skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This statement is far too strong. Obtained illegally - sure. But keep in mind that 99.99% of such money would be money paid for goods or services fair and square - just not taxed.

It is quite customary in Europe, and frankly everywhere on the planet, for tradesmen, shopkeepers, ... to not register 100% of their receipts as income. That way they can increase their income by not paying tax on a decent part of it. Keep in mind that these people would have highly variable incomes, would have unpaid invoices, ... all sorts of things that can't really be checked.

It's not like we're talking bribery and drugs money here. Of course that's exactly what the government would like you to think. In practice the purpose of this is to give the government greater and more direct control over the economy.

Europe has done the same [1], for ostensibly the same reason, but fact of the matter is that it's being done to prevent people from avoiding the extra tax the ECB wants to create : negative interest rates [2]. Right now Europeans can keep money outside of the banking system in large quantities if they so desire. Killing the large notes takes this right away, not by law, but in practice.

The problems are twofold. Firstly are practical problems. Eliminating cash, either totally or simply for larger transactions introduces costs (for small time merchants, 3-5% would be typical in Europe), clearing risks (just because a bank transfer happens or is confirmed does not mean the bank can't take the money back, most merchants would treat this as an extra 2-20% cost depending on the business they're in), extraneous risks (bank accounts can be blocked by various means, the banks themselves, the IRS, or simple stupidity ... without regard to how it affects their owners. You can lose access to any bank account and you have little immediate recourse). And of course, governments don't want to help anyone out with these problems, they're merely interested in imposing themselves as having total control over all money, not just their own.

Secondly the moral issue, or the slippery slope if you wish. Do we want to give governments this power ? Do you want governments to be able to prove, for instance, that you gamble online (can it be used in divorce cases to prove you can't be trusted with money, for instance ?), or that you watch porn, or have weird hotel bookings, or ... Do we want the IRS to simply have the power to do a big data search for anyone having transactions of 3x their monthly income or more and block them ? Because that's the power that's being handed to them by these sorts of measures. They will use this power, even if probably not right now.

There's related issues. Does the central bank have the power to do this ? In practice it does, but why isn't this being discussed in parliament and publicly debated ?

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/business/international/ecb...
[2] https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/it-finally-happened-500-...
Where did you hear that it was being discontinued?
There Is No On-Ramp – Lessons for FinTech from the CFPB
With the risk of sounding "smug", I think most of this thread offers a poor analysis of the election.

The reason Trump won is, presumably, to a large extent that he managed to make his message more relevant. If this election would have been about schools, even in the same context, he most likely wouldn't have won and the deplorables comment wouldn't have mattered or even happened in the first place.

We've seen this in Europe repeatedly with new candidates offering easy solutions and a straight forward message, leaving the established parties on their heels trying to defend themselves. In Europe this normally results in 5-15% of the seats in parliament, while in the US (once you're in the running) this can win you the election because of the political system.
The "Shy Tory" problem. I'm continually amazed at how pundits brush it aside.
So far we have only proof of Hillary's criminality thanks to Wikileaks, nothing for Trump.
Well if you just drive around on the main roads it can feel that way. Talk to the locals and participate in local culture and you'll feel very different.
> "Bought by the church"? In what sense? Financial, I assume? What indicates that?

They seem to use church as a way to get as many votes as possible while balancing between many political options. There's a lot of cases where they publicly suck up to Rydzyk, but when there was a political discussion about, say, abortion - they "negotiate" with the church trying to avoid annoying the general public. It's a weak party, trying to buy everyone's votes but not really showing any real intent of improving things in the long term.

As for your perspective on PO, I agree. Just keep in mind that it's PiS that passed the recent police surveillance law, so they don't look so good in terms of comparison to "dismissing any voices of discontent as mere frustration (or worse)". Also, the constitution crisis tells a lot about their attitude as well.
Why is 1965 the cutoff? Seems rather arbitrary.
I don't quite understand what the problem being solved here is. Apparently the attack this change fixes only applies to if you have a trojan on your machine? If you have a trojan, then I'm pretty sure no protocol change will save you...
>You've been duped.

Not if you were simply voting against Hillary.
He might have. In pre-nomination polling, Sanders did significantly better than Clinton against Trump. He'd also have gotten his share of anti-establishment voters and arguably would have brought to the table far less baggage.
The head hunters in European countries are particularly good at placing engineers across borders. I have worked with English head hunters placing engineers in Germany.
In my experience diligent programming and going to conferences (or giving talks at conferences) are inversely correlated. Many conference pundits do little to no actual programming in the first place.
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I have personally had discussions with several Trump supporters who are literally nazis who expressed far worse than what he suggested.
Yes. Generally, tone policing in HN gets stronger with the passage of time. Many comments in here complain about the tone without even touching on the point.
Maybe the majority of the population is dealing with issues you are not aware of, hence you don't understand why they vote the way they do.
And if you are interested in a soul crushing job with Salesforce.com that pays peanuts, I have positions at Coca-Cola East Japan.

(But yeah, I've used the guys at Reactive and they are great too - nice office as well)
Ask HN: Why were the US election polls so far off?
For pretty much the entire election season the polls saw Clinton ahead of Trump - with still as much as 48% to 44% on election day. What was the problem? Selection of focus groups? Sample sizes?
Regardless of what you choose, always check your app on real devices before shipping.

Simulators have come a long way but they still don't replicate the real world.
There's no other explanation I can accept at this point. You can break down how he appealed to voter sentiment better than liberals because he obviously did, but you'll never convince me his policies won't go in the completely wrong direction for everyone.
> while China starts focussing on producing for their own population

It's already doing that, which is why US companies are tripping over themselves as they scramble to get in on the Chinese market
That doesn't seem like a useful exercise because political correctness does not always equate to behaving respectfully, even if there is overlap (i.e. most respectful behaviour is politically correct and vice versa).

I could just as well suggest you mentally substitute the phrase helping the needy with kicking puppies whenever you encounter it.
> I remember quite a few corruption scandals when PIS was ruling in 2005-2007

Hardly the same order of magnitude though.

> the vice-prime minister of justice was sentencing oppisition members to prison

To quote you, "I would really like for people to check facts". Kryże (I assume that's who you mean) was indeed a vice minister of justice at some point, but never a vice-prime minister.

But you're right, he used to - when he worked as a prosecutor in the communist era, that is. I absolutely agree he shouldn't have been appointed to that role in the first place, and that this was a disgrace. And the nomination also caused a turmoil in Law and Justice itself back then.

In any case, this inconsistent approach is a good, true, and sad example of their populism.

But it's not this populism most people have in mind when they accuse them of it.

> his father was stalinist murderer that convicted Pilecki to death.

Well. Being adults we should know that our children wouldn't bear responsibility for our own crimes. Even if these children become ministers.
Benefits of using tmux if you don't need it: none.
Honestly, I'd quite like to have a world with a few large 'nation-states' in charge of 'the global scene'. I am not an economic liberal by any means, but I am a proponent of forming ties between nations and having democracy applied to smaller communities.
Show HN: Easily create Windows Installers
> What political party is going to promise you a girlfriend?

You've unframed and changed my speech so much that it looks stupid. Obviously, you conclude that this is stupid: You're right!

I'm saying: If you don't want me to vote for Trump/FN, then instead of shaming me all the time "because he's from a rich familiy, therefore he doesn't deserve consideration, even if he works hard and donates a lot", try to intervene at the private/social level by having solidarity with people's situation. If you give those people some love, and fix their lives, they'll start voting differently.
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The USC/L.A. Times poll saw what other surveys missed: A wave of Trump support
So you've found yourself in an Orwellian nightmare  What's the next step?
Seriously guys, where do we start
For Americans coming from NYC or SF, is the cost of living really that much higher?
> It was done to get rid of any influential people with authority, that could teach others and later cause problems.

I do not argue, that people were deported for political reasons. However, we were discussing cultural integration/assimilation, so I assume you imply that people were deported to prevent that. That's not the case though. There were three big waves of departations:

1. 1941, Soviets just came and were preparing for war. They didn't want to have near the front line people who might be less-than-patriotic, so they deported policemen, politicians, religious leaders, etc. Sort of how US sent Japanese to camps after Pearl Harbor.

2. 1944, Soviet forces reached Lithuania again and war was still raging, so they deported Lithuanian partisans, remaining Baltic Germans and so on. Again, they did not target teachers, doctors etc specifically.

3. 1948, war is over and Soviets are trying to implement collectivization - distribution of wealth and property, but many wealthy people resist. So, they are deported as well. These were mostly farmers as collectivization was mostly about abolishing private farms and making them comunal. Yet again, people haven't been targeted here for being "too Lithuanian" or refusing to speak Russian.
I wish to make it clear that I am not against Muslim people. But I am against the vicious and barbaric ideology of Islam. Many Muslims (especially Muslim women) are the foremost victims of Islam. So, please do not confuse Islam as an ideology with Muslims as people.

Similar thing applies to Christianity and other religions too. The Western world has been so successful on various fronts (especially on the modern, liberal and progressive cultural front) essentially because they defeated and discarded the barbaric Christianity by what we now call "separation of Church and state".

But Islamists (Muslims who wish/strive to bring Islam as ruler in the world) are trying to bring Sharia in the western world and the liberals here are quite dishonest about it.
The post I was replying to, specifically mentioned Latvia. I mostly agree with your characterization of Lithuania. Well, I would add corruption and bureaucracy to the things that still make Lithuania look very familiar to many Russians.
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does any industry really depend on it? Even if you're in the entertainment industry, if Twitter disappeared you would still just go on using every other form of media that's around. TV, radio, magazines, websites, etc. There is nothing special or indispensable about Twitter. It's a totally replaceable product. In fact, it can even be replaced with nothing at all. Nobody needs it.
Take two average JS programmers. Hand one of them the Elm docs, the other the Diode docs. What do you expect will happen?
My guess: "not economic liberalism". The word liberalism has many meanings in different places. Eg in many European countries, it's considered to be mostly an economic stance, as in "not socialism".

In the US, however, the word has a second meaning, which is more about abortion and civil rights and all that than it is about money. I suspect that the GP meant that definition of liberalism by "moral liberalism".
Obamacare is a compromise and it's a compromise required because of the Republican party, there was never enough votes to get real health care legislation. So: not Obama's fault, though it is the fault of the Democratic party letting the Republicans gerrymander themselves to a consistent house majority
I've been working at a major American financial institution and they're looking to expand in the UK mid-Brexit. There's a ton of uncertainty right now, but business isn't going to stop unless it hits a drop in demand.
That makes more sense. I'm glad we had this discussion.
Hi,

I got tired of the bad experience with Windows Installation software so decided to make my own. It is built off of NSIS and I'm not going to hide that fact. I just did an early release launch so features are getting updated relatively quickly.

I would love to hear what you all think of the product as well as the marketing site.

Thanks!
The dangerous thing is not about policy or specific proposals but who is empowered. Ann Coulter will be treated as a serious policy voice now because she stood with Trump. See Brexit with Farage, Boris et al.
Honestly, as someone who finds the current situation a bit abhorrent, and who generally disagrees with most things I've heard come out of Thiel's mouth, there are way worse choices.

He has knowledge of the tech sector and doesn't want to ruin it, he isn't anti-science, he's gay (and thus pro-gay rights), etc.

That said, I think it's profoundly unlikely, since unless I'm not aware of it, he'd be the only supreme court justice with no legal background.
I'm from the Coquitlam/Burnaby area (Burquitlam they call it). It's where you go when you want to live close to vancouver but also have a detached house, although in recent years that has also become unattainable.

It's a suburban area though, which is great if you're into that. If you want an urban car-free experience there's only a very tiny part of downtown, yaletown and maybe olympic village that will accomodate that.
Evan has several times said that he's open for typeclasses. Problem is that they have a profound effect on the language, and so they have to be done right. He doesn't know what the right implementation of that might be at the moment, so he's waiting until he comes up with what the right thing to add for Elm would be.
That sounds like an interesting project.

Another approach might be to use NeoVim which now has a built in terminal emulator. [1]

[1]: https://neovim.io/doc/user/nvim_terminal_emulator.html
1 million is good but I wonder how many fall into the the Hubsan x4 category - small 'fun' drones - some have FPV cameras, but most either have a fix recording camera or none.

How many 'prosumer' drones sold, do you know?
Well, you cannot use a mutable object as a key without some help. What would you expect to happen if the object is modified after being inserted into the dictionary?

If you have a list or dictionary you want to use a key, you can convert it into a tuple which would make it immutable.

If you don't care about performance for larger collections you could just use a list instead of a dictionary, which does not require hashing. Changes to the original mutable object will also be reflected in your list.
> Just leave people alone, that's what people are failing to grasp.

Exactly this. Why even bring up the topic of "privilege"? If someone brings it up, they're trying to illicit some sort of reaction from the other party. Ok I fit the definition of what you use the word "privilege" to refer to. I don't feel like I need to be moved to any sort of action because of this. No apologies, no feeling of shame, no feeling of I need to be charitable, respect someone else's position more or less, no need to gloat about it, etc. Nothing. It's like making the observation that the sky is blue. I can look, agree with you, and that is exactly where it should end. If you expect anything more than that, I outright reject it.
I'm not sure what you think I meant by homogeneous.

I was making the point that America is full of disparate views, and that there is not a single "American" culture.
I think hardware wallets are specifically designed to deal with that sort of threat.
Note that Hitler never won a majority in an election.
President Trump's first term
Your "explanation space" is almost certainly infinite and mostly empty.

The closer any model approaches reality, the more it is indistinguishable from the object being described. Like any map, it becomes unwieldy with increased accuracy. The model becomes the size of the universe. So, a universe-sized model inside of an infinite explanation space?
Canada seems appealing to Americans until they show up and realize other than healthcare, it's pretty much exactly the same place.

Want it to be like redneck country? Go to Alberta. Want to be like the West coast? Vancouver. Like New York, try New York lite, though Canada calls it Toronto.

The following things changed for me going from Canada to the US, there are more American Flags.
Leave your phone at the door: side channels that reveal factory floor secrets
Ask HN: How many of you are truly considering moving to Canada?
With so many people saying that they'll move to Canada if Trump wins, I'm wondering who is really considering (or already decided) doing it; and the conclusions they have come to. What are your reasons? What are the trade-offs? Why are they worth it / not worth it?
Bernie Sanders was the candidate who could have defeated Trump. The DNC establishment and media rigged the primaries for Clinton but failed to gauge the anger that is building - Trump is the outcome.
Scott Adams said it best [1]:

The ideal arrangement for a new government – and one that requires no change to the Constitution – would feature a President Trump running weekly televised meetings (yes, like The Apprentice) to decide the big issues. And sitting in every meeting should be Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg, supported by their experts, arguing their cases.

[1] http://blog.dilbert.com/post/138023808851/the-second-america...
> the absolute best case scenario for the left is a revelation which leads to Trump's impeachment and four years of President Pence.

If it is determined that the F.B.I., votes, voting machines, and/or election results were manipulated, and a case is brought against him to try to invalidate the election and hold another one, he will fight back hard, and there will be chaos, riots, and perhaps a state of emergency declared. Or, the media may go into overdrive trying to gather evidence to have him impeached, but I think that would only serve to fire up those that voted for him.

We could also take a page from Clinton's playbook: keep an eye on him and record his every move, let him shoot himself down, then use that as evidence for the T.V. commercials in the next campaign. However, you risk 4-8 (or more if there is a war) years of damage.

One thing's for certain though, the time is now to start a new political party. With both candidates at record low approval ratings, and hate for the other candidate driving votes, the only reason the Green and Libertarian parties or an independent didn't win was that most of those that are qualified are too scared to run for president. Those people need to get over that fear, take one for the team, and dedicate their life to establishing a political party that is sensible and compassionate.
> 1. Clinton won the popular vote.

I can't get over how differently results seem to be reported in the US.

As of right now, reports I read suggest she's barely 100,000 votes ahead on that measure with "44 electoral votes still available".

i.e. there's a huge number of votes uncounted and that "fact" could easily turn out to be a poor prediction/

Why are news reports/speculation/predictions taken as fact without waiting for results to be announced?
The general sadness is unwarranted. Trump has already toned it down in the acceptance speech. There is no better way to sedate a demagogue than to let them gain office.

There are two types of elections these days - those where candidates are career politicians that are rather moderate, and opposing parties have very similar policies. These elections are always very close, nobody gets much of a majority, and nothing is achieved. The second type is where demagogues talk a lot of nonsense with impunity, and get voted in because of vague notions about their ability to disrupt 'the system'. They usually espouse conservative, paranoid, xenophobic views. They also don't achieve anything substantial, because fundamentally, they don't see running the country as their job, their job is to win, and whatever happens after that, well who cares? The weird leadership vacuum after Brexit was a classic example of this. Trump will probably fall into this second category, but there is a small chance he could actually turn himself into effective President. The most likely outcome though is 4 years of aimlessness. I also doubt he will get 2 terms. I think as an incumbent, the advantages that helped him win this election will probably evaporate.
>"We're seeing this pattern where the coasts of many countries are cosmopolitan and well-integrated into the world economy, but the interiors are very conservative and nationalistic. Scotland & London vs. Wales & the rest of Britain"

London is the interior, it is not on the coast. Wales and and Scotland are both coastal.

>"Croatia & Slovenia vs. the rest of Yugoslavia."

I assume you mean the former Yugoslavia? Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro are also on the coast. So what does that leave for non-coastal fomer Yugoslavia? Macedonia?

>"The Baltic Republics vs. the rest of the USSR"

There hasn't been a USSR since 1991. Do you mean the former USSR?
Manufacturing never left the US. Manufacturing in the US is doing just fine. It is, however, as you suggest, automated to a degree that means manufacturing jobs left the US.
The scary but the best thing is that the two denominations make up around 80% of the cash in flow.
Sure it is.

The extreme right uses force.
The extreme left uses social pressure until it leads to violence.

Different means for the same end. None are better than the other.
Well, many countries were parts of the British Empire for more than 100 years, including India, China etc. It would be wrong to assume that would cause ethical similariy between Britain and these countries.