jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I assure you that I am not trolling. I know that this is a fairly simple question. Maybe it has a simple answer! Please would you be kind enough to tell me the name of the Flash command that does this, so I can go look it up?
Thanks
Duncan
Does anyone else want a built-in JS beautifier?
The linked article explictly states that the consumption of whale meat was a post WWII thing.

Also, "Tradition" is the worst reason to carry on a pointless activity with mainly negative consequences.

As for 'Roos, they're hardly endangered. There's so many of them they're almost a pest.
so it's not possible for one complex system to act in two different, perhaps even contradictory ways, depending on context? I don't think anyone is making the claim that both the original claim and the opposite are true absolutely all the time and at the same time, but rather with the implicit suggestion that the brain, being a highly context sensitive organ, adjusts its modality relative to external input and at least attempts to use a relevant method when necessary, not just use both simultaneously all the time
Don't forget what happened to Walnut when it priced its moving services for fairness and equity: https://medium.com/@nickbkim/why-were-closing-walnut-a452225...

Everyone wants fairness and equity until the time comes for each to pay for it.

I'm saying this in a disappointed tone as I really would like platform cooperatives to work but they're going to fail to compete in a relatively open market of a capitalist society. Also, everyone working in IT for these platforms becomes the exploited. It's inverted exploitation. Programmer: you're being paid less than what you'd make in a free market. If you're not getting your flat cleaned twice a week as a member of this cooperative, you're doing it wrong. You, my friend, are being taken to the proverbial cleaners.
While it could have been stated more delicately, there is, in my experience, truth in the statement as I have found that enjoyment and success (for whatever subjective definition of the word in this context) in dating has largely been dependent on my own attitude at the time, and less with the way I met the other person.
Even if it required you to pass a Google interview (exaggerating), malicious actors will find a way to mislead 13yo kids through some youtube video or something.
> This story keeps getting better.

Haha, well I guess we will have to have a sort of writers room section of HN as it seems we have quite a few scribblers to make it come alive.

I'm re-watching hackers and following the storyline I wrote back then. I used to roller-blade like every 90s kids and I forgot how cool it must of have looked back then as I tried to force it into the plot so many times with soliloquy about 'strapping in and suiting up.' Kind of reminded me of Stephenson's writing in Snowcrash about YT getting on her board actually, which was intentionally cheesey for the genre.
They should've just declared an autonomous zone and solidarity w/BLM, the media would've loved them.
The truth matters. It isn't that their concerns were railroaded or not heard. There were dozens of court cases, the justice department and state authorities investigated. When that turns up nothing, you can't just keep entertaining debunked notions that our democratic system is rigged.
Even Bill Barr, Trumps former AG, said Trump incited a mob.

>“Orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable. The president’s conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office and supporters.”

https://twitter.com/GingerGibson/status/1347213610406313986?...
Not just that, people who should've known better kept on using photos of kids in cages that were literally taken under the Obama administration to insist that Trump was uniquely evil, including members of Congress and mainstream publications, even months (maybe years?) after the fact they were from the Obama era was firmly established. Not just that either. For example, the fricking Associated Press ran an investigative piece about immigrant kids being handed over to forced labour traffickers that was 100% open about the fact its purpose was to attack Trump's immigration policies, even though if you looked at the dates every incident it described happened under Obama. That didn't stop everyone on social media interpreting it in the intended fashion.
The argument is not whether or not the theater owner can kick you out. The argument is whether the government can also criminalize the behavior.
Vim is a bathroom cleaning product to most people in my area.
The title meta tag said “alternative to ansible” and I thought, “why in the world?!?”. Must have been a typo.
I don't know, I think those are exactly the people he's going after with the brutalist look, high tow ratings, nearly 2 ton payload, hardened steel exterior, so on & so forth. He didn't talk about how it was bullet resistant to appease the Model S crowd.
I am aware of the principle. But why would the TOTP seed be encrypted by multiple parties versus a system requiring k of n users to respond with a TOTP response or something else?
Sounds like they’ll learn a valuable lesson about not relying on services they aren’t paying to keep alive.
>Working pickups in the wild are subject to lots of sharp impacts that regular cars do not normally get.

realistically this vehicle has very few of the traits needed in a work pickup.

Expensive and remote repair, lots of gadgets to break, difficult to remotely fuel, very likely costly compared to the cheapest alternatives.

It's like an anti-Jeep.

This seems to me to be like an electric Honda Ridgeline; a truck made for grocery-getting, mall-hopping, and very light offroad duty.

Also : there are glass formulations that are better suited for tear and puncture resistance than bulletproofed materials. There are trade offs when those materials don't need to deal with the same kinetic energy as a bullet, but i'm not educated enough on the subject to say much more.
I don't know about other people, but I have zero personal info with LinkedIn and Facebook.

They only info they have about me is info I don't mind being public. If I want something to be private I don't tell it to them. It's as simple as that.

Google on the other hand, knows lots of private things.
> Now ask the users, and the number one complaint I hear most often is "why is this thing so damned slow?"

Good point. My viewpoint is rather focused on numerical linear algebra, since I worked there and the article is about it. If you skim through the paper mentioned, in the article you can e.g. compare numpy and armadillo. You will see that the speedups from using a (arguably) much more complex C++ framework instead of numpy are marginal and will not be visible for the user. The increased production/maintenance costs due to a more complex code, will be visible for the user.
I've never used Cloud Print, but I have used Reader and Hangouts that were shut down. The perception that Google has no commitment to their products is very strong and transfers to other areas. I'd rather use AWS or Azure than GCP, because I don't trust Google to continue their services offerings or API contracts.
My solution would be similar, but the user can use a drop down/settings menu to change algorithms rather than install a different algorithm from github.
My usual workflow is to frequently merge master into my feature branch during development, then I squash before merging back to master. As far as I can tell, this gives a clean history so shouldn’t bother the rebase fans (who prioritize a simple commit graph), and shouldn’t bother bisect fans (who get confused by fake historical commits). Is there something bad about this approach?
As a man, yes, yes that would indeed make me uncomfortable.
Note: This is the same Andy Weir who wrote the short story "The Egg" [1] which is often posted to Hacker News [2,3].

[1] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1489497 (1331 days ago)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203095 (17 days ago)
Look at the actual files for copyright (or copyleft, if you will):
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lightning.git/tree/lib/ligh...

Looks like the libraryis lgpl,I couldn't find licensefor the docs themselves (I assume they use document license (COPYING.DOC)).

There seemsto be at least one example program that is gpl:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lightning.git/tree/doc/body...
Certainly free software existed before GNU. Most software was free software for years. Project GNU was started in an effort to proactively continue the tradition of free software in a computing world that was increasingly proprietary.
Posting news on your own, professional blog is "spam" now?
I can't be the only one that immediately thought you were talking about terminators. This is really cool regardless.
Space exploration has a well-documented track record of advancing technologies for us back on earth, and for a fraction of what some of our domestic projects cost.
And the current scrolling is really laggy. Love the product otherwise.
I so agree! I have been annoyed at Firefox's resource hunger for a couple of years, now, and I have been aware of ABP being a major factor in that, too, but all in all, I think it is still worth it.

It is a sad reflection on the state of advertisement, but lacking any viable alternatives, using an adblocker (and NoScript) is pretty much non-negotiable to me. I am always apalled when I have to use a browser without an ad blocker installed.

It is not that I mind the ads in general, but too often, they are seriously distracting, and advertisers seem happy to go totally overboard. Imagine walking down the street and looking at blinking, flashing billboards. Imagine turning on your car and being greeted by an ad before the engine actually gets going. If ads outside the Internet were as annoying as they are online, we probably would have riots. (And that is ignoring the malware.)
NoScript does a lot more than just blocking JavaScript. You can allow all JS by default but continue to use its other tools.
Most of the criticisms of brand-new OS updates being "slow and bloated" are from extremely impatient users (or professional clickbait critics) who don't even have the good sense to wait a few hours or a day or two for the processes that can make major upgrades a bit sluggish on ALL devices to complete, such as rebuilding databases, the fact that OS updates often result in dozens or even hundreds of app updates that have to download and install and in some cases update their own databases, etc.

Certainly, they do not wait for the first x.0.1 release, or for the release that usually closely follows the initial release and which is specifically intended to optimize performance on the oldest devices that can still support the latest OS. This was seen for iOS 7 and once again for iOS 8.

I don't think it's a valid comment, or a comment made in good faith, to say that iOS updates are a "bait and switch". That's just silliness and flies in the face of all the facts. The facts say, very loudly, that Apple supports its older devices MUCH better and for much longer than any competitor. It's not even close.

Now, if you are unable to acknowledge reality, and expect that a brand-new OS, designed to take advantage of devices that are about 10x as fast as three-year-old or four-year-old devices, isn't going to be quite as snappy on older devices, then in my opinion, that is on you as a user. Blaming Apple for trying to give more features to users on new hardware is ludicrous. Apple expends considerable engineering effort keeping those devices working as well as possible. The iPhone has been out for seven years. There's now more than enough history out there for users to know that if you install major iOS updates, you cannot easily downgrade. (It's not impossible, it's just a huge pain.)
Hey, I'm interested in what you mean by "reprogramming" your life. I'm kinda of in a similar boat and looking for advice etc...
what was nature of the harassment that they were getting that warranted such a strong response?
Would such a person practice real science, or just apply the first test that cones to mind, and ignore all of the confounding factors?
Thanks. The site looks very interesting.

But where do you buy your chips from shenzen ? And how do you manage reliability and long term availability ?
I disagree with her conclusion that "we should not conclude that they were experiencing some kind of early sexual emancipation". Why shouldn't we? Younger girls were enjoying sex out of wedlock precisely because they could. Why would they have sex and risk raising a child unless it was pleasurable?
Posted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8556253
> See my response here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8840676), it quotes the creator of DMCA himself who clearly states that he intended to bypass the democratic process.

How he describes his intent is irrelevant. The fact is that the law was passed through the House, Senate, and Presidents signature in exactly the manner laid out in the Constitution, not "by WTO treaty". And, while some of the law implemented things previously agreed to in WIPO and other treaties, the particular provision at issue -- Section 1201 -- did not.

It might be undemocratic and/or corrupt, but if so the undemocratic/corrupt mechanism by which Section 1201 was passed is the normal US legislative process.

> It should ignore it in theory

It does in practice, when it is something that Congress doesn't want to do anyway -- this happens quite a lot on non-trade issues.

> but in practice it doesn't have the guts and gives the power away to USTR and the like.

More likely, on trade issues Congress takes advantage of treaties to provide for political cover for things Congress would like to do but where there might be greater political costs without that cover.
As I understand it, there was already a language barrier in Yiddish vs. Judeo-Arabic.
I have one, and I love it. It's loud, feels great and the dipswitch settings on it make me not have to worry about any software to make it work exactly as I like.

The backlighting on it is also perfect.

I don't DVORAK, but the included keypuller makes it simple to swap keys around if you are so inclined.

Buy one.
I dunno, fame can be useful. Just imagine all the groupies that came after the publication of The Geek Atlas.
I don't think Google will do very well with offers, but not because of any problem on their part. It's an insanely competitive business and if you're not at your best, you won't win. Something tells me that the very best people at Google are working on search, adwords, and adsense, and the very best people at Facebook are working on social networks, because that's their core business.
>"we have spent all we can"

So is it a financial constraint with Amazon? Would you be suffering the same sorts of outages regardless of the technology on the backend or does AWS basically suck?
Yes, but... (int)Math.random() always returns zero. A little suspicious.
Sit in it and give it a shot. We did this a few jobs ago when we convinced management to buy good chairs for tech. We were surprised to find nobody in the office actually liked the Aerons. Personally, I found I wasn't a fan of the mesh back, but YMMV.

We tried a few different chairs at the same shop and we all ended up almost simultaneously agreeing on preferring the HumanScale Freedom (http://humanscale.com/products/product_detail.cfm?group=Free...). I liked the chair so much I ended up negotiating to buy it from the company when I left (as they downsized all of tech into oblivion) and I still use it every day, ~3 years hence.

The biggest lesson here isn't me saying "I prefer HumanScale" but that it is REALLY important to try chairs before you buy them. They're one of the most important tools for a developer, followed by not using a cheapo keyboard ;)
I agree that its a good idea to test raw js performance, particularly for browser developers, however its extremely disingenuous to represent it as a typical workload of a javascript browser application when its pretty much the opposite
I agree that they could have a strategic bidding advantage by looking at the details of other advertisers' campaigns. I disagree with #2. If Google puts their ad above groupon's ad, and they get the click instead of groupon, then they forego the revenue. If they out bid for display ads, then they also forego the revenue.
Yeah....I'd rather be a billionaire.
Why has this suddenly come to people's attention? I've seen it now in several places, all within hours of each other.

And this is a repeat of the itme that's still on the Front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2469685
If you think you can do better than the standard deductions, you’re more than welcome to itemize — just like today. Pretending that the current system is as good as it can get the for the vast majority of individuals is disingenuous. Just look at every other country that sends out prefilled forms.
Is cocoa bad for you? It’s the milk and the sugar that are unhealthy, as far as I know.
In theory they can be regular users computers - but unless you have the only PC connected to some small outpost on the internet it's unlikely that it would be you.

Generally it's either a skype or ISP owned machine
If you don't buy, you have to rent.
They can't have the staff working on the sidewalks of 9th Ave., or on the Highline.
I read this as "Startups Lack Hot Female Employees" and was expecting an Onion-style article.

I'm only sort of glad that it isn't. The Onion article would at least have been funny.
At some point, "accommodating women" turns into "telling women what they want". If they aren't even applying, isn't this at the very least perilously close to the latter? Regardless of what you are going for, you have to at least show up.

Consider what is really being asked for here; startups are now "supposed" to go seek women out who aren't even indicating they are searching for a job and hire them? That's not a sensible demand; translated into real action that borders on harassment.
Google Translate does a pretty awesome job too, fwiw.
We use valid JSON in our documentation.

Personally, I don't have a problem using invalid JSON in some places. For example, our templates.

It saves keystrokes and will never cause problems since we're not evaluating those as Javascript anyway. I do understand that reasonable people would disagree with this position however.

edit:

It isn't clear here that I am not talking about our API or JSON really for that matter.

The API requires valid JSON.

But just as jQuery translates an object literal in it's AJAX call, our JS library (not API!) translates object literals to valid JSON before sending it to the API. Object literals are not JSON.

For clarity we've edited the original post.
I tend to just buy a copy (that I keep unopened usually) and download a copy from torrents if it´s DRM´d. That makes it much simpler for me, but I still know I didn´t just steal it.
I wonder how much of this is because of the company and how much is because of the company's stage in its lifecycle.

Google today is known as a pretty female-friendly employer, at least among tech companies. The gender balance in the cafes seems about 60/40 male, and engineering is about 10% female (which sounds terrible but is actually better than many undergrad CS departments). Several top executives are women.

But Google's first female hire was Marissa, who was something like employee #20. Which means that when Google was the size of FourSquare or Tumblr or Kickstarter, it was even more male-dominated than they are.

It could just be that women have no desire to pad their egos by working at a successful startup. If you don't care about the cash and cachet of that, there's no reason to put yourself through the risk and uncertainty of it.
If "Big ISP's" really wanted to do what this presentation suspects them of wanting to do, they could have done it already.

There are much better arguments for net neutrality than this one.
I'm glad to see the Rolling Stone debacle at the top of this list...to me, it's one of the appalling examples of journalistic dysfunction that I can recall off-hand. Yes, I know that the media's overall screwup up of the Iraq War was "worse" in many regards...but on the other hand, it was a much more diffuse and broad situation...not only the scope of the topic, but the coverage (within the same publication, different articles had different levels of critique).

The RS article, in contrast, involved a pretty simple reporting obstacle: did the main character accurately describe events? Even if she wouldn't allow herself to be identified, nor (inexplicably) identify her attackers, there were many ways to circumstantially confirm her story...and RS did none of them. It's come out that the RS reporter may have lied about even contacting "Jackie's" friends.

One reporter's lies and incompetence is bad enough...but the fact that her work just passed through RS's reportedly legendary fact-checking process, its editors, and its lawyers...is just devastating. The best thing that could come out of this is that Rolling Stone as a journalistic institution falls on its sword and cleans house. At any of the other news outlets I've worked for, even my college paper, I can't imagine being able to publish a story like this doing as little verification as the RS reporter did.

One of the worst collateral damages from this (aside from the obvious harm to rape victims who now have even more reason to fear publicity) is seeing how easy it is to co-opt the journalistic institution. Few people questioned the RS reporter's ethics because Hey, she's written several well-regarded stories about rape for Rolling Stone...there's no way she'd have the standards of an intern for this story, right? Even worse were the people (including the reporter herself) who said: "Well, the gang rape victim wasn't the story, the story was how U.Va ignored it"...Um yeah, how exactly does U.Va ignore an egregious incident that we don't know if the victim actually reported it to U.Va?

For my part, when I first read the story, I immediately tweeted/shared it as one of the most compelling stories I read all year. I didn't even think to notice the unsaid implication that the reporter never located the accused, nor talked to anyone besides the victim herself...that was my professional bias (i.e. Of course the reporter talked to them and got no comment...that's what every reporter is supposed to at least do). But my bias about college fraternities and the problems of rape reporting, and my previous respect for Rolling Stone as a news source, made me accept with little hesitation a story that, in retrospect, was too awful (and perfect in its details) to be true.

So the RS U.Va story may not have been the worst journalistic fuckup when it comes to consequences...but it's definitely was the worst in terms of showing the flaws in the reporting process, and in how poorly we are able to evaluate the truth behind a story.
Try installing imagemagick on a not-too-fast computer - it'll take hours.
I think the wordplay in category theory can be taken too far, sometimes, so that it almost starts to seem to other mathematicians like a private language. Peter Freyd’s coinage “lluf”, for example (which is “full” backwards). But I like Paul Taylor’s notion of “prone” and “supine” morphisms: so much more vivid than Cartesian and co-Cartesian.

(If you say epic then you are morally obliged to say monic; but you can’t very well say “isic” for the isos, so you’ve painted yourself into an inconsistent corner. I’m not sure it’s worth it.)
Maybe because of Google Maps on iDevices. Very hard to replace, as there are only 3 companies, including Google, who own somewhat global routing maps.
Fortunately, all those patents are now expired. And more practically, those Braun products are no longer on the market, so Apple can't steal their market share.
Sigh My point was that calling their growth exponential based on three points is silly, because with only three points you can fit a wide variety of curves.
NYC "journalist" Dylan Byers Is a Prick