skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but the regulation limits how much they can charge each other so they need to make it up in volume.

Before they could charge 51.2 EUR/GB which is now lowered to 7.7 EUR/GB set to go down in steps to 2.5 EUR/GB by 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulat...
Interesting. Does it also allow different settings/addons per each profile?
It's a concern, but hardly in the Top 5 of Problems Facing Humankind.

War is inevitable. It's tragic that still sounds like a reasonable statement thus far into the 21st Century.
Ah yeah, the fork bomb.
In practical applications, I'd want it to be the opposite way around - the server will be coded to support multiple formats since it serves many clients and many types of clients, but any particular client explicitly targeting that server will likely implement just a single format for exchanging data with your app.

So you'd want the server to send all the formats it can provide (i.e. as a list of different resource URLs) and the client chooses whatever it prefers, entirely the other way around as you describe.

Furthermore, server being able to dynamically respond "I don't do your preferred format" is not a desirable outcome; from the client perspective you'd want to know if the format is available right away, and for a whole class of URLs, not an individual URL at the very last moment. I.e., I'd want it to be equivalent to a "compile time check", that an URL scheme promises that the server will always be able to return type X for such URLs, instead of a "runtime check" where the availability of a particular format is known only after you try it.
Drivers exist in the kernel already. The issue is the proprietary firmware that these devices require. Debian can't do much more about that, complain to the manufacturers.

See this other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579821
How is Ruby different in Japan?
Aw, I was looking for Japanese books in Japanese
> One story I heard is that for example in the UK they won't pay for dialysis after a certain age.

This is not true. In fact, most people getting dialysis are over 65.

https://www.renalreg.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Incidenc...

> Kidney disease is more common as we get older, and although people of all ages can need to start dialysis, it most commonly affects people aged between 65 and 84 years. Figure 2 shows the number of people starting dialysis or going straight to transplantation in each age group and it can be seen that the age group with the most people was 65–74 for both haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. In 2013, the average age of people starting treatment was 65 years and this has changed little over the last six years. The average age at start was 67 years for people starting on haemodialysis, 60 for people starting on peritoneal dialysis and 50 for those having a transplant before they start dialysis. In 2013, more men started treatment than women (63% male versus 37% female). Diabetes was the single most common cause of kidney failure (25%).

Here's a document talking about cost of dialysis for older people: https://academic.oup.com/ndt/article/18/10/2122/1807737/Cost...

The NHS Constitution for England forbids discrimination based on age, as does the Equality Act 2010.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nhs-constitut...

> The NHS provides a comprehensive service, available to all

> It is available to all irrespective of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity or marital or civil partnership status. The service is designed to improve, prevent, diagnose and treat both physical and mental health problems with equal regard. It has a duty to each and every individual that it serves and must respect their human rights. At the same time, it has a wider social duty to promote equality through the services it provides and to pay particular attention to groups or sections of society where improvements in health and life expectancy are not keeping pace with the rest of the population.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/5
> [I]n the UK they won't pay for dialysis after a certain age

This is completely WRONG, there are NO age-related limits for treatment like this in the UK. Dialysis is a life-saving procedure for those with kidney failure, and is available to everyone in the UK who requires it regardless of age. The same goes for heart surgery, bypass operations, stents etc. which are also sometimes claimed to be age restricted.

The fact that people actually believe that a cruel system like this (one that would cause people to die by withholding treatment just because of their age) might really exist probably says much more about the way US health care works and the perceptions surrounding it.
India does not have world-class healthcare.

It is common for underdogs to claim they are world-class, and if you don't have the experience to know better, you might believe it.
Why you need to know about mice, ticks, warm temperatures and Lyme disease
When mini-states start popping up, it's usually accompanied by conflict, not freedom.

Imagine scenarios where parts of the United States or Mexico broke up. The result is certain warfare and likely military dictatorships.
I have a feeling that it wasn't exactly problem-free for him.
But the rate they can charge to each other is capped, I think. I should have not said "no extra revenue" in any case, that is true. My mistake.
"Avoid learning" and "not using (for this particular job)" are different things.
I confess difficulty in taking any article seriously when it implies that "the blockchain" is some sort of revolution in distributed consensus.

It's actually a very inefficient tool for this, and better methods have existed for years.
> "27 governments" aren't behind this.

I suggest you read up on your EU constitutional law. The Commission is nominated by governments (and confirmed by MEPs); the Council is directly composed by national heads of state.

Commission and Council (i.e. national governments, all together) introduce legislation, which is then amended or rejected by the European Parliament (the body built with that election you mention). The first move is always from governments. In 99% of cases, when there is bad EU law, it's because governments wanted it.
No, I haven't used unstable myself.

But "have you spent the time evaluating it?" is beside the point. My point is that it would be positive to have a Debian release channel with fresh software with 1) explicit security support and 2) naming with positive connotations so that fewer people who don't need to use out-of-date "stable" used "stable" because it is the Debian release channel with the most positive-connotation name.

Asking each user individually to go against the framing of negative-connotation naming ("testing", "unstable") to get empirical data of what the actual level of breakage is wasteful. If "unstable" works so well, it shouldn't be called "unstable". Calling it "unstable" but telling people it's the solution to whatever is wrong with "stable" is a set-up for a blame-the-user excuse if something goes wrong.
The State of the Developer Nation Q3, 2017
City states would be wonderful. It even gives people the choice - a lot of people want to live in rural communities that are, in general, the ones holding back progressive agendas. Let the cities do their liberal thing independently of rural towns doing their conservative thing. As long as you have a mutual agreement to keep the borders open going in to the arrangement, people can go where their interests are best served.
Isn't that a problem for the VirtualBox team to solve - effectively, supporting newer kernels?
I mostly disagree. HN is one of the few places you can find quality discussion on a myriad of technical topics. The comments keep me informed of the existence of nascent and potentially important technologies through painless osmosis. We could be posting pictures of pets on social media, but instead we're here considering the potential gamification of OSS.
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> You made a substantive false claim

<sigh> If you're nit-picking over details, it's definitely the new HN. I've had people attack me vociferously over "back of the envelope" calculations being off by a factor of 2. This isn't really much different.

And what would be your reaction if my previous comment had said "I'm just explaining that Mars is expensive and likely not feasible" instead of why?

Given the level of outrage you're showing, I'll bet you would have had a pretty similar response, as you showed here

The point is that you're not arguing against the "substantive false claim" I made. You're arguing from an emotional position that I said bad things about your dreams. A subject which is emotionally important to you.

> And anyway, pleanty of things that were once called "pipe dreams" have become reality.

And as I said earlier, most pipe dreams haven't become reality. Appealing to "dreams can become reality" is just false logic. People who down-vote counter-arguments, or argue in favor of such statements are just upset that a cynic like me points out most dreams don't become reality.

So... will you admit that your argument is based on nonsense? Or can you only see the speck in someone else's eye, while ignoring the plank in your own eye?

> Also, it's ridiculous to use "engineering reality" as the benchmark

Ah yes, because no one has any idea how to to it today, we will rely on magical technology (i.e. pipe dreams) which will be available in 100 years.

I like hope as much as the next person, but you're pretty much admitting that colonizing Mars is a dream, and isn't based in reality.
> I don't understand where some people get the belief that automated vehicles will suddenly become targets

There is precedent when it comes to the automation of people's jobs (truckers, cab drivers, courier services) and fanatical condemnation of technological advancement; see everything from the Luddite's infamous wooden shoes to the spiking of trees to stop logging.

In the forests near my hometown, some environmental fanatics will string up wire across motorcycle and ATV tracks, or create blockages and attack riders with crowbars and pipes. I wish I were kidding.

As for current graffiti artists - they're taking down stop signs and road markers, defacing handicapped parking signs with stickers, tagging any and all road signs, and so forth. They're minor nuisances for human drivers, who can usually easily identify compensate for such changes. Computers, even those running neural networks, are not able to compensate so easily.
EURUSD: Risk Remains to the Downside on Pullback
Wups, yes. My error.
x2. If you built a 1991 Toyota Tercel or Ford Escort with a 2017 power-train complaint with 1991 safety and emissions it'd get amazing fuel economy.
See previous HN discussion on China and the 'Thucydides trap' (2015) [1]

And also - "There is no Thucydides trap' - an essay/review of Graham Allison's book by Chinese history scholar Arthur Waldron - "In this book review, he argues persuasively against a concept that has become a pillar of establishment thinking on China." [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309448

[2] http://supchina.com/2017/06/12/no-thucydides-trap/
This is a classic post hoc ergo propter hoc situation. Why should the nation state get the credit for the success of capitalism?
I no longer have the original domain name, so traffic (and income) have been down since then, but http://user-agent.io earned about $30 a month in AdSense revenue after ~6 years of slow growth.

I'm hoping the "see someone else's UA" feature helps the new site grow a little faster.
I don't think the tragedy is violent human nature; more the fact that some problems just don't have peaceful solutions.

One group of people don't voluntarily give up dominance over land (and other finite resources) to other group of people. Wars don't happen because people get bored, wars happen because people want what someone else has.
This has been dreamed about since forever I think.

The shoddy implementation in the past has been empire. Anyone can become a citizen of Rome. There was even a "Roman" empire which persisted for centuries that didn't even include the city of Rome. Rather it was an idea, a uniting of cultures under a common law and currency.

But the trouble with centralization is when it breaks down ("when", not "if") people go right back to their natural state of bands and tribes and feudal warlords. And it's hard to have nice things in that state. Witness Somalia or the Middle Ages. So I think some intermediate organizational complexity is good as a buffer and insurance against collapse back to low level tribalism.

If the idea of eventual world governance is some type of EU/UN council of bureaucrats making detailed rules and policies I'm afraid that won't work out well. The word "ineffective" comes to mind. Plus, the cogs and citizens in nation states have an extreme vested interest in keeping things as they are. So there will, for the foreseeable future, be a very large group not interested in reporting to an international committee who have enough power to make sure it doesn't happen.

However the problems of nation states, particularly right now, are very real. Pollution. International crime. Tax Evasion. Sophisticated weaponry. Etc. Etc.

These things have to self organize in my opinion. Kind of like how they say you should look for trails in the grass where people have walked to see where to put the sidewalks.

I've always thought the eventual outcome would be something along the lines of a very lose international order dealing with broad rules of pollution, international trade etc. and then more detailed city/county level governments who take care of most of the day to day governance. I've thought AI might be best suited to run the international order. Remove the politics at that level. Keep it math.
Not even remotely true. There are plenty of skilled programmers without work right now. Not everyone lives in the Valley. In the Valley what is considered a "skilled" programmer by the measure of interview practices is so out of sync with what skills are actually necessary as to not be a valid comparison.
Oups sorry. I started with articles in French I read and searched Google for an equivalent in English. I found a wikileak tweet [0] and put the article they linked.

My mistake.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/8745316510109163...
I see that I mixed up two of my laptops in my example. You're right, but my general feature request still stands.

Yes the iwlwifi firmware in particular is shipped on the nonfree firmware CD image. But the firmware my other laptop isn't. With the stretch rc5 non-free image mounted:

$ dpkg -c firmware/firmware-iwlwifi_20161130-3_all.deb|grep -c ucode
46

But instead of providing the b43 firmware there's only a network installer to fetch it:

$ ls firmware/*b43*
firmware/firmware-b43-installer_019-3_all.deb
firmware/firmware-b43legacy-installer_019-3_all.deb

Looking over the packages more closely now it seems only the b43 package[1] uses this approach (although there might be more firmware that's not included at all).

1. https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx#b43_and_b43legacy
Because the alternative would be not doing it?
Blame one security lapse on “open source software”? Surely not
Can we do an experiment and use 'she' for anonymous players in these stories? Would be kinda cool. The article uses 'he' throughout, and only acknowledges the possibility of it being either/or/group in the final paragraphs.
Those prices are insane compared to Belgium.

It goes to show why carriers lobbied so hard to prevent European citizens to buy subscriptions from a different country considering roaming would truly create European competition between carriers.

Keeping in mind Dutch,French and Belgian carriers are sometimes one and the same entity it shows liberalism and free market is only promoted and applied when it benefits the strong (carriers), not the weak (consumers).

It's still a very good and welcomed evolution for consumers though :).
What would make it really powerful/useful is toggle that switches the current source to an interactive mode that runs new lines as you press enter.
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Why barely significant?.02 p value is pretty high
You do not seem to understand. Customer has an implicit meaning of having your services sold by a company. Citizens do not have services sold to them. They're bound by a social contract, and have agreed to go ahead, together. The services they benefiot from are the consequences of their choices. The nation and the state are an extension of this social contract. I do not care for borders and walls, and would gladly see them disappear. But not if it's at the cost of becoming a "customer".
Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city
For how long. If the starting weight minus interior stuff plus batteries winds up significantly higher than OEM curb weight you're going to be eating wear parts much faster and putting control arms, etc at risk with every pothole.

Then again, most of these conversions live somewhere there are no potholes, bare steel doesn't rust, green energy is the cheapest way to get electricity and is otherwise not representative of the rest of the world.
The Crypto World Has Been Turning into a Ponzi Scheme
In all honesty with all of the things the US is entangled with in the Middle East and Europe, I cannot imagine yet another conflict. It just feels like we would be stretched much too thin with our resources and at some point would collapse.
Will Vue.js become a giant like Angular or React?
Almost no effort? I consider this inflamatory!

Half of the consumables today are virtual products - movies, software, services. A gaming youth living in his room with his parents lives a life, that previous generations would have seen fit to a monk.
Shareeconomys boom, removing the empty car from the lanes, electric cars simplify and reduce the many parts once used to make a car.
All this, and you call that nothing, and dream about reshaping the human- this damned old project that is as much a bug, as the bugs encountered when "reeducating, reshaping" humans.
Go and buy two books "The Rise and Fall of Communism" and literally any comment on literally any democratic constitution and why it was built that way.
And then put them on the end of two pistons and get them into your head.

Reshaping human behaviour is hard. Like really hard.
Like they vote for Trump, if you only ramp down hard.
And the problem is not only with the shapeshiftresistant, but also with the "We-should-Shift-Them"-Smurfs, who - very much resist not there tendency to go full totalitarian the moment the hardness of the task becomes obvious.

Sorry for this, but this comment is here in a thousand shapes and forms, day in and day out, and it rarely replaced with something worth reading after an attempt to educate.
I would say the nice thing here is the type system.

I always use `null` to differentiate between an empty list or string and nothing.

I like when I have a type system that ensures I check for null etc. But I only work on very small projects so this works well in js for me as well.
I built a golang password manager a while ago, in the image of pass.

Shameless self pitch. It is a little slicker, not needing the master key to save sites.

https://github.com/ejcx/passgo
China's economy is crashing and will likely stay in decline for 20 years, and the dictatorship in China desperately needs to maintain control of its people in order to stay on top and keep their wealth/power. No better way than for them to increase nationalism and paint western forces as evil.

so it's very likely that China will fire the first shot against Westerners
It's clear you have no intention of actually engaging with what people have said or playing by the standards of fair argumentation. I'm not going to waste any more of my time trying to engage with you
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I will +1 this. I generally end up copying a bunch of the required control files from another project and using a higher level script which creates the deb for me via black magic. I would love to understand the process more, but the depth of knowledge required to grok the process from end-to-end is well beyond the time I can commit to it.

On a related note, the way that repos can only be secured as a whole (and require each package to effectively be present when creating the signature) makes adding a single authenticated package to an existing repo much harder than it needs to be.
People who find this interesting may like to read more about the AlohaNET, PRNET, SATNET and AMPRNet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio#Aloha_and_PRNET

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet
It's been long time since I read Too Big To Fail, so what I recall could be wrong, but i don't think your statement about the 2008 bailout is entirely true if that book wasn't a lie.

Almost the majority of Wall Street refused the bailout money. Paulson almost force them. The bailout money eventually made a profit ($15B). One could argue that the return rate was low (0.6% annualized), but still, this is far different from what most people have believed till this day: i.e., US gov just gave taxpayer's money away to the banks to cover their ass.

Paulson also almost managed to save Lehman Brothers until British Gov said no to Barclay's role in the plan. (Wall Street banks would acquire LB's "good assets" while Barclay would buy their toxic ones as its gateway to become a more influential player in US market.). But even Lehman didn't reach out to Pualson to get itself saved. It's the other way around: Paulson was trying many ways to save Lehman because he knew when Lehman went down, market would panic and then even those banks in good shape would be affected.
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Why having a website is important for your business)))
china is growing into its mantle as world hegemon to replace the crumbling US.

there might be war, or there might not be. china isn't about to start shit when they could be making money hand over fist with anyone and everyone. they're not about to be bullied, either.
175hr sounds like you're shopping for German cars or live in a coastal city full of people with more money than sense.

>Now--if you buy the right salvaged car; you can fool around with autonomous controls.).

One of the areas where OEM is far ahead of aftermarket is variable handling. Dynamic modification of shock valving, sway bar characteristics, spring rate, etc. based on body position, road quality, learned driving style, etc is something that hasn't yet hit the aftermarket but hopefully will soon now that GM SUVs with v8s and all the electronic bells and whistles to control those systems are readily available as salvage.
I always wonder why, biologically, these are so satisfying to look at. Why was it advantageous for monkey-grandpa to like these?
I mean, in China the 'alternatives' are bigger yeah?
How is that different than being locked into the BAT? Brave decides how much BAT will get you an ad spot right?
BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite
Looks like fruit, or water? Or the open sky?
This also applies for the perl version they shipped, perl releases are supported for 3 years, Debian for 5.

It's inevitable that you're going to get mismatches between OS support and "official" support for the specific packages that go into that release. Not all projects provide supported releases over a period of years, so distros just do their best to patch any issues that upstream has stopped caring about past that point.

In practice the only thing that's going to be a big worry are new security issues, which upstream is usually willing to go out of their way to fix for versions still used in the wild, even for technically "unsupported" releases, at least the Perl project is, I don't know about Python.
Could you be more specific?

I use apt and it works fine for me (I can't say the same about yum on Redhats).