skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you give workers higher wages using the minimum wage most of the extra money they get comes from the place they work raising prices.

Employers are bound by the market when they set their prices and don't get to choose their price at random on a whim.

>The money that goes into the EITC comes from income taxes and the top 10% of household pay more than half of the US income tax.

Yes but for the most part those are just the middle class. The plutocrats pay fuck all in taxes. I do not want an MD with a networth of $10M (sweat of his own brow) subsidizing a Walton (who inherited his fortune). I want the Walton to pay the actual cost of running his goddamn shop.

Also frankly, I think minimum wage is besides the point. What should come back are strong sector wide unions like the ones that still exist in Scandinavia. The unions will take care to setup their own sector wide minimum wage and will be far more flexible in responding to the market and also the cost of living than the government can ever be.
Chat with other Ruby on Rails developers
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9592085
Fancy animation? It's a JavaScript animation, in the age of CSS animation.
Casey Muratori: The Terminator Gene [video]
I don't know if buying a book is worth it compared to the manual/documentation. But nonetheless, Emacs is a very self-documented program.

http://emacswiki.org/emacs/SelfDocumentation
I use Ghostery and I checked out Frizbee before your comment and I didn't see anything from Facebook.
And all the white space! What the hell is that?
Everybody complains that the poor don't pay taxes. If they raised the minimum wage, everybody else wouldn't be stuck paying the extra tax burden of the poor because they could pay it themselves.

If any thing, we need to raise minimum wage and lower the Earned Income Tax Credit. The EITC was created by businesses lobbying the government to low wage earners a tax break in exchange for not raising the minimum wage. It has been disastrous to tax revenues and wages. Millions of Americans get to hear how they are not carrying their tax burden as well and then are attacked by the Republicans for living on government handouts.
Think of the awesome applications:

* GNU Radio

* Pulseaudio mixing

* Desktop environment configs

* (your program here)
No censorship, you say. Suppose I were to write a script that text-encodes a file and splits it up among a bunch of posts, and another that reverses the process, like the Usenet binary tools. Now suppose someone uses this to leak a highly-anticipated new album. You receive a DMCA request quickly followed by a strongly-worded letter from a Hollywood lawyer instructing you to take down the offending posts or face legal action. What do you do?

("Contact us" is broken, otherwise I'd send this privately, but since the service is just in testing: you should probably use XSRF tokens for voting.)
Still not got over the fall of the soviet union have we "comrade".

Actually in purely military terms the USA didn't get beaten on the field TET was a disaster for the VC not that the NVA minded that much.
It's also extremely vulnerable to a legal challenge. If you don't take down copyright violations, child pornography, dox, stolen information, hate speech, etc. then you're in for a fun ride with the courts.
Brightest galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns
See edit 2 in the post you replied to. Apparently they got rid of it a few minutes ago.
Hoho, that's excelllent. That looks like it could actually be real privacy for anyone who doesn't click the ads.
I don't see why an IP needs to be stored anyway - Identity can be proved using other methods, like PGP signatures and "tripcodes" used by 4chan, 8chan etc.
6 things you may not know about holography
Telling someone to eat fresh tomatoes instead of tomato BBQ sauce is simpler than getting many people to understand that diabetes comes from sugar and simpler that making them try to stick to keeping track of how much sugar they intake. Also, it isn't just sugar. In the presence of fiber sugar can be less damaging, so telling someone to eat a banana is simpler than telling someone to keep track of the amount of sugar they eat, and to make sure that they have some oatmeal when they have a snack.

This is what we're dealing with: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0210.p... 40% of people my age are over 200 pounds. It's mind blowing. And then there is this graph:

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://bradpilon.com/wp-c...

Almost 90% of men are over the ideal weight (not to confused with "overweight" which is a complete misnomer due to the normalization of high body fat), and it is even worse for women. This is the largest source of preventative deaths in America and much of the world and it is primarily due to the rise of processed foods which remove things like fibre and other nutritious food-elements.
The NAND To Tetris book requests people not post spoilers for their problem sets. (I violated this myself in putting my code on github, but with a big spoiler warning at the top, at least. I put it up there because my Python HDL might be useful to some others who didn't want to use their language.)

It's nice to start seeing ES6 code in the wild, though.
i particularly like how the rules contradict each other for the most part.
I would think so too. The mentioned strategies seem sociopathic.
I have heard that in other places outside the US, medical school is not hell, and it was made that way by the AMA which enforces a monopoly on how many MDs schools are allowed to graduate each year.

Whether or not this means doctors educated in the US are superior and make fewer mistakes than those that are not, I do not know.
What kind of proof you can accept? The business is working and growing (www.teamed.io), projects are successful, some of them are open source and you can see yourself how they are being managed. How can I "prove"?

You're right, they lose many "benefits", but they gain a lot of freedom and can get the same benefits on their own. It's a employee vs contractor question. I believe, sooner or later, everybody will switch to contractors-only business model.
Show HN: Auto switch terminal theme in OS X depending on if it's day or night
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9589234
Money wise this model proves to be very effective. We use it for the last three years in over 40 projects.
I'm amazed at the number of people who reflexively hate chain restaurants. I don't believe it can possibly be about the taste of the food - there's a lot of variety among chains. It just looks like social posturing.
If you need to to lots of relatively simple things very quickly but also very reliably. You'd not use a supercomputer to process credit card transactions for example, you'd want a mainframe for that. And you wouldn't use a mainframe for weather forecasting.
It's quite common to hear the "look how much the rich give to charity" argument. In reality this is often just a means of avoiding taxes.

Charities only have to spend 5% of their interests each year, and that can go to salaries, expenses and such. Why do you think so much of Warren Buffett's "charitable donations" go to charities he created? They are tax shelters that are run by his kids. That is his way of avoiding estate taxes.
Copyright you can get away with.. what about child pornography? That's something that'll not only get you in big trouble, but your site can be secretly filtered and disappear from the Internet in various countries (such as the United Kingdom).

4chan has survived because of censorship. You know the "mods are asleep, post <X>" meme? That came from people posting high-resolution images of things which had child pornography hidden in them steganographically.

(No anti-XSRF tokens? Click here to vote for my post, then! http://frizbee.co/vote.php?dothis=that&q=42091)

(Edit: OMG! You can upvote infinitely! Just keep requesting the same page!)

(Edit 2: You can DOWNVOTE infinitely!)
Programmers: 4 ways your boss or client puts pressure on you and how to react
I've been using a Samsung Series 5 XE55 for quite a while - about 2 years now.

I've installed crouton and the extension that lets it run in a browser tab. It works pretty well for development tasks. I also use a couple of cloud dev environments (nitrous.io and codeanywhere) and of course just straight up ssh into a server if I feel like it.

I tend to work in any of ruby, python, c#, go, php, general front end javascript, html, css and lots of database stuff - so essentially various forms of web dev. I've never really had any trouble getting things up and running in croutaon - even managed to get mono and c# working and the latest visual studio code on it.

Which of the three options I use (crouton, cloud, ssh) is really down to whim. I'm comfortable using different dev environments, which I think helps - I'm not fanatical about any particular editor or tool chain - so I'm happy in vim, sublime text, visual studio, online editors etc and climb in and out of languages as I need to. The key for me is to have a disciplined git workflow with my repositories stashed nicely online. The only thing I miss now and then, is some easy image optimisation in the chromeos itself.

I kind of love the fact that the chromebook has great battery life, a pretty comfortable keyboard and that it's basically disposable (I got a factory second for less than £100). It's also pretty sturdy. I've travelled a fair bit with it, dropped it and banged it around, it's been splashed, had coffee poured on it, children's grubby fingers poking the screen - I just don't care...I wipe it down and carry on. It's kind of nice to not be precious about my equipment and the discipline a small hard drive forces on me means everything is properly stashed and backed up so if the machine dies...well c'est la vie.
http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielgilbert/files/if-mone...

here's the url directly, google search seems to rewrite links in results.
Two Kinds of People at Work
the logo is part of the trademark
Why? Not being an asshole, seriously wondering?

Let's assume we have two people, and for sake of discussion, both will only work 8 hours a day. Do you think enthusiasm will trump experience and profissionalism?

I don't follow the latest trends in frameworks/languages, I like solid solutions over start up mentality of ship fast and think over the problems and design good solutions for my clients. I work with SV startups that have all these people that 'care' but I'm still called to clean up their shit. And because of this, I make very very good money. I still won't work more than 8 hours a day, and except for a couple hours to unwind (HN, news, reddit) I don't even touch the computer and spend the time with my family/community. And I can tell you, if sweeping streets paid me more, I would be sweeping streets. I don't give a fuck about the work I do. Want me to work on oil platform, if you pay me, sure! A social network for gerbils, if you pay me, sure! HFT, if you pay me, sure!
> I watched a TEDx talk (I think) by some lady talking about the pre-human-intervention foods and how this one's toxic and that one's gross and so on. I've been unable to find the video since, though. If anyone knows the talk I'm talking about, I'd love a link.

If it's a TEDx talk then don't bother; there is no scrutiny regarding the talks they allow and most are quite embarrassing displays of science ignorance. I'm actually surprise TEDx hasn't damaged the TED brand more than it has.
Using part of your actual IP address as an identification measure is really scary. They're giving away tons of bits of entropy.
I thought he would put all the connections back together on the other end with VPS or something.
Technically, they don't even qualify for safe harbor protection since there's no registered agent, and their policy seems to be "we won't or can't remove anything for any reason".

So they might get a DMCA takedown request, but even if they comply with it they would still have liability and could still be sued.
Middle click/open in new tab is broken due to unnecessary use of the history api.
Acute analysis applicable to a lot of industries based on low-wage jobs, e.g. NYTimes on nail salons: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/nyregion/at-nail-salons-in...
Huge Republic of Ireland vote for gay marriage
Speaker here, a little late to the conversation though. Let me know if there are any particular questions, I'll read through everything later and respond.
Hmmm. I dislike chain restaurants for the same reason I dislike all large enterprises. I don't think I've ever dealt with a large company that has satisfactory customer service, it represents huge accumulation of wealth into few hands, etc.

Is that social posturing?
I am Banksy (2005)
This is my personal nightmare, and is why I am horrified to show HN my projects. So much detail has been missed in both technical terms and otherwise that I might have missed myself. Really, it seems like an otherwise okay idea implemented with all the expertise of a undergrad at a hackathon. HN has seen this immediately and responded by tearing it to shreds.

That being said, this needed the constructive criticism. I hope the author[s] figure out how to make this something really great, and I think they can.
At least a few years ago, there was still gopher up at NPR. The sysadmin whose personal passion that was left, though; I'm not sure if it was maintained after that.
The loss of grudges/prejudices is also a loss of skills and unique perspectives. That sounds as much an opportunity as a danger.

I could come up with ridiculous 'nightmares', and interpret them, as well:

I wake from nightmare worlds where 'world hunger' is cured but 'satiety' becomes broken.

Interpreted as:

Without scarcity peoples' greed will continue to grow unabated. The lust for consumption will result with the depletion of natural resources, and the destruction of society.

The dream is a non sequitur; and even taken as a metaphor, it has gapping holes in the logic!

1. Prejudices are passed down through generations.

2. People change their position on subjects, when new information becomes available.

3. There's nothing 'natural' about living short lives. Some species live longer than us; and some are even negligibly senescent[0]!

4. I've established there's at least one other mechanism by which people can alter their ideas (point 2). Others could be found.

5. Dying of cancer (and other diseases) seems like the worst possible solution to the problem. Torturing people who don't age, and then not have them die in the end seems more humane! (That may be the second worst solution). Killing healthy 150 y/o, so that there's generational turnover would also work (I would prefer that to the status quo, personally). Under such circumstance, I think it probable a reasonable remedy could be found (sans death, pain, and indignity)!

Thanks for the interpretation, but you may have been overly charitable!

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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence
Shazam is wasting a LOT of money to try to sell that image.

they have 2min ads on feature films showing music news.

i bet this is but paid PR. they are desperate.

the music id business is so dead. Google, apple, yahoo... everyone does it!
quite astute I agree. i wonder- how does the author come to command such an understanding of human behaviour, needs and wants?

maybe as a commenter below suggests, the author is sociopathic and that enables deep detached thinking.
On the Internet, you either have explicit norms of what is acceptable, or your audience makes them up for you (and the result isn't always pretty).
tldr: everything tastes great with lots of butter and salt.

seriously, an interesting article and I would love to work with watson in the kitchen, but it obviously sounds like watson leans on butter and salt too heavily to make dishes delicious.
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PHP 5.4 goes into end-of-life and ceases to receive security updates later this year, just FYI.
I agree. Technology has always made our lives better, and I cannot find a reason why technology applied to food would not be the same.

It is also true, though, that modern ultra-processed foods are often the ones that are not healthy. Potato chips, sugar-laden pastries, not to speak of the now almost unseen trans-saturated fat.

Look at Soylent though. Not sure about its tastiness, but it's supposed to be all you need to eat.
My previous reply got killed so I'm just going to say this. Rescinding an offer based on a back-channel reference is not just unethical, but it's dangerous to your legal position and your reputation.

If you pass on a candidate (before the offer stage) based on a back-channel reference, then you're being unethical but you probably won't get caught, because people rarely probe (or are even able to do so) into why someone pased. If you actually rescind an offer over a bad reference... you'll have to cut a sizable hush fee to come out safe.

That said, I can't tell at this point if your fascist schtick is trolling or serious, but it's disturbing either way.
The article does not match the title given, you will find no condensed account of the battle of waterloo here, only vague hints and advertisements to make you buy the books referenced.

A more suiting title would be "Books about the battle of waterloo."

In short: advertisements.
Is there some write-up on the algorithm used?

I'm currently in the planning stage for a similar project and this might end up being really helpful for me.

EDIT: Thanks guys.
And if everyone decided not to have kids at the same time, things would get problematic for everyone shortly afterwards.
> If you give workers higher wages using the minimum wage most of the extra money they get comes from the place they work raising prices.

...and then people will stop shopping there and go somewhere where they keep their prices lower by paying their executives more reasonably.

If you're going to make naive pro-big-business arguments then don't stop, follow the naive logic to its full conclusion.
Red flag? When the owner drops their pants and says "all the equity you want!"
You'll need proof of income (pay stubs or something to that effect) and the ability to hand over a cheque for the deposit, a cheque for the background check and a cheque for the first month's rent.
And Dart - which had optional types from the start.
Yeah I love this too.
Frizbee is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company. Does anyone with legal expertise know if this could be a problem?
That is a minor simplification of the wikipedia description, though the illustration in the wikipedia article helps to make the mechanism clear:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie–Hellman_key_exchange#Cr...
The economist runs a bunch of book reviews every issue. It's an advertisement as much as any review is an advertisement. Within the context of their print issue, there'd be absolutely no way to miss that these were book reviews - it's an entire section.
I got fed up when python told me I could type more spaces until it was compliant with the whitespace dictatorship.

C was much more friendly. And faster too!
Speaker here. Nothing particular although ObjC lacks any language based features to control inheritance. The concern is that if a method has a particular effect on state (possibly even private internal state) that you expect to take place that subclasses may override the method in such a way that it changes all the expectations and may leave you in an inconsistent state. This means that it is necessary to document (or have conventions for) what should and should not be overridden and whether overriding methods should call the superclass implementation too.

In unsafe languages with raw pointers the issues may be more severe than languages like Python and Ruby but they are generally similar.

I may have overstated the point too, I had notes but not a script. The point is that you need to be careful designing and documenting for subclassing.
Cryonics preserves memories: Memory Persistence in Vitrified, Revived C. elegans
I would hate to be poor and immortal. That would be the worst. I feel like immortality is something for the rich.
Holy hell, that's cool. What a promising line of research for autoimmune sufferers!
How are they performing exactly the same job if males are systematically more assertive, self-assured, and rational?
People can employ sick systems techniques without being aware of how harmful they are.
it's a truism that just because something is new, or just because something is old - does not mean it is better or worse for that reason alone. perhaps with the notable exception of archaeological or other historical artifacts.

another great truism is that value is subjective.
No, but let me clarify. Bolting on a form of type checking to a weakly typed language seems orthogonal to the nature of a language like Python. If you find yourself saying "I wish I had a type system in this code base, its getting pretty big and a compiler that does type checking at compile time sure would make my life easier" maybe you should think about using a more appropriate tool.

I use Python a lot and it has its uses, but adding this type hint stuff just seems like an enabler for causing myself pain and denial when I should be using a more strongly typed language.
How would you even know that you've lost a job due to a back-channel reference check? Several times, I thought an interview went really well, and then they never got back to me. They don't give a reason.
You fundamentally misunderstand what a market is and why they are good.

The labor market is filled with many different types of people with many different goals. Who are you to tell a teenager they can't work part-time after school because the company can't afford to pay them whatever amount you believe is the amount to be paid?

Regulations are what cause the gross mis-allocation of labor and resources, when you distort the free interaction of individuals to buy and sell their goods and services you end up with perverse structures where an adult willing takes a minimum wage job at walmart if they can also qualify for food stamps and other government assistance.

Writing a law to tell walmart to pay their employees more doesn't magically fix reality. Laws don't magically make the impossible possible, believing otherwise is adolescent fantasy.
I was not talking about poor people paying for what they need and consume, I was talking about rich people investing in trailer parks just to get richer. They invest with the sole purpose of getting more money back then they put it, taking the difference from the poor.
Most people are not logical creatures like yourself.
Ok, I oversimplified and am not a specialist anyway :) basically, as I as a layman to current psychological research understand it, 70k gets you to a point where most common financial stressors of an everyday western life can be dealt with withou too much difficulty. Above that should bring you to a place where you have more financial freedom to explore your intrinsic motivations and desires. One can travel and hire personal guides and trainers, etc. Sure, if one absolutely needs to do helicopter bungee jumping above the amazon rainforest to fullfill ones dearest intrinsic drives then yeah, 70k might not cut it :). Otoh if marathon running suffices then that has near zero cost.
I bought it when it first came out, and it is still on my bookshelf. A decent book, as the Amazon reviews indicate, but not outstanding.He does cover a lot of ground, introducing emacs programming (and Lisp, in general). I did not find the "Comprehensive Example" chapter implementing a crossword puzzle mode as particularly helpful.

Everyone feels like other people do better negotiating car prices, and I feel the same way about "knowing" emacs. I have used it every day for over twenty years and people are still telling me "there are easier ways to do that in emacs."