skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The benefit is that the Four Freedoms[1] are preserved.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
Yes, that's correct, while it's not impossible to get in as a solo founder, it's much more common to have multiple cofounders.

My suggestion to get a sense of why having a cofounder makes sense is to just try it. Find someone interested in startups you like being around and pick a problem neither of you are currently working on. Each work on it alone for one day for a set amount of hours, then the next day, work together.

After doing that, you might try bring on a third "cofounder" to see what that's like.

Point is that there's a lot you're able to read about the topic, everyone has an opinion about it, but only way you'll get a feel for it is by seeing what it's like working alone and with cofounders.

Make sense?
The unpredictable megalomaniac is at heart an isolationist, though. I can't ever recall anyone else in my lifetime expressing the desire to step back from NATO and reduce overseas commitments.
The worst has to be 4th place, you get nothing at all to take home but memories.
Not to be the one to shit on your parade, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_size#International_scale
Its more than that, because mortgage repayments are typically lower than rents (or at least equivalent), and include a percentage capital repayment. At the end of the mortgage period you have no monthly payments and you own a significant asset outright, which may appreciate in value. Usually the end of repayments would coincide with a career slowdown or even retirement, but with rent you're going to have to find that money for the rest of your life.

So a mortgage is:

* Cheaper monthly repayments now (typically), part of which is effectively long-term savings

* Eventual disappearance of monthly payments and rent-free living during retirement

* Eventual ownership of a significant asset, which may be cashed in or passed on via inheritance
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I"m not referring to racism per se, but to accusations of racism. It's way too easy to get a "racist" label nowadays.
Putting the code out there for other agencies to use is great, but getting them to actually use it will be another battle. Reuse is tantamount to taking away someone's budget, and therefore, status. The occurrence of two different groups implementing very similar things entirely separately happens more often than you'd think. And I'm not convinced they want to talk or work together, because bureaucrat/military officer X doesn't want to lose budget/people.
It makes me happy every time I see a Stallman article on HN. The man has been right his whole life and his attention to detail on issues that will effect society in the future are right on. I am happy to pay my $10/month FSF membership dues.

I practice, I am not so pure in my actions: I use Google and Facebook (inside a privacy enhanced web browser) and I find an iPad to be useful in my work. Everything else is GNU Linux and libre + open source development tools.
The difference is rather simple on first sight.

Open source software allowes everything, even to add proprietary parts to the OSS part and keep the endproducts source from the rest of the world.

Free software prevents this adding of proprietery parts, but allowes the rest of the world access the full source of the end product.

But in the end it boils down to the (philosophical) question of "What is freedom?"

Is it to do anything you want, even if it prevents others from doing anything they want? (You wanna hit everybody and many people don't want to be hit)

Does freedom stop when it prevents others from doing what they want?

If the last thing is true, who decides which actions prevent others from doing what they want? (You buy a new car, while others could use this money to feed their family for years. etc.)
Yeah, tried it (see my other comment in the thread). So, assuming I live at kicks.pasta.steer and someone in Mongolia wants to write me should he use:

kicks.pasta.steer
or
хуучныг.зүүлт.суурилах
or
ones.necklace.based-on
or
цохилтын чадваруудаар.гоймон.чиглэх ?
You forgot the /s somewhere in your sentence /s . In the age of bloggers AS journalists because paying real ones is what online media doesn't do (the Huffpo doesn't pay its contributors, nor its interns) , there is very little journalism left on the internet which is a paradox, considered we are drowned with "news" .
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It took me longer for British accents to become intelligible; I think it took about a season of Top Gear before I no longer had to rewind certain portions or listen very actively to understand what was being said.
For me it is extremely simple: They have an extraordinary amount of oil:Iraq,Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, natural gas: Libya,Iran or they are in the middle of strategic places to build oil ducts: Syria, Afghanistan.

http://www.energybc.ca/images/profiles/oil/reserves.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_g...

The West needs much more energy that what they have. They have industry and without energy their society will collapse.

Anything else is secondary. Most of those places are desert, and have not enough technology to protect themselves from Western (or Eastern)plundering.

Those countries can only life in peace as protectorates from powerful industrialized countries, like Saudi Arabia(de facto protectorate of USA, its oil can only be paid in USD), or Iran(protectorate of Russia and China) or Syria(Russia).

Libya itself had a lot of Chinese civilian presence, but not military. So UK, USA and France thought it was going to be easy to take the country by force, like they did.

They also tried with Syria, but Russia had an army there. They tried hard, remember Assad having chemical weapons so the West needed to "save" and "free" the country? Putin reacted fast to that. The need of creating a fly exclusion zone(prior to the invasion, like in Libya), again Putin reacted faster sending his own airplanes.
It's sick to call war "beautiful" especially given that in those first few days innocent people were bombed out of existence along with bridges and infrastructure vital to the subsistence of millions of people.

I didn't expect a sick comment to be rewarded on HN. But now I see the blatant and racist hypocrisy.
Would you mind elaborating? My great grandmother used to laugh at the moral majority's antics---she said that people have been complaining about the moral degeneration of society since she was a small child---in the 1890s.
Thanks. I thought your web site was permanently offline!
I think the one advantage this has over the usual GPS coordinates is it's easier to communicate over various means than a long string of numbers.
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That it anecdotally speaks to a few anonymous persons who engaged with a small subset of Arabs in particular parts of the ME is hardly impressive, but if you want to hold it up, so be it. My immediate family and much of our circle of friends (conservative South Asians) were settled there for decades. Some are still there. The descriptions Patai uses do not jibe with our experiences, at least not in the aggregate. It also doesn't jibe with some other reviewers who've lived in the ME. I wonder why you discount their experience. Also, if you want to regard 'racist' as a conversation ender, you should be just as wary of throwing around 'politically (in)correct'.
here at my workplace co-workers go to "pray" once an hour. And by prayer i mean cigarette breaks. These common interruptions are accepted and I watch as it takes minutes on return to get back to speed. those are the ones that reduce productivity. not sure the islam prayer cycle is that corrosive by a long way
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Consumer Reports does basically the same thing but you have to pay to subscribe -- no ads
> ... has pledged that the first act ...

Citation please?
True, journalism has been democratized, do you have any recommendations?

I seem to have difficulty finding them
Of course it's easy to do that in a client. Also, on many channels there are bots doing that - every time someone posts a URL, a bot will reply with a shortened version of it.
I would tend to agree. Of course having fewer young people to contribute to taking care of old people and such is going to be tough, but governments will need to adapt and find ways to deal with it. The problem of not enough young people to contribute to our worker churn system to me seems far preferable to population growth that our planet cannot sustain.
My main issue with IRC is channel rot. Every channels I was once a part of died. Most channels that are still "active" are in fact filled with quiet lurkers.

Otherwise IRC is still my favourite. I simply don't visit anymore...
Yes, I have the exact same thing! Four years ago I started out with panic attacks brought on by stress and sleep deprivation. I was convinced I was having a heart attack and would drop dead on the spot.

It took some time to fix the root causes, but even after that I didn't quite recover. Anxiety about possible panic attacks were stressing me out, causing me to lie awake in bed. Talk about a vicious circle.

Therapy and the book "Hope and help for your nerves" by Claire Weekes helped a lot. Occasionally it will pop back up but not nearly as bad as it once was.
"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it" - R.E. Lee
>I am not a historian (around 9:30)

Last I checked we were discussing history..
"feel they are not entitled to their beliefs"

When there's polarization in a society where a majority of population out-vote a minority on every proposal, said minority has all motivation to withdraw from public politics and secede.

Imagine a country with 60% big-endians and 40% little-endians. Big-endians own every president, every senate and every vote they care to win. Little-endians have no sensible choice but to split into their own country where they'll be a majority, perhaps with civil war and ethnic cleansings in the process.
We found ourselves not guilty.
To get pictures in the article, remove the last part of the url:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-...
I have seen several pieces of research on this topic over the years, but here is something from a quick search.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/oct/31/economics-...

I have seen US and England held up as other examples, Germany may be a counter example.
Creoles are fascinating. If we can assume that modern language came about with modern humans some 50,000 years ago, I wonder how many modern languages are creoles of extinct languages?
> I may be wrong in the sense that the "access to source" I'm talking about may not be in the "open source" category, depending on how that is defined.

You're correct in that you're wrong :) The Open Source Definition [1] states:

>The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form.

So having access to source/'source available' would not qualify as open-source or free software. Incidentally, when Amazon announced their new game engine 'Lumberyard', which is 'source available', there were places online claiming it was open source. Of course, that wasn't the case because it's not licensed under a free or open-source license and you are restricted from sharing your modified versions.

[1] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
What does "at the expense of personal driving data" mean?
That's fine. Between us, we can frame the debate. The choice should be between Free and Open software; proprietary software shouldn't even have a place at the table. Through our disagreement, we're working together to move the needle.
All cars sold in the EU come with eCall: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall

Edit: sorry, I extrapolated too much from my own experience. It's still not legally mandatory until 2018, however some manufacturers do indeed make it mandatory today.

Due to privacy protections I don't think marketers and insurers have access to driving data, but the security concerns remain. Their back-ends can be hacked, rogue employees could listen in, etc.
I have never seen an academic journal or conference that would accept submission of manuscripts typeset in Groff. Even LaTeX seems ever more often to be deprecated in favor of Word documents.
I doubt that. But there seems to be a very high level of distrust of government, on all levels.
Yay for cron!
I think this is great. Maybe the code won't be reused, but it adds another dimension to governmental transparency, which is always a good thing. Furthermore, any code produced by the government is effectively being produced for the American people. We should have access to the code to use as we see fit.

I wonder how this will affect bids for government software projects? Will companies be upset that they have to open-source their software? Regardless of whether an individual agency will use it, I can see the initiative saving time and money, since programmers will know they can just find what they need in a repository. If there is one thing you can count on, it's programmers and government employees being lazy.
Demagoguery vs literal oligarchy (rich donor dictating to SecState: Https://wikileaks.org/Clinton-emails/emailid/28972 ), take your pick.
But that generally does not happen in mainstream literary critique of academic texts, unless for a reason.
I would argue that, taking Secure Boot as a given, the UEFI design provides an amazingly large surface which to attack Secure Boot.
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1 is a common misconception:

> According to a 2008 survey of such studies by Alan Krueger of Princeton University, they have found little evidence that the typical terrorist is unusually poor or badly schooled

[0] http://www.economist.com/node/17730424
> in a climate-change-drought-crippled land that has become populated well above its agricultural carrying capacity

There was a recent HN article about Israel's progress with desalination[1]. Obvious funding issues aside, I wonder if that approach could ease some of the water issues?

Perhaps that kind of investment would be a good use for the oil income, whilst they've still got it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12191089
Agreed. I work with a devout Muslim. I think I'd more effective if I took meditation breaks as regularly as he takes his short, prayer breaks.
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And 3rd party. If there's ever a year where they gain traction, it's this year.
I like the week.
There's only two points I disagree with RMS on. First, that ALL software must be free. The true freedom IMO is to allow any form of software and let the fittest survive.

And second, ignoring the fact that non-free software (mostly) got us where we are today in terms of progress.
Why should there exist a distinction between users and developers?

If more people were educated in the basics of software development, enough to help them in their chosen profession and to understand the technology around them, those people wouldn't be so easy to abuse in the first place. Basically this line of thought is a huge mistake, playing on the tune of the software companies and state agencies that abuse people and break their freedoms.

And in fact, I'm pretty sure that Stallman disagrees with you. After all, this distinction is why he was pissed off and started GNU and the GPL in the first place ;-)
The initial execution was not beautiful, it and the occupation that followed were remarkably brutal. Dropping bombs on a Baghdad, destroying the civilian infrastructure like sewage, electricity etc. It was a case of aggression, the same crime for which the Nazi's were hanged at Nuremberg.
... so hyper heuristics is meta-heuristics except leaving out one of your most promising options -- genetic algorithms? Or just refusing to use that at the meta stage? The difference still seems dubious. Your paper with the grid includes genetic algorithms to select from, so I guess it is not using GA at the meta level. Hyper as in a hypercube selection space of options? Maybe not because you use a decision tree for selection. It seems like the field could benefit from a regularization of terms. I still don't see what separates it from meta heuristics except for a name the limitations don't seem established. It seems hyper-heuristics is to meta-heuristics like the cloud is to network computing. Market speak does change -- not much you can do about that. The terminology is a nitpick -- fascinating papers.
Civilisations built upon each others achievement ever since the dawn of history, it seems rather hypocritical to start cherry-picking the merits of a particular one.

Regardless, OP said Muslims couldn't thrive praying 5 times a day, the Islamic Golden Age (as big or as small as you think it was) still proves otherwise.
I agree that the existing state laws are bad and clearly a product of cable lobbies, but the FCC not being able to preempt state laws is a good thing.
Seldom to never? I've seen a couple messages from chanserv when IRCCloud servers have problem, but no annoyance. Keep in mind though I pay for a premium account and I only connect to freenode.
IRC originates from a time where nobody was thinking about multiple devices, or e.g. not encoding in ASCII. Speaking of nonstandard: There seems to be no canonical specification of IRC itself. Nevertheless it's really not that bad in practice if you use a bouncer or something similar like Quassel.

> There's no reason the platform has to be closed - I'm friends with the people working on http://matrix.org/ (though not involved in it myself) and hope they succeed.

There is also XMPP (and has been for years) which does not suffer from many of IRCs shortcomings.
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Ask HN: How to prep for software dev interview in finance?
Is there any good resource to prepare specifically for finance software developer interview? What would be the equivalent of CTCI for finance? (When I say finance I mean banks / trading farms.) Any advice on how to prepare?
It's an interesting sight, seeing remnants of tourism and an ecosystem that has been decaying for decades. Route 86 by the Salton Sea is the only place I've ever set cruise control to triple digits (mph) and still been passed by multiple other cars.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12250594
One of the most interesting things traveling to African countries is lots of locals considering oil a curse.

There is a great relationship between having huge resources and war, violence and crime.

The countries in Africa with less resources are the richest ones, because they had peace for a long time. War destroys any wealth people have and give it to a few guys. It also destroys al civilization and social structures.
A steady state economy will never, ever happen. We'll sooner extinguish our planet. The reason is simple: technological progress is a national security matter. It can't be stopped. Even coordinated treatise would be subverted. With technological progress more and more output for the same amount of input is possible.

Now you could argue for a steady state population. Or at least for a period of time where we have a steady state population (before starships are prevalent) and I could start to see that happening, but as long as there is intelligence and peace the economy will continue to grow.
COFOUNDER WANTED:

Looking for a cofounder that's interested in applying to YC for this batch.

Only requirement to get started are that we work together on the startup 20+ hours as a team before pressing submit.

Happy to work on your startup, mine, or build one based on YC's existing open requests for startups.
I think you might be interpreting some non-existent malice between the two movements. Stallman's stance is simply 'There are two movements - open-source and free software. Please affiliate me with the correct one'.
Trouble is the elderly have pensions, often backed by the state, and therefore are (or at least feel) immune to the financial consequences of their decisions.
If you want a little more terminal magic here are my emacs related shortcuts:

alias et='TERM=xterm-256color emacsclient -t'
alias ec='emacsclient -c -a=emacs'
alias ed='emacs --daemon'
alias kill-emacs='emacsclient -e "(kill-emacs)"'
alias e='TERM=xterm-256color f -e "emacsclient -c -a=emacs"'

The reason for these is that emacs is a little slow to start up (in comparison to vim at least). So you can set up a daemon running ( ed command above, for emacs daemon. I don't have ed on my system)

You can then open up a new frame (window) of emacs with the ec command, or a new terminal session of emacs with the et command.

My favourite is the e command, which makes use of fasd[0] to find any "frecent" file, tries to open it with emacsclient, but, if emacs daemon is not running will fall back to opening a new emacs (which with spacemacs will start a new daemon running). This way I can open files in completely different directories if need be.

[0] https://github.com/clvv/fasd
That's called a calque, I believe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque
In the eyes of a considerable many, voting for anyone else is the same as a vote for Trump.

Maybe it has always been this way.
It didn't "just work (TM)" for me, I had to customize the intero-package-version in my .emacs when using it with a project with the latest stack-nightly, to bump it up to "0.1.16".

But other than that, wow! I was already very happy whenever I could get ghc-mod and haskell-mode to work, but this takes the responsiveness to a whole different level.
what3words hires language consultants (based on the jobs page) so less common and longer words are in the middle of the Pacific for example. The word 'shit' isn't in the dictionary though there's probably funny/insulting/unfortunate combinations out there. A business can simply use a nearby 3-word code which sounds better, I mean there are 8 other 3-word codes just 4m away.
I'm fairly certain HuffPost does pay its interns. Bloggers are unpaid, but there's a fairly large newsroom on staff that produces much of the most viewed content.
Not to my taste, but I can definitely see why someone would like it. Still pretty good. Thanks!
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> Who cares about source code? Not most users.

That's not correct. People care about their problems being solved. Hence they care about the source code implicitly.

When my car is broken or needs an oil change, I don't do it myself, I take it into a car repair shop and I like the freedom to go to any car repair shop I want, because those folks from our local Peugeot representative charge an arm and a leg.

That's how freedom works dude ;-)
No, but they could give it to foo bar bay which is 3 thousand miles away.
> Those evil Open-Source guys:
>
> > They think it’s just fine if someone wants to
> > write proprietary extensions to their software
>
> It is really important to not collaborate with those
> bastards by any means. Because what matters most is
> ideology, not actual working open systems ...

Do you believe this mocking tone is helpful?

rms is often considered (sans evidence in most cases) to present an extreme view, but this interview was, IMO, a sequence of examples of his well considered, consistent, polite, arguments for a particular position.

I think what we are actually starting to realise now - some more slowly than others - is that ideology actually is what matters most. That we've let it slip for so long is regrettable.

> I consider myself as a "open source people" and I would
> say, that yes, I reject a philosophy of fanatism.

Could you define fanatism please?
So something like digdug being black means that no algorithm has progressed through all levels to completely beat the game? That seems like a high bar to set for a "win".