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Your comment is a lot of projection of why people might support Trump. I'm not a fan of Trump, and my vote would go to Gary Johnson, but I hope Trump wins. Here's why:

1. I'm gay. Hillary Clinton has campaigned against gay marriage here entire career. Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (not coincidentally on the day I stopped being a democrat.) Trump doesn't care about homosexuality (literally when asked what he would do if he found out an employee was gay he said "it makes no difference"). While HRC supporters like to portray him as anti-gay and wanting to overturn the decision legalizing gay marriage, that's not honest. He correctly disagrees with the basis on which the decision was made, which is different from disagreeing on the outcome. (There really is no power for government to regulate marriage, especially at the federal level.)

So, I hope Trump wins because Hillary is the anti-gay bigot between the two.

I'm not even going to get into the allegations of racism because that boy-who-cried wolf has been going on since Obama got elected and merely disagreeing with him makes you a "racist" now.

2. The claim that Trump represents "american facsism" is a misrepresentation of Fascism. Fascism is an economic system whereby the economy is privately owned but controlled dictatorially by a central government. That means Obamacare ("private" insurance companies, total control over the government) and the GM takeover are examples of American Fascism. The total surveillance society we have under Obama and W and would continue under Hillary is fascist.

To portray this as "liberalism" vs "fascsim" is wrong, and more right if you reverse the roles. (at least Trump is a bit economically liberal.)

3. You guys seem to grab "code phrases" and repeat them as mantras. The one you used is "existential threat to democracy". Remember in 2000 when Gore lost the election and we had 8 years of W as a result? Remember the massive scandal about voting fraud and how widespread it was? That's a literal threat to democracy. Like the Snowden revelations it was news for awhile, and there was talk of reform, but nothing was ever done.

How can there be a democracy when the votes are not even honestly counted? How about the fact that we cannot audit the software of the counting machines?

Isn't that a literal threat to democracy? Much more serious than some obnoxious reality TV star who's slightly more economically liberal than a woman whose entire career has been beset with scandal and allegations of misconduct-- almost all of which were just proven true with email leaks? Who had an investigation by the FBI where the agents say the outcome was predetermined? Isn't that level of corruption a serious existential threat to democracy?

You don't have to agree with me, that's fine- MY objection is to this delusion that there is a only one way to look at this and anyone who disagrees is somehow evil.

I'ma gay guy who wants to legally marry and I'm not going to vote for someone who has denied me my rights.

Tell me that makes me immoral!
I don't like the insinuation that I didn't read the book I quoted. I did, and I went to the trouble of finding quotes because memory is fallible (especially in the direction one would like it to err). Using that rhetorically against me is bad for the quality of discourse here.

Yes, Mill's general principles for liberty exclude the right to harm others. But he's very very skeptical of considering speech a harm. He's not a counterexample to the literal sense of what you wrote upthread about "saying whatever we'd like without fearing repercussions": e.g. you should be legally liable for libel, and socially liable to individual opprobrium. But he was clearly against the kind of repercussions for the kind of speech we're talking about here.
As a previously happy note 4 owner (until I managed to lose it) - I agree. The waterproof part is nice though, which is why the Sony Z3+ is still such a nice phone IMO. I get my note-fix on a Surface 4 Pro - and it it's much more of a notepad/sketchpad - so I can settle for a phone that is a little less comfortable to use as an ebook reader, or as a notepad.
I'm aware of that legally the distinction is relevant, but in the realm of public discourse, it isn't. YC could also e.g. cut ties with Thiel because he's gay, but of course HN would crucify them.
They can. What they cannot do is work effectively to prevent bigotry, sexism, and the destruction of the American economy and political fabric while simultaneously endorsing and working with people doing the exact opposite. People keep dancing around the fact that Thiel is not simply a Trump supporter, or even just a Trump donor. He is a Trump campaign surrogate --- a member of the campaign.
> I don't understand why you need a 7 and under child to use a computer

I suppose you don't need to, they don't have to fill out taxes or look up a grocery store's opening hours, but might they not have fun playing some games or learn something?
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Have you seen Five Nights at Freddy's fandom? People have empathy for some freaky looking constructs.
What compounds this problem is that nobody cares about anything regarding this until they're locked up themselves. And even then, since it's just one changed mind, it's hard to move the incredibly strong tide of the government.

How can we get the populous to care, but more than just a 30 second "oh that's not good" then resuming with their normal life?
Actually it's not that complicated in this case. Except for the small matter of nearly 10,000 people needlessly killed.
There's a line there. If Altman wants to express support for another candidate or express disagreement with Thiel's views -- great! The political process at work. What is not okay is him using his position of power to seek retribution against Thiel for his views. YC is not a political organization. It's not about making Trump supporters uncomfortable, it's about making them afraid to exercise their right to free speech.

To be clear, I am not a Trump supporter, but dehumanizing Trump supporters is not a productive approach.
Wow. That pretty much sums the problem up, right there. Talk about spin.
None of you on the 'left coast' got balls to say: I support Trump.
And I do support Trump.

What the left media is telling is simply not true. For example Racism, 4 points:

1. Picture w/ Rosa Parks: http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cq-YIOzXEAEyEN7.jpg:medium

2. Picture w/ KKK 'leader' (not sure what they call self):
http://img.youtube.com/vi/xDhpqFkUeeE/0.jpg

3. Bring them to heal(vid): http://tinyurl.com/jbeqqk7

4. Calling out a racist(not runnig yet - old vid): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4xymmq

More - a tie breaker:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=b329eUPKQVg

And the tradition of racisam: http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/d...

But today, we have disent, fighting against it (assuming YOU the reader belive they can think for self)
- http://tinyurl.com/j89tf56

When we on the right (to the right relative to authoritarian left) say broadcast media is lying - this is an example. Left should be shamed when we can.

I am engineer by training - give me data points.

(ooh. Moderator downvotes. And w/o a comment)
I hope so too. As an employee and an open source enthusiast. There are many people inside the (very large) company pushing for more of this. Many of them have replied in this thread. :)
So what is bad about it? It sounds strange thing to say htnl5 has anything to do with it...
You make excellent points. Marco is not alone in this. There is a subculture in the US that is so full of their own self righteousness, they are unable to take a fair look at themselves. No matter where we sit on the political spectrum, we as a larger culture need to take this more seriously. Thank you for offering your perspective as an outsider.
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AirBnB has not existed for an exceptionally long time, and during their existence we have seen a lot of economic downturn. Is it possible that people are just starting to travel again?
Not that I agree with your parent comment that bing still uses google results on the backend, they did at least used to: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses...
Also one of Hillary's campaign promises. And basically what Obama has been trying to do.

Remember Hillary suggested that we should use a drone to take out Julian Assange.

But we should be reminded about Trump taking this position and we should all forget that Obama and Hillary are arguably worse?
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What if workers' unions were to fire members who don't support candidate X, or fire those who do support candidate Y, after all portion of their salaries could be used to underwrite the uncandidate... Is this kind of political retribution what we're aiming for?
So is this going to be the new "video games are going to destroy society" moral panic?
I would pay quite some money for a good PDF library. I've seen some monstrosities in my career. And never a good one that has the ease of merging data with a template. I heard of people using Microsoft Word templates and saving those to PDF. I don't know if I want to venture in that direction but I definitely understand where it's coming from.
I'm glad you brought Rice up, because this site had absolutely no problem calling for a boycott of Dropbox over their inclusion of Rice as a director.

(I don't support that boycott, because I think Rice's role in the Iraq war is far more complicated than that of Rumsfeld or Feith, who are the literal architects of the war plan she consistently criticized. Rice isn't blameless, but she's no Doug Feith.)
There's a huge difference between keeping some amount of critical information (like the specifics of current military deployments) secret versus keeping laws and court proceedings secret. There is no reasonable justification for the latter.
> No one gets to decide who gets a spot at the table.

Gary Johnson and Jill Stein (and many others) would like to have a word with you.
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Maybe I'm naive, but I didn't get this message either. Personally, I was happy to see webpack on the list. The only problem I've had since adopting it is figuring out best practices for edge cases. It's changed how I develop web apps (works awesome with Azure). Maybe if there was more collaboration I could learn how to use it better.

Pure speculation, but maybe some people see it as a last ditch effort to keep projects like jQuery relevant. I've run across a lot of negative opinions about it. I've known developers who will laugh if they see it in an app. I've seen some interesting uses where people import only specific functionality out of jQuery they want, cutting it way down. https://goo.gl/kWeIJe But honestly I haven't needed it for awhile now.
> a real computer

I think this computer is about as real as they get.
A biologist, a statistician and a computer scientist are all riding a train together through Africa, when they notice a herd of zebra from their window.

The biologist notices that one of the zebra are entirely white, and exclaims, "Wow! Look at that – it’s a completely white zebra! This is an incredible scientific discovery!"

The statistician then responds, "Well, it’s only one zebra out of millions – it’s statistically insignificant."

The computer scientist then sadly laments, "Oh no! A special case!"
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I asked my Balinese taxi driver, who was using whats app on our ride to the airport, if he knew what wechat was. He didn't. Same in Thailand and the Philippines, the latter isn't surprising, the former is.

In many SE Asia countries, the internet is google and Facebook, the word internet isn't even very meaningful.

People say weterners are in a bubble when it comes to Asia, but I would argue Chinese are even more so. After working in china for 9 years, I found there to be an overwhelming focus on china, so much so that I saw Asian focused projects migrate away from china and to other Asian countries or even the states. There are just more Burmese working for Microsoft in Redmond than all Beijing tech companies...which is just saying there aren't many foreigners in china to help with non Chinese markets.
Honestly I find the narrative rather boring. And it's not well-styled visually as for example Fargo or HBO's own The Night Of. Other than CGI I find there not much else that would captivate me or make me wanna dig into it's mysteries (admittedly I'm not a sci-fi fan).
In fact if Q1=yes and YC shunning Thiel would make it more likely that Trump would win, which it might well do as it plays into Trump's anti-establishment narrative, then people opposed to Trump should very much insist on YC not shunning Thiel.
Thanks. I got confused because the parent post mentioned the "downfall" of "the Atheist community in the US" as opposed to an outspoken atheist who said something stupid online and got publicly ridiculed for it.
In what elections do businesses vote? Local or national? Could one set up a thousand shell companies and get a thousand votes?
You normally list dependencies in the nuspec, which will download the dependencies for you.
Boycotts are designed to force a _business_ to change behavior.

If we extend this into the realm of the individual and political speech, it is a totally different animal with clear dangers for freedom of expression.

I am not myself sure if I would consider it a moral failing to "boycott" an individual as a pressure tactic in these circumstances (or more like misguided social engineering) but it is definitely laudable to take a more nuanced view as Altman and YC have done.
It seems like we've seen a shift away from people caring about local news in favor of national news. That seems bad for the country.
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http://yehudakatz.com/2016/10/11/im-excited-to-work-on-yarn-... for those who where curious.
Because it had great (and I mean multi-generational enduring American Dream great) PR from after WWII thru at least the late 60's.
I almost never use anything other google flights when searching for a ticket. The UI is just so much better and easier to use than the ridiculous bloated crap that most travel sites are (especially when they are trying to shove car-rental and hotel deals in your face).

The one drawback is sometimes they are missing local / smaller airlines from their list of flights (which can be a major price difference from the major ones) on short flights.
>"We need a law prohibiting secret law. Any legally-binding statute, regulation, opinion or judgement that is not published to the Federal Register within 18 months would be rendered invalid."

The federal agencies continually avoid the Federal Register by issuing 'guidance letters' and 'advisory opinions', as well as re-interpreting existing rules in very creative ways. What is really needed is greater fidelity to the structural protections by the constitution (such as the Bill of Rights and non-delegation), but I have lost almost all hope of that coming to pass.
The problem with this logic is that you're multiplying a very low probability against a truly catastrophic outcome. The expected value result of that calculation is still very, very bad.

But I also disagree about Trump's prospects. As I wrote elsewhere on the thread: I think we underestimate the likelihood that Trump will win, and further I think we're going to be in exactly the same struggle in just 3 more years, when Trump begins his next presidential campaign in earnest. When he captures the nomination next time, there will be no opposition research left with the power to halt his campaign: all the news value will have been spent on this campaign.

Donald Trump is a terrifying force in American politics, and the damage he's done will spread far beyond the 2016 election.

I'm out on a limb here for saying this, because I'm a loyal Democrat, but as a believer in the American political tradition warts-and-all, I think Republicans should be even more dismayed, because one way or the other Trump is going to ruin the Republican party. When most Democrats say this, they mean that Trump will prevent Republicans from winning. But I don't mean that. I mean that Trump is killing their party, and he and his acolytes will finish that job by (eventually) winning. Even as a liberal Democrat, I feel sorrow for the loss of a loyal opposition and a voice for limited government.
Thanks! I'm not sure how shorting bonds/oil is like being long the market? I've always been under the impression that going long had an upward bias, and buying options had a downward bias (but maybe selling them gives some upward bias), so that playing with options was a bit like playing at a casino, where the odds are biased in the favor of the house.
Certain lakes around where I live are owned by the Army Corp of Engineers.

You can get a 100 year lease on the land you want and it's usually renewed with out hassle. I'm sure there are exceptions.
A few comments regarding the count_distinct extension (author here):

> Note that custom extensions written in C like count_distinct are not bound by the value of work_mem. The array constructed in this extension can exceed your memory expectations.

This is slightly inaccurate, as this is not specific to custom aggregates. Custom aggregates are estimated just like any other (built-in) aggregates - number of expected groups times memory per group. The trouble is that (a) for aggregates with variable-length per-group state, we don't have a good size estimate, and (b) if the planner decides to use HashAggregate, we're unable to do anything when reaching work_mem. But this has nothing to do with the aggregate being custom - array_agg() and string_agg() have the same issue, for example.

FWIW, the extension was written quite a long time ago - before the various sort optimizations made by Peter Geoghegan. I wonder whether that made count_distinct obsolete.
There’s a major problem with Muslim refugees in Europe right now. My girlfriend used to love visiting Paris, now it’s basically a no-go zone even in daytime.

I think you and your racist girlfriend should probably go visit some other country instead. I am sure you can find some nice white safe space where you can fondle your your personal weaponry without being considered mentally unstable, but Europe is definitely not going to be to your liking.
> As one anecdote, the paper ran an advertising campaign telling people not to use the website on Sundays.

... but why? What did they hope to achieve by that?
This one in particular feels very strange, since there's actually nothing bad actively happening with the connection, it's more of a policy decision.
> They're not taking the time to really internalize what a Trump presidency would mean,

They don't agree with you. Why should they take the time to internalize what you think a Trump presidency would mean, if you're wrong?

Have you followed all the problems related to people losing their jobs because of tweets, and Nobel laureates losing their jobs because of jokes that got blown out of proportion?

This is not quite the same as that; Trump's statements are not one-off tweets or jokes.

But you assume Trump's statements are literally what he wants to enact. Only #nevertrump actually believes that; everyone else thinks Trump is making statements that are just the right-wing version of Open Borders and Universal Income, and Trump and his supporters actually expect those radical right-wing positions (consider them an initial negotiation position) to be negotiated down to something centrist. They don't want all Muslims banned (well, some Trump supporters do, but not many), nor an economy-damaging trade war with China, nor a literal wall running the entire Mexican border, nor refusal to defend NATO allies. What they do want is some respect for enforcing existing immigration laws (congress made it illegal to immigrate by walking across the border, but the Democrat propaganda seeks to frame Trump as a bad person for suggesting enforcing the law Congress wrote). They want some attention paid to long-term economic consequences of outsourcing so much production, and restructuring the costs of the U.S. playing World Policeperson. They want some indication that the government is aware of the difficulty of "vetting" immigrants from a war-torn region without stable government, and that there are social and political externalities from accepting not-well-vettable immigrants when those war-torn regions are known for terrorism (that we may or may not be funding to try to topple Assad), and when even those who are not "terrorists" have what most Americans would consider an undesirable propensity for supporting things like Sharia law.

You and other Thiel-haters reject the principle of charity as it applies both to Trump and to Thiel; you paint a caricature of someone's positions, and go on a witch hunt against anyone who supports those people. When that isn't enough, you go on a witch-hunt against anyone who associates with those people. I consider that dangerous and politically damaging. Obviously everyone has a right to express their opinions, and to choose their associations, but that presumes some level of respect, caution and restraint that is not generally being shown by modern liberals.
To continue the speculation, the hard-copy + pay wall approach would have culled a lot of the lowest quality newspapers. Bad for the broader industry, but great for the reader.
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> because Facebook can't find a single person capable of doing graphics work on Linux out of 15,000 employees

Either you muck around with NVidia binary Linux drivers (or worse, binary drivers for some ARM chipset in an Android phone), or you're working with Intel stuff (which isn't going to give you a cutting-edge VR experience).

A for-profit corporation has better things to spend its 20% time on.
Quantity has its own quality. Bob the riveter donating $500 is far removed from 7-figure donations. It's an entirely different kind of relationship with the candidate and the campaign.
> what's the point of a foundation if you never extract anything

These institutions do utilize their endowments. As nonprofit entities they are only allowed, by law, to retain a portion of their gains.

> Further they will receive donations and tuition, but they clearly don't need 'help'.

At least some are currently operating at a deficit.

> In fact not having a long term plan to use their foundation is more irresponsible as they really could just lose all that money in 200 years without using it

I hope you see that there's a contradiction in that statement. You're encouraging rampant short term spending while simultaneously claiming centuries old institutions have no long term plan.
> I'd use it more readily than I'd use the american counterpart. I have to travel to the US sometimes, but not so much in China, so China knowing things about me affects me much less.

Why does traveling in the US and the US knowing things about you affect you?

> As others said, yeah, you're already doing those things. Everything is made in China.

Not by Chinese companies though. Individual parts are made there, but they are designed by non-Chinese companies and the manufacturing process is overseen by these companies.

> That's why you never see "made in China" stickers on anything.

See my last point.

> That's also the largest country in the world, and it's the only market you can say that for. The US is 1/20th of the world.

Last time I checked, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (not to mention Apple products and Google) were used outside the US as well. I don't think anyone in Europe uses a Chinese Facebook clone or Twitter clone.