skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People think I'm weird for doing it

I only think you're a little weird for telling them.
No, that's the strawman point you're making then knocking down. What I said is that Walmart was facing high amounts of crime against it and its customers. It had two ways to respond to that:

1. A set of practices that cost some money but reduce amount of damagd to it and its customers. This is the baseline response it originally had plus what many competitors are currently doing.

2. Get rid of all of those, let crime increase dramatically, pocket the money, and foot the expenses to taxpayers.

I think eliminating 1 for 2 is unethical and damaging to locals, including customers victims of resulting crime. I support allowing them to do it but encourage police departments to make it cost them as in the article. That they did a 180 after that shows this is entirely motivated by profit.
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> anyone "educated" or "smart" knows or wants to learn English anyway, regardless of where he lives

Not even a little. Living in Shanghai as a foreigner, my social circle is heavily biased towards people who can speak to me in English. But it's still not enough to hide the fact that English ability among the most highly educated ranges from "fluent" (for those who went to specialized English schools) to "rudimentary" (it's true that at the top levels, everyone knows a bit), and desire to know English ranges from "intense personal interest" to "zero".

Wanting to learn English gets a big boost lower down the ladder, where the economic benefits of a solid grasp of English are painfully apparent. Just being a service worker in a part of town that caters to tourists is a huge step up for a lot of Chinese.
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Gaming is my passion, my hobby, and by far my largest expense save mandatory things such as my mortgage. I don't understand why this means that I cannot say that Windows 10 is upsetting to me unless I give up a huge part of my identity. It is an unfortunate situation from which there is little recourse for people like me.
> A rebase should not be part of any everyday workflow and must be reserved _only_ for exceptional situations

Git rebase is absolutely a vital part of the developer toolkit. If you're not using it, you're missing out on a big timesaver and git feature.

I think you must be talking about rebasing public commits/history. In the article he is specifically talking about private history and has a nice big warning against rebasing public history. Linus has explained the distinction pretty well before: http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/... .
None of those arguments are particularly compelling. My suspicion is that this will lead to new forms of digital lockdown, since it effectively ends the analog hole on phones. Additionally, it replaces a know ultra-cheap technology with something that will be more expensive or can be pushed to be more expensive in the long run.
Exactly what Im saying. Plus robberies, rapes, and/or murders if violent thugs see Walmart as a free for all with low risk of conviction due to corporate apathy. Article indicated it was already happening. Does in worst parts of our larger city when security investments are weak.
Are you just a professional contrarian?

No.

Why are you concerned about system calls in a HLL?

Because in many HLLs, fork(2) is the best (or sometimes the only) option for concurrency. As in C, it is certainly the simplest.

Many things written in HLLs use fork. Unicorn is perhaps the most famous example.

Why are you concerned with concurrency guarantees in a HLL?

Because if I have multiple threads of execution, I want them to run in parallel if possible, and I want to minimize the risk of deadlocks. fork(2) does both.

You care about none of these, you care about your run time. This is why you are working in a HLL.

No. I care about them, as demonstrated above. And I don't know what you mean by care about my runtime. I would go so far as to claim that the above is an insult to me and everybody else who uses an HLL.

I care about getting stuff done. If C is the right tool for that, I'll use it. If an HLL is the right tool, I'll use it. And if syscalls are the right tool for the job, I'll use them, too.
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Thanks for the pointer. I'm actually a big fan of Vue.js and use it in several product sites/apps. However, if one is just wanting some componentization/isolation in their CSS and not actually building a javascript app, then it's kind of overkill.
Also, while it does allow you to keep your component code in different files, by the time the browser is using your CSS it's still all in one big "global namespace" (so to speak), so you still need to enforce some discipline on your css class names, even if they're in different files.
(Or perhaps I'm wrong about this and vueify modifies your classes or selectors or something to avoid this?)
I know the inclination is to change link baity headlines but I think the original hed, "The media is ruining science", is far more to the point than the current hed, "Scientific community making an effort to end the stream of misleading articles". The problem is most definitely rooted in the media, which not only disseminates misinterpretations, but also provides harmful incentives to scientists and journals to cheapen their work.

Furthermore, unlike what the current hed implies, there's not much evidence that there's a concerted systemic effort by the scientific community to fix this, nevermind "end" it. I'm not saying they don't want things to improve, I'm saying I don't see a concerted, organized effort to make significant improvement.
I think the real issue is that once child prodigies turn into adult prodigies, their stories are much less interesting. Of course the WP is going to write a story about a 12 year-old genius, but readers won't be so interested in a 24 year-old wunderkind.
That wasn't my take from the article. If anything, it sounds like he's calling out employers for profiting (significantly) from the same kind of word-bending you're describing: by telling low-wage earners, when they show up for work the first day, "Oh BTW, you're not getting paid for setting up and tearing down your workspace each day. Because you know, that's not really work."

BTW it may be more accurate to describe the authors as policy researchers, rather than journalists.
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Check out http://tachyons.io.

It has a scale for widths, margins, paddings and fontsizes.

Specify pl1 to pl7 and get padding-left from 0.25 to 16rem.

w1 to w5 for width of 1,2,4,8,16rem.

f1 to f6 and f-headline for a proven typographic scale that makes sense.

Everything is relative to the fontsize. No more magic values!

Plus the scale are powers of two so integers only and everything always adds up. No more off-by-1-pixel errors!

And there's even a port for react-native: http://github.com/fab1an/react-native-style-tachyons.
If you are able to get it working once, you're generally going to be able to automate it where the 3 month limit is irrelevant. Requiring longer time horizons stem from non-standard setups.
Well, not really. I had my gall bladder out about '08. I couldn't eat properly before it got out. It wasn't emergency, but the pain put me in the emergency room more than once. I didn't have gallstones, it quit working. It has been years since I got it out. I still have a few problems eating greasy foods (especially meat), but now generally avoid those and am mostly vegetarian. No other complications, and I have not required any sort of care for that surgery outside of that. Neither has my brother, who got his out about 5 years ago. Neither has my mother, who got hers out in 1978.

This type of thing isn't so much a pre-existing condition as much as they are "I had a health issue that was more severe than a simple infection". It isn't the same as "I have diabetes" or "I have chronic issues with x", which can cause expenses.
I bought a really cheap Windows machine a year ago, curious about Windows 10 (I have Linux on it now). I bought it directly from Microsoft's store, and as a 'signature edition', it had no 3rd party crapware installed.
> Google is already teaching its computers the basics of language. This May the company announced a system, dubbed Parsey McParseface, that can look at syntax, recognizing nouns, verbs, and other elements of text.

"is already teaching" ? This is a dead giveaway that the author is utterly lacking of experience with machine learning. Syntax parsing has been around for years, Google just released a more up-to-date implementation.

Why can't they proofread these articles with actual ML people?
From HN guidelines:

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Even if they are unmerited.
Comments like this are the reason I flag anything that looks like it will generate drama. Thanks for helping me make my point.
Good idea, didn't know about that.
Does anyone else here find the idea of using an airship for surveillance ridiculous?

It is very hard for me to countenance any military use for a giant, slow, fragile aircraft in the era of microsatellites and UAVs. The risk / reward for both engineering and personal seems way too high.

Personally, I'd love to use this to tour around the rocky mountains, but it seems more of a novelty.
> But, there should be a standard by which decisions are made other than "whatever the majority decides".

It seems like a standard is just a reason for choosing a given set of things to call rights and a given role for government, and we're all set to circle right back to where we were—the people with the power to affect government choosing those things, based on reasons (which was implicitly the case before, anyway). At some point there must be compelling evidence for selecting a given standard over any other, and one would hope that standard may change in the face of new evidence.
It encourages dialogue between more than two people, which is often a good thing. The quality of a discussion usually improves when more people participate.

It's rarely a problem if someone forgets to follow up since someone else will usually do it, at least if their views are shared by other people.

That being said, the "threads" page is useful for finding and responding to new comments in your threads if necessary.
What if you try http://www.hnreplies.com/ ?
I know you're using that stock picture as an example of cookie-cutter-stepford-wives-american-hoa-creepiness, but taking a look at those from the air I see a really good use of interior space for low-slung structures, and some charming garden/enclosed deck/pool design going on. Looks like there's some real cozy gems in that neighborhood.

You gotta get in your car to get most places, sure. But it could be much worse.
Well if you like vacation or planning to have a child, you should get a job in Sweden.

https://sweden.se/quickfact/parental-leave/
The Justy would probably have been more warmly remembered if it weren't for the oil pump bearings and CVT. I'm still always looking for a nice one.

As for the Element, it's seeing quite the resurgeance in interest as of late: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2016/08/no-fixed-abode-what...
You can have the procedure done then sue them when they won't pay for what they're contractually obligated to. You don't generally get a hospital bill until the procedure is done.
I am objecting to arguing about honeybee population with people who believe that there is a large-scale endangered native apis mellifera population in the US, but can't cite sources backing that (surprising) assertion up.

Any actual statistic I find, I'm sure someone can come up with a Calvinball objection to. I wouldn't mind if those objections came with their own data, but they tend to take the form of "no data is available to support this argument, ergo it should instead be supportable from first-principles reasoning". And then you find out 6 comments into the thread that the assumed first principles include things like "there are gazillions of wild honeybees in the US and they're all dying due to neonicotinoids".
I would like a mapping from my username to a well known person in tech :)
Fastly is not "some backend tool". Two seconds of Google'ing would reveal to you that they're a Content Distribution Network, aka CDN. They're the ones actually serving the content hosted on *.github.io:

host user.github.io
user.github.io is an alias for github.map.fastly.net.
github.map.fastly.net is an alias for prod.github.map.fastlylb.net.
prod.github.map.fastlylb.net has address 151.101.12.133

Cloudflare doesn't act as a CDN in this case. What Cloudflare does is proxy the request for you, and by virtue of them terminating the request they can serve an SSL certificate for your domain (either handed out by them or custom if you pay them).
See #2 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12308243

I'm actually quite curious about this.
I don't think this comment adds to the discussion at all. The comment is actually a great microcosm to the dearth of comment quality. 1)You would never know about this reply unless you sought it out. 2) Once you replied to it you said nothing of value to anyone. You even threw in an off topic item. Let me guess, you don't have a TV either? Perhaps you are a vegan....

This is what is flawed about comments. It becomes an ego circle jerk...Which is necessary to even generate comments in the first place ("oo look how much Karma I get") but ultimately destroys a conversation.
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Due to the DEX conversion.
You can have your ebooks printed.
> The amount of time it would take me to learn some useful CSS.

What's with the myth that CSS is hard? It's perhaps the easiest thing about web dev.

Learn flexbox, learn units of measurements, learn specificity, learn media-queries - 5 hours max (a week of lunch at the desk) playing around in JSfiddle, and you're most of the way there.

Bootstrap is fine but pulling in a framework that has 656 classes seems a little unnecessary most of the time.
Cash for clunkers brought an end to the "beater truck" era. All of the cheap used trucks vanished, used truck prices shot up and therefore manufacturers figured out they could raise the price of new trucks.
Isn't blaming everything on the media a bit too one-sided and simplistic?

We live in an era where diversity of media sources have exploded. Media companies compete fiercely with one another for clicks, readers, and ad revenue.

Perhaps the root problem is the media behaves the way it does because its consumers and the structure of the market makes it impossible for it not to.

TL;DR: click-baity and inaccurate news exists as a reflection of consumer preference
Virtues are generally disregarded by those who seek instant gratification.

Most of the times that I bring up the concept of virtue to my peers in age they seem either confused with the concept or contemptuous of it. They behave like virtue is a purely religious thing, yet caution in the face of possible danger is a very basic survival skill.
That case was against Medicare contractors. Not Medicare.
I'm not saying people shouldn't play games, hell, I'm a gamer myself. But we have to compromise in life, and when I fire up my Windows VM, I understand all the implications that come out of it: I might get malware, I might get my personal information sent to various sites, my OS might be upgraded to NewWinOs or downgraded to OldCrappyOs automatically and so on.

And this is freaking unfortunate for everybody involved, except the big companies like Microsoft, Google, FB, Apple, etc.
I don't think that's exactly what's going on here. As it happens, I agree that the mainstream media tend to be uncritically accepting of anything that seems to fit a neoliberal narrative, and that this is a big problem. However, in this case the comment being criticized, came across as a rather aggressive and jarring pivot in what had been a pleasantly - even surprisingly - balanced discussion, and I think that's the main reason it got so many downvotes.
The equivalent definitely exists in a software-only startup with enough users. In practice it's rarely the case that it's _one_ user, but that there are cohorts of users that want a certain thing you don't provide. I still agree with your point, though, that if those cohorts aren't gonna give you enough money you shouldn't let your development process get sidetracked by their desires.
The bit-rot struggle is real. XD
This is not new. This industry has been about trends since the first dot com boom - remember Java Beans?, J2EE, 3 tier architectures, blade servers, virtualization, Rails, full stack, Nosql and big data, ad infinitum. It's an industry like any other with its own signal to noise ratio. You can get frustrated about it or accept it and accept that's also what makes it an interesting industry to work in.
Huawei is competing with Cisco domestically (in China) as well. Cisco reported earnings of $1.6B in the China-Japan segment in Q3 [1]. Cisco still sells network equipment to ISPs and telecoms in China. There is no U.S. bogeyman in either country.

I am interested to hear your agenda. Clearly you don't work for Huawei, otherwise you would be better informed. Your insistence of this despite evidence to the contrary is backed by a personal belief. I'm interested in hearing your world view and want to know what that belief is.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/18/cisco-reports-q3-earnings-res...
I found this one of the more detailed articles about the differences and why one might favor react http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...
I feel like you would be responsible for any key presses on your laptop, regardless if made by the cat or not. Maybe someone can give an expert opinion.
I wonder if these moves will push more and more users to go down the pirating path of the Enterprise edition.
They don't need illusions about their basic computing skills. They need a drive-by installer, malware, or "tips'n'tricks" guide that gets them to do this.

People don't need to understand tools and systems to use them. Hell, they'll use things for millennia without knowing how they work (quite literally).
This article loses all cred cuz it does not have the toyota supra even on the list
The big story is the idea of expressing your UI as a pure function of the form f(data) = view and being able to compose those functions together. Before React, you couldn't do this in a performant, UX-positive way

Well that is just entirely pretentious.
I never understood why maternity + paternity leave isn't longer. Current corporate policy in America is insane for working parents. Especially when the US DoD gives 12 weeks maternity leave (http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/645958/carter-an...). As a dad who had to take care of his little one for the first 60 days of his life, I can say that paternity leave should be there as well for awhile. I found myself (as a DoD employee) in the precarious situation of working when my son was asleep, and early morning/late at night. Thankfully I was the boss so I could do that (and you know, anybody that worked for me got the same privilege). It's not easy. Moms are in no shape to go back after 1/2/3 weeks, heck not even 1 month. Moms need time to heal + time with the baby. Dads can help out with that process a lot! Unfortunately, most in the US view dads as not really essential to the parenting process. This is reflected in the DoD paternity leave policy which only grants 14 days. I think valuing the fathers input would likely enhance the stability of families (see Nordic countries quest for equal gender rights (https://www.nav.no/en/Home/Benefits+and+services/Relatert+in...). I wonder how Nvidia handles parents who don't fall into the "mother"/"father" categories. That's always a huge hole in some of these plans.
Jimmo v. Sebelius

The named defendant was the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The suit was over practices followed by Medicare contractors, but it's not like they were operating outside the knowledge of Medicare, they were acting as Medicare had directed them to act. The settlement agreement has Medicare changing the procedures the contractors will follow.
I wanted to buy the hacker bundle but missed it somehow, atleast i found this one now.
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* Trump is entirely delusional about why he’s losing. His new campaign shakeup proves it.

* Our robot panic is overblown

It seems like fixing the editorial problem is more fruitful than having researchers obfuscate their findings.
Precursor is built with clojurescript and om, correct?
Similar here - https://www.milenioplus.com - nothing too fancy, or technologically advanced, but clean and with clearly indicated call to action.
This is 90% HAML syntax, and not even very good HAML; the first line (`.col-md-8`) is even worse because of Bootstrap. The only real Ruby is on Line 4. I don't even know what Line 5 is trying to do.

Don't let this poor example turn you off from Ruby, its syntax is amazing. One of my biggest struggles with using other languages is just how ugly the syntax is, even in the best case.
> Japan after the war.

arches eyebrow

Is that not the poster child for extensive government intervention in markets and public/private partnership done right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_economic_miracle
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You can explain red by saying it's a "warm" color for example. Metaphors work, analogies, senstion from one sense can be explained using sensations from another. Now you need to have at least one sense, which machines clearly don't.
I use Middleman almost exclusively. It gives me almost the simplicity of Jekyll but with all the flexibility of writing and including Ruby whenever I feel like it (which can be bad...). I've written things that are almost akin to a small read-only Rails app except the data is stored as YAML files.

If I had to move from Ruby, I think I'd give Lektor (made by the creator of the Python Flask web framework) a deep look. Besides being a static site framework, its creator has endeavored to build a client-friendly GUI, making it a potential way to build static sites that can be maintained by laypersons. It has a very opinionated structure, which had caused me to rethink how I arrange files in my other static projects: https://www.getlektor.com/
How is "responsible disclosure" Orwellian?
The government, led by the people, has an ethical obligation to extend rights to parents...to include longer maternity and paternity leave for all gendered categories of parents.
Fixing a broken apt update is easier than fixing a broken Windows update, though.
I wonder what's the probability of this OOM event to be an actual OOM event. At least they could've told how often they're correct
I live in Hawaii. When I need something mailed to or from here, I use USPS. FedEx or UPS are an order of magnitude more expensive and, in my experience, not faster or more reliable.