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> there is no way they would support him simply for competency and rationality reasons

It's disappointing, to say the least, that this turns out to be untrue for the Republicans. The staid, rational, methodical, conservative Republicans are gone. The nihilists and paperclip maximizers have moved in.

>> the "Global Gag Order"

> Certainly he has a strong reaction to people criticizing or disagreeing with him; he wouldn't tolerate that from within the executive branch.

Definitely, and it's his biggest exposed lever. But while "global gag order" colloquially describes what he's doing right now (silencing workers, ordering facts, data, inconvenient policy "disappeared"), "Global Gag Order" is actually a specific thing: a policy that projects the GOP's abortion stance onto the rest of the world's NGOs by conditioning the receipt of $9.5 Billion in aid on policy alignment.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...

Trump was a longtime pro-choice New York Democrat with no religious or moral framework. There's no way he cares about this; nor does he care enough to not sign it, as it doesn't affect him. He's indifferent, a blank page on which his outer circle of attendants, each the honed tip of the sharpest ideological spears, can write policy that Trump will sign with a "whatever" and a dour glare.

Even more dangerous, once signed, he integrates these policies as his own -- because he now has skin in the game. If his name is on a policy, he'll relentlessly hammer it home. Writ large, this means the Trumpist policy stance will be a bag of the loudest and most radical initiatives -- for him, a set of weak opinions strongly held. Virulently held, as we see from his redoubling on the voter fraud conspiracy theory and crowd size hobbyhorse.
The diversity bit sounds nice in theory but as a kid who loved learning and went to highschool in a socioeconomically challenged area I would have given anything to go to a charter school. It was frankly a terrifying environment.

Also a significant amount of the school's resources went to these kids who just didn't want to be there. They had to pay for two security guards, overtime pay for the teachers who did detention/Sunday school, etc. They only offered 4 AP classes each of which had ~50 students because they were the ones who wouldn't get into fights if you just stuffed them into a room with some books.
Many a startup wishes it could "die" in the way Facebook did :)
Alright how about NASDAQ and S&P 500 hit record highs at the same time.
I based my comment on my personal experiences and also from reading Ramsay's biography. I have also read some anecdotes from people who worked with Jobs.

Ramsay's temper and abusiveness are legendary but people who work for him tend to stay with him for a long while; probably no correlation to subsequent success, I admit. That was the crux of my comment: the trade-off of putting up with a lot of quirks vs. learning things that you cannot learn anywhere else. Some people find the learning experience overrides the quirks to a certain point of personal tolerance.
The right to private property is every bit as natural as the right to one's own body. Both come from the act of appropriating natural resources and converting it into something of greater value that is personally useful, and making exclusive of the resulting property.

>What you can or can't own depends on the circumstances.

You're confusing the act of protecting a right with the right itself. A right does not cease to exist because the law fails to protect it.
> I can take a Tuesday off and go to Disneyland with my daughter without needing to lie about being sick.

Unless you are talking "on a whim" with no notice it would have to be a pretty terrible employer to not let you take a Tuesday off.

I'd be inclined as long as you give a week or two notice to approve that time off no problem. However, if you lied and said you were sick there is a major trust issue there and there would probably be disciplinary action
Right, but then why would you back a party that hates GMOs and vaccines?
To reconcile between accountant and bank a/c and outstanding payments in terms of taxes. Invoicing is still separate. It can probably plug into other APIs. What would really be of help is some kind of factoring service. Late payment of invoices is a real issue in general for SBs - creates massive cash flow problems at times. Something like that in the US would be a hit: https://arex.io/
I have photoshop CS6 working perfectly fine, just look around for a custom installer that doesn`t connect to the internet, you should find it in any pirate site
Absolutely disagree. They need enough technical skills to understand gist of what is going on, but beyond that they should be deferring to the people on the team with the most relevant experience/expertise in technical questions.

The most important skill my boss can have is the ability to sweet talk his boss.
First it states that business knowledge is most important. Than it states that deep tech knowledge is most important.

Which is it?
What 'subtle' bug ?

It returns 'email' instead of 'emails' which I assume was a typo, which of course the compiler would complain about, are you claiming that a variable name typo is somehow a 'subtle bug' ?

Only other thing I see directly is that 'users' is undefined, but this is a code snippet after all, not a working program.
I was frequently picked on for using words they (other students, many better off than me) knew the meaning of but would rather play dumb and try to make me feel bad.

I tried to empathize, but since I didn't value going along to get along, I didn't play along, and I didn't earn a lot of loyal friends that way.

It's not about class so much as values, and it wasn't my parent's values so much as it was my identity and valuing intelligence (although no adults I ever met devalued intelligence).
Well that's good to know at any rate, and I imagine people who've already used your site will go back to it rather than play Google's simple version, but I wonder if longer-term it'll mean a drop in organic traffic? Time will tell, I suppose.
Why Doctors Still Need Stethoscopes
> Violently attacking someone and/or throwing them in prison for their refusal to hand you a share of the currency they received in private trade is a grotesque violation of human rights.

This argument will be a lot more interesting as soon as someone demonstrates a functioning advanced economy absent a sovereign state, as we commonly think of it, and without someone or something else becoming the de facto sovereign in short order, since then we'll know the state isn't entirely necessary for the levels of wealth and advanced commerce and industry we presently enjoy, as it currently very much appears to be. I'm not holding my breath.
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Many also fail to consider the large number of stock buybacks when looking at the market.

http://fortune.com/2016/04/25/buybacks-stock-market/
They may tend to be, but they are not universally so.

And the appearance of partisan bias is much easier to avoid if you have at least one guy from each party.
Looks like the initial reception is positive, yep (more like 10-15%, it'll be interesting to see where it settles). If it goes up enough I'll short it, too -- horribly overpriced tool. :)
Webpack is complex in the same way that all build systems are complex – they take time to understand and configure. In the context of this thread, where a systems developer is feeling overwhelmed by front-end development options, Webpack is certainly an added complexity regardless of how well it's documented (which, I agree, have significantly improved).

I understand where you're coming from (Webpack initially got a bad reputation as being complex and folks are working hard to improve it) but my note about complexity was relative to simply dropping a script in the page to get Vue.js up and running.

To all the Webpack maintainers, and to all contributors of open-source projects, I can't thank you enough for your efforts. You open doors and expand the minds of developers like me and I'm forever indebted to you.
I say this as someone who doesn't have a horse in this race: because pot is demonized as a "drug" and so the health effects are exaggerated.

So it's helpful to have a constant reminder that a lot of us regularly consume alcohol, which is has high addictive potential and very negative long term effects, and yet is not demonized by society and moderate drinkers are perfectly fine. The basis of comparison to something that we're very familiar with helps put things into perspective. It's not to say that the negative effects don't exist, but that we as a society tolerate something with similarly negative effects all the time and live normal lives.
Refactoring 30000 lines of JavaScript with types
I think there's no doubt that it's a good thing for the students that go to these schools.

The question is whether it's good for society as other schools may suffer
6 reasons why app stores should transition to subscription models
You say that, but take a look at the HN thread on Peter Thiel's prospective gubernatorial campaign[0]. It's needless to say the idea of a Thiel governorship was not very popular.

This isn't to say the criticism found there is unreasonable, just that it's not special. People in science and people in tech can get involved in politics, but most of the political issues out there are not scientific or technological so support for them will break down on ideological lines, not technocratic ones. The case of Peter Thiel isn't special, i.e. a conservative member of the tech community would not prefer Richard Stallman to Marco Rubio, just as a progressive member of the tech community would not prefer Peter Thiel to Jerry Brown.

If you want technocracy, I would suggest encouraging tech-minded folks to move to the public sector rather than run for office. Personally I would oppose that, as I think most tech talent would be somewhat wasted there.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13401358
The Dow is supposed to be easy enough to do by hand. Around 12 to 15 stocks, all with just the price. Its an invention of the early 1900s. Its more of a historical measurement that we keep using because... well... it works. And people are familiar with it.

But yeah, as the other posters have said: S&P500 just hit a record high. So the underlying fact is "Stock Market reaches new highs" by any sane measurement.
I'm not sure what your point is, regardless of my view on those examples.

It wasn't an emphatic "This is great in every single scenario", but I very much think that it has a much larger chance of being great than the alternative, which is the long form of what I wrote.
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After reading this I threw up a bit in my mouth. This feels like it was written by a marketing person.
You forget that Bernie Sanders wants mandatory labeling of GMO foods. That's also anti-science scaremongering.
I feel 100% stress because of the noise and distractions. It is 100% beacuse

a. I hate it so fucking much that I rarely even curse and it is making me want to say I hate it so fucking much

b. I am more sensitive to distractions and noise. I can't simply "put on headphones" like everyone always retorts when I say I can't focus.

c. There's absolutely nothing I can do about it. I can change jobs, but this stupid fucking fad has permeated everywhere. I have heard of exactly two companies that give their thought-workers distraction, noise-free environments. If I haven't put down roots already, maybe I would have given it a crack, but moving is not an option.
This is delivered a bit to dry for me to know if I should laugh.
I've found the biggest thing for me being able to continue to be motivated is to have the freedom to really craft the software I'm working on. Nothing is as soulcrushing as having to pump out a substandard delivery.
How was that for the best? American involvement in WWI led to the Treaty of Versailles which was the direct cause of Hitler and WWII. All of that could have been avoided if America had just stayed uninvolved.
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Is there something that you can express with Option that you cannot express with a nullable type?
As a UX designer finding out what users want is a large part of my job. Firstly you look at your own goal; let say you are tasked to build an app for commuters who travel by car everyday. The client is a navigation company.

First you identify who your target audience is, your client might know some about this but it's important to also talk to other related people. So you start to talk to commuters, but also moms who bring their kids to school, traffic cops, people at highway stops, anyone. At the beginning you talk about their experiences, what do they do and why?

Then you want to formulate insights from these interviews and what you have learned from research, for example: Commuters get annoyed by loud noises and honking while standing in a traffic jam.

Then you could ask people who you talked to previously to come in and help design something. (this is also a good moment to ask more questions of you have those) Do a session about people drawing their experiences on a white board and brainstorming together with you and other participants in how this might be solved.

Then you build a MVP and test this with your commuters

Then you improve and iterate and test this again.

If the vibes are good you continue to develop your product.

(this is in short how it works, if you'd like to learn more and get specific tools and techniques tech out this: http://www.designkit.org)
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I cannot speak to my current employer as my handle is not anonymized. I will say that in prior employments the level of stress was directly correlated to the incompetence of the staff and developers. Incompetent people tend to create two problems:

1. Job insecurity. Politics ramp up as employee mobility goes down.

2. The technology is trash. The internal tech is often riddled with excessive abstractions, confused organization, lack of purpose, and other unnecessary qualities that generally slows people down. Its a real bummer when 10 minute task takes 2 weeks to complete in the office.

I can only speak to large software companies and unfortunately the demand for employees will often exceed the available supply of confident AND experienced developers available in the market.
The greatest way to stay motivated is to publish something and see it succeed.
When leaders don't have expertise, we burn time educating them on fundamentals just to orient them on a decision that needs to be made.

A better title would be "businesses aren't truly agile until their leaders have deep expertise."
I've found I can quantify my overall stress level quite well by the length of my fingernails. The more stressed I am the shorter they get (through subconscious biting/chewing on them)
Though the original statement in the Wiki article is only a Google link to a book from 2015 which I can't seem to read more about?

If 4 billion trees were affected in only a few years, people couldn't have chopped down so many trees, couldn't they? If there were natural resistant chest nuts at least a few should have endured.
If (US) employers really want people's departures to not mess things up, there's a simple tool then can use: contracts mandating notice periods. Of course, that would require consideration, so they'd have to provide that to employees that they are firing as well.

They've overwhelmingly chosen at-will employment, and they shouldn't be upset when their employees actually take them up on it. Two weeks is already an incredible courtesy when you can be fired at any time for any reason (as long as they're not stupid enough to say "yeah, we're firing you because you're black").
Yes, b/c republican's aren't allowed to believe in climate change and scientist aren't allowed to believe in small government, power to the states, and that the constitution is not a living document...
Surly the question is not how much stress full stop, but how much undue stress?

Some jobs are just inherently stressful, an Account Manager under pressure to get orders/sales over the line at year end, a Support Manager working with irate customers and escalating issues etc etc.

I've seen people go off sick with 'stress' and have staged re-introduction to the workplace, but if the role is inherently stressful maybe they weren't cut out for it in the 1st place.

On the other hand undue levels of stress can be placed upon employees by bad management (usually to try and save their necks after they've messed up in someway), and sometimes people put themselves under pressure by holding themselves to high standards.

Separating the source goes along way to being able to manage it.
> Unless you are talking "on a whim" with no notice it would have to be a pretty terrible employer to not let you take a Tuesday off.

I think OP was referring to not having to worry about the number of days he has taken so far, since he says "make my own schedule", i.e.: not having to worry about limits, either temporal or financial.
I went to a very high ranking, but not "Ivy League" MBA school, with a good mix of economic classes represented. There were the usual "in" and "out" groups you find in any institution. The cliques were, broadly:
1. Not-rich American students with massive loans to finance everything
2. International students
3. Already fairly wealthy consultants and bankers there just to "get their ticket punched"
4. A tiny handful of ultra-wealthy-and-well-connected

Group 1 (me) and 2 tended to hang out together, spend all the time studying, clipped coupons, ate ramen noodles, never went out, and got ulcers worrying about whether they'd ever get a job after graduation that could pay off this gamble.

Group 3 spent and partied more and really only worried that the cushy banking job they would inevitably get was less prestigious than the cushy banking job their peers would inevitably get. They would occasionally interact with us commoners.

I have no idea what group 4 did, as they didn't have anything to do with any of us, but they seemed pretty nice and didn't seem to be worried about anything. Kind of aloof but not assholes.

As someone who grew up in a rural mining town, I didn't exactly feel uncomfortable but there was definitely a sense that I was getting a glimpse into an alternate, parallel universe. Mostly people were really cool and there was a lot less "snootiness" than I expected. Just not a lot to talk about with someone who's economic situation was vastly different than yours, so people naturally gravitated towards others who were similar. I guess I learned that rich people aren't cartoon villains looking down on us while twirling their superior mustaches. They just live in a different world from us and they understand as little about our lives as we understand about theirs.
Yes, I meant to write "while" (my comments are usually hastily written while waiting some build to finish and full of typos).

>And I find it short-sighted to regard other philosophies as "bad" or "flawed", simply because they do not match your own.

Sure, but isn't a "all philosophies are equal" also misleading? Some philosophies can be inherently worse than one's own.
Same for me, together with pinhões from Araucaria[1] trees, which are also unfortunately endangered.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_angustifolia
Besides the already mentioned UIs I am also watching https://vuetifyjs.com , looks promising.
I am not opposed to the existence of a state, and my argument does not necessitate that it be abolished. I think there are legitimate sources of revenue that a state can rely upon, and legitimate functions it can serve in society.
If the issue is "not enough of an area's educational budget is devoted to AP kids", I don't see how that is solved by creating an entirely different school? If there's enough money to create a school for gifted kids, then I think that money is better spent investing in the AP programs in those multi-track schools.

(It's entirely possible that I'm overlooking some nuances in how education budgets work, but I'm talking more in the macro sense.)
I would say check out Monero if you haven't already.
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If you're looking for an easy drop-in word, I recommend "privileged"

It's certainly a privilege...
I'm privileged to be a part of... etc

It seems to be an effective device for communicating your feelings without coming across as arrogant
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Not an ivy league attendee but I married into it.

I admitted at an Ivy League gathering that I had gone to state school and my conversational partner looked at me as if I had suddenly changed, turned, and walked away without another word.

Sure, it didn't hurt too bad at 25 with a good job and a mortgage. At 18 I can see that smarting a bit more than it did and I'm telling this to you almost a decade after the fact. Allowing people to form a club for people like them is completely okay, as is trying to not label them as "the poor kids".

I don't disagree that people should strive to overcome but a large number of folks entering college are less prepared that you would hope for the social changes generally and I imagine that for the poor kid in the literal halls of power that would be enormously challenging and a little support isn't going to bankrupt the ivy league or hurt anyone getting some help to blend in.
Quick FYI: that link is the old-old Webpack 1.x docs.

The current Webpack docs, which have been completely re-written and are _vastly_ better, are at https://webpack.js.org/ .
Hi HN, This is a demo version of our free social media press pages. Just put live 3 days ago. Plenty more work to be done. Newslinn is building a network that connects citizens, organisations and journalists - we lauched citizen-to-journalist smartphone app last year - and these press pages are part of the organisation-to-journalist side of the network.
Still plenty of work to do on the citizen app, a new version coming out next month. 2,000 journalists have joined newslinn so far. Can't think of anything else to say.
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Shane
You're welcome!

Have you had a chance to have your first call yet?
Isn't this a Boston Big Dig scale project? How will the exhaust fumes be vented? What about earth quakes? Seems to me this requires a year of planning and out just don't start digging next month as he tweeted.
I have the same problem with an iPhone 6. Over 4G or wifi on a 100Mbps connection searching the app store takes 30-60 seconds, leaving a review is probably a 5 minute afair to navigate to page.

Generally I now get the iTunes url on my PC, send it to my phone and open it in safari so it opens the app store. It's actually faster that way.
This article is pretty high on platitudes and pretty low on actual information conveyed in an english language. Kind of disappointing to see it immeditely rocket to the top of HN. Do people game this site too? Sigh