skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a StarCraft 2 amateur, it is my opinion that it has a lot more to do with being able to manage a lot of actions at the same time -- production, defense, expansion, scouting and attacking your opponent. SC2 is definitely not only about war. The pro players are periodically uploading videos explaining SC2 economy and the huge importance of proper timing and type of production in order to achieve maximum growth -- and consequently, aggression towards the opponent.

Don't get me wrong; I'd prefer DeepMind's efforts be focused on a huge and realistic economics simulator but there are simply no such games (not ones that are good and/or realistic anyway).

IMO StarCraft 2 is the best economy and war simulator these days so that's why DeepMind chose it.
Because, like it or not, there are not enough Americans who will vote outside party lines to give any third-party candidate a chance of winning.
If you can't filter by language, it's pretty much useless.
I can't watch spanish/german/... cast..
My point is that almost none of those positions are backed up by any Wikileaks evidence. It's just comforting to know that there's a big pile of "something" out there, and in it is probably something that supports what you believe.
I'm disappointed in YCombinator and SamA's attitude towards Trump and his supporters throughout this campaign. However, it's not YCombinator's fault, and I will blame the Mainstream Media for successfully distorting the views of so many smart and good Americans.
We don't have democracy. What we have is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy . And the solution to this problem was already know to the ancient greek:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

"It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election. (Aristotle)"
> It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend.

Good practice would suggest that you need slightly more than two datapoints to establish a trend.

There's a fairly well understood relationship between both slow GDP growth (& income disparity) and the rise of extreme political views (e.g. http://voxeu.org/article/global-crisis-and-political-extremi...). When times are good, people don't misattribute their misfortune to issues like globalisation and immigration. When times are bad, they do.
Thanks for the information.

> Of course, officially they received some formal accusations.

Well, according to Lithuanian wikipedia, Antanas Miškinis has been a member of partisan movement, which can't really be dismissed as "formal accusation". More interestingly both Kazys Boruta and Kazys Jakubėnas have been imprisoned multiple times during the Lithuanian independence for political reasons. Kazys Boruta even has been exiled for both Lithuania and Latvia! I guess he haven't been sent to Siberia only because neither of Lithuania or Latvia had their own Siberia.

Am I again being nitpicky? Is it only bad when Soviets do it?
> What's also interesting and easy are work visas. You apply for a job requiring good talent. It's then straightforward to get a work visa. Usually the startup takes care of the paperwork. When you come and stay for a few months, you then decide if you want to apply for permanent residentship.

This is very far from my experience. Even large companies (AMD in my case) dread the 8month process of getting a work permit in Canada.

Calling it straight forward is not entirely accurate:

- Apply for jobs with the handicap of a 8 month hiring wait and the associated lawyer costs (no you can't realistically do this yourself).

- Have your employer to be initiate work permit application process (you can't initiate this process), which is actually two separate (and serial) applications.

- Traverse the layer cake of incompetence and bureaucracy that is the CIC (Citizenship and Immigration).

- Maybe come out with a work permit on the other side.

- Your new work permit is bound to your current employer.

- Stick around and renew your work permit for 3 years.

- Apply for residency.

- Apply for citizenship.
>they just kind of go "Oh well, guess that's that,"

Because this is what the media does for damn near every political scandal that politicians don't immediately capitulate to. Weathering the storm of news, attention and publicity to a "scandal" when a story hits is how it becomes a non-story next week.

>they kept reporting on Clinton's emails ad nauseum no matter how many times it was established that there was nothing there

Because there were incremental changes and updates, the media gets to milk the story for every new morsel. Also, a sleazy, immoral and poorly implemented system for attempting to avoid (even without breaking) open records laws is not "nothing."

IMO the media's hunger to appease Trump

The media's actions are better explained as both lazy and desperate for reader/viewer attention. It explains everything they do from coverage of Trump and Hillary all the way to coverage of the Scout Bake Sale.
In clauses are blown up. I have now added that to the documentation - see https://github.com/hashedin/jinjasql#handling-in-clauses

Skipping in clauses altogether - for now, you can handle that using an if condition.
Personally, I hope the silver lining may be that through these almost inevitable outbursts, the public will get a bit of a "peek behind the curtain" of how politics in the US (and the world at large) actually work. That's a tall order though, since Trump is more likely to just simplify everything to "me wants to do good, he try stop me, he bad!"
How scientists reacted to the US election results
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_...
Does anyone know if this data eventually becomes a dataset somewhere uploaded possibly free? It seems like AP's stream is for live data. I'd like the full break down by demographics and counties and stuff but clearly it's too late for it to be live.
I've heard a lot more people saying that people say he's a savior than I've heard people saying he's a savior.
I know every path is different for every person, and the things that worked for you might not work for other people, but could you tell us how did you get your first remote freelance client?
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I am mostly concerned about about a difficulties with funding due to the uncertainty. Therefore I am now trying to get a job in a large, stabler company instead of the startup that I work at.

I don't have any evidence for this, but a good larger company (FB, Google, etc.) is generally better to work for anyways (my healthcare sucks, my pay sucks, and my hours suck), so I don't really see how it can hurt. Oh well, I'll give up my lottery tickets.

Would also consider moving to (a set of countries in) Europe since I like their work culture better anyways, but that is much more difficult.
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Oh please. There's been 8 years of racist conservative commentary about Obama. Trump was leading the racist 'birther' movement charge. Don't act like its a double standard.
> copyright industry has grown to be one of the greatest enemies of the democracy and freedom of speech

And there I don't know if you are talking about the noble trying to stop Illuminism at the beginning of our times, facists (actual ones) trying to stop the press at the beginning of the last century, or about nowadays.

Anyway, one could consider it interesting, but hardly surprising.

About the modern version, the Trusted Computing Consortium, that is the ones that invented DRM and mostly the ones pushing for it until today (but with the consortium disintegrated) placed in the predicted use cases of their technology self destructing documents before even movies that couldn't be copied. That should be enough to understand what people want DRM for.

(It should, but interesting that it was not. People mostly reacted to the idea of self destructing documents as "Of course that won't be used to organize crimes and destroy the evidence! What kind of paranoid are you?" Personally I'm the kind of paranoid person that 20 years later still couldn't discover any other use for self destructing documents - but that's me.)
How to Move to Germany Now That Donald Trump Is President
AOL You've Got Mail Voice Man Is an Uber Driver
Too bad they are sandwiched between Russia and Russia.
> he is racist

Do you mean academically, in the sense that just about everyone is biased, as psych studies and resulting papers continue to tell us? Or that he secretly holds a deep and abiding hatred of anyone who doesn't look like him?

If the former, you're making gratuitous meaningless insults towards a man we just elected president. If the latter, you're an idiot. But I repeat myself.
Looks like you've been frd propaganda by people who have black money.

I talked to a number of lower income small tradesmen, maids, drivers, security guards etc. today as I went to work today and everyone was uniformly very supportive of the move and willing to make adjustments required.
Typical political polls have a margin of error of between 3-5%. You'd expect to see to see a 3% miss roughly 5% of the time.

What's perplexing to me is that the 3% error occurred in a polling average of dozens, perhaps hundreds of polls. If it were just one poll, a 3% miss is quite within the realm of possibility. But in this case it was a range of polls that centered on Clinton +4% and itself had a roughly Gaussian distribution between Trump +2% and Clinton +10%. This makes me wonder if the polling samples were themselves not independent, or some other form of systematic bias amongst mainstream pollsters.
It was a feature in the app to export an encrypted backup to external storage (encrypted with a passphrase of your choice), independent of OS-provided functions. It basically serialised and unserialised its own database.
Unsure of costs, but there is a viable alternative to urine. It's shortcoming, if you can call it that, is it only tests for drug ingestion in short-term of a few hours. IMO, that is the limit an employer's interest should cover, while at work. After work is not anyone else's business but the adult practitioner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saliva_testing#Chemical_substa...
I visited Oslo last week, and I have to say that its one of the best cities I have ever been to, people are very welcoming, streets are clean, everything is almost perfect.
> There is no genuine leftist alternative.

Enough of this No True Scotsman bullshit that I see constantly here and basically anywhere with something approaching an international audience. In the context of the United States, which is where this election occurred and where the majority of people are reading this site from, the Democratic Party is a leftist party. Yes, if you want to lump in European democratic socialism, they fall elsewhere on the spectrum. When is the last time a US Democrat and the European Democratic Socialist were facing each other on the ballot? It's a meaningless comparison.
Sam Wang called a Trump win practically impossible:

https://twitter.com/samwangphd/status/788544053059153924

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/11/05/poll-expert-i-wi...

http://election.princeton.edu/2016/10/10/some-secrets-are-no...

Specifically the last link exhibits the smugness this article is talking about. Here's a quote from it:

> This seems like a good time to reveal one of the Princeton Election Consortium’s own secrets. Thankfully, it does not involve an Access Hollywood video.
Here it is: poll-based Presidential prediction is not very hard.
I guess that is a pretty boring secret. Sorry.

Sam Wang was predicting a 95% chance of winning for Hillary. I guess we're in the 5%. I'd further like to point out that Hillary is right now winning the popular vote by 0.1%, and the NYTimes has adjusted their prediction down to 0.5% when all the votes are tallied.

Obama's win over Romney was slightly less than 4.0%, and he won 332-206 in the electoral college. Here's how Sam Wang describes it:

> President Obama’s re-election in 2012 carried even less suspense: he never lost the lead to Romney. The closest he came was right after the first debate, though even then he was slightly ahead.

The pressure to express a Trump sentiment is not high in a non-swing state; If you are in an entrenched blue state, people do not care about you(guaranteed democrat win anyway). If you are in an entrenched red state, then you have plenty of support around you. The voters in swing states are a much smaller percentage of the total, and preference falsification would have affected those states the most.
there's not much to disagree on, you are completely right and I am sorry if you encountered any of this low idiotic approach before. I presume we come from very different places (me from eastern Europe, currently in Switzerland).

I've never ever seen any negative bias or behavior discussed towards women neither in engineering school, nor in any of the numerous job in my 12 year career. In uni, out of 120 students graduating in IT, there was exactly 1 woman. She was in the center of attention, the teachers were more tolerant to her during exams (not giving free passes though!) and overall she was cherished and very welcomed.

While working, women were/are a bit more common now, and again there is more positive bias towards them rather than equality. Not complaining, far from it, it's refreshing to see slightly different attitude at some times, and more often than not, there is no difference.

To me it seems the whole time tech jobs are just not that interesting to women, too abstract, work too nerdy and who knows what. This seems to be changing, hopefully the trend will continue. Nothing to lose, just gain for all of us.
Updated readme to reflect that 3.x is supported as well.
Thanks for your response. I'll make updates today.
This suggests otherwise:

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/06/20/as-low-skilled-job...
The stock fell from $85 to $10. At around ~$60 the CEO sells ~$180M in stock to buy a yacht. This may sound stupid to most people but consider this. While yachts depreciate they depreciate less that GoPro stock, which the CEO could have known. CEOs need an excuse to sell large chunks of stock. And given that GoPro is* being sued for grossly misrepresenting projections the CEO can make plausible case that he believed in his own projections no matter how outlandish - because after all he bought a yacht. So while a yacht may look like a ridiculous waste of money, it can actually be a very smart investment.

*or was, I don't keep that close of an eye on them.
I've used both, Scala and Kotlin, and I like Kotlin very much.

A programming with more features is not necessarily better. The limited features of Kotlin (compared to Scala) are an advantage, if you change your point of view. Some advantages:

* easier to learn (a Java dev will be more productive than in Java in a day or two)
* easier to maintain since Kotlin doesn't allow so much hard to understand code constructs
* fewer discussions about the one true style or way to do something
* it's easier to build good tooling
* much faster compilation
* smoother Java interop
* performance implications are more predictable
Building Indexable Progressive Web Apps
Tech founders want California to secede
Do you think Twitter/FB commenters are dead serious about moving? To me it is at same level as today's lunch photos: just grab attention and likes by whatever means.
Out in Tech Talks Unites, Invigorates the LGBTQ Tech Community
Show HN: Building a tea discovery and coupons site, would like to hear opinions
A few points I think are relevant:

- I find leaving your country only because you didn't vote for the winner is rather cowardly, you can still do something about it, we're not quite talking systemic harassment yet...

- as a friend of mine pointed out, Canada is not a consolation prize for disgruntled americans, it's a real country, with its own real people and its own real problems

- having just aquired my canadian permanent residence after years and lots of money, it was a harrowing process. Clogging the already dysfunctional immigration system en masse as a whim is not just stupid, it's insulting to people currently going through immigration, and downright threatening to people who are in very real danger

If you're a disgruntled US citizen, I can understand your frustration, but please don't take this lightly.
Curious about the logistics of how you obtained the results from the county. Was it posted somewhere? Given verbally from an election official?
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There are three major things that hinder Canadian startups:

- Small internal market

- Less risk-taking atmosphere and attitude

- Lack of money (see point above)

If you're a startup founder and moving its these three points that'll impact you the most. If you're an employee, the significant salary disparity and the number of employment opportunities will be the biggest factor at play.

That all said, I loved staying in Toronto, and I met and worked with exceptionally strong engineers there; it's my plan to move back. YMMV depending on the company you join, and one (sad) issue is that the job pool is thinner - so jumping from one great startup to another is dramatically harder than SF.
The goal of the site is to let people play a questions game and recommend teas based on the choices, and in the future provide better ranking for tea on the web. There is also a Deals & Coupons section where discounts are featured (only a few online coupon codes for now), and a Tea Of The Day section (largely a work in progress) which suggests a tea and rates its existing online reviews.
The U.S. and Mexico have a lot in common. Seriously. A lot. A good portion of the U.S. was Mexico. The U.S. Southwest and the Mexican El Norte are in many ways more like each other than the other parts of the U.S. or Mexico.

So you might want to pick a different pair of countries.

For instance, the New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania portion of the U.S. probably has more in common with Russia than Lithuania has in common with it. There are nearly ten times more ethnic Russians in New York City (600k) than there are in Vilnius (62k).
But, aren't you also from an immigrant family? Isn't 99% of the country from immigrant families? I genuinely don't understand how a country that is built on and by immigration hates immigrants so much.
Thanks looking forward to digging in to this. Great presentation by the way, was just having a little trouble around that one stat.
I thought CNN & Donna Brazile's cheating scandal of leaking questions to Clinton Campaign was the biggest dynamite as the other corruption surrounding the Clinton foundation was more or less taken for granted.
Deep Lip Reading
I would say her selection was a political payoff from insiders first. Second it was to put a woman out there for the smug base to go crazy voting for her.
Individual freedom of expression has a place in a university. Institutional freedom of expression (in general) does not. When a nun or priest in uniform comes to a university, they are representatives of the church. To be there, they have to ask permissions (and if the university is any good, it would deny this permission).

A student can dress up as a nun, or priest, or nazi, or wear no clothes or whatever, and I will support his right. But the church institution, or political parties, or the army have no place there. If a nun does non-church business, she should wear civilian clothing.
It's not the first time he's been wrong.

Krugman has lived his life in a liberal urban academic bubble and has no idea what the rest of the USA is like.

We would do well to remember that when we have the misfortune to come across his writings in the future.
Albertan here: Your redneck stereotyping is way off.
You have significantly nicer conservative friends than I do. It's been 8 years of racist, xenophobic bile from most of the conservatives on my FB feed, and several of their politicians (Ted Cruz) as well.
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What does Trump's victory say about data analysis for the social sciences?
There are enough media think-pieces about why mainstream media coverage and punditry misread the electorate [0], but how exactly do we explain the gross inaccuracy of some of our predictive data analysis?

For instance, on 11/5, Huffington Post was taking Nate Silver to task for "unskewing the polls," seemingly to create an image of a race that was closer than it "really is." [1]

For their own part, 538's forecast did have Clinton going into the election with a margin equivalent to polling error. [2] But that doesn't explain why the New York Times' Upshot, for instance, had Hillary at an 85% chance of winning on the eve of the election. [3]

(We should note also that the Trump "upset" was not just about white males without college education turning out in greater numbers than expected. Clinton shocked by underperforming 2012 Obama among black and Latino voters. [4])

So my question is: is the Trump "upset" an indictment all of big data as a tool for election prediction (or perhaps the social sciences at large)? Or do we just say that our models were largely miscalibrated and that the relative accuracy of 538's, for instance, shows that we simply need to learn from our mistakes to move forward using data in politics?

For some initial conversation on this topic, see this thread in the Trump victory HN post [5].

[0]: I found this one particularly insightful http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/business/media/media-trump-clinton.html
[1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nate-silver-election-forecast_us_581e1c33e4b0d9ce6fbc6f7f?
[2]: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/794571867449421829
[3]: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html
[4]: http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2016-election-results-coverage/?lpup=12607239#livepress-update-12607239
[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907961https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907961
A major problem is that the electoral system is chaotic. In the sense of chaos theory: small deviations in input (votes) lead to large differences in the result (electoral college votes). The pollsters were off only be like 2-3% or so, and a bit the distribution.

Also, it appears Trump Supporters were often too ashamed to be honest to pollsters.
It also seemed that they did not have any approval from FDA on their claim of running 70 tests from a tiny sample from your finger print. Overall Shady stuff and really unfortunate that people's lives were put at risk.
Nearest quasar is powered by a double black hole
Whereas almost no political pundit would expect Trump to be the president-elect, there is one guy consistently predicted the result. His name is Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert[1].

Also worth mentioning is that Bloomberg ran an length article about Trump's campaign team and how they operate. One interesting tibits was the fact that the same team behind Brexit was also the major helper in the late stage of Trump's campaign. That team is Cambridge Analytica[2], funded primarily by Hedgefund manager/computer scientist Robert Mercer from Renaissance Technologies. Mercer was a major donor of Republican party and indirectly helped Trump pick Kellyanne Conway as his one and final campaign manager.

[1] blog.dilbert.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-brexit-us-presid...
Let the SMS verification expire and do a phone call verification.

Concerning multiple devices: I use Signal on my phone and on two desktops, works perfectly fine.