skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, a very significant number of military bases (packed full of military weapons and equipment) are in California, and thanks to California's out-sized population a major portion of the current active military are native Californians. That's not even taking in to account National Guard units and such.

California would take a very significant chunk of the US military with it if it left the union, and there are native Californians (who, if they backed California, could cause many problems) in key positions throughout the rest of the military as well.

Form a militia? That's ridiculous. California would be a global military power right out the gate, and a nuclear one at that.
Why?

Shouldn't voters have access to all relevant economic information prior to an election?
Surprisingly good reading and very well written.
We're talking about regulating the use of a limited-supply common good: the land in a city. The residents of that city have the authority to regulate the use of that land to ensure that it is providing the desired benefits, in this case housing. They mechanism by which the residents can regulate land use is taxation imposed by an elected municipal government.

More broadly: the only sense in which one can "own" property is within the framework that society has created. If there was no society or government, your land title would mean nothing and anyone with more physical power than you would take your home as soon as they so desired. Fortunately, we live within a civilized society which enables ownership in a sense other than immediate possession. However, that framework of ownership has a caveat that allow property to be reclaimed if the public good demands it (cf. eminent domain). The framework could have been built without that escape hatch, but that would have caused its own problems.

This example isn't specifically eminent domain, but the same principle is at play: regulation of common goods by a collective. Any introductory class in game theory will provide half a dozen examples of why this is necessary.
After seeing him speak, I agree. He seems dumb, assholish, and lucky.
> I can't see any other compelling reasons for coming up with a completely different interface for such basic and existing devices.

I don't know enough about the implementation to speak to why they made this choice, but for what it's worth, SPI is a standard[1] - and a quite old one. I suspect, were we to follow this down the rabbit hole, that we'd find it's related to power management.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Peripheral_Interface_Bu...
Yup...all points that warrant much pause and consideration, to understate the hell out of it. Yet these "details" are glossed over in a discussion by "thinking" people. It's as if people put on their thinking caps to build some software, but chuck it in a wastebin and rely 100% on hunches and assumptions as they navigate the rest of their world...their beliefs, community, state of their country...no critical thinking needed or desired. Just react. Take it all at face value. He's the bad one. She's the good one. So simple.
No. More people voted for Hillary Clinton. And the Electoral College is constitutionally enshrined to stop candidates like Trump. From wikipedia:

James Madison argued against "an interested and overbearing majority" and the "mischiefs of faction" in an electoral system. He defined a faction as "a number of citizens whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."

Whether you respect the Electoral College or don't, Trump should not be the President. But given that he will be, we have an obligation to stand against him. And to shame those who refuse to stand against him and his administration. Sadly this appears to include YC and its leaders.
That statement does not at all counter 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. It does not actually clarify that he thinks granting women voting rights was good, or something other than bad. All he says is it would be absurd to take it away [now], and it wouldn't solve the problems he cares about.
WSJ: Dow Climbs to a Record
"Donald Trump and Paul Ryan plan to strip approximately 20 million people of health insurance, "

No - they said they are going to repeal and replace Obamacare with something else. That does not mean they are going to strip people of their health insurance.

"Donald Trump is part of a movement to dismantle pluralism in the United States, including the marginalization of immigrants and their descendants"

This is a lie. Trump has consistently supported all legal immigrants, and voiced concern against those entering the country illegally. Again - your position misrepresents reality and paints anyone who is against illegal immigration to be against all immigrants, and a 'racist' etc..

As a non-Trump supporter, you should easily be able to win someone like me over - but you can't when you mix in so much hyperbole.

It's comments like this that basically made me stop supporting progressive causes about 10 years ago, even though in general, I do support a lot of it ... I never give them the benefit of the doubt anymore.
> (Also, if the Holocaust had only consisted of mass deportations it wouldn't be nearly as bad or remembered. Have some perspective.)

We already tried this and have seen the results. We rounded up and deported more than a million Mexicans twice in our history. It is remembered, California apologized for their hand in it a couple of years ago.

Millions of families could be uprooted, torn apart and be left stranded without ID, possessions or money[1] and left to die[2]. Mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, friends, neighbors, co-workers and classmates could disappear.

My perspective is that 'exactly as bad as the Holocaust' isn't the bar to pass to be a potential tragedy.

I didn't make a comparison to the Holocaust, but since we're there: deportation and mass ordered removal is part of what made the Holocaust a tragedy. It took years of deportations (of the traditional sense), forced relocations and imprisonment before people were shipped to the ovens in droves.

[1] http://immigrationimpact.com/2016/04/07/deported-immigrants-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback#Consequences
Intellectual stamina != Intelligence.

I am referring to the fact that the Presidency has been described as far more an exercise in patience, absorbing information and careful deliberation than say running a typical business especially a dynamic one like Trump used to. He is by all accounts a very smart guy. But by all accounts he isn't a particularly patient one.
There was a reddit AMA in 2011 where a guy went to China and got stem cell treatments for his paralysis[1] and could walk now. Nobody on Reddit believed him. They basically spent the whole AMA trying to tell him it didn't happen. Then America did it 2016 and everyone was like "The Future is here and we did it first!"[2]. No, the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed, or maybe it's already happening somewhere in China.

1.https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/k1hts/i_am_a_28yr_old...

2.https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2jvllq/a_cure_for_par...
Hey, OMR developer here.

Ruby+OMR is developed in three pieces: 1) the language independent core, then 2) The language dependent portions (i.e., the VM, and what we call the 'glue')

The language independent core is here: https://github.com/eclipse/omr. It's under active development, :)

I'm actually working on Ruby 2.4 support right now (supremely not prime time, but if you're curious, the branch is here: https://github.com/mgaudet/ruby/tree/ruby_2_4_omr_preliminar...)
So given that we could quibble over Facebook and what social media is, it did come after MySpace. Me too?

How many things are "me too" in a culture? All design and art is iterative, and it would at least seem feasible that they build on the pieces around them.

Further, how many ideas[1] ended up hugely successful monetarily that existed previously in very similar incarnations? Hint: Think of any joke or quip and Google or search Twitter. Shockingly, you aren't the first...

One can only wonder how many of those VC investors are ignoring the contexts of chance and the contemporary culture timing?

There is also a cultural bias at play as well; the notion of one's thought / idea / concept as value of unique, versus cultural byproduct. Likely a Postmodern bit of theory in there, for another day...
Great article. I feel like "exciting" applications that made it big get far too much of our attention. There's real value you can create by doing something "boring" like a background job framework.

Most business solve boring business needs. Find something you find interesting and exciting, that most people regard as a boring chore - and solve the problem in a tidy, approachable way. Is this a more reliable way to actually make a living on your own?
I have a similar 'lessons' write-up of a Chrome extension I made a few years ago. I built it to enable safe-search on all the computers in a few schools I was working in and deployed it with Group Policy:

https://brianhenryie.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/enable-safesea...
I think it's impossible ( or soon will be ) to ignore that it tapped into a lot of energy, and I can't blame Thiele for placing a bet.

Trump "hacked" the electoral process. Whether he broke things remains to be seen. It's one thing chasing a bear, and quite another catching one.
Yes. And the researchers know that too. There's an entire section of the paper devoted to teasing this apart. From the third paragraph of the paper ("Methods")

"[T]here are multiple threats to the validity of such an approach. We were particularly concerned about factors affecting a young person's probability of attending Scouts–Guides, which could also be protective of mental health in later life. To test for this possibility, we used three approaches. First, we explored a form of ‘negative control’ exposure. Specifically, we investigated whether attendance at other types of organisations (voluntary groups and the church), and other outside school clubs, which might have a similar set of common factors encouraging attendance and which might be protective of mental health in later life, were also associated with better later life mental health, conditioning on scouts–guides attendance. The absence of an association would suggest that an unmeasured common factor was not confounding the scout–guide association, while the existence of an association would be ambiguous with an unmeasured common factor and a third factor, independent of scout–guide attendance, but acting in a pathway through the other types of organisation on mental health, being possible. Second, we sought evidence of a dose–response relationship, exploring whether fractions of attendance were related to better mental health. Third, we explored whether the Scout–Guide association was weaker in regions with a higher proportional attendance which might suggest Scout–Guides not being the causative agent."
"follow the money" as they say
Uber/Hyperloop VC Pishevar funding California secession movement
This is a good reference, thanks.
There was recently a lovely interview with Leonard Cohen on Fresh Air [1], from which I learned that he had also spent some time a Zen monk. The article mentions this in passing, but there's more detail in the interview.

> While never abandoning Judaism, the Sabbath-observing songwriter attributed Buddhism to curbing the depressive episodes that had always plagued him.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2016/10/21/498810429/leonard-cohen-on-poe...
Here's Peter's speech at the National Press Club:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-LJqPQEJ4

Could you point out anywhere that Peter supports bigotry? Or even, a single crazy statement in Peter's speech? (I wouldn't defend Trump. I'm defending Peter, who I respect a lot).

The speech runs from 2:40 to 15:50, and can be watched in 7 minutes if you change speed to 2x.

(Thomas, I respect you a lot too. I've never seen or known Peter to do anything like you describe. I posted this video because it helped me understand his position on the election).
Hey! thanks for the shout out. I would totally love to see more feedback as well!

We haven't turned on the issue tracker on that repo, but the glue has it's issues turned on: https://github.com/rubyomr-preview/rbjitglue

Working on smoothing this out a bit, and also currently working on upgrading the JIT to target 2.4
Some highlights:

Drivers for agencies contracted by the internet giant told an
undercover reporter they were expected to deliver up to 200
parcels a day.

Amazon Logistics requires agency drivers to be self-employed,
and therefore not entitled to the minimum wage or employment
rights like sick pay or holiday pay.

Tonia Novitz, professor of labour law at Bristol University,
said in her opinion drivers contracted by AHC should not be
classed as self-employed, because they do not determine their
own routes, days of work or rest periods.

In a statement Amazon said: "As independent contractors of our
delivery providers, drivers deliver at their own pace, take
breaks at their discretion, and are able to choose the
suggestion route or develop their own."

It seems so easy to get away with anything.
Just because some random internet commenter is sure this is part of a crony capitalist deal, doesn't mean that is an undisputed fact.
For number 2, they wouldn't need a strong military, they've got friends on all sides. The US military goes well beyond what's needed to protect itself.

For 3, part of that is because of how the electoral college works, a lot of democratic voter probably didn't vote. Of course that goes both ways, who knows what the real numbers are.
Well, Brendan Eich. It's more of a literary device. Sorry, I might have misunderstood your question?

I merely wanted to give an example of what happens when there is a shift of the line and some people haven't caught up.
About 100,000 votes in the right states could have changed the entire outcome, right? But that doesn't really mean just 100,000 people who didn't vote for Hillary determined that Trump would win.

We vote for who we want, if we choose to vote at all. The next 4 years will be determined by a lot more than just this one vote. Political activism is a constant finger on the scales.
Let people develop critical thinking skills and determine their trusted sources. Keep censorship out of this!
This country was founded by extremists.
Left-wing mccarthyism is as bad as right-wing mccarthyism. People should be able to support one of the two candidates without having to stand up to so much shaming in SV circles. Given the binary choice there may be multiple reasons to pick Trump over Clinton even if you disagree with him on a lot of issues.
I'm not taking issue with the substance of your argument. The form bothers me. You've worked your way through every possible guilt-by-association tactic there is. It's bush league argumentation.
Most secessionist movements don't have a legal path to do it, that doesn't mean they have to be done violently.
There's also o'reilly's 'Introduction to Machine Learning with Python', which is very much about scikit-learn

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030515.do

Just came out a few weeks ago so it's relatively unknown, I've read the first few chapters and so far it's good! The first author Andreas Mueller is one of the scikit core devs.

The Jupyter notebooks including the book's code are on GitHub: https://github.com/amueller/introduction_to_ml_with_python
Which wasn't even the bill he wanted (Obamacare). They lacked a super majority (two thirds) in the Senate, so lots of compromises still had to happen.

Fortunately, the Republican's also lack a super majority in the Senate this time around.
Hallelujah was the first dance song at our wedding. RIP.
Surely someone hacked the RNC's emails. They just didn't chose to share them with Wikileaks!
Just jumping into LLVM is probably a good idea. It's well structured and uses SSA. Pretty well documented and the LLVM Developers' Meetings have plenty of talks and tutorials.

Spend some time learning IR and the basic compiler pipeline.
Personal finances are another issue altogether.

He is audited every single year, and there is very deep scrutiny of his personal finances. There are many in the IRS who would love to find something wrong.

It's the political favours and support that mattes.

I will say this: the laws concerning 'conflict of interest' are very weak in the US for the office of the Pres. It's possible that a Malaysian leader could buy favour by offering him a future sweet deal on land for a Casino in Manila type thing. Again - I don't like Trump, and don't think he's evil and probably won't be looking for that kind of deal ... but I also bet he just might not be able to resist!

Anyhow - as of today, he owes almost nothing politically. That's what's weird about it: he's the least civic minded pres in modern history - who also is the most unencumbered! Crazy.
Tax returns provide additional information.

For example they describe in detail the tax mix e.g. income versus capital gains, as well as the nature of liquid assets, deduction types etc.
It sounds like you're saying that the lie is that he said what the parent commenter said far more politely than the parent commenter put it.
Building a wall is our first priority. /s
You can play it right here:

http://playdosgamesonline.com/outpost.html

ctrl + f11 to slow it down.
What is he talking about? Indian with good english skills?? What? Good with computers?? When people will end all those prejudices ???
"A member of the Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan, Jackson became involved in several political scandals...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_L._Jackson
This doesn't mean he's a part of the Administration, he is joining the Transition Team which helps pick appointees to Administration posts.
> California would take a very significant chunk of the US military with it if it left the union

Perhaps, but remember militaries train discipline and chain of command for a reason.

> a very significant number of military bases (packed full of military weapons and equipment) are in California
> California would be a global military power right out the gate, and a nuclear one at that.

If there were a serious rebellion, those would be the first targets. Thousands--even tens of thousands--of lost military and civilian lives would be a small price to pay in the US govt's eyes than to let a new nuclear power spring up on its doorstep.
> hate speech

On many subreddits, being in opposition to illegal massive immigration is being considered as a 'hate speech' and is a reason for ban.
So it's guilt by association to associate Donald Trump with positions and policies Donald Trump has espoused? This is the "stop making him look bad by reporting exactly what he said" debacle from the campaign all over again.
The real benefit is that they are configured with text files, not a monolithic inscrutable system "registry."
Generally speaking, a homeowner pays the full property taxes if the home is not the primary residence. (Some states offer to reduce the property taxes if the home is the primary residence; this is known as a homestead exemption.)

On top of the property taxes, the homeowner also pays insurance (home + hazard + flood) and the mortgage (principal + interest). If the home is part of an HOA, monthly fees to the HOA are also due. At all times the homeowner is responsible for the full upkeep of house. For example, tree trimming, fence repair, lawn maintenance, etc.

If troublemakers identify a house that remains empty most of the year, be prepared for them to move in secretly and indulge in nefarious activities (like setting up a marijuana grow operation in a state where that is illegal).

All in all, an empty property is a headache to maintain. A professional property manager helps, at which point you may as well rent the damn thing out.
Ironically, Palantir has an engineering office in Singapore.
I feel it's mainly the younger generation (born after the 70's) that has embraced globalization and are coming up with quality outsourcing firms.
> No - they said they are going to repeal and replace Obamacare with something else. That does not mean they are going to strip people of their health insurance.

The only "something else" that has been mentioned thus far is the utterly inadequate notion of savings accounts. If Donald Trump manages to produce the magical pony that provides affordable health care for individuals regardless of pre-existing conditions while not requiring an individual mandate or bankrupting the health insurance industry, then I'll believe he actually is a genius.
Nah, you don't see Uber or Lyft contractors having 15% to 30% of their hours driving go completely unpaid. They do mis-classify employees as contractors, but they don't go quite as far as Amazon and many other employers doing wage theft.

We should be enforcing our laws that make wage theft a felony, but at least in the US there is minimal funding for enforcement, so only small businesses are policed. Jeff Bezos can keep committing felonies and forcing those below him to do the same due to the lack of enforcement.
He lacked sufficient Congressional support for a lot of that. And when he did release detainees? He was demonized by many (particularly from the right).
The facts of the individual cases are factored into the conviction and sentencing. Once the prison term is served, the person can return to society. This is a fundamental concept of our system of justice.

The truly disturbing idea is that voting rights are removed in the first place.
Trump knows all about sobering up government: Take it from an alcoholic, he knows all the tricks :P
That's right, there are quite a few thing in the world, that you need to experience (to really understand), because knowing about it is not the same. Like poverty (disability etc), one might know about it, but until experience it one might look those down. You need to be exposed many things as a child to gain experience, because as an adult you will be much more closed to new things and have less time. + this is safe.
Floating point math is hard. I recommend this interview of William Kahan, creator of the IEEE-754 standard, and the associated HN discussion (esp. the comment by user russell)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7769303
Words mean things. McCarthyism was a movement that questioned the citizenship of people who supported socialism, and which demanded of the citizenry that they root out, report, and maintain blacklists of people who weren't stalwart supporters of that effort. McCarthyism had the force of a government behind it.

What you're seeing here isn't an organized movement to find and punish Thiel-supporters. It's people lamenting that other people continue to do business with one specific person, who is being singled out for his own speech and actions. It's an embryonic boycott movement. Boycotts --- something far more specific, pointed, and impactful than what we're seeing in threads like this --- are not "McCarthyism".
I mean it seems a little dystopian if Facebook is going to become the arbiter of what information is accurate and start culling stuff.
Your first two sentences are just vague accusations with no real substance. Sure, some trump supporters are violent bullies. Some clinton supporters are violent bullies too. I've seen both occur this election.

There's a difference between "advancing your views" and "demanding someone get fired because they disagree with your views". See? If you want to call Thiel a dickhead for his support, feel free, you even have my agreement. But this is the CLASSIC go-to-move of overzealous social justice creeps, to demand banishment of the person for thought-crimes.