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The speed that the fire spread is incredible. It seemed just like another forest fire that is near a community we get up in Alberta and British Columbia. The coverage by the National Post shows the fire just creeping around Ft. McMurray on May 2 and 3 and by May 4 a large portion of the town was engulfed. [1] Before and after photos show the burnt homes and buildings like schools. [2]

I live in Edmonton (4.5 hours south of Ft. McMurray) which is taking in a lot of evacuees. It's so heart warming to see so many people rise up and try to help everyone by donating places to sleep, someone put up a website to help facilitate http://www.ymmfire.ca. 2 blocks from my home is a drop off for supplies and all you hear is car horns of support and people waiting to drop off supplies. People drove up the previous days with pickup trucks to bring gasoline and supplies to motorist stranded on the highway. [3]

The most heartwarming of the stories to me is hearing of recent refugees helping out. [4]

“We understand what they’re feeling. When you lose everything, you have to start from zero. You lose your memories, your items. It’s not easy. It’s something very sad. We can totally understand their feeling. We are very thankful to the Canadian people and we want to be a part of this society. We will do our best to be a good part of this society. By doing that, maybe we can return a little bit of the great job that Canadian people did for us”

It feels good to see the support from the newcomers, people in the province and seeing our provincial and federal governments step in with resources and funding to fight the fire and help people.

1. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/tracking-the-fort-m...

2. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/see-stunning-before...

3. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/national/inside+fort+mcm...

4. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/understand+what+they+feeling+...

Edits to links.
Representative "democracy" means that you can't say that the people wanted a specific policy, only that they considered some person (and their ELECTION platform, which has just about nothing to do with how they'd actually behave in office) the least awful of the given options.

As you said yourself, it was created in secret as a reactionary policy (because those always work out great!), so there was no possible oversight or popular approval.
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The western world was already the most advanced and richest part of the world before they started colonizing, which indeed made them even richer. Note that the people they conquered whether it were the Incas or else were also empire with colonial ambitions, except they were way less advanced.
> I did not realize the scope of this fire.

And it's still expected to double in size, again, overnight tonight.

It is, thankfully, being blown away from populated areas at this point in time.
I'd be keen to see that too.

The last time I looked at Core, I couldn't even add authentication to endpoints on a pure Web API project, that was a couple of beta's back though, hopefully it's gotten better.
> he wanted a different outcome and he is still so dishonest

Not only is this completely inappropriate and unwarranted, but it's doubly so because you're taking advantage of dang and kevin acting professionally to misrepresent the situation.
> A note to HN users: The intention behind Apply HN was to do something new to excite and interest the community and engage it with YC in an interesting way. That did happen, but it pains me that it also partly turned into the opposite. If any of you have suggestions for how to do better, I'd like to hear them.

How about publishing rules for a contest and sticking to them, or canceling the contest entirely if it's not going the way you expected or desired? If there was a risk that some founder you didn't like would be picked the rules should have been clear about how to prevent that (through interview, etc.). And if you realize the rules didn't cover this contingency then scrap it entirely and start over with new rules.

Frankly I'm surprised that this is being pushed back as some failing of the HN community. This is clearly a failing of the contest creators.
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I don't fight for Haskell, I was hoping for an enlightening answer; since all I got was a referral (not a link) to another comment that again refers to some other thread (again without link) that apparently only provides anecdotal evidence based on one guy's story who had a hard time with his project I call it a day you a troll.
Law enforcement deals with that. NSA is part of the military-intelligence complex. We keep the two separate.
I am very impressed with the way Apple has handled Swift.

Having started using the language recently for some iOS / WatchKit work.. I am loving it. That said.. this `NS` bit definitely reminded me of Objective-C nightmares and I would love to see it go.
People knew about spying. Mostly supported it. Never voted against a politician that did in significant scale. That's direct democracy reinforcing representational democracy. QED.
Does the pope shit in the woods?
So a big part of IDE features rely on the Node-y native access that Electron gives (for example calling out to external programs). You _could_ have things like syntax highlihgting, but it would end up being pretty crippled in the browser.
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The other major BSDs:

http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man7/hier.7

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?hier++NetBSD-current

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=hier&sectio...
There's one pretty cool feature that VB.Net has that C#/F# don't and that's an XML literal syntax... I wrote a service interface to a Flex client a few years ago (also having an XML literal syntax) and it was pretty nice going. Of course E4X didn't take hold and the syntax didn't make it into C#, but it was nice at the time.

These days I'd lean towards JSON.Net before anything XML based if I can avoid it. WCF could use a little love too.
I think "fraudulent" is unfair and uncharitable.
I was about to say, I've seen /opt/local somewhere. :)
I think a better sign of being "so far gone" is when you find it totally blasé that a stroke can lead to homelessness.
It's unclear what the effects of a basic income would be in an undeveloped country.

For example, if a poorer country raised minimum wage too much it could destroy the economy whereas the same raise in a more developed country will have better short term effects.

This could end up being unethical economic experimentation.
It's what it's like when forest fires engulf a community. Here's a couple others:

- http://s1.webmshare.com/m7gd8.webm Russia 2015(?)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPpOXH0ADSg Australia 2003
I've used Core RC1 for a few months now and I haven't seen any of the issues you're worried about. I've had way more pain with TypeScript, VS, and node integration than anything .NET specific. From my point of view the .net piece just works, even with the RC bits.

It's just a bit more granular than before, but VS helps you a lot. All you have to do is type a class name and VS can suggest to import a library that you never included in your project. This alone, in my opinion, makes it a lot easier than before - I wouldn't want to go back.
What they mean is that it's all in highly correlated assets.
It lacks diversification across non-correlated asset classes.
Stocks (US and emergent), bonds and cash are less correlated than US companies even 4000 of them.
dang is one of the kindest, most thoughtful people I have ever spoken with.
It would be the reason oil prices have gone up as it has spread to the oil-sands http://www.wsj.com/articles/alberta-evacuations-expanded-as-...
Consonant with the theme of deposing humanity from the center/top e.g. geocentric to heliocentric.

Bergson's perspective, which I interpret as 'things don't matter until they matter to someone', strikes me as more like engineering or economics: use not truth.

OTOH there's that quantum mechanics idea (that I don't understand) that a waveform only collapses into particles when observed by a conscious "observer"... seems very anthropocentric. Surely it can't be right.
Biggest military power in the world by a large margin. Runs global unmanned drone operations that can kill anyone anywhere by executive order.

In a post 9-11 world I think the risks are minimal.

I would be more concerned about an industrial accident in a building that size. How much water would they have on hand for fire fighting in the middle of a desert?
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Scott, love what you guys are doing, keep it up! I did C# for 7 years and recently switched to Python but with the latest, thinking about switching back.

Couple of questions:
1) will non-Windows platforms be fully supported and performant in RC2 and RTM?
2) is there a good place to follow along the non-Windows work?
I have seen post titles edited without notice (one of mine has been and there is no notice of it [can you tell which one?]).

I believe I have seen comments edited (but I don't keep records).
Sounds like someone didn't get paid off. Glad the FCC is actually trying to do some good. I think congress and cable company executives are really out of touch, especially with millennials. I think cable companies will sink like the Titanic if they don't wake up to the new reality.
I have actioncable running on heroku. Let me know if you need help.
OK. I think you should have another thread to focus on the positives that have come out this experiment.

I congratulate you on pushing this along and I really feel for you on how this ended. I think is a great shame given 95% of the whole process was positive.
I've taken on a curiosity of getting Atom to work in ChromeOS (natively, not with crouton or other developer mode solutions). It's just a curiosity at this point, I make no promises. But I'd think if Atom could jump to another environment besides Electron, then getting it inside a browser wouldn't be much more work.
I don't think you can. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11804820/embed-a-you-tube...

You might be able to on Wikis though.
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The fact that one person hasn't experienced these issues doesn't invalidate my argument. I am sure some people will have no issues, but there will be some percentage of people who do have issues and I suspect that percentage will be quite large. I also suspect a lot of people who have not encountered issues aren't actually building software for an employer. As someone else mentioned, a lot of the more vocal people tend to be unemployed hobbyists who have no deadlines or who don't venture off the beaten path because they don't have any requirements.
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In a way it's a bit more surprising Einstein didn't get the Nobel prize earlier for his Brownian motion paper from the same year as his special relativity and photoelectric effect papers. It's the most beautiful of his three great papers of 1905. [pdf: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gold/pdfs/teaching/einstein_... ]

General Relativity was under active development in 1920-1921, and it is so fundamentally different from Special Relativity that it is unfortunate that each theory shares half a name with the other.

(Even more unfortunate is that it took a few decades to arrive at a mathematical and conceptual understanding SR in a GR context as simply one of an infinite number of possible hyperbolizations of a first order quasilinear system of PDEs along the lines of the Einstein Field Equations, or alternatively as a low energy effective field theory in the sense of Kenneth G Wilson (which is what GR itself might be in turn) -- that all became possible only because of mathematical and calculational discoveries made well after Einstein's death).

Special Relativity was surely worthy of a Nobel prize once its relationship with Minkowski space and the Lorentz and Poincaré isometry groups became fully understood (all by the mid-1910s), but General Relativity had also just become Nobel worthy thanks to the 1919 expedition.

So a Nobel prize for a special-case theory which may have seemed like it was about to be overthrown by a generalization by its originator? Or push the award off into the future after General Relativity had developed further? Or possibly two Nobel prizes, one for each theory? In 1920-1921, nobody could have known that it would take four decades for GR to become useful for working scientists, nor that SR and Newtonian mechanics would remain in use as (or in) effective theories even in 2016.

I wonder how much that line of thought might have weighed on the prize committee's mind, rather than objections raised by a non-physicist philosopher.
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Fort Mac is really a boom town and it's my understanding that most of the residents of Fort Mac are employed directly or indirectly by oil & gas. Production will certainly be hurting in that area for a while to come.
You talk about warrant canaries being an untested legal theory; I say this is putting the cart before the horse.

When were National Security Letters with gag orders prohibiting disclosure tested for constitutionality, in cases when the gag orders are violated and the government wants to punish somebody for disclosure?
ah yes, a textbook NMP [1], CYA [2], OPM [3] scenario. [4]

[1] NMP: Not My Problem

[2] CYA: Cover Your Ass

[3] OPM: Other Peoples' Money

[4] Profit!
He claimed to want an investment into his business with many specific possible uses. After many gripes here and there, they caved to give it to him. He gave it to a charity.

Promise one thing for cash and do another involved is the basic definition of fraud. Only difference is they went along with it to right a wrong. Had he not entered, money would've possibly gone to a startup doing exactly what they promised they'd do.
Thanks. Well said.
I don't know if this is such a great example.

The right thing to do seemed pretty obvious, and it would have been easier to just give it to Pinboard in the first place. The skeptical view here is that they're only fixing things because they were so vocally called out for screwing up.

So yeah, taking responsibility is great, but doing the wrong thing and taking responsibility only you're called out for it, isn't so great. When possible, just do the right thing in the first place.
Or to put it another way, GPLv3 mandates that your hardware be insecure (because you cannot prevent a malicious actor from installing malicious software on someone's device, which would normally be done by requiring all updates to be codesigned by the manufacturer). And it's not just limited to software that would be installed on the hardware; companies like Apple won't even allow employees to install GPLv3 software on their work computer because if a single piece of GPLv3-licensed code makes it into iOS, even completely accidentally, the license demands that Apple release their root signing keys to the world, completely destroying the security of hundreds of millions of devices.

Also don't forget the patent stuff in GPLv3. That's not quite as scary as the anti-TiVoization stuff, but it's still pretty significant for large companies.
systemd has a man page on this as well, file-hierarchy(7): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierar...
That's a bad example since raising minimum wage increases the cost of doing business. Artificially changing the cost of business inputs causes problems in the economy - not the fact that people are earning more money.

Giving people money allows them to buy livestock, supplies for their children or food and shelter. This will help to improve their quality of life and spur the local economy. I'm hard pressed to see how this could be considered unethical.
I think he was mostly interested in the mentoring and networking, in terms of what YC could offer his business.

He mentioned in a comment that $20K was 3 weeks revenue.
> I thought I'd made it clear that we'd make things up and change the rules as we went along, but it wasn't clear. It took time and a large stack of HN user comments for me to perceive this, but I get it now.

> Maciej, I'm sorry. Your interpretation of what I originally posted was not only reasonable, it was how most people read it. The fault was not yours, but mine.

I don't see them "push[ing] back as some failing of the HN community." They openly admit it was their own fault.
Are there anyone that can chime in on the current long-time support story for rails? How much commitment could one expect from the Rails community towards long time software life-cycle? To clarify, if I want to implement a solution (say a web/service portal) now, that I have a reasonable dev budget for, and a commitment to maintain with security updates (and bug fixes) for, say the next 10 years -- is rails 5 likely to be a viable solution?

I always had the impression (possibly false) that the Rails community was very focused on rapid development, but that it had a tendency to leave dead projects on the road-side to fend for themselves -- and that maintaining a project that was a few years old sort of implied massive forward-porting if you wanted to have a semblance of security updates?

Is my impression way off? Is there a "safe path" if one sticks with the Rails core?
Have we learned anything about distributed systems in the last 20 years? (1992)
It is quite curious to me that making a statement about the available historical record is interpreted as making "a relatively strong statement that things happened a particular way and gave nothing in the way of explanation, evidence, or elaboration." Do you make the same charge when someone says the ideas of Isaac Newton predated those of Albert Einstein? The historical record is there for you to interrogate and understand on your own.

Given that you're suggesting a scenario that is far more difficult to prove than what the historical record shows us, I think the burden of citing examples is more squarely on your side here.

There is ample historical evidence available that documents the establishment and spread of religiously motivated moral aversion to many things. Within the context of the available historical record, it can further be established when these ideas were created in relation to the history of other ideas that either supported, refuted, or otherwise informed pre-existing moral aversions.

I'm making no strong claims here. I'm merely referencing the historical record. A religiously motivated moral and social aversion that demanded women on their periods keep themselves sequestered away from others predated the works of Shakespeare. Moral aversion regarding sexuality (documented in religious texts from centuries BCE) predated recognition and discovery of STIs (which started as early as the 15th century, iirc).

> I don't see any reason to treat this as less likely than any other specific story, without evidence given in either direction.

The historical evidence is there! Go look at it.
> Your wishes don't matter at all. You're not a competing nation referred to in my comment.

The point was that nations and citizenship are entirely arbitrary dividers.

> Or that you don't know what a representational democracy is or think they all think like you. Look up KSI where you live to find something even less transparent than our NSA. (shocking really)

If it doesn't live up to the definition of democracy (rule by the people), then it's by definition not a democracy.

NSA, FRA, KSI, whatever, this is about principles, not specific cases. It makes sense to say NSA on forums, since they're a name people recognise, and they're the ones capable of doing the most damage.
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To Daniel and Kevin,

You are both awesome people who are genuinely interested in doing something different to help give new ideas a nudge forward. It sucks that this blew up, but I think the original intent still rings true and I thank you both for giving us a chance to be a part of it.
Keep in mind that in Australia we have a very different political fundraising environment and similarly different laws regarding political donations.
All parties are okay with the outcome; I find it reasonable that the week's drama changed people's desires. Calling it "fraudulent" is, to me, given that no one feels harmed, both inaccurate and unfair.
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You seem to suspect a lot without bringing any evidence; nothing but FUD. I can just as easily suspect that you're full of it.
Likewise, I hope you do it again. We didn't apply this time, and "conventional" YC has never been for us anyway. But the YCF program is very appealing, and I actually like the idea of doing it the "Apply HN" way. That way at least you get (in the optimal case) some interesting feedback and discussion from the community, regardless of what happens with the YCF application.
I don't believe you.

Even the docs say it does not work w/ multiple loggers.
But I'm not here to teach, good luck.
You have to give people a path to get apologize and get better. Sometimes, it takes getting yelled at to realize that you are wrong. That doesn't make the learning any less real.

Otherwise, we just live in a world where everybody demonizes each other and we are knives out all the time. Oh, wait...

You can't ask for much more than a full apology and an offer to make it right. This was as good as we can expect to get.
I have an additional data point of someone who didn't finish any university.
You may have missed it due to the fact that the final YCF thread only got 180 votes and was probably flagged into the ether.
If your libs use multiple loggers, then you are SOL.
systemd opens a new bar right next to the most popular bar in town, becomes far more popular (possibly due to better advertising), people complain that their beer tastes worse, and when other people tell them to just go to the original bar, they complain that all their friends are at the new bar.
I always have to wonder why people don't work at least minimum wage jobs, to solve the base problems like hunger.

I apologize if I'm missing something or if I seem really ignorant. Actually, I realize I am totally ignorant in this respect. I've never worked a job outside of programming, so I don't know—is it very difficult for some people to get 'normal' jobs? Is it mostly people with some kind of issue or disability that affects their ability to get a job who wind up like this? Are there not as many minimum-wage, or non-professional (or something) jobs out there as I think there are?

I realize once you get to a certain level it becomes really tough to recover, but when you're on your way, and savings are going, shouldn't you be looking around for any way to earn some cash?
Looks to me like it's possible, it's just not the default, as you say. I remember when OneNote first introduced syncing -- you'd basically put the OneNote notebook on a shared drive and I believe it would warn you if others were making edits at the same time. I don't see why that's not still possible today. That said... OneNote on other platforms does not have this feature, apparently, which now suddenly seems strange. Do they think their competition is Evernote?
"Although the company is not profitable"... Excuse me but, you have to be fucking kidding me!!
So, someone submitted us to Product Hunt! We were getting ready to do so next week but are just going with it. Check it out and offer feedback at https://www.producthunt.com/tech/proofme.
FWIW, that's not quite what happened. We revised the rules when it became clear that Kevin wouldn't include Pinboard in the YCF program, but that only happened at the last minute. Before that, both Kevin and I were fine with Pinboard winning, which is why it was in the final poll.
At this point, I think it's probably better for everyone to go their separate ways. Some drama was had, Pinboard doubtlessly got a nice subscriber spike, and now some homeless people will be helped. Good ending.