skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We as a nation must come together.

Really?

Now, that's your and my fervent desire, but we shouldn't conflate desires with reality, which is that we are watching our nation fragment in real time, and that this election is but one data point in that process, perhaps even a pretty minor one.

And I for one can't think of anything peaceful to reverse this process, as do the people rioting over the results of what's pretty clearly a reasonably fair election.
Norman mailer use to say that if he woke up and didn't feel like writing that he'd write himself into a good mood.

If whatever you're working on isn't doing that, do something else.
Flexibility like this is amazing for individuals who desire it. I'm in a similar position.

I'm not so sure it would work well if I had teammates that needed constant interaction.
Congrats to the team and thank you! As always, my Docker image for Rust has been updated for 1.13: https://hub.docker.com/r/jimmycuadra/rust/
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And frankly, it seems to me that the easiest and most peaceful way to avoid the worst of Trump is to encourage the best of Trump. He has to do something, and he doesn't seem to particularly care what, so let's keep him busy.

Already, he's announced several populist, nonpartisan goals which have been slapped down by Congressional Republicans. They're tame, approval-building pieces of legislation and they're infinitely more appealing than most of his campaign focuses.

If Trump wants to spend a year and a lot of political capital forcing through a sensible infrastructure repair bill, I will be writing letters to help him do it. We could fight him at every turn, but I think we'll all be better off if we decide what we can support and make that an easy path to take.
Yes. It is an interdependence. Extended family. Also for the youth it provides the perfect excuse to consume alcohol and be "irresponsible". They drink irresponsibly responsibly.

These are all trends of course. Student activism isn't zero. It's just non-existent. Activism is extremely rare.
I've also worked on codebases that have overused the && operator. Should we remove that in favor of nested if?
Very relevant to understanding today's media and politics is Adam Curtis' new documentary film Hypernormalisation. It's long but very worth it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b183c

If anyone has links to the BBC iplayer for the US, if there is one, or another legit source for outside the UK, please do reply with it.

I strongly encourage you to watch it, and if you can only find it from a dodgy source, buy someone a classic BBC DVD of something for Festivus so support their making more. (lots of things, Dr Who, Jeeves and Wooster, the Century of the Self...)
In future I intend to expand it for MySQL 8.0.

(I am the Product Manager for the MySQL Server, but yes - I personally own the domain.)
And ajross chose to ignore the private positions because they were in "the emailz". How fitting.
Unfortunately, sites like snopes and politifact also succumb to the same type of bias as the right-wing sites. See this article where politifact was handed propaganda material from the Clinton foundation and parroted it without doing any actual checking about AIDS drugs the Clinton foundation was funding:

http://www.politifactbias.com/2016/11/the-daily-caller-polit...

The problem is a lack of education by the consumer. I suggest everyone read this book as an intro on the topic:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/03...

Everyone has an agenda, follow the money, and trust no one. Whether it's right-wing like Alex Jones or Left-wing like the Tampa Bay Times a.k.a politifact, you need to be suspicious and do your own research if you want the truth.
It matters insofar as one side is asserting that the results are less valid because the people did not choose Trump. It's the same electoral/popular argument that happens every election that there's a split. The argument does not apply if it did not happen here this time.
> The exact opposite of not being politically engaged and having the few times you've seen the term be in a positive usage...

Not sure what you're trying to say here.

I honestly don't care that much about any of this. I know that there are people like you who hate "SJWs", but really what a weird thing to get riled up over. My political engagement has been entirely contrary to the war-profiteering, plundering, pro-corporate elites that run the world, but by all means you keep going after those evil college kids and feminists!
Also, I haven't heard anyone say they are against immigration entirely. Just that they want people to go about it through the proper legal channels.
Completely agree. And the fact that the breaking point is a nice round 40, which just happens to correspond with our culture's 5-day work week and typical 8 hour day is a little too convenient to believe.
There is no need to create a Grand Unified Theory of misinformation, here.

This problem isn't that hard. You filter this stuff and rank it by its SOURCE, not by the content of individual articles.

It's not hard to figure out which online sources are pushing out most of the abjectly-bad propaganda, and de-rank them.
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/JSONView-for-Chrome/pull/4... maybe it's about this XSS issue. Funny though, that the extension it's just now suddenly being pulled out.

I would've imagined this extension being used by A LOT of developers...
> indefinitely

Yes. 144 crimes? He's not going to stop, so yes, indefinitely.

This isn't about punishing him, it's about keeping him away from everyone else.
Facebook live seems to be doing pretty well so this seems likely.
Exactly. Hamilton (and most founding fathers) distrusted direct democracy. A more reasonable petition would be to go the other way -- get states to elect real Electors instead of making the presidential race pseudo-populist.
For me the deal breaker with latest MacBook Pros was not RAM, but inclusion of AMD GPUs.

I have recently got interested in Machine Learning and I wanted machine with CUDA support in order to play with TensorFlow.Even lower end GPU, like GeForce 1050 would still be a big improvement over Intel CPU for such things.

Now the only options I have is the new Razer Blade (but they don't ship to Europe yet) and (alleged) Dell XPS 15 refresh. Or go all in and buy big PC box.
I live in Croatia. As of last month, there was an attempted coup in Montenegro (our neighbors to the south). In Serbia (our neighbors to the east), the president is currently in hiding because of a series of assassination attempts, as well as the discovery of a large weapons cache indicative of a coup attempt. Both sets of conspirators were Russian-trained operatives, fresh from fighting in Ukraine for Mother Russia. Some were caught. Most fled back to Russia.

Meanwhile, in Bosnia (our next-door neighbors, sharing the overwhelming majority of our eastern border), the president of Republika Srpska (which controls half of Bosnia) has been in talks with Putin directly for months. The content of those discussions is undisclosed, but just this month he called a referendum on statehood -- a direct violation of the Dayton Agreement and a prelude to yet another Balkan War.

If you think Russia hasn't already begun invading Europe, you've really not been paying attention. With Ukraine looking likely to fall, I'd tremble if I lived in a Baltic state. Hell, I'm trembling over here and -- to give you an idea of how close to Western Europe the threat is coming -- I can see Italy on a clear day.
Thanks. Seems they were acutely aware of this; it's the first thing discussed in the paper:

http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2016/10/05/jech-2016-20789...

They're comparing with people who went to other groups, and concluding that there is a quality of scouts and guides in particular that is protective.

I do wonder if there is still selection bias, since you may choose to avoid certain types of group, and attend others.
Seems silly since they don't discuss things like multiple VMs etc. which I use for development sometimes. I'm not always connected and dragging a beefy rackmount box isn't always possible.
A study led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied Mathematics
from the University of Leicester’s Department of Mathematics,
has shown that an increase in the water temperature of the world’s
oceans of around six degrees Celsius – which some scientists predict
could occur as soon as 2100 - could stop oxygen production by phytoplankton
by disrupting the process of photosynthesis.

Disclaimer: I am a firm believer of global warming. Honest question: why is this study done by a professor in Applied Mathematics?
Suffocation really isn't the big issue here. Phytoplankton generate energy via photosynthesis, so as the temperature of water – and this the concentration of gases that are dissolved inside – changes, so too will the organisms' biological fitness. Since they reproduce very rapidly, and their populations enormous, plankton will be able to mutate their enzymes to be more appropriate for the situation (down side from the genomic perspective – decreased biodiversity, especially in species without sexual reproduction).

The more pressing concern is that larger, more slowly-reproducing aquatic organisms will experience significant strain to accommodate their metabolic needs. For many fish, crustaceans, coral, and others: rapid change in dissolved content on the ocean will cause population loss.
I just don't know where the cutoff is for professional or habitual liars. There are many ways to mislead, cherry picking data, methodological errors, straight up confusion and overwhelming technical data. Do we need to model the frequency of offense or severity?

I'm not really going for the whole slippery slope aspect, more I feel like I'm miscategorizing the problem.

Maybe the metadata on misinformation looks different from the real deal. How quickly does it spread, and through which people? No need to actually judge the content.
I can't imagine that any of those performance gains were related to autoloading.
Not anymore. I'm sorry, but that that view is now obsolete.

The fact is that large and increasing quantities of our social communication now occur online.

I'm not claiming this is salutary or calling it a good thing. I'm just stating the fact.
Hi! Former Congressional staffer here. Ten years in DC working on the Hill. There is no more compromise. Period. From any party, from any politician. Every single day is spent doing whatever is necessary to disagree, disparage, obstruct, and humiliate the other party. Compromise be damned: It's all about power, staying in power, and forcing the other part out of power. This is why I left.

The two parties have personally and vindictively attacked one another for so long that nothing gets done. The next 2 years will be spent with Republicans ramming their agenda down the throats of Democrats, precisely the way Democrats did it in 2007-2009. Then, it was payback time. Now it's payback fro the Republicans.

There is no more compromise in Congress, this is why it's so dysfunctional, and why nothing gets done. It does not appear to be changing any time soon, no matter the party in power.
I think The Guardian is a bad example of this. Their articles follow a particularly narrow group of viewpoints. They will never have the mainstream (liberal) appeal as the New York Times or the Washington Post.
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It's anecdotally untrue. The most successful people I know work a lot of hours. I don't advocate it because I don't think it's healthy on a personal level but it's certainly an effective strategy to gain an advantage in the workplace and generally just get more stuff done.
Spotify, because it lets you choose your song, is not eligible for compulsory licensing. But the compulsory license still anchors the market price. Content owners can't charge the "real" market rate for songs because streaming services and downloading services are to an extent fungible with each other.
There's actually an argument[0] that a drop in the standard of living would lead to wars and that would be the main disaster from climate change.

[0] http://futureoflife.org/2016/07/22/climate-change-is-the-mos...
I have to agree. Not necessarily on SO in particular, but on having access to resources in general.

Maybe someone who's only ever done web stuffs in javascript and RoR and the one framework that is being used for the task at the company he's applying for, it's not necessary to check facts.

When you've done two dozen programming languages, everything including low level assembly hacking, embedded & kernel development, graphics programming, network services, traditional desktop software, mobile software, video games and front end web stuffs and you've used more libraries and frameworks than you can count, it is quite possible that you're more than competent enough as a programmer. Yet you might need a bit of a refresher on whatever tech you're being asked to use because chances are it's not the only thing you focused on last year, or maybe indeed you haven't used it in a year or three.

Of course it's not black and white; if a company needs a C expert right now, somebody who knows all the pitfalls and can point at security issues & UB, then maybe he should do well on a test for that, without a reference. Although even then I'd let him use a copy of the standard (or its draft).
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Ask HN: Good resources/sites for things every programmer should know?
I know there are a lot of intro to programming sites, but I'm looking for information on more intermediate topics programmers (specifically front end developers) should learn, be familiar with, and have in their toolbox. Much appreciated.
Has this property been observed?
Well - and this goes for ransomware too - if you are smart then you aren't doing the portscanning or mailing from your personal PC. It's coming from compromised PCs or IoT devices in a botnet. So tracking down the perpetrator still involves finding the well-concealed owner of a botnet.

As a mitigation strategy you can certainly perform filtering and rate-limiting at a firewall, or even blacklisting certain IPs. I'm pretty sure there are already collectively-maintained blacklists of badly-behaved machines/devices. But you're really just taking some compromised PCs off the net, not going after the perpetrator.
In recent years they substantially fixed Ku-Band communications in poor weather with some new algorithms and consequent hardware/protocols. I suspect this would be the next step for this technology.
Why do you say that? Most countries do not allow unchecked immigration.

Personally, as someone who wants to ban guns, I think a wall would be necessary to limit gun smuggling.
I wonder if anything is done with the losing candidate's transition office.

Like, do they put together a two-page list of the most important, nonpartisan conclusions they reached and hand it off to their counterparts? I'd like to think so, but I'm hardly optimistic.
The ? operator looks lovely. It's like the C# null conditional operator, but for the Result pattern:

try!(try!(try!(foo()).bar()).baz())

Becomes

foo()?.bar()?.baz()?

Versus the Go equivalent:

a, err := foo()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
b, err := a.bar()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
c, err := b.baz()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return c
My favorite work-life balance commentary comes from Darren Aronofsky's film Pi:

Sol Robeson

You remember Archimedes of Syracuse, eh? The king asks Archimedes to determine if a present he's received is actually solid gold. Unsolved problem at the time.

It tortures the great Greek mathematician for weeks. Insomnia haunts him and he twists and turns in his bed for nights on end.

Finally, his equally exhausted wife... she's forced to share a bed with this genius... convinces him to take a bath to relax.

While he's entering the tub, Archimedes notices the bath water rise. Displacement, a way to determine volume, and that's a way to determine density... weight over volume.

And thus, Archimedes solves the problem. He screams "Eureka!" and he is so overwhelmed he runs dripping naked through the streets to the king's palace to report his discovery.

Now, what is the moral of the story?

Maximillian Cohen

That a breakthrough will come.

Sol Robeson

Wrong! The point of the story is the wife. You listen to your wife, she will give you perspective. Meaning, you need a break, you have to take a bath or you will get nowhere. There will be no order, only chaos.

Go home, Max... and you take a bath.
Yea, my guess would be that's it. Coupled with the fact it hasn't been updated in ~3 years.

I've giving this one a shot, might have too much functionality for me though...I liked how bare-bones the other one was.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-viewer/gbmdgp...
So true too. A long long time ago I was actually involved with Adbusters.. later on, in between stints of automating knowledge workers out of existence, I worked to help engineer some of the viral marketing techniques that were weaponized in this election. After Brexit, I went completely insane from knowing what would happen this week. There was no way to stop it.

The problem is that virtually everyone dramatically underestimates the power of viral manipulation. People believe that they have the power to make their own choices, that they have their own thoughts. But the truth is, they really don't. At all. Manipulating a tribe of humans to your cause is all just a matter of effort and patience. My worldview is shaped by the information I have. I just happen to spend a lot of time consuming complex information. Most people don't have that luxury. So they're completely vulnerable. Social media is powerful beyond the capabilities that I think anyone ever envisioned. And it's begun to take on a new life of it's own.
That favicon of the White House in front of a red background seems to send a wrong message scaled down to that degree. I hope they fix up some of the design work.
I believe that if we put our minds to it, we could certainly turn back the tide. I don't think we have the mind for it, though. And with Trump appointing a climate-change denier to the EPA... well, that's going to hit the pause button for 4-8 years, and I don't think we have the time to pause.

There is an alternate universe where we took this threat seriously 10-15 years ago and have made great strides to curb the sources of the problem, and are even working on reversing the effects on the oceans, etc.
Probably some form of dithering, I'd guess. I'm curious myself.
Fully agree. ORMs save you typing if you just need to wrap a table, but for complex multi-table queries I have seen really bad performance as a result. I rather prefer to capture my queries in a view, and then wrapping that is so trivial, that I don't need an ORM.
I don't think it is the greatest filter, I have no idea what that might be.

But I absolutely agree that civilisations boiling or suffocating themselves out of existence, most likely through carbon dioxide, is a much greater filter than nuclear war or hostile extraterrestrials. Just look at Venus. If we have runaway, I just hope we might survive by darkening the skies, lowering our albedo. That hopefully seems like a survival (whatever that means in the context) strategy once chlorophyll fails us.
You're right. Telling bullies "no" does risk that other bullies will leave your site. But that risk is already there.

And Facebook is already seen as political; that ship has sailed.
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Changes to broadband price claims in ads comes into force today (UK)
Am I imagining that the enthusiasm for gut bacteria research is driven in part (potentially in large part) by the failure of more classical physiological paradigms for understanding mental illness? Anything to avoid confronting the fact that people have real, profound problems, eh?
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He led the study. I'm sure he is not the only one involved.
"I don't particularly feel strong about this petition, but I don't think the argument "because it's the constitution" is a good one."

I respectfully disagree. I think the fact that it is in the Constitution should give anyone pause about changing it. That's not to say that it should not (or could not) be changed, but this isn't just something that an Executive Order by the current President could change. This is a Congressional responsibility.

This petition is absurd and pointless.
> But I see all these articles in which they suggest that after 40 hours a week, your productivity crashes or goes negative or whatever, and it strikes me as wishful thinking.

This is extremely activity dependent I think.
because you need a an extreamly complicated mathematical model if you want to make predictions within well defined "error bounds" and confidence (as in mathematical likelihood)

Basically, same reasons why supercomputers are usedto predict weather. Predicting climate is probably even harder
My informed amateur pontification: Realistically I think we're looking at a mass extinction event for sure. Big land fauna and ocean ecosystems are half there already, and only partially because of carbon emissions. Conservation will preserve many of these species in isolated reserves (or maybe just zoos), but the ecosystems themselves are toast.

Longer term, though, trends look good. Due to new technology, renewable power is getting cheaper almost as fast as carbon sources are getting more expensive, and the crossover is probably going to be within our lives. Given that, and the ability of the oceans to sink HUGE amounts of CO2 over thousand-year timescales, I'd say that permanent climate damage may never really come to pass.

So... no suffocation of life on earth, no human extinction. Just a mild dystopia where people have to read wikipedia to understand what a forest is supposed to look like.
I have personally seen people turn away from Fox News after an excess of anti-Trump coverage; though I guess by now Fox is prolific enough to reliably called Mainstream Media.
The news sidebar to me now is only a "Click to see if this random celebrity died or not" bar
My first thought was "paintings don't have pixels"; but colour is quantised I guess. I wonder how many pixels you need to get the same graduation between color tones as the original image, presumably enough to provide atom level resolution.
The title of the paper is "Mathematical Modelling of Plankton–Oxygen Dynamics Under the Climate Change". The research is trying to mathematically model plankton to determine how they will respond to global warming. That is why it is done by a professor in Applied Mathematics.
Gotta tell ya, criticizing Go for lacking generics, which Go supporters argue are unnecessary, while simultaneously arguing that C++ doesn't have reflection because it "doesn't need it" is ironic in the extreme.
I can echo bbrks comment. I've used it on Ubuntu for a year and OS X for 2. I haven't had any problems with it other than slightly different key bindings between the two which can cause some confusion.
Thanks to you my sir.
It's open source golang, just copy and paste if you need to. Or send a PR for an api.
The standard argument is that it is the other way around -- we've settled on a 8x5 scheme _because_ our breaking point is around 40 hours. However, like others in this thread, I'm not sure I agree.
Read the wikileaks emails yourself. You've got eyes, you don't need to rely on New York Times editors to read it for you.
The very first thing on the page is

> [This post is about the movie Arrival, opening everywhere tomorrow; there are no movie spoilers here.]
Tired of Fighting Fears? Make Them the Source of Your Superpower
I predict that there might be an extra hurricane or two, and maybe some aquatic species will die, but that global warming isn't a threat to all human life on earth.

Some smart scientist will find a way to scrub CO2 out of the air if it becomes a serious problem, or there will be strong political consequences to being a polluting country. And then it won't be a problem any more.