skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an interesting theory that shows a potentially simple way to reduce the harmful effects of lobbyists. The short version is that there was a change in Congressional procedure in the 1970's that eliminated the secret ballot for Congressional voting on bills.

The downside of this is that lobbyists, for the first time, could know for sure if the money they spent trying to get a vote from a specific member of congress panned out or not. Prior to this change, a member of congress was able to vote their conscience, with no way for lobbyists to actually know how they voted.

So, the theory is that going back to a secret ballot could weaken the ability of lobbyists to buy votes. It would be difficult, of course, to change this, since going to a secret ballot would also prevent ordinary citizens from seeing how their elected representatives actually voted.

A video that goes into more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ4tTj6Pe_E
You mean besides developing and operating one of the best services on the web?
This is a very strange mental exercise you're asking, but I'd like to explore it as a thought experiment for a moment if I may.

Can you implement and maintain a market without mentioning/discussing that market?

I don't see how any activity, economic or otherwise, can exist much less persist if you can't discuss it.

How would one buy something if they don't understand what it is or its utility?

Why would someone engage in selling something if they don't know a market exists for that product and don't talk about it (market it)?

Could racist groups like the KKK persist without resorting to racial language to communicate their ideas?

This thought experiment is rooted in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
Right, but the purpose of key pinning is to prevent a MitM from learning the plaintext, not Alice or Bob. There are any number of means an attacker could employ to reverse-engineer an API (decompilation, memory dumps, debuggers, ...). This is asking for more of a DRM-like solution (with all the issues that come with it).
The keywords Clojure/Overtone immediately caught my attention.

I'm particularly interested in combining music tempo/selection/etc and lighting/video/other presentations with feedback from the crowd - overall temperature, ambient noise, range of movement - so that the music and surroundings are guided by the DJ, but based on the crowd. This is obviously not quite that, but gets a bit closer to it perhaps.

Also, that's an amazing README - was just hoping that the demo animations would be at the top so I'd immediately understand what this was for.
We made simple algorithms is at the top should be results primarily based on upvoting. We fix this, and we will improve in the future)
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Even the full-blown xBase languages (dBase, FoxPro, Clipper etc.) is so much easier to quickly manipulate data than SQL. The concept of a persistent data-store is built into the language, or rather, the language revolves around data access as opposed to modern languages that are primarily about abstraction.

We've come so far from the simple old days where a TodoMVC would have been just `use todo; browse`.
This is the thing that I keep thinking about. If Walmart comes in and essentially extracts the wealth of the community (profits of the store) and then leaves, how long does it take for that community to recover? How long before they can actually afford to invest in more stores to fill the gap?
Thank you! We will fix it)
Is there a tie-in with education, and the technical skills that are required, and who has those skills?
One point, if Nestle ran th water supply, they could be sued for damages and the EPA would have an adversarial role instead of covering for their buddies as they very likely were in Flint (by knowing the water was dangerous for months and only saying something when an independent researcher proved it was dangerous).

But the main point is they would face a jury setting damages if they pulled the same rookie corrupt BS that happened in Flint. The government won't.
I can recommend the follow up pieces.

http://www.maydaypress.com/blog/files/d7f94a9f1ccff207b3e3b0...

http://www.maydaypress.com/blog/files/2ce9a7cd940027138ec550...
I mean, data races need mutability, so something that's const can't have a race, sure.

What I meant was something like "const itself is not a panacea against data races generally." It is a useful tool.
When you play the Game of Crony Capitalism, you lobby or you die.
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I feel having open source project on Github is a benefit for the paying customers. You can hire employees already skilled at using it instead of it being a niche product that they have to learn. Not a major hurdle to learn it but it is a net positive anyway.
If you're not the person with either the most money or the most guns, anarchy ain't going to work out very well for you. Because once those with the largest amount of power don't have to play by any rules, well, it's game on. And I suspect almost all of us will be in the 99.99999% of the population that loses that game pretty badly...
This is going to be so mind-numbingly boring for most people that they will check out completely.

If you make programming a math class, people will hate it just the same way they hate math.
Rust wasn't created to make programming for parallel execution "easier". What Rust does is make writing implicitly unsafe parrellel code impossible to write.

This is a good thing, but is orthogonal to single threaded performance (which from what I've read, the Rust team definitely cares about).
It's like saying, don't just teach the syntax, teach the semantics. It's rather obvious. The two can't be separated, because they are the same thing from two different perspectives.
Not having YouTube comments load seems like a feature not a bug.
That this was instantly downvoted is grim.
I wonder if Linux will continue to live on Github.
I think a major factor is that the US hasn't been around for very long and we're coming to a point where a lot of infrastructure is coming under need of repair or replacement simultaneously. In particular instances, this infrastructure degradation has been greatly exacerbated by decisions to save money in the short-term. My personal opinion is that this is all part of a decades long rightward shift away from "big government" and willingness to pay for proper maintenance of public works. 2008 was a wasted opportunity to combine much needed infrastructure investment with fiscal stimulus.

There is no question a lot of work will need to be done over the next decade. The question is, who will do the work, and how will it get paid for?
C build and link errors are only one of a myriad of issues that one can have with packaging. I've had far more problems with badly-managed packages in pure Python than with stuff like PIL. And one only has to look as far as JavaScript to see that pure native language dependencies won't save you.

I stand by what I said: give it a decade and Go packaging will be just as miserable as packaging in any other language.
I agree -- I wasn't trying to show that there wasn't enough affected cases to indicate definitive lead poisoning, just that it's likely not nearly as widespread or causing as much damage as is currently being ascribed to it.

From the article "4.9 percent of children tested for lead turned out to have elevated levels." What is 'elevated'? Is that 30ug/dl? or 3ug/dl when the average is 2ug/dl. When specific information is absent, I generally doubt the accuracy.

But I guess that's typical news media anyways. If it's not bursting in to flames, then it isn't news.

Edit: added "From the article..."
> The right size. 300 employees is too few. Yahoo! has 12,500 employees, and is worth $33bn on the stock market. GitHub needs at least 5,000 employees.

It seems like your heart is in the right place but the quoted statement reads to me as a total non-sequitur. What model are you using to justify your calls for GitHub to hire 9x it's current number of employees?

What would these 4.5K new employees be doing exactly?

At the end of the day they provide a useful way to store and version control a code base, but the enterprise software market is very crowded and GitHub being in vogue could be a fad that gets eclipsed by something else, just like how HipChat was THE thing for teams until Slack.

Arbitrarily saying that "Google will birth AI and they need at least 1M employees to make it happen" is something that, in my opinion, sounds similarly vapid from any kind of quantitative or forecasting standpoint.

Would like to know how the figure was estimated, and how mentioning Yahoo is relevant in the least. They have a huge stake in Alibaba, and yahoos business model is a defacto investment company, with Yahoo standalone value [yhoo market cap - (yhoo stake in baba)*(market cap of baba)] around -15B last I checked. It's not even apples and oranges, it's like grapes vs dolphins - meaningless comparison

Edit: fixed my yhoo/baba math for clarity
What logic? He's making a factual assertion, not an argument. Unless you're suggesting accusations of criminal conduct don't require supporting evidence...

EDIT: Here's a link to the results of GitHub's independent investigation (by an external party): https://github.com/blog/1826-follow-up-to-the-investigation-...

We hired Rhoma Young, an independent, third-party investigator that GitHub had never worked with before. Rhoma has a long history of conducting fair and impartial investigations, with 30+ years of HR experience. She has worked with every type of organization, from Fortune 50 companies to local governments, and frequently testifies as an expert witness for both plaintiffs and defendants in depositions, arbitrations, and in litigation involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disability, and mitigation of damages...

...We gave Rhoma free rein to review all the media reports, public allegations, and HR records so she could create her own investigation and interview plan. She identified three key issues that she focused her investigation on: the claims about Tom and his wife, the claims about the male engineer, and the general culture and working environment at GitHub... The investigation found Tom Preston-Werner in his capacity as GitHub’s CEO acted inappropriately, including confrontational conduct, disregard of workplace complaints, insensitivity to the impact of his spouse's presence in the workplace, and failure to enforce an agreement that his spouse should not work in the office. There were also issues surrounding the solicitation of GitHub employees for non-GitHub business and the inappropriate handling of employee concerns regarding those solicitations...

...The investigation found no information to support misconduct or opportunistic behavior by the engineer against Julie or any other female employees in the workplace. Furthermore, there was no information found to support Julie’s allegation that the engineer maliciously deleted her code. The commit history, push log, and all issues and pull requests involving Julie and the accused engineer were reviewed. The investigation considered all possible commits surrounding the accusation of passive-aggressive code removal... After interviewing over 50 employees, former employees, and reviewing evidence, Rhoma found nothing to support a sexist or discriminatory environment at GitHub, and no information to suggest retaliation against Julie for making sex/gender harassment complaints.
Only a git mirror is on GitHub. Linux lives on kernel.org.
Not that I'm advocating anarchism, but you misunderstand what anarchism is if you think that it doesn't involve complex systems. The dream of anarchism is to have a stateless society, where there's no top-down control, not one without complex social institutions. In fact, an anarchist society would require more complex systems in order to function.
https://www.kernel.org/
Eric Hunsader wants to upend the world of high-frequency trading
TL;DR: A journalistic photographer photoshops an image from the Viet Nam war, gets a lot of career mileage out of it, and ignites controversy within the profession. Film at 11.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040362
People are very locked into their pull request and issue tracking tools, unfortunately.
The point about money attracting the wrong kind of people is (I think) accurate. When a recently minted MBA looks at Github as a great career option, it's probably too late.

Ironically, that's why the money was invested in the first place, to be able to afford people like that, because the investors believe that creating a gamified system for money-driven people will result in a payout.

Github could have continued to grow organically instead of taking $100M. Since the $100M there hasn't been any significant new functionality on the web version of the site, and there have been fewer blog posts from the early team of people who many of us met and respected.

I assumed something was awry when Kneath left, he was a symbol of the culture at GH that was a legit, bootstrapped startup culture. He loved the product and evangelized it in a way that was clearly a labor of love.

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 (I've seen female-founded, progressive firms tolerate very bad behavior from male employees).

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.
Warren Ellis: Mobile Email Should Not Be Getting Harder
So they didn't follow the rules, and bad things happened? Each of us can probably think of a time when we didn't follow the rules, usually for more minor things (speed limits, etc).

Something about politicians/bureaucrats makes them bold enough to think that rules don't apply to them, but on a totally different scale. I would like to understand why -- does anybody know?
The fear of failure is the handmaiden of mediocrity. I believe there are very positive benefits from reducing the effect of the fear of failure from participants in markets. Give people room to innovate and you'll get increased innovation.
Philosophy is the keystone to any knowledge, by the claim of the name.
oracle is the only comparison I can remotely relate to what this individual is talking about. But heres the issue:

- githubs customer isnt opensource projects, its closed source. The masses moving away is a good thing

- as dependency on github increases, the larger of a liability for bigger companies. Google needs java for android, walmart needs npm for its servers, github likely has projects that are depended upon by bigger names though we would never know

- start ups and new comers likely hear about github before anything else. It is usually at the top for SEO. As this trend continues, dependence will only increase.

- are you able to break from github? At the moment, my community is the js community. There is a lot of crappy things happening in it but I cant stop using github, npm nor node. These are essential and convienient for me. Even if I agreed politically, realistically my workflow cannot change without waisting time.

I believe Im a libertarian intelligent coding machine like the rest of you. But this doomsday scenario sounds more like prayers than accurate predictions
the 3rd one, microcomputer, is pretty amazing.
Women fought for equal rights, for centuries, and achieved this towards the end of the last century, by any measure. Feminism won the fight for equality.

You are setting the clock back, and asking for women to be treated as fragile, vulnerable, and unable to look after themselves. You are arguing is that a woman's claim of harassment needs no evidence nor witnesses. That women are so weak that to place a burden of proof on them is "sexist rubbish."

Claims of harassment are easy to make. As we know, it is easy to destroy a career by making such claims. It is also trivial to record conversations on a mobile phone, to get incriminating emails, to get witnesses, to get DNA samples. This is no longer difficult. One no longer needs to believe anyone's word.

This is why you are being downvoted.

Allegations of rape or abuse or harassment, by men or women against men or women (and the gender is irrelevant) must involve law enforcement, due process, trial, and conviction as defined by law. Period. You and I are not qualified to second-guess the legal system. If you feel the law does not protect you, go live in a country without it.
The problem is, society chooses to give it a significant
amount of meaning.

But why do we have the society we currently have? Can't we foster a society where race is less important by making it less important to the point it's not a concept we consider at all?

Personally, I felt as though we were progressing towards a society where we were giving it less and less meaning but in recent years we're regressing towards elevating its importance again and that is resulting in animosity.
The author is being sarcastic. They are saying that, from the point of view of the "wolves", Github doesn't look like a $20bn company - so it will be made to look like one, by hiring more employees, changing the power structure, and becoming more enterprise-oriented.
Still a big fan of the BetterCrypto guide: https://bettercrypto.org/
He's laying out the strategy of what will kill Github - the Psychopath Code. It could have been made clearer, so I suspect many will read it the wrong way.
Or form your own damn opinion: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/08/what-makes-warren-b...
Why is having a high number of employees even considered a good thing? The true value of a technology company is in how much it can do with few employees.
The title could be changed to: "What happens to thousands of tiny towns when the big business that brought the town into existence stops making money".

Old mining and factory towns are extremely sad. When the region stops generating the value that drove its initial growth, the result is an endless downward spiral to widespread poverty. Lots of former workers are unable to make a transition to another job. The only real money left is in the retirement accounts of those who "made it" before the layoffs, and the only jobs available are in the service industry catering to these folks. That money and those jobs eventually fade away. The youngest and most capable workers see the writing on the wall and get out of Dodge. Others hang on as long as they possibly can.

Of course Wal-Mart can't make a profit selling a full-size warehouse full of cheap goods in an area like this. Nobody can. But now that they're gone, somebody will succeed with a small, overpriced grocery store that pays local teenagers minimum wage and has a produce section the size of my bathroom. And even that store will go downhill over time as the people with money continue to pass away and move out.

I wish I knew the solution to this problem.
I might be misunderstanding you, but I don't think Public Key Pinning is intended to prevent this scenario at all. Public Key Pinning is a method for a client to authenticate a server. If you decompile the app and recompile it with the public key of your MITM server, the app would of course connect to your MITM server. Or, it seems to me, if you have that level of control over the client, you could just disable public key pinning checks completely.
How is a link to an "AI hedge fund" not relevant to a discussion about "Robo-advisers"? Seems like nitpicky semantics to me. I was genuinely interested anyway.
In google running as PageRank. We use PeopleRank)

We do not index the entire Internet. We only index the Intranets users.

We look not at the PageRank (ie number of links). We look at the opinions of people.

And our algorithms try to select the most best intranets of experts, opinion leaders and others. That is the most relevant people.
> guns, toys

I can't believe I just saw that in the same sentence. Perhaps the guns leaving town is a good thing.

Farmers markets can be more expensive, but I generally find the food to be of higher quality, and that money tends to go directly into the community.

Also, on the food thread, there are some things that people used to make at home and can significantly reduce overall food costs. Yogurt, as an example, can be made at home (easily) and is less than 25% of the cost. Humus can also be made easily and at lower cost at home.
I don't think there was a conspiracy. There doesn't need to be direct collusion when those in government and business have the same long-term goals.

I think the people in office sincerely believe that governments should be run like a business. Businesses are typically organized with an authoritarian model rather than a democratic system. Hence the preference for a dictatorial emergency manager who is supposed to be able to be more effective than a democratically elected city counci.

Businesses are typically run with a profit motive, and rarely have human rights, like the right to drinkable water, in mind, much less paramount.

Finally, I'll quote from the recent Pussy Riot song, which quotes Chaika: "Be loyal to those in power, 'cause power is a gift from God, son." I don't know if it's accurate for Michigan, but it fits the general authoritarian model.
And they won't make those loans in the absence of a viable business plan. (Plus, this isn't Silicon Valley. The prospective business owner is almost certainly going to need to put some of their own money in.) A lot of dying ex-resource extraction towns just don't present much of a business opportunity for anyone. I also suspect that a lot of readers here don't appreciate that really long drives to get to a "real" store is not that unusual across fairly large swaths of the US.
I am also unhappy when someone downvotes me without comment, but in this case I think I can explain it.

Stating facts is not sexist. There is no sexism in that statement (if it's true). If you see sexism there, I am sorry to say that, but you're the one biased here.

> If a woman close to you were to suggest she were raped or coerced into sex, would your first response be "Show me the proof!"?

If I knew her, probably not, if she were a stranger, probably not the first response, but at some point, yes.
> If the only real goal put down on paper is to hire x% black people and y% brown people and reduce z% of white people under some fuzzy equality rubric

I suspect that in GitHub's case, the diversity officer was tasked with defining those goals, on the basis that the straight white male executives would have no clue what the "right" goals should be.
Those 4.5K employees will, I guess, be doing rather less than the past employees of GitHub. However they represent a weight of numbers that figures in any sale.
>Can you imagine not having anywhere to buy food and having to drive 3 hours just to get it?<

That's a very real and serious problem for low-income and fixed-income consumers...many of whom are forced to shop wherever they reasonably can...

There are many "food deserts"--areas where it's difficult to buy affordable good quality food--in the U.S., especially in sparsely populated urban and rural areas...

It's true that if the need (demand) is great enough in an area a retailer of some sort will probably eventually open shop to fill the void...waiting for that to happen can be very painful for the poorest consumers...

The best hope for communities abandoned by Wal Mart may turn out to be franchises related to the "dollar store" concept...

How Dollar Stores Were Planted in the South and Bloomed...

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-dollar-stores-were-...

Dollar Stores: Big Business, Rock-Bottom Prices...

http://tedium.co/2016/01/19/dollar-stores-analysis/
Brute forced with what? Trying different fingers?