skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are both correct. :)

Firefox telemetry is opt-out on the Nightly, DevEdition, and Beta channels, but (mostly) opt-in on the Release channel. The opt-in telemetry from the Release channel has limited use because it is not representative of all users.

Here is a list of Firefox's telemetry measurements. Those that are opt-out on the Release channel are tagged "releaseChannelCollection": "opt-out". Adding a new opt-out measurement requires an additional privacy review.

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/toolkit/comp...
I am not seeing how a jet turbofan is going to be less efficient than a turbine engine driving a generator driving an electric motor driving a propeller or fan.

I don't think there's enough surface area on an airplane to gather significant solar power. And that doesn't help at night or in clouds.
No more missed connections when playing Pokemon Go
Sorry for not being clear.

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I dunno, I'm laughing at the random generator more than the real strip. For example:

http://www.bgreco.net/garfield/?panel0=1988880216&panel1=199...

http://www.bgreco.net/garfield/?panel0=1983830415&panel1=198...

http://www.bgreco.net/garfield/?panel0=1994941217&panel1=200...
Well, Niantic already had their first successful product years ago, so I wouldn't call them a startup anymore.

Also they riding on a 20 year old hype train that had nothing to do with them.

So it's in the news because of The Pokemon Company, Nintendo and Google/Alphabet.
You raise a very good point that means testing wouldn't save very much money unless the cutoff was very low and cut into middle-income retirees.

So perhaps my guess about this is wrong. It just seems so politically easy though. "Why should millionaires get SS benefits while the middle-class suffers?" is a good sound bite.
Success is not a matter of luck–it’s an algorithm
Well, obviously we can disagree and I could be wrong, but I think Noseshine's response was a "man bites dog" situation. After thinking about it, I'd still expect the intended audience to see it.
Benchmarks of different languages
> there are entire states where it's even illegal to pump your own gas.

??? Seriously? Can you document that? Because I have never heard of that.

Or is my sarcasm detector on the blink again?
Interesting question. One assumes they've achieved at least parity with the legacy code, so comparing these in detail would yield some useful insights.
> You way involves the employer making a deduction from each paycheck and then making an ACH payment for each employee to the institution of the employee's choosing

How is that different from the ACH transfer done into each employee's bank account when paying their salaries?
Patchwork Seattle
Robot Operating System
which isn't on the flowchart :P
I am working on getting the servers back up.
Site is down for me, here is a link to the Google cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TAFXX1s...
I don't know any players that are in favor of DRM per se. Players are willing to accept DRM, IF it is transparent, and even more willing if it enables some perks.

There was a time when DRM was only visible when it broke your legitimately purchased game (e.g. SimCity, Diablo 3)

Now at least gamers are getting some decent perks from DRM (e.g. digital loaning, play anywhere, cross platform licensing) so it's a bit easier to stomach.
Wow you took that joke way too seriously my friend.
Id say both fox and NPR are unbiased. Bias is pretty well defined by comparison to the audience, unless you're clakmjng theres some magical neutral, but theres no way to define such a thing!

so, fox's bias is the same as its audience, and NPR's with theirs, leaving no apparent bias for either of them.
Rigged YouTube videos can use Siri and Google Now to hijack your phone
Feels bad for Snowden.
> I believe you're required to keep something like 30-45 minutes worth of fuel beyond what you need to get to your destination.

> I've noticed that people who work on electric aircraft express some annoyance with this.

As someone who was just on a plane who was recently on a plane that was diverted to another airport due to dangerously bad weather, I'm glad those requirements are there. There's all kind of things that can go wrong that could delay a landing for a half hour or more.
And of course, the XKCD: https://xkcd.com/78/
Silent Garfield was invented first, on a forum called Truth and Beauty Bombs, which was the fan forum of a webcomic called Dinosaur Comics, though the discussion thereon tended to be only tangentially connected to Dinosaur Comics.

The thread in which it was invented became a big deal and "went viral". I think Garfield Minus Garfield was also invented later on in the same thread, as well as some other variants. But Silent Garfield is funnier and has a better rationale than Garfield Minus Garfield, so it's always to my chagrin that Garfield Minus Garfield is better-known. (That "better rationale" being the fact that in the original, Garfield's "speech" is always shown in thought bubbles, so removing those thought bubbles should theoretically how the strip's events would appear to an outside observer/Jon/anyone without access to Garfield's internal monologue.)

Source: I was there. The PhpBB for the old forum seems to be busted, and I don't think the thread is accessible any more.
10,000 IU per day. A loading dose is in the range of 100,000IU to 1,000,000IU, depending on age and body weight. Hypervitaminosis D only occurs when you take a loading dose level for months or years; it's not possible to acutely overdose on vitamin D.
Does it matter whether it's 6 digits or five? Surely any rate limiting is going to make either effectively impossible to brute force before the code expires and a new one is generated.
Pokemon Go – Permissions Update
Except when asked who is my neighbor, Jesus responds with the parable of the good samaritan (the samaritans and jews were enemies) which basically says, everyone, including your enemies, are your neighbors. It's the whole "do good to those who hate you".
My first reaction was "Is there really a need to sugarcoat a thing that can be done in boring old streaming parsing style" - and then I saw how ridiculously tiny the schema specific code needed for the example at the end was. Looks pretty nice.
neural nets were sorting tons of US mail since the 90s.
True, things often seem simple with advantage of hindsight. However Minsky's original criticism was to linear separability of original perceptron, the only known ANN at the time, and as such as technically sound now as it was then. Even when people got some spare cycles on their computers and started to throw extra layers to increase dimensionality the results weren't too encouraging for a long time.

EDIT: well I basically made the same point as you.
Hmm you're right. Looks like some forms of rodentia will eat grains if they're around.

I still think they'd be better off eating an omelette though. :)
Tesla’s no-good rotten couple of weeks see more fingers pointed at Autopilot
The paper was itself posted to HN a few days ago. Discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048223
Go has better backward compatibility.(i.e. no breaking change after 1.0)
What a Used Car Salesman Taught Me About How to Love Your Customers
While religion in ancient Greece had great debate, anything that happened during and after the fall of the Roman empire had effectively zero critical thought to it for the next several hundred years. Christianity was ultimately thrust on western populations by force. It stayed there for generations until it became so engrained in European culture (and American culture, as a consequence) that nobody questioned it anymore until modern day.

It is a coincidence of history that Greece happened to have a a Christian faction that was good at converting people right around the same time that that Roman empire was collapsing.

Many other religions that tried to similarly gain traction were met with destruction before they hit critical mass, so you must be careful to acknowledge some survival bias here for your religion of choice. Christians, by pure chance, got the timing right.
> Jesus is probably the most discussed/doubted/critiqued figure in history - certainly we've had more time to find out his flaws and the flaws of his followers than we have of science. And yet he hasn't been relegated to the dust heap of history like Baal and Thor.

Well, to be fair, Jesus was the central figure of the religion of the people you're talking about and for a long time outing yourself as a non-believer was "problematic" for your well-being and status in society. Even today in the US politicians know they need to demonstrate their Christianity to become president -- I doubt we'll see an atheist, Jewish, Hindu or even Muslim president within my lifetime (I'm 31).

Also, religious dogma largely lives separate from science and philosophy. It is true that many aspects of what "Christianity" is have been defined by consensus in the Vatican Council (including what scripture -- and which specific version of that scripture -- is considered canonical) and some Christian churches have been adjusting their dogma since (e.g. the CoE has become more accepting of homosexuality, the Catholic church has accepted evolution as factual). But saying "religion has undergone strenuous debate" is a very romanticized view of history.

Not to mention that much of Christian theology/philosophy foregoes the possibility that any other religion might be true to the point where Pascal's Wager only works if you supply the premise "All other religions and sects are definitely wrong" (i.e. you can't accidentally insult the "True God" if you submit yourself to the Christian God and turn out to be wrong).
Challenges around building an app and how ‘Hello Startups’ program can help
Vue Isomorphic Starter
To fix it, people should stop using DRM. Or as a first step to repeal crooked corrupted laws which declared breaking DRM illegal even for legitimate purposes.

http://www.fixthedmca.org
That's not an assumption that you should make unless they explicitly say so.
Well congrats on having a body that doesn't constantly scream for food when you only eat 1500 calories a day, because mine does (and probably a lot of obese people).

That being said I have successfully fought through it and lost significant weight before. But I felt hungry the entire time. I'm trying a different approach by adopting a low carb diet this time around, though.
Özlem Sözleri – Güzel Sözler
> The TOTP stuff will never be widly used. Its just a total pain to work with.

I'm not sure I agree with that.

Generating a code:

<?php
use ParagonIE\MuiltiFactor\Vendor\GoogleAuth;
use ParagonIE\MultiFactor\OTP\TOTP;

$seed = random_bytes(20);
/** Then persist $seed into the database for a user **/

$gauth = new GoogleAuth($seed, new TOTP());
header("Content-Type: image/png");
$gauth->makeQRCode();

Validating a code:

<?php
use ParagonIE\MuiltiFactor\Vendor\GoogleAuth;
use ParagonIE\MultiFactor\OTP\TOTP;

if (\password_verify($_POST['password'], $storedHash)) {
$seed = /** Get seed from database for this user **/;
$gauth = new GoogleAuth($seed, new TOTP());
if ($gauth->validateCode($_POST['2facode'])) {
// Login successful
}
}

Then you can just use the 2FA app of your choice (Authy, Google Authenticator, etc.), scan the QR code, and you're good to go.
I don't know what options are available to you for psychotherapy, but whenever I tell myself things like you are telling yourself, that's what I need. There are many hurdles to getting a PhD and then there are more hurdles to becoming a professor; your professor has surmounted all these hurdles, you have have surmounted some of them; in all probability there is much you can learn from him. Psychotherapy helps you learn to manage your own feelings about it.

You like your field and you have progressed quite a bit further than most people ever do, you are a success so far. I'd like to see you not give up at this stage. Life includes dealing with people we don't like, you can learn to deal with this.

My advice, at least give it a try before you make such a momentous decision.
Ask HN: What are some good tutorials or info about accessibility best practices?
I started working on sites accessibility, and I'm a bit lost. There seems to be a lot of older tools that aren't that great. Anyone know of any good tools or resources out there?
One way to think of the Social Security fund is that it is invested in one of the safest instruments in the world: loans to the US government backed by their "full faith and credit".

What's going on is that the tax-cut crowd is hoping to default on those loans so their taxes don't have to be raised to pay it back. Part of their political strategy is convincing young people that the fund will disappear for unexplained reasons, or that it's not really a fund. It's part of a long-term, multi-generational plan to transfer tax burden from the wealthy to the <$100k crowd that started with Mr. "lower taxes" Ronald Reagan increasing the SS tax.
What's with the starting diss of Charles Schulz?
I'm not sure if anti-discrimination laws require that the outcome be explainable as long as none of the inputs involve legally protected classes.
That's exactly how many addicts describe their first experience with drugs and/or alcohol.
Changing the law would mainly affect older people. And older people vote in very high percentages. Politicians are very, very careful about doing things that will make older voters angry.
Ah, so a lot of random people all make different promises and every voter believes in their favourite pick. For every broken promise you just have to point at the "random people" and say 'Booya, that promise doesn't count" even if all promises get broken. Neat trick.
Oregon and New Jersey have laws, adopted for safety reasons long ago and still in force, prohibiting self-service at gasoline pumps.

See, e.g., http://www.bergencounty.com/trivia-and-fun/why-you-can-t-pum... -- focused mainly on the NJ law.
Just taking this quick opportunity to post a link to my favorite journal, the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis: http://www.jasnh.com/ .

JASNH is designed to accept papers that say "we tested for X effect on Y and found no evidence that X affects Y". Traditionally instead of publishing this kind of research people would keep changing parameters around until they got some kind of positive and presumably career-advancing result.

I am a huge fan of JASNH because of the reminder that "falsifiability" can and should happen.

They seem to be mostly getting behavioral-science style submissions but I am pretty sure based on their charter they would take anything.
Banks have rules and regulations to adhere to. You'll notice almost all banks have universally the same additional types of security (like the security image/security phrase) and such. Because those fit within the industry standards.
SPA that needs client side rendering -> node
Need WS, soft realtime, HA -> Elixir
Also, there is http://trikita.co/slide for Android and a standalone https://github.com/trikita/slide-html with very similar goals
It seems to me you're thinking of Christianity in terms of its popular atheist parody, in contrast to the respectful, thoughtful view of the OP. A number of things you've said are simply not true, others are not in proportion.

There are a lot of problems to grapple with in epistemology and ontology, some of which you've identified. This isn't the place to debate them, though. A great book to start with though, is Miracles, by C.S. Lewis. It blows through a lot of shallow thinking about God and the nature of reality, as well as a number of things you've referenced: which god is the true one? Why is God so mean?

Also, I'd like to point out that if God has revealed himself to us in history (via Jesus and the witnesses of his resurrection), we don't need to simply theorize about him. There's actual evidence, which we can weigh against our own personal experience.
SEC Investigating Whether Tesla Failed to Disclose Autopilot Crash
That's an awfully personal question, but yes.
Squirrel Programming Language
I think text - at least in this format - is unlikely to work because it has manifestly not been working. I do read (and reread) what you write and I have not been able to figure out how I am misunderstanding anything. So, if this is ever going to be useful, something needs to change.
International Incident: Gaining Control of a .int Domain Name with DNS Trickery
Please consider sending them a pull request: https://github.com/2factorauth/twofactorauth/pulls
From some of these comments it makes me feel like a lot of people didn't actually read the article.

1. Yes the pokemon reference is stupid but its more about how technology companies located in major hubs are making money from everywhere and not giving back. Examples used: Hollywood was always major entertainment but created jobs through local theatres. Detroit was major area for cars but created jobs through dealerships.

2. His solutions are horrible and his clear linkbait to shoehorn pokemon into this article shows that this article was written to elicit these types of reactions.
They have a very different feel. GMG actually modifies the text slightly when it refers to garfield by name and is basically the story of a guy going crazy talking to himself. SG just removes the Garfield lines and answers the question "What is Jon's point of view actually like in Garfield?".

This article is awesome, by the way. I was so addicted to dealing with garfield strips programmatically a few years ago. I wanted to work on a library which could analyze the images, reconstruct the layers and extract the text in order to do things such as removing specific characters, lines, randomizing extracting every single Jon/Garfield sprite and constructing animations out of it, etc.

I feel like Garfield is actually a very cool platform for this because there is a lot of data and not a lot of variations (garfield is extremely formulaic). Maybe this inspires someone to work on it.

(PS: Hint: If you are interested in working on it, scraping every garfield strip off the official website is extremely easy)
>One can find much more objective meaning to existence without outsorcing it to some imaginable friend.

Care to elaborate on this?
I'm an atheist myself and I've been struggling with this a lot.
The telemetry link in the article points to Firefox 45 data. Curiously, the error rates appear to be going up: Firefox 46's error rate is 0.10% and Firefox 47's error rate is 4.35%.

* Firefox 45: https://telemetry.mozilla.org/new-pipeline/dist.html#!measur...

* Firefox 46: https://telemetry.mozilla.org/new-pipeline/dist.html#!measur...

* Firefox 47: https://telemetry.mozilla.org/new-pipeline/dist.html#!measur...
PVP did a sendup of the whole industry http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2009/03/02/ombudsmen
I read Garfield when I was a kid. I have some books. It's strange but there were characters, a roommate, a dog (odie),a cute kitten that was resented, trips to a farm. Those things were written out, and it became sameness all the time. I'm surprised it's still being written.

I love the remixes. Garfield minus Garfield is fascinating..
I read Erica's infamous email without any knowledge of the situation, and only a vague impression that she was the wrong end of some campus non-event. The letter was so well-written and thoughtful! The key line, that she does not trust herself to police Halloween, was so effective.

Then I watched the video of the children yelling and cursing at Nicholas. Yes, they fixed that all right.
Stakkr.io: An Alternative to Buffer
Or with a reusable launcher. Somebody get Elon on the line.
Suppose you can achieve happiness with a wire to the brain. Is there a good argument against doing this?
no programming experience required. really?
mass per kilowatt hour. That is the magic number. While a gas turbine can be slightly over 52% efficient it weighs a lot. You can plot weight over kilowatt hours, which is useful since at small numbers of kilowatt hours batteries are a huge win, and then at some point you get a cross over where the fact that fuel is more energy dense it has compensated for the weight of the turbine and generator infrastructure.
Right, so that'd be uncooked things like a muffins, granola, yogurt...
CDs are CLV, data-wise. But many CD-ROM drives can also read at faster-than-realtime-audio speeds, and in those cases reading at the outer edge of the disc can net faster rates. IE, a 2x CD-ROM might not be 2x throughout the whole disc.
Have you tried https://github.com/rgrempel/elm-route-url ?

http://www.gizra.com/content/faithful-elm-amazing-router/
Yeah, passwords are all a mess no matter what, just choice of lesser evils.

"Scheme". It's pronounced like "skeem", not "sheem".
Your account sounds different from what GP describes (ie. descending from full charge in a few minutes, without any activity).

I live an a region that regularly stays below 0F for months on end and have never seen or experienced such extremely accelerated loss of charge. However, I have certainly seen phones lose charge more quickly once they get below 50% or so--I never correlated that with the cold, but maybe there is a connection.
TypeSubmit – Create web forms without any back-end requirements
Where is the feature in GitHub that would show the languages used in a repository? That would be useful here regarding this comment.

(Note I have no doubt you are right. It would just be a useful metric.)
I haven't played it, but pretty much every time I look out the window of my apartment here in NYC there are random people wandering aimlessly around my block with their phone pointed in weird directions. I have friends and family in my hometown telling me all sorts of stories about swarming amusement parks, masses of kids out in the street etc...

Genuinely viral, not a PR blitz. The network effect of human activity in close proximity, physically gathering in already crowded public spaces, and then spreading to areas of non-players is probably the key viral component on this one. Someone sees other people on the street playing it, they check it out, explore other areas, the network grows and so on.

Likely more effective virally than social networks because it's a well developed game mechanic - skill, mastery, rewards etc - and apparently it encourages strangers to interact, not just existing social circles. So the activity leaps over the "tribal" firewall.

It just turns out that viral social media manifested in the real world starts resembling an actual virus.
Autoscaling in Kubernetes 1.3
Yes keep reading, it teaches you the "hard way" by starting at the beginning and moving forward.

Try Ch. 7 - Models and Methodology, to skip to Agile.
TOTP as an open spec is implemented in Google Authenticator's open source version on GitHub. (It's old, but works great.) I recommend not using proprietary apps or services for security purposes.

Things with backup or sync are risky, they add additional ways your authenticator can be compromised. There's an alternative that's similarly useful, but far more secure. When you add a 2FA code, print the QR code presented by the website and store it somewhere very secure in real world space. You can later scan it with any TOTP app, and it'll add the identical authenticator to another device.
Pokemon is a 50 billion dollar franchise. It has made billions of dollars for its owners. The franchise has made more profits than twitter, Facebook and maybe a few other unicorns combined.

Its not that surprising it is doing well.
Some people (myself included) find Peanuts insufferably boring and not all that funny.
Niantic is no longer part of Google (never part of Alphabet),they spun off to their own entity.