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> Why can't America look outside it's own borders and learn from what other countries have done and are doing?

The doomsaying about minimum wage increases occurs every time this is discussed in the US, and the doom fails to materialize every time. This isn't an issue about the people doing to doomsaying not learning from what other countries are doing; they are ignoring the US as much as any other country.

Its true that, if you assume no impact on spending behavior (and, therefore, on demand), minimum wage increases will be expected, in net, to make certain jobs that are currently net benefits to employers into net losses, resulting in them being eliminated, without any compensating effects.

OTOH, the contention of those that support any particular minimum wage increase is that, in the range actually proposed, the increased pay to those whose jobs remain net benefits to their employers will increase demand in sectors which drive employment less than the reduced retained employer profits will decrease demand, such that demand will be increased enough in fields with sufficient impact on employment that the benefit provided by employees working will increase enough that, while their may be shifts in the sectors of employment, net employment will not decrease.

And the facts of historical minimum wage increases have never shown the fears sold by the doomsayers being realized.
"Because they spend it."

So does everyone, they just spend it differently. Bill Gates' money isn't sitting in a checking account, it's in stock certificates. High net-worth people don't put money under their mattresses, they spend it, albeit in different ways. I don't know how to compare consumer spending vs. investments, so I can't say if one is "better" than another, but that money isn't just sitting in bank accounts.

Available housing stock on the whole is just fine in the US. Sure, you and I probably can't afford to live on Park Avenue or overlooking Central Park, but that's because those properties attract worldwide money. We're not there yet. San Francisco's housing problems aren't as simple as "some people have money". Taking money away from people isn't going to solve this.
> Everyone else has to beg dozens of manufacturers to ship an update for a device which brings no further revenue to the hardware manufacturer

I wonder why do the manufacturers even lock the phones if it brings no further revenue. They lose nothing if users where able to pull the updates directly from Google.
Why did they need real names anyway?

If they build a profile based on your browsing and social graph to show you ads, what does it matter who you actually are, so long as you have those interests? Like a node in a graph being distinguished only by the arcs connecting it.
and tens of millions of phones will never be patched

this is a nightmare bug that will haunt android forever

I can already imagine many celebrities getting hacked through it
In fairness, this is really down to where you live. If you live in the EU you will see exactly how much sugar is in the drink by looking at the label because that's what the law says.

It's up to regulators to hold companies to account. They certainly aren't going to print things that could possibly harm sales on their labels by themselves.
> I doubt a register-driven architecture would've had a similar penalty for changing its stack implementation.

That's not a penalty; that's an optimization for the common case. That's going to be the case on any sufficiently common code pattern in RISC as well: if you recognize a common instruction pattern that you can run faster (peephole-style), that's going to give that pattern an advantage over any similar-but-not-quite-the-same instruction pattern. A lack of optimization is not the same thing as a "penalty"; not every code pattern can be optimized.

Or alternatively, if you left off that optimization, all kinds of stacks would look equally fast, or rather equally slow.
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Saturated fats are not good. We went through a phase of substituting trans fats for saturated fats. That was a disaster - very many people died as a result. Far more than if we'd just stayed with unhealthy saturated fats.
In my experience it has been that way for quite a while when you look at lower price point items in developing areas of technology, due in part to the speed at which minor changes are iterated and implemented in new models of devices.

But I acknowledge it may not of been this way except recently, and my memory could be painting over the 'good ol days' so I am not any more bitter and cynical about things changing than I already am.
> Why do people think that it's OK to allow kids to drink soda? In fact, why do people think that drinking soda is something that anyone must do?
> I used to drink soda. Gave it up many years ago. Have not missed it.

Why do people feel the need to hold a personal choice as something everyone else must do?

Please, next tell me how you don't have a TV.
It has not been signed by US, China or Russia.
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Well that's awesome
Not very well - they haven't signed up. My point is, unless you get all countries, including the biggest military superpowers to sign these treaties, they don't really work.
By "current generation", I was going by the fact that Wikipedia shows no new models since 2011. If there's something new since then, great.

(And everybody is focusing on low power and embedded these days. Not least of which because "high performance" and "low power" are really two sides of the same coin, since if you use less power you generate less heat, and speed depends heavily on heat dissipation.)
Why not consider this an experiment in funding efficiency? This should be supported by scientists across the board, especially as it's such a tiny fraction of the NIH budget. It's a bit much to claim to fully know the outcome of such an experiment before doing it.

This being said, my priors are that it's a better funding model for engineering than for science. Engineering is more goal-oriented, whereas science is more exploratory. In science, it's not always a good idea to have a strongly desired outcome, because of problems associated with confirmation bias, or from spending too much time in the wrong rabbit hole. Apart from concerns about gaming the system (which are valid), the wrong phrasing of the goal could make it impossible to reach, or otherwise direct people in the wrong way. And it's not always clear that the understanding of some process or phenomenon will ever be done to some satisfaction; sometimes you get there and it's much more convoluted than anyone had previously assumed.

The economist Tim Harford discusses the merits of this funding model quite a bit in Adapt, and is quite supportive of it, as are other economists such as Alex Tabarrok. But it's really not clear that they understand the differences between engineering and science, either. Most of the DARPA/X-prize research, which are the typical examples of this funding model working effectively, are engineering research rather than science qua science, or the exploration of natural phenomena.

But given the NIH's aims (which are more practical than NSF's) and the recognition that blue-sky research needs to be funded differently, it might just be a great complement to the existing funding model. I would love to have a bit more of it for those of my own projects that are geared more towards tool/methods development than immediate phenomena understanding; I work on them in my spare time or in conjunction with scientific studies, and it'd be great if I could occasionally pay myself back for that time upon successful completion.
Google apparently patched this; http://tinyurl.com/qalk8hr

Only older "unsupported" Android OS devices are vulnerable.
"How about this: robbing everyone of any means of survival short of selling their labour is the very definition of slavery. We just obfuscate it with money, but never offer a real chance of owning capital."

So by your definition any position short of economic independece would be slavery?

I'm not depreciating suffering. Calling employees in a poor bargaining position "slaves" is muddled argumentation. Any arbitrary non-negotiable position is not slavery - unless one wants to be poetic (i.e. "we are all slaves to laws of physics" etc).

As to the definition of slavery I would refer to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

"Slavery is a legal or economic system in which principles of property law can apply to humans so that people can be treated as property,[1] and can be owned, bought and sold accordingly, and cannot withdraw unilaterally from the arrangement."

Capital has been always a lopsided thing - few have it. It's quite different not having capital, than being treated as a capital asset and having almost no human rights.

As a fairly modern example Frederick Douglas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass) has more than a few words to say about his time as a slave.

"I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday... A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood. ... I was not allowed to make any inquiries of my master concerning it. He deemed all such inquiries on the part of a slave improper and impertinent,"

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm

Being bound to only few means of sustenance is one thing. Having ones birthday robbed is another entirely.
The biggest weakness of drones is that they cannot make decisions themselves; they need input, communication channels.

The military advantage of putting autonomous AI on drones is so that they no longer need to communicate with home base. The purpose of the AI is to eliminate the weakness of communications being jammed. The requirement to "receive new instructions" is eliminated.
This misunderstanding comes up surprisingly often on HN. It should be pretty clear that "evil" was always meant in the half-joking hacker sense, not some religious judgement of absolute morality on a global scale.
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I know I've seen this before. Maybe /r/cinemagraphs.
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My name is Juan Carlos CEO of piggate.com, I have thought that we can do a list with the name, description, url and linkedin of some co-founders.

Name: Piggate
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The author has a very good youtube channel if you like getting advice like this that can be trusted.

https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage

I'd also recommend using http://examine.com/ to validate studios on what you are going to eat by yourself.
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If she started eating nothing but pizza she would probably claim pizza was the solution.
I'm not suggesting it's explained by current physics. What I'm saying is that if it works, I'd consider new physical explanations that maximally preserve conservation laws first -- sort of for Ockham's Razor reasons.
Watching that, it amazes me how many people don't get that. Not long ago there was an article on HN about this very experiment (from NY Times, IIRC).

Now I can imagine, if you're not a software-tester by heart, that you'd maybe try to "win" the first or two tries, out of habit. I'm not a professional tester, just a coder, and reading the aforementioned article, I also first tried 3/6/12 and then some arbitrary increasing sequence, before catching myself and realizing if I want to figure out the rule I need some negative examples.

Is this something you need to be a programmer to realize?

Or maybe you need to have a "scientific" mind or something?

I'm going to try this on some of my friends, see if I can figure it out.

I expect a big part of it to be some psychological barrier against "failing" or getting "no" as an answer, especially if you're being put on the spot about some math-related puzzle. Many people feel uncomfortable with maths and perhaps fear giving a "wrong" answer and appearing "stupid".

But "fear of maths" isn't what I'd be testing for, it's "willingness/realization to try an experiment with an (expected) negative outcome".

So I'll make sure to formulate the problem in an appropriate manner, just like the guy in the video did, that the goal is to figure out the rule, not to finish the sequence. Try to make them comfortable, but not as far as saying "It's okay to ask me about a sequence that does not follow my rule", because that would obviously bias the experiment.

Though I wonder now, there's some really interesting studies to be done (probably many already have been done), what if the puzzle is about some other rule for a sequence of three, that doesn't have anything to do with numbers?

Say the rule is "objects of increasing size", but the (similarly misleading) example is bicycle / car / train.
Using the google sign-up process was one of the most infuriating things and definitely one of my worst UI/UX experiences.

In order to create a consistent online profile, it's ideal to choose a name which is available on all major social networks.

Google is just not capable of offering a service like that:

You can't check in advance if a given g+ or youtube name is available. If you sign up for a gmail-account, the new account newname@gmail.com doesn't mean you get youtube.com/newname or plus.google.com/+newname.

A custom youtube name oddly gets created at /c/username and not youtube.com/username and I somehow had to switch profiles (I think between my youtube account, for which I signed up using my gmail-account and my g+-profile which was created when signing up for gmail?!) while logged in into youtube to make changes which was extremely confusing.

Getting a custom g+url is even more difficult, as google adds some patronizing and suggests a name, which can not be edited.

Why is it not possible to register a consistent name accross all google products with 1 signup process: a gmail-account, a youtube username, a g+ account? Creating a new page or signing up at any other social media site maybe takes 5 minutes, the "Google experience" took 1 afternoon (!) with not the desired result.
In the USA it's on the label (though on the back, usually) too. They're just allowed to say that no additional sugar was added. The real push is moving from something that people in the US can't readily parse (like grams of sugar) to something they can (like teaspoons of sugar).
Not necessarily, especially if their cheap enough (and the beautiful thing about software is that its marginal cost is 0.) Think of them like bullets or bombs. And then you've eliminated that possibility of defending against them.
And there's the Mill if you're willing to be somewhat more exotic.
http://millcomputing.com/
> I wonder why do the manufacturers even lock the phones if it brings no further revenue.

Because a Google update that conflicts with their own customization and borked the user experience would cost them future revenue, since it would reduce the chance that the user would by a phone from them in the future.
Facebook is a single-purpose social network. It stands alone. Plus is a social platform providing a glue-layer between all the social aspects of Google's services.

When you're providing a platform, you can't afford to be opinionated.
I'm an Android user, they can already see my contacts, thus they can already deduce who I know.

As someone on the internet, they can already crawl any publicly available data about me, including blog posts, tweets, forum posts, mailing list emails, and social network metadata like marital status, gender, etc.

Google+, in theory, doesn't really tell them they don't already know, or can't easily figure out already, so it's purely value add.
Here's more information about this: http://furbo.org/2015/07/09/i-left-my-system-fonts-in-san-fr...
Probably; JavaScript scroll handlers often incur a major performance penalty.
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Accurate nutrition labels are also required in the US, and there are requirements that other statements be true, and there are rules banning certain types of true statements, there just aren't rules banning every stupid true statement.
"One omission of the report: due to language barriers, it was not able to collect sufficient data to evaluate cities in China, Taiwan, Japan, or South Korea."

For China, I think Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Guangzhou are big contenders for the top 25.

For Taiwan, it's mostly in greater Taipei metro. Similarly, it's mostly in Seoul as 40% of Korea's population lives around capital metro.

For Japan, Tokyo is certainly another mega city as a strong contender. But I would be interested to learn more about other tech startup hubs.
There are independent replications, which IMO mostly rule out hoaxes -- or at least greatly reduce the likelihood to below other explanations. It's tough to create an independently reproducible hoax.

Right now my guess is either measurement artifact or some form of obscure but conventional effect like EM interaction with the surround environment. That's most likely.

If those can be ruled out, then we're in new physics territory.
Was there a particular process you're thinking of? Business banking in general is huge - I'm only aware of startups who tackle a small subset of the service (i.e. payments, loans, etc.)
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For a second I thought you got these backwards. Having it in grams is so much clearer. I get really annoyed when recipes tell me to add X teaspons/tablespoons/cups of something - these are not units of measure!
I have more than 3 years eating almost satured fats (bacon, coconut oil, butter) and I have never felt this good in my life. Mostly fats and very very low carbs
Yeah, but keep in mind, the author of the article isn't saying daily intake is okay because of the artificial sweeteners.

I read it to mean, the kids are going to drink pop 4-5 times a week. We give them artificially sweetened pop so that it's "healthy".

Contrasting this again with candy: if a parent said "I give my kids candy every day with their dinner, but I make sure it has sucralose in it", I'd still find it odd, because candy shouldn't be a daily occurrence.

And yet, for some reason, soda is.

It really is very strange, don't you think?
He's not splitting hairs, he's probably just from 'somewhere else'. Here where I live (NL) texting someone means SMS, 'apping' someone is used for whatsapp and MMS is used for the rest.
I don't care which of them is least bad for you, my problem is that all artificial sweeteners taste terrible!

If I consume something that contains aspartame or sucralose, I can taste it, and I don't like it. Even Stevia tastes awful.

And what I really hate is that sucralose is now being used in lots of non-diet beverages that also contain sugar or corn syrup! The Arizona Beverage Company does this with some of their drinks, for example.
This whole sub-thread: DAAAAAAMN! Haha. Let it be a warning to OSS developers thinking of mixing business and pleasure. Except for the pleasure of coding. :)
Yeah, that's Denver in the Nexus 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver
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For all the problems Google+ had, the one that irked me the most was not being all to merge/linked Google accounts. I had a gmail account and a Google Apps for Work account. Every time I would try to associate the 2nd email, I would get "is already associated with another Google Account" as the error. Even though I deleted the Google+ account on the 2nd email. Then somehow I would created a Google+ account again.

I just as soon forget about it, but I'd like to have the google voice messages go to the Google Apps for Work email.
What does this mean for the evolution of Google+ as a product?
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Ask HN: How do you inform clients about unforeseen costs?
I've been running a digital agency for about 3 years, and things are going well, but I've always had trouble communicating to clients about additional unforeseen/unquoted costs.

A recent example was when a client wanted to simply update the icon for an app in the Apple/Android app stores. Simple enough, so I quoted it and started the process. We used PhoneGap (don't say it!), so any new app submission required us to upgrade to the latest version of the framework (due to a critical security update). Which would have been fine, but some of the plugins we used are not yet compatible with that version. In this scenario, we would need to rewrite the plugins to work with the new version, or remove the functionality associated with that plugin.

In this case, we're dealing with a non-profit organization that doesn't have deep pockets, and we're small enough to take a hit from additional free labour (that we're already putting in to a certain degree).

Name your reason: it's PhoneGap's fault, or poor management of expectations, "you should have r&d'ed more before quoting, budget, etc. They're a lot of low-hanging (good and valid) reasons to pull from - but it doesn't seem to make a difference what I try to prevent. I feel real shame in not being able to articulate to a point of absolutes.

Once you put a project down for a while, it's hard to remember exactly all the reasons for its appeal, functionality and state.

How do you manage expectations, and if it isn't absolutely possible to do so, how do you prepare the client for bad news about additional costs, or the possibility of not being able to complete the request?

Thanks!
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I honestly think G+ had some great ideas, but they just bungled too much.

They were much too clever with YouTube - the whole "posting to your G+ feed is the same as commenting on the video" thing was a bone-headed idea. They're different intents, they should be handled differently. Let G+ handle both of those actions, but don't call them the same action.

The nymwars thing was another one - when you try to sneak new social integration through the back-door like that, with a massive existing userbase? You can't be opinionated about it. You have to accept and work with all the existing workflow, and that includes allowing pseudonyms.

I liked the idea of a unified social layer... hell, unified anything in Google's sprawling service map. But G+ had too many mistakes, and broke too many promises over and over and over again.
> That isn't "spin". [then some correct statements, but not relevant to spin]

See also my other comment about words having false connotations, regardless of intent.

> Nobody making the Android/iPhone comparison in this context cares about "openness".

I don't know why you just assert this so nonchalantly. Clearly some people care, because they keep repeatedly associating closed systems with security update mechanisms, even though we have plenty of open systems with relatively good security update mechanisms. That is in fact my whole point; other people keep veering off on a tangent.

> it's not an accessible comparison.

What is "accessible" is very transient, dependent on the environment and cultural background. Those of us who are interested in balance and accuracy, have to make it accessible. Not doing so is irresponsible.
This gives the DA an incentive to try to go for more false convictions since it will be a bigger stick to hold over future defendants. If false convictions had low incidence then innocent people would go to trial more often.

Very bad situation, this.
This was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9273976. Has something major changed?