skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data does not support your opinion (yes I know Latinos is only one minority): https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-probably-did-bett...
Once people so upset that they become violent, you stop listening? Doesn't sound like a great plan.
Yes, let us shed our puppet democracy for a corporatocracy.
please lmk if you find it
I appreciate this post by Sam, it means a lot. I think your sentiments are sound, as well.

I think what's more important is clarifying Peter Thiel's beliefs and how he's going to make things better moving forward. The line in the sand that Sam and YC should seriously consider is when do the political freedoms of their partners supersede the actual freedoms of their founders?

The way I feel, as a founder, is slightly taken advantage of. I'm not directly part of the YC network, but there's an implicit social contract in Silicon Valley --- help others, and it will come back to you. YC's value is in fighting for founders. When a partner actively supports a vehemently anti-immigrant candidate and their political freedoms are defended at the potential expense of founders' livelihoods, it's confusing. It sends a message to founders that they're simply cattle - you can afford to lose a few along the way because you have the greenest pasture and you're confident they'll overlook the slaughterhouse.

I like YC. I love the founders and partners I've met that are part of the network and have a great deal of respect for everyone involved. There's some murky water here, though, and additional clarity would alleviate the anxieties of, I think, a lot of talented entrepreneurs, both aspiring and successful.
Your understanding of the economics is off here. Soda syrup is dirt cheap. A five gallon box of syrup costs between $40 and $75 and makes 30 GALLONS of soda. So the syrup costs the restaurant 10-20 cents per cup of soda that they charge 2-3 dollars for.
>Why is that all of these posts saying to "take a stand" fail to explain the political process?

Because most everyone here already knows these things.

And because the implication that it would be a useful strategy to keep reiterating basic principles seems reductionist.

This whole thing is a complex phenomenon that even experts are still trying to figure out. How was the sentiment or 27% of voters underestimated so badly and for so long? Even if the sentiment is now understood why did it bring about a post truth era and why do so many people easily accept this? And on and on.

Something is different this time. We need to understand it fundamentally and learn new approaches to counter it while making sure the responses themselves don't make the situation worse.
No visa for skilled workers unless you're a European citizen already. I think France and a few other countries started implementing a special visa for skilled workers.
Application-level dedup usually works at the file level, while ZFS dedups data blocks (of variable size). The ZFS way of doing it allows saving space on large files that are similar, like VM images. On the other hand it requires storing block hashes in memory.

A ZFS dedup table entry is 320 bytes in size [1], so assuming 128 KB blocks that comes to 2.5 GB / TB. Moreover, the tables are kept in the ZFS cache (ARC) and they have to compete with other data and metadata. Since metadata is by default limited to 75% of ARC [2], you'll need at least 3.3 GB per TB and on the Internet you'll find even worse figures, like 20 GB [3].

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-a...
[2] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/9907cc1cc8c16fa2c7c...
[3] http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2011/07/zfs-dedupe-or-not-ded...
Yet Christians are specifically being targeted in Syria.[1] Wouldn't you think they would be the first ones who want to leave?

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/is-this-the-end-...

By the way, this article is from one of your reputable news sources.
Is there any way to know that an expensive CO detector like this is worth getting for home use, instead of one costing 10x less?
Jesus, your back must be sore from contorting yourself into such a position.
> I didn't vote for Trump, but I do identify with some of the beliefs of those who did, and I can tell you that the rhetoric I'm hearing from many of the most vocal left is pushing the middle away.

I'm in the exact same boat. I don't like Trump at all and this move frightens me. But my friends who argued for Trump actually had more logical arguments and my friends who opposed Trump actually mostly just insulted the people who voted for Trump.

How is anyone going to listen to us if we just insult them?
It’s got pretty bad when my automatic “it’s deprecation, not depreciation” correction is applying to legitimate uses.
> It makes me sad that politics has made its way to the top of HN.

Yes I'm sad about this too, but we can't turn our backs on this, it's just too big. We can't just pretend it will go away and the world will sort itself out. We can't retreat to the comfortable confines of our algorithms and code, the real world needs us and needs us now.

What's happening is literally sickening to me. The thought of young people in 20 years looking at me and saying "You caused this, you did this to us" is a terrifying image. I blame my parents for Reagan, but this time it's on me. And I'm not going to let this go any further. We all need to get out of our happy code utopia and confront the real world before it is all destroyed. We need to stop this, and we need to stop this now.
So by voting you're responsible for everything the person you voted for does? That leads to nobody but the extremes voting.

Has there ever been a candidate who even talked 100% of what you would approve of? If no, why did you vote (or have you ever)?
Slightly non technical question about these. After looking at this and BF esolang derivatives, are these esolangs essentially a category of intermediate representations that would be useful for automated software analysis? Given you can encode the language anyway you want (e.g. Ook), and while they aren't efficient for writing and running programs, they are simple, consistent (if large) inputs into an analysis engine. Is this considered a thing?
NL is about (March) to make a huge shift to ultra-right. The coming elections are predicted to be a landslide victory for the PVV, the extremist/nationalist party which is pushing those exact same buttons that Trump is pushing.

We may end up in a very strange situation where the largest political party will not be part of government and where the prime minister will be part of that party (a constitutional crisis, historically the largest party has always delivered the minister president because they always were part of the coalition, it has never happened that the largest party was not part of the coalition but it just might happen). I'm waiting for the first wave of articles pointing this out and trying to decide whether largest party meant largest party in the coalition or largest party in an absolute sense.

Like you I hope that there will be some kind of vaccination effect from the damage Trump is wreaking on the USA but that may just end up being wishful thinking.
Edit: Since you can't stop editing your posts.

Respect for who, you asked?
The people who've left this world.
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The problem with this line of short term thinking is that it can backfire badly. Yes, they get 1 term or 2, but then the backlash can bury them for decades. Especially in the context of America's changing demographics.
We've banned this account for vote and comment manipulation.
Unknown number of U.S. permanent residents stuck overseas by immigration ban
Another benefit of holding a green card: Global taxation on all global income, paid to the USA and enforced globally via FATCA: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/corporations/foreign-account-...

There are numerous permanent residents who pay (or are forced to pay) US taxes on all global income, for the privilege of holding a Green Card and being a permanent resident.
> "avoid premature micro-optimization."

Which is exactly what the quote says. If performance is going to matter, you absolutely have to get your overall architecture right so after-the-fact tuning with a profiler works.

If you get your architecture wrong, you're in for a world of hurt and might have to start over.
How could a stat from 11/2015 possibly cover anything that only concluded in 2016?

Is Newsweek part of the Trump train? http://www.newsweek.com/us-bars-christian-not-muslim-refugee... (mid-Sept 2016).
And now much of that is virtualized or amplified and concentrated in terrorist incidents - like many other things in our technological society. Why would you expect political activity to have stayed the same when everything else is changing? Just as we don't go downtown to do all our shopping any more, many conflicts are carried out in cyberspace rather than in the street. go look at the comments section on major newspapers, they are a battleground for ideological dominance. There is abundant historical evidence that such battles are only a prelude to physical conflict.

Incidentally if you think violence hasn't already erupted then you're being wilfully blind. Here's a recent example and I could point to many more and famous examples, like that of Anders Brievik and his imitators.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-neo-nazi-stabbed-20...
You completely failed to address the OP's comment about the largest Muslim countries in the world (Indonesian and Pakistan) not being a part of the ban.

If Trump was targeting Muslims, wouldn't he have started there?
Yes, and US government is making changes to this procedure.
I've never seen or heard of a non-industrial laser cutter with a gas supply.

Air assist, yes (to clear smoke and particles from the beam and protect the focus lens from soot), but that's just an air pump, not a gas supply.
Wasn't running the most corrupt, least trustworthy candidate who couldn't cite a single accomplishment in 30 years of public "self service" THE problem?
How about WebDAV? Is that minimally relevant these days? If not, what has superseded it?

The modern web is much more about routes, resources, and URLs than directories and files.
Yeah, where IS Thiel?
Your source doesn’t dispute the accuracy of this number at all:

> Cruz is rounding up, but he is correct about the percentage of Christians among the Syrian refugees who have resettled in the United States.

> A total of 2,290 Syrian refugees have arrived in the United States since fiscal year 2011, which is when the Syrian civil war began, through Nov. 20, according to the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center. Of those, only 62 were identified in the center’s database as Christian. That’s 2.7 percent, even though the Christian population in Syria is about 10 percent, according to the CIA World Factbook.

All it says is that the UN stacked the pool, and Obama never challenged it.
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I have the same problem with my iMac (the last couple of revisions of MacOS seem to be unusable on hard disk), but it's bit more difficult to swap in an SSD on the iMac.
No, they (well, Trump specifically) announced that Christians (not "non-Muslims") would be given priority consideration ahead of other refugees.
There's nothing more American than voicing your dissent. You are way off base here. You're also wrong about what the ACLU does.
I find your comment a bit bizarre. You ignored the point of my entire comment, instead deciding to focus on a meaningless portion of my metaphor and apply it to an equally meaningless point about how humans ought to be.

This comment becomes even more bizarre whenever my comment was about acceptance of everyone, including Trump supporters, which is in line with your tao of five year old here.
> Those who study the decline in standards of evidence and reasoning in the U.S. electorate chiefly blame politicians’ concerted efforts from the 1970s to discredit expertise, degrade trust in Congress and its members, even question the legitimacy of government itself

Really.

An academic blames politicians for the fact that academic's opinions aren't automatically accepted as fact. He then says politicians made concerted efforts to degrade trust in ... themselves.

I have yet to see a politician make a concerted effort to argue that all politicians are untrustworthy, including themselves. And I have yet to encounter an anarchist politician. I clicked through the link to see what the cited evidence was for this dubious assertion, and found a paragraph in a book about Newt Gingrich that says, in the opinion of the author, Gingrich "won control of the house by eroding public faith in institutions". No evidence is offered there either.

So in the span of one paragraph this author manages to make wild and dubious assertions without any meaningful evidence beyond citing "those who study" i.e. people exactly like himself.

At this point, self-proclaimed experts have a long string of high profile failures under their belt. Most recently, predicting the UK economy would enter recession after a vote to leave the EU which turned out to be the opposite of what really happened.

Instead of looking in the mirror and asking why trust in academic expertise is declining, he chooses to blame other people. And so the downward spiral continues.
No. And when you find yourself calling people unamerican, you're doing horribly. Historical example? McCarthyism.

Does the ACLU stand for American as in persons, American as in culture, American as in country...? Unless you work there, not up to you.

ACLU getting in on this implies America as a lot of things. America as a dream. America as a land of laws. America as a corporate entity honoring agreements. And more.

Your attitude is the #1 difference I see between "democrats" and "republicans": Is America an exclusive club, or an inclusive one?
A lot of people in the comments below are fussing over whether
there is a Muslim ban. Well, think about it for two seconds.

1. This doesn't set a good precedent.
2. Donald Trump is aiming for a Muslim ban. He said so during the elections.

He said it during the elections: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trum...

At this point I'm surprised by how many people are bickering over this. Why don't you guys just say that you voted for Donald Trump? That would simplify the discussion.
So only opinions that you deem acceptable are ok. So people are not entitled to their own opinions...
Nonetheless, Mr. Trump asserts that he still has the power to discriminate, pointing to a 1952 law that allows the president the ability to “suspend the entry” of “any class of aliens” that he finds are detrimental to the interest of the United States.

But the president ignores the fact that Congress then restricted this power in 1965, stating plainly that no person could be “discriminated against in the issuance of an immigrant visa because of the person’s race, sex, nationality, place of birth or place of residence.” The only exceptions are those provided for by Congress (such as the preference for Cuban asylum seekers).

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/trumps-immigratio...
seems to me like the comment was obviously about other big decision-makers
Sure, but when the King changed, the hereditary aristocracy gets left in place. 1% == current aristocracy.
>Although those countries aren't affected by the ban, who knows when Trump will decide to change his mind at his whim.

The ban on muslims is not something he decided "at his whim", but something he promised he'd do if he won the presidency.

Turns out he did win, and he's delivering on his promises.
I've researched this some months ago, but it isn't a one time cost. I arrived at this model:

https://www.draeger.com/en_aunz/Applications/Products/Mobile...

But if you want to do it right, you also need a calibration station and calibration gas bottles. It is quite an effort.

[No product placement, also look for Honeywell and others.]
>within 5 to 10 years we'll see these vehicles driving safely around San Francisco
As a new hobbyist in the Maker community, are there any resources you'd recommend that covers basic safety that is aimed at Makers?

edit: typo
Maybe under a Trump administration Silicon Valley will also object more strongly to the NSL regime, now that it's "someone I dislike doing something I dislike", rather than "someone I like doing something I dislike."
I'm not sure that Hillary "public and private positions" Clinton is much better in this regard.

Don't get me wrong I'd much rather she won. But even with her in power I think I'd still be concerned that wealth inequality and climate change would continue to get sidelined in favor of never ending battles about racism, lgbt issues, and misogyny.
Now that tesla has started to pretend selling autonomous cars now is making sense, the field went from research ( where researcher honestly reports shortcomings themselves) to the horrendous world of SV start up, where everything should be considered a lie until the day someone can actually buy the stuff and test for himself.

And so you end up with posts like this trying to analyse a video frame by frame to assess the reality of the technology, and yet everyone including the author tries to guess where's the catch ( is the green light really trustworthy ? Why is the video accelerated ? Etc..).
Simple right? Just destroy them. I'm sure Trump will be able to stablise the Middle East no problem. He's well versed in Middle Eastern politics and warfare and crucially he's got a level head and able to think decisions through properly which he's proven since becoming president.
And those suggestions seem pretty similar to the Tea Party playbook. They were really successful in getting their message out.
I think the more shocking news event has been keeping out US permanent residents (i.e. Green Card holders) -- people we've legally lived here for years, own homes, have children in schools, contributed to social security, paid income taxes, etc.
How can legal permanent residents be denied entry? I mean this has to be breaking So many laws, how can this be ok?

You have it wrong. The only people that can't be denied entry to the US are US citizens. When I had a Green Card it was made very clear to me that a green card does not guarantee entry to the US.

For example, if you leave the US (and have a green card) for more than 6 months the onus is on you to prove you haven't given up residency in the US.
"Anyone in a position of power who took a look at Trump and didn't recoil with disgust needs to be exiled from civil society"

We don't work like that. If we do the next one exiled will be you.
It is still far from being fully operational and to go back to the original question, it is only used by a few countries, excluding the ones where Google, FB, etc. have offices. They have offices in Ireland, Switzerland (not in the European list) and France. So the later might be the only option here...
What if you modify the game a bit...?

Give players the ability to remember players they have engaged with and add a third option: 1. Cooperate 2. Defect 3. Wait (defer, don't engage, don't play). New players will seek out players and offer to engage with them. When you defect, your reputation history declines, and when you die, your reputation history resets to zero and you lose the option to defer.

HYPOTHESIS: Cooperators will wait/defer, Defectors will wait/defer, new players will choose to cooperate or defect, and since defecting against defer is an all-but-certain lose, new players will choose to cooperate hoping the other player will too. Cooperators will naturally organize into groups of cooperators and flourish. Players in cooperator groups will cooperate tit-for-tat with known cooperators and will wait/defer with known defectors or new/unknown players no one in the cooperator group has engaged with (call it the no-fools strategy). New players and players who have been struggling in the wilderness outside of cooperative groups will want to get into a cooperative group and so they will seek to engage with players using the tit-for-tat strategy until they find a cooperative group (call it the pay-it-forward strategy). Fools who don't learn will stumble around in the wilderness until they eventually die off.
> I can very easily believe it. If you're capable of running a start-up you probably have some critical thinking skills and YC is - if anything - an extremely good selector for those skills. On top of that the undercurrent is to want to change the world, now you could take that the cynical way but for the most part that would bring out people with an idealist streak.

To suggest that Trump supporters are incapable of critical thinking or being successful start-up founders is pretty insulting. This type of circle jerk in a bubble thinking is a big part of what got him elected in the first place.

It's also comments like yours (and Sam's original post) that further prevent anyone from coming forward to express their dissenting views. Most people shy away from situations that start off with a group of thugs referring to them as idiots.
Maybe I misunderstand how CO2 lasers work. But my understanding is that a high-powered CO2 laser can be run using a gas supply from a tank/regulator. As mentioned elsewhere, this is typically only done in industrial settings, but some home laser cutting enthusiasts want more power. The tank contains some mixture of gases, primarily CO2, but containing other gases, likely some CO. If the tank/regulator to laser tube connection is leaking in a closed room, then the CO concentration in the air will increase.

This is speculation on my part based on my assumptions. If my assumptions are incorrect that's fine.
Harmonics only increase the frequency though, right? Not decrease? You can't get an octave lower note from plucking a guitar string in a certain way.
This release contains fixes I submitted, and I would like to call out how welcoming and supportive the Perl 6 community was during the process.

Also, the fact that Perl6 is written in Perl6 made contributing especially easy.
If you look at the chart again, it shows only 24% don't support a Muslim ban. 76% either strongly or somewhat support it.
People like Sam Altman are alarmed now that Trump has shown he is willing to meddle in labor markets and potentially impose protectionist labor policies. As Sam says, "This is not just a Muslim ban." Indeed not!
Its constructive but not enough.

Tech CEO's have to address the outsourcing/factory shutdowns and visa misuse that has happened for a couple decades now. Using the Obama line of "well those jobs have gone and wont come back" creates space for characters like Trump to exploit.
You just committed the inverse fallacy of appeal to authority.

The parent observed that writers in the NYT, whether opinion writers or not, have an established track record of crying wolf in this regard. Pointing out a group or even an individual's track record is not an ad hominem attack because it's an argument about their argument, not their person.
Uh.... no?

This ban also prevents any Christians living in those countries from coming to the US as well.
But some states are trying to make that "peaceful but overwhelming mass civil disobedience and protest" even harder.
Trump’s Muslim Ban Is Culmination of War on Terror Mentality but Still Shameful
I don't think most people actually do know these things, or necessarily have the motivation to follow through on them. I think most of these blog posts are about self-expression and venting frustration more than anything else.
Why should they have known better? He was a software engineer and she may have had exposure to lab technique but a Glowforge doesn't scream "needs an industrial hood" or anything. Yes, they clearly _could_ have known better, but 'should' seems to be making too-strong assumptions about their class work, MIT or other. They could have had economics degrees for all we know (less likely given their careers, but you get my point).
65 percent Clinton to 29 percent Trump is a pretty strong margin regardless of how it compares to the previous election.