skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gun debate isn't a scientific debate though. We're talking about things like climate change when we talk about how the Republican party is anti-science. I can flipflop your entire paragraph and it's just as meaningless because the whole "2nd Amendment" issue is more of a feelings/Constitution/rights debate. Most gun owners I know don't own guns because statistically guns aren't that bad. It's because they think they are fun, or they want to defend themselves, or because it's their right as an American.
I think it would if we didn't spend so much money in military and defense.

Edit: My reasoning is the result of seeing this type of information everywhere, I could be wrong: http://dy00k1db5oznd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/...
Compact Strings is listed as a "miscellaneous" feature but that is the most exciting feature as far as I am concerned. IIRC based on looking at a variety of heap dumps they found that decreases the average size by like 10%.
It's disappointing to me how many comments still refer to concerns by Trump or Brexit supports as essentially optics. "They blame immigrants", "they see immigrants coming in at the same time as things being bad and make assumptions", "they're just being racist", etc. Maybe some of them believe their country's culture is suffering and that part of the problem is an influx of immigrants. Maybe they're not wrong. Acting like this is all a matter of misinformation needing to be corrected seems stupefyingly arrogant to me.
Anti-vax lunacy trickles through both parties, and gets little mainstream traction (although that may change with Trump injecting oxygen into the movement). But if you're running as a pro-science Democrat who is not an anti-GMO bandwagoneer, you will generally not find yourself blackballed by the party or opposed on your flank by billionaire string-pullers obsessed with purity tests on this issue. The Democratic party does not have the same ideology enforcement infrastructure that so tightly binds the Republicans; that's a strength if you think monocultures are pathological, but a weakness if you're looking for lockstep execution of some received ideology.

Accordingly, if a Democrat is in power and the findings of a science-based agency contradict some policy desire, they would sigh and fret and perhaps try to initiate other studies to see if there's any other way to align their policy goals with reality. But you would not see scientists and entire agencies of thousands of workers gagged, studies removed, data destroyed, conclusions banned. You would not see them scrambling to align reality with their goals and literally banning facts. It's little exaggeration to say the Trump administration is now engaged in book-burning.

Whatever the flaws of the Democratic party, what's "in vogue" with the party is an epiphenomenon, not the driver. If you want to run as a pro-science non-religious Republican, you are desperately needed for the health of the US political system -- but you will almost certainly be structurally unable to do so.
It's also a human rights issue from the populist side. Self determination--the right of groups of people to choose the structure of their society--is also a human right. Society is a very intimate thing. It's a group of people consenting to share each others' burdens as well as rewards; it's a group of people giving up individual autonomy and consenting to be governed by the will of the group. Immigration without consent is a deep violation of the group's integrity and autonomy.

The real issue is individualism versus collectivism. Populists think that groups' freedom of association trumps individuals' freedom of movement, while individualists think the opposite.
I wouldn't call the functional transition in Java "huge", more like "adequate".

Every time I hit an IntStream/FloatStream it just feels like a jarring experience. We shouldn't need functions like mapToInt()/mapToLong()/etc.
Natural rights should hold in simple and complex examples, without resorting to utilitarian arguments.

> The income you and I have today is inextricably tied to the system of government, taxation, and trade that we are in.

Yes, that is our current context.

> You can't talk about holding one fixed and changing the other in any meaningful way.

Yes, the world is complex. I simply wish to see one with more voluntary interaction and less coercion. Too few hold liberty as a political value, settling for lesser subjective things such as "fairness."
Or a third party. Limiting it to Democrats is making it partisan. Simply banning support for Republicans makes it anti-partisan. Seems unnecessary to throw in this hurdle.
That's correct, but the bull run started after the election results in November.

I'm not exactly shocked that an ego-driven, heavily pro-business Republican President with full congressional control and majority of states under Republican governorship could drive the market up.
Don't like this pejorative use of the word populism. Populism is getting people to vote for you for what they want, telling them they need to do what you want is the polar opposite of what needs to be done to fight the far right.
Every time I read about this type of stories, where they show a small example of how our minds can be "tricked" by such simple tricks or stimuli, I always get afraid about all the other more important situations where this might be happening but we are not aware of it (choosing a career, deciding to get married to someone, etc)
It's ironic to see so many people posting about how the Dow and stock market mean nothing.

If so, why did such noted liberal economists (like Krugman) make such dire predictions about where the market was going after Trump won the election?

Are they to be disregarded because they obviously place a lot of importance on the stock market?
Get a pet project in open source. Fast!
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You're only labeling it "populism" (which is normally defined as 'support for the concerns of ordinary people') because you don't like the outcome. If you liked the outcome you would call it "democratic."

Somehow the idea of being concerned about the outcome for ordinary people has become vilified by American liberals because red state, blue collar, ordinary people are worthless.

What is going on?! Trump wants to be a job protectionist while Democrats want globalization? Aren't you people aware that not that long ago the Democrats were fighting the Republicans against globalization because they claimed that globalization was only good for corporate interests and bad for ordinary Americans?

PS I think Trump is a nut job in many ways so please don't read the above as an endorsement.
No, I did not claim that no form of property rights are legitimate at all. If you think that, then read again.

What I did claim is property rights over any scarce resource inherently reduces the liberty of others.

That does not mean it can not be legitimate - we reduce the liberty of others for various legitimate reasons all the time.

It does mean that whenever we enforce property rights we are making a tradeoff between the liberties of differents sets of people.
> You can't do that in Haskell either, and any FP purist

What about us FP pragmatists? Also in some domains I'd argue being a FP purist is the most pragmatic option.
I think that's more reddit than weed.
Why shouldn't you have your credit score tattooed on your forehead? Shouldn't merchants know if you're more likely to do a chargeback?
"Part of my frustration with Scala (and Java) was the feeling that I was never able to get the full context on a given problem domain, due to its complexity."

This. Same with any other kitchen sink language.
HBM2 is 1024GB/s (256 per stack).
I'm shocked, yet paradoxically unsurprised that so many of the comments here are saying "yes" to the question.

In practice, separating gifted students does two things:

1. Accelerates income inequality (there's no way the gifted students on average will do poorer than the 'regular' students)

2. Remove equality of opportunity.

What exactly is a gifted school going to do that would help gifted students and not regular students?

- Small classes? Help regular students to extent.

- Better curriculum? Hey! Helps regular students.

- More practical education? Also helps regular students

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I'm not against segregation in theory. However, in practice there's very little evidence that the gifted schools would NOT benefit regular students. If you believe that gifted students should receive more education than regular students, then that's an entirely separate discussion.

If you have evidence, I'd love to see it (I'm very interested in education, in particular).
people pretty much admit that it's not about immigration status ... but ethnicity

That's a nice way of saying "everyone admitted they're racists".

No-one in that thread did.

The most ridiculous thing about all this is that I actually come from a white immigrant community (dutch around a port town), but my generation acculturised with the UK.

It really sticks in your craw when I'm generally a left-leaning liberalist but some tit like pjc50 starts accusing you of being a racist because I've been in supermarkets obviously filled with white immigrants as they're all speaking polish.

It really has helped me realise how devoid of empathy people who start accusing everyone of racism for merely discussing immigration are.

It's incredibly upsetting to be called a racist merely for asking why mass migration to the UK has been allowed. It's a perfectly reasonable question.

Also he really doesn't understand the meaning of the word immigrant, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13471112
The more important it is to have something, the less fashionable it is to have it.
iirc a study found that the majority of anti-vax folks avoid them for religious reasons and the naturalistic fallacy conspiracy theory anti-vaxxers are actually the minority.
Still no jigsaw?
I like a George Carlin quote as much as the next guy, but this doesn't make sense. If gourmet means it costs more, then there absolutely is gourmet coffee, rolls and pizza.
Those people are in for a series of nasty surprises if copyright enforcement ever grows teeth, because whoever's providing such a VPN service with backhaul certainly has enough information to tie them to their activity.
Okay, sure. The first place is to immediately dispel the idea that Republicans have ever been about being "pro-business" - and the second place will be that Trump specifically is not.

It's simple Tragedy of the Commons at first. Republicans / Republican Presidents are generally pro-greed and pro-riches, not pro-business, and those are different things. What you want in a good business environment is not achieved with Republican policies. This can be seen with the past few presidents - good economic times and growth with Democrat policies, and poor economic times and decline with Republicans.

Specifics.

> A pro-business politician would raise taxes on the wealthy, provide tax cuts for the middle class, increase the corporate tax rate

Henry Ford is the good example here of showing why this is pro-business. Give your country a stable, wealthy middle class (pay your auto-workers more, a lot more), and then they will be able to buy your products and your company will thrive. Roads will be built for your cars to drive on, with those taxes!

Wealthy people are important in a capitalistic society, but income inequality and extreme wealth present dangers, not useful things. Income inequality will catch up with the business as the middle class fades and doesn't buy their products.

Want a pro-business environment? Increase corporate taxes to fund schools and education and infrastructure so that more people will grow up healthy and wealthy and wanting to buy things.

> Improve immigration so that more people could come in to the country

Is this really a debate, especially here? Most of the smart people in the world who can create wealth and businesses do NOT live in the USA. If they wanted to live here, or did live here, that would be great.

> Address massive business risks like climate change with a serious face

The climate is changing, and it's going to kill a lot of people that could have been buying your products. It's going to displace hundreds of millions of families and settlements. Food production and distribution is going to be wildly affected. Basic things that should be stable in a business environment will not be stable. Climate change is the biggest RISK for corporate profits in the world (though right now you could also see it as an opportunity - if you recognize that it needs to be addressed).

> improve healthcare for everyone in nation

Again is this really a debate? Isn't it obvious that healthy people will be better for business? Do you want your customer base to be dying? Or your employees worried about disease? That's not useful for business.
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Can you explain? Why higher taxes? Can't it be a mixture of private enterprises replacing some equivalent public institutions from the Swiss setup? Even non-profits if you can reach critical mass on tithes, cf effective altruism.

Seems doable if you have good rhetoric and get a movement going.
If you divide the US into smaller pieces, there would still be a need to merge the resources to maintain the military supremacy (to compete with China/Russia) and then you very well might have your military-industrial-complex running the place.
Legalizing Aid in Dying Doesn't Mean Patients Have Access to It
I think that startups are particularly susceptible to this, everyone else is sharing stories of MBA's in charge of software dev, but it happens in other areas as well.

I do work in performance marketing (very data driven, analytics, testing, etc.) and the new Chief Marketing Officer was someone from a big ad agency. He had worked with some really big names and bragged constantly about how he had had an ad play in the SuperBowl, etc.

Which was all great, but none of those skills translated down to a budget 1000X less than what he was used to dealing with. He was unprepared to think about things like a website's "Devcenter" as having a purpose beyond a branding exercise.

He wasn't a bad person or actually incompetent, but he didn't have the deep expertise in startup marketing that it would take to really see them succeed.
A lot of comments here sound something like this: "I am smart and when I was in high school the classes bored me because they were taught to the lowest common denominator".

This is not an argument for intellectual segregation of schools. While I could put forth a hundred arguments against this, here are a few off the top of my head:

1. When do we decide who is "gifted"? What happens to late bloomers? Are they forever cast down into a track of lower opportunity? This will be highly correlated with race and socioeconomic status since we know that poor / minority communities don't have the best resources / results for early childhood development.

2. What about the social benefits of being around people who are on a different intellectual level? "Smart" kids who never have to interact with anyone "below" them or "dumb" kids who never have to interact with anyone "above" them will have trouble navigating many social and professional situations.

3. "Gifted" kids often come with motivated parents. Removing these children from schools will take their parents with them. These parents are often the best advocates for positive change in their community. The worst schools will never get better if all the talent is sucked out of them.
>It tends to be the dense, liminal, downtown areas that are set ablaze. Being well off certainly does help you get away from the fires.

That's only at first. Once all the food is gone, they'll go after the rich in their compounds.
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Can someone explain why I should use Java? Over literally any other language? Why is the lobster still alive?

EDIT: on my phone and meant to write monster.
I believe he's basically correct, but not to that extent. Selling degrees in "Gender Studies" for $200K is not a sustainable business model.
Plenty of dyed in the wool Democrats at the grass roots level supported Sanders. That's the only way to win those states where he performed quite well, the states with caucuses instead of primaries.

If you managed to avoid the rather heated arguments between those people and Hillary's supporters, well, you probably had one less stressor in your life during 2016, so congratulations on that...
> Now some might say it is racist or xenophobic to want to maintain the culture of your local community. I don't believe it is.

My question: is it a National Government's job to maintain the culture of local communities? I would hope not.
"Programmers prefer loops like Algol":

Yes, programmers prefer it, but the general structure:

`for (init-statement ; boolean-continuation-expression ; iteration-statement) statement;` is syntactic sugar for a specific imperative process (with the iteration and ending expression appended at the end of the block). It does not generalize to other imperative processes, it cannot be transformed into a meaningful expression and it invites 'clever' programmers to do 'too much' in the various for-clauses.

Wrt to LISP, do you mean this part? That seems to align well with my standpoint: use very few basic principles and be stable.

"The third project I would not like to leave unmentioned is LISP, a fascinating enterprise of a completely different nature. With a few very basic principles at its foundation, it has shown a remarkable stability. Besides that, LISP has been the carrier for a considerable number of in a sense our most sophisticated computer applications. LISP has jokingly been described as “the most intelligent way to misuse a computer”. I think that description a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts."
Sorry, I scanned the thread but missed your link.
I can't imagine any policymaker would be reading this thread, but if so: YES, PLEASE, DEAR GOD YES.

When I was in normal schools (public and private) I stood out. I don't mean, I was precocious and didn't everyone notice how clever I was. I mean, I was bullied. By everyone. Including my teachers. My life was hell, every day getting worse. I was physically sick just thinking about going to school every morning.

Until I was in a Gifted and Talented program in 5th grade. The material wasn't challenging (this is NOT about getting challenging material), but I had a teacher that understood me and peers who didn't hate me.

Giving children a space where they're not constantly tortured is a good policy. As a now-productive member of society, there is no amount of my current success I would not ransom so that children now don't have to go through what I did. It's not something a civilized society should allow.
It's more like adding a new road. You can't "change lanes" between the tunnel and the freeway.
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Yes, unless the curriculum is set to meet their level of educational capacity.

Does trickle down education work? Would a middle quartile student benefit more from trying to keep up with the top quartile than they do for curriculum geared to them?

Would be an interesting experiment.
Is there a good place for discussing Oil with the author (mailing list, irc &c.)? I have thought a lot about many things in the blog posts, but there's no comment section, and I'd really like to get clarification as well as dive into a bit more detail on some of these things.

[edit]

Found it here:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/12/29.html
I guess it's more accurate to say the next step is the P from MVP, or the execution of the idea, the MV are optional.

MVP advocates putting your product out there at such an early stage to find out if it's actually a terrible idea before you commit to the entire upfront cost of building the complete product. The iteration enables your users and customers to influence product decisions as they arise. These can be positive additions to a project, or just as importantly signal it's a bad idea that isn't worth pursuing further.
That is illegal in the US: there's a regulation that limits microwave power levels outside of an oven to little enough that it doesn't significantly heat anything.
Totally agree. Many of the first Portuguese and Spanish explorers didn't even know if they would ever come back. They were leaving home to go to distant lands at a time where people still believed in monsters, witches and mermaids.
You're not wrong. I've worked with Ionic v1 a fair amount. The framework is good for mockups and prototypes but nothing more. What ends up happening, as you app grows to include notifications, deep linking, etc, is you need to rely on more and more hacky thirdparty solutions. These days I either code natively or use Xamarin.
In the US, much of a school's extracurricular program is funded via PTA, fund-raising, or simply charging extra fees. In this system, the well-to-do parents/families subsidize the others (poor students granted waivers to the various fees, or don't contribute to the PTA monetarily).

Given the strong correlation between academic aptitude and economic success, removing the smart students also remove the wealthy students. The funding model falls apart, and the students who remain get even less extracurricular enrichment.

Granted, we could design programs that mostly avoid the problem. In my county, the gifted high school (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology) only takes absolutely brilliant students. Many of whom truly fit the "too smart to fit in" stereotype. Across a large county, that still leaves plenty of gifted/wealthy students in the normal schools, which offer a broad selection of AP/IB/dual-enrollment options.
And as long as we stay on that island and live our lives trading coconuts, we can live without much government or taxes. Well, at least until you kill me in my sleep and steal all my coconuts.
Then they should look closer to home after those who damage local culture. It is not immigrants, but big multinational business.

Businesses do provide jobs of course, buying some of the locals.
Sure, I wrote out a big answer just above.