skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the left pulls their classic double standard with stuff like being incredibly accepting of Muslim immigrants/refugees and their ideologies, yet not being anywhere near as tolerant of Christianity, when likely the two religions have more in common than the left wing does with the former.

And as it turns out, people like being surrounded by others that share their values, speak their language, look like them, and enjoy the same activities as they do. There's no shame in wanting a group identity. The christian right wing is just tired of everybody else's identity being legitimized except for theirs.
Sanders would've been a giant risk too. In retrospect, they needed a third option.

But then, 24 hours ago, both parties would've expected one result and have since received the other so that's easier to say with hindsight.
The Clash of Civilizations Revisited
There are other reasons to support Trump. Being an unorthodox person who they perceived as nonjudgemental, quite a few people have confided in me that they like him. Only one of these people was white, several were female, and none are particularly racist.

Reasons I've been told include:

- A "fuck you" to the establishment and orthodoxy.

- A belief that Hillary is corrupt.

- Entertainment value. One Trump voter I know also donated to Hillary in order to get the "Woman Card": https://shop.hillaryclinton.com/products/the-woman-card

- A support for nationalism and economic populism.

- A belief that Trump can do for the country what he did for Wolman skating rink: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-09-29/a-1980... (I think Peter Thiel falls into this category.)

I know it's tempting to level the worst insult you can think of - raaaciiiissstt - against anyone who disagrees with you. Consider the possibility that this is what allowed Trump to win in the first place.
I am very Anti-Trump, but I have to ask, could the same thoughts not be said by a right-winger to a leftist? It seems like neither side is listening.

From what I understand, this isn't what democracy used to be. We've created a divide where somebody says "I'm a democrat/republican" and they look at the party for what that means.

It isn't only the system that is broken, but it is how we view it and how we view each other.

This is why I agreed with Sama and not removing Thiel from YC. We have to listen to the other side and empathize so we can understand. Without that we all lose.

Today, we all lost.
> Jeez, everybody is all bent out of shape on this. The Republican establishment hate Trump nearly as much as they hate Clinton so with Republicans controlling The House and The Senate how much "damage" is President Trump going to be able to do.

This isn't like Obama in his first term where he couldn't do anything.

The republicans have won both the house and the senate.

The momentum is now definitely with Trump, it's his republican party now.

The people have overwhelmingly supported for him.

One final thing. The "establishment" has you put it on the republican side. You watch. Those who called out trump and said never trump. They will be gone in 4-8 years. A new progressive republican party is going to come out of this.
It would be nice if that were true. Maybe Bernie could've pushed the focus back on improving the US instead of picking international fights, but Trump's rhetoric is far more Hawkish than Obama or Clinton.
After Brexit and Trump, the next milestone on this curious series is the French presidential elections in May 2017. The far right candidate Le Pen is leading the polls, but winning at the second round of the election is not going to be easy. Although, no doubt that Brexit, the Trump election, potential new terrorist attacks in France as well as the developping migrant crisis are going to give her a boost.

But like Trump she is unlikely to control the parliament. The republican party will likely temper Trump through the senate. And without a majority at the French parliament, a French president is more like a queen of England, just with the nuclear red button in her hand.
By nice relations you mean: sure take Ukraine and we don't care about Baltic states?
I thought it was absurd to entertain the idea that he was a serious candidate for the republican ticket. And I thought it was absurd to think he would win tonight. A new great wall of China is absurd, too. But that doesn't mean it isn't going to happen.
> very off putting and unconstructive

One of those is irrelevant and the other one is false.

There's a lengthy, clear description of a problem, with a use case, leading up to a feature request...how is all of that "unconstructive"?

In fact, what's definitively unconstructive is the way the feature request is closed: dismissing the use case as invalid, despite the fact there's a description of the rationale behind it in the comments.
Folks shorting stock futures.
It's been an incredible journey and frankly it's amazing he managed to cross the finish line. What a winner!

I'm excited about the future of my country. OPTIMISM! No more self loathing and defeatism. Time to rekindle the American dream.
I stopped caring about 'racism' long time ago. In the past race was about your color and physical features, now race is a 'big ethnicity'. Well, I can and do dislike different cultures and their cultural practices. I don't care about color. If you redefine race to something not connected to genetics, I am fine with being racist, perfectly fine. Because that's not the type of racists I hate.

If I see a black guy, I won't have any prejudices.
If I see a black or white or green or whatever guy, who says that only black people can use the word 'nigger', I would consider him racist (in its old sense) and stupid.
So you link to a video from what amounts to a Russian state news service? I'm all for alternative view points and news sources, but c'mon man.
Honestly Brexit and Trump both tell me that democracy doesn't work, because the majority of the population is undereducated, bigoted, and has absolutely no idea about how to run an economy - it makes no sense for the working class who don't understand the most basic of economic concepts to influence how the economy is run.

I hope he doesn't screw America's economy by preventing skilled immigrants coming in and helping the tech industry, and by screwing up America's free trade deals. The return of protectionist & economically idiotic policy could truly screw the US.
No, because 40% is smaller than 60%?

Well, without jokes, tyranny of the majority is the topic, which is studied in political science, a complicated one actually.
You can clearly tell the extent Trump's isolationist attitude by having John Bolton on as an advisor. Also, the Iran deal? He promised to shred it. The Iranians might finally obtain nukes.
I didnt mean the messages are available to decrypt, that messages would hit GCM or that encryption methods are flawed or anything like that.

More like, Google has root on your phone so it can steal your private keys any time.
>Tax's lowering for everyone == mostly benefit the rich

What?
Congratulations to the President.

Good luck with your time in office, it's probably the most challenging job in the world (after systemd debugger).
What should happen.We tell iran to keep quiet or we nuke them.
Are there female and / or gay people in your life whose rights matter to you?
One of the reasons Clinton lost is because of the attitude that everyone who opposes her is ignorant and short-sighted. Food for thought.
1. Calling black lives matter a terrorist organisation
2. Demonizing a woman for wearing her religious clothing

Hey guys I spotted the racist
There are right wing versions of political correctness.

Try saying that immigrants aren't a problem at a Republican rally. Or saying that women have a right to choose. Or that homosexuals should be able to marry.

Then watch how quickly right wingers jumps down your throat for not being politically correct.
This is one of the great products I have friends working on. ThoughtWorks has a big team working on this product. It's amazing to see it working well in so many countries.
I've heard it's very difficult to emigrate to Australia, is that not the case?
Trump's campaign might be anti-establishment, the people he will be bringing in will not be.

Jeff Sessions
Giuliani
Christy

just to name three of his "inner circle"

I cross my fingers that we will get through the next 4 years without any significant events. However, I think this is really a black eye in America. I think right now at least, we're going to be the butt of jokes for the rest of the world. Lets hope he proves us wrong, or at least the system works to contain him.
Yes, you can, and the resulting code is an unreadable, unmaintainable mess after two weeks.
Hyperloop Train Could Top Flight Speeds
Absolutely agree. Total failure of a campaign.
> This semester, there's a woman walking around campus in a burka. In the freaking US of A, a woman is walking around with a burka. WTF is wrong with these people?

Would you have the same issue if a nun walks around in her robe?
Yes, you're okay and safe with €60-80k in Berlin.
Not saying I agree, but it seems a good number of American voters agree.

In this way it can actually be seen as a win for American democracy that the very well-funded Clinton campaign lost against what seems more like a movement.
Yeah, it's one of those high-horse things elites tell themselves while they try to understand why they can't just instill their perfectly obviously correct opinions already.
It's implicitly understood that learning a country's official language(s) is an advantage.
I didn't want this to happen, but I believed it would. There were a lot of signals, for those ignoring the group-think. e.g. Clinton needed a lot more help than Trump to get big crowds to her rallies, and Obama had to get involved at the last minute in allegedly "safe" states.

There is deep frustration with our economic system, which isn't being addressed. Clinton is unfortunately a very clear embodiment of the current system.

Trump is far from a perfect vessel for his messages, but he only needed to be better than Clinton, and he hit the key notes (e.g. regarding trade and jobs) over and over.

Sanders would have won.
It all depends on what you want him to learn :)

Codecademy seems fine, I've also found https://codecombat.com/play :) maybe it's more fun :)

If you want your dad to be full-stack dev :) Maybe push him towards learning backend development ( like python as you mentioned ) and use some MADPs ( Mobile Apps Development Platforms ), like https://www.kinetise.com. Which basically allows you drag and drop mobile application and connect it to your backend. It will give him more fun to create mobile apps as well.
That's kinda my point. This election was yours to lose, just as it was Remain's, since it was the status quo. Genuine question, are you aware of Brexit at all? Do you feel the Dems learned any lessons from it?
>Oh well, the world will go on.

This sounds like a statement from someone of privileged. You might be willing to take those risks that Donald Trump is not the man he says he is. Either way, the world will likely go on for you. The world might not go on for the Muslim hoping to immigrate to our country. The world might not go on for the citizen of Mexican descent who might see their parents deported. The world might not go on for the poor pregnant women who might not get access to a safe abortion. The world might not go on for the diabetic who can no longer afford insurance because of their preexisting condition. The world might not go on for the teenage girl who seems a president who brags about sexually assaulting women. The world might not go on for the gay man who might lose the ability to marry the person he loves. The world might not go on for the black teen who is stopped and frisked. The world might not go on for the trans person who is no longer allowed in the bathroom in which they feel the most comfortable.
Slightly because Modi comes from a centrist-right party but people voted for his party because there was no other viable option and he had done good work before.
It is amazing that all the news organizations which are supposedly representing opposing views all lined up against him. You'd think if he was really a monster we'd know by now. Donald Trump is 70 years old, after all.
I agree. There's a big lesson in focus here. One side hammered the emails incessantly while the other had too many issues to get the media to lock down on one.

I tend to think that this was the meeting of three things:

- media driven by drama
- individual operating how they always have, unlike the norm
- a populace with many negative feelings, reacting to both
Exactly. And now it is wrong that blue collar workers from fly-over states have voted as a block. Yet nobody questions Hillary for organizing a rap concert to attract African American voters and expecting them to vote as a block.

Most of all, I think they would be surprised to find out how many Bernie Sanders supporters have switched to Trump. Some I imagine will never admit it to their co-workers or friends, but I know many have never forgot being back-stabbed.

The funny thing is, the Democrats could have easily win this. They screwed up so badly, multiple times in a row, despite all the media help, and all the money donated to them, all the help from the DOJ and POTUS.
If the bookies are doing their jobs right, they'll make money either way. They set up the market, and the people who think Trump's odds are better than 20 percent will pay 20c for the shot at winning a bit less than a dollar, the bookie shouldn't let them buy it unless there's also someone who thinks $0.80 to win a bit less than a dollar sounds good. The bookie then holds onto the full dollar they get, and then pay out (say) 97 cents on {inauguration, electoral college vote, whatever}.
As soon as you fix your internet connection :)
Nobody dares to talk about this in the media.

But I think a lot of it is just due to her being a woman. And an older one at that.

Many people are not all that progressive in the US, as the campaign has clearly shown.

(I know she was a candidate with plenty of flaws, but a lot of dirt that got thrown at her would never have been directed at a man in that manner).
This is the most concise explanation for what many on the left fail to grasp, and one of the many reasons why I and many are Trump supporters.

We are on one hand supposed to respect and honor other cultures, but are not allowed to cultivate, maintain and respect our own (American) culture.

Which is absurd for many reasons... one being it denies a very real reason for many wanting to come to our country, or fails to identify the characteristics that made western culture generally preferable to many others.

I appreciate your perspective on this issue.
>People don't vote how you want
DEMOCRACY DOESN'T WORK

nice job calling them bigoted and undereducated while you're at it
He is but republicans are projected to win the House, the Senate, and most state governments. If they can work together that rudder just got bigger.
No, "you" ran on "Trump is raaaciiist and if you support him you are too!"

(I put "you" in quotes since I'm referring to Democrats in general, not you personally.)

It's the same thing "you" ran against Bush and Romney on. It might even be true this time around, but you are the boy who cried wolf at this point.
automotive sector > car manufacturers
It's about the arguments, about how they are placed in the current newsscape, not about the source but about how these explanations fit in your world view. They fit well with me. And how is this different from American state news like CNN?
Goodbye healthcare!
I've never been in favor of democracy. We live in a world where specialization is a requirement to function. Politics really shouldn't be any different.

I know a lot about cybersecurity. When it comes to encryption, cyber warfare, anything cryptocurrency, you want me voting because believe me, I know more than 99.9% of the US population on those topics. It's an informed vote.

But for education, immagration, healthcare, gun law, it'd be dishonest to say I'm informed. And people who think it's my duty to be informed are being unrealistic. The number of significant issues make being fully informed a full time job. I'm not ashamed to not know what Aleppo is. I recognize that it's important and would like to yeild my vote to someone who knows more than I do.

There are other topics like energy and drugs where I would consider myself well informed, but perhaps just well informed enough to want something stupid. Should I be voting on those topics? Honestly probably not.
Which is ridiculous. I'm not diminishing a Sophie's choice here, but that Trump somehow comes out on top in that comparison is a farce of reasoning.
You're not kidding. Wikileaks posted this on twitter just earlier. They even wanted to be up against Trump:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cwy_92NWEAAwyqe.jpg:large

Well, guess that worked out great for them. The DNC is the biggest screw up of this whole election I think.
Meanwhile the gap between the 1% and everyone else widens.

Globalization has indeed helped to level global inequality, but this has come at the erosion of the quality of life for ordinary citizens of developed countries, while lining the pockets of the wealthy.

The current implementation of globalization is all wrong - one small group are getting more of all the pie while the rest of the world shares a shrinking portion equally amongst themselves.
Just being picky here, but technically, it is not a majority of the population.
Agreed. The comparisons to brexit are a little clumsy for that reason.
For Bay area VCs and tech startups which are looking for a highly liveable city a bit closer than Australia, Vancouver ranked a close third (after Melbourne and Vienna) in the Economist's ratings, and is just a 2h15m flight away from San Francisco.

If anyone is interested in relocating, I'd be happy to help in any way I can (realizing of course that I'm not an immigration lawyer).
Clinton is projected to win the popular vote once all the ballots (especially those in California) are counted.
538 gave more than 25% chance to Trump winning. That's losing two coin flips, not "totally unexpected".
Unfortunately you have large spiders that like to hide in sunvisors and drop onto unsuspecting drivers. :(
I am very happy that Trump won.

I thought it was very interesting looking at what states won.

Looking at CA and the East voting for Hillary and the rest of the country voting for Trump.

I think we should admit it. If you are rich and in tech, well of course you want to disrupt, you want to carry on that gravy train. But what about everyone else that exists? Not everyone can retrain. Even though retraining is a huge undertaking here. It's simply not going to happen.

Also protecting ones borders is not xenophobic. Are Austrialia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Canada, Japan wrong for not allowing streams of illegals in? Look at Germany. Many who voted don't want the US to become like that.

Finally, basic income. I hope we can all see this is dead. Like many other liberal dreams. I'm hoping for a new future for the US. Jobs and the end of this PC nonsense.

I do support diversity, but real diversity. Not at the expense of other people.
And here I thought my Donald Trump TTS engine [1] would be irrelevant by Wednesday morning. I guess now I need to make it not sound like garbage.

[1] http://jungle.horse
> By talking about real issues that nobody else even dares to touch.

Curious - What were these real issues?
What you people don't seem to understand is that we have a first fucking amendment. The first amendment states that there is a freedom of religion. People are allowed to have their own religions.

What you see on the left as being somehow more accepting of Muslims, is actually people on the left having empathy for a group that is constantly demonized, to the point that psychopathic racists murder and plot to murder sikhs because they're too fucking stupid to understand the differences between one brown person and another.

Give me a fucking break with your bullshit. Let me guess as well, someone among you will report this fucking comment, while in another railing against PC fucking culture; fuck off!
Instability? or the level of opportunity?

That's the thing that confused me; it seems to me that introducing a radical to politics would cause more instability; It also seems to me like the economy has been improving by just about all measures for nearly all of Obama's term; especially if you measure improvement in terms of unemployment and the like.

Most of the economic problems we have now are problems that the left would complain about. The rich make a lot more than the poor... and the GOP is promising more of that, not less, and the GOP won, so the 'it's the economy' model doesn't really fit.
I believe US election results will have consequences for USD...
I sometimes worry that liberal democracy may turn out to be a temporary fad. The rise of uninformed populism and strongmen is everywhere. Right-wing extremism, often with little love for the free press or due process, has been on the rise all over Europe. The Brexit campaign was dominated by lies and took a seriously xenophobic turn, and now the US has elected a president who is openly racist and lies more often than he tells the truth. In in increasing number of countries, strongmen seem to have more staying power than informed democracy.

It may be attractive to spin this as merely being anti-globalist, but in every instance, racism is a big part of it. After the Brexit vote, people of colour got shouted at by people who claimed they voted for foreigners to leave.

Maybe the problem is that we have allowed right-wing extremism to take hold of the anti-globalist agenda. That used to be a left-wing thing, though anti-globalism never really became mainstream with the left as its champions, but now that the extreme right is championing the cause, suddenly it wins. Does anti-globalism do better when combined with racism? Do they need each other to get a majority?

Or is the problem with democracy itself? Is it possible that the world is too complex for the average citizen to make an informed decision about it? Or do we need a regular lesson in the consequences of our choices? After WW2, everybody (in western Europe at least) was united in their desire for freedom and opposition to racism and totalitarianism, but we've seem to have forgotten that lesson. Or maybe the lesson has been poisoned by becoming too rigid and part of establishment dogma?
I agree.

The post's tone is a bit harsh and could be more respectful.
After all, there is no consensus for type classes,
[ML's modules being an alternative](https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/modules-mat...)

Nonetheless, the post is interesting and worth the reading because it raises true questions. For instance, I was surprised to learn that adding a field to an extensible record was no more a feature.
That is very interesting.

There was a recent interview of Jeff Bezos where he was asked to comment about Peter Thiel. He said Peter Thiel is a Contrarian. He then said that Conventional Wisdom is generally right and Contrarians are generally wrong, but when Contrarians are right they are right in a massive massive way !
Inequality should've been the/a big issue, but I don't think it was. I think this was driven very strongly by "human's xenophobic instincts".
Why doesn't EU take care of that? They are closer, it is right in their backyard it affects them more?
Exit polls show Trump doing better with minorities than any recent GOP candidate... Not sure how you come to your conclusion.
Well, we spent the last month saying "nobody will take him seriously. Then "he will never get elected". Now I think saying "he will never do what he said he would" is pretending we are able to know what's going on and what will happen like we weren't dead wrong the whole time before. Let's shut up and see.