skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The issue is that she wanted to be able to drive before a (possibly months away) court date. Or that she wanted a job that needed her record clean within a week.

"Presumed innocent" means that at the _end_ of the trial, if the prosecution has not made their case then you are free. But in the time between being charged and the end of your trial you are not innocent. The court will suspend or revoke your license until after trial, you'll have all the charges on your record until after trial, and you can be held in prison until the trial is resolved. In all these cases, you will probably not get any compensation when it turns out that you were innocent, and meanwhile you may have been fired from work and had your property confiscated for non-payment of bills.
It isn't just police. I have a somewhat common American name. A bank once opened a signature loan for one of my 4 or so same-state doppelgangers and sent me the payment coupons. One of the doppelgangers is a felon, which sucks for background checks and also because I love to travel and therefore always end up with an 'X' from the APC kiosk. Post-Trump, this means about an hour of detention in Miami while a lady questions me in Spanish until finally they realize we have different birthdays and physical descriptions. They told me it would stop if I got Global Entry. It didn't.

This could all be prevented. These organizations are just flat-out negligent and don't care.
In no ways am I saying Python is the only solution. Moreso that Python is A solution. Sure, other languages and things exist. After all, no silver bullet.

Also, you are saying that google hit a scale where it really WAS expensive to use python. Twitter had a similar issue with Ruby. That makes sense for a huge company like google, twitter, etc. But for most of us, our companies/projects will never get the scale that youtube has.
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There's a ton of fraud with Amazon Gift Cards too. On sites like Paxful you can buy a $500 card for $250. Then people use the cards to buy other digital gift cards or items. It seems hard to stop.
Agreed. During the dot-com bubble it seems like a lot of stock was driven by abject cluelessness and investors' perceived need to get in on any stock with .com in it.

These days, it's more like excessive optimism. People actually understand this stuff, at least vaguely, and if they're getting it wrong it's just because they don't see the downsides.
Retailers like Amazon sell those cards wholesale at less than the face value. There's some overhead too but I would wager that's covered by a gift card distributor in consideration for markup.
And when the price undercuts other forms of power generation, you won't even need subsidies anymore. I'm guessing it'll be a while before this is true in latitudes like Alberta, though.
This was a key quote (either from the article or one of the linked articles)

"“It’s a lot easier for the company that actually has the infrastructure to create vehicles to recreate what Uber’s done, than the other way around,” Abuelsamid says."

This is the key. There are Uber clones done by kids in basements. There aren't Ford 150 pickup clones.
My comment was based on the arguments of pro-immigration people, and their desire for "virtually unlimited immigration." So yes, the position of pro-immigration people is relevant. Views on illegal migrants are relevant because if they don't care about limiting illegal immigration, they sure as heck don't want limit legal immigration.

It's kind of telling that instead of responding with "that's not what we believe," the response has been sophistry and trying to deflect.
Yep, such an interesting 'innovation' in fintech.... I wonder who will come from the woodwork to oppose this?

Curious though; can you ELI5 who actually pays the interest?

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I met a banker the other day and I asked him simply "how does one actually found a bank" his reply;

"Oh it's really simple, have $30,000,000 and you can create your own bank!"

Simple!
You're missing the point -- it's not an objection to advertising, it's an objection to advertising that cannot possibly work, that alienates consumers.

Consumers aren't the only people who must live in reality -- advertisers must live there too.
How big is the chance that you select the candidate who happens to know all solutions (e.g. by learning them by heart recently for the dozens of interviews he's planning on doing), but is not a good technical fit? My estimate is: pretty high; Let me explain why.

If you indeed need someone who knows about B* vs B+ trees, why not ask him about that separately ("explain me the difference between ..."), to see if he has the technical background you need? Even if someone understands that difference, that same person might have problems getting DFS right during the whole live interview, for a number of completely irrelevant reasons (nervousness, a momentary lapse, being a bit "rusty", a.s.f.). For the candidate to know the difference between a B+ and B* index/search and to operate a database correctly doesn't require the ability to implement DFS flawlessly (and most likely will never require the person taking a shot at that, for that matter...)

I think the real problem is that some people don't seem to understand the goal of these questions. If you do algo whiteboard questions (and you should!), you should measure the candidate's behavior, reactions, and analytical skills, while attempting a solution with you - and not to find out if the provided solution is correct or not (indeed, its often more interesting when the solution is not and you work with the candidate on locating the issue!). And all the while, the interviewer can try to figure out if he/she wants to work with that person, given the current interaction, too.
Good developers won't tolerate a contract-to-hire offer or will sniff out that they're a fire-fast environment. That, and it's pretty terrible for employee morale.
the geography is a huge enabler of this, but the government is also complacent in not doing anything to ensure this issue doesn't bubble up to the extend it currently is.

With the recent disastrous handling of the OR show. It is clear how the the Utah government prioritizes.
Interesting that the article seems to state that Hitler AND Luddendorf had led the Beer Hall Putsch, as my understanding is that he sorta fell into it and was pawned.

While Luddendorf was certainly in agreement of Hitler's rhetoric re: restoring Germany's former military might, my understanding was that Luddendorf's role in the Beer Hall Putsch consisted of Hitler waving a gun at him, putting him in another room when he refused to join his movement, and announcing to the audience gathered at the Beer Hall that he Luddendorf had agreed to lead the rebellion.

Luddendorf then agreed to it when he saw the support, and the following day when shooting broke out at a police standoff with some couple thousand Nazi's, Luddendorf strode through the volley of bullets to the police line where he surrendered himself promptly.

Or atleast that was the narrative that was presented to me in William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

It still amazes me today how anyone could walk away from such an incredibly embarrassing failure as the Beer Hall Putsch, but it seems to have been something of an acceptable occurrence at the time. I mean, Hitler often spoke as death as the only alternative to him achieving his revolution, but ran off after the first shot was fired to his country home!

Hitler was even received well when he was tried, and given a very lenient sentence. I guess for Germany coming out of WWI, violence was a far more acceptable and commonplace thing than it is in my world
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We really really should...

For the best education on this insanity that I can reference:

Social Security Cards Explained - CGP Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
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It seems that in the end, they just gave up and moved away south rather than dying out.

There may be a bit more to it than that. The better known cliff dwellings have unfinished meals and chores that were simply abandoned midway. I stayed at a B&B which had an archaeological dig on the grounds, and read the report about the dig, which was on the coffee table. There was evidence of cannibalism. The diet the Ancestral Puebloans ate was prone to certain deficiencies which could be overcome by supplementation with meat. A climactic shift could have caused difficulty in obtaining game. The archaeological report made references to a theory about a secret society/cannibal cult, whose members became more powerful in part because they were the only ones around who weren't undernourished.

So it's not just that they gave up and left. Life might have become weird and crappy in some frightening ways before they managed to leave.
Perhaps Google or another major website that is actually heavily used by most people, could publish search results or whatever else it collects, specifically from Congress IPs. That would have a much greater effect than data from GovTrack.us
Work permits/visas for Germany, and especially for Berlin are extremely easy to sponsor. Why are you unable to do that?
Totally relevant news to 99% of us readers who wont be driving a Tesla anytime soon :)
> can you ELI5 who actually pays the interest?

The bank that Amazon holds its money in.

> Simple!

Well, it is simple, it's a very straightforward method. Simple doesn't mean easy.
When I was a long haired white poor kid in a relatively rich suburb they used to always hassle us for laws like this. I think my personal favorite was when they brought ten police cars to crack down on five us standing in the park on a Saturday afternoon and make us disperse.
I remember asking them
"If we cannot stand in the park where are we allowed to go?"
Park Curfew tickets like this ended up costing many of my friends their crappy apartments because they couldn't pay the fine and the fees for the community service.
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A fair number of folks still pay bills with money orders since they don't have credit cards, checks, or debit cards and can just pay cash for the money order.

Gift cards might be closer, but this has less waste.
Google does not control whether OEM's are allowed to sell Android phones. Does Google control the sale of all of those Chinese branded phones that don't ship with Google Play Services? Or how about the Blackphone or the Copperhead phone? The MADA simply states what is required if your phone wants to ship with Google Play Services and Apps.

>Google would like you to blame the manufacturer, but you need to realize the fact that you even can blame the manufacturer is a design flaw in the OS which Google designed.

This sentence makes so sense. Google cannot update an OS that they did not create. The OEM rolled the OS so only they can update it. How exactly does Google update an OS from an OEM they don't even have the source for? It's the OEM's responsibility and if that OEM doesn't do their job in updating their OS then maybe it's time to start looking for an OEM that does do their job.
Honestly the "[dynamically typed scripting language] is much more productive than [statically typed compiled language]" arguments sound like bullshit.

There's just too many things to take into account:

- the developer's experience with a particular language

- the developer's experience with the problem domain / understanding of the task / etc.

- time spent writing the code but also time spent debugging it

- time spent debugging a few weeks later when it suddenly breaks in production (dynamic typing often fails there)

Really, the most productive language is the one you're most familiar with.

I still use Python and Ruby for various tasks (mostly for scripting, command-line apps, simple services). Their main advantages are their library ecosystems and portability* . But they aren't very good for serious app development. Even when you feel like your business logic is extremely simple, you WILL get that weird null (sorry, None) or completely unexpected exception in production.

* I mean, you can easily run a Python script on, say, an iBook G4 running OpenBSD/macppc, or an old ReadyNAS with Debian/SPARC, or your MIPS home router. I like obscure hardware :)
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I think your misunderstanding the tone of the article. I mention how the bottleneck is usually not the language. It IS important to optimize, but its important to understand where the real issue is. I later explain that things have to be only "good enough". And I also explain how you CAN optimize python when it IS to slow for your users.
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Very likely everyone was and also looked middle or upper class.

If they weren't such, they probably wouldn't have gotten off with warnings and both them and their parents would have had quite a tiff that would have actually gotten something productive done as a result.
I'm afraid you've fallen into the same kind of quantitative cargo-cult reasoning which led people astray in their applications of NHST.

Quantitative reasoning can give you a lot of leverage in systematizing and inferring from a body of knowledge, but if your reasoning doesn't start from that knowledge it will lead you nowhere. In this case, the necessary knowledge is the structure and mechanism of DNA repair.

When Dirichlet computed the probability that the Sun wouldn't rise tomorrow, given a flat two-event Dirichlet prior and the observation that it had risen every day for the last 6,000 years, he added that of course, for people who understood the workings of the solar system, the probability is far, far, lower. Your arguments here are like that. They just don't take into account the relevant facts of molecular biology.
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Those are domestic terrorists rather than that they would be attempting a coup. Exploding bombs, writing manifestos and killing random passers by are usually not good ingredients if you want to take over a government.

If anything Hitler was - like some present day politicians - an absolute master at identifying frustration in various strata of society and harnessing that frustration to propel himself to power.
and since "engineer" is a protected term in Canada and you can't get a "software engineering" degree (because that's not a real thing) in practice it means that any sort of software job is subject to the whims of a CBP agent that can arbitrarily decide to reject you
How would you do that? Also, saying there will be a coding interview up front does cause people to self select.
I view them both very similarly- both are very well-run with great leadership teams and produce great products at nice margins. I personally like Ford a bit more because I think the valuation at the current price is a little better and because they sell the F-150 which is arguably the most valuable car model in the world. But at the current valuations I like both.
I didn't understand the name until I watched one of the T.V. ads that someone linked to in this discussion. It appears to be a reference to the act of rotating a smart phone 90 degrees so as to watch 16:9 video in full-screen. "Going 90," in other words.
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Until Turing became a poster child for the gay movement, few people outside computability theory or cryptanalysis had heard of him.

Oh come on.

The ACM started giving the Turing Award in 1966. 1966! Is your argument that the ACM did that because Turing was a poster child of the gay movement?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award
I would like to see a Caddy[1] plugin that does this. A web server can see wider deployment over many sites, rather than a single site. Even if it's not a good way to draw specific inferences about specific browsing habits, it could be a good way to make a statement.

[1] https://github.com/mholt/caddy
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I think that's right. A plea deal in any given case may be OK, but when they're a pervasive part of the system they start to look like a punishment for insisting on a trial.