skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's certainly a good point, but they can do little to change their history, other than plead for forgiveness, which the state is unlikely to do, as that is now part of their origin myth.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_myth
Why do you need an account to view the content? Or, is there no content yet?
I have +3 year of experience. 40K ( per year right ?? )

Yes 1aim is looking much better and they have mostly people from outside Germany.
no gift is ever free. that is the problem.
I think you will find that one of the nice things about HN is that most people have read or skimmed the linked article before commenting. The book is explicitly mentioned in the second paragraph of the article and is alluded to in the epigraph of the article highlighting the upcoming release of the movie with the same title.
You can actually create meaningful implementations of methods on nil pointers.

if b == nil {
fmt.Println(":)")
} else {
fmt.Println(b.emote)
}

In this case, that's useless, but that's an artifact of the chosen example. I use it every so often in places where it happens to have meaning.

Go often treats nil as a legal value, which means that some of the things you might expect to crash don't, and when used idiomatically can sometimes make for shorter code. For instance, the "length" call on slices will happily take a nil and return 0, you can "append" to a nil slice and get a slice back, etc. Ultimately it's still a language with a null in it, though. There's no non-nil pointer type.
So why doesn't US take Saudi Arabia, like it took (and then abandoned) Iraq?
A few other notes. Don't have a goal to 'do a startup'. You'll try to force an idea for the sake of it, not because it makes business sense or is something you really care about.

Berlin in winter is a cruel, cold, grey place to be, and Germany in general but Berlin in particular can be a severe culture shock. I'd recommend coming in March if you can. A bit of duolingo German will help quite a bit too, if only to fumble through asking for help!

It's also one of the coolest cities on earth and after you've gotten past the honeymoon, the trough of disillusion, and really started living there, it's an experience all its own.
Showethough: Since supporting Nonprofits and Research @ycombinator is becoming the real life Plus Ultra society (#Tomorrowland).
I hope that, between the nuclear treaty and Daesh providing a common foe, we can start making more political inroads between western powers and Iran... maybe even Lebanon, too (the Beirut bombings are fresh in memory).

The hard part will, of course, be Israel's influence on western politics, since the situation is worsening there with the recent spate of stabbings and the new walls going up to protect settlements in the west bank.

With Iran and Lebanon's ties to Hezbollah, Israel will (quite reasonably, all things considered) react badly to inroads made between these countries and Israel's allies.
I hope that, between the nuclear treaty and Daesh providing a common foe, we can start making more political inroads between western powers and Iran... maybe even Lebanon, too (the Beirut bombings are fresh in memory).

The hard part will, of course, be Israel's influence on western politics, since the situation is worsening there with the recent spate of stabbings and the new walls going up to protect settlements in the west bank.
Airbnb is a great company but they seem unnecessarily greedy. They shouldn't allow people to rent out apartments without neighbor consent. They should limit the number of days that people can rent their homes. And they shouldn't allow companies to operate dozens of Airbnb locations as de facto hotels.

These are the kinds of reasonable regulations that will happen to them eventually, if they don't put constraints on themselves.
I use and highly recommend Fossil (http://www.fossil-scm.org). It can handle each of your main purposes out of the box with ease.

It's got a good command line interface, a built-in web interface, it's self-contained, and the model is easy to understand. It's simple enough that I can use it as a replacement for RCS for personal stuff (like a LaTeX document) but it scales to large projects too (it's used by SQLite and Tcl/Tk, for example).

It's also trustworthy, with a solid, portable, and well-tested code base—not a surprise since it was originally authored by D. Richard Hipp. I have no clue why it isn't more popular.
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40k Euro per year, gross. This comes out to about 28k after tax, depending on your marital and family status. This is more than enough to live on - if you're smart, you can easily save 50% of that every month, while still living the good life.

You're at a career stage where you want to try to ramp up responsibility, so an established team that's in the process of scaling is where I'd want to be. Too early and you'll be too swamped to work effectively, too late and you won't get the responsibility you want.
40% of Millennials OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities
Is this sarcasm?

I'm asking because I don't see any markers indicating that it is and I get this wrong every 3rd comment or so.

If it isn't sarcasm you are somewhat mis-informed. If it is sarcasm then please ignore this comment.

As for the Shah, he was very much there with the support of the oil industry, but that doesn't make him all bad. He wanted to make Persia a modern state and in doing so upset the Mullahs which culminated in the return of banished Ayatollah Khomeini (who resided in Paris, of all places during his exile), and how that ended we probably all already know.
> Saudi Arabia is by all measures secular

Come again?
You can find the source code on the github: https://github.com/kulakowka/1post
From: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

Is this article really appropriate for Hacker News?
Also here is a review and more background I am using to make an informed decision as to whether I want to buy this for my nephews...
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/27/kano-ships/
I fail to see the downside of a free education. The questions you might ask is what it is exactly that is being taught but in general a free education is a good thing.
Worth noting that the article was translated from its original French, so the word choice that appears in English is not the choice of the original author.
That's what they should do. Instead, they follow your coins in and out and if they don't like how you use them they freeze your account.
> "One has to live in the Muslim world to understand the immense transformative influence of religious television channels on society"

Ahem, Fox News
Thank you, I'm sure it will be even better. I am actively working on a project. This is the very first version.
I am from Berlin working at some startup company. If I were you, I would go to Berlin, if you satisfy Blue Card requirements. Within 2-3 years you can learn how startup market works in Berlin, find good connections. In 3 years afair you can apply for permanent residency. It means you don't need to work for some company, and you can start your business / consultancy. I guess you may have better opportunities here to find investors, hire people and grow your business than in Pakistan.

Berlin is a friendly city with a lot of foreigners from EU, Eastern Europe, Middle East, etc so you won't feel like a stranger here.
I don't doubt that rocks have similar compositions throughout the world, but even a cursory examination of the areas from a distance reveals many differences. For one, the US southwest doesn't have huge swaths of fine sand.

US southwest vs Saudi Arabia @ same scale http://imgur.com/a/OkRuI
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Slowly, one bank at a time.

When I legally changed my name last year, I got all new credit cards. Only two of my new cards have chips.

Earlier this year, one card expired, and the new card has a chip. A couple of months ago, one of my cards was compromised by identity theft, and the replacement they sent me has a chip. Both of those were still chipless after I changed my name, so it must've been a recent change.

Also, I applied for yet another card, and this one has a chip.
Female genital mutilation doesn't actually have anything to do with Islam, as Reza Aslan points out in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV0QXO6YfzA
Sent you a critical bug report in your email. Check it.
<<For the rest of us>> on YN with 120+ IQ :)
I approve your point , but you are not going to beat a regime which has effective - and clever - regional - and domestic - policy with a bunch of sanction. Iran and its proxies are fighting against USA.That is truth. But the question is how we can solve Iran -regime- problem?
What is the solution ?

I personally believe there is no answer to this question other than Iran's own population.

You cannot believe me , but I can see with my own eye. Every time USA or international community interfere in something all people are suspicious and whole community turn to regime supporters (you may know , being against foreign powers in middle east is one of the effective way to stay in power , and Iran's supreme leader does this in extremely effective way).

If you want to fight you can only throw this regime with only academia and liberal people through a push for reform. There is no other alternative.They cleverly managed to stop and destroy every other opposition in country.Even parties which was more than 100 years old.

I will guarantee you other way of fighting against this regime is not effective and will not effective.You want military invasion ? hell no , they will harm your military very badly , they will turn Iran worse than Vietnam and Germany in second WW.Even after changing regime they will remain active force like Al-Quada , suicidal force in society, which can change or throw government very easily.

But the increasing liberal force in Iran want reform more than ever , they pushing even badly. I am not saying it is going to be successful.No , not yet, but I am saying it can be if west does not provoke people against reform and provide platform for free information flow (which is regime nightmare)
Care to link your site?

Do you have any blog posts on how you manage to scale with drupal? Have you considered alternative solutions?
Nitpick: they are not "growingly" wanting ... They are fucking oppressed!!

Source: four generations in the state department. With a majority of my father's familiar peers living in Tehran in the late 60s, fluent in Farsi...

Iranians are amazing people. Fuck that, people are amazing people... Some People are horrid humans.

I have no mercy for said horrid humans...

What people lack is a true measure of what makes a sound or terrible human in an objective way...
I'll bet way more than 1100 Iranian soldiers were killed by American proxies, umm I mean, allies in Iraq back when Hussein was a friend of America. So, call it even?
From the 'how it works' section of the Wikipedia page...

"Every working day, a panel of international shipbrokers submits their view of current freight cost on various routes to the Baltic Exchange. The routes are meant to be representative, i.e. large enough in volume to matter for the overall market."

So three [chaps|chapesses] in London think of a number presumably based on some kind of average volume figure and price.

I'll have to find a list of obscure indices and do some visualisations. Might make Maths lessons a bit more interesting...
Why?

Your "shoulds" sound like arbitrary rules to make some people comfortable at other peoples' expense.
I really did not enjoy with or agree with this piece but I encourage others not to flag it due to eco-chamber risk.
It's Upvoted for Hacker News. Heh.
One thing it does miss is that Al Qaeda is also Wahabbist in its theology. The problem isn't Islam so much as it is Saudi Arabia's "denomination" of Islam, Wahabbism.
Nothing rules out Iran having such a complete turnaround. Plenty of people there remember the days of the Shah, they also remember the days of the SAVAK.

Neither of those solutions was 'all good' so at some point the people will say 'enough'. It can take a while.
I think those are rationalizations for the larger reason: The U.S. and the West are the status quo powers; that is, we support the status quo power structure in the Mideast, with Sunnis and Saudi Arabia in particular dominating the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula. Iran is challenging that status quo.

Speaking generally, in any such situation the challengers appear to be behaving badly because they are disruptive - they have to disrupt the status quo to bring change. In the end, neither side necessarily has a more legitimate claim to power and both would do the same in the other's shoes.

I'm also not sure either side behaves better. Remember the U.S. played a major role in overthrowing a (mostly) democratic Iranian government in the 1950s, then supported a dictator who brutally oppressed the people of Iran for decades. The U.S. supports insurgent groups in and near Iran, sabotages their infrastructure (the nuclear program), imposes crippling economic sanctions, and very likely participated in the assassination of Iranian scientists. I happen to think the actions against Iran's nuclear weapons program are necessary, and Iran's government is generally a danger to many people's lives in the Mideast, but the West can hardly complain about Iran behaving badly. (And don't forget the U.S. misleading the world and invading a neighboring Mideast country for no good reason.)
thanks for your comment. Can you please tell about how much is living costs/per month for a single person
This story is like the poster child of success with genetic algorithms.
Bitcoin allows more to know of those criminal actions.

With untrackable currency (USD, et al.), you get HSBC's and all the others, who may commit crimes in secret and destroy the evidence.
Legos - Custom built web app
Duplos - Drupal, fully customized with some coding
Pre-Built Toy - SquareSpace, Wix, even Wordpress to a certain extent

It's a nice middle ground when you need something more custom than Wordpress and others can provide, but don't want to build everything from scratch.
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How long have you been in Berlin, out of curiosity?
Could someone please explain when it would be preferable to send a 72x72 PNG to the Unicode standards body, wait for them to accept it into their standard, wait for applications/OSs/etc. to implement these new standards, and then send a message using the new glyph; compared to just embedding the 72x72 PNG in a message right now; as a data URI, a regular URL with a pre-populated local cache, whatever?
Chrome downgraded to plain gray for mixed content though.
> "I think it's fair to call it a marketing ploy."

Or rather, good business.
I am in Lahore, Pakistan right and never have been in Berlin before ...
Single dude in mid 20s who likes to party - not more than 1.5k/month. 1k if you're frugal. Cost of living in Berlin is rising but still way below other Western European capitals. Housing is the biggest issue but your company can help.
That was a while after we deposed their democratically elected leader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
Those guidelines are pretty silly. The site's content should be controlled only by the voting system (i.e., its users), not some mandated list of approved topics.
How do you get the prepaid card?

Cameras are so cheap that practically every shop has them. Voice, face, body recognition are getting better by the week and can be run on all recordings.
Oh, I see you must be an Uber DBA.
Totally agree for four reasons:

1. Wealth demography. Wealth is held by older people seeking safety not growth/risk.

2. Capital stagnation. Capital is being stockpiled by central banks and large corporations. The former seeks to rectify structural problems in spending and banking sectors. The latter seeks to avoid tax liability.

3. Small businesses abandoned. Developed nations, the US in particular, have focused resources on the largest institutions and institutions serving the poorest. By comparison small businesses are ignored creating more risk for large institutions, and incrasing the ranks of the poor.

4. Global instability. Declines are almost always preceded by alarming world events causing capital flights that expose imbalances in economies. Yes, the solution is to not have imbalances, but aside from that utopian ideal, restoration of a stable world order opens the door to economic risk taking and then prosperity.
Do you have more information about this approach? I've never heard about it until now.
My question was intended toward the parent comment.
Isn't charging small watches a negligible amount of energy?
The MT.Gox disaster included the theft of ~7% of all BTC.

Depending on how you want to measure the amount of fiat currency in circulation, 7% of that would be close to a trillion dollars.
This seems strange. Maybe a single investor wanted to get in pretty badly.
That's an interesting point you raise there. People in Western societies see themselves as 'at the pinnacle of civilization' but there is plenty that other countries have, even if their governments are not arrived at through the same mechanisms that we have and by our yardstick are 'less free' whereas we are by their yardstick 'less free'.

As for being a slave to credit card companies and banks: that's optional where I live.
The flip side is also true, the lack of "arbitrary" rules are sometimes making airbnb guests comfortable at the expense of neighbors/communities.

Isn't it the case he's making that there should be sensible middle ground?
Fair to add that the large amount of funding came from the USA in eagerness to overthrow Assad. [1] So, if we have the mother and father: shall we call the USA a dumb rich uncle ?

[1] https://www.facebook.com/UniversalFreePress/videos/110928687...
It's worth noting that Kamel Daoud is an ex-islamist. He was allied with the Islamist that nearly destroyed our country (Algeria) in the 90s. It's just an interesting footnote.
Not to brag, but 3M is by far not one of the largest Drupal powered sites, just one property of the company i work for has more than 40M active users a month & 350M pageviews
And we all thought PigeonRank was a joke: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7939208/Top-10-technol...
Neat. Thanks for the metaphor, looks clear now :-)
I think my favorite meme was "blue OP plz nerf" whenever Bob mentioned he was using more crimson than blue, because blue was much stronger. I thought that was an interesting mix of gaming and art culture.
> Making emojis Unicode will significantly improve their handling.

...and significantly hurt the handling of foreign language characters.

I'd be happy to have a standard for emoji. I'd be happy to have a standard for interleaving emoji and text. What annoys me is that the standard for emoji has been mashed into the standard for characters as if they are the same thing. Mashing the two standards together means that people who only want to support characters or only want to support emoji have no guidelines for doing so.

If you don't understand why this is bad, it's probably because you don't understand type systems and the fact that emoji and characters are different types.
In the blog post, you point out that you perform additional validation for your OV certificates while the free CAs do not. But since they are equally trusted by the browsers, how does that increase security for me?

On the other key differences:

- Shorter lifetimes is actually an advantage, since it reduces the risk when your keys are compromised. Revocation is a mess, the only way you can be sure that a certificate can no longer be used is when it's expired.

- No wildcards is an advantage too, since you can give each service its own certificate and if one is compromised, the others are fine. If you're using an organization-wide wildcard cert, a compromise is much worse.

- Limited flexibility - "you must have root access to your servers " is factually incorrect, the automated Let's Encrypt client is optional and you can request a certificate manually.

- Limited support - why would I need a SLA for a certificate, anyway? The OCSP servers?

- Management difficulties - while this is true now, the automation enabled by Let's Encrypt is likely to facilitate management, not the contrary. I'm currently working on a Puppet module which will automatically provision certificates for web servers, something which used to be much harder.

- Build Trust with Purchased SSL - how do I increase trust by using a OV certificate? It's not like an average website user would look up the certificate details, and there's no functional difference between a OV and a DV certificate.

> The levels of encryption, validation, and trust that business and commerce websites require are available only with purchased SSL.

Unless you're talking about EV certificates, I don't see how. There's no "level of encryption" which isn't available with a free CA, and the additional validation and trust do not matter unless it's a EV certificate. Even an EV certificate does not protect against MitM. The real answer is key pinning.

As a Namecheap customer, I'm disappointed by this blog post. It reads like an attempt to spread FUD about free DV certificates. I initially became a customer because I read good things about your business ethics, but this makes me question my choice.
tl;dr: a hit piece in which the author uses the launch of The Macro to criticize (and not insightfully) YC on completely unrelated topics.
Yes, I'm aware of that. But for the US that was not a reason to hate Iran (then Persia). (Of course it may not have helped the other side of the balance)
You still need a bank account. Beats the purpose imo.
Bleh, what a hit job of an article... the title made me think that it would be something other than a "Silicon Valley is too whitemaleofascist!"
> Saudi Arabia is by all measures secular and demands it be

hu, secular???

It seems very plausible to me, that he is spot on with the article. Should be plastered all over the billboards and newspapers. Good to read some 'straight talk'.
I don't presume that anyone on this board would make such a mistake, but thank you for sublty reminding us that Iranians are not Arabs. Such obfuscations make it difficult for us to parse the active conflicts in the region.
Hahahahahhaha
Similarly "VAC" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Anti-Cheat whenever he does something seemingly impossible (like knowing about the stream or doing a particularly impressive save).
This seems like a very new service to me. It barely gets any traffic. I doubt a lot of people are using it.

See domain metrics below:
https://www.metricsbot.com/www/lowlatencyservers.com
I live in Berlin for more than 2 years. UPD: If I correctly understand the reason why you asked your question, you might think I am still in "honeymoon" with Berlin. I guess I am not anymore. As everywhere, there are pluses and minuses. People can be unfriendly, the winter is grey and rainy, but I didn't move here from the sunny South with friendly open people :) And I am pretty disillusioned about the startup scene - most companies are crappy, hipsterish and want to pay pennies, so one needs to look hard for a good place. But at the same time I met some good, interesting, and enthusiastic people here.