skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think people liked him. He has zero charisma. People don't want to have, a whatever, with him. If he didn't basically set up all his kids; I don't think they would be kissing his arse. Nobody respects the man. He's just a aweful human. His family--don't get me started; he has one Lord killing Tigers, and the other Price killing an elephant. It's just an embarrassment. Most Americans think he's a joke. I repeat for our foreign neighbors; most of us are embarrassed by the guy. He is in no way the average American. He's a joke.

0. Hillary was the phoniest candidate I have seen in awhile. I loved her years ago, but she sold out.

1. He was voted in because so many of us are suffering financially. He offered change. (I don't think he will change anything).

2. He claimed to stop Globalism. (Probally will never happen)

3. He called out his own hypocrites--the hedge fund 1 percenter's--that just use this country as a nice place to live, while underpaying whenever they can.

4. He offered hope to Americans that lost hope.

5. That's it. It was about hope to have jobs again. Not all of us can be Programmers. Some of us don't want to buy a late model four door car to "get their side hussle on". These new jobs are terrible!

6. Again--it was all about jobs.

7. Deep down inside people knew the unemployment rate was wrong. People saw their neighbors sitting at home clipping coupons. Too many people just stopped looking for work.

8. They projected their anger on illegial immigrants.

(I don't know if he will bring back jobs. My hope is he doesn't get us into a stupid war. My hope is democrats gain control of the house, and senate; then in four years we get someone in office a bit less liberal than Bernie Sanders. God Bless-----)
> which is already increasing the pressure on the regime to transition to a democracy

Now is not the time to sing the praises of democracy.
So basically, you are saying that you, and you alone, can judge people from different cultures and backgrounds on their practices because... hey, you are superior or something. Yeah, that sounds pretty racist.
Lemonly – cleaning service in Seattle combining local services with tech startup
In what city did you work?
The US civil war was fought in part because the southern states threatened to secede.

Do you think the US would let California leave? Can CA defend her own borders (especially against the rest of the US)?
You just won the election. I wonder when the right is going to stop playing the victim. I'm sure President Trump will be very accommodating to those who think differently from him.
Well you're wrong, what else can I say. You think you are so right that anything that disagrees with your position must be a racial power issue. It just isn't like that. It is definitely part of it - dont get me wrong, but the much much bigger part is actual policy issues.
But not the majority of the United States, apparently.

Clinton voters are by and large an educated, distinctively non blue collar bunch.
I think is just upset for the election in usa...
I have been following his blog for about 6 months because it seemed like he was a pretty rational and lucid trump supporter.

I have a newfound respect for him because he literally called every step of this election.
> I'm a Python programmer. I fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitrary objects.

I'm a Python programmer too, and I also fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitary objects, and I get really frustrated with the fact that they can't be arbitary objects. They have to be hashable objects, and the hash function refuses to hash certain objects that it has decided aren't allowed.
I'd better to pay for editor than for compiler/core. Also JB is true software company, its their primary source of revenue. Editors is the only good way of monetization open-source projects.

UPD. When I pay for their job, I receive real stuff and not some obfuscated shit. The stuff that will be compiling even when the subscription ends.
Nah Venezuela is where it's at.
Complete uninformed speculation: The stock market doesn't seem to like him. If that continues, the big markets may be less appealing as investments, interest rates may stay low, and so VC may be a (relatively) more appealing place to throw money. That would fuel money towards more startups, but it's a wildly uneducated guess.
Japan gets to claim the US as a major ally though. They get to stay out of foreign affairs in the aggressive way because their friend carries a big stick, protecting them against China (I say this as a non-American by the way.)
H1B allows for work experience to substitute for formal college degrees. It's easier to demonstrate competency with the degree but it is not compulsory:

> The nature of the specific duties is so specialized and complex that the knowledge required to perform the duties is usually associated with the attainment of a bachelor's or higher degree.

> education, specialized training, and/or progressively responsible experience that is equivalent to the completion of a U.S. bachelor’s or higher degree in the specialty occupation, and having recognition of expertise in the specialty.

https://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupati...
Ok, non-white writing here. I've never been stopped and frisked and neither have most of my non-white friends. And it certainly doesn't happen "all the time", at least to me in my part of town. Although anecdotal, admittedly.
> but are not allowed to cultivate, maintain and
> respect our own (American) culture

Citation?
> "Sanders would've been a giant risk too."

Nothing is certain in politics, but I'm curious about why you hold that opinion. Why would you consider Sanders a big risk?
Uh the left would really like to address poverty, it's Republicans who are interested in gutting our institutions. But nice try.
Um, it has all been recorded and/or videotaped? Why do Trump supporters keep denying the horrible things he has said when there is solid recorded evidence?
It seems strange to blame the left for not having a stronger response against Islam instead of the right for drumming up this insane hatred of Muslim people..

I have no doubt that this issue cost many swing state votes but how many Wisconsinites have ever even seen a Muslim? It's such an insane boogeyman created for this very purpose.

I listen to Sam Harris, agree with many of his points but there are like 10,000 Syrians in the US - many of whom are Christians, all of whom were fleeing ISIS. Shame on Republicans for using them to score votes.
I've never understood this absurd n-word argument.

I have a brother. Due to circumstances, I can call him a "stupid idiot" and he will know that I'm not serious and I respect him. However if a stranger calls him the same thing, he will take offense. Is that an unfair double standard?

Similarly, the n-word is a derogatory racial slur. Black people are quite justified in taking offense when being called that by an non-black person. However, if called that by a black person, the listener can be reasonably sure that the speaker is not being racist, and also that no 3rd party listener would mistake it for that.

It's just an obvious fact of language that context matters, and the speaker matters.
Did he outperform the 70-30 Clinton support that polls were showing for Indian, 75-20 from Jewish, and 70-20 non-Indian Asian peoples that support that polls had him at? He won because of non-collection educated Caucasians, with whom he outperformed models by 15% points.
Well, as a Pole... it's nice to know Americans are as dumb as we are. The problem is, number of places to run away just reduced considerably.
I'm not sure you understand the American mindset terribly well. Party loyalty didn't play much of a role here.
Eh, I do have plenty of foreign policy disagreements in particular with him. But he's the best we've had in living memory.

Liberalism has had a smug aspect as long as I've been alive, but at this point that aspect has metastasized to something worse. The norms that have developed are toxic to progressive movements. They certainly alienate people, but beyond that they make it so you don't even have the institutional capacity to understand or formulate policies relevant to those people.

It's a perverse version of the situation people thought Republicans were in in 2012, where they seemed to have driven out most non-white people and thereby lacked the capacity for effective outreach to them. Except in this case, if you're a poor white male in Wisconsin who's done everything right but is still struggling like hell, you're an evil oppressor who just doesn't recognize your privilege. People who can understand where the poor white male perspective is coming from are literally shouted out of discussions for diverting attention from the people uniquely experiencing True Suffering and blessed with progressive sainthood.

It's beyond Obama. Who, for what it's worth, has always struck me as the thoughtful type who wouldn't buy into those kinds of fake dichotomies. It's a broader issue with progressive movements where people earn cred by honing their sensitivities enough to maximize the level of offense they can experience.
To clarify, the aggressive tone is non-constructive, as in it detracts from the article. You're right he makes a constructive point but I bet a bunch of people don't bother reading that far.
That's true but what I'm getting at is German housing is significantly cheaper, with good infrastructure.

Culture counts too. In the north of the UK, the idea of living in Manchester city centre is awful compared to the idea of living in quiet rural.
> I've driven across the US three times. American culture is

not found on its interstates? Driving cross-country is not a qualification to make such a negative statement.
Actually it is the opposite; Trump wants to bring American troops home. He's no dove sure, but he's not a hawk either.
I think this is the heart of the matter. Automation and AI will ensure that many jobs will never return.
The Huffpost did a round-up: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-exam...

For example there were proposals to not allow Muslims to immigrate to the US. There was calling Mexicans 'criminals' and 'rapists'. Beating of black people at Trump rallies (which he endorsed).

This shows up this night on my twitter feed:
"I am at a Trump rally in Manhattan, and thousands are chanting 'We hate Muslims, we hate blacks, we want our great country back'. Disgusting"
https://twitter.com/SRowntreeNews/status/796141495573155840
The linked article was talking about facts, a dissection of various arguments made by Thiel and Trump. Elections aren't about facts (unfortunately?), so they cannot prove anything about whether that article is right or not.
"Because he can't win". He was the Democratic equivalent of Trump in that he wanted to do something radically different, but the party had their collective stuff way more together than the red team and thus wasn't so easily disrupted. They went with Hillary and figured it'd be business as usual.
There is a difference between attacking people because of their sex or by insulting them based on their sex. First is definitively sexist, the latter is arguable.
And many countries have a double tax treaty with the US, such as the UK, whereby you end up only paying one load of tax.
I'm just reminded of a story shared in New York in the 80's where a teacher asked his mostly 14-15 year old African American class if they had been stopped and frisked and every single one of them held their hand up.
The US has about the same share of global GDP today as it did in 1910-1920, before the US emerged onto the global stage. Your premise is wrong. The US was more powerful economically before WW2, than it is today. The particularly robust and brief post WW2 bubble was just that, courtesy of the rest of the developed world being blown up. In about ten years the US will approach $30 trillion in national debt, a sum so great nobody even seriously talks about attempting to pay it off any longer, and interest rates can no longer rise above perhaps 2% or 3% because the US Government would go bankrupt.
I think there are many hidden Trump voters. They might never disclose at work or among friends their choice, but I suspected many did. I was watching both the Hillary and Trump Reddit channels, and on Trumps' channel there was a constant stream of educated people (doctors, programmers, lawyers), a large number of non-whites, LGBT, ex-Bernie people there and so on.

On Hillary's side there was a constant -- "Ah look at those stupid sexists, hating us for wanting a a woman President" type of complacency.

So the result was surprising, but not too surprising at the same time.

> Bernie Sanders could have been in my opinion, easily, the president elect

Bernie would have wiped the floor with Trump, no doubt.
Successive Australian governments seem to hold a different view. Australians have joined US wars in Vietnam(!), Afghanistan and Iraq. The idea that Australia can do without a military alliance with the US and live in splendid isolation is a romantic one, but not very realistic.

And China and Japan are not the only populous countries to the north of Australia: Indonesia has 10X the population, and is far closer.
http://i.imgur.com/zQg1M2A.png
No dosa no money :P
It seems crazy to rely on polls to make your "Sanders would have won" case when the polls were as wrong as they've ever been this cycle.
Honestly, I doubt you'll have very much to worry about. Sure a few minor but very visible things may change, but overall nothing major is going to change in four years.

Much of what Trump want to do isn't something that the US can actually afford to implement. The worst thing Trump could do is the take the US in an isolationist direction, but that's not going to happen because it would hurt the wealthy people... like Trump.

One extremely positive thing that could come of all this is that the rest of the world starts taking more responsibility, and intervene earlier in conflicts, now that the support of the US military isn't guaranteed.
Will the people who denigrated his supporters so vehemently here and on Twitter pause to ask themselves why Trump won so convincingly, and whether their reflexes to publicly shame his supporters may have played a role in the outcome?

I'd hope they would. There are many important conversations to be had but we need to begin by understanding and respecting the opinions of the other side.
> This is definitely the preference falsification election.

I agree. In fact, the point at which I started to think that Trump could win was Hillary's "Basket of Deplorables" blunder. It was a blunder because the way she phrased it, she put far too many in that basket.

Paradoxically, because people believed what she said —that there are many Deplorables— she might have initiated the very preference cascade that cost her the election.
I was going to reply to him, but you beat me to it. But since you posed a different question regarding the term hashable, I thought I would link some helpful starting docs (for you and/or others):

https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-hashable

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4348232/python-dictionary...
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/graphs/contributors
Inside company <30 people working on kotlin that give us more than 100 people outside JetBrains involved in Kotlin development.
That's the problem with democracy: a lot of people aren't very well informed, and are easily taken in by his crap. Other than investing more in education, I'm not sure what can be done about this.
Actually, yeah, it has a lot in common with city states.

It differs from historical city-states in that the primary factor of production in the classical/medieval era was land, and so city states negotiated from a position of weakness and remained confined to the city because they lacked the resources to capture more territory. Now, food is abundant, and actually requires fossil fuels and genetic engineering for its production. That changes the negotiating position of a port city without a lot of land significantly.

(It does make me wonder what would happen if we got a nationalist heartland ringed by a number of small city states, and then the heartland would refuse to sell food. Massive famine and political collapse? Peaceful trade with overseas nations to supply an alternate source? A large army streaming out of the city states to capture the heartland by force? Mutually assured destruction where everyone dies, since modern crops don't actually grow by themselves without fresh inputs of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, antibiotics, and genetically-modified seeds?)
Clinton wasn't a very inspiring candidate, that much is obvious. I think there would have been a much better turnout for Bernie Sanders. He got people excited (and he wasn't Clinton, so Republicans fed on a diet of Clinton hatred for decades wouldn't have been so afraid to vote for him). But Sanders was too unconventional for the Democratic leadership. Now hopefully the Democrats learn that being unconventional and taking risks can win elections.

Somehow, though, I don't think they'll learn any lessons. They've dropped the ball for too long, and played the role of the appeasers for too long. They've cozied up to the Republicans and moved their party far to the right, occasionally talking the talk but rarely walking the walk. This is what they get.
Nope, in the UK any tech job is "blue collar", that's how the old class system still works.
The degree by which Trump won is the "totally unexpected" part.
Humanity, meet the Great Filter.
I've spent a solid week trying to get RetroPie to reliably work with my setup, and then decided it's just not worth the effort. I would take this over the RetroPie any time of the day.
I noticed the same thing about how how establishment his "team" is. I predict that what we've elected as a nation is, in fact, a fairly run of the mill establishment Republican. But I guess we'll find out!
I was actually trying to make the point that not any political ideology is defensible just because it's a political opinion you can vote for.

So I'm gonna go ahead and call your point a strawman.
> we don't even pay for our editors!

You really should!
I don't know if the past was so rose tinted.

The 20th century was dominated by the struggle between the far left (communism) and what the communists perceived as imperialist nationalism (capitalism/western democracy). This was a far, far more bitter struggle than what we're seeing now.
But he wants that authority, and has tremendous power as a republican POTUS with 2 or even 3 SCOTUS picks, a republican congress, and a republican senate.

This is indicated by his repeated attacks on Clinton for having been a politician for 30 years and not fixing, well, everything. He is an autocrat.
Your comment was a very interesting read. A shame that it didn't get any further discussion. I'll give The Book of the New Sun a go. Thanks for your insights.
I have one if you want to use.

jp.sapterc.com

contact me in my email in bio.
It's not a return to the 1920s. Globalisation proceeded too quickly, and many people got left out.

It is a revolt against a system which simply doesn't work for the majority of European descended whites.

Paul Buchheit once linked to an article from the American Conservative, which shows at least he had an open mind to hearing about these anti-establishment views.

Paul Graham and Sam A have instead just continued the political correctness anti-Trump agenda which in the long-turn actually plays into his hands, as there is a growing dislike of PC, especially from multi-millionaires who don't understand what its like to be out of work with no education behind you.

I think all this talk will come back to bite Silicon Valley and YC on the ass, as Trump will look to take revenge on the Tech Crowd. I expect the Tech Bubble to burst over the nxt year.
Well it turns out Thiel was right on the money. How many people are still going to call for his head on a plate now ?
It is not as simple as that. For example the Bangladeshi community in the UK was largely pro-Brexit. They wondered why white Europeans got favourable immigration treatment vs their own people.
> Get out of your bubble. Hang out more on subreddits you don't agree with.

This probably isn't a sufficient step to get exposed to really different opinions...
> So the world's most liveable city is Melbourne, Australia

Do you mean the city with crappy weather, unaffordable real estate, collapsed roads, and a job market based on selling overpriced coffees to hipsters?
Well you're wrong, what else can I say.

An articulate and well-reasoned rebuttal.

You think you are so right that anything that disagrees with your position must be a racial power issue.

I think I've read my history book. I think this has happened before. I think the economic system that working-class white people without college degrees favor is one that only worked so long as people with the "wrong" skin color were either held in literal bondage or legally prohibited from competing with people who had the "right" skin color. I think the past century has seen an enormous effort to tear down the system which protected those white working-class non-college-educated people from competition, on grounds that this sort of protectionism is morally odious. I think the "economic anxiety" of Trump voters is nothing more than a yearning for a return to that sort of protectionism. I think it's possible many of them are viewing history through extremely rose-colored glasses in order not to see the magnitude of the evil that had to be perpetrated to maintain their position, but that doesn't excuse it.
Polybius [1] would share with this point of view. He believed that governments iterated through a cycle of basic forms: democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy and their degenerate forms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyklos
Here is a helpful tool I made for anyone considering moving to Canada!

https://www.canadiantechjobsforamericans.com/
> She also told public how long the nuclear response time is which is quite ironic after saying Trump could not be trusted with that information.

Incorrect. The four minute window has been known in the public domain for a very long time. http://www.snopes.com/clinton-four-minute-nuclear/
The US economy was embarrassing the major powers of Europe post civil war, when it came to almost all forms of industrial output. It was not after WW2 that the US economy really took off, it had been growing at an extreme pace from 1870-1930 - in fact that was the fastest period of growth in US history by far. The great depression was not just a US specific event.
Then that's a pretty bad argument that Trump's election will make software developers from "Europe, Australia, NZ, etc." more willing to come to the US.
>He'd be in jail if he broke the law

Let's see, which should I pick for this particular occasion of encountering this fallacy... we've got the US housing crisis, US war crimes and torture, NSA spying... hmm so many choices.
I've heard a lot of people say, in the U.S, that if this or that happens then "I'm moving to Canada". It's as if they think Canada would welcome them with open arms. Think again.
Wow. I think it applies perfectly today.

"Theory: In US presidential elections, the more charismatic candidate wins.

People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously. When one candidate beats another they look for political explanations. The country is shifting to the left, or the right. And that sort of shift can certainly be the result of a presidential election, which makes it easy to believe it was the cause.

But when I think about why I voted for Clinton over the first George Bush, it wasn't because I was shifting to the left. Clinton just seemed more dynamic. He seemed to want the job more. Bush seemed old and tired. I suspect it was the same for a lot of voters."