skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't really disagree with you, but it is a sad state of affairs that we are asking one of this country's political parties to bow to the propaganda of the other.
I think Vim guy uses c-[ not esc
I think we learned that fake news (used to pump up fake issues) is now a legitimate campaign strategy that works even on people who should know better.

Trump won on a mountain of fake issues:

Immigration: both conservative and liberal economists agree that immigration (illegal or otherwise) does not suppress wages and does not suppress job growth.

https://www.cato.org/research/immigration
http://business.time.com/2013/01/30/the-economics-of-immigra...

Terrorism: more toddlers killed Americans than terrorists in 2015. For every terrorist killing someone on US soil, more than 4000 Americans killed each other.

http://www.snopes.com/toddlers-killed-americans-terrorists/
http://tinyurl.com/q3fqk69

Gay marriage: All it does is extend the same legal protections to people of the same sex that was already available to people of opposite sex. It doesn't take away any rights from anybody.

Who is using the bathroom: Historically virtually no jurisdictions have had laws in place to prevent men from entering ladies rooms or vice versa. There have been male registered sex offenders entering the bathroom with yours sons since time immemorial. Transgendered people are no more likely to be sex offenders than the general population.

Obamacare: While the program has its problems, the Trump administration will do nothing to address them and has said it will double-down on aspects that will make our health care system worse.

I could go on but this is plenty. Welcome to the post-factual political America.
See https://www.statista.com/chart/3848/the-us-murder-rate-compa...

The murder rate for whites in the US (i.e. the rate at which whites are murdered) is 2.5 per 100,000 much lower than the overall murder rate of 5.2 per 100,000. This is still higher than most of the West, e.g. 70% higher than Canada. But not the "extreme levels" you referred to earlier.

And you didn't mention guns before, I'm assuming you don't really only care about violence that comes out of the barrel of a gun, and you're just adding this now to avoid discussing the link between race and crime.
Any insight into potential impacts on the tech industry?
Dude, it's over, you won. You don't have to pretend to believe that bullshit anymore.
Trump is vulgarity unbounded, a knowledge-free national leader who will not only set markets tumbling...

Markets are up about 2% since yesterday. I hope the author didn't go short!
> harbors some of the most virulent racists, misogynists, and homophobes.

Like those at the Chicago rally?
Because when this software/music, in its final form, only consist in pure information, it's nearly impossible to guarantee your compensation without giving companies the tools to interfer with essential freedoms.
I don't think they should act like the Republicans did under Obama and vote against things they actually believed in just to make him ineffective. If they genuinely vote for things they believe in, maybe Trump will feel more of a reason to compromise instead of digging his heels into the dirt further and further and stomping on them anyway. It's because they did this that the country got further divided and less bipartisan.

But yes, Democrats better do whatever they can to stop anything that's outrageous or they don't believe in even a little bit. No "Oh, the people have spoken, so we better go along with it" shit. Republicans pulled every dirty trick they could with Obama, so they should feel free to do the same.
Backhanded? Unless you actually think that the presidency isn't something that should be used as a model for discussions and debates, there's nothing backhanded about it at all.

Perhaps you could get off your high horse and stop saying my motives are less than pure? Right now I feel you are lecturing me like an errant schoolboy. You, after all, are the one telling me I have "veiled" sarcasm. I'm telling you I don't and I thought my opinion - even if you disagree with it - was something constructive I could bring to this thread.

So, perhaps try to ascribe less to my motives given I have no idea who you are and I have never interacted with you before, not to mention my comment history shows I tend to be a pretty serious minded poster. It's hardly respectful to impune my motives when you have no real evidence to the contrary to inform your suspicions.

In fact, the only temperature that's being raised right now is mine, given you appear to be attacking my character. And that's a tad hypocritical.

dang, on the other hand, has no such excuse.
all of that was to shut out Dem turnout, none of that was why he got votes
While true, I'm not sure there is any competing laptop that offers the same kind of experience. Yes, as a developer I hate it. But if I'm considering something for my parents or friends who are technically illiterate, and I have the budget, I don't know what else I'd recommend.

I recently bought a new Lenovo laptop for a friend. Wasn't top of the line, but a decent machine with Windows 10 preinstalled. He couldn't use the machine without having to wait about 30 minutes to set it up and wait for an update to take place. Contrast that with the Mac experience. I've bought two Macbooks in the last 5 years, and both times I was using it within 5 minutes of opening the lid for the first time. Even the battery wasn't charged for the Lenovo laptop I bought.

Apple makes solid laptops, have a great first boot experience, and they have a limited product line, which makes choosing a new laptop extremely easy for people who just want something quick when their old machine dies. It took me a good deal of hunting to find something suitable within the PC line. There are too many choices.

So yes, I agree if someone makes a solid product that can compete on these grounds, I'd go for it in a heartbeat, and suggest it to others. But I don't see that happening given the extremely diverse PC line and the business model they follow.
pc=politically correct

sjw=social justice warrior

trigger-warning=just google it. there are people that go in panic when they hear certain stuff (kinda insane really)

safe space= a place that protects you from words that trigger you

micro aggresion= normal aggresion is hitting someone example, micro aggresion is looking wrong, or saying something ~"bad"~

a good example: watch the "hugh mungus" fenomen (original video and many reactions like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aVna3HohXI )
Ask HN: Best holiday 2016 choices for true developer laptop?
Was discussing this earlier, how many countries are actually ruled by popular vote? The recent Iceland election brings in mind, where the six constituencies makes a vote in Reykjavík count less than any other vote. The reason for that is if they didn't, citizens of Reykjavík would have a majority on their own in any national election.

Similar, Sweden have a similar system where a vote from the small island of Gotland has 50% more impact compared to any other vote. The reason for that is that otherwise the island would only have 2 politicians in the parliament and the Swedish government wanted to have one more party representing the island than just the two major parties (which, based on those rules, means that the top 3 parties in Gotland is more or less guarantied one seat each).
Not really. It just encourages people to fight for their team.

You need a place where there are no teams, where it's not A vs. B, but a place where you're tackling smaller problems and talking solutions which can be understood and validated.
Just five days in, the MacBook Pro models had already hit
almost 80% of combined 2015 and 2016 MacBook sales

well according to that it looks probably more like:

https://xkcd.com/1102/

I mean if Apple sold way less MacBook Pro's in 2015/2016 it's really simple to explain that their sales now jumped!?
Comparing percentage values, just sucks. It would be better to compare their sales now with the sales of the last "upgrade" of the MacBook Pro, that would be a way more solid number.

Edit:
Also the origin site is: https://intelligence.slice.com/apples-macbook-pro-launch/

With a panel of over 4.4 million online shoppers

so without nowing their customers these numbers could be extremely misleading. Not every shop has access to every Laptop brand and Dell generates most of his sales on their own Website (which might be or might be not a customer of slice.com)
That's not the same at all.

Private companies creating a list of banned persons is different, substantially, from ordinances requiring a license.

The very basis of negative versus positive approval, for instance.
So you agree, the system is rigged?

Because I see the candidate that clamored loudest about the system being rigged won.
> Arguably it's more about the DC establishment than HRC

I think many problems WikiLeaks revealed were related to her being beholden to the entrenched interests (including controversial allies, like Saudi Arabia). But yes, :) I considered making this caveat in my original post, because I think you're 70% right. I doubt much will change re banks, but I also doubt he would appoint his cabinet based on a list emailed to him from banking execs. Re war, it's probably best to refer to Peter Thiel on why he so strongly thinks Trump will avoid war. We are currently bombing 7 countries and I'd like to think his not being beholden to the arms industry means he could change that if he wanted, and while he may not, I am more certain he would not do another $80 billion arms export to Gulf States or push for a regime change in a ME country. I don't think anyone who read WikiLeaks and decided to abandon Hillary thought highly of Trump, just the feeling that one is no longer defensible and the other is unknown but at least not beholden.
In my experience, those people aren't looking to Trump to "fix" their problems. As you said, in many cases those jobs simply aren't coming back.

The difference is that Trump said "I'll do everything I can to put things back together" (while not making any specific promises), while Clinton said "You're sexist and deplorable if you vote for that guy".

Trump recognized that the problems existed. He was the first presidential candidate to do even that.
Nice!

It would be good if you added some contribution guidelines :)
The British people considered it unreasonably large, for whatever reasons. They considered it important enough that after years of being ignored millions voted for UKIP or the Tories.

Again I'm not here to argue merits. What you have there is more justifications for ignoring the views of large sections of the electorate.

The rest of your argument is purely economic, as if that is or should be everything to everyone. And some of those points are arguable. I don't think that warrants calling people who disagree "mad".

>> I don’t think I am insisting on that (?) I’m not quite sure what you mean.

Oh just that I've been trying to make the point that politicians have been at this for decades and you bring up the conservatives as having tried to engage.

I don't think they really did, and by the time they did it was too late. Engagement should have been there from Blair onward.
Have you seen our new Vice President? He supports literal torture of gay people. That's not even hyperbole.The only "pro-LGBT" thing Trump has ever done was use the Orlando shooting as a way to attack Muslims.
Yes, when Trump ran his negative campaign, Hillary's favorables declined. Cause and effect.

In fact, using your own cite, if you run that back to 2015 and before and she has net favorables. The only thing you've shown is that negative advertising works.
> Probably one of the biggest ones is the Obama administration's unwillingness to use the label "Radical Islamic Terror."

Using that phrase doesn't magically solve the problem, and in fact runs the risk of legitimizing the terrorists from an Islamic point of view. Stopping the problem means stopping their recruitment. The more persecuted Muslims feel, the easier they are to radicalize and recruit by extremist groups. Severing that link is vital to solving the problem. It is absolutely essential that moderate Muslims are welcomed and embraced by society, and not attacked for having the same religion as terrorists.
I'm in the opposite situation. Been living somewhere I hate for a long time now. No interest in a traditional family and always wanted to live in the city. If I had a savings, I would gladly dump it into living in the city. For now, I at least have a computer...
The problem with that conspiracy theory is it doesn't explain why her. Its clearly not gender or we've be getting the two minutes hate on Warren and Stein. Its clearly not simply being high profile because even pres Obama doesn't catch as much heat as Hillary. It's as if there's something about the Clintons. Sometimes a criminal is just a criminal, simple as that.

There could have been a vast conspiracy to frame the Unibomber or Al Capone or John Dillinger or Nixon. No one can explain why them. Therefore I think it infinitely more likely they were just crooks.
> Respectfully, he shored up the banks that had precipitated the crisis rather than the people most affected by the crisis. Some will call that virtuous and necessary, or 'deeply unfair' and necessary (Timothy Geithner), but the people who benefited are not the people who voted last night.

Well, even the collapse of Lehman Brothers meant an enormous shock. Given the scale of the crisis, it's very impressive how well the US came out of it, and that is to a significant degree down to his policy. That is, consistent growth for the interim period, and high levels of private sector job growth (up 12 million over the course of his Presidency, compared to a fall for President Bush). That is important for every ordinary individual in the country. It's all very well saying 'he should have let all the banks fail' in retrospect, with the actual prospect of that actually happening.

Also, I'm not just talking about the banking measures in the crisis, but about the moderate banking reforms he put in place, and also about the stimulus bill, which was painted as apocalyptic by the Republican leadership, but which actually seems to have helped a lot.

> As for healthcare reform, he chose health insurance rather than health care.

Well, most European countries have health insurance systems, which work well. The Dutch and the Germans have that system. The French have an insurance system for people earning over a certain level. He chose a moderate reform (which had already been trialled by a Republican in Massachusetts) presumably with the idea that it would be a fairly uncontroversial but significant step to get to universal coverage, which few people would seriously disagree with, and which could then be built on in future. Presumably remembering Hillary Clinton's failure to put a much more ambitious scheme in place two decades earlier. He probably misjudged the mood, should have reconciled himself to the inevitability of being presented as a hate figure, and done a more root and branch reform. Again, easy to say in retrospect.
Brian and Bryan are out, too.
They.. already do that?

https://copyright.att.net/home
It gets yellow after five consecutive days of sunshine. Not that it happens very often, ofc.
You missed the point. She was the most vocal about striking Libya in the first place.
5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win (July 2016)
When I was interviewing in vancouver and seattle, the seattle offer was about double. Housing and everything else cost less and the income tax rate was lower. Back then the currencies were even. Now they are not, so its an even better idea to work in the USA. You pay off student loans and save money that much faster.

Soon after I moved to the bay area because the companies there were more interesting, but the pay was probably about even compared to seattle.

That is why it would of been foolish to stay.
Would you trust your health or your life to "repeal and replace"?

Because that is what has been asked of me and some folks I know.

Serious question. Are you in a position where your access to health care rests on "repeal and replace" working out?
This is spot on. "PC" "safe-space" and "SJW" are simply labels for specific people, but the same tendencies behind them exist everywhere.

The same people complaining about PC-culture and SJWs are the same people who are outraged about Colin Kaepernick taking a knee during the national anthem.
>Exit polls seem to suggest that plenty of people understated their support for Trump

This is incorrect. People stated their support. Poll models just underestimated how many of them would vote.
Wages lag inflation, unfortunately.
2MB is the ante to get at the big boy's table.
That's true, but that doesn't mean nominating her was a good choice. It may be the fault of Republicans that she's so hated, but it's the fault of the Democrats that they nominated someone so hated.
He has an orange spraytan.
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I actually think we're talking too much. Sometimes even when we have nothing constructive to say.
To be fair, the GOP tried to run a similarly establishment candidate - they just lost control of the primary process with Trump's wave of enthusiasm.
From the article:

>Just five days in, the MacBook Pro models had already hit almost 80% of combined 2015 and 2016 MacBook sales – and look set to exceed 18 months of sales in the first week.

So Apple is having incredible sales numbers for Apple, not compared to some smaller manufacturers.
"The social bullying coming from Clinton’s supporters guaranteed that lots of Trump supporters were in hiding. That created the potential for a surprise result, so long as the race was close."

This contradicts the "disgruntled blue collar white support base" narrative, and I'm interested in seeing evidence that figures out the difference. E.g. Did Hillary underperform in cities? Is there social pressure from progressives within the social circles of Trump voters? Did young college educated voters vote differently than expected?
I'll even dispute the "widespread developer backlash" -- it looks good to me, and this reception seems no different from the reception to previous Apple products that broke with the past (no floppy drive, USB for keyboard & mouse, etc.)

It's temporarily painful, but USB C seems like a tremendous improvement, and 4 full ports is mighty.
Use a CDN? I already have these libs cached...
That is simply not true. It's not that black and white. For example, some people had to choose between their livelihoods or voting for Trump. Many of them didn't like his sexism, racism, etc. However, for them, it appeared that the choice was voting for Trump regardless or lose their job, home, and community. I'm sure most of them hope that his racism and sexism won't come into play during the presidency.
I believe what is hard to understand for us living outside of the US is how is it possible that the person who is declared President is not the candidate that the majority of people voted to be President. I tried to explain to my peers how the US election system works multiple times but I mostly got back puzzled faces and disbelief.
If you want to know why Trump won:

https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/
Everyone seems to be talking about what a strong repudiation this is of the Obama, Clinton, and liberalism in general, but at the time of this writing Clinton is actually ahead in the popular vote by a 200,000+ vote margin and it looks like she'll maintain the lead. Yes this was far closer than many expected, but Trump's victory is largely an anomaly of a system that heavily favors rural, geographically distributed voters. So I'd be careful to take this as a signal that America has been suddenly overtaken by a surge of populism and anti-minority sentiment.
For the economy as a whole, abstracting away imports and exports, we can only eat what we sow.

This applies to the average Joe, too, by the nature of how averages work. (But might not apply to the median Joe.)

Yes, there's some pricing power for some people. And there's weird things like Baumol's cost disease. But those are second and higher order effects.
Apple had a long history of their hardware failing and failing and failing again, between anti-glare coatings coming off, GPUs failing en masse, hinges breaking on early alu ones, abysmal quality iphone buttons for a long time, the innards dying to riddiculous temperature they work at

I mean, the new 13 inch entry level macbook keeps the CPU at 85-89C under full load - if you really think it will not make it fail then i have a unicorn to sell to you
some of us on the left were not surprised at all. a class program is a strong one, even if it's a right wing program.
Now you are making me feel bad for my 15 minute bike commute.
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He should really teach that to european leaders. They went full-on Hillary without even trying to keep up appearances.
Yep. I'm a freelance developer and I bought a new MBP. I don't mind a soft-key function row, and I'm kinda curious what people can do with it. I don't need an SD card slot.

Losing Magsafe, 16GB top-out on the RAM are disappointing, but when I looked at alternatives nothing stood out as 'better'. I could get something much more powerful, but generally bigger and/or with worse battery. I've got a desktop for when I need nothing but horsepower. When I'm out working for clients I need something that fits in my bag on my bike.
I'm actually more inclined to move to the US now that Trump has won the presidency. It works both ways, you know.
Silicon Valley Investor Peter Thiel Wins Bet on Trump
Except the hundreds of thousands of people who swung Florida, WI, and MI do not make $200K a year. The election was very much won by this majority.
>>Most of those people are not members of any marginalized groups.

Can you give some examples ? Are white "priviledged" marginalized ? Are the people that voted for Trump, deplorables, marginalized ?
Ask HN: Are generalists doomed in the job market?
Disclaimer: this is not a "hire me" kind of post but a genuine Ask HN.

HN, I am seriously struggling to market myself as a professional being a generalist. (more like T-shaped towards software engineering, but you get the point). You can find several articles describing how being a generalist should be the best for you: fact is, it isn't if you are looking for a job.

Me: 30yo, generalist engineer, PhD (without pubs), southern Europe.

- Did own a Startup for 2 years, made some, not much, but some money.

- Experienced public speaker (I honestly love it and do it well)

- Did code & publish Android apps for 20k downloads.

- Did code & deploy backends (mainly AWS).

- Did manage products.

- Did create better than average artwork when needed.

- Did manage teams, albeit small.

- Did marketing management.

- Did data science (not ML, or not yet at least)

- Lecturer for 5 years in engineering subjects

- All the above while being an applied researcher (technology transfer, consulting) at university for 6 years: Did R%D for several companies.

You see, people like me don't fit ANY frigging job type.

- Can you work as a sw dev? I'm probably not as skilled as a professional dev. I would never be time-efficient as a professional.

- Can you be a product/R%D/marketing/xxx manager then?

Well, I should have the experience. If yes, do you have >5 years experience in related industry? No. Then no you can't.

- You definitely have experience as a professor. Can you be a professor at least? No publications, sorry, nada.

I could go on and on. At my age you have to "have been a specialist" in any role for years.

"You know, kid, startups need people like you *at least* in their early stage"

Being in Southern Europe doesn't really help, startups here have no money in early stage.

Is it just me? Do I REALLY have to be entrepreneur to work?
What would you do?
Like George Bush was vocal about striking Iraq in the first place but got elected twice.