skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps a revived CCC would be a more, ah, constructive approach?
It also seems to be following the same pattern as other industries in advanced economies in a that we're doing more with fewer employees.
Jobs that can't be exported are safe from movement. Hairdressing and cleaning for instance. That doesn't mean the person doing it can't be an immigrant, though, so perhaps by restricting immigration you reduce competition for it.

Jobs that compete with similar jobs in other countries can potentially benefit from trade barriers. Make foreign cars expensive and there will be substitution with local cars. Long term it's worth thinking about whether there's a dependency created on that tariff.

Higher minimum wage has been mentioned. In so far as demand from the firms is inelastic you improve the lot of the minimum wage workers. Question is whether it is. Moving from 7 to 12 sounds like a big jump, and will be very dependent on what part of the country it is.

All these things depend on econometric measurement whose results I haven't come across.
Time to upgrade HN?

That is hardly the first thread to experience performance issues.
All of the points I mentioned are backed up by emails from WikiLeaks, directly. I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
> That's as loud of a mandate as can be expected from a strongly divided country

Is not winning the popular vote really a strong mandate? http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/09/501393501/...
Yep - Tech in Portland, OR. Drug tested but the panel didn't include marijuana... thankfully :)
So is breaking windows.
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It didn't help that while he was "bullshitting", Hillary was calling them deplorable. Empathy for the win.
That's not what we mostly hear from people, but yes we have some plans up our sleeve.
Enforce might be a poor word.

But right now in the US we have laws around public schools helping non-English speakers learn in their native language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilingual_Education_Act). Municipalities frequently publish forms and other materials in multiple languages. We _could_ do away with stuff like this.

That said, I'm similarly worried about enforcing these things. My dad and his parents moved from the Netherlands to the US in the 50s. My dad started 3rd grade knowing 0 English. The whole family starting speaking it at home and now you'd never guess my dad was an immigrant. I think the zeal with which they assimilated helped my dad and his brother become the college graduates, upper-middle class people they are today.
I'll probably stop working for a while. I really don't want to support these creepy people in small town and rural america. They should no longer get my tax money to prop up their almost non-existent economies, and they certainly shouldn't enjoy a 1st world lifestyle on my back. No more 60-hour weeks for me. I'm retiring.

I hope other follow. Maybe they'll finally get off their couch, turn off breitbart, and actually do something positive and productive with their lives.

Addendum:

To the down-voters: I thought part of this 'movement' was to get rid of political correctness. So, please let me take advantage of my new found right to say what I really think - what many people have been secretly thinking but have been too polite to actually say. Let's put it all out on the table. Wasn't that one of the big motivations to begin with?
If you want to do any serious "tracking" with them (the rumours I've read talked about them having GPS and being widely traceable), then yes they do. Passive RFID that fits in a bank note might be readable for a tens of meters at the very most, and is trivially shielded by putting it in a metal box.

They might put RFID in them, but it won't be the "tracking chip" people imagine.
Maybe he will more or less admit that alot of it was just theatrics, and he will go on to be a sane[ish] human being and normal[ish] POTUS
It's acceptable (if short-sighted) to exclude people for being racist. It's not acceptable to exclude people for being poor and uneducated. The Democrats messed up by ignoring the pain of poor people, not by being insufficiently tolerant of racism.
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That is only going to help more wealthy people move to the cities and take more housing on their own firstly, especially because they will be advertising "new" apartments and thus ask for higher price points. There isn't a very large city without some kind of housing shortage right now. Hacker news seems predominantly upper-class but many articles complain about housing in SF/SV. It seems to me that if housing was reduced, it would just be more upperclass moving to SF/SV instead of the lowerclass. So I don't see how more housing would ultimately fix the issue. Maybe it would help, but fix?
Already moved back, though not for this particular reason - it was more out of a desire to escape the insane work-life imbalance, endemic tech bro-ism, and skyrocketing cost of living in the Bay Area. (I'm a Canadian citizen by birth, so this makes the move much easier.)

Now in Toronto. Couldn't be happier: yes, you earn less and pay higher taxes, but those taxes go a long way - functioning public transit (i.e. "I can get just about anywhere inside the city core 24/7"); rapidly improving cycling infrastructure; nationalized health care; several months parental leave paid for by provincial and federal governments; fantastic grant and tax credit programs for young founders (under age 35), digital media / tech companies, and a slew of other relevant categories; and so on.

People are polite and reasonable; staff at government offices are understanding and helpful (which goes a long way when you're moving, believe me); the tech scene here has a vibrant community feel to it, and is fed by several nearby universities. If you're moving from the US right now, the current exchange rate is an added bonus.

Don't get me wrong: the beautiful scenery of the Bay Area is nearly unparalleled, and there is an optimistic / entrepreneurial attitude parts of which I admire - but SF is fast losing its monopoly on the latter to other tech hubs.
Act as an unfiltered pass-through for the house most likely.
I cycle for the same reason - forget the endorphins, they never really did anything for me. When it's just you and the road and the pain, you're free of all of it for as long as you can make your legs keep going. I imagine drugs do the same for some people, make them feel invincible or whatever, I don't know, I've never tried them and I have no wish for that kind of destruction in my life. The depression is threat enough to my way of life without compounding the issue.

But the bike, the wind in your face and the physical pain of the endurance is an escape from it all for as long as you can keep going.
Good luck getting cash from the VCs here though, it's a struggle.
Seems like the people have spoken
One of the authors here. Ask us anything!

This paper is just a first step - what we'd really like to use this for is designing recipes for synthesizing new molecules.

I would also be remiss if I didn't link to a closely-related paper from another group that came out at the same time:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ci5006614
Because nothing underscores likeability quite like subverting the primary election and hiring an army of internet sockpuppets to shift public opinion in your favor.

This is going to happen again in 2020 unless the DNC realizes what they've done. Sanders would have handily won this election and they havr nobody to blame but themselves.
> The Democrats will now control next to nothing above the municipal level.

That is the first sentence. Is the author aware of governor's or even state governments?
I wonder if the Russian Troll Factory is active on this thread.
> ```js var m = new Map(); var o = {}; // some object m.set(o, 5); m.get(o); // 5 ```

That guy who thought markdown was supported by hacker news. LOL ! I've been through that too...
>So the public insisted that they do something ridiculous.

The public aren't the ones who decided to have a referendum, the government are. If you're arguing that it was moronic to hold a referendum with no clear plan for one of the possible outcomes, I totally agree, but that's not the public's fault.
Education. It's what Obama was emphasizing his entire presidency. Those jobs are never coming back, and even more are going to be automated. The education gap between rich and poor (and white and minority) is getting larger because of hoodlum-fearing mothers who support segregated neighborhoods and schools. Plus the poor-parent schools stay poor and the rich-parent schools stay rich.

All of these factors together (which Democrats are actually interested in addressing) are growing an underclass of under-educated, unconnected people who can't make it in the world of the middle and upper class, so violence may become more frequent and jails will fill up. I doubt that the Trump administration and Congress have a plan that could come close to fixing this.
Not any more. Bush and Obama really pushed the boundaries of what's possible with executive actions. He's also going to have the most invasive surveillance state in human history at his fingertips, and he's surrounded himself with people who love to settle scores.
Would that be fair to all the people playing by the rules and going through the process of legal immigration now?

I do agree that the process can and should be streamlined in many ways, but it should begin with those seeking to follow the law rather than essentially giving a free pass to everyone who knowingly broke the law as their first deed on American soil.

For the record, I know several Mexican families (in Mexico and in the US) affected by this, and I firmly believe that a strong border is better in the long run - both for the US and Mexico. Legal immigration should be an option and it should be a more straightforward process, but blanket amnesty doesn't really do any favors for anyone.
I think the election of Trump is also a backslash against the PC, SJW, safe-space, trigger-warning, micro aggression tendencies that have been spreading in the U.S. for the last couple of years. This has become too much and millions of Americans are fed up with it, they have now spoken out.
You keep repeating this. It doesn't seem to make sense to me. I voted for Clinton, and I'm a registered Democrat who voted for Sanders in the primary. I'm not sure what we're being asked to take responsibility for here. I feel that my party should take some responsibilty for nominating a candidate who could not prevail against such an unpopular and widely disliked opponent.
Society does not treat individuals as individuals. People are put into boxes every day, and it's really only now that people are saying, "hey you know that being white means you probably get put in less boxes, and boxes of less negative importance, let's just acknowledge that", that people are suddenly imploring people to not put people in boxes.
I moved to Canada when Bush was in Office, and would consider doing it again. Albeit, I'm a bit older than I was then
Russia is named after the Rus people...

Ukraine literally means 'border'...
> You could argue that globalization has pulled millions of chinese peasants out of poverty, and helped creating a middle class in China, which is already increasing the pressure on the regime to transition to a democracy.

Of course the college-educated middle-class service industry isn't paying for this in any way, they're the ones pocketing the difference between domestic wages and Chinese ones.

> In any case, as some pointed out here, outsourcing to China is only the first step in the destruction of these jobs. Robotics is likely going to replace many of these jobs in the next 20y, which might bring back some industry into the West, ie more jobs but more sophisticated jobs.

Productivity growth is the lowest it's ever been, and when it was the highest, wages were rising fastest and employment was at its peak. Automation, as it increases worker productivity, should also increase wages - adding to quality of life as people can consume more or choose to work less. The question is whether the government will make sure that a large proportion of the benefits of productivity are distributed to the workers, or will it allow those benefits to be entirely skimmed by the financial industry, creating an increasing hole in demand for anything other than luxury goods.
Then the leaks started dropping and we got a small window in a large world of corruption. Did none of this occur to you?

It seemed to me more like a very large window onto what turned out to be a pretty small world of corruption. I don't have an axe to grind but I've never seen a straight answer as to what her "crimes" supposedly are.
I was out walking around in shorts and a t-shirt yesterday, comfortably. High of 17 degrees. I've never done that in Canada, and I used to be much less of a wuss about the cold. The climate in Vancouver really is hard to beat in Canada.
I did not vote for Trump. But I'll tell you what I hope to see Trump do:

* Simply tax code, both personal and corporate.

* Devolve federal power back to the states.

* Improve incentives for development of US manufacturing base.
I voted for Trump and I'm not racist.
I can't fathom you interpreting the result as a "loud mandate." The presidential race has been extremely tight with ~200,000 separating the two. Is that a clear mandate?

No, it is a clear indication of the divisions in our country.
Those cultural ties practically already are stronger. Living on the west coast of Canada I really feel that - to the south we have Washington, Oregon, California.
Considering the majority in the house and senate, day 1 the ACA is going to get repealed - millions will lose their health coverage, and my employer's profitability is going to tank as a result as an increase of patients coming into the ER can't pay their medical bills and we end up sending them to collections before eventually writing it off.
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Yup.

I could also see an Elizabeth Warren / Joe Biden ticket doing well against Trump.

This article in Current Affairs turns out to be prophetic: http://static.currentaffairs.org/2016/02/unless-the-democrat...
>> Trump is labeled racist, sexist and misogynistic because of his words and actions. As are most people.

The difference is that he does not pretend to be non-racist, non-sexist and not-misogynistic. A lot of people do.

[edit] I am not american, but somehow I can understand that he won the election. He is a honest hustler among a bunch of good liars. He won't stab you in the back. Maybe in the chest. But you will see it coming.
He means that when rural white voters said that they think they're getting the short end of the stick when it comes to globalism, the Democrats blew them off as racists/ignorant/whatever. If the Democrat party was truly diverse this opinion would have been respected enough that it wouldn't be a surprise.

I think Sanders did a much better job of reaching that demographic, so I'd argue it was represented, but the Democrat party decided other priorities were more important by selecting Clinton.
None, secession is illegal.
>Trump has been sued several times for the discrimination against black people

That may say more about black people than it says about Trump. Call me a racist - I dare you.
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I don't have any actual data but NZ seemed to have a fair bit of anti-Asian sentiment.
It doesn't sound smug, it just sounds massively over simplified and assumed.

The reasons for Trump's win probably varies wildly from region to region and person to person. Anecdotally, I know several who voted only because he was _not_ Hilary, not due to any message resonance. Hell, I mean, personally, despite being politically closest to Hilary on paper, I had no intention of voting for her, and none of those reasons had anything to do with Trump.
https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2016/10/26/hacking-an-election...
> it turns out that there are just as many people who are thrilled by last night’s election as there are people who are devastated by it. For every single American who voted for Hillary yesterday and who watched last night’s events unfold in horror, there’s another American out there who rejoiced. It’s a 1-to-1 ratio.

This has never been more incorrect than in this election. Many people who voted for Trump only because they didn't want Hillary to be president. And many who voted for Hillary because they didn't want Trump to be president.

When you get to pick your poison, that doesn't imply you're going to like the poison you pick. It's still poison.
What? There's not much of anything east of Montreal. IBM did (does?) have some offices in the Eastern Townships, but that's not very far from Montreal.

Looking at a map, I see Sherbrooke, Quebec City, Fredricton, then Moncton, and Halifax. Quebec City is probably the largest at about ~500k people, and has some tech industry. Dalhousie University in Halifax has some decent science programs too. After that, the next biggest tech center is probably London.
I would counsel against the US.

As an American, I'm looking at Canada and Germany. I have a Canadian work permit and I'm looking at their startup visa. I was offered German/EU residency last night.
Because nothing underscores likeability quite like subverting the primary election and hiring an army of internet sockpuppets to shift public opinion in your favor.

This is going to happen again in 2020 unless the DNC realizes what they've done. Sanders would have handily won this election and they have nobody to blame but themselves.
Disagree here completely, DNC rigged the primary for HRC and gave away the independent vote with it. This was a very forseeable albeit depressing outcome.
Pro-life, opposed to drug legalization, 2nd amendment rights, to name a few. Sorry, but if that's what you think of all conservatives you have as much prejudice as you think they do.
Articles like this are sadly mostly useless because people who need to read them the most are not going to.

Hardcore liberals who blame Trump and his supporters for "bigotry" usually refuse to accept or even take a look at any other points of view, which is, ironically, the definition of bigotry.
Where I think this approach has been especially disastrous has been climate change. When people challenged the facts - which I don't entirely believe but the potential outcome is too serious to just blow off - they were humiliated and discredited, sometimes viciously.

When people challenged the feasibility of solutions - ditto.

Which in my mind signaled the worst - the desire to break resistance was stronger than the desire to persuade. Which led to a belief that maybe something more sinister was in the cards - a la Pol Pot's killing fields.

Not a reasonable belief but when you see others dehumanized for questioning the know-it-alls, it's understandable.
Many of these rural people aren't looking for you to prop up their economies. They are eager for you to stop outsourcing their jobs, demeaning their existence, lowering their wages so executives can get large bonuses, and in general acting like you are much better/above them. Even more so they are eager to get to work and have a representative government that listens to them and isn't trying to push an elitist globalist agenda onto them.
I have a lot of thoughts, but here's one: Hillary focused her entire campaign on why people should stop Trump, at the expense of talking about why she should be president. In general, making the case against someone else rather than the affirmative case for yourself doesn't work. It's reaction versus action.

It's undoubtably true now that there was a very real populist anger towards the existing political order, and as a corollary, the political and economic elites. Instead of harnessing that energy and attempting to create a movement (see: Sanders, Bernie), the Democratic party anointed a candidate who is the definition of establishment.

The results are showing that Hillary lost, at least in large part, due to lower voter turnout, especially among liberal-leaning populations. With all else equal, Podesta, DWS, Neera Tanden, and the rest of the DNC cutup squad ignored the people and ran on the "man, Dangerous Donald, obviously you're not gonna vote for him!" platform. That, and shaming Bernie/Stein supporters about their support for a candidate who can't win - rather than explaining how Clinton's policies would be good. Well, the Democrats and 'moderates' didn't vote for Trump, but they sure didn't have a reason to vote for Clinton either.
What I told my kids: regardless of who wins - you have more influence over your personal future than the president in DC.

Your education, effort and day-to-day actions will affect you more than who lives in the white house
I'll play: 6 is a given, 3 is on the table but wouldn't be easy. The rest range from unlikely to impossible.
How do you reconcile your desire to leave behind hate when you cast a vote for a candidate who's core positions were one of hate? If Trump does not continue a platform of hate, how would you not view that as a slap in the face as a supporter? He promised you hate, you said "Yes, I'll take one of those", and now say don't do that? You can not have it both ways, your vote is one for hate whether you bury your head in the sand about that point or not.
Great work keeping things rolling.
Strong weight reduction and safety are very hard together. You can have either one or the other, rarely both.
Seriously, why isn't Linux higher on the priority list of vendors? A huge portion of devs have Linux as their main OS but support is so scarce.
Raise my taxes to increase the EITC on low-wage workers.
I mean that the public insisted that we leave the EU by voting to leave the EU. Just because someone asks a silly question doesn't mean that you have to give a silly answer.
What are the milestones and key metrics for the "direction that has been chosen"?

In four years, if the rural mine workers are still out of work and iPads are still made in China, will you concede that the experiment failed?

I can't see Trump doing that. Deflecting blame has been a theme of his career. Therefore I'm frightened that he's going to need new scapegoats for his lack of achievements pretty soon... And considering the rhetoric he's used, there just is no telling who he might pick to receive the blame.
As someone who spent ten years in Panama and working for a Swiss company, that must have been a culture shock after Switzerland. Did you speak Spanish before you moved?
> ...aren't you just perpetuating a narrative...

Uh, no. I wrote that something 'showed up on my twitter feed', implying it's unverified. Last night there wasn't a way to verify it, it merely seemed plausible. In any case, the Huffpost article sufficiently makes the case.
Politicians know the electoral college decides the election. If the candidates had been campaigning for the popular vote, presumably Trump would campaign harder for more votes in large states like California and New York.
> isn't going to make a difference

Maybe if you're white and male and doing ok financially.
This thread is substantially less civil than the previous, for whatever reason.
This is the insanely simple and insanely correct answer.
I bet Peter Theil is going to have a full schedule holding court over the next several months as all the Silicon Valley power players are going to want to know how they can get in the good graces of the Trump administration.
I've got a bit of an industrial control logic background and that's my go-to framework as well :)
Seems extremely disingenuous that Trump supporters of all people would criticize hate and name calling when Trump's campaign was run on those issues, but I guess it's always easier to strike a conciliatory tone when you've won.
OP specifically said it was a serious question, so this comes off as patronising..