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Many people aren't eligible to immigrate to Canada permanently right now, but there's nothing to say that you can't enter Canada temporarily now and then permanently later. If you pack your bags, drive up to the border, and say "after the election I'm not sure I want to live in the USA so I'd like to spend a few months exploring Canada to see if it's somewhere I could move to some day", I'm sure you'll be welcomed with open arms.
Hopefully we see similar efforts from others. The incoming president has stated he plans to gut the EPA and potentially even divvy up some state/national parks for development. Private donors will have to win out over commercial interests, as far as conservation is concerned.
Not only that, but it's safe to say Apple isn't a tech company anymore. They're a luxury brand selling luxury products -- evidenced merely in how they spend all their time talking about how the thing looks instead of how powerful it is (it does look and feel very nice).
I don't doubt you at all but can you give some examples? I remember them saying "it should be a total replacement for food" but I hear they are backing off of that now.
I knew USA will get a crappy president after Apple released its crpppiest MacBook Pro. It was bound to happen. Good luck USA, you truly deserve him. We might check on you again in 4 years, if there's anything left.
>> spend a lot of money on re-educating the workforce and making sure those at the bottom get decent skills.

It is the height of snobbery to move the lesser skilled jobs out of the country and tell everyone they need to be smarter. There will always be a distribution of skills and it is not for the well educated to say "you just need to be like us". All the US needs to do is stop signing 900 page "free trade" agreements and start adjusting import taxes to bring manufacturing back. Call it what you will, but taking care of your own first is not a bad thing.
The problem is automation and technology is getting so good that we don't need that many people working anymore. Autonomous vehicles have a very good shot of displacing a lot of jobs in a few decades. You can't also tell people in their 50s and 60s that you'll educate them for a new profession.

I remember an MIT economist Zhou Lin said this would be one of the big problems of our generation. I suspect Basic Income would have helped in the interim.
No, he's a bullshit artist because he has made promises which he is CLEARLY not going to be able to keep like building a wall between Mexico and USA and getting Mexico to pay for it. I could go on and on, but that's a good, concrete example of a "promise" that will go unfulfilled.
And yet the statement is true and the irony just whooshed over your head.
Same guy also says you shouldn't use Chrome or Slack because they use lots of RAM (I guess it sucks to be the developer that has to use both of these). Apple's new "Pro" machines have similar specs to their three year old pro machines. They are a lot thinner, but that's not a Pro feature.

> A couple apps you won’t see on this list are Chrome and Slack. Both of these applications have widespread reports of being memory pigs, and in my opinion you should boycott them until the developers learn how to write them to play nicer with memory.

I got my 2013 Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM and I'm happy I did, it has aged well. Will a 2016 MBP age similarly well? I guess we'll find out.
I am interested as to why you chose to focus on reaction prediction. As you acknowledge in the introduction, the acquistion of this skill is a routine part of graduate education in synthetic chemistry.

On the other hand, the key difficulty in synthetic chemistry, and the one that occupies the majority of a chemist's time is the identification of the correct reagent(s), the correct solvent, and the correct time, temperature, and concentration such that the desired reaction proceeds in a convenient amount of time and with the correct chemo- and regio-selectivity, that the reaction conditions are tolerated by the rest of the molecule, and that the product can be easily isolated from the reaction byproducts.

In my opinion, as long as these problems remain, then being able to turn retrosynthetic analysis over to a machine appears to me to provide little benefit.
> That's the rub. I think they'd prefer to work. There are few places left in the modern world to find meaning.

Yes. That's why I'm critical of Universal Income. I believe that UI would only push those people further down, making them completely unnecessary, without purpose at all, their tasks in society being relegated to merely being a consumer.

I'm totally in favor of having free education, welfare and healthcare, though. I do think we need a balance here.
The problem is that stuff doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's not bigotry and misogyny vs. a house plant. It's bigotry and misogyny vs. lies, apparent technical incompetence, cronyism, disregard for the law, and everything else that Hilary's opponents see in her. Both sides are terrible, and no they're not equally terrible, but at some point some people throw up their hands and move past the personal/character issues and vote along with their interests and the person they perceive to stand up for those interests.

Disclaimer: I couldn't get over Trump's character issues personally, and I don't for a moment believe that even when he says exactly what I want him to say that he believes it and will act on it in a responsible manner. But I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what's in the minds of people who will vote for him, and these are things I've come to believe.
Been to Karachi much lately? Or rural Sindh?
> Much of the issue here is because of lack of understanding of the perspective of the other side.

This sums up pretty much every political debate ever.
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> I'm not pro trump, by the way.

You don't have to qualify your statements anymore. The veil of illusion has come down and the sock puppet masters have ended their contracts, so you won't be attacked unfairly for pointing out the truth.
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UBI can't work with the open border situation we currently have.
Developer? I guess not. For a DevOps engineer? Probably yes. It's not impossible but having to spin up/down virtual and/or complex docker-compose configs to release RAM would slow you down considerably.
If the majority of your electorate allow themselves to be manipulated by a blatant demagogue; whose stated policy goals are clearly ruinous; who blatantly disrespects women, veterans, and non-whites; and who not-so-subtley advocates violence against his political opponents...

...then yes, your democracy might as well be dead.
I have to agree with this. I don't think the vast majority of the voters even know what terms are (outside of the 18-24 demographic), on both sides.
I've started one of these, a few months ago. It worked pretty well until we picked ng-book, and interest tapered off. My observation is that if the book is too relevant to the day-job, people will just end up talking about work problems, and enthusiasm will wane.

It's also possible that purely language/framework books don't work as well. Code Complete is good because it gets people talking about architecture, general best-practices, and career mastery. ng-book only gets people talking about the framework.

To revive ours, we've discussed reading relevant articles rather than entire books.
> I live in Canada, and there is no way someone like Trump could be elected here.

Early 20th century European history is looking at you in disbelief.

I agree with the rest.
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Considering they operate virtually, can't they just move elsewhere and ignore the decision?
Please stop this. It's not the civil behavior that the guidelines ask of us here, and it's not acceptable.
The flipside is that there probably aren't enough of you to fulfill the needs of companies that need a specialized technical or creative workforce.

I was recently talking with a former software company founder who started his company in Boise, Idaho in the late-90s.

The first few years, their product was a success and they doubled or more in size every year. Then, they started to plateau even though demand was still through the roof.

They couldn't keep up with demand, because they ran out of developers who lived in or were willing to move to Boise. In the words of the founder, "Every qualified developer within 100 miles of us got a job-offer, until there weren't any left."

The obvious solution would have been for them to move to Seattle or San Francisco. But all the founders were from Boise, and were committed to keeping the company in their home town.

At the end, they were paying qualified developers Silicon Valley wages, in addition to signing bonuses equivalent to a year's salary just to get them to move to Boise. As you can imagine, that severely hampered their ability to compete.

Finally, they sold to Microsoft. The founders assumed that the cache of Microsoft's name would be enough to draw developers, but Microsoft had the same problem. After a few years, Microsoft moved the whole operation back to Redmond.

All that to say, you (and I coincidentally) are in the minority. Most creative and technical professionals want to live in nice, big cities. The great thing for those of us that don't fit that mold, is that it's easier than ever to work remotely.
Is it cheaper if you buy it this way? That's the only advantage I see.
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Just like he welcomed his KKK endorsement by not explicitly "disavowing" it?
Oh boy, an online poll.
As a socialist, I also don't understand why the professional caste has a hard time with this. "Free" exploitation by the sleaziest employers in the country, facilitated by commercial trafficking in humans, is not the internationalist dream any prospective uniter of mankind has proposed.
They have the identification of a common problem in common, but their solutions are the complete opposites ends of the spectrum and mutually exclusive. I don't think a 3rd party could exist that met both their goals.
I think the price/performance ratio is mainly the grating point - the RAM ceiling specifically prevents customers from splurging to future-proof - ie, in 5 years 16GB will be enough?

Personally I test-drove a 13" MBP (no TouchBar) at an Apple store - my thoughts: keyboard feels a bit foreign (spring back), but much better than the 12" MB which I also tried in the store. It's light. I only wish it supported the 4 ports as in the 15".
So how is VirtualBox able to bridge over Wi-Fi?
For what it's worth, way back in the beginning (I was there), the Soylent guy solicited work from the community under the guise of contributing to an open source product. That the "source" was eventually closed up and the end product rented out for a subscription fee... That might be where some of the disdain is coming from. Plus also he is kind of insufferable to a lot of people, if you read any of his writing.
Immigration isn't a fake issue. Take a walk around Miami or San Diego. Or New York. Or London. Or Paris. Or Malmö.

Gay marriage is just the final nail in the coffin of marriage, which was already basically dead. It's a mind-bogglingly stupid hill to die on, but nobody ever accused conservatives of brilliance.

Obamacare is a disaster because it enables still more people to suck still more dollars out of the system than there are people putting dollars into the system. The people getting more than they put in are parasites; the people getting less than they put in are suckers. When you don't pay for your own healthcare, you don't care how much it costs. Go to any veterinarian's office to see the cost of medicine in a free market.
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin on Thiel: “He bets contrarian not when he knows he’ll win, but when he knows that his odds of winning are much better than most people think.”

Makes you wonder with all of Palantir's massive data-mining if Thiel knew something the public didn't.
How is it wrong for him to want to live in a house because he likes it?
More to the point, not all of those 59,341,446 Trump voters are happy that he won. They're just not quite as sad as they would have been if Hillary had won.
If everything else is most expensive in Norway, it seems more remarkable that Norway's single payer system spends less per capita.
I am not convinced those presidents would have been bad. Can we say that they were all acting in the same way as "unprincipled politicians who can compromise, and adapt, and win elections" or maybe did they believe something earnestly that is just different from what you believe?

Would you rather have an ethically malleable liberal than a principled conservative? In most cases I would rather have the principled politician because they will have some kind of goal to benefit some segment of Americans. Can we really say that any ethically malleable politician, of any flavor, will always help some segment of Americans?

Then as a counter to all this. Nixon did found the EPA.
Wow, that's cool. There are apparently ones for micro USB, which means that ... I can have a magsafe adapter for my phone. I might have to buy one, as my kids destroyed the last charger they tried to unplug from my phone.
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Denmark, Sweden, etc, beg to differ.
Because 1) the appeal of intercooler is its simplicity, and 2) I don't know angular and don't have any desire to learn it. It looks complicated, and on the decline: http://stateofjs.com/2016/frontend/.

It's not a language it's a framework. And it will take me (and others on my team) time to learn it, and maintain it in the future. But if you like it, more power to you!
If one has a tendency to reach unreasonable conclusions, is it not justified to question their ability to be reasoned with?
I'm Canadian. Dev pay is not comparable unless your margin of error is literally tens of thousands of dollars.
Step back for a second and consider how many millions voted for him despite those remarks and issues.

Perhaps if you are so disgusted by half of the citizens in your country, you should seriously consider emigrating somewhere else, if that's truly an issue for you.

But I suspect, like most comments on the Internet, it's nothing more but empty posturing.
I've done that. It's not that great...
Terrorism isn't about an attack, it's about fear. When we sacrifice our freedoms to live in fear of terrorists, they win.
Hopefully you voted for ST3
The iPhone Is Bigger Than Donald Trump
Oh god the bend radius on those cables. Also atrocious sinking and warping. This is the kind of stuff I have nightmares about. Please if you're thinking of building a hardware project and have never done it before at least consult someone like me. I'll look over anyone in SF's project and give a list of things to worry over for the price of a coffee, just don't do this.
As someone who just recently "got" the whole follow what you preach thing, I believe there is a real gap in communicating how you follow through on high-horse ideals in a practical way.

It took me having a comfortable enough income to donate to political parties before it really clicked I could do a whole lot more.
The US should separate because of THIS election? Why? Why this one lol? You think this is the first time people are upset over election results?
So no, he didn't say that. Thanks.
That's not really doublespeak. And it doesn't have to be less efficient to own a house. Can't put solar panels on my apartment roof. Can't plant much of a garden to localize some of my consumption.

If you were really eco-conscious you could probably get more gains out of owning your own house. Especially since most houses have already been built, whereas most of the new construction I see in my city (Baltimore) is going towards mixed-use condos/apartment towers for all the trendy folks wanting to live downtown. If they really cared about the environment and efficiency they'd be fixing-up the thousands of run-down homes.
I don't think anybody is sitting at home unemployed because Google's $140k offer wasn't good enough for them.

Yes, Google might be able to hire more employees with higher salaries by poaching them from elsewhere. But that just shifts the labor shortage to some other company, it doesn't get rid of it.

The way I see it, it's bad for everyone (the employer, the Indian, the American taxpayer) when an American $100k job opportunity stays unfilled and a willing qualified Indian is working at an Indian company for $30k instead because they won't let him into the USA.
Maybe this is because for years, the only trackpad that didn't suck were Macbooks. Vista was a disaster, and so many people used a relatively insecure Windows XP. The list goes on and on.

These days, folks who don't want to pay for Win10 Enterprise and don't want telemetry will be choosing between macOS and Linux.
The Supreme Court enforced the Constitution on states that were violating it. This had nothing to do with the current administration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges

While new appointments could change verdict if this issue was reconsidered, I don't think that will happen.

More importantly - Point Judith v. Matunuck? I say P.J.
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Do you have any news items or anything that I can read up? I am very hopeful of this new rule and thinking to bring our startup to US
You don't need the NSA to calculate that a couple million in donations (with added free publicity) is worth a shot at multi-billion-dollar public sector systems integration and analytics projects.
I agree that it is a normal (but nasty) part of politics to paint an unfavourable picture of an opponent (both candidates did that), but inciting violence is where it goes too far for me.

I imagine how many people in the US are now fearing for their lives because the DNC made them believe that Trump will probably build forced labour camps. And how many of them are not just frightened but even read to use violence.

When I check my Facebook newsfeed it's full of posts from friends who seem to be very afraid about what has happened.

If something terrible happens then it might be that the DNC has created the illusion which justified the violence.
One option for people with some money to spare, but not enough to personally buy thousands of acres, is to donate to a conservation land trust, which pools money to buy up land and preserve it. These are usually local or state/regional organizations, such as the Texas Land Conservancy [1] or the John Muir Land Trust [2]. There's a directory of them here: http://findalandtrust.org/

[1] http://www.texaslandconservancy.org/

[2] http://www.jmlt.org/
There are plenty of Republicans who like to mouth those slogans, yes. Particularly when the opposition is in power. But there have always been precious few who actually stand on that principle once their party is in power.

Those type of politicians have been forced out over the past decade, first in the Tea Party waves and now with the Trump waves. Nowadays the principle is that you get onboard or you get called a 'RINO', get primaried, and get forced out for someone who will play along.

Just look at what happened to any of the politicians who tried to stand up to Trump. They either kissed the ring or they lost. And that was before he pulled off a landslide election.
Am aware of HN guidelines, but am posting this because the human dimensions of the story -- and the fact that Ukraine is emerging startup hub -- seem to outweigh the "pure politics" aspects.
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Stuff he didn't do or say doesn't make up for all the things he did and say.
The message was directed towards those without a college education; I see college as a place where people are encouraged to develop their critical thinking skills. If you have underdeveloped critical thinking skills then you'll be more easily persuaded by unrealistic policy proposals that sound like what you want to hear.

I sometimes feel the democratic party uses similar tactics on under-educated minorities; Trump seems to be the first to have the gall to overtly use them to unabashedly target under-educated white males - and to great success.
Extensive discussion of this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907145
>I ask Trump supporters not to gloat too much. Be good to your fellow citizens. Be inclusive. Be useful. The country needs you at your best.

The best from people with sub 100 IQ just really isn't that much to appreciate. I know this doesn't meet the usual HN post requirements, but that's what we're dealing with. You can consult state by state election data, and compare it to state by state IQ/education data.
But then you won't get out before the next sucker...
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She doesn't.

She fought a near perfect 1970s campaign. She got every Columbia school of journalism grad eating out of her hand, total control and ally to the legacy main stream media. Newspapers. Radio. Every academic in the country shilling for her or they lose their position. She had nothing fundamentally new that a 60s radical wouldn't have recognized. There's simply no way she could have lost in 1976.

Of course its 2016 so Trump has approx 5 million NEETs on /POL/ shitposting insane memes about nazi frogs into every normies facebook feed on the planet while epic trolling social and legacy media and releasing all the proof of her corruption via email thru hacked servers on wikileaks. He was the only candidate talking about 2010s issues like the result of 1960s immigration reform or the marginalization and hatred of the white working class. He fought a pretty good 2016 campaign.

This being 2016 and not 1976 its no great surprise which strategy won.

The "R" side needs to take notes that the "D" are likely to make this mistake precisely once. The battles in 2020 and 2024 are not going to be baby boomers still stuck in the '70s losing to '10s millennials again.

Also she hates half the country and calls them deplorables. Somehow, oddly, her despising them didn't magically translate into votes. The sense of entitlement is strong with that one...
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Absolutely true. And the first-past-the-post voting system in America amplifies the us-vs-them mentality that has created political gridlock for nearly a decade now.
Japan has government enforced cultural integration for immigrants, so it can be done:

http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21705375-getting-passport...
> What I find truly amazing is how people say "RIP Democracy" (not all of them), when it were the people of the US who elected Trump, didn't they?

The plurality winner of the popular vote was Hillary Clinton; Trump's victory is directly dependent on the ways America's Presidential election system defies democracy.
The battery life is "good enough" for both of them... besides developers do not necessarily require fantastic battery life.
Even in the face of basic facts, people are still not very forthcoming in wanting to engage in a rational discourse.

For instance, people who lost their minds that Bush misled the public on the WMD's in Iraq, were just fine arguing the fact that Obama lied when he said if I like my doctor, I can keep my doctor or when he said my health care costs would go down $2,500/year. I'm sorry, but you can't accuse one party of lying, then defend your guy when he lies.

The problem with where we are now is that people's realities are too closely tied with their political views. So even when they are presented with facts, it's hard for them to accept it as being true or reliable.
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