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Here's a viable business model (I want 10% of profits):

* Create Kickstarter with innovative new idea, take money and fund it.

* Wait for someone in China to copy it.

* Order the things at a massive discount (ie their normal price).

* Send them to your backers.

Keep the rest of the money for making a single slick video.
So what if you call getenv twice?

const char* foo = getenv("FOO");
const char* bar = getenv("BAR");

foo and bar should both be valid here. Sure, you could allocate an arbitrary amount of thread-local storage, but that's still a leak.
How does this solution provide for the welfare of those natives/slaves [sic] once their labor is replaced by machines - as is your stated goal?
Here is a background on Xiao:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/world/asia/tiananmen-era-...
ACLU enrolls in startup school Y Combinator
How is it so? I'd say there are real dollars going to the healthcare providers.
But do I care as a passenger? I see little or no reason to personally. Perhaps some might be more concerned about their safety, heck, I might be if I was to consider someone other than myself - but me personally? I'm more concerned about cost and privacy.

Keeping those things in check would have me using the service far more, even if it was slightly more risky - I don't believe the risk would be substantial enough for me to care.
I'd go write a getenv_r myself right now, but my gut feeling is that the glibc people would reject the patch on the basis that POSIX says that getenv is unsafe, we get along without a getenv_r, and therefore we don't need a getenv_r. This is why we can't have nice things.
The GridDB connector for KairosDB has been officially released
O.K., these organizational/structural concerns are fine, but are not what my point is addressing, which was OPs motivation of React on performance grounds.

Yes, grids seem to always be a problem. This is one of those 'sticky wickets' (for frameworks too!). Of course it can be solved, but i'm more interested in the general case here.
I had four of the Seagate 3TB drives that are listed in their ratings with high failure rates. All four of mine died in less than 3-years. They were a really disappointing purchase.
I don't think there's any neutrality in the process and we shouldn't pretend there is.

Participating in YC is assenting to American capitalism and working to enrich YC investors, which is a political act. Cooperating with Peter Thiel is a political act. Expanding the labor supply in markets with unions is a political act. Disrupting healthcare is a political act. Employment under H1B visas is political.

YC can admit [your candidate here] supporters and say 'we won't discriminate based upon your political affiliations or your vote' but they will absolutely discriminate against each other's political aims because of the political ramifications of the any work done by technologists.
plays video games in office, yells at people, nonsense demands, fantasy sport fanatics, take credit for everyone elses work, brown nose to get more promotions
Ask HN: Why don't they use lossless VNC for screensharing in hangouts, skype?
I don't understand why all screensharing these days is h.264. It's so much better with VNC.
Nope, but I run it at 100% scaling. I did notice that if the source on the TV is not labeled "PC" then the Mac uses YCbCr 4:2:0 and looks like garbage. Setting the input label to PC must send a different EDID because it seems to use RGB... On my Windows machine I can just override that in the nvidia control panel.
Thank you, and the rest of the commenters for the answer, the title and article where somewhat misleading and I didn't watch the video.

You are right about the article being poor, it is basically just click bait and it is annoying to have to waste brain energy on trying to decipher this incoherent story.

On the plus side though, I have just learned that alibaba factories try to outpace kickstarters and the like, that is pretty interesting and quite clever, despite the sneakiness.
Ask HN: How to Promote Community and Healthy Relationships vs. Narcissism Online?
How would you build a social network (or any other tool) that promoted community and interpersonal relationships over narcissism and self-promotion?
It's not unlike abstinence-only birth control.

Practiced perfectly, yes, abstinence is 100% effective at preventing pregnancy. There is no question about that.

And yes, some small fraction of people do manage to practice complete abstinence, and reap the benefit of not getting pregnant.

But as a policy, abstinence only for broad swaths of the population is a total disaster.
This is a really good practice but not everyone has the experience tools, time and space to do this. Not to toot my own horn (hah) but I am capable of performing any repair that has come up for my car but I still pay a mechanic most of the time because after moving to a city I don't have the space for my tools or a place to work on the car.

It's unfortunate that the shop that carries the manufacturers name is not a trustworthy place to have the work done, even with their exorbitant premium on labor.
It upsets me to read negative comments about initiatives like this. My assumption is that most people agree that it'd be good for the ACLU to have more funding and to operate in a more efficient, higher leverage manner. If YC can help with that, great! They could be backing other areas instead, or they could be backing nothing. I, for one, am glad they're backing something good.

I don't understand why people often bring up other areas where private money and resources could have gone. When someone says "I support X" (e.g. X = ACLU), they are not saying "I don't support anything that's not X." They are just saying they care about X. If you would prefer to donate your time and resources to another cause, that's great! I'm sure you'd be disappointed if you dedicated yourself to curing diabetes and someone complained because they thought cancer research should be higher priority, or if you offered to hire 10k refugees around the world and people suggested a boycott because they preferred that you hire Americans instead.

Let's not discourage people from trying to make the world better.
What will they present at Demo Day?

Not that I'm against helping the ACLU (or any non-profit for that matter), but they don't seem like a good fit, as an organization, to an accelerator of tech startups - it's not entrepreneurial, not technology oriented, far older then YC and doesn't seek (and can't really accept) VC funding.
Echoing the same here. I just found Vue a few days ago. Instead of starting with the documented way on their site, I'm going the Typescript with Components route, so I have classes, and typing. Now if I compare all of the frameworks I've been learning lately. Ang2 has a horrible module system that just gets in the way and confuses the crap out of everyone. Vue with Typescript is basically Ang2 without that horrible module system. React's flux model still bothers the crap out of me. Polymer's not on NPM and refuses to see that as the way to win.

Polymer's got the BEST router system however. It makes the URL choppable at the component level, not the app level. So you can literally throw in an external component and it can add it's OWN part of the overall URL. I don't know any other framework that can let an external component eat some of the URL if it needs to.
I really don't get the Hackintosh culture.

If one wants a Mac it should buy one, not kind of "pirate" it to run on a Frankenstein system. It is the whole experience that counts.

If one isn't willing to pay for Apple's hardware, or not happy with the existing options, then get a PC and whatever flavor of open source UNIX variant and help improving the whole experience.
Somewhat related I can anecdotally confirm that small doses of LSD (20-30ug) puts you in a high state of focus.

It's hard to get the measurement right. Halfway through my productive morning (probably at my peak) I had to take a long break because I kept feeling 'earthquakes' and had to walk it off.
I know, it is hard to take anything at face value these days.

And asking the question why there is so much support now might not be popular, mainly because the answer is not really pretty.

I do, however, believe that there are some objective reasons for the current wave of support. Some I can think of:

- The events currently unfolding affect a lot more people directly.

- The threat has changed from being systemic but disorganized to intentionally organized. The official stance has shifted as well from being apologetic to "damn fucking right, we're going to eradicate you". (sorry about the language)

- People feel utterly helpless regarding politics in general. They might tell themselves (rightfully or not) that they can talk themselves out of trouble (if they even get into trouble being a good citizen and all). But they feel there's nothing they can personally do to stop DC from messing with their lives, so they put their trust into the hands of organizations like ACLU.

Also, I can personally say, my stance (as a European) went from an amused, uneasy "geez, America, get your shit together" to being actually concerned about western civilization.
I have used Swagger a lot and I like it as well other option I like the most it gituhub also let you document things
>That's not entirely a coherent combination of labels

what is incoherent about it? Both libertarianism and nationalism are vast repositories of political thought that can be combined in any number of ways. Libertarianism at its core does not require forfeiting national interests, nor do national interests require forfeiting a global economy founded on capitalist principles.
TL;DR

We'll give H1B visa to Linus/Einstein;
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Godel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

A friend of mine introduced it to me at school and we were both hooked. I recently bought it again as I wanted a copy for my kids!
Upthread, I pointed out a sane and safe alternative to POSIX getenv interface, one that works fine with regular C, and here, you're claiming that we need exotic features to achieve safety? What?
Is your company hiring front-end devs? ;)

It might be useful to put the company name out there, I'd be interested in learning more.
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Statistically you can guess all sort of things, like whites are smarter than other races etc.

All I was saying is that the parent comment was racist.
How about this improved business model:

* Create Kickstarter with innovative new idea, take money and fund it.

* Wait for someone in China to copy it.

* Order the things at a massive discount (ie their normal price).

* Set up a new store to sell the knock offs.

* Stiff your backers.

You end up with all the kickstarter money and the knock off money but only have to pay for half the merchandise.
It's sad that less people we're inspired to donate earlier, but IMO the whole "you're just realizing this now?" thing is unproductive.

Every person has a moment when they wake up and decided to step up, usually several. Litigating their decision process after he fact does nothing to help. Just say "thanks and welcome, now let's go wake up some others."

Momentum is important and true or not this kind of stuff serves only as a speedbump.
I think it's less about the immigrant situation in particular, and more about the way the new President is wielding his power blatantly in front of a nation who is _extremely_ divided when it comes to their opinion of him. It's not that those other issues are less or more important, but that they have a much less identifiable perpetrator. A prominent cause is more easily reducible.

It's a cry for someone or some organization to help guide us back to center. The ACLU just happens to be one of the best positioned organizations to fit this situation.
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It seems it's pure misdirection at this point. I also notice that people sort of become "trained"(unconsciously) to be incredibly sensible to anything that may deligitimize any sort of critical action or against the status-quo in general but then using a whole different weight for other stuff(maybe because they're "normal"). Results seems to be: demobilization, immobilization.
Then you got lucky. My trackpad skips around horribly on my xps13. I can't believe how horrible that trackpad is.
In orbit there is still the significantly protecting effect of the Earth's magnetic field, which deflects much of the heavy ion radiation. This more massive radiatiom has different mechanisms of damage, and we're finding that it is likely more damaging in many contexts. So all-in-all, the space station ends up being a minor simulation of the much harsher interplanetary environment. I have several theories about how musk's team intend to solve this issue, mostly talking about surrounding the crew quarters with water. That being said, this problem is still largely unsolved and remains one of the biggest barriers to interplanetary human spaceflight.
I wonder if Democracy has anything to do with the move to accept ACLU today.
Indian IT firms are making money by selling software engineers, not software to US;
They have smartphones with apps; the step to having an online payment provider is a small one.
But it should be. And we can make it thread safe very easily. Why the hell should we be limited by POSIX? Why can't we provide features beyond it?

It's access to the environ global that's inherently unsafe. setenv and a modified getenv can be accommodated just fine.
I'd find that persuasive if I hadn't worked with H1-Bs hired solely because they'd work more cheaply and for longer hours than their local counterparts. The current H1-B program on paper looks great. In practice, in my experience, it seems to be abused all to hell.
Didn't they kidnap multiple booksellers already?
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Irrelevant. The sole criterion for viability of a currency is acceptance.
Guess there's a reason FreeBSD isn't doing it :D.
A friend of mine actually made a pressure bleeder out of an old weed sprayer. I really like the idea of using that because it's easier to maintain the balance in he system and fully flush the old fluid.

He stores his with brake fluid in it which seems to me to defeat the purpose of bleeding brakes because the weed sprayer isn't going to be any more resistant to moisture than the brake system in the car. I'll probably have him help me build my own and then use that.

There is also a tool library around here that may have an actual pressure bleeder I can rent.
Pre-inauguration, discussion of Trump's immigration policies and their logical conclusion would have been shut down under the "no politics" rule.

Seems it only takes ~10 days of this stuff being real for folks here to admit that politics affects everybody and is a valid topic of discussion.
I wouldn't say so, I think there are legitimate criticism of people who talk without action. However, the terms "SJW"/"White Knight"/"virtue signaling" have become overburdened in their use and definition to the point where they only serve to polarize.
I've gone all-in on HGST for personal use because I've seen their results from Backblaze and also have good luck with them so far. I have 14 of their 4TB NAS and 22 of the 6TB NAS.
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Politics is intertwined with everything. Not sure why you're trying to draw a line here.

Start ups are extremely "people" based entities. If you think the ACLU doesn't fit in with the YCombinator landscape -- given recent events -- then I'm not sure what I can really say to paint a more vivid picture to make you understand.
I know for me that I broke off into my own side projects and contracting work that interested me. I found that being able to tackle a contract that I want or a side project that could possibly bring me some money in or teach me some new things has kept me on the tip of my toes.
Slack is launching Enterprise Grid
They forced him (or maybe it was a different bookseller) to go on TV and claim he turned himself in for some crime he committed as well, as I recall.
If app-fication of ride hailing is what you want, it's worth mentioning that in the SF bay area, Flywheel has done an excellent job of making a feature-rich app and network [0]. Personally, I have found it to be an excellent service, the things that matter the most to me are availability of rides, timeliness of driver dispatch and arrival, and communication with drivers (when necessary).

[0] http://www.flywheel.com/passenger-app
I was afraid of the whole burning down thing as well. The protests and outrage around the US have made me a lot more hopeful though.
And forgot the year and a half long debate over scaling that has caused an increase in prioritization fees and delays.
Elites are really closed in their own bubble. "Nihilists" and terrorist attacks :-(
Is there a simple way to say in legalese "we want startups, but not 1. startups that have large companies as controlling interests at any remove, or 2. startups who exist to serve only one or two large companies"?

Sure, you'd exclude a few enterprise-B2B startups from your program, and startups that have been invested in "over a barrel" such that the founders no longer retain control, but you'd also filter out these ne'er-do-wells.
If this bug actually still happens, it's an implementation problem in glibc, not a fundamental problem with the fopen and fclose interface. Regular locks can guard against this scenario just fine.

Do you have a glibc bug number?
I'm honestly a bit confused to see this point raised here. I certainly have seen vitriol aimed at H-1B workers, including on HN. Raising minimum salary would be a way to restrict the program, but the comment you're replying to specifically calls that change "lipstick on a pig". I guess 'lipstick' might be an endorsement, but it's fair to say that this bill is about making Americans happier with a still-broken system.

Suggesting that the existing H-1B system is broken and in need of reform isn't necessarily a call for less skilled immigration. My two biggest complaints about it are actually both pro-immigration.

First, I think what was meant as a way to integrate skilled immigrants into the economy has been transformed into a way to marginalize many visa-holders into non-standard consulting work.

Second, I think the H-1B system has created a distorted market which hurts both visa holders and domestic workers by creating a labor pool which is basically unable to bargain. Tying someone's immigration status to the actions of a single employer makes even basic negotiations like "this work environment is terrible" or "I'm underpaid for the work I'm doing" untentable, since the employer has an irrefutable lever over the employee. That's terrible for visa-holders working at inappropriate wages or under unpleasant or unsafe conditions. It's also bad news for domestic workers, who rightly complain that they're not just competing against international labor but handicapped-by-law labor. In an industry which has already seen one major wage-fixing conspiracy, I think it's understandable that there's some nervousness about employers using the law to create an artificial boundary on labor prices.

I'd like to see skilled immigration massively expanded, and I think part of that process is reforming the H-1B system. Many companies use the system quite reasonably, but others are specifically using it to avoid treating American or international workers fairly.
> DHS to investigate worksites

This is not a man in suite arriving at site via Uber asking polite questions. This is mostly a SWAT team storming through all doors and killing dogs if any an then taking away all your documents, interviewing all employees. In short that is end of business to you.

Remember they will not come alone. They will bring sleuths from all other departments and you will be fined for not having appropriate number of fire extinguishers and for not having a separate bin for dry cells.

You clients will avoid you and your landlord will be upset.
Right, because this is Hacker News.

There are lots of pro-life women out there.
Misleading title: this is about how the author's app reached a high rank in the Mac App Store for a specific category yet he only saw 70 cents in profit as a result (one sale).
Directly support candidates and political parties that reflect their views.

There are two parties in the US: Fascist and anti-Fascist. The anti-Fascists are doing a sorry, spineless job. But at least they're not writing bigoted laws.
It's very simple, those countries are not actively engaged in exporting terrorism especially pertaining to isil.
Gentrification pushes low income people out of their communities by increasing the costs of living there beyond their capacity to absorb those costs. It is also not inherently racist (as it affects anyone who is low income), but is one mechanism through which racial inequities are exacerbated in our country.
I ain't your friend, pal.
This is not a tables-vs-CSS thing. Hey, I'm looking forward to servo and applaud Mozilla devs for it; but the reason they found it worthwile to invent an entire new programming language for implementing it certainly is telling about CSS's insane complexity.
are we bombing indonesia or pakistan? dont think we are
I really don't get the point of articles like this, at all. I see brilliant things all the time that I'd love to own but could never afford. I live with that disappointment.

Generation Snowflake seems to think that, in such circumstances you just stick a crowd-funding campaign on the web, and let 'rest of world' buy your dream for you —with <what exactly?> in it for them?
It is indeed less of a dedicated fighter and more of a jack-of-all trades like the old Phantom II was[0]. And suffers from the same problem of being shoehorned into the F-for-fighter series. EFA-35 or even M-35 for multmission would have been more accurate.

[0] in fact the weight, size, thrust and payload are all on-par with the F-4E version except the back-seater has been replaced by computers.
I hope we will see some advances in medical technology with this
Exactly. If they took a view that the right to free speech is a "collective" right, that would completely gut any value they provide.
> Anytime you sacrifice security for convenience or simplicity, you lose.

No, you don't. And it's exactly this kind of black and white, all or nothing thinking that has hampered the success of the security community for decades.

Security folks, for obvious reasons, are only ever thinking about user scenarios where active security is needed. Scenes involving rubber hoses, angry cops, jealous spouses, competing corporations, etc. Those scenes matter, but they are a very small fraction of most users lives'.

Users are not stupid. When they reason about security, they think about all of the scenarios in their life. And, for every time they get picked up by the secret police and would be really glad they picked a 14-digit alphanumeric passcode, they know there are a million more times where they wanted to take a picture of that cute thing their kid is doing right now and don't want to spend the time unlocking the phone.

That is a real win in the user's mind. And those many small conveniences and joys are a huge part of the equation of their life.

Well-designed systems give users good security by integrating into their whole life, not just the idealized nefarious circumstances security folks spend all day thinking about. If you make your security too annoying, users will route around it, and now they have no security.
I switched from Macbook Air to XPS 13 in December. I would not say XPS is _very_ much behind on trackback at least when comparing to Air, not sure if MBP has different trackback?
And the First Amendment is protected by powerful media litigation teams. Civil liberties don't have asterisks.
> http://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=60...

Those seed stage startups are going to need more capital! Go back to what valuations in 1989 looked like too.