skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon brought $700k home prices to Seattle? Wow, that's a problem I'd love to see in Vancouver!

Seriously, housing prices didn't go up because of Amazon. Housing prices went up because there was an imbalance between the zoning for jobs and the zoning for homes. Vancouver doesn't have any employers anywhere near the scale of Amazon, but we've managed to create a much worse imbalance -- and median home prices well over $1M.
Hyperbole. It really was fixed a couple years ago, maybe as much as three or four, if you were running a cutting-edge distribution like Fedora. But, it was entirely fair to say Linux absolutely sucked at audio for decades.
> working a job they probably don't necessarily like very much

Worse yet, trying to make tech people feel bad just for finding a job they actually like and going to a city where those jobs exist! If only we could all be so lucky. Like the job or not, I haven't seen very much indication that people are going into tech in droves just for the money (unlike what I assume you see in banking).
Yes, the interaction with Quinn was very obviously criminal sexual assault in the presence of many witnesses (who have confirmed it).
I’m seeing a lot of hate in this thread. I think we tend to lose sight of the fact that things don’t just _happen_, people make them happen. GitHub has absolutely earned its dominance in my eyes, and although it may have shortcomings, I think it’s one of the most important inventions in the last ten yesrs, period.

When I look at the software I use to run my business, literally 100% of it is open source and has a community improving it and patching it on GitHub. There was simply not this level of open source enthusiasm and participation back in the Sourceforge “dark ages” (although even Sourceforge was hugely influential and a big step in software democratization if you compare it to what came before).
Should all sw be written by volunteers?
Republicans Consider Sharp Cut in 401(k) Contribution Limits
I agree, more money might contribute to more research and may or may not be a useful expenditure but I don't think it will solve the problems mentioned. It seems that limiting the number of PhD/post-doc postions such that they have a high likelyhood of ataining academic positions is the correct course. Although, I'm less familiar with the medical education system in the US/Canada it seems like this is roughly the model they follow.

We don't need industry taking advantage of the glut of PhD grads, they could be responsible for training and not take academics who quit because they can't find suitable jobs after graduation.
>> They're what happens when empathy dies and envy takes its place.

Well, forgive me for pointing this out, but what you wrote contains a fairly shocking lack of empathy.

Feeling bad or angry about being driven out of a neighborhood by an enormous wave of outsiders isn't about envy. The change hasn't even been incremental; the bulk of the changes have taken place in the last five years!

In the central district, entire communities that existed for decades are being destroyed. They are bulldozing people's communities to make room for people with more money.

How can you expect people to not feel angry?
Yea exacrly.

We also sort of have this kind of dichotomy in America. As a matter of public policy, our wars and policies unfairly target Muslims while we preach that any and all discrimination is illegal and intolerable. I like how the South Park creators put it: https://i.redd.it/bbwo4ropuesz.jpg
Hah, people would find a way to hide some novel findings in an otherwise "negative result" paper and then extensively cite it in all future papers.
Fair point. This is a real issue in most non-engineering fields.

Maybe add a “% that get a job” factor.
Well yeah they could tweet an image of text if they want (and use alt-text if they cared), but why would they handicap the website by using the same image?
Also, in STEM fields.
>Recognizing faces doesn't help much when somebody who got fired last week without security knowing comes back to sabotage the networking equipment.

Any business kinda deserves it if they don't de-authorize their card as soon as they're terminated.
I think the privacy argument is about the members of the public the police are interacting with.
I think what adjlinux is talking about is a tragedy of the commons, which your question sidesteps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
What’s the worst case scenario here? I can only imagine the devs just getting some spammy notifications and having to unsubscribe.
I've come to believe that the parable of the Bucket of Crabs perfectly describes the majority of self-espoused open-source advocates that you will meet online. To them, if you are at all successful, then you must have gained it through the exploitation of users. Apparently users are not willing participants in software or something, I don't know. But I've never seen a group of people tear each other down quite like this vocal group of open source "fundamentalists".
Have you ever looked at the accounts of women who /have/ reported it? If it actually goes to trial basically the defense finds every single thing you ever did and tries to portray you as a slut who was asking for it. If the person is famous people will say you’re lying and trying to get rich out of a settlement. You’re required to repeatedly go over every step of the assault whether it was harassment or rape. They ask if you orgasmed (because that means you wanted it), that your jeans were too tight for a rapist to remove them, you were partially responsible because you passed out (so it wasn’t rape), ...

Then even if they do get found guilty they punishment may be insignificant (think Stanford rapist)

And then there’s how you get penalized, irrespective of whether the person was found guilty
* if you’re on social media you get harassed by the bigots on chan, Reddit, etc
your name on google ends up publicizing the assault
* if the person you’re accusing has power/influence you lose your career (which is why so many victims in film didn’t say anything about asshole guy). Tech has a similar problem - look at what happens to women who call out anything at tech conferences.

The result of saying anything is typically catastrophic to the victim and frequently has little impact on the abuser.

If you ever actually pay attention you can find out about the people women tell each other to avoid at cons or parties because they are known predators. Because doing it that way is less harmful or and damaging to your own life than going public.
Sourceforge
Those aren’t mutually exclusive, both are good things and deserve appreciation.
What makes people engage in bootlicking like this?

I'd rather people supported underfunded open source projects rather than engaging in marketing for VC financed for-profit companies.
Would something like this help you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XSf6XfYl64

Developed by a former colleague at http://near.ai/.
Ay refs or background on this?
There's a couple of comments complaining about features that are a little out of place. But I wouldn't call it "a lot" of hate.

I think it's mostly a response to ground the hyperbole a little. There's usually no need to do the marketing for an organisation with (arguably) a monopoly of mindshare already.

I think that's why people talk up the underdogs more when they're mentioned, because as users/consumers it's in our interests to have some competition.
Doesn't the four paragraphs linked answer your question exactly?

>Before 2007, the way to participate in Open Source was fragmented. ... Nowadays doing Open Source is infinitely easier thanks to you, GitHub. You've provided the tools and the social conventions to make those days a thing of the past. Your impact in the Open Source movement is unprecedented.
Right? Always bothered me “but they were drunk, it’s not their fault”

That’s cool. I’ve been drunk before and haven’t ever raped anyone.
I remember living in QA and working at MS in late 90s, before/during the startup boom/bust. Some of the same vitriol directed at us, is now pointed at AMZN folks. Plus ça change i guess.
I would't call a decently working search a very specific need :). But kudos to GitHub for all they have done.
You made some great points and laughs :) Thanks for the insight!
This. If you want a direct, measurable impact/reduction in impact, go veggie.
I think we need more dissenters and the disaffected. Some people work, some people create businesses and wealth, others study, research, families have to be raised and life gets over but we always need a section of the population that is in a constant state of dissatisfaction to challenge the status quo.
Hm? Detroit ungentrified, housing became affordable, artist communities flourished, over-policing went away, corrupting corporate influences and (especially) real estate developers vanished. Detroit is everything every growing liberal city claims to want and writes public policy to work towards.
I kinda understand how people don't like this. They are looking off into the horizon and seeing even brighter futures. That's fine, but you don't have to be a hater about it!

Can we just acknowledge just how much of an improvement github is over the olden days? Seriously. And as far as social media websites go, Github is surely one of the most ethical of them all.

Github popularized git in a time when svn and cvs were the standards. Don't forget about those sad, sad times! We are in such a better place now! They also recognized the power of git to completely lower the bar for participating in open source projects.

"Pull requests"? "Forks"? That stuff didn't exist in the mainstream developer imagination. It was fringe. Now it's the default!

And I'm not trying to say that github is the best model or platform or anything like that, I just appreciate how easy it makes it to participate in open source development. It's clean, it's simple, and it works.

GitLab and BitBucket, those are awesome platforms too. But Github struck a chord in a time when people hadn't even heard the melody yet.

I hope the future brings something even better. But I'm still definitely gonna give props to github for holding it down.
It's just a tool with a random score - why does it matter? Most of the recommendations are now outdated. Focus on overall experience and there are plenty of RUM monitoring scripts you can use (that take advantage of the very fine grained performance timings available in browsers today).
What the fuck?

Today, participation in the development of Free Software is more difficult than ever as tons of projects make it impossible to contribute unless you use a proprietary piece of software to do so--namely, github.

Also, how is it even remotely sensible to compare the state of github today to the state of not-github a decade ago? If anything, the proprietary nature of github and its network effects is likely to have hampered progress in the development of Free Software collaboration tools. It's not exactly like you need a proprietary middleman in order to not exchange patches by manually attaching them to emails in a world with ubiquitous broadband internet.
I think modern musical notation could be improved by making a more readily apparent distinction between phrase marks and tied notes. As it is one often has to read ahead on a tied note to see if is tied or not, which costs attention.
I looked at this post when there were 6 comments. 5 of them were negative and the 6th was non-positive.
Ok but in that case the state did not commit an abhorrent act.
If Github folds, Gitlab or Bitbucket will take over, and we might hardly notice if they make an effort to copy over pull requests and comments.
This feels like you’re having a different conversation, there was no debate about portability or convenience.

Also, highlighting is one of the worst ways to try to learn:

http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/09/highlighting-is-a-waste-of-...
<< Seattle refuses to add density- a common pattern on the west coast it seems.

This is utterly and preposterously false.

There are huge apartment and condominium complexes going up all over town. Ballard has been strip mined and turned into a virtual Las Vegas strip of luxury apartments. Capitol Hill has been strip mined and turned into block after block of luxury apartments.

I've visited the web sites of nearly all these buildings, and with the exception of projects by Capitol Hill Housing Authority, it's virtually all been built for people with high incomes.

The fact that so much housing has been built for solely for wealthy people is really, really, really central to the argument against gentrification.

Gentrification says "Hey, if your community doesn't have have money, it doesn't exist. If it doesn't exist, we don't even have to erase it. You'll just be gone and no one will care."

This is an incredibly destructive ( often totally racist ) message, and it's really at the heart of the problems that arise with income inequality.
The word ‘liberal’ these days have two purposes, the latter of which is to say you are a man of virtue.
Many banks in the US don’t get the original checks anymore. The deposits are done purely electronically, and the only thing the bank gets is a very low-res image of worse quality than a bad fax. And that’s all they store.
Ok, what kind of ballpark time do each of those entail? You didn't give a single hard number.
Git itself is open source; if Github would to away without warning, you could host your repo anywhere that supports git, or host it yourself.

There would be problems, however, with issues, comments, wikis, etc. as well as all kinds of package managers that rely on github.
Steelgate –  the Kobe Steel Scandal Effects Car, Airplane, Train Manufacturers
> How can you expect people to not feel angry?

Being angry at the macro effects is one thing. Calling someone an asshole to his face simply because he did what everyone else on the planet wants to do (earn an income) is entirely another.

> In the central district, entire communities that existed for decades are being destroyed. They are bulldozing people's communities to make room for people with more money.

First, which community? Do you mean the Jewish community that existed there before the folks from middle-Africa moved in? Or do you mean the Catholics before that? Or the Native American tribes before that? Yes, the people who were redlined into the CD had little choice but to move there. That they're cashing out is a good result, in my opinion.

Second, if someone sells his or her property and leaves, that's not destruction, that's exactly what everyone who owns property wants to have happen. You can't decry the loss of community on one hand while taking the check from the closing table to the bank with the other.

(For what it's worth, I've no property interest in the CD. I live in Greenwood.)
Unfortunately it doesn't. There is no mechanism right now for the browser to cancel the pushed resources.
H2 Push's Cache Digest will introduce this ability, but it's still being designed.
I didn't say they were positive, I said there were a couple of ones complaining about features, which was just moaning.

We're probably just disagreeing on what constitutes hate, I thought that they were mostly just mild criticism.
I still do that on all my cards. About once every few months, I run across someone who does actually, check and then I thank them for asking.
In the bay area it seems that the bunch of suburban campuses just leads to high property values in the end but you also have terrible commutes and even worse traffic.
Except that the land they tried his ideas on really did start growing stuff again. Nobody refuted the results he shows in the presentation. What may have been "debunked" is the notion that it's somehow good in terms of CO2 production, but even that isn't clear to me - plants take CO2 out of the atmosphere, and animals put it back.
If I can only use "novel" how do I talk about how "robust" my work is!?
Well, sure, but there's a different dynamic at play here.

There are different classes of things that are "known" in society. What class something is in depends on a lot of different things, and funny things happen when they change class. There's a fairy tale about it: The Emperor Wears No Clothes. In that one, a kid makes unavoidable what everyone is thinking but afraid to say. Before the utterance, it was unthinkable to say it. After, it was unthinkable not to.

You can see this in play right now - there's that dynamic about the Weinstein trash fire, for instance. I think that was part of what was going on with the poster. It was shocking enough to be an instant conversation topic ("went viral"), and greased the rails a bit for people to admit to their peer groups that they opposed the war, too.
No real danger, just seems like it could be used as a marketing ploy.
> Why are you so eager to assert the labor of women is obviously worth less?

What an insane and condescending assumption.

I support focusing effort on training women for high paying jobs. I support researching why women don't study STEM degrees as much as men, and working to mitigate that gap.

I do not, however, support paying those that study less valuable "feel-good" degrees more money just because more women choose to go down that path.

And finally, I don't need to actively "support" women making the same as men within the same professions, because that's already the reality we live in.
Finance Professor, Steven Clark from Horizon Investments, to Join Advisory Board
No, that was just inevitable technological progress. Mind you that github did not invent git, nor the git workflows. Their primary contribution is that they extended git into a proprietary platform with network effects, so as to make everyone dependent on them.
> The DC/Baltimore area has had some recent high profile falsification of evidence accidentally caught on camera cases.

Such as this one:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/body-camera-video-alleg...

They were only caught out because they forgot that the 30 seconds prior to turning the camera "on" would be included in the video.
Exactly, same thing in the bay area - lots of office buildings and giant corporate campuses but the only housing is a few detached homes built in the 50s.
The island was lanai, HI. The ferry from maui to lanai during sunset is life changing.

Trees:
https://everything-everywhere.com/the-pine-trees-of-lanai/
It's also worth mentioning that card companies will usually side with the card holder initially. The burden of proof is on the merchant in the US.
I love github. And I also think it'd be awesome if some of these haters put their heads together and made something positive on DAT/IPFS that could replace github altogether. They could include features for bug/feature bounties, better project management tools, etc.

Like come on, don't just gripe about it, make something cool... the time is now! And in order for you to make something that's actually cool, I hope you can pull your head out of your butt and acknowledge that github was amazing for its time. Recognize what makes github awesome. It's not the fancy project management stuff. It's the simplicity and focus of the open ended, social, collaborative platform. It lowered the bar. It made it easy to jump in, no matter how much clout or recognition you had. It made it normal to fork a project off the bat, in case you accidentally found yourself fixing a bug or wanting to make a little feature change.

So yeah, github is awesome and it's getting old. Let's appreciate it and get to the next level.
Also, if you can turn off your body cam (or fail to turn it on), then you are free to behave however you want as though you weren't on camera.
<< A lot of those cities would give anything for Seattle's problems.

This is such a terrible non-argument.

If you go to a lot of those cities and ask people 'hey, do you want to be forced to move away from you home' or 'do you want to share the city with 50,000 new people in five years', or 'do you want your commute time to double', how do you think they would answer?

Honestly, as a Seattle native, it's been a mixed bag, but mostly bad.
Webforms are not trash, just very annoying to use as a developer.
Chrome Payments API
Microsoft didn't publish the blog before the bug was fixed:

"Servicing security fixes is an important part of the process and, to Google’s credit, their turnaround was impressive: the bug fix was committed just four days after the initial report, and the fixed build was released three days after that."
Right, and nothing more from the US armed forces ;) Or even the UN, for that matter. Or police forces. And what about team sports? Rugby is pretty violent, after all.
Mystery of the indestructible glass drops
True, and "hater" doesn't necessarily mean "hatred". Sometimes it just means not being able to see the sunny side if your life depended on it. Doesn't mean you're all that negative, it just means you can't appreciate.
Thank you for the insightful post on the interaction of security and the legal system -- including the question of whether the internet can benefit by that approach.

Somewhat related to "money can be easily corrected later", digital system designers increasingly accept their system will get cracked into and the main issue is how to recover from that (at least operationally).
There is also Byzantine Notation

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Byzantine_Notation

The interesting thing there I found "Byzantine notation, on the other hand, is relational; the note is dependent on the previous note and the symbol itself, which specifies the interval from the previous note. "

EDIT: Saw Ethiopian notation there and got curious and found this chant (performance?) from a music school from Addis Ababa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iztBcn3UZIA
Organic agriculture actually more harmful than conventional agriculture
Automatically upload footage to something like the IPFS. Blockchain that shit, immutable.
Startup Inertia
The boarding of U-559 changed the war
Where do you draw the line between engineering and research?

Graal has shown that you can use interpreter specialization to create a Javascript engine that's essentially as fast as V8. It relies on a lot of clever tricks to do that, like partial escape analysis. Graal has generated quite a few published research papers. It seems like both engineering and research, to me.
My internal cynic is thinking that creating a mountain of education debt does a good job of squelching agitators. I wish education funding were not so tied to politics. It's a right, just like healthcare, in my mind.
You hear the same complaint about Manhattan and presumably Brooklyn. Have they walked by Hudson Yards or seen the cranes all over other areas? Sure, you can always build incrementally more. But at some level it’s demand outstripping any reasonable near term increase in supply.
The thing about your second suggestion, although quite useful for pianists, is that it "detracts" from the experience of playing other instruments. Music theory is not confined to a singular instrument. Guitar tabs suffer from the same problem; you're not learning how to play music, you just learn how to operate a guitar as a mechanical tool (e.g. if I play the 3rd fret of the 2nd string, I'll achieve the desired result, nevermind what that actually is). The beauty of a musical notation system independent of any instrument is that it works for all of them!

Regarding your first suggestion, there is actually a relation between the two staves: the ledger line above the bass clef and below the treble clef represents the same note: a middle C. Also, keep in mind that, the "larger" the staff, the harder it is to recognize quickly the note to play. It's not a bad idea though, and worth exploring!
My wife has to pay her rent at her office via check. The landlord requires it. We were dumbfounded at first, but then we just accepted that we have to play by his rules.

Prior to that event, I can’t think of any transaction we have had in decades here in the US where we were required to pay by check. Cards or electronic payments of one sort or another have almost always been available to us.