skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serbia has no intention to claim this territory whatsoever. Serbia treats the Danube as the border and that is it. The new Danube stream that is, the one now dividing the two countries. There is an old Danube stream which is almost completely gone decades ago, and Croatia considers it its border. The reason is that there are some other inversely interweaving parts which are pretty and maybe a nice tourist attraction and both countries want them. So, accepting Liberland as their own territory would mean waving the right to those other, more profitable, territories. But TBH, using the old stream as the border would just cause more trouble.

To be fair, I'm a Serb and I fully welcome Liberland. Since the two neighbors cannot decide on their boundaries, I do not see why anyone else cannot take a no-mans land. The issue is that we must define our borders sooner or later, and I am afraid there will be no more space for Liberland. But, that will be Croatia's business then, I hope :D .
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> (Aside: this would probably be legal under all the religious freedom restoration acts going around.)

Under most of the RFRAs, a government with a compelling interest (e.g. allowing the blind to take taxis) would have to use the least restrictive means to achieve it. In the case of something like a car service company or Uber, this could mean permitting individual drivers to decline the hail, but guaranteeing that someone will be available to answer it. Then, if all goes well, the blind person gets his or her ride, the religious person goes about his or her religious life without losing his job, and everyone's happy.

Consider also Utah, which permits a county clerk to opt out of officiating a same-sex marriage out of religious objections... if a substitute is available.

(For cities with more street-hailed cabs, in the style of London and New York, this may not be enough, but enforcement of any rules on street hails is problematic, as anyone who has tried to take a NYC taxi somewhere inconvenient is able to tell you.)
> I could see an argument for setting up a new country that was open to all comers

If the situation around the Mediterranean does not improve, the EU will be forced to consider such a plan sooner than we might think.
And that's why I rent servers from digital ocean or linode. However, nobody has yet written http://selfcontrolapp.com/ for OS X but they have written xmonad (the thing that was keeping me on desktop Linux) for OSX.

http://ianyh.com/amethyst/

And no, I can't write self-control on Linux for myself, because then circumventing it to read the news wouldn't require more patient thought than whatever I'm trying to focus on. Please don't discuss how it works in replying to my comment. I want not to know.
This is somewhat to my annoyance, because I frequently find mobile-friendly pages less friendly on mobile than desktop pages.

Specifically, mobile-friendly typically disables zoom, so that zooming can't be used to choose text size or to scroll through the page at a higher rate. Instead, everything is reduced to a kind of very long ticker-tape, where if you're deep into the page, you need to scroll many, many times to get anywhere.

Alternatively, you get a page broken up into expandable sections, like mobile wikipedia, where it's very tedious to visually scan the page. Wikipedia is one of the best examples of a site where I prefer the desktop page on mobile.

Another issue is limited functionality. Sites with complex forms typically present a hobbled or otherwise limited, basic mobile experience.
Falling into thinking that YC only produces successes because it touts a few unicorns - a few out of Thousands of companies, is Blindly falling for media hype.

There are many many successes that have absolutely nothing to do with YC, whether they were rejected or not.

Here are a few Non-YC & Non-YC Culture hits (non-brogrammer single founders):

Elizabeth Holmes from Theranos
(Worth 4.7B.. More than YC and media darling Drew Houston who's worth 1.4B)
http://www.forbes.com/profile/elizabeth-holmes/ http://www.forbes.com/profile/drew-houston/

Sophia Amoruso from NastyGal
Deena Varshavskaya from Wanelo
Tracy DiNunzio from Tradesy
Pete Cashmore from Mashable
Shane Smith from Vice
*Michael Arrington (i believe) from TechCrunch

2 obvious "secrets" are this:
1. Nobody tells their actual secrets.
2. Real leaders don't need to be accepted by others to define themselves.

No success story is going to waste time talking about being "rejected" from YC... because it's not important, and it's YC's loss, not theirs.

So you can define yourself by buying into YC media hype, or you can actually open your eyes to how many successes there are that had absolutely Nothing to do with YC.
But plants already convert solar energy to chemical storage at efficiencies of 1-3%. Up to 10% for algae (higher per-hectare yields are based on added energy). It turns out that existing artificial proceses might already get close to this via electrolysis, carbon separation from seawater,and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. But for raw efficiency, it's really hard to beat plants.

The other problem is that humans are already appropriating 20-40% of all primary production. So while plants are good at what they do, we're already leaning on them really hard.

Unless humans can come up with methods which are 1) complimentary to existing plant activity (e.g., they don't compete for the same space, water, and/or minerals), and that's 2) roughly as efficient or better, we look kind of stuck.
I stopped playing games about 10 years ago, but thought I would come out of the break to play Portal... I did, and was very saddened to find that I just couldn't play it because it gave me really bad motion sickness and headaches. The nauseating feelings kick in after just 60 seconds of gameplay (and no, not just when going in and out of portals -- even when I'm simply walking around without making portals the headaches come in).

I hope more research is done on this, and some solutions are found, because I really want to finish playing Portal. :)
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There's no way an air craft could compete at this distance. Just getting on to the plane would be slower.

The trip time is going to be around 40 minutes by train.
It's the inevitable market dynamic for a company like Netflix. They're a middle-man--the sell Sony's content, hosted on Amazon's servers, over Comcast's wires. Their business model lives and dies by what value they can add to that chain.

Don't get me wrong, I like Netflix. I don't have cable TV (and now that HBO Now exists, I don't plan to). But I've got Netflix alongside Hulu and Amazon Prime, and I see them as pretty fungible. Getting a good browsing/steaming UI together isn't rocket science, and all three are fine. The original content is the only thing that makes Netflix a "must have" for me.
Meetinvest.com – so far so good (I've made 4% against the S&P since March)
I don't want to spoil anything so I'll be vague. The problem is that the main character went from being a conniving underdog to the top of the stack way too quickly. Now the stakes are much lower because he already got what he wanted, and it's much less interesting to watch.

If you look at the British series, it's much shorter, and for good reason.
Regardless the way Magento releases the patches, the most annoying thing is hiding them behind the login form, making it impossible to apply from the console. You can install Magento via SSH, but you cannot apply security patches the same way - I am not able to understand this. I know, there's a business behind this, but open source in Magento meaning is somehow strange.
How We Test for Vulnerabilities with Git, BitBucket, Jenkins, and VAddy
Probably because the vast majority that run Docker do so on Linux. It is therefore the most well tested code paths. Ignore that at your own peril.
Yes. Among them, Vim, Bash, and OpenBSD, the latter of which supposedly has a very good reputation on security.
In effect a business has a choice to make, do they want to be down ranked on 50% of searches because they choose not to give a good experience to the devices doing the search.
The image does all the talking. For accessibility/SEO purposes, there could definitely be some more descriptive copy.

But I think it's disingenuous to say this landing page doesn't explain what it is.
When I saw the headline of the article, and being a network engineer by trade, I thought for sure this article was on OSPF. Was intrigued to see Google Maps leveraging Dijkstra's algorithm. Makes you think about traffic a bit different - I wonder if Google has the concept of backbone, stub and transit "areas" within maps? Next time I use a mapping solution I'll definitely think about it much differently, very cool.

Does anyone know how costs are assigned in a mapping application that may use something like Dijkstra's? In the network world cost is derived by link speed and distance, being a general oversimplification, but I wonder how general areas are broken up into routing domains? By city or state?

Very interesting...
Ubuntu 15.04: Desktop, Phone and IoT; towards a converged future
This states TypeScript is layered on top of ES6. I did not believe that to be true. Is there some meta-bug or other location tracking the TypeScript move to ES6? I was under the impression there were still a number of bugs that prevent fully using TS with ES6. (Maybe I'm wrong and someone can fill me in :))
Without granting that your premise is either meaningful or coherent, racism in the population could easily explain it. The absence of group membership based laws doesn't impy the absence of group membership based attitudes that are implemented through individual decisions.
"the wheel rims were close to supersonic"

This doesn't make any sense. The record is around 575 km/h. The speed of sound is 1225km/h. How would the wheel rim be travelling faster than the train? The while rim rotates 1m for every 1m the train travels, surely?

Can you explain what you mean?
Yes. But only if you think anarchist == anarchy. In reality, anarchist == anarchism, which is a collectivist/socialist philosophy masquerading as anarchy.

A state based on anarchy is an oxymoron.
NailO: Fingernails as an Input Surface (MIT Media Lab)
"Some software just don't need to change continuously."
It's not completely true.

For websites Debian+Ubuntu is ~twice more popular than RedHat+CentOS: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all
Transporting people, including their service animals if needed, is an intrinsic function of the job.

A reasonable adjustmet might be for drivers with allergies to i) get shots and desensitization treatments ii) carry disposable dust sheets to cover the seats when transporting dogs iii) explain before taking a booking that they have a diagnosed allergy and that they cannot transport animals.

I don't know how prevalent allergies are. How many of these drivers have allergies? How many of them just don't like dogs?

EDIT: just thought if I have had a dandery dusty smelly dog who has been sitting on my lap all morning and I then get in the car am I going to set off an allergy?
HBO targets Game of Thrones downloaders
I wasn't even asked to show my ID the last time I flew domestically in Japan.
Ubuntu 15.04 Launches with Support for OpenStack Kilo, New LXD Hypervisor
Why the Apple Watch is not a sustainable brand
I'm less excited by the distribution than the package system. VMware wrote a dnf/yum replacement in pure C, with no python dependencies:

https://github.com/vmware/photon/blob/master/tyum.md

This is what makes it possible for Photon to be so small, but still have yum-like features.
Brilliant water efficient product! Easy to fit and looks great.
I'm very pleased with the product! Already recommended to all my friends.
Docker is a "Linux Technology" because it is based on a particular feature of the Linux kernel (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC) and you need to run a Linux kernel (either in a vm or on bare metal) to run them.
"where you just drive up"

So clearly an American. I walk up to train stations, not drive.
I get that that's a concern for the driver, but that's a risk you take when you serve the public. Should the driver be allowed to refuse people with infants because the infant might throw up in the car or their diaper might leak? Should they be allowed to refuse drunk people? Sick people? Where does it stop? If you serve the public, serve all the public, or don't do it at all.
sure, but wasn't it in 1968 or something where there was basically 200 plane hijackings? I feel like there's good intentions at least
Doesn't look like your solution would compose very well. You would need a solution to combine arbitrary terms in a nice way.
Just like the drug market with all its weird research chemicals that are technically legal, I'm pretty sure the piracy scene can move faster than draconian measures can take them down.

It's hard to compete with free. At the moment, Netflix does a pretty good job. HBO might too if they can fully disentangle from cable. If prices get higher, or the content individuals want gets spread across too many streaming services people will watch less and/or pirate more.
It does still index pages. You can see the results of the web crawler coming in here: https://archive.org/details/webwidecrawl?sort=-publicdate
Android’s growth is a pain in the app for developers
Well, your ad position is determined based on your bid amount and your quality score.

Your quality score is based on ad text, keywords, landing page quality, bounce rate, and other factors.

So, I'm not sure what you're asking for (cheap keywords?), but it doesn't work like that...
Louisville, Kentucky, had segregation but not Jim Crow. The black population was a minor but important voting bloc, that could unite to oust mayors who really crossed a line with the racist bullshit. But make no mistake about how people were "treated as equal citizens" under segregation. When the city started establishing a system of large parks, black people were to be excluded, and when the black community protested, the city created a smaller, special park that black people could visit. Add to that the problems of educational segregation, political corruption, voter fraud and intimidation.

The North was not much better, where racial segregation in places like Chicago and Seattle was enforced through redlining, blockbusting, restrictive deed covenants, &c., and outright government policy.

Much of the country was ruled by an explicit white supremacist ideology for much of the 20th century, often enforced through open terroristic violence (lynching).
I've been looking for information on how Google is determining mobile friendliness.

That is, are they viewing your site with a mobile agent (that reveals itself as being on mobile), or are they using their present setup and judging your site by its characteristics such as font size (etc)?

The reason I'm curious, is that a lot of sites do on the fly adjustments for mobile based on the client signature. Others prefer to use the forward to mobile m.whatever.com approach. I almost have to assume Google is smart enough to take all of this into account and to spider sites via a bot made just for mobile.
Flying needs to jump to version 2.0.
1) a trip across the world should take a couple of hours and not 12-16 hours.
2) safety should improve. Planes should not get lost without a trace and passengers should survive any kind of crash.

To achieve these we need radical change of technology that powers modern aviation, which is basically unchanged from the 70s.
Show HN: WebOutLoud – Reads Websites Out Loud in Chrome
Service animals trained for "emotional stress" are not service animals under the ADA. It's become really popular lately to register your dog as a "therapy dog"/"emotional support dog" or even just claim that it's registered as a therapy dog in order to get it into restaurants, however, this registration legally means nothing, and gives the animal no special rights of entry.

Service dogs must be trained to perform a task (not just alleviate stress with their presence) for a very small list of tasks defined by the ADA. Business owners have a right to refuse entry to "emotional support animals" http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/psychiatric-service-d...
It's more verbose, but if you have had the chance of building SQL queries from raw strings, it's obvious that the first solution composes a lot better (eg, you can add a filter in a nice way).
Hi there (I'm a Kitematic maintainer) - sorry you received an error. Was this from trying the official redis repo, or a different one?
There needs to be more for this story to make sense. ADA compliance is not retroactively required.

Whatever building she was going to passed the ADA requirement at the time of construction. Businesses are loathe to remodel buildings because of ADA compliance [1]. Therefore, the negotiations that your girlfriend was engaging in suggest that these were not negotiations, but trying to accommodate her issues. At which time, your girlfriend can take her business elsewhere or try to work within the parameters of the buildings ADA requirements at the time of construction.

Alternatively, you can file a frivolous lawsuit to try and force a business to fix the issue.

A good defense attorney would bring forward past activism to prove that the plaintiff's background suggests a history of causing issues for businesses. Who knows, this may show that she is one of the disability filers who just does it over [2] and over in what some claim are legalized extortion [3]. The defense is merely trying to show that she may be associated with such groups, seek counsel from these groups, and other items. That being said, do not give those passwords unless they get a subpoena, because they do not need it unless the judge agrees.

All this being said, I do agree with you on the ADA compliance. I walk through stores and bring up with employees that certain areas are not ADA accessible, tight walkways or weird floor movements, I AM LOOKING AT YOU FORMER HOLLISTER LAYOUT. The problem for actual disabled people are the jerks who take advantage of ADA to force compliance issues beyond a reasonable doubt and in the case of the Uber, I understand that people might not want fake service animals in the car tearing up their luxurious leather interior.

[1] http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/jan/19/disability-lawsui...

[2] http://legalnewsline.com/issues/tort-reform/254776-eight-pla...

[3] http://overlawyered.com/2014/04/nbc-affiliate-california-ada...
> If you think of the voting as a way to improve the ordering of the comments on the page and not as a way of doling out punishments and rewards

But we aren't just talking about changing the order of things. Down voted comments get hidden

This is the entire argument - opinions and points of view that go against the "hive mind" are regularly down voted into oblivion until no one can see them.

> the lack of a precise specification makes more sense

Sorry, but no. When moderation and user agree/disagree functionality is mangled like this, nothing makes sense.

> (because you hope a preponderance of users want the comments to appear in an interesting order, not to click and clack to suit their worldview).

That's exactly what happens though.
Why would the wheel rims rotate at twice the speed of the train? If the train advanced along the track 1m, surely the part of the wheel in contact with the track must also have moved 1m?
I'd love to just permanently change my user agent on the iPhone so I don't have to deal with stuff like this.

The iPhone was designed to read full sized sites and I think it works great. I hate mobile sites.
Our site offers form processing that will work with any html form.

The form builder itself is specifically for creating Bootstrap-compatible HTML forms.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/refere...
It's funny, I play on some Minecraft servers where this kind of thing happens all the time. The comments about competing claims and military power are true for the virtual world as well as the physical world.

http://www.reddit.com/r/CivilizatonExperiment/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/
Isn't a tablet a mobile device ?
Apple announces iHat; people begin queuing at stores. Reddit tips its e-fedora, which is actually an e-trilby. Maker community angrily notes that the oldest surviving combination stealth television remote and infrared camera-blinder hat is now nearly 20 years old. Popehat.com reminds everyone that it is actually a law blog. Several geeks go off on their own to make their own rabbit fur felt, only better, because they're going to use Haskell instead of C.

Actual milliners gape in astonishment as a SV startup selling nothing but virtual digital hats is acquired for $350 million.

Then the tech industry catches sight of another shiny object.
Neither Serbia nor Croatia claim the land because they both -- under different interpretations of the underlying agreement -- recognize it as land belonging to the other under an agreement between the two of them.

This also makes it unlikely that either would act as a guarantor of the independence of a new sovereignty that sought to establish itself on the land, or even to recognize such a sovereignty.
It's obviously racist, it's just implicitly racist rather than explicitly so ;)
Darn. I came here just to say that. Oh well, you beat me this time
Why would I restrict myself to Linux if the tooling I prefer is only available on Mac? I guess if my entire workflow was terminal based then Linux would make sense but I'm more productive with Intellij, Kaleidoscope, Tower Git, iTerm, and my iTunes library of music. A vm running centOs and using docker let's me use my favorite tools and still leverage Linux as a deployment environment, how does that not make sense?
How One Hardware Startup Solved Silicon Valley’s “Woman Problem”
I agree with you.

I think it has to do with a kind of counter-purpose development where the people who create the devices are trying to create a good experience on websites and the designers of websites keep moving the goalposts.

Perhaps it's time that web designers are subject (or subject themselves) to a similar set of human interface guidelines that app developers are subject to, for instance.
Collection of satelite images from planet Earth
You know that developer who wants to refractor the entire code base, upgrade to a new database, and otherwise move the entire code base to this side of 2010 even though the savings don't have a chance of nearing the costs.

I'm envisioning that same type of person working as a lawyer instead.
There is not a single complain about the quality of the nginx and its place as a "core service", on the contrary, it is a rare example of careful craftsmanship (Igor's code), a gold standard, if you wish.)

What I am trying to suggest is the simple idea that as long as the code become closed it cease to grow and become stagnant, but while it is open to everyone, like Linux kernel, and just grows and grows, it is not possible to monetize it, and the one possible working model is to develop new features sponsored by someone, like it is the case for the Linux kernel, or to sell your own services with open code, like so many do.

It seems like the model acquire, close and sell does not work with open source projects, because when it does not grow it dies (stagnates), just according to the laws of big numbers. Or rather it changes its status to being a commercial product, which is completely different story (paid developers, support, QA, etc) to which very few people would contribute - no one wants to grow other people's wealth.
I think that before they start to launch home made missiles they should check if Paraduin is not just some Dutch artists making a communication joke.
There's a been a lot of geddons recently.