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The wordsmanship and joking about "real" immutability are in no way unfamiliar stuff to people in other languages, Ruby aside. In Java, it's the same deal, where maybe you can't change an object's fields, but it's fields' fields might be mutable. One layer deep, shallow freeze, shallow copy are actually pretty well understood concepts by "non-Haskellers", as well as the drawbacks and the need oftentimes for 100% deep guaranteed immutability--and the advantages and safety that brings. I think that the joke is that the label "immutability" in languages that don't support it from the ground up--unlike like Haskell--isn't really worthy of the name. But since we already dubbed them as immutable objects (even though they weren't really) you need some extra emphasis for true immutability...super immutable, seriously immutabile, really-really-immutabile, etc.
I've definitely been curious as to how much the sales would change if I had made it closed sourced.

However I'm happy to take the loss in sales to enable technical enough users to be able to mess with the source code & (hopefully) send some code back to the repo ;)
This is the case with just about every politician, the campaign staff essential becomes part of the administration. Remember that he only has 8 weeks to fill hundreds of jobs in his cabinet.
What is being "shove[d] down their throats" because my sister fell in love with a woman and wants to make a family with that person?

Stopping her from doing that is throat-shoving. Her freedom to make her life with a particular someone doesn't harm anybody. _You_ cannot disregard _her_ feelings.
There is no way for the public to confirm or deny this sentence.
i should have said automotive engineering
Thiel is an experienced, proven, intelligent, capable technologist and gay man. If there's someone better who didn't donate $1m fine, but it seems like Thiel would be qualified for his cabinet and we might want to give him a shot be condemning him.
"You just need a machine that prints out a human readable receipt..."

Why? Because marking a ballot is the challenge?

How about we simplify ballots?
Agreed, but it's the same tables they're using to say the price is going up, with the same flaws.
I've had it too -- perhaps not quite as bad as you. When I cut sugar back to about 20% of former consumption, things finally got back on track for me. Anecdotal, but maybe it'll help someone.
"Given the binary choice there may be multiple reasons to pick Trump over Clinton even if you disagree with him on a lot of issues."

If you're willing to see past the proud racism and misogyny, then sure. If you're willing to see past the blatant disregard for objective facts, then sure. I, for one, would vote for pretty much anyone else before supporting that.
The class hierarchy for exceptions is a library standardization concept in Python. Exceptions were rather haphazard in early Python, but got organized around Python 2.6-2.7. All exceptions descend from "Exception". Usually, though, you don't want to catch that. If you do, it's usually to log the error or report it someplace before aborting the program.

"EnvironmentError" includes most of the things that can go wrong external to the program; it subsumes OSError and IOerror and all the networking/HTTP errors. Modules which do I/O or network operations should catch EnvironmentError and do something about it. Your GUI program or web service shouldn't abort for an EnvironmentError. Code can and should catch more specific errors at lower levels, but a backup exception handler for EnvironmentError is useful for when something that "never" fails does fail.

I have a moderately large Python system which reads and processes arbitrary web pages, trying to rate web sites. Such a program sees all the things that can go wrong with networking, HTTP, and HTML. Functions in standard packages functions sometimes raise unexpected exceptions. None of those events are abort conditions; they have to be dealt with as ordinary problems. Some errors require "try again", some require "try again later", and some require "never try again". Errors log to the database, not a log file, and some are reported on the rating page for a site. The point of all this is to have a system which requires very little human attention. It's been several years since I had to deal with a system failure manually.
When there is no serious labor movement, and enforcement of labor laws is weak, employers can do practically anything they want.
I should have revised it to "many" fullstop. I just wanted to use a word that meant many people without making it sound something like, "informed sources say...". The point is many public figures and thinkers distrusted Trump's rhetoric.
> the $69 (13-inch model) or $79 (15-inch model) power adapter

I wonder why they have two separate adapters and couldn't make one for both. Seems to add a bit of fragmentation.
"This article criticizes Facebook for firing the human editors that had been keeping things sane."

Read your comment. Let's think. What you mean is, Facebook fired human editors, who they contracted out moderation to. They contracted this job out, and kept it on the down low, because it was a breach of their promise with users of their platform. "keeping things sane." What exactly does this comment mean? What you mean by that, I assume, is 'don't allow anything to trend that might upset the leftist 'social justice warriors.' In other words, keeping things sane, meant don't allow posts to trend, that contradict, or prove false, the beliefs of the people whose primary mechanism of accomplishing agenda, is to 'get triggered' or to freak out, cause a scene, cry foul. The primary class of posts that could have or as Facebook claims 'should have' been censored, were Wikileaks. The Wikileaks were DKIM verified, and of reliable source. They were however not in the best interest of the left. They helped Donald Trump win. They spread the word, that Hillary Clinton was lying about a plethora of different things. These "Social Justice Warriors' believe that the US, themselves, and Hillary herself deserve to be president. Their response to people posting anti-Hillary ads, memes, leaks, or posts, is to flame them. Attack them. So what you are claiming, is that Facebook should have done a better job, of keeping things sane; a better job of limiting contradictory ads, statements, and shares from Hillary's opponent or opposing voters. Facebook was extremely sane during the weeks leading to election. Any insanity before election day I assume, was people have arguments or conversations on each others posts, discussing who to vote for. Are you suggesting that we should have silenced these debates? Are you suggesting we should have blocked Trump ads? I pushed a lot of content on Twitter and Facebook, and the majority of it was generated by users on Reddit. I have a list of 75 top ten trending Hashtags, which were removed from twitter by moderators. They were removed from the trending list. The list of 75 hashtags, are entirely non-violent, non-harrassing, and simply brief descriptions of illegal or unsettling things that Hillary Clinton said or did during her time in office. They are summaries of quotes from Wikileaks emails. Are you telling me that removing those hash tags was simply a peace-keeping measure? Are you saying that this was not blatant censorship to push Twitter's own agenda?
The problem isn't going to be fixed any quicker than the time it takes for supply to be increased.
Nice selective quoting.
You have to realize Trump complained about the "rigged" Republican primary and then after he won he literally said it doesn't matter anymore because he won. Means to an end kind of guy.
Reminds me of the story of a young boxer from my gym. He eventually became very popular and gotten a World Kickboxing champion title. HE was very humble and trained at our gym all the time. There was this guy that challenged him few times over the span of his title and every time he endup KO the champion. So it was funny watching him being an undisputed champion on the TV, yet knowing he got beaten to KO few times by someone who hasn't been boxing professionally or did not make a career out of his box..
>Should we be doing a Manhattan project to get fusion powerplants?

All the evidence I see is that politicians are primarily concerned with enriching themselves and the people who financially support them. The moment America's position as a global leader comes is when this will happen, as long as the scientific community calls for it as they did with the atomic bomb. Right now, it appears the right incentives are not in place for politicians to put this forward, even if it is the right thing to do for the welfare of humanity and the long-term success of the US as a global leader--the politicians who could make this happen probably believe they will be dead by the time it would matter to them.
Maybe you aren't in an echo chamber. What about The people liking stories about Obama being born in Kenya? Or trump being endorsed by the pope? Removing blatantly false lies isn't censorship, it's literally the bare minimum they should do.
> I'd quite quickly realise either at interview or on hiring them that they're not actually capable of doing the job by themselves

Not sure. The whole idea of the test is to get around people that talk well vs do well.

And assuming the friend told them about how/why they did something the interviewee can talk about this solution as if they did it. How would you know? See I'm assuming the 'friend' adds value to the solution to make it amazing, and the person who is interviewing still has average knowledge so its not like they are completely winging it.

> are you just optimising for a problem that could potentially happen?

Absolutely. You should optimise for problems that could happen if they have reasonable likelihood and will become significant issues if they do happen. Not going to rule out all issues. Thought this seems a likely risk over a reasonable number of candidates.
Yeah, there's something contradictory about his obsession with Gawker outing him and his asserted openness about his orientation.

Actually, Thiel's full of contradictions. A professed libertarian celebrity hunting a media outlet over reporting too much information; someone claiming to be a defender of privacy founding a data mining company providing information to the government panopticon; a Stanford grad bemoaning the educational elite... do I need to go on?

Thiel strikes me as someone who heavily hedges their bets, and is probably conflicted with themselves.

I'm not surprised he supported Trump, really. I don't think it was about prescience as much as it was attraction to Trump's authoritarian, sensationalistic, prejudicial brand of quasilibertarianism. They're very similar in their political positions or outlooks -- Thiel is just shrewder, less crass, and probably more intelligent.
That's what they said about Japan in the 50s.
I imagine it's more that they don't care and SPI is simpler/cheaper than USB when you custom make your hardware.
Fine, it's not news, it's just a true story that deserves response and propagation. How about that?
Do you actually think that active duty service members would secede along with their home state? Or that the military would allow it?
It is almost like the moral here is that you should just grab'em by the pus*y. But first, make sure you have money and tell people what they want to hear, or else people will act all disgusted by you.
You can exclude the tax under certain ownership conditions even if it is not your primary residence. Tomāto tomăto.
Perhaps they were trying to stick to Obama's primary campaign promise of seeking bipartisan cooperation.
How is that an argument for charging renters $6000 a year?
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The irony is that the same network is now questioning how all the pollsters got it wrong... Frustrating.
It's implied by the use of the word "we" and the fact that he is a government employee.
It is. HN loves rich men with opinions.
Yes, keep making insulting sweeping statements and demonizing the other side. After all, that's worked so well for everybody involved.

God, this election really has brought out the worst in people. I'm sorry for your Aunt.
Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne (live 1968):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6wBBrTMEs

So long, Leonard.
Part of me was disappointed to find NXDOMAIN.
Except that to me racism is not a political view neither climate change.
pcunite - we've discussed in another thread, but the election was actually quite close. HRC had more of the popular vote, and a 1% shift from Trump to Clinton would have resulted in her victory.

Here's an excellent analysis from five-thirty-eight:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-difference-2-perc...
"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."

Wow. That is...troubling
I think you overestimate it. People who go into the military are more conservative than liberal, on average. They are more patriotic on average and on top of that they are part of the _federal_ government and take orders from them.

I don't see many, or any significant amount going rogue and having a mutiny to please the desires of elites in California they probably have little in common with. It's not like the military is made up of mostly elite-college educated graduates who argue over what makes a good grind for poured over coffee at what temperature and humidity, or what are really authentic sessos tacos.

They are also likely not into the virtue signaling game.
"Everybody Knows" is one of my favorite songs, just on grounds of its lyrical quality alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg
So, repeating my question: is it "guilt by association" to say that when someone openly and loudly makes the favored policies of racist xenophobes into a centerpiece of his campaign, he's going to end up getting the support and votes of racist xenophobes? Is it unfair to question why he chose to openly and loudly make those policies a centerpiece of his campaign? Is it unfair to ask whether he was courting the votes of the racist xenophobes?

If someone loudly campaigned on a promise of, say, amnesty for immigrants who have no criminal record or who were brought here as children, would you call it unfair to conclude that the person was either courting the vote of immigrants and their sympathizers, or was an immigrant or sympathizer? Would you call that "bush league" and "guilt by association"?

Or does this standard magically only apply when it's Donald Trump?
His song,"Hallelujah," is timeless and even he agreed KD Lang's version is the best...

Wasn't a fan of hers until...
https://youtu.be/ikdLBQACC74
Talk to your state's Dept of Labor and Industry. Your state has a hotline for you to anonymously ask if what your employer is doing is legal, and if your employer has other H1B visa holders, you can likely stay anonymous during their investigation.

They won't move fast, but triple damages and a nice fine for your employer can be a sweet reward for their fraud against you.

On a sidenote, the H1B strategy is very common in the Engineering field, most consultancies figure they can get a decade of work at below American wages out of the average H1B visa holder, saving them a few hundred thousand.
Since when is "true patriot" only something that can apply to the USA?
You may have applied before the WebGL frameworks team was set up.
Except the National Guard could be called into federal duty by the president, which would most certainly happen in such a scenario. Additionally, their equipment is federal property, and they have to recompense the federal army for certain fungible items they use.
Sidekiq is open source (LGPL). There is a free version that is pretty powerful: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq
What quotes did I omit, besides my own, that argued Thiel wasn't necessarily throwing his money away?
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Coming as someone who lived through Reagan and both Bushes, I can state with a reasonable degree of certainty that you don't know how the world works, and you're about to get a lesson. I'm not even certain you understand how the government works, since it is going to be the Republican House and Senate who are going to be drafting and sending bills for him to sign.
> Trump has consistently supported all legal immigrants

Trump confirmed his own opposition to people of Mexican descent when he said judge Gonzalo Curiel had a conflict of interest.

He said that Curiel, who is descended from legal Mexican immigrants, could not rule fairly on a Trump trial, because Trump wanted to build a wall on the Mexican border.

Note that Trump did not claim that Curiel was an illegal immigrant, or that his predecessor were illegal immigrants. It was Mexican heritage generally that Trump claimed caused the conflict of interest.

And Trump of course has repeatedly spoken in favor of banning all Muslims from coming into the country, even legal immigrants.

These are just off the top of my head; there are many more examples. If you won't be convinced, that's on you.
This is very unrealistic - those military bases, weapons, and nuclear warheads are property of the US military (whose commander in chief is the President of the United States), not some kind of Californian military outfit that the US is currently leasing.

If a bunch of native Californian generals and colonels tried to commandeer a portion of the US military in support of some Californian revolution, you had better believe that would be seen as an act of war.
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> Cannibalism is actually really dangerous due to disease, so it's a negative in terms of safety.

Sure, but people did it because they perceived it to be in their interests. Because that's what evolution ensures people do. Always.

> I don't care about their reasons

Well yes, we've established that.
Forgive my ignorance:

What actually makes it hard to predict a chemical reaction? Can't we empirically deduce them from quantum mechanics?
>implying it's not "clean energy".

Well, it's not. Whether it's "cleaner" than alternative fossil fuels is an interesting debate, however.
That is load of BS. The driver can always resign and join something else. A lot of coders work more than 8 hours a day big deal.
What evidence do you see for your latter option?
"I studied cryptography..."

I studied a few of the crypto voting systems a while back. TLDR: For real world elections, they leak information. Meaning they don't protect the secret ballot.

Each system I studied relies on a hash collision to hide your ballot in the herd of ballots. Alas, our precincts are too small and our ballots to complex (too many choices, meaning too many combinations, meaning too much information) so the trick doesn't work.

Heck, it often doesn't now with mail ballot processing.

For comparison, when using paper ballots, dropping the ballot into the ballot box is the secure one-way hash that separates you from your ballot. Because it's physical, poll site based can also ensure the chain of custody, which is also not possible with electronic voting or tabulating.
You're entitled to your personal preferences in where/how you like to live, but none of that changes the facts that:

1. Peter Thiel indeed wrote a book called 'the Diversity Myth'
and

2. that book claims that multiculturalism exists to destroy white culture

If you're going to argue that the above claim is a "lie", you are obliged to show where that lie is.

Your only plausible avenue (as I can see it) is to somehow object that 'multiculturalism' is not essentially the same thing as meant by the term 'race-mixing', but your response here only convinces me that you agree that in this context the two terms mean effectively the same thing .
You are not being consistent.

Yes, the Electoral College was designed to stop the populist candidate if they are deemed unfit for President. And if said system ends up electing Trump, shouldn't you revise your belief, rather than sticking with it?

The meme that more people is voting for Clinton is tired, and meaningless. You can't just assume with a different fundamental, the votes would have been the same: there are different campaigns, different voters. Even if you just look at the current votes, a popular vote system would have completely removed all third party candidates out, and I wouldn't be betting that most votes (around 3-4% of the votes) from Gary Johnson (libertarian candidate) going to Clinton.
Being opposed to urban people getting entitlements, but in favor of rural people getting entitlements, is approximately racist, when you factor in demographics.
Also Saccharomyces boulardii is good, and it can be taken at the same time with antibiotics, unlike probiotics. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces_boulardii)
I doubt the breaking point is 40, but 40 seems close. I remember looking through studies on the matter[1] and seeing numbers floating around between 35–45 hours/week. It's hard to generalize because productivity is hard to measure and behaves differently in different cultures and professions, but I am willing to believe that the breaking point for most people is within 10—15% of 40 hours/week. Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a bit lower...

[1]: Unfortunately I don't have them handy, and they had some clear limitations. If I'm remembering correctly, some were about relatively unskilled work and none were about programming, where measuring productivity is an open problem.
https://youtu.be/CoxxGhLFbw4?t=2m30s

He argues that "climate science" is not real science because it has "science" in the name. I'm serious.
He is just trying to make sure everyone is a good cultural fit for the company. That excuse usually flys on HN when discussing avoiding hiring folks of my age range, so why shouldn't it also when discriminating against people based upon their political beliefs.
Note that this Trump (mis)quote is in response to asking where Thiel says anything that supports bigotry.
And after taxes on your gains you can pay your rent and live for free. Sounds similar but I guess that's the market at work.
When someone is racist and sexist, it is everyone's duty to call what they are: racist and sexist.
That is pretty good, just wish the BBC wrote a better article and ended with suggestions on who to contact regarding wage theft & how to organize to fight back against it, instead of ending the article with the Amazon contractor saying your free to quit at any time.
The antioxidant myth is too easy to swallow
Here's a tool someone could write. Write a browser add-on which modifies Facebook pages so that the news links are changed to Google, Bing, and Wikipedia searches for the news headline. Connect to Google/Bing in a mode with no signin or cookie info, so you don't get "search personalization". This will get you out of Facebook's filter bubble quickly. Google and Bing have problems, too, but they are somewhat better at blocking spam, having been at it longer and being in the business of forcing spammers to buy their ads instead.
You're thinking about the novel Earth by David Brin. Outpost 2 had gray goo gobbling up a space colony that was made up of the last remnants of Earth that escaped an asteroid strike.
If a coder falls asleep at the keyboard nobody else gets harmed in the vast majority of cases. Coders also have a much wider range of jobs to pick from.
> And rather than embrace it, rural and white working-class Americans are twisting and turning, fighting it every step of the way. We will never return to the days where a white man could barely graduate high school and walk onto a factory floor at 18 and get a well-paying job for life. That hasn’t set in for much of the Midwest.

There's the problem and the bubble people are talking about. White men (or any sex and color really) that can barely finish high school aren't going away anytime soon and they still need jobs. Not everyone is capable of more academic work.