skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That actually does make sense, negative signalling is powerful, there are many blaming silicon valley for all sorts of problems in society (AI killing jobs, rents in the bay area rising etc) and it would be easy to then take the views of a prominent valley figure and superimpose them onto all of the valley, even if <0,01% support trump.
Japan is an hierarchical society in which the pressures flowing from the top can build to unbearable levels near the bottom. The outlook for many is quite bleak, with an unthinkably small possibility of escape from one’s allotted role. Many live in conditions that may be best described as human storage. Cute things offer an escape into a fantasy world devoid of life’s powerlessness in a manner compatible with consumerism. The aggressive and masculine traits valued near the top are sometimes too confrontational for most, resulting in a proliferation of cute, comforting and non-aggressive symbols throughout society. Even police boxes have cute mascots to soften the intimidation of their presence.
> every single issue that comes up results in a new rule.

This sentence is the simplest explanation for government (and bureaucratic) incompetence.

Think about writing software. Is the optimal solution to every single bug to write more code to deal with that specific situation? Of course not. In many cases, sorting out the underlying cause and fixing that (which may involve new code, rewriting old code, or even deleting outdated code) is the correct approach (assuming that the optimal solution is the desired outcome, there are of course cases where speed of getting something out that works trumps this, but government regulations only take effect once annually in most cases anyway, so they don't have a speed excuse).

Simply writing a new rule to deal with every scenario is an approach that inevitably leads here.
Because there has been a collapse in right-leaning libertarianism in the post Ron Paul era. Libertarianism has shifted to the left and there has been an exodus of right-libertarians to various flavors of nationalism.

I think this is one of the major intellectual stories of the last decade, largely uncovered by the media.
Don't you think being a Trump supporter =should= hurt most people's careers? It's pretty poor judgment, for starters.
You've answered nothing I've asked (350M speakers which is 30% of the pop, Belgium uses 2 languages and somehow India isn't a country) and then end with what is at best a racial insult. You're free to have your opinions, but I don't see the point in arguing with you. You clearly can't or won't read or nor argue coherently and hurl pathetic insults.
Some old stuff, but some really good stuff here. Thanks MS.
"Courage is in even shorter supply than genius."

-Peter Thiel
True. Not saying it can't happen. I just think it's unlikely. I think Johnson is currently polling somewhere around 10%? I guess the big hurdle will be getting in the debates like Perot did. Not sure what the current rules are for that.
SEO Guide to Changing Your Domain
Yes. Remove everything after the word smart and add "(like most people in the programming profession)"
"We just assume that all cultures and societies will follow a certain trajectory: from reformation, to enlightenment, to secularization, then on to the end of history. There this almost patronizing tone I often hear, which is, well, you know, Muslims will get there."

Then where is a Muslim plan for getting out of this current quagmire and into a 'there' that's appropriate for Muslims? The reason most thinking western people assume that is because they look at the current state of affairs, see its unmanageable, and assume that the smart will triumph over the stupid: in other words, religion will be relegated to the realm of myth like it has in the west. Many of us do indeed assume that a modern nation state cannot be run by religion and its illusions. So far, Islam has not proven us wrong. Quite the opposite, the many Islamic nation states currently existing have shown us that Islam, and also based on previous experience, religion in general cannot be combined with a successful nation state.
I think if "almost nobody uses it" it's fair to call it obscure.

> another case where Windows is more UNIX than UNIX

Windows has extended attributes too. Having both features makes it more like a kitchen sink.
Saying Gonzalo Curiel (born in Indiana) can't be impartial in a court case involving Trump "University" because he's mexican is one example.
Show HN: Patent Artwork/Poster Store
The article is referring to a line from this article: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education...

The line in question:
" Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."
There's a certain conservative mentality that delights in being more-reactionary-than-thou.

When I encounter it I tend to say things like "Oh, the real problem started when we adopted agriculture in 6000BC. It was Big Government that wanted us to drop the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and submit to the state. And don't get me started on the invention of reading and writing..."
I 100% agree with this article. Whenever I am invited to talk, I always speak about my work and expertise, as opposed to women in tech stuff, because being there and being good at what I do, is much more effective than statements about diversity (IMHO). The only time I've done women in tech type conversations, it's been in small, intimate settings for an all-female audience. In that scenario, it makes sense to discuss the challenges and learn from each other.
In Office Professional Plus, PowerPivot.

IIRC, LO/OOo have much poorer support for tables and table formulae than Excel, as well.
Please don't.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12130976 and marked it off-topic.
That doesn't necessarily follow, but I'm curious to hear the answer. You can think people should be allowed to do something, but that them doing that thing is harmful.

For example, look at all the people that lamented the fact that plebs voted for Brexit. A lot of anti-democracy talk around the time of that vote.
Think he has anything right of center cobbled up together in a neatly packed ball
The problem is that this is not easy at all. Mozilla had a project which tried to do pretty much exactly that, called Shumway [0], and development has been going on for a few years, but they didn't really get anywhere useful in all that time.

[0]:https://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/donald-trump-racism-quotes/
The Wall? Anti-trade? Believes judges with Muslim or Mexican heritage are incapable of being fair?
Wait. What does the relevance of a new idea have to do with the ethnic composition of the people with the idea? Isn't that a racist statement? Fascinating.

My favorite part about the liberal mind are its obvious contradictions and, thus, the unintended consequences of its thought process.
Virtually all spy agencies recruit foreign nationals to do their dirty work.

Also your question has a 1 in 5 chance of the answer being "Yes".
Dark Was the Night: On the Voyager Mission
He is at 13% now and needs only to be at 15% to enter the national spotlight of increased media coverage and access to the general debates. His polling numbers are increasing with a notable momentum as general support of the Republican candidate and Democratic candidate are both at all time lows.

As long as the majority of voters think of Trump as a broke racist narcissist and Clinton as an apathetic or unethical elitist he may well have a chance.

http://heatst.com/politics/gary-johnsons-polling-numbers-rea...
Yes, DRF was one of those. But I don't remember whether I ran the whole test suite or only some subset of it that I could (quickly) get to run at all :) My goal was to get a sense of what it would look like on a realistic project, not so much to test DRF itself.
I would argue that it is the right's embrace of authoritarianism rooted in nativist and nationalist (some might even say racist) sentiments that pushed libertarians to the left, which is traditionally the sphere of people who have been historically oppressed or just want to be left alone.
>exodus of right-libertarians to various flavors of nationalism.

How does a libertarian become a nationalist? Trump sure seems to facillitate "USA pride" but his politics and economics are not that libertarian at all. How can nationalistic pride win over what I thought was the center of the libertarian philosophy?
"Introducing Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2" is a corker. I won't give away the ending, but get ready to have your mind blown.
Gradle Daemon typically makes builds 15-75% faster
I'd argue that there are other reasons for seeking a group of one's similarly disadvantaged peers than 'focusing on things that are not under your control'. Simply being in the presence of individuals with similar experiences offers solidarity, which is not equivalent to focusing on the negatives of those experiences. Nor would I agree that 'seeking reassurances' (quote from grandparent) necessarily leads to lowered expectations.
It's kind of unnerving how many responses in this thread boil down to "well, it doesn't work for me, I never needed emotional assistance, so it's not useful for anyone."
Honestly, Trump and Hillary aren't that different. He's a little less of a warhawk, speaks his mind, and is pro-2A. The last one is almost enough on its own for me, given Hillarys stance on that issue.
Are you referring to the tariffs he wants to impose to prevent companies from exploiting cheap labor in Mexico or the national security concerns he expressed wrt Apple or something else I'm not aware of?
when will the world learn that the man is a liability (Thiel not Trump). Speaking of blaming the 1% this guy (compared to other influencers like E Musk) is a serious threat to world peace.

Palantir is to the US what Volkswagen was to the Nazis. Let's remember drones, Palantir and Thiel every time we speak of neocon cunts like Thiel: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
He's polled as high as 12, but they made it 15% after perot.

And yes, many of us are.
You are correct. I arrived there by clicking on the bottle diagram, and wasn't paying attention to the specific book it brought me to as I assumed it was the one the page is about and was excited to see a link to sample content. That's a shame.
> Why not more Gary Johnson supporters?

Because Peter Thiel, among others, are largely operating on a hybrid ideology with the pillars of Nativism/Nationalism & Libertarianism.

Gary Johnson is pretty much a pure in the middle of the right/left axis among the range that is called "Libertarian". He is too left-leaning for many of the people that call themselves Libertarian but want to be able to enforce their beliefs on other people.
Teddy Roosevelt got a winning percentage.
High score! In all my filesystem I get about 150,000 files with a colon in their name. Many of them are part of the filesystems of containers which seem to use colons in the names of their libraries and dpkg packages. Many archlinux packages have colons in their names too. I also have some media files and documents with colons in names too.

It's actually really common, for someone who's used *nix for ages and expects every character to be a valid filename.
I think you underestimate the size of the "precariat" that feels it's on a trajectory towards becoming economically and culturally disenfranchised. The educated elites are quite disconnected with the population from the lower half of the "middle class" and downward. Look at what's happening in the Internet driven media of today. The lion's share of the volume online is outrage politics.

It's the young and economically squeezed vote you need to keep track of, both on the right and left. Trump and Sanders both knew this.
This also happened to me with Hotmail and a few times with Xbox Live.

I haven't tried to log into Skype in years and I don't expect to start. Live ID is the worst thing that they've ever done.
Ones career being affected by a political opinion is very dangerous, especially since the goal-posts are constantly being moved by the thought-police.

It's understandable how political opinions can affect how we view our peers, sometimes I question how a rational person could, for example, vote for Hillary Clinton. That does not change that persons professional proficiency nor would I hinder their career in any way because of it. It's a shame some people don't feel it inappropriate to cause harm because someone does not subscribe to their world view.
Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions.

I absolutely agree that the interface that most citizens use to government can be better. President Obama agrees with you (from his sxsw remarks):

"I could change the politics of America faster than just about anything if I could just take control of all the DMVs in the country."

"If their primary interaction with government is the IRS, you just don’t have a good association with government when you’re writing that check."

USDS has been working with the IRS to help them get their Transcript service back online with better identity proofing though admittedly just a small step in a better online experience. (irs.gov/transcript)

A number of state and local governments have been making improvements as well (much harder to see if your state or your local government has not been). I'd encourage you to search them out or even start it.
Depends if by Northern California you mean SV. Travel further north to the foothills and it's pretty traditional. As someone who grew up in Placer County and now lives in the bible belt the main difference in political culture is that conservatives here are much more into the religious fire and brimstone narratives.
> How it should look

A square box with 01F 642 in it? I'd rather have a nose on my smilies.
He seems like a better guy than Trump for sure in that he has actual experience in government.
13% huh? That's a bit better than I thought. Definitely sounds like he has a shot of making it to 15%. I'm all for it. I'd love to have him in the debates. I really liked this ad they made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHEpTh3kqR8
Why does dropping the OS mean you have to run on microcontrollers and write everything from scratch? All it means is your software needs to incorporate the OS functions that it needs for interacting with the hardware. You can still use any hardware platform you want and any third-party libraries available for said platform.
Only the last of those options is really racist imho, but even then it's one of those issues that _might_ have a smidgen of truth in it.
I've been reading some depressing articles recently about top scientists who have been accused repeatedly, and who kept their careers for decades.

http://mashable.com/2016/01/12/astronomy-professor-sexual-ha...

So maybe one day a single false accusation will be able to ruin a career, but it seems at the moment, multiple factual accusations won't.

Meanwhile, these men do threaten to, and follow through on threats to, ruin the careers of the women unlucky enough to find themselves trapped in professional settings with these sociopaths.
"gives them the resources and authority they require to turns things around"

They probably could have given the same resources and authority to the existing staff and they might have turned things around too. It really annoys me that in so many cases the existing guys know what's wrong but are not allowed by management to do anything about it. Then management hires new people, gives them authority, and suddenly these guys are heroes and the existing people look like idiots.

There seems to be this tendency to think that existent workers are all idiots and the only way to do better is to hire new people (preferably young and from ivy league schools). In reality it's a leadership problem because they have set up dysfunctional environments that don't allow people to perform.
Both he and his running mate (Bill Weld) are 2-term governors. I don't know why their primary opponents McAfee or Petersen would detract from that. Are you under the impression that they chose their opponents?
Yep, it's pretty much the supreme contrarian move which as you say, if he's right, gives him a virtually monopoly.
There's nothing necessarily good about democracy. A majority voting for something doesn't make the outcome legitimate or good. You could ask gay people in California about that.
> I don't think women have it particularly hard in tech.

That's the thing: we'll never know, because no one person has ever really been both. What's disheartening is that everybody seems to think that they _do_ know, men and women alike.
Sorry; I assumed that by replying to you and you replying to me that we were entering into a conversation. I am attempting to address your interpretation of the concerns raised by GP. Replying to your interpretation of the concerns seems like a natural place to do that.

As it is, your reply here was not really necessary.
When it comes to discoverability, I really like what Spacemacs is doing with its continuous suggestions UI.
That doesn't capture what I think of when someone says "brogrammer". At the very least, I think it also denotes a strong sense of machismo, with a connotation of disrespect for others and boorishness. It's not a positive term, generally speaking.
A decade ago I was driving through a quiet street when a crow limped into the middle directly in line with my tire. I slowed and tried to steer around but the guy seemed intent on limping into his own demise.

Rolling forward at 5 MPH he disappeared under my car only to dart up at the last moment to a telephone line overhead. I looked in my rear-view mirror out of confusion to find that the crows "limp" was in fact a walnut that he was aligning with my tire for me to crack.

Corvids are smarter than I can understand.
Fine by me. Those are the ones I don't want to speak with. Like I said, I don't go through the front door when I'm looking for a job.
The narrative in this country is people who dont agree with the liberal establishment are mentally ill in the form of racism, sexism, etc. This is the level of political discourse we put up with.
download MSFTFREEEbooks.txt and run
wget -i MSFTFreeEbooks.txt --content-disposition --trust-server-names
Actually, Twitch already supports an HTML5 player[1]. I don't install Flash on my MacBook and just use Chrome when necessary. Twitch has been working without issue for a while now.

[1]: http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/2477288
My "co-founder" (I was solo until she joined up with me and we decided to re-invent how the company operates) is 1,000 miles away. We're on Slack when we're awake, have notifications set to trigger on keywords like "need" and "help" and "problem" and "ticket" and so on rather than every message. Our systems all log updates to their own channels, including file sharing (so we can "see" what the other is working on) and git commits (for projects not just shared via Dropbox).

We have a short call (15-20 minutes) every morning, and a project in Asana for those daily agendas so we have a quick list of "checkins" we each make. Throughout the day, if a question isn't an urgent one, we just add it to tomorrow's check-in agenda. We cheerlead for each other during those calls, too.

Hubot listens in on Slack (using the pseudonym @walken, as in Christopher Walken) so if we post what looks like a Jira issue for a client we're working on, he'll helpfully summarize it and link it. Same with HelpScout conversation IDs, the system where all other inbound email goes.

She's a designer-type and I'm a ... Well, a crossbreed of designer/developer/big thinker. When we are working on something together, we'll often just open FaceTime and leave it open while we work, for the immediacy of it.

Every other month, we get together in the same place to work, and to have some non-work interaction, like a dinner or a museum or something.

We agree to use emoji in our messages (don't groan, dear reader) because "text lacks tone", and emoji can make the difference between perceived sarcasm and playfulness.

We have phrases we've committed to using to avoid misunderstanding. For example, sometimes one of us needs to vent, and if the other were to try and help, it would only feel like we're not being heard. So we formalized saying "I'm venting:" as a sign that the other should just listen. We also don't say "I'm sorry" when the other person is done venting. Instead, we've made a game of stringing together three random-ish words as a response, trying to be funny without referring to the context of the message at all. "Purple goats warble" or "database staffordshire shitballs". iOS auto-suggestions for us are weird.

Basically, we do what we can do be "present" for the other, even when we're not actively doing work stuff.

And sometimes we do Hearthstone duels.

She's awesome. And we have a great partnership because of all of this.
Well, it is not surprising why Thiel supports Trump: SELF INTEREST. It _has_ to be.

Thiel seems like a remarkably smart guy who would never fall for the fool BS coming out "The Donald's" mouth. He must be in it for the influence he can leverage out of the orangutan-man from being a delegate, an influential SV player and and sizable donor.

What will really be interesting is the (what I expect to be) PURE pandering baloney he gives during his speech at the RNC. Obviously, he can't just say "the real reason" he supports Trump.

Pass the popcorn, its going to be interesting.
If you wanted to know how close HFT's are getting to nano seconds, check out this blog post.

https://meanderful.blogspot.ca/2015/08/trade-system-performa...

Short answer below:

Hardware

Ho-hum	< 2,000 ns

Good	< 500 ns

Excellent	< 100 ns

Software:

Ho-hum	< 10,000 ns

Good	< 5,000 ns

Excellent	< 2,000 ns

Man, I remember when I was proud to get trade times down below 1 milli second!
The colon has been special since the dawn of DOS. For instance, you cannot use "con:" as a file name. (In fact, in a fit of extreme stupidity, DOS also claimed some devices with no Colon suffix, like "con" and "prn", effectively making these into globally reserved names in any directory.)

Stock Cygwin does something special with the colon character, so the Cygwin git shouldn't have this problem. A path like "C:foo.txt" is not understood by stock Cygwin as a relative reference in the current directory of drive C; the colon is mapped to some other character and then this is just a regular one-component pathname.

In the Cygnal project (Cygwin Native Appplication Library), paths passed to library are considered native. So that certain useful virtual filesystem areas remain available, I remapped Cygwin's "/dev" and "/proc" to "dev:/" and "proc:/", taking advantage of the special status of the colon to take this liberty. You can list these directories (opendir, readdir, ...) and of course open the entries inside them; but chdir is not allowed into these locations. (Unlike under stock Cygwin, where you can chdir to /dev). chdir is not allowed because then that would render the library's current working directory out of sync with the Win32 process current working directory, which would not be "native" behavior.
That's what Shumway [0] was supposed to be, but according to another comment, it's been added to the Firefox graveyard unfortunately. [1]

[0]: http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=...
>It's understandable how political opinions can affect how we view our peers[...]

That's how it happens. Even if you try to be impartial, it's hard to give someone the same respect and give them as much of a chance after they have a differing opinion from you. Not that you shouldn't try, but it's difficult.
Declaring a general fault in a <EntityType>'s mind isn't often the best way to endear the neutral or opposed to your point of view.
The original post was about sexism. If any sub-discussion about sexism is off-topic, why not just delete the entire post?