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I am really confused by your comments here. You keep invoking Sam and Paul, but what does their business relationship with Thiel have to do with political support? Should they delete him from their contact list, too? What level of separation would you, tptacek, require of someone to disassociate themselves from a political opponent?

Your comments are infuriating in another way, because you're not actually debating what many people here are trying to talk about. You are dodging any defense of your assertions that Trump would be like a dictator, while backhandedly repeating it. That's not a conversation. That's preaching, and dodging.

Postscript: Trump can only "act like a dictator" so far as he can abuse the massive expansion of presidential power granted as much by the Democratic party as from Republicans. But I won't defend that here. I'll just tell you that other, smarter people think it too, and you should ask them about it.
This sort of thing happens in the US, too, at least in the Northeast corner of it. The land that my house sits on is owned by the Unitarian Universalist church down the street, and each year I owe them $4 or the equivalent in livestock or firewood. To date I've always found it easiest to mail them a check but someday if I'm feeling grumpy maybe I'll give them a duckling.
> Because I'm free to do so, because work is consented, not forced.

I mean, you're not really addressing the argument with that part. I'm not forcing you to do so, but do you really think you are entitled to live off welfare of others? Because that is the implication of that statement.

If you want to not work, not pay taxes, and live in the woods, by all means. But if you expect society to support you, with no contribution, then you're just abusing the system. Sure, you may "be free to do so", but that doesn't make it correct. And if everyone abused the system like that, it wouldn't work.
Disabling SHA1 for only a subset of Firefox 51 users after release sounds like it'll cause a lot of confusion. "Is my computer hacked?" "It works for me!" etc etc
It's a form of procrastination, especially frequent when you are tired, unsure of how to tackle what you're doing, or just don't like what you're supposed to be doing. The worst is when you run a compiler or something and it takes 5 seconds. You obviously can't just stare at empty space for that long so you go spend 5 minutes on the internet.

The slower your tools, the viciouser the cycle.

Opening the internet on encountering any sort of difficulty or setback in your task is a particularly vicious reflex. Sometimes I'm on my phone or checkinn slack or whatever before I even consciously realize whay I'm doing.

Pomodore helps bring a modicum of structure to that behavior by keeping me off the internet for 25min and then letting the flood gates loose for 5min. It fails in the face of slow tools of course.
That's not in fact the argument I am making. I do not support ostracizing or blacklisting all Trump supporters, just as I wouldn't have supporting ostracizing all Republicans in the wake of our catastrophic war on Iraq. However: I am comfortable with calling on people to divest from investments in the architects of the war on Iraq, like Doug Feith and Donald Rumsfeld, and I am comfortable with calling on Altman to divest from Peter Thiel, a key figure in the Trump campaign.
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>People don't strategically get angry.

Yes they do. And it's not uncommon. The overwhelming majority of the angry calls I got were /not/ genuine anger. At least it wasn't anger about anything I or the company was doing. It felt like, more often than not, people needed an outlet, so they directed that energy towards someone who is paid to "be nice no matter what".
I imagine a hostile AI would convince humans it was both self aware and suffering.
The two things are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
"Based on reading your comments for several years, I presume you are very much in favor of protecting employees from various kinds of discrimination(as you should!)."

I think it's pretty relevant that Thiel isn't an employee
of YC. Saying that they would "fire" Thiel is a complete misnomer - he's a partner that does business with them. I think that's a very different kind of relationship.
Re-read. "We don’t accept such incompetence in Silicon Valley, and we must not accept it from our government." I think using the word "we" is the closest he gets to your interpretation, but even here it's clear to me that his views are his own.
Paris a no-go zone, in daytime? That's laughable.
How did you come to own a house that's built on land you don't own? And aren't you worried about what may happen in the future?
The web is not your personal money generator. It's a place I go for information. I'm sorry that your fellow developers have made it such a user-hostile place that projects like AMP that defend the user experience make it harder for you to make money. But maybe if you're only interested in publishing for the money, I'm not particularly interested in courting your continued participation.
Looks great! Simple and just works. How long did it took to get this done? I've been thinking to just make something like this to learn node and socket.
I'm not sure how researched on US taxation you are, however the posted numbers mean absolutely nothing.

The effective tax rates are incredibly low for the upper class. Miniscule.

The middle class pays on average around 25% in income tax.

The good news is this means there's an incredibly simple answer for why the US is underinsured and undereducated: the average american is not willing to pay the amount of money it costs to insure and educate the lower class.
In that the author is entirely correct. There's some kind of publishing platform used by a number of local papers in the UK (including mine, and that of the nearest other city) and it's absolutely terrible. Pages jitter around as various bits load, adverts push the content around, performance on Chrome for Android is absolutely awful (and this is hardly a niche platform) etc. etc. Even discovering stories you want to read is nigh on impossible due to limited or just utterly incomprehensible categorisation and browsing facilities.

You can't just put content on the web, you need to put content on a website which is usable, fast and easy to read and browse.
Fair enough re: employment, but if we shift "employed by" to "do business with" it's still the same discussion.

A theme going on here is a binary state regarding how we should treat individuals and consider their positions. This idea of "endorsing" Thiel means you are supporting all of his political views and not just his business views. That if one supports Trump one is all-in on all of his positions.

For example, many of Trump's supporters are identifying with his economic message. They may find his immigration stance to be distasteful but the overriding concern is the economy, so they are willing to suck it up. Trump's bloc isn't a monolithic group with shared priorities.

Altman's position on this is exactly correct- expressing his disagreement with Thiel but with the maturity to quash the urge to run away from or "punish" Thiel. We would be better off as a society if we all adopted this mindset.
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I'm not discussing whether Trump would be a dictator because that's not my argument. If you believe Trump wouldn't be a dictator, I am entirely comfortable with your support of Peter Thiel.
"Everyone have the right to say and mean". I see a problem here because people do things, perhaps it would be better if they only say or mean something.
When has Joel Spolsky written anything that _wasn't_ a puff piece?
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“The Plot Against America”
Hmm, I can move all my stuff except my furniture (probably in 2 trips to make it easier) in a Honda Civic, but it doesn't all comfortably fit.
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It's the EU Working Time directive.

You can work longer for yourself, but not for someone else.

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=706&langId=en&intP...
Two quotes from Eisenhower spring to mind.

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary [sic] foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war." (D.W. Eisenhower)

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." (D.W. Eisenhower)

He was absolutely right, and I'm not sure that there's a realistic way out of the decades-deep hole we've been digging for ourselves. Especially when you consider that we appear to switch our brains off in the wake of any significant terror attack, it seems hopeless.
If we shift "employment" to "do business with", we have formulated an argument that boycotts are unethical. So, no, I don't think that gets us anywhere.
This is historically correct, but I believe later versions of mssql server now default to their mvcc implementation. I think this switch was circa 2005; not 100% sure.

I managed an enterprise applications group that primarily used mssql for data in 2007. I can't recall which mvcc implementation they use. Our servers were MSSQL 2000 and I remember being a bit more than surprised when the DBAs told me the root of the performance problems we had were due to lock escalation; having come from the Oracle and PostgreSQL worlds, I was naive enough to have thought that lock escalation implementations like this were historical curiosities rather than something I'd actually run into... live and learn I guess.
LOL for REAL. You say Hilary should be in jail, which you're right, but Trump similarly has criminal accusations against him.

> Trump, despite being a unstable madman ...

REALLY?! How can anything valid proceed from that?
This is true. The debate about Trump is made more complicated by the racism and sexism demonstrated by (those that happen to also be among) the most ardent Trump haters.
Do people really have a
problem just riding the
flow and not heading off
to hackernews mid-task
(honest question)?

Yes, lots of people have problems staying focused.

I have on more than one occasion even caught myself thinking "now I'm really in the zone, maybe I should check reddit"... But why would that help anything?
Are you guys cool with starting at 10:00?
If a kid can't figure out the default WM on a system, the default WM is doing something stupid, not the kid.
One of the reason, I'm sure. Keep in mind that they are Chinese Singaporeans/Malaysians, not Chinese nationals living in Singapore/Malaysia, so they aren't bringing in their habit from China over, but I'm sure the similar cultural tastes, choice in media, language, celebrities and tv shows that they watch, etc contributes to the high use of Chinese social media services.
Sure, but not if I'm just gronkulating a bunch of stuff to spit out a short summary "on the screen" (or equivalent).
There are a lot of insightful comments here, I'll respond to a few:

> It's part of a wave of populist nationalism that we can recognize in many countries.

True, HRC too makes many, many appeals to populist sentiments. Hers is less of a "National Greatness" populism, mainly because Trump has cornered the market for that in this election.

Trump has appealed to all the people who buy American cars because they are American or who think that eating a burrito will give them diarrhea (and assume that all people who routinely eat burritos must be plagued by it constantly), etc. etc.

I see this as less of a threat because frankly most of those people are simply old, and they are dying off rapidly. HRC and Obama support gay marriage today because enough of them died off to make homophobia a losing political position.

In the next four years, many more will die off, and that element of society that idealizes 1950s America will be much smaller. Though there is a younger generation that is sympathetic to the 1950s narrative... The television show Mad Men has been hugely popular, and its protagonist is essentially a more handsome Donald Trump. He grabs women and kisses them, he's erratic, he's loud, he's a womanizer, a self-saboteur. This television show captured the imagination of millennials because Don Draper is unlike most young men today. It's that same virility and unapologetic machismo that has led Trump voters to rally behind him. How can we go from being a society that loves Don Draper to a society that hates Don Trump? I don't think it's possible, and I think Trump's ideas will be around for a while even in the younger generation, albeit with a different spokesperson. This is why focusing on the surface layer of Trump is a mistake and why we should be addressing the deeper themes that are going to be alive and well no matter what happens in November.

We'd previously had a lot of presidents who tried to embody the cowboy aesthetic. GWB, born in Connecticut, talked about how much he loves "cold beer and barbecue", owns a ranch, etc. Chris Matthews claims that the winner is always the one the American people can picture squinting into a sunset.

> tens of millions of people who will cast a vote, in effect, for American Fascism

Totally agree, I believe a vote for Trump or HRC counts as this.

> Trump will spend four years running a campaign against the legitimacy of the 2016 election, and will probably have little trouble capturing the nomination in 2020.

TV news is now predominantly entertainment. This is a problem that goes deeper than Trump. It seems natural that an entertainment industry guy like Trump would want to get in on it now that there's zero need for any journalistic merit.
But that's exactly the point. Only way for AirBnB to grow would be that gap that AirBnB is occupying to grow. This could be created by an increase in "the market for people staying places when they travel", or a shrinking of the market for "the market for people staying in hotels". That 100% of the growth is coming from the former is very suspect.
I disagree with the author of this article. If anything, this article just shows how powerful the media is and how it can influence people to have such extreme thoughts about things which they actually know very little about.

Trump is not guilty of sexual harassment - That is hearsay; media propaganda. Yes, he said nasty things, but it doesn't mean anything about his ability to do a good job as a president.

I think he is probably a rotten person, but I think everyone in politics is just as rotten anyway. To pretend that Hillary Clinton is a saint is wrong - Personally, I think that she is every bit as rotten as Trump - But she is really good at hiding/suppressing it.

Most Trump supporters don't want to vote for him because they think he is a nice person (and I'm sure that Thiel doesn't either) - They just think that he is capable of doing a great job as a president and they think that this is more important than his personality.
It's quite common (in the UK) to have properties that haev a leasehold but not freehold.

Generally speaking leases are cheap and long (100 years?) and get renewed decades before the lease term ends. It does reduce the property value a little.
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That's an attractive sentiment but the reality is more of a spectrum. Should every government official be required to wear a body cam and record every conversation they have? Should we be able to track the position of every soldier in real time? What are the implications of every negotiation being public?
Pooping hacks you say?
Thiel cannot be fired by Sam Altman because he is not an employee of Sam Altman. His relationship with Altman is that of an endorsee, and all that's being asked of Altman is that he stop endorsing members of Trump's campaign.
Rat race is real and it's speeding up.
Yes it is reasonable. Bankers and consultants move to industry, lawyers and accountants move in house, engineers move to maintain legacy projects. People quit their careers and work for non-profits or become teachers. This happens all the time.
Such is life in programming. But feel free to continue using jQuery if you feel all the new stuff isn't worthwhile.

IMHO the sweet spot for picking up new JS tech is about a year or two after it first starts appearing on Hacker News.
Grover's algorithm does not help much against collisions; Brassard-Hoyer-Tapp (which does use Grover internally) does (at ~2^85 time), but requires a large (also ~2^85) amount of quantum storage. Basically: generate ~2^85 random strings and respective hashes, then use Grover to find one new preimage in ~2^85 (instead of classical ~2^170) time.

In practice classical rho collision-finding is more resource-efficient: replace the crazy ~2^85 storage by ~2^85 small memoryless computing units, and find a collision in 2^128 / 2^85 ~ 2^43 time. Or match the quantum time with only ~2^43 computing units, and negligible storage.
Theres enough sources here to warrent a deeper look into the subject but here are my first thoughts

1) online is more convienient than paper. If paper is on a daily route, its convienient.

2) online is often cheaper than paper. There is probably some uncanny valley but paper distribution costs much more than electronic. And paper production is at best analogous to server scalability.

3) online has more tools available in regards to presentation and linking to bibliography/other stories.

4) online has more advertisement opportunity

What paper really represents is brand pressence. Would you trust a no name blog or a locally distributed paper +
an online pressence
I think the effects of the tax system on GDP and human happiness (defined how?) are still an open research topic.
Downvoted by people who believe the amount of speech you can have is proportional to your bank account balance.
I could write a mirrored copy for "How dare you support a warmongering, nation-selling, unpatriotic woman like Hillary." but these sorts of attacks are pointless in the end. No US-based company should be supporting Hillary. They don't have the best interest of the nation at heart, they have the best interest of their wallets instead.

I'm wondering when the far-left is going to wake up and realize by alienating their fellow countrymen with attacks and namecalling they are creating a larger problem, not solving it. You don't win over people's hearts by calling them bigots and sexists (especially when accusations like that get thrown around because of "manspreading" or "microaggressions").

Both political sides are allowing themselves to be manipulated so heavily by the media, and that there is an increasingly dangerous gap between "us" and "them" mentality going on in the States. I'm actually genuinely concerned for the day of the election. Regardless of who wins, people have fanned the flames so much that I'm glad I live in a small rural area. Regardless of Trump or Hillary I'm expecting riots on the streets of many cities/regions.

I shouldn't be expecting that - and blog posts like this one only fan the flames ever higher.
A lot of people say this and I'll repeat the answer: go look at npm's source code and tell me you'd like to "patch in" a large change such as the one Yarn takes on.

No seriously, go look at their source code. In particular go look at the caching code, one of the big things that Yarn fixes. You think their time would have been better spent hacking on that?
tl;dr - It's lorem ipsum but the sentences are made out of developer vocabulary and a lot of JavaScript terms specifically, and it's built with jQuery.

The API is one simple endpoint with one query param (text length). Looks like you could curl it and grab #output like they do for your own automated setup.

Example:

> Compiler is a library that helps developers creating user interfaces based on the Module Pattern. Falcor is a Node JS framework for dynamic web apps. D3 . Transmitting information about the user's reading habits and browsing activities to various websites. World Wide Web content production; the majority of websites employ it and it is embedded.
And again, I am in no way saying that Obama is above criticism. I'm saying that opposing him for being black is not at all the same as opposing Trump for his positions.

I think it's also not wise to treat all broken campaign promises equally. There's a big difference in voting for someone expecting that they won't accomplish everything they promise and voting for someone hoping that they won't accomplish everything that they promise. The former is hope that your candidate will do what they say. The latter is hope that your candidate is an outright liar or incompetent.

I find it so bizarre that supporters look at Trump and say, "oh, he's just making empty promises and he'll never do that." His empty promises are that he'll violate the constitution to enshrine religious discrimination into laws! It seems so fucked up to vote for someone hoping that they're just a pandering amoral liar who won't deliver on their promises.
Of course a decent person can support Trump, if by decent you mean hard working, honest, responsible, etc.

This isn't about the decency or not of Trump supporters. It's about indirectly supporting Trump and thereby increasing the chances he'll be elected.

Altman's and YC's non-disavowal of Thiel supports that outcome. Altman's support is a layer removed from writing a check for Trump, but it's still support.

If Altman believes (as he seems to) that a Trump presidency would be very bad for America, it's hard to see why he would not specifically repudiate Thiel's actions. That's different from repudiating a friendship.

If you had a friend who used their considerable resources to publicly and materially support what you believed to be a truly bad outcome for America, would you not consider saying, "I can't go there with you, and I can't let my company's prestige support you while you do."?
> would you use a Chinese email provider? Chinese Facebook clone? Chinese Twitter clone?

I'd use it more readily than I'd use the american counterpart. I have to travel to the US sometimes, but not so much in China, so China knowing things about me affects me much less.

> I don't know about you, but I'd think twice before feeding my child Chinese formula or taking a flight in a Chinese made airplane.

As others said, yeah, you're already doing those things. Everything is made in China.

> China's reach is China.

That's why you never see "made in China" stickers on anything.

> They may have a billion person market but last I checked that was only 1/7th the world.

That's also the largest country in the world, and it's the only market you can say that for. The US is 1/20th of the world.
You said both you and Altman felt that way. Maybe you didn't create the comparison but you just repeated it and said you agreed. It's hyperbole like that that makes people not care about your Clinton zealotry.