skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the beginning it was obvious the people would choose change and it actually looked like they would choose change for the better of you allowed them to (as the Bernie vs Trump polls showed).

But Democrat party decided the people knew nothing and they would just make them choose between what looked like change for the worst or for everything to continue the same.

And well, people really preferred change non the less.

Democrat party should now do some soul searching, stop blaming others for Trump election, and figure out how they allowed Hilary to manipulate so much the DNC in order to push Bernie aside.
Because a large part of device sales isn't in profiting from the hardware, but in co-branding with the OS vendor, and crapware preload applications.

Hardware margins are thin, unless you're Apple.
No, life will continue as it always has, just not us unless we move elsewhere. Life, as in living things, will always find a way. Perhaps roaches.
I was just repeating the comment, you'd have to ask the author.

Speaking for myself, I'd discuss things like affirmative action in college admissions, whose advocates would admit a wealthy black person from a prep school before a poor white person from a failing rural school who has better test scores, and call that "social justice".
We would never try to ban any use of language. Its more like advice.

We say: "Stop calling everything racist and sexist that is not racist or sexist because you are missing the real underlying issues. We want everyone to be happy just like you do, but we think your method is flawed."

Then we win the election because you missed the point.

This is why you will find such exuberant Trump supporters. There are many tears of joy being shed on the Trump side because of this.
The Democratic Party hasn't been competitive in the house for 6 years, was only able to pick up 1 senate seat in a very unfriendly election, and now, they can't win the presidency. Republican governors outnumber democratic ones by nearly 2-1. Republican state houses outnumber democratic ones by over 2-1.

I'm sorry -- what was the part of the Democratic Party platform that's really speaking to America again?
Ummm that article doesn't seem to notice the whole shit ton of blue in the rural northeast. Like the entirety of Vermont and the Berkshires in Massachusetts. The most populous part of Connecticut appear to be the red parts of Connecticut (looks like Bridgeport?). It's hard to tell but the red parts of New Hampshire seem to be around Portsmouth? Which isn't exactly a city in the traditional sense of the word but certainly nowhere near rural. As an aside Portsmouth drivers are seriously the most polite drivers I've ever encountered. The red part of new York is Buffalo which is the second most populous city in new York state! EDIT: now that I look closer it appears Rochester and Buffalo seem to be tiny little blue dots surrounded by red.

Does this person think the entire Northeast is a giant city?
Insulting millions of people serves no other purpose than to point out your own superiority in some way. I can't fathom how much hubris is necessary to do that without feeling ashamed of yourself.

How can it be so hard to be nice to others? Everybody disagrees with everybody else on something. Everybody has false ideas about the truth. Do we toss a kid in a meatgrinder when it has a weird idea about society? No, we include it in our discussions because opinions change when they are challenged. But when they cross the age of 16, or is it 18?, then they suddenly become demons that we need to get rid of. The cancer of our society. Where do you draw the line?

If you honestly think that you have a moral superiority that gives you the right to tell people what to do just because they are stupid (or pick any other negative attribute), then know that there are a lot of people to whom you are literally stupid (they are more intelligent and know more than you). Would it be okay if they told you what to do? If they tried to silence you? Ignored your desperate calls for help, which they think are stupid and wrong?
I don't hear anybody complaining about Apple's anti-competitive ban on AV for iOS.

Oh, wait, that's because iOS is orders of magnitude more secure than Windows and doesn't really need an AV product. Whereas Windows has been plagued by malware for decades. Nobody wants to buy AV in the same way that nobody wants to buy health insurance; it's an unfortunate necesssity in an imperfect world.

Unfortunately the tradeoff we're facing here is the "information feudalism" one. People aren't realistically able to secure themselves, so they end up having to pick a quasi-monopolist and delegate to them the ability to ban software. Such bans can be extremely arbitrary. Occasionally even your headphone jack gets taken away. But people put up with it because it works for them in a way that anarchy doesn't.

Microsoft would clearly love to make Windows behave like iOS: apps only installable from the store which has power of veto and takes a cut. Heck, Apple would probably like to do that with OSX. Neither has quite managed it yet.

I suspect the long term way out of this is a proper user-owned subscription-driven open hardware company, but that's a very hard thing to build and a hard sell to the average user.
Do Americans Know: Trump = Fart?
Not sure I can justify an IT/Hacker/Science angle here, but let's tenuously file under "linguistics" and hope for the best:

Following the recent US election result, I'm idly curious as to whether any of HN's American readers knew that "trump" is slang for "fart" throughout most of the north of England.

[Can also be used as a verb, as in "Who Trumped?"]

As you can imagine, this unfortunate coincidence has caused much mirth this side of 'the pond', but I've not seen any of Trump's opponents in the US make use of such 'linguistic ammo' on any of their posters or banners. So I suspect the double-entendre might be unknown outside of the north of England.

If so, I'm pleased to contribute to the sum total of human knowledge by broadening the vocabulary of HN's global readership!
The worst case scenarios for an accident at a fusion plant aren't nearly as bad as those at a fission plant so you should be able to get by with somewhat less in terms of paranoid safety measures and overbuilding.
retail type of bullshit, literally. stuffing all the sale into a single day when none of the physical or non-physical systems are designed or implemented to meet such peak demand. my current company does everything to eliminate such peaks, which makes sense considering customer satisfaction (service quality) and cost efficiency, and some guys like alibaba doing the opposite. nothing but marketing scam, prices getting bloated in the day before and discounts(?) exclusive to 11.11.
"I just upload every single executable to VirusTotal.com". I would stop using that OS even if it is the last OS on earth if I would need to do that..
> Both Trump and Clinton's campaigns seem successful - there was less voter turnout than in 2012.

Turnout this election was 2% higher than 2012. It just doesn't look that way because everyone is focused on Clinton's and Trump's totals. This election saw the most votes cast for alternate candidates (a hair over 5% according to Wikipedia) since Ross Perot's run in 1996.
What's the HN web link? I get snagged on this all the time and just search through google to bypass but now I feel like I'm doing something the hard way
Very natural way of working with DOM. Very beautiful :-).
So you were worried that the repercussions for saying whatever you like may be too high, and in exchange you were willing to potentially sacrifice women's rights, minorities rights, lgbt+ rights, the environment, business regulations, and whatever else conservative Trump appointments might do?

If only the third-wave feminist bloggers, social justice warriors, black lives matters activists, etc, had kept their mouths shut! It's good they were shown there are repercussions to saying whatever you like.
> She has been under active investigation for almost the entire campaign

Noting that it has all been Republican-driven and hasn't yet found a single thing in decades. But it is definitely an excellent "poison the well" tactic.
My advice — do not use Swarm. Start directly with Kubernetes or DCOS. You might think that those are overkill for smaller projects — well, I also thought this way, and got into similar issues as this article describes. When I started again with Kubernetes, life became much simpler.
peter, history is not going to remember you kindly.
Disclosure: this article is an elaboration of my HN rant at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12928869. There's some overlap. Hope that's okay.
And I'm saying that when you cite Snopes on a political issue to "prove" your claimed fact, you're admitting up front that it's nothing of the sort.

That sort of trick just doesn't work any more, which is, of course, the whole reason we're having this general discussion in the first place.
What about asking him about all the "truth-less" stuff his propagandist in chief Bannon out of Breitbart (future Chief of Staff) has pushed for years? The Birther BS? How the extreme supremacist elements backing the campaign will be kept at bay; how basic rights will be maintained.

I guess he figures Palantir can make a bunch of money tracking down people who fit into non-billionaire-white-male (gay or not) categories for [...insert some action....] to "make America great".
It would be a lot more helpful if you point out the misinformation.
> ... he won't respect the election if he loses.

You mean like all the people protesting against Trump?
For everyone suggesting Thiel, a gay man with outspoken libertarian views, donated $1.25m as part of some pay-to-play scheme, let's do a little math...

He is worth $2.7b last I checked.

1250000/2700000000 = 0.00046296296

Suppose someone with a net worth of $1m donated $500... That would be a greater fraction of net worth donated. I know a lot of people who donated above that ratio.

I propose an alternative theory: Thiel is a true believer, much like many of you.
I'm perplexed as to why Thiel backed Trump when Thiel is gay, and Trump/Pence seem to want to roll back a lot of hard fought rights won by the homosexual community.
At the moment I'm sold on Mode-View-Intent, which is more delarative and non-OOP. I also have the feeling it lets me compose a bit more easy.

DOMStream = view(model(intent(DOM)))
DOMStream.subscribe(render)

intent() takes the DOM, wires up some interactions and returns streams "of" these interactions

model() takes streams of interactions, wires them up with data retrieval and mutation streams and returns these data-streams

view() takes the data-streams and uses them to create DOM mutations-stream, which it returns.

The nice thing is that these observable streams are really nice to filter, map, debounce etc. Also, it helps with fast realtime data stuff, because you can easily wire up these fast streams with a tiny part of your app and the rest of it won't even notice (which is a bit ugly if you got a big state-tree that represents your whole app state).

The not so nice thing is, that controlling them completely declaratively has a steep learning curve.
It won't even take long, I reckon.
Just discovered and mapped. Japan is harvesting them.
> We did well but we didn't win. That is all.

No campaign or party did well. If either were competent or wise, they would have won handily. This election was like Pat Buchanan running against Richard Nixon. I guess one of those two were bound to win if those are the options. Does that mean one side did well? Nope.
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What did Trump say about Latino citizens, or black citizens, or gay people, that makes you feel that way?
> objectively worse

On what objective metric(s)? Answering this properly is extremely hard.
"yet, when someone spoke out against Islam, and Islamic groups placed a bounty on his head, the same MSM would just go silent."

Salmon Rushdie, Charlie Hebdo and Jyllands–Posten all seem to be a cause célèbre of the liberal media even though the liberal media would otherwise despise Charlie Hebdo.
Except blockchains aren't timestamped, and you can introduce mechanisms to randomize block acceptance.

With a bitcoin transaction you cannot know the order confirmations were requested, just when the transaction was finalized, and there is no correlation between the two in finalized blocks.

Given that such a blockchain would only be active one day (or up to a week) of the year and see ~120m+ transactions in 20 hours or so, there would be no way to predict what transaction any one individuals vote was.
I wasn't agreeing with the claims against Trump. I think they are wrong. I was commenting on the fact that you can find arguments for all those claims for Clinton. Which cancels out the argument - and requires each claim to be taken by itself without supporting evidence and reasoned arguments.

The libs got to use to not having to back up their claims through a confirmation bias from their echo chamber.
> Japan has religious minorities; you might sensibly predict life is difficult for them; you might sensibly predict this implies that e.g. no Japanese PMs come from religious minorities; you got one of those two predictions correct.

Which of those two predictions are correct?
he was lying, which was obvious.
These deposits happen to be freakishly convenient (offshore coastal cities) and the technology to harvest is ready (offshore drilling). Also they are essentially endless (centuries of supply). Its like they were planted there to tempt us.
In fact no, it doesn't. Documentation is much better, and bugs are much less.
Thiel can go get married in New Zealand if it gets bad enough in America. He simply does not care about the rest of us.
$500 cash can be a lot of cash if your networth is $1mm, a lot of that $1mm is likely illiquid.
Ctrl-F, "web", click
The unbearable smugness continues with articles like these
At right of "X minutes ago". It actually just performs a google search.
> (as the Bernie vs Trump polls showed)

Those same polls also showed Clinton winning handily against Trump. You can't pick one side as proof of your argument when the other side has been proven wrong in reality.
I'm still getting a paywall through the web link. Not here http://archive.is/NzUxQ.
Every one of these blog posts begins with almost exactly the same thing:

The documentation just plain sucks. The doc parts that don't suck are outdated, and therefore useless.

As long as that is the case, you are going to have people who go through the exact same troubles with Docker time and time again (one theme is databases in docker).
he is handing the epa to the oil industry.
Perks will be shipped in 30 years!
Much of the nasty stuff comes from the fact that current (light water) reactors were actually meant to produce military plutonium. Bombs first. Energy was a by-product, and a very nice way to sell nuke-making to the civilians.

There is another way of doing fission, that was demonstrated (working prototype and all) in the 60's: molten salt. You basically dissolve the fissile matter in molten salt, provide initial heat, and you have a reaction going. This has multiple advantages:

- Originally designed for a nuclear plane, it is capable of reacting to load changes very quickly. It's basically easy to power-up, and easy to shut down.

- It is amenable to a passive security set up: when all goes wrong, the reactor shuts down by default. When it does, the radioactive matter is trapped in no-longer-molten salt, such that contamination is limited even if there is a leak.

- It consumes 90% of the fissile matter before it has to go to recycling. (Current reactors do about 10%.)

- It currently produces 5 times less waste than current reactors. There is hope to do even better.

- Last but not least, it can run off thorium, which is 4 times more abundant than uranium, and much better spread out geographically.

With one or two decades and a few billion dollars, we could make commercial grade reactors. They would almost certainly be significantly cleaner, and much safer than current light water reactors. They could adapt to changes of demand in the power grid, or compensate for the volatility of most renewable power sources without the need for a "battery miracle". Overall, they would make a terrific mid-term solution, that could last a couple centuries. More than enough time to come up with something better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
Thiel has described himself as a Libertarian, but Palantir is proof that he is in fact an advocate of the surveillance state.
Not a Python dev, so I don't know about that.

But could you elaborate on the "Nix-env conflicting with system profile" thing? :)
Any reason why you consider freelancing worse than outsourcing? I think if you can build a good team of freelancers, you basically save yourself from a lot of the issues this article mentions.
Has anyone tried on Firefox? I'm running FF49 and in gen 50 it has less than 400 max score.
Americans know that Trump = President.

Can also be used as a verb, as in "Who Won?"
Except they're a classic smokescreen - every time one is refuted (and they all are, through expensive pointless investigation) another is invented to fill airtime.
>I'm tired of the idea that hicks and blue collar workers won the election for Trump

Except the article you link to confirms it - he won the White men non-college demographic 72 to 23.

The article is talking about how (on a whole) the white demographic also voted for Trump, just not as much as the white uneducated demographic.
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"fairly educated european white male". IYI

And no, "we" do not all see rural US as Cletus Spucklers. You certainly do.
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You don't need to scale up solar or wind in a particular region, you just transfer it from afar via HVDC. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec

Sure there's engineering challenges in that, but no more than some hypothetical case where we need an entire fusion plant in some locality right now.
They're huge and convenient. Capital costs paid once; gas flows for centuries. It'll amortize to almost nothing.
"The illegal entry of non-nationals into the United States is a misdemeanor according to the Immigration and Nationality Act, which prohibits non-nationals from entering or attempting to enter the United States at any time or place which has not been designated by an immigration officer, and also prohibits non-nationals from eluding inspection by immigration officers"

Even though it's nice to know the specifics, really, it's absurd.

A nation will not exist unless in the 21st century unless it manages its borders reasonably.
I don't think you can discount the populations of elderly Democratic voters in these New England rural areas. People that have been voting Democrat since Kennedy or longer.

Maine tilted pretty hard, with the rural 2nd District going convincingly for Trump. However, LePage also gets a lot of support and approval from those same regions, even now, with everything he's said and done, so we may just like blowhards.
You can be tired of it, but it's true. There was a 16% swing from Dem (last election) to Rep amongst people earning <$30k (mostly white). It was the largest demographic swing of any kind (race, gender, education, income) since the last election.

https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/796356106952048644
> One side is for freedom of speech, the other side is for controlling what you can say.

There was just one candidate in this election that wants to control what you can say. And it wasn't Hillary.

“We’re going to open up those libel laws. So when The New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace, or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they’re totally protected.”

> This was non-sensical to me, and was bullying.

I agree that it was bullying and that it shouldn't happen. But again, one side wants to fight against online bullying and the other side thrives on it. Just check the Trump's twitter account if you want to see what bullying looks like.

On one side you're saying you're all for free speech, on the other hand you're against the people exercising the right. Especially people you don't agree with (like Black Lives Matter). This all just sounds like a front to silence people who are pushing society in direction you don't want it to go (social justice things like fighting racism, sexism, homophobia, ...).
Good read, he appears quite sane. In a nutshell, he has hope we do only know Trump on steroids, and he might not be a likable person, but in the end Trump has the necessary discomfort with the status quo to move the economy ahead - not the perfect candidate, but rather the better alternative at this moment in time.
Same deal with my wifes machine. We just backed up her documents and gave it the ol' nuke-n-pave treatment.

I can't be arsed dealing with that crap.
One example of "lock that bitch up" - http://mashable.com/2016/11/09/trump-victory-celebrations/#y...

Do you agree that (1) investigation is not the same as conviction, and (2) that repeating the phrase "crooked Hillary" ceaselessly is a marketing tactic designed to encourage a belief that Clinton is a criminal in order to undermine her legitimacy as a candidate?
So what, I don't care where the error occurs.

Either the full expression is successful or not.
The current popular vote total stands at 127MM votes cast, and the Attorney General of California has already announced that they have at least 3MM absentee and provisional ballots to check, so it's expected that turnout will exceed 2012's 129MM votes cast.
I know a lot of the people on the Hillary campaign who donated over $100 and have negative net worth.
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I think you're underestimating the intelligence of people. We like to think that we're much better than the average Joe at separating the wheat from the chaff, but the truth is that the average Joe just isn't so bad at it either - or at least, isn't much worse than an editor sitting in his echo chamber.

If I look at my twitter feed now, for example, I have a bunch of tweets criticizing a new decision of the government to withdraw high-denomination currencies (I'm from India), and for every such tweet there are others that are calling out the fallacies of the argument put forth. And vice versa.

Gives me all the viewpoints I need to form an opinion.
A better idea might be to stop visiting News Corp. sites at all.
The value of a donation isn't in the giver's percentage of net worth. He knew exactly how valuable a $1M cheque is, especially when everyone else is supporting the other side.

This is a clear case of pay-to-play. It just happened to be cheap because of the candidate.
I won't claim to know why, but when we discriminate in this country, you probably put race at the top. But we discriminate in this order:

1. Wealth (that is, lack of)
2. Education
3. Race
4. Gender
5. Other stuff (appearance, sexual identity, etc)

I doubt a successful homosexual like Thiel feels terribly discriminated against. I'm guessing this because I work with a bunch of black physicians; they say they're all doing just fine.
You have that problem with all executables that are not distributed through an audited packet manager (or another safe channel). If you directly download any executable for linux, or apks for android, you have the exact same problem.
Because rich people live a life so different than the average person you cannot possibly guess his motivations.
> So is your argument that "statesmen" have failed to avoid crisis, therefore someone who is not a "statesman" will be able to better avoid crisis?

Nope. Only the fact that a "statesman" doesn't imply good foreign policy.

Trump does imply more uncertainty though I would say.

We will see. Its worth trying out. Unless you think he will launch the nukes. Which is a big part of the liberal narrative.
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