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He forgot celebrity worshipfulness and the consumer culture.

The machine that produces celebrity/consumerism today is a hyper efficient over optimized machine.

He is basically saying people didn't get what they need.

And that's because the celeb/consumerism machine's only job is to keep giving people what they want.

What they need has nothing to do with it. Whether its Obama or Trump, Zuckerberg or Musk, subprime mortgages or iphones it's all about what people want and not need.
>How can a judge rule that a private party must sell their property to another private party?

If the law says you can do it, and nothing in the state or federal constitution prevents it, then why not?
> you must follow it or resign--those are the only options, per your civil service oath.

Those aren't your only options. Your other options are to stay in and leak information. Stay in and try to damage the project etc...

I don't know what I'd do if I were in the position to damage, delay, or stop something as blatantly unconstitutional as a Muslim registration database, but I hope that I'd be able to muster to the courage to do so.

The civil service oath requires you to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic"

I understand that constitutionality is determined by the Supreme Court, but if the government attempts to create a Muslim registration, they've crossed the line and it's time to act.
Have you tried just using Virtualbox with a lightweight Linux distro like BunsenLabs?

Not through vagrant, just a normal Linux desktop (that happens to live in a virtualbox). I do all my web work this way, and it works just fine.
Would you rather have 0% ever thinking they'll be rich? That sounds like a terrible place to live.
Here is my IANAL understanding. If multiple people own a property all it takes is one person who wants to sell and they can force a partition sale.

So my guess is Zuckerberg is using the quiet title suit to get the names of all the players. He then just needs to get enough of the fractional owners of each property on board and he can then pay the legal fees to help them with their partition actions and then purchase the properties and clear his title.
A bit of both. I wanted an excuse to test out Spark to find the kinks which were ommited from the documentation (and boy did I find kinks), and also provide a practical demo.
It's a perfectly rational thing for Zuckerberg to do.

It is also absolutely a case of an ultra elite (basically a "king" of today) white man is availing himself of state (ultimately, military) support to force native Hawaiian people off their lands.

You made an error in your comment. You said their shares were useless. Clearly, they have a use to the individuals in question - both the natives and Zuckerberg.
I'm on an H-1B, and the thing that infuriates me about the dialogue on this is that they are effectively trying to ban skilled immigration, and exclude people like me from coming.

If you don't qualify for the family-based or refugee route, employment-based immigration is the only viable pathway. The amount of hate I see piled on people trying to come here via the employment-based immigration seems insane to me. These people make it seem like employment-based immigration is not as respectable or legitimate, compared to refugee/asylum and family-based immigration.

The problem with requiring higher wagers is that for people like me, who were students in US -- it's very hard to get an ultra-high salary for the first job out of college. I was a student (on an F-1 visa), and my first job out of college offered me $60,000/year. On my first job on my H-1B visa (in NYC), I was offered $85,000 a year (got slightly over $100,000 with bonuses). Then, just about a year and half later, I was paid (mostly through lucky bonuses) slightly over $200,000 in a single year.

If you raised wage requirements, you'd basically be not allowing people like me to continue to stay and work in the US (after graduation from college), and would instead only allow people from outside who have lots of experience (and skill) and can command a much higher salary upfront.
Davos 2017 – Artificial Intelligence [video]
Agreed, I especially loved Chris putting John to the mat on GC vs ARC. Also, you can't argue Chris isn't technical.

Now I wish there was a podcast where language implementors could talk about all of this stuff.

I just don't get the yellow car bit at all.
Why would anyone read the article when they can take the opportunity to bash the rich?
Facebook blocks RT from posting until after Trump inauguration
I don't really need to demonstrate anything with credit cards looking to the US for example. Thinking of those nasty dept packages that got so prominent 2008.
What kind of api did you use to pull all reviews out of amazon? As I see they have blocked giving reviews via api they give it via iframe in api nowadays.
How did you curate the list of each and every product present in amazon?

P.S. Awesome analysis.
Trump is going to shut this down unfortunately. I don't think people have really come to terms with what is going to change. If there is anything digital that needs done, some republican backed defense contractor is going to do it for 100x the price.
The student loan bubble will burst putting colleges out of business or cutting back hard- and as before the public will bear the brunt. from 3 years ago and it is still growing with no slow down http://ijr.com/2014/06/149516-mark-cuban-predicts-burst-stud...
I do agree, and this is what makes the Palantir case makes sense.

If I see a large software company located in an area where a lot of Asians reside and there aren't many Asians there? Then something funny is going on.
Could blind hiring practices be a solution to the absence of equal opportunity? Or quotas are a better answer? What in your opinion can be done to battle hiring discrimination problem?
It's not illegal to ask about race, but, asking about race is a good indication you are discriminating based on race, which is illegal.

As to why they do it? I'm guessing that they either don't know not to bring up race or they don't care about discriminating based on race because they probably won't have any consequences.

I've seen plenty of casual workplace sexism and racism in my life. It happens.
Ah, good ol argument from authority. Unless you are the CEO you may not critique the CEO.
Ask HN: Does taking a severance package make you less marketable?
Is it a bad idea to take a severance package from a job that I was already planning on leaving?
I work as a developer at a Fortune 50 company that is currently doing "restructuring" and is offering severance packages to anyone who wants them. The package is enticing despite my position (unlike the Business Analyst) not being in danger.
If Zuckerberg is trying to dislodge residents from their homes, that's reprehensible. On the other hand, if he's merely trying to gain clear and unencumbered title to land that he's already bought and paid for, that's ... just common sense? Unfortunately the article doesn't really make it clear which scenario is operating here.

The writer invokes the word "kamaaina," which a lot of folks here are interpreting as "Native Hawaiian." It literally means "child of the land," but is used locally to mean "Hawaii resident." If you've lived in Hawaii long enough to get a Hawaii driver's license, congrats, you're kamaaina, as distinct from "malahini" (newcomer) or "kanaka maoli" (which does mean Native Hawaiian).
I think it really depends on what your team needs to discuss, but from my slack chats we don't discuss any business-breaking proprietary intel. If there's something important a face-to-face meeting is used or video chat (but that's also through hangouts)
The GP is good comment lets not init a flame war here.
Common retirement strategies, like a 401K, differ taxes until withdrawal. So taking out 4% of your portfolio every year upon retirement would in fact incur taxes. Since a 401K is massively tax advantaged in your highest earning years it only makes sense to maximize this portfolio while you can thus delaying, but not avoiding taxes, until a later date when you'll likely pay much less on the income.
You could err on the side of the living ancestor(s).

In absence of saying "that fraction is approaching zero", you could assume the intent of the original buyer that they wanted anyone from their family living there.
First night effect
If he's a typical wealthy person he probably only spends a couple of weeks a year there and has other holiday properties scattered around.
It's not as though the company is purposely discriminating though. People naturally discriminate and it takes conscious effort to stop yourself from doing so.

At least that's what I was told at the talk about diversity and inclusion during my orientation at one of those big tech companies.

Apparently it's because we benefited from being able to make quick judgments before civilized society was a thing.
Updating Materialized Views and Caches Using Kafka
https://www.usds.gov/join#who says they are only accepting US citizens. However https://www.usds.gov/join#application only asks if you are authorized to work in the US, and says 'For some positions US citizenship is required'. So are there any positions that do not require US citizenship, or should that application form just ask if you are a citizen?
For better or for worse, the reason for this is pretty obvious.
The added value is that you can implement things that need garbage collection. Like, say, a scripting language.

More importantly, it could be very useful to interact with code in garbage collected languages while having Rust model of the behavior of the garbage collector using its type system.
You think I didn't try that one before? It doesn't work in MY case:

error[E0281]: type mismatch: the type `fn(_) -> _ {tool::second::<_>}` implements the trait `std::ops::FnMut<(_,)>`, but the trait `for<'r> std::ops::FnMut<(&'r _,)>` is required (expected concrete lifetime, found bound lifetime parameter

--> src\lib.rs:50:17
|
50 | .filter(apply(second, i))
| ^^^^^
|
= note: required by `apply`

error[E0271]: type mismatch resolving `for<'r> <fn(_) -> _ {tool::second::<_>} as std::ops::FnOnce<(&'r _,)>>::Output == _`
--> src\lib.rs:50:17
|
50 | .filter(apply(second, i))
| ^^^^^ expected bound lifetime parameter , found concrete lifetime
|
= note: concrete lifetime that was found is lifetime '_#11r
= note: required by `apply`

error: aborting due to 2 previous errors

error: Could not compile `fizzbuzz`.
I think threads are a great addition but the way they seem to hide the discussion makes it so much less useful. It would be better to just indent the messages and keep the normal flow around it.
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Gelernter summarized his view on the culture wars and the shift in America's elite class in a 1997 article in Commentary Magazine. It's an interesting take and certainly relevant to the current political climate.

http://archive.is/1rt2H
> Also, you can't argue Chris isn't technical.

Is this a typo? As a programmer, I wish I was as technical as Chris Lattner's used kleenex.
Whoa, you're right.

To prove the point to myself I went to search on all reddit comments during 2016-11 (waiting for 2016-12 now).

http://imgur.com/a/W1JuE

The most popular "disclaimer:" was "Disclaimer: This user cannot verify whether or not this comment has been edited by /u/spez", as /r/the_donald reacted to /u/spez revelation of editing comments.

October had more regular disclaimers, like "I am not ..." (most popular, 181), "I'm not a" (88), "I have no" (69), "I do not" (52). Further down, 7th place, "I work for" (30).

There were less "disclosures", but when used they said "I am a" (31), "I work for" (29), "I'm not a" (25).

So in an absolute count for "I work for" there were virtually the same number for both, but "I work for" is less relevant in the "disclaimer" space than the "disclosure" one.

(thanks for the tip)

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Happy to see that being able to not use GOPATH is at last considered seriously! During years, Go people wanted to force people to work their way. We can still this state of mind in the associated bug report: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17271.
I can't say I'm actually surprised here. I don't know if Mr. Assange appreciates the optics of this move on his part, time will tell on how that plays out.
Bye bye 2016, welcome 2017 My Experiences and Achievements :)
The issue is around compelling people to sell land they don't want to, that has a tradition of belonging to that family.
It reminds me of old maps of Swedish villages. In the 1700s there was a big push to accurately record who owned what in each village. The fields were divided into strips of ownership divided between children and by the 1700s this meant that each map has fields made up of long strips just a few feet wide. There were various schemes called 'skifte' to rationalize things, e.g. Solskifte (literally "sun shift") where the big farms were numbered clockwise (the direction the sun goes in) and the fields likewise and assigned. Of course they also took account of how good the fields were etc. My own house was built by a farmer selected to move from a village quite a long way away and given land to move to 1850. We have a list of timber etc he was entitled to take from his farm, which reads like a shopping list of the materials used to make the very grand new house.
it doesn't work in my program:

https://bitbucket.org/iopq/fizzbuzz-in-rust/src/bf4968973d73...

it gives an error when I use a generic `second` method from tool.rs
> Women will always have longer lifespans and higher average IQs than men

Then why is it that on average they get paid less than men for the same job? Surely if they are inherently "smarter", they should be dominating the knowledge economy and earning more than men. The fact that they don't points to some greater opposing force that needs addressing.
Thanks for taking the time to help improve things. I agree with some issues you raise but not others.

For the Clinton server, I never stated that work email being wiped was intentional. The fact is though that almost half of her emails were securely wiped with bleachbit, and the FBI recovered 5600 work related emails, of which at most half are duplicates of those turned over. I give the benefit of the doubt and list that half of them are new. See the WSJ source for the FBI stating that they found emails that Clinton wiped.

Homicides by race - you're right about the tooltip not being as clear as can be. I need to be terse so that the tooltip can fit on mobile, but I do mean the percentage to be detailing the size of the histogram slice.

I defend using the percentages instead of whole populations though. Looking at the total population is asking what kills people the most. Looking at a breakdown of homicides is asking who kills the most. It's a case of Simpson's paradox where the subpopulation does not conform to the aggregated whole.

I'm happy you expect good work out of the site - that's what I strive to accomplish.
How to handle errors in constructors without exceptions?
It didn't sound like any of the parcels had occupants nor were the ownership rights concentrated in a single individual. I'm not sure how I feel about this but it isn't a cut and dry issue.
To deref it
In fact, this is now fixed in Python 3.6. When gc is disabled by the user, the final collection is not done.

The effect is faster shutdown with less "copy on read" but some __del__ methods and finally: blocks in some generators might never get called.
Absolutely not, take the package. Use the extra runway to recharge your batteries and destress and re-focus. You'll come back stronger.
Not to mention all the fake reviews and reviews that hide the text 'I received this product at a discount/free for my honest unbiased review'.

Sidenote: I refuse to buy products that have reviews like that. Instantly lost my trust.
I suppose I simply hold some truths to be self-evident.

Sorry, sorry, too easy :P . To more seriously and substantively address your point, variance in cultural values in part constitutes inequality of opportunity, no? A culture that values such-and-such Silicon Valley principle less offers less opportunity for development of Silicon-Valley-hirable skills. And variance in interests is caused in part by inequality of opportunity, no? I might not have been interested in computer science if my scientist parents had not encouraged me at a young age.

So in response to my asking "wouldn't equality of opportunity lead to equality of outcome?", you have challenged me to defend the assertion that equality of opportunity exists. Which is not my assertion.

I will also note that it's very easy to call someone else's claim positive and Russell's Teapot them to death. The assertion that variation in the skills that make a good Oracle employee correlates with heritage could also be called a strong positive claim. (In fact, I see that poster sidlls has done just this, about twenty posts further down.)
Using openvpn with deluge in UnRaid as a container - runs flawlessly, and not leaking (re: data out of the VPN) as verified by firewall logs for 3 months now.
It's hard to blame them for missing the point when the comment is kind of nonsense in the first place. It's a false dichotomy. Even if it wasn't and you had to choose one or the other the choice isn't clear cut since the backend improvements benefit the desktop site, mobile site and the mobile app.

To be totally honest I'd say the comment is verging on toxicity. They're basically telling these backend engineers to piss off and save the blog post until the mobile site loads faster. It's quite likely they have little-to-no control over the mobile site and caching improvements are one of the few indirect ways they can improve it. This exactly the opposite of what we should see in response to content like this.
The great philosopher Wally agrees http://dilbert.com/strip/2014-05-09
The two differences that I wonder about:

* What is the cost profile of Dispatch relative to the Go scheduler? It seems that Go programs suffer a slow down just to enable multi-threading, for example -- which is not unlike other systems (GHC at some time in the past) that have a similar model.

* Is Dispatch suitable for "millions of threads" ala Erlang? Hundreds of thousands of threads? Dispatch allows you to decide which queue to put things on; but also kind of requires it of you.
Aren't we past the stage of building a custom database product for each specific use case?

Why can't a hypothetical Muslim registry enthusiast use AirTable, FieldBook, at least a dozen of similar database-in-a-box offerings, or just a managed instance of some open source database management system?
because the top 8 billionaires own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the global population?

the rich have really been sucking it up lately.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/20...
I'm going to go this route. Except, I'll stick with Ubuntu
Of course, wealthy people are not evil.

But maybe it just happens that in order to become wealthy, people more often than not have to repeatedly choose wealth over generosity, exploit other people, take advantage of resources that less privileged ones pay for without explicit consent.

Also, it often happens that people who are already wealthy and possess more than what they and their children would need for comfortable royalty-level lives, continue accumulating wealth, focusing their disproportionally large power in more exploitation, more privilege, more wealth.

I'm not sure where the line between not quite evil and ok, clearly evil lies but sometimes I wonder if accumulating a lot of wealth while creating more and more suffering for many other humans is a healthy behavior.
Then you'll just have an annoying editor and an annoying language.
PEP 442 describes the situation with good detail, including how it was in Python 2 and how Python 3 improves on it:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0442/
Sounds about right, or perhaps get lucky and settle with some who are desperate for money.
Compared to what oil barons and railroad tycoons did a century and a half ago, this is hardly anything.
My favorite feature of Go is the immediate productivity that almost any developer can achieve within days af seeing the language for the first time. That adds tremendous business value to any project.
No, it's not really valid to come back saying that nobody has done better so therefore your sights are too high. If someone is complaining about the CO2 output of the lowest emissions coal plant, it's a perfectly valid criticism even if it is the best coal plant.

Reddit is a cesspool, and there is no proof that's the only thing that can happen with large online communities. There is plenty of room for innovation there. It's not like online communities have been around for thousands of years and this is clearly the best solution as proved by extensive research.
And what sort of services were those that didn't need to be containerized?
Just want to stress the importance of having stand-ups be developer-only. Do not let project managers, product owners, stakeholders, clients, and so forth become part of it. The developers won't be ready to start working when they take their seats because a lot was said in standup without actually saying much.
Exactly this. Amazon claims they're fixing it but I don't think that'll stop the problem. If anything it'll cause them to do reviews without posting a notice about it being sponsored or potentially biased.
If you think about similar products on the market (fb messenger, WhatsApp, even Line or Kakao Talk in Japan/Korea), this is quite unheard of, because WeChat is taking up everyone's time on the phone. Other apps just simply cannot divide a user's attention out of WeChat the app, on a smartphone.

And just because of that, most of the businesses and companies start to live off of wechat's user base and features. For example, there are subscription accounts where you get subscribed articles regularly so you don't need to build a news app anymore for content, and individual content producers can also publish just as easily, so the spiral gets deeper and deeper into the wechat system. And when payment started to come around on WeChat in 2014 (iirc), even Alipay is taking a hit, because now you literally can just keep WeChat open on your phone.

I think that, if you build an IM product and suddenly become the only app people ever use, this is just amazing.
* I work at 18F

I think the press articles that sometimes lump it all together can be frustrating at times and I like Matt's descriptions above. Another important difference: when USDS attends a meeting it's the "White House" in the room, whereas 18F sitting in GSA (which does other things like support government real estate) gives us a different context.

We both, though, benefit immensely from strong civil servants that partner with us. There's a narrative out there that "silicon valley" people have come to DC to "rescue" all of the government, when many people in both orgs have government experience (or come from the non-profit sector). Our work is impossible without partners throughout government who know a policy space and are ready to benefit from different tools and processes, and I wish those folks (or even just the tools and processes such as http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-681) got more attention than the "hero narrative."
Find another job. Who are you going to raise your concerns to? It is standard practice in management positions, maybe all positions, to leave when someone is promoted over you. This is also the standard way managers are "fired."