skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Launched these guys and many other OSS cos and I never thought of them as a true DB. Rethink was evangelizing an approach and how DBs of the future should operate. Ultimately no one knew if they were an DB or a load balancing engine of some kind that sped up DB transactions for say mobile apps that would only send DB changes to the client vs entire DB data. They got stuck in this no-mans land of no one knew what they were - let alone they had no way to sell it.

Open source or not didn't even come into play, They had great interest, devs liked them and they figured out how to do meetups without much budget. Devs I knew said they liked them team but shortly into it it was clear they were hoping a revenue stream would stick and went forward on that would just happen. Strange one really.
The polarization in politics has gotten worse and worse. A lot of people are feeling marginalized and unheard. The echo chambers we find ourselves in make it difficult to even perceive how the other side could hold the views that they do. Yellow journalism is worse than I've ever seen. Viral social media posts that are more click bait than fact are spreading more misinformation than valuable insight. It's more than anyone can sort out. Even intelligent people are susceptible to bias and believing stories that align with their preconceived notions. What are we to do, as technologists, to alievate this problem?
I find this incredibly sad. Plenty great products/languages have died because of poor documentation, poor respect for beginners.

Yet... here the Scala community is... repeating the past and justifying with the same reasons.

I personally only spend time learning a new language when:

1. I can get employed because I know it. (example: python)

2. It is easy to pick up and learn. (example: arduino )

3. It solves a problem I must solve ( perl/bash scripting )

Scala doesn't meet any of the above criteria.
It's a slippery slope to not associate with people based on politics. It is also a slippery slope to continue to associate with people because the views they support are those of a politician.

David Duke is running for senate. Does that make Holocaust-denial a political issue?

There was a time when women having the right to vote was a political issue. Today it is not (though Thiel has raised concerns about what women's suffrage did for capitalist democracy[0].)

There was a time when slavery was considered a political issue. Today it is not.

I don't think sexual assault is in the realm of "personal politics". I don't think racism is either. Can I take the time to understand people who might advocate for these? Sure, but that doesn't mean I want them as leaders.

Having Thiel as a partner in YC, when Silicon Valley has tremendous issues with diversity already, sends a strong message. It's not about supporting a political party. I'm sure the YC partners have a wide spectrum of political views. This isn't about politics.

[0]: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
Sorry, not a good analogy. What it omits is the power factor.

Were Mr. Thiel a founder, and a powerful VC blacklisted him because of his political views, we would have the powerful trampling the weak.

If HN banned everyone who defended Mr. Thiel, we would have a purge.

But choosing not to do business with a billionaire that is actually spending money to support Mr. Trump is not a case of the powerful oppressing the weak, nor is it a case of the powerful purging voices from discourse.

It's a choice, simple as that. Agree, disagree, fine. But it's not a purge, and it's not oppression.
I seem to recall this being the reason the sexual reproduction definition of species is considered problematic. It's a convenient definition for animals but breaks down for most other things, and even the animal kingdom has some funky edge cases, like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebroid.
there are a variety of legal cases that cover this, such as Buckley v. Valeo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo

"The majority, in a per curiam opinion, contended that expenditure limits contravened the First Amendment provision on freedom of speech because spending money, in its view, was the same as written or verbal expression."
Exactly. These weren't excavated as part of the next horrible Raiders of the Lost Arc reboots. They're recorded convos on the Howard stern show. Anyone could have found it.

Better way of looking at it is: what would the effect be of the media letting a psychopath through until the late stages, letting the election get close, and then and only then actually educating the voting public on some of the most unsavory parts of his past?

The answer, if it isn't clear, is in the 50% bump in debate viewers over the 2008 election.
FLAGGING FOR POLITICAL CONTENT

(not because Trump but because the Thiel NY Times story was so mercilessly flagged)
"“Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that's never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong," Clinton said in a statement released Saturday afternoon." (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-basket...)

Apparently the apology was over "half" rather than "deplorables".
sp527 is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Why Vote Trump?
Agreed. This is crazy:

1. A rich and powerful person parroting Trump's evil statements --> ban from YC.

2. A rich and powerful person helping put Trump in a position to turn his evil statements into reality for an entire country --> No ban from YC.
>Containers would randomly crash under load exiting with error 137 out of memory. Apparently a few of our services would randomly leak memory, but only when running inside a docker container vs ubuntu 14.04. (I never figured this out)

Did you identify that the software definitely did not leak on ubuntu? Or was it that it ran on ubuntu because it consumed swap?

Was it for sure a leak? I have an app that doesn't have back-pressure so when too many requests come in, it fills up memory waiting to push them all through to the slower database. Normally it uses 256m. Spikes make it hit 700mb. If I tell docker -m 300m, then the process gets 300m ram + 300m swap, so when it tries to use 700m it gets killed. I could tell it to use 350m and then it will run, but it would be swapping furiously.
> Why is money speech?

It amplifies the speaker's message at a point in time when it may still affect others who hear it.

By the time you vote, in secret, your choice affects no other voters.
And which among those things had not already been done at that point by the likes of Palm, Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola, et al?

Apple's major contribution is making consumer-grade technology look at once both cool and friendly, such as by putting an icon of a smiling, happy computer on the boot screen of a Macintosh. Their greatest strength is in making objects that might otherwise seem intimidating or ostentatious into something hip and approachable.

That isn't to say they don't innovate. They clearly do. But that is not where their profits come from. Those clearly derive from brand image and network effects.
I suspect that it's the opposite of what you might hope it would be. I suspect that the fear of corruption of government officials is almost entirely based on accusations of corruption from their political opponents, and that those same Americans don't believe that "their" politicians are equally corrupt.

I do think there is actual corruption on all sides, simply because of the fact that money and campaign donations are such huge factors in the political process. I think every American should be horrified by this and should be doing everything they can to take money out of what is effectively our hiring process for high-level government officials.

However, I fear that this is not what [some survey] picked up on. I fear that [some survey] picked up on fans of politician X believing X's accusations of corruption on the part of politician Y were true, while simultaneously not believing allegations of corruption about their own candidate. And vice versa. I fear that all [some survey] picked up on is the sheer toxicity of the process nowadays, and not people who are concerned about the integrity of the political process itself.
If you really care about improving the viability of third parties in this country, please do that in local and state elections where it is actually possible to elect third parties.

Voting for 3rd parties in Presidential elections is fine, but really doesn't do much really and if you actually dig deep into 3rd party Presidential candidates, they're usually not great either.
Food for thought:

https://twitter.com/i/moments/788073951511535616
> Speak at local user group meetings.

As the primary meetup organizer for SLC Python, I wholeheartedly agree. We often have people practicing their talks in front of our group before they go onto much larger forums such as PyCon and Open West. It's also a good chance to practice public speaking and presenting complicated ideas.
That definition seems arbitrary and debatable.

For instance, what is high frequency?

And what if say blind speakers of the language disagree?
While I disagree with Peter Thiel's support of Trump, I believe that he is a very smart man, and quite qualified to be a partner with YC. To fire him over his political affiliation would be petty censorship. It's easy to look at somebody like Trump and see the racist, sexist, and xenophobic parts. These attributes aren't naturally shared with Trump's supporters. As Altman said, it would be different if Thiel expressed some sort of bigotry. Also, many states (including California) have laws forbidding retaliation for political practices outside of work.
> I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump. But I’d like to find out.

This is the attitude we need. Not the name calling and shaming. Instead, go grab a beer together, talk about the issues, agree to disagree and in 9 out of 10 cases you will usually find out the person voting for $theOtherCandidate isn't a huge asshole and probably cares about other people just as much as you do.
> (of course, if Peter said some of the things Trump says himself, he would no longer be part of Y Combinator)

This is the difference, in my book, between casting a ballot and writing a big check. Casting a ballot is what you have the right to do privately, without judgement from the world. When you write a check (especially one of the 7-figure variety), and amplify the message, you bear far more responsibility than a voter.

One of the best ways to fix our broken campaign finance system would be to hold asshats like Thiel responsible for what their dollars are funding.
You're clearly not gay or else you'd recognize that Thiel is self-hating, making his support of Trump's bigotry actually well-motivated.
> But none of that functionality is as important and effective as phone calls.

Wait, what? Making phone calls is almost always the least efficient last resort.

> And almost all of that is based on the foundation of The Internet.

Absolutely, but the Internet is dramatically more useful when it's always on, and always with you, and tied into sensors that help decide what you need.

BlackBerry gave us smart pagers. Microsoft gave us a microscopic desktop with all the charm and utility that implies. Neither were successful with the mass market because neither were particularly relevant to consumers.

The problem with saying iPhone was a few years ahead of its time is that iPhone defined the future. Without it we might still be divided between 10-20% of the user base with stylii and physical keyboards and WAP web browsers and the rest of us with feature phones.
Do the resistors out there qualify as well?
What makes a car what it is? Certainly not it's right headlight.
> Not if they call me a "faggot" on the street.

Even then.

Be an activist, go out and vote, fight for yourself, but don't attack others because they said something you didn't like.
I think at this point the mobile hard- and software industry is simply much further developed and it's harder for everyone to innovate, not just for Apple. We can't expect that magic of 2007 to come back on a year to year basis.
That said Apples products continue to be very solid. For me personally, MacBook Pros are in amazing state right now and OSX feels and looks great on high-dpi displays.
As much as I hate Trump, I'm kind of hoping for him to win. Fundamentally, I think that 4 years of Trump might be better than 8 years of Hillary. Also, if Hillary wins, the DNC won't have to change. If Trump wins, in 2020, they will be forced to nominate maybe someone like Sanders.

Trump winning will also really underscore how broken the US political system is and I'm hoping that him winning could be a catalyst for some change.
I'm arguing against it, on the basis of economics and (to a lesser extent) game design.

Console hardware is almost always sold at a loss. No company would build a console full of RAM (no matter how cheap it is) with almost no load times. Most people (having acclimated to loading screens) would rather buy the cheaper "good enough" alternative.
I personally donate to the Against Malaria Foundation. There is plenty of evidence that it's an effective charity. It's the top recommended charity from GiveWell. They mentions that you're probably giving someone's son/daughter/brother/sister an extra year of life for every $70-$100.(hell of a deal if you ask me)

http://www.givewell.org/charities/against-malaria-foundation
In most social and business circles, especially wealthy ones, supporting a 3rd party presidential candidate puts you in the "out out group", a severe career limiting move (TM).
Precisely. It doesn't mean that their perspective is guaranteed to be rational or free from ugly ideas. But it's a valid perspective.
i'm speaking in contemporary times of course, the current versions of android including the previous couple of major versions, have greatly surpassed iOS in terms of flexibility in usability.
Can't it be criminal activity and politics as usual?
Except that he made the case for why he thinks Trump is the wrong candidate. Keep in mind, he wrote a blog post earlier giving credit to Trump on topics that he is correct on.
Hands across the lab: Will the US and Iran cooperate on science
I don't think it's that controversial a statement. Trump is basically a walking HR nightmare and would never be employable at a typical company given any of the things he says about (or does to) people.
https://twitter.com/paulg
https://twitter.com/sama

If you look at their respective Tweets they seem to agree.
No, he's not. Not in the way he's saying it. Every single poll is showing him losing at this point. Many political leaders, including those in his own party, have dismissed his claims as nonsense. As he always does whenever he's embarrassed in public, he's simply laying blame for his failure on something — anything! — outside his own incompetence. Unfortunately, his core supporters lap it right up.
Sure, I just wanted to put the actual numbers out there because 20% or so actually seems pretty fair for keeping the lights on, taking out the trash, etc, while 70+% is....a lot. On top of this, a lot of the....infrastructure is still fee-for-service. The university may fund the initial purchase of an MRI scanner (or whatever) out of overhead, but individual labs still pay $400+ an hour to use it.

I don't know if the NIH or NSF takes overhead into account, but many of the most successful grantees also have some of the highest overhead so probably not.

On the flip side, I've heard someone claim that their department chair strongly encouraged applying for NIH grants, because the NIH-negotatied overhead rate is much higher than other funders (also, allegedly more prestigious, but you'd think $500,000 spends about the same, regardless of where it comes from).
Yeah, and as soon as a U.S. Senator makes a floor speech lamenting that "the Chinese are beating us at our own game!", I expect that the pork will start to roll and U.S. Aerospace industry will be thanking the Chinese as well.
I made it then, and I'm making it now. One of the best ways we can fix campaign finance is by holding campaign financiers responsible for what they're funding.
I mean, I see the difficulty. Ostensibly, Peter Thiel has a lot of value to the tech community. SOPA does not.

But.... this post does censure Peter Thiel. sama is completely disavowing Thiel's support of Trump. Maybe I don't understand what "censure" means though, if you meant something else.
Now Trump = actual hatred.

I don't support trump, but the hyperbole is getting exhausting.
There's a degree of separation you're missing. SOPA is a specific belief, Trump is a person who has many beliefs.

Person -> SOPA

Person -> Trump -> Sexism/Racism/etc

Thiel doesn't support Trump because he's racist/etc, he does it in spite of that. That doesn't make Thiel right, however it is an important distinction. If Thiel said or did anything racist/sexist/etc, he'd be out of YC. It's a slippery slope to start firing people because someone they support supports something you don't like.

After all, Clinton supports SOPA, and Sam just endorsed her.
Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

You can disagree with the statement, but why do you think it is punishable?
We needn't equate shunning people (plural) with choosing not to have a super-high-profile booster in a leadership role.

Not the same thing at all.
Apple has hired a big brain in AI to make Siri less dumb
>unprecedented threat to America

Hillary is an unprecedented threat to the world. But I guess Americans are so cut of from the rest of the world, it's hard for them to see things from others perspective. As a citizen of third world please don't unleash Hillary on us.
I have never seen this behavior. It gives me the option to reboot on "off hours"
> It really does a great job of helping explain Trump supporters.

I think what we're seeing are the results of taking 6 trillion dollars that should have been spent building infrastructure for working class Americans and instead wasting it in Iraq.
Sam, just so you know, many of your sentences could exchange Trump for Hillary and be exactly what Trump supporters I know say. Especially this one:

> [Hillary] shows little respect for the Constitution, the Republic, or for human decency, and I fear for national security if [she] becomes our president.

Other sentences would just exchange antonyms and not make it sound any better. You call Trump isolationist, they call Hillary interventionist.

I fear that your reasoning for why you endorse Hillary and not Trump doesn't really speak to someone who likes Trump in the first place. Calling Trump racist, for instance, isn't going to flip anyone's voting bit.

The only very cogent Hillary endorsement (or rather Not-Trump endorsement) I've read that would actually speak to conservatives is this one: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/28/ssc-endorses-clinton-jo...

Which is fairly long and not the kind of thing I'd suggest sharing with your Grandma or Thiel, but I think you could distill more convincing talking points from it that would appeal to people much more conservative than yourself.

Note: My own opinion is too wordy for the small margins here, I'm just relaying sentiments of people I've talked to. I'm from New Hampshire, and people here, especially up north, have had Trump signs from very early on in this campaign, way before anyone in the media seemed to take him seriously.
> you'll see people from both sides nearly calling for the death of the other

Not to sound too tinfoilhatter, but this is exactly what you would want the masses to behave like as a politician. Neither candidate gives two shits about you me or anyone who isn't part of the ruling elite, they're just in it for the power.
Oh the irony of Assange being unable to tolerate leaks that make Russia look bad. Its clear what side he's playing for and it ain't for Western democracy and human rights.

I find it amusing that facts about how Russian citizens are being ripped off by their autocratic elites is a "hitjob." What does that word even mean? These documents are verified to be real. Putin's regime is that corrupt. Apparently, Assange and his Russian handlers have a desperate case of being able to dish it out, but not being able to take it.
If you found the Cracked article insightful, an even deeper discussion of this "dark matter" phenomenon ("I don't know anyone who supports candidate X, but I can measure their gravity, so they must be out there somewhere") is in this essay from Slate Star Codex.

"I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup"
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
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I'm sure I'll be labelled a cynic, but I'm pretty sure if Thiel didn't make a shit ton of money and is likely to make more money in the future, YC would have dumped him over politics a long time ago.
So many bootloader fixes, this is awesome! For those using FDE, read this: http://spaceisdisorienting.com/when-fulldisk-encryption-goes...

I tend to use FDE for non mission critical working environments, like casually surfing the web, or just messing around with code. FDE can go wrong at the worst of times, and can undo years of work if you let it.

That's why if you're using FDE for anything important, you should be backing up crucial data to containers, or otherwise preparing for the entire disk to be scrambled beyond repair and or bricked.
Indie Driving Survival Game with Clever Vehicle AI
It's funny to me that sama says "try to understand the other people" and yet this comment is downvoted.

Sometimes I think saying that is really an empty platitude.
Pink and red have different names in Russian too, pink is розовый.
The Huahujing (Hua Hu Ching) is traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu (Laozi), though there is no real use in being pedantic about the identity or timeline of Lao Tzu -- no one knows.

Moreover, English translations of the Tao Te Ching vary immensely and are highly subjective, as ancient Chinese hardly translates onto English. The quote is but one of many different translations.
Nice statement, to the point and a reasonable call for civility. It will be nice to see if / when a return to a more 'traditional' US political discourse can gain momentum; history is repeating itself in watching a party tear itself apart. Boehner rage-quitting opened my eyes quite a bit.

As Katy Tur has frequently reported - and others as well - a significant portion of Trump supporters firmly refute easily provable facts (re: Birtherism) or outright believe lies (re: Actual Border Wall). It's unfortunate to sit back and reflect on this segment of the population, because, unlike the level-headed, rational post by Sam, such tactics are ineffective. These people are walking Poe's Law conundrums, and as nice as the intention is to include them in the big picture, that's a genuinely problematic proposition. It's why Donald Trump is such a ridiculous candidate - he's like a child, and his immaturity doesn't allow adults to have adult conversations.

Fortunately, I'm quite able to sleep easily at night knowing that the mistakes of the political and journalistic mainstays (GOP in primaries, media enabling Trump) are quickly being rectified - the cannons are melting with how much ammunition is being shot his way and hitting over and over. It's a deluge, and I don't think it's over even as of this writing. This will be a lopsided outcome due to an extremely motivated voting populace by 2XXX standards. Glenn Beck and Michael Moore voting for the same person? I, um, didn't see that coming, but hey, here we are.

What's wonderful about the US, as I learned from extensive study of both Hunter S. Thompson and Mark Twain, is that freedom of speech is great: People are free to speak their minds and show the world if there's anything inside of worth.
This has no place on HN.
Didn't the the other post. Thanks for pointing that out!