skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd absolutely agree if I thought:
1. Thiel needed favors
2. Trump was going to hand out favors
3. It wasn't too late.

#3 is really what gets me. We've got 3 weeks. Mail-in ballots are out in a bunch of states already. Peoples' minds are made up. The election is basically over. If you believe in extreme polling error, sure, Trump could win -- but, again, it's so late, will this have made the difference?

I almost wonder if he believes Trump will win, and thinks his last-minute donation will merely give the impression of having made the difference, when he was going to win anyway.

But again -- why now?
Not sure why we would turn off flagging, if it's doing its job keeping flame wars off of the front page.
This explains why you won't vote for him, but that wasn't the question. The question is why the tech industry would differ from the population at large, where Trump has >40% support.
Because voting behaviors and income levels are highly correlated. Stop right there if you believe that people dislike Trump because they are "smarter". It is a cheap to make you feel good about yourself.
Super Tuesday voter turnout in 2008: 8,228,763 for Democrats, 5,025,685 for Republicans.
2016: 5,557,243 Democrats, 8,307,884 Republicans
If I was a betting man, I'd put my money on Trump. I think it will be close. That said, I also believe electoral fraud could decide the election.
Hence the experimentation and additional caveat by sctb.

Note that the flamewar detector may not have been turned off and is possibly punishing the submission otherwise.
I'd love to see solid composition examples... I mean there's plenty of work for beginning react on state, and their event models. But actually covering some of the composition examples in order to keep components more functional at the lower levels would be great.

Of course Redux and maybe MobX is probably a given.
I don't feel that discussions of what is appropriate to discuss on hacker news are Hacker News worthy. Let the chips fall where they land, I say.

Of course, there's an old adage about the ubiquity and quality of opinions
I don't necessarily mean the states -> USA relationship. One of the things I've come to understand, as a regular visitor to the US, is that there's a community for everybody. No matter how idiosyncratic (or even extreme) your political, social and economic preferences, you can find a community to take you in. And if you can't, you can create one and find others of like mind. And somehow it all still comes under a single umbrella notion of being "American". This exists practically nowhere else on earth. And I say that as a resident & citizen of another country that has a federated state structure.

And yes, I know it's a work in progress, and that this hasn't lead to equity of representation or systemic fairness. But still, in my view, establishing that framework and unifying je ne sais quoi in the face of such diversity is the single greatest political accomplishment of the last few hundred years.
From the numbers so far coming out from early voting you should add +2 to the poll margin. The Clinton ground game is looking like being more formidable than the famed Obama one. And with RNC bailing on Trump and moving money to down ballot races expect to see there being a massive discrepancy in late minute advertising and GOTV operations.
I'm just pointing out demographics, no need to read into it more than what I said.
Most devs dont use windows these days.
> we use the GPU to render the image, compress it to a .png (about 100KB) and send it to the browser as a tile. This allows for lightning fast rendering and the perception by the user that all of this data is actually in their browser.

With the enormous caveat that you need to have a low latency to their server to get this illusion of client-side rendering. Considering that they only have this cluster of K80's close to them, geographically, and not a number of clusters spread out globally, this isn't a usable example in much of the world.

Now, I don't expect them to roll out K80 clusters world-wide just for the sake of a demo, but it's still pretty important.
I'd argue the opposition to Trump has very little to do with politics -- or, at least, no more so than the (generally Democrat) opposition to (generally Republican) candidates.

Most of the repulsion is due to his tone, his personality, his unpredictability, and how generally erratic he is.

Frankly, to the extent that you ascertain any coherent political principles he has, they're more moderate than the other candidates in the Republican primary.

On top of that, his tax plan, such as it is, would save many of us more money than that of many of the other candidates.

I think the reality is successful people hate uncertainty. If you're not doing well, you're more likely to roll the dice and say "what's the worst that could happen?"

People who have benefited from society as it is today (and, let's admit it, most of us in tech are in the top 5-10%) believe we have the most to lose from an erratic unpredictable leader.

And again, that's nothing to do with politics.
IME I needed both. I moved to an English-speaking country in my early teens, knowing virtually no English at all. Naturally I needed remedial classes, but IIRC I wasn't progressing very quickly, for I wasn't sufficiently motivated, and would have likely needed to take them throughout secondary school. That is until I got interested in computers. I devoured all magazines, books, etc. on computing I could get my hands on, and within that school year I "graduated" from the remedial classes. So I needed both to become fluent in English.

I've got another example where I had motivation but not necessity. A few years later I became interested in manga / anime, back when translations of either were scarce. So I signed up for Japanese classes, and eventually even went to Japan as an exchange student for a summer. I continued to take lessons in college, until I'd essentially run out of classes to take. Having done all that, I would say my Japanese proficiency was merely functional. I probably could have passed JLPT N1 had I tried, but I didn't bother since I wasn't planning on working or studying in Japan. In this case, IMO I was reasonably motivated, but since the necessity component was missing, I never made it over the hump and became fluent.

Finally, the kpop craze got me somewhat interested in learning Korean, but I barely know how to say hello / goodbye. I'll blame that on my brain plasticity though. :-P
Freedom is not freedom without power to exercise said freedom.
Now you are the selected recipient of modified source code.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716854 and marked it off-topic.
That's why it's surprising.
They're "I'm gonna spend the rest of my life with you if a world catastrophe happens" kind of buddies, according to this NewYorker Profile:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-man...
Because the US tech industry exists in socially progressive cities: SF/SV, Seattle, Austin, Portland, NYC.
Libertarianism isn't about doing whatever you want. It's about protecting your rights and the rights of others. This means you can do what you want, as long as you are not infringing on the rights of others.

That last clause is often overlooked or misunderstood, but it is critical.
The time has come for Silicon Valley to denounce Peter Thiel.
Many people have bet on the Bradley effect many times before, and they tend to be wrong.

Trump's results in the general election were bang-on with what the polls predicted.

The general could be different. But there's no reason to believe that it will be.

That said, I don't disagree that "polite" coastal society doesn't take kindly to alternative views.
I know English, Spanish and Japanese. I started studying Japanese in college and I live and work in Japan now. Structured lessons were fundamental in becoming fluent but when I was here I sang a ton of Karaoke whenever I could. It really helped my pronunciation and vocabulary. Definitely recommend signing to learn language.
I believe you're missing a puzzle piece. Take the time out to watch a few of his Youtube videos. They are long and have very low view counts but they're important.
Education level. Not intelligence.
The word 'freedom' has many different meanings.
Strongly agree that wordlists are useless (beyond the first few hundred that you are going to see constantly anyway) and making connections is key to retaining vocabulary.

Another tip is to pull vocabulary lists from reading material, and then to review them you just re-read that text until it becomes easy.
> It's not just multiplying the upside by the probability. The upside depends upon how many people are in the crowd with you.

Sure, it's true that his upside is greater thanks to Thiel's unitary status. But I don't think that effect is any greater now: Trump enjoyed 0 SV support a month ago, so the investment would have had just as much impact then as now, but the probability is much lower now.

> Eich and Trump are in very different roles.

Absolutely, Thiel and Eich have very different roles. But to think public image is unimportant to Thiel is also naive: I could easily see this having a negative impact on his deal flow, either because founders are personally offended or because they'e afraid of tainting their reputation. There's a reason that VCs have PR and at least pay lip service to things like Women in Tech.
So what was this?
The hypothesis is that the many flagged submissions and associated meta-discussion amount to more disruption than a single discussion thread which might otherwise have been judged as off-topic for HN.
International Human Cell Atlas Initiative
t-SNE is commonly used in single cell RNA sequencing experiments. These experiments use microfluidic technologies to profile the gene expression of thousands of single cells.

t-SNE is usually used on the top N (quite commonly N = 50) principle components. This tends to give good separation of different cell types.

A few papers examples are:

http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/26/065912
http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(15)00549-8
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(15)00500-0
This just tells you there are a hell of a lot of stupid people out there. In no reality are 47% of Americans in the position of not being able to save $400 due to external circumstances.
Are you referring to his thesis that globalization without significant technological advance will lead to a Malthusian catastrophe?

I have considered this in wondering why he would support Trump.
That doesn't make much sense. Super Tuesday primaries included all likely Republican voters. But Trump only has the support of about 40% of them and nothing he has done to date indicates that number is changing.

And there is no evidence that electoral fraud is likely to decide the election. In fact it's looking like efforts to prevent it e.g. in Indiana are far more likely to influence the election.
At different points of my life I spoke Thai, Malay, Italian, French and a teeny bit of Mandarin. I would say the ones I became extremely fluent with were the result of total immersion (living in that country - being fully immersed in it for years).

I've known expats who go to Thailand, live in western communities, associate with other westerners mostly speaking English and deal with locals mostly on a limited level don't get very far. I've also met foreigners who come to live among locals in local neighborhoods and interact with the locals on a daily basis get very good at the language.

I don't think there's any way around it.
Sorry, but the priors on a random Internet commentator insisting that the only way to understand his farfetched, radical theory is to watch hours of videos are not very positive.

It would be helpful if you could provide a rational and concise summary here. I'd genuinely like to learn more.
I am having the same thoughts. As lazy engineers, we try to optimize and automate everything. Heck, even food is optimized with things like Soylent, but for workout and muscle building there just isn't anything yet. There are so many things I want to do in my day, and putting an hour away to go to the gym and do a few reps here and there is time that I would really love to invest into something else.

I'm wondering if it's really that difficult to 'invent' something to make it easier. Recalling my school biology lessons, muscle build because of ripped muscle fibers that grow back together, just stronger. It sounds so simple to build something artificial that does this automatically to your muscle zones without working out.

On the other note, maybe it's good that we don't have that yet. A good physique, big arms and things like visible abs are a great trophy you get for investing hard work and time. Not everyone has it, which makes it so desirable.
Humans are just not good at doing certain kinds of tasks. We can add numbers, but nowhere near as fast as a computer can. Similarly we can see patterns in data, but not to the exact precision of a statistical model that has it's parameters optimally tuned with gradient descent and bayesian inference. Humans will never be as good as statistical algorithms at certain tasks and that's ok.

I see fear about algorithms everywhere. Previous articles insist that algorithms could be unfair or racist. This article suggests things along those lines as well. The EU recently banned perhaps the majority of applications of machine learning, in any place where they might be used to rank individuals. This fear is hugely setting back society and technological progress. And almost every one of these places will have to revert back to human judgement. Which by every measure is far worse and far less fair.
Children's books are very helpful, and give you a kind of fluency with the low-level stuff that you will never get from SAT lists, etc. I think exposure to children's rhymes, poems, and nursery stories is useful if you really want to be fluent and probably necessary to get to a native-like level.

(By the way: "vocabulary" is not countable!)
If they target geeks, they should start releasing films DRM-free.
It does, but it's a hacky workaround and fails sooner or later unless you're using a paid service.
It's a false dichotomy to suggest that opposition to Trump is either based on disagreements with his public policy statements or 'just emotional'.

Sometimes people are just not qualified for a position, even if they can occasionally say some of the right answers at the interview.

If a tech company is considering hiring a CEO or CTO who has ruined several companies, refused to do business with black people until specifically ordered by a court, sexually harassed dozens of subordinates, publicly and verifiable lied about important topics on a regular basis, or bragged about being exploiting his fame to get away with groping women, it doesn't really matter which tech stack they've been praising. Trump has actually done all of those things, if you don't already know.

He actually bought a teenage beauty pageant and then frequently ogled and sexually assaulted (nonconsensually groped and kissed) the contestants backstage. That should tell you everything you need to know about his attitude towards abuses of power and how he'd exploit the Presidency. Please don't dismiss this stuff as 'just emotional'.

And you can hardly tell what his policies are anyway because he contradicts his own statements on most topics.

On the policies that have been clear, the tech industry is opposed to Trump for the same reasons they're opposed to other Republicans. If you're wondering why he's more unpopular in the industry than a generic replacement-level Republican, it's for the same reasons that he's exceptionally unpopular among Republicans themselves.
Beware of overtraining
If this appeals, check out Mubi. They're basically an arthouse Netflix.
I moved from Haifa to Cupertino, California. Immersion worked well.
Freedom in the Libertarianism context (and in most contexts) means lack of coercion or constraint imposed by government or other institutions. It doesn't refer to freedom from natural or physical constraints. That wouldn't make any sense to advocate for.

Does this clear it up for you?
There were some very significant[0] crypto speed improvements in the Go 1.6 releases. It would be interesting to see how well a pure go implementation would perform.

[0] Russ Cox mentions a ~ 10x performance in a TLS benchmark between 1.5 and 1.6.2 at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15713
My breaking point with Trump (when I decided he is a menace to American society) was reached a long time ago with his proposed ban on Muslim immigration. It was demagoguery not unlike the kind used by Hitler -- attempting to place blame on a very clearly defined minority group to make his followers more motivated. Doing this was simply not right in the most fundamental way and painted a target mostly on innocent people. If that's the man Thiel wants to stand with so be it. But I won't forget.
There is no law preventing me from doing 100 pushups right now. Yet I also find myself powerless to do it.

Does that mean I'm not free to do pushups?
I haven't seen the crosstabs on the USC polls, but my gut feeling is that you're right; the kind of very fine demographic reweighting they're doing isn't common, because (A) it's a pain in the ass and of dubious real-world value; and (B) it's vulnerable to magnifying sample-size and selection problems, of which the skewed Trump support amongst young African-Americans is one example. So while I'll be interested to do a retrospective on the poll's accuracy and precision after the election, I'm personally not putting much faith in it for now.
So, that just makes me trust the page is fact checking, but doesn't tell me the accuracy of the page's fact checking.
Apparently that's quite regional. I was corrected a few weeks ago because I called a pair of cross-trainers "tennis shoes" - where that person was from "tennis shoes" is much more specific than I understand it.
In the day to day spoken french in Quebec, you can hear also a lot English words too: check, game, lang, weird...

There's a funny youtube video of a French Canadian girl who lives in France and compares the number of anglicisms in the movie "Starbucks" and its French remake (not sure why they did a remake) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Cw9ywW-TU
Video is in French but the movie Starbucks had way more anglicisms in it. Nothing scientific here but having lived many years in Montreal I can tell you that the French spoken in Quebec is far from being English free.
Precisely. The inability of a person to choose their desired path because they need money to feed their family is textbook economic coercion. We've long passed the point where lack of resources (especially food) is a physical/natural constraint.
Hi Hacker News. I'm one of the founders of the Noms project and Attic Labs, the company behind it. Happy to answer any questions.

In the meantime, as long as I've got your attention, here's a few new stuffs we've been working on since last time Noms was discussed here in August:

- A prototype query language, and a demo of how to create indexes in Noms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv6_T5yaWns

- Support for merging concurrent (and potentially conflicting) changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--7dgoJBdjU
> The lander will attempt to touch down on Meridiani Planum, near the site where NASA’s Opportunity rover landed in 2004. It will study the local environment for several days before running out of battery power.

How sad.
There isn't yet, but there could be (ala shallow clone in Git).
Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning
https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/doc/faq.md#wh...
Or you know, just exercise every second day?
> [...] entitled right wing culture (that also made up the concept of a "Welfare Queen ")

The first use of the term that I can find is from Jet Magazine in 1974. They're hardly "right-wing".

https://books.google.com/books?id=DVsDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&pg=PA...
GPU: Generic Processing Unit
Presumably when they took the list down earlier.
Sigh. *rationalisation. Doesn't really help your snark when you emit a silly typo.
Sounds like what you'd want for a self-hosted Dropbox clone. I wonder what Syncthing, for instance, uses for reconciling differences on different clients.
Is Nazism really that bad? They want to favor some groups of people over others, even if it means killing some of those others. That's also what patriotism does (see every war ever) and we seem to be fine with it.
Can't speak for others, only myself.

To me he's an obvious off the charts narcissist... so much so that his narcissism actually seems extreme against the backdrop of Washington politics and the media. That's kind of amazing.

IMHO that disqualifies him from the presidency regardless of his policies. It's analogous to why you can't get a pilot's license with bad eyesight. A narcissist is a person with a dangerous addiction to domination, attention, and approval, and giving such a person the power to start wars is just irresponsible.

(Of course IMHO the president should have less power to act unilaterally with the military, but that's another matter.)

I am not much of a fan of his politics either, but he has said some good things. He is the only politician in the lineup who has made an issue out of the collapse of the American interior. That wins points with me and many other people. If he were constitutionally fit to be president I might consider it.

I also wonder if Thiel, being from Cleveland, is perhaps also affected by this last issue. I am also from Ohio and I can relate. You coastal types have no idea. I am not being hyperbolic with "collapse." Huge swaths of the American heartland are essentially de-developing. Maybe Thiel just wants to make some kind of point. He's rich and that's not a lot of money for him. Might just be a costly f-u.
Maybe it's just practicality: there's not much business sense in having leaders that publicly work against some of the most deeply meaningful interests of a significant portion of their employees.
If Trump became president and nominates Thiel I expect it would be one of the rare times that the Senate rejects the nomination -- considering this donation and relative lack of experience.
Compiler Bomb in C: 1 line of code produces 16GB executable
You need to factor in the probability that Trump doesn't feel any obligation.
Different kind of geek. There is the film buff geek and there is the burn-your-DRMbra computer geek, and while there is some crossover the Venn diagram is far from a total eclipse.
Does this work with rollers?
> Wire does not use Signal Protocol, they used some of our code to create a protocol of their own devising that we do not recommend.

4 days ago, no follow-ups to questions for details.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12688012#12690148
I enjoy this person's enthusiasm, but I am skeptical of his method and conclusions. If you have to fly seafood around the world it's not the best seafood any more. Statements like "There's no Southeast Asian food that I can find ... but if it exists it's probably really good" raise their doubts. Using the F word for emphasis in every sentence raises doubts.

Some things I can definitely agree with. Being in Italy drives me crazy too. I think you could make a fortune opening a decent Chinese (or really decent any non-Italian cuisine) restaurant in Rome. Because everything built around pasta in every single restaurant really gets old.
Isn't that true for the vast majority of responsible disclosure instances?