skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mere fact that it has to be said is concerning. Even more so when it is happening at an institution that is among the most meritocratic in SV. It speaks volume about the depth and toxicity of some self-reinforcing militant feedback loops.

It is quite interesting that it is so dangerous for your career to hold "alternative" views (wrt. to mainstream ideologies there) in a place that has cultish adoration of diversity as an end in itself.

Even more so interesting to see American progressives wear the clothes of puritanism and McCarthysm. The fascist menace is threatening American society! Quick! You must make sure that those two engineers who have said they would vote Trump lose their jobs! The fascists want to infiltrate every layer of society to bring down the glorious progress. Call this hotline and get them arrested and tried for treason against Progress. Otherwise, brace yourself to hear the drums of nationalism beat again and bring the world on the brinks of genocide. If you are not with us you are against us!

Anyway, good on Sam for not taking part in that collective hysteria. I must say the hang-over from the current kool-aid binge drinking party is going to be harsh. So far this attitude of shaming people for not embracing the beautiful and unquestionable axiology of Progress has only been furthermore polarization and resentment.

If you want to allow companies to fire their employees based on the political stance they take during a national election; you should, by the same logic, allow them to discriminate based on gender, age or ethnicity. Because yes, what you are essentially saying is that corporations are not politically neutral agents. They can hold and enforce ideologies when it comes to their human management practices.

Which, of course, does not fly well when it starts impacting you negatively because you do not hold the "right" opinions.
That depends on your point of view. Is a human lifetime long or short?
I'll just weigh in here: the blog's success was very influential in accelerating the growth. But had I been a smaller blog, I likely would have had similar success in convincing the other blogs that this platform helped solve a problem they were all facing.

What I take away as important is that I was part of the problem I was solving, rather than an outsider observing. A blog with 5,000 followers is just as likely to understand that problem as a blog with 100,000 followers.

Because I was part of the problem, I was able to build a system that effectively solved it. Today, there are more than 200 blogs/channels using SubmitHub to receive their submissions -- and that happened in less than 10 months. The vast majority of them aren't there because Indie Shuffle did well; they're there because SubmitHub makes their lives better.
No, I don't recommend that. I don't think we should work to de-normalize Republicans. I don't think we should ostracize Republicans who vote for Trump out of genuine concern over the direction of the Supreme Court, or because they believe abortion is murder. I don't think we should ostracize Trump supporters.

But I think there's an obvious, material difference between the kind of support a voter might give Trump --- casting a vote, wearing a pin, putting up a lawn sign --- and what Thiel did. Trump is so troubling the the Republican party that they had to put Scott Baio on stage at their convention. Trump's most important GOP surrogate is the discredited former mayor of New York City. Every living former GOP nominee refused to speak for Trump at the RNC. Every living GOP president refused to endorse them. Thiel, though, did exactly that. He got up on the most public stage imaginable and told the American people that Trump was the only honest candidate in the election.

Months later, after Trump had pivoted his campaign to a strategy that depends on white voters presumption that black votes are illegitimate and that the election is rigged, after more than ten women came out to say Trump had sexually assaulted them, Thiel wrote a $1.25MM check for Trump.

I can tolerate Republicans voting their conscience about the Supreme Court.

I will not tolerate the people in the crowds whooping and cheering Trump's claim that some women are too ugly to have been assaulted by Trump.

Similarly, I will not tolerate Peter Thiel, Rudolph Giuliani, or Chris Christie, or any of the rest of Trump's high council of enablers.
Ridiculous.

You make it sound like the efforts to start a business and do well, be profitable, were not impressive.
I think of it as "AI cosplay". They imagine how an ultimate superintelligence would behave, trying to pull the hidden levers of power in the world to achieve their ends, and then try to emulate it.

At the heart is a very undemocratic belief that the most capable people should 'hack' the world to their own ends, and the rest of us will catch up.
Do you know about cljs-js ? https://github.com/cljsjs/packages
A few thoughts from our experience growing Cronitor as a side project:

1. Hacker News has provided exposure but not a lot of direct business. Sometimes people find us on other channels but recognize us from HN. I would say, don't worry too much if you never front page here.

2. Working on SEO consistently over the years has been our most valuable source of high quality traffic.

3. Work with influencers in your industry. When a popular AWS blogger wrote about Cronitor and was tweeted by their AWS community lead Jeff Barr we added 8 subscribers that day that are still with us.

4. Re-marketing to sign-ups that didn't convert. Every month our product noticeably gets better in some way, and those early sign-ups to our free plan that didn't subscribe have been an invaluable source of later conversion.
I have Swedish Netflix and when I travel I get the catalog of whatever country I happen to be in.
Have you considered charging by number of fans per outlet, instead of a flat $1/credit? Seems to me the value is in the blog's reach, similar to CPM in advertising. It goes against the simplicity of your platform, so you could make it very simple: $5 for high traffic, $3 for medium, $1 for low (or a variation of that).
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As an English speaker from New Zealand, the American usage of light is confusing to me as well.

Two of my favourite misunderstandings between NZ and US English are the meaning of the words fanny and pissed.
It's also cute because it's from Chris Dyer's group.
What is monthly revenue like?
This New VC Firm Wants to Fund Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems
Moral accusations aside (after all, no politician has a clean slate), I'm really curious why you think it's a good idea to mix politics and business?

Personally, though, I think both candidates have their fair share of dirt. Here in California, we are pretty shielded from the other side. I've been home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (where pg is from) for the past month working remotely, and it has been a real eye-opener hearing the other side of the story.

Full disclosure: I'm voting for Hillary.

> "given how for most of YC's history they've prioritised helping first and money second"

Can you elaborate? Not that I disagree with you, but I am curious what your thoughts are.

> "Continuing to prop up a billionaire that actively campaigns with Trump and continues to funnel money towards him is a grave mark against YC"

I strongly disagree ("BUT {mainstream political candidate} is, represents, or supports X" isn't a valid rebuttal either, no matter what X is -- supporting said candidate should never justify an employer jeopardizing one's livelihood in a _truly_ democratic society; McCarthyism is a great analogy).
Ask HN: What geolocation-based games do you like besides Pokemon Go?
So...?
How is the Mexican food in Paris?
The Current State of Artificial Intelligence
Here's pretty nice material on the role of media in election 2016 from Hoover Institution at Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSZDiBjkaCM
By the way. NCC group (who was behind these challenges) is looking for a crypto intern for the next summer (2017). If you like cryptopals, we probably already like you :)

Check the internship challenges here: cryptoservices.github.io/challenges
Building KDE 1.0 (or was it 1.1?) from source on Redhat 5.1 was the first ever major thing I did with *nix - I barely understood anything about Linux or building software at the time. I was so amazed that I even got it working.

My old Pentium 200 classic (64MB RAM from memory) barely had a working dialup connection, and it seemed to take ages to download the tarballs and build them.

I remember building 3.2 (ish?) again years later on a much much faster machine and it still seemed to take about the same about of time though :)
Have you filed bugs on Mozilla for those? There's more than a JS engine to a web app; you could be running into layout or style system issues just as easily... But the important part is that we can't fix performance issues we don't know about, so please report performance issues if you encounter them!
I'm not sure if "overwhelmingly mindless" is the right characterization. In my opinion, the most interesting story playing out among the Western nations is what is happening in Poland right now. In the USA, people fought for independence from Britain starting in 1775, so obviously those people are not alive in 2016. But in Poland, many of the people alive now are the same people who overthrew tyranny in 1989. That's an interesting story. Among the Polish public there are many who were willing to risk their lives to fight for a more open, democratic and liberal political system, in 1989. And now, in 2016, Poland is suffering the same shift towards authoritarianism that we see in other Western countries.

Just so I'm clear, I'm saying I find this interesting because in many cases we are talking about the same people who were alive in 1989. In the USA you can say "Oh, that generation believed in those things, but those currently alive don't believe in these things." (I don't agree with that statement, but you could make that argument.) Whereas in Poland, it's in many cases the same people who fought for a more open system who are now tolerating the drift towards a more authoritarian system.

To me, the story isn't about "overwhelmingly mindless" voters, its about voters who are angry with the failure of the system. That is, they are mindful of how the system has failed. They may not know what the answer is, but they are angry, and they are willing to elect politicians who seem to mirror their anger. It might be a bad strategy to vote for someone simply because they appear to reflect your anger, but I think I can understand the motivation, and it is not quite the same as being mindless.
Article author here.

Wow was I surprised to see this on Hacker News! It's my view that decentralized systems will almost always be less efficient than centralized systems. This is because centralized systems can organize information in a more efficient manner and use specialized hardware. Decentralized systems give you privacy, redundancy, anonymity and other benefits at a significant additional cost.

Bitcoin has the potential to provide a mechanism for decentralized systems to set prices and allocate resources. We'll see how this plays out over time.
So should we despise people who support Hillary too? She's no pure angel either.
Do you travel ? In much if not all of Europe not giving your password, even to a random search when passing through (not entering the country), is a crime. Therefore legal advice is to provide custom agents and other police with access to any device upon request and then.
Machine learning is subset of statistics.

The standard text in ML, "The Elements of Statistical Learning" is authored by statistics Professors.

Statistics is the new statistics. The rest is marketing bullshit.
As stated in the article, the intention of the tax seems to be to ensure financial services industry contributes their fair share of tax payers contributions to bailouts. I don't see how this is guaranteed - it seems more likely that costs of doing business will be passed to end users. More likely is a general slowdown of business - maybe that is the goal of the project.

My other comment is a bit of a nitpick. I don't think it good sense to implement a new tax on the basis that you don't see good arguments against. I think rather that you need strong arguments for.
We use Minikube during development and have dropped compose files entirely :)
"fully standards compliant" is definitely overselling it. Firefox aims for that, but doesn't always succeed. (Disclaimer: I work on standards support in Firefox, among other things.)
This story hits close to home - I have the exact same problem as the blogger. I own a Nexus 4, run the latest CyanogenMod 13, played Pokémon GO for a while, and was blocked in the September update. I never used the root features of my phone, and tried some attempts to remove the root without success. Shame on Niantic for being so heavy-handed on its users.
Basically DHH (guy who basically created Ruby on Rails and Basecamp) complained to Sam about their partnership with Peter Thiel since he just donated over a $1 million to the Trump campaign. DHH, in his argument with Paul G, said that he would have fired an employee who was a Trump surrogate.

Lots of people supporting each person and it's basically a political shit show after that with some people saying you can't fire someone just for their political beliefs and others say Trump is an edge cased monster that should be handled differently.

That was my understanding of it but I missed some of the beginning. There were also big names that I can't find now that seemed to be retweeting each one in support.

Seems messy.
Some students might learn how to learn as a side effect of surviving the system, but there are easier ways of surviving the system than actually learning. There are strong incentives against actually learning too -- e.g. when the material to be learned is obsolete or irrelevant in the face of modern technology. In any case I think you're the first I've heard say they thought the point of the system is to learn how to learn, I've never seen that even historically. (And if it were true, the system is an even bigger failure than it already is while addressing its other stated purposes...)
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That's been fixed
Thiel isn't merely a supporter of Trump. There are, as many have pointed out on this thread, tens of millions of Trump supporters.

But they are not all the same: some of them support Trump because they cannot in good conscience vote for a pro-choice candidate (they are wrong in this instance, but they are wrong in good faith). Others --- hundreds of thousands of them --- support Trump because they are themselves white nationalists who see in Trump the hope that America can revert itself to the social mores of the late 1940s. Some people put up lawn signs. Some people donate millions of dollars to Trump. Some people refuse to disavow Trump, because to do so would be to spend political capital to thwart an outcome that is already unlikely to occur. Others get up on stage with Scott Baio to shout their support for Trump into microphones and cameras.

Along virtually every axis you can come up with, Thiel's support for Trump exceeds the norms of our politics and of civil debate. Thiel is not a typical Trump supporter. I do not need to stretch to make this argument: it is clear and obvious.

Sam Altman and Paul Graham should acknowledge this. I don't care what else they do; I don't care if they "fire" Thiel. But they have to at least pay consistent lip service to the things they claim to believe.

* Some of them support Trump because they believe
No, it has been fixed
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I was hoping more about how we might bridge the gaps between people of differing opinions, but I understand that might be a little too far afield from the original topic. I do think it's important, though, especially going forward after November 8. No one is going to be going away just because the election is over.
While I'm not a fan of the modern abuse of the term "machine learning" as a marketing buzzword, this article is tautological ("Machine Learning is the new statistics because it is not statistics") and does not provide much insight aside from invoking other buzzwords ("Reality Analysis Level 1"?).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12718876 is an example that involved not reading the article very carefully, then complaining about the fact that some things that are already extensions should be extensions.
We already do this when we have a lot of props to pass down. "A lot" usually means enough to take the line past 100 columns.

const componentProps = {};
<Component {...componentProps} />
Excuse me for hijacking your comment, but Stripe is actually 1.4% in EU. I can not comment on others, but the cap is an EU directive.
Or using pretty much any metric of successful you can think in the financial world.
Thiel is a YC partner, not an employee they can fire. And what people like me are calling for is for YC to disavow him.

It's much easier to defend "we won't fire an employee for his beliefs", but it is also intellectually dishonest.
Putting on my devil's advocate hat here. I think you're greatly discrediting the value of the network effect.

Just because you build something that you need does not mean that you will be successful. People do that all the time, and then wonder why they don't make it. In reality, it's incredibly difficult to get your product in front of people who need it, even if it solves their problems perfectly.

Not saying you don't deserve credit for the hard work you put into this - you absolutely do. Just keep in mind that having a great product that solves a real problem for people is not enough. You either need luck or a network effect (and then you still need a little luck).
Seeing XAML/WPF/Silverlight in the microsoft c# world after seeing MXML was like going one step backwards, in my opinion. Very similar but XAML is more awkward and verbose.
Let me summarize so far the US involvement in the middle east:
US gets involved in Iran, then in Iraq - thing gets worse.
US gets involved in Afghanistan - al quaeda is born.
US make very limited involvement in Iraq - things get better.
US gets involved in Afganistan again - things go to hell
US invades Iraq - thing go to deeper hell
US interfere minimally with Egypt's revolution by backing the winner both times - the country is somewhat stable.
US interferes more heavily after dragging their feet in Libya and the place is in low level civil war.
US interferes in Syria and we have hell on earth there.

See a pattern - you can rely on US to make the worst choice in the majority of cases.

The only sensible strategy in the Middle East is to support the strongman as long as he keeps the place together and switch to the new one, when the old no longer is. Realpoltik 101 - just listen to Kissinger.
I have a question for the guy running indie hackers. Do you periodically update those revenue figures?
For anyone that has tried the previous version, the memory issue has been fixed.

This has 30 models, and they're all a lot better than the previous 8 or so it had.

Also added a camera button for quick experiments.
The argument between DHH and Paul became a hypothetical about firing an employee like that. DHH was very for it.
They are going for everything and everyone. The hunt for taxes has begun. Of course it's all being trumpeted as "tax the rich" now, but they will come for you, eventually. In fact they already do with negative interest rates, which are essentialy a tax on money.

As the parent points out, capital will just move elsewhere.
Perhaps more interesting for a 5-minute distraction is "Uncleftish Beholding", a description of a well-known scientific theory written with no Romance-language words.

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language...
Are you seriously claiming that making posts on Hacker News and Reddit requires anywhere near the intellectual rigour and deep thought required for "paradigm-shifting" changes?
I am reading so many different opinions here.

I wonder what would you all reply to an "Ask HN" thread like "I am working day and night and sending emails even outside business hours, but my colleagues do not reply unless it's business hours and that is really bugging me".

Btw, did you all consider that maybe that guy just needs or wants really hard that promotion or that salary level-up and is "just" working as hard as he can towards such goal? He/she/They might have duties you do not have (kids, family members, health expenses or other stuff).

@OP: I'd say, as long as you feel honest about your output and feel you're working fairly hard for your company you are okay. You might just want to take a break and think if there is any way to improve/optimise your output.
Forgetting your password is a crime? Have they consulted neurologists?
Thanks, providing constant supply and demand makes sense. On the other hand you only describe consequences of high FTT. If it was something like 0.001 %, it would still disrupt HFT but have almost no effect on my trading!? At least that's what I thought it is supposed to do?
I've considered it for sure -- holding off on something like that for now, tho.
Also worth mentioning if you want automatic HTTPS is Russ Cox's implementation that works with Go's built in HTTP server:

https://github.com/rsc/letsencrypt

I've used it. It's incredibly easy. It seems he now recommends this more official-looking package:

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert
I think that, if they were trying to determine this outside the context of "here's a math problem from a teacher-type person", they would realize there's no way to know more easily. But, this still makes an important point, that the way we teach math doesn't look much like how we use it, which raises the question of whether we are really preparing students to use the math they are allegedly learning.
I agree in the final say being with the woman carrying the child however the father should be able to renounce all rights and responsibilities pre-birth if they do not want the child. Sex can lead to pregnancy and pregnancy leads to kids, both parties know the potential outcome so blaming it on one party seems a bit silly.
The key property that you should be testing for is dependence. It would be surprising if you could identify anything in the descriptive statistics, that would make this all child's play?

I can't imagine any serious data scientist not knowing that.
> Because yes, what you are essentially saying is that corporations are not politically neutral agents. They can hold and enforce ideologies when it comes to their human management practices.

If corporations are expected to be truly "politically neutral agents", then IBM providing services to the Nazis was nothing wrong (cries of "Godwin!" go here). I mean, money's money, right? They have a responsibility to their shareholders to be profitable, and genocide is just a political question, on which the German people have spoken (and even if they didn't, again, whether democracy is good or not is also a political question).

But no, it doesn't work that way. We do actually expect corporations to be political to some extent. The only real question here is what that extent is. I don't really have a problem drawing the line at someone like Trump. If you do, that's fine, but all that pompous talk about puritanism and McCarthysm is misdirected.

Unless, of course, you really do think that IBM was in the right.
That wasn't really the issue that was raised, speaking of intellectual dishonesty. Plenty of companies withdrew advertising from the RNC over Trump. Business partnership is a contractual relationship between equals, not a hierarchical one with superiors and subordinates.
Nope. You have to re-announce them periodically (and this is ignoring all the routing attacks you can do on IPFS).