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It depends on what your goals are. If your goal is to do effective business, probably not. If your goal is to signal your political allegiance, possibly to not get fired yourself, then yes get them out.

If your goals are a mix of both, weigh and decide.
> I will continue to try to change [his grandmother & Thiel's] minds.

I can get behind that.

> of course, if Peter said some of the things Trump says himself, he would no longer be part of Y Combinator

sama should address the weird things Peter has said about women voting.
Apple has made a big investment in both VR and electric vehicles. Tim Cook has spoken publicly- really rare- about the preference for AR, so he's already positioning the companies approach. This tells me that they have a compelling solution that is being refined. (who knows when it will hit the market).

It looks like they are still working out the compelling solution to electric vehicles and so there's no reason to talk about it before they have a product ready.
> if Peter said some of the things Trump says himself, he would no longer be part of Y Combinator

That could be scary to employees of Y Combinator... what things fall on the blacklist? To me it's obvious that you will fire someone for saying racist or sexist remarks but it's not clear exactly what I can or cannot say to avoid being fired.
With your logic, so Sam Altman effectively is saying half of trump of supporters are a basket of deplorables?
We are talking here about 40-50% of the American electorate not some fringe maniac. If you think those people's opinion should be shunned than your world view seems very restricted to me.
> Not all prisons allow you to write.

This is deeply disturbing.
What? Why is money speech? What makes donation different from voting pragmatically? (eg. "I'll put up with an offensive loudmouth for President if it means we get to avoid destroying another Middle Eastern civilization and potentially starting WW3")
What about caching - is that an advantage over inline SVG? I imagine the css would compress better too? I'd like to see animated ones. Holy geocities! I have no clue how it works. Amazing.
What is really bad here is that we have to vote against a very bad candidate, not for a good one. Hilary needs to commit to certain priorities for all those groups that decided to vote for her - potentially compromising what she has promised so far - simply voting against Trump. Otherwise voting for her is a lost vote...
How Free Web Content Traps People in an Abyss of Ads and Clickbait
If you find this many critical bugs, there is no doubt that there are more, since it is indicative of the overall code quality. Still, what they're doing is good work and crypto remains hard. I am glad they're doing it.
> he effectively is saying what Trump is saying

sort of yes, sort of no. this seems like it could be an all-or-nothing statement, which could be unrealistic.

every candidate is flawed and ultimately one has to make a decision on which will be the most beneficial wrt the issues you care about.
The purge begins.

And the left calls Trump supporters fascists...
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How are other small DB companies doing in this respect? For example, Datomic, or VoltDB? Do these businesses have good prospects?
The image I like to remember is the victorious Ulysses S. Grant telling the defeated Robert E. Lee and his officers to keep their horses, keep their sidearms, and go home to their families, but not before being fed from Union rations.

Lee returned to his men and said: "Go and be as good a citizen as you were soldiers".

And Grant went to his: "Stop the firing. The Rebels are our countrymen again."

Lincoln later remarked: “To be harsh or spiteful, or punish them, or throw (the Union's) win in their face, was not going to do anybody any good.”

If these great men could so magnanimous after a vicious and bloody war, what does it say about us that we are so spiteful and triumphalist in the course of ordinary politics.
Google wants you back in their serps as fast as possible and for you to notice that it's an option.
The level of brainwashedness here is unbelievable! The OP didn't even bother to research or put data behind his claim/theory.
She apologized the next day though.
The website of Scala.js is devoid of some of the problems mentioned. It has an in-browser playground, a getting started guide that uses sbt and follows development conventions, and a useful list of libraries. Maybe Scala can learn a bit from Scala.js?

EDIT: small grammar error
Docker Inc. desperately wants to be VMware. I don't think it's a coincidence that the official documentation is so full of virtualization-like choice of words you'd be forgiven if you thought they already were.

They do however seem to be cutting so many corners technically, that the risk is they get undercut on their core offering.
Much needed clarification, Sam. You have said it like it is. Trump is dangerous.
Amazing new graphics cards from Nvidia, Apple have all the bits to make a nice VR headset and laptop / ipad that will drive it. I'm surprised they haven't dropped any hints yet.

So, they've thought it through and decided now is not the time... why? Why not get in there while Playstation is getting in there. I guess they aren't really a games company, yet the iPhone and iPad are both great for casual games. So maybe that's not the reason. Could be that there is something better in the pipeline (hololens) or that VR isn't consumer ready yet.
> But not for e.g. northern Europe. There just is too little sun, especially in the winter.

Norway is already 99% on renewable energy because of hydropower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Norway

There's also plenty of wind. Solar is not your only option.
Except Thiel is saying many of the repugnant things that made Trump popular.

- Thiel is passionately against all forms of political correctness, just like Trump.

- Thiel believes that the 19th amendment destroyed democracy, because women vote in favor for anti-libertarian welfare measures. When faced with the choice between saving democracy and capitalism, Thiel chooses capitalism. Trump shares this antidemocratic sentiment.

- Thiel: "A startup is basically structured as a monarchy. We don’t call it that, of course." Trump shares this authoritarian leadership style.

- Thiel wants to restrict immigration to highly educated people. Just like Trump.

- Thiel is the (primary?) backer of Curtis Yarvin, the alt-right (read: white supremacist) thoughtleader about "human biodiversity" (read: why some races are biologically inferior). Trump has proudly declared his biologically superior ancestry.

- Thiel is a climate skeptic: "The idea that human activity alters the climate is "more pseudoscience" than science". Trump famously called global warming a hoax invented by the Chinese.

- They're both billionaires that want to lower taxes for the 1%.

Thiel supports Trump because Thiel agrees with Trump. Really.
> Donald Trump represents an unprecedented threat to America, and voting for Hillary is the best way to defend our country against it
> Once you go Android, you don't go back.

I've been a user of Android since Eclair. It wasn't good the. So I went back to iOS. I have many friends who are android only or iOS only. I prefer to use whatever is best at the time.

I'm currently typing this from a 6S+. I was looking forward to the Pixel but I'm not impressed. So I'll see what happens after the Pixel.

I really wanted the Note 7 but you know the story...
Completely agree here. His $1 million contribution has far more impact for Trump's potential Presidency, than a single vote does.
Yes--honestly, for me this is much more about not electing Trump than electing Clinton.
I already made this point today but Hillary Clinton, whom sama is endorsing, has directly contributed to starting two wars (in Syria and Libya). While Trump threatened to ban Muslims from entering the US, her actions have already led to thousands of Muslims being killed. Isn't that strictly worse?
So for the record, I'm not really trying to cast 'blame' on one side or the other. But here's the issue. Neither of us really know who the aggressive actor is.

I can't read Hillary Clinton's mind. I can't realtalk with Julian Assange. I can't read Trump's emails. I'm not part of any intelligence community.

Was the announcement of the video timed to preempt the Wikileaks Podesta emails, or were the emails released as a direct reaction to the video? Is Wikileaks a puppet or the media? Nobody has the relevant meta-information to discern this. We're getting bombarded with scandalous new information against both candidates on a daily basis, so much so that it's nearly impossible to meaningfully judge their weight and discern who the bad actors really are.

What happens from this is we in our Trump or Hillary bubbles, or whatever bubble we may be in, with full-time jobs and a family to feed don't have the time to invest in these issues. This is really the logical conclusion of the problem with Internet/information bubbles.

The US is in a post-fact world where people get their opinions from the media rather than facts (though to some extent it's always been that way). When Wikileaks, a supposed bastion of free information appears to be biased or compromised, perhaps from possible grudges by Assange or international influence, we lose another source of that meta-information.
Sam tweeted that this was his favorite article about the election: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-on...

It really does a great job of helping explain Trump supporters.
I wish more companies would cut ties with Ellen. She's a joke. In summary, "I know we support diversity but not the kind of diversity where you support a candidate I don't like."
Just adding to this, claiming that a democratic election is rigged is one of Umberto Eco's 14 signs of Ur-Fascism [0]:

> Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.

[0] http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
More then half.
good to see Project Include standing up. now is a good time to stand up as an organization CEO, director, investor and declare where you stand. It could save your company lots of money down the road white-washing your history if Trump implements only part of the things he says he will. Ask the likes of Volkswagen & Daimler how they like their roots.

And don't tell me companies don't need to have an opinion. That was true 100 years ago not in the age of TTIP. But it could be that considering Thiel's investment portfolio that he does want actually more war. Who is the biggest spender right now in Cyber? (hint it's not just crappy IoT devices). Defense applications are way more expensive and proftable to build than consumer apps. Especially in times of fear.

Companies are people, so please YES do take a side and don't be a coward CEO hiding behind "it's politics therefore we should not speak of it at work".

I wish YC would have followed the example and I'm still waiting from S.Altman to say something on twitter that doesn't sound like an appalling excuse!
How come Viktor Orban support is bad as Mao Zedong?
> I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump. But I’d like to find out, because we have to include everyone in our path forward.

I think this video by the Guardian helps to clear up why some people are Trump supporters: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/oct/12/west-v...
sounds like the difference between a normative statement and a positive statement might be relevant here
I am always skeptical when somebody takes his personal opinion as the metric to tell the world what right and wrong is.
No, but when people in power play their little games this happen.
Golden Gate Bridge beefing up patrols to prevent suicides
I'd disagree. As an English speaker, you probably think of pink as a "light red" or a "shade of red" or "red with some white pigment mixed in"; while red is a fundamental color. As a Russian speaker, goluboy is not a shade of siny - the two colors are equally fundamental.
Missing the old days that US and USSR competing on space and innovating tons of new technologies for mankind. Now what do we got, Snapchat, Instagram, Uber, Airbnb and we call that innovations?
Scott Adams has noted how Trump's views evolve to the people's, I do agree in thinking he's a populist. Would any of the other GOP candidates have had a gay man speak at the RNC?

Populists can be dangerous, but they can also do a lot of good. It seems worth a chance in the current environment, though ever since I read this passage from http://www.constitution.org/eng/patriarcha.htm I've been wary of those with mass support: "Nero, Heliogabalus, Otho, Vitellius, and such other monsters of nature, were the minions of the multitude and set up by them. Pertinax, Alexander, Severus, Gordianus, Gallus, Emilianus, Quintilius, Aurelianus, Tacitus, Probus, and Numerianus, all of them good emperors in the judgment of all historians, yet murdered by the multitude."
When Peter Thiel funds the World's Worst Startup it's totally HN-worthy! (LOL)
I think those organizations were wrong to support SOPA, and it was wrong for us to say we wouldn't invite them to Demo Day.
This is what leaders do. Great one, Sam
It's funny, because I tried going the other way when I picked up a Retina Macbook Pro (because the screen was amazing), which I dropped about 3 years back after chafing on OS X a lot and deciding to switch back as I transitioned to a desktop machine again.

Homebrew felt really clunky (broken/missing/out of date packages, manual intervention needed, etc...) and so dev tools were a pain. The OS X experience also didn't offer me room to change things to suit my needs, and the OS X apps all felt really lacking. I didn't find a file manager that could touch Dolphin, for example.

I also found that any decent OS X tool was going to cost me £20, mostly for really small applications that did specific things, so I'd want tons of them. By contrast, I never had to search hard for the Linux tooling, and it was always FOSS.

More specifically when comparing to Arch Linux, OS X suffered from the same magic problem as Ubuntu, Windows and anything else where the system is set up for you. The back end was all magic, so when something went wrong, I had no idea why or where to fix it. When you use it like a toaster, it's also pretty impenetrable. (Fine when your problem is common, less so when it isn't).

It's probably a difference between how we use our devices (I never needed to try and use bluetooth, for example).

OS X is still, after three years, the only OS that does multi-monitor with different densities well though, I'll give it that. Hoping that will get sorted soon in my Linux environment.
Trump hasn't made "jokes" about droning him. [1]

Secondly, and with a little more convoluted reasoning: it seems to be a truism that Republican/Conservative presidencies are harder economically for people living in poverty. Republicans are less socialist, in other words. I think it's pretty clear that Assange would like to see a revolution in the US, and revolutions tend to happen when the people don't have enough to eat. Hoping for Trump to win could be seen as hoping for a revolution in that light.

1. http://truepundit.com/under-intense-pressure-to-silence-wiki...
"If money is speech (and SCOTUS tells us it is) and Thiel donates over $1 million to Trump's campaign, then he effectively is saying what Trump is saying."

And wasn't this the argument made by those who supported the ouster of Brendan Eich from Mozilla?
No because you can have both at the same time?
When was the last time you noticed there was analytics happening on the page you were on?
I am at a loss.

Is this the kind of reasoning that would make someone not read Ender's Game due to the opinions [0] of the writer?

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Views_about_h...
People need to understand, about 43% of eligible electorate are going to Vote for Trump. Its better trying to understand them rather than demonize them. What next, no funding to start-ups in Texas since it voted Trump.

Trump is obnoxious but Stalinist purges are not an answer for it.
It saddens me greatly to hear this sentiment reflected here at Hacker News. To reject the entire institution of journalism is a radical position, and not justified by fact. Manipulating the timing of release is a common tool used by literally every public figure and institution. To characterize timing manipulation as collusion and to imply that it means no-one can be trusted is a critical mistake.

Given my position, I think it's useful to state what would undermine the credibility of an institution of journalism. It's actually really simple: if it persistently reports incidents for which there is no proof, or if it reports incidents in such a way that obscures the facts themselves (spin). Any institution that regularly confuses editorializing for journalism losses its credibility. By these rules there are many institutions that are not trustworthy (e.g. Fox) but there are many institutions that are (the NYT).
Haven't looked deep into the thought behind the "money is speech" situation, but it seems extreme to say that giving money is the same as talking.

Let's assume Alice supports a candidate not because of their general positions but because of a certain niche position that person A thinks is really important.

If you hate a certain position the candidate believes but person A might feel ambivalent about, is it fair to redirect that anger to Alice?

The major difference I see between the candidate and Alice is simply that if another candidate that came along without the position you may hate but still having the niche belief, they may switch quite quickly.
Could I please, pretty please with a cherry on top, have one sanctuary that isn't infested with "Vote for X, because Y is unacceptable"? It's already been done everywhere else ad nauseam.
A Generation of False Entrepreneurs
It is very difficult to make a case for libel or slander against a public official. I can't think of a single one, offhand.

As Billy Carter once put it, "That means you can call your congressman a no-good sumbitch and he can't do anything about it".

Seditious conspiracy is a crime, but requires overt planning of an act to overthrow the government, or make war against the United States. Suggesting that an election was rigged doesn't come close to meeting that bar.
I can't say I've witnessed the same thing. Instead many cases start out as a pet project of a company (maybe in 20% time) and then are adopted by it (Node being a good example). Then comes the infighting and then later foundationizing.

Back in the early 2000s there were more problems as all sorts of large companies were pushing their agenda attempting to exclude others. But since then, it seems they've mostly realized that open source is a positive sum game, meaning everyone benefits from the work.

I hope Java follows this path as Oracle has been a terrible steward of the JVM and related ecosystem. The foundation concept has been really positive for Python, Node (so far), Linux, et al
For what it's worth, the former was YC under pg and the latter is YC under Sam Altman. Maybe the two disagree about how things should be done?
For something that is so related to ycombinator, and hackernews, I find it odd that so many people find this article worthy of purging.
> Today, we struggle to rationalize Peter Thiel’s power and influence as he moves further and further out there. We were confused by his seasteading funding, angered by his negative views on women’s voting rights, amused by his reported fixation with living to 120, and annoyed by his keynoting the Republican National Convention.

He explains both his seasteading interest and his position on the apparent statistical inevitabilities of voting patterns in the very essay Pao linked (the link is on the words "negative views").

He explicitly states (whether he's lying or not is another matter, but let's remember the principle of charity) that he's not in favor of disenfranchising anyone within current political systems.

We can argue all day the egalitarian position, but if Thiel is right that the future is dim under current politics, and bright under libertarian politics, then there's a problem: do you sacrifice the future (potentially the future of humanity) for equality now, or do you sacrifice equality, or set up alternative political spaces with the characteristic that people who participate in those political spaces are disproportionately libertarian? Which may or may not, but probably would, mean relatively fewer women and minorities self-select to participate in those political spaces.
It's definitely not a popular position. Just take a look at Twitter and you'll see people from both sides nearly calling for the death of the other. While not super surprising I've seen little discussion around the fact that your chances of being fired for supporting one of the candidates (you can guess who) publicly are pretty good. Especially when you work in the tech field.

Which to me is really interesting because it shows a side of politics that I've personally not seen before. This election has permeated all institutions and if you're not on the right side you're going to have a bad time.
What about Brendan Eich and Prop 8? It was acceptable to denounce him then. But supporting Thiel is okay?
This was the shocking conclusion of a landmark case, Citizen's United vs FEC, that was heard by the Supreme Court.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Might as well just copy-paste my comment from yesterday:

"Taking the high road like this is only possible when it's not your neck on the chopping block. Thiel thinks giving women the right to vote was a mistake; Trump thinks all Mexicans and Muslims are violent madmen who should be barred from entering the United States. Hacker News can gregariously see past these faults because they're not in the crosshairs, but if Shanley Kane were a YC partner and saying "all men support rape culture, even if indirectly", there's no friggin way this comment section would be so sanguine."
David Duke is not a major party candidate, for one. And secondly, it is possible to support some of Trump's positions (say, opposition to free trade, stricter immigration policy, etc.) without endorsing his others. It is further possible to believe that his more extreme racist positions are mostly populist rhetoric that would not actually be implemented.

Now, I don't particularly believe those things. But it is possible to hold those views and support him, despite not agreeing with his more racist, misogynistic ones.

Censoring people by expulsion in this way is a very dangerous path to start down. Especially when you don't even really know what Thiel's views are. Support of a candidate is an extremely broad brush.
Two things:

1. Having read the emails I disagree that there is anything damning in them. Even when campaign staffers suggested bad things they got shot down. The email releases have been one big nothing-burger after another. The media is like a toddler... unless you have something interesting going on their attention wanes quickly.

2. The Trump sexual assault tape is not bad because he had a foul mouth. In some cases focusing on that is a deliberate effort at mis-direction. Trump can swear all he likes and no one except a few pearl-clutching grandmas care. What is gross is Trump boasting that he commits sexual assault against women and they let him get away with it because he's rich and famous. That's what was so offensive about that video.
He explained pretty clearly in the article why Trump is objectively wrong.
I think that all you can assume with donations is that the statement is "I think that this is the best candidate" instead of "I endorse everything that this person says". I would then think that it is reasonable to not hold a donor responsible for everything that the person they donated to says