skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those results do not really inspire confidence. Shipping an ancient version of zlib without patching, ever, is an avoidable mistake. The GOST 28147-89 cipher basically cannot be used with XTS due to the cipher's 64-bit block size, which should have been caught by a good crypto engineer.

Also, the most significant new work - the UEFI support - seems to have quite a few issues.

Note that, despite the color-coding, the list of fixed issues is not the list of critical (red) issues!
The lander is Russian AFIAK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExoMars the rover is going to be built by ESA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExoMars_(rover)
One thing the author seems do not understand is that people could be non-racist but also refuse their own country be occupied by more and more illegal immigrants and people of different religion. They do not hate those people, but they just do not want this country to be taken over by a group of people very different from themselves. Is this OK to the author?
The author is Ellen Pao, so it's a safe bet this is an instance of the messenger getting in the way of the message
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970
then let me clarify for you: don't say things that literally any HR department would summarily fire you for, don't make a public position of condoning sexual assault
Castigating/firing people for their opinions is illegal under the constitution. Even if Thiel said the things Trump did, it's his right to free speech, and YC, as an employer, cannot fire him on any constitutional ground.

Disclaimer - before HN goes on a witch hunt, I do find Trump repugnant. But I'll defend his constitutional right to say it.
I have frequently encountered the fallout from the problem the article mentions with the way that osx handles alt-character input.

Specifically with emacs style character manipulation modifiers -- alt-b and alt-f. In older versions of OS X -- I think pre snow leopard although I can't remember the exact version which first included the change -- the alt-b and alt-f characters were bound by default system wide (I think this mechanism is part of CoreText maybe?) to emacs style forward-word and backward-word. At some point OS X changed to turn all these alt-key combos into Unicode characters for the given keyboard language. This made the forward word and backward word behavior no longer available system wide at all text editing points.

OS X allows customizing the keyboard handling to invoke this operation (~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict). Meanwhile Applications (mainly those targeting programmers) layered on their own way to provide this familiar behavior within their own text editing context -- and Things break down in a variety of application specific ways. Workarounds to get back the closest thing to the old universal binding become irksome to find and maintain compatibility across applications ...

I'd really like to see apple add a new key to the keyboard specifically for system-wide implementation of operations that "invoke commands to manipulate text buffers/selection while editing text buffers" -- and perhaps include an extension point to allow new functionality to be defined for manipulating text buffers system wide. The mechanism for defining bindings from keyboard to action for this setup should be an abstract statement about the relative physical position of the modifier and target key -- so that the same muscle memory works (or approximates working in a way that preserves universal muscle memory) for all keyboard input languages.

A whole lot of text editor functionality is about muscle memory around character manipulation -- as a programmer I want a system-wide mechanism for allowing muscle memory to most efficiently enhance text manipulation in as many text editing contexts as possible ...

Solving the problem this way would create a single uniform-across-languages keybinding space for the most frequently used keyboard shortcuts. If this idea were implemented many of the most annoying problems with keybinding inconsistency across applications would eventually go away I think ...
Acting against wikileaks would not be protecting the democratic process.

The democratic process is about open and free exchange of ideas and transparency.

Keeping information secret by attacking journalists does NOT support democracy.
Sam's post on this was great where he admits it strained his relationship with Peter Theil: http://blog.samaltman.com/the-2016-election
> Wikileaks announced for weeks when they were releasing the emails. It was a pre-planned event that the entire world was waiting for.

Was it actually week(s) plural? I thought they only came out about a week late.

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

I think this is a little much. Some cast and crew from The Apprentice made some noise about how generally unpleasant Donald Trump was, and multiple parties started seeking unused footage from that show. NBC also had the Access Hollywood video and were preparing it for release, but got scooped when someone leaked it to the Washington Post reporter who investigated the Tump Foundation.

No event in the chain happened without precedence and, to be perfectly frank, none of the information that has come out has been a genuine shock. The overwhelming majority of the damage done by the Access Hollywood footage has been because Donald Trump a) did a very poor job in delivering his apology, strategically speaking and b) from a), set himself up to have yet more sunlight disinfect his past.

> This level of premeditated collusion with the media is not even up for debate at this point

Ooh, me, me, I debate it. This is a dumb thing to say and you should feel dumb for saying it. It makes no sense and is not based on anything.

> I have to wonder how many years (decades?) this has been occurring.

Probably ever since the industry started to consolidate. Just because it happens doesn't mean that it happening means what you think it means, if that makes any sense [1].

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/477656-when-you-re-young-you...
It is as they say, hyperbole.

Of course aps-c isn't a phone sensor, because making a monolith lens thin enough isn't worth it. (a lenticular array, maybe. But then who outside of VFX wants light field pictures?)

You are of course aware that sensor size and focal length directly affect the depth of field. Smaller sensor for the same focal length yields a wider depth of field. Yadda yadda field of view. This is why the stock lens 35 mm, because its about the same field of view as 50mm lens on a 35 mm sensor. (or why medium formats have ~80mm lens)

However, of course I'm just parroting that "from else where". Yup, no sir, no first hand experience at all.
I'm glad he addressed this... I'm also a big Peter Thiel fan, but struggling to understand how he can possibly support Trump. I think there is an important distinction between "contrarian and right" and "contrarian and wrong", which supporting Trump doesn't seem to acknowledge.

And I wondered what Thiel's peers thought of his support, so this clarified it a bit for me.

But I also agree that the anti-Trump crowd should recognize that people in this country are angry, and Trump says what they want to say. Trump's not the solution but he's calling out the problems in a way that resonates with people.

(Of course, even if he had the right solutions, to me it seems clear he wouldn't be able to execute... but that's a political argument.)
The difference is that people who support Trump can't be punished like this precisely because there are so many of them. This kind of social shunning doesn't make sense when 43% of the population would need to be shunned. Shunning people creates exactly the kind of political environment where a dangerous minority like this can continue to exist. When people are angry, they want to be heard. If you deny Trump supporters the chance to be heard, they will stay angry (or worse).
If anyone would provide those, then sure, why not? I could just give you my jails with database, web server, irc client and everything else as compressed archives, you could just unpack them, execute jail commands on them and have them running. This is pretty much that's there to is. No different than Docker, and yet, many more years used in production environments.
Does HRC wanting to drone strike Assange qualify as something he might be concerned about?

https://www.rt.com/usa/361459-secretary-clinton-drone-assang...
No, "subjectively" wrong. Trump is wrong from Altman's standpoint, not from an absolute "good" or "evil" standpoint.

Except if you do believe the latter, and in that case any discussion is moot.
You are obviously missing the point here:

Infowars does not hide it - it is on their website.

Clinton campaign's plots/schemes would have remained unknown to the public, if not for Wikileaks.
"Money doesn't talk, it swears."

-- Some Nobel Prize Dude.
It's not an all or nothing, black and white thing though.

It's possible for someone to agree with some things a candidate says, and disagree with other things. If I agree with more things Trump says than things Clinton says (or does, or believes, etc...) then it makes sense to support that candidate. So money is not speech. Even votes are not speech.
Yep. Same old "lesser of two evils" argument that allows the Dems to keep selling real liberals out.
How about holding people like Clinton responsible for where their funding comes from?
If you were to dissociate with Thiel over his political views it would lead to LESS diversity at Y Combinator!
> For this, we created a small param cache=false. Whenever the url is hit with this URL, the node server makes and API call instead of fetching data from the redis cache. And hence the cache is updated with the newer data.

> Whenever you deploy, new chunk hash for js and css files gets generated. This means if you’re storing the whole HTML string in the cache, it’ll become invalid with the deployment. Hence, whenever you deploy, the redis db needs to be flushed completely.

These arguments sound like over-engineered "solutions" by somebody who did not do their homework. To speed up your SSR, render components, not the _whole_ page. Vast majority of your page is going to remain constant: the head, navigation, footer. Rendering these components in partials will save you the Redis store by a very, _very_ large margin. Once they start caching hundreds of thousands of HTMLs, the Redis server will start swapping the content from memory to the disk. There, you just defied the whole point of using Redis.

Also, your users are _still_ going to see the 810ms latency the first time they access your service. How often do you think they'll be reloading right after the page is loaded? And once the cache is invalidated -- which I suppose would happen frequently -- the _visible_ latency is still high.
IBM didn't quit making servers - it just stepped out of the x86 server market.

That's a big difference.
What I don't understand "even more" than that (literally, by the numbers) is how 49% of the country is registered independent and yet keeps voting Democrat and Republican. Worse yet, 76% of the country "wants to see alternatives" in the debates...but still keeps voting Democrat and Republican.

Even if people agree to buy into this whole "this election is special" premise, I think people would be well within their rights to riot in 2020, if they hear one more time that that election is special, too, and they must once again vote Democrat ("because who else are they going to vote for?!")

Because when elections become "special" all the time, it means they really aren't. And it means the problem is systemic, and it's that systemic issue that needs to be addressed before voting against any particular candidate. Otherwise, these problems are never going to end. "Fix Democracy First" - as Lessig once believed (like until earlier this year) before he also started thinking that people should just shut up and vote for Clinton already.
One of the big drivers of fear in the US is the basic feeling that life is harder than it used to be. The implicit guarantee from society that if you finished school and worked hard you would have a good life is broken. Trump has tapped into this feeling, with unexpected success.

In reality, we have met the enemy, and them is us. The US's major problems are internal, not external. The US's economic problems are mostly because we haven't figured out what to do about automation. What are average people with an average high school education going to do? That's the big problem.

As for threats, terrorism is down in the noise of routine shootings. ISIS can hurt us a little now and then, but no way could they invade the US and take over. Militant Islam will continue to be a headache worldwide, but most of the strongly Islamic states are failed states. Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt - all were once strong states able to project power, and now they can't.

Climate change is more of a threat outside the US than to the US directly. The US isn't going to get unlivable temperatures like parts of the Middle East. Rising temperatures mean agriculture moves north, and the US has lots of underutilized north. Most of the US is above the levels affected by sea level rise. (Except Florida. Florida has a big problem. Miami already has to pump out their city regularly.)

Nuclear weapons proliferation is a worry, yet one that doesn't show up much politically. North Korea has nuclear weapons, at least medium-range ballistic missiles, and a dictator with the power to use them. It's getting too easy to make nuclear weapons. After all, the technology is 70 years old now.

China is the next superpower, and nobody knows what they'll do. Probably nothing really foolish. Their leadership is not stupid.

Are we really living in an age of fear, or is that a feeling people in the media get from listening to their own output too much?
What is your proposal to remove war from the world? I'm sure a lot of us would be in favor.
Thanks for the honest reply. I think that helps some of us square the circle on why you felt so strongly about not cutting ties.

It does a lot to make sure this doesn't come off as "YC won't take a stand on political actors unless it directly affects almost all of our founders."
"Money doesn't talk, it swears."

-- Some Nobel Prize dude.
Interesting you make that point. Do we have anything good to back this up - like court cases, etc? Where use of TC/VC stopped LE snooping into peoples' belongings??
(OP) Many of my friends ask: "How can a reasonable/smart/principled/etc. person vote for Trump despite his obvious flaws?"

My only answer to date centered around the forgotten middle class. Here's one voter's more expanded view.
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Here's the thing about HN - when it's political content that isn't palatable with the HN echo chamber, you get flagged. Else, you're a hero.

Reminds me of the song "Orgasmatron" - "Hypocrisy made paramount, Paranoia the law."
Because Sam is an intelligent and rational individual.
> Castigating/firing people for their opinions is illegal under the constitution.

Citation Needed.

Edit: Here's a link on the front page of a google search for 'firing people for their opinions is illegal under the constitution' that refutes your claims.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/your-money/speaking-about-...

A private company certainly can fire people for their articulated political views (edit: under the constitution).
Oh, well in that context yes I agree. Rich people can afford bodyguards and security.
> That kind of diversity is painful and unpopular, but
> it is critical to health of a democratic and pluralistic
> society.

Is it? How does having someone who endorses xenophobia, sexism, etc, as one of the most visible members of your organization achieve these goals? If we tolerate this kind of thinking, how many opportunities are we losing out on because of people who couldn't get past the barriers it sets up?
If you are claiming that calling a non-trivial proportion of Trump's supporters deplorable requires an apology, you disagree with me about what is deplorable.
We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange's internet access Saturday, 5pm GMT
No, the post censures _Trump_. The strongest it gets against Thiel is "I can't understand [his support]".

That's pretty weak sauce, and also isn't an official YC position. YC needs to distance itself from this donation and this support.
No he isn't. Since Trump has donated to the Clinton Foundation (edit: and Hillary's senate and presidential campaigns), does that mean that he is effectively saying everything that Hillary is saying? Does buying an album mean I agree with every lyric on it? If I donate to someone who then incites violence, can I be prosecuted?

Also, the Supreme Court does not believe money is speech. If they did, campaign contribution limits would be obviously unconstitutional.
If I had an employee whose job description involved hiring (or providing advice about hiring) a high-level addition to our company, and said employee advised that we should hire an individual who is widely known to be:

- racist

- erratic, abusive, and prone to fits of rage

- a real threat to the safety of women, minorities, and immigrants

- shows little respect for the Constitution, the Republic, or for human decency

I would conclude that my employee has bad judgement. Very bad judgement. I would fire said employee immediately. I would also likely shun said employee on a personal level.

I don't think people get a pass on this one just because this decision is being made in the context of politics.
I think you are overstating the case. Thiel didn't support Trump's hatred and sexual abuse. Presumably he said "I'm proud to be gay" at the republican convention precisely to put those issues aside. (Apparently he was the first person to do this, which shouldn't be underestimated.)

Thiel supports Trump for his economic policies, which seems utterly bizarre to me, but I don't see any double standard in terms of YC's behavior.
I'm happy to take 'yes' for an answer.

On some glorious day, notorious vampire Peter Thiel will be hoisted by his own petard, find himself stranded in the sunlight, and turn into a column of ash.

In the meantime, this was an appropriate stance to take.
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> This isn't about politics.

Of course not - it's about religion, and burning the heretics.
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I'm not surprised. There are a lot of people who don't like discussing this stuff (either because they don't agree with it or they just don't want to deal with any more stuff about politics/social issues).
Opinion laundering.
The discussion appears live here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970
The problem I have with this campaign is that _both_ candidates present a legitimate threat to the republic, in different ways. Sam is of course correct, but a similar argument can be made for Hillary.

Is there still time for a do-over?
I've read several times that VeraCrypt is not 100% TrueCrypt compatible. Any experiences? I switched anyway for most stuff to EncFS (and not using containers anymore, but the reasons for this is more cloud backup) but I'm not sure if I would upgrade from old TrueCrypt 7.1a (for old containers) to VeraCrypt in the future.
Wow, he is really getting destroyed in there. I feel bad for him
Why am I blacklisted from using your money?

Also, obligatory mention that "blacklist" and "whitelist" are racist terms, and mention of similar spirals of idiocy such as [0] and [1].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7801646

[1] - https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3185
You are expressing a possibility that has a low probability of being true.

The hidden video he released today looks incontrovertible. One can only imagine all the other things these dark political operatives do if they were willing to discuss what they did so explictly with people they presumably don't know well.
What does validity mean in this context?
> of course, if Peter said some of the things Trump says himself, he would no longer be part of Y Combinator

He said them $1.25m times. Cut ties or lose deal-flow. It's on you.
Why not make voters responsible.
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...there's no reason they shouldn't participate in the international space station or its successor.

Just so you know, the Chinese are not on their knees begging for access to the ISS. There're doing fine on their own, and are likely happier with it that way.
It's really a pointless argument, because the overhead on a non-charitable non-profit doesn't really matter. But you do have a point when looking at traditional charities.
There's no way Apple would make a VR headset tethered to another device. To be on-brand it has to be elegant, which means all-in-one. It probably needs a new OS... certainly none of the UI from iOS can be reused, and it needs VR-specific heat and power optimizations, probably with a new low level graphics toolkit.

From Tim Cook's statement it seems pretty clear that they're going to wait until they can do AR glasses, which also fits their anti-nerd brand strategy. AR is more social, more human.

Although when the standalone Google/Oculus headsets hit next year I suspect people will be surprised how well they sell. The mobile VR app ecosystem should hit puberty around then. Assuming Oculus/Google can hit a $600 price point I think we'll see an iPod-like growth curve in that category, which would lure Apple into the market for sure.
WikiLeaks just released more information about this: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/788099178832420865

>We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange's internet access Saturday, 5pm GMT, shortly after publication of Clinton's Goldman Sachs speechs.
It's hard to have moderate, rational discussions in 255 characters
I am tempted to respond to this and then I realize that I don't want HN to become yet another place for discussing partisan politics so I choose to hold my tongue (except for posting this sentence).
I'm not from the US but I'd vote for Trump. To me Hillary represent the imperial US, the economic Hitmen US, the could war US, the NSA US, the make sure Russia-Europe relations are poor US. She represents the elites, the Rothschilds, the banks, the family of secrets, the kill-list, the endless meddling in countries that have a lot of natural resources "for the common good". She represents Guantanamo bay, more drones and more trade agreements to sue poor countries if their companies behave poorly. She represents the lobbying culture, the Monsantos and the Bechtels.

I will be downvoted, I am already looked at as if I'm less intelligent than all the others at work. But I honestly think the 3rd world war is less likely to happen under Trump. He wants to talk normally to Putin. He represents a more US focused US imho and I am convinced the mainstream media hates him because they are in the pockets of the current rulers.
Remember before commenting: please do not to think in absolutes. us or them. with me or against me. true believer vs burn the heretics.

it's a descent into tribal warfare where reason and logic give way to misunderstanding and escalation of perceived wrongs.