skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in the reality I live in. Typically, difficult problems are solved by one expert sitting down and doing some hard work. They may ask others about specific points, but certainly not the kind of thing that gets closed as "not constructive" on SO (or used to, the system has recently changed) - things like "What's better for webapps, Python or Java?", "Do student projects influence job prospects?" or "Should I go back to academia?"
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I think, after a few missed drops, that I might have added a backup camera.
Well in most of the western world you CAN do precisely that (and it happens regularly). If people get pissed off with the government, they give it the boot. Unfortunately the Russian people have never had real democracy, so they don't realise that this should be the norm. In my country we would simply never put up with that shit. You see people putting up with shitty, oppressive governments all the time in countries like Zimbabwe, Russia, China, Syria, etc. Recently people in some parts of the middle east have finally realised that they can get rid of crappy governments. It's actually quite easy if the people can actually be bothered. The people of Russia did get rid of their Tsars a while back, but unfortunately they seem to have a new Tsar.
> Why dont the Go team do golang2 now.. There are a few issues..

I suspect that it is because Go 1 (issues and all) is useful enough that people are making productive use of it, and they'd like to flush out more of the issues that may exist -- and give more time for different approaches to those issues to be tried in experimental forks and, where possible, libraries, preprocessers, etc.

> and fix the the documentation so the classes interlink

Not sure what this means, and Go doesn't have classes. (Its not just an issue of calling classes different names, it divides up functionality differently than class-based OO systems -- packages are in a sense like classes [they are the closest equivalent to the function of classes as containers of static methods], structs are a bit like classes [in the role of containing members, and in that anonymous embedding approximates inheritance], every type is a bit like classes [in that any type can have methods attached to it, so long as they are attached in the same package as the type is defined]; but all these things are also unlike classes in various ways, too.)
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One of my questions is, what can I do?

Which politicians have power/control over this situation and who are their funding sources?

Which of these funding sources can be pressured based on SEO/growth hacking/bad press?
Additionally as far as I know there is no credit rating penalty for repeated attempted charges above your limit. That sort of information isn't even on any report I've ever seen. The increased balance may impact your credit score, but as you've noted it's unlikely this would make it onto your credit report unless Twilio is rather slow to resolve the issue.
land of the free (tm)
When people say "dress one level above the job you're applying for", I can't help to imagine what the levels are. I came up with something like this, from high to low:

- 3 piece suit

- 2 piece suit with tie

- 2 piece suit, no tie

- suit pants and dress shirt

- khaki's and dress shirt

- jeans and dress shirt

- jeans and t-shirt

- shorts and t-shirt

- stained shorts and wife beater shirt

I always wonder where the bow tie fits in though, or are they just always inappropriate?
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I love reading them too, but the jargon is the thickest I've ever seen. Not saying that's bad. There's just a lot of stuff going on here.
There's value in the debate. Doesn't mean there will be a "right" answer, but there will be valuable information coming out of the discussion.
> Never be afraid to say "I don't know" in an interview. If you don't know, say so. No one expects you to know everything, and it's far more valuable for an employer to know that you'll be up front about what you don't know, than to think you'll try to bullshit your way through any question. I guarantee you, they'll know when you're doing it.

One thing I'd expand on here.

Don't just say "I don't know" and then stand there staring at me. It's amazing how often this happens, and I don't know if it's because people read this advice or what.

The proper way to do this is "I'm not positive about this but here's how I'd approach it". Then start working through what you can and be very verbal about what you're doing. Tell me exactly what you're thinking and why you're doing things.

The goal of an interview, at least at a good company, should be focused on seeing how you think, not what you have memorized. If you just say "I don't know" and nothing else then all I can grade you on is that you didn't know anything. If you explain your thought process, not only does that give me more to grade you on, but it also allows me to guide you. There have been lots of times where a candidate has been stuck but as he walked me through what he was thinking I was able to give him a little nudge toward the right answer. I consider that to be a good sign in a candidate.
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Where? I would love to pull multiple accounts into gmail.

I know Gmail supports getting to its mail with IMAP.
Indeed. I have a much better system in place now.
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/mitigation_guidance/security_configura...

In addition to being a signals intelligence agency, NSA is also responsible for IT security for the federal government (and, to some extent, the nation). While it's possible they leave some of the more interesting tricks out of the public versions of these guides, their publication is in line with NSA's advice and assistance on open-source cryptography, etc.
Those are some very dangerous materials, I hope you take the proper precautions.
What gave you the idea that the US government give a shit about foreigners? Even most Americans don't, let alone the US government. It's appalling.

When I was young, America was a model country. At least that's what I though at the time with my limited knowledge. I always wanted to go there and maybe live there. Now I don't think I'd go there even if I was offered money. I had met many Americans and they were all very nice, smart people. It's such a shame that they have to put up to this. But I always believed people get what they deserve in democracies. If American people really are sick of this stuff, they should act instead of sitting in front of their computers and whine about how Obama has changed.
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Am I? Read my quote, it's exactly what's being said.
rmrfrmrf, You may have written the greatest comment intro of all time: "I apologize in advance for sounding like an elitist prick..."
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Pretty much any CSS3 rendering on Chrome sucks. Both on their mobile as well as desktop browser. I've really been let down on how bad embedded fonts look and how poorly transitions, opacity and other CSS3 properties work.

I'm still perplexed on why they haven't figured this out when Firefox doesn't seem to have the same issues.
Woah woah woah, not so fast, Doctorate McPhdsosoon. Science is repeatable. See you at lab meeting next Monday morning. Please come prepared with a roadmap for phase 2 trials. These grants don't write themselves, you know.
This is a good follow-up on an earlier news report on this finding. I have a close mutual friend with the lead investigator on this research project, which, as this 15 July 2013 announcement says, "they will report July 17 at the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Conference in Bellevue, Wash." So that conference paper should have been presented yesterday. Does anyone have access to the AAAI conference paper?
I've seen enough questions killed that way that yes - I consider it easy to abuse. It happens all the time but if it happens to someone else's question it's not worth my time/energy to raise the issue on meta. The lack of balance here is what makes it really annoying to fight.
If that's the case, it's interesting that he was unable to see / admit it in 1995, and instead heaped all the blame on newspaper editors cramping his style.
Honest question - do you genuinely believe someone (or a group of people) without 100% understanding of your project will be able to definitively tell you what language/framework is best for building your application?

Not the person you were replying to, but here's my take:

No, of course not. But that's not the point. The value is in the discussion and the process, not in any one answer. When you ask a question like that, you don't expect one conclusive answer... you expect many answers, debate, back and forth, and illumination of the pros and cons of various options embedded in that debate. Then you make a decision where you combine your own knowledge / biases / experiences with what you gleaned from the aforementioned discussion.

These types of subjects have been debated to death with the general conclusion ending up with "use the tool you are most comfortable with".

The "conclusion" of the discussion itself is irrelevant. The conclusions that matter are the ultimate conclusions made by the many readers of / participants in, the discussion.
Radiolab had an interesting segment about the Pitch Drop Experiment, interesting to listen:
http://www.radiolab.org/2013/feb/05/never-quite-now/
The people need a third party to switch to. The current two-party system leads to a serious lack of democracy.
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> The claim in the article, and I agree, and the Go maintainers agree, that it is a problem.

I don't think that's accurate. What the Go maintainers seem to agree is that this particular use of the capability to use run-time interface querying on the received value to exceed the capabilities of the interface through which the object is received is problematic because it isn't using an interface of similar semantic role, and this is the kind of thing that would likely be fixed now but for the commitment not to make breaking changes in Go 1.x.

They do not appear to agree that "Go interface types specify minimum functionality that must be satisfied at compile time but do not limit the methods that can be called on an object received through the interface type at runtime" is a problem, just a feature that, while provide a valuable benefit, can also be used in less-than-ideal ways (of which this is an example.)

> But you shouldn't type cast objects that don't belong to you.

On this point in particular, I see no evidence that the Go maintainers agree.
Well really they could have figured it out as soon as it started moving, which would have been a few months. The first drop fell after a few years and they could have called it quits then, but they wanted a human to observe the pitch drop. That's the only reason it took so long.
Fair enough. It's probably a bad first contact on the issue. I read it as him fully accepting responsibility for the error and explaining exactly what had happened.

But then, it's easy enough for me to view it in a generous light, when it had no personal effect on me. I would no doubt have felt very different had it been my account that was wiped out!

Oh, and yeah banks suck, especially when you're poor. Been there...
How two people became the voice of 110 airports and the NYC subway
While I really like this kind of articles I don't like the search for single or few causes of intelligence or creativity. Happily human beings and the world in general is more complex and trying to absolutely follow what these studies say is a bad idea.
I just fixed a client's computer where her old Outlook was exceeding 2GB using POP. It drove me crazy just converting to the new Outlook 2010 and then she had doubles of everything from the past 2 weeks. Its crazy to me that some businesses still use it.
Can't or are not allowed to? Because Segway sightseeing trips are quite popular in big european cities, and from what I can tell, the devices works very well on both roads and pavements.
Really? Scientists are people. Proving each other wrong is one of the biggest motivators to do years of painstaking, labour-intensive research. Of course, you can't prove someone wrong without being rigorous.
Primarily opinion-based questions are not welcome on Stack Exchange sites. By all means, use notconstructive.com for all of the subjective questions--and consequentially noisy answers--that your heart desires to read and ask.
I've heard from the CTO that they have a fraction of the amount of workers than most other car plants, and they've intentionally developed it this way so that their factory is programmable to make it more flexible for other cars.

What's also REALLY cool is that their whole car is programmable, in other words, they can push software updates to it and have that affect your driving experience. So, if there are defects, you don't have to be stuck with a crappy car -- you just get a software update.
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I am a bit skeptical of any technology that uses helium. We just don't have viable ways to obtain reliably enough of the stuff reliably.
Studies have done something similar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/opinion/ticks-to-the-slaug...

Summary:

Researchers from Cornell University installed and monitored dozens of “four-poster” feeding stations, which lure deer to a bin baited with corn and rigged with rollers soaked with a tick-killing pesticide, permethrin. When a deer rubs against the rollers, ticks die by the thousands. One station can treat all the deer in about 100 acres.
Buying more RAM only gets you so far. G1 handles large heaps fairly well, but you can still run into issues with long pauses if you are not careful and those pauses increase with the size of the heap. Most real time services don't have the luxury of manually triggering GCs and must do whatever they can to limit the stress they put on the collector.
The title is misleading. The experiment did succeed before, it just hasn't been captured on camera.
My frustration isn't fueled by sitting by an armchair and imagining about a philosophical problem that doesn't exist yet. I am talking about a REAL issue of Stackoverflow. While my php sessions example was average indeed, I would point you out some specific hurdles faced myself while using the site.

For example, while securing cookies for authentication (language independent, but try JAVA for this example), you could use two routes - Either Encrypt then HMAC it or, use something that combines this both by default (like AES-GCM). Now, if you search on this particular subject on SO, you would find genuine questions messed up and half of them migrated to crypto.stackexchange.com and the rest to security.stackexchange.com. And this is the crux of my parent comment.

Sorry if I appeared to be sitting on an armchair thinking about what debates I could stir while in reality I'm just like any other developer out there trying to find something useful from the site, hoping to make it better.

And yes, your apology for being an elitist prick is accepted.
The classical browse job offers, send resume, get an invitation to an interview, get the job does not work anymore. Optimizing for the best cover letter, great resume, or tricky interview questions is a cargo cult. The only reason to optimize here, is if you want to become a priest of this cargo cult, e.g. a recruiter, vocational guidance or other professions who exploit the unemployed.

I assume that "tech job" means something in IT tech like coder, designer, admin, and not something like an engineer or chemist.

I got all my projects over the last 35 years by listening to others peoples problems. Real programmers are cursed by infinite ideas vs. limited time. So ideas get a negative value. Just pick those ideas where the company has a great culture, and that sound challenging to you. So the positive work environment must balance the negative value of the idea. Ask yourself: The is company work environment good for solving the problem, or a hindrance. Do !NOT! talk to HR, but to the people who have the problem. I always talked to HR last, at the moment after signing the contract when they want my tax numbers and the like.

One indicator, that might not work in other cultures (outside Germany), is: You got the job, if they take the time to show you the recreation facilities like coffee kitchen, smokers garden, after the interview.
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It stands to reason that they follow the same policies that apply to law-enforcement agents -- they are compelled to break in and you are on the hook for any damages resulting from this 'lawful' search.
That's confirmation bias - you "happen across" them when they're linked to from here
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> Don't underestimate kinetic energy of a train going 340 meters per second

and then plowing into a strawberry field near Coalinga. Yeah, that's "a lot" of damage.
That's not very nice, dude...
pictures of Machu Pichu are mostly irrelevant to the article. And cliched.
Taking over a colony to appropriate its land and other resources != being principally against British colonialism.

The whole distinction between one element of a set and a whole set seems to be incomprehensible to modern liberals. E.g. the recent example of shooting an attacking black thug had been made an example of racism. Because, obviously, somebody who shoots a black person to protect his life is principally against the entire black race.
Does general solicitation matter for tech startups? Not really
Thomas Paine's deism was rather too godless for a lot of people's tastes, including Theodore Roosevelt.

http://atheism.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Paine
looks sort of like PDP 11 assembler, particularly the [] brackets for indirect access through a register.
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Questions like that aren't unanswerable.

If by "answerable" you mean "have one, and one one, unique, correct, objectively verifiable answer, which can be determined using only the provided information". But this kind of definition of "answerable", while fairly close to what SO uses, is overly rigid and eliminates the potential of a lot of valid, useful, and insightful discussion and commentary.

I understand where SO are coming from in having such a rigid definition of "answerable", and it's their site and they can run it however they see fit. But I see no reason to maintain, in the broader sense, that a Q&A site can't adopt a different position, which recognizes that the value of many questions is not in finding one, and one one, unique, correct, and objectively verifiable answer, but is rather in the discussion itself.

So I guess what I'm saying is... SO has it's place, but a similar site that uses a different model also has it's place. IOW, the SO model is not the one and only valid model for a technical Q&A site.
While reading this I couldn't help but think that the primary motivation for inventors, decade upon decade, century upon century, has been to devise machines and tools to keep us from going outside and being among fellow humans.

Air-conditioning: A new invention so you don't have to sleep with your neighbors in the grass at the park across the street when it gets hot.

Something inside me greatly desires a life like that. Where we aren't afraid of the people around us. Where it would be totally acceptable to throw a blanket on the ground at the park with my neighbors and enjoy some cool night air while we all get some rest. Today, I think we'd all get arrested, or ticketed.

While it sounds miserable to be without A/C, it can be argued that we are even more miserable now because we have it.
Should have used <= instead of <

Best of luck
Coming from the UK, where we had a long history of car bombs (and even bicycle bombs) I can understand this.

However, I'd expect the TSA guys to be able to report a cause for why they searched a vehicle (EG low on axles suggesting carrying a large weight, alerted a sniffer dog, etc) and not just search all cars.
It's not up to me to explain the events around 9/11. It's enough to know that the government and the media lied their asses off about it and are continuing to do so in order to prosecute a bullshit "war".

The official story is an obvious lie.
What's worrying is that it always strikes me as the Roman Empire in the last days of the Republic. Vast sums being spent to buy elections, a powerful few getting very rich off wars and the government grinding to a halt, unable to deal with the problems facing the nation.

Just before Caesar came along and get into a fight with the Senate. Congress' approval ratings are so low it really wouldn't take much for a powerful populist movement to challenge the constitutional makeup.
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The Queensland experiment was mentioned in the article. The GP is confusing because it insinuates that something wasn't mentioned which should have been.
I'm not sure how that's "basically free". If the nursery fills up, even if the objects are dead, it will still require a root set scan and copy/compact of the live objects. That's not basically free, that can be quite expensive.
IMAP can be seen as a superset of POP (in terms of features). Tools like offlineimap prove it.

Other than that. I'm a bit shocked to read what I read in this thread. People who would want Gmail to support fetching emails from other mailboxes via IMAP rather than just POP3. I mean, it's only been a day or two since "PRISM" is not mentioned on the front page. I don't know who said that, but I read in a comment on HN that HN users and geeks in general will change their behavior because of Snowden's revelations, but that it will not affect the general public once the story will have cooled down, in a few weeks. Sadly, we have a proof here that HNers are just the same.
Some comments about being a software engineer on an ALPR system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5962872
Maildir w/ git for syncing across computers. Robust and fast as hell.
The logical step following spying is influencing politics:

> By the 1970s, the Stasi had decided that methods of overt persecution which had been employed up to that time, such as arrest and torture, were too crude and obvious. It was realised that psychological harassment was far less likely to be recognised for what it was, so its victims, and their supporters, were less likely to be provoked into active resistance, given that they would often not be aware of the source of their problems, or even its exact nature. Zersetzung was designed to side-track and "switch off" perceived enemies so that they would lose the will to continue any "inappropriate" activities.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung
I wish I can say the same energy, engineer, and infrastructure related comment about Puerto Rico.
How were we supposed to get pissed off at 19 theology students from Saudi Arabia unless they flew planes into buildings so we could invade Afghanistan and Iraq?
Isn't it the exact same thing? I thought the idea was the this library was a collection of other ideas.
I don't know whether I should care (+ or -) that I've only once had a recruiter contact me. I don't mind the contact, but it seems like it would be tiresome to deal with frequent contact from multiple sources. I suppose it could also be an ego boost as well.