skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
his team is very much making many of the small policy decisions while Trump gets to strut out as the figurehead.

Which is pretty much exactly how you would expect a "I have no idea what I'm doing but I don't want to fuck it up so I'll fill my cabinet with people who know what they're doing and let them do their thing" administration to work.

>Not to mention his poor demeanor, his lack of likeability, his unpopularity, the fact he was a reality-TV star. Having such an individual represent the nation is an embarrassment and does not inspire confidence in the nation nor does it abroad.

Are these seriously that much more important than how well the job gets done. On some level I don't care if the president is a member of the goddamn KKK if the job gets done well enough.
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> I meant that the election of the first black president was a much bigger deal then the 40 somethingth white old dude

But that (and many of the questions in that link) are not relevant to the specific question of how many people were at the inauguration. Which is the topic at hand. Those questions would be more relevant in a discussion of drawing other conclusions from the attendance numbers
Why not use Pinta[0] on Linux?

[0]http://pinta-project.com/
I'm not really on the same page as the author, the reason being:
This model works well for Vim, because its basic principles are sound and compose well. You can build pretty much anything on top of that while still scaling pretty nicely - but also in this regard, there has been progress (multitasking, to name it). Ironically, this holds true even though Vimscript is generally agreed upon as not being an ideal scripting language - in which regard it shares some similarities to javascript ;-)

If you look at browsers however, things are different. We've only started getting rid of plugins like Flash. HTML 4 is not the standard I'd like to be stuck with. HTTP<2.0 is terrible for various usecases (some argue even HTTP/2.0 isn't that much of an improvement). And so on and so forth. The web is basically "hacks all the way down" (yes, things like asm.js are not necessarily correcting that ;-) ).

So, I personally am rather glad that we're not stuck with "ye olde ways". If we could learn something from Vim, it would be the way it's built on sound principles - but that's hard to achieve with organically grown systems like the web.
I disagree, but won't downvote.

Failing fast is a virtue. Failing catastrophically is a disaster.

We work fastest when we trust our tools. When our tools fail us, we're forced to revisit them entirely, which slows us down. Incorporating a margin for error and defending in depth are ways to move forward efficiently.

Blue Origin's motto has the right tack. "Step by step, ferociously."
There's a plan for that apparently: https://twitter.com/ScienceMarchDC
> The really weird thing is how actual technology in movies from the 80's and 90's looks so much worse to people in 2017 than technology in moves from the 50's and 60's looked to people in the late 90's.

On the other hand though, I still feel like the analog computers they used back in the day are technologies from the future, not from the past.
I can't tell if this comment is brilliant sarcasm or if it has completely missed the point.
This may be a little ridiculous, but I have a bookmarklet that I click on sometimes to render most LaTeX in the current window.

I use this because I'm a mathematician and I chat with some other mathematicians through Slack frequently, and this doesn't have good LaTeX support. But by clicking this, it loads MathJax from the MathJax CDN to render. We also use this on the chatrooms associated to Math.StackExchange and MathOverflow, which is why it's called ChatJax.

If this is something that interests you, you can find it on this semi-hidden page on my website:
http://davidlowryduda.com/static/chatjax.html
The comment in question was "EPA regulations are way out of control." That's not a Trump thing, the sentiment has been around for decades in mainstream American politics. And the entire EPA has a decent handle on the regulations, so they are obviously in control, even if they're extremely bad. So I'm not sure it's meant as a statement of fact. It's meant as a statement of principle. That's what I meant when I said the audience for the statement isn't saying "I'm personally disappointed in EPA regulation #N", they're saying "The EPA is doing it totally wrong".
What you say might be true in a lot of cases but I know of one case (Ubiquisys) where they were not hands off probably because it was too close to their core business and also because they had a similar internal product.

Now Cisco have given up on the whole small cells idea. And a lot of it is because of their botched management practices and some of it is also due to Ubiquisys' own inefficiencies.
You may be right.
We should fund NYT too by your logic.
I will rate an app once if I rate it at all and after that I consider the prompting for a review to be a negative. What makes me review an app isn't the prompt it is the app itself in being exceptional good or being underwhelming.
NetPatch Firewall is a very early project, Any questions and suggestions are very useful for it. Please send it here.
Which non-orthogonal and/or incoherent features do you have in mind?
Literally millions of people will die during our lifetime because of climate change.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs266/en/
While Pence may have worse policies than Trump on average, Trump has much worse downside risk because he is unpredictable. Today we have the worst of both: Pence already implementing his domestic policies plus the chance that Trump might nuke someone.
We tried to analyze this behavior over employee inboxes on a company using Gmail exclusively and we saw that the users that routinely use the spam button as often or instead of the trash button are ignored on the spam markings (not reported to Amazon SES as spam). I think too many users have gotten used to abusing the spam button like that and that's why Google is ignoring those users.
And most importantly, there was no "disable your adblocker" bullshit back then.
Some people here would probably call that a "dark pattern" (I of course don't). Because, you know, it's soliciting for positive reviews from a preselected set of users.
Complainers can't prosecute and convict. Courts can. That's a difference I'd recommend coming to terms with as it's the crux of this discussion at a level that's intensely germane.
I'm just trying to work out why it became a thing in the first place. Was Trump trying to play up attendance numbers or was someone trying play up the lack of them to be something meaningful?
TorrentFreak maintains a list of providers that responded to a questionnaire about anonymity, including one about encryption used: https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-anonymous-review-160220/

Personally, I prefer the "roll your own" approach mentioned above. A VPS from DigitalOcean or something beats most providers' pricing.
Erlang's processes are green threads, they're just called "processes". Neither Erlang, nor Akka run 1 thread or process per actor, they just schedule multiple actors over N native threads inside the single process (ignoring multi-node situations).
Why does it matter? The complaints are either right, or they're wrong. The complainers' motives for making their complains have no bearing on that.
Aside from what other said: compatibility with others OSs. But that's probably not very high on Apple's agenda (at least not for an FS).
I am saying that you are debating theory that has no place outside of debate of theory. It rings of privilege and naivete to the way the world actually works. Just search Twitter for "dead without Obamacare" and you will find plenty of "real consequences".
He's 70 FWIW
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No, those were fake news headlines run by Fox and Russian news agencies.
Many people on Twitter have fewer followers before they tweet anything.
Who maintains RPM? (2006)
Looks like he didn't control his own Twitter in the beginning: https://web.archive.org/web/20090702030955/http://twitter.co...
It's certainly untested. One scenario that might be trouble for Trump would be, for example, an easement, tax credit, extraordinary incentive, or other streamlining of a Trump project in a foreign state.

What nation, looking to create a favorable deal of some kind with the US, would allow a Trump project to languish in frustrating red tape -- or allow a Trump project to lose out to a competitor in cases where the government is the decision-maker? What would the informal Trumpian chatter be like around that international negotiating table?
Thank you bartread :)
Trump has been in office for 4 days. Conflict of interest laws do not apply to US Presidents, so the business interest argument is moot. We don't impeach Presidents because a loud group of people dislikes the fact that they lost an election. We impeach Presidents when they commit crimes, which he has not done and hasn't even been in office long enough to do.
The reason people believe he should give up his business is because there is a conflict of interest. He does business in countries where many of the corporations his company could deal with are owned or operated by the government at least in part. You can't be sure he is making a decision that is best for the people of the US if he stands to personally gain from it.

Add to the fact he won't be releasing his taxes so the American people won't have a clear picture of who he owes money to or who owes money to him this makes for a very uncomfortable situation.
Congratulations on launching Scaphold. I tried my hand at founding a Node.js PaaS startup (NodeSocket)[1] in 2011, and while promising in terms of attention, silicon valley media, VC meetings, there was never a path to a sustainable PaaS business. Howerver, things have changed. Technology and mindsets have evolved, and Firebase, Parse, and Serverless.com have shown there is perhaps a future in BaaS.

My only words of advice are focus on the business and finances just as much as the coding. Unfortunately the best engineers and technology don't always win (see RethinkDB). I'll be tinkering around tomorrow with Scaphold, might work out well for a side project of mine. Best of luck!

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/10/nodesocket/
It's like the Linux subsystem on Windows, but the other way around. :-)
>Google chose to fork Webkit to create Blink

Wasn't this because the amount of work required to co-operate with the WebKit project made it not worth it for Google?
> Now trying Kotlin for the faster IDE and compilation speed, sadly the Kotlin developers think Option is only about nullable Types and don't embrace it.

Because Kotlin's native support for nullable types makes `Option` unnecessary.
I'm guessing it wound up news because of the boasts and claims made by Trump and his staff about how it was the best turnout ever, with fictitious numbers added in to the claims.

For the health of the republic, I'm keen to see the media become the adversary calling out lies, lies, and all damn lies. No matter what they are. Maybe then we can be free of all the lies.
I developed in Objective C for years. Have been on the Swift boat for a while now, and not long ago I did some maintenance on an old Obj C project.

Even allowing for the re-learning time and rustiness, there was such a sharp contrast. Swift is just so much more fluid, productive, expressive, and a joy to use.

Yep, there are plenty of issues, stability isn't 100%. Despite that, it is well worth the jump.
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>an unhinged budding fascist surrounded by sycophants. YMMV.

I'm not so sure. I almost get the impression that he doesn't really care about a lot of those things except as a means to get that part of the republican base to the polls.
Google just dropped the last Android Wear update before its launch
Yes, the Poettering/systemd/Red Hat mess reminds me of this.
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Swift, since it's Apple's preferred language of the future. On Apple platforms, you pretty much should embrace whatever the Mothership prefers going forward.

Additionally, once you start coding in it, you'll likely find it's a joy compared to Obj-C.
Kotlin has been useful to me and easy to learn. It dovetails so well with exisiting java libraries that no Kotlin revolution (rewrite everything) is necessary. The most notable frameworks are in android land (Anvil, Bansa -- like react, redux). But on the backend, you can use stardard stuff. That's why Kotlin has been well accepted but not made a huge splash.
GP wasn't giving an age. GP stated Trump was the 40-something-th white old dude to be president.
> People should NOT trust free VPN services at all, as you don't pay level of service is not guaranteed.

The corollary is that ones you pay for should not be trusted either: a service can both take your money and insert ads.

huh.... reminds me of pay/cable tv....
Exactly: English Dictionary and Learning List – Chrome Web Store
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This makes it work for me also. Mods should edit OP URL to include this.
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Trumps protectionism is right out of the Ayn Rand villains handbook.
Instant answers is neat, I made a command line gem for it : https://github.com/wlib/duckgo

daniel@pancake:~$ duckgo roll seven dice
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Type: Exclusive
Answer:
Answer: ", , , , , , "
Type: dice_roll
The Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) PDF is available on archive.org: https://ia800201.us.archive.org/8/items/NINETEENEIGHTY-FOUR1...

The original 1948 audiobook is also available: https://archive.org/details/NINETEENEIGHTY-FOUR1984ByGeorgeO...
Perception of the country and international policy and diplomacy.
Maybe the Americans are just over-dramatic
Doublethink is pervasive in a lot of modern thought. Hopefully this trend will make people evaluate it a bit more.
For one, AppDynamics contracts are usually three years.
From NYT Book Review: Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/books/review/classic-nove...
Not following Java very closely and using Scala as a better Java. Is there hope to get case-class POJOs in Java itself?
You, I and every other person who's ever lived in MA know that the MA gov't is beyond dysfunctional. Expecting them to lean on the MBTA or any other entity to get shit done when necessary is like asking for a utopia.
Here is the email in question so you all can judge for yourselves:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/52046

For context, Doug Band is a very close Clinton associate and he's discussing an initiative apparently launched by Chelsea Clinton to investigate money within the Clinton Foundation (which is also mentioned in some of the other Podesta emails).
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Not all have enough ram for linux kernel, browser, AND android apps in their own containers.

Not all chromebooks have touch screens.

Not all chromebooks have an x86, not sure if the chromeos+android glue runs on arm. In particular whatever seperation there is between android apps in a container might require some of the x86 bits.
i think some of those things are part of the job, right? is your country getting rich really worth it if it means you cross every moral boundary and inflict continual psychological trauma on half the people in it?
So much for taking him seriously but not literally, or whatever that line of reasoning was.
I mostly agree with you, but I also think a bit part of what Haskell-like FP shows is how often your code is invariant to so many things that the variables no longer have any sense to them whatsoever.

That doesn't really excuse badly named variables when that doesn't hold. It's more that it's something sort of novel to a lot of Haskell-like programmers and so we all get excited about it and probably overdo it somewhat. But on the other hand, I think it's very well-justified often enough.

For instance, with

class Functor f where
fmap :: (a -> b) -> (f a -> f b)

there are many words you could give to f, a, and b but they're essentially all misleading.

With another example from the article, Strong Syntax, the "Syntax" bit is basically a convention in scalaz that ought to be immediately obvious if you're familiar with the scalaz library. The "Strong" bit has to do with a subtype of "Profunctor" structures, "Strong Profunctors".

Profunctors are generalizations of functions that show up all over the place. Strong profunctors are profunctors which can "distribute over a tuple".

Giving names to these types is an exercise in futility. At least with a function `a -> b` might be named `in -> out`, but with a Profunctor there isn't even that intuition. It's just too general. Subsequently, it shows up all over the place.
General programming languages and shells have different priorities. Specifically a shell programming language should be designed to make launching external applications and processing their output the top priority. The language also needs to focus on easy of interactive input, so much so that the repl and the language or somewhat coupled. You wouldn't have a command in a general purpose programming language to execute the same line of code as you did 5 lines ago, that would be worse than goto. However, in a shell, such a thing sounds nice. The shell also needs to make it convenient to deal with some OS level objects, such as files. This is where glob syntax comes in handy.

This all cascades to make a language that looks much different than you would want to write a full application in. One of the primary reasons is because of how shells need to handle strings. It is much more convenient to not type out quotes around string literals and it is nice to have syntax to reference environment variables, files, previous commands, etc. This leads to extremely complex quoting and expansion rules in most shells. It is not intuitive, but once learned it makes for a great interactive experience (compared with traditional languages).
> It's only too unfortunate that the same Achilles' heel is holding it back as Scala: there is only so much you can do while remaining compatible with JVM and the Java standard library.

Being part of the largest, most successful, best tooled ecosystem in software is an Achilles' heel? Most people would (and should) gladly take that over any particular language feature.
The emoluments clause of the constitution applies to all members of government.
Yeah I guess to you breaking the Foreign Emoluments Clause in the Constitution is nothing. And its funny you say that when that is exactly why they impeached Clinton.
This is one of the extremely cool things about python. There's always one right way to do this, and it's usually pretty obvious. There's also quite clear, standard style guidelines, so code is generally formatted pretty much homogeneously, and tends to be a lot more readable than many other languages.
I thought the exact same thing myself when I saw this news.
It made me think of this: https://medium.com/@aristoNYC/social-justice-bullies-the-aut...
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Why tell such obvious falsehoods? - because it gives the media something to report on and like a child with ADD the media goes CRAZY for one lie, then CRAZY for the next, meanwhile DJT does 10 other "crazy" things and it's hard to even keep up. Why tell so many such obvious falsehoods? Because it distracts from other stuff he wants to get done. Just like how he made a big deal about the judge in his trump university case. Making a big deal about the judge distracted everyone from what he actually did with trump university!
Hey yaur! I'll respond to the points you made:

1) I think that's an incident, we've collected all the images by hand - so the error rate should be very low. Apparently we made a mistake for the blue mountains, canada - so thanks for mentioning :)

2) True, we'll implement current temps very soon :)

3) Working on that, for now you need to select an airport from the dropdown list to ensure that the dates become visible.

4) Sure, we'll fix that.

Thank your for your feedback yaur. That would be awesome :)
Some notes:

- the actor model, along with the Akka implementation, has nothing to do with functional programming; and it isn't orthogonal either, since an actor's mailbox interactions are definitely not pure, with actors being stateful and at the same time non-deterministic; in general if you place those in the same article, there's a high probability that you never did functional programming; and if you did actual functional programming (as in programming with mathematical functions), then you wouldn't want to go back to a language that makes that impossible ;-)

- Akka actors are not the only game in town for processing data, you can also use Finagle, FS2, my own Monix and even Akka Streams; And yes, concurrency often requires multiple solutions because there's no silver bullet and Go's channels suck compared with what you can do with a well grown streaming solution

- Scala's Future are not meant for "hiding threads" and 1:1 multi-threading is actually simpler to reason about, because if that fancy M:N runtime starts being unsuitable (because lets be honest, most M:N platforms are broken in one way or another), then you can't fix it by choosing a more appropriate solution without changing the platform completely

- Your devs are maybe lazy or maybe they don't give a fuck, but given that you're supposedly dealing with concurrency in your software, if those developers struggle with a programming language, then it's time to invest in their education or hire new developers, because the programming language is the least of your problems

- Paul Phillips still works with Scala and he most likely hates languages like Go, so when you mention him or his presentation, it definitely cannot be in support of Go
The issue isn't who enforces the constitution; it's what the constitution says. Congress has the power to decide which emoluments are okay. Assuming parent comment's interpretation of the law is correct (which it may not be), Congress has given blanket permission, in the same way that it has historically signed away large parts of its Constitutional war-making powers to the executive.
Frank Borman, in his testimony before congress, referred to the accident being due to a failure of imagination. In searching for his full testimony, I found this:

"Apollo 1-Challenger-Columbia Lessons Learned" - https://nsc.nasa.gov/sfcs/systemfailurecasestudyfile/downloa...

I also found transcripts of his testimony, but they aren't searchable - http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollo204/inv.html

(I'll have to OCR the pdfs. I started to read the first one and it's fairly interesting.)

There's two books I always recommend re: Apollo:

1) A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, by Andrew Chaikin.

2) Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond, by Gene Kranz.
Scala got a boost when it was just getting started by being a "Better Java". Now it's less able to stand on that value proposition and its losing supporters.

Honestly it was a great adoption strategy.
sssh:) Nobody wants to talk about that, it's way too instructive. And definitely don't mention that her campaign manager was/is literally on the Saudi payroll[0].

[0] https://www.fara.gov/docs/5926-Exhibit-AB-20150917-67.pdf
Yeah, my mind just seems to just abstract it all just into the lessons learned decoupled from its origin. The story is something I can rarely recall. But I was always more into talking about ideas rather than trading stories.
people living below the poverty line - US is 36th out of 162 countries, behind Morocco and Albania

You do realize how ridiculous that stat looks right?

Are you arguing the poor are worse off in the US than in Morocco?

And let me guess, the poverty stat is excluding income transfers?

I swear to god politics has gotten even nuttier in the US than it has been. And it was nutty before! Facts don't matter, crushing your opponent matters. Truth be damned!

*Speaking as an American.