skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the area, as well. My brother-in-law is an infrequent guest of places like Skid Row and the sprawling tent city along the Santa Ana River Trail. I'm actually not sure what state the tent city along the Santa Ana River Trail is in these days, I had thought that I had read recently that there were attempts to break that party up.

Anyway, from where I stand, here's the rub. My BIL needs to be medicated to not succumb to his delusions, his extreme mania, and extreme paranoia (he is diagnosed schizoaffective). When he is medicated, he can hold down a (part-time, minimum wage) job, help with chores, and can generally be a fairly reliable person in the family. Yet, he is an adult. If he chooses not to take his medication, that is his right. But, when he chooses not to take his medication, he ends up homeless, self-medicating, and will eventually find his way back in to a state run mental health facility through crime. He has been stuck in this cycle for half of his life, he will be turning 30 in a year or two.

I want to make a distinction here that this person has never served time. He probably should've, given some of the things he has done that have gotten him arrested, but he's in the system and so he seems to get a get out jail free card for the types of crime he commits.

He always has a place to live (though he doesn't like some of these places, like my home, because of the rules that come with it). He has SSI that is deposited directly to his account from the state once a month. He has access to health care and mental health professionals (Medi-Cal). What he doesn't have, and what I suspect many folks in his condition don't have, from years of talking to others in our situation, is a genuine desire to, or the ability to, confront their illness.

We are waiting patiently for that to change. We're not very optimistic, but we are hopeful. We've learned through counseling, education courses, etc... myself over the last decade, my wife has been at it even longer, that he has to be in control (with the obvious exceptions, like when he's locked up). Trying to force him to do what is in his own self-interest is a self-indulgent and self-serving behavior that just makes everything worse.

It's a very hard reality to live with, especially so when it's your family, but there's nothing that anyone can do to help a person who doesn't want to help themselves.
That's the thing: The Andalusian hasn't been challenged, while the Catalan is scrutinized to the detail and the party that's now in government gathers 4 million signatures against it: https://elpais.com/elpais/2006/04/25/actualidad/1145953019_8... (They wanted all Spain to vote on the Catalan Estatut!!! Would they do that for all regions???)
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Let me add one thing: the current Spanish Constitution was subject to a referendum in 1978. In Catalonia, it was approved by 90.46% of the votes.
On-screen keyboard used for the enter button, or like another reply mentioned, use the enter button on the numerical keyboard if you have one.
Chromium has been found to phone home on a regular basis. The data (or metadata) that is sent back is most likely beneficial for Google.

I have Google Analytics on my startup's SPA when it can't even be crawled by Google due to the framework we use. The only logical explanation is that Chrome sends data back on the sites you visit.
At some point while homeless, I talked to someone who traveled. They observed that in some South American country they visited, homelessness did not exist because slums were tolerated. So, people had housing, even though a lot of it was substandard by US standards.

American zoning, minimum house sizes, do contribute to the problem. We have created a situation where the Haves live in ever larger houses and can afford two or more places and the Have Nots are increasingly out on the street.

I don't know the answer here. I think certain minimum standards for housing matter. But, we should definitely tweak something. Setting the bar for minimum housing standards so high that large numbers of people can't attain housing at all is messed up.
> I'm not dismissing the fact that other people had problems, but all due to adblockers

That's not true. Others can view it in safari with adblocker on, in lynx, in ff with noscript, etc. The problem isn't an adblocker but that the site doesn't work with commonly found browsers.

> So if you want to read the article, but aren't willing to do anything about working around the fact that the page has problems with certain ones, how does that add to the discussion about the article?

That's a far better question. When I made my comment, the page was 100% comments about people not being able to read the webpage. There were about 10 comments at the time. So, the page that I posted to was a list of all the ways that people tried to read the webpage and couldn't. In that way, my comment, and every other comment on the hn page, were made to list how the web page didn't work in order for someone to find a way that the page could be viewed, without people having to change their browsing configurations. That continued until someone one person posted how to use textise and another used archive.is to view the page. Normally I use archive.org or google cache instead of archive.is, but this site wasn't in those caches at the time.

> Specifically the comment that you replied "And?" to, I think makes valid points. You have the right to block ads, but the BG also has the right to block people who block ads.

Except that nobody disputes the points in the post. It was a truism, which is why I responded, "And?"

> Finally, how can they be reasonably expected to test a custom page against many different adblockers, all of which alter the structure of the DOM; In addition to being actively hostile to their goal, which is to be compensated for their work.

The issue isn't the adblocker but a poorly coded site that doesn't work in all browsers. You are making assumptions that simply aren't true. I'm not hostile to a website making money. That's just a strawman.
Losing one.
Winter is cooming. (Again.)
Android was the target of the original post, this is more of a followup demonstrating that a similar attack works on Apple hardware too.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/over-air-ex...
At the risk of huge levels of snark, if the "open web" dies because Firefox dies (already a bit player in the browser wars, 11%ish), it was suicide, not murder.
I don't know where you get those ideas from. Literally no one talks about an associate state, no one. Especially after these weeks repressive reactions by the Spanish Government.
I don’t?! Oh thank god, I can probably stop the Luvox then, I’ll tell my psychiatrist!
This kind of personal attacking is totally uncalled for here. Either their statement is correct or it is not, either Chrome is doing tracking on the sly or it is not.

Either there is proof, or there is not. The burden of proof is on the one making the argument.

So which is it?
If it's a shame that the brightest minds of our generation are working on UIs and advertising, what does that make this? (:
Geez, that sounds seriously traumatic. You might benefit from a couple of months of therapy if you haven't already tried it. Sometimes you just need someone to listen. Maybe you would have more luck doing something creative instead of mentally taxing software development. I started drawing again and it has been really relaxing. It's nice to just zone out and listen to music while I sketch. I hope you can find something that helps.
The article has a very pro-sex vibe to it so I'm going to say it's just you.

> Sign a pledge with me here today. Not of celibacy (where’s the fun in that?), but let’s end this scourge once and for all by committing to contemporaries.

> If I could prolong my time as a young adult by, say, 2.3 years, here is a list of things I would like to do:

[...]

• Have more romantic partners. Preferably ones with abs.
Routers absolutely do fragment packets (...at least those that don't have the DF bit set) but it's up to the receiving host to reassemble the fragments.
It doesn't matter that they can circumvent it. The fact that the Spanish government has taken such drastic actions means that the result of the vote will be completely meaningless and illegitimate. Opponents of the referendum who agree with the Spanish government will not participate.
Hi, I'm the poster that originally objected to the lack of first-amendment protection in Spain, and the nonchalance of the other poster with regard to this fact. I just read your link and I like it. I'd like to quote it so it's part of our thread here:

>1. The following rights are recognised and protected:

> a) the right to freely express and spread thoughts, ideas and opinions through words, in writing or by any other means of reproduction.

> b) the right to literary, artistic, scientific and technical production and creation.

> c) the right to academic freedom.

> d) the right to freely communicate or receive truthful information by any means of dissemination whatsoever.

I didn't quote points 2, 3, 4 and 5 immediately after, you can click on the PDF parent poster quoted they're on page 16 and page 17 there. They're about prior censorship, mass media, and a couple of exceptions concerning privacy, and how publications can be seized.

The language I did quote, though, is very good. So the question is, why doesn't this apply to the case we're reading about?

This is what we're reading about (quoted from our article):

>The app, available on Google Play until just before 7 p.m. on Friday, helps people to find their polling station via their address and shows the closest polling stations on Google Maps via GPS, the name of the town or keywords.

>It also allows users to share links to polling station locations.

It's directly under point A "by any other means of reproduction" and it's under point b "technical production and creation" and point d "freely communicate any truthful information by any means of dissemination whatsoever."

Is information about polling stations, distributed by app, truthful information disseminated by any means whatsoever? Clearly it is.

So why doesn't what we just quoted have teeth? This goes directly to what I'm saying that although it might be written somewhere, the (excellent) language you referred to doesn't have the force that the first amendment does in the United States.
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/wiki/Archite...

Notice that they could not support Android 4.4 because they would require using geckoview.

Also, there is no way a browser of only 4MB can contain a whole web engine. The only Android browsers that get so small depend on webview.

Consider this, even the old Presto based Opera Mobile clocked in at 15MB on Android.
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Catalonia has been allowed to discuss. It’s just the referendum, as I understand it, that is being banned. I’m trying to think what would happen if California passed an independence referendum whose results were then nullified by the Supreme Court.
Catalonia is one of the highest earning areas of Spain, constituting about 20% of the nation's GDP. Their secession would be about as well received as New York or California's from the US.
Google has had quite a few failed projects too, although admittedly their phone OS has been more successful.
How does Firefox's sandbox stack up against Chrome's?
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How about once to make a long bitmap image and then the IDE scrolls around in the image?
So is the lawsuit about if Kalanick has the right to do so still pending?

https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/10/uber-investor-benchmark-s...
"And compared to countries like the UK or Germany they are a bastion of free speech."

Care to elucidate me on what basis that statement lies? I am a UKoGBnNI citizen who has also lived in DE for a few years in the West Germany part in the 70's and 80's and have friends who are native to DE.

In the UK we have laws banning inflammatory speech of various types that are clearly categorised and so does Deutschland. Both countries also, I think, have citizens who pride themselves on being able to pretty much speak their mind freely. I think both are very liberal states in this regard.

I do feel that some of my civil liberties have been eroded over the years but I in no way feel that my right to freedom of speech has been compromised in any way. I may live in a country that (worryingly) has more CCTV cameras pointing at me than you can shake a stick at but I do not believe that my right to express myself coherently and freely is damaged in any way. I'm not happy about say RIPA and co but we have a formal, legalised right to freedom of speech in the UK.

You are obviously not a US citizen because you seem to believe the US is one "thing" or a single country. It isn't and yet it is. It is a federation of states with a few odd bits tacked on (just like the UK -
not) which means that there are federal laws, state laws, county laws, city laws, bye laws and made up by someone laws. This is also how most "normal" countries work.

So, where do you live?
> Perhaps by holding a referendum to get their views on the matter?

Playing devil’s advocate. Referenda may prematurely compress a multidimensional discussion space into binary options. There’s no “I’d prefer to stay in Spain if X, Y and Z.”
Yes they are.

The pro-independence movement didn't really take off until the Spanish Constitutional Court thwarted 17 articles and redacted 27 more from the latest "Catalan constitution" (Estatut). A "constitution" which had been approved by the Catalan Parliament, the Spanish Parliament and the Catalan citizens themselves in a referendum (in that order).

Likewise, the latest Spanish education law (LOMCE) includes an article making it MANDATORY to offer a Spanish-as-the-vehicular-language education if any parents ask for it.

How is that "having complete freedom to vote on issues of their region"? You may mean "... so long as Spain as a whole is fine with them". How complete.
If Bitcoin is around when your grandkids are of age, even this minute might be a great time to buy Bitcoin. Why miss the same boat twice?
1978, shortly after the dictatorship ended, a time in which Spain was still dominated by cronies from that very dictatorship, and who proceeded to dictate the Constitution.

So in 1978 Catalonia's vote mattered and you're claiming today it does not.
This doesn't sound like anything a small, $5-10/month VPS couldn't handle.
Let's do a quick thought experiment and imagine all the completely legitimate reasons that a browser might have to call home. Off the top of my head:

* Any of the disableable features like safe browsing

* Addon code update checks (chrome web store)

* Certificate pinning list updates

* CA certificate bundle updates

* Browser code update checks

* Uploading crash reports

* HSTS list updates

* Settings synching

I also believe Firefox has analogues for every single one of these.
I have the impression that quite a few conservatives in the US would be thrilled to see New York and California leave, regardless of the economic implications.
I don't disagree with you, however the quality of ones romantic / intimate relationship is usually a good predictor of the quality of others.

Further, the tools for transforming Conflict are useful across a spectrum of relationship types.
on which firefox version? have you tried nightly?
This is an insane discussion, but I can't resist: By definition, "profit" is the share of revenue that is not needed for the existence and work of the company.

There's even a category of enterprises successfully working in such a framework. They're called–oh happy day–"non-profits".
Err, and as for focusing on Seamonkey i fear that ship has long since sailed. As best i can tell, Seamonkey today is a "thin" UI wrapper around whatever Firefox source Mozilla barfs out ever so often. They are even stripping out Seamonkey features just to get the thing to compile so they can actually produce a working binary.
Around 2012 when they started Android still sucked, so IMO it was a reasonable choice. They also killed it off fairly quickly so no big deal.
Well, there's vimium-ff [1] which works pretty good for me.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/
I believe it's in arbitration.
YouTube still hasn't stopped the hordes of fake accounts that spam every top creator's new videos.

Ex. PewDiePie video has a dozen comments from fake PewDiePie accounts (name, avatar) posting about "contest" link.
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Voting is not necessarily democratic. Hitler won in democracy. Respecting minorities and not playing the victim card is more democratic indeed!
There are many republicans dead under catalan descending military charges, all over the peninsula. I don't think being born in Catalonia makes you less fascist.

But you can always play the victim card ans act like history never happened.
Amusingly, Xilinx makes dev tools that are so unbelievably bad that it's almost impossible to do any of the best practices for development that you would hope for in safety critical systems. No source control, code review, reproducible builds, integration testing, centralized code review, etc.

Presumably you can sort of brute force it if you have defense level budgets, but it's a seriously bad situation.
It would still have to regenerate the image every time you type something.
Could Catalunya strike trade deals with the EU even?
> Like it or not, every day meter of Catalan soil belongs as much to a Catalan woman as to an Andalusian man

Like it or not, Catalonia will break away from Spain if it wants to and there's nothing Spain can do to stop it short of murdering thousands of people. That's the choice Spain will have to make when it comes down to it.
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Easy to say that interrupts are bad.. But when you need to know of a pin change, rising or falling IRQ, interrupts are the only game here. And not only that, but if we were to do the timeslice strategy, then we need that slice to be at least 2x more than the fastest input for that pin.

I would think with that strategy, you'd be servicing "slice-interrupts" more than anything else.

I'll stick with writing ISR's that are only a few commands and do my work outside the ISR's, as standard in industry now.

Now, on a related topic, if they're discussing getting the system to a 10us timing, that would be useful in using Linux as a 3d printer controller directly, rather than an Atmel or STM32 chip. But those requirements of what needs turned off seems pretty onerous, unfortunately.
How smart is Swift with abstraction? A trivial experiment with protocols
If your startup was venture-backed, wouldn't the risk lie on the VCs instead of you?
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How many users does your search engine Moocha.io have ?
I don't think it has to be "pure". Ethereum is not purely functional. However, it helps if it has a significant functional use.

It does seem that the best-advised projects avoid listing pre-sale tokens on an exchange. This hasn't stopped them from raising loads of money for their respective foundations, in exchange for cold wallets or invite codes.

The devil is always in the details. Very few people have the relevant experience to advise in this field with any confidence. I do not claim to be one of them.
My 1995 Jeep Cherokee is the reason why I'm weary of too much electronics in cars. And I'm a serial electronics tinkerer. Need a new engine? Do it yourself. Need a new alternator? No problem. Install larger tires? There's a million kits out there ready for anyone to do it.

And since there's so many enthusiasts out there it's really cheap. I needed a new door so I bought one for a hundred bucks and installed it myself in 20 minutes.
Why does a single post like this get 479 points (so many) ?
> ... you seem to believe the US is one "thing" or a single country. It isn't and yet it is. It is a federation of states with a few odd bits tacked on ... which means that there are federal laws, state laws, county laws, city laws, bye laws and made up by someone laws.

Free speech laws in the US are strictly governed at the federal level, not at the city / state / county level. Your comment accordingly makes no sense. The states are legally unable to make any laws abridging freedom of speech. Every time a local entity has attempted such, it has ultimately been struck down by the federal government, which retains supremacy over many rights (and will ensure those rights with force against a local entity if necessary, as when ending segregation).
Love the assertion of critical thinking taking place. Nets out to be petty banter.

I think at any given time Snowden doesn't have a lot of liquid assets to do a Jamie Dimon and swing the markets on a trade. Hence I think his intentions are sound coupled with his known scruples.

Monero was found traceable recently. Period. Fixed or not doesn't matter, to him it's a risk for a) being tracable b) having bugs.

Lastly, it's a tweet from one person getting wrapped around the axel overthinking it. Next.
So, I actually didn't mention anything about the referendum at all.

I was just using your example to point out that your attitude about the removal of an app means that "first-amendment" (free speech) issues aren't big in Europe. It has nothing to do with what the app (or referendum) says or doesn't say. It could be about anything. I was pointing out that you don't consider the forced removal of the app by the state to itself be a huge issue. It shows how strongly people feel about "free speech" in Europe: not at all. It's not part of the discussion or a relevant matter for you, as long as it's done lawfully.
There's been one in the playback settings for years. https://www.youtube.com/account_playback
I got connected yesterday. Also, got 3 months free
The reason referendums don't have a minimum of votes is precisely to avoid boicots like the one that the opposition is trying to do, so if they don't want to vote it's up to them, but that doesn't make the referendum any less valid.
> the app we developed at my workplace was painfully unusably slow in Firefox

Have you considered addressing this bug?
Medication is moderately effective. (It's more effective for severe depression. It seems to be less effective for less severe depression.)

The gold standard talking therapy - cognitive behaviour therapy - is also moderately effective. England is running a huge uncontrolled experiment, and their numbers are available here: http://www.content.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB23831

> This statistical release makes available the most recent Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) monthly and quarterly data, including activity, waiting times, and outcomes such as recovery.

> IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with depression or anxiety.

> Key facts

> In January 2017 there were:

> • 126,297 new referrals

> • 85,001 referrals entered treatment

> • 45,897 referrals finished a course of treatment, of which:

> • 90.2 per cent waited less than 6 weeks and 98.7 per cent waited less than 18 weeks to enter treatment

> • 42,729 started treatment at caseness, with 50.1 per cent moving to recovery

Depression is likely to be an umbrella term covering different forms of illness. "Actually depressed" will include people who have reactive depression. It will also include people with depression that responds well to lifestyle changes, but not so well to medical intervention.
Number two is to throw in your safe and forget about.
If your workplace can't handle a 1950s euphemism for vanilla sex, that URL is the least of your problems...