skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the right has changed. 10 years ago it was all anti-abortion, anti gay marriage, super religious, anti-healthcare.

I always use to say "I could never vote for the Republicans because of this".

So I support most the left-wing policies. But mostly it is a vote against the progressive movement, and the Bernie faction. And corruption is the ultimate destructive force in politics and the Clinton's oozed it.

I think that the more time that passes since the hey days of communism, people forget how terrible it was, and we start heading back towards it.
If the Facebook filter bubble and new non-mainstream media outlets like infowars are the new narrative, good luck world. You will need it.
1. Race Against the Machine by Brynjolfsson and McAfee

2. The Second Machine Age by Brynjolfsson and McAfee

3. The Lights in the Tunnel by Martin Ford

4. Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford

5. Average is Over by Tyler Cowen
-specifically, the parts about labor market bifurcation and man-machine pairs

Brynjolfsson and McAfee are MIT economists. Top notch.
Cowen is also an excellent economist at George Mason.
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Here's another video that focuses on the mechanical side of a Donkey Kong Country level:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5wIIwBL784

It combines well with this video because it answers the question in detail of 'What do you do' and 'How do you communicate it', once you have your character's actions and mechanics nailed down.
If the unprivileged had believed that same pablum the Democrats have been feeding them for decades, they would have voted for Clinton like they voted for Obama (in e.g. Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida), and she would have won the election. They can see the rut they're stuck in, even if others can't.
Not voting tells you something too though. Here is the link to NPR article: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/10/501...
>Call centres are the next industry to go. 5-10 years max.

"Bots" are the next gen automated phone menu.
Your viewpoint is probably biased by whether you are prosecuting criminals or defending.
I grew up in Ames Iowa and my sister was born there. An adoptee and I were the only Asian kids in our class. There were a total of three in the entire school. I had at most two incidents related to race. Two is a lot fewer than the number of incidents I've dealt with in coastal cities.
It unfortunately goes both ways, which is why Donald's talk about walls and banning Muslims worked. (And I'm not disagreeing with you here, you are right that the left has plenty of tribal politics, but it's an issue on the right as well.) People react more vigorously to tribalism than to so-called boring topics like, say, investing in infrastructure or increasing R&D.

This sort of polarization is sort of worrisome in one sense; trust is needed to cohesively run a society. (http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21705831...) If we're becoming a low-trust nation overall, that's not terribly good.
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Python 3 is the default teaching language for the RaspberryPi. The BBC micro:bit runs MicroPython - a reimplementation of Python 3 for microcontrollers.

Teachers and kids are already ahead of the game.

When today's kids graduate they'll view Python2.7 in perhaps the same way I view Delphi or VB6 ("you're still using that..?" etc,).
If you CAN build good team of freelancers, you can start your own outsource firm.
The concept of paid interview is pretty innovative and interesting to judge the technical skills of a candidate as compared to the traditional method of interview . But before implementing such method the company infrastructure, availability of resources, mentality of the candidates in the market etc should also be considered as a factor to understand whether the company can afford and establish such method or not.

To implement any new method , system infrastructure is very important. According to me paid interview is not that much beneficial for a mid-level company as it will be for some MNC or IT-giants because the number of openings matters. The article suggests to bring a group together on Monday to discuss the solution to a particular problem given. In that case the number of opening & scheduling has to be huge in order to arrange such group for the G.D which is not possible in a mid level company where you have only 1-2 openings at a time and the number of candidates who apply to take the interview is also very limited i.e within 5-8 in a week out of which only 2-3 appear for the interview in a week.

According to the Indian mentality Paying against just appearing for the interview might not be that fruitful in absorbing the right talents in the company . If such concept of interview is out in the market people will take this as a scope of earning rather than joining. We might not get genuine candidates who actually wants to join the company. Candidates will just appear only to earn that money and will leave. Here what we can do is we can only provide the money to the candidates who gets selected and then joins.

Here we are allowing them to write the problem down and take them home. Here comes the question that what if the candidate is taking someone else's help to solve the problem and how much honesty he is maintaining to solve the problem. If the candidate is appearing for the interview in the office premise such factors won't be an issue as he will be monitored constantly.

If we are following such process of interview then we constantly need a team who needs to change the question for every session of interview as the question is going out therefore we will always be in requirement of new set of problems/question which is again tough for a mid-level company to maintain due to resource crisis and that to only for 2-3 openings at a time.

We are providing the candidates constant supervision and guidance to address the question, also we are providing them no time limitations and if they clear the test a group is there to judge his perception and the result instantly on a one to one basis which is less time taking and prompt as compared to the process suggested in the article.
Look at this one, then try to be serious:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/2/donald-trump-...
For Ansible, it's important to differentiate between the master and client side code.

Client side code has to run on everything starting with CentOS 6, so they have to stick with Python 2 for a long time.

For the Ansible master (which runs on the management machine), Python 3 porting work is already underway.
I bet against Hillary starting in May. I was nervous in October when the "grab them" audio came out but I stuck with it. Buffet's rule of going opposite the analysis that everyone knows can work out well.

Turn out you can make a lot of money betting $5 per electoral vote..
What do you think characterizes the Bernie faction?
My criticism to Kibana is that it runs all the queries for a dashboard in parallel. It overloads the Elasticsearch machine(s) even when there are only few data. A small single ES server would be enough if the queries would be run sequentially. I wonder if Elastic is in the business of selling multicore 32 GB servers that sit idle most of the time.

A max_parallel_queries setting would be great.
Don't be so scared of porting your code. On my current work, we have a few thousand lines of python (spanning different services and supporting libraries) throughout in ~18 months and we were blocked by pika (a module for communication with AMQP servers).

When pika got a python3 compatible version, we ran out of excuses to not use python3, but still my colleague was worried that "it would take too long to port things, and our-code-is-working-so-why-bother". I decided to try it anyway, and it took me less than a lazy Friday afternoon to run 2to3 on all the packages and get the tests to pass.

Given that your work is with scientific computing and (presumably?) you have control over the deployment environments, I'd really recommend that you avoid do the switch sooner than later.
So we should all be tolerant of racism, sexism, outright sexual assualt ("grab 'em by the pussy") and boasting of same, mocking the disabled, stiffing contractors and suppliers?
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You have strange friends then. I can't imagine any of my friends saying that kind of thing, or quite simply they wouldn't be my friends anymore. I'm not being elitist or dramatic here, I just can't stand and wouldn't stand for that kind of talk.

But I guess many voters out there thought like you. I just can't comprehend it personally. I'm sure there are many of us who don't consider such talk moral and acceptable even in casual settings.
>He has built no ideological framework for future policies

Sounds like a positive thing
Why was Hillary going to let millions of muslims in who are against lgbt?
Hah. Closing Time was the last song at mine.
Question. Does QT still have a licensing problem for closed-source apps on mobile platforms?

Last I saw, QT's GPL/LGPL license required you to open-source the code that was statically linked to it. That wasn't much of a problem for desktop platforms, as you could just package up all of QT into its own QT.DLL (or the equivalent) and link to it dynamically. But this isn't allowed on stuff like iOS, so you were required to buy a license for those.
This is spot on.

What if I am not running into any significant Unicode issues for the past 6 years?? (insignificant == stuff I can fix in 10 minutes). What if async/await has been achieved through other libraries (e.g. GEvent, threadpools, whatever)... What is the incentive to switch a large (working) codebase?
What it really comes down to is that people aren't going to care one way or the other about your social justice causes when they're struggling to put food on the table due to the effects of outsourcing, automation, globalization, and yes, the effects of illegal immigration increasing the pool of low-skilled laborers.

It's astounding that some people still don't get it.
Biggest problem i see, is how to pick the gold nugget from the 55 gallon drum of verbal vomit.

Each viewpoint is "correct" from the authors viewpoint, knowledge, and information. Doesn't mean that it's closer to the truth in the wider world.
I've now seen it justified amount my Facebook peers as, "I can't accept a Trump supporter or their views because people are going to die! Don't you realize you are supporting the collapse of civilization?!"
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Do you not see that there's something inherently creepy about talking about your own daughter as a sexual object?
Hilarious that you think I've even voted - I was a Bernie supporter and would have been upset with either Trump or Clinton. Please read this thread again when you're in a better frame of mind, if and when that day should come. And when you do, one more time:

>You seem to understand the idea that this phrase can be used in at least some context without it being a slur, so I ask - does the above thread, where you jumped in to an existing conversation to use 'Uncle Tom' in a one-line comment lacking any substance or nuance- seem like that sort of context?
I might be underestimating the intelligence of people, but I don't think so.

Here are some sobering statistics:

- 54% of the GOP electorate think President Obama is a Muslim [1]
- 29% of the GOP electorate grant that President Obama was born in the United States [1]
- 47% of conservatives now say the climate is changing (not that necessarily that climate change is man-made) [2]
- 49% of Republicans said they do not believe in evolution [3]

[1] and [3] are from publicpolicypolling, which is a democratic polling agency, so take them with a grain of salt.

Now you tell me if the average Joe is good at separating the wheat from the chaff. To me it seems fully half of the conservatives/Republicans are unable to do it for scientific truths.

You say that people are calling out the fallacies in your twitter feed. That gives me hope. But are the people who have been advancing the fallacious arguments changing their mind based on the evidence?

[1] http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_Nati...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/many-more-republi...

[3] http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_Nati...
Trump transition team [pdf]
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His exact words are important, to prevent misinterpreting him or taking his statements out of context. Do you think you could find the words you mean? (I could only guess at what you mean.)

> You can find his own words but he has said immigrants from mexico were rapist and murderers but some are good and repeated some.

That was a comment about illegal immigrants, many of whom are rapists, both immigrants themselves and the people who bring immigrants to America.

80% Of Central American Women, Girls Are Raped Crossing Into The U.S. ... Rape can be perpetrated by anyone along the way, including guides, fellow migrants, bandits or government officials [0]

http://fusion.net/story/17321/is-rape-the-price-to-pay-for-m...

> Talk about black voters as if they all live in inner city ghettos were walking in the wrong part of town will get you shot.

I don't know what you're referring to here.

> Lauded stop and frisk a measure that was show to lead to racial profiling of African Americans.

His exact words are important here. What did he say?

> Selected a VP that believe conversion therapy (or some form of it) is a good way to cure homosexuality.

I agree Pence is terrible, but I've gotten used to terrible vice presidents. It's a powerless position that is usually a political dead end.
I think the thrust is, "we don't understand the real problem, lets call it something that we think we know about."

All in all, I think it's a pretty solid article, and hits on a lot of the rural-urban disjunctions that I've experienced, as a redneck Mainer from up near the Canadian border having to move out of 1950s-throwback-world.
On the contrary, I find that people stuff too much on the model because of rails. I've found that I much prefer very simple models to describe very fine grained parts of the data and use the controller for much of the tying of things together. You kinda of treat models as 'data components' if you will, mixing and matching them where needed in the view
A lot of areas around me that went for Obama in the last 2 elections went Trump this time around. And a lot of the areas that went Hillary around here went a lot less heavily Hillary than they did Obama 4 & 8 years ago. This is in suburban New Jersey.
I appreciated that article, though I hated the headline and the format. I shared it a couple times and had to make apologies for both in order to ensure people would actually read it. The cracked format better serves pop-culture rants.

I found this article similarly enlightening, and a far better read.

https://www.propublica.org/article/revenge-of-the-forgotten-...
Quick fact check on that:

Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most effective anti-slavery propaganda of the 19th century, opened up with a scene of slaves living in favorable conditions and getting along well with their masters.

A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft by John Hale is a book credited with ending the Salem Witch trials. In it he acknowledges testimony in the trials that could certainly lead one to believe witchcraft actually happened.

Stowe and Hale acknowledged truth in the opposing side in situations much more oppressive and discriminatory than Trump's border wall or immigration restrictions. People who want to effect change today should take note.
Seriously, there is no way to explain that remark?

Have you never talked shit off the record? Did you never ever laugh at a racist/classist/* - ist joke?

I agree that Trump will probably be bad, but thats because he clearly has no plan whatsoever.

Yet entire Clinton campaign was just shit slinging, manufactured outrage, meaningless pandering, name calling, avoiding burning issues, more shit slinging, more pandering

She could have gone out and ripped him to shreds should she have focussed on actual plans

Instead she just goes out and calls people deplorable everything-phobes because they dare to oppose PC nonsense. Wanting to deport illegal immigrants is not racist. Pretending that there are no problems with islam, where you've got Europe as a control environment (where they harbor and abet proper terrorists and obstruct law enforcement as hard as they can) is fucking crazy)
That's part of it, but I wouldn't put it at more than 20-30% of the total explanation.
> The fact that rural infrastructure is crumbling

That's what I don't get. Do Trump voters think he gives a flying fuck about the state of rural infrastructure or the lives of poor people? I don't see it. Sure, the incumbent elite are feckless, tribal, irresponsible, greedy, and dishonest, but Trump is worse, obviously so.

I guess that's the problem in a two-party system. Usually you choose the better of two bad options. In this case, all the options were so bad that people just said "fuck it".
It's a win for LGBT causes to ally himself with somebody who believes in Conversion Therapy?

[Edit: I meant Trump, and I was wrong - see below. Technically Thiel is also allied with Pence, who does believe in Conversion Therapy, but that wasn't who I meant. I apologise]
Apparently that's possible with Thunderbird: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_a_profile_between_Windows_...

I think there aren't many more cross platform alternatives available anyway.
The US, under Obama, has nearly doubled our oil production, largely through fracking, to the point where we are now producing more than we use, and also lifted the ban on exports. We're not in the business of trying to make oil cheaper anymore.

Fracking is an expensive way to get oil (compared to drilling), and we're near the break even price. The Saudis, who have been manipulating our politics for years by threatening to cut production to raise prices, have now started flooding the market with cheap oil in an effort to starve out both our fracking and our emerging electric car market.

Our response has been to pass a law making foreign nations liable for damages caused by their involvement in terrorism committed on US soil, and declassifying the 9-11 report, which shows enough Saudi involvement to open the door for a lawsuit. Considering how much they have in US assets, this could potentially be collected on. It's a threat. We're trying to pressure them into ending their flood of the market so prices will rise. The Saudis know it and have threatened to drop a trillion in US debt and holdings.

Say what you want about Trump's social issues, but he understands this kind of game. He's not going to expand a US product that is struggling to break even with intent to lower the sale price. He'll continue pressuring the Saudis to drop their production, oil prices will rise, and it will benefit both the US oil industry, and Elon Musk.
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Since we're already breaking rules:

Fuck off, mate.
Why is running a db in a container with the data directory mounted from the host is such a bad idea? Dropping the container on a new host with a copy of the data directory looks easier than having to install the db from scratch, even with automatic tools. Are there performance penalties at run time?
Coming from a country with an extended alphabet, I've always been aware of encoding issues, especially before almost everyone settled on using UTF. So the treatment in Python 3 (and equally in Go) is a game changer for me and many other language users out there. I'm not saying that, say, American developers don't need to support other alphabets, just that it's less pressing since they don't tend to deal with them on a daily basis.

So for this feature alone, I'm all in on Python 3.
I am not saying build a machine to detect correctness, I'm saying build one to detect incorrectness.
I would rather use XAML than JavaScript dialects
Absolutely - if they work as regular employees. In Munich a senior dev can be offered around 100k. If he's single and without kids, the government will immediately take more than half of that. Then the apartment will set him back around 1000 euro a month. This leaves him with around 3000€/month.

I can make that in less than a week as a contractor doing the same thing in literally the same place.
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It totally does tell you something. Polling didn't get support for Trump wrong, it got support for Hilary wrong instead. The likely voters didn't vote.
Better off using the trending now to support a pro/con opinion fact checked section.

Spend some of that money to support a newsroom.
I feel like this article is also missing the point. How about the unbearable self-flagellation of the press?
I voted for Hillary, but goddamn was she an uninspiring candidate! She played not to lose, and that turned out to be a bad strategy. Donald Trump didn't get some surprisingly high number of votes, Hillary just managed to be even less inspiring than we thought.
And now the tone has inevitably flipped to "what did we do wrong? Maybe it was our tone of voice?" Absurd and self-absorbed! Be as smug as you like, just don't be just smug! It's not wrong to reduce Trump's appeal to racism because it's smug, it's wrong because it's wrong. It's lazy thinking.
There was a lot of positive and maybe even unfair disdain for trump. But that's not why he won the election. There was also a lot of positive and maybe even unfair hatred for hillary, but that's not why she lost. One candidate was able to harness anger (the way Bernie also did) and one candidate couldn't harness any positively motivating emotions. In fact, hillary was, if anything, the fear candidate. Fear of terrorists (guised as foreign policy experience) and fear of trump himself, fear of his racism and his misogyny. And the press fed those fears, and did little else. Be an smug, who cares. Just be smug for something.
Should those friends be commander and chief of the largest military force in the world?
Aren't large part of that actually the waste disposal costs? With Fusion you in theory, avoid radioactive waste.
How can it be so hard to be nice to others?

As a Canadian, I can say this: I have no idea. It's really hard to develop a culture of niceness and it can be so very fleeting.

Just as the US has a huge cultural divide between the coastal big cities and the great middle of the country, so too does Canada between east and west as well as between Anglophone and Francophone. Yet somehow this divide in Canada is not quite as acute, not quite as mean.

Perhaps the biggest issue is that the moral fault lines constructively interfere with the cultural ones. I think of big-city vegans vs those who love BBQ and it becomes a microcosm for the rejection of all the respective cultural elements: yoga and country music, environmentalism and hunting/fishing, political correctness and religion.
that was quite a read for a HN comment, but I'm glad I took the time. well said.
I can't wait for someone to write a great book on Nix. I was so lost in it. I had it running on my home server, and needing to compile my own things because of what Nixpkgs lacked was a constant struggle.

It was a very frustrating experience. A frustration which was led by the fact that i could tell how powerful Nixos was - if only i could grok it.
> Clinton was a centre-right corporate insider candidate. Trump was a far-right corporate outsider candidate.

I'll posit that Mrs. Clinton is centre-left, not centre-right, more authoritarian/right on economics and more authoritarian/left on social issues. But I really don't consider Mr. Trump to be far-right: he was a liberal Democrat for much of his adult life, more authoritarian/left on economics (opposing free trade), and more libertarian/left on social issues.

I really wish that there had been a good libertarian/right Republican this national election, but there wasn't.