skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to widen the context. From New Yorker (1)

Walmart and Target earn between three and four cents on the dollar; a typical McDonald’s franchise restaurant earns around six cents on the dollar before taxes, according to an analysis from Janney Capital Markets.

In fact, the combined profits of all the major retailers, restaurant chains, and supermarkets in the Fortune 500 are smaller than the profits of Apple alone.

Yet Apple employs just seventy-six thousand people, while the retailers, supermarkets, and restaurant chains employ 5.6 million.

The grim truth of those numbers is that low wages are a big part of why these companies are able to stay profitable while offering low prices.

(1) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/the-pay-is-too-...
Grunt was nasty as hell, and clearly didn't learn any of the lessons from, say, proper Makefiles from the UNIX world over the past 30 years.

Gulp is a looooot better, especially when I have things like Foundation 6's zurb-template, which is basically configured out of the box how I setup my Foundation 5 era projects.

I don't care how big a Gulp file is if I'm not the one having to do major maintenance on it.
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Gaggle Mail is a good SaaS group email provider http://gaggle.email/

Disclosure: I'm a dev on this.
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Those countries mostly have stronger unions which negotiate effective minimum wages.

Singapore is the exception. Economically it's business friendly to an almost absurd degree (which approximates liberatarianism). Consequently income inequality there is ridiculous even compared to America.
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Personally I don't think golang needs a web framework. What comes with the standard library is all that you need.
This is why there middle managers, project leads, senior developers over those employees. Their job is to frame the misconceptions into something which appears more acceptable to employees who wouldn't toe the line if they were being directly managed.
Apple iOS 9.3 S/Plus – Touch Passcode Bypass Vulnerability
This is an astonishing level of incompetence for "A worldwide trusted provider of Secure Identity Solutions". Isn't there any competition in that market, or pressure to be scrutinized for certification/suitability for government contracts etc.?
Haha, well there you have it!
Do you use web frameworks in Go?
As per this blog post, http://bit.ly/1oxZLMD, do you usually use a web framework in Go? Or do you rather use packages?
I will mention the Coca Cola plant in Cayey, Puerto Rico.
I consulted with them some years ago, and they were #1 in Coca Cola's water consumption world wide.
If I am not mistaken, they would "use" 1-1/2 gallons of water for every 1 gallon of soft drink they produced.

I do remember the water treatment plant operator working with co-workers from other countries... especially Haiti.
What they told me is that in Haiti, Coca Cola's operation were really bad in wastefulness, and under the company's initiative they were trying to bring their Haiti water treatment plant in-line with Puerto Rico's.
Sorry, I was not clear. I'm skeptical about any of the numbers being accurate. After all it is anecdotal and I think it is too general and not grasps the problem well when your precision is 340-620. No more information than some soft drink production uses twice as much water.
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> college students (who may only need to pay for books, etc)

Now you're beginning to sound like the generation that talks about paying for college with their summer job, which has rapidly become close to impossible over the last few decades. Sure, if you have scholarships and such.

Standard in-state sticker price is now $20,000/year; which would require 69 weeks of work at 40 hours per week before you even account for taxes.
An executive doesn't care about the respect from some of those underneath them, which is most likely how they became an executive in the first place. Power relationships are rarely about equal respect.
I've had exceptional teachers and tutors at times, but I always learned best from textbooks and articles. Information density (ideas per second) in text is much higher and I can scan ahead at my own speed. And with text, I can time-shift my learning. You only get personal tutoring at certain hours and only for a limited amount of time. You can't save your tutor on your hard drive and pull it up later.

Regular evaluation and correction from a human being is useful, though, so that I don't mistakenly believe I know something before I do. But there are subjects where self-evaluation (math quizzes, small software projects) can serve the same purpose. But it certainly speeds things up to have someone set a curriculum.
I don't think you're reading this correctly. The CoC asks you to celebrate diversity itself, not any (nor all) particular opinion that is part of this diversity.

In addition, you do realize that pedophilia is a sexual orientation, right? Nobody chooses to be attracted to people they can't ever legally have sex with. And just as there's nothing wrong with being gay, there's nothing wrong with being a pedophile (keeping in mind that child molestation, i.e. rape, is wrong, just as all other kinds of rape).
Discoveryd then builds up a path to /mnt/apps/bin/blink and calls system() to run the blink program with that number as an argument.

I have a feeling this is similar to the left-pad debacle... a whole separate binary just to blink an LED? "Blink n times" should be nothing more than a loop with two delays and presumably a write to a GPIO device in the middle. Unwarranted complexity strikes again.

Does anyone recognise the architecture? "JSR" and "MOVE.D" brings up some PDP-11(?) docs, which doesn't seem right.
> they were #1 in Coca Cola's water consumption world wide.

This sounds like they're the biggest consumer, but the rest of your comment sounds more like they're the most efficient consumer?
Is it easy to fix merge conflicts on something like an issue?
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It's a book review. Presumably the derivation of those numbers is in the book itself.
The problem with Webpack is that if you want to do something that's not straightforward[1] or covered in the dozen tutorials that are on the web, you're going to have a hard time.

The docs are very basic and there are so many configuration params.

If you want to do something that's not covered in tutorials or boilerplates, be prepared to spend a ridiculous amount of time reading Webpack PRs, issues and the codebase.

Webpack does a great job and it's a nice concept but it has very bad documentation.

[1] Isomorphic apps, or multiple builds for i18n etc
I do. If I as a male would pretend to be dumb in class, I doubt all males would jump to help me.
It's a build tool, written in node, so it was the first front end build tool that saw wide usage 3-4 years ago. Used for things like concatenating and minifying your CSS and JS for production.

It was succeeded by Gulp, which was succeeded by Browserify, which was succeeded by Webpack, and then I moved to the backend because fuck this shit.
Raising the minimum wage does nothing except take a chunk out of profits unless it is raised very high.

This ought to be obvious if you look at who spends the lobbying dollars, but the idea spread by business lobbies that it kills jobs is one self serving lie that has persisted.

This has been empirically verified (Katz/Krueger) though that's not never covered in econ 101.
You are correct, those at the top won't throw a tantrum with those at the bottom, the rank and file. But they will throw a tantrum with their immediate underlings.

A CEO will tantrum and get away with it with the upper management. The CEO's interaction with middle management and the workers will be much more even and charming.
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Honest answer, I just liked it at the time. Is it better now?
Nobody is denying that conference organizers have a right to censorship. We're just saying that it's better if they don't exercise it! The reason why e.g. academic venues don't censor (I'm guessing this, your comment kind-of implies it) is because they strive to be better, to uphold the right kind of values!
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> The idea you should go to a university and only self-teach is insane, at that point, why attend at all?

Because they give you a piece of paper with a prestigious name on the top of it at the end.

There's no reason why I couldn't have learned everything I learned in college on the internet, or at a well-stocked public library, but that piece of parchment written in Latin with the fancy seal on it is worth a thousand times it's weight in gold.
One interesting thing about Boosted Trees is the author's software (XGBoost[1]) reliably outperforms other implementations (in terms of accuracy of results[2]). I'm not entirely sure why this is - I know there is an open ticket in the Spark GBT implementation to investigate this.

[1] https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost

[2] It's also very fast in terms of absolute speed.
The page footer:

Last updated on November 30, 2001 by Jeremy Blosser.

My first thought was, why is such an old changelog trending?
The marginal energy is probably not very much. The average energy might be significant, but it's probably dwarfed by a single can of soda if you include the can.
Not sure that this only applies to women, but for people in general. Also, those TAs at the begining of the article don't seem to understand the learning process – going from not knowing to knowing.
> Isn't there any competition in that market

Whether there is or there isn't, it doesn't matter. People buying these systems are usually not competent enough to evaluate security issues, and companies do their best to hide information about such incidents while spending tons of money on marketing. Competition doesn't solve those issues when its the salesmen who control information flow to customer (or in other words, it pretty much never solves those issues).
You're both right ... the water is still in the system but no longer in the aquifers (instead it's in the oceans, air, lakes, streams, etc). Apparently, a small amount of water is lost to space (but that will increase as the sun grows hotter). When another extinction-level comet smashes into the earth, it will replenish the water we've lost.

Ain't I a ray of sunshine this morning?
Quick search gives http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/10/28/241419373/how... which is not very easy to interpret.
If you're curious to see what American McDonalds' would look like where workers have higher spending power and McDonalds has higher costs, take a look at an Australian McDonalds where they already reacted to exactly that.

This is pretty much what the future of fast food restaurants is like when you raise the minimum wage:

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/mcdonalds-australias-upsca...

McDonalds is usually able to adapt better to changing market conditions than other restaurants.

Many restaurants do go out of business when their prices rise, which is why they hate the idea of raising the minimum wage so much. However, those restaurants are quickly replaced by other restaurants, which is why employment is never affected.
I appreciate the kind words! We have a ton more to do to get our docs as complete and clean as we want, but with the help if our volunteers, we will make it happen!

Our volunteers are rock stars. Klez is one of our superstars.

One of the best parts of my job is working with volunteer contributors. My favorite experiences often involve helping a new volunteer get started, then watching then help the next one to come along. Klez is one of those.

It's always fun to meet up with our best and/or most prolific contributors at Mozilla-sponsored events, when we fly a bunch of people to one spot to plan the next wave of work, too.
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I don't have your condition but on its worse times my circular system was about to shut down, my 4 limbs were cut to sustain the rest. For months Any activity in one part of my body would cause the rest to feel numb. Even typing with two hands would saturate my brain. The story makes them smile as in "you wouldn't be speaking anymore if you experienced this". If I had a trace of the sudden lack of blood pressure they'd at least have something quantitative to consider rather than borderline incoherent speech. That said most generalist wouldn't consider it anyway as you said.
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It feels ok for me. It's kind of the Unix way, with all the /bin/true, /bin/false, /dev/zero, etc. That /mnt/apps/bin/blink may just be exactly that "loop with two delays and presumably a write to a GPIO device in the middle", written in C or even hand-written in ASM.
So your view is that because you paid, you should be able to passively learn without effort?

At no point did I say "only" - but I will stick to my view that the onus to learn is on the student, not the teacher.

You can lead a horse to water...
Bosses, Execs, middle manager, Team Leads etc can always throw a tantrum, but only with those directly under them.

So, your if team lead can throw a tantrum and get away with it, they will only do so with no one above them present.

It's about status and power. If they cannot get away with a tantrum, ask yourself why? Possibly it's because their underlings perform the same things as your advice advocates. What would such a boss do in this situation to consolidate their status?
It's the same as with the RSA company - another confusing name.
Mostly a synthesis of what you'd find from other sources. The most interesting bit was adding the US context:

"One reason there may be relatively few Americans named in the documents is that it is fairly easy to form shell companies in the United States. James Henry, an economist and senior adviser to the Tax Justice Network, told Fusion that Americans “really don’t need to go to Panama.”"
You mean exercise avoid the misplaced beats ? averaging the rhythm ? Since my 'accident' I felt some for of orgasm when able to run for more than a few seconds. The warmth of blood reaching your cells, the heart pumping a little bit stronger but still regularly. The joy of living tissue.
You are 100% right... I messed that up.
They were the most efficient.
Sorry about that!
> My impression is that they fear falling on their faces more than I do. Part of that, I'm sure, is just that online, I think, people are just meaner to women.

Part of that is also that women, in general, are much more sensitive to how other people perceive them; what their social "status" is. This can possibly be explained by their (prehistorical) roles as primary caretakers and being the "social glue" of small tribes. It could very well be deeply rooted in their biology.

With that said, I don't think it's relevant in this case. There are many other lines of work where women are in the majority where it's also easy to repeatedly fall on your face.
That's what we've got from switching from Lisp machines to x86 and C.

It's funny how the 'stitching strings together' problem was solved 50 years ago and the modern web still didn't get the memo.
> Walmart and Target earn between three and four cents on the dollar; a typical McDonald’s franchise restaurant earns around six cents on the dollar before taxes, according to an analysis from Janney Capital Markets.

Those numbers say nothing about how many cents on the dollar their retail employees currently cost. A cashier can easily check out thousands of dollars of merchandise an hour.

I can virtually guarantee retailers pay more in credit card processing fees than they do for their retail employees. Of course, Target reflects this with their 5% Red Card. And many smaller retailers reflect this by either (a) not taking credit cards or (b) only taking certain cards.
Bacteriophage-based hacking anyone?
But this is an issue which varies a lot by geographic region. So it depends entirely where the soft drinks are being produced. Most places don't pull water from aquifers.

Also I have no idea where they are even getting this number. I think they are counting everything from rainwater that falls on the sugar beets, to the, water used by steam engines to produce electricity. But it's hard to tell because they don't explain the figure at all.
You misunderstand what I meant. Nobody has written or suggested that webpack outputs script tags or AMD. I simply stated that webpack markets itself as using script tags and AMD as input, which is true: from the meta description on webpack.github.io:

"Webpack is a module bundler. It packs CommonJs/AMD modules i. e. for the browser"

If you use AMD as input you have to get updates to your libraries separately, and your libraries are bloated since AMD modules tend to use dependencies less.

You should also check out https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I'm working on a windows app to pull tabular data straight from a PDF into excel. http://www.3xfour.com Currently working on adding a web hosted version to pull the data as a csv, but have way to go. Would welcome any feedback Thanks
I don't see how it could possibly be true, even RO "wastes" only several times the amount of water produced. Where does all the water go?
Read the essay under the comic.
Why not run the world on nuclear power? With breeder reactors, there is enough uranium for more than million years of current world electricity consumption. Nuclear energy is cheap, and modern reactor designs are safe.
> Middle East conflict

Middle East is a big place; there's no single "conflict" the whole region is involved it, but a complicated mess of all of them.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2015/03/Sh...
Our planet is getting hot, so we will have lot of vapor -> rains -> fresh water. Just collect it instead of dumping it into river or ocean.
Picture of Dora: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00528/34242...

Dora's parents: https://www.geni.com/people/Dora-Philby/6000000013566932381
Good point!

The trouble is just that many popular sources of energy has lot of negative effects ;-)
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Energy is about the only resource where this doesn't hold true.
> Sorry, what? Literally the first time I've heard anyone claim that textbooks are better than in-person one-on-one tutoring by an educator, which is what we're comparing to, right? (Getting help in-person from the TA.)

A huge number of software developers are autodidacts. The implication is you don't know many people.
ONLY increasing communication throughput and decreasing prices and latency by orders of magnitude. That's got to be the understatement of the year :)

Imagine it's 1980 and you want to create wikipedia and provide it to 3 300 000 000 users (roughly the amount of people on Earth that have internet now). How would you price that?

We did it for free because of internet.
While this is true at some level, there are certain benefits to performance tested, well-thought-out libraries that encapsulate good approaches to problems the standard library does not solve.

I think the bigger problem was that it seemed like a whole bunch of folks wanted to be the one to write "the next big web framework", and they didn't really understand the value and usability of the standard library. Those frameworks are generally not necessary.

Echo is not those frameworks. It's worth a look at the value it provides rather than knee-jerking "no frameworks!".
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> though the adaptation of SICP written for python.

Do you have a link to this? A quick google didn't seem to turn up anything that was obviously what you were referring to.
Another reason to fear them: Raccoon Roundworm, which they spread through their feces.

It can destroy your eyes and brain!

Sometimes raccoons crap near my house, and I practically put on a hazmat suit to clean it up (I wear disposable gloves, pour boiling water over the site and then double bag it before throwing it in the trash,)

[...] zoonotic infection of humans is rare, though extremely dangerous due to the ability of the parasite's larvae to migrate into brain tissue and cause damage. Concern for human infection has been increasing over the years due to urbanization of rural areas resulting in the increase in proximity and potential human interaction with raccoons.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylisascaris_procyonis
Where do tools like the Automatic adapter [1] fit in to this? I don't own one but it connects to OBD-II and my understanding is can be used to do things such as clear warnings etc.

[1] https://www.automatic.com/home/
Singing along to rap whilst walking down the street remains an exercise in paying attention to who is around me. If I'm alone you can be damned sure I'm singing the whole thing. It's far from just that word which is completely inappropriate - but hell I'm having fun.
I wish that he translated the algorithm in a common language so more people can read it.
Is the BEAM model much different from Go's goroutine scheduler?
There's nothing wrong about being dumb as long as you want to do something about it.

Here's a couple of women that have made me feel exceptionally dumb (and want to do something about it) with the fascinating things they've had to say:

[1] - https://vimeo.com/109380788

[2] - https://vimeo.com/109380802

(disclaimer: I co-run the con these talks come from, but I still think they're great talks)
On top of that the author of http://libcello.org/ also had some trademark issues with using the name Cello for his project from yet another use of 'Cello'.

See:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4bnrn4/a_discu...
Actually, industry-wide, more like 20-25% of software developers are women. It's only in Silicon Valley and the startup milieu that 10% is the norm.
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Yes, I agree. I might have not worded my comment clearly enough. What I meant is: I don't see the world being full of nuclear powerplants right now, so we don't have a sustainable energy surplus to stupidly waste.

EDIT: Fixed wording in the original comment; I hope it's clearer now.
It's never cheap. It's plagued by construction cost overruns. We're having this problem with Hinkley Point C at the moment: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/11/edf-chief-ex...
And I thought that the exploit they used in Mr. Robot to remotely unlock all doors in a building at once was far fetched! This is basically exactly it.
brunch.io ftw. its been out there the whole time, way easier than grunt and gulp.
Almonds? Almonds are probably the most drought resistant plant grown for human consumption, it can grow almost anywhere without irrigation. In fact, too much moisture kills its roots.
The higher mg caffeine / mL of coffee mitigates that a bit, probably so it's 2x as bad instead of 4x as bad.
I thought the same thing about yogurt. The flavored ones have a lot of sugar and people I know say they want a less sweet version.

Then last week I met a man in the supermarket. We were both staring at various yogurts. I was comparison shopping; he was "spying" on the competition and the store. You see, he worked for a yogurt maker.

He asked me what I considered important and I asked him about reduced sugar variants. He said this topic came up over and over in market research. Customers demand reduced sugar. But when they do taste testing, most of those customers choose a product with mainstream sweetness. They want the idea of less sugar. But their tastebuds are not prepared for it.
Nope, they're dominated by a few because when a specific company becomes successful enough it can buy out the rest of the players.
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What about meat? Doesn't the animal industry also use insane amounts of water?