skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point of the comment above that is it's precisely because of the extensive access that such useful addons could be made in the first place and subsequently become popular.
> Singapore's rise over the last 50 years

You mean conducting eugenics experiments on low-income women?

Or did you mean encouraging only educated people to have children?

If you really think sterilizing and performing experiments on the poor without consent constitutes social progress... I don't really know what to say.

Anyways, it's a pretty far stretch to say that Singapore's eugenics program had anything at all to do with its economic performance over the past 50 years. More-over, the changes to reproductive rates in Singapore are pretty uniform throughout the population. So even if population control has helped Singapore, it was just the population control -- not the class-centered eugenics schemes.

And all of this is discounting the fact that it's not even effective when judged on its own terms... turns out governments don't make for very good PD controllers.

> with practically the entire economics profession

This is obviously not true. It is not the case that the majority of practicing ecnomists support eugenics...

Second, even if this were true, it would be irrelevant. Economists are not geneticists, biologists, anthropologists, etc. They are absolutely not trained to make the sort of assessments I'm talking about above.
In some sense, peak oil happened. All of the easily accessible, abundant oil has been used up. Now you need a higher level of technology to extract oil. Because that's more expensive to produce than the easy stuff, renewables are catching up.

The stuff really is more challenging to produce, you need much more understanding and higher quality tools. Fortunately we're enjoying the compound interest of computers, software, material science and a million other fields that make difficult things simpler.

I won't take your transition bet, but i would bet if we had to extract oil using only technology older than 2000, we'd be pretty screwed.
This is more of a lack of competition issue. A lot of gas suppliers have regional contractors that basically have a lock on entire regions and their prices. There is no incentive to reduce price.

Also, since we can not export crude, but can export distillates, we can sell gas to other countries, increasing demand to some extent.
Uhhh. Firefox extensions have always been JavaScript.
Sweet you tube searching goodness, someone finally posted it. Other people also commented how awesome the song was, especially if you were watching it on a little TV at the distance of a classroom away. Check it out.

https://youtu.be/fY1Pl1zGowc
Windows isn't built on COM, Windows is built on Win32 which is a 1980s API hurriedly updated to 32-bit.
That ad is almost indistinguishable from something like the Tim and Eric Show. (Or maybe VHS-looking video and the special effects of the era is all I need to perceive it that way.)
Another cool, live EtherPad fork which has existed for a long time (anonymous pads, w/o source): http://piratepad.net/front-page/
Sidebar comment threads is a really good move. I have many hackpads destroyed by inline comments.
In the souls of eager entrepreneurs who are still children at heart... in the wind wafting through the foggy streets of San Francisco... pounded into the soul of the ground and streets around San Jose... in the clickety-clack of ping-pong games played just down the hall from the accounting office... when you have Employee Incentive Stock Options from a Unicorn, then you, too, will know the Accounting Principles, you will celebrate the Accounting Principles, you will be one with the Accounting Principles, and you will know they are Good, and you will laugh with elvish glee long into the night, singing praises to the mighty accountants who with ever-careful attention to the Unicorn Accounting Principles bring wealth and happiness to all.

(And darken not their spirits with tales of the Coming of the Second Great Pop.)
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Many refineries were closed by oil companies with the intention to reduce supply and raise prices. Now there is a glut of crude, and they don't have the capacity to take advantage of the low crude cost / high refined product cost.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=74brGsoymBoC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA...

Recently they have also been deferring maintenance to keep capacity of their refineries as high as possible and now failures are causing major shutdowns.
> But if everybody's defining their own values, then a bunch of people are going to define their values very selfishly.

Everyone is -- unalterably -- defining their own values, and quite often those doing so consciously are doing so quite selfishly, sure. Those doing it unconsciously are often just defining their own values by uncritically internalizing some (possibly distorted and misunderstood) set of values that someone else defined (either selfishly or not.)

> Once you remove morality, then you have nothing to give any positive direction to your values, because you have no basis for defining what "positive" means, other than your own feelings and thoughts.

Arguably, "morality" is just a label for your own feelings and thoughts about what is positive and negative, and recognizing that is the first step in thinking about morality on something beyond a cargo cult level.
Good for him, chase your dreams.
Nice! When AWS starts offering elasticsearch it would be awesome package to have.. (Titan + DynamoDB + ElasticSearch)
We're already getting squeezed. We officially entered into a recession a while back. Housing prices in Alberta have collapsed. Every other province is about to get squeezed as all the oil patch workers head home and look for jobs. Buying things online sucks, and travelling is a terrible idea. Budget's shot to hell in the middle of an election, which is good if it helps force Harper out.
One would hope that anyone providing a 35GB download would provide a torrent or magnet-link download. Maybe I'm wrong, but is seeding the torrent any more expensive than the same bandwidth from a web/ftp server? And then, it's also possible to offload some of the bandwidth onto the swarm, assuming there's more than one concurrent download.

It is a little amazing that the downloading functionality provided out-of-the-box in all the major browsers is such hot garbage still.
What is HDR designed to do?
> Every interaction becomes a frantic tree search through the set of conversational rules I learned from those and other advice books.

You have Aspergers?
America is now the world's swing producer, because our drillers are more sensitive to market pressure than the sovereign producers of OPEC or Russia. If supply becomes tight, American producers can very quickly ramp up production and then shut it in again when demand falls. There's also no reason to believe that further technological innovation won't further reduce the costs of American production, especially in tight oil. Nobody thought that was even possible 15 years ago, today everyone in the country has an opinion on fracking.

Domestic producers have already shown tremendous resiliency in the face of the current glut—the smart ones have learned to cut costs in the same way the Seven Sisters did during previous oil crises. The fortress balance sheets of the majors will also shield the industry and allow continued R&D investment.

Furthermore, America's mature capital markets will ensure that capital is available to the new industry of independent producers driving the surge in domestic production. They can quickly respond to market signals and demand rises and falls.

Higher cost drillers will go bankrupt, the smart ones will survive and buy up the assets of the fallen.
For ephemeral collaboration, just use an semi-anonymous EtherPad fork like PiratePad.

http://piratepad.net/
As an employee at a pre-IPO startup, would you like the Exchange Fund idea?
An exchange fund is a limited partnership in which all partners share the problem of having a concentrated position in a highly appreciated stock- by contributing shares of their securities in exchange for interests in a partnership comprised of investors in similar situations (other unicorn-like companies ex. Airbnb), they can diversify their holdings without incurring immediate capital gains tax. Would employees and management teams at pre-IPO companies be open to such an idea? Would they be okay with a 3 year lock up?
And that's how the House of Saud will finally fall.
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The article talks about how the 360-67 machine supported time sharing, but the 370 series did not, because of a political power struggle within IBM between the time-sharing adherents and the batch-processing adherents. With this much hindsight, it's hard to see why there were batch-processing adherents at all, let alone how they could have won. Does anybody know?
So instead of a download manager I need a torrenting program? ;) That's just shifting the problem of "poor downloading" to a different tool. Many would prefer to not have to install another program and would prefer installing an add-on for a program they already have installed.

I do agree with you about torrent/magnet link being provided. Though sometimes large .iso downloads don't come with a torrent/magnet link.

E:

Regardless of file size - even if the download is only 20mb - it's annoying to have to redownload the entire 20mb instead of starting where it left off. What if I'm having connection issues? What if the server is having connection issues? Starting at n% and slowly making progress is better than starting from 0% or having the download be impossible...
Uh-oh. The main reason I use firefox is vimperator. Followed by the open source, easy to self-host sync framework, noscript and adblock.

One thing I don't see anything about wrt extensions is user control. If ff is to remain relevant - signing extensions will need to come with a trust management framework. I might want to run extensions signed by Debian and myself - but not mozilla (in iceweasel). RedHat (or other vendor) might want their unbranded ff fork to only use RedHat extstensions by default; maybe with an option to also allow upstream ff signed exstensions.

Without that; I see no point in signing support in a free software product?
We already know how to build nuke plants to replace coal. Fear-mongering over exceptional incidents at first and second generation sites like Chernobyl, Three-mile Island and Fukushima, and the extreme regulatory restrictions and NIMBYism are the problem there, not anything technical or economic.

Hell, you've got Germany closing perfectly good clean nuclear plants, that have to be replaced with new coal-burning plants, due to misguided environmental activism.
I get pretty sick of seeing organizations like this...and a lot of slacktivism...and nothing being done about it.

What can we actually do about problems like this?!
Innovative nuclear may be well priced out of the market at this rate but research (Gen IV, fusion) is going very fast nowadays and will only go faster with eDesign and cloud computing.
The FastTrak toll system doesn't cover the LA Freeway or any other major thoroughfares in California. It does cover a handful of isolated toll roads and bridges, but mostly it just lets you drive in the carpool lane without having to actually carpool. This doesn't dissuade people from driving, it just lets people who can afford it get places slightly faster. A real congestion charge avoids creating this two-tiered system by leaving no reasonable alternative route. You either pay the toll, drive 30 minutes out of your way, or take mass transit. Hopefully the latter.
High tolls just turn roads into empty streches of wasted infrastructure.
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> If Firefox crashes, you get to start that download from the beginning.

Pretty sure the built in FF download manager does this too. Either way I had kinda assumed this as a base-line for any downloader. Hell that toy project that I programmed as a kid could continue downloads.

My point is DTA does zero special from my view, except that I know the brand (First mover - as you pointed out) and batch (useful to me as I don't know of any other way). Presumably there is some wget magic that can do it, but I'm on windows so DTA is easier.
Demand and supply have both increased during the price decline:

https://www.iea.org/oilmarketreport/omrpublic/

That suggests that supply has increased more than demand.
Well, this is a reasonable distinction, but think about how much people look for high profile examples in political discussions.
> ... this works in 2015?

Sites like rapidshare used to 'mysteriously' fail for me at 95% when running Downthemall.

So yep some 'sites' have/had counter measures.

But if you're not a file sharing site counter measures likes these cost $ to implement.

Not saying it's ethical, like ad block (which also has counter measures) it's a fine like between a power user and taking advantage.
For me, tree style tabs and the ability to have 100s of tabs open is the killer feature of firefox, and the reason I don't use any other browser. I will likely stop updating if these cease to work, and switch to any other browser which allows me to continue my workflow (or maybe start developing my own fork).

I suspect that a substantial portion of firefox's remaining users are there not because of the core browser (which is now almost indistinguishable from chrome), but because of an extension which either no-one cares or no-one is able to port to another browser.
I use AirBNB on nearly every trip my family takes. AirBNB has the best interface for vacation property rentals. VRBO and HomeAway have improved a lot in the past few years, so it's less of a win now, but for an important window, the dynamic AirBNB interface blew the old static VRBO interface out of the water.

As for why I prefer an apartment rental, that's entirely down to family stuff. With two adults and two kids, we can share two queen beds in a hotel room, but that's tight. When the kids go to bed at 8pm, I have to take my computer down to the lobby to work or play. We can get two adjoining rooms, but that's expensive. In an AirBNB, I close the door to their bedroom, and sit in the living room right next door with my wife and all the amenities of the listing. When they get up at 5am due to jetlag, I can sleep in in the master bedroom while they play in the living room and watch TV. AirBNBs also usually have full kitchens. That's nice both for making full breakfasts in the morning (my wife likes eggs, and it's a lot cheaper to make a quick scramble on the kitchen stove than go out), and for re-heating the kids leftovers from the restaurant meal we had the night before.

Hotels also generally provide full daily housekeeping services. That adds to the cost. I don't need someone to make my bed for me every day. I can do it myself in 2 minutes.
> If you're against this law in some cases, you have to be against it in all cases.

I don't know what this is supposed to mean. Of course, if I am against a law, I think it should not exist. And that covers all cases.

But equally obviously, I can say that there are cases where applying the law has better or worse consequences.
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I just realized that by "DB" you meant "DropBox." I was reading it as "database" and thought you were putting MySQL files on DropBox! Hopefully my strong words make more sense now... apologies!
If it deindexes it for all searches that involve the user name, then if someone has heard of a particular abuse with the name, and attempts to search for "Johnny DidBad right to be forgotten abuses", presumably the results will be the same as for "right to be forgotten abuses" -- which might bury the results they are specific searching for, making accessing information related to discussions of the law -- which specific cases held up as examples certainly are -- more difficult.
We are not embarrassed by our mistakes:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Language_issues

It's still the least bad general-purpose programming language, IMO.
Homeaway and VRBO are the same site now.

Also, when AirBNB launched, their web interface was vastly better than VRBOs. VRBO is a lot better now, but it's still clearly an older site with some improvements.
I think there's a quasi-cynical opportunity in developing any category of product that is regularly acquired then quietly allowed to die. For example, it seems like not having a lot of people using a client like Sparrow was worth more to Google than people are willing to pay for an alternative to the browser-based client. Furthermore, because there are a lot of corner cases in IMAP that you must be sufficiently skilled to address, and users have high expectations about reliability, making a good enough client to gain traction is a good sign about your value as an engineer for the acquiring company.

Perhaps a great feature to make such a client's slow death through acquisition even more desirable would be seamless end-to-end encryption so that users' emails provided no marketing data.
I'm glad they didn't promote retirement savings and advise kids to "fund your IRA" ...
The interesting one is going to be Venezuela. They can’t be far off financial collapse.
First, see https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/firefox-add-o...

1. these ideas are being announced far in advance of any actual changes

2. firefox devs (see link above) actively want to support current popular extensions, by adding to the Web Extension APIs

In fact, you can participate in this discussion with Mozilla devs more directly: https://webextensions.uservoice.com/forums/315663-webextensi...

Nobody working on Firefox wants to take away your most useful extensions, become a "clone" of Chrome (or any other browser) or otherwise has ulterior motives. The goals is really about improving performance and security and making add-ons easier to write and port between browsers.
But the actual newspaper article is not illegal – only the connection from the name to the article is.
Regarding Vimperator:

https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/firefox-add-o...
I have trouble with these kinds of interpretations... The "If X then Y" style of presentation is probably helpful for some people, but it can ignore a lot of the context. There is no disclaimer, or anything to clue you in to when these don't apply.

For example, "The Scribbler", The Trainer says: "The person doodles or draws without a particular goal. Boredom - The person has no interest in the current topic or has tuned out completely. 'I would like to do something else now.'"

I'm a very visual person, and sometimes I scribble or doodle to help me think. It's actually because I'm more interested in something, and I want to explore (visually) some of the ideas around the topic. It helps me to relax and be more creative.

I could also see this being a poor interpretation in, for example, a design firm, or with a visual artist. It's true, they could be bored, but that isn't always the only interpretation.

Also, I see "The Patrolman" can also be a sign of insecurity, a way of minimizing space or being non-offensive. "The Eye Wiper" might just be because the persons contacts are bugging them, or maybe some medication is drying out their eyes. So there is a lot of room for interpretation that the article misses.
Sure it's relevant, but it seems like a bad thing to be encouraging the dissemination of private data.
It's not encoding any useful information other than your racist assumptions. The only difference between "privilege" and "white privilege" is a pointless correlation. What extra information can you possibly think it provides besides information about the person that uses it.

Would you be comfortable with saying that someone who is committing a crime is "acting black" because black people have a higher prison enrollment?
Bringing children into the world where you expect that as the future seems a little irresponsible.
Just as an example, I booked an AirBNB in Brighton UK for around $100/night with hotels in the area running $200+/night.
Part of the problem is that most startups run with zero revenue for the first few months (or longer).

Generally speaking, if you have no revenue then burn == expenses.

So for the period during which most founders are starting to learn about these terms, "burn" and "expenses" are indistinguishable. That tends to cause them to think of them as essentially the same thing for far longer than they should.
While in Toronto I picked up APL\360 With Stastical Examples for a buck along with some Dijkstra course manuals and other cool stuff. There's a neat paper on APL\360 on the IBM/360 available here for anyone who is interested: http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL360TerminalSystem.htm
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I always thought GMV is more like gross revenue. So if you sell 5 of these widget at $100 your GMV is $500.

Which is different from your Net Sales. Because let say if one of these widgets got returned. And one of them was sold at 20% discount. Your GMV will still be $500 but your net sales will be:

Net Sales = GMV - (discount $20) - (returns $100) = $500 - $20 - $100 = $380
Interesting. I had never heard of that, but the characteristics are pretty spot on for me.
Care to explain this? My very newbish view of it was that every package is compiled against dependencies that are cryptographically hashed and it's totally bound to them.

They even try to link mutt to a particular version of gpg, which is a bit extreme as mutt calls gpg via shell so the interface between both is really really loose.

That said I really like nix.
> Arguably, "morality" is just a label for your own feelings and thoughts about what is positive and negative, and recognizing that is the first step in thinking about morality on something beyond a cargo cult level.

No, that's not morality, at least not the feelings part - more like the opposite, in fact. Morality is what I believe is right or wrong, especially when it goes against my feelings.
DRAKON is one of my favorite old-time visual programming languages. There's a lot more information on the Russian Wikipedia page, including an astounding 225 references: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%9A%D0%9E...
Unintended consequences are still consequences.

Most extensions are developed by volunteers; many of the rest are, at best, subsidized as a second job through donations or ad affiliates. These volunteers don't always have the time to fight for the APIs they need.

DownThemAll has been around for a long time. I'm sure its developers are as passionate and involved as you will find anywhere in the Firefox ecosystem. But for the past couple of years, and especially recently, it has felt like Mozilla are working against extension developers rather than for them.

Each developer must decide individually when the sunk cost becomes too much. This move will probably be that point for a number of developers.
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>>If your language is harder to get real work done in than the alternatives, your language won't get used.<<

It wasn't; it did.
but they'd know they didn't make 201M - and conceptually that them buying and selling that house doesn't value them like a 201M revenue publicly traded company with billions in market cap. Founders know exactly what they're overselling. They do it for spin.
We need a modern day version of this, except it explains the psychotic tendencies of the modern day woman.
I like SQLite a lot, but for me it really seems to break down when the db grows to about 10 GB in size when running 64 bit Ubuntu. ext4 fs.

Does this mesh with others experiences, or can SQLite databases be performant above 10 GB?
I tried it a few years ago (DRAKON-C):

https://github.com/dchest/drakon-tea

It was fun, but drawing those graphs is so slower than just writing code in text... Especially, if you made a mistake somewhere and have to rearrange parts.