skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll push back against this. It seems to me that Facebook makes it more challenging for you to filter through that bubble. Their algorithms are tailored to get me to engage with the site and keep my session alive as long as possible. Not surprisingly, I'm sure that it will present me more with things that please me -- either things I agree with or people backlashing against things I disagree with -- than not. As a user, it seems it takes an extra level of awareness and conscious work on my part to fight against their ranking algorithms. It does not present to me a snapshot of my social network as it is; it presents me a snapshot of my social network that seeks to maximize its perceived relevance to me at any given moment. That isn't the same thing.

Having said that, I think it is too easy to fault them for this. I'm an educator, and I think the only meaningful weapon against this is educating people on the forces involved. I'm also painfully aware that as I write this, an enormous swath of my fb friends are asking to be "unfriended" by people they don't agree with, so I don't think fb engineers are the real source of our issues in that dimension.
People are gonna do what people do. Your comment is like trying to make a statement about all of Hacker News or all of Reddit (or some specific subreddit). It's unnuanced and meaningless to compare a handful of protestors to the group of Clinton supporters as a whole.
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I found http://hokstad.com/compiler a lot easier to understand than any other compiler tutorial I've seen. Writing a compiler the way you'd write any other program. It does end up with e.g. a distinct parser, but only when the reasons that might be a good idea become apparent.
A bit more work then ;)
s/occurs because/can be deduced from/
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marciok/Mu/master/WriteYou...

(Beavis and Butthead laugh)
Pros:

-Lots of fun, at least for a little while

Cons:

-Perhaps increased possibility of not making it across

-Would have to quit your job(maybe file this one under 'pro' instead?)
Absolutely. The level of robustness is outstanding for such a new language / ecosystem.
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No it's not. People just in general have a herd mentality. If social signals are important to you, if your need to fit in is more important than having your own opinion then no amount of "fixing" the algorithm is going to change that.

Furthermore those 40% comes from all sorts of papers but all but one was against Trump. Yet he won.

Fake news is only useful to fuel your anger if you have already decided. The reason why people are swing voters is exactly because they weight in many factors not because they let themselves be fooled by fake news IMO.

Furthermore the beauty of networks like Facebook and Twitter is that they are self-correcting. The lie doesn't travel faster than the rebuttal of that lie.

Lastly I am not sure the article has a very clear idea of what actually constitutes a lie since a lot of those lies are really just different interpretation of the same things. And FB is actually quite good at having related articles of something which often will have different views in them.

Facebook is one of the places where you actually meet most people of dissenting views to yours.
"Restoring National Security Act" The Federalization of law enforcement has the potential for fascism. Also lowering the repatriation of corporate abroad profit makes it more tax efficient to move jobs overseas. A 10% repatriation below the 15% cap gains rate is a massive tax loophole.
As a Trump supporter, I disagree.
I respectfully disagree - after the election, my liberal friends filled my timeline with screeds about the death of America and minorities, while my conservative friends messaged me privately in celebration. I didn't see a single pro-Trump post all day.

As a centrist, the level of vitriol was very shocking, and it did not come from the party you'd expect.
This is basically the Left's version of the Right's Texas succession.

And why does Vanity Fair like ALL CAPS?
What? People block that shit. Go outside and talk to a person at the grocery store if you want to burst your bubble.

News, ads, friend suggestions etc. are all designed to be as non-confrontational as possible. To fit into your world view so neatly you don't even know that your perception of reality outside of Facebook, when filtered through Facebook, is actually tailored to you.
Glassdoor wouldn't really help someone cheat in this situation. It's not a quick answer, it's a code discussed with the interviewer after finishing it. It would be fairly easy to tell whether someone had copied their code.
Just something to add to the 2016 version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_state_petitions_for_seces...
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This article is just horribly written. There are no examples. It is not clear if it's about number-only or letter-only domains. It quotes Wikipedia and a Google search with some rather irrelevant information.
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Aye, I wouldn't be surprised if the authors of this stuff might feel similar listening to you talk to somebody in whatever your area of expertise is. Experts use acronyms amongst themselves because it's more efficient for communication. If you're interested in it, google that shit, read, and learn :)

EDIT: See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
Mea culpa on the title...
Tech is not new, but the convenience layer on top is. Everything is taken care of.
How about making your comment useful by enlightening the community as to the relative unimportance of these aspects of contemporary PL design, and suggest some other aspects for would-be designers to focus on instead? Just imagine: you could even link to resources for the latter!
Wow, that is low. Here in Germany it's usually between 70-80%.
Yes ... the stadium itself is the 4th largest city. State College Borough itself has around 40k residents and there's obviously overlap between those residents and those sitting in the stadium. I've heard estimates that there are 15k people that show up just to tailgate on nice days (that seems high to me). In any case, it's an interesting statistic.

Note that Allentown is relatively safe from State College ever passing it as the Borough itself is small and mostly developed. There are 5 surrounding townships that actually contain most of the area's population.
I keep hearing that, and yet Congress and the Presidency changes hands constantly. I would think gerrymandering has a greater impact on local and state level elections.
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I'm a proud generalist too. One thing I've been investigating recently is the concept of so called 'microdegrees', also called nano-degrees:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdegree

Open Badges is also a neat idea: http://openbadges.org/

Open Badges looks even more promising if combined with blockchain tech so it's impossible to forge your ability / qualification, unlike today where a large portion of 'degrees' can be bought and sold on the black market for very little money.
I really appreciated Colbert's words that night, but I don't know how true his quote was. There was a great article I read a decade ago that I could never find again about, "How People Talk About Politics," and it matched my own experience.

Standing in long lines at the DMV in Virginia in 2000-something, a man says to me, "See what happens when you let the Democrats run things?"

Watching the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, a woman told me, "My grandmother said this would happen. She said the economy always collapses under Republicans."

Working IT at the Coast Guard for ten years, people talked politics all the time. All of that talk about as informed as the quotes above, but I try not to think less of people who are misinformed. Politics is hard. It's complicated, but we are all expected to participate in it and try to stay informed while most of us are unaware of how much or cognitive biases cause us to misunderstand and misremember the things we learn about the whole complex morass that is almost entirely run by lawyers.

For me, this election is now an exercise in compassion. I overheard two coworkers talking yesterday about how they both voted for Trump because they hated Clinton so much. What surprised me was the tone of fear and uncertainty in their voices at having won. They want what's best for America, just like their political opponents do, and they honestly thought their candidate was the better choice--with strong reservations. My life is great at the moment, so I sincerely hope their candidate delivers what they feel is missing in their own lives.
I tried, but instead it told me I couldn't, and there's this message:

"We've seen some questions in our Community around the amount of written data using the Spotify client on desktop. These have been reviewed and any potential concerns have now been addressed in version 1.0.42, currently rolling out to all users."

So... sounds like it's fixed? If so, good job on making a fuss, everybody!
> Extended stay hotels for the kind of purposes you described already exist.

'cept they are more expensive than airbnb. Zoning isn't going to help, because if said zoning either implies a tax, or some other disadvantage, then it'd get reflected in the cost.

Airbnb is ecking out efficiency, at some externality cost that's not borne by the participants of the transaction. Atm, i dont know what that externality is, but society should try to figure that out, and make sure it gets paid for.
Not having to deal with a statement/expression distinction makes it a lot easier. Functional languages often have a simpler syntax with fewer special cases. (Though there are other languages like this e.g. Smalltalk)
It's a really terrible thing to have laws that aren't respected by the people, the government or the courts. It completely undermines the rule of law.
> Trump supporters understands that Mexican and Muslims are not a race. Hence, why they think Trump is not racist.

So they think he's xenophobic and religiously bigoted instead? How is that better?

>Now you're just making up things in your mind about Trump and Trump supporters, and then accusing them of it.

I'm not making up the fact that white supremacists supported Trump.
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> Not to say that I have a solution for it

I do.

Regulators should shutdown or deny fb many of the privileges it currently has; consumers should minimize or avoid Fb altogether. Its doable, I stopped using Fb regularly two years ago and now I only check my page twice or thrice a year.
Fb is not in any way essential for daily living.
The DNC is an organization that's rotten from the inside out. Don't forget about Wasserman being the fall man for all of their shenanigans.
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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/epfd-tfe0301...
Curious what it does that other apps don't do.
Excellent example of the author's point.
OMG so much bullshit. I get the same taste as reading political posts from the past US election: blatant lies to influence audiences.

Choice? Ok, so I disable Google Play Services (b/c among other things I want to stop all the damn tracking you do with it) and the phone breaks down. Literally useless.

Just swipe away pre-installed Google apps? Yeah right, by clicking a disabled uninstall button? Right, so you just want me to disable, not wipe'em off. Great! More choice.

Using only a tiny space to store Google apps? Again, I have seen Google Play Services hoarding 30% of my 2GB storage.

Worried about developers dealing with a fragmented ecosystem? It's called web apps (you call them Progressive Web Apps). Just give more power to the browser and developers will be super happy to use a common framework to target ALL devices.

Truly open, choiceful forks like CyanogenMod exist precisely b/c everything you've written here is bullshit.
That's a good way of putting it. Many other people in a similar position may have chosen to be public. Many other people would have chosen to remain private but failed at. It takes skill to chose to remain private about something like this in a way the remains (at least so far) resistant to at least som concerted skilled effort to find you.
> I am not sure how to be certain the candidate did not get help

Pressing them hard for information on Monday will expose this.
I know exactly how it will behave in most of those scenarios.

Right up until an optimizing compiler throws your assumptions under the bus.

Compilers are allowed to (and both GCC and Clang frequently do) assume that your program will never invoke undefined behavior, and optimize accordingly.

See: http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
Also maybe: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1307

This can lead to some pretty bad security flaws: https://lwn.net/Articles/575563/
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I think a lot of Trump supporters are actually deplorable. I base this on their actions and their words. It's not good to say so, and especially not when you're running for high office, but that's what I mean when I say I don't disagree with the sentiment.
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It isn't really meaningful to call a language like this functional or imperative. It's far too simple. If you're asking about the s-expressions specifically, they are very easy to parse for the same reason they are easy to read: you don't need any precedence rules. Writing interpreters in Lisp languages for Lisp languages also has a long history.
Don't swim with the sharks little tadpole.
The FB propaganda effect is easy to measure. Just look at how 'surprised' Dem Facebook were that Trump won, vs the same with Repub users.

The level of surprise should be identical among both groups, but that's very obviously not the case. Facebook feeding its users biased news isn't the only reason Trump won, but given how many hours per day folks spend on the site (compared with traditional media) it was clear a huge contributing factor.
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There seems to be a flurry of these anti-Zuckerberg articles today.

The Verge: [Mark Zuckerberg sidesteps blame for Trump presidency, says we should all 'work harder'](http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/10/13582008/mark-zuckerberg-...)

Insinuating that he is in fact to blame. The article doesn't make an argument that he is (other then repeatedly mentioning that he didn't say who he voted for), but intent of the headline is obvious.
You're conflating 'experiencing anxiety' with 'some underlying condition that increases the tendency to experience anxiety (and it's severity)'. The first cohort is a subgroup of the second.

Or just switch anxiety for depression - i.e. everyday depression and 'clinical' depression are not the same thing.
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Jesus, that's a horrible story. I'm very sorry you had to go through that ... holy hell.
I am wondering the same thing. Either "all the polls were wrong" or the election was hacked. Polling has been conducted for decades. It seems highly unlikely that all of the institutions involved suddenly forgot how to do it properly this year.
Your experiences doesn't necessarily equal that of millions of other people. Owning a vehicle for part time driving and Uber for everything else is likely not very cost effective for many, if not most people. Never mind the assumption that Uber, or something like it, exists everywhere.

Not intended as an insult, but that's city thinking.
Total votes for the republican candidate were basically unchanged from the previous few elections. The big difference was that total votes for the democratic candidate dropped off significantly from Obama's spike. Hillarys problem was she didn't excite people enough to get them to the polls.
Just like you'd do in Node. Add deps to a package.json and npm install. Then just `(js/require "your-package")`
The top rated comment by Negritude (on the original site) says it all :

"This is an example of the kind of empty neoliberal rhetoric that led to Trump getting elected.

A company that touts diversity, yet from an economic standpoint, shuts so many people out.

Dr. King was about racial AND economic justice, a Civil Rights Movement AND a Poor People's Campaign, but Tim Cook and his mealy-mouthed subordinates wouldn't understand that."
"Trusting the Community".. try it in USA :P
It's amazing how many extensions Google claimed it needed to respond to the charges of the EU case, just to come back a day before the final deadline with a "nuh uh" response like this. Google is just trying to run the clock as long as possible before their business practices are banned from one of the biggest regions in the world.
With a different tone you might be able to engage in meaningful conversation. But launching toxic salvos like this will land with a fuck you response. But I think you know that...
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I don't think it's a such a low bar to pass. Historically, it's been a common and major problem. Overcoming it is both tough and significant.

That said, I don't mean to dismiss concerns beyond that. My point is really just a long-winded "well, it could be a lot worse."
Why not?! Sounds like a great idea. Happy to see someone help me with that
Ancient in a convenient, all-included package, yes. It's like serving videos yourself or embedding youtube/wistia/vimeo... The quick and performant way has value for some.
This also looks limited to 16gb, adding credibility to the claim that Apple's limits are driven by Intel.
You don't understand difference between local hackers and government-paid hackers.
I had thought about that too. I wonder if also integrating with something like React Storybook[0] or Cosmos[1] would solve that problem.

[0] https://voice.kadira.io/introducing-react-storybook-ec27f28d...
[1] https://github.com/react-cosmos/react-cosmos
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would it have been different if airbnb split itself up into two entities, one collecting the money, whilst the other one is an online classifieds?
Apparently they don't believe that social media worked in HRCs favor? I've seen many posts comparing Trump to Hitler . I don't think this article would have been printed if Hillary won, because she was the choice of most media outlets. When would Facebook stop with the moderating/fact checking? Would they allow personal false stories, but not official ones?
Do you have some examples of the kinds of things they are deleting?
See here: http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/

It's getting closer.
As disliked as Paul Ryan is by Trump followers around the country, his actual seat is very safe. There are plenty of Republicans relying on the Trump coalition, though.
Even if you design only one project. You still have to evaluate them, have a discussion, etc. That takes time. It doesn't scale to hundreds of interviews per week.
Curious what you have considered already.
this exact same thing happened to me in america.

i had just bought a house and had a kid. the air conditioner was hooked up to a radio network device that was opt-in, and allowed the electric utility to remotely turn off certain blocks of users under heavy load. anyone who opted in got a % off their energy bill. well, in early may, i have a baptism and it turns out to be over 100 degrees and we have 50 people over. they had recently upgraded the radio system, and hadn't even turned it on for the year yet. i was told i had to pay them to swap it out because they refused to support it. i told them to fuck off. after a few more calls, and thankfully a state attorney general prosecutor who happened to be at the party, suddenly someone at the electric company found the old transmitter and turned it on, and had it send my air conditioner the ok to turn on. i haven't had a problem since.

american infrastructure is a joke.

you're all idiots.
Pair programming is not the same as writing code on an interview.
> I stopped using Fb regularly two years ago and now I only check my page twice or thrice a year.

This is not "stopped using". This is "using less frequently".

> Regulators should shutdown or deny fb many of the privileges it currently has

What privileges do they have?
...Except that the US political system was never a democracy and never would be with the electoral college.
Exactly. Part of the same logic when you stream video: not 100% of the frames are loaded at once, but they come in eventually.
I haven't tried it, but this has been around for a little while: https://github.com/zchee/docker-machine-driver-xhyve
The fact that the pipes are evenly spaced doesn't make horizontal distance go away, their distance is still a variable at each flap decision.

What does make the distance irrelevant is that the holes are high enough to safely flap whilst inside them, so you never have to make a timed leap through, a luxury not afforded to users of the original game if I recall.
Did you do any research at all on this? The polls were within a few points of the popular vote, and state polls were well within typical polling errors consistent with ... the entire history of polling.
That's fair. I now wish I had resisted the temptation to post something sarcastic.

Is the following comment any better than my previous one?

The greatest cultural strength of the US IMHO is the belief, which used to be widespread, that the best way for most people to improve their lives and to improve the world is private enterprise -- action other than political action, in other words. And I consider Apple, Inc, a shining example over the decades of the use of other-than-political action to improve the world.

Cook's memo is a sign that the US is becoming more like France, where almost every important action requires national political influence, and the majority of college students want to be civil servants.

Since, at least according to Peter Theil, information technology is the least regulated part of the US economy, it makes me sad to see one of the leaders of the information-technology sector wrapped up in national politics. Unlike for example the heavily-regulated health-care sector, Apple does not need to be concerned with politics to do good work. At least that is what I always thought.
Sure. And there are other reasons they might have voted for Trump too. I'm just saying that clearly people can vote for him without endorsing his position on some particular issue, even one that cuts very close to them.

The parent of my comment was saying that this was abnormal, whereas it is (sadly, perhaps?) quite common in voting.
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> Furthermore the beauty of networks like Facebook and Twitter is that they are self-correcting. The lie doesn't travel faster than the rebuttal of that lie.

I don't think this is entirely true, as the lie and its rebuttal are likely to be travelling within independent filter bubbles. One bubble sees the lie, the other sees the rebuttal, and both think all is well.
Please don't be this vitriolic on HN, we cannot let this become Reddit.
It's almost an advertisement. The submitter is (per his/her HN profile) CEO of the linked site.
The article starts off stating that Hillary Clinton was the choice of nearly every newspaper editorial review board, and that despite those endorsements it didn't matter. Does anyone else find this incredibly tone deaf, particularly after last night's results?

To be clear, I did not vote for Trump, but my rejection of his candidacy was certainly not based on the stance of the LA Times editorial board. To be honest, with the amount of biased and sloppy journalism I read from even the venerated newspapers like the LA and NY Times, I'm not sure why the author assumes anyone should listen to the suggestions of their respective editorial boards.
The title is pure clickbait that has little to no relation with the actual content.
Yes, I fully agree with you.