skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since he never released his taxes we have no idea about his financial situation. We have no clear idea who he owns what to. After a string of business debacles his US financing sources all but dried up. He definitely owes money to Deutsche Bank. (It's going to be fun when he will have to negotiate their 14 billion fine.) It is likely that he owes money to Russian banks. He also owns real estate across the world.

I would not call him a free president, on the contrary. He is more beholden to foreign interests than any other president in recent history.
Nice, so you are the MSE target audience... Problem is, they don't just target you, they also target others without informing them of the lesser level of protection MSE provides.
No, it is perfectly fine. But it is also useful to know there are previous conversations to be read.
Oh yeah, FSB agent is talking again.
I've been checking out that first link you gave me is it worth it? I'm half way through it but no JS stuff yet.
This might sound a bit like a buzz-kill, but I don't think fusion power is necessarily competitively cheap. I think it will be comparable to nuclear power with a ~ 10 times higher capital investment to build a fusion-plant. Already now solar is said to be cheaper then nuclear.
But nevertheless humanity should explore fusion since it is more or less the only significant power source not (indrectly) depending on the sun.
As far as I can see the funding of fusion research is at about the same level as particle physics which definilty does not provide any other than philosophical progress.
"I’m from the Midwest, and I love the Midwest, but it’s not representative of modern America"

This is your political bigotry.

BTW - the issue regarding 'Coastal Elites' not being 'true Americans' is not so much where they live - it's the fact that NYC, LA, SF etc. are highly transient cities - without multigenerational communities - they import culture, or create little bits of fleeting culture on their own.

Large American cities are a new phenom in the West. Even in Frankfurt, Germany, it's still walkabout and people live near their families etc..
Why We Just Raised a $36M Series D – And What’s Next for the Graph Space
Hillary wasn't a poor candidate by herself, but because of a decades long slander campaign against her. The Democrats clearly underestimated how much people were willing to believe the baseless attacks against her. Nominating her was a display of unjustified trust in the voters' ability and willingness to see through the lies.

That too is part of the bubble. Or the two bubbles, perhaps. Completely different views of what reality is like. In one reality, Hillary is a crook, global warming a hoax, liberals evil, racism not an issue, and Trump a great business man and family man without any scandals. In the other bubble, it's the other way around.
Yeah I'll take some classes maybe that will help.
the ebooks issue, looks more like a different default configuration has superseded the old. Have you tried to change the options?
This is the world people predicted way back when Windows XP product activation first became a thing, and we sleepwalked right into it.
We keep seeing discussion like this and yet we haven't seen much improvement. They used to joke about only those company making money are Rails. So why haven't Github, Shopify, Twitch, Groupon or others pour any resources in ?

Ruby is slow, at least from a Web Development perspective, Rails is VERY slow. So both together combined makes things a little bit bad.

Look at the boring stack from StackExchnage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12790650

https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/790527231600787456

Any Rails Shop would be happy if they could hit 3x those numbers even with caching.
Again - the author is from Middle America; there is no 'they', it's 'we'. And here's just part of what is said:

"To pin this election on the coastal elite is a cop-out. It’s intellectually dishonest, and it’s beneath us.

We, as a culture, have to stop infantilizing and deifying rural and white working-class Americans. Their experience is not more of a real American experience than anyone else’s, but when we say that it is, we give people a pass from seeing and understanding more of their country. More Americans need to see more of the United States. They need to shake hands with a Muslim, or talk soccer with a middle aged lesbian, or attend a lecture by a female business executive.

We must start asking all Americans to be their better selves. We must all understand that America is a melting pot and that none of us has a more authentic American experience."

That's a far cry from your interpretation.
what did you mean by that last part about PHP and Javascript. honestly right now I just want to get out of poverty and Web development seems to be what I enjoy and if PHP is the fastest way why not?
> proactive protection against future threats

Does this mean heuristic analysis? Because apparently MSE does that: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/mse-protect...
Geez, Microsoft keep shooting themselves in the foot. I feel done with Apple and I'm so ready to switch after the MacBook Pro 2016 dongle debacle & the glorious Surface Studio... but then I read things like this and see Windows uninstalling software without the user's permission (SmartFTP is the Windows FTP client I would use!) and realize that I just can't switch to Windows even if I want to.

Yesterday I fired up Windows 10 in a VM on my MacBook to get some development work done, only to find Windows go straight into installing updates while I'm on battery in a cafe & without my power cord. (But it insists "Don't Turn Off Your PC".) 90 minutes later (!) Windows finally launched... just as I had to run for my train home. I literally couldn't do my work that afternoon, all because of Windows.
Call centres are the next industry to go. 5-10 years max.

Machine/Deep Learning is rapidly improving beyond anyone's expectations and you only have to look at Microsoft's recent advancements in speech recognition that match humans to see the disruption in action.
Please add (2016) to the title.
This is Canada. The fundamental tenet of our constitution (Charter of Right and Freedoms) is to balance the rights of the individual with the interests of society as a whole. These rights that you personally feel are inalienable are not so here, and this is the way most of us would have it.
This is not only about PC, it will shake the whole society, so to publish such results is simple dangerous and unacceptable – I feel the situation is close to artificial keeping of some jobs, just to decrease unemployment.

Also, I think it doubles by the fact that mens are really encouraged (one can even say "forced") to do extraordinary stuff, to get money, wife, respect and other social approval. For women, they will literally never be ashamed for the life outcome.
"They had not seen the Apollo moon lander, nor George Washington’s Revolutionary War uniform. And they certainly have not seen the new National Museum of African American History and Culture."

This quote really hit home for me. I spent part of my childhood in rural Texas as a new immigrant to this country. My parents were poor, although not as poor as some around us, and what they lacked in money they more than made up for in love. For this I will be forever grateful.

I had a friend who would frequently have to come over for dinner because her mother was too strung out to pick up groceries. I had another friend who never owned a pair of shoes that fit properly until he enlisted in the Army.

I'm pretty certain both of my friends would have loved to see the Apollo capsule and the assorted museums in DC. They were however, a bit preoccupied in trying to get enough calories throughout the day to maintain a healthy weight.

It's been a while since I read something on the web that made me cry, the condescension displayed in this article has succeeded.
I am not sure what molly-coddling means in this context, but as a single data point you can look at the platform page of a minority advocacy group: [0]. The actual low-level details of many of the policies (if not the headlines) share a lot in common with Sanders' platform, for instance.

I'd like to think that, for the most part, trying to address a societal problem like [1] is better than denying that any action is needed, even if the increased visibility causes strife—[2] is of interest here—or we don't get it right the first time. It's hard to discuss because many Americans begin on vastly different pages with vastly different experiences.

[0]: https://policy.m4bl.org/platform/

[1]: http://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/systemic-racism-is-real

[2] https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....
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Exactly. 99% of the "additional features" are pure, useless bloat and I don't want to pay for them.

If Kaspersky had an offering that combines their definitely superior scanning engine with Defender's/MSE's stupidly easy and unobstructive UX, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

(Well, maybe not a heartbeat. Would be nice if their website worked without enabling JS and didn't ask me to download PDFs afterwards… seriously?)
Why does Microsoft even allow trial installations of all of these sorts of things? It’s cut-and-dried user-hostile behaviour, as are bundled installers as a class. Microsoft has the power to kill these pieces of software. I wish they would.
You may not have any legal recourse, but you can certainly complain. It's reasonable to expect companies to adhere to standards of decency and respect. If they don't, complain or they'll never learn. Also, PR matters, so complaining loudly does impact policy.
And whose priority are those people exactly?

It seems both parties are against social support, encouraging smaller, local companies or regulating corporate behemoths to protect citizens.

USA is remarkably weak in supporting its less fortunate citizens.

And just because someone is ignored, called racist and dumb it doesn't mean they aren't. From what I read as an outsider, many US citizens are in fact both. Any country has its share of such people and the US is huge, so of course there will be more.

But now everyone should listen to them and stop calling them names and it's all gonna be alright somehow. The problem is education, and it will take decades to fix, if it can be fixed.
For what it's worth, I'm in France and it's common knowledge here that China invented gunpowder. I don't think I've ever heard someone saying Europe did.
>Is Microsoft trying to go the Apple route - but maintain some openness? Giving 3rd parties core low-level APIs is ripe for chaos.

Giving 3rd parties access to low-level APIs also gives your OS ability to be used in versatile and innovative ways across the board. Also gives the ability to 3rd party software companies to allow you to add tooling and customization to your OS so that it does exactly what the user wants. And making you grow into the largest dominant OS out there.

On the other hand, I need to download more and more applications outside MAS on macOS because the sandbox doesn't even let basic apps like a custom file explorer to function properly, making a platform really usable only for a few use-cases the original vendor thought of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullius_in_verba
Reddit users, where the same joke was made (one of the top comments), got it.
What type of drive does your MacBook have?
I don't really know what your point is because I don't understand the language discussion.

In any case, there is no doubt that Germany copied major parts of the industrial revolution from Britain. Or do you think they (we) developed all the same things just a bit later independently, by chance?

The point is that all people copy, in response to a specific comment about China. Yeah... and after reading your comment three more times I still don't understand what point you are trying to make? I think you are trying to say something about the intent of why "Made in Germany" was introduced, but I don't see anything about that in the linked page, just some obscure discussion about language but no larger context. It seems to me the linked page is about some obscure details.
Sorry, by 'political bigotry' I meant the assumption that 'The Coasts' represent what is 'modern' or in any way ideal.
.NET Core bindings for Qt. .NET Core doesn't have any UI toolkit right now. There are several efforts but they're mostly hobbyist ones and seem to lack funding or major development power, unfortunately.
But I think the point is the user should decide if they want this bloat not Microsoft. I agree I would never use kaspersky or norton or any other system like this, but there are people who do want to use them. It's the individuals choice to use these systems, not Microsofts. But this is the model Microsoft are going towards and if we don't like it, lets stop using and promoting them.
MSE does it, but its engine is among the slowest and worst on the market. It's really the only downside.
You do not just have one choice to go with if you want to switch away from mac.

If you do not like mac nor windows, maybe give Linux a shot? If you care about the mac UI you can make Linux look like it.

For software development and normal usage I do not feel like I am missing out on something by using Debian on the desktop and Ubuntu on my laptop.

If you use some specialised software for design you might want to check compatibility though
"Eff you, I gots mine" is not the robust survival strategy you might think it is.

I don't know you, but I hope your mother is doing ok, and I hope she will do better under a Trump presidency than I think she will. There's actually plenty of parts of my life that I'd consider giving up or changing if I could guarantee a better future for both your mom and mine, now that your post implicitly asks that question.
I've lived in both places and each one absolutely has it's bubble. But to say that rural America is a special case is wrong. I've met prolific travelers who have gone up and down each coast but who would never think of visiting the interior--something they are quite proud of. "Real America" is frequently the butt of jokes, and the people there are caricatured or casually dismissed as less important.

This is all really unfortunate. US politics won't evolve past a tug-of-war if the sides don't attempt to sincerely understand each other (and that is almost never the case). The worst part of this election for me was seeing how each side would immediately jump to the least generous interpretation of an ambiguous or unclear statement made by the other. Since language is rife with ambiguity, that virtually guarantees you see your opponent as consistently wrong, stupid, and evil. If that's what people want to see, that's what they'll see no matter the words. Bubble vision.
I hit some crashes with PyQt which were fixed if the Python slots were defined with "@slot". I think this may be now fixed.
I've felt like AV software is often worse than the viruses: intrusive, slow, ineffective, getting in the way, and not once detecting anything.

Pretty much all of my "family tech support" is related to the AV doing something stupid like auto-deleting cookies or flashing up big scary messages for something trivial.

However Windows Defender seems to be good for me on Win10 - it just sits there out of the way, I don't even know its running. I LIKE the fact it doesn't have "online protection" or password managers or parental controls or whatever. It feels lightweight and does not cause everything to become 3x or 4x (or worse!) slower like every other AV software I've encountered

Whenever I go to perform family tech support I remove any random AV software they've been tricked into installing and just leave Windows Defender and that usually solves the issues (obviously making sure they are up-to-date on patches & still using 2FA)
Sure, Windows 10 is a trainwreck. But that's no news, and antivirus solutions have been bloated shit for much longer than that.
I completely agree. I am not saying women are "complete idiots" or that men are "all geniuses". I am a firm believer that women and men have a higher intelligence in different "fields" (for lack of a better term). It's us, as a society, that define what kind of intelligence is more "useful". Apparently being very good at logic, reasoning, science, tech and anything STEM is "a sign of intelligence" that is considered useful and that can bring our society forward.

In 100 years society might decide that some other kind of intelligence is more important and men and women will reverse their roles in terms of "intelligence".
I totally agree. In fact the systems studied by social sciences are so complex that the notion of an experiment in the classical sense (hypothesis, observations, repeatability, etc) can break down completely. This is partly why the concept of qualitative research exists [1]. Some physical scientists look down on such research methods; this is a category mistake on their part.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_research (not a great article IMO but I lack the experience to give a better reference)
The left is alienating centrists in droves.

Your social circle may be made up of extremists who won't tolerate diversity of opinion, but there are many, many centrists in this country and if this election does mark the end of the "centrist" Democrat, it may mark the beginning of Republican rule.
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Many countries, such as Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam, require all males to serve ~2 years of military service (usually not in the field, just training and drills). While there are ways for the most privileged to get out of it, the people who I've talked to have described meeting people from parts of their country that they had no idea about.

I wonder if this idea could be applied to the US, making everyone 18-25 go 6-18 months of basic training and drills. You would certainly get to meet a lot of people you would not have otherwise.
If he treated it like a game that you win, he won, but he can't just go home now, he's signed up to be on call 24/7. I'm not wealthy but I've treated job interviews like this and been unhappy after "winning". Now I'm highly selective about what I do. Losing such personal freedom needs someone with a real conviction about the job and stamina, he may have it, otherwise he'll be miserable. The White House probably came across as a dump compared to what he's used to.
Are you picking on me? Making a joke that we share? Challenging me to come up with a retort? Asking me to join in to a shared humorous narrative? Giving me a friendly jibe about an error or weakness you perceive?

We assume positive intent online because otherwise we get flame wars, but there's a helluva lot of body language and inflection that can take the comment you made and make it mean a dozen things. All of that is lost. And all of it is important.

In addition to the nuance, would I know severine if I saw them on the street? Miss them if they died? Remember the nice way they did X everytime we met?

We are exchanging written opinions and statements, yes. These exchanges also occur in social interactions. But we are not socializing. There's no bond here that's become stronger, no subtle nuance or interplay that we're managing at a subconscious level. For all either of us knows, the other one is a bot. Or an alien. There's no humanity here.
I think you're both right. Which means best to leave it alone and move on IMHO. The first sentence of his post about Cohen is nicely put, "uncanny timing" and all that. Then he spoiled it with a whiny point on politics.

Cohen said something funny about his time spent meditating at a zen buddhist monastery in the hills. He said of the experience that "on a superficial level it basically gets you to stop whining"..."it makes whining the least appropriate response to suffering".*

* From his last interview, audio here:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/leonard-cohen-...
Well, you can run .net Core and MSSQL on Linux now and get more servers moved away from Windows, while still being trapped in Microsoft's walled garden. Yay?
My Physics of Electrical Power Generation lecturer told us pretty flatly that we should not expect or bank on fusion power in our lifetimes. He said we should concentrate on renewables (which seems to be the way most countries are going in Europe at least).
How do you determine that a piece of installed software is a trial version, so you can police it based on that attribute ?
I have no ponies in this race. Counterbalance - charitable interpretation:

"We [the people or the government - does not matter really] are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people [the people] agree to,"

If I interpret "We" as "the government" it still does not matter if "the people" can agree on it as in functioning democracy.

"There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we [the people] can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we [the people] have to discard, because they just don't have any basis in anything that's actually happening in the world"
It also doesn't have: TLS MITM, adware, a bundled rebranded version of chromium with the same-origin policy turned off, privdog, a bundled password manager that has a bug allowing remote code execution through <img> tags and all the other things that came with many AV products over the past years.

I'm not completely devoid of sympathy for Microsoft here.
I come to HN because of the high level of intelligent conversation.

This article, and ever more sadly so the comments herein, are a huge disappointment.

Trump is the non-establishment candidate the left asks for from Republicans every presidential election. Hillary is, at the very least, the establishment candidate the left profess to despise.

The propaganda is strong in this one.

Grow up everybody.
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There are many, many ways for a business relationship to not work out. Sometimes it's a wonderful person and a wonderful company who don't work out for each other. Sometimes it's a wonderful person but a life event happens and they're not productive for longer than their employer is willing to wait out a period of non-productivity. Sometimes it's a wonderful person in an organization pathologically incapable of making software, of which the world has many.

Engineers have an easy time visualizing all of these things. Here's a thing they often have a great difficulty of visualizing:

You can be a senior software engineer, with 8 years of experience, earning a salary deep in the six figures, able to talk in a good level of detail about e.g. load balancing and round-robin queuing and hash tables and user experience and $NAME_ANY_TOPIC... without being able to write working code.

Some engineers believe this engineer is straightforward to identify and fire. Our industry will routinely take 1+ years to identify this engineer and then another 6+ months to transition them out of their current job, at which point they will transition into a new company at an effective promotion.

I know, this sounds like a fairy tale. It. Is. Not.
Could we say that a women's anatomy is some form of intelligence? It's undeniable that women, due to their biological nature, have a higher "appeal" and they don't really need to do all the "dirty work" a man has to do to be on the same level (get more money, get more power, always be improving...)
As a general principle, everything else being equal, less information density is simpler. Ternary operator is quite dense.

Think about it: algebra (most of it) is just simple concepts incredibly densely written down and recursively applied. There are very few really complex parts in it, by which I mean there's very few individual steps that take long to understand, there's just so bloody many of them and they link together so incredibly tightly.
Why would Trump go to all the effort of running for POTUS only to put his VP in charge? That doesn't make any sense.