skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> lead to a Congressional investigation.

That really seems like "abridging the freedom of speech" to me. Constitutional conservatives sure love pushing the limits of the constitution when it inconveniences them.

But, you know, the election is over so now that the right has total control we must all put aside our differences and work together.
There's more. That person said that WikiLeaks doesn't know who their sources are, but in an interviews Julian Assange said that their Podesta source wasn't Russian. They can't really check that they're not Russian if they don't know who they are. I'm not saying it's relevant for the content of the e-mails, but it's relevant to judge what WikiLeaks' agenda really is.

But you know, what I take from this is that WikiLeaks is just another publisher. Like any publisher you can't take what they say mindlessly. This means that, so what if WikiLeaks just publishes according to their own interests? You should remind yourself of that. It doesn't detract from the fact that the things they're publishing are true and relevant.
I miss generics, not because I would write new generic functions all the time, but because a few key generics provide infrastructure that increases the beauty of programs dramatically.

The problem is this: Have you ever worked in a mature codebase with generics, where they haven't somehow been overused? Please tell me where that is!
I imagine the news sidebar drives a lot of traffic.

(I agree, though.)
I remember reading the initial announcement. I looked at the language briefly, and found some of the syntax too weird.

A few years later, I looked again and discovered I actually liked it very much. Still do. I mostly use it for toy programs I write in my free time, but I find that Go is very compatible with the way my mind works. I am currently trying to use Go at work for some of the tasks I usually would use Perl for. The fact that it comes with a relatively nice templating engine in the standard library makes it very attractive to replace the CGI scripts that have piled up over the years.

Interestingly, I had pretty much the same experience with Python - at first, I disliked the syntax ("no Dutch person is telling me how to indent my code!"), but then I came back a couple of months later and found that I really liked the language. (wrt indentation, Python only forces me to do something I would do anyway, it just took me a while to understand that.)
Seeing the .gov really makes it hurt.
Close... but the problem is not Oracle, it's the USA.

In the country I come from, the master/PhD students working at a company are under a special set of contracts & laws (slightly different from the usual employment rules). Legally speaking, the company cannot forbid them to perform what is mandated for their school & necessary for their grade.
I just had a picture in my head of 60s white policeman in a southern state saying the last part, as he locked a way some civil rights protesters.

One mans mischief and the causing of trouble is another persons fight for freedom.
No, they admit that it may not be the best idea after all to allow people who use 'censorship' as as verb equal footing with serious journalists.
The timing of this announcement does not seem to help assuage fears that facebook was using its platform to push an agenda. It was this accusation that initially forced them to switch from human editors to an algorithm for trending news. I suspect that we as a country are going to have a conversation regarding the nature of privately held nearly public spaces on the internet and what their obligation to us is, if any.
I tend to agree—I think that the more we get upset by these sorts of behaviors, the more it encourages them. "Don't feed the trolls" is really the only thing that works, and it's a pretty miserable experience to have nothing you can do about harassment.

Which isn't to say I disapprove of reddit, twitter et al removing hate speech; just that it's a very late and reactive solution to a problem that seems inherent in social media.

Really, all we can do is improve filtering, and facebook seems almost ideologically opposed to increasing user control over the content they see. So I don't see facebook being a pleasant place to visit in the near future.
http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/monthly-active-users-defin...

"We define a monthly active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through our website or a mobile device, or used our Messenger app (and is also a registered Facebook user), in the last 30 days as of the date of measurement."
There's a proper response to "accusations of bias" from alt-right white-nationalist thug media. Never mind whether the accusations "looked likely to lead to a Congressional investigation".

The response is to tell them to fuck off, and that the professional editors in your private company will continue to do their job however they see fit.

Period, paragraph.
.gov damn it, makes me sad.
Let's not forget their next foray into phones, the MOTO ROKR with Motorola. That was 2005, only two years before the iPhone came out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Rokr#/media/File:MOTO...
In addition to being bullshit it is also a hint you should be moving on.
As sad as it is, iOS. I choose not to use any google services and store my stuff in the cloud, and my iPhone works just fine. This is not a practical choice with Android.

I guess being "open source" isn't the panacea I thought it was back when android launched. sigh
Not sure it's called DoS when the traffic is legitimate
Your point is valid, although technically it would be under pressure as opposed to stress. The difference might seem minor but it's rather significant, and it's a characteristic many employers would intentionally want to measure. I highly recommend the book Performing Under Pressure, by Weisinger & Pawliw-Fry.
As a Delaware I couldn't care less.
Not only are you a programmer, you are clearly more aware and capable than many, many, people who consider themselves professional programmers.
There's an interpretation of the statement that's correct and an interpretation that's incorrect, but sure, choose the incorrect one.
> Yes, the first couple of weeks were a bit rough while I was getting used to the ownership system, but since then I have been progressing at a relatively quick pace.

This is the very definition of "high barrier to entry". Clearly it wasn't too much of a barrier for you but I can see how it'd be an issue for people. I'm expecting editor support and wider adoption (differently constructed tutorials, SO answers) to lower this barrier. I think Rust has the potential to be very popular, particularly if the reputation shifts from "high barrier to entry" to "slightly harder to get started but fewer problems in production".
Hilary's problem is that people didn't like her and chose to stay home rather than vote trump (whom they didn't like either).
If it's such a problem why not just disable the Newsfeed?

No one needs to get their news from Facebook
No. The solution is to continue to provide news, to curate it, to shut down professional liars, and to tell the critics that if they don't like it, they are free to encourage their followers to use other social media.
Being wrong doesn't make you crazy
I seem to recall that before HK was turned over to China, HK companies would do all but the most final of assemblies in China and then ship it across the border so they could be sold as "made in Hong Kong". And this is how Shenzen go so massive, as it is right up stream from HK.
Ok, so it's 2016 and I'm not naive in suggesting this but does anybody think that we should figure out how people can vote from their homes/phones?

DoS attacks are a massive threat to this but wouldn't voting percentages go way up if we could make this happen?
We'll probably condemn the government when no wheat gets grown. That has happened before, in many different countries. The problem the would-be professional musician has, is that amateur musicians never have to fuel up the tractor.
I use Atom on Debian and Arch without any problems
As great as it was wheeeen...?
I agree with you about the European parliament example, but speaking of the U.S. situation specifically, we already have a bicameral legislature with disproportionate representation for lower population states in one of its houses. We also have federal courts to step in when any laws are stepping on the rights of minority populations.

You've also touched on one of the longest-running debates in American politics: should we treat states as independent and semi-autonomous or allow the federal government to dictate policy direction for the nation. You can probably tell what side I'm on. People still claim that the American civil war was about the South defending "states' rights" when I, and many others, feel that it was about defending the rights of many people actually in those states.

That might be a little off topic. Anyway it's an interesting debate, but it's just hard to see how a candidate for national office can win more votes across the country and come out the loser.
Twitter moderation is slow and ineffective, but still partisan - they're jut not very good at it.
"meet the future first lady". hadn't even considered that until now!
"Apple //c" really is how it's written on the screen when you boot it up, though. That's the way Apple themselves actually wrote it.

There were no built-in, on-screen italic fonts back in those days!
This is real.

This will be a true test of America's design.
Remember, America is a decentralized set of institutions. In theory DC should have very little effect on my life here in California.

Join with your local communities and make sure your voice is heard. Fight to protect the vulnerable.

We can't sit back and watch this happen to our friends and neighbors:

https://www.facebook.com/shaunking/photos/a.799605230078397....

http://jpupdates.com/2015/11/11/florida-home-defaced-with-sw...
Well, as a liberal, educated white chick who lives in an urban area, if I said someone was more into Duck Dynasty than SNL, it would absolutely be an insult. It would imply they are hick rednecks, and in a bad way.
Singapore government to adopt Facebook Workplace across the board
I actually really dislike the personalization that happens on a lot of sites.
There is no civil war in Ukraine.
Looks like a great way to crowd source popular policy ideas.
We're actually not; that's simply false. No, Facebook is not "at it's best" [sic] when it sticks to birthday wishes and cat pictures.

It's actually at its best when it is truly social, in all senses of the word. When it facilitates real communication on real issues across a broad spectrum of people. When it spreads information, not misinformation.
No, I'm not saying it doesn't happen in Scouts. It happened to me whilst I was in Scouts in Australia, but that's several decades ago.
In Texas, the state actually has the power to divide.
Exactly. The Electoral College is there to protect the smaller states, to make sure that they also have a say in the elections.

For example, under a Popular Votes system, if one state has more than 51% of the population, it will decide the whole election, and ALL the other states won't even get a say (because they all only add up to 49% or less), which is unfair to these smaller states.
I totally though this was about the WebGL tile rendering library:
https://github.com/kbirk/lumo

I was like "Clojure... V8, what?!"
I didn't hear anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from him, if anything he showed the opposite inviting Thiel and Jenner. More white women voted for him than Hillary, ~30% Hispanics voted for him despite doomsday rhetoric from Spanish language media and his very light campaigning in LatAm dominant neighborhoods, so many people you imply would /should see him as a threat did not. More blacks voted for him than Romney, etc.
Sign this petition if you want to Abolish the Electoral College
I can see how rural America might not connect with sources like the Washington Post and the New York times, but there were also recommendations from publications like Birmingham News and Falls Church News-Press. The local papers are more likely to understand their lives. The people going to the internet may actually be doing the opposite by taking in recommendations from national political sites rather than local editorial boards.

I also agree with how populations don't interact with each other, but it may be even worse than you describe. Even in urban areas, those in the suburbs seem to be more disconnected with those in the inner city.
You are correct. I meant Bush v Kerry, 2004. That's when the whole electronic voting machine debacle happened.
The certificate is dated October 31. Assuming Hillary had something similar waiting and ready, I wonder what it was...
Trump won because people are easy to fool. They think the industrial jobs of old are going to come back. I have to wonder if they know that the majority of those jobs even in China are rapidly being automated away. I feel for those folks in the Rust Belt because many people in Wichita, Kansas had the same sort of outsourcing hit them across all sectors (aircraft, call centers, etc). But the fact is those jobs will never ever come back. Call centers are being outmoded by online help sites. Manufacturing is being taken over by better machines producing 100 times the output of worker on their best day. This is the new normal and that means we need to consider our options but going back to 1950s industrial nostalgia isn't one of them. It's time for the Trump voters to wake up and not be fooled by the dream Trump promises but will never be able to deliver.
Where's that IoT bot net when you need it.
> Share your ideas

https://apply.ptt.gov/yourstory

> President Elect Trump has promised to change Washington, DC and that will start with identifying and recruiting the finest men and women from across the country to serve in his Administration. Any individual who wishes to serve the Administration should utilize this online application in order to participate.

https://apply.ptt.gov/
We are in complete agreement that sugar in significant quantities is bad. I also don't see where I'm suggesting that one is worse or better than the other. I've actively worked not to make that suggestion.

The metabolic pathways are different. If you want to argue that this is not a meaningful difference given the evidence we have, that's fine. I can understand that. I clearly stated that doing the kinds of studies that would be able to show such evidence are difficult to do. Do you think this is a fair assessment? I get the impression that you think I'm trying to muddy the waters. That's not the case.
Haven't forgotten about you, just have an exam to cram for today. I'll respond tomorrow!
get this shit the fuck off of here
Did previous presidents run similar websites where they'd list the stuff they want to change?

Also, from https://www.greatagain.gov/meet-president-elect.html

> "Donald J. Trump is the very definition of an American success story, continually setting the standards of excellence for real estate, sports and entertainment"

How humble.
Ironically it seems this crypto virus has broken crypto too, because it uses some homegrown algorithm to encrypt the file, rather than use some industrial strength algorithm.
> showing people only like-minded opinions

Can't wait until they do the opposite in case of free speech then get sued by people who can't deal with their emotions and accept them. Some of them are already out protesting (and some "protesting" with destroying property[1]).

But hey I guess helicopter parenting and after that safe-space culture they grew in can only get you so far.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9lm-T87AQ
I was really devastated on Tuesday (and still am) but submitting ideas here makes me feel a little better. It's likely that there are ideas you have that can be supported by a Republican President so get to work.
There are a few "easy" answers for ease of adoption, some of which I think have been mentioned by other replies. A phonetic alphabet with only one possible sound per letter, the ability to identify a word's part of speech given only the word, and an exception-free verb conjugation scheme are all common approaches for making a language easy to learn. Some constructed languages have a simple rule for determining which syllable in a word gets emphasis.

Also worth considering is making the language as "familiar" as possible to a new learner. You could decide what phonemes your language uses by looking at the most frequently used phonemes in the most popular languages. You might decide to go a level higher and base your language's word for universal concepts (food, day, sleep) based on roots that are common across many languages.

Another way to make a language easy is to reduce the number of words a person needs to know in order to use it in the real world. I'm personally a big fan of Esperanto's word-building system, which uses around 30 affixes (in addition to the suffixes that define each word's part of speech) that can be attached to a root word to modify or enhance its meaning. There's not a limit to how many affixes you can have, the word just has to make sense. Every time you learn a new root word, you get a huge number of new words for free by knowing affixes. A language that has such a system can get by with a reduced number of root words. For example: "laboro" is the word for the word "work" or "job" in Esperanto. By adding only one affix you can arrive at words like "labor-ej-o" (workplace), "labor-ist-o" (a laborer by trade), "labor-ant-o" (a person performing labor), and "labor-ind-o" (a job worth doing).

However, it's not really enough to just make a language easy. I'm glad you brought up virality; drawing people in is almost certainly the more difficult part. Once you have your ideal language, you need to build a culture around it. This is the same thing as when people judge the quality/utility of a programming language by its "ecosystem". Unfortunately this is largely out of the language creator's control. There's just too much work involved for a single person, or even a small group of people. There needs to be an abundance of learning material, lots of translated works and a growing body of original works (across as many genres/media/levels of proficiency as possible), and networks for speakers/learners to communicate and collaborate.
Can anyone find the part of the web site that explains how everything will be paid for, especially the tax cuts?
I have been toying around with doing this for a JVM AOT [0], but it's in early days and there are so many limitations (e.g. no circular deps, can't jump over var decls, no easy overrides or overloads, etc) that it is quite difficult. There are still a lot of changes I need to do to the way I'm handling things.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/goahead
David Foster Wallace on Writing, Death, and Redemption
I do. Now how do we convince everyone else?
If the goal is not to bias, total transparency is the answer.
It seems to me the hardest part would be separating truthiness from virality. How do they seed legit sources in the current media climate of racing to the bottom for eyeballs.
Obama had change.gov during his transition, but it no longer exists.
Note that using interfaces doesn't get you all the type safety either, since there's no exhaustive matching. But it's good enough (aside from the possible perf issues) for most use cases.
If you are very introverted, then some of the companies that do collaborative whiteboard interviews would probably be a poor fit for you. The reason they interview that way is because they are collaborative work environments, or at least they like to see themselves that way. Extreme introverts, even highly skilled ones, might not fit in.

However, if you're experienced and skilled there will always be work available. You'll probably do OK. Overcoming your social anxiety would probably open some doors, though, and not just in management positions.
> That would be a reasonable argument if the market set the price for streaming services. But to a significant extent it does not.

It's been a minute, but didn't CDs and records usually get sold at the same price point?

Also, the article you linked is about songwriters, not performers (and happens to be co-written by one of its case studies for "I got paid far less than I think I should have" afaict).

I was under the impression that Spotify allocated revenue according to total listens on individual tracks, which seems fair enough.
That's pretty irrelevant. I base my assessment of the horrific parenting in this country on our poor and still falling educational achievements and the censorship houses our universities have turned into. I understand that the law enforces such poor parenting practices by throwing parents in jail, placing children in foster care, etc., but that's still no excuse.
The movslq instruction will sign extend the upper 32 bits.
That was fast. I'm actually impressed.

Edit: not from a technological aspect. They probably had the site ready to go already. But from a human coordination standpoint.
The Clinton campaign policy priorities were right there on the campaign web site. They were voluminous, and well thought-out, and written/backed by serious domain experts, and thoroughly ignored by everyone because emailz.

Seriously contrast the stuff there with the pablum here, which boils down to junk like "education is important yo" and "we're going to eliminate excess regulation about, like, stuff".

I weep.
Well, let's explain the downvotes from 1 POV. The "copy/paste" comment just willfully misinterprets how StackOverflow is used.

I think that we just don't believe you. Did you arrive at every job with perfect knowledge in the areas you'd be working on? Have you not had to learn anything on the job?

If that's the case, then you're vastly overqualified. I feel like I'm being utilized as an employee the best when my manager says: "Hey, there's something weird happening in area X" or "I want you to explore feature X" and I get to dive deep into something for a few days. Our strengths are our ability to learn.
> What 2 hour project can you assign that would let the candidate go into enough depth for you to judge their code, design decisions, architecture skills?

Write a program that reads a text file, and output each unique word with the number of times it appeared.

The program must be done in a programming language among: C, C++, C#, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby.
Is the following normal? Genuinely curious:

https://www.greatagain.gov/news/help-wanted-4000-presidentia...
strongertogether dot gov ?
But with much more savvy language design than either of those.
Blow of tank, fire.
If I go to the site aliexpress.com it looks like the deals don't start for another 12 hours. Are there different launch times for the sales?
The standard response you'll get to this question is that tax cuts will, supposedly, cause so much growth that they're revenue neutral
Probably because you didn't read the text. There's literally no content here, even less than he had on his campaign website. You're "impressed" with some web geek throwing together a demo site. This election in a nutshell.
Ask HN: Was wireless data transfer possible with the Altair 8800?
The Altair 8800 could "play music" by exploiting the lack of radio frequency shielding, which was then picked up by a nearby AM radio.

http://kevindriscoll.org/projects/ccswg2012/fool_on_a_hill.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgYhVnmeWrk

Could this technique have been used to transmit data between two Altairs, using "technology of the day" - whatever that may be, presumably some sort of AM receiver that could then feed data back in to the Altair?
I see a lot of "Philosophers" creating theories as to why trump won.

But Trump already gave his reason some time back

https://s14.postimg.org/tcahmcbkh/14980639_1330042430341448_...
The Good Fight
This is actually going to happen, isn't it?

I need to expedite this british citizenship process
Maybe. Or maybe the legacy vendors will double down on their old "you need standards compliance, backwards compatibility, support contracts, and a sales channel" line.
Race dropdown...