skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's not just a small percentage of activists. I'm 21, and I live in Ohio, which Trump won by 9 points, and it seems like a huge portion of people about my age are proponents of these ideas, on or off of college campuses.

This is just a personal anecdote. I'm 23, also live in Ohio, and went to a very liberal private school. I have never met a single person who has un-ironically said these things.
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Those are pretty baseline things that get automated away pretty quickly. More useful to me (as both a practicing devops type and a manager in that capacity) would be tests gauging ability to write bash scripts to do various things, or simulated problems that need to be diagnosed/fixed using command line tools (e.g., strace, netstat, etc.).
thanks for posting this cautionary tale. I am completely dependent on Google today so if that happened i'd be F'd. Will look into exporting all my emails this weekend.

But why was Google unable to re-instate you? Was it because you had no way to prove your identity to them? Were you able to reach anyone?

for those in similar situation you can back up your email/calendar here: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/gmail,cal...
My understanding is that the board of fellows for Harvard Medical School is more relate to fundraising than an endorsement of the members' life achievements
I strongly disagree. We should not test edge cases and specific scenarios. We are trying to test the candidate and his abilities in daily tasks. If I say I use vi instead of "commands" I will probably solve most of the "text" editing tasks faster than an admin that only knows how to get around using commands.

I can come up with tons of scenarios when where you do not really know the internals you can get stuck easily. Like if I do chmod -x on the chmod binary. Does it prove anything if the candidate is not able to solve such task ?
Python has a default cross-platform UI library?
Do not blame Facebook because you lose in election.The MSM is far more worse than FB.Use your brain.
The project behind it, Tahoe-LAFS deserves some love.

Basically, spread your data across many cloud storage providers and built a super fast soft-RAID.
For the rest of us who have to deal with traffic, manuals suck. First gear, second gear, first gear is not fun.
I'm looking to find a balance between the interests of the state and those of its individual citizens. In a heterogeneous society, which all societies to some extent are, this is a complex question. To oversimplify it benefits no one.

And do you really want to equate homosexuality and infertility, which for all intents and purposes is a medical disorder? Is that where you want this conversation to go? It's not where I want this conversation to go. My sexuality is not a medical disorder.
I already addressed that point. It being absolutely true is not the point. Most of your opinions are also not absolutely true. If we could just figure out how to only have true opinions, we could solve a lot of problems. We do not yet have that luxury, most of our opinions are, in one way or another, wrong, and some more than others.

We have a long history of people not treating women well. It is not limited to any particular tribe or group of people. If that's not a matter of missed memo, I don't know what is. It clearly seems that a given tribe needs to be taught this, and even then, something pulls them back. Long have people believed that they simply were born extra ethical and extra moral, and it wasn't their culture and civilization that made them so, do you still believe this?

So much bad history, why do you think these things are obvious?

And how is our track record for caring about women's rights when it's too troublesome? Wars, for instance? What's going on? What are these values that you think we share?

Unless you really think you were born extra ethical or moral, I would recommend to think about how people turn badly, because it is not something you're protected from. If anything, mistreatment of women seems to be a universal human trait, and treating them well is the exception.

> We respect people who share our values.

That would create a very limited set of exposure. I don't know how you can consider your values valid with that view. It's highly unlikely that all your opinions are absolutely true, so why would you base respect on someone else having exactly the same opinions as you? A person should not blindly copy the opinions of another, but develop their own from information available to them. That would be highly unlikely to lead to the same opinions as yours, which is a good thing. If everyone always has the same opinions as everyone else, there's no exploration. This also means sometimes the resulting opinions are bad. But the correct solution to that is criticizing the opinion itself, not the person developing their own opinion, or the right to have opinions in the first place. That leads to people copying opinions, and they're not at all guaranteed to be the ones you like.
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Sorry I can't because it's something that happens and doesn't stay. If you run Firefox 50 on Arch Linux, you will see what I mean.
> But partisanship is only relevant if it affects reporting,

It does, here.

> which by your statement would seem like we are of opposite convictions.

I have no idea what you mean.

> without leaving anything out, and I have yet to see anything hinting otherwise.

I don't share your belief. Haven't you seen his hit-piece on third-party candidates? You had two big candidates with little or no integrity, and yet, he paints the third party candidates as not even worthy of consideration because they said one or to silly things, or were unaware of some details.

> why would that in any way affect their Trump coverage (if still factual)?

Would you react the same way about an anti-Hillary piece magnifying her every flaw, when her opponents are just as (or more) flawed? I'd not bat an eyelid if such things were coming out of party propaganda mouthpieces. I feel very differently about it coming out of HBO.

> Is it somehow disingenuous to report on Trumps blatant lies?

Not even remotely close to what I wrote.

> when comparing these statistics

The statistics are garbage. There is no science there. Politifact has some value in that they do some legwork to find primary sources. Readers can read those sources and come to their own conclusions. Think of Politifact like Wikipedia: you can find a good number of primary sources linked from there. But like Wikipedia, they are not the final authority on these matters. Politifact's choice of topics to investigate are not representative of a person, and their verdicts are often whimsical.
I'd be ok with doping everyone, and then waking them up at the end. Flying blows.
"Epistemology" is probably the best word.
Haven't found this explanation yet so I'm putting it out there: I think the reason the food is bad (on purpose) in the economy class is simple price discrimination. You want people with deeper pockets to pay higher prices for the same flight. Passengers have a varying willingness to pay and the most effective way to discriminate between them is if they themselves can choose into which category (economy, business, 1st class) they belong. Narrow spaces and bad food in the economy class are simply one way to make richer passengers pay more for the same flight - I don't think the production of better tasting food would have a significant impact on airline profits.
My company (~30 people) uses Asana to manage our projects and roadmap.

Once the app is loaded the performance is okay, but the thing that kills me is when someone sends me a link to a task, or I click on one of their email notifications, it takes so long to bootstrap the whole thing! I'm literally just clicking the link to get a bit of info about that one task, and it boots up the whole SPA, which takes 5-6 seconds, only for me to close the tab a bit later.

Is this not a common use case? How is there not a lightweight version that loads just the task? I mean, the email notifications load a view of just the task, but it still goes through the whole "* Shearing Pigeons, * Slipping and Sliding, * Riding Unicorns" splash screen.

I don't even know what a work around is. If someone sends me a link to a task I can copy the URL bits into my asana tab that I keep open, but the email notifications don't expose those very easily so I just end up clicking those.

I love all the features of asana (we use the tags a lot, and I wrote a pretty nifty dev tool that integrates GitHub and Asana for us), but the performance for this one case just drives me up the wall.
Sociology is already the science of everything social (that is, people, human society).
There's always epistemology [1]. It's a branch of philosophy, but I don't think you can examine science on a theoretical basis without going there.

There's no reason why not to mix theoretical and practical (as in data-driven) tools.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
Know your sleep, own your nights – A no-gadget experiment to improve your sleep
I highly recommend reading Matthew Crawford's The World Beyond Your Head. He spends a chapter examining how the casino industry games gamblers and addicts, and the sad effects that has on people.
Also, I would add, these are not claims about "everyday racism" -- these are extraordinary claims about Trump supporters suddenly feeling emboldened and harassing people in all manner of public places in terrible ways.
I don't think most people have the desire or awareness to come to any conclusion about what the 'liberal media' was doing. I think it's more about believing what they were told by someone who spoke on the matter with an air of authority.

If you ask the average person on the street about the improprieties of the media leading up to the election, they're not going to go into the details of the DNC emails and explain the cozy relationship between them and the media. They never read them. They're going to say the media is 'rigged' because that's what they were told over and over until the notion stuck with them.
Snowden comment too much about what people doing or thinking,does he has nothing to do in he's own life?
Yeah, maybe 'Quantitative Epistemology'. You'd probably be thrown right out of the Philosophy department though.
The challenge will be to fix this whilst keeping the precise, mechanical and quantitative spirit of science alive.

The reason why scientists have a natural "disdain" for sociological studies, is because they don't have these qualities. Many of the arguments aren't convincing from a critical angle, and only convincing to people who have a pre-existing bias towards certain conclusions. Yet the scientific culture of today is falling into that trap itself.

The article criticises metric-driven incentives, but it is not metrics (the general concept) that are at fault. It is the choice of metric, and the meta-analysis of this that is lacking. These choices are themselves often backed up by non-scientific vague arguments, of the similar sort that scientists often criticise other fields as depending upon.

We must certainly not conclude from these studies that quantitative analysis is itself what is at fault. I know the article doesn't explicitly say this, but it hints at it - using suggestive phrasing like "disdained sociological studies" and referring to all "metric incentives" as a single group - and it is a point I have seen made by many non-scientists. That is, using these flaws as a straw man to attack the very qualities of what has made science so successful and useful.

To improve the situation, we must reject these straw-man arguments against science, and develop better methods that are more quantitive, over a broader spectrum of what is being analysed, and that are more self-critical.
"We’ve combined the best attributes of conventional automatic, continuously variable and dual clutch transmissions. The transmission locks up to couple directly with the engine over a far wider range than other automatics. This delivers a significant improvement in fuel economy and a more direct, manual-like power delivery and driving feel. Shifts are quick, accurate and smooth across the six speeds."

So, as they mention, this transmission is unique. It does, however, not lock up in all conditions - it remains unlocked until you hit 8mph. It sounds like an interesting transmission, but this is not the "norm". All conventional automatic transmissions should be able to do this, although it results in very different wear patterns (brake rings and clutches in the transmission will see much greater wear). It is not quite as interesting as a dual shift transmission, though.

(Having looked at a picture of the transmission, ignore the "combined the best attributes of..." - it appears to be an entirely conventional automatic transmission with a very different operating profile.)
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that Google does not license the Google Play Services to be bundled by OEMs who sell custom Android forks?
It's not a huge issue, but that you have to use some third party library for styling in a view framework just seems inadequate.

Other comparable libraries include styling into their philosophy, but React is irritatingly unopinionated about it.
The whole article is about implying pro-merger biases and agendas on the part of the economists on the basis of who they work for and how much they get paid.
Introducing Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use private browser for iOS
You mean most .NET developers use Windows?
There was a Kaggle competition on this subject a couple of years ago, plenty of interesting solutions :
Packing Santa's Sleigh -
https://www.kaggle.com/c/packing-santas-sleigh
I've been using Redux for the first time lately. It may be conceptually elegant but in practice it's really a mess. In order to do any real work with it you have to pull in something like redux-thunk and then all your fancy state management tricks go out the window. I would go so far as to say I consider it an anti pattern outside of some very specific use cases.

I intend to try Mobx sometime soon but I've also found you can go very far using stateful vanilla React components and no third party state libraries at all.
I'm aware of that too well; blu-ray, however, is slightly better than the predecessors: even the current, non-archival grade single layer Panasonics should - according to some accelerated tests - last 5-10 years. Now, looking at the current ideas from Sony[1], within 8-10 years every data I ever had will need 1 disk, so I'm not worried.

[1]: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3057889/data-storage/so...
That is fantastic to hear! I currently use the iOS Reminders app to remind me to check out that email again, and it would be really nice not to have that layer of indirection.

While we're on the topic of wishlist items: I'd love to have sync in the app. It sucks not being able to access any emails when I don't have internet (on the subway or a car/train in some remote area, even in some shielded buildings, etc). It would be fantastic if I could tell it to store the last two weeks' emails (possibly even per-folder, "store all in folder X, last week in Y, last month in Z"). That's the feature I miss most from your app.

Other than that, keep rocking :) FastMail is awesome!
System native doesn't neccesaraly mean high quality or standards compliment. Take windows control panel as an app which still has zero effort put into standardisation, I get that it's pretty much a dead man walking but they could at least try polish it up.
I agree with you, but I believe all states should be required to adopt a policy similar to Maine and Nebraska where the voting district gets an electoral representative based on the local vote rather than an "all or nothing" win of the state. This would encourage voters to vote because their local vote in the presidential election would actually matter.
>> Do SpaceX build telecommunications satellites?

They have a satellite division which has a bunch of people designing things, but they have not launched their own yet. They have also made known their intention of fielding a global internet service via a large constellation of satellites. This application would be a step toward that goal.
How is stream superior? I cringe every time I move between Integer and int.
> In fact, code is a nasty byproduct of being a software engineer.

This is the core of the matter.

This is something Dijkstra, Edward Cohen, Jayadev Misra, and others in and around the formal methods camp have been saying for decades. It is more worthwhile to solve the problem than to guess your program into existence and patch the errors later. To dismiss them is to say you do not appreciate the true difficulty of programming and designing systems.

In practice I don't write formal proofs for every line of code -- how exhausting! But I do often write high-level specifications in tandem with the software I'm using to implement it and often one informs the other to the true nature of the problem I'm trying to solve. And I find that as I improve in different logics and predicate calculus I can find and spot the design errors in the structures formed by code that you don't see if all you're doing is trying to "solve the puzzle."

The whole approach to guessing your program and patching the bugs later is far too addictive. It saddens me when otherwise good programmers fall into this trap. It creates work for oneself but it keeps you from solving the real problem at hand!

Nice article. Not sure about the allure of "Taco Bell," but the spirit is in the right place.
1. How exactly are the sysadmins graded? (because in the end, let's be real...this tool will most probably be used by HR folks to filter out candidates and they'd not care too much if you send over a screencast/replay of what the candidate did)

1.1) Sys admins generally have their own set of tools (which would be customized per company I guess)...would these be installed by default? (I'm assuming you are provisioning docker containers / candidate / test and then destroying them after use).

1.2) I've used the ones that are sent for developers and it's been a pretty terrible experience at best (it's buggy, won't accept valid code etc.). If this is the case for sysadmins, it's even more worse (but then again, I guess you can put a spin on it and claim it's for the best as they'd have to deal with unpredictiability).

2. How will different technologies be integrated to test candidates on? (for example, testing knowledge on multi node kubernetes cluster and so on).
Unlike most other countries I'm aware of, in the US you're allowed to drive a manual car after taking the test in a car with an automatic transmission.
> This really seems like it needs to be regulated in law.

Or use backups. Don't go crying to the government when you can handle it yourself.
There's some things about Asana that annoy me but I was kind of surprised to hear some of these comments. Then I remembered that our team just switched to Asana from Workamajig.
Well, it has tkinter
Haha I've certainly gotten stuck behind left-foot-braking drivers.
Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump won because of me’
Thank you for your input and suggestions, highly appreciated.
Nice!

Apparently Mercedes call it "glide mode" or "gliding mode" depending which bit of marketing you look at. I couldn't find a technical description though (beyond what you already said).
Yes, that's the Pragmata guy. I first paid for his font in January 2004, and he still sends out updates. (I did upgrade to Pragmata Pro in 2011, but still). He's been doing nifty program specific ligatures lately.
Artificial Artist at Work (1996)
> One driving instructor warned us, not to hit the break with the left foot when driving automatic. ;-) (of course this never happened to me)

Yeah, if you go and press the brake down like it's the clutch you will be very viscerally made aware of your mistake.
dupe, please check before submitting! (especially with news like this where it's nearly obvious that they've been submitted to HN as soon as they happened...) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967770
I'm not worried about neo-nazi speech. Most countries have plenty of precedent for regulating hate speech. I'm worried about speech that isn't quite at the neo-nazi level. What do we do to speech that is only kind of hate speech? My gut says to err on the side of freedom and let it stay, however I do find it extremely annoying on reddit and wish all those people would just leave, so I can sympathize with those who want to ban it.
I think if that's the approach SysAdminsArena is taking, it's quite good. More advanced problems could be replication, caching, etc.
what would be an acceptable amount of cache storage for such an app, would you think?

because one thing I don't like about streaming is that the content can be gone next time you want to hear it. I use youtube-dl to save videos (or often just the audio stream) because of this.

If you leave out the video stream, they're quite tiny (in context of modern storage). A quick scan of my saved .opus files, shows the same rough ~1MB/min filesize that 128k mp3s have (except with way better quality of course).
Your email is always the keys to the kingdom, but I trust Gandi a lot more than I trust Google.

GoDaddy is probably the worst choice someone could make. 2FA is mandatory for email and domains.
How does disk encryption relate to locking down the OS from tampering by the user? I may be way off base, but I don't think that iOS's encryption has anything to do with it being isolated. Put another way, even the first iPhone shielded the user from the OS, and that didn't have encryption.
Different driving styles. I focus on safe driving. Being able to transfer weight around bad bumpy roads helps me drive safe. Roads are not great in Puerto Rico and I drive a FWD car.

Edit: Downvotes? For driving safely on shitty roads? I hope people don't assume Im being a jackass driver just because I use my left foot.
Yes, Tkinter, a Tk wrapper.
NN can be trained online.
Ask HN: Any way to measure how much I speak?
I speak so little every day; I want to improve my communication skills, so I wonder any way I can measure how much I speak every day?
Chinese airlines can be a mixed bag, especially on domestic flights, but even international ones. Surprisingly, or not, Aeroflot is actually ok.
How to Bypass iPhone Passcode and access personal data on the device
Unprecedented? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DVnkmGB6Uw
> Rule Zero: Never rely on a URL that you don't control. Use your own domain name for your e-mail addresses. Use your own domain name for canonical links to content. If you control the URLs, you do not depend on any one provider.

You do not own your domain name. It's better than using google.com, but your domain name can be stolen or seized just as well.
There is already the possibility to add LinkedIn, Twitter, Website, Skype, your organization information and a short bio on your profile page. What do you feel is missing?

Disclaimer: GitLab people here.
You just mentioned some of reasons why we are making this product. If you have more ideas, please share with us. Thanks
We're evaluating PM solutions and Workmajig is one of the contenders. Do you mind sharing your experience with it?
Twitter's Misbegotten Censorship
Or there's a reference to going Plaid.
Agreed. This is biased media click-bait.

"Wheeler’s tenure as the nation’s top communications regulator, a period marked by a variety of pro-consumer reforms, is coming to an end. "

Didn't Wheeler and co. try to overturn net neutrality???? The only reason they failed is because of the outrage of millions of concerned Americans. Best thing "Last Week Tonight" ever did was to report on that.
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