skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most states already are irrelevant. Your vote in US elections don't count unless you live in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or Wisconsin.
I heard from a google recruiter that they all but throw out a resume for interns and developers coming out of school if it doesn't include transcripts.

EDIT: To clarify this was at a talk to a group of college students - almost exclusively geared towards prospective interns or fresh graduates.

Also this is something I was told by an employee at Google... I don't understand the downvotes. Maybe my wording was harsh... should I have said "seriously decreased chances of selection"?
Yev here -> it was a pain to drive around the Bay, let me tell you :P
Yup, that's what I meant. I don't know how reliable those Elonian schedules are though. :-p
I am unsure how this is true considering AIM was around when I was in highschool back in 1999-2003. If Boxely didn't come around till 2004 that would be like the AIM reboot era.
I think the entire investor class in the US is currently experiencing a bubble. By "investor class" I mean anybody who has a significant amount of money in stocks or bonds.

The bubble was inflated by the quantitative easing that the Fed has done across the past 9 years in order to prevent the 2008 recession from turning into another great depression.

The bubble has led to asset price inflation both in the US and elsewhere. Basically, investors have money, but consumers don't. So the money is chasing assets (stocks, bonds, houses, Bitcoin) rather than starting new businesses or growing existing businesses. (Why build a business if your potential customers are broke?)

The average US consumer with no savings, on the other hand, has seen wages stagnate. As a result, the prices of consumer goods have stayed roughly the same. That's why the Fed has been able to pump trillions of dollars into the economy without causing massive inflation. The inflation is happening, just not in consumer goods where we typically measure it.

That's why the Fed's recent decision to reduce their balance sheet is so interesting and so important. They are going to gradually make a few trillion dollars of easy money disappear, and it's going to let the air out of the bubble. To do this, they are going to stop buying new bonds with the cash from old bonds that have matured.

The hope is that by deflating the bubble in a transparent and gradual way, they can avoid any type of severe market movements, and can take their foot off the gas pedal (or brake, more accurately) if/when necessary.
The music video is what really sold me on buying the book several years back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc
Whats more, one of the huge complicating factors in the V-22 was the need to tie both engines together so one engine could power both rotors in the event of engine failure. This craft seems to have exactly the same issue.
"We have built a saturated information dystopia, taking time away from it to focus on the self is even more important and impactful."

This quote will stick with me for years to come. Cheers.
> Somehow America's dirt poor aren't as exciting or trendy as the exotic overseas dirt poor.

It's not that poverty is exciting. It's that abject poverty in the richest country on Earth is shocking and goes against assumptions people had as correct since ever.
Please be a proponent for veracity metrics on news stories and "viral articles" ... it's about time we as users get to see the measure of reliability and trustworthiness of search results. Cheers, may your new role bring you great happiness, and may the quality of our lives increase positively as a result.
Proportional representation is definitely a big part of FairVote's agenda. They have a bill in Congress right now around electing members of Congress from multi-member districts using STV -- of which IRV is the single-winner variant. It is called the Fair Representation Act:

http://www.fairvote.org/the_fair_representation_act_has_been...
Geographical representation means that Congress critters have direct responsibility to a well defined set of constituents. So you can't make up for closing a factory on one side of the state by making new friends on the other side of the state.

Furthermore, you have to decide which reps stay on when an election reduces the number of reps. Who makes that choice? In parliamentary systems, the party does. But in the US, elections are (mostly for the worse, imho) ultimately about the individual representative: voters have a chance to say 'THIS guy is an asshole' and vote him out, instead of giving the party discretion as to whether to drop the entrenched asshole or kick out the newcomer...
until the Justice Department gets involved and insures minority candidates have adequate chances based on the Voting Rights Act. This creates a problem where one party is effectively eliminated from a district while the opposite party may be weakened outside of it.
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Email by its very nature is asynchronous and was standardized in a time when "always-on" didn't exist, and it is provider-agnostic because of the standard protocol.

Email's maturity by the time that businesses all came online pretty much guaranteed it as the standard for business communication, and personal use was just a small step from there.

Expecting 20s RTT for email is a modern phenomenon, when you could expect replies on the timescale of days before.

The closest attempt to a standard for IM is probably XMPP, which providers have pretty much all ignored in favour of lock-in to their respective platforms.
As much as I find Tucker Carlson insufferable, the headline is sensationalism at best. Carlson raises a very valid point; bump-firing is a technique (not just a physical aspect of a weapon) that sacrifices a firm grip on the weapon (and consequently, accuracy) for the sake of just dumping the magazine. Had the shooter taken his time, the "injured" number would have been a lot lower, if you catch my drift. Charles Whitman and Lee Boyd Malvo are testaments to this.
you are being ridiculous. He's explaining how the value flow by introducing the ability for people to create their own social media tokens.
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>cbhl: This is tricky because there are lots of people who "ask questions" just to avoid admitting that they are a bigot.

>>KekDemaga: I am confused on how this would work in practice. What kinds of questions do you propose these bigoted people are asking?

Crazy to watch a near-literal explosion in this arguably off-topic sub-discussion "just" asking for concrete examples of loaded questions. Am I the only one hearing the imaginary yet ear-splittingly-loud whooshing sound (going "over their head") as people are gearing up and jumping in here? What an amazing demonstration of the power of words as HN users can't resist reacting to examples of inflamatory questions even when they are specifically requested and provided (some even with disclaimers) _as examples_!

As an aside, it is almost impossible for me to even begin to differentiate between the naive/geniune vs. trolls vs. devils advocates vs. others (hope that covers most of the bases) at all levels of this sub-thread.
You are confusing "distribution" with "supply". Having lots of people making music is a different issue from having music freely available via youtube. Music has been pretty darn cheap to reproduce for decades.

Yes, availability of substitutes can diminish bargaining power of music rights holders, but I'm not convinced that's at all how we should interpret these numbers. I think this is more about market power and network effects of the middlemen (google, pandora, the labels, etc...)

I would be interested in the revenue split between rights holders and YouTube.
> It renders every pixel

I thought Qt was "native"? That's what's parroted around here when comparing it to Electron.
I read though the article and the comments, and no one seems to think it's due to fraternities essentially being gangs. They act collectively to help everyone within the faction succeed while other people tend to be part of much smaller and less cohesive networks.

Much like humans beating out neanderthals who were individually more intelligent and stronger, but couldn't organize as well, frats bind allegiances in ways that casual friends rarely will go to the same lengths for.
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I've always called my degree a $200k permission slip.
No but my user name is a big hint. Artist who grew up in South Philly 50-60 years ago and had a hit song so big he still lives off the royalties today.....
I did air traffic control at Balad. At that time it was considered one of the most complex and busiest air-spaces in the world, paraphrased from the president of O'Hare. Obviously, we didn't see combat or deal with life altering experiences but it was balls to the wall intense for 8 hours a day. At the time I even smoked a few Camels during breaks. Certainly a way to bond with a fellow controller during a break.
Districts are popular when they work because local concerns may be divergent from state concerns, particularly in localities where the politics are at odds with the state as a whole, such as (conservative) eastern Oregon or (liberal) Atlanta, Georgia. While Oregon or Georgia might elect a contrarian representative in a PR election, such representative might not be as satisfying of a choice to residents of those districts.

I think the easiest "trial run" for proportional voting in the US is using two-winner elections (preferably Schulze but maybe traditional STV) to elect Senators, because this doesn't require any changes in representation. Unfortunately this is subject to game-theoretic problems because it tends to make the Senatorial output of a state less polarized (California might have one Republican and one Democrat instead of two Democrats), which could result in a political swing towards those states without proportional Senators (Wyoming might still elect two Republicans with FPTP).
Reporting in with similar issues. My first gen XPS13 had a keyboard whining issue, then the trackpad popped out of the case (and that is with light use). The keyboard is not your usual chiclet affair---the key travel is significantly shallower than any other machine I've owned. It often registered a double press when typing normally (not just the space bar) and the keys are light enough to depress when resting on the home row. The bezel-less screen was glorious though...

I was happy to be back to my trusty ThinkPad.
On the flip side, having each representative tied to a particular locality makes sense from a service delivery standpoint. If there are potholes in your street, you contact the city council member from your district. And if they aren't responsive to your needs, you vote for a replacement. I think it's a mistake to think that locality doesn't matter just because of improvements in transportation and communication.
Controlled, therapeutic dosing of MDMA.
I hope they explicitly ask for transcripts, or this is pretty stupid behavior...
I was greatly disappointed with this book because none of the 'Game' examples had a graphical interface to them. They are all text based.

Reading further in this thread people are suggesting Realm of Racket as an alternative and it looks like that book has much more visual game examples: https://realmofracket.com/games.html
It's been awhile since I've used CoreData, but I don't remember these being an issue.
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Improve the CSV:

# add to end
\
|exec tr '\15' '\12' \
|exec awk 'NR==1{a=$0}NR==3{b=$0}NR==5{print}NR>=6{print "\42"a"\42,"b","$0}'

# update CSV header line
\"sitetitle\",\"url\",\"pageID\",\"pagetitle1\",\"pagetitle2\",\"jsonurl\"/;};

Probably would be better to change "jsonurl" to "jsonfile" and just save the filename. The location (URL) of this file may be in several locations or it may change over time.
It's a matter of audience. "Impactful" is a corporate buzzword neologism, so it turns some people off. But it will definitely attract the kind of people who leverage synergies to align their processes for the win-win-win. Who do you want using your site?
It has no unit tests.
Several US states have in fact had a various times at-large representatives (most notably Hawaii and New Mexico since the time they were admitted into the Union). In 1967, the Single-Member Districting Mandate (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/2/2c) was passed to mandate geographically based single-member districts. One reason it was passed was because of fears that southern states would use at-large districts to dilute the black vote. The other is that at the time, Indiana was under court-order to elect all 11 of its representatives at-large unless it could come up with a satisifactory districting plan. This was an attempt by Congress to claw back some power from the judiciary after the 1962 Baker case declaring the one-person/one-vote principle that districts must be of roughly equal population. I think that it is an interesting debate and definitely doesn't get talked about enough (or at all!) in school.
There's a native client for all of the above:

https://eul.im
> The goal is to increase the connection between those at Google who work hard on search each day and the public that depends on Google for answers. I’ll be educating the public about how search works. I’ll be exploring and explaining issues that may arise.

So this is a PR position? I don't care much about that part...

> I’ll be looking at ways to take in feedback and work for solutions to improve search going forward.

That would be interesting if anything real comes out of it, but I fear it's the first thing he'll be spending most of his time on.
Is he? Is he being compensated well when looked at relative to what others have made off of it? It would be interesting to see those numbers.
Don't bother. They're probably still mad about Compiz too
If every district is 75-25, then the issue is that one party is getting 25% of the votes but 0% of the seats. All of their votes have been split across all districts, keeping them from winning any one.
I mean, I've written scripts like this, complete with Chef server deployment and filtering criteria. It's not surprising to see HN mention how feasible it is; we're not really the target market.
>I was greatly disappointed (...) They are all text based.

That's not really a bad thing...

If you want graphical games in Lisp, take a look at the series called "Pushing pixels with Lisp":

https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/6d5nht/pushing_pixels...
Yeah, I don’t see how they would impact usability in any way. Just have the client software perform the decryption process.
You sound like you haven't tried either MDMA or mushrooms from reading your post. I can't speak for everyone but the stuff you think is 'all bullshit' seems to be pretty common experience even among people who don't know Terrence McKenna or George Harrison from lil Jeffy Sessions.

And psychedelic use has been deeply ingrained in various human cultures all over the world for thousands (tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands?) of years. Taking psychedelics as part of a religious ceremony or ritual to rid oneself of suffering is part of indigenous traditions in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia/Oceania.

I'd say the historical traditions and these new studies should convince even you that there is no fad involved in human psychotropic use.
I've learned LISP and Scheme, gained some useful insights, used them on a few random projects, and then dropped them.

I recommend learning them, but then switching to something like Reason / OCaml / F# / Haskell.
For what it's worth, that hasn't been my experience at all, with the possible exception of the As. I suppose tech is in some ways an unusually functional industry overall, but all the leaders I've seen who weren't particularly smart but had people skills have failed pretty miserably. The successful ones have been almost universally the ones who are very smart (categorically as smart or usually smarter than their underlings) _and_ had excellent people skills.

As I said, it's entirely possible that tech (or at least the quality of company I've worked at) is something of an anomaly, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it as unrepresentative: it's not controversial at all that the importance of intelligence is rising fairly rapidly in the modern economy and tech may be more representative of the present and future than you'd think at first glance.
I fully conflated both words as well in my reply, don't feel too bad :)
Ah, now that’s intriguing! Thanks
> To judge whether an efficiency gap is disqualifying for a map depends on what other maps might be drawn

This is false. Efficiency has been applied by the Supreme Court to mean precise mathematical equality, rather than an approximate or relative metric [0]. For instance, if the populations of two districts is not exactly equal according to the most recent census data, then the district must be explicitly justified.

Quote [1]:

> But in Kirkpatrick v. Preisler,288 a sharply divided Court announced the rule that a State must make a “good-faith effort to achieve precise mathematical equality.”289 Therefore, “[u]nless population variances among congressional districts are shown to have resulted despite such [good-faith] effort [to achieve precise mathematical equality], the State must justify each variance, no matter how small.”

We would expect that the Supreme Court would apply the same mathematical exactness to the efficiency gap, should they find the efficiency gap a valid measure of gerrymandering.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesberry_v._Sanders

[1] http://law.onecle.com/constitution/article-1/05-congressiona...
To be fair, Spotify isn't mentioned at all
It doesn't matter if it's unlikely, the point is that the efficiency gap is being proposed as a measure of partisan gerrymandering, but it clearly does not do what it claims because it thinks a state with all districts split 75-25 is fair. But it's not: one party is getting 25% of the votes but 0% of the seats.
In the US, maybe. The UK uses a non-partisan Electoral Commission which has basically eliminated gerrymandering as a factor in UK politics.

There are residual disputes about recent Conservative changes to the criteria given to the Commission in setting boundaries, but even so this is way less egregious than the problems in the US.
I've made something similar a while ago called "rssa" [1]. You give it some urls, some way of extracting information from them (via a jQuery selector, regex etc.) and if things change it tells you.

I use it for tracking prices on Amazon, some stats about my repositories and so on.

[1] https://github.com/fabiospampinato/rssa
Because Uncle Bob isn't speaking to the CXO. He's speaking to those first line developers. And he's saying that those people need to push back, they need to stand up and tell the bosses that what they're doing is unsustainable.
Mostly this, or that they didn't even really care. It was all about preservation and riding out the gravy train.
When a patient sits with a therapist under the influence of MDMA, which typically consists of two doses (100-120mg initially, then 70mg a few hours later) spread over an 6-8 hour period. The patient is largely experiencing their own internal process, but at times the therapist is there to help guide and comfort. Before and after the session there is conventional psychotherapeutic follow-up.
Calling financial markets AI is wrong in pretty much the only way a word can be "wrong": It's not what most people mean when they talk about AI.

This makes it really easy to make statements that sound deep and meaningful, but really aren't. E.g. "I'm not worried about Artificial Intelligence - we already have artificial intelligence, its called a company. Companies are artificial, and they behave intelligently".

This just isn't what people are worried about. What people are worried about is:

1. Soon we will be able to create software/robots that replace tons of human jobs. This has nothing to do with "companies as an AI".

2. A super-intelligence will be created that is vastly smarter than any human, and can make itself even smarter, but will have different goals than humanity. Again, this is only very thinly related to the "companies as AI" spiel (companies are not superintelligent, they don't actually have coherent goals of their own).
It's not the Constitution but rather a federal law that was passed in 1967. FairVote's Fair Representation Act, which was introduced in Congress this year, seeks to change that for example.
There’s not going to be that much UBI to extract. Plus the assured UBI would empower people to move away from excise rent seekers.
At the risk of devolving the thread into political flamebait, the issue isn't geographic vicinity or physical and metaphorical disconnect. It's a financial disconnect: the money funding representatives comes outside the constituency. All of the other issues you described stem from that.

See: The refusal of representatives to hold town halls. They literally don't represent their constituents anymore.
Correct. It still isn't tbh.
Read 'Darwin's Radio' by Greg Bear.
I'm pretty sure this is wrong. I worked at Google for a few years and I don't recall sharing my transcripts or even putting my GPA on my resume. At not point in the process did they ask for my GPA IIRC.

It's entirely possible that this has changed, but I'd be pretty surprised. Competition for tech talent has heated up A LOT since then, and using transcripts as a blunt instrument to limit your talent pool seems like a move in the wrong direction.
A guided therapy session with a licensed practitioner which involves the patient taking a small dose of MDMA
Yeah, it seems like the metric can't tell the difference between the two situations...
Anybody who has STEEM benefits from increasing the network effect, not just him silly. Bitcoin and Ethereum has the exact same incentive to do so.

The idea is to create thousands of micro community who have their own ideas of where their communities wants to go. They can use their own tokens with their own economics if they happen to not agree with:
1. The inflation rate
2. The curation reward curve
3. The initial distribution
That's incredibly witty. Props to you.
And there would be nothing wrong with hightailing it out of there.

On the other hand calling for the potentially racist drivel or potentially devil's advocate debater to be shut down because you were feeling unsafe and didn't want to try better understand his position and thus it would be better for everyone if he didn't talk at all and thus everyone could feel safer... well... that seems to be some kind of goal displacement error.
It's elevating the heuristic of feeling safe over the actual outcome of avoiding real harmful events.
Presumably you mean faster than the non-hardware solution you were working on?
Never use this if you’re applying in Germany or other European countries unless it’s an American company. Most companies hate exactly this kind of lines and they will ignore your CV
Actually, it is an act of Congress that mandates single-member geographical districts (1967 Single-Member District Mandate). Several states over the years have had at-large districts, and it has been a debate since at least the 1842 Apportionment Act. The debate has gone from one focused on federalism (states should decide how to elect reps) to equal protection (black people should get not get drowned out by racist southern states. flip side, gerrymandering is easy to do, hard to prevent). Nothing in the US Constitution prevents at-large House reps.