skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are thinking logically. It's not applied in Vancouver. I rent for just over 2k. If my place was put up for sale, it would be for just over 1 million. Factor in $300 a month strata fees, another $200 for insurance, if they owner has a typical long term mortgage they are renting for a loss. However they bought it 10 years ago, they have done well with the crazy appreciation.
Awesome! Another reason for outrage. That's exactly what we need.

At this point, shouldn't he be trying to get the 'other' half of the country on his side instead of pissing them off further?
I work almost every weekend, but there's also plenty of days where I don't start work until noon. I prize flexibility far above absolute number of hours: I'd rather work 60 hours a week than be forced to work 9-5 every day.
Very fitting username. ;)
Maybe the Civilization game will remove Dan Quayle as the leader you get characterized as when you finish the game with the least points.
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Misread the necessary numbers on the rules change. Still a narrower margin, but doesn't require Democrats to help out.
That's some pretty advanced selective reading. From the same paragraph: "I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised."
I have no intense desire. I'm simply bored on the internet and long ago accepted that trump had the election in hand.

I also have no obligation to detail to you which arguments I challenge. Sorry.
It's not nearly as easy to label someone a Nazi as it is to label them that other word.
Yes. Ballot tracking enables the ballot chasing (GOTV) that every one hates.
Some islands look a bit unrealistic.

With swamp areas sticking out i the sea.

Waves would remove such things in a short timespan.
I agree with gnarbarian. Being an extremist is defined as being far outside the norm. Even with a low voter count, it seems irrational to suggest that the majority of the people who voted in this election are people with views far outside the norm in America and the majority with ordinary views just didn't go to the polls. If someone can convince the large majority of voters in a country to pick them, I think it's a strong suggestion that their views are well within the norm for that country.

Trump could never be elected into office here in Canada, even with a low voter count because his views are far outside of the norm of how many Canadians think. America is different with a different culture, and the only evidence we have (polling data) suggests that the views of a great many Americans in 2016 line up pretty closely with the views of Mr. Trump.
Yep, I'm seeing this in San Diego, too. People I was friends with before the election who now avoid me and talk behind my back and glare daggers at me. I mean, hey, we're both the same people we were 12 hours before, yet now I'm some sort of monster? Uh, what?
Tens of million of women just voted for a conservative billionaire populist.
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Why the downvote? The Dems clearly had the power to use the nuclear option (and in fact they did use it later in Obama's term, so this isn't just theoretical).
Does he go to congress though? His #1 item on his list was term limits. What if he goes directly to the people?
I was trying to paint the picture that Facebook is the one passing along messages from one person to another. So yes, people could turn their computer off and go directly to someone elses house and tell them the message, but I think we've grown accustom to sending messages to each other over social media.
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> Visual programming wouldn't be 'visual' without GUI.

Have you heard of one of the most popular visual editor called 'vi' (short form of 'visual')?

But of couse I don't use it. Once you know Emacs well, you won't either. :-)
Show HN: Chrome extension to make PHP debugging easier
But it's still available on chrome web store https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jsonview/nckmconeh...
What you guys are describing isn't cronyism. The definition of cronyism is, "the appointment of friends and associates to positions of authority, _without proper regard to their qualifications._"

I'm not seeing anyone arguing that Peter Theil isn't qualified.

Bush nominating Harriet Miers is an example of cronyism. This really isn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Miers_Supreme_Court_no...
Does "hacked" have to be placed in quotes here? I thought this community knew the difference between crackers and hackers.
Why exactly am I meant to be comforted by the fact that the craven opportunists --- the lowest of the low of the Republican party, discredited outsiders like Newt Gingrich and John Bolton --- are getting the most important positions in the United States government for kowtowing to Trump?

There are important thinkers in the Republican Party. People with ideas and a moral core, people who have given years of service to the country (and, for that matter, the party). They're nowhere in the discussion --- most of them opposed Trump, who campaigned in large part in repudiation of conservative foreign policy and conservative fiscal policy. There's Robert Gates. And then there's Newt Gingrich, who has demonstrated nothing but an ability to personally profit off the chaos he's sown in the party for decades. Gingrich is a Trump winner; Gates, a loser.

You just described the literal definition of cronyism as if it was a good thing.
> Now they are in a situation where they are damned if they do, damned if they don't. And people immersed in echo chambers will accuse them of bias no matter what.

What if they simply change the algorithm to perform some graph clustering/principal component analysis on the stories that are shared organically among groups and then inject let's say 10% stories that are disproportionally shared by other clusters, but not this one?

The granularity could be tweaked to chunk everything into let's say ~5 clusters per nationality and language.

The machines do not have to assess facts, they just have to allow people to see beyond their friend-horizon. So call it the bubble-burster.
Define "epidemic of rape" or "flood of illegal immigrants".

If there is at least one rape or at least one illegal immigrant then it becomes subjective or contextual.

Is 3 rapes a flood? What if it is in a week in one town? What if one was by a former illegal immigrant? What if it is over the course of a year, but all 3 occurred in one day?

Is 20 illegal immigrants a flood? What if they all arrive in a town with a population of 100?

Who is "we"? Is a story about millions of illegal immigrants in Greece relevant? What if it about thousands of illegal immigrants working in Athens? What if Athens is in Georgia?

A real example:

"Broken Families: Raids Hit Athens' Immigrant Community Hard" vs "Athens crackdown shows no hospitality for illegal migrants"

One is a real headline from Georgia, the other from Greece. Can you tell which is which?
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Back when I cared more about this...

My notion was ballot tabulators (of the opscan variety) would boot off a CD-ROM. The only code on the machines would be the bootstrap. Then it'd be comparatively easy to guard the physical chain of custody.
https://twitter.com/i/moments/796417517157830656 this happened
I don't really care that they're no longer bundling the 2 together. What I DO care about is having to pay $79 for a charger then another $20 for the cable. Those prices are just fked...
Nothing was said about the security implications of outsourcing to people who are required to obey a different government. Are you going to open up your network to them? Are you going to expose your trade secrets to them?

When you find a strangely perfect clone of your product on the market, do not be surprised.
I think it's conservatism. And by conservatism I mean not something archaic, stupid and with reliance only on tradition, like leftist think... It's motion to the same goals, only slower. People must have freedom. But too much freedom too fast always creates problems.

Each step must not make revolutions and counterrevolutions. Each step mustn't break people's minds. Each step must consider everything (not "goal for goal"). So conservatism is much more complex because you need to consider everything and with this knowledge make hard decisions, not just run to the sun with some hope that everything will be all right, like drug addicts do. For me, leftism and all modern liberalism is infantile and conservatism is for grownups.
Amazon link to the book

https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Myth-David-Sacks/dp/0945999...

The book is not arguing against multiculturalism or diversity but rather it is arguing that multiculturalism and diversity are being used as an excuse to stifle free speech and silence dissenting opinions in institutions of higher learning. You are misrepresenting what the book is about.
I take this post as an example of the media looking for anyone to blame, except themselves. The closest that the post comes to a mea culpa is this:

> And of those who [sought information in journalism], not enough of them trusted it to inform their political decisions.

Of course they didn't. We know, for instance, that media after the Gulf War will not allow pictures that show war as anything but spotless. We know that, for every single topic, they'll present a stupid counterpoint and claim that a 50/50 balance is needed, even if the counterbalance is nonsense. They barely call people out on their (obvious, documented) lies. And don't get me started on sponsored content.

I think people turned to Facebook news because, ultimately, they trust their friends and relatives more than the media. And why shouldn't they? The media has done everything in their power to shape public discourse as they see fit, and now they are surprised that people don't trust them anymore.
Your statement referred to 'race mixing' which is quite another thing altogether.

It's entirely possible to be 'offended' by the total destruction of one's culture and not so much by any inherent 'race mixing' that may be the result of that.

But yes - multiculturalism will definitely 'destroy' any culture wherein it is implemented - white/black/red or brown. That's a simple fact.

'Diversity' in the world is destroyed with multiculturalism. You get a 'rainbow of skin colours and last names' - sure - but you get a narrowing of culture and ideals. You get the lowest common denominator - not 'multiple viewpoints'.

You don't get 'more ideas' - you get 'officially sanctioned ideals'.

'Cultures' need 'critical mass' to exist, and they cannot be defined by GDP or social policy. Once there are too many cultures, or culturally secular ideals - the 'local culture' is completely abolished.

When you have 'diversity' in a locale - you break down cultural bonds - and replace them with material products - like Starbucks and McDonald's - and culturally secular values.

Example: I was in Tunisia recently, I drank a 'Tunisian tea' (what I called it). It was dirt cheap. The Coca-Cola was 2x more expensive. Paradox: selling 'coca cola' is essentially better for the GDP - 2x more dollars changing hands. Culturally secular politicians and economists will see this 'GDP growth' and push hard on it across all consumer and business sectors. New shopping malls with H&M, Zara, Starbucks, Monoprix, Carrefour etc. etc. - are literally up-ending all of the unique culture of some parts of that country.

After a while, 'Tunis', 'Toronto' and 'Singapore' will be the same place: same secular laws, same products, same services, same clothes, possibly speaking English, working in cubicles, driving the same cars back and forth.

All unique cultural artifacts - and there are many of them - abolished.

Tunisia is a very strange place to me - and that's what makes it great. I'm not looking forward to going back in 25 years when it's all been wiped out by globalism.

'Multiculturalism' is really just a very short transition period between 'culture' (i.e. diversity in the world) and 'globalized, culturally secular nation states'.

America (and Canada) are obviously special places where multicultural identity means something different than say Germany or Tunisia, nevertheless, the conversation should be allowed to had.

We already have a great deal of 'diversity' on planet earth, just get on an airplane! Most attempts to create 'more diversity' in a specific local (usually with the benign objective of wanting people to 'get along better') , actually reduces the 'net diversity' of the world, ironically.
6 Reasons for Trump's Rise That No One Talks About
Getting around 30fps on a 2015 Macbook Air. Might be due to yours rendering at retina resolution.
Travelling is such an important way for people to grow, but it's so hard to appreciate its value without actually doing it. It's shocking how many people have only left their state to visit Disney Land.
keep telling middle america how wrong they all are. When they rise up against you at the ballot box, keep telling them how wrong they all are. It'll work eventually!
Google - define:extremist

a person who holds extreme or fanatical political or
religious views, especially one who resorts to or advocates
extreme action.

Nothing about this requires they not be the majority or even a very significant minority. It just requires they hold extreme views.

Nothing about this requires viewing them only through a local and not a global lens, either.

And just because people voted for Trump doesn't mean they agree with all or even any of his positions. (Anecdata) I've spent the last several days speaking with numerous people who voted for him despite disagreement on many of his policy positions, strictly because they were voting against Clinton.
So you Americans now are embracing being full-time assholes after electing trump.
Here's an olive branch, it's a linear combination. Look at the numbers, yes a large portion supported Trump out of desperation, but Clinton got 6M votes less than Obama. That says it all, people couldn't be motivated to vote.

Please, for our sake that we can rebuild in 2020 from what little we have left of our country, do look around and realize that the DNC had alot to do with why Trump won.
I'm not understanding your point. The DNC has not only been condoning violence but actively organising and funding it. People have had to step down from there jobs at the DNC because of these scandals.

I don't recall any time that Trump or anyone at the RNC 'openly condoning violence against specific people'. If there is some proof of this I would like to see it.
This is stupid for so many reasons, and un-American. I only wonder what Lincoln would say, who gave his life to preserve the Union and American Experiment.
> Anyhow - as of today, he owes almost nothing politically.

Really? The German bank that has lent Trump millions of dollars has a $14 billion fine to the justice department. https://theintercept.com/2016/11/10/trump-presidency-could-b...
Edward Bernays – Propaganda (1928)
Undercover fomenting discord is entirely unacceptable and should be.

But let's not pretend that was solely the domain of the DNC.

Trump has stood in front of a camera and called for his supporters to beat people up at his rallies. He's said that people should be punched "right in the face". He's offered to pay legal fees for people charged with assault for attacking protestors.

Also "caught" red handed. Except he was openly advocating for it.
Pure ignorant writing.

Do we live in a country of immigration laws or not? This author seems to think it's a one world government.
> if you offer a service that can compete with piracy, people stop pirating.

But it doesn't solve the problem, because the #1 feature of pirated music is that it doesn't cost anything. A free streaming service doesn't cost anything either--but just like piracy, it also doesn't pay the artist anything.

> p.s. I don't think anyone ever made money from recording music, even when album sales were good. record labels have always taken the lions share of profits. this has nothing to do with artists making money IMO.

You are wrong. Source: my brother has been a recording artist for 20 years.
I guess I'm not seeing why having a function rather than a macro is really that much of a distinction in this case. Either way, it's essentially just a namespaced block of code that compiles down to an AST fragment; I don't think the facts that one of them uses the stack and that they're compiled at slightly different times really make much of a difference here.
You seem to have some cardinality issues in your numbering there.
"You need a public blockchain voting record."

Any kind of audit log records the order of the ballots cast. Which (mostly) corresponds to the order ballots were issued.

Meaning blockchain voting would eliminate the secret ballot.

I don't think it's possible to have electronic tabulation which safeguards either the secret ballot or the public vote count. But I try to be open minded about it. Some of my besties are nuts for the blockchain stuff, so they keep me in the loop about each new notion.
If the news feed were just a reveres chronological list of everything your friends posted, then I'd agree with you -- facebook would be just a medium. But they filter and sort it.

I would actually like to have a knob or a switch I could use to add or remove certain elements from the news feed filter algo. I think it would be great if one of those parameters was a (open source) "factuality score."

they're already doing this with click-bate, why not brain-rot? Especially if it's an optional feature.
In A Nutshell just published a primer on nuclear fusion yesterday! It's my favorite ELI5 style science channel.

https://youtu.be/mZsaaturR6E
Depending on the outcome, I think that we'd be able to figure some solution that works for what would become the nation of California (based on what land actually CalExits.)

Worst case scenario - either de-salt the water in the ocean, or buy it. If the United States can sell electricity with Mexico given our contentious at times relationship, I'm sure we could figure it out.

Totally agree with you - in principle it would be difficult, messy, and would very much be a disruptive conversation to have with America.

Then again, even the Trump campaign expected they would be unsuccessful in the end.
His writing is God awful and a huge bore. I'm interested in the topic but loathe his writing.
I disagree. We know nothing about the height at this point. It could be anything between a big, flat beach (http://hd.wallpaperswide.com/thumbs/beach_island-t2.jpg) and crazy cliffs sticking out into the sea (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Cliffs-O...)

Without a scale and a height map, almost no shape is unrealistic.
But why would his tax return shed new light on this, that his previous financial disclosure did not? Are you saying that the tax return would include detail on things like financing rates that were not mentioned in the financial disclosure? I thought it would just tell us what deductions he was taking / loopholes he was exploiting with respect to his taxes.
This premise is just wishful thinking. Work life balance may make us happier, it may be the best choice to lead a fulfilled life, but it's wrong to suggest it's going to make us win at software development.

List the people you would rate as the top 10 computer scientists or engineers over the last century. Now, how many of these people worked only 40hrs a week or less?

If you're not interested in greatness, or maxing out your true potential, then balance is a fine (maybe wiser) choice. But please don't discredit obsession and single mindedness after they have been the force behind so many accomplishments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion
Take a look sometime at the executive compensation that Obama's "smaller steps" provided for the insurance industry. They're definitely not lobbying against Obamacare.
For nation building, his campaign slogan from day one: Make America Great Again.

For inaccurate portrayals in the media, Wikileaks/Guccifer leaks from the DNC pointing out deliberate strategy to brand Trump as a rascist, sexist, xenophobic, fascist bigot, along with evidence showing strong media collusion to do that, and then going to the source of his most controversial statements and finding out that many were taken out of context to push those exact themes.

For unity and caring about all Americans - repeated calls for it at his rallies, and videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm8n9qVIK_8

But I guess the biggest is simply what I mentioned above. Throughout the campaign Trump has been painted as a bully, as hateful, as a bigot as someone who does things his way and doesn't listen to others. This is also someone with a highly inflated opinion of himself, who paints his name in giant gold letters on his planes and buildings.

He and his platform had just won 'bigly' - the presidency, the senate, the house. If anything the win would embolden someone with with the above characteristics and this speech was the culmination of his entire campaign and what he stood for.

And yet none of those things came through in his speech - no message of hate or divisiveness, no bullying, no messages of vindication or retribution, instead it was the opposite. Reaching out to people who opposed him, offering to work together regardless of race and religion and political affiliation, everyone coming together to build a better America.

That language and tone doesn't square with a narcissistic, bigoted, bully who says what he wants and takes what he pleases.

It just doesn't.

And when I'm confronted with a situation where reality conflicts with my perception of reality, the choice is either to update my perception to match the reality I'm seeing and hearing, or to further twist reality to match that already inaccurate perception.

In any event, Trump made it clear in that speech he wanted to work on unity and building the nation.

Is that something you can support?

If yes, I suspect you are likely to find common ground with many of his supporters. If no, that is on you more than on Trump.
America didn't elect a technocrat. We elected a bigmouth reality TV star. Should probably think of the Trump cabinet as something more like a Breitbart sitcom than a functional administration.
Seattle probably. Tech scene here is already growing massively, thanks in no small part to Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook.
IMO the ACA was an overreach that cost him the congress in 2010 and possibly Clinton's presidency. That political capital would have been better spent on getting higher taxes at the top and fixing social security.