skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read an article on hypermilers the other day. They indeed can push the MPG in high double digits (e.g. 70MPG in accord) but... the approach is not very practical:

- Switch to neutral and roll as much as you can,

- Drive only in optimal range,

- Close the windows,

- Do not run A/C or radio,

- Do not run lights,

- etc.

Needless to say they annoy pretty much everybody on the street who is around them.

So yes, good result, but not very practical.
XUL/XPCOM have been on the way out for years, because Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox, doesn't have them. Jetpack extensions work fine in both desktop and mobile versions, though, and it seemed that the future was extensions to Jetpack. Jetpack isn't all that great, but after five years, it more or less works.

Being compatible with Google Chrome isn't very important. Extensions aren't used much on Chrome. I have the same extension for Chrome and Firefox, and Firefox usage is 100x greater.
It is quite important for medical school. Doctors give poor care when they say, "You don't have a problem," rather than, "Science does not know how to deal with this problem." Examples of this include "complementary" medicine that is supported by science (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/upshot/labels-like-alterna...) but which doctors are not necessarily educated about, and even worse, the false certainty around prostate cancer screening which has led to urination problems and erectile dysfunction and even death for many men who would not have died from prostate cancer (http://www.cancer.gov/types/prostate/research/overtreatment).

Doctors must know the limits of their scientific knowledge or they endanger the lifespan and the quality of life of their patients.
There's no story here. The only story is how bad The Verge and Mozilla CEO are stooping to even try to perpetuate or drum up something. Employee gets fired, goes on twitter rant. Former coworker calls her a psycho, her twitter rant fits the diagnosis.

Any press picking this up aren't worth anyone's time, especially the CEO of an organization. sheesh.
> And really, the Emacs bindings aren't any harder than the CUA bindings; they're just different, and can be easily gleaned

Not only that, they're older (i.e., Emacs was there first).
I think he's saying this scumbag will be in the upper class, joining other scumbags who have done the same.

But just because they're a part of the upper class doesn't make everyone in the upper class not "hard working".

Though one could argue about the correlations between effort and results for people in the upper class (mostly born into it) relative to the lower classes, but that's a different debate.
I don't think they admit that in the document.

I am a bit cranky over the entire thing, while I can understand the devs think this will be cleaner code, it sounds like a lot of time spent on working on things to get back to the status quo.

From the article:
"It sounds like you've made decisions without community input, why?"

"We believe that moving Firefox away from XUL and XPCOM is a long-term strategic necessity. We need to find a way to do that. We have announced WebExtensions and the deprecation as early as possible so that we can get feedback from the community on how to make the transition. We know that WebExtensions will need to be improved. To innovate will require input and assistance from the community, which we are actively seeking. The path for WebExtensions will evolve in the coming weeks, months, and years, and we want the developer community to be a big part of that evolution."

Let's break this apart a bit.
They think its a necessity, so they did not ask others? I don't think this is anything but ignoring the question.

They then go on to ask for help so that they can spend a bunch of time to return us to a status quo with less working extensions today, and continue to say that you should postpone development for a Firefox extension if you are thinking about working on one, "for a few months." Might as well start targeting Chrome since you cant even rely on FF to have a reliable API to even build a new extension against for a year.

Not to mention all the time and energy spent learning XUL's magical inner workings all gone to rot.

I guess there must be some HUGE technical impetus for this, because from my personal user perspective it seems mind bogglingly wasteful of time and resources.
Don't worry, the silent majority understood your point. Agreed that it seems wrong for our economic and judicial system to reward predators like this with money, status, and comfort.
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Say that to Japanese investors. The market has not been up in the last 25 years.
I was actually hired as a simple KPO data associate in a reputed e commerce company y. Now with python it became data analyst. The closest thing i wanna become I data scientist as growing potential for my knowledge and lifestyle.
"Why would an experienced non-Lisp programmer find being subjected to a Notepad-like development experience worth even the slightest consideration?"

Is this any different from other IDEs? As a vim user, Eclipse certainly feels more-or-less like notepad.
I think the passivity of videos and lack of exercises is just half the problem. The other half is that there is no human supervision of each student. There is no feeling of accountability to a professor. In real life you compare with your colleagues and are evaluated by a teacher. That tends to make all this activity much more involved.

I think the problem can be solved by organizing study groups and paying for a tutor to see you through your online learning career. Regular meet-ups in real life with a person, to check the state of your studies and discuss strategies and future courses to take up would be better than just creating a free account and starting to learn on your own.

MOOCs could be complemented by in-person educational coaching. That would reduce the dropout rate and make it seem more "real". MOOCs don't need more teachers, they need more coaches - people with experience in the psychology of learning.
I think traveling and staying in 1 place or area is a great way to learn and immerse yourself in a new place. I don't think I'd need 15-20k to do it.

I'd spend all 4 weeks in an area where I don't fit in. Some South American country probably, perhaps Peru. As an Asian American, I think I'd feel too comfortable in any American, European, or Asian country. In South America I'd be able to challenge my comfort zone.

I'd use the money to take necessary precautions on necessary resources and safety, but otherwise, I'd go lean and rather push myself to do things and meet people there. I think 4 weeks is a good enough to time learn a new way of life and really change how you see things.
I don't think this is the case. Lithium batteries are generally much better with deep discharge than lead acid. Trying to power a heavy load below a certain threshold voltage will quickly and permanently damage them, but generally there is a low discharge disconnect that kicks in before this point. I don't presume he'll notice any particular ill effect.
I've always understood them as recognition for accomplishments like other awards, medals, etc.
How long before the entire department is offered a gold mine and acquiring them ala they did with CMU?
Using react-helmet to tame your head tag, in a universal React app
> Who would prove the harm if there is no EPA? Who has the money to go against big corporations and their paid experts? It took forever to get a shared understanding that smoking is really harmful.

The EPA is a horrible example to use against libertarianism. As you note it took much longer for the EPA to figure this out that virtually any other expert in the area. This is because governmental organizations have poorly aligned incentives which almost necessarily result in regulatory capture.

To answer your questions:

Who would prove the harm if there is no EPA? The same experts who the EPA uses, or hopefully better ones. I would happily subscribe to a consumer reports for heath information, for example. This would create a market where accurate and timely information was actually incentivized.

Would there be regulations on cigarettes, selling alcohol to 10 year olds or lead paint? Sure. These regulations would happen on a city-by-city basis or better yet on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis.

As for references, check out the work of Rothbard (a full anarcho-capitalist), and/or Hayek (a minarchist). Economics in One Lesson is also a great introductory book to get your footing thinking through these things.
they can never be truly powerful because they eat each other after a short while. That's how toxic they are. I've seen it happen. These types are not survivors.

When the smoke clears, the rest of us shake our heads and move on to the real work because we don't let our knee jerk emotions rule over every aspect of our lives.
What are the typical functions/acceleration that this type of GPU supports other than the blitter mentioned in the post?

I'm very surprised to see so few chips being used; doesn't 7400 logic only give you ~4-8 gates per chip?!?
Exactly, which is why Microsoft and enterprise IT like to control the updates

Neither enterprise IT nor consumers can control it, do you get it? Only with the very expensive "Enterprise Long Term Servicing Branch" License, which only a small group of large corporations will be able to license. No other operating system exists that behave in such a way. It's a "Windows as a Service", but many still want a traditional onprimise Windows, the same goes for all other Microsoft software incl. Office and Sharepoint.
I want to reply back but can't either :-(. I hope this is not considered a flame war.
Assuming that the problem is something treatable by that specialist.

I'd consider going to your primary care physician. It's good to have someone who is concerned with and aware of your entire profile. If necessary he can refer to an appropriate specialist.
Introducing Twenty Sixteen
> Structured settlement cases became more popular in the United States during the 1970s as an alternative to lump sum settlements. The increased popularity was due to several rulings by the IRS, an increase in personal injury awards, and higher interest rates.

Well, in the 1970s, people had pensions and the 401(k) was a "thrift plan." Yet we've enacted all sorts of protections for the 401(k), because it is now the primary mechanism of retirement savings available to most Americans.

Structured settlements may have originated as a tax break in the 1970s. However, in the last 40 years they've become a way to provide a secure income stream for plaintiffs. We need to treat them as such.
I have many friends working in Indian pharma companies, working mostly on generics. There have been some instances where USFDA has forced shutdown of the entire plants, due to non-compliance of the USFDA norms (1).

But most of the time, they ban some Indian generics, and let the same Indian company manufacture certain generics that USFDA/US needs. My friends say, generics are subjected to such stringent testing by USFDA that even the branded drugs are not.

1. http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/uc...
All ISPs in China are government-owned. It is believed that the government can locate any IP. Then it's only a problem of finding his IP by monitoring.
>It's unclear what exactly it means to "not understand" the tradeoff - presumably if you said the words to them they would repeat them back and tell you they "understand" that this will happen in the future; it's not exactly a difficult calculation, just an if-then.

I think the mean these people don't understand they are giving up +70% of the present value of the settlement. They probably don't understand what present value means, and figuring out 70% of a large number might not be something they could do even with a calculator. They do know this is bad and embarrassing so they will try to cover up their ignorance by saying, "Yes I understand" even if they do not. I would expect they would be unable to correctly explain un-assited, and un-promted, why they got a structured settlement in the first place, how the structured stealement plays into their everyday finances, why they now think a structured settlement was a bad idea, and how the plan to make up for the loss of monthly checks in their day-to-day expensies.

As I side note I feel you could make a convincing argument that alcoholics should lack legal competency when dealing with matters that involve them getting alcohol. They routinely do things that I don't think can be called competent (much less legal) for example putting people they care about at risk of death by driving while very drunk. We even have special rules for these people related to drinking and driving namely ignition interlocks, that we don't require non-alcoholics to use.
The Beauty of Clojure
That looks nice, but people want problems to solve - gradual problems, that have a nice gradient of increasing difficulty, and are sufficient in number, until they can bring up the student to a feeling of mastery over the field.

I was looking for such a set of problems to gradually learn functional programming by exercises but all I could find was a video course that also had a set of 10-20 mini-problems to solve as it progressed. That was by far too shallow for this learning task. And to think that FP is the love child of Hacker News, with tons of posts in the last few years, yet, there is no comprehensive resource of exercises.
Earlier this week I was robocalled. The caller ID was spoofed to appear to be from someone in my address book.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. The competition is just too high it seems for remote jobs. I haven't had much luck so far.
To me, a lack of free will would mean that a mind's future state is entirely determined by its current state. "Free will" would mean that its future state can be altered by some nonphysical entity (whether you call that a soul, consciousness, or whatever).
At the moment, end-to-end is NOT production ready, and will likely undergo further hardening in the coming months. Use at your own risk.
An amplitude is not a complex number. It is the real number one gets taking the root of the sum of the squares of the real and imaginary part of a complex number. In QM they will be between 0 and 1 and are probabilities.
Like nkurz said, the battery management circuitry will usually disconnect the battery before it discharges enough to damage the electrolyte. Granted, this depends on the circuitry in question (i.e. your $0.05 battery controller chip from Shenzen may not do this), but I would hope that Tesla is actually investing in proper battery management circuitry.
How relevant is the lead dialogue? My intuition says it's mainly to add to the emotional narrative rather than the tangible one. But I'm curious if its actually a apt point. Anyone have any concrete info either way?
> In a lawsuit dismissed in March, Access Funding accused Blumenfeld of interference with business practices and unjust enrichment.

Wow.
I assume that's a solved problem in the sense that you can find the cost of a (dissipating) term life insurance policy on that person.
> If you're a Mac user, they're actually - in all likelihood - not that obscure; you can use the same exact key combinations in pretty much every OS X application.

Apple doesn't go out of their way to really point this out. Ordinary Mac users have no idea about this. None!
I'm a complete outsider to Firefox development (a former housemate used to work for Mozilla on something other than Firefox, that's about it), but as someone with strong opinions on browsers and security and not very strong opinions on extensions, it seems pretty reasonable to me. I'm really not comfortable with the extent to which XPCOM lets you load native-code libraries and call functions in them, and I'm not really sure I see a way that you can have something that works like current XPCOM but also uses strong sandboxing. Firefox is neither sandboxed nor multiprocess, unlike Chrome, and while this may not yet matter in the marketplace it's very much a "long-term strategic necessity" -- the architecture's technical debt will start biting them in terms of security profile.

Meanwhile, the Servo folks (according to Google results for 'servo xul') seem to want to actively avoid XUL for Servo and are vaguely hoping to build the entire browser UI in HTML. If they make that work, then yes, the time and energy spent fighting with XUL will be a sunk cost, but I suspect most extension authors are familiar with HTML.

To be fair, these are both decisions you make if your primary priority is building the best web browser possible. There is an argument that Firefox has already lost there to Chrome and that's not a battle worth fighting, and the priority should be building the best extensible web browser possible: it's something Firefox is already much better at, it's something that's harder for Chrome to be good at (because Chrome has already done this rearchitecting, being a much younger codebase), and it'll let Firefox compete on niche instead of competing head-to-head. And, clearly, Firefox is not a smoldering security disaster today, so maybe things will be fine in practice with a more moderate approach.

If you take that worldview, then yes, they should be asking people who primarily care about extensions (developers and users). But if you don't take that worldview, if you ask people who care about browsers in general, they'll be supportive of this rearchitecture.
Looks like a great idea. But I wish they'd showed some web pages and maybe a bit of info on hardware pricing and release.
Nasuni has done their best job to hide any pricing or performance info on their web site, but from what I can gather from Google, our prices are far more competitive than theirs.

From what I can tell, a Nasuni device connects directly to cloud providers over the public Internet, and does not ship with a high-availability solution. At ClearSky, our metro Points of Presence ensure low latency by decreasing the distance across the public Internet which customer data has to travel, and our Edge Caches are designed to be highly available.

Finally Nasuni seems to leave management and purchase of the on-premises server up to the customer. ClearSky's Edge Caches are fully managed by us at no additional cost.
I don't care about their political leaning. Politics doesn't belong in the work environment, especially for management. That includes every "political leaning". Not just the ones we don't like.
Ray Kurzweil – How the world will change
Because of the sandboxing and no networking limitations.

I own a Mac but I didn't even know what "Mac App Store" was. Why does such a thing exist? The concept of a centralized app store for desktop apps is absurd.
> In two or three years, Firefox will be a world-class browser again, and we will look back at the panic we had now and laugh.

I was hoping Servo would be their flagship in 3 years :/
Cold calling? You lost me at hello
Honorary degrees bring dishonour upon both the conferrer and the conferee.
That is correct. From the point of view of the infalling object, however, nothing changes as he crosses it except his position in space.

I say who gives a shit about the point of view of the infalling object. :-)
Stallman is a hugely influential person. He has contributed a great deal to the world of free software. And giving him an honorary degree is a great thing, demonstrating his many accomplishments.

But it still really bugs me that he calls himself a PhD, and asks for the title "Dr." (And yes, I have a PhD, on which I worked for 11 years, at great cost to myself and my family. So feel free to take my comments with a grain of salt.)

A PhD doesn't mean that you're a very accomplished person. Or a smart person. Or an influential person. It demonstrates that you know how to create, execute, analyze, document, and defend a specific research project, using the tools and vocabulary of a discipline.

If a university wants to retroactively award Stallman a PhD for his research, then they should do so. I know that this has been done in the past, because a professor in my graduate program got his PhD in precisely this way -- he did amazing work, and someone said, "You know, this is worthy of a PhD." He wrote it up, and got it. It's quite possible that one or more universities would be willing to do this for Stallman.

But until they do, his honorary PhD is a way of indicating their gratitude and respect for his many contributions to the world of free software. Which is great, but it's not the same as a real PhD.

By the way, MIT (where I got my undergrad degree) doesn't give honorary degrees: http://news.mit.edu/2001/commdegrees I'm rather proud of this, as well as the fact that when you graduate, you don't do so "with honors" and such. Either you finished, or you didn't.
I really wish that there was an acceptable title similar to "Engineer" that wasn't engineer. Early in my career, I was saddled with the "Software Engineer" title at a large telecommunications company. I suffered a lot from real engineers complaining that I wasn't a real engineer because I didn't study engineering. Eventually, I decided that they were right, but that "Software Engineering" wasn't a real engineering discipline anyway (at least not yet). How many "software engineers" know the mean time between failures of their systems? When they integrate a library, can they enumerate the risks involved? Even on a team that prides itself on very low defect density, I don't think we can really call this discipline "engineering" in the way that other other disciplines are "engineering".

Of course, when I speak to young software engineers now (real engineers who studied software engineering), they often violently disagree with me. This often strikes me as being a bit ironic. What's even more ironic is that after 30 years in the software industry I know considerably more about "software engineering" than anyone I have met coming out of an engineering program (which is not surprising, and I mean no disrespect to the people who have such a degree -- in 30 years, I'm sure they will know considerably more than I do now).

I tend to view people's confidence that they can predict the properties of software in the same way you could predict the properties of different metals as being hubris. One programmer has a late night out and drinks too much. The next day, still woozy from the night before he writes some code. It looks all right a first glance, but he accidentally overwrites some memory that makes a task in another part of the machine completely fall over. There is 4 million lines of code and this software error sleeps until memory usage is just right. Hopefully it is not medical software...

Having said that, my colleagues who are actual engineers reassure me that real engineering is also fraught with such random behaviour, so I'm being too picky. It's always something I think about while riding elevators.
The Widening World of Hand-Picked Truths
Given that the car won't let you discharge below 20% margin, it probably isn't affected at all.
I like Firefox. A lot. And I think there are a number of ways that the core (i.e. non-extension based) functionality is superior to that of e.g. Chrome. That said...the reverse is also very much true.

When Firefox loses the extensions which require XUL (whether fundamentally or merely to avoid rewrites) I doubt its upsides will outweigh its downsides for me anymore. They may surprise me, and even if they don't they still might increase usage with other people, but right now I am sad.