skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a election that has the lowest ever recorded public opinion of the two candidates, my feeling of the election is this. The what ever allowed this situation to happen is proof that it is broken.

If I was to favor the majority opinion, to oppose both Trump and Clinton is to campaign for democracy. If I had to guess what motivities Assange, if Clinton win people won't trust the government and if trump win people will fear the government. It is possible that the later will slightly produce more Snowden's.
>> I think some of the fear is justified.

Just imagine for a second how it would be living in a world without penicillin. You will realise that your fear is caused by the pigbearman.
will try toastmasters, thanks for the info
If you believe Trump is less corrupt than Hillary Clinton, further support for Wikileaks makes sense.
In what way does this ensure that they don't turn Assange over?
There's just absolutely no way that Hillary Clinton was seriously proposing a drone strike on the on the Ecuadoran Embassy in London.
Yes, the DNC wouldn't have called them out as fake immediately if they were... Come on.

Podesta himself admitted he got hacked and the password he emailed himself in plaintext worked for his other social media accounts.
It's his money so he's certainly free to do with it what he wants. In my opinion it doesn't say too much more about his character than any of his other publicly posted opinions. It's not overly surprising to me that someone that thinks democracy and freedom are incompatible[0] would support an authoritarian.

It's up to us to decide if that's a stance we take, then we can use our own freedom of speech to espouse our own opinions.

[0] https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
> He threatened, on stage, in a Presidential debate, to unilaterally throw his political opponent HRC in jail.

To object to that is to beg the question of whether she belongs in jail or not. I won't take a position on that, but it should be obvious that being a political candidate doesn't grant one immunity from prosecution for improperly divulging classified information (or for sexual assault, for that matter; I can't remember a previous where folks could legitimately debate whether both candidates should be in jail).
I've said it elsewhere: management sets the tone, not the code of conduct. If there is a random arsehole behaving badly, they get ejected, with or without code of conduct. But is a person of power behaves like an arsehole, then it's up to management to decide if proper behaviour is mandatory or optional.

My feeling is that codes of conduct mainly serve the salesmen and workshop providers. The thankfully defunct Ada Initiative was the worst actor, but others have stepped in.
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Same, but my moment of losing respect for him was when I found out he works for RT: https://www.rt.com/tags/the-julian-assange-show/
Article update:

Case dismissed! On Monday, October 17, District Judge John Grinsteiner rejected the “riot” charge that had been leveled against Amy Goodman for her coverage of a September 3rd Dakota Access Pipeline protest. Standing before the Morton County courthouse, surrounded by supporters, Goodman said: “It is a great honor to be here today. The judge’s decision to reject the State’s Attorney Ladd Erickson’s attempt to prosecute a journalist–in this case, me–is a great vindication of the First Amendment.” And she added: “[W]e encourage all of the media to come here. We certainly will continue to cover this struggle.”
This is not premeditated, this is October Surprise and they had the Trump video in store for that round of the fight, nothing sinister.

Regarding the media, all are culprits in biased news coverage whether those on the right like Breitbart or Fox News or on the left like NYT or Washington Post but this held belief that you should expect nothing less than 100% impartial coverage of the elections when they endorse their favorite candidate publicly is also a bit misplaced.
"Public opinion of the candidates" doesn't mean anything. Hillary Clinton crushed Bernie Sanders, beating him by ten times the number of votes Obama beat HRC with in 2008. Similarly, Trump demolished his Republican opponents in the GOP primary. The voters made a clear choice.
Wow - I didn't know it was ever scheduled to be de-orbited. That's sad. I hope we find the bread crumbs in the federal budget to replace it.
The have sacrificed their place as "paper of record" by being so shamelessly partisan. The Times of London always stays above the fray.
Psychopath is one particular slur that I've started ignoring. We've been taught it is equivalent to evil, or something like that, and it's used as a thought-terminating cliche. But, the basic traits of clinical psychopathy aren't really inherently evil.

The characteristics that define clinical psychopathy are many of the same that make effective leaders

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/the-startl...

(I certainly don't want a psychopathic criminal in charge, but psychopath != criminal)
If you support Donald Trump, you are by definition a supporter of racism, mysogny, rape culture and an opponent of equality, freedom, the very values this country was founded. You are dispicable. You sure as hell have no place in any forward looking organization and if YC does not sever ties with Theil immediately, we really need to start seeing prominent business leaders in the valley and beyond begin distancing themselves from YC.
Imagine a mother with a child. She gets dementia and needs to go in a care home. The child can't afford to pay for this, the mother doesn't have much in savings, but does own a house. The child wants to sell the house to pay for the care home.

Everybody agrees that this is a good outcome for the mother, and that it probably leaves the child a bit worse off.

In this simple case the child will apply to the court to get power of attorney (or similar) so that they have the legal powers to sell someone else's home.

> but unless actual harm is being done, why does the court, or any government agency, need to decide what is the "best" care for anybody?

In most cases they don't get involved, or their involvement is a straightforward acceptance of the suggested actions.
I too look for evidence and I have to be careful not to put emotions in front of rationale but one thing that strikes me about the rise of isis and the ensuing terrorist attacks from Europe to California is the media coverage. I honestly feel like the same media that is actively trying to destroy Donald Trump also can't get enough of him. Do you remember when all of those journalists were having their heads cut off? Or the many bombings and attacks after? The media created the term "ISIS" and blanketed 24 hour news cycles with it. The same has happened for the police shootings. You may be able to say that based on the numbers things are looking up, but if you turn on the TV the past few years you wouldn't know that. I also think that is why many Trump supporters are sick of the "media". They've been spoon-fed a teaspoon of fear a day and now that they chose their candidate whom they feel will lead them to higher-ground and that same media tells them they're racist/bigot/stupid for supporting him, they no longer trust media outright.
Not supported, as in, the react-devtools that rely on it could break at any moment? Or just that you don't officially document the API?
> Personally I think actively managing your money is the better solution...

To what degree do you believe people should actively manage their money? Are you advocating that people should be more active in choosing their distribution of assets across risk:reward categories, or are you advocating for more active trading?
Retired U.S. general charged with lying to FBI in 'Stuxnet' leak case
Well, one is controversial and has political opinions that antagonise a large chunk of the US electorate, but the other is batshit-crazy, narcissistic, anti-democratic and would blow up the world to salve his ego. So, it's not even apples and oranges here
Adding to this: Clinton was personally responsible for new regulations that allow trans people to easily change the gender markers on their passport and their social security records (and there's also been regulations that rendered the gender marker on social security irrelevant, though I don't remember if that was before or after Clinton left).

On top of this, Mike Pence has promised to roll back the Obama administration's use of the EEOC and Title IX to protect trans rights against discrimination.

I'm voting Democratic for my very survival.
I agree about the relation between prosperity and openness of the economy. But the relation to science, especially theoretical work requiring little more than pencil and paper, is less clear. Trivial example: lucrative opportunities in finance might have lured away some of the old USSR's math talent, to the detriment of Soviet mathematics.

The best and worst thing about authoritarian / totalitarian / one-party systems may be their focus. Few people making all the important decisions lead to few things being pursued vigorously. If they happen to be good things, great; you get an Academy of Science or a national space program with plenty of resources and social support. If they happen to be bad things, you get national disasters like Lysenkoism [1], "Deutsche Physik" [2] and the shuttering of Chinese schools and universities during the Cultural Revolution [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Education
ummm... precisely! You can basically take a sufficiently provisioned mainframe and "carve it up" into virtual machines with guaranteed isolation and performance. This is unlike VMs running on an x86-64 server, where there is a lot of isolation and performance issues.
Germany isn't extreme. Because a party needs 5% of the votes to get any seats, only five of those six made it into parliament (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_2013)

Compare that with countries without such a rule such as Belgium (13 parties elected in parliament (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_federal_election,_20...) and the Netherlands (11 elected (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_general_election,_2012), but, because individuals split off from their parties, currently 16 factions in parliament).

These countries _always_ get a coalition government. It's no surprise getting agreement on policy sometimes takes time, in extreme cases over a year (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010–11_Belgian_government_f...)
You've laid out a plan to teach software development. Computer Science might be more accurately named "Computing Science".
Remember, that case was about the U.S. government trying to prevent a group of people from showing a film critical of a political candidate. Do you really think that isn't speech?
We're not talking about other countries, the context of the discussion here was clearly about the US, as seen in the reference to Millennial economic troubles which is an issue in the US today.

For the US, the war lasted 4 years, not 6.

No, slave-holding generations weren't worse, because not everyone owned slaves; that was mostly unique to the South. That's like claiming that Millennials suck because they all love 4x4s and mudding and having lots of guns and are big Trump fans. The US fought a nasty war over that issue because most of the population was not part of the slave-holding class, and even the poor white people in the South didn't own slaves either, only the rich ones, though they suckered the poor ones into fighting for their stupid cause.
It's not even software engineering, it's just basic troubleshooting skills. You could teach automotive repair or plumbing the same way, probably. I'd like to see a course taught in that that doesn't necessarily focus on computers, because those skills are tremendously applicable in pretty much every field.
> The constant fake smiling, cold and calculated question answering, passive aggressiveness, etc. In short, the traits of a great manipulator.

Aren't those, pretty much by definition, the traits of a poor manipulator? A great manipulator wouldn't seem so false.

Let me put it this way: How natural do you think you would seem if you were spending hours of every day in front of dozens of cameras, knowing that the slightest misstatement or weird facial expression is going to spread across social media to the entire country and be analyzed and picked apart and turned into memes and used against you by your opponents? I think anyone who seems like a "normal person" in that situation is anything but.
Of which virtually all of the components are open source, such as the most excellent auth service[1] for tectonic.

[1] https://github.com/coreos/dex
Hmm. Is anyone else getting NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID error?
You're also saving your recruiters the job of looking over a lot of resumes from people who have productive full-time jobs in another language and have limited time to pick up a new language because they're busy delivering business value in their existing language. It's a very high-false-positive strategy.
It doesn't matter if Thiel is any of those -ists. And frankly, to me, it doesn't even matter if Trump himself is any of those -ists.

The real issue is that Trump and his campaign have actively tried to appeal to the -ist nature of people for political gain. And Thiel's donation is a tacit approval of either the tactics or the philosophy itself.
> Knock knock. Who's there? (wait a few minutes) Java

Knock knock. Assembler
> It shows that he passed the data to Wikileaks, who didn't do the protection of information you say they do, and just released the information.

Wikileaks linked to the information; it was hosted on the Internet Archive, who took it down[0].

> And then never took responsibility.

It wasn't theirs to take down. The parties responsible took it down, responsibly.

> They're denying that anything they did was even bad.

They denied that members of the APK are an at-risk group.

> I notice you also completely ignored the part about them releasing the private information of DNC donors.

Because that's not the example you used. I wasn't aware you were refering to DNC donors with your accusation.

0: https://glomardisclosure.com/2016/07/26/the-who-and-how-of-t...
No, we're playing the "you moved the goalposts" game. This started with your intellectually dishonest claims about Hillary Clinton and Robert Byrd.

"States' rights" is a dog whistle phrase for racism.
Mackenzie and Dan are great. Loved working with them at YC and know they will do awesome work at CoreOS.
Or maybe he was implying that she would be in jail after a fair trial because he (and his supporters) believes that she has committed perjury and illegally destroyed government documents, among other crimes. There's really no evidence that this was meant as a threat, especially considering he said she would be _investigated_ by a special prosecutor (rather than just being sent to jail immediately). What I believe was meant here is that if he was leading the country he would not allow her to get out of having a fair trial (which it is claimed she has gotten out of by having control over the government).
I mean, I could be completely wrong, but either way saying "the language in clear" greatly simplifies this situation. Not that it really matters to me given his political opinions, but I feel that accusations like this are what led to the whole us vs. them mentality on both sides of this campaign.
I am completely unsurprised. I've been pretty negative on Scala in the past, and this is one of those reasons. The community does not feel inclusive and, my perception is that as a beginner you're simply expected to deal with the lack of documentation, the odd behavior of the tools, etc. And that (frankly) makes me fairly uninterested in contributing back to it.

I wonder if it's because many people who stay with Scala are more interested in the many advanced language features it offers, as opposed to building libraries to be used by day-to-day practitioners (who have very different metrics for deciding if a library is worthwhile or not).
For me at least, the other functionality is more important than phone calls. After all, I'd never pay $1k or even close for a device that can just make phone calls, but I would pay that much for a device that can do everything else a modern smartphone can do.
> My son's 529 plan is in a basket of volatile stock and bond funds.

Depending on the age of your son, you may really want to consider investing in more stable assets. 20 years is a typically considered a minimum time-horizon for being heavily-weighted in stocks due to their volatility. If your son is older than 5, preservation of the earnings you've already made should start to become a significantly higher priority than high returns.
Right -- it's kind of an intuition that's perhaps uniquely available to a gay person. It's an awareness you develop after talking to enough gay men -- some open and free, some repressed and mean. It becomes apparent that those who are most bitter, most mean, and most vindictive, are those who are actually hurting inside the most.

It seems to me that these concepts are totally foreign to the SF tech class, which seems to operate in what is perhaps believed to be a fully rational paradigm. But people aren't really that rational.

Peter Thiel very likely had a tough childhood, one that made him particularly sensitive to his sexuality. [E.g., not to go there but his vendetta against Gawker has no other explanation. Modern self-accepting gay men would probably say, "ok yeah um that was low but whatever."]

My evidence of him being self-hating is not from his political choices, but it's from everything else. It's from the way he speaks, his profound effort to be contrarian (I went through that phase), his peculiar vendetta against Gawker, and, to go there, his apparent lack of a stable partner. If there ever were a gay bachelor, it would be Peter Thiel -- but something is apparently wrong to make that an impossibility.

But in general, you might have to concede that your intuition on these issues is not as well developed here as that of a gay man's, who has seen these issues for many years on a deeply personal level.
Spoken like someone who hasn't taught a CS class.

You really want to teach some useful skills and not actually disrupt your CS class too much? Here's the start.

Lecture 1: How to drive a basic IDE (I used to choose Eclipse, but I might rethink that nowadays depending on language used. One of the IntelliJ projects might be easier.).

Most students are stunned at the difference between what they use as an editor vs what an IDE can do. Once somebody shows them what is possible, they start swimming really well.

Lecture 2: Source control and automated testing.

For most students, they view this as a homework dropbox that checks and runs their work. That's good enough to start. Some of them progress beyond this.

NOW, I can actually start to talk about the substance of my class as well as how to put that in programs.

Guess what? I have to give these lectures to every single class I teach. It doesn't matter if the class is 101 or 499, every single class.
As a foreigner in his 30s, no need to say that the 2016 elections feel like one of the most obnoxious US elections ever, it's worse than Bush vs Gore. The amount of dishonesty, propaganda, spin, is ridiculous. Of course the internet isn't off the hook as most websites and social networks are heavily involved into the propaganda machine. The political divisions in US is at a all time high. But the US democratic process will survive, I'm pretty sure it has seen worse in the past.

But the IT aspect is interesting. It seems that now, if you do not follow a specific political ideology, you will be automatically excluded from the american tech community as people will try to get you and ruin your career, your business and the lives of your families, prevent you from speaking at conferences, insult you on Twitter/Facebook and co because you broke the "ranks" and didn't follow the SF bay "political mindset" so you're fair game...
In your example -- assuming 20 different blogs/customers -- you'd be running 20 separate instances of MySQL (plus 20 nginx instances plus 20 php-fpm instances plus ...)?

Now, let me first say that I haven't come anywhere close to even touching containers and most of what I know about them came from this HN thread so please forgive me if I'm missing something...

I, personally, would rather only have a single MySQL instance -- or, in reality, say, a few of them (for redundancy) -- and just give each customer their own separate database on this single instance.

With regard to containerization, why is all of this duplication (and waste of resources?) seemingly preferred?
"Red Star In Orbit" by James E Oberg has been an incredibly good read so far. The one downside to it all is that it was written a decade before the fall of the USSR. So any fascinating tidbits that were revealed during/after the fall are missing. But don't let that dissuade you from the book! I personally like the cold war feel the book has. My favorite thing about the book is that Oberg covers what the Soviets said happened, what the West speculated had happened, and then finally (as best as he can tell from leaks, defectors, etc.) what really happened. Incredibly good read.
Been to Android and have developed on Android professionally. Android is widely known as a much more frustrating platform to develop with. I'm always open to change, but I couldn't leave Android fast enough.
Would you hire a bar raiser or a bar dropper?
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I should have been more specific. The 24 hour marathon filibuster, the longest in history, put him in this position. There were others who filibustered the Civil Rights Act bills, but none of them made such a dramatic show of it.
A. Would you like me to tell you a TCP joke?

B. Yes, I would like you to tell me a TCP joke.

A. OK, I will tell you a TCP joke.
How much do you have to know about using telescopes to become an astronomer?

I don't know the answer to that question, but I recall that my introductory physics courses and labs focused a fair deal on the practical part of understanding how things worked in the world, not just talking about theory 100% of the time.

(Though I don't know how either "computer science as pure science" or "software engineering as pure engineering" would actually work in the first place, though.)
Lots of people like the abstract idea of another option. There are, on fact, other concrete options, and people don't tend to like them as much as the abstract idea of an alternative, even before factoring in tactical concerns.

Now, to be fair, part of that is a product of the electoral system--people who are likely to be competent for the office are unlikely to run as a third-party candidate, given that they are likely to understand how the system works.