skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only would it be possible, it's being done in NewPipe without touching the API at all (except perhaps the device restrictions; not sure what the status is on that). I'm sure there's clauses somewhere for using the API that prevent you from doing dual purpose acting as a simple, if specialized, browser, and using the logo itself was just asking for trouble, but it's revealing how much Google hides away and just hopes you don't notice.
Good! SMS should have never been a 2fa technology, hopefully this causes a splash and services start actually pushing people to TOTP and U2F!
If you work with CSV a lot, then also check out xsv, "a command line program for indexing, slicing, analyzing, splitting and joining CSV files", from Andrew Gallant (burntsushi of Go and Rust fame): https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
Is there a list of phone numbers available for SMS? Or a a way to generate a different number? Or do you have to go with the one number linked in the blogpost?

By the way, looks like you can see the sender's phone number for incoming SMSs by choosing "JSON" as the format.
Office and IE have been available for the Mac for a very long time now, I'm not sure what you're talking about...
I switched from Android 2.something to Windows Phone and the entire experience was a breath of fresh air. It performed as well and as smoothly as iOS, but had easily the best UI out there.

It's difficult to remember now just how awful the UI of Android 2 was, and Google let it stagnate entirely with an ill-advised focus on tablet. By the time I returned to Android it was on version 4 and light years ahead of where it was. The performance was (and still is) subpar, though.
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Everybody ignored it though. They should have made a store policy.
That is also a Red Queen's Race. It's a blinding focus on quarterly profits all the way up, and down.
There are many strong criticisms of the electoral college. It being "a separate body chosen by the 2 dominant political parties for electing the president" is not one of them, because everyone chosen by the parties is almost guaranteed to vote as they are supposed to. The outcome is known and isn't pulled out of thin air, and has a direct relation to how people voted.
MSFT pitched our team on paying us to make Windows mobile apps and since we only did iOS/Android/web on Mac it would have required us buying new Windows systems for most of the team. My recollection from doing Windows development in 2000's was having to pay thousands of dollars per year for the MSDN/VC++. This is in addition to looking at the Windows phone market realistically and thinking - these apps for hire for Microsoft are going to be the only apps we would ever make for Windows mobile. We would definitely have done it if we had Windows developer systems ready to go.
> And a popular videogame can be wildly more expensive. MLB The Show 2018 for instance is $60 in the US and $100 in AU

That's actually easily explained by manufacturers tying their product to the US dollar. We're getting fucked by this in Canada, too. My favorite is when Apple laptops fluctuate by $200CAD in either direction while my salary stays the same.

Just look at a chart of your dollar against the USD. Movies are more local in a sense.
> So as a team owner you'd be fine with the idea of players and cheerleaders co-mingling all the time?

I'm not a team owner, I'm a human being looking at this the way I would look at other professions. When the clock stops your time is yours and you get to eat (and do whatever else you want to) wherever you want.

> You don't think that's an unprofessional look?

Men and women having food in the same place? No, I'm totally ok with that. Doesn't strike me as unprofessional, but it does strike me as practical.

> Is it really that big of a deal for a person to have to leave a restaurant and eat somewhere else?

Obviously, yes. Because you know, you got there first. NFL players are not minor royalty.

I once was in a place in Toronto and the artist formerly known as 'Prince' aka the Symbol aka whatever his real name was walks in and asks the manager to remove the plebs. Instead the manager told 'the celebrity' to fuck off. To mild applause.

> It's part of the job.

No it isn't. The job is to cheerlead, not to 'restaurant evacuate'. Hence the job title of 'cheerleader'.

> A job that thousands of other women would love to have thanks to the exposure and how good it looks on your resume.

I have absolutely no idea why cheerleading is a job anybody would like to have or why it would look good on your resume.
It’s a mix of factors.

There are protests and issues bubbling up all the time - hundreds or thousands of actions in any given year. It’s a big country with a lot of issues, so that’s not unexpected.

But the one thing the CCP is undoubtably world class at is ensuring protests or issues don’t ever gather momentum and start spreading.

So, a lot of the police apparatus, media and online censorship is geared up to this end.

Potential instigators of unrest (lawyers, independent/foreign journalists, activists) are routinely harassed and locked up, or put under immense pressure.

TV and traditional media outlets are tightly controlled and will receive directives about what they can and can’t report on. They self-censor and will not promote news or issues that are outright critical of the government. Often negative news is shown, but it is massaged and spun to show the CCP proactively dealing with a problem, rather than causing a problem or being incompetent.

Burgeoning online trending topics are regularly blanket censored if they are critical of the government and gaining traction fast.

Also, remember that these things are bad, but daily life in China is still daily life. Most people will never really experience massive injustice or rights abuses, just as most Americans will not be shot in a school shooting. It doesn’t mean the injustices aren’t happening and/or bad.

And finally, yes. The last 30 years of economic prosperity mean that most people are pretty happy with their life in China, or at the very least they just want to focus on making money, getting rich, and avoiding problems.
US DHS Compiling Database of Journalists and 'Media Influencers'
Didn't Xi Jinping watch the Simpsons episode where they installed cameras all over Springfield?
> But Crypto/Blockchain allows you to opt out of laws/currency without physically leaving the country.

As do clubs, corporations, and "Roberts Rules". People have been making secret societies and private laws since the mid 1850s. That's a long solved problem. Chuck-E-Cheese tokens, Disney Resort Meal Points, and hell, even credit card money is "made up money" to some extent.

For example of all the above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_Co-op

The thing is, people need to understand the laws for them to be useful. You can't just "outsource" the rules to the blockchain.

My point is that the currently established social structure behind these cryptocommunities is horribly defined right now. Its pretty much structured around trusting a few developers. The key for success is a true governance body. Blockchain doesn't solve the hard problem at all. (Case in point: should Ethereum hardfork right now, or wait for Proof of Stake? GPU miners want a hardfork ASAP due to the ASIC miners incomming, but the rest of the community doesn't want unnecessary hardforks. Finally, the ASIC-investors definitely don't want a hard fork.)

Someone needs to make a decision, and a group of people will lose out. Probably the ASIC guys / Bitmain based on the current political environment.

But then it all begs the question: if everyone is centralizing trust in the developers, then what the hell is the point of the blockchain? Its no different than trusting the rules of the Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op and their fake monopoly money (erm... babysitting "scrip")
But it is SQLite under the covers? A better title then would be an SQLite wrapper for use in shell pipelines.
We are collecting books from Hacker News, Stack Overflow, Here are books from past year. I think you can read it, and post something, discuss with others.

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All of this applied to the Lumia 640 too, their bargain basement low end phone. Even the "snappy response" part. One of the best phones I've ever owned and it still travels the world with me as a backup (and has even been used to that effect when my wife dropped her Nexus 4 and broke the touchscreen on one trip).
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The irony is that such a simple platform would’ve only required a handful of engineers to maintain and would’ve been profitable from day 1 if they introduced promoted tweets.

Instead now they have 3000 employees doing god knows what, an awful UX and the ads aren’t sufficient to sustain all that.
Everywhere Americans look they're pressured to consume more, achieve more, live beyond their means, go into debt (student loans, car loans, home mortgages), and have a family on top of it all while saving for some fabled retirement and college tuition for the kids.

If you unplug and simplify your life, don't bother with pursuing a family, you'll see how disincentivized to be busy you are and how absurdly everyone else appears to be living. But if you pursue all the things your competitors are pursuing, you'll find yourself having to acquire similar levels of resources. There's not enough to go around for _everyone_ to have that amount of excess, hence it must be fought over.

Basically what you have is a non-violent (most of the time) resource competition determining who gets how much of what in what order, where the participants aren't even pursuing a specific quantity - they're just after as much as possible while they're still able, MORE.

edit:

After writing the above, I remembered this short video from the 90s, semi-related. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeeTfsm8bk
I wish they'd at least kept Edge up to date. That would make my Elite x3 live for another couple of years.
There's plenty of low-income areas in flyover country, with high gun ownership - used fairly for defense & provisions. That they can own guns at high rates responsibly points to cultural choices; don't punish them for bad behavior of strangers far away. STOP SHOOTING PEOPLE.
Non issue for me since I quit watching the NFL over their unpatriotic stance.
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Both of you (thank GOD you both are minorities) seem to like dictators and censorship. Please move to Russia or China or North Korea.
Both rents and tuition are included in the CPI:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/college-tuition.htm
Speaking of challenging iOS and Android, not really heard too much from either Firefox OS [1] or Ubuntu Touch [2] - seems as if both have officially been dropped despite looking promising. I think the big two need some competition in the mobile OS space but there doesn't seem to be big support from the actual market itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch
It would be trivial to store data in the browser's local storage and hijack a "real" HTTP POST with this data. The front-end logic would need to be obfuscated far enough to deter anyone from trying to step through the Javascript to find it.

But no, HN doesn't do this, only companies like Facebook or Twitter would stand to gain from that information (e.g. a shooter almost tweets his plan to attack but doesn't post it).
Narrative.
Apache MetaModel is great for this in Java.
My work gave me one last summer. The hardware itself was crazy... removable storage, removable battery, great screen, option for dual SIM. It was a modern-ish phone with all the things people have been complaining about modern phones not having.
You’re right, I should have added “in the US.”
I think this focuses on the wrong reason for why signatures are important. Sometimes, you can't or don't care to secure the channel you are using to communicate. A signature doesn't hide the messages, so it is unsecured, but it does give a guarantee of who it came from.

I know this is touched at the beginning. But the odd shift at the end to "quantum will break all crypto" seems out of nowhere and makes this sound like a hypothetical tool.
I wonder when App store developers try using the same case against the Apple tax, how far they get? Why should we care about Goliath vs Goliath when the little guys are the ones getting screwed?
Office was available for the Mac before Office for Windows even existed.
You want openness to being mentored, but you're rejecting the possibility you're incorrect?
> Having to be scanned to get on a plane seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to have to do.

Even if that scan does little or nothing to actually improve your safety [1]? If I'm going to have my privacy taken away, I want something better in return for it than security theater and wasted taxes.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-o...
w2aew (Alan Wolke) is one of the few youtubers who produces videos with substance and quality. Definitely agree.
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yvqqxw/who-stole-the-four...
I agree. The media talked just as much about the Target POS breach as they did Equifax.

But losing credit card numbers is merely an inconvenience. CC users aren't even liable. On the other hand, losing your SSN and other supporting details can be devestating.
I've done exactly the same, for exactly the same reasons. Now I love programming again.
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 enshrined the eight-hour day as the norm. That was to be the last in a century of reductions.

Every hour of work became more and more productive, while the owning class gobbled up an ever greater share of the benefits.

We have stopped imagining, as Keynes thought it so reasonable to do, that our grandchildren might have it easier than ourselves. We hope that they'll have jobs, maybe even jobs that they like.
Are you for real? (Am I being Poe’d) here?

KAJ is right that this represents a patronizing and archaic attitude towards the treatment that of their employees.

What is the intent here? Protect the poor little ladies from predatory players. Protect players from the devilish seductive powers of the females.

It begs the question of why the woman would have to leave, versus the player have to leave.

It’s one thing to have a policy of non-fraternization. This is just a demeaning way of treating adults, and carries echos of distasteful and unjust power relationships up and down the line.
My experience with Prē 2 was horrible. I have never used a worse performing phone, and that includes cheap chinese Android devices.

I guess basing their GUI on HTML5+js running under WebKit1 wasn't the best choice for 2010 hardware.
Funny, I'm 40 and I'm the opposite: I value comfort and everyday desires too much, and that competes with the drive to pursue big dreams. I feel like if that drive was stronger I'd accomplish so much more, and would be more happy as a result.
> If you have a Map<S, T> Java will silently take an object that has NOTHING to do with S and return null because that key is obviously not in the map

Map map = new HashMap();
map.put("one", 1);

class Whatever {}

Map<Whatever, Integer> whateverToIntMap = (Map<Whatever, Integer>) map;

Integer i = whateverToIntMap.get("one");
System.out.println("i = " + i);

Prints:

i = 1

That's a consequence of generics type-erasure for backwards compatibility with non-generic code, so there _is_ a reason for `get` accepting any Object.
> You can find the Public SMS numbers on the left navigation of Mailinator's "email" page (which we should probably think about renaming, huh?) or follow the link below.

But I can't find the list they are talking about
it is quite possible we are near peak energy consumption

this is related [1].

[1]: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/can-economic-growth-last/
I have a 1020 and loved it. I only switched because when I went from AT&T to TMobile it didn't work worth a sheet in my area (German import I got for cheapo).

I was super bummed when MS killed the phones, I was going to get a 940 or whatever it was but the writing was on the wall. Still my favorite phone OS.

I recently got an iPhone 8 for a project I'm working on. Holy shit is it worse than Android, and I don't particularly like Android either. Hadn't used the iPhone since the 3, seems like it's just the same. Can't even put friggin icons where you want.
True, I remember there was also something of a shortage of Wii kits for a long time at least for my developer shop we were low on the priority list so we only had on Wii developer box for the US branch for at least a year after the Wii came out.
They released an update that fixed all these issues. Then Google banned the app again, and Microsoft gave up.
Why would it need to...? We aren’t running out of phone numbers.
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PocketPC/Mobile, in particular in the corporate world, was massive. And in the "consumer" world, HTC made a name for itself by making PocketPC based devices with a range of designs.

Come the Windows Phone 7 announcement, they also renamed the PocketPC lineage to Phone 6.5, but it was clear that Microsoft was barely keeping it on life support.

Thing was that Phone 7 could not run PocketPC lineage software, full stop.

This meant that all those corporate and consumer programs (Opera Mobile came to be on PocketPC a decade before Americans were all hot and bothered about web on a mobile devices) had to be rewritten anyways, so why not look for alternatives (like Android).
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"Germanic" is a bit general, and pronounciations differ. The letter "u" is indeed "ooh" in German, but in Norwegian that sound is assigned to the letter "o", and the letter "u" (as in French) sounds like German "ü" (a sound that native English speakers are ridiculously bad at).

Also, Danish is just completely weird. I remember a Danish friend laughing at me once for pronouncing the Danish/Norwegian word "dag" (day) in Norwegian. There it's pronounced somewhat like the English "dug", but with a longer "ah" sound in the middle. In Danish it's pronounced like the English "day". WTF?

In short, there are no such general rules for "Germanic" languages, there are huge differences.
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It was really Google's app monopoly that killed it.

Arguing that the users did it, is the same as arguing why people only use Google or Facebook.
What parameters do you recommend?

Is N=14, r=8, p=1 good enough?
In the beginning, nothing was obvious. New things become obvious every day.
Google was nowhere near having a monopoly when WP died.

And yes, people use Google and Facebook because these two tools are the best in their category, not because the companies performed some kind of brainwashing on users.
Honestly I miss WebOS on the old Palm phones the most. That phone had everything except hardware speed going for it. Everything including gestures (cards), notifications, wireless charging, and universal search were 10 years ahead of their time. The software was just too much for the hardware at that time.

Windows Phone was a close second to me. The worst thing about this all is that it seems impossible for a third vendor to be successful unless PWAs take off.
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It's both. If your app doesn't work properly when a user taps the "Never" button (which you can't get rid of), Apple rejects it.
I suspect some people are guessing that a multipolar world will be less interventionist (since the great powers might block each other from interfering too much) and therefore adventures like the Iraq war are less likely to happen again. This might arguably make the world more peaceful, though it might allow civil wars to continue for longer.

No idea if it's true or will work out that way, but it's one hypothesis I think is out there.

Sure, the downside of China's rise is that authoritarian states have more legitimacy, but it's not like the western powers did much about those states back when they were the hegemons, so I'm not sure if the argument carries much weight either.
Aside from the Google issue, I think honestly the biggest thing is that MS was still charging OEMs a licensing fee where Android wasn't. They eventually let go of the fee, but it was too late. I think that killed WP more than anything.
> I'm not a team owner, I'm a human being looking at this the way I would look at other professions. When the clock stops your time is yours and you get to eat (and do whatever else you want to) wherever you want.

Most other professions don't involve being in the public eye all of the time.

> No it isn't. The job is to cheerlead, not to 'restaurant evacuate'.

It is if that's in the contract you sign. I highly doubt it's a common occurrence anyway.

> I once was in a place in Toronto and the artist formerly known as 'Prince' aka the Symbol aka whatever his real name was and asks the manager to remove the plebs. Instead the manager told 'the celebrity' to fuck off. To mild applause.

As the manager should've - but that's not an analogous situation.

> I have absolutely no idea why cheerleading is a job anybody would like to have or why it would look good on your resume.

It puts you in front of millions of people on national TV as well as other outlets. Being one of the select few - among thousands and thousands - that gets hired by an NFL team to cheerlead looks great on your resume if you have any desire to be a model, dancer, or involved in the entertainment industry. It gets you tons of exposure. Plus, maybe it's fun?
Trying to Understand Functional Programming with State in Python
I'm trying to understand how to use functional programming with python. AFAIK this is a way to handle state with immutable data.

https://pyfiddle.io/fiddle/db7f130e-e2bd-4d13-ac4e-0114c09a6179

The example is a service that keeps the total of the random values generated. It's only a dummy program with state management for learning purposes.

The generator simulates (that was my intention) a data stream from a remote server via (e.g.) a websocket. I want to mantain a local state and update it with the received events.

I have some questions:

- Is this a good functional approach for python?

- Is there a way to remove the while True in the main function? I think it can be done with recursion, but I read python doesn't have tail call and it's bad idea.

- Is it possible to refactor with the map (or similar) function?

- Is there any library suited for this example? I looked at PyFunctional and RxPy, but I'm not sure.

I'm afraid these are not the right questions, so feel free to suggest any correction, improvement or resource to look at. Thanks.
Nothing is a function of only the present. Your point has no meaning.
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> It's been a year and a half since I took a course on this

Can you please recommend a MOOC/resource for learning more about this?
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