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Different languages are good for different things. Mozilla has and will continue to use Python for many projects.
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Forum anonymity (or more precisely, disposable account) is the source of moderation pain and the reason of suboptimal forum content quality. It's one of the main issues I want to address from day 1. If FB account puts a lot of people off, I may consider adopting SMS verification sooner, or change the yearly subscription to a one-time small fee.

It seems Markdown editing is a red flag for broader adoption. I've thought about a dual approach before: allow casual users to edit with GUI, and provide the Markdown editing capability for pro users.

I do not have a fool-proof way to prevent plugin copying. If somehow it's widely copied, it's not a bad thing (to most people), too.
mike, you are confusing the impressions you got from the text with the impressions historical actors that banned the slavery received. those are different things.
Hash-tag Streisand Effect.
That would be nice - an alternative to the UPS FedEx duopoly. Maybe they can push the shipping rates lower than the evil twins set it at now. The two are doing about 100 billion in business, so it is a large market to go after.

I have been shipping daily with both of them for a decade; it would be nice to have another choice with national coverage.

http://www.diffen.com/difference/FedEx_vs_UPS
I've run into what appear to be conflicting views, but after some study, I'm able to resolve them. Usually it's understanding things in their proper context. That is: it's by reading more and paying more attention.
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For all those who suggest, vanilla JS, it sounds quite interesting, but many use ui frameworks like bootstrap which require jquery anyway. So why not go the whole distance and use jquery yourself?

Can bootstrap work without jquery or isolate only the subset of jquery they use?
I kind of wonder if "not a culture fit" could be construed that way if you were an underrepresented minority. It's pretty close to existing coded language.
This study (and they are quite transparent about it) doesn't focus on the number one cost, housing. There is some room for technological innovation there but it's mostly a policy issue.

The best-paying jobs in the US are highly concentrated in a few areas, and at the same time cost of housing is skyrocketing in those areas. We could do a lot to improve people's wellbeing by figuring out how to make housing much more affordable. (Technology can help with transit, building techniques, and better remote collaboration software; but policy is required for zoning/planning, and for transit as well).
NAT traversal requires a server accessible to both parties, correct?

It would be interesting if somehow Tor could be used only to initiate the NAT traversal, then the direct connection could be used with better performance. (This article feels like it's talking about routing everything through Tor.) If there was an open-source library that managed this well I have a feeling it would be used everywhere.
Most of these projects are not very big or successful yet. I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Bloom filters originally upset me because I expected the word "Bloom" to refer to an action of the algorithm. Not so someone's name.

I'm fond of Concierge filtering as an easy description of how they work. I view them as a brief conversation with the front desk staff at a hotel to determine if someone is there. "Is anyone here wearing a hat? Is anyone here over 6'? Did anyone come in carrying a briefcase?"
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A list of votes per user per page would also work. ~90% of the time that list would be empty, if it's not your likely going to eventually need to know which specific items where voted on so might as well just load them all.

Further, voting records are just not that big a data structure. Sure, it's much better than a poor implementation and might be a great optimization to bolt onto a different design, but again it's niche with minimal befits when starting from scratch.

Edit: Now, I really want to know how they actually do this.
This jumped out at me:

> “I’m trans, so I need to live somewhere progressive so I feel safe day-to-day and don’t feel like I’m going to get beat up for using the wrong restroom.”

This is a pretty damn good reason to live somewhere like Seattle or Boston, and a pretty damn good reason not to live somewhere like (edit:) North Carolina or Tennessee or Georgia. The reality is that many of us are limited by not wanting to live in a city or state that basically wants us dead. The fact that tech companies tend to be clustered around progressive, blue areas is a major advantage.

It's easy to say "just move to the middle of nowhere!" if you're privileged enough to not worry about these things. But some of us kind of want to keep our asses safe and, honestly, alive.
Bin is a very, very common word in ecommerce that means storage unit.

You're partially correct in your overall assessment of Amazon, but they aren't a tech company first. They're a logistics company that was forced to become a tech company to support their retail efforts.
Minimum 1 year

Maximum 2 year

1 year for some equity and to judge if I even want it, 2 year solely so hiring managers don't disqualify me (along with random employees that anecdotally heard what red flags).

And I remove all the 3 month stints off my resume

And I also take off contracts done in chronologically parallel time periods because they confuse people that are silently judging how long I had been anywhere, than any other merit

Easier to get an experienced based salary upgrade at a different company, than at the current company.

Another quirk seems to be that everyone in engineering seems to like seeing gaps. So disappearing my 3 month stints has an added effect that would be counterintuitive to all the unemployed bloggers writing resume tips on ask.com

It is an adaptation. Get money.
In networked software, to be federated means users are able to send messages from one independent deployment to the other. In WordPress, this is achieved using linkbacks and feeds. So how would you define federation?
Sure, but I got nothing to respond here to - a negative assertion cannot be proved or disproved. Do you have another causal historic explanation for the abolition of slavery? Do you mind providing an academic reference for your view?
Hi, I recently found this amazing editor.

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Was Elon always this way? Or did he end up working on one trait that was lagging behind?
You know that Comodo won't issue a refund if they decide not to use them any more right? They've paid the money.

I can understand moving things to show support for better alternatives but let's not kid ourselves - moving now or moving when the cert expires, doesn't hurt Comodo any differently.
> Exactly. That's why we did not use Google identity service. Google accounts are disposable, while Facebook enforces one-account-per-person policy.

Facebook fails hilariously at enforcement of this.
In the United States, a non-profit does not earn money for owners or investors. NP's do make money via donations and services provided. While many NP's make very little money or mostly distribute donated funds, other NP's can make large amounts of money. Money retained in excess of expenses, must be used to further a NP's mission.

A NP Hospital uses its excess funds to provide free services to those who cannot afford healthcare and does community outreach and eduction.

Mozilla uses its money to supports other OSS projects, advocates for OSS.

(This is a very simple explanation with many details of how NP's operate ignored, or the various legal types of NP's.)
This feels like hating on a music group once they find commercial success.
Honestly, I read hacker news for the noteworthy stuff. Otherwise, I ask people who are savvy in the domain what papers I should check out - a lot of the smarter people I've worked with are raving about new architectural approaches etc.
Hrmm, looks like a good way to do it :)
Good. Do it, but raising the cost of building low income housing is going to lower the rate that it's build at.
It's not common in the US, but you hear it now and again here. The most similar example I can think of is probably "lift." You'll hear someone call an elevator that every so often in the US, but it's mainly the UK term
I'm pretty sure that verse allows slavery. It forbids kidnapping and enslaving people, but if someone is born a slave, buying and selling them is fine. Fortunately, I don't have to be an expert on the Bible to argue this point. If the Bible's anti-slavery position was so clear, why did it take almost two millennia for theologians to figure that out?

Also, do you really endorse that verse? That is: Do you think we should institute the death penalty for the crime of kidnapping? If not, why not? "Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death," is as explicit and unambiguous as it is possible to be.
Interesting quote and I think it rings true. Though I think it's not uncommon for someone to posses two of those three qualities, certainly having all three is rare.
And they're just as likely to have problems with any other CA.
> The US income tax was only ratified in 1913, which would put its creation to just a year before World War 1.

The US had an income tax before that. What was ratified was a Constitutional amendment giving the federal government plenary and independent power to levy an income tax.
Hmm. Well put--it certainly trickles down.

However, that has always been the case even with piracy aside: when have publishers not squeezed the profits from the artists of the world? Or what about Walmart running small companies out? Spotify paying peanuts to musicians? That's certainly been a trend of capitalism for a long time.

The companies that have means to invest lots of legal and technical resources in developing DMC and help track down those torrent hubs have a lot of money. They are trying to shut them down to protect their bottom-line, not the content producers. It's a business after all.
Agreed, and the money would be more fairly distributed.

Many of the open source projects mentioned already have a pretty strong vested financial interest behind them. They are no longer true open source projects.

I think it's natural for popular open source projects to eventually turn into businesses but I think there is a point where they really shouldn't be considered 'open source' any more and Mozilla is definitely one of them.
[I'm not OP] Does one have to always make sure not to mention gender in English? I'm from Poland and in Polish you mention it all the time unless you specifically go out of your way not to do so. Before I've seen people criticized for translating "programistka" as "female programmer" and there was that proposal for some NLP library the other day, to drop any functionality detecting gender... And doing that to Polish (or any Slavic) NLP library would make the software useless: emperor/empress,prince/princess,sorcerer/sorceress - it may sound like fantasy to many but this is the reality for language with grammatical gender. I'm not saying there are no biases against women in Eastern Europe, but no one here would find mentioning gender offensive or inappropriate, in fact the opposite is true... I also don't remember such rule being mentioned in my English course.
Yeah I started doing it when people asked me questions in phone screens about why I left Job X after 3 months. It is why I'm convinced people just skim resumes until they think they'll bring you onsite.
The problem I see is that it is very difficult to improve user tools when the users (such as myself) are stuck using the wrong abstractions. I'm a corporate lawyer, and the #1 and 2 tools of my trade are Word, followed by Acrobat. Typical process for negotiating a contract is to save new versions in .docx and run "legal compare" in some tool such as DeltaView or Workshare to show change dif between versions. This snapshot dif is then emailed to the people who need to see it. This is a relatively powerful abstraction for a limited field, but is hard to adapt. There is no feedback mechanism between users and developers of these tools. So they basically do not improve, and actually the experience of using them has only gotten worse with time for everyone involved. So the immediate benefit to switching philosophies is zero, though the long-term benefit is huge. But how do you overcome this initial starting friction?
the problem with current state of the bounty program is that it's invitation-only (i'm no security researcher) and ios-centered :/
It looks like it's small enough to be included in a smartphone. That would be pretty cool for crowdsourced streetview cartography like mapillary. Or 3D scanning objects.
I really enjoyed the intellectual curiosity of the article and it's author.
> aimed at promoting instant gratification and maximizing consumerism

So it's a retail company. I feel like this statement applies to at least 99% of retail companies, likely including the ones you're shopping at instead of Amazon.
There is hubris in thinking you are immune to marketing, and if anything it makes you more vulnerable to it.

Celebrity isn't so easily defined. What if Bruce Schneier, who you could consider a "celebrity" of sorts in the security community, started (subtly) promoting Signal Messenger in his tweets and blog posts. Wouldn't you want to know if he was being paid to do that?

This is essentially what is happening when PewDiePie promoted a video game.
IIRC, Rust struct layout is undefined/unstable, unless you explicitly use the #repr(C) tag on the struct definition, in which case it behaves pretty much exactly like C. You can also specify that the struct be packed, with no padding between items if necessary.

I'm not sure if unmarked Rust structs actually get layout optimized or not right now, but they've worked to keep that option available.
I like the concept, especially the compute module you can move around. But the this call to action for a crowd funded platform is based on "truly open" ? Given that I was a bit disappointed it was using an Allwinner A20 CPU, at this point shouldn't "truly" open source use a chip with a RISC-V core?
Tangential; But I know of another one[1]

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Taj+Lake+Palace/@24.575451...
Not necessarily, if you can offset the higher cost (leading to lower ongoing costs) with cheap financing.
It doesn't matter. If you have the exact experience and expertise they're looking for, they'll overlook everything else. Otherwise, they'll use anything as an excuse to reject your resume.
If you're in the biomedical domain, you can use: http://pubmed-watcher.org/ (shameless plug, I wrote it)
I have a lidar question that maybe HN can answer. So this work is super cool and in the future I'm sure we'll have lots of lidar-based devices driving around. But if we do, won't they interfere with each other and thus render the lidars very inaccurate?
HN, of all places, may take the trouble to actually make a small statement however. People would actually notice here.
Caveat: don't make major life decisions based solely on advice from random strangers. All I'm saying is that I would be fine if I saw "backpacked South America" filling a gap on a resume.
Yes, I'm aware of it. Support is not good.
Including HN / ycombinator?
Is this owned by Google?
That's called automation and it's a good thing.
IANAL but it seems to me that free speech always loses to fiduciary responsibility and SEC disclosure requirements because those are all responsibilities you pick up with your own free will.
At least you must be careful when using multiple Facebook accounts from the same computer. It might cause your main Facebook account locked, and take you a while to have Facebook unlock it for you.
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I think the line can be unambiguously drawn at whether or not the celebrity is receiving money as payment to post something. In the example you've described, things posted before the band had a deal with Ernie Ball don't need the endorsement line, while things posted as part of the contract do.

The point here is to give people true information to make an educated buying decision. People can look back and see that you used Ernie Ball strings when it wasn't part of a contract. And now that you have a contract with Ernie Ball, they can make an educated decision whether they believe that you're still using the product because you like it or whether you are just using it now because you are paid to.

This creates an incentive for companies to create a good product that people will promote on their own, rather than creating a bad product and paying people to promote it.
And it actually wasn't that bad

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These are not the most compelling tools to begin with. I know how to use Git and markdown, but I still use Google Docs for most things.

The key differentiating feature of programming is interactivity, and the most interactive programs are games, which is why they're so great for teaching. You can't make a game with Spotlight search.

I always tell people to start with HTML because it gives instant visual feedback, all you need is notepad, and it gets you used to typing words in a text file. Pretty soon they want interactivity, and suddenly they're learning Javascript.
Stop trying to game your kids.

Praise them whatever. Love, security, praise, attention, just go for it.

I doubt very much that all the noise around raising children can be filtered out to be able to differentiate between sentences.

Just raise kids with love and fun.
This is something that has bewildered me -- Where does all that money go!?

I understand it is not cheap to hire developers but it just seems really weird that the Mozilla foundation has had over a billion dollars flow through it and all they have to show for it is a web browser (and other software).
Not the OP, but this looks like an nginx-powered API (which may be coming through a reverse-proxy) that returns JSON, and Bootstrap 3 + KnockoutJS for the client side to render it all. That doesn't answer your questions about the OP's thought and design processes but maybe it'll give you something to read up.
If either of you bothered to read the thread before moving forward with your agendas you would have the answers to the questions you're asking[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12232822
Obviously with absurd property taxes this would be an issue.
I disagree. If your child does something to the absolute best of his/her abilities, but is not very effective, isn't that still praiseworthy?

I have a two year old who exhibits no mastery of the English language, but I praise her when she tries out a new word on for size and keeps attempting to perfect it.
So what? If they're smart they dont need to work anyway...
> now you move to crown heights

No you certainly don't. Crown Heights is expensive... very very expensive.

You move to Canarsie. That's the insanity that is NYC now.
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If that's true, then why isn't PG holding Y Combinators in those other cities? I mean, he's the one running it; he should (relatively) easily be able to set one up wherever he wants.
Hubris? I can name off a number of industries Amazon has, nearly singlehandedly, disrupted: online retail, shipment subscriptions, low cost electronics, VPS web hosting, scalable database storage, transactional emails apis. And this is just off the cuff. I suspect the actual list is far longer.

Amazon is not run by arrogant morons. You don't invest in Boeings with hubris. You invest after having crunched more numbers and built more models than we can realistically imagine.
Can you stabilize this sort of craft with gyros or something? Or is it pretty much a flying death trap?
And where's that going to come from? The money has to come from somewhere. Somebody will be paying that extra cost and they won't like it.
To be fair, that thing could probably do a 40 km/h faceplant during take-off or landing.
For me it's not only about being safe. I don't have to worry too much about that sort of thing because I blend in most places in my country. But I've lived where people had different values than me and it just gets exhausting. Constantly being bombarded with messages you fundamentally disagree with 24/7. Billboards; local TV; newpapers/web sites; overhearing conversations of the people around you; having odd things said to you; day in and day out. I don't mind that other people have different values than me. But I do mind having to be constantly surrounded by it and having nowhere to go to get away from it.

I can't imagine what it's like to have that issue and also fear for your safety on a daily basis. That sucks and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
It's a bit rude to say there is zero appetite for something in reply to a person who just expressed an appetite for it.
Unfortunately, as soon as an area demonstrates it is becoming a significant hacker/maker region, speculation drives housing process through the roof killing the trend before it seriously takes off. For example Portland OR.

If there is ever going to be another profuondly innovative tech center (ala early SV) we have to solve the way housing prices work first.
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I'd prefer if someone joins my team that they show they will stay on my team.

I'd prefer that, too. Then I get in there and found you vastly under-represented the amount of technical debt you have, I find out that the reason there's no CI isn't because you didn't have anyone to set up a server and tie it to SCM, it's because your devs are lazy and management is too soft to push it. The build is up to 1200 warnings now, so the odds of there are ever being a clean build are zero. The team I now manage has people that were grandfathered in from an extremely low bar and now I can't get rid of them no matter how much they drag the rest of the team down.

I wish there were only one place like that on my resume, but I'm a slow learner. Hopefully I've learned enough by now to break out of the control statement before getting to shittyCompaniesOnResumeCount++.
I'm not thinking of any countries on Earth that fit the bill. Sealand maybe?
>As you mention, intent is not always to avoid paying.

Yeah, not always, but very often. Everyone here is trying to downplay this, but I would say >80% of people (disclamer: pulled from my behind) torrent simply because it's free and if they can easily obtain it free rather than paying, then they will. The argument that people pirate because the paid options are shit, and if they were as convenient as torrents people would just pay for them, is rendered moot with the Steam counterexample. Content distribution is much more well advanced and convenient in games compared to movies, and people still pirate en masse.

Of course, all of us are really just talking out of our collective asses until we can cite figures from a study.
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One of my passengers was sent to prison for almost 2 years. Her doctor had prescribed xanax, then she found alcohol, and figured, "what do I need Xanax for, when I have Schmirnoff?"

Her third DUI sent her to the big house. She tried to stay sober after being released - really really tried - but life happened and she couldn't deal with it.

Punishing her for having emotional problems and trusting her doctor's prescription was of no help whatsoever. She's doing pretty well now.
Didn't you use existing rich text editors like TinyMCE or CKEditor?
Wouldn't it make sense for the compiler to automatically optimize stuff like this? The compiler knows all about the underlying architecture the code will be running on, so it's best positioned to determine how to order data for optimal efficiency.