skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an employee who left a company and purchased one share on the way out, I imagine I have nothing to lose? I wonder if I am entitled to this information.
Sounds like they're planning on screwing you (new company).

So ask yourself this: when you flush a toilet, what happens to the toilet paper?
It wasn't him that submitted it.
This piece has left me confused
> Instead, the X.509 cert. stored in DNS is trusted for TLS purposes simply because it is DNSSEC signed rather than CA issued.

And I would see that as a huge mistake. Requiring two layers of verification (DNSSEC + separate CA) is what had I assumed DNSSEC would do.

Would that stop the NSA? Probably not, but the person who broke DigiNotar wasn't exactly NSA.
Actually, I work remotely. I don't commute at all.

The tone of your reply is what I was referring to. You sound angry and bitter because of the personal preferences I expressed.

You obviously prefer public transit to driving your own car. I don't happen to share your view, but I'm not going to judge you or berate you because of it.
Now i wonder if they support webrtc even if they have to use webkit to render i have to try it out. The restrictions on browsers on ios could turn the ipad pro into the worlds most expensive paper weight.
Mozilla disallows others from using the Firefox trademark for custom compiled versions, which is understandable and agreeable. What I don't get is how they're then willing to put their name on something where they are forced to use webkit. Fear of losing market share? Hope that Apple will allow them to use Gecko or Servo in the future?
Its actually using WKWebView

https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93...
I'd agree with your theory. Early this summer interviewing for 2 nearly identical positions I was told from one I was too technical, they want someone more design-focused; and I was too design focused, they want someone more technical from the other. Both positions are still open.

Assuming I didn't completely tank both interviews, I got the sense in feedback afterwards they both wanted a magical front end/back end/ designer dynamo and are holding out/hoping for that person to apply.

I think companies initially define a FED role they need, and then in interviews find everyone has slightly different but overlapping skillsets/specialties. Someone says 'hey wouldn't it be nice if we could find a dev that has all these" and spin their wheels endlessly searching for the unicorn rather than hire 2 complimentary people. Especially when they're already pushing their budget limits.
The Delian Mode is a 25 minute video documentary about Delia [1], which shows her utter brilliance and less well known sadder moments later in life.

For major enthusiasts there is also the excellent Delia Derbyshire day [2] which celebrates her work and contemporary artists who she inspired.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXnmSgaeGAI

[2] https://deliaderbyshireday.wordpress.com/
Check out the sample spaces link: http://www.securespaces.com/WP2015/index.php/sample-spaces/
Comcast even offered me 100+ channels, HBO and Showtime for free for a year just to get me hooked on the boob tube.

Luckily CenturyLink installed FTTH in my complex. That was the best phone call I've ever had with Comcast :).
I grew up there... The Mike the Headless Chicken festival was always a highlight of my youth!

Also worth noting, Frozen Dead Guy Days are pretty awesome too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Dead_Guy_Days
It's a visceral reaction, I wouldn't be surprised if it were related to the psychology behind the uncanny valley.
It is an excellent candidate if money is no object.
Why is this on HN? i just read it and now feel... well i'm not sure but it's different than before when i read this article and the comments. And its not even lunch time yet. Back to work for me.
You can have more info about that at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Andr... but be aware that Mozilla is moving its extension development system to WebExtensions which are different than the current system. You can check more about WebExtensions at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions

This movement towards WebExtensions will take some time and new APIs are being developed as they figure out the needs of the developers. WebExtensions are easier to write and make them cross-platform (Firefox OS, Firefox for Android, Chrome...). It might not be ready now but its a good thing to check out.
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XUL requires engine support, so I have no idea how you think that could have worked.
Waterfox – A fast browser
Star Trek: Renegades, a Tesla coloring book and more geeky crowdfunding projects
That's an interesting perspective. It sounds to me like you did very well at things when you were young, and you maybe became used to being "good" or "smart" or "talented" without having to work very hard at things.

As you get older, the only way to sustain that sort of advantage is to work hard at things you're not good at, but that requires stepping outside your comfort zone. Which is unpleasant. And additionally so if you had "innate ability" when you were younger (which I think is usually more about exposure than people realize).
Unicorns Dropping Like Flies: Fidelity Cuts Snapchat Valuation by 25%
And here's the relevant snippet from Client/Frontend/Browser/Browser.swift:

func createWebview() {
if webView == nil {
assert(configuration != nil, "Create webview can only be called once")
configuration!.userContentController = WKUserContentController()
configuration!.preferences = WKPreferences()
configuration!.preferences.javaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically = false
let webView = WKWebView(frame: CGRectZero, configuration: configuration!)

...
setting yourself up for the "why i'm leaving hackerone" story in a few months. lame. painting yourself as better than the company and the company should be glad to have you. you suck. stupid umlaut looking circle thing. so lame.
The only reason anyone owns anything is because of government regulations?

That's an interesting take on the philosophy behind private property rights.
SpatialOS: Improbable unveils operating system for simulated cities
A lot of microbial diversity comes from putting random shit in your mouth - an activity babies engage in with alarming (to new parents) frequency. Caged mice with impaired microbial diversity don't have the same breadth of opportunity to pick up new microbes via this mechanism that humans do.

One of the primary benefits of raw food is that it is a great way to introduce microbial diversity. On the other hand, a diet comprised only of cooked or sterile processed foods is going to exacerbate microbial diversity issues.
Onyx 0.8.0: Automatic State Management
> This reasoning just doesn't apply at all to open source software like Firefox.

If you're using the automatic updating functionality (which the majority of people are) then it absolutely applies. Firefox's source code is available, but if you aren't verifying the source upon each update then that fact is largely irrelevant.

The whole point of OSS is to allow YOU to verify the software, and only then to build it when you're comfortable. If you are skipping the verify step and definitely if you're skipping the build step then the fact that it is OSS adds little to nothing security wise (since the vendor can splice in anything they want).

So even with OSS you often either trust the vendor or you do not.

> I think the reason OP points this out is because the old Sync system that Firefox had was much more secure (but unusable by the general public). We know this because we could see how it worked!

I suspect we're having this discussion simply because people don't equate the automatic updater with JavaScript in their own mind. The reality is that if you trust Mozilla to provide software updates then you can trust them to provide Javascript, after all the software brought down by the updater has far greater system access and can do far greater damage than JS.
Apple doesn't allow the rendering engine to be ported. For people who use Firefox on the desktop, being able to have their bookmarks, logins and tabs sync'd is a big deal.
Moreover, the ability to cash in on an irrational market will tend to make the market more rational.
As a football fan, the quantity of commercials is something else. CBS is particularly bad. You'll often see a touchdown, PAT, commercial break, cut back to the kickoff with the ball in mid-air which results in a touchback (so like 5 seconds worth of "content" which is really just a ball flying through the air and a guy catching it and kneeling down) followed by another round of commercials. It's insane.

When I get particularly frustrated with it, I pause the game and go do something else for a good 15-20 minutes, then come back so I can at least fast forward through some of them.
2016: The Year of the Fatal “Smart” Failure?
Well, MIT started the Scheme for education thing with SICP/6.001 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...) in the early '80s, the thesis being that you could start fresh with it, no introduction to computers or the particular language used in the course, and get right to business, instead of wasting half the class between learning a more complex and picky syntax and fighting with the language to express things not natural to it.

It's also default interpreted, so the write code->run code cycle is instantaneous (although the ones MIT used had compilers, and nowadays machines are so fast LISPs tend to immediately compile everything typed into the REPL). Typing is of course important, the argument here is that for initial education, dynamic typing when these small programs are run is better than adding the complexity of declaring types, especially since so few are needed in an introduction course.

A CS (and EE, i.e. 6-3) or EECS (6-2, what most students major in today) major would learn CLU, later Java, when they took either the software engineering or compiler course. And of course there were many opportunities to learn languages and get paid for programming, including the co-op program, which is now mostly formalized into a MEng program that most students do.

The dot.com crash cratered EECS enrollment, which had been steady at 40% of the undergraduate for decades, it dropped by more than half. People panicked, Lisp haters made sure all of it was expunged from required undergraduate courses, and MIT just plain changed what it meant to be a MIT EECS graduate. With a lot of surface politeness, here's one for the record explanation: http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-fr...

It's now much more about making gadgets than, oh, trustworthy libraries. Pity almost no one, proprietary or FOSS, provides any of the latter. A portion of 6.001 is taught by the 6.001-zombies in January, with credit available for the first N who sign up, as 6.037, and if you don't know Python when you arrive, there's courses which will teach you it before you take the new 6.01 that pretends to start replacing 6.001.

Or, if you're really serious about pure CS, you're likely better off going to some place like CMU if you can get into the program. (I got the impression some years ago when CS became popular again that Stanford is more like CMU and U.C. Berkeley more like MIT, but I don't know if that's true or still true. If you're serious about CS and can't get into one of those 4 best in the world with no one close behind, you should think very carefully about your path forward.)
This is something that really worries me about the UK (expat here). Although the article briefly mentioned it, there seems to be a large incompetence in the current Tory government over exactly how technology works. Surely discussions need to be made by people who actually have an inkling of how technology works.
Not sure about others, but when you said that I tried to recall the smell of a hamburger and found it immediately very easy.

I'm also hungry, and I can remember all kinds of food smells with ease right now...wonder if that has something to do with it, heh.
This is exactly the demographic of Mensa: the highly intelligent non-achiever. For probably just the reasons you lay out.
It doesn't seem like Twitter has a hard time monetizing. They have a much harder time growing their user base.
Welcome to the world of stooges. There is a queue of people ready to sign anything in exchange for quick cash. It's fairly common in Italy, and only caught when such intermediaries turn out to be exceptionally poor.

Doing this cross-border becomes extremely difficult, unless you set up an EU-wide body charged with doing that, and you integrate databases, and before you know it, you have an EU body tasked with enforcing EU-wide fiscal policy, and somebody will have to set that policy, and a real EU government will be born.

I would all be in favour of that, tbh; but I don't see it happening anytime soon across 28 countries.
wikipedia doesn't always have all the answers: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151110-evolution-of-big-bra...
No

Twitter lets you discover what happens in areas that you might be interested in if someone wrote about it. It's a newsfeed for that specific reason. It require a tweet to happen.

Google allow you to find exactly what you are looking for whether someone tweeted it or not in all the content they can get a hold of including twitter.

Your search term on twitter does not show you intent, search on google does.

You are comparing two completely different things here.

Furthermore EVERYONE who uses google search use it to find things they are looking for when they are most interested in it. Only some people use twitter search terms to figure out who on twitter has something to say, mostly about themselves.

People don't use twitter as a search engine but as a discovery engine the difference is hugely different for so many reasons I am not sure why you keep insisting on them being the same.
AIUI they actually ARE higher physical quality: I believe the way experts tell cultured diamonds from 'natural' ones is that cultured ones have far fewer flaws. (IANADD)

But you are absolutely right of course - the physical quality is irrelevant in the market for such an emotional product.
Sublime Text’s advantage in this context is the advantage that all GUI text editors share, including Atom and GEdit. This advantage is a combination of being more familiar and having better defaults.

Some ways that Sublime is more familiar are that it uses the OS-standard editing hotkeys, such as moving by words with Ctrl-arrows or Option-arrows. It also uses OS-standard terminology, like “close window” instead of “kill buffer” and “paste” instead of “yank”. The result is that new users don’t have to learn anything to be productive – they just edit as if they are in Microsoft Word, while enjoying the programming-specific features of a text editor such as syntax highlighting and block folding.

The better defaults include easily creating more than one scratch buffer (just run “New File” multiple times), automatically balancing parens when you type, support for pixel-by-pixel smooth scrolling, and scrollbars that don’t confusingly shrink when you start scrolling past the end of the buffer. I’m sure Emacs supports all these things, but you have to manually configure it to do so first. Many users are scared off from Emacs after seeing that it requires up-front investment to get features that other editors already provide with no work.
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Be Still My Pulsating Sequence
WebRTC isn't supported as iOS WebKit has no support for it.

There might be extremely elaborate workarounds possible to get it working anyway: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1200791
Another thing that nobody seems to be bringing up: animals. I don't know what's the full range of hearing of rats, but they talk a lot over ultrasound, with little-over-22kHz band being used to signal danger, and something around 56kHz to signal friendliness/food locations[0]. If their idea worked, they would likely piss off a lot of rats. Not many people keep rats as pets, but some other animals and usual city wildlife probably hear those ranges too.

[0] - source: my ex-gf had rats as pets and I did some googling a few years ago to figure out what kind of experiments I could do on them ^_^.
SymWin: Type special characters on Windows without the alt-key bullshit
I learned linear algebra and spectral graph theory from Babai, and he also taught a notoriously difficult combinatorics class. It was a rare privilege to be taught by someone who was doing brilliant research and also cared deeply about undergraduate students.
This seems like hyperbole to me. If nothing else, I'm free to leave if I'm unhappy with where I am. East Germans had no such option.
Firefox supported sync long before chrome in fact ;-)
This is amazing!
> Read to the end for this gem: "Under Representative McHenry’s bill, purchases would be restricted to investors who earn more than $200,000 a year or have a net worth of $1 million."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the motivation for that to keep unsophisticated investors out, and limit it people with money to lose? I think there are similar restrictions on hedge funds, too.

I can see the logic behind that, since it's much more likely for a startup to go bust, and I wouldn't want to see regular people losing their life savings. Though, personally, I think I'd prefer there just be a limit based on something like percentage of net worth invested in these sorts of things.
> You have to fit in. You have to agree with the political views of the majority.

No, you don't; the people with lots of karma don't have homogenous expressed political views, so they can't all agree with the majority, either. How you post about your views is a lot more important than what your views are.
Ask HN: WordPress Custom Page Hourly Rate?
I am a junior developer starting freelance and have a client that wants only one of his pages to have a custom layout.

I always hear about how undercutting rates on sites like Elance hurt the developers so I want to make sure I'm charging market rates.

How much should I charge for to make this custom page(landing page style, no extra widgets or sidebars or anything crazy)? I live in the greater NY area.

EDIT: Spelling
Received mine yesterday and loaded up Tales of Zesteria. It works pretty much flawlessly for me and I'm super happy with it.

I have no illusions that I'm going to be playing the latest Fallout 4 with it, but I have a strong tendency towards non-twitch based games, and those will work just fine.

When I do play Fallout 4, et al, it will be on the PC, but being able to stream so many of my games to my television is great.
Journalism, "the press", isn't used to being called out. They used to be the ones beyond reproach, the defenders of the faith.

Now, struggling for readership and revenue /income, they have been riding the coattails of watered down investigative reporting with a flash of click-bait and "social mood". That's to say they aren't following an immutable compass but rather the vagaries of the day, hoping one of those spaghetti strands sticks one day and saves them.

They are too often chasing acceptance in hopes this will drive up revenues.

I'm not sure they ever were the fourth estate, but certainly now with their self interested survival on the line, they don't even try to fake it any more.
Downloaded it. Hopefully being a new browser it might be minimal on power gobbling?

Interesting to note. I downloaded it and checked it for SRI, sub-resource integrity, and it isn't supported. I used my tester https://ejj.io/sri .

It's interesting because no mobile browsers support it yet.. Mobile browsers drag far behind their desktop friends when it comes to security features.
I'm sorry if you took offence at my use of the idiom "all in the mind" - its intended meaning is "imagined" rather than "psychiatric". I am not implying psychiatric illnesses are not real.

Regarding the PACE trail; I was referring to the trail conducted in the UK. About 73% of people with ME do not gain any benefit in symptom relief when CBT is used as a primary intervention.

http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2015/10/press-release-me-ass...
I forget where I read it, but someone from Mozilla stated somewhat recently(?) that, ultimately, Firefox is about a set of services shared across platforms, an experience, and a pledge to user privacy. It's not about a specific rendering engine.
As noted by the author, it’s inspired by this:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/20505/how-to-add-ch...
Agreed; its just sour grapes. I work remotely, and burn far less fuel out here in my earth-sheltered house in the country than some condo in the city. The car is the least of it - heating, cooking, utilities can dwarf the driving cost.
"Look at it this way, the kind of person that places a high emotional value on a diamond is not going to feel the same way about a $50 diamond as they would a $3000 diamond."

However, the kind of person who places a high emotional value on showing off the diamond to other people may. "Reliably discernable" by a lab is one thing. "Reliably discernable" by friends, family, and random people on the street is quite another.
Is this specific to Nvidia chips? Because that's not how it works on big.LITTLE SoCs from other manufacturers. In those you can use all cores at the same time if you want to.
No but this is why In&Out wants to control/restrict delivery, to prevent people getting sick and suing them. Delivery guy could have Shigella or something, handles your food (eats a fry say) and you get sick. You blame In&Out. In fact he delivers 100 In&Outs all ordered from same place. Delivery guy is the vector but In&Out gets the blame.
Time Warner Inc. (the company discussed in OP's article that owns HBO, CNN etc.) has been a separate company from Time Warner Cable since 2009.

TWC is the one that Comcast tried to buy (and is now trying to merge with Charter).
That's what the app sandbox is for. As long as the sandbox holds up, it doesn't matter what security vulnerabilities are in the app within. And if the sandbox doesn't hold up, you've probably lost the game regardless. There's plenty of room for security vulnerabilities in an app like Chrome even if they're not using a custom browser engine.
They have both problems.
Limited space on a screen begs for condensed ways of expressing information and ideas. Icons make a ton of sense compared to sometimes 20-30 char strings.
"Calvin & Hobbes" had a couple of strips that touched on this topic. Hobbes, as a tiger, has an extensive vocabulary to describe smells.

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/02/13
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/02/14
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TensorFlow, Google's Open Source AI, Signals Big Changes in Hardware Too
FWIW I was able to get a 50% discount for a year on AT&T U-Verse internet-only. I think they might be playing hardball now though since their retention department claims that that discount is no longer available.
Taleb talks about this (though he doesn't use the term Sortition) in Antifragile: "instead of having the rulers randomize the jobs of citizens, we should have citizens randomize the jobs of rulers, naming them by raffles and removing them at random as well. That is similar to simulated annealing—and it happens to be no less effective. It turned out that the ancients—again, those ancients!—were aware of it: the members of the Athenian assemblies were chosen by lot, a method meant to protect the system from degeneracy. Luckily, this effect has been investigated with modern political systems. In a computer simulation, Alessandro Pluchino and his colleagues showed how adding a certain number of randomly selected politicians to the process can improve the functioning of the parliamentary system."
Nvidia TX1 to bring artificial intelligence to autonomous bots and drones