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Yes, if there’s multiple international companies competing, that’s better than one (even if it might be morally good) company having a monopoly.
I think your statements mixes anger (how you feel) vs. your reaction/behavior when angry.

Society frowns on having an adult temper tantrum (the behavior); it doesn't care, in general, how you are feeling.
> I am not sure why endorsement of a political candidate is sometimes equated with 100% parity on every single belief of that particular candidate.

Endorsement is one thing. Donating a massive amount of money is something entirely different. Not many people are willing to part with $1.25M for someone they don't fanatically support.

And either way, that's not the point. The point is that, while most candidates have deep flaws, Trump has flaws that cannot be overlooked or explained away by political differences.

These include: racism (for which he has lost lawsuits), advocating sexual assault, and suggesting that Hillary Clinton be assassinated.
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There is a big difference IMO between avoiding anger and suppressing it, especially for a long time. If one can avoid anger, great; no need to get artificially angry (if one knows he will likely be on hold for 45 minutes, he can call during a less busy time or pick a service that supports callbacks).

Suppressing anger for a while (by self-distraction, leading yourself to see the other side of the coin, whatever) might be worse than stepping out for 30 seconds and letting go (e.g., by laying waste to a plastic cup). My 2c.
While I agree with a lot of what Marco says in spirit, there is a HUGE point that Altman makes as well:

> The way we got into a situation with Trump as a major party nominee in the first place was by not talking to people who are very different than we are. […]

This one sentence I think fully encapsulates why the Republican base has gone to the extremes it has. They don't give a damn about who Trump is or the awful things he does because he is listening to them, something the coastal intellectuals haven't done for decades.

Speaking as someone from one of the flyover states, I'd probably be supporting Trump too had I not come around to a lot more progressive viewpoints. The fact is yes a lot of what these people believe is wrong and backward, but just ignoring them and pretending that having the middle of the country doing nothing but hard labor and drugs is ok is exactly what got us here. Nobody gives a damn about the middle states outside of election year. Every year rural economies tank harder and harder but because it isn't a sexy problem like Shale Oil nobody gives a shit.

These people have been marginalized, ignored, and abandoned during some of the hardest economic transitional periods, and they're tired of it. You'd be voting for any candidate who at least gave the passing appearance of giving a damn about you were you left in that situation.

Edit: Misattributed the quote.
I don't understand your mode/reaction/resynchronization point at all.
A few years ago, some high profile organizations (W3C, Adobe, Facebook, Google, Hp, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera) came together to try to help standardize the web platform [1](Javascript, CSS, HTML). That was a HUGE failure - because it was driven by business rather than developers. How will the "Javascript foundation" do better?

[1] http://webplatform.com
If the community flags it, the community flags it. I haven't flagged any of these Thiel stories until now. I've seen enough the past few days. I get what people feel, think, and [don't] support. I don't care to keep reading this over and over again.
> Unless the candidate will have the power to prevent women from voting he can hold any beliefs he wants in general.

We don't know what powers the Executive Branch has now or will have. It evolves. FDR drastically expanded the power of the President, and he almost took over the Judicial Branch by appointing a bunch of new Supreme Court justices.

The next POTUS will appoint at least one Supreme Court justice and possibly more, which would give him/her enormous power over many decades of US law.
> Better the devil I know...

Usually, when someone uses this phrase, they don't know anything about the other option. It sounds like you know plenty about Clinton.
You mean why are we giving a hard time to all those people who join the KKK just because they look good in white?

But seriously, I don't think the demand to "sever ties" with Thiel is the right (it does have the slight scent of a purge), or the smart one to make (it plays too much into the hands of those who are glad to jump on the "silencing opposing views" bandwagon). In fact, it pretty much ensures that the debate be diverted to that, especially when many in the crowd are, for one reason or another, fixated on their ideas of free speech. It isn't a hypothesis, either, but precisely what happened time and again in the relevant "community". But YC is influential in SV, where various racist and misogynistic ideas, for one reason or another, take hold on some from time to time, and yet YC has often stayed silent (or faint) on such issues, even when they claim to disagree with them, while being quite vocal about political issues like SOPA and visas that affect the powerful SV players.
Or Thiel might think that Hillary is a worse option than Trump?

Maybe. Who knows. You should ask him. Pretending to know why he votes for Trump is just wrong.

You assume what he thinks, his state of mind, etc.

Idunno, maybe you should consider accepting that supporting a person does not equate to being that person nor does it imply that both hold the exact same beliefs.
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Flagged is one thing, a previous discussion was additionally set as "dead". As far as I know that can only be done by an admin, no? If it was all an automatic thing done by the system, then I have no issue with it.

BTW, it looks like they turned off the flagged state of this post and are giving the discussion a chance. Well done. Let's hope the comments here don't devolve into silly political bashing...
Murder and sexual assault aren't just matters of politics. Peter Thiel has endorsed someone who has advocated both crimes in public.
Trump support is not free-speech, tolerance issue or diversity issue, it's political issue.

As I understand it, Thiel is one of the 10 or so part time partners in Ycombinator. He is also board member of Facebook, so shame on Facebook.

I don't think Thiel's involvement puts large shame on Y Combinator, but at the same time I don't condone political activism that tries to isolate Thiel and his money by shaming his partners. Business is not politically neutral zone.
> Trivial: Because the market size increases. More people are renting hotels/airbnb + more often + for longer durations.

Lol, yes, this is fair. The hotel market doubling in revenue would be headline news at the WSJ, etc though.

We can actually get a rough sense of what's happened to the market as a whole by looking at the stock prices and cashflows of the major hotel chains. Looks like Mariott has lost a bit of value in the last year[1], same for Hilton[2]. La Quinta holdings went way down[3]. Please check the hotel chain of your choice if you feel I cherry picked these examples (Motel 6 and Best Western were my first choices, but are privately held).

Which is to say it doesn't appear that the market doubled in size.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

[2] https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

[3] https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
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All of France (ignoring Paris and the top 3 biggest airports & train stations).

In the 6 months I spent in Lyon (2nd city from France), I only saw a taxi once.
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Your characterization of this election is wrong.

43% of Americans approve of Clinton[1].

33% approve of Trump[2].

That means the vast majority of Americans are not choosing the lesser of two evils. They actively like one candidate or the other (or both).

1. http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/hillary-clinton...
2. https://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/donald-trump-f...
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I think TechCrunch's breakdown[1] rather does a good job of summing up all the times Thiel has made it plain that he and Trump have a lot more in common that the SV technolibertarian set here seems willing to admit.

Thiel is providing material aid and support for a man whose policies are as close to fascism as makes no difference, and he himself has been openly critical of immigration, women's suffrage, freedom of the press, and even the very concept of democracy itself, not even to mention his past association with cryptofascists like Moldbug.

YC's idiotic line in the sand about "well, as long as it technically wasn't Thiel who said it" isn't even true. Thiel has sad plenty of ugly shit himself, even besides providing active material support to others who have.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/17/trump-silicon-valley-surro...
Yes unsourced claim referenced by Assange himself with his WikiLeaks Twitter account.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562
The problem is that even if the number of bits on the fingerprint shrink, you're also lowering the selection size.

It's a tradeoff, you can overdo it and certainly end up less anonymous than before.

A bigger fingerprint might make it easier to identify you but if there are more fingerprints, there might also be more fingerprints that are exactly the same, thus being drowned by the mass.
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This looks pretty cool! I don't see any mention of org-mode, which seems like an inspiration. How would you compare the two?
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First the term. By fragmentation I mean two things: 1) we have many libraries doing the same thing. 2) the implementation is JS is not the same in every environment.

If you are spending most of your time writing other languages which have a standard library, I can understand your opinion.

However, I see fragmentation as:

1) It introduces the opportunity everyone on the planet to give a shot at implementing something that may or may not be better than we consider today the best. For example I used a datepicker in my latest project but in the current it failed and I could replace it in 15 minutes rather than spending hours finding the issue with the "standard one". I'm not really experienced in the C++ world, but I guess people would call me crazy if I proposed a new stdio lib. Maybe there could be better libraries, who knows. It's a settled game there. See jQuery in JS land, it was for many years, "the golden tool". Now we have alternatives for more specialized workflows. Not everybody wears the same hat all the time.

2) EcmaScript is constantly evolving, that causes another fragmentation, but this also allows the dev community to propose changes, implement new features and create a really vibrant feedback loop. If you stick to the latest stable (currently ES5) you are safe to build whatever you like with great stability.
Is quite a good one, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March...
Is "forwardladen" and "backwardladen" really the best way to translate positive and negative?

Also, I would implore whoever is doing this to switch to phonetic spelling from before the Norman invasion and, of course, the text should be read in such a way as well.
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I'm not familiar with mssql, does it use mvcc? That is the reason PG counting is slow (really slow)
I assumed that was the norm in modern journalism.
So you’re saying AMP doesn’t actually speed up pages at all, and it’s only sped up because you pre-render?

You just admitted the purpose of AMP being moot.
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Replace "Thiel" with "communism" and much of this article (and many of these comments) could be taken from the 1950s. McCarthyism is unacceptable from the right or the left.
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Honest answer: I didn't come across any obscure references. You may not be the target audience.

If you've gone through a great books/ classical education these characters and themes are all familiar. Very familiar if you read >=2-3 books a week.
Shame on you for blaming Y Combinator. If it was 1.25 million for Clinton you would probably praise Y Combinator, no? This feels more like a clash between your personal political preferences and Mr Thiels's. You are just blaming Y Combinator to inflate this story, trying to get more people on the Clinton side. Shame on you!
It's not lazy. It's showing the extreme (clearly unacceptable) end of the spectrum to ask someone how they decide where to draw the line. What would Trump have to do before supporting him is unacceptable to YC?

But if you really don't want to use Hitler, try Rodrigo Duterte or Silvio Berlusconi instead. They actually share a lot of similarities to Trump.
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Besides the chat stopped working, chatting with a random HN member / developer was a very nice experience.

Does HN have a IRC channel ?
In France there is a two step election : during the first round, people choose between multiple candidates (around 10). The two candidates with the most votes are selected to go to the second round, where people choose the next president.

There is a saying that during the first round you vote for your favourite candidates, while during the second you vote against the one you don't want to see in office.

This seems to be what is happening now in the US
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It's good that you aren't comparing this current context with our modern view on the NSDAP.

Mainly because pressuring others into supporting a certain candidate through non-political means really is ridiculous and a deeply concerning attitude in democratic societies.
I'd reconsider applying to YC based on this and would definitely not accept money from Thiel himself.
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What is really striking to me is that I encountered and read Hinton's earlier work in 1994 after coming across it in the stacks at the University. I was doing a lot of quantitative social science research in my grad program.

Once I left the university and started doing market and customer research in business that kind of raw prediction/black box modeling didn't fly very well. Companies preferred simpler models with explainable connections between independent variables that they could leverage and dependent variables (business outcomes).
McCarthyism was not about firing rich people for donating massive amounts of money to public political candidates. There is no similarity here.
Instead, it’s because Google Search artificially penalizes Firefox users, and even removes search options for them.

There’s been discussion about adding Google Search to the list of sites for which Firefox Mobile always serves a faked User Agent because of this hostile and anticompetitive behaviour before.
>many users won't know the real internet

Many users have no need for 'real internet'.

>completely fuck it up

No. 'Real internet' is still there, it's not getting absolutely smaller, only relatively to 'rubber doll' one
He sounds like that in his videos too. Every other word is FUCK.
I don't know what the right thing for YC to do here is. But whatever it is can wait until after the election.

The last thing you want is to enable Trump to concoct a narrative that "crooked Hillary" is forcing businesses to discriminate against Trump supporters.

Trump is an existential threat to democracy and Thiel is disgusting for supporting him, but it looks like he will lose. However he is claiming that the election will be rigged against him. This is incredibly dangerous and YC firing Thiel could be like pouring gasoline onto a fire.
Why do people keep making this false equivalence between the two options? One candidate has repeatedly taken racist and sexist stances, as well as demeaned those who are handicapped (and honestly, the list goes on and on). If people don't take a stand against this type of thing, it is a tacit acceptance.
> it plays too much into the hands of those who are glad to jump on the "silencing opposing views" bandwagon

Why frame it like this? It is "silencing opposing views", whether a bandwagon exists or not, so is bad in itself. You seem to imply the only problem is that people care about the issue - that's a good thing!

> in SV, where various racist and misogynistic ideas

SV is a liberal and leftist hotspot, so those ideas also take hold. Are you pondering why any none-liberal ideas sometimes take hold there? Maybe there a degree of subjectivity in it?

> yet YC has often stayed silent (or faint) on such issues

Possibly for good reason. There is a lot of animosity towards the tech crowd there, and beating them up about diversity in tech is a common pastime.

Remember the PG misquoting? He should have just refused to talk about the subject.
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Kids need to learn how to use a real computer. You'd be surprised how many high school juniors don't know a thing about computers.
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This. Not always, but not infrequently, either. Demonstration of anger can be mild, but it should clearly show pushback.

There are many cases when we are being asked to do things that the person requesting them knows are not realistic. If one is being asked to do three things that are estimated as week long each in a week plus something else a "man, how can I do this? I cannot work 24 hour days" may be all it takes.
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I'm not an expert, this is my layman's understands.

It has different isolation levels, some involving snapshots and some not. I think most concurrency issues are (by default) dealt with by locks, which start at row level and can escalate to page and table level (with significant slowdown seen when lock escalation happens in contentious places).

But that only has an effect if it's under write.
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Sam Altman has already stated what Peter is allowed to say (and presumably think) as a condition of his continued association with YC. There was a recent spate of articles by and about Sam Altman, including a probing interview by his brother (presumably in lieu of a blatantly self-serving monologue by the subject). So we kind of know Sam's viewpoint and his tendency toward defining who can say and do what at YC and on HN. I would call that shameful in a public commons, but this is a private enterprise, and Sam is free to set the boundaries in Sam's world.
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I flagged the last post. I flagged this post. The vast majority of people don't care. Peter Theil is probably a completely fine human being and has valid reasons for supporting Trump, and I'm much more concerned about the people who feel that is donation alone is enough to vilify him.
It's not just repetition of say, do this command more times to words. There are more nouns available to apply your verbs to. You can "change a paragraph": `cap`, change the contents of some brackets: `ci(`. I find myself using various permutations of these all the time, and missing them enormously when I'm not in vim. My favourite is `caa` to change an argument in a function call, respecting commas and parens, although that one came in a plugin I think.

I completely agree that often figuring out how many words I want to apply a command to is too much effort; however of course vim has visual selection like any other editor, so I can just press v to begin selecting, then w a few times to move to the beginning of the next word, and then I can apply any of the verbs in my arsenal to the resulting selection.

I find that having the option of <count> repetition is much more useful with large text objects that I can easily subitize. It's very natural for me to delete 3 paragraphs with `d3}` for instance, moreso than selecting them then deleting them.

I think that my very favorite motion in vim might be the `f` key. You use it like `fj` to move to the next occurrence of 'j' on the current line.

I also agree with you that multiple cursors are a much better solution than regexes to the same edit in a few different nearby places. There are multiple selection plugins for vim, but they don't work very well, and I wish it had better support. On the other hand, regexes scale much much better.
Ed said it[1] better than I could, so I'll quote him:

This is a long way of saying to the people who support Trump (and therefore would never read this) that "Let's agree to disagree and keep being friends" is a poor strategy this year. However you've managed to rationalize it in your head, supporting someone so openly and enthusiastically racist, xenophobic, and flat-out mean says a lot about you.

We are long, long past the point of pretending that support for Trump, let alone actual material and financial backing, is a matter of mere "politics" (as if that in itself is some harmless affectation).

Peter Thiel took one look at the failing campaign of a vociferous racist, mysogynist, authoritarian, anti-democratic fascist, and said "I'll give over a million dollars to him."

How can we trust the business and social acumen of a person who makes that kind of decision? Who faced with a losing candidate will throw good money after bad. Who faced with a business landscape that is crawling, desperately, into finally opening its doors to women and minorities, happily funds a man who says you can "grab [women] by the pussy," that "we ought to build a wall" to keep out Hispanics, and openly campaigns for barring Muslims from the country (who, I might point out, are statistically as likely to be South Asian as Arabic, a demographic hardly unrepresented in tech).

You wouldn't find it so bizarre that a man who has swastikas tattooed on his face had trouble finding a job, why do we find it so bizarre that a man who has done far more actual material harm might not be appealing to a business partner?

[1] http://www.ginandtacos.com/2016/10/17/the-difference-between...
Political apartheid. We've seen it. It won't end well.

Shame on Marco.
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Pico-8 is pretty much exactly what you're talking about, including having hardware for it.

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There are some brilliant people working in this industry whose politics I abhor. That doesn't mean that we can't, don't, or won't work well together, or even that we have to leave politics at the door. I've had some great conversations with people who I strongly disagree with politically -- frustrating, yes, but still highly interesting and worthwhile for mutual understanding.

This trend of naming, shaming, and excluding political opponents has got to end. We've been here before (even as recently as the GWB / War on Terror era), and it is absolutely toxic for an open and democratic society.
As far as I'm aware stuff can be flagged to death by crossing a threshold/without admin intervention - but I'm not 100% sure tbh.