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Well said.

I do not agree with giving up on freedom of speech because some people will say hurtful things. Every time I have read racism or seen racists on TV it has merely exposed how ill-informed, counter-productive and just plain wrong those ideas are, and has prompted myself and others to dispute those wrong ideas. There is also the slim chance that if the dummies are called out on their wrong ideas, they may end up changing them.

Anonymous freedom of speech is a slightly different case, but I still feel that all freedom of speech is valuable and needs to be preserved.
>I was kind of pointing out that people know that mutexes in ISRs are a bad idea, but don't know as much about the other dragons that live in the same swamp

Honestly, these "people" seem like mythical creatures to me; I've certainly never met one. If you're qualified to write an ISR in C++, you're qualified to understand which parts of C++ are valid to use in an ISR and which aren't.

This is a non-problem that does not appear in practice, even though it could in theory.
Wouldn't that be a copyright violation?
We won against the Soviet Union? Maybe he should revisit some history. If anything, our constant embargoes during the cold war only made the Soviet Union last longer. As soon as both sides started trading more freely, that was the fall of the Soviet Union, largely due to Gorbachev in either case. We had stupid foreign policies then, and we still have stupid foreign policies. He refers to the greatness of NASA back in the day, does he not know that is a government funded liberal program that his party would like to shut down? Does he not know how to use the internet to educate himself before giving a speech to millions?
The subtitle is much better than the title: "Biology textbooks tell us that lichens are alliances between two organisms—a fungus and an alga. They are wrong."

(It would be even better replacing the "They are wrong." with the answer, ...)
In a conversation about the death of the west, you express shock that there remains some vestige of Christian morality, and without a hint of irony.
The pro(reg)gressive left are becoming more and more nervous as populist movements around the world appear to be gaining traction, turns out people are worried about their jobs and their personal security.
> It's not clear to me how this is an endorsement of Trump

Did you read the speech???? It's right there:

"Tonight I urge all of my fellow Americans to stand up and vote for Donald Trump."

How could you possibly think that's not an endorsement?
The funny part is that you're getting downvoted when it's actually defined as a float.

Like, you weren't kidding. They honestly made it a float. What.
Ask HN: Is there enough video content out there today to learn cs and programming?
yes, as there always has been in the grammar of English and many other languages.
>Thirdly, the only people raising this debate are Republicans in right-wing areas.

No. The recent attention started when Democrats in the Charlotte city council passed a law that "would allow transgender residents to use either a men’s or women’s bathroom, depending on the gender with which they identify."

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/ar...
Did you intend to divide the country into two areas, right wing and Silicon Valley?
Did not watch the speech, but if I'm interpreting the transcript correctly, it sounds like he is telling the RNC that their attempts to pass laws restricting LGBTQ rights are a distraction from more important problems in business and technology, not that LGBTQ rights are not important. It seems like a critique of the current platform and a suggestion that Trump would focus his energy elsewhere, on an actual "great debate."

Maybe I missed something, though!
Good perspective
> On Reddit you can't even place an add on a specific subreddit if it's not one of the big ones.

Would someone please confirm this? If true, wow.
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Moreover, the nation was able to debate (and protest) segregation while, at the same time, go to the moon and build the foundations for the computer revolution (among other things.)

We can worry about bathrooms AND be builders.
I was thinking about this just the other day, the term "demented" literally means "with mind removed".
"I could have called the US embassy, but from past experience I knew their help was often useless, and occasionally even harmful."

This was an interesting throw away. I wonder what his experience was.
... that chickens are the only medicine strong enough to save humanity
I think he meant to write predecessor but what he really meant was successor. Potentially confusing similar words for non-English speakers.
Classic false dichotomy fallacy. You can go to moon AND at the same time have a debate about bathroom (which is essential btw)
Lovely idea, fascinating way to visualize demographics.

One comment, and not at all a criticism of the art: I'm not sure if relative property values between neighborhoods really describes how SF is being ripped apart over time; for that, it might be more accurate to graph, say, proportional difference in median rent over the past n years, which might more closely hew to contested neighborhoods (ie, Pacific Heights doesn't usually catch headlines for how much it's changed in the last 5 years).
The long term cookie requires authentication from a service (e.g. maybe a database backed session), and the service can invalidate a particular cookie on logout, or by user request.
The attention really started when the state of North Carolina's (Republican! led) legislature voted for weaker local governance and overrode the cities legislation (among other things).

This is, of course, the same legislature that's so pro-freedom that they've actively suppressed local (city/county) run broadband services where companies like Time Warner wouldn't go.
Please don't Reddit-ify HackerNews.
No - I'm pointing out Thiel is framing this as the "great debate", but nobody in the place he actually lives is debating it.
Yeah. I guess there are a lot of implications here.

One is that it looks like it's not so easy for a newborn human to pick up the right collection of intestinal bacteria. So, I guess, having the birth canal near the anus makes a lot of sense, in terms of physiology.

Also, what if space aliens aren't really interested in human beings, per se, but in the unique collection of bacteria we harbor? This paper sheds new light on the the anal probes abductees keep telling us about...
I mean new technologies keep coming out basically every day, there will never be enough videos to cover all of them.
If anyone would like to see this in action, try this out on your laptop https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js/

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Cost comparison:

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I had two reactions to your comment. One, in which I assume you meant it in a way that was optimistic and benign. Two, in which it described a Matrix-like dystopia.
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The best part of POWER8 is the ability to flash and verify the CPU firmware using a completely open toolchain. All modern Intel and AMD processors have secret sauce signed firmware (that can even access and use the network). You can't ever be sure what is running on them internally. POWER8 is a secure architecture even in the case of an NSA targeted hardware intercept during shipping. You can just reflash with known/verified good firmware when you get it.
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Exactly. Its a human intervention/alerting/escalation broker. No ops team (or team who does ops) should be without it.
No, I would definitely agree that male is negative and female is positive. Unless there's a race condition.
The intent is not to provide an "unstealable" token, but a revocable one. You can't (don't need to) revoke the refresh token but you can revoke the access token by disallowing refresh.
Efforts like this are very good.

But one of the most serious problems with web development is how few frameworks ship with most of these sane answers out-of-the-box (edit: or don't ship concepts at the right level of abstraction)

When we all need to copy-paste some best-practice way of how to Argon2 a password and how to constant-time equality check a hash, we've already lost, in that we're reimplemeting these sane answers every time from the weeds.

I want to see more things like Django's automatic password hash upgrading [1].

Specifically, checklists like this effort's should be for people who develop frameworks, and not people who develop custom apps with them. With some things like CSRF protection, we're already there, but with so many other things, we're not.

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/auth/passwords/...
I thought Thiel was libertarian! Mind blown!
I can tell you right now, they don't hold water. They do not fit observations, even a little.
eh, I suppose imagining this "tech visionary" doing such an absurd thing as supporting Trump due to long term political strategy lessens the sting. Considering we are constantly told to adore these visionary silicon valley types. /s

To his credit however, if theres ever been a case to be made against our current democratic system then Trump sure takes the cake.
You should really quote another line down in the transcript:

"I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform. But fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline"
No Man's Sky was first publicly demoed in 2013. Seems suspect, this might be an opportunistic renewal hoping to collect rent.
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The US vs Soviet Union conflict was about the future of humanity and the planet itself.

Would the world be free, democratic and capitalistic OR under totalitarian oppression OR a radioactive unpopulated wasteland?

I agree that the bathroom issue is not entirely unimportant, but does anyone seriously claim it is of similar dignity? Or that there aren't more important issues in 2016?
Peter Thiel: Fake Culture Wars Only Distract Us from Our Economic Decline
"We won against the Soviet Union?"

The Soviet Union no longer exists, and the United States of America does.

So, yeah, most people would call that winning.
That at least has a logical meaning, and you really can't simplify it because the thing it represents is that complicated. Using a complicated system of strange words to represent numbers is incomparably worse.
You can also get on Bloomberg via NI LEVINE <GO>.
But Justin.... this is a privately held company. You yourself wrote "Until now, skeptics have relied on back-of-the-envelope math and gut level instinct". So how did you take a deep dive into all 69,280 members who have ever signed up for their co-working space?
Where in that speech does he mention the New Deal, or even allude to it?

Are you sure you're not confusing the New Deal with something else?
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>No more jQuery from Google CDN, no more analytics/exception tracking/fonts from your favoured provider and no more advertising conversion tracking

You don't have to trust the CDN for any static resource you load as long as you use the subresource integrity feature of modern browsers[1]. You basically include the hash of the content on your main domain and the browser will validate it when it loads it from CDN. So you only need to trust your main site.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...

Edit: It was already mentioned by
michaelmior https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12138277
Got it. Added to the list. Thank you!
I imagine he's ok with the Libertarian party displacing one of the other two.
When you hand your police force nothing but a toolbox full of hammers ALL problems become nails.

This is whats happened in the US.
What life was like before the internet
Oh boy... Will those people, at least, change their passwords after that?
I just learned a new word: grassed
Well, does the OS or the fingerprint TPM handle the timeout?

If the OS handles it (and potentially if the OS files themselves aren't completely and fully encrypted) then you can trick the OS into thinking it hasn't been 24-48 hours - all you need is for the fingerprint TPM to keep returning 'success'. If the TPM handles it then it is slightly harder to do.
Peter Thiel asks Americans to vote Trump, says it’s time to rebuild the country
Yes, I think the parent realises that. The point I think is that this stuff would be much harder to realise if we used verbose and prosaic descriptions instead of the visually suggestive modern notation (implicit multiplication etc)
I'm not sure his speech was intended to only cover the place where he lives.
That's kind of scary that you can get that information just by (if I read this right) having the user ID of someone you "matched" with. This feels like it could lead to all sorts of weird stalking or something if a first-date went badly.

On an unrelated note, I liked the way that the post was written. It made reading the details more interesting (but then again, I'm one of those young whippersnappers, so maybe I'm just more prone to liking that sort of thing).
Not common at all in Hong Kong either... except in hotels and written on restaurant menus and official documents. It's supposed to be a bilingual city... but not in practice. You want English? Go to Singapore or Malaysia.
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We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Email for Java 6.7.0. This month’s release is sort of maintenance release with minor enhancements as well. Ported from its equivalent .NET version, it also includes the same bug fixes as were part of the .NET equivalent version. The API now retains the content-transfer encoding strings while loading an email and then saving it back. Provision of this feature makes it possible to keep meta0record data of emails intact while they are processed using the API. The SecurityOptions mode offered by the API included None, Auto, SSLImplicit and SSLExplicit options. This month’s release adds another option of SSLAuto to this Enumerator that avoids setting the security options to None while selecting between the two SSL options at the same time. This month’s release also includes all the bug fixes as inherited from its equivalent .NET version. This further adds to the overall stability of the API.
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Peter Thiel RNC
For some reason I read through the commits in the Github repo. Wasn't disappointed.
Needs to be complex, apparently.
I'm also a product lead. Plus, I've seen enough problem organizations over the years to yearn for a fixer-upper opportunity. It's an art.
I didn't like the magic of Rails either, but didn't grok Python :(

I'm much happier using Ruby + Sinatra + Sequel/ROM + dry-rb

I do admit that Rails devs develop considerably faster than me. But I get a feeling the majority of them can't make much more than a single machine monolith. Rails has a way of narrowing many people's technical curiosities. But it probably behooves both sides to learn more about each other.
What format do the id and keys in secrets.json need to be in?
Scientists today are inventing things 1000x more difficult, and any undergrad understands Maxwell's equations better than he did. That ridiculous quip is moot.
This seems like a good teaching tool, but seriously would anyone want to write out big equations with the triangle instead of x^n ? Powers are used incredibly often and the standard notation is clearly easier to write in both typing and handwriting, and the same is true for log. And as has been mentioned the n-th root symbol is technically not a true extra notation, as you could always write x^(1/n) - but it does make some equations extra clear because there are so many roots that often need to be taken.

So, don't complain about the notations - the triangle would be far more annoying to write equations with if that's the only thing you use. The notations are like 'helper' functions that make implementing a larger function easier, but also make things less clear to start out with because there are more forms of the same thing - so use the triangle to point out it's all the same thing (or all related, anyhow) but keep the notation all the same.
I don't like the housing prices. I would love to move somewhere I could afford a house with a nice yard, instead of my little condo. But I don't know anywhere else I can have the career security as a data scientist that I have here. If something goes wrong in the bay area, there are always tons of other places hiring.
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The variations are interesting in relation to the approach and recession of the point on the line from the origin.
In some countries you can't patent formulas or processes or even ideas...
Disingenuously left out of your arguments here is the fact that a medical education costs a hell of a lot of money, and your economic measures would remove the ability to study medicine from a lot of people who might be willing to learn, but don't have massively rich parents. Deregulating university fees, getting rid of social security, and so fourth massively reduces the number of people who are able to study medicine.
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I'm using the previous version of DayOne as I want it to use Dropbox rather than their sync system. I'll keep using it until the app no longer works.

I've been considering trying to put together an org-mode compatible mobile app that would support photos (syncing them to the same Dropbox folder), but that's tricky.
It's a surprise that Tinder launched Tinder Social just now in the US given that's the main source of the leaked data. Tinder Social was (and remains) opt-out in Australia while he was writing the article. Even if Tinder Social is now opt-in in the US, the fact they were dismissive of the vulnerability disclosure is concerning.

Any social network with deteriorating privacy is bad. One where the content can potentially be sensitive is even worse. If you started on a service and it kept becoming more private by default, that's fine - potentially annoying, but fine. If you start on a service and it kept becoming more public by default, then we have a problem.

The fact that Tinder don't realize Tinder profiles may contain sensitive information for a significant portion of their user base is hugely disturbing. As stated in the article, there are so many circumstances beyond cheating that this is still an issue.

Assume for a fictional argument that I was born into a religious family, "no sex before marriage" type of thing, but enjoyed one night stands. One might use Tinder to do so quietly. Tinder didn't allow your friends to see that information before - I assumed I was safe from judgement by my family and their friends. Then Tinder rips that privacy you thought you had away!

Saying that users should have known better is not an excuse. As developers we must operate under the assumption that best practices are likely going to be missed or misunderstood. Tinder violated that in an extreme way in an attempted land grab for a large social market beyond hook-ups and dating.

Disclosure: I'm friends with the author and commented on drafts.
The problem with SS is that if the 25 year olds don't keep paying, there's no money to give to the 75 year olds who paid their whole working life. The money THEY contributed is long ago spent.

It's much harder to tell the 25 year olds to keep paying FICA and save for their own retirement.
I think it's safe to assume that people who do $3.5B transactions on a regular basis are sophisticated. But people who do this once a decade? They're not going to know nearly as much as the experts.
This plane could cross the Atlantic in 3.5 hours. Why did it fail?
And let's not forget there's an implementation on Wikipedia.
I'd really like to see something like this for mobile apps as opposed to form-based web apps.
And, IMO, that's how it should be in the US. But it's not, not yet at least.
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Sorry - that's an overview of how ONE company find value in diversity.

We are asking for research that shows that companies like Etsy outperform (on any metric) companies that don't really care about diversity (judged by their actual hiring practices, not paying lip service to it).

Because the availability heuristic points to the other 99% of Silicon Valley that's doing quite well without caring about diversity.
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The only other clear thing is that Trump would be President.
I think you grossly overestimate the impact and reach of a minor blogpost on a country far removed in distance, language and culture.
From the Facebook Eduardo Saverin business to the secret war on Gawker to the enthusiastic backing of Trump, Darth Thiel is shaping up to be the most scary guy in technology.
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> This showed that fundamentally, a terminal-based text editor is trivial to build.

I do not agree. There is a big difference between a proof-of-concept terminal-based text editor and a state-of-the-art development editor like vim or emacs. I really encourage people to write a proof-of-concept "self-hosting" editor (i.e. writing the later parts of your text editor in a reasonable stable version of your text editor) as it is a fun project.
> If you start on a service and it kept becoming more public by default, then we have a problem.

If this isn't criminal, it should be. People belong in jail for this sort of thing.
I think that's how it's meant to be interpreted. That they should focus on core issues (economics, jobs, security, equality, fairness, etc.) and not pander to a small interest group in order to raise money using an out-of-sync, losing cause.

I think Repubs should see Trump as somewhat a liberator of Repubs from the tyranny of their previous ideology.

Whether he wins or loses, he's freed them from the shackles of social conservatism which would ultimately make the party less relevant, over time. I mean, that was a dead end.