skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, lowercase "mozilla" is pretty much their current logo, often in combination with the rounded shape that tabs in Firefox have.

The dinosaur sort of exists still, but it's essentially never used in publicity work and I doubt that anyone outside of tech could recognize it. I mean, it's too generic anyways. No one who doesn't happen to know that that dinosaur is the exact dinosaur that Mozilla uses, will recognize it as logo for Mozilla. They will just think that it's a random dinosaur.

And while I personally like "mozilla" and like it better as any of the designs shown here, I can understand why they want to switch it out. "mozilla" is not terribly recognizable and doesn't pop into the eye. Also takes a lot of space on a poster or similar.
I switched to Chrome because it is great. Most other people I know switched to it was because it is great.

Firefox was very good at one point but really was yo-yoing in quality about the time when chrome was released. It does seem a lot better now, but Chrome is still high quality.

They earned their spot.
If you don't know what to put on the website, you're not the right person to make one to start with.
I believe it comes from here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/01/15/windo...

"Going forward, as new silicon generations are introduced, they will require the latest Windows platform at that time for support....For example, Windows 10 will be the only supported Windows platform on Intel’s upcoming “Kaby Lake” silicon, Qualcomm’s upcoming “8996” silicon, and AMD’s upcoming “Bristol Ridge” silicon."
Move semantics is a great advance - we can have use-after-move bugs now, just what the world needed!
Note from end of article: it is not claimed to actually violate the laws of thermodynamics.
Probably very impractical arrangements can only survive when most people have the resources to compensate. In a country with few resources, it never even gets off the ground. And if it ever did, that could have been hundreds of years ago, longer than the US has to learn what works.

When we are young, we can do many impractical things. But if we make it to being old, its likely we've let a lot of those things go. So too with cities.
The front page. I exclusively use hckrnews as my entry point, and have for years now. It caches articles that make the front page, so I don't need to manually re-scan the front page for new stuff nor worry about missing something that made it to the front page.

http://hckrnews.com
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Do you really think a desktop mail client is where Mozilla should be investing?
With the added bonus that it's accurate. Referring to these characters as they are originally: Chinese. Some people don't seem to be very happy about that fact.
I guess you don't consider economically inhibiting regulatory prohibitions, in place in countries all over the world, that funnel economic activity through politically connected gatekeepers - at massive economic cost to the politically disenfranchised masses, or trillions of dollars in taxation to enrich the political class, or sanctions targeting every person of a particular nationality, or the multitude of market prohibitions, like those on drugs, or socialist policies put in place in countries like Cuba and Venzuela - to be forms of oppression inflicted by those with power on those without.

You don't seem to appreciate that it is the ability to transact privately that enables people to circumvent all of the above-mentioned laws.
Poking around online, it seems kind of like it will run Windows 7, but will never receive updates.

“Windows 7 was designed nearly 10 years ago before any x86/x64 SOCs existed. For Windows 7 to run on any modern silicon, device drivers and firmware need to emulate Windows 7’s expectations for interrupt processing, bus support, and power states, which is challenging for WiFi, graphics, security, and more. As partners make customizations to legacy device drivers, services, and firmware settings, customers are likely to see regressions with Windows 7 ongoing servicing.”

There might also be hot new important and/or whizz-bang features on new silicon that Windows 7 does not support and Microsoft doesn't want to support on 7.
The fork already happend during the time with Sun.
Yes, surprise firing is technically an option for almost all employees, including the long-term engineering staff talent at wealthy tech companies. It's reciprocal - the employee can quit with no notice also. A very very few public faces, world famous leaders in their field, will negotiate different deals - but the general long-term engineering staff isn't at that level.

I think it's not a point of competition, especially for the talent worth competing for, for several reasons:

1) People don't value the protection as much as they value the freedom of being able to quit, and you only get one or the other. Basically: "I'm good at my job, why do I need protection? But another offer might come along and I might want to leave."

2) People believe it won't happen to them / they have control over it. (I think this is generally true - don't do boneheaded things, keep being good at your job, you won't get fired.)

3) I prefer working somewhere that has the ability to fire bad coworkers. It leads to less bad coworkers.

4) Surprise firings are not really common, and when they do happen, the examples seem to make sense - people get fired for doing obviously bad things (or for being horrible, but that is usually a drawn out process and not the surprise described here.)

5) If you don't announce it, it will be difficult for your next employer to learn the circumstances, so you can always just get another job. (Companies in America tend not to answer questions about why prior employees left, it's mostly up to you to spin the story in the next interview. Most companies (in tech at least) don't even bother checking references because it's unlikely to be productive.)

6) The worst cases of fired-for-no-good-reason are already legally protected

If it was extremely common then this would probably change, but so far in my career it just hasn't seemed like a big concern.
AI vs. Deep Learning vs. Machine Learning
That stuff doesn't really matter. Lowest price reliable rides will win no matter what.
Facebook didn't have that much dilution.
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I actually had no idea that that green dino (lizard?) was the first Mozilla. I've seen it around the Internet before, but I never made the connection.

Thanks for the link, this looks like a great read! And yes, I think an allusion to either would in in good taste on the part of the Mozilla design team.
Has anyone looked at the resource? Are there data sets and other similar things that could be used in novel ways?
Reg NMS says you cannot code a system or intentional device to delay access to a quotation. Nasdaq had tried doing this on one of their smaller markets in software many years ago, but the SEC did not approve their proposal. Geographic or network latency is not regulated by Reg NMS. For example, there is a very small stock exchange that operates out of Chicago, which is many milliseconds away even by microwave vs. New Jersey where most of the equities market trades.

There are a lot of SEC comment letters claiming IEX's delay coil is an "intentional device"[1][2] but the SEC approved their exchange application because they consider the delay to be "de minimis." One area where the IEX delay differs from simple geographic latency is that IEX delays incoming orders, outgoing fills, and outgoing market data, but they do not delay market data from other exchanges. That difference makes it more difficult to "pick off" a stale order on IEX, but on the flip-side, it also means IEX orders get to free ride the price discovery happening on other markets without taking risk.

This delay also raises issues because under Reg NMS, brokers have to route orders to exchanges with the best price when trading through an entire price. Since IEX's data is lagged, it may be showing a quote that is no longer accessible. Brokers would face additional slippage/execution uncertainty if they need to route at this phantom quote and wait 700 microseconds to find out it wasn't there. Canada has exchanges with delays similar to IEX, but IIROC ruled that they are not "protected" quotes so brokers have discretion not to route there if they feel it would harm their execution quality.

1: https://www.sec.gov/comments/10-222/10222-300.pdf

2: https://www.sec.gov/comments/10-222/10222-16.pdf
This licence is the basis for a business model - and should not be considered along side gpl, mit etc..

It's not particularly relevant to the discussion.

This is a business and commercial issue, not a 'details of the license' issue. The text could take on so many forms, and it's not particularly useful unless you're a very startup and can't afford a lawyer.

Example:

What is the price? What are the terms of payment? What about discounts? What is a 'CPU' when you're using virtualized hardware? How do the terms hold up against IP rights in the rest of the world? (Europe has very different laws for Software).

It's great that there's some text that a company can grab, but any company that is going to be licensing software should eventually consult a lawyer about this.
> some use a third-party hash table library.

This is what I'm getting at. Since C doesn't provide a built-in hash table, they get to choose one that's good on this benchmark, but other languages can't. That's not great.

(I actually have no idea if the std::collections hashmap is deficient in some way, I care about this in the abstract, not specifically.)
You highlighted the limitations of the license: as soon as you're into commercial terms, and money starts changing hands - things start to get very situationally specific.
Out of curiosity, what would these contributions be?
The theory here is that not only are you at 20% for the last hour: you will be at 90% at the beginning of the second day, 80% on the third and so on. Of course the percentages are totally made up, but it is obvious that there is an amount of work from which no single instance of rest can cause a complete recovery. If the results of such unrest are cumulative, then there must exist some amount of work that is less productive than working less for any kind of sustained endeavor.

The problem is we have no real way of measuring personal productivity, so we have no real way to find where the optimal point is for any individual. Society as a whole has chosen 40 weekly hours as a standard for mostly orthogonal reasons. In aggregate, the number is probably wrong. But it seems crazy to me to argue that there's no (sizable) fragment of the population that would not be as productive, or more so, with less than the 8 hours they work now.
I agree. I was assuming the state actor would be what you call "nice", i.e. not blatantly commit any war crimes or large scale violations of human rights. Which I believe is true of most state actors today.
As far as I can tell, that's the usual way to do it these days: make the API HTTPS-only, and stick the auth token in each request. Using secure connections isn't expensive anymore.
Yeah another company hoping to get into the ride hailing game (like a car manufacturer) makes more sense to me as a buyer than Uber. Seems like a poor purchase today no matter what though.
FYI - I'm an ex Combat Engineer :)
The code is open source. What's the viability of successfully forking everything and doing it right with a competing open product? Could it be done?
By advertising not for being technologically superior, but by getting people to realize that hey, maybe you don't want to stick all of your data into that proprietary hole where the biggest advertising company in the world sits on the other end.

That's something which is hard to explain in person, but can be communicated rather well as a general message.
Like Google and Yahoo. Hey Marissa! wanna be CEO?
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On the other hand, a lot of CCs are close by major universities. It doesn't have to work for all CCs in order to be very practical for many of them.

Also, college students often go home for the summer, where they have a hard time finding summer jobs. A local CC offering to hire them to teach a summer class in programming would be a win-win for everyone concerned.
Why did the submission title change? It was the article title before and I didn't find that remotely controversial. Did FB PR get in touch or something?
There is nothing the individuals can do with the open source version. It's old and has bugs and maybe security issues.
In theory they could look at the source of the "commercial" version, but then have to be careful - they can't change it and if they ever write code they have to be careful about not doing plagiarism.
Those aren't the real reasons he got fired. He got fired because the workplace is a theater and a fraud.

Some folks might disagree with me, but it is 2016, the U.S. elections are rigged and it's time that we all recognize that we're being lied to wholesale.

Working for other people is always a scam. That's why he got fired from Facebook.
That is an interesting piece of work, it makes me wonder what happens if they escape the lab and into the soil around the building. What happens if these guys turn the topsoil into a giant conductive sphere. It will probably do wonders for the RF noise floor, considering everyone would be standing on a giant ground plane.
For globalization in general - very possible you're right; if speak about aspects other than language I would probably agree. But language is changing constantly; all languages are influenced by surrounding countries / cultures, and by those which lead progress currently.

I think every day need of communication and convenience will define the result.

And this list, I think, is an evidence of that tendency.
The dino is still used for the MDN logo! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
Which of these initial visual expressions best captures what Mozilla means to you? Which will best help us tell our story to a youthful, values-driven audience? Which brings to life the Mozilla personality: Gutsy, Independent, Buoyant, For Good?

I don't know, they're all terrible...
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thats why it's best to have both. one de facto universal language, and people can still maintain their local language.

that way everyone in the world only has to learn two languages and people dont have to waste their time learning 3-6 languages
The author of this article says that Kaby Lake is an 'anomaly' when it comes to the tick-tock strategy that Intel has been following. However, this is not the case. Following the rollout of Intel's 14nm lineup, Intel realized that it was no longer feasible to move to a smaller processing node every 2 years. And so tick-tock died.

It is currently not expected that after Kaby Lake or the 14nm node, that Intel will move back to the tick-tock model. Kaby Lake is no anomaly - it's a normal architecture update in the post 14nm world.
This isn't saying anything either.
I feel like Ggogle should be altruistic and donate Maps usage data for this purpose.
I disagree with that. I have put more than one hour in and have found many interesting planets, creatures and geological formations. I'm also captivated by the small stories. What are the Sentinels? What and who am I? What's at the center?

Off course, it takes time and patience. Many worlds are barren, many creatures as very bizarre. But if you explore enough, you finds gems. And that feeling of discovery is something no other game I can remember gave me.

This game in fact is a different experience. I get it if it's not everyone's cup of tea (in fact, apparently the game was built to be 'divisive' [1]).

What I recommend for people beginning is to take their time. Leave their ships behind somewhere and walk around the planet. After you distance yourself from your ship (enough that the return trip on foot is not an option, the only option is finding a beacon to call it), you'll start seeing changes on the terrain. An unexpected lake, sand dunes, cave networks, forests where there were none, etc. The variety on the game is quite impressive, actually... of course, some patterns do repeat. But isn't that true for the universe as well?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tcqzg976hQ&feature=youtu.be...
As a professional logo designer for over a decade, the Moz://a is the best, but they're all bad and inferior to the current logo.
Old logos for reference since they are not featured in the post:

https://developer.cdn.mozilla.net/static/img/opengraph-logo....

https://takebacktheweb.production.paas.mozilla.community/wp-...
I was frankly shocked the first time I saw Blu Homes. They look a helluva lot nicer than just typical 50 yr old wood frame ranches I see in the Peninsula. Including the one I live in.
It depends on the value vs the difficulty of doing something vs the returns. For example selling CPUs to Apple is clearly great because they add so much value over what Intel have done themselves.

How hard is it for Tesla to build their own Uber for example - they have said they will allow you to do part of this at least so far right?

I'm just trying to think of a world where Uber don't win guaranteed. It's definitely me thinking out loud and I've been wrong before :^)
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Thanks, valuable feedback.

I see what you mean with the red flags. I wasn't aware that of the association with the mailbox forwarder, that's kind of unfortunate.

As for the PhD, that's inferring a little much; it could be that he judged Nootropics.com to have a higher expected positive impact on the world. But again, yeah, I see how that would increase a customer's worries.

We're indeed still selling that batch. I'm on two minds about displaying the COA more prominently; on the one hand frequent nootropics users would be looking for it, but on the other hand, New users might find it odd? But you're the second person with this feedback, so I think I should just update.
It's going to be very difficult to get Windows 7 working if Intel won't release things like USB or video drivers for it.

There are already problems with Skylake where you'll do a fresh install of Windows 7 and none of your USB ports or network devices will work because they require newer drivers. Microsoft is doing their best to drive everyone to Windows 10 by not doing another service pack or releasing updated ISOs.
"The novelty quickly wears off"...

Isn't this what people said about Sims, Sims 2, Sims 2 Expansion packs, and Sims 3.
Google can match you with an advertiser based on your data without selling or disclosing that data to the advertiser.

If an advertiser wants people who have searched for things related to cars in the last month, Google can send them impressions to bid on without any information about you changing hands at all.
I agree. I was about to write a comment but Im backing off. Apologies to Sharon. Do write the blog post, though. :)
This page has a nice table for time dilation:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/timedial.html

If you can instantaneously accelerate up to 0.99 c, you end up with a range of ~500-1000 light years before you die (dilation at that speed is 7:1, you have ~80 years of ship time).

So the distance you can travel does depend a great deal on how fast you can actually go.
It's funny, but such a similar concept as used in the Curl logo looks really professional. I'd not seen their new logo before. The typeface, the hint to pcb tracks, makes it work really well. I like it a lot!

So I went back for a longer, closer, look. I dug into every logo's individual page. The FB mockups reveal much.

Moz:// is the best of a horrible bunch, but apart from making me think strongly of another web brand, it's bland. They're all expressed as though someone just got their hands on MS Publisher.

The connector, utterly meaningless and indecipherable. Particularly with the colour choices, makes me think of another Google app icon, like Picasa. Reminds me of BA's universally derided 1990s £50m tail art redesign (It didn't last long).

Open button is some random control on a Chinese media player. Another "universal" icon rather than logo.

Of the rest they have no redeeming features, to my eyes, whatsoever.
Yes! In the name of privacy and control we need to cherish desktop programs. Why should anyone but me know how often I read Lilly's mail from 2009.
Buried in the middle of the post:

2- Marketing. The marketing team’s plan was not to do anything and the night before we opened Facebook to the professional market (anyone with a @microsoft.com, @dell.com, etc…) I emailed TechCrunch to let Michael Arrington know to publish it in the morning. He ended up publishing it that night (I was at Coachella and will never again attend) before the actual product was released in the morning. I immediately notified the e-team and assumed full responsibility.

Lesson learned: I don’t think what I did was that wrong since the marketing team did not do anything to promote our new features. My lesson learned was more I should have involved them instead of just going around them. (Learn How to Hire a Great Marketing Person.)

He leaked a major Facebook update to TechCrunch? I'm surprised he wasn't fired on the spot.
Great!

You can listen to it directly from https://archive.org/embed/AphexTwinTheMix

Download URLs:

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> but by getting people to realize that hey, maybe you don't want to stick all of your data into that proprietary hole where the biggest advertising company in the world sits on the other end.

That argument works for maybe 1% of browser users - that's not nearly enough to support Mozilla. That said having a dedicated user-base that really doesn't want to switch helps a lot but it seems to me like they are blowing by failing to do anything for the rest of users.
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I think that's his point. It would have been a better use of their money doing something like that, than something so utterly pointless as this.

And I'd even excuse this exercise in branding if the results were actually good...but alas.

Keep in mind I absolutely value good design and branding. I think it's critical. So I'm not just some curmudgeon who doesn't understand the value of something like this. But if you're going to do a rebrand, you have to understand deeply why you're doing it and do it in a way that's evolutionary. This is way too revolutionary for a foundation that mostly stays in the background and whose brand is held up by the brand of it's products like Firefox moreso than it's own brand.
My understanding is that Uber has all the self-driving software here and they are just using car manufactures to obtain cars with the kinds of on-board sensors and computer-control required to run their self-driving solution.
For what it's worth, the article's title caption reads

> However, Uber’s CEO is said to oppose an acquisition at any price due to antitrust concerns.

So pretty clearly, Kalanick agrees.
Right, because this result has been observed in other systems (notably nanocluster beams in vacuum). Phys Rev B and Phys Rev Letters Are good places to look.

The key to understanding is that this system can NOT be treated as a canonical ensemble--it is properly treated as an evaporative ensemble, so the results are even more counter-intuitive than the micro canonical ensemble.
They're all really bad in my opinion. Having said that I hated Instagram's recent rebranding but now I love it.
Not even an archive?
Nor a sample?
No confidentiality?
In my mind, it is just another mail stealing site.
The Connector looks promising! But those logos doesn't cut the mustard at all.