jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
At this point in time. In what way was Flash superior to JavaScript and canvas?

There was even SWF player implementations in JavaScript at this point in time.

Somehow, I don't think the death of Flash had much to do with it. Rather, the app ecosystem replaced a space that, that for a limited time, was occupied by Flash based web stuff.
Antibiotics doesn't lead to growth, it prevents infection and diseases.
What is choline?
No, it isn't. I know the standard of engineers at FAANGs.

Having engineers better than the competent engineers that are responsible for the dreaded process at the FAANGs, MS, etc is hard. The review policies of big projects tend to have been hard learned, and dismissing them because "they're useless process" is a poor choice.
I've suspected for a long time that we are missing major stuff from out diet due to changes in both the plants and animals we eat. I look at fruit in the grocery store and it just looks unnatural to me.
Posting in a chat demands immediate attention from the participants. It feels "pushy"; I don't want to disturb my friends with my random ramblings.

It's also not really possible to compose a single, long, properly formatted story, interspersed with images, in chat. Every separate post will be a call for attention, if they have not muted you yet.

Ignored push messages can easily turn into forgotten messages. There is no "mark as unread".

Chat does not provide you with an experience of reading carefully crafted posts, on a moment you choose to spend reading only about what your connections have been up to.

Knowing what is happening in the lives of friends and family living in other countries is the only thing I really miss since I stopped using post style social media. Sure, we can chat, and sometimes we do. But usually we don't. You're just not going to chat about random little things in your life with people you don't see with some regularity.
Probably not, I am afraid.

After all, you are human, and we humans aren't good at exhaustive covering of all bases. Sometimes when I am reading a rust compiler error message about erroneous borrowing I really wonder that I never could have thought about that corner case.

It's true. Sometimes Rust compiler's pedantry is just not neccessary. Then write Python, TypeScript, Ruby or in Rust box, arc and clone everything.
I don't think this person is trying to say "these are exactly the same". Only the hardest-right people try to diminish the transatlantic slave trade by saying that other groups did it than the white colonial powers. The comment to me seemed more "Huh, today I learned..." than that.
Where I work now, it's a shitshow. To a (technical) outsider who wasn't with the company when they built everything, the original requirements and constraints are not obvious. The solution was lazily built in an ad-hoc fashion, so requirements continuously emerged out of the need to work around the failings of some other foundational system that was badly implemented. Suddenly you're being asked for a zero latency relational database with 100% uptime and infinite storage, and you ask "why?". Somebody points to the fractal-like complexity of the existing system and says, "It's the only way to make it work properly". You ask for diagrams, design docs or operational docs. Someone hand-waves at the fractal monolith and says "Documentation as code, man".
That proof is just plain incorrect, though. It will break down when trying to prove this statement:

>Perimeter of the cut square (4) matches the circumference of the circle (pi)

Calculus will show that the area of the fractal approaches the area of the circle. But it will not show that the perimeter of the fractal approaches the circumference of the circle. It remains 4 at every step in the iteration, so the limit is still 4.
http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html
Do note that I wrote the copy 30 days ago- this is the last day of a month-long campaign. I'd love any actionable advice on the copy.
Oh god. I did that with mine right after I bought it. It was great, but it cost me (and our companions) so much money. $4k in fuel $2500 in tires.

What kind of Bus? Where are you starting out from?
The only laptop I could find that matched the specs you mentioned is the XPS 15 which is a $2K machine:

http://www.dell.com/us/p/laptops?~ck=mn#!everyday-laptops&fa...
It sounds like you're suggesting that since one teacher is encouraging two girls to program that therefore everyone in every girl's life is just as encouraging to them as they are to the boys.
> The value of gold in any of those technologies is only worth as much as the alternatives that accomplish the same effects.

This is true for all materials and services.

> Gold as a concurrency is completely detached from gold as a useful commodity.

Is that your way of saying "I should not have said gold was intrinsically worthless"?
True, but that would apply only when you are dealing with tasks which are likely to stall. In this particular case, we are doing CPU intensive calculations in tight loops and no I/O. I scaled the number of goroutines from 1 to 8 (total cores in my MBP w/ Hyperthreading), and got best performance with 8. Performance started regressing beyond 8
Romans did love their mixins: http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/06/04/roman-con...
Well, innovation means introducing new things or methods. Invention is creating something with ones own ingenuity, as opposed to replicating something.

So I don't quite see how experimenting and observing effects goes counter to that. Predictive science is great, but the theoretical models you use stem from observation as well. The only difference is that you get to experiment virtually, and that you can narrow down things.

So yeah, innovating/inventing requires rubbing things together and seeing what happens. Imagine innovating without eventually rubbing things together (in a wider sense of course). It wouldn't make sense.
Is this any different from living on a military base? Government employees get cheap shopping, entertainment, restaurants, social services, and decent neighborhoods with playgrounds and pools. It does seem more noble to be patriotic than loyal to a company, but is it really any different? I rarely hear service men and women complain about base conditions, they're usually fairly nice.
No, not a collaboration member ...
Well, the person that referred to the article used the wrong term. Certainly brainteasers don't work, and they have been prohibited at Google for awhile. But the recent article stated that there was no correlation between interviewers and job performance. That the beloved hash table, distributed computing, priority queue, red-black tree questions that you pepper people have nothing to do with the quality of the person you hire.

Which I have argued many times on here, should be glaringly obvious. Measure what you want to measure. I have never said "I'm so happy we hired Jane, she just tore up that smart pointer implementation yesterday". I like and dislike colleagues based not on comp sci algorithms, but whether their code is readable, how many bugs are in it, how quickly they can produce production quality code, whether they are responsible and hit deadlines, if they ask for help when they need it, if they offer help when other need it, if they are creative, if they are doers and achievers, if they take baths (seriously), if they step out of their office and interact once in a while, if they are problem solvers, if they read and keep up with their field, if they are capable of learning, if they write good documentation, if the client likes them, if I like them, if younger people look up to them, if older people feel some pressure because here is somebody up and coming, if when I go to modify their code I only need to change it in one place, and my change fits in naturally without breaking 15 different things (because it is designed with extensibility in mind), and that my heart beats a little faster because their code is just so beautiful. And so on.

Google doesn't try to measure any of that. At all. And then you (google, not you archangle_one) express mystification at why your interviews do no better than chance. There's a clue there, I'd say. If you don't measure job performance, why do you think your measure say anything about job performance?
Quite common, depending on what you're after.

Pornhub and its sisters recently dumped pretty much everything by unverified users thanks to an NYT hit-piece. Depending on your interests a lot of content went goodbye.

Youtube frequently delists music videos.

Creators sometimes remove old videos for various reasons.

Shit like this is why the cloud is not to be trusted.
I don't think there is a message function on HN. Do you have an email?
IAALBIANYL, so I will leave whether or not this would be operationally useful to those smarter than me, but from a legal standpoint, one should be aware that operation of a system like this as far as the United States would likely result in additional charges for obstruction of justice[1].

It is by no means unusual for the government to fail in the prosecution of the original crime they investigated, but succeed in convicting a defendant for obstruction. (See, e.g. Martha Stewart[2]). In fact it is not at all impossible (though not likely) to imagine a scenario in which someone committed no crime, was running a utility like this, and was eventually charged with obstruction. Say I'm Brian Q. Krebs, some nice people on the Internet decide to swat[3] me confusing me with someone with a similar name[4], police enter my house, swatd deploys and ambitious and creative young prosecutor decides to charge me with a violation of 18 USC 1519. Might not succeed, but boy will he get some press.

As always, the best advice if you are going to engage in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy is to make sure you have some goofy-reasoned memos from DOJ lawyers approving your activities[5] and Congress on call to provide you retroactive immunity[6].

[1] 18 U.S.C. 1519 (or 1001 or 1501, or 1510) - http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1519

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Stewart#Stock_trading_ca...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting

[4] http://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/swatting/

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos#Letter_from_John_...

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_law#United_States or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillan...
I don't know if I'm missing something here...
but what's wrong with running your laptop directly off the mains without a battery and unplugging the cord if necessary so the computer shuts down?
I'd probably rather them have no evidence and accuse me of destroying it, than for them to have evidence.
Thanks, but I'd really like a major product I can build with community management, brand building, nurturing people to love a site/product/app. It's a personal passion of mine and makes me really excited thinking about it :)
Don't worry, we've all made this mistake, which is the reason it's the first item in their Login issue FAQ:
http://www.s-jpg.com/blog/?p=48

Edit: note that part of creating a StartSSL account has you create a certificate for yourself to authenticate with. If you're signing up for the first time you obviously won't have done that
> This program makes me nervous because its primary use case is to obstruct justice, which the author tries to get away from with a thinly-veiled excuse that it could also be used to defend against criminals

I agree that there's a problem with the author's messaging, but I think the problem is with this first as a tool for "when your house gets raided by the police..."

There are all kinds of reasons to encrypt your data. Some of them involve obstructing justice, some involve protecting oneself from "justice," but there are many others. If you have a good reason to encrypt, then you probably have good reasons to protect your system using a program like this.

Leaving aside the State, and more mundane robberies, some people have good reasons to be concerned about industrial espionage[1]. Tools like this seem like a good way to counter that.

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2615610/data-security/when-...
The above is an explanation as to why the prices in New York and London are always in sync.

But the direct answer to your question is that the rise in the share price is shown relative to the closing price on the day before. And the LSE closes at 11.30AM EST and NYSE closes at 4.00PM EST.
> It's that Tridgell reverse-engineered the Bitkeeper protocol

I always thought it was weird how telnetting into a port and typing "help" was considered "reverse engineering".
Here's more: http://www.micron.com/~/media/Documents/Products/Other%20Doc...
It depends a lot on the framework, but you can avoid almost 100% of new and delete on code you have control.
You'd probably enjoy this one better from a major magazine then: https://linuxformat.com/ - see page 94 in the May 2022 volume. Screenshot of ToC:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/592106336838352923/96...
If you can’t afford to live in the city where you work then it’s pretty much the definition of “not a living wage.”

Like are we really at the point where we’re totally fine with people commuting an hour one way every workday to a shitty minimum wage job instead of just building affordable modest housing reserved for people working in the city.
"This video is no longer available because the account associated with it has been banned for violating our community standards/copyright infringement."

'Gone with the Wind' pulled from HBO Max until it can return with 'historical context' - https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/media/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-...

Amazon vanishes 1984 from citizen Kindles - https://www.theregister.com/2009/07/18/amazon_removes_1984_f...
The purpose, I’m guessing, is to point out that your comment was hyperbolic. I share this impression.
I was once the world's largest seller of Beanies, back in the 90s. Ty even tried to buy me off. I gambled the fad would last two years. It did. I made a fortune and then pissed it all away.
I'd think so to, but hope angular dart takes off as I kind of love it!
They seem to be comparing CI runner starting from scratch to always on VM with firecracker preconfigured.
>I would distinguish between human trafficking which is illegal,

Yes, the trope of every single person in the adult entertainment world or escort world is automatically a victim of human trafficking is quite tired. Yes, it absolutely happens and should be stopped when found, but at the same time, there are people doing this work of their own volition and actually enjoy it.
Bill Hicks: https://youtu.be/Sb5EjflughU?t=147
Which means unlimited free 10-day takedowns. They can throw them out on a whim at anything that even matches keywords, because there's no penalty for negligence, only direct maliciousness.

It's not hugely expensive to fight plain takedowns, but it's still a burden that shouldn't exist, and having your content down is a cost you'll never recover.
I know nothing about secfi.

In theory, this approach could be applied when a start-up does not have cash reserves / cash generation to pay salaries.
This should be tagged (2019). The irs has added more rules around the marketing of the free tax filing service
I'm not so sure.

A move like this can increase the confidence that the Bitcoin price won't go down in the long-term - that is, someone do wants to spend their bitcoin in the future, and signals of greater market confidence increase the perceived likelihood of that.

The more I believe bitcoin is here to stay, the more comfortable I feel allocating savings in it.

This time is also a bit different; 2017 was almost entirely retail, this time it's a lot more businesses and institutions driving the BTC market.
I don't think anyone really has any formal policies or if there are they probably vary drastically based on your municipality (the US healthcare system is a mess). The data does indicate that even 1 dose gives you some immunity, just not the 95%. That's why there's been a big push from some scientific corners to just get needles in arms to inoculate as many people as people with some immunity & worry about making sure optimal 2nd shot later (broad herd immunity with less efficacy vs smaller more effective herd immunity).
It’s reasonable to expect the value of Bitcoin to stabilize as it becomes a more popular store of value.

The US dollar provides stability and security over a very short timescale. It’s been inflating for decades (punishing dollar holders and waged/salaried workers) and based on the current political environment (insane dollar printing, “MMT” having political currency, etc.) there’s a substantial risk of serious dollar instability in the next few decades.
Mike Green is one of the most interesting thinkers in the finance space. His work on passive indexation is fascinating.
That's how the appointments are given out, but not everybody shows up.

For my second shot, I drove out 30 miles in a snowstorm, and waited two hours in line. Other people probably waited longer. Should the last couple of people be turned away after waiting 2 hours because there aren't neat multiples of 10 at closing time? Your solution, while reasonable, optimizes vaccinate utilization but at incredible cost to an unfortunate few.
The reason we have complicated taxes in the US is because US politicians make it complicated. Trump actually did a good job to simplify by increasing the standard deduction and effectively removing AMT. Still its complicated because every politician wants their little tweak.
Hopefully anyone reading this will take a minute to look up GDP.

The comment above, in a nutshell, is what's enveloping the current crypto environment. Maybe one day we'll get past it (or maybe this is just it).
"The idea that we should (in some normative sense, in an ideal world) know the people behind the products we know "better than we know the products" at the risk of being "second class citizens" was what I found bizarre."

We're in agreement there.

"I mostly agree - except that a good part of their products (or their leadership position on their products or "fame" ) is or results directly from the code they wrote."

Certainly they wouldn't have been famous without coding anything, sure, but at the end of the day the quality of their end result is what mattered - not the code they wrote to get there. Okay, maybe that isn't true so much with DHH due to the nature of Rails... but Carmack is famous because people like to shoot Nazis and zombies. Romero is (okay, _was_) just as famous, and I've never heard much about his programming skills - he seems to be famous purely for having been co-founder of Id.
> As a European I find the images from Georgia's vote counting absolutely astonishing.

What images?
> I'd love to give up WhatsApp, but network effects are key here.

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, and ideological flamewar is not cool either. Please stick to the intended spirit of the site when commenting here: thoughtful, substantive conversation—not snark, and certainly not internet-battle-to-the-death, which is what this sort of exchange amounts to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What do you do about folks who don’t have the luxury to choose to isolate? The majority of US citizens don’t have the funds to stop working for more than a week or so.

What about all the nurses who die in the line of duty treating all these new infections? Should they be allowed to opt-out of infection risk?

I understand the desire to keep things going, but so long as there is community spread the lockdown can never end, and the virus would never go away.
Most "defund the police" opponents I personally know are furious that protesters were ever allowed to enter the building and are demanding to see everyone who did arrested.
Do we know how effective those measures have actually been in practice? There's been some reporting that large numbers of people have caught it in hospital (and indeed I have a personal interest here as a close relative of mine caught it in hospital just before Christmas, though a very minor case and now fully recovered).

It makes sense to try to stop spread in hospitals but unless I've missed something there seems to have been very limited work done on if any of the protocols as actually implemented (ie not just in a theoretical world where they were designed) - and especially the costlier ones in terms of bed space - have worked, or at least worked enough to offset their cost in health terms.

Does anyone know if there's any data on this?
Obstacles to get in, as opposed to BLM's/Antifa's indiscriminate violence and destruction against anything and anybody nearby.
Agreed - that is indeed the double standard I was talking about.

We can discuss that in the context of police use/force - not in the context of taking down democracy.
have you read his tweets? this has nothing to do with free speech. You are free to post as much conservative philosophy on twitter as you want, but you can't post blatantly treasonous and violence-inciting falsehoods. Twitter allows the accounts of 99% of republicans to go completely uncensored. This is not about censoring the right, it's about protecting our republic and way of life from a violent demagogue. We don't want another Mussolini on our hands.

For the record, I lean conservative/libertarian on most issues
IANAL, but I somehow doubt that's how pardons work.

EDIT: What I specifically doubt is that Trump can just write out a pardon for "anyone on Parler". Doesn't it have to be a pardon for someone specific? Or can it be as generic and vague as he wants?
He's seen like a "hero" not because what he did but because what they did to him.

He could've been the worst journalist in the world. That's no excuse to butcher him.
Remember the 9/11 redacted pages about the Saudis leaving? Oil and $$$.

The US and the world must decarbonize to remove the power from these feudal, vicious "drug dealers." The US wouldn't need to protect SA if most of NATO countries' energy could be had elsewhere. It would be essential to remove nukes and military arms from SA and Iran to ensure peace in the region.
Killing people in other countries because their government isn't doing enough to fight extremism doesn't sound like they've been "left to their own devices".
and less than a hundred days into his Presidency Biden is bombing the Middle East; a guy who claimed he would use military power responsibly and his supporters mocked Trump supporters that claimed otherwise.

The simple fact is we have very little justification to criticize the actions of other nations when we cannot even go an Administration without attacking another nation.
Oh wow, the Add Primitive tool looks so useful!