skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clinton and her machine threw the only candidate who could beat Trump under the bus. She deserves her loss, and should apologize to the American people for prioritizing her selfish ambition over the good of the country.

Hopefully the Democrats learn about running someone electable before 2018. I have already prepared my donation fund for Bernie Sanders' or Tulsi Gabbard's 2020 presidential race (and I'll not vote again in 4 years if the Dems run yet another establishment candidate, learn your lesson already).

Your chance for your opinion to matter was when the primaries took place. Don't save your outrage for after it doesn't go the way you wanted.
go errors are generally backed by structs as well (though not necessarily), even `fmt.Errorf("some error")` is a struct (called `errorString`).

`Error() string` is just the interface that things that want to be errors must implement, which ideally gives you the human readable version of the error.
Leonard Cohen on Poetry, Music and Why He Left the Zen Monastery
What is going on with this community? I feel like I am taking proverbial crazy pills.

Clinton advocated for a "Manhattan Project" scope effort to backdoor crypto. She wants no-fly zones over Syria, a place we have NO business being in, to directly provoke proxy wars with Russia. She is extremely antagonistic to freedom of association and free enterprise, and she LOVES the panopticon surveillance state we have.

She is NO FRIEND OF EITHER STARTUPS OR HACKERS, and yet, 99% of you are frothing at the mouth over a man who said bad words 18 years ago.

It is at the point that I don't even think I can do business with any of you ever again.
Mike is a very laid back guy - I would have thought he was making more like $8000 a month, not $80,000, based on his general demeanor.
This is superficially nice, but let's not forget that we would hardly do this in practice. It's much more likely that we would write your Go version with some error handling or logging messages added in.

Practical concerns aside, in Haskell you get these things from the Maybe monad without extra syntax or macros:

foo >>= bar >>= baz
Interesting to see that style of Windows installation making a return. I remember it being how almost everything was installed for 3.1 and 95.
Ah, misquoting someone. Way to elevate the discussion.
This might be up your alley:

http://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/
>Thiel suggested in 2009 that giving women the vote was a bad thing.

He did not say that. Read the article yourself. https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
> I'd rather try and understand what's driving the underlying bubble and fix that if we can

Foreign real estate investment? Driven by economic forces in foreign countries? I don't know if you can really "fix" that, but you can sure as hell tax it while it's happening. And 1% isn't bad at all if the houses are gaining that much in value over such a short period of time. Whoever's flipping these is certainly beating inflation still.

EDIT: Read some more comments, particularly emptybits':

> It's an experiment. Much like our recent 15% foreign buyers tax reported a few months ago. We're all watching the experiment. Perhaps our role is to serve as a lesson to other cities?

So it seems as though they are trying to curtail the bubble caused by foreign influence, and my comment about "fix"ing it was made in ignorance.

However, I still think it makes sense to tax both ends of the spectrum...the buyer tax limits new purchases, the "living here" tax limits houses already bought.
If the study showed anything, it was that TDD and TLD might be similarly useful at least on short timescales. I think GP was saying that they believed tests were useful, but that it was unnecessary to strictly stick to doing them the TDD way.
Libel. He never said that.

Is there a way to flag comments?
JS is the bloat here.
You do what you can.

Left my reusable plastic shopping bags at home again, so I took some out of the plastic bag recycling bin in the shopping centre. So then one of the staff from rhe supermarket told me I can take bags out of the plastic bag recycling bin because they belong to the company who recycles them.

What?

So, the situation we find ourselves in here is going to take some leadership.
The Haskeller was probably talking about the same 'deep freezing' feature that they mentioned above, right? Except it already has a name...immutability. But even as they were joking, the Ruby folks assumed it was some obscure theoretical feature that they didn't have any use for.
Audi is premium?
I don't think you should claim he said that without inserting the actual quote in the interest of accuracy:

> Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

Source: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

In the context, I believe he's claiming that women voting resulted in a distancing from libertarian values, which he disagrees with ideologically. There's a significant difference between that and claiming that "giving women the vote was a bad thing."
iPhone also.
Too optimistic is what to blame, forgetting the anger of blue collar and young white.
Is the fact that Mexican women can cross the border, pop out babies, and have them be FULL FUCKING CITIZENS so "DAMAGING" to you? Poor fucking Mexicans, give me a break. Charity starts at home.

What about the natives (Mexican or US)? They're gone and people don't care. Why should ALIVE US citizens support something leading to THEIR poverty and death?

Before the US was a country, Mexico was poor. It's still poor now. It'll still be poor 3000 years from now. It's not the US's job to help them.
How should Bots speak to humans? Review of 200 bots and over 900 conversations
Given the recent election, may I suggest this song of his: "Democracy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-RuR-qO4Y

http://genius.com/Leonard-cohen-democracy-lyrics
In context his suggestion is that women being allowed to vote is incompatible with enacting his ideal philosophy of government. Which in turn implies that the only way to implement his ideal philosophy of government would be to deny women the right to vote.
Theologically, I agree, but I'm not sure what would cause the followers to actually question current teachings. Usually, followers of a movement don't question the path taken until they lose confidence for some reason (like Democrats recently discovered). When it comes to religion, such losses of confidence seem to usually be on the personal level, so a large scale reckoning seems unlikely.
from the article: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. "
You're missing the core of what I'm concerned about. What I care about is something like "what looking like you're putting in sincere and whole-hearted effort looks like". I oppose publicly talking about how you as a software engineer can put in 45 good hours of work reliably every week and feel like you have good work-life balance for the same reason people make comments if their coworkers over-dress for work.

If you can, and you say that you can, and you don't complain about it, then that becomes expected. This is as true of wearing a suit and tie to work as it is for putting in long hours. Finance is in a really shitty place because of this and I don't want the tech scene to follow suit.
If you want to compile to windows, you absolutely do.
Edit: conversation was flagged, so I'm out.
I think you'll find out soon enough.
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/796542537255239681

Congrats, Peter, on all your new friends.
More Democrats voted and caucused for her than for Bernie. I don't know where the notion that his nomination was stolen comes from other than maybe Trump himself.
Seems like he said that giving women the vote moved politics further to the left and thus was bad for capitalism, not that it was a bad thing in general.
Did he? Or did he point out that women vote against libertarian values so it's a bad thing for getting those values?
Yes, you went Godwin. Trump isn't Hitler. That's election propaganda, not truth. Election's over. Time to put the election propaganda away.

Now, you might still not like him. Heck, let me take a bold step and say you won't like him. He will do things you won't like. Welcome to the real world. My government's been doing things I don't like my entire life. (Along with all the things I do like.) But I rate the odds that he's going to ethnically cleanse the US at "as close to 0 as I can mathematically get".

In the event that he really does turn into Hitler, I promise to stand up to stop him along with all the other people who will. I'm not too worried about having to follow through on that, though.

(If you want to talk about which candidates tend to murder their way out of problems... well... I'll freely admit to not having proof but Trump wasn't the one I was worried about that.)
Serious question, is sexual orientation a protected class?
If you haven't heard his songs, either the early folky ones or the post-80s electronic-ballads, definitely check them out. They are songs for grown-ups (he started his career as a singer around 34 years old after all).
A chance to once again demonstrate the truth of the great man theory of history. May they be favored by fortune.
Not entirely. Trump was extremely unclear and dodgy when asked more about his comments in the days after that interview. People asked him very directly on several occasions if he would, in fact, implement a Muslim database. He never denied that he would. In fact, he confirmed that he wants a database for Syrian refugees.
Independents, needed to win the general, were not permitted to participate in several major Democratic primaries. Those Independents did not go for Clinton (clearly). Nor did Millennials, who also sat out for Clinton.

If you need people outside your party to vote for you, you don't restrict caucusing to just your party. Otherwise, you get the proverbial brick in the face. Must be a terrible legacy to lose to the person that makes up Trump in front of the entire world, that people said to themselves "Yes, he's a bigot, a xenophobe, a sexist; but he's not Clinton" as they voted.

@fatbird: I'm unsure why we're still arguing about this. Clinton lost because she did not have enough support, period.
Big fan of Leonard Cohen, big loss. I think his Isle of Wight performance is one of the greatest of all time considering what was going on the crowd and how he used his showmanship and calming music to turn things around:

https://vimeo.com/56002315
You can also configure zsh to show you all the autocomplete options (files/directories, flags, command-specific arguments like git tags, etc.) and tab/arrow key through them visually: http://i47.tinypic.com/2qtwxnn.gif

(The gif is a little slow, but you can obviously move through them a fast as you can hit the keys)
I think I see the disconnect. I'm Australian, we have compulsory voting. I hadn't connected all the dots on the effects of voluntary voting on exit polls. Only got as far as thinking about the ballot.
Serious question: is there any action he could take, any line he could cross, literally anything he could do or say that would ever, in your mind, be sufficient to justify refusing to associate with him?
Unfortunately, do good doesn't mean funding. Your goal is to seek a profit making model. Or at least one that seems like it can make a buck over the long run. Option one seems easy to understand so it should be easier to fund. It might be pitched as growing food in the desert. Find what fruit/seed can be grown so that the trees stay alive and they make a profit. Iterate the idea until fully cooked on how much it will cost plus how it will make a profit. Create a presentation and pitch to anyone that will listen. Creating a physical model that people can touch will help. You are looking for both advocates that will help you and people that will finance it. Given that it's a new idea you'll need to do a prototype. Your first goal is to get the money for that. You might look for a foundation or benefactor that will help fund the prototype. Investigate the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act as away to get the initial funds.

This project's size demands that you spent all your time promoting it and seeking finance so you'll need to have the money to live while you're starting the project. Also you'll need to work on your presentation skills and persuasion skills. Look at Musk as your model. He's learned how to sell Tesla to both his investors plus the general public. Good luck! It would be nice to see something like this implemented.
No. Its a legitimate idea currently making the headway in our community. And if you think its ridiculous, let me ask you...Is the notion of a seperatist, intelligently run Californian sovereign state any less ridiculous than the notion of a Trump Presidency two years ago? We've always been a community of disruptors...well, now's our opportunity to really distrupt.https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/10/calexit-is-silicon-valleys...
Tolerance means you aren't jailing people with different views than your own. Tolerance means you aren't out beating people up for having different views. Tolerance isn't about putting on a happy face and doing business with someone whose views you find odious.

If people are no longer free to use words or social stigma to advance their views and opinion, because "tolerance," then what do we have left?
Psiphon Circumvention System Design Paper [pdf]
Core is open, paid product extends the core, and you access via a private gem server. You have the code at that point, and it's not DRM'ed or encrypted or anything. Nothing to keep you from running it after your subscription stops. Some features, like unique jobs, are covered by other open source extensions to Sidekiq - Mike happily lists those projects inside of Sidekiq's wiki. Much of this openness seems counterintuitive, but it's obviously worked out very well.
:'(

There is a crack, a crack in everything.

That how the light comes in.

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>Is there a way to flag comments?

Not that I'm passing judgement on this specific incident, but you can flag a comment by clicking the timestamp, then the flag link.
> But stay late so some delicate flower off in India can work 9-5? Fuck that.

Um, you realize clifanatic was talking about this "delicate flower" sleeping in their office because of an 10 am CST meeting and not the other way around?
> I thought there was a de facto ban on that.

Also ordered by Clinton from a mail-order catalogue, I assume.
Nope. http://www.yescalifornia.org

Calexit is a thing.
Unfortunately these kind of beliefs can be harmful not only to autistic children but their parents also. This is not about 'belief', it's simply that you have no evidence to support your claims.
You're right. Trump doesn't believe Hitler did nothing wrong. He's just the overwhelmingly preferred candidate of people who believe Hitler did nothing wrong. It's an important difference! Those people obviously voted for him while believing he would never actually act on the things they care about!
You can get a mortgage on a physical residence but not a fund. You can buy insurance on a physical place but not a fund.
No it comes from Wikileaks, which showed emails with the DNC trying to damage Bernie.
California Secession Making Headway in Silicon Valley Community
If you voted for her in the primary, then I actually do blame you. You picked just about the only Democrat Trump had a hope of beating.
I encourage you to spend a lot of time in Japan and keep your mind and eyes open. You can't see what I'm talking about from LA, especially not through another person's eyes.
I am far to the left but I believe that demonising someone for political viewpoints different from mine is wrong.
There will never be one.
He already pays taxes.
Somebody who has "some extremish views" is advising Trump, who has some extremish views of his own. That's good news? Not from where I sit, it isn't.
You've stated the contrapositive, which is fine, except that he didn't imply that denying women the right to vote would be a positive strategy regardless of the effects it had on his ideology of choice.
National Popular Vote
She may have figured Wisconsin wasn't the front. Michigan and Pennsylvania were. I.e. if she lost Wisconsin she lost those two as well.
This is also why when someone has enough capital to buy enough properties to extract a full-time wage out of the rent, you can be sure they're also not going to be doing the work themselves.

They'll offload it to a property manager/real estate agent to do all that work.
So people from Brigade[1] say that among the electorate which used their app, 95% of Republicans pledged to vote Republican, among the Democrats only 55% pledged to vote for Hillary. So... who was it again who helped Trump win?

[1]http://iowapublicradio.org/post/app-saw-trump-winning-swing-...
RIP. Listening to his brand new release You Want It Darker (via Spotify HQ on my Audio Technica ADG1Xs, Soundblaster ZXR sound card). I can't get over the quality of the production and how utterly perfect his voice still is .. right until the very end. In light of recent events, this song is uncanny. What a masterpiece to finish a magnificent career.
there is a public outcry if a notebook runs only the latest version of Windows

The is no public outcry for the Acer Cloudbook I bought which tolerates Linux about as well as these new MacBooks.† Acer provides no drivers or other help. I don't see any reason to expect Apple to go beyond Acer to support unintended operating systems.‡

␄

† It has trackpad driver problems, EFI mysteries, and a broken APIC (from Linux's viewpoint). With a couple hours hacking about you can get Debian installed, but each new kernel release is a crap shoot that can end in an unbootable machine for some as yet undiagnosed malady. Recent kernels result in it instantly deciding it has overheated and must power down immediately.

‡ I also don't see Acer submitting patches to my operating system, though that would be shocking.
So... we've been building a client+cloud GPU accelerated visual analytics stack for a couple years now, including a distributed variant of their composable layers notion, so if this is exciting to you, please check out our jobs page at www.graphistry.com :) We stay away from GIS in favor of more event analysis problems, but many of the same problems and techniques apply.

(Uber's team is wonderful too, so if you want a bigger company experience, would highly endorse them as well!)
Well, if you read the article, it mentions the tax breaks that Tesla buyers get, and that the "future of these tax credits may come into question based on Trump's opposition to the government picking winners and losers."

How is constantly seeking government hand-outs capitalism? How is taking those hand-outs not allowing the government to pick winners and losers?
What Causes These Mysterious Fairy Circles?
google are so committed to choice that they release a new messaging app every three days
If he could get his Libertopia at the cost of women's suffrage, do you think he'd balk at that? Or do you believe he's not a means-justify-the-ends type?
> I'm sure he'll see a very significant ROI on his $1M once the government starts awarding contracts very conveniently to companies of which he owns a portion.

Wasn't Trump rallying against such crony corruption aka 'pay for play'?
It seems to be pretty well supported:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook
Just abolish all laws and government and let the market, you know, figure it out.
Yes, you went Godwin. Trump isn't Hitler.

That's a vacuous argument. No one's Hitler except Hitler. No one called him Hitler except in your strawman. We can only judge the President-elect on what his stated plans are.

And one of his plans is literally to make Muslims register the same way Jews were made to register before the Holocaust. IBM faced an analogous choice: cut ties for moral reasons or preserve the relationship for expediency's sake.

The historical precedent is germane.
> Which in turn implies that the only way to implement his ideal philosophy of government would be to deny women the right to vote.

And that Thiel would prefer his ideal system to a world where women can vote and prevent his ideal.
Spanish prime minister's party suggests ban on internet memes
I don't think you actually read my comment. His point is fully responded to.
We can go by his stated intentions to help determine where in the realm of possibility his future actions might play out.
Mass deportations and a retreat on civil rights and equality are within that realm.
Actual quote:

"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."

So not that giving the women the vote was a bad thing, just an observation on how women vote.

In follow up comments he said:

"It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us. While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that voting will make things better."

In other words, voting isn't enough to bring about needed change (look at the U.S. over the last 2 decades for evidence of this)
Donald Trump’s Nafta Plan Would Confront Globalized Auto Industry
I care and think it's bad, just I think the headline is misleading.
Well sure, if you add all your own words and biases in it sounds like that's exactly what he's saying.
Also note Thiel added remarks to the article at the bottom, including:

It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us.
Greetings from Charleston, South Carolina. Let us know how your secession plans work out.
Your jump in logic is

"It's bad that over 60 million people died during WWII."

=>

"It's bad that the the Allies fought Hitler."

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He said that he doubts democracy and freedom are incompatible.

Did he say either one was bad?

Lots of ideals are incompatible.

100% democracy and 100% freedom are are not fully compatible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_rule For example, the minority must be protected from the majority.
I think the argument/joke he's trying to make is that he'd be happier without anyone using Windows (which would conveniently solve the problem of having to compile to Windows)
Facebook isn't the right venue for this.

Of course it's filled with garbage!

While it's noble to seek better, the reality is people are using poor tools because the good ones are failing them.

Ask where did journalism go and that's the start on real solutions.

If we had that as we used to, the garbage on FB would be much less of a worry. The laughable would fit laughed at as it should.
Bad for your cause and bad for society aren't the same thing. The thoughts on freedom and democracy are at least as old as Alexis de Tocqueville. Maybe try actually reading some political theory.

1. http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/03/equality-t...

2. http://www.city-journal.org/html/end-democracy-america-14332...
The 'brick through the window' analogy is one of the most apt I've heard so far given the increasingly violent tendency of 'protesters' in this country.