skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whipped this up, should be more reliable:

https://tesm.sircmpwn.com

Code here, feel free to use it for mest: https://gogs.sr.ht/SirCmpwn/tesm
> If he does this alone, then he's made a huge impact

No single action could increase the power of lobbyists and unelected officials not directly accountable to voters more than this, it's true. It would be an enormous impact.
I am wondering when this will be taken down, or revised.

"G---dam it, why didn't anyone tell me about The Wayback Machine!" sorry President.

I'll be honest, this is the first time I have seen this, and I'm generally impressed.

Actually, I'm thinking of a building simple website that keeps track of every promise on that contract.

He is going to have a busy 100 days.
Whether or not spending actually influences elections, most politicians certainly believe it does. Or they wouldn't spend so much effort on fundraising, and wouldn't bother with the stupid ads. They clearly believe it works. Surely they know. Modern campaigns track this stuff religiously with polls, statisticians, and A/B tests. And this belief corrupts our democracy.

One example doesn't disprove it anyway. Clinton lost. But she might have lost even worse without the spending. It's impossible to say the spending had no effect. As the election was pretty close in many states, even small effects can make a world of difference.
California tried term limits. They didnt work. Turns out you need to have actual political skills to do politics.
> Some of it sounds ridiculous - for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated. How is that considered feasible by any rational person? It might sound great if you don't think too hard about it.

Canada has a variation on this law.

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/R-4.5/page-1.html#h-...
Ah yes. Pure voting. It always slips my mind that this thing called "pure democracy" exists as anti-representative democracy (which I don't even consider a sane option, so it never crosses my mind).

Whenever we are measuring voice or volume, any "system" is rigging. That's the only point I am making.
It's not just backwards, it is an existential threat to the United States and the rest of the developed world. We are at a critical time when Russia is only getting bolder and bolder, despite economic hardships and sanctions, and we need to once again provide balance against their power. Unfortunately, the entire military industrial complex was rapidly retooled in the 90s and the defense/intelligence apparatus lost all expertise on dealing with Russia. This expertise is important because Russia has historically placed a lot of importance on human intelligence, espionage, and geopolitical manipulation with long term operations. Any sort of conflict (military or otherwise) with Russia will leave much of the US establishment with their pants down because they are used to manipulating small countries without strong leaders and bombing civilians, not fighting a proxy war against a major power with a comparable (human) intelligence apparatus.

So not only is the US bureaucracy entirely unprepared for such a confrontation, but the US electorate just chose a failed real estate mogul turned reality TV show star to go head to head against a former Cold War operative that trained and worked for the KGB/Stasi. And go head to head they will. You can bet Putin will exploit the Trump presidency for as much as he can and there's little we can do to stop it other than voting Trump out of office next time.
> Would also be nice to know how they deal with boilerplate, which is a big annoyance with Elm in my opinion when you come from, eg, Haskell.

Elm certainly has a lot of boilerplate compared to Haskell, but that might not be a fair comparison as they don't really have a shared use case. Elm ends up with considerably less, in my opinion, than something like React/Redux.
I disagree on USDS. My understanding is that the money to fund USDS is already appropriated through the end of 2017, and there is bipartisan support to extend that money. A bill was introduced to do just that, actually (though nothing has been done with it since it was referred to committee). Lots of people like USDS on both sides of the aisle because it actually does make things more efficient.

Not saying it will survive an entire Trump presidency, but I think it's not on the chopping block immediately. I do worry that they won't be able to expand as planned though to have mini-USDS people in each Agency because of the hiring freeze.
Yes this is my point. He snuffs it and his kids decide they want to turn it over to something highly non-environmental.

Which is why we should not have any form of hereditary hand-me-down, including power and land, at best you are expecting benevolence which isn't even fair, why do they get to inherit such power.
Creating a Team Page with Bootstrap
> There was a huge media campaign smear against him (led by the DNC itself)

There is no evidence of the DNC running a smear campaign against Sanders.

> Massive amounts of donations were funneled in ethically questionable manners into the Hillary campaign.

You're presumably referring to the Hillary Victory Fund here. You can see on the donation page (still up: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/donate/go/) that the first $X of contributions goes to the Clinton primary campaign, the next $Y goes to the Clinton general campaign, the next $Z goes to the DNC, and the final money gets distributed to the state committees. The issue wasn't that the money was going into the Clinton campaigns but that it was going to the DNC instead of the state committees. The DNC's excuse was that they were using it to build common campaign infrastructure for use by the state committees.

> People were hired in a black flag op to discredit his supporters.

There is no evidence of a black flag or false flag operation against Sanders.

In summary, there is no evidence that the DNC sabotaged Sanders, yet he still lost by millions of votes, so the claim that he is one of the most well-liked candidates of all time goes against the actual voting data.
Want to have some fun? Read Alexis de Tocqueville on early American inheritance law.

Using the law to redistribute, as a preventive measure against generational accumulation of wealth (and thus power), was woven into the fabric of the United States early on. Being against this type of redistribution, or deriding it as "sophomoric", is the new and non-traditional thing in America.
I guess you haven't been paying attention. Many people don't believe in Global Warming, or at the very least don't want to even slightly impact the economy. The Democrats weren't going to hold office forever, and neither will the Republicans.

The best thing for everyone would be for market-based solutions that have clear advantages. Solar, wind, electric cars, nuclear, etc.

Republicans, for example, will put solar on their homes and drive electric cars if there are obvious advantages.
It's a horrible start and a huge step backwards. A blanket ban on hiring new government workers or replacing existing ones is the stupidest idea ever for cutting the government workforce. Among other things, we as Americans have a wonderful collective resource in the form of public land, which is already poorly funded and hard to maintain because of the low workforce. Preventing the hiring of any more people to work and maintain trails, campgrounds and other resources is going to lead to them falling into further disrepair, getting shut down and abandoned. Even the volunteers who spend considerable time and money of their own to do much of the supplemental work currently won't be enough.
If we want to stop wasting so much valuable time commuting, we need to be building the SkyTran system.

There's natural network effects to people congregating in larger cities rather than small towns (at least towns too far from cities to commute). There's a reason most industry is located in cities. Instead of trying to fight these natural effects, you need to concentrate on using technology to counter the downsides.
Finally, a use for my CueCat!
This was my exact thoughts upon reading the article: So much so that I just sent my spouse the same words.
This is a great review! He's so enthusiastic and appreciates so much about the game. Cool :)
This is just fear-driven speculation (which is a sign that you are being terrorized). What attacks are terrorists becoming "increasingly competent" at, exactly? What specifics are you talking about?

How about Occam's Razor? It takes only 10 drops of benzine to contaminate 50,000 gallons of drinking water. Will you vote for the candidate that will protect our drinking water no matter what? Is this making any sort of impression on you how this whole terrorism thing actually works?
I'd actually be surprised if there were many of those. Regulations are constantly being codified into the Code of Federal Regulations. It's about 175,000 pages. It's printed at about 55 lines per page, which makes it about 10 million lines. About the same size as the Linux kernel. That's big, but it's not "we don't even know what's in here" big.
The amount that was legalized was already decriminalized in California, a long time ago. See 11360b [0].

[0] http://law.onecle.com/california/health/11360.html
The FDA thing is really really scary if you are sick. This situation is clearly illustrated in the movie Dallas Buyer's Club.
let the snark fly!

(seriously, though... you're probably right)
Well, at least that's steady state. If you wanted to keep the current statutes you could make sure to fold them into the new law after reviewing them. That sounds like a same way to force review of older laws to some extent, if you accept that review of older laws won't result in endless arguing. At least there should be real information about the impact the prior law had, positive and negative.
> Technology has gathered people together, but it also makes differences clearer to see.

Doesn't the last part of your comment contradict your entire comment? Imagine gathering a hundred people together and making the differences between each person clear. Instead of uniting everyone, what will ensue is hatred. Shouldn't the point be to find a common ground and not focus on our differences?
Of course not easy. But doable compared to Sweden. You have to look at the statistics. The top Swedish percentile is made up more than normal of inherited wealth (48% in Sweden, 12% in the US). The US doesn't have a Wallenberg family that owns 42% of the country's stocks.
"out of death, comes life."

Creative Destruction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
Maybe because you can't raise kids in a one-room efficiency?
Almost no chance since career politicians would be giving up their cushy career jobs.
If it works out to impeding trade with China in anyway it just acts to slow our economy. We are not going to become more competitive with 1+ billion people who are willing to work without any labor protections by saying we won't do business with them. We're just sanctioning ourselves from essentially the world's manufacturing depot.
Hmm totally not being a Trump supporter how does this empower China exactly? Russia's economy is the size of NYC so that is even stranger point especially given Trumps position on " I will lift the restrictions on the
production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of
job-producing American energy reserves,
including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal"
We Jews are still the Jews here.
Concise, elegant, and wrong.
Unfortunately the "science behind" video doesn't give much information about why this solution is better to other flat-free tires. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm8P6UYrTCs

This has been tried many times before, and it appears the difference in approach here is to have stability plugs along the center of the rim which the tire attaches too.

The thing is, is this really a problem people are currently having? I've been running tubeless on my mountain bike for years with a latex filler inside and haven't had a flat in ages. On my road bike, I run armadillo tires and same thing. I'm actually thinking of replacing the tube in my road tire just because I'm sure it is degrading as it hasn't been replaced in at least 3 years.
There's a lot of room to wonder about his trustworthiness given his record as a businessman, but even in this document, he doesn't address campaign finance reform. Congressional term-limits just consolidate power in the moneyed elites--the problems is not just the politicians, it's who corrupted them. If anything, this is a document to passify those moneyed interests who, unlike say Sheldon Adelson, worry about a Trump presidency.

Everything I've seen so far suggests Trump isn't what blue-collar voters ordered for.
> the fact that 370 economists (among which 8 nobel prize winners) said not to vote for Trump, and newspapers overwhelmingly endorsed Clinton(243-20 [2]),

honestly who cares if 370 economists said not to vote for trump? Economics isn't a solved field and I'm willing to bet that there are an equal number of economists who can and have made the argument that voting for trump is better for the economy. and as for the newspaper endorsements, who cares what they think? Newspapers are increasingly irrelevant in this society. Why should I listen to the opinions of a newspaper's editorial board, say, over the opinions of a tv news network's editorial board? or the opinions of a blog writer? or a political cartoonist? there is nothing inherent in being a journalist that makes their recommendations carry more weight than the recommendations of any other profession.

> it might be fair to say that most Trump voters are either not too bright or not very well-informed.

This is absolutely not fair to say and it is intellectually dishonest to come to this conclusion. what does "not too bright" even mean? are you implying that half of america is too dumb and their voices should be silenced in the political sphere? sounds like tyranny to me.
Raspberry Pi Gets Its Own Version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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That's the important question. If the answer is, "not that many", then this would probably lead to gridlock. Not the worst outcome, I guess.
This is interesting because Elm has been removing features that Evan considers "too hard" and confusing for the average developer. I'd argue it's not "academic" any more (though it might be interesting for an academic who wants to do UI).
> You do reduce the workforce through attrition, but eventually you have to hire again and hire almost exclusively junior people (< 25 or 30).

This wouldn't be true if government pay was competitive (low pay partially offset by, particularly, pension benefits means entering government mid-career except as a box-checking thing to move to a private position leveraging the knowledge of government is discouraged, but entering at a junior level for a full career is less discouraged.)

Of course, the kind of people embracing starve the beast aren't going to mitigate the skill impact by improving pay.
> when we find a good legislator I think we should be allowed to keep them.

It's a fair point. I guess we'll have to wait and see what the 'term limits' mean, whether they are similar to presidential term limits (my original assumption) or not.

The question I find myself wondering is:

Is the range of possible upside equivalent to the range of possible downside?

My intuition is that there's a limited amount marginal improvements except in special cases but the potential downside goes from bad to worse to flat out catastrophic.

Maybe it is like how most programmers can improve a code base, but a single bad actor could fuck it to hell and back with greater ease.

I'm looking at you Dianne Feinstein. Evil bat-witch.
Ask HN: How can I as a coder contribute to climate change?
After watching 'before the flood' I started wondering how I could use my skills as a software engineer to contribute to climate change.

Does anyone know projects or other things I can have an impact on?
Shouldn't the inverse be true? If a small percentage of evangelical developers made it cool, couldn't they make it uncool? The hip techies making fun of internet explorer, aol, and myspace certainly made a difference to the general public who didnt know any better.
100 day plans are nothing new. [0] It's a way of saying that the new administration will hit the ground running.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_hundred_days
I woke up laughing. This is marvellous.
A small sampling, but their reasons for supporting Trump just show how little they know about why they're in their current situation / what electing Trump could possibly change for them. It's simultaneously sad and infuriating.

This just goes to show that education is key. Education is about so much more than the classes you take. It teaches critical thinking, which can help improve emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is a powerful skill to have. It allows one to look inward, reflect on their own circumstance, and reason about how the society they live in actually affects them.
> Tax cuts for all working people. Let people decide what to do with their own money (spend, save, donate, etc.). The bigger the government, the smaller the individual.

Tax cuts are all well and good in a vacuum, but how are we realistically going to pay down the national debt when we enact a massive tax cut on top of a tax rate that is already at historically low levels?

Some people say we can cut all of this government bureaucracy to make up for tax cuts but we'd have to take a figurative axe to all of our federal agencies to get to a point where we can afford a massive tax cut and pay down the national debt.

Otherwise we'd have to enact big cuts to Medicare/Medicaid, defense, and Social Security as well, which people seem loathe to stomach.
Lookin' awfully quiet around here in the aftermath. I wonder what kind of bug he ate?
> Trump spent a lot of energy promising to broadly regulate manufacturing and trade.

Trump said those things, but just because he ran on the Republican ticket doesn't mean that he can't butt heads with a Republican-controlled Congress.
Just bought some stuff from Epic games after reading this, keep it up :)
1. I'm unclear how H1B's relate to 'outsourcing' jobs since by definition the people come here. You don't need an H1B to hire a company in India or China to do work.

2. I'm curious how reducing H1B's is supposed to affect blue collar or rural jobs.
no carried interest talk, which is alright by me, that actually makes sense in giving an incentive for risk. would be interested to see if the 10% hit on monetary repatriation works, that could have some serious effects if that much multinational money gets sucked out of europe and abroad.
this is literally handing Russia and China the keys to the global economy

Well, ok. Aside from the misuse of literally, that's certainly a metaphor I haven't heard being applied to this problem domain before...
Maybe it's because climate change is caused by something other than our cars.
no finished picture?
And this law actually started in British Columbia as "repeal 2 for every new regulation". It does seem like it could be useful as a short term policy, if Congress can't find any way to agree on directly repealing unnecessary regulations.
We won't share your email with anyone!

irony?
Well, one would have hoped that the federal government would have stepped in and voided the laws being made by religious nuts at the state/local level. Obama was trying to do that. It seems exceedingly unlikely that Trump will continue trying to do that.

Also, while these issues directly affect 0.3% of the population, it is a subset of the 99.7% of the population that's calling for these bills. Perhaps enough of a subset that he'll continue wanting to please the religious supporters.
Sure, the facts bear that out, but why let that complicate a good story? ;-)

I mean the public perception of data, analytics, pollsters, etc. is now being discussed in the press as something that blatantly misses the "human" element.
I'm guessing pragmatism and practicality is why they went with Elm over PureScript? If their backend is in Haskell then it seems like they have devs who know it well enough to use PS.
Before I founded a company[1] in this space I investigated blockchain applications for JPM and I agree with your take on bitcoin-style blockchains being mostly BS for industry. I'd take it a step further to note that mining is incompatible with private blockchains of any form because the new coins+fees incentive structure doesn't exist.

Permissioned/Private Blockchains don't need to look like Bitcoin, they just need to offer many of the same features plus a few more. What we're really talking about is a database that competitors can share, which is largely inspired by Bitcoin's system. Some things it needs to actually work:

- Vastly increased performance: 5-15 transactions per second is useless for industrial use.

- Smart Contract languages designed for safety over generality: more of an empowered SQL than a C/Go. Tokenization doesn't provide enough of a benefit over traditional approaches and generalized computation is too dangerous.

- Deterministic BFT Consensus: this is to replace mining + remove anonymous participation, it needs to be fast and scale.

- Confidential transaction support: the trickiest of the lot, as we cannot currently hit performance + double-spend protection at once.

In case you're curious what our approach is: BFT Raft-like for consensus (8k-12k trans/sec), soon to be open sourced smart contract language, signal protocol over the chain for confidential stuff.

[1]: http://kadena.io
I wonder what would happen if the U.S. passed a law requiring that drug prices in the U.S. be no higher than anywhere else in the world. That is the drug company is free to set any price, but they cannot sell at a lower price outside the U.S.
Everything you mentioned is literally under way. Genetically engineered humanized pigs are being studied for transplants, but 3D printed organs might beat them to the punch. Plants, insects, fungi, bacteria, are all being engineered every which way. The problem is not our ability to engineer life, but knowing what to do with this awesome power. CRISPR was only adapted to human cells two years ago. What did you expect to see in two years?
http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.ht...

You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore kidnapped you, and last night the violinist's circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. The director of the hospital now tells you, "Look, we're sorry the Society of Music Lovers did this to you--we would never have permitted it if we had known. But still, they did it, and the violinist is now plugged into you. To unplug you would be to kill him. But never mind, it's only for nine months. By then he will have recovered from his ailment, and can safely be unplugged from you." Is it morally incumbent on you to accede to this situation? No doubt it would be very nice of you if you did, a great kindness. But do you have to accede to it? What if it were not nine months, but nine years? Or longer still? What if the director of the hospital says. "Tough luck. I agree. but now you've got to stay in bed, with the violinist plugged into you, for the rest of your life. Because remember this. All persons have a right to life, and violinists are persons. Granted you have a right to decide what happens in and to your body, but a person's right to life outweighs your right to decide what happens in and to your body. So you cannot ever be unplugged from him."