skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we all cut the shit?

I'm sorry to be so blunt, but you're all acting like idiots. Terminating someone over political ideology is the single most fascist, fear-mongering, and un-freedom idea one can possibly have!

Half of you support someone who says mean things - the other half of you support someone who does mean things.

You're both wrong, and right!!! Arguing otherwise is simply to be blind to one's own prejudices, rational or not!

Supporting someone being terminated simply because of political ideology is incomprehensibly insane for a people who tout themselves as "free"!
Is this the same location that recently fired anti-ship missile to US warship?

There was some speculation on reddit whether it was "someone trying to draw US into the conflict" or "US poking the bees nest, seeking excuse to get involved". Now that US got involved, we can speculate if the admirals are idiots, or is the plan working..
Freedom of speech and freedom of association are two things Donald Trump has been campaigning against. Overtly. He believes that libel laws should be "liberalized" so that it's easier to sue the New York Times for publishing information about him. Just this week, he argued to a whooping crowd that the women accusing him of sexual assault should themselves be imprisoned.

All this, of course, after he took to the stage of a Presidential debate to argue in public that his political opponent should be jailed --- not investigated, but jailed. That is his rallying cry: "lock her up".

We are not required to tolerate intolerance when it actively jeopardizes the fabric of our civil society. Particularly when a movement towards intolerance is progressing so fast that there's little time for its adherents to be educated in the gravity of what they're doing before intolerance itself wins.
Solved the sofa problem getting a large couch into my basement about half a year ago. Still haven't got around to fixing the drywall...
TeX still works on files from the 80s. It sucks when every [any] update to a library requires me to rewrite code.
arf!

:)
Right, and considering fingerprint's long history as identification, it seems like it would be both impossible & unreasonable to try to split the two uses. Can we really say "You only obtained his fingerprint for the purpose of identifying him, you can't use it to unlock the phone"? And, we can't reasonably try to end the use of fingerprints as ID...
تمرکز بر خدمات درمانی ایثارگران با توجه به افزایش سن آنان ضروری است
Brendan Eich's "firing" was such bullshit, I would have loved to see Mozilla's path had he gotten to actually work the job. I don't think we would have seen Brave, but Firefox/Mozilla may have had a resurgence under him we aren't seeing under current leadership.
He has substance it's just hidden from the rhetorics.

This is his own fault of course but that does not change my interpretation of what I consider most important.

I don't care what he said about women or what cigars Hillarys husband put into what interns something. Clinton was a great president, his (to use modern feminist rhetorics) exploit of his white male privilege to force a young women into obedience doesn't change the fact that he was a great president. Neither will Trumps rhetorics change the fact that he has more important points than Hillary in my book.

So I will live with his language just as I lived with Clintons sexual escapades, Bush absurd wars, Hillarys support for them and Obamas draconian use of targeted killing and it's collateral damage.
The comment I responded to: "It would be unthinkable for modern western countries to segregate as described in the article."

My response was hardly disingenuous, and I don't appreciate that characterization.
If Thiel were the CEO of a corporation he could be held to violate his fiduciary duty by giving the corporation bad press by supporting someone like Trump.

Trump has made a lot of enemies in the United States: minorities, gays, women, people who don't want to see the democratic institutions of America taken apart. He has also willingly built a coalition of outspoken neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other individuals. It'd be like if a CEO threw his outspoken support behind David Duke, spoke at his rallies, and donated 1.25 million dollars to his campaign. That's what's happening here. You don't think shareholders wouldn't have a problem with that?

"Yeah, stigmatize us in the eyes of society, that's great for business."

People aren't being realistic when they say business people should just have carte blanche to say whatever they want. They owe their shareholders, partners, and employees a duty of care to not bring ridiculously bad press to their organization.

If the people at YC don't care about this bad press, and the business it will likely lose, then that's their business. But to say that it never happens in the business world shows a lack of understanding how things work.
Why is this alleged key point not included in the statement he made?

> Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.

via https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-...
You saying they're not the same doesn't make them not the same, you're aware of that right?

As you see that's a non-argument.
This discussion is 7 months old but has some useful comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11353245
Could you expand on why you think the activity of HFT is "unnecessary trading?"
Fifth amendment too, if that speech would fundamentally lead to incrimination.
This false dichotomy of "Thiel is making a political statement and expressing his beliefs, he shouldn't be punished/bullied/ruined/etc for it, less we start moving down the slope of totalitarianism" is intellectually dishonest. It paints Thiel as this everyman who is simply expressing his rights, while the truth could be no further than this story.

Peter Thiel is an influential person. He has created and helped build some of the richest companies in the world, an extremely impressive effort. However, his success, intentionally or not, has catapulted him into a leadership role for many in the tech industry, and an advisor for many more. As a result, we should hold him to a higher standard, because he has so much more sway and influence than your every day person. When Thiel made this contribution he crossed the line of neutrality, moving from expressing his speech into an action. Whether this action is a good one or not is debatable, but to pretend that it is not an action is incorrect. We should allow everyone to express their freedom of speech. We should definitely criticize those who perform actions we deem harmful, since to act as a bystander comes close to being complacent with the action.
On the other hand, I know many happy and successful professors doing excellent work inside the system. Most of the well-known people in my field are really very good at what they do, and the work is progressing quickly.

Deep learning is a big thing, yes? Hinton, Bengio, LeCun, etc. All that work originated in universities under completely conventional structures. Companies snatched it up once it was clear it would be the next big thing.

Self driving cars might have some impact? Thrun, Fox & Burgard were key players in probabilistic state estimation, wrote the Book, and trained the car people at $(BigCo). At universities.

Just to balance out some of the 'academia has no idea what it's doing' statements in this thread. It's not perfect but it's not ineffective.
> That is why, FIRST, predictive or not, someone (probably in the social sciences) needs to come up with the idea(s) about how it _might_ be paid for, that don't include advertising.

I think when it comes to this kinds of money involved, it no longer the domain of social sciences but politics. Some ppl call politics social science but there's no science in it, it's more the inevitable dystopic future than anything else. As someone said on one of the conferences with audience of open source technologists: you can ignore politics as much as you like but the politics will not ignore you.
I understand the confusion since they share a word, but they are entirely different. EG part-time partners don't have a legal vote in the direction of YC.
You'd have to convince a judge of that.
No particular problems, just wanted something simpler and written in a memory-safe language.
> But I think there's an obvious, material difference between the kind of support a voter might give Trump --- casting a vote, wearing a pin, putting up a lawn sign --- and what Thiel did.

What's the material difference?

> He got up on the most public stage imaginable and told the American people that Trump was the only honest candidate in the election.

That's speaking in support of the candidate. Literally thousands of people do it every day. Many of them use this exact phrase. What's so exceptional with Thiel? I can't help but this the claimed exceptionality is not with what he did, but that he did it for Trump. And, maybe, also because what he did has potential to make a difference, unlike putting up a lawn sign. Is the only tolerable opposition an inefficient one?

> I will not tolerate the people in the crowds whooping and cheering Trump's claim that some women are too ugly to have been assaulted by Trump.

Such people, if they exist, would be despicable, but this has nothing to do with Thiel. Thiel never said something like that, as far as we know, and mentioning this as something that is similar to what Thiel did do - namely, supporting a candidate he prefers, which is the most normal thing in US politics - does not bear minimal standard of proper argument. You basically said "I won't tolerate these people who are bad and because of this Thiel is bad and has to be ostracized". It doesn't work this way.
Sometimes it's hard to follow the logic of conversations on Twitter. In this case, I'm pretty sure the original question posed by DHH was simply: has Thiel put more money into Trump's candidacy, or investing in promising YC startups[1]?

Seems a fair and legitimate question.

How it devolved into "at what point do you fire someone for their political activities?" is an interesting sidetrack; however, I think it's still ancillary to the original question.

[1] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/787547255259758592
Also, a reminder of what I personally think about Trump from early this summer:

http://blog.samaltman.com/trump
That's the reality, for sure, but at least you're stripping away the air of respectability, law, and order. When you're whipping someone with a rubber hose, you've made a serious commitment.
Touch ID is set to require a passcode after five failed attempts, One could use an unregistered finger or knuckle to intentionally fail the five attempts and force a passcode requirement.
The only difference between trump and Hillary is her corruption is complicated enough people like you can brush it under the rug and feel good about yourselves.
Matt Holt, the creator of Caddy, was recently a guest on the Go Time podcast where he talks quite a bit about Caddy as well as TLS and ACME protocols[0]. I really enjoyed this episode and recommend others check it out.

[0]: https://changelog.com/gotime/14
I think the best long-term reliable link building strategy is to build a good a product that is well liked and discussed by people organically.

Take something like a website widget that you build with useful and free content people can add to their Wordpress or whatever. Seems like the kind of SEO strategy a software developer can get behind. Then, a year later, turns out somebody used it for some "content" on 200,000 generated wordpress pages as part of their own scheme. Now you're penalized for this with a manual action from Google.

I guess my point is: to go this route means investing real time editing, curating and disavowing. I find it more profitable to focus energy on improving the product while Google and our users both notice.
EG part-time partners don't have a legal vote in the direction of YC.

So, much like how he interacts with the Trump campaign, he provides capital in exchange for...?
What justice Roberts said about forming opinions [0] holds true For me and anything "Trump"

My gut is one thing but when i actually write (type) it out I get surprised how I change my opinion.

I can't find a cspan interview where he was even more open about how the act of writing out opinions often makes one change your initial thoughts

[0] http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2661589&page=1
Machine Learning is generically defined as a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building.

That's the part that's going to have the impact---automated improvement of the way Statistics is applied to data analysis.

Is that not major enough to be considered and discussed separately?
I think that's a pretty novel legal theory, that CEOs have a fiduciary duty to not say things that might upset people.
The best introduction to optimization methods book I've ever read is "Optimization by Vector Space Methods" by Luenberger. This is the book that opened my eyes to the generality of least-squares methods, the actual geometry of the problem, and how to apply it extremely generally. I read this before Boyd and Vanderberghe's "Convex Optimization", and I'm glad I did - it goes much more deeply into the intuition and exposition. It's not as well known as it should be, but it's a complete gem.
So why do you continue to do business with one of his greatest supporters?

At some point, these are just empty words. It would be less galling if you weren't an alarmist about Trump.
With Wokabulary (https://wokabulary.com) we did no marketing for years and just worked in our spare time on the product. Still we got some posts by magazines and blogs. Now we do a bit more like writing to review sites and journalists but we don't see much traffic growth by that. OTOH we are not really good at social media stuff.

To answer your question, for us listening to customer feedback and releasing new versions periodically worked best so far.
Calling such people "liberal" is a betrayal of the basic meaning of the term, IMO. They're the illiberal left, nothing more.
My code is supposed to be just an accessory to the data.

Fred Brooks: "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious."
Yeah. I have looked at this as an option. thanks
Are you okay if minority-run and immigrant startups feel less welcome at a company with a part time partner who funds an anti-immigrant-focused presidential campaign?

Do you think it should be clearer that YC violently disagrees with those views of the candidate your part time partner gives (some money he got from YC) to?

(Assuming YC as a business doesn't think Muslims and refugees and other immigrants should be kept out of the country.)
Paid for the "influencers" in my niche to talk about my product. It works. Now who said native advertising doesn't work? Unethical? - maybe...
Weak, weak, weak.
This is why we have a secret ballot voting system in the US.
I count the optical mouse among the more significant developments in computer history. People today will never know the pain of using a mouse with accumulated gunk on the rollers.

At my high school, they started supergluing the compartments shut to prevent tampering, so I had to carry a Phillips screwdriver and remove the whole bottom to get a usable mouse.
A less-expensive configuration has become available. For $8,750 you get an 8-core CPU, 128GB of RAM, a Radeon RX 480 GPU, and 2 x 2TB hard drives.

I really want to see this project succeed. I am leaning toward buying just the motherboard and CPU. I prefer SSDs, and don't need massive storage anyway.
I'm inclined to agree on all these points, but I do end up doing most of these things now, in one way or another.

For loops I'll create a collection of items in a function (usually done with map against a prop collection) and drop that variable in my JSX.

Basically the same for conditionals. If I want a thing, a var gets a component assigned. Otherwise it's null.

Are these bad patterns, as is?
7 months is a long time in tech. Ubuntu 16.04 was't around then either. Im Interested in some recent pro and cons
That's the theory. In practice it is difficult to get the right level of abstraction. This is why writing a good library often takes 3x as much effort as writing the equivalent application code.
If my device has been powered off, it can't be unlocked with a fingerprint. For me that's enough of a trade-off to take the risk.
You could add them to your /etc/hosts file, eg using this snippet: https://gist.github.com/pbhj/0bf3041fa6eca6a1429cdc0f2576474...
I find a lot of times grew-up means dedicate less time to learn/play/being creative, and more time to consum and work/produce (if you not call it slavery)

I will stay with that proverb:

I am getting older, thats mean i have been younger longer than you!
Brendan Eich was damaging his company's reputation and, ultimately, economic prospects, by taking a public stance against marriage equality. His resignation is not a moral issue, his public support of the marriage equality ban was economically damaging to the company.

When a CEO's freedom of speech damages their company economically, what are shareholders supposed to do? Bear the cost so that the CEO can express their views?
The Villains of Remote Work
To my knowledge it has not been elsewhere summarized as such. This is my personal synthesis of what I've read.
Yes, it's more likely to be wrong.

But this poll performed well in 2012[1] with the same methodology. As a polling nerd, wouldn't you be interested in why it is producing unusual results this year and what implications that might have for polling in general?

[1] http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-poll-faq-20161006-...
I don't quite understand this correlation of user-centric functionality with bloat on HN. News flash: users want features!

Most users didn't care that Google Chrome had become a CPU and RAM dog the last few years. They cared that their favorite websites worked. Period.

Please recognize that while you want things like energy and RAM efficiencies to the hilt, this isn't what most users care about or even know how to detect/measure. Realistically speaking, how often are you in a spot where a power outlet isn't available? Most trains and planes these days have power outlets, and any of the popular browsers give you about 4-hours on a full charge. What's the beef?

Could it be that you want Mozilla to focus on your agenda as opposed to listening to their core user group? If yes, then by all means complain away. Otherwise, laud them for trying something new to entice users to use their browser vs. the competition.
I think you are making the point for him. If you look at the predictive models people make on these, they make a big deal about your sex and status being the main indicators of who survived. The reality is that the main causal indicator for survival was access to a lifeboat.

Now, it so happens that that correlated heavily with class. But, not as much as with sex. Though, there were some places where being male hurt your chances (as you point out in the one officer not allowing men on boats), by and large these were secondary and correlated with success, not predictors of it.
I think this is just the de- prefix with the generic placeholder "foo".
There is some prototype work done in master already (if you build go-ipfs from source).

$ ipfs pubsub --help

USAGE
ipfs pubsub - An experimental publish-subscribe system on ipfs.

SYNOPSIS
ipfs pubsub

DESCRIPTION

ipfs pubsub allows you to publish messages to a given topic, and also to
subscribe to new messages on a given topic.

This is an experimental feature. It is not intended in its current state
to be used in a production environment.

To use, the daemon must be run with '--enable-pubsub-experiment'.

SUBCOMMANDS
ipfs pubsub ls - List subscribed topics by name.
ipfs pubsub peers - List all peers we are currently pubsubbing with.
ipfs pubsub pub <topic> <data>... - Publish a message to a given pubsub topic.
ipfs pubsub sub <topic> - Subscribe to messages on a given topic.

Use 'ipfs pubsub <subcmd> --help' for more information about each command.
Reminds me of the "bro" app from SV. How can it take 8 people to build such a thing?

Most of the failures in startups I seem to hear about are hiring too fast, and having no business model. This one seems to check both.
It's not really that novel; it's the same underlying issue behind anything that would tarnish a brand.
Really? There are CEOs who support Trump. [1] How many of them have sued (much less successfully sued) for breach of fiduciary duty?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Donald_Trump_president...
I don't know that withholding your fingerprint to keep your phone locked would work, anyway. They already have my fingerprint on file, and likely most of everyone else's, in the DMV records.

I'm not sure if fingerprint scanners have been defeated using ink prints yet, but it's just a matter of time, I suspect.

Fingerprints are established as identification, which makes them necessarily not private/secret.
They've blocked pretty much all hosting providers and vpn provider's ip ranges.

unless you get an ip in a residential or possibly university range... you're pretty screwed.
Your comment prompted me to look at the contents of the online PDFs. They are scanned-in documents, but I didn't find the text too hard to read. To my surprise there were active links to sections of the book from the TOC. Certainly for the free price it's a generous thing to offer.
Today’s Innovations Are Tomorrow’s Baseline
Not sure that is true. It's cheap promotion for musicians who have zero contacts. 40 bucks to get featured on 40 blogs, its a decent deal just to get the back links. Look at the sites where people pay for likes or plays or comments. They can be popular without any kind of existing popular service feeding them. This site is in no way like buying likes, as the blogs can and do reject, but it's a service one can see catching on. Not everyone wants to schmooze blog owners.
Sam, probably best to let this whole thing blow over.

People are not here to have an impartial, rational discussion... unfortunately...
Apologies, perhaps I'm a bit too offensively defensive these days.
Posting some duplicates is explicitly allowed if the previous submission didn't have comments and not many points.

In this case there IS such a previous discussion though, but it is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12704150
rofl. White men just take asian and indian women and think there isn't an exploitative relationship. Because 'our'(Sikh people are more masculine so we suffer little to no issue). men are too weak to advocate their views.

I can have an extensive conversation with you, or even preferably the leadership in this community(Sam Altman, PG,JL).

I think i'll gun a clean sweep.
I agree that however hateful and ridiculous he gets, Trump is not a nazi. I roll my eyes whenever someone calls him a nazi or implies he is a nazi. For example, this guy : https://twitter.com/paulg/status/785769454516916228?lang=fr

I think there's a contradiction in PG's (and Sam Altman's) public attitude towards Trump and their attitude regarding Thiel.

I mean either Trump is beyond the pale, in which case they should not associate themselves with any of his supporters, or he is not, in which case they should cut the goddamn hyperbole.
I know everyone else is picking this comment apart, but I see a glimmer of potential progress in it.

When you say that the distinction between "part time partner" and "partner" is an important one, can I also take you to mean that you would be reluctant to allow Thiel to extend his role in YC into full partnership, if he should want to do that in the future? At least, not while he continues to play the kind of role in American politics that he's playing today?
What's with the different BI/KI shapes? I would have expected them to be just rotated variations of each other, like for example BA/KE are