skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you call it efficient? They were scanning a book every few seconds! While cutting the spines off and running the pages through a sheet feeder requires sustained human interaction for every book.
Truth to be told - I'll buy one
It's only a matter of time before someone uses a bigger drone to get out.
Overpopulation is a non-problem. Fertility has fallow to near- or below-replacement rate everywhere in the world, except Afrika (which will likely follow in the next decades.)

A nice talk from Hans Rosling on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA5BM7CE5-8
If only they could send unwanted girls from India to China.
I thought the same. For me the harder parts is Dev-Ops and advanced SQL with anti-patterns.

Heroku and ActiveRecord with Redis helps mitigate that.
You mean like the problem of telling people they can't just drive cars or own firearms and need to meet some competence criteria first, i.e. licensing?

If so, I totally support the idea of licensing human breeding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_esca...
Are you joking?
Imposters
The link to the "whistleblower narrative" at the bottom is quite interesting.

http://www.peer.org/assets/docs/usda/10_26_15_Lundgren_Whist...

First impression is the Papiernik character is a micro-manager who may or may not have control issues. Then again you have to consider who wrote the narrative.
I need one! Although it looks like you'll have a dental check-up once you sit down ;)
People are trying to build alternatives, see http://www.patoline.org/ for example
Orwell estate again rattling copyright saber over 1984 novel
A pension crisis in China would be tremendously disastrous; something one can barely picture.

With growth and technology, fertility rates goes down and emerging markets,specially BRIC nations, will be severely affected by this.
Goo Create adds support for 3D transformed HTML mixed into a WebGL Scene
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I've tried it a few times, but it's just so painful when you want things to align. Now, if you had a really good code layout tool that could 'snap' parts of lines so that they horizontally align at sensible places, I think non-monospace fonts could be useful.

In fact, having smart alignment would be great even with monospace fonts. I work in emacs and it's frustrating when the editor decides to 'fix' your own spacing because the editor-mode doesn't have a very intelligent layout system...
Hey thanks for the question!

Svven is quite different from Flipboard, it may seem more like Nuzzel but it's different from that as well. Lemme explain..

IMO Flipboard is a beautiful RSS and social reader where users subscribe to various feeds. And because it works on the subscription model (like Twitter or whatever RSS tool), users inevitably get overloaded with lots of content. There's no proper filtering on Flipboard.

Nuzzel is a filtering tool, very useful if you're already subscribed to (ie follow) lots of profiles on Twitter. Simple tool for power users.

Svven on the other hand is a discovery tool, and the way it works is quite unique.
It starts from the links you tweet, and automatically discovers similar people (aka fellows) based on that. Then it aggregates the news tweeted by these fellows -- so this 2nd step is kinda like what Nuzzel does.

Because of this approach Svven works pretty well for Twitter users that haven't figured out who to follow yet. They only need to tweet a couple of links so Svven discovery kicks in and figures out the rest. This also introduces an important incentive for users to tweet what matters to them. So you see although they look alike, Svven is quite different from Nuzzel.
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I went looking for something like this a few months ago. I only found http://www.ergoquest.com/. Wide range of products but very pricey, just as this one.

A cheaper, DIY alternative is possible with good monitor stand/arms and a recliner.
Haha yes true. Windows 95 second release wasn't so bad. But as you said, 98 was bad. It was better with service packs. You realised what junk it was when you looked at 98's task manager compared to NT's and XP's.
The guarantees offered by functional programming and immutable data are great, but they mostly evaporate when you move from a single process application to a multiple processes system, distributed on many machines and communicating through IPC.

Are you aware of a 2M lines code base that fully relies on FP and immutable data?
China abandons one-child policy after 35 years
> "the preponderance of the evidence" or "clear and convincing"

Not if I'm on the jury.
Due to already declining birth rates, human population is expected to peak around 11 billion people in approximately 2100.[1] I will grant that the error bars are quite large, and that there is no certainty that the planet can handle even that number, but it bothers me that there are still people that seem to believe in Malthusian exponential growth.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
Linked article gives background to [1] which is discussed at [2].

[1] https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/10/sustaining...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467452
Taiwanese Kidnappers Receive $1.68M Bitcoin Ransom from Billionaire Yuk-Kwan
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The Debian Administrator's Handbook, Debian Jessie from Discovery to Mastery
A new edition of the 'Debian Administrator's Handbook' is available for free to download [0], and free to browse online [1], thanks to Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas.

There's also a paper version with a 25% discount until Sunday [2].

[0]

Epub: https://debian-handbook.info/download/jessie/debian-handbook.epub

Mobipocket: https://debian-handbook.info/download/jessie/debian-handbook.mobi

PDF: https://debian-handbook.info/download/jessie/debian-handbook.pdf

[1] https://debian-handbook.info/browse/jessie/

[2] http://www.lulu.com/shop/rapha%C3%ABl-hertzog-and-roland-mas/the-debian-administrators-handbook-debian-jessie-from-discovery-to-mastery/paperback/product-22408803.html
You know you've made it when you can casually say “I don’t know how to make a screenshot, because I normally use my computer in text-mode.”

Badass Richard.
Can you give some examples? That sounds like some old wives tale to me.
Those bits won't change that much over time once the project becomes stable. It's not much of an issue.
I think documents and hyperlinks are still relevant. Much of the content on the web is just formatted articles, which I wouldn’t mind receiving in plaintext and formatting myself (and indeed many services, such as Instapaper and Readability, have functions for the very purpose of stripping and reformatting text online). I think that web apps will remain relevant as far as the eye can see However, there is definitely a clear distinction between document and application, even if they are currently transmitted using the same protocols; distinguishing them from each other would allow numerous usage optimizations for documents (at the very least) such as the visual links of Xanadu and the sole usage of compressed plain text.
On the subject of managers and systems thinking: http://www.safetydifferently.com/if-it-werent-for-the-manage...
That's interesting. Yes my information is, in the end, anecdotal. It's good to get a concrete numbers (but note that transfer is not acquittal). Thanks for the adjustment.
How about holding the prosecutor responsible for the 1988 murder by Mark Norwood[0]. Norwood's DNA was found at the scene. Maybe some more investigation in the Morton case(opposed to sitting on evidence) would have put Norwood in jail before he committed the 1988 crime.

But certainly, if Michael Morton was never wrongfully convicted, that DNA would have been matched to the Morton murder and this would have been solved decades ago.

[0] http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/mark-alan-norwood-found...
It also opens the door to automatic code modification (like goimports or gorename), and because the code is always formatted the same, you avoid "noise" in your diffs related to trivial changes (spacing, etc.).
10 days in prison is not enough.
"The idea that you, or the mob would hack any school district, let alone "hundreds" is dubious. Precisely how? From one school district to the next, you'll have what to hack? What degree of variety would that involve in terms of the diversity of systems."

Then, I suppose that you need to hack clever :-)

https://clever.com/
Can you share a link? Is it http://www.visbit.co/ ? If it is, it looks very nice.

Even if you have a good product, maybe it's not outstanding - I'm not sure how many people applied, but it's probably even more than the 10.000 they received last year, so you have to REALLY stand out.

Who knows, maybe you were in 200th place out of 10.000 and you barely missed the cut.

The good thing is, the market doesn't care :) it doesn't have a 100 startup limit :)

If you want some unsolicited feedback from a fellow YC-reject: IMO, Visbit is not a novel idea, and you're competing with Google and Facebook and Microsoft and Apple, so yes, maybe the business idea is not what they're looking for.

Your page doesn't immediately tell me what your product is about (the value proposition) or why I should use it. The only meaningful copy I found is "urgent need of a mobile app for easy and powerful photo management", so is it a photo management software app? (that might be useful :) , but I don't think it's "urgent")

I also spotted a few errors in your copy, and also in your post (I don't think "well-collaborate team" is good English, and in the web page, "Creation from Today" is also not idiomatic English), that might have subtly hindered you.
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your source doesn't support your claim at all...

> "increase to 11.2 billion in the year 2100"

> "may rise to 16 billion by 2100"

> "forecasts between 9.3 and 12.6 billion in 2100, and continued growth thereafter"

> "World population to hit 11bn in 2100 – with 70% chance of continuous rise"
BBC journalist has laptop seized under counter-terrorism laws
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I'm curious as to why they need to destroy the books? Remember Google's open book scanner?

http://linearbookscanner.org/

https://code.google.com/p/linear-book-scanner/
Yes, in exchange for giving the state a monopoly on violence, people need reassuring that the state is going to dispense an appropriate amount of it when required.
And, as a German:

EC 244/2009 led to lots of LED manufacturers trying to push their products and competing, leading to 8W 1200 Lumen warm-white LED light bulbs being available for less than 15€ by now everywhere.

In my family, before the regulation we had several light bulbs and mercury-bulbs from IKEA which were expensive, but now we switched to these LEDs and have better light at lower cost. (At $0.40 per kWh German electricity prices make switching to LED make sense).

Also many fun fair attraction owners switched to LED, and quickly discovered how having a programmable LED array is far better for flashy lights than few larger lights.

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In general, though: Yes. It always happens.

Same as in the refugee crisis, too. For the cost of building fences between all the EU countries that we did, we could have built a fence at the outer borders twice.
If it's profitable for a generic limousine transfer services, why it's not profitable for Uber? Blacklane seems to be profitable too.
The day that I start listening to Bob Lutz is the day I get a total frontal lobotomy and I am unable to make rational decisions. Using Lutz's logic, pretty much every startup in existence is also doomed as well.

Bob is a moron, plain and simple.
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Hey, the PHP creator included a selfie!

(Full disclosure: I write PHP on a daily basis, and reject the opinion that it should be avoided for various reasons, but I recognise the stereotype (that it's not a very 'good' language) enough to derive humour from it - consider it sort of self-deprecating)
Plus I think there's a big difference in respect a full-stack team / tech leader garners over someone who doesn't really understand the technical challenges of half the team.
Maybe that's what just_curioussss meant, but he wrote the opposite.
>It was also highly effective way to reduce poverty.

Citation needed; correlation does not equal causation. Other East Asian countries showed similar reductions in fertility in spite of no similar policies, and much greater reductions in poverty.

China vs. India vs. Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea): GDP per capita versus fertility rate

http://www.google.se/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&ct...

Taiwan excluded because it seems to be missing from that dataset.
Not speed-wise. Complexity-wise. And there's a real risk of mismatched pieces. They'd all have to have predictable unqiue shapes otherwise.
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I love Rosling's talks.
Unfortunately, that quickly leads into fashist territory (eugenics)...
Yay!

Folks, please feel welcome to Ask Me Anything.
Yeah it confuses me when I meet backend developers who can't deploy their app for example.

If you can't:

a) Tell me what libs your app requires & how to install them in a resonable way
b) The privledges required to run said app
c) The security implications
d) How to scale your app, particularly what I need to do to get it to behave over multiple servers
e) be resonably sure your code is working
f) Write some code to automate the deploy of this.

Then you're probably just not that amazing of a developer.
Reminds me of this[0] article that showed up a couple of days ago, which is about a Chinese economist that suggested to legalize marriage between 1 woman and multiple men. Didn't go over to well as I'm sure you can imagine.

[0] http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/china-polyand...
See After Innocence (free on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWyaolBlXVc) for a disturbing portrayal of wrongful convictions in the United States.

The men exonerated by the Innocence Project (99% proven wrongfully convicted are men) serve an average of thirteen years before exoneration, sometimes years after the exoneration happens.

The documentary shows prosecutors keeping people in prison, and therefore guilty people free, with impunity.

The Innocence Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_Project
> "If so, I totally support the idea of licensing human breeding."

That sort of licensing is ripe for abuse. What would happen if someone in power took that license away from you just because they didn't agree with your political views?
A list of resources about the UI/UX considerations for VR
Arrow This: Clearing Up Confusion Over Arrow Functions
xwinman still has some 2000s screenshots from many desktop and window managers: http://xwinman.org/
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There have been others, at least one last year. I don't know why they say this is the first.
Ask HN: What CRM Should I Use?
I'm looking for a simple CRM that has the following:

1. Bulk email send
2. Good canned responses
3. The ability group leads based on position in funnel
4. Easy to use and setup
5. Something light-weight

Any suggestions? I've tried the big names out there with no luck.

Thanks!
One thing that I have started doing is planning out what I want to do in a day. Perhaps that could help you.
Looks like a lot of large social media companies are open sourcing their MySQL sharding & management tools lately. This is awesome!
My favorite so far is Youtube's Vitess though, since it enables writing dumb clients. The vtgate proxy forwards queries to the right shard similar to Twemproxy.
http://vitess.io
And all the bullshit that UK's tabloids like to write, than then gets regurgitated by the regular press in the mainland. Things like "straightening bananas", "reclassifying snails as fish", "declaring juice to be a juice" - every time I actually went to check the actual regulations, they made absolute, perfect sense. But the press misrepresents it to mock the EU and thus general population believes EU is just bunch of idiot bureaucrats out to codify everything.
I don't want to solve a riddle here, but I am genuinely interested in the evidence supporting the nativist hypothesis in this context, especially on how you'd pass abstract information through genes. Do you have any reference, a good scientific paper that could be an entry point?
> This is quite expensive compared to systems such as Civitas, but it is arguably, cheaper than the current system where governments often count vote ballots by hand.

Maybe cheaper, but I'm not sure if having to trust my computer with an important vote like that is better than having to trust a voting booth, ballot box and my eyes when the votes are being tallied. I think the slowness of manual tallying is a security property since anyone can inspect the computation while it's being run. All other technologies like Civitas, Scantegrity etc. are not cheaper but more expensive than this manual process and open up great possibilities for state level adversaries.

I think your system (using peoples computers) might be trusted when the stakes are lower though. Interesting project :)
I think it's a pretty interesting product, it also looks pretty polished, and I guess it could find some traction among large companies, government, etc. :) , I guess they're looking at it because they're the ones that need inventory and documentation the most - I work for an insurance company, and I'm going to send the link to the people that manage the datacenter - they strongly dislike anything SaaS through, they might eventually consider it as a standalone or self-hosted product, but forget about it, SaaS is a much better business model :) .

But I don't think it's what Y Combinator looks for - it's not something that will scale to Unicorn-size, it looks more like a good candidate for a bootstrapped startup.

Edit: some nitpicks, "There is no obligations!" on the pricing page doesn't sound right. I do like the "Take no hostages" pledge :) but if it looks like customers might be bigger businesses, you could re-write it to be more serious-sounding.

Edit2: from the guy that manages our datacenter: "It looks nice, we'll take a look".
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Are you going to force women to abort "unlicensed" children? Force women to have birth control implants?

Up until the 1990s in Spain, many thousands of children were systematically stolen from political activists and others with the wrong politics or wrong lifestyle. Parents were told that their newborn had died.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15335899
> It's not. The Bundesrepublik Deutschland took over what was once the GDR.

Exactly. The GDR was dissolved, the FRG simply swallowed the remnants.

> The US and its allies transferred as much as the soviet union from Germany - though from a larger zone.

I'm not arguing the morality of it -- Nazi Germany had wreaked havoc in the USSR (and some Germans were surprised to see how well the soldiers treated them considering how badly the Soviets had been treated by Germany).

But the industry of East Germany was demolished to a far greater extent than that of West Germany. I'm well aware of the plans for West Germany that were discussed prior to the decision to grow it into an ally (rather than to de-industrialize it beyond insignificance).

My point is simply this: while West Germany had become an economic powerhouse deeply integrated into European and international economics, East Germany's economy was largely a farce. By the time the borders were opened, the country was heading for disaster.

What's more, after the reunification most of what little industry East Germany had moved to the West. It took a ton of state funding to get the east of Germany to where it is now and it's still largely defined by large-scale unemployment and an ageing population (because the young adults always seek greener pastures).

In other words: yes, Germany is a powerful economy. But East Germany was nothing like that and naturalizing all East Germans as citizens and even exchanging their devalued currency at ridiculous rates was an enormous expense.
> Windows 10 you can to some extent.

Only compared to Windows 7 or Vista maybe. Definitely no compared to, NT4/Me/2000/XP from back then.

> Sadly the same could not be sad about mainstream Linux environments

I'm still wondering what the Unity/Gnome/KDE devs smoke. From what I've gathered from Gnome users, the only way to make it bearable is by ripping out half its functionality and replacing it with (Gnome-specific) extensions. That can't be the way forward, can it?

(Although non-mainstream Linux desktops are an exception, too: Openbox e.g. didn't change too much over the last five or so years I've been using it, but it's so vastly configurable that my configuration has massively evolved over the years, and I figure it's similar for most of its users.)
The Giver’s portrayal of systematic euthanasia of the elderly comes to mind. I really hope we never have to make that kind of decision. After all, what choice could possibly be compatible with our principles of liberty, equality, respect, and fairness? This may be the hardest ethical problem we can’t afford not to solve.
Live coding in Python implemented as an Eclipse/Emacs plug in
It is wrong on so many levels. And there is going to be a checkbox for that too, to confuse users even further.
The parent links to an old article, and that's the old rule which was just overturned. Now everybody can have two -- but apparently still no more than two?
i got good suggestions from reddit.com/r/crm if you dont find it. gl
It finally happened https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4381726392_ecf7e0b162.j...
Incredibly brutally enforced at times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_abortion_of_Feng_Jianme...
Agreed, I currently do a mix of front and backend development but there is a tonne of stuff in here I didn't know about comes back to "known unknowns and unknown unknowns".

This is one hell of a resource.
Lego, or Lego bricks is what would say as a native English speaker, but I guess its really up to the Danes.
I filled out the contact form and wait for a reply.
http://www.ycombinator.com/contact/
> having smart alignment would be great even with monospace fonts.

The "smart" magic you are looking for is called "tabs".
Guessing this is conditional on getting brought to trial right? A prosecutor is going to bring a murder charge no matter who the suspect is, but that Senator's son's DUI? Or that four star general sharing classified information with his mistress? Might get pled for chump change or charges mgbt get dropped.
The lightbulb situation is a mess. For some reason people insist on buying the banned incandescent ones (things slowly change because LEDs are getting cheaper), which led to them coming back into all shops as "industrial material, not for home use". Of course everyone buys them anyway, but now that producers don't need to conform to norms for home use, they start to fail deadly. My mother bought one recently (she didn't have time to get a proper energy-saving one from a home improvement store where she buys them bulk), and we had it literally explode at home, throwing glass shards all around the kitchen, when my brother tried to turn on the light.