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> I'm not going to say it's good that people have xenophobic interactions but not liking immigrants is and has been legal for some time

Right, I'm definitely not attacking that. I'm also not really advocating for anything -- thankfully I haven't been put in charge of the mess that the US is, so I don't have to find a solution for it all by myself. I was just saying I won't defend such things.

If I did, though, it'd probably involve education and systemic changes. Like you said, "hiding" the problem didn't, doesn't and never will work. I don't believe that Hillary would have made any changes to the system, so if anything 2020 could have been a worse election (whereas now, I'm reasonably certain that unless Trump does exceptionally well this cycle [or exceptionally badly], Warren will be president the next).

These are all theoretical fixes to a system that's broken today, though. People are being bullied in the streets, at their work etc. When do people stand up to that?

Yesterday somebody was lamenting that people shouldn't say "democracy is gone" when it's working exactly as intended. This here isn't what's intended. Two sides fighting to the point that further escalation would result in civil war? The extreme demonization of democrats, republicans, mexicans, muslims, blacks, old people, christians, atheists and whatever demographic favours one side over the other? Seeing the immediate aftermath of the election, I fear that America really is falling apart.

I mean, here in Europe, people are saying left and right that the EU is falling apart because of Brexit and a general sentiment against globalization. The US has it worse now. I'm starting to wonder if there'll still be 50 states in a few years.
A mouthpiece media of the CCP!

So if the NYT reports on the results of an amazing research from the JPL, you'll not believe it, right?
So you're saying there's a chance we can shoot him into space? It's slight, but it is a consolation.
So do I, but I am comfortable demonizing people for political viewpoints that go beyond reasonable norms of discourse.
Yay, downvoted by a Trumpster.
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>>I want to be associated with a community of people who are looking for the truth, even if it leads them somewhere difficult, not protecting themselves at the expense of others, truth be damned.

Management wants to protect the company's profit at the expense of employees, so why shouldn't the employees push back and try to protect their quality of life?
We should see perfectly eye to eye on this, because you're who I learned this from. At any rate: that's what I meant by the word "society".

When someone composes an appeal to the tranquil monoculturalism of Japan, the thing they should be immediately confronted with is the fierce racism that makes up the core of that culture. Cultures change; Japan's inevitably will get to where ours is today (hopefully we'll keep making it hard for them to completely catch up).
why not just add a "spam flag" on all posts and let the users clean it up? Or something like a downvote.
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I don't quite read into it as much as you are.

They're after true immutability for threading and optimization reasons. They recognize it has a value. I get the feeling this is them joking about giving their Haskell friends a hard time, in response to said friends giving them a hard time. Some standard friendly back-and-forth tongue-in-cheek language snobbery.

Ruby makes a piss poor Haskell. For one, it's not Haskell - for two, it's not even trying to be Haskell. Even if Ruby fully embraces the joys and wonder of full immutability and pure functional programming now, the cat is out of the bag - there's a ton of mutable procedural impure code out there in Ruby. It simply wasn't built on pure functional programming and immutability as first principles in the same way that Haskell was. Ruby is a language that lets you, at runtime, monkey patch classes with new methods or new variations to old methods - letting you mutate constructs (methods, types, etc.) that in most other languages are immutable after and even during compilation. If you want Ruby to be Haskell, you're going to be disappointed. Fortunately Ruby still makes a pretty good Ruby.

This is in no way saying Haskell is a bad language, just that you should use Haskell if you want Haskell, and Ruby if you want Ruby. This is also in no way saying that Haskell concepts can't be borrowed, stolen, and brought over to Ruby - just that doing so will not turn Ruby into Haskell, no matter how much one might wish it.
>Innovation means doing something new, doesn't it?

In the consumer space innovation means putting something in the market in a novel way (and especially one that matters to people). Not discovering something from scratch, consumer electronics are not about basic research.

I.e. we had tons of mp3 players before the iPod, but it was how it was put together that made it better (for the millions who increasingly adopted it).

>The last Apple-ish innovation I saw out of Apple was that "magic" touch-pad that just feels like you're pressing it down, even though you are not.

They design their own industry leading chips and logic boards for the iPhone and Apple Watch, they do haptic engines, they did novel engineering to water-proof the watch, the work with new materials all the time, they put out new enhanced gamut displays, they have a great new wireless audio processor they designed, they created and put out a new graphics API and a whole new programming language (Swift), and several other things besides, all in the span of the last 5 years.

>I disagree - it's not functional (it changes over time, non-newbies don't look at the keyboard, it kills muscle-memory

It's like expensive professional touch control boards -- it can greatly enhance productivity for lots of professional domains, from mixing colors for paint apps to skipping frames in a NLE or applying filters (multitouch too) through sliders in a DAW, etc.

It's also a fully programmable secondary multi-touch display, tons of things can be done with it per app. Muscle memory is still retained as long as the virtual keys fall in the same place per app -- same as keyboard shortcuts, that change between different pro apps, but pro users still remember each set.
All you are saying here is "people who disagree with me about vaccination and climate change are extreme because they are blind to evidence"

Obviously these people have a very different interpretation of the evidence and the conclusions that can be drawn from it. To suggest they are crazy because they disagree with you or find your evidence unconvincing is the same kind of smugness that cost Ms. Clinton and the democratic party this election.
I wonder what he thinks of computer science.
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Can you tell me which specific Mexicans he was talking about?
I know it when I see it.
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I don't disagree, but I was responding to someone who did compare.
Neat article and interesting to see some source code.

Too bad, blogspot on mobile is a pain in the butt.
Yep, steam turbines. For more exotic fusion scenarios that don't produce neutrons, Direct Conversion is a possibility, but that's even more pie-in-the-sky at this point.
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The optics of this stock sell off seem a bit odd given the relative time to him making statements that have reduced the value of said stock.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1556458/000120919116148881/xslF345X01/doc4.xml

Couldn't he just buy them back at lower value?
Why should it be a PR disaster? The headline here is complete click-bait that mis-states what was actually said. And what was actually said is perfectly reasonable. I can't speak for anybody else, but personally I agree with the GrubHub CEO 100%.
That is the classic definition, but the liberal definition of "bigotry" is more like "intolerance/hostility/oppression to those who have different skin/gender/lifestyles/culture/etc (all the protected class stuff)"
My team comfortably uses Asana and appreciates its flexibility; but I'd rather be using Jira. Asana has one highly useful feature we never found similar functionality for in Trello: being able to assign a task to more than one project.
Trump is the most 'free' President in modern history. He 'owes' the least, to the fewest people.

How do you know? Have you actually operationalized it with a quantifiable measure? Can you actually back up your claim with actual, verifiable data?

No?

Then get the fuck out.
That is an unfortunate place to be in. Generally the question is what is said vs what is not said which can often provide the extra color commentary about how surprising the breakthrough actually is.

So for example, they have a "file" photo rather than the current apparatus. One of the challenges everyone is working on is "apparatus erosion" in which containment causes parts of the assembly to become, well, more plasma.

Then there is energy output, not a lot of details about how much energy they were getting out vs how much they were putting in. Running for 60 seconds should make possible a number of fairly accurate measurements of their efficiency. This is important because it is "easy" to make non-net energy plasmas that last for a long time, it is "hard" to create a plasma that providing the necessary environment for fusion to occur. Here is a great description of "H mode" confinement : https://www.euro-fusion.org/glossary/h-mode-h-regime/ which discusses that it is suceptible to ELM's (or bursts of plasma out of the side that eat away at your tokamak :-)

As a result of what they do not say, and do not show, I think the term "breakthrough" is probably a bit over used here, more like "progress along the path of building a tokamak unit." And progress is good, you learn new things with each step.
He is, at least technically, making a more sophisticated argument. I'll rephrase it to make that reading clear:

"Like all countries, Mexico has both great people and rapists/murderers. Unfortunately, the latter group is overrepresented among those illegally in this country."

That's (technically) the point he's making, and it's (technically) not racist.
I'm not running for office any time soon, so my smugness will cost me nothing but karma here. I'm not suggesting they're crazy, I'm suggesting they're holding views which, by all reasonable evidence, appear to be false. These are not "opinion" views. You can't opinion your way into autism from vaccines. You can't opinion your way out of climate change.

People who believe vaccines cause autism (today) are fanatics.

People who deny climate change is happening (today) are fanatics.
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since you still haven't given me an example that could serve as an inspiration

I'm sorry, why should I feel obligated to give you an example? Like I already said once, there are no examples of something that hasn't been done... yet. So your repeated request for something that isn't required strikes me as kinda pointless.
I have seen segfaults in Go. But that's what I get for using gcc-go.
Looks like you are good man with strong ideals. As they say Sxxx happens and one should be able to deal with it. You should be proud that majority voted for Clinton(25.6%) than Trump(25.5%). Sad part is, almost 46.9% of eligible voters didn't even vote. What Trump said cant be trivialized and you are quite aware that even republicans hated what Trump said. But at the same time, one should recognize that democracy works only when everyone participates. A few swing state voters don't represent all of USA. You can rest assured that this nation has enough good folks and strong institutions that wont let anyone including Presidents go against the constitution.
I don't see anywhere he says that there will be government appointed gate keepers
I just scrolled around randomly and one of the moments is a group of young black men kicking an old white man [0]. I'm not sure what the message is here but it seems likely that the collators are playing fast and loose to pile the evidence on

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/kmscodi/status/796554667748716545...
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But your original post didn't simply state that you were doubtful if he could be reasoned with; you made a stronger statement: "pence is not a man to be reasoned with."

I think that stronger statement is questionable for a few reasons:

(1) It ignores the subjective element of your assessment regarding which of Pence's positions are reasonable or not reasonable. I very much doubt everyone on Hacker News would consider all of your strongly held beliefs rational, and vice versa. But that should be the starting point of our discussions, not the end of them.

(2) You gave some examples of Pence's conclusions which you consider absurd, but you didn't give clear evidence that his reasoning processes are flawed that he's "not a person to be reasoned with". For example, if you could point to some discussions where he was unable or unwilling to adhere to basic, simple rules of logic, that would bolster your case.
It would be a significant mischaracterization of the state of the evidence on both those issues to say there is all that much room for interpretation.

A more likely reason for holding the extremist position of an anti-vaxxer or climate change denier is the usual cognitive biases against incorporating new information inconsistent with one's current mental model.
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Here, this guy. Thiel isn't qualified. He knows nothing about running a real business, just investing in them. He knows nothing about economic policy. And clearly he knows nothing about governance.
good lord, this is Hacker News for crying out loud
He was listing points in reference to link #1. Don't see an issue.
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GPG signatures do exist for the tarballs, though, see

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http://rustup.rs/ will automatically use all of this if you have it installed and our key imported.
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The case of news sources failing to predict events seems like a red herring in the larger debate here - news media is generally about reporting events that have actually happened. Predicting presidential elections or other uncertain events is a side hustle they've been dragged into because it sells. And if you throw out their predictive failures, I think it's pretty easy to compose a trustworthiness function based on overall factual accuracy. And sure, there may be lingering biases that need to be corrected for, but even so, the MSM biases generally don't extend into the realm of pure fabrication, whereas clickbait outrage farms absolutely do - and they are a large chunk of the problem.
The SRP isn't really an academic concept, it's an industry concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_responsibility_principl... I'd say it's more of a question of taste and organization.
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bigtable and base is old enough, it is a good time for challenge them. Baidu's new database Tera, does a good job.
This thanksgiving you should ask your family members who they voted for.
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It's interesting how almost everyone here seems to be assuming that Amazon is at fault, and accepting the reporter's story as complete, accurate and unbiased...
I tried cold emailing professors, but I have had 0% response rate.

My emails were clear, simple and respectful. I guess they have better things to do than to respond to random stranger on the internet.

I wish there was a kind of a job board for PhDs ..
It wouldn't have been a problem if it instead used an index variable i ranging from 0 to the number of sides, computing 2pii/sides along the way.

If you're going to rely on repeated addition of irrational numbers to come out to some exact value, then you've misunderstood the abilities of finite decimal representations. It is something easy to overlook, but shouldn't be too surprising to someone who has computed anything by hand (for instance, try long dividing 1/7 out to some number of decimal places, and then adding the result to itself seven times --- if it's a problem there it's not simply a tooling issue, assuming of course the problem isn't with decimals!).

Though, if we want to fix our tools, perhaps instead of the promise of a "cos" or "sin" functions, we could have (ngon-point i n) which returns [(cos (/ i n)) (sin (/ i n))]. Then you wouldn't be tempted to use floating-point numbers to represent the index of a polygon vertex.
I don't really get it. I guess the JS one is kinda funny but maybe I don't deeply understand these other languages enough to get the joke.

I didn't even get the C one. Is it saying it's too powerful?
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No, please, please please, stay where you are. We have no problem letting you do you where you are on the coast but don't bring it here.
I expect this all ends in revolution of some sort. Our technological advances have far outpaced our government structures, so it's feeling like time to redo things.
Participation often results the resident's (large) family moving in, with their 4-5 vehicles, increasing traffic (and pollution) and load on local services (daycare, schools, public transport, hospitals, police, fire departments), all while paying the same level of property taxes as before.

Talk to someone living in San Jose or San Francisco about their daily commute on 85 or 101. They somehow don't profess as much love for densely populated urban environments.
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If I wanted to study a book for 10 hours on political polling and the math it takes to model the results, what book would you suggest?
>It seems like so many of my favorite musicians and songwriters have passed in the last few years and I'm struggling to figure out why.

Because people generally die, and your favorite musicans are all several decades older than you, and thus close to the median life expectancy?

Assuming you are not into 2010's teen pop of course.

If one likes pre-war blues, for example, almost all of their favorite musicians would not be around anymore.

>I'm a millenial with a wide taste in music from the early 20th century blues classics to contemporary EDM but it seems like the musicians whose talent you could just sense with every note and lyric are rapidly disappearing.

Well, not many "contemporary EDM" musicians are rapidly disappearing. OTOH, Dylan, Bowie or Cohen were all 65+.
Do you then also suggest that those who called to vote for HRC support the destruction of government data, lying under oath, and support the unlawful invasion of Iraq?
Sure, but the polls being published and "marketed" had her with an insurmountable lead. Silver had her at 70% and that was generous to Trump compared to many. This isn't about the polls being wrong because the race was tight. Many misrepresented likely turnout (because many are incompetent and thought the 2016 electorate was going to be the 2012 electorate) and the media pumped up those same HRC favorable polls while the pundits attacked the validity of what turned out to be better polls (LA Times). It sure looked like a propaganda machine to me, but I'm just one of those deplorables.
How well does that play with packages that don't use it? There seem to be several such packages.
that's a good guess. I would agree. SPI is not connection-oriented and "comes up and goes down" (to the extent that it goes up and comes down at all) very fast with very little active memory needed to support the communication.
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Why?

I read and found this book interesting... in 2001, why is it up here today? If you're going to post a 15-year-old book, at least give some context as to why?
> Additionally we don't even boot on JRuby today

what is the blocking issue there?
A system that depends on taxing current income vs current wealth will always suffer a possibility of being gamed by those with high wealth but low income. If not foreign moneybags, then retirees.
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I would argue it is correct and good to not have respect for the Electoral College. It is a hair-brained, anachronistic, undemocratic institution.
Right, having done this myself long ago, much of the performance improvement comes from just raw C-code in the runtime. Making less string copies, etc. are a big deal, especially on real programs. That's much of what you've seen in the first set of PHP 7 improvements.

Taking PHP from a bytecode interpreter to generated x86 will mean that in places where you don't end up "hopping out", you should see closer to C-code like performance (the same is true for JavaScript, Python, etc.). Unlike a few years ago though, PHP7's scalar type hints and other slight tweaks (made on purpose!) should make this an even easier task than it was for say PHP 5.4. Type inference is incredibly effective, and in practice (see Paul Biggar's excellent thesis on this) there really isn't that much polymorphism in PHP programs. Parameters to functions usually have one maybe two types or they're actually polymorphic and see 15+ variations. This is just the nature of what you're able to reason about ("Can I really handle this being an int, float, bool, string, array, function callback, or arbitrary class here? Of course not...").

That said, once you get the two of them working really well together (eliminating friction at calling from the generated machine code for the language back into the runtime), you see additional benefits even on real programs. It's too bad they only report what the API endpoint did, that's relatively easy! (The full dashboard load was much more complex, with tons of crazy class loading and JSON serialization/deserialization, lots of Thrift RPCs, and plenty of memcache).

Source: I've run the Tumblr dashboard in production briefly on a system with a JIT-based runtime ;)
Your statement is that of an atheist. You don't seem to realize that many of the followers of these religions believe their assertions to be factual in every way. When I got off the subway today, at the Port Authority, in New York City, there were 2 women, holding up signs about Jesus. One of the signs literally said "Historical fact: Jesus rose from the dead".
I disagree, while anecdotal I've seen a number of street interviews done by youtubers. I do know that japan's last "miss japan" was biracial
Wouldn't it be easier for them to have grandma or some other distant relative just live there to fulfill the minimum requirements?
Not this again. This just so wrong.

Palantir worked for the Clinton Foundation.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/45010

For at least several years and definitely before Trump was on the map politically.

The Podesta Emails literally have Alex Karp, the CEO, paying 100k to talk to Bill Clinton.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/11/05/02/3A142FF40000057...