skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if, people vote with their feet?
Would it be possible that sites like https://teleport.org or others, make moving as simple as booking a holiday trip? People will find their likeminded peers in the cloud and meet up physically at a place that fits best their needs? Not just to meet up for conferences but for longterm stays? Countries, cities, governments would have to compete for talent? Would this change the dynamic how governments act overall? Being in competition for people, for talent on a complete new level?
Read carefully what I wrote. I didn't write that supporters were "scum" or "nazis". However, do check who was the first to congratulate and cheer Trump's victory:

Nigel Farage - former head of UKIP in UK, a party with extreme right wing history and some of the most vile and xenophobic rhetorics during the recent Brexit campaign.

Marine Le Pen - head of the French Front National, another extreme right party, with documented history of antisemitism, racism, xenophobia and outright neo-nazi tendencies. Their former leader (Le Pen the elder) famously said that holocaust was only "a detail of history", even going as far as joking about not enough Jews going up in smoke ...

Geert Wilders - the Dutch extreme right politician, well known for his anti-Europe and anti foreigner views

Victor Orban - the authoritarian prime minister of Hungary, known for his xenophobic policies, coalition government with the neo-nazi Jobbik party and negative views on liberal democracy - which he is successfully dismantling in Hungary.

With Le Pen I am afraid you could be right - here in France she has consistently around 30-40% of support already and a lot of people see her as a saviour against the "Arabs" (mostly people of North African descent - Moroccans and Algerians, both legaly and illegaly here and, by extension, all muslims), which are despised by many. The recent terrorist attacks and incompetent governments didn't help neither, but the animosity goes deeper and longer back than that.

However, the French system of presidential elections works differently than in the US, with two rounds where the 2 strongest candidates qualifying into the second round. She will likely lose there, because the racist, antisemitic past of her party is unpalatable to many. On the other hand, if the major parties don't put forward a sensible and popular candidate, anything could happen ...
Because they take home more in absolute terms. Capital accrues in a compound manner, that's why we have progressive income taxes. Or did.
I see no use of the term political correctness.
Is there any decent account in how the primaries were "rigged"? It seems Bernie lost even without super-delegates, with millions of votes in difference.
He also did this at a time when he should have been focused on finishing the job with banking reform.
> You can avoid that tax by keeping your money in anything but money - which is what the ECB wants. Just buy an index fund. That's what you should do anyway.

Whichever way you do that, it involves extra risk. Central banks/governments forcing people to take more risk ... well let's put it this way ... we all know what comes next.

2 reasons. Firstly there's a reason they're doing this, so there's already a problem. By definition that would be a problem that puts asset prices at risk. So it means that risks on most assets are higher than generally believed (because the government is pushing the measure of that risk - interest rates - forcibly down, you are bound to underestimate risk as a result). What if the reason behind some of those risks surfaces ?

One of the things the government is doing here is forcing the banks/funds/... to take comparatively massive risks with your pension. The results are already surfacing, but they're getting worse - fast. And the government will have to bail these out, as not doing that will kill the livelihood of tens of millions of people, which will not come without huge consequences.

Second reason is, that even if there's not already a disastrous problem, this takes the capital preservation + profit motive away from markets and (partially) replaces it with pleasing the government/central banks. Central control has always failed, and this next attempt will be no different. The nail factory in Soviet Russia story seems apt here, and is obviously a massive oversimplification, but the basic problem is there.
> Data or logs in containers

Instead of volume mapping like the article suggested, why not just log to stdout?
No support for storing VMs on an external drive? Not even symlinking seems to work (VMs don't get saved to the list).
So, how many states total is it now legal for recreational use?
Trump Win Shocks Markets. What Happens Now?
Rigged media coverage and polls, selective voter registration, Debbie Wassermann Shultz incident, Super Delegates - too many to list.
We have: On October 5th 2016, Ranga Dias and Isaac F. Silvera of Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University released the first experimental evidence that solid metallic hydrogen has been synthesized in the laboratory.

It took 495 GPa pressure to create. The sample is being held in the cryostat in liquid nitrogen.
I've always liked the idea of casts but I can't afford them. One such example is destroy all software who's public work is great but who's videos I can't afford.
Somewhat surprisingly for a leftish Scot I am a fan of Reagan - for one very important reason. He understood that the standard US view of the Soviets was actually wrong and it was the Soviet leadership who were utterly afraid of the US (perhaps for good reasons) and he changed his approach.
Out of curiosity, how many have you met? I have relatives and in-laws I assume to have voted for Trump. I have friends and acquaintances I assume to have voted for neither major party candidate. But I don't know many Trump voters. Nor, I think, would be I be likely to: Clinton took 94% of my precinct, Trump 2.5%, barely ahead of Stein at 2%.
I share your opinion. Supposedly there is a movie in the works and I can't wait to see it.
This is how pyvideo[1] accepts submissions[2] too!

[1] http://pyvideo.org/
[2] https://github.com/pyvideo/pyvideo/wiki/How-to-Contribute-Me...
They didn't want to be spoilers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect
Nah, for that you really want to use BootCamp (native installed Windows). You can then use Parallels or VMWare Fusion to import it as a VM to be used inside of macOS or reboot fully to Windows to get full hardware performance.
It's the government stealing from you at gunpoint..
My dad's family in India are very anti-gay, anti-muslim and they are elated at the result. When my aunt came for my wedding, she asked "Why is an African the president?" There's a amount of people inside and outside of the US that think it's only for whites, not knowing America's history or its current diversity.
Surely your immigrant coworkers are here legally. I don't think legal immigration is a problem for anyone except for a small extreme fringe.
Google has its own TLD? Neat.
Tomorrow I am going to contact a legal firm to start the processes needed to prove my UK Citizenship, as the son of a UK Citizen.
Ask HN: Are you still using PHP?
I find myself more comfortable with PHP, I think it is the best language to build your MVP. Just want to to know if you are still using PHP, if yes then why?
How does this compare with HospitalRun (http://hospitalrun.io), which also targets the developing world/resource-constrained market?
It's dramatic... Wasn't the drone their come back strategy?
That sounds fantastic! I've recently been looking at mechanical keyboards again (Cherry-MX blue switches, I have browns at the moment) and those are quite noisy. An algorithm to detect and filter keyboard noise could benefit millions of people with VoIP, live streams, etc.
The point is that these words are overused, and are used to label people and shut down conversation.

If confronted by a true racist or sexist, the decent thing would be to engage in honest conversation. But people don't seem very interested in understanding other points of view.
He didn't say that the debate was about Google employees. He said that Google is affected by the debate. This is a big difference and is increasingly relevant.
I'm continually surprised there's not a widely adopted, xBase variant for the web. It seems so obvious? Maybe there is and I'm just not aware of it.
I'm not against helping out "little people" who need help. A cursory examination of the bailouts, however, makes clear that nothing of the sort was ever contemplated. All payments were to giant financial firms. Briefly, certain shameless pundits claimed there would be some sort of "trickle down" effect, but no one really expected it.

When the general welfare is invoked to justify extraordinary action, but the action itself doesn't contribute to that at all, the original argument ceases to convince. Cui bono?
This hasn't been controversial in Latvia at all, at least in 90-00's (not that scientific theories should be judged by how controversial they are among laymen). The theory that I heard in several Latvian schools, is that lithuanians and latvians had a common language with slavs and they got separated somewhere in bronze age. Lithuanian language supposedly is the most archaic language alive (that is closest to proto-indo-european language by some measures). As far as I undestand there is consensus between linguists working in the field, that Baltic and Slavic languages are very close, the only questionable part is whether there was proto-balto-slavic language or whether these languages acquired similarities over time (also, some suggest that slavic languages separated from existing proto-baltic language).

Given tendency for revisionism and troubled past between Baltic states and Russia, one could see how it seems so alien to some people.

Btw, here is article on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Balto-Slavic_language (also https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltu-sl%C4%81vu_pirmvalodas_h... which is much shorter, but has different references), and it seems that theory itself actually has been proposed by western linguists.
> Indian culture - any culture - is far, far more than a dance or some dish.

I think most people understand that. What do you think would be an improvement? Surely not that they fail even to appreciate the dance or the dish. It's not likely that they'll embark on a years-long quest to understand the deeper history, religion etc. of a dozen different cultures. What, really, would you have them do? Without a suggestion, you're just bashing.
> On one of my teams of 10 people at Google, we had immigrants from Iceland, England, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, and India, and I was the only native-born American citizen. California would sooner secede than deport all of its immigrants.

No one wants to send legal immigrants on your team back their countries of origin. Blue collar, unskilled laborers want to stop the influx of unskilled laborers and illegal immigrants who 1) take their jobs and depress their wages and 2) take up resources from social programs.
You don't think this is the results of years of twisted information by news outlet like fox news and friends? I mean we're talking mostly white people living in the countryside voting to curb illegal immigration. We're talking about fairly unwealthy people voting for a tax-evading billionaire because they relate to him as a simple man. The media has a role to play for sure, but it's not as simple as "at least people aren't spoon fed left-leaning media bullshit."
I realize you think you're being creatively reductive, but Romney is a fucking racist. And so are you apparently.
> "opinion polls showed far more anti-Trump sentiment"

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/trump_favorabl...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/clinton_favora...

Trump had unfavourables of 58.5%, Clinton had unfavourables of 54.4%. Bit of a stretch to call the difference 'far more anti-Trump sentiment'.
Thanks, I'll give that a shot next time. I think I tried PPTP when I was there last year without success, but I may be misremembering.
The Hacker News Algorithm Is Extremely Fair
In the third slide, "Apps have an audience 2.5x as big as mobile websites". I'd love to see data behind how the author came to that conclusion.

Isn't anyone who is able to download an app from an app store in the same audience as someone who would view a mobile web site? Beyond that, I feel like it's much harder to get a user to download an app than to view something on the mobile web. Downloading an app is a commitment for a user to allow a third party on to their device with many more privileges than a web site would get.

It's hard for me to take that statement at face value.
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Because that is when the immigration act of 1965 was passed.
Bernie almost won.

In some ways the DNC presented a larger challenge to Bernie than the RNC did for Trump.
In the first three years of the program only 100 visas were issued: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/start-up-program-disap...
> the plans only really protect against catastrophic loss

Isn't that the idea of insurance?
Wow. This article was published on April 21st, before the end of the primaries.

> Trump capturing the nomination will not dispel the smug style; if anything, it will redouble it. Faced with the prospect of an election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the smug will reach a fever pitch: six straight months of a sure thing, an opportunity to mock and scoff and ask, How could anybody vote for this guy? until a morning in November when they ask, What the fuck happened?

But the § just before that one is the meat of the article:

But even as many have come around to the notion that Trump is the prohibitive favorite for his party's nomination, the smug interpretation has been predictable: We only underestimated how hateful, how stupid, the Republican base can be.

Krugman today:

> We thought that the great majority of Americans valued democratic norms and the rule of law. It turns out that we were wrong. There turn out to be a huge number of people — white people, living mainly in rural areas — who don’t share at all our idea of what America is about.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/elect...

Some people never learn, but they're not the ones we think don't.
Well MA and NV also voted to legalize last night. It failed in AZ. Maine, is leaning in favor but that is still within 1%. Assuming Maine holds the total are these 7

1. Alaska
2. Washington
3. Oregon
4. Nevada
5. Colorado
6. Massachusetts
7. Maine

---

Non States

8. Washington DC
9. Our neighbors to the north. Canada.
Actually, that's the thing: Elm is designed for people who don't know Haskell. It's designed for JavaScript developers who are attracted by the "no runtime exceptions" claim.

If you're coming from Haskell, you'll see Elm as a dumbed down, stripped version of Haskell, which will trigger in you the feelings it triggered in the OP.
Trump's Victory Proves the U.S. Is Unexceptional
Really interesting to reflect on the fact that a lower barrier of entry is not always equal to a better choice.
There could be a lot of philosophy around this subject, leading us to: should voting be constrained by technology or knowledge of some sort? Is the action motivated by knowledge better to the uninformed one?
Sorry for all this off-topic but it is kinda related. I would really love to hear your opinions on this, thanks.
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"That's a good point, I don't actually know any Lithuanian artists or writers that have been deported."

I can't find source in English, but it's a well known fact taught in school in Lithuania. You can find it in on Lithuanian Wikipedia page[0], that states:
"Iš viso sovietų valdžios buvo įkalintas ar deportuotas 81 lietuvių rašytojas."

My translation: "a total of 81 Lithuanian writers were imprisoned or deported by Soviet government".

To name few, well-known writers: Antanas Miškinis, Kazys Boruta, Kazys Jakubėnas. Of course, officially they received some formal accusations. Other writers were forced to write pieces glorifying Lenin, Stalin, Soviet Union and their heroes or be imprisoned/deported too. Some obeyed to avoid ill fate.

0. https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lietuvi%C5%B3_literat%C5%ABra
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It looks like Clinton will win the popular vote, so at least part of the blame rests with quaint 18th century notions of "democracy" rather than with the electorate.
It shouldn't be surprising though, because outsiders would only know as much as the media tells them. They have no vested interest, like the citizens do, in making an informed decision
Yeah, coverage is limited. There are a wide variety of long term care options that can easily run into thousands per month, so someone with a fixed income that won't cover that will end up selling assets until they qualify for Medicaid.
To give you an example - my dad had to take 2 boxes of Glivec per month to keep him alive(he was predicted to survive 3-6 months, thanks to Glivec he lived another 8 years). Glivec, last time I checked, is currently 12 thousand dollars a box in US. And sure, most health insurance in US would cover most of that. But if you have to take two $12k boxes per month, and insurer says they will cover $10k per box, you suddenly have to find $4k per month just to buy your life saving medicine. In effect sure, you have insurance, but unless you are rich, you are fucked. The whole idea of deductible on health insurance is pretty much a US-only invention, and it literally kills people who are in theory "covered".
That depends on where you live. The weather in Toronto is similar to Chicago and New York.
Since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12909967 is currently at #1 I think we need to treat this one as a duplicate.
That's ironic, because that quote means the exact opposite of what people think:

“Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: ‘After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?’ Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
"I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.”
And to not just push single-payer when they were never going to get Republican support burned a lot of his support on the left. He spent an enormous amount of effort whipping the Democrats to the right in order to pass ACA as the great compromise that he conceived (it was a Heritage Foundation policy after all); and the most controversial part of it (the universal cash penalty for being uninsured) was a Clinton policy that he campaigned against in the primary and won.

He didn't have to bring any Republicans on board. What he had to have was the integrity to push for what he had the mandate to deliver, instead of all of this pre-compromising, losing anyway, then eventually quarter-assing something through presidential fiat or lack of enforcement. If President Obama had chosen to pursue the policies that Candidate Obama had been elected on, the voters would have punished congressmen who got in his way. Instead he had one of the least transparent administrations imaginable, passed a bunch of complex garbage with a million special interest carveouts, and tried to create social change through undemocratic executive action.
Great resource! I hope it grows to be a huge collection indeed. Also I hope it'll manage to avoid all the potential legal problems when people (knowingly or unknowingly) start submitting books that are not actually freeware.
Advice from a french expat in the US: do not. The image of France you have in mind does not exist. Go in vacation in Paris or in the south. It is a beautiful country. But do not move there.
I'd venture a guess that implementing any string encoding support in a language I'm not that familiar with would likely be quite an undertaking.

If not, then it also begs the question - if it's just that simple, why's it not already there in the core alongside UTF-8?

Anyone new to the language working through data problems is going to pick it up and start at the data collection/wrangling stage, and immediately run into the 'you can implement that yourself/run it through a converter' mentality, and likely go back to whatever they were using before. I know we did.
Can you pair a Wii controller to it to act as a controller extender?
> Trump actually won. By talking about real issues that nobody else even dares to touch.

Like Obama's birth certificate? Or Benghazi?
Because there is no right or "fair share".

And there lies the problem, I think. Or perhaps maybe I did not express myself precisely enough. So this is another take.

Everyone has right to ask and receive a compensation for their work. Nobody should be forced to work for unfair compensation. I do not know if this is written in your constitution, this is just something in what I believe.

I believe that generally the justification for DRM arises from the second sentence. What I expressed was that if the measures used to safeguard this position interfere with other more important rights then we should value more important rights and accept that some work may not be created.

We can not force somebody to work for free, but we can accept that some work will not be created.

Creators have only the right to ask for money for their works, they have no right to compensation at all.

Does this mean that if you do not accept what they ask for their work, you still will have the right to use their work?
Which is why he has an approval rating of 55%?
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So, how likely is it that the election was tipped by electronic fraud?
It wasn’t widely realized at the time even at high levels of the US government, but the USSR collapsed under its own economic weight, and was in demographic free-fall before Reagan ever took office. It’s unlikely that any action the Reagan administration took had a significant effect on the end result, though arguably US policies might have accelerated or retarded the decline by a couple years.
Even government establishments in India like bus/train transport love cash. They do NOT accept any other form of payment (including credit card) when you're booking a ticket over the counter. So many people who were traveling were caught by surprise when they were told that the money that they have cannot be accepted.

This move is going to hurt the labor class the most. A significant percentage of those don't have bank accounts, and I'm not sure how convenient would it be for them to exchange the illegal currency.

A majority of the those having tons of black money already stash it in safe havens abroad. A lot invest it in real estate.

The suggested reason for the move is not at all convincing and the method isn't well-thought out either.
China? I'm not rushing to move there, but hundreds of millions are far better off today than in 1949.
Fully agree. Labels which aren't falsifiable is generally very bad and is mostly used as a pejorative term.
In my experience, the biggest issue many Republicans have with legal immigrants is that they tend to fervently support anything and everything that could benefit illegal immigrants. The friend of my enemy, etc.
Excellent work! Bookmarked it! Obrigado!