skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Acting annoyed can get you to a local maximum of helpfulness from others, but it will never get you very close to the global maximum. Moving toward the global maximum requires you to be sensitive to other people's state of mind and being angry dulls this sensitivity. Being annoyed might be a useful tool to have in your toolbox, but don't fool yourself into thinking you can't do better.

Your model of what motivates people is only valid for situations where people feel low levels of connectedness to the person they're dealing with. Essentially, you're missing an important dimension, along which you need to travel to get to the global maximum of helpfulness.
Suppose someone decides whether he wants to join the military or not. Isn't it important for him to know, that either a moron or a psychopath will decide where to deploy him? That he'll be deployed either because a foreign leader said something mean about the president on twitter or because someone bribed the president?
As a non-US outsider:

Would there be such a ruckus if this was about some other VC fund that bore more right-wing cultural flavors and they had a markable member who donated vast sums of money to the democrat nominee?

A rational person would not discriminate against someone because they do not support the same football club. I fail to see how this is any different.
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Perhaps the original developers don't want to abandon these projects, the companies they work for are just not prioritizing funding their development. By placing the Open Source project under non-profit foundation ownership, that foundation can fundraise for their projects as a whole and then hire (at least for some hours) the original developers under that funding. I'm putting words in the JS Foundation's mouth though. It's not what they are saying in that press release.
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Phil Collins is singer, songwriter and also makes business
In the 21th century educated techies should understand that Trump is not a mere candidate, but a product of a set of image makers, speech writers, psychologists and whole bunch of deceptive and manipulative techniques applied.

Basically, it is a well crafted frontman (same as in a rock band) to appeal to less educated majority. This explains all the sexism and masculinity, bravado and jokes - all this reflects what the majority of any given population would appreciate, but not necessarily publicly approve.

In a society which is famous for its well crafted, researched in psychology departments, deceptive advertising techniques, all what Trump does should be familiar and transparent - the same primitive manipulations everyone is using to sell the crap to each other.

Trump is a product of applied psychology, designed to obtain majority of votes. Do not even try to fancy that hipsters, vegans, etc. leave alone the ivvy league students, constitutes the majority of US population.

So, some people take their chances, betting on that this primitive but sound strategy could win. Consider this as just a form of a risky investment.
As confusing as this appears (are they going to handle new ECMAScript specifications? I am so confused), I am glad that they're supporting Moment.js. It has become one of my default libs, like jQuery, when working on a new project.
Haha - every weekend I drive somewhere that GPS is useless.
I heard an interesting idea which would be to place always a "none of the above" option on the ballot for any position, and in the event that option took majority, all candidates listed would be disqualified completely, and new ballot would need to be made.
OK then we have different experiences, but from different positions and places too.

My comment was from the point of host (sorry if not clarified before) - dealing with booking.com is ridiculous, their charges are way above any other service, yet you have to do the payment yourself for example (major hassle).

If hosts have to pay up to 30% booking fee for sub-par services (just because, you know, we are booking.com, so f__k you), guess who ends up paying for it? Not the owners, that's for sure...

I agree that airbnb may end up being more pain in some places, if hosts are too restrictive (ie requiring passport scans, 24h pre-approvals etc.) - but this is optional, non-default setup that they chose for whatever reason. I don't do this for my place, instant booking without prejudice :)
Yeah! He probably hates gays too!
So if you have something you need to accomplish, and you can't do it in the ten minutes you allow for your interaction, what do you do?

The classic example in the US is the silly cable plans here that give "promotional" rates for a year or two and then double or triple in cost automatically. What would you do in this situation if it would take, say, 45 minutes on the phone to get what you need?
Agree with the sentiment. Though I've often seen the by-the-book anal retentive types that work by rote and don't have a creative thought all day. You can't say they aren't detail-oriented but they are certainly of limited value.
Google Maps keeps pestering me to add my personal photos to various locations.

That is I would take some pictures on my Android 5.1 phone and Google Maps would pop a notification. Not sure when it started but this kind of camera/Google Maps "integration" was not present in 4.4.

The places of interest that Google detects are generally correct but I have zero interest in adding personal pictures to their public/private DB.

I keep declining but my anger grows.
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Imagine working in a world where when you disagree with the way someone votes or supports a political character, you tried to get them fired. No one would have a job anymore.
In this case those personal opinions are widely publicised, and reflect -- rightly or wrongly -- on Y Combinator. At that point it does become a matter of business, as the backlash may end up hurting Y Combinator's business (negative press, founders not applying, investors not willing to work with it, etc.).
PlatformIO and their Atom based IDE might be a good alternative for people that don't want to move to the Arduino IDE or want more support for different development boards.

http://platformio.org
Enough flags turn it dead. Mods not required.
YC seems to be sticking with Thiel, so founders should be safe regardless of their views. As it probably should be.

I would hope that YC already avoids founders who act like Trump though.
That's not really true at all. Basho (makers of Riak) have a multi-paxos implementation that is used in Riak. Riak_Ensemble:(https://github.com/basho/riak_ensemble)
Isnt CouchDB an Apache project?

Seems to me like it get's updated
The fact that it keeps getting flagged to death shows something too.
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I'm not a fan of short opaque product names. What would be wrong with "Apache Distributed Cryptosystem" as a name for this?

At least you don't have to stop and explain what it is all the time.
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Well, it's interesting to read the words "Trump" and "tolerance" in the same sentence.
Probably not much. The Node Foundation is also a Linux Foundation project and they continue using permissive licenses.

Also the JS Foundation already announced that they're adopting the Apache 2.0 license as the default license but that existing projects will keep their MIT/etc licenses. Their open source licensing policy is hidden in the "IP Policy" PDF linked in the footer: https://js.foundation/pdf/ip-policy.pdf

Quote:

> The technical governing body of each Project is free to choose, [..] the Apache License, Version 2.0 [..]. If an alternative inbound or outbound license is required [..], the Board of Directors of the JS Foundation (the “Board”) may approve the use of an alternative license for inbound or outbound contributions on an exception basis.
I had a very nice chat with a fellow developer from NL, which was fun.
Did trolls cost Twitter $3.5bn and its sale?
Also, they say "open web" not "free web" so we're probably save.
"(One wonders how they managed to post to Twitter without internet access.)"

I don't think Assange runs the wikileaks twitter account. So probably he messages them every day and when they don't get a message they know something is wrong.
Just to start with, remember when Wikileaks doxed millions of ordinary Turkish citizens falsely claiming they were secret documents about the ruling party?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zeynep-tufekci/wikileaks-erdog...

Whatever you may believe about their actions in the past, they don't appear to be checking before publishing much now and that means it's on the reader to look for confirmation rather than credulously assuming nobody would lie about matters of political importance.

In this case, we've already seen that cycle with the Guccifer documents being heavily cross-promoted by Russian state media and Wikileaks but showing many signs of modification and misrepresentation (e.g. the alleged Clinton Foundation documents which didn't hold up to non-casual examination).

That doesn't mean that Wikileaks might not have real data but it definitely shows that anyone who isn't just looking for propaganda should take time to investigate rather than assuming they're legitimate or correctly summarized.
Let me repeat this again so we're absolutely clear: there have been NO identified suspects in this case and NO reported leads. It is too premature to guess anyone's motives.
I using kaspersky internet security and it ok.
The new Westworld: Humanizing the un-human, or dehumanizing humankind?
It's an inevitable result of winner-take-all, first-past-the-post voting. This video explains the situation very well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Short of revolution, we aren't ever going to see a representative democracy here, because the two parties in power have us perfectly divided 50/50, and the status quo benefits them both greatly.
Peter Thiel is doing just fine. If Y Combinator walked away from him, he would not be hurt or marginalized or ostracized in the least. This is not about persecuting people who vote for Trump.

But to support Trump with an enormous sum of money _after_ Trump has revealed himself to be willing to resort to borderline anti-Semitic slurs, to welcome the support of the white supremacy movement, to call for locking up his political opponent, to threaten the free press, to call for an end to Bill of Rights protections for accused criminals, to pre-emptively claim that the election is rigged, that voting fraud is rampant and to encourage his supporters to intimidate voters, to promise to ban an entire religion, and to brag about sexual assault in professional situations is to make a statement that these are the things Thiel is okay with advocating. Whatever other positions Trump might have that Thiel supports, these things are part of the package. Trump is not just a normal candidate. He's a true threat to our democracy.
When I open this link on my iphone, I am forcibly redirected to a spammy ad at http://adsfoundation.xyz/861/YTozOntzOjEwOiJyZXF1ZXN0X2lkIjt...

Is this happening to anyone else?
Why do you write "Diable 2/3"? Diablo 1 was also procedurally created levels, based around a set of constraints that allowed the story to unfold.
I don't need to assume anything about what he things. Trump is clearly, unambiguously and objectively a sexist racist xenophobe. Human rights provide a line a lower bound of values we all agree on must not ever be crossed, Trump does so eagerly.

Nothing can justify this.
I got into a Top 15 MBA program with a sub 3.0 undergrad GPA. Just means I had to show progress and initiative post-bachelors, do well on my tests, and have a good reason for it in my essays in interviews.
Wasn't Hitler a political candidate as well?

I wouldn't go so far to say that Trump and Hitler are one and the same, but you can draw similarities in the rise of nationalism in both campaigns and their impact on the electorate.

Even if Hitler isn't used as an example (it is a rather extreme one), say David Duke ran for president and Peter Thiel donated to his campaign. Would YC cut ties with Peter then?

I'm just curious to know where YC thinks the line is, and if there is even one.
This is largely only true for huge AAA games. Lots and lots of indie games come out with support for Linux on day one, largely thanks to Unity. Indie games that don't have a native port frequently (though not always) work in Wine because they tend to be less demanding. Personally I don't like AAA games, so I'm actually pretty happy gaming on Linux these days.

So yes, it might be a paperweight if you're a big Call of Duty fan, but it's hardly a paperweight to everybody :)
I'm thinking you can express the anger without making someone the target.

For example, in the hypothetical phone call, what if you say to John:

"John, I want to say I'm feeling very frustrated and angry right now. I expected a short call and I had to wait 35 minutes instead. I realize it's not your fault, but I wanted to get the feeling out, because you would have noticed it in my voice anyway."
This might be a good strategy. What good does it do? People generally evaluate a candidate on policy last.

On the other hand, the best changes would be the most controversial, so probably wouldn't help his campaign.
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Ah, found it. I just had to read the damn paper. Turns out I was confusing memory hard functions, which allow for time/memory tradeoffs, and memory bound functions, which do not.

Scrypt is hard, but not bound. I believe Argon2d attempts to be bound as well. Argon2i however might just be hard, at least in theory, because its memory accesses do not depend on the secrets, making them predictable.
There's a part that already can't be replaced while keeping all the others. Google Fi only works with Nexus devices. It could be a lack of OEM interest, but who knows what Google does that might keep it that way.
This is very elegant solution.
So, none of the Hollywood writers who were blacklisted were rich? And none of them donated time or money to Communist causes? The intolerance is almost exactly the same.
The JS Foundation is just the rebranded jQuery Foundation. Despite its name the jQuery Foundation already had a much broader scope than just jQuery (e.g. also Dojo).

The JS Foundation is not related to TC39, the organization in charge of new ECMAScript editions. I guess they might sponsor a TC39 member eventually and engage in JS advocacy beyond merely supporting JS open source projects -- similar to what the PSF and its affiliates do for Python.
You Americans (at least I think the majority of you are Americans) are getting quite ridiculous arguing over this.

Supporting a political candidate is a personal choice, one that is given to every eligible individual in a democratic state. Calling for someone to be fired or sever ties with them over political choice is retarded and counter-productive.
Of course there's a reason, that's because people deploy production systems on Linux servers. As far as overall experience goes, I'm ok with Linux as DE because I don't really need much - as long as it runs terminal, editor (with not completely horrible fonts) and browser it's fine.
Seeing "his holiness" out of context, isn't it a bit of a useless title? Anyone can be "his holiness" (unless it's a woman), depending on what anyone believes in. I was confused why you're linking to an interview with the dalai lama for something the pope said.
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Or, without saying the H word, what if Thiel was openly a white supremacist, member of and contributor to the KKK? Would that be completely okay? Would that be "just politics"?
Discontinuing support for Check the Weather
Stuff like this really confuses me. They went to all the trouble to have it say "sorry, I know what you want but I can't." Why not actually implement it instead?
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No one dislikes Trump more than me. But you can't divorce 40% of the country.
from: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/08/the-slate-star-codex-po...

2. The anchor of a major news network donates lots of money to organizations fighting against gay marriage, and in his spare time he writes editorials arguing that homosexuals are weakening the moral fabric of the country. The news network decides they disagree with this kind of behavior and fire the anchor.

a) This is acceptable; the news network is acting within their rights and according to their principles

b) This is outrageous; people should be judged on the quality of their work and not their political beliefs

12. The principal of a private school is a member of Planned Parenthood and, off-duty, speaks out about contraception and the morning after pill. The board of the private school decides this is inappropriate given the school’s commitment to abstinence and moral education and asks the principal to stop these speaking engagements or step down from his position.

a) The school board is acting within its rights; they can insist on a principal who shares their values

b) The school board should back off; it’s none of their business what he does in his free time

If you answer these questions differently, you need to try to apply your so-called principles consistently. This article is bullshit for the same reason the Brendan Eich affair was bullshit--if the situation were reversed, the same people calling for Brendan Eich's head would have been ardently defending someone who had been fired for donating to marijuana legalization or something. As long as he's not discriminating or smoking weed in the workplace, etc., YOU SHOULD NOT PERSECUTE SOMEONE FOR HIS BELIEFS or how they affect his political contributions.
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>I didn't imply anything you've said. I just noticed that his response looks like a product of PR or marketing department rather then tech lead.

A appreciate the fact of quick reply, even if half of the credit for it should go to HN discussion.
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Pence is on the ticket. You don't put him on the ticket unless you are homophobic and sexist. Pence has proven himself to be truly outstanding in these areas.
In case of small AVRs with debugWIRE interface, they don't have hardware breakpoints. Placing breakpoint automatically flashes memory overwriting instruction with BREAK instruction.
The other candidate is corrupt, more politically savvy, and a career politician.

Also racism and sexism is a subjective issue, asking people to take a stand against "this kind of thing" without specifics is playing into the political banter.
Anyone using vim-mode plugins for other IDEs? Most vim critic in the comments seems to be against it as an IDE, while the biggest benefit is obviously the keyboard control. So why not use the combination of both (I installed plugins for Visual Studio and Atom a few days ago and I'm quite happy so far, but it's my first steps in to vim, so maybe I'll find things that won't work later)?
A large proportion of Trump supporters are not for Donald Trump the human being and all the things he's done. They're for the Republican party being in power; they're against Clinton for her faults (real or imagined); they're for someone who isn't a mainstream candidate being in charge for once. There's all kinds of reasons to support the GOP Presidential candidate that many people may see as more important than the insane, racist, sexist things Trump has said and done.

(I say this as a left-leaning guy by Canadian standards. Believe me, I'm terrified you guys might actually elect that monster.)
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This doesn't look like an attempt to pick winners, but to support the participating projects. Do you see anything about reducing fragmentation? (Not that that would be bad.)
This reminds me: as fun as the sandbox nature of the game is... I enjoy the crafted adventure maps more. Or the challenge maps where you are just on a floating island and need to figure out the correct progression without wasting resources.
$1.25M is less for Thiel than $100 is for most people. The absolute amount is meaningless, you have to normalize by wealth here.
Maybe I am being too cynical, but they are running a business after all.

I guess they showed some goodwill by delaying their shutdown from when they first announced it.
> The point of scrypt is to make ASICs expensive by requiring lots of fast memory

But what is the point of that?
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> But you can still have an opinion, correct?

But do I really have to? And do I really have to see this completely
irrelevant to me topic?
I think parent means B's not BS, although p-hacking is very much an overoptimization over easily defined gials.
Marcos understanding of this situation is extremely telling for a fundamental problem with many americans relationship with politics. Most only get involved around election. After that their political interest is non existing.

It's easy to get lured into the idea that politics is a simple choice between the moral good and the moral bad, that the choice is simple and that there is a one to one relationship between what you vote for and what you get.

In reality however it's much more complicated. For all the crazy things Trump says, for all is egoism he has some very important points which needs to be addressed and discussed and he represents a group of people who haven't been represented for the last 40 years.
A group who are themselves excluded from society. A group who experience their own form of discrimination by the likes of Marcos, me and everyone else who are benefitting from the progress of technology, globalization, taxation rules and so on.

Marcos is all about form. Trumps form is admittedly not pretty but there are some important issues and for Theil a different political goal than Trump which isn't represented by Hillary. If you can't understand that then you make the mistakes of Marco et all. You confuse rhetorics with whats at stake.

If you don't want dissent, fine just admit it. That way at least you are being honest. Don't wrap your lack of political understanding into some claim of decency.

Racism is not just racism, sexism is not just sexism. These are complicated matters by the very nature of them being about human relationships.

So don't be the very thing your object to.

And no I don't want to defend Trump or Theil but rather the fundamental principle that no matter what in a democracy everyone have the right to say and mean what they want without having to fear the repercussions. Life is complicated and it happens all the time not just around election. There are many good reasons to be against Trump or Peter Theils endorsement of him, Marcos reasons just arent any of them. They are purely superficial understanding of what's really at stake here.
Most likely? None at all. But it might ensure the long-term survival of some popular libraries that could otherwise eventually die off (kinda like Apache).

Case in point: https://medium.com/webpack/sustaining-webpack-for-the-future...
Poll HN: Who do you support for the president?
This comes back to the two primary ways of motivating someone: the carrot or the stick.

Most people use the stick, because that's what they're used to and it's what works faster. When it works. But it damages your relationship with the other person. They'll resent you for making them do something out of fear.

Of course, if it's someone who you'll never see again, maybe you don't care, but you can also learn how to motivate people in a positive way. Then, they will do things for you, because they like you.