skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Salaries in western Europe are about half of US salaries, if you go to the East, while still within EU, a programmer could be paid as little as $15-20k/year.

If you go even more to the East - Ukraine, Russia, China, India, etc. you can get very highly qualified people for even less, happy to work on a project for you.

Software is one of the easiest things to outsource/offshore, unlike manufacturing or services. So protectionism is only going to end up harming US in this regard.

Of course, that doesn't mean that the H1B "indentured servitude" system for importing cheap foreign workers shouldn't be fixed. But imposing minimal salary is not the way to do it, IMO.
I have no problem with immigrants if they come here in accordance with our laws.
I think the same mistake was made in both Brexit and this election. The people at the top looked around them, and they assumed the people they saw were a representative sample of the population. Because usually, they're more or less right.

There's a whole demographic out there that doesn't really care about politics. It doesn't matter who POTUS is because nothing will really change in my city. They don't bother voting because none of the policies particularly interest them. Suddenly you've got this guy who isn't a politician, and he's promising to do things that decades of politicians haven't been doing.

Trump got the people who are disaffected by traditional politics to come out and vote, and that's enough to make a big difference, just like it was with Brexit.
the summary of this election cycle:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/live_results/2016...
Because we have a vested interest in keeping peace in Europe. As a country it has worked to our advantage to keep large markets under our protection. Having a dumpster fire in your neighborhood is bad for business.
How about https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=nasty%20woman&tbm=isch ?

That's one she managed to spin positively.
What's the point? You're clearly not capable of seeing that his paragraph amounts to a single sentence dismissal as well.
In the mobile space, I see a lot of "also ran" languages, never mind the platform. I don't think people who wrote iOS apps were much intent on using Objective-C outside of that, and I don't think Swift will improve much on this. A lot of Android developers fall into the same niche: They're using Java because they have to, not because it's their major background. So anything that makes their side errands into Android-land easier is welcome (cf. react-native).

Plenty of "ok-ish, but not too hard to learn" languages proliferate in that kind of climate, like go for small web services (where Erlang was too much of an investment). The Unix approach of 1001 ad hoc sub-languages (awk, pic, ed...) adapted.

Quite different from e.g. a J2EE developer's approach, who tends to think of career-defining technologies and languages, where Scala seems like a wise investment.
That's what I was thinking. As long as I don't get more than six MRIs a year I come out ahead.
As of September, China held $1.22 trillion of US Treasury bonds. Something to keep in mind before launching a trade war.
I honestly thought the Trump presidency attempt was a big internal joke. I didn't think Trump himself believed he would become president ever.

This guy is clearly a sociopath lacking in empathy typical of the american elite and his behavior has just been rewarded. It's really troubling what this means for Americans who are not rich or white. It also troubling we celebrate wealth to an extent we do not view having an elite class of extremely selfish and self serving individuals as a problem which has directly got us to the Trump presidency.

Hilary Clinton was completely untrustworthy and tedious so the alternative was a bad choice. The democrats have themselves to blame for not taking their own policies seriously, posturing, paying lip service to the poor and unprivileged for decades, and failing completely to put up an inspiring candidate. They have supported and built the surveillance state, ignored the poor and destroyed millions of lives in the middle east.

I don't think Trump can be called a good person. His perspective on life is shaped by wealth, privilege, ego and acqusitions. It all economics and very little humanity. Some of his positions are unquestionably racist and unpleasant.

It's troubling and telling that a majority of this country thought such an individual should 'lead' them. All pretensions are off, the mask has dropped to reveal the deep ugliness within. All those smug comedians making fun of Trump look like clowns themselves.
I don't think there will be significant negative drag to Silicon Valley as anti-immigrant policies won't apply to skilled migrants.

Ultimately Trump is a chauvinist and economic with the truth sure, but that just makes him a New York businessman. He is no ideologue and as long as he doesn't kick off a trade war things should level out quite quickly as I note here:

https://governmentsandmarkets.com/trump-the-morning-after-th...

We can also actually expect more support for startups as these are acknowledged job creators. Where the danger comes is in enforcement of anti-monopoly statutes for larger companies, although healthcare monopolies are likely first on the plate.
You could argue that interstates are actually a very specific part of "American culture". Certainly they had a large impact on the way of life for many Americans over the past 60 some odd years (or however many it's been). Motels, those clusters of shops around the interchanges, certain kinds of diners and truck-stops, not to mention the ubiquity of semi-trucks ("18 wheelers"), etc., are tightly tied to the emergence of the interstates and are iconic in American culture.
I still can't believe Hillary disrespected all people who supported her and came close to her stage by not giving a final speech. Was she not paid for it?
Drunk man singing for donald trump
> You ignore the corruption and two-tiered legal treatment, Trump supporters ignored the pussy grabbing talk and other non-PC shit he spews.

Sure, that's all you ignore....

* Deleting of emails against a court order [1]

* Scamming students out of money [2]

* Refusing to pay workers [3]

* Violating visa rules [4]

* Violating the Cuba embargo [5]

I could go on, but I guess it's pointless. Like you said: preconceived notions. Good luck with your president, you'll need it.

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/2016/11/11/donald-trump-companies-de...

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/trump-un...

[3] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/0...

[4] https://apnews.com/37dc7aef0ce44077930b7436be7bfd0d

[5] http://europe.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cuban-embargo-castro...
To be unfair to 538, I can just predict any US election as "1 in 2" and I guess you'll defend my record every time.
I'm curious what you think a Wikileaks voter would've read that would be as damning as you claim.
Attention--w-h-o-r-e-s make money during such events.
She was out of touch with the hardships of Middle America. Globalization has been good to America in aggregate, but has hollowed out the rust belt (which went very much for Trump).

The emails did not help; it made her appear above the law.
How did you reach those people before social media?
Trump, politics, geopolitics and markets
There have only been 2 drops greater than 700 points. The third largest fall was 684 points.
500 and 1000 rupees case is very welcome and in this most of them will get caught particularly
1)corruption
2)cricket players & bookies
3)celebrities & politicians
4)Black money & Fake moneys
not only this in every office they should stick the phone number of vigilance if any one is asks for the bribe immediate action should be taken only then in next couple of years we can proudly say that India is a developed country. Finally I appreciate that Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi for a great job.
“DRM is Used to Lock in, Control and Spy on Users”
But seriously, is there not some way to use technology to:
-fact check claims by politicians more quickly and accurately
-counter the "twittering" of politics (encourage more nuanced explanations of the issues)
-more accurately figure out the sentiments of the population
" It's almost impossible to launch a company with a growth rate compared to that of Uber in Europe. "

I'm pretty sure the market is filled with unregulated niches that don't require you to shift the balance of the universe to be successful.

Yes, US seems to be winning in terms of environment which facilitates the rapid growth of paradigm shifting companies. I did not claim otherwise - I merely countered the proposal that it would be counterproductive to try to do business in Europe altogether. Not as inducive to growth is a different thing from disabling profitable companies altogether.

I'm hard pressed to quantify the quality of public healthcare. Patient outcomes are a different thing than what the service feels like. I agree, it's sometimes painstakingly hard to find good healthcare but in my experience that applies to both public and private as equally - the more rare the condition, the harder it is to find a helpful diagnosis and a plan to proceed.

The professional capability of the tending doctor is the most critical factor. I've met outstanding professionals in the public space and private clinic doctors who have been sloppy and unattentive - and vise versa.

Of course, if budgets strain, the quality of care decreases.
That's right, it's town vs country. Election maps that drill into districts will show you the same in any country. Basically anywhere with a sports team (they play in cities) tends to be "leftie" and everywhere else not.
> I don't live in the US (anymore), so it doesn't really affect me.

Nor do I, but this person is the standard bearer for the stable world order that has helped lift many of us out of poverty, and has promised to continue doing so.

That world order is pretty chill, in comparison to historical standards. It seems rash to claim maintaining it doesn't matter, and that's exactly what this rich white man has campaigned on.
It depends on how broad a view you want to take of culture. If you look at music, films, food and sport, I see no evidence that American people are enjoying US music, US films, US food and US sport any less than before, regardless of what's happening politically. However, if you include the economy as part of culture, then people certainly were disillusioned, and I don't blame them, kind of hard to enjoy life to the full if you're having to work multiple jobs just to have a decent quality of life.
I think its the other way around, there's a dominant two party system because of the simple majority requirement. If there's a requirement absolute majority, then neither major party wins and the smaller parties and independents that are currently considered spoil sports become very important to form coalitions. That then gives rise to more parties catering to specific interests, demographics and minorities which enable more representation in the senates/parliaments fighting for their primary causes, instead of having to choose either of two always, and any other option basically relegated to a spoil sports.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. / I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature. / Great liars are also great magicians. / I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Trumps handbook. He shouldn't be mistaken for the same person, since people of that caliber only happen once, but that is exactly how he elected himself. Psychology wins elections. Not policy, not integrity, not even sanity. And now he has the power.

Nothing he said or says matters. He is a magician. So I hope he's full of white doves.

His victory speech wasn't all that bad actually.
'Corporate innovation does not work,' says Accenture
Is that true about Melbourne? I mean, I believe that there are large immigrant populations, and that you have a lot of diverse restaurants. But I struggle to believe that they "do great" and that there is a lot of unity. I know New Zealand is a deeply racist country, and I had always heard that Australia was even worse.
The Baltic Republics vs. the rest of the USSR.

Just FYI, since I assume you're not very familiar with these countries: this kind of lumping together the so-called "Baltic Republics" with the "USSR" is generally very offensive to Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, who have nothing to do ethnically or culturally with Russia and generally view the Soviet era as very dark times.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were invaded and taken by force because of geographical proximity to Russia. Nothing else. There are no relevant conclusions to be drawn by making comparisons like yours because these are different peoples with different histories and pretty much nothing in common.
I could bet these guys made some money: https://senddickstodonald.com/
Ironic. Vox exemplifies this.
I can relate in a certain way. In Germany, the state-owned Telekom wants to avoid the cost for building fiber networks, and instead squeeze multi-hundred-megabit connections through the existing copper wires with VDSL2 Vectoring [1].

They're the only one advocating this. Literally everyone else, from watchdogs all the way up to the EU commission, wants them to do proper fiber networks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-high-bit-rate_digital_sub...
Russia and Turkey have always been (rampantly) nationalist. Russia had a short failed episode of opening up with Yeltsin while Turkey has been letting Ataturk (and the few reforming sultans in the late period of the Ottoman empire) down ever since he died.

Even the USSR was extremely nationalistic, albeit thinly veiled behind "internationalism".
I'd think that latino voters in particular would be offended most by trump, but according to exit polls, a whopping 31% of latino voters went to trump in Florida: http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/08/politics/first-exit-polls-2016...
If Sanders had run (and I wish he had), it is likely that Bloomberg would have entered the race. That should be considered.
That's ... not a valid argument against a different point. It's 1:41 AM on the west coast and despite the NY Times clearly calling the election for Trump, Clinton still has a forecasted 1% lead in the popular vote. Given California is incredibly blue, this will most likely hold true.
That compliance table is the thing really killing XMPP for practical modern usage.

I tried to write an XMPP client about a year ago and found out about that compatibility table the hard way. It's rough -- I had no idea what I was getting into.

Turns out that XMPP, before expansions, has no standard definition of what message IDs are. Which means "good luck, have fun!" is pretty much the best anyone can hope for on synchronizing messages when you have multiple devices or when the network flakes on you. Which in turn means XMPP is basically unusable on multiple devices. If you're lucky, everything supports all the same extensions, and it'll probably work most of the time; but if any piece of software you use is missing one extension, your day is toast. (And even then, frankly, the "carbons" API is wrong-headed and not very capable of recovering from network failures. In no uncertain terms: It's time to move on.)

I wrote about this more previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9772968
He most certainly will. That's how he rolls.
car manufacturers are also doing more than manufacturing cars.

Since we don't know what the numbers mentioned above mean and if they are about comparable things, I tried to give a precise number for a sector.
That sentiment I understand however voting Trump because you really like the guy and his views is weird imho. Like you I suspect many many votes were just anti Hillary and the hope Trump will just be a marionette.
If there's one thing you can rely on in politics it's that the replacements will usually be just as bad if not worse than those who they replaced.

As one editorial quipped, no matter what happens in this election, the Washington elite will remain the Washington elite.
Let's use this as an opportunity to hold president Trump accountable in a way that we've failed to do for the past few decades. This could lead to unprecedented checks and balances and unprecedented democratic participation leading to a resurgence in the rule of law.
Really nice.

- Nice UI

- Really easy to rate stuff

- Good recommendations

- Great progression, the profile completeness with % makes me want to keep going and I signed up to save it.

Suggestions after playing some more.

- Sometimes it was confusing when the lists have a "main" movie like "80s movies" has the top one on the left side with the score at the bottom. Then the next one is at the top of the list. So the second one looked like the best match.

- Same with the top matches, I thought the list on the right was the top ones.

- I'd like to see the summary on the popup to jog my memory instead of opening a new page, kinda breaks the flow.

- The filters, I tapped like 10 of them but no results. I wanted to see movies with the filters, not all movies with all selected filters.

- Saving from the popup was bit hard to see.

- I'd like to see the genre in the movie view.

- Suggestion reasoning would be nice. For example my top suggestion is "whiplash" which I think is a drama, but I haven't really liked any drama ones. So it would be nice to see if it is or isn't. That being said - I have been planning to see it for a long time, so I guess the recommendation is valid - I would still love to know /why/.
This collectivist liberal fearmongering portraying others as the elites is pathetic. Time will tell, and meanwhile I'm laughing.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/23/uk-economic...
Indeed, the ideological opponents of liberals in America also have a smugness problem, but that may be because they themselves are also liberals.

"[T]he contemporary debate within modern political systems are almost exclusively between conservative liberals, liberal liberals, and radical liberals. There is little place in such political systems for the criticism of the system itself, that is, for putting liberalism in question" (Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, 394).

Smugness is a problem for liberal liberals and conservative liberals alike. Perhaps smugness is a natural temptation or outgrowth of liberalism itself.
If you are interested in AI and want to work in an international environment in a startup in Japan, this company (in which I work) is probably your best bet: http://www.reactive.co.jp/home-en

We are focused on AI and deep learning, and we are hiring research scientists, research software engineers, devops engineers, etc.
> Attractive candidates win 2.5 times more often than less attractive ones. Money and crappy 30 second ads apparently influence the outcome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...
Lenovo is ditching its own brand name to make way for ‘Moto’
You're misunderstanding the proposal about immigrants. The proposal is to send all immigrants that are here illegally back to where they came from.

Yes, I agree it would hurt the California economy if that happened. But are you saying that on your team of 10 people at Google, all of them were here illegally? I can't comprehend the fact that Google would hire immigrants without proper visas or background checks. If they're legal immigrants or they have the required visas, they would be just fine.

edit: the proposal is also just that...a proposal. It's not guaranteed this will happen.
You stupid fucks, you broke it.
What makes me curious:

I always wondered if the president really has the power people perceive him to have, or if he's still influenced and bound by many people in the background.

One can observe this with Obama. He made promises (like closing Guantanamo etc.), which he ultimately couldn't force through. But why? Possibly, because he isn't nearly as free in his decision making.

Now, Trump claimed to do a lot of things and I'm wondering if he really can pull that off or if many of his extraordinary claims and goals won't be doable, because of other people with power.

This is what I don't like about modern politics: So many things are claimed to be done, but ultimately, it's all bullshit and you only know what you've voted for long after the election – which could be something entirely different than you'd voted for in the first place.
Trump won because uneducated white people voted together as a voting block. Do you criticize black people for exercising their power in a similar manner?
Docker Container Anti Patterns
>A ban on abortions for one.

You mean a ban on murder?
Hence we should form alliances with people who we judge to be experts in their respective fields, and pursue a shared platform. Oh wait, we just invented the political party system.
To me IT is blue collar, even programming is becoming blue collar too.

My friend's words were eye opener. Programming is like welding. Different languages are like different types of welding. You've got your MIG, TIG, Oxy-Acetilene. It's just the matter of learning the API.
"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is one of the things I don't understand about modern politics, morally conservative always seem to go towards extreme capitalism and morally progressives tend to go towards socialism. Personally I'm more middle of the road on socialism VS capitalism. But I tend to vote and align with parties on their moral stance. Even though Trump appears to have a crappy personal Moral standard his policies at least align more with the conservative end. I'd rather a hypocrite that legislates conservatively (Even though that's a really crappy thing to have as the best option).

But on the Christian view, there are actually themes in the Bible that talk about a "worker deserving his wage", and "if a man doesn't work he doesn't eat". So I don't know if Christianities version of "Love thy neighbor" is what non Christians think it is. The concept of Love in Christianity doesn't always map to what non Christians see as Love. For example discipline is seen as a form of love. Sometimes doing something that is unpleasant for an individual but helps them in the long run can be seen as love. But to be honest I don't think biblical concepts really align with the left or the right.

If I were convinced as you are that Trump wanted to introduce racist policies as president then I'd agree there is no way in good conscience to vote for him. I'm not yet convinced of that and as I'm not American did not bother researching enough to be fully convinced.

But then I don't know who I'd have voted for. I'm not a fan of Hillary and then there is the Libertarian and Green candidates, neither really align with my moral views either.

It would have been nice if there was a strong moral candidate, but I don't know that either were this election.
Did Trump win because of Charisma?
I called both Brexit and Trump but I can't quite agree with your synopsis. You might be surprised to hear that from a quasi-neoreactionary. I see migration and globalization as important elements of a more disturbing pattern not many people seem to have picked up on.

I don't know that Trump understands this himself, but Thiel sure does.

Having been a fan of Thiel's ideas for some time, I concocted a hypothesis called the 'Wolfian World' that gives a high level look at older currents moving in the world. It is here if anybody's interested in something different from chronocentric newspapers and talking heads with their short sight and overconfidence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884413
That struggle was only the main theme between 1945 and 1990, I'd say the unimaginably destructive wars of the first half of the century dominated.
I tried Halogen for a while and found it too complicated. I need to create a type with 6 type params (something like `ParentComponentSpec s s' f f' g p`) for embedding a child component! Also, most of the operations are wrapped in monad, which ultimately bring me back to the procedural way of thinking.
Candida+diet