skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I just started planning for a side project to solve this by automating as much of the backup sanity checking procedure as possible.
Thanks, I understand now what you're saying.
Thank you for the feedback
I get the skepticism about this product, but why are the author's comments all dead, without a way to vouch?
I can't say for certain regarding this case specifically, but CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY (as I recall) does the TLS and proxy shenanigans, and then waits for you to say "HTTP 1.1" and so on. You can send and receive data using a BSD_socket-a-like API.

https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY.html
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Agreed, but I've got to say from experience that quantile statistics like the author proposes are often way more informative. The only downside is that they can be considerably more expensive to compute for bigger data sets, whereas mean and standard deviation are cheap and can be updated without taking another pass over the data.
If you restricted yourself to saying it is tactically unsound, and drop every other thing you're trying to say, i'd be able to join that position.

Also note: If the company opens with an attack, and when called upon it doesn't apologize and fix, then that points to maaaaaaany other problems in the company and getting it fixed is a minor priority. It is in fact only a proxy towards figuring out if the company as it is, is deserving of any kind of trust.

e: I'd also like to point you towards this: http://stimmyabby.tumblr.com/post/115216522824/sometimes-peo...

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Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

""
Thanks for the feedback. Can you express the reason ? I would really appreciate the help :)
I think being from the US you underestimate the scale and reach of the enormous vertically integrated corporations of Japan. The US has antitrust laws which allow for a lot more potential disruption. Japan does not.
It really amazes me how much of that show is true.
What Type of Companies Get into Y Combinator?
I'm going to build a house in a few years time. I have a feeling there will be a lot of Tesla branded stuff in (and on) it.
Fake news is generally identified by the reputation of its author (New York Times vs Alt-Right Patriot Freedom Observer). Nothing published by the Times or Wall Street Journal (despite any editorial bias) is fake, simply because we know (except in the rare circumstance) that they apply journalistic integrity in sourcing and writing articles. Much of what's published on "fringe" sites, especially if no mainstream outlets cover it, is likely fake (i.e. if it's making a factual claim about the world, not just expressing an opinion).

Obviously followers of these sites will fight back against any "fake" labels, by arguing there is a "cover-up" by organized opposition, that their truth is being suppressed, that any fake news classifier intrinsically has a liberal bias, and so on. The difficulty for me is not identifying what's fake, but convincing anyone else that it is.
It's running over HTTPS (protecting the network traffic between the user and their servers), but it doesn't offer encrypted computation.
Tomorrow's lottery ticket numbers will be 12345
So users can submit questions that our team researches and adds to the knowledge bank. In addition, we have writers that contribute content to the newsfeed based on common questions we receive. So consider it an case-by-case, moderated Stack Overflow. Given the privacy considerations, we wanted to keep any questions anonymous.
I'm another current gigster, using a throwaway because I want to avoid retaliation. I'm posting this because Im really frustrated and about to leave gigster.

I just want to confirm everything you wrote there. Gigs dried up around october, meaning devs/designers that didnt have tons of PM contacts simply havent had any gigs for the past few months. This was raised multiple times, and HQ always promises to do something -but nothing ever comes of it, there's absolutely no info on how much work is in the pipeline, no transparency, nothing.

Then, as you say, everyone outside of HQ and pms has no way to apply for gigs. PMs guard this furiously and this leads to some pretty nasty interactions, completely unprofessional ones - pms being rude, brusque, dismissing, or keeping info from a dev.

One time I signed on a gig and only then did the pm tell me that I was going to be doing on-call duty. This wasnt factored in the payout, so I would make essentially 20$/h over the course of the gig. I tried to raise this issue with the Delight Team (internal customer service) but apart from taking 2 weeks to even get back to me - nothing was done, I was just removed from the gig.

Also, ditto on late payouts. A lot of people have had issues like this, payouts not going out for weeks. It's been a work in progress since early last year and HQ kept on promising stuff "yeah, we fixed this, itll be good now". At least theyve fixed their contractor-facing site, which was experiencing problems all throughout 2016.

Finally, the cherry on top - gigster, like other shops that hire contractors, is required to send a 1099 to the contractor and to the IRS by January 31st. As you can imagine, they've kinda failed here too. A lot of people didn't get their 1099s and a lot of people are reporting errors on their 1099s. It looks like they outsourced this out and whoever did it messed up transferring data from contractors' W9 into the 1099.
They might be bluffing. But considering you've just left your old job, most people are not willing to take that chance.
> Does anyone know if this challenge has anything to do with Media Matters / Shareblue?

If you scroll to the "About" section you can see who's who and do some digging to see if connected.

http://www.fakenewschallenge.org#about

Or just contact them and ask (info@fakenewschallenge.org).
Sorry, I should have said: besides your competence, your enthusiasm is your most valuable asset.

You have had your entire interview to demonstrate your competence. At this stage of the interview, if you have not yet demonstrated competence, no answer to this question is going to get you hired.
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Only giving this very minor and not-useful feedback because you say "The Stack Overflow" for and I make Stack Overflow's mobile apps:

This app is a good idea. It'd look a lot more professional and believable if it had some minor changes like "Don't have the selected tab's text color be black on navy blue", or "give your list items consistent margin and padding".

Both of these minor suggestions, and more, are also listed in the Material Design guidelines: https://developer.android.com/design/index.html
Note that you can also use IKVM and then Mono AOT if you don't want a JIT at all.
Your comment is a perfect example of why political conversation hurts this community. There's no substance and no actual attempt at productive conversation, just circle-jerking and straw men.
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Is that a bad thing? People used Python even when it was slow and there were faster alternatives. People will still use it going forward.
Another way to look at it is their reporters on US press have been caught flat-footed on daily news gathering. They don't have the same skills as their non-US counterparts and are rattled.

This is a call to arms. We are facing darkness now, and I believe this will have a lasting impact in what reporters are capable of and willing to do to offer free press.
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The JAL 2 mishap is legendary in the aviation world. Learning from mistakes is a big part of aviation safety

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_2#The_.2...

The Captain basically got up before the NTSB and when asked what happened, he responded "I F__ked Up!" instead of trying to deflect blame onto an unforeseen system glitch or other excuse. Its since been known as the "Asoh Defense"

They also have the NASA ASRS for reporting near misses, and incidents without fear of FAA enforcement.

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When this was first being discussed and debated in British Parliament I thought it was an excellent idea to help heal wounds created in the past. During that process I saw comments from some gay men saying they didn't want a pardon; they didn't do anything wrong. I'm not sure I've ever been so changed on any issue with a single statement before.

Pardon implies forgivness for wrongdoing, but these men don't need or want that, they didn't do anything wrong. The establishment that passed laws limiting love are the ones in need of forgiveness. There needs to be a legal mechanism to automatically expunge criminal records for social issues once society has managed to catch up with the people it deemed rule breakers in the past other than a pardon. A pardon is just the wrong mechanism to deliver an apology.
He means "a small number of websites by big players" vs "a big number of websites by modest people".
Yes. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...

> Reports abound of lawful immigrants who have been turned away, denied access to medication, and prevented from speaking to counsel. The Aziz brothers’ story is particularly stunning because, says Sandoval-Moshenberg, not only were they handcuffed while they were detained by CBP at Dulles, and not only were they turned away and sent to Ethiopia, but they were also made to sign a form, known as the I-407. In doing so, they surrendered their green cards, under the threat of being barred from the U.S. for the next five years if they did not. Sandoval-Moshenberg tells me he couldn’t quite believe the two young men “were straight-up bullied into having their green cards taken away.” They were at no point given copies of any of the documents they had signed.
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The day we believe that is the day the fascists win.
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Which news outlet didn't say that?
Has anyone tried docker swarm or Docker datacenter, we've been looking at it but are on the fence vs kubernetes...
Man some of you guys seriously need to read Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky.

I'm as anti-Trump as it gets, but the idea that NYT or WSJ are bastions of reputable journalism is ridiculous.

See, for example, the list of controversies associated with the output of Pulitzer prize winner Thomas Friedman.
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Again, as responded to a separate (related comment):

Sorry, I should have said: besides your competence, your enthusiasm is your most valuable asset.

In more detail: assuming all other things equal, an employee who wants to be where he or she is will be more valuable than an employee who is bored. You have had your entire interview to demonstrate your competence. Assuming you have done so, when you're down to the final softball question, enthusiasm matters. Assuming you have not done so, no answer to this question is going to get you hired.
>The company knows what the outcome is already: 99% of developers sign.

I've rejected job offers like this before and not taken the job even after they offered to cut the clause out.

It's actually a pretty good proxy for overall unreasonableness and how much bullshit you'll have to put up with if you work for them.
The point isn't to optimize for contentment at the end of life. Rather, it's a technique for getting to the 50,000-foot view of one's life.

There's a saying "what you focus on gets bigger." If you live in the day-to-day, it's easy to turn the minutiae into your whole life.

Also, "pleasure" and "happiness" are fairly orthogonal. Living in the day-to-day arguably prioritizes pleasure over happiness.
The Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative are just two fronts the Clintons used over the years to receive bribes.

How else do you explain this:

http://observer.com/2017/01/the-clinton-foundation-shuts-dow...

As soon as Clinton was out of the race, all those donations suddenly stopped coming in. It's pretty obvious that the whole thing was pretty much just legal bribery und the disguise of altruism.

Since the Global Initiative has already shut down, it's probably only a matter of time until the Foundation shuts down, too.
Case study: How complexity creeps in
The article mentions that the practice was discontinued in 2010
True that - not to mention tedious, mentally understimulating, and comes with a perceived lack of social status. Even for people who love it and can afford it, there are many downsides.
> I literally have to question my own motives for things, and often wonder if I have been manipulated into my beliefs, opinions, and desires.

Its possible to be immune for such manipulaions, I believe. If you subject you thoughts to strict formal rules of rational thinking, than it would be hard to manipulate you.

But the first and most important thing is constant questioning own motives. So you are on the right track. ;)
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fake_news !== click_bait
You could mount the remote machines filesystem over ssh with sshfs.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSHFS
No disagreement about Fox.

But is the feud really because those media outlets aren't advancing his agenda? The tone from the press started with mockery during the primaries and advanced to hostility once Trump became the forerunner. Look at the election night coverage from most of the networks: it looked like a funeral, which is rather surprising given the supposed objectivity of these organizations.

IMO the feud is about a lack of objectivity rather than a lack of full-throated support. Nobody should want a complicit, docile press: that's what we largely had for the last 8 years.
I love these rap/science cross-over stories.
Thanks for writing it! It's one of my favorite math blog posts floating out there.
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Looks like a closed-source implementation of a Homomorphic Encryption algorithm.

"Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption that allows computations to be carried out on ciphertext, thus generating an encrypted result which, when decrypted, matches the result of operations performed on the plaintext."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Because hiring people that you think you'll probably fire is not a nice thing to do: people quit jobs or reject other offers based on it.

I was involved in a hiring decision once where we were on the fence but made the hire because we really needed to fill the position. The person didn't work out for all the reasons we expected, and we fired them ~3 months later. It was really shitty, and I will never do it again. It's counterproductive, and it's unethical.
So in your assessment "fake" just means non-mainstream. Haven't seen the word defined like this before.
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