skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't follow why the drones need to go below the canopy at all. Just use an infrared camera! This is already being done in our local area for SAR, though with remote controlled drones rather than autonomous[0], and it's worked. I also worked on a undergrad research project involving autonomously deployed drones that identified cattle with infrared and the results were a no-brainer compared to conventional cameras[1], even though this was quite a few years ago and both autonomous navigation and infrared options have gotten much much better since then.

There's the problem of false positives for sure (e.g. deer), but it gives you more than enough starting points.

This research sounds genuinely really fascinating, and I think they are making huge progress on a difficult problem (specifically, navigating unknown 3D space). I'm just not sure that this use case is the most important one.

[0]: https://www.radionl.com/2018/03/11/3624/

[1]: https://fosterelli.co/file/talk/tracking-cattle-with-infrare...
Sass makes it a lot nicer to write BEM notation. The long class names used to bother me too, but it is actually much nicer than not knowing where a class came from. Is `.right-button` a global button style, or unique to this component?
Right but how does this benefit Peter directly? I was trying to think of many ways, both positive and negative. Tax benefits is a simplistic one...a possible negative way maybe crazy but if US innovation goes down because of Trump, possibly New Zealand will prosper as the alternative silicon valley but I don't have enough understanding to say such things.
On the surface I'm confident he has as much distaste for mainstream liberal media as Trump does.

Other than that, historically he's been pretty conservative hasn't he?
Peter, what are you doing? I loved your book 0 to 1 and your rogue style but this makes it seem like you're (even more?) a jerk and out of touch with your peers.
Tailwind is basically Tachyons + a bunch of features.

Last time I migrated a project from Tachyons to Tailwind, it was quick and painless.
From the Latin ‘data’, the plural of ‘datum’, i.e. “given”.
And...it's gone
What promises did he deliver on that have actually helped all/majority of USA?
This is a street view of SmugMug's office: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3907386,-122.0674312,3a,75y,...

Maybe you can make a case for "small business" greed, but "corporate" just seems like the wrong buzzword.
Partly cynically because he knows Trump is an incredibly simple man. He likes people that like him. That's it. That's all it takes to be on Trump's good side, whether you're a Saudi or a white nationalist. He really doesn't discriminate as long as you say nice things about him.

The other reason is that he agrees with at least a decent chunk of Trump's policies. He probably supports lower taxes, reduced regulations, and probably greater isolationism.
Very neat concept, you should Show HN that. Reminds me of another similar project where instead he had everything running in RAM. Totally forget the name of that project now though.
Ok, sorry for the defensiveness, I got into that mode due to all the attacks. You make fair points.
Bittorrent is decentralized in theory, but I think nowadays it's not worth much without trackers. Trackers again enable centralized groups with self-serving interests to centralize the activities and track user activity.

Check out what gnutella or the dat-protocol have to offer for reasonable alternatives.
> I'm a bit surprised that they went with the Arduino "standard"

Well, for some reason the entire "maker" community thinks you need to shove the Arduino stack onto something before you're allowed to write software for it. Apparently that's a requirement for street cred.
People are excited for RISC-V instead of Raspberry Pi's ARM.
I greatly appreciate your feedback.

Your hunch is on the right track, but it is a little bit different. For example, you may be choosing (or out of necessity/priorities) to sell a stock. We offer predictive intelligence that would indicate it may be better to sell it tomorrow, or next week, instead of today. Or, the reverse, it may be better to sell it today, rather than waiting.

Your point about Tesla is a good one and offers another example. Perhaps you hold Tesla at X price because you believe in the intrinsic value. However, you also want to take advantage of the volatility. So, you may use a portion of your resources to trade it a few times a month. Just by predicting highs and lows with high probability you could capture additional returns.

Both of these examples could add a few percentage points to your returns depending on the account size. And that could mean a few hundred or a few thousand dollars during whatever interval your trades are executed (monthly/quarterly). So, more than just scalping pennies.

We are actually less focused on the order book and more focused on broader data including RSI and financial data. Our API is an interface for 3rd party data APIs or you can bring your own data.

You might have sentimental data, or data on trade tariffs, and we make it easy (no programming necessary) to model that and make predictions.
One issue I have with static sites currently is adding/editing content from mobiles. Although you can create/edit files (by commits) from GitHub.com via your browser, using the web interface, it's not really too pleasant to work with (since, obviously, it isn't designed for this).

If you could sync your files over to something like Google Docs / Dropbox Paper, edit them there, and see the changes be automatically published to GitHub, that would be nice.

Other than that, I find static sites very nice for blogs. I don't really think most blogs need something like WordPress, it does seem a bit overkill to me.
There are some things which Pandas is just better at, such as: extracting content via RegEx and pivoting... However, there are also some situations where you should use SQL such as UPSERT or date-range joins.
I will keep holding on to .NET and Java, regardless of ongoing issues, until an alternative is able to match at least half of the existing tooling, libraries and supported platforms.

From my point of view the grass is still greener in this side.
More than minutes, but absolutely orders of magnitude less than it took to build them.

In an ideal future, one can imagine submitting 3d models of buildings to a civic dataset as part and parcel of getting zoning approval.
It looks like EC2 is already doing this. I don't think they ever shared cores except for t1 and t2.
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

> Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
I can't believe how lucky Trump is.

Inheriting the country when things are looking down right amazing economically.

I do strongly believe that the US would have been doing great irrespective of the person in power. (I strongly dislike Trump as a person, and do have strong bias here. I also do kind-of believe that he is not very bright)

But, should there be reason to believe that America's economic prosperity is due to the Trump admin, I would love to be enlightened on the matter.
My father didn't pass his most recent driving test. Uber and Lyft have become a reliable form of transportation in his neighborhood which has limited public transit.

But the current UX experience of seeing the price at the end of each ride has been off putting and has resulted in him limiting his use of these services.

I hope subscription plans, even if they result in a higher monthly cost, will increase his use of ride sharing services.
actually i thought this but was too cowardly to say that directly.
> He has delivered on his promises

Indeed.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpomete...
Capitalism is not inherently wrong. It is a system of allocating productive resources, with tremendously positive benefits, and terrible drawbacks. You are offering an alternative utopian solution - Anarchism - that comes in many forms, one of which is Anarcho-Capitalism, or "even more capitalism", but you hand wave this away. I empathize with some Anarchist theory (Proudhon and mutualism comes to mind) but it's going to take a tremendous amount of time and strife to flesh out such a system.

Coinciding with this report on wildlife, it turns out the countries with intact remaining wilderness are varying degrees of capitalist (Russia, Canada, Australia, the United States, and Brazil): http://time.com/5441282/five-countries-worlds-last-wildernes... I believe that unchecked, unregulated anything (including capitalism) is what is depleting our world. Social democracy as a check on these impulses is sorely needed, but unfortunately in regression everywhere in favour of strongmen to hand wave these problems away, or blame some minority.

We also need to look beyond our world in the long run.
Not to put anyone off, but there are two hypothesis:

1) investing at 5% return (over several decades)

2) having the time, once retired, to take advantage of the increased wealth

that might not reflect reality.

This said, it is rather obvious that buying new cars is a good way to waste money, and that buying used cars will allow to save a lot of money, and that literally your mileage may vary:

>Is having an average payment really worth it to drive a new car or live in a bigger house?

>For some of you it might be, but for others it might not.

> Only you know the answer to that.
Interesting!! I did not know that, so I was wrong - but why does the GitHub repo then talk of pileup images?

https://github.com/google/deepvariant

Edit: I think I get it now, this notebook shows it: https://github.com/google/deepvariant/blob/r0.7/docs/visuali...
The channels are easily representable as images, but the network doesn't use the images directly.
One caution though -- being a GNU project, Guix takes a much stronger stance on non-free software than Nix does. In Nix, there's a flag you can enable that will let you build non-free software in the Nixpkgs repository. I don't believe the same flag exists in Guix.

Note that either system could be used to build your own non-free software, this is more a question of what is available in the shared repositories.
I think he's being sarcastic.
Sorry -- people having very badly informed opinions about spaceflight are a pet peeve.

Apologies if I'm being rude. I'll stop commenting.
Should Flatpak solve that in many cases?
This reduces to the question of: will technical innovation slow down?

Hand-crafted code, composed by thoughtful experts, is a really useful tool when exploring new technologies or when adapting technologies to new industries.

But as when a technology-industry fit matures, and innovation slows down, you can start working in larger grains that require less crafting and less expertise. The problem domains are understood, the tools are stable, and there’s an affordance for inefficiencies. People with industry expertise and vaguely literate in programming concepts can build the tools they need without the intervention of a professional engineer.

This maturation process has already happened a thousand times in various industries, and sometimes we see it disrupted by new innovation.

If there continues to be widespread innovation and disruption, we’ll still need lots and lots of professional programmers writing code.

If, instead, industry problems can genuinely be optimized or technical innovation can encounter practical limits, professional coding will narrow to smaller and smaller niches.

We’re probably still a long way from the latter scenario. I’d say your career as a software engineer is safe. Your daughter’s? Harder to say.
It does depend on how many users you have and your TTL for the JWT, but if you have a 10 minute time to live, you only need to store the revocations for 10 minutes in redis since otherwise the tokens themselves expire. (Just an example, sub 10 minutes with 24 hours or whatever)
It's no secret that Thiel has particular ideas about human behaviour and about how the world should progress.

He is very clear in describing what he considers the issues, and it would appear that Trump's ideas in some way or other align with his own.
I've seen a presentation by Thiel, which i can't search for at the moment, in which he makes a somewhat nuanced argument that globalization is only sometimes good, depending on how much technological innovation is happening in the economy. He observes that outside of computing, technological development has to some degree stalled since the 70s, and concludes that in such an economic environment, unfettered globalization is to be avoided.
Thiel is a libertarian. Trump is closer to the libertarians than any other plausible candidate who can win.
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We're a reasonably mature microinsurance startup, building software to help bridge the gap between insurance companies and those who are not insured or under-insured. High traffic, mobile first + SMS and USSD platform that requires some interesting compliance and security requirements with deployments in countries with poor infrastructure.

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So a rich white man born into privilege and complicit with America's domestic racism, wealth inequalities, and staunch disregard for climate change, supports a candidate with the same ideals?
This exactly. Right now we have correlation. A ton of people in this thread are trying to divine causation.
Now Real Cats Are Being Used to Mine Crypto
> Less pesticide residue on produce

This doesn't accord with any existing definitions, which restrict the type of pesticide as well as perhaps the amount. Which then begs the question of which pesticides should be classed as organic. We already have stringent constraints on pesticide residue levels.
> Questions about Trump’s name-calling and lack of civility were brushed aside. “I don’t think Trump’s nicknames are that nasty,” Thiel said. “They’re powerfully accurate.”

I wish people would stop asking about this crap and ask Trump supporters how they feel about detaining asylum seekers, kidnapping, drugging and abusing their children, or how they feel about Trump kowtowing to Putin, or MBS, or about the corruption and nepotism. About the fact that we don't have a fucking ambassador to Turkey or Saudi Arabia because JARED is supposed to be handling it.

Stop asking people about if they think the Tweets are too mean...

Lots of downvoting going on in this thread. Care to comment?
I read that travis kalanick. ex uber founder, has a set up a chain of ghost kitchens("cloud kitchens") for rent for entrepreneurs.

Do you think he can offer something new ?

Are ghost kitchen inherently a big business(with a large advantage to scale) ?

And if so, how centralized will it go, what tasks do you think will go to the big biz, and what will remain for entrepreneurs ?
There's some rumblings about this improving, but as with a lot of things in the UK the current government is walking a tightrope in terms of funding (they've got to keep a lot of special interest groups on-side in order to pass any legislation). They'd rather go for high-profile, popular funding opportunities than putting more of the budget aside for shady shenanigans like GCHQ.
I thought that too.
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It's a long read end to end, but I found that the author is consistently level-headed in his criticisms and praise. I do not think he was being sarcastic.
OT but this is the first time I've seen the word "askance" and it's a great one.
I find it a bit humorous that Peter Thiel is "bullish" on life-extension research while fervently backing a party that is doing everything in its power to make Earth uninhabitable in the near future.
Well there is this report from yesterday: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/31/wages-and-salaries-jump-by-3...

A 3.1% jump in wages should beat inflation at least for this year.
Did you leave it unbroken, as in a copy, or only make your changes on a secondary version of the code base?

Put simply can you put it back? Do exactly how it was before?

And you can you do that in a documented, like can't miss legal type of way?
> It helped in the beginning, but most of them just became addicted, paranoid and incredible slow thinkers and figuratively numb.

Depression itself leads to all of those things. Your anecdote is not data.
I'd say tax cuts and a seat at the table. Also Thiel's Palantir thrives if there is more surveillance (though Obama was pretty bullish on surveillance too...).

Other than that, he's fairly libertarian, so he _should_ be for free trade and free immigration rather than protectionism.
He's very wealthy so he can insulate himself from Trump's attacks on the LGBT community which he is a part of. Too bad many people will suffer because of this.
What metrics do you guys (Americans) use to measure how 'great' the country is? From the start this has puzzled me.

Or rather is it a simple slogan one can confidently spew knowing it's impossible to prove?

(edit: I get that this is probably sarcasm, but it seems at least _SOME_ Americans believe it to be true)
Yes but it's the same brand.
> I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible

From the article linked below.

Honestly, reading that over, his political ideology is a hot mess of inconsistency. I'm not exactly sure what the hell Peter Thiel stands for, other than his own pocket book.

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
Reddit's /r/upliftingnews suffers from the same problem.

"Woman held captive in basement entire life visits Yosemite."

I don't feel uplifted, and that's not news.
Wow, I like your idea... It's very similar in concept. Set up a system which naturally resonates at a specific frequency, then add energy at that frequency until something has to give...

I am familiar with Migma, which has self-intersecting orbits. I believe the main difference is that my ions will have a thermal distribution from the start, yet still be able to self intersect. (Particle velocity does not change cyclotron orbit timing until much higher energies. So Rider's arguments are not as applicable)

My hope is to exceed the Brillouin limit only very briefly, and that most of the time, the plasma will be diffuse enough that space charge won't be an issue...

The size of the focus should be the diameter of the electron beam, and electron beams can be very narrow. If the beam diameter is made very very small (electron microscopes prove this is possible), density at the focus could be very high for very short amounts of time... higher than even the Z machine, yet would quickly drop to levels low enough that space charge is not an issue.

The possibility of this periodic density spike is predicted in "Beyond the Brillouin limit with the penning fusion experiment" which implies that local density can exceed the limit in either space or time. They chose space, I've chosen time.

I'd love to email you about this, but fear I'm falling well into crank territory as it is. I'm pontifier everywhere, including gmail.
Wild guess: he fears having more money taken from him in business and personally if the opposition wins (both directly and indirectly via policies). He likely feels the opposition continually asks for more (from those at his level) and mismanages it. One might suspect it's party driven, not Trump in particular.
> I don't care about health risks.

Then my observation doesn't apply to you.

> Maybe that's why pro GMO and anti GMO folks can't have a discussion?

Lots of anti GMO folks have cited health concerns.
> You either get called "complacent" or "naive."

Your original comment is certainly not naive, with the current state of affairs being undeniably ripe for spying operations.

> This stuff is going to happen regardless of how upset people get

Statists will only go as far as their people allow them to.

> The actual topic at hand was nation-states spying on one another, apples and oranges.

Believing there is any effective distinction, on the other hand, is not merely complacent but incredibly naive indeed.
Caltech develops world's smallest optical gyroscope
> can run operations 30 to 100 times faster than a standard iPhone or tablet

Probably because "kids these days" don't actually know any computers exist, that aren't mobile phones (or phone OS based tablets). Its a stupid comparison, probably added to make the article catchier.
Cloudflare Domains is soon a thing (meant to be available from later this month in waves to current Cloudflare users, my guess is it should be available for all start of 2019). That might be nice. Cloudflare promises not to charge more than how much it costs them to get the domain, so they are dirt cheap domains, and Cloudflare has a great reputation for tolerance/no censorship - so you don't have to be worried about having your domain terminated/suspended.

Currently, namecheap is also quite popular, it's not especially elegant but it's cheap and secure. Tends to be my personal choice. I would immediately point your DNS to Cloudflare, after purchasing a domain, and manage your domain's records from Cloudflare.

Also worth checking out: https://www.gandi.net/ and https://njal.la/

Usually, namecheap is a safe bet. That'd be my recommendation, currently.
Trump, like all politicians, is doing things that benefit some people and hurt other people. People with lots of money like Peter Thiel are getting many of those benefits - ie. tax cuts and their wealth insulates from the things Trump is doing that may hurt people - ie. some change in the coverage of pre-existing conditions. It's just basic self-interest.
What's coming in Go 1.12 [slides]
Honestly, I preferred the manga to the anime. Not to say that the latter is bad, by any stretch of the imagination, but it did get a bit wild and off-the-rails with it's final arc. The manga keeps things very grounded and existential. Anyone who's ever worked a shitty job for menial pay with no chance of advancement/further prospects will find something to relate to.
Documented hardware that works without binary blobs.
I’d prefer we don’t attempt to deflect valid criticism with snarky or otherwise variations “other people do it too”...
Parent post was confusingly worded.

he's saying windows as a programming platform is dead. You can keep .Net and Java, its just going to be .Net core and Java, and its going to run on linux machines.

Its a matter of time until Visual Studio runs on linux, but that's the direction they're heading. Visual Studio Code already does
A common misconception. I think the average conservative definitely believes that we need to take measures to protect this planet. We just don't necessarily believe that government should be the method of action. Traditionally the market is vastly more efficient at solving these hard problems...
I mean, it's 2018, who the hell knows?

Poe's law needs a grim reaper like avatar, ruining your karma when you thought you were making a joke.