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> To require defining how racist is racist enough?

That word just never ceases to be a source of power and comfort to you, doesn't it? Liberals have used that word too often to shut down debate and dehumanize their opponent or victim. We're done giving you that super power anymore. Now you'll have to make real arguments.

It's not racist to wish to enforce current immigration law. It's not racist to wish to protect the jobs and lives of American citizens.

Hey, why didn't you talk about what a homophobe he is? Well, I'm sure you'll use it next time, when Thiel is not the subject of your outrage.
I am pretty sure stanford is an IVY school and its been at the heart of SV.
It's not possible to tell everyone everything all the time. Further, everyone would be so spammed by everyone else, it's likely no one would be able to know what was going on.

It has become (and assuming we are still here in the future, it will become even moreso) easier to broadcast more. The primary reason people don't go around broadcasting everything is because they can't. Most people have been capable of broadcasting very little.

Consider what you are arguing (or at least, appear to be): "Yeah, we fucked you over in the past (and we may do so again in the future) and we didn't want to tell you about it (and tried not to [and will try to not tell you about it in the future]), but just play nice and give us this stuff we want, please?"

I see this argument continuing to be rejected wholesale.
I wonder if the author also thinks that YC should reject founders who support trump? Just add a little question to the application form:"Do you now, or have you ever, supported Donald Trump?"
The next stage could be "Do you now, or have you ever, associated with a Trump supporter?" - "if so, please list their names here so we can keep YC pure by excluding them from YC, and pass their names to the re-education brigades"

What could possibly go wrong? :)
>These sites all seem to be geared toward business travelers who must travel on particular days from and to particular airports.

Yep. They're pretty clearly designed for the 99% or so case and just (ungracefully) throw their hands in the air for the other 1% or so.

As you say, it's hard to really make the system do the work around finding a cheap flight within a set of parameters.

I've also spent hours booking complicated multi-destination flights, especially in Asia when you need to use multiple carriers. Simply booking as a series of one-way flights can end up costing thousands of dollars more than something more optimized. So you need to end up manually trying various combinations of one-way and round-trip flights and then piecing together the separate itineraries at the end.
I don't think him providing a reason for not releasing the documents makes what I said misleading. You find his explanation to be reasonable? I do not. Sometimes he is an editor and sometimes not. Why is he even comparing these things to what comes out of his mouth? Which side of his mouth? As if there aren't questions about what Trump may actually believe or want or do. Personally when I hear what Trump says I think it only provides more reasons to wonder what he may actually say when not performing in public.
"Just give me your e-mail address and subscribe to my podcast."
The website is quite resource hungry... I can barely view it on my smartphone.
Trump's support is way down from the summer. 538 had Trump and Clinton pretty much even at the end of July. Right now they predict an 87.4% chance of a Clinton victory, with about a 7% difference in the popular vote (which, for modern elections, is a pretty big margin).

The highly partisan nature of American politics puts a pretty hard floor on what any major candidate can expect for support. The Democrats or Republicans could run a half-eaten bagel for President and they would still get about 40% of the vote. It's no coincidence that this is about the level where Trump is polling right now.

Sure, posts like this just reinforce Trump supporters' beliefs. But so what? They're going to vote for him anyway. 80% of the electorate knew which way they were going to vote before the primaries even began. Nothing is going to sway them. What matters is convincing the 20% in the middle. They're rejecting Trump pretty hard right now, and pointing out how horrible he is certainly seems to be helping.
Yes I am troubled by how reactionary we are.

I am not troubled by how the Internet enables gossip on a global scale. Improved capability for communications and cross-culture dialog is always a good thing. Not all human communication is Yeats poetry.

"conspiracy theory" (in my opinion) is a weakened phrase which in modern usage seems to mean "narrative I find unbelievable" rather than an actual conspiracy.

For better or worse, it seems to be a phrase that indicates a profound arrogance of the speaker, rather than a description of the topic they don't believe. I wish this phrase would die. It is a polarizing tool that is not effective for persuading people who are inclined to disagree.
OTOH, one of the justifications for why domains cost $7 instead of $2 is all the quadruple-redundant Oracle databases and such that Verisign uses. If a registry can be built cheaper it argues for lower prices.
Curiously, many cities are organised as corporations, though I'm not entirely sure of the specifics of this. I don't believe most lay claim to the land within their boundaries.
I was waiting for someone to point this out. Have my upvote.
No, measured means exactly what it means. Measured. I have no problems with dissenting opinions on a matter and arguing against their merits. But anyone even slightly critical of wikileaks in that thread were downvoted. There was no measured response, it was a lot of reactionary hypothesis that turned out to be mostly wrong.
Honestly, YC's position is reasonable.

> Some have said that YC should terminate its relationship with Peter over this. But as repugnant as Trump is to many of us, we are not going to fire someone over his or her support of a political candidate. As far as we know, that would be unprecedented for supporting a major party nominee, and a dangerous path to start down (of course, if Peter said some of the things Trump says himself, he would no longer be part of Y Combinator).

Employment should not be based on political beliefs.

> Trump shows little respect for the Constitution, the Republic, or for human decency, and I fear for national security if he becomes our president.

Similarly, that is a pretty clear statement that Trump isn't a conservative and I'd say that is honestly all YC needed to do.
But what seems to be in question here is if WikiLeaks said "US officials speaking on condition of anonymity said that enhanced interrogation was vital to finding Osama Bin Laden," did WikiLeaks actually talk to those officials and did they really say that? Or are they promoting their brand as a marginalized alternative news source that the government is trying to fight?
Is it really a vendetta though (genuine question, I'd be happy to see a source), or is it just that the people leaking information to him are doing it at this time, and he's releasing it for 'maximum impact' which has been what Wikileaks always tries to do?
> There's also the argument that there's a big difference between individuals in the campaign doing something, and the campaign endorsing/encouraging/demanding something.

The Foval Group is contracted directly with the DNC. As far as anyone knows, Trump has never paid anti-Semitic or racist protesters to literally cause physical harm to people at Hillary rallies.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to make excuses for the words Trump has spoken, words are EXTREMELY important, but the level corruption inside the Hillary campaign is on a completely different level than things Trump says. Remember, actions speak louder than words. With Trump, all we have right now are words. With Hillary, we have actions. What I am seeing right now is one candidate being exposed for massive corruption while another candidate is promising to clean up the corruption in US politics and essentially make it illegal for politicians to become lobbyists. That, in my opinion, is very important.

Edit2: Also, on the topic of voter fraud https://d1sb17b1leotpq.cloudfront.net/rigging-election-%E2%8...
I wish they released a native app. A web app is great in concept, but for the actual research and actually committing to buying the tickets a native app is preferable.
You are completely ignoring the part where he effectively replaced the core of that insignificant political party during the takeover. It's incredibly deceptive to conflate the single most conservative movement in history with leftism because of a hostile takeover of a tiny political party. If you actually read those 25 points, it's a blueprint for a regressive totalitarian dictatorship with a command economy. If you consider that 'leftist', then I couldn't disagree more.
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The more people that vote third party, the more plausible it will become and the bigger the message is that's sent that we aren't happy.
They could definitely appear less biased if they reigned in their Twitter account a bit.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787079640661786624
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I somwhow don't think it's "classic". I think it is a fairly modern phenomenon (coming along with "safe spaces", "no platforming" and so on).

"Classic" would be something more along the well-known quote attributed to Voltaire about disagreeing wholeheartedly but defending the freedom of speech of the differing view.

And this Thiel shaming is the exact opposite of that Voltaire thing.
I don't use version control systems to any extent but it seems like your developer problem is an issue of team-coherence and code review, and not a matter that your vcs should/need to enforce.

Even in a distributed team like linux kernel development, code maintainers have the ability to say "this is how we (as core maintainers) want you to access certain data structure. If we catch you doing anything else illegally, your code won't be accepted, and we will keep rejecting your code until you adhere to our coding style and api design."
The question of whether every eligible individual in a democratic state should be allowed to support political candidates with millions of dollars in funding is a contentious one, and my understanding is that the answer in most developed countries is "no, you're not allowed to do that."
However, we only have one source for the claim of multiple sources. When Wikileaks dumps a bunch of documents, I trust that those are real documents. But I'm not sure that I trust Wikileaks when they release publicity for themselves.
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I think the problem is a simple assumption - people will leave the print version of My Local Journal and go to mylocaljournal.com when in fact they go from My Local Journal to Buzzfeed or the Yahoo! homepage or Google News or Twitter or Facebook or RSS of their 10 favorite blogs etc...

For example, I don't have a newspaper. I also don't check the local newspaper website. My wife, friends, relatives don't seem to either. The entirety of local news is mostly ignored.

And yet, we are fine. So, is all of that news necessary or important to our lives? As it turns out, no.
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Yup. The Ricoh Theta S captures spherical panoramas. The VR terminology is just overselling it. Neat idea though. It would be cool if there was a sonic component.
I wonder if it's because people already associate them with being the cheapest, they want people to just default to going to their site and be too lazy to check the comparison sites. If they made it easy to compare, they would lose out on that crowd for any time they weren't the cheapest. Maybe it also allows competitors to beat their prices algorithmically.
The actual paper has a section on error analysis that is particularly enlightening: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05256

On the CallHome dataset humans confuse words 4.1% of the time, but delete 6.5% of words, most commonly deleting the word "I".

Their ASR system confuses 6.5% of words on this dataset, but only deletes 3.3% of words, so depending on how you view this their claim about being better than humans isn't definitely true, if you consider the task to be speech recognition, rather than transcription.

Also, while the overall "word error rate" is lower than humans it's not clear if this is because the transcription service they used is not seeking perfect output, but rather good enough output and the errors the transcription service makes may not be as bad as the errors the ASR system makes in terms of how well you can recover the original meaning from the transcription.

It's clearly great work, but reaching human parity is marketing fluff.
Speaking of fares going up, has anyone else noticed fares going up on Google Flights, soon after searching for them?
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No it isn't - they don't automate their donation tweets. They deliberately dropped it after the vague tweet about Assange being cut off.
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Good for them!
I'm a bit surprised that the researchers didn't already possess human-level speech recognition, though.
To be fair, it's really hard to tell from the outside because the messages were all so muddled and the actions amounted to hanging out in a park. What's your take?
The accusations come up now because it's something that is hard to get punished for and it was a month before election day that he stated in front of everyone that his previous claims of bad behavior were not true.

Being careless doesn't generally merit jail time.
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ISIS is hardly a problem when it comes to the military industrial complex. The constant fear mongering over Russia recently is the real and serious driver here. The military doesn't want to fight ISIS because it's not predicated on expensive jets, aircraft carriers, naval warfare, cyber, etc, etc.

It's not a mistake that any level of provocation by Russia is met with weeks of saber rattling and outrage in the media.

Although ISIS is a good driver for expanding the intelligence community. Hillary Clinton's primary military strategy that she promotes on her website is expanding an already bloated intelligence community and broadening intelligence collection. Both candidates are very much industrial complex friendly. That's one of the few things that's certain in this election.
I don't understand why people pretend that this matters.
The expected value rhetoric about Trump is something I think I shoplifted from Paul Graham, so I'm pretty comfortable with it.
Stanford is not a member of the Ivy League, although it is a peer institution. I believe the OP's point was that the highest performing students will go wherever the most money can be made, and that elite institutions eventually steer their graduates into the most lucrative path. Right now that is financial services.
No single nuclear weapon detonation ever hit 100,000,000 tons of TNT. There are designs for weapons in that range, and single example at 1/2 that power. However, such designs are impractical as using the same material to carpet bomb an area is more effective.

PS: Before the H-Bomb nuclear weapons where not actually cost effective per ton. Their 'advantage' over high explosives was portability and fear.
I don't get why that's frustrating, without image and speech recognition AI isn't possible. -- How intelligent could people be without sensory perception? Hellen Keller is the exception, take away the ability for humans to process sound, and images as a species and we wouldn't be nearly as advanced as we are today even if we still had the same brain structure and mental capacity.

Ray Kurzweil understood this and is why he paved the way for some of the first speech / image recognition platforms like ocr/fax/etc...

To me speech/image recognition is a precursor/adjunct of AI. You can have the former without the latter, but the latter will never be realized without those.
Are you categorically opposed to punishing people for political opinions, or is it a matter of crossing a certain threshold? For instance, what if Trump had openly advocated putting Muslims in "internment camps" and Thiel had donated a billion dollars to his campaign? Would you still believe that severing a business relationship with him would be immoral?
>I almost never use anything other google flights when searching for a ticket. The UI is just so much better and easier to use than the ridiculous bloated crap that most travel sites are

Funny, I was just thinking of how dissapointing the Google UI was: it took me three clicks and two page loads to see where and for how long a layover was. Have you tried Hipmunk[0]? Their interface for flight listings is the best I've ever used.

0: https://www.hipmunk.com
The Ivy league is exclusively an east coast thing.
He's doing his best to convince people that the results of the election will be fraudulent. He has hinted that his supporters might want to assassinate his opponent. That's what a threat to democracy looks like.

Saying that a business might want to reconsider who they work with because of the political donations made by a partner is not remotely a threat to democracy.
On this issue, a more recent status update from James Bottomley at the 2016 Linux Security Summit:

https://lwn.net/Articles/700422/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfE3JayCejQ
Just in Switzerland (which has only 8 million people) there are 4 official languages. Only 30k people speak Romansh, so let's ignore that one. But if you go to the German part, most people don't even understand French. Likewise, if you go to the French part, most people don't understand German. The Italian part is quite a bit smaller than rest of Switzerland, and most people there choose to learn French as a second language.

People from the north of Belgium don't speak the same language as people in the south of Belgium. The dialects of German spoken in the north vs. the south of Germany are so different that they struggle to understand each other. If you want an example of people speaking English, compare accents in Scotland or Wales to that of London, which is a melting pot of everything from Cockney to Received Pronunciation. Now, imagine what it is like in between countries.

Seriously, trying to say that the difference between the accents of Louisiana, Socal, New England and Chicago are a big deal, throw in the Mexican accent, hell even a good dollop of Spanish, it is still really homogeneous. Compared to Europe where there are places two hours drive away from you which share none of the languages you speak, and where you will find nobody who speaks any of the dominant languages in the area you currently are. And not just a village, or a suburb or cultural enclave, but whole cities of people.
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It's about an open source TLD registry, and it says it's about an open source TLD registry. That's not clickbait: It's perfectly accurate. The fact that it's Google is something you ought to be able to tell, because it's indicated by the domain, something HN always shows.

And just because the collective disagrees with you doesn't mean the site itself is an echochamber. Case in point: You haven't been censored in any way, even though you expressed a different opinion. The collective has merely decided that your comment isn't worth looking at. People can still read it.
Be ready to take a big salary haircut. Toronto is not SF or NY, but it's still expensive, and you'll earn about 50% less in USD terms.

As a Canadian, I heartily recommend to anyone in the tech business - work remotely for EUR, USD, GBP, or CHF or relocate to the US. You can make good friends anywhere, but a 50% salary difference plus higher taxes takes a lot more to overcome.
Trying not to wonder if those servers would contain any tax returns. Or a pink elephant.
US Workers work more hours because they are afraid to lose their jobs.

US Workers take less vacation because they are afraid to lose their jobs

US Workers don't want to lose their jobs because they will lose their health benefits, if they had them in the first place. The US doesn't have a good health care system, but it's better then nothing, even with the so called Obama Care. Funny, if you don't want health care (because it costs too much) you can get penalized by the IRS, via a fine for not paying for health insurance. Why kind of fucked up system do we have in the USA?

US Workers when they lose their jobs do not have a good social safety net, like European countries have.

I'm glad the Europeans work less than me. They've earned it and they demand it from their government. Me, as an American, if I don't like what I have here, I can just quit and look for a new job or become unemployed. Gee. Don't ever believe any American that says the USA is great. It isn't. If they do say it, they mus be rich & can afford it, may be in a Union, where it's hard to fire them, or maybe they are already retired.

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Your whole position is based on a claim that there must exist a nation state to have a "war".

You also claim that the laws of war are not applicable to the remaining types of military conflicts (with clans/tribes, any organization that is geographically spread, etc, etc).

Do you have references? [Edit: The references need to show that the laws of war don't apply to these other conflicts, too.] Also not that the world's law experts don't seem to agree [Edit: with you. See link in edit at bottom.]

(Note that by your definition we need a new word for civil wars -- at least one side is not a nation state. We also need a new word for most of the military conflicts through history -- and today. And so on.)

(Also, you shouldn't argue against what politicians say in public speeches, for the same reason you shouldn't believe advertisements...)

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Re Guantanamo:

You ignored my argument.

Again: Afaik, you can keep combatants prisoner until after the hostilities. Which are still continuing. [Edit: This seems to be the relevant part in the Geneva Conventions -- https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xs... ]

The Taliban had a government, they were a nation. So it qualify as a "war", even according to your definition.

The Taliban and their allies are still fighting.

Are you claiming that conflict stopped being a war when they lost the capital? Please give good references...

[Edit: Here seems to be the relevant definitions in USA, I saw in another place that their High Court argued that the Geneva conventions was relevant under US law also for unlawful combatants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_20... ]
Yes, this is true - a short article with more data on Canada goes a little deeper:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-626-x/11-626-x2016059-eng.ht...

The rich stay rich, more than the poor stay poor (in Canada).

But the number is about [relative change in income across] the population - if most people are poor (which they are) high mobility across the population likely means poor people are moving up (or indeed getting much poorer - halving your income when you're already in the lower quartile would probably be as big a shift as doubling it - if not more).

You're right to ask for more detail, though.
It's not tricky at all. YC can choose not to dump Theil and another entity can choose to criticize YC.

That's part of democracy and free speech.
I'm curious, what is your definition of AI?
Anyone use JerryScript? I found it to be incomplete.