skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your assumption is that Donald Trump forged some kind of political coalition. He didn't.

You are incorrect about my assumption, but correct that Trump did not forge a coalition. The coalition existed before him and largely held its nose because members of it did not have any other options.

My assumption is that both political parties are large, standing broad coalitions of voters with differening interests that are together mainly as a consequence of the two-party system. Which means that they each contain elements that can (and occasionally do) flip party.

Trump exploited a crack in the Republican coalition that had formed over immigration, which was a wedge issue between the "pro-business" type Republicans that are "part of the establishment" and the party base. He also identified other wedges, like military adventurism. That, along with lack of a sufficiently strong opponent in the other 16 people who ran, enabled him to win the GOP primary, even though Trump has very little to no interest in "conservatism."

There were enough Republicans put off by his lack of "conservatism" (e.g. the lack of interest in the agenda of other parts of the GOP coalition) that they were willing to vote for someone else. But because the Democrats had nothing but contempt to offer those voters, they either stayed home, held their nose for Trump anyway, or voted for third party candidates like "Egg McMuffin."

Those divides in the GOP are not going to go away. Those voters are out there, waiting to be picked up by somebody. They may be as much as 20% of that party, which is enough to tip future elections towards the Democrats forever if they play their cards right. But that's going to be an opportunity that isn't going to be exploited as long as the Democrats are playing "resistance" as their strategy.
In a similar vein Dan Carlin has repeatedly brought up in his podcasts the concept of the "historical arsonist" [1] or those great leaders/peoples who, on their rampage of murder and mayhem across their respective continents burned away the old making room for growth.

[1] https://warisboring.com/dan-carlin-explains-historical-arson...
FWIW this is pretty much THE definition of technical debt.
In the latter part, this post stresses on 'keep learning'. That's the only thing the people who have this doubt in their head need to know.

I have met great developers who never went to college and some developers who can't even ship a small segment of a product with Masters.
Though people don't choose their political beliefs as freely as you'd expect; upbringing, profession, region, and even genetics play a role.
Yes, many warnings do apply.
Interesting, I am guessing there is some kind of learning net behind SafetyNet API - Harvesting all the device infos.
> if you feel you're entitled to things others are not

Why are you entitled to a comfortable apartment near your job while the waitress who served you lunch or the landscaping crew at the Googleplex have to commute from hours away or live in a squalid trailer park ? Guess it's their fault for not being software engineers too, isn't that right, Mr. Equality ?
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My main complaint with attempts to MITM TLS is that it is a failure -- you cannot actually MITM TLS without breaking TLS. Specifically, TLS client certificates are almost always broken when by attempts to MITM TLS and we use TLS client certificates for almost all HTTPS connections.
It doesn't actually sound honest, now I admit your follow up question made the intent clearer, but that original post wasn't downvoted by others for the 'sharpness' of the question but because it sounded rhetorical. Have an upvote.
The beauty of open source is that you can submit a pull request.

http://www.metabates.com/2011/05/24/stop-complaining-start-c...
There was a startup that addressed this issue of personal devices potentially leaking personal or business sensitive information. The idea was the device is protected all the time, not just while on the office network.

They were Mojave Networks but looks like their website is no more. Acquired by Sophos... I guess their called Cloud Web Gateway now. See links.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mojave-networks
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/press-office/press-releases/201...
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/cloud-web-gateway.aspx
This is one of the first things I've noticed when looking at political discussions. People (correctly) note the abuse of powers in others, but the moment they get power themselves they see no problem with (ab)using it to attack those who did it before. And then the power relations change again and it starts anew.
We did up until it all went downhill. Circa 2001, they went from hand-drawn to digital animation so the quality of the writing took a back seat to getting quick jokes on the air in a few weeks instead of months. Hand-drawn required more money and time for the animators in Asia (maybe South Korea?). And why waste all that money on bad writing? Same goes for using the old punch-card systems.
Wait, did you check the history of the term 'hysteria'? Honest question.
4b.Why are they hurting? Why is median household income so low?

Well, in the small town I grew up in, cheap imports and exported labor coupled with automation killed the main sources of jobs. Retraining is incredibly hard and requires a willingness to uproot everything and risk it all as well as the ability to not get paid for a while to move forward.
I've been thinking of playing with bup [1][2] for personal stuff, so I was hoping I'd see that someone here had played with it. I don't see any mention of it yet, so if anyone has used it and could share any thoughts, I'd love to hear them!

[1] https://github.com/bup/bup

[2] https://bup.github.io/
Thank you for making your GraphQL API publicly accessible.
Can you suggest a better name to be used in our demo?

BTW. We also included it in our list of public GraphQL APIs:
https://github.com/APIs-guru/graphql-apis
I'm having a difficult time squaring your comments here in this line with your comment elsewhere on the thread about Taleb's ideas of anti-fragility and complex systems. Are you making a normative argument about how these "well designed, functional governments" should behave? Because if you are I'm having a hard time parsing how these governments behaving this way would be sufficiently different from how we got here (manifested by Trump, Brexit, FN, AfD) which seems to have exposed the world to some pretty serious systemic risk. Forgive me if I sound obtuse.

> Globalization doesn't mean letting companies evade taxes. That's a problem that precisely can't be solved individually, and has to be solved on a global level. It can be solved, and is being solved, worldwide.

I don't see this as being true at all, and it seem at odds with your earlier point about things "that just can't effectively be solved by bloated entities." There's elements of what you are saying that I agree with (anti-fragility, industrial inertia leading to stagnant workforces, the importance of retraining/education), but on the whole it seems a little one-foot-in-one-foot-out (which may have been intentional, if you're making a subtle point about hedging strategies.)

Again, apologies if I sound obtuse.
I think one of the declines in usage comes from the explosion in open source libraries (as opposed to programs).

If you're releasing a library as open source, the GPL all but guarantees you'll see no use in commercial software. This means your audience is limited, and if there are 'competing' libraries that have more permissive licenses, they'll likely become more popular. Less usage and audience means less contributors, testing, and visibility, and that's really one of the biggest benefits of open sourcing in the first place.

There's also a compounding effect here, as anyone who is also releasing a library has to make the same decision about their own license, and using code that is GPL means they have to be GPL as well.
She stared at me for a few seconds and remarked, “Oh. I didn’t see you. You blended in. You’re so black, you blend into the chair.” I didn’t believe what I was hearing and I didn’t know what to do. I looked at my arm, compared it to the chair in front of her.

“Nope, my arm is brown and the chair is black,” I quipped awkwardly.

She replied, “No. They’re the same color.”

The room was silent.

Yowzers. So is "Kelly" still working at Squarespace? I'm not sure I could take someone seriously as a co-worker - and certainly not as a manger - after saying something like that in a meeting.
"If you don't like it, don't log out" is an easy answer, but for many it's more difficult in practice, especially if your social circle uses FB Messenger or WhatsApp to communicate and plan events. Not to mention how they create shadow profiles of users even if they've never logged in and track you online even if you're logged out.
You are not on Android 7 yet. Prior to "Nougat" the fine grain permissions control was not available so permissions were an all or nothing thing at install time. Starting with version 7 you only enable a specific permission the first time the application needs it. And you can change them later if you wish on the permissions section of the application in app manager.

https://goo.gl/photos/2rvYmX6WNgGVfEsJ7
A lot of that office and clerical work doesn't require anything resembling AI to automate. Simple workflow and rules engines are sufficient. The basic technology has been around for decades. Limiting factors so far have been incompetent managers who don't think in terms of automation, and the high cost of software development. But those obstacles are gradually fading away.
I can't believe I missed that! Thanks.
While this is related to employees, it seems to be focused on other devices which are not under any group/device policy.

> By providing personalized, actionable information–and not relying on automatic enforcement–Stethoscope respects people's time, attention, and autonomy, while improving our company’s security outcomes.
Congress and Senate combined has far more power than executive as well.

In fact the executive branch has grown significantly in power largely because of the ever growing pageantry of the elections. Everyone puts responsibility for all economic and social issues on the president. This eventually becomes a self fulfilling reality as we saw with Obama who signed more executive orders than anyone. The pressure is significant.

When in practice the executive branch is in fact quite limited outside of offering an ideological leadership and his cabinet/court picks.

I hope this is the ultimate result of the Trump Presidency. That executive power is further reduced rather than emboldened.

This is how the founding fathers envisioned the political system. They didn't want an unlimited amount of power left to the whims of one man.

But it seems everyone continually sees the problem as merely the wrong person rather than improving the system itself. The never ending belief that it will be better next time!

Either way I've learned to be less pessimistic - despite the mounting hysteria these days - largely because the system still somewhat reflects it's intention. As we saw when the only really bad policy (Muslim ban) was shut down from within party ranks by a Republican in the judicial branch.
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> But when it comes to getting a job as a developer, there are simply more important things than a degree. Who is more hirable: someone with 3 years of work experience and no degree, or someone with a degree, but with an internship experience?

Depends on the job and the type of work applicants have done. If I want a senior engineer working on a whole new networking stack at Facebook, I don't expect a fresh graduate will fit the role. There are exceptions, but I bet that number is so small I will neglect it.

If I were to look for a junior-level software engineer, I still expect some projects he/she can proudly show off. It can be a class project, or an internship project. Having an internship in the resume is a major triple +.

Some people have 5-10 years experience but they aren't the great fit perhaps because they don't know the technology we use. I want to find people who can pick up the stack quickly but I prefer to find someone who already have the experience so we can get the most out of the new hire right away.

I only have a few years of piratical experience in the area I focus on, but I am already considered senior. In the end your ability to grow as an individual is very important. Having 20 years under the belt is great advantage, but that doesn't mean a young engineer with 3-5 years experience isn't as strong.

When I consider hiring someone, I look at

* the resume (long resume is a negative, because I really don't care what you did 10 years ago, you can tell me that during the interview, not during the resume screening. Please also have a consistent formatting).

* internship / project

* experience and technology familiar

* ability to interact with me like we are building a tent together

I encourage people to get a college degree. As a student get involved in either a research project, or join / start ACM club, or do anything to help yourself marketable like giving talks or volunteering at tech meetup which will allow you to use your technical skills. College degree is not a necessity, but it does provide an unique experience.
> That the "center of America" (same as for rural areas in Germany, which also heavily tend to vote conservative/right) has been vastly ignored by the left is a fact.

I disagree with this premise. Many of the signature policies of the "left" were specifically intended to address the issues facing "middle America" - the ACA/Obamacare was intended to address rising health care costs, Clinton was pushing a retraining program for workers in areas where jobs have migrated from, and both Sanders and Clinton were arguing for increasing access to tertiary education via free/discounted programs.

I also think it's interesting that these areas complain they are "abandoned" by the left while continuing to elect Republicans. Blaming the Federal government (ostensibly "left" despite the Republican controlled House and Senate for the last 6 years) for the failings of State politicians and Governors, who have at least as much impact in your daily life, is another example of how absurd politics has become. We need to break the partisan nature of politics and start electing people who are interested in building a city/county/State/country for ALL of their constituents via compromise.
The problem is asymmetry along two axes.

The first, information asymmetry. The person holding the code (the lone developer with an old floppy disk stored in the attic) has no idea who the owner might be. The actual owner is well aware of what they own.

That could be resolved by a DMCA takedown notice, yes.

Alas, there's usually also financial asymmetry. And as an individual, the potential costs of a copyright lawsuit are not something you want to face. As a larger company, it's just part of your normal expenses - especially if your business model is "accumulate IP"
> You can't say Merry Christmas.

Specifically in schools, this is problematic because it makes children who do not celebrate christmas feel left out. Adults should be able to handle it, children not so much.

> You can't say you understand homosexuality to be a disorder.

This is not an opinion related to your job, so you should definitely keep it to yourself while on the job. While some people will definitely throw a fit about it if you make the opinion known outside of your job(especially regarding teachers) I agree that this is bad and shouldn't be done.

> You can't call a man "he" if he identifies as a "she".

This is just simple respect. If someone asks you to call them something, you call them what they asked. Even if you think it is wrong/ridiculous. It doesn't hurt you any.
> Things are tight, taxes are scary

The economic angle is what I understand least about the Republican voter base. A core part of the Republican platform is that we should be cutting government services and programs in order to lower taxes. But these cuts disproportionately affect the poor. The whole point of these programs is to provide a social safety net for the most vulnerable.

So I understand why the rich would vote Republican but I'm confused by the groundswell support for Trump among those struggling to pay their bills. It seems like they're voting against their own interests. How did the pro-business, small-government faction gain such traction among the people who have the most to gain from the redistribution of wealth via higher taxes?

Is it purely because of the parties' positions on abortion, immigration, defense, marriage, etc?
Interesting article! The metric you use does eliminate triviality, but it sometimes uses very obscure (and arguably uninteresting words), such as calumnies, ivoriness, coprophagist, etc. That's what you describe as
Webster's Second jargon that nobody knows".

It would be interesting if you could adapt your metric to account for general prevalence of the word in English. Scan a giant subsection of say Wikipedia, and assign a frequency to each of the 234,000 words in a map, giving unseen words an infinitely small frequency, and then use the sum or multiple of the frequencies of each of the anagrams to bring out some truly interesting ones!
> Is it wrong for this administration to enforce our current laws?

No, but it is wrong if it breaks other laws in the attempt to enforce the law. Any realistic attempt to deport millions and millions of people will almost invariably run afoul of the 4th amendment because there would be no way to find that many people without unlawful searches.
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Yes, but if you're like me and went back and read all the old journals and almanacs, you'll find that almost nobody made paint this way. Paint was made from flax seed / linseed oil, lime and milk (all of these are more plentiful than animal blood), not iron oxide or blood. Other alternatives include eggs (also more common than blood), flour and dirt.

(source: hours of reading up 100+ year old farmer's books, since I work with Yonatan, and based my replies to him on primary data. In short, he took a very nice science concept and wrapped a just-so story around it).

BTW, if you're interested in recreating society after the fall, various calcium/carbon products like lime and chalk is going to be the first thing you need to obtain after a good supply of water and food.
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The existence of the electoral college does not actually represent dirty play by the right...
German has that word.
Virtual reality is a dystopian world. Digital natives where born in cages where everything you say is recorded, every free space is an advertisement, and what you see is an illusion. You scream into the night not knowing if anyone is listening. You may think that you are in a big city, communications where never so good nor so cheap. But digital gods decide how far the message goes. No one knows how they take their decisions, nobody asks, nobody expects them to answer. Virtual streets and bazaars are proprietary. Billions have an open window into the virtual world in their pockets, but there are just two shops where to buy from. Digital products are scarce by design. But even when you buy them you can not own them, you are just allowed to rent until the deal changes. Common sense doesn't apply.

Virtual worlds have very real problems.
Define succeed. Nice job, nice wife, etc... or FU money level of success?

I can only speak from my experience hiring and getting hired but all things being equal that piece of paper will likely get you hired over the other applicant(s). For inexperienced folks it also makes getting those critical first positions easier, which will allow you to quickly move up, or out, in the field.

I question the validity of their claim that by omitting a degree over 60% of the job postings didn't require a degree of some sort (see my previous point). Hiring staff is a real pain when you're not one of the big boys so casting a wider net is somewhat necessary.
The main purpose of Yeoman is to generate files that could essentially become a boilerplate, almost like a boilerplate generator. It doesn't actually do any work for building or testing the project, rather it could potentially put the dependencies in place to do that for you.

Neutrino, on the other hand, consolidates those dependencies and configuration for you into presets. It is the power of the build tool + the preset that makes building the project simple. Had you just used Yeoman to generate the dependencies and configuration, you would still be on your own to continue to manage all the individual dependencies and configuration, while with Neutrino you can simply override what you need and still have the preset manage its own dependencies.
> People are afraid to talk about their views openly. I think this is really bad.

It is very bad, because US institutions (estates, branches of government) are built on the assumption of a level of respect for the opposition - this goes out the window when they are seen as an enemy. Sadly the political polarization in the US has been ongoing for decades now. This is not something that can be "turned off" in one election cycle by "listening" because this did not happen by accident, additionally, incendiary rhetoric can't be disallowed due to the first amendment. I suspect there is a political corollary to Greshams law ("bad rhetoric drives out good rhetoric"?). The right sees the label "liberal" as a slur and a justification to oppose in itself; the left sees the right as idiots who vote against their self-interest.

Polarization is the finer-grained human equivalent of gerrymandering - it provides reliably consistent votes by shifting away from the middle. The media certainly isn't helping.
Perhaps let's take a different tack.

What year were you born in? If it was before 1985, I have a bet for you.

If the global surface temperature for every month in 2017 is less than the temperature the year you were born, I will give you $2k. If the global surface temperature is greater in 2017, you owe me $1k.

Wanna take that bet?
Out of curiosity, can you... run video games with it?
> unsubstantiated fact

That's just like dry water. If it's a fact then it's verifiable. If it can't be verified, it isn't a fact: just baseless hearsay.
That makes sense then. But in my case I was definitely looking forward to talking to him and he was supposed to be there.
Great. Out of that literal universe of infinite options, could you list one?
Rooting a device doesn't immediately expose you to risk, you must manually allow that. There's very little malware around if you stick to the standard app stores like most users will too. Ads that push malware - a major problem on Windows - practically don't exist on mobile because the impact would be so small. Especially if they're trying to target only rooted users.

Phones don't seem to be very popular attack vectors and many main attack methods could be performed without the need to root the device at all.

All in all, I'd be very surprised if rooting a device ever resulted in a significant compromise which couldn't have been done without root. Exploitation excluded obviously.
It's nice to see that The Atlantic caught up with Thomas Jefferson [1], "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. " The question now before us is can we live with the inequality or destroy it without destroying ourselves?

1 - http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_tree_of_l...

- Edit: grammar