skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome for Android is 52MB download.[1]

The on-disk size of version 46.0.2490.76 on my marshmallow device is 66.55MB + 11.44MB of app data.

[1] http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/chrome/chrome-45-0-2...
Postgres has row numbers:

select *, row_number() over (order by id desc) as rownum
from stuff;

Window functions are really convenient. I'm not familiar enough with Oracle to say what the practical differences are, though.
cfbot – slack bot to monitor cloud foundry apps
It's true, and I had in the past. Then I got wary about how everything in life is recorded in a database. So, have switched back to cash for non-recurring purchases.
YouTube Music Opens Site’s Enormous Music Collection to All
How to spot lies
Slack for the rest of us?
>Are there any downsides for the user when disabling tracking scripts all the time?

Some websites break. In my experience very few though.

Also many seem to be missing a lot of ads. This is terrible, cough cough.
> What's wrong with inequality?

Three word answer: money equals power

(hah, I upvoted you by mistake)
That would be awesome. I'm working on a project that requires WebRTC, and iOS is my biggest problem at the moment, if I could point out to a browser and tell people to download it, it would be huge.

Edit: AFAIK, the Ericsson bowser no longer works / isn't supported anymore.
Given the size of investment they probably get access to quarterly company accounts.
Progress Without Altruism. Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the FOSS
We find the price performance of NVIDIA hard to beat, combined with excellent compiler and developer support.

We get better performance writing CUDA code directly than OpenCL, and it's easier for us to develop and debug.

Yes, it's "proprietary" but we need to get our job done.
The rationale of "declining usage" could be a bit misleading. Two thought processes:

1) Tab groups are disabled by default on clean profiles (you have to move it out of the 'customise' menu), so tab groups are used by more advanced users, and more advanced users are more likely to be disabling telemetry. Combined, any usage statistics are pretty meaningless.

2) Hiding functionality by default will mean it gets used less. Showing functionality by default (Hello, Pocket) will mean it gets used more.
How many people reading this were even alive when "Chinese Laundry" was a thing (http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/09/04/chinese-laun...)
At the end of the day we have to have trust in others especially in opensource.
Everything you incorporate in your apps/sites could be malicious.
Her stated reason was that the hourly price was unfair. This suggests that it was a couple dollars an hour:

http://ask.metafilter.com/101477/Cost-of-the-intertubes-a-de...

So we have an anecdote about marginal pricing going from $1 or $2 (or more) to $0 being used as an illustration that people don't like metering.

If AOL had costs of $0.20 an hour, her perception that their pricing was a ripoff probably wasn't ridiculous.

(I'm not trying to refute you, I was making the perhaps not very useful argument that the anecdote was not a good illustration, because it left too many loose ends. It's compelling because AOL is famous and her behavior is easy to cast as ridiculous, but it wouldn't be real surprising if it was told in a way that was useful to AOL.)
The security community is not in any one place.

The only thing even theoretically secure to a government is another government, and reality almost always falls short of that. That has nothing to do with technology, just politics.
Firefox OS Hub with device images
Without the proposition "Once we deploy it, any notion of solving the problem correctly dies", which you seem to repudiate here, much of the sound and fury on HN in recent days would evaporate.

People doing dumb shit on the internet is typically not a problem for me, so while the end-to-end argument suffices to dismiss DNSSEC as worthy of investigation, I remain confused by all the attention drawn to this. If it's all a CloudFlare marketing stunt, has no one heard of the Streisand Effect? If it's all an NSA email-reading effort, why don't they just keep reading our email in the same fashion they already do? Confusing...
Elementary OS shows a warning message when a sudo command is copy pasted in to the terminal.
You have equal but opposite contempt for the poor in, of course, different people.

And depending on which sort of rich person they are, different media will take totally different angles.
Okay, replace it with a note: "We tried to deliver In-n-Out, but they sued us. We're happy to deliver burgers from their competitor, $name!"
Facebook pursues renewable power in search of the "negawatt"
If you look at Chrome's change to https indicators, they give these sites with auto issued certs the lock so users will interpret it as "secure". Seems easy to create fraud sites and give them a legitimate site look.
Key Takeaways from Copyright Reform Committee's Silicon Valley Listening Tour
This would be an argument if Firefox for Android didn't ship the entire browser stack. IIRC it's about 40 Mb, total.
>Eu Europium - Europe

>Fr Francium - France

>In Indium - India

These are the only three that align perfectly I think, although technically Indium is named for Indigo, not India, even though both come from Greek.

>No Nobelium - Norway

Kind of! Norway gives out the Peace Prize. Some amusing naming near-misses[1]

>Am Americium - Armenia

>Cf Californium - Central African Republic

>Ga Gallium - Gabon

>Ge Germanium - Georgia

1: Near-hits for you George Carlin fans
ESR was worried about his precious bodily fluids. (http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/this-the-perfect-insane-a...)
Before we give this the traditional Hacker News baptism by fire, keep in mind that this is apparently just one guy's project, and he's very junior:

Waterfox was started back in March 2011 by Alex Kontos,
a then 16 year old student. He had a fascination for
the web and wanted to help expand on the ideals of what
Mozilla had for a free and open web.

Be constructive, not snarky.
Server-Side Rendering with Redux and React-Router
This is wrong. Here is the author's main point:

Policies aimed at shortening work hours can have a dramatic impact on imbalance of supply and demand. If the amount of vacation time is increased an average of one week a year, this amounts to a two percent reduction in supply of labor.

Government-mandated longer vacations are not actually reducing the supply of labor. It doesn't make people disappear. It just makes them work harder for the rest of the year to make up for the extra week of vacation. Combine that with stagnant demand (no rises in income = less consumption and also less tax money = less govt spending) and you haven't solved anything.

The real cure for a sluggish economy is a large-scale, man-fought war (barring any kind of nuclear event). War simultaneously boosts demand as the government ramps up spend across a bevy of sectors (industrial, aerospace, medical, food, science, tech) and the labor force decreases for obvious reasons.

Longer vacation is a much nicer and more politically correct thesis though.
I dunno - maybe this is one of those "Black Dog (by Zep) is in 4/4" things. I didn't hear the backbeat vary much.
Showcase your work or mentor a student – computer science ed week
I also hear that some people use graph isomorphism to compare files, do optical character recognition, and analyze social networks, but it seems highly probable to me that GI is not the central workhorse (or even a main workhorse) in these fields.

Can somebody in HN more familiar with this add a comment about this?
I've been ignoring GPUs for years, waiting for open standards, public documentation, and open-source drivers. I'm really disappointed that so much work is still being poured into these mysterious proprietary architectures. We wouldn't tolerate this anywhere else; why are GPUs allowed to be an exception?
> Hello scdf!

> That was a bad idea. Don't copy code from websites you don't trust!

Or indeed, download software from websites you don't trust.

I guess the worry would be that hackers would, as an example, take over brew.sh and do bad stuff with installation url. As opposed to taking over brew.sh (in an alternate world where brew.sh hosts a dmg file or something) and hosting an entirely different file.

Bar the relative ease of hiding bad stuff in copy paste compared to making a fake dmg file, this seems to be basically the same situation no?
Firefox is using the newer WKWebView, unlike Chrome.
If only operating systems offered a way to undo changes, then this would be mostly a non-issue.
Of course you can. The fact remains that Bill Gates has not been associated with any directly technical work in decades, so his action in the distant past is of little relevance to his action in the less distant past and the present, and moreover is irrelevant to the GP's assertion of his familial wealth.
There is a big difference in computational requirements between simulating a system and constructing/analyzing a model of a system from measurements, doubly so if the system being modeled is live. To put it another way, you typically can't use virtual world platform computer science to build a mirror world platform that captures complex dynamics happening in reality. Very different problems.

For financial markets, modeling and analyzing systems as they are measured is far more useful (and what is done in practice), so spatial simulation platforms are not that interesting.
That depends on national laws. In the UK, for example, > 25% market share makes you a monopoly.
Makibot Evolve v1.1 Hile Mod Apk İndir
Some people like to work for the joy of it. Why must profit be the motive for work?
People use twitter in many different ways. You are assuming people carefully select who they follow. Many people dont, they follow all sorts of people often based on one tweet. You have no way of knowing what other stuff they are going to write about because it's people. Furthermore a lot of people follow thousands or hundreds of people and are simply not able to follow everything thats going on in their feed.

Compared to a google search result it is completely in the opposite end

I am not hung up on anything. I am saying that your comparison is as wrong as comparing DuckDuckGo with an RSS feed. There is so much noise even with the things you carefully select.

Compared to a google search where I am going specifically for something and is showing my intent.

I don't go to google to see whats going on, I go there to find something very specific.
> How do you separate expertise from decision power, while still being able to make proper use of the expertise?

The Danish model of Consensus Conferences (laypeople brought in to work with experts on decision making), might be a good model to follow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_conferences
iTerm2-Nightly (not sure about main) notifies you on multiple line paste, but does not provide the contents.
RethinkDB 2.2: atomic changefeeds, parallel scans, improved runtime
The whole concept of certificates in the first place relies on your ability to keep the private key secret. You know what you really have no recourse to? The police coming when you are asleep and "interrogating" you until you give them access to the key.
The actual license agreement (§3.3.2) provides an exception for scripts executed by JavascriptCore or WebKit. (The summary document that was quoted above doesn't appear to mention that exception.)

That said, it can be really fuzzy where the line is between code and data (e.g. spreadsheet formulas).

As far as mobile web browsers go, they're required to use WebKit, so they'd get a pass. (E.g., Chrome uses UIWebKit, but has its own network layer, which made it immune to a bug in iOS's networking layer that cached POST requests.)
For a happier life, give up Facebook
When I first moved to the west coast, I was lead to believe that In-N-Out was actually good. Instead, I paid a lot of money for ~McDonald's quality food, and it took longer to get it.

Now I'm to believe people want this delivered? I supposed if you really needed to squeeze the last bit of edibility out of the food, sure, but I feel like the doordash premium makes this a fool's game.
IMNAL, but it seems that In-N-Out is correct here. There are a couple of exceptions [1] in trademark law for using logos without permission:

1. your use is for informational or editorial purposes (for instance, you use the trademark as part of an article or story)

2. your use is part of accurate comparative product statements.

That being said, there's nothing stopping DoorDash from buying food from In-N-Out and delivering it to people. They just can't use the logo.

[1]: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-you-need-permiss...
Ah, thanks for pointing that out.
Should I consider my browser betraying me by selecting stuff that's outside the viewport without a hint / warning ? (absolute positioned element, (-100,-100)). It's simply too convenient to copy/paste from the browser.

P.S. I have a paranoid habit of pasting copied text into the address bar or a notepad to quickly check for unwanted characters. For once, I don't feel like I'm crazy.
Pay or we’ll knock your site offline–DDoS-for-ransom attacks surge
Note that you also have to do this step for other CAs, it's just that browsers often cache intermediates that they've seen before so sites may mysteriously work for most or almost all users but fail for others if the intermediates are missing. This configuration problem is extremely common and often confusing for people to diagnose. It might be more obvious with Let's Encrypt's intermediate because not as many browsers have that cached yet, but the configuration issue is technically the same regardless of what CA you're using. Sending chain files is mandatory if you want to be compatible with all user-agents that accept the root that you're chained to.
"It might of course just be such a bad idea that everybody smart enough to give high quality contributions on the topic does not want to waste their time with the idea. But if this is the case it is totally non obvious to me, and most criticism I've read seem to be from people that do not have a clear understanding of the potential advantages sortition might have."

All major media and academic outlets are, by definition, powerful. To have a megaphone, to have reach, to be able to have thousands or millions of people listen to your message, is the essence of power.

These media and academic outlets, along with political parties, major activist groups, lobbyists, NGO's etc, have evolved to be powerful within the current political framework. The feedback loop between their ability to send messages to the population, and then get votes in return, is what makes them powerful.

Thus, no powerful outlet has any interest in sortition. Sortition would threaten their power. It would be a great unknown, who knows what the political system would look like under such a dramatic change? Thus nobody really talks about it, and if someone does talk about it, nobody retweets them, or cites them, or gives grants to study it, or otherwise gets excited about the idea.

But at any rate, even if you could convince the powers-that-be to implement sortition, I think the idea is fatally flawed. There is a difference between power and authority. A lottery could give people authority - but exercising actual power requires much, much more. It requires real talent at dealing with people, real influence, real knowledge of how things get done.

Democracy, as in real rule by the people, does not exist, cannot exist, should not exist. The Iron Law of oligarchy always wins, and attempts to ignore the Iron Law of Oligarchy and implement "true" democracy simply result in corrupt and degenerate subversion of the on-paper electoral system.
Should have split the land into hexagons instead.
I feel like I'm trying to give you detailed technical answers, and that your responses are mostly about abstractions. I'm not thinking about DNSSEC abstractly. I am concerned with its specifics, which I have studied for a long time and am convinced will harm the Internet.

That's the nicest way I can say that your response to what I just said seems like a non sequitur. I just explained what I meant by recourse. I'm sorry, but I think you're wrong.
Coke, Cookies and Universal Banks
I agree with your performance concerns. In fact, I state them in the end of the article pretty much the same way you did it in your comment.
The beta was good timing for me. I installed an LE cert on Ubuntu running Apache and it's working fine. The instructions were a bit unclear about whether the "auto" option works yet for that setup (it doesn't). Also, I had an issue with permissions on the cert directory - I use a group for my server permissions (instead of running at root), so had to add that group to the cert directory. But the process is still better than what I've experienced implementing a comodo cert.
Dropbox Sheds Office Space, Slow Down Speculation Builds
Lets do that on Mars! A chance to start with a clean slate.
Thanks for that - I'd never heard of the Igon Value Problem and love the concept.
I wonder: Are there places where you can see necessary adjustments to account for the curvature of the Earth with this approach?
What good would undo do you if you didn't realize something bad happened?
Aside: its not sufficient to look at a file you 'curl | bash' into bash via your browser. It is very trivial to detect curl/wget's UA (mine has: "User-Agent": "curl/7.43.0") and dynamically modify files depending on the request's UI.

if 'curl' in request.UA:
return 'something malicious'
else:
return 'something nice'

Always create a local file with the content, read it, then perhaps run it.
>From what I recall, the result of the PACE trail was a bit of a farce. There were 3 categories of outcome for the patient: no change, better, or worse. Each of these categories contains roughly a third of the subjects. Despite such a glaring failure to produce a useful treatment, the PR spin focused on the third that got better, rather than the third of patients who got worse after the PACE treatment.

I'm not sure where you got that info. I just had a look at the 2011 and 2013 papers, and didn't see that. You're implying that treatment had no benefit, but that's definitely not what they found. If you look at the results, you'll see that CBT and GET did result in an improvement in the average scores of patients. It wasn't a huge improvement, but it certainly was an improvement.
Is there some firefox addon that will prevent websites from changing what I copy?
>I've seen (can't remember where) a 3 USD/month offering.

You're probably thinking of http://lowendbox.com/
That is amazing.

I was think about the same recently. You put a lot of faith in incognito mode working as you expect it to on the 'edge' cases (e.g. third party plugins, cache, cookies) but this seems like it does not work even for a pretty straightforward case.

[I use edge there pretty liberally, even those cases are pretty far away from the edge]
>People in the marijuana industry have lately taken to saying that legal marijuana is the next Internet, an untrammeled new market opportunity that is just waiting for its own big brands, the Google and Facebook of pot.

This feels like a very poor analogy. Legal marijuana is perhaps "an untrammeled new market opportunity," but I sincerely doubt it will completely revolutionize the majority of human business and recreational activity within a few decades as the internet has.
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
Also discussed at

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-cas-role-in-fighting...

which is the official discussion thread for Josh's article on this topic.
This looks so advanced, Firefox is the best!

I'm very curious to watch how WeakMap behaves and how it is visualized in this tool!

Speaking of WeakMap, perhaps a Firefox engineer could satisfy my curiosity on this subject. What is the algorithm Firefox uses to release weakly held references? Or, perhaps better restated: how aggressive is Firefox in holding on to weakly referenced objects?

When the majority of new JS memory allocations on a page get placed into WeakMaps, does Firefox always continue to allocate memory from the host OS, or is there some threshold where it starts to let things slip? Also, is there any rhyme or reason to what gets released first from WeakMaps?

Can Firefox run wild like it does with strongly held references, allocating into WeakMaps until the host OS cannot satisfy new native memory allocation requests and only then start to release weak references?

Also, how crazy do things get for you when you put lots of DOM objects or, even worse, GPU-backed memory structures like CanvasPattern into a WeakMap? Please share cool war stories! ;)

Disclaimer: I have not used WeakMap in any serious capacity, so I don't know what I'm talking about.
Interesting question.

I would think the answer as of currently, is no.
That is less because forcing that restriction would be legal or illegal, and moreso because when you buy food at in-n-out you are not waving any rights or signing any document. If for instance, before every sale of a burger they made you tap a screen saying "I agree this purchase is not for delivery" then yes, the delivery person/service could be sued for tortuous interference. Unless that happens, there is broad restrictions on what companys can do to restrict secondary sales.

The only caveat could be that restaurants are regulated for quality and health. If a lawsuit could prove that the delivery services are actually re-selling the food instead of merely delivering them, there might be a case there. Especially because I highly doubt these services have the relevant licenses to prepare and sell food. Its possible though.
SF doesn't particularly care for people driving through the city to get to North Bay -- IIRC, there have been protests against building new highways (e.g. along Cesar Chavez / Army St) dating back to the 80s. Drivers will probably shift to CA-1, or Bay Bridge + 580, or even the San Mateo Bridge + 580.

Ideally we'd also replace cars running along 101-Van Ness-GGB with shuttle buses for North Bay commuters working at tech companies in SF and the South Bay.
I vigorously disagree that the "sound and fury" on HN is about DNSSEC sucking all the oxygen out of the DNS security problem. It is on its face a PKI that gives control over .COM keys to the NSA.
I am not talking about just articles. I am talking about content. (essays, discussions, comments, videos, promotional posts.
>> That being said, there's nothing stopping DoorDash from buying food from In-N-Out and delivering it to people.

I would imagine this is not true if they're representing themselves as a delivery service officially sanctioned by In-N-Out.
And in fairness, many other delivery startups do have formal partnerships with the restaurants and food outlets whose logos they bear...
I usually go web --> text editor --> terminal. It's a pain but, it works.
There's some more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10551312
MMORPG backend as a service?
Great. iOS9 Safari is pretty crappy. It crashes on htmil5 inserts. It rerenders whole offscreen page when reloaded. It laks a search text function.
I really like your last 2 points. I also think having them start off the money conversation so you don't undercut yourself by thinking they may not take you if you charge too much. The last point is also great as it enables them the option to possibly earn you more money.

Thanks for commenting beejhuff
Microsoft and Node.js Guidelines
you can't undo sending network packets containing sensitive information to somewhere else.
Why especially in open source? The leap of faith is larger with a binary blob. (Although I admit it doesn't make much difference in practice, most people don't audit source code).