skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flip was equating it to perpetrating a genocidal ideology, with the same argument as used in lashing out against its perpetrators, because that's exactly the same stuff that's going through a genocidal maniac's head (or at least coming out of their mouths). But all my points stand.

It's too easy to label somebody a Nazi (or whatever label enables you), eliminate all civility and humanity from them, wish them nothing but death, and consider yourself righteous and tolerant for it.

It is better to err on the side of treating bad people with more respect than they deserve, than to err on the side of treating decent people with more hate than they deserve. Because your judgment of how bad or decent they are is at the very best based on incomplete information in the first place. Erring on the side of hate directly makes the world a worse place, and erring on the side of respect makes the world a more civil place.
Address to the American Psychological Association on Men (2007)
So by your line of reasoning, we should feel bad because we don't tolerate neo-Nazis?
Yep, 'tech' has negative connotations here for future reference.

Or at very least, unskilled/uneducated connotations; which generally speaking are negative.

The underlying reasoning is something akin to "if he was an engineer he wouldn't call himself a 'tech'"
> That statement does not at all counter reading

His original statement was never that woman's suffrage was bad, it was only an (accurate) observation that women do not lean towards libertarianism. People saying that he says 'giving woman the vote was a bad idea' are literally inserting words of their own to imply that reading.

If the statement he made to explicitly counter that reading and to say that such a reading was absurd does not counter that reading, then I'm not sure what does.

I'm not libertarian, and I don't agree with Peter Thiels beliefs, but if you look at the whole point of his manifesto it's that governments interfere, and giving people the power to elect different ones won't make a difference, and therefore people need to build places that are free of government influence (Internet, Outer Space, and on/under the seas).

I suspect that will work out for him as well as Bitcoin has worked out without a central authority, and which is discovering and repeating all the mistakes of the past, and that has ended up with a pseudo central authority anyway.
A step further here in Australia, or at least in South Australia where I used to live - not sure about the other states...

If an essential service breaks (toilet, hot water system, plumbing, gas leak) and the landlord doesn't have it remedied in reasonable time frame, you can pay for the remedy and issue an invoice to the landlord (in practice you can withhold the same amount from rent).

Worded thusly: organise to have urgent problems fixed and give the landlord an invoice from an authorised repairer. A licensed professional must do the repairs and provide a report that states the cause of the problem and the work carried out.

A landlord may be breaking the conditions of an agreement if they learn of a problem and don't repair it within a reasonable time.[1]

I firmly believe this is how it should be, and that any reasonable person would agree this is fare.

1. https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/housing/renting-and-letting/ren...
Trump said that illegal immigrants are "rapists and murderers and some good people", "not their best people". You can disagree strongly with Trump's claims about what motivates illegal immigration, but Trump's stated view is not racist: he discriminated between two groups within a single race, and did not distinguish between races.
Corrected now, unless I didn't hear right when he refers to Mexico sending people over and then "they are rapists" perhaps his subject changed and he was referring to Aliens?
"...it's almost impossible for me to imagine an implementation that I'd trust as much."

Further, who would provide that implementation? A vendor.

Our election administration is increasingly outsourced (privatized). Using crypto would be the final nail in the coffin of public, citizen administered elections.
...and when presented with the weight of evidence, we accept reality and start to account for it. For instance, when we noticed that our refrigerants were busting a hole in our house, with strong political will we stopped making them, and today the ozone layer is recovering.

Imagine if Reagan had torpedoed the Montreal Protocol. That's what we're talking about here.
I believe we recently discussed Mr. Cohen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12700141

I have cried more tears listening to Leonard Cohen than all the other tears I've cried combined, his music, his words, his poems have always resonated deeply within me. He truly is my favourite artist. We listened to him daily in my dad's house and I grew to find an incredibly amount of peace in his voice. Love the HN community seems to like him as much. rest well sir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MXOuaZuTak
Re: early example, CGOL was two decades before Dylan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGOL
> Of those, he got less than 50% (as Clinton got more votes than him).

Mrs. Clinton also got less than 50% of the votes. Neither one won a clear majority of the popular vote.
Actually, Uber and Lyft contractors are not paid for quite a bit of their working hours. If you don't have a passenger in your car, you're not getting paid. That includes time between passengers as well as however long it takes you to reach the pickup location. That can easily be 15-30% or more.
Yep, I personally hereby guarantee I will never use GrubHub. The danger in politicizing your business is the alienation of half your talent pool and millions of customers. I'm tired of businesses acting political, and will cease to do business with these offenders until they stop. They're free to speak their mind as individuals, but not wield their businesses as weapons.
The rate was 14%, the income was a bit higher.

Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, paid $1.94 million in federal taxes on last year's income of $13.7 million, for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, his campaign said Friday.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/sep/21/romneys-paid-194-mi...

He also gave $4 million to charities.
Theoretically, yes, if we knew all of the physics laws accurately enough. However, there are a lot of behaviors that are difficult to predict in the aggregate. That's one of the reasons we end up with different specializations: quantum mechanics, atomic physics, molecular chemistry, organic chemistry, etc.

Another example would be protein folding. Even within the same "level" of chemistry, predicting the three-dimensional structure of a protein molecule based purely on the chemistry we understand and the protein sequence is a hard problem. We're getting better at it, but it's still hard.
So, just to be clear, I agree with you completely, one hundred percent. But in the last couple of days, reflecting on the phenomenon you're observing, and trying to figure out why I become so frustrated, I've realized you could flip that around completely, with very negligible edits:

"... a lot of people in this country feel like they're being smugly dismissed every time they open their mouths. That the 'white trash' have no interest in getting to know them, understanding their problems, or building a society that is inclusive of them. They're used to being lectured by people who don't even know them, who think their entire community is insignificant and irrelevant and backwards and stupid. They're used to being called 'elites' and worse, just for existing."

The smugness of the liberal establishment bothers me, and is one reason I didn't vote for Clinton. But I find myself a recipient on the opposite end of that bigotry line all the time also. Not sure what to do with that observation, but it's very salient to me. Explaining it doesn't make it ok, I suppose, or something along those lines.
Brexit and Trump and Syriza and Bernie and all the rest of it point to the collapse of the middle class across the industrialized world more than anything else.
racism and views on climate change are opinions, what else could they be? climate change is a complex and speculative topic that no one understands completely. no one has a climatechangeometer.
I can't really see Facebook censoring, fact-checking, or otherwise adjusting their algorithms to expose people to opposing views in any significant way. They're the McDonalds of the internet. Their entire business model depends on satisfying the addictive cravings of their users. It would be like McDonalds discontinuing fries and replacing them with kale and tofu bites.
He just said Trump will be President. You're rebutting an argument he didn't make. Nobody is obligated to support the President. That's why it's called "the loyal opposition".
I see fidgeting, I see him not looking at the President while he's speaking (watch how the President listens). Later with Speaker Ryan, President-elect Trump kept his hands beneath the table in his lap during the press conference. This is a businessman, and it's not his first time sitting at a boardroom table. He knows to keep his hands in view, and he's tired, stressed, and showing weakness.

I assure you the President is also tired and stressed, and probably feeling pretty defeated right now. He's putting on a public face despite that, and he's doing a much better job of it than his successor.

Give it time, though. In a few weeks the President-elect will be back to his confident self.
I began believing trump had a legitimate shot to win the election over a year ago, when his candidacy was mainly taken as a joke. I noted to people who didn't believe me that the essential dishonesty of the media was a key element in what they assured me could not happen. Most assurances were driven by media-fed opinions I tried to warn them not to trust.

I also learned pretty early on that saying I believed he had a shot would anger people, and often lead to accusations of many, many PC sins such as racism on my part. This did not convince me I was wrong.

I have some measure of hope that people are going to learn the right lessons this time. People are still too deep in the grief process for me to judge it clearly, but hope is enough for now.
I live in Tasmania now, and yes, the equivalent legislation exists here too[1]

1. http://tutas.org.au/factsheet/repairs-maintenance/
List of Double Sided Glossy Photo Paper
To describe Trump as simply warty is to vastly misrepresent or dismiss his proud racism and misogyny.
I'm sorry but just because someone can resign and get another job doesn't mean it's OK to abuse the shit out of them.

Furthermore, you're severely overestimating the mobility of this particular class of workers. For a lot of people, finding another job (or heck, just a job) is not easy.
Bret Victor thought about this, this time last year: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

"What can a technologist do about climate change?" to answer the question, "How do you think the tech community (startup community, or any community) can contribute to tech and/or policy solutions on a global scale?"
Yes I did, not that it's relevant now? Remember when Trump was gonna drain the swamp lol
They represent the working class now, we call them techies.
Close enough for government work
Well, for one, that he chose to say "will be taken away" when responding to this criticism, instead of "should be taken away," implying that he thinks they ought to be taken away (because it would allow for his libertarian utopia) but that it won't happen for other reasons.
POSIX only specifies -R. Actual implementations of cp can include whatever nonstandard arguments they want, such as -r in GNU cp.
So the man whose company was funded by the CIA to conduct mass big data surveillance is now going to be helping to decide the structure of the executive branch, with "Law and Order" Giuliani probably as Attorney General.

What could go wrong?

IMHO, YC had their chance to divorce themselves from Thiel. They can still do it, but this is their last chance. Silicon Valley is not going to forget this conflict of interest.
Hm, so I think the experiment this article alludes to is not exactly the same as the February one. This article seems to be based on this press release:
http://www.ipp.ac.cn/xwdt/tpxw/201611/t20161102_352924.html which (using Google Translate) says "In a new round of physical experiments launched in August 2016, the EAST team achieved steady-state, high-confinement-mode plasmas for more than 60 seconds in mid-October by further optimizing the steady-state operation integrated control at long pulse time scales".

It seems they reported their latest results at the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (17–22 October 2016); I'm guessing that they did a press release based on that, and that's why it's getting picked up by news.
XPS 13 and 15 (or the equivalent Precision series)
No question about it. Lenovo has hardware whitelists and has frequently broken Linux compatibility with its BIOS.
there's zero evidence in 1. that he 1) had paralysis 2) went to china 3) got stem cell treatment.
Can you clarify what you mean by "gone nuclear"? I'll admit, that's not ringing a bell in my mind when it comes to Congress, but it's also late here and I'm tired.

EDIT: Ah, rules changes on filibuster and such. There's no guarantee. The Republicans do only have 51 members, though, with 48 for the Democrats and (per CNN's results) 1 seat still being tallied (?).

They could change the filibuster rules and make it easier on themselves, but it's a much narrower margin than in 2009.

EDIT 2: Regarding the empty seat, that's LA. If people vote in the runoff (not still being tallied) by the same party lines, it'll likely go to the remaining Republican candidate. So it'll be 52/48. Rule changes will need Democrats on board with them, this is unlikely.
Righteo. You go build a house in the middle of Vancouver, and I will go make a shirt.

(The race is on)
He can recognize the problem in others... he just needs to recognize when he's doing it himself.

Baby steps.
Why? Welfare beneficiaries and women lean socialist, and vote socialist. They believe that's good. Thiel believes that's bad.
How is it a load of BS, have you gone and talked to employees at Walmart, Target, Amazon and other major employers? Most feel they have no choice to comply, and if you get even a bit outside the cities on the east or west coast they are right. Where is a 50 year old in rural Wisconsin going to find work? Who is there with a job?

In many areas, there aren't a plethora of jobs, and changing jobs when living paycheck to paycheck is a massive risk, you could easily lose the roof over your head.

In reference to "coders", yes, a lot of skilled & talented developers give away their time to the companies they are employed by, and derive no significant benefit from it. Employers are in a position of power in many of those relationships, just as you get a job offer is the time at which the playing field is the closest to being level in that industry.
"...you randomly select say 1% of all the machines and hand count all the ballots inside..."

The Election Verification Network has studied the auditing of elections exhaustively.

Their conclusion: Expensive, approaching the costs of a full recount, and doesn't increase the certainty of the results.

https://electionverification.org

The correct answer (gold standard) remains precinct-based paper ballots tabulated on site when the polls close.
He supports a Presidency which built its campaign, to a large extent, on abject racism and outright sexism. A ticket whose VP supports electro-shocking gay teens to turn them straight.

How, exactly, do you give such people $1.25 million and join their team without at least implicitly endorsing such views?
Yeah, if you ignore the reader, garbage collector, hash table implementation, vectors, object system, stack unwinding, representation of closures, etc, etc. all you're left with is a handful of special forms. Unicode support? Why, practically just a footnote; leave that to the summer students.
She won the popular vote, and lost the decisive states (MI, PA, WI) by 12, 68, and 27 thousand votes respectively. She did not beat Trump, but she could have, had anything gone even slightly differently.
I don't know why but I've got a sinking feeling in my stomach.
I think AutoCAD does this?

I actually built one of these hybrids for a piece of chip design software, where scripting is very much expected. Architectural bonuses were that it was almost like having a GUI microservice; it could iterate separately, be written in a different language, and crash separately too.
Do you automatically disbelieve everything coming out of Europe, the United States, or any other country that carries out scientific research or has a regulatory framework for medicine? If you don't believe in the ability of China to run a life and death regulatory agency without systemic fraud, what is your reason for trusting their journalists?

It took only a few minutes to track down the original source for this claim to an article by the Economic Information Daily [1]. I don't speak or read the language but Google Translate did a pretty good job: the CFDA (Chinese FDA equivalent) report was neither made public nor shown to the journalist and the article is based on "an anonymous source within the agency." Putting aside the reliability of the source, according to the article their definition of fraud includes omission of adverse reactions and other clinical data.

I'm sorry to break it to you but no other medical regulatory agency on earth is much better. There have been no conclusive studies on omission of data in clinical trials in the US or Europe so for all we know 100% of their trials fall under the definition of fraudulent used by the SFDA. This is a problem the FDA is painfully aware of because of their very public failures, like Rofecoxib (Vioxx), which were due to clinical data withheld by pharmaceutical companies. Regulations for mandatory reporting were only enacted by the FDA in 2008 and since then the system has been plagued by fraud driven by our top institutions [2].

Without access to that report and the raw data, the article is classic FUD. The same problems are systemic in agencies like the FDA which has nearly a century more experience regulating drugs than the CFDA.

[1] http://www.chinanews.com/m/sh/2016/09-09/7998783.shtml

[2] https://www.statnews.com/2015/12/13/clinical-trials-investig...
Hmm so in that case, "political science", "materials science", "veterinary science", "biomedical science", "actuarial science", etc. etc. are all not "real" science. Very convincing argument, I have to say.
You're right, we should tolerate someone who wants to literally register all Muslims in a database.

You lean liberal? What?
This is some amazing mental gymnastics here, wew.

""White people are racist, ignorant assholes, except for some of them.""

^^ I'm sure this comment will do well!
In the absence of unions or strong labor law, the lion's share of bargaining power rests with employers. This is a simple consequence of the great difference in resources available to an employer versus an employee. The imbalance remains even when there are several employers to choose from – there are still an order of magnitude more employees. Hence employees get screwed and can do nothing about it.

And yes, coders could stand to unionize.
Threats are illegal, and that hasn't changed. If that is truly all you are talking about, then thank you for clarifying because that was not at all evident.
Exactly, despite how mobile American workers are, there is a huge cost & risk associated with changing jobs, which gives the employer the upper hand when negotiating with current employees.
Call me when your American Left Wing creates a system where Christians, Republicans and Libertarians are forbidden to dine in restaurants because of their identity, or are prevented from using restrooms, or are afraid to call the police should they be victims of crime, because they expect that the police will either make things worse or at best not take their experience seriously.

"just as guilty" is a false equivalence. The Left has much to answer for certainly; but the claim that there is somehow comparable bigotry in both sides of the political spectrum is not remotely credible.
The code in question violates the newer C standards (C99, C11). For instance, it doesn't even compile using "gcc -std=c99 -pedantic-errors".

In the older C standard (C89), the code has undefined behaviour because implicit declaration of the function malloc is not compatible with its definition in the standard library. It is a futile task to try to define the undefined.
You are rebutting an argument nobody made.
Yes, JSS is in Ganiyari. About 15 kms from Bilaspur.
Hey did you see When undertaker returns and what he did with Brock?
Well I'm relieved to hear that at least someone among us knows exactly how the world works.
You are correct. I didn't say otherwise.

EDIT: Out of curiosity I looked some numbers up, going just by the ones that did turn out to vote, she has 47.52% of the cast votes, he has 47.19%. The difference in votes is around 400k.
Versus the Ada equivalent:

Foo.Bar.Baz;
exception when Program_Error => Put ("WHoops");
when Constraint_Error => Put ("Dang");
when Gaim_OVer_Main => Put ("??? D: ");
when others => Put ("IDC...");
“People are smart and they understand what’s important to them,” noted Zuckerberg.

Huge amounts of money are sunk into political advertising and propaganda, and have been for ages. Facebook is a great platform to spread those views. To dismiss this by saying "people are smart" is either disingenuous or betrays a lack of understanding of how the world works.
Does getting Lieberman's vote by leaving out a public option count as a compromise?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...
I'm not sure I understand you clearly. Are you saying that Donald Trump is guilty because of who supported him, and that's not invoking guilt by association?
We (the USA) could do that too. Simply separate our complicated ballot into federal, state, county, and local portions. Could be perforated and torn apart.

Counting the presidential race per precinct (~400 ballots) is trivial. Manual counting using sort and stack.

The other ballots (races and issues) can be done at leisure.
> Whether you respect the Electoral College or don't, Trump should not be the President.

I was saying that this statement doesn't follow from his 2 previous paragraphs. On the other hand, if this was a personal statement against Trump (rather than a logical conclusion of the previous paragraphs), then my comment doesn't apply.

In other words, I just wanted to emphasize that I believe in the statement "if you respect the Electoral College, Trump should be the next President". That is independent to any opinion I have on Trump. It just seems to me that too many people are rallying against a system just based on their emotions. The electoral system has its issues, however voting Trump up this time isn't one of them.