skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really wish people would look at the demographics of Nordic countries before citing them.

They are models, but they are also facing completely different dynamics than pretty much every other country. Wealthy and secure and:

* Denmark - 5.7 million people, 80% of whom are Danish

* Norway - 5.1 million people, in 1992 95% were native

* Sweden - 10 million, the largest non-Swedish ethnic group being the Finns at 150k

You can drive an hour's radius through many big US metros and cover more people than those countries and within that radius find swaths of hundreds of thousands of people of various ethnic groups. These population numbers really pale compared to anything in East Asia though even if they are homogeneous (don't discount how much that helps social dynamics).

The demographics are shifting in Nordic countries but they a really are extreme outliers worthy of praise and recognition that they are outliers.

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You are talking about demographics. How can it be irrelevant?

The US is in the situation it is in because an entire demographic was transplanted here against their will due to slavery. Nordic countries do not have this situation (good!) so the potential remedies are different.

The only way to solve problems is to effectively diagnose them. You might not like that the US isn't a country of 5 million people with 80% native population which makes policy a lot easier, but that's reality. We can't make things better unless we recognize that and figure out the proper solution within this setting and not some other.

It's not racist to recognize that and it's wrong to call someone a racist because they are searching for solutions.
Do you think China's leadership is one we want emulated in the US?
At least in the near future, this has the potential to make facts-and-figures based news less biased (less influenced by author idiosyncrasies). Personally, I would rather news not be laden with personal flourishes that authors add either as filler or due to personal opinion.

I do imagine further into the future, the automated systems will be "improved" with tone and bias to better fit the tastes of the individual reader, to the detriment of us writ large.
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Wouldn't that make the stats even more racially biased if they were investigated, given the demographics of urban areas?
For certain, very few single black mothers working their arses off in minimal wage to make ends meet will go to check the Good catalogue...

Do you have some kind of data or evidence on that? Or is that just racist, classist assumption?
Can you tell us more about it?
Phones are not bigger than seatback systems.
Do people have the time or remember to load movies ?
Make sure their device is charged?

Seatback systems may not be great but they might be good enough to last a while longer.
> the death penalty is something that, according to the European Council of Human Rights, no one, not even a criminal, deserves.

Is that actually the opinion of the council? It's about whether they deserve it?

I am against the death penalty because I don't believe we can prevent political convictions of innocent people. But I do believe there are many criminals who deserve to die.

Heck I think there are nonviolent offenders who deserve to die.
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Well then, I guess we should be killing anyone who commits any crime. What a novel idea. i'm sure that will result in a perfectly well adjusted society.
The RHCSA/RHCE stuff is good, I passed the RHCSA a couple years ago and it's a solid set of foundations.

There's a good chat (devopschat.slack.com) that's useful for learning stuff like this.
IIRC there was a small town paper in the early in 1990s that wrote high school sports stories with a HyperCard stack.
You don't have the experience for the role. And that may be okay as long as you're honest and upfront about that and show a willingness to learn.

A big component of managing a dev team is performance-management- managing good and bad performers. Don't try to BS your way through that or other questions, but rather acknowledge where your gaps are and let them know that they are known unknowns rather than being oblivious to their existence.
Very Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Ut5GqQ1f4

Google will one day be the arbitrators of news. If it doesn't fit in their world view, whether it's true or not. Will be removed from the results.

I think now is the time to setup a different model and remove their monopoly. Internet freedoms are at stake here.

Do no evil? Yeah right.
Factory reset
That's a flaw in the system.

My uncle was (by his word, and I've seen the police reports which are a contradictory mess) falsely convicted. He got life in prison and could face parole after 20+ years. He didn't get a chance at that because he suffered and died in prison of cancer.

Falsely being convicted and put to death is horrific, but we also have a very rigorous appeals process, which is why some of these guys don't die for a decade or more. You get falsely convicted and 20 years, you aren't going to get near the appeals and your life is just as ruined. Those 20 years inside your lonely cell might even be worse than just being put to death.

It's never struck me as a realistic argument against the death penalty because of wrongful convictions. You could exaggerate your stance and suggest that no jails should exist and in fact no justice should ever be served because there are innocents.

To just say no death penalty, lock em up for 30 years instead doesn't begin to solve the issue and perhaps even fails to recognize how horrific that sentence is.
No, it means that when black and latino people are the victims of crime, the perpetrators are less likely to be convicted than when white people are. More importantly, it rebuts your argument that the severity of the crimes we're talking about is so grave that it's unlikely there's any bias in their enforcement. Not only is there bias, but smoking gun evidence of that bias (whether it's intentional or systemic) is a simple Google search away.

You wrote:

For rape, sure, certain groups will get away with it. But for homicide? Are murders being selectively investigated?

The answer is, "yes, of course."

Slightly edited.
What guarantee is there that the published news isn't fake? This might start something like viral fake facebook posts. We already have enough of those. Now we have automated fake news generator where you post your own fake news for free.

This is what it will become one day. Hope they have something to stop it.
One day? That day is now.
Ten years and you have never led anybody? Think back, I am sure there were moments where you led/guided/coached peers or were a sparring partner.

You should sell those experiences as first steps into being a leader.

However, you should be aware that managing and coding are so different, even if it's in the same field. Managing people is tough and you learn it by doing.
I would strongly prefer that robo-written news not exist, not appear in the results of any searches I make, and not appear in any feed that I read. It is pollution that makes real information and insight harder to find. Does anyone actually like this stuff?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9OrmOAuuWc
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Sure.

There was a series of anti-war protests at a mall around Albany NY in the run up to the second gulf war.

I had been covering the story on a regular basis, but it had gotten very little attention because the media had decided that anti-war protests were not newsworthy.

Well, finally at one of these protests they arrest a judge and that is newsworthy. People start looking for names and places and these match the story I'd written at the last protest (where there had not been any arrests.)
This article will be downvoted because it goes against many peoples mental model that, if you work hard, you can be successful.

Well, statistically, Stanford/Harvard/IIT graduates are more likely to be successful. If you go to Berkely or Georgia Tech, good for you, but the Stanford et al. grads are probably better.
Having just finished a play-through of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, this immediately makes me think of Eliza Kassan... it really is odd how many ideas in that game don't seem especially far-fetched these days.
I visit Raymond Chen's blog[0] every weekday.

He posts content on Windows internals, Win32 APIs, and explanations for Windows behavior.

If you program for Win32 then reading his blog will identify bugs in your code[1].

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

[1] http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=57

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Why would this even be on Google's radar? They make money either way.
It's not the promises that are petty, it's the goal.
That sounds right for her diet.
yes i wonder about that too. i never thought of myself as someone interested in economics, but i guess thats where you'd look for answers to why some markets are weighted towards winner take all and some aren't. my guess off the top is that it has to do with how easy it is to switch between two competing products, and how economies of scale work in the industry. if there is a big economy of scale, and its easy to switch between competitors, i think that makes for the biggest winner take all scenario.
Better? It is just much easier for them to get funding. More funding -> More successes.

Source: I know a ton of people who went to Stanford and who had zero trouble getting near unlimited funding.

Also the purpose of this article is to appeal to the Indian reader base that is qz.com. They are writing articles to appease their demographics.
Presentation of facts alone doesn't really preclude bias, though. Certainly all journalists carry bias - and styleguides and journalistic standards are intended to mitigate this - but any software intended to encapsulate some facts into some allotted space will also carry bias. Source/quote selection and omission will always lend some bias and news by nature has a finite space. Print news in particular imposes bias through strict space requirements, driven editorially. And then there's the weight of the sources quoted, defining a "side" or "angle" to a story and making sure there's balance in opposing voices, etc.

I think a lot of people see bias as overt when it can be quite negligible and minor. But then they also often conflate news commentary with news. It's a pretty blurred line.

That said, local news (politics, business, crime) tends to skew less toward prescribed narrative and more toward facts and points because it's often very dry.
I'm confused why BPF exists in the first place. Can't we just compile kernel modules that hook into the tracing infrastructure?

It seems like a webassembly for the kernel but local software has the benefits of knowing the platform it is running on. I.e. Why compile C code to eBPF, when I can just compile to native code directly?

I can potentially see it solving a permissions problem, where you want to give unprivileged users in a multi-tenant setup the ability to run hooks in the kernel. Is that actually a common use case? I don't think it is.
The audio is pretty impressive.
No, it's a racist lie, told in order to agitate a low-information base of vaguely ethno-nationalist voters.
On United flights, you can use your smartphone/tablet to connect to wifi and stream their movies for free. I guess charging is still an issue.
Hogwash:

1. Go read the linked article: http://ftp.iza.org/dp8129.pdf

2. It's about munition line workers in 1920 UK during the war.

3. The blog post claims generality based on this.
It is not irrational to be biased against mergers. The couple seated next to you were just dumb.
Call it target marketing or a better customer profile. Finding people willing to pay more always helps
We also do security, surveillance and operate 100.5 % of the satellites around earth. (Looks familiar yet?)
How did the U.S. go from world leader to world laggard?
It's not always easy to find the right balance. I've worked in the same place for obout 15 years. Earlier on, encountering limits of old legacy systems, I frequently spent lots of time finding creative work arounds in coding and automating. But over the years these have become less tenable, since I'm only one person, and home grown solutions without dedicated resources are a bigger risk to operations than purchasing a mediocre off the shelf product.
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These are indeed frequently generated automatically.
These look really nice and I want to get one, but shipping to the US is $40. :/
Yes, finance and sports and weather and other metrics reporting is already highly automated.
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Print journalism is pretty formulaic but one of the bigger challenges is finding and interviewing sources. Most news organizations have requirements on the minimum # per story and who those people should be. It's laborious.

Sports, on the other hand, can be presented as a narrative of pre-defined, linear events. Those and crime stories represent probable the easiest form to automate. Pro and college typically warrant some quotes but so often preps are written by a stringer who just details the game.
is it proper to do what is right for the country even if that is opposite of what your campaign promises were and opposite of what the elextorate wanted? genuinely curious. not american, live in asia, so quite impartial
Your example is funny because 2 paragraphs in they show their data:
Stanford(51), Harvard(37), UC (18), IIT (12)

One could say "UC is a system, not one school" but then you have to say the same of IIT.

Same issue with the headline too.
Art certainly has a place here. The purpose of this are isn't to look cool. The purpose of art is express and/or provoke a reaction. In this case, it's a reminder that these people exist and are suffering due to war. Most of us know war is horrible, but we don't know it the same way someone who has experienced it has. Part of the reason these pictures exist is to give us a glimpse of that understanding. And maybe if we're lucky next time around, people won't choose war.
Specifically, the chargemaster rates for uncovered "off the street" procedures are essentially unmoored from the negotiated and mandated prices for the same procedures from payers. Quite a few "doc in the box" urgent care clinics will be happy to bill you $1,200 for your out-of-network hangnail procedure.
In general, yes.
Clojure is lisp actually. It is also mutable but it makes mutability as an explicit transaction but the entire thing runs on a JVM so you can use all Java libraries (so no library scarcity for lisps). So if you are doing heavy work it is either this or Common lisp. Clojure is preferable because Java has more momentum than CL.
So you didn't write about a future event
Collaboration cost and incentive mis alignment.
I.e. how do you reward or figure out success

Trust is the biggest factor, easier to trust token work to be done by remote team, how do you get to a remote control founder?
Good! I'm sure a bot is a lot better writer than the high school graduates my local paper employs.
Here's some random things I'd consider green flags during an interview:

- A desire to help others accomplish their goals, not simply extract work from them. Sometimes this means moving them to another team/project or even out of the company.

- Proficiency in *-manager skills (product manager, project manager, etc.). Frontline managers often end up filling the roles that their team doesn't have anyone else for.

- You mentioned mentorship, which is great to talk about. Sometimes you're a direct mentor, sometimes you're identifying potential mentors, but it's important to understand what works well.

- For this situation in particular, be honest about the fact that you're new to management and looking to skill up. Part of managing people is understanding their career goals and how to help them move up, and understanding your own career, where you are, and where you'd like to go will illustrate that skill.
"Why doesn't every sports team just get good players and have those players play consistently well?"

As usual, the difficult part is among the details.
Urls are a very important part of things for me. I spend just as much time figuring out how I want to structure my urls as I do my database.
> Do people have the time or remember to load movies ?

I'm not sure how prevalent it is, but I know some carriers like United[1] and Delta[2] (via Gogo) stream media to your personal device over the aircraft's WiFi.

> Make sure their device is charged?

Many flights now have USB ports and/or power outlets under the seats.

[1]: https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/inflight/ent...

[2]: https://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/traveling-with-us/on...
Gerrymandering, and the Citizens United supreme Court decision that let corporations contribute unlimited amounts of money to politicians.
Also relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc

Sinclair Broadcast Group is doing basically this already, just in a low tech way and requiring its local TV stations to promoting their political agenda.
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Understood. Yet, this would still be an improvement over newsstories which try to read insight into something where what they do's more or less projection and speculation without saying so much.

"Amazon buys WF". vs "Jeff Bezos buys WF so you never have to talk to a cashier"

Or, "Physician runs over pedestrian" vs. "Physician accused of insurance fraud runs over pedestrian"
Professional and open source implementations of Common Lisp are stable but nonetheless under active development.

Many hobbyists and professionals use Lisp to solve their problems and make money.

IDEs are in a sorry state. If you're an Emacs user, you'll be happy. Otherwise, unless you spend hundreds of dollars for a professional IDE, you won't have much. Editing Lisp requires a good IDE.
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Curious why the photographers pictures didn't sell? Is there an oversupply of stuff material? Is the source questionable?
Thank you for the explanation - I didn't know the solve rate was so low at all. Is it thought that of these unsolved black/latino murders, the race of the perpetrator is disproportionately white?

Edit: So I searched a bit, and, in NYC, it's said this is due to reduced budgets for homicide in certain areas that are predominately minority. For this to impact the stats (the raw numbers being that blacks, as a group in the US, commit 4-5x homicide by population, and similarly bad numbers looking at interracial crime) it'd have to be a massively disproportionate amount of non-blacks going into these neighbourhoods and killing them. From the "flavour" text in the articles I read, the victims families are lamenting that cops don't care because "it's just blacks men killing other black men".

But wow am I astounded how low the solved rate is, that's crazy. Though I would suspect most homicides are at least reported, whereas many lesser crimes (like drug possession) might not be. It's totally plausible that the real drug possession rate among whites is actually orders of magnitude higher than reported, less so for homicide.

Thanks again for taking the time to respond and correct me.
I would think nowadays they should be lightweight android tablets and a small 10 lbs media/wifi server box
I thought that english is the worlds first language because it's very easy to learn. I would guess almost anyone can get up to basic conversation skills and learn the terms for programming in some months, and that's it. No need for shakespearian level of vocabulary to get things done. Imagine Mandarin in the same place as comparision, with a (beautiful) but very impracticable alphabet to begin with.
Read _Behind Closed Doors The Secret of Great Management_ by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby.

Look for opportunities to do supervision. Non-profits are always looking for help, and it makes you look well rounded on your resume. There's no substitute for doing to learn how to manage.
Not enough progressive people voted and those negatively affected by the trends in automation and other populations catching up to US standards voted for a wildcard to change things up, even though their problems aren't fixable.

Of course, cognitive dissonance is to be expected for short term relief, hence here we are, in a situation where the people who most need the help of others vote for those who espouse "every man for himself" rhetoric.
Funny that while the IITs, as per the article, is said to be a collection of autonomous institutes, and that the University of California, which is an another collection of colleges, and still rated higher than the IITs, you would want to dismiss Berkeley? Any reason for your contempt?
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I don't really see what this has to do with fake news. Traditionally produced news stories can be fake, and algorithmically generated stories can be fake (when fed bad data).

The only solution to take news is news organisations that people can trust. Historically, local news organisations have always been the most trusted, but their income has been absolutely decimated in the last decade or so. This feels like a desperate cost cutting measure, not something that will help the overall problem.
I'd settle for a garden hose that doesn't perish from UV damage after a season and doesn't kink every 7 seconds. Sounds like a pretty simple thing to get - it isn't.
I think your position is perfectly coherent, but I don't think the opposing view is necessarily that weird, for two reasons.

The first is that this isn't zero-sum; there's no evidence I'm aware of that the death penalty reduces homicide. Killing a murderer isn't going to bring the victims back, anyone even mildly sceptical about the criminal justice system should be against irreversible punishments, and (speaking personally and emotionally for a moment) I think it does something bad to a society when "giving up on one of your citizens completely" becomes an option.

The second is the idea that a lot of the passion surrounding the death penalty is about signalling membership of a political tribe rather than about any of the individuals involved. This is the "I can tolerate anything except the outgroup" theory [1]: tribe A attacks/defends murderer M not because they hate/like M but to emphasis their difference from tribe B.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
I disagree.

There has always been a definable difference between fact and fiction. Both have a place on the net but where fiction masquerades as fact with the intent to decieve, we have a duty to use all the tools at our disposal to destroy that ruse and choose more factual sources on which to base our decisions.

I for one welcome our new news overlords.
This is definitely machine generated.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/20/406484294/an-np...
Can you elaborate on what you believe to be the reasons you're able to work productively for 12 hours a day? I'd love to have that superpower.
Remember Kyoto?
In general you should be more than capable of explaining your lead role as a coaching role and helping people to get better. Ideally some of that experience was not just with juniors but also mid level - senior engineers.

Did you start anything up in the company - ideally yes. Shows you can spot opportunities.

Do you understand the role of the manager in this company, in the context, probably good to show some self awareness (Are you being hired in for a new team, existing team, if so why not hire internally etc.)

After that expect to explain how you deal with poor performers, how do you reward people etc.
That is rude and uncalled for.