skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The importance here is not the possibility of immediate secession: there is almost zero chance of that. The importance is that it is getting the left to take secession seriously as a concept.

Eventually we will need to separate out different sovereignties if we all wish to live in peace, in the types of communities we want. Peaceful secessionism is the moral way forward, but it will take many decades for it to work it's way into everyones brain as a legitimate possibility.
Tony Schwartz who ghost wrote " The art of the deal" spent 18 months following trump around.

http://jpupdates.com/2016/07/19/art-of-the-deal-ghostwriter-...
Partially the alt right and its cast of characters definately helped him.
"They(Mexicans) are rapists and murderers" Take a look[1] you may have been stranded on an Island the last 2 years and perhaps you did not hear what Trump have said.

Now, not all Trump supporters are racists (maybe Thiel isn't? who knows!), but all of them are telling us implicitly that racism and bigotry are not deal breakers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37zvOZ17eSE
The IRS is obligated to not reveal ANY personal information regarding a person or company's tax situation. So for all we know he has done something wrong, every year. You seem to think that being audited somehow ensures transparency. It doesn't.

And you keep making these statements about being unencumbered when it is well known that Russian ogligarchs own significant amounts of his company's debt. That is the very definition of being encumbered.
> There is tolerance and then there are things that are not open to discussion

So what's not "open to discussion"? It seems like fundamentally everything about this election has been open to discussion, it's been a weird fucking election. Are you literally saying supporting Trump is a crime so bad that it's not "open to discussion"?

"The line tends to shift as society progresses." You talk about this "line" as if it's a real thing. Let me pose a fairly obvious question, in almost any time period, who imposed the limits of "what is not open to discussion", and what were their motives? Keep in mind, things that are obviously true don't need to be "not open to discussion", because nobody is bothering to discuss them.
ya lol.. most people dont have the luxury
University of Lousiana Muslim Student Fabricates Racial Attack
Their shader is doing software 64 bit float emulation, including trignometric functions.

That city graphic is really precise.

(edit: it looks like the 64 bit math is used only for the map projection part of the shader... so it's not quite as ridiculous as it might seem, my haswell system is limited by CPU, not by vertex shader performance)
>> Huffington Post told its readers Clinton had a 98 percent chance of being elected;

>> build a better environment for news

I agree. They can start by not telling me what to think. Focus on reporting. I got so sick of the media putting spin on what Hillary thinks (they know what she thinks?) or what someone else was saying about Donald trump (without vetting) from 30 years ago and on and on.

I have stopped believing them. The news agencies are opinion shows as far as I'm concerned. They are propaganda, bought and paid for by interests that are not American.
I have never understood what people mean by "is this news?". Just because you know it, doesn't mean others do. I certainly had no idea about this before. Can we address the issue at hand instead of being condescending about it?
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

Thiel believes that women and minorities have damaged democracy and openly questions whether they should be allowed to vote.
Tom Wheeler has done his job just fine, and not shown any preference to his old industry. For all we know Obama made a great choice based on his character.
Just thought I'd share a tidbit that I haven't been able to elsewhere. I work for a large market research firm that does polls for a large news network. On Sunday, we ran a poll for them that put Trump at 8 points ahead. They decided against publishing it.
They have a megashader with an entire 64 bit float emulation library, which takes a good while to compile.
Perhaps the man who lives in a golden palace with this name emblazoned on it isn't actually representative of half the country?
This is a critique you could have lobbed at every protest movement in the history of the United States, from Women's Suffrage to the March On Washington to the Vietnam War. You can't possibly mean to say what your comment seems to say.
"1986 memo I wrote re: Art of the Deal. Trump couldn't focus for interviews. Can't focus now for debate prep" - Tony Schwartz (who wrote Art of the Deal)

And we all saw through the 3 debates that Trump started off well and then really struggled towards the end e.g.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/clint...
Simple example Obama thinks single payer health care would be the best thing. But to that they would have to almost destroy a trillion dollar industry and millions will loose jobs. So has to move with smaller steps.
Trump thinks Illegal immigrants from Mexico are taking American jobs. So he just ships them all back and closes the border(builds the wall) in one go. I don't think he will consider the fact that would destroy a lot of farms in the Midwest who are surviving because of cheap Mexican labour. And if he really wants to do something about he should go gradually about it and not put a blanket stop on it.
Some of his trade ideas are actually good will cause inflation but would probably also bring more jobs to the US.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12912608
So... a guy who literally will be in charge of the executive branch, advocating these policies and positions, is fine because we have an executive branch that, um, somehow won't do what he tells them to because it's not like he's really in charge of it?

The amount of gymnastics you're trying to do here is amazing. At least the actual Nazis are open about this stuff.
3令人难以置信的生活攻击使用瓶盖 – Life Hack Using Bottle Cap
Let's Encrypt Team – Reddit AMA
An RCT for this would literally be insane. "Sign up and we might abduct your kid on Thursdays from 7-9pm, as well as 8-10 weekends/year."

Please though, give the researchers some credit. Controlling for demographic factors is sort of the bare minimum for something like this--which they attempted to do by including two "social position" factors in the model.

They also included some factors relating to childhood (presumably pre-Scouts) mental health, which might also help address selection bias.
You said

> Your country, by electing someone with an unpleasant set of views on race/religion, has implicitly given free reign to people with even more unpleasant views on those to do whatever they want and not fear repercussions because... after all, they've been told they're in the majority now.

If you want these people to not feel free to express their opinions then you want some other thing. Feel free to explain what, if I misconstrued.
We wouldn't learn anything salient.

But we would probably learn something like:

a) he's not nearly as rich as he claims

b) he's made maybe $50M this year and paid $0 in taxes due to write-offs in earlier years.

That would not go down well publicly.

Romney paid an effective rate of 14% on his $500K income (I think all capital gains) and that was destructive for his campaign. It just looks pretty out of touch - 99% of Americans earn less than $500K and pay far more than 14% in taxes.

So it would have been a publicity disaster, enough to hurt him badly.

Maybe some other skeletons in there.

But I don't think anything illegal.
This is plain childish. As if your individual stand will make Trump stand down from the presidential position.
Isn't this the same as keeping dev tools open with cache disabled? I get more useful debugging information from console this way.
Does one really have to have a masters degree to be a automotive tech? In any case at least you can change employers with reasonable ease, not like the workers on L1 visa who can either put up or pack the bags and go home.
You can certainly get a "mortgage" on a stock portfolio. It's called trading on margin and the interest rates are even better.

But it's true you can't get quite as much leverage and the dividends and capital gains are not tax deductible like they are for your primary residence.
I very much dislike Trump and would never vote for the man. Both sides use race baiting. Spurious use of the word "racist" against those who dislike government intervention and entitlements has basicly denuded the term of its once-quite-considerable power. They called Bush racist, wasn't true. They called Romney racist, a laughable claim. They called Trump racist and maybe this time there're right, but what does "racist" even mean again?
As a graphic designer turned data scientist, that is the coolest poster art backstory I have ever heard.
I'm not doing any gymnastics. I suspect you believe me to be a trump supporter, but I'm more like a grief counselor helping people like you work through the stages by keeping you grounded in reality.
The truth of that "myth" was well established during Obama's tenure.
https://www.fastcoexist.com/3061574/the-new-nationalism-of-b...
I'll have to re-read stuff on the ACA's passing through Congress.

But my statement about the supermajority is true. The Democrats (with Independents) had at most 60 members of the Senate (2009-2010), Republicans had from 39-42 (vacancies and other things going on).

Democrats did not have sufficient control of the Senate to guarantee they could get whatever they wanted.
Cannibalism is actually really dangerous due to disease, so it's a negative in terms of safety.

In terms of trump voters, I don't care about their reasons. And I am not trying to convince them. They made the world significantly less safe, putting literally billions of people at risk. That's just not cool, still as a well off person I don't need to care it's probably not going to get me killed.

As to love, some people flat out can't feel pain. Some, have more than one set of DNA. That's just 2 examples, but humans have a lot more variety than most people think about. Being an outlier and being famous are really separate things.
He supports bigotry I think on minute 0:00... by calling to vote for a racist bigot who thinks that climate change is a hoax.
You have to admit a bubble imploding and heating up to nearly 20,000C is pretty amazing even if it isn't fusion.
It's not just tech companies. The whole shielding responsibility via contractors is basically the name of the game for any large corporation. One quick example is chicken farming.

This article was about a lawsuit about chicken waste in 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...

The relevant quote from the article is a statement from Perdue Chicken "Perdue owns no factory farms," the company said. "Families that raise poultry for Perdue are independent farmers."
I haven't gone that long with saving something since I lost 6 hours of work in Photoshop a few years ago.
I feel with you. I was born into this world with Leonard Cohen in the background. Still "the Captain" make my mother feel in a very special way that I cannot relate to.

A relative of mine did interviews with both Cohen and Marianne Ihlen (the Marianne from his song)[1].

Cohen has a special place in my heart, his humor, darkness, humbleness[2] and poetic aide is for me very inspirational and aspirational and the thought of him make me choose life when I get depressed.

[1]: https://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/marianne2006.html

[2]: https://youtu.be/VIR5ps8usuo
I'll agree that the build quality is excellent but the promise of the stability of an OS built for hardware from the same vendor has been a disappointment. OS X on my late 2012 13" MBP Retina has been the most unstable platform I have used in years. It completely freezes on me about once a month.

I haven't had a blue screen of death or lockup on the various Windows laptops I've been forced to use for work since some time in the mid 2000s. My desktop machine runs Ubuntu and I have not had any stability issues over several versions.

When I replace my MBP it will be with a laptop running some flavor of Linux.
Excellent explanation! Thank you.
That quote follows Thiel around on here. Someone always brings it up as damning, even though Thiel's statement is a bit vague and likely exactly what you stated.
"He might as well burn that money. Talk about bad investing."

"What is the point? He must know that Trump won't win."

"I think he is living in a capitalistic illusion"

"He's putting his Gawker money to good use."

"Maybe he just needed another write off?"
Chronic depression guy here. Was in scouts. Had depressed episodes just as much in as out. I remember one time I was close to suicide, and watching everyone else enjoying themselves made it worse. Would not recommend. I think people with depression wouldn't have gone voluntarily, but I was kind of forced. If you're going through depression scouts is the last fucking place you want to be.

Maybe those who develop it in later years have less chance because you're less likely to join if you're prone to depression in the first place? Mehbeh?

edit: I was never bullied. Had some fun times, but mostly struggling to keep head above the pits of darkness. Good parents. Lucky guy. I always appreciated my position from an abstract point of view.

Best way to describe it: Fatigue is an emotion (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323922/). You can only work through fatigue for so long. That's what it's like with depression, except sleep doesn't refresh you. Wake up and it's still there. Crippling.
This is far from the worst idea I've seen for a start up.
The most clear statement from him I'm aware of is "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
1:15 PM - 6 Nov 2012.
"It's easy to parse scheme" is one of those pretty stories that is often repeated but untrue. A similar one is "it's easy to implement scheme in scheme".

It is true for toy compilers of language subsets, and those are often done. And few people ever explore real scheme compiler internals.

The readers in real scheme compilers are generally a large pile of ugly code. A decade or so ago, I recall Bigloo's was the cleanest I'd found, with a regular expression based parser framework. I can't quickly find the files to link. But after wading through many other implementations, it was a breath of fresh air. But not simple, and not small.

Here's a quick quote from a Chicken changelog: "2.7 Fix several bugs (expt, integer?, rational?, <=, >=, eqv?, -) found by importing the number tests from Gauche and writing an extensive test for number syntax edge cases. Complete rewrite of number parser (it should fully conform to the R7RS superset of R5RS number syntax now)."
True, though this wouldn't be the worst startup that I've seen.
I guess if Russians were giving him very sweet terms on financing, he might be inclined to 'repay' them by loosening some foreign investment policy. Also - the US currently has a gang of Russians under severe financial control, i.e. they are not able to move a dollar out of Russia. If those guys are connected with 'Russian investors' they might try to lobby to get out of 'money jail'.
His Reddit AMA has some interesting comments on that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g4g95/peter_thiel_te...

He was asked "Why do you financially support so many anti-gay GOP politicians?" Which is exactly what you're wondering about. And lo, he answered:

"If I thought they were anti-gay, then I would not support them. I do not find myself fully on the side of any of our political leaders -- because none of them are fully on my side."

Reading some of his other stuff, this turns out to be a recurring theme: he's on board with approximately zero electable politicians, and kind of disgusted by the whole mess, so any viable political strategy will necessarily involve kissing a few toads. If you've been near a voting booth recently, you probably did the same.

(I admit that Trump is warty even by the standards of toads, but Hillary probably wouldn't have taken someone with Thiel's... mixed reputation.)
HN: Amateur idea for an anonymity protocol
I'm only a hobbyist, so this idea may have little merit, but I wanted to share it anyway and hear what people think.

I was watching a Snowden talk today about anonymizing more services by default, and I was thinking about potential methods to achieve that. I thought of the way people are starting to use cloud services for "burners" -- you can spin up and throw away an entire VM on a service like AWS or DO in no time, a docker container in even less.

What if a protocol tied clients to a constantly shifting cluster of VMs/containers that acted as proxies for some limited set of services? Could those be spun up, configured, assigned IPs, and thrown away at such a rate and in such a way as to better obscure individual behavior?

I'm not sure if this idea is substantively different from existing VPN services. I know it's half-baked and light on real technical understanding and details. Just came to mind and thought it couldn't hurt to share.
Nope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option

They could have done that on day one.
>The justification is that people are hoarding limited resources from others and not consuming them.

All resources are limited. That doesn't justify robbing people of their property rights, by dictating how they shall use their own resources.

The only justification I can see for such a tax is that it involves the usage of land, and the moral arguments for absolute ownership of land being much weaker than for other types of property.

>...and to the extent that the government can influence it with taxes and tariffs, which is a perfectly acceptable form of market intervention.

Politically acceptable, morally totally unacceptable. A tax on private transactions is just extortion that has the support of the majority. Something doesn't stop being authoritarian just because it gets the stamp of political approval or majority support.
One thing that jumped out to me reading the article was the author’s (or the organization’s) aversion to writing requirement spec (“detailed documentation”).

That sounded very worrisome particularly considering the fact that the development was for a domain like that of Pharma, where rules & regulations shadows heavily on what and how things are done.

I have some experience in developing software products for Pharma industry and it was quite an effort in keeping track of FDA updates which would impact the features that were under development or were planned for. Examples, basic and mandatory feature sets like Audits, Logging, Security, Access management, Reports etc. are heavily influenced by compliance regulations of FDA and equivalent bodies of Europe, Canada etc. And added layer of complexity is each regulatory bodies have different approach to regulation and compliance.

Considering the fact that Pfizer were outsourcing to ‘code shops’ who would never ever get into that complexity; well thought out requirement documentation which has taken into consideration current and future landscape should have been number one priority. I would have sleepless nights if I was coordinating a project where ‘can do’ developers start working from a basic one-pager from ‘business people’.

I guess it was perhaps because the author was the go between the domain experts (he mentions them as ‘business people’) and the developers.

It would have been great if the author would have shed some light on what could client do from their end in terms of reducing ambiguity while working with teams where communication and loss in translation is one of the biggest risk.

I suspect that there is a whole missing dimension in this story.
Eh... unless you have numbers, I'm going to disagree. I don't visit FB much, but I've seen enough other social media to know that both sides play the same game. They both leave out data, mis-use existing data, and outright lie. I'd love statistics to prove me wrong.
Good nationalism would have been forbidding rich Chinese investors from pricing-out average everyday Canadians from their own housing market, in the very first place. Drastic, calculated measures; that "disgusting kind" of nationalism is what ends up making the real difference. The nationalism you are proposing is just spinning the wheels.
You sound like a mafia member giving a friendly "warning."
See above. They could have used the nuclear option on day one (as they eventually did do).
Thank you for sharing. From my two months of non-professional research, it looked like Trump was going to win by a big margin. The major media outlets were looking outright deceptive from my perspective.
I think you might be reading "to do whatever they want" far too generously, unless you consider death threats (and worse) to be free expression of opinions that should be protected.
In all discussions about TDD, it is important to distinguish between having having an automated test suite for your code which is run frequently, and writing your code test first - which is what TDD is, by definition.

It is possible to advocate for the former, while thinking the latter is consultantware snake oil. (my position, fwiw)
Yes and no.

Yes it probably exempts us, in theory, from greenhouse gas related global warming. That said, energy generation isn't the only problem — energy transport is important too, and fossil fuels are still king (hard to have a tokamak in your car).

Even then we only have a few more doublings before we start reaching thermodynamic limits of our planet's ability to radiate heat into space.
> What are the places you've found your fellow Canadians tend to move to?

CS classmates: overwhelmingly San Francisco, with NYC and Seattle in second place.

Business graduates: Toronto, Chicago, New York

A few go to remote areas to work in mining etc.

But yeah, never heard of anyone moving to Vancouver unless they were originally from there and were moving back.
Japan is only culturally homogeneous, in the sense that everyone born and raised is japanese.
Don't they tend to be the republican states?
Peter Thiel's "Mein Kampf" excludes women and minorities, who he feels have "damaged" democracy: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
"There are plenty of sound arguments for electronic voting."

Name two, err, one.
My Acer Cloudbook trackpad is I2C, a similar simple bus. It can be configured in BIOS to fallback to PS/2 with reduced capabilities.

PS/2 is too slow for the volume of data coming out of a modern touchpad. USB is a lot more hardware, though that is small in the context of a CPU. It may just be that with I2C running around the motherboard for all the miscellaneous devices it just makes sense to use that.
Thanks for writing this up! Chrome Extensions have been my go-to playground for many years but, though I looked into it, I never went through with making one a paying one.

A couple of questions:

Were the existing free users grandfathered in? It seems like it from the weekly users.

Can you have two pricing models for the same extension? Like pay for a lifetime license for $x or $y/year.

Congratulations!
His "Unmournable Bodies" essay in New Yorker shook me to my core.
Ironically, bigotry is defined as "intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself". I'm not defending Trump but it's fairly obvious to any non-partisan that the left wing is just as guilty of this.
Prove it. Let's see some tax returns. In the absence of evidence, it is reasonable to assume that he is heavily in debt with no liquid assets and effectively poor.

He paid a 7 dollar boy scout fee for his son from his "charity."
"Fortunately, the Republican's also lack a super majority in the Senate this time around."

Unfortunately, the Democrats have already gone nuclear repeatedly.

What makes you think the Republicans won't do the same?

Edit: typo.