skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was talking about housing in terms of changing the face of the country and increasing urbanisation.

"Changing the face of the country" just means "there are too many brown people and foreigners here".
It's not 'pure' clickbait if you read down to the part about the whiptail lizard's being able to take on either sexual role which stimulates reproduction but that's a rather minor detail. Also it's not at all supported that unisex whiptail lizard's are better off than normal sexually reproducing lizards.

In general I tend to agree title is not well fitted and the subtitle does better:

> What we can learn about evolution from species who thrive without sexual reproduction.

One can only speculate that their editor came from a publication with a habit of writing clickbait titles.
I would just like to remind everyone of the words Obama spoke yesterday, "Now, everybody is sad when their side loses an election, but the day after we have to remember that we’re actually all on one team. This is an intramural scrimmage. We’re not Democrats first. We’re not Republicans first. We are Americans first. We’re patriots first.

We all want what’s best for this country. That’s what I heard in Mr. Trump’s remarks last night. That’s what I heard when I spoke to him directly. And I was heartened by that. That’s what the country needs — a sense of unity, a sense of inclusion, a respect for our institutions, our way of life, rule of law, and respect for each other."

Let's make sure our comments here are tolerant of others and devoid of hate at those we might not understand.
looking at the author's github profile he did a lib to abstract the artificial intelligence and used in some other games.
Being from the top left of Europe and having suffered the consequences of making bad assumptions about weather in Italy in winter ("It's Italy, must be warm") I'd always check.

For example, you might quite easily freeze to death at the top of Mount Etna! (And/or burned to death).
>I wish the people who voted for Trump would just be honest and take ownership of the hate, instead of trying to gaslight everyone by playing dumb

I'm Canadian, so I didn't vote for anybody.

I'm simply not blinded by rhetoric and political leanings like most in the US are. It may surprise you, but many in the rest of the world think both sides are nuts.
I have had this feeling for a year but I think FBs decline has started. Facebook Inc always presents growth during their quarterly report, but the truth is that its growing in "3rd world" countries but dying in the western world.

I admit I do have a facebook account, but its only used for events and messenger. I havent posted for like 4 years now. The few times I check FB its filled with memes, autoplaying videos and few individuals who seems to be very noisy.

The gut feelings is that facebook.com will become less valuable, but I still think facebook inc will keep growing. They have acquired Whatsapp and Instagram so in a way they have maintained a significant section of the people who "left" facebook.com.

I would love to hear the opinion of other people on this matter.
You're really not addressing any of the issues of substance here, namely that Facebook has started to algorithmically promote trending stories that are 100% false. They're culpable for the spread of misinformation.
Yes, exactly.

Reading coverage of the 1984 election is eerily similar with the whole "I don't know anyone who voted for Reagan!" line.

If someone doesn't know a single person who voted for a candidate who received over 59M votes, I'd suggest the speaker has a problem.
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You must be very naive to believe all that.. The actual amount of cocaine smuggled into the Netherlands is currently higher than ever before.

Also, the street value for 3Kg of cocaine is far above 50.000 euro's, do you realise how poor the people of the Dutch Antilles are? Without even a police report and a free ride back it's a clear invitation. And I didn't even mention the corrupt airport security, some of them make a sweet income out of this. It is definitely not "100% control", at all..
GitExtension 2.49 released (GUI Git client)
One can see how smart-contracts/ BCT will digitise, democratise, dematerialise, demonetise, to cause (good) disruption in established ways of working ...
Good thinking!
(http://thoughtcatalog.com/steven-kotler/2015/02/the-6-ds-of-...)
Mainly, it's cultural. I remember challenging my friend on why he wanted to drop $50K on a large truck. His only practical reason was it would be easier to pack for camping trips. American's tend to buy excess space that is rarely used. A big truck for those few times a year you have to haul something. A big house for the annual Thanksgiving dinner.
It's hard to put exactly one reason on why Trump was elected and Clinton was not. I got the feeling more it was a rejection of the insider/elitist makeup of politics. Many people expected this rejection when Obama ran for "change" in 2008, but didn't see any change in how the political class conducts business.
If social signals are important to you, the algorithm that presents those social signals is really important, no? What a herd mentality does depends on how the herd is made. Rebuttals to lies don't travel as fast as lies at all, especially not when the system is designed to keep audiences engaged by only presenting them with whichever side makes them feel better.
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The interesting part of this is almost everyone was wrong in this (though when you're talking the realm of probability, it's hard to actually say they were wrong).

In my statistics classes we often talk about bias and biased estimates, that you calculate something in such a way that it's systematically different than the true underlying population value. (I.E. if Trump's true likelihood of winning the presidency was X - we always resulted in estimates that were X minus some value below).

Long story short - it's cool to see in the real world :). You can have the fanciest models and math, but if the underlying data and assumptions you're working with aren't representative of the population, then it's all for naught.
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This is a recurring, continuous pattern with Spotify. They don't care about artists, customers, or even record labels. Their dev process is awful. They never communicate. They push through awful UI redesigns (we just got one the other day, and it's just lots and lots of white space at the bottom of the page). Their customer support is terrible. AND they're screwing over artists who make less than a penny per play.

And despite all this, I am still using their service. None of the competitors have what I want/need.
Hitler came to power democratically. So did Erdogan. There are many parallels between this situation we're in and the rise of fascism in other countries - the comparison is fair.
I ran the Moto G for a few years and upgraded to the Moto X Force a few months ago, am really happy with both but the G was starting to show its age. The X force is much nicer than my wifes Oneplus2 in my opinion. My next phone will be a motorla as well but based on how well the G lasted it will be 2020 before thats a problem
I love stuff like this. There's something fascinating about early touch and pen input devices.

This article sent me on a bit of a wiki-wormhole, ending up on Bill Buxton's collection website, which is fantastic.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxto...
Does code need to be perfect?
I don't disagree, but for me, since I did not practice team sports, so I got this from my time with scouts.

Still, it's a bit different for the scouts since you will live for extended periods of time together, like 10+ days for the summer outing.
As a lifelong resident of a midwestern state in the US, I think it's less a matter of independence and more a matter of safety and legal issues. I too made plenty of solo excursions through our rural countryside at a young age.

On the other hand, in major cities, parents are being charged with neglect if their young children walk a a few blocks up the street to go to a park. Not everywhere, but such stories crop up in the news every so often.

Another part of the problem is that communities in America aren't (or seem to not be) quite as tight knit as they once were. There are plenty of explanations, from cultural shifts, family policy, excessively punitive drug policy, economic policy, decline of religion, decline of moral values, rise of the internet and easy access to excessive amounts of televised programming, cell phones and handheld video games, you name it, and someone has probably blamed something for it.
>Don't forget that his rallies regularly featured people chanting "hang that bitch". "We" just elected a politician that openly condones violence against someone with different political views.

Condones violence? You know that Hilary has been behind actual violence, right? Voting for bombing other countries and such things? She voted to go into Iraq. How many people have died? Is she not accountable in any way?

Honest question if you're concerned about violence: who has more blood on their hands, Trump or Clinton?
yeah I disagree. there's NO place on the internet that forces you into another "bubble"... on reddit i can avoid r/all entirely... make a custom homepage... block users.. on twitter if someone bothers me i can block them... if i get tired of festival spunyons telling me how spiritual they are on facebook i can unfollow and remain friends... i can get browser plugins to block entire concepts and names... e.g. SO many people i know installed facebook purity just to block Trump or Clinton on facebook... posts, news, groups all that. I can block game invites (i do)... on top of the user options the algorithms are totally setup to provide me with content I will enjoy based on content I have marked as "affirmative" or "enjoyed".

with that being said... Facebook's feed is too influential but that's not facebook's fault. People want confirmation bias and the internet is prob best at providing it.

there are exceptions, trending topics... big stories always get through... but for example... on facebook I buy things from a lot of small business and now i know how they feel about politics and now one has the real hard choice of... do i unfollow and miss sales or do i tolerate the small annoyance... real soft struggle stuff.
Each of their overhauls has been a massive failure. Spotify "1.0" didn't even have ctrl-f support for monthS!
I wonder why Zuckerberg (and the people behind Twitter) weren't as equally blamed when the Arab Spring started. As far as I remember both FB and Twitter were heralded as pinnacles of democracy back then by some of the same journalists who now decry how "social media is helping spread bullshit facts".
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> 50-80 years ago you banned drugs everywhere.

Just so we're clear, 50-80 years ago I wasn't alive. ;)

But if you insist on doing things this way, you could make this sort of case about all sorts of countries:

"50-80 years ago, you were killing Jews in Europe; now you're not and are so happy about it." Well, except not everyone is happy, of course.

"50-80 years ago, you Japanese were enslaving people in countries around yours, now you're not and are so happy about it."

"25 years ago, you Swiss wouldn't let your women vote in elections in your canton, now you do and are so happy about." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appenzell_Innerrhoden#Women.27...

> Now you doing opposite and are so happy with it.

I dunno about _happy_. There are a bunch of people not happy with marijuana legalization, and a bunch more who are not terribly happy with it but are even less happy with the state of things.

Just like there were people who were not happy to end alcohol prohibition, but were even less happy with the state of things when prohibition was in effect.

> Now you like LGBT, in 50 years you will kill them.

Just like the Swiss will repeal women's suffrage and various countries in Europe will go back to murdering Jews, right?

Or perhaps, just possibly, that might not happen? Maybe?

> The problem is that you do all this things to the world.

Really? How, exactly, is "the world" affected by the legality or not of marijuana in the US? There's some interaction with our immediate neighbors due to attempts to eliminate smuggling operations, but other than that, what is this doing to "the world"?
Thanks, that's very interesting.
The minimum wage in NYC is similar, but the average rent is like 3x as high: https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-new-york-rent-tre...
My claim is that racism and sexism played a very big part in this election. All the news are full of it. All the twitters are full of it. rayiner did not conclusively prove otherwise. Dismissing the issue as 'tarring' half the electorate as racist or sexist is not very useful. It's like saying 'it can't be true that so many people are sexist or racist' when the swing vote between people who always vote republican no matter what and the democrats who stayed at home because they're pissed is actually not that big.

Honestly I find it very strange how strongly people on hacker news are pushing against this idea, how deeply they are insulted by the idea that Trump has brought open sexism into the mainstream.
But we've seen the results of that... people muting or unfriending each other.

People will construct their bubble one way or another. Taking away the tools to do it doesn't make society better.
Here's another from this year. http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/05/gop-quickly-...

13% think Obama is a Christian. 77% are not sure if he was born in the US.

I agree the "mindset of the people" is more complex than this, and such a belief about Obama may not be the main driver of their voting behavior.

But they are being truthful about saying they believe what they believe, right? They either believe it or they don't. In my eyes this kind of mass susceptibility to conspiracy theories is a huge sociological phenomenon that should be explored.
The data does not support the idea that Trump voters are worse off economically than Clinton voters:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-...
I'd almost rather Snopes have an open API social networks could use to automatically mark these posts "debunked".
People do have a herd mentality but that doesn't argue against the influence of Facebook but for it.

In a world of personalized algorithms, A-B testing, nudging, etc, that Facebook and how it works certain having a significant effect on people who use it on an aggregate level is fairly obviously.

Just because people have an inclination towards something negative doesn't mean a tool that enables it is blameless.

As a thought experiment: If people are inherently somewhat violent, would someone who gave everyone a gun not be influential in what happened after?
If you don't have time to scout out new job opportunities, then you are comfortable enough to not need a new job. A 2 hour project like the article suggests is reasonable.
>You know, when he advocated committing a war crime?

How about when your candidate actually did participate in things that other people consider war crimes, like bombing hospitals and DWOB encampments in the middle east?
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Handmade Hero, day 325 ticket mutexes. Yawwwn.... Most of the stuff that he spends (wastes) his time on is really not relevant to a game development, at least not initially if at all.

I personally view it as an "exploration in NIH" under the ruse of "game development".

It does make up for an kinda amusing show tho. "Day 4524, debugging my shitty vector implementation" (;
That was a really thoughtful answer. It had almost as much depth as the thought process of the average American voter.
You move to New York and limit yourself to one kid, of course!

New York is the only market that I'm aware where you can ask for a (one) car seat when you request an Uber. It worked fairly well when I went to visit, but most cars only have one seat, so if you have two kids you're still out of luck.
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What do you suggest the other 80% is?

I happen to agree with you in concept, although I'd put knowledge closer to 30% (guesstimate).

In my line of work I would say that knowledge is a third of what I need, and the rest is a mix of patience, ability to learn things I don't know, humility and ability to work well with others.

Are these the traits you would look for or something else?

And how would you rank Trump on these? (or yours, if you have others)
Thanks, we've updated the link from http://www.ua-magazine.com/1983-iphone-prototype, which had little beyond the photograph.
> my liberal friends filled my timeline with screeds about the death of America and minorities, while my conservative friends messaged me privately in celebration. I didn't see a single pro-Trump post all day.

This is an example of "preference falsification". The energy (in "the ability of a system to do work" sense) of aptly-named social media is social pressure.
Not mine, but here's the CMS behind thechangelog.com:

https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com

Also take a look at the code powering hex.pm:

https://github.com/hexpm/hex_web
> a sense of inclusion

Hard to take from a man who chose an virulent anti-LGBTQer as his VP running for a party with extensive anti-inclusionary policies as their platform.

Edit: To correct VIP to VP.
Programming Phoenix is also excellent. I think it helps that it was written by the core contributors to Phoenix itself (including Jose Valim, who created Elixir). I really appreciated not only looking at how things work, but also why they work in the way they do. The authors clearly have a real sense of excitement about Phoenix and its contagious.
The raw numbers seem to disagree with portions of this analysis. Clinton is looking to have received 6M less votes than Obama in 2012, and 9M less than in 2008, while Trump matched Romney / McCain vote totals from the same periods. This wasn't some raucous turnout by voters who hadn't been voting, spurred by overtures by Trump. It was a refusal to turn out among traditionally democratic voters -- many in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where they were asked to vote for a politician who they could directly trace back to NAFTA and a significant inflection point in the stability of their homes, families, and towns.
How about every article written about the candidates or election by the Hillary Shills noted in the Podesta emails?

Wait, I guess that wasn't journalism in the first place, it was propaganda.
The fact is, the election was actually very close. If there was 1% more turnout Hillary would have won (flipping Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania). She won the popular vote after all. So while it's easy to make broad sweeping generalizations, the story is more complicated than that.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12919912 and marked it off-topic.
I know of several people that voted for Trump. They live in an area where the economy isn't great, but they aren't in any way economically desperate (one is mildly wealthy, another in a household with more than double the local median income, excellent benefits).

Did people who feel left out give Trump his margin? I think they probably did. Are they his only supporters? Hell no.
The only solution would be to ignore the 1:1 ratio and randomly kill some infant every once in a while to bring the ratio close to 2:1.
You are lucky enough, you got a girlfriend with similar interests.
12 days 1.13 TB. OMG! I had no idea. I wonder if this explains the random slowdowns I've had.
I remember the last Thiel thread was a holy war filled with people who thought outspoken Trump supporters should lose their careers on grounds of bigotry and hate speech propagation (citing https://xkcd.com/1357/ among other things).

Revisiting that thread with the knowledge that Trump would win and that Trump supporters were not some vocal minority is sobering.
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In person arguments tend to be more civil, no doubt, although that also depends on the settings.

Liberal crowds tend to be passive-aggressive in general ("give us our safe space you fn bigots or we'll burn something" :) ) so these in person discussions also only work in "private" settings.

Observing this as we speak - "stupid rural whites ("hicks" from the article we're discussing) are to blame for trump's victory" type vibe in the lib news + street protests.
Depends what troop your son joins, the strong surviving troops that have more than a dozen scouts & stable funding are either filled with atheists & have a few openly gay scouts, or are run by the Mormons. I know in my patrol alone 3 to 4 of the scouts were atheists (myself included) and it was not an issue. A well run troop is there to teach you life skills and morals to live your life by, like not torturing POWs, not force or encourage you to adhere to a religion.

I would be more fearful of a poorly run or Mormon troop myself, but attending a meeting or two and talking to the Scoutmaster/Assistant Scoutmaster will definitely let you scope it out and get a reading before you give your son a choice of getting involved. I would not deny my own son the opportunity I had in scouting assuming the BSA makes it through the next decade, since it definitely helped me form into the accepting, caring & compassionate person I am today.
Knowing about it and be a subject to it differs quite a bit.
Please stop this uncivil nonsense. We have to ban accounts that continue like this.
If the language supports assignment, which allows variables and parts of data structures to be treated as mutable memory locations, then it isn't functional.

Using Lisp syntax lets the class have more time for semantics.
"against Senator Bernie Sanders,..., it “would have been much tougher for Trump to win, and a healthier race for the country."
Out of interest, can you point me to any GUI bindings or native Go GUI toolkits etc.? I would like to take a look, as I am normally writing native C++ GUI desktop apps.

EDIT: Thanks for all the info everyone. I hope my responses don't appear argumentative - I am genuinely curious.
I'm a Coloradan and this doesn't jive with my experience. I wasn't surprised it passed. We believe in personal freedoms here, and there is perhaps no greater personal freedom than the right to choose to die with dignity.
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This is what I was going to say - suspect this stems from having parents or guardians who cared enough to get you involved in such an activity, and the environment that suggests, rather than scouting directly.
I'm sorry, I paraphrased.

> We’ll look at that. Maybe I’m going to do the tax returns when Obama does his birth certificate. I may tie my tax returns. I’d love to give my tax returns. I may tie my tax returns into Obama’s birth certificate.

This is how Trump talks. For the entire campaign he talked about what he "might" do and backtracked if people didn't like it, so this is what we have to work with.
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> Does anyone else find this incredibly tone deaf

The tone is that a racist demagogue who made up lies off the top of his head at every speech was found acceptable by (almost) a plurality of voters.

The tone is that voters have been proven to be manipulable through fear to blame people of other races and nationalities for whatever economic conditions are unfavorable to them. The tone is that the truth and nuance of these issues are now irrelevant in elections.

The tone is that serial bullying and abuse of women is not a disqualifier for what should be the most-respected office in the nation.

Newspaper editorial staffs are not to be shamed for being disgusted by it. But yeah, there's no more denying the extent to which that tone exists now.