skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stripe could have still painted a $10Bstory easily.

Agreed with the rest, though in 2017 gaming ecosystem business is more of a thing than it was in 2009.
Well, they may have not all been national socialists, but they did vote Hitler into power. They also largely benefited from Hitlers rise, as he pulled them out of a depression and led the country to prosperity. So I don't really think it's true that they were against Hitler, but rather they saw the benefits and figured a police state was worth it since they were reaping the benefits of Hitler's reign.
Phew, I was worried this study of 28 people would make me reject the fad diet I read about in a magazine.
Creating a fully patched install for Win7 using WSUS Offline Updater (2013)
So long, farewell and goodbye
The forces who are interested in creating noise are far more motivated, are far more numerous, are far dirtier, and are generally far more incentivized than that forces who are interested in creating the signal. There's the rub.
As fellow southern European, with regular trips to the Mediterranean area, I would say even here that would be quite bad for anyone on the south or eastern countries.
We should all concede that structural racism (a) exists, (b) predicts many life outcomes, (c) differs between groups, and (d) is very heritable.

If an alien at this point were presented with these premises, does anyone suppose its natural conclusion would be, "the observed black-white IQ differences must be at the very least partially due to genetic factors, it is not possible that the environment can account for all of it."

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The point is not that a genetic factor is not possible, but that the environmental factors (in our past and current racist world) totally overwhelm any possible genetic factors, even to such a degree that the genetic difference could even go the other way (i.e. blacks could be genetically more intelligent than whites).

I'd personally add this point: Those emphasizing the importance of open-mindedness about the possibility of genetic factors while failing to acknowledge the severity of environmental factors are thus contributing to those very environmental factors. They are self-fulfilling prophets.

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I'm pretty sure if you got in a time machine and went back to the 18th or 19th century, and told people there what blacks, women, and gay people do in the early 21st century, they'd have more trouble believing that than your time machine.
Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?
Hey,

Chris Lamb here, Debian Project Leader. As a bit of background, I've been around the "startup" scene on and off, even participating in YCombinator during S12. I have a few side projects here and there and I also do a lot of full-stack web development using Python/Django.

I'm very much interested in soliciting your feedback and feature requests for the Debian 10 ("buster") development cycle which opens up tomorrow after the release of "stretch" today. This is obviously a shameless appropriation of Ubuntu's post a few months ago and some requests would definitely overlap but I feel we could get some interesting replies nonetheless.

Please include in your replies the following bullets:

- HEADLINE: 1-line description of the request

- DESCRIPTION: A lengthier description of the feature. Bonus points for constructive criticism...

- DISTRIBUTION: (Optional) [stable, testing, unstable, or even a Debian deriviative]

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: (Optional, your job role and affiliation)

We would be exteremely interested in your feedback! Everything is fair game -- kernel, security, community, default settings, architectures, init systems (!), desktop, Docker, documentation, default packages, cloud images, etc. etc.. Feel free to comment even if you are using a Debian derivative such as Ubuntu, Mint, etc. too.

Thanks, HN!

—lamby

https://twitter.com/lolamby
I use an app I wrote: https://GitHub.com/ioddly/meditations

The point of it is more to encourage habit formation; I don't microplan my day, I try to do the same things every day. Wake up, meditate, exercise, code for several hours. When you have a strong routine established, deviating from it feels strange.

I have found limiting recreational internet use to be as important or moreso than any kind of planning for being productive.

nb. I just rewrote the whole frontend so apologies if anything is broken.
> * Give the construction crew a few extra bucks to put some fibres in there ;)

I don't you want your fibre getting smashed by magnets all day :P
To put it nicely, it's easy to see that the social sciences are a lot harder to get right and verify than the natural sciences. Oh, and it doesn't help that it's much easier to be biased about topics in social science.
Good point. Of course, again, we run into the practical difference between physical zoning restrictions and internet "zoning" restrictions.

The real world, being equipped with a distance metric, has this messy problem where you are sometimes forced to be close to other people. I feel like this gives us (collectively) a bit of license to make demands of how nearby people use their physical property. On the other hand, there's no distance metric on the internet, and I'm not (in any sense) forced to live next to the winn-Dixie website.
Perhaps they aren't saying that the internet is like a physical location, but rather that like physical locations the internet should be made accessible for everyone to the greatest extent possible.

That's a much less ridiculous way of framing the argument.

I absolutely think that if you operate a business online there should be some minimum of accessibility you need to achieve, in exactly the same way we force physical locations to install wheelchair ramps.
After reading your replies elsewhere in this thread I just have to ask - why do you hate the idea of blind people being able to use websites so much?
There is no soft or hard Brexit
Chris Lamb here, Debian Project Leader for 2017. Would love to get your feedback on the parallel "Ask HN" thread here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579080
The core idea at play here is that the United States has decided that it wants to be a society where disabled people should not be significantly barred from leading as normal a life as they can, modulo their impairment(s). Internet services have become a key part of daily life, and so a pharmacy being accessible to disabled people is in the same category as it being wheelchair accessible. If you disagree with it, then try to get the law changed or move to another country.
I use unstable in my day to day and have had minimal problems.
>If air enters into a vacuum tube where the Hyperloop carriage is, the shockwave will do something to the carriage people ride in

This is Thunderf00t's "shock wave" argument, and it has survived frequent debunkings. Are we really so easily misled that slapping sciencey branding behind any poorly thought out claim will cause people to repeat it as truth?

The huge thing he forgot is... pipes are not lossless! A tube break would initially cause the air to rush in at the speed of sound, but after a few kilometers the backpressure from friction with the tube walls will slow the air to highway speed and spread out the pressure rise. The way it works out, if you're close enough to the breach to be killed by the pressure wave, you're close enough that you can't stop in time before derailing.
If you go this route, then you have no leg to stand on to criticize Trump if/when he defunds NASA climate science and mandates teaching Creationism in public schools. After all, he is just guiding science by his idealogy. Are you also against the "March for science?"

I honestly think that Trump is the application of postmodern concepts to politics on an unrelated precedented level and many people on the left who supported these ideas find them horrifying when they are used to bolster positions that are not theirs.
thanks, that makes sense
עמק אלונה, פרדס חנה, בנימינה, זכרון יעקב – פרדס חנה, בנימינה, זכרון יעקב
the only reason i can conjure as to why someone would out their own company like this is to either (a) get some real inside baseball on why deferred salaries are happening (unlikely and also kind of dumb; use the intranet), (b) get some pats on the back from those in similar straits within the company or (c) gives no fucks (which i agree is immoral; the advice won't change based on the company in question)
His haircut?
How long does it usually take for things to settle down in Testing after a stable release? I heard it might take up to several months.
Where did you get the idea that JS web apps can’t be accessible?
Yes, so you think you know better than the experts. This is what I said originally, there is a strange phenomenon in this case that many people think they know more than the people studying this rift, including me.
Ethereum is a platform. The more assets use it, the more they can interoperate, and thus the more useful and valuable the platform becomes.
It is inevitable. Why? Because the paid "influencers" such as PR firms will be attracted to any popular and/or influential discussion forum to promote the "point of view" they are paid to promote, or viewpoints they are paid to muddy or obfuscate.

Once the site/forum reaches a certain level of influence they show up, and to the casual viewer it appears as added noise.
Dont understand the hate! WU has been pretty good to me and a lot of freelancers I know who can't get a bank account here (Pakistan)

Clients can pay easily! Infact Google Adsense pays most international customers via WU without any fees!
I'm suggesting it as a possibility yes. Parent tried to suggest it as all rosy up in Alaska and suggest there's no negative correlation for UBI up there. And Alaska is toward the top on two major issues so it's worth noting.

If you don't have to work maybe drugs become more likely and graduating becomes less important?
Testing is usually a bad distribution to use for anything in production. If something breaks, it will stay broken for quite a long time until the fix makes it out of Unstable.

Unstable is almost always a better choice. Things may occasionally break, but fixes will arrive very quickly.
Winn-Dixie isn't private digital communication; it's a storefront. We're not discussing some art group where people are posting pictures of their art; we're discussing a company that spent $9m on their website last year. Even if their estimate of $250k to fix their website is accurate -- and I doubt it is, except perhaps for their incompetence -- they have the resources. And as mentioned, hundreds of other sites seem to work in jaws; nothing winn-dixie is doing is so unique that it should be complicated to make it work as well.

America has wholesale adopted in law the idea that we require so-called "sub-optimal standards".
At the risk of meta recursion - I write comments because they help me clarify my own thinking. This is the same reason I suppose people keep journals or write blogs or whatever. The points just provide a rough heuristic about how useful that particular thought was to other people. I don't always agree but generally the feedback is nice to keep me in check as I've discovered I'm not great at evaluating this myself. I read them because I like to hear other people's opinions.

Aside from this, I've used things I've learned reading HN articles and comments many times in my day to day work so I can't agree it provides no value. (I just learned about Boyer-Moore, for example)
Unique is the word. This is not a good thing—what exactly is a mcnugget if not fried chicken?
Can you explain how you want science to be influenced by "social or political ideology"? Do you just mean developing weapons during wartime and medicine during epidemics, or something beyond that?
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Python 3 as default

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Just to quote from the packaging manual:

> Debian currently supports two Python stacks, one for Python 3 and one for Python 2. The long term goal for Debian is to reduce this to one stack, dropping the Python 2 stack at some time.

The first step for that would be of course Python 3 as default Python version and I'd like to see that for buster, as Python 3 nowadays offers way more features than Python 2 and should be the choice for new Python projects.
When I was in middle school, I was participating in a meteorological club, and we had such a minitel server.

People from around could phone in with their minitel, and get the information we'd put there for them. The few kids in the club collected data from a small weather station, compiled it, and put it there. We'd also sometimes redesign the presentation of the minitel "site".

We were coached by a maths teacher, and that was part of what got me into computers (I had an Oric Atmos at home, the club was the first time I had access to PCs (with Windows 2! But we'd most usually run DOS); we had access to some Thomson MO5 in primary school before that).
It's not just a misunderstanding of copyright itself, but also a misunderstanding of what copyright registration means. US copyrights have been automatic since 1978: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#register. You get it the moment you write something down on paper, or otherwise "fix [it] in a tangible medium." He is probably talking about copyright registration, which is a requirement before suing someone in the US for infringement. It's just a rubber stamp.
What about removing a user from chat? What if the shared key is leaked? How do you deliver the key to the new user? Who provisions new keys if a shared key is leaked? There are a variety of problems (all solvable/already solved, yes) with the shared secret strategy, and addressing them costs money and time.
I'm fairly sure Wendy's has always used fresh beef. "Fresh, not frozen" was a slogan in their stores when I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. As far as I know, the only shift a few years ago was to refocus their marketing efforts.
One of my favorite changes:

> If you use debhelper/9.20151219 or newer in Debian, it will generate debug symbol packages (as <package>-dbgsym) for you with no additional changes to your source package. These packages are not available from the main archive. Please fetch these from debian-debug or snapshot.debian.org.

No more shipping -dbg packages with full binaries. And less storage space is always a win.
What language do you believe has the highest comprehension rate for EU citizens? How big do you think the gap is between that and the second one?
He makes two mistakes.

1) Nuckear thermal rockets are proven to be more than twice as efficient as chemical rockets, and he doesn't consider them as options.

2) Asteroids are far more resource rich, provide better living habitats and are immensely cheaper to reach than Mars. Even those in the belt are at least 10 Kilometres/Sec easier to reach than Mars.

Other than those quibbles, a fantastic read.
I always loved their dollar menu, but these days it seems crappier in both selection and price.
Natural Foods will enlarge your penis in 7 days.”Must Read”
HEADLINE

Secure Boot in Stable

DESCRIPTION

UEFI Secure Boot Support in Debian.

Debian does not run on systems with Secure Boot enabled.

DISTRIBUTION

stable/buster

ROLE

I work at an insurance company and all of our development
computers and most of our servers run debian jessie.

We will probably upgrade to Debian 9 very soon! Thanks for all the hard work on debian Iamby!

EDIT: grammar and formatting
Downloading it, does anyone know how does Debian work on a MacBook Air 7,2?
>full and equal enjoyment

"Separate but equal" was (essentially) shot down by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. How can enjoyment be equal if by definition sighted people have a superset of abilities of blind people? The only way would be to not present a visual interface at all, and only provide an audio or screen-reader interface to any given website.
Thanks for the pointer, found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlQyudLKJno
I'm talking about regular desktop usage, not about servers. And things break in testing only if maintainers messed up transition. Related packages should come in consistently otherwise.
This is not good advice for hard-working, dedicated programmers who wants to start their own company.
Foregoing a salary is scary enough that you don't need to discourage wannabe entrepreneurs even more.
So the only possible positions are the extremes? By acknowledging that science and society have an unavoidable structural relationship you give yourself a framework for developing tools to improve that relationship. There are plenty of problems with anti-science politics and the antidote is not to insist that they should just leave science alone just because.

You want science better represented in society and politics? Get more scientists involved in society and politics. http://www.314action.org/home
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Wayland as default display server

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X11 is aging, so it's time to switch to Wayland. It'd be cool if buster would ship with Wayland as default display server.
On HN, you can bookmark articles and comments simply by upvoting or favoriting them. To find them later, use the links at the bottom of your user page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=agrocrag
How to buy IoT solutions from startups
There are certainly operational issues around centralized power vs decentralized engines attached to the train itself. If successful, the additional construction cost could easily balance the fuel cost of moving engines around with each train, and maybe additional maintenance required for a moving engine vs a stationary engine. It's probably worth comparing to electrified rail service, which shares the benefit of not shipping fuel with passengers.

In addition to all the safety constraints mentioned, it's just simpler to build a 12-inch diameter vacuum pipe than a 12-foot diameter pipe. It might be possible to constrain the rolling stock on a line so it all clears the pipe, with some trains propelled by the vacuum pipe, and others propelled by an attached locomotive (such as maintenance vehicles, or conventional trains when the vacuum system is under maintenance, etc)
Probably best to run it in a VM.
I am also talking about regular desktop usage, not servers.
60 mins did a segment about this a while back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xjq9xWnwT0

ABC15 Arizona also did a story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D60we_4VZGY

Another interesting thing is building inspectors that work for the city, don't care about ADA only city codes from my understanding. I never dealt with them, but after watching this segment I can see violations all over when I go places. Like ADA is 20 years old and my city doesn't even have curb cuts for wheelchairs. Plus some small towns websites have bad low contrast or horrible fonts. I also think some flat UI designs are really horrible to tell things apart.

Sad thing, some of these lawyers doing this only cares about making money, and not actually helping accessibility.

There's a bill in Congress H.R.620
- https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/620 that is meant to reform this. Basically you'd write a written complaint to the business, Then the business gets 60 days to reply outlining how they will improve it. Then 120 days to actually fix it. You can't just go out right suing, they get a chance to correct it. If they aren't correct it, then you get to sue. Seems fair to both the business owners, and accessibility.

There was one case I remember when watching related videos before, that someone had to pay a lawyer 5K and all the work they had to do is move the soap dispenser. Something the business owner himself was able to do with a screwdriver and 15 mins. Then someone else had to pay 5K over missing a $50 sign, another quick fix. I guess if H.R.620 was the law, with those really small changes they could just fix it right away and reply saying they already fixed it outlining how.

On the side note, making captions helps SEO find your video, and powers the transcripts. Sometimes watching a long presentation like a hour long, later I'll be working on somthing and remember hearing about the problem before... So I'll look up the video, go to transcripts and ctrl-f. I was listening to a podcast on a walk one day, and wanting to write down some notes when I got home of some points that interested me... But no transcript, so I'd have to go back and listen to find it again...

However, somethings I think might be impossible to make accessible like complex applications for 3D Virtual worlds, 3D Modeling, Camara filters, Photo editing.

Also wonder how this would apply to user generated content. Should Facebook or YouTube or the uploader be sued for some random vlogger not captioning a video, or some individual live streaming from their phone? I'd surely hope there'd be exemptions for those websites, probably Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would cover that case. However if a business uploaded a video to YouTube, then that business should caption it for sure. However, I hope lawyers don't start going after individual YouTubers... Didn't caption that video of your family at the theme park? $5,000 demand letter! That would get ridiculous if lawyers ever attempted to do that.
I think their patties are too thin, but I like the 4/$4.
> Why don't we see more adoption of alternative runtimes?

What exactly would you like to see? For python:

- PyPy is seeing a lot of use,

- Cython is seeing a lot of use, mostly as a way to implement C glue, but also on its own

- MicroPython is seeing a lot of use on limited environments

- Nuitka is a "secret sauce" for people who want to compile their Python to an .exe without leaving any easily-decompilable .py files. (And they get a speedup as a bonus)

Even TinyPy had gotten some use in its day (before it was abandoned - nowadays, MicroPython fills the same niche).

Except for older languages (C++, C, Pascal, Basic, COBOL, Fortran, LISP, APL), it is actually rare to have more than two mature implementations of a language see e.g. (D, Go have their own and a GCC backend; C# has its own and Mono).
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100% reproducible packages

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While having over 90% of packages reproducible already is awesome, 100% would be even better. The stretch release announcement describes best why:

> Thanks to the Reproducible Builds project, over 90% of the source packages included in Debian 9 will build bit-for-bit identical binary packages. This is an important verification feature which protects users from malicious attempts to tamper with compilers and build networks.
> Also $37k to add features for the blind is ridiculously low.

Really? I don't know how big the Winn-Dixe site is, but making your site accessibly friendly isn't really that hard. HTML spec is made for this, so as long as you're not actively fucking things up, you should be fine.

How much does $37k buy you in consultancy days? About 33 days (assuming $1100/day - about how much ThoughtWorks charges in Australia).
seriously?

it's just code on a whiteboard. none of that stuff matters.
I think ubiquitous end-to-end encryption is the inevitable future of 1:1 and group communication. The momentum is in that direction. In your case, supporting the browser as a platform rules it out right now, but hopefully that will change when browsers provide an environment for doing serious crypto, where the server can't just quietly push down some new JS that leaks messages back to itself.

I'm in the alpha stage of building an end-to-end encrypted social network (https://sharewithsup.com, invite code: eff, currently iPhone only). Under the hood, it establishes E2E group channels between friends and uses those for everything (posts, comments, photos, events, etc). History is relayed between friends and search uses a local index, but the UX is still similar to Facebook. My point is - in addition to namedropping my app - that it's possible to find ways to implement features that at first seem hard with E2E. Just not on the web, yet.
Same for me. I really don't like breakfast foods, and it's very difficult to grab a burger in the morning. Every place seems to serve the same boring morning breakfast until 10:30am. (And McD's breakfast seems overpriced for what they deliver.)