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I do not understand how someone can write such nonsense.

Are you familiar with a country called Iraq? It is nearby to Syria, and was often in the news not too long ago, surely you must of heard of this place?

You want the UN to administer ethics, the organization that thinks Saudi Arabia should be in charge of human rights?[0]

But perphaps that's just the normal in an age when some western commenter still believes the developed world has any roll in lecturing others on ethics, should these lectures occur during or after the class on how to torture, or perhaps after the panel discussion of why Cuba is an excellent place to lock up foreigners indefinitely, foreigners we even admit aren't guilty of any crimes.

The extreme myopia on display in this thread is plenty of reason for why violence begets violence, its sad and laughable that commenters believes the western world played no role in the millions of deaths and refugees that have come about since 9-11.

What most commentators have wrong is that the violence in France wasn't an act of terrorism, but just another battle in the decade plus war that's been mostly happening in the Middle East, only this time the battle occurred on the streets of Paris instead of outside Kabul, or in Mosul, or in the outskirts of Damascus. Westerners seen to have forgotten that their politicians have been waging a war for them, and now their politicians want to engage in even more of the same. insanity.

[0]http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2015/09/20/saudi-arabia-wi...
Or this for $6.99: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JG3M47E
I think that spoke more to the conditions they were leaving than it does to the message they received.
Today a group of passionate undergraduates (guesstimate about 24 people) could probably design and build the schematics for the mask from ground up (not copying) as a semester project without neglecting the rest of their courses. The theory, the course material and the free tools (e.g for CAD and simulation) are that good!

44 years ago though, only a few talented engineers worldwide could implement it. :)
"When the government is able to collect tax and seize
private property without just compensation, it is an indication that the
public is ripe for surrender and is consenting to enslavement and legal
encroachment. A good and easily quantified indicator of harvest time is
the number of public citizens who pay income tax despite an obvious lack
of reciprocal or honest service from the government."
I like to think of nature as taking over object generation where stars left off (and some more duns mental object builders before stars). You need nature to create high order objects and elements and to combine them in novel ways.
For all you know I am naive.
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This depends entirely on the distribution you choose, not in any way on Linux.

As a sibling pointed out, Arch is a rolling release distribution, and is consistently running the latest kernel along with the latest version of any software. In the rare case that something is not maintained in the official repositories, or you need a non-standard installation, there is the community maintained Arch User Repository, with anything you might want. It is very common to see builds in the AUR that are maintained directly against GitHub main branches.

You only mention PPAs and Debian-based distributions. Debian is known to be conservative in its release cycle, though testing is often quite up to date, and unstable keeps you on par with Arch.

Fedora, with a 6-month release cycle, also keeps you quite up to date compared with tracking Debian stable.

Package management is a fairly well solved problem in the Linux space. You just need to find a distribution with a release cycle that aligns better with your own needs.
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Hey. I also hate being in the limelight. But if it's good for business I get over it and have. Just like I get over many things that I need to do in business to make it work. (I have cleaned toilets and done grunt work and still take out the trash. I do things with my wife in personal life that I hate to do in order to have a good relationship as well as I am sure everyone does).
Check out this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0081

Your interpretation is fine up until we start using a cutoff and talking about significant or not significant results, whether the null hypothesis is true, etc. It is using significance levels that introduces the nonsense.
Want to post a couple of quotes I think we all can agree with.

"On college campuses, we are having continuing debates about safe spaces. As a teacher, I think carefully about the intellectual space I want to foster in my classroom — a space where debate, dissent and even protest are encouraged. I want to challenge students and be challenged. I don’t want to shape their opinions. I want to shape how they articulate and support those opinions. I do not believe in using trigger warnings because that feels like the unnecessary segregation of students from reality, which is complex and sometimes difficult."

and

"While no one is guaranteed absolute safety, and everyone knows suffering, there are dangers members of certain populations will never know. There is a degree of safety members of certain populations will never know. White people will never know the dangers of being black in America, systemic, unequal opportunity, racial profiling, the constant threat of police violence. Men will never know the dangers of being a woman in America, harassment, sexual violence, legislated bodies. Heterosexuals will never know what it means to experience homophobia.

Those who take safety for granted disparage safety because it is, like so many other rights, one that has always been inalienable to them. They wrongly assume we all enjoy such luxury and are blindly seeking something even more extravagant. They assume that we should simply accept hate without wanting something better. They cannot see that what we seek is sanctuary. We want to breathe."
Any science based on simulation, any member of the public should be able to download, compile and run on their PC and get exactly the same results. It's the only way to be completely transparent. C and FORTRAN compilers are free.
Definitely, if you just want implement one in a HDL. For instance the RISC-V ISA has been implemented multiple times in various languages [for instance: https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-sodor]. RISC-V is quite a bit more complex than the 4004 ISA.

If you want to DIY the entire chip, as in manually lay out the transistors, I suppose it can be done if you have quite a bit of experience in electrical engineering, but it'd be rather cumbersome given the 'modern' (as far as HDL tooling is modern) tooling that is already available.
The actual power being used here, the Congressional subpoena power, doesn't have anything to do with whether something is public property or not, so that isn't the basis they're claiming. It's a general quasi-judicial investigatory power, which can be used to compel any person to both appear physically, and turn over any documents in their possession that Congress, in their sole discretion, believes might be important to decisions made by Congress. That obviously has significant scope for abuse, which is why Congressional subpoenas tend to be controversial, especially if they're fishing expeditions.
Having read posts on both HN and hearing from other founders, I'd always assumed for years that it was common knowledge that Jessica was so integral to YC.

Then again, I have noticed some of the changing narrative on the founding of YC and it's good that pieces like this are being written to prevent erasure. I've heard her speak both times at Columbia and have only heard wonderful things about her, so I'm glad this piece exists - hopefully the narrative will shift back to what I had thought it was in the future.
Does cling support a C99 or C11 mode?

A lot of times, for C development and related endeavors, I want to quickly determine the size of a struct or do some quick tests with strange arithmetic or casting or whatever else. Usually I just write a tiny test program, compile it, run it, and look at my printf output. This is pretty slow though. Having a C REPL would be quite nice.

It would be nice to see a wrapper around GCC that does this, for, say, a kernel source REPL.
"Encumbered" sounds just as dogmatic to me. It is very difficult to use absolutely neutral language. The kind of responses that the GPL elicits from some detractors is frequently akin to hatred.

But point taken, I've changed it to "dislike" so that nobody is accused of hatred.
any religious movement producing exponential people in a logarithmic resource producing world, should not feel sorry for the social dynamites side effects, i agree. Irresponsible is just how god made us in his image.
Its the planners, the schemers, the scientists, trying to control there little world, by heaping surplus on cost savings, trying to keep society stable ahead of the curve. You were a schemer, you had plans, look at what that got you. Me, im a dog chasing cars, i wouldn't know what to do if i caught one..
A company called Xtremedata Inc used to make an FPGA coprocessor module that plugged into an x86 socket using AMD hyper transport bus. I thought it was cool enough to do my MASc thesis on some potential applications for it:

http://www.hypertransport.org/docs/wp/FPGA_Acceleration_in_H...
Wrong. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to repeat most of the basic calculations which give similar results.
Last spring, France passed a quite intrusive bill that pretty much legalized mass-interception of communications. The general public didn't really care much.
Ah, I have never programed for Android devices. Thanks for pointing this out.
History books are as bad or worse than the tech press.

Taken to extremes, you get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man_theory
Although my field is AI/machine learning, my life revolves around Linux.

That said, while Linux on the Laptop keeps getting better, so also does OS X. Ignoring complaints about privacy for a minute, Windows 10 is also very nice to use.

I am resigned to mostly just using Linux just on my servers.

Edit: that is, my Linux experience is now SSH shells on remote servers, which is still good.
That's just NP though. NP-hard means that if you have an algorithm that runs in NP to an HP-hard, you can solve all of them (with a polynomial-time transformation).
I usually read "X is all but Y" as "X is Y in all but name", but there are subtle distinctions that could be hard for a non-native speakers[1] to grasp without knowing about them.

1: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9967/all-but-idio...
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In the UK are the advertised rates for the monthly plans accurate? Here in the USA, every advertised rate has an asterisk next to it with a lot of fine print. I pay 50% more per month than the advertised rate after all the fees they tack on.
On the contrary, surprisingly enough, it does not seem to be the case that poverty causes terrorism--either within a country (poorer people aren't more likely to become terrorists) or between countries (people from poorer countries aren't more likely to become terrorists).

https://www.nber.org/digest/sep02/w9074.html

http://www.economist.com/node/17730424
What an amazing book, still to this day.
> Working for free is a luxury for the people not struggling to ends meet.

This is true for markets where there really is no other alternative than working for free. You are certainly referring to children of wealthy parents who can afford to do unpaid or low-paid internships and entry level jobs in industries like media, the arts, or sports.

When you are talking about contract development work, which exists a robust market for paid work, even if all similar gov't contracts gets done at the $1 it would not much affect someones ability to sell their skills in the private markets.
He's saying that if the investor wants a Treasury, the only way you can sell that to him is with a Treasury. If he's open to a swap, you can sell (write) that contract to him and hedge it with either a Treasury or another swap.

The only way to deliver a Treasury is with a Treasury, which you have to track down out of inventory or from another dealer. You can write a swap without having to go through that ordeal. This means lower transaction costs.
Please don't use CINT. It's good for a few things, specifically histograms, but too many grad student-years have been wasted on segfaults, stack overflows, and cryptic error messages. I haven't had the chance to use cling, but CINT will almost always bite you in the ass as soon as your code is non trivial.
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It's probably wise to enjoy "business biographies" as lying somewhere on the floor closer to the fiction aisle than the non-fiction.

Most stories are pitched by PR firms (or the other side of the same coin, attempted take-downs). Either way, they're ready-fire-aim -- finding facts to fit a conclusion.

First and foremost they are stories -- written by someone attempting, under deadline, to fit messy, complicated reality into a simple, entertaining narrative to hold your eyeballs.

Think of them as professional fan (or anti-fan) fiction.

Even long-form articles and books that interview many people, while admirable efforts, present a pretty small slice of reality.
I agree the situation isn't directly analogous, though presumably one only reads updates from people whom one wishes to follow.

I was trying to suggest that, with respect to this particular issue, social media has simply amplified a human tendency that has existed historically. In other words, it hasn't produced some "emergent" phenomenon that merits special consideration, as this article suggests.
The hard part of a service like Facebook or Twitter is actually getting the users. Scaling is a problem that has been solved ages ago. It is something that will come naturally as you throw money/people on a service that is growing organically.
No, it's not. "I can do it cheaper" implies that I can get my costs down lower. "I can do it for free" means that I'm ignoring any of my costs.
Go further back than life to molecules and the same is probably true. Everything is a holon.
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The Syrian civil war might still have happened if the US hadn't already destabilized Iraq. But Iraq directly led to ISIS, which is partly composed of Iraqi ex-Baathists and holds a large amount of ground in Iraq along traditional Sunni divisions; arguably ISIS would not be the organization it is today if its scope had been geographically and politically limited to Syria.
Who cares if I can run a formula/program that tells me Y from X if I can't understand/trust the program/formula ?

If you think that stuff like economics/climatology/etc. has the same level of rigor and validation applied to it as established and verified theories from hard science then boy do I have some bad news for you (struggling for SD 2 as ideal vs SD 5 for eg.).
Meta: Finally, a comment that isn't hung up on the scrolling behaviour, or the price of the mining power. It's notable the rsync.net has similar, terrible web behaviour, but we seem to have sane discussions about it's service.

On topic: I think the neat part of 21 is that it seems to be a step forward in realising microtransactions, in a decentralised manner. Right now the only way around microtransactions is having a centralised pool, where you e.g. put $5/month in, and it pays services out of that pool. The problem with paying services directly is the base fees associated with transactions (for CC, it's around $0.15 + 3%, through Stripe).
Wikileaks them both. Problem solved.
> The ethics and morality of giving is kind of complicated.

No, it's really quite simple. It's the ethics and morality (and circuitous justification) of being upset by others giving that's complicated.

I built a friend of a friend a billing system for his fledgling business. Didn't charge a dime. I even got sucked in to support for much longer than I really wanted, since no good deed goes unpunished. Was it unethical of me to undercut the other people who might have wanted to provide those services for money?

I did some free consulting last week. A friend is starting a company and hasn't hired devs yet, so I met him for a half day and we worked on system architecture. I told him ahead of time that I was happy to do it for free. He had the money to pay a consultant, but every bit he saves now extends his runway. He bought me a beer. Unethical?

Last year my water heater failed catastrophically and dumped its water all over the floor. I went to my next door neighbor and said, "hey, is there a plumber you recommend around here?" and his response was "don't waste your money on a plumber. That's an easy job, and I can help. Let's go to Home Depot." He spent the whole day helping me. Literally took a paying job that I was planning to pay a plumber to do. Should plumbers be upset about their work being devalued?
This old imperialist stories get... old. I'd say the Syrians bombed the Syrians. And the situation is complicated and nobody knows how to help and/or what to do.

You're comparision between bombing terrorists in Syria and murdering civilists in French is.. <not ideal> (leaving out words what I really think)
The - and = are right next to each other on an English keyboard.
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Clearly, YC is able to succeed as a business without Jessica being in the limelight.
Jessica sounds awesome! It is nice to see YC allow her to add value based on her strengths rather than forcing her into roles where her strengths would be lost.
> more (idiomatic) libraries and tools

Except almost all the tools work with the pre-java-8 way of doing things (and often even pre-java-7). Thus, you end up with layers of different idioms, all of which are not quite compatible with each other.
The readme seems to suggest it uses reference counting and doesn't do anything special about reference cycles:

> Another thing is garbage collection. It seems to be the silver bullet of automatic memory management when it comes to scripting languages, but it has some definitive, serious downsides. Non-deterministic behavior is one, speed is two, memory overhead is three, the difficulty of a decent implementation is four. Reference counting is a simpler approach that is more lightweight, easier to implement, completely deterministic and it has no memory allocation overhead (a program uses only as much memory as needed). Refcounting has its disadvantages too (e. g. memory leaks caused by cyclic references), but I believe that its good properties outweigh them.
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It made me leave the website almost immediately, despite being somewhat interested. It's not usable for me on a totally standard MacBook Air, because as soon as I even touch the trackpad, the website decides to scroll up a whole page, when of course I wanted to scroll down.

I'm not interested in fighting with ridiculous scrolling games. If they don't care about testing their ridiculous scrolling plugins, I don't care about their product.

Sometimes I reach out to companies on Twitter or email telling them to please disable their weird scrolling effects. Nobody seems to care. I conclude that this behavior signifies a company that doesn't care about user experience.

By now I'm a little curious about these things, so I did a simple test of starting at the top and trying to scroll down to read the rest of the page. I can't find any way to consistently scroll to the third page. Just touching the touchpad on the second page causes an upwards scroll, even when I'm very obviously trying to scroll down.
> If bad founders succeed at all, they tend to sell early. The most successful founders are almost all good.

I wonder what chances these people would have if they were to apply to YC now: Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jack Dorsey etc.
The only thing holding me into the iPhone is the relative camera quality (not megapixel count, quality) of the meaningfully cheaper Androids. As someone with a mild interest in artsy photography but not enough to carry a DSLR, that's indispensable. Sure the Nexus camera is fine for posed group photos for Facebook, but having had a Nexus 6 for a while, I'd feel a need to carry a dedicated camera.
Then have a separate group of scientists reproduce the results and review the methodology used. Their publication should provide all the information necessary to reproduce and evaluate their findings. All the possible 'evidence' of misconduct will be there in the data.

Using a subpoena to threaten scientists for finding results you don't agree with is a form of censorship.
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I've used Ragel extensively with both C and Go; I can't recommend it more highly enough!

Thanks Adrian for your efforts.
It's kind of like that "overnight success, ten years in the making" thing. People want the clickbait, the sensationalist stories, even though they are almost never representative of real life. That's because the media's incentives are to get a lot of eyeballs, and not necessarily to provide an accurate retelling of events, which means they'll take the divisive, explosive angle whenever they can, whether the tone is negative (woman being harassed) or positive (mythical superhuman Steve Jobs accomplishes mythical feat all by himself), because that's what gets people clicking.
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What? No it's not. If anything, it's the opposite of that. There is no way this guy could survive on that little money.
> Smith has the right to subpoena the emails. They're public property.

Not necessarily -- they might be, ianal, but it's not the case that all government e-mails are automatically part of the public record. I recall from back in my journalism days that government workers have some assurance of confidentiality w/r/t e-mail communications if that assurance is needed to effectively carry out their job.
Right, but she doesn't need to be in the limelight.
Nice work!!.

Side comment: I was expecting some sort of a 'marketplace' to emerge for react components. I am surprised by so few reusable react components.
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What is "PG"? I think it's Paul Graham, but I think it's really pointless to make that acronym.
lex is more opinionated (in today's parlance). Ragel is easier to embed in your own code.
The redshift binary can be built without any of the GUI stuff at all, so some of the bloat complaint is a bit over-blown - more a fault of the port provider to not offer the option of a stripped down install perhaps?
None of my BTC friends understand who this product is for.

You can develop for Bitcoin either by a) using chain.com or blockchain.info or b) by installing Bitcoin on your computer and waiting for the blockchain to sync.

Can anyone explain why one would want this?
As a reminder, Lamar Smith was the creator of SOPA in the House. After that whole mess, they let this guy be in charge of the Science Committee in the House...
How do we know leaving the Mideast alone would not work? We've literally never tried it. Not since then end of World War II anyway.

Human civilization may not be a naturally "stable system" but Western intervention in the Mideast or anywhere has an extremely poor track record.
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It is true that the vast majority of companies engage in spin and carefully consider what is said from a PR perspective.

Examples of this are so obvious and ubiquitous, it would be insulting to most HN readers to point them out. So, why should we not be equally skeptical when it's YC? Do we consider them above brand management and putting a positive spin on a mistake by an exec?
what's advertised is what you pay, they also have to include VAT. WHat type of fee's are they tacking on top in your case?
big NES fan here, not a low level programmer - can someone ELI5?