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Yes, it's almost as if Trump's positive media attention in late 2015 was coordinated somehow. Like they were instructed to take him seriously or something...

Hrm: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/785615427913199616
Just to clarify, he didn't use gdiplus.dll, he used System.Drawing, which in turn uses gdiplus.dll.
Here's the ruling for the case: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2016/42.html

> The maximum sentence is one of two years' imprisonment. The options are limited. Mrs Kirk has little income and no assets. I have reluctantly concluded that there now being no other way, it seems to me, of enforcing the court order; that I am left with no alternative but to pass a sentence of imprisonment, however much I have made it perfectly clear that I do not wish to do so.

> Taking all those factors into account and having regard to the sentencing authorities, I shall pass a sentence of six months' imprisonment. However, I shall suspend the warrant for a period of seven days only to give Mrs Kirk one last chance to comply; I urge her to do so. If she changes her mind and signs the authority within seven days, the warrant will not be executed and I shall suspend the sentence for a period of 12 months. If she does not she will go to prison. If Mrs Kirk subsequently complies with the order, the matter should be immediately restored on an application to purge her contempt. What happens next is in Mrs Kirk's hands.
Already submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727091
I think the argument is that you likely not see a similar comment as #1 if the journalist were on the opposite end of the spectrum.
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To clarify, this is a cross-platform UI library in the style of WPF; it does not actually make WPF cross-platform.
Never mind the info war how about DNC co-ordinating with paid agitators to start violence at Trump rallies

6m50s > "The thing that we have to watch is making sure there is a double blind between the campaign and the actual DNC and what we're doing. There's a double blind there. So they can plausibly deny that they knew anything about it."

9m35s > Aaron Black, DNC Rapid Response Coordinator, boasts about coordinating a Chicago protest at a Trump event. Two Chicago police reporters were injured and this event got a lot of news coverage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY
Because for a variety of things, vim allows you to work smarter, not harder.
Did you click the support first-viewport preloading link?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970
> Given brittleness is a problem I cannot see iphones being ceramic any time soon even as a back inlay.

This is the company that put glass on the back of their phones for aesthetics we're talking about here. Nothing is out of the question.
Because they are desperate for recognition from any serious political figure who will mention them aloud.
Hey, all. I made this because buying textbooks from my university bookstore was border-line extortion. I wanted a fun, seamless way to tap into my personal/social network for used textbooks, and on the flip-side, an easy way to sell them back to other students who need them. Any feedback would be appreciated! Thanks!
Can anyone provide any evidence of confirmed illegal activity from a source other than wikileaks? E.g., results of any official investigation, etc.
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Your tagline of 'propagandist' seems apt, here, since you are making some big accusations based on conjecture.
I believe he's staying in some sort of separate guest house on the embassy grounds...of course forcing him to walk across the lawn to the main building hardly seems like a worthwhile op.
Err, it seems that the complaint here is that aluminium deforms plastically while plastic deforms elastically.

This is why English is fun.
I understand why you feel this way. It seems impossible that so much talent and intelligence could fail to solve such obviously tractable problems, if but moved by basic empathy and kindness and decency to examine them seriously. Silicon Valley can do anything it sets its mind to. History makes that plain!

I don't think I agree. I think the kinds of problems Silicon Valley can effectively solve are limited in nature and scope. I think the problems surrounding homelessness in Silicon Valley and the larger Bay are fundamentally political, shaped by decades of an excess of empathy and kindness and decency and a dearth of pragmatism. I think that an understanding of this situation has driven away many with empathy for their own emotional self-preservation.

In short, I don't agree that the problem is that mostly decent human beings fail to see the tremendous amount of need around them. I think the problem is that mostly decent human beings see the need, and also that it exists within an intractable political framework. Thus, they retreat rather than break themselves on those rocks of kindness and decency gone horrifyingly wrong.

The problem is not a lack of empathy or lack of awareness. The problem is that we're in a scenario where you cannot question the cost-effectiveness of homelessness spending without someone retorting "Those people work really hard!", as if that is some kind of response to the point raised.
Kudos to Project Include for making this decision. This sends a clear signal that there is a growing (or at least increasingly vocalized) segment of the tech community that won't stand for a guy like Thiel to be a "captain" of this industry. I believe in the long run, he's holding us back.
additionally some of the structural tradeoffs involved in ceramics may be unacceptable for general survivability in a phone-sized form factor.

Um, yes. Look how much trouble Apple has with bending. Remember "bendgate". A ceramic will crack, not bend.

The other direction, flexible phones, has promise. Flexible printed circuits already exist. Flexible displays exist. Flexible batteries are probably possible. Flexible front transparent cover should be possible. Samsung has tried some things in this space, and has shipped a slightly curved phone. So far, no really flexible phones. The main problem is making it flexible while limiting the amount of bend. Maybe a stiff flat spring...
:wq is a natural extension of :w, and half the time I haven't even decided to quit Vim until I've already typed the :w.
this sucks, it is on github gh-pages, should be fine on the hosting side, probably the domain name. http://wentin.github.io/cssicon maybe try this but probably won't work because it redirect to cssicon.space immediately.
It's right there in the article:

> Money is power.
Ceramics are extremely hard and tolerant of great heat (the latter not being particularly relevant). They can also be lightweight for their strength, at least in compression. They can also have a nice, smooth, cool feel in the hand (partially as a result of their temperature insulation properties).

They're also a huge variety of materials, it's like asking why plastic is a good material - do you mean silicone rubber, ABS, or Teflon?
...because it turns out that it is easier to just tweak existing software that has addressed the many, many problems that have remained constant?

Try running vim on PDP-11. I dare ya.
I don't think the article is saying those without experience shouldn't apply. It's just saying that, if you don't have experience, even if your abstract was good, that's probably why you weren't selected.
What has Project Include, or Ellen Pao, accomplished? What has YC and its funded projects accomplished?
Yes, but Assange cannot step out of the embassy to buy one himself, and he's fairly paranoid. There are probably only very few people in the world from whom he would accept a phone to enter all of his precious passwords, if he is willing to use a phone for that at all.
Nope. Not Ellen Pao. In my humble opinion she has zero credibility and I don't think she is a voice for the tech community. I mean at all.
Heartbreaker #6 - The Your Company Did Not Sponsor This Conference Topic

Heartbreaker #7 - The You Don't Have Any Personal Contacts on The Conference Circuit And Aren't Particularly Attractive Or Personable Topic

Heartbreaker #8 – The intercooler.js You Are All Doing It Wrong And You Should Feel Bad Topic
I believe bokeh can handle streaming data quite well. I remember at least one demo of various spectrogram and related plots updated live from the microphone on the presenter's laptop. It seemed impressive.
If you're a photographer you'll be needing maybe 5 controls:

ISO

Aperture

shutter speed

Metering mode

Autofocus point placement

Shutter and aperture might be automated away with different shooting mode. Even on Canons which I don't use often, I can bend it to my will, even if the buttons are in a "funny" place. I'm just not going to spend that much of a premium on a what is almost a repackaged phone sensor.

Everything else is literally noise.

The nikon d800, and canon or sony equivalent is the same price point. Not only that its full frame you can use real lens, but you get deep depth of field.
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From the email:

> Think we should hold emails to and from potus? That’s the heart of his exec privilege. We could get them to ask for that. They may not care, but I seems like they will.

Then the commentary:

> In other words, those deleted 33,000 e-mails we keep hearing about contain Hillary Clinton’s communications with President Obama.

I'm not quite sure if I follow how that conclusion was made from that email. The email does not seem to have enough information either way.
Can someone distill this down?
embrace, extend and extinguish
I think there's also a healthy amount of "People think more GBs equals more content."
What exactly is their relationship with YC?

The article is a bit murky. They "invited" YC to contribute, but do not actually say whether YC agreed.

Forgive the cynicism, but if it turns out that YC was not contributing in any way to Project Include, this is just empty bluster.
Would it help if I offer my expertise into solving their problem in the beginning? I would love to get early customers and chance to work with them closely go get more learning, so can also assume its kind of sale email
Right now, the US has one person in space. China has two.
The US has no manned launch capability.
he was. you can see him chatting with Stephen Fry in the background of this product shot.

http://imgur.com/a/f8lt9
In what way does one accomplishments or lack thereof influence one's ability to take what one sees as an ethical stance on an issue?
"a lot"? who else do you see besides Cosmos?
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970 , which has ongoing discussion
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I'm not sure how that question is in any way relevant.
There is clear precedent for YC taking a political stand by uninviting investors.

Only five years ago, Paul Graham was willing to uninvite investors from Demo Day based on their support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/paul-graham-sopa-supportin...

Paul asked, "If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?"

The obvious answer to that question would be, "their track record as investors could demonstrate that." But no, in 2011, if you supported SOPA, you're out, regardless of your track record.

I think it's fair to ask whether, if Peter Thiel is so clueless as to donate $1.25 million to Donald Trump today, after so much of his dirty laundry has come to light and after this has been reflected in the polls, how could he be a good investor?

If it was the right decision for SOPA, it's right decision today.
The first sentence in that article calls the material a ceramic, so we're back to square one...
Protectionist measures fueled by rising sun Japan hysteria engineered by Micron. Stagnated PC industry. Postponed transition to 386, stomped OS/2 launch.

I still haven't forgiven Micron. Never forget!
> Cheaper laptops (which are still fine for lighter web dev) come with Home edition so there are a few people (me at least) who do have to live with the forced updates

Recently I bought a pretty expensive ASUS laptop, 2K and it comes with Home edition. At this point I can buy an upgrade license from MS for about $100 or buy a full retail Windows 10 license for > $200.
Google has a problem...they have too many god-damned products. The spring cleanings are a symptom.

They even have multiple products in the same category. Ars did an article on this a while back, they should do another.
A 4channer who appears to have an abstract image of Pepe the Frog as his avatar, at that.
That is incorrect on both counts. They promised releases several weeks in a row before they actually released anything. And they also released social security numbers, names and addresses for hundreds/thousands of people, so they're obviously not that concerned with protecting people. Hell, the put out the information on almost all women voters in Turkey, putting them in danger: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zeynep-tufekci/wikileaks-erdog...
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> His attacks on Black, Mexican, Asian, Muslim, and Jewish people, on women, and on others are more than just political speech; fueled by hate and encouraging violence, they make each of us feel unsafe.

Let's assume that not only is Trump a rapist, but that he's keeping a few women tied up in his basement. Even in this scenario, is this worse than Hillary dramatically increasing weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, two countries where rape is currently legal? Especially since she did this after receiving 25M+ in donations to the Clinton Foundation from Saudi Arabia, and apparently a 1M dollar check from Qatar for Bill's birthday, so it's hard to even argue that it was out of any sort of realpolitik.

Similarly, is Trump making overtly racist statements really worse (with respect to race issues) than Hillary voting to invade Iraq even after Scott Ritter and Hans Blix said that they had no weapons of mass destruction?

There's no question that Trump's overt sexism and racism is extraordinary problematic. But, as someone who isn't even a Trump supporter/voter, I'm struggling to understand how people find it so much more objectionable than all of the systemic human rights abuses that have already occurred under Hillary. There are plenty of reasons not to vote for Trump, but the idea that he's so much worse for women and minorities seems to be more of a media creation than based in reality.

Even if you assume that something imminently bad is going to happen to minorities if Trump is elected, from an ethical and social justice perspective, if bad things are going to happen that are of our own making, it seems like those bad things should be happening to people within the U.S. rather than abroad.

I don't mean to in any way make light of what are extremely serious issues, but in my humble opinion the idea that Trump is automatically more racist because he says racist things is complete bullshit. Maybe he is worse, but I think the situation is far more nuanced than the media would have you believe.
By that logic, a guy who had completely consensual sex may be unable prove it wasn't rape. There has to be a limit on what you can call rape or men will have no protection from false accusations.
Fair enough, and I agree with your qualification to highly talented and would add highly motivated and very lucky.

It does not seem prudent to recommend that people become singers or actors or soccer players on the basis that Madonna and George Clooney and David Beckham have reached and exceeded their retirement saving goals.
In case people want to know more:

https://pqcrypto.org/

(down right now, so here's the cache:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1JkIi2...

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Not content to participate in elections, leftists like Pao use people's voting and donating history to try to terrorize them out of their careers. If you disagree with any mainstream Bay Area thinking, don't you dare donate or else you may lose your career. It's one reason why it is such a monoculture here. Disagreement is chased out.
>And before you say those scandals are a result of partisan witch-hunting, Obama never had these scandals that Hillary did.

Um, are you just blanking 2004 out of your head? This is just the same stuff all over again. All of the screaming and shouting about birth certificates and generally shady connections? His ultimate Muslim agenda to bring down the Great Satan that is America?

Absolutely nothing of worth is coming from the leaked documents, despite all hell being raised about a smoking gun (that no one can point to) in them. It literally is a witch hunt. If these past 4 elections aren't going to kill the GOP in general, I don't know if anything will. It should be disgusting the out right lies and propaganda that they employ, with a complete lack of integrity and standards. But people still buy into the juicy conspiracy theories and the generally "known and accepted" unknowns.

If HRC is the dirtiest candidate in the history of politics, then then last 4 decades of investigations and general obstructionism were undertaken by the most incompetent politicians in the history of politics. Not just one, a whole collection of individuals (senators, house members, governors) from one party who despite their best efforts continually fails at proving claims they have no problem repeating until people start to believe them.
"While all of us believe in the ideas of free speech"

tldr: not really
> His attacks on Black, Mexican, Asian, Muslim, and Jewish people, on women, and on others are more than just political speech

Oh please. What a fucking joke. You might just make

[] I voted for Hillary and fully accept the liberal Silicon Valley virtue signalling circlejerking

a checkbox on the next YC application.
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Lots of encryption is based on the prime factorisation being hard to do. Specifically, that it scales significantly as you slightly increase the key size.

There's a quantum algorithm (Shor's algorithm) that doesn't scale quite so badly as the numbers get bigger. That means that with a fast quantum computer you could solve this specific problem much much more quickly than is possible on a classical computer.

However, other crypto types (elliptical curve cryptography EDIT - ECC is not a type that meets these criteria, see the responses to me below) doesn't depend on prime factorisation, but other things. Those other things have no known nice fast quantum algo. I'm not sure where this sits on "there's provably no fast quantum algorithm" and "we don't currently know of one" however (EDIT - ECC is in the "there is definitely a fast quantum algorithm" category!).

Most generally, quantum computers are not just fast regular computers. For some (not all) problems, they scale better for solving the problem. So for example, finding an item in an unordered list. If you have 100 items, you need to on average check 50 items to find it on a regular computer, and if you have a million items you need to check 500,000 items. A quantum computer can run 10 iterations to solve find something out of 100, but just 1000 to find something in a million. Other differences scale better or worse.

Quick simple overview: Some problems that we thought were intractable turn out to be quite possible on quantum computers. But not every problem.

I tried to keep this simple as my understanding is also quite simple, and I don't want to post things that are wrong.
Just more propaganda, the Clinton foundation is an illegal slush fund.

http://charlesortel.com

http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/09/22/clinton-cash-autho...
Software, in general, is hundreds to thousands of years behind metalworking as an engineering discipline.

Most software is still made like early firearms: each piece uniquely crafted one at a time from scratch.

We don't even know how to measure the quality of software, let alone how to systematically improve it.

I wish Apple's software was better, but I feel the same way about everyone else's software too.
Given the records of these two individuals, I feel YC is better off with this outcome.
Ecuador's Foreign Minister Guillaume Long recently noted [1] that the embassy has problems with internet connection and telephone and that it was their belief the connection was being interfered with (hacked).

It is very likely Assange knows the difference between an internet connection that is just suffering an outage, and an internet connection that has been deliberately cut. If the "outage" only affects the embassy, and no other clients on the same fibre, and if the ISP is unable to give information due to "security issues", that would for example, be a big red flag, I would imagine (I have no insight into what the situation really is, I'm just giving a for instance).

Wikileaks also seems to be a broadly decentralised organisation, from what little they've given away in past press releases about how they operate. I'm sure I remember they once boasted about their crypto phones, etc. So it is unlikely Assange has lost contact with the world, or that he personally is maintaining their Twitter feed. The issue here is more what this portends, rather than what it might do to Wikileaks.

[1] http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/London-Threatens-Quito...
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I was wondering whether there was precedence for something like this. If there is, then I think YC should distance themselves from Thiel now. I agree with those who say he's a long-term harm to the industry; I do take issue, generally, with dismissing someone over their personal politics, but sometimes those stances create problems in the company that can't be overcome.
Lol...I get everything except the balls thing. But anyways...no problem. Do as you please.

Not saying it is wrong to disagree with me...just saying that there is a common theme in responses...which makes me concerned. I wasn't intending to put down those who use social media. Just stating 2 cases where I see a near verbatim response from multiple people in different locations and times. It brings out my paranoia that their response is "scripted" in some way. Not saying I am correct in any way...just a concern I have.
And we still have Micron today. They were suffering years of losses until the DRAM market began to recover in 1987. They even bought Elpida too.
If you want to see how this sort of stuff is handled by software not living inside the dystopian future of 199x Netscape, look at libxkbcommon: http://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/md_doc_quick-guide.html
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No matter who you are or what you are trying to succeed in tech industry, How about you make news for accomplishments like Peter Theil?
It almost always incurs a cost to provide convenience to the handicaps which is why laws have been created so that they are threated equally... For example, do you really need to be able to access this store with your wheel chair? probably not, you could use Amazon.
Similar:

If we applied the laws we used to prosecute the Nazis at Nuremberg, every single post WWII US President/government would be considered to have committed war crimes.
Interesting...even with a greater existential threat...the lack of available media made it less of a focus? Even if people had wanted to discuss, they wouldn't have had the platform or information available to have a discussion about the threat of nuclear war?
So just because she says something it's worthless? Did you bother to see if the point she was making made any sense?