skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you aware of this case - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar , http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-20321741 ?

"Savita, pregnant at 17 weeks with her first baby, went to the hospital with her husband Praveen on 21 October 2012 complaining about back pain. Her water broke early on the morning of 22 October and Savita asked if anything could be done to save the baby. She was told that the miscarriage was inevitable. On 23 October, having understood the baby would not survive, she asked for a termination, and was told it was not legally possible in Ireland while there is a foetal heartbeat. Midwife manager Ann Maria Burke attempted to calm an upset Savita and explained that the termination cannot be carried out because Ireland is "a Catholic country", a statement she later said was not meant in a hurtful way and a statement that she was sorry for making if it sounded bad afterward. In preparation for a termination on 24 October, Savita delivered a stillborn girl. At 1:09am, on Sunday 28 October, Savita died.[3][4][5][6][7][8]"
No change is necessary.

Anybody can "write the law" and have their well-compensated politician do the formalities.

More advanced players will simply put their stooge in an office of power (see Ajit Pai).
Actually I'd be curious if you've done an in-depth analysis of the available TDD studies. What are the benefits compared to simply writing unit tests that made you a big fan?

I'm aware of Oram/Wilson2010.
Tetris TSpin Perfect Clear infinite loop setup
Talking in terms of years of support.

$450 / 2 = $225/y of support.

$700 / 5 = $140/y of support.
By far the most elegant solution I've found for this is TypeStyle [0]. Composable typed JS objects-as-CSS are a revelation and lend themselves to the kind of abstraction/extraction that most devs do everyday.

In contrast, inline parsed CSS such as styled-components seems nuts to me.

[0] https://typestyle.github.io
In principle (ignoring whether it's a good strategy) could the tribe simply keep all the money? So the choice is, make $15 million per year until 2024, and possibly more from other deals (but other tribes are going to get into this and start a race to the bottom) OR make $1 billion per year until 2024, and no one else will ever make this deal with you.
Yup, this was done in this years USENIX with AMD microcode. See the exploits that check for magic register values at [0] and the paper at [1].

[0]: https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/Microcode/tree/master/updates

[1]: http://syssec.rub.de/research/publications/microcode-reversi...
Why can't people just not go out of their way to write crap CSS in the first place?

There seems to be this trend to show off all the possible different ways you know of addressing a single element somewhere, by pointlessly combining them together in brittle ways that depend on each other and accidental document structure, using haphazard random inconsistent naming conventions.

If there's only one of them, then use a fucking id.
Steve Jobs had an acquaintance in college named John Draper (aka "Captain Crunch" in the hacking world) who if I remember right taught Jobs said blue box skills. He possibly represents the endpoint which the OP fears.

I've met him at a couple of raves back in the 1990s back when he was basically wandering around the rave scene. My impression: brilliant guy, but incredibly eccentric.

I don't know much more about him beyond Wiki articles etc., but apparently he has had a bit of a tough time employment wise, due to a combination of his phone fraud convictions and his eccentric personality. This despite his heavy tie-in to early Apple history, and a fairly strong coding resume. Then again, from what I saw, his personality is not the type that would embrace Standard Corporate to begin with, I'm sure. But said personality means he never got rewarded much for what he did. If I remember right, he actually had to crowdfund for some medical issues recently. I think its fair to say at any rate that his talent potential ended up being underutilized.

You are right that it's possible that there are more opportunities for these sort of weirdos, but in order for that to exist, there has to be a space for the small corporation that is more willing to give eccentricity space. One of the dangers of corporate consolidation is exactly this: large corporations are probably more likely to exclude people with mild criminal records because checklists, and they are less likely to give space to people that don't fit into corporate cultures. Consolidation tends to kill innovation; perhaps this is one of the ways.

Likewise, from a university perspective, it won't matter as much if Big University kills off culture that "doesn't fit in" if there are small universities that welcome the eccentric weirdo. However, if only the Big University Degree matters in life, then it's also entirely possible for the eccentric but brilliant weirdos will end up being outside the system. Maybe they will form their own collective and create something new. The alternative is the Draper like scenario where one more just drifts.
So you're saying that, yes, they should regulate it.

Out of the thousands of other issues facing the California government, where would you rank it?
Lots of folks lease S-classes, just like many folks (myself included, maybe) will lease the iPhone X.
What makes Quantum Cryptography secure?
So they run as well as a 4 year old phone with a 5 year old CPU/GPU? Sounds... not good. Not to mention you can get that 5C for about $100 today, so $50 less than your Xiaomi.
Between their decision to release a rebranded "more secure" version of Chrome where their changes had introduced security holes, and their decision to try and trademark "Let's Encrypt", I can't imagine they have many friends in the CAB.

On the other hand, they issue a lot of certs - if you've used Cloudflare's free SSL stuff, you've got a Comodo certificate - so they're unlikely to be shut down or anything that extreme.
it is likely that several story details would lead to him/her being recognized
>For most apps (and especially for apps which have a lot of text like Slack), Native is overkill and suboptimal though some people claim otherwise. You lose standard functionality like Copy, Partial Text Selection, Web Search (Selection), Share (text selection) with Whatsapp, Messenger, Copy Link etc. All of which come free with a Browser view.

I can't speak for Android, but under iOS you get all of that for free if you're using UITextViews that have selection enabled (as opposed to UILabels). It'll also give you Wikipedia/Dictionary/Thesaurus lookup popover, data detectors (auto-linking dates, etc) and more.

There is functionality somewhat unique to browsers, sure, but it's a smaller set than you may think and in many cases, dropping in a resource intensive WebView for a couple of little perks is what's overkill.

Personally, my feelings are that if your app is mostly a webview, just stick with a web page. There's little benefit adding a wrapper, and it strips control away from me as a user (no blockers, etc).
I started a company with someone a few years ago. The company we create raised 600K over a period of 3 years from non-institutional investors. The company we created was actually making money (~450K in revenue in a single year with 2 FT and 1 PT employee)

Anyways fast forward 3 years, I come to find out that my business partner had been paying himself 450K/year (instead of the 125K he told me about), he drained our bank account, sent out fake financials to investors, bounced employee paychecks, told me he was paying my taxes (I was W2, but he spent them) and took out 150K in loans again the company to keep everything going so he could continue with his bullshit lies. In the end, between the taxes he stole from me, and back salary I was promised --- he owes me a total of ~80K + interest for a few years.

All of the employees resigned, and subsequently started a consulting firm that has been doing extremely well for many years now.

Needless to say, rock bottom was finding out someone stole 80K from you and your company was failing because your business partner is mini Madoff.
What if I source the parts from AliExpress instead of Amazon? Should be quite a bit cheaper, right?
The tech world is going to have to decide pretty quickly what it wants to be:

1. A set of dumb pipes and a public square for information.

Or

2. A curated community built for advertising where things that offend people are censored.

Right now tech has chosen option 2, but in answer to any regulation it doesn't like, it pretends it has chosen option 1 and loudly screams "free speech". Tech is trying to have its cake and eat it too. I think more and more people are becoming cynical that the tech companies really care about free speech as a principle, and so we will see more and more of these type of laws.
Every time I see that phrase I know the person who said it will never be able to answer this, but I still am tempted to ask: please define "fair share" and who exactly determines it and how.
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I personally am much happier than I would be as a hunter-gatherer.
Nope. "in person by enclosed motor vehicle" only. And the vehicle needs GPS monitoring.

Again, the goal is to make sure that legal marijuana delivery operations are demonstrably not moving legally grown California marijuana across state borders. To avoid federal involvement.
>I've always lucked into these situations

Given that you know to look for a good boss and you know to resist offers purely based on financial terms, I think you are helping yourself to make your own "luck" :)
> this is just a numbers story

I actually think that this points to the larger issue. We are seeing homogenization by numbers. It seems intuitive to me that counterculture groups absolutely will have worse aggregate numbers than conformist groups, particularly when graded pass/fail (in this case graduate/no graduate).

If you disallow people sorting themselves into groups where some have much higher drop-out rates than others, it becomes a de-facto ban on counterculture groups. To me that's almost more scary than the administration consciously setting themselves opposed to counterculture groups because it sets a goal that is much harder to fight.
There's still no September update, while other phones got it last week.
https://developers.google.com/android/ota#shamu
how did you try the js version?
I really hope that the USPTO says something akin to "You cannot transfer US patents to any other country or sovereignty. As such we're taking your 'transfer' as having abandoned the patent in question. This decision is final."

Punch em in the nose just once and that'll teach em to be much more careful about being scum.
Imagine a refined form of lobotomization were possible such that the individual who underwent the treatment would be reduced to an infantile level of IQ. They would retain sufficient intelligence to maintain basic hygiene and preservation, but little beyond that. However, it also resulted in the subject of said procedure receiving enormous pleasure engaging in simple repetitive tasks - such as, for instance, flipping burgers.

I would, in no way whatsoever, be interested in such a procedure and I think it's safe to say that applies to the vast majority. Thus, it must be presumed that the happiness of an individual or a group is not really a measurement of their 'fulfillment' even if it sounds like a reasonable premise in a vacuum.
Worth noting that the rule they broke has only been in effect for three days (https://cabforum.org/2017/03/08/ballot-187-make-caa-checking...). This might cause the CAB to go a bit easier on them.
How to Use SSL with the AWS Schema Conversion Tool Data Extractors
At some point in my life, I had the roof of my appartment literally fell on me, lost my job and my girlfriend... Thanks to some friends and family I did not become homeless but I was inches of that. Now I have a company that did pretty well (bootstrapped) and now I'm building a new startup. I have one kid and I own my appartment.
Fair: an equitable distribution of resources and burdens according to community values and beliefs

It's not rocket science. We (humans) use it every day. It's just contextually and subjectively defined by group consensus.
The author spends some time talking about platform stability as a big part of why web apps are great. But for web apps, is the platform actually stable?

I run some applications on my PC that are older than the iPhone and they work just fine. Will the Starbucks web app still work a decade from now? Is any non-trivial web app ever actually done?
> I would make a huge bet you've used a website that you were unwilling to install the app for

HN!
For those unaware: modern Tetris games have the "Bag Randomizer", as well as major bonus points awarded for "Perfect Clears" and so called "TSpins".

The Bag Randomizer means that you get every 7 pieces (TIJLOSZ) before you get another one. So every 14-pieces, you are guaranteed to get two of each piece.

This infinite loop setup is possible because 5-bags evenly turns into 140-lines. 5-bags, 35 pieces, and 140 minos turning into 14 perfect lines. From my understanding of the discussion of this technique, there is only a ~99.3% chance that the infinite loop can be continued, assuming perfect play. But that's still more than enough to get a good 3-minute game going.

It takes a lot of skill, practice, and study to be able to perceive the perfect clear each time, but with study, skill, and practice, such feats are possible in modern Tetris.
Are you really reasoning in favour of some obscure program rather than a simple "ln -s"?

Dude, we have been using *nix since decades.

There is nothing wrong with keeping things simple - no need for systemd whatsoever.
Naye, you could get one in late 2013
For first 90 days AmEx "Purchase Protection" covers theft/accidental damage up to the cost of the item, without premiums or special fees. Just use the card to buy it.
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I love RamBox - and hope it continues to gain momentum. Really wish someone would add Spell Check support.
I think the best answer to this is three questions.

Is the browser being used to make dynamic "apps" instead of static web pages?

How do app frameworks/toolkits on other platforms style their apps?

And finally:

Do you think the people who designed all of those frameworks were stupid?

Seems to me like the web is finally catching up with the only sane way of styling the widgets in an app. It's done in the same language and it's per component/ widget.
^this. If people took the time to learn the basics then this whole thing wouldn't even be an issue.
not all CSS is equal: if you define global styles like h1{color:#000;} you want them outside components, in components you want the minimum of css needed to render correctly your date picker or whatever you are trying to accomplish and you want minimize external dependency on the global css.
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> If it is recognized that Facebook is a media company, it will be legally liable for its content, and it will be forced to keep better track of fraudulent anonymous usage, like U.S. political ads placed by foreign customers.

What is exactly fraudulent about U.S. political ads placed by foreign customers?
I am kind of curious what the endgame of micro-dosing will be. Making a pretty hefty assumption that there are no common side-effects, I wonder if it will ever be as common / mainstream as caffeine is currently
An interesting analysis in general; though just for this specific case, this phone is more a different niche, than purely better. It's larger and heavier.

There are technologies, like process nodes, that improve on several dimensions, and while I'm sure the military has access to "future" process nodea, the yields are just so dramatically low (and also therefore dramatically more expensive), that it's not really feasible for a mainstream product.

The adgances it will have will be much less profound: more CPU cores, more GPU cores, maybe higher clocking, and a heavier battery to power it all. So, it's simply an attempt to broaden the product line, like the "plus" and (unsuccessful) "C" models.

Also, given that Apple sold a $10,000+ watch, they probably don't mind charging more. Though, it'll be priced to sell (which that watch didn't).

However, given that phones have overshot most people's needs (e.g. 5s iPhones are still selling well), Apple will soon need a killer app that requires all that power... like AR. Unfortunately, there's no indication that AR is a killer app. Who knows, maybe Apple will change that.
I think they stumbled into being media companies out of naivety and not understanding, initially anyway, that they had duplicated a media company business model with everything except the content generation. they simply replaced the content generation part of the business model with what was being given to them, for free, on the internet by users and other original content creators.

when they dropped their initial naivety and took stock of what their business really was it was sufficiently obvious to them that they were media companies and that selling ad inventory was their business. they now fully embrace being media companies but are able to do so in a way that has, at least so far, evaded the traditional cultural and legal regulatory frameworks that other media companies deal with. I think this era will come to an end rapidly though.
* Sell previous years iPhones at competitive prices

In India, the SE was recently on sale for Rs. 18500 after discounts and cashbacks are accounted for... with budget alternatives.
Zipline's name is so bloody confusing. I saw a title some time ago which read "Medicine Delivered in Rwanda via Zipline" or something to that effect, and because a zipline is a real, tangible thing already, I just internalized the statement and didn't know until now that it's a drone company.
So it sounds like PWAs now make this true:

> You don't have to create a native app because PWAs now offer all the functionality of a native app.

That's cool. But _this_ has been true for a while:

> You don't have to create a native app because a mobile-friendly website offers all the functionality you need.

I use (reluctantly) a bunch of apps that really should be just websites. They don't make use of my phone's camera or microphone or do anything fancy to my phone's user experience. They don't need any special permissions, aside from web access. They're really just websites in disguise.

And yet, for some reason, they're apps.

Some were even built as websites (e.g. using PhoneGap) and then compiled into native apps.

So before we convince people that PWAs are the answer for all of their fancy, highly integrated apps that previously could only be achieved as native apps, I think it's going to be an uphill battle just to convince them that in many cases, you don't even need an app. You just need a mobile website.
To save people some time:

Solar panel can push 100W in.
Invertor can pull 150W out.
I ran a fairly niche website for a while, starting around 2006. It was pretty terribly designed (eg I learned sql and javascript from working on this project), used the whole kitchen sink of css/html/javascript circa 2006, and still, it never stopped working.

The site is actually older than that -- it started around 2004 I think.

So even poorly written web apps have longevity sometimes, even when you don't intentionally design for logevity.

So, the oldest code I wrote that's still running is a bunch of web stuff.
Spam folders are just one thing. The big new death knell for email deliverability are the "clutter" folders. Most email clients now use a learning algorithm to opaquely filter newsletters and advertisements to their own folder.
So ice cream trucks would be cool, right?

http://gta.wikia.com/wiki/Distribution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars
I could see this as a potential avenue for the relaxation on the blanket schedule 1 classification on all psychedelics, which would hopefully lead to a better discussion on them in general.
upvoted.
as far as the rural areas vs ACA are concerned - before ACA a lumberjack/construction/handyman/hunting-fishing guide etc type dude could by themselves cheap health insurance that wouldn't break the bank off-season. now it's an ordeal.
There's a thing called battery life and frames-per-second.

iPhone was initially supposed to be web-apps, then reality set in.

You're under the assumption that 'big bad men are keeping us down', whereas in reality, if you don't want your phone to run out of battery, handling website animations and transitions, the best you can hope for is hybrid, as Basecamp has done.
I mean, HTML5/CSS3 has literally been shown to be Turing-complete. I think it's beyond the realm of "just styles"
Well, I'm more likely to use Google because of features like this...
So...

If there is a problem, its cause is government, no matter what the problem is and no matter what empirical observation says about the cause.

And...

In a "free" market, it is impossible for a monopoly to develop.

And...

There is no middle ground between laissez-faire utopia, and North Korea.

You certainly seem like a rigorous and intellectually honest interlocutor.
OK I should call her an angel then to comply with guidelines.