skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The electoral college is a net-negative contribution to the federal nature of the US because it allows a tiny, extremely unrepresentative minority to decide for the whole country while eroding the legitimacy of the executive branch, a legitimacy that is a key component of our system. Californians deciding policy for MA or WY due to sheer size is bad but that's how democracies and republics are supposed to work. A single precinct deciding for the entire nation is a perversion of the process that does nothing but destroy faith in our electoral process.

But that's nonsense: no single precinct determines anything, any more than a single precinct within a popular-vote election would. Each state votes, and the states send electors, and those electors as a whole elect the President. Obama didn't win because one precinct voted for him; he won because thousands of voters across dozens of states voted for electors pledged to him. Likewise Trump.

And likewise Bush. Regardless of Ohio or Florida, plenty of people across the nation voted for electors pledged to him.
I used to have a couple I would attach to coworker's computers randomly to confuse them. Doesn't work anymore because no one uses desktops with PS/2 ports...
Bad idea that sounds like a good idea until you discover that it actually leads to greater special interest influence because nobody in Congress knows how to do anything so lobbyists just do it for them. http://prospect.org/article/populist-road-hell-term-limits-c...
I think the process isn't just putting money on the winner. I think the bet was made because a majority of people overvalued the winner. So hedging the bet would win big especially if the margins are close.

I didn't read much of what Nate Silver wrote, but I did listen to the podcast. Clearly, he would have preferred a Hillary win, but I'm not sure it biased the forecasts (he's said it's just an algorithm he wrote and they just plug in the polls). He and his team said many times, just because Hillary was ahead it wasn't a guarantee. Since the election they've said it's very difficult to convey probability to people and they're trying to get better at that. He also pointed out that he was less confident of Hillary than most other sources (even if they had her ahead). They were very clear that they had no expectations of correctly guessing all 51 states because it was so close. I'm not sure if this was because if him calling Trump wrong in the primaries or if he was objectively looking at the numbers.
I'm not sure how it's any worse than current term limits in some states or the proposed term limits here? And I'm not saying they can't be elected, just not for the same position in perpetuity. If they were popular and want to run again for that position when next possible, so be it.
> They quite explicitly said the exact opposite the day after Obama was elected. They didn't just want Obama's policies to fail. They were willing to accept failures that hurt people, so that those people would associate the pain with Obama and vote the other way next time.

What was the exact quote?
"If you vote for someone who wages a racist, xenophobic campaign, someone who was endorsed by KKK and has riled up white supremacist views, you implicitly support them."

This cuts both ways. Voters had effectively a binary choice. Given the dismal favorability ratings of both major party candidates, I think we do everyone a disservice by assuming they subscribe to every view or position either candidate has ever taken or changed. People have different values and different priorities for the values that they do share with others. We don't get to mix and match our candidates.

Given how split the country is, we likely have a lot of things we can find agreement on. We need to work on finding our common goals so we can move forward and make progress.

Edit to add: I myself struggle with determining where to draw the line. What views and/or actions are intolerable? Are they context dependent? At what point do our associations taint us? Too much for this thread perhaps, but worth keeping in mind when working with people who don't hold exactly the same views as we do; in other words, living in the real world.
I don't think you get to call people condescending when you just generalised "the academics" to be ignorant of the "real world".

> Instead of sitting on such a high horse the more constructive approach is to outline the shortcomings, implement the solution, and contribute it upstream. That's not what I see though.

That's what the "Elm is wrong" post did though. It outlined the shortcomings and showed how it was impossible to implement the solution because of somewhat arbitrary limitations to the extensible record system. The tone was way off and made it an unpleasant read, but valid points were made.
But in a society where personal identity is increasingly at risk, you can't pay for that. It's fiction, but you end up with at least a few Boyd Crowder characters from "Justified."

FWIW, this is how Trump voters are made. And at least in the U.S., the coal industry looks done.
How would you propose information about the candidates be disseminated without corporate involvement? Would you prefer Google remove links to political information, and newspapers refrain from reporting on political events, because those things are collusion between corporations and politics just as much as the tool which is the topic of discussion.

For that matter, better prohibit phone calls between voters about their government, because the then the telco is aiding in political collusion too.
The problem would be the payment. That turns it into a paid gig and leaves a paper trail. A solution might be to allow the candidate to forgo payment in lieu of the interviewer making a donation (in the interviewer's name) to a charity of the candidate's choosing, so the candidate never sees any compensation.
My guess would be that most "bad hires" are either insufficiently skilled or insufficient motivated. For the former, you could provide training if you at least see potential. The latter shouldn't be too difficult to figure out.
Are you simply pointing out that the wealth creation is delegated to mature companies?

Because that doesn't change the point. They could delegate further if appropriate.

But one way or another, those mature companies create wealth. (If they did not, the S&P 500 index would not rise.)
This is one of those "aha" solutions that people keep mentioning, but completely ignore how it would work in a non-ideal world.

• 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?

• If you give them more time (e.g. a weekend like in the article), is it still financially viable to the company, especially at $100/hr??

• How do you filter out the candidates that aren't serious about the job but just want to make a quick buck?

• What about all the candidates out there who you can't legally pay (e.g. workers on a visa)?

This works when you are a small company that needs to pick 2 out of 6 total applicants, but otherwise completely unfeasible.
speaking of observations of overt bias, i've noticed that any time i question what i see as overt male chauvinism here i get downvoted without any explanation. i even got hellbanned once about it. this is only something i run into here, but the only other place i really comment is jezebel.
I fail to see how it is a tyranny of the minority. US is a federation after all.
What are corporates looking for in a blockchain solution
Do you think Google would sue you over 2 hours of coding? Technically, they might be able to, but anyone can sue you for anything.

If you think they would, you're probably overvaluing what you can accomplish in 2 hours, and you're underestimating the cost of a lawsuit to them. I can't imagine a situation in which they would actually pay any of their legal staff to even look at something like this, given all the rest of the things the lawyers have to do there.

I worked for Google for 11 years and wouldn't have hesitated to take a paid interview as long as it was all done in good faith (i.e. for the purposes of getting another job).

Google is trying to hire good engineers and retain them with interesting work and good compensation/perks, not shackle them there by legal means.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915594 and marked it off-topic.
I agree that not all promises can be filled but I do credit Obama with having taken a run an most of his other promises. Trump made a lot and they are kinda all over the board so I'll be curious to see what he does
"Superpredators"
I have no particular expertise on the topic, but just in case you missed it, there is this Quora question: https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-learn-Natural-Language-Proces...

It points to NLTK as the framework of choice, and has links to a couple MOOCs and tutorials.
Clinton couldn't gain as much support because she already has most of the likely voters, and a lot of Republicans think, why bother, she's a lock for the electoral votes.
That's cute. Require maintenance where none is actually needed. Everyone hosting a CI now needs a hardware guy, too.

Bandaid solutions (replace every x months, buy something bigger/faster, etc) are not the way to go. The hardware solution to this is not buy a high-endurance drive but to buy more RAM and set up a tmpfs build directory - or buy a ram drive and use that for build instead of you want to eliminate even that software configuration step.
Google to Shut Down Map Maker Tool in Google Maps
Start listening to StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com.

Get some work experience and save some money. Build it on the side (if you can/allowed per company policies/contract).

Does your new job allow you to work on side projects? If you work on a project on your own time and own hardware do you own it and the IP. Check your contract/signed documents.

Good luck.
Screw it. Let's go all in with "clean coal". Fund NASA with the additional tax revenue from all the new oil money going around. Let's get off the planet before it matters.
Federal prison is probably not as terrible as some of the conditions Mexicans flee from.
Admittedly, you're right, it was not fully planned in that manner, but it would have taken a consistent vision over 100's of years, much like the colonization of another planet.
It should be mentioned here that if map had the same implementation for both Array and List, map for arrays would probably be 10-20x slower than what it is today.

In that case, is it really boilerplate?
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Actually you're right. But that change would be for the better.

> Republicans in California now have a voice, Democrats in Texas do too.

This sounds better to me. It sounds like how it ought to be.

If Hillary lost the popular vote, then I'd be content. It's just hard to fathom how "less popular candidate won" and "democracy" can be talking about the same thing (America).
I don't get how having type classes makes the learning curve steeper. It's not like the mere existence of type classes means you have to start writing your own and doing functional dependencies and all that.

For a beginner, it just means being able to write filter instead of List.filter or whatever.
Inflation-Adjusted Federal Spending Has Fallen Under President Obama
Technology just amplifies human nature. The open-minded minority use technology to broaden their horizons in an unprecedented way.

My guess is that open-mindedness must be cultivated from a young age by exposing kids to a wide-variety of cultures/ideas.
You don't need to either way. Our government provides this large tax break incentive intentionally because it is good for the earth.
You were downvoted, but I have actually heard this precise sentiment - Clinton didn't demand a recount because it helps her hide the evidence that she cheated.
You'll just need to create a coherent narrative of how it all ties together. It's okay if you consider yourself a generalist, but they don't need to know. Sell them what they want.
It was illegal to export American crude oil for 40 years. That lasted until early this year: http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/29/investing/us-oil-exports-beg...
This might not be such a bad thing.

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpps-copyright-trap
Poppycock.

Barack Obama was endorsed by the Black Panthers. Was voting for him implicitly supporting black racial superiority?
obviously I am not a supreme court justice, but its not limiting speech or expression. It is explicitly preventing what many people consider to be a gross conflict of interest. It's post-fact in a way, but its still messed up.
Wouldn't this possibly be faster too?

Is there ever a reason to commit to disk anything you don't keep after a reboot?
Am I being optimistic in thinking that at some point the American public may flip on climate change and denying it exists will become very unpopular?

Where I live we've set multiple temperature records in the last few weeks and may break a record for latest first snowfall ever. Even if correlating the weather outside with global climate conditions is a flawed metric, people have to figure out what's going on at some point... right?
I really wish the restrictions can be reduced or removed so board of directors (like @pmarca) and CEOs can tweet more on public companies, which is part of what I mean by "Yishan-style CEOs".
> I don't think you get to call people condescending when you just generalised "the academics" to be ignorant of the "real world".

Those are your words, not mine. My comparison wasn't about ignorance but of a different value system that is consistently substituted in discussions about programming languages and the substitution is then swept under the rug. The substitution being as I said theoretical concision and expression vs more easily understandable boilerplate and pragmatism.
Are we reading the same article? The one I read said:

> DON’T use a real problem because of tribe knowledge needed to fix.

I do not see how this is different from a whiteboard problem, literally speaking. It's a "problem", not a "product", and presumably the solution is throw-away, or at least not used for commercial purposes.

If the author was talking about tasking potential hires with a small, real consulting task, then that would be an issue, whether it was paid or unpaid (and by industry norms, using applicants to do unpaid work is extremely unprofessional, though not unheard of).
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I do from both sides, albeit without being paid to do the exercise. Take-home exercises are great.

When I was looking for a job last year, I liked that it was something simple and low-pressure (compared to typical coding-interview practice) which approximated how programmers actually work. It was OK to look something up in the documentation if I didn't have an API memorized off the top of my head. It was OK to change my mind partway through and realize I could do it more cleanly another way. It was OK to pause for fifteen minutes and get something to drink.

Now that I'm on the other side of it, I like that it's a more natural thing. I like that I'm not having to loom over someone or try to fill awkward silence while they live-code. I like that I can read their solution before I go into the interview and have some prepared comments or questions to get discussion going. I like that it emphasizes the collaborative nature of programming in a team.

Good candidates are beginning to revolt against traditional coding interviews. Take-home exercises are one of the alternatives that people actually seem to like on both sides of the interviewing equation. So you're not going to miss out on good people by switching your coding interview to a take-home; if anything, you're more likely to start attracting them.
wow. alot of these would be amazing if he got them to go through. maybe the "world is ending" rehtoric of 2008 when pres. obama was elected is similar to the current talk?
It's a fun article but it would have been outrageously good if say 30 examples of each SSD sourced "randomly" had been tested. OK a bit expensive.

"Over the past 18 months, we've watched modern SSDs easily write far more data than most consumers will ever need."

They tested six SSDs and got "...far more data than most consumers..." - that's the takeaway.
Come now, don't hyperbolize: the statement is strictly about Elm, for which typeclasses are a proposed generics mechanism and for which userland generics don't exist right now.
Not the GP but I just read it, and I feel like he hit the nail on the head of the smug style. I happen to identify with many of the things he mentioned. It left me at a loss about where to go forward, though.

I hold it close to my core that critical thinking skills go hand-in-hand with a brighter individual and collective future. What do I say to someone who I think is falling into the trap of a logical fallacy that doesn't sound like I know better? If I think someone is misguided, am I supposed to listen to why they feel the way they do, then ask them to consider something not as wrong? What if they hold it true as their own set of Good Facts and are not open to conversation?

Or is the point of the article that maybe I'm objectively wrong about many policies I hold dear? LGBT equality, gender equality, etc, are causes that I'm actually wrong about and I should look at the other side for inspiration, regardless of where their 'Truth' comes from?

I'm deeply saddened that I not only observe and sometimes identify with the smug left, but I also have many conversations with family and friends who I would describe in a similar article with a different bent as the angry, illogical right. What do I do to reach those folks?

I'm also worried that their way of life is actually dying, because it is dying. Their jobs, their biggest source of pride, are disappearing, and attempting to repatriate them will likely result in big business investing in capital (robots) over labor (rural workers).

I want to support a smart policy that helps them get back on their feet. Is thinking that Donald Trump likely won't be able to bring them what they seek a smug liberal policy? If so, am I supposed to feel bad about thinking it, try to convince people about it, shut up about it, or none of the above?

Additionally, I think this is the type of article that appears when both sides live in an echo chamber. Yes, this is an excoriation of the smug left, but the smug left and this article only exists if we live in our own bubbles. The thing nobody knows and everyone wants to figure out is how to break down those barriers.
Haste: Haskell to JavaScript Compiler
The Politics of Poverty in the Suburbs
Could you give some more background for the scientific research chilling effect you describe? I have heard this idea of climate research science refusing to accept alternate positions, but I haven't seen it substantiated.

I would characterize the political alignment of government employees to be as diverse as the nation's. "The government" as a liberal-partisan force seems a bit inaccurate given that the House and Senate have had Republican majorities since 2012. That said, my exposure with U.S. government employees is limited to Defense/IC; I won't discount a bias --liberal or otherwise-- in NSF or other grants programs.
Remember: if you do something that completely eliminates bad hires, it probably eliminated some good ones too. Of course, lots of people wave this away by saying bad hires are more expensive than bad rejections. OK- but how much more expensive? And does this practice make sense in light of that figure?

Not to say you shouldn't do this but it's very important to remember a lot of these kind of things when it comes to recruiting involve tradeoffs and you rarely get an unalloyed good.
Understanding is Dangerous
What you seem to be saying is that you believe if you shame people enough that they keep their views hidden, you've accomplished something.

I find that pretty amusing.
..and there were only four on mine. I wrote in pretty much the only write-in candidate (write-ins must still be approved with the state or else they're tossed away) - and I was one of only a handful to do so.
> I bet you some of the functionality that you wrote can be factored out into a more generic library that applies to everyone's use case.

Of course. We publish quite a few such libraries, in fact. :)

Search for "NoRedInk" on http://package.elm-lang.org
lol, I thought they had already included every programming concept into ng2, what's left for 3? ;)
cancel every unconstitutional executive action,

memorandum and order issued by President Obama.

I think we need some claification on what is "constitutional"
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And they overtly and covertly pushed that barrow, even in the face of their supposed neutrality.
"I can't finish any technical article" ... no offense, but i don't know how you made it through grad school. nonetheless, here you are. :p

you need to kill your video game habit. sell that shit on craigslist and get on with your life. seriously.

you know that you have the capability to do amazing things, but you have to manage yourself and your time, and focus, in order to make it a reality.

see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12798511

edit: read books. pick random titles from the Oxford Very Short Introductions series.
In addition to salary range up-front: find out up-front if they're actually hiring you, or want to do the "contract for a while, then maybe we'll hire you for real" thing.

I had to say no late in the process to several companies which offered me the contracting-to-maybe-hire dance.
Never in the electronics/aerospace/defense industry in the northeast. Sure, some companies have a policy that says employees might get tested, but in my decades of experience, no one actually does.
They have multi billions in revenue. That definitely qualify it as a multi-billion dollars company.
I'm sad to see this downvoted, a bit of inappropriate humor is comforting right now. Thanks for the chuckle.
You find having to read 1kloc vs 10kloc the same?
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Look at you with your outrage culture
> Well, the burden of proof should be on the proposer: that the feature is useful. A good next step would be for someone who's interested in persuading you of the importance of typeclasses

I agree! That would make for a much more straightforward discussion. :)
Which video games do you like? How were they written? Are there replay files you can look at, or an API you could use to analyze data or create a new tool?
How hilarious it would be if it wasn't, though.
I voted for Trump. I take him seriously. I don't take him literally. He's obviously not going to build a physical wall on our Southern border.
The bad news is that the filibuster is very likely to be done away with because it is the only thing stopping the Republicans from doing literally anything they want. And the map in 2018 doesn't look good for the Democrats.
Today, Trump appointed Myron Ebell (a massive climate change denier) to head up the EPA.

We're so utterly and completely fucked.