skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair the US also has private companies looking at space so I don't know whether we are ahead or behind.
Most meetups would not have an issue with you bringing a friend who would record the talk for you on their phone or with a camera. As with all these things, make sure to ask the organizers first, though.
Should political contributions made in private be grounds for demoting or firing someone?
The original, commercial model of source sharing by Burroughs B5000 was specifically so they could fix or extend the operating system. The UNIX sharing was for people to port, extend, and fix it. Academics have been remixing stuff in publications for a long time, too. You can bet getting contributions is usually a reason for open-source with a percentage of them coming from unpaid developers. It's always there.
I was expecting the noob to be rejected for not knowing how to spell the word 'amateur' correctly.
There is a strong business case here as well. Thiel alienates a lot of people and his public advocacy for Trump isn't helping.

Silicon Valley already has tremendous diversity issues and a reputation as out-of-touch. If the future of America and the world only gets more diverse, which seems to be the case, then YC has a vested interest in being on the right side of history.
Nothing was ever written in an email. It was the usual, "sources said"...
At Project Include, our mission is to give everyone a fair chance to succeed in the workplace. “Everyone” means all groups to us, but we draw a line at individuals who fund violence and hate.

And you denounce... Thiel? Hillary Clinton made material contributions to starting two seemingly random wars in Libya and Syria with hundreds of thousands of victims. That doesn't count as funding violence? What about her supporters which appears to be everyone else.
Corrections are welcome
In a normal political climate I would agree, but I have to ask: is there a line? Is there any line? I think most people could imagine a political affiliation that they would want absolutely no association with. If Trump was a bit more murdery like Duterte, would it be OK to disavow his supporters then?
Something on that page is definitely gobbling up CPU. I barely get 10fps when scrolling.
I totally agree that phoning is the optimal choice, but it does not have to be either/or, if it bothers someone enough, do it all.

Phoning and letter mail are definitely way higher in the attention scale than email (or worse yet an online petition).
I don't think that's what anyone is arguing. People are arguing that Donald Trump is an existential threat to the american republic, not that he would be "bad for minorities". The racist thing is bad, but really only a small part of the overall badness of Donald Trump.
I use OpenSUSE. The rpm's always work I might have to grab a dependency from somewhere or make a soft link, but 99% of the time they work.
These are all the programs I use that I need to grab from RPM packages from their website RStudio (I use the preview version), Lightworks, Bittorrent Sync, and VS Code. Without RPM I would not get to use them period.

In the old dasy of Linux their would be a lot of issues but presently RPM and Deb works like a charm fro my uses.

I am hoping for appimage of flatpak to take over but for now RPM is my life blood to get things working.

If it is a niche program that won't be on the repos or it is updated frequently RPM is a very viable system.
> But if you have the choice between that and Trump, I cannot imagine how you could choose the latter.

Status quo vs. something different. The status quo is that Obama/Hillary have destabilised countless countries, and are sabre rattling against Russia, possibly leading to an eventual nuclear war.

By contrast, Trump is promising less wars, less interventionism, and otherwise is a relative wildcard with a penchant towards pragmatism and deal-making.

I'm not American, but on paper, it looks like Trump would be an improvement as far as world stability goes, I'd vote for him based on his policy concerning Russia alone.

The Clinton/Bush/Obama dynasties have not made the world a better place, have not contributed to anything positive IMO, and judging by all the leaked emails, they're all corrupt as well.
Apple continues to regress, and that's kind of sad.

The post-Steve-Jobs Apple has continued to produce superb products. And it has scaled to a truly impressive level while maintaining quality and financial statement success. However, at this point it's an old story to say that Apple has recently failed to capture our imagination and "show us the magic" the way it did throughout the 2000s. I remember being blown away by the early iMacs and Macbooks, the early-gen iPods, iPhone, iPad (don't forget how impressive the iPad was when it first came out), and the Macbook Air.

When people speculate that the next generation of Apple products may be ceramic, I think I know why: they want the magic. Ceramic? That's sounds new and interesting. Maybe it's environmentally friendly. Reading Koenig's article, the case seems pretty strong for Apple's disincentive to make such a significant change. It's the same disincentive that all large, successful companies face: they do pretty well with the status quo, so why incur the massive expense to do something new and risky?

I can't really blame Apple. But I also can't help but be a little sad. The same way I can't help but be a little sad when a talented movie director goes mainstream. It's a reminder that we all have to face reality and make practical decisions; we all contribute to the massive pile of human ambition and pass our excrement to the level below us; and we all are getting older.
What you're describing seems only natural to me. Very few people sit entirely within the spectrum of one of the two parties - they have to evaluate both and see which has the most pluses. If you're gay, the Republican party is threatening your ability to get married and live without discrimination, so I can believe that might seem more important than relatively minor shifts in economic policy.
> Trump says mean things, Hillary does mean things

ah! he just says eh?
For centralized signaling but p2p transfer:

* webrtc

* socket.io or datachannels

For truly decentralized:

* webtorrent

* secure-scuttlebutt

And of course, Ethereum and Bitcoin exist, but they're hard to take advantage of in a browser with decentralized trust.

What kind of apps are you thinking of?
I think the point is that there's no way you can win over hardcore Trump supporters. The Nazis and white nationalists that have rallied to him are a lost cause.

The point is to show the much larger group of people who are just going along with him, or considering it that this violent, racist, misogynist set of behaviors and beliefs is not acceptable.
Interesting. There might be (of course will be) disagreement about whether, as Pao argues, unpopular views about race and gender and stuff are as relevant to tech as support for SOPA. But Trump's new habit of not just implying, but saying outright that the election will be stolen from him by a nationwide ballot stuffing conspiracy is certainly relevant. That rhetoric is dangerous to the transition process and could destabilize the national environment for YC and its companies.
Having seen (and laughed at) these kinds of conspiratorial-looking posts in previous elections on the Republican side, I would normally completely agree with you — except most of these links are to things that Trump or his allies have actually, literally said. Page decoration or not, it's impossible to deny that.
I'm not sure though. There would be the same or more total miles driven. So they'd have to replace the cars that much faster.

Tldr: It should be a wash.
The problem is that this election is not about a difference of opinions over the fundamental issues. It's become a spite-driven, rage-fueled, all out fear mongering and hate breeding spectacle.

Trump's supporters have, in some cases, started talking open revolt if he doesn't win. On Twitter, there was a hashtag of #RepealThe19th, which essentially said they wanted to disenfranchise women in efforts to ensure Trump is supported.

This isn't necessarily new from constituents, but at the very least, the candidates have drawn the line. McCain is reported to have told a woman than Obama is good Christian family man with whom he had fundamental policy disagreements.

Trump is threatening to throw Hillary in jail, and is attempting to use her husbands (known) indiscretions as ammunition. Campaigns get vicious, but in this case, Trump is actively feeding the hatred and paranoia.
I think the answer is simpler than some grand conspiracy of the global media elite (insert your preferred shadowy cabal here), the sort of people who work in news agencies simply are not alienated enough from the current system to see trump as anything other than a danger to the current system of representative gov. and they also don't like being demonised and slandered by Trump, this requires no conspiracy, just that media people value the status quo (which trump threatens in so many ways to destroy and disrupt from within).

There is no conspiracy.
Indeed. This may be the thread that gets me to leave HN for good. It feels like being inside a history book. It would be fascinating if it weren't so unsettling.
Tell me where the reform party is today? The major parties don't even take federal funding because it's a joke.

In a First Past the Post voting system like the one in America, a vote for a third-party is, and always will be a vote against your preferences. Rank-choice is a far superior system (though it has its own downsides as well), but that isn't what we have in America. The lesser of two evils is still the better of two options. You want "better" candidates, get involved in party politics and vote in the primaries.
I work as a paramedic when I'm not being a geek.

We make at times horrible jokes about anything and anyone, including patients. It's often described as a coping mechanism. Black or gallows humor.

But to your logic, there's no way to be certain we don't actually mean malice, ill will or misfortune to our patients...
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Actually, sapphire is already more transparent than window glass and is 100% aluminum oxide. Aluminium oxynitride is a transparent ceramic that has similar properties to sapphire but is not quite as strong or as expensive.
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1 GBP = 1 GBP as far as I can tell... Prices of many other assets in GBP are going up, that's true. It's the movement of the other assets that is going against you.
The X100 is a very special/quirky camera and that's easy to love despite any imperfections because it will let you do things other cameras can't. E.g. sync flash at > 1/1000

There's not many other cameras that will allow you to overpower day light if you don't want to lug a monoblock or multiple flash guns with you.
I wrote about it here (https://www.indiehackers.com/blog/launching-to-300000-pagevi...), but basically I scoured "Ask HN" posts, built a list of 120 companies, tracked down most of their email addresses, and asked them to do an interview and share their revenue numbers for the site. I ended up launching with 12 companies a few weeks later. Since then most of my interview requests have been inbound.
I disagree. Vim is bare, cold, and strange when coming from a traditional editor, and I probably wouldn't have gotten involved if it were not for a friend who already have a useful .vim and .vimrc for me to use as a starting point. He got me up and running with a Vundle, syntax highlighting for all my languages, autocomplete, and various settings that should have been default with stock vim. Though vimtutor was also very useful for getting used to the standard controls.

Edit: Forgot the most important thing, the setting that lets you use the mouse: set mouse=a. After I discovered this I knew I was never going back to Sublime.
In this context, the companies actually were "mult-thousand-employee affairs", it was a judgement about which large companies were allowed to send investors to Demo Day.

From the article, these are companies like Comcast and Godaddy. It wasn't about actual YC companies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12720071
> this isn’t a disagreement on tax policy, this is advocating hatred and violence.

There are still around 40% people voting for Trump and many donating to him, so you mean they are also advocating hatred and violence?

What you believe could be different from others. People can choose different perspectives to see and understand the world. We should encourage different ideas and voices. This post could be downvoted too because I'm supporting and encouraging different voices.
yeah, but everything she and WJC say has to be filtered through the lawyer lens... depending on what the definition of is is. She's good at that - almost anything she says can be spun multiple ways.
Leica is leica, there's not really an analog in the tech world. I can't remember the last time I dropped $10k on a starter computer system or device, Apple or otherwise (which would be a Lieca M body with Leica glass today).

Fujifilm price points are much more Apple-like.
The bias is off the rails online as well. Many places that used to claim a pretense of balance is now 100% dedicated to hating on Trump. Look at /r/politics, you'd think there is no political news outside of Trump is the next Stalin. At least it's avoidable though.

What really bothers me is not being able to watch any national news coverage without a constant stream of Democratic narrative. I'm genuinely curious about what other issues or political offices are going to be on the ballot, but I'm going to have to take it upon myself to research any of it. Maybe that's a good side-effect though.
this sucks! I am trying to figure out why, could be the angular app's performance?
General purpose QC + AI is going to be quite interesting indeed.
Right, if you want to shift power to alternatives, fund them, volunteer for them, and advocate for them (and for electoral changes that negate the incentive to tactical voting) between general elections so that they can be a reasonable choice (either by displacing a major party or by competing under rules which no longer make voting for the least-bad major party the clearly best choice in a general election.)
As someone who works with regulations, it would certainly make my job a lot easier if the ambiguities were contained. Actually, it would mostly eliminate my job.

Regulated entities could fill out which terms applied to them (and argue over them in court), but the logic that follows would be executable.

As it is, everyone has to write their own expert systems to implement regulations, which is onerous for small players.
You don't need to be an intelligence anything or work for any 3 letter agency to make a prediction like "HC will not suffer any consequences", which is essentially what it all boiled down to.
Okay. I agree, that's different. My mistake.
Whatever the outcome of the other case, it was at least fully investigated and allowed to go through the justice system.

Something Assange has attempted to thwart at every step, blaming everybody but himself for his predicament.
function getTomorrowDate() {
sleep(86400);
return date("Y-m-d");
}
Hang on - Thiel thinks women shouldn't have the right to vote, and has written unambiguously as much?

How on earth is that not the argument for dropping him?

From another angle, how on earth can you trust someone's advice if they truly and honestly think like that?

I'm honestly shocked YC can champion women founders while having someone like this involved as a partner.

Just shocking.

And so, so disappointing.
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the problem with learning vim is that it's like learning to bike by biking to work. most people use vim when they code, and they code at work, so using vim is directly in the way of getting any productive work done.

i was just one of the ones stupid enough to waste two weeks of productivity to learn a new tool lol
In short, you say "people who support that sort of witch hunt" are intolerant, and that there is no place for them here. So... you are in favour of excluding people whose views you find repugnant, it's just a matter of which kinds of intolerance and whose repugnance is involved.

Another matter of interest is the nature of the power imbalance of lack of same. The original witch hunts, McCarthyism, and other struggles involved a very powerful entity depriving individual citizens of their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of a career.

There is a massive difference between "So-and-so engineer cannot work in this industry because a VC finds their political views repugnant," and, "I choose not to do business with a billionaire who is actively conspiring to bring democracy down."

One is punching down, the other is punching up, or perhaps sideways.
Modern nuclear power plants would not be damaged to the point of endangering anyone outside the plant if you flew a plane into it. You would need military grade missiles/artillery to damage a nuclear plant more than a plane. The plants are ridiculously overbuilt. If you wanted to fly a plane into a target to make a statement, a nuclear plant would be the dumbest choice unless you were hired by the oil and coal industries.
Then they have to estimate how big is the market effect of the turbines on mining. It is very very hard, wonder can it be done well enough...

For example:
It may even happen (logically possible at least) that stopping building turbines brings down the price but not the demand (others will buy it anyway), and the net effect will be that due to lower prices miners close safer but more expensive mines and reopens cheaper but more dangerous mines.

Once, I've read an estimation where they even calculated deaths due to iron mining, into wind energy deaths!!! They simply added the deaths that may occur mining the needed amount of iron.... Big big mistake, according to what I wrote earlier. Wing turbines hardly have that direct market effect on iron miners life. And because that study (I can't find it now) was sponsored by nuclear power organizations - guess the mistake was intentional - so it was not a "mistake" more like a disgusting ethical crime...
pay off your debt: none

pay for education: none

start a company: definitely not

buy a house: nope

buy solar panels: nowhere to put them

I literally have nowhere to 'put' my money except instruments. I already have all the instruments I need. Just finished selling off a good 80% of my possessions as well. I've hit my limit for 'desires'. My only goal now is to make that $20k/year off investments. So you say put half in there and sit on it, but I don't actually have anything to do with the other half.
Eh, honestly compared to other operating systems it's really not. Windows 10 is starting to get there.
>This fledgeling authoritarian streak within the tech community really disturbs me.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." (C.S. Lewis)
+1

I'm weird, but the nicest part of sapphire for me was that it meant i could keep my phone in the shop without worrying about the screen getting scratched from saw blades, chisels, or carbide marking knives i put in my pocket.

Of course, i guess i'd have the opposite problem of the phone scratching those things, but ...
That must've been some party!
Consequences of his own making. Don't make it out to be something forced upon him against his will.
No one else's badness makes him good. Don't vote if you don't like the options. There's no need for us all to lower ourselves to the worst standard. But if apologizing for him is good enough for you, then consider that others have the freedom to forgive, disregard, or otherwise absorb the failings of their candidate.

Also, a "humble opinion" does not call something "complete bullshit" in the same sentence.
The first question to ask with any James O'Keefe video is "where is the raw video." He has a long and sordid history of fabricating these kinds of storylines.
It may well be that in the past, there was no separate word for yellow or orange, they were just considered shades of red. So people used 'red'. Then later, people felt enough need to create more nuanced terms.

In a similar way, if I remember correctly, Apple used to be the English word for all fruit[1]. We later added specific words for more fruits, and Apple only remains as the name of a single fruit - however, we still have 'Pineapples', which gained the name when apple was a generic fruit moniker.

Apparently it's common for blue and green to be clumped together - green (midori) is a surprisingly recent term in Japanese, so lots of green things are referred to as blue (aoi) because of traditional usage - including the green light on traffic lights, apparently.[2]

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apple#Etymology
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...
In terms of direct cost to consumer, maybe. This is ignoring literally all externalities and loss of life due to pollution by coal or the tremendous environmental damage of hydro/coal.
Since zero of those things are illegal or extremely so, it really wouldn't matter.
If you have the contact info of the person being affected reach out to them. Downward referral is just a technique to get the contact info for the right person. If you already have that then you're golden.
That's a textbook deflection right there, and also a logical fallacy.
Except, I guess, if you're Peter Thiel, who stands both to be discriminated against but also to get massive tax breaks in a Trump presidency.
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Here's an (unconfirmed) source for parent:
https://9to5mac.com/2016/04/17/kgi-apple-to-drop-aluminum-ip...

Seems very cool!
>E.g., results of any official investigation, etc.

Hahahahaha
> There are still around 40% people voting for Trump and many donating to him, so you mean they are also advocating hatred and violence?

In very many cases, that is quite overtly the case.

> What you believe could be different from others.

Right. And hatred (racial, misogynistic, and otherwise) and violence are among the areas where those differences can be found within the electorate.
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Or it's a stand against a movement which opposes their moral principles. To Pao (and, to the extent that it matters, me), D. Trump's movement is so vile that any prominent supporters of it waive their right to being tolerated. I am sure you'd agree that doing so would be acceptable if Thiel supported Strom Thurmond, Viktor Orban, or Mao Zedong; it's just a matter of how bad D. Trump is.
There is no evidence Russia is involved. Given what was apparently Podesta's password coupled with a lack of two factor authentication, these leaks wouldn't have exactly required a team of elite hackers. But even if it was Russia. No, you cannot justify a hot war as a result of cyber crime. That is absolutely insane and Clinton is flat out dangerously wrong on that point.

The releases expose corruption, it isn't necessarily partisan. Wikileaks used to release documents about George W Bush, and Putin as well.
I question the integrity of the author who wrote this article, but if people truly have an issue with Peter Thiel donating to the Republican candidate, then just stop giving him money—blacklist him, not YC. However, that's not going to happen anytime soon. Better than disagreeing with someone spending their money, why don't people collectively donate to the other candidate then? That's not the conclusion the author comes to and hence in my opinion this seems to be a company taking advantage of a situation for free PR.