skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or.. its just a reflection of the market they're in. Understanding how much innovation opportunity is left in a market/category is a huge part of identifying whether you should continue to invest there or elsewhere.
I don't disagree but I do wonder what that would even look like.

Do we need to change the system? The players/politicians? Groups exerting influence onto the system (the media, big business, big unions)? Push more decisions to the State level?

Good luck untangling that mess... we can't even agree to end crap like gerrymandering and voter suppression.
No, you can't just analyze the 11 successful companies. You need to consider multiple variables, then see if they correlate with success over the entire population.

It's perfectly possible some traits of all 11 successful companies are also shared by most of the unsuccessful ones, too.
Wait, what are you saying they are blacking out?

NYT is covering the Wikileaks emails:

http://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/wikileaks

Also, are you confusing CNN firing a commentator with the NYT? Donna Brazile was not 'a staff member' at CNN, they paid her to go on TV and babble, not as a reporter. She acted in bad faith, but she wasn't in a journalistic role.
My main complaint is that it's difficult to determine camera state. My main use case is having it mounted to a motorcycle where I can reach the buttons but can't safely or easily see the indicator LEDs. Is it on? Is it recording? I have some awesome videos of me sitting on a curb in front of a gas station drinking a Gatorade because I thought it was recording the whole time, and it turns out that when I pulled up and stopped the recording I was actually turning it on. That can and should be fixed by making a button that isn't so mushy. Even with bare fingers I can't tell you if I really turned it on without looking at the lights. With motorcycle gloves, it's a complete (and as noted above, often wrong) guess.

Okay, I'll strap my Pebble to the handlebars as there's a GoPro app for the Pebble. But the Pebble needs to go to the iPhone, which then talks to the GoPro iOS app, which then talks to the camera. Yeah, you can see where this is going: I spent more time trying to get all those devices to stay connected than I did riding.

Fine, I didn't want to do it, but I'll buy your $80 remote with status LCD. That piece of shit didn't work any better. I spent most of the time looking at an animated WiFi icon because it couldn't find the camera literally 50% of the time. If it did find it, it often wouldn't stay found. A single company made the hardware and firmware on both ends, and they still can't get them to stay connected.

Additionally, the thing eats batteries. I wouldn't mind so much if there was a way to power the thing while its in the case. There is a way, but it'll cost $65 for a waterproof case with USB port from a third-party vendor. I bought one. And about half the time when the bike fires up and pumps power to that connection, the GoPro's little pea brain gets confused and needs a reboot.

This is the kind of stuff I expect when I bought the cheap Chinese knock-off instead of the name brand. But I did buy the name brand, and specifically for this reason. And I end up still having the cheap Chinese knock-off experience, only at name-brand prices.
Can anyone recommend a good GoPro model (or similar product) to pick up for use on a helmet? Specifically while cycling. I once had a Contour, but lost it, and never replaced it.
And apparently f-droid has reproducible builds now.
@pornin

Thanks, we definitely need a secure and reputable TLS implementation with small footprint for IoT devices.

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Arbitration clauses are pretty egregious.

Should it come to a real court, though, I imagine AirBnB would say something like "we're basically a common carrier, so we're not on the hook, and you can't compel people to house everybody in their own domicile, so even if they are racists there's nothing you can do about it". Rather like Uber trying to have their cake and eat it too.
No. We did it that way in the old days and MS took years to patch bugs. Now nobody gives their excuses any weight and they manage (mostly) to keep up.

> only had evidence of a state actor

You have no evidence of it being used so it must not have been then. That's that. Lack of evidence is evidence, or something.

> hasn't made the general population safer

Oh, you have evidence of that?

This is a bit of a paradox. Any given disclosure might make some people less secure, but a policy of rapid disclosure has made all of us vastly more secure.

> Then disclose the information to AV and security vendors

Oh great, give the data to companies who will then turn around and bill me to tell me what to block. And weeks later, not in the moment when I need it. Thanks a lot!

But this also misses that these partial disclosures are usually still enough to tell someone skilled how to write the exploit, and it only takes one exploit being written. All it does is give a false sense of security.

Withholding bugs is a useless idea that's exclusively harmful.
I know I am from Europe too, but 1.7 was released and pulled back yesterday (evening), and this noon 1.7.1 was released. :)
> any culture

Thing is, a live language always comes as an organic part of some culture. In other words, a language is only live if it is absorbed together with mother's milk. For instance, I imagine it took a few generations for Modern Hebrew to really come to life. Chances that an artificial language could become part of a culture are slim.
Google also has tech to show these banners but only if you've visited the same site a few times already, and then not every time. (This link talks about web app installs first, then native app installs later)

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing...

"The user has visited your site twice over two separate days during the course of two weeks."
GoPro 2 was rock-solid, but 3 and 4 had huge quality problems. Terrible customer service as well. I used to like GoPro, but since the GoPro 2 they've completely soured me. I don't know if the GoPro 5 is any better, but the Amazon reviews are terrible.
It's the solid academic background you're paying for.
Because the moderate party would lose every election in a landslide. What would its policies even be? People tend to be extreme on individual issues that they care about and apathetic on the rest. The more extreme parties could, for example, just come out for or against abortion and steal a huge percentage of your voters. Same with many other issues.
> Not sure why some people consider the Democratic party "extreme". They most definitely seem like a moderate party. The Republican party, well, they're just incredibly laser focused on cutting taxes on the rich.

And Republicans would say the opposite. This is why we never get anywhere.
Problem is that the people who want gopros already have them and their drone got destroyed by the dji mavic.
On the other hand, Soviets/Russians did not kill the native population of the republics on massive scale, did not have "sits only for white" in the public transit, had 15 republics where native languages had equal representation with Russian. Everything is relative.
Well no, it's more that I thought it was completely insane to state that the Republican and Democratic parties are ideologically similar. They diverge radically on a large number of issues that voters care about. So talking about "why they become similar" is inane.
Well if their market is such that one might make 10MM while others make 20-30MM, then it's a valid concern. It might not be one that many can relate to, but that doesn't undermine its validity.
Would it be feasible to have an "enhancement pack" website where less talented people (ie me) could get fixes like this.

I remember doing stuff like this with Proxomitron in the good old days....
Problem is that lazy loading will introduce a flicker on fast connections or if the font is already in browser's cache since re-rendering of the page takes some amount of time (more content, slower it will be). And if you have multiple pages, this means this will affect even people on slow connections on every page except the first one. So it's not a win-win solution, one side will have more or less degraded experience.
I always wonder how to handle this. I myself was recently rejected for an Airbnb listing and while I felt angry and wanted revenge, I also felt glad that I didn't accidentally stay with someone that wouldn't like/hated me.
Back in 2013 when I first discovered MOOCs, Udacity was more like Coursera and edX in that they had mostly traditional CS and Math courses.

Now, in the catalog, the various Nanodegrees appear before any individual course. But if you scroll down, you'll see they still offer the old courses in topics like Programming Languages, Theoretical CS, and Differential Equations.

Personally, I'm not in a rush to find employment, and am deliberately focusing on edX in order to prepare for a Masters. I took MIT's Intro to Programming with Python, and am now in Software Construction with Java. Both feel like timeless courses teaching principles applicable to any language or environment. Do Udacity Nanodegrees similarly teach transferable skills?
> pro-life atheist, or a pro-gun liberal,

I am both. And understand the pain of being a square peg.
mavic is the product. DJI is the company with $1B revenue in 2015. It's the world leader in drones (consumer or industrial)
USA gets some slack for being more or less the first (still existing) democracy in the world. But in the modern world, First-Past-the-Post should not be considered full democracy anymore, but only some level of proto-democracy, since proportional representation systems are so much better.

It's like, democracy-wise, Americans are all still driving around in Ford T-Models.
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ExecutiveTeam?
OT: So, Uber does a ton of shady, illegal things and then gets to continue on with cool tech posts on HN? Seems like the message is clear: If you're in tech, do as much illegal shady shit as you can, because once you make money your problems will all disappear and those you trampled will be forgotten.
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Any recommendations as for investigating your last point? What would constitute a truly modernist design in your view? Good food for thought, thanks.
So GoPro's have a good resale value and therefore many people that might normally buy a new one, instead turn to the used market which doesn't help GoPro at all.

That's not necessarily true. The counterargument is that having a good resale value allows you to charge more for your new sales because of the added value.
> Also, Trump is not acting like a rational ice cream seller. He has not appeared to move his policy portfolio, to the extent he has one, toward the center. “Rational candidates end up pivoting, and trying to move as much as they can back toward the center. But of course right now there’s one presidential candidate who’s not doing that at all,” Tom Vogl, a Princeton economist, told me.

Because the "rational" policy depends on politics being 1-dimensional. Trump has refused to deal with politics that way.

The ice cream theory is how things work normally, the same way that Newtonian mechanics works normally, but when you find yourself in a situation with extreme gravity wells or high velocities, using Newtonian mechanics to solve problems can get you killed.

Everyone knows politics isn't really one-dimensional. It just ends up being treated that way in plurality voting races because mathematics enforces it, unless you want to take a big risk and upset the apple cart. When you get an opponent who can triangulate an extreme non-centrist position in multi-dimensional politics, moving to the 1-dimensional center might be fatal because of negative traits that centrism implies on certain dimensions that the other candidate has made the campaign about.
Is there a valid reason to describe "from China cough"?

I believe GoPro cameras are manufactured in China.
Hum, that's because you don't actually need to install Scala.js per se. sbt will download and use it for your project automatically.

I agree that the way it is presented on that page is confusing, though. I'll add some explanation about that when I get back from conferences.

Thanks for the feedback!
I'm guessing that the creator simply printed the webpage (without link on the header/footer), and has honestly referenced the source on the first comment. So probably there was no malice intended.

I did however leave a Disqus comment on how they could make it clearer. The ones I could think of -- either print HTML to PDF with a link on the header, or modify the source of the page to add a note before you printing to PDF.
Personally, I took a leap of faith and I ordered the new Alienware 15, because 50 % of my time I do Film editing with color grading and graphics heavy things (so the nvidia 10 70 should be useful) and 50% of my time I do development (Kubernetes,...) so the 32gb of RAM come in handy. Plus it has NVMe, 4k screen,HDMI 2 + DP, TB3,... it check a lot of your boxes.
I considered the Thinkpad P50 and the HP Zbook 15 but I found the GPU to be a bit weak. Plus I heard many issues with the HDMI 1.4 on these machines.
There's a "law" that describes this: Duverger's Law [1]

Pedantry follows:

First past the post is [more or less] the election system we have - you select one candidate. Candidate with plurality [that's a generalization of a majority, ie the person with the most votes even if they don't have > 50%] wins.

There are lots of alternatives, and even a ballot initiative in Maine [2] to switch to a different type of voting system known as Ranked Choice Voting.

New types of voting systems are exciting, but complexity lends itself to a poor user interface. So more sophisticated forms of voting actually depress poll #s [I'll just cite Harry talking about this ballot initiative in this podcast [3]].

If you're looking to ever have a real alternative to the big two, the path to that is convincing your local government to switch voting systems.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
[2]: https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_Ranked_Choice_Voting_Initiativ...
[3]: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/elections-podcast-countd...

[Edit: put scare quotes around law]
>It's a problem. But Airbnb is not the right company to use to talk about it.

Why?
I see the current MOOC divided into 4 styles:

- if you want academic rigor, you take edX and to some extent Coursera

- if you want to learn something between academic and practical you never did before while working full time, you take Coursera courses

- if you want to train yourself on some of the latest trends, you take Udacity

- everything else that is outside big companies/academia you seek on Udemy and similar platforms

I am happy with all these, I initially spent most of my learning time on Coursera, then moved mostly to edX for big-name university curriculum and now I am taking Udacity's self-driving car nanodegree and maybe later AI nanodegree if I get in.

You simply need to choose what you want and then look at the appropriate platform. I am very happy we have now different shades of a good thing and I applaud to all people making this possible! Big thanks!
Mars is not just inferior, it is almost literally not an option. It might be someday, and that's why it's worth pursuing, but even in the forseeable future it would just be a horrible, suicidal backup plan for like a couple hundred people.

The context of the quote is a response to people who are really enthusiastic about actually being Mars colonists. "It’s a lot easier to imagine a few scientists spending a year or two at a small Martian research station, like the ones in Antarctica, than it is to imagine thousands of people emigrating permanently to a Martian metropolis."
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Regarding your link:

But the middle ground often is the best solution in politics (not necessarily exactly in the middle, but definitely not on the extremes).

Some examples: The best government is between Authoritarianism and Anarchy, rather than one or the other.

Likewise the best government has an economy that is somewhere between completely free-market and absolutely government controlled and regulated. Both extremes have issues.

The best legal government is somewhere between ultra-capitalist and ultra-communist: We don't want only two classes, super-rich and super-poor, but we don't need to make everyone exactly the same either.

Likewise, private investment is definitely a good thing, and we want incentives, but we also don't want CEOs or boards being completely blameless when things go wrong, and we want good pay and good rights for the employees. Most people are ok with CEOs getting paid more that most employees, but most would prefer they not be paid anywhere near as much as they are.

On and on it goes. Generally, the best position is a moderate one. The extremes are where the failure comes from. (There are always exceptions, so that is why I say generally).
> I mean honestly how is it possible that of the 300 million people spread across one of the largest (geographical) countries in the world and one of the most diverse populations on the world, exactly half want one person to represent them, and exactly half want one other person to represent them. It doesn't make sense.

You're confusing how someone votes with what their ranked preferences are. I suspect that many people vote for someone who is not their most preferred candidate (particularly in this election, where the two major party candidates are extremely unpopular). And that makes sense, given that only one person can be President at a time and the USA uses first-past-the-post voting for presidential elections. This tends to lead to only two dominant parties (Duverger's law).
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I keep external fonts disabled on my laptop with Firefox. Under Preferences > Content > Advanced, uncheck "Allow Pages to User Their Own Fonts", and it makes the web seemingly twice as fast.
Oh, so only small time investors and not large ones can't sell their stock? That sounds worse, not better.

>And I'm pretty sure there's government regulation requiring them to do this.

And who runs the government, empirically speaking?

"Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence."

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Pretty sure Web only became totally free a couple years ago. All paid version include desktop version too.
I know this doesn't truly really answer what you're asking, but: GitHub Pages, static HTML, no or plain JavaScript, plain CSS, no frameworks.

You can do a lot with just that. Here's an example of what I've done with just that:

http://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/

http://www.andrewmcwatters.com
That's happened before (look at articles on the "era of good feelings").

What happens is that factions develop along a new politically-important axis which have different answers for a new pressing problem, and the moderate party bifurcates into two.
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Tell the French to open up the 800 MHz frequencies.
You can do a lot with Verilog as long as you don't intend for it to run on an actual FPGA. You can initialize registers to values, print to a console, and add in hardware delays for timing. Simulation is what Verilog was meant to do in the first place. Once you want to actually synthesize the code and run it on some hardware, you have to get more creative in how you layout your code. Like having a reset input for the module so it can trigger certain events whenever you want (i.e. register initialization). So when you write your testbench, you must activate the reset input (or have something similar to a reset button on your actual hardware) before trying to use the module otherwise all the registers will just have random junk values. In my class projects we would always have a dedicated reset button on the board that would need to be pressed before you could test the design. In a production design, the reset would be tied to some sort of automatic reset (like a one shot timer or a microcontroller) when the device powers up.
>The competition for votes between the Republican and Democratic parties does not lead to a clear drawing of issues, an adoption of two strongly contrasted positions between which the voter may choose. Instead, each party strives to make its platform as much like the other’s as possible

Problem with that theory is, the two parties aren't close in the slightest. Democrats prefer expanding the social safety net, minority rights, etc. Republicans prefer... the opposite.
I won't argue about the documentation of Scala in general. But a post in the thread you are referring to was specifically mentioning Scala.js as not having the same issues.
The Mavic Pro doesn't have one.

You are right, a gimbal is a very smart addition. Put it on the backpack for skiiing or on a bike to record smooth rides.

My biggest problem however is the lack of "intelligent" flying with GoPro's drone. Most people overestimate their flying skills. It's very easy to have a collision, loose your done. It's also difficult to do subject tracking. Many find themselves with a broken drone after just a week of use. On the other hand, the Mavic Pro has their most advanced visualisation technology + sensors to make your job easy.

If you are confident with the GoPro drone, I would recommend purchasing it from a store with a liberal return/exchange policy. Try it for one week and record a few videos. And then compare with the mavic pro
I've seen both the Mavic and the Karma, and I have to say they hit different use cases.

The GoPro is for when you want a drone that can carry your camera that you can also detach and use with their stabilized handle, which you can then take the GoPro out of completely and use on it's own.

The Mavic is for people who want a smaller drone.

Both are good tech, and I plan on getting both of them within the next year, but the GoPro one is going to be my first of the two.
I don't think we can so easily simply paint both parties as mirror images of each other. The Republican party seems obviously broken.
At this point VSCode doesn't even support C++ IntelliSense and the basic "Go To Implementation" / "Go To Definition" commands mostly don't work.

If you have the full Visual Studio available, the experience will be superior.
What happened when I challenged the PC campus culture at NYU
Opus Audio Codec 1.2-alpha is out
Wait a minute, I can use the GP for video, but then suck in GPS data from my Garmin and overlay it using Garmin's software? Oh, wow, thanks for the tip, I'll try that tonight.
I dont think anyone is saying you need to watch closely or even look at the ads?? Somehow a lot of people have come to attack a straw man regarding control of your eyeballs/behavior. Dont look at the ads if you dont want.

The issue here is payment to the content creators. If you mute your tv, the actors/writers/producers/camerapersons/tv station employees/etc get paid. If you block ads on the internet, then the writers/journalists/photographers/sysadmins/etc dont get paid, even though they made you happy, or provided something you obviously valued. I mean, you spent your valuable time consuming it, it must be worth something.
Yes. Make a native app.
Besides of what was already mentioned:

Many automotive or industrial communication buses are currently unencrypted, but could surely benefit from encryption.