jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can use most of the ones you use for Mac, but you have to set up a proxy so that the device traffic goes to your computer. Charles supports this directly.

http://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/faqs/using-charles...
Yes, it was ruled invalid. That doesn't make it invalid. That ruling was pure evil. The trials were a sham, existing only so that a democracy could participate in dishing out victor's justice. It's revenge, pure and simple, coldly ignoring the pressure that people were under.
Yes, exactly. ADTs are entirely known statically so there's no vtable etc.
The problem is that only store apps are allowed to be installed on Windows RT devices, and porting Chrome to a store app is not an insignificant amount of work, for what amounts to very little gain (RT customers would be the only ones who benefit).

There's an argument that future store-compatible apps are easily ported to WP10, but Google has very little incentive for any of this work.

If anything Mozilla had reasons to, but even they killed their efforts due to lack of customer interest.
It is web IRC as far as I can tell... again, am I missing something?
It's already 5 hours into april the first in australia. This is surely a cross-branded april fools joke. I'm just shocked that so many people are taking it seriously. It's testimony to the insane state of the industry/world.

If it's real then I might need to go and have a little cry.
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing (that I survived my teen driving years is entirely out of luck) but when we've built up a culture (suburbia) entirely dependent on being able to drive from point to point, we can't be surprised that making it more difficult to drive turns teens and 20 somethings off from staying in that culture.

If you can't drive or your driving is restricted as a matter of law, would you rather be stuck in suburbia or in a more urban area where mass–transit or cycling is possible?
Thanks! I'm sticking to it. Why trust anyone with passwords these days. I may add social logins though.
Another site that rips off the HN comments verbatim?

Hi everybody, I'm doctor copyright-infringement!
also in the news: vim does not need an update
He also said they should include sand paper so that people could file down their finger tips to use 7 inch devices. So how on earth a 7 inch device isn't usable but a 3.5 inch one is I don't know.
It's style isn't correct for modern C is a good reason why.
>Does that mean you're not concerned about the deaths from coal mining?

No, it doesn't. It's a difference between risks taken willingly by the people who benefit from the outcome, and risks imposed on people who don't have a choice and don't stand to benefit. And it's obvious that it was meant that way. Don't be deliberately obtuse.
The article says: "A lawyer for the police revealed during the court hearing that they were launching a criminal investigation after examining some of the material."

I wonder what crime they believe that Miranda might have committed? This reminds me that it is illegal, in the UK, to collect or possess "information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism" [1]. Perhaps this case will show us how far this offence can be stretched.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2000#Section_58_....
It's not technically a language thing, but I can't get used to the unbelievable verbosity of the method names. (And for calibration purposes: I used to do a lot of Common Lisp.)

In a language inspired by Smalltalk, they turned "at:" into "objectAtIndex:"?
I saw OnLive on E3 and was greatly impressed. I wish I had this technology, working locally at work for things like RemoteDesktop/VNC (okay not fair, as the latter would probably deal better with high-frequency detail such as fonts). But for testing/developing games off line, or even in a big office (to cut down few miles a day of walking) that would be great :)
I think IMAP, POP3 and SMTP are APIs.

We only need API for import export GTalk History, Buzz and Tasks data.
A mother and her child have a completely different relationship than two grown adults. Assuming that we should break our backs for our parents because of the natural order of life seems silly to me.
> In fact, I don't think any game where the central mechanic involves clicking on isometric squares repeatedly to plant and harvest virtual crops is entertaining.

I'm still unclear on your argument. Are you saying that any activity that people engage in, that you don't find entertaining, was invented solely to be addictive?
It's unusual for web drag-drop stuff to work well on mobile Safari. It takes care to do it right. E.g., worldoftext is unusable on an iPad (weep!) for drag related reasons.
No universal quantifiers--I'm just saying that Farmville, in particular, was designed to be addictive at the cost of being entertaining. If you have a counterpoint, kindly make it--this isn't quite the right forum for a Socratic argument.
AI, anyone? http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6607/artificial-in... :-)
Isn't the idea of asm.js that if a program is written according to the spec you can generate simpler and so hopefully faster code? That applies whether you're generating bytecode or machine code.
There is a real moral hazard here. People have been told to stay away from MtGox for months, but still chose not to listen and kept large sums on the exchange.

If the community chose to bail out MtGox users, that raises questions whether somebody knew that a bailout is going to happen and has profited from staying on MtGox, whether the Bitcoin balances stored in the MtGox database are accurate, and so on. Many customers there bought Bitcoin for 20% of the price on the regular exchange -- they knew that they were gambling.

What if the next exchange has problems, and people won't leave because they expect to be bailed out again?

It's a can of worms, and I'd rather that it stay closed.

The best thing for Bitcoin is if people learn from MtGox, lower their trust for exchanges, and start demanding proof of funds.
Doesn't Word store old data in the .docx, for things like revision diffs and to make saving quicker? Unless the filesize is really small, there might be a way to extract the previous data... Maybe that was only in the old .doc format, though.
Lack of physical activity CAN contribute to stress besides numerous other factors. It's definitely not the major factor for everyone. However, as funny as that cartoon strip might be, there's nothing wrong in using a stress producer (aka your computer) to counter stress. I'm not advocating this as a substitute for physical activity. Just saying that in a busy day, this site seems like a nice aid to calm your mind.
So you will be working hard to make sure that Japan knows that it is depressed, and your pills will solve the problem for them, eh? Sounds honorable, kimosabe.
I think that now with HTML5 standardising the parsing behaviour ( http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html ), looking at that is very useful too - it shows that void elements get closed automatically by the parser whether or not "/" is included, some other extraneous end tags get ignored completely, and also shows that "</br>" gets parsed as "<br>". So the example given in the article, "<br>Hello!</br>", does have a defined meaning in HTML5 - equivalent to "<br>Hello!<br>".
Mild climate
If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody observes it, does it make a sound? The tree can choose, because there's nobody to notice the difference.

Mutable state is not bad; shared mutable state is bad — or, at least, takes a lot of care to handle. So CPython mutates strings which are not observed by anyone else but the mutating code.

This is exactly the idea behind uniqueness types [1] and move semantics in C++ and Rust: mutation is safe as long as it's not shared.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniqueness_type
Too afraid to post this on my main account.

I don't mind you using that word. It's a generic slur stripped of its original meaning. I use it all the time.
If Walnut Creek paid an extra $9000/year for each resident then they could easily offset whatever extra environmental cost. Carbon offsets etc are not all that expensive.
For programming languages I can't upvote this enough! History and motivation and features and all that are interesting if I decide to learn about the language, but to decide whether I want to learn about it, it's really all about seeing a code sample that inspires me.
This is a very underappreciated part of scaling community-oriented platforms with user-generated content.
Just that F# other than C# is a bad example in that argument. There is a pretty independent F# Foundation with even the lead Microsoft / F# personell advocating it.
I don't quite see how price competition between cryptos is a mechanism that optimizes security spending, unless you mean that cryptos that fail security will crash and burn.

As for mining, it is necessary for reasons that have nothing to do with security. If you want to send a tx, you will pay a fee or perhaps hope for a kind miner to include your spend in a block. In no way are you signaling how much you think the Bitcoin network should spend on security.
This is ridiculous.

I've tutored them so I know, these rich kids with helicopter moms are hands down working harder than everybody else. They're taking AP courses they're not even interested in because that's their work ethic, they play sports and it's assumed they should get at least a partial scholarship. By senior year in high school they're ahead of their peers in life skills, emotional maturity, work ethic and academics.

The parents raising these kids to be "bred for success" aren't leaving it up to the chance that they can cash in on nepotism, they teach these kids to work hard.
My daughter has been playing it since she was 7, it's really cool to teach the basics of programming, and more generally to improve accuracy of spatial and time reasoning.
Haha, HR can't use this!
I'd guess Jacco Bikker and Jeroen van Schijndel are still involved though?
What baffles me is that the car doesn’t have any trouble plowing right into things which are visible in the GUI. It looks like it sees the cyclist and goes right ahead into them. Anybody have an explanation for this behavior?
> FWIW I also did a test of Node:master and that performance was within 2% of what I measured for io.js.

It would have been a good thing to include that comment to the article as well.
> what is wrong with SSH authentication?

You need some secure, out-of-band, communication means to transfer the key fingerprint to be able to verify it. The whole aim of the CA structure is so I don't need to somehow find a secure means to contact Amazon to verify their key fingerprint prior to first connecting to their website.
Average size of a home in the US is 2,600 sq. ft (2013), says http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/04/real_estate/american-home-si... . 40 years previous it was 1,725 sq. ft. The number of people per household has dropped, though only by a little.

(2.63 now and 2.7 in the early 1980s. FWIW, in 1950 it was 3.37. See http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0884238.html and http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html .)

So something has changed to encourage people to buy larger homes for the same number of people.
Only 6.5% of those misfillings were clinically significant. Overall less than 1% danger rate. That is bad, but not worse than street drugs.

The mis-prescriptions were for infirm elderly patients, who I suspect wouldn't do great on LSD either.
I've seen homeless youth charging their phones at outside outlets.
> The form is immaterial to the underlying function of the communication.

The form is very much pertinent to the outcome. If I come at you with expletives, it will produce a different result, even if just in your internal state.
React Table is soo good for making your own table library. The flexibility is insane, even in the previous version where you had render props + prop getters. I love the idea of headlessness in v7, although I'm kind of dreading the migration from v6 -> v7 :)
In order to truly to show Google is committed to open source, they have to open source Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, etc.???

Such extreme exaggeration makes it difficult to take your comment seriously.
This sounds very familiar and fishy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Blood:_Secrets_and_Lies_in...
[Author of blog post here] Good feedback - thank you! Probably would be easier to include them as reference to the end of the post for those that want to dig into it.
The election of Donald Trump could be seen as the result of the radicalisation of the working class.
It seems pretty reasonable to say China has a plan to supplant the United State's values in the international order and surpass their military might.

It makes sense to avoid wars, trade and otherwise, but it also makes sense to consider what China is going to do in the future. Turning a blind eye to the fact that they are showing no particular signs of liberalising as they get wealthier would be a mistake.

Even if the trade wars themselves are a bad idea it is very comforting to see the US trying to focus on actual threats rather than the ghosts of the Soviet Union and blowing up brown people in the middle east.
That is not true. The synthesis and layout have to be done separately for the ASIC. That is a more time consuming process than writing verilog code.
Something like Trump's campaign is clearly politics and not government/state.
> leave those sorts of details up to congress.

Yep, let's leave it to the "experts".

Policy "details" tend to have drastic unforeseen consequences, and our congress-critters tend to defer responsibility of those details to lobbyists.

We the Constituents\People\Voters have a responsibility to do our own thorough research and not allow Congress to figure out the details.

Precision matters and details can make all the difference between a good policy and a destructive policy.
While I agree that Uber could have done more here, I'm not sure why you think taxis would be better. If 14 individual yellow cab taxis refused to pick up a passenger, it wouldn't be a story. Apps can also track your location for safety, allow you to report drivers, and help you get picked up from anywhere (instead of having to risk going to a busy street where taxis might roam).

The way I see it, Uber is super helpful for people with disabilities.
I'm surprised GP didn't expect that the letter would be edited.

One of my letters was published. I fully expected that it would be edited and was pleased with the result. You can see both versions here - https://gist.github.com/nindalf/12a533f6ff64d7f146845f289acd.... I thought the edited version conveys the intent well.
Is there a scenario where releasing an update to virus detection software is better than releasing a kernel security update? I guess maybe if the former was many days faster than the latter?
> Since that time, since 'free trade' was a 'good thing', they have fallen steadily.

There is a savings glut and free trade definitively did contribute to it but it's not the only factor. There are dozens of other factors that play a role as well.

Here is how the loop works. China buys dollars with yuan to maintain a certain rate. China ends up with excess dollars. The dollar gets stronger and people stop buying from USA. The Yuan gets weaker and people buy more from China. China buys US treasury bonds with the USD, which is equivalent to saying that the US government can manage the money better than China (China is probably saving for pensions). The only way the US government can access the money is by issuing debt. If the US government doesn't issue debt then there are excess savings. Savings are deferred consumption and since consumption is paying the wage of a worker it is also deferred employment. If the US government refuses to spend the money then you get unemployment. The truth is that this isn't where it ends. If the US government does issue debt, then it can invest it into infrastructure, education, housing and so on. The US ends up both with infrastructure and low unemployment. It could be worse, Americans would otherwise have to spend their days working in factories and there wouldn't be any time left to build infrastructure.
Yeah for the original Kindle. It's brought up in the court's decision.
Public utilities are generally governed by public utilities commissions. These commissions massively control the running of the business. They can affect pricing, delivery, standards, etc. etc.

Denying or allowing service is but a tiny part of the equation.
So in this setup a driver allergic to dogs should not be allowed to drive for Uber?
Probably not available as part of the journal's "pre-proof" process. You'll likely have to wait until the formal publication date.

> These versions will undergo additional copyediting, typesetting and review, and may not yet have full ScienceDirect functionality. For example, supplementary files may still need to be added, links to references may not resolve yet, etc. The text could still change before final publication.

https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22799/s...
Perhaps it does, if Thai workers get their pay increased on a large enough scale. But these workers will also inject this increased money into the local economy, and pay more taxes towards the local government, so...
The word "feminists" is not in the quote, and being critical to part of the feminist movement is not the same as calling specific feminist people for being Voldemort.

"He described some feminists as something close to Voldemort" is about as hand wave phrase as it gets, and trying to convince people about an interpretation of a quote is an enterprise doomed before it even started unless the reader already has the same interpretation.

As some last words I have on the subject, I find the whole article utterly dated as well as the quoted sections in it. "Nice guy/bad guy" stereotype hold as much useful utility for social discussions as "Nice girl/bad girl" stereotype. They are example gender based violence direct at getting conformity to gender roles. To the amount the author disagree when people use them I agree with him, and to the amount he himself uses it I disagree with him. Nothing useful can be had from normalize such stereotyping.
You can basically consider `var` to be deprecated. It's old and there's no reason to use it. That said, it will be supported forever because of the need to support old browsers and old websites. Modern JS codebases use a linter which will tell you not to use `var`.

The rule is pretty simple: use `const` always, unless you can't because you are doing a reassign, in which case use `let`.
When you are working for a good company that values you, and embedded in a good team that also values you, there is a bonding that occurs that goes deeper than your average commercial exchange. If you have never been in this position, you may not understand the emotional difficulties involved in watching such a place slowly burn to the ground. Old timers usually still feel loyalty to those of their coworkers who are still sticking around; if the poster's boss is a good leader and strong advocate for them, which it sounds like they are, this can be even harder. People build a lot of loyalty towards good leaders.

Sure, it's emotional stuff, and the purely rational actor would dip without question. But having emotions is healthy and normal, even if it means they sometimes lead you to somewhat suboptimal situations. Of course, it can reach a point where people get locked in out of fear of the unknown, just like bad relationships. But it's rarely as easy as just saying "Okay, time to leave."
I think the thing you’re missing, probably because of whatever motivated you to use “prole” without irony, is you’re not a prole and don’t experience the economic impact of being inherently undervalued. People who never experience compensation resembling what they “put in” and are constantly navigating burnout.

It’s not egotistical it’s just a matter of perspective. Most people don’t get to decide or don’t have enough energy to decide to “get mine” even if they knew where to begin.
I never said Fauci did something connected to Newsom. Read more carefully, stop jumping to conclusions. Also, Fauci was a beat behind in March by arguing against civilian masking, so how could he be helping Newsom? He didn't flip-flop until April, and no one said this had a thing to do with Newsom. It had to do with general narrative shift to push masks on the general population.

The Newsom-overpaying example was just one of many. Mask profits shot up due to mandates. This was front-run by sharpers.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1345074213107892224

> COVID-19 is a new virus ...

Please educate yourself better before coming at me with such gaffes. COVID-19 is the disease, SARS-CoV-2 is the virus, and as its name suggests, it's not entirely novel. Masks were known not to help with respiratory viruses (Flu, CoV, etc.) and WHO + CDC policy advised against mass masking. Asian populations did start masking due to SARS1 and those habits endured, but there is simply no evidence this mattered across real populations. Cherry-picked two-week-long studies in Kansas to the contrary notwithstanding!

On ventilators: they were abused to control nosocomial spread to the point of causing lung injury. This was inexcusable, it was not just innocent "ignorance" of a "new virus". Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell blew the whistle in early April, but the NY medical staff who overused vents had no excuse in March. Sweden and other countries' medical professionals knew better.
I wish they could have gotten into the Brave/BAT stuff sooner. Also, you don't have to be an apologist for JS. You created something, while not perfect, is awesome. Onward and Upward!
The economist would say all you need is a proper set of incentives to ensure that what's best for the individual is best for the community. The AI-safety researcher would say that every set of incentives you find will have loopholes, and those will be exploited.

I'm not claiming capitalism doesn't work (at least for many definitions of capitalism, and work), but we should acknowledge its drawbacks, acknowledge strengths of other systems that otherwise failed, and hope to find a better model that has similar advantages with fewer of the drawbacks.
This drive to reduce humanity to a set of chemical reactions and evolutionary traits is misplaced, because nothing makes less amazing our ability to love just about anything. And we should celebrate that, instead of being condescending about it, because you know, life would be very boring and unfulfilling without feelings.
The referrers get stripped when you come from an https site like HN, so you actually can't
Last I heard, radio firmware pretty much had to be locked down or the regulators wouldn't certify you; the principle here being that as all modern radio chipsets are basically software-defined radios, they're indistinguishable from incredibly effective jammers. They consider the right to dial emergency services on a cell phone and have it work to be more important than the right to play with hardware.

So I'm interested to see that there's actual open source firmware for the ath9k, and it looks like the hardware will accept unsigned firmware images. Have the rules changed? Or are the regulators simply less concerned about wifi relative to mobile phone radios?
> I guess Google managers have a slightly different view of freedom from work than I do

After an evening of chasing kids around the house to get them to eat, wash and sleep, email does feel like freedom. Especially if you like your job. Also, not all email is alike. Usually no one expects you to answer important email in the evening, so you can quietly catch up on stuff you decided to leave out during the day, some mailing lists, etc. It's kinda like reading HN, just more productive.