skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You could swap any other Democrat for her and any Republican for him (though any actual Republican would differ much more from Trump than any other Democrat would differ from Clinton), and the underlying issues would be the same. The individual candidates are virtually a facade, a distraction from the real issues at stake."

I agree real issues are at stake. A lot of them local, like prop 61 in California. Pharmacutical companies dread this prop passing.

Trump is no Rebublican I can recall.

He's for tarriffs? He's against Globalization.(that little thing that lets your bosses build their stuff in the cheapest, most corrupt country.)

He is so far from being a true Republican; Rebublican voters are voting for Hillary. They don't want anyone touching their cheap labor. Apple must be a bit scared?

One of the problems with Trump is I just don't trust the guy. I don't trust him on any level. As to the issues, he must know by now can't just raise Tarriffs; without congressional approval, and breaking a bunch of legal trade agreements?

So, I feel, he's running just to run at this point. I don't trust her either.

I do have a feeling he will win though. Just a weird feeling. I don't feel voters would admit to pollsters they might vote for the guy.

On the bright side, if he screws up too bad, he could be impeached, or worse.
How about the speed of the compiler? Last I used Scala, that was the deal breaker for me.
If this is the case (and I think it is), then what is the underlying motive? It seems to me that if things are coming to a head like this it's because there is an underlying Issue (capital-I) that is also coming to a head or will be soon. I get a sense of near desperation from some of this.

My totally off the cuff hypothesis:

We are approaching a tipping point where new energy technologies (solar+batteries, etc.) will get cheap enough to "go exponential" vs. fossil fuels. This has huge geopolitical implications.

A more or less permanent crash in fossil fuel prices could completely realign the world. The biggest winners would probably be the USA, EU, and China since these are net energy importers and have economies based on high tech, manufacturing, finance, and services. The biggest losers would be Russia and the Middle Eastern petro-states, but certain regions within the USA and Canada would also lose substantially vs. others. More importantly you'd have a major crash in the value of certain corporations vs. others. Apple being briefly worth more than Exxon Mobil is perhaps a preview.

I've heard the view before that WWI and WWII were really about dominance of the emerging petroleum age. If that age is now ending, what happens next? WWIII?

Edit: Second hypothesis:

The world economy is about to crash again hard, and when that happens there will be a great window to enact all kinds of changes. Various parties are struggling to make sure they are in power for that window.
To answer these questions for you: mainframes are perfect for transactional workflows. Wait but you haven't told me what a transaction is!!!

So... by a transactional workflow, typically it's going to be some workflow where you get a request, perform some operations on a database, and then sometimes return a response. This can be a withdrawal from an ATM, a trade received by a broker, a new user registering on a website, etc.

Mainframes have CPUs and hardware designed to accelerate and make these transactions more robust over commodity hardware. An example is with hardware compression and robust transactional memory when using DB2. It's not uncommon to see mainframes with decades of uptime. You just don't get that with commodity hardware.

Mainframes are cheap when you really do have simple transactional workflows like this at massive scale. Financial institutions are an obvious choice as a result. Since they're so reliable and you're dealing with a simple node, the cost savings can be significant.
Yes. Or have a recorded talk, or a blog, or something so that they can judge you.

Really I was also about ready to smash them over the head with that requirement, but reading that part does make it seem pretty reasonable.
Vimtutor was all it took to get me both hooked and proficient enough to not feel hopeless. That said, I get why it's not the same for everyone.
To suggest that Trump has 'very limited' political experience when he's been rubbing shoulders with the country's political elites for a few decades is simply disingenuous.

> Who said anything about "forgiving" him? ... I expect more from my politicians.

gotchange's point is that some people give Trump a lower bar of expectations because he's an 'outsider' or 'new at this' - that difference in expectations is forgiving him to a certain degree. Like a handicap at sport.

gotchange's whole point is about expecting more from politicians, and asking why the expectations are lowered on the Trump side.
In a lot of schools, a CS degree can be a barrier. Many people change majors or wash out due to the rigor of a CS degree.
I think the point of the article is questioning when to make that investment. If you're Verizon and Sandy destroyed your copper, sure, go ahead and replace it with fiber. If you're a cable company with a network that currently works fine, fiber mania is a waste of money today. There's some benefit in delaying since the routers needed to light that fiber will be somewhat cheaper in the future.

Also, Sandstorm runs much better in a datacenter than in your home.
CVE-2016-6187: Exploiting Linux kernel heap off-by-one
> Anyway, proprietary software dominates in terms of longevity and profit.

Profit? Sure.

Longevity? Not even close.

Things like the Spice3 circuit simulator and the Magic VLSI editor can continue to exist and run 30+ years later solely because they are open source.
This sentiment, while important to remember if you ARE a perfectionist, also sounds like a really slippery slope similar to something like eating right. "Well if I just eat when I'm hungry" you'll find you're frequently "hungry" if you're a certain type of person. That said, if you're a certain type of person, "not being a perfectionist" could be a great avenue for never pulling yourself out of your slump.

"I messed up at school" Well, I'm not a perfectionist so that's fine I'll just keep at the same pace. TURNS OUT, that pace wasn't so useful. "I am failing Chemistry" OH WELL. I'm not a perfectionist so it doesn't matter.

You can see how this can be a problem as a mantra to a certain type of person.
The problem with these smaller groups is you have no proof you did anything there and were any good. I got rejected to PyCon one year for this very reason - and I have tons of experience speaking at smaller conferences.

(Note: The reason is not speculation as they tell you in a rejection email.)
If he were guilty, and if Clinton were the champion of feminism that she says she is, then why wouldn't they press charges?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi :)
I was raised the oppossing camp. The effects: psyche to fix, loneliness and I still have to work in warehouses.
A different approach to Google Analytics for Drupal 8
Next they are planning to audit OpenVPN and then OpenSSL (according to today's AMA[0] answers on Reddit).

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/57yfla/veracrypt_h...
How come I'm not afraid?
Right, and if we were talking about people with Hillary's or Robert Byrd's record then I would decide that they weren't racist.

Hillary's record has shown a strong commitment to civil rights activism. Robert Byrd did do some horrible things, but he changed and apologized. The NAACP actually honored him after his death. Supporting the the KKK would prevent me from voting for any politician. But Robert Byrd actually changed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/0...
http://thegrio.com/2010/06/28/the-evolution-of-robert-byrds-...

Whereas Trump has a history of racism. There have been accusations going back years, and his public statements support those accusations. He accused a federal judge of not being able to be impartial because the judge was Mexican. And David Duke is still a leading white nationalist, and said that voting against Trump is treason to your heritage.

People can change, but you can't claim they have changed if they've ignored what they did in the past and have not done anything different.

Do you think that Hillary is just as racist as Trump?
And are you voting for Trump because you actually want him as president, or because you think Hillary's worse?
The whole Oracle v Google case ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google.... ) is about an API (distinct from executable code).
CtPaint, the simple paint software missing from the internet
It is not worth trying to put the blame on Assange here, no matter if and in that case what sort of personality (disorder) he has. The simple fact is that the Swedish justice department acted in very strange ways in this case. I can not find blame for the first round of the case, he'd been accused of rape and those accusations need to be taken seriously. The accusations were investigated after which the prosecutor decided there was no case. This would and should have been the end, were it not that a new prosecutor (Marianne Ny) took up the investigation again and decided to prosecute, lack of case notwithstanding. She refused to hear him in the UK, refused to hear him in Sweden with a guarantee not to be extradited to the US. She refused and waited and drew out the case for such a long time that most of the charges went past the statute of limitations. The details of the case have been discussed far and wide [1] so there is no need to dig into them here, if you're interested just read a few sources (preferably from all sides of the political spectrum to get something resembling the truth).

[1] https://www.google.se/search?q=assange+rape+case
If there's a warrant for your arrest, and law enforcement knows that you're in a location, do they a) wait for your departure of the location (when they can't, as in the case of an embassy, obtain a warrant to forcibly enter), or b) shrug their shoulders and wander off, and say "I guess you beat us this time", a la crossing the County line in the Dukes of Hazzard?

Now, I will absolutely grant you that the amount of manpower and money spent on such monitoring is ridiculous.

But to act as though the government is imprisoning him against his will by attempting to enforce a legal warrant is ... disingenuous.
Usually, students don't really need IDEs or source control in order to learn the basics. They write short programs that require more thinking than typing/editing.

It's only for bigger projects that they start to be useful, and when students reach that stage, they don't have any problem to use them. Actually, IDEs can be problematic for beginners as they may hide things you'd like the students to learn (e.g. compiling from the command line).
Update: I've been using this for a couple of days now. It has proved quite useful. For all those who keep swaying to google news or hackernews instead of doing work, this may save your time a bit.
According to http://www.frontierim.com/files/file/download/id/1220 the top 20 US Endowment funds allocate their assets like:

Private Equity 19%
Domestic Equity 13%
Global Equity 8%
Emerging Equity 8%
Global Bonds 9%
Global Real Estate 10%
Commodities/Natural Resources 8%
Hedge Funds/Managed Futures 21%
Cash 4%
It happened twice, both in the first century of US independence; whole there have been subsequent realignments, the identity of the two nationally-competitive parties have been stable for more than a century and a half. It's not implausible that the basic factors which promoted the relative fluidity of the party system in the early Republic are gone. (Direct election of senators and the near universal norm of assigning Presidential electors based on public elections both are factors which make the national parties more responsive to changes in the mood of the electorate, which reduces the risk of either being replaced.)
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the guidelines. Profanity is not against the rules, but we do ask that commenters post civilly and substantively and this account has done neither.
This is asinine. It was one Clinton who signed DOMA, not Clintons (plural). 224 Republican members of the House of Representatives voted in favor of it, compared to 118 Democrats. 1 Republican voted against it, compared to 65 Democrats. In the Senate 53 Republicans voted for it, none voted against; 32 Democrats voted for it, 14 voted against it.

So you have a slightly moving, changing Democrat party; and complete bigotry then and still now in the Republican party. Yet you stopped being a Democrat based on this vote? That's fine, but it's completely absurd.

Democrats are the conservative party, and have always had to be dragged kicking and screaming to get anything progressive done in all of history. It does not make sense you'd use DOMA as the point in time to switch to the crazy party. You know, the bat shit insane where it's OK to "get away" with gawking at girls getting dressed in the changing room, but it's perverse for a female identifying transgender to take a piss in the women's bathroom - something that's been happening for a very long time without anyone giving two shits until Republicans got a fucking clue it was happening.
Overview of Scala 2.11
> Most template tools made the major mistake of existing.

haha, harsh. I don't disagree but there are cases where they make sense (pure, designer focused, flows for example). But anywhere where a dev will be involved generally a template language is solving the wrong problem.

JSX is quite an elegant solution to the issue: provide abstraction, but allow underlying logic to be in the same language.
Yes. They rely on the metal binder to provide some help here.

But ceramic still wouldn't work.

(at least what we are talking about here. In theory, cemented carbide can be a ceramic, depending on the exact terminology used).
> That is very hard to do.

Yes it is.

But once you start making serious changes to the source-code, it's probably less painful than trying to deal with all the merge conflicts from your own fixes every time you upgrade to a new version. At some point it's just easier to push all of that stuff to the common version.
Most definitely you can write good code in soho like anything it is a language which you are free to write in however you like.

However Php allows for really sloppy code (not failing on index misses, undefined variables still running, each core part of the language handling errors completely differently) which unfortunately often gets pushed out when not ready because of business pressures. This often creates insurmountable technical debt later on. The amount of confuaing, messy code I've seen in PHP that would not even run on other languages is shocking.
The fact it has a super easy initial learning curve but progressively harder is not a benefit on big apps it just hides how many headaches it will cause you later trying to figure out the inconsistent core library once you are trying to do more than hack WordPress templates together
Little anecdote time.

Once upon a time I was writing a little terminal-based text editor (fun experience), and wanted to handle some additional keys for editing capabilities:

- Arrows Keyps (up, down, left, right)
- Delete Key
- Backspace Key
- Page-Up/Down

I do not remember the other special keys, but the point is that events for these keys are provided to your terminal using escape sequences (just run $ infocmp). In particular I did not want to use curses, so I parsed the raw escape sequences to find out the keys pressed. This worked reasonably (if you are OK to only support a subset of terminals), but was incredible more complicated than I thought, as there are subtle differences between xterm, linux-console, urxvt, minix, etc.

Running a terminal under X, as I understand the path of key events (on Linux) is a little bit like that:

0. User-Key-Press
1. Some-Magic
2. Keyboard-Interrupt
3. Keyboard-Driver
4. Linux-Input-System (see /usr/include/linux/input-event-codes.h)
5. x11-event
6. xterm-terminal-emulator
7. escape-encoded event at e.g. /dev/pts/{n}.

The escape sequence events at the end are harder to parse than the intermediate Linux input events.

The funny thing is, that the Linux input system knows exactly what key you pressed and exposes a fantastic API (/usr/include/linux/input.h), but it is actually harder to find out reliable for user-space applications. E.g. I built some basic mouse support (for positioning) for the editor, and this use case is actually not supported; Although it is possible to activate mouse support in your terminal (this might be xterm specific), this does not work across terminals (and is limited AFAIK to 255 rows/cols).

So I built a prototype using /dev/input/{...} (it's part of the Linux input system) and it was a breeze and just worked. This is obviously system wide, requires root privileges and ignores your WM, but from a dev point of view it was absolutely the best system to work with (both for keys and for mouse). In the end I went back to parsing escape sequences (a text editor should be usable by non-root users obviously), but it was an interesting experience (the abstraction making the API worse).

/edit:

Although this was just for fun and more of a learning experience, I wondered what is the best way to handle mouse in a terminal, and sadly concluded that there just is no sane way across terminals (at least you want to support xterm, urxvt, st and linux), as far as I understand. If somebody knows how to solve this issue (mouse-support across the mentioned terminals), I would be glad to hear or know what has to be done. In a perfect world I would like to have /dev/input local to my window - that sounds like a sane ... plan?
I think everyone needs time to unwind, the difference comes down to attitude, strategies for dealing with social situations and practice so it becomes muscle memory and therefore less tiring. I know for me I didn't get the best experiences socialising when growing up. Then I went out clubbing nearly every weekend and become much better. Now I'm married and I've fallen back into old habits I don't deal with new social situations so well any more.
The reason that donors are required to list their employer on the donation form is because of how much influence that employer has on the employee/donor.

You may note that I said to avoid voting for candidates with a LARGE amount of contribution from Google. Because this isn't about $250, but, for instance, about the $58,000 Googlers have given to Ro Khanna, which pretty much ensures Ro would never vote against Google's interests if elected.
I have to disagree on this one. Installing a mainstream Linux distro is really easy these days, far easier than installing Windows. With Windows, you have to go hunting around for device drivers for anything that's not included on the stock Windows install disc, you have to reboot lots of times during the install, it takes a long time, and that's just for the bare-bones OS: installing extra software means running around and downloading stuff (or using install discs--how quaint), running lots of "installers" and rebooting many more times. With Linux, I can have a fully-functional system, complete with lots of software, within 20-30 minutes and just one reboot.

Saying that installing Linux is "just as easy as Windows" is like saying "moving a mountain of dirt with a bulldozer or earthmover is just as easy as doing it by hand with a shovel".
Competitive programming: a new era of eSports
They asked Trump who asked Bill Gates to "close up the internet".
Yes there is something to see here: Google doesn't provide a way to reach the original site from the version they serve from their CDN.
The article doesn't say whether he tried turning it off and then turning it on again...
Chattanooga's fiber network also has low ping times. That's something that matters to someone like me who uses SSH.
Why not 325? Or 350? Or 400?
The thing is the "old" software hasn't stood still for 40 years. It's like jazz. Most jazz fans don't spend their time listening to early 1920s jazz but modern forms that evolved from it.
You know, there's this thing called "Google".
The US is not a region. US East (Northern Virginia) is one region, and US East (Ohio) is another region. There are also other US regions, like US West (Oregon) and US West (Northern California).
Hypocrisy of Jefferson's personal conduct doesn't change the validity (or lack thereof) of the logical arguments he made in his writings. If they held to rational scrutiny before, they still do after.
Modern for the sake of modern isn't needed for a good app.

Especially a web app.

Stability, availability of developers, and ease of debugging however are important. PHP has those. Granted it's not the only one, and I think there are better alternatives, but it's really easy to write a good app in PHP.

Bad coding practices and bad application design will make ANY app have bad code. PHP just historically had a lot of that.
True, but presidents (on average) get a remarkable percentage of their policies passed in some form. Maybe you don't support 90% of what Donald or Hillary say, but you have to be careful: it's almost guaranteed that at least something of that 90% is going to happen.

Also, there are varying degrees of agree-ability. I do not agree with many of Hillary's policies, but there aren't any that I would take a firm stance against. Most of Donald's policies are different: I don't agree with them, and I believe it'd be awful if they were to actually happen.
The distinction being made isn't valid vs invalid, but rather perspective vs opinion. An incorrect opinion does not invalidate the perspective that helped form it, and the perspective is still worth understanding if you want an actual solution to a problem instead of just the self-righteous satisfaction of being right.
There is an angle on every Trump story, because there have to be an angle - journalism is about angles. There is no reporting of mere facts.

The current angle is that Trump is a bad guy, and you just have to look at the photos of him to get the angle - 99% of him making a weird face.

It does not make the story false, but there is an angle.
"If we found bug x, y and z will necessarily be found, therefore VeraCrypt is insecure."

That's the argument being made implicitly, and the argument you're reiterating.

Saying, "Who knows if there are more bugs?" is a useless statement, you simply can't do anything with it. That's the nature of bugs, if you can't identify or find them, you can't claim they exist.

100 bugs in software B does not imply the 101st bug, is my point. There's no such thing as a bug "hit rate".
If you think Hillary is not dangerous you are either clueless about everyday politics or part of her campaign.

But I guess who can use the toilet where is more important than spying on people, taking away their freedom, being habitual liar and hypocrite by taking money from the people who are supposed to be everything you believe in against.

How is Trump any worse? He is just smart enough to think what he's saying, all in all they would make a great team with Hillary.
Clojure is great, but the more natural progression is from Java to Scala, not to Clojure, if only because you can program in Scala as if it were Java++. You won't write the best Scala, but it will work and you can look at it as "Java with weird syntax".

Going from Java to Clojure requires a major mental shift :)
It didnt worked in my case. I stayed with last version of TrueCrypt..
ASM 6 update 2 (jigsaw / java 9)