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Many people don't agree with me and that's OK. I literally couldn't care less about demographic checkboxes when listening to a talk about technology. The number one priority should be having thought provoking, relevant, and high impact talks about technology at a technology conference. Seeing these talks and engaging in conversations about the technology should be the number one priority for attendees.

Ideas are what matter to hackers and engineers. If someone doesn't want to go to a conference on concurrency and distributed algorithms because a demographic de-jour isn't speaking then that person isn't passionate about the subject of the conference and the conference is better off without them there.

That may seem harsh but I'm just throwing my opinion out there for the sake of diversity of ideas ;)
You're correct, not all Trump supporters are racist, sexist, or bigoted. This means that Thiel, as a Trump supporter, is not necessarily racist, sexist, or bigoted; so there is no need to remove him to promote inclusivity.

This kind of black and white vitriol is what has lead to this election being as awful as it is.
Sadly yes; it's unusual for an election to have a majority of people voting for rather than against someone for president, but it does sometimes happen.
More expensive relative to some measure of underlying value like earnings or book value. If you look at the P/E ratio (price-to-earnings) of a stock, a higher ratio means you're paying more to buy enough stock to get $1 of earnings, which in a sense means that the stock is more expensive.
> I also don't plan to live past 65 for personal reasons.

Can you go into this?
That sounds like a marketing opportunity to me.

"Normal lithium ion batteries are rigid, making them susceptible to damage. When bent, they catch fire."

(Graphic of phone catching on fire)

"The new bendy battery bends, rather than breaks. This keeps you and your loved ones safe!"
SHA-256 hashes of future documents to be released.

It's insurance to make sure Ecuador doesn't turn Assange over.
> It is specifically and precisely about Thiel.

No, it isn't. As your mentality takes root, there is nothing stopping others from doing it to absolutely everyone.

> I live in a country where you can't just tell employees to get fucked

You live in a country where more and more people aren't employees at all.

> Only repugnant views are worth expressing and defending?

Whatever views you want to express, feel free to express them. However, only repugnant views need to be tolerated by definition.

If I say the sky is blue, nobody is going to persecute me for that. However, if I say something that isn't popular or is repugnant, it is at that point that I would need to be tolerated. That's the definition of tolerance. Withstanding something you don't like.
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He seems to be interested more in internal issues. Less wars abroad and de-escalation of tensions with Russia.

He also seems to be quite anti-globalization, anti-TPP etc. Slapping Wall St banks would be cherry on top.

In any case a change of "elites" (if not economical, at least political) would be welcome. Probably won't be less corruption, but different corruption instead.

Re: Trump's speeches - mostly non-sensical, yes, but at least he's not pretending to be truthful. Personally, I don't have any trust in what Hillary says either - even though her lies are much more sophisticated and eloquent.
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I'm not disagreeing with you on anything then (except the rigorous checks, they already do that), if I was American I'd be voting third party/spoiling the ballot.

In a straight choice I'll take Hillary over Trump because as you mentioned the man is dangerously unstable and incredibly easily provoked (see his reaction to SNL today..).
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> And I find myself once more in the midst of elections driven primarily by shit up stirring. Perfect.

All I can say is this: you're not wrong that the media coverage of our candidates amplify their voices, which empowers their supporters to amplify theirs as well. And you're not wrong that this election cycle has more shit-slinging than any other in my memory. It's thus made me more than a little uncomfortable, as an American, to ponder what others think of our society. It's embarrassing to me, it truly is.

But here is hope, and even thought you've arrived just in time for this circus of an election, I hope you can find the will to believe that the future is not doomed. Not because the leadership requires unity and compromise, but because once the spotlights shining their attention-focusing beams are turned off, there won't be such a contrast with the more rational among us. I believe many people will have learned that the isolation between ideological extremes doesn't help to move us forward as a society. And many will try, in their own quiet and subtle ways, to effect a positive change.

I'll be honest though: I believe these things not because there is a preponderance of evidence to support them (there's some, but this election cycle is unprecedented) but because I have to believe it to have the energy to try and effect that positive change.
It's easy to call it 'carefully directed killing' when many people called out that sort of activity in general, and those specific actions (syria, libya) and even constructively suggested alternatives that would avoid bloodshed and blowback - and those alternatives have been repeatedly ignored.
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> I have to wonder how many years (decades?) this has been occurring.

another way in which Trump is a political tsunami... to paraphrase Warren Buffett: when the tide goes out, you can see who's been swimming naked
I'm curious: what do you use to enter insert mode then?
IMHO this seems like a net good thing. Describe your idea on Kickstarter and it "magically" appears.

Note - I'm not a subscriber to "idea === product" that many "inventors" in the US seem to espouse. I'm not suggesting that ideas are valueless, but I place a larger value on execution. If some enterprising group of people can execute on my idea and I get to own the device I was thinking about, that's still a win in my book.
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Right, outside of the UK judicial process.
The RNC was fairly openly anti-Trump during the primaries, there won't be any evidence of them cheating on his behalf.

Also there's no real need to take anti-Trump info to Wikileaks. The NYT was willing to publish one of Trump's tax returns from the 90s and those are legally protected. You can take anti-trump documents to any major newspaper.
Why isn't China using its southernmost locations for equator proximity, like the US does? Not enough distance to heavily populated areas?

For example, are these islands owned by the PRC?

https://www.google.co.jp/maps/dir//21.1143616,115.9785889/@2...
They appear to be SHA256 hashes.
I think this whole thread should be purged there is nothing substantive here. Just a bunch of people espousing opinions that approximately half of people disagree with (me included).

I personally have gained nothing out of reading all of this and I suspect that this is the case for the majority of people here.
He's probably not allowed anywhere that gets 4G coverage, at least not while also possessing a device capable of connecting to 4G or 3G
What do you think of Peter Thiel's $1.25M donation to Trump's campaign?
Is Peter seeing something we're not? What does the rest of SV think of his move?
free speech is not just saying people are allowed to talk about view points you agree with, it's saying that all speech should be allowed, even speech that is icky.
It's because of the progress of agriculture in Europe at the end of the middle ages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-field_system
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It is an unreasonable request, given that the emails say nothing of the sort.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/magazine/anatomy-of-a-medi...
You're missing that there are other investment options.

My college expenses were largely paid for with US Savings Bonds which paid between 4-9%. I cashed in the last one, which ceased paying 9% interest in 2011. My ING Direct 5%, 10-year CD matured last year.

The problem is is with this weird never-land world where we're printing money with no inflation, it's difficult to make money anywhere. My son's 529 plan is in a basket of volatile stock and bond funds. I'll probably make a similar return to my dad's savings bond portfolio, but at substantially higher risk.
That... is very strange. Why did Ecuador cut off his internet? Hyperbole and conspiracy aside, that would seem like a very overt warning to Assange (if true) that if he continues to release, Ecuador will withdraw its protection. Very strange.
What features do you think we're missing from WebStorm?

I've used WebStorm quite a bit in an old job where it's use was mandated by management.

What I found was that lots the headline features didn't work for the hairy old JavaScript codebase and certainly didn't work as well as Tern + ctags.

E.g. navigating to method definitions fell back to a simple search when dealing with react.js modules. As did refactorings such as rename (provided by Tern).

Gulp/webpack/grunt do a better job at workflow tasks IMHO too.

I guess there was the debugger but it's not a patch on Chrome's debugger so why use it?
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Excellent. I can now point to this for a good objective reason to not use Scala.

Actually, I'm really sad. I used Scala back in 2005 (Edit: Corrected from 2001?) (God, I'm old) for it's Actors model to do peer-to-peer networking protocols. It was SOOOOOO much better than C/C++ and I could deploy stuff without installation across multiple architectures.

I'm especially sad because it seems like Scala always needed just a little more sustained effort on the community front to move into the big time and it never really got it.
Sometimes I'm not even sure if “software engineering” can be said to exist as a discipline. In every other branch of engineering (mechanical, chemical, etc.), practitioners actually understand the scientific foundations of their profession, even if they aren't research scientists themselves.
I had a chance to check out a Soyuz training mock-up and one of the Space Shuttle simulators at the Johnson Space Center a few years ago and this was something that really impressed me about the Space Shuttle.

In the Soyuz the crew sits almost with their knees against their chest.[1] The Space Shuttle flight deck basically felt like an airliner, but in space (at least as someone unfamiliar with airliners) [2].

Even in 2010 knowing that the program was being canceled, it was basically how I'd imagine space flight from the future. Although in reality the tiny-metal-can approach seems like it's still the safest and most cost effective way to get back from space.

[1] http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-26/h... (this is before putting on the bulky pressure suit)

[2] http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/442024main_s131e006074_hi...
I guess my point is a bit of a straw man, but I'd expect backlash if someone did make a statement like "chill applications from startups working on problems not relating to black women".

This is probably just me making assumptions.
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I don't think writing bug reports is as simple as it seems. Sometimes it actually takes time (and experience) to learn how to communicate an issue them properly. Writing steps to reproduce, which systems, etc
>So they promised releases well in advance and then released them.

Are you being intentionally obtuse? They promised releases to occur each week, until eventually weeks later an actual leak came out.

>That wasn't Wikileaks, it was Michael Best. Did you read the update at the top of the article you linked?

Yes, did you? It shows that he passed the data to Wikileaks, who didn't do the protection of information you say they do, and just released the information. And then never took responsibility. I mean, look at their own responses to that tweet. They're denying that anything they did was even bad.

I notice you also completely ignored the part about them releasing the private information of DNC donors.

>Stop reading the Huffington Post; it's a rag.

Stop complaining about sources when you are getting basic facts incorrect.
On some level I feel like my country is unwinding, like somehow over time we have developed these parallel economies and social institutions, and now we don't know how to talk to ourselves anyhow.. and it scares me. The fact that one side can't see the other is struggling is an example of this.

There is another observation I have too - and some point everyone became offended at everyone - when I was younger, merely having a different opinion was never offensive, now in certain circles, it sure appears to be. (HN may be one of those circles)

In the end.. we need to remember time doesnt stop when this election is over - the morning after we're all still gonna wake up and get on with business - I fear the level of vitriol may be damaging the fabric of my country.. and that makes me nervous.
I saw something a moment ago that Ecuador cut his internet. Anyone know of why this would have happened?
> NeoVim seems like a bit of a waste to me, because I think it misses the point. Vim is not a platform.

Neovim is designed to be hosted (embedded). Embedding Neovim in a IDE (platform) allows Neovim to be the editor while exposing the IDE as "the platform".

It's also a guiding principle of Neovim to not dictate what applications are built with it, so yes, you can leverage its API as a platform. But that's not the singular purpose.

> I guess what I mean is that vim should be left as vim. There are superior platforms that implement the same interface,

There are no applications that implement Vim (except Neovim, which passes Vim's test suite).
My favorite quote around this is from SICP's preface:

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the part about "people of different religions" violates the 1st amendment to the constitution.
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I understood the argument as "it's OK to blacklist people because of their political views if they are powerful" in which case it's fair to question whether that belief would hold for a different set of political views. As you might have guessed, I think blacklisting people based on their political views is a slippery slope and shouldn't be done even to powerful people (especially for political positions that are actually mainstream). I'm not a fan of Trump/Hillary either.
Btw, how can this 383 (currently) points article, posted 1 hour ago be below a 34 point article of 16 hours ago. This feels like a multi-hour front-page article to me...

Edit: Ah flags, just reading about what they are. We have to be protected from ourselves then.
regarding #2, if you are American, you live in a STATE, not COUNTRY where that is your legal protection. Those of us in Louisiana, Georgia, Florida or Rhode Island can be fired for literally no reason.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2001/01/art1full.pdf
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I don't think it's entirely fair to blame this imbalance on Wikileaks; they may not have received any information derogatory to the Trump campaign.

Wikileaks' current agenda appears to be to disrupt Western governments through leaking damaging information. I don't see a clear preference for political parties; the Manning leaks were damaging to the Republican Bush administration.

I believe that the most probable source of the DNC leaks is Russian government units, but not for the purposes of election manipulation. Here is an article that most credibly posits this theory: https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russian-spycraft-how-kre....
Another hypothesis (on how the migrants might cause the disappearance of welfare state in Western Europe):

The society that created the welfare state is particular enough that the change contributed by the influx of immigrants might change the society to a point where the welfare state disappear. It's more of a social change than an economical one.
In that case, it's on a long time frame (decades at least), where my other hypothesis is more political and economic and is shorter, around a decade.
I know this is in jest but I honestly think the world would be a much better place if race was totally off the radar.

I'm not trying to say white males are victims but the more we draw racial lines the more we segregate our society.
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I write Scala code professionally, and the language documentation is the worst I've encountered. Luckily, I've leveled-up to the point where I don't need it anymore and can just lookup prototypes and comments directly in the source code when I need it (thing almost everyone is doing after a certain time, btw). I understand the frustration of beginners, and I've even began to host talks/presentations, inside my company, for a few coworkers. I hope to get them past, at least, past the few interesting concepts and the shitload of symbols/operators/random-combinations-of-chars-on-my-keyboard that you encounter on a day-to-day basis.
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> I'm not American, but on paper, it looks like Trump would be an improvement as far as world stability goes, I'd vote for him based on his policy concerning Russia alone.

I'm struggling to comprehend how you can look at Trump's statements and come out thinking that he'll improve world stability. Trump thinks that NATO is obsolete - he's happy for the US to abandon it and totally change the balance of power in Europe. He has stated that nuclear proliferation is a good thing, even encouraging an Asian nuclear arms race between the DPRK and ROK/Japan. He's asked, "why can't [the US] use nuclear weapons?"
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The US has been the largest arms exporter for as long as I can remember. For much of this time selling directly or indirectly to some very bad people.

So, I find it particularly interesting that this somehow has become a partisan election issue. Maybe the world will get lucky and this will stick as an issue after the election.
> It is specifically and precisely about Thiel. As others have noted, YC has distanced itself from relationships for political reasons in the past.

No. The same rules should apply to anyone, regardless on income. Thiel has the same right to express his icky views as you do, without fear of losing his job or partnership.
Although I want badly to agree, I can't help but think that it's a slippery slope. We can treat this election like a special case because we think it is one, but ~>40% of the US population will vote for Trump in November. We can't condemn 40% of the population, can we?

What's the counter argument to this?
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Does anyone have any leads or suggestions on how to accomplish that? Most sources I have found only seem to have matches for a handful of codes I tried.

Thanks.
That's an interesting question, but not something that's likely to get a productive answer today. Least of all from me.
IIRC, Surveys consistently show that 40-50% of people would like to have a third option besides clinton or trump, which is rather high. That should be enough to get at least a plurality, except for "psychology" (people don't want to lose; network effects; with-me-or-against-me-ism)

> what third party candidate? There isn't a perfect option there either.

As long as you acknowledge the double standard implicit in your language: For a non-third-party candidate, it suffices to "not be as bad as the other person"; for a third-praty candidate one must be "perfect".

> the way electoral college votes work.

Electoral colleges don't work that way. In order to win, one need only get one state (it's unlikely, but McMullin seems to have a shot at pulling that off; less likely: Johnson).

Really a smart campaigner could grab one state, and then use the momentum (as you might say, "psychology") to continue grabbing states.
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I would actually like to see a study on that. I'm not so sure its true, and it certainly has not been my experience. I do wonder if anyone is ever going to do a full study on the subject.

Weirdly, some of the best programmers I have met are people who go their degree in Music Theory. Odd and really not enough sample size.
We're not required to unspool Assange's weird motives to acknowledge that he is essentially functioning as an arm of the Trump campaign, and must know that he's doing so.
"Abhorrent" is relative, and colored by the cultural bubbles in which we live. I know people who genuinely and enthusiastically agree with Trump's various statements about immigrants and minorities and think what he said in that "microphone was on" recording was hilarious instead of sexist. They don't think he "got away with" anything.
> However, how does one bring forward the 43% that appears to agree so strongly with Trump there isn't really any common ground to have a reasonable discussion around? How do you go about working with someone that is uneducated.

That someone isn't uneducated just because she/he doesn't align with one's thinking.

The Economist: Where Donald Trump’s support really comes from:

'However, averaging out his support in all state primaries (where exit polling is available) shows that richer and better educated voters form as big a part of Mr Trump’s support base as those at the lower end of the income and education scales.'[0]

[0]http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/04/daily-c...
i agree. I hope this trend continues. I'm not saying that papers should be phased out, but the blog post is a good avenue for "micro" results which don't seem like they deserve to be written up in some dog and pony show of a paper but are still of interest to the general public.
Well, yes, duh. Either it is a political view that shouldn't be a fireable offense, or it's not. Pao says this crosses the line. If you're the CEO of a company that works to prevent rape and empower victims, and one of your employees is bankrolling Brock Turner's defense case in court, don't you think that's a pretty severe conflict of interest?

It's with the same incredulity that Josh Lyman asked a gay congressman on The West Wing how he could caucus with a Republican party that viewed him as a second-class citizen; less than human.
> I'm not equating Trump and Hitler, btw. But Hitler proves that being mainstream means nothing.

It means that you better take the position serious and engage in a real discussion. By labeling one side good and the other evil you just drive both sides more into towards the extremes.