skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peter Theil had a long term vision for the world where others failed to see such future. I see similar line of reasoning for Peter Theil's support.

1. If you think that business people can govern better than Politicians or want to achieve an environment where it gets easier and acceptable for business leaders to seek political offices, this is a huge step in that direction. China already took this step of inviting people who succeed in business to participate in governance. If Trump can do it, so can every other business person who thinks they are better than Trump. If Trump wins this, I guarantee you next season its going to be more qualified people running for office and if Trump loses, we still would have made progress in that direction.

2. Peter Theil's support for Trump gave him (gay guy) a platform to speak at a republican convention. This is a huge progress for everyone when republicans are standing up for gay people. It makes it easy for other people to reach out and co-operate with each other.

3. Peter Theil getting into politics allows something like a Y-combinator(not the news site but a complete accelerator) for politics possible otherwise it would just be more lawyers running again and again. Just like YC grooms tech leaders, Theil's expertise into this venture could groom next generation governing leaders.

What ever your politics are, this is progress.
Why are you excluding the salaries and benefits paid to people working on programs and services? Paying someone to do something like provide training or administer vaccines is reasonable to describe as a program and service expense, it's not overhead.

It's easy to imagine situations where that money is not being spent 100% efficiently, but it also seems unlikely that it is being spent perfectly inefficiently.
Indeed, I've been on program committees were we have picked first-time speakers. Usually because the subject seems very compelling, and there is very little overlap with other submitted talks.

If the situation is: We have 5 talks on "Getting started with Xamarin". You pick the experienced speaker, but there is only 1 talk on "Implement your backend in Swift" it is much more likely to get picked.
I totally agree. It's extremely stupid to ban a country from space exploration and scientific experiments solely based on geopolitical reasons.
The problem with this story as I see it is it instantly connects with the shitshow of the American presidential cycle, and thus has attracted a wide variety of low quality (speculative / rumor mill) type of commentary unfortunately.

The only sure conclusion I've personally reached in this election cycle is that no one sane would want to run for American president, or even be a part of any American political system (beyond the local level where things seem a bit more level headed)....
It's like chewing gum for the mind: a sudden burst of flavour, no nutrients, followed by a rapidly diminishing return, and an overwrought jaw.

Burn your TV.
Using your iPhone 7 in the shower is the latest status symbol
Maybe. Could also be that a car project is much more complex with more opportunities for "battl[ing] about the project's direction." One manager wants to emphasize a modern cockpit, one an electric drivetrain, and one full autonomy. And a leader that understands consumer electronics well enough to navigate "an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator" might not understand cars enough to navigate a car project the same way.

Thus, we get Mansfield in to say "no, we're focusing on this first; we don't have a car without it." This would be like Jobs (or Forstall) coming in to say "we're focusing on a multi-touch OS X first; we don't have a phone without it."

So, to answer your question: maybe. :)
Article is from over 5 years ago! Open Graph had only been around for a few months.
Couldn't you make the same argument for nearly everyone who's jailed?
But those hopes are not very much based on reality so why entertain them in the first place?

It's a bit like saying that QC will be awesome because thanks to it people could in theory find the cure for cancer, in some way, somehow.
You might be right about the price. But for a lot less you can pick up a used X-E2 or X-T1 which are still fine cameras. The best part about any of them (including the X-T2) is you get access do Fujifilm's superior glass.

Their lenses are truly high quality lenses, on par with much more expensive stuff, though not the cheapest either.
I disagree that Clinton is shitty. She certainly represents "politics as usual", and that is the current bogeyman of the hour. But ultimately she's an effective politician with reasonable positions.

Sure, there were likely better choices (not really counting Bernie here), but the two major parties cast big tents and so the candidates they bring represent that which is palatable to the largest amount of people. A large number of people will necessarily have a bad taste in their mouth.
I don't remember clicking any EULA. If I did naturally I didn't read it.

But if there were one, I am certain that HN-the-management retained the right to dismiss, suppress, delete, or otherwise remove from play posts and comments as they will, with no appeal, no recourse, and no visibility.

Those little arrows and the typical case lead us to believe that HN functions algorithmically.

I am sure it does, in the 99% case.

Criticism of the unpardonable actions of Peter Thiel and criticism of the indefensible decision to do business with him is obviously the 1% case.
My experience mirrors yours, but I only worked on this for @ 5 months give or take and didn't really have a big tech team to back me up.

The Qualcomm platform, as far as my understanding goes, still uses the PX4Flow. I don't know what packages they have for vision but it uses ROS so I assumed it had some ROS package powering it.

Px4Flow on its own is insufficient, but I was under the impression that it is able to calculate velocity even with variable distance camera-to-surface, they do have the ultrasonic sensor there and apparently, adding a lidar greatly improves performance.
Ask HN: Examples of great mentorship?
What are best practices of companies with systematic mentorship/training for junior staff (doesn't have to be junior engineers specifically)? What companies (big or small) have excellent mentoring in their DNA?
Which GM did. The Chevy Bolt is the result. Pre-orders start today.[1] $37,495 before $7,500 Federal tax rebate. Claimed range 238 miles. Delivery in about 10 weeks.

This will change the auto landscape drastically. This is a product of the Chevrolet Division of General Motors. They're good at making and selling large numbers of cars. It may not be as cool as Tesla, but there will be millions of these things soon.

[1] http://gas2.org/2016/10/14/chevy-bolt-pre-ordering-begins-ca...
The original article points to an overall positive effect of migration including refugees. I don't see how this will change.

That said, the falling social security system in Europe is not due to refugees but to how the system is built.
Trump also has high education, non-luddite supporters or at the very least supporters that could be brought over to considering investing in a future America that makes itself 'Great' through government spending on infrastructure and science. It could be that Thiel believes he is speaking to these people (some of which might only be Trump supporters in 2016 because they always vote Republican).

My central point is that he's been speaking about both economic and technological stagnation for many years and it is foolish to consider his actions now as completely distinct from this.

I've no idea whether he believes Trump will win or not. I expect that he didn't require it. His donation allowed him to speak at the RNC, and this has no doubt increased his political reach massively.

I was joking when I said liberal newspapers. They are not liberal at all.
> Is there something really damaging in Wikileak emails?

That's my main problem with all these arguments «false equivalency» in their pursuit of seeming and sounding fair, balanced and impartial, they resort to equate all the horrendous things that Trump said or did with these harmless details that Hillary or her chief of staff said behind closed doors or in private emails.

It's just not right and unfair for Hillary and her campaign.
Sequence-To-Sequence with Attention – Harvard NLP
> It seems impossible that so much talent and intelligence could fail to solve such obviously tractable problems

It's not that I think that Silicon Valley can solve the problem. It's really only that I think it's disingenuous to claim one is trying to help people if one is really only trying to shovel them out of sight, and that this chasm will ultimately be reflected in the outcome of any plan that results.

That said, I hope I am wrong about the protagonists of the story.
"Yeah, the iPhone 9 looks great, but rumor has it the Edition will be made of carbon fiber! I'm going to stick with my 8 for a few more months."

That actually seems like the perfect outcome? Currently iPhone sales are heavily seasonal towards the end of the calendar year. Seasonality always carries risks (e.g. potential supply issues).

If a group of customers waited 6 months to buy a higher-margin luxury product instead, that would be a net gain for Apple.
We are basically filtering our audience down to people who can
either invest plenty of time (to wade through the
documentation/ask for help on the mailing lists and gitter),
money (to pay for training or attend conferences) or both.

..

I think it wouldn't be charitable to think that the state of
documentation is a result of the involved parties' massive
conflict of interest, as Lightbend (has partners that sell
training), EPFL and ScalaCenter (receive money from commercial
Coursera courses) all profit from the current situation
financially.

This hits the nail on the head.
And I'm feeling sad that the best place to read about these leaks is on... rt.com.
Chattanoogan here.

Our fiber network has been a huge asset for the local economy.

It helped give birth to our own little tech startup ecosystem.

It made way for the build out of city wide wifi.

It's run by our local power company, EPB, who remains committed to net neutrality, and refuses to enact data caps.

It's forced ATT/Comcast to offer gigabit+ services to remain relevant.

I could go on and on.

Yes, its true that no 'killer gigabit app' has emerged, but give it time. IoT, decentralized services, etc. are all still in their infancy. Its too early to dismiss the internet of the future as a boondogle because 'it doesnt make money' yet.
Moto E
I am using Motorola Moto E(1st Gen). Suddenly i am facing a big problem. Mobile network showing full network mobile data also working properly but when trying to call someone network disappears and showing no sim card instantly network showing full within a sec. I can't call,i can't get any call when trying to call from my friends mobile after first ring network disappears . Please help me
Well, there was the illegal campaign contribution to a state AG involved in investigating wrongdoing another Clinton-controlled entity.

No, wait, that was the Trump Foundation protecting the fraudulent Trump University.
I think Assange doesn't care that much who is elected, as long as it's not Hillary (because of the things she did against him and the things she promised to do). In this case his only choice is Trump, but it could have been others.
https://www.youtube.com/user/sentdex
sentdex youtube channel is a great collection of videos on python related technologies including
machine learning,
matplotlib,
sklearn,
django,
robotics with rasberrypi,
and much more...!!!!

-----------------------------

I also like google students
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtyYTpFBzWdoSFx2Gl2VNbQ

and google developers youtube page
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw

also CS50
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcabW7890RKJzL968QWEykA
What is PH?
In Thiel's case, that depends entirely on how rude Trump intends on being to gay people.
Releasing what people said and wrote is not propaganda, it's leaking. Choosing to release only things that make one candidate look bad is propaganda-ish, but to label leaks propaganda is to say it's bad to leak bad things the candidates have said or written, which I completely disagree with.

I want to know the dirt on our candidates because they will LIE LIE LIE as Trump put it.
You're likely to get some generalizations, but the question is about as vague as asking about the special properties of metal. Some metals are strong, some are not. Some are tough, some are not. Some are toxic, some are antiseptic, some are explosive, etc. Some exhibit specific properties in specific conditions but nearly opposite properties at nano-scales or in composition with some other substrate.

The most common ceramics are strong but brittle and lightweight. I wouldn't assume that these would make good choices (for example, weight alone is a reason to choose aluminum over plastic...it weighs more and thus feels more expensive). But there are still some interesting alternatives out there that would be cool to consider. Like possibly monolithic and completely waterproof circuits with near perfect insulation that can be cast instead of printed/assembled. Or possibly structural batteries? Who knows?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727602
Evidence that carbon dioxide levels have historically been much higher than current levels, and can change dramatically as a natural process of the planet's ecosystems, and the ice caps have dramatically expanded and shrunk to even much smaller levels than they are today, all as a matter of natural course and in relatively quick time frames?

I doubt this will receive much mainstream media attention.
One of the problems with creating a useful computer has been that it is hard to keep the qubits around for any useful length of time...
Show HN: 40+ Transparent Startups sharing their Revenue Numbers and Journeys
Countries yes. But, in the OP, it's about a local region within Mexico. The checkpoints are created not by the federal government in Mexico, but by some people in a local region.

My point was that, within the US, a city/county/regional government would ultimately not be allowed to do this.

My comment was not about the US Federal government.

As for DUI checkpoints, though they are conducted by local law enforcement, such checkpoints do not ask people the same questions as the checkpoints in the original story and they do not exhaustively stop and check everyone on all the roads leading into a region.

So, I'm not seeing a serious criticism of my original comment.
Based on my reading of the emails, their morality is similar to that of members of a college fraternity trying to pull off the biggest prank imaginable, except the prank is not harmless. The absolute delight in being able to do this repeatedly and get away with it is what keeps these people going. It helps them reenforce their feelings of superiority and thus self-justifies their right to do just about anything they want to.
Yes, this is why telcos are interested in fiber but cable companies are not. DSL is limited to ~48 Mbps yet in many cities the standard cable plan is 100 Mbps and 300 Mbps plans are available.
Blame the stock market. Once a company has a solid product line in one area that doesn't suck, every publicly traded company is under tremendous pressure to move into new markets rather than iterating on previous successes, often to the detriment of preexisting products. The stock market for tech companies rewards growth and just about nothing but growth (and punishes a lack of growth), Amazon being a perfect example. In a way, Amazon's strategy since its inception could be characterized as playing to investor expectations of growth more than running a business.

Also, if you look at all the big tech companies (American ones at least) over the past 30 years, there's a recurring pattern of a company becoming preposterously successful, then spending a decade or more reaping the benefits of that success while repeatedly throwing money at the wall for different new projects to try and find something else that sticks. Meanwhile core businesses can lose focus and wither on the vine while huge piles of money and engineering talent get wasted on things that either go nowhere, or break even and fade away years later.

Until the last few years, post-1995 Microsoft was a perfect example of this. If there was a product category that was significant enough to be the basis of some other company's entire business (dialup Internet access or search engines or personal finance software, for example), they would spend many years and billions of dollars creating a Microsoft version of that product, based on the idea that they could siphon growth from a known and already-proven segment of the industry. I don't think this was due to a lack of vision or incompetence, I think that that just appeared to be the most effective way to meet investors' demand for growth and new revenue sources.

Google is in a similar bind. Think of how long it's been since they have effectively attained a search monopoly. They created a perpetual money machine (ads) that to this day provide the vast majority of their revenues. For 15+ years they have been expending titanic resources on trying to find a way to transition from a company that gets >= 90% of its revenue from ads, to a much larger company with many more revenue streams. They've had some great successes, but they have yet to break out of the trap of fundamentally being a company driven by ad revenue.
Can you tell me the quantum algorithm that will do this ?
To believe that Assange is motivated by a vendetta against HRC, you not only have to conjure up a plausible motive for that vendetta despite Clinton's marginal role in any of the US's dealings with Wikileaks, but also rationalize his efforts to put into power someone who has promised to put Edward Snowden to death.

No, not buying it.
Fundamental research takes time. One cannot discard such research as "all talk". It is the basis on which better results will be achieved and the possibility of a useful computer will be realized.
London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211
please do not confuse current capability with the sum of achievements. USA has put multiple men on the surface of the Moon. what of it if it doesn't have a man-rated launcher now? SLS is a jobs program that's years from launching. Atlas V? not rated. Delta IV? being phased out and also not rated. Falcon 9? not rated. Antares? not rated. New Glenn? announced last month, hardware doesn't exist. ITS? you know the drill.

tell me in what way the current US capacity of launching men into space is ahead of China's?
That story, currently on the second page, was put there because of user flags. It was also heavily penalized by the software flamewar detector, but we've turned that off. Moderators have not penalized the post.
As complicated as J2EE deployments could get, I don't see Containers being less complicated. Just a new language for managing the complexity.
That's technically true but not true in real life for most people. Yes, you can ignore the notice for awhile but fairly soon you'll reach the point where something like iTunes requires a newer release or you need to upgrade iOS/Android because an app developer made the business decision that using a new API offers more benefits than supporting legacy devices.

There are two reasons why this works out better. One is that the non-Microsoft world isn't dominated by enterprise IT departments demanding binary compatibility with antique code; the second is that those platforms have spent many years building trust that major upgrades won't prevent you from working. In the case of Windows, that was complicated by charging for updates and the broken IT culture which resisted them amplified with the rough Windows Vista release cycle causing many people to avoid it for a decade.
> 99% of scientists re climate, for example.

This is not true. If you care about truth, stop spreading this myth. If you care about science, stop spreading this myth--it is like a termite eating away at the foundation of science itself.
I care a great deal about the quality of elections in the USA and have been watching this issue since the 1990s. In 2001 there were real problems exposed, not just hanging chads but real problems with the way software counted votes. Result massaging is a real thing.

In 2004 I worked for a third party candidate, who had a direct line to live numbers as they came in. He also called to thank me that evening. One of the things he related to me was that they were watching vote counts as they got announced and he was doing very well, but once he hit a certain threshold the software seemed to switch and he would start losing votes.

This isn't a case of his percentage going down as more votes were counted, but his absolute vote count going down as more votes were counted-- something that should be an impossibility. And not just in one precinct but in dozens of them, particularly in areas of a particular software maker's machines.

I don't consider the elections valid because the machines that count the votes have closed source software and come from two politically connected companies.

The sad thing is that MIT described a solution that would allow online voting in such a way that anyone could independently audit the election without knowing who voted for whom (you could verify that your vote was in fact counted and that the total count is correct, but not know who your neighbor voted for)... they announced this in the 1990s I believe, but of course it wasn't adopted.
I like this way of viewing software development: as an engineering field that is just in its infancy. Makes me excited to see what the future holds.

That said I disagree that Apple's software is bad. Sure some of it is simplistic and lacks features that some third parties have adopted, but I have never found it to be lacking in either design or usability and it's always been very stable. I sometimes wish they would utilize more flourishes of their own design language in their software, but overall I find it of good quality.
That's a really stupid reason to make a choice like that, but do as you'd like. Thiel is a big boy and will survive it.

Honestly, who cares?
Simple let-based Reagent component fns for ClojureScript
I remember being slightly worried during Obama's election, but at least during that election one of the presidential candidates wasn't outright advocating aggression at the polling stations.
That's a weird thing. I have no visible or serious mental disability, but I was given the status of "handicapped worker". A panel of experts examine your file and decide to give it to you or not.

It does not entitles me to money, but companies must have 6% of handicapped personnel or they must pay some small fine.

It's in the "armee de terre", meaning ground army. It's not the usual army training, since it's the reserve. It's only a 2 week training.
I'd like to suggest a more significant conclusion.

The trust I have had in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, ABC/NBC/CBS, Democratic and Republican parties has been irreparably damaged.

I've been a cord cutter for over a decade. This year I graduated to pitying people who repeat the latest front page story as naive fear-junkies. Everything is suspect. Why burn processing cycles reading stories that on their face are actually stupid with conclusions that are unsupported by verifiable facts? (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cia-prepping-possible-cy...)

Between the Sponsored Content, Native Ads and all of the investigative journalists who (according to DNC emails) are labeled as "friends," I have no choice but to say "I quit." They are pretty lies that don't nourish!
DNC collusion with the media is one that stands out to me. Also the acknowledgement that ISIS is funded in part by Saudi Arabia while the Clinton Foundation gets many donations from Saudi Arabia.

If you have some time, scroll through the Wikileaks Twitter. Very little noise, mostly content. https://twitter.com/wikileaks