skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There would be a significant portion of the working population that understood the idea of what their computers were made to do

You don't need programming for that. A good mental model of modern computing is important but programming is overkill.

>improve their ability ability to leverage these machines to assist them in achieving their tasks even more efficiently.

Ok but it doesn't work like that. I don't know what kind of utopia you are imagining but it is a pipe dream. I can one up you, society would be far better off if they were more financially literate. Or even better if we got the literacy rate up - you would be surprised by the vast number of people who are functionally illiterate (and I'm not speaking about those for whom English is a second language)
> Why is the new generation not using exact time like 6:45 5:30 etc?

New generation? My grandparents said things like "half past" and "quarter till" and they were born 100+ years ago.
The hack of it's indeed a hack came at the worst possible time for propaganda as French media recievws a 48 hours gag order prior to the polls closing.
It's only 8 years if you lack a C.S. degree. Plus it's not your typical developer position (BI dev actually)
Russia blocks China’s social media app WeChat
That was cheap for the cesspool T_D is

It's a private website and it's their prerrogative to do that
Um, just signing up for ngrok - 10 times more effort than port forwarding. Then you have to learn how to ngrok. And thats that's before actually figuring out what ngrok really is, how sensible it is to route data through a third party etc. etc. etc.

For people without public IPs - why not just learn how to setup an SSH tunnel instead? Similar effort, save it as a script. Boom, you actually learned something useful too.
I haven't seen a Nuke fail to learn to program enough to get stuff done, and the two that stuck with it were annoyed when they realized they were going faster by staying off the internet. (Though this is learning for a hobby).

They're going to also do better in a tech interview than most programmers. Mostly because they've survived a program where they have a half dozen or so knowledge interviews a year (that to me were more stressful than my actual job interviews).

Though most rates don't remotely compare to nukes, and nukes have more sure ways of getting SV like pay than tossing in with IT developers.
This is the media simplifying a complicated narrative into something more simple and... well, global. le pen isn't just "something else," she's a strain of nationalism that leads to people committing genocide in the name of country.. and ignoring history when it tells us this.
Alt-right? How did a term made up on 4chan get so popular and taken seriously (/pol where I saw this term used for the first time). It really has no meaning at all only to find a opposite alternative to (the also misused term) regressive-left. Before last year people did not even identify as such. People that now do identify as such do not even seem legit and behave like actors (the same feeling I have with people like Alex Jones).

Now even people I would call moderate / left-leaning are now called alt-right (a term they do not use for themselves).
Just a thought - What if we create a radio hub (something like Shoutcast) pointing to streaming servers like mstream hosted by indie artists and others. Those who want their collection to be heard by the public can register at the hub. User management, analytics etc can be handled at the hub.
Because it's inaccurate. After a while it's going to gain or loose a couple of seconds.
I have a couple of G Shock, some with solar rechargeable and atomic radio sync.
Even when in countries with no atomic radio signal I can sync my laptop using ntp and use a Java program + headset / speaker to mimic atomic radio signal to sync my clock automatically.
Sorry to be annoyingly pedantic, but I believe the term is bug out bag. Memeing should be left to the professionals.
I think it is like having two radio channels; one saying one thing and the other the opposite.

What can you conclude?

Maybe that there is a lot of manipulation going on.
Where NLP becomes a pseudoscience is when it's presented as therapeutic, or at least as systematically therapeutic. In other words, the first principles of NLP are (generally) sound. The application is not.

I looked into scientific backing just now - seems its therapeutic effect is mostly not backed by science. Ie it doesn't cure phobias, as it says it does. Then again, I would have to look at those 18% of studies that DO show an effect, and see if they are doing something different than the ones that don't show an effect (NLP can mean a lot of things).

https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ppb.2010.41.issue-2/v10059-...
Fascism was/is in a sense socialism/communism for the rich and corporations...
Also those online communities are targeted by manipulation by foreign groups that want to polarize and weaken our society.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/30/russia-s-in...
Ask HN: Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?
I am looking forward to dabble in SaaS. I want to create something for which market already exists. Should I create a clone of any popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?

Would I be able attract customers? Does this make any sense?
But De Gaulle was not Vichynist
TLDR:

- Post goes out of its way not to deny authenticity of the leak.

- Post can be traced to the Atlantic Council [1].

[1] The Atlantic Council (AC) is a core ingredient for US soft power [2]
projection on other countries. Example members of AC leadership:
Chuck Hagel, Susan Rice, Richard Holbrooke,
General Eric K. Shinseki, Anne-Marie Slaughter,
General Brent Scowcroft,
Jon Huntsman. Cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power
Because alt-right carries carries more information and is more accurate.

Even though "alt-right" is less precisely defined, it is in many cases more accurate a term than "facist" or "far right".

To me, alt-right is a combination of anti-establishment Republicans, fascists, libertarians, internet trolls (& governmental operatives trying to influence foreign elections).

To me the grassroots part of alt-right is more a reaction than ideology; something born out of the financial crisis and its' aftermath.

If you want to view them purely as fascists, that's your prerogative, but using THAT word would be less accurate and would lose a lot of nuance.
I do exactly this. I also have it set up with let's encrypt so that the Webhooks are encrypted.

Locally, I also mirror the LE keys and add a hosts file entry for the test domain to localhost.

This means I can test locally with proper ssl certs.
I don't get it either. I can only assume it's either a generational thing, or me not understanding things most people like. I've gone back, looked at, and tried to understand it several times, and I just can't see why I'd want to look at it or use it.

"I want everybody to see this photo I took"

"Cheers, I have seen your photo"

I guess that's extremely compelling to folks.
IMO younger 4channers (18-23 set) that I have met in person strongly identify this way.

It's odd cause 10 years ago 4chan trolled in the exact different direction. Would love to read a book about political reckonings that come from this tiny dark corner of the net.
There certainly is a lot of BS at that channel.

The github copy of the torrent links clearly was there at one point and it is now gone. Of course it could have been deleted by its author.
Code coming out of the universities isn't that great either. That's why you need summer internships / coop education. People need to learn how to take PR criticism the right way - and to learn.

I wonder how much improvement you'd see if you handed out "Clean Code" by Martin to junior developers.
This video isn't my cup of tea, but Roberts' EconTalk podcast has been educational and illuminating for over 10 years now - highly recommended.
Yes, sorry, didn't think about that. Changed the title.
Twitter is the easier one - the data is mostly open.

Facebook is much harder and a much bigger influence. More Americans get their news from Facebook than Twitter, and all the Facebook data is inside a walled garden.

We're soon as a society going to need to deal with disinformation and political targeting on Facebook and Twitter. And the role of that disinformation in our politics. And when I saw "our" I mean US, UK, France and most of their allies.
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one thing Wikileaks does is give credibility to their leaks basically by putting their stamp on it that it's all authentic. This dump happened quickly and with no organization oversight - impossible for now to know which is real and which is fake. I was told 4chan put in some obviously fake bank documents, but that the emails seem real. It's something that willl play out for months now.
> Why is the new generation not using exact time like 6:45 5:30 etc? It is very confusing for non english speaker

I completely understand why it is confusing. It isn't limited to younger folks, however. The reason for this is simply because exact time often doesn't matter.
nice but it seems like it doesn't do anything but http
This thread is a good reminder that dangerous thinking has infected a not small group of younger computer engineers. Quite frightening.
Just like the silent majority spoke and elected Trump, the same will happen to Le Pen. Also, I highly doubt it was the alt-right doing 'hacking', it's more plausible for it to be a determined patriot trying to stop corruption. My 2cents.
I think most of the uses of the consumer IOT add small value, so in order for them to see demand, they needs to have very low costs, both monetarily, and otherwise(0 install, extremely easy usability- not sure if smartphone is easy enough - maybe voice , interoperability between devices,no security fears or spying issues, no bugs ) combined with really tight UX design.

And there's no technical reason why this couldn't be achievable(maybe with some collaboration). But the companies view IOT differently - as a giant purse, as a lock-in mechanism, as a way to spy on customers, and as a way to do half-work - on UI,security, etc.
I'm working for an insurance startup where our main selling point is giving customers a load of sensors which allow us to give lower premiums, similar to the motor insurance with a black box.

We ship a camera, door, motion, flood, and smoke sensors. We're also trailing water valves that will let us kill the water supply if a flood starts.

That sort of thing is where the real value is. While being able to turn the lights on and off with your phone is kind of neat being able to detect and respond to your house flooding before everything needs replacing is a big deal.
I know it is possible in English, and one assumes the other know the whole hour one is referring to. I'm not sure about Norwegian - that bit isn't something that has cropped up in my personal vocabulary yet. :)
French election: Emmanuel Macron condemns 'massive' hack attack
I'm surprised by how controversial this article has been. I think it reflects the wide gamut of workplaces that continue to exist in tech, despite the external homogeneous appearance the industry maintains.
+1 original reason i did it was so i can have the LE cert to test a slack bot i was developing (they require webhooks have SSL to do that)
It baffles me that the right actually has to convince leftists not to vote for Macron, never mind the means used.

Macron is a Rotschild banker, personally responsible for anti-employee law changes [1]. He advanced as an international investment banker in a very suspicious, rocket trajectory straight to the top ... while making deals with government-owned banks [2][3].

Now I'm not saying he HAS to be dirty ... but ... euhm ... yeah actually I am. Unless someone can explain to me how to career like that fairly.

[1] https://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2015/03/09/5-things-about-the-...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/9bd62502-12cf-11e7-b0c1-37e417ee6...

[3] (they de-emphasize this, so let me quote from the FT article: "On the Atos deal, Mr Macron “had a fairly junior role at the time — he would be asked to redo the financial models on Excel, the basics,” recalled an adviser. But a few days after the deal was announced, Mr Macron was made a partner. A few months later, he stunned colleagues and rivals by winning a role in Nestlé’s purchase of Pfizer’s infant food operations.")
It's a weasel word used by the media to discredit a strong movement. Naturally, they are unable to combat any of their talking points so they result to ad hominems. Sad.
The point is that they're not always crazy and they've also uncovered quite a bit of actual conspiracy. Both in the ninjas edits by spec and the reddit scoring manipulation to suppress that subreddit.

Yes it's a private website and both are within their rights, but you can't claim to be promoting free speech and expression and then edit the speech of others or rig the system so it doesn't appear in front of others per the rules of the game. The worst part of it is doing it without any indication that an edit was made.
Yes, voiceless minority groups can be more easily targeted and taken advantage of. I read just yesterday about Somali immigrants being turned anti-vax in a matter of years due to outside influence, this is no different.
It wasn't - it was the usual short form of "Alternative Right", a magazine (and now blog) founded by Richard Spencer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_Right
> the far right in France has a rather long history of being the only party to say anything substantive on the topic of immigration and security.

That is the sad part about European politics. The (champagne) Left is so enamored by the notion of EU as a peace project, that they can't see that they are undermining their very voting base (the working class) in the process.

This has left the doors wide open for the far Right to wrap their xenophobia in terminology that claims they worry about workers rights and livelihood, when they really want to see every last "foreigner" (anyone with enough skin color or other feature that makes him stand out from across the street) tossed over the border (at best).
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Care to elaborate? Which C# compiler?
He did a very clumsy thing and it set a very bad precedent but it was clearly meant as a joke (like word filters on 4chan, that bastion of free speech for the alt-right).

And in general I think one should be very wary of using any kind of social media as a primary source for anything. Forging documents is trivial and this "offshore account" narrative makes very little sense to begin with. The first "proof" yesterday, the cayman island document, was a very obvious fake.

In general the people doing that don't seem to understand very well how french politics work. I really doubt they'll have any effect on the outcome sunday, their reach is very small. Just look at what was supposed to be the french version of "The Donald": https://www.reddit.com/r/Le_Pen/. I defy you to find french people in there. Bon Courage.
It seems really clumsy until you get used to it. My spouse - a Norwegian - thinks the opposite about English time phrases. Clumsy and inaccurate.
where did he apply his argument against JUST VETERANS?
Sure you can. The civic activists within the continental United States can absolutely be labeled as national socialists. Their tactics are closer to real fascism then what the labeled alt-right does. Tip for youngsters: if your opponent opposes immigration, don't call him a fascist or a nazi because those are two completely unrelated things.
reactionsim is itself an ideology; it's basically just nihilism.
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>The Democrats created a problem instead of doing the right thing. Can't blame the Republicans for trying to fix the problem as best they can.

Surely you don't imagine this to be fixing it as well as they can?

And why are you unable to address people who were born with genetic diseases/birth defects or who have contracted disease through no fault of their own?

In a case like healthcare I think it's important we put ourselves behind the veil of ignorance. If you did not know who you were going to be born as but you knew that there was a 3% chance you would be born with a birth defect[0] and a 51% chance you would meet the criteria for pre-existing condition[1] which society would you choose, one with ACA or one with AHCA?

Even if you contest the numbers think of it like this, you have x% chance to suffer from a chronic disease and you will also be buried by medical debt and y% that you will be healthy (for most of your life) and pay a small percent each month to hedge your risk.

Or you could choose a society where you have a x% chance to suffer from a chronic disease and you pay a moderate amount each month for insurance and y% that you will be healthy (for most of your life) and pay a moderate amount each month to hedge your risk. Now if you did not know whether you would be a person to suffer from chronic disease or birth defects which would you pick? Seems obvious to me.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/index.html

[1] https://aspe.hhs.gov/pdf-report/health-insurance-coverage-am...
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> It isn't irrelevant if you are attempting to implement it correctly.

Exactly my point. Rarely is there one "correct" implementation. Understanding the choice you make and can support is the point of coding interviews. That's why they're so often done in pseudocode and/or on the whiteboard.

If you can look stuff up you're not demonstrating a knowledge of the fundamentals. If you don't understand complexity and optimization, you will make mistakes even if you can look stuff up later.

That's why these companies do these.
It's a specific subculture of them. Making fine delineations between far-righters, white nationalists and neo-Nazis is usually meaningless because functionally they're much of a muchness - but the alt-right is a particular strain of them that can be distinguished somewhat.
Agreed. Wikileaks has a sterling record regarding the authenticity of their own leaks.

Given that the Atlantic Council is for all practical purposes an arm of the US government, and it's "Digital Forensic Research Lab" is extremely well-funded and well-connected, it is noteworthy that they go out of their way not to deny the authenticity on the leak.
Trump lost by 3 million votes. I do not think the term silent majority if accurate.
AI programs exhibit racial and gender biases, research reveals
I thought you bugged out, but the bag itself was a bug bag?

Damn, gotta go back and what the old Nat. Geo show about doomsday preppers
The article does very little to distinguish between adult onset, adult diagnosis, and continued diagnosis.

I found what seems to be the longitudinal study Conners referred to.[1] The authors present evidence that "adult ADHD" is a verifiable condition with symptoms similar to childhood ADHD but apparently unrelated.

[1] http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.20...
> To me the grassroots part of alt-right is more a reaction than ideology; something born out of the financial crisis and its' aftermath.

Indeed, there seems to be something of historical importance, here.

Although, I think there _is_ something that acts as an ideological bound rather than being just a group of "anti" people. In France, there's historically always been two right wings, even without considering the far right : the liberals (mainly interested about economics and free market) and the conservatives (mainly interested about authority).

Could it be a distinction that exists all over the world, the liberals were dominant and they're losing ground? By the way, we call here the authority focused ones "bonapartists" (this is not seen as pejorative or insulting, although slightly disturbing).
Yeah, sure thing. Just because a certain social group who isn't steadfast enough to vote for change ended up voting for a candidate[H.R.C] who opposed everything the Founding Fathers stood for, and enabled shutting down ultimate free speech of opposing ideas doesn't make Americans dumb. The electoral majority rejected Clinton, and elected someone who promised change.
>It's doesn't seem like a skill like riding a bike where you learn it once and then it's just this thing you can pull out whenever (or maybe it just takes longer to get to that point).

Sure it is, you just need to see it as a skill that you need to work on and be disciplined about it. There are still a lot of places that can use daily automation that also don't have time/money to go looking for a product.

Plenty of people are good at things and do not necessarily love doing that thing. I'm sorry, but having a bleeding-heart passion about programming is not a prerequisite for doing well and people that make it a prerequisite can turn into toxic, snobby elitists when working with others.

The people that go back to their real love just need more time to reach a given plateau compared to someone who does this stuff for 10-16 hours a day and gets a shot of dopamine every time they compile something. Nothing says you can't reach the top without loving it, it's just going to take a lot longer.

A lot of businesses just do not care about the extra quality you can put into a code base and when you try to put your passions into something and realize how little people care for anything beyond mediocrity, it can end up killing your passion.
Bingo. These days one have to add a social/economic classification to the traditional left/right split.

Many of the "leftist" parties that rose in Europe after WW2 may well be see as on the rightish side in terms of economics. This if one read right as being about preserving the status quo.

Similarly when one hear about economic liberalization it can't be read in similar terms as being socially liberal (leftist). Because being liberal economically means turning a blind eye towards abuses of workers and environment in the chase of that almighty profit.

All in all politics have become a massive game of words, and their definition.
I fail to see the relevance of comparing most working programmers to John Carmack.
Yes, but, ngrok is cheaper, easier, faster, and provides some additional niceties that this setup doesn't. What's the advantage? (Plus, now I have a VPS to maintain...)
That mindset, while successful from the security perspective, can result in the slow death by strangulation. Ensuring the success of a company should always be your #1 priority, security is an important piece in ensuring the success of a company, but it isn't the only piece.

If you're dismissing it as a security nightmare without considering why someone would want to use it and trying to figure out how to make it work or come up with alternatives, then you're failing your mission IMO. There's ways of securing ngrok... you can self host, put it behind a firewall, and whitelist services. It may still open a potential attack vector, but so does the mere existence of connecting to the internet. It's a balancing act, we should all be familiar with.