skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gonna have to disagree with you here. Some "right wingers" might, but not all. There's an awful lot of gradient on the right side of the spectrum (just as there is on the left).

Immigrants aren't the problem for most "right wingers." Illegal immigrants are.

Women having the right to choose is only a problem if you expect a woman's right to choose to extend to extinguishing the life of a fetus at any stage of pregnancy. Many "right wingers" are liberal on this up to a point (say the first trimester).

Many "right wingers" (probably not extreme right wing, but still) are socially quite liberal and support gay marriage.

So... I disagree with all your points. But I can see that this election, especially, has polarized people to the extreme. Rather than seeing the gradient on either side, everyone is seeing every person who votes for Trump as an evil person; and likewise, every person who votes for Clinton as corrupt.

In order to move forward we need to come to terms with this gradient in our individual values again. We need to realize that there are fiscally conservative Democrats, and socially liberal Republicans. When we can do that then we can get back to compromising to mutually beneficial outcomes.

And if we cannot do that then we, as a country, are in deep s--t no matter who is running the country.
I'm confused by this response (not the OP). Do you think that they were saying Clinton's being a woman would make her a worse president?

I took it to mean that there are a decent-sized group of Americans who do believe that (probably not including the OP), and as a result nothing she could have done would have won her those votes.

I don't know how many people voted against Clinton because she's a woman, but I guarantee you it's not 0. As a result, it needs to be talked about. While it'd be a better world if people didn't focus on such irrelevancies, the fact that some do means we can't act like it's non-existant.
But (a) screen still exists right?, (b) byobu, (c) tmux allows one to remap the keys however one likes.
I've driven across the US three times. American culture is largely gone, coopted by cookie cutter homes, strip malls and wal-marts. It's a beautiful country though.
> which would be very stupid move

Why? Because the salaries of US-based programmers would rise? Because companies would be more motivated to train locals instead of importing foreigners?
I'm not sure I follow. Can't Congress just pass a law outlawing abortion, Trump signs, then it's the law? For the Supreme Court to overturn, there would have to a lawsuit to stop it.
You're out of touch, as proven by the election tonight.
Are you serious? You don't think the lives of LGBT has been different since marriage equality was passed?

You don't think our Vice President supporting electro-shock therapy for gay teens is a bad thing that has real impacts?

God damnit I just can't tell if people in this thread are some ignorant, heartless, or absolutely blinded by privilege.
> He'd be in jail if he broke the law.

Unless he bribes the prosecutor, of course.
Dear American friends, some info in case you need it: http://www.bmi.bund.de/EN/Topics/Migration-Integration/Asylu...
For nearly half a decade, you have been able to compile OCaml[0] to JavaScript with js_of_ocaml[1]. For a comparison of writing native bindings for both Elm and OCaml (and some TodoMVC code that uses them), check out elm-d3[2], and ocaml-d3[3]. elm-d3 predates the virtual-dom library and was therefore the first Elm library to provide a direct interface to HTML. It also predates the removal of signals in 0.18, so it needs to be ported. Been having some difficulty with that. I've had the native code blessing to publish it for a couple years, but never have.

[0]: http://ocaml.org/

[1]: http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/

[2]: https://github.com/seliopou/elm-d3

[3]: https://github.com/seliopou/ocaml-d3
> Economic power doesn't come from thin air. It has a lot to do with political power, influence and domination. Those are two sides of the same coin.

The US managed to create the world's largest economy by 1890, through trade and domestic industry, while almost entirely staying out of major foreign affairs. It wasn't until WW2 that the US emerged fully onto the global stage by necessity due mostly to Europe's disastrous politics and ideologies at the time.

Clearly you can in fact have a massive economy without behaving the way the US has post WW2. Japan for some time had the world's second largest economy, they still have the third largest, and they've managed to mostly stay out of foreign affairs in the aggressive way the US has intervened.
This is a useful tool for people considering a move to Canada :)

https://www.canadiantechjobsforamericans.com/
Hillary. Corrupt? Ugh.
Both the BREXIT campaigners and Trump over-promised on how they will fix the financial crisis.

Neither started to deliver yet, and will be seeing what they can actually do in 2017.

It kinda does not make sense because their promises are either mutually exclusive (strict fiscal policy but spending) or do not play well with the rest of the world (tariffs and other trade restrictions which eventually would be matched on the other side).

In many smaller countries, the politicians would run a whole campaign on the disaffected feeling and over-promising on how good they will be in fixing it.
Once they were in power however, they would not achieve much and the next party would over-promise in order to get elected.

In the following years we will witness how over-promising will play with a super-power.
she never decided to give a credible reason to vote for her other than Trump is awful.
> the "plebs" don't just hate the elites, they also hate minorities and people who don't have their religion

Can you stop telling who other people hate?

At the moment you are the one who spreads hate.
Most people would rather not have have their culture attacked. You might be different. Applying this in person could lead to ugly American syndrome or persistent imperialism.

Which is too bad because you sound like a great person. The world would be a better place if we could be hear honest opinions without taking personal offense. But if I go to India and talk to them about the way they treat women, they might recall the last time some white people showed up and started telling them how they should run things.
Obama is a huge part of why this happened. He promised change and delivered empire.
This was just for kicks. But defo would be fun to extend this to add some cool commandline web grepping and filtering piping and scheduling..
Powershell for the web!
Serious question: any tips on going through with this? I don't think I can stand to stay in the US any longer.
> inequality globally is on the way down, which is why it's on the way up locally

Globalization helped low and middle class people in developing countries on expense of middle class westerners. But the main catch is that those gains are miniscule, the most went to the rich who profited the most of globalization - hence voting for it heavily.

https://www.ft.com/content/13603aa2-0185-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2...
The "free media" given to Trump throughout the election process has been estimated at $3B, just in the primary season alone.

See http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-has-gotten-nearly-3-b...
Australia relies implicitly on US security guarantees. Given Trump's previous pronouncements about allies paying their own way, at best, there is a good chance that Australia is going to have to budget more to protect its vast territory.

At worst, if Trump were to move to a more isolationist stance and upend the world order, there are some very populous countries to the north that might get hungry.

It's going to be very difficult to find a place to escape the consequences of what happened today.
Look at the Washington Post with their tail between their legs. The Washington Post's coverage of this election was disgustingly biased towards the left and they should be ashamed not only from a journalistic standpoint but also as Americans. I can almost feel Aaron Blake's scathing hot breath as he sat in his Prius and typed this article on his (made in China) Acer laptop (probably wearing a beret with a Hillary logo).
Putin, Erdogan firmly in power, right-wing holding on in Australia, a semi-golpe in Brazil... nationalism is on top, at the moment.
I've thought lately that the cosmopolitan outlook, which I do hold and generally enjoy, is also a rootless one. In accepting the ever-present change, respecting the multitude of outlooks, it often denies connecting with traditions in favor of a single "modern, rational, progressive" view that buries its internal contradictions beneath fleeting surface treasures.

At the same time, it supports the imperial concept of misappropriating original traditions as a convenient fancy, a reference to the exotic, or a belittling of the other, which you give a great example of - with the pretext that this is somehow contributing to progress. Appropriation can be "done right" and produce great new works, but it can't be done easily. It's so much easier to simply loot the past without thinking.

One of the books I like that considers similar thoughts at various points is Melzer's Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Philosophy. [0]

[0] http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo186...
If he's anything like that Countess that bathed in the blood of virgins to extend her life he's picked the right industry to work in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Báthory
You're delusional if you think economic plans for nations as large as the US are comparable to startup pitch decks.
Big data and big polling (Nate Silvers) took a major credibility hit in this election. People will be studying this for years.

Of course, it's not that big data itself was to blame, just the interpretation of it. Nate, not sure what to tell you but that was a significant miss in this election, going all the way back into the primaries.
Oh please. Grow a set of balls.
It's subjective opinion to trust Linus/FSF more. On top of that Linus doesn't review every piece of code that you run. Some random people vet plenty of code that the distro contains. In addition, I would say it's easier for the NSA to make subtle changes to open source software to sneak in heartbleed-style vulnerabilities under the guise of new unrelated features/bugfixes.
This shows the power of media narrative. Clinton said multiple times 'alleged DNC hacking' would lead to a military response against Russia. No fly zone in Syria would mean effectively that.

In case you are curious look at the Wikileaks emails. Obama & Clinton administration stirred up Syria to what it is now and created vacuum for ISIS.

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.
Understood - I appreciate why light, or any unaccelerated object, cannot leave a black hole.

But does that same restriction prevent a rocket which wants to coast at 1m/s - under constant acceleration - from the surface to infinity?

I.e.: is the schwartzchild radius only a point of no return to light, not rockets?

And if not a hard limit to rockets - oh, I guess that's fun to know :-)

(Yes clearly utterly impractical - trying to understand if there's any fundamental reasons at play here)
That's right. This is not state of the art. LSTM is good for sequences and sequential data (like audio). But with the approach hereby described, prediction can be done in parallel and asynchronously. Which is something ;)
The EU is already taking Ukraine. Not by force but by politics, we already helped Poroshenko in place there. too bad some countries prefer not to associate with corruption ridden Ukraine [0]. But hey, EU leaders usually don't care what voters think (we got the Treaty of Lisbon after we voted no on the EU constitution).

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35976086
Do you have examples of the dirt that wouldn't have been directed at a man? I paid a lot of attention to this election cycle and I must have missed it.
Picture a pair of tanks shaped like a parallel plate capacitor, a circuit shaped pipe connecting them, and a mixture of water and air filling the pipe. (The air lets the water move around without creating a vacuum.) All other things being equal, the water gets sucked into the plate shaped tanks to minimise the gravitational energy; the resulting gravitational field is identical to the electric field you would get if you forced positive charge onto both plates of a capacitor.

Some of the differences with electricity are:

Like charges repel, so you have to force the positive charge to go where the water would pull itself.

Mass is always positive (dark energy aside), but charge can be negative, so you can have "negative mass pipes" that cancel out the mass of the water.

You can squash positive charge into one tank, and negative into the other. Unlike the parallel water tanks, this takes work, because the charge on each plate repels itself-mass can't do that. But less work than when there is positive charge on both plates. The resulting dipole field is something that you can't get with gravity. This is how real capacitors work.
That's how much this was a vote _against_ Hillary.

They hated her so much, they voted for an "openly racist, sexist, vengeful narcissist". Let that sink in.

(You'd probably say it is because all those people are openly racist, sexist and vengeful...)
> we elected a black man as a president for two terms in a row

And see how the republican base and party reacted.

> so the country may not be as racist as people perceive.

Or the country didn't feel it could express its racism until Trump gave it a bullhorn and an endorsement.
The left doesn't embrace freedom of speech for those that think differently from them though.

The left is inclusive of all sorts of groups of people so long as they agree and ultimately vote their way. We have a major homeless problem but they are quick to offer taking in refugees because they're more enlightened. It's all for making themselves feel better. And the politicians so it for votes... All the while ignoring groups of people they supposedly champion for.

Not sure how Christianity is shoved down your throat. Sounds like you don't like Christians because their beliefs don't line up with yours and are upset a primarily Christian nation is Christian in practice. That's not very tolerant. What are you afraid of? Christmas? Accidentally going to mass?
>All it's done is benefit the elite.

It's benefitted everyone except the working class in developed countries. That's a lot of people. The great majority, actually.
And you think Clinton will show restraint? She's a democrat, but her foreign policy is more typical of a neocon republican.
Exactly! With just 5 epochs and some hours on a low budget GPU I got 81% accuracy. Not bad at all, considering that no knowledge of MFC & Co. is required.
Thank you. I wish more people would realize this :(
Geez us, man. Get a grip. People like you who are blinded by rage are a big part of what's wrong with this country. You scream at someone for being a "fucking racist" and believe you hold the moral high ground? Are you kidding me? In my book your behavior is every bit as bad as the worst kind of bigotry and racism I've ever been exposed to. After reading your rant I need to go wash my eyes out with soap.
I've done a fair bit of arguing with the folks here on HN, it's interesting because it doesn't match the echo chamber I have on twitter or facebook. There seem to be a lot of Trump supporter here, which I find very surprising.

This idea keeps coming up again and again that using the word 'racist' in the context of the Trump campaign is essentially name-calling, an insult.

The problem is, racism is a big, big, big issue. And Trump is a racist bigot, you simply cannot deny it. That's why people that are described as 'on the left' feel so strongly about him. It's not 'pulling the race card', it's an actual big problem. America has spent 200 years trying to overcome it, and it's still so far behind. The open racism displayed by Trump is the reason why so many people viscerally hate him. Add to it the sexism (and sexual assault), the bullying, and the xenophobia, and the support for him becomes essentially unfathomable for many who consider his attitudes and behaviors completely incompatible with basic democratic values.

The article posted calls it smug, the commuter above called it 'not tolerating dissent'. I would call it a zero tolerance policy on racism, sexism, bullying and xenophobia.
I guess there was also hatred for the English and the Spaniards the first time they put their feet on american soil...
Trump is not an isolated event. Populism is growing everywhere

- Italy: Silvio Berlusconi era (- 2011)

- Philippines: Rodrigo Duterte

- Hungary: right wing populist party in charge

- Poland: populist Law and Justice party in charge

- Britain: Brexit, Boris Johnson

- Turkey: Erogan
Except, as per usual, nobody can back these assertions up with actual evidence. Meanwhile, you're happy to elect the pro-war, pro-key-escrow candidate. What the hell has happened to "hacker" news?

You're welcome for forestalling mandatory backdoored crypto for four years.
Spinning a new db in continuous integration for integration tests.
It was nothing but vineyards and hippies before and it might return to that state in the not too distant future.
On 538 they also talked a lot about political theory during the elections. The "economic model" of the election says that the candidates do not matter, that what matters is the economic state of the country and variables such as the presence of an incumbent.

Most people at 538 seemed to think that this theory would be invalidated after the pretty probablye Clinton win, but was a reason for them to consider the uncertainty high.

I think tomorrow they are going to discuss if this theory is not vindicated after all.
spot on!
In the end I (a German) was watching Fox News! Can you believe it? I know they have their own bias but this one time they were doing a somewhat better job.
You could argue that globalization has pulled millions of chinese peasants out of poverty, and helped creating a middle class in China, which is already increasing the pressure on the regime to transition to a democracy.

In any case, as some pointed out here, outsourcing to China is only the first step in the destruction of these jobs. Robotics is likely going to replace many of these jobs in the next 20y, which might bring back some industry into the West, ie more jobs but more sophisticated jobs.
From an outsider's perspective: superdelegates. Stein hit the nail on the head regarding the Democrat campaign[1]. Moderates swung to non-participation, their vote for Bernie actually meant nothing.

[1]: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/jill-stein-expect-trou...
My explanation is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884413

FWIW I predicted Brexit and Trump. I made 4 predictions this year.

1. Irish same sex marriage would succeed.
2. Brexit would win (with possibility of sabotage).
3. Trump would win the presidency (with a high chance of being assassinated).
4. Civil conflict would break out in Europe (2016-2017).

I'd like to be wrong about the 4th, but that's the one I'm most sure of.
Is it a good idea to invest a little money now that the market plunged?
> It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend.

I agree with this. Even if the causes are unclear, it would probably set up a path affecting quite a lot western societies (and maybe others too).

Interesting times.
China now has a big chance to make more influences on the whole world now, because USA will focus more on her own problems.
Unfortunately, you appear to be 100% right.

People hate globalization and strangers.

What was also fascinating in this campaign is the divide between the media and the people; even if Trump had lost with 49% of the vote it would have been striking. Zero newspapers endorsed him, which means half of the US population is not represented in the media.

The melting pot has lumps and clots.
Trump wasn't exactly a lightweight when it came to funding.

Trump spent $367 million vs Clinton's $534 million. The next most well funded candidate, Gary Johnson of the Libertarian party, spent only $10 million.[1]

So money still plays a huge role in American politics. I'm also pretty sure not all of that money is spent on getting candidates elected, and that a lot of back scratching goes on and favors bought.

Even if this election was a win against money in politics, and a boon to democracy in that sense, it's a major loss in many other ways. Trump is pretty clearly an egotistical anti-democratic dictator in the making, who has nothing but contempt for the democratic process (ex: he stated he'd only accept the election results if he won). Now that he's won, expect a steamrolling over his perceived enemies in the very antithesis of democracy.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
> there's few benefits to globalization

There are benefits in globalization. There are big problems with inequality.

Do not conflate one with the other: globalization is unstoppable, because technology is unstoppable. The whole world must slowly converge to a uniform (richer) standard of living.

But that will help few people if we allow those riches to be concentrated in very few hands.

Fighting globalization is fighting the wrong enemy: if you (by some miraculous change) are able to remove your country from the globalized world, your country would become poorer. And there is no guarantee that the wealth will be better distributed: the early eighteen centuries economies were not globalized and inequality was a big issue too (bringing about the theory of communism, for example)

Globalization does not require inequality. Non globalization does not guarantee shared wealth.

We need to fight for globalization and wealth distribution, which is what will guarantee the best standard of living for the whole population.
> Economists need to stop acting like priests in the medieval ages who justified the existing order . The rural voter who lost his job doesn't care about the theory of comparitive advantage.

Weird - most people on the left don't consider economists to be priests of their world. That's a right-wing frame of mind.

If you are interested in finding the truth here, the first thing to do is stop assuming that all the people who voted conservative are unemployed farmers. There are a lot of the educated elite in that bloc.