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It doesn't make sense to burn the house down and just refuse to cooperate with... you know, the legally elected government. Why should anyone stop providing advice. MORE PEOPLE SHOULD be advising Trump. Clearly, he needs all the help he can get. And while Trump is busy burning our climate change promises to the ground, Elon Musk is making a pro-business case push for green energy becoming cheap, and market competitive. Not because it's "the right thing to do", but because it's "good business".

I'd much rather suffer a Trump presidency with intelligent advisors trying to convince him to do the right thing and not do the wrong thing than suffer a Trump presidency of him doing whatever comes to mind.

You need to ask yourself which is scarier? A world where Trump gets advice from Elon Musk, or a world where Trump doesn't.
How do you handle the dreadful behaviour of people on GM multiplayer? I'm 33, so it doesn't affect me at all (Counter Strike veteran here) but I showed my 8-year-old nephew and was like ... uhh maybe we'll play a different game, then.
>In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

For a political effort, I find it odd that their code of conduct doesn't mention political views in their "harassment-free experience" list. I'm left-leaning by Canadian standards (which would make me damn near communist by American standards), and something I find incredibly distressing lately is my fellow leftists who think that progress can be made by attacking and isolating people who disagree. Despite the failure of these tactics in the Brexit referendum and presidential election, people are doubling down.

If you keep labelling people as enemies and pushing them away, it shouldn't be a surprise when you find yourself standing alone.
Anyone who thinks Trump is the problem is missing the mark: An imperial presidency with an unchecked intelligence apparatus is a systemic problem that inevitably led to this.

If one person can pervert a system, that system sucks.
Recently?
I went back to work at MSFT after almost ten years away. Here’s what I found
What seems weird about this is that he did very little of actual 'beating Kickstarters to the market'. If you read the article, he is just selling things that are already listed on alibaba(so it's the chinese manufacturers who are beating Kickstarters to the market).

So the question is: where does the margin of the guy in the article come from? If you read the article, he bought the toys for 2.5$ or so on alibaba and sold them for 20$. That's quite a markup for...some marketing. You could at any time probably have gone to aliexpress and gotten the same thing for 4$ including shipping.

I think the answer is that not enough people in China are savy in how to market their products to US+EU. And not enough people from US+EU are aware of the gadget candy-store that is Aliexpress. The overall profit is too small for a large company to swoop in, so what is left are some shady indiegogo campains (that try to sell a product that is already offered on alibaba) and the kind of company portrayed in this article.
He's instituted a ban based on ethnic origin from countries that are majority-Muslim (for that reason), has in the past called for a Muslim ban, and the architect of the ban has said it's a Muslim ban.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and in a feat of amazing linguistic ability for a waterfowl looks you dead in the eye and says "I'M A DUCK!" what are we supposed to call it, a giraffe?

To engage with pedantry for a moment, the ban may be more precisely an ethnicity or nationality one, but that's just as wholly unjust. Don't lose sight of the forest for the trees. The essential malfeasance here is bigotry written into law, the particular shade of that bigotry is immaterial.
No it isn't. The purpose of the H1-B program should be to supplement talent when it is missing from the US labor pool, not to replace it with cheaper labor. If it's THAT hard to find quality talent, then it should cost quality talent level money.
I don't know why you are getting downvotes. Someone tried to propose a getenv_r implementation for glibc in 2007 and even submitted a patch - which was rejected by a certain someone that is pretty famous for not wanting "bsd crap" in glibc.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4350
Sounds like automating creating startups and filling out paperwork for H1-Bs is a good idea for a startup.
>the failure of the Soviet Union had more to do with the inherent limitations of central planning than Marxist communism

Between 1917 and 1950 they grew at a staggering pace. From agricultural backwater to first space power. That isn't an economic failure in any way.

After the 1950s they tried to re-gear the economy to producing things like fridges and, of course, for consumer items it wasn't nearly as effective.

In the end the thing that undid the Soviet project was the idealism of its president (Gorbachev) when faced with the results of his authoritarian predecessors. It wasn't really an economic failure.

>by attempting to refine the designs of failed communist states risks going back on the same path

If we attribute Stalin to a failure of communism surely we have to also attribute Hitler to a failure of capitalism?

Or we could accept that both analyses are stupid and shallow.

>Capitalism lends itself more towards authoritarianism

I think economic systems are orthogonal to political systems.
And from the perspective of legislative, judicial, and executive powers (incl. police work), it isn't.
I'm a fan on BEM and SASS, though. :)
I was a kid in the early 2000s, so my perspective is somewhat different to many here.

I was a CP member, and played fairly religiously for a few years. It was one of the first things I got an account for on the internet.

Farewell CP. We will... Not exactly miss you, but, you know.
This was my experience: I felt sick after living in Seattle for about 2 years. Went to a few clinics / then primary care and was told essentially that it was in my head: couldn't find any medical causes said it may be anxiety. I actually started to believe them even though I've never had any sort of tendency to question my own health and have always been a markedly relaxed person even in stressful situations. I dropped it, but eventually, I got a UTI (unrelated) and went to zoomcare for that. They asked about my medical history and based on it they recommended the screening. It turned out my levels were extremely low even though I was already taking 1400 IU of Vitamin D a day on my own as a preventive measure after moving here. A dose of antibiotics and 50000 IU a week + 4000 IU a day for a few months and both problems are now resolved.
I think a company hackathon or project week can be really cool. Team up with co-workers or just yourself that follows a topic like improve the office somehow or create an idea that can help an opensource project or improve development or another teams process throughout the workday. This can motivate people and at the end you may have something that solves a common day to day pain point for your co-workers.
You don't have democracy in the workplace because democracy is inefficient. A company that expends great amount of money and resources on constant political shifting and backstabbing, and that can't present an unified vision on the market will soon get outcompeted by one that has its shit together.

We can tolerate authoritarian regimes in companies, because they're small (relative to countries) and compete in a heavily regulated space. If you want to leave or they fire you, you can generally find a new workplace. Companies play thier game by selling stuff (and doing accounting magic).

On the other hand, when two countries enter fierce competition, it's called "war". People on both sides end up dying. Even a less fierce competition ends up being miserable for everyone. The game has no bounds. And you can't easily quit it and move elsewhere.

That's why we prefer countries to be run with inefficient democratic process - because too much efficiency in a country will make many, many people very miserable.
Founders should be receiving shares (not options) before any financing. Fair market value is zero, so an 83b is free.

The people who get screwed are early employees, who join and get options when shares are not worth a lot but non-zero. Then your choices are front the cash to early exercise (if the company even allows that) and 83b what are probably going to be worthless shares or wait until later and find that the shares are worth a lot now but still illiquid (and risky!) and the AMT hit of exercising is enormous.
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I don't think we can halt progress just because it negatively impacts some people. At the same time you are right that it is "not only a force for good" and there are things that can be done to mitigate that negativity. I think this is an appeal to entrepreneurs do to just that
If anyone wants a free idea for a "deal with fake news" startup: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13TK_uYpXRc3cODePnfV16Kzl...

I literally do not have the time to build this, as I'm busy trying to make PHP secure.

I just spitballed an idea and passed it along hackers who gave me feedback.

I don't want to be contractually tied to VCs either.

Just, if you like the idea, take it. Run with it. Make it successful. Use modern crypto. It's yours.

Maybe see if the folks that run Snopes are interested?
Right I agree. The command and control framework of the Star Trek universe will be unpalatable to American biases, so it would have to be something more networked along the lines of the federalism we already have. But given our technology, building a more directly democratic system of feedback should be possible. Trump's success is using Twitter to transform himself into a disruptive avatar of his supporters. The next generation of politicians has to do the same, but with democratic impulses as opposed to authoritarian ones.

We also, as much as possible, must try evenly distribute the future. For example, if we want to defeat climate change, we have to rally manufacturing and technological solutions in places like the rural Midwest. In even the reddest of states, their are bastions of support for future-oriented ideas, and we should begin networking these places togehther as forward bases of operation.
On the late 2016 models I was honestly worried that the dimension changes introduced were a little bit too much. After a couple of weeks I haven't found any reason for going back to the previous generation, MacOS Sierra palm rejection software is pure magic and gestures across the entire OS are super smooth!
I guess enhanced voice is better from a marketing perspective than less degraded voice.
Is there an example site we could see?

The Twitter authorization permissions are excessive. Why does it need to be able to post tweets and update my profile?
China is far ahead in technology feminism
Checking out and building Chromium for iOS
Yes. By design.
God is a word, a label. That label could be meaningfully attached to one of the two concepts - the process, of which we are by-products, which is running by the machine we call Universe, or, to the language-possessing, self-conscious mind, looking at which the ancient people created their anthropomorphic toy-gods.

One famous Sufi saying goes like this "Nothing can know god but god [itself]". This, intuitively, gives one a hint about the correct labeling and the recursive definition hints that it is all inside the mind, mere mental concepts and social constructs.

The machine which runs all this... Well, it could be called god too, and Hindu mystics did it three or four millennia ago, destroying all the Vedic anthropomorphic gods as mere products of imagination.

Modern science leaves no place for any god, but one of these two.
Of course. White supremacists, sovereign citizen folks, and the like commit the majority of terrorist acts in the united states, but I don't call for putting them in concentration camps.

Plus the timeline is implausible. The Office of Naval Intelligence had declared that the Japanese American population was not a threat to national security. The solicitor general, Charles Fahy suppressed that information. If he hadn't died thirty some years before the federal government admitted wrong doing, he would hopefully be facing serious charges and expect to die in prison.

I am unaware of an example of concentration camps that was an issue of security instead of racism.
Personally I went from being a night owl (0100 or 0200 -> 0800 or 0900) to being an early riser (2130 -> 0500).

0900 is historically the beginning of the business day. "Bankers hours" start at 0800. Traditional businesses expect people to be at the office by then so I would think you would need to rise by 7 or 8 at the latest to be "normal". An early riser would be getting up a few hours before that.

Also in pretty much all parts of the world you've missed the sunrise by 9AM. Not really an early riser if the sun is fully risen before you wake.
To an extent, this research is being done because

(1) It's fairly cheap, compared to real R&D and

(2) There's nothing else to do in the meantime. Without big budget shifts, or big tech breakthroughs, there's no realistic path to a (NASA) manned Mars mission anytime soon.

So there's fiddling around the edges of the problem in the interim.
Another factor is to consider framing: you can view this cynically as "only getting involved when it might impact their bottom line", or more favorably in that "it was bad before, but now it's finally hit their breaking point." I prefer to reduce my cynicism as much as possible, giving people the benefit of the doubt. It's also good for my overall happiness.
I think $120k the same as for profits. Dunno if the ACLU will be more.
Building tools for fact-checking and helping people decipher fact from fiction will become increasingly important to keep the electorate informed

Sadly the electorate doesn't care about being informed. They seek out news that confirms their world view. Any information that contradicts their world view is deemed "fake news".
It was repaired after that. Directly from the article:

> After a few days, we’ve been told that the car is working with no problems again.

At that point the owner rightfully decided they didn't trust it anymore and wanted a refund. That's perfectly fine. All I'm saying is that the thing he was being asked to sign wasn't a lie, because Tesla had repaired all known defects. Yes, the owner is perfectly justified in not believing that, but that's not the same thing as saying it's false.
US/CIA does "extraordinary rendition" all the time and sends missiles into sovereign states via drone daily. Whether or not one objects doesn't matter if there is no way to deter the behavior. If China sees no consequences China will do as China pleases. Law is irrelevant.

I agree that I don't like seeing China wandering into Hong Kong, but the way China acts, the "one country, two systems" thing really is in name only. China will eventually subsume all of Hong Kong as they see fit. The question is whether it is done subversively or not. As of right now, the subversive actions are costing them less on the world's stage so they'll keep chipping away at the SAR until it is at least controlled by puppets of the PRC government.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2012/11/29/asian-workers-now-domi...
(admittedly from 2012)
If the goal is to stay in marketing yet develop deeper skills, why not move toward analytics -- esp. data mining? There has to be a huge potential market for marketing analysts who understand marketing AND analytic metrics.

All the marketing people I know at large companies have little or no knowledge of how metrics are acquired or whether they're accurate/precise. If someone like the OP added skills in data mining and probability distributions, especially if they could conduct experiments on databases to shape marketing campaigns, they'd be worlds ahead of a) pure marketers or b) pure data miners.

In general, neither expert (a or b) knows enough to properly propose and explore new marketing ideas. Someone who can 1) walk the analytic walk, yet 2) speak the language of business and 3) understand consumer psychology and sales priorities, ought to be an essential contributor indefinitely in a business niche that should outlast us all.
yep.

debit cards are electronic cash.
Can you share some specifics? What exactly have they deprecated?
I would never work at a company structured like this and if you're implying we impose rules on companies to operate like democracies then that's even more dangerous than Trump.
I guess you could call some of them deplorables.

Heck, why not just assume most of them?

Because if some Trump supporters are sophomoric and possible Holocaust deniers, why bother paying attention to what any of them say or claim? They're clearly all halfwit racist degenerates who hate women and the LGBTQ crowd. If the world were rid of them, it would be a much better place.

Yes, it's much better this way.
Swimming with sharks includes being eaten by some on day or another.. Thats a chinese saying btw, HN folks.
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Yes. In fact, the original compiler was written in OCaml. I would say the original intent was to be a lower level OCaml with optional safe control over allocation behavior and safe parallelism.

I think he would probably have preferred OCaml syntax too. Notice some of the idioms, and even the capitalization/underscore norms (UpperCamelCase for types, snake_case for functions) are very similar to OCaml. But C syntax provides a theoretical adoption benefit, so I think he was willing to deal with that.
I'm assuming this was dripping with sarcasm.
>I also don't see any facts on which you can base your corruption claim.

"Some of his most successful deals involved buying stakes in midsize financial institutions in smaller Chinese cities, often through a complex web of shell or dummy corporations. When Citigroup and other investors agreed to buy a big stake in the Guangdong Development Bank, for instance, one of Mr. Xiao’s investment vehicles — Puhua Investment — took an 8 percent interest, and then just weeks later transferred it to another state financial institution. Few analysts or journalists knew he was involved.

While shell companies are widely used in China as investment vehicles, securities experts say they can also be employed to hide the ownership stakes of public officials, providing cover for favors distributed by businessmen. Their frequent use by Mr. Xiao has fanned speculation that he gets privileged access to deals involving state assets and that he shares the benefits with the families of the ruling elite."

[...]

"But a review of corporate registration records has found that on at least three occasions during the last five years, companies affiliated with Mr. Xiao have struck deals that appear to have benefited the relatives of China’s highest-ranking leaders."

from: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/world/asia/tiananmen-era-...

not conclusive, but he certainly walks like a duck
Sure. Well let's call it 1 million per day peaking at 100 req/sec... not many websites are steady state 24/7

But this is orders of magnitude below what a Google or Espn or Amazon do. But orders of magnitude over what 1 PHP server can do. (But oddly enough, within the realm of possibility for a good Java or Go or Rust server)
Web of trust doesn't have a centralized determinator. You assign trust to people you've interacted with, and they assign trust to people they have interacted with, etc.

Putting it on a blockchain doesn't make that more effective.

If you look at the reviews of strangers, you have to figure out which ones are real and which ones are fake... it works exactly the same with or without blockchain.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13531707
I don't know if this is a rhetorical question, but if not, the answer is yes.
There's an excellent documentary on the hardware/hacking ecosystem in Shenzhen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SGJ5cZnoodY . A lot of people there seem to embrace the ethos of moving fast and ignoring IP laws (both original creator and spoofer) because by the time you get a lawsuit or patent filed, the tech will have moved far beyond what you were trying to protect, and it will no longer be worth your time.

Basically, move fast and try to keep up. It's crazy how fast the tech cycles are there.
Why did you choose Lua as the implementation language?
yeah, i do expect to see one come up in a few years. i'm guessing it'll catch on in africa or asia first, where there are fewer entrenched players.

m-pesa is a good start, at the least.
Most of the people on HN probably have Vitamin D deficiency - even living in the mostly sunny bay area if you don't get 30min of daily sun exposure in a t-shirt and shorts you're probably lower than the recommended ng/ml especially if you have darker skin.
My point is not that startups are not "people" based entities, but simply that this is a clear aversion from the norm on the part of YC and that ACLU is as much a political organization, if not more, than a technological one.
Thanks for pointing these things out... I've been saying for a few years now, that H1Bs should have a salary floor of 8-12x minimum wage, or the top 10-15% income bracket... given that it's supposed to be for specialized technical skills that aren't able to be found domestically.
> Indian army stormed across the LoC and destroyed terrorist camps in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

It is not clear if any border violations occurred in this attack.
The idea is that Republicans are a numeric minority, because all the densely populated cities are Democratic and thus the population majority of America is Democratic.

However the US isn't a population based democracy, so Republicans hold all majority power in all the branches of government because they have the widest geographical coverage of any political party.

Is this good or bad? Well.... hypothetical question. If we had a democratic world government, would it be good or bad that China and India combined would have majority power by virtue of population alone? Are the issues of a far away land more virtuous just for the sheer size of the population there?

It can be argued yea or nay---but balancing geography over population is the way the US was designed, without that compromise the less populous colonies would never have agreed to join the union.
Really? I read that as "in case you're wondering why I'm opposing it and the OLC didn't, this is..."
Paul Graham is right that it has to be something you want to do, but it is possible to build large new media sites on short attention spans -- if your site is designed for them. My site, an actual working solution to the problem of both fake news and bias, is doing great (Over three million page views last month). However, we most likely won't apply to YC this time, or ever again, due to Sam Altman's anti-Trump bias.
The really bad people, are probably at that point going torture you just to make an example of you to discourage others from doing the same.
Rust is a community project that Mozilla contributes heavily to, rather than the other way around. The sets of people working on those decisions for Firefox and the people guiding Rust's development are disjoint, and all major changes to Rust must go through our consensus-based, community-driven process, so even if Mozilla _were_ to try to declare that Rust should do something against the wishes of the community, they couldn't. It wouldn't work.

(I am a Mozilla employee working on Rust.)
Graydon stepped down as lead in 2013 from rust, so I don't see how that would have any bearing, and as brson said, Graydon has been on Swift for a while now.
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