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My concern for how I look, as you say, on paper largely has to do with career options. If you find that shallow, that is your right, but personally, I think it is important to talk about the risks inherent in this sort of thing. This career downside is not one of the risks I anticipated when I went into this.
> His accuracy in the previous general election was based on the fact that he had visibility into private polling (WAY more accurate) and other forecasters didn't.

Where did you hear that? I'm not doubting you I'm just interested because I've never heard this before. My understanding was that he was so accurate last time around because the election followed normal patterns and his math was just better than everyone else's gut.
Just in case you are genuinely asking, "Correct the Record" is a PAC that pays people to promote Hillary Clinton in a positive light online and also discount any negative online publicity she gets.

By saying that the GP was trying to "correct the record", he's implying that the GGP is a paid shill for Hillary.
These kinds of services exist for contractors but, afaik, not for full-time software engineers. I wrote about why here: http://blog.alinelerner.com/why-talent-agents-for-engineers-...

TL;DR In this market, where there's a shortage of labor, the economic incentive isn't there. You get paid a lot more when you work for companies. It's the opposite of what you see in Hollywood, where there's a surplus of labor and a shortage of jobs.
Even in low multiples typically the VCs creates a decent incentive for the founders to stay at the acquired company (otherwise the acquihire will fail), but they aren't getting filthy rich.
What? I am not intending to morph the author's meaning. He said:

>If you told me you thought Bezo's was a sociopath I'd suspect you're right

How and what did I take out of context and what was the intended meaning that I transformed into something else?
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I know when I was in highschool the science textbook we had said "heat pollution" is one of the worst things for the environment and is very hard to track down.
Isn't this called a tipping point?
Hey may not have viewed his actions as being a big deal - like, it's possible that they're not a big deal, outside of political hay-making.

There's nothing in the thread to suggest he's trying to conceal anything meaningful in terms of the content of the correspondence. Presumably the "how does I delete sexy snapchats to the Saudis" thread was done more discretely.
> my friends from NZ and AU who work here all have similar experiences too

Is it really worse? In Australia is see nothing but short term thinking, a lot of it is driven by parent companies in the UK and US.
> huh?

It's horrifying https://www.hillaryclinton.com/post/donald-trump-pepe-the-fr...

Edit: In response to your edit, she's attacking a cartoon frog. In seriousness.

Not only that, but she's trying to attribute characteristics to that frog that simply aren't any core part of why people post Pepe memes.

All of that questions the sensibilities of her campaign. Basically her campaign is going all out trying to paint Trump as racist, because that's really all they have left at this point, and even that isn't working too well.
> Literally what point are you making?

The point I'm making is that I don't think you, or anybody else actually cares about the emails—they care it's something they can criticize Clinton for. Before her, nobody gave a shit. After her, nobody will give a shit. They don't matter, except that they can be used to criticize Clinton. So of course nobody complained about it with Bush, because nobody cares about them.

> I suspect a big chunk of the people complaining about this would have complained even harder when Bush did it (if what you say is true), if they had been old enough to be aware what was going on

They wouldn't have. The rest of us had much bigger complaints to make, that complaining about deleting emails would have been a laughable waste of time.
Yes of course not.

But it is still the case that the regulation isn't as silly as you made it out to be, it's not exactly expensive for producers to leave a clear window in their clear plastic packaging and it has some benefit to consumers.

Maybe it's related to this discussion, but I was comparing packages of bacon using the window just today...
Great post. It seems that often in these discussions people don't acknowledge this fundamental underlying aspect, which I find frustrating.

The implication of the statement "Humans absolutely need jobs in order to lead happy, beneficial lives" is that humans are, by their very nature, to stupid to figure out how to do it by themselves.

I very strongly believe it's a cultural problem, not a human problem.
Yes, processing is great. I like that it lets you explore graphically and creatively without a win/lose mentality. (Competition is highly motivating for some people, not so much for others.) If you're a Python fan, there's a Python mode for Processing [0], and if you prefer JavaScript, there's p5.js [1]

[0] http://py.processing.org/

[1] https://p5js.org/
Got my start in RPG Maker 2000 :)
> the most experienced presidential candidate of the last couple of decades

George H. W. Bush was a two term vice president, director of the CIA, etc.

I've been following this election pretty closely for more than a year, and I seriously couldn't tell you what Clinton's positive message is besides "I'm experienced". Nobody cares. Americans don't elect technocratic planks of wood. This is the worst, most inept presidental campaign I've ever seen. She's very nearly losing to a joke candidate.
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Their comment is referencing Correct The Record, a pro-Clinton PAC which, according to a popular but false Reddit rumor, employs commenters to anonymously spread propaganda. See also:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/4xcwjb/what_i...

Edit: At the time of this edit, three replies have asked for a citation on "false", so I may as well put it here.

Barrier Breakers 2016, the subject of the original The Daily Beast article that spread the rumor [1], is a real project that spreads messaging (call if propaganda if you want) supporting Clinton. But that messaging is not anonymous or covert. Here are some of their social media accounts:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nobarriers2016

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BarrierBreakers2016/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLy17PDQw_WSNoytoDX-HA

Other CTR Twitter accounts (not 'Barrier Breakers'):

https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord

https://twitter.com/CTR_DZ

They post a lot of stuff - the @nobarriers2016 Twitter account has three posts in the last hour. But the accounts are clearly marked as a project of Correct the Record, and the glossy images they share are not even remotely pretending to be grassroots.

According to their spokesperson, they do not have an additional covert operation:

> “Barrier Breakers accounts are always identified as Correct the Record,” spokesperson Elizabeth Shappell said.

- http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/correct-...

That article is a good read in general and explains what they mean by "pushing back":

> In an exchange on May 24, a Twitter user with a bio that reads “Conservative Republican. Trump SUPPORTER. Fox news viewer,” wrote: “Whenever CROOKED HILLARY gets a tough question she either bursts into that blood curdling laughing cackle or starts barking like a dog. #LIAR.” Correct the Record responded with #ImWithHer and a graphic of Clinton with text reading: “She’s the most vetted person on earth. And standing STRONGER than ever.”

(You can find the tweet in question by searching - the response was from the @CTR_DZ account.)

Personally, I consider this approach fairly lame, in line with the brand social media accounts that sometimes show up in my Twitter replies when I complain about the brand. If I got a message from them, I doubt I would feel especially encouraged or interested in resharing their images. But that's a far cry from being immoral, which I think employing anonymous commenters to skew the public debate would be.

Of course, I can't present absolute proof that they are telling the truth about not having an additional covert operation. But there is no evidence whatsoever that they do have one, only baseless speculation about "paid shills", of the sort that's been around forever (I remember when I used to read Slashdot, closer to its prime, and it was Microsoft that supposedly employed an army of them there), combined with a distorted understanding of a real project.

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/hillary-pac...
I had this exact same experience. Eking along is a very real possibility that I rarely see discussed.
On top of all of these what I found fascinating is the amount of blind luck bestowed upon Trump. The guy has swallowed a horseshoe.
I-99 is in the middle of Pennsylvania.
> he had visibility into private polling

Could you elaborate? Is "private polling" the same as "internal polling," which is done by the campaigns? If so, my understanding was that the Romney camp's internal polls in 2012 turned out to be extremely inaccurate.
The banality of evil and all that.
There's a plugin for syncing [1], what exactly are you looking for?

[1]https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lukasz-w...
There's also I-595 between DC and Annapolis, which is signed as US-50 instead because there are too many x95s in the area.
But if you only made $10M, you wouldn't be on the list.
Maybe if it's essentially private property, the cul-de-sac owners should also pay for it, rather than dumping the costs on the public at large:

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/8/2/fitchburg-cul-de...
It is if you're short-sighted enough to accept an anti-innovation candidate on a website about technology & entrepreneurship because you thought a explainer on a meme was inappropriate.
"a racist, mysoginist[sic] demagogue"

"Hillary may have issues but she is also possibly the most experienced presidential candidate of the last couple of decades."

s/Trump/Clinton/ and your statement: "Essentially your response is repeating talking points of the Trump campaign."

serves as a valid critique of your own response.

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Qualified for not, Clinton's corruption has been confirmed beyond any reasonable doubt over the course of many leaks and scandals. Democrats who continue to support her are just as blindly partisan as Republicans.

The whole system is broken. I won't be voting for anyone.
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That's shadiness for the country's benefit you're describing, not shadiness for personal benefit to avoid criminal prosecution so you can get elected president... Shadiness to cover the tracks of previous shadiness to hide your own emails from FOIA requests.
Realistically, given how little exposure third party candidates get, there's no chance of any third party winning this year. Most voters don't even know they're running.

Thus, it becomes a choice of 1) making a symbolic vote for a third party to "show them", 2) helping Clinton win, and 3) helping Trump win.

Given the potential outcomes of Trump vs Clinton, a lot of people believe (rightly, IMO) that this electoral cycle is not a good time to make symbolic gestures or long-term strategic voting games. Too much is at stake. Status quo sucks, but is still infinitely better than the alternative.
To add to the list of suggestions, the pattern I use is contact@<myname>.com. I've never received any questions with that address, though I don't use it particularly often.
The current IP situation is crazy. Copyright shouldn't exist for 100 years.
Seems the point of the reply was to reject the negativity and stereotyping in the rhetorical question and the rest of that comment.
Yes you are right, assumed the link was to the home page.

Thanks -
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I like Johnson (I agree with him about 70% of the time and think he has good character). There's no way he has a chance now that he wasn't included in the debates.

Effectively, there is no 3rd party this year :(
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I started in the late '70s when I built a processor technology sol-20 from tubes of ICs, a circuit board, and parts for a case. The damn thing didn't work when I powered it up. I was crushed. I took it in to the Milwaukee Computer Store and the tech guy (I wish I could remember his name) pointed out that one of the EEPROM pins had bent underneath the chip. He straightened it and boom! I learned to program the Intel 8080 based Sol from the "intel 8080 Microcomputer System's User's Manual", September 1975.

In what must have been an early example of software piracy, I dumped a hex dump of my University's Intel development system's macro assembler and typed it in by hand. I hand edited the code in hex to use the Sol's cassette tape drive instead of the paper tape, Cool stuff: Load assembler from tape, load assembler sourec from tape, rewind, load again for pass two.

UCSD Pascal came out around that time, but it required more than the Sol's available 48K of memory. I disassembled the Sol's monitor and moved it from 0xc000 up to 0xf800 (I think) and, Hey Presto! I had a Pascal development environment. I think I wrote one or two Pascal programs before I met... C.

I first used Small C on the 8080 and then decided I needed a processor with better addressing modes. I switched to the 6809, wrote the Introl-C compiler, and almost lived happily ever after. :-)
You're literally repeating clinton talking points. Do you think you're contributing to the discussion amongst people that in no way believe any of the garbage you just wrote?
Sentiment is hard to quantify, and not necessarily signaled by anything as obvious as defacement of a cultural site or hate crimes. The latter is often the province of the angry, young, and poor. The former is for everyone around the dinner table, over drinks, and isn't so obvious.

Of course it's better to blame a cultural predilection on some foreign group, right?
Are you trying to claim that no one complained about Bush? If so, I have to assume you are rather young.
He was elected a "couple of decades" ago. Feel old now? :)
The original HN post got flagged and removed from HN homepage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12533757 250 points (more than this post at the moment)
As you say, such a term would confuse the discussion. But I feel the current term, collateral damage, does the same thing. When someone says collateral damage the image that comes to my mind is property damage, not personal injury and specially not death of uninvolved bystanders. Death is more than damage. Obviously, murder is something else altogether.

That was my point, even if I didn't make very well.
They are feel good charity tourism, but they also fund projects (including local labor) in otherwise poor areas, and they generate good will across cultural and economic divisions.

I don't see what is wrong with a tourist feeling good and doing something charitable.
How many more decades of witch hunts and investigations before we find some damn fire?
It is all about cultural aspects and how actions are perceived by the other party.

Having a good relationship is important. Giving a token of appreciation is accepted and often expected?

Consider a student who studies abroad and gives such a token to his professor. Totally unaware that a few days later he gets dismissed from the university for bribing. (Or involves a lot of back and forth between the universities to explain the behaviour. This is something we have seen many times)

Now let's look at the foreign manager working in China. Building relationships by exchange of a businesscard is normal. A small gift, like a pen is accepted. But he doesn't know how to respond to a situation when some rituals are involved; such as paying for a dinner. But often relationships extend beyond a business situation and people can ask you for a small 'favour' that is unrelated to business... but can put someone in a very awkward position, as it does influence further business (and often complicates it). Managers who go abroad are sometimes even warned about this when going here. Note: which I believe is also bad as it creates a stigma and prevents from understanding it. Maybe after a few months he understands more of it, but he will likely ignore the reasoning or the actual intent. But again, this is not specific to China (happens in most Asian countries and the West or anywhere else in some form or way).
It will happen pretty fast after a regime change, you cant expect dems to indite their own.
Critical mass?
The world is reasonable to reject him as a candidate.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/gary-johnson-libertarian-...

Prisons:

>Johnson accepted at least $9,000 in campaign donations from a prison company that ultimately won a state contract. By the time he left office, New Mexico led the country in for-profit prisons, housing 44 percent of its inmates in private facilities. Only Alaska, with 31 percent, came close.

>In 2000, after four inmates and a guard were killed in private facilities, Johnson vetoed an oversight bill and startled reporters by insisting that New Mexico had the best prisons in the nation.

Poverty:

>Within just a few months, the state had knocked more than 16,000 people off its welfare rolls, and its poverty rate had risen to first in the nation, according to a report from the state’s legislature.

Schools:

>For Democratic legislators, the trouble wasn’t just that Johnson wanted to divert money from the public system to private institutions. It was that his plan would privilege rich families in the long run, said Charles Bowyer, who served as government-relations director of the teachers’ union during Johnson’s tenure. Tuition at the most prestigious private schools often cost around $8,000 or $9,000 — meaning low-income families could never afford them, even with vouchers. And private schools would still be able to reject special-needs students.
Are the skimpy female outfits used in some Asian games really offensive to a majority of Western players, or is that just what people say when asked because it's become socially unacceptable to promote sexualisation of female characters?
Profits for whom?

iirc, Stripe holds the platform liable, so they get paid either way.

So, the question is whether the extra fee they are charging is worth it, since you would be liable for chargebacks anyway?
> Are you trying to claim that no one complained about Bush?

No, we complained constantly. But we had more important things to complain about then where his email server was.
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I especially love the pop-up modal asking me "Is Trump unfit to be President?" on that site.

There's only a single button (I Agree), and clicking the X in the corner to close the modal causes the button to be pushed at the same time.

For someone as "experienced" as Clinton, her campaign is astoundingly incompetent.
It's a combination of things that are common to human society. The word refers to a specific group of human interaction strategies, methodologies, and tactics. Its uniqueness lies in its emphasis on specific areas that may or may not have equal importance in a different society with different culture.

I do not think it's particularly more difficult to grok than any other Chinese words or concept that represent non-trivial aspects of Chinese society and culture.
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Vast majority of antisemitism, or vast majority of antisemitic crimes? Not to put too fine a point on it, but Jewish people are not exactly unaware of how the vast majority of the Islamic world views us, talks about us, and would very much like to treat us. We're also not likely to think that just because they're the loudest, they're somehow the only ones either.

It's a bit like the trouble Americans seem to be having with racism, in that a whole generation of kids was taught that racism looks like the KKK or Jim Crow Laws. Far more prevalent and insidious though, has always been the deeply held belief that people know you only talk about among 'like minded' individuals. That way of thinking is much older than the KKK; it gave rise to the KKK. You can kick down an organization, but you can't do the same to a mode of thinking.

You can only outlive it.
Curious, do you have a handful of racist Trump quotes? Not stuff about illegals, but actual racist stuff (like not wanting to rent to blacks or something)?

Trump aside, electing someone that's openly corrupt (DNC Wikileaks show they went against Bernie, against rules) seems to be far more dangerous to the future of the US and worldwide democracy. Up until now, corruption was sort of assumed, but if a publicly corrupt candidate wins, it just shows "crime pays".
Since when is a long tenancy in a public office a good thing? What happened to strong morality and doing the right thing when nobody is looking? Hillary broke the law [0], plain and simple, and she isn't being punished because well, she is a powerful life-long politician with many friends in high places. At least Nixon had the moral decency to resign when it was clear he wasn't right to lead by example. The simple truth is she is a leftist, a globalist, and for those reason alone she'll get a lot of votes but unfortunately being those things in America today means nothing that else matters. Basic morality? flawed candidate. Broke the law? She had a good reason? Poor health? Doesn't matter, she has a capable leftist/globalist to take her place, we just need to get another D in the white house.

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/d-c-rutledge/fbi-clinton-was-e...
HW won in 1988 and lost in 1992.
1996 was two decades ago.
Reminds me of: https://twitter.com/stealthmountain
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It also makes sense if you don't assume that GOP is a monolithic hivemind.

Every politician ultimately wants to gain a position of power, and remain in it. Aligning themselves with a party lets them tap into that party's electorate, but said electorate also expects them to hold to certain opinions, and perform certain token rituals to demonstrate that - so they do that. It doesn't even matter that the long-term end result would be detrimental to the party in this case - what matters is that a GOP politician who'd publicly reject the block would lose a lot of votes in their next election.

And because US only has single-member districts, not party lists, this mode of thinking dominates, and can destroy the party from the inside.
I'd be interested to read such articles! Where may I find them, do you know? It's always such a pain with search engines to try to find older information on a topic that's big in the current news cycle.
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Just for posterity it looks like this: http://lcc.org.uk/articles/campaign-success-cycle-superhighw...
Globalist? I'm not sure what that means, much less why it earns votes.
> The point I'm making is that I don't think you, or anybody else actually cares about the emails

Based on what evidence?

> they care it's something they can criticize Clinton for.

I'm no fan of Trump either. I wish Clinton were a good candidate so she would wipe the floor with him.

> So of course nobody complained about it with Bush, because nobody cares about them.

I was 12 years old when Bush was elected. That's why I didn't care about whatever he may or may not have done.

You know absolutely nothing about me or anyone else and you are presuming people's motives without any evidence or justification.
I'm not sure what you mean by "high-level math". It isn't a symbolic language like Mathematica for mathematics research but something along the lines of R for data analysis. The strong typing isn't just there for discipline, but efficiency in execution.