skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean just like when 9/11 allowed for the idea of pre-emptive strikes to be legalized?

Law specialist have no understanding of what is the right law, they have an understanding of how you can interpret the law.

These are two very different things you don't need to be a law specialist to have an informed opinion about the definition of what constitutes war.
There are many historical examples of countries with legitimate governments that were taken over by a demagogue or tyrant. You can't imagine a sane person could fear the same outcome in the United States?

Democracy has to be re-earned in each generation. If you just depend on past victories, you can absolutely lose it.
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Apparently if you collide two species of ruminant with enough energy you get the Higgs Bison. :-)
NotePlan is written in Qt, so cross-platform can be managed. I'm going to get an iOS version out of the door, then I'll rethink Windows and Linux and Android. Thanks!
The term "human parity" refers to a comparison of the error rate, which is a single scalar summarizing performance in terms of mistakes made. It says nothing about the kind of mistakes, and I can easily imagine that machines qualitatively do not make at all the same kind of mistakes as humans. I'd be curious to know if the kind of mistakes machines make might strike human listeners as quite stupid, but maybe not.. many algorithms are getting better at taking into context and prior knowledge into account.
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If you start with github repositories for your candidates, aren't you filtering out people who do things other than work? Most of us work 40 to 60 hours a week, and sign paperwork that says that any code we write belongs to the company. But now we need to work Saturday and Sunday on open source projects so we're worthy of sharing a coffee with a hiring manager?
An iPhone 7 costs about $750 and lasts about 2 years. That's about $7,50 a week. How do you have to work a day to afford $7,50?
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Because it's not just an 'ignoring of errors', it's the fact all exceptions (as in actual errors from the runtime) are silently swallowed. In your example, if you typo in that function body, an exception will be thrown, your program will exit and you will see the stacktrace.

var fs = require('fs');

fs.writeFile('foo.data', function(err){
// A typo here will lead to an exit and stacktrace
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});

Whereas in the Promise examples it is quite literally silently swallowing ALL exceptions thrown, including typos etc.

It is limited to Promises, because they're supposed to help us deal with error propagation, and pass exceptions through to `.catch()` handlers. But if that catch handler is missing, crickets, even for outright invalid code. That doesn't happen with any other construct in JS afaik.
So beautiful. The ossification of their cookie-cutter mills is the fertilizer for your new ideas and new ways of doing things to sprout and take hold.
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pretty clickbaity title... sounds more like they provided data for surveillance in general and the color piece of the title comes from this assertion:

>Social media monitoring is spreading fast and is a powerful example of surveillance technology that can disproportionately impact communities of color.
Well, congress has kept their constituents per critter at almost criminally high levels for going on a century now.

As we see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_ap...

It is constitutionally provided for to have ~30k citizens per critter. But congress is left to determine how many critters there should be. Providing more critters, and thus less people per critter would reduce the amount of power they wield individually, thus there are absolutely perverse incentives at work to keep our congressional representation as citizens to a minimum.
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Not to sound too snobby (I would have notrecognized the Newton-Raphson method is by its name either), but I think it is at least plausible to figure out the method on the spot.

If you either know how the first order of a Taylor series looks like or just brainstorm a bit about how the derivative could help you in finding a root, you will figure out the Newton-Raphson method rather quickly. But then, it really depends on the job whether this is actually knowledge the interviewer would want to test.

That said, I completely understand that even if you would have the required knowledge, it is really easy to fumble during a high-stress situation.
Forgot about that one... Not a movie, but besides the very well known TV shows (ST:TNG, BSG, Firefly, etc.) I can really recommend The Expanse.
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Thomas is one of the more intellectually honest guys I've met. I'm hopeful that he's still looking through the evidence presented, corroborating the facts contained therein, and coming to his own conclusions based on evidence. That's a huge info dump and I would be charitable enough to give someone time to process all that because there are quite a few pieces to put together, but it looks pretty damning when you add everything up. You might discount the video guy for having done ACORN videos or something, but it's hard to look at the FEC data and the video of the protest and not see that it presents a rather compelling case.

To be fair, I won't claim that's the last word, either, and I'm interested if there are any breaks in that chain of logic which I've missed. Whatever faults I may have, I'm always open to revising my positions based on new evidence and I am not enthusiastic about either Trump or Hillary. But if you can get people for stuff like that on video and corroborate it, I will want to see federal charges explored for whoever is truly responsible, regardless of party affiliation.
Inflections, yes, although they may be listed separately. We shall see.

However, checking the intended meaning through context would be really hard. So the best I could do is offer warnings for words with both, indicating that the usage may or may not be valid.
It does not match my own experience. I worked a few years in Canada (Québec) and liked it very much. I found that the work-life balance was much better than in France. It was more constant throughout the year. People have fewer vacations than in France 3-4 weeks/year with a few sick days vs 6-8 weeks/year but the daily working hours are lower (9-5) with quick lunch break where in France it is more 9-7 with a long lunch break (only in the private sector and in IT).
The more constant working pace is much better for work. In France it is very complex to schedule a meeting when everybody can attend (there's always someone in vacation) and in summer it is nightmare for managers to find people to make a project going forward. The mood at work was much better in Canada, people were more friendly, less stressed due to a better organization (easier than in France) and also to be fair due to a lower unemployment rate.
I did not have the impression to work more than in France to stay afloat, but maybe because because it was going smoother.
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> It's, "choosing targets for a drone strike."

We're talking about the State Department wanting a voice in how we handle people with names like Bin Laden. It does not surprise me at all that they would like to be present for those conversations instead of allowing DOD to act unilaterally. Again, where are you getting names like Julian Assange?

> If your standard for whether or not a story has happened is mainstream news coverage, then you and I perceive the world in extremely different ways.

Mainstream isn't a curse word. It means they have something to lose by screwing up badly at journalism.

True Pundit can print anything it wants. If it comes out that they literally made it up, they can reopen the blog tomorrow under a new name. It is an unknown and untrusted outlet for news. Given the blog's obvious purpose as a serial hit piece against Clinton, it has no more credibility than a blog I spin up tonight called "Bad Stuff I Think Trump Did."
It's really hard to walk in a straight line in dense woods. A compass helps, but even then you have to know how to use it. It's usually best to find a stream, follow it down to a river, and then follow that down to some sort of settlement (hopefully).
I'm going to say again what I said yesterday: I'm really unhappy that this is what passes for discourse on HN now.
Question for you: is your judgement of the applicant affected by whether or not they have an active GitHub repo?
Same here; I've written a cross-platform (PC and Mac) .NET application that generates reports as HTML in shared code, and both systems create printable output as PDF files created by WKHTMLTOPDF.
I can think of no better test of whether some specific being is intelligent than fooling another human into thinking they are.

Can you think of a better one?

> because it's a behavioral or functional test

What else would you test for in an AI other than its output and behavior? Conversely: how would you test a human for intelligence other than through its output and behavior?
Seconding that; this is what I keep open instead of Facebook for most of the time. For those who didn't click yet, it's an official Facebook Messenger, in-browser version. Only chat, without the rest of the Facebook.
This will a smart move, he says sarcastically.
For those using nvm:

nvm install lts/boron && nvm alias default lts/boron

You may need to update nvm before that works:

(
cd "$NVM_DIR"
git fetch origin
git checkout `git describe --abbrev=0 --tags --match "v[0-9]*" origin`
) && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
This is pretty much almost exactly the same boat that I am in.
The TLS specs don't allow for that, each certificate (after the first) must have signed the previous certificate. Many client libraries are forgiving of chain issues, but not all, so it's going to get really nasty, really fast.
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ACLU says: "The government should not have preferred access to social media speech for surveillance purposes."

However here governmental entities did not have preferred access! They purchased the preferred access that Geofeedia would happily sell to anyone.

If I understand ACLU's position correctly, it would be more fully stated as "The government should not be allowed to buy preferred access to social media speech for surveillance purposes." or perhaps instead or also "Nobody should be allowed to sell preferred access to social media speech for surveillance purposes."

Which is fine as far as wishes go, but on what principles is this "should" grounded?

What kind of freedom from government (mass) surveillance should we expect for actions that are conducted in public (physically public or electronically public)?

I am sympathetic to the ACLU's goals here and am hoping to find better grounding for them, intellectually, politically, and practically.
I'm not saying one can't be smart/intelligent without being able to see/hear, I'm saying if you take away all senses from ALL human beings there won't be any way to communicate at all, or know that others exist, and to learn from them. Learning is what makes intelligence possible--and the passing of information through generations. Hellen Keller fought extremely hard to overcome her sensory issues, but she had a good teacher, who presumably had someone else help them or guide them some. -- But to organically learn to speak when nobody can hear you, or to read when you can't even feel the braile, etc..would be nearly impossible.
Properties mean a lot of things to different people, and C#'s can do stuff that you don't expect so I would guess won't make it into Java as they tend to prioritise reading code over writing it. Having said that if you look at https://www.oracle.com/javaone/on-demand/index.html?bcid=513... about 30 minutes in you might see Brian talking about something that may be close enough to what most people want from properties to satisfy them.
"And to speak of solitude again, it becomes clearer and clearer that fundamentally this is nothing that one can choose or refrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all. But how much better it is to recognize that we are alone; yes, even to begin from this realization. It will, of course, make us dizzy; for all points that our eyes used to rest on are taken away from us, there is no longer anything near us, and everything far away is infinitely far. A man taken out of his room and, almost without preparation or transition, placed on the heights of a great mountain range, would feel something like that: an unequalled insecurity, an abandonment to the nameless, would almost annihilate him. He would feel he was falling or think he was being catapulted out into space or exploded into a thousand pieces: what a colossal lie his brain would have to invent in order to catch up with and explain the situation of his senses. That is how all distances, all measures, change for the person who becomes solitary; many of these changes occur suddenly and then, as with the man on the mountaintop, unusual fantasies and strange feelings arise, which seem to grow out beyond all that is bearable. But it is necessary for us to experience that too. We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us." [etc]

From Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet. To continue reading:
http://www.carrothers.com/rilke8.htm
> Regarding the properties I really don't get what is the big deal.

I used to feel the same as you, then I dabbled with Rails. I think the deal is that in Java there is a lot of noise in the code. So, developing feels like you need to do a lot of yak shaving before you get to actually work on what you intend to build.

As a result, properties on their own isn't a big deal, but it's one more thing to slow you down and make things a little less enjoyable.
I know, but with the JVM having full support, that might eventually change in Java 11 lets say, after the experience how everything went.

Brian did not state they will never do it.

Also the other languages could take advantage of it anyway, even a reiffied version of Java for example.
Ah - so he's a bit ahead of me (with his sarcasm), then. It's just that I see the "A+" label (and its various synonyms: "phenomenal", "astonishing", "rockstar", "badass", "10x-er", etc.) touted in all seriousness, far too often -- that I guess I've become conditioned to being always a bit negatively triggered by them.
Knowing Microsoft this will be part of Cortana in a few weeks.

I hope it will be integrated soon with the Speech API as well ( https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh361633(v=office.1... ).
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Yes, or some sort of VP position.
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> the Republican voters decided this is the person they wanted to represent them

You might as well say the American voters decided that, since it wasn't even close to a majority of Republicans. Trump's rhetoric just played well to poorer, xenophobic conservatives, and there are plenty of those in every state, and his asinine comments got him a lot of free publicity on the "boob tube".

> I don't know that the same can be said about "the media".

I don't think reports of violence at Trump rallies ever called into question that these might have been instigated by DNC operatives. But they will now, right?

So they might not have hand picked Hillary, but they definitely allowed themselves to be manipulated by her campaign to some degree.
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There's an axiom of software engineering that any sufficiently large system (or, I suppose, algorithm) is incomprehensible by a single person. That's to say, a single person may be a high-level architect and understand how the high-level modules work together, but he won't understand how the inner workings of those modules work, especially if there are multiple layers to those modules, both bureaucratically and technically. And somebody who busies themselves understanding and working on the lowest levels, won't have the time to work on the higher architecture, nor would it interest him, as long as boundaries are well established and respected.

It's not that far of a stretch at all to claim that strong AI would be similar. At some point, everything worked on by today's AI researchers becomes some refined lower-level module, and tomorrow's researchers will use them as building blocks for the architecture for strong AI. Those lower-level modules will have coefficients derived from massive training sets, and tomorrow's researchers will simply understand that those coefficients work, without any real understanding of how those coefficients were derived. And that's OK.
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For syntax -
* https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-computer-science--cs...
* https://www.codewars.com/dashboard

Complete Codewars challenges alongside Udacity. That'll give you a strong grasp of creating and using functions.

Beyond that, I have no idea as that's about where I'm at now with both Js and Python. I'm headed to a meetup later this week for Js and I'm probably just going to ask to paor program with somebody to learn what it's like to actually make things.
I too find Pomodoro breaks to be too frequent when I'm in the flow (and I often would skip them then), but when trying to make myself work on a difficult task, having the perspective that "it's just 25 minutes" was helping me to feel less stressed.
I agree, but could go without the royalty free bg music.
I don't believe, given what they repeat at every Google IO when people ask about it.

Also I don't have any issue with Java as I do like the language and use it since JDK 1.0.1.

My issue is with Android Java, a forked version of Java with cherry picked features of Java 6, 7 and now 8, just because Google didn't want to pay Sun.

A version that will be even harder to write portable code when Java 9 and 10 come out.
Whataboutism.

Rolling Stone did retract the story, and has done some considerble introspection on the topic.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campu...

A key point of the story for me, having seen multiple other instances of people claiming narratives which proved false, is that it is difficult to guard against someone who is committed to telling and promoting untruth. The more so if the person appeals to you as sympathetic or persuasive. This is at the very heart of the con.

It's why being both compassionate to someone who's claiming wrongdoing, and making triply-certain you've dotted all 'i's and crossed all 't's is so crucial.

Hoaxes and (bogus) conspiracy stories, financial and business cons, and political cons work like this. They press all our psychological levers which are geared toward belief, and twist them. Piltdown Man, Crop Circles, Clever Hans (the more so as the perpetrator himself was by all accounts among the deceived), the Chess Turk, and other hoaxes.

I could draw more examples from current headlines, though that might prove more divisive.
I am not filtering anyone. I use the signals that are available to me and which I can proof-check. Candidates who don't have public software forges (whether it is self-hosted Git, Gitlab, Github, or Bitbucket etc.) go through the usual (tedious) interview cycle.

Those who have don't because that would be redundant and a waste of time. This is simple.
Discovering unethical behavior affecting everyone doesn't concern their audience, they have to throw in some dog whistle words to suggest the in-group is under threat.
HN markdown does support italics, so italicizing entire paragraphs is a viable alternative to differentiate what you're quoting from your own comments. I've seen folks do it now & then.
No one is talking about legal punishments for Trump (even though he threatened to jail Hillary if he won). We're talking about Y Combinator doing business with someone who is substantially and actively supporting a racist.
1) You are interpreting the 'Necessary and Proper" clause without respect to the 'proper' part of it. I agree that effective regulation of many areas requires regulation of intrastate commerce, but that is improper.

2) Customs was a power given to the federal government, as it was the primary method of taxation, and regulation of international commerce.

3) The ratifiers of the Constitution were most concerned with preventing general warrants, as had been commonly issued by the British as a tool of invasive monitoring and oppression, and the Fourth Amendment was included to prevent these practices. The warrant-less searches we see today are operating in a manner similar to the general warrants, but without even an explicit general warrant.

4) The Constitution has no provision allowing for Congress to delegate any criminal, civil, or regulatory law or rule-making, thus such delegation is un-enumerated and impermissible. The president only has the authority to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed", and not even to exercise discretion in an arbitrary fashion.

5) The Tenth Amendment is simply an explicit statement that all powers not explicitly mentioned in Article I, Section 8 are out-of-bounds for the federal government.
Do you mean does it matter what version controlling tool they use or if they self-host? or if I would favour a candidate over another because of an active Github repository?
I didn't know Edgerton name, nor how many things he shot at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gspK_Bi0aoQ
Documenting the strange poetry of changelogs and patch notes
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During extensive, complex discussions like these, it becomes readily apparent that while the HN/Reddit-style threaded text forum is the best format I know of, it's still woefully inadequate.

There will soon be 1000 comments on this page- none of which are merely simple thoughts. Nobody could read them all and still maintain a cohesive, holistic perspective on all the issues presented. Most of the comments themselves splinter into anecdotal tangents, and surely every comment has overlap with another comment here. But, should any comment be omitted from consideration? I think not, because every opinion presented holds unique value. We, as mere humans, just can't consider each one individually. Not at internet scale.

While it's a precarious use of ML, we really do need computational synthesis and analysis to draw trends from these discussions. We all know ML recognizes and reinforces biases- so we shouldn't be training a classifier by using HN's sentiment as a baseline. That said, we need a solution here, ideally soon. Until that happens, I won't be wasting my time dropping 2 cents into a bottomless void.
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It's on purpose... journalists learned to do it this way.
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