skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good, we should be skeptical of this politically charged climate change pseudoscience, lead by scientists who come out later and admit they're basing their claims on flawed data. The earth's climate changes on the scale of thousands of years while we've been measuring it for 100.

All you Silicon Valley people, LA people, NYC people, city people, live in a bubble formed by the urban politics around you and reinforced by liberal college professors, the liberal students they create, and the liberal mass media. This is simply not reality for vast swaths of the country. The rest of the country outside of urban areas has not swallowed this climate change narrative hooklineandsinker and just because you're surrounded by people who think like you do, including this very website, doesn't mean you're so reasonable and everyone who disagrees with you is crazy.

You're welcome to continue that line of thinking if you like, and you're welcome to continue to be shocked when your politics are rebuked by the rest of the country like it was yesterday. Keep up the exasperated condescension toward Trump, I'm fine with it now because you lost and you will continue to lose.
Brace yourself for more. Just wait until he announces what Guliani will be heading. Or Newt Gingrich.

Sarah Palin's name is being thrown around too, so hold on tight.
If your lucky, we'll even give your territory a seat in Congress. Not a voting seat, but a seat. Good luck getting a vote for president though (although Puerto Rico does get to vote in the primaries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Commissioner_of_Puert...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_pri...
It's not that they love wealth, it's that they hate the government telling them what to do. They'll like this guy because he'll loosen regulations, scale back enforcement, etc. It's going to be a rough 2 years until midterms.
Or they change the "entry level" jobs to "intern" or "recent grad" jobs. Still no experience needed, but if you don't fit the right demographic you're out of luck.
My old team used to do this. We were an SRE/Ops focused team so we were making our way through the Google SRE book, trying to see which practices or lessons we could apply to our team and company.

I found it a super positive experience, as we had a chance to reflect on our team in the context of "established" best practices and look at what aspects of their process made sense to apply to our organization. Also, that book is quite good and it was fun to have some pressure to read a couple sections every week.
So he's going to lower taxes on the wealthy, drop taxes on businesses, increase spending on military, destroy our national parks to extract oil, and lay off federal employees.

This is going to help the middle class and the uneducated who are struggling through... magic. None of the lobbying stuff will ever see the light of day. The term limits won't happen. He's going to repeal the "illegal" Obama executive orders but leave the Bush ones in place because... they're illegal but he likes them?

The immigration thing will happen and result in massive backlash if I had to guess. None of the reforms will ever happen because he doesn't have the power to enact any of it, and the Republicans are NEVER going to agree to that when they're currently in power. His justice choice will never in a million years overturn Citizens United which is literally the only affect he could have on political corruption.
It's crazy how nearly every highly up voted comment about the election today has been about seeing different points of view and trying to not be divisive BUT nearly every comment in total is filled with a blunt hatred of trump and his (months from even existing) presidency.

Emphatic pessimism when a decision you disagree with is made is childish and sad, especially when Tump's opponents have conceded in such a heartfelt and optimistic way.
That assumes that Republicans agree with that hypothesis.

Although I don't know the context of Tysons quote, I assume however that he means that efforts are allocated to the 'correct' areas of science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbT3_9dJY4
In hindsight, money was to be made in guns, military, refiners, pipelines, and coal. I made good bets on coal and guns for relatively little investment, but missed the others. I did buy cheap puts for a railroad with heavy Mexican market exposure, so I'll see on Fri afternoon when they expire.
Is campaign finance reform really that big an issue, considering Trump just proved it's possible to win an election without any big money or support from special interests?
Yeah think of all the indignities those conservatives had to suffer, kowtowing before a black man!
But how do you know everyone who is isn't employed anymore is on disability? Do you have a source for that? Because I think it could also be that a lot of adults choose to study more years in college. Some may opt for paternity leave or (however unlikely) feel that they can afford to live on their spouses salary.

Either way, 68.7% > 67.6% so my point about the US doing better is correct.
Contract workers are actually much cheaper. When I worked on a government contract we were loaded at 1.85 and the civil servants (who made more money to start with) were loaded at 2.25.

Total compensation for civil servants is quite a bit higher.
Microsoft stops Windows 7 and 8.1 users picking and choosing updates
You seem like having the impostor syndrome and/or problems selling yourself. Your skills, as listed above, are above average. I can assure you that you can land a remote job with good pay-check.

Given your track record, I believe the ideal positions for you (and the most lucrative) are managerial positions[1].

[1] https://whoishiring.io/search/45.164/-101.030/2/?search=mana...
At this point, I just assume it will all go back to being as wacky as it was under Bush (very wacky). He threw in plenty of people that refused to acknowledge Climate Change too.

Now, its fascinating how much executive power Obama has used to push through policies that neither the House nor Senate would agree to. And yes, Trump will definitely roll them back.

I still don't understand why the Dem's didn't try and change this whole crappy process when they briefly had it all. None of these positions should be so easy to f-up with a new President. They should require actual knowledge and a proper skill-set for the people in them.
Ah, that makes sense, sorry for being so harsh then. Still, I don't think much can be done from the software perspective. You could organize local protests in supporting the groups being marginalized here. I mean, it's not uncommon to see americans protest for palestinians or something, so I don't think it could hurt or would be too weird (unless you have a reason to fear that wouldn't be safe, which I would understand).
Moronic metric chasing. They'll just make regulations longer and more convoluted so that a single regulation has the same amount of text as 3 or even 4.
I have a brother printer with cloudprint. It's my favorite printing experience bar none (there is however that creepy part where you send all your documents to google...) but it definitely works with my Samsung chromebook.
That's actually somewhat reasonable depending on the roles these people will be filling. If they're in any way a public face for the administration, it can cause issues for the administration (just think about how, indirectly, Weiner caused problems from Clinton).
I'm confused about this regulation thing. Many people hate regulations because they think of it as limiting for businesses. But I think, you couldn't work as a business if there were no regulations.

An example, Nevada voted to open its electricity market this week. Everybody should be able to choose the provider they want.

But to do this, there need to be regulations in place. Independent companies need to know how they can use the grid, the company who owns the grid needs to know what it can charge for the usage of the grid.

If you let such a market without any regulation, there won't be a market, because the grid owner won't let anyone use its grid.

So removing regulations is not always a good thing. Most of the time regulations were put there for a reason.
Hm, I wonder does cold-email actually work?! I mean do you know of cases where they hired someone out of the blue via email pitch?
Concurrent, preemptive socket servers with robust failure handling are "trivial" in Erlang. I'd say 10x productivity would be an understatement compared to other languages. Writing FPU code? 0.1x productivity would be generous. It depends on the problem you're solving.

Obviously we're throwing around random values like 5x and 10x "productivity" but it's more nuanced than that. There's more than LoC that can be measured as "productivity": how about bug count and severity per LoC written, refactoring cost, performance, robustness, library support, setup time, etc. And many more metrics.

Metrics are valued differently depending on the programmer and the problem. Eg, who cares if my CRUD web app has memory leaks and crashes randomly, it's stateless! There's not one really great language because every programmer their own productivity priorities.

Often, though, LoC is used as a poor proxy for this multi-dimensional "productivity" value.
This decision could have a silver lining: inland areas that are conservative strongholds are more likely to suffer as a result of it than coastal states which are predominantly liberal. It could be a move that contributes to Trump lasting only a single term. If you poison the well in a serious enough way it might be enough to make climate change denial or lackadaisical attitudes towards the environment politically untenable in the future.

It's just too bad that the American public has to learn the hard way.
Oh wow. Mr. Taleb sure knows how to put meat on the bone.

My most salient criticism is the slam against GMO's... I've done my own homework there and I haven't found solid evidence that there is something systematically wrong with all GMO's.
It'll happen - it's bound to. Progress tends to happen that way, if you look at any of the previously divisive issues.

The problem (and please don't misread this) is that when it's about eg. gay marriage or drug enforcement, it's "only" some people's lives being ruined. That's temporary and localized. When it's about climate change, it's about the long term fate of the entire planet. There's no "rolling back the tape".

It's already too late now. And the US just elected somebody who is ready to undo the past 8 years of its own progress on climate change.

The good news is, Greenland's pretty big and mostly uninhabited.
It's bound to happen eventually; the question is whether it will happen soon enough to do any good.
Politifact is blatantly biased. Bernie and Trump made the same claim about african american youth unemployment, and they rated Trump a liar and Bernie honest [0][1].

[0]: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jul/...
[1]: http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2016/jun/20/do...
Yes, we should pay down the national debt. Why would we want to pay interest on outstanding debt when we could lower taxes or increase services instead?

You don't have to buy Treasuries to save for retirement. There are all sorts of bonds, foreign and domestic.
Exactly. Their example:

> "Create a single page app that lets me enter movies in my home movie collection, store them in offline storage and search through them. I want to search by Genre, Title & Actors."

Significantly more than 2 hours, unless you are looking for a quick hack and for the candidate to repeatedly explain "I would have done it this other way if I had more time..."
No, yours is different, basically an exam, that requires a lot of preparation, good sleep, etc. to perform well. Very few would be able to do it.
It's funny that this whole "controversy" about the new MBP had me take a closer look at my mid-2014 MBP, which is my daily workhorse. I honestly had no idea that it even had an HDMI socket. I've never once used either of the Thunderbolt sockets. I routinely forget about the second USB plug. So I basically need a single USB socket to allow me to run apps on my phone for testing. I sometimes use the SD card slot to pull images off my camera, but I could easily use a dedicated USB-C interface for that.

So am I a "pro" user? I make iPhone and web apps with lots of users that generate many millions of dollars per year, so I'm at least "prosumer", which is probably more in line with Apple's target market for MBP than someone who makes 3D games or does VFX or motion graphics, etc.
Only if by "Global Warming Solution" you mean that it will cause more global warming.

Liquid CO2 boils away (solid CO2, i.e. "dry ice" sublimates) as it cools, so it'll still be released into the atmosphere.
It's possible to not pay them. Most candidates will do this for free, as it's far better than traditional ineffective hiring practices.

The thing is, there are always reasons why this method isn't viable. It's not till you try it that you notice huge gains.
Just like every politician before him and after.
I can attest to this.

Playing a song from a phone 'pushing' to a device on a slow connection always causes troubles for me.
Spending on the military peaked during the cold war at about 10% GDP. Right now it's down to about 4%.
Bookmark some more news sites so you get a wider spectrum. Smaller independent operations (ex: Breitbart, Drudge Report) are less vulnerable to being co-opted or politically motivated.

Also, r/The_Donald is has been an excellent aggregate for all things related to the campaign.

Also, see Wikileaks to get an idea of how bad the bias/corruption has been in the media (ex: CNN giving HRC questions in advance of debates [0], CNN asking HRC campaign for input regarding questions for Donald in exclusive interview [1]); this should help you understand the scope of the situation and why you haven't been getting good reporting from mainstream news.

[0] https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/786225211481792514

[1] https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/25846
Kerberoasting Without Mimikatz (crack service account passwords offline)
Batch script for removing telemetry updates for Windows 7 and 8.1
> By Robin Bravender, ClimateWire on September 26, 2016

..a little sooner than that

climate actions was a part of the campaign

in the debate his vp repeatedly referenced a 'war on coal'

it's how he won some important states(o)

(o) http://fortune.com/2016/07/20/why-donald-trump-wont-bring-co...
A few forgotten promises from the campaign trail:

"I will release my tax returns when Obama releases his birth certificate." - http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2011/04/donald-trump-intervi...

"If I run for office I will absolutely release my tax returns." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-5KEt1Abg

"Melania will hold a press conference on questions about her immigration." - https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/763158326653882368

"I will pay the legal fees of the man who punched a black guy at my rally." - http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-march-13-20...

"I will self fund my campaign." and other related promises - http://www.npr.org/2016/07/14/485699964/every-position-donal...

I'm not very familiar with his life before the campaign, but I'm sure there are more examples.
The Trump administration and the Republican-dominated legislature probably has two years to show results consistent with an outsider persona, and if they don't deliver, other parties will probably get a good shot at breaking the Republican domination of Congress in the midterms. It's a pretty tall order, as most of the electorate do not understand how slowly the gears of government grind, but it seems to be the pattern in history.
The president doesn't make the tax plan congress does, but given he has a republican congress he can get a lot of those things passed.
How the tech industry is reacting to Donald Trump's improbable election victory
Calm down snowflakes.
When many state legislatures are controlled by republicans? Good luck.
> if you're a US citizen

That's something you can opt out of. In fact, some do: http://fortune.com/2016/08/11/us-citizens-renounce/
We already have infrastructure, China had next to none and still doesn't really. A lot easier to grow when you're starting from zero.
I agree, maybe I'm a poor programmer, but 2 hours seems incredibly unrealistic for:

a) Creating a frontend form to submit movies
b) Creating the database to store movies
c) The 'search to find the movies' feature

Maybe I could do it in two hours, but it'd be pretty bad, and there's no point showcasing poor quality code.

My favourite was when they asked me to produce examples of things I had coded. Like any other creative industry, a portfolio is normal.
The fact that the Razor Blade doesn't even advertise the battery life tells me everything I need to know about what I should expect from that line.

Also, dell battery life is only decent with the 1080p screen. Everything I heard about the higher resolution touch screen is that it eats battery life (and the 16 GB of RAM on the XPS 13 only comes with the touch screen).
Next time you write a line of code, you have to delete two others.
> Had he taken the money he was lent or given at the start of his business career, and invested it into an index fund instead of doing his attempts at business, he would now have a net worth of $12 billion instead of $4 billion.

Matt Levine wrote a great article on this idea: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-09-03/should-do...

Maybe the best line: "For one thing, if he put all his money in index funds and reinvested all the dividends for 41 years, he'd be dead, because you can't buy food with reinvested dividends."
I was expecting the IT and devops book, The Phoenix Project: http://itrevolution.com/books/phoenix-project-devops-book/
NLTK[0][1] (Natural Language Toolkit) was fantastic as an initial resource for me. Because it's a self contained book and library, I found it to have a very smooth learning curve. There is some introductory programming stuff that you can very easily just skip in the beginning so don't let that turn you off initially.

[0] http://nltk.org
[1] http://nltk.org/book
iyx commented on 5 Sep
Anyone here with updated list of spying updates? Most comprehensive script was probably aegis-voat but it is not worked on anymore.
It's free out there to be forked by someone and continued https://github.com/th3power/aegis-voat

iki commented 2 days ago
@iyx there's maintained fork https://github.com/CodeMason/aegis-voat
>So a possible solution is to define a representation for a letter frequency distribution, and use an associative data type for the mapping.

out of curiosity, could one such representation just be all of the letters in the word, sorted? I wonder how the time-complexities would compare. I assume a trie would still be faster.
The FEC will release a summary report, but I don't believe it has the granularity of data you're looking for. Here's the 2012 version: http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2012/federalelections2012.shtml
Then they may accept their fate of poverty and most likely an early death if they prefer not to accept society's helping hand when their job is obsolete. That does not mean the offer should not be there for them.
Can we please not use autistic as a pejorative?
This would be great if they could be quickly downloaded in a specific format. I'd love to have a lot of these on my Kindle. Thank you for uploading this
> The notion that a college education bestows upon the recipient liberal viewpoints is absolute rubbish.

Do you have evidence to support that? Because here is mine: Exit polling for the most recent election:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/el...

Scroll down to the "Education" and especially the "Education by Race (white)" sections.

Peripherally (I call it that because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence), look at the "Religion" section, protestant christians vs. "none".
We're talking a difference of $10k/year, that's a lot of money. And you're speaking of miners at the lowest rungs of the ladder: what of those more experienced, or the geologists and mining engineers who are paid 2--3 times more?

Your solution doesn't provide for the workers. I'm sure you're sincere, but a handout from the government is not perceived as a substitute for challenging, meaningful, and respectable work. Basic income proposals don't generally seem to consider pride, other than what I see as nebulous handwaving about how one would be free to pursue their dreams. What dreams are there in coal country when there is no coal? I don't see BI alone as helping to sustain or resurrect a community and associated way of life whose primary industry is one you've eliminated.
That's not simple thermodynamics. That's not even appealing to thermodynamic laws at all, other than "it can't be free (unless we can get energy from the captured product)", and that only guarantees that the percentage will be nonzero.

Until you get into the particulars of burning coal and CO2 capture with feasible equipment (which aren't simple), for all you know the loss is 0.1%
Aegis for Windows 7/8.x – Block all known Microsoft spying elements
Yet another Kickstarter link, AKA "Thing That Doesn't Actually Exist®". I really wish people would stop posting links to Kickstarter projects under headlines which make it sound like an actual product, rather than a TTDAE®. It's little better than clickbait —and just as annoying
Not necessarily. And even if just in raw pay/year, the institutional effect of outsourcing is still incredibly costly in the end. And this neglects the bonus payouts negotiated into most contracts that don't occur in organic projects.
> I would argue a trie is not that good compared to a hash.

It can be more memory efficient than a hash table if there are enough shared prefixes, and it supports prefix and range queries. As always, different data structures have different tradeoffs.

> Each letter is going to be a list (which you have to search), or have a fixed sized array pointing to the next letter (could be problematic with languages that use more than a-zA-z).

A common maneuver here is to encode strings as byte sequences in UTF-8 (or some such encoding), use 256-element arrays for nodes with enough children that the linear search would be inefficient, and possibly to use hash tables for nodes that are somewhere in the middle. See here for more discussion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAT-trie
It seems to me that there's many people in America who don't realize they're in poverty. The vast majority of Americans would consider themselves middle class, while the Federal Reserve found that over 40% of households don't have $400 in cash available in case of an emergency.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/25/the-s...
The point that seems to missed here is that it doesn't matter if you feel or even are justified in your beliefs, because literally everyone feels justified in their beliefs too. Turning it into a name-calling contest is emotionally satisfying to an extent, but that's part of why today we have president elect trump, so is the satisfaction worth it?
Yeah, but the imports still set the price.
>> I have a job now, which claims ownership over any tech-related IP I create.

Is there an omitted qualifier to this, e.g. ...while on company time; for IP with sufficient correlation to your primary role?

I'm having a difficult time swallowing the legal enforceability of "all-day-everyday-any-tech-related-IP" outside of military personnel subject to the UCMJ. Would that suggest that you technically couldn't contribute to an open source project?
Conclusion: "The battle between jailbreaks and Apple makes iOS better, and more secure"

It's true. Even if you have no interest in jailbreaking, you can thank them for this.