skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they care. In the USA, (non-resident) I find that almost every bad thing usually has a really nice, positive flipside.

SF spends so much on the homeless that, ironically, it attracts them. In fact, Las Vegas has sent homeless there: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/11/2602391/san-franc...

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record... shows that $241 million was spent - that's so very much for a metro area of 8 million people.

In a country of 300 million, you only need a very slight incentive and things get weird, and the SF attitude to homeless, the food they give out, the shelters, the climate, all encourage homeless to move there or, worse, get sent there by less scrupulous states.

I am never sure if this is a really nice or a really bad thing for SF. I'm kinda thinking both.
I work the negativity out by doing physical things which give pleasure, like running and tinkering with electronics.

But by far the most effective is other happy people.
I honestly think another world war is more likely than that scenario.
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Does anyone else work on systems that take 3 hours to back up the DB, an hour to deploy, 1 hour to start up and a few hours for users to check out functionality before business opens on Monday? No to mention the federal regulations about what paperwork is required and who can even access production. Maybe I'm in the wrong site.
What, exactly, is the point of a cake you can't eat?

Such a weird metaphor. I've eaten every cake I've ever had!
Does GitKraken support git Large File Storage? If so, I could see this becoming an excellent tool for non-programmers who have to use git(designers, game artists, etc.) and don't really want to get involved with some of the complexities that come with git.
Can you please, for one moment, imagine a world where computer users aren't as intelligent as you are?

"Manage my email" is vague, and while it's entirely the OP's fault, it is also a relatively easy mistake to make. I could easily see myself making this same mistake, and it could have permanent consequences.
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I just double-click a command file on my desktop and I'm done.
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Ellis conceived of practical public-key crypto PRIOR to Diffie but it was classified at GCHQ. Diffie wanted to know how Ellis invented it after he had heard this was the case.
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Be bold and cast fear from your heart mangeletti. Software cannot be bold. I intend to conquer self driving cars at all 4-way stop signs.
Oops, too much skimming. Kudos to the roots folks for getting involved and sorting it.
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I spent the last two years building compilers and relational databases at Eve (http://witheve.com/).

Before that I spent several years consulting. Some highlights:

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Public-key encryption was supposedly invented at GCHQ by James Ellis, Clifford Cocks and Malcolm Williamson in 1975, one year before Diffie and Hellman published their paper. The work had to be kept secret though, so they never published it.
It's really not, because all your other staff will immediately consider leaving, and some actually will. You'll then face the cost of hiring and training replacements, which is very likely much higher than giving the original staff member three days off., not to mention the potential fallout from the negative publicity it might entail (like this thread).

There is no benefit to running your business this way. It's only harmful.
Warning to anyone applying here: this company may just ignore you after interviewing with them. In my experience, they will just never even get back to you... even if you email them several times.
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It's an open plan trading floor.

It involves working with Mu, Standard Chartered's in-house compiler. Working with Mu feels very, very similar to just using GHC Haskell though.

I can't give any specific details about milestone skills, but if you've published libraries to Hackage that are used by people you've never heard of that's probably a good sign that it's worth applying.
No. But in those countries, one's mother still had a family name at birth that is different from one's own (in almost all cases), whether she changed it at marriage or not.
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Yeah. I don't know when this happened, but that's become a deal breaker for me. Strange, right?

Edit to add:
It's particularly strange because I wouldn't depend on this tool in some infrastructural way -- I could switch clients anytime without any lock in. But I'm no longer willing to even try anymore. Odd.
> It's not a hard project to implement you cut an identical check to every tax payer. The tax collection agency already has everyone's name and address, and has the infrastructure to cut checks, as does the welfare agency.

Who pays for this? The bottom 46% of income earners already pay zero tax, and the top 10% pay almost 50%. Yes you can argue, I guess, that they should pay more but careful...at what point do you kill the golden geese?

We keep borrowing, you say? Well we are almost $20tril in debt right now and current unfunded federal liabilities are somewhat north of $200tril.
Excellent points and what being a good or excellent developer means, in any language.

Meanwhile in interviews, ever and always, it's:

"Can you solve some (medium-to-hard, and like as not, inadequately stated) algorithm puzzle I did a Google search on while riding the BART train this morning? While I fumbled with my phone, and check for Tinder updates? And BTW don't hesitate as to the approach (or have any brain farts about standard library interfaces) -- otherwise I'm going to give you, you know, hints."
Yesterday I saw a "on demand" bike repair truck driving around in my neighborhood and had the exact same thoughts as you. The operational numbers immediately came to mind and the business looked attractive to me with the obvious sales funnel challenge. It's quite a nice business model.
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In theory, feature flags seem like a good idea. Until you reach a point where too many flags become difficult to test in an exponential tree of combinations. Also, it demands tight discipline to make sure each new flag properly isolates some new feature ... Has someone had success with this idea, and be able to 'tame' an explosion of flags in their codebase? really curious
My two cents, but for these algorithmic questions the language shouldn't matter. Are you hiring someone deeply proficient in data structures and algorithmic programming? Then let them solve it in their language of choice.

If the role is JavaScript-centric, how about a question specific to the language like Describe the difference between var and let, and when you would use one over the other?
Sorry but your examples don't add up. You're showing a 20 year time frame of outperformance, and admitting there are places where performance is a negative, and then claiming all of this shows that there is a strategy that works well all the time. Definitionally this is not true. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding, totally possible.
React seems to emphasize using regular javascript and existing NPM modules where possible. Superagent [1] seems to be a popular one, but you can find more on React's wiki [2].

If you start using a flux implementation like Redux, there are other interesting things you can do to handle api requests [3].

[1] https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent

[2] https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/Complementary-Tools#d...

[3] http://redux.js.org/docs/advanced/index.html
Finally, someone recognizes there's a vast range between truly basic income/expenses, vs maintaining a standard of living exceeding the norm of most people on the planet. The US "poverty line" is at the ~80th percentile of world income, and one way or another one below it can get enough aggregate welfare payments to step well above that line. Contrast that with really basic costs of food ($1/meal traditional diet, or $12/day Soylent ready-to-drink), housing (one 100 sq ft simple "tiny house" per person, $1-10/day), data service ($1/day), plus other comparably humble-yet-sufficient services add up to something like $5000/yr (and much less in bulk or with other careful reductions). But that is, of course, outrageous to most BI advocates - viewing "basic" as a complete-and-served product, not a collection of staples requiring the recipient put some real effort into.
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Startups are trying to create something new. Governments are just trying to deploy the same thing across different numbers of cities/states/etc. There are certainly reasons why a larger-scale deployment of a public policy could be more likely to run into problems that might not have been encountered in a smaller scale trial, but that's a vastly weaker argument than for startups.
The reconstruction did attempt to do what you suggest. I'd more describe the failure as what has become the prototypical American war. An attempt to impose an egalitarian democracy through force which was ultimately foiled by terrorist insurgents after a period where the US declared victory and was attempting to rebuild.
Forced?

Yeah, that title isn't editorialized.

Verizon divested themselves of some of their wireline footprint, selling it off to Frontier.

This is no different than, say, a cell company merger or similar.

Don't like it? Switch providers. But Verizon is no longer an option for you.

The reality is, Verizon is leaving the terrestrial television business in a big way, and if I had to bet, they'll be a pure wireless company in the not-too-distant future.

As an aside, this also should be no surprise to Verizon subscribers in affected areas. This deal was announced last February and approved last September:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fcc-approves-sale-of...
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Depending on your location, municipal landfills and fire stations may also accept waste fluids.
I've only just started using React but I've been a Django developer for a few years. As I'm starting to use React, I'm still working with Django and Django-Rest-Framework for my backend. It's probably a little heavy weight but you could use something like Flask or whatever equivalent light weight Web framework is in your language of choice.
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I've been looking through the GDP for a Living Stipend and this is what I have found thus far:

Living Stipend
tax/share	0.01
Population	320,000,000
NYSE	802,026,511,675	8,020,265,116.75
Forex	5,300,000,000,000	53,000,000,000.00
CBOE	1,274,776,218	12,747,762.18
Nasdaq	671,175,892,500	6,711,758,925.00
$67,744,771,803.93	TOTAL REVENUE

OIL	6,970,000,000	10	69,700,000,000
FIN SERVICES	1,260,000,000,000	15%	189,000,000,000
TECH	606,000,000,000	15%	90,900,000,000
Entertainment	546,000,000,000	15%	81,900,000,000
PROFESSIONAL Services	1,500,000,000,000	15%	225,000,000,000
2,263.26	STIPEND PER PERSON PER YEAR

I think we need more than this. There could be more if we stop asking the tax payers to subsidize the salaries of high level executives as well, but I haven't done that math yet.

To explain the numbers above, $10/barrel for oil, a penny per share traded on the major stock exchanges. 15% tax on services, which aren't taxed. Why aren't we taxing lawyer fees for example or computer consulting services or massages? Of course we can take those numbers up a bit or down a bit in the appropriate areas, but we need about 10x that I think to really give people food and shelter security.

I'm really shooting for $2,000 per month per household. I think there is a place somewhere in the country that any family could live on that amount of money and feed their families. Of course this would be adjusted based on family size and the numbers above are per person. An individual could survive on $1,000 per month I think and a family of 3 or 4 could survive on $2,000 per month if they do it right. If they don't they can get a job to supplement income. If they want to work more, they can do that too.

Sorry for the formatting. I'm pasting from Excel.
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1973.

Why the "supposedly"?
Basecamp apparently uses an nginx/openresty plugin to pauses requests during a deployment: https://github.com/basecamp/intermission
This may be controversial, but I completely agree. Let's say 7 - 10 years experience here myself.

You know who has said that? Management and marketers and it's driving me batty. A paradigm is being pushed on us, and I'm sorry, but the most productive members have always been coders and the best solutions/implementations in my experience have always been coders.

Now what I have got a lot of experience in its going in and fixing/refactoring solutions written in point and click out derived from copy/pasting templates.

I'm not saying no visualisation or visual coding, our that maybe there isn't a field or context where it works or could be better. I'm open to new experiences and techniques.

But my experience so far is otherwise in this case. And I know this goes against the executive and startup propaganda, since every man and his dog is trying to sell yet another point-click drag-drop visual analytics solution, and every executive seems to want the "do analytics without having to have skilled labor or actual knowledge of analytics", but let's just say I'll risk it to make the comment...
http://www.reconinstruments.com/products/jet/ they don't have all those features yet, but someone is productizing AR for cycling
Marshmallow is much better about this. You can actually control what apps can read, what they can write, etc. I wish it prompted you during the installation of the app, but it's getting better.
it's quite simple actually: football players train by doing all kinds of crazy exercises, none of which you will see in an actual match. But this is what training is. You won't hear a football player say "why do I have to do push-ups? I've played 1000 matches and never, not even once, did I need to do a push-up!". School is training too, it makes your brain stronger.

School is also a filter for future scientists.

In my country school was always about learning the fundamentals. What you will actually do on the job you will learn... on the job. Nowadays there are more and more voices asking for more practical classes but I feel this is risky: if you know the fundamentals you can quickly adapt. If you only learn how to do one practical thing you will have to retrain when that thing becomes obsolete.
Really cool video!
Sounds like property taxes: pay annual "fair value" for the lot you've claimed, and if you stop paying you get evicted.
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Just did a PR right after you posted the message :)
Would someone mind explaining the argument for spaces over tabs? Possibly naive young dev here.
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Putting aside that the idea that companies and societies are the same thing, this argument is still wrong.

The reason why small companies take risks is because they are not invested in the status quo and ossified. They innovate not only because the have to, but because they have a culture where it's possible to do that. The lack of innovation at large companies isn't that they've looked at the innovation and said, "No. Not for us. We'll let someone else do that." It's that they can't even see the opportunity for innovation. It's arguing for the status quo why you see the opportunity, and say "No. Not for us," which is exactly what what the grandparent was arguing.
"The basic foundation" might be the wrong way to word it. That would suggest it is the ONLY tenet, which is misleading. However, private property rights are absolutely a tenet of [classic] liberal thinking.

> The foundation of liberty is the freedom to make your own decisions and exercise your own will.

I think that is a common misconception. Liberty =/= Freedom. Absolute freedom, in fact, can be an obstruction to liberty (which I think is what your extreme example eludes to).

However, let's work through your example; how did they acquire all the property? If they did it without violating other people's property rights (i.e. voluntary exchange) than I think that would answer your question. It's kind of a non question (and I don't mean that rudely) - It just wouldn't happen. Every other person would have to give him/her all the "property" for free.
How about just some bold red letters outlining permissions being given away without having to type "more info"? Specifically that you are giving access to all of your email, contacts, and the ability to delete your email.
What's more shocking is that not only are they not using bcrypt, they're still using MD5.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there organisations being prosecuted in some jurisdictions for having password security that weak?
"Jaywalking" was originally a marketing campaign by the motor vehicle industry before it became law. Your description sounds like a return to the way it ought to be. The bully is the human driver who threatens to kill a pedestrian by being inattentive.
Indeed. Freedom to seek rents or horde resources isn't what I'd define as liberty. More like the foundation of exploitation.
You're trying to tell us that, prior to systemd, Gentoo was a terrible choice for base images?

Embedded wants parallel startup gains, sure, but there are videos floating around youtube of embedded systems booting linux kernels and a full GNU base system in less than a second using init scripts. Why the hell would you want a non-predictible bootup (which systemd does in the name of "speed in bootup") on an embedded system?

All my KVM/Qemu VM's are currently gentoo (and arch+OpenRC) based. most use less than 10MB total. systemd requires more than 5 times that amount by default. CoreOS starts with gentoo and then strips it further, and it doesn't use systemd at all.

Gentoo (minus systemd) is the base of ChromeOS and ChromiumOS. You had to have known that. I refuse to believe that you're one of the lucky 10,000 XKCD talks about.

Your post, and the main article, are just quiet astroturfing/zealotry. You guys have plenty of distributions. We heard Lennart's "wake-up call", and ignored it, because he was leading the march towards a new operating system. We like GNU. We don't particularly like/need/want the Violate-GPL-Over-RPC functionality system Poettering implemented in PID1.

Gentoo is not denying choice. We're denying you guys the right to have systemd be a default. The safest distros (Void, Gentoo, Calculate) are all avoiding systemd on purpose. You certainly have the choice to compromise your system and taint your GNU system, but don't expect your silly march off the cliff to become the default for those of us left with actual GNU systems.