jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Apparently, 2+1 roads are often separated with a barrier in Sweden. That said, while counter-intuitive, it probably just works anyways. I have the following reasons in mind:

- driver attention is higher
- road signs tell drivers when overtaking will be possible
- overtaking is possible without occupying the other side of the road
- distance and speed judgment not needed (and thus not impaired by lack of sleep or alcohol)
Yeah the whole issue is being talked about in a very bizarre way. If Flash were really just dying, no one would be talking about it (see JavaFX). If Flash/Flex were simply not accessible, there would be a push to get better accessibility support. (For the record Flex, at least, does have fairly solid accessibility support: http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flex/overview.ht... )

Instead what I think is going on is that there's a big pushback against Adobe for failing to develop and open up the platform, and this anger at Adobe is being worded as analysis.
Which is one thing Dalton Caldwell explained at Startup School: a music startup either doesn't have deals in place and is thus not a good acquisition target; or does have deals in place and is still not a good acquisition target because deals are usually not transferable upon acquisition.
It's going to be something quite expensive and will require to use iTunes - exciting!
A few points:

I'm not sure what you mean by "Record audio and video", but there is a device access API for webapps to get to webcams, mics, video game controllers, etc.

Mozilla's audio api also allows Javascript to generate raw audio data, and I expect (well, certainly hope) that this will be adopted by the other browsers as well.

Video overlays - I'm not sure what you meant since there are a few different terms like this. If you mean routing the video data in a certain way, you're right, I don't see that happening. If you mean overlaying one video on top of another (or anything like that), that's already possible - check out http://html5doctor.com/video-canvas-magic/

The rest of it you may be right. DRM will have to be browser-specific, and it's likely to fit in at all with an OSS project. Multi-threading seems like it would likely require a change to the Javascript implementations.
• I require my bank to be secure, but for the love of god, stop going through ridiculous hoops to convince me that you're secure. Keep reminding me, and I get more convinced that I have something to worry about. Part of the genius of Mint was that they only reminded you about security when you needed to worry about it.
• Make transferring, sending, and allotting money easy. It's my money, allow me to do things like set a minimum balance with alerts when I get near it, auto-bill pay should be simple, transferring money to a friend ought to be simpler than writing a check.
• Focus on UX and not features. I'd rather have a bank website that simple to use than one that's loaded with features and is unnavigable.
This is Keynesian economics 101. I will not attempt to pass judgment on the wisdom of this system, but it is what it is.

In our current system, and that of almost every national economy in the world, debt = cash. That is is a vast simplification, but it boils down to this: The dollars which circulate in the economy (whether paper or electronic) are dollars which are created by various types of bank loans, treasury instruments, etc. When these obligations + interest are repaid, money is taken out of the economy that was previously in circulation. If the entire national debt were somehow repaid, then trillions of dollars will be removed from circulation. If all personal, corporate, and national debt were paid off, we would have no currency left. In fact, because principal on debt is created by said debt, but interest is not so created, it is not even possible to pay off all the debt. There is literally not enough cash in existence to do it.

This is why it is truly a crisis when the lines of credit get "clogged up", as in the present crisis. If the loans don't start flowing again, we are looking at deflation. One can argue whether deflation is good or bad, of course. As I said, it is what it is.
I have to hand it to Kyle. That's just how we roll on 3rd shift!!! But on a serious note, I suppose this just shows that customer service is quite a difficult thing to balance. I recall seeing some similar interactions between 37Signals and their customers as well. If you build opinionated software then unfortunately not all opinions agree with yours. But how you handle the exchange of opinions is quite a fine art.

I particularly like this line "We don't deal with communication problems on GitHub, we deal with technical problems."

ok...I'm done with my break. Time to go deal with those damn customers again. Can you wake me about 15 minutes before 1st shift arrives? I need to prepare the handoff report for the EMEA guys. :)
I really can't see how constant bzzzzz is atmosphere.

The atmosphere from the stands (cheering, singing, etc) gets completely drowned. :(
Other commenters said that theses are one of the biggest hosters around, though.
Here is the problem with this solution....it's not a hack. More a risky gamble. H1-B's are 'non-immigrant' work visas. i.e. once you apply, you are explicitly saying that you have no desire to immigrate.

So if you do find a loophole, and exploit it - remember that your green card can be revoked. To stake your entire existence on your exploiting a loophole seems a little risky to me.

I am not discouraging you from trying, believe me...I was in your situation a few months ago, I just don't think it is a sustainable path to take.
Gimp lets you export images into HTML tables :) It even asks you whether you're sane and really want to do it!
According to the WP article "This type of plastic horn or trumpet has been used in Mexican stadiums since the 1970s."

I remember them being used at cricket & football matches here in Australia in the 80s, till they were banned for being too annoying, just as they should have been in South Africa before this rot set in.
Do you have an email address where you can be reached? I would like to email you privately but you dont have an email in your profile.
But there is a difference between straight up sockpuppetry, and telling people "If you like Wikipedia but are unsatisfied with the way it currently works, then register and start contributing. If policy discussions or delete votes come up, vote the way you believe you should (namely in this case inclusionist)".

Its a bit like encouraging people to go to elections to raise the voter turnout, to reduce influence of extremist parties. (Not that I'm comparing WP editors with extremists, its just that I believe in both cases there is a silent majority that risks being misrepresented!)
I think he brought out a very interesting perspective of how things unfold in the board room. Don't turn his post into what it's not - there was no "schadenfreude" in what he had written.
The comment you linked to would not have been downvoted particularly because people disagreed with it, but because it didn't really add anything to the discussion. A reply like that doesn't really produce good discussion, and a lot of people on Hacker News try to discourage that.
I have far fewer moral qualms about crack dealing than investment banking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y
I don't think if I could live with myself if I worked at an investment bank. Most of what they do provides no benefit to humanity, in fact on the whole they're probably parasitic. Shuffling money around senselessly while taking a cut might be extremely profitable if you do enough of it, but it's just a drain on modern capitalism.
If you are shooting for the kind of people who aspire to be rockstars (i.e. teenagers, mostly?), why not?
Anyone here have advice for those non-technical people who know they need a great programmer on their team?
I heard some people talk about the 9/11 thing, but I have not been able to find a good article that describes the hole thing, so I only know bits and pieces.

Does anybody know where I can learn more?
> As someone interested in functional programming and compilers, I recently tried to use GHC's intermediate output. However, I got a little disappointed about the documentation that's available for compiler writers. From what is essentially a research compiler, I'd expected a little higher standards, also in the department of available tools, and examples. In other words, the experience came too close to what I would call "hacking".

We don't really emphasize or support people using the intermediate language in an external way very well. They're parts of the compiler that are intimately and deeply tied to other internals elsewhere, and it's not really an explicit design goal that those components be reusable in a general way.

Now, people do use GHC for this (years ago I even helped write a compiler that transformed GHC's core language into a whole-program IR that was compiled to C), and we do have an API you can use to leverage the compiler, but overall the amount of people using it for things like this, vs using it for things like dynamic loaders or typechecking utilities (such as ghc-mod) are very small.

In fact, just last year we removed 'External Core' from GHC, which was a way of serializing the Core representation to disk. Why? Because it was actually broken for close to two years I think, and nobody ever really complained or fixed or wanted to support it! And after a discussion, we didn't want to support it either. It has been used, but when it bitrots that bad, I think it's clear this isn't one of the largest driving use cases for the compiler.

That said, we could improve the documentation a lot, and add a lot more examples. But I don't think there ever has been (or probably will be) a huge push to make the core IRs reusable in an easy way. It's simply not a high priority design goal.

> Furthermore, the "Core" language is, I believe, for many purposes, more complicated than necessary (e.g., it is typed). It would be nice if there were a simpler alternative, e.g., for small projects.

The Core language being typed is a good thing for GHC - it makes it easy to turn on an internal typechecker and determine if the compiler has produced invalid IR, your optimization pass did, etc. It adds a lot of safety to your produced programs when you can ensure they type-check in a sane way.

This component, along with the core linting passes, have likely caught an _innumerable_ amount of optimization and desugaring bugs over the years, while being extremely low cost to support and use. Overall, typed Core has been a very huge win for GHC, and I don't ever see us adopting a different route. In fact, it's planned for our Core language to get an even fancier (dependent) type system not far off in the future. :)
I don't consider it that annoying, given that I follow several people anyway.
What makes you think acacias aren't native to Africa? Acacia is a broad family, and while the majority is native to Australia, there are quite a few acacias native to other continents. The ancient Egyptians made clasps from this tree so it's been around for at least a couple of thousand years.
Maybe I'm not understanding the proposition clearly, but how is this an "anti-Google"? It sounds to me that it's more like a personal Google.
The information that has been released so far, especially Michael Barr's comments on it, suggest that this is far from the only bug.

For example, http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer... quotes Barr's claims:
"Toyota’s electronic throttle control system (ETCS) source code is of unreasonable quality."
"Toyota’s source code is defective and contains bugs, including bugs that can cause unintended acceleration (UA)."

I am a little appalled at the number of apologist comments on this story. There is mounting evidence that this wasn't a "it could happen to anyone" bug, but rather a serious violation of software engineering ethics. Code must not kill.
For what it is worth 50Lbs of grain (in my case 2-row barley) fit neatly in two 5-gallon home depot buckets. And is enough base grain for five 5-gallon batches of beer.
Wow, that's apparently a great deal on the X-25M--they were retailing for $220 at NewEgg.

I'm waiting to see what comes out in the next few months, as apparently OCZ and Intel are building drives with the new SandForce chipset. Don't know if the improvements will be significant, though...
One thing I've found (which I'm not currently doing as well as before) is if I set one time to wake up each day and actually get out of bed (no snooze), I start waking up more and more refreshed. It could be 5, it could be 8, but if I am consistant, it doesn't matter the time, I wake up and am not groggy.

So, could be useful for super early wakeups like 5 AM.
Not to AMD - to motherboard makers that make motherboards for AMD chips.
I'm sorry, but airpush is ridiculous, and any developer that chooses to use it is asking the community to give it's app a bad name.

I also had a conversation with "matt" from airpush when this story broke on reddit.

http://pastebin.com/c8cpd5H8

Needless to say, they've done nothing to refresh their image in the Android community's eyes.
Only use jQuery? Would love to hear more about the tech stack.
Are you kidding? You're taking a stimulant to get through the day and when one form of it is taken away, you supplement with another form.

How is that different than a junkie getting their fix to stave off withdrawl? You don't need to get defensive about it, but if you're taking a concentrated form of a drug to get through your day... and you notice when you don't take it... that's the definition of an addiction.
In an update to the post: "As evidenced by our updates and comments, many people seem to be affected by this, and some of them don't have as loud megaphones as we do. We'll continue trying to find out why this process is the way it is, and if it will ever be changed."

Ars is talking about helping everyone else by trying to get a better process in place. I really hope they follow through on this -- Facebook could certainly use a dose of due process.
This is similar to how I use my onewheel, public transportation is 3 miles away. You can put a chain on it as is but you can also carry it in with you (25 lbs)
I tried this morning and it still worked through domestic VPN, i.e., I'm a US customer using a VPN exit in the US. It only seems to be targeted at those using VPNs to get around region restrictions. So it should still be effective to circumvent ISP tracking, throttling and tampering.
You are anthropomorphising evolution. Natural selection only favors individuals, not the species as a whole. Plus it's not clear if that would actually be a benefit. An organism which has survived and reproduced for hundreds of years probably has very fit genes.
It's folly to assume that "terrorism" is some really concrete class of crime that can be easily prevented using known methods, and I'd further argue that the efficacy of surveillance to this end is unknown, but I'd venture to say it's pretty insignificant. Knowing this, a better way of phrasing the same question is: What tradeoffs are we willing to make to reduce the risk of terrorism, and where is the right balance? I would argue that, since the risk of terrorism is so low, the tradeoffs we're currently making are grossly out of proportion. If we want to prevent deaths in aggregate, we should be pouring government money into fighting disease and starvation in poorer countries. Much better ROI there.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/the_comparati...
This title is not completely accurate. If you read the article it specifically references users attempting to VPN and also using the Netflix Android app.

I am gonna go out on a limb and say the app is probably checking the GPS in order to achieve this.

Fortunately, GPS can be spoofed with the developer tools if someone wants to test my theory: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2279647/how-to-emulate-gp...
Happen to have any more info for finding this talk from Moglen?
Why not choose a part-time course rather than an online one?

For e.g. http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/softeng/
"I'm not saying that if you sort investors by benevolence you've also sorted them by returns, but rather that if you do a scatterplot with benevolence on the x axis and returns on the y, you'd see a clear upward trend." PG/YC, have you tested this hypothesis? Precision would be difficult, but a back of the envelope attempt could be interesting and perhaps reveal unexpected correlations.
Thanks for this.
For any people who just wandered in here, like I did.
This is a link from the other comments, that you should probably watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
It's really easy to come up with hypotheticals when violence stops other violence, with no other ill effects and no risk.

Real life isn't as pretty. You meet violence with violence and all you're guaranteed is violence. You may 'win', you may not, but all you're certain to achieve is perpetuating the cycle.
No, no, no, the main factor that they do not speak about is testing, simple as that.

If you do proper testing, like in South Korea, you detect everybody or almost everybody that has coronavirus, even when they don't have symptoms of the illness. That is 7 to 10 times more people detected(and controlled), that can actually transmit the virus.

In a country like UK, Portugal or Germany they had copied lots of things that worked in Taiwan, South Korea, Singapur or Japan.

Germany could have as many detected cases as Spain, but that will make only 1/10 of the real illnesses cases of Spain.

In a country like Spain or Italy people in charge are so incompetent that they have only reacted when it was too late.

That at the same time forces the entire's population to follow quarantine, because without tests you are blind to the people that has the virus without symptoms.

Spain's Government is today promising a million test kits(broken promises is the seal of Mr Sanchez), in the future, but as of now there are not enough test just for testing all people with symptoms, unless you are a politician or family member of a politician of course.

That is the result of not getting preventive stocks early on. They simply could not imagine(and hence prepare) what has happened and just took zero anticipative actions like buying face masks.

Those politicians have zero scientific or technical preparation, so they could not understand something as simple as an exponential function.

In the case of Spain, they have very well prepared people down the command chain. But the people that takes the decisions are just scientific illiterate.
> The Chinese have apparently quit testing, so naturally it seems they have it 'under control' since they report zero new cases (detected).

That's patently untrue

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/bay-area-woman-f...
I order lots of stuff from Japan, from Amazon US from Japan-based sellers. It's taken anywhere from a few days to two months (my last purchase). So I didn't want to risk it. Didn't find Japanese sellers of masks anyway.
And the X also stands for extended.
Coding for death is something that statisticians do all the time. They have established, well used, processes to assign death to a particular cause.

Covid-19 causes a range of severity of illness.

If someone is hospitalised for covid-19 they are very unwell -- this is because hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of patients and are only admitting those who are very ill, and also because hospitals want infectious people to stay at home out of hospital as long as possible to reduce the amount of infection being spread.

So, when someone with covid-19 dies in hospital it's almost certain that it's the covid-19 that killed them, even if they would have died later that year of something else.
In the US, a patent requires enablement (ability to make it). That can be squishy, of course, as it doesn't require a working prototype.

https://www.upcounsel.com/difference-between-patentable-and-...
As others have said, this is largely a guessing game right now. How swiftly and how boldly governments act is going to determine a lot. In 2008 you had people like Paulson and Bernanke who studied the Great Depression and desperately wanted to avoid the mistakes of the past. They saw those mistakes largely as a failure to act quickly. I’m not an economist, but in my humble opinion what we need is cash in the hands of working people who are losing work at an alarming pace. What I’m seeing is too much feet-dragging, means-testing, and timidity. This is a situation where every second counts, so for the best sense of how this all resolved, once again, pay close attention to how swiftly and how boldly governments act to provide stimulus to help people weather the next 18 months.
In the UK there's https://saveyourindiehighstreet.uk
It could have been passed along as a returnUrl. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
Sadly, I do not see Private Kit reaching anywhere close to the critical mass required for it to be fully effective, unless all Americans are required to use it per a new federal mandate, which I cannot see becoming a reality given the incompetency clearly exhibited by one or more of our "leaders" over the past several days (if not much longer)..
It's all about "face." Modern urban Chinese care more about name-brands than their American counterparts - you've got French-branded grocery chains, Australian jean stores and German cars in all major urban cores. People judge you based on solely three things, prestige of the University you went to, prestige of the Company/Dan-wei you work for, the prosperity of the region you came from (coastal or inner region). All of these three things point to one thing: how much you money you've got.

In a country that's more capitalistic than America and yet still have inferiority complex still fresh from 50 years ago, you've got to flaunt your wealth even if you don't gotta it.

Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, the Chinese index was up to 10x from 2000. "Stir-fry stocks" is a national obsession as much as Sunday football states-side; and even now, the real estate market speculation is climbing northward to basically match NYC condo price for a Shanghai condo.

So like the 1920's America, no the average Chinese citizen is not making all of this money but a select few have's are making money hand over the fist off the have-not's. Modern China is a rich man's heaven and a poor man's hell.
Only if they get hold of your phone and you give them your password.
Funny headline, because every time I try to self-host anything important like mail, I learn how deep that field is and how little I know and that I'll probably need many many hours to do everything right and in a secure way (and my mails would still have a higher probability to be classified as spam). Then I think: "Screw it, I'll just use GMail"
I successfully extricated myself from Gmail to ProtonMail, only to be getting dragged back to Office 365 due to ProtonMail not having a working calendar and FastMail not supporting calendar sharing (to non-FastMail users) or delegation.
This won't be much of a surprise to people paying attention, but it does show just how pervasive the level of surveillance has become now. If they're using it to build a case of someone accused of enabling piracy, then it's most definitely not being used for it's stated (and vaguely legal) purpose which moves it onto an even more shaky footing.

We should be disgusted that our governments believe that this is just and valid.
Not really. Consider that you're spending an hour per year to say that nothing happened for that whole year.
I haven't looked into this myself, BUT an MD friend I mine said that many over the counter cough syrups have been discontinued (or are no longer doctor recommended) because honey has been found to work better with fewer side effects