skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As crazy as it might seem the USA has been right of center for a long (since WW2) and it is generally working well for us (we are so rich we don't even understand it). It is clearly not perfect (healthcare) but it does often work in unintuitive way (decade on decade carbon release decrease).

EDIT - Even though I think Trump is an existential threat to the USA, so have many of our leaders. Maybe 'us' wouldn't be the US if we weren't just a bit crazy. I must accept that I might be wrong about Trump be universally bad and see what happens.
> If he said "I'm going to end homelessness" would you believe him?

I believe that they would try. Starting a military conflict is well within the abilities of a president, especially when his party has control over both houses of congress and a demonstrated inability to stand up to him.
It's not an either/or situation. Yes, crowded cities need to take steps to increase the housing supply, but they should also make sure Airbnb isn't further diminishing the supply.
I'd have expected Hillary to send in the Federal troops and shut down marijuana sales, simply because she's been in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry and they're already complaining about how cannabis is cutting into their sales and profits. [0]

But Trump? Maybe not. He's a businessman, after all, and marijuana has proven to be some big business indeed. [1]

Anyway, I don't think it's on his priority list.

[0] http://thefreethoughtproject.com/legal-marijuana-destroys-bi...

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/colorado-racks-bill...
It's that kind of disrespect for the opinions of others which had so many believing that Trump could not win.
You can still buy Macbooks with an escape key. Most of the TouchBar layouts still have Esc (though not in the optimal fitts-law position).

I personally think the issue is way overblown. 16GB RAM is far more of a concern for me. Logging in via TouchID would be a very nice feature.
The ability to connect two 5K monitors is sure to sell a ton of units. /s

The number of people buying the much more expensive 5K monitors instead of the already great 4K monitors is rather small. That's why there are only three different 5K monitor models on the market.
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I honestly have always been a pro "total free trade" with even the notion of protective tariffs being totally dismiss-able...but I think it's time to look at things with more of a nuanced approach.

When it comes to jobs, there is significant value provided to society as a whole from jobs that do not require a high degree of workforce re-education. Sometimes, people need a job that they can comfortably walk into and walk out of while they are between jobs. Walmart and McDonald's are the places providing that type of think because jobs that could be done cheaper elsewhere while importing the product were shipped off.

What we are seeing is that by offloading "no training" jobs to other cheaper countries and retaining "heavy education" jobs here in the US we're creating an additional cost to work that now REQUIRES paying for school, investing time in learning a skill and then hoping the market for that skill remains viable so you don't have to then re-invest in a new skill later on in life.

It makes me sincerely wonder if certain tariffs are more justified just to protect that type of work because it seems that the cost of not having it available is far higher than most people have accounted for. I live in the south east, an area that was highly dependent on the textile economy before it went belly up with the removal of protective tariffs. The effect was fairly devastating and it took many years to recover. Some areas never did while others flourished.

Just makes me want to understand all the factors more.
> it's a bit disingenuous to only look at that part of the picture.

The occupation and "nation-building" were effectively military efforts. And they've failed spectacularly.

I'd be interested in the good parts of that mixed bag you mentioned. What good has come out of this other than defense contractor's profits?
That's funny, because you could also see this as the result of working class citizens without skills which would have made them valuable in the new global economy, vote for trade protections which would allow them to keep their manufacturing jobs.

Also:

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Trump didn't win a majority of the votes. Or even a plurality.
Downmod all you want - did you see it or not? What's your explanation?
Came across this paper this AM regarding the attempts to get non-alike people to mingle:

"In this paper, we hypothesize, first, that previous approaches have not worked because they have been direct -- they have tried to explicitly connect people with those having opposing views on sensitive issues."

https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00481
> It's also possible that purely language/framework books

That has been my experience. The best book club discussions (we do probably 10 different groups a year for 5+ years at this point) have been for books like The Pragmatic Programmer, Rework, Lean Startup, etc -- ones that focus more on a methodology or have room for discussion about trade-offs. Framework/language specific books tend towards the reference material side of things and don't have much room for discussion. One exception is the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book -- we would work the exercises on our own and then meet together to discuss and share our solutions.
> Maybe a tax benefit for opening office space...

i was just reading an article about a company with offices near St Louis. They took the tax incentives to open an office, promised like 150 jobs, and now they're all but shuttering it and laying off the 77 IT workers they had.
And contracting their jobs to a company in India.

The tax incentives are definitely there. But the incentive to keep the jobs there isn't, when offshoring is so in vogue still.
Follow his blog posts all the way back, you will see why he did what he's done. All well reasoning to me.
The right path seems to be a WebAssembly build of an actual C++ engine. That's pretty close to this, which uses ammo.js, a workerized emscripten/ASM.js build of Bullet.

I've been meaning to experiment with doing precisely this :/.
Not saying it does. As I point out again and again: I don't like that man. I do like Americans though and feel I have reason to be thankful for many of them.

I'm just offering a different narrative istead of "50% of the voters - conveniently enough those who disagree with us - are stupid racists."
Heh, but the propaganda machine is working as intended and those who pay for it have made sure at least half of the American population think government run healthcare, pensions and anything else is close to pure fucking evil. You do it on your own or you're not a proper American. Amazing, really.
I'm also Swedish, and the parallells are striking. During the last two general elections in Sweden, my Facebook was an endless litany of "But, but, but, they're racist!!!", same as the mainstream media, and all of it completely useless, because the argument clearly doesn't work.
Did you reply to the correct post? I'm not sure what you're saying has to do with what I'm saying.
The country is filled with them once you leave the city - and they all turned out to vote last night.

My first two jobs were seasonal work on a potato farm and then working on the line in a packing plant. Neither of them would be available to me, and certainly not at a living wage, with a continuation of open borders.
> Keep in mind that that's 21.7% of stack overflow users (i.e. developers), not users in general.

The unfortunate reality is that while this number is largerish, whenever a company comes out with a linux-based "developer edition" laptop, folks don't buy it.

The Dell XPS 13, for example, is a great looking machine - but too many folks were busy buying macbooks to help Dell learn this market segment does indeed want more products like this.

We need to vote with our wallets, in order to reinforce this behavior.

Perhaps this may change now that developers are feeling disenfranchised with Apple over the recent model releases.
If Trump truly did have masterful powers of persuasion, you'd think he would have been able to win a majority of the popular vote. Which he didn't.

Trump's victory owes a lot more to a system that gives extra weight to rural voters than it does to anything Scott Adams has ever claimed.
Well, Europe isn't Canada, and 1933 isn't 2016. One of the major differences between Canada and any other country on the planet is the level of multiculturalism that is not only supported, but encouraged. It keeps all sorts of extremism at bay. I'm personally think it goes too far, but I have to concede that this is a benefit.

That comment however wasn't that someone like Trump could never be elected here, it's that the current environment, along with that of the foreseeable future, would have to change dramatically for it to be the case.
Who in politics today is your gold standard for modesty? Hillary? Obama?
are there any sample applications available on GitHub?
While I cannot judge on the merits of your recommendations (not being a hardware guy myself), I do want to point out that this is a project in collaboration with WDLabs (as in Western Digital), according to the website.

"Have never done it before" would not be a description I would apply to Western Digital regarding hardware products.

The website admits however, that this is more of a "reference device, meant to inspire and invite anyone to build their own", so I would not expect the most rugged quality. In any case, as you need to bring your own Raspberry Pi, it seems to be more of a product for tinkerers than for enterprise-strength reliability.
Please do not recommend the Griffin product for the MacBook Pro. It is not rated for 87W.
I think there are a couple of forces at work here that aren't clear cut.

Perhaps there are families out there that need more space, would like to be self-sufficient especially in emergency situations and feel happier outside of an urban center.

I think if we build these types of communities/houses, we should have a way of sustaining them. This man wants to work and is not asking for a handout. This should be celebrated and the person should be given work to do to earn his keep.
I'm not saying from it, although I think that it's not difficult to demonstrate that a disenfranchised group with poor economic prospects tends to self-radicalize.

I don't view a ton of difference between extremist terrorist conscription and, say, gang violence.

I think many of the same triggers are exploited. And you see those same triggers at play in traditionally white "militia" folks as well.
Sure. That doesn't change the meaning of the quote.
They are taking care of their own first - cheapest labor and lowest taxes make the shareholders extremely happy.
Freedoms and proactive steps to mitigate an attack are not mutually exclusive.
Peter Thiels entire philosophy is based on taking action based on insight/knowledge other people do not have, and avoiding the detrition of marketplace competition at all cost
(see Zero to One).

I'd wager its not an 'if' but a certainty that he knew something few others did.
What makes you think these jobs will ever come back in significant numbers? Even if the companies were forced to come back from overseas there would probably be a significantly smaller labor force because of automation. This problem is only going to get worse so it makes sense to go to a solution that is long term.
I think this sums it up, and whether you agree with it or not, is a valid distinction to make:

Describing the presidential campaign, Mr. Thiel said it was "between one candidate who says everything is more or less fine, or it’s as good as it can be. And then another one who says we’re on the Titanic, it’s about to sink. And so I prefer the second one."

Now, it's perfectly reasonable to question if Trump has an actionable plan to make things better. I question that too.

I also find it hard to ignore his remarks about ethnicity and women, but it seems clear to me that the media inadvertently helped Trump by screaming bigot, racist, sexist, etc. as loud as possible. When you call everything racist, it dulls the meaning of the word, and ends up hiding real racism.

Another thing I appreciate from this election is that people don't like being told who to vote for. I didn't appreciate the shrill tone of every single news outlet and media source I turned to (and I barely watch news and didn't follow the election until very late.)

I thought 538 would have "objective" coverage, but I didn't like that Nate Silver couldn't resist inserting petty personal insults about Trump in his articles. Even guys like Louis CK, Howard Stern, and Stephen Colbert turned out to have surprisingly little sense of humor about it.
>That's just a self-important way to sound superior.

No, it's called understanding that not everything everyone says is meant to be taken literally.
> Hillary Clinton was a flawed candidate but a resilient, intelligent, and competent leader, who never overcame her image among millions of voters as untrustworthy and entitled.

She is untrustworthy and entitled, it's not just an image. I'm glad the people rejected her. She didn't deserve to win.

Trump has been out campaigning and holding rallies. Hillary spent most of her campaign hiding from the press.

Anyway, article flagged and hid. This is not r/politics.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201609051044962300-hillary-press-...

>According to New York Times's Amy Chozick and Jonathan Martin, instead of holding rallies and giving interviews to the press, Hillary Clinton has packed her schedule with fundraising events that reportedly brought her $50 million in the last two weeks of August. She took part in some 22 events in the span of 14 days, pricing her time at some $150,000 per hour, fielding "hundreds of questions from the ultrarich in places like the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard, Beverly Hills and Silicon Valley."
The dev image is just used to test on a CI server, if everything passes the production image is sent to our registry.
Makes you wonder with all of Palantir's massive data-mining if Thiel knew something the public didn't.

You didn't need Palantir to see the Trump result coming.
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SellHack used to do this exact thing a couple years ago but had to remove the on-page button after Linkedin went after them. Do you think you'll face similar difficulties?
Is there a reason you seem to be taking my comment so personally?
> I'd have expected Hillary to send in the Federal troops and shut down marijuana sales, simply because she's been in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry and they're already complaining about how cannabis is cutting into their sales and profits.

Actually pushing for federal legalization would result in either big pharma or big ag (which overlap considerably, anyway) controlling the business. The semi-legal status is the only reason that it cuts into big pharma's business rather than being part of it.
Fair point. I inferred OP was in the US, considering the US election that just ended and people were jokingly talking about leaving the country[1] to other places.

[1]: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-immigration-website-cr...
As a language user, it is really just a semi-structured assembly-style everything-is-string and global-memory as a hierarchical tree map.

The language comes with transaction support, though one can use mutexes instead for performance reasons.
Does it cost any more than simply housing them behind bars?
I don't generally understand this train of thought. For employees that are full-time exempt (And most are), as long as you work a day, you are paid for 8 hours of work.

Whether your commute takes 3 hours or 3 minutes, you are paid the exact same because you can't work an extra hour instead of commuting for that $77.

Others folks that are on H-1Bs can't even work on side-hustles because of immigration law so what are they really missing out on?
You say that as if you think that is prima facie a bad thing. It's that sort of categorization which has poisoned political discourse in this country.

I hope Trump's shock to both the major parties encourages them to reconsider the war for power they wage day and night. But I'm not going to hold my breath.
Yeah the part about windowed desktop environments gave me some pause and then sure enough further down there was more "if you're doing something other than what I'm doing, you're doing it wrong"
unlearning mostly.
What are you actually excited about over the previous model as opposed to "don't have a problem with"?

Im genuinely curious. This is not meant to be a rhetorical question.
I'm so sorry. Maybe you can use your unique perspective to shine a light on how backwards Trump's support of Putin and Putinesque policies is.
Via the Washington Post's media columnist: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-media-did...

> I’m no fan of Peter Thiel, the billionaire who put Gawker out of business by bankrolling a lawsuit by Hulk Hogan, the professional wrestler. In fact, I find him appalling.

> But when he spoke recently at the National Press Club, he said something that struck me as quite perceptive about Donald Trump.

> “The media is always taking Trump literally. It never takes him seriously, but it always takes him literally,” Thiel said. Journalists wanted to know exactly how he would deport that many undocumented immigrants, or exactly how Trump would rid the world of the Islamic State. We wanted details.

> But a lot of voters think the opposite way: They take Trump seriously but not literally.

> They realize, Thiel said, that Trump doesn’t really plan to build a wall. “What they hear is, ‘We’re going to have a saner, more sensible immigration policy.’ ”

> Trump, quite apparently, captured the anger that Americans were feeling about issues such as trade and immigration.

Thiel was completely correct on this. It's a sad(der) version of the stereotype of journalism just being uncritical transcribers of the powerful, except journalists were doing it (ostensibly) to hurt Trump.

It's a great example of the damage of unconscious bias. If someone I love tells me they'll climb the highest mountain and swim the widest ocean to make me happy, I'll love them even though I know that's a literal lie. If someone I hate tells me the sky is blue, I still look for a way to pedantically correct them.

I know it's popular for journalists to be opinionated and fight for the truth and all, but I can't help but think that if journalists even tried to just believe in that impossible ideal of idealism, more of them would have come to empathize with Trump's supporters -- not the wacky crazy ones that make for good TV -- and see Trump's promises as a signal of priorities, not a literal fulfillment that Americans want.
I would totally support a YCombinator in Canada. (Obviously because I live in Canada)
That's a red herring, just take a look at some budget breakdowns:

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

The largest portion of our budget is mandatory spending (~65%). Of our mandatory spending, the largest portion of that is spent on Social Services (Social security, medicare and health, etc) and yet we still have worse services than almost any other western country (IMO).

You start looking at percentages and an even more sinister picture starts to take shape:

https://visualeconomics.creditloan.com/how-countries-spend-t...

> "Canada spends 6.3 percent of its total yearly budget on military spending. The United States spends 19.3 percent of its budget on military expenses. Mexico uses 3.3 percent of its budget for military spending."

> "Canada spends 17.9 percent of its total yearly budget on health care. The United States spends 19.3 percent of its budget on health care expenses. Mexico uses 11.8 percent of its budget for health care."

> "Norway spends 17.9 percent of its budget on health care spending, while its neighbor Sweden spends 13.8 percent of its budget on health care."

> "In France, health care spending is 16.7 percent of Frances yearly budget."

This article needs citation, but see this report that seems to at least tangentially support some of the trends voiced:

http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Briefing-Note-NORWAY-...

> "The United States is, by far, the country that spends the most on health as a share
of its economy (with 16.9% of its GDP allocated to health in 2012)"

So at this point we can conclude that the US spends roughly the same share, or more, of it's GDP on Health care as other countries...even those "socialist" ones...yet we have a much worse standard/level/cost of care.

Even at our "lower" tax rates our GDP is by far and away the largest:

https://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+countries+by+GDP&oq=...

But moreover, our PER CAPITA GDP is one of the highest in the world (higher than Norway and Sweden).

So at the end of the day, America:

* Spends more on healthcare in flat dollar terms than almost any other nation

* Spends more on healthcare PER CAPITA than almost any other nation

and yet we still have far worse levels of care.

So this problem has nothing to do with economic or tax policy in the US. The question is: Where is the enormous sums of money we are ALREADY pouring into the system going?
Found this and it gave articulation to my thoughts, with intentional misspellings by the author...

"amerikka and its capitalist empire is an illegitimate system and therefore i choose to not give it much of my energy but i do have some thoughts to offer.

Trump taking power is not a change, but an unveiling of what has always been: that this country is founded and held through the control and consciousness of rich psychotic white male rapists, exploiters and oppressors of Black and Brown indigenous bodies in the name of money, which they hoard for themselves. These patriarchs created white supremacy which simultaneously created amerikkka and its empire that runs and terrorizes the world. and at this point these politricks dont even have to be white men to enact/enforce this consciousness, because it has been institutionalized. you can be a womxn, a poc, it doesn't matter when you up in the white house because this blood money rules every thing around us. its so fitting for a capitalist rather than a 'politician' to become president because they all ride for each other. the anxiety and fear around the fascism and xenophobia that trump is pushing is real, but its no different than what Obama was doing, where pigs continue to murder Black and Brown men, womxn and children with no consequences, where we have seen more deportations than ever in history. or killary wih her fascist white feminism overseeing coups and murdering and dropping bombs on womxn of color all in the the name of democracy.

the difference now is that everything is all out in the open. the fascism isnt being disguised by liberal rhetoric of 'democracy' and 'freedom' because there aint never been true justice in amerikkka. what should concern us is the violence and fascism Trump inspires in the ignorant racist white populations of this country. but that only means we need to get organized, we need to free ourselves of the idea that we need to be governed, that we need a president or politician to save us, we need to free ourselves from integration because this shit was not built for us, we need to ground and trust our magic, and cast spells and visions of liberation, because real democracy is self determination. and the struggle continues."