jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Applying it to Javascript, think of bound functions (ones which are methods on instantiated objects) implicitly having a 'let this = instance' statement prepended to their bodies.

Except that Javascript under normal circumstances doesn't have bound functions. A method (a function property on some object) is unbound unless you go out of your way to bind it. So it only conceptually has that "let this = ..." prepended to it within the duration of an invocation that's using property access to get the function.

In other words, JS doesn't include "this" in a function's closure, which is where a lot of the confusion comes from.
I also found JavaScript Garden (posted on HN a few weeks ago) incredibly useful in un-confusing my understanding of JS.

http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/
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agreed, I think lack of trust (or alternatively the desire for the illusion of control) is a huge barrier for a lot of managers and organizations
>I wish, instead of picking on whichever startup suddenly succeeds, we picked on the industry as a whole.

The industry is made of individuals, and complaining about the practices of an industry has to be done in broader strokes than the complaints against dropbox were. Dropbox gave the complaining parties specific holes to point to when someone tried to dismiss the significance of the claims.

Even if there were specifics shared across all cloud providers, it is unfortunately the case that such a broad attack would not draw the attention of the offender or offended as well. Thats not the best route to take when you're trying to raise awareness of the issues.
Facebook HQ moves to a different building: the third most interesting or important thing happening in the world right now.
I am by no means religious, but there are things to be learned from posts like this and experiences like his.
And if you have a family you might get by owning a single car instead of two. I used to live within walking distance of work and we had one car for two years. That's a huge savings.
It's only confusing if you think this lawsuit is meant to be won on merits and not to primarily annoy a competitor into not competing.

It's placing pressure on Samsung to "toe the line" and "deliver our components, not your own products".
This sounds like a promising idea that executed well can be very successful. I wish them great success.

Now that I got that out of the way, I hope I never go to a restaurant that has this. Let me explain why...

Reread the first paragraph. If you don't feel like back-clicking, here's the gist of it:

... the restaurant song-and-dance routine ... wait ... wait ... wait ... wait ... “Check, please?” ... hand gesture ... furrow our brows ... mental math ... and, finally, get up to leave ... Whew.

Guess how many times I go to a restaurant with this kind of experience? Once. I won't go back.

In other words, the restaurants that can most benefit from this kind of service are exactly the ones I don't want to eat at...

We both work hard and eat most meals at home. So when we go out, we want to be pampered. In fact, we insist on it. And I make it clear to my server every time we sit down with something like, "We've had a tough day and came here to relax with great food and service. OK?" In decent restaurants, most good servers see that as a challange and rise to the occasion.

I don't want to ever wait for anything. I want a drink as soon as I sit down. I want to discuss the menu with someone knowledgable. I want time to eat my salad without the main course coming too soon. I want my food to be delivered by my server, not some runner I've never seen before. I don't want to be interrupted mid-sentence. I want my server to be aware of my needs without being in my face. If a restaurant does this, we will return over and over and tip much more than the standard 20%. If they don't, we'd rather just eat at home.

I understand that the great masses of people don't feel this way and that's why E la Carte has so much potential.

But as for me, I've been looking at a screen all day long, so the last thing I want to do is order by terminal at Applebee's. I rather pay $100 for one nice dinner per week than $25 for 4 lousy ones.
> What's the point of do this? Can make the developing process slower?

It's not a public API and both server and client (their javascript library) are written by the same company. The data isn't meant to be consused by anybody else. And their terms of service probably doesn't allow it.

The public API is https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/streetview/...
Hopefully they are not IPO'ing because of a negative long-term outlook ...

... among those I know, trust in Yelp has fallen a fair bit. Writing fake reviews seems to have become a standard business practice. And whereas in the past Yelp seemed to do a great job of identifying the best spots, now it seems to be happy if the top-ranked businesses are "good enough". I worry that the need to meet quarterly targets will only make Yelp worse.
"Then where are all the $200-$400 tablets that should be killing Apple like in your reference previously: A brief look back at the history of the PC clearly shows this."

My reference to the history of the PC was to point out that even when Apple had only 4% or 5% of the PC market, and was all but irrelevant, they still did not choose to compete on price.

I never said anything about "$200-$400 tablets that should be killing Apple", but since you bring it up, I would be surprised if they don't come eventually. And when they do, you won't see Apple matching those prices, let alone beating them.

"Also yes, AT&T or whoever the carrier is subsidizes the price, I thought this was obvious and didn't need clarifying."

If you know this, then why do you bring it up as an example of how Apple has dropped their prices?
There were sixty million[0] PSN accounts. This is impressive, and amounts to (judging by a quick search) the largest-scale ID (and possibly credit-card) theft ever [Not so, see child comment]. Not even factoring in credit card details, the usernames, emails, addresses, ages, passwords, mother's maiden names, favourite pets, of sixty million people is worth a hell of a lot.

I have to wonder how much data that is, in terms of storage. How could you even take that without someone noticing?

Hats off to whoever it was. Now, I'm off to change my passwords. Thank Christ I had the sense not to use a credit card to buy from PSN.

[0] http://www.derangedshaman.com/2011/01/06/sonys-60-million-ps...

[edit] On a related note, paypal refuses to let my change my password to something longer than 20 characters - or have spaces in my password. Why is this the case? Surely the only thing that an upper limit on the length of a password does is help the attacker.
I don't think there has been any indication that this a payback operation. It could just as well have been for financial gain.

Sony did piss off a lot of hackers, though, so maybe they had it coming...
Time to get a new identity! =)

That's what I was thinking: in most cases of user accounts being compromised, the solution is "change your passwords on this and other sites". Here you need to change your birthday, cancel your credit card, move out, change your name… kind of a hassle.
They're down about 10% relative to the rest of the market since the PSN outage, and pretty significantly in after hours trading (stock market closed about 25 minutes ago, news broke a few minutes ago).
It really looks like the PSN architecture assumed that the clients were trustworthy. If so, that's an epic Security 101 fail.
Quoting Anonymous on their involvement is a moot point. The lack of hierarchy and completely radical differing opinions of members within the "group" allows for confusion and varying ideologies. Since a press release, in the mindset of Anon, is released by an individual or a group of individuals, they may not be aware that a separate member did perform the hack. In the end no one really knows until someone pretty much steps forward.
I hear this all the time... But I don't think I have heard any actually good arguments... Why is a smaller population a good thing?
I always thought this was a good idea for a company. Almost all of the electricity providers in Texas all buy energy at wholesale prices and lock customers into long term contracts. If you were an electricity provider, what would be the best plan that you would want for yourself and your friends? My answer to that would be to have access to buy energy at the cheap wholesale prices for a flat monthly fee. This seems to be the griddy model and I almost switched to them.

It's a good thing that I didn't because griddy customers are the ones that got multi-thousand dollar electricity bills after the recent Texas disaster.
>The problem here as I understand it is that ERCOT stepped in and artificially set an absurdly high wholesale price

Incorrect. ERCOT set a price ceiling, not a price. The wholesale price without the ERCOT price ceiling would have been far, far higher than $9000 kwh. That ERCOT is at blame for the price ceiling is absurd.

* ERCOT is to blame for a lot of other things though.
Or people who knowingly, and flexibly, use a large amount of power.
Sectors are 512bytes or 4096bytes and there are base-2 prefixes. Using base 10 in a base 2 world is consumer fraud and they only do it because they can deliver less.
The only way other electric companies would be able to eat the difference between retail and wholesale rates would be to overcharge for years, hoard cash, and then pay out that buffer during this crisis. Presumably, this is what they did.

Doesn't actually seem better for consumers?
I assume you're being sarcastic, but if not, that "insurance product" is "use a fixed-rate pricing provider", like pretty much everyone in the state.
The funny thing is that IRC is the last system which needs replacement. It's frustrating to see FOSS projects force-switch support communities to from IRC to Matrix, because IRC works great and has a lot of existing software, while Matrix requires a new, heavy client with tons of usability issues and few alternatives. (If you don't think there are usability issues, I challenge you go through the entire installation, registration, and connection process without using your pointing device, keyboard only.)

For example, one browser's devs have decided to stop using IRC for support. That's OK, people can still hang out on IRC if they want to, right? Nope, they closed #browsername using the ban-on-join method, and if you don't know to look for ##browsername, the unofficial support channel, you're left with having to install yet another software package just to reach the official support channel?
No script blocks all scripts though so it's a tad bit extreme. They had bigger fish to fry but they finally got around to this. I'm happy they're doing it and I'm not going to complain about water under the bridge.
NoScript evolved over time.

It's not like you downloaded a Mozilla's executable one day and expected to see a Flaming Canine instead of a web browser.
> Software such as Aperture is an amateur version of Photoshop.

And it's Apple that "doesn't get designers"?

Aperture is a photography workflow app, it's not an image editor. If you want to compare it to something, compare it to Adobe's own Lightroom, to Capture One, et al.
A better solution isn't to just block all unwanted messages... a better solution would attempt to unsubscribe, and only if that doesn't work, block the sender.
Because a typical Java developer was raised to believe that only J2EE programming is real software engineering.
They are by no means bad, but what features do they have that justify the multiples in productivity that the article claims? (Genuine question - I'd be happy to be proven wrong!)
Thanks for those links. I think he acted quite appropriately in both situations. He gave the CNN interviewer repeated warning and clearly did not want to walk, but felt obliged after she persisted, for the fourth or fifth time, in asking the same question.

The ABC interviewer received no such warning, but one can hardly blame that; when an interviewer starts leading into prurient detail about alleged rape like "allegation that you forcibly spread her legs", Assange's reaction of an immediate walk is appropriate, even if the interviewer is oblivious to the impropriety of the question.
There are people in the USA who push for English as a national language, not the removal of loan words.
At the risk of sounding trolly -- I hope the next big thing, US origin or not, will be able to handle more traffic than whatever this is.
> In Northern Ireland (where as far as I'm aware the gun law is the same)

It isn't, a lot more people in NI own firearms.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/cmap-9-e... (and the rest of his 'Common misconceptions about publishing'[1] series) covers this idea in quite some detail, and ultimately concludes that the majority of the cost is in the pre-production processes, not the physical book printing.

Exactly how ebook pricing relates to any form of sanity is something of another matter. IIRC Amazon, Apple, etc all take something like 30%+ of the sale price, and the retail book industry (after allowing for unsold returns and all the weird accounting jiggery-pokery) operates on quite thin margins.

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m...
From my personal experience, if I'm not on Windows I use PyCharm for my IDE, but when I am, and I have VS installed, Python Tools for Visual Studio is really what I consider, Microsoft's hidden secret for VS. It really is a powerful tool, it would not surprise me if NTVS is right up in the same level of quality. Really great tools. Otherwise I try to go for JetBrains.
What is worse is that all Internet banking and debit card transactions online(in India at least) depends on SMS for OTP as mandated by RBI guidelines. I have had OTP messages arrive 6 hours late while trying (and failing) to initiate banking transactions (which have a timeout period of 1 - 2 minutes).
For reference, I own a 13" MBA and the build quality is exceptional. It is quite simply the best computing product I have ever owned.

Lots of gents around our office have Dells, and they tend to be built like brick shithouses, so to speak.
Hmmm... That's like people who know Photoshop call themselves designer. (just an example). Finding good colourful natural pictures is one thing and knowing how to use them is another.

That 'ugly' website is not just ugly because of colours. They are just a part of it.

But anywways, you can have the best colour-scheme in the world and if you don't know how to implement it it's useless. Some colour schemes just don't work on web, some just don't work in print. You got to be wise to know how to use one.

Tip: You can use Adobe's Kuler to pick shades & combinations for you: http://kuler.adobe.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Shereshevskii
It's a fascinating philosophical dichotomy. I'm quite sure the closest thing we'll get to objective truth varies widely between instances.

On the one hand, you are right, no success happens in a vacuum, and a lot of wealth is acquired directly through a good ol' boys network.

On the other hand, most successful entrepreneurs probably deserve credit for building a company no matter how many people help them. Aside from being well-compensated in many cases, it's a tenuous argument that the employees of a successful startup would be creating the same amount of value without the inspired leadership and focus created by the entrepreneur.

I don't think the statement: "all we've done is shift nobility from something granted by God to something granted by monetary wealth," is fair. Clearly society distinguishes between inherited and self-made wealth. The question of who deserves what is subtle, and I'm hard pressed to come down on one side or the other.
"something that can automatically send payments on your behalf, check that they were received, and suggest when to send extra payments"

Yes. Why not make money? So long as the revenue doesn't come from the debtor, who gives? Sure they have debt, but I mean... I still have plenty of money, a job, etc.

It's not like we're talking about making money from homeless and staving babies.
'The Social Network' had realistic dose of hacking. Loved the part when the lead actor pulls out emacs and uses perl script to scrape the data.
No it doesn't. It will solve the, look I have loans, issue. I have some of them in Mint, but the problem is that they keep being bought out! Not that I can't read... they move around, change owners, and I dunno who to send money.
Not for me. I bought an awesome spec'ed Toshiba laptop early in 2010 and tweaked the Windows and Ubuntu installations. All was good until I discovered that I just missed the keyboard and trackpad arrangements on MacBooks. In the last few months I have bought a MacBook Pro and the tiny 11" MacBook Air.

The tiny MBA is awesome to use and as needed I plug into a large monitor. I still occasionally use the MB Pro when I need a heavy weight Java IDE, large local data stores, etc., but for most of what I do for work (Ruby, Clojure, Common Lisp, and writing with Latex) the Air is fully capable and a great experience. I use the Air about 80% of the time, the Pro about 15% of the time, and the Toshiba about 5% of the time.
If it’s personal stuff, why do you need an upstream?

Assuming it’s for redundancy, why not just copy the folders as part of a normal backup?
BBC does show adverts to non-UK viewers online, though. And while I love that there are no adbreaks on BBC TV, I'd have no problem seeing adverts on the website. (I also fully support the license fee, would never want to see that replaced by advert revenue, just supplemented.) The difference is that adverts on TV actually stop you seeing what you want to see, online they don't.

What kind of examples are you thinking of where advertisers can conflict with the interests of Wikipedia? For one thing, if they had an actual sales team rather than just getting adverts from Google then they could filter them out. For another, surely most users can understand that showing an advert doesn't mean the service supports whoever is behind it. People don't want X Factor and think "wow, Simon Cowell must really love Dominos pizza" (is that their main advertiser? Can't remember.)
It was a serious question: I noticed that you're traceable via your business which you link to _grrr so I assume that you consider HN to be a business use rather than "personal" life.

So, I was wondering what it is you're trying to achieve by not being on Facebook, say. Is it that Facebook can access your data or are you worried that they won't honour your privacy settings, or?
I'm glad to see the longer/shorter resume results are consistent with the first piece of advise given by Manager Tools on resumes: "one page". http://www.manager-tools.com/2005/10/your-resume-stinks

I've followed this advice and found that most recruiters and employers love a one-page resume. A few hate it, but that's fine by me: I'd take love/hate over indifference any day.
I went through them all and posted earlier. Maybe you had less patience because you were getting upset ablutions the wordy slides?
.. and notice that at least one of the contacts there is made up.
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Then perhaps a better response to the Oxfam report would be to at least attempt a more realistic measurement of wealth and present something similar with that addition/adjustment.
They need folks across a tall vertical in order to scale to the number of people that they have so quickly: hardware, software, logistics, brick and mortar stores, marketing, tons of content, etc. Easy to see how they can quickly balloon as demand outpaced their supply during covid.
"1) What are the advantages of getting separate feeds from BATS/EDGEX etc. instead of using the consolidated then? ... But how can you get a competitive advantage if RegNMS forces exchanges to execute you at NBBO anyways."

The low latency guys send ISO orders, which means that they are indicating that they have sent orders to hit any available protected quotes and the exchange can execute the order regardless of its view of the NBBO.

"2) Another question I have is, let's say I send a DMA marketable limit order to BATS specifically to get the liquidity rebate fees and because there's a price improvement for that marketable order; BATS is obligated to re-direct my order to ARCA, do I still get to collect the rebate fee structure from BATS or is that order technically under the fee structure of ARCA."

You're mixing up a lot of terms here. If you send a marketable order (limit or otherwise), you're removing liquidity, which on most exchanges means you'll pay a liquidity removal fee. If you send a non-marketable limit order, you're adding liquidity and at most exchanges you'll collect a rebate if your order fills.
I've found D3 to be tremendously powerful for some types of visualization. For more-traditional types of plots, I usually use Flot instead. http://www.flotcharts.org/
Never too young! Most editors look flashy next to Vim, but switching to a terminal-based editor towards the beginning of my development learning helped my learning gains immensely. Give it a try, you'd be surprised!
The question is not why he was "picked" to be investigated. The question is why he was kept so long even after it was determined that he did not, in fact, have explosives, and why he was questioned at such length and aggressiveness. The opinions of the people interrogating him are precisely what determine that, as explained by the actual person interrogating him. It really couldn't be any more straightforward.
People die every day in car accidents too. Safety is mostly an illusion. (I'll admit that not having children probably makes my sanguine attitude easier.)

I don't care what the percentage is. The right to snoop arbitrarily is too much power, and if we accept it will be abused, it will get worse, and it will be very hard to undo. Safety is not worth the permanent eradication of human dignity and liberty. I'd rather die than live like a chickenshit.
Any discussions with Mozilla? It would be great to get TextSecure as Firefox OS's default text message app. Also RedPhone should be the default phone app.
I am not qualified to understand the chemistry, but I got the idea from somewhere that the ionization of the atmosphere filled near earth space a highly corrosive environment because a large number of liberated hydrogen atoms were present. Gold is inert and therefore not subject to the corrosion that would otherwise take place, and also would not catalyse other material.
I really love how this article was written. I am unfamiliar with the author and I went in expecting something short but cool about how weird it is to layer paint on a canvas to assemble a perpetual light field that other humans can look at but the hard left turn that is really just straight down the road into programming and math. Even the presentation of the blog and how the story is chunked out. This is really exemplary and beautiful stuff and inspires me to put my ideas together in ways that can deliver similar relevance, ideas, and charm for the reader.

The walk from the prayer beads to the mirror honestly blew my mind in a way I wasn't expecting and I've looked at that painting before. In just a few words he handed me the keys to a type of active viewing that has been difficult for me.
Electric bicycles are a thing now, as are strong brakes.
People mostly do this for lower latency.