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I do not believe Trump is significantly more intolerant than HRC or any other likely presidential candidate, he simply focuses his rhetoric on populist ire across all of his positions. It's the only trick he knows so he does it again and again.

Additionally, HRC has in the past advocated a nearly identical "wall" policy but used softer rhetoric:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUAdAYFbIc

GOP candidates for several elections have said much the same stuff Trump is saying only with a rhetorical style more like HRC's. Trump borrows economic populism (and its racist undertones) from the rust belt rhetoric of democrats.

> If you don't believe Trump's intolerance poses a real threat

This is not my belief. I believe both Trump's and HRC's intolerance both pose a major threat. I also believe that the trend toward unabashed executive power is the biggest threat to stability. HRC and Trump both show a similar chance of abusing this, and fortunately congress would be more vigilant about preventing Trump from abusing it, since he has not spent years aligning interest groups in preparation for his day in power.

I could not vote for either of the two major party candidates, my position is not to defend Trump but to apply some of the same criticisms to HRC which seemingly exist in the blind spot of Altman, Graham, and other HRC supporters.
None of that is wrong but I still know far more people who have lost data because their home computer failed or was compromised. I wish cloud providers had a legal requirement to export data too, but it's not like people want to leave the old status quo because it was working too well.
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I don't think that a person, president or not, is to play a crucial role. Society has a dynamic in which a president is only a mirror for you to watch yourself.
Perhaps the mirror show you something that you don't want to see and you can try to clean it or hide it, but that mirror just show how society is for real. I sincerely and literaly think that we should get used to watch candidates for presidency to be nuked in tv, as in a big brother show, no more secrets allowed. We should see clearly and understand deeply that we are just human animals and nothing more.
A candidate for presidency should be able to show some kind of humor, witful ideas, clear thinking, some catastrophic behaviour and be able to inspire some trust. I believe that nothing more can be expected.

For those looking forward for a better future, the challenge is not in choosing your president, but in becoming your best friend.

Any of you can be the best president, I am sure of it, just awake, get up in the morning and see yourself in the mirror for real.

Edited for clarity of mind.
Do you trust yourself to store things safely without data loss (even in the face of theft, house fires and natural disasters) more than the multi-level redundancy employed in the cloud?

Is data loss less important to you than possible leakage of your photographs?

These are the tradeoffs the GP made choices in.
> I mean seriously pretty much everything is cloud hosted now days

You're really OK with cloud hosting? Why? Do you have a quota? I do. 2GB a month.

> 64-128GB is not enough

No? Not really? Not when some apps think it's OK to be 10s to 100s of MB in size? Not when I care around detailed off-line maps of a majority of the US. Not when I care around a a good portion of wikipedia offline. Not when I use my phone as an impromptu camera. Not when I want to carry around a large variety of music so that I can listen to what when I'm in the mood.

I mean 128GB is getting there, but it would be nice to be able to expand that, or start with a budget phone and expand it. Or, be able to swap cards if I'm on a long trip with various documents on one or the other.
Already discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12734332

Edit: and maybe, based on what formula1 noted, the OP uses HN to get the "homework answers" for him?
And considering that many of these Pixels are going straight to the Fi network...I'd rather keep media on the device than pay $10/gb to retrieve it.
No way CSLA.NET is "awesome" by any measure. See [1], for example

1: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10922373/60188
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Wasn't that the exact reason many developers cancelled Oculus Rift support unless Facebook severed ties with Palmer Luckey?
Growing plants for fuel by itself is not a problem. Core issue is that the collective intelligence of us as species does not appear to be higher than yeast.
If you're well educated. If you're not then you'll find yourself working much harder in Canada to stay afloat than in Europe.
USA problems are well known for decades now

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

A glowing example of how a huge economy can also be a terrible economy . That 25% is only the tip of the iceberg.

If Russia is the fall of communism , USA is the fall of capitalism. Two extremely stupid economic and political models.

Is it a coincidence that both countries have the most rich in the world and a terrible track record on wealth and income equality, workers and human rights ?

Nope
How about you go fuck yourself, your pixel and your iphone? jesus. What is up with all this gizmo competitions for gadgets that are BARELY an incremental improvement on something that has existed for a decade now?! This fanboy bullcrap is really rendering an entire industry into nothing but hype-driven clusterfuck that benefits only those who sell these devices while we, the consumers, get the same re-packaged trash for double the price each year...

Come back to me when you have a phone that can do something new and useful!
pcbcart.com has always been my choice for chinese PCBs. They have really good capabilities compared to budget board houses.
Project Atomic (mentioned at the bottom of the OP) looks super-handy.
https://taplink.co/technology/
For a humorous yet insightful comparison between life in and outside the US I recommend watching Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next.
US tourist travel to much of Europe was down this summer [1] with the drop attributed to the terrorist attacks. Anecdotally, tourist travel in areas of the Northeast US was up considerably (double digits) this summer. I'm sure there are a number of reasons for this--low gas prices but not especially cheap airfares, the general air travel experience, etc.--but reluctance to visit Europe (in spite of a strong dollar) does seem to be real based on conversations with a number of restaurant owners for example.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/terror-attacks-weigh-on-europes-...
The question is if it's appropriate to post paywalled links on a public news aggregator. Do we want to foster a culture of paying to view the links you see on HN? I don't.
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You get the same properties with a basic proof of work scheme. The difficulty would be to make g memory hard and f not memory hard.
"Here is a list of the 10 thoughts I kept in my head, after throwing all the others out."
It's a nice sentiment, but the products/sites/apps that aim to suck our attention are designed to exploit human weaknesses via dopamine release, variable reward etc. (see the book Hooked), making it exceedingly difficult and potentially expending your finite store of willpower on things you could much more easily avoid altogether.

Personally, cultivating the self-control to avoid checking facebook.com is less interesting to me than editing my hosts files to block it, and using my willpower for more rewarding tasks (exercise, learning piano etc.)

With that, I'm turning my block back on HN :)
I'm a little lost. How is the bigotry and misogyny of someone with a very real chance to be elected President of the United States and Command in Chief of the world's largest military force not a political issue?
ORCONF 2016 talks on RISC-V
pictures? music?

not everyone wants to pay hundreds of dollars to host stuff someplace else, wait for it to sync, run the risk of being lost/destroyed, and paying even more if/when data caps are broken (or paying even more for 'unlimited' data).
Speaking of Smalltalk an alternative is to run Squeak and/or one if its subprojects: EToys, Scratch.

I haven't tried them in a while but they are designed for kids to explore and have high ceilings.

Scratch particularly looks pretty cool.
I've never understood this complaint. JS is used everywhere from browsers to servers to native apps to IoT. Does there really need to be One True Framework/Linter/Build tool/etc?Is it really that big a problem that people have made a lot of different tools and libraries because they're solving a lot of different problems?
Lots of people like Chinese products, WeChat and Tencent's QQ are very popular in Asean countries like Singapore and Malaysia. Weibo is also very much used by people outside of China to get updates from celebrities on the platform. The usage don't come close to FB, of course(but who does?), and these people also do use Facebook and Twitter, but they also use these Chinese products because they serve a different need for them, not because they want a "Facebook/Twitter, but made in China". I myself tried these app to keep in touch with friends who use them, but never really got into them, but I can tell you that the internet look very different once you get out of the western-world-centric internet.

So, yeah, I would say they would use it.
Sure, me too, but do you really compare emacs to online photo sharing and map making and collaboration services, and say that the software distribution model of emacs is somehow going to work for Panoramio or other existing cloud services?

Most regular non-technical computer users can't use the software distribution model of emacs for local applications. Hell, I'd probably be safe saying most programmers can't do it either, let alone use emacs.
I've said it many times, but we are not truly a nation of the people if the people don't know everything the government is doing.
First hit on Google:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility

Graph down the bottom.
is this a call for censorship, exclusion, and ostracism on the basis of political preferences? shame on the author.
This talk is from BlackHat USA 2016.

Slides for the presentation: https://github.com/ionescu007/lxss/blob/master/The%20Linux%2...
More often than not it is because a promotion seems to be available, roughly equivalent to a carrot on a stick in front of a donkey.
If you're in management (defined as having authority to hire/fire IIRC) you're exempt from the law, same if you're self-employed.

For a regular programming job, I believe the the law applies (no more than 10h/day and (8h/weekday average over 6 months). Practically, it only matters if somebody cares about it which only happens systematically on larger companies with a union presence.

But: you're responsible for your employees and they can not waive this right. If you regularly tolerate it, you may run the risk of someone changing his mind after a few years and getting you into trouble, trouble being up to 15000 Euro in penalties and (theoretically) a year in prison if someone was harmed.
You can have two jobs if you want to. They won't stop you from that.
I have never heard him claim to speak for Silicon Valley.

The question becomes then, what do you consider your line. Is this about his outsized financial support? What if he gave his RNC speech and only donated $10,000?
I'm under the impression that the Litecoin creators thought that scrypt would prevent ASIC miners, but they still wanted to be able to GPU mine, so they used low difficulty parameters. Which of course led to ASIC miners being implemented. Then Dogecoin just copied Litecoin directly.
I wasn't aware that there was a boycott of Oculus over Palmer Luckey, but man, that's heartening to hear. I have to admit that I would not have picked "political integrity" over "access to VR toys" in that particular sparring match. Good for those developers!

Boycotts are a form of speech. The right to criticize is inalienable.
No, moderators have not penalized this or other Thiel stories. Users flagged this one before we could override them, but the discussion is now taking place here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733024.
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As a relatively healthy young adult I'm actually a huge fan of those plans - I'd rather bank the money I would normally spend on an unused premiums into an HSA for later use. I completely recognize this is not ideal for many (most?) people and support single-payer healthcare.
Photos, videos, maps, and other data, all accessible while not online as in some places being reliably online with a fast enough link is expensive or completely impossible.

You could carry a laptop to archive the data off to I suppose, but that makes the arrangement a lot less conveniently portable if you didn't already have to cart that with you for other reasons.
Yeah - we used to have a few of those unfortunate events reported every year when I was growing up in Wyoming. Sometimes even when it wasn't cold (dehydration is a thing, apparently). As young kids, we didn't know anything about anything, and always wondered, "why didn't they walk in a straight line? they were never more than 75 miles away from help."
So it's ok supporting Hillary even though she is largely responsible for huge parts of US foreign policy having sacrificed hundreds of thousands of innocent people as collateral damage for a bigger political goal.

Yet somehow the very words of Trump is immoral.

I guess I just don't get it.
> We often think, If I'm blatantly angry, they'll understand that I'm unhappy with the situation.

I think he misses the mark with this idea. People don't strategically get angry. Nobody chooses anger in advance as a means to influence change or broadcast a dislike.

Anger is immediate, real-time. Precisely why it's so difficult to control. As we get older, we learn to moderate and channel this energy rather than letting the fire hose spray in all directions.

My thoughts on anger are this: don't suppress it or ignore it. Acknowledge it, then do your best to channel it. If that means firmly telling John what you think of his company's service in no uncertain terms - without being rude - then this is a good outcome. Even use an elevated tone. Such tones are useful, we have them in reserve for when an injustice happens. Nothing wrong with that. John can handle it, he's not a precious flower ready to crumble because of an unhappy client.

Feedback is important. Let's not aim for a world where everything is a "thumbs up".

Being extra nice to "John" for the sake of "not being angry" is counter-productive and doesn't help anyone.
I have over 1 TB of music, and on my current HTC One M9, I keep a 128GB SD card in it, onto which I've thrown about 90 gigs of my most listened to music. It's still not quite enough for everything I'd like to have in there, but I just bought a 200 GB card that was on sale yesterday, so that should help.

Photos would be another reason. Particularly since Google has been ranting about how high quality their camera is.
The conclusion that a drop in readership is proof that moving to the web was a mistake is extraordinarily shallow.

"Readers continue to leave print newspapers, but they’re not migrating to the online editions."

Because they have more options.

Print products were often monopolies, especially in the early to mid 90s, a hey day for newspapers. There was often a single publication per DMA.

What happened then is newspaper readers increasingly became web users throughout the 90s and 00s and left the print product. In 2000, if you wanted semi-local or regional news on the web, you went to ... your newspaper web site! In 2016, you have a plethora of choices, many of them unsaddled by the constraints of a typical newspaper organizational structure (for better or worse). So you have web sites and publications producing/sharing/clickbaiting 10x the content than your local newspaper does. This leads to a spreading of readership.

What's happened is a diaspora. Sticking with the print product over the web would not have prevented this. It may have slowed the decline of print circulation, but I have serious doubts about that. The challenge newspapers have is competing with decidedly non-journalistic approaches to news; ones that give readers what they want even if it isn't done "right." Competing with platforms and sites that can churn out "content" at an unfettered rate means fundamentally changing what a newspaper does.

There's no easy answer - newspapers can accept that people will largely go to other sites to get less reliable information faster, or that their content will be repurposed on other platforms without any compensation. That will likely mean a slow constriction or demise. Alternately, they can compete in that space, which a lot are doing now. That means sacrificing the ideals of journalism.
My last non-banking contract rate was 750/day in London. It depends a lot based on whether or not you have experience from any "hot" niches, and also depends greatly on whether or not you develop relationships direct with clients or go via an agency.

E.g. direct with clients it's perfectly possible to get contracts at 1k/day+ in London for relatively normal development jobs outside of banking once you have relationships with the right companies and you approach them as a consultancy rather than presenting yourself as an individual developer.
Yes, but those high deductible plans have significantly lower premiums. They are usually a better deal than the copay plans, where you pay a lot more in premiums even if you never see a doctor.
This is true. I'm already working remotely as a freelancer, so I wish it was as easy as just moving to Italy. Unfortunately you can't do that if you're not employed by a company, or have a ton of money to invest.

I just found this startup visa, though: http://italiastartupvisa.mise.gov.it/#direct-application-sec...

I think I might actually look into this.
Gizmodo's quality was never great but recently it got worse. That's not the kind of title you'd expect from a review from a serious tech news site.
Aren't modern type 10 MicroSD cards plenty fast enough to serve up video? How much faster do they need to be, and what applications would require it?

I thought RAM (typically 2 or 4 gigs these days on most phones) is where the fast computation takes place, whereas the non volatile memory merely emulates disk storage.
Reddit is crowd-sourced for things like cat gifs and porn. For news, it's heavily curated by people with agendas and biases. It's as "fair and balanced" as Fox News.
This is part of a massive misunderstanding. Monarchy is not gone at all, it's a functioning power system, waiting for the day when it's time for a comeback. Similarly the catholic church. They just swap out the pope for a pro-gay one and otherwise just wait. These systems think in centuries.
I kinda block my facebook newsfeed via CSS, but just to be able to access chat without having to read the feed if I don't want to (remaining just one click away from toggling it back on). (you can also do that my typing an invalid url and setting it as your facebook bookmark, e.g. https://www.facebook.com/asdfgwhatever )
> There are friends and family with apple products that don't work well with a cheaper phone, such as the messaging system on iPhone.

Sorry can't sympathize with the iMessages problem. I can afford an iPhone quite easily as Android phones, but I choose to not. Find me on a cross platform communication app anytime.
It's not a naive assumption at all.

The US has some of the highest entrepreneurship rates in the world despite having a pretty weak government provided social safety net.

People would be far more likely to start a company if it didn't mean giving up their existing healthcare benefits and having to pay for it out of pocket.
I work long hours because if I didn't there's a line of people outside the door who will.
Only if the GDP is spread out equally. Income in-equality is a fine way to mask poverty in spite of a huge GDP.
We're in deep shit now.
Not sure why you (and I) got down-voted for valid criticisms. Maybe Rocky lurks on here? :)

CSLA.NET has a lot of really bad parts. I've had to maintain apps written in it and have felt the pain.

Who really changes from a 2-tier to 3-tier architecture anyway? I feel it was only ever popular because of the business objects book.
> This sounds less like people in Europe are "discouraged" from working, rather than many Americans must work longer because they can't retire.

Very few people retire at 20 or 40; I fail to see why in an era where people are starting to expect to live until their 80s they should stop working at 65. Is it not good for us all to have the contributions, knowledge & experience of those over 65 in the workplace?

Pension plans (public & private) were built decades ago, based on assumptions which no longer hold true; should they not be revisited?
That's fine. I mean, again: I would urge you to reconsider. But we otherwise don't have a live debate, I don't think.

I am not here to argue that people who oppose Hillary Clinton should change their minds (they should, though!). I'm here to urge Sam Altman, who does not agree with you, that his continued support for Peter Thiel is harming the goal he shares with me of preventing a Trump Presidency now, or in 2020.
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> "Pension discouraging people from working" is at least partially load of bullshit.

It discourages the people who need to be stay-at-home grandparents for health reasons from being forced to work. ;)

That is always the dog whistle with US articles.

The people who work more are being 'rewarded' and the people who don't work as hard or want to retire are 'moochers'.
Yeah - they're talking percentages: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-13/-i-ll-neve...

These complaints about the supposed incompetence and/or bias of today's journalism are really getting old, but thanks for highlighting how idiotic they sometimes are.
I'm not disputing any of this. But it really has nothing to do with the context of this thread...
Depends how much of your social life is tied to the evening and how much they expect you to be reachable. I worked for a Bay Area startup for two years from London. It was tiring at times, but I got into a habit of working a bit in the morning, taking a long break early afternoon and then working again late evenings, and it worked quite well, so it's possible.
I can compress my music collection down to mp3 and get almost all of it onto a 128GB SD card. It's nice to have.
I recently had to go through the process of "re-learning how to work." I didn't realize how bad I was at deep work, as the article references it as, until I quit my job and set out on my own full-time.

I found that I was replacing the normal interruptions of the office - meetings, email, phone calls, lunch; with getting distracted on social media, general reading, checking alerts, etc. It was like my brain was conditioned to expect a distraction and thus made me seek it out.

It took some effort, but making sure I am organized for the week has really helped as I know what I need to get done. Also, I've now been able to use my "distracted level" as a litmus test of how organized I am. I know when I'm not focused as much as I should, I need to spend some time on my planning.

edit: grammar
I think this argument does more harm than good. Repeating "Trump is a bad man!" ad nauseam and shaming people for supporting him only makes them feel like outsiders, and outsiders double down.
Have to say, I loved Dan Grossman's work teaching SML. Quite a few of those lecture videos had lightbulb moments for me.
Are your freelancing friends expats, or Italian citizens?
that's not correct, and he did address why it doesn't suck.
because it's not standardized.
some people do better with more complicated things, it's ok to need directions, not everyone does.