skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, how does Amazon attract talent despite a pretty universal reputation of being a horrible place to work.

I'd rather work for Microsoft or big blue than Amazon any day.
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It is a myth that Democrats had full control of the House/Senate for 2 years to pass any bill he wanted:

http://cjonline.com/blog-post/lucinda/2012-06-01/no-obama-di...
do you realize you just made a pro child-labor argument ? You're saying exploitation of children was justified because NYC became a great city with investment banks and expensive rent. The same argument could be used to justify slavery: "Oh look how well it helps the cities where all the money is stored! We can't possibly have equality for all because that would reduce the massive profits of the few!"

Exploitation is not ok, even in the short run, even if it produces a good outcome for the few who benefit from it. The massive profits made off the backs of mexican workers aren't going to mexicans, they are being exported back to the shareholders of the US companies who sent their manufacturing there.

> America needs to continue to increase sophistication of the economy by moving to higher skill services

Therein lies the inequality. Notice you said America needs to. We need to maintain that differential so that the exploitation keeps working. Because shareholders can't reap massive profits if everyone increases their sophistication. You have to keep the slaves in their proverbial cage, lest they run away.
If Calexit really happens (it will not), tech companies will flood out. Where will be their best choice, NYC? Dallas?
"Regulated like the press?" What the hell does that mean?
Sure, a Honda will get you there... but sometimes people would rather have the BMW anyway.
That's quite the business plan he's got there.

And for everyone who thinks Trump is the only one with hate speech, I refer you to Wikileaks. This women was hateful.
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet is the voting system. I think the voting system ruins online discourse.

Let me explain. Within my own social media and online forum bubbles, there are a certain set of norms and beliefs that are easy to express.

But should I express the 'wrong' beliefs in the 'wrong' forum, I simply get downvoted to oblivion. And then people don't see what I have to say. Look what happens here on Hacker News, my comments will literally start faaaaading awaaaaaay!
Maybe not directly, but if anyone get's fired in the near future and claims to be a trump supporter....

Maybe he inadvertently just gave Trump supporters a lot of job security.
It would destroy the US and Cali economy. So goofy.
"They lacked a super majority (two thirds) in the Senate, so lots of compromises still had to happen."

Sorry, that is simply not true. Obamacare was passed without a single amendment (or even a full debate), and without a single Republican vote.
You are part of this website too --- a prominent part of it, in fact, more invested in it than most of Thiel's HN defenders. Speak for yourself.
You had suggested to learn an algorithm in a different order then what you've just written, that's why I suggested it was incorrect. (You put a MATLAB implementation after a C)

Computer science is key to all of this, understanding how to write performance code isn't just in the programming skill, but it's also in understanding the complexity theory, graph theory and computer architecture.

When going for a job at these places, (you did specify 'ML Engineer', this is different from a researcher), they will grill you to make sure you understand how to use a computer. They want you to know it inside out, not just having done some tutorials, but actually able to debug deep complex issues and performance tune.

Getting familiarity with modifying the linux kernel is much more important than having done some silly competitions/tutorials. You have to remove the marketing material from reality.

It's not about being able to "write something in C", it's about understanding the conception of every bit of code, and what is happening underneath, to engineer a quality solution.
by all accounts

I'm not disagreeing with you; I'm just asking you to cite one or more of these accounts describing his lack of intellectual stamina.
They were widely reported in the media. He could have taken the approach that McCain took in regards to Obama being called a muslim but instead he continued the rhetoric of "locking up crooked Hillary" and insinuated that the second amendment could be a solution. He was/is deliberately exploiting the anger of some people. History tells us that this is playing with fire.
I'm Canadian and I've never heard of anyone moving to Vancouver.

It's rainy, depressing, very expensive, and unlike SF there aren't isn't any major industry paying fat salaries to make it worth it.
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You do realize that most members of the military love their country and would not secede? That's why they put their lives on the line.

And if you think the US military would simply allow "New California" to take its weapons and facilities, then I have a bridge to sell you.
The kind who hasn't stated a confident opinion on the matter, but is suspicious about how politicized the discussion is.
He's a hypocrite who should not be given respect.

He's riding a wave of populist hatred, after complaining democracy is not compatible with freedom.

Apparently to him the way to freedom is fascism.

This just feels so like Hitler, marching across Europe, and everybody nodded and smiled politely. Taking a "this will fizzle out soon. Is ok." stance.

There are no tanks and bombs, and no utter chaos and death. But there is plenty of social-fascism afoot.

His power comes from people that want him to be kicked out of the country too. Too light in the loafers for them.

Peter Thiel is a despicable human being.
Yes, if you imply that Donald trump is guilty of actions those associated with him have taken, you are using guilt by association. It's definitional!

I understand that you feel strongly about this, but it's not illegal to hate someone. If there are people being threatened or harmed, we do have police and the general rule of law to handle those things. It's not like trump runs the government now!

Despite emotional currents we are mostly peaceful domestically. Our institutions are still democratic in nature. Trump has to share power with the other pillars of government.

We are very, very far from anything resembling naziism. No amount of hatred expressed in speech is equivalent. Action is required.
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Thanks for clarifying. I was aware it could have different meanings and just wanted to make sure. And thanks for responding to the original question. I think the issue is a lot more complex than can be extrapolated from a single example. Like I said, it's something I've been thinking about, some heuristic or guideline that can be applied to more than just this particular situation. I wish I had a grip on a better answer. Watching people go at each other on Hacker News has been hard.
Perhaps you could avail yourself of some of your erudition and explain what relationship these three links have to your objection.
You're conflating political opinions with political actions. Pulling the trigger on a preemptive war is not an opinion, it's an action.
There are a lot of people who don't want to have to have the argument about why this sort of cute posturing, much like talking about the popular vote count[1] undermines the serious work they think needs to be done.

It fits a convenient narrative for a moment--we'll show them! However it is not a movement, and is an expression of despair by a small number rather than an actual desire to secede. The temporary defeatist attitude, too, ends up getting quoted, long after people have figured out to move on productively.

To a lesser extent I think a focus on choosing DNC scapegoats sets back the important self examination that needs to be accomplished by people who were certain that the policy directions they were pursuing would also be beneficial to the people who voted for Trump. Was it a message delivery problem, a failure to understand a broader spectrum of grievances than economic pressures alone?

[1] It doesn't matter whether a shift away from electoral college would be better in the context of Nov 8, 2016, because the well known parameters of the electoral college determined voters' participation rates and the candidates' strategies.
> What would be so bad about at&t offering a service that banned fraudsters from calling you?

That isn't what we're talking about, now is it?
Reads like a temper tantrum...
Okay. That video explained it well. Thanks.
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If we're talking about believing headlines it's important to note that headlines would have had you believe that 90% of the country was going to vote for Hillary. They've been very wrong and will likely continue to be wrong until proven otherwise.
Such bullshit. Has democracy lost it's meaning? There was an election. The majority voted and Trump won. Stop all this meaningless hate and bullying of trump supporters.
Is there a reputable, reliable source for this?
What I did was describe the current situation in the US. I'm making no particular remark, in the post you're replying to, on what I want out of "people with opinions I find odious".

If someone is willing to say that they would stand up to an ethnic cleansing, I think it's reasonable to ask them at what point they'll stand up to it.

I do find cultural bigotry to be odious though and to answer your question, I will not protect the rights of people to threaten and kill others. I will not defend a culture that promotes the exclusion of classes of people by skin color, religion, accent, gender or even political leanings.

I don't know why you're asking me what mechanism would make this work. People's unhappiness has very little impact on whether policies work. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this discussion, as the things I refuse to defend would not be happening in the first place.
Understand that with Trump, he is willing to say somewhat crazy shit in order to negotiate from a position of strength, versus conceding the fact ahead of time and hoping another country will give us the same slack.

I think this will become more clear once the man has a chance to lead for a few months. That no, he's not going to try to dispatch paddywagons to round up all the illegals, no he's not going to try to require all Muslim citizens to enter some sort of registry... but he is going to tell all the people who spent the 10 years becoming legal citizens that there time was well-spent, and send a message to the people like Syed Farook that they will have a much harder time walking through CBP.
True, but SPI is really just referring to the physical layer protocol while the layers above can vary considerably and be proprietary. The only thing that's constant is that it is a synchronous serial protocol.

It's not like USB which defines device classes and the higher-level layers of the stack, or PS/2 where e.g. all PS/2 keyboards or mice are expected to have an identical basic set of functionality and behaviour. There are certainly proprietary "vendor-specific" extensions to those, but e.g. it's almost a given that if you plug in a USB keyboard, all the standard QWERTY keys should work effortlessly; and while there may be extensions like displays and touchbars that require specific drivers, the core functionality doesn't change.

If I understand correctly, what Apple did here is invent their own protocol for the keyboard which is completely different from what any PC or earlier Macs have, thus the lack of any functionality from Linux. And given how crucial a keyboard is to being able to do anything with the computer, it's no wonder this has caused much consternation.

I think many people are used to the idea that even if the OS does not provide drivers for specific devices, basic functionality like keyboard, mouse, and video (even if it's something like a VGA 640x480 16 colours mode) should still be present --- partly to enable "bootstrapping" into more functionality by installing and troubleshooting the drivers.
Snopes did put out a lot of articles this season where the claim of "false" seemed to hinge on some sort of hair-splitting rather than the core of the claim being inaccurate.
There are generations of families --- literally millions of people --- that are linked together through people who are in the US "illegally". People were brought here as children and have known no other life. People who were born in this country and are unassailably citizens, deserving of all the protections previous generations of Americans died on beaches to defend for them, whose parents were brought here illegally as children.

Do not casually dismiss these people by appealing to "legal immigration". The Obama Administration had to fight hard to secure continued residency for some of these children, and Trump's 100 Day Plan includes a pledge to revoke that security.

This is a real concern deserving your careful consideration. It's not a sound bite. You can disagree, but if you're disagreeing that we should be concerned about a pledge to rend families apart, you owe a more careful and honest articulation of your disagreement than you gave here.
Oh no, this title is going to rile up those Hillary supporting snowflakes.
At least here in the states, workers rights are very poor, and Amazon will hire nearly anyone. I know that they were only offering homeless in Seattle & Bellevue nigh shift hours as a temp employee, which meant they could not live in a shelter or rehab since they would start work a few hours after the curfew. Really a great helping hand Jeff, throwin' em to the wolves!
HP Pro is strangely enough HPs low end line. HP Elitebooks are the equivalent to the MacBook pro.
I don't think you and the parent are in disagreement if you take their last sentence seriously:

"It could make more impact if it actually explained tasks that are harder to do in GUI than in the command line, such as massive renaming of the files, filtering files depending on content and so on."

It seemed to me his assertion wasn't "the CLI is bad and we shouldn't use it," but rather that the linked "You Don't Need the GUI" piece doesn't make a particularly good case.

And, I admit I agree. There are things that a CLI is much better at, especially if you're a developer, but there are other things that a GUI is arguably better at, sometimes even if you're a developer. If I have a bunch of files that need to be committed to a git repository and I want to commit the changes in multiple commits so they're related by topic, it's faster to select and commit each set of files with GitUp than it is using git's CLI. I find myself switching between the terminal and Finder on a fairly routine basis depending on what the task is.

tl;dr: GUI aficionados really should learn the CLI, but the reverse is also true. I can't speak for every GUI out there, but there's a lot you can do in macOS's that I think people don't really take advantage of.
I'm trying to figure out if the person who wrote that doesn't understand how Congress works, or is simply being deceptive.

The only "myth" there is pretending that it requires a filibuster-proof majority to pass any legislation.
you do know most other countries require ids including india, a third world nation with a billion people.
Demonstrably false.
Well, I mean, they ARE the same experts who told us deregulation of finance was a good idea.
Depends, if it is an at-will state, than the employer can fire for any reason.
Made a pro Trump post here once. It got down voted into oblivion. Not on Facebook anymore, but when I was my aunt defriended me over politics. What this author doesn't understand is that the right isn't in an echo chamber. We're very much aware of left wing media and are exposed to it all the time. It's just lost all its persuasive power over us because it's founded on straw men. Now the answer presented is basically to justify political censorship under the guise of fact checking? Good to know that the left has learned nothing. Get ready to keep on losing.
That depends on if you think fairness is the value people get out the services, or the ability of people to pay for those services.
If I own a house but I have a new job far away and I rent a house there and have a tenant in the one I own, that's a zero-sum game (assuming the rent I pay is equivalent to one I get from my tenant). The owner of the house I'm occupying could even be the tenant of my own house. How do you justify economically taxing the rented home more than if we occupied our own?
But why would that be relevant to him being beholden to Russian investors? What sort of connection/conclusion would it forseeably allow us to make?
> Libertarian means do what you want as long as you're not hurting others.

People are doing what they want and it's being argued that it's hurting others.

That said, I've never seen a libertarian push for anything other than leaving it up to the market, even in the face of negative externalities.
I am a automotive tech worker. i dont know how a lawyer determines h1b minimum wage but i get paid a lot less than Americans in my company who dont even have a masters degree. Yes its very easy to trick the laws
Dear lord
It's about time someone realized this.

Or... is it?
I'd think the US would not be California's greatest friend if this were to happen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

According to data from Google and Wikipedia, 2.5 million registered democrats didn't vote Democrat and 2 million Republicans didn't vote Republican. Non voters probably don't factor in. I'd think that non voters would be less likely to support secession.
Now go back and read all the HN comments from 26 days ago about how Thiel was flushing money down the toilet:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716514
I do know our history. And I could explain my reasoning, but the short story is that I was being an idealist and an idiot. That is how.
What's the opensource alternative to sidekiq? I am impressed he gets this much money out of developer tools...
Every successful politician in the last hundred years has "rallied against crony corruption".
I'll tell you what! Democrats, that's right Democrats in other states, in the US Capitol would not allow it.

There would go a balanced Democracy in the US for decades to come. There would be no California delegation to counter the 2/3 republicans in a new congress and they would lose their financial benefactors from the state. No way. This is all posturing, whining and petulance.
There are light bulbs as a service, so anything is possible.
A somewhat obscure piece of trivia.

There's code similar to this seen on a computer screen in digimon. http://i.imgur.com/gh3dK.jpg

A translation from the Basic dialect into Javascript
http://fingswotidun.com/code/index.php/Digimon

Press the play button to get it trying a series of random seeds.
Apple is a premium brand, not a luxury one. Premium products are mass marketed and justify their price premium with higher quality and useful extra features. Luxury products are niche targeted and justify their price premium with exclusivity and unnecessary extra features.

Put it this way: an iPhone is premium, manufactured in the millions. A gold iPhone is luxury, manufactured in the thousands.
1) Seems a bit strong to tell someone what they can and can't say.

2) He didn't get half the country to vote for him. It looks like around 55-60% of voters turned out this year (the whole tally isn't calculated yet). Of those, he got less than 50% (as Clinton got more votes than him). So at best he seems to have gotten around 30% of the voters to vote for him. Not everyone is a voter (age, other disqualifying factors). So even if he had somehow gotten 50% of voters (which, again, he didn't), he'd still have less than half the country voting for him.
I'd be more than happy to take money out of the hands of people I disagree with politically.

Money is fungible.

It can be exchanged for goods and services.

Basically this guy declared, "I can't be trusted to make decisions with money."

Good luck getting funded by anyone else.
So is donating over a million dollars to a campaign an opinion or an action, then?
Thank you for pushing Ruby performance forward! :)
> Perhaps, but remember militaries train discipline and chain of command for a reason.

Indeed, and that's why its so significant that Californians make up such a large portion of the military. They bring that modern world class military training with them. Without that body of already experienced and trained people, a real military would be essentially impossible for years, even decades.

> If there were a serious rebellion, those would be the first targets. Thousands--even tens of thousands--of lost military and civilian lives would be a small price to pay in the US govt's eyes than to let a new nuclear power spring up on its doorstep.

If it actually reached that point, Californians would probably be just as ready for that.

Regardless, though, my point was that it's not so cut and dried as was suggested. The scenario would not be the full might of the US military against defenseless California, it would in essence be a gutted US military in total disarray against a cobbled together smaller portion of the US military.
Charles Manson's letter to North Korea's leader has been released
I don't think many of Thiel's detractors denied that he was buying himself this seat at the table. In fact, many of us were animated by exactly that concern.
NAFTA, obviously.
Interesting. I've known several Canadians who've moved there from elsewhere in BC, and from Quebec. Vancouver's population has grown steadily over the last few decades[0]. Though perhaps it hasn't had anything like the population boom that, say, Calgary has, or the same kind of economic draw that SF has.

What are the places you've found your fellow Canadians tend to move to?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Vancouver
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I took my mum to see him live in Brisbane back in 2013. At the end of the show he thanked his backing band. And then he thanked, by name, the sound engineers, the lighting operators, the cameraman filming for the tour DVD, and various other staff. One of the greatest musicians to have lived but also a genuine and decent person.
Yes, you can. Your rebuttal doesn't even hold together logically. Extremism isn't defined by lack of popular support. Our entire system of government was designed in part out of a fear of the extremism of the massed public.
That doesn't at all mean no compromises were made. It would be oversimplifying and naive to assume that the only compromises made in political dealings manifested as amendments.
The secretary of defense has no veto power though, right? He can resign, but the President can still go right on ahead.
Their second, third, and fourth homes are in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. I don't think Canada has any access to their land registries.
This is not land, this is new dwelling units, which most certainly can.