skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, let's label a group of people as racists for supporting a particular canidate for elected office. That's not hypocritical or anything...

At other times, in other situations, I have been sympathetic to this line of reasoning, but I don't think it applies here.

Let me quote something I wish I had written myself:

When you're offered a chance to get something you want by throwing minorities to the wolves, and you take it because hey, no skin off my nose, that's racism. That's evil. It's low-key evil distinct from actively advocating slavery or painting swastikas on walls, but it's more than mere "apathy" to racial issues.

To actively vote for a racist candidate with a racist platform is simply a racist act, regardless of the voter's reasons or intentions. That is, as far as I can see, merely factual.

"Labeling" is ironically and conveniently a label itself. Sometimes "labeling" is a real concern. This isn't one of those times.
How is it "nibbling around the edges"? We're talking about a man for whom the use of immigration policy to expel or deny entry to people he deemed undesirable was literally the founding of his campaign. It was the issue with which he chose to introduce himself to the electorate. Is it somehow unfair to conclude he felt it was an important thing, and unfair to judge him based on it?
Microsoft's updated Surface Book is awesome
The input devices are on SPI, not USB

Things like this make me wonder if Apple is deliberately going for proprietariness as a sort of vendor-lock-in, because I can't see any other compelling reasons for coming up with a completely different interface for such basic and existing devices. USB and PS/2 are standardised to the point that hardware and software for them are widely available and cheap. They're also extensible, so one does not have to reinvent everything to add additional features.

I still remember when the first "Intel Macbooks" came out with nearly identical hardware to a PC laptop of the same era, i.e. keyboard and trackpad looked like standard PS/2 devices. Later models of PCs and Macs started using USB internally (which is in some ways more complex, since the existing PS/2 interface was provided by the EC via LPC whereas USB may require an additional controller and definitely requires routing additional signals between it and one of the USB ports on the chipset), but at least they would still work relatively standardly.

Personally, I'm all for new features but implemented in backwards-compatible or relatively standard ways. Apple doesn't seem to be a fan of that.
Good point.

It was meant to point out the deficiencies on both sides, but it is pretty awfully racist.

What might be a better way of rephrasing?

Btw: I'm not a Trump supporter. It was phrased to be more sympathetic to that side of the spectrum because, at least in my media bubble, people seem more hesitant to come out as open supporters of Trump.
"Hineni hineni. I'm ready my Lord."

from "Make it Darker"

nb: The word 'Hineni' means 'Here I am' in a spiritual sense, which is what Abraham says and means to God to indicate his readiness when he is called.
Why don't they just build more? Flood the market with supply and see how the price goes.
"Peter Thiel wrote a book called The Diversity Myth where he said that race mixing would destroy white culture"

This is a lie, and it's exactly the kind of lie that Thiel is trying to call out as insufferable oppression on campus and in intellectual discussion.

Having lived in very 'multicultural' places, and fairly homogeneous places, it's clear to me that there are both advantages and disadvantages to each - and to quash all discussion in one direction is totalitarian and oppressive.

Japan is the most orderly and civilized place on planet earth and it has a lot to do with the homogenous nature of their culture. Nordic countries, though they are 'intellectually liberal' - are culturally extremely conservative and traditional and 'homogenous' in culture and thinking, and this is one of the key ingredients to their social successes, and why simple socialist policies will not reproduce what they have. Sweden has a very popular Monarchy, and official religion (Christianity), a state Church into which 1% of tax revenues goes. Of course they are not very religious at all, but can you imagine a 'state religion' in America? And 1% of taxes going to it? That would be considered 'extreme, extreme right wing' - and yet it is a very real fact in Sweden. It's one piece of the 'underlying base social fabric' there.

I'm not arguing for or against multiculturalism, other than to say there are many drawbacks of multiculturalism, and that in North America especially there is a vicious oppression of ideas and debate in this area, fostered by comments such as the one you made. The issue obviously can be commandeered by populists racists (which is scary), but it never gets that far because someone yells 'racist' and shuts down all intelligent thinking.

I grew up in very Multicultural Toronto and thought it was superior. After living around the world I now live in a very 'Quebecois' part of Montreal that is nearly homogenous - and though I'm definitely a 'minority' and not part of that culture, I like it much better. People here are happy, civil, and there is a sense of community that absolutely does not exist in Toronto or Vancouver (or San Francisco, for that matter).

So enough with the knee-jerk reactionary hyperbole, try to allow for a little more nuance in issues like this.
> From all accounts he simply doesn't have the intellectual stamina

Can you elaborate on what accounts these are? The only estimate I've seen of his intelligence was based the school he graduated from.
If you replace "Nazi" with another word starting with N, you sound like a person from not too long ago talking about legal status and human rights as well. This has nothing to do with Nazis, it's a question of principle. Principles don't special case particular targets, they either stand or not. Substituting a different target certainly makes you sound like those you're railing against in the first place. Nazis are just an easy target.

> What you describe is functionally the tacit endorsement of abhorrent views. Every moment of every day is political; act like it or don't, but you can't change that it is true.

This is the root of the polarization that is tearing everything apart. The only life you'd be happy to live is one where you're only surrounded by those who are not "politically" divergent from you? Politicizing everything puts you at a fundamentalist war with everything.

This is demonstrably anti-freedom, and intolerance of the existence of differences. Sure, you can promote destroying differences that you don't like (I was going to say "political differences", but that's moot according to your outlook of all differences being political), but you're really speaking against fundamental tenets of western society so it becomes functionally moot.
What's with posting links with a timestamp skipping the overall context?

Yeah, watch from t=0 the whole 3 minutes and 42 seconds. I don't hear anything shocking. It's not so much a rebuke of climate change, it's a rebuke of political correctness and the inability to have a debate.
The track record of research results will define China's reputation.
Thoughts on AI Funding, SDR Comp Plans, and Self-Driving Cars
If you disincentive people to build or hoard housing for investment purposes people would still need homes and we have a workable plan whereby a bank provides capital to build and earns interest over the next 10-30 years to ensure people who need homes don't have to fork out 100k+ in costs to move in.

If we loosened up restrictions a lot of them could fork out even less for smaller homes even.

The purpose of the housing market is to you know house people not provide an optimal investment vehicle or money for entrepreneurs.

Taxing inefficiency in the market that is vacant or vacation homes is the smart thing to do.
Pretty much all mainstream media outlets did, at some point, publish something that can be qualified as "bad propaganda" by at least some of the observers. Now, either you filter out pretty much all the internet except maybe for bare statistics, numbers, math, etc., or you say "well, these guys are not as bad as those guys, because obviously being completely wrong about X much worse than being slightly less than right about Y", at which point you are just implementing your own biases.
Usually, I see PhD offers announced on relevant mailing lists, e.g.:

https://www.google.com/search?q=phd+position+site%3Ahttps%3A...

Some PhD openings may not even be advertised, so politely asking (i.e. no generic spamming) existing students or faculty members is the only way to find out.
> Have you not been putting attention? He lies, lies, and lies to cover the lies and people do not care.

People don't care because they expect politicians to lie. Hillary had her fair share of lies also. So we need a different yardstick to judge candidates beyond he/she lies.

With regards to paying attention, I have been paying attention to this entire campaign and while paying attention I noticed that the version of Trump I saw in that speech was very different from the version of Trump that was portrayed in the media during the entire election campaign - from words to demeanor to tone.

It wasn't just a small difference either, it was a stark difference. This means one of two things:

1) After winning a mandate (presidency, house, senate) that validated his entire campaign message, he decided to switch tactics and tone and give up bigotry and hatred in favour of unity.

Or

2) The way he was portrayed by the media during the campaign was inaccurate, and his message has been one of unity and nation building all along.

There is significant amount of evidence to show the latter, but either choice bodes well for the future.
All legal aliens in this country are already in a database. They have green cards or are here on some sort of visa, and it's all tracked in databases. All citizens are as well, unless they are young enough or isolated enough to never have had a job or a credit card or filed a tax return or had any other interaction with the governemnt.
I get 20 fps on Safari, 30 fps on Chrome on my Mid-2013 MacBook Air, still running El Capitan.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

That's a good reason to have the mortgage interest deduction. The real reason is that home owners vote, and promising them money is a good way to get them to vote for you.
All of it?

You really don't think that it's important to understand the factors that affect people's quality of life, or how groups interact? You don't see any practical applications for this? No possible way that understanding group dynamics could pay off, say in an workplace or military situation?
Neil Postman argued in "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" (1985) that entertainment had become the "supra-ideology of all discourse on television". Good television is entertaining while bad television is not, so we learn to judge all content on television based on its entertainment value.

"Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas; they exchange images."

I think Postman's comments are extremely relevant today (30 years after 1985) except that now they would apply to the Facebook news feed. (The quote about 'exchanging images' is now literally true.) The role of "news as entertainment" does a lot to explain the Trump's emergence as a candidate in the first place (he got a lot of coverage early on because of his outlandishness).
You're criticizing a presidency that hasn't even seen it's first day! All of the "evidence" also pointed to Clinton winning in a landslide, and then a stock market crash after he won... what happened? Ya. Relax.
How this not extremist, your protesting some hypothetical scenario you have on your mind? There is nothing concrete to protest. Liberals are protesting a Democrat who won running as a Republican, it's hard to understand why that upsets liberals. He's for gay marriage. He's for abortion, he more socially liberal than clinton and less pro war than clinton
Do you realize that $1M is chump change to Trump?
Yes, like that. Do you have a point?
Disagreeing with each other's views on the economy, international relations, even the environment is good for the country. We need different points of view on important issues.

But using race baiting to gain political power crosses a line that should never be crossed. He should not be helping to legitimize this.
Cohen resumed smoking at age 80, because why not.
`chktrust` in Mono can apparently do this. I'm not sure if `osslsigncode` can, but if so, it has less dependencies.
Most everyone is just a record in a database. Where we live, go, work, eat, watch, listen to... it's all just a record in a database.
I'm not sure the law matters all that much. I'm a bit doubtful the modern day US military would be genuinely willing to use violence to retain a state that tried to leave peacefully and democratically.

Also, California already has a militia. We just call it the "National Guard" these days.
Why would we learn anything new about that from his tax return? Doesn't the financial disclosure filing cover that?
actually I just read the replies and I see quite a few productive ones! just saying...
I wouldn't describe it as coddling to avoid a topic. I'd call it tact.

I can't believe you actually think it's 100% cool to go around calling stuff autistic. This whole wall of text basically boils down to that for me.
Yes, it means "code was merged." (Though it's not a particularly large number of contributors, the last release had 176, and the release before that 126.)

This is actually something I'm kinda sad about; I want to get better at representing work in a broader way. For example, get a patch into Cargo, but not rustc? You're not on this list. I don't like it. Working on it though...
> He'll give them to those that 'stuck by him' i.e. Guliani etc. and scorn on the old Bush guard.

"owes" man. In quotes because he doesn't have any fiscal or otherwise legal obligation to pay them back. If he largely surrounds himself with those few who supported him(opportunistically dare I say?) then it's a huge red flag in my book he isn't really going for the best advisors. I'd like to see at least a couple old detractors on the list..
Last time I read the constitution there was no "intellectual stamina" requirement to become the President. Also if Hillary was elected would she have surrounded herself by Gandhi-like selfless advisors?
you can switch to 'desktop view' in most android browsers, allowing you to use the fb web messenger. i know its super annoying but the only way around tho.
Yes, if you replace the core of an argument with an abstruse strawman, it's a different, worse argument. That isn't particularly convincing.

Equating ethnic identity with a genocidal ideology is kinda fucked up, though.
Are you really comparing "nigger" to "SJW"? One started off as derogatory and still is except within it's own community. The other started off as positive and became derogatory only within a few, niche communities. A more apples to apples comparison would be "Tea Partier". It became a political slur to call someone a "Tea Partier". Do you not think people use "Tea Partier" without the negative connotation when referring to someone in the Tea Party?

A Google search for `site:news.ycombinator.com sickbeard + SJW` only results in this comment thread. It was their first usage of the word on this site. Which means they have no historical basis to judge how they used the word. They even gave you the description: "To me it it means you believe in something and you're going to stand up for it."

I did not read it with a negative connotation, otherwise I would not have responded to you.
He may get a pass for not (directly) advocating that women shouldn't be allowed to vote. But what he did say is sufficiently stomach-turning that one has to question the judgement of any tech company that would want to maintain associations with such a person, in any capacity.

In any case there's also this precious quote

Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.

Which, if read properly, is very revealing about the vision he has in mind for society.
PageRank is also not unbiased, it has been played before many times and pure PageRank would be pretty easy to play - that's why Google keeps tweaking it years after it was invented. And still SEO industry exists. Now, SEOs just compete on being on the first page, not claiming something as grandiose as "truth" - add that to the mix, and all the biases there are, and you get pretty much hopeless task. And of course you get under a constant stream of criticism, and maybe also government regulation - it's one thing to just produce search results (even that is controversial, remember "right to forget"?), it's another thing to claim being able to "detect falsehood" - that's very sure a way to get sued and for the government to get involved.
I'm frankly amazed that was published at CBS and not some pseudonymous post on medium.
Somebody definitely should make that point, though.

Like Richard Stallman?

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
That statement does not counter a reading that Thiel believes granting women suffrage was a bad thing, and that this, combined with the expansion of social welfare programs, is incompatible with his ideals. All he says is it would be absurd to take it away now, and it wouldn't solve the problems he cares about.
Doesn't fusion pose the ability to overcome our energy needs without threatening the environment? Also, if one nation were to gain exclusive access to fusion, wouldn't they have an extreme advantage?

Should we be doing a Manhattan project to get fusion powerplants?
California has a pretty good budget situation, not perfect but much better. Indeed we have a surplus. The problem with CA and with most other states is long term public employee retirement costs.

The citizens raised taxes and gave Brown Democratic supermajorities which shut down Republican budget brinksmanship. Brown has righted the ship that Schwarzenegger left but medium term will require restructuring those retirement commitments.

Schwarzenegger was pretty much the same as Gray Davis. Not the worst, not the best but unwilling to do the really hard budget work. Jerry Brown lives to work.
Just an FYI SPI is a pretty standard interface in the embedded world
You can't call trump an extremist when half the country voted for him.
Why I’m Leaving the Thiel Fellowship
Future of Display Technology
Ask HN: What are the good resources to learn about compiler optimizations?
Most of the online courses I can find (Example: Stanford course) concentrate more on frontend/ parsers or machine-dependent optimizations like Register Allocation, Scheduling etc. What are some of the good resources for Machine independent optimizations like SSA, Inlining, GVN etc. Online courses would be great.
Listening to Leonard and drinking whiskey. It's closing time. Just fuck me up Leonard.
But this is HN. You're never allowed to disassociate from anyone over a "political opinion". That makes you a bullying fascist bully who bullies people with bullying fascism.
Few questions:

1. Lots of talk about California and its economy. Is a possible reason it has such a strong economy because it's a part of the USA? Would it continue to have a strong economy as its own nation state?

2. How would they defend themselves military? Texas seems to have a lot more military inclined folk than California. What would they do without the support of the US Army?

3. If they put it to a vote, they need 2/3 yes to pass. The Democrats didn't have that many votes for Hillary in the presidential election. What makes anyone think that all Democrats + some Republicans would be OK with this? Forget about the rest of the states.

4. Did this joker really suggest that "small states with little diversity shouldn't determine Presidency"? Are you serious. Get a grip!
It seems that you want people with opinions you find odious to be unhappy all the time and accept that as their lot in life. If I've understood that correctly, by what mechanism do you propose this work?
> I ought to be able to bootstrap a comfortable solo lifestyle business, but what?

I can't help thinking that his blogging & communications was integral not only the success of the product, but the inception aswell. Something magic happens when you build a flow: more stuff appears from nowhere.
Quite the false equivalency.

There have been clear situations where a territory has declared independence for reasons that were somewhat bigoted, racist and xenophobic (the confederacy), and many instances where a territory has declared independence for reasons that were not primarly bigoted, racist and xenophobic (probably most times, including the USA itself). Though of course all of these situations are much more complicated than those descriptors.

I'm not suggesting Calexit is a good idea at all, but suggesting an idea is good or not because there is some imagined liberal hypocrisy is not fair. Evaluate the idea on its merits.
Organised protest is a right. You can accept the result of an election, and then fight the elected government in court. Checks and balances and all that.

Nobody is forcing me to be friends with Peter Thiel.
>> Legitimate question: what could Obama have done better?

I don't know, i'm no politician; i'm just waiting on the 2008 Obama campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay (to clarify: I mean cease black operations at that site indefinitely -- I don't have any illusions that the U.S. will stop illegal black operations internationally.).

I don't know whether or not if it's an impossibility at this point to do so; but I also believe if it is impossible it probably shouldn't have been a campaign promise used to influence voters.
Blockchain Money Conference Starts with a Bang
We use Lighthouse App. It's got just enough features for us and pretty simple.
I'm just tired of California paying for moocher Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, ...
Not believing in a particular scientific viewpoint does not mean one does not believe in science. Most of the great scientific discoveries were at one point contrary to the collective scientific wisdom, e.g. heliocentricity, evolution, quantum mechanics, relativity.

*Note: I'm not equating a lack of belief in AGW with relativity.
This seems to be a common trend among tech companies. Misclassify employees,pay them a less than is legal, design the program to force them violate a bunch of laws, all the while telling them not to violate laws. Then claim you can't control them because they are contractors. Maybe when you get caught pay a token fine admit no wrong doing and reclassify the employees or shut the thing down.
Personally I think they should just leak it all rather than controlling the flow to suit their political agenda.
Is this news? They do this right in their hometown, wage theft by Amazon is an institution. They "ask" employees to come in an hour or two early for a shift, and stay a few hours late.

Unless the BBC is trying to organize Amazon workers to hit the streets and fight for better working conditions and/or a union, this isn't newsworthy or noteworthy.