jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Docs and Sheets are basically fully accessible. in fact Sheets is the best spreadsheet program I've used.

This is off topic, and I don't want to distract from the current conversation, but speaking of sheets -- as a web developer, I often build SVG charts with d3, and I've been racking my brain lately trying to figure out how to make them more accessible to blind users beyond just linking to tables of data.

If you're using Sheets, are you also regularly consuming charts as well? Is there a common auditory shorthand for representing something like a pie chart?
IANAL but it's unclear to me why that would be illegal. See Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland Int'l, Inc. [ADDED: Basically said it was OK for Borland to sell a spreadsheet with the same look and feel as Lotus 1-2-3.] What probably is true is that the work-alike would likely not be certified to be used on exams unless some company spent the money to do so and then they're not really incentivized to sell the calculator for cheap.

The whole situation seems very path dependent. There's probably no particularly good reason why you even need a graphing calculator. It's just sort of become the default.
I just read the Wikipedia page and it says, emphasis mine:

> Wire's instant messages are encrypted with Proteus, a protocol that Wire Swiss developed based on the Signal Protocol.

That doesn't sound like "Wire uses the Signal Protocol" to me.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/security-engineer-says-goog...

Kathryn Spiers, who worked as a security engineer, updated an internal Chrome browser extension so that each time Google employees visited the website of IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company — they would see a pop-up message that read: “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities.”

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813619

Note that she wasn't able to do that unilaterally. Some other member of the team approved her CL and others defended her in public.

I have a vague feeling there was another case like this some years ago where some security engineer modified a Chrome extension for political reasons, but I can't remember the exact details and can no longer find it.
https://archive.is/qQinN
Most of the other jobs require the driver to get out of the car, which can be a pain if parking is limited and you have to walk into a building a find where to pickup. Staying in the driver's seat is preferable to me.
That thought, that "the number of trials doesn’t change the probability of individual trials in this case because each trial is statistically independent" is based on a false assumption that the mathematical statement, observed alone, is all we know about the issue.

And it isn't. We know that the infection happens when enough active viruses appear on the mucosa cells of the host. We know that there are a lot of viruses in every droplet from somebody's nose or mouth. Imagine how much viruses somebody leaves on the surface if he wipes his nose with a hand, for example, and then uses that hand to handle some item.

Finally, we know how much time it takes for half of the viruses to become non functioning (half life) -- something like three days, it is, they remain in the similar numbers for quite a while on the surface. Multiple touches of the same surface on which there is certain number of viruses is nothing like a series of "independent trials."
First, expansionism needs to be possible. Chemical rockets combined with large biological life forms seem to rule out interstellar colonization.
In the versions of the story if they didn't execute that point Van Halen's roadie would go on the warpath and go through everything to determine stuff was done correctly, so I mean the point was not that they read the contract? No one cares if you read the contract, they care that you do what is in the contract - of course doing what is in the contract requires that you read it first, but it is the doing that people care about. If you have not done the M&Ms correctly you have not read the contract that means you could not have done the important things they require.
> Few SARS-Cov-2 transmissions reported to have been via surface transmission.

I haven't seen a single case of reported surface transmission.

There was this case in a New Zealand quarantine hotel, where they first suspected a rubbish bin lid, which the persons had touched 20 hours apart. But now they think it was air moving, by opening the hotel room door from the room to the corridor, and then to the next room, when that door was opened right after.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/apr/04/how-new-zeala...
I understand the frustration but they have the data and hence, a rainbow table, sending a pre-hashed phone number is the same as sending an unhashed one, unless the worry is man in the middle, who is just as likely to get the data.

The only way to check without giving up personal info is to get the data and look locally, or perhaps search for so many phone numbers that yours is buried in the haystack.
He used the usual lazy arguments and spoke of Facebook users as if they're a type.

"Facebook Messaging was built for Facebook fans. It wasn’t made for folk who are bothered about ‘privacy issues’ or the idea of oversharing"

How many hundred million users does Facebook have? It has them from all walks of life, with all sorts of opinions. Nerds and non-nerds.

From what I've seen, most people don't like Facebook. They use it because it's convenient and because other people do. They stay logged in because of the addictive nature of the status updates, so are more likely to respond quickly to messages, unlike with email.

A lot of people might use this new messaging system. It will be a bad thing if they do. Facebook has already proven numerous times that they can't be considered trusted custodians of peoples private data.

I also wouldn't like it if all my phone calls were routed through Facebook.
Oddly enough, a lot of Apple Fan boys are hackers but make the (2)-style arguments "you might not like this device but it's great for my mom who knows nothing about computers"
It is almost always option 2. Unless it is a company offering cool new tech and/or directly targeted at hackers, I don't think I can think of even one large company that owes its success largely due to hacker/nerds as early adopters. Hackers tend to be extremely practical individuals, and in their pursuit to practical perfection, they often forget to realize that there are people out there who value practicality lower than many other factors (eg. aesthetics, social validation). I bet most hackers won't care much for Facebook's new release ("they just reinvented email folders -- really?"), but I'm sure the majority of Facebook's power-users will love it. Similarly, many hackers don't get the appeal of Apple's products as they believe they're sacrificing function for form, but Apple seems to be doing alright. Lots of opportunities arise when you realize that the majority of consumers out there are actually looking to gain a lot more than just practicality, even if that may come at a practical cost. Women don't wear high heels and emo teens don't wear overly tight jeans because they feel comfortable.
And now, imagine it's David Caruso, with the sunglasses.
I like this feeling. It makes you try harder, just in case someone comes looking.
Do you have a source for this? I am German myself and I would love to spread this among my friends! This is awesome!
I wish all browsers become CSS3 and HTML5 compliant overnight.
That would make the web a way better place.
Then you'll love Cory Doctorow's term for those that work on such hardward and software: Vichy-Nerds.

Seriously, hackers, maybe some on this site, write this software and design this hardware, to do these things. Maybe a better question is why do we as a profession do so?
Fred Wilson does very well stating and investing in the obvious.
It's absolutely atrocious, and that's with the ads disabled.
What about Wal-Mart? It hires the poor and caters to them as well.

You escape poverty by working your ass off and being extremely smart with your money. This is why rags to riches stories are so endearing because they are so exceptional. The difficulty with escaping poverty is not going to mc donalds when you have a little extra and want to treat yourself. It's buying one thing in bulk instead of a variety of foods. Its saving all that money and then buying one really nice piece of clothing so that people think you have money.

Basically it's all the tricks you need to know in life. My advice, ask any Japanese American / Canadian who lived during ww2 who was stripped of their assets and interned and then built all that back in the next decade.
If Groovy is 20x slower than Java templating, but 5% more uncached database fetches, which is faster?
"..We're actually selling these mugs and are making money from their sale; around 90 cents per item. Moreover, by doing so, we are not breaking any laws. The photographers have made their work freely available on Flickr under a Creative Commons license, which allows for their commercial reuse, so we are free to use these pictures in any way we want."

In the "About Us" Section.
I think that you're missing the point.

The prolem is not that he was interrogated. It's rather how he was interrogated and how the agents conducted themselves. They treated him like a spy and employed some psychological techniques. Was that even necessary? Doesn't e deserve to be treated with respect? Why did they immediately assume he was a criminal? Especially when they knew the machhines were defective?

Considering the fact that they knew the machines weren't perfect and that household items set them off, they should've considered him innocent until proven otherwise and treated him with respect. Even more so if he's a citizen. They should've atleast told him that "hey, the following items could set it off, have you used one of these?" They could've then verified his claims with the chemical that showed up.

All this will only become obvious once it happens to you I guess.
I call BS. We have enough yield to feed the planet already.

The difference between millions starving to death or not is inequality and indifference.

GMO's are mostly used to sell the same food to the same people that always had food and can pay for it, just with better profit margins.

Not to mention patents, locking the seeds etc -- something 100 times worse than software patents.
I am sure that is true, even if it is just their voice on the tape, with the camera pointed forward.

Any potential prosecution will involve someone from the DA's office reviewing all evidence. How many officers want to be seen as an overt bully by even a (probably) friendly suit in the DA's office?

Who wants the first thing the jury notices about the tape is how very rude the officer is?

A long time ago, police whined and whined and whined about how the Miranda Rule got in the way of getting convictions. The real result is that police forces are more professional now, and it raises credibility in the eyes of juries. Yes, police officers have crafty workarounds to trick people in confessions while they are "not quite yet" suspects. But that is a big step forward. Officers are working from a standard set of procedures that have been reviewed by attorneys and the court system.

Police raised their game.

The same will happen here. Citizens will be more compliant. Officers will be more polite and more professional. Police will raise their game.
You can buy your own space age gold foil from many places as "rescue blanket". Quite cheap, around $3 for an adult sized sheet.

I've used it to insulate south-facing windows in summer. It's phenomenally effective.
The author says "Other times I just froze on topics that I
know very well." Maybe somebody can explain this better to me

Personally I find that when I meet new people, I have an instinctual assumption that they are more knowledgeable and better than me in every measurable way, I am intimidated.

It's only when I see peoples flaws that I can operate around them. Only when I know they are not perfect. (By the way I realize this is illogical behavior, I really can't help it, I'm ascared T.T)

I don't think this is anything new, I'm timid around new people. That doesn't impair my productivity, it just impairs how attractive I look as a hire.
> but it is pretty easy to write and pretty easy to understand

I wish I was as smart as you because D3 makes almost zero sense to me. I think there's something I'm missing that, once it clicks, will change things. <fingers crossed/>
No. Servers get saturated, some links are slower than others and your ISP may prioritize the traffic. Best way of testing I know of is either using your own server or grabbing a null file from a known host (at least funet in Finland).
I am pretty sure they were mentioning that in the sense that North Korea has a full blown cult of personality around their leader (who is an unelected life-long dictator).

You'll note that there isn't a giant statue of Obama on the White House lawn and in every town square. In N. Korea this is the case.

Adult Americans are not legally required to wear lapel pins featuring prominent past presidents, nor are they required to have images of those presidents in their homes with nothing else permitted on the wall that hosts those images, while in N. Korea they must.

Americans can freely speak a poor opinion of Obama or the Congress or the SCOTUS and not fear that they and their family will be imprisoned and tortured, unlike N. Korea.

The press can say what they like about Obama/other branches of the government without fear of censorship and imprisonment, unlike N. Korea where there is only state-run media that fawn over their leader.

I think that was what they were trying to get at even if they didn't fully expand it.
I see HTML5 as a growing as a competitor to the native platform. When NaCl (NativeClient) is supported by the popular browsers you can shift all the computationally intensive calculations to the native code and have the rendering done in the browser window. Well, but I guess we'll have to wait for hardware acceleration too to be common thing in these browsers. With FF4 disabling something awesome like websockets by default, IMHO we are going backwards.

P.S: Again the future of IE comes into play. Will they support NativeClient or stick to ActiveX stuff.
That's totally true. And as I said in another comment I have come up against this exact problem and had considered switching to Node.js to fix it.

But when it comes down to it, hacking Rails to do async requests is going to teach me a lot about how Rack and Thin work, so that's why I'm continuing to push in that direction.
Check out Pulse which has been working out nicely so far for my uses. http://pulseapp.com
Is there a website somewhere keeping track of the various App Store takedowns? It'd be interesting to see a nice list of them. Stories about apps being pulled for largely crap reasons seem to come up at a rate of about one a week, if not more frequently. However, although I've seen dozens of them, I don't think I've ever seen a nice list of them. I think it'd be interesting to see how the App Store policies are actually enforced.
I think Steve just likes the NY Times and they know they can't build a browser but can (and have) written an iPad app.
Also as you try to maximise you memory usage you run the risk of the Out of Memory (OOM) Killer running which just kills of processes and they don't return, till you start them again. It's not nice.
> You'll be able to buy a new camera every freaking month.

Yes, but on the other side, that "decent job" would (probably) significantly reduce the free time he can commit to photography. As one famous writer (or was it a philosopher?) once said that he don't have time to make money. ;-)
People like Linus, Carmack, and DHH aren't famous because of their code - they're famous because of their products.

I think Zed could've ended this sentence at aren't famous. If you ask anyone who doesn't closely follow tech who these folks are, you're likely to get blank stares. Maybe they'll recognize one of the names, but not be able to list specific achievements.

As plink says, these people are famous within their communities. Just like I don't know who designed the stability systems on my car, someone else might not know who designed the graphics engine for Doom.

I do find it interesting that Zed writes a piece about how there are no famous programmers, while simultaneously being voted to the top of HN and (again, in his sphere) being a fairly well-known name.
This is a link to Cambia. Why not just link to the main BiOS site? http://www.bios.net/
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/22/google-co-founders-plan-sel...

"Larry and Sergey currently hold approximately 57.7 million shares of Class B common stock, which represents approximately 18% of Google’s outstanding capital stock and approximately 59% of the voting power of Google’s outstanding capital stock. Under the terms of these Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, and as a part of a five year diversification plan, Larry and Sergey each intend to sell approximately 5 million shares. If Larry and Sergey complete all the planned sales under these Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, they would continue to collectively own approximately 47.7 million shares, which would represent approximately 15% of Google’s outstanding capital stock and approximately 48% of the voting power of Google’s outstanding capital stock (assuming no other sales and conversions of Google capital stock occur)."

I have no opinion on Larry's actions on the call the other day. However, it is a fact that he, Sergey, and Eric, plus Marissa, Paul, and the rest of the insiders, still firmly control Google.
A lot of the feeling bad/sick is psychological. (Well for me at least). Being a veggie (15 years+), if i eat meat inadvertently (happens rarely) I get an automatic gag reflex.

>"annoyance of getting out of a chair"
yeah.. i don't know about that..
Merging associativity doesn't require magic AI.
You have to love it when a service comes in and completely changes the way you think about the problem it is solving. This falls into the "What in the world didn't anyone think about this before?"

Great solution.
The article is conflating some things. Yes, Jeb Bush will be running. Yes, Clinton will be running. Both are dynastical-ish issues.

But the discussion about education is off. Jeb is the embodiment of family dynasties, but let us not forget that there ware Adams, Harrisons, and Roosevelts. And Clinton is a strange example considering she married Bill, who came from a poor family and basically pulled himself up by charisma, which discounts the second-generation education notion presented.
Right. Using pandas may allow you to process more data than an excel spreadsheet, but if the file is on your laptop then it's inherently not very big. It's a great tool, but it is a data exploration tool, not a data processing workflow tool.

IMHO, there are too many 'data scientists' nowadays that are taking averages and calling it 'analytics'. If the call you are making exists in a library, more than likely it's not "sophisticated".
The evidence is in the article. He displays emails in their entirety that talk about members of the press colluding on coverage. That's admissible in a court of law.

Here are more emails[0].

It's put up or shut up time. Either you're going to provide a thorough counter of the evidence provided or everybody will know exactly what you are: a liar.

[0]: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/09/18/the-emails-that-p...
I assume the fixed wing system would also be quieter.
> the more complex and unique your problems are, the more it makes sense to roll your own.

Of course, everyone thinks their problems are complex and unique.
really? another diatribe about Linus? get over it. Linus is the way he is. dealing with him requires thick skin, and he knows it, and we know it, and anyone working with him needs to deal with it.

do you think complaining about him on the internet is going to get Linus to change? what's the point here?

there's also an awful lot of false equivalency and inappropriate analogy going on here. I don't think Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian have ANYTHING WHATEVER to do with Linus' communication style. Invoking their names here is an effort to summon a twitter shitstorm and its pretty low in my opinion.
This is apparently a downvote magnet but to clarify, you wrote:

"There's one situation where drivers don't face penalties if they hit and injure/kill a pedestrian: if that pedestrian caused the accident and the driver had no way of preventing it."

This is the statement with which I disagree. There are many situations where drivers don't face penalties if they hit and injure/kill a pedestrian, not just one. Anyway, my views on this are clear and I am obviously in the minority. Regardless, I still think that if one operates a heavy, dangerous vehicle near people who may be killed by it the onus of responsibility for not killing people falls on the driver.

If a person leaps in front of a big rig in order to kill themselves, then no, the driver is not responsible. If a kid runs after a soccer ball in the street and gets run over because they driver didn't stop in time, then the driver was probably going too fast for the circumstances.

Mind you, I like cars. I may walk to work but I drive very quickly on the autobahn a few times a year and it's a blast. Limited access roadways with _incredibly_ good visibility and road conditions are great places to go fast. Cities and towns with cars, bikes, walkers, and anything else you can imagine all using the same street space are great places to go slow.
They are certainly not as clean as a modern diesel but if they are properly adjusted they aren't bad. Most of the smokey ones probabley haven't been maintained for years.
As javascript lover I should admit that I think this is not about about javascript as language, It is more about being in right time and right place.Every one here knows javascript is awful language for optimizing and V8 kind of blow it up with every kind of optimization most of us cannot even imagine.Imagine instead of javascript , Python/Lua was standard way of browser to make dynamic content in ~2000 and web explosion days.Then I think we would talk about that language instead of javascript today.When you looking at big picture , you can see google push's Dart , which they somehow (at least I think) plan to replace javascript with Dart (I am not telling it is going to be that way , But I think this is how they have plan to do in long-term future)
> We are social mammals.

We are sentient beings that have had writing for thousands of years. Perhaps we should start acting like it.
The NYPD murders people and nothing happens, so why worry about a few lies.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21155348

Why printk() is so complicated, and how to fix it (https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/800946/a9ad9aba46f14e78/)

90 points |Tomte | 2 years ago | 13 comments
+1 for LM358