skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do that, go the extra mile and schedule a (weekly or so) job to vacuum that database.

Also, since you are on a Mac, I would use launchd jobs and make it less brute-force by scheduling the job changing the file on writes to the Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/MacOS/ directory.
The first half of the first term. Republicans have controlled the House for the past 6 years.

Interesting, isn't it? Presidents aren't autocrats. The Republicans play obstructionist politics, the people get pissed off at a government that's not doing anything, and then blame the wrong party. The do-nothing government that the people have just voted against? It's the government they've just voted for...
Re-read (it is an odd wording): "1/4 to 1/2 the house costs twice as much". He also said SV

Seattle is not even close to being as bad as silicon valley in housing costs.
>> People flee Mexico because it's an extremely poor country with a horrible government and is controlled by drug cartels. Screwing the country over further economically sounds like the worst way to solve this problem. In fact, it seems like a very good way to exacerbate the problem.

Mexico can't ever improve while the US continues to steal their despondent youth for low cost landscaping, house painting and wait staff. The very people with the courage and energy to leave their home countries to improve their lot are precisely the people needed to effect change against a corrupt regime. Our tolerance of mass illegal immigration is actually immoral; their are tens of millions of victims left to suffer bandit republics and kleptocracies because that small fraction of their populations that would otherwise have had the motivation to pick up a weapon and do something about it are instead occupied hanging drywall somewhere in the US.
Looks like he got a response. I sent them a DM as well.
Absolutely agree. And the cool thing is you can use re-frame and friends on mobile with React Native. The most pleasant developer experiences I've had were with the Clojure and ClojureScript ecosystems.

https://github.com/drapanjanas/re-natal
There is no reason why a 'third' or non mainstream party would not be moderate also. You will get the full gamut.

Of course most countries that have this system end up with regular coalition governments which is sometimes one criticism of the system. But surely a coalition working together as part of a parliament with at least three groups is better than two groups at perennial loggerheads with each other.

This only seems to lead to ever greater tribalism and us and them politics.
Those only work if the PS/2 device can 'switch' to USB mode. I very much doubt the CueCat could ever do this.
Some of the playlist may be, but I'm pretty sure Elvis Costello, Paul Mccartney's Wings and Dâm-Funk don't need Spotify marketing.
Still beter than Google or Apple.
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> RawTherapee and the other Linux RAW software can't hold a candle to Lightroom.

This is just plain false. I used AfterShot Pro and I think it's better than Lightroom. The only reason that I switched back to Darktable is because I don't want to locked in the proprietary software.
And what is up with the issue? It's marked as "Closed" without any interaction from Spotify?

Was it closed as Fixed? Duplicate? Wontfix?
I formulated it badly I guess.

I knew it's possible, s we discussed in the "Elm is wrong" comment thread though, this technique get's awkward quickly.
When I hear about stuff like this, it takes me back to the Fucked Company days and the bubble bursting.
Can you add captions to box making photos? I think that's an acetate bath at the end to smooth the edges but i'm not sure.
> parents are so awful at it

That's a really sweeping statement. In reference to this particular article, there may be a lot of reasons why fewer American children travel to school by themselves, including geography and transportation options.
Sorry but this is simply not true. After a while we decided to do exactly the thing that the article describes as our preliminary interviewing process at Amazon. We also had extensive onsite interviews, however we did not ask candidates to code at the whiteboard. Btw, when you work for such companies it is expected that you spend 10% of your time on hiring. Getting hiring right is one of the most important things that you need to do at the scale of Amazon, Google and all of these large companies. Having a single bad hire can bring down the performance of an entire team.
What the hell? Binary like a barcode? I couldn't be arsed anymore - you're projecting a bogeyman onto me that reflects nothing I've said.
Or do it with a one liner

perl -pi -e 's/VACUUM/xxxxxx/g' /Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotify
for Linux, it is at /usr/share/spotify/spotify.
I'm guessing he's going to make it difficult and monitor it. Maybe they'll start blowing it up in places. But hey Mexico is gonna pay for it, so they'll be forced to pay for the fixes too (a guess). Maybe after a while Mexico starts realizing that this wall is fucking expensive if they're not stopping people from getting over it. So maybe they'll start patrolling it themselves and trying to keep people from illegally scaling it. Right now it costs them nothing, so they have no incentive to do anything about it.

Who knows.
Can someone explain why Americans hate ObamaCare? Here in the UK we have universal healthcare (the NHS) which all employed people pay for via a special tax (called National Insurance ,or NI) - isn't ObamaCare the same thing?
US here. We also walked / biked to school. I lived in suburbs though and can't speak for everyone.
Sure, i'll add that immediately
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How do you guys deal with re-factoring code? Imagine a codebase that has been largely additive for 100 years.

While the "+1 minus two guideline" has plenty of shortcomings in the long term, there is lots of low hanging fruit now, and it's an important mindset shift.

Guys, don't just add LOC. Refactor, clean it up and make it better. Remove blocks we don't use anymore.
He won beacuse Bernie was not allowed to represent the democrats...
Funny that: a classic Italian complaint from parents of 20somethings still living at home is "This house is not a hotel!" - i.e. a place where to eat and sleep.
Well this is hacker news, so I figured code is at least one tool this community has the ability to apply.
Totally agree. Japan is also incredibly safe. I've just spent a couple months there (now in Seoul), and you get the sense that people really trust each other there. It's not uncommon to see people leave their bags, phones, wallets, etc. just lying around in a cafe; bikes unlocked everywhere. It's a really calm place to be in that sense.

I've been doing the "digital nomad" thing and jumping around a lot of countries — Japan was very different in this aspect to pretty much everywhere else I've been.
Indeed. And I'm sure they'll be happy to provide both. That's what allies are supposed to do. Sure will be a nice change from the past eight years of barely contained hostility.
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Both Firefox[1] and Chrome[2] removed it from their stores. I don't know if we should expect an official announcement, but it seems that neither Mozilla nor Google commented on the issue. Many other sources reported it though[3][4][5].

If you are using WOT in either Firefox or Chromium/Chrome you can just remove it without replacing it with anything. Both browsers cover that for you with Google's Safe Browsing[6][7].

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/wot-safe-brow...

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wot-web-of-trust-w...

[3]: http://techdows.com/2016/11/web-of-trust-add-on-removed.html (4/11/2016)

[4]: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/05/mozilla-and-google-remove-w... (5/11/2016)

[5]: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5bgnyr/weboftrust_rem... (6/11/2016)

[6]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing

[7]: https://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/
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> As someone who is already employed full-time, I simply don't have the time to solve your problems for free just to see if you'd like to invite me over for an interview.

That means you don't care enough about changing jobs. There are people who will happily do that "interview" for free even when being employed full-time. The only relevant question for the company is whether there are enough qualified candidates willing to do the test for free.
Wow, these VCs blew $65 million dollars on an online clothing store.

Wozniak and Jobs funded their Apple I by selling an old car and an electronic calculator; probably a few thousand dollars at most. The Apple II was launched for $250K, or $996K in today's dollars. These are actual computers they designed, built, and sold. That's ICs, circuit boards, firmware, device drivers, cases, real engineering, programming, manufacturing, and selling -- all for less than a 1/65 of the money that an online retailer blew through selling clothes.

To put it another way, instead of one clothing retailer, these VCs could have funded 65 (sixty five!) hardware tech companies at $1 million each (at the Apple II level of funding).
Quote:
"I may say please use functional reactive principals in JS to solve this problem, but the decision of using Kefir, Bacon, or RX is left up to them."

That sounds like something a bad tech hire would say.
By "flat ranges" you mean they bought approximately the same number of garments for each available size?
Oh man really? They just voted for the obviously bad candidate out of spite because mean Leftist Boogeymen were being condescending on the internet? It turns out after all that Trump supporters didn't have any legs to stand on, or any ideologies, or wishes, they were just like "you know what everyone, I'm tired of being called X, let's revolt" and that's why? Man, that's almost like the ultimate self-discredit of the movement.
Trump's intention to reduce government regulations may mean government under his administration will be less corrupt.
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The Spotify desktop client had a bug where, every time you pressed "back", it would lose the scroll position on the previous page. It would show you the correct point, but when you tried to interact with it, it would jump back to the top of the page. It was incredibly frustrating if you were trying to browse through an artist's albums.

This is the kind of bug that should have been easily caught by automated regression testing. It wasn't. That should have been easily caught by a pre-release QA process. It wasn't. The kind that, if it it sneaked into a release, should have been triggered a rollback or a quick patch. It didn't.

Instead, they left this ugly bug in place for months. Despite dozens of complaints of their support forums, containing hundreds of posts. And throughout, I never saw a single official response from a Spotify employee. The only communication was hearsay through volunteer moderators, who said it was being "worked on", but with no suggestion of why it wasn't being fixed sooner, or when it actually would be.

Spotify push out updates to their client almost every few days, but it's clear their software development process is garbage, and that their developers are either unwilling, or unable to prioritise basic bug fixes. If I had to guess, I'd suggest that it's a combination of technical debt and bad processes inherited from their startup days, combined with a management focus on features that support monetisation goals rather than basic maintenance.
Sorry, I'm only talking about pure voting, not "pure democracy" as in everyone votes for everything.

Your support for the electoral college is still support for all votes not being equal at the voter level. My claim is that there is nothing more important than the voices being equal if we are to claim we are a unity of equal people. Any system on top of that is a filter, and is tampering with what is most important. Why must entire States be colored red or blue. That's a filter, and an act of muddling. We're dividing States when what we need to be is United.

Even if we elected by popular vote, candidates will still have to campaign and they will still have to go somewhere. Their strategy can be State based, and certainly their choices may differ without this "system" but even with the system in place they are choosing specific States over others. I don't see how these specific States deserve more attention than those that are completely ignored. For there still are States completely ignored with the Electoral College.
Stephen Colbert last night: "Politics used to be something we thought about every 4 years. That's good that we didn't think about it that much, because it left room in our lives for other things and OTHER PEOPLE"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXhFGO8R7aU
Highly recommend Spacy and the http://explosion.ai blog!
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Wait, you want to raise taxes or reduce services now so that we can pay down the debt so that we can lower taxes or increase services later? At near-zero interest rates?
NLP is a huge topic, and the choice of materials pretty much depends on what you'd like to focus on. In my experience nothing beats a good textbook, especially if you do the exercises.

The classic NLP textbook is

* Jurafsky, Martin: "Speech and Language Processing" (https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/) -- already mentioned here: a very solid overview textbook to give you an idea about the field;

Should you be interested in statistical NLP (even if it probably isn't as sexy as it used to be), the classic there is:

* Manning, Schütze: "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" (http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/).
What's the alternative? Centrism? Honestly curious.
Agreed.

For a service I love dearly and have been using for 8 years, both their client applications and their support thereof has always been astoundingly lacking.

I've reported numerous bugs, and they almost always go unanswered for years, while some community elevated user will respond in a well-meaning but non-relevant answer, suggesting some run-of-the-mill IT tech solution, without any insight into the actual problem nor the Spotify tech.

I have rarely ever seen a Spotify rep taking client bugs seriously. Which is a shame.

But on that note: Has anyone tried Tomahawk? Or any other alternative client? I've been meaning to try something else but haven't gotten around to it.
It's not just the kind of software, it's the kind of business model we enable with our software. The only way to create local jobs in communities across the United States is to empower people across communities in the United States.

If we look at mature technologies like plumbing we see an industry around them that enables small, local businesses. Yes a relatively few companies make plumbing components, but hundreds of independent plumbers are able to use those components distributed through local shops to solve local problems.

WordPress has done that for software. Through it's decentralized design it enables jobs for consultants, plug-in vendors, theme vendors, designers, web hosts, and content authors. This industry around WordPress employs many, many people. Further, it creates an opportunity for geographically targeted businesses to be built around WordPress.

The architecture of the tools systematizes the business models those tools enable.
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Well, guess what, it's too late :3
Wow, that's really unexpected.

This isn't my field, but given the simplicity of the inputs and network, and the way commenters are seeing the demo achieve perfect play after anything between 2 and 200 generations, it makes me wonder if this isn't more of a brute-force search than actual learning?

That is, it smells like there's a "correct" set of neuron values - where any genome within some tolerance of those values wins forever, and any other genome dies quickly. If that's the case, the system can't really evolve towards a solution, can it? It would just cycle randomly through lots of genomes that die immediately, until by pure chance one lives forever. I only tried the demo a few times but that's what it looked like it was doing.
If I recall correctly, that is kind of like a compressed trie, only instead of a tree one builds a directed acyclic graph. Basically, taking common suffixes into account aswell.

Space usage is indeed the biggest advantage, as you are reducing redundant branches from the tree for of a trie. Construction of these seems difficult (from the article, it seems to involve building the tree, and using hashes to find redundant branches.

I think I never gave them much thought because it doesn't work for suffix tries, which can be used not to search for prefixes (like a normal trie) but for substrings (considering them prefixes of suffixes). The optimalization to get the O(n^2) total length of all suffixes seem to make it hard to turn this into a DAG.
But now that stuff is the whole blog entry on your blog, appearing like you're behind that.
All you need to look for is passion. Worked for me.
...or it is being ressourcefull!
It's an easy way to train a neural network when you cannot give it a long list of input/output pairs.

Are there other good ways of training a neural network in this kind of scenario?
Looks handy, I'm going to try it out!

SketchUp is so simple, I'd call it 3d drawing app, Just the pen tool and snapping is enough to get stuff done.
isn't ObamaCare the same thing?

They are completely different. Obamacare has nothing do with universal healthcare in the UK sense, but is a complex system of mandates that dictates how private health insurance is bought and sold.

Very simply there are three key parts:

1) everybody (who doesn't for qualify other government programs) now has to have private health insurance that covers certain things. If they don't get this from their employer, they're responsible for buying it themselves.

2) The government sets minimum standards as to what insurance companies have to cover and regulate what premiums they can charge for this coverage. They also forbid insurance companies from denying people coverage due to pre-existing condition.

3) To make sure that people can afford these mandatory insurance policies, they offer heavy subsidies to people who earn less than a certain limit.
Don't waste your time with vanilla if you really care about security, just use grsec.
Democrats fully controlled Congress during President Obama's first two years in office. During this time he could have easily closed Gitmo, or addressed any of his other campaign promises. Instead we got the ACA, which is currently in its death throes irrespective of Trump.
Hex is going to be the main repo for erlang to and rebar3 should be good to use it. You could even just use mix to build an erlang project.
oh god, old network manager was my breaking point.

looking back, it was the first time I _really_ understood that sitting down and learning to manage the relevant config files manually was going to be easier than dealing with a GUI app. hell, I learned for both redhat _and_ debian based distros.

I don't know if I would have gone down the path I have if it wasn't for that. that's insane...
> Or, perhaps more importantly, it will be used as training data for someones AI based HR startup which will go on to filter out perfectly good candidates for being "autistic".

I did not expect that point... crafting comments with future ML efforts in mind. I don't think we should care that much about it - you can't feel personally responsible for every idiot using overhyped technology to do stupid things at scale.
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For Mac users: I wrote a bash script to create a Spotify app for you that is just electron wrapping the official Spotify web player. Just one command: https://jamesmcintyre.github.io/spotify-electron-client/
I regularly delete or replace several thousands of lines of code without changing the functionality of application, put in by programmers like you, who are obsessed with the amount of LOC they produce. I am not sure why anybody thinks that a lengthy solution is great or we should judge programmers by the LOC they produce. I strongly believe that the better the programmer is the shorter the solution will be produced by her/him.
>This is the essence of white privilege. A belief that you got there through your own hard work, smarts and gumption.

Oh really? Lend me a minute of your time then, if you can be so kind.

My family (half russian half ukrainian) comes from Tajikistan (both parents and their parents were living and working there before USSR went down). At the time I was born (1988) Tajikistan was still part of the USSR, obviously.

When the shit hit the fan in the late 80s (civil war began in 1991) we had to move from there. While father was trying to start up his business in Cheboksary (capital of Chuvash republic in Russia) - my mother and I were living in Poltava, Ukraine. So, while Ukraine and Russia were our respective homelands - we were refugees, formally. Yet, in a matter of 4 or 5 year my father and his friends, who also made it out from Tajikistan torn by a war, were able to establish a company, which was successful enough to provide these families with homes, food etc. They made it with their knowledge, will, effort and hard work. Despite being refugees in their own country (which is a paradox, right?). Not because they were white, not because they had more money (they had not) or any other "privileges".
So - my 'privileges', did not just appeared out of the blue, because I'm white. They are the result if my father's and mother's efforts. Had they thrown this chance away - I wouldn't have any of this. No matter how white I am.

And this is just one, not very well telling example.

Yes, living in the more or less modern environment has it's benefits, but this has nothing to do with 'white privilege'.
A single large project.

We've also split out several pieces of it into libraries that we've open-sourced, but I'm not counting those.
Take it seriously but not literally. Seriously.
>for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated.

It's easy to game. Now every new regulation is as big as two old regulations.
"There's an animated diagram on the Wikipedia page for Dijkstra's algorithm"

Dijkstra must be turning in his grave. He was strongly opposed to the use of pictures in his papers.

I can't find a direct quote, but https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E... says:

"But this historical explanation is no excuse for the fact that today Euclidean geometry, with all its known defects, is still taught as the prototype of a strictly deductive system. It is not. Its reliance on pictures is quoted as evidence for the value of “geometric intuition”, while in fact it is only a symptom of the defects of Euclid's axiomatization. (In passing I would like to add that I see more and more evidence that it is precisely the informality of the pictorial argument that defies the development of heuristics by means of which such arguments can be designed in an orderly fashion. This is in sharp contrast with the highly effective heuristics that could be developed for strictly formal environments.)"
I'm curious if you have any statistics about the different interview styles/processes. Obviously it's hard to figure out the false negatives (good engineers you didn't hire) but how about false positives?
Also, is homework assignment now a part of the standard interview process at Amazon or is this just your team/department?
Maybe the second time around.

The first time I remember him talking about reform of Washington.
Do you expect this guy to organise a hackathon to solve every problem you give him? And what if that havkathon now involves the people at your company working on his problems as well as their own?