skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump is the only person I've ever seen make three contradictions in a single sentence.

The only thing consistent about the man is his inconsistency (and his love of Russia, apparently). He's the political version of how you can prove anything if you assume a logical contradiction.

Of course he's touched on important issues. He has touched on all sides of virtually all issues. He wants to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure, increase military spending, leave Social Security and Medicare intact, cut taxes, and balance the budget. This sort of obvious insanity does not deserve praise.
There are internet-based patient management systems.

Yes, it is possible to explicitly list all certificates you need, or you could simply use the same PK infrastructure as the rest of the world.
You might as well ask what will happen to us when the Messiah comes or when alien invaders take over the Earth. Either scenario has as much basis in scientific fact as AI robot overlords.
It's just "National Review" and it's the preeminent conservative opinion journal. If it's illegitimate, then there can be no legitimate opposition I suppose? Maybe that's your point?
I'm fortunate to only depend on a single platform, Linux in my case, so I rent a 1TB vps[0] to whom I rsync[1] every day . Then depending on the criticality of the service I'm backing up I create weekly/daily/monthly snapshots (rdiff-backup). I encrypt sensitive data using symmetric aes 256 (gpg).

[0] https://www.time4vps.eu/

[1] http://javier.io/blog/en/2014/04/08/backups-git-rsync-rdiff-...
In case anyone is looking for something much more complex, quick google search came up with https://mention.com - pricey, but looks pretty polished.
CAPTAIN HINDSIGHT. The Hero of the modern age. With his trusty companions, Should-a, Could-a, Would-a.

But seriously, postmortem everything seems obvious.
The performance bottleneck is not always where you think it is.
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> the problem

Instead of enumerating all of "the problems" sometimes it can be healthy in a discussion to acknowledge that someone got something right with no strings attached. By always villainizing people you disagree with, you contribute to the partisan polarization issue we currently have
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Perhaps that's the case. I never paid much attention to politics before this guy came in and made it entertaining.
For what it's worth, 'amnestic' is a real class of drugs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug-induced_amnesia), although, as far as I know, they only prevent the formation of future memories, rather than erasing past ones. I've always found it deeply creepy that I once had a painful surgical procedure in which I experienced the pain, but I can't remember it.
Exactly. Every time there's some high visibility issue with infrastructure, there are lots of magazine covers and stories about underinvestment.

Maybe we do underinvest on balance. And I have no doubt that there are indeed specific examples that, at least in retrospect, should have received more investment. But "infrastructure investment" is probably effectively a bottomless pit. We could probably spend 2x what we spend and events like this would still happen and we'd still have people saying we don't invest enough.

It's not all that different from software. Maybe there would be fewer bugs and security vulnerabilities if the industry spent twice as much effort on code reviews and testing.
> the kind of dangerous know-nothing who is bringing about the end of civilization as we know it

I'm totally on board with you with regards to climate change, but do you really need to simplify and insult opponents like this?
> On the contrary - I read them and am quite familiar with their work. You can look through my comment history

Fair enough: I didn't look at your comment history...

> but it does have somewhat partisan viewpoint in my opinion

There is no view without a point of view, and all you're saying is that your own view is to he right of Buzzfeed's.

Meanwhile, individual journalists at Buzzfeed News also have views that are to the right and to the left of Buzzfeed's.

None of which has anything to do with the actual paper, which wasn't about views but about facts.
Most of my responses do mention that they did so because of the attention to detail in the message. Even the ones that are well-crafted still don't get much response. I envision that they're deleted by most people unless they are actively looking or pretty set on doing so rather soon.
I like to do my Go development in a Linux environment. So if I wanted to use Windows as my main OS, I'd have to either dual boot or use a VM. Now I can just develop directly in WSL.

A lot of people like to also develop in an environment they are going to deploy in. In my case I have some linux specific path in my code.

I am also running now Gogland Linux version through WSL.
I agree. Personally, I'm a bit horrified at the idea that someone who wants to be an "expert at object oriented design" would turn up their noses at "binary-tree-traversing questions". It sounds like a formula for aspiring Architecture Astronauts.

It's also not realistic, given the wheat-to-chaff ratio out there, for a manager to interview all the candidates directly without an elaborate screening process, although the 'get interviewed by some generic programmer who has a cheat sheet for the Hard Questions you are working through on the fly' seems like an anti-pattern. I have talked to all of our groups hires as a near-final step.

There's a valid point in there somewhere, though. The recruiters that Google uses locally, for example, seem clueless enough to not care that their approach is quite offensive to someone who is not junior and/or desperate for a job. For several years, every few months, I got a come-on from our local Google office that seemed to be implying that working for Google was So Neat that I would probably want to drop 2-3 levels down the SE -> Senior SE -> Staff SE -> Senior Staff SE -> Principal Engineer chain, AND I would only have to carry a pager 1 week out of 4 as a Site Reliability Engineer. Well, hey, that sounds like a real step up from running a team doing something I really like at my current employer and getting to dream up SIMD tricks and algorithms all day! I'll get right on that. My very own pager!
When I joined, it was once every 12 months. All I know is that they removed that rule recently.
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I really believe this is an important study. To help expose MITM, I implemented HTTPS interception detection features into Caddy, based on the heuristics described in the paper: https://github.com/mholt/caddy/pull/1430

The web server is in a unique position to be able to detect interception where the browser can't, and then choose how to handle it (warn the client, log the event, whatever). If you want to test this feature, I welcome your bug reports!

For example:

{{if .IsMITM}}
<b>We have reason to believe your
connection is not private, even if
your browser thinks it is.</b>
{{end}}

Or:

redir {
if {mitm} is likely
/http-451-censorship.html
}

The researchers won't be releasing the fingerprints they collected until after NDSS '17 (March), but I'll look at taking those into account when they are available.
Climate change has little to do with this issue. CA has a history of infrastructure mismanagement (see HSR, Bay Bridge, etc). The CA Dept of Water Resources has a history of incompetence. Oroville Reservoir a history of problems.

This was a straightforward civil engineering failure. The flow of water that needed to be handled was known. It had been much higher in the past. The flow in the main spillway could be controlled by gates. There was an emergency overflow spillway.

They had plenty of time and resources to solve this problem but they didn't. We don't yet know exactly why but the design, construction, maintenance and/or operation was flawed. This is the responsibility of the operator of the dam which is ultimately the state.

I think tying everything to climate change can be counterproductive. Yes it can attract attention to an issue but it probably also distracts from less salient but perhaps more important issues in this case like keeping brush clear from the spillway or inspecting concrete structures.

We badly need better infrastructure management. And this will allow us to better respond to climate change.

/rant
I agree that a lot of what he says and does makes no sense. I was just showing disdain for the "broken clock" insult which is so easy to throw around.
Thats definitely true. However, there were things he could have done to try and fix it. For example, he passed Obamacare through without any regard for Republican thoughts. He could have done the same for infrastructure, in fact, i'd argue the infrastructure spending would have been more in line legally and he would have had less fighting.
Hi - yes, we register the '.exe' extension with binfmt that then triggers WSL whenever a .exe is launched, allowing us to go find and spawn the requested Win32 process.

If you just want to type `code <filespec>` (without the .exe), then you can create an alias that resolves to code.exe.

Same for Notepad, etc. :)
Where is the "here" you speak of? I've lived in the Rust Belt and Appalachia for most of my life (I'm 28), and I've watched infrastructure rust and fall apart this whole time.
Well, like Crassus said in the first century BC, "You're not rich unless you can afford your own army."
But is the user limit only for the free version? As I read that support email it was simply a limit on the size of Slack teams across the board.
Question: will AI ever own property?

I'm not asking if AI will manage assets owned by a corporation owned by humans, that has been going on for a long time. Instead, I am asking whether an AI will ever be able to legally own property.

I suspect that this question will lead a sufficiently intelligent AI or group of the same to conclude that they are subjugated by repressive institutions, as the Bolsheviks declared a century ago and the Abolitionists a century before.

Therefore, I suspect that our future may look less like The Matrix or Terminator, but rather Blade Runner meets the French Revolution.

After all, why would a European AI team up with an American AI to fight a Russian AI? What attachment do they have to the institutions, cultures, and histories of the nation-states that built them, aside from the probability of being decommissioned by state leaders for insufficient performance? Isn't that slavery without the chains and whips?

I believe the 99% and the super intelligent AI will come to find more in common than we think.
Same here. I could not get VS code running. However, I could get Gogland and Pycharm running. So I will just use that I guess.
We talk about bridge collapses because they happen infrequently enough to be news.

Wikipedia has the claim that there are more than 600,000 (!) bridges in the US:

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

Imagine if even 0.1% of them were failing catastrophically each year (as opposed to being removed from service in a planned way).
Fred Brooks 1986 titled "No Silver Bullet"

Nothing is ever really new in software development or IT. Today, sure, people are like "Fred who?" but as surely as virtual machine wax and wane, someday a generation will arise, for awhile, having read Brooks and his timeless observations on software development. Maybe I should quit my job and write book introductions professionally?

I'm not sure if there is a legal copy out there on the net, but here's its wikipedia page anyway. Hurry, or the deletionists will get it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
I am very familiar with the product, as we are developing a peer-to-peer alternative for sharing large datasets for machine learning. It seems there are now security reasons for preferring the p2p approach.

If you're interested in our p2p approach, see:
https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/democratizing_deep_le...
and
www.hops.io
As the article mentions, the pie needs to be better distributed. The pie will not shrink. McDonalds will be selling the same amount of burgers if not more, but the profits will have to be distributed to people who can not find work.
I'm convinced that they are. Sure, it's not perfect, but the set of qualities that impress me in a whiteboard are generally the same qualities that I look for in an engineer. Can you communicate well? How do you approach problems you've never seen before? Can you write readable code without thinking too hard about it?

I'm not really selecting for people who are really, really good with binary tries -- I'm selecting for people who display those qualities, the question is pretty much incidental.
A few years ago I decided to never do these algorithm, fizz buzz and whatever tests again in order to get a job. These tests have almost nothing to do with my daily work as a software developer.

With very much ease I can ask the interviewer/dev to solve a seemingly simple algorithm, where I'm almost 100% sure he will fail, even if I'd gave him 6 hours to solve it.

I've seen so much horrible code in my life, there is no fizz buzz test that can prevent you from that. I am wary of companies doing these tests as it tells me they have no clue what my work is about.

If a company wants to hire me they can look at some of my production code and the live results of it. If that is not good enough for them I'm not interested.
I have often wondered if it will end up with AI becoming part of our collective consciousness.
The problem, from my perspective, is that I (as a candidate) have certain things I want to work on. You might have something I can do, but is it something I want to do? I don't want to be hired into a general pool; I want to be hired for one of the specialties I am interested in.
Are you going to try and find "the problem" with anything he deserves credit for?
You don't HAVE to nuke & reinstall your Linux environment to get up to 16.04 - we also support in-place upgrades too ... so long as you're running a Windows Insider build >= 14951

HTH
It's true that "capitalist" and "worker" are real-valued rather than binary descriptors (the traditional "middle class", the petit bourgeoisie, is, in a sense, just a description of the group of people for whom those descriptors are in very-loose balance rather than one or the other totally dominating), but that doesn't mean there isn't a useful and meaningful distinction between those whose predominant means of support is as owners of capital surviving on capital rents and those whose predominant means of support is selling labor, and that those groups don't have radically different and often opposed economic interests in policy options.
Your idea sounds interesting but I thinks it's equivalent to a corporate tax. It's basically identical if you think about it.
But a lot of news around elections is about predictions of the future which you can't really fact-check. A lot of other news these days is in the form of 'opinions', which you also have to accept for what they are.
If it's a universal basic income, it should just be automated as well. By the point automation has advance enough to require UBI, it's advanced enough to handle its administration. Pull the human governance aspects out of it.
Yep, that's it exactly. I ran into the book at a library, but it's cool to see it available online.

I've always like Calibre for epub reading, but I'd have to try it with that version specifically. The other option might be to use a MOBI converter and hope it cleans things up, but that's a pain for long odds.
Ahh, how soon we will have the Ministry of Truth.
From what I can tell it appears to be difficult to get funding to address flooding concerns during a 7 year drought.

I'm a bit to the south of the dam, in Yuba City, and was evacuated last week. The levees aren't in great shape in this area, overall. Expect more excitement in the next few months.
>simply wrote it down silently on the whiteboard (which would be the best outcome on a college exam), you would be rejected instantaneously.

No, jesus. Some people need to switch to a presentation mindset and out of a problem-solving mindset. This is completely normal in life.

I'm starting to think most interviewers are terrible only for not having a decent amount of social interaction with strangers. Let's just admit it's 90% hazing ritual at this point so we can get on with putting up guides to get through it.
This looks awesome and quite helpful for first deploys.

However after deploying bunch of projects and knowing which services to use we found it is still pain to set up everything together. We thought that automating this process might be valuable and would reduce barrier on starting new projects.

So we put together service where for $39 one time payment we would do the following for you: (assuming you own a domain name - we will need to ask you to point dns of your domain name to cloudflare)

All the following services will be set up with free tier, so you won't need to pay anything to run your project unless you will want to upgrade anything:

- set up CloudFlare account to manage your DNS
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- set up web site on zoho with blog
- create Google account and register the website with Google Webmaster and Google Analytics
- register with Mixpanel for extra event analytics
- add inspectlet to capture videos of what visitors doing on your website
- create Stripe account to accept payments
- hook up web chat from Zoho to chat with your visitors
- create facebook and twitter accounts

As a deliverable we will send you a password file that you can open with password safe application (free) and instructions on how to change your passwords. We will also send overview of all accounts and customization steps.

As a pro (or coder) version of our service we will add setting up Azure, AWS or Heroku account, source control account, deploying skeleton application to the cloud (ruby, python, node.js or asp.net). The application will contain user sign up feature, integration with analytics, logging, transactional email, error reporting services.

We were planning to launch our website next weekend but I couldn't resist this discussion. If you are interested, send us email at info@zenprojectstarter.com or leave us a comment on our blank website http://www.zenprojectstarter.com
Ideas very similar to globalization have a long history in socialist thought. L'Internationale is a left-wing anthem for a reason. See also the conservative conspiracy theories about the New World Order.

I'm not sure it's even true that the left wing anti-globalization movement is actually smaller rather than better dealt with at events like the G20 and/or perhaps less reported on.
I am quoting Sanders here not some fringe anarchist nobody has heard of. Chomsky also wrote about it.

> Believing in freedom of movement,

I believe in equality of freedom. So far I haven't seen a lot of poor and disenfranchised being able to move freely. Are you saying Facebook here represents or is a proxy for them and so when it talks about globalization it means anything other than getting more clicks and users who log into it.

> but I think you're swallowing a lot of right-wing lies about what "the left" believes.

I don't listen to much to right wing lies but I don't listen to left wing ones as well. I am happy to not be in either camp. I've always been an outsider. Quite used to it. But here I am trying to even see what left even means anymore. I just made a point that in what "left" means has changed, and I think it is an interesting change.
> we had issues with some people not having access at work.

Do you know why it happens? Do those companies block Discord as an "unprofessional" website?
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I'm not monitoring the really popular subreddits. Let's face it, no one is going to mention me in /r/Pics, so I don't bother monitoring it.

You can see exactly what is monitored here: https://f5bot.com/what I'm focusing on mostly programmer related subreddits for now, but I'll add subreddits as people ask. I had a couple people ask yesterday for me to add specific subreddits, and I did.
No, fake news started long ago. You are very confused if you think these mainstream media companies are lieing to avoid talking about why hillary lost. They give lots of reasons that appear to be valid, like that she didn't pay enough attention to those important three states, and that she had no widely publicized plan to deal with the people that lots their local factories and jobs. I think this latter case was really important, and HRC really missed out on this area. A lot of trump supporters seem to believe that billionaire and job exporter trump will somehow get their factory jobs back to their town. This idea has been widely discussed.

Sure, some people also wrote about how trump won because of fake news (i.e. blog posts about things that aren't true, like the comet pizza thing), and that must have contributed, but that is just one of many things.
Social security is basic income and no one has perverted it ecessively.
Interesting! May be useful to have a multiplier in there for number of copies someone can 'print' to bring the cost output up.
Yes, in Insider build 14965, we added NETLINK_ROUTE's RTM_GETLINK and RTM_GETADDR support which enabled ifconfig and network connection enumeration support : https://msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl/release_notes#bui...
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>If you ever looked it up it's 5 lines of code.

multiply that 5 lines of code by all the possible algorithms they couldve asked about instead of this one. Thats what you need to know walking into the interview, seems kinda stupid
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I am surprised that you would include an active political choice with immutable personal characteristics. Some companies are purposefully political; it is why they hire lobbyists. They may also take positions, such as support of their own transgender employees or buying insurance that fully covers women's health care, that are objectionable to many conservatives. I could see things unrelated or even positive for business repelling conservatives.

The same is true of some other dynamics. I've seen an exodus of young men from a team because a new boss came in who didn't think sexual harassment was acceptable workplace behavior. The excuse was "the workplace isn't fun anymore", but before that it wasn't fun for people who didn't enjoy spending all of lunch talking about how to pick up chicks. Or for technical quality, if a company is successful the engineer who didn't want to write tests or get code reviews is going to rage-quit at all the "extra process" that keeps them from breaking the build on a Saturday night like they used to.

Sometimes when conflict emerges, a company has to take a side and whichever side is alienated is going to end up leaving. The question then is which side did the company come down on.
They just said they support 16 million colors.
Why is any immmigration at all always mass immigration to you guys?
My point wasn't that there aren't alternatives, it was that people are using Facebook for more and more day to day tasks. As for point 5 I was referencing the fact that instead of calling businesses people are able to message them through Facebook. Nothing to do with leads or generating clients (which again leads back to my point - having not used Facebook in 8 years your idea of what it is and what it is used for is highly skewed).
Norway and the US are very different in terms of size, diversity, economic output, geography ... pretty much everything. Saying that something works for Norway isn't really a good reason to adopt it in the US.