skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a question of incentives (Walmart has insufficient incentive to deal with this without the police) that could be solved by looking at how insurance handles things: If I'm in an accident, regardless of whether or not it's my fault, my rates go up.

It's like... So corporations are people. But they're a drastically different kind of person than you or I. They're divisible, they come in hugely different sizes, they have no incarnation, etc etc.

Dealing with people as mere statistics is dehumanizing. But corporations? Aren't corporations basically just a complex bundle of statistics to begin with?

So, a human who calls the police a lot gets a talking to, maybe goes in front of a judge, maybe something else happens. They don't have to pay more taxes to repay society; for the sake of this argument, because they're a human. They're not divisible; they're not a statistic.

But, a corporation who calls the police a lot... Well, why not treat them statistically? It's not like they can get a talking to (it's an abstract entity with no emotions or capacity for reason), go in front of a judge (it's an abstract entity with no physical incarnation), it's not like the "something else" can be the usual for humans: jail (it's an abstract entity around which you cannot put a wall).

But a corporate IS a set of assets; so work with it on that level. Charge it based on the requirements it makes to society. Pick a cut-off range (like a tax bracket) where it transitions from "not responsible for local crime" to "clearly responsible for local crime".

The taco stand down the street is clearly not responsible for local crime. It's a truck.

The Walmart super center is clearly responsible for local crime. It, in an of itself, is a locality.

Or... Well, I don't know, so I've got to ask: How do large buildings "pay" for other emergency services? Fire, hospital, etc? (I know for fire at least, there's also passing inspection)
It's a bit different, the symptoms regarding Zika are really strong, that's why people are certain it's Zika because you fall in bed really. So if I get through "transmission" I would get the same symptoms.. it's hard to understand but if you understand the different types of Dengue and their symptoms you will understand how Zika is different and it's not soft (like a cold or virus flu).
Huh, despite being the "GNU" calendar program, gcal is in fact generally named gcal on GNU/Linux. On my Debian GNU/Linux machine, /usr/bin/cal is from bsdmainutils, and gcal is in its own package (as with Homebrew).
> Doing programming challenges is good mental practice, but they do little to help someone learn how to create a new program.

What does that have to do with the topic of knowing how to program, but not having a what? That is shifing the topic to "I don't know how to program very well; how can I get more practice".

How about developing an expert assistant program which helps writers stay focused on a topic?

People who actually know how to develop can have this problem.
Copying my other comment:

Apparently they do secure to the deck after landing.

Discussed here: http://space.stackexchange.com/q/6403/574
I'm a bit surprised at the graphics they have shown so far. I originally saw a screenshot and assumed it was a mobile game rather than a full-fledged AAA title for the PC.
This isn't new either, was shared a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9763980
That's only a meaningful answer if simple traffic behavior wasn't already revealing the same information. Was it, or wasn't it? I feel like I'm having a hard time getting a straight answer.
I know how to program, but most of the stuff i want to program are too complex/advanced for me to create.
I had the same realisation a few years ago. I switched from CS to math and physics. It is definitely more challenging but I do not regret the switch. Plus I discovered math can be quite fun.

Most of the most challenging software requires domain knowledge that CS/software devs do not have. Ultimately it is easier to go from a math/physics background to CS/software development than the other way round.
The right way to buy Firaxis games is to buy the "Complete Edition" or whatever. Civilization N with all expansions are almost always better than the base Civilization N+1 game.
If I understand that page correctly, the only real difference is that Github arbitrarily prevents you from using the same deploy key for multiple repositories. If they lifted that restriction, this problem would go away.
I think the biggest issue is likely to be a misunderstanding about this person's view of the word "milf". Namely, that this person's view of the world is completely unacceptable and the word should never find its way into a professional setting. It seems like that word in particular has caused so much of the emotional response in this thread. It is OP's gimmick name, it is referenced in nearly every negative comment, and it is the only feedback in many comments.

The point you make about him doing it to someone on a PIP or other situations is a great point, and it really is the core of the issue.

However, I think while this person's behavior is unacceptable, if we remove him calling the co-worker a milf, the entire situation changes. I'm willing to give this person a second chance, and a permanent red-mark on their HR record.

In regards to what the victim wants, I completely agree. My point was just to help ease the founder's guilt in potentially breaking her trust. You can't break her trust if you keep her in the loop and are transparent about the steps you will be taking.
Had I written it in IPA, people would be complaining about that, too...

It's /kɛər/, as you can see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English

And, for the record, I have the Mary-marry-merry merger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes...
My company, for one, was actually in the middle of shifting to BitBucket off of Github, because the costs were becoming unjustifiable.

We have a growing number of repos that are more-or-less "finished" projects, and few if any changes are made per year. Accounting was starting to groan... and BitBucket's model fit our small team almost perfectly, although Github's UI, flow, etc, was, in our opinion, still better. New talent almost always has an existing Github account we can integrate, instead of needing to make and manage a new BitBucket account.

Now, with this news, we'll just reverse course and stick it out with Github.
Sometimes there are no great alternatives :(

I still use Sparrow for email on Mac. Would use it on iOS too, but it's quite buggy in iOS9. Spark is _almost_ as good as Sparrow on iOS, but it's free which makes me wonder whether they're doing some kind of data mining for revenue and how long they will be around.

P.S. +1 for fantastical, it's great!
It is possible to make Go redis modules since go 1.5 thanks to the c-shared buildmode, I would be surprised if there wasn't a go package to make it easy within the month.
Not to get off on too much of a tangent, but you may be interested in concatenative programming languages. They’re a variety of stack-based programming languages with a functional flavour, in which the default style is a sort of data pipeline. For example, in Factor[1]:

! Just some imports.
USING: accessors smtp ;

! Create a new email object.
<email>

! That object is piped implicitly to these setter words.
! E.g., >>from: ( email new-address -- email )
"alice@example.com" >>from
{ "bob@example.com" } >>to
"Coffee?" >>subject
"You pick the time and place." >>body

! Pipe that object on to the “send-email” word.
send-email

Note how no local variables are necessary for simply plumbing data around—although of course you can use them if you want.

The weirdest thing is probably that arithmetic in most concatenative languages is written in postfix, which you may find off-putting. But it’s no worse than Lisp’s prefix notation, and has some other benefits.

Factor also has an excellent interactive environment; the whole thing feels like a Lispy Smalltalk.

[1]: http://factorcode.org/
I happily use Facebook. There are a large organization that has its faults, just like any organization. And, it's important to have critiques like this one of the company and its practices. But, I have no shame in using it and recommend everyone to have a Facebook login, just because of the value it provides to send out news and informations for local organizations.
You can get negative day-ahead prices quite frequently due to congestion depending on what lines, generators, transformers, etc are out.
QUER UM HACK MINB
And I'm still sitting here and waiting for Age of Empires 4 :/
As mizzao pointed out, Canadian universities are publicly funded. Tuition rates went up a few percent over the course of my 5-year degree, and the most I paid for a year of studies was ~5600 at UBC (the lowest being ~5400). It really is nothing like the publisher UdeM is complaining about.
Electron has gotten a lot of criticism for being bloated. Are there any good alternatives for making desktop apps that are scripting language based? I’d especially like to use Lua(JIT), but I’m not aware of anything anywhere near as reliable, cross-platform, easily deployed, and easy to build interfaces in as Electron. I’m not the biggest fan of the JS and/or the JS ecosystem, but I would love the speed, lightness, and convenience of another language (just look at how fast and lean Lua with LuaJIT is!) with the power that some JS tools like Electron have to offer.
You are jumping to a whole lot of conclusions there.
I've met with some recruiters in the past (when I was looking for an engineering role) and it was a total waste of time. I got the sense that they just brought me in to see where I had already interviewed so they could get leads on who was hiring. I am wrong to think that, or do you know of recruiters who do that?
That’s the KDE Plasma Desktop – I am running it on ARCH Linux, but the new Kubuntu (which I have on my laptop, and looks exactly the same) http://www.kubuntu.org/ has the same desktop.

The wallpaper is from http://imgur.com/gallery/dbELn
It would be interesting to see the lessons learned. I do plain old IntelliJ development without any web stuff at the moment, so it was a surprise to learn that things were being exposed to the web.
So...GitLab looks better and better every day.
> And as they pay property and sales taxes

They often fight their local assessment, and argue it down as much as possible.

=============

At its retail stores, windowless concrete boxes that carry a low value for property-tax purposes, the company saved an average of $40,000 a store where it filed a challenge, the report found. The distribution center savings averaged $289,000 for each challenge, it said.

The report suggested that Wal-Mart saves about $3 million annually from challenging property tax bills, a small sum compared with the company’s revenue, nearly $1 billion a day.
=============

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/business/10prop.html?_r=0

Yes, this is 10 years old now, but not sure there's been much of a corporate culture change to stop doing this.

$40k would definitely go a long way towards funding a police officer in many areas.
I was planning on writing a Go module wrapper but didn't get to it before RedisConf.

I'm more interested though to see when a JS module wrapper gets implemented.
More facts from http://www.cdc.gov/zika/symptoms/

* Most people infected with Zika virus won’t even know they have the disease because they won’t have symptoms.

* The illness is usually mild with symptoms lasting for several days to a week.

* People usually don’t get sick enough to go to the hospital

You believe your friends had Zika. bit they may not have. Given the Zika epidemic, I wouldn't be surprised if lots of sick people assumed they had Zika but in fact had something else. And, even if they had Zika, your anecdote does not trump what the CDC and WHO tell us.
Not being paid as much as you deserve is actual fraud, though.
With that same logic, a recruiter isn't also incented to get you a dream-job either, lest you never re-enter the job search market.

Personally, I don't have a problem with recruiters. My skills are marketable enough that it doesn't hurt to have someone else looking to place me in a job.
The problem is that by definition, such bills would be endorsed by people without huge amounts of property and money, while being utterly condemned by the likes of Wal-Mart. That asymmetry only ever ends in one way.
Wow. That story was more like a Hollywood movie script than the tale of a video game console company. Some of it reminded me a bit of the Paul Le Roux thing posted here a few weeks ago (especially the 'move to international waters before trying to throw enemies to the sharks' part).

Either way, this is the sort of journalism we should be seeing more of nowadays. Not the early BuzzFeed style clickbait that most online media seems to be producing day in and day out.
The "what" is also about yourself. To be a complete programmer, as a creative artisan, you have to generate requirements and specifications, not only code. Ken Thompson didn't wait for PRD from product management before starting Unix.

Being able to generate the "what" is necessary even if you're working on other people's requirements. This is because other people's requirements are usually not so detailed that code will pop out. There are plenty of gaps where your creativity is required to go from the high level spec to the detailed spec. That's the design aspect of development.

The requirements leave out the "how": but hiding in every "how" is plenty of "what"! "This requirement doesn't say how such and such is to be achieved: what do we choose to satisfy that?"

Someone who has no idea or interest in programming something if left without external requirements is probably not a great designer; he or she is lacking at least some aspect of the "maker" instinct. The maker is defined by making; you would have to wrestle the craft out of a true maker's hands.

If you get a completely detailed spec handed to you, then you're just a "coding technician". Someone will make a programming language which directly executes such a spec, and you're obsolete.
It's IPA. It's the closest thing we have to an actual way to write down how people pronounce things which has any chance at all of being useful.

This "'foo' as in 'bar'" stuff is worse than useless most of the time, as you've just been shown.
So, everybody wins. The users got a free product for a few years, Sunrise got acquihired.
> Don't people "feel" that Monday is the first day of the week because the weekend is over and they have to get back to work?

No, I feel that Sunday is the day of rest I start my week with, then I do some work, and finally I rest again: in that way my day is a microcosm of my week (and one might think that in a more primitive society my year would be a macrocosm, as I did more work spring-summer than during the winter).

I personally detest calendars which display Monday as the first day of the week, and am genuinely curious why ISO chose that.
Unless you have an infinite number of monkeys, there's likely some design to your API. This doesn't need to be documentation, but it can be.
Really excited about this. This is another reason why Scala is an extremely valuable tool these days. With Scala JVM, Scala.js with React Native and now with Scala Native (LLVM), there'll be literally nothing you can't do well with it.
I agree, I bought Civ 5 about a year ago on sale with all expansions and DLC for a small penny. Vanilla Civ 5 feels like an incomplete game with zero replay value. I'll most likely pick up Civ 6 in five years.
> People have been relying on inaccurate sources like yclist.com to figure out who we've funded.

The one time I emailed the yclist.com maintainer with a correction, he made the change within fifteen minutes.
> where the crime involved targeted other people on the premises

That seems to be a key difference.
> Stealing less than $100 in FL is a 2nd degree misdemeanor, usually just punished by a fine and probation. No private prison is making money from a misdemeanor shoplifting arrest.

Fine collection and private probation is just as fucked up. http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/04/pr... http://www.npr.org/about-npr/314011043/npr-news-investigatio...
Drat, the best calendar app I've used on Android (except for the 46 notifications it gave for Easter Monday, and 58 for the last English Bank Holiday).

I will miss it.
Graphiq has a much better search algorithm, or at least you've covered the primary use cases well.

Although, I'm curious, what is Graphiq's business model?
Minimal MQTT: Building a Broker
If I leave my car unlocked with the keys in the ignition and it gets stolen, I am a victim. I don't deserve to be punished for a mistake. If I do it once a week, I am still a victim but also an idiot who doesn't deserve much sympathy.

Not all of this is theft either. Walmart puts their customers in danger by inadequately patrolling their stores.
> Conversations like this are hard because accent doesn't transmit through text.

It does if you use IPA.
There are also lots of examples from Antirez himself in the source: https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/modules/h...
> I feel like that diminishes when we're talking about _any_ company

Agree. I should've put scare quotes around "victim blaming."
Ask HN: Sunrise Calendar alternatives?
My favorite calendar app, Sunrise, is finally shutting down altogether thanks to Microsoft [1]. I've come to rely on it so heavily that the product shutting down feels depressing to me. What are some other comparable products? (in terms of integrations, UX, and design) I'm not really interested in using Outlook...

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/11/11657960/microsoft-shutting-down-sunrise-app
I like common sense solutions. Unfortunately, most people don't.
This is definitely a winner since there's a dearth of tools that help streamers monetize their audiences in a more engaging way. I wonder if this becomes something that Twitch would want to build into the streams themselves so it's seamless and can embed the mini games and raffles in real time into the video feed?

The other thing that came to mind was that Revlo could probably find a huge audience in the adult entertainment space where cam sites have been the most popular format in the past few years. The combination of real time interaction with entertainers and the amateur (girl next door) aspect have really fueled the popularity of the format. My research suggests that the tools for streamers are severely lacking for an audience that is heavily monetized.
pro tip: you can do cmd+h to hide all windows
One should never blame the victim for sexual assault; victims should be able to dress/act how they please without fear.

vs.

One should blame the victim for theft; victims bear responsibility for securing their possessions.
Forbes is probably the worst one here. It's gone from a relatively well respected to publication to one that seemingly publish just about anything, and that's without even getting into their advertising issues.
And which "one way" is that?
GitLab's UI is pretty terrible, even compared to the not-so-great-either BitBucket UI.

GitLab's UI/UX is regressive to the point that when you visit a repo, you have to click another link just to see the damn sourcecode. It's as though they ignored every advance in source-code UX post-Sourceforge.

The stacked global and per-repo sidebars are confusing in a way that baffled me for several minutes, as well. They need a serious rethink of their UI/UX.
gcal -n --astronomical-holidays
> Are you suggesting that the ability to completely circumvent a system doesn't make that system broken?

A system can be broken without being useless.

>If the goal of WhatsApp encryption is to protect against surveillance

You skipped an import word from the post you replied to: "mass". Even with a hole in SS7, it makes it impractical to collect messages from everyone, even if it's practical to collect messages from specific targets.
I mean, do you really use a product from a non-name company and expect to have it stick around for years?
I'm looking at this one [0]. Specifically this item in the FAQ:

> Will GitHub force me to move to per-user pricing after 12 months?

> No. At this time we are not enforcing a timeline to move and if in the future we do decide to set a timeline we are committing to giving you at least 12 months.

[0] https://github.com/blog/2164-introducing-unlimited-private-r...
> The quality of twitch channels is vastly influenced by the tools employed in them. The production behind popular channels is extremely impressive, it makes sense that these tools are popping up.

This is incredibly true: custom OBS plugins, custom graphics and animations, automatic triggers based on donations and subscriptions, game event integration, run timing, and especially tools that make it easy for streamers to engage without being distracted. Standing out on Twitch is about the streamer and their channel, not just the game they're playing; very few popular channels are just a game or game and facecam anymore.
Adam (one of the cofounders) here. Our long-term goal is definitely to help creators interact with and engage their fans regardless of what platform they use. Twitch was a natural starting point because interaction already plays such a critical role in the content.
It's kind of a shame that there is probably a solution to Zika sitting there waiting for regulatory approval in Oxitec's GM mosquitoes which were first successfully trialed in 2009. Maybe after another one or two million people have caught Zika they'll get around to using it.
"Everybody wins" would involve everyone walking away with equal or more than they had at the time of parting, which could be done by opening the source of the product instead of letting it die of bitrot.
Choosing convenience is still a choice. Many of my friends are probably on Facebook, but I neither know nor care. That doesn't mean I can't keep in touch.
CTO of Workshape.io here - we are a hiring platform for software engineers that's primary focus is matching developers to opportunities based on your passions and how you want to spend your time in your next role. When you match with a position you interface directly with someone at the company without any mediating through recruiters. Added bonus: there is no need for uploading your resume/CV!

With 2 of the founders being developers we can relate to the level of recruiter spam in this space and so we created Workshape.io to cut through the noise and make meaningful intorductions between developer and company based on shared requirements.

We have about 200 postings on the site right now spread across the globe, but mainly concentrated in Europe. That said though, we do cater for people seeking remote work + relocation so if you fall under that remit then you may find us even more useful.

Would love for you to check us out and would welcome any feedback.
In what way? Who is harmed? In which jurisdiction?
So get rid of all of the WalMarts... Do the shoplifters stop shoplifting? Do the panhandlers stop panhandling? Do the homeless stop sleeping wherever they can? I doubt it.
Tasked to carry the sky actually.
> TL;DR: our body emits different chemicals according to our humor, including while we're watching a movie.

So that's what people mean when they say I smell funny?
$1,230 is pretty cheap for the benefit to society of deterring crime.
This Is How You Land Your Dream Job
I think it's because many web apps wrapped by PhoneGap/Cordova are not optimized for touch and UX expectations on a mobile device. I've seen plenty of these "apps" which didn't even bother to properly deal with the tap delay.
How Blue Apron and HelloFresh Are Eating Whole Foods' Lunch
GRPC with REST and Open APIs
There's also the RedisModulesSDK repo that has a few helpers, plus a skeleton module with a makefile: https://github.com/RedisLabs/RedisModulesSDK
Just write to the companies you find interesting. I once got a job offer just because I mailed a in depth review/my thoughts to some CTO (I was not even looking for a job). Rare but happens + you stick out