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Wait a second, maybe I can't follow you here.
Are you saying that there should be no consequences for anyone no matter who someone is political supporting, because it is in political context?

If so, two questions:
- What if someone is supporting someone in none political context (which is hard, cause kind of nearly everything could be defined as such), does then someone have to stand for her/his public behaviour and face disagreement or consequences?
- What if someone supports politically the KKK, the IS or any other organisation or party, that you might not agree with?

How about a much more important thing in our constitution: Free speech. Does free speech mean I can say and publicly announce anything, without having to face consequences?
This is a legitimate concern, but customers have to balance the utility against the risk of this happening. If an app works for a few years and then shuts down, do you get enough utility out of those years to offset the inconvenience? Would an offline app even be able to provide the desired utility? Probably not if a key part of the product is social.
That's seeing history through some very rose tinted glasses. Sure, yes, you technically could, but you'd soon find yourself running old versions of OSs and various supporting software as well which gets real hairy real quick (say, running IE6 to keep using some web app that may well run, but has long ceased to receive updates). And then there's the less-than-ideal situation of trusting data to (or your systems with) an EOL'd application that won't even see security patching.
Berlusconi is a better comparison in that it avoids all that Godwin's nonsense.
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The fact that people can contribute is great, the fact that it is impossible to get started in modern JS development without making dozens of seemingly inscrutable choices is not.
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FDR asked Congress to expand the Supreme Court and institute an age limit for justices, but Congress said no. So that was a failure of expansion of Presidential power. But while FDR is a good example in a lot of other ways, most Presidents have managed to expand their power, but Congress can check them if they choose to do so. See the current situation with the Supreme Court, where the Senate is actually reducing the power of the President.

I think you also overestimate the control Presidents have over the justices they nominate, which is to say, none. Anthony Kennedy was supposed to be "Bork through the back door" when Reagan nominated him, but he's been one of the more liberal justices of the past 30 years. Or see how Roberts has, in a couple of key cases, broken with his fellow conservative GOP appointees.
I have an internship at IBM atm so I get to use 2gb of space for 200 days or something. I don't know what's included in the free plan.
I don't have a problem with a private company, such as YC or a production company, firing someone for publicly donating a massive amount of money to a political candidate.

McCarthyism was different because:

1. Many of the people who were fired, blacklisted, or persecuted were only suspected communists.

2. Somewhat related: if any of the blacklisted people were rich enough to do so, they didn't publicly donate their day's equivalent of $1.25M to any communist cause.

3. There is no threat of violence, prison, or losing his livelihood for Thiel in this case.
Yeah "decent". Whole thing is a childish speil about "docker bad, systemd cool, m'kay".
Why?

The Linux Foundation is not specific to Linux and already includes the Node Foundation which maintains Node.js.

The JS Foundation is just the rebranded jQuery Foundation which already included projects not related to jQuery (e.g. Dojo or Grunt).

Neither foundation has changed its scope with this announcement.
It's also generally illegal to fire someone over political beliefs, if I recall correctly.
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Really sad to see this. In the UK and Ireland there is a superb community project, Geograph (http://www.geograph.org.uk/), which collects geotagged photos and makes them available under an open licence. For example, I've integrated it into my bike routeplanner at http://cycle.travel/map so that you can see photos of a trail before riding it, so you know what sort of surface to expect. Panoramio was the nearest to a worldwide equivalent.

(There's Mapillary, of course, but their base API access is $99/month. OpenStreetView looks promising but it's early days for them.)
So stuff against Trump is proven 100% for reals and stuff against Clinton is mere allegations? Hmmmm.

I'm not a Trump supporter by any stretch of the imagination, but I do find it fascinating how easily people manage to rationalize things.

I'm sure there are TONS of folks who would decry a person for being a climate denier who would then perform the exact same mental process to 'overlook' whatever problems exist with the Clintons.
"The manifestation of anger means some model you are holding onto is no longer in sync with reality and that resynchronization costs more than your time preferences will allow"

A different way that I know is: Anger is a secondary feeling that we use to cover the main feeling, may it be pain, sadness, or any other. Anger is a symptom, the hidden feeling is the cause. To manage anger we need to address the hidden feeling.

I agree that anger on it self is not wrong. But it is not a justification either. Hurting other people because I am angry is not ok either. And that is what the Western culture (or at least some of it) tries to address. To control the damage that the "out of sync" can produce
I don't wanna see this crap in my HN.
This is really strange attribute of democracy, that if majority decides (informed or by uninformed that decision be), one can flip from democracy to (let's say) autocracy, but then you dont get to vote in next election if you change your mind, because there will be none.
IIRC, there's a Terry Pratchett's quote that says something like this: "(...)you should be afraid of that cashier at the supermarket that quietly is being yelled all the time until one day he appears with a shotgun".

The worst thing you can do is avoiding anger because sooner or later you'll explode. Learn to handle it or burn all that excess of energy on something useful but never avoid it.
This election is generally perceived as choice between 2 bad persons, 2 bad leaders, or choosing lesser evil if you prefer.

Some people have higher preference of political correctness, smooth behavior and strong, likable speeches. Some feel bad/desperate enough to don't give a f__k about this and rather want to see a change in current not-so-bright-for-them situation. This kind of situation happens very often, all around the globe where you have elections.

Personally, choosing between spoiled amoral brat who didn't achieve much without daddy's cash and influence, and Clinton which is arrogant lawyer (where is the common lawyer hate when it matters?) apparently too deep in corporate pockets to ever see or solve anything real... well, I guess I would just pick a candidate that doesn't have a chance.

luckily not US citizen, so this is just outside view
There's a crucial difference between feeling angry and expressing it and directing that anger at someone.
I agree with you in general, but Trump is uniquely toxic. Every day he says more and more hateful and disturbing things, and threatens our open and democratic society with his constant railing against the rigged election and encouragement to supporters to go intimidate voters in typically-Democratic districts. This is not just a political difference. Trump is truly dangerous.
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Americans love to moralize and punish each other. Instead of saying that they think somebody is wrong they like to make the other person into some evil person who can't even be argued with because they are so evil. That's why there is no real political discourse but just people screaming at each other.
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Citizens United and McCutcheon were such disasters for our democracy. Hopelessly partisan 5-4 votes from the USSC as well. No surprise given the way big money usually leans.

Corporations aren't people, and money isn't speech, no matter what five people in robes say.

The problem here isn't who Thiel supports, it's that he has the ability to throw $1,250,000 on a whim to that person. Very, very, very few people can do that.

The reason millionaires and billionaires funnel so much money into elections isn't for the hell of it. It's because they know that money buys advertising, attack ads, etc. They know it helps their side win. Because yes, there are many stupid people in this country who are easily swayed by these tactics.

Yes, we all know it's not a guarantee that the candidate with the most money wins. But wealthy people (mostly) aren't stupid: they wouldn't be spending the money if they knew it wouldn't sway any votes.

It's not about buying the election, it's about increasing their chances of winning. An analogy would be buying 1000000 raffle tickets instead of 1 like most other people get. But our entire democracy is based around the idea of one person, one vote. Allowing unlimited money into politics effectively gives vastly more votes to the wealthy.

Get the money out of politics and it's no longer an issue how big of a piece of shit Thiel is. He can like whoever he wants to and I couldn't care less. Oh shoot, I hope he doesn't see this and start bankrolling vendetta lawsuits against me now :/
It's still a lot of money for the campaign, isn't it?
I'd agree, with a tiny caveat. I couldn't care less about US politics, think neither candidate is likely to change much that affects me or mine, and think the US president's power is vastly overstated.

Where I disagree is that I think the real problem lies in the reactionary posts, like Pao's Medium post and this one. These I think are a very real threat to me and mine.

These ideas - that things that aren't focussed on hacking code together to create businesses, that distract not from adjacent to the topic but from within, these are the problem.

That's the crazy part here to me. Forget the politics, the people reacting to politics and wanting things in the HN sphere to change are (trying?) to have very real impacts on things I care about, and none of that is, AFAICT, in any way shape or form positive.

Trump, Clinton and the US election hasn't helped one person hack together any code, and neither has the post linked to, but only one of them is part of the industry that is directly involved in hacking together any code, and that part, that part is the issue.
People here defending the donation need to remember that Brandon Eich was let go for much less.
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The absolute amount is not meaningless because it has an effect in the real world.

It buys a certain amount of airtime, organizers' time, etc. Thiel said, "I'm not going to do X numbers of hours of work for you, but I'm going to donate them to your campaign."

That number of hours is staggeringly high, by the way: equivalent to 30+ years of full-time work by unskilled laborers.
The problem is that Google is also very good in lots of areas. This makes the challenge even more difficult.
Non American here. Inability to even comprehend why calls to punish one person because it supports option that I don't like (that's allegedly full of ism-s) equates to me being as narrow minded as the side I am attacking... is very dangerous. Marco is not doing any favor to his favorite this way. Narrow mindedness, no matter how well packaged, stays narrow mindedness. Dragging YC in this is again just a reflection of inability to see how this looks on the outside.

As we say in this part of the world "just don't defend me any more please".
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So, we'll leave it up to you to decide then? When someone is uniquely toxic or not?
I was really surprised by the lack of support for internationalized keyboard layouts when I first tried to run atom under windows, it took quite some hassle to get going prior to this update...
Taking a stand against those sexist and racist stances (which several prominent members of YC have individually very strongly) does not preclude also taking a stand against attempts to ostracise and vilify anyone who supports the republican candidate. Should the US take citizenship away from the 40% of citizens who would vote for Trump because they are supporting someone beyond the pale?

Your position undermines the very democracy it purports to defend.
I wouldn't say we are dumb but humanly irrational.
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One of the really cool things that I saw when I was in the USAF was a BBN-made IMP get installed. It was 3 or 4 large white cabinets and was way in the back of the communications center at McClellan AFB. I had no idea that it would become so influential.
The problem - to me, as a sysadmin/helpdesk monkey/part-time developer - is not so much the expense itself as the bureaucracy involved.

If I want to install CentOS or FreeBSD, all I need is hardware (with one or two spare machines usually at hand, as well as few old ones that got decommissioned) or a VM, and I'm good to go.

If I want to install Windows, I need to talk to my boss and explain why I need another Windows license, which can be rather tedious. (If we had an MSDN subscription, that would not be a problem of course, but then the price tag begins to matter.)
Many very smart, educated, and informed people I know believe that Hillary has effectively monetized public service/political influence and is the most corrupt major party nominee to run for the Presidency in modern history. If people don't take a stand against that type of thing, isn't that tacit acceptance as well? Pick your poison, so to speak. Hillary's supporters will argue that she's not corrupt and has been investigated and cleared of all charges, just as Trump's supporters will argue that he has a 40 year history of helping women and minorities shatter glass ceilings in the construction industry, and therefore is likely not a racist or a misogynist, rather just an ''equal opportunity asshole''. I think this election cycle is much more about voting against the candidate you hate, than for the candidate you love, which should make election day all the more exciting since the normal polling and turnout models could be totally off the mark.
Suppressing anger is something else. If you suppress anger, you still feel angry inside but do an effort not to express it. This is likely not healthy in the long run and I don't think this method has any substantial support.

However you can remove anger by acknowledging your feelings, recognizing them as a fruitless and unnecessary state of mind and then letting go. This requires practice but when you succeed you'll see benefits in mood and likely also in stress levels and long term health.

It's not about assuming that anger is wrong. It's about understanding that anger rarely has any benefits.

It's also ironic that you see the Western culture as particular obsessed with suppressing anger. Our media and culture has become increasingly more angry and less inhibited the recent decades. I have the experience that people are more aggressive and ranting than ever. Just take the current presidential election as an example. We have the most hostile climate around the candidates ever and the media and the people love it.
The context is not couples but specifically marriages.
No. First off, "reward" is not just about the money[0]. The job presented on this site, on the other hand, due to the encryption, is motivated purely and entirely by monetary reward. Everything else is shielded.

In fact I'd say this job is quite uniquely, extremely, only about the money. Even when compared to other kinds sweet/lucrative, perhaps "stupid lucky" jobs you may find, that may require 60 hours mindlessly pushing papers, yet paid extremely well. I'd be hard-pressed to come up with any hypothetical kind of job could be more sharply, singularly focussed on the "do extremely-intelligent-monkey-dance, receive ample bio-survival-tickets" to the exclusion of any other meaning or fulfilment than this Encrypted Machine Lottery/Learning/Sudoku.

Second, I could be wrong (or too optimistic) but I'd hope that most "very intelligent" people demand more nourishing reward than just money to regularly put in more than 40h/wk. You can do this for research and advancement of science, or maybe because one considers the work itself a net positive to society, or maybe you chose to sacrifice those hours of your life to support loved ones, maybe there's some deep personal reward in it, or maybe it's temporary and you're saving for something rewarding. But to pretend just money is enough to waste your life on, hey it's a choice, but I'm going to have to see you turn in your "very intelligent"-card.

On the other hand, there will be exceptions. Some people don't care, just want to maximize $$$ for the least amount of effort/hours of one's life, regardless of side-effects. This website does not fill a niche for these people. If you are extremely intelligent, just want money and don't care about moral aspects, there's always been plenty "business opportunities" to fulfil these particular needs.

Finally, if one would argue, but this job isn't quite explicitly "badwrong" like those others. I'd suggest to think it through: On the one hand, a (possibly) well-paying job that is designed from the bottom up to have no way of determining whether it has a net positive or negative external effect besides the money it pays you. On the other hand, literally anything else you could do with your time.

I can see people trying this for a short time, as a funny puzzle, at most.

[0] I don't mean this one, but because I still think it's funny, I'll point out the way-too-easy retort here: this says something (not terribly good) about you. (j/k)
Nationally title 7 only protects you from the following: sex, race, color, national origin, and religion. There might be local state laws that protect you from politics, but no national law.
Because obviously not everyone sees it the way you do?
It also doesn't seem to be what the foundation is trying to do.
gus_massa - You are totally wrong, you should read the article. First of all you do not know what the quantum message is all about to be in the position to judge the importance of it. Second you do not know how to use a quantum computer, none really knows at this moment.
The article states for instance that Bell states are transmitted via the light emitted near spinning black holes, which is incredible since nothing else in nature could process quantum information.
I think you get a lot of it right here, and nobody wants to acknowledge that for some reason. I would disagree that Trump is listening to people in the "flyover" states, but rather what he is doing is signaling that he's not in the coastal elite in-group. I'd bet Trump has very little idea how badly folks are hurting in red states, nor does he really care.

But what has happened is that those people have heard every political candidate say basically the same politically correct stuff irrespective of their D or R flavor and then once elected do basically nothing to help.

Now someone comes along who doesn't sound anything like the previous D or R flavored politicians (who never helped, despite their promises to) and TADA! "He knows and understands our problems" not because he does in any way, but simply because he sounds different.
Significantly lower the ROI password-cracking ASICs, more money and die area going to memory means less of it going to compute, and a much lower difference (in hash/s) between regular user and cracker. It all works towards the ultimate end of making cracking passwords too inefficient and expensive for "bad guys" to bother.
For a while, we had part of our servers running on Hyper-V (on Windows Server 2012). I could not complain, really, except that a Debian VM at the time was randomly loosing its network connection, like somebody was pulling out the virtual network cable. I could imagine this got better with Debian 8, though. (CentOS 6 had no such problem.)
One candidate has repeatedly been dishonest and suspected of corruption while in government previously (and honestly, the list goes on and on). If people don't take a stand against this type of thing, it is a tacit acceptance.

No it is not tacit acceptance. People weigh pros and cons of each candidate and make a choice. No donation or endorsement implies 100% allegiance, only an overall preference. I'm sure Thiel thinks Trump is fairly idiotic. "But he's a sexist" doesn't change anything even if it were true.

Anyone is free to shun people for their publicly stated political stance but any particular policies or personal attributes of Trump or anyone are not in a special category that is shun-worthy.
The funny thing is that the same corrupt media that paints others presidents as "dictators" and "murderers" is helping Killary, painting Trump with tons of colors.
If I earn money, should I be able to spend it how I like? If I have freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, isn't it fine to use my money towards the goals of freedom of speech & press? Citizens United is solid in my book.

If we were to take down Citizens United, how would you deal with media outlets like Fox or WaPo? They're clearly biased and have an agenda, their biased reporting acts as a contribution to a campaign. But they're businesses, and what they do isn't classified as campaign support, even though it should.
Right, but a large portion of supporters are not donating over a million dollars. I'd expect that person to be for Donald Trump, rather than some vague wish for republican values.
… until the software stopped being supported and something went unpatched

… until someone got tired of paying for the server and turned it off

… until a hard drive crashed or corrupted data and holes in your backup strategy were revealed

… but your friends never used it because it was hard to share things, the desktop app was hard to install, etc.

The cloud model is different. It has pros and cons, and nothing of value will come from starting a conversation on the false impression that it's universally worse but people somehow don't see that.
Mostly.

But sometimes mid-scroll there is a comment which seems like it deserves a reply I might post one immediately - usually in a new-tab so I don't lose track of what I've read.
Similar observation.

I was on a recent trip to Poland.

Accommodations for one city was on Airbnn(zealously over-finished apartment but nice), one city was on booking.com.

Turns out booking.com accommodations were just an unsold apartment in a half sold building being used as a half hotel in the middle of an unfinished development.

It was a hotel like experience (hotel tax included) but I would have been upset to actually buy an apartment in this building.
I can't comment about the specific pull request, but the number of contributors is probably a reasonable indicator.

Look at the number of contributors for Scala [0], Go [1], and Rust [2].

[0] https://github.com/scala/scala/

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/
Xamarin.Forms is looking pretty good but still mobile (and Windows 10 UWP) at the moment. Will they extend to OS X and Linux?
Excuse my ignorance, but isn't "deep learning instructions" an oxymoron
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