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I would not be surprised if Thiel does not care about Trump's policies or character, but only about ending democracy and reducing the role of goverment, thus making the world "safe of capitalism": https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
this isn’t a disagreement on tax policy, this is advocating hatred and violence.

I think some "both-sides-ism" is in order here.

From the perspective of the right, the left is also advocating hatred, violence and is also trying to do an end-around to thwart democracy. Consider:

- The riots we've had in four different cities, riots that occurred before the facts of the case were even known, and which white people were being specifically targeted for violence -- http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/milwaukee-pro...

- Michelle Obama's support of Beyonce's Black Panthers homage at the Super Bowl (if you are unfamiliar with how destructive the Panthers and the movement associated with it were, you can start here https://devinhelton.com/hate-group-history )

- The left's strategy of "electing a new people" -- favoring mass immigration from Mexico because it will help push liberal policies. This was stated openly in Paul Krugman's "Conscience of a Liberal" and you see articles all the time about it (for example https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/19/... )

- The continued scapegoating of "white men" and "structural racism" as being the source of problems for minorities, even when you do a deep dive on the statistics and the situations that is clearly not the problem.

- Selective enforcement of the law, going after Republican associated people in groups, such as the John Doe investigations in Wisconsin ( http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417155/wisonsins-shame... ), the IRS going after tea party groups, or the adminsitration trumping up charges against Peter Thiel's Palantir company

There are serious issues at stake, and a lot of bad behavior on both sides. The only way a two-party system works, is if when one party wins, it doesn't try to punish people who supported the wrong side.
> But don't pretend there are bias and unbias journalists.

I really hate to do this, but this one drives me nuts (and I have no idea how people make the mistake): it's biased and unbiased.
What would you do if David Duke was on the board of directors for your company?
Is one side always marginalized? Maybe in political matters you could frame it that way, but I don't think that's the case in most tech-related discussions. This is the fairly narrow case of discussing diversity in tech.
http://imgur.com/d1XcYp6

Twitter has deleted whatever periscopes that were near or around the Ecuadorian embassy.
"Ceramics are extremely hard and tolerant of great heat (the latter not being particularly relevant)"

But very rarely are they not brittle upon impact.

This is why you don't see ceramic saw blades - carbide, even though brittle, is much less brittle than ceramics.

(this is also why they don't use diamond saw blades except for abrasive cutting - the diamonds we make are too brittle to be used to cut wood).
Making money as an entrepreneur and making money as an investor are very different skill sets.

If you're smart and gritty and lucky enough to make a fortune with a start-up, then you probably have the minimum brain cells necessary to decide whether an investment opportunity is half-decent. Win some, lose some, nobody sees the difference because most of your wealth is either still in the company you worked on or is professionally managed, so there's little chance you will ever actually have to work again, and the public will still view you as a "winner."

To me, conflating entrepreneurs and investors - especially investors in politics - is about as silly as asking Hollywood celebrities about U.S. foreign policy.
There is a difference between what you're describing is different from what is occurring -- she campaigns on LGTB rights and freedoms but her private positions is nothing short of abject disdain for LGTBs.

She tries to run on anti-establishment but there is no-one that is more establishment than her.

She tries to run on fighting for women's rights but she is an apologist for her husband's sordid history of sexual abuse towards other women, and not only that but she will readily accept funds from people that are the most misogynistic on the face of the Earth (the Gulf monarchies).

The difference is her stance is opposite from what she campaigns on -- there is a word for this: hypocrite. She clearly has no moral center.
Most sitting presidents and secretary of states in the past 50 years have had to call for violence against other nations. It's part of the role and maybe she's made mistakes. But there's a difference between Secretary of State allowing an airstrike and being a owner of a company inciting others to violence.
The Ecuadorian embassy in London is a floor of an office building, nothing more.
Some serious absolutism on display in this piece. Thiel isn't supporting a fringe candidate; most of the polls right now have a difference between Trump and Clinton smaller than the margin of error. To make the claim that a candidate backed by around 50% of the country is deplorable enough that we should completely divest from his supporters, is silly.
You said "The Clinton Foundation has done countless extremely illegal and unethical things", and yet only one of those items has anything to do with that organization, and "charitable organization accepts charitable donation from Qatar" is perhaps shady at best, barring any important context.
"...disregard for protocol" is not illegal activity. Any indictments, for example? Anything to back up the claim of illegal activity that could lead to a conviction? Again, outside of wikileaks hacked emails.
Trump is uniquely dangerous and I would fully endorse YC cutting ties with prominent supporters/backers of his...if that would do anything concrete to reduce Trump's chances of winning the presidency, by even one epsilon. I don't Thiel doing office hours for YC companies gives him any sort of tactical advantage he could parlay into assisting Donald Trump's campaign, though I'm willing to entertain arguments otherwise.

It seems more like the argument is that people would like to disassociate with Trump backers as a matter of basic moral principle; that Trump has made himself such a symbol of hatred, racism, xenophobia etc that organizations should shun working with his supporters to send a message that they don't agree with that hatred, racism, and xenophobia. I think that would be quite a reasonable gesture (and I understand why Ellen is trying to do the same thing here). But so is taking public stances against Trump in other forms, including Sam's post re: trump on the YC blog, and his project voteplz.org, a project which, given the lesser likelihood of Democratic-leaning demographic groups to turn out, will probably do orders of magnitude more damage to Trump than Theil's office hours will help him.

I'd like to see more of a focus on what the tech industry can do in the next three weeks to stop Donald Trump from being president, and a little less focus on which companies can prove their moral purity by shunning Trump supporters.

And if we're really doing the latter, isn't going after Palantir, Founders Fund's LPs+ portfolio companies a much more logical place to start? I really hope (and I mean this earnestly, not saying it to make an argument) for the sake of the broader cause of diversity in the tech industry that Project Include is not planning to disassociate with all the companies on this page: http://foundersfund.com/portfolio/
Why not the character "+" instead of tracing two vertical/horizontal bars?
Lessons from the “Dark Side” of VC
The general idea is Trump will be so negative that everyone will swing so far away from that brand of politics that even Hillary Clinton will be toxic to support. That everyone will wake up and see that xenophobia isn't a joke, our foreign policy isn't as productive as it could be, and that we've been wrong all along.

If Clinton gets elected, nothing will change. If Trump gets elected, the hope is that it will dip negative for a few months, he gets impeached and removed from office, and at the next election we vote in Jill Stein or something.
Out of curiosity: What were your feelings about Brendan Eich?

I wasn't really part of that debate, but I seem to recall that ~everyone~ here and elsewhere called for him to step down.

Then again, cultural differences and nuances especially around potentially offending stances might make this seem more similar a case than people from the US would agree upon - I'm arguing from afar and in a language that is still hard to get right at times.
This means you're going to have a really hard time selling this product until you figure out how your product can benefit the purchaser.

Ever wonders why it seems like a bunch of products spend so much time and effort on useless reporting that only one dude looks at on a dashboard once a month for 5 minutes? This is why :).

Also think about how the benefits to your target audience role up to purchaser. Is that through reduced turnover, increased sales, enhanced developer productivity?

Basically instead of pitching the data science guy and saying "Hey you know this thing you do, that you hate that takes a lot of time. Well use my product and do less of that!!"
Pitch the owner and say "Hey you know those expensive data science guys you write big checks to every month to solve data science problems, well they're wasting a bunch of their time and your money doing this "thing". Well our product means they spend less time doing that "thing" and more time solving data science problems that makes you money. If we could show that we free up 33% of your data scientists time to work on your "business problem" would you be willing to pay $1000 for that?"
It feels a little insulting to read that headline after watching the 20/20 report on the Rolling Stone UVA rape hoax. For that story they relied on one source and didn't listen to their own fact checkers. In the process they damaged the reputation of a university, seemingly destroyed the career of the dean, and wasted the time of a lot of well-intentioned people. An ounce of scrutiny or patience could have prevented the whole mess.
My gut feeling is also that an iPhone Edition is coming in March 2017, and it will be ceramic at a price closer to $2k.

Apple probably also wants to update the iPhone SE (which was released last March), so it would coincide neatly. That would create a new cadence for iPhone updates:

- New "Series" introduction every even year in September

- New S model every odd year in September

- New Edition model and SE model every March

With the Watch, Apple has started using the Series nomenclature ("Apple Watch Series 2"). That would work for iPhones as well. So the current iPhone 7 and 7 Plus is really the first two models of "Series 7", and next up will be "iPhone Series 7 Edition" and "iPhone Series 7 SE".
Know you are joking but still want to mention:

A while ago I reported that the pw field in W10 gave away a lot of entropy easily (basically ctrl+arrow keys stopped between every character class so if your password was: newr..!VYIV you could in five seconds conclude that the password contains of 4 chars of something, then 3 chars of something else, then 4 characters of something other than the second group.)

Whoever handled it concluded that it was absolutely "interesting" but not a security issue so no bounty for me :-/
Reminds me of this heartbreaking Bloomberg Businessweek piece: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/silicon-va...

> One 60-year-old software engineer, fired in January after seven years at a chipmaker in San Jose, now wears casual button-downs, khakis, and sneakers to interviews, studies embedded systems (cell phones, video game consoles) at a local extension school, and has started working out and dyeing his gray hair a dark auburn. He also had blepharoplasty, plastic surgery to remove bags and dark circles under his eyes. “It’s smart to stay current and look as young as possible if you want to keep working in an industry where so many people are in their 20s,” he says. “I still want to work in tech, because I love solving problems. And I don’t yet have enough saved for retirement.”
I believe "the people" is interpreted to mean the citizens of the United States. There are a lot of subtleties to the constitution and how our laws work.
Seeing analytics built into AMP makes me laugh. Does that not go against producing the most enjoyable user experience possible?
This would be fine if HRC supporters were also going to be marginalized for advocating the use of drone warfare, warrantless wiretapping, and all the many deeply troubling things about HRC's policy ideas.

While I could never bring myself to vote for Trump or HRC, I am profoundly disappointed that anyone would advocate marginalizing Thiel for simply participating in democracy.

Thiel's donation is a a drop in the bucket. His personal endorsement will likely influence few people. But the chilling effect of not having the "right" beliefs will effect many. Shame on Ellen Pao for advocating this sort of illiberal thinking.
Over three hundred million people in this country, there are LOTS that would be happy to knock over this BS house of cards.

But that candidate has decided to take the low road. And I mean LOW.
Engineering as Marketing is proving out to be the most effective channel.

We are a small (3 person small) A.I. startup so paid advertisement isn't the most viable option. What worked for us was creating small trivia apps(thedonaldtest.com & whatthefis.ml) to drive sign ups for our Beta release. The apps got featured on PH, generating 200+ conversions on our main website along with some press coverage (Side note: last week an Israeli newspaper wrote about us causing a spike in web traffic)

Here is my experience with different marketing channels:

1. Facebook Ads: Not much success on a small budget. Yesterday I ended an ad campaign for our early release prematurely because the CPC reached $2.2. I have to do more experiments with the ad creative and target audience before I can say for sure whether ads are effective or not.

2. Content Creation. Bleh. Good for SEO, yes, but with so much crap out there its really hard to make your voice heard. I did some experimentation with making the content more interactive (caspy.com/will-apps-like-prisma-replace-human-artists/) but still didnt get much love.

3. Contacting Journalist: After reaching out to 70+ journalist over email and twitter and not getting a single positive response, I am a bit cynical towards that strategy.

BTW, I strongly believe that optimization works. All you need to do is test different approaches and see what sticks.
Apple can flat out buy a huge car company. Ford is worth 47.26B, GM 50B apple could buy both with less than 1/2 of their cash on hand.

Now buying Ford is probably not the way to go. But, Apple can skip a lot of the 'ramp up' if they ever wanted to get into the car business.
I weaned myself off other editors by using vim for thought-intensive programming. When most of your time is spent trying to come up with efficient solutions to your problems, spending a little time learning more about vim isn't so bad... and can be a welcome distraction.

I still use editors like atom for web development where I go through frequent iteration cycles and make heavy use of the clipboard.
> There are still around 40% people voting for Trump and many donating to him, so you mean they are also advocating hatred and violence?

At this point, I'd have to say yes, given Trump's actions the past few days. His supporters are openly committing sedition[1]. If you don't believe and hatred and violence, and you still support him, I'd have to say that's a case of superior orders. The man is intentionally inciting fear and violence.

Encouraging different opinions and voices are fine, but there is a limit. When that voice is actively encouraging harm to others based on unfounded allegations, it makes sense to cut it off, as it is not driving the conversation forward.

1- https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/10/15/donald-...
I don't think YC would be "destroying" Thiel by cutting ties with him as a partner.

And, the argument here is that support of Trump goes a bridge beyond simply expressing disagreeable political views - he is literally encouraging election day violence and trying to delegitimize our Democracy. There has to come a point where toxic and hateful views are no longer tolerated as "political". It is admittedly a slippery slope, but one we're being dragged down whether we like it or not.
Agreed, which is why the US and many other countries have shit track records by human rights groups.
>The major parties don't even take federal funding because it's a joke.

And I don't collect welfare because it's such a small paycheck compared to my salary. But for people who could really use that money, it's a huge help.
You're entitled to think whatever you want, but I am entitled to remind you that 2 + 2 = 4. We have an "A vs B mentality" because that's the design of our political system: it is structured to favor two dominant parties, which are themselves coalitions of interests.

Assange is many things, but "stupid" isn't one of them. Running Wikileaks as a year-long oppo research firm for Trump has the obvious impact of helping Trump, which is why the Trump campaign claims to coordinate with him.
But they respect the process, and the process is all we have.

He is inciting his followers to voter intimidation at best, and violence at worst, and they are taking the bait. That is a threat to our stability, and that, as many others point out, is what makes him so dangerous.
The past few years have been a re-education for me on Language, Lies, Money, Propaganda and much else.

I remain in awe of the state apparatus, and the cynical brilliance required to run it all (assuming there is such a central clique).
As someone said, this is the normal behavior in the Erlang/Elixir world, and it seems to have worked extremely well for the telecom industry.

That said, my reply was to someone running an IRC server, presumably on a single server, so don't stretch my advice to a production app handling millions of transactions. Obviously the core issue is that the app crashes, and it's still up to him to fix that. This is almost certainly a problem with his app/config, not Docker itself (though it ain't perfect). If it's something that happens every 6 months, then auto restarting will probably save him a lot of problems. If your transactions are so precious, don't pass the flag- it's up to you.
> The Nazis and white nationalists that have rallied to him are a lost cause.

It's important that we avoid deliberately inflammatory statements like this on controversial issues—they serve only to disrupt already-sensitive threads.
> Diversity and inclusion are hard, especially in tech. Doing them right means agreeing on values

No, it means accepting to disagree on values. Pretty much by definition.

> calling out bad behavior

So creating needless conflict.

> and sometimes firing people

If people are too different from you, fire them! Great for diversity!

I wish these people would have the guts and sincerity to call their agenda what it really is, because diverse, it is not.
I don't think you need to bankroll those. It is not much of a slippery slope than an indication how much certain media outlets can fuck with people who does not have money to fight back.

The court ruled in their favor. They were correct and unless Thiel had bankrolled then Gawker would have gotten away with breaking the law. That is not a good thing.
IMO, you can even disregard all of Trump's dirty laundry in this calculation. He is openly calling into doubt the result of this election before it's even happened, asking supporters to intimidate voters, and suggesting the entire election is "rigged".

He is attempting to undermine democracy in the country and I'm not sure you need a single additional reason to object to anyone who supports him.

Thiel, of course, does not think "freedom and democracy are compatible": https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
So she is OK with killing thousands and displacing hundreds of thousands but mean comments are a cause for purges? It's either dishonest or insane.

The difference is that one of these doesn't matter.
Diversity and inclusion, but only for those people whose politics we agree with? (A rhetorical question, it's always been that way).
"Inventing a lawful excuse" is covered under the concept of "disparate impact"[1]. Basically, if an employer ends up discriminating against a protected class indirectly, it is still a violation. This even includes tests that seemed appropriate and in good faith at the time. I remember a story from a college professor where a company had instituted an intelligence test for a certain position. While intelligence was a justifiable qualification for the position, the test itself had an inherent racial bias. The company was therefore forced to find a new means of testing intelligence without a disparate impact.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
Not relevant, and carries the same level of validity as "have you stopped beating your wife?"
One of my biggest hopes is that quantum computers, perhaps in combination with AI, can finally bring us compact and relatively cheap fusion power.
Similar to "diplomatic immunity". It's not like Lethal Weapon where you can openly deal drugs and assassinate people and upon your imminent arrest, waive your diplomatic credentials and walk off.

Whilst subject to use and abuse, most countries have agreements that while certain officials may not be prosecuted (oftentimes, this is only "for offenses related to their official capacity") in the guest country, that they will be, in their home state.

Even general principles around arrest or detainment have "reasonable constraints" for self-defense, public safety or for the prevention of a serious criminal act/felony.
"donating $1.25 million is a lot more than speech"

It's somewhat easy to argue that someone should not face professional repercussions for their support of a candidate. It's harder to argue that they should be able to donate 463x what a typical person might (assuming a generous $2.7k not using Super PACs).
Peter Thiel is not clueless but knows exactly what he is doing. Thiel opposes democracy [1] and Trump has done an extraordinary amount to damage it. Indeed, even knowing that defeat is all but certain, he concentrates even more on doing so. Spending 1.5 million to fund the a campaign denouncing all voting as rigged (amount other things [2]) is stunningly efficient at undermining it.

[1] https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

[2] eg sues critical news papers, threatens opponents with prison, encourages voter intimidation, encourages foreign powers to engage in cyber-warfare, blames "magazines" for terrorism
Patent troll tales #02: X-Plane developer getting sued for using the Play Store
Yes. Only the raw video matters. They should publish all the raw video. Otherwise, everything in the video is just fake.
Why would anyone bother releasing dirt on Trump? The man is a walking dumpster of filth. Every other word out of his mouth offends one demographic or another. Doesn't seem to have much effect on his supporters. And anyone who isn't pro-Trump already has plenty of reasons to be against him.
To illustrate your point even further: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/01/us/elections/n...

Edit: of course, this is for the primaries, but many folks will vote along party lines no matter what.
I prefer to optimize for either the most likely or worst possible outcome...which I'd argue simply throwing a phone away is.