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They've been excited for a while: the growth of basic research in China has been skyrocketing for years. (http://www.nature.com/news/science-in-china-1.20120) The upcoming five-year plan includes a huge focus on research, and getting high-profile prizes is definitely a target.
On the other side of the coin, people tend to ask about the same things, over and over again -- so a professional presenter will hit more of the points that people are interested in.
Which part is inflammatory? Are you saying white nationalists haven't rallied to him, or that they are not a lost cause?
> ~everyone~ here and elsewhere called for him to step down.

Many, many people did not. Many people said that it was unfair, and a witch hunt. Many people, myself included, also did not speak up.

Theil may have good reasons to donate to Trump. It's really none of our business. A society who is continually drawing lines in the sand is no society at all, and Ellen Pao is the last person anyone should be giving any attention to on the topic.
"We've been wrong all along" -- does a nation ever just wake up like that, except perhaps Japan after Hiroshima?

The Weimar Republic was broken in many ways, and many Germans essentially voted against it in the 1933 elections... That example of "creative destruction of a democracy using its own tools" didn't work out great.
>That they'd never heard of the key?

Then why use it? You're saying it's more likely they hadn't heard of it, but used it anyway? You've never heard of it, have you ever surrounded a reference to people you don't like and are accusing of nefarious deeds with triple parentheses? What about the additional part about a shadowy cabal that you ignored?

>Offering a reward is not the same as "[posting] wild conspiracy theories," which is what you claimed they did.

If I offer a reward for proof that aliens abducted Elvis, you don't consider that lending credence to a conspiracy theory?

>I would call this "wanting to fact check a conspiracy theory," which I view as a good thing generally, and especially good in the case of wikileaks.

Why is Wikileaks in the business of "fact checking a conspiracy theory"? I thought they were about, you know, leaks.

>They could, but this would require them to assume no one would figure out the actual cause

No it doesn't. It just requires that if someone else figures out the actual cause they deny it. Zero cost.
For a big conference, one that attendees spend lots and lots of money to travel to and attend, the pressure on the organizers is to make sure that all the presentations (and presenters) are at some baseline level of quality so that attendees will go away happy. They are much less concerned with providing opportunities and teaching moments to aspiring conference speakers, which hopefully everyone agrees is the right set of priorities for an organizer for that type of conference.

There are all sorts of ways an aspiring presenter can get experience or demonstrate ability that don't involve catching a break from a sympathetic organizer whose job is looking out for the attendees that spent thousands of dollars to be there.
I could be completely off the mark here, but is it wrong in my part to assume that China may not necessarily have the right environment for basic research to flourish? The way you mentioned the "China being excited" translates to "Chinese authorities deciding to push basic research". That will no doubt get human and other resources allocated for it, but is it sufficient?
China, and USSR may not be a fair comparison, but I feel China is much closer to how the USSR functioned, of course with the added opening up of the economy, and probably economic freedom within the country (The two missing pieces that led to bankruptcy of USSR). Now, let me explain the reason why I brought this comparison here. USSR in its day probably matched the west in defence, and to some extent space tech, but did USSR produce any original major basic research breakthroughs? Basic research is not amenable to top-down push and needs an environment where ideas and expressions of those ideas have freedom. Anyway those are passing thoughts I had when I read your comment.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Witcher 3
Watch_dogs
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Mirror's Edge (both games)
Paragon

There is a general selection of games I play but can only play on windows. In general I settle for the Mac graphics stack proforming on par with Windows.
Did you read the article? There was't much content and the title is pure clickbait.
Boost converters beyond 10:1 usually require a transformer. Efficiency of a transformerless boost converter goes down with the voltage gain, so there's a practical limit. It can be done without a transformer if you need very low current, but you need a big inductor. Here's a Geiger counter kit that does it.[1]

It's rare to use a Geiger tube for this today, because PIN diodes can also detect radiation. But they need a low-noise high voltage power supply and a lot of low-noise amplification. Some circuits for that: [2] Geiger tubes have the nice property that the output signal is quite strong.

I've been designing a boost converter that uses a 555 timer as the oscillator.
It's part of a driver for my antique teletypes, which need 120VDC at 60mA briefly to pull in the selector magnet, then about 4V to sustain the magnet hold. Existing solutions are bulky and about 5% efficient. I've designed a version that is powered from a USB port.
The design is on Github, in KiCAD format.[2] (Work in progress; haven't fabbed the board yet.) I'm using a 10:1 flat surface mount transformer from Coilcraft to get the size down.

[1] http://www.rhelectronics.net/store/radiation-detector-geiger...
[2] https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/22...
[3] https://github.com/John-Nagle/ttyloopdriver
I think it's much more likely that rather than "opposing democracy" he is attempting to connect a pro-technology viewpoint to an anti-globalisation one, and wishes to position himself politically so that he can eventually leverage this.

This is more believable to me since he has been giving talks on it for the last three or four years [0].

Liberal newspapers might want to convince you that this is all about hating democracy, women, and the free press but that doesn't really stand up to scrutiny. There seems to be a very small amount of dirt that has been dug up and turned from a mole hill into a mountain.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KlXhrRxxbA
And yet, a significant portion of Trump's current support is just that. Should we simply not talk about that fact for fear of inserting the reality of the controversy into a thread? It strikes me as disingenuous at best to try to silence people in the name of civility, when what they're saying is simply the truth.
Yeah, that's fair. I guess I was talking in the context of the political article.
> If you really want, you could even open up a root shell.

For those new to Linux: this can be done as simple as "sudo su -". More details here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/376199/sudo-su-vs-sudo-i-vs-s...

That said, -in my book using root except for updates is often a sign that someone misunderstood or that something is misconfigured or something.
Why it couldn't be an "install updates now?" prompt with default set by the admin is beyond me.
I know this is not really possible, but it would be nice if they could just say his political views and actions reflect on our business and as we disagree with those views and actions we will no longer be working with him.

This avoids the need for language like this: "fueled by hate and encouraging violence, they make each of us feel unsafe." I feel that this sort of language makes us fear one another and drives a wedge that need not be there.
Particularly ironic since Thiel provided funding to O'Keefe.
I don't see evidence of Thiel making any such remarks about women's rights to vote and the link cited actually makes the opposite claim. To me, it destroys an author's credibility to make such a blatantly false citation.
Lets just say Clinton did not push for the sales of the weapons. You thing Saudi Arabia would say oh well and make peace with the people they are bombing? They would find some other way to kill them. This may have been a
"choose your pit of snakes" situation. Either sell them some weapons or let them by develop or acquire gas/nuclear/bio weapons,
They would have to figure out distribution though, which Tesla has been having a few problems with lately...
> As an outsider looking in, isn't Hillary's history in advocating hatred and violence?

Not really, no. Hillary has made some questionable choices, but I don't think that makes her any more or less "systematically immoral" than Trump - she just has a longer record, because she actually has political experience.

For example, both Trump and Clinton were in favor of the Iraq war. Trump got to backpedal and pretend otherwise later, because he never had to take a binding vote to express his opinion one way or the other. That doesn't make him a better person.
You're conflating "business here" with "business abroad". It happens a lot. These are two separate topics.

Trump is openly advocating for subjugation of women and minorities in the U.S.. He's explicitly called for firing a judge due to their race. I mean seriously?

And I think there is pretty clear evidence that Trump is not "just saying" racist and misogynist things. Especially on the misogyny point, he actively behaves like a d-bag. It's hard to think the race thing isn't just a bit better buried.

He has a history for trampling all over his business partners. Of lashing out when things don't go his way (see: basically every Trump media event of the last few weeks). How far you think that will go with the international community? Didn't get the deal he wanted from S. Korea? He goes on a race hating rant, and hey guess what, now the trade deal doesn't exist at all.

Ask the Philipines how having an emotionally unstable clown in charge has gone for them on the international stage. Then imagine that emotionally unstable clown has control of the largest military humanity has ever seen.

On the other hand, Hilary, by all accounts, has been praised as great to work with. I may not approve of the outcome of many of her decisions, but I'd rather have someone that can appear poised and level-headed dealing with people like Putin, or other suspect world leaders.

I think you're right. It is more nuanced. But many of those nuances we may never see. I have only my gut to guide me on them.

It says in matters international and domestic, Trump is a volatile clown. While Hilary will at least keep the dysfunctional status quo.
Thiel would tell you that's not what he meant, it was simply a factual observation that women tend to vote against his preferences, according to polling data. And I do think he is slightly redeemed by the fact that his conclusion was not "let's roll back women's suffrage", it was "let's get rid of voting altogether".

So I don't think it's quite unambiguous, although I wouldn't buy this explanation. I would love to ask him why he thinks women voters differ from men on these issues.
I think we should modify the Geneva convention to make cutting internet access illegal. I think everybody should have the freedom to express their ideology, even if jailed. It has always been legal to write letters from prison, it should be a fundamental right to express dissent, particularly when it's political.
I agree with the thrust of your point - that organizations like YC should be allowed to uninvite or refuse to collaborate with people they are diametrically opposed to for political reasons.

However, I do not agree that it's fair to call an investor's competency into question due to their political views. I agree organizations have every right to not affiliate themselves with those investors, but in the real world there are plenty of examples of investors who hold controversial political views.

Logically, there is no a priori reason why "Thiel is a good investor." and "Thiel strongly endorses Trump." cannot both be true. To go further, I don't see an a priori reason why an investor with political views that are antagonistic to the industry he focuses on cannot be a very good investor. It might not be likely, but on its own I do not agree with using politics as a criterion for investing performance. That's silly - just look at investing performance directly.

To go even further, I think it would be disingenuous for groups like YC to announce they will distance themselves from investors they disagree with because "How could they be qualified investors if they hold this opinion?" That's masking the real reason for not affiliating with them, and in my opinion they shouldn't have to mask that anyway.

I also think using that sort of language establishes a precedent that makes the industry less inclusive to people with opposing political views. Much of the tech industry is progressive and liberal, but it would be ridiculous if this was applied to potential founders. Should founders who support SOPA or Trump not be admitted to YC if they are well into a startup that will most likely become the next Google?

Put another way, if you read Zero to One and you found it to be very insightful and full of legitimately good ideas, would you call it into question after learning that Thiel supports Trump? Doesn't that strike you as an ad hominem? Sure, Thiel's political views might be relevant or worth noting as an investor, but they certainly do not define his investment performance.
For behind-the-scenes technical details, I recommend watching their (video) development diary: http://tagebuch.miniatur-wunderland.de/
Comparing the nature of industrial waste such as that produced in the production of PV panels, and nuclear waste which is a security, environmental, and political nightmare is unfair and a bit dishonest.
I don't know where Apple will go, but those of us that were around can certainly remember how the old Apple without Steve Jobs used to be and I have a feeling that is going on the same direction.

However, given the amount of money on the bank they still have lots of time available still, so I still look forward to whatever they might think of doing next.
Another possibility: For whatever reason, JA exclusively uses GSM for access (independent of whatever connection the embassy uses) and this was cut off at the behest of some state actor.

In any case, this is all speculation until we get some kind of evidence of some kind.
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If some of these native toolkits had a decent track record of producing not-hideous and usable cross-platform apps, maybe we would. That devs with real cross platform needs have been using solutions like Java Swing, Flash, Electron, etc since the 90s should be a pretty big hint.
Overwatch - Windows/Mac only.
Those two groups overlap substantially (making the latter group a subset of the former was rather the point of Republican strategy beginning with Nixon's Southern Strategy, which exploited Johnson's support for civil rights legislation to try to peel that group off from the Democrats, who'd they'd supported since "White Nationalism" made a real go at having an actual nation; the Democrats have certainly lost them, but the Republicans haven't reliably captured all of them, though they've done a fair job of it.)
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> No, to us destroying a person for their political views is disgusting, even if we disagree with them.

And this is some seriously oppressing bullshit that has (wittingly or not) prolonged white/male supremacy. People creating a space that makes it very clear that non-white, non-males aren't welcome, then well-meaning "moderates" going along with it because, well, I'm not going to judge him for his politics. It's how the US even came to be, founded on a compromise that was fundamentally designed to promise that slavery would never be repealed.

Here's the deal. Having a don't-ask, don't tell policy regarding your votes in a voting booth is fine. But the minute you write a big fucking check to a big fucking fascist (or anyone else), you forfeit any right to not suffer consequences for your actions. Sure, the government can't (and shouldn't) impose penalties. But I'm damn sure going to judge you, and judge those who continue to associate with you (because they are saying that maintaining your friendship is worth alienating others).
There's something to that, yes, that a lot of things become second-nature (e.g. once you learn Vim, when you're in Nano on an unfamiliar machine, you start finding yourself accidentally typing Esc-:w to try to save a file).

There's also something about "this is totally unfamiliar and not at all incremental upon what I know." I was vigorously against vim after trying to do it many times, eventually I found out a base set that allowed me to learn incrementally, now it's not so bad. The big thing is to totally forget all of these people who are saying "vim is like an awesome language for text editing." Maybe it is, but that's an awful sales pitch. This person wants to spend a few minutes editing source code, not spend a year learning a new language.

The minimal starter set for Vim is something like:

# From Command Mode #
dd | deletes a line
. | repeat whatever you just did, for example pressing I,
then the delete key 4 times, then Esc is one command
which dedents a space-indented line by 4; now you
can go down a block hitting . at each line to
dedent it.
i | switch to edit mode at present cursor
I | edit at beginning of line.
A | edit at end of line.
u | undo
Ctrl-r | redo

From there probably the next thing I would teach people is brace jumping with %, regex-jumping with /, visual-lines mode shift-V and either cutting with d or copying with y, then pasting with shift-P. Finally macros with qp ... q ... @p. After that, maybe dealing with multiple buffers. Just let people use the arrow keys to navigate, don't get too religious about the home row or letter repetitions like d5d.

I think that's a basic skillset that will let you say "okay, my thesis advisor is making me put two spaces after each period that's not an abbreviation in this document, what editor should I use for that? Well I want to step through everything just to make sure, but let's just use Vim where I know I can write "fix this one and then jump to the next period" as a macro, and interleave that with some basic navigation when it's not right."
Having lived through the Cold War imagine how pissed off I am at the authoritarians and fear mongers pushing an insignificant terrorist threat for power accretion and profit. Cold War information weapons have been turned against the people. Fuck that, and the people who did that.
I've noticed a lot of these "Foundations" for open-source projects eventually lead to in-fighting and control usurping where entire boards of directors "resign" and thus the legitimacy of the whole project is questioned. Is this necessary?
I'm gonna go ahead and give the saltiest response you can imagine.

You can't ask companies about what problems they are facing. You can only ask individuals, and their responses will be colored by their perspective.

If you talk to the people that have the power to fix the problems, you're going to get the perspective of ladder climbers that can only ever tell you what problems should be solved in order to further their career.

If you want to solve problems that the company is facing, you will only find the problems by asking the people that are powerless to solve them. Mostly people on the ground floor that work in the trenches solving massive problems on an ad hoc but daily basis, but occasionally people that are higher up but marooned and destined to be fired at some point.

An example from my past: A VP tasked with improving operations performance saw some bottlenecks in warehouse employee productivity, and a potential solution in a robotics product. He ended up betting his career on outright buying the robotics company, without even testing out the product in the company's warehouses. As it turned out, integrating the product was extremely difficult...it involved tradeoffs that forced re-arranging how products were stored, what product mixes could be stored in which warehouses, how inventory was modeled and managed, and how inventory was surfaced to the customer. Basically, the product improved worker productivity by small margins, and increased inventory, software, and most of all logistics costs dramatically. BTW, those logistics cost increases overshadowed the productivity gains by a 5:1 margin. But he accomplished his goal, and any criticism of how he accomplished it is just a detail to manage. If you ask someone in Ops, they will say they need to make a few major software improvements. If you ask someone in software, they will say they need better QA and access to the robotics engineers, and to simplify their logistics for easier modeling. If you ask someone in inventory management, you'll need bigger warehouses and major re-organization of warehouse inventory design. If you ask someone in logistics, they will say they need to re-arrange the warehouses better. If you ask the VP, you'll need incremental improvements in robot speed. If you ask the VP's boss, he'll say he doesn't care, as long as he gets improvement.

But funnily enough, if you ask the guy who was the technical architect at the acquired robotics company, he'll say you need to cut your losses, revert course until you can recover your logistics costs, and either invest massive development in a different technology with a better fit to the application, or buy a different company that already had it developed. He got fired for saying this, by the way. No way the VP could ever be made to admit to his mistake. To this day, the VP talks to the press about how much money they're saving due to this thingamajigger that he bought. He'll take it to his grave.
So what? They did a great job.

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Because "crimson", "magenta", "scarlet", "pink", etc are all the same color?

Red isn't a color, it's a spectrum. It encompasses a whole range of colors. You use it to describe a similar set of colors when specificity isn't required ("What was that red thing?" vs "I think it would look good in crimson"), like most things in English.
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Or, you know, explicitly calling for the commission of war crimes, for the use of torture, for the reintroduction of carpet bombing, and for the directed assassination of the family members of terrorists.
Especially since user comments about candidates are the new norm, at least for the past several days.
a quick look at an amp page (from google's cache) shows it's being served with x-frame-options:SAMEORIGIN, so looks like the linkis thing won't work with them.
> a list in vim

I love your style though.
But politics is business, which is why lobbying is such a huge part of democracy. There are die-hards like you who would argue the same when it comes to environmental and energy, or justice and privacy issues. Few partisans think of their core cause as being mere "politics".
Blond hair is also often called red.
First, I don't think Apple is likely to ever introduce an "Edition" iPhone in the mold of the Edition watches (that is, a purely cosmetic or material variation at >3X the cost of the base model). It's simply not worth pushing the iPhones the vast majority of people will actually buy out of the "top end" category. Every second in a keynote spent ogling over a $2000 ceramic iPhone is a second that's not selling to (and indeed may be discouraging) the customers who are going to make Apple real money. When Apple made a "gold" iPhone they didn't charge a penny more for it, and people went nuts.

Second, even if Apple were to go down the "Edition" route, a schedule where the "best" iPhone comes out six months after a more "boring" phone with the same guts doesn't make sense. They'd be Osborne'ing themselves every year: "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."