skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you say yourself, there is no formal investigation. So there is no point to the "learning" you are suggesting. Indeed, we have had recent reforms. And if you oppose them, please do not hide it behind snide remarks. Those reforms, in essence, were as follows: Before the reforms, punishable sexual misconduct was given only in the case the victim opposed it actively. Actively meaning not words, but actual corporal, physical defense actions. What is new after the reforms, is that the victim now has to utter a recognizable will to not suffer the actions.

As we are talking about penal laws, it is still needed to establish proof of this recognizable will.

About reputation: penal laws do not have to do with that. Again, as you state, this can be seen in this case where there is no formal investigation.
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I don't see a good reason why a turing machine can't simulate a brain, or even a whole universe
Isn't it more efficient for more crime to be in one place? They can send a van to take arrestees to jail instead of individual trips; the Walmart employees are likely more effective at implementing proper procedure than a store that has one or two incidents a year, etc.
Are you saying that his partying put the security of the Tor project at risk? For what reason?
Not sure about an army, but I think the point is that they are actively consuming a public service more often because they have cut their own costs, instead of paying for a deterrent themselves.
Wouldn't that be how you establish yourself as a know-it-all? (I haven't read the article yet)
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This looks super handy for finding new publications to read on Medium. My only suggestion is to make the list sortable by topic -- and it looks like you are already working on that.
I've said it before and I'll say it a thousand times more, a 'business-oriented' rebrand of discord (basically ditch all the gamery shit and allow people to host their own servers on their own hardware) would basically be pure profit.
The question I wonder is this:

Of the first 10 non-founding engineers—i.e. those who almost certainly took a salary cut in exchange for equity—how many will be able to retire off of an upcoming multi-billion dollar IPO?

Retirement is a very hazy metric, so let's say How many have at least 1/3 of a 1% stake? Remember these are the people were with the company at its most fragile time and this is a massive success.

I have no insider information, but based on what I know of other YC companies thus far, I'd say that the founders almost certainly have double digit percentages and that less than half of the first 10 engineering hires have even a third of one percent.

On a related note, I wish Andrew Mason a roaring success with his post-Groupon endeavors.
I also worked at Best Buy in the late 90s. Every store had a "shrink budget" that was the total number of money they expected to lose do to theft, and errors. If a store came in under it's shrink budget, a percentage of the difference was evenly distributed among the employees. I think the most I got was $400, my 19 year old self was very happy with that.
> What about the standard of "I'm young and this is a side project I'm doing in a couple of hours at the weekends"?

Well, even someone who's young (for values of 'young' older than high-school age) is probably spending more than that every month on beer, food & entertainment each …
I don't know if Jacob assulted anybody. He might have. He seems like a jerk, but that's not really enough to punish someone.

Also, the article use the word "hacker" wrong.

/nitpick
I live in the suburbs of Austin and the Walmart here just closed. It's a middle class and upper-middle class suburb and they said the store performed poorly because people in this neighborhood shop at Target and Amazon.
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What exactly should walmart do?

Run a private police force that inevitably harms criminals during the law enforcement process? (The article criticizes them for doing this.)

Maybe walmart can run it's own on-site jail that way the cops only need to come once/day? I'm sure a private walmart run jail won't attract the same criticism, particularly when the inevitable bad things happen in it.

Or maybe they can hire more security guards to follow around suspicious people in the store. I'm sure that will help stop the criticism, even if the demographics of suspicious people don't correspond to population demographics.

From what I can tell, the problem isn't walmart but the people who shop there. But this is obviously a politically unacceptable conclusion, so walmart makes a convenient scapegoat. And they'll remain one no matter what they do.
Your suggestion feels a little misguided. You end your post by saying that you contest the a priori idea of branching, but seem to forget everything that is right about branching in the first place:

* Want to see the history for a specific feature? Impossible in your proposal, native in a feature/topic branching model.

* Want to do a code review on a specific feature? Again, impossible in your proposal, trivial in a feature/topic branching model.

* Want multiple developers to work under the same codebase with minimal conflict resolution and clear separation of tasks? Very hard under your proposal, easy in a feature/topic branching model.

You also say that using topic branching means not doing CI. I've used the idea of proper feature branching for years, and have never _not_ had a CI process. CI tools are most definitely ready for (and are quite welcoming of) workflows like git-flow. I'd be happy to speak at more length about how we implement it if you'd like, but I assure you it is all but complicated.
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Run the Python cron job every five minutes. It checks the condition of all data sources. You don't need a server to do this, you can run this from your house!
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You don't know what you are talking about. Appelbaum's personality is such that he flaunts his departures from the norm for all to see.

But polyamory is extremely common in the security community, as is a skeptical attitude towards the state and its war on drugs. You'll find it in the dreadlocked hacker and the married academic.
Two people published open letters resigning from their involvement in Tor yesterday:

https://www.oneeyedman.net/?p=2581

https://shiromarieke.github.io/tor
> So, why not ditch AWS and use GCP?

It's a Google product offering, which means it could be EOLed tomorrow. Or this afternoon. Or maybe it already has — better go check their blog.
Presumably the data shows that petty shop lifting is a fact of business for big box stores and that the level of petty shop lifting goes up and down with staffing levels on the store floor.

The shoplifters are still the ones to blame for the shoplifting, but it's not entirely unreasonable for the town to demand some level of performance from the store rather than happily providing expensive police to deal with a problem the store could handle with cheap employees.
There are a lot of people with very poor typing skills. It's a nice idea, and speech recognition is just now getting good enough to allow it. Google has also put a speech to text button on their search boxes.
> I wish we'd get over blaming things and get to being honest and admit the problem is people.

The problem has always been people. That's why we have civilization in the first place: to create a structure where people are reasonably safe from the predations of other people.

People were still people 10 or 20 years ago, but Walmart didn't have the same crime problem. Asking them to return to previous staffing levels so that their stores are safer for customers and the community doesn't sound like a shocking burden to me.
There have been several reports from the justice department indicating that over policing and a judicial system that penalizes being poor are widespread and ultimately exacerbate the problem.

If you have any say when your community does have revenue, it might be worthwhile to support solutions that don't amount to more police making more criminals.
DARPA is also forging ahead with memory prosthetics, despite all the neuroscience unknowns. The agency wants a clinical implant by 2018: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/darpa-project-st...
I worked in retail when I was a teenager and something I was taught was that keeping your store in good condition (i.e. fronting and facing the shelves) inhibits shoplifting and other crimes. If you see that the people who work there take pride in their store you might think they are watching and will catch you if you try to shoplift.

On a good day, the Wal*Mart in my area looks OK but on a bad day it looks like the aftermath of a frat party. On a day like that it looks like a ghetto store and just doesn't feel like a safe place. The local Target on the other hand could use more people at the checkout lines, but has a lot of staff on the floor to keep the store looking good and help out if you need to find something.
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> A squash merge is a rebase.

Well, it's not a rebase in the literal sense: the base commit isn't changing. It _is_ modifying history, though.
Thank you all for your feedback.
Micro-services are the current-year deity of the cargo-cult that is Silicon Valley.

Unlike the natives, however, who simply wasted some time building extraneous fake runways, in the Valley people are royally screwing up their own core architecture.

I'm old enough to find this more humorous than frustrating.
We have a lot of sales and we don't have investors lining up at the door.
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Did the crime rate go up in other places as a result of police resources being re-routed?

Did the crime rate in the town overall go up?
Yes, that works when the network is small enough to put literally every computer in the hosts file. But once your local sysadmin tires of updating the file every time some university across the world plugs in a computer, it starts falling apart.

To the original point, if I somehow plugged my time warped laptop into arpanet, nobody would be able to send me email until I made a bunch of phone calls.

(But thanks for the correction, I'd overlooked even earlier history.)
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There are more international Walmarts than US Walmarts[1]. ~6k vs 4k

[1]http://www.statista.com/statistics/269405/number-of-stores-o...
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I would definitely refrain from drawing conclusions on trends gained from news and radio. The positive feedback loops in that ecosystem are large.
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If you'd like to refresh your memory, the game is playable online under client-side emulation at https://archive.org/details/msdos_Portal_1986 .
In what sense are CRDTs "leaky"? Do you mean that they aren't composable in the way linearizable registers ostensibly are? It turns out that partially commutative monoids combined with invariants can form "logically atomic specifications" that emulate linearizability, and are thus composable: http://plv.mpi-sws.org/iris/paper.pdf. And there are ways to get consistent reads out of CRDTs, too: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~lkuper/papers/threshold-queries-d.... I'm not saying that all CRDTs fall into this framework, but it's at least nonobvious to me.
So you are perfectly happy with walmart branded cops roaming their property, using force against people and putting them in a walmart branded jail until the real cops come to pick them up?

Note that in reality this option inevitably includes walmart cops accidentally beating up an innocent black person, a sympathetic sick mother dying in walmart jail of some pre-existing medical issues, and similar things. (All I'm assuming here is that walmart cops/jails are identical to US Govt cops/jails.)

You'll have no problem with walmart when these things occur? You're sure that the media won't criticize them for this as well?
Note that the demographic data can be argued but the core message of victim of their own success remains.

A world without walmart would have the police called to 3 of 20 small mom and pop shops and no individual shop would be considered the bad actor. A monopoly retail provider exists and 100% of retail police calls, 3 per day, will be at the monopoly provider and therefore the monopoly provider is causing crime or something. There's 3 police calls either way...

The police can't be called to Mom and Pop's shoe store for shoplifting because Walmart closed them down. And people who gotta steal shoes, have to do it at a store that's still open. So, walmart.
What's a reasonable solution? If there's more crime than the Seabrook PD can handle, then hard decisions have to be made. It seems they either need to increase taxes to hire more police or start deciding what laws won't be enforced when police are not available.
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Thanks, that has sure assuaged my qualms -.-
>The reality is that Walmart is a victim of their own success in some ways.

I agree to some extent. There is a term Walmart scale, and it is defined as things that have a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of happening happen 10 times a day at Walmart.

Walmart is targeted, for example, there might be 2x as many Walgreens or CVS locations, but while their revenues are $100-$150B Walmart is closer to $500B and they have 100,000,000 customers enter their stores every week and that is attractive to criminals. Also, I want to note, Walmart shoppers are a much larger cross section than just the poorest of society, in fact you can easily find stores where the average income of their shopper is $80k/year.

Walmart is a target for all kinds of crimes, from their parking lot to shop lifting to cons. I was recently in Bentonville pitching one of my side projects at their HQ, and this topic came up, one ongoing scheme currently taking place consists of a group going into stores with fake documentation from HQ (complete with fake Bentonville phone numbers and fake voicemail) and they literally set up a photo portrait store inside the Walmart in-store leasing locations. Walmart customers are going in and getting portraits done and the group just closes up shop and disappears (the irony, not a single Walmart customer has complained about their experience).
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This is the argument the article is making too.

WalMart markets itself to a demographic most likely to commit crime and doesn't adequately set up it's own security to prevent crime in and around it's stores.

That is, instead of spending money on internal security resources it offloads it's security problems on the local police. Crime is being punished instead of prevented.

It should be put into law that businesses with lax security share a greater portion of the public cost of the crime which results as well as punitive measures for the irresponsible situation they created.
I wish people would discuss this more often.

You get "horrible mcmansion suburbs", in large part because they are cheap. People have to live somewhere, and anything that isn't a suburban detached house is unaffordable for 95+% of the American population. People pose this as a choice, but when the only alternative is crappy apartments or being homeless -- it's not really a choice.

I'd love to live in a Brownstone, or a Townhouse, or a Highrise, or a "dense urban area" that can support some form of functional public transit. Someday, I might be a millionaire who can afford that. Until that happens, I live in a suburban box, and drive everywhere, just like every other person in this entire state. Suburbs aren't cheap -- but they're the only somewhat-affordable housing option in the nation.
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It says visitors, not visitations.
Σ$0.02: Perhaps a way to contribute to the world would be to figure out how to get rid of Facebook: https://stallman.org/facebook.html

Σ$0.04: Mark Zuckerberg mentions talk on the threat of AI as fear mungering, however, https://intelligence.org/ (MIRI) argues that advanced AI is a legitimate existential threat. Note that when MIRI speaks of "AI", they are not talking about fancy neural networks, but the fact that since humans are no where near any kind of upper bound on intelligence, and the space of possible Turing machines and self modifying algorithms is overwhelmingly large, plus reams of other arguments you , humans will eventually be able to produce computer programs with the capability of destroying civilisation.
N.B: This is my brief summary of what their stance seems to be, and isn't a direct quotation or paraphrasing of MIRI's official opinion.
I get that more severe crimes get more punishment, but why would the severity of the crime change where the blame is placed?
Corporations are taxpayers, my friend.
You can't "perform" good listening skills. Listening to people is about caring what they are saying.

This article appears to be written by people who are not capable or interested in caring about what other people are saying. They techniques they described are phony. Good listeners are never phony.
Bravo! But not really relevant.
It's worth remembering that part of their Operational security practices will be dedicated to avoiding this. Not saying they can defy Conway's law but I imagine the analysis would be less revealing than theory would predict.
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It is simply not Walmart's job to prevent crime. All businesses should be allowed to operate under the assumption that in return for their tax dollars crime prevention will be handled by the state.
Do you have a link you want to share to one of your apps that uses React? I'd like to know where the threshold for when an app is considered complex is.

I've asked other React developers the same before, but so far the links I've seen are of "apps" that could be made with tops ~120 lines of vanilla JS... :|
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Will these pages scan cleanly in a scanner that uses an automatic document feeder, or will the ink smudge going through the scanner's rollers?
I don't believe that anybody has suggested that. What people have suggested is having more staff present, like Walmart used to have. Police aren't the only way to stop crime. They aren't even the best way.
But all the thieves are also concentrated in Walmart, leaving less theft to go around in the rest of the neighborhood. Shouldn't it balance out?
It probably is in the same sense that 'git rebase -i' often puts the new branch on a new base even if that wasn't your explicit intention. Usually merge squashes are reparented to the current head of the target branch.

But my point was just that a merge squash is just a specific incantation of the git-rebase tool. And it is one of the most history destroying incantations, rather than the least.
Link to the mentioned study:

Gender differences and bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/

It's worth reading the study as they address some potential hypotheses. e.g. survivorship bias (pg. 9), being singled out as a woman (pg. 15).
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"I they don't want low income people to shoplift at their stores they should stop setting such skimpy prices!"
You might know it all. If someone actually knows everything, one would be a fool to mock them for it. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

People label others with hostile things like "know-it-all" as a way of dealing with their own inferiority complexes.
The article didn't touch on this, but Walmart is held in such low regard that there is, for many people, zero stigma attached to shoplifting from an "evil empire", even compared to "friendlier" competitors like Target.
I concur. I have seen at places where I work that even with complete hiring freeze there are open positions posted on job portal. And as you said at higher level it must be to glean information.
Walmart didn't have large presence in urban areas 20 years ago.
An un-researched opinion from someone who replaced chef/ansible/puppet with his own shell-script config-management system:

I don't have to rewrite my shell-scripts every 6 months when a new version comes out. New updates usually only happen when security issues arise.

Shell-scripts tend to be simple. There's not a lot of magic hand-holding going on, which means not a lot of complexity to break things.

It keeps you from getting too abstract. Your writing pretty close and specific to what you want it to do, not "how it should be".

They are typically standalone. It's really easy to have 1 script that solves one problem, and another script that solves another. You don't need a giant code-infrastructure to keep things going.

I think config-mgmt tools can be extremely useful if your running a widely-ranged environment. But, you probably shouldn't be running a widely-ranged environment. If you keep things simple, and run as homogeneous as possible, you probably don't need all the added complexity.
Why not just set the index right on the JSON column? Avoids the redundant column and potentially much smaller by only targeting rows which have a value for 'new_thing'.

CREATE INDEX ON blah ((jsoncolumn->>'new_thing')) WHERE jsoncolumn ? 'new_thing';
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So you're running 'sh' scripts, right? none of that new-fangled bash stuff...

Oh, and be very careful of the commands your script invokes!

shell scripts have no guarantee of portability (often less than Python, which has a rich standard library available on all platforms).
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Those whom I get help from often have a formal education in mathematics, so formal education can be good. But most of the time it isn't.
Rebase is absolutely a part of my everyday workflow, and the rest of my team's workflow as well. (Yesterday I had to show our CTO how to use it, because the rest of the team was getting annoyed by his merge commits.)

Our workflow is:

- locally, commit to local master or a local branch

- occasionally checkout local master (if necessary) and pull using the 'rebase after fetch' option.

- if we had local master commits, fixup any conflicts in our code

- if we were working on a local branch, checkout that branch and rebase it on the new master, fixing any conflicts that arise

- If our work is complete, possibly do a final rebase to reorder and squash local commits, and fast-forward merge to master if we were on a branch. Finally, push the local master to share our work.

Note that we never rebase anything that's been pushed.
Also, if we're worried that a rebase is potentially complex and error prone, we create a new branch at the existing HEAD so that the old commits don't get lost in the reflog. Once the rebase is done, we can delete that branch so the old commits can be garbage collected.
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