skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect you're right in many ways.

I mention it as a copy/paste mechanism as I am surrounded by people who use it for that very purpose.

I also did have the knowledge required for the job I applied for, and whilst I have learned a lot (off my own back) over the last 18+ years, very little of it is actually required, as demonstrated by those others who get given similar tasks that they can complete using Stack Overflow.

I'm definitely in the wrong place, and after a while I sense I lost a lot of perspective due to my peers / surroundings.

Personally, I never use downvotes for things I disagree with, but perhaps some people who are luckier to work in better scenarios believe that situations like mine don't exist - I don't wish anybody to walk in my shoes.

Thank you. I appreciate you taking the time to explain.
I'll be the first to admit that there may be holes in my arguments. I hazard perhaps it just hard to articulate for ordinary mortals such as I but there is a thread running through out I feel passionately about. That is why I recommend Wolfe. He manages elegantly illustrate concepts that remain mere fizzing and bubbling of ideas in my brain. He is the master artisan, so go to him rather than me.

I am convinced Thiel has seen a glimpse of something really important in the big picture. Events are in motion, as we can see from recent events, formerly influential stories we tell ourselves about the world appear to be flying apart.

Please tell me what your experience was when you finish your first Labour! (My email is in my profile.) :-)

Here are the specific recordings I meant, there's a few alternatives drifting about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjz9m1TkQ_A

They themselves are remarkable, they took electromagnetic sensor data from Voyager 1 and 2’s trip past Jupiter and Saturn and then converted the radio waves into sound accessible to ears.
fintech/advertising are unsexy now ? what is sexy, instagram/imgur ?
You Don’t Need a Master Plan – You Just Need to Start
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yes of course. Should have remembered that given the context.
I wasn't referring to sidekiq but to indiehackers.
MV arises naturally. You can run the entire application logic without UI components, and you can test it that way also.

Other abstractions are designed similarly to allow tests against pieces of the internal API in total isolation, though separated on different lines. Maybe you have transient state stored in view models while persisted state is stored in models. The isolation only helps as size grows, and it can keep size under control mostly by having a good data model for what each component / layer / aspect actually does.

It makes it easier to rewire everything when you start with a switchboard. UI changes are either "Oh my god we're going to have to re-write so much stuff if we do it that way!" and you wind up not making drastic UI changes or "Sure, we can make that thing tickle the controller instead of that other thing."
A huge issue today is the lack of calm, reasoned debate.

As a Trump supporter I have never been able to properly explain the rationale to a liberal. I believe there is a worthy debate beneath all the political smear, but it is never reached. I believe the reason for this is the liberal media and the incredibly effective Democratic party election machine.

The argument stays at the high level of "how could you vote for someone who said that", "he is a monster", etc. It is "I don't want to listen".

All you have to do to realise what is wrong with this is to ask yourself: "What happens if the situation is reversed and someone said they don't want to listen to me?". What if someone else started to restrict what I could say?

Thankfully, freedom of speech is such an integral part of the US, that there is not one side trying to control what the other can say, and the other doing the same back.

This is what makes the country work. The fact that both sides are not in the business of restricting free speech. This doesn't hold true in many other countries.
Try to engage reasonably with other views, even if you really disagree. For example if you expanded on your first sentence and deleted the first bit 'pure ignorant writing' you're far more likely to have a meaningful conversation with someone, maybe even change their mind.
Keep in mind that there is a difference between a poll and a model. Models aggregate many polls in ways which attempt to predict the Electoral College tally. This includes polls specific to individual states. In this election even state level polls were inaccurate which lead to model predictions being off.
QML isn't crap. Its much nicer, IMHO, than HTML and CSS and much more intuitive. The animation and states system makes it trivial to make polished looking UI's.

Granted, I wish I didn't have to use JS with it, but QML itself is fantastic.
It's what they call "a good innings" in the UK.
Google's Eric Schmidt: 'The math is that the American economy is doing well'
I would love to see a huge effort towards fusion, on the same (or even greater) scale as the Manhattan project or the Apollo program. I had been disappointed in the way that fusion always seemed to be 30 years away no matter how many years went past, but I just assumed that that was because the science was hard and just the way it had to be.

https://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg

https://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2010/Winter_...

In 1976, a number of plans for investing in fusion were described, and what actually happened was that less was invested in fusion even than the level at which the program plan predicted we would never achieve fusion. This is the kind of thing that anyone who cares about humanity in general should find upsetting.

Massively abundant, cheap, clean energy should be one of humanity's top priorities.

Working, economic fusion power has a chance to revolutionize life as we know it. The countries that have access to the technology first will be at the forefront of a huge economic, social, cultural, scientific change.

It's more important than going to Mars (and would probably make going to Mars significantly easier). It's more important than nearly anything we're working on.
Travel is great, but it's an expensive luxury especially for families with multiple children. Sometimes that one trip to Disneyland is all they can afford.
They mastered basic rocketry even before Europe got proficient with gunpowder...
Show HN: Colors of Film
That would be the top federal tax rate on long term capital gains, so sounds correct.
It does. I don't know any professional user that doesn't use the CLI. (I'm an architect). I still dream with the day that Photoshop gets one also..
Is it? I took it to mean that it's coming from one side. Maybe I'm mis-understanding?
$60k puts you in the same order of magnitude as other western countries:

E.g. ~$65k gets you a senior developer in Berlin (=€60k) and similarly in Canada (=90k CAD), so a lot more competition in that bracket.
I get the joke and I've been aggressively trying to avoid it. But you can't, unless you only deal with phones or server backend.

Coming from a Linux user, for most people, Windows is the only usable non-Apple-hardware OS, unfortunately.
Ex-midwesterner, different coast. I did not enjoy growing up in the midwest.

I had a similar experience growing up: completely white town, minorities counted on one hand, zero african-americans. Not a single gay person to be found. Not until I attended college did I meet an african-american, or any non-native english speaker. Muslim? What's that? I was raised to believe african-americans, gays, and communists are bad, evil, flawed, un-welcome.

In junior high school, a friend invited me to attend a church social event near a river one night. Some of the guys put together a big, makeshift cross out of lumber they brought with them and planted it in the ground. We had a small bonfire going, and then they lit the cross. Several of the guys in the church put their Sunday robes on...then they pulled hoods over their faces. Yeah, KKK.

I knew a policeman who drove drunk all the time. I knew a teacher who bought high school students liquor many times. I knew a peer in high school sleeping with that teacher. I knew girls pregnant by 11th grade. I knew domestic violence that happened in my house, in my friends' homes, and in the homes of people I barely knew. In a small town, most of my friends and I experienced separated families through divorce.

My experience could be unique, or it could be quite common. At any rate, by the time I finished college, I needed to leave.

The midwest isn't all bad, but I saw some of the worst it has to offer.
Yes, and good riddance.
Right, that was my point - primary voters are not representative of general election voters, and so conclusions about general election voters should not be drawn from primary voter data.
% MVC was originally designed as a pattern for desktop UIs.

i still remember the MFC class library for Visual C++. it needed MVC for MDI applications where you have multiple document windows within one application window. Later MDI (and MFC) went out of fashion.

Later MS had ATL and WTL and here they had no MVC. i think not all C++ GUI class libraries were model/view/container, borland's wasn't

Also java class libraries for GUI did not force MVC. Awt and Swing don't do that.

Therefore MVC is not the only paradigm used in GUI frameworks.
There's no question about it!

If you take OPs argument of "only consider the individual, never groups of people" one step further, there is no such thing as "one woman" either. She's a collection of trillions of cells. And each cell... trillions of jiggling atoms! The horror.

All life evolved to operate by perceiving the world through efficient abstractions. Photons as shapes, chemicals as smells, cells as individuals, individuals as species, people as societies, whatever. These are all leaky and ultimately unfair generalizations!

But the "exact" alternatives are typically outcompeted by more efficient approximations. It's just too tedious to consider everything in its uniqueness.

Internalizing the right abstractions -- concrete enough to be useful but not too raw to be overwhelming -- is a fine energy-balancing act. There's no reason why the abstraction ladder should suddenly stop at the level of "trillions of cells". That would be very suspicious indeed.

To suggest that the (evolved, leaky) abstractions along the line of sex are suddenly not useful IN ANY WAY is... preposterous.
Popular and right are orthogonal values.

In addition, just like Brexit, I see a lot of people who appear to have completely ignored the concrete results of their actions.

For example, me to Trump voter: "You do realize that you voted to throw your own daughter and my mother off of healthcare? Your daughter couldn't get coverage before Obamacare because she has mild sleep apnea while being middle-aged. My mother couldn't get healthcare before the ACA because she is a breast cancer survivor." Trump voter: "Well, I didn't really want that."

What am I supposed to say at that point?

Please tell me which platform plank of yours is more important than your own daughter receiving healthcare?

Please tell me which platform plank of yours is more important than my mother receiving healthcare?

Really, I want to know this.

And, when you give me your answer about god, guns, gays, mexicans, emails, Benghazi or any other stupid thing that doesn't impact our lives one iota other than to serve as a propaganda vehicle, don't be surprised when I tell you how FUCKING WRONG you are.

Thanks.
There are a few fundamental flaws with your proposal, but namely the inventor of a patent or holder of IP generally does not just randomly assign a value to their IP and win that amount in the instance of infringement. It's sort of the whole point of proving damages, because it would be impossible to calculate future damages for a violation of IP at the time the IP was created.

For example I invent and patent the widget and assign a $1B valuation to the invention. Apple violated my patent, manufactures the widget and sells $100M. Should I sue, my potential damages have nothing to do with the $1B valuation I made up but with the damages I suffered as a result of Apple violating my patent.

Alternatively I write a book and slap $1 valuation, because I assume there is no market for my writing or to avoid the big tax until I make it big. JK Rowling Violated my copyright and slaps her name on my book and sells millions of copies, again my damages have zero relation to the valuation I created for the IP.
Microsoft Kills off ISVs by Foisting Its Own Products That Are No Better
That well may be (regarding the power management), but while SPI as standard is old, the use of SPI is not standard. I've implemented quite a few SPIs (mostly FPGA) to interface with various commercial devices and virtually all of them had a different protocol, i.e. 8bit vs 7bit words, different bits to denote write or read, etc. Some of them didn't even use SS signal. I wouldn't really called them standard, and I say that with regret. More hardware could be used in a more standard manner.
I like Cohen's. It's different from all the Wainwright-style covers, and I once heard he'd written over a hundred verses for it that he alternates on concerts. I wish they were available somewhere, but I suspect I would have had to have been there.
It will work eventually. The demographic trends are undeniable. It will take longer because rural areas have, proportionally, a much greater political influence than urban areas, but the white non-Hispanic percentage of the population is going down every year.
> Thankfully, freedom of speech is such an integral part of the US, that there is not one side trying to control what the other can say, and the other doing the same back.

Sure, you and Donald Trump can say whatever you please. Nobody's restricting your freedom of speech. However, what you say betrays who you are. And what Trump said showed he's a liar, misogynist, tech illiterate, arrogant and overall a disgusting human being.

> "What happens if the situation is reversed and someone said they don't want to listen to me?"

People listen up until the point you prove to them you're not worth listening to.
Apple started a bounty program at this years WWDC.
Thanks for your detective work. Unfortunately that's the 2015 Razer Blade, not the 2016 model. Very weird site indeed.
Yeah, I agree. TDD is also, you cannot write a single line of code without writing a failing unit test though. Well, I'm not a fan of that either.

I mean, sometimes I like writing an acceptance test to begin with and work inwards.

People sometimes interchangeably use "TDD" for "testing". Also, just because you do TDD, doesn't mean your code can be great, I've seen people assert pointless things and the unit has gotten so small that people now define them as methods in classes. Which I also think can lead to some crazy maintenance suite of tests.

If you're interested, this was a fun discussion about TDD between two professionals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtHQGs3zFAM Jim Coplien and Uncle Bob.
This is not really acceptable style on HN. This information is known based on the campaign contributions.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidential...

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/09/trump-spent-about-half-of-wha...

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/clinton-trump-get-campaign-fun...

http://fortune.com/2016/08/22/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-f...

http://www.fec.gov/disclosurep/pnational.do

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate.php?id=N0002386...
You didn't read the article. The author is from middle america and explaining to those who are not from there how wrong we are in our interpretation of what has happened. Read it, please, it's quite informative.
As an outsider (New Zealand National), your opinion appears spot on from what I can tell from our media.

A chart that sums up the election for me:

http://imgur.com/TOGIbcP

Trump didn't win the election, dropping Democrat turnout lost it.
Google won't spike Linux Dirty Cow exploit until December Android patch
I am wondering if there is something similar for Rust. Does anyone have some information on this?
Varnish High Availability: more cache servers = better performance (benchmarks)
sigh and all that plastic crap just ends up in the landfill (ocean) half a year later.

Instead we should have a "buy nothing day" that'd get celebrated for its 0$ sales.
The highlight, quote:

“Another high priority for the incoming government should be cybersecurity, Schmidt said. He said disclosures from WikiLeaks and insiders like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden will become ever easier.

"An obvious thing that the next president should do is have a division that audits the security of the data of our citizens," Schmidt said.”

You complained about Thiel, but here we are, just two days in and we have Schmidt, one of the top Clinton people, already recommending his services to Trump's administration in suppressing whistleblowers. A nice game of spot the fascist we have here.
My issue with Trump has never really been about his politics. I get that immigration and loss of manufacturing jobs due to globalization are serious concerns for a large swath of the American population. What I don't understand is how anyone could feel comfortable with him as commander in chief, or as the US's representative in the international community. Perhaps that's not what most people are concerned about, but foreign affairs is probably the area where the POTUS has the most impact. The election could have and should have been his in an absolute popular vote landslide, but that didn't happen because he kept blundering into so many unforced errors during his campaign - errors that anyone with a modicum of self restraint would have avoided.
AFAIK it doesn't, but I'm just learning. My understanding is the standard way of doing things work if you are creating the most boring CRUD apps but you need to "bend the rules" a bit to make it work for your use case very often - as long as you keep it newcomer-friendly.
IIRC this occurs when Qt keeps a reference to something but Python deletes the object; and thus segfault.

I've fixed crashes by keeping stuff assigned to variables to keep it from being GCed.
The Most Powerful Clown – Sam Harris Waking Up Podcast
Rental availability is no more a positive externality than the availability of frozen spinach at the grocery store is.
50 more days. We're nearly done.
Ha. I should have known, thanks.
No, it's Qt Quick vs. QWidget. QWidget was created in the pre-mobile days, and while still very useful to make high-quality work horse desktop apps, the mobile platforms are much better served by Qt Quick in terms of theming, animation and touch support.

This fragmentation is frustrating sometimes, but in the end what counts is whether the framework has solutions to your problems, and it usually does. (Meanwhile, Qt Quick is improving on the desktop over time.)
What's causing the tax loss? Businesses fleeing the country?
Because creating an acurate valuation for IP at the time IP is created that would be accurate for the life of the IP is impossible. Moreover, it would make no sense for that made up valuation for tax purposes to determine future potential damages in IP infringement cases.

Edit: to bring the concept to perspective, imagine having to assign a valuation to new borns so in the instance they die as a result of negligence the damages are capped at the assigned valuation of the deceased at their birth.
It's great for amateur electronics projects. Need 100 22AWG five-strand connectors and you're not in a rush? Hit up AliExpress, and they'll show up on your doorstep for less than the price of a frozen pizza in a few weeks.
Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font
That's fair. I got that they were joking, but I guess I didn't know to what extent.
Trumped – Dan Carling Common sense podcast episode
I am not sure why the debate on whether or not men and women have the same level of intelligence is still ongoing. It is obvious that men are more intelligent than women and the few studies that dared experiment on this proved this right. Women have an advantage up until a certain age (I think 12 or 14 y/o). Afterwards men crush them.

Men also have a higher deviation. There are a lot of geniuses and a lot of idiots among men. But in either case, as long as we live in today's society filled with "feel-good" and "political correctness" ideas, you won't see any definitive study being conducted because people in reality don't want to know the results. Because the moment it's recognized that blacks are dumber than whites or that women are dumber than men, this will change the society profoundly and people are just not ready to accept "the ugly truth".

This is really keeping back all of us. Science should be above all this PC bullshit... and yet, here we are...
I'm not sure if I follow but it seems like you're implying that Hyper.sh is a YC company or from Silicon Valley. Is that correct?

They are actually neither. They are not a YC company and they are based in New York & Beijing!
> More Americans need to see more of the United States. They need to shake hands with a Muslim, or talk soccer with a middle aged lesbian, or attend a lecture by a female business executive.

First off, why is this site screwing with my clipboard. Ugh.

Anyway, that's all fair. The people who are making decent money living in cities should go out to Michigan and spend some time looking for a factory job or talking to the workers who have been dealing with a shitty situation for decades.

> If we pin this election on coastal elites, we are excusing white working-class and rural Americans for voting for a man accused of violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing to rent apartments to black people. If we pin this election on coastal elites, we are excusing white working-class and rural Americans for voting for a man who called Mexicans rapists, drug dealers and criminals. If we pin this election on coastal elites, we are excusing white working-class and rural Americans for voting for a man who called for a complete ban on Muslim immigration.

Yes, people did vote for a man who said/did all those things. We can choose to believe these people are just racists/sexists/too dumb to do anything else, or we can ask them why and see what the response is.

You can also ask why the democratic voters just didn't feel bothered to show up. Was this just arrogance? Was it apathy?

> We will never return to the days where a white man could barely graduate high school and walk onto a factory floor at 18 and get a well-paying job for life. That hasn’t set in for much of the Midwest.

The problem isn't the 18 year old who's upset about a factory job he can't get. It's the 50 year old who's job is gone, or under constant threat. It's about the 35 year old who's life hasn't really gone anywhere, because he got caught in the whole thing falling apart.

You tell someone who is living the good life on the coast that it's time to "make america great again!" and they will wonder what wrong with it. Say it to someone in Michigan and they will remember that Detroit used to have the highest per capita income in the country.
adam curtis' documentary "hypernormalization" also covers how we got here.
That's exactly what I did [1], with a word of warning about "Command-Line-Fu". Experience has shown that this is by far the preferred way my customers do IIS installation.

1: https://hglabhq.com/documentation/installation/installing-hg...
I've been using Atom since a fairly early version, upgrading with each release, and it has improved a lot. My guess is that SSD makes the biggest difference, though: startup is near instant on my current MacBook, but can visibly struggle on my older work iMac if there are Windows VMs hitting the (spinning rust) HDD.
That's a beautiful solution. Why is it so hard to get intelligent legislation like this passed in the USA?
One technical factor I don't see discussed much is that when someone immigrates, they generally choose a specific location with job opportunities. If you look around you and don't see many immigrants, that should tell you something.