skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh. I think you don't even need to read the endorsements to understand that the NYTimes and WaPo were both heavily pro-Clinton. Chances are if you were anti-Clinton, you'd be reading their articles throughout the election with a grain of salt.

The funny thing is once the election was over, suddenly a slew of articles came from WaPo talking about how Bernie may have had gotten short changed from the primaries and how they may have affected the election, be it preventing him from facing Trump or dividing the Democratic voter base. Like, only NOW does this newspapers care about Bernie. A lot of supporters for Sanders won't forget the treatment he got from the Washington Post.

Plus, in the case of Trump, his anti-establishment rhetoric may have meant it worked in his favor to not get endorsements from the media elite.
Maybe he is a bigot. But you have a choice about whether you want to make the discussion personal and permanent (you are a bigot) or transient and focused on ideas (I think one of your assumptions is wrong).

The sky is blue but it's not necessarily productive to say so in every conversation.
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You are right about the scalability of the process, but not about the rest. It seems possible to design weekend projects that would be way better for evaluating senior engineers than asking them to do CS brain-teasers on whiteboards. CS topics are important, but the typical interview is not great at identifying who is good at using CS to solve real production problems. It seems like the typical interview doesn't have many false positives but a lot of false negatives.

The common approach for big companies is to declare that false positives are way worse than false negatives, but if the problem is that you can't find enough developers to fill your roles, it may be better to have false positives coupled with a trial period or something similar.
We just don't know yet. His public talks have been to a white blue-collar audience, so if you take the things he's said there to represent his platform, then it's pretty clear that he's not in favor of replacing drivers with automation.

But what is he saying in private to people like Peter Thiel? We have no idea... And amusingly, Hillary was heavily criticized by Trump proponents for stating the obvious about public vs. private stances. Every bit of Hillary's private talks was dug up, but we know essentially nothing about Trump's real intentions. (Maybe Wikileaks could get on the case? Hah.)
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Linked Observation: it is not very reliable in repetition.

I ran the sim a few times and got wildly different results.
- First time (about average) it stabalised (scopre >10,000) at Generation 18.

- The quickest stabalisation was at Generation 3

- sometimes it got to Generation 50 without stabalising.

Brute force will eventually get there, but I guess based on so few parameters it is easy to create a misleading weighting and difficult to un-learn that.
The Motorola DynaTAC was available in 84'. They had car models before that, so maybe Motorola?

I had a boss who used to sell them and told me just to lease them it was around $2K up front with like $99/month for something like 50 minutes a month with $.99 for each minute of overage.

But at the time the market was so small and only one or two companies selling service.
If the suburbs are a "special interest group", sure, but otherwise Ford had widespread support.
Yes! It's weird that they don't more clearly distinguish it from the MacBook Pro. The Air was clearly their light and (relatively) cheap model, after that first expensive prototype, but it's really not clear what the MacBook is for.
> and HRC had Twitter

Did she though?

You're trying to pin Trump as using Mom and Pop level tech to convince the uneducated while Hilary was using good and honest woke tech for intellectuals.

If that were the case why did Trump have a following on Reddit ten times the size of HRC?

HRC may have had Twitter in the liberal tech echo chamber you follow but America is bigger than just that. The Trump campaign used social media highly effectively (often in awful ways) and it wasn't just taking advantage of senile old Facebook users like you seem to be trying to sell it as.
Let's give him one or two days in office shall we? People thought Obama was going to destroy this country too.
North Carolia refused Medicaid expansion, which was the other half of the ACA bargain.

http://m.indyweek.com/indyweek/pat-mccrorys-refusal-to-expan...

The tax penalty is rather modest, and there are alternatives to health insurance such as religious health co-ops that control costs.
Aren't there extensions to control compulsive checking of websites?
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Modeling a pipeline of transformations of a well-understood data type it sort of whatever comes right after "hello world" in functional programming. A compiler is a very scaled up version of this, but it certainly fits naturally with the standard ideas of FP.
Ha! Actually, the internal algorithm used to generate random levels is based off this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oef3MHYEC0
But what if the density of the cake matters?

Solve that one, and you can create a neutral algorithm to create voting districts across states and countries. That means you can put an end to gerrymandering forever; that will eliminate a lot extremist politics in Congress (etc) and the opinions of people whose views are more in the middle (and more representative) will start to count, again.

If density doesn't make sense to you, think of a U.S-shaped cake with a couple hundred million raisins, mostly clustered at the coasts. Now come up with an algorithm to divide that cake evenly into voting districts that are as circular as possible and each contain the same number of raisins, plus or minus one.

The counterargument is that cities gather left-leaning voters, so it wouldn't change as much as I'd like to think - but it would still help.
Latinos who are US citizens have nothing to worry about YOU ARE RIGHT! Why do the ones that are here illegally have right not to be threatened? They are breaking the law and hurting our citizens. We have to draw the line somewhere. The majority of Trump supporters are not full of hate, they are just tired of being taken advantage of
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The simplest languages around are all functional. And most of them are Lisp idioms.

Besides, when writing a compiler, it's always great if you can ignore the possibility of some value changing. It makes implementation much simpler even more if you go into optimizations. And while you can't completely ignore value mutation on Lisp, it is always explicit, what makes an implementer's life easier.
"How can one evaluate a landscape architect whose greatest achievement was to create the profession of landscape architecture itself?"

Sorry but I found the Hyperbole above a bit too much. Capability Brown was around a century before, and as such might well have been an influence when Olmsted toured England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Brown
A lot of this comment resonates with my experience and views :)

> You'll note that i didn't list Generics. I know that's high on peoples list, but not mine

This is me too.

Been programming in Rust for 3 years, and picked up Go two years ago. I like the language; I like how it feels like "C but safety net". I haven't used it for anything important (course projects a bit), but this is because so far Rust works for almost all my needs and for everything else I use Python. But I'd be happy to use Go if someone asked me to or there was a reason why Python wasn't suitable.

However, generics aren't what I want in Go. I get that a language without generics can get complex and perhaps slow to compile and has other issues too. On the other hand, enums are on the top of the list for me. Especially for the message-passing programs I tend to write in Go. There have been times when I've hacked together an enum system using interfaces and hidden methods but its not great. I've grown to get used to error handling, but I do think it can be improved a lot. Package management was a major gripe of mine but it seems like y'all are fixing that :D

I have not written production software in Go so panic-proof channels haven't been on my radar but yeah, that one makes sense.

> didn't want to make a choice that would cause them to spend weeks/months feeling unproductive.

+1 I have often recommended Go to people who don't have time but want to learn something new. If you want to actually spend time writing software from scratch in week 1 of learning the language, Go is amazing. I recommend Rust often too, but I usually find out how much time they have and/or their background first.

> Rust gives me a peace of mind that Go never came close to.

Again, big +1. For me it is two effects -- one is that Rust feels safer, and the other is that as a Rustacean Go feels wasteful at times. After programming in Rust for that long, losing performance at any corner for no reason irks me. In Rust, for example, most folks will avoid reference counting and trait objects and heap allocation as much as possible. If you see an unnecessary trait object it _feels wrong_. This is a perfectly sensible attitude to have in Rust. For me, it often carries on into Go. But Go loves interfaces and has garbage collection (with good escape analysis, but a GC nevertheless). Every time I use an interface object in Go, it _feels wrong_. It shouldn't. And I've learned to ignore it -- if I'm writing an application in Go; perf probably didn't matter enough for this to matter. (In fact, the odd unnecessary trait object in a typical Rust lib is usually no big deal either.). But, that nagging feeling is still there :)
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I think we're agreeing?

I didn't mean those are monopolies now, I meant that they had wandered into monopoly territory in the past, and regulation has been somewhat (not entirely) successful in fixing that.
Why was it fine to collect this data in the first place?
No I mean specifically from the private sector. You have to front that cost somehow. Whether you're seeing the cost as more expensive drugs or whatever, you're still paying it. R&D is factored into the cost.

The negotiation process is just different than when other countries are negotiating with US pharmaceutical companies.
Good thing the rules are agreed to before the competition. BTW, the popular vote hasn't been completely counted, and probably never will be. Absentee ballot, which generally favor Republicans, will not be counted in any of the states that didn't have a close margin of error(read: most of the red states). In a close election like this, you really have no ground complaining about popular vote.
> Hyperbole aside
Because most of the votes Hillary got didn't help her win electoral votes: if you get 80% of the vote in a state, that gets you just as many electors as 50%+1. The remaining 30% is "wasted".
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As for Trump, he won with fewer votes than McCain or Romney.

Do we have any reliable figures for this as of yet? Preliminary ones, sure....

The suspicion caused by the spirited media advocacy (the media being one of the only groups with a lower approval rating than Congress or Clinton/Trump) made people who suspected that they had been suckered by Obama into voting for the oligarchy were absolutely sure that they were being suckered into voting for Clinton.

One, if not the key to Trump's victory was the Rust Belt, where the above analysis fits rather nicely with the facts on the ground. Whatever role a "Pravda breaker" played (I love the concept), the voters in those states that put Obama over the top in 2008 then voted for Trump 8 years later (which also does a fair job of killing the "they're racists!" argument).
This is a awesome compatible "patch" to fix the bugs the much disliked Electoral College voting system that frequently does not elect the popular winner.
And if she was referring to gangs of minority kids (as she was in context) is it at least a bit like it?

"But we also have to have an organized effort against gangs," Hillary Clinton said in a C-SPAN video clip. "Just as in a previous generation we had an organized effort against the mob. We need to take these people on. They are often connected to big drug cartels, they are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators — no conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first, we have to bring them to heel."

Bernie seemed to think so:

When Sanders was asked by debate moderator why he called out Bill Clinton out for his defense of Clinton’s use of the term "superpredator," Sanders responded, "Because it was a racist term, and everyone knew it was a racist term."
I switched to Rclone recently for personal backups and it's unbelievable how slick, stable, and well-behaved this program is.

As far as I can tell though, it does not expose an API beyond its command line interface though.
My issue with it was that it squeezed the wrong end of the amendment "funnel". It makes it harder to propose amendments. I don't remember a frivolous amendment being proposed.

Instead, i would have preferred to see a bill making it harder to pass amendments, moving it to 60% or something similar. That said, a lot of the progress the state has had would have failed under either requirement. Min wage increase, end of life, recreational pot, etc.

I have never said to myself "wow, we propose and pass a lot of amendments that should never have seen the ballot in the first place". And if we did, i want to see the ideas. Keep proposing easy and make them need more voter backing to pass.
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What is wrong with that illustration? It is a gopher, which is the mascot of Golang. I agree with the memes, but there are no memes in this post.
It is interesting that you cite the UK as an example, because the US seems to be doing much better than the UK in this regard. Polls show that 100% of UK Muslims find homosexuality an unacceptable lifestyle choice, and more than half want homosexuality made illegal. Not gay marriage, homosexuality.

Being inclusive and tolerant of intolerance works up to the point when the intolerant group is large enough to wield political power.

> We manage it in the UK without everything collapsing (thus far.)

This may turn out to be awfully prescient.
It's a bit tricky, I agree. Like with most of his positions.

During the campaign he said that he's against the supreme court ruling since it should be decided by the state. He also said in an interview that he is for "traditional marriage".

It could be worse, except that he has a VP who is a huge opponent of LGBT rights.
Anecdotally, I have been in jail in the netherlands before, and it's honestly not that bad of a place to be. Delicious food, thick mattresses, private cells. Also, all the surfaces are painted pink/yellow/white because those colors have been shown to calm people who are locked up.
Might not sound great on a newspaper headline, "refugees being housed in prison" similar to how I saw something about refugees in Germany being housed in some former concentration camp or SS barrack or something like that. Assuming it's a re-purposed, former prison that might not be a terrible idea. If you're fleeing possible death, imprisonment, war, etc. I don't see why it would be terrible to have some sort of "Refugee Integration Center". Spend a month there, get some cursory education on the customs and expectation in society, resources for assistance and such. This could create or preserve jobs and probably lead to better outcomes for incoming refugees coming from vastly different cultural backgrounds.
> Also, he is not against the Islamic religion. He is just against immigration from countries with known ties to terrorism.

He expressly called for all Muslims to be barred from the United States. I'm afraid that claiming he's "not against the Islamic religion" is not a fact-based argument.
You can also prevent the tragedy of the commons, without federal interference, through an inter-state compact (basically a treaty/contract between states).
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Declining circulation doesn't mean they aren't reading them online.
Officials reported (sorry, no link) that they had "heavy reasons" to think that the attack was

1) done by actual criminals
2) pointed elsewhere, and the heating system was just one of the many systems used to initiate the attack.

They weren't more specific as to who attacked and who was the actual intended victim, but they were pretty sure the heatimg systems going down was just collateral.

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that's news to me that MBP is outselling Surface. Also, at least 1 billion people use Facebook so that must count for something.
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Seems like Facebook is unhappy that their Ministry of Truth was unable to "inform" the people to vote for Facebook's preferred candidate.
They are not real concerns. Newt Gingrich said it the best - this election was about "feels over reals".
That's right. Sometimes we need to do it online.
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The reason many people, including myself, look to xenophobia as one of the driving forces in the election is because I'm fairly certain Donald Trump would struggle to place somewhere like Belgium on the map and likely can't list the countries that border Syria.

He is so grossly unqualified for the position that it is difficult for me to understand what other reason someone would chose to vote for him.

Clinton was a poor choice for sure but Trump doesn't even pass the phone screen of the basic necessary knowledge for the position.

Edit: I should clarify that the point of my comment is not to reopen the debate about Trump as opposed to give some context as to why many people look to those specific issues as a driver of his election.
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There's no video of the product at those links, just static photos that someone turned into a video slideshow.
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I recommend you cross examine liberal and conservative news sources, since, we have a fundamentally polarized and biased media system. Furthermore, you could just read the primary sources since they are all publicly available at the courthouse - for a price.
I worked around this with "reading mode".
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Yes you are; Gerymandering.
Its most likely a visual prototype made using unrepresentative materials and processes, intended as a tool to aid design discussions and provoke innovation.
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This is a fair complain. I have read dozens of articles on the matter and honestly, parsing and lexing is the less significant aspect of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793054

https://www.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/2ocw2r/how_to_creat...

Exactly. I'm in the pursuit of build one. My first questions? How make a REPL, a debugger, how implement pattern matching, type checking, if a interpreter can be fast enough, if possible to avoid to do a whole VM for it, etc...
Exist a LOT of practical questions that are left as "a exercise for the reader" that need clarifications.

In the end, the parsing steps can be summarized as:

- Do lisp/forth if wanna do the most minimal parsing and do a lisp

Or:

- Use a parse generator, if not care about the quality of this

Or:

- Use a top-down parsing by hand, if wanna some control

ANY OTHER OPTION is non-optimal, and will divert from the task, EXCEPT if you wanna do something novel.

If will let aside the parsing stuff, we can put more in the hard and more rewarding aspects.
Would you call Romney a racist (and if so, why isn't Hillary also one?)

Trump got ~30% of the Hispanic vote, despite the Spanish media's immense negativity, despite the candidate's lukewarm campaigning in LatAm heavy communities. He also won more black votes than Romney and he won more white women than Hillary (a woman). It's hard to square what you are saying with what the results showed.
Pixel is "made by Google." There's not a hint of supplier manufacturing anywhere on the device (save for the battery).

It looks like Google got mad at the suspicion and decided to make it flat-out true.
> It's all fun and games until someone gets kidnapped.

But statistically, how often does that happen? Is it enough to be seriously worried about?

> There's also the situation where a lot of American towns/cities aren't so crowded that you can walk everywhere. And not everywhere in America is there good public transportation.

I don't think it's an issue of being crowded. I think it's an issue of how we design our cities. We assume everyone will have a car, so those that don't have a car (kids) have less independence. A lot of Europe was built before cars existed, so they don't assume that everyone will have their own car.
Mind sharing what for? I assume it is quite a different experience depending on what you are "in" for?
Yeah, I hate that he won, but it's done and this sort of speculating is a waste of time.
Just out of curiosity, between Eclipse and Netbeans which IDE do you prefer for Java and why?
Would you say that about someone who voted for Clinton?

I don't believe this, but I could make an equally cogent argument for why Clinton supporters are total idiots who voted against their own interests. I mean, are they really so stupid to think that someone who collects enormous checks from bankers and brutal foreign regimes will be on their side? How can they be so stupid to believe Clinton's pandering to Bernie supporters about her change-of-heart on the TPP? How could they be so stupid to support a candidate who cheated over and over again? Don't they realize that she has a private and public position, and that her public position is entirely determined by poll results? What idiot would support a candidate who is running a fraudulent charity? She's under FBI investigation for god's sake! Only a knuckle-dragging buffoon would vote for her!

I could go on and on, but I won't, because I don't actually believe that Clinton voters are stupid. Clinton didn't have that many gung-ho supporters, and the same was true for Trump. On both sides voters had two terrible choices, and they chose the one they thought would do a little less damage.
The point is that they cannot harm us while in prison.
> the winner is always going to be decided by a "vocal minority".

I hope, this is taken note. The job of a representative democracy is to get a representative. We could just use the concept of sortition - randomly sampled voters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
except for the last item, you pretty much described amazon.
Sigh. Nothing demonstrates the problem with the Democratic voters than to get angry after they fail.