skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these "yeah but imagine this horror scenario" (sorry to pick your example) descriptions sound like badly managed situations. Even in total failure situations like that...the foreman shouldn't be looking over your shoulder. The first step is to take a deep breath, assess the overall situation and get the programmers into their most comfortable mode to fix it. That can very well mean letting them think for 1h before starting doing anything. You can ignore that 100k price tag because that just leads to "just do something" thinking. It's very likely manically hacking away will actually end up making the situation worse and costing more.

Also...these situations can be trained for to certain degrees. There's well established precedents in crisis management. If you write code for a customer with a 100k/h downtime risk you should have done a very thorough risk analysis and have mitigation plans for most scenarios. The unknown unknowns that can happen are obviously the hard cases but you should be able to justify that these are going to be expensive no matter what.
But even for these cases bricolage is trainable to a certain degree.

If you know there's 100k/h costs of failure you should also very specifically mention the fact that you are looking for these stress coping skills in the job description (and as such the interviewee should be prepared).
If I were a country and another country imposed sanctions on me for not following their exceptional laws, I would take that as a sign of aggression; that is essentially what it is; Instrumental Aggression;
Countries rely on different exportation of resources for their economy, the economy their people live off; stop it with this American Exceptionalism approach; be a leader by example not by aggression.
How wonderful it would be if Hillary Clinton would read this memo to those throwing tantrums in the streets right now. We hold fair elections for the purpose of not rioting. How wonderful it would be if Katy Perry would read this memo to her twitter followers instead of calling for a revolution and fighting.

Wake up people, you have been lied to by the media for so long, it must be an absolute shock right now to hear a vocal, majority, yet welcoming, and healing opinion from someone else. Mathematically, the majority does rule. Thankfully, we are the nicest, kindest majority anywhere else in the world.

Good job Tim Cook for calling for logical thinking.
I wonder how this works with the sharing economy.
There's alpha.wallhaven.cc now but it's nowhere as good as wallbase used to be.
> Did being sent to the naughty step when you were a kid solve your behavior or was it becoming a better person that solved it?

You can't really compare that though. In 99% of the cases, I agree with what you say and with that line of thought. I just don't when it comes to murder. To me, that seems like the worst of all possible crimes.
> Trump just sold people a better future to this voters than Hillary did. Whether he is going to solve any issues of his voters, is a different thing.

Really I found what he sold was doom and gloom. Death of America if he wasn't elected.

Seriously asking because I guess I am blind but what future is he selling besides we all would cease to exist as a country and a democracy if he lost?
I liked the article but I'd rather people just come in and do some work rather than fitting things in (2 days in the office). I suppose with American holidays this isn't possible to take a couple of days but in Europe we get 25 days. I like the idea of paying for people's time too.

Probation is also important; I've used it when I don't like companies and I think companies should be willing to say to people it's not going to work out.

Three months is enough to know; people can look amazing on month 1 and lose their way. It is also important to never underestimate a manager who actually thinks through what they want from their staff and asks them to do it :-)
Ask HN: Do we really need this here?
I'm not talking about censorship - everyone has the right to write about whatever they like.

I'm not talking about freedom of speech - we're all entitled to our opinions.

I am talking about tech blogs, tech news sites getting heavily into politics. Every where I go - The Verge is talking about climate change and internet law regarding the election. Gizmodo is talking about GM laying off 1500 auto workers cause of Trump (which really should be kept to Jalopnik), ArsTechnica, Wired, Engadget, etc... HN is no different.

I come to these sites to read tech news. Some of them are relevant; climate change on a tech blog? Sure, I guess. weather.com could easily cover it though. GM laying off employees? Sure, the automotive industry has to do with tech in a big way now a days. But there are other blogs / news sites / forums where these things can be discussed.

Blogs should go back to complaining about missing ESC keys and headphone jacks.

I (and I think we as a whole) need a break from politics. As a web developer, it's hard to avoid these sites. I come to HN to learn about new languages, tech, etc... Same with other tech blogs. So to come here and have to parse through political posts also is really a PITA. Yes yes, I know - if I don't wanna see it, don't go there / read it. But it's everywhere now. Is it important? Absolutely. But does it need to be on a tech blog / site? I don't think it does.
I voted yes on Prop 106. Can you explain your reasoning for voting no? It didn't seem like there was anything hidden inside the measure.

I think you mean Prop 71 instead of 107. I voted no on Prop 71. I like the idea in principle but didn't like the requirement to gather signatures from all districts.
Peter Thiel’s Oddly Conventional Defense of Trump
Any implementation/advise on how to speed up the algorithm by doing on or 2 supervised learnings or how to implement this?
Ask HN: Why am I underperforming?
I've recently been told that my performance is not up to expectations, that the number of features I'm getting merged into the develop branch is too low (and not of significant complexity) in comparison to my colleagues(it's not clear whether this is fact or opinion).

The concern my managers have is that I am very productive when I have a free hand but seem to progress slowly when I have to interact and integrate with the rest of the team(who I get along well with).

For example, in the React project we recently began I was quite quick in getting the UI components built and semi functional, progress was fast and noticeable(I was easily the highest performer). The same was true when we did a short practice React project prior to starting this one.

Now that we have formalised a develop branch, each feature begins as a ticket(pre-decided and handed down), features are then worked on as a branch and must be rebased before being merged. Only our CTO has merge abilities and he reviews all tickets before doing so.

It can take days to get branches merged as the CTO is quite busy and codes himself (on a different project)as well as other non-coding CTO tasks, if comments are made they must be resolved or addressed before moving ahead. Nothing gets accepted without tests (actions, reducers, ui components, integration tests etc.) and none of this code is currently live.

I do move along a lot faster when I'm not attempting to get features merged one ticket at a time, waiting for feedback, and using test driven development etc. although my code is not unreliable or brittle.

I got the impression that merely having comments made on my pull requests was not a good thing (a sign that I wasn't doing things right). And when my approach to solving an issue is different from the CTO's it's considered wrong.

I feel that there is something wrong, not simply with my performance but I can't put words to it.
Yep, the bias is that all of the scouts came from households that decided to enroll their kid/s in the scouts. This is not a joke, and there is a difference in value systems and other factors that cut across cliché dimensions like socio-economic status.
The Great Silence
I remember Steve Jobs making a video call during the unveil of iPhone 4 to Wozniak and saying this moment has been a long time in the making. Indeed, so many visions of a calling computing handset to finally now see it a reality.
Green Monday is coming What does that mean for marketers?
Rules for secure coding in the C programming language
A day after election 5 of Top 10 Russian banks were DDOSed by some IoT botnet. "Coincidence? I don't think so".
Show HN: GitHub-Hovercard v0.9.0
Depends on your troop, I know by far we were the best funded troop in our council, but that was purely due to the area we were able to sell christmas trees in. Without that, we would not have been able to get half our troop to go on trips, or get the proper gear (wool clothing, a good pack, tent, sleeping pad, etc) due to a lack of affordability.

I do feel bad for the other troops in our area though, I know at least 2 folded while we were going strong, one got kicked out of the district cause the BSA hates gay scoutmasters, and the other had no place to meet and severe funding issues. Running a troop requires a ton of parental involvement and effort, and outside the Mormons most troops are dying in the US.

It is really quite sad, but I get why. None of the gay guys in my troop could participate in leadership due to the BSA's policies at the time, and in a small troop that is lethal, you need every warm body that is willing to do the fundraising, planning, organizing, paperwork, etc. and they are few and far between
>> There's only one way to generate jobs for coal miners.

Subsidize electric vehicles?
Kids is the biggest. Small cars absolutely are horrible to deal with two kids in car seats. Plus, most need some ergonomic fix for the back seat access. A couple with two kids (or Lord help you three) is not probably buying an SUV.

Truthfully, if some designer got off their butt and designed a car that focused on actual use of the car in American, then SUVs wouldn't be so popular. Just saying people don't need a SUV is ignorant.
Further adding to that, the seed could be changed before that bug report was submitted. A dedicated tool with a FSM and minimal privileges does it. That lets us verify it strongly.
I think one of the issues now is that there are many more homes with two working parents. It was one thing 30 years ago to let your kids walk to school, wander around the neighborhood, or whatever, if a parent was at home. But without that safety net, I can see why it's a psychologically challenging attitude for parents. (besides the whole media focus on crime exacerbating things).

(I was born in 1977 and walked or rode my bike to school until 4th grade, when I switched schools. I also had a mom who's rule was "go outside and play. come in for dinner when the street lights turn on." I think this was common across the US until the '90s, especially outside of major metros.
The 400pound hacker known as 4chan strikes again!
Seven years of Go
"Further note that passwords on DU are "hashed" and saved in a cryptographically scrambled format rather than as plain text, so if the hacker could access a member's password information they would not have direct access to the password itself -- only to the hash."

At least they have some senses.
Weather? Errands to run at lunch? I'm not the OP but I am in a similar situation. I walk or ride a bike to work for about 80% of the work days in a year but I do drive a compact SUV to work sometimes. We bought it because we have a large family. I can only afford one vehicle for my family so it's practical when we all pile in but feels "wrong" when I drive it by myself. But sometimes a need is there so I use it when I have to and offset the waste of it as best I can by walking or riding a bike when the weather allows for it.
> We hold fair elections for the purpose of not rioting.

Given the weakening of the Voting Rights Act and the consequent actions of some Republican states to remove/prevent/inconvenience black voters (who lean strongly Democratic), I wouldn't classify the US as having "fair elections".
I wonder how my lawyer friends would think about this? It may be good for them in some ways as well.
The equations describe reality, they don't form it (so far as we know!).
I Miss Being Part of a Complete Team
There's plenty of errors in their theology on this but I'll say that the fact Jesus in his own teachings and that of his followers thereafter saw a distinction between matters of the spiritual and the temporal means they're in error. The laws of the land protecting individuals are not tests of faith except where such laws force to you to believe or espouse otherwise. Marriage in this regard is civil marriage and not spiritual marriage (marriage affirmed by God or that of church elders). The fact they conflate the civil (temporal) with the spiritual amuses me to no end because it shows the mental gymnastics they'll go through to assert the Kingdom is a literal domain on Earth despite the canon and non-canon sources for what Jesus said on this (i.e. the Kingdom isn't the temporal/material). So, I think there will come a reckoning in the church if/when followers start to read their own Bibles and not listen to their pastors (the spirit of discernment is not exclusive to church elders). I just wish to live to see that day as much amusement will be had when it all falls apart.
People have the right to revolt.
This isn't so much the Japanese being weird and different as the American's being the odd ones.

I am Norwegian, and little of these descriptions would seem odd to me. My kids go on trips every week with their pre-school, and I have never keep track of where.

My oldest son has walked to school himself since he has been 6 years old. I walked to school when I was a kid from 7 (we started school later). And I had to walk about 30 minutes to get to school crossing many roads.

From early childhood I roamed around all my neighborhood walking into forests or as I got a bit older I'd go with friends to big abandoned ship yards.

When I later emailed a distant American relative of similar age, I was confused when she didn't understand why I didn't have a drivers license. She was like "doesn't your parent's get tired of driving you everywhere?". A question that made no sense to me until I visited the US. I was of course going everywhere and I didn't need parents or a car to do that. I could take the train, bus or subway myself or bike.

In America however it is simply sad how dependent children are on their parents. Parents take them to every sort of activity and thing they got to do. In so many American cities you can't have a life without a car. There is nothing to do without a car.
>He really did call for a ban on muslims in the US.

That's not what that says. Quote it. I'm so sick you liars.
What amazes me is that 3 decades later, that design still looks fresh. Make the plastic shiny and it could have been from this decade. In an industry where designs become obsolete so quick, this is no small feat.
It was gorgeous and groundbreaking.

I'm guessing it would have cost at least $1000 at the time, maybe $2000, which might have been a hard sell competing with ... who? PC? Landline phone? Home use or corp IT?

Before its time ~~ before its market.
A thread just on top of the flashlight one is "When Pseudosex Is Better Than the Real Thing" – I thought "oh it must be sex stuff trend on HN today"
Yep. They called "radiowaves".
You definitely have access to something we don't, and that might changes how you view Elm. For example a normal Elm user can only send/receive values to/from JS via ports, and that is not scalable, e.g. you are not suppose to use ports in library. But at NoRedInk I guess you have some sort of native module wrapper (https://github.com/NoRedInk/take-home/wiki/Writing-your-firs...) that we cannot access?
Trump's election != racist america. I voted Johnson because i couldn't stomach voting for trump and there was no way i was going to vote for Hillary. The Dems could have run literally ANYONE other then her and they would have had an easy win.

Same goes for the Rep's they could have run anyone (well maybe not cruz) other than Trump and had an easy win against Hillary.

Anecdotally i know many people that voted for Trump and not one of them was happy about doing it.

This election the majority of voters on both sides voted against the other candidate verse for their candidate.
Besides the politics, is there anything about the hack that suggested it was a Trump supporter? Was the page defaced? Their Twitter feed doesn’t suggest anything specific, nor does the page linked here.
I've never heard of this forum before. Can anybody fill us in on how large it approximately is/was, what if any affiliation it has with the Democratic party etc?
Compared to "traditional interviews". It's probably well worth taking the risk of occasionally hiring someone like this. I'd say it's less likely to occur than someone who has more or less memorized some interview question book algorithms and happens to get asked the right ones.
As far as what he has said, he wants to (to paraphrase) "bring back manufacturing jobs" and "make stuff in america again". The only way that happens is if the current way becomes prohibitively expensive or the "old" way becomes absurdly cheap. Either alone is probably not enough, barring some massive depression and wage reduction.
It sounds so good that you practically have to go out of your way to make it sound bad. It has a much wider array of sound design possibilities than what you see people using it for on youtube - I even made a great sounding woodblock sound on it.

So yeah it's really good.
How about recognizing the difference between a policy like "rounding up all the people of a certain race" with "said a mean thing to one person."
Learn F# for the .Net Developer
If there is one thing made clear - there is no such thing as journalistic objectivity. It's just a feel good myth we all tell ourselves as we consume our value affirming sources in a feed back loop.
Damn straight, if I could have the choice I would have thrown my vote away on John McCain this election, I might not agree with most of his positions, but you can definitely respect him. His enduring fight to end and prevent our use of torture is quite heartening, even as a bleeding heart, housing first progressive.
> Mathematically, the majority does rule. Thankfully, we are the nicest, kindest majority anywhere else in the world.

What? Trump lost the popular vote. And your "mathematical majority" is anything but kind.
My suggestion would be something like a Wikipedia for politicians and poll workers, which would be a one-stop-shop for policy positions and election information. Unlike Wikipedia, it would not be editable by all, but instead each politician gets to register so they control their own policy position statements.

The advantage of this is that instead of having to look at each politician's website, you can look to see a) when are the upcoming elections that affect you, b) who is running in them, and c) what are their positions, in a common format and easily compared.

So, for example, I enter my zip code and I see that the local port authority election is coming up (march 12), and Bob(R), Joe(D), and Rosa(I) are running. I click on the position page and see tabs for Port Fees, Port Expansion, and Sewage Handling. I click on the Port Expansion tab, and compare each of the candidates statements, written in their own words (or that of their staff) and I can compare them directly. I see that Rosa has noticed that Bob is overselling the advantages of expansion in his statement and she has provided a rebuttal directly in her statement. Joe's statement doesn't even address the issue but makes fun of Bob's looks. I make a note of my preference, and save it to my personal account. Then I print out a reminder sheet with the date of the election and who my preferences are, with little notes: March 12, Port Election, Rosa (expansion costs too much).

From a business standpoint (although this really ought to be a .org), I think this could be "build it and they will come", because politicians spend a lot of money trying to get their message out. If you offer a free place where their message will get exposure, they will use it. Once the use of the site has grown enough, it will have its own gravity pulling in new users. It would probably be good to focus on a few local races to get them to use it to start the growth.
I got a perfect evolution... on generation 1. Sooo I guess who needs genetics when you're born perfect?

(Naturally I came to the comments because I thought this was BS)
I was not aware about the capabilities of blockchain. This was an excellent read. Maybe next election, we can utilize this tech for heightened vote participation!
The future of virtual reality (i.e. a holodeck) could enhance peer to peer communication by moving from just text based communication to showing body language, tone of voice, facial expressions etc.
He wants it to be easier for certain businesses to operate, so he wants to cut environmental protection to cut the costs of companies that pollute, this means they can produce more (pollute more) and employ more people.

He could well be anti automated driving vehicles, it is widely accepted that one of the first casualties of the introduction of automated vehicles will belong distance lorry drivers. There are approx 3.5 million drivers employed in the US right now, even if we see only 25% of jobs going in the next 10 years that is an extra 850,000 unemployed people. And not only are they unemployed but their skill set is no longer required, so they are either long term unemployed or they need to retrain. I imagine many will be older people and they will not be in a position to retrain significantly, so they become competition for low paid manual work, further depressing wages in this sector. So even if you do get a job the wage is likely to be much lower than that of a truck driver.

These could be protected (for a while) if they introduced anti-automation policies and laws. This sort of short term thinking is right up the republican street.
Some wonder if click-baity FUD has grown too influential.
I found it refreshing on sites like Anandtech and Phoronix, it was business as usual with the only political content in a few trollish reader comments. Even OSNews, one of my favorite sites but which is often full of tech oriented politics, there has not yet been a political post about the US election. Granted, Thom may be writing one as I speak, but I seriously doubt it.
On the contrary, Facebook is the one place where people get pushed out of their filter bubbles regularly.

You know your racist family member you see sharing conspiracy theories on Facebook? That's reality, that's something punching through the filter bubble.

It's precisely because Facebook is full of hometown and family connections that it lets these ideas leak across. It makes Facebook feel pretty bad sometimes, because filter bubbles are very pleasant.
I'm sorry you feel this way. I weep for our nation and pray for it's kindness and fairness to all people.

I was studying the popularity of both candidates during the lead up to the election. On one particular day, 70,000 people were watching Trump (online YouTube) and 3,000 were watching Hillary. Lies and deception are coming to an end.
Came here to say exactly this. The use case is very limited, although technically it's something that will push the state of the art forward.
I have observed the opposite in my son's scout troop. None of the kids come from "wealthy" families. Some are very poor in fact. It is all about parental involvement. These kids have parents or grandparents that see the value in having their children involved in an organization focused on character building, team building, being a good citizen, and doing your best in life. Our troop is a beacon of positivity, fun, respect, and focus on doing the right thing.