skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You all can defeat Trump next time, but not if you keep mocking us, refusing to listen to us, and cutting us out

For all those Trump supporters who love the fact he's not politically correct, this shows how thin skinned they themselves are. There's no other way to sugarcoat it, a lot of these people voted for Trump because it validated their own prejudices: they loved him for being anti-muslim, anti-black, anti-immigrant... And yes, white privilege has been eroding recently and Trump was meant to be the savior and restore it - which is what Making America Great Again is all about.

So each of these groups is going to be disappointed in the way he governs. Sure he's anti-immigrant but deporting millions of people isn't really what anyone wants or can bear. Sure he's anti-muslim, but enforcing a muslim ban will actually make us less safe. And his party is more interested in snuffing out Obamacare which benefits whites more than blacks, and cutting benefits which again hurts whites more than blacks. So in their idiotic attempt to roll back a couple decades of liberal progress they have voted for a man who might deliver a temporary setback to liberal values but in the process will doom them to continued poverty and despair, if that is what they really wanted to escape. Oh the irony.
Similar experience, but in Florida. At least for most of the one-design classes, the total weight of the boats and the dimensions of the important parts was set by class rules to pretty narrow tolerances regardless of construction materials.

Of course with better composites you got more stiffness and could also put the weight in the most advantageous position.
Every 200 years California suffers a storm of biblical proportions
There is a black and white defining line that is very commonly used and everyone can accept exists: birth. There is before the moment of birth and there is after the moment of birth. Termination before that date is called abortion, termination after that date is called murder. Very clear defining line.

To put it another, slightly less controversial way: do you agree that a 17 year and 11 month old teenager is the same as a 13 year old teenager? In the eyes of the law, they both have the same legal status: minors. It doesn't matter than in 30 days one of them will be an adult. They haven't hit that black and white dividing line set in the law.

I would also like to point out that no one has ever had an abortion "for no reason at all" and shame on you for trying to squeeze that one in there.
For anyone looking, another note-taking app is http://onemodel.org. (I'm the author).

It starts from a different conception of the nature of atomic knowledge. Details at the web site. Text-only, no mobile support (yet?), bit of a pain to install, but the most efficient I've ever known of and easy to use (I hope). Uses postgresql as the back end. I'd consider hosting the db for users, with discussion.
>Yes, this was in the feedback:
>“I’d love to see one-tenth of the outrage about the state of our lives out here that you have for Muslims from another country. You have no idea what our lives are like.”

The Democrats had a debate in Flint about the water crisis where they discussed what to do about it and how the country's infrastructure got there.

Meanwhile Donald's fans were screaming "TEN FEET HIGHER!"

If GOPers put one-tenth of the outrage about being proactive about the state of their own local economies as they do finding "liberal" scapegoats to blame for their lives being shitty their lives wouldn't have gotten so shitty.

I know what their lives are like, but it's hard to keep giving a shit when they keep voting to tell me I'm not a "real" American because I care about gay and minority friends as much as I do about them.

AS MUCH. Because they're not special just for being White. Democrats and the left have been bemoaning the decline of the rust belt my entire adult life. The only thing that made their proposals non-starters was the paranoid delusion that there was a secret welfare state for the Blacks holding them down.
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Nice! You've managed to stick almost all the corporate recruiting empty buzzwords in a single message.
Senator Wyden had a town hall last night. In it, I witnessed a constituent share concern about device searches at the border. The Senator said he shared the concern, that he would investigate, and that he would introduce legislation if he did not like the results of that investigation.

This is the result of his promise, delivered that same night. Representative Democracy works. Talk to your representatives.

Edit - the letter:
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/download/?id=B947731A-2394-484B...
I know some women who are regularly derided for pointing out that the founder of Planned Parenthood was a eugenicist who wanted to reduce the number of African Americans in the US.
This Super-Fast 3-D Printer Is Powered by Holograms
I moved to Acronis True Image when they offered unlimited cloud backups with their 2016 version. They probably couldn't sustain it, because I had to pay a lot more for backups when I wanted to renew in 2017.

Now, I'm using both Arq and Synology's Hyper Backup with Amazon Cloud Drive. One of the problems I foresee is that while Amazon doesn't care how much data one stores in Cloud Drive, they have suspended users for downloading past an arbitrary limit in a certain period of time — so full restores might not be possible.
Google guessed that you would be interested in those articles based on your search behavior, that's their entire business model. There is no conspiracy to push Google's politics on you because it would undermine their perceived impartiality. They're everyone's search engine, not just Democrats.
It would be highly inconvenient to have to set this variable if you live in a country where you change the timezone twice a year due to summertime.
Those people are all famous for saying controversial things. It's part of their brand. They get effectively get passes because:

1. They're famous and very successful
2. They hold enough "appropriate" beliefs that minor deviations are tolerated
3. They’re all used to death threats.

Many ordinary people don't enjoy those benefits. Like the teacher who was mentioned earlier who wanted "rule of law" and got fired for "racism." Or the owners that pizza shop in Indiana who got harassed by the entire internet for saying they wouldn't cater a gay wedding, neverminding the fact that nobody would want a pizza shop to cater a wedding and that nobody was denied service at that shop.

I mean, even those two people are lucky, because their stories got famous enough to generate national media interest. What about the people who don't get interviewed by newspapers after their livelihoods are destroyed for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place?
> You want government-owned media?

No. Why is this a result of not using Facebook? I cannot vote for changes to take place in Facebook. I do not benefit from its billions of dollars of market share. I have no say about the privacy policies. There is no democracy in FB.

I could have the above if I a) were already wealthy and owned a large portion of shares, b) were Mark himself, c) a member in Congress enacting legislation on social media websites.

Creating groups, organizing leadership roles, etc. on FB is not without restrictions. The company is known for suppressing certain messages [1], closing accounts, etc. It cannot claim to promote democracy and at the same time, censor what its leaders want.

Democracy must remain with the government, where people have power. My rights granted to me without concern for wealth, status, etc.

Facebook is not media, neither is it democracy.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/norway-accuses-facebook-of-cens...
Of course, one man's school is another man's government re-education camp.
OK, let me put it another way: there are billions of billions of billions of possible questions we could be asking. Most of them are not things that people talk about, and that people would be confused about if you brought them up. Why are the specific questions you mention worth discussing?
Ahh... so much poetic inspiration in this post!

"Timesaving negativism" said the
earringed grenadier,
with dispensable piebaldness,
"can be the intermediator for chronic endometritria!"

"Ah nay!" the cinematographer megachiropteran replied!
"it is only with maths--integrals, triangles,
that can cause such excitation, can intoxicate!"

But I, though their admirer, now married
had to disagree: "it would be a series of masculine calumnies
to give such clitoridean, directional advice to women!
We cannot precipitate such peripatetic thoughts!"
Propoganda does not necessarily mean they are falsehoods.
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The Bill Gates “Robot Tax” is as quaint as it is wrong
No. It's charged at a rate of $.70/hour per die, but usage is billed per minute. For example, if you use a K80 for 24 minutes (i.e., 40% of an hour) you pay $.7 * .4 = $0.28 total.
I'm assuming "link after link" is pointing to a Courtier's Reply kind of issue - people throwing out thousands of pages of "required reading" to ensure that the bar for discussion is unreachably high. If you slog through it all and persist, they toss out another reading list instead of responding to the specific claims.

There's no good fix for this, of course. Sometimes an idea has been rebutted so often that people aren't willing to digest and summarize the links (like "people didn't come from monkeys so evolution is false!") Sometimes the answer is genuinely subtle and there is a reading list to have useful views (lots of monetary economics, or relatively subtle biology like "how could eyes arise by chance?") Sometimes a person is just so wrong it's a category error and their claim can't be rebutted because it's meaningless.

But it's also a real problem. There absolutely are people who stonewall valid points (or easily answered questions) by handing out endless obligations. And it's not particularly clear which one you're getting until you've done all the work - it's not even guaranteed that the other person is right about whether their content is relevant!

So having been handed useless books as "required reading", I hugely sympathize with the complaint. But I don't really know a good answer except "stop debating people who pull this".
> I have defended him and said things I really didn't believe or support because I was put in a defensive position.

This is amazing cognitive dissonance. This is the reason "they" are "idiots" - not because they believe what they are saying, but because they can't argue properly.

You don't have to be defensive if your position is correct, you can counter with facts. If you can't counter with facts, maybe your position is wrong.
"I'm bigoted and racist but I'm not going to admit to that."

This one always gets me. We're told, over and over again, that these people are tired of being called whatever-ist and that we should start being nice to them if we want their support.

Well, I'm sorry, but if you weren't so freakin' racist, we wouldn't keep pointing it out. If you don't want to be called sexist and ignorant, stop electing people who try to enshrine sexism in the law and have no clue about basic human biology.

Apparently we're supposed to close our eyes and ignore the huge character flaws in certain of our countrymen in the vague hope that they'll start voting for people we like if we're really nice to them. I really don't think that's a good strategy.
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So authoritarianism is dictated by the "Law of Nature"?

Fuck that.
The Netherlands has three publicly funded television stations and a handful of Dutch language commercial channels.

The publicly funded channels have been showing brain dead game shows and sports while arguing that if they did not do this, the zombies^Wviewers would be lost to the commercial channels.

Perhaps that's Facebooks defence here. ;-)
> the level of discourse in this country is an absolute joke

This is the main reason I'm thankful for HN and the mods. Reading and participating in the discussions has challenged me to work on my discourse technique. Particularly with reigning in my level of emotional investment in my positions, which for me is and has been difficult.
I think we're already seeing this in regards to YouTube monetization, there are a few YouTubers at the top of the pyramid making money and their content is increasingly "professional" - albeit with an air of amateur needed to connect to audiences. But the rest of the pyramid has collapsed and with it the MCN industry built on the idea that there was monetization scale in crappy content.
You might want to check out Golem (https://golem.network/). They're working on very cheap Blender rendering. They're on Slack: http://golemproject.org:3000/
> I don't think you have to be unusually good at algorithms. I basically read some Wikipedia articles and spent a few hours in the hotel cramming Algorithms in a Nutshell, and I managed to squeak through.

Either a lie or you are unusually good at algorithms. People work > 50 hours on Leetcode, CTCI, etc. to try and get a job at Big 4. A couple of hours just reading Wikipedia articles isn't even close to the amount of effort people put into 'gaming' the system these days.
Lambdarest – python framework for AWS lambda
360K subscribers and enough revenue to support a family and staff in SF
Interestingly this just came across in my YT feed :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_X-7BgHbE0
Great project. I'm still deciding how much like gql itself.

Trying scaffold.io and found the simplest code to get the first customer is

const myQuery = gql`

{

viewer {

allCustomers(first: 1) {

edges { node { firstName } }

}

}

}

client.query({ query: myQuery })

.then((graphQLResult) => {

console.log('success: ', graphQLResult.data.viewer.allCustomers.edges[0].node.firstName)

})

All this verbosity has a reason (for example to support paging), but the elegance hasn't hit me yet.
Its right there in middle of article (under "Preventing extraneous system calls" section):

$ TZ=:/etc/localtime strace -ttT ./test
Baseball and the Simpsons. Thank you kind person for the perfect combination of topics to drive away the world-is-on-fire news a little bit today. :-)
False dichotomy. You can have a censorship apparatus that allows only fake news.

At the same time, it's also clear that fake news is being used to justify all sorts of political things that are leading to intensified divisions and hatred (on /both/ ends of the spectrum) which is leading society down a different slippery slope, but one that's slippery all the same.
Deportation probably wouldn't be such a problem if they weren't also deporting legal residents along with the "illegal" ones.

Yes - this happens. We still don't know how many Sherriff Joe and other officials in Arizona deported. It was basically a program here of "if you're brown enough, don't speak enough english, and can't produce any docs on the spot" you had a good chance of being rounded up, sent to an ICE facility, then deported. Even if you were a born-here American - just because you were of Mexican descent, and didn't learn english.
It's quite likely that all Democrats need to do to win the next presidential election is help voters register and obtain any necessary id. Ideologically, Trump and the GOP don't have any strong numerical advantage, they won the election with better tactics and a few good news cycles.

The question is more whether there is sufficient movement (it has to start now) to take quite a lot of seats in the house in 2018. Which is the first opportunity to put a further check on the administration than is provided by the Constitution and such.
Rather, the argument basically is that for the vast majority of developers, studying algorithms is a net loss because it's time that could be better spent learning more valuable skills.

But the op is basically implying that you don't even need the "cocktail party level familiarity." Knowing just enough first principles chemistry to know how CO2 and CO are produced can save your life. It's one thing to just know the rule you shouldn't run your car in a closed garage. It's another thing to know the general conditions where you might be producing CO, so you also know not to run your laser cutter in a poorly ventilated room.

First principles knowledge are a series of tools for reasoning about the world, your program, your software libraries, etc. Programmers thinking they don't need to know the most basic algorithm knowledge is basically the anti-intellectual stance of eschewing first principles knowledge.
The Dems won a clear majority of votes for the Presidency and enough votes to take the House as well. The GOP holds both because of unrepresentative electoral systems (the electoral college and gerrymandering) rendered a decisive number of votes irrelevant.

The left is the majority. It lost because it didn't play as dirty as the right.
Given that the Quora interview process is reputably difficult [0], and not lacking in algorithms questions [1][2], this is quite a puzzling situation.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Which-companies-have-really-hard-algor...

[1] https://www.quora.com/challenges

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-test-you-have-to-pa...
Maybe, but there's probably something to be said for social cost that make that argument somewhat less valid. Herd immunity. Seat belt and helmet laws, etc.

Note that I am not taking a position here on vaccinations or anything else, just that it's not the best point one could make (other than for some casual amusement at cognitive gear grinding and confusion).

It'd be the same as making fun of someone with anti-abortion views by saying "but death penalty lol isn't all life valuable!?" - which I am certain many have said and heard, but this type of arguing doesn't actually approach the reality behind issues and beliefs and positions.
Although the focus is mainly on the Stethoscope security feature and what it has to offer, but does anyone else find the giraffe with the stethoscope a bit odd, creepy and out of place?

I think they were going for a "friendly" approach but it just doesn't do it for me. Now, you may argue that the logo isn't important but some users will utilize a tool purely based on aesthetics...why a creepy giraffe? Am I missing something in American pop culture..? (I'm Canadian...)
Lets not forget that in the natural state of things, I get to kill you and your family for the stuff you have, because I'm stronger and meaner than you. Then someone else does the same to be.

Nature doesn't love us, that's why we've spent so long killing it and getting away from it.
> In the case of capital investment, hard robotics is a photo op.

> Anyone who performs a process that follows a definable set of business rules is going to be automated away in the next 10 years.

Completely agree, and this is what I fear we are not in the least bit prepared for as a society. The second quote I pulled from your comment applies equally to any worker irrespective of shirt color. There are many blue-collar jobs that would be exceedingly difficult and/or cost-prohibitive to automate; the same is true of a subset of white-collar jobs. But in the gushy center is a host of jobs that, with today's technology (and it's only going to get better) can be completely replaced by an algorithm. When we start seeing former yuppies from Yale picketing and marching with former machinists and truck drivers and so on, buckle up.
Fair enough, I guess.

So then, standalone GPs shouldn't be using AV software.
[From author]

Python pico framework for AWS Lambda with optional JSON-schema validation.

features:

* very little boilerplate, (functional, not classful)

* Handle multiple HTTP methods from same AWS lambda

* Standardized "AWS lambda proxy" output

* (optional) Validate input using JSON-schema
GPU have no application whatsover for the usual web applications.
Besides 3D graphics and machine learning, GPUs are also good for image resizing/encoding and video encoding/transcoding. But I haven't heard of anyone trying to accelerate Node.js or MongoDB on GPUs.
What did it ever mean? We keep piling on these titles while lowering standards when it comes to actual skills and experience. To me it felt like the full stack developer title came with the money and the suits; a way to degrade the developer role into something more resembling a janitor/secretary/butler; to steal back some of the power. I know a few Unix commands, and I can set up a database; but my real passion is writing better software; unfortunately, that's barely part of the equation any more.
Gmail emails gone missing
Advanced Django querying: sorting events by date
Short answer: no. Long answer: if and only if you can really parallelize your processing into very small calculation each doesn't take a lot of memory, and you have a lot of time of writing special code using special framework. Perhaps streaming encoding in real time could be one, but that's already sort of beyond general web application.

GPU is powerful because a GPU usually has 100+ cores. Each core is weak and inefficient, but power adds up when you have 100+ cores available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...
This is a great post and I completely agree, it is amusing however to note that Quora is known in the competitive programming community for having developers quite strong at algorithms, sometimes I guess that doesn't make it through to the software though.
If the crash gives an attack vector for a security threat then there is.

Personally, "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" is a bad policy in the modern world. It should be "Be conservative in what you do, be strict as if you don't trust them in what you accept from others".
It's curious that the press (and the populace) seems to have assumed in this election that the left was not also sensitive to being attacked as a carpetbagger.

Unlike most folks on the right, I suspect a smaller fraction of folks on the left now live anywhere near where they grew up. Emigrating as most did to larger metro areas, they left friends/families behind to seek a better life within their own country, hoping to thrive in a climate where outliers and diversity are more common and better tolerated.

It's hardly a surprise that someone like Trump who has made opposition to immigration/emigration the central plank in his platform would be seen by any transient, be s/he international or intranational, as a threat.
I do think that the Democrats should give up on gun control. I generally agree with their stance on it, but it's just not that important. I see so many reasonable people who agree with Democrats on nearly everything, but love their guns. Some of them hold their noses and vote D. Many of them refuse to, because they really love their guns, even though they lean that way on almost everything else.

I completely disagree on abortion, though. That's a serious health issue that will result in a lot of unnecessary innocent deaths if the "pro-life" side gets their way. That is an issue worth fighting for.
This assumes that the Venn diagram of "top candidates" and "people actively looking for jobs" overlaps significantly. The best candidate for a job may not be looking for a job so companies pay recruiters to find them.

If the quality that companies were getting from regular applications was better than the quality they get from their recruiters why would companies pay to have recruiters?
There's still a probability distribution — it's just a very tightly peaked one that for all practical purposes is indistinguishable from a Dirac delta distribution.

Generally speaking, the physical sciences produce highly peaked distributions (literally, in the case of particle physics) and the social sciences produce more of what I would call flat lines with a few lumps in them. That includes most political "facts". Quantitative accuracy requires extremely high quality data and statistical inference, which when applied to social issues is impractical for the foreseeable future.