skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely false.

I am the founder of Zip Phone (S14), the only company from that batch to have had an exit so far according to yclist. This is my quick story - joined YC in the summer of 2014 with a product that I had been working on in my spare time. Spent my 3 months in Mountain View, but just did not have the traction to make an impact on demo day. Discussed it with my group partners (qasar, pb, dalton etc.) and they recommended that I defer my presentation to the next batch. Came back to India to continue working on the product, and meanwhile got an acquihire offer from a local company. The offer wasn't impressive by YC standards at all, and I reached out to the partners for more advice.

This is what they basically said - Do whatever you want, we'll back you up. No ifs and buts. No conditions. Pretty much unconditional support.

The acquisition finally did go ahead, and YC essentially just got their money back. But at no point did I feel pressured to do anything. Even when things weren't rosy, YC was always there for support, but never any undue pressure.

Needless to say I suppose, but I'm a fan. I'm working on a new startup now, and hopefully will apply soon again to YC!
>He wouldn't, though, because with no nations, the U.S. wouldn't exist as a nation, nor would it have jails, nor would there be an "it" to have them.

That's naive. Nations or no nations, in the resulting mega-empire, the US powerful (which are in the top 0.01% of the world) and its special interests, will still dominate most of the goings on. If they're joined by EUs 0.01% even better, and even less chances for Assange. Heck, they already do all that through their allies (NATO, political lackeys etc), that wont stop because "nation states have now disbanded").
A tab and a space have different semantics. Don't dumb things down, please! In Bash, for example, you need tabs for indented heredocs to avoid redundant leading spaces, which could be problematic in some cases - that's why I always use tabs with Bash.
Green Card
What foreign nationals have the best chance at winning the Green Card Lottery?
Yeah, but non in cities-proper, in arab, asian etc cities. Who cares about those people and their kids?

/s
Debian already provides images with non-free firmware: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-in...

I use these when installing on laptops.
The turnout in the most recent European elections was 43%. The makeup of the EP doesn't support your claim either. It is dominated by essentially the same parties that rule on a national level.
Is Globalisation no longer the 'inevitable' it was once touted as? National leaders have for some time now been promising things which are simply not in their gift economically whilst becoming more and more protectionist and frankly bigoted in what they say. I get that they are merely echoing the concerns of their constituents and that democracies being organised on national lines that there has effectively been this incredible disenfranchisement as a result of globalisation. I think it was Joe Stiglitz who about a decade ago advised us to turn up at AGMs rather than polling booths if we wanted to continue to have a say in our futures. More likely we will have super-nation states like China and Europe before we 'get past' nation-states entirely. And although the anti-globalists appear to be winning currently, the market will in the end I believe choose not to have borders and woe betide those luddites who oppose it. Trumpistas, Brexiteers et al.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31877144/how-to-set-up-a...

Connman appears to be the only GUI option here: https://01.org/connman
I like the sodoku designs. What technology do you use for the site?
My thoughts on flight hacking and airline loyalty after 7 years of traveling
I've seen single-file Fortran code that exceeds 15k lines of code, and I have no doubt that there exist source files orders of magnitude larger than that. Below 1000 lines, it depends on the style. If those are all a single function, then you're up a creek. If those are neatly split into many independent functions, then it can be pretty manageable.
What task is made easier by this visualization?
Did it (in the UK). Started a sole consultancy, grew it into a training and courseware business employing around 10 people. Formalised what was previously an ad-hoc partnership with a US-based organisation into a franchise-type contract in exchange for a five-figure marketing kickstart from them, and tooled up (software and people) for a 'letter of intent' long-term joint contract with the US military in the UK for technical and personnel training, then found out that despite a written agreement, they were poaching our business in the UK. We started talking to them, they said we could forget the funding. We were small, they were corporate and basically told us to fuck off and sue if we had the cash to carry it through.

Had to fold the business. Nearly lost my house and marriage. This was in the late 1990s.

For every story, there's an equal and opposite one.
You are implying "the bad things from the past" have an objective weight. They could be insignificant, and in someone's eyes the past is truly "good".
> Another decision he made when he had no idea of the bug shows how quirky and unforgiving code can be. “If the capital ‘T’ in line 666 had been a small ‘t,’ that would also have prevented the hack,” he says.

Can someone familiar with this explain how something financially based can have a capitalization flaw? I would expect a smart contract language to have very strict type and variable linking. Humans make many mistakes in coding but most of the time it doesn't cost $55m. A transaction language should be very strict so either the smart contract language is flawed or the author of this article is overstating something for dramatic effect.

EDIT: Found this: https://github.com/slockit/DAO/blob/v1.0/DAO.sol#L666

on a deeper dive: http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/18/analysis-of-the-dao...
I had to google that BSE is the Indian exchange, Bombay Stock Exchange.
Ubuntu phone was discontinued. Sailfish more likely, I'd say.
> there will be no way for Brave Software to correlate your browsing history with payments to your wallet.

At least they are trying to do something about establishing an ad free economy for web content. It's a hard problem but if you think that that is a privacy nightmare you haven't been paying attention to the waking world you live in.
Whitespace interpreter written in Python for my OU final module (TM470)
It wasn't USD, it was ETH. Very different.
Isn't that how encryption works? (Asking as noob)
This story really needs an ELI5
As the title suggests, the link is to my Whitespace interpreter project that has been written for my final OU project. As part of the project I would like to add some discussion about coding in the open, specifically how to deal with things like pull requests and giving credit to contributors. I would really appreciate any code reviews/suggestions/PRs... Please feel free to open issues.
Yes, but that's RPC thinking. What if the queue is backlogged? What happens if the email doesn't get delivered? If your client asks for the email to be sent, it should deal with it during its lifecycle.

In my opinion, one shouldn't have a /sendmail API at all, the server should deal with that, but if one really needs the client to do that, then /sendmail should at least return a URL that represent the email being sent, so that the client can keep track of it even after the connection is lost or the device is rebooted.
Chromium 59.0.3071.86

How well is Chromium supported on Debian?

I like it as a secondary browser for its excellent support of multiple profiles but I run Ubuntu and had to switch to Chrome because Chromium doesn't seem to be updated promptly.
Firefox is back.

Me: Yay!

In version 45 (released on March 8, 2016)

Me: WTF.
Public domain concept does not exist in a lot of countries so what would be the legal frames there?
Exploiting the code execution engine powering InterviewCake, CodeWars and others
> RESTful URLs are not to be treated like SEO URLs

But it does not hurt to have them human-readable.
I never got to use a Minitel. :(

Don't forget Plato. That was my first experience with a networked computer. In about 1985 in Escanaba Michigan no less.

I remember chatting with someone on the Dungeons and dragons type Wizardry game & learning they were in California. Whoa! ( I was about 10 or 11 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k_QQV9sj4I
I think it depends on what makes sense for your problem domain. Think about what kind of HTTP methods and the associated data with each and decide accordingly.

Nesting of resources in a REST API can become problematic, for these reasons, so another option would be to get rid of the nesting and use query parameters to filter based on whatever criteria you want. This is the motivation for PostgREST [1] where the author views the shortcomings of nested API resources as similar to those of hierarchical databases. GraphQL solves this similarly, it also has a richer query language, but it's missing some of the benefits of REST like caching, etc.

[1]. https://postgrest.com/en/v4.1/intro.html
I've been wondering whether the web and sites like Wikileaks signal the emergence of a meta-state level of power, one in which the ability of states to function is governed non-locally.
It was a great point. Once I realized that the writer was from emea, health care and social safety net were the first thing that popped into my mind. Your experience is valuable. Thank you for sharing it.

As I was reading ops post, I personally latched on to the writer having what sounded like a family that actively cared what happened to him. That's not something that everyone has. Going to bed hungry and not knowing where your next meal might come from will alter your level of comfort with employment risk.
I now have a lot to deal with API which was created by people sharing your view.
It is a nightmare.
I've said it elsewhere in the thread, but: being so badly inaccessible that you can get a court judgment over it requires you to be expending effort and time and money to screw up. It's not something that you just accidentally do out of ignorance.

Getting on the wrong side of simple guidelines like WCAG really does require actively user-hostile processes from the dev team, and if that can be shut down via lawsuit, then hooray.
You shouldn't install the Golang compiler on a server anyway; and for desktops why run stable?
Yes, in a talk by Moore I attended last year he said it was really disappointing that he gets so many questions about the string search algorithm, and not about his real life's work.
You missed that part of the story where the French staffers got knowledge of the intruders and deliberately changed some documents, to come up with the counterpropaganda after the leak. It was not much, but stopped prosecutors and the public to go after Macron. Which is a shame, but we got used to cointel in the meantime, and media is not helping.
Maze generation code, inspired by Mazes for Programmers
> Serialisation really is part of the HTTP headers, and the
> support in there is great.

True. But being able to get XML or JSON just by changing what you type into browser URL field is a nice and helpful feature.

> what would happen if you request a .json, but the web
> browser doesn't accept this format ?

And what happens when you do the same via HTTP headers?
beefhash's explicitly stated rationale was reuniting the community. By attempting to derail this into yet another massive thread about the merits/demerits of systemd, rather than a discussion of the desired future and already present capabilities of the Debian installer, and putting words into beefhash´s mouth that xe did not say as you have done here, you are instigating exactly the opposite.

* http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/
Then you can also argue CHINA has "the hottest startup culture outside the US", based on NASDAQ http://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-region.aspx?reg...

Also among the top 10 unicorns by valuation (http://fortune.com/unicorns/): 6 from US, 3 from China and 1 from India.

Of course, the answer really depends on what you mean by "startup culture".
Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time (2016)
> the client sends all of the formats it accepts

And currently many clients only support JSON. As do many backend systems.
Not the OP. But also in the same case, Debian was my first distro, these days I align more with Arch.

The ArchWiki is a gift to all the community. Rolling releases, not testing. With Arch there's a feeling of owning your OS without going full LFS. I am currently planning a summer reformatting for a laptop and I can't imagine not using Arch.

But those are concerns only for my personal computers. On my servers or quick VMs I still prefer Debian.
HN is probably not the best place for these sort of questions. You'll have better luck at

https://expatriates.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/green...
F-droid is one of the main things that keeps me in the Android world. I hope it continues but I suspect one day Google will make it more difficult for them to survive.....

Android is becoming more and more Googlified and most apps come with google services. Even the simplest app tracks you in some way.
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.

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.

We need more alternatives!
I think that the history should be mandatory also for the comments (i.e. from your adviser or reviewer). That could apply for other scientific disciplines as well and give a very good indication on the quality of the process that the thesis went trough, sadly academics are the worst people to agree on anything.
Please no.. Apparmor is far more usable and functionally equivalent.
Uber is the netscape of transportation
In Japanese or translated to English? If you are interested in a collection of Japanese bestsellers/classics, translated to English, then asking over at the /lit/ forum of 4chan (hear! hear!) will yield you some interesting answers. Other...I don't know.
That's primarily because Ethereum is pure amateur hour. When Bitcoin had built in checksums on addresses, Eth Dev's just said "watch where you send money". They ended up having to later add in a capitalization scheme to serve as a hash.

I have no clue how they managed to fool so many people with poor and shoddy work. But they have so far. And they've fooled everyone that this is a 'hack' even after saying time and again "The code is the contract, and the contract is the code"... Unless lead devs lose money.
Yes. See that KDE makes this easy with bug reporting built in to applications and desktop tools.
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they had

char* msg = malloc(141);

spread throughout their code still... Maybe they can't change it.
These are not perfectly sensical reasons:

- old arch single config file, with '@' syntax for parallelism got me hooked; sure it's different in systemd days

- early problem free systemd adoption

- simplified, close to upstream distribution (don't want to dig for src, dev, docs etc)

- their wiki is the one that speaks the most to my mind, I try to be gentle and objective, but every time, I find solutions in a short amount of time, and even more ideas. They hit a very very sweet spot to me. (gentoo was like that before the data loss)

- no installer, might seem stupid but it's a bit easier to reason with it; I don't have to learn an install framework, it's very bare and unixy.

- very thin tooling from arch, debian does a lot, but it's too heavy for my mind. Things might have changed since I last live in debian but I run a few debian live isos and derivatives and it always feels like "too much", administrative (as the debian documentation)

- rolling by default, debian has testing but it feels riskier

- AUR felt simpler (again) than custom apt repos

Also I might add that I distanced myself from the OS quest (or if I could I'd run a lisp or smalltalk fork or something similar). I'd be happy to hear your suggestions about my points if you have time for that.
The ADA is overall a good law, and this isn't about access because that is important. It is about the hit and run lawsuits that are a current problem. Stop trying to deamonize people who have legitimate concerns because of recent events.

http://m.startribune.com/flurry-of-disability-lawsuits-leave...
Maybe just dumbphone, the rest can do laptop/PC.
That was awesome! I only got 1180 / 95.5% but I am lying on my back and have an injured hand. :-)
I don't know if it's helpful, but think of the server like a coworker with whom you can only interact by opening tickets on Jira or equivalent.

You choose the type, describe what you need, and immediately get back a ticket ID (that's the URL). Then you can check back to see the state of the ticket.
I was writing my answer while you did so, you summarized my views quite nicely. It's funny that we were attracted by very similar, implicit traits.
What does "firmware support" mean? Is it not about installing software?
Have you seen Backports?

https://backports.debian.org/
Just because it has a union type, it doesn't mean it's optimal to use it.
Who cares about Internet points (feel free to downvote this comment a billion times)? If you want recognition, you either have to do something really great (like winning the French Open when you just turned 20), or you know what people want and give it to them. Submitting a Boyer Moore algorithm patch fits neither of these categories.
Of course! Customs and other legal (based on moral) norms are basically the primary source of law or of its interpretation. Human systems based on rigid, or even utopian (that is totalitarian in practice) rules simply cannot handle the complexity of the real world. The system may seem good and functional at first but with the first problem which would because of the nature of complexity and chaotic system dynamics of human interactions inevitably happen, the system would crash (or in this case, get forked) since it would not offer any flexibility.

Without getting too abstract, even traffic lights or zebras, from the perspective of a pedesetrian, (as an example of a simple system) would be a horrendous and extremely time consuming experience if its rules were enforced by the letter. Imagine if you could >only< pass the road accross the zebras...

Human made systems need to be imperfect and the rules need to be flexible or the system will fail.
I am on Jessie. I am on 52.2.0.
I don't see any problem in automation and the use of machines and I'm not rooting for worker-owned production. If someone figures out a way to create the machines and automate the tasks, he is generating the bigger share of the wealth.

In that case engineers and technicians get the money they deserve by the wealth they create. The owners of these machines provide the necessary capital (financial/technical) to make automation possible.

We don't need to envy people who own the production plants. If they're not smart enough, they'll lose their capital, and more talented people will take their place. That is the very premise of a liberal economy.

I think we need to protect the free market and ensure that everyone gets the wealth they deserve. Penalizing people just because they own more doesn't feel right to me.
Isn't Bruce Wanker the hacker? https://youtu.be/_O5fdMFKEC0
> It all evolves slowly but steadily. - OP

This expression is more symbolic than to be taken at face value.

> meaningful enough - OP

this means there's an optimum

> Given more animals that produce sounds, the ones that can transmit more information - OP

This means animals below (a?) optimum threshold. Shannon called that threshold the bandwidth, I believe.

> [complex sounds] take more energy to recognize

So this is the other side of the equation. We have a signal to noise ratio that limits the bandwidth. Energy is Information and Energy conversion, ie. Information transmission is inherently lossy, because Entropy decreases in closed systems. The trick then is to use the information to expand the frame of reference, to grow as an individual and as a species. That gives a lower bound on what information has to be converted into the system - that's what OP is talking about.

> What specifically will kill you if you transmit less information

In the limit, not transmitting any information means heat death. So, OP was talking hyperbole, obviously. The question for a local optimum is obvious - birds proliferate and not in a small niche. A global optimum in the infinite, infinite bandwidth at some point, or infinitely increasing bandwidth in infinite time are obviously out of scope - even if we like to dream on cosmological scales. Hence, OP's leading statement is rather symbolic than to be taken at face value.
Insurance is compatible with capitalism. I don't think anyone is implying that it isn't.

What we are trying to say is that in the US, insurance provides very little benefit while constantly driving up cost. They actually have every incentive to shield consumers and producers from having good levels of information about value and cost. If making money from the actuarial spread were the only thing that they did, they might not be so toxic. Instead, they partition information into silo's to further create arbitrage points. Every point where they serve as gatekeeper for information is a place in the system that extra profit can be made.

I think one of the things that you are assuming is that they have a single function in the market. They don't. As is often the case, simple capitalist models for ideal markets just don't match reality. They are also able to use their gains to game the system in their favor from a regulatory perspective.
> Publishers own these works on the basis of copyright law.

That is actually one interesting discrepancy, I think there are some countries where you can not assign away the copyright to your work for someone else in a manner that you loose the copyright yourself. Anyone familiar with this or am I just remembering things incorrectly?
In such case how would Elsevier and the like react when someone decides to put their work published in such paper on their blog for free?
A pilot line using similar technology was built in 1983 in Porto Alegre, south of Brazil (I used to live there). It was deactivated shortly after, but the elevated track still exists [1]. A new 600m stretch was built in 2013 at the airport using updated technology and still runs today.

The same company also installed a line in Jakarta, Indonesia which has been in operation for 28 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_railway#Aeromovel

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruriak/3270276680/in/photolist...
[2] more pictures including the new one: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=aeromovel%20porto%20aleg...
How can one talk about governance units and not mention safety/army? If there is going to be another form of governance it has to protect its "citizens". Protect from whom and how ? Who will be terrorists, who will be good guys? As an example nowadays we have ISIS, a loose international ideology spread through the internet across borders, from people with little hope of forming a sovereign. Kingdoms, City states, Empires, feudal lords, nation states, their existence depended on exchanging safety for taxes/servitude. I believe that's the main force (fear) that unites people under a blanket term/belief. Not "common problems" which have always existed anyways.
The real minitel was a public domain modem comms program for MS-DOS/PC-DOS created by the brilliant Tom Jennings in 1983 (the FidoNet guy).