skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The page you linked doesn't tell the whole story:

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/wmt/financials

The ~100+ billion number is revenue - cost of goods. Actual profit after _all_ expenses is around ~13 billion or so. Big number? Yes, but only around 3-4% profit margin. And it's been declining.

Walmart has 2.3 million employees. $13 billion doesn't make for huge pay increases when you've got that many people to cover.
Agreed :)

And that's the difference between ordering a bowl of Pho and "Taking a Pho tour" or simply grabbing a slice of pizza from your corner joint instead of trying to "Eat like Anthony Bourdain"
I proposed a slightly similar AI design in Voxel Quest. However, I only got as far as writing the compiler for the reasoning system before getting bogged down with other tasks, which can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EHKDP2_ky0

What is shown here is also available in the source code, of course.

I am still interested in pursuing this as I think it is one of the more under-explored areas in game development.
Actually, historically only one representation of letters was available and was conventionally presented with uppercase letters. Once lowercase was available, there was a split between languages/implementations that wanted things written in all caps, ones that didn't care how you wrote it but would internally convert to all caps, and ones which were case insensitive (there were newer languages, too, which accepted or requires lowercase for keywords and were case sensitive, but I'm mostly talking about languages which predated having lowercase available and how they coped with it.)
Or you just have a HD die on you. Or it gets lost in a move.
> is probably going to mean a detour below some limit that Walmart decides

Did you miss the part where this is a voluntary program? If the employee doesn't like the route, they don't have to take it.

> Dude, you're engaging in fantasy

I suppose it's fantasy simply because you hate Walmart (I presume). If this was, say, Amazon... I wager most would take a different opinion. "Look at how ingenuitive Amazon is! They'll deliver packages even faster and cheaper, and pay employees more while they're at it!"

You have no idea what the compensation is, but immediately assume it's big bad Walmart beating up on poor employees. Many just immediately assume this is some new devilish ploy to exploit workers... that's absurd, especially given how few facts we have about this program so far.

The facts, so far, state this is a 100% volunteer program... will only suggest package deliveries along the employees current (and specified by the employee) route home... and the employee will be compensated for that delivery above their normal wage... and Walmart will pass the savings to the customer, and offer faster delivery.

How is this not a win based on what we know so far? It's pure conjecture and bias that leads to the default assumption this is some absurdly evil, exploitative scheme...
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This again seems pointless to say. Of course it'll depend on how it works out in practice. That's true of every action by every company. So why are so many people complaining about this?

Would you be happier if they just forced their employees to do it? Most job descriptions include a phrase like "and any other duties as required" and as long as they paid the employees and followed the relevant regulations it would be perfectly legal to do this.
They move much less, and have much more fat and maybe something else in them.
>> Why? If medication is the most effective way to treat a condition what would the basis be for avoiding using it?

>> <snip> whereas taking Ritalin daily brings a noticeable improvement to my ability to concentrate and remember the details of my day to day life.

Wouldn't you worry about the side effects both short term and long term, known and unknown? Effects on the liver etc? Please understand that I am asking to know more. If the person is properly diagnosed and have the disabilities I really don't see any problem in medications.

Just to clear up the misunderstanding I am not against taking medications. I am against bad diagnosis by poor doctors.

>> Do you think that medication for ADHD isn't already minimised? The implication here is again that you think people are being over-medicated - do you have any evidence for this?

Honestly I cannot come to a conclusion that it isn't already minimized because I do not have the statistics nor am I a researcher in this.

Misdiagnosis becomes worse in some third world countries where the medication is available but good quality doctors are not present. Looking at the video linked below the diagnosis in the US too is not done right.
Doesn't this cause a problem where there is no proper "measure" similar to blood glucose levels to diagnose diabetes and provide medications? The difference is that if somebody is prescribed diabetic medicines to a non-diabetic then there is a clear misdiagnois. How can you prove it is not the case with the above disorders where there is no way to clearly measure? (I really hope researches put some effort into it so that we get deeper insights on what actually causes these problems.)

What do you feel about this? : https://youtu.be/t90bpFHnFAY
I made a set of ten cellular automata posters for my office wall y'all might like! Let me know if you'd like me to send out some high res versions.

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Quoth the article:

A very motivated attacker, or one with a sophisticated set of wordlists and masks, could eventually recover 39 × 16 = 624 passwords, or about five percent of the total users. That's reasonable, but higher than I would like.
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>Per the TechCrunch article, workers need to submit proof-of-insurance to participate.

I assume that's because of "we only want people on this who are insurable drivers in good standing to begin with" and not because of "we expect your personal policy to cover this".

>These additional costs make the deal worse for employees and better for Walmart in ways which are hard for the workers to understand. But I guarantee you that Walmart has studied it to death and knows exactly what advantage it brings them!

Walmart isn't Uber. I suspect they're much more cautious about making sure the relevant risks have the appropriate insurance. I also suspect they'll pay for mileage, but will probably try to get away with some "estimated increase in commute" rather than paying for the full distance to delivery.
I think there are valid arguments against this plan, but in general I don't like the idea that we've got to protect poor adults from their own decisions. Like a lot of ideas to protect the poor from the elites, it's elitist itself
I considered linking to the game's site at http://4dtoys.com/ , but this blog post introducing it has more design details that I think will interest HN.
Software suffers from poor documentation principally because those who write the code don't have the time or inclination to write documentation, especially if they will have to do it in their own time. Most experienced developers can write well enough but they know that no one will maintain the docs so why bother. In my experience as an internal application developer the documentation is created only when someone leaves or a major application needs to be ported.

Internal software is probably the worst because there isn't a paying customer in the usual sense of the word so there is no one to send the bill to.

Do technical writers still exist? I could write documentation, in fact I intend to spend three days next week doing just that, but someone who has that as their primary skill would do a better job; unfortunately the company no longer employs such people.
Gambling is a 0 sum game, but Bitcoin is creating value. The lesson I've learned is back up the truck. The media doesn't have a good language to talk about it, and even analysts seem a bit perplexed. There are no earnings to discount to, no cash flow, no coupon, no dividends. The value is what the highest bidder at t0 thinks it is. It could be a rational speculative bubble or it could be the Internet of money. I've really liked the work that the analysts at Needham & Co have done, and their research is worth a read.
This is a SQL interface on top of the transactional data Stripe maintains for their users (based on the orders they process).
Yes, Power BI has had this for a couple years in the form of "Q&A"

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-se...
If it is, then that needs to be clarified; because for its industry and the "local" general stores it is replacing, Walmart pays more per hour.

For the Uber/Ubereats and other gig economy estimates, $11/hr is well above the industry take home.

Walmart is in progress of raising it's minimum wage to $11/hr, 22% more than federal $7.25 minimum wage. The Times covered this in the past https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/business/walmart-raising-...
I'm in the process of selling my house and moving to a new city right now. I'm actually in my new town while my family stays behind to take care of the house. I'm having a panic attack today. Good luck - there are many things about moving that are stressful.
It is VS Code (it shows this in the video). Looks like Light or Light+ theme
Well, yeah. You can use it as the next RSS. That - it does well.
> I read once that Walmart uses their resources to take advantage of current (broken) laws to allow them to keep paying pennies for hard work, and forcing the government to pay the rest of a living wage.

I have never understood this complaint. I'm 100% onboard with the idea that, in a society as affluent as ours, no one should be going hungry, unhoused, etc. But how is that not our collective responsibility, as opposed to the responsibility of an entity who happens to be buying their labor?

The idea that Walmart is "forcing" the government to take care of poorer citizens is frankly idiotic: if you accept that there is a responsibility to take care of the poor (as I do), that responsibility is on all of us, and the government is the canonical expression of our collective will and action. Trying to shirk this responsibility by desperately shoe-horning it into the labor market is just a messy hack (the same is true of the idea that employers should be the de facto providers of health insurance, as opposed to the gov't). I can't help but think that people who think that this is somehow the ethical approach have a status-quo bias as a poor substitute for actual moral reasoning.
I know there's a React component. There are many. They don't come even closer to the functionalities of an actual Excel-like spreadsheet.

Implementing 70% of the most basic of all functionality of Excel is easy. Implementing 90% is insanely difficulty.

I would say Handsontable reaches the mark of 78%.

I've tried twice, one with React + Mori[0] and one in Cyclejs[1]. In the first I may have reached 82%, in the second probably 85%. But in both cases the latest features I added started to conflict with the oldest ones and I abandoned everything.

[0]: https://github.com/fiatjaf/react-microspreadsheet
[1]: http://sheets.alhur.es/
Unexperienced people prefer very often experienced people
I've not read the reddit "frontpage" in years. I do run into it when I'm not logged in, but I don't look at it at all.
But with Rust once you learn to work with the borrow checker you can work at any level of abstraction. With go you get what the Go implementors decided was best for you. (I omit Haskell because I don't know it)

I want to mix C++11/14 into that also. Now that the typesystem is used by the standard library to describe resource ownership in code whole categories of errors can be found at compile time. If you are new this it can seem like you are fighting the compiler, but once you learn that the compiler just won't let you make certain kinds of mistakes you get access to every level of abstraction with C++11/14 and Rust. You can code in terms of passing database bindings betweens threads in threadpools or you can twiddle individual bits in specific registers and everything in between.

I don't know Go well, but it seems really limited. You can't write certain classes of bugs, but you also can't write many design patterns.
Libertarian isn't necessarily right-wing, even though it generally is in the US.

When you get some time, search for and skim though "The Conquest of Bread" to see a hard Leftist complain about taxes. Be warned, the author is kind of a nutbar.
> But, are you saying that to switch to a namespace in Go one must fork

The article is stating that to control the namespace that the threads execute in, that a separate process must be spawned so that the entire process can be forced into the correct namespace. Otherwise, the runtime can spawn new threads as it sees fit and you don't have control over which namespace they are in.

It might be possible to work around this from within the same process if it were possible to force the runtime to not spawn new threads in particular cases. If you could control when the runtime was allowed to spawn new threads, then you could organize the program / threads in a way that would keep the correct code operating in the correct namespace. Unfortunately, you can't.

Disclaimer: I don't know Go, but this is my understanding from reading the article.
* "Compiling" static assets (CSS/JS) on a JRuby-on-Rails project from 2012.

* docker build -t whatever -f some/Dockerfile .

* aws cloudformation update-stack ...
>forcing walmart to pay their employees more could lead to them making less profit and the poor being better off.

What's stopping them from passing on costs to consumers, given they have eliminated all competition in large parts of the country.
I am only explaining the facts. Forced paternity leave takes out some amount of labor from market increasing prices for everyone else for those services.
It's definitely VS Code and it's quite mind-blowing thinking that they're the guys behind Atom, and the blog's domain is electron.atom.io.
Yep, I live in Ballard and work downtown - adrian at adrianpike.com!
>> ...Walmart uses their resources to take advantage of current (broken) laws to...pay...pennies...and forc[e]...the government to pay the rest of a living wage.

> What difference does it make where the money is coming from?

Because taxpayers are subsidizing Walmart's business, for one. That's unacceptable, especially if the subsidy is the result of conscious policy on Walmart's part.

> If we force Walmart to pay more, low-income ppl who shop will have to pay higher prices as opposed to now where all the taxpayers are footing the bill.

They will also get paid more to pay those prices, and the taxpayers will not longer be subsidizing Walmart's profits (if the grandparent is correct).
I agree with your diagnosis of browsers and with the idea of using local tools that interact using standard CRUD interfaces, I just don't see the filesystem part buying you anything over HTTP, which provides all that. I think it's a useless distraction at best, and a fatal flaw at worst.

I also disagree that the app-ification was an historical accident; I think it's the direct result of economical forces, and I'm not convinced that an alternative system could become popular while avoiding it.
I'm mostly interested in rich data retrieval/query building UI, and Plot.ly seems focused more on the second part of the problem, where your datasets are already prepared.
If you're living in an EU country like Germany, isn't it academic? - EU taxes are well above US taxes so in effect you will pay nothing more.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic?

We consider this a full-time job, and our benefits and salary are that of a full-time job. We don't try to compete with e.g. Amazon or Facebook on salary but we are probably at or above the median salary of software developers as a whole.

I personally make about 2/3 of the salary from my previous job.
There is the entire half of physics that is the empirical verification of the hypotheses left, for example. Theoretical physics cannot be separated from that, in my view.
Or maybe people have more nuanced views? People on HN generally support "liberal" things like caring for the environment and net neutrality, but a lot of people on HN are also small business owners and entrepreneurs and so also like the "business-friendly" economic policies of the right.
> While that might not get you far in the bay area (which doesn't have Walmarts FWIW)

The Bay Area has, from a quick Google search and review of the list of locations, something like 25 Wal-Marts, which is substantially more than zero.
True but that's not a standard feature for cheap lights or headlamps.
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Perceived 'crypto economic incentives' will taint any controversial decision in most public chains. Those incentives must be tested to prove that they work. If they fail, we rebuild chains with better incentives; this is how bitcoin became anti-fragile.
Great points. It could be argued that adjusting a parameter like block size should be easy and that this not being possible is a design limitation of Bitcoin.

However if you consider that miners (or more abstractly, mining rigs themselves) are easily repurposed to mine a BTC fork which could potentially include a larger block size from the start.

So the conflict is between the beneficial network effects of BTC and the transaction cost imposed by arguably "bad" governance (corrupt governance, if the rumor you mention is true).

There are lots of interesting incentives that apply to BTC at scale that are hard to predict when reading the paper.

I think we'll see a very messy world of many competing cryptocurrencies and difficult-to-understand layers of overly centralized governance resulting in layers upon layers of perverted incentives.

But the silver lining is that the blockchain is a nice way to offer the kind of transparency that could make a system like that actually far better than the kind of messes we end up in with fiat currencies :)
Where are you investing your retirement funds? Your 401(k) or IRA can be in index funds, too.
For the record I support the "COOP" compromise. SegWit activation during the UASF timeline so that doesn't screw things up, with a locked-in HF to 2MB blocks.

I agree that bigger blocks are needed to ease even non-witness/standard transaction backlogs, and to ease up on wallet and other providers that want a faster network in-place without needing updates that work in concert SegWit like the Lightning Network. The 1 MB was originally an anti-spam limit. In a dream world, we would have a dynamic anti-spam block size. But I don't see consensus happening any time soon. :(
My understanding is that Quantopian has no interest in being a platform for HFT. It's there to democratize trading strategies and test them in a sound way. They do a lot to have a good backtesting platform and clean the data that is available in the platform. If I wanted to automate a strategy, I'd have to figure out the Robinhood API and basically recreate what they have. Instead, I can use their platform, their backtests, their free data, and build strategies that efficiently lose money.

I think the other goal being that if you create a profitable strategy, you can enter it into competitions, trade with other people's money, and make a profit. I think the platform is a value add, I have an account and use the research notebooks. Some day when I more spare time I'll make some trading algorithms.
> It's not about C holdouts being unreasonable at all. They're only mentioned in the first three paragraphs of the article.

That's not true; they are mentioned several times in the first big bullet list. Also the Dan Saks talk he discusses several times throughout the article is specifically about talking to C programmers about C++.

But regardless of whether he is speaking about something specific (C vs. C++) or in the abstract (rational vs. irrational people), he is making the same flawed presumption: that certain choices (like C++) are unquestionably better than other choices (like C), and that if people can't see this then the only possible explanation is some kind of cognitive impairment.

The whole argument presumes that the author is smarter and more rational than other people. He might not even realize he is doing this, but other people can most definitely pick up on it.