skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll find the same level of cultural variation in almost any country. It's nowhere near the same level of variation you find between countries of Europe.

For example: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each have unique cultural differences; distinct identities. The same goes for counties within England, e.g. Cornwall or Devon versus, say, Yorkshire.
> v6.9.0 marks the transition of Node.js v6 into Long Term Support (LTS) with the codename "Boron"

Welcome, Boron! We've been waiting for you :)
Snopes must be having a pretty high traffic month: http://www.snopes.com/julian-assange-drone-strike/
Some of the trouble here is the tendency of divisive people to see any attempt at understanding an issue to be support of that issue. That's part of what encourages trumps.

Another is the funny sort of ways that liberals want to fix -isms by applying the -isms in attack and unironically saying it's okay because they have the right opinions. That's part of what encourages trumps.

It's a basic fact of human nature that the self-righteousness you feel about your own opinions is not unique to those who agree with you, and there is no objective way to prove it is superior. That's part of what encourages trumps.

And it sure doesn't help when all the rhetoric gets the added emotional manipulation of associations to hitler.
I'm sorry, but I must ask your fingers to become more tired, as your three cases are not the smoking gun of the dreaded racism that you seem to believe they are.

The Central Park Five have a lot more people than Donald Trump believing they were falsely acquitted. There were multiple confessions. "I didn't rape her, all I did was feel her tits, but I know who did". Kind of shit, before the body was even discovered. That's not racist, that's just disagreement with a verdict.

The "Mexican Judge", as you call it, has a name. His name is Gonzalo Curiel, and he is a prominent member of La Raza Lawyers. La Raza, meaning "The Race", is a pro mexican organization that would be understandably adversarial to Trump's position of enforcing existing immigration laws and building a wall with Mexico. That Trump would feel that such a judge is not impartial, given his stange rulings in the case that far, is not racist, it's deductive logic.

"Stop and Frisk" is problematic. Stop and Frisk can be said to be a tread on your 4th Amendment "search and seizure" protection. We can both agree that this freedom is rapidly being violated in a number of ways today already. I am torn between the need to do something different to keep Chicago black youth from killing each other in such large numbers and the desire to not add yet another stain on the fourth amendment. The contention that "stop and frisk" is bad because of profiling, misses several points. It is quite possible that a version of "stop and frisk" that would satisfy the profiling objection that you have, could satisfy method of reducing Chicago black homicides. Somebody talking about "Stop and Frisk" as a possible way to save lives, is not racist, they are looking for answers.
I flagged it, as I'm sure others did: it's meta-drama, and it's based on a false claim about censorship on HN. The HN moderators have done the exact opposite of censoring this story.
Sounds like a step in the right direction!
Very nice. How long before something this good is available as open source?

A tough test would be to hook this up to a police/fire scanner, or air traffic control radio.
I'd be very surprised if Google Flights wanted Southwest to pay for inclusion. It already lists Southwest flights with a note "Prices are not available for: Southwest. Flights with unknown prices are at the end of the list." Instead it really sounds like it's Southwest not wanting it to be easy for people to comparison shop.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, on an unrelated project.)
Agreed. And yet it is encouraging to see the continued investment and upstream engagement by Facebook and Mozilla. (I knew Facebook and Mozilla were heavily invested; I'm not sure what Google's involvement is since code.google.com was abandoned.)

Things could get more competitive in terms of global mindshare if more Facebook engineers (some of whom the OP mentioned have forgotten how to use git) start speaking out in favor of Mercurial.
So where do you draw the dollar line of protected free speech versus it's ok to punish that person for their political views?

$100 dollars is apparently protected free speech by your logic, but $1.25 million dollars is a punishable offense.

Is $1000 dollars ok? $10,000?, $100,000? Where are you going to draw the line.

Also, by this line of thinking then the converse must also apply; if someone donates to Clinton and someone in a position holding power over them supports Trump then they can equally dole out punishments...
Not long ago I screwed up a tech interview because I couldn't remember/figure-out-on-the-spot the iteration condition for estimating square roots by the Newton-Raphson method

(1) Better to say you were unable to "remember", rather than a "figure out". No one ever "figures out" things like the Newton-Raphson method over the phone -- not even people like Isaac Newton or Joseph Raphson (substituting whatever comparable level of distraction on had to contend with in those days, absent telephones -- "while ordering a beer at the pub", I guess).

(2) The use of this question as a binary hiring filter (mindlessly copy-and-pasted from their rough impression of what ever other company is doing in 2016) was a failure on their side, not yours.
Ask HN: Is it worth learning a new programming language just to build a product?
I have a product idea in mind which I think would benefit from Erlang's strengths. But I don't know Erlang or Elixir.

Is it overkill to learn Elixir just so I can build this product on BEAM?
The Panama Papers journalists managed a fair balance. They vetted and presented the papers while defending their sources' integrity and anonymity. Interpretation was left to third parties.
Todays Assange frenzy
What are you talking about? The layover info in Google Flights is right there in the right-hand column of the results list, "1h 48m in IAD".

I don't see how it could appear any sooner unless it telepathically, I mean, machine-learningally knew your destination and dates before you entered them.
Splitting hairs. The user is almost never directly controlling whether the connection is to be secured or not, they're clicking on a link, and even less so nowadays with the existence of things like HSTS.

It should be the browser's job to inform the user if it can't meet Mozilla's definition of security, but if accessing the information is more important at the time, it needs to get out of the way with an override and honor the intention of retrieving the information.
Oregon hospital ER quarantined after people start hallucinating
The basis for this is claimed to be anonymous "State Department sources," by way of a single blog which does nothing but print right-wing hatchet jobs (True Pundit). Considering the lack of credibility in True Pundit's other posts, it would not shock me if the quote was fabricated.

Please do your research before posting unverified quotes as fact.
> Going off topic, maybe someone will eventually do a SQLLite re-write as well and other critical projects to our modern stacks that still rely on C.

SQLite does not need to be rewritten. It has the best and most comprehensive test suite in the history of software development -- I would go so far as to say that there are no implementation bugs in SQLite (every single branch in the code has been extensively tested and also extensively tested with dummy failures and so on). So a rewrite in a safer language would benefit nobody (and would just be a huge time sink).
I haven't seen any US companies offering 25 days of paid vacation a year, plus unlimited sick leave (doctors note required for more than 3 consecutive days), plus extra days off for personal emergencies eg children sick, death in family.

All the money in SV could never make me go there if I never have time to spend it.
The article and the report it refers to describe multiple categories of directives and opinions/judgements that apparently do have the force of law.

Those categories include national security directives, OLC legal interpretations, congressional-executive agreements, immigration court proceedings, FISA court opinions that have "set the legal terms for mass surveillance programs" and bills that "incorporate provisions of
classified reports by reference, bestowing on them the status of law."

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/publicatio...

I think we need a law to ensure that all such documents are published in a timely manner.
> Don't look at some crufty apache product, but look at medium size business apps...

What do you think those medium sized business apps are built off of if not things with JVM dependencies? It's not so simple.
Certain parts do Rio de Janeiro are "owned" by the heirs of the royal family and every time someone sells property they get a cut. Brazil has been a republic since 1889.
Here's a link to an article about a decentralized social network were posts are up voted with coins(steemit):

https://cointelegraph.com/news/steemit-or-synereo-comparing-...
Are you finding the same specific flights have different prices on the two services, or are you finding that Hipmunk is able to find flights that Google doesn't?

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, on an unrelated project.)
Making it scale at DoubleVerify
Are you opposed to the recent Cuba/US negotiations that certainly would have failed if they were conducted in the open?
> If you looked at the country for the last 8 years you wouldn't be able to tell whether a republican or democratic was in the whitehouse.

Millions more people have health insurance. States have legalized marijuana without federal intervention. Relations have opened with Cuba. A climate treaty and Iran nuclear deal were reached. The supreme court (with two Obama appointees) has legalized gay marriage. Maybe none of this stuff has affected you but trust me, millions of people can tell there's been a democrat in the white house.

The same thing applies with Trump. It might not effect you much if he gets elected, but it would have dire consequences for millions of people if he accomplishes a fraction of the things he's talked about.
If you want to be seen as neutral, release information when you receive it.

Not "for maximum impact", or if threatened, or "if something happens to me", or any other variation.

If nothing else, it frees (or minimizes) accusations of you being bribed, blackmailed, extorted, having an agenda beyond "releasing information".
This. I tried StayFocused [1] and Forest [2] (both excellent btw) but self-restriction is no substitute for self control.

I'd be restricted, but still unable to focus. And when I could focus, those restrictions were distracting.

Interesting you mention Bach. My background music as we speak... [3]

--

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forest-stay-focuse...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqhR37qSUMA
> On average, tech companies pay $105,227, 12% more than manufacturing employers, for software developers, according to Burning Glass Technologies. For entry-level software jobs, tech companies pay $88,820, 5% more than manufacturers.

In my experience, job pay and challenge are highly correlated. Companies aren't going to pay a premium to fill a warm body roll. When I see below market wages for a job, I automatically think that the roll is perceived as trivial by management or the company is just too small to realistically afford it, but the latter shouldn't be an issue for multi-national corporations.
Most strength training programs prescribe how much weight you're going to lift on any given day. I can tell you how much I'm going to lift today, and I can tell you how much I'm going to lift on Friday. In that context the anger makes it easier to succeed, but doesn't pose much, if any threat. I'm not going to put extra weight on the bar, beyond what I was scheduled to attempt.
So if I publicly attack a Y Combinator legend the HN community gets to fight about politics?

In that case, I'll just leave this debate between Hedges and Reicht for everyone here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4cXH3Fil8
A machine process qualifies as AI if it believes in a god.

EDIT: I see the nuances of epistemological problems are lost to HN and knee-jerk culture war atheism still rules supreme.
"When your opponent is a blatant criminal it's quite fair to say "you'll be in jail" and quite different than saying "I'm going to jail you for disagreeing with me""

sigh

No, you still can't say that. Presidents cannot tell their attorney general who to prosecute or not to prosecute, even if the President thinks the person is a blatant criminal.

Maybe if you stopped to think about it a little bit, you would understand why allowing this could lead to very bad abuses of power?
The argument I usually hear is that many people don't do well under pressure or with others looking on. So by doing coding tests or whiteboard tests or whatever, you're selecting for people who do well in high-pressure situations, rather than people who are talented coders.

But I agree with you. I've interviewed many people who have an impressive resume and can talk the talk, yet can't even do Fizzbuzz.
Sneering at people who make public gestures of opposition to anti-Semitic tropes as "establishment climbers" sounds like pandering to a particular form of base racism to me, assuming you do so intentionally. I'll concede that it's possible that Assange or whoever tweeted that was unaware of what the parantheses symbolised in a way that someone tweeting "Tribalist symbols for establishment climbing? Most of our critics have pink triangles in their avatar" or worse "Tribalist symbols for establishment climbing? Most of the our critics have yellow stars in their avatar" really couldn't claim (I bet most people not involved with political Twitter are clueless about the parantheses' meaning). But conflating a Jewish symbol with the age old conspiracy theory that the "establishment" is run by people that suck up to Jewish interests by accident is certainly unfortunate....

And it gets even harder to defend the @Wikileaks Twitter account from pandering to anti-Semitism after looking at several of the other tweets unearthed by this search...
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Awikileaks%20jewish&src=t...
Are you trying to draw a distinction between "prices" and "fares", or just "will likely" vs "will"?
Hopefully an official 'Boron' tagged docker image will follow shortly.
oh you said toxic.
I'd also add:

Generic Specialization
Reified Generics
Native Function Calling
Native Data Access
New Data Layouts
> I'd argue that the main actors (and others) have driven the web backwards, not forwards. They've done this by the push towards capturing consumers in a walled garden, the rejection of open standards, the embrace of DRM, the selling of user private data for profit, etc

That could well be. I just don't quite see what that has to do with moving Javascript forward.
I do not have to keep it in mind. I a visit Singapore very often and trust me a lot of them are not "singaporean born chinese" or even if they are they are chinese. Just richer chinese.

Similar habits,language and so on :-)
There are Valhalla releases available, but I bet stable is something they are not.
They needed to, in order to make the proof-of-work cheap to verify. See my blog post

http://cryptorials.io/beyond-hashcash-proof-work-theres-mini...

on how asymmetric PoW avoid this handicap.
I think your comment is very apt. If you don't pay for the news, you being manipulated is the product. You have to support people who inform for our actual benefit.

I subscribe to a couple digital periodicals. My last paper subscription lapsed about four months ago.
"For want of a nail the shoe was lost..."
Republican donor site malware skimmed credit cards for six months
Thanks, I edited the link to move the semicolon out of it.
Does anyone have a list of smaller gems that are not on that list? For example JDK 9 contains an implementation of the CRC32C-algorithm which can be used by web developers to create compact entity tags. I read somewhere that there is even hardware support for it but I'm unsure whether it's being utilized by the JRE.

See http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/api/java/util/zip/CR....
I'd agree with you, but they have a point in not moderating this one away, since it's critical of YC.
Okay, then Eastern Europe, Russia, or Southern Italy. Organized crime is not just about drugs.
Where's all the bosses that want you to work overtime for something they over-promised.
Non-cable Internet providers offer faster speeds to the wealthy
That was really interesting.

I notice it was filmed after the 2012 election. It's fun to think about what questions he might've asked if the interview were held today....
> I still see projects using Java 5...

Are you serious? Even the worst shops I've been at have at least moved their JVMs to Java7 back around 2014. I mean you can take all your existing JARs from Java4 and run them on Java8 and nothing should break. Recompiling them might be another issue, but still not a huge one.
I think it's very unlikely, but people act like we're immune to violent transfers of power because it's never happened to us. Historically peaceful transition of power is the exception.

Based on his current rhetoric, it's seems pretty likely that Trump will come out on November 9th and say the election was stolen.

Sure most people will ignore it, but I live in the South, in the middle of Trump country. The majority of people that I know, over 40, think that Obama and Hillary are evil. They don't disagree with them, they think they are evil.

They thought that the Federal government was going to invade Texas during Jade Helm. A fair amount of them think that Hillary is literally possessed by the devil. Breitbart is the most mainstream news source that they'll listen too, and they get most of their news from conspiracy sites spreading clickbait lies on Facebook (I know because many of them are family members and I see it). They don't believe the polls, and they really think that the only way Trump can lose is if the election is rigged. Oh and they're all heavily armed because they've been buying up ammunition since Obama was elected, in anticipation of a gun ban. (I have guns myself, but I don't have dozens of cases of ammunition in preparation for "the shit hitting the fan" like many people I know do.)

I've never seen anything this bad, even when Obama was elected. I think the major difference is the polarizing effect of most Trump supporters getting the majority of their news from Facebook. Combined with the realization by some that demographics are changing, so this may be the last election they can win.

Again, I think that actual civil war is extremely unlikely because luckily Trump won't be a losing incumbent. But I think that if Trump refuses to concede, a few acts of domestic terrorism are likely.

The FBI just stopped a group of white nationalists who were trying to kick off a religious war by detonating a truck bomb in a mostly Somali apartment complex.
I have to say I have a fairly decent moral objection to this:

"When you can borrow at a rate below inflation, you're borrowing for free," McBride said. "This is the concept of using other people's money and it preserves financial flexibility for the borrower."

If you're borrowing at under market rates, we, the market are effectively subsidizing you. Does Zuckerberg need subsidies in order to have a mortgage?
BLINDED – It will grab you by the pussy
"He's a performer. Not a threat."

What is this magical ability you have to see into Trump's mind and know which of his words he really means and which he doesn't?
That's ironic because this year Nate Silver is big on his polls-plus models that include all kinds of non-data factors. He talks the talk but then goes and pushes a bunch of models that don't focus on data.

He's right though, data talks. The only model that was even more accurate than 538's in the 2012 election was Sam Wang's model at the Princeton Election Consortium and Sam Wang did only the bare minimum to mesh the gears* whereas Nate Silver was trying to "weight" some of the polls and blew the call on some states.

* Note that there's a difference between accuracy and precision. A poll can be very accurate (little variation between measurements) but not very precise (the center of the distribution is skewed to one side). For example Rasmussen is famous for this, they are a super accurate pollster but average something like +7 Republican. Different types of polls survey different groups of people (landline, cell, online, focus-group, etc) and you have to take that "house effect" out to really average different types of polls together.
On the other hand, if you had true AI first, you'd just say "here's an input device; figure out how to parse the data."
Sorry to break it to you, but there are things you got wrong. The first thing
I opened, "IT operations", and the very top item is false.
It's in a PR here: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/2265
Google is working on adding mercurial as a frontend for their repository management system (Piper) and development environment (CitC).
When I worked as a technical recruiter, I found that a great way to screen candidates was to explain the "box" I was trying to put them in. I described the work I'd done to research the position, why I was screening for certain criteria, and that ultimately I wanted to get their approval on the summary I had written about them. Being non-technical, this worked better for positions I was experienced recruiting for of course.

For example, when recruiting a web developer, I'd start by asking a hiring manager what they wanted.

"Get me a full stack Rails developer who knows OO Javascript."

Then I'd just drill into why they asked for that until I didn' have manh questions. I'd be able to describe roughly what projects needed attention, how the tech stack helped solve that problem, and ask the candidate to help me sell them as someone who can do that. It wasn't perfect, but it worked better than most recruiting attempts I've experienced so far.

Now as a developer with a few years of experience, I feel I have no idea what I am doing, and am winging it at all times :)
Farecast and subsequent Bing Travel employee here: I had already moved on by the time the decision was made to discontinue the fare prediction service but I think it was mostly due to the amount of work it took to maintain a high accuracy rate and the large amounts of data we had to ingest to do so. Over time, there were less people from the original team working on it and the data options were limited (ITA was a major source of data) so it was discontinued. Glad to see we were ahead of our time!
so around 2007-2009 was the actual liberalization in some data regulation related to air travel

nothing novel has happened since then

web services are just easier to use
While Java 8 is the only version that is freely supported from Oracle, it is still possible to buy commercial support for older versions of Oracle's Java platform.

The speed at which they stop freely supporting older versions feels much like a way to squeeze big, slow moving organizations for support contracts.
Does Southwest selectively offer access to different sites? I know Momondo lists Southwest flights when I search through there. Or is Momondo crawling Southwest's site for prices?
> The New York Times and The State Department are both putting their reputation (however much that means to you) on the line with their quotes

I think the disconnect here is just how much weight you put on this statement here. For a significant number of people a lot of recent news has severely damaged the reputations of these institutions as well as shown that their reputations really wouldn't be impacted by their claims being shown to be false.