skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You use your class' prerogative to down-vote my comments, in an attempt to censor my thoughts. Not because they are inappropriate, but merely because you disagree with them. Talk about class struggle!"

Your comments are generally civil and thoughtful. I completely understand your frustration at being down voted, and unfortunately there are some users here (on any side of any contentious issue), that do down vote because they disagree, and there have been comments (including Paul Graham) that support the idea of using down votes to show disagreement. I also have seen that a lot of people don't agree with this practice.

That said, I don't think calling out your parent for down voting you is constructive. For one, voting is anonymous. And the fact that you're engaging on the site indicates to me that you actually want to have a conversation. Accusing someone of censoring you is only going to be inflammatory.

It's not fair, I know. Keep fighting the good fight. Keep posting civil and thoughtful comments. Work to understand and be understood. Help keep HN a good place for useful discussion.

By the way, I'm writing this as much for you as for me. I'm reminding myself of how I want to engage. There's so much acrimony and polarization. Figuring out ways to reach compromise and agreement is crucial.

Thanks for taking the time to read through this :)
Stein suggested an interesting solution to this problem: https://youtu.be/py6sPkiQm8E?t=2m45s. Food for thought.
The reason you see people concerned about this is because most people assume Trump will defer to his VP on most policy stuff, and his VP is very, very anti-gay. The reason people assume this is that one of the other people considered to be his VP pick, John Kasich, told the press that when Trump's son pitched the job, he said that he could be "the most powerful vice-president in history" and that he would be in charge of both domestic and foreign policy.
Tech startups are often composed of a majority of people born outside of the United States.
>The immigrants take jobs from the labor supply

I think you mean they fill labor demand or that they diminish the supply of jobs by providing labor. This however incorrectly assumes that the demand for labor is fixed. That demand is affected by supply + cost of labor and demand for goods and services. Immigrants consumer goods and pay of services so more immigrants means more aggregate consumer demand, which leads to higher demand for labor. In the end immigrants result in a net labor demand increase due to consumption. Immigrants no matter how frugal still get haircuts, buy groceries, see doctors, pay for tax help, call plumbers, by pants, go to bars, buy used cars etc.
The history I'm referring to is the scrollback buffer. The work that I do, which is predominantly interactive in a REPL like environment with remote devices, has a rich history of information in each window/pane. I dread losing those scrollback buffers every time I have to restart tmux.
I agree that there are trends at work but many of the criticisms of her were only apparent in the last few months so saying that the DNC and democrats in general should've known somehow that she wasn't a good candidate and that their picking of leadership was fundamentally flawed seems odd to me.
He says things he shouldn't say, and some might say he's an a-hole

I voted for Obama in previous elections. But I also remember how he'd said denigrating things about people who "cling to guns or religion." I suspect people voted for Trump because they thought he didn't put on one face for one public and put on another one for a different public. (Which I doubt is the reality.)

Our media "elites" aren't elites anymore, and they're very out of touch with walk of life lower on the socioeconomic ladder. Denigration and painting with a broad brush are now accepted as the "reality" of politics, the news media, and social media. The "savvy" line to to accept and skirt such things. This is done by both the right and the left.

I believe we currently have 4 Hitlers according to the political establishment: Trump, Putin, Erdogan, Duterte

Fox News made various comparisons of Obama to Hitler.

In a book from the 90's, Eric Drexler proposed that a networked world would save society and make it easier to disseminate the truth. In 2016, one finds that instead the internet has given the loudest voices to the coarsest, most hateful, and stupidest among us. (And by this, I don't mean Trump, but rather online activists on both the right and left.)
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Bitcoin Price Jumps on Trump Victory
In the 30s it was the "Rothschild conspiracy".

Now it's Soros, Yellen.

Both narratives are barely hidden anti-Semitism.
I'm curious about this myself but more so on the voter registration side. For example, how do they make sure each voter is casting a single vote?

In Illinois I registered to vote well before the deadline. I showed up to cast my ballot but my name wasn't in the "database." The folks managing the polling station had to manually re-enter all my details into an Android tablet. While this was happening, I took out my phone and scanned the WiFi network of the church I was in. I assume the tablets were connected via wifi. I saw no other connection to the tablet besides a power connection. To my surprised the WIFI was running WEP. Hmm, this day in age you would think WEP would be default=off. This was at a local Church too. So perhaps the tablets use cellular data plans?

They get all my PII data entered, I get my ballot, fill it out, and pass it through a machine. The machine is in the corner of the building in a large box so I can't tell if it's hardwired to some network or using the wifi.

Later that day (about an hour later after re-entering my details into the Android tablet) I went to the Illinois voter registration web site to look up my name and I can find my details.

Anyone have any information on the tablet software? Who writes it? How it's transmitted and stored? What about the electronic ballot counting machines? Are the phoning home some where?

The whole setup seems sketchy to me.

As an aside: I know a couple people who have homes in different states and claim they can cast multiple votes by driving/flying to the state where they have 2nd home to cast a 2nd ballot.
So now you leave the realm of economical possibilities and start pointing at political problems.

Isn't that a little too simple?

"No, we can't do that because we don't want to."
I've worked in government before and understand bureaucracy but there's a certain level of quality even they have standards for. Most government sites aren't massive volume transactions but primarily static brochure type sites that may need some occasional updates making them suitable for many commercial CMSes that are well known and easy to optimize. Adding caching for documents that are almost never updated and adding a CDN layer for the application are inexpensive compared to writing and even hosting the CMS itself (usually on rather expensive TCO on-premise infrastructure). Furthermore, this kind of upgrade helps fulfill use cases of access and availability to government-provided services that is the spirit of the law in many developed countries, especially as citizens increasingly reach to online services for their interaction with governments.
Never, nor would I submit to one, even if I wasn't using.
I didn't know the details, thanks for sharing.

I believe that he shaped part of the US and World's culture with movies like "The dictator"[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sfJxdytYn4
Thanks for providing a reference. I agree re the need to pay a fair wage.
I have heard something on the radio that rigs true: The Democrats used to be party for blue collar workers but they have totally abandoned them. At least Trump said the right things.

I agree that Clinton never made a case for electing her other than being there for some reason. In general, the Republicans have the courage to take clear positions no matter right or wrong. Whereas the Democrats and especially Clinton are super wishy-washy.
This is an interesting perspective that I had not considered.
Don't move to the ghetto. I don't know what places are bad to live in Gothenburg but I am sure you can look it up.

But regarding employers, I don't know that many in Gothenburg but you could look up Fast2 maybe?
I thought Michael Moore's reasons were pretty on point: http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/

Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were indeed critical to the election, though it was by a hair that Trump won.

The liberal vote was not very enthusiastic, whereas Trump pulled in people that were die-hard fans.
you should figure out what you plan on doing with the data first. That will help inform what you use and how you store it.
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This is very similar to what happened in the UK with Brexit; the remain campaign focused their arguments on the negatives / fear of leaving rather than the positives of being part of the EU.
Quite a lot of rests on the courts. The Supreme Court has a set of case law related to minority rights, which it could reverse--as it did with the Voting Rights Act.

The national legalization of gay marriage happened via the Supreme Court just last year. There is no reason at all it could not be reversed under a new court.

A lot more rests in Department of Justice policy. Look at what Justice has been doing to investigate and clean up racial bias in municipal police forces recently. They have consent decrees with Seattle, Cleveland, and others to try to change the way they do policing.

A new administration could easily abandon every one of those agreements, and the goal of removing racial bias from policing generally. It might even be likely--senior people in the Trump campaign have praised racial profiling as an effective and useful police tactic.
What is the origin of the name Mest? I can't help but think of that emo band from the 00's.
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Keeping Muslims out of the US (banning Muslim immigration to the US) != deportation. You may disagree with Trump, but please don't put words in his mouth.
> Law is force

Not really - a law is a codification of desired human behavior.

> an armed agent from the government will enforce that rule upon you.

This is definitely at the extreme end of the list of possibilities. The enforcement of those laws can take any number of forms, but most do not involve armed agents. Most involve certified letters and negotiations between lawyers in front of an (unarmed) judge. This is especially true when we're discussing copyright (with the occasional exception proving the rule). Even speeding tickets are handled more and more frequently by mail.

Armed agents are typically reserved for cases where harm to either a body or a property are possible.
It crashed in latest Safari pretty much soon as the chat started...
Ayn Rand explicitly disavowed libertarianism, both big "L" and small "l". Her political/moral philosophy was Objectivism [0].

The primary focus of libertarianism is the promotion of individual liberty and non-aggression, leaving the individual to become as big (or small) of a philanthropist as she/he wishes, and never being viewed as a lesser libertarian because of their altruism, or lack thereof (in fact, many libertarians I know are very generous people).

Objectivism, on the other hand, specifically condemns altruism and philanthropy, and deems those who engage in altruism to be "bad" people. This is consistent with how Ayn Rand lived her life.

I don't know whether your phrase describing Thiel, "do good for myself and the world will be better", is accurate or not as a description of his personal philosophy (it does make some sense he would follow Rand instead of libertarian philosophy, given his recent activities both political and entreprenerial). But I am quite sure that the phrase is characteristic of Objectivism and not libertarianism (l | L).

Please don't confuse Ayn Rand with libertarianism. Many libertarians despise her writings, back then as in now (and she despised libertarians/Libertarians).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)
> The bigger problem in the US seems to be that it is amazingly hard to do so unless you've built up a fortune to cover the cost of doing so.

That's... really just not true at all. US labor mobility is higher than in pretty much any other developed country by pretty much whatever metric you want to pick. Measures like those in Germany (or whatever else you pick) would help at the margins but they would not do much to change the labor demographics of the midwest working class white community, which by broad historical standards are fairly good already.

Fundamentally this was an election about identity. Nate Cohn said it best in a tweet last night when he pointed out that working class whites (and not their minority compatriots who share the same economic problems) had suddenly started behaving like a minority group and skewed hard for one candidate from their historical positions.

It's about racism, and social change, and fear, and maybe sexism. "Economic Anxiety" is a myth that needs to die.
Ask HN: Political Polling Methodology?
Is there anyone here who can describe in some mathematical detail how an election forecast is calculated?

Obviously, I wonder why the latest presidential race forecasts were so consistently wrong, but I am curious in general too.

I imagine for every response ("yes, I will vote for Trump") there are weights for how representative is that response, how likely, and what is the associated turnout. But I am sure it is more complex.
Yes pretty much everything you did was the incorrect move (at the time). Take the promotion, become manager, then look for other employment using that experience, promotion, and increased salary as a boost.
Nobody really knows. It's all new. In my view we need something we can play with without having to write lengthy requirement docs to IT.
I don't trade. Too much work.

BTW, your blog is down.
saved you a click: "We did nothing to promote the bot. No ads. No paid promotions. No splashy launch. We just put it in Kik’s Bot Shop and waited. (Full disclaimer: We work for Kik, and Roll has been our side project.)"
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Trump won not only on a platform that was largely anti-globalization but also on the public mistrust of his opponent. Objectively, the electorate trust and like Sanders far more than Clinton and he has spent his career trying to make progress on the same issues that gave Trump the presidency. This election was about economic issues from the start and despite how demonized Trump was, Clinton didn't stand a chance because her campaign was orthogonal to what huge swaths of the population cared about.

I think the polls were so off this election cycle because Sanders lost the primary. Without him, Democrats lost their only chance to connect with voters that that are liberal but don't always vote based on social issues like abortion, gay marriage, etc (which are, along with minorities and unions, the bread and butter of the Democratic party).

Obviously this years polling was a disaster but Sanders' hypothetical matchup polls are by far the weakest argument for why he should have been the nominee.
Still waiting for someone to develop a WebGl-based physics engine. Even the 2D ones are slow - every single one I've tried so far struggles even with a thousand simple boxes.
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Just wanted to point this blog article out.
https://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=6355

The author tested Xcode and ran "four production Objective-C projects, all cleaned and rebuilt."
A lot of my friends did the same.
You could dump it into google big table, aws redshift or just run a local postgres/mysql on a few SSDs and admin it directly.
It doesn't matter how cheap the food is if you have to steal it because you don't have a job. And under-the-table wages aside, a white American dishwasher is not going to earn any more or less than a brown Mexican dishwasher.
Ask HN: “Donald Trump Is Elected President” Thread Digest
The "Donald Trump Is Elected President" thread [1][2][3] exploded and I really would love to dig trough it. Also it has been said that is was a reasonably moderate discourse[4]. Only problem is that I currently have not the time to read nearly 3000 comments, and I suspect that's not just me. So I suggest we summarize the best and most insightful parts here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12909752
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911042
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911283
The best laptop I ever had was an i5 2010 Macbook Air (paid about 1000€ at the time).

Reasonably fast, incredibly think and light, instant wake-from-sleep, great screen (for the time), great trackpad, decent keyboard, long battery life.

Having owned previously only bulky Windows laptops (I still have nightmares about a company-issued 17' Sony Vaio, heavy as heck and with the grand total of 30 mins battery life), it was a joy to use.

When the screen cracked I was heartbroken, decided that somehow I needed more power and splurged for an i7 2013 15' Retina Macbook Pro with dedicated graphics.

Apart from the gorgeous screen, I cannot think of any real benefit I got over the previous model:

- More USB ports ? I only used the occasional USB drive on the road, when at home I always use the single port of my hub with mouse/keyboard/ext.drive attached.

- Faster CPU ? It was noticeable when compiling big projects or very specific things like video conversion, but 90% of the time spent "developing", I'm just looking at code in an editor.

- More RAM ? Ditto. Never felt that the Air was slow or unresponsive due to lack of RAM, at least for my use cases.

- Faster GPU? The main reason was gaming, but mobile GPUs are a far cry from their desktop counterparts, and under sustained load it is throttling all the time anyway. Of course it might be just Apple's fault, but I cannot say that my previous experience with Windows Laptops was any different.

What I lost in exchange was portability. Not that the 2013 15' Pro is bulky, but I could casually drop the Air in my backpack without really feeling it, and open it during my commute if I felt like it.

I could use it on the couch, in bed, when traveling.

Now the competition has catched up, and there seems to be great Windows laptops that are a serious alternative to Macbooks.

Regardless, it is clear to me that my main priority for a LAPTOP is portability and construction quality.

I'm fine with reasonable compromises in terms of speed, screen, keyboard. I really don't care about number of ports, upgradeability.

This long and boring post to make the point that different people have different requirements, if your personal ones differ from what Apple is offering, there are plenty of alternatives nowadays, all the drama is difficult to swallow, for me.
Who says it will be harmless?

Just because there are greater problems in the world doesn't mean we need another.
Did you at least vote down-ballot?
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Sure but are they buying the Yoga 900/900S?

There are other laptop lines targeted for developers.
And it's better for something to cost $11.60 and you have a minimum wage job than for that thing to cost $10 and you don't have any job. The difference is astronomical.
With projects which are purely code, Xcode works fine. Projects with large Storyboard files make the dev experience painful.
Company has a very poor track record with supporting reasonable operating systems, the build quality is notably sub-par on older editions of the laptop and the support is apparently awful.

I don't think I will be citing this as an example of "something to compete with apple"
The telephone network hasn't had anything to do with a free market since 1934 at the latest. The Justice Department chose a monopolist winner in 1913.

The USA freight rail system exhibited some monopoly through the 1880s, but since has been quite regulated. Perhaps the current level of regulation may not be ideal, but since the USA freight rail system is the best in the world it would seem foolish to tamper with it.
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There's a cheap Chinese one on Amazon but apparently it doesn't work properly https://www.amazon.com/HIOTECH-MagSafe-Adapter-Converter-Con...
> Amongst Trump supporters I know it was about jobs, the economy

Aren't unemployment and the economy doing better now than 8 years ago? My impression is Trump just fueled the emotion of pessimism (things are awful, they were great before), without neither the facts to back it (because he didn't care) nor a plan beyond the old "the more you cut taxes, the better the economy".

Even for the people that think the economy is important enough that the racism and sexism should be ignored, that's still playing to their emotion.
My first thought, "GPS & cell modem‽ How thick is this thing?", but "shockingly" it doesn't seem to list anything about that. Or really any tech specs at all. It doesn't even seem to have any photos of it that aren't of it open & facing flat toward camera.

Good luck with all that.

Also, in the FAQ:

> pls re-write this line.
Lost, as in not securing these countries to "make them safe for America" or whatever bullshit spin the war-mongers want to put out there.

Afghanistan is more unstable now that we've invaded. And the war in Iraq only created a fertile ground for Islamic State to rise from the ashes.

Remember what Colin Powell said: "you break it, you bought it". We broke it and have utterly failed to repair the damage done.

Back to you, goatlover, define "win" in these scenarios and tell me about the victories that have "won" these wars.
Then surely you wouldn't mind linking me to emails which conclusively show, e.g. some evidence of a pay-to-play scheme involving State, CF and Gulf Arab states.
My point is that a gutter campaign was all Republicans had. Obama had done well and Hillary was exceptionally qualified. So they motivated a scared base to win a gerrymandered election while losing the popular vote.
"challenge to the status quo (like having a female president is)"

How is "I'll do exactly what the establishment tells me to do, just like the last couple figureheads, except in a $10K Chairman Mao pantsuit" a challenge to much of anyone?

The country has a not so comfy history with black folks, yet men and women have lived together for eternity, so why didn't Obama get it perhaps 100 or 10000 times worse? Surely you're not a racism denialist? Perhaps no one accused Obama of being a criminal because... he isn't? I mean I never voted for him but I can respect him, he's a wise constitutional scholar who probably deserves a supreme court appointment to an empty liberal seat when this is all over. I disagree with him on many issues but he's no crook and he's reasonably wise. He got teased, essentially, about a technicality of being born in a foreign country and being muslim which frankly don't matter and never turned out to be a problem and never went past offending people on twitter.

Palin was hated in the mainstream media, but it was just a generic Quayle style two minutes hate. How come no one provided any evidence of her crimes? Perhaps... there were none? Could there possibly be any hatred hotter than the DNC controlled MSM's hatred toward Palin, yet there's nothing but sophistry against her because she's clean? I wouldn't describe Palin as being a bright bulb or a beacon of wisdom yet I voted for her, she's not that bad.
a16z is arguably the cream of the crop of VCs; I'm not talking about their overall investment outcome.

what I'm talking about is, in that instance, they made a decision based on emotions not data.

smart VCs should ALWAYS make data driven decisions. not emotions.
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That and we should take away the message that voter suppression efforts in states like NC worked.