skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Being nationalistic has nothing to do with being conservative ...

I disagree strongly with this point: The more nationalistic parties, pushing nationalistic and nativistic (e.g., anti-immigrant) plicies, are always conservative: The Republicans in the U.S., the Tories and the right-wing extremists in the UK, the Republicans and National Front in France, the LDP in Japan, Likud in Israel, etc. Internationalists, international cooperation, and international organizations are the province of the left and of moderates.

In the U.S., a common conservative criticism of liberals is that they are unpatroitic and 'don't love America'.

> Intense nationalism does cause conflicts ... often fabricated for pure political gain by controlling/power individuals. / Very few individuals look at the core of an issue, but instead follow the example set forth by people in authority positions

Agreed. That's what I was referring to when pointing out the lack of response by liberals and moderates in authority positions - why are they silent?
Nice game. I like that all ships are not on collision course with you and so you can prioritize which words to hit to avoid destruction. Would love to see an "abort word" feature, as over level 20 it's quite easy to accidentally start typing the wrong word and not know where the ship is. :(
Generalizing that HN women (or any, for that matter) are more likely to have a "stupid number of CC's" or are "digging through a purse for your wallet constantly" is fairly off-putting.
What's astonishing is how far behind the rest of the world the US is in adopting the technology.
Saving archives locally is great, but I wouldn't count on using archive.is for long-term reliable storage. Seeing as how it must cost its operator(s) more than a few ducats to operate and stores copies of copyrighted material on a centralized server(s) without being able to hide behind the "lol we're just a library" shield that Internet Archive can, I wouldn't be surprised to see it suddenly disappear one day.
Have you read Mitchell's memo? The point is to get rid of XUL.
For a whopping $4 more, you get 1 GB. :)
Caddy 0.8 - A web server with automatic HTTPS via Let's Encrypt
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We are attempting to make YC more accessible to everyone. Looking at the people who have historically applied to YC - we feel the need to do extra work to reach out to specific communities that are historically under represented in the valley. But this work is on top of (not replacing) the general work we want to do to reach out to all potential founders.
In His Own Words: Former Washingto Post Editor Ben Bradlee on Liars
Very inflammatory title. This happens occasionally, but I'd hardly call it "the environment that OSS developers work in." Furthermore, this really has little to do with OSS or even software development at all. The world is filled with rude and insensitive people that can't interact with others courteously and professionally. That is not news nor is it interesting.
Probably because your comment is incorrect. Django-CMS is almost exclusively structured content, and since it's essentially an extension of Django, you can use standard django models within the CMS.

If you want more of a page based CMS, check out wagtail. Also pretty awesome, although in very different ways.
The perils of science reporting:

"That was a 18-metre-wide chunk of space rock weighing 10,000 metric tons. By way of comparison, the meteor that hit the Yucatan 66 million years ago was more than 14 kilometres long.

That may not sound like a big difference in size, but you're forgetting about Einstein's famous equation for translating mass into energy."

Einstein's famous equation (e = m * c^2) isn't relevant. The equation for kinetic energy is relevant: e = 0.5 * m * v^2.

The issue is mass. 18 meters is roughly 1/1000 the size of the Chixclub asteroid. Therefore, since mass is related to the cube of the average radius, the dinosaur killer was roughly 1,000,000,000 times more massive - and the same factor applies to the released energy.
Feinstein the hypocrite. She has a conceal carry permit yet many in CA are unable to get such.

I'm really done with her being one of CAs senators. Of the two, I don't like either, at least I can respect Boxer for not being the overwhelming hypocrite and self aggrandizer that Feinstein is.
Is this a machine with GPUs? You can order a similar looking design from acmemicro since last 4 years atleast?
Edit: actually there has been a "tap to pay" available at many places. ... I had one that did, then its replacement card didn't, so there I was waving a non-tap card at a tap reader. The whole tech fizzled.

Argh. I had the same thing happen. Just after getting used to using the tap-to-pay card, my bank replaced it with a "dumb" card and I was back to swiping it.
I've been using the alpha of Polymail for a few days now, it definitely exists/works and is actually pretty awesome.
I'm shocked to see that user has no commits, ever.
All evidence points to the contrary. There's been a pendulum swing in the younger generations away from omnipresent technology such as mobile phones and facebook. It's a mistake to think all subsequent generations will march toward your definition of progress. For all we know, those generations' definition of progress will be a focus on the physical world over the digital one.
Siberian tiger becomes unlikely friends with a goat it was given to eat
I agree with you that Trump gets a ridiculously disproportionate amount of news -- not a surprise, considering how much money covering him makes -- but that's not how I interpreted the article's complaints. It read to me like the author was upset that the media weren't actively denouncing him, like they had some moral obligation to. If I've misinterpreted that then that's my error.
1) It's kind fun, like an interactive text book.

2) Not actually running any (of your) code, or coding really. Tap this to fill in a string, or to select an operator from a few approved.
You do make a great point. It does baffle me that Obama's daughters would theoretically get special privileges for YC's office hours over, say, an immigrant kid from China whose family earns below the poverty line.
tl;dr: No.
Because you almost never need a PIN, and you will already have it with you to use in less advanced payment locations...

As for app based sales, they exist today just fine with credit cards.
This is not really true. ML applications in general do not scale linearly. There is the systems (scaling) overhead, and then there are the algorithm payoffs, which start to diminish depending on the algorithm. If they went from 4 to 8 GPUs, the only thing they can guarantee to double is how fast they burn power.
One possible approach to link rot: each web page embeds within it (or in associated resources) a copy of every page linked to. Then when a link is clicked on it's always possible to show the page as intended.

The biggest issue with this approach would probably be legal, as you'd find yourself redistributing copyright works. Could a fair use argument be made since it would be furthering public discourse?
Have a look at Odoo website builder and eCommerce:

* https://www.odoo.com/page/e-commerce

* https://www.odoo.com/page/website-builder

It is very flexible to build dynamic pages and you can build pages like you want without development. (but you will have to modify the HTML/QWeb template)
It might be easy, but that doesn't mean it happens to the vast majority of startups.

The majority of startups never get any real traction and see only a small trickle of traffic every day.
I just wish my project had users.
Sure, but the cause of it doesn't really matter. The net effect is I feel we're in a worse position for this battle than the 90s. Perhaps the 90s are just safely in the past, but this time I feel this issue will be with us until the tyrants finally get their way, or USG collapses.

And Snowden's disclosures, while great for exposing the conspiracy, serves to normalize the surveillance. Very few people are switching away from butt services as a result, a tacit endorsement of the status quo.

FWIW, if you watch things from before 11sep2001 there's still constant mentions of terrorism. "911" is more of a pretend watershed so we can tell ourselves "everything changed" when in reality the panopticon has been building for far longer.
The article itself discusses this: what we're seeing is spillover from a militarized environment, with criminals and police (and criminals versus other criminals) in an arms race. This started with criminals adopting new 9mm semi-automatic handguns in the 1980s, then police switching to the same weapons after the Miami shootout, and a series of other problems as documented in the article. These days, drug dealers routinely keep huge packs of pit bulls, and release them when the police show up; without ten policemen and an IFV, the law could easily lose a fight like that.

The problem is that the same people responsible for pitched battles with heavily-armed drug dealers are also expected to do ordinary police work. It would be better to make this sort of thing the responsibility of the FBI, or even the military, ensuring that there would continue to be a lightly-armed, non-military police force to handle more ordinary situations.
Illegal primes
I would recommend [0] An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus. This does not require any mathematical background, starting from simple substitution through list processing. This is a good opportunity to introduce lambda calculus since the child is interested. I mean it, lambda calculus would be a good start.

[0] - http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Functional-Programming-Ca...
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Yeah, don't know. Agree w/ you that journalists/ reporters do not need to have moral obligations, though [unless they make moral statements, and are not electing to do so in certain cases] - but even that's a slightly different issue.
Lots of assumptions in your post.

The work we do is not arbitrary bullshit. Civilization takes work to maintain and grow.
Right, so like using the police to criminalize a minority population.

Or the real estate industry colluding to keep out a minority from living in a certain area.

Or asking someone not to wear a demeaning shirt.

All totally the same thing.
This is < 1% of our users.We run a gitter channel with > 1000 people in it as well as around 1700 stars on github. I've seen some things but most people are polite. This is just cherry picked.
Yes, I agree with your assessment that the Republican party elite would happily allow an American citizen to be murdered by the Taliban if they believed that citizen might criticize either the Republican party or the military-industrial complex.

I agree with your assessment that they are not dumb fools; but are savvy sociopaths who did not delay a single moment before attempting to destroy his credibility once they found out that he had not, as they would've clearly preferred, been killed by the Taliban. They did not wait a single news cycle before trying him in the media; largely with smears that turned out to be complete and total fabrications.
Then you find it's undecidable a million times more quickly.
Just an idea:

first post:Hi, it appears that running Pkg.add("IJulia") is broken. Please fix it or stop advertising this module...

first response: This is a volunteer effort. We regret to inform you that reports and issues in the tone of the above complaint are unacepptable. We cannot (and will not) help you until you ask for help in a polite way.

Status changed: from "open" to "awaiting politeness"

---

The world contains people who want to act like this @aragnon. It will still contain those people tomorrow. Complaining about their sense of entitlement is not likely to achieve much. And we need to spend very little effort with these requests. We need procedure. We need simple rules, and absolute enforcement.

I don't know that Ijulia is, but I thank you guys for your efforts!
Just applied for the veteran opening and very excited about the prospect! It's encouraging and helpful to see a few initiatives like this spring up.

TechStars has been running a sort of primer on entrepreneurship for veterans (http://patriotbootcamp.org/) for a few years now, but that's aimed at people just trying to figure out what's going on.

The YC opportunity seems more appropriate for those of us who are all-in and already building great companies. A nice evolution, and an important gap filled- thanks YC!
Nearly everything in your original comment is wrong. You say there's a "minor surcharge" but the cost to the vendor is the same as any other credit card. You mention the cost of supporting yet another platform, but the platform is just NFC, there's nothing special needed to support Apple Pay specifically. You say the consumer has their fingerprint tied to payments, but the fingerprint data never leaves the device. You say the attack surface is increased substantially, but Apple Pay is much more secure than using a credit card directly. (Not that consumers need to care, since fraud protection is 100%.) You imply that credit card companies aren't involved in resolving fraudulent Apple Pay transactions, but they are. You close by saying that Apple Pay isn't just a nice frontend for the card companies with better security, but that's precisely what it is.

I personally think this can rightly be described as "very misinformed."
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Really surprised they didn't shut down the thread sooner and I'm a little disappointed the devs didn't get a better "zinger" in there at the end, but major props to yuyichao for being a class act the whole way through. I don't think I would have had the patience to continue helping after that tirade.
Don't investors generally care if a very key, single-point-of-failure person is in a position where they will receive a lot of resistance from family members to doing necessary tasks?

Edit: For example, if some really competent, unfunded entrepreneur had some brilliant idea to revolutionize liquor distribution, but their family were conservative Baptists (or Muslims, or Mormons, etc), wouldn't you want some kind of reassurance that won't be a problem before you invest?
Cheaper power will make bitcoin mining profitable again.
Care to list some of those apps?
Previously unreleased, almost-finished 1983 sequel to (Atari) Star Raiders
My employer (large financial institution, 15000+ employees) uses confluence and jira enterprise-wide, as well as others that are more developer-centric. I'd say we're paying some of their bills on our own.
I used to work in QA. I file lots of bugs on github. (Hopefully politely.) But I've never committed anything - I don't even know how. Does that make my reports worthless?
For me personally, I'd see the RFID as a selling point, not a cost point. As a customer, I'd much rather go to a store that has an automated and seamless checkout system than one where I have to wait in line for a cashier.
Good SEO still doesn't fix the root of the problem--lost content. If you write an article about a video, and that video gets pulled, there goes your article.
I listened to an interesting opinion on the BBC the other day that the internet wasn't fit for purpose and that no sane parent should ever allow their child on it at all[1].

Her argument is that we don't expect parents to police their children all the time in real life, shop owners have legal responsibilities to stop children accessing inappropriate products, children are stopped from purchasing alcohol in bars, etc. and yet on the internet somehow it's the parent's responsibility all the time all of a sudden. And if your child is with other people, those restrictions may be totally waived.

The problem is, it is trivial for a child to access incredibly disturbing and PTSD inducing material that is accessible to any child with ease, beheadings, murders, the most vile and disturbing porn you couldn't even imagine, all two clicks of a button away from your 11 year old.

She definitely has a point. I'm not sure what the solution is as I love the internet being open, but a huge proportion of the planet is made up of children and they can go watch ISIS behead someone or a woman shit in the mouth of a man whenever their classmate dares them.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039wy7f
The SNP (Scottish National Party) isn't nationalist in the usual sense of the word. It's well to the left of, and more liberal than, the other UK parties, with the exception of the Greens, and potentially Labour if Jeremy Corbyn remains leader.

It's better described as separatist.
If you're https://github.com/meddlepal, your projects sound interesting, but try writing a bit more in your README.md :)

People will start using your projects if they see a use for it, so you "just" need to make something random internet people want, and then sell it well.
From Author Aric Wilmunder: "In 1983 I was hired by Atari Corporate Research and in '84 I transferred to Atari Coin-Op where I was part of a small R&D team under Lyle Rains, the brains behind Asteroids and Atari Football. I was tasked with designing and building a sequel to Star Raiders, the most sophisticated space battle simulator of it's time. While I was still working on the design, Atari Marketing had purchased the rights to develop games based on the movie The Last Starfighter, and when the movie did poorly at the box-office, they quickly re-branded the Atari 800 game as Star Raiders II. The actual sequel that I was coding was just a few months from completion and as a result it never shipped, but it did serve as my resume when I went to work for George Lucas' fledgling games group, Lucasfilm Games. So after more than 30 years sitting on a floppy disk in my garage, here's the true Star Raiders II.﻿"
> If Theranos were perceived a hell of an opportunity, do you think he’d give a rat’s ass if her parents would rather she finish her degree? Can you imagine an investor calling Zuck’s parents — hey is it OK if your son continues this facebook thing, or should I encourage him to go back to school?

If the investor was a family friend, uh, absolutely.

It's a person with an idea, a prototype on a tiny scale, and no funding. The people that fit that description are a dime a dozen, and the vast, vast majority will get nowhere or fail, no matter how good the idea. You're friends with their parents. Checking with them before giving the kid the means to drop out of college is not remotely ridiculous.
He rebuilt the walls of the Old City in Jerusalem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Jerusalem

These walls are of Jerusalem Stone and are very impressive and thick as are the gates.
Oh noes, is this going to be Turkish sovereign territory too like the "tomb" in Syria?
fluxquanta is very close to the full answer. Note that my credit union "app" is just a wrapper for the website which also demands full access to my contact list and GPS and camera. For marketing reasons they want to know where I am and who I hang out with and what competing stores I visit.

Imagine your coordinates being determined to be the entrance of an OB/GYN office, and suddenly getting megs of push spam for your new baby. Or you appear to stand around the parking lot at the sportball field for hours every summer weekend, expect lots of push spam about charcoal, disposable grills, brats, picnic stuff.

What I don't understand is from a market dominance standpoint, why would walmart of all people want that data? Maybe they think they can market the data to other companies. Everyone has to shop at walmart sooner or later, maybe that means everyone will have their app sooner or later, so they'll have lots of privacy to sell to other companies.
Android IMSI-Catcher Detector:
https://secupwn.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/

SnoopSnitch:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.srlabs.snoo...
are you joking? In which world does the younger generation swing away from technology such as mobile phones? Facebook is simply replaced by Snapchat and other social apps among the youth.
Can Google Street View Images Predict Household Income?
Why not just reach out to those groups but have general open office hours?

I'm guessing that this is a serious question, so I'm going to give it a serious answer. This is a classic economic signalling behaviour, akin to getting a college degree in order to signal your intelligence or giving gifts in order to signal your wealth.

Consider two possible YCs: YC(a) is serious about having female and minority founders at office hours, while YC(b) is just trying to be politically correct. Advertising "we encourage female and minority founders to apply" wouldn't cost anything. Advertising "we will only accept female / minority founders in these months" in contrast has a cost -- they lose the opportunity to meet truly awesome founders who do not belong to the appropriate group -- but for YC(a) that cost is partially balanced by the fact that they're spending time talking to members of groups which they would like to help out. Thus the net cost for YC(a) is lower than the net cost for YC(b) -- just like getting a college degree takes less effort for someone who is highly intelligent than it does for someone who is less intelligent -- and so YC communicates to founders that they are more likely to be YC(a) than YC(b).

(Whether anyone thought it through to this extent, I don't know. But people routinely engage in signalling behaviours without being aware that they are doing so.)
Heh I was just about to say that we shouldn't conflate one experience to "all cops in the US", but then realized all of my experiences have also been in Washington, so maybe we just have kinder police.
I understand that the user had a very inflammatory attitude, but the dev helping the user actually agreed with his concerns. Yeah, the user wasn't being nice, but the dev was nice anyway. This happens everywhere, every day, in real life. It's not just the Internet's veil of anonymity, it's just that people are mad for reasons often beyond what you can see.

It looks like the user just needed to vent, and the dev seemed to ignore it. And that's what you should do. Trying to interact meaningfully with an emotion that doesn't mean anything will not help you. Pointing to community standards will often only aggravate mad people further. Either help the person or lock the issue and leave it at that.

Calling out specific people publicly in HN posts is not a good idea either. If you must, I suggest anonymizing the content.
When swiping, my process is: swipe, put card back in wallet, put wallet back in pocket, wait for transaction to complete, go. (About 90% of my card transactions don't require a signature, because they're below the threshold for that.)

When using a chip, my process is: insert card, wait for transaction to complete, remove card, put everything away, go.

You'll notice that putting stuff away happens in parallel with the transaction in the first case, but they're in series in the second case.

It may be reasonably quick, but it's still noticeably slower than swiping. It's not a big deal, but it's just one of those little annoyances.
Good luck, sincerely. That's a noble goal.

I do hope you will do so with subtlety and insight. Favoring the most easily recognized and most politically significant demographic groups is a reasonable first step, but if it's the only step you take it may simply increase the tension of identity politics.

We've already seen, elsewhere in these comments, people you've left out asking for you to include them as well. For every one who speaks I'm sure there are many more who remain silent.
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