beyond that, I'm not sure if the patent is absurd or not...but I definitely don't think its absurd for a 19 year old woman to write up and be awarded a patent.
Bad code with unit tests cannot easily be changed to "good code". Most unit tests of bad code are very brittle. Consider changing the permissions system in the article: All a typical rushed set of unit tests would do in this case is form a brittle specification.

In fact in my career I've never seen bad code + good tests unless the tests were added at a later date (typically by another developer trying to do what they can to stop code rot).

On the other hand it is a joy and straightforward to add unit tests to good code and typically they are much less brittle.
Show HN: parsertl, The Modular Parser Generator (C++)
I am developing a parser generator in C++ that builds a parser at runtime. As well as general convenience. this means that the technology could be used for a particularly powerful grep tool.

The generator currently is SLR(1), but I am planning to move it to LALR(1) later this year.
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