skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's a wholesale effort to discredit males, but it's certainly provocative bait from the epicenter of so-called politically correct culture. The author and her in-circle probably have a laugh, but they tragically can't see they're surrounding themselves with a bubble. So they're putting themselves into social debt. It's hard to watch, like someone cashing a check at a liquor store on payday to buy alcohol, but they're adults and can learn from their mistakes.

The mixture of science and entertainment has been a puzzling feature of American culture. It's such a part of us that we don't dare to question it, but when you think about it, not all science has been beneficial to us. So much of science is simply about marketing, social control, weaponry and short-term visions to make money. It is worthwhile to question which branches of science are worth following and which are not.
I prefer the one who takes a dedicated line for the `{`. It leaves me the ability to group together chunks of related functionality, whereas the latter method throws out that option instantly.
Or that the people who read them don't have an above average influence on others who look to them for a more informed take on current events and the like.
The California secession movement accidentally borrows its name from Fallout
That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking what sources you trust and recommend. You're specifically dismissing the NYT. I think it's fair to ask you to make specific recommendations.

It's unrealistic to ask everyone to check primary sources. We don't have the time. It doesn't scale.

Also, there are people who don't trust court documents, or the courts, either. I think this issue of shared trusted sources is very real. Just dismissing sources reinforces this. How do you recommend we resolve this?
Personally, I am not at all worried about being forced into suicide, but I am quite worried about being forced to live in tremendous pain with a terminal disease. Same for friends and family. I understand the worries, but they seem rather unlikely compared to the common reality of long, painful deaths.
http://imgur.com/a/5GTem
Suggest one? Is there another word to describe the inability to detect the subtle greater context and meaning of an interaction and instead obsess over the literal meaning of individual words?

It's tech, there is very high chance nearly everyone is on the spectrum in some way, and if fact its a trait that gives you advantages (but comes with some drawbacks depending to the degree you have it). It's almost self deprecating humor, we all have tics/obsessive behaviors where we miss the forest for the trees during social interactions where we know what they "meant" but it's not exactly "what they said" and so we give each other grief for it so we can try to do better when interacting with others.

There is nothing wrong with actually being autistic, but certain characteristics we should try to keep in check.
My 2c: Go is incredibly convenient for non-programmers. I don't make a living writing software, I make a living answering quantitative questions, using computers. I use Python for most tasks, but when I need extra performance and/or portability, I grab Go every single time.

The main appeal is the quality standard library that covers most things I get in contact with. I could get immersed in it right away, because I didn't spend weeks trying to read the spec - the spec itself is so trivial it's mindblowing. The standard library feels very Pythonic in terms of reach. I've built tiny servers, parsed plethora of file formats, calculated maths, wrote data, (de)compressed stuff, encrypted things, ... The joy of not having to worry about 3rd party dependencies for all these is quite refreshing. And the appeal of few runtime issues thanks to static compilation is oh so excellent.

Sure, Go didn't invent any of these practices and sure, it doesn't have generics, runtime assembly, it's opinionated in a few places, its vendoring is subpar, ... But when you're someone who isn't really a programmer, these things don't matter much. I'm not here for the hype, I'm here for the productivity and ease of use.
Illegal immigrants get free healthcare?
Unless they have parents or other relatives who aren't officially allowed to be here. There are a lot of people in that situation. Deporting everyone who's in violation of immigration rules would involve splitting up an enormous number of families, and gut whole sections of the economy.

> The majority of Trump supporters are not full of hate,

But it's not Trump supporters who are now running the country. It's Donald Trump. It doesn't matter how nice you are if you vote for a hateful candidate.
They are violating somebody's airspace every week, nobody cares. It's just political games of the current moment, it's not whole nation's decisions. Or you think we call referendum before each airspace trespassing?
I agree, which is why I started my own series, as lmm mentioned, with showing simple ways of (ab)using gcc to figure out how to do simple/primitive code-generation, and built up from that, instead of building down from lexing/parsing.

Lexing/parsing is important of course, but it's been done to death, and for most of the simple types of languages people tend to use for teaching, it's a simple problem.

Code generation, on the other hand, is still pretty poorly covered, in my opinion, and something people tend to struggle with a lot more, even if you resort to tools like LLVM (and that's fine if that's what you want, but I'd argue you should try a lower level approach at least once to understand some of the challenges)
Complaining about the lack of a feature in a FOSS project that you haven't contributed to is kind of a dick move, though, and it's extremely discouraging to developers. If they violate community standards or put users at risk (breaking semver, insecure elements, malware, etc.) then you have the right to complain, but otherwise you really ought to remain civil and positive.

Politely requesting features is fine, but complaining about a lack of features in software that you don't contribute to with effort or money is extremely rude and pretty much a slap to the face for the developers who work on the project.
First google result contains it:

"But we also have to have an organized effort against
gangs," Hillary Clinton said in a C-SPAN video clip.
"Just as in a previous generation we had an organized
effort against the mob. We need to take these people
on. They are often connected to big drug cartels, they
are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are often the
kinds of kids that are called superpredators — no
conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they
ended up that way, but first, we have to bring them to
heel."

So, no, it's a twisting of words. But not limited to the Trump campaign. Trump didn't call all Mexicans rapists, either.
Think how many variables are involved in this? I just don't accept it.
!?

Of course you save no code on definitions. Some may even get more verbose.

You save code on usage, because you can use generic functions that will work for any instance of Show, instead of specifying them for every type.
Can't speak for the OP, but when you go full type checking it's hard to go back. Our infrastructure has many pieces in Python (right now I'm rewriting some) but all new APIs are in Go. The amount of trouble you don't even get to fight with type checking is huge. Performance gains are also good in many cases. Slightly more verbosity is a minor price to pay.
Show HN: End-to-end encryption for Twitter direct messages
So, you want to avoid mass surveillance and don't trust big tech companies either? But you're tied to your existing network of contacts like everyone else? Well now you can send encrypted messages to your contacts over the Twitter direct messaging channel.

It's a serverless SPA called Seecret, a Twitter client hosted at https://www.seecret.io

Seecret is open source and freely distributable. You can host it anywhere even from your own localhost server. The app is just plain html and javascript, with no server-side processing at all, no tracking, no logging.

Steps:
1-Grant Seecret.io permission to connect to Twitter. (Just like Facebook connect). Twitter uses Oauth 1.0a (srsly?) which doesn't support serverless auth so we integrated Oauth.io to handle it. Read about it at https://oauth.io but they are a trusted Oauth 1 proxy service.

2-Seecret then gens an RSA key with a long passphrase saved locally. You can change the passphrase and even delete it (and the key) from local storage. If you delete these you'll need to reimport them each time you use the app. To read more about concerns and approaches re: local browser storage of keys etc read our FAQ at https://www.seecret.net/faq.html

3-Send encrypted msgs over Twitter to your existing contacts!

The code for Seecret is fully auditable and the app uses Subresource Integrity Checks for all dependencies. Unfamiliar with SRI? Read more about it at https://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/. In short, it lets you verify for certain you are using the uncompromised code with no CDN intercepts.

Want to host your own instance? It's easy! Read more at https://www.seecret.net/mirror.html

Read more about our approach, explanation of the technology choices, and why we made it open source and freely distributable at https://www.seecret.net/faq.html
I don't believe it is and Facebook claims it's not. So unless I see evidence of the opposite I have to go with my own experience.
Definitely agree with this. I grew up rural and was pretty independent by middle school with a broad network of older friends and friends parents to get me rides around the county.

I have friends raising kids in inner city areas, both gentrified and not, and they are all about getting those kids navigating the city blocks around their homes by eight or nine.

I realize those are anecdotes, but suburbs have been repeatedly indicted for a lot of the post-Baby Boomer social issues. Thus, I'm hardly surprised. Suburbs were a massive mistake: fiscally, socially, and environmentally. We're only now really uncovering the entirety of the negative impacts this sort of development had on the United States.
That IA-64 one is really puzzling, anyone know what the heck is happening?
Pence is rather anti-lgbt.

But you have to ask yourself whether any other Republican candidate would have an open homosexual (Thiel) on the stage at the RNC and whether they'd be caught dead doing this:

https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/carlo-allegri-don...
There's a typo: "This means for example the function donwload()"
Obama didn't lose the popular vote when he was elected though. That seems to make a huge difference.
Definitely. This is exactly the sort of study you strongly expect the causal conclusion to not obtain and disappear in a randomized study/genetically-sensitive design (anxiety and other mental issues are highly heritable, of course), right up there with such classic sociology non-results as 'children whose fathers leave do worse' or 'children who experience corporal punishment have more behavioral problems' or 'children whose mothers drank during pregnancy are stupider', both because the actual randomized studies of things like early-childhood interventions like Headstart show no effects or fadeout and because there is tons of self-selection in who goes into scouting and who is able to/chooses to stay in it. (Most of the kids who joined with me dropped out at some point, and the more troubled ones dropped out earliest.) Like most of these results, I expect most of the correlation would disappear if you compared siblings, or better yet (but harder to find), discordant twins, or used polygenic scores of genetic risk for anxiety disorders. This study couldn't do it because they took a one-week sample of UK births so no siblings and too few twins, but I'm sure a twin registry or the UK Biobank or someone has asked about extracurriculars like scouting.
If I have proposition to kill someone else for money, e.g. $10M, for exchange of 7 years in comfortable Dutch prison, I will grab the money.
Show HN: An ORM for Node.js that doesn't suck
Thank you for the feedback! We're in the process of putting some kind of website up, we'll add the option of subscribing to the mailing list when it's up.

As it turns out, a colleague of mine in charge of recruiting wants to use some puzzles for the next internship interviews.
Also check out libcloud by Apache. Pretty solid Python API wrapping various cloud services. :)
Because I live in a hot state and if I walked or rode 10 miles to work everyday I'd stink to high heaven.
The popular vote margin is razor thin and votes are still trickling in.
Environment is continuously changing. There are infinite agents in the nature causing that change. Human being is one of them, technology developed by human is another. At the end fittest (not to confuse with physical fitness) survives.
I gave a specific recommendation - but I'm not playing your game. I won't live by your assertion that some mythical news source is wholly trustworthy or without self interest or outside incentive.
Voting is a fundamental human right. It saddens me that someone would describe restoring someone's voting rights as voter fraud. If anything, the disenfranchisement of felons around this country is the voter fraud.

Other countries have polling places in their prisons, let alone allowing ex-convicts to vote. If there's one demographic that should be allowed their say on what society feels is legal and illegal, it's those who society has chosen to punish. Otherwise, you create the possibility of a tyranny of a minority which comprises the majority of the electorate.
if you want to showcase your work, do it on github.

dont ask me how. i dont use github. but thats where people showcase their work.
Is Social Media a True Reflection of Reality?
Specifications of the first ever crowd developed computer announced
Defend against CSRF and brute force attacks (Security 101)
No-one here says 'Electric Torch' (especially not with Caps). They say 'torch' and, as far as I'm aware, 'flashlight' is a perfectly valid term for what this article refers to, so perhaps the GP is being humorous.
Hyperventilation and hysteria seem to be a greater threat at the moment.
> I should have qualified it with "more than I expected"

That does not say much. If your expectation of Clinton supporters being civil and respectful is higher than that of Trump's, it is quite natural that you'd be "surprised". You need to have the same yardstick for both camps.

All said and done, it is one matter being condescending and totally another manner to promote hate.
At this point I think we the elite liberal college-educated urban dwellers should round up all the Trump supporters and lock them all up behind a great big wall in Kentucky. There they can be happy and ignorant in their own bubble. It is clear that the educational system failed these people and that we are superior. We need to rise up and stomp them out.
The Binge Breaker (iPhone addiction)
Huh, so obviously highschool students and college students who can't place countries on a map can't do so because they are xenophobes. That's a very interesting conclusion to make.
We call them personalTelephones here, old chap.
> Imagine if someone killed your wife/child/brother/mother/etc. Does that seem like a correct punishment?

Does that matter at all? I mean - no matter the punishment, the victim is dead, and nothing will bring them back.

So yes, lock them up: as minor deterrent (penal codes aren't very effective in that regard, if not even the death penalty prevents murder); to protect society; to give some standardized environment to hopefully correct the perpetrator so that they'll rediscover their humanity; and maybe for some sort of punishment (but that's really an afterthought, because as said, what does it matter?).

But (I hope) I'd refuse to let them also take my humanity (in addition to the life they took).
Trump insulted people from both sides. Because he may have mentioned a difference in the sexes does not mean that makes him sexist.
My employers don't want me open-sourcing the work I do for them, so this only works if you open-source your side projects.

I see a lot of comments here about how they would never waste their time on an exercise like this, but a small project for the purpose of an interview can probably be done in less time than any of your public projects.
Viewing satellite imagery in VR
This good enough for you?

https://youtu.be/8k4nmRZx9nc?t=42
so how exactly would changes in API be handled?
This a 1,000 times. I can't believe that everyone believes that people voted for Trump because of the things he did or said. They voted for him, I did at least, as a rejection of the status quo and the crony capitalism that, imho, is gutting this nation.
Read the two last words of that sentence. I agree with you, I use Elm every day.
Soldiers are not paid for murder, they are shot for murder. Check army statute.
If that's all it was then I wouldn't bother to bring it up. What I'm saying is that more focus on the beauty of a solution (e.g robustness, scalability, flexibility, simplicity) can be a more financially sound solution in the long run than brute force. Of course, I'm not holding my breath for this to become the norm since using brute force to "get what we want now" is popular because it gets fast results (and this not limited to the software industry) - I'm just suggesting the real costs come later.

As for explaining being a tough skill - what I find in common with the previous point is the lack of stress on keeping things as simple and obvious as possible. If you truly understand something, you should be able to convey that understanding assuming you really want to - it just takes investment, usually by asking yourself why it is obvious to you, then putting yourself in the other party's shoes and then finding the shortest and clearest path to bring them from where they are to where you are. In my experience it's not a tough skill - just requires introspection into your own understanding and not assuming anything about what the other person understands.
So how does the model account for species like ants and bees?
This is an expected outcome.

Previously many cryptoviruses had grave security problems, thereby reducing business value (because customers could get their files back without paying the storage fee). The move to established and known secure cryptographic protocols was therefore only a matter of time, since it represents a tangible increase in business value.
Is there really such a thing as a "bad person"? Sure, there are people whose proclivities, inborn or otherwise, make them unsuitable to be freely among the public, but I can't think of anyone who I couldn't imagine following a different, "positive" path.
That this is how jury duty works doesn't inspire me with a lot of confidence.

Case in point: A couple of weeks ago, a jury acquitted the Bundys after they'd occupied a federal building and used threat of lethal force to keep federal authorities from evicting them. If you'll pardon my snark, this is what happens when you turn jurisprudence over to a handful of rednecks.

Along very similar lines, modern-day politicians make decisions affecting (in some cases) millions of lives and trillions of Dollars. The issues they decide on are complex, and ideally we'd want lawmakers to really work at their "trade:" To deeply study the issues and consult competent experts. Our current crop of professional career politicians, some of whom are evolution and warming deniers heading up education and environmental/energy committees are spectacularly failing to live up to this expectation, and there's no good reason to believe a selection of people randomly chosen from the population would do better, on average.
By that logic Clinton's supporters are a minority too. After all,

59,938,290 < 59,704,886 + 4,072,835 + 1,218,065 + 804,228
I've only interviewed at one place that used homework. They had two homework assignments with follow up phone interviews to talk about it. The next round was going to fly me out for an in-person pair programming interview. We then parted ways because my circumstances changed and I wasn't going to be able to work in one of their set locations.

I might be more ok with it if it was meant to replace the in-person interview but otherwise it took up significantly more of my time. It was nice that they gave me 2-3 $100 amazon gift cards but, like other posters, I'd rather have my time than extra compensation.

The first assignment was supposed to take 4 hours but took me over 6. The second was supposed to be a whole day thing but I could only put in about 4 hours.

It was useful to gain some insight into their culture. I'm still mixed about what I think of it. The short takeway is that they are continually learning and updating their practices (good) but they were koolaide drinkers (bad) and throwing around buzzwords from specific individuals' blogs as if that was everything without showing a deep understanding of those buzzwords (causing them to completely miss that I exercised those same principles, even if I had no clue what they were talking about).

The longer version. They originally were going to turn me down for not using enough <buzzword>. They were also disappointed that I didn't use <buzzword>. Originally, they weren't even going to explain more than that but I pushed on it to see what I could do better and through the conversation they warmed back up to me. Later I looked up their buzzwords.

The first was SOLID which appears to have limited use in the industry. First, they couldn't even break up which part of SOLID I was violating but instead were throwing the acronym of acronyms around like that was all that needed to be said. When I dug into their feedback more, I found out it was my main function that "wasn't SOLID enough" which did argument parsing and delegated the rest of the logic to other code that was so well designed that they had to throw out the main follow up question.

I literally could only find one software development subcommunity that used the second buzzword and that was mostly limited to one consultant's blog. They also showed a lack of depth in it because I was actually using it, just at a different layer in the stack, solving the same problem they thought it would address.
Yeah, except if you are being bullied and nobody steps in to stop it.
Ehh, sez you..

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/130/16/1418

"There are some studies of prolonged nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) in smokers who have quit smoking. In these studies, no adverse effects have been found when nicotine medication was administered for months to several years. Other studies indicate that patients with known cardiovascular disease tolerate NRT well for periods up to 12 weeks. "

By far, the danger is in the smoking, not the nicotine in your bloodstream.

The Gallup survey

http://www.gallup.com/poll/163763/smokers-quit-tried-multipl...

allowed an open-ended response, so someone "might have decided to quit" or quit because "it was time" but also used an NRT to help them through the cravings and not have mentioned that to the interviewer.