skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GW is only polling at 24/150 or so seats right now. That makes him the shared biggest in our fragmented landscape and he may well do better, but he won't get close to a majority and other parties will shun him (even though it looks like they'll need to form a coalition of five parties or so).

And nobody talks about visa policy when they discuss Moroccans, it's about the Moroccan-origin youth who live here, have a relatively high crime rate, are usually born here and often have both Moroccan and Dutch passports. Attacking that group is his party's main theme, and I'd say it was clear incitement of hate.

The issue about the Netherlands you should add to your list is that it is likely that there will be referenda about all new EU treaties, and they will all be voted down. And Rutte already doesn't know what to do with the Ukraine vote.

And the ongoing yearly Zwarte Piet shitstorm, I think there's going to be violence this year around what's supposed to be a kid's party. It's a very related issue, people feel they are told by outsiders that they have to change their own culture in their own country.
> Give me luck with finding a girlfriend

I'm sorry, but what the fuck does that have to do with politics? What political party is going to promise you a girlfriend?

For what it's worth, you're proving the populist-narrative that explains why Trump was elected: Trump rose to power by assuring those who felt that they once had 'power', who've lost it (to minorities or women or whoever), and deserve to have it back again.
Nothing when I type the keyword C# ...
Serious question from a non-American: What are the checks and balances on Trump? He has the presidency, House, Senate, and can tilt the supreme court. He's got a mandate to take action against the media and free speech on the internet. What's left?

If Clinton won, the republicans would probably have held one or both houses, which seems like significant checks on power even if she could have a more friendly supreme court than Obama.
Don't they use QWERTZ keyboards?
> Do you think the US would let California leave?

It actually might now. The Right is in full control of the country, and it had been generally very sympathetic to the idea of just splitting up the country and each going their own way lately. It was never really seriously looked at by the Left - sure, there are semi-joking proposals like Cascadia, but nothing as serious as, say, Texas secessionists. But right now Cascadia might sound like a very good idea for a lot of people.
So much this

Get the actual machine and plug it. It will be much cheaper than AWS

And no you don't need 5 machines to run hundreds of "microservices" on a handful of VMs
> As I pointed out above, the status quo is actually pretty good.

For you. And me. But we are not the majority. The majority does not benefit from automation, globalisation etc. as much as you and me.

And it doesn't matter if in absolute terms we are all better of(for which citation would be needed, specifically for the lowest income bracket), it matters that the benefits of this new age are not spread around to those bearing the costs as efficiently as necessary.

This is why people vote for brexit, trump, afd etc. And no, those don't have the answers either. But they offer convenient scapegoats and changes with "tangible" effect in favour of their voting base.

Politicians on the left and the right are united in their elitism and their own bubbles of what is "important", and they have become disconnected from their populace so much that they can't even coral them effectively any more.
Reminds me of Indivo. Too much promises too little results
How are these things in danger NOW? Did you sleep through the whole Snowden incident, and everything Assange published in the past decade? Trump can’t take away what you don’t already have.
I'm not sure if we did, but we didn't forget that they exist. We focussed so much on publishing facts (and rants) on social media, instead of talking to the people directly.

There are zero Trump supporters on my timeline, everybody is shocked and horrified. I would bet that there are people out there who have a diametrically opposed timeline with zero HC supporters. We need to get those people together instead of further alienating and separating them by "better", more personalised and targeted algorithms.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were parts of Russia for 300 years with small omissions. It is longer than the time of existence of the United States. So they have a lot cultural and ethnical similarity with Russia. But yes, they try to ignore it officially.
Also I think it's likely that Trump's going to be a yes-man for whatever Paul Ryan passes.
Just because he's leading in the popular vote now doesn't mean he won the popular vote. The New York Times projects that Clinton will win the popular vote once all the ballots have been counted.

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/forecast/president
Too much signal loss from pointing your antenna at the ground, I'm afraid.
Very smart people fucking around and trying to get folks into clicking on ads while using their first-world-problem solving app.

The same as today.
Site is literally unreadable on iOS since the lag from whatever JS it runs is so bad that I can't scroll down.
There is no hate here. Elm's current objective is to go mainstream. I just say it's not good yet.
I agree with you, Elm is very valuable as a competitor.
Sad thing is, I'm expecting the DNC to try and pull exactly the same stunt next time round. As per their campaign; blame will be cast in every direction except internally.
American culture is in many aspects very homogenous. Take for example the fact that there's 50% of the population that wants to cut down on government even if it means that social services are to be cut.

Or the business culture which is very unique, at least I've seen nothing similar anywhere in the world.

Then there's a degree of freedom of speech that nowhere else exists, and rights like being allowed to carry a gun in public which is vigorously defended by large parts of the population.

And yes, there is an American brand of Christianity. Even if you don't see it in population centres it's still there everywhere else and it is more important than Christianity in most other Christian cultures.

There's a kind of attitude among US citizens leaning towards some Classical Liberal or Libertarian principles that can't be found anywhere else in the world. Where ever else you go the majority expects the government to take care of every member of the society from cradle to grave.
And that's precisely why people start voting the alternative in EU.
Yeah, you see. I am white. I didn't coin that word. I am not even American. There is basically nothing that connects me to black slavery except the color of my skin. My family roots go back to slaves too (like roots of >99% of people). I used to use this word ironically to demean pervasive hip hop pop culture. Thankfully, I am no longer in high school and don't have to talk to people who listen to songs about gangsters and fucking bitches.
crottypeter is probably objecting to the "Croatia & Slovenia" vs Yugoslavia / UDSSR and other generalizations.

Which no one familiar with these regions would formulate it that way.

The world is big, it's hard not to generalize countries and cultures you barely know.
> This kind of opinion dictatorship has to end.

I agree. I am refraining from commenting elsewhere in this thread because I really just don't know WHO I would piss off, and this alias is tangentially tied to my IRL identity.

Self-censorship is a sneaky, evil, corrupting beast.
To be fair, out of the 'big two' cities in AUS, Melbourne probably has the more affordable and promising real estate market.
Or maybe covers are pushing clichés too much

Same with movie posters (Big Face over scenery, couple standing opposite to each other, Papyrus font, etc)
I believe Estonia and Latvia didn't even exist as a countries before the fall of the Soviet Union. Not even before the Russian Empire conquered these lands.
> As a white male you are the ..., healthiest, ... in modern society.

Not true, Asians are healthier than whites and females are healthier than males. White males have some privileges but they certainly don't have all of them.
>On the other hand, there are pretty strong developers who do not have degree (i.e. smart drop-outs).

I think you might know better than I, but I don't think you have to drop out to be a great developer. Let's be honest, a degree by itself is almost meaningless outside the hard sciences, engineering, and perhaps whatever you would call the 'job-training' degrees (accounting, nursing, pharmacy, etc). There's degrees where you have to figure out how to get things done on your own, and there's degrees that are mostly about learning how to say what's politically correct.
They're gonna have to have safe spaces and unashamedly be an echo-chamber out of the gate, otherwise they'll suffer the same fate.

FYP
Any opinions/knowledge on what is happening? I had thought of some possibilities:

- Temporary measure to get it off S3 and stop paying the fees

- Moving to build from source only (maybe to push more people to the enterprise product)

- Moving development away from Titan (again towards enterprise product)
I think this video explains your observations correctly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
Putin Congratulates US President-Elect Trump on Victory
Fascism itself basically got its start in 1919 with Mussolini's party.
I'm very worried about preemptive announcements of how his presidency will fail. That's the sort of thing that makes people resent "elites" in the first place! I think that the best thing is for the liberals to marshal their political support while saying they'll consider bills trump proposes. Keep all the leverage they can while not signaling that they'll be out to sabotage trump. Saboteur government, like with the republicans under Obama, didn't work, and I hope the Democrats doesn't try it.
linux/unix as an IDE has it's merits. are there any specific distros that focus on setting up an environment?
I was a little perplexed by the parent comment as well since I thought I was highlighting differences, but I upvoted it because, well, I learned something. He was polite in his correction, at least.

FWIW, coastal Democrats are equally offended with being lumped in with Trump supporters, Scots would probably be equally offended with being lumped in with English, and Croatians would be equally offended with being lumped in with Yugoslavians, so at least I'm an equal-opportunity offender.
http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/eeue56/elm-all-dict/lat...
> You confuse skill with high salary.

Skill is too difficult to define objectively and it's probably not what you should be discriminating on anyways (in a purely economic sense).

What you need to go for is "valuable" (scarce and in demand) engineers and salary is a decent proxy for that (more so than formal education). You also don't want the government to "evaluate" engineers because doing a good job at that would mean, pretty much by definition, selecting the very same engineers companies elect to hire.
Indeed. Here is the great truth - for most people, race matters, and always will. They want to live with people of the same ethnicity, with the same history, in the same territory.
The breakup of Yugoslavia suggested ethno-nationalism was on the rise, but the elites continued to push (if not intensified) mass immigration in the West.
This has created the seedbed for the new "anti-politics". It is in its first phase, and I expect it to last for around 30 years.
We do know, and we always have. He's a conman, always been.
> and now we know 50% of the country is stupid enough to go along with that

this kind of superiority isolationism leads to the problem. it lead to brexit and to the election of many right-wing politicians in european countries.

when a large mass of people is isolated and unrepresented, they will strike.
As an Estonian I can give a few hints.

First, historic precedence. Russia has attacked & occupied the baltics multiple times. Imperial Russia occupied Estonia during 18th - 20th century, and Soviet Russia once again occupied for half of the 20th century. During this time they sent the natives to Siberia, while importing Russians here and imposing other forms of russification [1] to obliterate our culture. It's more than just about land, it's about the survival of our culture which has been under systematic attack by Russia for the overwhelming majority of the last 300 years. The current Russian regime isn't much different and holds a strongly anti-Estonian view, so of course self-preservation is the #1 political issue for us.

Second, there is both strategic significance and resources here. We're talking about the previously western border of the Soviet union here. Uranium mining, nuclear submarine bases, missile silos. Better access to the Baltic sea, and closer reinforcement to Kaliningrad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification
London is a port

Have you visited London's "docklands"?
> I actually think that as president he's going to be a lot more moderate than many on the left fear.

Just like how he was much more moderate once he got the nominatim and didn't have to appeal to just the republican base?
-destroying documents (everyone else would have been killed)

-openly being against gay marriage

-submitting the idea of building a wall multiple(!) times to the senate

-wanting to start a war with russia if she gets elected (???)

yup, not her baggage at all, she totally lost because she is a woman.
EC exists because the states had to agree on a mutually acceptable compromise (between large and small states, and also between slave and non-slave states) when forming US. It doesn't make it inherently valuable - it was a compromise solution, which pretty much by definition means that it's not a perfect design.
I think the biggest obstacle was for my wife to connect with other Danish women. Basically how to find friends, since social norms and culture is different.

That lasted 6 months, and she now has a big group of friends consisting of expats/danes.

Job opportunities are very good, especially if you work within healthcare, engineering or similar fields. There's a shortage in the workforce for highly qualified workers.
I'm curious too. I live in New Zealand. How can I get a software job abroad - say in the United States?
One can only hope that he subsides his autocratic ambitions or that there are still some hurdles left in place that prevent him from becoming the American Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
He said it all himself: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cwz8hvRWgAAY9b_.jpg:large
Lets just wait at least 12 hours before we declare that the country collapsing.

Don't get me wrong, I think a Trump presidency is horrific, but I think its slightly too early to see what that would actually mean.

But actually, come to Australia. It's a wonderful country.
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> The left-liberal camp was always turning a blind eye towards many important national issues and importantly about the issue of Islam.

First I wanted to say something about that "issues of Islam" might not be the biggest problems we have, but then I looked at your profile page and now I guess you would disagree.

The seeds of the brainwashing start to grow. I am scared about our future.
> He had two years where he had legislative power, and spent that time shoring up the US economy after the financial crisis and passing healthcare reform.

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.

As for healthcare reform, he chose health insurance rather than health care. From the point of view of most of the people who voted last night, that means another bill to pay, not better healthcare.

He invested his power, to the degree he had it, more in keeping things the same than in the change people voted him in for.
The main problem with having graduated opinions is that you can only express them with one shade of candidate: it's either the Republican or the Democrat candidate. You can not nuance your view of them, and so, shortcuts are taken, since by voting for one or the other, you endorse them, whether you fully or only partially agree with them.
If the political system allowed for a more nuanced voting (Such as grading candidates for example), then people wouldn't have this dual view of the other party's supporters.
why did he choose the colors like that?
This is HN. Conspiracy theories of "rigging" or establishment collaboration, which are rife in discussions of polling accuracy, are downvoted.

No matter how true they turn out to be.
Read up dumbass.
So it makes two of us! I've kickstarted it back in 2011 and it so far it feels like one of the best $20 ever spent.
So the this anti immigration and Anti Muslim factor worked for US and UK well. Who's next, Australia?
Why would he? He's a hardcore Libertarian. His core philosophy is "do good for myself and the world will be better".

The only way he'll help anyone else is if their interests happened to be aligned with his.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the guy (barring recent endorsements) but you have to understand where his philosophical basis is.
For EU citizens you could just go on Jobserve.com and find an IT job in the UK or Switzerland (or maybe else where) that interests you and apply. Many jobs will only take people with the right to work, but there may be others who would sponsor a permit from outside the EU.
She looked smarter in debates, but came off very smug to me.

A little naive to assert people don't have real reasons not to like her. There are many. Tons of crap that in the Wikileaks emails that are not as damning as they asserted but do paint a clear picture of how dirty her campaign played. The Clinton foundation stuff. 1 mil from Qatar? Wtf

And for those of us who are anti war she has some responsibility for a lot bloodshed.

This is only a sample of concrete things that are definitely "her baggage".

Are you really not aware of any of that?
You literally just did the same.
>>"Not paying taxes"
He did it legally by exploiting (hacking) the loopholes. But is he responsible for having those loopholes? He is just acting like any other smart human. Just like us humans who found fossil fuels and irresponsibly burn those off.
It probably means very little. A president does not really have the power to make significant change. It happens with collusion from congress and apathy from the public.

The Silicon Valley outcry about Trump was mostly a social signal intended to make people seem enlightened -- how enlightened does one really have to be to be disappointed a presidential candidate makes rude/racist remarks?
But I don't think there is one 'single' Australian culture that is sufficiently different from an Australian-immigrant culture.
This isn't the 19th century anymore. You can just send the drones in to kill everyone. Or use missiles, or nukes in a last resort.
Low factory jobs may come back to US, hopefull with better pay than in China and selling gadgets at a higher price point, while China starts focussing on producing for their own population. I look at this quite optimistically, as it makes end-user price closer to the real cost of production, and it makes production local which brings the concerns for extremely-poor workers closer to the consumer.

In other words, no-one cared for Chinese slaving away, but reimporting those jobs and having Americans factory workers in the same indecent position may trigger more empathy, or at least more health/education budget is available to cater for them. Maybe we'll even charge 10x for IoT gadgets (or kid games, or Ikea lamps), so that workers get a decent situation. It will hit the Valley hard, but only startups who distribute moderately useful gadgets that rely on the poverty of the Chinese workforce.

Maybe it will go as far as paying the Macbook price for a PC, but that's ok if workers get proper working conditions.
I think that if you actually articulate in great detail what it is that you think comprises American culture, as something which is distinct from white culture and is threatened by immigration, you'll find that you are actually talking about white culture.
Hillary Clinton presidential campaign is probably the worst managed presidential campaign in history. How do you even lose to a joke of a candidate like Trump? The writing was on the wall when they named fucking Pepe the Frog the "symbol of white nationalism". The entire campaign, somehow, existed in a bubble with no connection to reality. It was painful to watch. Doesn't help that Clinton herself is suspiciously corrupt and unlikeable.
You have to consider that it's highly unlikely that everyone in CA would be in favor of secession. I can imagine that many people in the Central Valley, who tend to be far more conservative than their coastal counterparts and rely extensively on Federal farm subsidies as well as out of state water resources would be less than thrilled at the idea. These people also tend to have high rates of firearms ownership so I could see a nice little insurgency springing up.

Certainly there is a lot of high tech industry in CA but I doubt that Lockheed and the other defense corps are disproportionately reliant on CA, they have plants and R&D centers spread throughout the country.

I agree it's something interesting to ponder.
I'm wondering how many people will continue to commit the mistake of not differentiating between individuals and groups.

On average the group X might have property Y but that doesn't mean every individual has property Y.

It doesn't make sense to differentiate individuals by the group they belong to. It makes sense to differentiate individuals by their properties directly.
> I still can't figure out if this means there's something really wrong with me, that I can't even enjoy meaningless pursuits; or maybe that my sense of 'meaning' is so restricted; or if it's the opposite, and my reticence to do those things is a sign that I'm spending time the right way, or at least, that I have the right objective function in how I evaluate my time?

Neither. Your interests have just changed as time has passed.

Now, I'm in the same boat as you and GP, nowadays not really enjoying the same types of games that I used to. However, there are some things I still enjoy, and there are new things I've discovered that I enjoy. Any psychologist will tell you that your waning interest in something is only a problem if your interest is waning in general, and that as long as you still have something you're still interested in, not a problem. Otherwise, it may or may not be a sign of depression, burnout, or other malady, in which case I'd urge you to see a counselor or therapist, perhaps even a psychiatrist.

That said, it's important not to think of media consumption as "wasting time", per se. There's a point where it can become a problem, but for most people playing games or watching TV is a vital source of stress relief. I myself have fallen into (and am still in...) the trap of feeling like if I'm not constantly doing something productive, I'm wasting my time. It's important to slow down once in a while and give yourself a break when you need one, and to take care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, etc.
With the same party wearing all three hats, the chance of change is increased.
It reminds me of Houellebecq's 'Submission', where one of the main features of islamic France is locking women in home in marriage. Women also serve as "awards" to the backers of the new regime.

I think it is true that some people put gender/sexual tensions into their politics, especially if it is radical. Grandparent might assume that in a more traditional society his chances would be better. I can't judge if it's true.