skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"attempts to discredit the opponent's position by asserting the opponent's failure to act consistently in accordance with that position, without directly refuting or disproving the opponent's initial argument."

Sounds exactly like whataboutism.

Look, Bush knew confidential information that no one outside the government could and still made those decisions.

Stop trying to deflect this with some unrelated person who wasn't in the government, had no security clearance, and had nothing to do with the invasion. It's simply irrelevant.
Makes sense. Thanks for the detailed response.
There is a similar quote in one of Poul Anderson's Flandry novels.
"Crime is entirely a matter of degree. If you kill your neighbor and steal his property, you are a murderer and a thief. But if you gather together an army of lusty fellows in the name of honor and glory, kill a few million people, take their land, and hit up the survivors for taxes, then you are a conqueror and a hero, and your name goes into the history books."
I agree. I thought that the scientific world already gave up on the idea of locality, since entanglement has been experimentally demonstrated.

Furthermore, I don't have a problem with accepting non-locality from a theoretical perspective either, now that I know about the Holographic Principle. If the universe is a hologram, then the apparatus that is projecting the hologram can be connected in ways that aren't obvious in the hologram.
The entire drive to hire "passionate developers" makes me very nervous. It's a double edged sword and most people don't want to see it. Yes, passionate developers are more likely to stay up to date on technologies and are also more likely to put in extra time. However, they are also much more likely to use technology that isn't ready yet and overcomplicate things because of some misguided aesthetical sense or best case spend way too much time gold plating the wrong thing instead of providing business value. The cost of those things is generally much higher than someone going home sightly early or not knowing the very latest JS framework.

Edit: phone auto correct shenanigans
Ok, so I'd never actually tallied the numbers. This does indeed indicate that Trump has a roughly 6/10 prior chance of winning reelection.

Mind, I think that prior is moved by the fact that he's a historically unpopular president-elect already, but we will indeed see over four years what he manages to make of himself. Or whether he manages to collapse capitalism once and for all.

Whatever.
The lede of your link appears to disagree with you:

> Most individuals with psychiatric disorders are not violent. Although a subset of people with psychiatric disorders commit assaults and violent crimes, findings have been inconsistent about how much mental illness contributes to this behavior and how much substance abuse and other factors do.
Good transit induces demand, to the point where it's a viable funding method for transit. Example: Tokyo.
No you are not the only programmer who thinks that languages are going in the wrong direction. For example, the lambda operator of Java 8. All it does is hide the (very useful) name of the method being called. I'm forever having to look up the definition of some arcane single method interface to ascertain the method name so I can have a clue as to what the -> operator is doing/calling. :(
Suggested Delphi Language Enhancements
A while ago I was at my house with friends and was looking to order takeaway. Collectively we didn't have enough cash on hand to pay on delivery so we looked at various apps, JustEat, Domino's and the like. Domino's were written off instantly when we discovered we couldn't use a third party service like PayPal. If major tech companies can't manage their security properly I have little faith in Fast Food outlets investing in getting it right. I know they don't think they have been breached, and this may well be the case, but do they really need to be storing sensitive data at all?

Edit: turns out you can use PayPal (see below), ignore me I'm wrong!
Bear in mind that everyone here on HN is here because they're interested to learn about advancements in technology (and matters of broader interest) - it's too easy to mistake this little echo chamber for the entirety of the talent market.

I often read people say they'd be "insulted" if asked to do fizz-buzz, or would "walk out". I think that's an over-reaction - fair enough they need to make sure you're not useless and lying on your CV. As long as there's a more interesting follow-up question, I don't see the harm.
I feel like if you use open source libraries and are a decent developer you'll naturally end up submitting a PR to Github at some point. I find bugs in almost every open source library I use and have had so many PRs to fix them.
Thoughts on “Dependency hell is NP-complete”
What's the opposite of fencing? Giving away legal merchandise advertising that it's stolen goods?

I agree, analogies don't really work. The fact remains that the downloaders of the movies were receiving the content from a place (the pirate bay) that rarely distributed legal content (and then, it was just mirroring distribution of things like Gnu/Linux ISOs). There is still an argument that remains that the alleged infringers had intent to violate copyright law.

The other argument here is that the creators or producers of the content hired or otherwise partnered with a firm that, in order to drum up business(?) allegedly distributed that content through the pirate bay, and simply filed John Doe subpoenas against every IP that connected to them. The article links to the other ArsTechnica article that points to someone who wrote what is essentially a BitTorrent "shell" program that acts and masquerades as a genuine client, connecting to a swarm and announcing availability of a torrent without actually receiving or sending content data. This is how other firms traditionally find and discover alleged torrent leachers and seeders from what I've read. As a devil's advocate to this practice, it may be that Prenda simply didn't hire an IT consultant that knew what they were doing and in order to discover potential infringers of the content they leached the movie themselves. Over time became the primary source of the content via TPB as they had more incentive to keep seeding to catch more unsuspecting leechers while consumers of the content got bored with the same sex scenes and moved to different porn, dropping out of the swarm.

What I'm saying is that it may have started with just incompetence of their part, and once they were called out on their practices, they might have thought that they weren't doing anything wrong. However, as more information became available it became more clear that they were basically baiting and extorting, and they had to continue to lie about what they were doing or else their ruse would be up (and they could go to jail). I'm glad to see some initial closure on this story with them getting charged, but I'm doubtful that Prenda went into this in the very beginning with the idea of seeding content "illegally" in order to find infringers of whom they could send bills to remain quiet and not proceed directly into litigation.
Since the pilot wave theory is deterministic, wouldn't someone be able to simulate a quantum computer with a classical one in reasonable time and storage?
They already have the keys to the kingdom that would be pointless.
if you are going to use numbers, at least provide sources.
Thank god, avoided some fake news yet again.
I use disabled services. The _service auto-run magic always makes me feel iffy (it won't work on my local machine for some reason, for example).
Obligatory xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

In short, gaining altitude, even 3000m, isn't that hard for a rocket. The problem is that they have to go fast.
That's what bugs me. I'm with you on that, but it seems the overwhelming majority of people just don't care about such "externalities" or ethical issues if their lives can be made a little more convenient or they can save a buck.
> The whole ethos of Silicon Valley and the reason why it exists is lack of regulation allowing for huge amounts of innovation

Bill Hewlett's oscillator or Moore/Noyce's processor or the Macintosh have unsurprisingly little need for regulation compared to an autonomous car on public roads.
CI and maintenance are different things. AFAIK, it's recommended to pin versions of libraries, not to update libraries at every integration, so security fixes will be delayed. Moreover, developers never release new version of an app when a dependency is updated only, while maintainers do. It's called bit rot.
`range` took the behaviour of `xrange`; the latter name was removed.

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.0.html#views-and-iterat...
So you're advocating:

. gym memberships

. fitness products

. supplements

. etc?

Because all those could fit into your gamification argument. How well in general do those work? My points are:

1 Again congrats to that person on the wt loss.

2 Likely it was their focus on changing their behaviour that was responsibile and not the watch. Probably a journal would suffice.

Also your statement "...the watch as the critical factor" is surprising, emphasis mine. I think only if I knew that person really well and had witnessed the transformation personally could I make that statement.
Not impossible, just ugly as hell. The first two examples I mentioned (toolkits like Qt or Gtk and the SDL2 libraries) actually do it.
Most, but not all people who are employed have contracts which assign ownership of everything they do, including in their spare time at home on their own equipment, to their employer. And yes, a very small number of states consider such standard clauses to be unenforceable.

Most candidates who show their previous code, either written for their employer, or from side projects that are still within the scope of their contract, are violating non disclosure clauses of their contracts. Someone who has sample code to show is likely an unreliable candidate who thinks nothing of violating his signed contracts. Such candidates should not be hired.
I'm reading this thinking, "Wait, why is Anders introducing this algorithm... Oh."
Interesting analogy but I'm not sure if it holds. Infinitesimals are an alternative to the limit-based formalism typically seen. It changes the way you do calculus.

However Bohmian Mechanics is a different interpretation, not a different formalism. You can accept the interpretation, but you still end up solving the Schrödinger equation in the same way, using the same mathematical methods.

The analogy works better for matrix mechanics as compared to Schrödinger's wave mechanics. These are mathematically quite different even though they give the same results.
More on what Thomas said:

http://www.llvmpy.org/
Check out numba. It does this for a subset of Python.
Consumer-Driven Contracts: A Service Evolution Pattern
A few states' actions wouldn't help much anyway. The real benefit of state carbon pricing was that the fossil industry was starting to come around on a national carbon price, because they'd rather deal with that than a bunch of different state systems.

Between the WA defeat and Trump win, that's probably pushed back a few years.
I guess the best way to be absolutely sure you don't break the license is to uninstall Java.
I think in my area (Boston) if you looked at high-Uber ride zones you would find areas where it has been difficult for geographical or other reasons to build mass transit. The proposed Green Line extension is partly because of traffic value, and partly because acquiring the right-of-way is still possible. On the Red Line I ride to work, there may be some Uber spike because its near capacity at rush hour. Uber is a bad solution to this because it would only put more cars on Mass Ave, which is already at capacity. They're actually addressing this by buying redesigned train cars than can hold more people and make it through the stops slightly faster.

The technical term where people/animals want to walk is called a desire path.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
Expanded Government Hacking Powers Need Accompanying Safeguards
I think you misundertood my comment. Anyhow, congrats again on your accomplishments.
It's not the only factor, but it's often mentioned as an important one.
Each of those companies needs enough hardware to handle their highest expected loads. But most of the time, they aren't near their peak needs, leaving a lot of hosts sitting idle.

AWS and other cloud providers face the same situation, but to another order of magnitude.

These leftovers would be enough to match what the NSA has.
I am passionate about code. But, most of my github is little hacks to solve some particular need or scratch some particular itch, without any need for overarching design or maintainability.

The good stuff (including libraries and frameworks) is all in my professional career.
Yes, and logic + various epistemological disciplines besides science give us valid knowledge in other domains.
I think in my case it did, I did learn from the experienced workers but that was apparently not the norm there. I hope you are right that that is what happens most places.
Java cannot die soon enough.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Schizophrenia+substance+abus...
You can't simultaneously claim to know nothing about US tech salaries and then claim it's "easy for ANYONE to get $200k in NYC/SF."

$200k is absolutely achievable, but claiming that ANYONE (and EVERYONE?) is getting it is farcical. The vast majority of developers are making less than that.

The notion that entry-level developers are getting $400k-500k is a joke. Not even quants start at that.

----

Since you'd apparently like to be an asshole about markets you know nothing about, I'm done with this conversation.
Dropbox Disables Public Folder. No More HTML Rending on Dropbox
I mainly work with PostgreSQL but have had to write some web applications that use Microsoft SQL, because it was already in place.

I see no benefit to Microsoft SQL. Instead it is more limited than PostgreSQL and 100 times harder to work with.

Indeed, it is analogous to asking why do businesses use Microsoft Internet Explorer instead of Firefox, or Microsoft Windows instead of Linux? I expect that the answer is the same for all three.
Graphics engines handle fonts. Even more so than a word processor. They have to AA correctly at all viewing angles, textured, upscale, downscale, animate, etc.

Layout is in every modern game engine as UI and is even more powerful. See scaleform for example.

Math... isn't in a game engine?

HTML/PDF and other formats? Please how about DXT1-N texture formats, crunched textures, scene descriptions, meshes, animation rigging, etc. HTML and PDF are small in comparison.

Yea I'm not going to continue. What you may not have realized as a MSFT Office intern is that just because it was slow and awful, it might not have necessarily needed to be.
You might find this post by Joel Spolsky a good read: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
It depends on the projects you're touching, of course.

I've contributed bugfixes to GNU less, GNU screen, and GNU emacs, and GNU make. None of those would be easy to dig out references for, and none of them use github.
There is a reason Satoshi used an elliptic curve algorithm for Bitcoin...
> If you can get a 100 real users then $2000 is way, way too cheap

For some services I've delivered people at $0.70. Other at $1,000+. Both are profitable for supplier and the company. Price has no meaning until you understand eCPA, per user revenue, margin and scale.

> If you have figured out how to get a 100 real engaged customers to any service on demand then you can get a thousand or a million.

Scaling campaigns doesn't work like that, especially in performance channels. Some channels scale better than other but there is always a exponential cost per user acquisition.

This is complete misinformation your saying. Sorry, I'm not trying to be rude. And I'm a bit surprised in a forum that is usually as considered as HN this is getting pushed to the top of the page.
Aw, I was hoping for an actual corpus. A couple years ago I had wanted to find a corpus of news stories or similar things in order to analyze relationships between entities (people/places/events) mentioned. It was then I discovered that every corpus I could find was specifically only permitted to be used for natural language analysis, and content analysis was specifically forbidden. Very disappointing. Still hoping to find a dump of a few decades worth of news or something some day to play with.
You've been able to pay for Dominos in the UK via PayPal for years now.
The new business model of efficiency at all costs means that hiring has been lean since the 90s.

At my employer, that means that the good senior people are in their 50s and 60s and retiring away, being replaced by 20-30 somethings. The people in their 40s are left behind as they got stuck in the middle too long.
I think a lot of times it just sneaks in. For example, when one of my projects was in alpha state, I added the build timestamp to the `--version` output, so that I could reserve version number changes for actual releases. At that point in time I never thought it would become a debian package, much less that reproducible builds would be a thing someday.
Your point seems to be mostly a rant against transit and cities, and calling it "the bigger issue"
The naïveté is cringeworthy.

There's a middle-ground to be found, for sure, between OP and parent. I do think it's a little odd to have years of experience in software development and not one "if only ... I'm going to make it."-project.
I live in Seattle, work downtown, and the bus is significantly cheaper than all my other commute options (except for riding my bike) and takes about as long to get me home as it takes me to drive myself in a car that was parked in the perfect spot to avoid the bad blocks.

I would be very skeptical of the claim that Uber (with today's public infrastructure and vehicles driven by human drivers) could do the job just as well if none of our public transit infrastructure existed. We have a lot of buses and a still-expanding light rail, and they are packed every day at rush hour. If they really were more expensive and/or slower than the alternatives and/or filled with crusty, ranting hobos crapping their pants and smearing it on the seats (which is what you imagine reading some of the comments in here) then people wouldn't ride them, which simply is not the case.

Sure, there are some bad buses, but "just take an Uber" is not a useful answer to that problem for most people or society at large, and I don't know how out of touch you have to be to suggest a public two-tiered poor/rich system with a straight face.
Yes, this is typical.
I suspect failing fizz buzz typically is caused by nervousness. I've one gotten so nervous in an interview that I'm certain I couldn't have implemented fizz buzz either at that time. I've also seen it on interviewees. As the interviewer it also sucks because you can't be sure it's nervousness.
Yes. The role of government is to ensure people can afford basic necessities. When government is competitive with private companies, it's to ensure prices are affordable for people. Uber wants to eliminate competition alltogether. If they become a monopoly, VCs win and consumers lose.
I was talking about this with a friend last night. We (Australia) get annoyed when the Italians dump a bunch of below-cost tomatoes on to the market and slap them with penalties but don't seem to give a damn when Silicon Valley dumps a bunch of below-cost taxis on to that market.
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I'd say that the correct answer would be "Which version of Python are you using?" but I actually kind of like the question - it's an important enough function that most people doing more than toy projects would have needed to use it at some point or at least would have considered it, but it's also something that has changed recently enough that people who are claiming long-term experience will have dealt with both versions.

My Python is rusty, but I actually had to go look up the differences - my initial thought was "I'm pretty sure it used to be that range() generated a list and xrange() basically just iterated a value, but at some point range() was changed to use the xrange() behavior - I'd have to look it up to give you more detail than that." I didn't realize that xrange() had been completely removed from 3.x, for example. For that matter, I was thinking that both of them might have existed in 1.x, though it looks like they were added in 2.0.
Propaganda is OK now[1]

Fake news is a reality of this ability

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-legalizes-propaganda-201...
I cant choose to ban cars completely off the streets, even though they pose a real danger to me and an economic cost.
It's also worth highlighting that diffoscope.org is an extremely cool tool. This project is worthwhile just for having encouraged its creation.
If salaries go up, shortages go down (both on silly and demand side)
Where I live many people commute at least an hour each way. For a 40 hour week, 10 hours of driving is normal. 40 hours in a month. Of prime daylight hours.. Spent in a car that requires upkeep. Which can only be causing harm to your spine. None of this makes sense to me.
That asymmetry in length support strongly suggests they're storing passwords in plain text.
So do the adversaries we worry most about use the same prime numbers as everybody else, or do they come up with their own? It seems the most likely outcome is that the NSA is able to spy on Americans much more easily than they can spy on anybody else.
It's necessarily bad if the private company aims to be a monopoly.
There have been a few stories over the past few years of people outsourcing their own jobs, but I'm not sure whether any of them have actually been shown to be based in fact. That said, this could be the same kind of thing - did the guy in the cube hire the "guru" to interview, or did the "guru" interview then outsource to the guy in the cube?
>Wouldn't you expect the very first people they put in these things to be competent people that were doing their best?

I recently mentioned on another thread that I think the primary purpose of that driver is not safety, but to absorb culpability in the event that the tech fails.

I just don't think it's reasonable to expect any human to reliably perform the task of correcting the vehicle. Imagine sitting at the wheel in a passive mode for an hour as the car performs flawlessly. Then, in one intersection, it suddenly malfunctions. Now, you are supposed to a) recognize that it's failing and b) suddenly take corrective action--all in, perhaps, a split second?

When you're controlling the vehicle, you know your intent. When you are "monitoring" you must assess the vehicle's intent. Even if you do so perfectly there is, by definition, some delay. That delay could be costly.