skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of indirections here is incredible and I'm amazed nobody has pointed it out yet. In essence the post says: Shame on YC because

- a non-employee / part time partner of YC has

- supported a presidential candidate who

- has, a decade ago, said things that (besides reflecting badly on his character)

- if realized in action

- would constitute sexual harassment

Now if it was practice at YC to sexually harass people I'd say yea, shame on YC. But this is ridiculous. If we were to accept indirect arguments like in the post then it would be equally valid to say:

- Shame on the HN community because it

- Supports a site operated by YC which

- ...
Chatted with Jesus. Short conversation, guess he's a busy guy. Nice tool though, well done.
Palantir Calls Accusations of Asian Discrimination 'Entirely Unfounded'
I wouldn't support Trump but Hillary's fealty to Wall Street and die-hard neoliberalism ("hemispheric FTA, etc.") affects hundreds of millions of people whereas whomever Trump groped affected maybe 50 people.

And no, turning it into a symbolic issue in a Presidential election isn't going to help prevent it happening to the women in your life.

For all the fearmongering over him (and let's face it some of it has been absurd) I think he'd end up being a lame duck president who doesn't do very much except primp, preen and massage his ego. Assuming that's true (he never has been particularly well connected to reality and the president can't do an awful lot unilaterally), that might actually be the preferable option.

Ironically many of the people who were against Bernie because "he wasn't realistic" and what he wanted "isn't achieveable" seem intent on forgetting that now that an orange attached to a blonde mop is running for president.
So, basically, we can fight Global Warming and get hammered doing so? Now that's what I call a win-win! (Seriously, though, one could do other things with ethanol besides burning it.)
Correct, this is huge and cannot be overstated.

Also that's an excellent article, thanks.
>The catalyst’s novelty lies in its nanoscale structure, consisting of copper nanoparticles embedded in carbon spikes. This nano-texturing approach avoids the use of expensive or rare metals such as platinum that limit the economic viability of many catalysts.

How about large scale production of the catalyst? Do we have any idea of how to produce efficiently a "nanoscale structure consisting of copper nanoparticles embedded in carbon spikes" in large quantities?
... but you could still use the app locally even if unsupported, etc

This is also why I like apps like Day One which can operate with purely client-side apps storing their data in a user's Dropbox folder. There are a lot of limitations to that approach, but benefits too.
Exposure to criticism is not a "restriction on speech".
this seems to be a problem of presidential democracy (voting for 1 man). parliamentary democracy, where people are voting for a party and even specifically for multiple people nominated by the party, is solving this problem.
so much fear of reprisal that you have to qualify with "I'm not a Trump supporter". political discourse here is as bad or worse than it is anywhere.
There's no reason women can't be sexist, unless you'd assume it applies only to men.

AS for gay people who are homophobic wrt their own - Milo? It does make you question what homophobic means though, or if its application is to broad.
To be clear: I'm absolutely sure Trump doesn't understand a damn thing about middle-state people. He just isn't outright dismissing them and their problems, and look what it's done for him! That's the scary part.
I agree, this is the key insight. Google sees itself as moving toward what I see as a more reddit-like model. People might occasionally click away on links to other sites, but the idea is to keep them on Google's "platform" by default.

That's why clicking "X" means "go back to Google", because in this model, you never left. You just temporarily viewed some content in a pane which you are now closing.
Do you think that it how most people search? (I'm not being sarcastic, I doubt they do but I obviously don't know)
"Containers cannot and will not provide effective security."

Will you PLEASE stop this FUD. What you mean to say is LINUX containers cannot and will not provide effective security.

And the reason for that is they were never designed with security as the starting point. Linuxworld believes you can just bolt security on later. You can't.

FreeBSD jails and Joyent zones have solved containers by starting with security as the constraint. It's other platforms that are horribly designed and continue to waste resources reinventing the wheel over and over again.
What Events Lurk Inside the Wave Function? By Sean Carroll [video]
The right to free speech means the government cannot or should not punish you for speech (save for when it poses a danger, like creating imminent threat to someone else's wellbeing).

Everyone else is free to respond to and criticize someone for their speech (as long as that response doesn't involve, say, assault). This includes the writing of articles against someone else's decision of where to spend their money.
> But we are all very much entitled to criticize what Altman is doing, and we would be doing Altman no favors by withholding that criticism.

Why are you entitled to do it in the most publicly way you are able?
Trump supporters believe in a batshit conspiracy theory. That doesn't mean reasonable people should change their behavior to mitigate those concerns.
I'm deeply uncomfortable with the narrative where support for Trump is a basis for excluding a person from discussion and employment. He's a major party candidate, supported (if sometimes disliked) by roughly half the population. That's not a number of people you can fire or silence!

The usual argument runs that this time is unique, that Trump has embraced racism and violence and his major-party status should not bury that. That he is effectively (sometimes "literally") a facist, and should be treated as such. I think it's an inadequate, alarming response.

Just about half of voters will back Trump. At that scale, silencing and marginalizing them is impossible, so whether it's moral doesn't really matter. Shunning influences people when it cuts them off from their social circles, but most of the people embracing shunning admit they know 0-1 Trump supporters. It's not going to marginalize anyone, just deepen a divide between the groups.

Even if Trump were quite literally Mussolini 2.0, firing and shunning his supporters wouldn't end his candidacy. In fact, refusing to engage with facists has historically pushed them further, letting them build their beliefs unopposed.

I respected Altman's explanation. It doesn't matter that Trump is different, or that Thiel donated an exceptional amount (particularly since it was in line with his wealth). Firing people for simple support or donations makes this problem worse, so no amount of importance is a justification.
bullshit. Thee fpga inside is a small fpga, just for adding a bit of flexibility around interfaces and glue logic.

FPGA that do compute are a whole different beast.
Disposable goods are not cheap, they are in fact very expensive. They are perceived as cheap because a very large portion of the true cost is hidden, externalized. Creators have no incentive to create things that are easily recyclable because they are not responsable for what happens to it at the end of it's life. To close the loop one must integrate the economics of garbage management as an integral part of the product being designed on equal footing with production, distribution etc.
Taxing pro-rated to the recyclability of a product, tax break on repairs, second-hand markets and other means to give a product a longer life. Make practices like planned obsolencence illegal, criminal even. I'm no expert but there are a great many solutions, implementing them however might require a lot more political good-will than most of our leaders are ready to spend.
It's certainly not the same (a dump of geotagged photos), but I also enjoy finding cool stuff on road trips and made https://www.lanesurfing.com/ because nothing was quite what I was looking for. (side project for my own amusement, so no promises it works well in webkit or IE)
Nobody is suggesting excluding Trump supporters from employment.
Because he is willing to face the repercussions of doing so.
What are Trump and Thiel if not "elites"? So it seems the elites are campaigning against each other.
> Dropbox and Github both use it to talk to their installed desktop clients from the website. It's very useful as it by just installing an app, a website can get more access to the local machine's hardware without having to resort to browser-specific plugins.

Okay, but from a user's perspective this is exactly what I would NOT want--it's unintuitive to me that going onto GitHub would give them access to my machine's hardware just because I have the app installed.

The program should serve the user, not GitHub or DropBox.
and it's not even a "real" political view. thiel's said all along he views trump as disruptive to a government that's broken. it has very little to do with the positions people get so worked up over.
Wikileaks claims it was Ecuador. So again, the CIA bogeyman that gets you knee-jerk upvotes from edgy teens on HN and Reddit is proven to be false.
No she doesn't. The chain of emails you're referring to makes it clear that Hillary still believes her support of DOMA was justified to prevent a constitutional amendment, not that she still believes gay marriage is wrong.

There is no evidence to suggest she opposes it now, and a little evidence to suggest she was lying in 2008.
Character Quality often overlooked: Respectfulness. I definite it as how do we treat people we disagree with?

We lack this in society as a whole. Respectfulness
Another article with more/better content here: https://www.ornl.gov/news/nano-spike-catalysts-convert-carbo...
Before this goes on too long, I'd like to stress that I don't have all the perfect answers in life. I don't think my views are perfect, but they are what I believe.

I know that often, how things 'should' be require laws that are basically impossible to write. But I really don't think I am being that unreasonable to say there's something grossly unfair about one person being able to pour in millions of dollars into an election to sway votes his way.

> Should newspapers (i.e. corporations) be allowed to endorse candidates?

That's a definite gray area. I can see arguments for and against that.

At least with a newspaper, people are actively choosing to buy it (barring it being in a vending machine with the endorsement on the front page.) It's usually pretty well known and clear that NYT runs liberal, and NYP runs conservative.

I don't get that choice with giant billboards as I drive around town. You can argue I can change the channel, but I don't really get that choice with TV and radio ads, either.

I'm sorry, but like with complex issues (eg abortion), I don't have a perfect answer for you on this point. Any choice is going to come with consequences. But that doesn't mean I think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater and have a cash free-for-all in our elections.
Adult life is full of personal choices that adults are required to be accountable for.
As long as the majority of the population is bickering amongst themselves over one thing or another, the system is working as intended.
Demo is just a static image... isn't this supposed to be a webcam or something?
I really wanted to pursue Scala. It looked promising: runs on the JVM, is far saner than Java, has features that keep the "Java 1.4 was the last real Java" crowd away, has a mixed-paradigm OO/FP approach, lots of features... things like all the FUD over compile times and performance didn't really bother me (if I cared about resource usage/performance, I wouldn't use the JVM, duh).

I found two classes of problems.

The first was the lack of practical guides. How do I access a database? Should I use a Java lib for that? What about a rudimentary CRUD app? What if i need something Java-EE-ish, like a message queue/IPC? I kept finding myself in scenarios where I had to reach out to Java, which I was deliberately trying to migrate away from.

Second, there's the fact that Scala has full OO along with the ML-style FP, which makes it hard to figure out if I was doing things the "right" way. Do i use traits and composition and case classes? Should methods go on classes? What's up with the Object pattern? Do I store state on classes or should I prefer case class/record types? When is it a judgment call... and if it is a judgment call... how do I make it without much experience in the language or having any experienced Scala users to guide me?

I'm not averse to spending $100 on books and working through them. I tried that with Scala, but somewhere around page 200 of Programming Scala, gave up.

Then there's the scare factor, there are so many "we're switching from Scala to Java 8" or "we already use Grails" that it was looking like it was turning into a dead end professionally very quickly, especially outside of DC/NY/SF/Chicago. One job I was looking at told me they were moving all their Scala work into Java because of client pressure.

The bigger irony being that I started using OCaml instead, a language where the documentation is usually just an interface file and type signatures.
Twitter is a complete mess internally. There's no one to blame but Twitter's Board for Twitter's problems.
You seem to be implying that a circular approach would necessarily be more expensive. I disagree. The large, expensive part already exists in terms of collection. The key principle from the article is valuing materials as resources. To a large degree what we do now is like collecting trash cans of gold and sending them to a landfill.

Technologies for depolymerization and carbon capture are scalable to realize fully circular economies. Our recycling rate, however, is only about 34%[0]. This is why educating towards a circular economy is so important. Plastics, among other materials, are fascinating and great, and their challenges are largely the result of consumers.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/smm/advancing-sustainable-materials-mana...
First, it's not generally illegal to fire people over political beliefs. More importantly, though, Peter Thiel isn't an employee of Y Combinator --- as Altman himself has been at pains to point out.
In Popular Mechanics? Yeah, I think you might be asking for a bit much there.
You stole the words right out of my mouth. This is no place for pushing a political agenda.
For starters, you need an experimental build of Chromium that Google provides in a ZIP file, or you need Firefox Nightly, and in both cases you have to enable a flag.

After that, I do not know what the current status is for A-Frame supporting the Vive. And of course, there was recently a big change to the WebVR API, so A-Frame may not be caught up to that, either.

As far as I know, A-Frame's "known good configuration" is Oculus Rift + Firefox Nightly, or (HTC Vive|Oculus Rift) + not-latest Experimental Chromium.

And Windows 10, of course, because Facebook can't find a single person capable of doing graphics work on Linux out of 15,000 employees, or so they would have us believe.

You can find access to all of these things at http://www.webvr.info
The abstract of the article includes :

>Herein we report a common element, nanostructured catalyst for the direct electrochemical conversion of CO2 to ethanol with high Faradaic efficiency (63 % at −1.2 V vs RHE) and high selectivity (84 %) that operates in water and at ambient temperature and pressure.

I am not exactly sure how to understand the 63% efficiency but I assume that this is the rate of conversion from electrical to chemical energy.

However the conclusion of the article mentions that :

>The overpotential (which might be lowered with the proper electrolyte, and by separating the hydrogen production to another catalyst) probably precludes economic viability for this catalyst, but the high selectivity for a 12-electron reaction suggests that nanostructured surfaces with multiple reactive sites in close proximity can yield novel reaction mechanisms.

Which sounds much less optimistic that the article's headline.
Exploring Bridge.NET for C# to JavaScript
The fact that they plan to keep things running indefinitely if possible seem to indicate that servers and bandwidth are not the bulk of the cost

So I guess most of it is on paying developers and maybe some office space. 25,000 won't go a long way, even taking in to account cheaper salaries in Greece.

Edit: Their team page says they have 6 employees, so 25,000 probably doesn't go a long way.
Denouncing, sure. But what we're seeing is a push to fire, exclude, and not engage with Trump supporters. Think of how many people insist that they don't know a single Trump voter.

That's not something which hurts his candidacy. It convinces his supporters that they're under attack (they literally are), and encourages people to keep silent rather than admit that they like any of what he says. Ignoring him might have worked at 5% in the polls, but at ~50% you need to engage his supporters.

That doesn't mean treating his positions as 'normal', but there's plenty of room between that and firing donors and banning campaign signs.
Obama: “Austerity measures contributed to slower growth in Europe”
Is there a way to cheaply store ethanol long term and prevent it from turning back into co2?
You've been talking with a different set of poor whites than I have.

I'm not a Trump supporter or potential voter, but we fool ourselves when we invoke this caricature.
Reading between the lines of the (translated) blog post make it sound better. He refers to the Oct 2006 attempt as an acquihire but Mar 2007 as actual acquisition.
Great stuff! I'm a little frazzled by the fact that you're leaving 350$ cameras in the woods unattended, though. Figures they're not too far from your home given the CAT5 length you mention, but for anyone interested in building one in a more remote location (IoT SIMs with decent data plans are a thing now!), you might want to consider camouflage, and/or setting up in a tree.
Americans (at least the left leaning ones) also love holiness spiral signalling wars. Its quite possible OP doesn't believe anything in the linked to article, but that style of writing is how the left does sophistry, its the progressive modern way to signal superiority and worth. Op wants attention and smugness, that's how its done in 2016. People who believe any of the linked article is literally true end up with the same logical problems as people who believe every word of a holy book is literally true. The linked article is well written sophistry but don't expect sophistry to contain anything rational. If you didn't get to irrational beliefs in a rational logical manner, you're not going to escape from irrational beliefs using rational or logical discussion, which makes debating the specific points of the sophistry pointless.
A friend and I considered getting married for a similar reason. We actually both were receiving Pell Grants, but married students are allowed to live off campus and drop the meal plan, which would have saved us another ~$7,000 each (mostly in loans).

As far as bad plans go, it wasn't exceptionally terrible, because we actually had an exit plan. Wisconsin allows you to annul a marriage if you haven't consummated it after a year. (I might not be 100% correct on that point, but the law was something like that.)

Pretty glad I didn't go through with that plan.
as long as no one have actually formulated an argument based on facts how Trump is a threat to democracy I dont see how he is more dangerous than Hillary, Bush or Obama. And i am pretty sure a large portion of people outide the US see those three as bigger threats to their lives than Trump given US foreign policy.

So until someone show how the us system can be destroyed by Trump I stand by my position that Trump is no more dangerous than Hillary.

But you are basically saying that what you believe doesent apply in the case of Trump and so you are ok with ignoring your own principles while claiming he is the one who is guilty?
as long as no one have actually formulated an argument based on facts how Trump is a threat to democracy I dont see how he is more dangerous than Hillary, Bush or Obama. And i am pretty sure a large portion of people outide the US see those three as bigger threats to their lives than Trump given US foreign policy.

So until someone show how the us system can be destroyed by Trump I stand by my position that Trump is no more dangerous than Hillary.
Could we run this process on Venus for terraforming?
Hey, thats the second time I read "org-mode"! I have never seen org-mode before, but it looks like Markdown on steroids. NotePlan's syntax is not so extensive like org-mode, kept rather simple, but I will extend it over time, depending on usability. Thanks for mentioning it!
Samsung 960 Pro review: The fastest consumer SSD you can buy
> the web VR using A-frame is at: http://virtualforest.io/vrforest.html

And it works better with WebGL enabled, else you get a rather empty page.
Pretty cool. Make it live and add some sound and you could almost feel like you're there.

Simple nitpick: when I drag to the left, I expect to go to the right. (I'm just seeing this through my browser though, maybe it makes sense in VR, idk.)
Sigh. People keep bringing up Brendan Eich. What happened there is very simple: a good chunk of Mozilla PR and marketing is about freedom. Software and online freedom, yes, but the word "freedom" is used a fair bit. Eich monetarily supported a cause that aimed to take away freedom for a certain class of people. This is incongruent for the face of an organization that has freedom one of its core messages.

Mozilla is fairly unique in tech world in this regard. Nearly all other companies don't really talk about freedom. If Eich was the CEO of any of those other companies, his donation would not (and should not) have mattered. If Eich had remained CTO of Mozilla, his donation would not have mattered either, as the CTO is not the face of the organization. The CEO's beliefs, however, do need to align with the core messaging of the company.

As for those who say that in 2008, opposing gay marriage was a mainstream view, and even Obama opposed it: in 2012, Obama publicly went on the record that his views had shifted to support. The Mozilla/Eich thing went down in 2014, and Eich had an opportunity to communicate that he'd changed his views. If he did that sincerely, he'd likely be CEO of Mozilla today. Instead he stood by his 2008 views, reaffirming that he's on the wrong side of history.
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Very true, you can tell I'm not an assembly guy
> leaving 350$ cameras in the woods unattended

Hunters do it all the time.
Batteries might be more expensive than storing energy in liquid fuels. They have a limited number of charge cycles after all, whereas a vat of Ethanol can be refilled forever. There is also a large number of motors available that can burn Ethanol, but a significantly smaller number of electric vehicles.
> Well the browser must be able to visit http://127.0.0.1 whats so different about that than https://192.168.1.1 or any other address?

127.0.0.1 accesses local servers that might be running code which is typically in development and insecure. There's nothing confusing about this.