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That's really the problem.

Republicans were trained over the years to pick someone "electable". They figured it would go better with the population, electoral votes.

So in 2008, they went with McCain, a Republican who supported campaign finance reform.

In 2012, they went with Romney, a Republican who was governor of Massachusetts, a traditionally moderate/liberal state, who implemented Romneycare.

Both of them were normal, Romney made a faux-pas regarding the %47 line, but all in all he would have been an OK president, and kept the Republicans moderate.

The media slaughtered him in the general election. Called Republicans racists (which I didn't notice him being), classists (umm, do you think Clinton would live in a project?), and he couldn't answer back.

That's why in 2016, the base got fed up with having to hold their nose and vote a moderate, they decided that if they're losing anyways, they might as well pick someone "who says it the way it is". Now when the media says that he's a racit, they say "Oh, like they called Bush (who had an African American Secretary of State) racist? They just hate Republicans".

Liberals cried wolf. They refused to have a conversation, and we ended up with Trump.
When was the last time democrats won mid terms?
This is a surprisingly well-thought-out and interesting article. Was expecting dull male whining about being victimized, actually has something far more interesting.
There's significant differences between journals of medicine (and traditional chinese medicine) and journals of physics.

Just like there's a significant difference between psychology journals and physics journals.
To be clear, that's a quote from Donald Trump -- not Peter Thiel.
> Why exactly am I meant to be comforted by the fact that the craven opportunists --- the lowest of the low of the Republican party [...] are getting the most important positions in the United States government for kowtowing to Trump?

Twenty-three days ago you and Marco sought to get Peter Thiel removed from YC for his support of Trump[1]. This is to say you were explicitly working to ensure that respectable people would distance themselves from Trump for fear of being ostracized.

Although Peter is still with YC, the broader campaign of social pressure you participated in worked. The respectable Republicans distanced themselves from Trump. As might be expected, Trump is now giving governmental positions to those who didn't distance themselves from him during the election. I don't find that surprising, nor do I find it surprising that those who stuck with Trump were the discredited outsiders (they were already ostracized).

Quite frankly the surprising part of this story is finding you, just twenty-three days after your witch hunt, lamenting that no one respectable is in Trump's inner circle. Isn't this the sort of outcome you were explicitly fighting for less than a month ago?

[1] See all 82 of your comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733024
So he plays both sides then. You haven't invalidated any argument.
Increase Hacker News Font Size?
https://puu.sh/seoXx/f4e1503fe9.png

This site appears so tiny on my screen. I can increase the zoom on Chrome, but when I do, any article I click on is also magnified. (Except of course, when I go on a spree of opening new tabs from articles here... which happens very often. Which is why I'm only bringing this up now!
Well, they shouldn't.

The point of polls is to predict who's going to win.

It's not that hard to take into account Electoral College anyways.
This has been posted a couple of times on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Is%20There%20Anything%20Good%2...
Its byproducts, spent material, can be safely stored indefinitely in appropriate facilities. Running nuclear plants doesn't pollute the environment. How is it not clean?
So what would you call coroutines that multiplex at API calls like NT fibers, or many green threads libraries.

Or for that matter, coroutines on Active Oberon, which are just multiplexed as in Go.
That is so wrong, a better quote would be:

"The illegal French immigrants are ignorant assholes, except for some of them".

The key differences are - Not all, the illegal immigrants. And Mexican, like French is a Nationality and not a race.
Do you also fundamentally oppose to contributing to FLOSS software because that's most certainly being used by for-profit companies. Or is that ok because others that don't profit from it can also use said software?

I do something that I enjoy and throw it away afterwards or whatever I tend to do with little programming puzzles and project Euler stuff or I do the same thing and a company profits off it. The profiting doesn't really hurt me so I don't mind it. I'd also argue that if the intention of a company is to profit off my interview code I'm hopefully filtering them out (as they tend to be pretty boring)...having people write code for you by pretending to offer a job is also all kinds of horrible strategically so I don't see the potential for a mass exploit.

I can understand your point of view but I hear the dreaded "but my time is too valuable" more often than "it's unfair that they profit of it". My argument was mostly that...if you want the job, your time probably isn't too valuable to try to get it :)
I'm suspicious of statement [1] given that you know where Golden is and why people would want to live there. ;)

I think you're right there is probably isn't a loonie cost to the city that can be recouped with this vacancy tax. But I also think your counter-point is moot. Vancouver isn't trying to keep revenues up, it's trying to encourage a certain behaviour, namely more housing and rentals on the market.

While I do think this vacancy tax is a good idea that could help out affordability in Vancouver, I agree with you that it's far from the best that Vancouver could do and is really only addressing the symptoms rather than the cause.
A fair approach is the Swiss one. Every property is taxed as if it is rented out at market rates, no matter whether it is rented, owner-occupied, or vacant. On the other hand there are (almost) no taxes on the value of the property. This removes most distortions in the rental market.
A Would-Be Uber Rival’s $250M Taxi Ride to Nowhere
DAChSHUND PUPPY VS BOBTAIL LIZARD
Imagine that to compile your program you have to send it to India and wait two weeks. Every simple typo you make takes two weeks to be noticed. I used to work for Nestle when they were working on a global SAP implementation - all development was outsourced to India. I don't know what was the history of this - but when I was there the analysts were required to write so detailed specs that they were like a program in assembler. Only that you could not compile it, run and check if it does what it is supposed to do. That was insane!
Would you say that Gene Wolfe's books mentioned bear thematic similarity in this sense to the Foundation series? Trying to build on something I already know.
Qt binding for Go with support for all major operating systems
FWIW, my favorite http://guideme.itgo.com/atozofc/
As there is no Trump cabinet as yet, this would only be something one should do if one were prejudging, i.e. engaging in bigotry. How poetic!
I think it can very much be both. But I feel victims are underrepresented in the rehabilitation discussion. My inner moral compass says they should be involved and it shouldn't all be up to review boards. I'm fully aware that I have a somewhat naive worldview though (I'd expect most victims to understand if someone was rehabilitated and be willing to forgive)
He says that "it's often a tell that they're bluffing," which is a far cry from the universal condemnation of anything with 'science' in the name that you seem to be assuming. Please make an attempt to understand, then argue.
So much in the name of free market goes on. If IT industry will be allowed to progress unchecked, natural monopolies will emerge and it won't be good for consumer,smaller businesses relaying on big boys, and employees. But seems like free market cool aids is being served and drunk happily by the world.

On the contrary strong labour Laws and high productivity rate in quite a few European countries is a fact ignored conveniently by power greedy moguls. If left unchecked, they will happily move us back gloomy dawn of Industrial Age when it was ok to force workers to toil to death.

Adam smith didn't dream of monopolistic and unregulated market but only one part of his capitalism theory is cherry picked.
Unregulated capitalism is a recipe for disaster.

Edit: fixed typos.
We should value tolerance towards minority (in our circles) opinions. Unless you believe half of the country are bigots, you would conclude many people who voted for Trump did so reluctantly and despite all the stupid things he said, and not thanks to them. They prioritized his economic policies or felt Clinton is too indebted to the current establishment to be able to change anything. I know some people who did that and I respect their opinion.
Regarding difference between McCarthyism having government support behind and our media/social media rage not, I am worried that popular opinions become policies in a democracy. If on both ends of the political spectrum people stop respecting each other completely, it won't end well.
Well, he seems to plan the J1 and the H1B Visas.
So, he is seemingly against potential legal immigrants too..
American pluralism, which the GP post was talking about, is the belief that people of many backgrounds can come together as equals and build a society together. Trump's focus on the Mexican heritage of an American judge (who was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA BTW) is a textbook attack on that idea.
Some site like this? http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=rm+-rf+--no-preserve-roo...
>Maybe one can claim it wasn't an intentional lie, but this guy is someone who really should have known better.

It would be great if an algorithm could fight this type of content, but it probably can't.

But we can probably start with sites that publish stories like "Rudy Giuliani SLAPPED A REPORTER WITH HIS DICK last Tuesday" and that might solve enough of this problem to call it a decent win.
Fundamentally, though, the problem with articles like this is that even if he's right, there are very few situations where knowledge of a difference in distribution are that useful, and very very many where it is misused to justify existing (and unjustifiable) bias.

If you knew that men were on average 5 IQ points lower than women (which is not what he says, and probably not true, but whatever), it wouldn't be very useful information for actually making choices. Male student underperforming in class? That's 'cuz men are dumber. Emerging gender-skew in medical school students towards women? That's 'cuz men are dumber. Etc etc.
> I think many people are used to the idea that even if the OS does not provide drivers for specific devices, basic functionality like keyboard, mouse, and video (even if it's something like a VGA 640x480 16 colours mode) should still be present --- partly to enable "bootstrapping" into more functionality by installing and troubleshooting the drivers.

Then I think people need to step back and appreciate that this "basic functionality" is actually really expensive in terms of price, space, power and performance.

Would they really pay more for Apple hardware if it booted up with a full internal USB or a PS/2?

What if it made the laptop heavier? Shortened the battery life? These things are very important to me: I wouldn't buy a heavier Mac.

Could this be mitigated with custom ASICs? Or a new power switch and some extra power controllers (e.g. a soft switch to turn off the fallback 8042 and start using the faster more sensible SPI interface)? Perhaps, but someone has to pay for it.

Moaning about things that don't make sense to change -- that someone just doesn't like, just makes that someone unhappy.
It was the day before. Your point about it being an email is exactly my point this could be taken as him knowing something that nobody else did and thus selling his shares. Just looks odd
Libertarianism is a flag of convenience.

Your question is what's the difference between a Libertarian and a Fascist. I've asked self identifying Libertarians what is the difference between a Libertarian and a conservative and what I got was a complaint about liberals. They occasionally have a wacky opinion like being for drug legalization and very occasionally being anti death penalty. But really, I can't tell them apart from garden variety conservatives.

A buddy of mine is an Ayn Rand reading Ronulan. Birther. Dude, you're not a Libertarian. You're a Fakebertarian.
This was flagged within 1 min of posting. Good job at trying to promote intellectual diversity Hacker News.

https://twitter.com/rm2889/status/796966398366912512
Engineers are not immune to such wage-fixing practices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

even family-oriented companies like Pixar worked against their employees

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/animation-wage-fixi...
> for many weak liberals who thought that it was okay to be "centrist." I feel like they are finally waking up to the fact that this is a war.

This kind of divisive and baseless finger-pointing at moderates is what is wrong with US politics. To see it on the liberal side is both ironic and painful. For years the gop ousted moderates in its ranks as RINO's (Republican In Name Only). This approach badly damaged the party: it left them with no standing among young voters, formerly moderate McCain went hard to the right for a presidential primary and never came back to center. Senator Olympia Snowe resigned and penned a famous open letter denouncing this very ostracizing of moderate republicans. It has taken nearly a decade for the republicans to present a candidate with social policies that are not entirely at odds with the under 30 demographic. Trump may be socially distasteful, but he is is not looking to repeal gay marriage and plans to keep pot a "states issue". Imagine hearing that from a GOP candidate 4 years ago.

Now that the GOP has a winning candidate, your answer is to double-down, and call the moderates in your party "weak"? Listen, political stances are neither weak nor strong. They are opinions based in personal experience, individual ethics, and our respective priorities. There is no "right" answer here. There is no "war" being fought. This is how democracy works. The pendulum swings one way and then the other.

Comparing the result of this election to french soldiers being sent to nazi camps is perhaps the single most absurd analogy i have seen since the primaries kicked off. And that is saying a great deal given the ridiculousness we have all suffered the past 18 months. Shameful.
I read a great piece recently that explains why these big tech-cum-delivery companies treat their drivers so poorly. Worth checking out: https://medium.com/@review/the-food-delivery-death-star-85f9...
Peter Thiel will reportedly join Donald Trump’s transition team
Remember how much condemnation Trump got for saying he might not accept the election result?
That headline hurts my brain. Awful start. Why not "how web based text editors manage their text" or "a glance at the text management of web based text editors"
> People who go into the military are more conservative than liberal, on average.

In-group loyalty is paramount to conservatives. Family and community first, and all that.

> They are more patriotic on average...

Exactly, and that supports my argument. If California declares independence, then the patriots from California will either side with their homeland, their communities, the places where their families are... or be traitors to their homeland, community, and family.

What do you think is the more likely thing for a conservative to do?

> I don't see many, or any significant amount going rogue...

If it reached the point where California declared independence, it would be those who sided with the US who were the ones "going rouge".

You are completely ignoring, most importantly, the issue of family. A service member from California almost certainly has their family in California. Your suggestion is that a significant majority of service members would side against their own family. That is what siding with the federal government in the even of California declaring independence would mean. Does that really seem likely to you? That they would side against their own family and home? Especially for a group that tends towards being conservative?

Think about it.
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Oh fuck right off, will you? Why do you even care enough to comment? If you don't like it, simply don't upvote the story, don't click on it, don't comment on it.

The system will self correct, in a matter of hours. It's only a single item in 30, it's not that big of a deal.

Just realise that while you might not be, others can be affected by news like this. Not to play the "us hackers" card, but I do feel a lot closer to some people on this board (as in, I share their thoughts, sometimes) than other forms of media.

I loved Cohen. I, and it would appear, many other commenters, have spent many a night listening to his craft, in one way or another, performed by one artist or another, and it has helped us introspect, contemplate, decide, commit, fight and flee.

Cohen, among other greats, alive or dead, through the quality of their wordsmithing, have enabled more humans to connect with their surroundings, and understand the world around them than most education systems have prepared them for. Or maybe those humans were just helped in finding the strength to keep on going blindly.

In other words, just shut the hell up, and allow your fellow humans (and other species) a moment to pay their respects. Guess I had some karma to burn.

Edit: clarified a paragraph.
I found the https://github.com/juju/errors library to be a very practical way to include tracing info in the error values.

I wish the core error library behaved like that, and that the core language made it less verbose.

This is a typical thing in Go: the language is kept stable and backward compatibility is king. Solutions for some things are left to the community.

Other languages changed a lot over the years, getting better but frustrating people because of breaking changes. I believe this promise of stability paved the way for much of Go's success, despite many shortcomings
Wow this is fucking terrifying
Decent alternative https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-viewer/gbmdgp...
> 3. Package management.

This is being taken care of. A package management committee has been formed and they will come up with a prototype tool in Go 1.8. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qnmjwfMmvSCDaY4jxPmLAcca...

> 4. Enums.

Doesn't the iota identifier solve it for you ? It pretty much covers all my enum use cases.
Thanks for the comment! I'll start with what you should not use gun for:

It is a strong eventually consistent system (AP if you are familiar with the CAP Theorem) which means it is a bad choice for banking/accounting. You should use a strongly consistent system like RethinkDB or Postgres instead.

Some things that people are using gun for are:

- Distributed Machine Learning ( http://myrighttocode.org/blog/artificial%20intelligence/part... )

- Multiplayer VR games in the browser with WebGL.

- Realtime IoT data viz with webcomponents. ( https://github.com/Stefdv/gun-ui-lcd )

- Peer-to-Peer electron/react-native fully encrypted social networks.

How it compares to PouchDB? PouchDB is great! They pioneered offline-first before people had even termed the phrase, very much were forward thinkers. The biggest difference is that Pouch/Couch is a document database while gun is a graph database which can support key/value, relational, document, circular references, or graph data structures. I haven't used Couch since 2011 though, so I can't speak to any of their more recent features, but their latest release looked really solid.

NoSQL was definitely a fad, so I don't blame you for not being able to wrap your head around it. We plan on introducing a SQL query extension for gun within the next 8 months. SQL is great, relations are great, and the NoSQL/document-only hype hurt the industry although it was based on some legitimate needs.

From my perspective there is no question that Postgres should be considered the best solution for Master-Slave query based databases. I do predict, obviously biased though, that the industry will slowly migrate towards Master-Master push based graph databases though. And my experience with gun, the VC funding I've raised, the pain points I've had and heard from others, and the traction we're getting is confirmation of that (or confirmation bias?).

Preventing invalid data from being saved is as simple as adding a schema ( https://github.com/RangerMauve/gun-schema ). Preventing hackers is as not-simple as using real end-to-end cryptography, but we're making an explainer video series to try and help consolidate these ideas for people ( http://gun.js.org/explainers/data/security.html ). Or you can opt to use gun in a traditional centralized server setup where all reads/writes are proxied by your app's routes, like you would normally do with any other database.

Anything else I can answer? Thanks for asking these questions!
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No, this is a standard operator found in many programming languages, including ones with exceptions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_navigation_operator
It's broken. I just used it, and it randomly generated Australia (https://www.dropbox.com/s/3aa5mr7gvbbmpc5/australia.png?dl=0).
Post-truth is pretty much Donald's lifestyle. He testified under oath that his net worth "depends on how he feels at that moment" (paraphrasing). His state of mind defines reality/truth
How do you deal with :terminal replacing your current buffer (it close it when you exit the shell). And the fact that as far as I can tell none of your keybindings work when you're inside :terminal?
Problems in traveling to a new country or continent?
One problem esp. Solo Female and business travelers face is to find someone living in the city who can show them the city, recommend the best deals etc. And he or she is :

a. Not expensive

b. Interesting person to talk to on various topics

c. Safe

Couchsurfing or other platforms does not guarantee the above. What do you guys say?
Use vi editor in shell
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