jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>If Android were serious about their developers, they would bake in standard animations.

Why do you presume that they haven't? Every View has intrinsic full animation support, and of course there's a full simile of CoreAnimation in android.view.animation.

So why don't Android apps make use of it? Generally as a function of time, care, and craftsmanship. Too often Android apps were second tier, and many Android app writers were doing it to scratch an itch (versus for the iPhone where it is typically productized).

Android apps have the potential to be just as slick, just as polished, and just as nuanced and emotional as any iphone app. The state today is that they aren't, but that isn't any intrinsic failure of the platform.

Honestly, though, I find that sort of observation superficial and just incredibly boring. Every iphone user when they touch an Android device will immediately comment on the lack of slickness of the non-GPU using transitions. As a day to day Android user, using my phone for virtually everything and anything, this has absolutely ZERO impact on my enjoyment of the device. To say it is unnoticed is still giving it too much credit. It's superficial bedazzling that differentiates based upon the utterly irrelevant.
The parent comment to my comment was to the effect that they could use the microvolunteering concept for their own development. To a certain extent, I could even see volunteering for them (getting the word out or something), but I personally would draw the line at actual technical work for free for a money-making venture, unless there were public karma attached or the code in question were open-sourced or something.
Good idea, thanks. I've already decided to set up a VPN so I can make sure I have a secure tunnel regardless of where I am and what connection I'm on. I've thought about giving my parents legal access to my bank accounts as well, as I figure it would most likely be easier for them to handle deposits and transfers from home, than it would be for me from wherever I happen to be.
It's funny, I'm not particularly fond of formal mathematics, and I always thought it would be made really easier if it looked more like programming. One thing I particularly hate about math are the inconsistent and often not very legible notations.

Let's also not forget that Lisp was originally conceived as an alternative mathematical notation.
This is interesting:

"Primary keys are exposed everywhere on the Internet (e.g. Reddit, Quora, Facebook, etc). I've written numerous crawlers myself and know that this is an issue. You'll be surprised what these IDs reveal about a company."
Is this satire? What is the underlying message... I feel it's gone over my head.
Native with runtime means you get a native executable which has to use the runtime of the language, for example containing its garbage collector and support for co-routines. With VM you get code for, e.g., a stack or register-based virtual machine, not native code.
I've never understood this criticism. XML is quite simple - perhaps too simple.

If you're really offended by needing to repeat an element name in the closing tag... well... that's not exactly a serious criticism is it?

I mean, you could make various reasonable criticsms - XML sure isn't perfect. You might say the object model maps to documents, but not so well to typical programming constructs such as unordered hashes or ordered lists of unnamed items. You might complain that its data model is too simple in that it can only easily represent printable text-strings not binary data, numbers, dates etc. You might complain that namespaces are a hassle in many API's. You might complain that the distinction between attributes and elements is odd and somewhat arbitrary.

But bloated? You're just ranting.
Ammonia?

I'm starting to worry about the plane ride on Sunday. I've been handling concentrated ammonia (25%) lately.
And the Perl equivalent is XML::Simple: https://metacpan.org/module/XML::Simple
" I saw myself as an accomplished novelist or an interpreter for the EU."
Yes, following your dream is, most of the time, waste of time.

On serious note "My teachers recommended that I study economics and statistics as my A-level subjects" she were given choice and good advice. She chose to pursue what seemed best to her, and now she is saying "choices still heavily gender stereotyped". IF she was about to go to engineering and someone would have forced her to choose linguistics THEN it would be "gender stereotypes"/oppression problem. Now it's her inability to think ahead that got her waste 4 years, and it's her inability to accept her own mistake that leads her to cursing "gender stereotypes". I am amazed word "patriarchy" wasn't used in article.

"I'm hoping that my daughter will embrace her inner geek and want to change the world." Suggestion: Instead of pushing to one direction let child explore and choose.

Hellban in: 5... 4..
I wont say this list is worthless, but, given that there's so much missing or wrong... it's at best pointless.
C# has virtual constructors? I also wouldn't rate its Unicode support as highly as Java or Perl's.
I don't look at it as being a language irrelevant thing, but more of a critical mass in adoption, and "burn-in" for non-mainstream languages.

If you've been around long enough, you know that something like Clojure, Go, Scala, Python, or even Ruby aren't adopted until a certain level of acceptance is reached, that being often defined by your industry.

At a start-up, anything might go, but at a Fortune 500 company, you might be stuck on a Java 1.4 project. The "drum banging" on HN is often the initial rumblings, or some other point in the adoption curve.

By the way, you forgot about Dart. :-) The performance advantages seem attractive. Is it gaining any traction? One way I try to find out is by seeing if a lot of people are asking questions on StackOverFlow.

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/dart -- 1386 questions so no traction.

A few others:

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/go - 2697. Not so good.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/node.js - 27, 301
Someone's probably asked all the basic questions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/scala - 17,933 A little light?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/clojure - 5709 - Really light!

If only a few people ask questions a day, and you get stuck jumping in head first, you might regret that later if you're trying to move fast.

Real world example, ...the guys at Twitter went with RoR and ran into scaling problems. Might be different today because RoR has matured?

I wonder if the guys at FourSquare have some growing pains with Scala? If only the build would compile twice as fast...
Depending on your CPU and its integrated memory controller, you might have one, two, three or even four "channels" that can work concurrently. The i5-4670K has two channels.

While this sounds like a huge possibility for performance imporovement, in practice the gain is on the single-percent level. It can be measured, but to actually feel the difference during use of the machine, you'll need something like a 50% speedup.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Intel-Core-i7-Nehalem,20...

So for a desktop machine, I'd say it does not matter at all. Buy what's more affordable, and maybe think about possible future upgrades.
Great article, going to come back to this in like 3 months when I'll be looking for work again.
The only thing most of us were thinking, scrolling down that site. I definitely missed some text as my eyes glazed over...
The inevitable debate of someone-else-should-have-been-Man-Of-The-Year is part of the December news cycle.

I doubt Time will ever pick anyone that nobody complains about, and if they ever did then they'd probably be disappointed to find that their circulation was way down.

I think Zuckerberg is about as good a pick as any. If it were Assange then I'd accuse Time of recentism, since hardly anyone even know who he was back in June, and we may mostly have forgotten by next June.
This is exactly my point -- It is bad practice to say, people who don't even know better than using multiple passwords shouldn't even be on our site. Or that they should learn to use multiple passwords. The site should take all the precautions anyway (especially if the precaution is so cheap).
Isn't it well known that Bradley Manning is the leaker?
Not really. To be libertarian you have to be pretty idealistic. They don't qualify. Now they are just Republicans that don't trust the police.
> If you hold any other opinion, you are fooling yourself. A lot of people will go to great length to deny it, but if you think about it unprejudiced, you'll have to accept it.

Now this is a promising beginning. Put that Randian tone aside if you want to be taken seriously.

> There are just too many instances where spending amount X of money can save a life and people make the conscious decision not to do so because X is more than they can or want to afford.

We're not talking about saving someone's life in varying circumstances. We are talking about cut-off figure that makes e.g. financial crime punishable by death. Those societies that practice it, tend to be totalitarian, with the conversion rate to e.g. RMBs or Soviet Roubles written down in criminal law.
I don't have your email address :) (mine is in my profile)
I've figured out that you can get a bank account as non-resident as long as you have a credit card/bank statement and a valid ID.
You still need to go to the UK though.
I've been wondering: Any way to turn the comment system off in Wordpress?
While designing a webcrawler I found out how a LOT of sites are reachable using www.example.com and not using example.com.
Some browser just tend to try the www. prefix if they can't connect/resolve the non-www one. This is why nobody finds out about it and the internet is somewhat broke :(
So for every Greplin user you have a TCP connection open to Gmail's IMAP server? How can that possibly scale in the long run?
I like LiveJournal.com or similar's commenting engine the best - it has previews, it supports HTML with opening and closing tags, etc. The WordPress.org blog commenting system is absolute braindamage and it is one of the reason why I don't use WordPress.
Yes, this was my assumption.
I set up a site there recently and AFAICT "naked domains" are still not accepted.
Stanislaw Lem used the idea of neutrinos-for-communication as the cause of the "silent universe" in His Master's Voice, which is possibly the best fictional account of how science actually works that I have ever read. Highly recommended.
It's not fair because you are not comparing apples to apples. I can write a poll loop that accepts and sends back http responses and call it a webserver.

h2o doesn't even use sendfile(2) which means file data is read and copied to the userland just to be copied back to the kernel to send it to the socket buffer. Turn this on in nginx and you'll see a significant performance improvement.

nginx can be tuned a lot to improve performance and the author didn't bother doing that.
I'm not convinced that Jesus didn't make any divinity claims. We have unreliable and contradictory accounts of what Jesus said, so I consider it an unsolved mystery if Jesus actually believed or claimed he was the Messiah and/or the Son of Man as prophesied in Daniel.

The ambiguity might very well be intentional on the part of Jesus, since outright claiming to be the Messiah would be extremely dangerous - this would be equivalent to announcing a rebellion against the Romans.

But I'm totally convinced that he didn't claim he was Yahweh himself, that would have been ridiculous!

The passages you refer to are also pretty ambiguous, for example saying "Son, your sins are forgiven" does not necessarily mean that Jesus is the one forgiving the sins, it could also mean he informs the person that his sins have been forgiven by God.
How do you honestly know that? Everything can be pseudonymous or anonymous and behind several layers of indirections. Real names could be used so dox-ing can reveal "something" but in effect could simply be a steganographic ruse.

Given the resources of large intelligence operations funded worldwide, would can you be sure one or more aren't really behind Lizard (or LulzSec or Anonymous even)?
> Complaints about the terms are 'no true Scotsman...' arguments.

They really aren't.

> Being pompous about terms just comes across to the general public as nerd rage, much like gun aficionados whining about terminological niceties following reports of a mass shooting incident.

Words matter. If some fools are caught with a Molotov cocktail and the media starts reporting that they had a "nuclear weapon" because gasoline contains some radioactive carbon-14, the sane people are the ones telling anyone who will listen how stupid that is.

Calling those who maliciously break shit "hackers" is like calling those who drink too much "Irishmen." It's an offensive misuse of the word.
So we just stop all use of correct language because of defeatism? Nonsense.
Perpetual crisis is an effective way for government to expand their power. "Global" warming, being a global phenomenon, is particularly useful for expanding global government, which has been an obsession for oligarchs for thousands of years. Plato wrote about the "noble lie" in The Republic.
I've sent an email. Hopefully my project is exciting enough. ;-)

In repayment, I'll be happy to offer my expertise in anything, after December 1st.
Explosively >:)

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/pdf/1904.pdf
I agree with you, but that ripples outward. If I don't have to pay for emergency care, then why pay for insurance at all? I can just go hang out in the emergency room and they will take care of me. I realize a large sum of people do that right now, but that just reinforces how broken our current system is.

We have to fix healthcare in total before we can say thats a done deal, but it is the right direction.
Imagine if everyone who disagrees with you was greedy. People couldnt hold those views for other reasons, and you're definitely not making a caricature instead of discussing reality.

Have a great day!
He also wants removal Etcher from Brew: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/73195
Looks very cool. Is it comfortable to use?
Aha, thank you for pointing it out---I actually overlooked a very informational RFC that says exactly this [1].

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7085
Not impunity. You have to be a class 7 manufacturer, which is pretty well regulated.
There is significant and maybe a majority of people who have flexible morality. CA-50 re-elected a congressmen who was under indicted for corruption and theft of campaign funds. A CIA whistleblower is in hiding and career military officer in under protection for reporting or testifying about corruption at the white house. Hero only exists if a significant majority of society has capability to distinguish right from wrong. Otherwise it will get rolled up into partisan politics and tribalism.
What kind of changes do you think would warrant a new post?

Does it make sense to write a new post if only one out of many sections is rewritten?

Or do you mean to somehow make a new post with only the new information and link to the old one for the rest?
This was something that worked on pay phones (in the UK at least) to get free calls. I think it was around the 70s/80s? I can't remember the exact mechanism, but something like the coin unlocked the dial, so if you didn't need the dial you could make the call without a coin.
> Mes+MesCC can compile an only lightly patched TinyCC that is self-hosting.

It's a pity that TinyCC upstream haven't accepted these patches, but hopefully when they see the importance of this project, they will be willing to adopt these necessary changes.
Seems like, no. On their EU Privacy Policy, it says:

“Today, Facebook does not use your WhatsApp account information to improve your Facebook product experiences or provide you more relevant Facebook ad experiences on Facebook.“
We also teach children (still, I hope?) to not say anything if you don't have anything nice to say, and to walk a mile in someone's shoes before judging them, and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. So yes, teach people not to take offense, and also teach people not to be offensive. Being offended on someone else behalf helped us get rid of slavery, helped end the holocaust, gave us many of our social programs that support the poor - it's not wrong to see injustice and call it out, even if it's not happening to you.
I don't really think so - because I don't see the splits that way, as many of the people angry about "reduced speech" are people with extremely high levels of speech as members of the ruling political class, like Ted Cruz - but this is somewhat similar to one of the theories about the modern American Right's appeal in the South - increased opportunity for minorities is seen as a threat to the folks used to having it all their way. Increased speech for previously-censored groups is interpreted as censorship of themselves.
I contact the majority of my friends with telegram, the UX is similar enough and people get on board quite quickly- the difficult part is convincing someone to install /another/ messaging app- if they have network effects too then it's a hard sell.

But once most people have both it gets easier.

Signal (UX wise) is not really super great for my family, I burned a lot of my "technical expert advisor" capital and reputation by pushing that too hard.
There still needs to be scope for personal responsibility though. Blaming your own behaviours on the recommendation algorithm of youtube etc is just a cop out.
Probably because of their kitsch and garish appearance; quote, "an eye sore".
The stolen election claim is put forward by the President of the United States, not some random people with blogs.
Network effects as a emergent principle has been discovered to violate the promises of capitalist economics. We have a right to come together and set the limits and terms by which a few can extract from the many.
Standards for what is socially considered appropriate for children has changed over time, at least in American society. For example, in one of the DVD re-releases of the late 1960s-early 1970s seasons of Sesame Street, a children's television program that airs on PBS, there is a disclaimer that says that these re-released episodes are intended for adults and not for children due to the changed social norms. And these changes have nothing to do with racism or cartoon violence; these changes have to do with other norms such as children talking to strangers.

This YouTube video has a segment of an interview that discusses this further:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vow6p7uKVw
> Their main revenue stream needs to also depend on the reputation of the VPN service.

I disagree with your last statement completely. A company dependent on VPN revenue will be incentivized to do whatever they can to get and monetize VPN customers. A company that offers VPN services as a side operation that isn't financially key to their operations won't be incentivized to lie to gain users, cut costs to compete with other VPN operators, or use malware to monetize their user base.

Microsoft could not care less if you pay them a few dollars a month for a VPN. They're certainly not writing software to target people running VPNs on Azure and inject tracking and ads to make a minuscule profit. But - if news broke that they were abusing any Azure users - Microsoft would lose a significant amount of corporate and government business.

Can you name a single example of Microsoft exploiting anyone with malware? No, because the resulting reputational crisis would devastate their ability to sell their "cash cows".

Fsecure's infosec business is worth a minuscule fraction of Microsoft's businesses, and thus the potential losses from being exposed as a scam are much less.

In contrast, 57% of the top 150 free VPN apps on the Google Play Store contain code to get the user's last location, and a small number request permission to read SMS messages and take pictures https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-user-...

Your comment on extradition isn't particularly relevant. Users abused by Microsoft could sue Microsoft in US court, and Microsoft would face significant legal and reputational penalties if they broke the law.

In contrast, while Finland and Switzerland do have strong privacy laws, that doesn't mean it's impossible for a "Finnish" or "Swiss" VPN provider to get away with violating user privacy. A criminal VPN provider could for example claim to operate in a country they didn't, or incorporate in a country while residing in a country less likely to prosecute them. Not saying I have evidence this happened, I am however saying that the fact that European countries in general care more about privacy doesn't make it impossible for a European company to get away with violating user privacy.
The Soviet regime under Stalin was terrible, but it was probably a good thing for the world that they managed to come up with an atomic bomb as quickly as they did. A twentieth century dominated by an American empire as the sole nuclear power is a terrifying thing to contemplate.
Given everything he says, why does he bother to keep it open-source at all?
Do you realize that you have taken on a defeatist conviction? People give you tips and you tell them it's impossible.

The facts however, are that these tips work for the people giving them.
Eh, I'm just a fan of getting thoughts from multiple different data sources. Obviously an accountant will be an important/final step, but by casting a wide net and asking others to share their experiences, that lets me ask better questions when I do reach out to the accountant. Individual accountants also may know a lot about the legal accounting requirements, but they may not be as familiar with all available bookkeeping software, for example.

Note that the question asks how others handle their process, not how I should handle mine.
You don’t have to extrapolate far to get into dystopian territory. “Get 50% off your rent if you agree to be live-streamed all the time!”

This is also the business model that powers most of the web. “Let us spy on you and get our service for free!” Then brands pop up offering privacy for a price, and the result is that only rich people get to live their lives unsurveilled.

This hotel example seems harmless because it’s mostly a gimmick, but we need to stop this train in its tracks. Privacy should be a human right.
If the permissions are "not needed", then remove them.

This is a ridiculous amount of unnecessary exposure.
Maybe because parents and home environment matter as much, if not more, then teachers?

Middle-class and upper-class parents who work 9-5 jobs have the time to spend playing and teaching their kids on nights and weekends.

They have the money to buy good, nutrious food.

They have the knowledge (either from their own, self motivated research, or from their friends who do the research for them) to do things like limit screen time and not use a TV as a baby sitter.

Poor people can do all this too (and many try and do), but being poor makes it harder, which is one of the reasons economic class is inherited.
I saw the trivia question in the link article, but it doesn't provide an answer, so I ignored it.

EDIT: K&R says (page 60 in my second edition):

"""
The for statement

for (expr1; expr2; expr3)
statement

is equivalent to

expr1;
while (expr2) {
statement
expr3;
}

except for the behavior of continue, which is described in Section 3.7.
"""

So apparently the trivia is the behavior of `continue`, which I think most C programmers (including myself) would know implicitly, even if we couldn't answer the question itself.
I don't think it could work. You need a substantial reward after each translation effort to keep on translating instead of guessing. At the same time giving such rewards takes some away from the game itself, and the game becomes boring.

Learning through subtitles for tv shows proved to be the best way for me. Each time you translate a dialog you get a reward in a form of a story. And story is what you are watching tv shows for in the first place.