skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Five dollars? No. Just search for "[your representative's name] dinner event" and you can find the typical cost of access. For instance, my Rep has required 500 dollar contributions in the past. If you're actually interested, just call up the local party HQ and ask for the next event.
take a close look at Opera Mini ;) (they are doing Server rendering)
The line between free speech and discrimination was drawn long ago. Would you also have people deny service to Black Americans like we did before the Civil Rights movement?
At least the pdf file for new H1B visa bill means that there will be new line or new path for F1 visa holders.

Also, F1 visa students provide good enough subsidies and education discounts to American students (both in-state & out-of-state tuition).
The ACLU defended a Republican city councilor in my parent's small home town for having his signs taken down by the Democratic mayor. You wouldn't think they'd even notice such a tiny thing, but they were there, and they won.
Maybe the problem being addressed wasn't the reason for rejection.
Gerrymandering has helped. Our democracy is not a simple matter of "candidate with the most votes wins".
Python Cryptographic Authority: cryptography
You say that as though there were some well-known reason we should have stopped. So far as I am aware Snopes continues to be a reliable source of information about urban legends.
what is a function head?
I'm starting to agree with you and Bryanlarsen that 32" 4k seems to be a sweet spot.
opposite question as the other poster: what do you do if you have a great idea (naturally everyone thinks their own ideas are great) but don't have the entrepreneurial spirit ? I've been working on a project for a couple years, still have about 25% of the work to go for it to be MVP, but I'd really like to find a business partner/investor. I'm afraid to reach out though because I dont know how to protect myself from being screwed.
I downvoted you. My problem with what you said is that you acknowledged that technology creates surplus, but didn't acknowledge that many of the efficiency gains aren't going to the consumer, but to the owners of the company.
Here's the fundamental problem with separating styling from content: styling is content.

Layout matters. Layout carries semantics. Right here on HN is an example, where the comment reply chain is indicated with indentation. The meaning of a comment such as "I disagree" varies depending on what it is replying to and therefore where it is in the layout.

Other examples where layout is content: Captions for photos. An online store where each price describes the cost of whatever item it is next to. Sports box scores and other statistical presentations. Interviews in question-and-answer format where the layout indicates who is speaking.

That's why we've gotten our layout engines so mixed up with our content and markup, because layout is content. How would one devise an abstraction for layout for all of these? You would need to express the semantic relationships within the data, like "comment-replied-to" and "photo-with-caption" and so on. That sounds tantamount to a full implication of natural language processing.
The way Elon was able to get into a position to affect the world was by acquiring a pile of money. It was a necessary first step. If you imagine a scenario where society enforces a cap on how rich someone is allowed to get, it's possible that Musk might not have passed the threshold of money needed to get into his current position.

More broadly, when a society won't let people become as rich as the market will let them, founders will tend to move elsewhere.
Yeah, Rik's totally right. As a technical person you control the proverbial board. Go out, meet (great, non-crazy) people...talk about your ideas. Have in mind the type or skill set of the co-founder you want though, early stage everyone needs to bring hard skills, IMHO.
What a great thought! I was having trouble justifying it myself, so I asked someone else around the lab. They pointed out the very important reason for doing a twin study (as opposed to just following them longitudinally like you're suggesting): you can identify effects that were "going to happen anyway". Sure, we might send them both up and see that they both experienced changes, but we wouldn't know whether this was simply due to genetic predisposition. By comparing the twins side-by-side, the goal is to rule out genetic contributions. Of course, this is difficult with such a small study group, but it represents the start of hopefully a larger set of data.
I've rewritten my comment three times so far ...

My wife and I are fortunate enough that she can be a stay at home mom. I grew up the same way. Were middle class, though increasingly probably slightly mid to upper these days. We don't need the babysitter, and want our kids to be educated, so that is the focus. We help them with homework, etc. We're lucky.

So from my perspective, having both parents working is the root issue. It's an economic necessity for probably 80+% of the country, which I suppose is really the root issue.

Ultimately it all boils down to resources, time and money, and there is never enough to go around. I don't have an answer for that :(
> In this situation, the experience of a fast-food purchase is being removed of the small talk, the smiles, the "have a nice day!".

I think I'm visiting different fast food restaurants. My experience typically involves a challenging conversation through a low quality speaker system and then paying for the order with someone who can barely stand to look at me, much less tell me to have a nice day!
The best argument against GMOs are Black Swans, which, due to their rarity, don't appear often/soon enough to dissuade people in advance. Probably 99.99999% of GMOs are fine, but that one in a million will have disastrous consequences for an ecosystem. It could also be that since our knowledge of human biology is still woefully incomplete, we optimize for the wrong things, leading to lower overall health (we've probably already done this without GMOs just by selecting for size/sturdiness over nutrients.) Multiply the complexity of individual organisms with entire ecosystems, and the reality is we just can't predict the likelihood of an adverse outcome at all.

This would be fine if we had a backup Earth. I'm all in favor of biotech on Mars, isolated moon labs, and interstellar colonies, if we had any. But the current irreplaceable nature of Earth means we have to be extra cautious with it. Our usual standards are insufficient, and thinking otherwise is hubris.
I don't disagree, but the chaos from Trump declaring Saudi Arabia, a current strategic ally in the region both for material resources and military cooperation, would be on a scale that no one here would like to pick up the pieces from.

We deal with a lot of countries around the world that do things we don't like, we don't have to like it, but diplomacy and politics are messy and require compromise in situations where it's a better choice versus the alternative.
I might take action on this and ask our customers individually what they would like and compare across roles. If I sort this data I will definitely post my findings.
Although a startup might only marginally benefit because a single one would be a significant portion of their employees, right? So it would be over 15% right off the bat if they have fewer than 7 people
> "part of the goal was to bring synchronous programming to the mainstream"

This was not the original academic goal, but it is now.

We want to offer an imperative alternative to program reactive systems.
Sure, but "not doing anything to improve the state of 2A" is not the same as "fighting to impose a degraded view of 2A".

The ACLU has nothing to gain by promoting any particular 2A view, because that's the only right that's not universally a political sinkhole.

The inconvenient truth is that all civil rights (that aren't gun rights) have opposition nearly everywhere in America.
The only difference is incidentals- if you're in coastal California or urban New England, your subculture wants "hate speech" banned; whereas Arkansas has a more traditional version of obscenity (depictions of sex and promotion of other vices) it wants to eliminate.

So civil rights (in the traditional sense) has no defenders in legislature or society at large. Gun rights, on the other hand, still do in many areas of the country (coastal California and urban New England are the two big exceptions, of course), and as such I can't fault the ACLU's 'default' stance on a right that's not universally contested.
That's what I was wondering when I first saw this; that there was no way this machine was doing any cooking. And that it would need to be routinely refilled with food and beverage ingredients. There would also need to be some way to deal with mistakes being made. (i.e. What happens if you make a mistake while ordering, or you pay for your order and then it spits out half a burger or a watery soft drink?)

And that's to say nothing of ongoing servicing, maintenance and development.
> Where was the outpouring of funding when black people were being gunned down by cops from West Coast organizations? Where has YCombinator been as our own impoverished African-Americans are getting slaughtered in the streets of Chicago?

The tech community/industry thinks that it is a meritocracy, where race (and hence racism) doesn't exist.
Aren't all these configurable in Windows? I'm pretty sure you can set it exactly the way you want...
Why has this been posted here?

Because it relates to the public doings of YC, which are always on-topic (overriding the "no politics per se" rule).
> Also, please consider donating to the ACLU.

Am I the only one seeing irony that a billionaires VC firm is asking for donations to organization they are funding?
I thought it was "yeah, right".
gpm is only necessary for interacting with on a Linux TTY; if you are using it in an X terminal emulator, then you merely need a terminal emulator that supports the xterm mouse extensions.
I searched around to see if I could find any writeup about the ACLU defending the NAACP and KKK at the same time. I found a similar example to the one you described from the mid 90's - http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/10/news/a-klansman-s-black-la...
Yes, you absolutely can.

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/blob/master...
Who did they vote for?
> "One person, one vote"

So how come Trump's President?

(It's because "one person" gets "one vote" for an elector. But some people get more electors than others, and electors vote for the President, not individual voters.)
Here's an idea for someone to build up. Make a dating site for founders and cofounders. That would do really well in SV. Probably could even run in real life speed dating.

That's not exactly my field of interest but I'd sign up for something like that when I get out of college and need to finally get to building things.
OctoLinker for GitHub added Go support
Yes. You'd have to obtain that backing first, and it is not clear whether that has happened here.

Just going in (like the Mossad in Argentina for Eichmann) is not legal (even if it might be morally justified).

National security is a bit tricky, because the HK Basic Law allows for exceptions there, I think - but has that seriously been invoked?
IMO, HTML/CSS have always been missing a middle layer. It really should be:

- HTML for pure information
- Something else (template/view?) for layout and (possibly) forms
- CSS for styling in terms of fonts, colors, etc.

This would easily handle layouts, but it would also have some NLS-like capabilities where you could switch from one way of presenting information to another without changing the actual docment.
Yes, windows 8's UWP settings (I believe 10 is the same in this respect, correct me if I'm wrong) is hard to use.

Does it happen to you occasionally that you look up instructions on the internet about "how to do X"? It does to me, for example, "how to mark a network private". It used to be that you could open Control Panel along the browser window and work through it. Not anymore! Now, the setting up takes the entire screen. You have to use two screens if you want to do something that the Mac has supported flawlessly since 1987, and Windows only since 1990 (but no later than 2014).

When I point out to Windows users this example (and others) of how horrible and hostile Windows has become since Win8, I get answers that I can only describe as learned helplessness and stockholm syndrome.
Any plans on offering formal methods for Céu?
It's not that kind of an "investment". It's more less obviously a charitable donation.
The DOM is more than the proposed content map, because it also creates structure. I think the proposed idea is to basically create a structure without any content, then apply the content into that structure.

The current split is CSS is presentation while HTML is content + structure. Unless I'm misunderstanding, this proposal would separate content and structure. I'm not sure where presentation would go; you could certainly make a case for it being grouped with either.

There's also plenty of questions around what's content and what's structure and what's presentation. For instance, a section heading is potentially all three. I personally would probably go for grouping presentation with the content, and call structure "layout" to disambiguate it. A section heading is maybe structure, but it's definitely not layout.
H-1B is dual intent.
Come on - this is egregiously cynical. You know this isn't really the case.
https://www.uscis.gov/news/fact-sheets/naturalization-throug...
AI Beats Four Top Poker Players
How many of the top 100 websites are open source? Sure, it's not zero, but large open source production products are rare to begin with.
That's a laugh. Statistically speaking your friends who behave the way you're implying simply don't exist. That you might literally find a few is irrelevant.

How about you consider the fact that no one but the most obtuse observer would take a phrase like, "All of the people involved" to literally mean every single one without any exceptions whatsoever. If you think that's normal, and I don't mean this in a pejorative way, there's a significant chance you're autistic.
Wow. I used to run Ubuntu on the Mini 9 almost a decade ago (bought it with Ubuntu preloaded) and used Xmonad. It wouldn't have crossed my mind that OS X would run at all on one, given that by their nature, the Mini 9 was meant to be the least expensive Dell.
The ACLU doesn't have a problem with 2A, but they see gun ownership as a collective right rather than an individual right.

And that's a problem. It betrays either a gross misunderstanding on their part of the purpose of the Bill of Rights, which is unlikely, or other less transparent motivations, which aren't. There are other civil liberties organizations that don't argue for a state monopoly on the right to self defense. Consider helping them out instead.

It's ridiculous to talk about how misguided, dangerous, or outright evil the government is, only to turn around and argue that they should own all the guns.
How heat from the Sun can keep us all cool
Can we change the story's link to the announcement on the Chromium blog?

https://blog.chromium.org/2017/01/open-sourcing-chrome-on-io...
> It's not possible to design a system that the participants themselves can't destroy if they decide to.

Enter systemic, omnipresent, pervasive mass-surveillance.

Tables turned 180°.
Organizations tend to be organized and have specific goals. But mass protests rarely come from a single organization. They come from an angry populace.
That listening is no longer valued in today’s medicine. The patient’s “history” was once the centerpiece of his medical record, his story written in narrative form. With current electronic templates, information is fragmented into chunks designed to meet so-called quality metrics and maximize revenue from insurers. The patient’s story has been reduced to telegraphed key words that trigger prefigured algorithms, which generate pop-ups on the computer screen for further testing or generic therapies.

This finally explains why I find medical care in the US so different than what I had in my birth country (Brazil).

My US experience so far (multiple times): go to the doctor and have 15-20 minutes tops to talk to them (and most of that time is taken by a nurse and then waiting), describe symptoms and general observations I've made about them (I listen a lot to my body). With almost no discussion or explanation, I'm quickly diagnosed with something that almost always sounds bogus to me and I'm prescribed some medicine with no explanation of what it does.

Back in Brazil: go to the doctor and have 30-45 minutes booked. No nurse. Explain symptoms. Doctor asks further questions. I answer and offer general observations. Doctor writes down everything. Doctor appears to think about it. Doctor offers a few possible explanations as to what is going on and what is the course of action from then on. Asks what I think about it. If I'm prescribed something, I receive a full explanation of what the medicine does, and if I'm OK with taking it.

Another major difference I've observed is that doctors in the US tend to attempt to treat things starting from the least concerning ailment. I guess that's why there are so many stories of cancer patients going to doctor after doctor who treat them for minor things, only for a cancer diagnostic to be made when the disease has progressed a lot further. Back in Brazil, the doctors I went to would usually go a completely different route: "it's probably <insert minor/treatable problem here>", but let's rule out the sinister stuff first [like cancer]."

I love 99% of my life in America when compared to Brazil, and have no plans to go back. But going to the doctor here is definitely a subpar experience compared to what I had there.
> Corporations don't have morality, they have profit motives. YC doesn't give a shit about immigrant rights any more than the unjust deaths of african americans around the US, they care about attracting certain demographics to apply as founders.

I see no evidence this is the case, or that the founders of YC aren't human beings who also make decisions out of legitimate concern for the betterment of the world.
Trump (and Clinton) had record-breaking unfavorable ratings during the campaign. Your point about "less-bad" carries a lot of weight, in my opinion (and would have been the case regardless of who won the election). And step back and think of it: half think bad, half think good. Is that a situation you'd like to consider "not bad" in the grand scheme of things? Mediocre sounds like a fairer assessment, on average. And frankly I think we'd all prefer a solid "good" rather than an ambiguous "not bad".
Passcode. There's always a reason you will lend your iPhone to your closed person. I'd like a feature to lock it down to avoid them using my Google Service & browser history.
Interesting! I like this logic.

However... what should one call oneself?
Others having the right to do the same implies a government of sorts. The alternative is anarchy and I don't think you'd like it, and another problem is that groups would coalesce anyway and would take over a group of anarchists with relative easy because of their better organization.

We are where we are for a whole pile of very good reasons.
I am glad they abandoned swipe-to-switch-tabs for swipe-to-go-back like Safari uses. Much more useful IMO
I love these statistics, but I would just like some clarification on what exactly constitutes a "failure". Does the drive have to stop responding completely, or are a few bad sectors enough to consider the drive "bad"?
They definitely do, but I was speaking in particular to their more controversial actions. They've done many good defenses of politically left or fairly neutral things, but I can't think of any on the right side of the spectrum in recent memory and as someone with fairly moderate political views, that does concern me a bit.
There are quite a few energetic people out there devoted to worker cooperatives and generally developing strategies for the democratization of wealth/capital. The nice part is it doesn't require electoral politicking or lawmaking, just a voluntary change in how people interact and associate economically.

http://democracycollaborative.org/

http://geo.coop

http://fair.coop
That's like castigating someone who volunteers at a soup kitchen for not volunteering at every soup kitchen.
Inequality as a driver of innovation is maybe arguable based on the idea of risk/reward. But what about, for example the CEO of any large bank or established corporation. Those people aren't taking any significant risk, but their compensation packages would indicate otherwise. The organization that concentrates wealth towards the top is already in place. They profit from the success of that organization, but in most cases the worst case for them if things go wrong is losing their job. Not losing their life savings, not ending up living on the street, etc. So since the risk is so low, there shouldn't be a need to incentivize people to such an extreme to do that work.
Depends! CEO is fine, business development is good too.
I couldn't agree more! I have always been prone to severe depressive episodes, at a frequency of around once a week. It got really debilitating and was destroying my quality of life.

I noticed my depression seemed to correlate with my poor digestive health -- chronic constipation and frequent food poisoning. Once I started supplementing probiotics and eating a small amount of kimchi or kraut every day, my depressive episode frequency reduced to only once every few months (and my digestive symptoms disappeared).

There's a strong link between your gut and your brain.

This is anecdotal, but changing my diet changed my life for the better.
You can still pay by credit card, provided that both the driver and passenger agree. There are portable credit card readers that interface with smartphones.
Agreed on your cynical description of realpolitik on the ground. But it's not a good thing, and the cases ought to be investigated, and if it turns out that it was unlawful, HK and Britain (as contracting party in the treaty giving rise to the SAR) and the world ought to object.

China will subsume HK by 2047 at the latest - let's hope it will not be earlier. As you highlight, the signs so far do not augur well.
Peter Thiel: Ban is not religious test
Indeed they are, but they are also extremely beneficial to much of the rest of the world, who repays this debt with insults.
> telemetry (easily turn it all off in Settings).

Not unless you are running enterprise.

Also, I also find that things I've removed get reinstalled on updates. And that updates reboot my win10 computer unexpectedly. And that I have to hack registry and kill processes to stop that - but that updates occasionally circumvent my circumvention.

Seriously, Windows is hostile. I was forced to pay for an OS that goes to great pains to be hostile to me and subvert my wishes and configuration. DO NOT WANT! (And do not use, except for one machine that I'm forced to use to support some customers).
It's Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics.

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...

"The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more. Even if you don’t make the problem worse, even if you make it slightly better, the ethical burden of the problem falls on you as soon as you observe it. In particular, if you interact with a problem and benefit from it, you are a complete monster."
Some colleagues are working on an operational semantics of the language (based on the one in the thesis).
This will allow us to prove some claims (e.g., reaction termination, bounded memory).
Then, we may think about something else.
Anything more specific in mind?