jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Telegram always has encryption, just no end-to-end encryption by default. This is a privacy/convenience trade-off. When chatting about groceries/memes/latest Netflix releases, you don't really need E2EE that much, and chats without E2EE are synced to all devices in Telegram, including a fully-supported desktop app.
Ouch, I hope this isn't all my fault...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440066

(note, the solution Dropbox should have implemented instead of fake-lawyering up was offered very quickly there...)
The mere fact that you think of using these kinds of heuristics as "lazy" and "acting without integrity" is itself an example of why this article creates a moralistic dichotomy that's both completely untrue and entirely unnecessary.

Don't fall for it. Laziness is a lot rarer than you may believe, even in yourself. People don't just "do bad things" very often for the sake of doing bad things, there are almost always reasons beyond the obvious.
You can email me at mp32322@yahoo.com.
Do any of these run on MIPS? Profiling for embedded Linux can really suck sometimes...
According to AnandTech's tests [1] (the ones you linked to), the 13" gets over 11 hours in OS X - the 11" is just under 7.

[1]: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3991/apples-2010-macbook-air-1...
Glad you like the MBP, but if you don't have an SSD you're missing out.

If you do, the prices are a lot more equivalent (ie, MBP+SSD is not cheap).
There are upper and lower limits for "stellar" black holes, the ones formed from stars. When some big stars die they form black holes, but the size of those resulting holes doesn't scale exactly with the size of the star. The really big stars will form a BH but will also eject most of their mass outwards. So there is an upper limit to the size of a BH formed from a star. This thing is bigger than that limit. It can grow by feeding off its binary but that doesn't account for all of its extra size. It could have merged with another BH, but its hard to see how that would have happened without destroying/ejecting the close binary star we still see today. Either something very very strange happened in the life of this BH (possible) or our models need to be refined (likely).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_black_hole
> How do you leave? Maybe long-press the room name, or swipe? Nope, you enter the room, click on the triple dots, settings, scroll down, leave room.

Long press sure works in a recent version of element-android. (And I remember that being the case for a long time, but might be mistaken here.)
Why do you think the BCH blocks aren't filling up?

Maybe it has something to do with the increased block size?
Off the top of my head, I think you could do ‘-f bestaudio’ with ‘—output-format m4a’ to automatically get the best audio and convert to m4a format.
In fact, didn't Facebook when they bought Whatsapp remove some of the interoperability features? Very in line with the scumbags they are
Controversial, sure, however I presume it is controversial because it has become a common trajectory to launch with an intent to eventually be acquired by a bigger player. Has this always been a common intent of new businesses?

Depends. What are the arguments for a company holding shares in another?

If the purpose a company X has shares in Y and Z to diversify their income stream then perhaps non-voting stocks would be suitable.

If a company holds shares in another company because they are somewhat dependent on it being run and facilitated in a certain way, it makes sense that they'd want to have an influential share but if they are rich enough to acquire such a stake then they are probably a valuable enough customer that the company they depend on won't do much that upends the entire business relationship. Or is that naive of me?

If all big mergers are banned and if all megacorps are banned from acquisitions, then maybe also ban the idea that companies should have voting rights in other companies? Now, a wealthy enough CEO might sidestep that as a non-corporate entity, and may do so by some degrees of separation if they themselves are judicially blocked from such holdings so I don't have a ready-made fix for that.
PCI compliance scans are, for the most part, a joke. If that's true, it's truly ridiculous.
During a currency crisis, the government in question usually becomes unable to sell bonds at any price. During the 2008 crisis, people were paying the US government to hold their dollars (bond rates were negative).

If the dollar collapses and takes the US government with it, there isn't going to be any electricity to use to operate bitcoin (at least not in the US). People that do have electricity probably won't trade it for fairy dust.
In this case, the problem with any kind of technical workaround on the server side is that Baidu is under the jurisdiction of the government implementing the DDoS and is thus unlikely to be able to actively work to defeat it. If another country tried to do the same... well, that's what HTTPS is for.
I think he wants it to be a framework without any heap allocations.
atmel and ti - but they are dense too
I'd say reading a book on interpersonal relationships is better, then sales, then finance/accounting, THEN some entrepreneurial startup books.

1. How to win friends and influence people

2. 7 habits

3. Any good sales book (I liked http://www.amazon.com/10-Steps-Sales-Success-Shorten/dp/0814... )

http://www.amazon.com/Successful-Cold-Call-Selling-Examples/...

4. Accounting for dummies or something like that, same with finance (I have a degree in Finance, was much more helpful than I realized)

5. One or so of these books (Parent listing).

Most people don't realize every job involves selling. Relationships and communicating effectively along with having good understanding over the whole business is helpful. If you don't think any of the sales stuff applies to you, I wish you good luck :-)
The timing is terrible. Even if it's not a joke, they've just set themselves up for this exact comment.

Surely someone would have thought of this? Just seems like a really bad choice -- too bad for a company like Amazon to make (the timing, that is, coupled with a highly-branded product like this).
On the regular version, not the lite. Here's my URL after searching for "asdf":

https://duckduckgo.com/lite/

In the search form, it uses POST instead of GET to perform the searches.
Even approaches like React-Window?

https://github.com/bvaughn/react-window
Is the philanthropist described Bulstrode, specifically?
> Braid can give you the power of Google Docs at any HTTP URL, without writing additional code.

What implements the OT or CRDT logic? The webserver itself?
This is a good example of heresy suppression. It has the same amount of intellectual weight as countering a list of the many positive achievements of the USA with "but smallpox blankets", "but the meatgrinder carceral state", "but CIA backed coups," "but PRISM/XKEYSCORE" etc. The point of thinking about what is and isn't heresy is working on the ability to avoid being blinded by a single data point (or that's what I took from the essay anyway).
I agree with this.

A problem is ultra-orthodoxy along with less than truthful advertising. As someone commented in line, don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

I know in other cultures I've worked in abroad this would not be a problem. People presume best effort with these kinds of things and don't take it literally --some people might but they'd be a tiny tiny minority. It was usually the foreigner who got upset that something wasn't 100% vegan even if in spirit things were and locals were okay with it.
Also, being able to add Rust to an existing C or C++ codebase was an important design consideration. Big projects like Firefox aren’t just going to re-write millions of lines of code all at once.
No, you can of course allocate W+X pages from the OS and put multiple closures in them using a standard userspace memory allocator.

Or if the OS doesn't support W+X allocation at all, then you can have a bunch of tightly packed pregenerated trampolines in the binary.
Of course he has to care about the haters if they leave negative reviews of his apps: negative reviews will directly hurt future sales. If people see the free app with a bunch of negative reviews, that can harm the overall brand, even if the paid app has a bunch of good reviews. I didn't hear him saying it hurt his feelings that he got negative reviews; it's simply bad for business.
I'm really not a fun for Mac stuff. It's just a fashion thing, not for work.
For the money you spent on Mac, you can definitely buy a cheap powerful machine with free reliable Linux system.

No matter to say its monopoly of market, even an adapter to projector need its own. I have seen so many times someone using a Mac but forgot bringing that stupid adapter for projector, she/he had to change to PC to do the presentation.

Still don't understand why people like such pricey not comparably useful machine.
Could not initilise WebGL, Sorry :(
To me, it's just a big black window.
Wow, I think this article is taking quite a leap calling shrinking industries dying. I'm not sure anyone would argue that the typewriter industry is anything but dying, or the pager market.

However, does anyone really think that wired telephone lines are going to disappear from business anytime soon? Or that apparel companies aren't going to need manufacturers?

Shrinking industries are a great place to introduce disruption, and many times profit can be made from causing a market to shrink.

Anytime a high margin industry have an entrant willing to take lower margins, the industry is going to shrink, but it's not bad for anyone but the incumbents. Take a look at Redhat and MySQL, they were happy to take high margin, hugely profitable industries and contribute to their decline, because it allowed them to capture a bigger chunk of a smaller market.

It just so happened it was good for all the rest of us too.
There's also a "turtle" module that came included in my Py3k distribution. Not sure about 2.x versions.

Giving commands like "turtle.forward(10)" opens an asynchronous tk window showing the "turtle" (an arrow, really) and a line where it has passed. The window remains open, the focus goes back to the python interpreter, and you are free to type new commands.
That's amazing! I wonder if I saw that and tuned it out as one of the 'boring' segments. It's genius, of course, but I'm not sure I would have felt so at 6. (I did recognize it, though, from this great thread a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18253445.)

One of the great things about Sesame Street was how they could entertain the parent along with the child. I remember a sketch about some composer struggling to write a song which is obviously "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", who somehow gets coaxed into the following instead:

Twinkle twinkle little bird
Isn't eating crumbs absurd
Try a ham and cheese on rye
Or a piece of cherry pie
If the crumbs are all you want
Don't come in my restaurant

That appeals perfectly to the small child who immediately recognizes the song and thinks it's ridiculous to rewrite it; perfectly to the adult with an ironic sense of humor; and perfectly to anyone who appreciates the craftsmanship it takes to pull something like that off. (Edit: I found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfqc07-C4Vw - I forgot the Kermit news reporter. What a brilliant thing. The nuances of those puppets are incredible.) (Edit 2: oh gosh, there were tons of those! https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Don_Music.)

Another example: using "To be or not to be" and "Let It Be" as devices for teaching the letter B:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPb8oRJfNpQ#t=1m45s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPb8oRJfNpQ#t=4m3s (I wonder why they changed the melody - surely it would've been fair use)
Network's that whitelist devices by MAC and device registration/provisioning by MAC. And debugging network is theoretically easier when every device has a unique MAC.

There are several applications for OSX and various *nix distros that run at boot and randomize MACs. SpoofMac is probably the most well known: https://github.com/feross/SpoofMAC
Let’s hope this goes better than the last time the Planetary Society tried to deploy a solar sail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail#Solar_sail_propulsi...
In my experience, football players usually get special incompletes. Basically, what happens is that if they are in danger of failing a class, the coach demands that they do a lot of practices during the game. They then get an incomplete and get to retake the course.
Yeah, here in the US "top-shelf" is usually used in the context of alcohol. All of the really good stuff is top-shelf (usually literally) and the well stuff is the garbage in plastic bottles.

Keep the really good stuff up high and visible where everyone can see it.
If I don't care about syntax highlighting, it's definitely going to help ease eye strain after programming for long hours.
I think 'tptacek wrote in some other thread about WAAH and Cryptography Engineering being two of the others.
You are completely right but from a legal standpoint their launch is very interesting either way.
You can not simply invest your money at "compound interest" for an arbitrary number of years. Market interest rates change over time. And even if you would manage to get some institution to guarantee you interest x for n years, that institution might go bankrupt before you get your money back.

Some long running investments exist, like governments still paying off debts from World War 1. But you can not count on such deals being available when you need them.

I think Andreas Eschbach handled it pretty well in his excellent novel One Trillion Dollars. It also has the premise of a heritage that compounds for a very long time. But it explains that there was a family whose sole purpose was to manage the fund for centuries until the heir was ready. (The book is not so much abut the wonders of compound interest as about the value of money).
The output does look better but this also just looks like every PR for applying a linter / formatter I've ever seen. Not sure why this is news worthy.
Critics mostly have made the correct observation that the investment, time and effort required for each increment of improvement seems to place the problem in the “theoretically possibly but probably practically unreachable” domain.

Tesla can’t even implement auto breaking on a straightaway that doesn’t kill model pedestrians in controlled testing. Only the truly credulous think they can get to FSD in any realistic timeframe let alone Musk’s fantasies.
If you use the Travis CI integration, it actually tests the result of merging a PR, rather than the branch being PRed. This seems to solve a lot of problems on projects with thorough testing.
yeah, maybe it's too silly. I've seen a peach used before to represent someone's butt. wasn't sure what to do for no. 1. no emojis really fit.
You've been using a lot of really contrived scenarios that don't faithfully represent reality.

Here's the reality: We're trying to stop a pandemic of a highly contagious disease that can overload most countries' healthcare systems and has the potential to kill millions.

Also, putting aside how contrived your example is: yes I fucking would take that deal. 3 months of inconvenience in return for someone's life being saved? You know people fight cancer for years, right?
No idea. This 'fix' doesn't make any sense.
I'm sure all of Apple's customers agreed that, simply on principal, it was better that their e-mail was broken in the new OS release.
There are no NBA players getting paid $25K a year. The NBA minimum salary for a rookie is currently over $500K a year and around $1M a year for a veteran with at least 4 years experience. The $25K salary figure is misleading because they are taking into account extremely short term contracts for a handful of games. If you ride the bench for an 82 game season, you are making a lot of money, and you literally cannot make less than the number in the NBA's collective bargaining agreement.

Bench players are valuable assets. Your starters practice against them even if they don't play, and there are some guys who are talented but not up to the task of playing 30+ minutes a game for various reasons.
This doesn't say what did happen (theft? lost key?) or why it happened now (feds? out of money?); it just says what didn't happen (collusion). We still don't know where the 750k bitcoins are.

Two interesting theories, the second being my favorite (but both agreeing there's no way 750k bitcoins could have been stolen):

http://jesse.forthewin.com/blog/2014/02/unilateral-statement...

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/somethings-not-right-at-gox/#.Uw6...
I don't mean to sound hipster or anything but I prefer software with native look-n-feel on the platform I'm using.

I tried Emacs on OS X (proglang on Coursera asks students to use it for editing SML), gave it a couple of hours and switched back to Sublime.

I understand I missed all its glory and power but at least Sublime scrolls like OS X apps scroll, has shortcuts like OS X apps and looks like a OS X app.

But then again, I understand why you might think this is a fool's position. I'm okay with that.
Try explaining to your local regulators why your bitcoin balance has traces of illegal/laundered money in it...because a drug overlord's purchase was destroyed and the funds were gifted to the community.
Strictly, there has to be at least as many people willing to punish than there are people unwilling to punish amongst the people the fraudster targets for the fraudster to lose all the gains from their scam. I don't know that this radically changes anything, but it's not quite the same thing as honest people outnumbering fraudsters.
That was a problem, but that didn’t kill the Amiga. It had enough advantages for people to pay more - but Commodore mostly rested on their laurels. When the Amiga 3000 was out, it turned out that the CPU was faster than the blotter, for example - over 10 years, CPUs effective speed was almost 10 as much, but the ECS (which included the graphics coprocessor) wasn’t even twice as fast as the original 1985 version if I remember correctly.

And Commodore was really horribly mismanaged at the time in every perspective.

And yet, the Amiga lived a very, very long time - i know it was still used in TV stations into the early 2000s, despite being dead for a few years at that point, and the PC world having caught up to it and surpassed it in capabilities.

Amiga hardware and software is still coming out. But it’s the afterlife now.
> and decided to not invest in making a compiler for it.

For those who are unaware of the significance of this statement, Walter Bright wrote the Zortec C compiler for DOS (eventually rebranded as Symantec C) which he later extended to be the first compiler that translated C++ directly to machine code without first going through C as an intermediary language and is currently the lead author of the D programming language and its DMD compiler. This man knows compilers!
Exactly.

If we may now agree that the original, widespread understanding of a KB was of 1024 bytes, and a MB of 1024 KB, and that only later did a widespread impression start to be spread that actually a KB|MB could be 1000 instead, we strike at the very heart of this issue:

Adopting an alternative "standard" spearheaded by particular (and not all) storage manufacturers incentivised in the first instance to use the previously well-established terms KB and MB duplicitously in their favour, strikes me as the worst way to resolve any consumer confusion surrounding it.
While Linus was just starting Linux in 1991, there was also Net/2 which came out in 1991. Net/2 was 4.3BSD with the AT&T code removed, and is the precursor to all of today's BSDs.

In a lot of ways 1992 and 1993 were more interesting than 1991, as they saw the first releases of Slackware, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Windows NT, Solaris, etc.
The lore is that Google heroically pulled out of China because they wouldn't compromise the purity of their search results. The reality is somewhat more complex—in short, Google played chicken with China and lost.

"In the end, though, it wasn’t censorship or competition that drove Google out of China. It was a far-­reaching hacking attack known as Operation Aurora that targeted everything from Google’s intellectual property to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The attack, which Google said came from within China, pushed company leadership over the edge."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/19/138307/how-googl...
The author does mention this in an in-depth article on search: https://thevaluable.dev/vim-search-find-replace/

It's pretty comprehensive. Personally I'd just install Doom Emacs though :)
My comment is both a substantive critique of how you communicate and a commentary on executive communication.
Are those magic mushrooms growing in the mastodon poop? Where is Andy Lechter when you need him :-)

http://andy-letcher.blogspot.com/2011/07/selva-pascuala-mush...
Stocks have a positive bias above overall economic growth in dividends. In other words if you owned 1% of the US stock market in 1980 then without luck or skill you could turn that into owning more than 1% of the stock market in 2020.
Basically, ignore any subject matter that tries to reduce cortisol to being "bad".

Cortisol isn't inherently good or bad. It's context-specific. It's not something you want to universally lower. In fact, if you take supplements or medicine that significantly lowers cortisol (e.g. by inhibiting cortisol synthesis) you'll find that you don't feel very good at all. You need an appropriate amount of cortisol to respond to activities.

Running extreme amounts (100s of miles per week over and over again) should be approached with additional education and appropriate attention to one's health, but generally speaking someone running for fun and paying attention to their body (e.g. don't force yourself to run if your body is telling you to take a break) doesn't need to worry about anything.
I have to downvote to hide this.
Hm, I'm out of the loop here, who would sign the photos? The camera app?
> Not all vaccines are given to all groups.

"Not all" does not counter the general case made.

The whole point of vaccination campaigns is to get the whole population vaccinated to eradicate the breeding ground of the disease.

That's how we managed to eradicate Smallpox, and in a lot of countries Polio, Measles, Rubella,...

Guess, why we managed only to eradicate the first, and what stops us from doing so with the others.

> But more time and data can benefit the researchers.

More time can benefit the virus to try more different mutations.
I don't think you are speaking for the benefit of the researchers here.
Reminds me of OpenLASE:
- https://github.com/marcan/openlase
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoWCNKhZCbk
The solution – as mentioned in the article – is to also invest in energy storage, like California has done.
I switch between toe clips(for commuting) and cleats(for longer rides) at least once a month. Why would you need to handle the chain? Pedals are attached to cranks.
I don't think anyone disagrees that CFAA reform is needed.

But this doesn't show a misapplication of the law as it's currently written, either.
"Remember that time we bought the thing? And we had that bug? And they said 'We'll never fix that because the product is EOL'? That should never ever happen again, and is worth 20% per year to insure against."

AR quotes maintenance purely as "We promise this product will be under active development for the duration of your maintenance contract. We might decide to do that independently of this contract, but if you want a legally enforceable promise which you can quote to other stakeholders, that costs $PRICE."
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Those micro-thrusters are probably piezoelectric, like the nozzles on ink jet printers.

They move a bit I guess, but there is no net motion - they transmit no force or vibration outside of the device. They flex, but have no relative (sliding) motion.

There are other parts on the satellite that can bend - will you call that a moving part as well?