skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite feasible, because it is very difficult to distinguish 'a regulation' from 'many regulations'.

Sadly, that quickly leads to huge compendiums of regulations covering a lot rather than neatly organized reasonably scoped regulations.
A lot of speculation here about why Thiel backed Trump. If you're genuinely curious, just watch him in his own words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-LJqPQEJ4. You may not agree with him, but it makes sense, especially from the author of The Diversity Myth.
Actively is putting it lightly. They are aggressively seeking trade deals and investment opportunities. Especially since they use those to further their foreign policy aims.

The geopolitical implications of Trump's isolationist position is going to be significant.
> The system is already adapted so it works best for "us"

Gerrymandering, a Senate who can say "Fuck you" to a supreme court nomination for a year, The person with the most votes not winning, brutal assaults on voter rights, etc...

> Every election the State borders could not be more prominent

A popular vote system for president would change that.
> Hillary should have won if every vote counted equally

It's actually hard to say. Voter turnout would be radically different. Republicans in California now have a voice, Democrats in Texas do too.
Is it a tax dodge? Yes.

But it's a really cool tax dodge.
Israel built a 245 mile wall. Illegal immigration dropped from 9570 to 34 over the same time period.

Obviously it won't be foolproof, but that's pretty good.
The Hillary narrative would have you believe that because he is a man that he is inherently sexist. Only a woman could represent women effectively. And of course forget that Trump had a woman running his campaign and has many high-paid women helping to run his businesses. Many people find the truth inconvenient, hence the downvotes.
A bit of that, and a bit of pointing out America is probably a better place to live in than most western countries in terms of career and opportunities.
My guess (and this is only a guess) is that this is the power of anecdote. Within certain communities, everyone knows someone who lost their job or had their business close due to direct competition with someone being paid under the table illegally. Any politician who claimed that it was a good thing would read as so clearly out of touch with lived experience that it's not worth the trouble to look past the soundbite.

It's the same sort of difficult argument as globalization and free trade. It hits you somewhere very easy to notice, so you feel like you're worse off even while you're sitting on your brand new couch watching whatever you want on demand on your 60" TV and eating your steak dinner. Making the link that all those other good things are a result of the same policy requires a small but not automatic intellectual leap that a lot of people clearly aren't prepared to make if they feel like the initial assertion doesn't pass the smell test.
> Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project

More like "large" projects.
Doing mission work in a country such as Haiti is a great way to travel with others and make an impact for the better.
> So many flaws yet we keep believing in the same democratic design every election.

There are two ways of changing the fundamental issues in a constitution: 1) violent revolution, 2) changes getting done in democratic process.

1) obviously works, but rarely (you need a LOT of support in the population in order to stage a coup).

2) I am afraid to say doesn't really work in America (or for that matter any major nation) any more. You have too many people who need the system to be "stable" for personal gain (reelections, in some cases continuing a supply of corruption money like with the private prison scandal, ...). You simply cannot fix issues like gerrymandering because it's too entrenched.
That's fair enough, but then they shouldn't complain about their choice.
>how are we realistically going to pay down the national debt

We don't want to pay down the national debt. Each treasury note is a promise to provide the holder with real goods and services later, and we need to make those promises to our aging citizenry. We do this in part with the intra-governmental debt that the Social Security Trust Fund holds. Regular citizens also save for retirement, and they hold and demand Treasury bonds as well.
> > how could they not see that Clinton was a fatally flawed candidate

> All of the people positions of power in the DNC were pro-Hillary. That's why they were blinded.

Running a campaign vs running a country is very different, no doubt. But many will make a case there. She has dropped the ball on the election, besides other list of things vs someone won against all odds (CNN projecting less than 1% odds of winning).

The interesting thing is much as people like to say Trump is stupid, anti-intellectual, just a TV personality, somehow he had intuition to poll in the right states at the right time, to understand what people want and respond do. All that while the both the Republicans, and Democrats, the media, the DOJ and POTUS where against him.

Taking everything away and just comparing based on those things, it is possible to draw some conclusions perhaps.
Most testing in IT jobs is related to federal rules for companies doing contracting for the federal government.
Useful project.

How are you getting the product information ? Is there a public barcode database ?
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It sounds like a contract of adhesion or perhaps a contract in a mafia sense.

I have no power to decline or negotiate this contract. I did not vote for this, nor did the majority of Americans.
On the brighter side, a new community for tech workers who like the outdoors
> > For starters, immigration is a key issue for Silicon Valley for which Thiel can be a voice of reason to influence the new administration.

> I don't know if immigration is as much of an issue for Palantir, given many of its clients are clandestine and won't permit non-citizens to work on their projects.

So, Palantir is actually in trouble for not hiring certain immigrants / races. See http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/technology/us-accuses-tech...

And my worthless personal single data point: I personally know a Pakistani guy who was rejected from Palantir. Sure, every other person gets rejected from every other place. The thing is, this guy is one of the best programmers I know of, has great charisma, has great communication skills, and has a star-studded pedigree. Yeah I know I'm going off on a single data, but I was just stunned to see anyone reject this guy because I happen to personally know of his genius.
You didn't respond to his point, you just insulted him.
Except it’s not nearly a large enough employer to single-handedly prop up the places where it dominates. Coal mining has been substantially automated compared to a few decades ago, and the total number of coal jobs is down to a small fraction of its peak.

Even if we doubled or tripled coal production, local economies in coal country would still be limping. It’s not like executives/stockholders of coal companies are dumping all their profits back into the local economy.

As a country/world we’d be better off paying former coal workers a living wage indefinitely, no strings attached, for nothing in return but keeping the coal in the ground.

The US already employs more people in the solar industry than the coal industry. We could conceivably make a policy like big federal wage subsidies to renewable companies willing to relocate to West Virginia or wherever.
Everyone ignores this when talking about taxes. I had an accountant do the math for me out of curiosity if I were to move to the Netherlands - and my marginal tax rate would have increased a whopping 7%.

I would have saved more than that in health care related expenses, so it was more or less a wash with that included.

People that say the US is low taxed are simply not paying attention. I pay comparable "all in" taxes as my Canadian co-workers.
I voted for Trump. I'm also a distinguished engineer at Google in Mountain View, CA.
hmm .. the thought I had when reading it was..

The Impossible Dream...

Why? Remember Trump ran as a Populist..but both political parties are somewhat Corporate Shrills...

Not saying it cannot happen..but probably not in his two terms..
Yes. He might push GC rules to skill based, rather than country based quota.
That source uses "federal crime" to make it sound extra scary. These are misdemeanors, like speeding or red light tickets in many states.
This was hardly a clear deal. Trump won the election with fewer votes than the last two candidates lost with.
Oil is traded internationally, no matter how much we produce, its still part of a global market.
Very many sane people had no desire to see Hillary Clinton be the president of the United States. There's just no need to keep pretending that your opinion is the only rational choice when you've been repudiated so completely.
I will vote for this, if it makes it to the ballots.

California can and should be it's own country, we can even take in Oregon and Washington. The only thing that CA doesn't have enough is water, but guess what it is right beside ocean!

20 to 30 Desalination sites can provide water for the whole LA, and they only cost $1B each. compare to the subsidies Californians pay to Fed, it is peanut.
Yeah, I don't see an effect on extraction costs, I was just talking about the significant up-front capex costs in what looks to be a historically slack market.

Very interesting thought regarding local regulations; hadn't considered something like that at a federal level. It does also occur to me that this could just be a convenient way to make the opening up of large amounts of protected lands more palatable to the general public.
From my understanding, a lot of the USDS effectiveness has been made possible because of the implicit mandate from the president. Everyone knows that Obama wants USDS to succeed, so they listen up when the USDS folks speak.

Without that sort of personal investment from the president (or someone else very high up), I don't know how effective the USDS can be, even if it is funded. In my experience the main ingredient in organizational change is will, not technological know-how.

And again, the question is who in technology wants to be associated with a Trump administration. Even the tech-savvy Republicans I know cannot stand Trump. Maybe that will change as the reality sinks in.
That's good to hear. I've spent a lot of time explaining to people that global warming is real. I even created a wordpress site so I can point people to a "faq"

https://2cco2.wordpress.com

Just read the comments of any Wall Street Journal article on solar, coal, or even Elon Musk. People don't want electric car rebates or carbon credits.
Why can't they provide value any longer?

I feel that it is very easy to get trapped in the mindset that I am owed something based on my prior experience. Reluctance to think beyond past experience, fear of leaving behind what I worked hard to learn, or fear of failure in a new area are all things that have held me back in my own life.

I would disagree that people can not provide value beyond what they did before. Except in cases of physical or mental disability, it's more likely a self-imposed barrier.
Marrying a Slovenian immigrant justifies being racist?
Andrew Ng – What Artificial Intelligence Can and Can’t Do Right Now
Excel should have worked just fine. The DBF format is not hard to understand, and it was documented in the manual that came with (IIRC) both dBase and FoxPro (I can still picture the page in my head from the FoxBase+ manual). Just a header with a record count and some field definitions, then the data. I haven't tried, but I bet with the docs in front of me I could write a parser in any number of languages in about 30 minutes, 30 minutes more to write to the DBF without corrupting it. You're on your own for indices, I never had to crack that nut. :-)
A few days (or a couple of weeks perhaps) ago there were similar posts about Chrome and Firefox, but in the browsers it was related to writing the metadata to reopen every tab and sesion back when you restarted the browser.

Firefox comes pre-configured with a time of 15 seconds intervals, that is, every 15 seconds it writes a few KBs of data just to reopen your session, no matter what' activity you're doing with the browser (or if doing nothing at all). At the end of the day it ammounts to a few GB's in writes, depending on your browsers usage.

So it's not crazy/paranoid/weird to asume that this is becoming more or less "standard" behaviour.
Bingo. Promises, for Trump, are fulfilled upon announcement, and then forgotten. The examples are legion.
There's a link on my site to go on the alerts mailing list :-) It's literally not finished yet. (21,284 words of body text at this moment and I have maybe 5k-10k to add. I was targeting 15k for a quickly dashed-off Kindle short, and I appear to have turned the project into a miniature Sistine chapel.) I have excerpts from the draft up at the site. Which I just moved to http://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/ .
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Do you know any alternative for owncloud?
I stopped reading Ars Technica when they gave Trump an F on technology issues and Clinton an overall B+, including a B- on "privacy and security". I mean, how much more partisan can you get than that? The woman was under investigation for leaking classified emails and using an unprotected email server for fucks sake.

When a media outlet does something like that, I just can't take anything else they report on seriously.

here's the article: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/when-graded-on-te...
https://backchannel.com/canary-in-the-code-mine-903884eca853...
Hm, there are around 340million people in the US. So around every 200th man would be a Thomas. Seems about right to me...
> honestly who cares if 370 economists said not to vote for trump?

Maybe people having economical problems might have something to gain by listening to people who have studied economics?

> Economics isn't a solved field and I'm willing to bet that there are an equal number of economists who can and have made the argument that voting for trump is better for the economy.

Medicine is not a solved field either, but would you rather go to an MD or put your faith in witchcraft when you're ill?

If you look into it, I doubt you will find an equivalent group of economists making the pro-Trump argument. If you do, I would love to read their arguments.

> and as for the newspaper endorsements, who cares what they think? Newspapers are increasingly irrelevant in this society.

Newspapers might be becoming financially unviable, but for now they still do a reasonably good job of spreading more or less accurate information. They are not perfect, but they do try to check their sources and most at least try to give a balanced view. They also have a bit more time to prepare their stories compared to the relentless pace of cable news.

The fact that such an overwhelming group of well-informed people from across the political spectrum made a coherent case against Trump, should maybe have given you some pause.

> Why should I listen to the opinions of a newspaper's editorial board, say, over the opinions of a tv news network's editorial board? or the opinions of a blog writer? or a political cartoonist? there is nothing inherent in being a journalist that makes their recommendations carry more weight than the recommendations of any other profession.

Not all opinions are equivalent. Those endorsements by newspapers are made by a group of people who have discussed and thought about those endorsements for quite a bit. They have weighed the pros and cons. A lot of conservative papers knew they were going to lose a lot of subscriptions by not endorsing Trump, but did so anyway, sometimes braving death threats.

Some blog posts or cartoonists might be insightful, but most are not.

> This is absolutely not fair to say and it is intellectually dishonest to come to this conclusion. what does "not too bright" even mean? are you implying that half of america is too dumb and their voices should be silenced in the political sphere? sounds like tyranny to me.

You are putting words into my mouth. I never advocated for their voices to be silenced.

I apologise for calling people not too bright. But the fact that such a large part of the population voted for a person that will solve none of their economic problems but will exacerbate them, is hard to understand. I jumped to conclusions about their intelligence, there might be other explanations. I could be wrong about Trump too. I hope so. We shall see...
One month ago I bought gaming PC with Windows 10 for my son and I helped him to install some programs and games. After 3 years of exclusive usage of OS X, my first impression of modern Windows 10 was "hm, it looks great even on 4K monitor (UI scaled well), takes few seconds to load and works fine - maybe I should try it again". Only annoying thing I found is extreme level of espionage in OS and fact that sometimes Windows will install updates and reboot even if I don't want it.
walk me through that one.
My interpretation of that sentence was that it's easy for developers familiar with other languages to pick up Elm, but less easy for people with little or no experience what-so-ever.

I think he was contrasting with languages like Haskell and Scala, where even people very experienced with other languages have a hard time picking them up.
Not US, Vietnam.

Foxconn has manufacturing plant in Vietnam. Vietnam is cheaper than China.
I don't understand what the link has to do with anything but the answer makes sense and for whatever reason I had a blind spot about it.
Actually, i would like to know what this "currency manipulator " labeling really means ? Will goods from china be taxed more ? if so, how much more ?
> Can you explain what this means then

Who's this "you" you are talking to? Unless DT's been hanging out in HN, there's no way you're going to get an accurate answer.
Can someone explain in greater detail what exactly Intel is trying to do here?

It sounds like trying to tunnel NVMe through something that is only connected over an AHCI interface.
I don't quite share your bleak assessment of the US IC's ability as far as Russia goes, but otherwise spot on. And it doesn't matter anyway if you don't trust any of your advisors or intelligence reporting.
this is actually really good proposal, and it works for everyone.
So you can sign a copy of the contract that only you will have? I don't think that's the way contracts are made.
Brief research suggests there might be a few tens of thousands of new jobs if the industry massively expands using the average level of automation of existing plant (of course the expansion will use higher levels of automation).

I guess from many perspectives that is a lot of jobs, but it isn't that many jobs.
and it is laughable that we can't afford to take care of those no longer employed within the economy

But that would shift power away from entrenched industries. Big money is lazy.
I keep seeing this mistake made over and over again. Regulations are not laws like the above, which are written by the legislature. The vast majority of regulations are written by experts in the relevant fields working for agencies in the executive branch. The legislature grants regulatory agencies jurisdiction and provides general guidance/intent but the most of the specifics are left to the regulatory body to decide.

The job of the SEC, for example, is to provide a framework for the public to safetly invest in and own parts of corporations while providing qualified investors more freedom to invest in riskier ventures. The SEC decides what financial disclosures best fulfill its job requirements and imposes fines on violators. However, the laws that actually punish executives for breaking SEC rules are written by Congress and the courts are the last step that decides whether Congress or the agency are overstepping their bounds.

Regulations as a landscape change much faster than laws and are consolidated all the time so there's a lot less cruft than the rest of our legal code would lead you to believe.
True, very true, too many high tension relationships between agents to evolve deeply and softly. But this is why I asked about weird yet new ideas about politics. For the sake of thought experiments. Should we have complexity dampening sub structure to ensure a form of fluid stability. Limiting group sizes, enforcing a structural clarity that can be communicated to the public in clearer and faster ways so we don't rely in behind the curtain representatives.

Today's politics are black boxes, form people to deal with it, elect some of them, let them do what they want, suffer the consequences. I don't think it's an adequate form of democracy for this century, it was alright before, with different economic structures, pace and technological basis; but today .. maybe it's my CS cursus speaking, maybe a more peer to peer system is needed.
So, is it okay to impersonate a police officer then? The USPS is a government institution, and how ur government often received and sends instructions and funds from its constituents. I don't want people impersonating mail carriers any more than I want them impersonating a police officer. Mail fraud is real, and abusing the mail for more nefarious means happens. [1][2]

> I don't see any particular harm from somebody wearing a postman uniform any more than say someone who wants to dress up as the UPS man.

You don't generally get official correspondence from the IRS through UPS. I'm fine with protecting the mailcarrier uniform. There are government expectations associated with that uniform.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
The NYT site seemed to hone in on results pretty quickly and accurate overall. Pretty impressive work!
Assume he's a populist and it makes sense. Regulations, in general, are unpopular with much of the electorate. But in this case, with the once-dismantled AT&T becoming big again, people may see the merger as hostile to their interests. If reddit is any indication it's fairly unpopular.
> Had Hillary Clinton (who I and any sane person preferred) become President, it would be impossible to know what she really thought of anything or to decipher anything she said: she's a career politician, who pauses before speaking and then speaks out of both sides of her mouth.

She was crystal clear when she justified bombing Iran in a private (and paid) speech to some bankers: https://www.reddit.com/r/DNCleaks/comments/5945ho/hillary_ju...
Yeah, I had a lot of faith in that opaque package (more specifically 538's than the NYT, and at least he was "only" giving Clinton a 73% chance) and I'm left wondering why. Even if Nate's model was right and we just landed in the 27% side of things... what good would faith in the model do me in the end?
Yeah, most billionaires have no idea what they're talking about. All luck. Yup.

/s
I thought this was going to be about the email client: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(email_client)
Technological capability is more or less intellectual ability.

IQ is substantially heritable. A child's IQ is (more or less) the average of his four grandparents. The IQ of his four grandparents is largely the result of cognitive assortment within a breeding population with a certain mean IQ.

If a population's mean IQ is 70, the percentage of people with an IQ above 130 is 0 (out to four decimal places).

If 85, 0.1%.

If 100, 2.2%.

If 115, 15.9%.

The mean IQ of the white race is about 100. The mean IQ of SS Africans is about 70. The mean IQ of Arabs is about 85. The mean IQ of Chinese is 105 or so. The mean IQ of Ashkenazi Jews is 110-115, depending on how you measure it (they are a special case).

There are probably more people possessing IQs of 130 or above in Israel than in all of Africa.

The number 1.3 comes from a rough average of the fertility of the white nations and of the high-end Asian countries, namely Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and to a somewhat lesser extent mainland China.