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> Why exactly shouldn't it be beneficial if we let the market (the viewer) without any regulation decide which information should spread and which shouldn't?

1) It doesn't work. It leads to the lowest common-denominator winning.

2) Humans aren't rational.

3) The world is complicated enough that the median person simply doesn't know much about anything outside of their silo.

4) There are powerful forces conspiring to profit off of people's ignorance, rather than to turn them into less ignorant, more rational, more empathetic people, more curious people.

5) There are many people who simply aren't that curious. Left to their own devices, they will be overly susceptible to trickery and populism.

This might be a nice idea in a socially homogeneous group of a small number of like-minded farmers. It fails surely and predictably in a large group trying to make good decisions in a complex and technical world.

Read: Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them: Lessons From The New Science Of Behavioral Economics
> I can only imagine he will bow down to both Russian and Chinese demands

My worry is the opposite.

Trump's style is furious counter attack at the slightest provocation. That's obnoxious when you're a jerk billionaire. It's more serious when you control the deadliest military machine in history.
I wonder whether you are getting voted down because you're suggesting Trump is smart, or because you're saying he's impatient.

This account [1] by the ghostwriter who wrote 'Art of the deal', who spent months with him, suggests that he is neither smart nor patient. Over his long life, starting with a very silver spoon that he wasn't able to destroy, he effectively focussed most of his energy to coming up with a couple of heuristics for making deals and communication. I get the impression he spent most of his life's effort on something that might be called 'social hacking' here.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-g...
No it's not - the don't DIY applies to whatever isn't your core competency, not all software building.
Yvon Chouinard is the owner of the clothing company Patagonia and knows something about innovation. (He has revolutionized the outdoor industry many times over.)

His definition of "invention" is that it is the creation of something new.

His definition of "innovation" is that it is the application of invention to solve a problem. Patagonia did not invent wicking polyester fibers. But they used them to make the first wicking polyester long underwear, which radically changed how people thought about long underwear for outdoor sports.

This definition works great for Apple too. They don't invent much. But they innovate a lot. And yes the touch bar counts, even if you don't like it.
I liked the way you drive the story, it feels really natural. If you want one advice, don't stop writing/reading. The second advice I could give you is: dont make boring shorts. People want dystopias and black stuff if it is about tech. Try to get the reader to the point in which he cant stop reading.
Good luck in your journey.
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And if he doesn't?
Whether they were on his side or not, they still printed every single thing he said, often in giant letters on the front page.
I'm going to take heat for this position, but....

> Access to LinkedIn will be blocked in Russia after the U.S. social network failed to move personal data storage to the country, the country’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has said.

Is it morally wrong that Russia is trying to rein in powerful companies which have proven to be very friendly with a government which is aggressive to them?
Sure there are these guys, they are online in reddit's /r/pussypassdenied, they might froth at the mouth when they say 'lock her up'. These guys have always been easy to hear, those voices are still coming from inside the bubble of firstworldproblems. This is not what Thiel seems to be talking about, or what Trump has put up on his website. Perhaps Trump's personality faults are being used to keep us on this narrative that the modern economic progressive movement is working for all of us, and anyone who says differently is intellectually or morally flawed? This might explain why we have managed to leave half the population in our economic trail dust for 25 odd years.
As I minority, I will tell you that I trust Sanders far more with social justice than HRC.

Also there's nothing bigoted about folks working to make sure women get the same wages as men, or to break the cycle of poverty black folks in Chicago's south side are stuck in. Those are problems plain and simple, and they need to be solved.
This is why I always went with bottom-up design.

I would prototype dozens of small game ideas in Flash without much planning until I found one that I spent more time playing than I did making.
I wouldn't say totally unfamiliar, but I suppose I'm biased to my own understanding.

Correct, Republican appointees did support and continue to reaffirm constitutional protections for abortion rights. However, it is not clear to me that the Republicans making those appointments made a clear statement vowing that they would appoint those who would be in favor of removing Roe v Wade [0]. The seat currently open will be unlikely to overturn Roe v Wade regardless of who was appointed. However, should Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kennedy, or Stephen Breyer leave the court (All >=78yrs) [1] and be replaced by Trump's appointees. I understand it's not an immediate ability with the appointment of one justice in that favour, but there's still reason for concern.

[0] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/19/trump-ill-appoint-supreme-cou...

[1] http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-supreme-court-2016...
Curious how long it took to develop.
Maybe they could change their name to something more inclusive, like the British National Party... :)
Do you also feel sad for the millions of animals that live in miserable conditions for months/years just to be eaten by us afterwards? This is arguably less of a torture to a much smaller number of animals, yet it is heavily regulated in most countries.
I think something that might not always be mentioned is that voter turnout likely remains low because of the electoral college.

I only bother voting if there is a referendum or local politician I care about. Neither was true in this election. Living in Maryland I already knew Clinton would carry the state. So why go vote?

I bet there are people like that in deeply red states who feel the same. I bet voter turnout would be higher all around under a Popular vote scenario.

Voter turnout was still low in swing states are well, so I could be wrong. But I think at times people realize their vote is sort of pointless.
We need to talk about animal experimentation regulation and protests here in europe. It has gone so far that scientists have literally given up their science: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/05/embattled-max-planck-...
The way I understand, they've been burned before by leaking all at the same time - there's an initial "shock", theneveryone forgets about it. If your purpose is generating the maximum amount of outrage and controversy (and, consequentially, change), it makes sense to publish things slowly.

Although I agree that the timing was probably connected with the US elections. But again, that's a good think - the only way organisations will change is if it will hurt them. Now both US parties know that they can easily be targets next time.
Orbital solar is such a fantastic idea, until you realize that any kind of energy transfer at useful scales is almost by necessity going to be strategically equivalent to a BF laser beam. Needless to say, that's going to be a tricky subject in the current geopolitical climate.

I'm reminded of the book "The Mote in God's Eye", which featured an alien race using an enormous orbital laser array to launch an interstellar solar sail vehicle. The launch was pretty much the crowning achievement of the race, and also the pretty much the last one, as the launch laser was almost immediately turned back on the planet itself.
I keep seeing this claims about DNC / Hillary and Bernie, but its always seeped in so much anger, I've been avoiding the posts. Is there any chance you could link me somewhere where I could read up on it impartially?
You seem to have missed the presence of the word "margin" in the quoted words, as well as my entire point.

To remind you, my point is that the election was very close. It is not that the result is bogus or nobody cares or it's meaningless.

A tiny shift in sentiment would have changed the outcome of the election. The fact that the margin of electors is about 14% doesn't change that fact. The electors are not a meaningful measure of how close the race was.
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I appreciate the links. Thank!
Thank you for the advice, appreciate it.
Tried go and fairly quickly headed back to Python. Kept running into annoyances that slowed development. Not being able to get a NULL back from a database without a third-party library was the final straw (go 1.5, might have changed since then).

I understand there's obvious use cases for Go, but an amazing amount of what we do is taking data from place 'A' (web, socket, file), sending it to place 'B' (another web, socket, file), and then returning a result. Go doesn't buy you much that asyncio won't.
And that's Germany, a country that's relatively well paying for engineers (like Switzerland). If you're from The Netherlands forget about that salary.
But I'd ask myself where is that half-a-trillion dollars going to come from, on top of the increases in military spending, the thousands-of-miles-long Mexico wall, the massively expensive roundups and deportations, and so on. Especially when taxes are apparently also going to be reduced.

And asking myself that question, I'd think his promises somewhat empty and opportunistic.
Trump groked persuasion, while Clinton hired him (Robert Cialdini) as a consultant & still couldn't get out of her own way.
I was recently reading http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html, which made me think about this very thing. I never liked working with parser generators because they felt so unwieldy, but I wondered if a system like parsec might be extensible enough to simplify the entire process greatly.
Singapore is definitely multi-cultural, but it's also about 75% Han Chinese.
Thanks. Gives me something to chew on.
This is not that trivial to answer. In this case, the FBI went against the law by operating these servers - a typical case of "the ends justify the means". Should we allow police work not to play by the rules? That usually doesn't end well.
Okay, this is why people don't want to listen and debate you: you're living in a weird cartoon universe where "President Trump" isn't a sick joke.

Just to take one minor example: Milo Yiannopolous is a racist bully. That's literally the only thing most people who have heard about him know about him. "Milo Yiannopolous? Isn't he that racist bully who picked on the actress from the 'Ghostbusters' movie?"

You calling that "bro" a hero is a racist thing to do: congratulations you're being racist on the Internet.

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I didn't think about this, uninstalling it is better in that case. However based on coderjames' comment, I guess it wasn't completely uninstalled, and, as you said, left him without a usable system. I agree, backwards compatiblity is a double edged sword.
They arrested the stupid users. Pedophiles are not known for being among the brightest. Those people downloaded the Tor browser and blindly started browsing on it.

It wouldn't have been so easy to get information on 200 real cyber criminals.
This is awesome. I was really bummed about the state of QT support in golang. I played with the go-qml project, but it wasn;t everything I needed. This looks amazing.
> The first sentence says Hillary has a "98.2 percent chance of winning the presidency". It only gets better from there.

That is why physicists demand 99.99% (three sigma) significance before they are calling it hints. The thing is, it is absolutely true that (some) polling models predicted a 98% chance of an Hillary win. It is just the problem that these models have trouble to predict the behavior of Trump voters.

And frankly that is the problem with models. I have predicted, on reddit, that Trump would win. And I managed to do that precisely by not having a model, I just looked at the model outputs of Real Clear Politics and added a fudge factor, because usually models underestimate right wing populists, for perfectly understandable reasons. However, having a model means that you can not just add in a fudge factor, honesty demands that you have to justify each and every parameter and actually all forecasts where I did bother to look, did that. But the thing is at rather uncertain predictions like 98% the fudge factors reign.
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You make some good points, but this:

> Most people are reasonable

Is blatantly false. People are tribal.
> Yep. But this is what made everyone miss what was happening.

What is it that you think was happening?
> Because it is the only case in which "illegal" refers to a status rather than an action [..] a very un-American view of how the law works

That's because the illegal action consists of being in a location where you have no right to be. And it's not, in fact, the only case. Compare it to its close relative, trespassing:

An "illegal resident" is someone living in a country of which they have neither citizenship nor visa.

An "illegal occupant" is someone living in a building of which they have neither possession nor tenancy.

It seems rather straightforward to me. Whether such a view is "un-American" or not I legitimately do not know, not being an American myself. Though I can say that that word doesn't have the proudest of histories, to put it mildly.
Trumps scams benefited hardly anyone but him at cost of many. The SV model created many companies that benefited large numbers of people, a few disrupting entire industries for the better, most of the wealth going to a tiny few as usual, and possibility it's a bubble that can pop.

Much, much, less bullshit than what Trump was doing. Much more benefit overall. They're not the same. I'd take SV businesses over Trump's businesses any day.
I use the relatively popular Georgify extension for HN (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...)
What you don't seem to realize is this: Depending on what they are reporting on, papers like the NYT, Reuters, etc, are quite literally official newspapers of the US govt.

And that applies not just to newspapers, but also to TV and radio stations.
Those firewall states mostly went by 1-2% margins.

Your analogy is flawed. The individual "games" weren't that skewed. Instead, imagine two basketball teams play best-of-5. The scores are 100-98, 101-99, 100-101, 99-100, and 98-100. It would be bizarre to say that one team was greatly superior based on that, even though they did have a big margin in percentage of games won.
Calexit – California Secession Petition Gaining Strength After Trump Win
There's got to be MagSafe to USB-C adapters on the way, right? It would be crazy if everyone had throw away perfectly functioning transformers, for lack of a cheap adapter. The market opportunity is obvious.
The problem with facebook is the SHARE button. If I want to read Fox news or Huggington Post, I'll go to those sites and read. If I want to watch Cat videos I'll go to YouTube myself. The problem is that it's way too easy for my "friends" on facebook to click to promote whatever stirs their interest. One would hope most of the content shared on facebook is user-generated, not user shared. But there is no money in that so they have simplified the process of sharing monetized crap to a single click.
I just love Game Maker's Toolkit, if you haven't watched it and love videogames, you should.

Even if you don't like videogames, but you are creating experiences for other people, you should understand what's behind a videogame.
I agree with the overall message that Obama was way more establishment than he made himself seem in the campaign, but Guantanamo is a horrible example. He's consistently brought it up and fight for it, if it was an empty campaign promise he would have quietly never mentioned it again.

Impossibility can mean a couple of things - the logistical challenges of where Guantanamo prisoners should go, and the impossibility of getting it done in a Republican-controlled senate and house.

The first is in line with your point, although I think it's a reasonable assumption that Obama honestly underestimated the challenge. For the second, it's not reasonable to call it a broken promise if he made a good faith effort and was blocked by something out of his control (that he couldn't have necessarily predicted)
Exactly. That's kind of the point of free speech to begin with, at least in part. If a person can only express oneself in a specific zone, you end up with bottled emotions, ideas and frustrations boiling over by the time the arrive.

Combine that with the generalization that occurs on the more polarizing subjects (life/choice, guns, violence, police, race. . .) It snowballs.

Especially in a culture where there is a fear of expressing an opinion such as 'my body, my life' or 'all lives matter’ or ‘guns don't kill, people do' will often result in hate from acquaintances and strangers .

As a society, I think we're are still learning how to deal with the idea that anyone can say something with the potential to be seen by the masses, and be responded to in kind -and en masse.
HN being full of sociopaths is well known. Being apologists for Thiel's odiousness is a new low.

The man clearly states what he means, trying to 'clarify what he exactly means' is convuluted apologism and revisonism. This is like saying slave trade is wrong but you support it. Ok.

If you agree with his views defend them on the platform of reason.

Let's not get carried away here. Trump has not won because he is racist, nobody now thinks racism is ok. He has won because of the disenchantment with the establishment and his opposite number being widely perceived as a crook.

If you think minorities and women are somehow different from you it will appear as bigotry unless you can offer some evidence or reason beyond generalising entire sections of humanity for some self serving and dubious cause.
I'm relieved, thanks guys. I really don't see the complexity when deploying to a (managed) k8s cluster. Sure, we'll still have to configure a deployment pipeline, add some scripts to push and deploy the right images etc., but overall, k8s seems really well suited to the task.
It does if you're using their API
Thanks, I will check it out.
See also the 1994 novel, Interface, by Neal Stephenson and George Jewsbury.
Seriously. I don't need to add the Kremlin into the mix.
If the goal is to get people to try it out, putting a sign-up for a free trial page between the call to action and the action is at odds with that goal. I don't want a 14 day free trial, I just want a sandbox to play in and I expect it right now.

I'd also think that supporting SQLlite might broaden the appeal.

Good luck.
>> SQL mixed with HTML

And now we have Javascript being mixed with HTML; which I never thought would happen.
That's what I was thinking of, but it's probably also that they simply aren't paying as much in wages.

The older companies at least pay minimum wage + overtime when needed.
To some extent, I think it's reasonable. PHP had the same issue (old libraries assuming single byte strings) and the way they handled it is pretty awful.

Essentially all string manipulation functions also have an equivalent function with the same name prefixed with "mb_", which works for multibyte strings.

The practical effect is that people use the default string functions and then things break when multibyte strings start showing up! It is backward compatible, but it's certainly ugly and that's quite a tradeoff.
But if most customers buy all those games anyways, why should they change their methods? I mean, I’m all for Nintendo, and I have their current gaming systems, but I only have like two other friends who have Wii U, and all the others have PS4 and mostly love shooters or FIFA. Nintendo has kept afloat because, most of the time, they keep the same prices through the life of their systems, so they sell enough to keep going. Anyways, I hope they never really go bankrupt, or go the other companies’ way.
BPO/KPO?
His personal plane is a 757, and his office is in his own skyscraper...

He obviously has a lot of wealth. How much is liquid isn't really relevant, his 'income' isn't relevant, with the ultra-rich all that really ever matters is 'net worth'.
> So at best he seems to have gotten around 30% of the voters to vote for him.

What do you mean by this exactly? Trump lost the popular election with 47.5% support to Clinton's 47.7%. How did you come up with the "around 30%" figure?
You're talking as if Hillary "like with a cloth or something" Clinton was a step-up in technological knowledge over "my son's very good with the cyber".

Both options sucked in that regard.
I am not sure about the letter of the law, but I think the spirit is clear that the intent matters.

And they didn't operate the servers because they wanted to give platform to child porn users, but because they wanted to catch the users.
Same for REST. Rails is one main reason why people think they use it, when they are actually not.
They don't support 3 :(
> As has been described elsewhere in this thread the damage he will do (if he enacts even half of his platform) to immigrant and womens rights, America's standing in the world and free trade will outweigh a hundredfold any small gains you get from a backlash against political correctness.

But in four years will you admit you're wrong if it doesn't turn out to be the case?

No. It will go on and on and on.

I feel I respond to all this fear mongering constantly:

> immigrant rights

Immigrants are better off with stronger borders. People don't have to suspect them of being illegal. Has that occurred to anyone on the left?

> womens rights?

Trump: I oppose the use of government funds to pay for abortion.

A supreme court judge may be an issue though, but it is unlikely to reverse policy.

> America's standing in the world

It is bad at the moment.

> free trade

Both candidates oppose TPP. Canada wants to talk about NAFTA. Free trade destroys local jobs.
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Sorry but your comment simply indicates the problem.

It's quite similar to the post-Brexit discussions, how pro-Bexit people are stupid, etc.

We can talk about what a "liar, misogynist, tech illiterate, arrogant and overall a disgusting human being" he is all we want. It would probably be fine, as in it wouldn't really matter, if he was some random radical weirdo with an audience of a dozen equally weird folks. But he's the President-elect.

So we can continue with this circle jerk rant about what a disgusting human being is and what his voters are like. Or we can try to actually understand why so many people voted for him. But in order to do that, we need to stop the whole rant that never changes.

I am not pro-Trump. In fact, my safety largely depends on NATO and Trump poses a threat. But there's no point in shouting about what a misogynist he is. It's so counterproductive.
I don't think the anger is people bought their home 20 years ago. It's from people who rent; people who grew up with their parents and want their own place in the city; people who have moved to the area for a job and cannot afford to live within a reasonable distance of work.

Having property that no one lives in despite people wanting to seems like a poor allocation of land. (Mind you, it may not be a poor allocation of resources for the people investing)