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While I think there is at least some validity to the "immigrants take local jobs" argument, it's really not the core of Trump's immigration platform. At the moment, the "took our jorbs" element is primarily being addressed by criticism of free trade.

First, Trump is not anti-immigrant. Two of his wives have been immigrants and the new First Lady-elect (?) is an immigrant with a very noticeable accent.

Trump is not anti-immigrant, he's anti-illegal-immigrant.

Let me first say I sympathize with the plight of Central Americans and if I was in that position, either pay $20k and wait 5 years for approval, I would probably take the chances and run the border too, especially knowing my children would be U.S. citizens automatically. However, there are risks incumbent in doing that.

Illegal immigration removes our ability to process and distribute new migrants. It makes it so we can't track whether they're having a disparate or unexpected economic impact, either on the nation as a whole or on specific areas. Illegal immigrants may have trouble finding jobs without SSNs, which may cause them to resort to crime, become dependent on welfare programs, or both. An insecure border allows people with impure motives, like terrorism, to enter. There can be substantial differences in social and cultural norms, which can affect their employability and ability to assimilate. While these people are illegally crossing the border, they're already committing a major repudiation to the social order of their intended new home by mocking rule of law and entering the country without authorization.

All of these things need to be managed and that's why immigration law exists. Americans in border towns are getting overrun and there's no reason they should have to be. They're sick of it.

People usually won't admit to this because SJWs come in and accuse them of being racist for wanting to preserve their traditions, social norms, employability, and language. The election of Trump is a resounding rejection of that hostile sentiment from the self-righteous elite class.

Most Americans have no problem at all with immigrants from other cultures, races, religions, etc., as long as they are given the tools to manage, understand, and direct it so that it's not disruptive to the existing social and economic order.

What all this really boils down to is something that both Republicans and Democrats agree on: our current immigration system is clunky, slow, and expensive, and badly needs rectification. Let's focus on fixing that instead of getting at each other's throats.
What's wrong with this? What would be the alternative? A preallocated array of 26 (or more if you account for special chars) for each node?
Why does the presence of fictional events mean that there are zero factual events? Couldn't it be a mixture of both?
Does the racism today against white people bother you? It's a genuine question, because the vehemence is cranked pretty high, but racism against white people is often automatically excused, so I'm curious where you fall.
What stops Mexicans from just going through regular border crossings and never leaving?
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Between a quarter to half of California's state budget comes from the federal government [1] and I'm guessing the same is true for most states. With that much money coming from the federal government, it's a muddy distinction.

One of the primary argument against the federal government is the disconnect from local needs but most of the money is tied to federal mandates anyway (for example, the feds threatened road infrastructure funding to get the last few states to pass the 21 year alcohol age limit and DOE funding is tied to CORE). As a result the state/federal distinction isn't very precise.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/California_state_budget_and_finances
Chrome and Edge have Flash built in. Problem solved.
Donald Trump’s presidency is going to be a disaster for the white working class
> but they'd rather the devil who speaks clearly than the devil who seems to have a secret in every closet.

I understand that sentiment, but I never took Trump as one who spoke clearly. He spoke simply, but not clearly. I think Clinton was actually the clearer speaker by far, with her specific proposals and plans, but she didn't speak simply (and for what it's worth, I'm not sure we should optimize for candidates that speak simply over clearly, as I've covered elsewhere in these comments).
The now-retracted comment talked about rewriting the Python into a shell script that you could toss on a web server and curl-pipe to run. I was pointing out that you can curl-pipe the original Python without rewriting it as shell.
>This system is interesting but has a crucial flaw: I legally can't take part. I have a job now, which claims ownership over any tech-related IP I create.

By that interpretation, you can never legally take part in a whiteboard coding session during an interview either since the code you whiteboarded also belongs to your current employer.

There is such a thing as being too literal.
Or the pool of people who will say to hell with it and just do the thing anyway.

I'm probably in that pool. Really, I'm not creating anything of massive value by doing a little example project. If my employer wants to sue me over it they can go ahead. I will probably lose, but they will have a rep for suing people for taking interviews.
Yes, small software firm I worked at was purchased by Valassis Inc. A few people left immediately.
I am also an audiophile but I would wager that most regular people could not tell the difference anyway.
It appears to be the accepted narrative, but it's the explanation coming from people who were caught completely flat-footed. What's the evidence that the narrative isn't a bunch of overwrought bullshit?
I'm pretty sure San Francisco has no power over Federal agents, and I can't find any evidence that the law attempts to "forbid the Feds from asking employers about the immigration status of the employees". Best I can tell it only forbids _City_ employees from actively assisting or spending city money to assist federal immigration agents. This is entirely reasonable. As for evasion of federal law by employERs, the employers should be the target of enforcement, not the employees.
Did... you just propose unit testing laws? Brilliant. Do want.
Might as well do the "pay people to bury money in coal mines and let people dig it up" then.
Nobody has ever promoted removing all regulations, not even Republicans.
Because most developers are not all that familiar with design/marketing/etc. They make something cool, put up the code on github, and it usually stops there.

It does have the nice side effect that most projects are not polluted by marketing bullshit in their README.
All went well with the update as expect, nice to have a modern kernel running, clearly a lot quicker, boots in around half a second after the BIOS.

Points of note thus far:

- Unsure if EFI is supported?

- Seems to be no way to create templates

- Cannot import a single file OVF image

- Cannot clone a VM

- Cannot snapshot a VM

- While importing a VM, you can't access the main window to start / edit other VMs UPDATE: scratch that - you can - but it's slow as anything even with none of my computers resources maxed out, it appears to be single threaded and perhaps some locking is occuring on the GUI.

- DISCARD / TRIM SSD support works perfectly as expected, unlike in VMware.
I assume any such law wouldn't block their speech, just their ability to receive money in exchange for that service
I agree that regulations should be simpler, but this sounds like a bad way to achieve that.

Are "regulations" strictly countable? It sounds like trying to minimize the number of lines (or characters) in a code base. Fewer lines (or characters) doesn't mean it will be more readable.
>there is no way someone like Trump could be elected here

That's what we thought...
This actually makes sense as a policy. Though I don't understand why he still thinks Mexico should pay for it. It just seems a bit dickish. Simply increasing the federal prison time for illegal immigrants (as suggested) would probably eliminate a lot of the traffic.
The argument put forward still doesn't work, especially with that being the case, but thank you for the knowledge.
Constraints only work if they hurt
Are clauses like that common in the US? Do they hold up in court?
How about an idea like this:

- Setup non-taxable charity
- Inject $15M in charity
- Purchase $15M of land, make it accessible to wealthy only for a price of $X with monthly/annual dues of $X
- Accumulate $15M in non-taxable profits
- Purchase $15M of land
- Make first segment open to public, repeat process.
It's good to hear that Germans are so happy. They would have been even happier to learn that TPP is a proposed trade deal between twelve Pacific Rim countries. It never included Germany.
I'm saying that if you believe you can so trivially comprehend and dismiss the emotional state of tens of millions of people who until today you possibly didn't even want to admit exist, you're fooling yourself badly.
Please stop posting them. We've detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915030.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And yet if you ask most Americans what "actual political skills" are, they'll likely say venality, corruption and malice, which leads us to having elected a president primarily on the basis of his incompetence.
>This is big news only because most people think Spotify will kill their SSD like by Christmas or earlier. When in fact it probably doesn't matter at all, because most computers get replaced due to natural causes in less than 8 years.

From a test I've seen, SSDs can start showing issues at the 250TB mark. Wouldn't be a huge issue if Spotify were the only problem child, but remember when Firefox (and probably Chrome) were/are doing excessive SSD writes as well? And this past week, the League of Legends client was revealed to be too. If they all do 100GB per day like how Spotify does in this example, then your SSD could have issues after just under 2.5 years, which is nuts.

The above is a super rough estimate as Spotify usage will vary and how bad the League client and browsers are and how often people use those vary as well, but this could just be the beginning. What if Word decided to be SSD write heavy too? Or Adobe Reader? Or iTunes? Or whatever else it is people use.
This is literally the only way I've gotten job offers. I'm a very competent programmer, but when I'm asked to solve some silly puzzle with someone staring over my shoulder, I freeze under pressure and can not think at all.

Luckily not everyone thinks solving leetcode problems is a good way to hire.
I always thought it would be cool to have a top500 list that does not restrict the algorithm, just accuracy and precision of fft. It would be interesting to see how algorithms would get us from 10 petaflops to "1 exaflop equivalent" -- the flops equivalent would be time speedup to get the same answer in less time. As it is they have very strict algorithm requirements (which makes sense if you are regularizing on flops). Just curious, but of course execution time on the top supercomputers isn't cheap.
Are you trying to say that in the 30 years of time between the discovery of Lisp and the discovery of typeclasses, no one wrote reusable code?
That's easier to say rather than do when you are the target and those people are in group... just giving you heads ups... We didn't think it would be a big deal and we also minimized it because it was "just" 50%
Sure, but if the people who own the oil can sell it outside the country for more they will. So the price/demand outside still matters. Unless you're planning on making it illegal to export?
This is true, and one of the worst inefficiencies you encounter as a candidate (and probably as an employer, I don't know): There's so much song and dance that has to go on before you get to the meat of things: Compensation. Companies could easily solve this by posting clear salary ranges, but most just don't.

Another thing that companies could do better is think really hard about "required" and "desired" skills, and be truthful. Lots of companies list things as required which they're probably willing to bend on for the right candidate. All this does is scare off potential candidates (odd when you're complaining about that mythical shortage of engineers). On the other hand, recent events have encouraged me to not be afraid to apply for jobs that I'm unqualified for :) so maybe it's not such a big deal.
Sociology isn't maths. Social groups almost always have some internal diversity. That doesn't mean they aren't meaningful categories. Christianity shares a common core of beliefs. It has a common narrative. It has a large set of overlapping beliefs. The same goes for Muslims (and Buddhists, libertarians, you get it).

There are sweet apples, sour apples and everything in between. That doesn't mean it would make sense to start pondering on which of those really are apples, nor whether you should try to sell them in a neighborhood known not to like apples.

Sure, you can subset Muslims into different groups and branches, and some of those will be more compatible with Western society than others. The net impact with zero filtering however is negative.
Sure, as long as you can find a way to store and transport it and upgrade all capital equipment to use that mechanism.
I've never heard about 7 figure level of debt. 6 figure,yes.
You're not going to cut off the drug cartels. Sorry, it just isn't going to happen, and I say that as someone who lives in an area they use as a common smuggling route and have encountered groups of smugglers multiple times in the past few years. They walk through the desert and climb mountains with 60+ lb bales of marijuana on their back for days to a week at a time, going into terrain Border Patrol agents won't even try following them through most of the time. Even if a wall somehow gets built across the mountains and canyons all along the border, which it won't, they'll tunnel under, fire bales over, etc. They are very incentivized to get through, and they are very skilled at doing so and will find a way.

As for the use of the word "criminal", I think you may be the one misunderstanding in this instance. That word is used to refer to those Trump plans to deport, but on the second page you'll note:

> establishes a two-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation

No mention of criminal there—if you get caught more than once you would go to federal prison in the U.S. for a mandatory minimum of 2 years.
I very much like the paid aspect to this approach. Not that I need the extra money, I am already financially compensated enough by my current employment, but it reduces the chances for the interviewing company to flake out after such a programming assignment. By offering some form of compensation, they are investing in the candidate and will probably not ignore the candidate after this stage of the interview. My assumptions at least.
Melania Trump won't be one of them.
ReactCasts: Video series about intermediate aspects of React's API
Is it truly because they are "too hard" or is it because their current implementation in the language falls short? I was pretty sure in at least one of the cases Evan mentioned the possibility of revisiting it later.

Other languages don't make these choices and end up with things like Python's async/await.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments with inflammatory accessories.
Some of the gain in concision is from the language it seems but I think this case is very much from the view of leveraging frameworks and libraries which themselves are quite a bit bigger than the app. I cloned a few of the repositories and excluded tooling that was used for documentation, testing, and so on. It's non-exhaustive since I only wanted to get a ballpark figure but we have:

1.4 million lines of Erlang

309 thousand lines of C

120 thousand lines of Elixir

... And lots of other code and things I've excluded. These are lines of code, not counting blank or comment-lines.

Now we could argue that we could unwrap this count at any layer? Why stop at Erlang/OTP? Why not include the C runtime and the Kernel? The real effect here is that a lot of this code implement things that are directly used by Phoenix apps, so I think it's fair to say, it's concision comes from being very good at leveraging other code.

(I don't write Elixir code but I've seen some good results from teams who have. None of it is magic though.)
Agreed, this is the definition of short-sightedness. And the difficult part is that it's likely to produce a significant (short-term) boost to the economy.

Subsequent generations will have to pay back the principal on this loan, with interest. And we will lose our opportunity to carve out a leadership position in the energy technologies of the 21st century, as well.
Pretty sure it's not legal in California: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...
>There is plenty of demand for unskilled labor in the USA, just look at the farm industry (especially fruits and vegetables) or in other areas (landscaping). Most USA citizens, however, aren't keen on working long hours, in back-breaking conditions, for low pay. And so the migrants come to fill those roles.

This is a microcosm of moving a factory to China. It's not that no Americans are willing to do those jobs, it's that companies hire illegal immigrants instead because they'll work for sub-minimum-wage and never contact the Labor Board about anything because they fear deportation. Illegal immigrants are also unlikely to complain about under-the-table cash payments that allow the employer to skirt tax law.

I have direct, personal knowledge of an establishment in middle America, in a place that doesn't have many undocumented immigrants, that routinely turns away American teenagers seeking employment because they'd rather pay illegal immigrants $2/hr and never have to worry about overtime.

>But there was such a stink about raising the minimum wage... I don't think that's going to happen any time soon. No one cares about the farm workers it seems.

It's funny you mention minimum wage and migrant workers in the same comment because an artificially high minimum wage is precisely what creates a market for underground labor. Employers are willing to pay because it's much cheaper for them; migrants, but not Americans, are willing to work in bad conditions for well below the minimum wage because without a SSN, under-the-table wages are their only way to make money, and if the authorities find out about them (e.g. during the course of investigating a complaint to the state's labor board), they may end up deported.
"One algorithm crashes on load but the other is a little slow. They're exactly the same, right?"
Well, if somebody legit wants to work for you, I suspect they'll be as curious about working with your team as you are curious about working with them. It's really a win-win situation for both sides.
So the guys who didn't see the outcome of the election coming are now predicting the entire next 4 years. Some people never learn huh?
>Politically, legalization is a rallying call for Democrats that pushes turnout. It can be easily snuffed by Republicans, and it will be - the same way the drug war was used in the 70s and 80s.

Nope. There are too many libertarian-leaning Republicans. Besides, Trump is no drug warrior.
It's just the software that is "cloudy." Nextcloud is not being used because of this product, but rather Nextcloud just also provides this box. Kind of like Nextcloud + this box = convenience, but you can just do Nextcloud without it.
20% is a low enough bar that you can cite a well-known example: Objective C vs. Swift removes entire sections like headers and adds sorely needed typechecks. Our internal results are less code and fewer defects per line of code. However, a large number of people haven't switched. I don't blame them either; the transition (split code base) is painful and Apple makes things worse with language churn.

For your 5x-10x case, what is true is that the gain is genuinely possible, but it is just as likely to come from libraries than it is language constructs. Because of that it's often 5x-10x in a limited area.
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> From my vantage point, cutting off the drug cartels access to the US market could potentially do wonders to shifting the balance of power and helping Mexico in the long run.

If you think a wall is going to do this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you. A physical wall is going to slow the cartels down for a week while they round up a bunch of Mexican citizens at gunpoint and force them to dig tunnels into the US, build submersibles to get here via waterways, and just go buy a dozen ladders. There are literally people that can climb a 10 foot wall without a ladder.
Set up a proper culture of mentoring and training in your org to turn people who are a little too green or inexperienced into effective team members.

Not as catchy as "fire fast", but infinitely more sustainable.
What are you smoking? Of course we have a favorable trade with China, we give them paper dollars and get back real goods in exchange.
I can't imagine it would be hard to connect to other networks only in the case of emergency dialing.
From my limited experience, I would say PureScript sounds more practical. You can choose your own UI engine, and has additional language features that are useful like typeclasses. It also compiles without needing a runtime baked in to the output.

When you hit a wall you can probably work around it in Purescript whereas I feel you are too sandboxed in with Elm and you'd have to start patching your Elm source to get around it.
Here's the thing. If you want storage, you've got to use ZFS or be very brave and use BTRFS. RAID and single drive solutions are not going to cut it. Bit rot is a real thing and assuming you care about your data you want checksums and redundancy. If you don't want to think about it: set up a FreeNAS/NAS4Free appliance. If you do, build something slightly custom. To date, I know of no complaints maimed products that fit this criteria. It is frustrating, but family photos are not replaceable so don't take chances.
Remote working only works for jobs that are done via computer or telephone.
This is fantastic. That's exactly how it should be. Otherwise over decades you end up with regulations that stifle all forms of entrepreneurship and creativity.
Running simulations on voting systems is easy.

Also lots of countries have preferential voting systems. Lots of people in AU don't vote for the major parties.

The US system is just crazy.
Yes, you can call Elixir from Erlang: http://elixir-lang.org/crash-course.html#adding-elixir-to-ex...
I guess MNIST is essentially done at around 0.21% error?

One thing I wish each of these tasks had was a benchmark for human performance level. It seems to be uncommon to have a well established human benchmark.
Do you think "Trump that bitch" shirts are gendered? I think sexism is definitely a component but not the overarching reason she lost.
Would the president have that authority?
Importing a Windows 10 shudder OVA _directory_ export from VMware Fusion worked perfectly and was quick to complete.

- After installing the guest addons which was very quick as they must be quite light weight, all drivers worked perfectly and performance seems good in general (for windows anyway), have not tested 3D yet.

- No native resolution scaling when resizing the VM window even after installing tools

_NOTE:_ I will turn this thread into a blog post and put it up on https://smcleod.net when I have time, perhaps this weekend.