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Your argument breaks down once you consider contemporary mainstream world history books. It is completely understandable that Western scholars of antiquity didn't write much about Eastern cultures, but it is inexcusable if modern texts only gloss over the history of the Middle East; from the texts I've read, I think that this is unfortunately the case.

It is in fact rewriting if you don't focus on the impact other cultures had on the history of civilization because you've been at war with their religion for over a thousand years. It becomes even worse, and extremely xenophobic in my opinion, when you disregard the work of scientists who followed said religion. Oh, but isn't science above religion? Isn't the pursuit of knowledge the purest form of thought? Big words, not much to back them. This is in my view the worst kind of revisionism there is.
Now that I am experienced I am confident that I can get a new job fast. When I was just starting out it took a few months to get my first job everyone wanted experience (I live far away from San Fran). Now I can quit my job on the spot (it helps my spouse also works) but I couldn't have quit my job on the spot back when I had student loans.
IMO this is part of the problem. People relying on what they "know" about the world.

You're relying on previous knowledge of Snopes without considering the accuracy of this account on its own. You "know" the brand but failed to vet this message and the messenger, that is the author, and whether they are qualified individually to make an accurate assessment.

Boxing things into categories leaving little wiggle room for exceptions or evolution

"I don't want knowledge. I want certainty." -- David Bowie
Now just make it so you can destroy the buildings as you walk around and you have VR Rampage.

I'm honestly surprised no one has made a VR Rampage for the Vive. I tried to play around with the idea a little bit, but game development is just something I don't have any time for.
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At no point has Gingrich ever been a contender in any Presidential race. Getting on TV doesn't make you a contender. Even Herman Cain managed to do that.
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Exactly. Information is not the problem, or at least not the most fundamental one. The problem is that humans have a natural bias towards believing anything that agrees with one's existing worldview, and a natural bias against believing anything contrary to that worldview. In short, the underlying problem really is a function of how our brains work.

Social media may not be the cause, but IMO it's definitely not helping either. In the past, the kinds of political disagreements you see on social media would almost always have happened in person instead (or over the phone at least). I suspect most people find it a lot easier to be a jerk online than in person.
True, it is not their job to predict the future... But if they go about doing that, then they are responsible. No one is forcing news organizations to publish polls, they do it by choice.

But that is hardly the point, most of the media told us for months that Trump wasn't a real candidate, then he wouldn't win and that Clinton was the only real candidate and you had choose her. They published tons of positive articles about her and tones of negative about him.

In a general sense this tarnishes their credibility, either they lied or they didn't know what they were talking about for the last 6 months.

Being wrong about who would win isn't so much of the problem, its more about being totally clueless about what was going on and what people actually thought about the situation.... They failed at their job of telling everyone what had happened.
My guess would be Macintosh Programmer's Workshop [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Works...
Bashlets is a new modular extensible Bash library written in Bash! The project is still in its early days, yet it is quite usable and the core features are already there: smart loading of modules, integration with git, partial OO support, and more. But of course there is so much work to do, and I'd be delighted if somebody is willing to step in with code, enhancements, suggestions, and of course test cases and bug reports!
Here's hoping for VS for Linux 2017.. ;)

Edit: Nevermind, whoa. The Visual Studio Code demo was quite impressive and looks awesome as it is.
I was thinking more of outside support for the proposal. Pretty obviously, the inside-the-industry support is just supporting burdens imposed selectively on competing business models, which is common independent of nerd/jock associations.
I worry that this moral gray area stuff is hard to solve with clear rules that people can agree on. Is a sketchy quiz advertising prescription drugs unethical? Probably. Is a sketchy quiz trying to get kids to eat their vegetables unethical? Probably not. It's going to be really hard to find a clear line between things like that, even without worrying about politics getting all over it.

For comparison, the prescription drug market is extremely heavily regulated, but that doesn't seem to have helped in this story.
> all SQL Server users — including those using free edition — will now get access to the developer features that were previously restricted to the Enterprise edition.

This aspect is interesting. What I haven't done since all of these open source and cross-platform moves by Microsoft is go back and figure out how tech costs scale with user growth (starting from 0). It used to be no contest (initially), but I'm not sure anymore.
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I'm installing it right now, and I'm getting admin access requests -- way more than I should.
Yes my 2013 and 2015RC ran very well together, but omfg when I tried to upgrade to 2015 RTM
Right now you are only believing your side and think the other side is lies. Do you not realize how dense you are being right now?
Again though, you're attaching to metrics that are inherently un-knowable. A population being happy boils down to people being happy, and every person has their own subjective definition of happy, which is then filtered through the lens of self-reporting.

If you goal is to create a happy society, then the people in that society should be allowed the maximum freedom possible to acquire knowledge, perform work, create art, etc. as makes them happy. To define their own profession, if you will, including "professions" that are not market valuable.

Utopia, basically, which I think is actually becoming within reach if we can all manage to not kill each other in the next century or so.
Installing SQL Server on Windows still sucks, though with your CM tool of choice it's less painful (still takes a flipping century to install, however).
a) there hasn't been many studies. Many headlines about few studies which makes you think there are lots however...

b) If you read past the headlines into the correlation and probability theory of each study, you'll find that the reason why there is the difference is because of education and lower ambitions and goals of black people. You could say there is no real racism, only perceived racism, which then mentally affects the perceiever, and dissaudes them from getting better qualifications and therefore worse job prospects.

That is not in itself racism. That is a false perception of reality ends up affecting reality later on. I think it's called the self-fulfillment fallacy.
Doesn't Xamarin compile C# to Java/Dalvik bytecode already?
It's sad to see that climate-deniers are still pushing their agenda when the facts so plainly speak for themselves.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, science is rarely settled. That is what makes it science, evidence is provided and notions are challenged -- indisputable axioms are very rare. Nevertheless we can still point to the results of rigorous studies and accept that their weight is enough to arrive at a reasonable assumption that global warming is real and it's not going away.
Don't forget that we have the New Microsoft[tm]! Source: Hacker News.
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I couldn't figure out at first why it felt off to me as well, but I think you hit the nail on the head. It's not wrong, it's just a little off/unusual.
An even bigger issue is that small customers tend to use a different feature set than large-volume (or very-large-volume) customers. If you're building a high-end or enterprise access point, the functionality you care about is probably the least tested and least-well-maintained part of the massive driver codebase - to the extent that the thing won't even compile with the proper #defines. So the documentation isn't just important for understanding the chip, it's also necessary for rewriting the driver.

.... and that's what I spent cumulatively about a year of my life on. Ugh.
That is a great point. I'm updating my post to reflect this information.
How Americans feel after the presidential election. 15 Seconds
In practice, liability is the yardstick of ethics. Anyone caught in the "unethical/not liable" zone is alone. Which for most of us results in shame. For a few others, it results in pride.
I agree which is why I've moved my Android development to Kotlin. It provides a lot of that and works right now on Android
The implication is "I have no interest in this because I'm happy with what I have". Okay, that's fine, please enjoy your Java and build wonderful things. Oh, BTW, why are you typing into a reply box on a thread you have no interest in? And the implication there is because your tool is a poopy head and I wanted to subtly point that out by expressing my lack of interest.

So, yeah, go away because that's not contributing to the conversation.
Julian Assange is the modern "useful idiot".

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
The irony is that NSA's mandate stems from the same problem of revealing true things by unorthodox methods: it often takes a dirty and ugly tool to perform the tasks necessary to obtain information of interest to national security.

Speaking of dirty tools, it's disheartening that the NSA was adept at gathering data from randos, but not at following Putin's plans.
Google have not made their own languages Dart/Go official to Android. Why would they make languages other than Java a priority now?
I believe the parent is a proponent of the theory of racial relations that defines racism as "prejudice + power". I don't think I'm eloquent enough to sum up the idea, so here's a link to a paper that analyzes this proposed meaning among others: http://www.andover.edu/About/Newsroom/TheMagazine/Documents/...
I believe that a nation state did use wikileaks to influence the election. I just think it was the U.S. Also, Assange hasn't been seen publicly in ~42 days. You can see the timeline on assange.net (not Julians personal site). It doesn't speculate, just provides facts. Very concerning.
My bet would be the controllers, which would mean a Rift compatible release would be imminent when the Touch controllers are officially released in a month.
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"Not even an ounce of introspection. Still haven't heard any answers."

Really now. No introspection? No answers? It might help to read the post-election coverage, which was, you know...all introspection. Nonstop. For the last week. To help you out, here's a sample:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-missed-trump-w...
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-difference-2-perc...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/upshot/presidential-foreca...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/...
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/11/donald-tru...
http://www.nature.com/news/pollsters-struggle-to-explain-fai...

If you're willing to go so far as to download a podcast, you could try any of: NPR Politics, On the Media, FiveThirtyEight Politics and Left Right and Center, all of whom have done at least one in-depth story on the polling miss in the last week.
What is The Intercept's bias?
The "evidence" you mention is circumstantial and shallow. I have no firsthand knowledge but tend to disbelieve most of the conspiracy theories for the following reasons:

1) if you wanted to launch an attack, how better than to buy a few VPSes in Russia. This is like saying that an attack that originated in AWS US-EAST was undertaken by the US Government. Truly bizarre.

2) The person who did that is apparently more of a pundit than an official.

3) Not sure what evidence you'd point to for this. Assange did an interview for hire than was run on RT, but surely he would happily do interviews with American TV networks if they offered.

4) Trump made a PR stunt remark about respecting Putin and the next thing we all know he's a Russian stooge. Not sure how old you are but during the cold war it was a big relief when Reagan and Gorbachev sat down for talks and everyone calmed down. In light of the frantic anti-Russian rhetoric coming from HRC's political campaign, I view any sort of moderation as a breath of fresh air and sign of maturity.

I think the disturbing issue is that we don't have enough transparency into the DOJ, the FBI or the NSA to have any clue what might be going on. There was pretty much zero reaction/reform after the Snowden revelations. I would not have thought this possible.
There is a non-zero chance Gingrich gets a substantial appointment.
already on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12968161
Don't mistake it for sarcasm. I don't doubt you had real cause to be threatened. Just pointing out the irony. As someone who also comes from a relatively poor background, I would think that, while threatened, you also understand why some people may have felt the way they did.

If a large tech company wants to thrive in a particular area they should make sure they don't alienate any groups already existing in that area to the extent that they feel the need to wake up early in the morning to go and throw rocks to get their attention.

If it gets to this point, the company should do something to try to address the issue, and any employee that genuinely feels threatened should refuse to work until their employer provides a safe working environment.
The Intel HAXM Android emulator requires kernel extensions. I'm puzzled why anything else needs admin though.
That was an iPhone 5C. These didn't have Secure Enclave inside them, and it still wasn't an easy feat to access the device - they probably had to disassemble it and copy the flash storage straight from the chip to do it, unless they've used an unreleased 0day. If it were an iPhone 5S (3 years old) or newer, they wouldn't be able to access the data on the device at all.
And many were raped. Repeatedly. In a culture where this was thought of as normal. How can a relationship be consensual and loving when one partner literally has the right to order the other, to harm the other in any way, to literally kill the other? If there were so many consensual and secret relationships, why did white slave owners talk so openly about rape of black women (and white women actually, read William Byrd Carter II's diary, it's a shocking horrible thing), and speak so strongly against any sort of liason between white women and black men? Black slaves lived in a world where killing your rapist would get you found guilty [1]. Surely there were some loving relationships (people are diverse), but just as surely the majority were not.

And what were slave-owners trying to protect slaves from? If slaves had it so good under slavery, why did thousands and thousands attempt to flee at great risk to their own life? Why did they overwhelmingly vote for the Republican Party after reconstruction, again at great cost to their own lives? Why did so many who did flee write about the evils of slavery, and campaign against it, and no free black wrote for it? All slaves were owned to extract economic value of them, they were huge capital investments.

[1]http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/celia/celiaacc...
Ah, whataboutism; a great way to shrug one's shoulders.
Okay, then, the almost $500k/yr he was making a year in speeches and his active involvement and relative success in politically oriented consultancies. Take your pick. He's still being pretty damn successful in political spaces.

edit: ha - misspoke, it was actually almost $5M / year
My eyes were opened to this when I was able to have an honest and open conversation with an African-American friend (I'm not American and never understood the history), and he described the level of victimisation that is passed on from generation to generation after traumatic events that span multiple generations. There is a deep wound in American history that is unique to the African-American experience.

Museums like this try to capture some of it. But really, America should be looking to Truth and Reconciliation commission type of platforms that has worked in other places. Finish what was started in the Reconstruction-era, or continue to suffer from this wound.
Don't forget HuffPo's models giving HRC an 90% chance a few days before.
Fight about who gets the money.
Maybe Clinton's shortcoming was her choice of E-Mail provider while Trump is, indisputably, a proto-fascist?

I mean, it's now admitted fact the Russian government tried to influence the election with the leaks, other hacks and a myriad other ways that must have had a significant effect.

Can you imagine what Breitbart et al would have written if Obama 2012 had been elected with help from Russia?
This is not a scandal.

If true, but embarrassing leaked emails had been obtained by a non-state actor, news outlets would do what news outlets do, and they would publish it. There would by cries to investigate and prosecute from the embarrassed party but typically at the end of the day little would come of it.

The fact that it was a state actor is a red herring. Would it had made any difference if it were an unknown US hacker?

Further, Hillary Clinton truly has no one to blame but herself for her FBI problems. Four years of dissembling and foot dragging caused this. Additionally, what the Wikileaks hack shows is that her carelessness almost certainly meant that top secret emails were hacked by an adversarial state actor as well.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12961296
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12961296
As the Mythical Man-Mnth says, you can't build software faster by adding more programmers.

So not much, unless the work they have to do is highly parallelizable (i.e. can be broken up), and would truly benefit from more developers.

I can imagine KDE benefiting from this, because KDE is an umbrella organization with hundreds (if not thousands) of projects underneath it.
* C# is much more mature

* It has an enormous user base

* It's not owned by Oracle

Not saying they will but those are real possible reasons for Google to do this.
that's not how it works.

if you don't toe the line with the result of your study, that'll be the last one you do for the entire industry.
The user base here, much like many niche places on the internet, is a very unique sampling of individuals. Most people have absolutely no clue about what is going on inside a computer.
>It's however important to note that the polls were less than 3% off

Wisconsin last poll 41% for trump, Wisconsin result 49% (~8% off)

Michigan last poll 42% for trump, Michigan result 48% (~6% off)

North Carolina last poll 45% for trump, North carolina result 51% (~6% off)

Florida last poll 45% for trump, Florida result 49% (~4% off)

Source:
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2016/Pres/Maps/Nov09.html

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2016/Pres/Maps/Nov08.html

You can't excuse the pollsters. That's an epic fuck up.
To play devil's advocate, we could use the same line of thinking to incriminate the Clinton's. In fact, a lot of people have done so. And they get labeled conspiracy theorists or idiots for not having "facts" to back up their claims.

I'm not bringing this point up to start a side tangent argument, but just pointing out that in this election cycle, a lot of people held pre-existing beliefs and would justify them in any way they could (i.e. cognitive dissonance).
I think if the op ment if you physically can touch the device the game is almost over
Their move to Open JDK should do away with the oracle issue no?
I'm starting to appreciate that Trump may not be all bad. If he actually brings antitrust suits against Amazon for this sort of malarkey, and gets rid of the EC, and adds term limits, maybe the country will take longer to turn into Putin's Russia.

On the other hand maybe Amazon will just turn into Gazprom and the voting will become irrelevant. I'm not opposed to California seceding, just trying to envision what bad things might have been more likely had Trump not been elected.

Sort of a "well, that chlorine gas attack sure cut down on the traffic in Aleppo!" type of thing... :-/
Thanks. :) I wrote mine in Kotlin ("genetic_draw" on my GH). The best of both worlds, fun side project + new language.
What do you still use those for? I can't remember the last time I saw an anonymous class used in a way that isn't superseded by lambdas.
Actually, with the JNA (not JNI), one can invoke native code from Java even easier than in C# – you just define a Java Interface containing the relevant C functions, bind the library, and get an Object implementing it.
They weren't really the same though, right? Only similar.

A good test for that would be to script the game and give it pixel-identical answers for each questions and see if the result is different.
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> Nice! Do these start on fire like all the other Samsung products?

I cannot wait until the last few use cases for spinning rust die out. So many problems from spinning rust crashes throughout my life.
Yeah, HuffPo is just one of the leeches feeding of actual journalism. I really enjoyed the little fight they got themselves into the day before the election – their failure is/was to consider the errors in state polls to be independent.
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IIRC, they have since adopted an OS/FS shim to be able to make porting like this generally easier... that said, there are certainly a lot of edge case features that need to be tested... I'd be surprised if there wasn't an effort to bring an electron based Management Studio for cross-platform usage. Which would be pretty damned cool...

The `tedious` package in node, makes it a drop dead simple db to use cross platform... Compared to say the beast that is Oracle, I haven't used db2 from node so can't compare there.
As far as I am concerned, most of the right in Congress can talk a long walk off a short pier. Crystal clear?
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And it's not just the internet itself. It's "optimization" i.e. showing people only the things that generate "engagement". That's what creates echo chambers.
The problem, IMHO, is trust. We can't trust what we read online. We know there is lots of true, useful information online and there is lots of crap. So, how do you figure out which is which? Intuition, gut response, does it make sense. All are tied to our biases.

Basically we have turned "Do I trust this?" into "Do I agree with what this is saying?" I feel this is the core issue behind filter bubbles.

Fake news sites are mocking the problem. They aren't the cause but they aren't helping either.
Why? The Java Stream API is superior to LINQ in every way, and a lot more extensible.

EDIT: Instead of downvoting, please point out how LINQ is actually superior?
These are excellent points. I think everyone has forgotten that the cold war was a big deal and the world took a breath of fresh air when it ended. The largely unsubstantiated anti-Russian rhetoric is (regardless of whether it is true or false) provocative and dangerous, and I think quite irresponsible.