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If such a rule were to pass, it would be cool to see something done for older ROMs. So many games have the potential to go unplayed and become forgotten relics
How is your VC fund doing? :-)
While I agree with you, saying things like "dirty software hoarders" kind of kills your message.
Cygwin.
Just chiming in that The Division isn't a typical MMO and much of the game can be played solo or in a small matchmaking group.

It's on sale now and worth a try! I'd happily show you (or anyone else reading this) around.
Some failing people are just delaying their gratification even more.

What form of gratification could be more delayed than being unknown and struggling all your life, and then having your works achieve posthumous renown?
And this one

"Fox’s Unfamiliar but Powerful Television Rival: Sinclair"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/business/dealbook/sinclai...

And
"How a Conservative TV Giant [Sinclair] Is Ridding Itself of Regulation"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/politics/how-a-conserv...
Well some European countries don't have any transaction fees at all when using a debit card.

Those mobile pay systems DO.
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>It offers AFAIK the fastest transactions with NO FEES.

Is it not obvious to you that no fees is a ridiculous proposition? Free transactions mean spam and that doesn't work in a distributed ledger.
The "shouting fire in a theater" example is a poor comparison, because it likely is allowed under the first amendment[0][1]. It may not be in the public interest, but as far as I know, the FCC does not regulate theaters.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

[1]: https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...
I signed up for a trial of Mattermark a month ago. Within several minutes I learned that:

1. Their database is terribly outdated. A company that was funded by X two years ago did not show up in a search for companies funded by X.

2. Their "show contact info" feature wasn't working. That's not an easter-egg feature; that's the feature they're selling!

After several frustrating minutes I thought, "People pay for this?!" Evidently not.

To be clear, I don't wish this on anyone. I have friends who've had to sell their company for peanuts, and I had a pleasant chat with the Mattermark CEO just recently, but what do you expect when you enter a crowded market with a product that isn't delivering on its basic promise?
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At this point, admin escalations are common and random enough that I'd imagine most users just click OK. You're installing a patch, that's changing software on your computer, right? So I guess it needs admin, right? I'm not sure how a normal user is meant to know what's legit and what's not.
I'm just asking. It seems like a question that has an actual answer. Someone did it. Someone knows why it happened.
The ING paper continues "The fact that
they [banks] do not (yet) provide custodian functions for Bitcoin (e.g. for regulatory reasons)
does not mean that the general public would not need or want those services for
cryptocurrency. In fact, many Bitcoin users choose to keep their wallets with online
providers – meaning that even in today’s Bitcoin universe, there is a clear role for
intermediaries."

The Bitcoin/blockchain-agnostic term for the basic abstraction these intermediaries share is "distributed ledger", though that doesn't solve the whole problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledger
Very, very few restrictions are actually upheld. See in particular "Trope 3: 'Not all speech is protected.'"[0]

[0]: https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...
the problem is css is tied to and gets it's hierarchy from the html elements. In order to truly separate style and layout from content you need a separate hierarchy and that would be a huge change

https://games.greggman.com/game/css-grid-fail/
> I wonder if it would be effective to tell YC companies that they can participate in a demo day, but it doesn't have to be the one for their batch -- so a company could wait and join the following cohort in order to avoid the stigma of being "the company which couldn't get funding at demo day and is now going around to VCs one by one".

You can defer your demo day.
The laws didn't change drastically from the time a few years earlier when all those people managed to get out and elect Obama. That doesn't seem like a deciding factor at all.
I was born in Xinjiang and lived there for more than 20 years. My parents still live there.

It's a complex thing and in my hometown, no one complain the surveillance generally.
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Judging from the data that was released, it looks like their credit origination system was compromised.
Personally, I would love to ditch python for a language with strong types and type inference, but what is the replacement for django? Where do I find a well-designed, well-documented, battle-tested framework that I can easily hire developers for?

Currently, I think the nearest competitor is node with typescript, and I'd rather stick with python. Please tell me if I'm wrong.
That's what the Linux folks thought, and here we are.
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I never said the prank is unsuccessful, only that darkness doesn't make it harder to find something by ear. Hearing is hearing, sight is sight.

In the past, I have had a hard time finding by ear which switching power supply in a lab is giving off a squeal.

Seeing the power supplies was of no help; it might as well have been dark.

Basically the "off when the lights are on" aspect just confounds people initially when they don't know that this is the case. They hear something in the dark. They hear it beep again some time later, and then again. They turn on the lights to go looking for it. Unbeknownst to them, doing so deactivates it. It takes time to learn that the chirping is related to it being dark. Once they realize that, it makes next to no difference.

It's still not a bad prank without that embellishment.
Looks like we have a disproportionate amount of VCs on HN. Luckily ICOs aren't going anywhere. Time to evolve or get left behind.
vcxsrv implements an x server in win32. Might be worth a try.
I still don't get why this is still an issue.

Max Howell created something that everyone uses. He's made the world a better place for many (typically technically oriented) people. He's clearly talented and enjoys what he does(to maintain homebrew for that long?). He does not have a degree in Computer Science.

Google as an exclusive(as in there is a barrier to enter) community has all its rights reserved to reject or offer an invitation to anyone. They can set up (seemingly)arbitrary requirements and degree/knowledge in Computer Science seems to trumps all others. So they said no.(I'm just assuming that the reason behind the rejection was the trick question.)

The two statements can both be true without putting a shade on either. Google may have lost on getting a good talent working for them. With this debacle permanently looming on the web(especially since we're talking about it after few years), they have lost the prospective of working with Max Howell. Max Howell, by writing this now and back then, sabotaged the same prospective. Who will have lost in the end? I'd say Google by a small margin, because a good talent with an indisputable track record is sought for.
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Invoke-WebRequest is good enough for a lot of use cases. Curl should handle the rest.
The Can’t-Lose Way for Your Business to Pop: Add Bitcoin to Its Name
Hoping they will honor my year subscription somehow...
I'm tired of this perspective. Just because you "feel" people are in bitcoin for "the wrong reason" doesn't make it bad. Similarly if people start buying electric vehicles because they are faster than gas cars it doesn't make them "worse" than people who buy them for environment change.

A lot of millenials have learned a lot about the existing financial system due to Bitcoin, even if it was initially to make a quick buck, and I suspect there's no way back to fiat for a lot of them.
Why I am still a Bitcoin Maximalist
This seems no different than Tesla prohibiting use of AutoPilot for gainful ridesharing.
I'm left wondering what sort of due diligence their B round investors did if Mattermark's app was really all that bad?
Does anyone running a startup actually put money in a 401k? (Serious question.) I do not, nor do I know anyone else who does.

I also don't see how that's enough money to tip the scale.
If the artificially-created real estate "shortage" problem in the Bay Area was solved, lots of other problems would be solved.

- Companies raising money just to pay inflated (yet still insufficient) labour costs

- People who would love to work for startups but realize that most startup salaries barely gets you a studio apt, pretty cool until you have a family

- Companies who "cant find" talent

Is it any surprise companies need to raise so much funding, esp when operating out of the Bay Area?
Shhhh it's semantic versioning
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That's just your opinion. My opinion is that every dollar, euro and yen that stored outside the current financial system is being safely utilised in the bitcoin store of value.
Or just using it despite the EULA? It's not like the driver knows where the server is physically located.
It’s worth nothing that employees have been leaving Mattermark gradually over the past year, which could explain an out-of-date database/features if there isn’t anyone to update it.
If they would add SSH drive mapping...
Why are you so enamored with giving up control of your hardware to the laptop manufacturer?

From never-fixed bugs in manufacturer's firmware to setting up things to happen on the next boot, there are innumerable reasons to write to the BIOS from a higher level.
I prefer the 79 or 80 character line limit because it makes it much easier to read unified diffs pertaining to code changes. It also makes viewing files side by side much easier as well.
There is no common style in C or C++. This is a free for all area, even with clang format.
You're making claims like you have empirical evidence, but I'm not aware of such an experiment.
Good luck using it to its fullest potential without their drivers.
The problem is that too many startups go to Y Combinator! Many of them can bootstrap!

Y Combinator prefers to get 6% of more companies to increase the chance of winning the jack pot.
Depending on when you charged it, you should probably contact your credit card company to charge it back if they’re unable to provide the service going forward.
While I don't disagree there are currently some racists/supremacists who are also registered Republicans, unless Republicans suddenly were a pro-slavery party in the 1960's, "flipped positions" isn't really accurate in that regard.

Also the 1964 Civil Rights bill was voted along party lines like this:

House: Democrats: 63% yea.

House: Republicans: 80% yea.

Senate: Democrats: 69% yea.

Senate: Republicans: 82% yea.

In short, a much larger percentage of Republicans voted in favor of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill than Democrats. Educated Americans can look this up.
>Type hints allow external tools to check some things, but at this point you're basically imposing static types so why not use a language with the tooling and optimizations to take advantage of that?

Python's type system is, imo, currently better than Java's, and the syntax is cleaner than java's or C++s. You get all the benefits of static typing without having to put `auto` and `List<>` everywhere. And at the same time, you get all of the advantages that python has over statically typed languages that aren't haskell (like comprehensions). And, when you need to, if you're doing something that's especially tricky or dynamic or whatnot, you can fall back to untypedness.

I think the closest parallel I can draw is to something like Rust. You get a huge set of guarantees for free, but can opt to do unsafe things when it's absolutely necessary, and better yet, you can start in unsafe land and then go back later and make sure your code is safe.

I'm curious what tooling you feel that say, Java, has over type-annotated python.
Sorry to hear it didn’t pan out well for Danielle. I was rooting for them to try and find a business model that worked for them.
You prefer a VC that isnt human. All humans inject their politics into every action they take. Accept it.
And what political agenda is that, precisely?
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I just read the RaiBlocks white paper and it seems really interesting!

The one thing I didn't see in the paper is how you can make sure that other users have logs of your account. Bitcoin gives transaction fees as a way to pay for your stuff to be in the data, but how would I make sure mine is tracked?
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> "I’m reaching out to share some great news"

This is disgusting. Remember that this letter is:

1. for common shareholders who will get absolutely nothing out of this deal.

2. yet it's asking them to sign so that they can go ahead with the deal.

3. And to top it off, "I'm reaching out to share some great news"? Are you kidding me?

To be clear, I support all entrepreneurs regardless of what ridiculous business model they're trying to pull off. I even think Magic Leap should be given a benefit of the doubt and they may be able to pull it off.

Also I think it's great that silicon valley celebrates failure. Without this type of environment it's hard for founders to shoot for the stars.

That said, people have taken this too far, and it's become ridiculous. It's no longer about it being ok to fail, but it's about "I failed, so what? I'm the genius and I totally deserve it and you just paid to tag along."

I totally despise bullshit like this. If you lost, just say you lost. And say sorry. Don't bullshit people about how "it's a great news that I'm asking you to sign this letter so that other people--not you--will get the money you actually deserve".
John Steinbeck never said that. At least not now it’s popularly quoted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/comments/23ar71/tem...
This isn't an inherent property of Javascript or the web though, and it happens with other languages. Javascript is better than many languages in that although it is often minified, anyone using a browser can view source and look at js code, which isn't the case for non-open source code in languages that compile to binary executables. Mobile platforms and eapecially game consoles have significantly more DRM backed into the platform than the web, and don't use javascript as a primary language for most applications.
That's weird.. can you only criticize Lebron James if you are better than him at basketball?
Opera, Firefox, Safari, etc are OK.

But in the case of Microsoft, they made 2 horrible mistakes:

- Piss off the user (slow, frustrating performance, popups, leaving people vulnerable to malware)

- Piss off the developer (incompatible behavior)

I think Microsoft saw web applications as a competitor for desktop development (e.g: Visual Studio), and they felt the urge to cripple it.

Your average user had IE with 100 toolbars installed and horrible performance, you could not do anything.

As a result, IE and all successors are dead to me. Never going to use it again.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/82hWm.jpg

^ That's why we hate you Microsoft.

Each time I delete the Edge icon, I restore it only to delete it again, and again, and again, each time bringing more satisfaction.

That satisfaction is only surpassed by the one I get when I delete a Windows partition.
I started getting worried when their pricing was no longer public and their blog posts didn’t make it on here any more. Enjoyed their insights on fundraising and the progress of their company. I imagine it’s harder to be open when things are not going as expected.
Did you mean to link to an articulate that leads with the benefit to the individual is disputed and then focuses on the benefits to the herd?
It's so weird to see the responses in this thread of people saying they're going to ask their legal department. Have fun when your self-justifying legal department turns around and dictates the company can only buy the more expensive cards, they now want to review the legalese bombs for everything else, etc.

Just ignore the wordbarfs as the UPPER CASE INCOHERENT SHOUTING THEY ARE. Everybody knows that nobody reads "EULA"s, and a meeting of minds is a necessary requirement for there to even be a contract. These fantasy "terms" literally only exist to the extent we acknowledge and dwell on them!
Ask HN: How to preserve/protect open discussion forums on the internet?
Many believe the ability to share information and thought freely between parties is critical for the progress of the human species.

The majority of internet users today are solely dependent on IXCs (interexchange carriers) to transport digital communications through the infrastructure of the world wide web.

In the current geopolitical-IT climate, what are some of the steps people are taking to protect freedom of information exchange?
Carbon is raising $200M to bring 3D printing to more manufacturers
When it comes to Bitcoin, I think of Linux as an analogy. When it first emerged, many people questioned it's basic premise: "why is there a new operating system? Everyone uses Windows, or Mac". People didn't know or understand the idea of open source: "Doesn't that just mean people will find bugs and ways to hack it?" "Without a company behind it, how do I know I can trust it in the long term?"
At first it's usability sucked. It took forever to get it up and running. It was confusing and hard to learn.
It had a small, rabid fan base who kept obsessing about desktop adoption rates and wondering when it would take over.
That is all kind of the same vibe as Bitcoin. But just as Linux showed, you don't need a monolithic, centralized entity to back it, it can start slowly and improve over time.
"linux on the desktop" basically failed (cue all the linux desktop heads on HH....!) but it completely took over the whole back end of the Internet. Every server runs it. And it then morphed and took over almost all mobile/tablet/smartTV/etc/etc devices. I think something similar could easily happen with Bitcoin. It has securely held Billions of USD equivalents in value for years. The software continues to evolve. Its core technology has morphed into many other formats. And like Linux on the Desktop, maybe the early idea of digital cash will change into another idea, like a settlement layer. who knows?
But I remain pretty optimistic about it.
Fair enough, you didn’t say that. I just think we disagree on how easy it would be to track this thing down in the dark.

I have a bearded dragon, so I know what it’s like to have loose crickets chirping in your house and having no idea where it’s coming from. Like others have said, the nature of the sound makes it harder to locate.
Good to hear- I’m hoping to switch to full time web development some time in the new year. It's actually my favorite thing at these other jobs.
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There are several implementations of X for win32/64 (there's a good one in Cygwin)-- I'm looking for something integrated with Microsoft's bare-metal implementation of Ubuntu.

TL;DR: I want to 'apt-get install lyx octave gnuplot chromium darktable' with full functionality.
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Unless you restart your server 400 times a day, how does startup times matter, even remotely?
I agree with this, I use plain GVim on all my machines. I'm not interested in plugins that will slow it down - it's fine the way it is.
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In the absence of regulatory intervention. The biggest risk for Bitcoin is for a country like the USA to outlaw it.
I can crash the mobile safari just fine all is needed is lot of overflowing images in a transformed div

What I really hate is that when safari shits itself the message to the user is “there was a problem with the web page so it was reloaded” so we get old iphone users complaining to us when their lame browser crashed.

That and iframes getting resized to full height ignoring css directives completely... we have a lot of our codebase that are workaround just for ios
It it only gambling if you can take in-game items and convert them using game facilities back to cash.

In other words, what you describe may appear as a form of payment for consideration to win, but if you aren't really winning anything that can't be classifed as gambling.

This is why most game sales specifically mention they cannot be converted to cash and are for digital items only.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983211
Yeah I really couldn't tell if you were seriously looking for people or just sarcastically playing the part of someone who was. I'm not surprised it's hard to find qualified people because cryptocurrency is huge right now and there are a lot of people who want to be part of it.

The fact that things are changing so fast that I can't tell if a comment is serious on HN says something I think.
>Who cares? Honestly, who cares if BTC is the one that wins?

Well, everyone who is long on BTC.
I believe the post is not referring to a sudden exchange of political identities, but rather to the Southern Strategy. This definitely had its roots in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but was a long, deliberate process by the Republican Party to exploit racial divisions for political gain. The RNC chairman formally apologized to the NAACP for this specifically in 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983211
LOL that was my exact thought. Added to .vimrc. But will never get back all the time lost trying to make sure I was at proper indent level.
Indeed. What is the incentive for any common stockholder to sign what they will be asked to sign? I could imagine someone holding back purely out of spite.

Though I suppose, perhaps, if those common stockholders are employees who want to keep their jobs rather than be laid off, that might be one reason, though an individual wouldn't learn whether they'll be retained until a later stage of the acquisition.
1) Imagine some project written using CTRL+C, CTRL+V everywhere, another much bigger project written with some good architecture and using always the DRY principle, another one still bigger is written in a much more compact language like F# or Haskell. The first project following your criteria is the bigger and most complex, but in reality it is just a bloated mess.
2) It never works like that in reality. No one is paid to spend time only to improve the code, we are paid to provide value to the users. The project with the good architecture is easier to work with and it will be easier to add features and continue to improve the code. The bloated mess will be much more difficult to work with and you won't have the time to improve it apart from getting the low hanging fruits.