skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody on the ground believes that, it looks smells and sounds like horseshit.

This plays out in every collective bargaining deal. The company says "here's the offer, if you don't like it, we'll close the place and go to [Alabama|Mexico|China]".

The automation thing is a statistics trick. You look at total value of the finished output which skews the numbers to things like car assembly where many tasks are automated, but ingnore the downstream parts manufacturing, much of which is offshore or in Mexico.

Have you ever seen a textile factory? There isn't a ton of automation for many phases of the work. Just a race to the bottom to places like Bangladesh where it's easy to abuse the workforce.

The economic outputs may be bigger, the cream is only rising to the top.
There could be some detterant benefit in having someone like Trump. With Obama enemies always knew that he would take a rational approach anf try and avoid war. An irrational President is potentially more scary. He will attack even when logically it is a bad idea.
Here's one, pretty well-cited, article on the subject: http://www.hrc.org/2016RepublicanFacts/donald-trump-opposes-...

And, look at the legislative record of the people he has chosen to be part of his team. They are among the most anti-LGBTQ legislators at the national level (and his VP has been a nightmare on LGBTQ and women's issues).

I guess it is Trump's lack of legislative record that allows people to make him a grab bag of whatever they want to see. But, when you check the history of who he's got on the team, the story is pretty clear.
There are some interesting things that can be done with gource beyond version control. Here's someone using it to visualize OpenBSD pf(4) firewall logs!

http://www.echothrust.com/blogs/monitoring-pf-logs-gource
While I agree that approaching this problem from the perspective of a trade agreement would be more effective in allowing western software companies to compete within China, on the other hand I'm not thrilled about what kind of moral compromises would likely be required on our end for such an agreement.

At the very least I imagine companies would be forced to cooperate with the Chinese government in suppressing free speech and limiting access to dissenting information within China. At worst they'd be pressured into exposing dissidents and actively assisting the government in creating and maintaining an authoritarian police state.
> When developed nations trade with developing nations, the middle class of the developed nation loses.

The middle class is doing just fine, thank you.

If anything, you could try to make some argument about the poorer part of the population (though even they are not really impacted).
Think about going through 30 houses in 3 hours versus spending all day driving.
They're eating our lunch. If you think China is a nice guy and compete fairly, you are wrong. China is dominating Asia, pulling away American allies, spreading its economic influence, fast. If we are ok, then we don't have to do anything.
> He wants to cede more of the Middle East to Russia, reduce our participation

Maybe it was a different week, but I thought his complaint was that we were weak against Russia and letting them do whatever they want. That's where his whole he's know Putin respects power but we have not been projecting it came from.

Again, maybe that was said at a different time. It is why I keep saying we'll have to wait and see what he really does and not just says.
Not sure if that's comparable though. If you're going to start a factory in China, you look at the cost of labor vs automation, and you pay for labor. If you have to start a factory in the US, you have a higher minimum wage, and realize automation is cheaper, so you hire less workers.
The strong vs weak dollar is one of those things that nobody seems to understand. A weak dollar means it's harder for BMW to sell in America, but easier for Ford to sell in Europe. Why should that make people in Detroit angry?
Just charge a tax on eg carbon dioxide emitted etc, and the market price of goods will reflect their ecological impact.
I'm going to put my bets on Architecture / Landscape demonstrations. I see a niche market for hosting parties / events using AR. (Think AR laser tag, AR dungeons & dragons, or novelty apps)

But I honestly feel it will be a long time before even those industries utilize it.

There is a market for this technology , it is also a fresh market in terms of application and practical use. I consider it a good oppurtunity for startups.
Cool. Nice quick hack! How would you go about tying in identity politics?
It goes hand in glove with his push for nuclear rearmament. Trump wants a strong, military deterrent but wants to stop nation state building and proxy wars. I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive.
In my experience they're doing quite a bit to help people port apps. Every time I've posted to the mailing list or hopped on IRC, someone has been there to help out. The nature of sandstorm's security controls means that any given app is either going to be really easy to port or quite difficult. Apps that don't make backend network requests tend to be pretty easy.

One challenge I've run into is that for an app to truly fit into sandstorm it needs its authentication and user management removed. This usually isn't too hard (just ripping out code) but it can be hard to upstream changes in a way that doesn't break stuff, then as the sandstorm maintainer you have to contend with merge conflicts as the upstream app releases new versions.
Blame Hillary Clinton. We could have voted for Bernie Sanders and had Single Payer rather than a system which ought to be pictured in the dictionary next to "regulatory capture".

Hillary Clinton didn't have to run her own email server. She didn't have to take pay-to-play donations when she was Secretary of State, but she did.

It was bad enough that we got two Bushes, but when another Clinton is the best we can do we aren't doing very good.
It has been my observation that Free Trade / Globalization has typically benefited the weaker party in the deal or Corporations. The American worker has historically been the causality. Ross Perot use to say hear that sucking sound, it's your jobs going to Mexico and Canada.

As time goes on I suppose automation and AI will make cheap labor a non-factor in the cost of a widget. Countries/Corporations will want to trade to secure access to products and markets instead of using cheap labor to gain an advantage. Products will have to compete on their quality and technological advantages. The main factors determining the cost of a product will be clean and reliable power, good transportation network and access to raw materials.

Either way it seems likely now that in the future the Manufacturing worker in Asia or America will eventually be a casualty.
These are amazing! So descriptive and easy to remember, I love learning stuff this way, thanks for making them!
Well, in a Widget Factory there are all sorts. It's a hierarchy of workers with different skills. Typically though it is experienced/managerial/technical staff, who figure out how to improve things. Yes some of them do come out of the lower ranks. Pretty sure Henry Ford was just an engineer in someone else's company before he started making cars which lead him to inventing the modern assembly line as we know it today.
No one was paying these people any mind, that's why Hillary lost.

It doesn't matter if those particular jobs aren't coming back, this is something that people do not get.

Guess which region of the country both the republics and democrats will be catering too for the next 4 to 8 years?

Exactly. They got what they wanted, which is to be listened to.

Stop putting this down as them simply being yokels who don't know any better.
Yes but isn't serverless is the new buzzword?

When Google App engine came out it was a big concern but now it's hip.
Interesting. He also says in that interview he doesn't really have the inclination to be president. That's what I wonder about now, if he really wants this.
I'm surprised how fast a C function call is. I would have thought that creating a stack frame would be slower than that, (and significantly slower than a floating point division), but I guess not.
My intention was to succinctly address the post, not to cherry pick. I do not disagree with anything in Matt's email but I do see opportunities for his intention to be misinterpreted. I agree that he could have been more careful.

Frankly, statements like "anyone with common sense who is paying attention knows exactly what this means" are intellectually lazy. Please explain "exactly what this means" because I do not see it.
That could be part of it, though there is the potential that we couldn't stop it even if we tried.
It could also be that the ones who are against something are always more vocal.
> Every Trump supporter seems to see exactly what they want to see of Trump's candidacy.

This is part of his genius. There's a similar concept in some mythology that I can't place at the moment...
This is where I disagree. There are so many analagous examples for Clinton its not funny.

This election I really saw the "liberal media" that everyone always talks about. Clinton had such a history that it made it clear as day. "Super predators", Jewish slurs, all the emails, Hillary's treatment of women after Bill's affairs, etc, etc.

Look at the NYTimes front pages during the election.
Can you go into more depth? Also I believe you are leaving out a group; high-level business leaders, who often do a tour in government posts. (I'm not criticizing the practice; we want competent, subject matter experts working in government)
Have you tried BigScreen? It's pretty killer for co-working. Literally the only thing keeping it from being AMAZING is a higher res screen
People follow the leaders and adjust themselves to political realities. They are not homo economicus or rational without a certain tough mindedness. Not a very complex business.
And it's already happening in production: https://aframe.io/blog/istaging/

Although today is mainly with 360-degree photos rather than real-time rendering or lightfields.
Imagine if word processing never happened because the Typists union lobbied for laws which require a human typist to draft documents, or if engineering technicians prevented CAD software from being used and replacing their jobs. Those workers were industrious, but removing them increases productivity.
Wouldn't loop detection be equivalent to solving the halting problem? Obviously a naive approach would be disallow recursion/ mutual recursion, but there are valid use cases for those that may not result in infinite execution
> One thing that jumped out to me reading the article was the author’s (or the organization’s) aversion to writing requirement spec (“detailed documentation”).
That sounded very worrisome particularly considering the fact that the development was for a domain like that of Pharma, where rules & regulations shadows heavily on what and how things are done.

He addressed that early on -- he mentioned that much of the development was "brochureware" websites. Don't think the FDA gives a wet rat about that.
I'm not American, but thankyou ACLU. I appreciate your efforts and promise of vigilance. I fear it will be necessary in the coming years
Globalism doesn't lower 1st world wages. (And people certainly benefit from cheaper fridges---but those consumer benefits are diffused amongst the population, and have no clear champion.)
This is a very important question.

If you guys wanna be better than China, please do it, by being better yourselves, not by making your competitors worse.

That attitude is improper, specially for the most powerful country.
There is a thing in decision theory called the exploration/exploitation tradeoff. Exploitation is always choosing the option that is estimated to be best. Exploration is choosing other options to see if they might be even better. In this case showing new comments is exploration.

Hacker news has a nice solution to this problem. New comments appear at the top of the thread, and then slowly fall unless they get votes. I think this works very well, although I think it's still a bit too far on the exploitation tradeoff.

I've thought about how to solve this problem, and I think the best solution is votes/time since the comment was posted. New comments will immediately appear at the top, since they have infinite vote/time ratio. But they will quickly fall to their correct ranking.

There are other solutions, like treating it like a multi-armed bandit problem. And you can use something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_sampling . Create a probability distribution for the upvote/downvote ratio for every comment. Sample from that distribution, and rank the comments accordingly. This should be close to optimal, but it requires people to use the downvote button lots (because it measures comment quality by upvote/downvote ratio, which is what reddit does currently.) Without downvotes, you could use time again, and create a probability distribution for votes/time.
Also, with this different framing, it might be possible to get the deniers on board with the idea that there is a problem.
So I'm not "on the level"? Classy. I'm pretty clear in the distinction between saying and doing, and it's pretty well-established that speech itself can be harmful. I think the Left and Right both point to things that the other says which they find objectionable, so there is broad agreement on that principle at least.

Regarding tolerance of people, that depends on how they're behaving. Society doesn't tolerate certain behaviours, and will imprison people for some of them, so arguing that you should always tolerate people is to separate people and their actions in a way that isn't always possible or appropriate.
How can you say that when there are numerous examples of assault and discrimination? From the very obvious assaults by frat boys to the fact that if a couple wants to have a child the woman is the one who is forced to take a career hit. I don't buy the retort that a woman should choose whether she wants to pursue a career in corporate law or to have a child, that consideration never enters the picture for a man.

Just because we're no longer telling Sally that she's bad at math because she's a girl doesn't mean we're done.

You may consider yourself an egalitarian but you can't be blind to the wider state of things. Have you considered that you may have a similar blindspot for other types of discrimination?
Peer review is just request for short review. "Shortly look at this new piece of code, before I will commit it into our repository, and say your opinion." That's all.

If you will ask me to review piece of your code, written like that, I will immediately ask to write test cases, because team will not be able to improve code base without test coverage, and to add meaningful documentation, so we will spend our time on work instead of solving mental puzzles. In team, your freedom ends where freedom of other members begin.

If you are thinking that you are extremely good developer, then finish your projects, with your team, in fraction of time, comparing to other teams, otherwise you are extremely good programmer, but not an extremely good developer.

> Please do let me know about bugs!

There is no obvious bugs in C code. There are few tiny problems in bash scripts (e.g. error messages are not printed to STDERR and error messages are not helpful). There are lot of problems with style and documentation, which will affect team velocity and maintenability. Peer review is not a bug review. I just need to ensure myself that new code will not create problems for us when committed, and the easier way to do that in less than 10 minutes is to look at test cases, so write test cases and documentation first. When they will be OK, I may say that your code is OK. ;-)
My first two thoughts:

(1) Might have a problem! (malware / something)

(2) Might need to let it run and do it's scanning thing for a while 'til it's initialization and/or setup is finished. I've never heard of anyone turning it off and on repeatedly.
Military Veterans at Coding Bootcamps: Talking with Sean McBride
Blame ourselves as Americans. We're the ones, as a whole, that have let American politics get to the state its in today.

Edit: Clarify we.
I think as a somewhat meta-analysis of the outspoken HN crowd on this deal (based on current comments) - it's valuable to look at previous discussions on HN:

Top comment excerpt from this thread from a year ago [1]:

It is an awful document, with horrible policy, yes....What these leaders are pushing is not democratic, it is oligarchic.

Top comment excerpt from this thread from a year ago [2]:

Reading these things makes me angry. There are people in the world who uphold economic wealth and ownership over life itself.

And there are many others from this search: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=TPP&sort=byPopularity&prefix&p...

Note that the EFF's stance hasn't changed:

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

What seems to have changed is the messenger only. That's worth closer introspection.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10363500
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11037232
My bet is that Trump will do what presidents before him did, much the same way. Presidents do what their consultants tell them, and what political and business interests and deals dictate. If he asks an Asia expert, that expert will say to Trump the same as what he said to Obama. Campaign speech and slogans is one thing. What substantial changes have resulted from Obama's "hope" campaign slogan?
It's good for the initial filter. How do you decide which houses are good enough to spend the time to drive out there and check? I guess your first impression might be 2D images on the Web. Immersive web will just enhance that initial first impression.
> I think what killed her is that she is a very unexciting stay-the-course President. No major changes,

Also lies and corruption, that's what killed her. But you're right that it would have still been "no major changes" from what she was before.

She had major investors behind her, all that money from speeches, all the media, Obama, the DOJ, people at CNN passing her debate questions before hand. And she still lost. To a TV show star.

I don't buy the idea that was "experienced", "the most qualified", "a good manager". She lost to Trump. That is a fact now. The argument of her competence, integrity, intelligence is very hard to make at this point.
Yeah, compare with this home made machine that solves a real rubiks cube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ixTddQQ2Hs4
Examples of previous ISDS cases, http://www.isdscorporateattacks.org
The Fine Article:

The Obama administration on Friday gave up all hope of enacting its sweeping Pacific trade agreement, a pact designed to preserve U.S. economic influence in fast-growing Asia that was buried by a wave of antitrade political sentiment that culminated with Tuesday’s presidential election.

The WSJ article we are here to talk about actually equates the treaty with free trade.

The article also basically describes an alignment with Congressional GOP with Trump on the subject:

Just over a year ago Republicans were willing to vote overwhelmingly in support of Mr. Obama’s trade policy. But as the political season approached and voters registered their concerns by supporting Mr. Trump, the GOP reacted coolly to the deal Mr. Obama’s team reached with Japan and 10 others countries just over a year ago in Atlanta.

There are reasons not to equate the treaty with free trade and not to equate GOP with Trump but the actual article points out the links.
How about Sarah Palin for State?

People laughed when she warned about Russia, Hillary supposedly hit the "reset button" on the relationship, and then... Russia invaded and annexed Crimea.
Exactly. He comes at it like a bean-counter, not a strategist.
Just saw on the news that after Trump met up with Obama, he's announced he wants to retain some core parts of Obamacare.

The broken promises already started. And they're going to keep going. "Draining the swamp" already isn't happening. A lot of Washington insiders are on his team. I don't know if he's actually going to be able to do any of the things he's promised now that he's in the know.
Britain could join USA, Canada and Mexico in new free trade area
That's one definition but in practice it's too weak. One company can get so dominant, esp if it fosters dependence, that it effectively has no competition. They also buy out competitors or bankrupt them by selling below cost. The dominant firm can do that longer. The biggest players pre-Antitrust used to love that technique.
How this combo will stop vendor locking?

And comparing Amazon to heavily regulated power company does't make sense.
Exactamundo
It was blocked by the provincial parlaiment of Wallonia, but they relented after 2 weeks or so. Most EU citizens didn't get a vote on it.
Try reading it in a text-based browser like w3m.
> [...] then about having just two real candidates versus more (powerful) parties [...]

You can have more than two candidates without more powerful parties.

Proportional representation leads to parties, something like range voting can keep the primacy of candidates, but lets us escape from the two party system.

http://rangevoting.org/
His trillion dollar infrastructure plan, which is vitally needed in this country where bridges and trains are falling apart, is going to be stopped dead in its track by Mitch McConnell. He flat out said it wasn't a priority.

It's going to be an awful four years where any of the good things Trump said (the stuff that resonated with Bernie supporters, renegotiating trade deals, infrastructure improvements, term limits and curtailing lobbyist influence ) are going to be flat out denied by this awful congress headed by one of the slimiest most cynical men in our history. Mitch McConnell's congress is a massive roadblock to progress.
‘I had it easy: I was never beaten’: fighting segregation in the US south
> Long on obstruction, short on governance.

So, this is fun. Two elections ago, Australia voted in an obstructionist party with an obstructionist leader - Tony Abbott. What were his policies? "No!". That was it. His policies were basically to deny the incumbent government anything.

So, he got into power. Despite being a senior political veteran of over two decades, he had no policies. It turns out that the "No!" doesn't cut it when you're in power, and it's all you've trained yourself to do. He lasted less than one term before his party replaced him, despite that same party using their opponent's previous early leader replacement as election material.

So, in short, Americans now have a government that has trained itself to be obstructionist and not think about actual policy and consequences. Good luck.
If you want to tag sequential spans of text, then you've basically got the same "shape" of problem as named entity recognition, just with different labels and data. BiLSTMs work well for this.
A simple and glorious grid for your next web app
We might have to at least try, won't we? What's the other option, roll over and accept mass extinction?
Who is saying don't use facebook et al and who is saying china shouldn't block the same services? It wouldn't surprise me if they were different people with different agendas.

I for one hate the blocking, it makes using the internet in china as an expat quite horrible, often praying that your vpn works today and often being disappointed.
Yep, pasting from Google spreadsheet into Notepad does not work. Hope is lost. :-(
BigScreen is great. Relevant article about using it for coworking: https://medium.com/@ftarnogol/co-working-in-virtual-reality-...

Haven't used it for coworking personally, but it's been fun using it to watch tv and hang out with randoms. Just having the body language goes a huge way in making it feel like you're really in a room with the other person.