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Most likely the association goes alt-right->white nationalism->fascism.

The most common refutation is that the alt-right is not a white nationalist movement, but that is entirely beside the point. The alt-right is absolutely a nationalist and isolationist movement. It was also certainly started by white nationalists and white supremacists, and those two groups are still fully present and influential in the greater movement.

Nationalism, race-cleansing and isolationism are not necessarily fascism although they are intimately related. There are a great number of fascists in the movement, including many who call themselves libertarians, but there are also a lot of people who are anti-authoritarian. Actual, literal fascists believe the government may take ultimate control of the economy and people to accomplish the goals of the nation, particularly in times of "emergency", which most of them believe this is. They do not believe in democracy under any circumstances, only in an umbrella of direct dictatorial control.

So, taking that all together, does the alt-right overall meet the definition of fascism? Yeah, I think so. The alt-right's mandate is to prevent jobs from leaving the country, end international trade (mercantilism, in fact), and to bar immigrants. They're a little wishy-washy on foreign intervention and have strong opinions both ways. They want these goals to be accomplished through direct action by the president- convincing or ordering corporations to hire inside the country, and ordering an end to imports. They want to ban immigration for the safety of the country and many want to additionally protect cultural homogeneity. Trumps cabinet very much recalls Mousollini's corporatism, with energy company reps in charge of the EPA and secretary of state.

Trumps whole thing is a lone wolf against the rest of the government, trying to take control and convert it to what it should be. That applies to the government, economy, and society. His alt-right supporters support that in one or more categories. To the alt-right, Trump is the only one who can restore jobs where they should be, restore the people to who they should be, and fix how people act and the expectations they have of each other. That's pretty textbook fascism.
> I can't think of another programming domain where that holds.

Static type systems.
No

(To be clear though, I didn't downvote you. I can't downvote anyone)
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not sure that suggesting an internet stranger -- to 'relax' right at the start of the feedback, is a respectful way engage in constructive conversation.
I mean, I'm pretty sure that is social engineering, doesn't make them any less of an asshole though.
Yes, but the vast bulk of it is moved to other states and countries via coal trains and bulk freighters. The state has only 580k citizens but is producing 42% of all US coal.
Easy to cite the Chevy Bolt as a failure. The Volt, on the other hand, is fantastic.
In this opinion piece, P4man looks at the cryptocurrency market to see if there is a credible investment alternative to bitcoin. I hope Ripple future is bright. I have no doubt about this.
Actually there is pretty limited support that placebo actually works on anything but subjective measured outcomes.
Mixing is not laundering. Money laundering is about converting money to something that can be passed as income from legal transactions. Mixing is only about disguising where the money came from (which is something that you essentially don't have to do for physical cash)
> I can't remember the last time I've ever used the ESC key in day-to-day computing but I notice its absence all the time when using the iPad Pro's smart cover keyboard.

That's strange, I use it every day to get out of modal boxes, dialogs, close panels etc, revert to normal states.
#teampixel always gets the shot
I've seen a few of these before and found them very entertaining, but I wonder how they get the appropriate ATC clearances to cross all of the airways that they'd have to cross. Wouldn't a lot of these paths conflict with airspace that other flights want to use? Are they at very unusual elevations when doing this?
Yep. I feel like it's time to manually make a list of egregious submarine launchers, though it seems that it's journalists who's coverage is over a limited set of companies such as social media that are prone to doing things like this.

It feels like there should be a filter that considers who owns a paper, who the journalist has previously covered in depth, and what kinds of stories they're printing. Maybe something like a shill or hater score?

I'm not sure how easy this would be. Does anyone know if something like this exists?
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I have had one since launch and it has never crashed, that said I use caps lock as a second escape key anyway (an option available in the standard settings app)
Yeah, they definitely read the threads. This is some pinpoint-accuracy hate and idiocy.
As is Youtube -- usually higher. Ex. Youtube is #2 right now on iOS for me.
There is no "getting it right" in free speech. Either you allow free speech or you don't, if you are keeping one controversial thing but kick out the other you gave up on free speech. You can't kick someone out because you think its right and claim allowing free spech.
As much as I love Musk for bringing the sorely needed disruption to market, I personally believe this article is a fan piece that is underestimating what the big companies are capable of. I (of course, that's anecdotal) am aware that the big German companies are working with governments in the EU to bring around large scale infrastructure changes (think traffic lights, signs and roads themselves) to usher their idea of what automotive future would look like.

In the end, IMHO, there isn't going to be a winner- (according to the articles hope - tesla) -take-all. It's going to be a middle ground.

You're not going to get your openmoko/n900. You're going to get your Android.
At home I have an obi hai box connected to a cordless phone on my google voice account, it rings every time... but my cell doesn't always ring.
The Google Pixel 2 and the minijack, an inevitable break?
Self-fulfilling prophecy. If we shut down the conversation about literature when it starts, then yes we'll never discuss it ;)

I'm always pleased to see posts on literature show up on the HN[0], but often disappointed to see so few comments. But enough people are up-voting them that they do regularly appear on the front page, so there's clearly enough interest around here.

[0] e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nybooks.com
and https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lrb.co.uk
Wouldn't it be funny if we see a resurgence of compile-to-js languages? If JavaScript keeps on piling up layers I could see people longing for a simpler, smaller language.

Where there was coffeescript to highlight functional features in JS in a time where most JS was imperative, maybe we'll see a language that takes the OO sugar away to, again, reveal the functional language that's underneath.
Your conclusion is wrong.

A profit is a realized financial gain. In a given period, income surpassed expenses.

A business failure is a business that has failed, it has ended.

A lack of profit can lead to failure, but in no way implies it.
I missed the last sentence. But I think this is also misleading. General aviation is obviously far more dangerous than commercial aviation, and home-built planes are, by a factor of 2-3x, more dangerous than the rest of general aviation.

If you're telling me that there's a mainstream part of general aviation advocating that random people build planes to take strangers for rides in (or, to complete the analogy to crypto, to give to random strangers to themselves fly), I'm going to push back on that.
Its also not profitable, has slowing growth, and is losing market share as Instagram/FB copies its features.

I do think the product team at Snapchat is stellar though, they are creative and innovative and in-tune with what young people want.
> But they do! Pre-C99 there's no way to say "I want a type that's at least 32bits and as fast as possible" or "I want a type that's at least 32bits but as small as possible".

I stand corrected on that point.

> Clearly people were not fine just using the minimum requirements of the standard.

Most of these typedefs are used to interop with some other standard or file format that requires that many bits exactly.

But even then I would argue that there was an overuse of such typedefs in C. I can think of several reasons for that:

First, there's a general lack of awareness that C does in fact provide "at least N bits" guarantee for most of its types. This comes up pretty often in questions on StackOverflow, and apparently there are still enough people surprised by the fact that e.g. long can never be 16-bit.

Partly, I think, it's because of the historical mess with int. Obviously, int is what people use by default, and the fact that it was 16-bit on many popular architectures in the past, and then became 32-bit on their successors, resulted in much broken code. I think that the lesson many took away from this is that all integer types in C are similarly broken, and switched to int32_t (or equivalent typedefs) just to avoid having to think about it.

Partly it's because of 64-bit ints. Standard C didn't have a 64-bit type for a long time. Popular implementations provided it as an extension, but in different ways - long long in most Unix compilers, __int64 in 32-bit DOS and Windows compilers. So if you ever needed 64 bits, you needed a typedef for that. Since most devs work on systems where word sizes are 8/16/32/64, they did the simplest and most obvious thing, and defined something like int64_t (as opposed to int64_least_t) - it just didn't occur to them that something beyond that was needed. And that set a precedent.

Then there was the part where long was made 64-bit in LP64 model, which meant that portable C had no "at least 32 bits, but no longer than it needs to be" type until C99. With the precedent established by int64_t, the logical step was to add int32_t, and int16_t as well for good measure.

And that's how we got where we are today. I would still argue that most of those libraries that use int32_t and similar types don't strictly need it. It's just a combination of historical factors, and also the fact that platforms where such types do exist comprise the vast majority of platforms, and all platforms that people care about. So there's no particular incentive to even think about how you'd write code for something else - why deal with the extra complexity, if you can just wave it off? Can't blame anyone for that.
IMO, this isn’t a person who should be writing anything about electric cars. I clicked this link (http://www.thedrive.com/opinion/1944/the-chevy-bolt-will-fai...) that was in the article. Anyone that owns an electric car should find the objections laughable. In summary, it’s every objection you’d hear from the person that wants to rationalize driving their Suburban by themselves to work every day. So I’d take the “rah, rah, Tesla” with a grain of salt, as the author is speaking from what they’ve read and heard about, not from their ownership of an EV.
It is actually very likely that an individual with a diagnosis involving the central nervous system or brain disorder or injury involving sensory processing will have an axis diagnosis of some form of mental illness. It is common for an individual with intellectual disabilities to also have a diagnosis of autisim, OCD, ADHD, etc.

It is sometimes very difficult to determine which disorder or diagnosis occupies Axis I or Axis II. While generally not that important, it can be very important when it comes to obtaining limited supply governmental waiver programs and clinical trials.
What? Cocoa, or toucHNews?
That doesn't quite seem right: http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/average-household-electricity...

(Interestingly Canada's per capita consumption is comparable to the US despite being much further north)
Trump's Dept of Justice is out of control.
I'm thinking Breq in ancillary justice..

A large scale ship's AI reduced to a single ancillary, having to deal with humans on their level
Ironically enough, my cellular carrier, actually got tricked themselves, when they let me buy an unlimited plan for Google Drive. Basically I get unlimited upload and download bandwidth with Google's Drive service, so I can for example SSH into my server on the road, download a YouTube video or a movie, upload to Drive, then watch on my laptop or phone with 4G speeds. Since I recently moved to a rural area with only a Wireless ISP (WiFi, not cellular) and the speeds are about 5/1 Mbps, I really appreciate the LTE 4G speed. (The only reason I have 4G at this place is because there is a huge power plant next to my house and they put a cell tower on a top mast of the plant. Neighboring areas only have 2G or No Service at all.) I even tested the service by downloading 100 GB and they didn't throttle me, so either they know something I don't, or they got scammed. The service costs 2.48 USD. Pretty good deal if you ask me, even if it lasts a short while, I'll at least get to upload my terabytes of backups from HDDs. Only problem is my phone gets scorching hot when transferring data at 50-70 Mbps.
Patreon had no liability in this situation. Patreon doesn't support the sale of software, and software as speech is a much murkier area than... actual, literal speech.

This is effectively saying that investigative journalists shouldn't get too political in unpopular causes, lest they have their livelihood taken away from them. This is a suppression of free speech (not legally ofc) on a platform that syndicates political news and opinions.

“it appears that you are currently raising funds in order to take part in activities that are likely to cause loss of life."

This is taking a political stance; anyone on either side of rescue missions for refugees is funding something that is likely to cause loss of life. One is just politically en vogue.
I'm sure they will be heartbroken.
Because the middling dumbphones are what comprised the majority of the market, the market that Apple completely took over. How many people were using smart phones as a % of overall market in 2007? The only real players that I can remember were Palm and Blackberry, and both those were terribly executed in comparison to the iPhone.

And yeah, more than 10% of reservations were cancelled but that couldn't possibly be because people don't actually want the car at a large scale, could it? I tend to pay attention to what people do and not what they say, and the fact is that consumers purchase ICB autos at orders of magnitude higher numbers than EV. When push came to shove, 65k people who actually made the conscious decision to spend $1k to reserve a car suddenly decided they no longer wanted it. But your only reason is that "sometimes people change their minds." To me that's a nice way of saying a lot of people don't want to spend $35k on this car.
I would take it one step further: I should be able to build my own voting machine from the open source plans, and cast my vote with it this way, which prints out a receipt for me that I have verified matches the (paper) printout on the receiving end.
You can remove Siri from the touch bar in the touchbar settings. While in the settings you can tap the bar to open the different configurations and remove her anywhere
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So what is this going to cost the user in the future? I can't imagine this will be a free service forever if Mozilla has nothing to gain from eating up tons of bandwidth.
This is nothing but a cash grab.
That was also 11 years ago, and only 2.5 yrs after Google's IPO.
I stand corrected!

(Ironically, this also shows just how much these types are actually used...)
I'm not familiar with the book, but behavioural therapy has acutally been shown to be useful for managing back pain.
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Google has (semi-)inadvertently dodged a few "bad acquisition" bullets. Groupon comes to mind...
Is this it? http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
Yeah, I've only been doing OOP for about 22 years, so I'm pretty new to it.

The point was that the syntactic sugar isn't needed.

The 'class' sugar actually obscures the power of prototypal inheritance, and imho, discourages people from learning it - to their, and the language's, detriment.
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>There are entire criminal industries built on the idea that people use the same password all over the place because nobody cares enough to remember more than a few passwords because they’ve got things to scroll on their phone okay.

Or... because having to remember more than 3 random combinations of arbitrary letters, numbers, and a subset of extended ASCII, is not a tenable solution. Of course people use things like l33tspeak. We can remember words. I wouldn't say laziness has anything to do with it.
In case of Uber - precisely. They mostly exploit the fact that law is not enforced swiftly and decisively enough. By the time a local government realizes they should probably do something, Uber already has popular support in the area due to their price shenanigans.
JS has some seriously rough edges, but I love it because I adhere to a lot of what the article preaches. I never end up with any gotchas because I use the "right" parts of the language.
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Yeah, and Google also reportedly offered to buy Groupon for $7 billion, a year before it went public. Not sure what kind of consolation that gives to shareholders now...
I think the term you're looking for is "history" [1] as in, "tech people tend to adopt a historical view of older companies." With extremely few exceptions, the older a company gets the more obsolete it becomes [2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2017/03/22/sears-to...

[2] http://io9.gizmodo.com/25-obsolete-technologies-that-future-...
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Someone at /r/aviation posted a timelapse of the flight. It seems like most of the flight took place between 38,000 and 42,000 feet (passenger flights are typically in the 30s) and did it after midnight in the US which is a quiet period for passenger flights.

https://gfycat.com/needyfavorablecrustacean

At one point the flight climbed to over 43,000 feet to avoid storms over the midwest and not mess up the path.
this is a very interesting site. it has a lot of information available, be it on jobs, or answers on anything under the sun.
>which can be compressed further

Can it? I think of a bloom filter as similar to a lossy compression scheme and wouldn't expect it to be further compressible to any significant extent using a general purpose lossless scheme. Similar to how general purpose compressors generally don't do very well with mp3s or jpgs.
Then find a random uuid in the public list and claim it is yours? I don't think that is a realistic fear
> kept the disks alive for up to, say, 30 minutes after power loss

Not relevant to disks, but you could have battery-backed DRAM? Commonly used in RAID clusters as a cache.

The main problem with storage architecture is too much hardware that lies about whether it's actually committed a write.
The feature is called "source maps". Here's an MDN article about it https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger/How_...
> I've seen Patreon kicking people off their platform for political reasons […]

Have you? Are you thinking of Lauren Southern? Or maybe It's Going Down? The explanation from Patreon is very reasonable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmcK6GvgVPs
Probably only briefly. Ramanujan was a genius who deserves to be studied. Greenspan's hagiography will be soon forgotten.
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[In full disclosure mode I've made money buying out of the money calls on Tesla stock, so everytime he "succeeds against all odds" I get a few pennies.]

That said, the fundamental message is a good one, which is "Don't look at what a mature market does, look at what it could be." My first experience with this was the iPhone introduction by Apple. Like others, I scoffed at the "Jesus phone" where Apple PR claimed to have invented phones. And I thought, really just a glittery phone that you can run some games on or listen to your music?

What I completely missed was that Steve Jobs didn't see it as a phone so much as an entirely new nexus of interaction in our lives. Where before that might have been the television set, this was changing the rules at a very fundamental level about how people would think about a phone going forward. I could not see that at the time. Looking back I can see it, but at the time I could not.

When the first Tesla Roadsters started showing up at Google[1] I started looking at what Elon was trying to achieve and I got the same feeling of "really? this is just a car with batteries and a Lotus body, sort of the rich person's version of the Bradley GT[2]" But as I looked at what he was trying to achieve I recognized that he, like Steve Jobs, was thinking about cars in a way that wasn't even in the same ballpark as I was.

Knowing that, and knowing people who don't understand things bet against them, made it pretty straight forward to arbitrage that disconnect into money.

[1] I have a photo of four parked in a row in the Google colors and tagged, "yes you are working among the crazy wealthy types."

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Automotive
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But then you're not sorting based on quality at all. The idea is the best answer should be the one on top. That's not necessarily the most recent answer, but it's also not necessarily that one answer that is really outdated but has accumulated tons of votes by virtue of being around a long time either.
Are they behind the schedule they quoted you when you reserved it?
>Taking someone into custody for 18 hours without giving the family or press any information. How different is this from Iran or North Korea?

Most countries don't give the press information. Why do you believe his family or a lawyer hasn't been contacted?