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>anything WikiLeaks says about the US government will be eaten up by their supporters

It used to be a saying that geeks can't do politics. And now after what I've seen of years of slashdot, digg, Reddit, and HN I think its fair to say that saying is true. The problem I see is that people who think they're smart think they must automatically be immune to propaganda, bias, etc because, well, they're so smart. I find the techie personality to be unusually vulnerable to propaganda and conspiracy theories. I think this type of thinking gives simple answers and black and white thinking that are intellectually satisfying and dismiss the incredible complexity of human interactions. Its very easy to just eat up anti-US college identity politics and make the US be the devil in all things. Its simple and is emotionally satisfying. The problem is that its also incorrect, especially when your "good guys" are Russia, China, and Iran.
> He was absolutely right

I am not sure I can agree with this. Whether knowingly or not, Eisenhower coined the term "military-industrial-complex" (MIC) and to me this is a form of disinformation, and unless one is willing to ascribe extreme naiveté to General Eisenhower, disingenuous.

The MIC is the visible portion of a larger complex. The correct term (since his warning was issued post OSS and CIA) is the Military-Intelligence-Complex. And the industrial part is merely the means for the governing plutocracy to milk the national treasury, and, reward the faithful servants of the powerful interests. And unless we are to assume that we have indeed been living under a secret military goverment since WWII, the military of this nation is supposed to take its orders and direction from the civilian authorities.

Secrecy is the domain of spooks.

That said, I also find it 'interesting' for the "august" New York Times to opine regarding the "unsettling" character of the current American regime at such a late date. Where were the ladies and gentlemen of the New York Times editorial board in 2001 when Patriot Act passed without a nod towards even a sham attempt at deliberation?

An entire generation of Americans has been born and raised to adulthood since 2001, and no doubt, just as they find the internet and web to be a 'natural' aspect of life, they likely find nothing objectionable to "secret laws", "warrantless" action by the government, "torture", and the rest of that sordid and entirely unAmerican (at least to this old fogey) laundry list of creeping authoritarianism.

As I skimmed some of the comments in this thread, I also noted that the general theme of corrective actions that are suggested seem to place an unreasonable emphasis on architectural aspect of the system.

But we already had and have standing laws on the book. What, pray tell, would further emblemishments to the constitutional order achieve when existing laws are 'cleverly' circumnavigated and the constitution treated as a dead letter?

A people can not be saved from themselves.

America used to produce a people whose mother's milk was Liberty. The current actors in our system that knowingly and willfully distort or disregard standing laws (such as the War Powers Act) are either America's own sons and daughters or we have been literally subverted by a foreign people whose mother's milk was not and is not and will never be life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness (for all).

The long term, and strategic, response to this malaise is simply this: every single one of you who has children must instill the essential American Values in your children. For unless we are indeed not only subject to secret laws but also to secret occupation, then it is our children, our sons, and our daughters who vie with one another in finding clever ways to trample the American Social Contract underfoot.
To me both the valuing of self-restriction rather than self-control and Pomodoro have similar reasoning behind them.

Self-control requires you to continuously spend willpower to resist, while self-restriction removes that continuous drain on willpower (a finite resource). Similarly Pomodoro tells you when to take a break and when to concentrate, no decisions required.

I'm not sure how valid this model of willpower is but it seems to have truth behind it. I personally find pomodoro breaks to be way too frequent, although I did do it for a while and found that it was amazing training for being better at focusing and falling back into flow after a break.
I had a "similar" idea around a trading platform.

http://www.1millioncoins.com/faq.html
Some of you may not know, but Conan is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard and a massive history buff.

It's a little hard to tell from his show, but he's seriously intelligent and these long-form interviews are where I think he shines. Highly recommend watching as many as you can.
No 'intrinsic' difficulty, that's an extrinsic difficulty.
Qualcomm unveils world’s first commercial 5G modem
Per core? Numbers please.

The zLinux CPUs are slower than my laptop.
Okay, so it is wrong to speak the truth?

All the critics seem to have is claiming a Russia connection without proof. But even if that was indeed true, Russia speaking the truth is bad for humanity?

Thanks, I'll stick to the narrative of the guy that provably tells the truth and actually has to risk his life for it like once people resisting the Soviet and Nazi regime had to.
Or, YOU can only entertain such ridiculous thoughts because YOU live in a society that IS totally controlled by criminals. I don't want to live in a country optimized against the assumption of control by criminals.
> We need a law prohibiting secret law.

We don't need a law for that, because non-public directives already don't have the force of law. Agencies already go through an extraordinarily involved process any time they make binding legal obligations. They are not only published, but usually the subject of notice and comment procedures and are subject to extensive judicial review.

Those processes don't apply to what the article is talking about, because the article calls "law" what is actually legal advice to the government about what is legal or not under existing laws. Like any organization, the government has counsel. The government asks that counsel "can we do this?" The answers to those questions are not law, they're legal advice.
I didn't find a "well armed" anywhere in WaPo article. Honestly, I have no problem with monitoring election process (as well as any other government/public process). This things should be transparent.
Given Thiel's long history of crazy an immoral utterances and behavior, why pick out his support of Trump as the "line in the sand"? It's practically normal compared to his other activities, and protected by law to boot. Compared to:

* Suing a news publication (Gawker) out of business for criticizing him
* Funding research into vampirism (stealing young people's blood so he can live longer)
* Paying to design an actual John Gault Island
* Funding an initiative to split California into 6 states
* Saying that women shouldn't be allowed to vote

There are tons of reasons why YC should disassociate form Thiel, but his donation to the Trump campaign has got to be the least of them.
"Then we have the whole point about the people at Guantanamo being combatants that didn't follow the war of laws."

The problem is we know now many of the people at Guantanamo do not fit that description. And we don't know how many do and how many don't, because there is no legal process to make the determination.

After WWII, at least there was some kind of war crimes tribunal before executing people for war crimes. But Guantanamo is some kind of horrific, Kafka-esque limbo, where people can be sent for being in the wrong place at the wrong time or accused by someone just wanting to collect a bounty, where people can be held forever and tortured on a whim, with no prospect for any kind of closure, ever.
While I appreciate the "code review should be improved" it is fairly easy to accidentally import something you should not have in many IDEs (the merge the class path) as well as other accidents. These issues along with many others including code formatting can be automated.

Separate projects allow less namespace collision accidents.

You could achieve all of this with monorepo but requires proper tooling.
Ask HN: What happened to stockfighter.io?
Hey HN,
Anyone knows what happened to stockfighter.io ? It looks like it's been down for at least a few weeks now :(. I was planning on playing the Jailbreak levels.

Is there anyone with some inside knowledge of StarFighter about what's going on ? Is the website down forever ?
Some of the things I remember from this past administration:

1. Secret global and domestic surveillance.

2. Secret application of war powers.

3. Secret assassination programs.

4. Secret courts with secret warrants.

5. Secret torture programs.

6. Secret prison systems and secret "extraordinary" rendition.

7. Secret compulsion letters for secret military and intelligence efforts.

8. Secret deportations with a public relations face saying the opposite.

9. Secret sabotage programs.

10. Secret intelligence involvement in the production of US
media.

11. Secret censorship of domestic protests.

12. Secret trade deals with secret foreign policy objectives.

13. Secret nuclear deals with historic US enemy states.

14. Secret transfers of money overseas.

15. Secret arms support overseas of groups in Syria.

16. Secret meeting in the Congress (the most of any president
in the history of the country).

17. Secret interpretations of law.

18. Secret investigations of civil and human rights allegations.
Their main values are making boatloads of money legally. That unifies Thiel, YC and everybody else.

I don't think Thiel should be ostracized but it would be nice if he was asked to explain his thinking a little more instead of just yelling at him. He is a smart guy, maybe there is something to learn.
A mortgage is generally not a negotiation because most people have no leverage against the bank. When the options are get a mortgage or you don't get a house, the bank gets to dictate the terms. A millionaire who wants to finance a house that they could buy outright for reasons has leverage. They can and do have actual negotiations.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Mark-Zuckerberg-s-mor...
I absolutely have occasionally wanted to own less. For example, when I last moved houses. :)

I own a crazy amount of things because I own a lot of books, I have a well equipped workshop, and I live on a farm (which means that I have two chainsaws, a tractor, a dozen tractor implements, a chicken plucker, an apple cider press, specialty tools for working on all of these things, and so forth and so on).

All in all I like my lifestyle, but I can also appreciate the benefits of other lifestyles.
a small niche market where I thought might take off is interview questions.
>Nobody denies Sam Altman's right to support Peter Thiel, or, for that matter, Thiel's right to support Trump

But if Trump threatens society, and you've deemed beliefs tolerable unless they threaten society...aren't you granting yourself permission to dole out "repercussions" for these beliefs?
"try to get them to come around to our point of view" sounds genteel but rather understates the ferocity of the persuasion, don't you think?

In any case, the Wikipedia article on shunning sums it up nicely:

Some aspects of shunning may also be seen as being at odds with civil rights or human rights, especially those behaviours that coerce and attack. When a group seeks to have an effect through such practices outside its own membership, for instance when a group seeks to cause financial harm through isolation and disassociation, they can come at odds with their surrounding civil society, if such a society enshrines rights such as freedom of association, conscience, or belief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunning#Civil_rights_implicat...
"Does painting all of your opposition's supporters as racist/sexist/xenophobic/ignorant/violent count as inciting violence?"

No.
Fares and rules come from ATPCO (http://atpco.net). Flights come from OAG (http://www.oag.com). Seat availability requires data directly from the carrier, usually via a live query to the carrier's reservation system.

The GDS companies get this data from these sources and then in turn provide (crappy) APIs for customers to use to query it.

In general, if you're doing bookings you can get small amounts of the data (a query at a time) from a GDS. Otherwise you're looking at millions of dollars per year. And then you need to write code to parse it and price tickets using it (approximately 1M LoC if you're terse about it -- more like 30M if you're a GDS).

(I know all this because I co-founded ITA Software, whose software now powers Google Flights.)
I would just state that while we have political freedom and free speech in the USA..YC should not be ENDORSING those political forces who in their direct actions with a consistent basis regale in Sexism, Predatory Sexual behavior, Racism, Hate of Gays,etc.

Its time for YC take a stand..no try to sit on a fence
I am. Granted, it's only the blog hosted from my basement.
No. And they're also not legally binding. And an agency treating guidance as legally binding is also a great way to get the guidance overturned in court, because there are strict legal requirements for the procedures agencies must follow before issuing binding rules.
>I am not here to argue that people who oppose Hillary Clinton should change their minds (they should, though!).

This probably isn't the appropriate place for it, but have you written about your reasons that people should support Clinton anywhere else?
'Illegal' does not mean immoral. I would dodge taxes if I could, as I don't much appreciate people robbing me.
Education focuses on the production of blue collar workers in poor areas, white collar workers in affluent areas and on business decision makers in expensive private schools.

Years ago I read the results of a study comparing teaching approaches in the listed environments, with a very clear conclusion about the intentional training of execution vs. creativity vs. leadership and big-picture thinking.
Congress has passed authorizations for all of those. The only difference between that and a declaration of war is the word "war", which makes no difference legally.

Edit: It's amazing that I'm being downvoted for a factual response to "Troops on the ground in sovereign nations without a declaration of war?"
"We shouldn’t start purging people for supporting the wrong political candidate. That’s not how things are done in this country."

What a crazy idea!
It's not just x86, pretty much every modern architecture has hardware breakpoint registers, data watch point registers and so on.
For price-conscious potential buyers of the Pixel, the current used-phone market for non-Apple and non-Samsung phones are small enough that depreciation for such phones is rapid. Since Google is marketing the Pixel line as an iPhone competitor, it may indeed have sufficient demand that it depreciates closer to Apple and Samsung than to other Android phones. However, that remains to be seen.

It seems to me that limiting oneself to year-old iPhones, just after a new model is released and changing models every year strikes a nice balance between depreciation rate and usability/features.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I1-r1YgK9I

She was against it at some point, for sure.
I don't give a damn who you vote for in the privacy of the voting booth, and I'm not going to go digging in your background to figure out who you might have voted for. But when you make an announcement to the world that "This is what I am for", I'm damn well going to judge you for it.
Most not totally old projects are on JDK8. Don't look at some crufty apache product, but look at medium size business apps... those have all been JDK8 for a while now.
How exactly does that work for commodities? What prevents the buyer from moving on to a seller that simply refues to engage in that practice?
Project Veritas: Video II: Mass Voter Fraud[0]

Considering the newest leak came out showing just that this might not be so far fetched after all.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc8PVCvfKs
Iran Startup Ecosystem
The question is not who scores more imaginary points on John Stuart Mill's or anybody else's "liberality scale". They question is whether we want to have a community in which one has to constantly look over one's shoulder to not run afoul of the thought police, and where virtue signaling and participating in Two Minutes Hate becomes mandatory, or else. Programming and software community turning into this scares me much more than any presidential election could.

> We are not required to tolerate intolerance when intolerance poses a threat to society.

This is too easy. You just declare "this guy poses threat to society" and you don't have to play by the rules anymore.
I appreciate changes that make it easier to monitor and debug applications. Looking forward to some small goodies that I haven't heard much about before:

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/228 - Add More Diagnostic Commands. For example more insight into JIT:ed methods and the code cache.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/158 - Unified JVM Logging. Logging from the JVM, e.g. GC logging and classloader logging, are configured and printed uniformly.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/259 - Stack-Walking API. Efficient API for walking the current call stack.
It's really not. You don't "vote" for someone so hard you personally become an important part of the campaign.
I think Triplebyte has the right idea: essentially a take-home test conducted over a period of a couple of days. It allows a candidate to show off what they can do under realistic conditions, instead of allowing an interviewer to poke at what they can't do under highly unrealistic high-pressure conditions. A typical tech interview is more like a spelling bee than a realistic test of a candidate's abilities: if you happen to get a word/question you know, you look awesome. If you don't, you don't. (Not long ago I screwed up a tech interview because I couldn't remember/figure-out-on-the-spot the iteration condition for estimating square roots by the Newton-Raphson method, and I was not willing to cheat by looking it up on Wikipedia while I was on the phone. Their loss.)

I just wish Triplebyte would expand their outreach beyond YC companies.
China to World: We Don’t Need Your Factories Anymore
Altman has it right, as much as Trump is reprehensible what candidate the partners of YC support has no bearing on whether or not a business relationship should be broken up. Politics are a private matter, just as religion, your sexuality, who you choose as a significant other and so on.

Thiel has had the guts to publicly come out in support for one of two very reprehensible candidates, one who I would be happy not to see become president of the most powerful country in the world (privately I wonder if these two are really the best people America could come up with to lead the country but that's another matter). At the same time I'm not so conceited that I would call for others to dissociate themselves from a working relationship with Peter Thiel though I will happily dissociate myself from him (easy for me to say, I have no business dealings with Peter Thiel, so probably I should say 'would').

Freedom is all about how you live your life, not about telling others how they should live theirs and what they should and should not do and even if I would be happy to see Altman (and by extention YC) dissociate himself from Peter Thiel I would not stoop to the point of asking or demanding of him that he do so, it's his life, his business and any kind of cognitive dissonance between what he sees as a serious threat to America as we know it today/continued association with a supporter of that threat is entirely his own.

I've always had a real problem with people telling others how they should live their lives, decide for yourself what you want and leave other people out of it.

People telling other people how they should live is why there is religious persecution, why LGBT people can't marry and why political dissent is repressed in many places. This behavior has no place in an advanced society. Peter Thiel should be free to support whichever candidate he feels like and Sam Altman should be free to associate himself and YC with Peter Thiel.
Triffin's dilemma
Then maybe you can answer a few questions:

- Do you have zero external dependencies on 3rd party library not own by Google? These must still be managed anyway? How do you deal with project X is not ready to move to external library version N but project Y needs version N?

- What about release branches? If you need to intergrate a bug-fix in a sub-system, the magic mono-repo now means merging a fix is harder as it may depend on other unrelated changes all over teh repo? The laissez-faire attitude of not having to care about details in HEAD would seem to bite back in release branches.
Netflix 2016 Q3 Summary Data
Not to mention that a lot of the material minimalism goes out of the window once you have kids. Like any ideology, foisting it upon children may or may not be a good thing. I've seen that kids thrive when they are surrounded by a dump of blocks, books, toys, etc. which they can explore by themselves.
It's about the only thing they can do considering how much of a mess the laws are regarding foreign investment. Best to work with an established player that has a good reputation than gamble on finding someone else to create the whole system from scratch. At least then the govt won't give you much guff.
Slightly off topic, but man I wish our leaders would still talk to us like this.
Is it so crazy to say that Thiel is free to support whatever candidate he wants... While Graham and Altman are free to choose who they do business with?
I think you don't understand what html5 is. I understand your frustration about changes the sites do, but it has nothing to do with html5 per se.
Definitely. The constant repetition of this stuff over the last few decades is what enabled Trump.

The difference is mostly one of scale not kind. Except for the major difference that the candidate himself has never said something like this directly, and that candidates have always graciously conceded defeat.

If Donald Trump comes out on November 9th and says "I told you it was rigged. They stole the election from us.", I really don't know what will happen.

I think it's fairly likely there will be at least some small-scale rioting.

I think the best case long term scenario, if this happens, is the creation of a new much more openly racist and xenophobic political party that is too small to gain any real power.

The worst case scenario is obviously civil war, but I think that is still extremely unlikely. Especially because Trump isn't the incumbent, so he lacks any actual power. If he were the losing incumbent, and Hillary was the challenger, I think most die hard Trump supporters would back a power grab.

And the most likely scenario is that a slightly smaller Republican party gets pulled even further right.
Then over a dozen women confirming, yes, he did indeed do everything he claimed to do.

"His statements verbatim do not imply anything criminal, unless you fill in extra words yourself."

Uh, no, he describes text book sexual assault.

"I think that if any other celebrity said what he said, you'd think it's a little off color, but not bragging about criminal actions."

Many people have pointed this out already, but this is a really weird way to brag about sexual prowess. Most men who brag about their sex lives, brag about how many women want to sleep with them, not about grabbing, groping or kissing women uninvited.
Do you have a source for the claim that Tesla isn't expanding the high end car market? I thought a significant fraction of Tesla purchases were folks who normally buy non-luxury cars. Not all, of course.
Good answer, thanks =) My question earlier was an honest question, asked out of curiosity...