skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very true. Not for any political reasons, but I've always wanted to work in the EU (I lived there several times but was working) but everytime I look at salaries in Berlin or the NL or similar, it occurs to me that'd it be a better idea to just work here and save for a few more years, and then go there without the need to get a job.

I'd break even financially and would have more time to learn the language (though I suppose working in a foreign office would be a great way to learn the language, at least once the basics are obtained).
The way to ensure that these profits are "redistributed" back to the people of the host country is to eliminate free trade. If the items you sell in America must be produced by an American workforce, then the money is pumping back into the economy as Republicans always claim. If the money is being taken from Americans at the point-of-sale and then shipped out to China, Americans lose.

Trump is proposing that we put a cost-prohibitive tariff on foreign-built goods so that Americans will only buy them if there is truly no decent American competitor.

Sanders and Trump are approximating the same root cause here -- corporate greed is depriving the American worker. They're just extracting the value that belongs to the American worker at a different point of the transaction. It's debatable which is superior, but Trump's approach is more compliant with conventional American laissez-faire capitalism.
Hah! Great point!

Now is the time for a startup to emerge that makes Bitcoin _EASY_! Easy like my-grandma-can-do-it easy. This actually finally might be the thing that makes BTC!
And I spotted the fire retardant.
Generally in such deals Chinese companies are the contractors doing the work and suppliers of goods, so again outside of energy I don't think China implemented any agreements that provided surplus for the trading partner.
And you find that cutting federal funding entirely is a reasonable, proportional response?
I don't know, given thiel's track record, maybe we should wonder if we are the fools.
Why do so many projects go straight into a technical description of their solution without posing what the problem actually is. Here is the only justification of why they are doing this project- "I want to build an application, with which i can manage the items in my basement (preferably groceries)".

What does this even mean? This trend frequently happens especially on HN and it denies the reader a chance at weighing up the solution within context of the problem.
I would say OP has begged the question. Just because Trump has won does not mean that Thiel's bet has paid off. As in cornering the market or making a killing on paper, 'how do you bury the body?' Indeed, more than one person on the betting sites or prediction markets (or Bitcoin exchange) has been burned when they thought they won something but the market resolved otherwise. Until you've withdrawn your cash, you haven't made any money and you are still vulnerable to counterparty risk. And Thiel has yet to cash out any of his supposed 'influence'.

I noted when Thiel made his original donations, and then kept doubling down, that there was a good probability he would 'win' (Trump never falling below 10% in the prediction markets) but I felt that the more serious issue was whether he would benefit. Trump has a long history of using and discarding people as soon as they are no longer useful, including decades of simply not paying people who have done work for him (at least two examples in his campaign alone: the polling agency and the girls who sang at his rallies) and daring them to sue. Not to mention how often he loudly promises to donate to charity and then... doesn't. Narcissists are not known for their gratitude, generosity, reciprocation, or feeling bound by past promises or contracts explicit or implicit. Thiel donating to Trump and giving speeches in his support is merely Trump's due for being the greatest businessman in the world and the man who will make America great again. It does not follow that Trump will actually do anything for Thiel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_and_the_Viper

It will be interesting to see if Thiel's bet on Donald Trump ever wins big and he gets something out of it like a Supreme Court nomination. But it's not over yet, and his chickens have neither hatched nor come home to roost.
This has to be good news for Twitter.

Twitter suffered enormously under his leadership. It lost users, potential revenue, potential profits, and people.

He seemed to not care about all the trolling and abuse problems.

This is good news.
When is Dorsey going to step down? Running two successful, public businesses is damn near impossible. Running two public companies that are both in dire straits? Get outta here.

It was incredibly irresponsible of the board to allow him to come back in the CEO role, and they need to put an end to it.
>> The analysis/grading was based on policy positions.

This doesn't sound like policy positions to me:

Candidates were ranked on "privacy and security" based on whether they understood the importance of strong encryption and supported reforming privacy and surveillance laws.
I think the real story here isn't that Thiel was right, but that the rest of SV and the MSM were so wrong.

You have all the data in the world and you can't see what was staring you in the face the entire time.

Get out of your bubble and get to know your neighbors, it is the only way forward.
1) understood, I'm just realizing that there's a need for balance outside people's will too, not too much, but still. As you said, if possible it has to be crafted in order to avoid too much power into the already existing state, yet stability nonetheless.

2) the education paragraph was mostly daydreaming, I know how crazy it is, but people rarely talk about it as a premium need. So I mentioned it.

3) I have nothing to say here. Maybe the tides will have to be since the people aren't ready to divert them.
I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of federal regulations but I seriously doubt that anyone posting here does either. Trump's policy is based on the idea (taken as a truism) that the majority of existing federal regulations are bad and should go away. That seems like a pretty bold statement for anyone to make that would be almost impossible to substantiate.

If these statements were made by incredibly scholarly policy wonks who love nothing more than to learn about the government and think about how it could be improved, that'd be one thing (it'd still be a very suspect statement though). However, I can't imagine that this came from any place more scholarly than people assuming that none of this stuff could possibly exist for any good reason. If they want to get rid of specific regulations, they should just get rid of what regulations they think are unnecessary.

The policy also assumes that any new regulation would be equally unnecessary. It would turn any attempt to add a regulation into a political battle to not only add the regulation, but also a political battle to get rid of two others. This could cause needed regulations to not get passed because some vested interest has the political power to defend the two preexisting regulations. So it neither helps necessary regulations get adopted, nor does it help to get rid of unnecessary regulations. Again, if they think there are so many pointless regulations, just get rid of them. No need to bundle everything together like this.
> That's probably because that has been overplayed. The President, whatever his beliefs doesn't change America's racism (or lack thereof), in the same way there was a record of police shootings of blacks etc. under Obama.

This actually touches on what upset me most about this election. It's not so much that I think Trump is going to be horrible. I think he's been vague enough and it's obvious enough that he was playing to his audience that he could roll out Clinton's exact plan tomorrow and I wouldn't be all that surprised. What really bothers me is the support he got based on the persona and values he projected.

That people can equate breaking the rules using a personal email server with recorded audio of a candidate condoning and admitting sexual assault. That one was often brought out to even the score when tallying the reported sins of the candidates leaves me somewhat depressed about the state of my country. I'm left feeling that if a video was presented of Trump actually doing the things he talked about but denied, sure, Clinton would probably have won, but it still would have been close, and I'm left in the position of trying to reconcile what I thought were values most my country believed in with evidence to the contrary.
I wish Thiel would become more involved... Trump is likely to end up starting too many fights on too many fronts by myopic activists whose concerns don't matter to the average voter but that rile up a significant activist base in opposition. Trump can't win a 2nd term without triangulation to mollify that. He needs to pick his battles.
What percentage fall into that category, holding out for AirBNB type renting instead? Is there some threshold for it to be bad and worthy of some regulation? Do we apply the same rules to multiunit places as individual homes?

sorry, but that post you link to is pretty much a rant against wealth and accumulation of and anyone trying to get some apparently isn't allowed unless they share it. that kind of thinking launches no new businesses, instead its the type that results in regulations that prevent competition and innovation all under the guise of "fairness" and "for the children/environment/oppressed" etc.

We have already seen the results where governments tried to enforce fairness and equality by not rewarding competition and innovation. It wasn't pretty and it only works for so long before a generation or two passes and realizes the best days are past
And why is that a problem?
You're right, my comment was hyperbolic and too tongue-in-cheek to not be called out. TV shows do employ people, that's certainly inarguable and, the season ends with employment of the winner, regardless of how inaccurate the job description. I personally don't find any reality TV shows constructive other than propping up their own market.
Trials are how we do things at Automattic. Not only do we get a feel for the candidate, but the candidate gets a feel for us too.
You should then remove the entries in your blog that just contain the text of deniers like

https://2cco2.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/eric-copt-global-warm...

I don't understand that you even made such entries.
Ban Western Union "send money back to family in Mexico" payments until Mexico agrees to pay for the wall: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/Pay_for_the_Wall.pdf
I still do not understand why twitter needs one. Fire everyone, bring on a skeleton crew of engineers to fix bugs, and maybe 4 product engineers, a couple managers and a couple designers. Boom, instantly ultra profitable.
As long as they remain sanctuary cities, yes.
They predicted Clinton would win the electoral college.
One interesting thing I've found with my limited experience with Elixir is that the code is very compact. What would often take 10+ LoC in other languages can be succinctly expressed as 1-2 lines.

But I do in general agree with your take on it :)
Good. Americans should bear the true cost of offshore-built devices.
No the older plans mostly had out-of-pocket limits, too.

At least the standard employment sponsored plans.
This falls prey to the same fallacious thinking as gambling with the house's money. Assuming we can extort billions of dollars from Mexico, that's money we could be spending on anything – why is a wall the best use for it? And if a wall is the best use for it, the government should be prepared to build it with our own tax dollars, regardless of whether we extort money from Mexico.
At least it's something, but good luck getting any refund from them for the Windows tax. Unless you summon them to a small claims court, they staunchly refuse to refund you, even if you don't plan to use Windows and don't accept the Windows EULA.
I'm curious whether Canada/US revert to the older FTA if NAFTA goes away...
You can only get thrown in jail so many times. Donate to your favorite socially progressive group: bail funds go a long way towards enabling people who can to do.
I'm building a beastly hackintosh and I'll keep my underpowered but perfectly fine MBA for when I'm not at my desk.
And no one to work the advertising deals?

You're leaving money on the table with zero sales staff.
You can still be a career politician without being elected. Most business owners, lobbyists, CEOs, and board members are just that. They just don't have to take any oaths.
My Filipino friends also all ran to the exchange today to stock up on low PHP since Trump presidency means no pressure on Duterte and rise of their peso.
When it's the difference in winning the majority and still losing the election, it is significant.
it's weird to see all these productive members of society speaking up about being forced to pee in a cup for employment reasons...
I expect there to be a prohibition against foreign nationals at a lot of defense contractors. Consider his country of origin: it's one of the last places our government wants technology transfer or espionage to occur with.

And I mean no offense to your friend, but that's how those folks think.
>What we're really talking about is a database that competitors can share

>BFT Raft-like for consensus

exactly. Blockchain right now is just the most "simple" and open format of sharable append-only-log-structured database and consensus protocol for it.
How do you enforce that?
I live by one of those cities, and there are indeed a lot of visa overstayers living there.

The prospect of those people being too scared to call 911 if they witness a crime is something I am decidedly NOT looking forward to.
I agree that binary search might not be the best (depending on constraints), my initial complaint was there were faster ways to solve problem stated than searching every word every time.

I personally like the binary tree method for systems that don't or can't load a dictionary in memory. I particularly like it because you can implement a search that requires little memory and does not require you to read the entire file. But I imagine that there are better ways to lay out the data that potentially could get you the best of both worlds.

I can see how a trie would be useful for doing things more than just checking if the word is spelled correctly viz finding list of words that start with a prefix. The question asked was mostly about looking up a word. I posted something on this below before I found your reply. In my post below I am concerned with only checking if the word exist. Are my concerns with regards to the trie valid? Would you agree that hash table would faster than a trie (any kind) for checking if the word exist? Or have I overlooked something?
We hired him because we'd already been using Elm for awhile and were so happy with it we wanted to contribute financially in addition to contributing with the libraries we open-source. :)

My boss wrote more about it here: http://tech.noredink.com/post/136615783598/welcome-evan
I made a joke about Walter Bright's (of so many famous things) username without knowing who it was. That was a distinct "Wow, I feel like an asshole" day. So it happens to all of us, I guess; take your lumps and keep on trying to be awesome.
I think this is a great system that reduces false positives, significantly. It helps candidates shine and it helps employers get good engineers.

I would not rely solely on this as no process is perfect. However, I do weigh this part of the process the highest for my hiring.
Since oil is a fungible commodity, instabilities in oil prices outside the US will cause instabilities and price rises in the US (since a price rise outside the US is simply an incentive to export). Thus the US military patrols the Persian gulf in order that domestic oil makes it to the refinery.
In related news, he picked a climate-change skeptic to head the EPA transition team: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/297755-top-clim...
You should read Emmett Rensin's brilliant writing on this subject: http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberali...

He expounds on and develops this idea much more.
Trump won despite his status as a corporate tycoon because the people basically believe he's a double-agent. A corporate tycoon born with the heart of a worker. I think there's an argument that could be made there: Trump has a long history of being looked down upon by high society.

Trump's also credible, because as someone whose attempted many different lines of business, he's seen what it takes to be competitive, and as someone with the heart of a worker, he didn't like it and wanted to even the playing field.

Trump is the epitome of "Don't hate the player, hate the game". Trump was in a very unique position, shared perhaps only by a few dozen other living souls, to see the game, hate it, and be able to make a credible attempt to fix it.
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In my view, term limits will have no practical effect on the influence of money on politics, so long as the parties can preserve their control of congressional seats through gerrymandering. Money will always find a way to speak louder than voters, so long as voters are suppressed.

I love my party, but in my district, my party's primary is the only election with a meaningful impact on anything. And my party has this district, in order to keep us from ever gaining a majority of our state's legislative caucus.

To drain the swamp, restore democracy. Any effort to decrease voter participation is inherently corrupting. Make it easier to vote. Make sure everybody's vote is counted equally. Of course, "counted equally" should be a matter of debate. Get rid of gerrymandering. Get rid of the electoral college.
Today is not a day to make rational arguments. Any mention of trump incites spontaneous namecalling , as if only certain people are entitled to the truth. I'd give it a few days until the internet becomes usable again.
Well most of the state and city bans to limit the 2nd amendment were struck down by the courts.

So the left has been pushing 'back-door' laws that would do the same thing, effectively: huge taxes on ammo, letting manufactures be legally liable crimes committed with their sold weapons, etc.

Regardless of your views on guns, it is the 2nd Amendment - if the left wants to change it, there is a method to change the Constitution. Executive decisions and other nefarious schemas shouldn't be accepted.
That's true for me, yes, but the author of this article works at a totally different company halfway around the world. :)
> Actually, the majority of Americans agreed with Hillary Clinton. She won the popular vote by over a million votes. We just use an outdated system built to appease slaveholders that does not necessarily represent the bulk will of the people. Trump won on a technicality of our (antiquated and frankly awful) system, not on a mandate.

While I agree that the electoral college is not the best system, we can't really know what the results would have been if the popular vote determined the presidency. Campaigns are optimized based on the electoral college and each would have been run differently on a different system. Also, voter turnout may have been different because you no longer have partisan strongholds which may discourage voting.
Angular 3 is hot on the heels of Angular 2
Okay, so it doesn't work in Chrome or Safari, and here it doesn't work in Firefox... where does it work? I.E.?!
You probably need dedicated account managers too. I imagine the White House Twitter account is willing to pay for support.
I often question if anyone on HN actually grew up blue collar...

Locals want those jobs. I worked them when they actually made a relatively decent wage. Now they simply are not worth my time even as side jobs they pay so little.

I was making $22/hr at 16 years old in the mid-90's as a landscaping laborer. This pay range was quite common for such jobs, and most of my co-workers were 20 and 30 somethings supporting families. Good luck getting even half that today, 20 years later.

If you started paying roofers $50/hr, you would have an unlimited pool of labor willing to take those jobs. At $10/hr I'm not interested because I can barely make a living at that rate, so it's certainly not worth the wear and tear on my health.

Unskilled immigration is largely a wealth transfer from the most vulnerable in our society to the most privileged. There is very little to be gained in these practices for the typical underskilled American - most all the benefits are accrued elsewhere in the economy.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/16/harvard-economist-immigrat...
My guess is an increase compared to the first-year prices under the ACA. Nobody who talks about the premium increases does so from the perspective that those who are impacted by the increases started at zero. I've seen mine nearly double each enrollment period.
Its not a clean cut procedure that Trump could execute and bang, all TN visas holders are out. There is a significant work force on TN visas working at stat ups and major Fortune 500 companies, holding positions that are critical to those organizations. To have these people leave would not be cheap for these organizations and Trump will have to consider this.
We do a similar thing at our office. Phone interview to make sure basics are known and then a "homework" assignment. This weeds out a lot of folks who can't cut it. Then the interview itself we can get the social aspect out of the way.

Sometimes a candidate is a good coder but a horrible communicator or human :|
I'm always curious about the model fans of this approach are using. What is the "correct" amount of conserved land? Given that the government essentially never reverses these kinds of easements or grants, you have to be extremely confident of future possible uses of the land to say that deeding it in perpetuity is a good idea.

The HN crowd tends to realize that a policy of "never build anything ever again" is a bad idea in SF, but is a great idea as long as the area in question is mostly trees not in their backyard.
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Ask HN: How to do a secure file transfer with contractually binding receipt
I'm trying to find/figure out if there is legislation (obviously regionally different) and protocols, maybe even implementations of a system that guarantees the delivery of files containing a specific filetype. The healthcare institutions we deal with are asking for SFTP and the in house lawyers flat out denied. Obviously they could agree on some some of process, but they have no interest in thinking of any sort of process, nor look for any sort of existing legislation.

One app I saw is basically a broker that lets you send signed receipts that you attach to an email and then has a file sharing platform tied to it, is HIPAA certified, potentially on premise etc.

I'm wondering if it's possible to cut out the broker. I have some ideas of how I would do it, but I'm trying to get a standard written that our standardization agency could then pass and force feed back to our lawyers (as opposed to what they would do, not read up on any technology, come up with a shitty solution and force feed them to the IT Dpts).

To summarize the questions:

1. Is there legislation used in departments or countries for the definition of a legally binding send receipt?
2. Is there a need for a new or encapsulation of old file transfer system and if so is there an RFC or sample somewhere?
3. Is there open source software that does this?
Did you read the pdf I linked? Read the parts where they explain the grades they assigned?
What is overall work/life balance like over there? And is it very different if you are not an in-demand engineer?
My thoughts exactly. I'm going to go launch a Spanish bitcoin buy/sell website.
It's more a reflection on how he has operated so far. Also, his own son has stated pivoting is not what Trump will do. What you see is what you get.