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The comment directly above mine clearly explains why your language is transphobic. I'm not gonna explain it again more nicely just because you didn't want to hear it the first time.
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It feels like left-leaning media outlets (note: I'm left leaning) are scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to discredit anyone who has the gall to disagree with their narrative that Trump is a disaster (note: I think Trump is a disaster, so far).

Isn't this a bit of a double standard? I recall many months of Clinton email articles, hashing and rehashing it.

I agree it's nasty, but I don't think the left is worse than the right here. In fact, I think the right is far worse, because this story is unlikely to be rehashed for 9 months.
How else would you expect the press to cover that event -- someone who has explicitly stated a plan to enact vengeance upon and hatred for the very idea of a free press receiving unstoppable and unchecked power?

Nobody whose job or life depends on facts, transparency, freedom, an open civil society in the US was okay with the results of that election.

They did their best but there's only so much you can do to pretend to be objective when something truly terrible happens and we all know it. Lawyers defend horrible people to the best of their ability because it's their job, but they sure aren't happy about it.
http://candleforlove.com/forums/ is also very good. Those two sites together have enough information for a person to educate themselves enough in the visa process to do all the work themselves. For marriage and fiancee visas, if the couple is not high risk (previous denials or red flags like short courtship of a high age difference couple) completing the paperwork yourself can be very straight forward.

I did the paperwork for my wife to get her a k1 visa. Cost only a few thousand dollars in filing fees an a good amount of time preparing all the documents. It is a little frustrating that you put so much effort into the documents then they are simply looked at a bit and stamped. My wife reported that during her interview the officer looked at the papers we put together for a minute. Said, looks good and stamped them. 5 minutes total, while people before her had much more lengthy discussions.
Yes I know about "talk past the deal".

But that's not how democratic leaders are meant to act, that's how dictators act.

I feel like America is selling its birthright - a democratic republic - for the illusion of security. It's been happening ever since 9/11 but now it's even worse.
So the big change there is to VB, right -- instead of being a language co-equal to C#, they're refocusing it to be beginner-focused, and are explicitly saying it won't have the same capabilities as C#.

I think that makes a lot of sense -- it was always weird to have two near-identical languages to choose from -- but at the same time, I wonder if VB.NET isn't already too complex to be an accessible language for beginner-programmers in the way that PHP or VB6 were.
Two points from the "In Comments" section: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

1. There is nothing on "substance-free".

2. Commenting "threatening to be banned from making comments" is not equivalent to "commenting about downvotes".

At least thats how I read that section.
what if Thiel decides he doesn't like you, or people like you, and swings his influence hammer at your government and creates a hostile political climate for you, and your friends, and family?

He has already demonstrated his willingness and ability to do this. Why do you trust him?
Less than one-quarter of the country, actually. Half the country didn't vote.
"those who hold darker views about Snowden include lawmakers and officials who “base it on classified reports” and “have been at least partially briefed” about the NSA’s investigation. "

I only skipped the article, but this seems to be the main content and vague rumors around.
People who have been caught lying over and over again, are now a trustworthy source for anything?
Other than the tagline "A series of credit-eligible courses recognized by industry", this is the only reference I found to course credit:

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> If a student applies to the Master of Computer Science program at Columbia and is accepted, the MicroMasters Credential will count toward 25% of the coursework or 7.5 of the 30 credits required for graduation from the on campus Master of Computer Science program.

This part: "Learners who successfully earn the MicroMasters Credential are eligible to apply to the Master of Computer Science program at Columbia University" doesn't seem to mean anything. Isn't everyone already eligible to apply?
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I would point out, 9/11 hijackers were all here on legal visas[0] - so using that thinking is faulty. Our visa process seems to have faults, and I think this EO is a stop-gap to try to amend the issue. I don't particularly agree with ever choosing "religion" or "race" as a litmus test (which, as I have seen seems to be the underlying motivation, right from the horses mouth), but you have to agree there is justification at closer scrutiny of some sort for visitors coming from known hot-bed countries.

I think from certain angles, you could argue Trumps response hasn't been strong enough (why wasn't SA included in that list; everybody tends to agree that is completely absurd)?

[0] http://www.factcheck.org/2013/05/911-hijackers-and-student-v...
It's great to see academics come together to create and promote a free access journal.

It seems like the migration away from closed-access journals may happen on a case-by-case basis. Highly-regard open access publications are already quite common in some fields (e.g., machine learning) but virtually non-existent in others.

It would be nice to have a turn-key solution for an open-access journal, which would let the people in charge focus on the important stuff (organization, recruitment of volunteers, etc.). The platform would handle internal and external communication, the submission process, the review process, publication and archiving, etc. Not sure there's much financial incentive for such a project though.
> If he is so in with the Trump administration, why this move?

At the very top of the article (you did read the article, right?) it says that Thiel got his NZ citizenship in 2011, well before throwing his lot in with Trump.
And if he ever flies there, they could change the rules while he is in the air and then deport him. Ah, no, a civilised state wouldn't do that, forget it.
watching the video, I was hoping in a kind of terrified way that somebody would toss a ball to Spot, now that it has a hand..
Thanks for the nifty tool and Making it so small to avoid bulking up APK's.
Agree. But what is the best way to communicate with potential customers by not pushing them and annoying with marketing?
Saw this post on last month's Who's Hiring thread, except at the time, it said juniors/new grads were being considered. Are those positions already filled?
> This just feels nasty. It feels like left-leaning media outlets (note: I'm left leaning) are scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to discredit anyone who has the gall to disagree with their narrative

I'll even go further and say because of their scrapping the bottom of the barrel they've pushed people away. With CNN's "don't read these documents, it's illegal for you but different for the press, come to use for interpretation" to talking about grabbing genitals for days on end with their panel of experts. After a while people see through it and they become just as much of a joke those who they criticize.
The answer is more complicated than that. Pearl has shown that it some situations it's possible to answer causal questions without running experiments. Basically, you can ask causal questions using the "do-calculus" he developed:

P(Dog barks | do(kick the dog) )

The `do` modifies your model to treat "kick the dog" as observed, breaking its dependence on any other variables, e.g. the doorbell ringing or the cat hissing. With those links broken, the model becomes simpler, and often the causal question can be answered using observational rather than experimental quantities.

At least, that's the idea. Not sure how broadly accepted it is, but Pearl is a towering figure and his work seemed robust at least to my not-so-expert eyes.
"it isn't a matter of if Snowden was compromised but when"

Strong accusation. I suppose you have solid facts behind your claim?
Or do you count the tweet as a fact for anything?? Because it is kind of vague ...
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Whataboutism is a perfectly valid argumentation technique. If you argue against person X for doing Z, but not against person Y who does the same thing, it suggests you might actually just have a grudge against X.

I'm asking whether you actually object to funding valid lawsuits against people due to speech you object to, or whether that's simply a cheap attack line.
I don't think anyone is insulting Carmack. Quite the opposite, pretty much everyone knows that Carmack is an absolutely brilliant, world-class developer. You could easily make the argument that Carmack saw the prototype and was more excited by its potential than its present quality that drove him to sign on. Then, being Carmack, he alone had the technical chops to make it usable.
What would you have them buy instead? Why would a building (on which they pay property taxes) be any worse than any other investment?
> The problem is people are treating the news like a product in the capitalist paradigm.

News is a product, but it should be noted that fraud is a crime in a free market. Not that it discounts the rest of what you're saying.
It should be like boosting voter registration- it doesn't matter who you vote for, you should vote regardless.
>Strategy for Visual Basic

Not >Killing it with fire

Very disappointing.
Couldn't agree more. Also transparency is key here. Everyone makes mistakes, but being open about it does not only let customers (and employees!) know what's going on, but also gives other professionals the ability to learn from it.
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I've spent a fair bit of time in both, most recently the last couple of years in go. I think its a very mixed bag and there is no clear winner.

The tooling, especially for runtime operations, are so much superior to the golang options its night and day. I have much more success modeling complex business models in java with its better type system, and for doing low latency work its much easier to do on the jvm due to the availability of better libraries (which may get better in go) and the concurrency options are miles better on the jvm.

Go's stack allocation and gc defaults make for easy management in most of my default cases. The ease of adding http endpoints to things is phenomenal. Being able to write easy cli applications in the same language I write daemons in is great.

All told, I think for simple daemons and cli's I'd go golang, for more complex systems I'd go jvm.

I, personally, think the binary deployment thing is overblown. I've never had any problems deploying jvm applications and the automation to do either seems essentially the same to me.

As for the relative "heaviness" I think golang definitely feels lighter, but that is largely because golang apps do less. Once you start having them do more they start to "feel" just as heavy as java apps (for whatever "feel" means).

* [edit] called golang heavier meant lighter
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You're making a No True Scotsman argument by saying that it's not a Muslim ban because Trump didn't ban enough muslims. You're also completely ignoring the fact that Bannon very likely spent some time determining what sort of ban would and wouldn't be defensible. The use of 8 U.S. Code § 1187 wasn't by accident.

Also, your excuse about connections to terrorists needs citations because, from what I've read, these connections don't actually exist.
With this incident, they once again showed that they are dedicated to transparency, even in the worst days. This increased their popularity on me and I believe among other developers. However, this may not be the case with the business people. I hope they can survive that and also publish a guide for getting better at the "ops" side of the things.
I'm also not located in silicon and not really a Democrat, but I agree with the parent. HN readers tend to be irrationally biased towards members of certain political parties, and I think it's healthy and constructive to point this out.
If we're talking about the same piece, what he wrote is more nuanced:

Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.[0]

This seems similar to the claim "if white people didn't vote, Trump would have lost in a landslide", which almost nobody takes to mean white people shouldn't vote.

[0] https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
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What exactly in this article do you believe is racist or sexist? From what I can tell, Thiel made one factual statement - that women (and welfare beneficiaries) vote for policies he considers harmful. Do you think that factual statement is wrong?

If I made a similar factual statement - say "white people were more likely to support Trump" - does that imply I'm biased against white people?
I want to do the same. I'd be more than happy to help organize. I think for something like this to work well, a good amount of effort would go into project management, than the actual work itself. Communication, translating vague requirements into actionable tasks, keeping track of people etc etc...
Article is from 2014. Suggest adding info to submission title.
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I wonder if these tricks to defeat emulators have the opposite effects. They give truly interesting chalenges that can motivate talentuous developpers.
You know, after a friend reminded me of Bill Clinton's blanket-firing of 93 US attorneys in the early days of his administration based solely on their Republican affiliation, I had a lot less sympathy for the firing of the acting AG due to her (in)actions (the subject in the above thread in question). So I can understand your sentiment.

However, let's call a spade a spade: your comment was crap.

If you had elaborated on why you thought that was "good", I think you'd likely have a case here. Though based upon what I've seen of the moderation here, I think you probably wouldn't have gotten the reprimand you did.

I consider myself a (mostly fiscal) conservative. I think HN has a left-leaning bias, which is no real surprise given its Californian roots. However, from what I've seen the moderators here have done a pretty good job of keeping things from getting wildly partisan.
> " instrumental in allowing it to come into power (in fact, crucially so)"

This is clearly false. Peter Thiel didn't turn rural and suburban counties red in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
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I wouldn't go as far as imaginenore, but you do really need to control for "years of experience" or "job title", not simply "occupation". Sadly, job titles vary a lot, but it would help.

_Nevertheless_ the numbers are getting better as you control for things! It suggests that, as you control for more factors, the wage gap will shrink to nothing.
Maybe I'm overreacting but as a green card holder myself, the cavalier attitude this administration has to people's lives fucking terrifies me.

I don't want to go on vacation and then find I can't get back into America (where I have a job, a mortgage, a spouse, a social network and have lived for the past 9 years) because Trump suddenly took a dislike to my country of origin.

I'm not even from a Muslim country, but we have some Muslims, and plenty of non-white people, so given that Bannon was partly behind the EO and is openly white nationalist, who knows?
Reuters simply said they have experience reporting in authoritarian countries and they don't yet know how 'sharp' Trump will be regarding the media. They're basically saying Reuters is prepared to deal with that, assuming it becomes a reality. They are not saying it's currently the case.

As far as I can tell the 'war on journalists' has almost entirely been words so far. The administration has been light with facts yes but that is a far cry from the type of media control exhibited under authoritarian regimes. So yes the OPs comment is a sensationalist interpretation.

I get the impression that people are a little too eager to characterize themselves as repressed, as if America has suddenly turned into an all-out authoritarian regime in the last week, where they are becoming a bit disconnected from reality, or at the very minimum jumping the gun. Reminds me of the classic Monty Python scene https://youtu.be/Vl4ufIrMtXg
I used to watch CNN because I found them somewhat unbiased, but this last election cycle they completely came off the rails. I'll have to find examples, but leading up to the election I was digesting a lot of news and routinely noticed where CNN would leave facts out or let a left leaning guest say something false with zero correction.

So now, I've given up on TV news since MSNBC and FOX are a joke.
This has already started to a degree, as people trying to build net-zero homes find that at a certain point the cost (in money/effort/carbon/energy) to add further insulation exceeds the cost of adding heat to the home via adding solar PV. I believe retro-fits of older homes hit this point earlier, since it can be harder to insulate them beyond the low hanging fruit.

Obviously as PV price continues to drop, this point will be met earlier and earlier.
Like or or not, a policy like this unfairly amplifies the voice of the majority and weakens your voice as a minority due to the nature of tech companies.

A fund that dispersed compensation to people in a way that properly reflects the diversity of this country would be more fair. Tech companies and their workers do not represent the diversity of this country. That's all I'm saying.

Specify part-time working minorities was probably a little too specific, but these people represent a large portion of the population and I don't know how one is supposed to participate in politics when one is having trouble making rent.
I wish we had better reproducibility tools. It should be possible to write a failing test case, and everything that is not of value to that test case gets stripped out, containing just the parts of the program/environment that can affect the test case (including sources of non-determinism like clocks and RNGs). Kinda like C-Reduce, but on steroids.

And we should be able to look at the problem probabilistically too: given the form of the test case, the value pipeline through the debugger, and the structure of the program, we should be able to narrow down places to look as much as possible using some form of bayesian search theory.
Actually this is perfectly ON-TOPIC :)

Some of this come from a mixture of architectures, and the fact we are using Swift+Objc, or just large asset files. Its something we are actively working on fixing.
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> A Dallas, Texas jury today awarded half a billion dollars to ZeniMax after finding that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, and by extension Oculus, failed to comply with a non-disclosure agreement he signed.

> In awarding ZeniMax $500 million, the jury also said that Oculus did not misappropriate trade secrets as contended by ZeniMax.

> Of the $500 million, Oculus is paying out $200 million for breaking the NDA and $50 million for copyright infringement. Oculus and Luckey each have to pay $50 million for false designation. And Iribe has to pay $150 million for the same, final count.

http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/1/14474198/oculus-lawsuit-verd...
The gitlab situation and Uber's article speak to the level of immaturity of PGSQL's native replication feature, and more importantly: how not widely google-able nor documented/adopted the replication strategies are.