skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> US produces more Oil and natural gas, but is low on exports.

For now, the US are exporting more natural gas than Norway. However, with the completion of Cheniere's project at Sabine pass, this will be the opposite [1]. Actually, this November, the US are going to export more than twice the volume of Norway.

[1]: http://imgur.com/a/uyBiZ

Disclosure: I work in an intelligence company, but I'm not a market expert.

Edit:

> USA does not have an oil fund that amounts do $150k per capita to pay for "free everything"

No, but they certainly have other ways of funding a "free everything" that don't rely on fossil fuel. Let's call that "taxes".
I think if the mothers life is at risk the doctor has to make the call on who to save. Sometimes this has to happen. I'd compare it to triage, docotors sometimes have to make a call that means one person lives and another dies. I have no issue with this as long as they recognise both lives and make judgments based on that.
> People are not equal.

And yet, the right would have you believe that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge (RIP Asimov). Because you are just an elitist educated librul, and how can you even breathe the thought that you're better than me in any way, shape, or form, especially when it comes to making important decisions that demand critical evaluation of a lot of evidence? I have a family and mouths to feed and can only afford 1 i-Whatever for the whole family, I don't hang out on Twitter or Facebook and only have time to listen to catchy patriotic slogans.

But hey, I sure as hell took the time to come out of the mysteriously dark woodwork and voted yesterday!

I guess all that effort I made to keep an at-risk youth out of prison and get him into college was pointless.
Fantastic, great work Tim Sweeny.

One note of caution, is that sometimes when private individuals buy up these big chunks of land from the government or big land-management organizations, they restrict access and traditional activities on that land in ways that mightily piss off the locals. It's a not uncommon point of contention in the north woods of Maine where I grew up; IP or Meade or Plumb Creek tends to be pretty lax about hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, etc, as long as their lumber is left alone and the roads aren't ripped up. Millionaires from away have a tendency to lock it down and post everything, in a modern-day form of enclosure.
There is copy paste tools both for windows and linux
I'm just hoping the government becomes more efficient at completing those infrastructure projects. Here in (western) Massachusetts we have simple projects like replacing a 30' concrete bridge over a creek that take 9 to 12 months to complete. They setup Jersey barriers that funnel traffic down to one lane, rip up the barricaded side and then do no work on it. In the 1930's they were able to start and finish a 782' three span iron bridge in one year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_King_Bridge).
I think most people would agree "ObamaCare" is a disaster. Most rational people could look at it and go "Yeah, we should do something differently".

"Republicans" say rip it out, go back to what we had before, don't adopt anything from it.

"Democrats" say to keep it and try to fix it.

Can it be fixed? Who knows. But ripping something out because it isn't perfect after two years is completely insane.

The US has a completely broken healthcare system and handing it back to corporations isn't going to fix it.
>> when he knows that his odds of winning are much better than most people think.

This is the classic gambler's approach to betting. Attempt to reduce the odds to a reasonable level where you can minimize losses and maximize your profits.

If you were paying attention to more objective polls, you would've known the mainstream media polls they were using were off. So much so, that Clinton started campaigning in red states and there were reports she wanted to make this a "historic" win. As in, it's not good enough to just win, she wanted to rub it in the faces of the Republicans (you know, because that's always good for bringing the country together - right?) when she did win.

- So he knew the polls were off.

- Then he probably knew there was a feeling of unrest considering the numbers Trump was getting. Not just in the primaries where he set several records for turnout and delegates.

- Then he probably heard about the Allan Lichtman's prediction that Trump would win based on the enthusiasm he saw in the primaries. It was greater for Trump then it was for Clinton. Add in the margin of victory in the primaries was greater for Trump then Clinton and he said because of that, the real voter enthusiasm is with Trump, not Clinton.

So here you have three things most people on the Left didn't want to hear. He also could probably see the media had gone 110% to shill for Clinton. Tamping down her email scandals, promoting the polls that say she's way ahead. If you listen to say Rush Limbaugh, or Hannity or Beck, you'd know it wasn't all rainbows and unicorns.

So he hedged his bet and put his money on Trump given the above information.
Another example of Godwin's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
I bought an XPS15 and I put Linux on it. But I didn't buy the "developer's edition" because I still wanted a Windows install, that pretty much just sees gaming. So I don't show in the statistics for Dell as an obvious Linux user, but if my research had turned up that the XPS15 worked poorly in Linux, I would never have bought it.

Almost all Linux users are familiar with the process of putting Linux on a machine, since that's the only way to get it. The thing that's primarily helpful about seeing a manufacturer have a "blessed" linux system to me is more that I can be confident all the drivers I need exist; I'd probably whack the install they sent me and replace it with something else anyhow.
We could anyway imo. Our "very core" of economic and tax policy is actually pretty flexible. Just look at how the markets have developed over the last several decades. Yes there will be pain, but I'd trade a little short-term pain with long-term benefit over short-term relief with long-term decline anyday.

Not to say Scandinavia has the best of everything, but regardless... Jag skulle vilja bo i skandinavien istället USA
SLAVOJ ZIZEK ON CLINTON, TRUMP AND THE LEFT'S DILEMMA
You're going to have to explain what was uncivil in my statement. Nowhere did I call anyone names. Nowhere did I insult anyone. I explained the feelings that many of us have of what happened, and why we're not so eager to kiss and make up.
I'll agree that she worded that poorly and was unkind. Even Clinton apologized for that part. " “I regret saying ‘half’ -- that was wrong." [1] That's one of the differences between the candidates.

In support of her defense of the statement: "to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half". That sounds very vague to me. She even referred to "you could put half" as "grossly generalistic".

Then in the rest of her statement she got to empathizing with the people that aren't voting because we have too many Muslims and brown people make me squeeamish.

[1]: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/10/clinton-says-regr...
That's what I mean about having some issues. I would have liked to see healthcare be more sweeping, better implemented.

But the 'normal' recovery? What does a 'normal' recovery look like when the global economy is on the brink of collapse, and the US has run up a deficit never seen before? The Great Depression needed a World War to finally pull the US back to recovery.
When I think of winning wars, I think of one military defeating another, and the result being that the defeated government surrenders to the other, or is unable to continue waging war. I consider nation building to be separate from that, even though it involves military occupation. One can win the initial war, and lose the occupation, or at least fail to achieve stated objectives.
Also Trump has already mentioned he's in favor of leaving the issue at the State level.
Income taxes are about even with California in Ontario & BC, except you're not paying $500/employee/month for a healthcare plan, so in the end you might call it cheaper as far as tax load goes.

The costs of everything although is higher. You also do not have a mortgage interest deduction and sales tax is higher and unescapable. You cant do the 'order something from another state and not pay use taxes' thing that you can in the USA.

The IRA / Roth IRA equivalents (RRSP / TFSA) can be arguably called better. You don't have early withdrawal penalties as far as I can recall.

Property tax tends to be lower in BC, and so are mortgage rates. The cost to purchase a house in Toronto/Vancouver is significantly higher than most of the USA although and has horrible affordability ratios.

Pay is about half compared to the USA.
A combination of both really.

Sadly, its only going to get worse now.
Yes, there are examples of the free market creating monopolies. This is even more possible today than years past. But in those examples I'm willing to bet the only way they are maintained is from the assistance of government.

Sometimes it is good thing, I admit, but in most cases it is not consumer friendly.
It means "revenge" in russian.
Rural or blue collar Americans only have one place in America where they are represented on the national level: the ballot box.

All of the shocked media people and here on HN live in a bubble and have no idea what it's like to live in a working class community.
That may be true, but he's also a terrible role model that says extremely racist/sexist things. I couldn't quote president Trump at work without being fired from my job because of his lewd language.
I still love the fact that in this age of social sharing and selfies we don't really know who invented this revolutionary technology.
The problem is, generally the only thing that "Powered by Linux" laptops offers (I am talking about big manufacturers like Dell here, not System76 or others) is Linux pre-installed.

Those notebooks are generally more expensive than their Windows counter parts (because Microsoft subsides then) and does not offer any customization (Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition still comes with a "Windows" key, wtf?!), so why bother?

In my case, coming with either Windows or Ubuntu is exactly the same, since I use Arch Linux and will have to reinstall anyway.
Static typechecking makes use of Python 3.5 type hints in combination with the MyPy open source typechecker.
...apart from FDR.
I think the personal attacks on Clinton were far, far worse: 'crooked Hillary', 'such a nasty woman', 'lock her up' (or 'hang that bitch' from the Trump supporters) without any due process, attacking her for her husbands infidelities, Comey sends an ambiguously worded letter to congress and it becomes 'she will surely be prosecuted', she is 'rigging the election',...
Our government offers free university education, so even less well off blue collar families could send their kids to good schools. And when economic times got harder it never hit blue collar works as hard as in America because we have free universal health care, heavily subsidized childcare, good pensions for everybody.

Does your system contain costs on these benefits better than the US, or do you have the inflation and pay it with tax increases? In the US all the benefits you mentioned have painful inflation. How does the government keep up with the costs?
Yo great idea. Its timing out though. Plz fix! Use Firebase!
> Well, Europe isn't Canada, and 1933 isn't 2016.

You're right, but not for the reasons you think. What's keeping xenophobia at bay is not multiculturalism but a reasonably strong economy and social safety net. If these start to fail you will see the xenophobia ramp up as people look for someone to blame for their misery.

I recently visited my family in Alberta where many are struggling due to the crash in oil prices and xenophobia is definitely on the rise. Pretending that "it can't happen" is exactly what allows it to happen.

Do you think that most Germans are, at their core, antisemitic? I don't think they are, but the economic conditions of a 1933 Germany made it easy for many people to blame a specific "other" for their situation with devastating results.
Oh that's cute, you think the filibuster rule is going to survive the first week of this congress?
Can we stop this tired meme? The median income for Trump voter at least in the primaries was higher than the nation's median and higher than Clinton's or Sanders'[0].

[0] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-...
Not until April 20th 2017 (Canada)
is it legal to post content that is behind a paywall to the public?
Politically, you are correct.
However, quite literally, the legal logic in this ruling is explicitly not specific to anything related to airbnb.

In fact, it's quite the opposite. The ruling is broad enough to be applicable to pretty much anything.
"Blockchain" ... not even "the block chain"..

Already can tell this person is a PR manager and knows nothing about the technicalities and only about buzzwords used to entice investors.

This is like saying "How Internet Will Change Your Life" instead of "the internet".
Stonemason: Generate microservice stubs
Psh. Lots of politicians have said far worse and been elected. Example: Donald Trump.
Escalating on all fronts? Please elaborate how getting the US out of a major war has done that. I certainly won't claim that Obama's foreign policy is golden, but it was said 'empire'...which would mean invading and occupying all over the globe. Obama isn't even close to the imperialist policies we had under Bush.
USA has plenty of money for its military its bases abroad and its wars. Maybe that money could be put at good use and USA should stop thinking it's so exceptional. Let USA concentrate on domestic policies instead of the middle east.
>Gay marriage is just the final nail in the coffin of marriage, which was already basically dead. It's a mind-bogglingly stupid hill to die on, but nobody ever accused conservatives of brilliance.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Are you for or against gay marriage?
And I mean that with no sarcasm. I would genuinely like to see you make the case that you are not racist, sexist and/or misogynistic.
It's even worse in places where government, either directly or through unions, set the base salaries for people with certain education levels. Then you have higher education, no job, and are unable to be hired doing less education demanding jobs because otherwise they would be forced to pay you an absurd salary for your position.

You're basically fucked. But then government comes to the rescue again giving handouts! Yay... thanks for temporarily solving a problem that you shouldn't have created in the first place.
iOS 10 is the buggiest iOS I have seen so far. youtube starts playing in background when on a call mixing the audio. voicemails keep getting deleted when they reach 20 second mark. the screen freezes very frequently. swiping is confusing delete lock screen notifications and switch on the camera. is it bad product design or bad testing
This tool is still very primitive (i'm still working on it) but it does what you're looking for:

http://consensus-148618.appspot.com/

You construct an argument like a proof, with supporting arguments. People can share their opinions on each step of your argument.

It doesn't allow direct back and forth yet; you'd ahve to pass the link around.
You're not joking..

The guy who's in charge of Trump's EPA transition thinks that climate change is a hoax, that the Clean Power Plan is illegal, that the Endangered Species Act should be repealed, that the Paris Climate Agreement is unconstitutional.

The likely pick to head the DOE is a lobbyist for the oil industry who wants to open up Federal lands for energy exploration.

Good lord this election is going to have far-reaching consequences.
That's a little misleading. What they did well was keep the bot simple.
Those were actual quotes from the bible. I'm not sure how that's a u turn in logic?
TI 99 4a

hunt the wampus.

I built a knife jumping game in basic needed a tape recorder to save the game.

I played voodoo castle at school. TSR-80.
Maybe Trump won't build a wall, but voting for a candidate promising X while thinking "There's no way he will actually do X" is a risky decision.

Back in 2007, South Korean candidate Lee Myung-Bak won presidency while prominently selling the concept of "Grand Korean Peninsular Canal", a construction project involving building a canal diagonally through the Korean peninsula, crossing mountain ranges ~1km high. It made zero economical sense (just take a look at the map), and was widely derided by opponents.

Many of his supporters still voted for him thinking "Come on, there's no way he would actually do that!"

Well, he almost did it in the names of "Four River Restoration Project", an Orwellian-named $20B project that kept the major part of the canal plan, plastering Korea's rivers with pointless dams, which inundated riverbanks, increased flood damage, decimated freshwater ecosystem, and polluted so much riverwater that you can't use it even for farming.

Trump is now free to realize any of his promises as he sees fit, and no one will be able to say "American's didn't approve this", because he did promise them and then won based on those promises. It will be a fun ride for him.
Maybe we could subsidize decent health insurance? Raise the minimum wage? Build safety nets and expand social services?

Except they just voted against all that.
Of course it changes the world.
Is there any reason to to this without cooperation with https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books which already has over 4K commits and 16K forks?
good. except for the climate accord, that should stay. but obamacare is a disaster and dodd frank sucks.
Guess I was thinking more of my situation than the OP's in Seattle. I can commute downtown Baltimore in about 30 mins (~8 miles) from my suburban house. Leaf does it on a single charge. Guess I would have to do the math, but I'd think the drop in electricity consumption, especially in the summer heat, is enough to offset my commute.

It's definitely not typical since I'm in the minority of solar panel and electric car owners who are within commute range on a single charge. But there you have it. It's at least possible.
Presumably it would only go to citizens, yes?
Not all problems are equal. Most problems can be compensated in some way or another, using abstractions. Problems that limits abstraction are grave, for it puts a glass ceiling that can't be got around.

A language designer may limit the power of abstraction intentionally; maybe the abstraction taxes performance too much; or maybe too much power scares the target users. That's a plausible choice, but that also turns some users away.
It's true, but at the end of the day you can already see that we're not going to do a damned meaningful thing about it whoever gets elected. The kinds of changes needed are not going to come about in a timely fashion, and when we start to move, it will be far too late (if it isn't already). On that point at least, our fate is sealed.
So I've only been alive long enough to remember 5 presidential elections in detail. 2/5 the electoral college has disagreed with the popular vote. Previously it resulted (after court decision) in the election of Bush, widely seen as one of the worst presidents ever.

Second time is Trump, who is at best unqualified.

Why is this system still in use? What are the benefits of the electoral college? Other than disagreeing with the popular vote at times, doesn't it also discourage voting since a vote in california is worthless next to one from florida?
It's my perception that smart phones and their surrounding software, hardware, and protocols are very very hackable outside of the basic kernel and app-level systems.

The baseband cpu is out of your control, the encryption is legendarily bad, the protocols are MITM'able, the kernel is subject to patches from your cell phone company...
US markets react calmly to Trump victory after volatile night
I see nothing in that article that shows the birther movement (again, no matter how stupid) was based on racial reasons, other than certain people's opinions that it did.
And right now working class, rural, and blue-collar Americans are in the left-wing out-group.
Yep, and by calling Trump a bigot, racist, sexist, etc, they're inadvertently calling his supporters the same thing as well, causing a lot of them to just become more entrenched in their support for Trump.
People are looking to move their company now that Trump is president
Keyser Soze
> But a national popular vote system wouldn’t devalue the votes of people who live in rural states and small towns. It would accurately value them by treating them equal to people who live in cities, rather than giving them an extra weighting.

While mostly in favor of national popular vote, I don't think this is accurate. If I can promise to enact a policy that favors urban area and goes against rural areas interest, I will do so because a big city will get me more votes than a bunch of small towns.

True, not all policies are zero-sum game, but that's the scenario where I see this problem of putting rural areas in the background arising.
We didn't introduce books to read at our company, but we did start what we call 'dev learning sessions'. Once a week, one of the developers (it cycles by name) has to prepare and present about a topic approved by an architect (pretty much as long as it might be used somehow at work, it's approved).

Then everyone spends about an hour learning about something. Sometimes it's something internal, but often it's a deeper dive into a particular topic regarding database, language, or sql features.

We've been doing it for about a year now, and it's getting harder to come up with new topics, but overall it's worked out pretty well. It ends up that you have to give a presentation about once every three or four months.

Personally I've learned quite a bit that I probably wouldn't have otherwise, even when I was the one giving the presentations. When it's your turn it can take up to a full day to research and prepare the presentation though, especially if you want to have working source code and it's about a topic you're not too familiar with.
In my first job after my training, I had a boss who had practically written a couple of bespoke line-of-business applications for customers using FoxPro.

Three years ago I had to do some maintenance on an old-ish C++ application (also a one-of-a-kind-thing) that used a dBase backend for storage. I was lucky, though, the code was very well-written and, let's say, humble - it avoided unneccessary complexities whenever possible, and even without comments or any other documentation, I was able to figure out how it worked (at least the part that I was supposed to modify).

Part of the fun was getting a development environment to work with an ancient version of Visual Studio, but the second fun part was accessing that dBase database. I tried a couple of programs, none of them overly helpful, until I realized that ____ing Excel could open them. I don't know how well Excel supports interacting with these, but it worked well enough for inspection. ;-)