skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you concede that Sanders' platform was unrealistic, he would have been running against a candidate that wants to build a wall costing somewhere north of 11-figures, get Mexico to pay for it, negotiate better trade deals through sheer force of will and deport millions of illegal immigrants.

It's clear the electorate didn't take reality into consideration when casting their votes.
A 1TB enclosed external USB HD from Western Digital costs $60 (see NewEgg, Amazon, or whatever's relevant in your country). This costs $80. So, the extra $20 covers a SD card and a few screws to mount a Raspberry Pi (not included)? Doesn't seem competitive at all.
Ask HN: Canadians with TN status working in US, are you worried?
I've been working in US for the past two years. My TN expires by the end of 2017 and I was hoping to renew it within the next six months. Now that Trump is president and given where where he stands with NAFTA I'm not sure if that's going to be in place.

What are your plans? Do you think getting TN will be scraped as part of his threat to renegotiate NAFTA?
Net neutrality is suddenly on the chopping block
How President-Elect Trump Views Science
The article I linked in a sibling to your comment sources several versions of this calculation in the footnotes, though I'm sure there are others as well: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-09-03/should-do...
Ugh, no. The idea is to use standard HTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) with noun routes, like:

Create: POST /resources (or PUT /resources/42)
Read: GET /resources/42
Update: PUT /resources/42 (or PATCH /resources/42)
Delete: DELETE /resources/42
List/Search: GET /resources
>A middle-class family with two children will get a 35% tax cut.

He's basically Oprah with tax cuts. Kidding aside, I think all politicians promise wide tax cuts, and this "contract" was written prior to him winning. So take most with a grain of salt.
> "Intel doesn't have confidence in the drive at that point, so the 335 Series is designed to shift into read-only mode and then to brick itself when the power is cycled."

I don't understand why Intel wouldn't just configure these drives to go into read-only mode permanently. If I realized my hard drive had become read-only and didn't suspect hard drive failure, my first inclination would be to reboot my computer, not immediately back up all data.
The discussion is about the USA.
Appreciate the sentiment, but I think it's a false equivalence.

I was in Amsterdam for a week in June and I'm in SF today. I love both cities, but the difference is palpable. The US is experiencing a wave of xenophobia and outright hate right now.

I totally understand not wanting to be part of it.

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Amsterdam is beautiful. It has more bikes than cars, transit that makes the Bay look embarrassing, and in my subjective experience, super nice people.

It's also a real city with a lot of interesting projects happening.

I'm very tempted
People probably feel like regulations only apply to the little guy because the big players just weasel out of them. So reducing regulation in general while blocking a deal like this isn't inconsistent with a populist viewpoint.
No, they won't do away with the filibuster. Filibusters are theater - they allow Senators in the majority party to kill a bill and support it at the same time. Conversely, they allow people in the minority party to insure a bill passes and vote against it.

We've seen this over and over from Senators in both parties. The filibuster is dumb as a procedural tool, but as a political tool it's invaluable for Senators who want to make a career out of the Senate.
> All I had to say was "ask the knockoutjs guys how they're finding new recruits on the market".

Not sure what you mean, but Knockout can be learned in a day and nearly mastered in a week. There'd be no need to look for someone proficient in knockout.
FWIW, Thailand is the perfect place to fly into and just make things up as you go. Everything is super-cheap, and there are minibuses and trains which can be booked a day before (and probably even on the day) which can get you anywhere you need to go for practically nothing.

If you haven't done much travelling before then it can be a bit of a culture shock, but is so forgiving if you make mistakes because everything is so cheap.
I imagine in the end it will be renegotiate rather than leave. If you look here [0] you will see just how important us Canadian's are to you.

0 - http://www.businessinsider.com/state-and-country-trade-maps-...
Considering he's a businessman with background in construction his self interest is visible.
> there were basically zero consequences

50%+ of the country voted against him. It's up to us hold his feet to the fire and wake up the other 50%.
>>they don't need your business anymore.

Who's going to build all the iOS apps?
If you care to make a point worth replying to about 'china and India cleaning up their own messes' (despite the US having the highest CO2 emissions per capita in the world by a huge margin, over 2x that of China's and nearly 10x that of India's, and for a far far far longer time) then be my guest.

Wait, so you agree with him then, that US has a waaaay bigger mess than china(1/2) and india(1/10), and that the US should clean up its own (biggest) mess first, before the other two?
You make good points. We do have to figure out ways to transition out of a particular industry. Open questions (not aimed at parent): Have transitions like these been made successfully in the past? Are there particularly bad examples of what we should make sure we avoid (Detroit)? We can't be the first to have thought about this. Anyone know of studies/histories we can refer to?
from the article:

> The Internet: The United States government should not spy on its own citizens. That will not happen in a Trump administration. As for protecting the Internet, any attack on the Internet should be considered a provocative act that requires the utmost in protection and, at a minimum, a proportional response that identifies and then eliminates threats to our Internet infrastructure.

from buzzfeed(o):

> Trump told CNN during a debate that he would “penetrate the internet” to prevent ISIS from using it to recruit fighters and “close down parts of the internet.” Trump has, at times, expressed an interest in enhancing surveillance of Americans, saying at times that government should be tasked with with monitoring mosques and that police should create “demographics units.”
“We ought to start [surveillance] up again, and we ought to start it up this morning,” he told the Breitbart News Daily radio show last year.

(o) https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/silicon-valley-is-wor...
Watch Out New Zealand: Trump Escapees Flock to Immigration Website
Chinese officials won't be pissed off. They understand politics.

The difficulty will be in keeping a straight face during talks designed to go nowhere.
I feel like deporting them over and over again would be cheaper than housing/feeding/clothing them for 5 years.
This case is especially bad, since you can say it's an anti-competitive practice which benefits Microsoft - it helps them to retain their OS monopoly.
I think there is still hope that fun-straight-talking-entertainer Trump will surprise us all. Yeah, he can still be that guy, but who he picks can still be destructive. Case in point, this EPA chief. But we haven't yet heard who's going to be Homeland Security.
I don't know anything about AngelList, but I signed on with a machine-learning startup yesterday where I'll be using C++.
Or maybe just another 2%
Well, that is not to say that states cannot implement their own environmental laws, take for example California. . .the fact that Trump 'will' lift "$50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. . ." does not mean that the states cannot take action; I know it is perceived as for the better if the environmental laws are uniformed throughout the states, but please let us not forget about state rights, 10th Amendment. If you, or whoever reads this comment, is really concerned about the environment than start focusing on individual and local changes; like in California; become a leader, propagate new technology that is good for the environment, and then the rest will follow the example of progressive states, as well as, progressive individuals. Don't sell your self short; Roll up the sleeves and get to work. . .no need for Federal Government Regulations;
Limit The Federal Government Not The People.
The climate change one scares me the most as well. We should be focused on renewable energy more than anything right now. It's a much bigger threat than terrorism.

And building a wall and kicking out immigrants is so backwards. We need to be more united as humans and work together, not put up more barriers.
No, it was a result of desperate people willing to vote for a guy who said "I'll bring back jobs from overseas" and when asked how his response was "I'll tell companies they can't send jobs overseas.

The fact that the average American knows so little about the political process that they think the president can just tell a corporation where they have to employ people makes my head hurt. Badly.

The message of this election was: just lie to people. Even if there's no factual basis in our known reality to back up your statements, if you tell them what they want to hear they'll believe it. And that's really, really sad. I feel for the people who have lots manufacturing jobs, but the way out of that hole isn't voting for a guy who's going to remove any social safety net you previously had available...
The idea of changing the method as you advance in the problem is not a new one, here's a recent article in SIAM Review http://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/130936725
Organizations select for power-hungry behavior. Changing these processes would reduce the likelihood of them or their allies winning that power. An individual who reduces the power of themselves or their allies will be weaker/less desirable/less fit than either internal or external competition that does the opposite. It is a race to psychopathy that intensifies with competition.

It's the same for electoral reform or [insert your list seemingly irrational/bad organizational behavior here].

Trump himself said it was broken - but it doesn't matter because he won.

Any frustrations we have are irrelevant unless we have power.

==============================

Details here from a prior post:

1. Iron law of oligarchy (1911 - 1700 words on wikipedia): "all complex organizations, regardless of how democratic they are when started, eventually develop into oligarchies."

2. Dictator's handbook (2011) - Or CGP Grey's summary: rules for rulers (2016 - 18 minutes): "Bad behavior" is emergent from power structures rather than human weakness. From democracies to dictatorships, organizations select for Machiavellian and psychopathic behaviors.

I can't recommend these enough. This life altering perspective takes <30 minutes to go over - plus potentially several days of despair.
The problems with the world are not user error. How can technology help?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
Do you have a source for those figures? I ask because most of the, admittedly incredibly brief, research that I've done indicates that it does have a significant effect on housing.

[1] http://harvardlpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/10.1_10_Lee...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/airbnb-new-y...
The technology exists and has been proven. It is just hideously expensive to install and run!

The only way that Clean Coal will work is by applying massive subsidies.

I, for one, support these massive subsidies as long as they are applied by MWh produced and are available to all producers, not just the coal burners.
Housing prices vary so radically across states and cities in the US. It can be ~5x going from a mid-size midwestern city to San Francisco or NYC for a 1-bedroom apartment, for example.

I think getting paid by an American company but working remotely and living in NZ or Oz might be the holy grail.
I only have anecdotal evidence but I helped a colleague use this successfully. Sourcing companies to email on angelist then using google/linkedin to find contact info of the appropriate person instead of going through the career page. Cold emailed 5 companies and was able to initiate conversations with 3 without sending a resume. The 3 showed interest but after the conversations he only wanted to follow up with 1 and was able to tailor the resume very specifically. Lead to an offer.
I have to say I pretty much agree with most of what you said here.

I am a person who tries very hard to be centrist with the hope of getting closer to some "universal truths" (my Facebook page is practically a monument to political moderation) and this is the most difficult time I've had in years of trying to do this.
Peter Thiel and the Wolfe
And of course if (2) falls down and they can't steer the ship, they can leverage their new position (3) and big bags of money (1) to go move somewhere else.
The problem with this argument as stated is that it has a hard time accounting for the millions of Hispanic voters who voted for Trump... unless you think they are actually self-hating anti-Hispanic racists or something. (Yes, I know more hispanics voted for Clinton than for Trump, but the split was nowhere close to 100-0. It wasn't even close to the 88-12 or so that African-American voters split for Clinton.)
It's still a blockchain though. Bitcoin is also a database-backed BFT consensus, with a fixed transaction batch size, a fixed data schema, and a probabilistic consensus/BFT algorithm.

Deterministic BFT consensus systems that maintain linear, incrementally-hashed logs are blockchains with a block size of 1. Since they are so much faster, the block concept is unnecessary.
Yes saying a single precinct is a bit hyperbolic but claiming that all states have an equal hand in electing a president is also nonsense. The entire presidential election is decided by a few states that are poorly representative of the country. Just look at where presidential candidates campaign: The vast majority of their time is spent in less than a dozen states, who have a total population less than that of New York and California combined, just because the race in those states is neck and neck.

I am in full support of federalism but its purpose is to strike a balance between national, regional, and local representation & interests. When the system elects a candidate who lost the popular vote by hundreds of thousands that isn't a balance, that's small states getting power they should only have in the senate. The executive branch isn't bicameral so applying federalism to it is just depriving the majority of their choice. The national and state legislatures is where our federalism belongs, not in our executive branch.
There isn't much institutional effect of outsourcing if you keep outsourcing. Where I worked there were people who'd been in the same job for decades, even though they'd technically worked for a half dozen different employers during that time. And all the contract payouts were built into the load - if I made $10/hr the government paid $18.50 for each hour.

Working as a civil servant is much nicer, but it's not cheaper for the government.
pretty interesting. looks like this could be done at a state level.
Massachusetts voters ban tight quarters for hens, pigs and calves
http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/eeue56/elm-all-dict/2.0... is an example of a Dict where you pass in a custom (key -> comparable) function when initializing the datastructure.
> People don't want to go on welfare, they want a job.

That right there is pretty much the issue. We could take china's approach and specifically limit the use of heavy equipment to X hours per day, requiring everything else to be done by hand. But that's stupid pointless makework, that takes longer and costs more.

With free money, maybe some people learn a trade, start a band, write a book. Send people to school and maybe we get some value back in 5-10 years.

I understand that people want to take a job on the line at the plant, just like dad did. Well, tough. The world isn't like that anymore.

Policies might "encourage" Apple to do it's manufacturing in the U.S. A U.S. iphone factory would employ about 15 people. the security team that keeps people away from the machines.

The way to stop feeling useless is to stop being useless. Don't want money to help figure out what you can do? Well, ok, best of luck.

edit

This may come off as mean, bitter, heartless, uncaring, vile , reprehensible and whatever other adjectives you want to throw in.

Small towns are dying because there's not much reason to be there. We can subsidize them in a bunch of ways, but it's still just welfare.
My guess to reasoning is that they called a startup founder a sociopath who would kill people to make a profit.

That said, that was a completely defensible and evidence-based thing to say in context (the founder threw a fit about regulators who wanted to know what the chances are that people would die), so unless HN is cracking down on the casual use of "sociopath" by people who aren't making professional medical diagnoses (which, to be fair, I do find objectionable, but not to the point of hellbanning), it seems like it was for no sensible reason.
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Great post. In summary:

Pay people to complete a real life project and then bring them in to talk about it.

Why is this so hard for most tech companies to understand?
> Third, he doesn't actually want to go to war. War is pretty expensive, so building up a military to project strength without actually using it could be cheaper if we pull out of all on-going wars.

But... it's already by far the most well funded and advanced military in the world with a navy that ensures the US can deploy strength anywhere quickly.
Hell, they could just toss the stuff over.

Or drones.

basically all the shit they do now except just carrying it accross.
did we pay for that? i thought we got that on loan
Why would Google want that? Why would developers want that? I hate when features are deprecated and what I hate more than that is meaningless versioning. If you're going to constantly change something, keep it in beta channel until you decide. I can see adding a few features every so often but a major version twice a year?
I don't usually read campaign documents like this... is this normal? Is it normal to simplify things so much so to say Day 1 do X, Day 2 do Y, Day 3 resolved.
"I legally can't take part" is overstating the problem. It's not illegal for you to take part. What do you care if Google can claim ownership over the IP you create? And why would Google care to do so? The IP is for a throwaway problem; it's worthless.

(xoogler, with some knowledge of this area)
Vote this issue up if you have an account!
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Major-I-O-wr...
You're 99% correct as far as I'm concerned, but.... how long does it take you to turn on wifi and start an app?
Liberal areas are going to lose federal transit funding entirely, and research funding will be heavily curtailed. Don't expect any major public works to be federally funded, historically GWB and his father both eliminated most of this type of funding.
That's the point, he'll get the things passed that are going to hurt the country, and the only things that are actually GOOD ideas will sit on the floor because congress is never going to vote to limit its own power.
To some extent we do this. For example, we rolled out "legal recreational marijuana" to a few states several years ago, then watched what happened. In this election we rolled it out to a few more states and will see what happens.

Not random selection, of course, but better than nothing.
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Depends on your area of the country. In tech-dense areas with high costs of livings, the adjusted cost of living to federal civilian salary doesn't nearly catch up. However, there are many, many bases in suburban and rural areas where an early career income is over twice the median income and you get a lot for the money.
I'm not naive enough to think that Dems never play dirty, but what's astonishing that you seem to give the Republicans a complete pass with regard to their actual behavior by making a false equivalency: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/...
But US gun manufacturers rely on the north south drug trade for many of their profits (drugs run north. guns run south).

On second thought, you might be on to something here.
As an example, I see code all the time with many showX functions whose sole purpose is to turn come ADT into a string, this is the kind of boilerplate that would be reduced with some kind of abstraction mechanism.

Same for map operations, fold, etc.

Then there's other things that would benefit from further abstraction, like being able to compose apps or update functions without boilerplate.

These are just a few examples. What else do you need for it to feel like abstraction beyond simple functions is a useful feature?
Thank you for the list, but how is this an alternative? None of those run macOS (not Hackintosh). I'm not being fastidious, but I have an nontrivial software investment in macOS and Windows Any Version is not an alternative.

Yes, the new MBP wasn't all we could have hoped for, but I had held out for a very long time and it's the best option I have.

EDIT: A actually do also have an XPS 15 w/Ubuntu, but that combination isn't quite a replacement for an MBP.
Hackers news is just white people news, the influential type, which are all hardline progressive and will vote you down for anything non-progressive.
>"Peter Thiel has been pointing this out for many years. He asks, do we really have scientists anymore? Or are they really bureaucrats and politicians pretending to be scientists?
I am convinced it is the latter. I think we have whole universities filled with cargo cult science.
This relates neatly with some awkward facts about the modern education system.
For all the extraordinary efforts and feats of intellectual prowess it is also extraordinary how little they practically achieve. The number of breakthroughs has dramatically declined. Once you get past the PR bullshit and backslapping there is very little actually happening in many places in the ‘innovation economy’.
Take nanotech. I am not aware of any advances that make their appearance in a consumer’s home. I can think only of a handful of niche applications like expensive hydrophobic coatings. If the advances were occurring in the factories we should be seeing more refined low cost goods on a massive scale. Is that actually happening? I don’t know that it is. We’ve been promised a lot and been waiting for long time.
Take biotech. Nothing. Just nothing. I think the last biotechnology I interacted with was a yogurt. Can anybody name a single biotech invention or innovation that actually exists in people’s houses? In the 50s and 60s we had the Green Revolution, that counts. However the price of food has been rising considerably for several years now. There is certainly no food product that I consume that has become much cheaper."

This is extremely condescending. Just because you might not understand science doesn't mean there are no scientists anymore. Science works slow, what do you mean how little they achieve? Maternal mortality is at an all time low, we nearly have a cure for AIDS, life expectancy has dramatically increased, Cas9 offers new therapeutic hope for millions.

"If the advances were occurring in the factories we should be seeing more refined low cost goods on a massive scale."
Do you know how cheap goods are these days? So cheap that American fisherman catch tuna, ship it to china to be processed ad canned and ship it back to US markets.

"Take biotech. Nothing. Just nothing."
This must be satire.
Interesting read.

Could be more interesting with a bottle of scotch. :)