skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, it wasn't just a phone. This has been beaten to death at this point, but the innovation of the iPhone was all the stuff it could do that had nothing to do with making phone calls.
"Strom Thurmond"

How about Hillary Clinton's "friend and mentor", a man of "eloquence and nobility" (her actual words) Robert C. Byrd? You know, "KKK Kleagle" Byrd? "Tried to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act" Byrd? "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." Byrd?

Remember him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryweuBVJMEA
Which email(s) are you speaking of?
Surely you realize how disingenuous this statement is? Trump's mantra of "the media is conspiring against me, the polls are all rigged, the election will be stolen from under us" is a far cry from anything we've seen in previous years. This has nothing to do with electronic voting machines. This is straight FUD in the most primal possible sense.
I will get down voted for this, but it is worth it to speak my mind:

I get so fed up with people telling other people what to think, which candidates to support, etc. I don't much care for Donald Trump, but it is a free country and if people want to support him, that is their business and I support their right to their own opinions even if I don't like their opinions. I would hope that most Trump supporters are just voting anti-establishment, but their reasons are their own business.
Absolutely no problem, buddy. I'm glad to be able to look out for suspicious links like the one you posted. With security issues the way they are today, you can never be too careful.
It's important to note that post-quantum cryptographic techniques are generally ones for which we have not yet found ways of breaking with quantum algorithms.
Millennialism has been popular in the U.S. for hundreds of years [1]; for a long time postmillennialism (1000 years of peace will precede the second coming of Christ) was the predominant ideology. Much social change, including the abolition of slavery, was justified by religious groups trying to bring in this 1000 year peace.

I agree with your overall point that a different apocalyptic view is becoming the mainstream in religious circles: that the end-times is imminent. I disagree that the religious systems are the cause; I believe that these viewpoints are becoming more popular as anxiety increases among these groups. Rural (Evangelical) Americans are genuinely experiencing decreased economic opportunity; young Muslims in Europe also experience an inability to be accepted in society and are locked out of the job market far worse than Christian youth.

I don't disagree with your analysis but I thought I should add some more information because I think it's interesting.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennialism#Reformation_and_...
I didn't realize imagination was banned from HN now, my bad.
Having Thiel on the board is a statement that intolerance based on race, gender, or religion is tolerable by yc. This in turn chills applications from startups working on problems not relating to white western males.
> If you can understand it, it's not incorrect.

acn yuo stunderand htis? i no oyu cna so acocrding ot yuo its nto rwong. oaky.
This is a perpetuation of the status quo of (at least) 20 years of Washington influence with the Saudi government, though. Which isn't going to change with trump who has some equally deep ties.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
(wait a few minutes)
Java

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A DBA walks into a bar, goes up to two tables, and says: "can I join you?".

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Many great jokes here:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/programming-jokes/

:)
sctb claims that it's user flags; hopefully he's right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728092
Looks like Mr. Thiel will have to content himself with being inclusive on his own, or at least not as part of Ms. Pao's exclusionary inclusion organization. Her post made me think of a quote about "all right-thinking people" that I remembered incorrectly as something from (serious) political science, but it turned out to be from Monty Python. Thus discredited, I will not include it here, but will exclude it.
Edit: Oh wait, I see that Orwell had a good statement about right-thinking orthodoxy, and Monty Python did an excellent parody of it.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/499753-at-any-given-moment-t...
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/right-think.php
> 150 ms for server side rendering

that's really really really bad for generating a html (and even sending it to the user).

I can achieve the whole damn thing in 20ms or less.

> The average response time fell to 20 ms !

yep in java/go/whatever you don't need the cache, with it your avg response would drop even further!
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I've read many of the emails. There just isn't much to them. It's almost all boring day-to-day crap. Even the release of Clinton's speech transcripts is about as mild and inoffensive as you can get.

The other thing is we have no idea if they are all authentic. It would be trivial to slip a few extra sentences in here or there. Everyone just seems to take it as given that they're legit but Assange didn't hack anyone to get them. We know nothing about who actually did, so we don't even have a flimsy "reputation" pretense to rely on.
#conspiracy

I hope you are rational enough to see the hilarious doublespeak being engaged in here:

* Positive coverage of hillary is due to Hillary's cozy relationship with media

* Positive coverage of her opponent, is due to Hillary's cozy relationship with media

Come on man. I hope readers of this particular site are rational enough to apply occam's razor and think critically.

I also find it extremely telling that Donald Trump, Mr Reality TV and the "hyper-successful" media and real estate man isn't responsible for his own success, but rather it's his opponent which is apparently so powerful that every single event occurring is by her design...?

How feckless Trump appears in your "everything good or bad happening to both candidates was preordained in a conspiracy" viewpoint!

Not everything is a conspiracy, I hope you're capable of rational thought.
Thanks for clarifying your support, Sam.

You mentioned you'd like to understand Trump supporters. Have you considered asking people in your network to confidentially contact you to explain, and then publishing the anonymized findings? With your reach, it seems like you could really help build this bridge you want to see exist, and the results would probably be interesting to read.
We're gonna see a ton of this...

Trump: "Hillary washed her money."

Media: "Wrong! Hillary laundered her money."
That wasn't the argument I was making. What I was saying is that a policy of "We will allow people to express their political views free of judgement and consequence" only really works when "political views" is taken to mean "things we're saying about people who aren't in the room".
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Bravo to Sam for the endorsement and for calling Trump out for what he is.

On the issue of Peter Thiel, for those of you that believe it's wrong to fire someone based on their political actions, is there any limit? If David Duke ran for office, or the Ku Klux Klan fielded a candidate for president, and someone gave a high profile speech endorsing them and supported their campaign with a million dollars, would it still be wrong to part ways with that person?
You... you literally brought it up yourself. Why are you angry at me for responding to your own point?
Yes, but see my other comment about why they don't count (they aren't basic color terms).
That's curious. I just checked and all of my machines have the reboot during off hours option turned on. I don't recall turning it on explicitly but it's entirely possible that I did, I'm usually not that thorough though.
The main problem with gigabit is that the person on the other end of the line doesn't have gigabit. If someone with 10MBps upload sends me a file, it's still coming in at 10MBps, even if I've got a terabit connection.

Likewise, you can't build an application that requires such tremendous bandwidth unless you know there are enough customers out there who have it. A few small towns here and there aren't going to cut it.

Light up the wires in New York City, and then you'll see some action.
Late 70's, 80's, nobody worried much about it except at the fringes in the US. The Nuclear Freeze movement got a lot of attention in Europe, 99 Luftballons got some play in the US, kids danced. But the masses in the US had gotten used to the Detente/SALT Treaty era.

The early boomers were scarred somewhat (and still are) by red menace training. They might take stuff like Red Dawn as a serious drama, while it was a bit more like Rushmore for the rest of us.
Clever one, love it :D
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even if you pursue some notional distinction, it's unclear how an api can be made manifest without (being?) a service. what do you mean?
Because nobody ever got fired for buying one.
> Living in a liberal and free society means tolerating views you find repugnant.

Not if they call me a "faggot" on the street.
Russia has weaponized the American press
> of course, if Peter said some of the things Trump says himself, he would no longer be part of Y Combinator).

This is precisely where your whole argument fell apart. If money is speech (and SCOTUS tells us it is) and Thiel donates over $1 million to Trump's campaign, then he effectively is saying what Trump is saying.

Money talks. In our society, it's almost always even louder than the calm reasoning of a rationalist.
Protip: suck it up instead of starting arguments when people make jokes at the expense of things you like. They weren't "dismissing the whole thing", they were making a joke. A pretty funny one at that.
The first time it had 270+ upvotes and was flagged off the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970

There seems to be some censorship going on...
The Javascript Wars
It seems all threads related to this matter are falling off the front age or disappearing quite rapidly.
You work for an OS company. Your experience is by no means universal. Your way out on the far side of the bell-curve by about several light years.

What about non-tech savvy people who expect a computer to work like an appliance and "the bloody uupdate broke my presentation software".

The problem with the world today is there are too many bloody software dwvelopers, too many who seem so keen on sacrificing stability and compatibility with "The Next Thing".

As someone who works with computers and machines in a fabrication shop that, CNC machines that have never had a software update but they still work day in day out, and UI element that don't move or disappear on a weekly basis, I have to say my personal experience of smartphones and computers (Mac, Windows, Linux) is this: OH MY FUCKING GOD WHY DID THEY CHANGE THAT. WHY DOES IT DO THAT. STOP CHANGING EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME.

Yep, computers are huge piles of black-box shit to the average person, who expects their computer to be more like an appliance.
Almost sounds like this story I heard once about this guy selling monorails to cities.
>Yes, right. They used it as a way of naming the thing they were seeing, not using it like someone familiar with it.

You do know that the people they were talking about in their tweet didn't literally have (((echoes))) around their names, right?
He could imagine (perhaps justifiably) that by serving as Putin's pawn and supporting Trump he could secure a better venue to seek asylum from Swedish rape charges than the Ecuadoran embassy, whether at the hands of Putin or Trump.
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Prefacing everything with 'I think', 'in my opinion', etc. is bad style. It weighs down the text. We already know that the writer's statements are what she thinks since she's the one making the statements.

I for one prefer concise flavorful texts over hemming-and-hawing.
He may not be explicitly against non-white, non-male, non-gay, non-christian people, but he may be perfectly willing to have them thrown under the bus as long as he gets what he wants.

Some people find that deplorable.

There is a similar dynamic in play with Trump's support from evangelicals. His personal choices are nearly 100% at odds with their social conservatism, but many evangelicals seem ok with this as long as he nominates a judge that will repeal Roe vs. Wade.

Such evangelicals probably aren't really in favour of Trump, but are willing to throw many people under the bus to get what they want as well.

So... I agree that Thiel may not explicitly support everything Trump advocates (who really could), but all the same, it is valid to criticize him for the things he is willing to tolerate to get what he wants.
I don't get why everyone is so willing to believe this claim, based on nothing but what Wikileaks says.

I mean, what would be the goal? They go to all this trouble, and risk an international incident, for what? It's not like they'd actually be able to prevent Assange from communicating. At best they'd inconvenience him slightly until he figures out an alternate means of communication.
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I'm the sole developer on https://reviewable.io and there's no way I could've done that a decade ago. So yeah, I think you're right and the mainstream industry just hasn't caught up to the emerging reality yet. And as tooling and infrastructure keeps improving the effective power of a single developer will only continue to grow.

That said, greenyoda does bring up some good points: time, risk, and quality are very much issues with the solo approach. But I see these more as opportunities to be addressed via new products or services as the number of solo development businesses grows...
An interesting, if somewhat disingenuous perspective. Japan has one person in space, no manned launch capability, Russia has one person in space, with manned launch capability.

I think of the Soyuz system as the "B-52 of space capsules", conceived in the 50's, first flown in the 60's, and kept flying by incremental avionics updates to the present day. Which makes for a well understood system.

In many ways the Chinese system is an offspring the Soyuz system, while great efforts are made to stress it is a completely Chinese design, clearly they have made many design choices which were directly inspired by the Soyuz capsules, from how the solar panels are attached/deployed to the mass fractions allocated to various parts of the system.

I expect that is for the same reason that Boeing's CST looks like a bigger version of Apollo, because Boeing had all of the Apollo data already and it was perhaps easier for them to start from there and tweak rather than take it from the a blank sheet. I find it particularly interesting that SpaceX's Dragon, Blue Origin's New Armstrong, and SNC's Dream Chaser manned capsules are quite a bit different both from each other and previously flown designs.

So what I see is that the US will shortly (as in within 12 - 18 months) have a variety of manned space launch capabilities, some of which will have targeted return to base capability.

The odd duck out here are the Russians as they really don't seem to have a replacement for Soyuz either in the works or anywhere close to being deployed. That surprises me as they certainly have the expertise to build such a system and they will be at a tactical and strategic disadvantage when both the US and China can launch crews with greater on orbit maneuvering options.
Point being: 1/ Not all statements are falsifiable 2/ Not all statements's proof can be verified in a reasonable time by an isolated individual 3/ You need heuristics if your objective is to obtain truth while spending an amount of energy/resources below a threshold x 4/ To compute a statement credibility, you take as input the past history of the source and their obedience to their own moral standards, what vested interest do they have in misdirecting you and the plausibility of said assertion to be true within the current context.

The USG does not score well on any of those metrics I am afraid.
Fair enough. And thanks to iphone all that functionality is now taken as a grant on a phone.

But none of that functionality is as important and effective as phone calls. And almost all of that is based on the foundation of The Internet.
If that is the case, then why has the British government spent millions of dollars guarding the embassy?

Seems like am aweful lot of money for such a small crime that you are making it out to be.
No, as has been explained before, that's just apologist rhetoric. Yes, their government is different than the USA but it's ridiculous to think that the leader of a free country couldn't figure out a way to make it work.

They could push the courts to issue a declaratory judgement on the issue of leaks, for instance. Or pass a new law making whistleblowing specifically legal and give retroactive immunity. Or investigate the prosecutor for misconduct because of their persecution and unwillingness to advance the investigation. Or allow the courts to try the case remotely.

Or they could simply throw the paperwork away, making prosecution impossible. It might not be legal, but you're living under a rock if you think that much of what your government does would be legal in the courts.

> Who's "they"? Who is the person in Sweden who has the authority

Nobody cares. That question is the sole point of blame-diffusion systems. All that matters is that there are many people there with the ability.

Bush didn't have the authority to do much of what he did, but he had the ability and by the time we could point out the difference it was a done deal and now he's not prosecuted so I guess he did have the authority...

The rules work differently at that level. But, even if they didn't, better the leader of a country sits in a country-club prison for doing the right thing than yet another innocent is illegally kidnapped and tortured.
You would likely be mistaken. An overt goal of pro-Israel fundraising by Evangelical groups is to accelerate population of the Holy Land (Levant) by the Jews in order to fulfill end-of-days prophesy [1].

Does anyone have any information whether this viewpoint was significant in the early U.S. foreign aid support of Israel (1930-1970)? I am uneducated in this segment of U.S. history.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

I'm still not certain that the presence of a Russian RAT necessarily means that Russia was behind this.
> This is straight FUD in the most primal possible sense.

Trump may be saying it for the wrong reasons, but he's absolutely right that the integrity of the election is in doubt.
I entertain many ideas, though I don't see that one as particularly likely. I was just pointing to an unstated assumption, not one that I saw as likely to be false.
> We should all feel a duty to try to understand the roughly
> half of the country that thinks we are severely misguided.
> I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump.
> But I’d like to find out, because we have to include
> everyone in our path forward. If our best ideas are to
> stop talking to or fire anyone who disagrees with us,
> we’ll be facing this whole situation again in 2020.
>
> That kind of diversity is painful and unpopular, but
> it is critical to health of a democratic and pluralistic
> society. We shouldn’t start purging people for
> supporting the wrong political candidate.
> That's not how things are done in this country.

This impresses me. That is exactly what I was trying to explain to somebody else in the other thread, and I was starting to feel like it was a position that nobody else held.
YC: Happy to cut people off over SOPA support.

YC: Can't bring itself to even censure a billionaire who only works with them "part-time" for supporting actual hatred and sexual abuse.

I await this thread filling up with "but how you can be tolerant if you don't tolerate intolerance?!" and other Phil-101 Do You Sees
> the wrong

This should be written in double quotes.
I found this Vanguard report that considered 15 popular metrics used to predict returns (and 1 control: rainfall). CAPE did indeed perform best, explaining ~43% of variance. I'm not an expert at finance or statistics, but I'm finding it an interesting read.

https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/s338.pdf
So does Sam denounce the previous actions of YC banning companies who supported SOPA from demo day?

Either YC is an organization that takes political stands or it's not.
Exactly! Why would you even drop down into Node when Apache already has page caching or when you can throw any other caching server in the middle... What a bunch of nonsense.
sctb says it is user flags: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728092
Why would Sam not go for a third party who was less problematic? There are third party candidates available. Is it because they are unlikely to be elected? If so, this thinking keeps on trapping us into voting for the least bad of the bad.
The user isn't forced to use it so much as it just works. The feature itself is nice in for many reasons beyond the operating system rebooting after updates. Loss of power, system hangs, and program lockups come to mind as situations where it would be nice.

I think about my browser not restoring tabs after crashing and I shudder because that happens at least once a week. Notepad++ has had this saved state functionality for a while and I take advantage of it quite a bit. I think it would be great if every application did it. Most core Apple applications can resume after reboot.
I doubt we're talking about the same things. I generally don't have any trouble focusing -- long lectures/tests, projects when I find my flow, etc.. I tend to prefer reading entire books in a single sitting, for example. In fact, if anything my problem goes the other way -- I get way too engrossed and have trouble breaking away.

What I'm talking about here is a tendency I've noticed in myself to put off starting things sometimes but not others. When I do put things off, I've noticed they fall into the above buckets. I've gotten much better about this over time as I've learned to manage it.
Not only does Pao expect everyone she works with to agree with her on her Important Concern, but also she expects the Important Concern to override all other potential considerations that might go into a person's decision on whom to support. That is a lot to ask for. There are after all only 2 effective choices.
> (of course, if Peter said some of the things Trump says himself, he would no longer be part of Y Combinator).

So when he wrote that giving women the right to vote has been eroding capitalist democracy ... ?
Would that hold up? Isn't sharing of a password protected?
Thinking in absolutes is dangerous and anti-intellectual, that's the whole problem here. Rabidly following an ideology where you will entirely dismiss a person because their privately held beliefs don't align with yours.

There should be context to all decisions making. If the person has extreme views and, most importantly, they are very vocal about it to the point you don't think they'll fit into the culture of your organization, then I see no problem with not hiring them on that basis.

But at the same time if the person is able to treat others respectfully, not force their views on others, and keep personal life and business separated, then I don't see the problem with hiring them regardless of their views.

I'd be more concerned hiring a moderate democrat/republican/green/etc who forced their views on other people on the job, than hiring someone holding (what mainstream society considers) extreme views[^] and rarely talks about it at work.

[^] Note: calling for violence and coercive behavior is another story.
pg left YC two years ago. He no longer has the authority to disinvite Thiel.