skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real crisis is the one that immigration partially solves: low birth rates in the developed world.

Without enough young workers to support social services to the elderly - who have paid into the system their whole lives, mind - our elder care safety net would collapse.

Without immigrants, what would you do? Nobody's gonna shoot grandma, and she needs to be cared for, which acts as a drag on productivity for the fewer younger workers. Not to mention mom and pop ain't getting any younger.

You could crank the birth rate up somehow, but that assumes you have 10-20 years to burn till Junior's ready for the workforce. Sadly, Japan is trying this option and having little success getting their youth - among which a startling proportion are virgins - to have more children, let alone any children at all.

Personally, I love immigrants, particularly Hispanics. Their ancestral history largely reflects my own: immigrants from (mostly) Europe who wanted a better life than they could get at home. They work hard and - contrary to a race-baiting conservative press and a blindly multicultural liberal press - genuinely do want to be American and adopt American customs. My Irish and Italian ancestors went through the very same thing, and all of them are as American as apple pie.
> Nothing is walkable, and you really don't want to when it's 100 degrees outside in the summer.

YMMV, but I and many others who water fasted (nothing but water) 3-20 days report finding those temperatures far more tolerable, comfortable even. Many people find losing weight easier on periodic water fasts (once a month, for example) than counting calories, so this might aid your weight loss quest (congratulations on your exceptional personal and disciplined accomplishment).

After a certain point during a water fast, your body undergoes physiological changes drawing blood closer to the core, and your extremities feel cold as a result. Further beyond that point (seems to depend upon how keto-adapted you are before you start the fast), if you have fat reserves, the body adapts to burning fat, and the cold sensitivity becomes a little bit better. Personally, I found I really enjoy blistering hot and even humid+hot weather while fasting. High 30-low 40 C, 100+ degree F hot is a pleasant fireplace-like warmth while fasting as long as I'm moving; if I stay still without sunscreen then I can start to feel uncomfortable from the burning sensation on my skin, but my body still is happy with the outside temperature.

If this effect applies broadly across the population, then encouraging people in hot and humid climates to adopt walk-able urban layouts even during the height of summer heat waves might involve encouraging some form of caloric restriction. If you want to experiment with this effect, try doing short-duration fasts by skipping an odd meal here and there now, and by this summer, and you could be walking in the AL sun for an hour or so each day to help hit your end of the summer goal weight.
It is becoming quite popular (or maybe it was always the case?) that someone learning some topic and at the same time writing a book about it. Interesting how it affects the quality of the content (versus books authored by persons with expertise in given topics).
I know it's not unheard of, but that hardly makes it good. http://www.nospec.com/

At least in SO's case there's not a promise of possible employment being dangled in people's faces though -- it's all upfront.
If I were looking for a junior dev, probably not. Don't like your attitude, son, and you're probably not a good fit.

But if I'm looking for a senior position, you're probably in. Senior people do push back on bad requirements, and they know when to do so, and why. If I want experience and leadership, what you did is exactly what I'm looking for.

The difference is that the senior person is going to do it when they know that the spec is a bad idea (and know why it's a bad idea), and the junior person is going to do it all the time because they're a show-off know-it-all and a hothead...
> why would it matter how you tip?

Taxes. People are supposed to pay taxes on tips, but one of the things that lets people live on sub-minimum wages is not reporting tips. Tipping is BS, and I wish it would go away, but this is unfortunately how the US economy works.
So what was the source format? Markdown?
If there is no identity tied to being white, then how are there hundreds upon hundreds of articles in WaPo and the New York Times which almost literally say "White Men Ruin the World" and contain detailed accounts of how white supremacy won Trump the presidency?

Either you're right, and white supremacy is not a problem at all, or you're wrong, and culture today has made it acceptable to say "fuck white men", which is disgustingly racist and yet no one is willing to publicly acknowledge it except "white supremacists" themselves.
Yes, each particle of the propellant exits the rocket with much higher energy. Since you can only get so much energy from chemical reactions, to get to these higher exit velocities the energy from the solar panels is used. You use a higher ratio of energy to propellant mass than chemical fuels use.

I was at a demo for a plasma engine similar to VASIMR back in the 90's at a national lab. It was a long machine running the length of a large room. There was a window in the side where you could see the plasma. When we showed up there was a faint pinkish plasma barely visible in the window. The guy who was showing us around told us they were just getting ready for the demo and we should wait a few minutes. After a few minutes of the plasma being off, one of the engineers gave a thumbs up. Our guide pulled us close to the window and said "Watch this!". Nothing happened. "One more second!", he said. Then we smelled burning electronics. "Shit!", he said and ran towards the power supplies.

My co-founder and I looked at each other and smiled, because it was so nice to be on the other side of that situation. I knew exactly how the guys felt. Usually we were the ones trying to demo an experiment that sort-of, kind-of worked.
They also added anti-LBGT elements to the GOP platform.

There are of course gay Republicans, and they argued against this, both on the grounds that it's immoral and discriminatory, but also that it wasn't in the Republican party's long term interest as younger members are far less anti-LGBT but they couldn't convince anyone.
I use several browsers. Among them is Chromium rather than Chrome. It does a reasonably good job of managing separate 'users' and I use them for accessing social media...I don't stay logged into Facebook on my main browser for similar reasons to not using Chrome logged into gmail.
This is a good article, but it's very difficult reading.
That might be true in your recruitment channels, but in general it's a problematic assumption. Many prominent Open Source projects don't use GitHub; in particular, that applies to those large enough and/or old enough to have and maintain their own infrastructure. I've run into that problematic assumption a few times, and it seems worth calling attention to.
DCCP is something even a basic hardening should already have taken care of... but of course many people don't do those.

Quick solution: "echo "install dccp /bin/true" >> /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf"
A note on Bayes' theorem
I'd like to see benchmarks with OpenBLAS. Unlike ACML it's under active development, unlike MKL it won't deliberately screw AMD performance, and it offers "pretty good" performance across every environment I've tried it in. Good enough that it's not worth paying for MKL, not worth going through ATLAS's self-tuning routine, not worth changing my build scripts to use vecLib under OS X. If OpenBLAS currently runs poorly on Ryzen I hope Ryzen will get some development love, because I kind of hate using ATLAS and at this point it would take a major advantage to tempt me back away from open source components.
This is exactly the issue I encountered. I run a pelican static blog on github. I just host my comments as a simple flask app on www.pythonanywhere.com Code here: https://github.com/singhjaideep/flask_comment
Google Buying Links to Their Own Website
In the meantime, there's Redox OS:

https://www.redox-os.org/
In my experience, the amount of human touch you need to provide through support, sales, implementation - is more a function of your audience than anything else. Selling to software developers, you can probably get away with low to no touch across the board. Selling to SMBs who aren't all that computer savvy? Their default reaction is going to be to look for a phone number when they have a question. They may not even know what an FAQ is.
Well, like I said. Black is a race, not necessarily a skin tone but mostly identified as a complex and arbitrary delineation of class, nationality, ethnicity, and general skin tone as the easiest identifier but not necessarily the qualifier. I have a white friend who's tan as hell, and studied under a woman from South Africa who was about as tan as my friend. The woman was considered a black woman, while my friend was considered a white man, even though their skin tones were similar.

Life is full of such arbitrary nuance and complexity.
Yes. 5-6 markdown files, converted to epub, mobi, pdf and html with pandoc. I know there are better workflows, especially in regards to embedding code (my approach was simple copy and paste), but if there's one recommendation I can make it's this one: check out pandoc. It's an amazing tool.
Sure, there's some white identity. I'm questioning if there's enough to market to it as a specific segment.

I'm also not convinced that xenophobia is the same thing as white identity.
The debate the OP is getting is this: 'people' vs. the individual. I think everyone agrees that the goal is for people to treat each others the exact same, but 'people' is a very messy concept.

Is it better for me, as an individual, to treat you the same as I do anyone else and wait for gradual societal pressure to push others to do the same, or is it better for me, as an individual, to highlight the oppression that very much still exists, in a bid to make others notice?

I don't think there is a right and wrong answer here, just different approaches to a problem. The good thing is that we can all agree the problem exists, which isn't always a given.
Show HN: Nearley Parser Playground
It's multiple parcels that are subdividable, they're selling the property for new development of multiple homes.
That's the risk of using the type signature of your function as the name of the project. It may become a generic term whether or not you like it.
You can keep track of the stable async/await-native koa release here: https://github.com/koajs/koa/issues/533 (scroll to the bottom).

Looks like this is the release they've been waiting for.
Meet the Math Professor Who’s Fighting Gerrymandering with Geometry
Why do you think so?

Could you not also say that almost every article caters specifically to Jewish people? Or would that be anti-Semitic in your mind?
`Object.entries` and `Object.values` are huge wins in my book. Makes common looping operations less obtuse and obfuscated.
Realistically I'd say a minimum of 10 years. From now.
Yes, that's the rub for sure. The same question is also asked by non-technical people when trying to find a developer - how do you find a good one? So, I think you can follow some of the same principles: What projects have they done in the past? What results have they produced? Can you show some examples of your work? Can we speak to your references? etc.

Although it's not "turnkey" as the OP was asking about, you can do a lot of it on your own, or at least put together an overall plan, and then use agencies to fill the gaps. Just as with starting a start-up, there is a lot of great material and thought leadership out there on how to do it, along with a lot of practical advice.

Other than a few courses as part of my business degree, and working with marketing agencies in the past, I don't have a marketing background. However, I took a deep dive into marketing over the past 18 months, and we achieved some solid results. I spent a bit of time doing some research, came up with a strategy and overall plan, and then executed. Specifically, we put a content marketing program in place, along with some lead tracking tools, spoke at a few conferences, did some webinars, etc., all of which led to deals in the six figures. (In the B2B space.)

PM me if you'd like more detail re: resources.
I would argue that humans are not topologically equivalent to toruses as most humans have many holes beyond the alimentary canal.
ProtonMail Launches ProtonVPN in Closed Beta
Making our company culture data-driven
Where is evidence of this 'reputation for being Putin's mouthpiece?' Other than your impassioned assertions? Also, all media is biased. BBC is biased toward Western and UK interests, RT is biased toward Russian interests. This is something RT freely admits. But does BBC?
I don't think I'll be able to do satisfactorily answer that question in a couple sentences, but I'll try.

White people are a majority in technology, so it's assumed to be obvious to white children that they too can be a technologist. There's not a significant gap in perceived identity between themselves and Mark Zuckerberg, for example.

So, that begs the question, why focus on encouraging specifically white children? They don't face racial barriers and have many famous role models. Preference for white people has a long and ugly history in America.
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship just had to abort its supply run mission
I agree with you, but while the tip pool is sacred (employers shouldn't touch it), a "service fee" is not. Describing it as a service fee allows Instacart to keep a portion of it rather than distributing it all back to employees on the ground.
AMD K12[1] is their full-custom ARM64 core. Originally scheduled for 2016, it was delayed to focus on Zen, probably the right move.

It's still scheduled for 2017, but there hasn't been much noise about it for a long time so I suspect it's been delayed, as they're still focusing on Zen & Vega.

Zen & K12 probably share a lot of elements, so if Zen is awesome, K12 probably will be too.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K12
Admittedly, I'm more of a lurker and slightly-more-than-occasional visitor, so my experience of HN is probably not representative of the norm. However, I have seen racism and other prejudice called out frequently enough that I felt justified in giving the community some credit. Perhaps more than it deserves. Sadly, can't help but look at the discussions happening here as vastly more enlightened when compared with the ones that take place, for instance, in many Facebook groups related to tech.
This is very true. To build on it Different domains need to understand that trade off is in different places. A self driving car needs and financial software need to be low on bugs, but will rarely kill hundreds like a bad software in power plant or nuclear missile might.
Not sure why you think calling the ACLU to fight on your behalf grants you a license to promote color-blindness as viable tactic against racism in this country.
Was just thinking this earlier this week, can anything, at this point, hold a candle to Google in terms of search? Or possibly compete well with it such that people could switch?

Recently heard about the news Google is discontinuing enterprise site search, not that that is such a huge problem, but it's just another example of the issues that arise from having a monopoly control everything with no alternatives. They can pull the plug and everyone is left lacking.
While i3 does not (AFAIK) support mouse resizing, it does everything else you've mentioned out of the box: split containers horizontally/vertically; supports stacked and tabbed layouts; and with a few config lines, resize both floatable and fixed (i.e. part of stack/tab group) containers.
Challenges for AI in agriculture
This sounds like the result of stimulant abuse.
I'm not saying there is no value to incremental improvement, just that there is a qualitative difference between that and true invention and that the latter has stagnated since roughly the early 1970s.

The former makes things faster/better/cheaper, while the latter makes things possible.

You could still ship things across the ocean before containers. But before boats?

I predict that when the current zeitgeist finally does shift we will once again see the invention of things currently considered impossible. I can't say exactly what those will be any more than a scientist in the 1700s could have envisioned radio, though I can certainly speculate. For an early candidate my money would be on the invention of a process to reliably reverse aging in living cells, and maybe something really radical in energy like a compact high density fusion reactor exploiting a novel approach to containment discovered through machine learning. In the long term I strongly suspect that there are fundamental issues with our current models of physics (the whole dark matter 'hack' and the lack of agreement between QM and GR) and that solving this might open the door to things currently considered impossible.

BTW -- I think there have been a few fundamental inventions from 1970 to present.

- Graphene, though I don't know quite enough about materials to know if this has clear antecedents.

- The block chain, which seems like an actual novel mathematical discovery as well as a CS basic invention. It also seems pregnant with social implications since it might suggest a way to actually make communal self-governance by consensus work.

- CRISPR/CAS9

All those happened in the past 10 years or so, which fits in with the idea that the dark age is on its way out.
Continuous Integration – a tool developers expect
Isn't the proper solution just to use a 1024-bit (or longer) key for DKIM signing?
Can you elaborate on that? Why is this so?
> Too much light hearted humor going on in your team's chat?

We have an off-topic room for light-hearted humor, and it generally gets more traffic than any of the work related channels!

> What's the problem with giphy? Is it too silly?

It's usually too irrelevant. Someone tries to do "/giphy smile", and the result is something that's not actually someone smiling. So they try again. And again. And then it's just people playing giggle roulette, without any actual content. Even off-topic, humor rooms need a decent signal to noise ratio.
First independent review article: https://www.andryou.com/2017/02/22/in-depth-look-at-protonvp...
Azure Search
(Disclaimer: I am a MSFT employee who works on Azure Search)
Uber Increases Booking Fee and Effective Commission to 40.44%
Step 1) document the endpoints enough that outside developers can write their own clients.

It took quite a bit of work for me to get a native Clojure client working to connect to the google cloud SDK. That was after wrestling with jar-hell around gRPC and calling the Java client from clojure, which is decidedly not pretty.
The Quiet Power of Introverts
The Danger of Free SSL Certificates
The world is falling into 3 distinct time zones, Americas, Europe/Africa, East Asia. At the very least we would need 3 permanent hosts in those 3 regions to rotate between every 4 years.
NSObject Equality is Tricky
I hope not. I prefer Messenger by far. I want my conversations everywhere I compute, and WhatsApp seems very averse to that. I understand why, but it's not what I want in a messengong product.
One of the things I love on the old Internet is how people took off with the Archie theme on other search engines. Gopher's main search engine was Veronica (Very Easy Rodent Oriented Internet Something Something). I also recall a Jughead search engine.

The second generation search engines killed the theme off (Altavista, Lycos, Webcrawler, Infoseek, etc...), but it was fun while it lasted.
For those who cannot get beyond "mouse", here's an article and references about a human study:

"Lifestyle Changes Lengthen Telomeres"
http://www.drmirkin.com/public/ezine092913.html

The study, by Dr. Dean Ornish, was published in "The Lancet Oncology" 17 September 2013 issue.
Yes, that's correct. But, you still must have the user do so. Otherwise, you're distributing the resulting artifact (the Nvidia driver linked against the kernel) which is GPL (kernel) and not (NVIDIA).

But IANAL.
I would be interested in seeing what your resume looks like, at least on a generic anonymized level.
Too slow, tried to convert linux git repo to fossil but failed.
The payment processors will NEVER let something like this happen. They will fight each other to the death before giving up a unified payment system to Apple, Verizon, etc.
I understand if my tone came off as more condescending than necessary - I am a corporate lawyer I am prone to being a bit incisive - so I apologize for that. I do tend to adopt a bit of snark when writing online - it gets those precious, precious upvotes.

However, in the end, my point is this: I am of the opinion that collective action is necessary to address this issue and I believe the weight of the evidence is on this side. The point that you (appear) to have made, and I am reacting to, is that ignoring the problem is the best way to address it, and I think that is demonstrably ineffective. It is just not the world in which we live.
100% agree. As a marketer, the first litmus test I apply in evaluating a role is the level of product market fit a company has achieved. As a marketer, I don't have the levers to get a company past that hump if they haven't on their own. My expertise is in driving scale, not finding the initial seeds of value.

There are places that marketing can be done before product/market fit. If you are well funded and 100% committed to building for a certain audience, there is value in creating content and building a following. But this doesn't necessarily require marketing headcount.
Here's a question for you as a recruiter, from me as a potential employee:

How do I find a recruiter like you?

Right now, I work with two different recruiters, at two different agencies local to me. Both have placed me in great positions; my current position is one (and I am not looking for a position currently).

But say, in the future, I want to find a recruiter who knows software development, from the low-level nuts-n-bolts (coding), to design, deployment, business, etc - what would be the best way I could find that person?

I think having a contact like that might be valuable, since not only could they recommend the fit, if they serve as an initial "gatekeeper" to an interview, but they might also offer tips and other advice helpful for positions. I'm not looking to replace my current recruiters; both are great guys and work well with me. But augmenting them might be worthwhile.
'Is full of alt-right people and trump supporters'? You could justly say that about Breitbart but unless you have a metric to support your assertions why should any credence be given to your opinion regarding the readership of HN? I have previously suggested the opposite opinion but I was wrong to do that. I simply do not know and neither do you. Room for a technical analysis if someone can be bothered.
A Slide from Hubspot Culture Code
Steve didn't want anything big named after himself. For instance:

While being given a tour of the rapidly advancing Apple Campus 2 site, Fry suggested it should be named after Jobs, who died in 2011 but was heavily involved with the early stages of planning.

“Oh, Steve made his views on that very clear,” said Tim Cook — hinting that the idea was discussed, but that Jobs wasn’t a massive fan of it.

Source: http://www.cultofmac.com/323857/apples-new-spaceship-hq-coul...
It's a difficult part of recent history that is important to be known and understood.
"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today."

Thomas Sowell
I'm definitely buying this. Still working my way through the PDF version, and it's just so well-written and helpful!