skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly gets their name out there a lot more.

The truth is journalists really seem to love Twitter so I don’t think it was going to go anywhere anytime soon anyway.
Poor guy might have to "spend more time with his family" and collect a 9 figure golden parachute. ;(
How does this compare to the police force that you've dealt with in your work? It seems like these guys can't warm a seat with their asses on fire.
This just means management sucked at recognizing real talent. Real talent includes knowing how to pick low-hanging fruit, knowing how to make the challenging problem look simple, knowing how to work with a team.
Are you Australian? I don't think you understand what happened. The change wasn't removing signing as a requirement, it was removing signing as an _option_. It hadn't been a requirement in years (decades?). When I was working in fast food someone tried to use a signature roughly once a day max and typically they were using a business account.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/financial-services/...

> Goodness knows what it cost but there was a giant campaign to get everyone to ensure they had a pin number on their cards.

I never saw this... It was widely reported in the media but use of signatures was rare enough that few people cared.

> And at the same time, you can use PayWave to just wave a credit card for a transaction with no PIN required - presumably for smaller transactions.

Not presumably, the maximum is $100 and when you reach the $100 limit you still wave, you just need to enter a PIN afterwards.

> I've wondered what sort of security issue PayWave is..... what if somehow a criminal got a PayWave reader and surreptitiously touched it to everyone's bag and pocket on a crowded train? Is there a possible exploit there somewhere?

It's not bulletproof but damage is pretty limited:

- If you use an actual portable payment terminal to process transactions on the spot, the fraud rate will be incredibly high and you're not likely to keep any of the money. The transactions will be reverse and you'll be fined and/or prosecuted.

- If you capture a token and try to use it, you have to do it before the actual owner does because if the bank sees tokens out of order it'll freeze the card.

- Banks have pretty good guarantees on contactless fraud.
Since when is voluntary experimentation on a test rig, under controlled circumstances, criminally stupid? It’s not like this was a passenger flight.

It would warrant criticism if the pilot tried it without informing the crew prior to takeoff. All participants entered into the activity with an understanding that they were risking their lives.

These people did it because they enjoyed the challenge, not to score points with corporate overlords or jockey for a raise and a promotion. The marketing angle was simply to provide cost justification and demonstrate that a perceptible reward would be earned with the risk undertaken.
I'd argue that both scales do indeed "start" and "end" on the same note - middle C. If I were playing an arpeggio that spanned both staves, I think I'd find your method harder than simply moving in thirds from the E on the treble clef to middle C to the A on the bass clef.

Interestingly enough, other clefs do already exist. The "C" clefs (alto and tenor clef) identify middle C and simplify note reading for instruments that have atypical tessiturae.
> A lot of those cities would give anything for Seattle's problems.

They have made it clear they are willing to give a lot:
https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id...
> But median home prices have doubled in five years, to $700,000. This is not a good thing in a place where teachers and cops used to be able to afford a house with a water view.

This is a self-inflicted wound that Amazon shouldn't be held to blame for. Seattle refuses to add density- a common pattern on the west coast it seems. When supply is limited and demand increases, prices rise. This is basic economics. If Seattle wants all those juicy tax dollars of Amazonians working there, they either have to allow for the growth in homes, or accept that homes will get more expensive.
I don't believe you agree with most of it. But you're still willing to allow it, which isn't much better to me.
My first experience with Formal Methods
>> but there are many more natives who are uncomfortable to some degree.

Seattle native who also grew up on Capitol Hill, and still lives here. As a home owner since the late 90s, the Amazon boom has dramatically increased my net worth.

But that said, I'd much rather have the house be worth $300k if it would mean the last 7 years hadn't happened. It's really been too much, too fast. I didn't buy a house here to get rich, I bought here because my family and friends are here.

The thing that really bugs me is the loss of community, and what exists where the sense of community used to be: crowding, the ever increasing spread of pockets of artificiality, pretentious restaurants, luxury cars swarming the hill, and outsiders absolutely as far as the eye can see.

Furthermore, if you look at the responses in this in comments on Reddit, or in comments on articles, you can see the response we get for saying that that the wholesale destruction of our community makes us uncomfortable: "shut up you fucking ingrate", or my favorite, from people who actually believe that they are liberal, "yeah, it sucks that people can't afford it, but I got mine".

We are talking about the wholesale, unchecked destruction of entire communities. Virtually all of my friends who don't own property are gone. We have neighbors from China who don't talk to anyone. Everyone is from someone else, and just here to consume or make it big or whatever. The property values are attracting people with real wealth and/or speculators, and if I wanted to live around Yuppie Gentrifiers, I would have moved to Madison Park.

There is very little sense of community left. I feel like Amazon should have made its own town somewhere else, and left us ours.
The lifetime word limit should not apply to papers publishing negative results.

You may all congratulate me (financially) for solving the replication crisis.
Federation is a perfectly valid type of decentralised system. Their complaint is likely that it isn't a fully peer to peer system.
The Physics of Why Airplane Wings Oscillate in Turbulence (2015)
That doesn’t sound right. My neighbor is accused of a crime, and upon hearing that, I destroy all the evidence that would exonerate them. That doesn’t count as obstruction of justice / destruction of evidence?
Not downhill, definitely. Single track is more than enough. But, uphill, I’m not real quick. A benefit of audiobooks, in my opinion, is that you have less awareness of the passage of time. A nasty habit I have is knowing (memorizing) how Long songs are and measuring my time by how many songs I’ve heard. That makes long climbs on the mountain bike worse, rather than better.
even kafka (basically just log part of mysql without columns). For example, a kafka topic could be seen as a table with the columns: offset, value.

In much the same way that a block of carbon with a couple gas cylinders (H2, N2, O2) on top is "basically just" a person...
I agree. The few times I’ve ever tried to look at my “local“ Twitter have been a mess. Bot posting weather for where I live (and a whole bunch of other places?). Flood of postings of every job entered to any online database near me. A whole bunch of other automated garbage.

If I want to see what people near me are tweeting it’s basically impossible. The signal to noise ratio is insane.
Can't seem to find any details on the extent of his mis-behaviour. Wikipedia page says "sexually assaulted", and that "Sarah Seitz, a sustainability analyst at NASA, replied accusing Scoble of also having assaulted her"

Isn't sexual assault a serious crime? Why didn't these women report it to the Police. Or does touching without consent or grabbing someone or trying to grope someone (like our current President is alleged to have done to many women) also constitute sexual assault, but is generally not reported by the female victims for fear of getting ostracized or receive backlash from friends and co-workers?

[Not trolling serious question. The difference I see between Dave McClure and Robert Scoble is that the former was accused of 'sexual harrassment' whereas Robert Scoble appears to have been accused of 'sexual ASSAULT' by a couple of women atleast ]
If you're still interested in doing research, you could potentially do a foia request for the communications of the people involved in redaction.
yep. grandma can just create a proxy and install certs . what?
Does anybody know how much the actual load time factors into the "PageSpeed"? In my experience, you can have a site that loads quickly but gets a mediocre score because it violates Google's guidelines.
I haven't signed a card in 15 years. No one has ever asked me about it and I don't think they have ever asked for ID. I figure I'll sign it if asked, but it's never come up.
> There is also a very merciless bile people are constantly aiming at these new Amazon employees

Yep, and that part is sad. To me it feels like they're projecting the few arrogant new-hires' attitudes onto everybody. Also, as a female dating in Seattle, there's the all-to-real reality that one eventually picks up on the stereotype of the inflated-ego-Amazon-guy. This happens to the point of people refusing to date those that work at Amazon.

I used to work there, and I feel the same about the stupid egos TBH. I just feel that I choose to apply that assessment selectively rather than across all Amazon employees.
But again, in the absolutism of free speech, you're ignoring things like violent threats and racial slurs. And when you do that, you end up with something like 4Chan. Most people don't go there, for good reason.

And what consequence does someone who makes a lot of sock puppet accounts to send oven memes to Jewish people face? Pretty much none. Yet, those people are still faced with that constantly, and as a result, they choose not to engage. Now you've silenced their right to speech.
>> Even Google's own tag manager/analytics scripts lowers your page speed score when they are on the site.

I never understood why Google doesn't fix this. I want to use Google Analytics but their own tool penalizes me for it because it gets unproperly cached on Google's own servers? That's just stupid.
I find it amazing what he has done. I did say new jit as HolyC is compiled on the fly and has some amazing features that no other system has(embedded images). Yeah there are some esoteric features, but that is the benefit of DIY.
If airline pilots crashed half of their flights we would be right to criticize them. Having a hard job is no excuse for doing it poorly.
Wow, some of those are very good.
Is it refusing to add density? I see twenty buildings going up from my window. Several districts were just zoned to allow taller buildings.

It seems growth is outpacing the density that's being added -- not that no one wants density. (Yes, there's some nimbyism about, but the buildings are going up at an insane clip.)
Kind of weird to share these guidelines as an image of text. It's not accessible this way, and I can't think of any reason why they would have chosen to share it as an image instead of a table with text. What am I missing?
If they won't help recover your ipad, can you connect that as damages and somehow sue for the redacted parts of the tape?
This was a beautiful poem.
Have you read about what happened to the original targets of gamer gate? Not only did tens of people just constantly synonym rape and death threats but people actually doxed them and went after them at their physical addresses. Those addresses got posted on Twitter, along with phone numbers and other things.

Internet hate mobs, no matter what site they use, can cause real psychological and physical damage. They can make it extremely difficult for someone to get a job or cause all their personal information to be stolen.

There’ve been so many examples over the years of things that of come off of Reddit or Twitter or other 4chan i’m surprised someone would say that this stuff isn’t something people need to worry about.

I mean… Pizza gate exists.
No, not at all. Sql is a superset of Kafka, anything Kafka can do a Sql server can do.

Kafka is very basic tool in comparison, that drops 90% of functionality for a speed gain in one use case.

There's no reason you couldn't write a custom storage engine that behaved exactly like kafka with Postgres.
They are a part of the Navy, yes.
It's just a fluff piece in order to fill a newspaper and sell ads. So much of newspapers are just filler material when you think about it.
This article is garbage. No actual reasons or data, just vague subjective whining about his watercolor memories. NIMBYs like him are the real "ruiners" of SEA and SF.
You both missed the trick. I could have been more clear in my description. It isn't two accounts to manage - it is (counted just now) 131 addresses. To the vast majority of those addresses, there is exactly one legitimate sender. I've started thinking of them as revokable leases on my inbox.

Setup for a new address is one line in my config management and takes less time to create than a filter in Gmail. There are other benefits, two of which being that it is easy to completely turn off someone who won't stop spamming, and it makes it obvious who is selling your address to whom.

Of course, you need a mail server and a domain, so it isn't for everyone. But this scheme has made it so much easier to control my email.
I'm also getting a 404 for the linked github repository.

OP thanks for the great article.
This Is What Really Happens When Amazon Comes to Your Town
That is what I imagined when the Karger/Thompson attack came up with regards to Rust. The simplest cheat would be mapping low-level Rust to a safe subset of C. Automatically or hand-convert the source for Rust compiler. Then, run that through CompCert. A Csmith-style program run through both versions of Rust compiler might also catch errors in one or both. One might also use the C tooling to find errors in the Rust compiler or apps. And so on.

First step that was necessary would be converting the Rust to its lowest-level form. That sounds like the fully-desugared" form you describe.
I grew up in a no-name city I'm the Northeast and I can say exactly the same thing when I visit- Wow, this place is different!

Because things just change.

We didn't even have a big company come in or anything, it just changed over time one thing leading to another.
I would assume so it can be tweeted. That's Twitter for you. Under 140 at all costs, even if it screws the vision impaired.
Cities change. They always change. Sometimes they change in ways a particular person likes; sometimes they don't. But this whole business of "good Seattle" is just crap.

Maybe if you are talking about which vibe is your favorite. But cities can definitely go the wrong direction on quality of life, with increased pollution, decreased walkability/bikeability, safety, access to nature, and so on. And that might be objectively bad/good.
GitHub is great and all that but pls fix the search. Just a simple dedup would be really really amazing. Like I would pay 20 usd a month for a better code search. Like where I don’t have to go through potentially 100 pages of results most of which are sometimes duplicates.
Coming soon: a selfie with your credit card application
Scarcity of energy is the real bottleneck.

Once the cost of production/storage/transmission of energy has gone down to effectively zero, everything else falls into place.
This is a terrible idea. Here is a better idea:

- Change tenure criteria to something closer to “number of students * average quality of dissertation”

- Expect fewer (0-2) but higher-quality publications from grad students applying for tenure track positions.
You miss the point about replication.
Or how about updating the godawful PR review process? Tools like Reviewable are light years ahead. Github is great, but come on, it's stagnant. They don't release anything anymore. They don't even have mobile apps for crying out loud!
I guess citizens will have to be the ones wearing body cameras.
PureScript Unscripted – Free from Tree and Halogen VDOM
> Cities change.

Sometimes I think people on the west coast seem to think of a city as a place that's supposed to stay the same forever ("forever" being defined as starting at about 1960).

The lower east side was a German neighborhood, then a Jewish, Italian and Ukrainian. Dutch before that, of course. Then the Italians moved to Little Italy. It mostly became a Hispanic neighborhood. The Ukrainians mostly moved away and the Jews mostly moved away. The north of the neighborhood sort of became Japanese and Chinatown sort of started encroaching on the south and Little Italy slowly declined. Artists and then eventually giant condos started moving in. As you walk around you can still see marks left behind by the groups that departed many decades ago. For example, a few buildings still have prominent German inscriptions on the front, from Little Germany's high point in the 1880s – the Germans were gone by around 1900. You have no doubt whatsoever that your turn there is temporary. A city is a place of constant change. You are every bit a part of that constant change. But the city will slowly move on without you.

Don't expect anything to last longer than 10 years.
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You have that. Go start a blog.
GitHub is fantastic in so many ways, but I think it would be remiss not to point out that the hegemonic platform for open source and Free Software development is itself a proprietary platform, run by a company whose business model is reliant on companies continuing to develop proprietary software.

It's also in many ways a single point of failure for many open source communities, and it will be very interesting to see what happens if GitHub ever folds.
> I remember as a student/early graduate (so, 2000 - 2003ish) having.. acquaintances who were in their early 20's, bringing home close to $AUD100K/year, for assembling commodores.

This figure likely included a lot of overtime - the average annual salary at the Elizabeth plant was only $60,000 according to Senator Kim Carr.
I don’t know why we are thanking a successful company that is making tons of money (as thanks)...

Why don’t we spend the time to thank the creators and supporters of open source projects instead?
> Firstly, you're critiquing a study based on a journalist's write-up about it.

I'm critiquing a political abuse of a bogus study and also the bogus study itself, based on the study's language and based on the political website referenced by the journalist's write-up, by actually reading them. You can see them too at http://bwc.thelab.dc.gov/ and http://bwc.thelab.dc.gov/static/files/supplementary-material...

> This is merely a pedantic argument that things are not truly knowable.

Bullshit. I'm telling you that correlation doesn't imply causation and rather than saying "oh yeah, I heard that once somewhere, it was probably important" your response is "but physics jargon". They are measuring one thing and making, and these next words are key, an unreasonable leap onto something very different. In your boson world nobody ever doesn't report something that happened. In the real world that is very clearly false.

Even a mediocre scientist accounts for blindingly obvious confounding factors. A better scientist accounts for things that don't even seem like they could possibly be confounding factors just because they are differences. Neither of those appear to have happened here. They assume that reporting rates are predictable for different circumstances just by guessing, which is not a reliable assumption.

And on top of all of that, this report is likely going to be used as a giant war banner in the police union's fight to reduce the use of body cameras. And it just slides right over the fact that cameras actually do see police committing crimes and abuses for which they then don't get significantly punished and which would never have been uncovered otherwise.

It arbitrarily privileges "reported uses of force" as the target of attention rather than "witnessed crimes and other violations". Why? The report isn't titled "Evaluating the Effects of Police Body-Worn Cameras on Uses of Force: A Randomized Controlled Trial". It's called "Evaluating the Effects of Police Body-Worn Cameras: A Randomized Controlled Trial" full stop. And yet they are clearly ignoring huge categories of observed malfeasance in order to tell a particular dismissive story.
A little cringe for my tastes. It's important to remember that fragmentation in and of itself isn't inherently bad. It can be useful not to have a monoculture on how to get things done.
The difference here is that the bad cops are bat at being police. The criticism is not about something they do off the clock. Police should be able to ...police themselves.
How many people here actually read the credits for a movie? I mean, I've worked on movies and I don't read the credits. Would anyone even read credits for software if they existed?

I guess if it's just a token of appreciation for employees and it only matters to them, sure. From the company's perspective, I don't see it being much of anything more than a poach list of their best employees though.

If individuals want public exposure, they should be allowed to write about their work for a company blog.
The skeptic in me sees this as a way to get a bunch of developers subscribed to a feed / notification. Will be interesting to see if the repo gets misused somehow.
I think anything that promotes or supports any of the following in some fashion would be good:

Passive solar design or solutions

Pedestrianism (walking, biking and using public transit instead of driving everywhere)

Eating lower on the food chain

Living more spartanly

FWIW, this was my idea of how to save the planet with potty humor and a website:

http://peeonatree.blogspot.com

No one actually cares and I have no idea how to develop it or measure impact. It is going nowhere fast.
I look forward to all the negative comments here from people for whom GitHub is not serving their very specific need.
Grew up in Seattle, lived on capitol hill, moved away a few years ago.

All the "rough around the edges" components were what gave the city its character. There's a reason, growing up, why people made fun of Bellevue and how lifeless everything felt. Its also why they felt so passionate about their hometown, despite the weather.

Now Seattle feels lifeless. I used to want to move back at some point, but now I don't feel like I'm missing out on much. Thank god Amazon has realized how much it has affected Seattle and is trying to move the next 50-100k employees to a city that could really stand to benefit from the growth.

I don't blame Amazon entirely for this, but I do hope it serves as a lesson for other companies (and cities), who welcome growth at all other costs.

The greatest irony is I live in the bay area now, which seems to predict the future of Seattle quite nicely. Its clear no one gives a shit about where they live, or the communities and culture they inevitably displace. They are just trying to make as much money as possible and get the hell out.
Wouldn't that give people an incentive to have lots of students, thus making the PhD glut worse?

I guess it depends on how the two factors are weighted.
Fragmentation in this case is bad. Like I wouldn’t contribute at all if each repo has some weird workflow.
Of course I'm willing to allow it. That's what defending free speech means. Free speech means allowing the deplorable, the horrible, the hateful, and the hurtful.

It does have limits, and those limits are already encoded in the laws. I've already been over those.

I like all of my rights, even if I'm not using them. I not only want them for myself, I want them for you.
I think it might be equally, if not, more important to graduate only a suitable number of students/postdocs so that the majority of those that want academic positions will find those openings available.

I'm not sure how to balance these issues.