photogrammetry

That's pretty neat!

That actor hardly has an accent at all. Seems like you're just trolling at this point.

I'm sort of surprised to see you're getting downvoted by all the greedy wanna-be zillionaire founders. If they had any brains, they'd be the ones developing this compression code and getting the million-dollar bonuses.

FYI - Indians who have emigrated to the Americas are known as Indian-Americans, while Native Americans (who were here before any of us) assume the title of American Indians.

Do you really disagree with brokenmachine's premise that poor English makes communication impossible?

Or is it, rather, that Sam and YC {and venture capital in general}, by proxy through you, are annoyed at decreasing access to low-wage workers from a developing country notorious for unintelligible accents?

Affirmative.

Altman is literally the greediest person in SV.

Quite beautiful. Thank you for the quote.

You're a little late. The great-grandparent post was long gone from the front page by the time you detached mine.

It wasn't. Perhaps we should be thanking sama, on the other hand.

But, how are posters on HN supposed to get upvotes if they don't say something alarming/negative? Positive comments are explicitly discouraged in the "community guidelines." Perhaps we should consider whether sama or pg had a greater influence on that.

Yep. This article seems like yet another of MIT's attempts to aggrandize its "scientific reputation" in every field, even when the 'insights' gained are obvious or non-novel.

Thanks, dang and sctb, for encouraging people to flag and neg my comment wishing Geohot good luck.

It makes reading HN impossible.

INB4 no meta discussions.

How long is it until literally every comment on HN is just "this is unrelated, but x."

They did so mostly because they considered themselves academically/intellectually above the Nobel Prize and prizes in general. I'm not a mind reader.

Sartre was an independent, free spirited academic. Le Duc Tho was a revolutionary. Obama is a career politician who was just elected president. Why do you think he would or should have turned it down?

It's a little annoying on mobile - if you read to the bottom, you have to press back ~15 times to cycle back through the sections get to the previous page.

There's a LEAF available with 125 mile range, and next year's model is said to have a 60kWh battery (meaning 200+ miles).

The LEAF looks way better than the Juke.

You don't need a domain for S3. It's usually something like mybucket.s3.region.amazonaws.com.

>And videos the company had distributed, which suggested they were made with the Magic Leap tech, were actually produced by a special effects studio.

Wow. They were claiming it was filmed through "Magic Leap Technology," but if it was really just CGI, that's grounds for a lawsuit.

They could bribe those poor people with $2 a year not to burn trash.

It is colossally stupid to do this jet engine experiment rather than spend their $20 million on, say, preventing the city's poor from burning trash.

But why address the root cause of a problem when you can treat the symptom in an extremely stupid, expensive, and temporary way?

Well, they're only just barely contained. Things spew out radiation like nobody's business.

From your link:

>So now Phil Katz is dead. He drank himself to death, alone in a motel room, a bottle of booze in his hand and five empties in the room. One can only guess what drove him to such a tragic end, but it is a fitting demise for a man whose professional reputation is based entirely on a lie.

What a heartless asshole.

Really hate this meme of "right brain is parallel processor, left brain is serial processor." Biologists cannot keep pretending that this is a valid comparison without any objective evidence. [1]

[1] Especially if they keep saying "we are energy beings." Please.

Are you implying that Tesla killed the (1 person, not people) who decided to let his car slam into a tractor-trailer on cruise control?

It's not a problem to you that, say, Apple has "financed the suicides of dozens of Foxconn workers," or that GM killed 140 people by suppressing information on a defective ignition switch, or that Lockheed Martin and Halliburton buoy their stock by selling weapons to kill hundreds of thousands of people?

Evidently, you must find totally acceptable the gun-running, terrorist-sponsoring activities of HSBC in the last few years. I bet Google's permabanning of people from their own Google Apps accounts (because they were reselling a couple Pixel phones) is ethically fine with you, as well.

Never mind the tens of thousands of preventable automobile deaths yearly because car manufacturers refuse to implement even the most rudimentary of Autopilot functions.

Yeah, totally reasonable to pick on the electric car / solar battery company with $3b in revenue since one dope decided to drive into a truck and behead himself. There's nobody else deserving of criticism whatsoever.

Let's not even get started with how cocky their CEO has been with his fancy sustainable business plans!

p.s. I won't even attempt an ad hominem at the guy selling homeopathics and 'nutritional supplements' in this thread.

The title, it should be disclaimed, is not what the astronauts or flight controllers believed. It's a poor abbreviation of the following:

"No, when bad things happened, we just calmly laid out all the options, and failure was not one of them. We never panicked, and we never gave up on finding a solution."

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kranz#.22Failure_is_not_a...