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This argument depends on Trump being "less corrupt" than HRC. If you believe Trump is the anti-corruption candidate, you can plausibly argue that Assange is somehow justified in supporting a candidate who is calling for the death penalty for leakers. It won't be a strong argument, but it'll be coherent.

But very few observers of US politics believe Trump is the anti-corruption candidate. A more widely held belief is that he's the most corrupt major party nominee in the history of US politics.
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This obviously wasn't a hard decision for them. In the article she's doing her best to demonize Thiel and Trump without even trying to empathize.

It also reads like she's trying to associate this project with big names like YC and Thiel.. but if I'm reading correctly all "Project Include" has done is "actively invite YC to contribute". The cynic in me says that this is a simple political power play and a marketing trick in one. Nothing to do with actually helping people and society, which would involve understanding and sympathy for all sides; even your political enemies.
I think you're correct that this might be a case of something the business needs to distance themselves from but they shouldn't try to take the moral high ground and at the same time vilify a man for his political views.
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I think many (most?) people are OK with the mantra "ignorance is bliss".

HN readership doesn't really represent the average citizen. So while you may want the info that likely doesn't hold for a lot of folks who really only care about a very minor set of immediate concerns (food, shelter, children).
I see the Russian distinction between blues equivalent to the distinction between red and pink for English speakers.
The string wasn't originally intended to be a URI, but I've been subsequently convinced that it would be useful for it to be one. We'll change it eventually.
The absolute easiest is probably Docker Cloud. I've checked it out but haven't really used it much. It's still relatively immature but if you just want to deploy and forget something simple, this is probably the way to go.

If you want to use your own Linux host, then the simplest way would probably just be to SSH into the box, git pull, and run "docker-compose build && docker-compose up".

Setting environment variables is pretty easy, but I don't think you need them in this case. If you're trying to make a redis or postgres container available to another container (your app), then you can do so easily with links in docker-compose. Something like:

myapp:
image: myimage:0.0.1
command: cmd to run
links:
- redis:redis
ports:
- 80:8000
environment:
- hardcoded_var=my_env_value
- var_from_host=${host_var}
redis:
image: redis:latest

You can then access redis from the myapp service using the hostname "redis" and the default port "6379". So, "telnet redis 6379" would work from the myapp container (assuming telnet is actually installed). The redis port isn't even publicly exposed- it's only available to myapp.

If you need to define environment variables, you can do so with an environment dict as shown above. There are a few other ways to define env vars:

https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#variable-subst...

https://docs.docker.com/compose/environment-variables/#/the-...
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> What people fail to realize is that Moore's Law and memory eventually make the problem go away. Spend a little extra on memory today and don't make memory requirements a deciding factor.

What's interesting to consider, though, are unintended consequences. Even though the problem is old, take a look at Bufferbloat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat

Basically, as RAM got cheap, switch manufacturers started shoving more into switches, packets got delayed to where it broke protocols, and things had to be rethought. This wasn't just some off the cuff hacked together protocols either: it severely hampered TCP, one of the most widely tuned and tested protocols out there.
True. The major party partisans will try to tell us that each election might as well be the last election in human history and that we should all hold the major party to a very low standard.

Most voters live in states that are essentially a lock-up for one of the two candidates. Arguably about 10 states might swing, but third party candidates could easily get 10+ percent of the popular vote nationally and largely influence the direction of the major parties if the voting public understood the electoral college and the multi-election game theory of it.
Thank you, I didn't know this. I've updated my post to point out where I'm wrong, hopefully that covers the important bits.
I am as anti-Facebook as they come while still using Facebook. I care about people in my past even if I haven't talked to them in ten years. I am curious what they are up to, and it makes me happy to see people from my past living happy lives. Being connected to people is a positive feature in my life, even if it comes at the expense of privacy.

Social media is what you make of it. If the beginning and end of your exposure to current events, politics, and information is Facebook, then yes, there's likely to be some uninformed opinions being created.
Yes, this is very spot on. I try to unplug as much as I can every Sunday. Get outdoors, go visit a museum, or spend a chunk of the day read a good book.

I also think unplugging for an entire week or more every year is healthy. Go camping for a week, or go somewhere remote, and get the hell away from the computer and phone.
> 'the extension of the franchise to women has rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron'

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
I'm not sure how else they would justify it.
Indeed, I stand corrected. I missed that part. I thought the returns were too low to include dividends, but that must me the inflation adjustment tricking me.
Seconded.

I switched to Vim as my primary editor about two months ago. I remembered how much easier Emacs Live[0] had made my life when I was giving Emacs a serious go a little whole ago, and found a sorta-equivalent for Vim[1] which smoothed over a lot of the rough edges and put in some of the modern convenience an ST die-hard like me would expect (autocompletion, package management and what have you).

That left one remaining barrier, which is the weirdness of modal editing; which is the important barrier, because the only reason you'd use vim is to sign up to the pre-eminent modal editor.

Maybe, two new laptops from now, or one lonely weekend, I'll take a hacksaw to spf13 and strip out the bits I don't need. But for a shallow onramp experience, it's been a godsend.

[0] https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live

[1] https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim
I'm not sure what to think about the fact that someone can be 'blacklisted' in tech because their stance on an issue isn't aligned with the majority of the community, or they have voiced an opinion for or against a political candidate.
> No, to us destroying a person for their political views is disgusting, even if we disagree with them.

Get off your high horse, Thiel is not going to be destroyed if YC distances itself from him, bloke's got "fuck you money" a hundred times over, nothing could "destroy" him short of institutional assault, and even then possibly not.

And you're advocating for tolerating intolerance whose end-result is the destruction of tolerance.

> I find the calls for his head even more repugnant. That sort of intolerance should have no place in a civil society.

So you're perfectly fine tolerating intolerance but you can't tolerate the intolerance of intolerance? Against a billionaire shovelling money to white supremacist and fascist ideologies to boot?
Its not so much about Trump, its about what he represents. If the U.S. Pres can say things like ban muslims, fc married women and grab them by the then it must be ok for us all to do it. I think people fear being in a society where racism/sexism is tolerated or even encouraged by the U.S. government. Does not matter what he has done. We are worried about what other people who feel empowered by him being president will think they can do
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You can shutdown without applying updates if you use 'Alt + F4' to initiate shutdown
I think it was implemented as an option later on.
if you're a little crazy you can take the radioactive americium out of a smoke detector and use that as a source
There's a lot of steel in today's cars that won't be needed if they're optimized for moving commuters around cities one or two at a time.
Another long list: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/world/europe/moscow-kremli...
There are two larges groups of people who are voting for Trump regardless of anything he does (as he said: he could shoot people down on 5th avenue and these people would still vote for him). The largest group of them are Republicans who will always vote Republican. My beef with these people is that I wish they were a little more loyal to our country's values than they were to their party, but fundamentally I've got no real problem with them.

The second group are all white nationalists. They honestly believe that Obama is a Muslim, that Jews control the banks and media, that immigration is bad for the country, etc.

These people I have no problem with blacklisting.
Good!

Maybe they can get back to making some new laptops, and some desktops (Mac Pro, Mac Mini), that don't suck!

We shall see what October brings.
And people with this kind of thinking are considered to be the good guys? SNL writer Chris Kelly "How bout instead of an “I Voted” sticker, everyone who votes Trump gets to wear a scarlet T for the rest of their lives?"[0]

Seriously pause to think that.

This fabricated outrage created by media & Clinton campaign of Trump's 'alleged' doings is quite concerning. At the same time there are Wikileaks collusion, media enabled terrorism, GOP, and some shady doings of agitating violence by the Democrats shown in today's leak. None reported by the msn[1]

[0]http://archive.is/NiRJ4
[1]http://regated.com/2016/10/project-veritas-clinton-camp-corr...
On the safety issue.

It's not that I don't trust the technology. It's that I don't trust the people in charge of safety. It doesn't happen over night. But it is a gradual cost cutting which leads to corner cutting. It is slow, inevitable and inexorable.
I immediately thought the 12h are strange, no half-insider would know the exact time schedule, yet it's also plausible to just exaggerate from "soon" to "within 12h".
Anecdotally I'm 1-for-1 on forced shutdown breaking Windows 10. It messed up the users user account; recovery was done by rolling back in System Restore.

So I'll go with powering down shouldn't hurt it.

It wasn't however update related. The user went to shutdown, the computer said "no" (apps are open, blah blah) and the user held the power button down.
Very cool site, thanks!
Thank you for the reply again :). I saw your comment previously and I think you make a great point. As much as I criticize the chart for being unfairly pessimistic about equity returns, there is far too much literature suggesting you can get 7-8% real returns by parking your money in X, especially in the <20 year time frame for stocks. In comparison this chart is a good factual dose.

My concern is, that while this comparison is useful for people further along in their research trying to understand the volatility of the stock market, this chart has a number of misleading (IMO) traits that can dangerously/unfairly steer people who are newer to managing their own money away from index funds altogether.

I would hope that people see this chart, my comment, yours, and FabHK's excellent comparison to bond yields. But if you have limited attention and are getting started, I would hate for the original link to be the only thing you see.

Speaking for experience with family and friends, too many good people scared by charts like this bought gold in 2011 or trusted mutual fund managers to buy into funds with 4% front-end loads and 2% AUM fees.
Someone from Ford was on Marketplace last week describing how they want to move towards cars being a utility sort of product.
All new dev tools do come from the Linux first, I think it has a reason. I'm personally fine do software development using Linux based laptop. I confirm Linux has some issues with hardware support, but nonetheless I'm still not ready to switch to the glossy Macbook screens.
Yeah, "destroying a person for their political views" does not apply in this case at all. Peter Thiel is a BILLIONAIRE.
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It helps just as much as paying the mafia guys for "protection" helps the shopkeeper.
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For developers I would strongly advice to use Antergos or Manjaro (imo the better option). They are both based on Arch Linux. With them you can experience the power of the Arch package manager and the aur.

The whole installation process would just be one line. The same if you want to install, VSCode, Atom, Android Studio, etc.

For developers Arch is the best operating system since sliced bread.
> What kind of person says "this is a job for nano, while this is a job for emacs?"

Depends on what you're used to. Even I as a seasoned die-hard Emacs user who is aware of both TRAMP and emacsclient will still fire up VIM (or vi) for various reasons: because it's what I grew up on, because I can't remember how to use TRAMP to edit that file remotely or as root, or the system is really not up to the task of running emacs.
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I've worked in this area, and if I had to criticize
gue5t's comment, it would be for understatement. The historic de facto ‘web standard’ defined by Netscape 4.0 is essentially raw Windows events, forcing every other platform/browser to provide a complicated and necessarily imperfect emulation of Windows keyboard handling.

UI Events <https://w3c.github.io/uievents/>, the new API mentioned in the article, is a huge improvement, but can't undo every past mistake.
A thousand times this.

Making similar arguments, Tim Ferriss introduced concepts he called the "media fast" and "low information diet" when he published The 4-Hour Workweek back in 2007. The overarching idea was that you should devote some time and energy to actively identifying the least useful information you're consuming, and stop consuming it. IIRC, his taxonomy was that information which requires your action or affects you directly in the near future is useful, everything else is not. So he didn't follow election coverage at all for example.

I still think of this as one of the most useful ideas I've ever come across and have taken it pretty far over the years, for instance disabling all notifications on my phone, culling my Facebook feed very aggressively (and uninstalling their app), and following very few media sources--because most news is non-useful in this sense. It definitely gives me more peace of mind, and when I slip and start reading more crappy useless information I notice myself getting more anxious.

It's also made me feel that the world would be better off without ad-based media as we know it, because the companies which publish it are the ones most responsible for putting out this low information, amygdala-terrorizing crap. If you really need it (and you probably don't), you can get a pretty good, reasonably unbiased feed of what's going on in the world via news wires like Reuters and AP. But we have this giant industry which basically spins and distorts what those organizations produce, slaps ads on it, produces clickbaity headlines and gives it to you for free. It's free because deep down inside, we all know it's not useful. If it was useful we'd pay for it. We're reading it because our lizard brain hungers.
The US should really be looking at cooperating more with China in space. Not wanting to help them with rocket technologies is understandable but there's no reason they shouldn't participate in the international space station or its successor.
Thiel is a billionaire. If the worst things that Trump and his followers have advocated for come to pass, he most likely won't face any consequences that people of lesser means will.
Yes, it is worse. It's far worse.

Clinton has been in politics for almost her entire career as a prominent, high profile figure. She also has an affiliated, massively successful charity organization. If you imagine peoples' social and political connections as a graph, hers is very, very large, with her organizations interacting with pretty much every state and VIP entity out there.

Now, imagine you're running the Trump campaign/Breitbart and you have to come up with some Clinton-bashing narratives. Gold mine! Just start picking random connections from the graph and inventing narratives about her being corrupt. Easy peasy.

Here's the problem: Clinton has been investigated for these allegations and a jillion other things many, many, many, many times. By many, many, many people. Publicly. And the results of the investigations have found... basically nothing. They've found a person who is good at their job, a person who is wildly competent despite making a few shitty judgement calls from time to time. But her graph is so large, her connections so huge, that it's easy to keep spinning up these new, mostly false/unproven narratives.

Trump, on the other hand, has a history of abuse, a history of stoking racial resentment, and a history of calling into question the entire foundation of our democracy (freedom of press, elections, etc). These are real opinions that he has right now. Not some conspiracy-stoking narrative concocted about a career politician.

Saying that the list of well-investigated, thoroughly debunked Clinton conspiracy theories is equivalent to actual, real hate speech is, pardon
the language, bullshit. Hate speech is hate speech, racial and sexist statements the same. YC needs to take the right stand on this, given the precedence.
> I would fully endorse YC cutting ties with prominent supporters/backers of his...

But why only prominent? And if not where does this go? Do you now ask anyone who does business in any way shape or form (vendors, employees, YC applicants, the cleaning crew etc.) what their political or personal views are and then cut ties with them as a result? Or is the line arbitrary "we know it when we see it". Kind of like a boycott?
It's certainly a lot easier to conceive how announcement that state level actors had interfered with his internet access benefits Assange than how a deliberate, malicious and above all temporary and ineffective cut in his internet access on this particular day benefits state actors.

On the one hand we have a guy with the big cache of emails he really wants people to pay more attention to before November 9th, and a police interview originally scheduled for today that he might want to find a reason to postpone for more than a month next time. On the other hand, I'm really struggling to see what forcing Assange to wait a few hours or change computers achieves, or what the motivation for shutting him off today rather than November 8th is?
> "this isn’t a disagreement on tax policy, this is advocating hatred and violence."

As an outsider looking in, isn't Hillary's history in advocating hatred and violence?

Again, as somebody who isn't all that familiar with the state of the states isn't the choice between a moron and someone who is systematically immoral?

Either way, its a sad state of affairs.
I dislike Thiel very much and think his politics are utterly wrong, but this:

> Thiel thinks women shouldn't have the right to vote, and has written unambiguously as much?

Is a vast oversimplification of what he wrote.
> "So you're perfectly fine tolerating intolerance but you can't tolerate the intolerance of intolerance?"

I wish there were such a thing as HN gold, that sums things up perfectly.
To further what you're saying.

Wikileaks announced for weeks when they were releasing the emails. It was a pre-planned event that the entire world was waiting for.

The Trump tape, which had obviously been saved for a rainy day, was trotted out to distract from the pre-announced Wikileaks release.

This level of premeditated collusion with the media is not even up for debate at this point, since the very emails they are trying to distract us from, detail instance after instance after instance of such collusion.

I share your concern that we'll ever get honest reporting from the media again, and I have to wonder how many years (decades?) this has been occurring.
HTML 5... I was immediately thinking about Elm and creating great, reliable games.
No it wouldn't. SMS is actually a control message on the voice stream (my words might not be precise). You can send SMS with no data connectivity.
40% of America is not interested in Trump. 57% of America isn't even voting, and significantly less than half of the remainder are supporting Trump. Of those, you'd be a bit thick to assume that more than half are doing it out of any meaningful support for him, rather than ideology or despising the alternatives.

As for, "people who have all the weapons", unless they have tanks, an air force, a navy, and AA capability, they're still just idiots with popguns who were already joining militias and similar groups en masse over the last 8 years; appeasement does not work.
For values of "destroying" equal to "refusing to do business with".
I wasn't making a political statement.
That doesn't really mean anything. If Assange was arrested in the embassy, or, like, by a helicopter when he's out on the balcony, he would very much end up subject to the UK judicial process.

The thing protecting Assange right now isn't the judicial process, but rather the inviolability of embassies. The UK police are adhering to the norm that they can't enter the embassy without permission. That norm is routinely violated in other places, but I think everyone involved is comfortable with Assange's self-inflicted house arrest.
Getting, ~20k/year for a long time takes something like 500+k with more money being safer. I am going to assume you want to do this to retire early. So, my advice is this, stick with the 50% long term investment and ignore this money. It does not exist until your 65+.

Second, dump the other half into the same basic investment, but treat this as your early retirement pool. When you can make it to 65 with this money then "retire." The other half plus social security will last your retirement, and this half is your FU money.

Edit: To be clear when 1/2 your money is ~280k @ 50 ramping up to ~500k in @40 you can very likely pull out 20k/year till 65. So 1 mill total @ 40 and 560k @ 50.

Why do this? Well your expenses will rise faster than inflation. As you age you just need more help and have more health issues. So retiring as soon as you can is risky unless you living on a small chunk of your nest egg.

PS: By retire I don't mean living on a beach someone, just no longer forced to work a job for food. Further, social security is actually a significant amount of money if your single and had a good paying job for ~25-30+ years.
When it comes to a reporter summarizing a story, there is a lot of trust involved that they aren't distorting the truth. If they have been historically unreasonable, it is not ad hominem to point that out.
> "Your premise is bogus. There's no reason to think Hillary Clinton is personally responsible for an increase in weapons sales, especially considering that such sales increased across the board under Obama."

Was that during the period when Hilary Clinton was Secretary of State or in the period when John Kerry had that role?

In any case, the sad part is people having to defend one of two subpar candidates in this election to justify their position. Aside from a minor miracle where a third party candidate steals the race, we're going to be stuck with a shitty US president for the next 4 years. Can we at least try to come to terms with that before it happens?