skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? My mental model is that the value of the conference lies entirely in network effects. That is, it's valuable for people deep in topic X to go to a conference for X because they expect many other people who are also deep in topic X to go to that conference. The speakers are just a means to an end, to get the initial core group interested and start the quadratic snowball going.
Revolutionary Tripod
There are a lot of Scala jobs. And they usually pay much better than Python jobs. Not discussing your 2 other points since they are pretty subjective.
From what I've eked out over the years:

- Wind is not that good of an energy source but in some areas can provide offsetting capacity. Built at any scale wind becomes useless due to numerous factors, especially predicting production and storage.

- Solar in some very specific areas makes perfect sense (Mexica, Southern US, etc) but in most places will never be economic. While a little more predictable than wind it's still not ideal and suffers from similar storage problems. At scale it does serious damage to the environment (Mojave desert installation is a good example...)

- Hydro & Geothermals are phenomenal in the few areas where they exist (e.g. Canada).

- Coal is pretty bad both for the miners pulling it out of the ground and the environment we burn it into. It's an economic powerhouse and a ton of capacity exists so it's going to be hard to get away from.

- Gas Turbines are horribly inefficient but will probably become more and more common as the political will to solve the underlying problems is lacking and they are the only feasible stopgap.

- Nuclear Fission is between a rock and a hard place. On one side, too much regulation is preventing active development. On the other side, without sufficient regulation the companies will play fast and loose with a seriously dangerous substance. Deepwater horizon can give you an idea of how much buck-shifting could occur. Sadly, fission is the only resource that is currently practical and won't exacerbate an already tenuous climate.

Nuclear Fusion is the holy grail of power generation but there are serious engineering challenges behind it. We are as far from economically viable controlled fusion now as we were from the moon in mid-1962 but there's no JFK swinging the force of a nation-state behind the technology making it's likelihood of realization low.

In short, we're screwed.
> patent attempting to lay claim to any electronic gadget with a ceramic enclosure

I'm going to get a patent for enclosing electronic gadgets in "fuck you apple" stickers.
There was a post the other day on the front page about how someone's wife got offended on a subway.

This site has been shit for a while. Every now and then I pick up some new tech, but it is mostly news about SV housing market and self important "technologists" stroking their ego.
This is completely tangential to the OP, but what do the "means of production" mean nowadays? It's more and more about intelligence, intelligence property, knowledge and brain power. The latter is clearly owned by the workers who have brains; how do you socialize or nationalize them? And how do you nationalize IPR?
USA is strongly profit oriented. There is very little profit in launching man to the space, but it you will look at the number of satellites in the space:
China: 218
US: 1341
http://www.n2yo.com/satellites/?c=&t=country
I concur with this view. I don't necessarily think the Wikileaks are not valid, but from my point of view, Wikileaks lost all credibility being 100% anti-Hillary, with zero anti-Trump information released. Somehow I don't think the RNC would have much different internal e-mails floating around at this point.

That being said, I read the Goldman transcripts and other things that were supposed to be so damaging, and they really weren't that bad, beyond any other typical politician. Is she corrupt, absolutely. Is there a giant media conspiracy (now including SNL) against Trump? Ridiculous. He makes his own wounds.

In addition, even Mike Pence has now admitted Russia is disseminating information to Wikileaks. So we have a clear connection between Russia / Putin and Trump. I don't believe it's as far as many think with them working together, but clearly someone as thin skinned and easily manipulated as Trump would be a total win for Putin. We can talk about Hillary's collusion, Clinton Foundation corruptness and such, but how the Putin pro Trump position is not as relevant is beyond me, if not the deal breaker considering the state of Russia / American current affairs.
> How excited would people be if Apple released an electric car...

If the car looks just as clunky as the Apple watch, I think people will not be very excited.
Ask HN: Do you want to talk someone who is very different than you?
Do you want to talk someone who is very different than you?

If yes, please share here or via https://goo.gl/forms/X7QeGn3BuT4Is2pt2:

- a bit about yourself

- roughly who you'd like to talk to

- if/how much you'd be willing to compensate the person for their time

- preferred medium (online chat, phone, video)

- contact info for me to get in touch with you off-thread

I'll recruit folks online and play matchmaker for this little private-AMA experiment. I'll make sure to confirm with you before making any intros.

The motivation is that many of us rarely talk to people who are very different than ourselves and this leads to lots of misunderstandings, alienation, and destructive tribal behavior on both sides. Obvious h/t to @sama's post about the election https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728249.

Personally, I worked in social services for the last few years so had the great opportunity to peak outside my personal bubble. And not just politically...for example, about HALF of all Americans can't come up with $400 in an emergency without going into debt[1] and in my day-to-day life this ubiquitous experience is basically invisible to me.

Thanks all and looking forward to hearing what you think.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/2014-report-economic-well-being-us-households-201505.pdf
ok, fine. stupid of me to expect thoughtful consideration of topics and ideas rather than political foghorn barking.

ban politics.
Ceramic ifone that shatters 10 times easier than a glass one?
> If you wish to understand that 43%, you might not immediately dismiss the views that resonate with them as racist or threatening, and try to understand why they are agreeing with those ideas.

You mean, like how he did in his previous blog post acknowledging how Trump and his supporters are right on some issues?

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/trump
A month of mountain biking in America
Why? Because of the word “scientist” in the degree's name? What exactly is the point to employing a scientist to perform non-scientific tasks?
Facebook Releases iOS 10 GUI and More Design Resources
Is really Thiel just a mere supporter as Sam put it or more of a partner in crime?

He's clearly investing in his vision for your country to turn them into reality, and therefore should be dealt with accordingly and not just dismissed as just some politically uninformed and misguided guy on the street who happened to espouse dangerous and vile political views but he'll grow out of it in due time.
Extremely well said. The point of multiple candidates is to offer voters a choice, and it's the job of a candidate to convince voters to choose him or her. Just because a candidate won a primary in a major party does not entitle the candidate to votes from people who find another candidate more appealing. If you want to vote strategically, fine. You have that option. If you like one candidate best, but the major party candidate is close enough that you're willing to vote for them in the interest of protecting against another outcome, that's also fine. But to the people arguing that voting third party is throwing your vote away: this is the argument that is used to convince otherwise reasonable Republicans to vote for Trump.
No real evidence for this.

http://www.snopes.com/julian-assange-drone-strike/
This is great, thanks! Love the sun icon.
ie8 memorial site mostly
> The review, not the camera.
what is tape drive
http://www.appsloaded.com
Personally this is interesting to see after I just recently tried to learn a little Scala to see if I could realize the promise of a fluid front-end to to back-end experience between Scala and Scala.js. I eventually gave up in defeat because the documentation and tools just didn't make for a smooth enough jumpstart for me. Maybe people coming from Java just already have enough prerequisite knowledge to get past that but for me I just wasn't progressing very fast. I had a much easier time progressing in Elixir/Phoenix and Elm recently and to a lesser extent F#. Just my two cents...
You are assuming US and EU actions in Ukraine are anti-war? The boycotts (that kill European companies as well) are not anti-war, the anti-Russia attitude that almost everyone seems to have here, under the influence of our media, is not anti-war? John Kerry loud-mouthing his opinion in the Ukraine is not anti-war? The way MH-17 was blamed on Russia far before there was even talk about an investigation, is not anti-war? The fact that how Russia sees the Syria conflict [0] is never shown in our western press is not anti-war? The Russians love their children too.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbZDyr2LkdI
There's a ton of irony in this coming from a group that "works to improve diversity at tech companies." I am no Trump fan, but (at least) 40% of American voters seem to like the guy better than the alternative. Does Ellen Pao want to improve superficial diversity and ideological homogeneity at the same time?
I'm assuming because he has taken a good look at the 3rd party candidates of this year ?

Case in point : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3O01EfM5fU
> that's what usually happens when you change things.

with that logic we should throw out our two-party system entirely and turn into a constitutional monarchy of bush and/or clintons...
Because this has nothing to do with democracy. Who needs votes when MSM, FB, Google, and Twitter are all pushing your agenda?
I don't really know how to explain it, but trust me as a native Russian speaker: in Russian, the felt difference between "light blue" (a more accurate translation might be "azure" or "sky blue", as that is considered the archetypical manifestation of it) and "dark blue" is the same as between "blue" and "green" in English. Now, as a native English speaker, do you feel that "blue" vs "green" is the same difference as "blue" vs "azure"? I'd wager that even if you can't quite verbalize it, you can feel it.
technically it's the stamps. practically, no stamps means nobody goes to space.
I get why you're using examples from centuries ago, but I don't think those alone can prove your point. Tocqueville might have been right 200 years ago, I have no idea, but I strongly disagree that his statement is true today.
I highly recommend "The Story of Space Station Mir" by Harland. It covers the motivating history for MIR, from Almaz through the Saylut series. It's not a comprehensive history of the full Soviet / Russian program, unfortunately. Branching out from its bibliography ought to get you part of the way there.
> Not really, the minority is anybody who's ever had the wrong opinion on anything that sufficiently socially powerful people think is worth burning the heretics over.

How is being uninvited as a keynote speaker being burned at the stake? Or even remotely comparable to the policies that Donald Trump has advocated (killing the families of suspected terrorists, jailing political opponents) or bragging about sexual assault, which is illegal?

I can see why folks had an issue with Eich being forced out of Mozilla, but the world isn't black and white when it comes to "free speech". Allowing free speech doesn't mean that you should be shielded from the consequences from the world at large.
> There are superior platforms that implement the same interface

I guess that depends on how well you know Vim.

All of the Vi/Vim plugins and emulators I've tried fell in the "uncanny valley" where they were only superficially like Vim but sooner or latter departed from the expected behaviour.
etcd uses boltdb, has both HTTP+JSON and gRPC endpoints, and is replicated using RAFT. Why would I use this instead?
This pull request showed me just how much the Scala community values good documentation: https://github.com/playframework/playframework/pull/6545 – tldr: not much.

I work a lot with Django, and the documentation is amazing. It's up to date, cross-referenced, everything is linked to everything else, code is executable, etc.

Here, rather than a 2 line fix to make the code in the examples executable and explain how some data is being used, the maintainers opt to keep the code examples non-executable, and obfuscate the code, expanding explanations in text to make up for it.

Documentation is important. If someone doesn't understand it, the project should make a sincere attempt to understand why, take on feedback, instead of shutting down discussion and dismissing someones lack of understanding.
That's what you do in courses like "Introduction to Software Engineering" (first/second lecture), which usually are part of the first BSc CS semester.

I don't disagree though that the title is misleading and the content quite disappointing and it wouldn't make a semester-long course because that list is covered in 10 minutes and it's nowhere near academia.
Actually software can be repeatedly created with 100% accuracy.

Writing software is creating the design of a gun. Not the construction.
> very anti free media (at his rallys, media is cordoned off and he gets the crowd to yell at them for minutes. that is if the outlet hasn't been banned for reporting the truth. I wonder why the media is anti Trump...)

I guess you haven't been paying attention. Trump was, for many years, a celebrity, making millions of dollars for NBC with his TV shows. Everything about him that they complain about now they happily accepted then, when it suited them.

For example, where was this 11-year-old video during the primaries? Answer that question and you will begin to understand what's going on here.

This "anti-free-media" claim is weird when you compare it to Clinton's campaign. For nearly a year she had zero press conferences--not even giving the media a chance. Now we find that her campaign specifically wanted to avoid answering any questions, to prevent the media from having a chance to question her about inconvenient stories. And we discover that the mainstream media is actively colluding with her campaign, giving them veto power over stories and quotes, etc.

So shouldn't you at least claim that she is as anti-free-media as he is?

> But that more than 40% would even consider voting for Trump scares me.

There is much more at stake here than these two individual people running for the office. The real contest here is between the movements they represent.

One of these two campaigns has been co-opted by a candidate who is not even a member of it. How did this candidate do so? With the help of the media, which vehemently attacked all other candidates during the primaries.

Now that same media is trying to destroy that candidate. That candidate is virtually a strawman candidate, set up for the sake of being torn down.

So, what does that tell you? Based on that, which candidate--which movement--should one vote for?
No he's not. He's saying the 17th amendment had bad consequences for his beliefs. You can frame that in at least three ways:

1. He regrets the 17th amendment.

2. He thinks libertarians haven't marketed themselves well towards women, and they should work on that.

3. A simple observation of fact and narrative of history, mentioned casually in a long essay otherwise unrelated to women's suffrage.

My personal interpretation is #2. But we can't know unless he clarifies it, and until then it would be wise to reserve judgment.
NYT tried to push their Trump sex assault stories, but the stories were just "They said that Trump did something bad many years ago", with no proof, no witnesses, no evidence at all, other than their word.

And then some of the women show up on TV with their lawyer, Gloria Allred, who is in close connection with HRCs campaign(as attested by the Podesta wikileaks) and has vowed her support for HRC to win. And then there is strange behavior from some of the accusers, like begging Trump to visit their restaurant/business, which would be a strange thing to do to someone who sexually assaulted you(not impossible behavior, but all of these things add up)
If you can program Java you can program Scala. You can't write good Scala code, but that (hopefully) comes with time. Scala solves the same problems Java does, just better. And there are lots of jobs for Scala. Not as many as there are for Java or Python, but maybe as many as for Ruby? I'm not sure exactly.
I feel like this deserves a link to the rebuttal. I'm not embracing it (or Jacobin), but it's a plausible indictment of Elegy. On a related note, it should be noted that the average Trump supporter earns more than the average white American. There's a more subtle grouping here than "rural poor".

[1] https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/hillbilly-elegy-review-jd...
My view is Trump is an existential threat to our way of life and society. His authoritarian trigger-finger views and sheer lack of understanding of anything related to governing a nation will yield a world war and erase many decades, if not centuries, of progress.

Democrats and Republicans are already, and will continue, to investigate the failure of their machine. That much is true regardless. It's whether or not we're still here to do that introspection that I'd prefer to save.
> The odd duck out here are the Russians as they really don't seem to have a replacement for Soyuz either in the works or anywhere close to being deployed

Perhaps this is because they don't really see a need for a new vehicle (Soyuz meets mission requirements just fine), let alone the benefit of having partially re-usable rockets?

Partially re-usable rockets require special launch/recovery procedures (ie. a "smart" barge parked in the ocean somewhere, or worse, over land someplace risking the population), a whole lot of R&D, a new untested vehicle, and no guaranteed payoffs (SpaceX's cost reduction and re-usability claims are yet to be proven).

The Soyuz, as you've pointed out, is fairly inexpensive (given it's mission), and is very well understood. From their perspective, it seems, the Soyuz is the ideal craft for the job, and any new build would largely result in a new craft meeting the same mission goals, ie. a waste of time and resources when they already have a vehicle that fills that need.

As of ~2013, Soyuz has about 939 successful launches, 24 failures, for a total of 963 launches[1]. Seems to be a "recipe" one doesn't want to tinker with.

[1] http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2138/how-many-succe...
> I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump.

Then you're really not gonna understand how he will win by a large margin.

Here are the facts: people don't want to vote for Hillary. Trump supporters are extremely passionate. Consider the following online metrics:

Facebook likes:
Trump: 12.17M
Clinton: 4.39M

Recent Live Stream Videos (Oct 14):
Trump: 135K likes, 18K shares, 1.5M views
Clinton: 9K likes, <1K shares, 121K views

Average Views Per Live Stream:
Trump: 160K
Clinton: 400
(5000% more views for Trump)

Instagram Followers:
Trump: 6.2M
Clinton: 0.8M

Reddit Subscribers (to their main subreddits):
Trump: 230K
Clinton: 21K

"Do you plan on voting Hillary Clinton for President in 2016"
84% NO
Source: MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/poll-hillary-2016)

EVEN WITH Clinton's "Correct The Record" online (and PAID) team of internet jokeys, she can't come close to competing with the passion of Trump supporters online. The key point: you cannot honestly believe that this disparity will not correlate with the popular vote. If you do, you're in denial and your candidate will probably lose. "Oh it's just online raids" - do you not think these people will be passionate enough to vote, but waste hours of their time for free discussing and liking the other candidate?

One final comment:

> I am endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.

You mean the one that wanted to drone strike Julian Assange?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562/phot...

Trump's said mean things, has different policies than typical liberals, and has had a ton of personal accusations conveniently come up 3 weeks before the presidential election -- after over 30 years in the public eye.

Given how corrupt the democrats are and how they treated Bernie Sanders, how can one trust Clinton and the Dems at all? Many people think Bernie was cheated out of the nomination. And there are more than emails, some interesting studies, to show this as a strong possibility as well:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6mLpCEIGEYGYl9RZWFRcmpsZk0...
CSS and SVG are cached the same way on disk.
The 300 most frequent words in a representative corpus of text.

That doesn't seem to be a very good definition. As we subdivide colors into greater specificity, it'll naturally occur that each subdivision is referenced fewer times. So this definition intrinsically precludes a discovery of finer distinctions.

IMHO, the whole idea that language shapes thought and perception (see TFA reference to Whorf) is overblown. I've seen this refuted where one person made the claim that while Nepalese(?) has a term for "mountain peak", English has no such word. The reply was: "of course it has a term for this: 'mountain peak'". As expert language users, we have no trouble synthesizing new concepts by using our language, which after all is far more than just a list of words, to frame our thoughts.

I once was sitting near an argument about whether an object was blue or purple, and they decided to drag me into the argument. Not wanting to take sides, I said "how about periwinkle?", and they both seemed satisfied with that answer.
What is RethinkDB?
>Is incessant fear-mongering manipulation the inevitable dystopian end of a society that is always connected to channels of mass communication? This is the result of the race to the bottom for eyeballs and attention - the appeal to fear. Does this ever resolve?

sure, all you need to fix that is a prescription for the latest anti depressants that the nice pharmaceutical companies have made to help you deal with all the existential angst that our society has been engineered to cause you.
Just curious: what nationality are you?
You and I must understand entirely different things when we read the phrase "premeditated collusion with the media."

Those media organizations and those journalists may have editorial and personal opinions on who they would prefer to win the election, but there's one thing they care more about than any of those preferences: access.

The idea that the press wouldn't or shouldn't care about vacuuming up every talking point that a campaign is willing to spit out, no matter how obviously-canned it is, is to fundamentally misunderstand the operations of the 24 hour news cycle.

This isn't happening because journos care about Hillary Clinton. This is an alignment of the incentives of politicians and journalists that ultimately reduces transparency and harms public discourse. The fact that the same thing likely isn't happening with the Trump campaign says more about the peculiarities of that campaign than it says anything about the same media companies' willingness to play the same game of ball with Generic Q. Republican.
He's absolutely not right.

It's fine to question things, but just saying "it's in doubt" with no argument is just Trump style FUD.