skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I haven't, because there are teams, scientists, researchers, etc, that are slowly finding, identifying and proving botnets of accounts on Twitter.

I also use the term bot lightly, to include 'human being following orders' from a government or other organization.

> Always makes me chuckle how quick people are to call others machines or paid-actors because an unsavoury opinion is held.

WHAT? How dare you accuse me of this? "because an unsavoury opinion" what is this? That has nothing to do with this. I am accusing accounts of being bots because they are created automatically, they don't tweet normally like humans do, they follow clearly discernible patterns, etc. These bots are focused on sewing hatred and racism in the US.

I would never do what you are insinuating and it's insane that you think I would. Russians are using technology and paid actors to influence public opinion in the US. This is not based on some "unsavoury opinion" I didn't like in a tweet. This is the reality.
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https://goo.gl/beZBp2 wow that's so awesome everybody just go check this out
The latter being like just what CIA et al do in just about any country and election they wish...
Disembark.

What would they call walking the plank: transplanking? Going down with the ship: defloating?
As a web dev who does about 40% front-end, I find vim just as useful there as I do for all he other dev work I do--which is very, very useful.

I have no particular reason to want to jump into an IDE, which I imagine is what you're recommending instead. Vim acts as my IDE without much effort. I have a linter, syntax highlighting, etc.

I won't sing the benefits of vim here since they should probably be well-known in this thread, but editing code without vim movements is, to me, a nightmare.

I'm not sure what you think would be different in another editor.
> The susceptibility of Americans to shitty lies, conspiracy theories, and a lack of numeracy is a vastly greater threat to the integrity of the US government and much more difficult to fix.

Seems bullish for advertising. I've chuckled at the fact Facebook tells its advertisers how amazing advertising Facebook is, while at the same time saying to the public that it's ludicrous to think Facebook had any impact on the election.
Littlewood and Hardy disagree. Ranking/attributing contributions to a joint paper in mathematics is very hard especially when the results grow out of conversations between all of the authors.
Polo!
This is what I think most people fail to understand. It's not a _requirement_. The vast majority of people DON'T have side projects. Companies can't afford to simply auto-reject everyone who doesn't have side projects. The point is that if you do have any, it can help make you stand out dramatically.
Wow, thanks, I completely misread that part.
Absolutely, for the first 2 years. I suspect 3-6 years of postdoc plus 3-5 years at tenure track before getting tenure was a significant burden. And all that is not a guarantee of success. Maybe I was also tired at being inside academia and wanted to see what life outside was.

I am not sure, but I do know that at some time I knew I did not want to stay in academia. And when I understood this the first thought was "why did not I realize this a year ago"? Nothing wrong with academia, I just chose a different path.

EDIT: On some thought the mentality "if you did not stay in academia you are a loser" probably delayed the above realization. It was very prevalent.
Call me naive, but I listened the entire talk thinking it happened in 1973. Then came back and after seeing the discussion realized its an act.

So definitely my wonderment and awe of it came down by several notches, as I could see how every 1/2 minutes I was exclaiming in wonder of how relevant it was to today's time. But of course when you recreate the past in the future, you can be very selective towards ideas/topics which are relevant in some way.
This was my exact impression as well. "you will also be working alongside one of the leading React developers in the world"..... Wow, wonder if he'll sign my laptop.
That's not really what I meant.

While it would be nice to get more support finding non-academic jobs, you are right that 1) other resources exist and 2) they don't know much about it anyway.

However, a professor should be able to give a trainee an assessment of their own academic prospects: based on your current record, are you part of the 10% of people who land jobs right now? If not, what would help you get there, or is it more of an issue with your aptitude/temperament? Career Services can't do this: they don't know you from Adam and aren't career academics anyway.

You can certainly ask for this--and I did (with varying degrees of effectiveness), but I really feel that if you're (claiming to be training) someone, you owe them honest and regular feedback on how that training is going.
Actually that is precisely what the Iron Law of Oligarchy says.
In my country it's simply illegal. Either you pay (and it doesn't even matter if there exists a signed job contract) or explicitly state that this is NOT a job, but a training practice or whatever.
> Apologize for the Russian takeover that you let happen

if you compare the amount of money allegedly spent by "the russians" VS the amount of money spent by "the americans" themselves, talking about "the russian takeover" of Twitter or Facebook is pure hysteria.

Americans need to stop blaming the Russians for all their problems. Most Russians could not give a damn about US, most are way too busy making hands-meet right now.

The Russians didn't create or foster a divisive environment where everything is about insignificant petty differences. The Russians do not own CNN, ABC, MSNBC or Fox news who are making billions out of exploiting american divisions on every matter possible. The Russians didn't create that society of outrage and entertainment, the Russians didn't shape american society.
Twitter bans Russia Today and Sputnik from advertising on its service
> an indirect approach

How about a direct approach: Governments should stop lying 24/7 to their citizens; Corporate Media needs to get off (rather kicked off) the privileged 'Fourth Estate' pedastal; and education and mental health issues are taken [as] central and fundamental issues to address.

That would do it.
Last I checked, even ramen and Mtn. Dew can't be purchased with equity.
1 Website on a $5 VPS may be stupid, but 5 websites on a 15$ VPS most likely work great. Let me explain: $5 VPSes are rarely ment for production, they just have enough resources to have "something" running. A $15 VPS usually is big enough to hold X websites, plus has enough backup power should one of the sites explode.

Now use Cloudflare as DNS and ship your static CSS & JS files over a CDN. And done, your website is kind of bullet proof.

Source: I've ranked #2 and #1 on HN, and Frontpaged on Reddit a few times as well. Never did any site of mine go down even thought i host on a budget.
> Did Google run political ads that were purchased by other countries and intended to deceive the US electorate?

Just from a quick search [1], yes. I don't think megous's comment has a "it's a joke bro" attitude. You're criticizing a company that provides a free service for taking the due diligence to prune its paying clients of anyone that they don't think should be a paying client. This has nothing to do with inflated growth numbers, it's about Twitter making the decision that they do not want state-funded Russian companies advertising on their platform. The bots issue is a completely different thing that I'm sure Twitter has an entire team of devs devoted to. It's not as easy as flipping a switch. They need to make sure they aren't banning real users of their service just because language and posting patterns used by those bots are based on those of real users.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/10/09...
this comment would carry a little more weight if you could cite the laws to which you refer
you can quickly find yourself inundated in a complex stack. managing complexity (making it simple) requires huge investment! complex stacks are worse
The CTO's LinkedIn says he's still in undergrad. It seems like this is effectively a vanity startup and one of the founders has rich family members. Not rich enough, apparently.
Are minor deviations from the norm really indicative though.

IME babies will have days when they feed non-stop, days when they hardly feed, days when they'll take more naps, data when they won't, etc.. that's just being a baby, they're not ill.

Major deviations are normal. Sleep patterns go through stages, for example, and often there's a change over period where there is little pattern; in a day when the child is tired from activity they might sleep much longer.

I feel that changes that are indicative of health problems are going to show in the child before you get them from looking at an app.
Apache Roller

http://roller.apache.org/
This looks bad, but I've been through worse.

After a long, drawn out interview process, which involved a group interview where four candidates were in the same room competitively trying to answer random questions about JavaScript edge cases, I received an offer. $23k/year in NYC, no equity, and a 1% share of profits.

I would've been pretty much the only engineer, so it's not like I would've gotten any training or support. They also never told me what the product was. I had to go find a notary to sign an NDA, but I tore that up when I got the offer. I'm pretty sure the company never went anywhere.
Sure, they can if they want to. But a judge shouldn’t be able to force them to do so, not without more than receiving a smiley face tweet.
I've been thinking about building one of these, looks pretty cool. They want quite a bit to just buy one, I wonder if they'll ever sell just the case.

https://dride.io/
This is a real question?

You don't hire people if you can't afford to pay them, holy shit.

"Hi, you mind cleaning my house? I'm a college student so I can't afford to pay you but I might get a job when I'm out of school, so I'll think about paying you then."

What you really are looking for if you are at that "I got an idea but no business plan" stage is investor(s). This could be a bank or one or more people, but these people wouldn't be employees.

Realistically though, you won't proceed with your crackpot idea as you realize "starting a business" is not "finding someone to work for you for free", ie, having them take on all the risk just so you can reap the rewards.
IDENTITY is the NEW MONEY
Sure, Marx was smart and all, but practically, what it comes down to, is a few options.

- Capitalist markets

- USSR style central planning

- Anarchist-leaning gift economy, not scaleable beyond n=1000 or so

- Market socialism strains like mutualism or ParEcon, both of which have major issues of their own

- Any mix of the above, e.g. "Socialism with Chinese characteristics", which has been the best economic performer of the last 30 years or so.

In other words, at some point you need to come down from pie in the sky Marx quotes and make physical implementations, which is always more difficult than theory.

So if central planning is problematic, what do you choose then?
Please don't parrot Trump's lies and Russian sponsored propaganda intended to distract from the Russia investigation. This is not the place for that. You're only embarrassing and discrediting yourself, and fooling nobody, while insulting everyone's intelligence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/12/...

“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.”
— statement from the Trump transition team on Washington Post report that the CIA concluded that Russia intervened in the election to help Trump

Donald Trump’s staff dismissed U.S. intelligence conclusions that Russia actively interfered in the presidential election by noting the flawed intelligence cited by the Bush administration in making the case for invading Iraq nearly 14 years ago.

An alternative perspective came from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who pinned the blame on the Bush White House for misrepresenting the intelligence.

Nancy Pelosi @NancyPelosi:
The intel didn't state that Iraq had WMDs. The Bush-Cheney WH made that misrepresentation.
12:21 AM - Dec 11, 2016

Trump’s complaint about this semi-ancient history is a bit odd because a) the intelligence analysts who worked on Middle East WMDs are not going to be the same as analysts focused on Russian cyber-behavior; b) the intelligence collection for hacking in the United States by overseas powers would be different from assessing illicit weapons programs in the Middle East; and c) reforms were put in place after the Iraq War to make it harder for suspect intelligence to bubble up to the top ranks without careful scrutiny. (For instance, a new procedure required heads of intelligence agencies to vouch personally for the credibility of any of their own agency’s sources that are used in a major estimate.)

Moreover, the Bush administration appeared determined to attack Iraq for any number of reasons beyond suspicions of WMDs; officials simply seized on WMDs because they concluded that that represented the strongest case for an invasion. “For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on,” then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Vanity Fair in 2003.
$274,100 is a hilariously low number. Zero effect on the election.

It’s quite a remarkable thing to be in the eye of the storm of a mass hysteria.
One thing literally no one on this thread thusfar has mentioned is that the Department of Justice has compelled RT and Sputnik to fill out the paperwork[1] for FARA[2] registration. The DOJ isn't going to just target journalists for FARA registration without some sort of (probably classified under a FISA order) information letting them know that indeed, this org is working as an agent for a foreign government. Thus far, RT has not complied.

[1] http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/3...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Ac...
I guess it already exists a bit (Asimov's laws or robotics ?) but I'm afraid no one is interested.
What's your view on the Washington Post writing how Iraq has weapons of mass destruction? Legitimate opinion piece or fraudulent/faked proaganda?
Neither of those articles says a campaign used the government to do its investigation. The Clinton campaign used a private investigation firm in your first article just like all campaigns in history. The FBI investigated Trump in your second article because that's its job — it didn't give special access to the Clinton campaign.

You've proven GP's point.
Bitcoin is going to do to Banks what Email did to postoffice & Amazon to Retail
Copper River salmon isn't a species, it's acrually multiple kinds of pacific salmon with extra marketing and branding.
Forgive my ignorance - I never read them b/c I'm not interested in main news but Could you point me where RT/Sputnik said "a candidate is planning to use FEMA to invade Texas" and "force all white people with guns to have abortions."
Btw claiming that you outperformed Google with the search phrase "google" and then not putting any kind of proof makes you kind of unbelieveable.
> The real function of Occam's Razor is to allow us to simplify models for our own benefit (because simpler models are easier to interpret and use), not necessarily because the simple answer is the Actual Truth(TM), which we can't know outside of observation.

What about assigning greater prior probability to hypotheses that are simpler in some sense? Is there perhaps something to that too?
https://goo.gl/MbJtN3 wow that's a very interesting source
If the action is taken because of political pressure then it's not about being reasonable.

If they were being reasonable they would be listing a lot more organizations that spread propaganda than just RT.

This looks completely reactionary.
Most farmers don't grow ethanol. And ethanol is a fuel, it isn't just paper, regardless of the subsidies.

As far as being well-paid: farmers are fairly well-paid. They have to work hard and use a LOT of what you might call automation (combine harvesters and the like).

But to your point: I sometimes am persuaded by the conjecture that we developed BS paper-pushing jobs for people since we've automated away farming, much of manufacturing, etc. Office Space comes to mind, too.
There are still forums, communities, and journals. They just aren't on the Play store.
Has a conspiracy to have someone elected been confirmed? IFAIK, Russian ops was to sow distrust in the electorate not so much to favor one candidate over the other.

The ultimate goal would be to have the elections questioned by the losers (whoever the winner was) in order to diminish US influence abroad as the winner would be busy with internal affairs. It was probably a bet against Hillary winning since she had a more hawkish international vision.
That is, erm, sonethingh different, cough.

I also wonder what about lobbyism in general. Why is this allowed and the other not. Because it’s good for economy? What if it’s still bad for society?
You forgot this gem as well:

"These 90 days are specifically designated to bring people like you up to speed on our very complex tech stack."

I'm all for onboarding and training, but 3 months to get a grasp on a glorified photo sharing app?
LOL. I'd ask they pay me for 3 months while I did no work just to make sure you know... that they are solvent and going to be around.

After all it's best to avoid companies toxic to ones long term goals that only care about how much work one produces.
> if you compare the amount of money allegedly spent by "the russians" VS the amount of money spent by "the americans" themselves, talking about "the russian takeover" of Twitter or Facebook is pure hysteria.

The amount of money is a single metric and not what we should use to base every decision on or understand an entire complex issue from a single source (money). The Russian ads were very well crafted to be easily sharable and to be viral. The amount of money they spent has little to do with how much influence they have.

Your entire post is "whataboutism". What about the Americans being bad? What about CNN being bad? What about ABC being bad? What about most Russians just trying to make ends meet? What about MSNBC? What about Fox news?

I don't care.

The Russians are actively doing this on Twitter, right now. The others are bad too. That doesn't mean anything at all about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Whataboutism, a classic Russian distraction tactic, by the way.
If you have the whitelist, you compare the hash on the backend to known hashes. That's how "Safebrowsing" things work, no reason why it couldn't work here too.
What reason does anyone have to believe this is authentic?
> Seems like a lot of hassle. Why shouldn't creators just keep using Patreon?

Speaking as someone who used flattr for years before I heard of patreon, this question sounds rather backwards to me.

That said: I’m pretty sure I dislike the changes done here, and it will definitely cause me to reconsider my usage of flattr as a whole.
> Many of the people in these systems are likely underpaid

This is largely anecdotal, but back when I was doing landscaping over summers in high school and college (2002-2005). For some tasks (installing sod grass, for example), I'd pick up undocumented Central American day laborers^. They would not even get into my truck for less than $14 per hour plus lunch. There's fewer of these laborers around the Atlanta area these days, but from I hear, they still require well over minimum wage.

^ We did our best to avoid hiring from this pool but finding reliable day labor from any legal source was nearly impossible at any price.
I feel like GitHub is partially being overrun by cheap and easy repositories to farm for stars, why would you ever need a README maturity model?
We don't use Cucumber, but another BDD framework. We have sort of non-technical employees that write them out. Generally the developers do a little tweaking, but mostly for spelling inconsistencies where reuse of steps is expected. I really think it's great, especially when steps can be reused across many tests. I don't think that you can't achieve the "same" effect with unit test frameworks, but I like the approach.
Implanted medical devices are saving lives. They also cause exploding corpses
I'm American but I have luxury of working as a consultant - I get paid for every hour. I've worked for lots of companies and without exception, I've really like working for the company and when there was an occasional push, worked some extra hours. That said, I'd take some comp time later.

"in the U.S. most professional jobs don't have set hours, it's more you work until the task is satisfactorly completed within defined time constraints."

Then the company won't mind if I leave early when I have my work done right? Oh, you mean this relationship with the company is only supposed to go one way - to the company's benefit?

[Twirling my mustache] Wouldn't it be great if we could convince an employee (that we are exploiting) that the reason he has to work late is because another employee didn't donate labor to the company (and not that the deadlines are unrealistic)?

I think employers and employees sometimes forget that this is a value for value, business relationship. Think of what's implied in the common phrase "I gave him a job." An employer doesn't "give" someone a paycheck anymore than an employee gives the employer his labor - it a value for value trade.
It's not just the lab supplies. I worked at an institute that reserved the right to cut salaries if an individual was not bringing in enough money.
If Twitter actually wanted to promote civic responsibility, they would ban Donald Trump for repeated ToS violations and try to encourage him to be a little more thoughtful about his proclamations to the world.
Yes, and more organizations than RT do this.
How is changing existing regulations in the favor of a specific partisan group "steering clear" of that group? That's downright Orwellian phrasing there.
People freak out in the moment, usually there's some kind of fine, and then nothing really changes.

Almost like financial crime.
It's placing the baby on it's stomach ("tummy") so he can practice raising his neck to strengthen those muscles. It's the first step to being able to roll over and sit up.
You left out the rest, which is even cringier:
...Andrew can literally always be found working or writing. By banging his head repeatedly against the walls that are un-transparent advertising and unsustainable food, he plans to topple them - no matter the ultimate concussive side effects. A steadfast optimist, Andrew believes that with a little luck he will change the world. "Fingers crossed," he says while looking defiantly into the distance.
Mine that was for me, 2017 iMac. For my wife, 2017 Macbook Pro. I had a previous 2012 Macbook Pro but that was the last generation with a CD/DVD drive.
As was this comment:

> Mike says Wouldn't you also urge your clients to resist the impulse to blog about these things?