jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ecma TC39 is working on all the goodies you mention, and more (yes, even threads with shared ArrayBuffer memory). In a couple of years, you might have some of them in top JS engines.

Starting fresh would take many more than two years, and very likely end in tears. This assumes browser vendors could spare the effort to do JS and the new thing (most cannot, even Google arguably can't).

For why the best VMs are focused on one language, see

https://www.dartlang.org/support/faq.html#q-why-didnt-google...

and

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/why-not-bytecode/

from the Dart team. See also

http://mozakai.blogspot.fr/2013/05/the-elusive-universal-web...

from Alon Zakai of Mozilla.
Easy. I'll just wait for companies to announce their upcoming app, release a shell fake, and make the original developer pay for the privilege of using the name.
http://www.hmailserver.com/ works really well
Yes, that one is good too, but it covers different material.
Haha, same here. (edit: not planning on visiting Swindon again after the first visit which involved some trouble with the 'magic' roundabout)

I was in turn: confused (as I wasn't expecting it), amused (as I had recently read a Wikipedia article about it), distracted (as I tried to explain it to my partner), shocked (when I got stopped by a policeman having inadvertently driven through a pedestrian traffic light), and angry (when I got 3 points on my license). I tried to explain that I had been distracted by the roundabout but to no avail.
Reddit seems to have some info from the print edition already: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2qyyy9/tokyo_metro...
It's definitely possible to bootstrap the JVM in-process but there are quite some steps to it and it requires a bunch of platform dependent code to locate and load the library via LoadLibrary(jvm.dll) / dlopen(libjvm.so). IIRC the JNI functions all have C linkage so it should be easy to do from Rust.
Described exploit requires a reboot, so it doesn't matter if the computer is locked or not.
Any security measure you take can only make attacks harder. If you have a really determined adversary nothing will protect you forever. Compared to the current status quo e-mail encryption even if the private keys are only kept moderately private would be a huge improvement.
My Nexus 4 was pretty unstable when it got updated to Lollipop. I have one specific memory of trying to use navigate from Point A to Point B on my first day of work at a new job, only to have Google Maps crash about every 3 minutes. It seems to have gotten better with recent updates. At least Google Maps isn't crashing anymore.
You have to realize that some countries don't have internet. Like China, China does not have internet. They probably don't even know what Internet is. They think if they can order something from Taobao then this is Internet. Regarding communication (phone, internet, postal mail) China is not even a third world country since third world countries actually have internet.

Now the Indian government tries to compete with China who has the most fucked up communications. Good luck!
Your example seems to be more about you talking about potential client pain points and relating it to your solution. I don't dispute that LinkedIn is excellent for that (including some of the content put out by companies I've worked for) and I'm sure that nailing it generated leads for you. That falls under corporate PR, and some corporate PR is actually interesting.

But all the times clients have told me about pain points have involved phones or meeting rooms and the assumption I'm enough of a pro not to discuss that with their clients or competitors!
Between a lot of nonsense I've read today, I suddenly read a comment from someone who devotes energy to making air in schools cleaner.

Very refreshing. Good luck with your startup.
Really it feels like they had a vocabulary list of anticapitalist terms and names to include in a separate assignment.

Just dropping all of the communist bits and stating /how/ and /why/ capitalism pushes optimism would give it some intergration. It would at least fit in as a "novel or less commonly listed flaw of capitalism" instead of just including the list of top down beliefs as articles of faith.
> So you would keep your cryptocurrency in a bank and transfer it through the normal channels

You do your daily spending through the normal channels, sure, but why would you need to keep your cryptocurrency savings in a bank in such a situation?
Isn't Credit Carma owned by Intuit who also owns Turbotax? This is very odd to me that they do this, where one side is free and the other is not?
Ah! How nice to see this delightful book by that late, lamented master card magician Ricky Jay. For more about him read this great essay: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the...
You're putting words into my mouth. And I really don't appreciate it. In fact, I think that our focus should be directly on the at risk population. I think we should do more to protect them and provide a whole host of interventions and services. I think we can do that without causing a depression; Remember, the effects of economic downturns affect every single aspect of peoples lives including their health. If we do this wrong even more people may die or have significant, long lasting, hardship because of an ill-considered and potentially unnecessary intervention.

Read through my profile to find what I've said to this end, I don't feel like giving you any more of my time after you've not given me the benefit of the doubt and basically called me inhumane.
I believe they recommend Chrome, so you might want to give that a try
The evolutionary history of how we developed an instinct to hyperventilate is an interesting question.

However, I have to put up a warning that hyperventilating doesn't actually increase oxygen levels. It's a dangerous practice because it surpasses the natural drive to breath by depleting CO2 in the blood to abnormally low levels.

Our breath drive depends on CO2 levels and can get fooled by hyperventilation into letting you black out from lack of oxygen. This section on Wikipedia explains the physics of the situation really well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout#Shallow_wa...
Sure it can. Until fairly recently, client side decorations were simply unsupported, and things worked better.
Works great for me, Gentoo, 4.20 kernel, Xfce, Chrome and Firefox.
We're going to be fine... whew, that's a relief...

> Levitt said the social-distancing mandates are critical

...as long as we practice fastidious social distancing, which, at least in the U.S., big parts of the country are utterly failing at...

> The goal needs to be better early detection — not just through testing but perhaps with body temperature surveillance...and immediate social isolation.

...and if we have widely deployed testing, which the U.S. government has failed at spectacularly.

So: We're going to be fine if we take this seriously and have a coordinated, competent government response. I'll be in my doomsday bunker if anyone needs me.
42% of American women use the website. That means that they still have another 58% to go.
I noticed that as well. However, they seem to be friends / colleagues / associates. A web search for "Craig Hockenberry daringfireball" shows that Craig Hockenberry is (or has been) a contributor to John Gruber's show and John Gruber has recommended one of Craig's apps [1].

[1] http://safetylightapp.com/
Godspeed. Get out there and teach some kids how to care about something other than Call of Grand Theft Warcraft.
Outside of the line about proprietary/confidential, it is a standard 3-clause (no ad) BSD license they are using - so I don't know why they need that line in there.

That is probably the only interesting part of this story.
1. Reality and perceptions don't always collide. Like the people that post messages on Facebook about calling into work sick when they aren't... only to have their boss read the message and fire them over it.

2. What about the people whose Twitter accounts are private?

3. The people 'racing' with each other for followers or retweets are by definition more public than most other people. Unless you are going to claim that all or most Twitter users fall into that category. Trying to use them to categorize the user base of Twitter as a whole seems a bit off.

4. Twitter is a broadcast medium, but what we are talking about are the perceptions of the people using it, not the reality of the situation. There are plenty of people that broadcast stuff publicly that they wouldn't want their parents to read. Why would they do so? "My parents aren't on Twitter." I'm sure the same thing applies to bosses and the workplace.
I'm certain that people will demand a citation for a claim like that. Therefore, I will provide a citation of that fact for you:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/nyregion/10quotas.html
When I left, it had been in development for 5 years. Definitely looked for an over-engineered solution that is pushed out in some desperation to ship something.
Here's a link that illustrates this concept:

http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/2007/01/mixed-content-trying...

It's not as persuasive as it could be, but it gets the idea across.
It's been a while since my physics degree but aren't the "cosmological constant problem" and the "vacuum catastrophe" two different phrasings for the same problem? reading through to the linked pages doesn't help me in understanding what the difference between the two is (or if there is any).
I like the concept of this, but it seems like it'd be tough to validate that something was actually illegal from the individual actor's level. For instance, if management made clear that the hack here was illegal, the individual person doing the typing is just as culpable. It seems like it'd be very easy to mask that from above, however (e.g. telling a junior developer that there was a contract with Songkick and they needed to just do a database dump).
I image that it would be handy in some forms of accounting software. Some countries are very found of using week numbers, pretty much any government employee in Denmark uses week numbers, rather than actual dates, so you end up needing to known which year the current week belongs to, in this case 2015.
I recently started trying out both Tiddlywiki and Zim Wiki, and I'm starting to like Zim better. With Tiddly I didn't feel like I had stuff really organized. Of course you can search, but it didn't feel right for me.

With Zim everything is in plain text files, and it integrates with version control. This makes things more transparent (to me at least), and you can still use some useful things like filtering with tags, searching, todo-list overviews, etc.
> The government (at least, the US government) does not want to push this agenda.

You haven't been reading your e-mail from Obama:
Fighting
global warming is one of his favorite issues.
> 1) Solved: [... it's] in development

Wait what ?! Imagine saying this on a daily meeting !
I think the problem with most arguments isn't visual presentation, but failures of reasoning and expression. If a set of arguments requires careful graphic design to be comprehensible, it probably needs to be rethought or better expressed.
Thanks for the detailed answer.

I don't claim it to be a novel idea, I just remember the Alpha Go (zero?) paper that said they played it against older versions to make sure it hadn't got into a bad state.
btw one thing we could not solve so far:

it seems like on iOS Safari there is _no way_ to tell whether sound output happens via the loudspeaker or the earspeaker (super annoying when you have the phone at your ear and the audio stream re-connects and then randomly switches output to the loudspeaker — which is really loud), there might be a way to work around this without introducing a native app but so far we did not find one:

https://gitlab.com/jam-systems/jam/-/issues/19
Go read Money Stuff before you spread more misinformation about how the financial system works. There are no counterfeit shares, ownership is obvious except for cases like voting (because a short can pay a negative dividend but can't perform a negative vote), settlement is not error-prone and is slow on purpose (Russia tried real-time settlement and went back to T+2), HFT is literally just a service provider doing inter-temporal mediation between buyers and sellers rather than some evil money-stealing machine. Front-running is not real, naked shorting is super illegal with very few exceptions. If you can't tell me what part of Regulation SHO governs naked shorting, what the bona-fide market maker exception is and when they are required to fulfill a FTD, then you probably shouldn't be talking about this confidently in public.
> There is also another way of making GUIs called Immediate Mode that is commonly used for drawing user interfaces in games. In this mode the GUI components are no longer subscribing and waiting for events to come, but are instead a part of the main loop that runs at 60 fps and re-render themselves based on the current “global” state.

> Immediate Mode GUIs somehow never reached the critical mass and you are probably not going to find it outside of the games industry.

Isn't this what React is built on? I think this was part of the 'original' selling point by Pete Hunt: https://youtu.be/x7cQ3mrcKaY (2013). Around 20:00 in that video he compares React with the Doom3 engine.
You can also use the original web page model; the state is on the server, every button click generates an action to change state, and the updated ui is regenerated fron scratch based on the new state.
I think many posters are missing the actual point of the article. To me it reads more like a manifesto against the toxic main stream media (MSM) apparatus that we have in the US.

NYT (and other MSM outlets) have consistently been caught in lies that benefit the current political establishment. It has also consistently suppressed and misrepresented any group or individual that posed a serious threat to it. When caught, they either don't acknowledge any wrongdoing, or issue a non-apology. There have already been several stark examples of NYT reporters being fired (cancelled) for daring to share any opinion not in line with the NYT or the establishment group-think. There is a whole online community rallied around weaponizing the biased articles and opinions published in MSM publications against anyone that might challenge them or present a different perspective.

This is the power that we collectively have given to the NYT and MSM, and this is what the author is hoping we reclaim. For me this became very clear the last 3 political cycles, when I clearly saw the MSM bias and how destructive it is to our political discourse. We are left with no real change in large part because of the organized suppression in our "news" reporting. You just have to look at the difference of polling on popular issues vs. what is actually discussed in MSM publications.

The Trumpers already knew that the MSM is "fake" because they were a dissenting voice that was consistently suppressed and distorted. Now the Progressives have realized the same after their treatment over the last 8 years. The political middle are the ones that are left still giving credence to the MSM, but I wonder how much longer that will continue when the people's voice continues to be suppressed by these outlets and their lives get worse because of it....
If I was running China I sure as hell wouldn't let Google win that contest. This is the company, remember, that was going around lifting peoples' private data from wifi networks.
Out of curiosity and unfamiliarity with word perfect, what was that feature, exactly?
Most google services are unreachable, e.g. all spreadsheets...

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=CN&l...
I expect to see a lot of homebrew robots using Kinect for vision in the near future!
Kinda weird they don't have a direct link to their iOS app from their web site, isn't it?
The difference is that the whole point of the Y combinator is that it's a fixed-point combinator that doesn't use explicit recursion. Imagine that you didn't have "var", and couldn't name anything (which is the situation in, say, the lambda calculus). Using the Y combinator you could still define recursive functions.
> It would seem to me that something is either physical or metaphysical.

Yes, I meant that it's a metaphysical thing.

> Not once in the entire history of human inquiry has something turned out to be provably "because magic". Lightning was not Zeus having a fit, plagues were not the vengeance of the gods, birth defects are not the disdain of our ancestors, and humanity did not get created from clay.

Which is why people find it hard to accept the idea of consciousness not being physical.

> The scenario you put forward is the "Chinese Room" argument

Perhaps there are some similarities, but it's a different argument.

> You ask questions such as "are we creating 100% real pain", while not describing exactly what IS pain?

Good point. How would you define consciousness? I define it simply as my current feelings, perceptions, thoughts, etc. By this definition, only one consciousness exists. Consciousness is the only thing one can be sure about. When I feel pain, it's a non-disputable fact that I have this unpleasant feeling. But I can't be sure about anything else, for example the physical laws (they can change tomorrow). Or you can wake up from a Matrix - actually absolutely anything can happen.

How would I define pain – it's sort of a axiom (not sure how to express myself here) and it's subjective. Objective definition that would allow you to test if someone is feeling pain doesn't exist (or it would describe something else than the feeling of pain). Similarly, physics is simply unable to define consciusnes, it's out of the scope of physics.
>How is the "walled garden" anti-competitive. It doesn't stop anyone from writing applications for android, WebOS, etc

Microsoft got a lot of flak for just shipping IE with the OS, whereas Apple doesn't even allow alternate browser engines such as Firefox and Chrome on iOS.

Couple that with some capricious and silly rejecting or stonewalling of apps such as Google Voice and an Android magazine apps and I feel Apple is worse than Microsoft in asserting control over the ecosystem.
It's about time.

Now let's see the same trend in eBook pricing. Completely inflated for the moment.
Standings are a relative measure. Profits are not. You can say MS dropped below Apple in the rankings of profits. Likewise, one would NOT say in sports that X dropped below Y in wins. You'd say that Y passed X in wins.
in the words of dylan - "don't criticize what you can't understand"
Doesn't that seem reactionary and knee jerk? Do you not use countless other products because their names have been trademarked by an organization?
It's more of a bottom list but this one is pretty good too. Coding languages that never took off

http://www.focus.com/briefs/software-development/12-coding-l...
He seems to have been using a corporate account, and then was contacted via a personal account.

This goes to show that, when dealing with big corporations, even when you're paying, you're still the product.
The elephant in the room is that AWS Babelfish could be a viable alternative to PostgreSQL. Babelfish is currently a fork of PostgreSQL that is compatible with Microsoft SQL Server’s TDS wire protocol and T-SQL language. The article proposes adding hooks for wire protocol extensions eliminating the need for separate forks. Adding new languages is already supported (EDIT: incorrect, see mattashii's comment).
"API access coming soon!" - 3+ years ago

"Offline mode is in the works" - 2+ years ago

I don't trust anything that Notion promises. Changing to .com is probably the simplest of those three, too. I have no idea what their backend looks like but I know I could make that change in 10 minutes on mine.
You don’t need to use two separate domain names for that. Best practice is to use the external domain internally, and use your internal DNS server to point the records to internal IP addresses. That way you can still get public certs issued to internal services.
> one of our salespeople got overeager and tried to sell you your soul back. He will be reprimanded.

I wonder what have the consequences been for that guy.
Apple did literally the exact same thing back in the day, saying some programs don't work very well on PC and urging people to get an Apple computer. Check out one example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jlm6QSU4k
Go see a therapist. And I don't mean it in an off-handed fashion. I mean it in a professional who helps people deals with this and other problems. If there's a chemical imbalance, drugs can help. A doctor can prescribe them if they're needed.
Three times the price of fixed legs, but compared to most other sit/stand desks, it's relatively inexpensive.

I tried it at the store, and I was surprised at how smooth and fast the motor was, especially given the price.
Relevant short story by Philip K. Dick, written in 1955: Foster, You're Dead!

http://www.american-buddha.com/dick.phildickreader.17.htm
It should be no major surprise that RMS would be against booking travel through a proprietary computer network that is privately data-mined.
> Asked to name the most beautiful prose he had read, he said, “A beautiful book? I don’t even know what that means. Impactful, sure.”
As I said, I am not saying the DRM is the reason. Though I suspect it helps. When people cannot steal things they want - they do buy them. Not everyone, but there seem to be enough such people.

>A lot of such games have poor quality on PCs, and more focused on console UX, or there can be tons of other factors which affect it.

Sure. But games like COD are pretty well done on PC as well. Yet they sell a small fraction on PC even compared to a single platform. You seem to be very sure the DRM reduces sales so should not it be a slum dunk for you here? A system with a strong DRM vs a system where a "strong" DRM means a crack will come out in a month. Where sales will suffer? Where do they actually suffer? It's not some rocket science, the numbers get published every once in a while and everyone who ever shipped a multiplatform title knows them as well.

>Also console manufacturers cultivate lock-in approach and push for exclusives rather than preferring cross platform games.

Obviously I am not asking about exclusive games. Exclusive games do not get PC ports, do they?
Yeah, it seems to me the same. I dont see that as massive positive.
Everything is a boat for a short period of time.
Uh... your point is about a wealth tax but your facts are about income taxation. In fact, there isn't a whole lot of net "income" reported by the very wealthy, because most of what they make is sheltered investments of various forms. Yet , they have a very large chunk of the total assets owned (like 30% of the country is billionaire assets!), completely disproportionate to the fraction they pay in tax.

Addressing that discontinuity is exactly what a wealth tax is about. I'm not completely sold on it myself (they're very hard to administer and a giant moral hazard), but don't allow yourself to be fooled into thinking it's a dumb or discredited idea. There's a real problem, and wealth taxes represent a real, if imperfect, solution.
Miami herald for the big story last spring that lead to a lot of this coming back up.
That’s exactly what I got from it. What he’s proposing is censorship. Have everything posted anywhere be vetted by someone.

I also think that saying “Google shows you all these neonazi sites” (probably not an accurate quote, but he said something of that sort) demonstrates ignorance of what Google is supposed to be.
Indeed, what a shame. Firmware is so crappy that deleting variables bricks it, and the Linux kernel decides to expose those variables as a filesystem so that a simple shell command like rm -rf will actually delete EFI variables, instead of exposing them via ioctl like FreeBSD did [1]. As you can see, if systemd hadn't been invented there would be no problem.

[1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/rS307070