skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Liberals won the popular vote...

Irrelevant. The Electoral College doesn't work that way, and also, Republicans won elections across the board in all the other races: House, Senate, governors, state legislatures, etc.

Basically, the liberals clustered into a few coastal cities were numerous enough to win the presidential popular vote, but that doesn't affect much except the mayoral races in those cities, and the California state government (1 of 50).

>The support for the Iraq war was so high because a the biggest terrorist attack in US history had just happened and we were going after the people we thought responsible.

Only a complete moron believed at the time that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11.

>If you compare a similar situation WWII and Pearl Harbor, there were not protests for that either.

It was no secret that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Their planes were military planes, and had the Japanese flag on them. They even tried to send a warning first but screwed that up somehow.

Not so with Iraq. Despite what chimp Bush said, it was all too obvious to anyone with half a brain that there was no relation there, and the 9/11 hijackers were all Saudis anyway. And the Iraq war wasn't about 9/11 (that's why we invaded Afghanistan, something that wasn't really protested for pretty good reason since Osama really was there), it was about "WMD" which didn't exist. The whole thing was a giant sham and lie, and it was obvious.

>Birth rates for people who typically "vote liberal"(minorities) in the united states are much higher than those of "conservative voters" (white people).

The high-birth-rate minorities are very religious and are in favor of extremely socially conservative policies such as banning abortion. They only "vote liberal" because the GOP panders to white racists and anti-minority voters, for now. As soon as that changes, liberalism is dead in this country. Lots of those minorities are already voting GOP because of social policies and religion.

Moreover, you sidestepped my challenge. I said to compare the birthrates for "liberal, irreligious people" to conservative, religious people. The minorities in this country are not irreligious by a long shot; in fact, they're frequently a lot more religious that the average conservative.
Because big employers will conspire to keep wages low, as they already do.
Ask HN: Why companies don't use screenhero for phone interviews
I'm wondering why companies don't use things like screenhero to conduction technical interviews over the phone? Candidates can use their best editors or IDEs to write code and show their best. Is the primary concern privacy, like the interviewer can remotely control a candidate's computer and mess with it?
Ryzen is good, especially in terms of cores/dollar, but unfortunately I think Intel is still winning handily on thermals, which are the most important consideration in form factors like the Surface. I expect Microsoft will stick with Intel for at least one more generation.
> The correct answer is to say with what you think the current position is worth and what you want to get paid. There is no upside to being truthful here.

No. The correct answer is nothing. Maybe ask what their budget for the position is, but never give a number first.
Making a service file is only a small part of the systemd monoculture. People don't care about the init system as much as how it hijacks the entire OS and shuts out alternative Linux systems.

Your suggestion of turning systemd's APIs and formats into a standard is not out of the question, but it would never happen. Poettering and his team showed they have zero interest in making a compatible system, or in making any concessions at all. Standards have to do both. And other platforms have to buy into the standard, otherwise it just sits there like a third leg.

The way it would probably end up is a project like Alien would adopt some of systemd's quirks. But so much of systemd is tied directly into the application via APIs that it would be a huge PITA to support both systemd and anything else - hence why some devs simply drop support for anything that isn't systemd. It's the same sort of thing that causes devs to only develop for Windows, or iOS/OSX, because it's more popular and porting to Linux is too expensive.
We've been doing outreach work teaching 11-13 year olds to program microbits with Python. It's been a great tool and allowing the kids to see their code running on such a simple device turns out to be a great motivator.

I also think a shout out to https://create.withcode.uk/ is worthwhile. They've got a nice little microbit emulator for trying things out before downloading onto the microbit.
Uber denies Waymo theft claims on grounds it never used custom LiDAR
The new contribution workflow for Gnome
- Hey, Echo, send two thousand rand to Mike

- Ok, sending twenty thousand rand to Mike

- Noooooooo! Two thousand

- Ok, also sending twenty thousand to Nolan
In addition to the reasons others have mentioned: cross-licensing of code, such that the vendor doesn't directly have the rights to release it without rewriting portions of it.
Perhaps I am reading into your tone in a way you don't intend, but why reduce these climate scientists to "a couple dudes" looking at "some pictures"?
Which means even less requirements for such "private" pubs. However if SSB is ever to replace Twitter, I would guess there would be other, "public" pubs that try to get all the content possible.
RT was a great product. If the OS wasn't named Windows, I'm certain it would have performed much better in the market.

People who bought RT devices EXPECTED to run x86 software but couldn't.

To understand the power of expectations, consider Surface.

Ms originally positioned the Surface as an iPad competitor. And that singlehandedly doomed the Surface until it was repositioned as a MacBook competitor in subsequent releases.
It's nice to see people building on top of TF rather than continuing to develop completely new frameworks.

I've been working with TF in detail for several months now and it is a very nicely designed framework. It is quite low-level, as you pointed out, (and so can be a challenge to get used to, and why you see helper wrappers/libs like this and keras popping up) but ML models and methods are becoming increasingly complex and TF provides exactly the foundation and flexibility needed to implement this stuff while still being able to slap together some basic layers if you need to. It also helps that the engineering is very solid (e.g., distributed models and datasets) and most of the performance kinks by now have been worked out.

For those maybe putting off working with TF because of its steepish learning curve, I'd strongly suggest you dive in. I learned last year in the usual method (docs + google), but the new OReilly books are the first good ones I've seen if that's your style.

The analogy with C++ is a good one, and historically appropriate given how scarce GPU resources are now.
If you can extract Pu240 why not produce high enriched U-235 instead? Isotope separation is expensive compared to chemical seperation, and has a large footprint. It's not enough to make a nuke: you need to do so covertly or else your enemies will preempt it.
Speaking as a resin fan, you need to know 0 about docker to use it. It does virtually everything for you, the fact that it's docker underneath is hidden entirely except in that you can write a dockerfile.

It's like how you don't need to provision hardware with Heroku. You just git push. And it works.
Facebook: Tips to Spot False News
That's what they have been doing in Netherlands for decades. Half of Netherlands is less than one meter above sea level. A significant portion is below sea level already.
>When Twitter's defense against the government's request is because of the ideal of free speech, not the First Amendment but the ideal that it is based on that predates the First Amendment, then it is worth pointing out the double standard in Twitter's own behavior not upholding that ideal.

There's no double standard though. This is like saying: "how can a newspaper say they're in favor of free speech if they're not willing to publish any story that's submitted to them?"

Twitter can support free speech by advocating for their right to control their platform, and for other people to have the right to create their own platforms and put content on it. The government using strong-arm tactics to unmask critics is a threat to free speech through any medium.
> It's just a bit frustrating when people go full Orwell and suddenly redefine "harassment" to mean "disagreement" and various other definition changes.

It's tough. So, at the end of the day, Twitter doesn't want certain content on their platform. Milo was determined to be that content. Twitter didn't say he was harassing people, they were extremely vague about it.

> Ah yes, I don't like a certain group of liberals because they act in an authoritarian way and therefore I'm part of the "alt-right". That makes perfect sense.

I didn't say you were part of the alt-right: just that if you want the kind of stuff that Milo was spewing those are the places for it, not Twitter (by their own decision.)

> GNU Social

It's not like if it has "GNU" in the title it's instantly a completely-free platform.
No theaters in Bay Area?
Dutch auction has notable downsides, namely the free-rider problem.

The way it's supposed to work is that a number of investors do due diligence, decide on the price they think it's worth it to them, and make their bids. Once enough pledges been made, the lowest price is given to all bidders.

However an investor may decide to join in without any effort put into due diligence. Instead he will decide to bid high and rely on others to set the fair price.

First, the "honest" investors end up paying for the free riders. Second, the free-riders end up crowding in and bidding up the price above the reasonable level. Consequently the "honest" investors put all the effort into it and end up with nothing to buy at their determined price. In the end "honest" investors end up not participating at all, so the Dutch auction thing just fell apart.

In short, smart money was in charge setting correct price, but smart money was crowded out by dumb money. This problem is not unique to Dutch auctions, but it appears that that's where it is the most acute.
> Underlying the bill is the notion that employers “anchor” the salaries they offer to potential employees based on their current or previous salary — if an employee had faced pay discrimination at a previous job, in other words, the employer’s subsequent lower than market value offer would effectively perpetuate the discrimination.

> “Being underpaid once should not condemn one to a lifetime of inequity,” said New York City Public Advocate Letitia James

... Or if a person does not know how to negotiate.
Yeah, I really love that at compile time you can meta-program in almost the same language that you use for normal run-time things. I think the comparison to lisp is apt. It almost feels like lisp macros.

Think C++ template metaprogramming but much, much easier and thus, seemingly more powerful. It's not that you couldn't do the same in C++, but D's metaprogramming is so much more accessible that it makes you want to use it.
In addition to your great work, Walter, Symantec really needs extra acknowledgement for the effort on their side in releasing their right to claim in order to make this happen.

It seems we haven't had a lot of good things to say lately about Symantec and I hope this gives them something positive to celebrate.
Facebook Messenger's M launches suggestions
> They will send 1 or 2 people to the studios of AAA game devs nearer release to help the company optimize their game plus to add "hacks" into their own drivers to work around inefficiencies in those games.

Depending on the nature of the hacks, there's not necessarily anything wrong with that. It's common for drivers, even Open Source drivers, to detect common patterns of API misuse that would otherwise hurt performance, and transform them into patterns that achieve the same effect more efficiently. But that only applies if you can detect the inefficiency by pattern, rather than by application name. If the driver does the latter, then yeah, it'd be hard to Open Source that.
Do you have any comment son international legal issues with public domain? Is that not recognized in some places?
Interesting. Why would you do this? How do you know it was not a scam? And even if not a scam, how could you be sure you were not wasting your money on land of low value? Did you research who has rights on the land for mining, etc. before acting?

I'm not asking to make any point, I'm more curious about this as a lifehack / investment or how you see it.
>Oracle even wanted scans of W2s ...

Yet another bullet-point in why not to ever work at Oracle.
How can you assure that?
That's pretty interesting, I thought they were dead for sure after "doing a digg" by splitting off Swarm from the main app. How do they even collect data if hardly anybody uses their app anymore?
Neither Rust nor Scala hold a candle to D in terms of compile-time introspection. You can do things with it that are near unbelievable - "you must ask yourself if some law of nature was broken" quoted from memory in http://dconf.org/2015/talks/alexandrescu.html
(Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft)

I have a Surface Book that work gave me. It's quite nice, but I don't really use it all that much because most of my work is on Mac. But I like it quite a lot. If I didn't need a Mac to build iOS apps then I would absolutely consider getting one for personal use. Hardware-wise the only thing that bugs me, personally, is that it can't drive my Dell 5k display. I know, cry a river with my first world problems right? Otherwise I'm happy with the Surface Book hardware.

Ironically, outside of work I've started using my Windows desktop machine more since the Linux subsystem has landed in Windows 10. I've been messing around with some Erlang/Elixir stuff on the side and it's nice on Windows now using Linux subsystem. For a long time now I've been using GNOME and Ubuntu and OSX. I'm still not comfortable using Windows 10 like this yet, but I think it'll get there if I give it some time.

Maybe it's just because I'm a former Ubuntu user (and further disclaimer, I used to work at Canonical).. but I far prefer Ubuntu (or any Linux distro) commandline compared to OSX commandline (hello GNU utilities like sed!), and I far prefer apt-get over homebrew.

The things that I don't feel as comfortable with are basically UI things and application launching. I love Cmd-space to launch stuff on OSX, and hitting the Windows key to search for stuff to launch just feels sluggish in comparison. It's great having bash on Windows, but of course the default Windows terminal application still sucks. There are alternatives like ConEmu, I still need to spend some time trying out some alternatives.
Perhaps. Those tools, though, don't fix issues like default admin passwords, admin interfaces that listen on 0.0.0.0, and so forth.

It's a fairly big jump for me to see the low end vendors adopting high end techniques when they don't even use ancient best practice.
this isn't twitter
It's not a con to negotiate a price and agree to it with mutual consent.

Anchoring a prospective customer of your labor to a high price is not a con. Nothing forces them to take the deal.

Please don't be a jerk.
You don't always have to know the answer, just understand the question.
That's unfortunate, interesting though.
Well, I tried the service for a two-minute reminder, but I received it right away, not two minutes later.
It can be both - in their pocket because he's just ideologically opposed.
Lots of people here talking from their own experience as highly skilled, in-demand professionals.

However, helping friends apply to jobs in other industries - specifically medical - I saw that most of the applications involved filling out an automated form that required prior salary information to complete.

There's no advantage to an employee from being forced to disclose this information and it perpetuates compensation discrepancies by gender/race/guts to ask. Very glad to see this made illegal.

Now, if they were really serious about fixing pay discrepancies, they'd make it mandatory to post salary ranges with job listings.
> since I use netflix sometimes,

Netflix works on Linux, too.
> As far as I can tell, none of the ape comments were made by Milo? Which specific comment of his did he do so, or incite harassment?

Milo wasn't doing the racist jabs, no. shitgoose said that Leslie Jones was just as bad as Milo because she also tried to sic her fanbase on someone (Whitebecky1776). I was pointing out that Whitebecky1776 provoked Jones with repeated racial slurs, whereas Jones provoked Milo by being in a movie he didn't like; perhaps Jones should have received some sort of disciplinary action, but the situations aren't really equivalent.

I got the Whitebecky1776 stuff from http://www.irontroll.com/2016/07/milos-friend-whitebecky1776..., and the stuff about Milo sharing fake Twitter screenshots from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/07.... Note also that Milo had been repeatedly warned for violating Twitter's rules before this incident; he can hardly claim that Jones got more second chances than he did.
Google Home vs. Amazon's Alexa: 54 Questions, 1 Clear Winner
There's plenty you can do with D but not C++, see regex, bitfields, swap member-by-member with checks for mutual pointers, the pegged library for grammars, etc etc.
The choices a manager makes are very different from the choices a technologist should be making, and its not about what tools or tech stack you are working with. It is about things like how do I enable my team to deliver, because one thing people love to do is see how they can make excuses for failure to deliver. At the tech level its about how leadership and management makes poor choices, at the leadership level its about how your workers are lazy and unable to perform under such and such a condition. In reality its both parties trying to insulate themselves from failure by having a scapegoat.

Empower your tech teams to do great work, it doesn't require you to be a google or apple, or podunk startup. I have seen empowered teams at 10 man contact shops and 100,000 fortune 100 companies. If you run into a company that tries to tell you something else run away, you will find politics and infighting alongside terrible technology and an inability to deliver
That's a huge jump. Nice job.
If it's about an AI startup here are some tips https://medium.com/@frag/how-to-fail-with-artificial-intelli...
Discount rates and property taxes make it relatively infeasible to buy that land and turn a risk-adjusted profit - especially since the margin for error is so slim (a few hundred horizontal feet one way, your properties are a 100% loss, a few hundred feet the other way, you lose much of the waterfront premium). Compared to investing in a stock index at 5%+, the idea is nowhere near worthwhile; you need to find land which would at least double or triple in value just to try to profit at 10-20 years out, and even more if you are planning 20+ or taking into account the carrying costs & risk.
> What am I supposed to take away from this? Start a campaign for tundra deforestation?

They're just calling out the positive feedback loop where "things that aren't white like snow absorb more heat than white snow would."

The obvious solution is to cover the entire world in powdered soap or talcum powder, since we're pretty much out of snow and glaciers.
How to fail with artificial intelligence
Not necessarily about Marc, but I honestly find it so frustrating to see media outlets interview people who have zero experience writing, doing research, or leading an AI related company/research institution but still ask them about their opinion on the future impact of AI, while completely ignoring individuals who are on the forefront of the field.

If you read interviews on the topic of say, cancer research, it would make sense for journalists to talk to an oncologist or a person who works for the American Cancer Society, versus just any doctor or a philosopher.
No car. I only use public transit a few times a week. I walk a lot. It's not hard to eat for $100-200 a month if you cook for yourself. You're right it's a sacrifice, but it's doable. It would not be doable on $0, and that's the difference basic income makes.

I have an immense amount of stress from coming up with the $1000 every month. It's hard to predict, but I suspect without that distraction I would be further along in my process. It's been slow, although I'm almost done with this phase.
You can check /r/surfacelinux for the latest threads on hardware support. Surface pro 1 and 2 are now well supported, Surface pro 3 is well supported too if you apply a few kernel patches, and for the 4 there is still work to be done.
If you read the article, you'll see that they are buying Snapchat's location data.
There have been fully open source compiler for D for a long time: LDC and GDC.
Cool, let's stop progress then cause life was so great in the 1980's with healthcare, communications, science and overall knowledge.
To me asking for the previous salary - especially asking for proof - shows a lack of respect for the candidate. It's on the employer to quantify the value a skilled employee brings to the organization. I've walked away from offers because I didn't like the way they negotiated.
I was in Shenzhen a few months back for the first time. I can only describe it as Disneyland for electronics enthusiasts.

Going into all the specialized malls in Huaqiang Bei and seeing the entire supply chain in one building is amazing.

Highly recommend that people interested in electronics hardware make a visit.
Sock puppet accounts unmasked by the way they write and post
Same as others, I have only heard about this today.

Did it work with Yahoo email? I have had my yahoo email far longer, and I would really like to migrate the data.

How long did you have the service up? I do not think you should quit now, just work on telling a better story. Things take far longer to bite than we imagine
Maybe try posting a minimum salary only? "Roles for this position start at $x for qualified candidates, negotiable based on experience" or something like that.
I think the problem is that individual teams will make decisions that make sense for their own individual team. These decisions may not make sense for the larger organization as a whole (ie. having every team working in a different programming language) as they don't have the birds eye view of the organization.
These awesome technologies just freakin' disappeared.  why
Well no; my last sentence was quite explicit about their aim being world domination. Al-Baghdadi, the ISIS leader, has been quite open about wanting a global caliphate. That why western Jihadis travel to the middle east to join them. That's what makes them qualitatively different than ANC, IRA, ETA etc. And that's why we should take them very seriously. If they were to get hold of weapons of mass destruction, they would use them.
Uber Denies It Is Using Stolen Waymo Technology
You qualify for my personal Real Manly Man Award (TM). ;)

My father was a two time veteran and purple heart winner who never changed the diapers of any of his own kids, but stayed home to care for his first born grandchild when my brother got divorced and got custody.

My family of origin is really, really big on the idea that kids need a full time caregiver. Not so much on the "it needs to be the mother," which is humorous because my parents' marriage was so very old fashioned for so long that no one would have predicted that grandpa would stay home while grandma kept working.

#yougoguy #fistbump