skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there are extremes. The Gaussian distribution is a natural phenomenon. But this discussion is about the ~50% of voters who supported Trump, because rightly or wrongly, they believe his leadership will provide them with a safer and more prosperous future than those of the alternative candidate.

You can disagree with their decision whilst still empathising with their reasons. Indeed you must, if you're ever going to persuade anyone to change their position.

Though you're poisoning the discussion by invoking cannibalism, it's easy to see that in primitive societies where it was accepted, it was due to a need for safety (from hunger) and love (from participating a communal ritual). Of course we find it abhorrent now, I certainly do. But I can understand why it would have been acceptable to people in a time and place where there seemed no alternative.

Equally, we would all hope and expect that where others find our opinions and actions abhorrent (and in a huge and diverse world, someone always will), that they will seek understanding before abusing or marginalising us.

> PS: Some people really don't care about safety others don't care about love.

When I've actually dug deeply into that question, I've never found it to be true. The people who, on the surface, seem not to care about being loved, actually turn out to be the ones who crave it the most. Just look into the life story of any psychopath or tyrant, and you'll inevitably find stories of abuse and/or emotional neglect in childhood.
> but it doesn't seem to be actively developed

The source code is here: https://github.com/rubyomr-preview/ruby

Seems the code is being developed internally to IBM. First the docker images of the OMR tech preview were dropped about a year ago. The the source was dropped recently. Targets Ruby 2.2 so I'm going to open an issue asking about targeting 2.3 and folding this work into trunk.

$ git clone https://github.com/rubyomr-preview/ruby.git --branch ruby_2_2_omr --recursive
$ cd ruby
$ autoconf
$ ./configure SPEC=linux_x86-64 --with-omr-jit
$ make
$ make install

This should build it for you to try out. I urge others to try it out and give feedback.
>>Edit: Hello downvoters. At almost the very top of his speech, Trump specifically said he was reaching out to people who didn't support him for guidance and help in unifying and improving the country.

Have you not been putting attention? He lies, lies, and lies to cover the lies and people do not care.

He is who he is and will not change. I was stupid and naive enough to believe that the people of the United states would not be fooled by this person and I was wrong. Why would I believe his lies now? You must think I'm an idiot.
I am reeling.

Leonard's music had an uncanny sense of timing, both musical and cultural. He referenced the external, political world, indirectly - not through selfishly inward bullshit, like many of his contemporaries, but by sifting it through relationships with others and his relationship to the divine.

As I am writing this, the next article in hackernews is about Peter Thiel and his ascension to whatever office he is seeking in Trump's cabinet. His views on the damage women and minorities have done to Libertarianism (whatever that is), and how democracy is shit are well known, and I will let you judge how Palantir has benefited humanity.

The thing that gets me is his straight faced desire for immortality. Note that he doesn't wish for immortality for someone who is great, he wishes it for himself.

RIP Leonard. You already are immortal.
Obama had both houses of Congress for his first two years. He could have passed any law he wanted (indeed, that's how Obamacare got passed).
Trump supporters aren't racist. Time to prove it
First I was quietly amused. Quietly, because my friends seemed geniunely upset. Amused, because I liked Mr Orange shaking things up. Sometimes things got racist or sexist or absurdist. But then, so is Chapelle, Louis CK, and half the stand-up I enjoy.

Then I was concerned. Accusations of racism and sexism and bigotry started to fly. Comparisons were made to idiocracy. Sure, some Trump supporters are bigoted neo-Nazis, but most are not. Trump's supporters have valid concerns and agendas. And I saw friends shout them down as anti-women, anti-gay, anti-semetic. I was more concerned about the divisiveness and name-calling than the election result itself.

Now that hate is spilling into the real world. An aged white man was physically assaulted by Hillary supporters. Trump supporters are manhandling women and yelling at minorities to leave the country. Neither side is innocent. And both sides need to do something. A young black man won't listen to a white person. Just like a young white man won't listen to someone colored. Their mothers, uncles, friends, even strangers from their own backgrounds are another story. Most Trump supporters aren't racist, sexist or bigoted. Most Hillary supporters aren't violent, angry, terrorist-sympathizers. Now is the time to show that. Now is the time to speak up against any hateful act, especially among your fellow voters. Now is the time to let those hateful, unthinking, cowardly brutes know that what they're doing is not ok.

Instead of condemning the other side (because honestly, they won't listen), we need to condemn the hatred in our own ranks. Because I bet you've got more in common with the average voter on the other side, than the cowardly thug stalking the streets looking for a lone victim to target. Regardless of who we voted for, we all love, we all hurt, and we all want to live better lives. We're all human. And when one of those thuggish beasts hurt one of us, they hurt all of us.
Thanks. I'm just getting so discouraged right now.
I don't even live in California and I support Calexit. I'd also support the entire northeast from Virginia to Maine seceding. Though I guess PA wouldn't be on board with that any more.
I don't disagree re the DNC but do feel there is a difference between scuffles at a protest and openly condoning violence against specific people over multiple months.
Maybe related to a special post war period that gave birth to icons so many of us shared through the rised of nascent mainstream mass scale medias.

More than a dreadful year, it's also the passing of a generation, of a world. Sometimes I think that we had it too easy and we produced nothing good as a replacement for being somehow spoiled brats.
States cannot legally secede unilaterally, and there's a no chance in hell Congress would approve. Unless you're willing to form a militia against the US Army that surely would be sent in--which, ironically for California, is more difficult because of the stricter gun control. (Reason had a great headline yesterday--something like, "Trump's election makes liberals realize appeal of limited government.")
He has been publicly and actively in favor of marriage equality at least going back to 2010, if not earlier.
Vacant property has other costs to a municipality. Nobody is forcing them to sell, just taxing them more.
Vancouver to Tax Empty Homes
I was going to say, this is crazy it will never happen. Like the UK leaving the EU, the cubs winning the World Series, or Trump getting elected, this will never happen either.

Then I realized this is the year that anything could happen so...
Which website are you referring to?
Don't expect him to protect net neutrality just because he is an exec from Silicon Valley: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g4g95/peter_thiel_te...
True. We need to see China creating something that is not a copy first.
Misinformation? They got caught using humans, to manually sort through the trending stories, and prune stories that were anti-Hillary. The stories they are referring to I'm guessing are wiki-leaks? Not fallacies, but instead, things that the authors didn't originally intend the public to see. There is a big difference. And the reason they had to stop tweaking the trending stories feed, was because they were creating a large mis-trust across their platform. They were literally doing the opposite of what this story claims..... They were censoring free speech, to further their agenda. What they were doing is no different then places like CNN claiming that certain Wikileaks are not based on fact. CNN went as far as to tell their viewers that it was illegal to read the Wikileaks emails. They claimed only employees of the media were permitted to legally read the emails. Facebook is now claiming that they should have censored things like wikileaks, without telling anyone, just delete them. However, CNN is not now claiming they should have told more people it was illegal to read the wikileaks that aren't true.(they were gmail dkim verified). But Facebook however now claiming that they should silently remove more stories which don't further their agenda. This is going to be a nightmare when shareholders start having an issue with stories like these. As soon as people start realizing the truth, people will flee the platform.
Isn't the net effect of something like that to drive up the price of rent?
Yes, this is one of the main approaches when I was looking at this. Sorry, don't have references at hand, but recall comng across a few when searching for "hydraulic" erosion and river formation.

IIRC, it took a little while to find the favoured search terms. I was using http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/ and http://scholar.google.com.au/

There's an interesting review paper by Musgrave (decades after he was lead author on the most cited paper on fractal-landscapes, erosion and rendering) where he notes what you do: fractal landscapes look uncannily realistic to most people but they really aren't very realistic. https://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/archive/2015/fall/23700-...

BTW Can I ask you something please? I may rave on a bit, sorry... I'm interested in stream formation by erosion, instead of your more feasible stream-first approach, but I'm concerned that I end up with canyon-filled mountains, and silted up seas. I need a countervailing process, for mountain-formation and sea-emptying, which is surely plate tectonics: squashing mountains up, and subducting seas. Do you have any thoughts/references on modelling this? From my research, the cause of plate movement is not quite well-understood, with tentative theories of roiling magma rising, and somehow also point sources (for island chains like Hawaii).

Wikipedia says the crust is thinner under oceans, because land is a better insulator and the sea cools it faster (but shouldn't that make it thicker?); and the weight of the sea pushes it down (but shouldn't land -- ie rocks -- be heavier than water, being denser, since they sink?)

Thanks for your thoughts!
I'm not throwing away the humanity of Nazis. I'm acknowledging that their goal in life is to eradicate me and people like me, and that anything I can do to slow them down might save a life at some point. Time spent fixing the lawnmower is spent not agitating to have people tortured.

Tolerating certain politics as just "differences" in opinion is a luxury for people for whom politics are an intellectual exercise and maybe impact their bank statement at the end of the year, it's not affordable for those for whom it's a question of survival.
"Part of my surprise is that that bigotry is not a deal breaker"

You have to remember that the other side has spent the last 30 or 40 years calling those guys toothless, ignorant sister-screwing yokels.

Maybe they're tired of only one side being permitted to call people vile names?
> Just let me collect strings and print them to a log.

If that's something you want to do, that's quite easy. Vec<String> is your error type. Done.

But if you want to build something a bit richer, for example, to differentiate between the case in which you answered a question wrong, or when the examiner fails you, you could do that as well. It all depends.

But errors as values is what allows you to have that flexibility; it's easily extensible.
I love how much the right complained about Clinton's "pay to play." http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2016-11-03/trump-bl...

We've seen this during his entire campaign. Anything he attacked Clinton for came up as something he was guilty of.
The same effect could be gotten with less federal government and massive expansion of states rights... Irony.
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>No, it takes money from the owners of the property. Rents are market based more than anything else. I don't care if the tax is 0 or 100k, the owner can only rent for what he can find people to pay.

The subtlety you're missing here is the reduction in supply of rental units.
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That article contains a wonderful story about how he calmed a hostile audience in the middle of the night at a festival in 1970. I recommend it. (Search for "Isle of Wight", the story starts there.)
this is on the front page already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12925177
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This is so important.

One of the reasons Trump won is that a lot of people in this country feel like they're being smugly dismissed every time they open their mouths. That the "elites" have no interest in getting to know them, understanding their problems, or building a society that is inclusive of them. They're used to being lectured by people who don't even know them, who think their entire community is insignificant and irrelevant and backwards and stupid. They're used to being called "white trash" and worse, just for existing.

I'm #NeverTrump. He's a horrible human being. I wish he had never sniffed the presidency. I fear for the safety of my transgender friends. But Trump won't be stopped if we lie to ourselves about why people support him, if we tell comforting but false stories about how everyone who supports him is just stupid, racist, sexist, or self-hating. The only way to stop him is to understand why we weren't able to stop him this time, which means understanding what the people who voted for him want that the "establishment" is failing to take seriously.
Ok. Would you clarify who the "you" refers to? I'm not sure if you're referring to me, Peter Thiel, or some general person who doesn't hold the same views as you.
Grubhub CEO says employees who agree with Trump’s rhetoric should resign
I don't think tariffs should be used to keep manufacturing here - but if you get to move your manufacturing to China and pay people less than you would in the US and use a process worse for the environment I think it's really silly not to put something in place to discourage that. If China puts into place labor laws and environmental laws similar to ours, then sure no tariff should be in place.

Otherwise we're just rewarding companies (many of which are American) with access to our market without having to follow any of our laws.
One of the most important tools of thought is the ability to seperate the normative from the descriptive
Facebook forces user to use messenger on mobile site
WTF is wrong with the world. I don't want to install Facebook app and I don't want to install their messenger.

I just want to use it in my browser. I know it's 100% possible because it used to work.

Is that too much to ask for?
> There are multiple reports and videos of crowds at his rallies chanting "Kill the bitch, "Hang the bitch", and "Lock her up". Trump knew this and condoned the behaviour. He has actively singled out members of the "corrupt media".

Of all the things Trump has ever said or done in his life these 2 things aren't even close to the worst and were pretty poor choices for this argument.

Both of these examples are just a reflection of many people's anger with the status quo, globalism, elitism, whatever you want to call it. People are pissed at government. This is happening around the world.
It sounds like we may have differing definitions of "fair".
If you are an American and a true patriot you cannot support Calexit. We need everyone in this together for the future political battles to come. Isolation will not help anyone.
I think what's going on here is a rather specific misinterpretation on one or both your parts of what "contributed" means in this context.

If contributed is interpreted to mean "code was merged" not "work was done" then the period is a fairly static 6 weeks, but there's really no reason to be astonished about how many people were involved, as it could contain work from multiple months ago.

If contributed is interpreted to mean "work was done" then the number of people that contributed in this period compared to some other will have more meaning.

I think OJFord is working from the second interpretation.
What about Florida? Can we dump Florida? ;)
Apparently because they supported his campaign too.. Man, it's hard to watch. I see evidence and hope very much that the pivot people thought would happen when he got the GOP nomination has happened now that he has won the White House and everything is sinking in.

I didn't support Trump for prez, but I really hope he is successful and was a little excited shortly after the shock wore off. Excited for the unknown and the prospect that he might shake up the establishment. But reading all the news about him just surrounding himself with people who took a long shot on him pre-pivot; really eating away at my silver lining.

It was clear during the debates he had little substance in the way of issue and policy awareness. He deflected, quipped and barbed to appeal to people's emotions. He needs to be surrounding himself with the best advisors and tapping the best from either side on the shoulder.
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Lol given the current California budget situation, would not recommend.
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This is just nonsense.

Trump never provided his tax returns for scrutiny so unlike Hillary we don't know who exactly he is beholden to. What we know from his son, sources and leaks is that Russian ogligarchs with ties to Putin do hold significant amounts of his company's debt. It is this type of "pay to play" that is far, far beyond anything that has ever been seen before.
Interesting. Brexit or Texit are bigoted, racist, xenophobic concepts but Calexit is moral, liberal and progressive?
California is not a monolith --like Hispanics are not a monolithic bloc (~30% voted republican). The central valley and the sierras are conservative and they have the water. Water from the Colorado? Goodbye! Welcome to the waterless republic of coastal California right next to the state of inland California with all the water.
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Not if your housing is covered overseas as part of the package (whether private or military).
> so some aspects of the pollution can be controlled a little more

ALL aspects of the pollution can be controlled in big power generation plants.

For example coal power plants have advanced filter systems, which can reduce pollutants by more than 99% in some cases.

http://i.imgur.com/dsNgDvn.png

http://web.archive.org/web/20150611212052/http://www.babcock...

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40789-014-0001-x

Moreover, in power plants, coal burns in a much more optimal conditions, what results in less pollutants being generated.

> According to Environment Canada, coal-fired power plants in Alberta in 2011 emitted only 0.4% of PM2.5 of human-made emissions (excluding wildfires).

https://friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/FoS_BurningQue...

The only thing which can't be controlled is CO2. But this is not a pollutant.
To be fair, for Thiel $1M is practically nothing, basically just a token gesture. His press conference speech probably commanded 10x that in airtime value.
"Black thugs"
"Young white men"

That's the kind of racism that we're talking about
> Safely stored nuclear waste isn't a danger to anybody.

You can not claim that without a credible plan to store it until it's no longer hot, however long that takes.
I think the Surface line matches the build quality on macs, but the Linux story is about the same on those...
> I never said people on the left don't do it.

Apologies for my mis-interpretation.

I think discussions about such things (e.g., the revolving door for lobbyists, where most people seem to agree that it's bad for governance) would benefit from people omitting specific party/ideology references. It just creates the potential for mis-interpretation and can result in unnecessary strife and the illusion of division for an issue that most people probably agree on. And, as @praisewhitey noted[0], people on the right probably said the same thing about Trump too. So this isn't a "the left was right this time and the right was wrong and when Obama ran the right was right and the left was wrong" division. (Though it's likely true that people are more forgiving of candidates who hold their own ideologies).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12927416
Can you share a link that concisely demonstrates Thiel's bigotry?
In addition to what others have said:

His head-over-heels support for a decidedly anti-libertarian candidate like Trump is in itself quite extremist. This has always been one of the standard tools for (crypto-)fascists and closet authoritarians of all ilks to get into positions of influence -- by using people of nominally "opposing" viewpoints as, in effect, wedge instruments to disrupt the system as violently as possible -- and then step into the emergent vacuum.

And somewhat secondarily, there are the antics of his pals at the Seasteading Institute in blatantly courting partnership with the government in Honduras (basically the most murderous government left in the hemisphere) in order to set up a libertarian microstate in the heart of certain piece of "jungle" that just so happens to also be claimed by one of the region's poorest and most ill-treated ethnic groups.

Thiel's own role in this venture (if any) is unclear -- but his association with the SSI (and the principle actors in this "venture") is well-established.
Oh yes, it's very much a an "os language". But an important one to include in your list, I felt!

Objc is certainly C-derived, but it's also just as much smalltalk-derived. Definitely a very different beast than plain C (more so even than C++, I would say).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12925665 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12924340 (and a few more without or only very few comments)
I am happy to have offended you. Your thinking doesn't deserve to sit tranquilly.
You are aware that Trump contradicted himself every time he opened his mouth, right? Is there any reason to believe this will be the one time when he's self-consistent?
Also please don't flag this article. I just noticed that an article about Grubhub CEO telling Trump supporter employees to resign has been flagged. I hope there is no systematic trend in this sort of flagging.
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