skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to reproduce here part of my comment on the today's AskHN regarding Trump:

My interpretation of Trump is as follows, though note that I'm not american nor a close follower of US politics, or politics in general.

The main concern of his is the flow of capital out of the US, be it through delocating companies or employment of cheap workforce mainly in southeastern Asia. He wants to exploit the national potential of workforce and has a more introvert, more domestic politic inclination, planning minimal involvement in international questions. And he seeks the support needed through a populist policy with a xenophobic and banale rhetoric targeting the unread american proletariat, the unemployed, and the elderly who does not appreciate the today's increasingly internationalised society and culture.
also about half the country was opposed to letting "all men be equal"
You are right, but I don't think free speech is considered a pro feature in making services popular right now.
There was all kinds of hatred for the Irish, Italians, Germans, Poles, Chinese, etc. 70–150 years ago.

Interracial marriage was illegal in the US south less than 50 years ago.

The arguments against Mexicans and Muslim refugees today are nearly identical, just with the names changed.

1940s Sinatra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpO6mpYvyqQ
Whoa! Can it also do offline scenarios?
What is the strategy for the blue collar workers? Getting rid of NAFTA and other agreements doesn't solve anything. People are getting replaced with machines and no one has come up for a solution for that.

If social safety nets get removed, they'll be in a worst position.
It's up in GBP, but that's because the pound has fallen. In dollar terms it's not up.
Whoops, I meant to write macho.
Given that this has been among the most polarizing campaigns ever, could a new, truly centrist third party start building support among the many "no to both" voters and have a chance in 2020?

I realize it's crazy to suggest a third party could have a chance in American politics, but prove me wrong.
We're potentially entering a period that's volatile in ways we haven't seen in the US in our lifetimes. People in SV need to be working to minimize Trump's power starting tomorrow.
> I don't believe that the government can solve social problems.

Other than not making it illegal for these people to live their ways of life?
> That's just wrong. Indian culture - and culture - is far, far more than a dance or some dish.

Maybe now you start to see the "damned if you do damned if you don't" nature of political correctness, and why it has been rejected in this election cycle with great success.
This election offers abundant evidence of how overemphasized Citizens United actually is. Clinton vastly outspent Trump, but still lost.
NZ dev here. Trump getting in doesn't worry me I'd love to work in the US. I think it's all been overblown.
Well, there's that saying about how the poor in America think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires...
> reading Scott Adams blog

Yeah, that was interesting. You did, I did. I tossed in here one of his better pieces over 3 months ago. Flagged off, of course. "La-la-la, not listening ..."
What 'real issues' are you talking about?

What was anyone else scared at all to touch?
Yelp is hiring backend/fullstack engineers in Hamburg, Germany. https://www.yelp.com/careers/job-openings?location=Hamburg%2...

I moved here last year, as an internal transfer. It's been pretty good overall.
> Most people assume that a byte is 8-bits which isn't true.

It is worth remembering that POSIX (and Windows probably too) mandate 8bit chars so there is no point being defensive about it on these particular platforms. And I kid you not, I have seen people who are. Because "ISO C99 this and that".
>Instead of patronising these people it's time we tried to understand their concerns and try to assuage them.

I use to think this too, before this election. But it became clear to me that the "other side" is not interested in being assuaged. They are not interested in facts, or empathy, or calmly discussing how to face an uncertain and complex world.

They are interested in control. Interested in hiring whatever strong-man seems most likely to make the bad people stop doing tbe bad things and make the good times happen again.

The politics of fear won, and I see no oppertunities to bring a divide where one side is hellbent on dynamiting every brick as it's laid.
Actually they can replace Roe V Wade because it's a ruling on the interpretation of laws that are amendable by the legislative branch.
I hope you are right about the courts laden with Obama appointees across the entire nation.
Hillary is a face of western corruption to much of the world.

That's not even slightly true here in the UK.
MMM... so silver lining - is the TPP going to die now?
Citizens United is not the example I would have gone with. It really only effects the ability of corporations to influence politics, so its effects on citizens are indirect at best.

Roe v. Wade and its predecessor cases (Griswold et al.) which legalized contraception and abortion across the US have had an obvious and direct effect on many people.
Canada has public healthcare as well, although it's probably worse than US paid for healtchcare. Public healthcare usually means long queues and substandard health services. It's okay if you're poor, but that's why in Europre we also paying for private health insurance when we can afford it. In the US you have the option not to pay for health insurance, in Europe you have to pay for it regardless of what you get in return. France is probably different, but Franch healthcare is going broke so it will only get worse if they don't do something about it soon enough.

Most of the big business in Europe is either 1. American 2. state owned or 3. companies founded before before WW1. It's almost impossible to launch a company with a growth rate compared to that of Uber in Europe. You would get kocked down by taxes and regulations before you know it.
I don’t think Sanders would have done better than Clinton.
Same here. Child of immigrants. This makes me sad.
>Since when were American politics about issues rather than image?

Since today, apparently.
Trump is going to do whatever it is he does before getting impeached--the sooner, the better.

What I'm driving at isn't just for the US--it's for all the countries. You can't bootstrap your economy by opening yourself to being exploited by multinationals, by shipping your resources off in the form of trinkets, regardless how many factory shirtmaker jobs it produces.

The problem of globalization is that it allows advanced economies to entrap developing markets, shipping them goods they don't develop locally--similarly, it guts advanced economies which are unwilling to compete (read: leverage externalities like polluting the air) with developing economies in certain sectors.

It also tends to end-run around local government by way of "harmonizing" accords, and makes governments subservient to the global market instead of the local people who they are supposed to govern.
Poor rural people voted for Trump. I'd like to see a citation showing that trump voters had a higher income.
You don't need to sacrifice them, the right wing parties that are being voted in chose to do that and are now being rewarded by the blowback.
Ask HN: Where should my dad start to learn to code?
My dad's in his fifties and will have to change his career from what he's been doing for the past 20+ years. I recommended he should try coding as I believe he's bright enough to pick it up and the demand for people who can code doesn't seem to be decreasing. He's now enrolled to a python class and slowly moving forward.

Obviously I don't want to force this on him. Just want him to get enough of a taste at first to see if he likes it. If he does, how should he continue?

Should I just push him to try codecademy or similar sites? What would be the shortest path to learn for him to land a job?
Yeah there are comics where Lex Luthor is the president of the U.S. I used to think they were absurd. Used to...
Bay Area as it currently is is around 40 years old

Yes, some things may change
No wall is needed... Just make it so that employers cannot legally employ those not authorized to work in the country --and fine with an amount which will deter people/companies.

At least that's what I would do if I needed to control unauthorized workers for any place which wanted to do so.
I won £20 with a £5 stake at my local bookies. Wouldn't really count that as 'making money' though.
Because it polls likely voters. The unlikely voters came out and voted.
I feel that the US will now, finally, focus on the US. It's time for that. Instead of their usual imperialistic attitude that involves enticing Europe to boycott Russia, taking out stability providing leaders in the middle east without much (after)thought (or the wrong kind of thought), providing weapons the the Free Syrian Army mercenaries that now fight for the better paying ISIS side (this is not stupidity, it's rubbelization with economic motives imo). Etc. Let the US focus on the US for the next 4 years, the US has enough problems to solve within their borders. Clinton would just intensify the Syria situation, alienate Russia even further, make secret deals with Wall Street and keep things just as they are. And things are not fine as they are.

Yeah yeah, I think Snowden is a hero and I hate Trump for calling him a traitor. Also his abortions views are medieval. But hey, a more balanced anti-imperialist would simply never win in the corrupt, house-of-cards like US.
Are you calling Obama a child? Because he has been the president for the last 8 years while all these problems have been mounting.
And? Just because he's validated, doesn't mean he's in the right.
Trump won the popular vote as well as the EV (at the time of this comment).
Can I add my own code?
I've read somewhere that the president is the captain of a very large ship with a small rudder. Not sure how correct that is factually but it is somewhat reassuring.

To think that Donald Trump is possession of the nuclear codes, dear god...
You know, sometimes, a 30% chance actually happens. That is not a small number.

With that in mind, I do think this is going to necessitate another look at how much we trust and do polling.
Came across this lately for DE/NL jobs:

http://relocateme.eu/jobs/

Also StackOverflow Jobs has a number of openings across whole world, many of them with salaries.

However some big companies with lazy HRs mainly put job offers on their own websites and nowhere else.
I think the biggest amount of direct influence the president has is on foreign policy.

There's a lot of damage to be done there.

Also, he has shown that he can make the Republicans shut up and follow. Quite easily.

The "problem" that made them fall in line won't go away. The voters will stick with him for a while.
I hit this issue two years ago while writing a "hardware wallet" that ran on Rockbox (so it could be sued with a Sansa Clip or other commodity hardware). It put me off finishing the project due to the complexity needed to work around it. With this fix, signing Bitcoin transactions offline is basically just as easy as any other digital message. I wish this annoyance in the original design could have been corrected sooner, but there is something to be said about the large amount of review that went into the change.
> Jeez, everybody is all bent out of shape on this. The Republican establishment hate Trump nearly as much as they hate Clinton so with Republicans controlling The House and The Senate how much "damage" is President Trump going to be able to do.

The Republican establishment, in terms of actual currently serving politicians rather than former ones or writers, have largely rolled over for Trump. With this "mandate", they'll continue to do so for fear of getting voted out.

And even if that weren't the case Trump would still be plenty dangerous. Sure, we can imagine they'd stop him if he tried to get some terrible policy passed -- but the biggest danger from Trump isn't some terrible deliberate policy. It's the constant screwups we can expect from someone who's not competent to run the executive branch.
This is what Hillary supporters would like to portray about any Trump voter, and it's frankly the reason they got such a surprise. They failed to even attempt to understand why people voted for Trump. Just wrote everyone off as racists and bigots.
we import quite a bit from China, so tariffs would be painful.
American tech manufacturing is outsourced to Asia, right? Will a trade war with China, for example, impact gadget production and raise costs and lower demand for the gadgets that the valley produces and profits from? If there are trade-barbs with China then I would expect that to hit the valley hard.
Pollers have been spectacularly wrong before.. coming out with some really sorry and unbelievable excuses for their errors. Voters somehow seem to swallow them, however. So the spectacle continues.
Irony is Florida voted for Trump. They have the largest risk for rising sea levels.
Also this wasn't as much a vote _for_ Trump it was a vote _against_ Hillary.

The Democrats had this election in their pocket, if it only wasn't for their corruption. They should have really stopped and paid attention to what happened with Bernie Sanders. That wasn't just something to shrug off, it should have been a stopping moment. I believe Bernie would have had no problem winning against Trump.

Also I really liked the media in this campaign, I watched it for entertainment. Some channels thought they were helping by pretty much becoming an off-shoot for DNC and Hillary's campaign. But it blew up in their face, because people saw through that, so it had the opposite effect.
MAGA
It's not about culture, people are still fine with their culture, it's about economics. Globalisation and corruption has caused a lot more instability for the working class. If you look at polls about what the number one issue was you'll see it's the economy, that's the main thing people are concerned about.
You've hit the nail on the head: inequality is at the heart of this. Unfortunately, people are quick to forget the democratic foundation of society. It is not big businesses that have the final say, neither is it the middle classes or any other segment of population. It is the people, collectively, that have influence. And when you forget that over a long period of time, it comes back to bite you hard. Lesson for the future: take inequality seriously.
Apparently, you can add custom js code to make the app more powerful
You lost me with that link, it's a total non-sequitor, unless you want to explain what you meant by it.
Your analogy is inappropriate. You know as well as I do that common ingredients such as flour and milk are regulated differently from novel ones.
Trump is not his persona. He has little choice but to be much more moderate than the rhetoric that got him elected.
It's not like Hillary is some other ethnicity they were voting against.
I was honestly going to place a bet on Hillary winning the election, I thought it would be a guaranteed way to make money. I didn't end up doing it. Honestly I actually wish that I did, even in hindsight.
The other one is Reuters. AP and Reuters are the two largest networks for gathering news. Most other brands that you know and recognize are in the business of distributing news.
Because this perspective looks at all the positive aspects of my culture while assuming there are no negatives (there are MANY).

It sacrifices objectivity for political correctness.

I'd rather hear people tell me "yeah, your food might be amazing, but you guys need to treat your women better", instead of saying "wow! I love Indian culture!" at some Holi event
Software development and IT jobs that moved to India and China are blue collar? Call centers?
She could have won it if her platform offered hope and excitement for the future of a regular person.

She offered free college education... that doesn't work very well if you quit high school to work in a factory or if you are like me and horrible at math (I can do everything else but that).

Job retraining doesn't work very well because many people train for the same thing. One great NPR story had a person who retrained in HVAC but he said that around 100 other people in the plant trained for the same thing unless if people move they need some sort of manual labor job.

People who worked in a factory are unlikely to start building websites, apps, manage databases, go into business management etc... they need another factory job or a basic income.
Yo, americans aren't the only "white people".
You say it very well.

And much like brexit, this fiasco reveals how much of a fool the journalistic establishment has made of itself. At least we can stop debating one thing at this point, whether or not the media is somehow disconnected with reality.
Or, more simply, Clinton was the wrong candidate.
Regarding the difference between polls and election results: maybe many people are racist, sexist xenophobes and if they tell the preference in public, they get rightfully derided for it. But with the secrecy of the ballot, they can give into their deep desire to kick out the Muslims and the Blacks, kick the females back into the kitchen and make America white again.
You're way more experienced than me in this, but it seems to me that anywhere you're going to be replacing polymorphism is going to result in more typing. If you know the module that you want, then it is trivial, but the point of type classes (IIUC) is to write generic functions that can act on a variety of types.

To replace the non-trivial cases is going to require pattern matching, it seems. If your types change, then you are going to have to update things in multiple places.

But, like you said, it's not the end of the world. In many cases the intent will probably be clearer. Still, I'd rather have type classes than not.
Surprisingly, namecalling doesn't sway votes. Calling people with genuine concerns about their country and well-being racist and sexist doesn't win you votes. Calling half the country Deplorable doesn't win you votes.

It doesn't help that the DNC rigged the election against Bernie, Clinton isn't "relatable" and struggles with public image, Clinton was under FBI investigation, both Clintons have had years and years of scandals. I'm honestly surprised it was even as close as it was for the popular vote.

I did not vote, but it should be fairly obvious from this post or my post history that I lean pro-Trump and very strongly against Clinton. For those who disagree with it, I'm sure the first response is blaming bigots and racists and sexists and blah blah blah. Rather than listening to half of your country - you shout over them and call them names, names which are only sometimes "earned".

The country can either grow more divided or we can grow together. The next four years will determine which direction we head.
Canada's Immigration Site Keeps Crashing for Some Reason
Disagree that computerisation is this problem. It's a problem, but it's not what's driven this. Why would the vote fall so strongly down racial lines if the primary problem was the elimination of lower-end jobs?

(Along with one of your respondents, I also don't think the wall or many other promises will eventuate.)
As an American Democrat, I'm not in the least bit embarrassed by our campaign. We ran on 8 years of growth, cutting the deficit, 5% unemployment, tripled stock market, etc. Justly proud of that.

I'm embarrassed for the country by what Republicans ran on and who they elected.
Of course a lot of people mention the price immediately. I don't think I'm going to spend that much, but it's not out-of-line with what I'd expect for a font (I've probably never bought one). It's also quite affordable for a professional with disposable cash.

What I think is strange is licensing per-computer. Maybe that's normal for fonts. Seems very stingy to me that I should pay multiple times for laptop/work/home computer.
Between all-purpose generic islamic terrorism (from Thailand to Phillipines to India to Middle-East to Paris to Belgium to London to USA), and black lives matter terrorism, the US needs a reboot.

This is that reboot.

Another brown indian dude here. I love western culture and society. I love the innovation, the science and the secularism. I'm sick of the left trying to convert it into a faux third world.

For example: I teach at a university. This semester, there's a woman walking around campus in a burka. In the freaking US of A, a woman is walking around with a burka. WTF is wrong with these people?
That would definitely help! And good luck!
Of course they fucking are. Why pretend at this point. All pretense is gone.
Well you wouldn't want a developer that made snap judgments based on presidential elects anyway.

Remember that the number of people that have voted for Trump only represent about 1/5th of the population.
I hope you reported the vulnerability to Mozilla.
You make a very good point. We are straining out the gnat and swallowing the camel.
You do realize that what the great renaissance intellectuals created, the right wing in the united stated looks down upon and scoffs at, right? They hate anything to do with art or culture unless it's their version of Christianity.

This is the same attitude of Boko Haram.

The left wing doesn't dismiss the great cultural achievements the west has created, but we try to create space for them within a nation known for accepting immigrants, rather than forcefully imposing our culture on them, which seems to have failed so brilliantly in places like France.

The politicians trivialize this shit, because they pander to the voters. The left embraces other cultures because we're sick of getting Christianity shoved down our throats.
What you mean is: Russia is portrayed as frisky in your media. That is different. Perhaps you should look up alternative news sources, YouTube can be enlightening.

Just one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbZDyr2LkdI
> attempts at building an interconnected globalised world are beginning to fail

The only certain conclusion I'd draw at this time is that traditional ways of manufacturing consent through broadcast media have stopped working.

Don't fret, the system will adapt.
These were the two people chosen by the parties to represent them. Just because they are the worst in history does not invalidate the election, and it isn't like you can call off an election because you don't have a worthy opponent.

I suspect the democrats are regretting throwing Bernie under the bus.
No one can reliably predict what it means.
I saw the former governor of Pennsylvania on msnbc saying about 10 pct of the manufacturing jobs were replaced by trade but the other 90 was from technology.
So the LA times poll is the only poll that was right, from the beginning? Perhaps time to take their methodology seriously.

Also, perhaps the extreme form of multiculturalism is a failed experiment, much like communism was a failed experiment. Time to wake up, ultra liberals.
I do not believe this is true. Please cite your sources.
> Oh well, the world will go on.

The world will go on, but I really wonder what America's place in it will become. Will America be diminished as a leader among nations? How powerful will our economic engine remain if it becomes more isolated? How influential will we be in world affairs?

Things like this don't change overnight, but I fear by the time it's evident they've started slipping it's a long, long road to ever claw your way back.
It is fitting I suppose that on the anniversary of the 18 Brumaire, Napolean's coup d'etat, we should get a Trump presidency.

And it doesn't end there, you need to look at the entire ticket; it is a clean sweep by the GOP who also have control of the Senate and the House. The GOP will be able to pass any legislation unimpeded, such as repealing Obamacare.

More consequentially, Trump gets to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. The effects of that will last for a generation, way beyond his presidency.

Elections have consequences, and this election has significantly shifted the political landscape.