skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are just no arguments for homeopathy or Young Earth Creationism. It's a natural reaction to get angry when someone argues in clearly illogical ways and is not open to rational discussion. (it's natural not because "rational" is somehow "better", but because of the helplessness of the situation).

Not every "idea" is valuable to be heard. That said, you don't state what topics you argue.
I've found people who do this to be incredibly toxic, mostly because more often than not the opposite viewpoint has been disproved by a body of scientific literature with which the "devil's advocate" is entirely unfamiliar.

In that case, playing the contrarian is nothing more than trolling.

When doing this, make sure the opposite viewpoint is at least as valid as the one you're arguing against.
Big business needs both a healthy consumer class and a poverty/continuously violated class to act as a "this is what happens if you are a bad consumer/employee" example to scare people into various kinds of compliance, and maximize profit/minimize wages.

It's comforting if you believe you can keep yourself and your friends out of that second category.

I keep making new friends in low places so that's not the case for me.
I never had any luck with incoming recruiters and often it turns out into huge waste of time. Scheduling/re-scheduling, they don't call on time, there's a delay, there's something else. In the end it looks like they are not really hiring otherwise they'd treat you with more respect.
What another guy heard from Trump supporters:

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a53275/trump-melbourne-...
It's not MITM. It's regular HTTPS tunneling through a regular proxy, which is a feature supported by most proxies. Both the client and the proxy must be configured and aware of each other.
Therapy Experience Associated with Negative Changes in Personality
I've used both and both are great overall. Even if you are using TensorFlow, I would recommend AWS right now for someone just starting out because the documentation is more currently more thorough, although that will probably change. The CloudML service looks really cool (and I think it's really what everyone will ultimately use), but I hit enough problems/bugs getting my model trained and running that I plan to wait for it to come out of beta before trying again.
They are for one part of the tech industry (which I count myself in) but it's pretty obvious that for many others, Microsoft-based tech (which now runs everywhere) is a standard. Why not persue both?
I admit that I haven't read the "manifesto" but it seems strange to me that the guy in charge of a platform that is arguably doing significant damage to our culture and democracy, all in the name of advertising profits, could be considered as an authority on how to fix the problems in question.

One preliminary solution seems fairly simple, and Zuckerberg is in a somewhat unique position in that he has the power to implement it on a large scale: stop feeding people an endless stream of ad-stuffed trash media selected by an algorithm maximizing for clickbait factor and nothing else. I genuinely believe that it's poisoning people's minds and doing significant damage to our society. Of course, it is making them money, so it will not change (in fact it will probably get worse).

It is not written in stone that a profitable enterprise must be compatible with the "greater good" (for lack of a better term). Some things are inherently destructive. Facebook takes a lot and gives nothing back. The idea of handing over the reins of our society to some outgrowth of its current model is as terrifying as it is hilarious in its blind arrogance and ignorance.
What are these "agencies" you speak of, and how do you tell the good ones from the bad?

(This is a serious, non-ironic question: I don't know what you mean, but it sounds interesting.)

Edit: I guess you mean recruitment agencies? How does one find the "good ones," other than through bitter experience and/or luck?
Not if you adjust for relative population sizes. Many societies had huge dependency's on foreign trade.
end game will be massive population reduction. Universal income doesn't change the fact that our resources are finite and humans reproduce exponentially. UNs top agenda is population control, read between the lines.
Sounds like Einstein was a Sherlock Holmes fan.
> I know that vaccines are critical and that there is nothing wrong with them. But to not even admit the possibility that there might be a link between vaccines and some health problems is, to me, very anti-science.

The problem is that you're agreeing that there is no link but then trying to argue that maybe there really is a link and everyone should think really hard about it. This is not a logical or factual argument but you expect that people should act as if it is. If you have facts or even logical arguments to put forth, then do so. But don't claim that everyone is being anti-science when they dismiss your baseless speculation as baseless speculation.
My intermediate steps were: "word equivalence classes" and "[flawed] fundamental theorem of arithmetic^Wspelling", and then you have it.
Well I really wanted to know who shot Mr. Burns.
For me it is Nokia 3310. I could not afford it as a kid but I always "borrowed" it from my dad and play with it for a while :)
Volume, I doubt it. Every small town Fudd I ever met had an AOL account. The difference is that all this activity is now visible to the liberal intelligentsia.

To your second point, that's just nonsense.
The resize step at the end is a defect of how C++'s collections work. Ideally, I'd like to be able to say that there are two collections, possibly stored in the same buffer so long as they don't overlap:

(0) A collection of elements to be processed (given by an InputIterator range).

(1) A collection of already processed elements (given by an OutputIterator range).

When the algorithm starts running, (1) is empty. With each iteration of the algorithm's loop, (0) becomes smaller and (1) becomes larger [maybe]. When the algorithm halts, (0) is empty.

Notice that, while both collections share the same underlying buffer, each has its own size. So there is no need to perform a `resize()` step at the end.
But the bus is great for me. I'm perfectly comfortable riding right up at the front. How dare you devalue my opinion and level of comfort like this!
What Are the Tricky Parts of Embedded Development?
Thank you!

Feature request: android icon packs (they come in a bunch of sizes to serve different devices).

Maybe you can make the transparent checkers a lot more subtle.
Why do I suspect the real reason boils down to "it makes me feel special"
You can't say Merry Christmas. You can't say you understand homosexuality to be a disorder. You can't call a man "he" if he identifies as a "she". Do any of these in school, business, or government and you'll be punished.
Right. I'm just saying "free range" doesn't mean much. You can get pastured eggs for $5 if you buy direct yes.
So be more generous with relevant charities while you wait for your taxes to go up. Nothing's stopping people from being more generous.
It's hard to argue against trivial equality, the state of being reduced to zero.

But that's not what modern equality proposes.

The argument against Trump is this case, in my opinion, void.

What he is is proof of systemic weaknesses and corruptions in our beurocracies.

The right sentiment, but the argument is too reductionist.

Sort of like saying If we're all dead, we're all equally alive. Not false perse, but it's an absurdity.

Edit: coming from an active conflict zone, I often comfort my western colleagues by arguing that everything we have that's worth anything is often built on blood sacrifice, and that the west is in need of fewer conflicts, because it learns and ends up prefering peace over conflict, as will my region someday. War a d conflict are natural to us but so is peace and love of kin.

I understand the author, but it's a bit grim. That said, hope for the best, prep for the worst.
Ideally it's more like "my production code skipped over 1% of batch jobs because it didn't expect the null values" or something like that. Handling errors gracefully is a bit of an art unto itself.
If TZ is set properly then you don't need to change it twice a year.

(man tzset for more info and examples of different values TZ can be set to. Mine is set to "Europe/London" which handles the DST switches automatically.)
I've interviewed at a couple local companies with 50+ devs each (mostly web dev positions), and almost everyone uses a Mac. This is anecdote of course, but I very rarely see devs using Linux professionally (natively, not in a VM).

That said, it depends on the kind of work; obviously, .NET developers almost exclusively use Windows, and I've noticed that sysadmins and system engineers are a little more likely to use Linux.
The reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber
Yup, we need Meta-recruiters: recruiters that can find the right recruiter for you!
Also, from a different perspective (and thus another post).

This is a good campaign training question.

"Those who are unfit for any work should be retired from the work force. I think we can all agree that retirees often need assistance with living safely and still deserve a rich environment to have a fulfilling life experience."
Interesting.

I wonder what the history of their mobile app is, though? It feels like it's a hybrid app, and it feels like it's developed iOS-first, Android-as-afterthought, so it may be the ugly stepchild of the team that gets no attention. "Does it build on Android? Ship it!"

Also, if it is hybrid, it may be a JavaScript team -- and JavaScript still has that "top developers love to hate it" aura [1], so it may be that some of the least talented Quora developers populate the team? (Apologies to the Quora app team, but ... 10 seconds to delete a paragraph?)

The worst of the problems seem to be when I'm also using the SwiftKey keyboard, so they may not see them internally. Somewhere along the way they're doing something pathological, though, because SwiftKey works like lightning in other apps, and only in the Quora app can get bogged down and end up so slow that I have to disable it and use the standard keyboard just to type anything at all. There's also a bug where I sometimes can't hit enter after a link I've pasted, and again I have to switch to another keyboard.

SwiftKey may be reacting to notifications that the text has changed, for instance, and Quora is sending 200 change notifications, one for each character changed, and then SwiftKey is querying the entire source document again each time... Or some such. Don't know.

It's not just SwiftKey related issues, though. Whatever they were using for rich text editing has been broken in different creative ways every few months, where edits wouldn't take, or what you're actually seeing would vary from what gets posted, or you can't edit the link text, or you can't GET OUT of the link text, so all the new text you type ends up part of the link, or ... It's been broken in so many ways that I've lost count. A recent bug I encountered was when I was pulling the text down to get to the top of what I'd written, I scrolled it down once too often, and that triggered a "refresh" ("drag down from the top" to refresh) which lost all of my text. Sigh.

The Quora app is really in need of a solid team experienced in app development, robust data handling, and proper UI behaviors. If it has competitive programmers working on it, they're solving the wrong problems.

[1] I used to be guilty of this, but JavaScript got better, linters now help prevent the worst legacy JavaScript issues, I changed my opinion in large part, and I use TypeScript now anyway. :)
it's not "flirting geisha abandons the menu"?
Yes, this link! Thanks!
Midsize Startup Impulsively Adopts Trendy JavaScript Framework to Rectify Technical Debt
Yeah... perhaps something like an electoral college, except functional?
> Blame the media industry for forcing it.

No, I'll blame the ad company pushing it into the browser.
According to the OP, he just announced that he intends to draft a bill. Has he actually released one now?
Questions are used when you want to learn about the other person.

Statements are used when you want to make a point.

Which one a person employes will tell you a lot about their intent.
That's part of it, but there are also "the law is the law" kinds of people, who perhaps don't realize how much more difficult it is for someone to move to the US now than it was for their ancestors. I have no idea as to the percentages of both.

There are also a lot of people who are victims of zero sum thinking and the lump of labor fallacy.
There's a lot of talk about how important it is to listen to Trump supporters, and all it does when I listen to them is terrify me.

When I listen to them, I hear people who blame others for their situation, mostly liberals and foreigners. I also hear people who refuse to believe most sources of news and almost all academics.

The combination of these things is scary. The fact that they have disproportionate political power and stockpile weaponry is even scarier.
Kind of, Sort of.

A title change from Night Of The Flesh Eaters to Night Of The Living Dead caused all kinds of problems for Romero and Russo.
Is sensitivity a universal value and priority for everyone? Even in the rust belt?
Is dismissing sensitivity as a value, allowed?
> because gun bans or gun control are a net benefit.

If you really believe that, compare/contrast most dictatorships with the United States, Switzerland, and Israel.

Gun control is something that oppressive rulers always try to implement as soon as possible.
'Liberal in what you accept from others' in this case would mean being prepared to handle nullable JSON fields.
This same exact argument could be used to require every interview candidate to know assembly.

Have you ever done the standard Comp Sci compiler implementation class? Do you write C++ and use the C++ standard library? If you answered yes to both questions, then you should know from first principles how just about everything in the standard library is implemented, and can use those tools with complete knowledge of when they can fail or must be used differently.

I find that developers who constantly get caught up in the performance of individual algorithms will waste incredible amounts of time optimizing them and will miss major optimizations that come from seeing the system as a whole.

Those developers are merely exhibiting yet another kind of ignorance.

For example, I would rather take the developer who points out that a particular program can make use of the fact that most of the code doesn't need sorted widgets rather than the one who spent the whole time optimizing the widget sorting algorithm.

It's the developer who has a clue about algorithms who is more likely to make the valuable insight. The needless optimizer is just doing some Cargo Cult algorithms analysis. (Probably motivated by signalling geekiness, not producing useful results.)
Late indeed, is there even a tunnel in the ST2 project? Looking here: http://www.soundtransit.org/st2 was not bringing anything up with a quick parse. (search for tunnel, boring, underground all came up empty)
Are you gay?
Are you a woman?
Are you Muslim?
Sounds like over-the-top testing to me. I know that there are sometimes things which must be tested (I've delivered and created many tests), but is there really anyone who can't figure out how to run Office? I've literally taught computer skills to thousands and I've never met such a person. Just another example of "self-selection" for personalities that memorize such things. Not the people I want to work with.
I had to fight for it, dealing with some really skeezy recruiters for a contract position that advertised/expressed a rate of $x5/hr, once I passed one of the 3 phone/skype interviews, and they realized I was a viable candidate, they immediately tried to insinuate that they couldn't afford anything more than $X0/hr or a fulltime salaried position at $(X-10)/hr. I said shove it, and lo and behold, they called back and the $X5 rate was yet again available. I complete 2 more interviews, and they get ready to draft an offer and they tried again to get me to accept $X2/hr, then $X3, for no explicable reason. I said no, and in my offer letter they wrote $X5/hr *{rate may change at time (sic)}. I made them re-draft it, flew to the client site, and after a tense 2 weeks (worrying if I got paid the full amount), I finally got paid what they advertised.
Since Google is an advertising company that even hires their own chefs, I would not expect 100% of their employees to be software developers.

It's more on the order of 20k developers, not 57k.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-software-engineers-does-Googl...

>Have you found any correlation between poor code and being able to pass Google's interview ?

cough cough Angular 2
The observation that two words are anagrams if they contain all the same letters isn't a huge leap from two words that contain all the same letters are anagrams.

That being said: Sorting isn't required. (An O(kn) solution exists to beat your O(nk log k))
Graph implementation using STL
I'm wondering what was Google interview for Guido van Rossum?
I googled "trump racist comments" - and got a slew of articles. Here is but one from Fortune:

http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/donald-trump-racism-quotes/

"A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage"

"Black guys counting my money! I hate it"

"Least racist person on earth"

There's three. You can find more. As far as the last one, one might argue "How is that racist?"

Guess what - when you aren't racist, you don't need to declare it. Plus - that comment technically suggests that at a minimum, he admits that he's possibly just "a little" racist...
Is this comparable to Yeoman?
https://matchr.in

An app which connects you with an anonymous person who might share the same interests as you. Once you're comfortable, you can unlock each other's profiles. Done with most of the programming.
Off the top of my head ... whitewater, healthcare during Clinton presidency (people didn't think the first lady should have such a large role in public policy), Hillary demonizing Bill's female accusers, "landing under sniper fire" in Bosnia, Vince Foster's death, Benghazi deaths, Benghazi root cause (particularly the initial narrative that it was due to the youtube video). Also the sense that it was "her turn" -- a sense of entitlement -- it was obvious the Democratic Party Leadership was "granting" her the nomination.

Part of it I think, too, is the rise of Rush Limbaugh and the right radio who wanted to undermine Bill Clinton, so they incessantly attacked both Hillary and Bill.

This also might begin to explain a little of the heart of the sentiment:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437345/hillary-clinton...
> After all, that's the basis of scientific thinking.

No it isn't. Scientific thinking isn't just like how a film photograph is taken, i.e. you expose a fresh blank film with no impressions of its own to light and it captures an image.

The unique thing about our minds is that we can analyze our own minds, we can analyze the interpretation of the input from the external world. Look at our own thought process and the way we perceive the world is known as Philosophy, and my main problem with the 'pro-scientific thinking' camp is that they have outright hostility towards philosophy.

Take for example evolution vs creationism debate. Just to be clear, I believe that evolution is the correct explanation of how the world came into being. But it is mindblowing to me how much the pro-evolution side (technically the creationist side too, but I don't care about them) insists on evolution being true and how much they have betted on this.

If tomorrow aliens land and they claim that earth is their landfill, dinosaur bones are their trash, and we are the equivalent of maggots living on their trash who came up with a consistent theory explaining how all the trash fits into our story. My point is that in that case, even though creationists aren't proven to be correct, scientific thinking would take a huge hit.

I can promise you if I go out and post to 100 scientific communities "I don't believe that the theory of evolution is true" and post some clearly non-religious argument against it, nearly all of them will wanna know if I believe in God, whether I believe vaccines cause autism etc.

Once I prove my credibility, then it's followed by link throwing. Remember the point I raised is philosophical, like could an alien life form have created us, can radiometric dating be wrong because we simply haven't observed any aging method to be correct over a million years. But it will be followed by link throwing, not even related to the topic I raised.

These things have nothing to do with whether my argument has merit or not, which is why no amount of link throwing forces me to change my opinion. Changing my opinion relies upon hearing a rational argument, and link throwing does not always mean a rational argument.
Furthering your point. Consider that Paul Ryan also doesn't want to deport dreamers/daca or break up families [1] is it any surprise. This isn't a partisan POV, there are legislators on both sides of the aisle that recognize the complexity of the problem and that ultimately it doesn't make sense to be so black-and-white.

Our immigration process is severely broken especially for migrant workers. They are an integral part of our economy and would, in most cases, choose to come here legally if they were given the opportunity. What we should be doing is giving these people work visas with a path to citizenship. We have already seen the adverse effects of eliminating illegal immigrants from being able to work as farm labor, crops rot in the field [2], and when prices rise, it will present opportunities to importers to put farmers out of business for good.

I should also state that I have no issues with deporting, though I don't understand why we don't incarcerate, unauthorized immigrants who commit violent crime(s). These people should be removed from our society.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/01/13...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-u...
The original comment sounded entirely different than that to me.

Regardless, if said white guy from 1955 said he was uncomfortable about something, or otherwise felt bad, telling him why other people have it worse seems counter productive. Someone always has it worse.
I use a smartcard with an RSA key with a LUKS-like format to encrypt my disks -- uses AES256-XTS for the actual dm-crypt, the smartcard's key is used to encrypt the symmetric cipher key.
Curious to hear about these .Net Enterprise devs that are not using RDBMS. It is still very much the status quo even with services like Azure DocumentDB around.

When you get a list of solid points about why Java won't be displaced and the response is watch this space, it reminds me of the folks saying "this is the year of the Linux desktop" without pointing to actual improvements coming to life.

The "new" .Net CLR really only has a compelling story if you are already a .Net shop. Nothing in the new Core and Standard implementations gives you something new if you are outside of it.
Then it should be easy to provide facts which disprove their point and start a discussion.
Do note that by internet, I am referring to the current scenario - where the net is the primary source of content for a majority of the population.

The period 1996-2006 was extremely different when compared to the last several years.

Consumption of media is not the same, and the impact of old media sources is not the same either.

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I do appreciate the correction. I was wrong and your correction Has helped me recall and revise other facts about the empire built by Fox News and Murdoch.

As I recall Fox News is the one which helped make climate change deniers look respectable, and helped build the world we live in today.