skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t understand the “skin in the game” argument at all. How is it worse for a citizen than a non-citizen if the social fabric of the state breaks down? Besides, this seems like a bizarre argument for why citizens should have “first dibs” at jobs. What does that have anything to do with a doomsday scenario?

As for the necessity of making distinctions regarding obligations to the state, how is that relevant, particularly to job prioritization? Other than perhaps military conscription and some tax laws, I’m not aware of many significant differences in obligations between citizens and non-citizens, and especially of any with any relevance to job prioritization.

> Where is this new belief that "Citizenship" is a concept that needs to be blown up coming from?

I haven’t expressed any such belief, nor do I hold it. I just see no good reason for a government to prioritize citizens above non-citizen inhabitants, especially for job availability.
The Cold Start of AWS lambda is better now. You can get under 1000ms.
However, Google Function needs to improve the Cold start.
Totally agree. I am happier with bigger community.
I keep to notebook at my work-desk, it is to sketch out diagram, pseudo code, quick thoughts...

For digital, I use Notes.app because it has iCloud sync and it works well for me for multi device notes.
24% - 42% improvement according to an earlier
Top comment...
Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf]
Today, Y Combinator sent me a rejection letter for Startup School… by mistake
Thank you for well sourced minimization of the slave trade. It really helps to know that enslavement of millions of people shouldn't be thought of as all that bad.
It looks like this webpage has been overwhelmed at this point.
I've seen it stated several times here on hacker news that the visas should be available for the highest salaries. And that's it. No lottery. If you want them, pay them. That makes tons of sense to me on a lot of levels, it is going to naturally destroy abuse, recruit the best and brightest to come to the US, and not cause unfair discrimination against American workers.

1,600 visa workers for Cisco seems really low though. Anecdata, but my company hired a VP from Cisco and from that point until they left we made a lot of hires, but not a single American that I am aware of.
Short RSA key in RevokedKeys causing lockouts after openssh-server upgrade
It's anecdotal evidence, but I recently traveled to the US and was sadly reminded by how the "war on terror" is still very much alive in the American public conscious. I don't see the TSA situation improving until that happens.

* The first thing I needed to do was get a visa. All my papers are stamped by the Department of Homeland Security, whose name reflects the post 9/11 mentality of the war on terror.

* When dispatching my baggage, I noticed that Delta airlines offers a special discount for active U.S. military personnel. "You serve us, and we’re delighted to serve you", as they said. This reflects a country that has been constantly at war for a century.

* After I board my flight I read Delta's in-flight magazine. They have an article about how Google is using targeted advertisements to fight "terrorists" and "extremists". Back home, the in flight magazine is full of vapid travel articles but here in the American airline we find an article bringing fear to light and suggesting a multinational corporation's information harvesting product as the solution.

* After I land in the US I almost miss my connecting flight because of the enormous customs and TSA lines. What a way to feel welcome...

* In my connecting flight, I get a quick refresher of what right-wing media can be in the US, as the passenger next to me has brought a newspaper and tuned the in-flight entertainment system to Fox News.

* The newspaper has articles about a new 900 billion dollar defense bill and an article about new scanner technology being investigated by the TSA, which would allow laptops to stay inside the bag. The article suggested that this was the only way to speed up the lines.

* I thought I already knew what Fox News was about, but it still managed to surprise me:

* The Westminster car crash that injured 3 people was covered as a full blown attack. News insertions every 5 minutes. "Alert!" "Alert!"

* One of the talk show hosts went on a product-placement segment about ancesty.com and how she could trace the ethnicity of her ancestors. The 5 white show hosts then spent a couple of minutes discussing her European ethnicity. In these times of racial tension and rising nationalism, things like this make me a little nervous.

* After the ancestry.com segment, they jumped to a musical segment about the Camp4Heroes charity. Another reminder of the constant state of war that the US goes through, the large number of wounded veterans that are victims of it, and the special euphemisms that american english uses for these things: "heroes", "veterans", "serving the country", etc.

* Fox news also aired news about Facebook excusing themselves that their surveilance network failed to stop fake news spread by terrorists. (As if the Google article from earlier wasn't enough).
The making of Fabricated
I was the application reviewer and I look forward to feeling silly :) But really, one of the things I've been thinking about for a long time is how YC can help every startup in the world. We're still not there yet but this pushed us some steps closer.
> Everything was fine until people took a closer look at the behind-the-scenes photos (which have since been deleted) from the ad shoot posted by Elshamy to her Instagram account.

I doubt it's an accident. It's probably just a PR stunt by huawei, otherwise not many people would even talk about this phone. Unless whoever is runnigng that actress's instagram account is incredibly stupid to not notice that clearly controversial photo: [https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2018/08/bts0.jpg]
wow, this should be fun.
Off topic, but can anybody explain why mobile scrolling is so weird on Outline articles? It's like there's way less friction when I swipe up and down.

I have javascript completely turned off. Is there something else that governs this behavior? Because I want to block it too.
Pretty big roller coaster today. Thought I'd post the reverse perspective of getting rejected for Startup School and then accepted and then everybody being accepted.
With China, US taxpayer money is on line too. Take a closer look at Pakistan’s case. China promised $42B investments, Pakistan’s CAD widened. Pakistan seeks $15B bailout from IMF, which US has opposed as it will just go to Chinese. So a very tumultuous future ahead, this colonialism adventure of China will bring.

Severe pain for India, as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar have Chinese presence now, just a matter of time when the boots land. String of pearls, as it is called.
I can already imagine having this, being amazed and then the amazement wearing off. Probably
Going to cancel my preorder... probably.
The Unitary Fund:Open Source Quantum Computing
Shouldn't you be a little suspicious of a finding that it stopped being appropriate to share $thing after you got yours?

Of course that country still exists. We're all sitting here benefitting from it while we kick the ladder on everyone else.
"criminal prosecutions, which may still come"

I had misunderstood this point. I thought the settlement was like the 'plea bargain' I've seen on American TV shows, i.e. that the settlement meant that would be no criminal charges.

Thanks for the thoughtful explanation.
Thing is you don't necessarily need a CFO early on. What you do need, though, is an accountant. Even ignoring possible financial penalties, the cost is low enough that it is likely a net financial positive. A founder unfamiliar w/ accounting will spend longer trying to accomplish the same tasks, and is wasting time that could more productively be spent elsewhere.

How did nobody balance the books at all in 3 years? He states:
"... I thought, Bank of America’s payroll system automatically withholds payroll taxes every month, it’s all automated. But it wasn’t. There was a single “submit tax” button in a separate part of the Bank of America website that had to be clicked to actually pay the taxes."[0]

Any even semi-competent bookkeper would have noticed this.

[0] http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make
Is China a developed country? A long and better answer
Do all 15,000 still get AWS / Digital Ocean credits? Or is that only reserved for the 100 selected companies?
Surely there are many purchases in your life where you trade some money for convenience!

1. Failure rates on computer hardware (particularly things that sit on a desk, and aren't banged around in a laptop) are pretty low these days. The odds of an all-in-one Mac reaching the end of its useful lifespan without a major failure are, I'd think, overwhelmingly good.

2. Look at all the monitor choices out there. HD? Full HD? QXVGA? WXVASDCJndDF? TN? IPS? I mean, it's kind of alphabet soup.

3. Look at all the cable and connector options. DP, HDMI revisions, etc. Again, easy for you and me, but not something everybody wants to figure out.

4. Obviously it happens, but I don't know too many people that have managed to physically destroy a TV or non-laptop computer by accidentally smashing it. Odds of it happening are pretty low.

Now, I'd like to purchase my monitor separately, thanksverymuch. And I think there are enough buyers like you and I to make it worth Apple's while. But, I totally get the need/desire for models that are as integrated as possible.
Well, there are stageful serverless products like Google Datastore.
We're working hard to renegotiate the credits with the companies offering them. We'll definitely be able to offer some credits to all 15,000 companies but we're not sure exactly which ones yet.
That depends on your workload. 0MQ is fine software, but they solve different problems.

The problem here is the claims you're making. You've written some utility classes around 0MQ for some applications, which is a real thing, so I'd rewrite your GitHub readme to just demonstrate what problems you've solved with it (and at what kind of scale). Making big, sweeping claims gets you into these kinds of threads, because extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence :-)
> It is clearly stated in GDPR that it should be as easy to opt-out as opt-in

Can you point to which article of the 99 [0] that you are referring to because I have heard this claim multiple times and yet I cannot seem to find it on my own.

[0]: https://gdpr-info.eu/
I’m pleased to see this getting more attention. I find the memory-erasing drug of these effects to be unpleasant, and duration disturbing. If you take three of them, the next day 24 hours later or you may still have blood plasma like one pill or more, depending on which benzo it is. Most people don’t understand drug half life and are unaware of that. Then if you mix in cannabis or alcohol, things start to get really dangerous memory-wise. These drugs are prescribed fairly casually to people who don’t have any serious medical or psychological conditions, and in my observation are treated equally casually by consumers.
It's not about blame, it's being realistic that 4K means 4x the pixels and 8K means 16x the pixels, and while these cards represent a lot of progress they're nowhere near that level.
And also to try to obtain a pattern of what request headers are common... Try to create a special hash from the request headers. Then find a way to infiltrate the data with it so you can identify them better
I think this is quite a lot better! Nice work.
Most evil is done by ordinary people, who have great capacity for it. It is a critical error, I think, to suppose that evil is done by the 'bad guys' and that I and my group, whoever that is, are somehow invulnerable to it. Instead, we must realize there is nothing different or special about us, and be ever on guard for its symptoms and the things that lead to it (IMHO, ideology and intolerance, and anything that puts my power and my desires above those of others').

Germany was arguably the cultural and scientific heart of the world in the 1920s and 1930s. The Nazis murdered 11 million people. That isn't done by a few evil people; it requires the labors and cooperation of large numbers, and the passive acceptance of millions more.
I wouldn't know without using it. That's where "software using this library" is a really useful bit of social proof. Think of Django; even without looking at the code you have a lot of evidence that it can conveniently solve a wide range of real problems.
Thank you so much for your sharing. I am curious that how much money you invested to set up the automation and how to prevent non-members getting in.
LXD is more like virtual machines than containers, though. Also, in context of this thread, it doesn't solve much that Docker doesn't; after all, Docker for Linux is in fact fully open source, and even if it wasn't, Linux has no shortage of mature container implementations (like rkt.) For a developer on Mac or Windows, it'd be nice to have a universal dev tool, even if only to handle Linux containers.
Well, not too long ago, the church would actually collect taxes from the farmers...
> What if it's not. What if people just overeat because life is boring, and food tastes good, and we all have differing levels of willpower & education on nutrition?

Then we need to explain why this suddenly became a problem in the 1970s. Life is more boring now? We all lost our willpower? People understood nutrition better before that?
Something has changed, either in humanity or the environment. My bet is the environment.
I dunno, maybe get Trump to executive order lower salaries for Cisco employees? That would be roughly equivalent to the Chinese situation.

Alternatively, the USA as a country could put some effort into education, so as to be self-sufficient in available, skilled workers.

But you're simplifying things - do we really know that lack of cheap Indian H1-B or L1 workers is what's killing Cisco? No. We don't even know that Cisco is being killed. They just gave $10+million dollar bonus to the CEO, as we learned elsewhere in these threads. That suggests robust health.
1. Is it possible to find out why a startup was (initially) placed in the audit track?

2. Does this mean all startups will get access to benefits such as DO, AWS? And the chance to win $10k?

Rollercoaster of emotions, but thanks to the YC team for handling this well!
You cant delete your netflix account. Doesnt this violate GDPR?
The only option you have is to cancel your subscription, its also impossible to change account settings without an active sub.
Use an ECS scheduled task or the equivalent in Kubernetes: problem solved.

Docker containers run using a task scheduler are perfect for this.
> But... I can see in shops that don't have this complexity yet, Jenkins might be just fine.

It sounds like you have a very simple collection of jobs running that lack run-time complexity like remote hosts being unavailable or preventing a service from being overloaded with requests after it comes online because you have an ever-growing list of tasks waiting.

The actual complexities of DAG-based workflow management tools are considerably more complex than can be expressed in 114 lines of any language, and I hope any programmer I work with would spare me and my peers the misery of trying to roll and maintain our own when plenty of open source and actively maintained projects fit the bill that could benefit from our contributions.
Kenya burial site shows community spirit of herders 5,000 years ago
I think there's a great deal of evidence to suggest Capone was more than a run of the mill tax evader even though all they nailed him for was tax evasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone#Saint_Valentine's_Da...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Outfit#Al_Capone's_emp...
You need to make $131K a year to afford San Diego home, study says
In fight against ISIS’s propaganda machine, raids and online trench warfare
I’m not suspicious. The land wasn’t shared, it was taken by force and the people it was taken from were either massacred or rounded up onto reservations where they slowly die out from poverty today. Nothing today can change what was done; that doesn’t make open borders and unlimited immigration penance for our historical wrongs.
Bean knew but we don't know that he knew until Ender's Shadow.
Still available through their doco
https://docs.docker.com/v17.12/docker-for-mac/install/
I don't have any links on hand, personally, but I'm sure you're as good at googling as I am, maybe better.

Why are you so skeptical about the idea that serious abuse may have occurred in Southern prisons? Are you concerned about slandering innocent Southern prison workers? Do you think that it would diminish the importance of the Abu Ghraib atrocities? Or are you just nitpicking over whether they were really, literally exactly as bad, as opposed to merely very-bad-but-not-quite-as-bad?
I guess I'll also point out that you've dodged the question. Chinese companies are not a good example - the Chinese government interferes in markets to a degree unheard of elsewhere. That's a different regulatory environment altogether than what you have imagined as being competitive.
No actually. I believe that just deporting the illegal immigrants without fixing the other broken parts of the system that we would have massive crop losses - significant amounts of fresh fruit and vegetables would disappear from shelves.
Agreed. It is extraordinary that intelligent, honest, discourse is so rarely employed when companies explain things like this. Why MBAs, sales and business types find it so hard to understand how appalling intelligent people find this style of discourse baffles me. Surely many MBAs, sales and business types are intelligent and empathetic people?
To those down voting or equating Ayurveda with Quackery - The amount of downvotes shows me that there is a lack of awareness of what Ayurveda and TCM truly are. These use plants and herbs to heal. They are not some sort of quackery. There are Ayurveda universities in India. Ayurveda tourism is rather popular with folks from the West. Do read up about it. It would also be relatively inexpensive for you - a holiday in India coupled with what is essentially a health spa.

To code_duck: Does having vegetables help - is that non-gluten? I have no grains or cereals, and just have lots of vegetables (leafy and non-leafy) and food with fat in it (e.g. avocados). This has helped me lose about 25 kilos of body fat, and I'm on my journey to cut down another 7.5 kilos of body fat.
I was a bit surprised to read that comment, as well. Opportunities multiply as they are seized. OTOH, do not interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake (that was a joke). Anyone in this position has an opportunity many many others do not.
I have been feeling less than and embarrassed all day, but this little back and forth really cheered me up.
Today I learned that calling something evil -- but not the worst -- is minimization.
Classic "It's not a bug, it's a feature" scenario :) Amazing move, SS!
I don't read that in their comment? They said genocide has a specific definition, and the Atlantic slave trade does not match it. You are free to disagree on that point. I personally don't think it's a very good point to make here.

Instead you made some argument that they are trying to argue that it wasn't that bad, which is not based on a literal interpretation of their comment.

Can you believe white supremacists use the same kind of thinking? They also toss around the word genocide where it does not apply, assuming one against whites. If you were to say what the commenter said, they'd do the same: Instead of engaging the arguments based on merit, they'd accuse you of wrongthink.

Better to let people be honest and judge argument's on their merit rather than start accusing people of wrongthink so easily. Perhaps this is a pretty big problem in the politics right now.

If it becomes impossible to correct the definition of words without being branded as a wrongthinker, then what good is that going to do?
Apple’s Amsterdam store evacuated after iPad battery explodes
I think Canonical does a pretty great job of this.

If I download an Ubuntu Server ISO, I get my download immediately, but the page has a nice prompt to register for a whitepaper to get the most out of my new server product.

If I download the Ubuntu Desktop ISO, I still get my download immediately, but additionally I see some nice prompts about donating to support their operations.

Everything about both flows inspires trust that they aren't trying to withhold my download for the sake of selling consulting services or soliciting donations.
How would locals know where the garbage came from?
>Being selective about who a country allows in as a resident or citizen isn’t immoral.

Maybe not, if the selection process were primarily concerned with individual merit. But it isn't. We decide which races to allow as residents or citizens, then throw the individuals into a lottery, with good odds for white countries and bad odds for brown ones. Discriminating on ancestry or proxies for ancestry (like nationality) to keep underprivileged groups down and privileged groups comfortable is immoral. So is denying others the same opportunities benefitted from merely because they came later.

Would your own family tree's entrypoints to the US pass your test?
The same thing is happening in Cambodia, or Laos, Or Myamnar:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/31/no-cambodia-l...

https://laotiantimes.com/2017/05/16/chinas-investments-costi...

Part of the reasons why countries are wary is because the Chinese just doesn't play nice with the local: all the contractors are Chinese companies, the business is run by Chinese, the tourists use RMB and doesn't respect local culture etc... Maybe it will take them 10~20 years to learn the lesson.
So hey, https://anonbox.net/ works fine.
Extra hot coub composition #80 – FunnY Cube mix (2018)
Even Han was kinda forced to shoot Greedo. Greedo said in no uncertain terms that he'd kill Han

I'm going to have to vigorously disagree with you. You must have only seen the Special Edition. Greedo makes it clear that he plans to take Han back to Jabba. He says "You can tell that to Jabba. He may only take your ship."

Greedo didn't intent to murder Han. He was just after a bounty. Han killed Greedo to avoid apprehension and buy enough time to get the money to pay off Jabba.
Keep going. Persistence is everything. YC isn't the endgame, but a step along the way to building a great business.
4 months ago took a car to beaches up and down the west and east sides of a Oahu. No hotel / high traffic beaches considered here: bits of plastic across all beaches. A specific light blue tube plastic material never longer than a couple inches was spoted many times on both sides of the island, felt very like vacationing a sand trap for the world's trash.
There's a lot of value in parting money from fools. Puts it to better use.
Metaphorically, getting into a YC program is not evidence that you are a good egg. Instead, it is a guarantee of being kept warm so you have a chance to hatch.

Even without an advisor, this gives applicants access to important stuff, like discussion with other like-minded individuals who are also reviewing the same materials. That's huge.
Racism makes tyranny easier. Yes. But it is not necessary for tyranny.

If you ever find yourself in need, or on the wrong side of injustice, especially perpetrated be a greater authority, you will quickly realize how terrible really a lot of people out there are.