skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why the implicit equation of "words" with "shouting at people that they're bad"? (Or at least, that's how I'm reading your comment based on the context.)

The alternative is actual argument rather than punishment, something overgard in no way ruled out.

...which unfortunately may not be a great tool given the current situation. I think we are at the point where playing nice may no longer be a serious option.

But that doesn't mean we should just, lke, punish all the bad people because they're bad people. That still isn't helpful. It just feels good, it doesn't necessarily accomplish anything.

In the particular case of people joining the Trump administration, I think Megan McArdle makes a good case against punishing capable people for joining it: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-09/there-s-n...

Still. We're in a situation now where argument is unlikely to get us anywhere -- but in better times, that's the ideal, not using words to punish people.
I did my best, it wasn't much

I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

But even though it all went wrong

I'll stand before the Lord of Song

with nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
"Never denied he would" is not exactly the same as "Would for sure do it".

> he confirmed that he wants a database for Syrian refugees.

Doesn't the government already have database of all immigrants? I even have a nice card with a number, I'm pretty sure this number refers to a record in the database. Before I had that, I also had to fill in and send out certain forms, which I am pretty sure also went to some government database.

So how exactly Syrian refugees are different and what exactly makes the thing that US - and pretty much every other, as far as I know - government routinely does so beyond the pale?
https://youtu.be/CoxxGhLFbw4?t=2m30s
Nate Silver had an excellent response to this on one of the "Model Talk" editions of the FiveThirtyEight Elections Podcast[1]. TL;DR of the problems with Taleb's critique:

1. "Volatility" in the model is not random, as Talib asserts -- it happens at predefined points in the time. For example, the accuracy of polls jumps greatly after the conventions complete.

2. Volatility at a previous point in time does NOT mean there must be similar volatility going forward, as Talib implies.

3. Taleb's quickie models that he posted for explanation don't remotely match empirical data.

I respect Taleb, but he seems to have fallen into a trap really smart people often fall into: being right with limited data, but wrong with complete data (in this case, he creates assumptions from his knowledge in other areas like options pricing, which are wrong in this domain).

[1] Skip to 13:30 remaining http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-makes-a-tipping-poi...

EDIT: formatting
> There is no "too far", just what their target market with a lot of discretionary income will still purchase.

How do you know the author does not fall into that category?
Any specific highlights?
In this case the wealthy, good or bad, man or woman, black, white, brown, or otherwise are using their resources to artificially drive up prices in a marketplace where they do not have to live with the consequences of their actions. Essentially, they are using a place where people are trying to live as a giant real-estate pump and dump scheme and completely screwing up the local economy in the process.

Individually, each of these wealthy persons are just looking out for their own interests, as they should, but as a group they are causing harm, and as such are garnering ill-will from the locals. So the GP's words could have been better chosen as "defeat the global elite who are using our town as a get rich quick scheme" instead of using a blanket statement, but I honestly think that was kind of implied here.

Also, I don't really think an us vs them mentality is extraordinarily harmful at a time when wealth disparities are so astronomically high. In fact, I think ignoring the issue is what's causing us (and not "them") great harm.
He could have voted for a war (that more than a fifth of the Senate opposed) that cost trillions of dollars and cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
Yeah I'm not saying people with abhorrent opinions don't deserve human rights. That doesn't mean tolerance is all about being cool with your hypothetical Nazi neighbor. I'm pretty sure whoever came up with that declaration would be with me on the part where we aren't cool w/ Nazis.
Rubbish. He's saying voting doesn't necessarily result in good governance and policy, or the will of the people - regardless of the people doing it.

He points out the financial crash in 2008 as a prime example of that. Would you agree or disagree with that notion?
"Bezos is about to learn that building a business by stealing tax dollars from local communities and using the profits to rig elections is no longer tolerated in our country. He'll be lucky to avoid jail... tax fraud pierces the corporate veil and he made a mortal enemy in Trump who never lets any bad deed go unpunished. If you have any amazon stock best sell it now."

Did you delete this once the irony hit?
Incumbent Democrats and the DNC no longer represent the working class, but there is a new class of democrats that do. Bernie Sanders represents the working class. Look at the county maps for Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan [1]. The people in the cities there thought that Bernie was too progressive and so "unelectable" while these "backwards" racist rural voters actually voted for him. The DNC and Hilary are to blame for being out of touch with the general population and forcing an unpopular candidate down our throats. They had this power because of the superdelegates and the meme that only centrist, run of the mills candidates have any chance. Hopefully we can at least learn that run of the mill candidates are no longer necessary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_Democratic_Part...
> That's how sales tax generally works, no?

Yes, which is why a VAT is much saner than a sales tax.
The people who are left around him, perhaps - there's been pretty high attrition over the course of the campaign. And (sample size of 1) the only person I know personally who has worked with Trump did not like the experience.
As an intern I definitely did work week ends, and as a relatively fresh employee (almost a year) I did it quite often, but I'm doing it less and less. I'd say when the work is good, it tends to overflow in your social life. Some jobs (not all) are mind consuming and can't be left alone so easily when going back home. Although if you're doing it because your boss tells you, then you should find another boss.
Yes. He lied, as many on the left said he was. Here[0], there is talk Jamie Dimon was considered by his advisors for Treasury. To be fair, Dimon declined, but it shows that Trump at least surrounds himself with people who don't give two shits about his "helping the little man."

[0] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/10/donald-trump-advisors-conside...
What Paul may have failed to consider in taking his "tolerant, neutral" stance towards Thiel's activities is that, in politics, one absolutely is 100% guilty by association with the forces of darkness that one allows one's self to come into (sufficiently close) contact with. Or as that most prescient saying, variously attributed, goes: Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent ("He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas").

On the other hand, if he's finding "heat" that he'll inevitably be taking, by ever-rising degrees, for his association with Thiel (and hence, Trump and everything he stands for) to be not to his liking -- it's still not too late to get out of the kitchen.
We give away most of our[0] content free but charge for membership to access PRO content. We also don't DRM or even try that hard to prevent theft. There are some "bad actors", but we keep growing MRR at a rate that is working for us.

Helpful, honest, and generous as a business model can be very effective!

[0] https://egghead.io
>>Then why am I dealing with "President-elect" Donald Trump?

Because half the people of the United States are hypocrites with no strong moral compass. It is not politically correct to say it but it is true. I didn't think so before this but I know so now.

>>Nooooooo, your fault was not understanding what millions of Americans are going through that would force them to vote for the opponent. The blame lies solely with that mindset.

That is a lie. A good chunk of the trump supporters are actually well off. [1]

[1] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-...
Trump Tweets Protesters ‘Unfair’ Amid Second Night of Rallies
"has implicitly given free reign to people with even more unpleasant views on those to do whatever they want and not fear repercussions because..."

And I believe that our country was already giving free reign to those with "unpleasant views". For instance, I don't think it's a coincidence that race relations have generally considered to be getting worse over the past several years: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/us/poll-shows-most-america... I'm a pragmatist. If people are all saying or doing the right things in the leadership but the race relations are getting worse, then clearly they are not saying or doing the right things.
Is it entertaining or funny if you identify with the character who is talking down? I mean this particular example doesn't seem to contain any jokes from my reading.
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I have just graduated with an MSc and would love to continue with a PhD in computer science.

However universities and research seem to have something against common convenience and most of their offers are hard/impossible to find/search.

Do you have any resource where I can find PhD opening that offer VISA sponsorship?
Getting beyond bug bounty noob status by yaworski
Tolerance is compassion. It means seeking the deeper truth beneath the words and actions, to understand the fundamental reasons.

It's true that few of us have the time and energy to dig through all the bullshit and achieve understanding of everyone we find abhorrent.

But where we are able to do so, we usually learn some important things about others and about ourselves - mostly, that when it comes down to it, we all just want to feel safe and loved.

True compassion is hard, but unless we can offer it to others, we can't expect it to be offered back to us.
My company uses Asana.
Christ, have I been missing out on all the checks? I could use the extra money.

Give me a break.
His ideal form of government is minimal enough that voting is superfluous. That you infer nefarious motive speaks not at all to what was actually implied.
Paying a price on goods entering the country will not encourage the manufacturing of those goods to come back to the US, it will only reduce the flow of goods coming in, increase the prices consumers pay or reduce selection. Also, dont you think the natural reaction of any country on the other end of such a tariff would be to slap a tariff on our goods and services? So the net result is lower international trade overall. The result of that is that goods have to be manufactured in thousands of places (inefficient) rather than a few place for distribution globally (highly efficient).
In a few decades, when most of the new inventions will start coming from China, this attitude is going to be very difficult to maintain.
He's saying women voting doesn't necessarily result in "good governance and policy", as determined by Thiel. You can do the substitution.
Shrewd seems unfair. Political views and ethics aside, it turns out he's a genius.
I agree with you. I wouldn't completely remove them, but I would mark the ones from certain sources as having a questionable origin.
Why is it a 6 week period?

Someone could open a PR today and not see it merged for a year, surely?
> Tolerance means you aren't out beating people up for having different views.

The overwhelming majority of the videos I have seen are Hillary supporters beating Trump supporters.

The supposedly "tolerant" side has been looking awfully intolerant of late.
Please think of the children, minorities and women. You can ignore the 35% of hispanics who voted for Trump though. Those minorities don't count. Also Asians. Asians don't count as a minority either. Actually white women as well, since 53% of them voted for Trump. Did you know Hillary is a woman?
Because two days ago Clinton was the alternative. And all the anger in the community in the last 48 hours (and prior, in the case of Thiel and YC ) has been directed at those who selected against her. This will be relevant long after the election even if the topic is Trump, for obvious reasons.
> Because half the people of the United States are hypocrites with no strong moral compass. It is not politically correct to say it but it is true. I didn't think so before this but I know so now.

Prepare to lose a lot of battles in your life with this mindset.

EDIT (because HN throttling and I can't reply):

Don't waste the opportunity to grow as a person from this if it so strongly effects you. You don't say "fuck half of America, I'm right and they're wrong." You say, "Half of America voted for this person, this person who I strongly disagree with. Why? What motivated this? What can we do in the future to work together to ensure a better outcome?"

You ask questions. You collaborate. You compromise. In that order.
There's a lot of stuff in wikileaks that merits investigation but the MSM never did their job. Just wholesale dismissal from comedianchors like John Oliver. Not surprising that the MSM were asleep at the wheel when it came to predicting the outcome, or that most of the country no longer trusts them.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media...
Just watched a video giving some quick background on fusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZsaaturR6E

Informative and concise.

Thought it was extremely hard to do though...
Sure. But nobody who paid attention to how Trump has done business in the past actually believed a word of it. And now we're being proven right.
Seems to me your statements are contradictory. The open-source community has no contact with Apple's core team. Either the open source community can't do it, or Apple could do it without adding strain to its core team.
I agree. I think there could be a limit on the amount of links and of images containing text that you can post in a day, as well as warning messages next to content that comes from questionable sources.
“The wind kills all your birds. All your birds, killed. You know, the environmentalists never talk about that.”

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/290093-trump-wi...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/19/do...
The Nazis put most homosexuals in the camps (and the Allies put them back in jail when they emptied the camps) , but Goering did pretty well out of it.
I'm pretty sure that ">>=" is "extra syntax". The only difference is in Haskell any function with two arguments can be interpreted as infix.
You left out "capitalist democracy", his point is that capitalism and democracy are mutually exclusive concepts when women are allowed to vote since they tend to vote for socialism.
I support #Calexit and I hope this will not just be saying and playing. Trump is a successful businessman and he knows strategy very well. He must already have plans for those protestors, so for those who are really serious about this issue, we should not give in easily.
Globalization works the other way too. I'm working at a Danish company that offshored Danish jobs to the US. Before that I was at an Australian firm that offshored Aussie jobs to the US. Before that I was at a firm founded by two immigrants. Globalization cuts both ways.
You know, you're right. I payed sales tax on my last Amazon purchase, so I don't think I'll be paying my income tax this year. Why pay twice?
I think this would actually be more comparable to the Either monad. Also, "without extra syntax or macros" is kind of a trivial distinction, as `>>=` is just a function, not some sort of magic.

That being said, I really wish there were some sort of equivalent of `try` or `?` for options in Rust. I don't feel like I want monads in Rust in general, but when dealing with options, I definitely miss the Maybe monad.
This would probably kick off a trend if it were successful here. None of the other blue states would be satisfied with the loss of our progressive electoral college voting bloc. It'd put Republicans in the awkward position of denouncing the progressive left's sudden support of states' rights.

California, on the other hand, would continue to be a terrific place to live.

Preliminarily I would consider supporting #Calexit
So you're telling me it was a ridiculous liberal myth that David Duke supported Trump? That since the election results came in large numbers of people have reported increased harassment and threats of violence based on their apparent race, religion or national origin? That the Trump campaign refused to disavow the xenophobic tendencies of some vocal supporters?

I'd love to find out that it was all 100% manufactured and none of it ever happened or was true. But, y'know, it all did happen and was true. And it elected a candidate who began his campaign on explicitly racist (build a wall and deport all the "Mexican rapists") and xenophobic (ban all the Muslims) lines.
Facebook could deliberately inject a certain amount of contrarian content into people's feeds.
doesn't seem like you actually read what I wrote but here's a relevant article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/19/do...
Sure, we have to be careful about these things. Replication is key, which is where the Utah results fell down quickly.

Not sure why I'm getting down votes on parent, but there it is.
When describing abstract entities maybe, in real life, order always matters.

E.g. if you sell an office suite and it doesn't support DOC and XLS files, it's your fault and users will call you for it. It's not Microsoft's job to go make sure Word and Excel work with your office suite.
He's not, and he explicitly clarified that he was not and that was absurd to suggest he was.

You can choose to believe what you want though.
I do not understand your logic. Why? The more you know the better. And this is something that I did not know before. As I already mentioned before, I was stupid and idealistic. This experience has made me a lot more cynical.

It has probably made me a bit worse of a person, unfortunately.

Trump has proven that you can say anything and as long as you have power or you tell people what they want to hear it does not matter so what are you talking about?
Oh cool, how can I find the sf results? Not interested enough to google it thanks for the public service!
Sorry about that, haven't read their FAQ before and figured they would...
I think that is what the parent comment meant by using shrewd in contrast with negative:

> I had very negative feelings about Thiel, [...] but I'll at least concede he's a very shrewd individual.

Also, the Oxford definition for shrewd:

> Having or showing sharp powers of judgement; astute:

Source: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/shrewd
Neanderthals Disappearing from Modern Human Genome
So what you're saying is... the rich will aptly avoid this tax just like they do all the others, and the hapless hoi palloi who might have to leave their home vacant for 6 months (e.g. to care for a dying relative) would be stuck paying the fine. Sounds about right :-(
But... that would mean you'd disassociate from Hillary Clinton. Over political views.

Gasp! Shock! Clutch my pearls and fetch the smelling salts! How dare you be so intolerant as to suggest someone should be ostracized over mere expression of a political opinion!
We use Airflow a lot at iHeartRadio. Most of our ETL processes are written in Aiflow, and the Data Science team is moving its batch models into Airflow too.

Happy to answer any questions.
Oh yes, because surely it's only those evil Trump supporters who are the bad guys! As you can see here a wild pack of trump supports are attacking a poor old hillary supporter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnQNFBHHs6w

Oh wait no, sorry, that's a group of leftists literally beating up an old man 10v1 because he's white and might have voted for Trump. Sorry, you were saying something about people not fearing repercussions?
> Whenever you hear someone use the word science it's like a tell that they're bluffing

Well, that's a horrible way to go through life.
Ask HN: How to start the freelancing career
I am a developer in India with about 13 years of experience. While primarily exp. it is around backend in Java/Scala, I am comfortable with React/Python/Apache Spark and distributed systems. Most of my exp. is in startups but working for large size companies for last 5 years. Being of introvert nature, I don't have many contacts outside my working groups / family.

I would like to start working as freelancer, and need suggestions for it. What should be my starting point, how to build contacts, should I work on Open Source or hobby projects and showcase them?
The Vancouver tax wouldn't affect properties rented under "long-term" (> 30 day) leases.

from TFA: "Principal homes, as well as properties that are rented for at least six months of the year on 30-day minimum leases, won’t be taxed."

I would be very surprised to learn that Vancouver renters who typically live in units with < 30-day leases turn out to be poor.
>Macbooks were never good choices to run Linux on, and it's naive to think it would've gotten any easier.

Linus Torvalds, for one, used a Macbook Air with Linux up until a couple of years ago, which he praised as the right way to do laptops (he now uses a Chromebook IIRC).

(He also used a Mac Pro G5 in the mid-00s, again with Linux, and he wrote his autobiography around 2003-4 on an iBook with OS X).
I kind of like how I can't forget to handle some error because the compiler will tell me
Because California is so intelligently run now?
The margins on their displays was surely massive. They were in the order of 2x as expensive as equivalent Dell models. I think it was probably volumes, not margins, that had them drop the thunderbolt display.
> As you can see, the latency dropped to less than half, and the load average at peak is now lower than it’s previous lowest point!

the graph they're referencing shows the peak at higher than the previously lowest load. i guess "peak average" is the key to this.
It is exactly what that sentence is saying. No amount of post-wiggle words does anything to change that.

I think you might simply not be aware what the point of contention is here. Here is what you can say: "people without libertarian principles make capitalist democracy impossible".

Yet he connected that with gender somehow.

(It's not even a true statement if you think theres some isomorphism between Trump and Thiel. White women polled 53% for him.)
Except that over time, wages across the boarder rise. We have seen that in mexico and china. We saw that here in the US when textile manufacturing moved from New York and Boston to North Carolina. All of these same arguments against free trade were used early in american history with interstate commerce. North Carolina allowed child labor in textile mills and had low wages. Are you telling me New York is worse off because Investment Banks replaced the Textile District in Manhattan? I don't think so. America needs to continue to increase sophistication of the economy by moving to higher skill services and products and protect our fellow citizens harmed by the transition. The answer isnt to start a trade war with mexico and china in the hopes the we can go back to having child labor in textile mills and family farms.
Even as a frequent user of the numpad, I'd rather carry a USB numpad around than deal with the asymmetry caused by putting one in a laptop.