skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might rather be that we can't verify sources and facts on social media effectively.

Believe me when I say we went down that rabbit hole as well. I even asked if perhaps there was something to the notion as to the unreliability of sources on social media and if that was the case, how do we create incentives for or otherwise insulate journalism beyond the baked-in expectation that journalists will perform with more earnest intent to disseminate to verify and seek out sources. We expect a journalist to dig for qualitative sources; we expect integrity; what do we do when that doesn't happen? What's next?

He directly said "We ignore it. We ignore the problem and it will stop being one". I couldn't find a way to agree with that, I tried providing a subsequent argument that if there were a problem with social media mucking a story-where was the inherent problem in pointing to a fixed point in time where it happened (using examples he offered to the debate) as a means of understanding what went wrong in the process, and working to do better. That didn't get far. Trust me, I was there.

At the end of the day, I had to rest the argument because he just didn't think social media had any bearing for journalists, and I had to try even harder to avoid saying things that were just plain rude after my position was continuously mischaracterized and parroted back as ideological soundbytes.

Still, I think it's a critical conversation the journalism world ought to be having, and I don't think "Well just tell journalists to ignore social media" will solve that.
Sure, but you still have to pay taxes, whereas if you get a loan you just pay interest (probably a very low rate) and defer the taxes.
This happens with every single story that touches on this subject. Over the course of the summer it's happened time after time - the flag brigade gets almost all of them.

After the flag-killed story today was reset, it still never showed up on the main page, despite hundreds of votes, although it did show up on /classic.
You ever get a twitch in your eye when you see I-238?
Yeah but you're dead so you don't care. :)
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You might want to look into whether or not your understanding of the concept of racism comports with its actual definition.
Us highways 50 and 60 exist and the location of Interstate 50 and 60 would be kinda close to where US-50 and 60 are, so they were probably skipped to avoid confusion.
There's no qualification to be POTUS other than your age and whether you were born American.
This worked out well for OpenOffice.org, Cassandra, Wave, Groovy...
Simple questions:

1) How do you build guanxi?

2) How do you maintain guanxi?

3) How is guanxi lost after it's been gained?

4) Give me an example with two people where one has far more guanxi than another. How are they treated differently by the third party they have guanxi with? (No direct familial relation)
Companies that solve a problem Google is facing (i.e. look at Uber acquiring Otto).
Well, given that they probably search for email addresses as part of ediscovery, it would be an easy way to avoid hitting the search filter.
In my view staying physically healthy is vital. From what I've seen of folks who are in their 70s and 80s, mental and physical activity are each necessary for the other, and have to be habits long before retirement is even on the horizon.
Ozone and acid rain, things from the biology book that we no longer need to worry about. Hopefully C02 has a nice clear peak in retrospect someday too :|.
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There are leaderboards. If you dig into the section targeted at companies:

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I think that I've been able to observe a similar situation in my experience. I've had the fortune of being at the point of various crises in my career (massive system failures, natural disasters, man-made disasters, etc) in both contributor and leadership roles.

When in those type of situations, I definitely have perceived a heightened awareness, where the feeling is like being in the "zone". Decisions are easier, communications more fluid. I tend to be a more instinctual person in general, but these types of situations are far more pronounced.
> I'm a happy customer

What are your plans for transitioning off their service?

The script for this sort of acqui-hire is pretty well known at this point.
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One way to make those interactions less annoying is to, perhaps temporarily, put aside your goal of getting them to agree with you, and choose another more achievable goal. Here are a few you could try:

Have a cordial interaction with someone who sees things differently

Learn from this person about one of the things they are an expert on

Understand more deeply the pseudo-logic of their mindset and where it comes from

All of those goals are realistically achievable which should make them less frustrating than trying to win. And as a side benefit if you succeed at any of the above, you should be in a better position to bring them around should you go back to trying to do that.
I think 6502 machines can do better with a version of BASIC that can compile into machine language binary files. One that has advanced commands for moving sprites and checking for collisions, etc. A BASIC compiler if you will?
Does not make it right (for anyone). Equal rules should apply.
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Typical dopants for solar cells are elements like B and K, not rare earths.
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I started learning python mostly by going through Google lectures by Nick Parlante:

https://developers.google.com/edu/python/

Google Code Jam is very helpful if you like algorithmic programming.

One of the nicest things about python is rich libraries for daily mundane GUI automation: pyautogui, pyhooks, pywinauto, sikuli, etc.
Apple is the company that forced every major label that wanted to have its music on iTunes to abandon DRM, what possible motivation would they have for wanting to bring it back?
The only problem I see with that is that one of the reasons notebooks are so cheap is because you almost constantly need new ones. They either get filled up or worn out relatively quickly. Therefore, companies know you will have to buy more to replace the ones you've already bought. That is part of the reason they are so cheap.

The same probably wouldn't be true for e-notebooks. They could hold tons more notes and hopefully be more durable than notebooks. Due to those factors, a company who produces them knows they aren't going to have as many reoccurring sales in the future to replace the e-notebook, so they are going to likely charge more up front.

Just my opinion and maybe I am totally incorrect.
They are real: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/27/venomous-spider-b...
External sites by Google using angular: https://www.madewithangular.com/#/categories/google
There was a criminal investigation, and a freedom of information request. So yes, according to the courts, they WERE able to forcibly make her turn over the emails.
99 is a real tearjerker too
Well, how much say do we have over the architecture? Paging/banking hardware is pretty common on 6502-based systems. Such hardware decouples the virtual address space (what the CPU sees) from the physical address space. Typically they are used to extend memory space (e.g. the Apple //e's 80-column card) but they can also be used as a mass indirection mechanism (e.g. the NES's various "mappers", which granted are used more by its graphics coprocessor). The act of paging is "instantaneous" since you are just setting a hardware register.

So if you are designing the hardware, give it an extra 4 KiB or so (16 pages), mapped through a paging circuit to the zero page. On entry to a function, increment the current page; on exit, decrement. Now you have a way to push all "local variables" that is faster than even pushing all the registers. You could even get fancy and XOR bits 7-4 of the page register with bits 4-7 of the paged address lines, so the compiler can choose anywhere from 16 256-byte frames up to 256 16-byte frames.
I sympathize with the alleged prejudiced housing policies, if they are in fact true. I don't get the outrage about tweets. The tweets that got re-tweeted weren't racist in the least, is the guy or gal in charge of his Twitter account (I assume it's not him, i'll give you that) supposed to look at the history of every tweeter to see if tweets they come across are from racists? If anything, one of the staffers doing the retweet screwed up and didn't vet the messenger, but that's hardly a blemish on Trump other than "lesson learned, vet your tweets better."

Edit: Some of the tweets he's re-tweeted are pretty questionable, i'll give you that much. I only saw a couple before, one about Jeb Bush which one article had as it's prime example so I was pretty confused.
Personally, I think the best way to learn to code for someone who has talent for it is project Euler (projecteuler.net). No dependencies, no IDEs, no graphics and no gimmicks. Very short, clear, discrete problems that can be solved using any language.

If you really need shooting, explosions and fancy graphics to keep you motivated then I don't think programming as a career is for you. Most programming jobs aren't going to give you much of that. And frankly, I think all the wizz-bang graphics just interferes with your learning and getting good at visualizing in your own head what the code is doing.
I don't play games these days, but I can totally see how one can be put off by female "warriors" wearing glorified G-strings. Not necessarily in "Oh how dare they objectify women!" way, but more like "Do these idiots take me for a horny teenager?" way.
>Does that logically make all Trump supporters white supremacists?

She never said that all Trump supporters are white supremacists. Did you listen to the quote? She said half of Trump supporters were racists, homophobes, xenophobes, etc... If you look at the polling data, her comments were pretty well supported.
Is that you, Gary?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xlmU9LvtAs
Cul-de-Sac hase one enormous advantage - Google and Waze will not be able to send tons of traffic through your little street.
The issue is we use up fossil fuels we could still continue for more years, I don't see any reason for it to end much before that. If we make mistake with earth core we would mostly surely setup end of humanity atleast. I would rather focus on getting the world to a place where willno borders and safe religion etc.. which would get lot more runtime for humans than this. If we optimize food production find a better alternative for capatalism we may live better with or with out need for fuel
My guess is it was an attempt to avoid saying 'incredible journey'.

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
ices older (y)ear. Oh, how Germanic languages always make sense in hindsight.
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I think the H1B program is terribly flawed and certainly abused. But Trump is not talking about reforming it, he only talks about in the context of "foreigners stealing our jobs" (paraphrase), which I find quite contemptible. And without a meaningful plan to replace it would close an avenue for people to legally immigrate to the US, which makes it seem like he might have a problem with legal immigrants.
That was a direct copy'n'paste from a session on centos7.

Password age is kept in /etc/shadow, not /etc/passwd.

So the passwd command is (needs to be) setuid.

Redhat generally limits what setuid programs can do.

Probably sensible.
Someone created a mini model of his living room using HoloLens
I find the opposite to be true.

Sure writing an entire game is a lot of work. But starting with the typical "print "Hello world"" then looping. Then text input. Then average 5 numbers = Students quit out of boredom.

Where as inside a game you get instant visual feedback. You start possibly with a simple exiting game and start modifying. Whether it's Pong or Breakout or a simple space shooter. All of those can teach the same core elements and yet the instant visual feedback means students are far less likely to be bored and far more likely to explore other ideas.

Similarly creative coding (processing, p5.js, etc.) often go the same way. The instant visual feedback leads to excitement and exploration for many more than the "learn these 100 foundational things before you can actually do anything interesting"
I think you are placing undue weight on the statistics. Just because it's the 3rd highest in the US does not mean every waking second is spent looking over your shoulder lest you be robbed.
It would probably pain me too - until I looked at my bank balance.
Is this real? If so, that's very cool.
SCM at just the right size for Raspberry Pi or PocketCHiP
I get this, but it seems to me that the simple converse is that we just happen to presently have the optimal amount of free time, which I don't think is true.
Project Euler (IMO) depends too much on math skills that many novice programmers (and experienced ones) lack. http://www.hacker.org is one that I introduced to a few friends that got more positive results with them. And I also encourage people to go to https://www.rosettacode.org and try their hand at adding solutions for the languages they're interested in.
If you only base your opinions on facts, you can't really have opinions about very many things. Very mundane details of historical events. Narrowly defined conclusions of studies which are almost never actually specifically applicable to any situation at hand. If you believe science reporting headlines you might think you are basing your opinions on facts, but if you actually read the papers you realize how little science can actually say.

Very few of the principles that basically everyone relies on to make value judgements are based on actual research. Most people who purport to base their opinions solely on scientific research are saying that because they have some small number of sample opinions that contradict commonly held opinions and which are based on facts. They then generalize to "all my beliefs are based on facts" even though basically none of these people actually audit their beliefs in any systematic way. The subjective experience of being an outspoken proponent of a factual analysis leads to the false generalization of that story into all aspects of their life.

But in fact we make thousands of judgements every day, the vast majority of which are based on a few casual observations, or our internal model of the universe, which, while based on facts, is not a reliable witness, nor is it a scientifically valid source of data.
I'm curious what environmental consequences you're concerned about? It's not as though this heat is trapped and we're magically releasing it; the alternative is for it to radiate away into space.
I-495 used to be the name of the Maine Turnpike, as well, before 2004. Now it that route is included in I-95, while the previous I-95 is now labeled I-295, while a yet third section of highway connecting the two above Portland is now technically 495.
At least compared to AWS, rumors are that the answer has been "hell yes" for a couple of years now.
I think this is a big part of why the SV powerhouses are mobilizing against Trump. They rally the troops with hyperbole and accusations of racism and sexism, but in private they're afraid of losing their H1B wage slaves and tax havens.
Correct me if I'm wrong, and I may well be, but I'm under the impression that a significant number of posters on HN have problems with the H1B visa program. I'm not particularly knowledgable on the subject but from the comments I've read most of the concern centers around driving down wages, and thus costs for employers, and shackling H1B visa holders to specific jobs.

Is this an incorrect reading of the sentiment here? And more importantly, should I assume that anyone against the H1B program feels so because of racial animus?
> One of my former colleagues failed to pass his interview after his company was acquihired by Google

amazing: they spend n million dollars just to get that talented individual, and then just throw it all away. My question is how is this expense reported/justified and who gets the difference? What about shareholder value?
The problem with Euler is it is very heavy on math. Math and programming aren't the same things. (although certain programming paths do rely heavily on math)

Its better to do something. ANYTHING. Euler? Hackerrank.com (or other similar websites? exercism.io? "Crack the Coding Interview" (or any other similar book)? codereview.stackexchange.com? codegolf.se?

Or any of the other dozens of ideas here http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/764/2536

The key is DOING. Repetition. Solving problems and overcoming obstacles. Repeatedly. Till you get better. Then do it again. Repeat yourself.

Did I mention repetition? repeatedly?

How do you learn to piano? Guitar? fix cars? Years and years of practice. Programming is no different.
I have a .name domain which I don't use - I think ".name" just sounds... ugly. I use .id.au now, which I personally find much more aesthetically pleasing.
Anyone want to learn kdb+ q?
I'm a professional kdb+/q developer and am willing to teach q/kdb+ to programmers with other languages with the aim of me learning also and hopefully creating something with our combined skill set :)
How should the average researcher go about replicating something like 3-5 clinical trials that a drug company may have run for a human drug?

Should we replicate all that work? Or perhaps just obtain the raw, patient-level data from said company and analyze the data ourselves?

I am just curious which you view as more efficacious?
I don't have ADHD and am extrovert but still hate open office. When I work I want to work.
So intellectual honesty is wrong because of the 'racist' brush? You can paint anything you want with that.

This is the anti-intellectual America that I fear. Decisions made based on PC doubletalk. Folks discredited and ignored because they don't talk the official line.
What's interesting is that it's highly situational for me. I'm known as a fixer for work related situations but I'm pretty risk adverse in my personal life.
I was aware of most of this, but it segues nicely with my latest interest in Adam Adamatzky's research using the slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, in a form of bio-computing [1].

The demos where oatmeal flakes are placed on a highway map of major cities in various countries, and the Physarum optimize the paths in ways that closely resemble some of the existing major roads is compelling. I am holding out on how correlated it actually is given highways have developed not only from old horse paths and such, but from civic planning.

My daughter is a Chemistry/Bio major, and I have told her about this, and asked her advice on how I might go about doing this at home. It seems easy enough under controlled circumstances, and it it just seems fun checking in hours later for a 'result'!
So much so, I ordered his book "Physarum Machines: Computers from Slime Mould".

[1] http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/adamatzky/research.html
Bingo.

This has an even better "turn" on money. Basically, it's not getting money today that would take 30 days, it's really getting money today that might take another 5 days. That means there can be 73 turns per year vs. the 12 turns.

This is still much better than a payday loan btw.
Some of that I suppose. But also, he's an evil man. Doesn't take a conspiracy theory to want to see him defeated.
Later on, but not at the point here.

He could delete all her private emails here if he wished.
Complex web interfaces aren't easy, you gotta do a lot of magic to make a browser be like a desktop app. I think most struggle in getting their concept to work in the first place, and when they get to ease of use it's a lot more work they may not want to invest time in.

Given web limitations you cant just do the same UI as a desktop you have to be mindful of web browser input idiosyncrasies, screen size limitations, etc.

I've written intranet database stuff, which can be a bit a tad rough and user intensive - but when you are doing more public facing things you have to concentrate on simplification, sanity checks, added security and cross-platform issues. That stuff doesn't always come easy.

Until you get a handle on how you are going to pull-off doing X on the web you can't think too much on how to make it work easier. I think you would see better UX when you have seasoned web developers doing the apps, as they understand the environment and can now also concentrate on UX.
I'm stating the obvious but it's spiking every October in anticipation of Halloween. Ignoring those spikes and looking at the growth trend that began around 2007, it looks fairly organic and has remained relatively flat since mid 2014. What kicked it off in 2007 I don't know.

The term has simply become a short-hand way of describing something that brings unease. The problem with the term is that people aren't actually describing what characteristics are bringing that sense of unease, thus someone who's a little awkward gets lumped in with far worse characters. So it can be used indiscriminately but it's an easy way to describe something that's difficult to define, hence its ongoing popularity.
It depends. Often it's by going to school with people, or having an uncle who went to school with someone, or similar.

Maybe it's by taking people out to dinner and getting drunk with them, building up a certain type of camaraderie.

Othertimes it's outright bribery.

But this sort of thing:

> boot-licking, toady, lackey, stooge, sycophantic, brown-nose.

Rarely works to develop good guanxi.
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> Is it really so hard to believe that there could be paid political shills operating on here?

Yes

> CTR pays people to spam 4chan

[Citation Needed]
Curious as to what the difference with payment systems in Singapore is to warrant a higher rate over other markets?
I wish this sort of blatant exaggeration wasn't so highly upvoted.
Agreed. But some of us would go a little further. When you see a crowd around a bully and a blowhard, you can be sure they are almost all weak and cowardly.
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