skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a brown Indian dude, it seems to me that the western world is caught in some self-hating loop.

It simultaneously trivializes my culture while hating its own culture.

I watched Justin Trudeau dance the bhangra and people claim "oh what beautiful Indian culture". I've seen people eat butter chicken to partake in "Indian culture" experiences.

That's just wrong. Indian culture - any culture - is far, far more than a dance or some dish.

At the same time, I see white people negate their culture altogether. It might have been built on colonialism and imperialism, but what, say, Renaissance artists pulled off is significant, very significant.

Everyone needs to back off and think about this for a bit
yeah, like NATO disruption and how he admires Putin ?
Ive read that as well, and it's pretty spot on/thorough. I don't usually agree with people when they talk about Japanese firms, but Patrick knows his shit. But everyone has different experiences here. It's nearly a mono-culture as far as business is concerned, unless you work for a foreign company that operates in Japan.
Or easier. Hillary is a face of western corruption to much of the world. So long as Trump delegates the tech stuff properly and doesn't do anything too unusual the moral choice of the US should be easier.
Bernie Sanders could have been the president, but Hillary cheated in the primaries.
If it's part of a broad-based stock market decline, not much. The risk of plummeting equity grants to Bay Area tech companies is that your employees will go to the company next door whose equity is going up like a rocket. If everybody's miserable and poor, then they just go on inventing stuff and coming out with new software.

Honestly, I think the Valley is much more fun to be in during busts than booms. All the folks who just want to get rich quick leave, and you're left with the people who actually make things.
Well, not only that:

- Trump president

- Republicans won the Senate

- Republicans won the House

So it's going to be a very hard time to endure.
We don't have to respect success

Taken out of context, this might have been said by one of Atlas Shrugged' antagonists.
Since when were American politics about issues rather than image?

People who voted for Trump clearly liked his bombastic asshole style, and want to stick it to the "liberal elite". There happened to be more of them this time around than there were people afraid enough of a Trump presidency to vote for a relatively subdued and conventional candidate.

That's, of course, given that there wasn't enough voting fraud to make a difference, which with electronic voting machines in the mix isn't really a given.
I mean Trump currently does have the majority of votes.
He put Trump's chances at near 30% leading up to the election. How can you ask for better than that? I don't think you can argue that an upset like this would be expected to happen more than thirty percent of the time.

Nate Silver's calls for caution are looking like some of the most reasonable pre-election commentary at this point.
This is exactly the moral of the story. If you want to blame somebody for Trump, blame yourselves. Democracy, especially in the US is ruled by consensus. If 30% of the people are extremely opposed to something, like gay marriage, you cannot shove it down their throats. You cannot disregard their feelings and opinions. You just have to swallow it and move on. Because if you don't, somebody will take advantage of your foolishness.
If large parts of your community are already on unemployment, disability, and/or heroin, are you focused on the downside risk or looking for anyone willing to even pretend to have a new plan?
Regarding your first observation, I think that people who are very religious and anti-abortion expect their agenda to now be championed by the new administration. I have my doubts whether that will actually come to be.
I take this as the ultimate vindication of pg's "It's Charisma, Stupid" essay from 12 years ago http://paulgraham.com/charisma.html
Washington Post is a hack publication that helped to elect Trump by printing so many anti-Bernie ads as articles.

Literally the worst in journalism.
Shouldn't we be talking about this shit before the election? It's not like California had anything to do with Trump, but still.
This is definitely the preference falsification election.

Those who know me on HN know that I'm an outspoken proponent of unorthodox ideas. I'm regularly shouted down, called racist/evil/etc, downmodded and flagged on HN. I also get a steady stream of private emails: "I wouldn't say this publicly cause of the bullies, but that .gov link with all the data does seem to support you. I think you might be right, I need to rethink my views." These folks very rarely post here - they are afraid of social and perhaps professional approbrium (ala Brendan Eich and Curtis Yarvin).

Those folks are engaging preference falsification.

Off HN there is a similar manufactured consensus, similar social penalties for expressing the wrong ideas, and similar levels of preference falsification. When pollsters call the preference falsification continues.

Apparently in the privacy of a voting booth, people are willing to express their true beliefs.

Note: I don't support Trump - search my posting history for "open borders" - but I do understand why folks like him. I don't agree with him on basically any policy, but my visceral emotional reaction to his victory is positive: I love the great big "fuck you" to the biased media sneering at him, calling him racist based on "dog whistles" and then writing hit pieces against Ken Bone (let alone the bullying of folks like Tim Hunt, Brendan Eich and Curtis Yarvin).

See also Scott Aaronson who explains this in more detail: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2777
Thanks for that. I should probably just rewrite my profile in Japanese.

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Under Obama, the Snowden leaks reveal that there are filters that remove communications from US citizens from NSA mass collection, to comply with law. Remember that this was a classified program that was leaked, so they were still being compliant when no one was looking.

Trump obviously would remove those filters.
From what I've read about the man, Trump doesn't seem to be a micro manager, especially with things he can't understand like tech.

Plus, it appears that Peter Thiel is going to be in some sort of advisory role. That's valuable insight
There probably won't be a wall.

Most likely, few of the promises / threats of the campaign will materialize.

It just might turn out that Trump will be a very moderate republican president. He just might have played a role for the last few years. A role that got him voters.

Then again, he might not care at all about doing the actual job and let Pence run most of it.

I still can't believe how Americans could actually elect someone like that. I understand a protest vote, but with that candidate...

I guess the majority of voters just didn't care that he has no actual opinions, is an entitled, rich, insecure, macho, old generation 'man', and just projected their wishes for change, ignoring all of him they didn't want to think about.

Republicans hold both houses and the presidency now, though.
I guess Obama's legacy has been wiped out today.

Oh well, the world will go on.
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Citizens United has had basically zero effect on my life. Before it, rich folks controlled politics. After it, rich folks controlled politics. The only difference is that now they can do so more overtly, and everybody knows that's how the system works.
Given all the barefaced lies told during the Brexit campaign and the US campaign it does lead to questions about democracy, i.e. should the average man on the street really decide?

To be sure I'm not advocating Communism but perhaps up until 20 years ago the lack of social media helped contain outright lies and extreme views, perhaps with people asking the intellectual(s) in their social circles about candidates. There was also the social engineering aspect of TV soaps (e.g. featuring gay characters to make homosexuality more accepted). Social media has done away with that and allows anyone to broadcast to the world.

The media report the lies and it's impractical to research everything politicians say. Even if someone reports that the lie was a lie, by then the damage is done. Trump played this game all the way through. He knew what he said would be reported far more than the accuracy of the statements.

This result raises a lot of questions, few of which I suspect will be answered and will lead to even fewer changes I imagine.
Immigration and gay marriage and women’s rights etc. are scapegoats. The real problems are international competition (unskilled workers in developed countries have to compete with unskilled workers in Thailand and Bangladesh and Indonesia), automation (the US has higher industrial production than ever before, but it takes much less labor), changing tax laws and easier travel/communication/money movement (letting rich people live far away from production and markets, and siphon their wealth into tax havens), break-down of civic institutions (labor unions, churches, public services, local newspapers, etc.).
Unbelievable. With the House and Senate.
That and $3.50 gets one a cup of coffee when negotiating with fellow Republican senators and congresspeople who all have their own agendas. Just ask John Boehner.
Agree. I was glued to Adams' observations, who called this result in August of last year (one month before Trump's first big surge).
Please let it be like "This is about an exploit that rigged the us election, an anonymous group have successfully demonstrated at real scale that electronic voting will never be sufficiently auditable to be trusted. Now let's breath and go vote again with good old paper."
Florida and Pennsylvania are not generally considered the mid-west. If she carries Minnesota as projected, they would have been enough.
So many blame or give credit to Trump for winning the election.

I think the real fault lies with DNC. Why were they so hell bent on having Clinton picked when Sanders excited so many young Democrats and did better in earlier polls?
That... sounds like a better deal to me?
At least in the beginning, and for many companies. International hires is common. There are quite a few offices where English is the official language, as well. You can see that a lot of ads on the site is in English.
Smart - having spent time in both places, I'd hole up in Baja over Lake Ontario any day.
Clever! :D
Did you made "survivingclinton" too ?
I'll rework the text to make it more explicit, and less boasty, but that really wasn't my intention.

I'm gonna be overhauling it over the next few weeks to support nested comments, and can almost certainly drop jQuery at that time too.
I'm guessing you don't have children...
It's more of a case that us upper-middle class liberal elites think we are shaming this segment of the population when we are calling them bigots and racists and stupid and uninformed and homophobic and hicks and white trash, because those are horrible things that we don't want to be called.

But a large part of the population don't share that sentiment, they're not shamed, they don't care that you're screaming "RACIST!" at the top of your lungs.

And when you address their actual concerns that globalization and automation are killing their jobs, killing their communities, and killing their people with a shrug, with an "I'm so sorry, move to the cities, get an education!", they'll get angry. And political. And here we are.
It's not the media, it's the Republican Party. They had a tumour growing inside them and they failed to take strong action early enough to cut it out. Once Trump was the candidate for a mainstream party with an electoral machine full of people who live to serve the machine, it was too late for the Party leadership to get rid of him. The party machine went into automatic. At that point, for a Republican to reject him would be to admit that their beloved party was deeply flawed and capable of making a terrible mistake. That's a big challenge if you deeply believe in your party. If they can be wrong about this, what else could they be wrong about?

That wasn't enough though. Trump representing a mainstream party implicitly made him a viable choice to vote for beyond the Republican core. If he's the Republican candidate, he must be a valid choice that can be taken seriously, right? He can't be a joke.

Finally a big problem here in the U.K. with Brexit was people assuming the vote would fail and not bothering to vote remain. I wonder how big a factor that was in this case especially as Hilary was ahead in the polls for so long.
No it isn't.
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=32058
Millions of Bernie supporters did too.
Sure. It was quickly written in TypeScript nine hours ago. Google provides updates of the sub-DOM using JSON via AJAX. They use CSS class names like `._Lzm` and `._pRo`; similar to those in the HTML version of Google Mail.

http://pastebin.com/50fS83qG

Sample output (a few hours ago):

[["electoral vote","Trump 150 (120 needed) — Clinton 109 (161 needed)"],["popu
lar vote","Trump 49% (35,302,284) — Clinton 47% (33,652,539)"],["progress","47
% reporting"]]

Sample output (now; notice that needed electoral votes is changed to total popular votes):

[["electoral vote","Trump 276 (57,246,646 votes) — Clinton 218 (56,294,331 votes)"],["popular vote","Trump 48% (57,246,646) — Clinton 47% (56,294,331)"],["progress","88% reporting"
]]
40% of Alabama was opposed to interracial marriage:

https://ballotpedia.org/Alabama_Interracial_Marriage,_Amendm...

Should that be outlawed too?
I suppose we'll all see what he "really" meant by everything he has ever said during his campaign. Wall with Mexico? NATO? Putting Hillary in jail? Killing the families of ISIS members?

It makes sense to put the likelihood of any of that happening at a solid zero but it's hard to trust intuition at this point.
Just tell me, how all those polls got it wrong.

People were afraid of telling what they really want?
Yes he will kill the COP21 agreement. And what happens when he scuttles the Iranian nuclear deal?
I think she couldn't mobilize the black vote because of what the clinton foundation did to Haiti https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/11/what-the-clintons-did... also they are quite pro-business and somehow it all looks quite colonial https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/08/the-clinton-foundatio...

Calling your opponents deplorable also did not help.

i for one welcome our new orange overlord

also twitter and youtube seem to be more important than all the old media - Trump had a big presence on twitter that is.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/11/08/election-...
Had the media not made such a spectacle of Trump's candidacy early in the campaign, he never would have gotten anywhere near being the Republican nominee to begin with. They played chicken and lost.
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The point is, if she had carried Pennsylvania and Florida, she would have won. The mid-west states she lost don't make up that gap.
NATO is a defence pact and the UN is an international forum. Neither is a super government.
Even Hillary privately called Trump and conceded. Not sure what you're waiting on at this point.
What life threatening condition did you have that isn't covered by insurance?
I actually think there is a possibility that it could be easier to get into US as highly skilled migrant under Trump presidency because of his anti-immigrant polities.

If he raises a minimum income bar for H1B to 150K and keep the same cap, then it would be much less qualified applicants for H1B visas and therefore there would not be cap overflow with annoying lottery process.

Of course, I can't predict what Trump is going to do. He can also reduce cap significantly (which would be very stupid move).

Let's admit current H1B requirements are stupid. For example, requirement to have bachelor degree instead of high salary. There are lots and lots very mediocre developers and almost all of them have degree. On the other hand, there are pretty strong developers who do not have degree (i.e. smart drop-outs).

P.S. I like this article: http://paulgraham.com/95.html
I don't think Donald Trump won these elections. Rather Hillary Clinton lost them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder - aka gutting of Voter Rights Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC - aka "Companies are people and money is free speech"
The discrepancy between the EV and the popular vote is dangerous politically, in my opinion. Its significance is really underestimated, because you have the outcome unhinged from the actual vote result or sentiment; the popular vote has to overcome some structural feature that favors a different outcome. What we have now is, again, the prospect of a president who was not elected by a majority of the population. All these discussions interpreting popular opinion based on a Trump presidency are a bit moot to me because they equate the two when they're not the same. I don't disagree with a lot of the points being made here, because clearly something about voting for Trump resonated with a lot of Americans. However, if it turns out that Trump didn't win the popular vote, it is technically true that the president elect was disfavored by a majority of the voters. It's a dangerous, unfair trend and only exacerbates disillusionment with the political process.
No, Clinton does. Just in the wrong places.
> "The loser out-spent the winner by huge amounts. Does money really buy elections? Maybe, but not this one."

I would have said attention buys elections, and Trump was the kind of candidate that had the media tripping over themselves to give him free coverage. That definitely seems to explain the primary season, but the general election campaign turned things around a bit by consisting almost solely of negative attention that hurt the candidates when they were in the spotlight. I guess neither candidate could spend enough to buy anywhere near as much attention as the various scandals attracted, and perhaps this campaign season was meaningfully different in overall tone.
Whelp, on the bright side future historians will now have an easy way to mark the decline of the United States.

I feel totally numb. As an American, I could not be any more disappointed in the people of this country.
I didn't say this election will do anything positive. I just said that we should strive for mutual respect.
The difference between this and Brexit is that more people voted for Brexit than against it, while more people voted for Hillary than for Trump.
Brexit and the Trump election share the same root causes:

* Inequality within developed countries, leading to dissatisfaction among working-class voters.

* Globalization benefits accrue largely to capital owners, leaving a lot of workers behind. Many blame immigration since it is the most visible cause. The blame is partly backed by human's xenophobic instincts.

Ironically, Trump's tax plan will mostly benefit the rich.
Instead, we need a much better system to mitigate hardships from job losses to globalization and technological change. The 2017 Congress will be very unlikely to enact such policies.

I wonder how this tension will play out in the future...Thoughts?
Saddened to see the world heading towards a very unsavory place. The Brexit effect is going to take us backward and backward. We are going to see more hatred being spread :(. How did we come down to this place?.

#1 Americans policy in the middle east is a total washout. The repercussions of it is starting to rear its head.

#2 The rigidity of the staunch followers of religions in following the rule of the land. I mean the stupid followers. Your country men are also your brethren sort of attitude - not just people of your faith. In the highly inter-connected world if we don't shed hatred and don't learn to be tolerant towards other faiths - we will be doomed.

#3 The voting process needs a re-look. Look what happened with boaty mcboatface, brexit and now US polls. Age shouldn't be the only criteria to allow someone in voting process. I don't think this is a easy problem to solve but we definitely need a rethink.
It's two different things. By definition liquidation preferences only happen in liquidation events and investors are generally "owners" not "creditors" so they only get what's left after creditors are paid. (I'm assuming this is ending in bankruptcy for Theranos - which may not be fair)
Separate updating logic from calculations
Clinton underperformed her polling pretty consistently across the country. That pretty much rules out any kind of voter fraud as an explanation.
And I thought Brexit was bad.
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> (possibly) not getting involved in so many scandals beforehand

I don't think there's any "possibly" involved here.

While I'm no fan of Sanders, I honestly feel like he could have swept the floor with Trump solely based on the fact that he has an impeccable background and seems like a genuinely nice guy. Instead, the DNC shut out Sanders and used dirty tactics to ensure that Clinton got the nomination. That galvanized a non-negligble number of the young people in my social circle against her.
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Dang, that kind of "I'm smarter than you smugness" is what cost Clinton and DNS the election.
In other news, India scraps 500 and 1,000 rupee bank notes overnight
> Also people seem to care a LOT about immigration and preserving their culture

I don't understand that part. Isn't US a sum of N cultures that decided to have a common culture? So why the newcomers can't do what the predecessors did?