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I don't mean to evade your request but I'm typing this on my phone while on a break at work so I don't have specific articles I can link to at the moment.

Off the top of my head I can give you some general topics I have found lacking in detail and nuance. The LA Times specifically has done a poor job imo on accurately representing some of the opposition to high density developments here in LA.

They also ran this piece [1] on Elon Musk's empire of subsidies which I thought was lacking in context. Disclaimer: I work at SpaceX so I'm obviously biased. There can certainly be criticism of subsidies given to Tesla/SpaceX, but when an article such as this makes no mention of the auto bailouts, or the similar subsidies given to the defense and oil industry I don't find it particularly balanced.

I've also found much of the NY Times reporting on Snowden to push a very national security establishment agenda. My apologies for not being able to give more concrete examples at this time, I hope you understand my statement was made in good faith.

[1] www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story,amp.html
Our Troop required only a little parental involvement. The youth leadership decided most things. The parents were needed to drive, to serve on the committee (one meeting a month). It helps to have a strong Patrol Leader Council.

The gay youth in my Troop never had a problem taking leadership roles. The BSA national (read: Mormon) policy was no gay Adult leaders?
"International Keyboard Support"

And it only took them two and a half years!
> I think Facebook has a strong motivation to tailor the newsfeed algorithm to keep you longer on Facebook

I agree, though you take that to mean they must want to show the user things she likes. Me personally, the best way to keep me on anything is to show me someone making an almost good argument but with a few crippling flaws. I'll spend hours on the rebuttal.

That said, I believe you're right that Facebook skews towards your likes over intelligently tailoring the stream for us argumentative folks.
Yes, hard to deny it's been a good year for him. Unfortunately.
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I guess that's because in the UK "It's The Sun Wot Won It".[0] Summary: It is believed some media, like The Sun, have a big effect on elections' results, like with the recent Brexit referendum. This led some people to believe it's pretty much impossible to win against sensationalist media in the UK. (But please correct me if I'm wrong, that's my take after living in London for around 6 years.) And so Trump can be thought of as a surprise given his victory against the overall media landscape.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_The_Sun_Wot_Won_It
> I think somehow the world was agreeable enough to drink the Pair-Programming KoolAid.

Not sure what you mean. In 25 years, my latest job is the only one that pair, and even then it's only a few teams in a very large organization.

I don't think your AB test makes much sense. The two practices are orthogonal. Complementary, but orthogonal.

If I had to take one over the other, I'd to TDD, or at least strive for excellent test coverage over pairing, but they really don't have anything to do with each other.
It depends on hoe you are writing your compiler. If you are coding in a high level language, then writing an AST interpreter for a functional language is super simple. You just need to mix first-class functions and an unsurprising expression evaluator and you end up with something really expressive.

If you are targeting a lower level language like assembly language then I think an imperative language is easier to do though. You need to worry a lot about memory layouts, register allocation and calling conventions and in this paradigm a simple imperative language will be an easier fit.
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Well, the title of the page is "Basic Flashlight Tutorial", so it matches as-is.

Of course, Electric Torch is UK terminology (may be used elsewhere that I'm unaware of) However, Flashlight is used in the US/Canada.
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Choosing Rust in a shop where no one knows Rust is indeed a big mistake where in Go it's pretty easy to pick up the language quickly.
I did not say it was a landslide. I said, "it looked like it to me before the election because I'm seeing crazy numbers for Trump and a handful for Hillary".

The media was not talking about what was staring me in the face. I'm not a journalist. I don't know what it meant, but to me, I thought, "wow, a landslide is coming".

Can I have an opinion?
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Yes, it was pretty hard for the Nazi to not look down on the Jews too. And we all know how that turned out.
It is, but honestly most of HN is r/iamverysmart
If I may ask, how does FB.com fare with your closest friends?
His underlying message was almost the same as Bernie Sanders', i.e. "the establishment is not serving you, but the corporate overlords". That's not doom and gloom. It's the reality of much of America. The people living that reality blame the Clintons (and Obama, and to a lesser degree the two Bushes) for making it happen.

That's ultimately why he won.

He got some bonus votes from racists and other kooks, and he wrapped his core message in the typical right-wing xenophobia that resonates well with the base of the modern GOP.
> I just came out of an energy company job, and you're outta luck. There's nothing in the energy sector to make me think they'll innovate unless they stumble into it.

I don't think it only affects the existing members of the energy sector. Given the necessary financial motivation, there is a realistic opportunity for new competition in the renewable energy market rather than only relying on existing stablished companies to shift focus. Even if a group wants to move in to the renewable energy market on principal, funding will be a lot harder to come by with super cheap fossil fuel prices since investors (who are also motivated by money) won't see as much potential for short term profits.
> Impossible to train a marathon without injuries in one month.

I disagree - I think a lot of people could manage a slow marathon (~6-8h, basically walking pace) without more than a month of training.
If you remember the C-Lint ads from Dr Dobbs, http://www.gimpel.com/html/bugs.htm
Everyone else.
What does that even mean?

"stand as a nation against their hate"
Stand how? Mass demonstrations each time he speaks or wants to do policy?

"Forget the man and remember yourself"
remember myself? huh? What does that do?
...and now every other executive in SV is pushing for Calexit.

It would be something if the end result of Thiel backing Trump is that Silicon Valley ceases to be part of the United States.
I'm not sure. Did she actually run the NY marathon?
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Trump had Facebook and HRC had Twitter.

Hyperbole aside, we're probably better off using this as a tipping point for teaching people to think critically.

For every online platform that controls political messaging there will be an alternate platform that allows it to flow. It's the nature of the web, you can't put it back in the bottle now.

edit: not that bubbles don't exist - suggest you expand your own bubble. Relevant preview from Adam Curtis' new doc:

https://streamable.com/qcg2
Being an atheist is expressly OK in the UK Scout movement (in fact, I'd say it's probably true of a decent majority of our adult and young members), and there's nothing in the scout values that people promise to uphold which require religion in any sense.

The duty to the Queen bit is a little bit more tricky. I'm a republican (and a scout leader) and concluded I was happy to follow the wording. The reason being that it doesn't define the scope of the duty, especially not in terms I would find problematic. The traditional scope of the duty is to keep the peace and not commit treason, both of which are required by statute law in any case. I don't see it as incompatible with wanting a change in the country's constitutional arrangements. And certainly the Scout movement wouldn't insist otherwise.
> I'm trying to determine if this really occurred, but there is a report of Terry McAuliffe pardoning 60,000 felons in Virginia for votes.

It saddens me that a media source twisted McAuliffe's restoring of voting rights into "pardoned 60,000 felons in Virginia for votes".

Also it was 13,000 ... not 60,000.
You forget that the GOP fractured and there was a neocon candidate whose vote would have gone to Trump otherwise.

A couple hundred thousand votes difference is a tie. It's bad weather in Texas or California turning off a quarter million voters and ending up with the same result.
Clickable: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-discuss/2016-09/msg0...
Being anti-science, anti-intellectual, and anti-environment are core planks in the Republican platform. You have to decide if your conservative values, whatever they are, are worth voting in favor of politicians who are anti-science, anti-intellectual, and anti-environment. This isn't something new we've discovered this election, either. Every vote for a Republican for the past 40 years has been a vote in this direction. If you voted Republican in the past 40 years, you are to blame for the current government. Nice work!
I went through the process, even though I live in the US. It's certainly interesting, but nothing that I don't get from simply walking into a Hugo Boss or Hermes' store.

They'll happily take my measurements, and let me call in for recommendations.

I do suppose the idea of giving personalized recommendations to lower spending groups might work though I bet that department stores do the same thing. I know that women's fashion websites tailor their experience to users already.
I guess that I disagree with many people on HN (and they certainly like to express this with downvotes).

Fair enough.

Thank you for your verbose reply - I'll reflect on it.
Well on a positive note, it's now clear that not even the Clinton's or all their political allies can rig a US general election. Like or hate the result, the Electoral College, or the "uneducated" US voter, it seems like even if the system isn't 100% fair or perfect, at least it isn't easy to rig. (Democratic primary not so much though)
The true subsidies are on silver plans. They subsidize both the premium and the out-of-pocket expenses.
I've always gotten into go on a high level and would love to delve in deeper. Coming from a java/js background, my pointers are a bit rusty (and I try to avoid them as much as possible). Would it be possible to use go without the use of pointers at all?
It feels like aren't using them anymore because the challenge was taken out of it...
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/contract/

See "actions to protect the American worker", essentially, isolationism. Anti NAFTA, anti TPP, anti China dumping, anti UN regulations (ie. anti climate change, or at least anti economic impact from climate change).

In the last section there's something about working to punish people employing illegal immigrants, which is a very sore point with poor Americans.

These are not going to be very popular actions on Hacker News, but is it that hard to see that there's a TON of poor Americans this would resonate with ?
Help him find a job so he shouldn't have to steal to make ends meet. If it's because of some compulsion, provide counseling.
"multiply that by the probability that it will change the election and then multiply it by the benefit of having 1 candidate over the other on your personal economic outlook"

No you can't just loop that in there. The cost of walking to and from the polling location, fine, but these kinds of costs are the costs you have to pay to live in a democracy. I waited in line for over an hour before work. If I extrapolate my salary out, I paid probably $10 worth of my time to vote. Considering that is once every 4 years, that's not much to live in a democracy where we get to vote to choose our representatives.
Look up just about anything NYT has written about US wars in the past 15 years. Up until very recently, NYT even had an editorial policy against using the word "torture" in reference to any act committed by the US government / military.

Not too mention that Maggie Haberman and Mark Liebovich (and probably a few others too that I'm not aware of) can be found in the Podesta emails sending over their articles to the Clinton campaign for review, prior to publication.
Yea it even looks like Trump will win the popular vote too by a little bit. We all need to be less smug for sure, and get out of our elite bubble.
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It's the double-edged sword with a lot of tech and you see it also with Tor and Wikileaks.

It's great when it's being used against your opponents but you hate it when it's being used against your own side.
to the mods: vagabondjack's comment seems sensible, informative and well thought out but seems to have been de-duped in error.

Any chance of raising it out of grey-text territory?
Not only that don't forget there's 4 million Americans who live in the US territories. They are American but don't get to vote for president because they don't live in a state or (since the 70s) DC. That's more than the population of Connecticut, for example.
"Some in SV wonder if the people have too much choice"? Is that what you said?
National vote counts for Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, respectively.
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> Why is it that when poor minorities vote for their economic well-being it is seen as progress but when poor white people do it it's seen as racism?

I don't have a problem with voting for or against a trade deal based on self-interest or interest in maximizing benefit for one's country.

Dehumanizing people with a different skin color who are already citizens of your country (Gonzalo Curiel, Humayun Khan) and cultivating racism and xenophobia to win power is unconscionable.

> Bill Clinton

I'd like to think that if he had faced election after the Monica Lewinsky incident, he would have lost.
I had that problem with my Moto G 4G. Found out that it wasn't the 1G of RAM causing this issue but the firmware. This was fixed in an update and seemingly broken again in another update.
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Curious what they weren't so happy about with Python? Was it purely performance? If so, did they consider PyPy, or at least profile what the slowest bits are so they can evaluate whether to throw everything out or just rewrite the slow bits? Was it the language itself? Not everyone likes dynamic languages, though it's odd they started with it. Did you consider Node at all?
And if you think ~half of the country is so horribly racist or sexist they should lose their jobs on grounds of bigotry and hate speech you've got bigger problems than the ability to do math. People just want change and Trump's offering more than just discrimination, he did well amongst white women and beat Romney's numbers with many non-white demographic groups.

He might not be my first choice, but I won't discredit all of his supporters over it.
> The respectable set’s allergy to Trump is fundamentally an allergy to the idea of democracy itself.

What those explainers why Trump win don't seem to understand is that the disgust isn't about changing status quo - it's about the person who offers to improve that.

Unless you're going to blindly go after whoever just seems different enough, it seems to be reasonable to think what are the changes proposed - and what's the person proposing them. If some changes seem irrational after evaluating them and the person himself leaves the feeling of urge to check one's wallet, perhaps it's not too un-democratic to wonder if this person should be seriously trusted.
That's an insightful unintended consequence that I too can unfortunately see playing out all to often. Still, the individual would have to choose suicide, right? They may have pressure on them for the choice from vultures, but it is still their choice.

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't see the need for any protection.
You are correct - these are the lessons you learn in the military too.

I've only recently been noticing how applicable the lessons I learned in the Royal Marines are to software development. Thanks for putting it so eloquently.
>So they think he's xenophobic and religiously bigoted instead? How is that better?

He is not against all immigrants. He is ONLY against ILLEGAL immigrants. He still supports LEGAL immigrants from all over the world.

Also, he is not against the Islamic religion. He is just against immigration from countries with known ties to terrorism.

>I'm not making up the fact that white supremacists supported Trump.

The KKK also supports Hillary too, so that's just the typical election rhetoric you see every four years.

These are misconceptions by people who have not listened to Trump's rally speeches. They only hear a small part of the quotes without the context and form these misconceptions about him. And now, they're shocked and confused to find that the majority of the country supports him.
I agree; to me it says equally as much about the expectations of the author of the article. In C++ you can define operator < and in C# you can define IComparable. Therefore I was astonished to discover the datastructures in the dynamic language Io can't be extended to use custom comparators. It's just an implementation limitation: Io's datastructures are all written in C and so there's a fixed set of types they use for keys. It is what it is.

On the other hand C++ is only just about to get its first version of Concepts. (Haskell programmers in this thread: imagine if you waited 10+ years to get typeclasses.)

My point being that most languages are going to be missing something you wish they had.
When I went to view CNN's analysis the day of the election, it was reporting (on their website) a 90% chance Hillary would win.
As is usual with these releases, i'm always more interested in the new Beta's.

1.13 is going to have some pretty big changes. They are removing shadow-dom which is kind of a big deal and i'm really curious for the in-depth post about what didn't work with it later (until then, [0] is the PR that talks a bit about why).

And 1.13 will also include a change [1] that will allow it to better handle large files, which I know is a huge plus for a lot of people (it hasn't been a problem on my machine for a while now, but clearly people are still having issues with it).

It looks like it's going to be a good update.

[0] https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/12903

[1] https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/12898
I love Go and think it could be good in this area, but so far as I know no one is using it for any serious GUI work (yet?).
Bacteria reproduce asexually, yes, but they have developed an even more effective means of introducing variation than sex: horizontal gene transfer.

That sex introduces lots of variation is undisputed, however, and the mechanism of sexual selection accelerates the process over that of the random drift in asexually reproducing species.
It's two days after the election and the NYT is proclaiming that Thiel's bet has paid off. It's way too early to say this. For whatever political pull Theil has gained, I believe he has (at least potentially) lost a lot of respect in other areas. Does that matter? maybe, maybe not. But my point is, it's a bit too early to tell in either case.

This is a true example of don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
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Most business books are nonsense because they present a case study of how a single organization succeeded and are written by a single executive or consultant trying to put a positive spin on the experience. But they present no evidence as to whether the success was caused by or in spite of their actions.

One business book that actually applied hard data analysis to look for causality across multiple companies is "Good to Great" by Jim Collins.

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780066620992/good-to-great
I imagine Canada is similar to America in this regard: a teacher would never in a million years think about lecturing a parent. In the U.S that would probably be a fantastic way of losing your job!

The parent's word is "law" and no "stupid teacher" gets to have any say in things. The teacher may try to talk about it or make suggestions during parent-teacher meetings but that is the only time it is considered "okay" and even then it isn't lecturing the parent but trying to guide them.

In Japan, teachers are far more respected. The "jaw dropping" part is a teacher visiting parents and lecturing them. Something unheard of in the U.S, and based on the mikekchar's reaction, probably Canada too.
Taking a wild guess here, but I think most governments will collapse before hell freezes over.
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You'll most likely find that you need them. Look at it as an opportunity to learn a new programming technique.
The balkanization of the united states would to lead foreign powers interfering and another civil war. It will never happen, same reasons the texit never happened.
Sent something in a while back for the PM role, might be too senior but liked the product, never heard anything back.
Have been playing it quite a bit and love it! Really fun :) interestingly enough i've gotten interview questions like this before. Keep up the awesome work! Also - just because I didn't see it. You should have a mailing list that I can subscribe to in order to hear about your next game!
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> Can a president unilaterally tell the bureaucracy to stop doing what they are mandated to do by law?

He can certainly try: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/365519963/...

In the general case, though, a lot of legislation gives the executive wide discretion as to the details of regulations, and so the president can direct his subordinates to change regulations however he wants, within what the law allows.

E.g. with a budget example the Congress might want to subsidise cantaloupe farms, and budget $100,000,000 for cantaloupe farmers, to be allocated 'as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct.' The president would be within his rights to order the Secretary of Agriculture to only allocate that money to cantaloupe farmers with a total net worth of under $1,000,000, or to give no more than $100,000 to any particular cantaloupe farmer, or (possibly — this one's a stretch) to prioritise farmers of the famed Golden Lucy cantaloupe before all others. But he can't direct that the money be spent on rutabaga farmers.

Similarly, if the Congress writes a law which gives the pertinent executive department some latitude, the President may order that department to exercise that latitude however he likes.
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No, but pointers in Go are much gentler than pointers in C (for instance: there's no pointer math, and no pointer casting). If you understand the difference between passing by value and passing by reference (something you already have to understand to use Javascript), you've got all the background you need.
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The process behind selecting the DNC candidate appears to have been unfairly shifted one direction, but are you suggesting the actual process of registering voters and counting ballots is rigged by a nationwide conspiracy of thousands of bi-partisan poll workers?
As opposed to demonizing people for "clinging to their guns and religion" or calling people "deplorable"?

It's the same thing. Both sides are engaging in this bigotry. You can't write off almost 50% of the electorate (Romney's 47% statement in 2012 and Clinton's deplorables comment) and expect anything but extremes.

Both sides are doing it.