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I think you missed the point of my post. We live in a distortion field, but it's not because our beliefs are wrong, rather we underestimate how many people don't share it.

Pre election they were all over trump. post election they have completely flipped and are blaming democrats/hillary/etc. When in reality we have a near perfect balance of competing views
Go is really getting to a point that is not just the new cool thing in town, but a language that makes sense to use in production.
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Why do you ask him? YOu rehashed what he said, putting a negative spin on a very reasonable system. You can't have California drain the other states through economic superiority and then dictate political agenda on the population left in them. The political agenda benefiting California might not be suitable for Wisconsin.
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Is a quantum jump the same as or related to what I have referred to as a "quantum leap" in the past? IIRC, a quantum leap is supposed to be when a electron changes it's orbit. Which I believe was also thought to be instantaneous?
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Yeah but that's the problem with bitcoin. It seems to be mainly just a speculative currency.
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Yes absolutely. It's one of the stranger, most fascinating museums in London that I've ever visited.
A lot of FOSS work is done by "paid professionals", that does not change the fact that you get the software for free.
In the spirit of your comment, I'd like to suggest a massive income raise for elected federal officials. The leader of the free world makes something like $400k / year. If we were willing to give them more, it might reduce the temptation to take so much from lobbyists, and perhaps save us a lot of money in the long run. If I'm wrong, it won't cost much in the scheme of things anyway.
It is so much easier to sell something people want than something people need.
That is an interesting projection of your attitude. I hate to attribute a negative disposition to your comment, but you sound like an environmental extremist. Environmental extremist whom if given the opportunity would indirectly blow the world up, all in the name of the environment! Keep in mind that you have created this slippery slope, I reference to my initial comment; To give context to my reference (if it is not already obvious), I am for progressive laws for which people will adapt to hence given the choice not the forceful option, like sanctions; I am all for change just do not force it on me, and I you believe that a paternalistic government is needed for a positive change than you have already defined paternalist; paternalism through aggressive actions, like sanctions.
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I wrote something very similar, but this is exactly what I mean by writing 40% of an ORM.
That's great. Thanks.
Come on, "SJW", "trigger word"? That right there is loaded language to begin with. And you can't explain the Obama/Trump voter with the SJW angle. To me the most telling statistic was how many people that voted for Trump believed him to be unqualified.

The divide is clearly between insider vs outsider, and dissatisfaction with the status quo. For me the Dems got caught with their pants down because Trump is so despicable as a human that they deemed him unelectable. But they got blind-sided because Trump's message resonated so strongly with half the country that his personal flaws were beside the point.
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It's not safer than Java. The selling point over Java is developer friendliness (simpler language, tooling, dependency management, deployment, etc).
I'm coming late to this. I've been through two take-home projects. Both of them resulted in a no-hire, and each has refined what I'm willing to do and what I'm not willing to do.

The first one was a pretty egregious experience, honestly. I never spoke with anyone other than a recruiter. The first was a 2 hour Java test. The next was a take-home that I was supposed to spend 5-7 hours on. I did it and sent it in. I knew it wasn't great, but I put a hard stop at 7 hours. It took almost a month for me to hear back, from the recruiter, "we've decided not to continue with your application at this time..."

For a while, I said never again. However, after refusing (and passing on what might have been good opportunities), I did another. Circumstances were very different. I had two extensive interviews with developers prior to the take-home, and I was interested in the job. Furthermore, they did reply with feedback, though it was through a recruiter.

The feedback was mixed, some things were good, others were bad. Unfortunately, though, it was a hard stop. I didn't get and presumably will never get a chance to defend my choices. Although I understand the company probably doesn't want to open up a debate, they've moved on, it rankles that someone got to say those things about my code and I never got a chance to reply.

So, am I at the point where I'd never do it again? Almost. I think I would insist on an opportunity to defend my code base, at least one back and forth, before calling it quits.

It sounds like this company (mattermark) does this, which is a positive thing. You do get a chance to argue (though maybe they do cut some people off when the project is terrible, and who knows, maybe the people who rejected mine (no connection to mattermark) were just taking it a little easy on me, but were genuinely not interested after seeing it).

I don't actually care about getting paid for the project time, if it's a good opportunity. I have to spend as much time re-studying my data structures and algorithms book for whiteboard interviews anyway, and I actually my learn something from the take-home.

I'll probably talk to a buddy I consider to be a really good programmer who works in this area, and see what his take is on my project, asking him to be pretty brutally honest about his assessment.
HN is an echo chamber when it comes to tech choices, but it's absolutely not when it comes to politics. I've seen many pro-Trump supporters in the ranks here, which is very surprising given the demographic.
Awesome site! I found it useful to test the code using https://bit.run, but there are probably plenty similar sites out there.
Many people use it as a link-sharing medium like others use Twitter.
It's completely different in my opinion, the only similarity is that you have two people and one computer.

In pair programming you're both working together, complementing each other to tackle a particular problem or issue. In a good pair programming session we'll both work together to surpass an obstacle.

In an interview, one person is observing, testing and ultimately judging the other person, while actively ensuring they do not contribute to the solution of the problem so as not to skew results. Only one person is truly working towards the programming goal, and both participants know this.
That's addressed in the last three paragraphs of the article.
How would the media cover Trump's victory if America were a third-world country?
Could be, but personally I'm done with being silent and just chuckling silently to myself or rolling my eyes when people pull out these infotainment zingers disguised as "insight".

I agree. Throwing a derogatory zinger out there like "SJW" (which is unquestionably a dog whistle... anyone who would claim otherwise is being dishonest) does nothing to enhance public discourse, and it's about time we all worked to recognize and discourage that kind of behaviour while we all try to have honest, forthright conversations that help everyone understand each other a little better.

That is what you meant, right?
Unlike in most other European countries, Dutch law allows for life imprisonment without parole, from which only a royal pardon can save you. Since 1970, 43 people have been convicted, 2 of whom were eventually pardoned, both because of terminal illness. A quick glance through the recent list of convictions[1] shows that most life sentences were imposed in cases of multiple homicide, homicide for financial gain and homicide related to organized crime.

In addition, convicts may be involuntarily committed when their sentence is over (and often before). This is aimed at rehabilitation, but can be extended indefinitely.

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_tot_levenslang_veroo... (in Dutch)
> it's usually for some tree-like structure, but the cases where I need a high-performance tree structure and can't take the performance hit of `interface{}` are few and far between.

The problem with interface{} is that it makes it pretty much worthless to have a type system at all.
Yes, for example one of the first things he talked about in his victory speech was helping out the inner cities. He must not know that there are high populations of black people in those areas.
I love alibaba/aliexpress, it's like "China: The Website". Great for cheap microcontrollers and what not.
I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for voting yes.
I have written a small webapp in Go while learning it and I didn't use an ORM, but the feedback I got from reddit is that at some point in time I'd need to use an ORM. What are your thoughts on the usage of ORM? +ve points vs -ve points?
Why is it so often stated, that Scheme doesn't need a parser? I mean the AST is simpler then in other languages, but at the end of the day, you have to parse SEXPs, don't you?

I mean let's say you evaluate

> (+ 2 3)

You have to parse the string "(+ 2 3)" and will then evaluate it to 5?
>Trump consistently insulted large swaths of voters.

Trump only insulted criminals who rape women and children trying to cross the border illegally (stats said 1 in 4 women were raped trying to cross the border).
I read a lot of r/the_Donald, as I like to not confine myself to echo chambers. They are often young and immature, and can be disrespectful to Clinton supporters generally, but in the most upvoted thread yesterday there was a comment chain near the top talking about gay rights, all of it very pro-gay rights and respectful.
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Haven't found a description generator that uses popular terms yet, but there is this classic: http://tiffzhang.com/startup/ (a new one is generated on each refresh).
It's a fictional short story, so I am guilty of taking liberties in imagination :)
On the other hand, we did luck out that, when our systems were extremely vulnerable, the first attack to demonstrate those glaring issues was not intentionally malicious
This has happened four times now. http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-trouble-with-the-electoral-c...
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I wasn't saying that I literally or intentionally post garbage comments. That was rhetoric, to prove a point. I'd assumed HN readers and moderators would understand that.
Nassim Taleb has rigorously shown that FiveThirtyEight did not accurately account for uncertainty in their models.
Yes but I'm thinking of the type of scheme people use to lose weight. "If I dont lose 3 pounds this month I'll owe you $10" but for email or media usage
Apple started developing the Newton in '87 so it's not that surprising to see touch screens in a prototype from around that time.
There is no such thing. Even if only through the selection of events considered "newsworthy", reporting news _always_ implies a particular narrative of the world, and politics is nothing but competing narratives.
Ha, this cracks me up. Been there for sure.

I find it increasingly difficult to find flashlights that don't four or five modes of operation, especially bright ones that use 16450 (or is it 18450?) batteries. And they all seem to have slightly dodgy switches that change the mode with the slightest touch.

Brightness and barrel construction are all great, but please just give me an on/off light with a solid switch!
I think since 2000 the networks are super cautious about calling Florida in particular.
It's definitely not just my world view. According to some studies, 62% of Americans are said to use FB as their primary news source (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/62-people-now-use-facebook-pr...)

So it's not unreasonable to say you're inside a really special bubble, if you've never heard anyone using Facebook as a news source.
The system we have incentivizes campaigns to maximize their electoral college votes. So while we could switch to a popular vote for a future election, looking at the popular vote in an EC-based election doesn't necessarily tell us who would have won the popular vote if we'd changed the rules before this election.

The campaigns would have done things differently (like dems not ignore TX and repubs not ignore CA).

This is more explained more thoroughly and eloquently by Prof Adler: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
I respect your commitment to protecting people and I hope you succeed.

Earlier in this thread you were saying that there was no point in talking to your opponents. The way you phrased it looked to me like you meant that there was nothing that you could learn from each other and nothing that you could convince each other about. As you can see, I don't think that's right. Now, it seems that you meant to make a narrower point that talking to your opponents won't stop deportations now, which is probably true.

Depending on hard-to-predict factors, there might be conversations you could have that would convince some people not to turn their neighbors and coworkers in for deportation even if they strongly disagree with you about immigration in general.
TECS is a wonderful book! I think it was one of the most enjoyable books about CS I have ever read.
No, the idea of being persecuted for what you believe and then in turn, lying in public about it is not a new idea.

It doesn't need a Wikipedia article nor a term for it. It has been around since the beginning of time.

What is new is that this sort of environment is taking hold in the US, which is unfortunate. And this forum is as guilty as any other. People lambasted Peter Thiel for speaking his mind and voting his wallet. They demanded his head and spoke of repercussions.

That's what you get when you behave that way. When people are threatened when they speak out, they just wont speak in public, but it doesn't change what they believe. Our society is worse off for silencing their voices.
Amendment 71 also made it harder to pass amendments: the threshold is now 55%. The only exception is for amendments that repeal things from the constitution, for which the threshold is still 50%

Details: https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Imposition_of_Distribution_...
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Just wondering: Are people using Go as a target-language for compilation?
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It's just example. People are killing people for way smaller reasons. My price is very high, isn't?

How much people live in Dutch? If Russians will send one killer for every key men in country, country will be their in just 12 years, while they lose nothing, because Dutch prison is much much more comfortable than a flat in Rostov. I see that in Ukraine right now.
"we" do that too, just not for these kind of news.

Everytime i see some of the hardliners posting something political it will be completely ignored, or at max liked by some other hardliners.

If someone posts a article about vegan or animal rights or shit, thats the kind of stuff that goes viral in my circles.
> So if we lived in Colorado, when he actually wanted to die, he would be unable to fulfill these requirements.

Colorado's law is fairly specific to those that are imminently terminal (6 months or less), so most forms of dementia do not qualify.

I'm terribly sorry for what your father, your family, and you are going through. I wish I had some words of comfort, but really there is nothing good about where dementia will take him or your family.

I went through a fairly similar experience with my father who had PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy - http://www.psp.org/). Early on in the disease he was aware of his mental decline and expressed a desire to end his own life. Everyone was concerned and the doctors ended up putting him on antidepressants. If only we had known how bad things would get...

There are many forms of dementia, and nearly all of them involve a horrible quality of life at the end.

My brothers and I joke about taking up skydiving in our retirement and packing our own parachutes. If our mental acuity declines to the point where we pack the chute wrong, then at least it would be a quick end.
Same here. I think I should get back to adding more stuff!
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I think Chris Allen nailed the Haskell-learning path:

https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

or, http://haskellbook.com/
As mention, but i am glad to do it again. I AM NOT AMERICAN

Edit:// To further clearify: Nether are any of my facebook friends, nether have i ever been there or plan to. I have no relation with the U.S. i was just making the point that Facebook might simply is not the right place to find information.
> strikes the right balance for me between productivity and safety.

Would be curious to hear what "safety" you're referring to, is it just that it has a basic static type system, (which is constantly being undermined by interface{} and reflection), or is there more to it?

Genuinely curious.
On the flip side there were severe performance degradations for certain types of queries. Notably Zabbix[0] was affected.

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Right, C compilers will automatically known it's part of libc. You didn't need to do the separate file thing, you could just have the wrapper and it will trigger the movslq, or a cltq.
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I did get a very sinky feeling when they scanned my vote and I didn't get a paper copy.

Lowest bidder development doesn't seem like it should be the way we engineer everything.

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I don't find that term offensive at all. To me it it means you believe in something and you're going to stand up for it.
Oh so he meant to say Intel 64/amd64. IA-64 is Intel Itanium. I just skipped it because I know nothing about IA-64 at all.
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I'm completely with you, but how?
Given that the choice is between "torture leading to death" and "death", our laws are wrong.
Has a ransomware or botnet perpetrator been convicted of a crime in any country?

Morris was convicted under CFAA, it's surprising to me that it isn't a "regular" thing to hear about another hacker getting convicted on a daily basis. What are the reasons this doesn't happen? I understand they can hide their identity, etc., but are there even active investigations? Is there a single biggest reason why, like not being able to prove which person caused something to happen?

I don't really like real world analogies for computer systems, but if there was a big line of people in masks knocking at my door and trying 100s of different keys in the lock, 24/7, I'd probably seek some legal remedy rather than just getting more locks.
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Coming from a third world country (Switzerland) i dont think it would be much different to now. Probably not as relevant tho.
C++17 gives you async/await, coroutines and parallel algorithms.
The problem is that the "other echo chamber" isn't making arguments that are based on facts, not true facts at least. You can't have an argument with a climate change denier. It's unpossible. If we can't agree on a common set of facts then there's nothing else to talk about.

The way to fix it is to force anyone that broadcasts a video signal over cable or the airwaves or the internet to have a few hours a night of commercial free news. If they publish something that's patently not true then the government should revoke their license to broadcast on every medium. The only problem with that is that it would be very easy to get state run media in that situation.
That Trump won in large part due to disproportionate support from voters without a college degree is a plain fact worth being reported. Reading insult into it is discretionary.
First, secure (SSL) and verify the certificate on the mobile app. Make sure no MITM can read your response/request.

For auth, my favorite auth is two fold

For API access => Signature based verification, signing each and every request using a known signature algorithm with the secret key (only known to you and the app developer).

For users => Token based authentication (lots of open source solutions out there).
> Ah. So your company has failed to keep pace with what your audience wants, and so is falling apart. Your answer is to use copyright like a sledgehammer, rather than trying to understand the current market.

"All we want is brand new, big-budget entertainment in our homes for nothing. Why doesn't Hollywood get that?" --Carl Carlson
Like a color or a taste, some things need to be experienced and fiercly resist explanation or codification. The urge to turn everything into a set of rules or a narrative can be a kind of sickness, or at least less productive than methodically testing what works and building on it over time without too much concern about some grand unifying theory. It's not easy but there is such a precious example of a society that does an OK job at it. Too many people leap at the negatives while ignoring what's working.
You expect me to personally give a shit that there's another basket containing people she thinks can be reeducated, when I and my family are in the basket marked for liquidation? Note also how that seriously personalized the campaign for us deplorables, clearly moved it to a "will crawl over broken glass to get to the polling booth"; existential threats will do that, you know.

Even if you don't accept my analysis of the coding of her language, how can you tell me with a straight face she was "encouraging reaching out to the" irredeemables? That's very specific religious language, per Merriam Webster "not able to be saved, helped, or made better". What were they supposed to do in this/after this "reaching out"???

And whatever happened to being the President of all Americans? Even Obama shows every sign of believing that, despite his looking down his nose on us bitter clingers, treating us as "enemies" to be defeated and the like.

That's why my family voted for Obama over Hillary in the 2008 primary (by then McCain had the Republican one locked up and Missouri has open primaries). Obama is no prize, but he's not a fraction as dangerous as Hillary and to a lessor extend Bill. We had lived through and remembered their first co-presidency all too well.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about? Free speech is about legality of speech; nobody's talked about locking anyone up for supporting a candidate.
define bad because for their district they are exactly what most of them want.
With the wrapper in the same file, clang threw an error because the definition conflicted with the implied prototype.
Please.

Let's all admit SJW has a clear, negative connotation. I mean, geez, it has a Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior

is a pejorative term for an individual promoting socially progressive views,[1] including feminism,[1][2] civil rights,[1] multiculturalism,[1] and identity politics.

Are you really going to claim that you weren't aware of this when you threw that term out there?