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The ethics of emulation: how creators, community and law view console emulators
Musk told employees UAW representation led to Toyota plant closing. Not true
I am frequently but my synth collection lives in Berlin at the moment, sorry.
I can't rule an April Fool out. A company that can't make secure software, probably has an upside in that they are people-persons with a great sense of humour.
if you buy smoked eel whole with skin it is usually better than the packaged skinned one, which can be quite moist. But eels is endangered, and you should generally not get it...
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Oh that's right I remember, Jesus I was off. Yeah I was trying a few, can't remember if I tried OpenVPN, AirVPN, and tunnelBear or something. Had to work on command line... yeah I couldn't get it to work if it was a free one (not free I wasn't trying to pay). Yeah I feel dumb now with the external configuration question.

Anyway thanks for your time, I suppose if I really needed/wanted to I can figure it out, I think I can read haha.
My argument is that because those genres would sound very very different without that machine that the 808 is singularly responsible for them sounding the precise way that they do. :)
Ask HN: What is the audience of Apple Music?
Last week a friend and I launched a project called playlists.am. Its a discover tool for user generated playlists on Apple Music (AM). Since my friend and I are both AM users, we really wanted and needed this.

We had it up and running in 2 days, and were ready for the world to see it. So we've started out with a post on /r/AppleMusic, which got us some great responses (people were actually enthusiastic about it). At that point we were quite confident on a HN and Product Hunt launch. Getting a bigger audience is keen for the sites, sinds its sort of a community.

However the launch on HN and PH didn't go quite as we hoped (and expected on the good Reddit comments). I know that HN is not always a guarantee for going to the front page, but from PH I expected more (we've were featured, and got around 40 up votes).

So I'm interested to know if perhaps the tech audience of HN and PH aren't Apple Music users, or if its just that they don't share the same enthusiasm that the Reddit users did have?
> Bismarck did, however, have a further vision that was genuinely too radical for his era: he proposed a pension that could be drawn at any age, if the contributor was judged unfit for work. Those drawing it earlier would receive a lower amount.

I wonder how well this would work in today's society. Pretending disability doesn't exist, and just making it a simple rate decrease for the earlier you withdraw.
I'm not really an expert on JS, but I'm guessing that the constructor function is the same function object, although it can be accessed in different ways. Wouldn't it be possible to blacklist the function object itself, instead of the access path?
Good point. I think the latter opinion is a very valid opinion to be had. And often it's also something you can agree to disagree about.
Why did you get down voted? You're not a popular magazine reiterating some vague plan about using a large wire-magnet to generate what you're talking about?

I don't know, we'd have to get the atmosphere from somewhere, maybe after the magnetosphere is re-established whether artificially or inside Mars, grab asteroids with ice and use that for the atmosphere.
I'm too tired to work out a closed form, but...

f_n = (1 - f_(n-1)) * P_n^(-1) + f_(n-1), where f_n is the fraction divisible by the first n primes and P_n is the nth prime.

So we can see the faster f_n approaches 1, the faster the first term approaches 0, and the faster f_n ~ f_(n-1). Perhaps doubly so, as if f_n approaches 1 faster, then P_n is smaller and it's reciprocal bigger as well. (We could plug in an estimate for P_n if we were converting to a closed form, to work out the asymptotic implications.)
Also as an economist subscriber :P, I agree that its not really a diversity of opinions. Its never going to write a pro-brexit article, for example, nor ask for less trade/protectionism.

But I would hesitate to call it a libertarian perspective. Its a very "traditional+behavioural" (I do not have a better word) economics point of view. Its "pro free-trade", and generally socially liberal, and sure, it argues against various taxes, but I believe it called out house price bubbles pre-2008, and I think it would generally be in support of environmental regulation (it is not global warming/environmentally skeptic), some kinds of financial regulation, and probably pro-socialised health care.

Coming from a european persepctive (as in, the economist is a distinctly european/british magazine), its probably a fair bit more skeptical of american capitalism and libertarianism than might otherwise be assumed.
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deterministic than what they do now by resolving to the highest version
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>One great idea I heard to make mars more habitable in general is creating a large magnetic field at a Lagrange point between mars and the sun. A sort of "radiation sunshade"

That sounds like it would be massive, or actually maybe not, like a shadow getting bigger the farther it is away from light.

What about the Mars-based idea, that massive wire that wraps around Mars I think.
I myself try to limit my meat and cheese consumption but i like joghurt and other dairy for example. But i also cycle 60+km every week at a fast pace, have normal weight and would consider myself to be pretty fit.
I don't disagree that a lot of the biggest killers are related to eating habits, but i think it's mostly because people don't eat a balanced diet and on top of that have not enough physical activity. I have a lot of South American (Brazil/Argentina) co-workers and friends who sit in front of a computer all day and hardly doing anything physical, They also consume tons of meat, cheese, fried stuff, eggs and its a culture where it's almost seen as offensive if you don't eat meat and vegan options in those countries are super limited. A lot of them are also pretty overweight, which shows that they don't really have a balance and it's clear to me that some of them will get problems when they get older but many people just don't care too much, same with smokers or people that drink a lot on weekends.

So i believe the number one killers are all mostly lifestyle related and can't be attributed to some specific type of food so easily.
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I couldn't believe the ending/sun... like what you're just going to walk away from that tech and revert to being hunter/gatherers with sticks... but after fighting Cylons that nearly wiped them out I guess so.
> I think that if you read the voice of the Economist, it puts on an air of long experience and an expert level understanding

I think it's the content of a text, not its label, that displays understanding and experience. Arguing only experts should be writing for X because it puts on an air of expertise is getting causality backwards: a publication gets its reputation from its work.
If the driver would have been guilty, probably he would have been punished.

In USA, this assumption is usually wrong. Drivers who kill pedestrians are rarely punished, no matter what the circumstances. The only vehicular deaths that less often result in punishment are those of cyclists. Not coincidentally, we learn right at the beginning of TFA that the police report claimed the "boy was crossing the street on his bicycle" even though that was entirely a lie. This is a sort of code, written by a "normal" adult who empathizes with drivers and not with pedestrians, which other such "normal" adults can read and understand without having to think. Only extraordinary acts of driving cruelty, like killing a child in a suburban cul-de-sac or mowing down a parade, can break through the stupor of official carelessness and lead to consequences. When multiple automobiles are involved, LEOs and prosecutors can empathize with both parties, so justice isn't so uncommon.
I just had an awesome monkfish with scallops for dinner last night. And earlier this week a John Dory. And they were great!

But then again, I don't order fish from any restaurant, but go to a fishing village and the restaurants there show you the fresh fish for you to choose from. Good fresh fish is not cheap.

I cannot understand why the writer, a scientist, engages in scaremongering instead of presenting a holistic picture. A dinner of fresh fish paired with an excellent white wine makes for a healthy and very enjoyable evening.
I've spoken to a private investigator in 2015 who told me that bump keys made lockpicking disappointingly easy. Their downside for a criminal is that the application is rather loud, compared to the classic pin-by-pin lockpicking.

That was the state for 2015, things might have changed.
Ada allows to return from a function a stack-allocated array of runtime-dependent size. This alone removes wast number of cases when one needs to allocate memory dynamicalky in C/C++.

I always puzzled why even C++ does not provide any facilities like that out of the box.
You clearly didn't read the article.
I can only counter with 'house is a feeling'.:-)
> I don't bother with Samsung phones after my first, after I found that their custom keyboards started crashing and freezing (Chinese mode), and then started to reappearing over the Google ones I set after each automatic app update. My only regret, is that I didn't pay the Apple tax earlier. (I'm sure there is a more permanent solution to that phone, but why should I sink more time when I'm one update away from fixing some other issue again.)

Huh? Replacement keyboards are notoriously[1] buggy[2] and[3] limited[4] on iOS. I'm at my wit's end trying to find even a temporary solution. If Apple doesn't sufficiently improve the keyboard experience by iOS 11 this summer I will have to switch to Android.

[1] https://www.macstories.net/roundups/my-favorite-ios-8-keyboa...

[2] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/iOS83rdPartyKeyboardsReviewsSw...

[3] http://bgr.com/2017/02/07/android-vs-iphone-comparison-stole...

[4] https://www.macstories.net/notes/on-the-limitations-of-ios-c...
Perhaps this is the growing interest in zen buddhism talking, or perhaps it's something else, but I've grown more and more weary of this kind of reasoning.

It's not that I disagree, it's more that it strikes me as a too-rational approach that doesn't really fit with what I learned about human behavior.

All else being equal, theoretically, obviously taking on the 'big questions' and being an 'idea guy' is probably better than volunteering in a soup kitchen.

But more often than not, based on my own thinking and conversations with friends, talking about the big picture leads to 1) a kind of analysis paralysis, and 2) the issue being too abstract for us to push through this paralysis.

There are so many paths I can think of that lead a person to bigger, more structural 'idea' solutions via, as you put it, the "can't" type approach: frustration over 'mopping with the tap open', a friendship with an addict, homeless person, etc.

Furthermore, by skipping the small stuff, we might end up coming up with 'idea guy' solutions that are not based on a proper understanding of the problem. I've seen a lot of that kind of non-solution in particular from 'idealistic highly-educated, idea-focused' people who sometimes even make the situation worse by not having spent enough time 'in the trenches'.

Now to be fair I've also experienced the other end of the spectrum: a particular one that comes to mind is 'volunteer tourism' in developing areas that severely upset more structural efforts but made the tourist feel like they did something.

But than even that end, looking back, serves a purpose. These 'tourists' often provided an optimistic energy that we 'non-local locals' had lost over time.

I guess my point is that I think anything is better than nothing, but if you're gonna start somewhere, start with the thing that activates your emotion and only then put in effort to optimize for effect. Because I think the primary problem for many of us idea-people is that we don't care enough, or don't know what to care about, not a desire to 'do good'.
I gave them 3 paragraphs to explain what this is. I don't know what this is.
> And there's nothing wrong with that. But the magazine is not upfront about it. In fact it intentionally hides it from its readers.

I generally agree with your analysis of the Economist's staff, but I wouldn't say they intentionally hide the fact that their writers have little expertise to draw on. It's like an inside joke that anyone who cares to research their editorial practices knows. I still enjoy reading the magazine from time to time, knowing full well that what I am reading about Southeast Asian demographics might have been "researched" by talking to a friend whose girlfriend just returned from a holiday in Cambodia, and just chuckle when I read an impressively argued assertion that I know is superficially true but doesn't mean what the author thinks it does.

If you wanted to put out a news magazine as thick as the Economist and actually have everything in it properly researched and written by knowledgeable experts, it would probably either cost $50/issue or, more likely, go bankrupt. So instead we have a magazine that does its utmost to aspire to that ideal, but is actually written by 23-year-olds sleeping under their desks - as you say - who do write some rather good stuff, but also a lot of total baloney. It's half educational and half entertainment - and the fun is figuring out which half is which.
They were recently hiring a SDM in Germany for this program.
This is what the author attempted to do: if you read the first commit linked in the article, they made it so that math.js wouldn't execute Function when it encountered it (either an actual Function or a variable that equals Function).

However, the trick is to make Javascript execute Function, through a function that math.js won't mind executing. What I found was simply using Function.apply and Function.call; the author found Function.bind, and someone in this thread found several more.
From the HN Guidelines:

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article.
Do you have any experience using it with scala.js?
It depends what you mean by quality. The perceived image of writers doesn't come from what they say, but how they say it along with with the status they start off with (e.g. it's the Economist). Readers don't scrutinize anything that they already agree with, and as far as the linked article is concerned, some don't even qualify as readers.
In a weak sense, the authors are commodified no matter what, just as any other worker is. As a proletarian, he must sell his labour-time (by the hour, week, month, year...) on the market to the bourgeoisie, his labour-time being the only thing he can sell, in order to make enough to survive.

The rest of the time when they are not at work, the authors 'recharge' in order to ready for more work and to keep motivation for working. In this way, the worker's entire life during the course of employment 'belongs' to the employer; in fact arguably the time when the worker is most valuable to the employer is when he is maintainig himself, just as the employer must maintain a machine from wear and tear, the worker is able to maintain himself from wear and tear and the employer doesn't have to pay a dime more for it.
Not really: http://www.economist.com/node/1873493

Leaders tends to lean more conservative than the full reports in the rest of the paper. And it's not entirely hidebound. But the paper certainly knows its biases.
It's hard to get honest advice about VPNs. As Brian describes. That One Privacy Site has a good summary of what VPN providers say about themselves.[0] I tested a bunch of VPNs in Windows and OSX, and found several that I couldn't make leak.[1] There are relatively unbiased discussions on Wilders Security Forums.[2]

0) https://thatoneprivacysite.net/

1) https://vpntesting.info/

2) https://www.wilderssecurity.com/categories/privacy-related-t...
Agreed, the Nyan cat demo has problems scrolling on iOS too. For example, if you accidentally scroll a single device pixel up before scrolling down, then the page frame bounces up and down, instead of actually scrolling down to show the content on the page.
I don't think that's true for authors who are not anonymous.

I used to read Matt Levine when he wrote for Dealbreaker. I now read him on Bloomberg and rarely visit Dealbreaker.
Schools were racially segregated just a couple generations ago. Think about what that means for schools that do legacy preference. They really shouldn't get access to any forms of federal funding.
Ask HN: Why is Office 365 in such a bad shape?
Hi HackerNews,

I am partner and CTO of a growing company and recently bought Office 365 business premium for us. Aim was to replace the web of providers with a single cloud-based service for files, email, calendars, ...

After looking at different offers we agreed on going with Microsoft's cloud offer as it provides everything we wanted and even more.

For the last two days, I had the pleasure of setting everything up. Honestly, I was expecting more, there are a lot of bugs, unfinished features or things that are simply broken, e.g.:

- I use English as language setting, other employees use German. I have found at least two places where I can change the language settings. There are pages in English, pages in German and even pages in both languages

- we wanted to use OneDrive as Dropbox replacement, but Microsoft has this idea of using SharePoint for that purpose - which is fine, but we need desktop sync and when one clicks on "Sync" simply nothing happens. Known issue, no solution

- To use OneDrive as a team, I then created a folder and tried to share it with the group Everyone - that fails with no reason

- UIs are confusingly different - Modern UI, pages looking like an older Office version, pages with broken CSS, some pages simply return no content

- "sticky session"; sign out, sign in as a different user, go to mail, voila previous user. I know they say to close all browser windows but what the heck?

All in all I was expecting more from the largest and most important software company. If I had the chance, I'd move to Google. In fact, we're looking for a CRM and I won't go with Dynamics 365.

Are Microsoft's products really in such a bad shape or am I just totally frustrated?
wow so many nice comments. Thanks, I'll try to digest these and probably come up with a summary.
By what mechanism would it get into other foods?
You see this same situation with large and small legacy systems that have reached end of life and need to be replaced. In some since the app or system can serve as the requirement for the replacement, but no one ever sees it that way. Why is the rewrite late? Still waiting for requirements! That running system over there is your requirement! Wait, that old crap? Yes that old crap.
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This is wrong.

Either:

1) You don't know what libertarianism is

2) You don't read the economist very closely

3) You meant liberalism

Given you think that the economist dogmatically believes in less tax, regulation and trade barriers, it seems more likely you don't actually read the newspaper very closely.

Take healthcare in US for instance. The economist consistently favours more government intervention and higher taxation with a single payer health system. Just taking one example from the current Europe editor (I think): http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/09/he...

> In fact, government intervention is often necessary in order to bring comprehensibility to a bewildering private landscape.
Hey there, I'm both the author of the browser streams spec [1] and the current champion of the async iteration spec [2] that this article discusses. We have, in fact, thought through the interaction here :).

johnsonjo got things basically right in his response. We go into more detail in the streams FAQ, including the connection to observables:

- "How do readable streams relate to observables or EventTarget?" [3]

- "How do readable streams relate to async iterables?" [4]

The basic punchlines are:

> Observables and readable streams both share the semantic of "zero or more chunks, followed by either an error or done signal". But beyond that, they are not very comparable.

and

> The best analogy is something like "readable streams is to async iterable as array is to sync iterable." That is, just like arrays are a specialized type of iterable optimized for memory locality and random access, readable streams are a specialized type of async iterable optimized for things like off-main-thread data transfer and precise backpressure signaling.

I do indeed expect us to start speccing the [Symbol.asyncIterator]() for readable streams, and shipping it (behind a flag at first) in Chrome, within the next month or so.

[1]: http://streams.spec.whatwg.org/
[2]: https://tc39.github.io/proposal-async-iteration/
[3]: https://github.com/whatwg/streams/blob/master/FAQ.md#how-do-...
[4]: https://github.com/whatwg/streams/blob/master/FAQ.md#how-do-...
I don't think that's particularly special.

Every machinist / fitter and turner I've worked with in the metal fabrication industry could do that if they felt like it. The small machine shop across the road from where I work now has the tools necessary to build a low-tech diesel or gasoline engine from solid-stock and hollow-bar, or if necessary whatever was laying around.

Truck bodies are trivial to knock together from scrap because they can have very simple suspension, and limited scope for handling characteristics.
Indeed, lifestyle (including diet) is the biggest problem. But when you then see what the problems in the diet is, the biggest one in for example America is dairy and then meat and oil.

Again, you can be healthier than others eating those things, but if you were in that case, not eating it would make you much healthier than your previous self. And not forgetting that as little as the amount of dairy in three glasses of milk a day increases you chance notably of getting prostate cancer, colon cancer, cardiovascular disease and heart disease. A big portion of yoghurt often have more than that. Exercising doesn't decrease those chances by much if at all.
Like in the old days, to differentiate the product.

That is the sin of being an OEM, if everyone sells the same Android image, or back in the day the same MS-DOS, there is zero value going between vendor A or B.

Well, there is value, if they cared about the quality of the hardware, but givne that most use the same factories, it is kind of debatable.

However, back then we could just throw away the tapes, floppies, CD, DVDs that were given away in the Bundle X at shop Y.

Now with ROMs we cannot any longer and those pesky apps take space, memory and CPU time.

Worse, buying a clean Android device means paying Google for something that costs more than a computer in many countries, with mere two years of OS updates.
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I wonder how much the Trump administration's insistence that NATO allies spend the full 2% of GDP on defense is so that these planes are within budget?

For the US, I'd bet the primary utility of this plane is the health of the defense complex because it is probably the last traditional major fighter program. They'll switch to fleats of networked AI "manned" drones and that will be the real prize. (Prize because it means force projection without political risk.) But one require a healthy defence industry to make these significant investments. And one requires significant expertise in a workforce in place. But the technology probably isn't there for another ten or twenty years or so for complex/flexible missions.
Yes, this ranks up there with my disappointment that they never made Star Wars episodes I-III.
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Didn't expect such enthusiasm. Out of curiosity: Are you trying to learn it?
So better job expectancy for Python programmers? :D