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> I also think it's interesting that these areas complain they are "abandoned" by the left while continuing to elect Republicans.

(disclaimer: the following may be inaccurate due to the fact that I'm a German and don't get reports on every activity of Clinton)

From what I've seen in news reports, Trump has made a habit during his campaign to appear not only in contested swing states but also in areas where many jobs have been lost - be it due to the closure of coal mines, huge factories or whatever - and promised people to "make them great again" and "make their voices being heard". Clinton however focused on swing states and the DNC shot down the Sanders campaign.

In Germany, it's the same - old miner towns or rural areas rarely get visits from campaigning politicians, except when there's a beer fest or a really huge factory opening. This is where that "we're abandoned" complaint comes from - it's not that local politicians abandon the population in these areas, it's that state/country politicians rarely turn up, and as a result the "abandoned" areas rarely get any media attention outside local newspapers (we don't really have the ultra-local TV stations like in the US). And if they do get mass media attention, it's mostly in the form of some TV team turning up and filming stuff like that abandoned houses get squatted by homeless people and the entire area gets dragged down by filth; not exactly what makes one proud of living in such areas. While Democrats and left-wings don't do anything, the right-wingers at least promise "we will help you", and that is - even if they don't have the slightest thought of keeping good on their promises - enough for the population to vote for them.

On a sidenote, that is what really scares me about Trump. As bad as it is, but he is the first politician in long times to publically show "I am doing, to the letter, exactly that what I promised in my campaign", and people will vote for him and his party AGAIN because of this, while ignoring that what he promises is backwards, false loads of dung.
>> People become "journalists" because there's money in it, through ads
>So what? Most of the internet runs on ads.

Which is an entirely other story, that in my opinion is even worse.
But the point is in the entire paragraph. Most of these people do not become journalists to bring accurate and researched reporting. It's purely pecause there's money in it. Potentially lots. The guy working for the NYT and the guy working for Buzzfeed have two very, very different definitions of deontology.

>I think you underestimate how difficult it is to define "trash". Once you begin censoring "garbage", you introduce bias.

Removing obvious lies is a start. Which, for a start, would remove a good part of breitbart, infowars, and a few left leaning journals. And it's fine! Truth is not biased.

>This is the reason our country has free speech. It's the only practical way to keep us from revolting.

Your usage of free speech has been widely criticized in the entire world and no European country would trade their free speech for yours, for example. It could also be argued that a good old revolution might have made your country better. Dusting off that woefully outdated constitution, reworking your political system, etc. instead of worshipping it as some shining star.

>Imagine if Facebook were owned by Trump or Bannon and they were removing "fake news". You would be even more upset, right?

If they are _actual_ fake news (i.e. not what Trump considers fake news, but proper lies, or voluntary misdirection), I wouldn't give a damn as long as it is done on both sides.

>I agree. Do you learn better through your own experience or when someone tells you what to do all the time?

If it's something I actually want to learn? Myself. If it's something I don't really care about? Eh, I might let other people tell me about it. And that's the dangerous part. I have limited time and ability to do fact checking. It takes someone five minutes to type up a "Hillary Clinton doesn't enjoy poptarts and eats children" story, and an order of magnitude more for me to debunk it for everyone. Enough of those articles and it effectively overtakes truth in people's minds. That is the exact same thing in Facebook feeds. People are getting bombarded with articles, some accurate, many not. You simply cannot fitler them. Especially if you're not aware they are false. Critical thinking skills are one part of the solution. But until everyone is properly trained (and then the methods of propaganda will have evolved), for the good of society, people particularly vulnerable to it must be protected.

Also, let's not forget that a good majority of people are told what to do all the time, at leas tat work. It wouldn't be suprising that part of this behavior is translated to their personal time, which includes getting informed.
Just 3 years later, Martin Luther famously nailed his 95 theses [0] to the door of Wittenberg chapel in Germany, protesting the sale of indulgences in the Catholic Church. It was the beginning of a profound "revolution" known as the Reformation that broke the power of the Catholic church.

If you have an hour, I'd highly recommend this early church history talk [1].

Also, the bible referred to was a translation into the vernacular under John Wycliffe[2] which the Catholic church tried to supress.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-five_Theses
[1] http://www.antiochbiblechurch.org.za/multimedia-archive/faci...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wycliffe's_Bible
I'm wondering how disenfranchised blue collar caucasians resonate with a billionaire who literally shits on a gold toilet. How is it that they think he somehow represents them?

They do know how narcissists operate, right?
Users that (potentially) fork over kilowads of cash have a way of attracting special attention.
Alright good point. Heck Sanders and Chomsky might be centrists in Europe as well probably.

> The democratic party is to the left of the GOP but to the right of anything else,

I think at least in the PR domain they don't shy away from calling themselves "the left". Which I think it is interesting. And the left (if there is one, and that's separate point to talk) hasn't exactly disavowed or pushed against it too much.

> but called it Trumpcare it would be super popular with GOP voters and maybe hated by democrat voters.

The fascinating thing is Trump has picked up "the concern for the workers", NAFTA and TPP as central talking points and ran with it. That was Democrat's bread-and-butter in the past. I am not sure if it was is sincere or pure opportunism (he did pull out of TPP, so that's something...). But I can't deny that it was a good strategy for him.

Even more interesting to me is to see that as soon as he did those things, the new "left" almost immediately reverted to talk about "how TPP is great" and "NAFTA is a good thing" and workers are just idiots brainwashed by fake news and such.

I was watching Reddit's /r/politics and after TPP pull-out and there were posts explicitly saying "we have to support TPP because Trump is against". There is something fascinating there, I think. Remembering the DNC primaries with TPP signs everywhere. And then few months later "what do you mean, we love the TPP".
The housing market in the Bay Area is very different from the housing market literally everywhere else in the US (except in some ways Manhattan). Pre-listing sales are very rare outside of SFBA and Manhattan, and the vast majority of domestic residential sales (>70%) are of MLS-listed houses/units, even in major metros like Chicago and LA.

The "dog properties" don't get listed on MLS at all; there is a cost to listing on MLS and the dog properties generally don't generate enough interest to justify the expense (and usually don't even attract a realtor willing to invest the effort).
then we make them go through an animated slideshow and do a quiz to get to an email address
> System calls in Linux are really fast. So saving "thousands" of system calls when /etc/localtime is in cache doesn't actually save that much actual CPU time.

"fast" is a relative term, and is somewhat orthogonal to "efficient".

There's a reason why certain functions use a vDSO. If you're just going to use a syscall anyway, there's kind of no point.
Often enough, implementing the optimal solution is not really more time-consuming than the brute force solution.
Often it's not about micro-optimizations, but a difference between O(n^3) and O(n*logn).
We drove around SF giving free rides for people who #deleteUber [video]
Again, watch this space...
>It's the developer who has a clue about algorithms who is more likely to make the valuable insight.

The ability to implement the sorting algorithm in the C++ standard lib is completely orthogonal to people who have this insight.

People who have an understanding of complexity analysis is really all it takes to have that insight. Memorizing a bunch of datastructure algorithms has almost no bearing on this ability.
Well, stopping abortion is part and parcel of religion. You won't find many atheists or agnostics who oppose legal abortion. Perhaps some limits on it, but not an outright banning; that's solely the province of religious people.
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2 is arguable because every single manufacturer has terrible drivers, true.

As a developer, the amount of inconsistencies in AMD drivers is baffling.
I have been using https://www.inoreader.com (I'm not affiliated) to manage all of my YouTube subscriptions, and I deleted my Google account. It used to be Feedly but they butchered the UI and even removed some features. How long until my RSS feeds gets scroogled too? https://twitter.com/Inoreader/status/829628234337808384

I got tired of videos not showing up, stupid paid promotions that I would NEVER watch or click getting in the way of automated playlists (workaround is: &list=UL). I need extensions just to make the thing not drive me crazy. And now most of the extensions will stop working because of the new material theme.
Ask HN: Which is more important to Google's strategy, Dart or Go?
It seems obvious that Go has more users, and that with it, they build their servers and services. But that could also be done with Dart-vm, along with the browser interfaces and the mobile apps (Flutter) for their services.

Dart could also become a flagship language for developers targeting Google's platforms (if the whole Andromeda/Fuchsia OS leads that way and becomes semi-mainstream), the same way that Swift is Apple's flagship language.

To be clear, I'm not talking about the scope, design or features of each language (although that could be a considered point), but their importance to Google's strategy and dominance as seen from their point of view.
Because the presidency and the election period are different things?

You vote based on your expectations of their actions in the former and not the latter.
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...which fixes all the code you wrote, but of course, you may have legacy binaries that you don't have access to source to change... hence a simple setting of an environment variable, hardcoded though it may be, fixes the situation for all.

Though PeterWillis makes a good point akin to yours, and your (plural) point does make sense.

(Edit: added mention of comment with additional background on why to avoid hardcoding the variable)
re: 1 I think it's 2 fold:

a) A really successful propagation of lies regarding her. I live in Ohio and get junk mail all the time, some of it is just absurd. They make claims about the terrorist attacks she allowed while "in office" as sec of state. Makes no sense.

b) They are quite possibly right and she is the worst. Look into the death of Vince Foster, whitewater, her suspicious reasons for hiding her email from the us government. There's A LOT of circumstantial evidence that she is beyond corrupt.
How do you distinguish Google intentionally deploying senior tech people to HN from Google just having a lot of senior tech people who read HN? ;)
You're off by one version: it was Android 6 (Marshmallow) that introduced the fine grained permissions.
The entire point of modern evidence based therapy is to help stop people ruminating on how they feel deficient.
The participants (less Nasa leadership) are all researchers with expertise in: atmospheres of exoplanets and biosignatures.

I wager the announcement will be about TRAPPIST-1b and/or c having atmospheres capable of supporting life.

My moonshot bet is that they'll announce the discovery of evidence of biosignatures.
Verizon Will Pay $350M Less for Yahoo
I don't see the danger in encouraging people to treat each other with respect.
I don't always science, but when I do, I prefer to trust cartoonists.
No, closed source is I think the more unique thing.

I can go to planning offices and see the plans of any building. Almost no-one has "secret painting methods", or "secret plumbing methods".
Hey, thanks for the feedback. Self-hosting is a more advanced area (I would imagine large companies deciding to self-host, mainly for the privacy reasons, but not single developers), so it's out of the scope of DeployStack for now (I'm trying to focus on tools that would be more useful to single developers, start-ups).
However, it could be a nice section for a page covering more advanced topics, so I will take a note of it for the future. Thanks!
There is no reason to believe that Linux, and other possibly OSs, won't all grow during this time. As long no one is monopolistic and anti-competitive there is a ton of room for competition in this space.

The network effect, the winner takes all effect, is becoming less pronounced as there are more ways to build cross platform software.
Chris, sounds like your doing an awesome job! Perhaps, you could let the audience of hacker news know what some of your biggest challenges are. It may spark some ideas for start ups that could help solve those problems =)

Based on your article, it sounds like there's a lot of initial capital investment in the beginning.
But the truth is a bachelor degree is not a very difficult option, for 40% of US population, it is very PRACTICAL.

Having a degree definitely helps me get a lot more interview opportunities than my friends who come out of a coding bootcamp.
Those of those who are word freaks already knew about MEGACHIROPTERAN CINEMATOGRAPHER, as this pair is mentioned in the best seller Word Freak from ~15 years ago :)

Some of my favorite pairs are descriptive ones, like GULLIBLE BLUEGILL and HAPPIEST EPITAPHS.
I'm on the right, and I can answer your question.

The problem is that you're defining terms wrong. To you, "If someone disagrees with my ideas on gender equality, they are sexist."

It's like me saying, "If anyone disagrees with me about abortion, they're child murderers."

See the problem?

Not everyone who disagrees with you needs an ugly label. I'd be glad to talk to you about why we conservatives rationally oppose radical theocratic Islam. But not if you're just going to demonize me with an "islamophobe" label, I'll just avoid you and vote for people who institute conservative policies.