skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to see that many comments on money buying influence. Yet no one seems to consider the possibility that the most pro-establishment candidate, with a proven track of money-for-favors trafficking is, in Thiel's opinion, a worse outcome.
Cannot unsee.
I started working (illegally) as a dishwasher in a ski resort in Spain. You'll learn fast if you need to get a job. Necessity. ;)
I didn't know about Brendan Eich. That makes me angry. He made a personal decision to donate a small amount to Prop 8, and extreme political activists completely annihilated him and forced him out of his job.

"Critics of Eich within Mozilla tweeted to gay activists that he had donated $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California until 2013, when it was declared unconstitutional and marriages were allowed to resume. Eich stood by his decision to fund the campaign, but wrote on his blog that he was sorry for “causing pain” and pledged to promote equality at Mozilla. Gay activists created an online shaming campaign against Eich, with OkCupid declaring they would block access to the Firefox browser unless he stepped down."
Odd these emails don't get more airtime. Certainly are interesting reads.
I hope there is a prune option to delete very old commits.
Naturally he hasn't recently mentioned immigration because he's trying to move to the center.

During the primary, however, he wanted to block all Muslims from entering the country, as well as build a wall along the Mexico/US border.
There are still a bunch of jobs where machines are unlikely to replace humans anytime soon or ever, because the cost of deploying machines everywhere and maintaining them will also reach a plateau. We may be good soon at making brains for machine but they still need mechanical parts and require maintenance. So they have a non negligible cost.
n = 6 [1]

[1] http://www.paddypower.com/bet/politics/other-politics/us-pol...
But legally they are claiming full power over everything, and just not exercising that power in practice.
I worked (illegally) as a restaurant dishwasher at a ski resort in Spain. You'll learn fast if you are totally immersed and need to communicate to work. ;)
The NYT clearly blames the crime on.... the people committing the crime. The NYT is not blaming the crime on the far right. If anything, they are blaming it on the Arab ghetto kids which is what the OP was claiming was the truth.
It's the Stagnation Hypothesis.

More precisely it is the high level implications of the Stagnation Hypothesis. You won't know it from HN or a survey of typical developers but the people who really run Silicon Valley have a set of beliefs about the world which are very different to the people who work for them.

Watch this all the way through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMpmfaE9bII
They are suggesting the far-right is angering the underclass. If you're asserting the NY Times is therefore blaming the crimes on the far-right, good luck!
But without the overhead and headache of running your own keyserver.
It's not the speed of light that's the long pole in the timing constraint, it's the "switching" time of the circuits that make up the digital logic. You can't switch from zero to one or one to zero instantaneously. It's modeled (or at least it was when I went to college) as a simple RC circuit. Your clock can't tick any faster than the time it takes to charge the slowest capacitor in your system. That's why chips have gotten faster and faster over the years, we've reduced that charge/discharge time (not because we've sped up light).
Unfortunately I can't take a policy position made by Donald Trump a little over a month ago seriously because his policy positions have been known to change day to day or even within a single speech.
You've just selected the national poll that is the most favorable to Trump. An average over polls >> any individual poll. Note that I am not saying that poll should be thrown out. But picking one poll in isolation is almost useless.
I learned to speak French starting from scratch in my 30s, while living in the US. I speak it well enough to enroll in an easy college-level course intended for native speakers[a] or to work professionally[b], although either experience would be painful at first.

For me, the process occurred in three phases:

1. Bootstrapping to the point where I could kinda-sorta read books and kinda-sorta carry on conversations. I personally used Assimil for this, which is excellent if you like learning by osmosis and you can spare 20 to 40 minutes a day for 5 months. Nine out of ten "language learning" apps just encourage you to screw around at this level with minimal progress, but if you just focus and get it done, it should only take a couple hundred hours (assuming you already know a vaguely related language—for an English speaker, French is easier than Japanese).

2. Using the language (as best I could). I read about 2.5 million words and watched about 15 seasons of television shows. This took my comprehension from vague and dodgy to automatic and nearly complete. I also spent many hours speaking, and I wrote a few dozen short texts which I had corrected.

3. Gradual improvement. I speak French every day of my life now, but my rate of improvement has slowed down because I don't currently need to be any better. I mostly talk to the same handful of people. To get better, I'd realistically need to work for a French-speaking company.

[a] I've taken an online statistics course for French speakers, and the language was rarely a problem.

[b] I've had multi-hour technical conversations with French-speaking programmers while debugging code.
You aren't the target audience.

There is a strange anti-elitism bias in politics. To win, you have to be aware of this. You need to avoid seeming to be too intellectual.

The real expert at hiding IQ was probably the second Bush. Years later, people who worked closely with him report that he was shockingly smart. Had he let this show in public, there is no way he would have won. This is especially true for the primaries.

Simplistic thinking and an air of confidence goes a long way. Insulting the values of your voters will do you no good. (insulting voters in hopeless states and 49% of the voters in swing states is OK though) Trump clearly understands this. I wouldn't bet on him being dumb.
(Disclaimer - I work at pachyderm)

http://pachyderm.io

Pachyderm is git for data. We work hard to make sure we can store data of different types (binary, text, json) efficiently. We also work hard to give you good mechanisms to read the data in a distributed way. I'd be curious how this suits your purposes.
Rinse lather repeat.
It took about 2 years before I was confident enough in my German skills to consider myself conversationally fluent at a beginner level. I spent four years of devoted study (yes high school) to get the concepts down, and now I've basically tried to maintain it in the 8 years since. For me it was important to focus on syntax and semantics more than vocabulary. It's super easy to find a translation for concrete concepts like "dog", "cartographer", and so forth, but it's rather difficult to find an elegant translation of advanced concepts like expressing conditional circumstances, and all those fun different tenses and voices. Repetition of vocabulary and all that helps to build up conversational awareness, but I find that it's important to focus on how the pieces are supposed together more than the individual pieces themselves. But hey, ymmv
Regarding that poll specifically: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/upshot/how-one-19-year-...
> That's worth a lot more than $12.5M.

Agreed. (Though FWIW $1.25M is the amount he invested)
Here in Canada, it is illegal to give more than $1525 per year to a political party. That would have saved this guy some money.
From my observations, the tech industry leans pretty heavily liberal/democrat.
I heard about this poll, but I haven't paid attention to it. You got me reading up on it.

Now I can't sleep...
Looking at this specific poll in isolation is fine as long as you understand that you are looking at it in isolation.

I say so because of its polling methodology, which is unique.

If you're a politics/polling nerd, this poll is interesting. If you're not, then yes, you are probably better off either just reading 538, or looking at the RCP polling average.

https://news.usc.edu/109339/why-the-usc-dornsifel-a-times-pr...
I'm not talking about typical developers.

Lots of top technology leaders have come out vehemently against Trump, [0] including Sam Altman, who I would definitely include in "the people who really run Silicon Valley." [1]

To be clear, I'm not disputing Thiel's politics. I think he's right about a lot of things. They have near-zero overlap with Trump's policies. Trump is easily the least libertarian Republican presidential candidate in recent history.

[0] https://shift.newco.co/an-open-letter-from-technology-sector...

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/trump
Let's say (for sake of example) that you only speak English, and you are learning some other language.

Several things. The more the better; in combination is best: Physically move to the place. Befriend locals who don't use English. Shun people who do use English. Take classes. Get a job where your coworkers do not use English in the workplace. Use Quizlet or flashcards or some similar tool.
A Netflix for Film Geeks?
The other comments about speaking the language daily (i.e. living in a country that speaks the language) are dead on. If that is not practical for you, then you can help retain and increase your _vocabulary_ with Anki [1], but it is no substitute for actually speaking.

For Android phones, you can sync Anki with Ankidroid [2].

[1] http://ankisrs.net/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ichi2.anki...
It is the height of stupidity to believe in any one poll. Especially that one which has had major issues with sampling:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/upshot/how-one-19-year-old...

There are plenty of aggregation sites which are far better at smoothing out any issues:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-...

They all show Trump losing in a landslide with Clinton getting around 330 EC votes.
> Small chance of making it to the Supreme Court?

That honestly does not seem like a very compelling reason. I think Thiel can easily have a bigger impact on the world outside the Supreme Court.
I'm just overly fond of the procedural and qualitative approach of grammar and syntax first, but I know that runs contrary to how other individuals tend to acquire language. You do have to find some individual pieces beforehand so you can have pieces to put together, so obviously vocabulary itself functions as an important part, but I find that you are more likely to become fluent in a language when you've trained yourself to think with the logical approach that the language you're learning utilizes.
Their response: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-daybreak-poll-ques...

Where they eliminated that one 19 year old, and saw very little effect on the poll.
He's buying publicity.
I've always found the right-libertarian philosophy to be extremely confused. They want freedom to do whatever they want but they also want to base everything off of capitalism which by definition means you can't do whatever you want unless you're rich. It just doesn't make any sense (unless of course you're already a billionaire in which case your world is already quite libertarian in reality).
USC's response to this: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-daybreak-poll-ques...
Has Thiel described himself as "libertarian" recently? Even if he has, I'm not sure he means it in the same sense as the general population.

I like Samuel Hammond's analysis. His shorthand for Thiel's political philosophy is "corporate feudalism":

https://medium.com/@hamandcheese/why-peter-thiels-endorsemen...

https://medium.com/soapbox-dc/peter-thiels-plan-to-become-ce...

Strange to be investing this late in the race though.
You've cherry-picked the one outlier.

It's, of course, very possible that "this time it's different" as they say every time. He is certainly an unconventional candidate. However, I'll throw my lot in every time with the MANY polls who are trying to account for this, and the MANY poll aggregators who are trying to make sense out of this madness.

I think 538 was actually quite reliable during the primary season. Pretty much bang on, in fact.

Everything they said anti-trump was basically opinion and they have been roundly chastised (as deserved) for treating punditry as fact.
http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html
http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html
Nuclear power. What we were talking about.
> I didn't know about Brendan Eich. That makes me angry.

It makes me angry too, but also raises (for me) some interesting political questions around what level of disagreement is "too far." I would never fire someone for being a Republican and personally/privately opposing gay marriage. But I would also immediately fire someone if they were a Nazi. So where is the line if what's an acceptable level of tolerance (and where does Trump fall on it)?
Seems fishy to me as well. Best I could find with a few minutes of googling was a 0.22% 30 day CD, but with a minimum of $95,000 [1]. Others I could find with low deposit limits are in the 0.10% area. Most banks don't even offer 30 day CDs it looks like.

1. https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/bank_cd_rates
The smarter he is, the less likely such a quote can be found.

The anti-elitism bias is real. It's tough to win the election, and probably impossible to win the republican primary, if you get into subtle things of an intellectual nature. People don't want to hear it. It prevents voters from having a strong emotional connection with the candidate.
> This assumes that workers are of a fixed quality. I know I worked harder for $10/hour than I did for $7.25.

Efficiency wage theory definitely doesn't assume that. In fact, a big part of the theory revolves around your existing workers becoming more productive.

Even if you assume your applicant pool stays the same, you would see less turnover with efficient wages—and hence fewer job openings.
Let's Quit Pretending About Uber
Did not take any holidays. You need to work on it every day, 365 days per year. Lots of little tricks. Like reading books written for 10 year-olds, by native authors of the language and set in a country where this is the native language. No translations of famous English writers.

Keep track of words you don't kn ow during the day, and look them up in the dictionary every evening. Go out of your way to meet native speakers. When I worked in Silicon Valley, I listened to Spanish language radio stations only, watched only SPanish language TV networks, only read Spanish language newspapers which happened to be free, and only spoke Spanish in stores and restaurants. It helped that 50% of population in SV is hispanic, and I was a foreigner in the USA just like them.

Another trick, after you check the news in English, read it again on the net in your target language. And watch TV series with subtitles in the same language. For instance, I watched Russian TV series with subtitles in Russian. That helped me when my ear could not make out the words. Also, not movies, but TV series because the same characters appear again and again so you get used to their quirks of speech and can learn faster.

Buy a kids encyclopedia in the target language. Don't be afraid to download and read university papers and dissertations in linguistics about your target language.

And finally, get married to someone who speaks the language and raise bilingual kids.
On matters of opinion, ABSOLUTELY. On matters of polling, absolutely false. Even Brexit was predicted by the polls, it just didn't happen until a week before the vote. (It's worth noting, of course, the same could happen here. And that's probably what Thiel is counting on).
Because he's a bully with a dangerous trigger-finger mentality. He doesn't have any actual policies. There's the formal GOP policy which he frequently contradicts and his own viewpoints are extremely fluid as well. His only consistency is attacking those who he views as lower than him.
The outcome I'm looking for is basically CRDT (or something very like it) using only BYO smartphone & laptop devices (acting as both the forwarding nodes and the application client), robust against nontechnical user mishap and patchy/absent Internet connectivity.

I was looking at http://www.opengarden.com/meshkit.html but they don't seem interested in my scale.
That is one plausible interpretation but there are several layers to this. It is not a coincidence that RenTech and Thiel are supporting Trump.

I hesitate to be explicit about what I think is actually going on but if you've read my posts on the Stagnation Hypothesis or watched Peter Thiel's videos on Youtube (low view counts, so I know you're not watching them!) you'll know there is a rather disturbing big picture which most people are oblivious to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMpmfaE9bII
It's not just multiplying the upside by the probability. The upside depends upon how many people are in the crowd with you. Right now, everybody else is deserting Trump - and so if Thiel doubles-down on his bet, Trump and his loyalists will remember that all the moreso, and so if Trump wins Thiel stands out even more from everyone that deserted Trump but then came crawling back when times looked good.

Eich and Trump are in very different roles. Eich was CEO of a non-profit: as a non-profit, they depend crucially on his ability to fundraise, and so pissing off big Mozilla donors makes it impossible to do his job. Thiel is an investor of his own capital: pissing off other people is generally neutral to him, as he doesn't depend on anyone else for anything, and being able to piss people off allows him to take risks that are underpriced because other people are too afraid of pissing others off.
Most politics/polling nerds look at aggregations of polls. Not sure where you get this idea that they are interested in a poll like USC which is such an outlier.
*in the 20th century
This is precisely why I've been pushing for Redux even outside of the React ecosystem. I've been talking to quite a few people interviewing for ng2 projects... regardless of my opinions on ng2, something like Redux is probably a good idea for most projects (beyond trivial complexity, to relatively large).
This is exactly why you should never blindly trust a single poll.

We don't know who is right/wrong until after the election so it is better to assume that a range of different polls taken at different times with different methodologies is likely to be more accurate.
There are similar donation limits in the USA, but the recent Citizen's United supreme court ruling allows individuals to give large sums to "political action committees" which can act in support of a candidate as long as they don't get caught directly coordinating with them. This has lead to some pretty egregious influences on politics, especially in smaller races with less scrutiny where elections can now be bought for sometimes as little as $10k.
I have my problems with Libertarianism, but I don't understand what you don't understand. Libertarians think everyone should have freedom to do whatever one wants, but that says nothing of having power to do whatever one wants.
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Required jobs scale very very poorly with population. I wouldn't be surprised if the rate was something less than 1 additional person in the workforce for every 10 additional people in the population.
Tech leans liberal and highly-educated, demographically not a good fit for Trump.
Thiel thinks several steps ahead like a chessmaster. Donating to Trump is likely an effort to thwart the current money influenced political system not about morals.

IMO, Trump will stumble and fall with every step like he already is right now.
Good question. I don't care much for Amazon, their spurious sellers and their scant descriptions. I buy from Monoprice, Microcenter, Mouser. Ebay if I have to, Amazon lastly. Have found a few smaller, boutique(?) shops over the years, but they come & they go.
You can call external code from Mathematica, so they can be part of the standard lib and be special.
This proves, once again, what a world-class, unbeatable tool Haskell is for writing toy interpreters.
> Where they eliminated that one 19 year old, and saw very little effect on the poll.

How is that a compelling answer?

It's like if a news investigation found that a company had poor quality control and features a photo of a defective product in their writeup and the company's response was "we issued a refund for the product the news team purchased."

All I can say is that you sound an awful lot like the 2012 talking heads who were convinced Romney would win despite all the polling pointing to the contrary. For the record, Nate Silver's biggest mistake in the primaries was not listening to the polls enough. For him (and every other data-driven forecaster) to be getting the general wrong they'd have to be making the exact opposite mistake as before.

I'd be happy to give you 10:1 odds on Trump losing. And I'm biased here: a few months ago, I was convinced Trump would win.
The fact that it's an outlier doesn't interest you? Maybe we have different definitions of "nerd".
> why the tech industry is so anti-Trump.

People don't risk openly supporting Trump unless they have the kind of fuck-you money/assets that allows them to do so. Truth is that the tech industry is probably leaning toward the Democratic party a lot less than it actually seems simply because of the politically motivated discrimination you would face should you endorse the wrong candidate (or embrace the "wrong" opinions in public).

I have seen what happened to a couple folks who told "unappropriate" jokes in a private discussion to their friends while at a public event. They lost their job.

I have seen how tons of progressives (not to say most) are so entrenched in their own bias that they fail to realize that dissenting opinions to their beliefs are not morally reprehensible. And that their cultish attitude with respect to diversity is as stupid as the white nationalistic obsession of homogeneity.

Finally, I have seen how the democrats/progressives systematically demolish the lives of the people who oppose them. That's why I will remain silent. Post anonymously and take action with my vote. And that's why everyone at my workplace believes I am a staunch HRC supporter.

And before you accuse me of paranoia or to have a persecution complex I recommend you try to first figure out why so many people are behaving the exact same way I am: telling one thing in public (or to pollsters) and do another when they are protected by the opacity of a voting cabin.

edit: I posted this comment 4 seconds ago and it is already at -1. You read very fast!
Exactly there is a big myth going around that polls never predicted Brexit when in fact they absolutely did. People just didn't want to believe them.

Polls are objective not subjective.
I am not sure what you are saying, and I really don't want to watch that video. Can you be explicit? I want to know what you are thinking.
Very much so... it's a very good fit (though how you extend things will vary) from just past trivial projects, to fairly large. Very few projects are too large for redux to be a decent fit.
I'm assuming 1/10 probability of Trump winning. Most poll aggregators are going 1/6; I actually suspect we'll see a bigger Clinton blowout than expected, but that's just MHO.
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