skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguing to stop the name-calling is about as effective on HN as it would be on the YouTube comments for a John Oliver video. HN is decidedly slanted on this matter. It's business as usual for democrats to call people names if you don't agree with them. Has been for as long as I can remember.
"if it's unsolicited, it's hostile."

I like that. It's simpler than what I was saying. Should be true vast majority of the time. Only modification I'd make is explaining updates, which ones to trust, and to ignore any of "updates/upgrades" that pop up in the web pages.
Agreed, especially because analog controllers have been common in video games since forever. Apple 2's joysticks were pretty much all analog. Was Pong analog? (I'm pretty sure the Atari 2600 paddle controllers were not analog, they're more like mouse wheel). The Atari 7800 had analog joysticks.
Yes. "Dow Jones’s data team says the average change on the day after Election Day is negative 0.9%, with the top 5 declines arriving in the wake victories by Democratic presidents." Although, the drop we're currently seeing is pretty hefty.

[0]: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-the-stock-market-tends-...
It's pretty easy to see this as a referendum on Trump. Trade and immigration are generally good for an economy. Trump wants to sharply reduce both and has promised to deport millions of immigrants.
Warning: I am not an expert, do your own research.

I would sell around 32 delta out of the money put on SPY. You have around a 68% chance to make a profit. This is a naked position so you need to understand that it has undefined risk.

You could cover yourself by buying a further out the money put. My investment philosophy pretty much coincides with the tastytrade.com guys.

If you want to learn more, I would checkout dough.com and do the free course on there.
Tsvi Achler's video here will be useful to dive into this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gTJorBeLi8
From everything I've heard, it's a bit-for-bit emulation, so probably?
One thing that I like about tmux is using tools like tmuxinator to compose a project-related session where server processes are spun up in separate tmux windows. Do you have something equivalent to this with just i3 or is that just not your use-case?
LOL -- yes, abandon your country because you're throwing a hissy fit.
Reminds me of succeeding for the first time to implement "reverse :: [a] -> [a]" in Haskell using tail recursion. <3
Sometimes we vote against our own self interests because we forget. We must learn again. The market is deep in cheap debt and sooner or later that bill will come up. Whomever wins will have to deal with this issue.
For starters he didn't walk around calling them uneducated idiots like many on the left have and continue to do.

Bernie and Trump are touching into the same underlying problem that a lot of people have been left behind. They have felt screwed by the system for awhile and this is what we get. Heck, Bernie supporters got screwed again during the primary.

This is also only the start. Wait until we automate all fast food and driving jobs to see what a angry, jobless populace looks like.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12899838
MA appears about to as well.
It looks like the entire Canadian immigration website is currently down...
Time to buy then?

(Half kidding, I know they say to never time the market and such).
I think Tsvi Achler's video here will be useful to understand better what the article is about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gTJorBeLi8
In Rolling Stone Defamation Case, Magazine and Reporter Ordered to Pay $3 Mil
My keyboard would wear out if I listed everything wrong with Socket.IO. Simply put: it is one of the worst pieces of software I have ever stumbled upon. And the ratio hype-to-quality is off the charts. It's success lies in the fact that most users don't check their numbers and simply follow what everyone else is doing. Combined with the marketing of being "the fastest" which logically means "there exists no such solution in any universe, that outperforms it".

I would recommend WebSocket++ or libwebsockets (if you are not going with µWebSockets).
It's a number of things:

Going against political correctness by voicing controversial but popular views on immigration and Islam.

Populist economics in a recession after two terms of Obama.

And of course a yuuuge charisma.
You're right, assuming linearity is just and oversimplification, I think Tsvi Achler's video here will be useful to understand better what the article is about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gTJorBeLi8
Does this imply that the well educated wall street folk might be out of touch with 'America'?
Extensive discussion of the verdict: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875092
Hard to take a "socket.io killer" seriously when it doesn't even implement bare necessities like message_id callbacks:

socket.emit('msg', 'hello', (err) => ...)

At which point the nice part of using socket.io is that there are a variety of clients (and server impls) so every one of your users doesn't need to implement things like message_id callbacks.
Dow futures down 752. Canada's immigration site down.

The Trump transition team, in rented office space in Washington, just became very important. They're Trump's HR department, and have to recruit the several thousand people the President gets to appoint. Because Trump isn't tightly connected to the "Republican establishment", the usual suspects aren't in line for those jobs. So where do they come from? Business?

Will Peter Thiel go to Washington? Secretary of Commerce, perhaps?
Liberal cucks in full meltdown mode.

Dems tried to put an criminal up and got what they deserved.
not related, just for fun, all articles require a pic these days
Yep. I can understand the appeal of wanting to invest in people you like because you will be spending a lot of time with them. It would not be so bad if who people liked was random, but it is not - we all tend to like the same people.

Investing is quite like dating in that it is not always best to just go the for the hottest guy/girl in the room.
Take me to your lizard
Poll: Who did you vote for in the US election?
Now that the election is over (at least the polling part), I'm curious what the spread of this audience for the candidates. As I'm writing this, it looks like Trump is going to win but I'm curious what people in the tech centric circles that frequent this site voted for.

NOTE: If you're not a US citizen feel free to vote anyway. I'm more interested in the view of audience than the legality of them voting in the US elections.
Donald Trump
Gary Johnson
Jill Stein
Evan McMullin
I agree and have re-played many favorite games on emulators. Unfortunately music / rhythm games are generally unplayable on emulators because of the added latency.

Also emulators need better CRT emulation. Crisp and/or bilinear interpolated pixels look nothing like the original games.
yes, that's right, thanks for pointer
This Guy Called the Election on HackerNews Months Ago
So did Nevada. Hope the prop does not lead to some kind of government controlled monopoly on marijuana.
Always had WordPress as the top for that in my mind.
> The same can be said about a "trusted" OS like say Qubes OS, with untrusted hardware, like Intel's. Actually, that's what the developers of Qubes OS and other "free" operating systems have said as well.

If you're really paranoid, go for open hardware supported by libreboot [0] or the Talos Workstation and run a hardened "free" OS.

However, I don't think Intel ME (or similar firmware in AMD and ARM) has ever been used to compromise user security and privacy. The threat probably exists and is real but has it ever been exploited? On the other hand, I suspect that there is no lack of zero-days and other vulnerabilities for iOS and Android.

[0] https://libreboot.org/

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s...
Any suggestions on a country to start a career in tech. I was considering the US, but now I'm changing my mind.
This is from 2004. The title should be updated to reflect that.
Seriously reposting PG? Fuck off right now.
Marijuana is definitely a place where we'll really see if President Trump sticks to his message on States Rights.
it is, certainly
Hilary Clinton has and is highly unlikeable and her narrative is similar.

The DNC chose her over Sanders... would the results be different?
Interesting content marketing from, uh, Dollar Shave Club.
Yep, they could picked much better. Plus, his VP did him no favors.
Nope. I don't think John McCain or Mitt Romney would ever want a dictatorship. Heck, I think 90% of Americans would take up arms if a president didn't give up power peacefully and the military didn't peacefully stop listening and push him out the door.
I don't find him particularly charismatic. I'd probably punch the dude in the mouth if I had to deal with him and his attitude in person.

But your points about populist economics are the bigger cause I believe. But then I'm a Bernie supporter who knew he could steal that issue from Trump. C'est la vie.
Markets hate the unexpected. I'm viewing this huge down as a buy opportunity.
Socket.IO came out years ago. Yes, it is slow compared to recent implementations, but it's still valuable to give props to your predecessors.
In 1975, our physics teacher said he'd been a consultant to the international group who was working on electric utilities and import/export of energy across the US/CA border. Trying to define what "electricity" actually was!

:)

Electric circuits are much like drive-belts, but using charged particles rather than rubber or leather. If a drive-belt extends across the border between two countries, what is being transported? It's not mass, since for every KG of rubber belt going out, an exactly equal amount is coming back. (Go further and use rotating shafts. Then the mass just spins in place, and doesn't actually cross the border at all.)

With circuits, with AC, the charges are just wiggling back and forth, and not proceeding forward. But with DC the charges are taking a closed circular path, so still are not proceeding forward. The thing which proceeds forward is radio waves. Sixty-cycle radio waves, forced to follow a waveguide composed of two or three conductors. EM waves are being sold to us by the utility companies. We live in a "radio-powered" civilization, but where the 60Hz EM waves are forced to follow waveguides, rather than leaping across empty gaps.

Humorous "legal" chapter in Feynman: IS ELECTRICITY FIRE?

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/ev3gy/excerpt_from...
And you realize that Clinton is actually a Republican too? I'm not calling it our Brexit moment, nor am I remotely excited about the next 4 years. I don't know what kind of moment it is, but let's not pretend that Clinton was a safe alternative. She is as dangerous as Trump, if not more so.

I personally would have liked to see Jill Stein hit 5%, but that looks unlikely.
Sigh. Since nobody has mentioned it (yet), but we wouldn't be having this conversation if we had Runoff Voting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting).
I appreciate there's a drop-in replacement line for existing socket.IO apps. Thanks for making something awesome
µWS is not a Socket.IO killer. In fact, you can use µWS as the low-level engine in Socket.IO.

Sadly I cannot (yet) present the pub/sub benchmarks of deepstream.io vs Socket.IO but I promise you: it will be hilarious.

Other projects that have been shown to outperform Socket.IO include SocketCluster, which use µWS as the default engine.
The problem is how long MJ stays in your system. It's like getting drunk one weekend and then fired for failing an intoxication test a month later.
The US government only cares about the US and its citizens. So by its stated definition, all non US companies would see it as evil/against their best interests to some degree.
Streaming Data Analytics
Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
The internet. Live somewhere cheap that you enjoy. Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe are favorites.
The FTSE 100 recovered, mostly because GBP lost out against the dollar. There was a bloomberg chart a few weeks back, comparing the FTSE in USD versus the FTSE in GBP and the difference was striking.

Take away lesson: markets are complex...
This is going to be an extraordinary opportunity for countries like Canada, Australia and those within the EU to start aggressively attracting talent.

I would be offering to pay for their relocation costs if I were them.
As someone aptly put it on twitter (Nate Cohn), the "white working class" is voting like a minority block--and why would they not? The elites have ignored the working class (white and black) for ages and when they do think of them, white (and other) elites look down at them with the contempt of 'white privilege' while they, the elite whites, sit comfortably in their protected perches rarely exposing themselves to insecurity.

It's possible this is a consequence of overplaying identity politics used to try and counterbalance Trump's followers' politics. In other words the working class had their identity unintentially forged in the scrum of identity politics.
Bundle it with Watsi and support it for the third world. That's how you bootstrap it.
How do we solve the filter bubble?
Not trying to be political, but I think most people are shocked by the results of this election. Google and Facebook drive most of the new news consumption. What can we do to solve "getting served what you like"?
Oh please, stop the rhetoric. There will still be an election in 2018 and even in 2020. More importantly there will still be redistricting after the 2020 census and using a Trump backlash the Democrats might actually be able to redistrict in their favor along demographic lines, shutting out the Republicans from majority control of national and state houses for ever.
That can be implemented with a simple switch statement. Or using node's built in eventemitters in two lines:

const e = new EventEmitter();
socket.on('message', msg => e.emit(msg.data.type, msg.data));

Also websockets have far better server and client support. There's websocket implementations in basically every major language as well as most popular load balancers on the market today.

When socket.io first came out it was very needed. But now websockets are supported in all major browsers, including mobile:
http://caniuse.com/#search=websockets
At least in California, according to the Associated Press, "adults older than 21 can legally possess up to an ounce of marijuana and grow six plants."

As long as people can grow their own, there can be no government monopoly.
4 website localization mistakes to avoid
It's not obvious by any means, that's why I pointed to the reference work on that topic. There are reasons the electoral college was implemented, whether they are still valid of not is a different question entirely.

Furthermore, it's not even clear what the question is. Why it's not elected by the US populous? Because it's the President of the United States being elected, not the President of the people of the United States. Why is it not a direct vote? In part, to make the system resilient to the tyranny of majority which was feared by Founding Fathers.

There is extensive literature on that topic by the designers of the system itself and one cannot summarize it in a HN comment. So if the the Americans the parent was referring to are indeed puzzled by that question there are answers to be found.
^ this

I was listening to the Bill Burr podcast and he was talking about rumors of pharmaceutical companies planning to try and re-demonize marijuana in states where it has become legal to regain what they perceive as lost revenue due to a decline in prescriptions. All that lobby money with a businessman in the White House, makes me wonder how it'll all work out.
Well, you can't blame them. They really wanted Hillary to win, while conveniently trying to manipulate the public at the same time.
That makes it even better
WebSocket++ was written at the same time as Socket.IO and performs about 30x better. I give credit where credit is due. I also criticize projects where criticism is due.
5am here in the UK. This is just insane to watch.
The fact the so many progressive's response is to want to "punch the dude in the mouth" is exactly the kind of oppresive political correctness Trump voters are rebelling against.

These scenes probably garnered even more support for Trump's rallies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMux_UHmpvc
You need to distinguish between good and bad filter bubbles. Politics is a good example of a 'bad' filter bubble, but if I search for Python or Ruby, is it unfair to assume that I am talking about programming languages, and not rocks or snakes?
Real wages had been rising, we'll see what happens next.
I feel the original question was more in the line of "Why are US presidential election are not like elections in the many other democratic countries?" and is a huge trivialization of a complicated issue.
Full Title:

New NASA Emdrive paper shows force of 1.2 millinewtons per kilowatt in a Vacuum and a low thrust pendulum and tests were at 40, 60 and 80 watts
Well I think I've lost the little shatters of respect I had left for the United States. I do wish you can get out of this mess unharmed though.
Candidly, does that bother you?
Sorry, I don't get it. Which part is the name calling?

I also am not sure what you mean by 'fellow citizens' or 'the left'. I'm not American. And Hillary Clinton is not a left candidate, she's centre-right.
You think punching someone in the mouth is political correctness?

I didn't say anything about his politics, which you of course ignored because you wanted to trot out some inanities based on generalities of people you don't even know.
Makes me laughing all these predictions and poll pre-election giving an advantage to Hillary, and suddenly the odds were flipping around. This gives a clear lessons to all these politicians who used to manipulate the media and the statistics. I feel sad for all these people who did their best to stop the big wave. Trump literally won the silent majority.
It's also worth remembering that no one has any idea what the long-term consequences are either. Brexit might never happen, it might happen and be a disaster, or it might happen and not really affect much.

Similarly with Trump we have no idea what might happen if he does win. He could end up starting WW3, or call for the end of US Democracy and install himself as dictator (and now we know 50% of the country is stupid enough to go along with that).... or he might just end up a do-nothing president bounced out after 4 years. For that matter maybe he's crazy like a fox and fed the Rs bullshit so they'd get behind him, then turn around and push for a hugely progressive agenda. You never know what Trump might do.

So yes, I predict a short-term crash, a recovery, but after that all bets are off. We're also due for a recession at some point. In fact Trump could be a blessing in disguise as he presides over a recession, bungles the response, and gets him and the rest of the Rs tossed out in 2018 or 2020.

I'm torn about the whole thing because I will personally benefit from Republican control. I've finally made it into the tax bracket where their constant tax breaks for the rich personally benefit me. Long-term their rich-get-richer strategy will lead to anemic growth.

Whoever said "may you live in interesting times" as a curse was right.
The Psychology of Electability
You'd be surprised. The left is no more unified that the right, in many ways, and members of the mainstream left have been cautioning against this derisive labeling issue for quite some time now. See, for example, Rensin's "The smug style in American liberalism" linked to on HN at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12106004
It looks like µWebSockets has bindings to Node.js. This is good to know.
Wow, America crashed Canada's immigration website.
I can second this. I spent 2 months fielding bug reports against ShareJS all caused by terrible design mistakes in socket.io. I ended up being forced to write my own long polling library[1] just because of how unstable socket.io was.

But today anyone building new applications should use websockets. Browser support is excellant, speed is great, firewall penetration is fantastic if you run your site on HTTPS. You gain cross-server language compatibilty, you avoid socket.io's awful design decisions around reconnection, error handling and code quality.

[1] https://github.com/josephg/node-browserchannel
I recruit in Japan and we use DaiJob, Indeed, and GaijinPot. There are also quite a few on linkedIn (they seem to pay a lot better as well)
Trump runs as the anti-establishment candidate and with his charisma does a good job selling it. His candidacy reminds me of the movie Idiocracy.
Silicon Valley is freaking out about the election right now
Both the super fiscally conservative and the more... unpleasant parts of Trump's voting block would never vote for someone as liberal as Sanders. I have a hard time believing anyone that would have voted for him would vote Trump, now if you think it would've swayed enough people who voted 3rd party to vote Sanders instead you might have something.
Interesting. I'll check it out.
I meant in terms of this election being a reaction against the moral decadence of the establishment rather than being about economic independence. I didn't mean that the US was going to become a dictatorship. (And in fact Iran itself still has elections.)
I know a number of Trump supporters. The issues are outsourcing, outsourcing, job losses due to cheap overseas labor, and outsourcing, in roughly that order.

Few people on either side actually care enough about PC to sway an election. This is a rebellion against the economic effects of globalization on the working class. Look at Michigan and Ohio.

I also agree with the parent that Trump is not all that charismatic.
Good question, I assume not, but the plugins work so.... I guess maybe the incredible and prolific Tim Pope well maybe update vim dispatch to work with the background processes.
its not new, it has same audio distortion as the wii one
This is actually quite interesting. I used to work in a bookstore and as a productivity measure we would shelve books mostly without checking which section they belonged in. Turns out it is pretty easy to tell based only on the cover.
Anything that appeals to ego.
This isnt a day of reckoning for the Left. He hijacked the GOP against its own will and destroyed the DNC. That's a collapse of two establishment parties, not one.
Clinton called somebody idiots? I thought she only called Trump an idiot. Which doesn't seem like an unfair assessment.

I mean as far as name-calling goes, I got the impression Hillary is doing almost none of that; whereas Trump was vicious.
When you said "I'd probably punch the dude in the mouth if I had to deal with him and his attitude in person." I assumed you were including his political views.

I hadn't accounted for you just being a generally violent angry person.
ND passed its medical marijuana measure.
Ask HN: How do news networks get election data?
Seems like they have a live data feed...
http://jp.sapterc.com/

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The thrust of the essay is that people don't vote by issues but by charisma - and Sanders has more charisma than Hillary. And he is also an anti-establishment candidate.
Immigration Canada website down
Not exactly political correctness but it is contempt. I think the contempt for Trump and his supporters by the other side explains a lot of both the result and the incorrect predictions in advance of the election. A lot of the country literally could not imagine a Trump win.
I'm not buying the dip tomorrow. This isn't a temporary issue. It's going to cause a global power realignment in the ME, eastern Europe, and all countries on the South China Sea. It's a huge victory for Russia on the heels of the Brexit, and by extension China. If China close ended funds take a hit, buy them. Hard to think of a floor on US equities that makes sense, but I don't see why a 25% fall over the next year isn't possible.