skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This tool looks interesting from the screenshots in the website. I wonder if some things that diff doesn't do well are handled separately by this tool.

Or, I do not know how to make diff do it well - for example, show added similar "paragraph" in better context. If I have a for loop and add an identical for loop after current one, diff will typically show the new one inserted in between the first part of the existing for loop and the last line of the existing for loop. The perforce diff client seems to get this right and shows the new for loop inserted after the current one.

Aside from that, what I miss in some GUI diff clients is the way vimdiff works. By default, vimdiff collapses the similar areas and shows only the diff parts noncollapsed. This is very useful when I am looking at a diff of a large file and the diff portions are far apart. It helps get a quick overview of the differences in the entire file.
You're misunderstanding, the intention is to integrate any privacy-related change made by the Tor Browser, but in a configurable way via `about:config` under the `privacy.*` namespace.

Firefox should allow you to disable any privacy-concerning feature out-of-the-box, it shouldn't be needed to maintain a separate fork to achieve better privacy.
That's a really disingenuous interpretation of "straightforward". If you don't want to have a real conversation then just don't bother replying next time.
> I care more about computations because they're easier to compose than values.

That's also fair, of course.
My question is if people don't believe this Watson thing any more, why don't don't they just prove that it exists.
Nqthm – the original Boyer-Moore theorem prover, from 1992
There is an epistamological conundrum involved in astronomy. In this case even Jason Wright admits that theories involving alien-action are

> a “perilous approach to science”—one
> that could lead to an “alien in the
> gaps” fallacy, and unfalsifiable
> hypotheses.

But on the other hand, if we always strain to find a non-alien answer to everything we are in danger of making them up and distoring our ideas of what can happen naturally.
Tell me, other than mimic ing whatever is fashionable in London, Berkeley and Paris, what exactly has the "Left" done in Africa, S. Asia and S. America ? Fashion, in general, is apparently the operational semantics of the ostensibly unpowdered and unperfumed.
Wouldn't the ship collapse under it's own gravity?
"Category Theory for Programmers" is generally excellent and quite easy to read: https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
I wouldn't even need to use nation state in this context. If there's an actual human in the dark net, someone is monitoring something there, for example, the price of an exploit.
I recommend

[push]

default = current

Usually you only want to push the current branch.
Most notably, for me, I'm stuck using Yahoo as the default search engine. I can change the default to Google, but the preference resets when the window closes.

Edit: It appears only browser instances launched with Selenium are affected. Instances launched the usual way default to Google as expected.
I walk in the front door of the CIA and say "This is a stick-up. Surrender to God, nigger and suck my cock."
Wait! Are those not true??
That paper is just a bit of bureaucracy which demonstrates that total programs behave the same in a total language as when they are embedded into a partial language (which is an intuitive result, and it's nice that they worked out the details!). It's also a nice demonstration of the logical relations proof technique.

But sadly this paper is pulled out all the time by people who I suspect don't understand what is going on, to justify sleight of hand & dodgy reasoning which has little to do with the result in the paper. (Not claiming that's what's happening in the above comment! But I bristle a bit when I see this paper come up in amateur/Haskell circles.)
The _average_ Indian, Bangladeshi or Chinese will move up in the world? I get the impression that you are comparing the exceptional people from those countries to the lowest performing Americans. Also, if the average person from those countries is so much more industrious than Americans, why do they need to come to America to enjoy a good life?
I've been running Tor relays from home for about a year. Only sites I've found to block me are Monoprice and Apple's support forums. Hulu and Netflix are fine.
"His family moved to the United States from Beijing to receive medical care for an injury to his right eye at age 11"

That, to me, is more impressive. Shi has a bad eye and is an Olympian pistol shooter.
> Des­pite my strong at­tach­ment to the Rust com­munity and Rust’s per­fect suit­ab­il­ity for ker­nels1, I’ll be writ­ing the ker­nel in C. Mostly be­cause it is un­likely people in­side the uni­ver­sity will be fa­mil­iar with Rust, but also be­cause GNU-EFI is a C lib­rary and I can­not be bothered to bind it. I’d surely be writ­ing it in Rust were I more ser­i­ous about the pro­ject.

I saw an example of booting from UEFI in Rust: http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2013/11/18/booting-to...
> If you don't want to have a real conversation

I wanted to have a real conversation, but, given the hostility in your response, I'll stop.
not gp, but

1 - crashes, approximately bimonthly. Chrome just doesn't crash for me any more.

2 - very high cpu usage if ff runs long enough. Eventually it will creep up towards consuming 50%+ of a cpu

3 - similar problems with memory usage. Chrome is a pig, but if you close windows, the system gets memory back. FF just doesn't seem to return memory to the system w/o a full restart.

4 - intermittent freezes when loading new tabs. The entire app becomes unresponsive, long enough to notice / feel jerky.

fwiw, I leave chrome up for weeks on end and don't have these issues. osx 10.9
Granted, this is non-default config. When blocking third-party cookies, Chrome shows a little icon which you can click to whitelist blocked cookies. There is no such Firefox option that I've found yet.

It's also a lot easier to toggle javascript for individual sites in Chrome without extensions.
Apache Commons Lang has some string distance algorithms. But we started another project in the sandbox for text/strings, as [lang] was getting a bit overcrowded with so many things.

You can take a look at the current project here https://commons.apache.org/sandbox/commons-text/

Source: https://github.com/apache/commons-text
that's what I signed up for, back when it was Phoenix. These modules were supposed to be optional.

however, merging Torbrowser is something I can support; everyone automatically gets a privacy upgrade, and the web stays open as a result.
Years of experience is how many years of experience you have, not whether or not you are good at it. A lot of companies simply won't hire if you don't have the experience, regardless of how good you are.
As much as I hate the metric system myself, I don't think it's true that U.S. measuring culture is a self-consistent system that avoids unnecessary conversions.

For example the energy content of fossil fuels tends to be measured in BTU per (whatever), while electrical energy is measured in kilowatt hours. On the other hand, automobile engines are often rated in horsepower.

I find this sort of thing is ubiquitous in engineering. In metric-only countries, the situation is slightly less bad because that system provides somewhat fewer opportunities for mischief.
awg14 or whatever isn't exactly the perfect gauge for whatever application it is used for. It is somewhat arbitrary. A nice metric system of gauges would have 2 mm, 2.5 mm, 3 mm, etc. and there would be still be a nice round number gauge for each application.
I know I've had more fun with smart dogs.
i'm reading the thread is in the ctx of merging tor vs disabling mathml, which (mathml) isn't implemented in chrome according to mdn.
Well, for your setup latency has no effect. The constraint here is how quickly you can process incoming requests. Throughput on the system would simply depend on how much of resource you have that process those requests.
This was a once only change for me. If this is actually the case (setting not staying...set) you should open a bug report as it's surely not intended.
That's technically true, but before it was firefox (before it was Firebird, even), It was intended very much as a stripped-down gecko frontend written in XUL, much closer to Lynx than the firefox we all use today.

Servo is very similar in useability to lynx right now, if grandparent is interested in trying it out.
There is no good evidence that OO is easier to code and maintain than some alternative. In my experience (which is, of course, only anecdotal), the authors' skills are by far the strongest determinants of maintainability. In the wrong hands, OO features are just additional dimensions for obfuscation.
Bulma was on HN about six months ago as well, discussion is interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11005510
I think some people read the title (Mozilla: “Our primary goal is to un-fork the Tor Browser”) and assumed Mozilla wants to incorporate all the Tor Browser's features. A closer look at the link should make it clear that the changes being discussed are more specific.

It's almost clickbait.
There is also https://dash.by which works with many cheap OBDII devices, including Bluetooth ones. I was actually about to get started with them, but your setup is actually a cool idea. That is to say, you are combining an OBDII dongle and a cheap phone into what is essentially a single "device" which is actually internet connected.

My suggestion would be to research Automatic and Dash and see if you can improve on their setup by bundling all three components into one: try to actually create a device that combines and OBDII dongle, a GPRS modem, a GPS chip, etc. Also see if you can find and white label a cellular provider similar to RingPlus do you can do the whole thing as a service: $5/month plus a $100 device is not a bad deal.
Great if you live in a large city. How about a small town of 10,000 people? How about rural? How about people who commute? Vacationers? Those wanting to leave on vacation? It's easy to think in a bubble when you have relatively infinite resources at your disposal. However, the majority of people in the U.S do not.
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This depends on the throughput of spamming that's going on. The throughput can be quite large if there's a significant amount of people cooperating. Also, this means that admins have to spend a nontrivial amount of time on such work on every single day.

The examples I know of are groups of political movements that have a lot of haters, so that might be somewhat of an edge case.
There are lots of great web browsers now, which is a huge improvement on the state of the world when Firefox 1.0 was released.

All major browsers today do share a huge problem - the web browser needs to be fast (performance and responsiveness are a Really Big Deal to people), and it also needs to be secure (people getting ransomware via the browser is Not OK with them). Privacy is a more nebulous topic, I agree.

One place where Mozilla has invested that can make a real difference there is with Rust and Servo.

A lot of the investments in Firefox that Mozilla makes are intended to help the web as a whole. Trying to standardize and expand on cross-browser extensions with WebExtensions is an example of this.

Coming back to the topic, while I agree that most people don't care about privacy online but there are some who do and Tor users almost certainly do. Bringing Tor's security and privacy improvements to Firefox is good for everyone, and some improvements help both performance/responsiveness and security (the recently-released and ongoing work from Mozilla on multiprocess and sandboxing is an example of this.)
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It stutters when resizing, at times.
This is not about integrating Tor into Firefox, rather it is about incorporating switches into Firefox for the security/privacy improvements that have been made in Tor Browser.

You can think of Tor Browser as a better Firefox that just happens to include built-in support for the Tor network. Tor Browser is security-hardened and makes numerous changes to improve privacy, such as reducing fingerprinting opportunities and attempting to isolate browser state by URL bar domain. The Design and Implementation of the Tor Browser doc [1] is an excellent read on the approach taken.

Since it is trivial to configure Tor Browser to run on the "normal internet" (not on the Tor network), there may not be much reason to run Firefox instead of Tor Browser. There is one possible reason: not all security fixes may be backported to Firefox Extended Support Releases (ESR). According to the ESR FAQ [2], only "high-risk/high-impact security vulnerabilities" will be backported to ESRs. So clearly some security vulnerabilties that are not considered by Mozilla to be high-risk/high-impact may be left unfixed in ESRs. Additionally, it seems likely that not all bugs that are security vulnerabilities will be correctly identified as such. Many exploitable bugs that can lead to code execution are often published as only stability or denial of service bugs by project maintainers - so-called "Denial of Reality" vulnerabilities [3]. I think this is what Daniel Veditz is alluding to when he says "Mozilla leadership has already decided to help Tor move toward being able to build off a Release Firefox rather than an ESR--it's safer for our users."

So in that sense, it is great news that Mozilla is working to make it easier for Tor Browser to be based on top of Release Firefox instead of an ESR. Even if all Tor Browser patches make it in to Firefox, I imagine it will be a good deal of work to get out-of-the-box Firefox to behave like Tor Browser. And given that every six weeks, Firefox may have new features that present new attack surface, or enables new fingerprinting opportunities, it still seems like a safer bet to have Tor Browser devs vet each release, rather than constantly try to stay on top of what switches need to be flipped.

Personally I will continue to trust Tor Project to ship a browser that is configured for strong security and privacy out-of-the-box.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/191080/
Doesn't this depend on how "tuned" your subcomponents are? If I had a system that's supposedly heavily optimized, I would simply start seeing the worst-case latency on a higher percentile, 99.9th and so forth. Gil Tene has an excellent talk[1] on this.

[1] https://youtu.be/lJ8ydIuPFeU
To change the default search engine you can click the magnifying glass and then click Change Search Settings from there you can set the default search engine.
I haven't tried it recently (as in the past month), but I like to fire up the browser, press Ctrl+L, type an address and press Enter in a few seconds. That seems to take forever on Firefox compared to Chrome.
I wonder if they considered having the pistol pointed upward or diagonally. It does seem menacing when it's pointed straight to the left (or right). Not so much if it were pointing in a different direction.
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That really should not be happening.

Are you clicking "Change Search Settings" in the search drop-down, and changing the "Default Search Engine" in the preferences (about:preferences#search) ?
This will never happen. There's too much utilitarian purpose in scamming the elderly and ignorant into thinking their web browsing is private when they hit private browsing mode.

The cabal of backdoored-by-default hardware will never lose its complete monopoly on normal users. Especially not after a few more years of logging every human-internet and human-computer interaction.

Discussing firefox, or anything else, on this website is a petty distraction compared to the real and substantive danger most of humanity and all of 'humanity' faces.
This isn't a failure. It's just the result of a bunch of experiments. What would be worse is if the scientific community was unable to raise funds for such large experiments due to fear of failure. It's ok, we tried something, now we know to try something else.
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This is arguable in my opinion. Someone who wants to block third-party Cookies or JavaScript shouldn't have any trouble with installing extensions.
I agree with this. "Tor Browser Mode" should become the default "Private browsing mode" on Firefox. It seems to me that a lot of uneducated users seem to have the idea that Incognito/Private mode does, somehow, give them more anonymity in a way other than locally.

The extra streaming traffic would probably cripple Tor exit nodes in the short run if Mozilla didn't run worldwide fast exits on their own, but it'd be a start in a good direction, IMO.

I'm sure someone will come along and tell me that "this isn't what Tor is useful for," but as far as I am concerned Tor has a PR problem. If everyone uses Tor as part of Firefox Private Browsing, a lot, lot more normal people become Tor users, not "extremists" or "dissidents" or "criminals", the headless horsemen of the anonymity apocalypse.
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True, but for casual users, simply being able to natively and transparently access .onion sites would be cool even if it didn't have the privacy of the Tor Browser Bundle.
It's "find my phone" for your car.
I also get window rendering issues in FF on Windows 10 after waking my laptop from sleep. The browser can still be used but the frame goes totally white. Very weird.
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You all have missed the point that the author is well aware of what needs to be done to avoid the pitfalls of OO and be productive in an OO language. His point is that OO is still being taught, promoted and justified with the same simplistic claims and assumptions that were made in the 90s.
This is a pretty terrible analogy.

It's not a retailer; it's a marketplace. Marketplaces don't get commoditized. Is there another Ebay out there?

Retailers can purchase the inventory at will, then earn the demand. Marketplaces have to earn both sides.

Airbnb was not the first here; Homeaway has been away for a long time, owns all the web properties, and has far better SEO. Airbnb is kicking their ass.

Sure their dominance won't last forever, but no company's does.
This could actually be solved by Firefox's new contextual identity project by having the Tor identity isolated.
What is meant here IS NOT that every Firefox user would be browsing using Tor.

The idea is that the Tor Browser would be standard Firefox with certain strong privacy settings enabled. i.e., the Tor project wouldn't have to patch Firefox source and recompile because their patches would already be in Firefox, just run-time disabled. They wouldn't have to maintain their own set of patches that could be broken by Firefox development. For Tor, stock Firefox would be launched with those (strong privacy) settings enabled.

Tor might have to rework their patches to live in Firefox in this way, but it would simplify their work because Firefox development wouldn't cause upstream breakage of the Tor browser.
Good news is that this should be fixed with Electrolysis, which is currently being rolled out and will make it to your local Firefox installation somewhen in the next few months.
For the various 'gas as a service' offerings, this would be ideal seeing as it offers current gas level.

Having this come with signup, and know that my car will auto-refill when it gets below 30% and is at home or work, would be pretty darn useful.

Maybe one of the companies already does this and I just didn't realize?
Uber actually shows up, most cab companies I have used don't.

Uber cars are cleaner and have working air conditioning / heat

If you have a problem you just give the trip a bad review and someone follows up and actually does something about it (typically a refund)

You get emailed a receipt with everything you need to get reimbursed by your company instead of handed a blank card that you have to fill out yourself and hope your company believes.

In many markets there are a lot more Uber cars than taxis so it is much quicker to find one.

You don't have to hassle over paying with a credit card, no "the machine is broken" excuses.

Etc etc. I would never ride in a taxi again if there was Uber everywhere I went. Without question.
Agreed. I would expect that shooting at fixed-design targets at fixed distances helps to counteract any problems with depth perceptions, but that's still quite impressive.
So, I'd be happy to share some ideas for free, if that meant I could get a look at some real entries.

Maybe that would be a way to collect more dreams/ideas that you could then help monetize?
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Your link is old, here is the current one: http://emojipedia.org/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-updat... Apple is alone in doing this.

I.e., Windows used to show a laser/toy gun, but they changed this almost a week ago in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update: http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-emoji-families-come-to-wi...

A Microsoft spokesperson said “Our intent with every glyph is to align with the global Unicode standard, and the previous design did not map to industry designs or our customers' expectations of the emoji definition.” (https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/04/microsoft-new-real-gun-e...)
"PV" is a user's name on Kinja, which is the commenting system that gizmodo et al use.
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I know how to change the default search engine, but the settings don't persist from session to session (at least not when the browser is launched from Selenium).
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That's more about that particular use of the :before pseudo class pulling content out to the left of the grid. And it may even be the design decision they made. (It fixes as soon as there's a breakpoint, so I don't think it's a large issue.)
I use QuickLook in Safari on OS X and iOS like that (OS X: triple-finger-tap to get a link preview, iOS: Force touch). It only gets ruined by those "subscribe!" full screen popups.
Not here, please.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240849 and marked it off-topic.
If you want to send a message (or confirmation) to someone, and don't want to create a track of who it's to, a public posting board is useful.

So: Twitter. Any of @Snowden's 2.29 million followers -- or anyone else reading the tweet without following his profile, could be the intended recipient.

I first ran across the concept in Robert A. Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy. The protagonist is in a bar with another character looking at messages being posted. A name and phone number could well be a coded signal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_of_the_Galaxy

(Heinlein almost certainly took the concept from elsewhere, CotG is based on Kipling's Kim, also about tradecraft. Just reflecting my first association.)
> You can look at almost any land assignment, building or commercial sale ever in the history of the United States and be able to compare / modify / extend it without any conversions.

What state? Are those 160 international acres, or 160 US survey acres?

http://www.pobonline.com/articles/91189-from-the-ground-up-t...

What weighs more - an ounce of feathers, or an ounce of gold? (An ounce of gold because gold is measured in Troy ounces...)
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