skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember my Facebook feed from 8 years ago - my liberal friends were celebrating, and my conservative friends were disappointed, but trying to be (somewhat) conciliatory. Now, my conservative friends are celebrating but my liberal friends attitude is "screw America, I hope you choke in your own vomit, you racist bastards".
Whose baggage is that? Because these exact things are also true for Trump[0]. He just didn't get as much attention for it, because everybody loves to attack Clinton.

[0] Maybe not the war with Russia, but that's also not true for Clinton, and Trump seems very eager to kill a lot of people.
I get where you're coming from that it's better if immigrants pick up the culture and behaviors of the place they move to.

But what I'm asking about is what do you think it looks like when the government enforces this sort of thing? Maybe a department of cultural integration? How would they ensure they are effectively integrating people? How do we measure the effectiveness of people who work in such a department?

To me all the potential answers to this are very concerning. I'm fairly pro big-government, but the idea of America mandating immigrants behave in very specific ways in the name of cultural integration seems very dangerous in terms of the power it would over individuals.
They get the data they are told to regurgitate from the same centralized authority that produces all other mainstream news... though they are pretty good at making it seem like true journalistic endeavors actually produce the information theyre droning out to the masses of TV zombies.
> God stepped in and brought the victory

Ehh yea... No.
I hear so many more educated Trump supporters projecting their own largely sensible wishes and plans onto him since he has no coherent plan and essentially promised nothing, except to build a wall.

Not sure he's going to achieve that much.
Definitely harder than putting 2 and -2 together, anyhow.
Yes, if you're sick of divisive in your face politics, and understand that that a social contract (higher taxes and broad access to healthcare) are important to society, please come to Canada.

I am a US expat, and have been in Canada for about 12 years. While no place is perfect I feel like it was a good move.

If you do decide to come, and end up in Southern Ontario, drop me a note!

:)
There will be an exchange rate. People who can safely deposit old money into their bank account have a new way to make a profit.

So the question is, what will the exchange rate be?
Having helped a company that went through our accelerator to get a start-up visa for the three founders, the deal isn't great, but it is a more direct path to citizenship. You do need to go through not just an accredited investor, but a "chosen" one. One of the main issues is that the list of investors from which you can take money is pretty small (mostly those who helped design the program) and there is no gatekeeper, so they are overwhelmed with applications from companies of all sorts and as a result largely don't respond at all . As with all things investment, you need to know someone who knows someone to help you secure and complete the application. Even then the process is long.

The idea itself is great, but the execution on the program since its inception has been weak. It needs more resources and better support for the firms and investors who can assist. All of that aside, I have seen the program work, but you can expect to put in the same amount of work as raising a small round and then some to make it happen.
Yes. And because of the tax treaty you get a tax credit for the foreign income tax paid, hence it's not double-taxation.
I hear so many educated Trump supporters projecting their own largely sensible wishes and plans onto him since he has no coherent plan and essentially promised nothing, except to build a wall.

Not sure he's going to achieve that much.
You may want to come check out Toronto before moving here. A great event to see what the City's tech scene is like is HackerNest. It's once a month. You could probably also line up some interviews for your trip.
> * cheating against wildly popular Sanders

Do you have any source for this? It seems that Clinton won even without the super delegates.
I'm Scared – Opinion piece from a Muslim MIT student on the 2016 election
There is a lot more to Christianity than being "Christ-like". The parent's point is there exists a healthy serving of many unChrist-like, by your definition, ideas in the Bible. And even then, there is much more to a religion than its holy texts or doctrine.

I'd leave it to the practitioners to exhibit what it means to be one of their followers, and it seems the American practitioners haven't noticed this incompatibility you're concerned about.
Whoelse thinks that Trump is and will mostly be a joke. That none of is populist antics will really reach our realm (mexican wall, anti climate research deeds, ...). That he and his team will get a reality check when nature, life, mind changing people will start to resist bits by bits to nonsensical projects ?
Here is a common job aggregator site for Sweden:

https://www.jobbsafari.se/jobb/it/systemutveckling

Most of the ads are in swedish, but google translate does a decent job of translating.

Don't be afraid to apply in english, majority of IT companies does not mind hiring english-only speakers.

Not sure about the rules on getting a work-visa in Sweden.
Also because they're confusing the asylum seeker boat-people policy with "immigration policy". Probably quite deliberately.
Copyright and patents are written into the US Constitution. The wording allows congress to pass laws granting for a limited time exclusive access to their creators. The Supreme Court of the US has held that congress can declare any duration as limited as long as it is not literally forever. There is nothing unconstitutional about copyright law.
What Is the Future of Bitcoin Now That Trump Is President?
It's not that strange really. I don't think most poor people hold the wealth of the rich against them so much as they resent the feeling that the rich think they're superior, or that the rich dismiss and ignore everyone, and rig the system.

A rich guy who says the things that the poor already believe (rightly or not), things nobody else will say, has a leg up on gaining their support. People want a champion, whether or not that champion looks like them. (cf. Gracchus [1])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Gracchus
This is unconvincing to me. Just because Evan and his friends are happy to write boilerplate and copy-paste the same stuff over and over doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
Also : immigrating to Canada is time-consuming and exhausting (typically 1 year and lots of paper work) but going to Canada with a work visa is quick and painless. Most of the time, startups are taking care of the paperwork and can even help of the relocation. And if you really like the place, after a few months, you can then apply for immigration.
Real estate is much more reasonable in Montreal or in Calgary. And there are startups hiring also in those cities
It's more than just immigration, it's trade too, as mentioned in the OP.

I work for a multinational contract manufacturing company; we currently have plants and employees in (among many other nations) Mexico (full of the Mexicans Donald Trump threatened to build a wall around) and Malaysia (which is majority Islam, of whom Donald Trump threatened to ban from the USA). So, yes, this result is quite... interesting... to me. Hopefully Trump is more bluster than action here.

I'll be honest, the problem with the current wave of anti-globalization (eg Brexit and Trump, also count France's Le Pen among others) is that I can't see the solutions being advocated doing any good economically for those who are advocating it. If anything, it may make things worse. Of course, a lot of what is driving these movements is more cultural anxiety and has less to do with pure economic factors, which in my opinion makes this a lot more challenging to resolve.
For those interested in this, check out Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck. It was written in 1962, but I think it holds up well.

An aged Steinbeck feels out of touch with a country he is famous for writing about. To aid this, he travels across the country with his dog to see the America and it's people he has grown away from. He specifically avoids major highways and roads for the reasons people list here.
I can't believe that someone can come to the conclusion you just did. The media was overwhelmingly anti-Trump, that shouldn't even be in dispute. He may have "won" a few talking points that the media was forced to report on as you indicated, but to say the media was accommodating to Trump is just fantasy.
None of that is unique to Clinton. Look at Trump's self-enrichment through his "charitable" foundation. Look at his extremely dirty business practices. Look at the many, many corrupt politicians in the US. Yes only Clinton gets this level of shit for it.

I'm not saying any of this is okay, just that many politicians, including Trump, are just as bad or far worse, but only Clinton gets this level of shit for it.

And her attacks didn't start with any of this. It started when she was first lady of Arkansas who wasn't just a conservative housewife but very politically active on her own. And then again when she was first lady of the US. That's what got the attacks started: a woman who didn't know her place.
China and North Korea do a pretty good job of "closing that Internet up", all without the help of Bill Gates.

While I doubt Bill Gates would be willing to help with this endevour, it's not inconceivable that someone else will indeed be willing.
He loves the uneducated because they're gullible. In fact, he loves them so much that he'll educate them at Trump University.
Even if the Federal government drops the marijuana ban completely, a lot of companies are still going to test for it because traditional prejudices against "potheads" are going to take a while to fade away among corporate management.

I don't personally care about employees doing drugs unless they are operating heavy machinery or are a similar risk to others, but lots of traditional management types feel it is right to fire clerical workers for smoking weed on the weekends.
>Bernie voters simply overstate how much support he had among the Democratic base.

What the DNC ignored was the passion and enthusiasm that Bernie and Bernie supporters had and brought to the issues and the election. Bernie filled places. Several thousand came to see him in La Crosse, WI at the Onalaska Civic Center. Only a few hundred, hand picked, supporters (were allowed and) saw Hillary in La Crosse, WI at Western Technical College.

HRC's campaign lacked passion and enthusiasm.
Wow, I never heard of that! Thanks, will check it out :)
I'm just curious how old you are because I lived through the Bill Clinton years and it was appalling how bad the Clintons were. Their legacy from Arkansas all the way up the Pay to Play Clinton Foundation has been completely consistent--to bend and break the law everywhere possible if it is to their benefit to do so and then engage in cover ups, blackmail, and possibly murder to get away with it. They are a modern day crime family. You probably dismiss all this as unproven "tinfoil hat" conspiracy stuff, right? But there is such a large body of circumstancial evidence when it comes to the Clintons that it is impossible to ignore. Then the leaks started dropping and we got a small window in a large world of corruption. Did none of this occur to you?
The winner is Chocolate
Indeed. A story of the ACLU suing on behalf of the KKK from 2012: https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-em-defends-kkks-right-free-sp...
The country was designed initially so that the Federal branch (i.e. the remote branch) of the government was limited in its scope and power. The State and local branches of government are supposed to be the ones with the power as it pertains to everyday citizens lives. If that were really the case, people wouldn't feel as though their personal well being is so directly tied to the outcome of these national elections and, hopefully, they wouldn't end up being the circus they are today.

You hear about it talked about all the time with regards to large technology organizations. The supposed best ones have small, autonomous teams focused on their little slice of the organization, collaborating with other teams as need be while upper management aggregates the best ideas from all teams and presents those to the rest of the organization so that other team leads can decide on whether or not those ideas would work for them.

I believe the Federal branch of the government absolutely has a role to play in the success of our country, I just think we'd be better off if it was a much reduced role.
I believe in my country consumption and possession of small amounts of pot is legal, but it does sort of have to fall from the sky into your hands.
Just being elected will unleash all sorts of stuff.

After Brexit the rates of hate crime in the UK rose significantly, and they're still at those high levels.

Since people were openly chanting "Jew S A" at Trump rallies it's not hard to image that some people will feel that more than speech is fine.
I did not vote for either but the wrongdoings of Clinton, most of which aren't just empty claims but actual shady events she was involved in, greatly outweigh Trump's. This election is just an embarrassment no matter how you look at it.
In F# you can always bail on the strict parts of the F# type system and use .NET classes and interfaces for polymorphism.
> Also, he forgot that Elm (just like any other open source project) doesn't owe him anything. That's why many people take an issue with his tone.

We can't take issue with his tone by appropriating information about Elm's direction in an ex post facto manner. The guy - whatever guy - is a newcomer to Elm, picks it up, see an obvious deficiency, asks (quite politely, I might add) about a feature addition, gets a dismissive answer. That's the context. We can't apply Evan's* rationale behind the reply here, because the OP never had the chance to have it revealed to him to the extent of his interaction.

I'm surprised I have to point this stuff out. However understanding we may be, surely we can see why anybody is frustrated with being dismissed like this?

* Apologies, but I don't actually know Elm's author's last name.
The Rules for Rulers
Not that I'm claiming Trump _is_ Hitler, but the point is he's a wildcard – nobody seems to know what he _actually_ stands for. He says one thing to one crowd, and then the next day, spews the exact opposite to a different crowd.

This is also interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4teoxl/a_f...
U.S Elections 2016: "Pure Evil" vs "Corrupted Good"
Some people see this a battle between purity and corruption,
Some see this as a battle between good and evil.

I think the difference in meaning,interpretation and semantics in the context of politics is much more distinguishable when we compare purity and corruption than when we compare good and evil.
While I never ever wanted Trump because of the geopolitical situation in eastern Europe, I can understand Americans who voted for him.

You can't turn a dead eye on half of the population, call them stupid, racist, bigoted (heck, some even argue here democracy doesn't work and the people who voted shouldn't be able to vote, go figure.) and then expect the worst habitual liar, a psycho candidate to win.

It was literally the easiest elections in the history for the Democrats, but somehow they were able to fuck up. Let's see what the future brings.

From a personal point of view, I hope Nato stays (somewhat) strong. Again, I understand the anger of your people for us, Europeans, outsourcing the defense budget to American taxpayers (while it does come with some benefits).
> Think for yourselves.

I'm not sure this is a constructive phrase. Others may be different, but I've never managed to work out what it actually means: how is my thinking not my own, while yours is? What devices or strategies do you have that allow you to think on your own, while I am not doing so?

I feel like that phrase really means: "Don't read the things you're reading, they are wrong, read what I'm reading instead, they are right, because I'm reading them."

> Trump won even though they had totally rigged it against him!

This being an example. Aren't you just parroting what Trump has said to you? There is no evidence of this election being rigged in any direction. If you were "thinking for yourself" you would presumably have been reading direct sources such as studies and reports, as opposed to Trump's twitter feed.
Is Canada even the place to go? I would ask: Where would you go if you are having such thoughts.
I presented wiki article, which did not consist of single image. There were, you know, words grouped in coherent sentences. If you read them, you'd see that the image you showed is just a visual representation of language taxonomy. Languages are divided in families, branches and groups. Indoeuropean language family has among others balto-slavic language branch which consists of presumably older Baltic and younger Slavic languages.

In the comment I originally responded you claimed that Latvian "language is so different it doesn't even belong to the same branch in the language tree". I pointed you that nope, actually it's the same branch. I understand that it's too much details and nuancé for some, but I presumed this being technical website people here would be accustomed to being precise. My appologies.

> There is no shared history. Latvia has been part of Germany or Swedish Empire and Polish Livonia far longer than it has ever been under Russian Empire/occupation.

Nations can have shared history even if they are ruled by different people. During most of the history there were no borders and people would move freely. Later they started to trade. Sholars and some richer people would travel intentionally to see different places. Government agents had to go where they were told. All this facilitated cultural exchange between different ethnic groups that lived in Baltic region. It's easy to see how this could influence languages, especially while languages were only used for oral communication.

> I communicate with people who speak either in Latvian or English.

At least half of Riga population has Russian as one of their mother languages. This percentage is pretty much the same across different communities, sexes and age groups. It was the same among my peers in schools, universities and workplace. If you truly don't know anyone that speaks Russian, you must really hate diversity.

> It seems like you're talking here about the older Russian minority living in Riga. They might be watching Russian TV, who could have thought?

Nope, it's older Latvian population I'm talking about. On a side note, how often do you access internet from different places? Try clearing your cookies and going to YouTube, it will show you what's trending among people in this area. Wherever you try this, no matter what ISP or accesspoint, there will be about half videos from Russia.

Most of the young Latvians that I know, including those from the countryside, are better versed in Russian comedy than in US/English. Russian Comedy Club and projects related to it are extremely well known. Certain Russian music groups are extremely popular, especially among smarter Latvian kids, for instance Akvarium. Last summer they gave a free consert on Dome Square, which was announced just an hour in advance, - it gathered large and mostly Latvian-speaking crowd. You can ignore all this as "damage that Soviet regime left" all you want, but the truth is that this has nothing to do with USSR and just shows that many people choose their entertainment out of what they find interesting/amusing, not what more suits their political agenda.
> What would you expect to happen if the object is modified after being inserted into the dictionary?

I would expect it to continue to use the object. Why would it matter if it was mutated or not?

You can try it right in your browser with Javascript and the Map() object type. You can mutate the object all you want, as long as it's the same object(-reference) you access the same value in the Map object. Just as I would expect. "Mutable" doesn't change which object you have, only what it looks like inside.
What growth? Obama has never presided over a single year of decent growth.

Cutting the deficit? Get real--we need to cut government, not just the growth rate of government.

5% unemployment--made up numbers

Tripled stock market--yes, because of Quantitative Easing, aka money printing.
The Democratic Party Establishment Is Finished
The stuff she pulled off or wanted to pull off wasn't pretty, but nothing out of the ordinary in US politics. The stuff Trump has pulled off and wants to pull off is of a totally different level. You focus only on the mote in Clinton's eye, while ignoring the beam in Trump's eye.

Seriously, how do you, and clearly so many other Americans, manage to have such a limited view of reality? Do you understand how weird it looks to attack and hate someone for doing the exact same things that the guy you support also did?
Spotify is excessively writing to drive (2016 / German)
There are different types of visa.

You can come to Canada with $1m and get a visa, with the promise that you'll invest $1m in business. This was used by rich people from HongKong. The window of opportunity has closed but still possible in provinces like Québec. When people say "create a company and receive a visa", they refer to this program.

Another kind of visa is the start-up visa. You create a startup and get investment through selected incubators and VCs. You can then get a visa.

What's also interesting and easy are work visas. You apply for a job requiring good talent. It's then straightforward to get a work visa. Usually the startup takes care of the paperwork. When you come and stay for a few months, you then decide if you want to apply for permanent residentship.
That's great, but if Twitter can't pay it's own way, then bin it.

The argument hasn't really been strongly focused on whether or not Twitter is useful (it's not useful for me, but YMMV). The major problem has been "How does Twitter make money to stay in business?"

You can't ask investors to keep tossing money down the Tweet-hole without getting something for their money.
Google got so big because it didn't "cram ads down people's throats all the time", I don't know why you think that.

Are you saying Google should drop Maps, Gmail, Drive and all the rest because they are not valuable from a business perspective? Their business is ads after all (today at least).
"Humanity needs to focus on what unifies us rather than what separates us."

Sadly, humanity is not a one, big, happy family and you can't dismiss hundreds or thousands years of history to create one. Globalization is the first step towards unified world, but as we can see now, it doesn't work so well. It just doesn't happen overnight. The first thing to a better world should be accepting difference and stop trying to force our values on other people. Invading and occupying neighboring countries does not help to achieve that and divide world even more.
Yes, you've illustrated how demagogues work.

You've even elected one.
Only to the same extent that CB was the exclusive preserve of truckers.

Look up "eternal September" if you want to understand the demographic of Usenet...
Given Julia's pre-1.0 status, general immaturity and good Python interop wouldn't a saner approach be to use Python as your primary language and Julia for whatever needs to be fast?
Either our country's system of checks and balances works, or it doesn't.
If it doesn't, we need to replace it anyway.

(I realize how flippant this sounds in the short term, but in the long term, it's right)

If it's really as trivial as you say to turn us into a dictatorship, ...