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Everyone seems to think it's about maximizing his ROI or, less cynical, about economics. But here's a quote from Thiel's speech at the republican convention:

"Instead of going to Mars, we have invaded the Middle East. We don't need to see Hillary Clinton's deleted emails: her incompetence is in plain sight. She pushed for a war in Libya, and today it's a training ground for ISIS. On this most important issue, Donald Trump is right. It's time to end the era of stupid wars and rebuild our country."

He clearly says "On this most important issue, Donald Trump is right" and it's not really surprising, since Thiel is a libertarian.

Transcript:

Good evening. I'm Peter Thiel.

I build companies and I support people who are building new things, from social networks to rocket ships.

I'm not a politician.

But neither is Donald Trump.

He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

Where I work in Silicon Valley, it's hard to see where America has gone wrong.

My industry has made a lot of progress in computers and in software, and, of course, it's made a lot of money.

But Silicon Valley is a small place.

Drive out to Sacramento, or even across the bridge to Oakland, and you won't see the same prosperity. That's just how small it is.

Across the country, wages are flat.

Americans get paid less today than 10 years ago. But healthcare and college tuition cost more every year. Meanwhile Wall Street bankers inflate bubbles in everything from government bonds to Hillary Clinton's speaking fees.

Our economy is broken. If you're watching me right now, you understand this better than any politician in Washington. And you know this isn't the dream we looked forward to. Back when my parents came to America looking for that dream, they found it—right here in Cleveland.

They brought me here as a one-year-old, and this is where I became an American.

Opportunity was everywhere.

My Dad studied engineering at Case Western Reserve University, just down the road from where we are now. Because in 1968, the world's high tech capital wasn't just one city: all of America was high tech.

It's hard to remember this, but our government was once high tech, too. When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon—and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio.

The future felt limitless.

But today our government is broken. Our nuclear bases still use floppy disks. Our newest fighter jets can't even fly in the rain. And it would be kind to say the government's software works poorly, because much of the time it doesn't even work at all.

That is a staggering decline for the country that completed the Manhattan Project. We don't accept such incompetence in Silicon Valley, and we must not accept it from our government.

Instead of going to Mars, we have invaded the Middle East. We don't need to see Hillary Clinton's deleted emails: her incompetence is in plain sight. She pushed for a war in Libya, and today it's a training ground for ISIS. On this most important issue, Donald Trump is right. It's time to end the era of stupid wars and rebuild our country.

When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom.

This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?

Of course, every American has a unique identity.

I am proud to be gay.

I am proud to be a Republican.

But most of all I am proud to be an American.

I don't pretend to agree with every plank in our party's platform. But fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline.

And nobody in this race is being honest about it except Donald Trump.

While it is fitting to talk about who we are, today it's even more important to remember where we came from. For me that is Cleveland, and the bright future it promised.

When Donald Trump asks us to Make America Great Again, he's not suggesting a return to the past. He's running to lead us back to that bright future.

Tonight I urge all of my fellow Americans to stand up and vote for Donald Trump.

I think what you mean is a pepper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography)

Mailgun has a great inbound api [1]. You can set up routing rules to let them post the email as json (or just forward it) to a specified url. The json also includes fields for the extracted quoted parts and signature. The latter is based on some machine learning, which other providers don't have afaik.

[1] https://documentation.mailgun.com/quickstart-receiving.html

Do posts from signalvsnoise.com get a penalty or are they just always flagged? I'm asking cause this was just posted an hour ago, has 157 points/47 comments, and is already falling from the first page. And this seems like a pattern.

Google recently posted "The mail you want, not the spam you don’t":

http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2015/07/the-mail-you-want-not-s...

Here is a really cool TED talk with some everyday applications of Bernoulli's work:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness?la... - Why we make bad decisions by Dan Gilbert

Some numbers for our game Apples vs. Robots [1]:

- 14% of our users opted in to share their data

- Overall conversion rate is 44% (install/app store page view)

- Conversion rate in USA/Canada is 54%, in Asia 42% (our app description is English only)

- Conversion rate iPhone 49%, iPad 37%

[1] http://applesvsrobots.com/

Damn, I should have made Apples vs. Goats instead of Apples vs. Robots. (Yeah, shameless plug: http://applesvsrobots.com/)

Seems cool, but the order they list the supported devices (iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows) tells everything about their current self-esteem.

It's astonishing how great Slack is at PR. There are dozens [1-12] of competitors with more or less the same product, but only Slack gets all the nice press. I guess they have much better execution too, but all the press surely doesn't hurt.

[1]https://www.cotap.com [2]https://hall.com/ [3]https://www.convo.com/ [4]https://www.flowdock.com/ [5]https://chatgrape.com/ [6]https://glip.com/ [7]http://www.moxtra.com/ [8]http://officechat.com/ [9]https://fleep.io/ [10]http://www.tigertext.com/start/ [11]https://www.pie.co/ [12]https://www.hipchat.com/

Seems like you already posted this 6 months ago [1] without getting any upvotes or comments. Wondering if it's just the new title or a new landing page. Any idea?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8273325

They are using a modified OTR protocol: https://whispersystems.org/blog/asynchronous-security/

I agree, Obj-C has improved a lot. But it's not just Obj-C vs. Ruby:

- you can use the editor of your choice and the terminal instead of Xcode

- you can use the interactive console to debug your app or to live test new code

- you get all the great wrapper gems like BubbleWrap which are heavily influenced by the "rails way" of doing things

They offer a "30 days money back guarantee".