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If the media loves writing articles about Trump, they could at least put a modicum of thought into topics. There are so many easy topics.

Far from Trump taking over the GOP, the GOP has taken over Trump and now literally dictates his policy.

Bankers contributed money and bought Trump's support for financial deregulation.

Trump energy and coal policy are literally being written by GOP governors. The GOP now coordinates with Trump's speak writer to determine what is said.

Starting a trade war with China would have a direct negative impact on real estate prices in the US, which would affect Trump...and therefore will never happen.

A Trump presidency would basically be characterized by substantial benefits accruing to the wealthy while his middle class and lower class supporters will be further subjugated. In other words, just write about the effects of his policy suggestions...which does not take much effort.

And perhaps the biggest one, instead of writing articles that Trump will somehow magically take over every American institution, the reality much more mundane. US institutions are strong and his ability to get anything done will be mired in the same red tape that every President faces. Thus, campaign promises to build walls, undo numerous trade deals, ban Muslims, deport Hispanics etc. are empty promises that simply will not occur.
the non-deterministic nature is what I was getting at.

I worked at a place where they'd spin up a new gentoo box for a dev with stock "emerge foo" and let everything run up.

Then 3 weeks later, they'd do it again for the next dev, and they'd have many diff versions.

I know they weren't "doing it right", but they were doing it the default way they learned, and it caused a lot of problems.

Thanks for the info/clarification though.
Masters degrees, card carrying, secret-handshake knowing designer here. I remember when the notion of dark patterns was first discussed and differentiated from anti-patterns and I think this current discussion is quite ironic.

It's ironic because it is hinging on a narrowly constrained definition of "user interface" design - one that has been appropriated by web/app designers in recent years. UI goes well beyond what is IN the browser window. Discussion of user interfaces occurred before they were graphical user interfaces, well before they were web browsers. So for a discussion that hinged on the idea of the misappropriation of terms, this scores high for irony, IMHO.

SO, now that we're clear on the idea UI's can include many things, it's also clear that the URL and the items return based on the url requested absolutely fall under the notion of UI. And, this is most definitely an example of UI manipulation to create unexpected and negative results for the user to the benefit of the website.

Additionally I should point out, the whole notion of interaction design once meant something much broader than digital interfaces - as an easy example, look at Don Norman's early work and you'll see that interaction and interfaces go well beyond windowed interfaces or even digital interfaces.
There are EMP shielding techniques for solid state systems. The reality is the Soviets were very behind technologically in many areas compared to the west. A good example is the bulbous nature of their spacecraft. They simply didn't have the metalworking to make square cutouts and square windows that didn't eventually fail, so everything was round like a boat or a submarine design. Its fairly ahistoric to pretend this was all part of some master plan. It was just the best they could do and playing up the old technology as being magically superior is pretty silly.

The other story you hear is how the Soviets used pencils in space while NASA use spacepens. Pencils break off graphite which could get into controls and pressurized ink cartridges in spacepens are cheap and easy to manufacture. There's no downside to using a spacepen, but lots to using pencils.

Meanwhile, the few live confrontations between US fighters and Soviet made MiGs resulted in dead MiG pilots. Its clear that the higher tech and more innovative approach was superior and continues to be today. US missile defense systems keeping Russian and North Korean aggression from expanding for example.
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> You discount the notion that...

I don't.

> I suspect the driving factor here is the size of the unemployed workforce, not the need for money

And the difference is? Fundamentally people work to pay bills.

> aren't policy or cultural problems

State is policy and human society is culture. You seem to think the latter terms imply some innate quality absent in the former, but they both change, and that is because they are one in the same. Both have changed rapidly, and it's called history.

> "the majority" is measured in terms of power, not votes.

You're describing corrupt nations. This is blatantly anti-democratic, and there are too many people working to change this in America who have already succeeded to bring us to where we are today, and who will continue to succeed to help build a better tomorrow.

Limiting power is not ideal. Power does not need to be contaminated or broken, and presuming that part of it will never change is discrediting everyone that got us here. It's okay not to be satisfied because that is what will take us even further. But we're not Brazil. And their problems won't go away just by limiting power of government.
It's profoundly silly that the same words are ok if used in a passive formation, but offensive in the active formation.
I worked several years with C++ and when starting C# I was astonished how much useful stuff C# generics are missing w.r.t C++ templates.

Now, I've never worked with Java, but if you say that java generics make you miss C# generics, they must be really horrible :-)
The `this page` links are relative so you get 404 (e.g. is9front.deadyet.lol/9front.org).
> EDIT I just re-read - so he's proposing that rather than locking you just prevent a thread from being context-switched by the scheduler.

There are multiple implementations of RCU. One of them (the earliest) uses this mechanism. However, Linux also has a fully preemptible implementation of RCU, in which readers do not prevent context switch at all; that implementation tracks grace periods differently, without relying on context switch. (But still without making rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock expensive.)
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I've never had problems ordering custom hardware from my dedicated server providers. At worst, all I've had to do is pay a one-time fee for a particular component. SSDs have never been a problem. Neither has any Intel CPU.

It of course depends on your provider.

Rent vs buy depends a lot on the circumstances. Maybe if your requirements don't change and you don't upgrade your server hardware it's cheaper in the long run to buy. However, when I've kept a server for more than a year, I've always been able to negotiate a discount.

You didn't post your config, so I can't tell how exotic your requirements are.
There are apparently a few implementations of the JVM in both FPGA and ASIC: http://www.jopdesign.com/perf.jsp
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Whether you agree with the premise one way or the other, it seems like the data does not say what they think it says with as much certainty as they think. (I also think that solely blaming the media is problematic.)

Pageviews per article is not without flaws: if the media is writing more articles on Trump, then it will decrease. If a site has 10 articles on Trump, and 1 or 2 on the other candidates each day, and Trump's average view per article is similar then it's hard to conclude that there is a lack of interest.

Their graph shows Trump's average on par with the others, but he occupies 50% of the pie. That's huge. How is that categorized as "not driving traffic"?

It seems one assumption is sites could just write more articles about other candidates with the same engagement. If Hillary Clinton gets 6% more average clicks per article, it's hard to just pump out another article on Hillary if nothing new or novel has been said or done by her. Trump creates headlines and drums up controversy whenever he can in a way that most other candidates can't, because he's good at that. It's almost a symbiotic relationship with Trump and coverage of him.

Their idea of the definition of "driving revenue" is defined by the average clicks to read a Trump article. If your competitor has articles about Trump, and you don't, could you get away with that? Clearly people are reading articles about Trump here, so those views could disappear to other sites. (There is also the assumption that it's important that people click into the article, but many people will skim the headlines of a website.)

It also just compares coverage to other candidates, but the content driven revenue of a site is not just a basket of political candidates. It is relative to all other content as well. How much interest does Trump attract across the site?

Their chosen time period is November 2015 to May 2016. This ignores any jump start Trump might have received while his campaign was still nascent, relative to the many other contenders. The media coverage started way before November. You might say by November that Trump already was polling high enough that it was hard to ignore him. He announced his presidency in June 2015, and Trump has been consistently and heavily covered since. And Trump was already a celebrity and had been for years.

And this is why I was motivated to respond: "Many of the media companies we work with at Parse.ly encourage a data-driven culture that makes it easy for their employees to make informed content decisions. For example, anyone using Parse.ly can perform an analysis similar to the one we shared above."

I'm hoping "data-driven culture" in business doesn't become a synonymous with arbitrarily using data to make a point or disingenously undermine an argument. If there isn't discipline in application, then "data-driven" approaches will eventually gain a reputation as useless.

Not to be too cute, but I wonder how much traffic this post about Trump will drive to parsely.com relative to other blog posts.
> Gruber has super differentiated, high editorial value content

Oh, you mean: "Apple products are the best! Google sucks!"

Yes, high quality content indeed...
It's cool but I believe it will be better to have even autosuggest site specific. I mean if I search for !a shoes it should suggest me content from Amazon not from anywhere else.
>>> same goes for pair programming. Does it work better than the alternative? Yes? Great. No? Knock it off then.

I've worked at small and large companies and I've had the same experience with pair programming. It's done as a means to supplant actual, formal training. It's utilized as a shortcut to get a dev vaguely familiar with the architecture of your system and do rudimentary tasks so they can jump in and start working in a day or so.

The painful downside of not adequately training your developers is tasks take longer, other more experienced devs are sapped by helping other devs who continually ask them questions and keep them from getting their stuff done because they can't find something, or simply don't know the proper process.

I've been on both sides and seems like proper training is really a thing of the past. No company wants to invest the time in their developers to give them the tools and knowledge to really do their job well. As a replacement, you get "pair programming" as a substitute to proper training program.

And yes, I know this isn't the point of pair programming at all. But lately (last three years or so), this is how the companies I've worked at use it.

The ironic thing is several of the companies I worked at had a two to three week sales training which culminated in a test to make sure you knew the companies products inside and out. Developers? Maybe a lunch with a lead dev, or a twenty minute whiteboard explanation about their system architecture.
I have thought about using an LTE modem, but currently I tether. I run my whole connection through a VPN so I can use truly unlimited data with T-mobile. I'm using 300+ gigs a month for around $100.
Yup, that's what I've seen. I have an engineering degree and it is was a common understanding that the cheaters were the guys and gals that ended up being technical reps, while the hard workers ended up doing the exciting work. It only takes 1-2 years in the work force to see who has got the chops and who doesn't.
Looks very nice. However, I'm not entirely sure why this has to be a language-specific library instead of just an HTML template to copy?
Not sure if this is just for your private photos, but it's cheaper: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
John Wilkes of Google talks about this problem with Jeff Meyerson [1] and how it relates to the choice to use or not use containers. The spoiler is that container management tooling allows separation of infrastructure builds from deployment: a configuration problem when building a container happens on the build server instead of while a script is running on machine in production. His argument is that when a container deployment to production fails, the state of the machine is readily known (new bad container) versus an more complex state when a scripted build fails part way to completion.

And a container management tool can facilitate handling a failed distribution automatically via rollback to a previously deployed working container.

http://www.se-radio.net/2016/01/se-radio-show-246-john-wilke...
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In North America, all smartphones are sold through a carrier - with very few exceptions. There's no infrastructure nor any significant consumer demand for phones sold through other methods, and it might hurt Jolla in the future if they are seen by carriers as attempting to break their stranglehold over the market.

People in the rest of the world are a lot more used to paying up-front for a phone, potentially through a third party, and getting a SIM-only plan.
Wow totally forgot about this. Wiki linked to an article about what he's been up to recently: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2506549/Uh-oh-Radioa...

He's been through a lot but still has a hunger for learning.
Felt like we read just the beginning to a very thorough article. Instead we just got introduced...
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Two ways in which you're wrong here:

First, Peter Thiel used the court system, an arm of the government, to pursue a personal vendetta and suppress their speech.

Second, the First Amendment protects freedom of speech from government intervention, but freedom of speech is a concept that exists outside the U.S. Constitution.

I hope this clarifies things and helps you better understand the situation.
When I began graduate school, it was very surprising to me to see how the Chinese kids all cheated together as a matter of course and the Indian kids all cheated together as a matter of course. Some of the Americans would cheat somewhat, but furtively, rather than just being an ingrained part of culture.

(with the exception of one top Indian student who had no need for cheating whatsoever)
I understand the geofencing and tying devices to individuals, but I don't get the ad targeting.

They appear to be using banner ads, which can't be placed in Facebook or Google Ads. I didn't think old-fashioned banner ad networks had any real penetration among “normals”.
That's right. OSXFUSE includes a kernel extension (https://github.com/osxfuse/kext). There is no other technical way to achieve this without a kernel extension on both Windows and OSX.
tl;dr fewer hits per Trump story, but more stories

A copywriting course taught me that many print and TV stories are based on prepared materials sent in by whoever wants coverage. [ It's not exactly "paid coverage", but "lower cost coverage" ] Since then, I've noticed many stories that (seem) obviously of this kind, because of the particular perspective and beneficiary.

Trump isn't preparing releases, but makes comments that are easy -- i.e. low cost -- to cover.
I like it, too, and built a valley-style VC-backed startup here. Really, the only people who can understand why Midwesterners like it here are Midwesterners, and in that category even it's people with family/homeowners/etc.

I used to take it personally when people would look down on any other non-SF locales, especially the Midwest. Now I realize that they just don't know what they're talking about, and that's okay, they don't need to. I've already used the advantages of our location to compete on hiring with talent that does get it, and I'm happy to keep doing that!
That was an interesting video, thanks for linking it.

Two books are mentioned in the video, both of which I would like to read;

- "History of Harmonic Pythagoreanism" by Rudolf Haase

- "The Harmony of the World" by Johannes Kepler

The original title of the book by Haase, I found by jumping to the mark where it was mentioned in the original german language video, was Geschichte des Harmonikalen Pythagoreismus. Unfortunatelly, I have not been successfull in finding an English translation of the book. I could read the German version but would only understand a few select parts so I would much prefer to read it in English. Does anybody know of an English version of the book?
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When it's that easy then implement it yourself and make a PR to Ansible ;)
He's a self interested huckster.

The media has payed plenty of attention to him in the past.
So is XSLT: http://www.unidex.com/turing/utm.htm
I’d put the price on your website and not click on a button to buy/try before finding out the price. Also I’d “raise the price” and offer a launch special discount (or not raise the price and do the same).
I would love to have a Sailfish OS phone but if they are not Open Sourcing their UI libraries I can't convince myself to buy it.

It's a real shame because all I want is a fast, simple OpenSource phone OS (that is as responsive as iOS). AOSP is okay but it does not feel as snappy as when I tried iOS for which I blame Dalvik. There are not a lot of contenders, only Tizen, Ubuntu Phone and plasma mobile. I hope one of them will be installable on the Fairphone 2 in the near future...
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this is super awesome. I've been using rescuetime for around two years, and although it's worked great I'd love to see more feature progress. Also there's no 2FA support which is quite scary for something with such sensitive data.

I love your dock icon as well. I was trying to build a custom version of that but for my tmux line, but rescuetime's API doesn't provide realtime info.

Will you open up some APIs for the data? I'd love to be able to do my own analysis and build my own tools. I'd also like to backup the data to s3
They are too small. I also have such 'pain-points', e.g. the notes with CardDAV/Fastmail are not synchronized. Wtf, such a basic requirement. But realistically they cannot match Andorid/iPhone, it's kind of a wonder how far they got.
> nobody (who matters) will listen to you

I do like freedom of speech just about as far as I have the freedom to not have to listen to it (or, Goddess forbid, take it seriously).
Trolling, in its original Usenet definition, was still more subtle than that: it was making a provocative posting solely to stir up responses. The troll probably didn't agree with the sentiment they were posting, they were just doing it to cause trouble.

"The old definition of a Troll is one who posts to generate the maximum number of follow ups. These are a very minor irritation, and can be considered to be advantageous to newsgroups."

http://www.hyphenologist.co.uk/killfile/anti_troll_faq.htm
His hits per article are better described as similar to Clinton, Sanders and Cruz.
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That doesn't only apply to the Chinese. A German friend of mine faked his transcripts to do an MBA in California. As long as he paid the 25K in tuition fees, nobody cared to take a closer look. He did well, got his MBA, and lived happily ever after.
It redirects if I have a referer. A benefit to blocking them for cross-site requests, I suppose.
>I believe that type checking in unextended Hindley-Milner type systems is exponential

Yes it recursively solves for function typing parameters though the call graph. This isn't guaranteed to exit.

If the language you are using annotates function argument's with types[1] then this behavior is avoided and Hindly-Milner becomes effectively linear. This is why type-inference is starting to become a common feature in most languages.

[1] Nearly every language does this, but inline clojure are sometimes type inferred. Depends on language/language family.
You could cut housing prices in half by building 111,000 new units. You could do that by converting 6% of the city's single-family homes into six-story apartment buildings, leaving the other 94% untouched, and not building a single structure taller than that.
Actually my definition of "definition" is that it is strict.
What makes this even worse is the fact that they're trying to cover up just how bad this really is. LinkedIn use(d) the sha1 hashing algorithm (see: http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/8-million-leaked-pas...) which is easily breakable through rainbow tables when not used with a salt (which LinkedIn failed to use).

The sha1 hash has been known to be cryptographically insecure since as early as 2007 (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/cryptanalysis...).

The very fact that LinkedIn reset everyone's passwords backs this up.

After this data leak I deleted my account, not only is LinkedIn destroyed the art of recruitment it has been completely irresponsible with user's data.
I noticed this too, but I'm not sure what it means.
After spending several years programming with Scala and Haskell, doing back to Java feels like being placed in a straightjacket.
Hahn was working with fission not fusion , he was not a 'fusioneer' but splitting the atom.

Hahn produced amazing amateur nuclear work nonetheless, ( somewhat out of control when his reactor went critical ).
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It sounds like you enjoy writing code itself more than the process of building software. I get the same sense of wonder and excitement when I get an app to successfully do something I thought up in my head whether it's just attaching up a Google API to get a map or location picker integrated and working or if I'm coding out the whole feature myself.

I have a lot of respect for hardcore "coders" (I feel like that term has a pejorative connotation in tech, but I don't mean anything bad by it). But I think there are plenty of people out there like me as well. I consider myself an engineer, not a programmer. I solve problems and build things. Writing code is just one of the major tools in my arsenal to get things done.

I think there are still tons of options out there for people who like writing lower-level code, but it's moved into areas like embedded systems and scientific lab tools. All the coding work for most of the common stuff has been basically commoditized already.
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