jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of reasons why Firefox is still the best browser. I never did move to Chrome all these years, and Edge is incredibly impressive on Windows.

I'll detail my opinion on the path forward for Mozilla and Firefox in particular.

Surprisingly it's been Firefox on iOS that's the biggest pull to keep me on FF overall. I think that's the real way forward for them. There's just too many Google nags to switch to Chrome on the desktop. This is limited on mobile, and putting all resources into mobile features is paramount. Then desktop version usage increases due to sync features.

I'm a Windows and iOS user, and on the desktop, zippiness is feature #1. I think they should move to Chromium, as unpopular as that is. It'll save on maintenance and an un-Googled Chromium like Edge is a very good thing. Leave FF exactly as it is, all features intact with Chromium underpinnings, borrow a few features from Vivaldi (horizontal tab support), and you easily have the best browser on the market.

On iOS, it needs support for the URL bar to move to the bottom as on Android. It needs uBlock Origin integrated by default, to borrow from iOS Edge having adblock. Improving dark mode is key. I just can't get it to work properly with DuckDuckGo's homepage. Images are sometimes reversed. I've had to turn it off to get pages to display a their native black background. I'd like to see it work out of the box with Facebook's messenger feature, it tries to redirect to the app, while in Safari this can be set to open in desktop mode and just works. Otherwise, general stability improvements and performance. It used to be very unstable, but its come a long way now. It's my favorite mobile browser.

Would those changes be enough? I'm not sure, but I do know iOS and Android browser support is the only possible way forward other than services like their VPN.

I'm the type of user though that doesn't mind the ads in the URL bar, pretty small ask on Mozilla's part. I also leave telemetry enabled because I want my usage scenario to be in Mozilla's data. As you can guess, I'm not the typical user that thinks Blink vs Gecko is somehow a mighty crusade to save the web. Even if it were where the real battle is, Mozilla is not the entity that's properly armed to take up that fight. Apple or Microsoft would be.

I have other ideas on how to move Mozilla forward and make it a very big player in the tech space. The biggest problem confronting Mozilla today is probably Mozilla. If I had to guess. Trying to convey these ideas to leadership and get a path forward set in the bureaucracy is probably pretty tough.
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Last weekend I finished reading "The Non-Designer's Design Book": http://www.amazon.co.uk/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Will....

So, I decided to test my newly formed designer skills and modify the look of the site here:
http://i.imgur.com/k6y0g.png

The central point of the book is that we can tell when something is off with a design, but rarely we know how to fix it. So, yea this is what I thought need fixing on the site:

1. There is conflict between "What" and "Less Boilerplate" Header. Firstly, the fonts are the same size, so they are competing for who gets viewed first. Second, the orange on "What" is a warm color so it will stand our more, hence overpowering the header. So, I shrunk the "What" and increase "Less Boilerplate."

2. Too control the eyeflow from top to bottom, I increase the size of the navigation bar.

3. I increased repetition by changing the color of the header to white,the text to white and the separator in the navigation bar to white.

4.To highlight the "What" more I indent the text under it. And also set the text under it to be the same font size. There is no conflict here, since the header "What" is already highlighted alot.

5. To show what items that are important under "What", I bold the text that is not in the list.

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Because there's nothing in the guidelines about the civility of submissions, and I'm more concerned with improving the quality of comments than in reducing the number of articles which sink without a trace.

(This is, incidentally, my last response in this thread. I'm not interested in being dragged into a long argument that is increasingly tangential from the original issue.)
I'm not certain education ever had financial value. Certainly the experience itself is valuable for personal growth, and should not be discounted for that reason, but there was never much reason to be there just for future job prospects alone.

Generally speaking, the qualities in someone that lead to success in business are the same qualities that leads one to succeed in their educational pursuits. It stands to reason that historically those who have higher education will do better in business. However, those qualities do not come from the education itself and any connection is merely correlation, not causation.
Yes because knowing how to use HTML tables and 1 jQuery plugin means you're ready to work at a Fortune 500 company.
A reverse directory (sorted by phone number) probably defeats frequency knowledge.
You can do it with the VantageVue model he mentions in the article. The WeatherUnderground integration simply allows you to see your weather station in the WU app and website.

I've had this page bookmarked for quite some time, wanting to build one, but the LAN module for the unit is $295. Someday...
The closest that I know of is http://www.undeadly.org which does a good job of covering news, sprints etc
I got fed up the other week and on a whim switched to Xubuntu on my 2013 MBA and other than no drivers for the PCI based webcam (Apple webcams no longer sit on the USB bus) which I barely used anyway, everything is pretty much fine apart from a few quirks (Trackpad settings and brightness control which were easily fixed). I had a Time Machine backup just in case if I hated it.

If anything after spending years using various distros on servers it makes sense to start using it on the desktop too as it is exactly the same experience I'm used to, with a bonus of a GUI.
> By the way, anyone know of a good terminal app for Windows? Not too crazy about Powershell. I have been using Git Bash and that's decent so far.

Reading your expectations and gripes, I'd say try http://bliker.github.io/cmder/ , the goodness of clink bundled with ConEmu and a sexy Monokai theme.
Right now minorities win against majorities without strong opinions by vote mobility within a base. There seems to be some weird underlying assumption in this QV stuff that everyone is forced to vote on every issue? That is to say I take issue with sentence three. I don't see how sentence four or five really add much - but I guess I get the argument you are attempting to make ("It's not worse").

I do think it is worse. Wealth distributions essentially everywhere in the world from the third to the first and from all data we have of all nations from all times historically have an exponential distribution, i.e. the wealthy have exponentially more wealth than those beneath them, and in fact fractions of countries today own the vast majority of wealth (in America, I've seen estimates of 1% or less owning 70% or more when shares, stocks, bonds [financial holdings], land ownership, and foreign investments are taken into account along with income).

Not everyone comes out to vote (in America, for example, it is pitiful, sometimes barely two digits), voters are obscured from real issues and the 'wealthy' class is not necessarily the 'aggressor' or scenario we're talking about. Consider the examples I gave before: the working poor (who are often deeply in the red, meaning that they own 0% or less of national wealth - in America this makes up about a quarter of the country), transgender folk, child laborers, small unions, immigrants, or to the historical point similarly disenfranchised groups such as slaves, indentured servants, women, Native Americans, and poor Europeans.
I'll go first. I made a prototype/proof of concept tool that could detect if multiple authors had contributed to a project dissertation that should have been written by a single author. I got the idea when I met a final year student who was far off from finishing his project with just a few days to go. He explained to me that someone else (a friend) was writing about four chapters of his dissertation for him.

Even if lecturers read and realised the obvious stylistic differences between the chapters written by the student and those written by his friend, a simple "gut feeling" would not suffice as proof to accuse said student of plagiarism. Thus I built a tool that would statistically analyse the writing styles of the students and spit out a probability/certainty report that said which chapters were almost certainly written by someone else.

It worked at a very basic level for long form texts. I never ended up making it an actual product simply because I've lacked the time and determination to collect and organise (especially organise) the material required to train a system into being a real usable product. I had big dreams for it, including usage in forensics and courts of law (answer to the question of was the witness/accused/victim forced to write the letter? Did the witness/accused/victim actually write it him/herself.. etc).. Ah well. Someday maybe.
Hmmm, yeah that's possible, but I'd have to actually implement it and then try to hack it before I could give it any kind of blessing.
I can send you a beta version, if you want to check out the app
That's all entirely fair to point out - clearly serious breaches happen, even in heavily regulated environments! I don't think failings in those arenas undermine the notion that legal risk and quality/authenticity risk of illegal drugs is very often intertwined.

I think even folks over at Erowid advise caution in dealing with these things. In that regard, conflating legal risk & qualitative risk isn't really a non sequitur. That's really all I was trying to say.
"It's almost like I'm famous" - Patrick O'Leary, upon seeing his project on Hacker News.
You can have that one free. Go find yourself a contractor on Elance for a couple hundred dollars, and in a few days, you too can be on the road to infinite wealth.
Did a quick Google search and came across a site that features some Christmas Bingo Cards.

http://www.bingocardcreator.com/bingo-cards/holidays/christm...
Nice 'troll' rick but most don't get it.
I completely agree with your second point, however the value of promoting startups is that it is exciting and provides real world applications for what you are learning about. I am a biologist, and the truly great and respected biologists are those that don't simply use the tools given to them. They tinker, they screw stuff up, they see what happens...and that is exactly what a startup should be doing!
If a Business fails because AdSense, Amazon.com, or others are shutdown, than it was that Businesses fault in not diversifying their revenue streams.
You do realize that the point of the follow up meeting is to bait the heretic into saying something truly unconscionable? It’s like trying to get bitten by a dog so you can put it down: punish it for something non-transgressive, confusing them; threaten severe consequences, scaring them; and then initiate conflict to extract the maximally emotional response.
This is pretty meme-y. Elon's got a degree in physics and econ... Mary Barra has an engineering degree and managed an auto manufacturing plant. Which is probably why GM makes a profit on every car they sell and Tesla.. doesn't...

There is no doubt Tesla is a revolutionary company and as a "car guy", I'm ecstatic that they somehow bootstrapped a new American auto manufacturer. Their commitment to reducing electric car costs likely put a huge dent in the trajectory of climate change which as an unequivocal good. My only point is that they could have done all that and built a "normal" manufacturing plant in the South somewhere and never have been two weeks away from shutting the company down vs. trying to "First Principles" design a new way to build cars that had them reinventing the wheel in messier, more expensive way.
We don't get to declare what Twitter is or isn't. It has evolved over time from a kind of microblogging platform into an algorithmic-timeline social network.

As a user, I don't care for it much, but in no way is it "defective." It does what it does, and if we don't like it, it's our obligation to make sure the door doesn't hit us in the ass on our way out.

The thing we have to understand is that we who want a microblogging platform aren't their market. They're not interested in people with 500-5,000 followers using Twitter to publish things that every one of their followers will see.

Likewise, they're not interested in people who want to just follow certain people and see 100% of their tweets. That's not their business model. Do I like that? No. But I'm not their customer, I'm the product they sell to their customers.

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One thing I find very interesting about discussions like this is how closely they resemble discussions from the 1970s and 1980s about what computers were for. It seems quaint now, but people once said computers were for business, not games.

Then a younger generation came along and when all the old fogies died off or retired, gaming became a gajillion-dollar industry.

Now we get pronouncements like "That's not what Twitter's for." Obviously it is what Twitter's for, because millions of people are using it that way and are "Happy as Larry," oblivious to the fact that it used to be a microblogging platform, and if we ask 100 randomly chosen Twitter employees, exactly zero of them will say Twitter is defective and they're working hard to restore its value as a way to subscribe to everything people tweet.

I kind of feel like those of us who miss its microblogging origin are metaphorically members of an older generation than those who are happily Tweeting, TikToking, SnapChatting, &c.
This is awesome. It reminds me of the iOS app Calca[1], which is similar.

[1] http://calca.io/
I implemented swiping, and the mouse cursor should be able to do that as well. The arrow keys are the intended mechanism for how to move the selected box. I'll see about adding an overlay to the first level that explains it more intuitively
Also see sportbikes (street-legal racing motorcycles): Suzuki GSX-R, Kawasaki ZX-10R...
It's called defaulting:

http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/decls.html#sect4.3.4

In my opinion, though it wasn't me you asked, it's an ugly workaround for Haskell's lack of proper coercion rules.
An important note about email conversion rates.

There is a conversion funnel to actual paying customer. For this kind of test they are testing conversion from one step to the next. At other steps in funnels that I've seen, I've found that the increase in conversion at that step goes fairly straightforwardly to conversion to paying customer. However for email in particular at a couple of different places I've seen that improvements in clickthrough rates do not convert linearly to improvements in revenue.

While 100% more people may have clicked through, I'd be willing to bet that actual purchases went up by substantially less than 100%. This is not to discount the value of, say, a 20% increase in sales. But you really should measure that instead of clicks. (That said, people like this company like to measure clicks because it is very easy to do so.)
I agree that autism/ADD/depression do get hyped as a 'trendy disorder.' But the 'spectacular' numbers the diagnostic methods receive are in part also to the fact that these methods have improved dramatically.

We have no point of comparison. It's just been some 20 years or so that it has been feasible and reliable to diagnose a lot psychiatric disorders; and people adapt even more slowly. Many are afraid of going to psychotherapy or even a psychiatrist in order to get a diagnosis. It carries a certain stigma.

There's a medication craze, no doubt. But that doesn't change that there's a lot of people who are undiagnosed, but could benefit from therapy. Be it psychotherapy or pharmacological therapy (most likely both!) By discounting it as a craze, you're also stigmatising valid diagnoses that could help people.

If someone in your circle of friends shows up as depressive or autistic or ADD, don't run in their shrink's office, guns blazing. It is often difficult to realise someone is suffering from a mental disorder, as they might still be highly functioning.

(Says the guy who lived with a heavy clinical depression and as many as 3 different personality disorders for over four years, before finally consulting a doctor.)
As skeptical as I am about adhering to a specific language for teaching programming, quotes like this smack so badly of curmudgeon-ism (yes, I know who Dijkstra is) that I can't take them seriously. I learned on BASIC (and LOGO) as a young child myself and transitioning into a production language wasn't an issue.
I respect Groupon. They've built a good company predicated on a good business model in record time. They properly deserve all the fortune they reap.

That said, I don't understand why they are seen to be a technology company. They are basically a massive sales organization. I'm sure they use technology to tie together their sales automation, but I doubt it's anything more significant than any other IT installation at any other medium-sized sales-oriented company.

Perhaps I'm missing something. Why is Groupon hailed as a technological marvel?
Well, as they mentioned: "The test is not a means for making a diagnosis". Additionally, some of these questions I'd like to answer differently, but just life didn't teach me the other way. Like the ease of chitchat. I can do it with friends, but it comes much harder with new people if I don't have some obvious interest in common (usually it would end in silence / disaster :) ). However, I'd love to learn how to chitchat if it is possible at all (never seen a way really).

With that in mind, I wonder which way would the results be skewed if the questions were about preference, not self-reflection. For example how would the correlation change if the question was "I like to enjoy social chitchat." (or something more subtle), instead of "I enjoy social chitchat."? I'm sure I'd get lower points and then again I consider myself taught to behave in autistic ways by various situations, rather than behaving like that naturally.
such bs.

issue 1 w/ test:
>> I prefer to do things with others rather than on my own.
Well, it depends. I may like to code by myself and but prefer group s*x.
Context is everything.

issue 2 w/ test:
Can be totally gamed. A prerequisite for a good test is that you should not be able to guess the right/wrong answer.
I don't get Tor - doens't the risk that somebody does something illicit that appers to originate from your IP render its value questionable?

EG the German arrested when a bomb threat was posted via Tor but traced back to his IP?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-9779225-46.html
It's just not the same. It's a game by the same name, but this isn't the DNF that we were waiting for: The possibly end-all be-all of games because it took so long to develop.
I know quite a few families in this situation that just re-register kindles between Amazon accounts when they want to grab a different book. According to them, registering a device switches its account, but does not delete or remove stuff you already have on it.
I find it amusing that that the current domain-squatter-template's tag line is "Without books there would be no history!"
Every single invention in the human history has been about making things easy. Including the very invention of the wheel itself.

Did the early humans really need wheels, when they were already fit enough to run and carry weights?
that's quite disingenuous. it uses pf, openSSH, and LibreSSL (in development version) from OpenBSD on top of a FreeBSD core, and it's wireless card support is not very much below linux (though you might need to work to get it up).

if you have older x86 hardware, it's hard to top pfsense.
Yes. Yes. Yes! I've read the first 5 paragraphs of this and I'm pretty sure I've found my kindred spirit. Anyone know the best way to contact this guy?
The future is gonna happen whether you're a part of it or not.
there is sourcemap.
Can you give some examples of language semantics that cannot be expressed in C?

One I can think of is doing coroutine / stack swapping stuff. Though even that is not insurmountable if your sequential code is rendered into C in a “CPS” style.

Another related one is exotic manipulations of the instruction pointer beyond what goto/switch provide. This can be solved too, but inefficiently (put all jump-to-able lines of code in a big switch statement). GCC provides computed goto but that is not standard.

In either case, it’s worth pointing out that Rust does not do these types of things and it would be relatively straightforward for a machine to create a 100% semantically equivalent C program from a rust program.
Award cash prizes to reporters and whistleblowers funded in the same way.
In the same, supermarket prices being the same for everyone is impacting low-incomers more than high-incomers.

But that is not necessarily a bad thing, it is actually a good thing in the right context/environment. It becomes a problem once people can't even afford the basics anymore.
You don't get excess returns without risk. If you want guarantees, it will cost you extra. Nobody manages your money for the kindness of their hearts.

Several funds have performance fees. It's typically the high-water mark (HWM) fee for profits above reference index returns.
I feel as though both arguments presented only in passing mention that this is a bet on funds of hedge funds, rather than hedge funds themselves. These are products which allow unaccredited investors to invest in hedge funds indirectly, with the (massive) caveats that they are paying two layers of fees and have no ability to choose which funds they are interested in.

This is very different to a bet against hedge funds or even an argument against them. Hedge funds are designed to serve sophisticated investors with complex needs.
This indeed is news! It's not the idea of telomere extension or telomerase, but a quick hit, temporary way of inducing that extension. Every other time I've seen this discussed, it involved some sort of modified virus or persistent agent.
The dilution image made by EquityZen is interesting:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8DCNDoCcAAU3jM.png:large

Those last two major investors lost a lot of money.

Is that usual? Do investors usually come in for the long-term even though they faced an IPO that would lose them a chunk of the value?
> (There's probably a "BASIC considered harmful" somewhere).

Edsger Dijkstra: "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

I do not subscribe to this opinion. I think BASIC (at least the flavor Dijkstra was talking about) does encourage bad programming habits, but everything can be remedied with exposure to better languages and practices.

I actually agree with you: BASIC helped make a lot of people interested in programming. I know GW Basic, and later Quick Basic, did this for me.
Xmonad, Emacs, a terminal and Chrome pretty much do the same thing for me on Ubuntu desktop, possibly with a little less pain. Mostly mouse free operation, and easy resizing, swapping etc.

If you want to learn Emacs, just jump in head first. Try and use it like a native. Just for kicks I'm trying to do the same with vi by forcing myself to use it for anything vaguely sysadmin related.
I'm a self-considered emacs user, but I like evil-mode. But I'd also recommend sticking to just emacs when switching (I think 20-30 days of "only emacs keybindings" may be enough) to learn a little about its normal keybindings. It's important to know where you are moving, even if then you change the furniture ;)