skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can't have the media operate with such bias in this country. Freedom of the press is important, but when the press become political activists we should all yell foul and reign them in. The first thing totalitarian regimes do is take control of the press. We can't have a press that is so far to the left that they won't report the truth, or worst, distort it.

You say we "can't", but we demonstrably do have such a press. And you're 100% correct to discern the totalitarian nature of it.

Which is why alternative sources have become so important, and as more people's "Pravda breakers" trip (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12921328) the less important this old press becomes. Look no further than the former "Newspaper of Record", it's post-election front page, it's crashing revenue, and why I call it "Carlos Slim's personal blog".

Historically it started with Reagan's zapping of the "'Fairness' Doctrine", which allowed right of center talk radio to become a thing, which I'm sure helped prime things for rise of the Internet. Drudge's 1998 reporting of a story spiked by Newsweek (sold in 2010 for a dollar and assumption of its liabilities) clearly marked this was a decisive change ... and yet our "press", MSM, this whole old establishment, seems determined to stay the course.

Which, just citing the two financial bits above, looks like a path to oblivion (although many of us are predicting they'll get direct government support soon enough, but that won't get them readers), and therefore self-correcting in, say, the medium term. So I'm not quite so alarmed, as long as the Internet stays free of censorship at the IP and maybe DNS levels.
The URM often say that they are doing to those outside the community. You don't complain, unless you wnat to be branded a problem, a complainer, a whiner.
This might not make Americans feel better but other countries have it even worse. Swedish media has been surreal during this election. You would think the US just elected the literal devil as president.

The Bonnier papers (the single company that totally dominates Swedish media) ran a story about how to talk to your children about Trump, instructing parents to tone down the apocalyptic comments in order not to scare the kids too much.
BrandsEye predicted Trump win using Social Media data
Flat can be fine with shadows (though if it has shadows is it flat?) and other hints but yes I think the desktop UI in particular reached it's peak with Win2k, everything since has been different but not better.

These days I use XFCE with http://www.noobslab.com/2016/03/vivacious-colors-gtk-theme-s... and it's nice.
I suppose "IYI" here means "Intellectual Yet Idiot"? That's not the level at which we lead discussions on this site.

Save for the people who've actually been to rural America, people's opinion here of rural Americans certainly is very undifferentiated.
I'm far more on your side when it comes to surveillance, but I don't accept "government contracts" as a motivator. I think you're being reductionist and neglecting the fact that technology has a place in stopping terror and crime in general... We just don't know where to draw the line yet.
VB6? Delphi? Windows Forms? WPF? Flash? QT? Xcode?

I am not saying I don't want to write a single line of code, just saying that the UI components can be assembled and "configured" with a design tool.
I work on Kubernetes, and we're putting a lot of effort into making it easier to get started.

Here are some things that might help:

* minikube: http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/minikube/

* the new tutorial: http://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/

* deploying in 2 steps with kubeadm: http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/kubeadm/

I'd love any honest feedback on how we can either (a) fix the learning curve, or (b) remove the perception that it's steep.
even more condescending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfqVih7IFlI
A lot of the problems that an ordinary person would suffer cease to be an issue when you're worth $2.7B. I suspect that for Thiel, the loss of hard fought rights will not impact him very much personally. Marriage for example is not just symbolic, it also confers rights to a partner's pension contributions, their assets if they happen to die intestate etc. Thiel may be able to fill many of these gaps with expensive legal arrangements that others can't afford.
It's not being misconstrued. Full Email Text:

SUBJECT: So... that happened... what's next?

I'm still trying to reconcile my own worldview with the overwhelming message that was delivered last night. Clearly there are a lot of people angry and scared as the antithesis of every modern presidential candidate won and will be our next president.

While demeaning, insulting and ridiculing minorities, immigrants and the physically/mentally disabled worked for Mr. Trump, I want to be clear that this behavior - and these views, have no place at Grubhub. Had he worked here, many of his comments would have resulted in his immediate termination.

We have worked for years cultivating a culture of support and inclusiveness. I firmly believe that we must bring together different perspectives to continue innovating - including all genders, races, ethnicities and sexual, cultural or ideological preferences. We are better, faster and stronger together.

Further I absolutely reject the nationalist, anti-immigrant and hateful politics of Donald Trump and will work to shield our community from this movement as best as I can.

As we all try to understand what this vote means to us, I want to affirm to anyone on our team that is scared or feels personally exposed, that I and everyone else here at Grubhub will fight for your dignity and your right to make a better life for yourself and your family here in the United States.

If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because you have no place here. We do not tolerate hateful attitudes on our team.I want to repeat what Hillary said this morning, that the new administration deserves our open minds and a chance to lead, but never stop believing that the fight for what's right is worth it.

Stay strong, Matt
Perhaps the removal of an undocumented workforce that requires being paid under the table will force agricultural and construction companies to obey the laws.
I suggest you read the vox piece from april about this phenomenon in american liberalism. They go in to exhaustive detail.
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberali...

I think that it is far to easy in the modern world to only see, meet and talk to people who think and act like you. It certainly seems that many of my friends think that America looks and acts like their friends from coast to coast. That everyone is the same, and thus that their views are universal. The press really ought to be a place where one can get information from outside the bubble not an extesnion of it.

"The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."
Thomas Jefferson
> Deflecting

Peaceful protesters aren't presidential candidates threatening to not respect the vote.

How does that justify giving a pass to the terrible things Trump has said and done?
What should I google to find out more on this topic? Why do they need double precision if they aren't doing computation? Is it actually visible to the human eye?
Yeah, that is.

In what's often termed the "classic" approach, you instead lean toward writing more coarse-grained tests, and you don't shy away from integration tests. You don't avoid mocks, but you tend to prefer saving them for situations where it really is hard to force a collaborator to behave in a certain way. (I also try to stay on guard for the possibility that those situations are code smells indicating that your implementation is getting to be too complex and is due for a refactor.)

IMO, the main argument against classical TDD is that you tend to get a suite of tests that runs more slowly and has more dependencies on external resources such as the database.

IMO, the main arguments against mockist TDD are that you end up with test-induced design damage, and a brittle suite of tests that makes your codebase resistant to refactoring.
"Trump/Pence seem to want to roll back a lot of hard fought rights won by the homosexual community"

I don't think there is much evidence for that. President Obama publicly stated his opposition to same sex marriage when he was running for president in 2008. The only reason it ended up being legalized nationwide was because of a supreme court case brought by a bunch of LGBT Republicans.

On that issue Trump has said, "The Supreme Court has issued an opinion on this. Same-sex marriage is an issue that should have been decided by the states." In other words he probably thinks same sex marriage is fine but didn't want to say so because he knows it's a polarizing issue. That's a more progressive position than _Obama_ took in 08.
Nothing wrong with having many choices but to answer the question I think it's because of the sheer of popularity it has. I mean it is the language of the web after all.
California has millions of votes remaining to be counted. Clinton won the popular vote, and probably by a million or two.
Ben Carson will also continue to do just fine.
That was only true until the refugee crisis gained momentum in the news cycles. You'll have troubling finding a peep defending the person and groups you listed in most international, big name media.
1. 10% tax holiday
2. 15% corporate tax
3. 25% personal top rate

best 1.2 mil ever spent
Hell, the 60m trump invested was cheap. he cut out the middle man.
That is fair. I'll grant you that. I had concerns about Hillary.

And I can appreciate Trump's anti corruption policies. It will be very interesting to see if he does engage in a trade war, slapping tariffs on goods made outside the US. If he passed legislation about charging taxes on carried interest that too would be positive.

However I'm scared as all hell about everything else. If he does anything good that will be a minor miracle. He is a sociopath and a narcissist. His tax plan will blow a hole in the federal budget while maintaining entitlements. There was an article where he asked the generals "why cant we just nuke them" 3 times. It's going to be like Bush but a lot worse.
"we see the rural US as a bunch of Cletus Spucklers"

but that is a level you are happy with?
Man. This is a fantastic piece of perspective - thank you.
Keep in mind that Thiel sued Gawker to stop freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Trump doesn't care and will appoint Thiel to a major position in his administration anyway. Trump also repeatedly sued (or threatened to sue) newspapers who published factual stories about him as well as women who he sexually abused. This is a chilling precedent for free speech: if you are rich enough, then you can just sue to silence the opposition. I don't know how you can ignore the bullying by the right.
It's easy to want society to collapse when you're not a part of it.
People vote on more than one issue. No candidate is perfect, and it just so happens we ended up with two this time that were both pretty bad. An NPR podcast noted that some polls have found that ~40% of registered democrats polled voted for Trump. For those people at least, renegotiating NAFTA or blocking the TPP was more important than Trumps vulgarities or letting states decide on other social issues.

At this point, I would rather to not see anything else about Trump on HN until something actually happens. But here I am, sucked in to comment...
Python 3 is omnipresent in my work right now and it is so nice not to have to worry about, for example, unicode issues.

The only thing I'm dealing with which is still not Python 3 compatible is AWS Lambda, which only offers 2.7 right now. Supposedly Amazon is working on 3.x but... come on.
" The German bank that has lent Trump millions of dollars has a $14 billion fine to the justice department. "

That's not a conflict of interest, it's just regular business.

If you are 'in business' - you 'do business' with banks. There are not that many big ones.

A loan is just a financial product like any other.
LLVM is too big and not good enough.

The only viable options are dynasm, a simple selfmade jit as in potion/tinyrb or rpython. perl6 went with dynasm.

rujit looked good to me, but the tracing overhead was too much. They should really analyze why it was so big, even as tracing jit.

And the datastructures need to be slimmed down, as in potion/tinyrb or php7 or lua/lisps. Only tagging schemes lead to performance. This has nothing to do with the jit. size matters.
Muslims often say: "Stop calling all of us terrorists and stop saying Islam encourages terrorism because you are missing the real underlying issues. We want everyone to be happy just like you do, but we think your understanding of terrorism is flawed."

Can you recognize the parallel between your statement and the one I've paraphrased above?
This, for example: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/18778

I support the idea of declarative configuration and dependencies, but I also realize that this is a very very hard thing to do, when each language have its own preferred package manager and they all expect a mutable environment.

(I tried NixOS for 2 months and switched back to Ubuntu. The issues are too numerous so far, despite heroic work of NixOS dev team)
(Author here)

Thanks! I'm planning to make two follow up posts, on each of the systems, that go through those details. I blurred them out in this post because I wanted to get across this more abstract story about the data types and transformations.

There are lots of good posts about attention mechanisms. The WildML post is good, as is Chris Olah's post. Bidirectional RNNs are a little bit less well covered, but the idea is not too difficult to understand given a single RNN (or LSTM, GRU etc).

You should also read the papers :). This is how most people who are doing ML --- including the people building practical things, not researchers --- are staying up to date. Academia is so competitive and writing is cheap relative to experimentation. The deep learning literature is really pretty easy to follow.
Don't be obtuse. College students painting banners is a far cry from a presidential candidate refusing to concede an election over imagined vote fraud. And there is a strong chance that's what Trump would have done.
No. I once used an obscure, powerful language that was the only language that offered a framework to solve a particular kind of problem. Other languages didn't offer it. It's probably because of how powerful the language was that it attracted the person that had written the framework.

I once also used an obscure, powerful language to solve a very common problem. The language helped me think better and I was able to find a simpler solution than the solution non-obscure, less powerful languages had found.

Maybe what to look for in a language isn't obscurity but power.
I suspect you're right on Trump - he probably doesn't care much about gay marriage either way.

There's plenty of evidence Pence will be an issue, though.

http://time.com/4406337/mike-pence-gay-rights-lgbt-religious...

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/mike-pence-record-reproductiv...
As a guy who once described himself as "very liberal", I have to say that I'm ashamed at the lack of empathy and the sheer smugness of my liberal friends.

There is a disease in modern liberalism about wanting to appear smart, even about things people should have no clue about.

This "wink wink, look how smart I am!" posturing is seriously misplaced and seriously off-putting.

If you want to know why Trump won, you have to start by dismantling this smugness.
You do understands that Clintons plan to influx millions of muslims who are against homosexuals and lgbt would be the real danger for them.

Trump has been advocate for gays from the 80's and has brought even GOP to support lgbt in this term.

Edit: People downvoting you do know muslims do not accept lgbt and are quite hostile against them?
[Disclaimer: I didn't vote]

Why do you think Trump's particularly anti-gay? Here he is waiving around a rainbow flag (in a positive sense) at a rally just a couple of weeks ago: http://www.advocate.com/2016/10/31/donald-trump-waves-lgbt-r...
This is the key distinction. Everyone is so quick to blame the immigrant, not the employer who paying them and dodging taxes.
People voted for Trump for 2 reasons, they were tired of business-as-usual from the out of touch elites and they saw the other candidate(Clinton) as having no redeeming value.
Agree. I happen to think that a lot of US domestic issues could be solved if Americans would accept the other side of "population-density" as equal before law.

For example: The acceptance of Gun Laws are directly correlated to density as density makes dense policing more affordable. How is it so complicated arguing about this, when all you'd need is accepting that different areas should be able to loosen/strengthen gun control, as the populace wishes?

How much of that inability to understand each other comes from the fact that media is usually produced in high density areas?
His phrase, 'he got less than 50% (as Clinton got more votes than him),' implies that Mr. Trump received less than 50% because Mrs. Clinton received more votes than him, which is not true: they both received less than 50% because a significant portion of voters chose not to vote for either.
I blame in part, that the default install for OS's like Ubuntu and Mac is Python 2.7. If you are starting python development, and want to support more systems, and you know the default is 2.7, then that's what you will target.
So by mentioning salary I presume we're talking indefinite contracts here rather than lots of different clients.

To be honest you're going to have a tough time, competition is high and hiring juniors seems quite rare. (You may have more luck with larger remote companies but most remote companies tend towards the smaller side).

However here are some things you can do to maximise your chances (applicable to non remote work too).

1. Be effective and clear with communication, remote work requires you to over-communicate. Don't assume the person with whom you're talking to via email/slack has all the information that you do.

2. Being a grad you've got no real CV experience to fall back on, imperative that you have a github/bitbucket account with examples of the work you can do. At least one fully fledged project in the stack that you are targeting. For example if you're going to work with Rails then having a project where you use some common libraries, integrate OAuth or some sort of authentication,talk to external APIs with good test coverage and and documentation.

3. Almost as important as #2 is to blog with what you're learning, show any companies of the learning that you're doing and the potential that you have. We had an applicant once who included a link to all 50 Amazon reviews he'd written of different tech books, fantastic way to show passion and understanding.

4. Be realistic, being a grad and go straight into remote work will be tough. Have a plan B.

My advice would be to try and work in a larger company for a while, find the opportunity to work with experienced developers and see how it is, you may actually like being in an office! Remote work is not for everyone and while it seems to be perfect it has many drawbacks.

Best of luck!
You've hit the nail on the head. Liberalism has spent the last 10 years being the language and thought police. Where is the liberalism that brought us social security and desegregation? Why isn't liberalism talking about and fighting for basic income? None of that, just "use phrases and words as I want you to".

I am reminded of a common quip, which I am going to modify:

First they came for the word nigger, and I stopped using it because it was hurtful to black people. Then they came for the word faggot and I stopped using it because it was hurtful to gay people. Then they came for the word retarded and I stopped using it because it was hurtful to disabled people. Then they came after the words he and she, and I was called a bigot, racist, xenophobe for not bending my knee to "they".
Given that your poll was off by 8 points, was that not the correct decision?
It spread to the Canadian press (at least Quebec's) like wildfire. Everything I would hear in the media was unapologetically anti-Trump. It lead to a climate where people would just assume that Trump was crazy/racist/mysogenic/untrustworthy, and further confirm their smug idea that the US is full of rednecks. Most people went along with it, and would casually mention how disgusting Trump is, without being able to name one concrete argument for it. "Trump is bad" became an axiom. I'm sure it's been similar in many other countries (including the US).
All About the Cheese in the Cheesecake
It's like you live in this world where greed for money and power don't exist. What good has Thiel done to be able to bypass all resonable criticism of people in power?
The last 30 years have seen a distinct change in economic policies that rewards the privileged and leave others struggling in the name of efficiency and capitalism.

Yet when things go southward and things like the banking crisis happens these principles are swiftly jettisoned and privileged interests indiscriminately bailed out with the media and 'experts' stepping in to gloss over the rank hypocrisy.

The poor are harassed and incarcerated for every small trangression while the rich and connected like the bankers, Shrekeli, Holmes routinely get way with fraud and worse.

These inconsistences are not forgotten. All that economic power is then inevitably used in a self serving way to further increase their own share of rewards like quasi feudalism.

Wars are being fought to benefit financial interests that leave millions in other countries in disarray, billion dollar surveillance industries are built that fundamentally shift the balance of power from the people to the state.

HN itself is guilty of celebrating wealth and gloating over the irrelevance of people with automation and AI. Why the gloating? Where is the sensitivity to the impact of these technologies on society and the unprivileged. There is so much disrespect and general nastiness to people here who are not perceived to be successful with no notion of adversity or privilege. This kind of disrespect and dehumanization is bound to rankle. Cmon these are your own people. What do you think these people are going to do? They will listen and vote in demagogues.
http://i.imgur.com/EJM1viF.png

That's why Python 2.7 will be around and maintain dominance for a while.

When the latest stable releases of the primary environments are defaulting to something you have to have very good reasons why not to use the default (even when it's easy to change the default).

Administrators (in the old school not the new "everything in containers") don't like using non-defaults.
For a little context, some rough voter totals going back to 2000 (in millions):

2016: 126
2012: 129
2008: 131
2004: 122
2000: 105

While, certainly, there were less votes cast than the last two elections, it doesn't appear to be a record low.

Edit: Sources are Google for 2016 and Wikipedia for the rest.
I suppose linking articles about Judge Curiel, retweeting white supremacists, the Central Park Five, etc. can be explained away as what? "Cherry picking"?