skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So is it ok to support people you don't like, but only if you are not influential? Once a person is influential, and their opinions actually does matter, they must agree with you or it is beyond the acceptable normal?

To believe that somehow our leaders only need to be held to the same standard as we are is a notion that works only in theory. If a normal, every day person commits a small crime, say speeding, it is a routine procedure. If a billionaire speeds, it becomes a story. Because leaders hold so much influence and sway, criticizing them is not a direct criticism on them, it is criticism on the group of people influenced by the leader. Thiel's vote is not a singular one, it is a vote that has a dramatic effect on those influenced by him. Is this not a sufficient reason to bring outcry against him?

> It means a multitude of actions done in support of political point or candidate you prefer, including donating money to the causes you prefer. His expression of his political opinion is not some fault you can tolerate, but only if he hides it well and it doesn't matter. It's a basic right any person of a democratic country is entitled to, and it is a right that millions of persons exercise proudly every day.

Where is the line between speech and action drawn then? I can't go out and destroy property I dislike and hide behind the notion I was "expressing my right of free speech". Thiel's donation is massive, far larger than any regular donation amount from a common man. Does this still qualify as speech?

> What I said is claiming his action somehow is exceptional is completely false, and trying to get him and everybody he associates with ostracized for the fact he did it betrays intolerance to opposing opinions which can develop into a full blown totalitarian mindset if left unchecked.

Anything and everything can lead to negative effects if taken to an extreme. However, to preemptively withhold criticism because it has a chance of leading to negative consequences if left unchecked is an awful rule to hold yourself to, since where are we at otherwise? Endlessly creating equivalencies where they do not exist? Blatant trying to stay neutral in the face of overwhelming disgust? This election, as I'm sure anyone will agree, is nothing like the norm. One side has attacked the fundamental structures of society that we have held ourselves to, when is the point of no return? We (as a collective group of people who enjoy the merits of democracy) should realize when some ideas fall outside of the moral lines, and what else decides moral lines than a society?

>Criticizing him and demanding his peers to ostracize him is different.

I'm sure many people who agree with idlewords don't completely agree with him word for word. Is it wrong to demand people who have both 1. publicly disparaged Trump and 2. collaborated with someone who supports Trump on a massive scale to pick a side of the fence? If idlewords believes that Thiel is acting unethically, and that Thiel is simply a business partner to YC, is it wrong of idlewords to ask that YC stop doing business with someone he perceives to be unethical?
Am I missing something? What's this about?
Hi Tapha! I run Indie Hackers (https://IndieHackers.com), a site where I interview the founders of profitable business and side projects. I just passed $1k revenue this month (you can follow along via my timeline here: https://IndieHackers.com/blog).

My number one marketing approach by far has been to tailor the site to the HN audience.

I do this primarily by asking questions that people on HN always like to see answered (how much money are you making? how did you come up with the idea? what tech did you use? what are your best marketing channels? etc). Lots of similar sites don't ask any of these questions, especially not the revenue one.

I tend to share the most interesting interviews with the HN audience every couple weeks or so, and they usually do pretty well!
The obvious way to improve this is to make "insufficient data" a somewhat common answer to problems (others have mentioned this). Despite the apparent flippancy, I think this is a deep change, since despite its simplicity, it forces students to think about the problem solving process itself.
How many people lock their phones against burglary?
Specter of Trump Loosens Tongues, If Not Purse Strings, in Silicon Valley
I read through the blog posts, and it seems like the encryption is order-preserving. It's designed to leak enough information to be useful in prediction, but not enough for users to trade on it independently.
I understand where you're coming from, but you didn't address this point:

> For that matter, it's disingenuous of you to point to an individual's tweets denouncing Trump, then to the fact that his organization hasn't done the same, and call it a lack of moral courage.

YC has multiple partners, and for them to disavow Thiel as a whole would require them to conspire, behind Thiel's back, to reach an agreement on this. That seems iffy. Is it really not enough that Sam has individually come out against Trump? Is it really moral incoherence that he hasn't rallied his entire organization behind him on this?

I do wonder whether female and Muslim YC founders ever receive advice from Thiel, and how they feel about it. But I suspect most accept that he's a smart guy, and that at the end of the day, they can part ways in disagreement but a few pieces of good advice richer. Or maybe not. I'd be interested in hearing about someone's experience here.
You can get into a lot of different trade-offs.

EX: There are some options that don't involve a swashplate. (ZX-35041) considering it's 20$ it's probably junk. But, notice how the tail blade is pointing up.

You could build a tilting quad copter with 4 engines, but that's significantly more complex. You can also use one engine and get power out to the 4 blades but that also get's complicated. Still the point still stands, Quadcopter's need to get more complicated as you scale them and things like vibration make everything worse.
One. Me.
So, basically, you're only targeting YC because they respond/reply to you?
Also, Thiel is the biggest shareholder in Palantir, you should also start a movement for all anti-Trump employees/stakeholders of palantir to quit as well?
Also it doesn't seem fair to target YC even though their supposed "crime" is pretty small compared to facebook or palantir, does the fact that pg and sama have been vocal about their stance against Trump differentiate them?
Had they not said anything about their political views(much like zuck and many other important people in the valley), would you still have pressed them to disavow Thiel?
There was a teacher in high school that taught his classes to count in binary on their fingers. It became common for students to flip the double bird at each other in the halls yelling "132!"
A lot of the ones mentioned in this video are also used in Japan. Check out the thread about wasei-eigo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12716517 . It would be interesting to know if they came from one to the other, or from somewhere else.

Note that skinship has been borrowed back with a different nuance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_intimacy#Skinship
Embarrassingly, I should have known that. I just checked to make sure that wasn't where I heard the "just hit the moon" quote.

I find I have been terrible at obsessing over abstractions I could be proud of. I try to instead keep my eyes on solutions I can talk to.
Note that to do this, you also have to be able to identify the influencers in your niche which is a skill in and of itself.
I am not a cop, I don't know any cops, and none are in my family.

I just don't hate cops.

But I do know that 99.999% of being a cop is boring, difficult and they put up with idiots and crazy people - and often 'actual mentally ill people' all day, every day, in often complex situations, and they almost overwhelmingly do a good job.

If you 'have a concern about free speech' - you should be far more concerned about the vast number of people who are 'banned form campus' for having relatively normal views, but which are inconsistent with those of the 'safe zone' generation of totalitarians.

The 'totalitarianism' is not in some random guy getting ejected - maybe on wrongful terms - out of a discussion for making frankly offensive statements - but the limits on who can speak and why, largely driven by zealot students and faculty on campus, who usually represent a tiny minority of students and yet get their way anyhow.

When there is agitation and confrontation - a cops natural response is to 'can it' - and I don't mind this at all - though I would hope that if there is no crime committed that no charges are validated. A judge will eventually look at this, and if there's no validity to the charges, then they will likely be tossed.
Honestly, I found the tradeoffs of it to be the most interesting. It hits an interesting balance of readable, safe, fast compile, and fast runtime. Includes some OOP and concurrency foundations while barely changing the language. Whole platform can fit in one book. You could theoretically understand whole thing and reimplement in language of your choosing. Was esp good when hardware was weaker and more diverse. Also better starting language than C in education as it can be easy at first with difficulty gradually increased with intro of unsafe constructs. Finally, it's seeing some uptake in embedded with Astrobe IDE.

So, that's a quick review. The main one you'll find is older system where A2 Bluebottle is latest. Runs fast, too.
Trump advocates killing the families of terrorists.

http://truthinmedia.com/reality-check-trump-says-kill-terror...

He also advocates torture.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5775d740e4b04164640f6597
This is fucking disgusting. I've watched Amy for years on Democracy Now! look her up on Wikipedia. She has gone through some serious shit reporting in her lifetime. She deserves a Pulitzer prize IMO. The thug state brandishes its billy club on her AGAIN. Appalling.
What about the rise of global mass surveillance, climate change and income inequality?

Poverty, hunger and crime levels aren't the only metrics that gauge 'world goodness'. This article screams "Don't complain, your problems don't matter, the world is better than it ever was!"
Something missing in the hundreds (thousands?) of comments on this is why Thiel supports Trump.

The bottom line is that Thiel believes the 'positives' of a Trump presidency would outweigh the negatives.

The expected value is positive versus a status quo Clinton administration so he should support Trump.

He lays his priority set out quite clearly in his RNC speech: http://time.com/4417679/republican-convention-peter-thiel-tr... and if you agree with his central premises of a structurally broken economy, excessive foreign intervention etc then tbh Trump is the only viable candidate even after recent headlines, particularly if you believe in the strength of US institutions to curb any excesses.

If Thiel's position were based on hatred then I think it would be another story, but as it is, again given acceptance of the possibility of his central premises being correct and Trump being a 'viable' (as in could win vs Stein or Johnson) major party candidate his support is rational.

Across America Trump will win fifty million votes or more and while some of them may be deplorables voting for deplorable reasons, many will be voting based on implicit expected value metrics.
In a real way, Thiel is Trump. He's a part of Trump's political campaign. He's no mere supporter: he's a surrogate. He was placed on stage at the RNC to suggest to the world that Silicon Valley supported Trump. His recent donation to Trump is still on the front page of CNN.

You cannot coherently oppose Trump and support Trump's political campaign.

Let me put it this way:

According to the logic that Altman and Graham are using, if Donald Trump himself were a "part-time partner" at YC, they would be unable to disassociate themselves from him.
In France, they're both "baskets" and "tennis". https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaussure_de_sport
Bitcoin is a great example. Indeed, many (but not all) economists, particularly those of the Keynesian persuasion, said Bitcoin was economically untenable. And they were obviously wrong; Bitcoin is vastly more successful in every respect than nearly anyone would have predicted six years ago. The only way we found out was because some programmer said "I don't know if this matches the worldview of professional economists, but I'm going to try it anyway." If he'd taken your approach, we'd never have bitcoin in the first place.

(Wrt scaling, there is no theoretical reason the Bitcoin network couldn't scale to handle any number of transactions in a bounded spacial volume much larger than Earth. There are only surmountable practical limitations like processing power.)
at this point, hardware vendors should just stop making these. It's always been a gimmick; it's just run it's course.
Any specific reason? Not trying to be accusatory, but your comment appears not genuine and I don't see anything instantly unhirable about his code after a short peruse.
I think the issue that OP is getting at is that his coworker's work habits are impacting the second point.
Love the simplicity of this, looking forward to using it this week. Thanks!
In most enterprises, the moment you make it work, you get new projects. So get it right the first time. I don't buy the article, you can abstract and decouple your systems reasonable while getting it right the first time.
I'm curious - is your (and maciej's, if he's still following this thread) position that someone should refuse to associate with anyone who supports Trump? Take Graham and Altman out of the equation - assuming that this is not just a vendetta against YC partners (and the principle of charity compels me to assume that), would you apply this standard to other people you know? Do you have friends and business partners that support Trump, or buy products from Trump-supporting companies?

For me personally - I actually have relatively few people in my life that are Trump supporters. But this is mostly an accident of demographics - I went to an elite liberal arts college in what is literally the most liberal region of the country, I worked at Google, I live in the Bay Area, my mom's from NYC, and my dad's an immigrant. I have friends who have family that are hard-core Trump supporter, as well as family myself.

It would never occur to me to stop associating with them because of their political views, or the political views of their associates. They have their beliefs, I have mine, and we just don't discuss the subjects where we are diametrically opposed. We interact on the common ground that we do have.

According to my principles, the calls for YC to disavow Thiel or stop associating with him are obnoxious for the same reason I believe Trump is unfit to be president. They divide the world into "people like us" and "people against us", and then seek to build a wall between the two groups. If you believe that it should be "us and us" rather than "us vs them", then that includes reaching out to people with whom you disagree and finding the parts that you do agree on.
Whoops, didn't think about that one very hard...
Building a following over 7 years doesn't seem to fit into the title's '10 months'...
looks pretty cool, good job!
No, unions do that. Corporations do not extract money from their employees for political purposes.
The crux of this whole situation rests on how "bad" a person considers Trump and by proxy Trump supporters. At the extreme end if an employee was fired for supporting literal Nazis would anybody kick up a fuss? Not likely.

Let's bring it to be less extreme. Is it "ok" for an employee to be reprimanded for supporting the KKK? What about David Duke who formerly led the KKK? What about if they are a member of Stormfront?

There are groups and positions that cross a line that is acceptable and that line is different for each person. We can delegate to the government - I.e. Groups that are "officially" designated as hate groups - but many people don't.

There are many people (Trump supporters AND critics) that interpret some of Trump's most defining and consistent policies as racist, sexist, islamaphobic and xenophobic. So Trump to many people is beyond their line of acceptability. And therefore the supporters are too.

The messiness of the situation is that it is so subjective despite there being an objective component to it (objective is: unacceptable opinions should not be tolerated. Subjective is: what is unacceptable?)
And the surviving organisms would be ... Antifragile!
You still have to convince others there was no willingness. And it's much easier to convince them of that if you're not also sending the copies to other people.
Sex is precursor for reproduction, but since recreational sex is not only common but (in my view) the majority, I don't find it a reasonable claim that it proves consent to reproduction. Just because a woman got a unwanted pregnancy through consenting sex doen't mean she should be forbidden to take an abortion. Both women and men can and do have consenting sex without consenting to be a parent.

The issue is how to deal with those cases, and make sure that everyone is treated in a fair way. Society should make rules that reflect a balance that respect people as much as it possible while doing as little harm as possible. I could suggest solutions here (like say, the government stepping in when there is only one consenting parent involved), but I don't claim to know what the perfect solution is. My point is simply that we don't have a human right of reproduction. We need to start by defining common grounds and then ask how we can best reach those.
He's not, though. There are still boundaries between individuals even when individuals come out in support of someone.
Ahh gotcha. Far as other thing, have you seen the Web and enterprise BS getting lots of adoption since big names tried them out? And the drift to incomprehensible frameworks with huge dependencies that one can barely maintain with similar security problems and a tiny fraction of efficiency of C++? And now more of them as SaaS? Just thinking there's lots of that bullshit in the article going on in real life. It's that or legacy SAP, Oracle, COBOL, MFC BS. Competing BS exists but sanity gets rarer and rarer.
Last time I looked, Trump's support and Clinton's support were pretty close to evenly split (Clinton slightly ahead in most polls, but not by that much).

Why is supporting Trump more "tarnishing" than supporting Clinton?

I understand that you don't like Trump (which is fine, I don't much like him either), but why do your opinions get to control? Do you think there aren't people who find Clinton equally repugnant, or even more so? I assure you that there are (I'm not voting for either, myself).

But, you know, the money of Trump supporters is just as green as the money of Clinton supporters, if you want to cast it solely in terms of fiduciary duty. Probably even more so, since I would expect that the median Trump supporter is wealthier than the median Clinton supporter.
Thank you. I haven't thought of looking at a HDD model and buying an SSD.

I am going to look into that right now.
80 Years Later, Polar Explorer’s Sunken Ship Floats Again
What about her stance on vaccines? Why should I support someone who is against the scientific method?
On their face, sites like this and OTW are pretty intimidating for someone without a technical background or friends to lead the way.

Any pointers?
Is there any purpose to your "calling for" this other than the pleasure you get from being a bothersome pest?
You mean you actually read "Native American" in the previous sentence and somehow cognitively conflated the meaning? You have a point, but willful ignorance isn't the way to make it.
Design looks awesome man, very interested in the ML portion of this
Interview with J.J. Allaire
Facebook might qualify with their third-party apps leveraging the social netsork and FB targeting.
The current voting system doesn't help. A national popular vote for president under IRV and proportional representation for Congress are necessary parts of the solution.
In terms of physical connectors, I've always referred to this as polarisation. The connector is polarised so that it can only be inserted in one orientation, generally by use of a slot and key.
This only leaves me with more questions.

How do the reporters from the larger networks know that this kind of reporting is off-limits?

Is it common sense? And, if so, does that suggest Ms. Goodman was in the wrong here?

Were they told by the pipeline developers? Wouldn't that threat/restriction in itself be worth some amount of reporting? Would that be wise for the developers to do? Might not such behavior merely further attract the interest of journalists with the legal resources to combat the charges?
So, if we weren't in such a sorry state already, I'd actually be in complete agreement with you.

Ideally, yes, we'd distinguish between the more object-level norms and the meta-level norms required to defend them. And then we would do exactly as you say. It would be very nice to be able to do that.

You're absolutely right that I've conflated these above. There is a reason I did that, and I should have been explicit about that, but it is certainly not correct in general to do so like I did above.

The reason I didn't distinguish these above is because the defense system only works if it clearly is just a temporary defense system, if people in general are clear on the distinction. We ought to be able to say, "Nope, sorry, you're fundamentally illiberal, so we're not required to play nice with you," turn the cannon on them, and have it generally understood what we're doing. It would be a big relief.

The actual political situation is that the water has been muddied substantially. A large portion of what was the liberal faction has been captured by the illiberal left. A large amount of the population was never liberal anyway and won't get the distinction. Lots of people have been going around saying that the thing that makes Trump fundamentally different is... any number of things that are not the key reason Trump needs to be stopped.

In such a case, where most people likely won't see this crucial distinction, attempting to invoke this defense system is likely to appear no different than just abandoning liberalism. And if we allow it to look like we are, well, everyone else will then take that as an excuse.

I would really like to fire that cannon. We ought to be able to fire that cannon. This is, as you say, the exact sort of situation it was meant for! But it looks to me like nobody ever bothered to tie it down properly.

(If Trump stood more of a chance of victory, it might even be worth it. As it is, I'm not seeing it.)
I was doing the same search some time ago and the final contenders were:

Lenovo t460 (or t460p)
Asus UX305A
Dell XPS 13 Dev Edition

However I ended up not buying any of those.

I had bought a toshiba i3 with 8 gb of ram 2 years ago for £300 and I didn't felt like any of those laptops would give an improvement worth the price.

Laptopts are a little bit stuck it seems. I sincerely tried to buy one but just couldn't justify... I am running Ubuntu 16.04 perfectly, everything just works.
It is now a federal crime to bring a Galaxy Note 7 onto an airplane
And thank you for writing it! It's a great initiative.
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