skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
43% is the average across the EU. It's not surprising that it takes a while for new members to fully participate.

You are mistaken about Czech turnout though. It's the second lowest of all members: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2014-results/en/turno...

[Edit] For comparison: Turnout in the 2014 US mid-term elections was 36%. In the most recent presidential elections it was 55%.
If R2-D2 used Ethereum.

C-3PO: He made a perfectly legal move.

Han: Let him have it. It’s not wise to upset a Wookiee (The Ethereum founders).

C-3PO: But sir. Nobody worries about upsetting a droid (a regular contract user without influence).
Han: That’s cause a droid (regular contract user) don’t pull people’s arms out of their sockets (hard fork the entire crypto currency and call you a thief) when they lose. Wookiees (The Ethereum founders) are known to do that.

C-3PO: I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, R2. Let the Wookiee (Ethereum founders) win.

With Chewbacca's and the Ethereum founders' behavior, you would be a fool to play their game again thinking that they follow the rules.
HEADLINE: enable AppArmor by default

DESCRIPTION: AppArmor improves security by limiting the capabilities of programs. Ubuntu has done this years ago [1]. I'd like to see profiles for web browsers enabled by default.

I think AppArmor is the right choice of default Mandatory Access Control for Debian because Ubuntu and security focused Debian derivatives like Tails [2] and SubgraphOS [3] have already committed to it.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/AppArmorP...

[2]: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/application_isolati...

[3]: https://subgraph.com/
Just had an extremely horrendous example. Searching for "webpack 3" the first link doesn't mention "webpack" at all, only packweb and generally it's an absolutely useless result page.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22webpack+3%22&atb=v49-4&ia=web
Soviet literature of the period was definitely encouraged and even required to have ideological subtext, there's no arguing with that. However, that doesn't tell us much about how successful that policy was. The article is evidently trying to make a point that it was successful by presenting an example of a person who could recite "Barmalei" from memory, without mentioning that "Barmalei" was actually innocent and unrelated to the propaganda-infested books mentioned previously. That is either an error on the article author's part, or a purposeful omission.

Please don't read this as a claim that the policy was not actually successful (which I don't know whether is true or not).
firmware support involves supplying the binary blobs that the driver needs to upload to certain peripherals like intel wireless cards.

personally i would like to see non-free software kept out of the main disc images but the images including firmware being more visibly advertised and it made clear on the download pages what hardware requires it and who needs it.
No fglrx support... I wonder why.
( Not that the radeon driver isn't good enough, it just surprised me a bit at reboot. )
Not necessarily https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy
> ...not every maintainer uses git.

I can't think of a valid reason for people to avoid learning git. Is there one?
> great way to ensure that a language will have long-term support

If anything, community-driven projects can keep on track longer: Linux, Python, non-commercial distributions, while corporate-driven one can change direction or be dropped: Java, Visual Basic, MySQL, Solaris, a lot of Google projects.

It's much more difficult to steer a whole community in wrong direction or convince most contributors to drop a project.
Slightly off topic: there's a lot of discussion in this thread about CPM and RPM for different types of content. Does anyone know typical CPM and RPM for adult / NSFW traffic?
I don't think that particular example is illogical. it's basically the same as writing something like

new String[1] == new String[1]

in Java, which would also be false.
> If it's just a static document at the url, save it as html before link rot finally gets it.

Don't do it (as it saves a lot of files - js, css, images, besides some of those could have malicious code...). Just pdf-print it in Chromium and bookmark that pdf in FF with the same tags.
I don't think any of them are ponzi schemes. Shitty investment based on speculation and hype != illegal or ponzi scheme

Bubbly sectors see irrational amounts of money thrown at things that have little underlying value, like Beanie Babies, or a token for a proposed protocol described by a two page whitepaper.
He is totally right about ICO's though. They are essentially Ponzi schemes as investors think the coins have value and that their initial investment is generating more value, but that is not what is happening.
Is it really such a safe assumption that a group insurance plan would provide better coverage than an ACA marketplace plan?

Because that is what you are implying, that group plans are all better than the individual plans people are talking about.
You're right regarding most websites, but the somewhat recent situation with Berkeley online classes is an interesting example that illustrates a major difference.

Adding a wheelchair ramp is a small fraction of the total costs of making a building, just as making a website properly is a small fraction of making a website. So it's somewhat reasonable to require the (relatively small) change to make the thing more accessible.

On the other hand, in the Berkeley online classes situation, making the lectures deaf-friendly (i.e. doing transcripts or subtitles) was much, much more expensive than making the lectures available in the first place, which amounted pretty much to setting up some simple gear to record something that was already happening. In this case, the required costs were totally out of proportion, and meant that the content became less accessible, i.e. was taken down for everyone.

So the regulations must be taken with a grain of salt - it's easy to write (or interpret) a single sentence that makes a requirement totally disproportionate and not comparable to a wheelchair ramp.
> rename testing to something with a positive
> connotation that doesn't suggest it's for
> testing only.

Isn't unstable what you want to use?

The reason it's called "testing" is because it's a branch of Debian that's "in testing for stable". IIRC packages have to be 2 weeks in unstable without bugs before migrating to testing.

So it's explicitly not a bleeding edge release, but a preparation release for the next stable, which is why testing since late-2016 or so hasn't been getting any new major releases, it's been undergoing release prep.

Maybe there should be a sixth branch of Debian between unstable and testing that doesn't slow down the migration of packages bug-free for 2 weeks from unstable around release, but that seems like a lot of maintenance burden to impose on Debian.
Just fix the VM then. tinyrb based on potion based on lua with classes is ~200x faster in method calls, and has a full dynamic MOP. Common Lisp ditto.
Traditional optimizations don't work when the base VM is poorly designed.

Always take advice from people of failed products with a grain of salt.
How Ryan Hoover Built the ProductHunt MVP in 20Mins Sitting at Philz Coffee
Show HN: Download music from saavn.com, gaana.com, etc.
https://github.com/subgraph/subgraph_metaproxy

'Metaproxy is not going to work very well with IPv6'
None of the token sales I've seen are ponzi schemes. "Ponzi scheme" seems to be the buzzword used to describe any irrational or bubbly investment. It's incorrect usage of the term.
Interestingly, the minitel solved the monetization problem as visitors would automatically be billed by the phone company at the rate chosen by the service they visited.
I am not yet convinced it is not amenable. For example who gets to serve a city with emergency services? I guess there could be bidders to the city council, offering services for a certain price. That would lead to competition.

Likewise, insurances would negotiate rates for certain procedures. Of course it is not the task of the patient during cardiac arrest to do so. But the patient would choose the insurance provider.
These don't work for WiFi drivers as I pointed out because they're not actually the firmware, they're packages to download the firmware. That obviously doesn't work if you don't have a network connection.
I hope to read one day "Making Humans Multi-century individuals" one day. Easier to get to Mars when you don't run out of time and die before you get there.
Flipkart is registered in Singapore but not listed on the SGX (Singapore's stock exchange).
Nation-states are not necessarily the optimal site of democracy, but eliminating them without implementing some other site of democracy is lunacy.
Zika virus transmission and prevention
Show HN: Oorja, OSS video/voice chat app with realtime collaborative features
I don't want to get bogged down in Brexit politics, but someone should point out that the £100B figure is not something to take seriously.

Firstly, it's not an official figure but rather an estimate by outside observers of the maximum bill the UK could be landed with given the worst (for the UK) interpretation of a wide range of plausible criteria about what might or might not be included in any settlement. You have to make some quite one-sided assumptions to get to a figure this high, and typically the reports where these kinds of figures come from do show this, though of course headline writers don't tend to incorporate such nuance.

Secondly, even if it were some sort of official figure, it would be politically untenable for the UK to accept it. The UK's net contribution to the EU as a member enjoying full membership benefits is about an order of magnitude smaller. The EU plans budgets on a 7-year cycle (the current one is 2013-2020) but the actual budgets are made annually. Those budgets normally do commit to future spending with quite a long tail, but the curve is very front-loaded and most money committed in any given year's budget is usually to be spent within 2-3 years.

So a figure in the region of £100B would be like asking the UK to pay for around another decade of full membership after it's left, a period far beyond most current spending commitments the EU is making. Moreover, the current EU position is that this needs to be negotiated independently, before any deal on any benefits the UK might retain in some form as a result of any future agreement or payments, so there would be little if any guarantee about the UK getting anything in return for that extra financial support to the EU.

Personally I'm still hoping for the professionals to take over from the politicians and come to a reasonable agreement. I don't think they have much chance of doing that in less than 2 years, but with an extra 2-3 years of some sort of transitional arrangement, it doesn't seem impossible. They could deal with the budgeting issues and current financial commitments at that notice, allowing a more graceful withdrawal by the UK without either anyone feeling they'd had funding cut off abruptly on the EU side or the UK putting up either a huge lump sum or any sort of ongoing financial support to the EU without getting something worthwhile in return.
The France Telecom monopoly on telephone line probably did more to slow down broadband adoption that the minitel.
Oh okay. Thank you!
You are categorically wrong about this.

Ponzi schemes are financial frauds where, under the promise of high profits, users put their money, recovering their investment and interests only if enough users after them continue to invest money.

Further to this, its qualatively provable, as you can look at the contracts and actually class the type of Ponzi scheme they are.

* https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/06/01/2189634/its-not-just-...
https://stratechery.com/2017/tulips-myths-and-cryptocurrenci...
* https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03779.pdf
In drawing the circle I think it is more important where you place your starting point than the direction of the stroke. Indeed if I start at the top I draw it clockwise, while when starting from the bottom I draw counter-clockwise. This seems to be the main difference between 'western' drawing and japanese ones: the starting point.
While I agree with your viewpoint and it stands up on it's own, I also think it's important to remember the number of people that know at least 20 or 100 words of English. Simple statements can help at a lot of places, whereas I only know a single Chinese word. The number of people that can say basic numbers in English or very simple statements is much higher.
It seems that he is using the tactic of racial conspiracy to muddy the waters. When you can't win on facts alone, make it about race and conspiracies.
Can't help but think that this is one of the utterly bizarre and wide ranging consequences of extreme income disparity.

The original article is at [1] (they link to it, but it's kinda easy to miss); the post on Bored Panda does contain additional photos.

[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/the-mammoth-pirates/27939865.html
But why can't they be disrupted? For example some people could be pissed off that they don't get information, and companies providing information could win them over as customers.

Obviously, things are not working out in the US. I am just not yet convinced that the market/capitalism is to blame, or if it is essentially corruption (including lobbyists bribing politicians to set up a system that allows the bad insurers to stay in operation).
> Internet was a decentralized

That's the key word: was.

Now that the web has mostly eaten the internet, the network has been centred around a few nodes. And we still have the asymmetric bandwidth that is the primary driver of centralisation.

Make no mistake, the internet has become just a centralised and consumer-oriented than the minitel was. Even I don't host my own web site, for 2 reasons: HTTP doesn't scale, and I don't have enough upload.
Here's a link to the actual work - which is impressively presented - instead of this BoredPanda nonsense which is little more than bootleg theft.

https://www.rferl.org/a/the-mammoth-pirates/27939865.html
Sorry I wasn't clear; I was hoping you had more to add in support of your position.

I believe your argument, to use your words, has been that "this Elon Musk character is [not] genuine" and that "his intentions are [not] really taking human beings to mars". Your reasoning to come to this outcome is "what happened with Hyperloop". After he "threw some ideas" he apparently "disappeared from the picture" and didn't even bother to invest in it by "[attempting] to build a prototype"!!

That is, you have no argument against going to mars, only that you think Musk is not genuine in his intent. Even if Musk dropped the ball on hyperloop (and I am not judging if he has) that doesn't imply that hyperloop is a bad idea.

Furthermore, your argument for why we should mistrust him is because, apparently, having ideas is a bad thing (unless you also spend an appropriate amount of your time and money on all of your ideas).

I think these are deeply flawed arguments, and so I expanded on them further up the chain, in the hope that you might have something more substantial behind them.
Compare the actual figures spent per capita on healthcare spend in single payer vs the us system and the outcomes and you'll find your assumptions are badly wrong.

Single payer works better, that's why almost all countries use it for basic healthcare.
Subtitling and alternate content for media is actually WCAG 2.0 Level AAA (as opposed to Level AA which is what the laws are based on).

So you can stop worrying that society will crumble
HEADLINE: easier, simpler package creation and building

DESCRIPTION: on distros like arch, to a lesser extent void and even gentoo, writing package definition files (PKGBUILDs, ebuilds, templates) is relatively straightforward; in contrast, i don't even know where to start with finding, editing and building debian packages. i think they're built from source packages but beyond that i have no clue. i think visibility of documentation could help here, if not more radical changes to be more similar to the arch/gentoo workflow.
Can you screenshot your results please, because mine are all webpack related.
You guys are in the wrong game for making money. I got out of seo and paid ads and I trade now averaging about $2000 a day. Here's how you do it http://rurl.us/JC6fQ
No never, I could never read all that I've bookmarked.

It's purely there so that if I have a problem and I vaguely remember that I came across a solution that there's half a chance I can search for it in my bookmarks and find it.

It does serve a use on occasion - I typically star a bookmark that I came back to.

I've starred 74 out of the 10000 bookmarks that I've got. But I've been bookmarking for 10 years and only 'starring' things for about a year.

So ~7% (74 / 1000) I come back to.
> I hope it continues but I suspect one day Google will make it more difficult for them to survive

Google has no reason nor interest to do that. There are several alternative stores out there, and moving to kill them would alienate several of their partners, as well as possibly open a legal case against them in some jurisdiction. On top of that, size wise, F-Droid doesn't even register for them.

Honestly, this feeling if you have it is more of a delusion of persecution than anything tangible.

> Android is becoming more and more Googlified and most apps come with google services.

That I agree, but sadly it's still one of the better timelines: google play services is an app that they can update to provide better support and services for app, and this was the solution they chose to fix the early days of "no manufacturer update their phone's OS, so new app can't rely on new features".

Is it perfect ? Nope. Is it great ? Nope. But when you have to compose in a world where manufacturer lock their phone so you can't update the OS unless they say so, it was kind of the natural path to move a many features as you could to a library like this.

> I love F-droid because installing an app from there is like a proof that the app has some "ethics" and will respect you and your privacy.

F-Droid is a "repository of free and open source" project, it has nothing to do with respecting user privacy or "having ethics". While there may be some correlation between the two, it's not a given by far.

The F-droid project itself makes a guarantee of not tracking you, and they say they try to check apps they deliver to ensure they don't have abuse of privacy built in, but they go out of their way to make it clear it's not guaranteed and that app may or may not have such abuse in their code.

> I think Android has been like a Trojan horse for many of us. It came as an "open and free" platform that attracted many of us, developers and users. But now is reeeeally difficult to escape from the google realm.

When has Android been more open than today exactly ? And I'm not saying that in a "android is becoming more and more open" way, I'm saying it has always been like this.

> We need more alternatives!

Agreed
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/6hye8z/ask_hn_what_...
That particular article might not, but the joint press conference after those talks made it about as clear as politicians ever are that they agree on this point.
has nothing to do with apparmor.
Ask HN: How hard is to switch from back end to front end programmer?
Considering myself as software architect (knowing all technologies from databases to APIs) how hard is to switch to frontend programmer (JS + Vue or React + HTML + CSS) and what would your suggestion to read / follow?
...You guys are in the wrong game for making money. I got out of seo and paid ads and I trade now averaging about $2000 a day. Here's how you do it http://rurl.us/JC6fQ
> who the hell keeps a single source-code file that big

Me. SQLlite. .NET's garbage collector. CPython's eval. Lua's lexer. xinit. dwm. These are off the top of my head that I've seen

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/coreclr/master/src/...

https://github.com/catseye/Befunge-93/blob/master/src/bef.c

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/liballoc/v...

https://github.com/oxyc/luaparse/blob/master/luaparse.js

Yep. Pretty troll comment. Felt like taking the bite today. I'm going to get back to getting my lexer past 1000 lines today: https://github.com/serprex/luwa/blob/master/rt/lex.wawa
As always the reason we do not have such ingenuity in the mainstream is that the mainstream is an industry addicted to the easy profits that is essentially big oil. Think of it what you will.
,.,.,.,.You guys are in the wrong game for making money. I got out of seo and paid ads and I trade now averaging about $2000 a day. Here's how you do it http://rurl.us/JC6fQ
At the very least "unstable" has a name with a negative connotation. It has the air of it being the user's fault if you use it and stuff breaks.

I don't know what the practical breakage situation is, so I don't know if renaming and repositioning unstable would make more sense than doing it with testing.

My point is that it would be good for non-expert end users who like Debian's community image and who want security​ support to have a Debian release channel that provides fresher software with security support than stable.
I'm really sad to see so many people on HN arguing against the need for enforceable (and not onerous if you look into it) accessibility standards on the web.

A huge social benefit of the Internet is to connect everyone and make information accessible to all.. It has changed our world for the better.

People with disabilities should not be excluded from this.
HEADLINE: Smarter handling of icons files during updates

DESCRIPTION:
This is a nitpick/wishlist item really. I started using Stretch while in testing, and noticed that most updates would download rather large sets of icons (few MBs). They look like archive files of icons, and I guess that if any change happens the whole set is downloaded again. This wasn't the case in Jessie.

When on a slow Internet link, it can definitely slow down upgrades. It would only be noticeable for Testing/Unstable, as otherwise these sets of icons would not change much. But when regularly updating testing, often these icons sets were a significant part of the downloaded data.

It could be nice to make updating those icons optional, for people behind slow links. Alternatively, handling them as a versioned list (text, easy to diff efficiently) + independent files could make their update more efficient than compressed archive files.

Again, just a nitpick/wishlist item. It's just that I haven't chased down what this comes from (I guess for GUI package management like synaptic? TBC) and don't know where this could be reported. You just gave me the opportunity ;)

DISTRIBUTION: Testing/Unstable (any version with frequent changes)
my use case could be just walking down the hill with my laptop to the arts centre with the fast wifi.

However, having installed a fairly full Debian desktop from DVD1/2 offline it struck me that Debian is the only distribution that could support someone with (say) a desktop PC in a location with dial-up or no Internet or only mobile internet. I imagine a single large .iso image (the BD perhaps?) included on 'El Paquete'[1] and dd'ed to a USB key for installation or DVDs/USB key mailed in the post.

A Debian equivalent to drpm packages would be a really nice idea. I'm glad you said 'also'!

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3048163/in-cuba-an-underground-n...
For anyone with an open mind, please look into why India came up with the caste system. We need a more modern version of it stripped of it's incentives for exploitation of the weak.

An Alex Jones or Trump type character believe whatever they want but systems that prop them up and give them more influence than they deserve, while hiding behind terms like equality and freedom of speech are just producing an inversion of the caste system.