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there is apparent proof of dubious tactics in [...] their failure to call the election polling close

I just want to address this one point. I think it's just untenable to imagine there was some big conspiracy to skew poll numbers in Clinton's favour. Why would all the pollsters fall in line, why wouldn't anyone break ranks and leak the story? It would be a huge story that would sell a ton of newspapers!

The pollsters were mostly wrong, but they were fairly close, only a couple of points off. Just about everybody (notably the Princeton Election Consortium) was way overconfident, with the exception of FiveThirtyEight who gave Clinton a 70-30 chance over Trump. That's not a bad guess given the final result. FiveThirtyEight never claimed to be correcting anyone else's bias, they just clearly stated their reasons for thinking the result was very uncertain. It's a shame nobody else followed their lead but you can bet they will next time round.

The one big outlier was the LA Times poll, which consistently put Trump ahead, but they put him way ahead, so they were actually one of the less accurate polls in absolute terms.

It will be really interesting to see what caused that overall ~2% polling miss, but I would bet a large sum of money that it wasn't "dubious tactics". The worst we should accuse the media of is overconfidence. (For example, a few left-leaning outlets accused FiveThirtyEight of gaming the system in Trump's favour; that just makes them look stupid in hindsight.)
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From the the link:

'The social network said in an email to SocialTimes that it “wanted to provide a cleaner metric,” so starting with its third-quarter-2015 earnings report, it no longer counts what it called “third-party pings,” or people who did not access Facebook itself, but shared content or activity via Facebook Login-integrated websites or applications.'

That's exactly what is under discussion: whether FB conservatively excludes 3rd-party widgets and such when counting activity. They started being more conservative late last year.
hugs a terrible position to be in - I am on the other side waiting for the call for a new kidney.
Well my mom has made is damn well known I am not to prolong her life if she isn't able to tell me so. Fortunately that is one decision she has relieved me of, now if we could just find a way for pets to tell us
> What I'd typically find is people would specialise in one discrete part of a software component and that's all they'd do.

I work in pharma advertising as a dev but sometimes our client has their own offshore dev team. I've dealt with Wipro many times. This right here has been a common issue with them. Our account team will ask me if something is doable and I'd say yes but Wipro would push back saying they can't. And our sites fall into that brochureware category so these were mostly front-end trendy things using history push-state or what not. We usually found that they had a very limited scope and would not venture outside of it. I guess that's the difference, you get what you pay for. Usually if something is handed to me that I've never done before I do some research first and 90% of the time I figure it out. We've had better luck with eastern European offshore team in this regard. If I were looking for offshore teams I'd suggest there or South America first
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>Where does this myth that people at the coasts are all wealthy come from?

Such a myth wasn't presented above. The literal quote was:

>priorities of those in your wealthy costal social circles.

I don't think anyone in America or elsewhere believes that all people at the coasts are wealthy. We all know of the social problems and inequality in both coasts of America. I would think what people perceive is the problem here is that a disproportionately large part of the wealth and power is in hands of coastal elites, these "social circles".

I don't claim that's actually true, I don't know it well enough - I'm not even American (I'm from northern Europe); but I'm sure this is how it is perceived by people in what is so arrogantly called "flyover country". Such a language immediately flags to me that there will be a backlash.
The reason the Times is important isn't because their reporting is perfect, but rather because of their commitment to good journalism. They have made numerous mistakes in my lifetime, but they have generally owned up to them and tried to address what they did wrong. That is pretty rare today.

On top of that, consider the important work they have done just recently on things like arbitration agreements, how the wealthy exploit tax loopholes, the exploitation of immigrants at NYC nail salons, and Amazon's corporate culture, to name just a few. Those are all significant pieces of investigative journalism that have made us much better informed about issues we wouldn't know nearly as much about without the hard work at the Times.
Let's talk about serverless/lambda/FaaS for a minute:

I'm currently working on a side project (which if successful can easily be a product in itself) to create a service that would be the Digital Ocean of FaaS (lots of talk - I understand).

What would be the core features that devs/users/managers are looking for? (something you downright expect for v1 that would compel you to put the service to use for development/production)

Currently some of the items top of my list (in no particular order) are:

* API development (like AWS's APIG)

* Support for more languages by default

* Ability for users to a custom defined language easily

* Creation of an opinionated framework / workflow for FaaS development (you don't need to do this if you don't want to...but FaaS first apps would be done better/easier this way)

* Rewriting common products (Wordpress, Ghost, Jekyll etc.) for to be served via FaaS.

Things I don't want to work on (or would prefer to not jump into):

* Storage service (S3 alternatives)

* Databases (there are so many out there...building a cloud is hard, building a database is even more so)

Who do I feel would pay for this?

* Front end & Mobile devs who don't want to complicate a backend

* Mobile devs who don't want to complicate a backend

* Enterprises maybe?
1password is a bit spendy, but I have found the convenience it provides to be valuable (browser integration, TouchId on iOS, and a few other things)
That depends upon which definition of "child" you are going with. Some are broad enough to describe any offspring (from fetus to adult).
IIRC the docs say not to change the default window size to prevent tracking based on window size.
It doesn't have anything to do with cognitive dissonance. We allow ourselves to slaughter farm animals because we've benefit their species tremendously. The perpetual existence of domestic animal species is virtually assured. By contrast, we have done nothing for monkeys other than relentlessly destroy their habitats.
This is awesome guys. Thanks.
Probably. Considering the rise of nationalism all over the world from western europe to even india and the phillipines.
Don't US hospitals do that the NHS in the uk is fanatical about it
Can you elaborate on why.
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Remember, if you are a white male it is fundamentally impossible for you to experience hardship. Only people of color and women ever have problems in life.

You know why there are no activist/support groups for "fresh off boat" immigrants? They're too busy actively and constructively improving their lives.

Fundamentally safe spaces and related are a thing of privilege. If you have time to think about that, you're part of the privileged group.

I could be wrong. Maybe I've just never come across a support group organized by and for poor people, or by and for immigrants. Are there any?
> Buzzfeed removing articles that were critical of their advertisers

Wasn't that Bethesda? Somewhat important I guess, (not "we should be able to freely out gays" important) but where was Gawker during GamerGate?

> the first exposes of the Silk Road and The Armory

That helped bring it down? Maybe.. But how much investigation did it require. And how harmful was silk road? I'll admit though, if this was the first expose, it was good.

> evidence of Greg Hardy abusing his girlfriend

I'm a little concerned here, the evidence came from "court documents" - so a real court was exchanged for the court of public opinion? Was actual illegality (in court) discovered?
Reminds me of a quine - a non-empty computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
It works really well, and was easy to set up since I use AWS Route 53 for DNS.
I love the book and great summary about aeshetics of interaction. I like how they separated mechanics, interface & social context.

Curious what fundamental issues you had with the book?
I think you're confusing my suggestion (it being okay to help black kids escape the cycle of poverty using tax dollars) with blanket socialism? I didn't say anything about socialism.
What if, sometimes, LGBTQ people want to achieve things other than challenging people who believe they don't exist - things like, say, arranging financial support for people who've been disowned by their family for being gay and are in danger of becoming homeless, or even just having a friendly chat with other LGBTQ people about their experiences? That's what the LGBT space at university was used for when I was there.
I wonder if one could liken it to allergies. Your body is so insulated from bad things that your immune systems kicks in when it's not needed. This trend seems similar, as it seems to me that those who have had real and damaging traumatic experiences need these safe-spaces less than those that have had pseudo-traumatic experiences.

I have no statistics to back this up, though, and would welcome evidence in either direction.
This suggests, however, that every report from a given organization is equally inaccurate.
Going over it, it looks like the experiment found that spin is discrete, either -1/2 or +1/2. And nothing in between.
Appropos to how someone would answer #2, your insults and denigration of someone who would disagree with you are utterly repugnant and repulsive.
You're right that I had been conflating "equal time" with "fairness".

But it still seems that "fairness" is BS. First, I'm quite sure it can't pass Constitutional muster on the web. It was permitted back in the 60s predicated on the FCC managing a scarce resource (broadcast frequency spectrum). But for practical purposes, Internet bandwidth is unlimited, and it couldn't get away with this. Also, this seems little more than a nod. For any given issue, there's a kaleidoscope of differing ideas. It seems it shouldn't be too difficult to engineer a compliant broadcast that still manages to completely exclude specific undesired ideas, by including other views as compensating balance.

Rush Limbaugh is crap, and I won't watch him. But do you really want to live in a country where that's actually forbidden? I don't.
I agree that the idea of "fact-checking" stories is troubling and is overall a bad idea.

You are not at all addressing what is actually in the article: the Newsfeed feature that surfaces the most shared stories. Facebook isn't discussing deleting homeopathy, Clinton body count, or Trump kompromat articles from our various Facebook walls.
I can take a photo of my ballot, then mark it as invalid and ask for a new one.
This seems to be a great way do distribute them. Moving the vending machines leads to a fun hunt and if they don't sell Snap haven't tied up a lot of stock.
I began experiencing the same thing as you and I found a solution 2 years ago. You don't need to see a doctor, you don't need a mechanical keyboard, you don't need to reduce the amount of type you type.

The quickest thing you can do is stretch and massage your hands and wrists every once in while. Make your right hand go limp, put it in the palm of your left hand and use your fingers to gently massage and manipulate the various parts of your hand, then switch hands.

After that, what I would suggest is an ergonomic keyboard and mouse. The Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 can be found for $40-60 online and is a great first step for ergonomic keyboarding. It took me about 2 weeks to get used to using this keyboard, but I credit it with removing much of my hand and wrist pain. I also started using a trackball mouse. With a trackball, you are not using your wrist at all, everything is driven by your thumb, and your hand is generously supported by the bulky mouse body.
ugh. Do passive aggressive websites about the election results really have a place on HN?

I have been told multiple time that it's not a place for 'politics'.
Thank you :)

I should probably mention that Option 1 is still depending on all the system/dynamic libs.
And therefore only usefull to save time during development or if you need more control about the build. If you want to get a smaller binary, run `qtminimal` and `go build/run -tags=minimal` to include only the necessary C++ code, but the binary will still depend on the dynamic/system libs.
I will add full statically linking in the future, but probably only after Qt 5.8 is released.
I'll add my two cents.

I could not in good conscience vote for either Trump or Hillary. Both were appalling candidates.

Why was Clinton appalling? 25 years of scandals. DNC biasing the primary in her direction. The email server. (I've worked in internet security; that was a horrible decision. It was also completely against policy, which gave the impression that she thought rules were for other people. And it at least looked like she did it to avoid any emails coming home to haunt her presidential run.) The Clinton Foundation at least gave the appearance of "pay for play".

Also, she was very much the establishment candidate. In an election where many people were extremely dis-satisfied with the status quo, that was fatal.

My impression is that some people genuinely bought Trump's message - but not enough of them to win the election. There were a large number of "not Hillary" voters who put Trump over the top. That doesn't make them "pro Trump", it makes them "anti Hillary".
I believe the restrictions only apply to Windows and Mac builds not Linux.

https://blog.chromium.org/2015/05/continuing-to-protect-chro...
Microsoft auto-update should also automatically delete all third-party crapware (all the garbage Lenovo utilities that come on Thinkpads, etc). It'll go a long way to a more Apple-like experience.
This page gives a good visual:

https://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/benchmarks/
Yeah, that's why I don't use newsblur for instance.

I want to see EVERYTHING that are in the feeds I follow.
The politicians get votes for one.
That's how Reddit comments work too...
Looks really good! The design is fantastic, well done.

My only criticism would be that the Getting Started page is definitely skewed towards a specific segment. Like, how is Sports not an option? Music? I understand that there are only 9 slots in your designs, but please choose some that are more representative of general interests, not just Palo Alto mid-20s coffee shop startup founders.
AAA "realistic graphics, games as movies" only has so many potential buyers. Not everyone can survive in that space.

http://kotaku.com/why-game-developers-keep-getting-laid-off-...

http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/18/why-triple-a-devs-are-goin...
NetNewsWire has been doing that for me for years. I keep 30-40 feeds in a handful of folders. When one of them gets too spammy or boring, I delete it; when I find something potentially useful, I add it. I have never felt the need for some algorithm suggesting even more feeds to read.

I also write a weblog useful to a non-techie audience, and am disappointed and slightly frustrated by how few of those people use RSS. If you want to solve a problem related to RSS, solve that.
2001 I worked half a year in Pune, Maharashtra with Indian developers. In my personal experience Indians are hard thinkers but undisciplined and chaotic coders. This means they managed the mess they made rather well just because they still understand what they did. Perhaps it was the CEO who just let them do what they want provided it works after all.

The salary was one thirteenth of what I would get in Switzerland. The efficiency was about one half, but only because the Swiss CEO himself lived in Pune and later married an Indian woman. If he stayed in Switzerland efficiency would have crashed badly. In any case, don't talk about the code quality.

I also noticed the extreme churn the article mentioned. In my half a year about 5 to 10 percent of the people left and new people started.
Congrats to China- go team humanity!
If you're being specifically targeted by a sufficiently capable adversary, this is, at best, a speed bump.

Categorize your levels of paranoia appropriately.
The biggest thing I can see is mosh support, which is a nice addition if using over cellular. Prompt is great, but unfortunately can never support mosh due to licensing issues.
I do believe it played a part in this election. Watching shows like Rubin Report opened my eyes to how fractured the left has become. It also gives me hope that there's a lot of people out there who still want to have a dialogue.
I felt the same way until I had the following problem:

1. By subscribing to something that always had good content I missed quite a bit from occasional interesting posts on other feeds.
2. Subscribed to those occasionally good feeds. Now I have way too many feeds.
3. Screw it time to just use HN, social media and reddit.
4. Miss interesting articles not on those networks.
5. Now I use both rss, email lists, HN, social media/give up and miss interesting articles.

I would use a product that was a really good classifier for articles I would like and aggressively found them for me. I don't have enough time in the day to read through every blog post someone writes.

Cooler yet if the trained model were portable and I could use it in other applications.
What he says at the core is perfectly fine.
His mistake is politicizing the message when there is no need for that and hinting at a connection between Trump becoming president and that the people who voted for him likely don't support what is written in the e-mail.

From an outsider's perspective: The reason for that might stem from the fact that this election was fought like a war, as in, they demonized the enemy. This was especially strong when it came to Trump. So now that the election/war is over, some people can't go back to view the "other" side in a rational way. For them, that side is still exactly everything the media told them it is and I believe that is the case here.
I don't care much about being suggested more feeds to follow. Instead, I wish the learning algorithm would notice when I don't bother reading certain things (granular below the whole-feed level) in my RSS, and move them out of the way.

I've been pondering setting up an RSS-to-email forwarding gateway, and a separate Gmail account, so that I could use Gmail's online-learning mail categorization system to clean up my feeds for me. If a service can do any better than that, I'd like to see it.
You know, I edited out a sentence that read something like "unless you're playing statistical games with percentages" because I thought to myself that this was an unfair projection of what you might be thinking.

Thank you for making it clear that I was not being unfair, even in my pre-edited state.

They are a small difference compared to extractive mining. Statistics rhetorical tricks aside, the world would be much better off if we were using any mix of the non-extractive power technologies, even if that mix heavily weights rooftop solar.

Fundamentally the fact that rooftop solar is something I can put some money into tomorrow and see the results in six months means it is effective, which offends many people who would prefer that we spend our efforts in ineffective ways, either for ideological reasons (amusing that nuclear doesn't appeal to these types) or because they wish to maintain the status quo. Since the science shows that status quo is going to drown the island I live on inside of 75 years, I'm not a big fan of this point of view. My island is probably already dead, and the 80K people that live here need to find a new home in our or our children's lifetimes, but I am motivated to make choices that don't produce more stories like mine.
Sure, but what is the limit? To a lot of people, abortion is directly equivalent to murder. Should it be expected that they say "If you are pro-choice, hand in your resignation?".

I don't have a good answer, but just supporting a candidate seems like it should not be enough. The email, in my eyes, was threatening to someone who had voted for Trump, regardless of the policies they support him on. That feels wrong to me.

I don't understand how people justified voting for Trump to themselves without holding views I find abhorrent, but I'm not omniscient. At some point you have to say that if almost half of the voting population support someone, their views are at least common enough to take pause.

I honestly don't know. Before all this, I'd have agreed with you. I thought that people who would be willing to support such - in my view - horrific policies would be few and far between, and would write them off, but clearly this is more widespread, we have not progressed as far as we thought.

Maybe it's worth offending on average half of your customers and losing staff to reject Trump's politics, but I have to ask if that's effective if this is where we are at. It's all good and well to stand up for your principles, but does it actually result in progress?

Defending your employees who might suffer as a result of the policies, 100% - it would be unconscionable not to, but the way the email was set up made it more than that.
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I'm not dismissing the games. Not every game has to have a rich world. But there is a obvious change in the level of work they put into rich new content compared to their NES/SNES days.

What happened? Who knows. But it's definitely noticeable.
The content of your post is completely lacking any substance whatsoever, and is totally unrelated to the post. Your cultural resentment of Blacks is transparent. I now understand your concern about how the "left only cares about replacing white people in popular culture with black people." It all makes sense.

It is so obvious you have an axe to grind and that you voted for Trump because of things totally unrelated to his policies. You voted for Trump because there is too much Kanye and Lebron in the media.

Not shocking though. I've read and heard a few members of minority groups talk about why they voted for Trump. Women afraid of Brown and Black people. Latinos afraid of Muslims. Muslims afraid of women being in control. You would think that after so many minority groups would feel attacked by Trump that they might band together. I want to say it's disappointing but it's not totally surprising. Totally divorced from what the substance of this election was supposed to be about. Your axe to grind.

The KKK is having a rally in NC to celebrate Trump's victory. You might want to share your concerns with them, you have a lot in common. I'd be very curious to hear how it goes.
I can't imagine there's a single Dell machine inside Apple being used by the rank-and-file (not for specific OS-related or server-related development).
You nailed it with the VP comment. What the fuck did Timmeh bring to the ticket? VA? Arguably, but that's a low bar to hurdle.

If Hillary was playing to win she should have nominated a true-blue progressive and especially one that could have harness some of the OWS/99% energy (without actually formally supporting either).

Her campaign was about Her. Problem is, many many folks are just busy surviving and didn't see themselves with "Her".