skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there a way of fairly denigrating Trump supporters?

It depends what you want to accomplish. Do you want to persuade them to be some other kind of supporters or score points with people who already agree with you?
If would be far more humane to hike taxes or cut financial aid funding and Medicare/Medicaid in order to pour massive amounts of money in staging giant televised robot prize fights over some atoll in the Pacific.
Do people really watch the Simpsons for the plot?
Yes, someone like that is above a standardized interview process.

But that is only because we are all above such a process.

There is no single standard for software professionals' jobs, and that is why it is stupid and foolish to have a single standard for hiring into those thousands of unique jobs.

For most companies, the only skill you need to have and develop is how to shovel that company's unique and specific type of manure, or if you prefer, how to prepare their unique and specific flavor of sweetened "ade" beverage.
>If you get a recruiter email for a company that is not that company, it's _always_ junk

Not true. Companies hire recruiters to find employees. Not all companies (especially startups) have their own internal recruiting department.

The flip side is true, though: as a company trying to hire people, every recruiter email that says "I have a perfect candidate for you" is junk. They just invent those people or send resumes of people who aren't even on the job market.
I second the XPS 13.
The 3200x1800 has revolutionised how I view excel sheets with tons of columns.

And yep, I get about 5 to 6 hours of usage.
> vocal minority, concentrated in a few specific geographic areas engineered to have more power over the electoral process

Speaking as someone who identifies as radical leftist: I disagree with this. 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. While gerrymandering is certainly a problem on state-level elections, it is not so much a problem on US-wide elections and certainly the state borders have not been "gerrymandered" to result in the voting power differences that in turn resulted in Trump becoming president.

The left parties, not just in the US, but also especially in Germany have for long left their roots as parties of the workers and instead shifted their focus to what one may call "the urban elite". While in Germany with Mr. Schulz there is a hope that he may win back the votes of former core SPD or Left party voters, I am not sure if the Democrats will be able to do the same in the US.
Their new entirely-JS based layout only happened after Google bought them.

Before that, Blogger's sites were completely degradable and perfectly functional without Javascript enabled. Then Google decided to remake all the templates to be fully JS driven and added a ton of page weight to the site.
Do you think the bots reflect a level of sophistication or apparent financial backing that makes them clearly the work of a nation state?
This is kinda our fault you know. Moglen sums things up pretty well.

http://observer.com/2011/12/in-which-eben-moglen-like-legit-...
It's pretty much just that. I've read some pretty intense thought-provoking books recently, "Marx's Inferno" in particular, which I don't feel comfortable paraphrasing, which make the rabbit hole seem way deeper. However, I was mostly thinking of just that.
Yes, it is possible to get hired with the use of 3rd-party recruiters, but it is still not in your benefit. If they never got people hired, then they wouldn't make money and even try.

If you don't have any way for companies to target you themselves, then 3rd party recruiters might be more effective the you targeting companies directly yourself.

However, if you are in the boat where you are getting many recruiter emails a week, my advice is sound. They are all junk, and the only way to get any signal to noise is to look for ones directly from the company doing the hiring.
I mean yes, to some extent you are right. People are generally resilient and society as a whole will undoubtedly bounce back over the course of the billions of people on the planet.

With that said, there's nothing to say that we can't help manage the transition for the massive numbers of people who ARE expected to be effected by this.

Consider the cost of retraining. Who would support going back to school? As a society we have the ability and resources to ensure people who do have their livelihoods automated aren't rendered homeless by a sudden unexpected loss of income.

We see the job losses on the horizon and we can plan ahead for it. We can yawn "because tractors" or we can start building out the social safety net now so we get out ahead of it.

New jobs will undoubtedly arise to take the role of those jobs being automated now, but the change isn't necessarily immediate, 1:1, or optimally geo-located.

We need schemes in place in order to support the transition period. Retraining, mobility, nutrition, shelter could all need stop-gaps to prevent catastrophe for some populations.

Much of Monica's research is finding that women, minorities and populations which are currently "at-risk" already are expected to be disproportionately affected by the coming wave of automation. Lower education & working poor are going to get hit badly by this.

Consider for example Detroit, Consider "coal country" - the it's not as easy to say "because tractors" to the real people who are suddenly out of work in a city or state where the entire economy just dried up.

Maybe they were already living paycheck-to-paycheck, maybe their nest-egg investment in their house suddenly became worthless because nobody needs to move to town anymore. Maybe after 30 or 40 years at the plant they're close to retirement, but have deeply specialized in something where they can't generalize their existing skills. And so on. "because tractors" is very little comfort to them.

"People" will be fine in general, "these people" quite specifically will be devastated.

Maybe there's a role for legislation that requires companies reducing workforce to support those former employees for longer?
Announcements of announcements are really lame. It deserves a collective term with journalism about upcoming XY.

Is journalism lagging so far behind social media, that they need to give the news before it happens? Or is it just good PR teams that amplify the hype by triggering it early?

For big visions it makes sense to talk about it before some release, but a new music album, an app releasing next month, all annoying.
Sentry captures exception logs only and from within the application. You could probably use it to do any kind of event-based tracking but its quotas are pretty clearly intended for significant failure events that you would normally dump into the error log. (i.e. Fatal Errors as well as anything in a try/catch block)

An open source broad based log collecting/processing stack would be more like:

https://www.elastic.co/webinars/introduction-elk-stack
I'm now thinking of multiple ways the Stalin photo could have been interpreted.

What meaning did it have to you or them?
I read your article. The author has nice primary citations, but ends up shoehorning his slavery agenda into quotations that don't support it.

Here's Wikipedia. I think we can agree it's a better source. Federalist Paper 68 describes explicitly why the electoral college was designed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._68#Hamilton.27s...

Edit: also, wikipedia addresses the slavery agenda just above where I cited it. Note the three fifths compromise, which benefited the slaveholding states under the EC, and the actual reasons for the EC given in the section I referenced.
The epitome of white privilege: Using race quotas as an example of "denial of basic human rights". To white people. Yes, surely that is the best example of denial of human rights in the US.

You lack the most basic amount of awareness of the culture around you, or empathy for others.

As for Islam, I'm tired of arguing with this strawman. Liberals do not defend Islam's policies regarding intolerance. Liberals defend the right for a human being to not be branded a suspected terrorist based solely on their race and/or religion, but rather based on evidence of their actual behaviour and actions.
I'm interested in your experience with SRE. What did you like and dislike, and why was it a mistake?
> You are generalizing a number of points that he never spoke about though.

I absolutely generalized, and I hate doing it! My point is that the left is not immune to these types of critiques. To point to the other side of aisle as unscientific, uncaring, etc, coupled with the belief that your side is none of theses things is tribalism, and amount to nothing more than "Blue team good, red team bad!" or vice versa. That's why having a dialog is so important, so that we can weed out bad ideas. Saying that "we do not, and will not welcome anyone who elects a man like trump" is just divisive and socially damaging.
I think the overt intention is to identify undesirable travelers and exclude them from entry.

In reality it's much more of a "papers please" situation acclimatizing everyone to control of their movements. Things are progressing quickly towards the totalitarian state.
Just as a heads up: The deeper a comment chain gets, the longer HN hits the pause button on allowing a reply (to prevent flame-warring, I think).

I understand that it's not maybe intended to be a jerk or has the deeper purpose of getting someone to rethink their position more carefully. But it's just a bit of a jerk-ish way to do so (in my view) - one that may be perceived as an attack on someone's intelligence and critical thinking abilities. It sets people on the defensive.

I try to take a more-flies-with-honey method myself - challenge the person to go through this process positively, and having demonstrated that you have tried to understand their viewpoint. It may make them more likely to understand yours, too.

As others have said and I hinted at, there are some things where societal benefit may and should outweigh individual belief. Laws are not always the most effective, or only way, to achieve these ends. Education is valuable.
>Why are we so dead set on letting the human experience be about working ourselves to death?

Because every living organism is designed to work itself to death and we're no exception.
They're not mutually exclusive terms. You can have one without the other. The database that supports zero knowledge queries can be a plaintext patent database. You can do research without leaking what you're researching, however the records themselves are not confidential between a sender and recipient therefore it would be wrong to claim such a system is E2E, even though it is zero knowledge.

Take your example, you upload 10 notes to a server with device #1 and then retrieve a few of them with device #2. The server knows exactly what 10 notes you uploaded and exactly which of 3 of the 10 were read by the second device. It also knows when the uploads and downloads occur. Since it knows #2 downloaded a subset of what #1 uploaded, it can conclude that #1 and #2 have some kind of relationship. (eg. Both are your devices, or one device belongs to your friend with whom you have shared 3 of your notes) This is E2E but not zero knowledge.

Now imaging incorporating both E2E and zero knowledge techniques into a note sync system:

1) All notes are encrypted end to end. That is, the servers that store and route notes never learn the secrets necessary to decrypt them

2) Notes sent into the system are routed through a mixnet that uses verifiable shuffles so no one passively watching all of the users and system (or actively running malicious servers or clients) can learn who is sending which note ciphertext.

3) Note ciphertexts are retrieved from the system using private information retrieval so that observers and cheating servers don't learn who is receiving which one or when it's been received.

This system isn't going to learn anything about how many devices you have or who you share with. And it's going to prevent further analysis of metadata: For example, device #1 and #2 keep matching sets of notes and they frequently connect from the same IP addresses, therefore it's safe to assume these devices are owned by the same person. Device #3 requests a subset of notes that were uploaded by #1 and #2, but always from a different country. Now #3 retrieves a note posted by #2 from the same IP address that #1 used recently. Therefore it's safe to assume that the owner of #3 is visiting the owner of #1 and #2.
Isn't he saying that the marginal cost of showing an article to one more person is approximately zero?
Sorry for being dense but how is this better than running seamless window Linux under vmware? With that I can also access shared files, etc.
Are you saying that one awful situation should be discounted because there's an even more awful situation elsewhere for other people?
Interesting. It seems as though your preconceived notions have biased how you summarized what you read.

Simply reading the rest of the comments on HN should be enough to help you realize that what you posted above is not what it boils down to.
> Should people in those industries have access to the outside web ...

They don't have it.
I expected the cry of false dichotomy. Here's the thing: all simplifications are inaccurate because they involve a loss of fidelity. Simplifications that are tolerably inaccurate but useful are the basis of clear thinking. When you resist simplification, ask yourself whether you are seeking to avoid inaccuracy or seeking to avoid clear thinking. People tend to resist clear thinking when it leads to difficult decisions.

I'm not sure what you mean by bringing up a hypothetical "censorship apparatus that allows only fake news" -- my contention is that you cannot "beat" fake news without a censorship apparatus. Of course you can have a "good" censorship apparatus that only allows things you believe are good and true or you could have a "bad" one that only allows fake news. I'm sure yours would be very, very good indeed. But I think it's much better not to play that game at all.
> Over the last several months I have started to better understand where they are coming from.

Do you feel that Trump supports have made an effort to understand you and where you're coming from? Or that they would have, had Clinton won the election?
Have you ever called someone a racist or seen someone else be called a racist? How did they tend to react at an emotional level? Did that tend to make them more or less open to feedback? Have you found it to be a particularly effective way of getting people to change their behavior?
So you reckon than in less than 24 hours the senator has completed a thorough investigation and also had time to draft a bill? Or maybe is it the case that this work has been ongoing for months...?
I'm trying to use the same language that those who hate the current programs do to get their attention and get them to give a more fair, inclusive, and socially beneficial (people having jobs is good, right?) alternative a fair consideration.

In a literal sense, ANY help from the government. Be it roads, police (military), fire protection, etc; is a handout. The word may as well be meaningless aside from attaching an emotional buzzword response to something.

Please focus on the actual ideas discussed, and not the language (unless commenting on a more effective way of conveying the message with a specific wording).
> The epitome of white privilege

Who says I'm white?

Larry Elder on that form racism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFqVNPwsLNo&t=34m56s
Are you the author? I'm not saying you're ok with his goals. I'm saying that you seem to be very concerned with not coming off as "one of those anti-FB people", to the degree that it weakens the momentum of your writing a lot.

I'm sure other people really like it.
Keep in mind - the CEO in question could be writing personal e-mails out from an ATS / Sourcing tool that helps keep track of communications.

Tracking links are not always == shotgun approach
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But nobody wants to pay enough. I hate to be a presumptive asshole, but if I get 5 different emails from 5 different recruiters for what appears to be the same position with the same client - all either form emails or in barely readable messages (or incomprehensible voicemails), I'm going to presume they're not offering anything reasonable relative to the work asked.
> The constant attack on supporters creates no space for any sort of discussion or public changing of views.

Honestly I think glibness is the only sane response here: poor baby. Seriously this is politics, and this is absolutely not the first election with this kind of hyperbole. You don't think we hear the same thing when you guys whine on about feminazis, muslim-lovers and communists?

What you're really saying is that the "mainstream online left", which has NOT heretofore been much into name-calling that has been a mainstay of right wing discourse for going on two decades now, has now grown a spine and (now finding itself with essentially no representation in the federal government at all) is giving back as it gets.

To wit: cry me a river.
Isn't there any way that browsers/OS could signal "this dialog you're seeing right there is from us and not from the website you're visiting"? Most people know to look for the lock icon in sensitive pages, so it could be extended to that as well.
That's a good point, and it's perhaps insulting to assume otherwise given the available information at this point.
From lunch to acquisition: How Atlassian bought Trello
So what does google use for corporate blogs, then?
The NYT is already longer than anyone has time to read daily, even retired people. Ditto WSJ etc. There are more good movies than you could ever watch. Too many really good TV shows to keep up with.

By "infinite," the OP really means "vastly overwhelmingly larger than demand." Of course there's also plenty of dreck, but that's not the article's point.
>while law is much more often black and white.

Really? Why does so much time get wasted in litigation if law is black and white? In the case of an immigration law, was the law made in accordance with the constitution? What about the Geneva convention? Should you obey a law that is unconstitutional? What if it was brought in without due process. Doesn't sound black and white to me. [Add your own black vs white joke about white law enforcement and black immigrants here]
Are you talking about DST? You don't change your timezone at DST switch, the timezone data knows how to calculate the correct time based on your location (roughly) and the time of year. Mountain standard time and mountain daylight time are both part of mountain time, for example.
Just as a matter of correctness: only 1/3rd of Google employees are engineers/development guys.
>two sides of a coin becoming more and more extreme and caring more about hating the other side than about what's good for the country.

Not really. [url=https://img-washingtonpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w1000/s... polarization in the US is driven entirely by the GOP. Full stop.[/url]

You can't address the problem if you're blinding yourself to its causes. The Democrats have, by and large, branded themselves as the party of non-partisan centrist technocrats, not as liberal firebrands. Sanders' defeat in the primaries only cemented this.
I live near DC. On the weekends when I'm driving in and around DC, I almost never see Hillary stickers, even though DC is a thoroughly liberal town. It was like this before the election too. I saw far more old Obama stickers than I did Hillary stickers.
I believe I should learn from my mistakes and move on rather than have rabid obsession over big O.

It's not even an obsession. Those pieces of knowledge could be fully mastered in about a half hour. It's first principles knowledge, like chemistry or thermodynamics. I can tell in a minute that something like "Solar Freakin Roadways" is a scam, whereas so many people gave that scam literally millions of dollars. Knowledge is literally power, in a very concrete way that expresses itself directly as dollars!

Instead of having some basic first principles knowledge to spot such things ahead of time, benefiting from the collective experience of your field, you'd rather just labor in ignorance and run into everything for the first time and get out the profiler? Imagine scaling that up to the size of the Amazon or Google workforce?
I've been hearding that Pilot is starting to do buildings in Center City Philadelphia. Good to see you on HN, that certainly raises your cred.

My CEO would like to chat with you guys soon.
White conservatives saw the attention disenfranchised groups were receiving in terms of trying to even the balance of justice (legal and social) and thought "Hey what about us!"

I'd support this point of view if 99% of "alternative views" didn't end up being some form of "Immigrants are rapists", "Brown people are terrorists", and "Climate change is a Chinese conspiracy".

There is a difference between having an open mind and having a sieve for a brain.
Agreed. Poverty in the US is very similar to poverty elsewhere. And hey, if you live in Chicago's south side you're basically in a war zone!
I have no interest in promoting Trump or Russian propaganda. I have serious disdain for Trump (and for humanitarian abuses committed by Putin (and by the US)), the only thing I would characterize as wise that he's done is to question some of the more dishonest foreign policy ideas the US has been running with for quite some time.

Nowhere in the criticism of the idea that the US might improve relations with Russia is there any assertion of what US national interest actually is, merely a smear campaign against Putin (much like the one against Saddam, etc.)

To me that is what defines propaganda -- ad hominem smears, moralizing, indignation that someone would have a view different than your own. These are actually a characteristic of some of the arguments you've put forth.
A SwiftKey employee has made it his mission to upload obscure languages
Facts don't have any bias, as I understand it. The collection of facts presented or absorbed can be picked or ignored with bias.
Of course, the key idea of the linked article is that it's easy to find long anagrams, but it's hard to find interesting ones. The anagram "megachiropteran = cinematographer" is ranked higher than "conversationalists = conservationalists" because of the more complex rearrangement.
Pullman, Illinois was founded by George Pullman of the Pullman Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman,_Chicago
China is a developing country. Policies that work well for them generally won't translate to a fully-developed economy.

Primarily, their growth (in terms of the Cobb-Douglass equation) comes from increasing technology (the "A" in the equation) by adopting already-created technologies.

If you're at the frontiers of technology, you can't just implement pre-existing technology. You need policies that will help you invent new ones.
Excellent points. I will try to take a more-flies-with-honey approach in the future. Thank you for your insights and thoughts.
Dream of energy-collecting windows is one step closer to reality
How many Google Engineers do you know?

I know quite a few of them. All of them, without exception, are incredibly brilliant engineers. You might think this is just anecdotal evidence, that's correct. But also think that Google Engineers are responsible for many top quality, world class software projects. How could that be possible without really good engineers?

Yes the interview process is tedious and can be frustrating. But negating the fact that they have some of the best software engineers in the world is just silly.