skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python2 is stable. This is actually a major advantage in some applications.
I am really enjoying pieces like this, of a dose of humility with self inspection in the wake of the Trump election. Call his election what you will, but if I see more humble news reporting, I'll call that at least some positive.

It's blowing my mind.
The BlackNurse Attack [pdf]
So after 10 years, it's 10.2% of their goal. ~3% in 6 years to ~7% in 4 years. The rate may keep rising or they may find something sooner. Hopefully it won't take another 50 years to reach their goal.
I wish the author success. Many UI libraries for Go have been made and abandoned. It would be a joy to see one succeed.
> pjc50, who as I recall has a good head on his shoulders, hasn't noticed how institutions can change

Thanks for the compliment! A little civility can go a long way in these things.

Institutions and people certainly can change. I've lost a lot of respect for various media institutions over the years. e.g. the Telegraph, not just for having a climate change denial column but for the reasons Peter Oborne resigned (influence by advertiser HSBC to prevent adverse coverage). The BBC's political coverage is increasingly just bad, apart from Paxman - Question Time is the two sides shouting across each other, not an informative or useful programme. Their Scottish coverage in English is poor (weirdly, their Gaelic news programme is excellent despite, or possibly because of, its tiny budget).

Sometimes news is absurdly localist, in the style parodied by the Onion's "Area Man": http://www.ellontimes.co.uk/news/aberdeenshire-business-owne...

I do wonder how much of this is just popularity effects. Do people actually want slower, more careful, less angry partisan news? Or do they want a team they can cheer for? The BBC hide all their insightful, analytical programming on BBC4.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-...

Edit: you may be surprised to know that I used to read ZeroHedge, although not seriously. For sane capitalism-skeptic news coverage I'm fond of FT Alphaville.
Middle managers.
Facebook concedes that it will develop tools against racial ad profiling
> trying to shoehorn DHH's backend remix of MVC into the frontend,

That's basically what Backbone was and yes it led to a fn disaster.
I fully agree the major problem for this particular issue is that too much of the GOP identifies with being anti-LGBT. That is serious. But Trump personally seems to be the only one among them that was able to do this flag stuff all and still remain supported.

I consider as the major GOP problem, over all other issues, global warming denial. It's easy to see that even here it's not recognized.
That program was being discussed as part of the reinvestments over the next 10 years, funded by the tax surplus.

The idea was to spread it to about 20 billion a year, and a similar amount being spent on infrastructure, which would roughly match the 48 billion EUR tax surplus.

It was supposed to be voted on earlier, but I’m not sure what’s being discussed right now, it’s all still unclear.

I do know that some states have already started investing into education, under the assumption they’d get the money back through that.
Winning the popular vote by a small margin, against the worst candidate anyone alive has ever seen, and not by enough to actually secure victory, is not "doing well" in my estimation.

If you want to see what "doing well" would look like, see the results of the 2008 or 2012 elections.

And what do you mean "over half the vote"? The current number according to Google has 48% going to Clinton. She got more than Trump, yes, but less than half.

If getting 60 million votes qualifies as "doing well," then how do you describe getting nearly 70 million votes in 2008? Is losing almost 10 million votes in 8 years, while the electorate has grown substantially and demographics have shifted considerably in your favor, a sign that everything is fine?
This has been my consistent experience with McAfee in particular. I worked for 4 years in low level tech support, fixing computers for people that were sold in retail. We were required to recommend Anti-Virus software to our customers, and the whole store consistently recommended Webroot (which we sold) not because it was particularly good, but because it was the only option we had that didn't slow the machine to a crawl. Replacing McAfee with almost anything else on the market felt like it doubled the machine's speed.

I personally haven't run antivirus software for years on my own machines. I recommended that all of my customers learn basic security practice instead, and reminded them that the antivirus program they used is there as a tool to help them, and not a replacement for safe browsing.
I think the Dems are a long, long way away from anything which vaguely passes for communisim. They're almost as capitalist as the Republicans, but - I think - more protections for equality.

The problem is that Capitalism doesn't care about people. It is a system, and the worth of commodities and even people is determined by the market. People lose their jobs because either automation can replace them, or the job can be done cheaper elsewhere. Either way, that is capitalism, and if you support capitalism then that that is the inevitable result. You can try and restrict the impact by reducing global trade, but even if you built a wall around the USA and didn't import anything, as technology gets more and more efficient there will still be fewer and fewer jobs in the USA.

What's your proposal for people who can't get jobs because there aren't enough of them?
I don't think I'm making my point, or you're deliberately mis-reading me. I had at least decent scoutmasters, and some were very good. I was an Eagle scout. I worked 3 summers at Great Rivers Council's Camp Thunderbird. I worked 3 summers at Philmont Scout Ranch, as a Range and at Cimmaroncito. I was in the Order of the Arrow. I've seen more scouts and scoutmasters in more situations than almost everyone. Most scoutmasters are good, a few are very good, and virtually all of them are trying hard.

I guess I should say that I gained a lot from Scouting, and Scoutmasters. Hopefully, I passed on some knowledge to the Scouts I interacted with as a camp staff member. Hopefully those Scouts gained a lot from their experiences. But all of that was outside the bounds of the Patrol Method, and at least secondary to it. The true message of Scouting appears to be "know your place". The "learn your place, and get better at things to serve the upper crust" is a problem built into Scouting at its very beginning, and imbues it to this day.
> That's the attitude that leads many to "find it more virtuous to hire a wealthy black man or a wealthy white woman than to hire a poor white man

This is ridiculous on its face. The comparison is nonsensical. If I'm hiring someone for a job, I'm going to pay them the same wage so they're going to be roughly at the same income level.

Also, that's not true. For example, I'm a black man with a white barber. Why? Because he cuts my hair better than anyone else.

> Identity politics means judging someone first and foremost by their race, gender, and sexuality.

Funny. When I was taking part in various equality movements, the whole point was to NOT judge someone based on their race, gender, or sexuality. Looking past the exterior husk and judging someone on the content of their character was the point. I still don't like most people. However, it's not because they are part of some particular group, but because I just find something off-putting towards that particular person and I won't generalize my distaste to a whole group of individuals.

Amongst friends, I make fun of every group under the sun. Racial jokes, female jokes, I throw around racial slurs amongst friends as well. Some of my white friends greet me by saying 'What's up nigga." I'm pretty colorful with my language as well. It may surprise you, but a lot of us grew up with the sticks and stones may break bones, but words never hurt mentality. For me, words only have the power that you give them.

We're not all stereotypical white knight, social justice warriors seeking safe spaces and stifling dissent on college campuses. I'm not going to twitter shame you for making a blonde joke. If you can't look past your own biases and judge people on their own merits rather than taking lazy mental shortcuts, what hope is there?

I never called Trump supporters sexist. I called Trump sexist.
A lot of people are now trying to get Keith Ellison as new head of the DNC. There are arguments for and against, but this video is the single best argument for.
iSense – SciFi short (Digital Health)
The times they are a’changing
Well, that gives me hope :) Thanks for that!
Ok, I'll remove "handily" - my point still stands that you can't point to polls saying X when they also say Y which has been proven wrong since.
I know democrats who voted for Trump. One of the reasons is that he is planning on investing $500,000,000,000 in infrastructure, including rural infrastructure. So yes, I think economics played a large role in his win.
I cant take the idea 'vulture capitalist' out of my head when thinking about this.
> So if you are paying 120K in the US, the same should cost you 54-60K USD when the engineer is in India

When you are comparing to the US, are you talking about Silicon Valley or the Midwest? In Silicon Valley, $120K is probably a junior engineer that would cost $54-60K in the Midwest.
What about his promise to make america great again?
We at www.pricecheck.co.za switched early this year. We were supersized how easy the transition was. We definitely saw a decrease in cpu usage about 20%. Also most of our php-extension(nothing exotic) was also supported already...
Because it's creepy and weird so we will consider a quick slaughter more ethical than experimentation because bacon and steak is so delicious.

That's my guess.
I have a spinal condition called Syringomyelia, at the moment apart from neuropathic pain it doesn't effect my ability to walk but down the line it could (with complete paralysis been a possible outcome).

They could record the way my brain sends walk signals and if I end up paralysed they have the data to train the model.

There are multiple spinal conditions that result in paralysis after not be been paralysed, not everyone who ends up in a wheelchair gets their by an accident.
Perhaps that isn't really a problem.

The firehose of social media gives us so many data points for the perceptions of others. In daily life, having a more accurate perception-ometer is a powerful thing.
I've never claimed that anyone built a business "overnight" on Indie Hackers, or anything of the sort.
If Clinton has lost only one of her firewall states, your comment would have applied. The fact that Trump flipped quite a few of them makes it no longer a close one.

If two countries play a best-of-5 soccer games, and one beat the other 3-0 with three consecutive 1-0 games in the last minute. It would have been hard to claim that one team isn't obviously better and the margin of winning is small.
The macabre fate of ‘beating heart corpses’
If being part of the 'establishment' means that you never had to worry about being fired, never had to worry about money, never had to worry about feeding your kids or paying rent -- then Trump is part of the establishment.
With the "old model" (leaving aside op-eds), I at least have some assurance that due-diligence is being done in terms of research, fact checking and verification of sources. The "old model" has journalists in the field, on the front lines reporting the facts.

With the "new model", I have zero assurance that due-diligence has been done. The burden of analysis and research is squarely on my shoulders. A fact is no longer a fact in that I can find any blog to support whatever position I wish to take. The blurring of opinion with news is "infotainment". The filter bubble reinforces itself.
Surface Book Big Heavier and 12 to 16 Hours Battery Life
tl-dr might be what you're looking for

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
What is a country that does not have a history of discriminating against minorities?
Why are you picking on Muslims? Is there any religious group who support or at least are not against LGBTs? I also know a lot of gay Muslims (and Christians. and Jews.)

I personally don't like/understand religion, but spreading FUD is something totally different. Most of the religious wars seem to have happened because of people spreading fear, don't you think?
That's a nice article in that it manages to get excitement across without forgetting to balance it somewhat. Kind of a rare thing these days.

Btw, I'm interested to hear how well training with large one-hot encoded vectors scales. A paper someone pointed me to recently on HN suggested that it doesn't scale very well:

One-shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks [https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06065]
What does "Establishment" really mean here, other than "left wing"? I mean, a lot of people would say that a billionaire property developer was pretty "establishment".

What do you make of the rumour (I think it's still a rumour rather than confirmed?) that Steven Mnuchin will be Treasury secretary? Would you call him "establishment"?
What this means, how this happened, what to do now? - POTUS election
The electoral college margin doesn't mean a whole lot.

Except, for, you know, who administratively runs the country for the next 4 years, has the bully pulpit and therefore potentially great influence over the Congress, etc. etc. etc.?

It sure seems to mean a whole lot based on all the sad faces and rioting in the streets I've seen over the last few days.

And, circling back to the real point, it's the rules of the game, claiming some sort of greater meaning only when your side loses the popular vote is beyond pointless.
For a great example of pretzel bending, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfO1veFs6Ho

This is obviously a different topic, but it's a great example of how far SJW and political correctness have gone.
Kubernetes is an OODA loop- it schedules containers to run on servers, and reschedules in response to events. The hope is that it takes a lot of plumbing work off the table and handles it for you.
Roof mounted solar has relatively high fatality rates from people falling off roofs. However, ground mounted solar panels are much safer.
As part of the broader discussion of identity politics.

I can't speak to exactly what the original author of the remark meant by those words specifically.
Right is right and wrong is wrong. You have to stand up for the right thing even if that means telling other people that they are wrong, or even stupid.

You don't have to be smug about it, but that can be a tricky line to walk. Personally, I think it's better to advocate for certain values as respectfully as you know how and not worry about offending people who disagree. Placing too much emphasis on phrasing and tone is what people refer to derisively as "political correctness". It's best to focus more on saying the right thing, and less on how you say it
Trump's argument was that a fully qualified, experienced, American citizen judge can't participate in civil society--can't do his civil service job properly--simply because his parents were Mexican.

It's un-American and wrong. I'm going to speak out about things like this, and everyone reading this comment should do so as well.

Each of us, every American citizen, is personally responsible for delivering a society that fulfills our ideals. No one else is going to do it for us.
Is grakn a graph database?
> they may see everything else as somewhat irrelevant

Yep. But this is what made everyone miss what was happening. It was an emotional response.

But in this case Clinton provided so many analogous examples, which were ignored, which is just plain bias. As bad as someone is you always have to ask: could the same be said as my candidate? And with Hillary is was a yes on everything.

It was always a question of "How could there be so many racists, sexists and xenophobes?". The answer was...there is not. It was the wrong question.

> Anyway, aside complete. Let's hear the rationale for being a Trump supporter, I would be genuinely interested to hear it even if I may ultimately disagree.

I've already posted it in a reply to this comment somewhere.

Mainly corruption - the ultimate poison of a democracy. Counter productive political correctness, money out of politics, bullying and irrational feminists, sjws, and blm supporters. If you don't agree with everything they say you are sexist, racist, misogynist.
Absolutely, but 2 things. The GOP has typically been known as the old white guy elite/establishment so, at least in stigma, people already consider them the elite. The second is that the same problem the Democrats had in the general election, the GOP had in the primaries. The GOP didn't want Trump, yet he destroyed every establishment candidate they had. Bernie may have had a similar move on the Democrat side if the DNC had not interfered with the process.

Trump won as the GOP candidate, but based on his history I do not think he is conservative. Many of his ideas are closer to Sanders than people want to admit, and he's likely going to have both sides in a constant uproar.
I'm very liberal and have a lot of admiration for Obama and Clinton, despite their flaws. I don't hate Donald Trump or Donald Trump voters. I feel sad for them and for the fact that our country has disemployed so many people, and left so many people out in the cold, that they felt like their only living option was... this. I'd pity them, but they want my pity even less than my hate.

I hate the racism and sexism that his movement represents. I hate that people are treating his election as a vindication of the worst elements of our nation's history, rather than an expression of sheer desperation from the burping turtle at the bottom of the stack.

I've worked in tech for 10 years. It's full of people who did not vocally support Trump (and may well have voted for Clinton) but who perpetuate sexism and racism and think that they're doing so for valid business reasons ("culture fit"). I know who the enemy is and I know who to hate. It's not the guy in Milwaukee who lost his job and his dignity and can't afford to insure his family and gets socked with an "individual mandate" penalty for it.
That's right. GKE is awesome. I highly recommend using the GKE service that over running Kubernetes software on AWS or Digital Ocean.
It does happen. This almost perfectly describes my experience living in Durham, NC (the most liberal city in NC, by most counts).
While I am absolutely in favor of "right to die" laws, there are already tools in place to cover situations like those of your grandmother-in-law. If someone does not want to be kept alive artificially, they should obtain a Do Not Resuscitate order[1]. This serves as an expression of the patient's wishes, and would supersede the relative who wanted the ambulance called.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_not_resuscitate
I think Brian Hanson did good work on looking that far.

But looking ahead 100 years isn't really withing the reach of economists.
This one: https://github.com/docker/machine/issues/3212

In essence, it is impossible to work with an existing Docker-managed host from another computer. I often work from home, and when I wanted to manage my Docker hosts from my laptop, it turned out to be impossible and this issue was closed without resolution.

This was the day when I gave up on using native Docker.
God, what an insane deflection on his part. If Facebook can't manipulate people's behavior, why should advertisers pay them?
It's not that go can do things other language can't . It's the combination of keeping the language simple and gofmt means I can read anyone's code and understand it. I've been doing this for 25 years and that has never been true for me with any other language.

The real benefits for me with go are

Tooling. Gofmt, godef, etc make using emacs a dream.

Extensive stdlib. I pull in exactly two small libraries to build a very large web app: odbc, gorilla mux. Everything is baked in: http server, templating, compression, database

Cross compiling, being able to build a Windows exe in my Mac for deployment is awesome

Fast compilation.

Interfaces are a key concept and used everywhere to great effect in the std library
Eh, beware overgeneralization from your specific context. I've been working in the Rails/OSS world for the last 5 years or so, and I agree that in this context, someone claiming dislike of CLIs would give me pause.

However, I spent a decade working in .NET on Windows – mostly before PowerShell became popular/usable. A lot of good, experienced programmers in that space rarely used a CLI. I personally had some batch scripts that I used often, but for most people on my team, the CLI was just used for infrequent admin tasks, e.g., debugging a networking issue, restarting IIS, etc. No part of the daily programming workflow depended on a CLI.

I've also worked around some iOS developers, and their workflow seemed similar in that most of them rarely used the terminal for anything beyond infrequent admin tasks or maybe version control.

So yeah, I live in the shell, and it's hard to imagine anyone working in Ruby (or Python or server-side JS) for long without heavy CLI usage. I love the power and composability of the command line, but I also understand that not everyone does and not everyone needs to.

Edit: This might be a flawed analogy, but my feelings on this are similar to my feelings on an IDE vs a text editor. I've become a somewhat passionate vim user, but I wouldn't negatively judge a .NET developer for using Visual Studio nor an iOS developer for using Xcode.
While I can't speak for "hospitals". I can tell you that doctors are very much in favor of "do not resuscitate" directives, which would have prevented the scenario described above.
Clinton is to blame. We could have elected Bernie Sanders but she just had to be the spoiler.
This is what I don't understand about offshoring. People keep going to India and China to find devs when they can get very high quality English speaking devs from the UK, Australia, and Canada for about the same price (factoring in all costs).
Will read the whole thing but the excerpts I've read are excellent.

Also slightly off topic but that is one beautiful document from a layout/typography point of view.
Thank you, I will try to educate myself.

Here is one interesting plot: national employment-to-population ratio. Try plotting it from 1990 to 2016, it shows a significant drop in '08 which has not recovered very much since.

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000
I think we are saying the basically the same thing.

My point was that someone that gets arrested not 100+ times, but even 5+ or 10+ is probably someone having serious issues participating in society (assuming we are not talking about North Korea or some other dictatorship regime with absurd incarceration laws).

Sometimes the culprit is going to be a medical reason for which we can try a medical treatment, but if not, there might be other possible treatments like those used with gang members (watch "La Vida Loca" documentary).

When all this fails, then we can maybe argue that we are dealing with one of those people for which there is no possible help, but it's not until now (hopefully) that we consider some potentially uncivilized way of dealing with these extremes.

That's how I would like to (broadly) deal with these people anyway. Not saying it's what happens, unfortunately.
Windows 10 supremacy? Eve V comes gunning for Microsoft's mighty Surface Pro 4
Actual policies matter much less than you would think. Both candidates either didn't talk about their proposals at all or were very vague about them. And many if not most of Trumps positions remain unclear to this day.
How many commercial projects use COBOL 2014 though? I know Fortran 77 is still considered newfangled in some circles, even though Fortran 90, 95, 2003, 2008, 2015 exist. Same with C90, C++98, etc.