skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at their average wages on payscale.com (hard to libk from my phone) and the max for most positions is close to $15/hour. The minimum is above minimum wage.

That's only been true within the last one or two years as Walmart attempted to avoid further labor-related litigation and unionization efforts. Prior to that, Walmart payed local minimum wage and frequently stiffed workers for time spent checking in and and out shifts.
Wow, completely missed that, thanks for clarifying.

Apologies OP
The MT6261 is actually a full feature-phone SoC (includes a GSM modem); a bit odd to see it in a smartwatch with no actual phone functionality.

This is basically a form of PWM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation#Telecom...
I tend to agree with you here, but James Surowiecki's "Wisdom of Crowds" thinking does make me wonder some....
“Wait, What? Our Microservices Have Human Users?” Stefan Tilkov at MicroXchg
> If Walmart vanished, almost no one in town would miss it because everyone complains about how high the prices are compared to local stores, and how little there is on store shelves; and what local stores can't sell us, we'd just order online.

I've read a lot of complaints about Walmart, but never once about how they are expensive. Fascinating.
I completely agree)
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> The sexual-harassment stuff is unfortunate, but organizations of primates have things like that happen now and then, it's just rare that the victims decide to go public. This does not excuse it but it doesn't necessary say anything about the culture

Harassment does say something about the culture in which it happens. What you're pointing out, correctly, is that it's not exceptional for this kind of stuff to happen - that Github is probably not much worse than most other tech companies in this respect.

As you say, this is no excuse. Change has to start somewhere; we can't keep saying "oh, it just happens, you know, it's not worse here than anywhere else".

> Maybe Github should split into a corporate division and an open source division. The OSS division could make all of its work and decision making distributed and public, and the corporate division could do business development and attack new market opportunities.

I would like that, but how would it make investors money? If the answer is "it doesn't", then it won't happen.
I've been using this[1] extension for some time now. It's awesome when there's already a submission for the video.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alientube-for-yout...
I understand the area is hardscrabble. And yes, 7/11 and Shell are franchises, that's the point. It's a response to the idea that mom and pop might not be able to step up to serve the community. That would be preferred, but if they don't, it's still possible to reduce the need for three hour drives, with a BigCorp that already knows how to do retail and already has the lines in place.

There are lots of ways to fill a hole.
That's the same fantasy like extreme libertarianism. How do you build a power grid? How do you build national defense? How do conflicts get resolved? I have never heard a real answer to those questions.
In your world, your unbiased Utopia.

Fact: Ask men around you how many were raped or know a man that was raped.

Fact: Ask a man around you if they have ever feared a woman around them, or feared for their sexual well being.

Edit: Your comment below speaks volumes about you, your internal ideology, and the vantage from which you, I assume, wrote the piece. It is precisely this ideological station that triggered my visceral response above, and one, having read your response, makes my original rejection feel ever more vindicated. It is, in no uncertain terms, delusional.
I often wonder, when driving through remote rural communities, how the economics work. I expect what you wrote is generally the case. Retired people with some savings and/or pensions, social security, etc. plus a minimal service economy for those people.
I would prefer HN to require commenting with a downvote. For spam, there already is flagging.
Hey Bob, what is up with the `git push --force master`?
Thank you for clarifying this.
>If Walmart vanished, almost no one in town would miss it because everyone complains about how high the prices are compared to local stores, and how little there is on store shelves; and what local stores can't sell us, we'd just order online.

That might be the impression you get from your circles (and it's also unfashionable to be known to shop at Walmart at certain circles as well).

But it's not necessarily the actual dependency status of the whole 8/15K people on having that Walmart.
Yes, this is necessary to reduce the risk of spam and create a large number of bots.
Paper: http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/527/art%253A10.1007%...
If someone I know and trust, someone close to me, says something, then yes I will take them at their word.

But media, and the law should not. The accused should always be presumed innocent until proven guilty. And the media has nearly as much power to ruin an individuals life as the law when they accuse someone. That power should not be exercised without good evidence.

Suppose a woman accuses a black man of sexual assault? Is it sexist to not assume he's guilty, or racist to assume he is?

We should give every accused person an opportunity to be presented with evidence and present evidence for their innocence before assuming anything regardless of the color or gender of the accused or the accuser.
I tested as 6x the average risk of developing DVT at 23andme (average risk is about 10%). I don't see pulmonary embolism listed in my report.

I'm "middle-aged" but so far haven't had this happen, despite some extra risk factors - I've been on the Pill for ~20 years and I do sit a lot (I'm a software developer). I'm not a frequent flyer, but I have flown many times and never had a problem. I naturally shift position pretty often when sitting, so I'm not sure if this helps. Or maybe whatever gene is responsible is just there, and hasn't turned on yet. How to stop it from turning on? I don't think anyone knows.

I was surprised to see that OP got a DVT when he walks 1-3 miles every day. That seems far better than what most people do (I try to walk about 2-3 mi per day). I don't see how switching to running could be more preventive.
+1 for Rust.

I think there's two main areas I'd be interested in, at least from my own perspective:

1) Rust and/or C++. Performance. Systems programming. Industrial
strength apps. Libraries such as CUDA.

2) Javascript and WebGL. Chrome(OS). Dart.

I've skipped over Agile process and C#, which is probably where the bulk of the career programmers are. If you avoid this, then I suspect you are guaranteed a more interesting life.

Both 1) and 2) above are where I'd suspect the bulk of the intellectual firepower is deployed. Think D3.js, three.js, Rust, boost, CUDA, OpenCL, WebGL.
Oh I've done this too on my TI Launchpad projects. Supposedly there is a way to attach a debugger, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet. I turned the LED on and used longer and shorter "on" times to differentiate between 1's and 0's. It was fun, but the feedback loop was very slow.
> Feminism won the fight for equality.

Citation needed. By nearly any measure I can think of, women's political and professional lives are dominated by men's ideas and policies to an absurd degree.

Asking for consideration of others' differences is not putting the clock back -- we weren't even having the conversation a few decades ago. Talking about the nuances of that discussion now is not regression.

> Claims of harassment are easy to make.

Again, citation needed. It's not like someone can say the word "harassment" and then distance themselves from anything that happens afterwards and be free of all consequences. Since we're talking about GitHub specifically, how easy do you think it's been for Julie Ann Horvath to find a job? Regardless of whether I happen to believe her or not, the fact of her statement doomed her career among the more mainline professional networks of Silicon Valley. She's radioactive now. So, I wouldn't call that "easy" by any stretch.
>If people in a community have to drive three hours for food, then there will be enough demand that someone will open a grocery store. When there's an economic vacuum left by a closing superstore, other, possibly smaller, stores will come back and fill it. It's simple economics.

Real life doesn't always play out like simple (simplistic) economics.

E.g. sometimes nobody will do the investment to build one for years.

Or it will much smaller and more expensive that a Walmart, but enough to stiffle anybody opening a competitor.
The real value, and the perceived value to specific buyers, are two different things. Most technology acquisitions are about buying staff and clients. A GitHub engineer is worth much more to (say) Yahoo! than a Sourceforge engineer. (Even if they were hired only a year ago.)
that's not how averages work...
IIRC lead is only part of the issue in Flint, the water is otherwise undrinkable, too (very dirty or something).

(It's also the direct way in which it happened that makes Flint an issue; most of these other high-lead situations cannot be pinpointed to a single instance of negligence/corruption. Flint can.)
I'm not suggesting that Nestle would want to run the water supply. It's much more profitable to sell bottled water instead.

The biggest competitor to pop/soda is water. When I was a kid, almost no one drank bottled water, and there were a lot more public water fountains. It should be no surprise that companies entered that marketplace a few decades back, and water fountains started to disappear. See http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-thinking-public... or http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2015/08/30/Respecting-pu... . Quoting from the latter:

> Homegrown brands, though, couldn’t boast glamorous European roots. So instead, they made Americans afraid of the tap. One ad from Royal Spring Water claimed that “tap water is poison.” Another, from Calistoga Mountain Spring Water, asked: “How can you be sure your water is safe? ... Unfortunately, you can’t.” Fiji Water infuriated Ohio with the tagline “The label says Fiji because it’s not bottled in Cleveland.” The insinuation, of course, was that there was something wrong with local water.

If people don't trust public city water to drink, but do trust private bottled water, then more profits for those companies. (Or if the new Central Florida University stadium was built without fountains, forcing people to buy $3 bottled water instead, then profit! ... Until the water ran out and "60 attendees were treated for heat-related issues; 18 were hospitalized for heat exhaustion".)
Farms (and the supporting industries) make money. Less so today than they used to, but still enough to sustain small rural towns.
But why? You can have a shared language, shared food, shared customs and shared values despite race. Brazil is exemplary in this regard, where most of the country is mixed race and everyone is having sex with everyone else despite race. A former co-worker of mine, Wesley poignantly lamented this when he was in the US, when people ask questions like "What are you, Japanese, Chinese, Korean or something else?" and he was like "Huh? None of those. I'm Brazilian."
custom props beginning with 2 dashes is slightly annoying given the BEM syntax has already grabbed that as Modifier...

.foo {
&--bar {
--bar: 0;
}
}

It's a pretty contrived example, but akward to comprehend at first glance.
>But, the economy abhors a vacuum

In theory. In practice there are tons of areas that a vacuum exists for decades.

The same way there are tons of rural communities in the US where you still can't get an internet connection apart from dial-up.
> I think you're saying it's important to have visible role models with the same ethnicity and/or sex, and/or whatever other bodily attribute we're focusing on at the moment. But why would anyone think that unless they already have racist and/or sexist beliefs?

That's a new low in victim-blaming. It's not Hollywood that's racist - it's black people!
It is more effective bandwidth wise because the data can be limited based on connection speed. However a few things they are lacking is a page method where the user could jump to a certain page instead of having to click load more a handful of times to achieve the desired page. As well as having a back fall system for users with browsers that cannot support such functionality. It's a good feature just needs fine tuning to be considered a viable replacement.
Wtf kids parade on Louisiana
I always thought that the answer to this question is less important than that it prompts to reader to question themselves on why or why not they would join the Nazis. It's easy to look back through the lens of time and assume that we, good wholesome people, would not become Nazis, but if you're in the moment, what happens?
Having worked in this area, I can say that "incompetence and corruption" is an intellectually lazy explanation for the problems facing municipal water supplies. The real problem is that water is a municipal utility and municipal rate setting boards set water rates far too low. There is simply not enough money to rip out all the old lead pipe and replace it: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/clean-water-at-any-rate_b_504.... It's politically untenable for water boards to raise rates, especially since water bills are not progressive (seniors and the poor pay the same rate as rich people).
SSH's new AuthenticationMethods directive is extremely useful for pairing SSH keys with a password and/or 2FA. You should absolutely use keys everywhere, and encourage your users to encrypt their keys, but enforcing a password as well ensures that logins are "something you have" (the SSH key) and "something you know" (the password) as a sort of 2FA.

As a cherry on top you can put the password in LDAP or RADIUS server and hook up traditional 2FA (Google Auth, Yubikey, Email, SMS) for that legendary 3FA (ah... "something (else) you have"). Sounds hokey, but defense is best in depth.
It seems reasonable to me to conclude that this system would result in those with the most money and power getting the most face time to present their arguments. Which could often mean that corporate interests trump individual interests.

And, of course, there are plenty of instances of corruption in the lobbying process. Everything from outright bribery, to promises of lucrative jobs post retirement for congresspersons, etc.

I don't personally think that lobbying should be illegal, but it doesn't seem that odd that someone might think it should be.
It kind of is... IQ is normally distributed, and in the normal distribution average == median.
This National Best Seller List Ignored 20k Book Sales
The draft is government-run slavery; there is no significant moral or ethical difference between conscription and slavery. Good riddance to the draft, I hope that it is gone forever.
Probably the responsibility to do the comparison yourself. The article doesn't claim to present a balanced view or "the truth" (which propaganda would), it is clear about showing one perspective. There is more than enough documentation for the other perspective available, as is material contrasting the two. It would be bad if this article stood alone as the only source of information available, but it doesn't.
Show HN: Parametric Activation Pools greatly increase performance in ConvNets
Try getting a business loan as e.g. a poor southerner ex-Walmart employee to open a new grocery store in Indianola, MS or Forkland, AL or tons of even smaller places...
I dont think changing WalMart in to farmers market would be that expensive. If farmers and small business could get more exposure for a bit of rent, why not. Local governments should be interested in this as this would generate jobs in area.
It is a formal notation for logic that is nothing particularly like algebra. (The horizontal bar is not division, the turnstile is not a binary operation.) It's a new "syntax of symbols" that you need to learn to read in order to read logic papers.
As a followup, if I use __builtin_expect as recommended by the article, the situation reverses, with c++ being significantly faster.
> Regardless of one's politics, it's critical that we hold our institutions accountable and help them get better over time.

I think this is naive. A huge portion of the electorate's views are all about actively seeking institutional collapse - get in power, undermine the institution (through budget cuts, restrictions, demoralizing the workforce, etc), wait for the inevitable problems to discredit the institution and finally get rid of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

Holding institutions accountable takes a back seat when the real argument is whether they should exist at all. If you think the government shouldn't be in the business of providing clean water from the tap (and there many places in the world where that's the norm), then what's happening in Flint is not an issue.
Using Noscript with default deny there was no 'popup' asking to 'like us on facebook'.
Editing photos has been rampant for decades, well before photoshop even existed. We pretend photographers don't do it in the same way we pretend sportsmen don't dope.
Unless you live in flint or some other place with a water emergency, you have know way of knowing that your water is unsafe. You spendany tax dollars on safe tap water, and so you should exploit that... But if you don't trust the tap water, buy tests to find out if it is unsafe or not.
It's absolutely intended to make it easier. Easier in the sense for example, that you can create a multithreaded program that uses stack-allocated but shared data, and you don't have to debug complex synchronization yourself.

The rayon library is an exciting example of some of the possibilities http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/12/18/rayo...

Rayon, being a multithreading library, is of course itself not so trivial to write. What it lives up to is that users of rayon can use the regular rust type system rules to ensure that their use of rayon is thread safe if it compiles.
Correlation != causation.
Local Social Network Ever Tried?
Around one in five of women and one in 20 of men have been forced into sexual intercourse against their will, in their lifetime. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender.

To deny that sexual assault happens against men is to live half-blind. Sexual assault in all cases is about power and gratification by abusive individuals (spread equally among both sexes) against the vulnerable of either sex (and the gender matters little to them).

Edit: corrected the figures.
I think I agree with you on most of this, but I completely disagree with your first sentence. The US is one of the oldest current stable governments. All of the other major countries today got to completely rebuild their infrastructure after WW2: Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore , perhaps even the UK. Some of these advanced countries weren't even politically stable until the 70s-80s.

The US on the other hand has been politically stable for at least ~150 years and the northeast has been for longer. (Most of my life I've lived in houses that were over a century old. Go to Korea and you will find /no/ living areas built more than 30 years ago.) We're building on one or two century old infrastructure at this point. The two hardest things we have to deal with that no one else does (except China perhaps, but they're not at this stage yet to care, I think) is the size of the country and the age of the current infrastructure.

As a fun fact, some cities in Korea don't even use telephone poles, it's all underground[0]. And I'm sure you've heard of similar infrastructural marvels in Japan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundang-gu
Ask HN: How do you distribute ssh server fingerprints?
Problem: Your organization has a lot of servers which are constantly being created, modified, replaced, and destroyed. So their ssh host keys change frequently, and new ones get added frequently.

Question 1: How do you effeciently and securely distribute the right ssh server fingerprints to all of your team members?

Question 2: How do you keep the fingerprints that each team member has up-to-date?
Well maintaining software and infrastructure is one thing. But they also seem to lack features compared to the competition. They might want to quickly sort their management issues out and be more agressive feature-wise.
It makes the corporate customers feel warm and fuzzy. All the resources used to support open source projects are redirected to the corporate users (i.e. the corporate users now have 100% of the attention of Github support)
This was also being discussed here [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049993

Apparently it will be obvious to folks that this has occurred.
Do you not have an "edit" link next to your posts? It disappears after a while, but it's there right after you post.
Some users will always cling to older tech. Some users like the simpler interfaces. Some hate UI design changes (like Australis in Firefox). I don't understand it myself. Especially when a user makes a decision to put themselves at risk security-wise as this user is by using an unmaintained browser that isn't tracking security issues any longer.
It's not all bad, but the bad outweighs the good by such a large value that the net sum is harmful to society. We would be better off without it. The problem with lobbying is it is a feedback loop which affects further lobbying, and lobbyists today have far too much power. It's because money is involved.
Except if you participate in the discussion and dislike censorship, no matter what it is said.
SourceForge was essential once, too.

The nature of git lets it migrate easily. (The rest of the infrastructure, not so much.)
Sounds like you were lucky to have that bad instruction disappear with your modification. Cool story.
Eduson
If both Github and Bitbucket drop free repos, there's still the option of self hosted Gitlab CE (or Gitlab.com if it doesn't follow suit)
I think you're making too blanket a statement about culture and bigotry from this one story. This is about something at Github. Specifically, the Github "diversity initiative" appears to have dispensed with the notion of diversity training for certain segments in favor of adopting a bias against members of traditionally privileged class. I can't imagine this will go well for them. It's a pretty clear conflict of mission.
The "dummies" are the authors of "Fool's Gold," to which this article is a rebuttal.
It is more effective bandwidth wise because the data can be limited based on connection speed.

Forums since the early days of the Web could do this too - only showing the first n posts, and paging to let you view more. And they didn't require JavaScript or any of the other fancy new features browsers have today.

Edit: How much bandwidth would be taken up by loading a few hundred plaintext comments, keeping in mind this is a YouTube page containing an embedded video which will be at least an order of magnitude bigger?

As well as having a back fall system for users with browsers that cannot support such functionality.

That's what all_comments was.
Any suggestions? Git over IPFS?
Yes, it must be all part of the patriarchal conspiracy. It couldn't have anything to do with the casual dismissal of basic due process and presumption of innocence, particularly in the context of career-destroying accusations of criminal activity.
What Shakespeare Has in Common with Software Development