skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where would you draw the line?

For the back-end: Everything that's required for correctly rendering or executing modern web content (i.e., everything that's mandated by the current snapshot of the HTML living standard plus non-HTML formats which are "de-facto" part of the web, like Flash and PDF).

For the UI: Stuff that can be expected to make the task of browsing web pages easier for the average user.

Neither Hello nor Pocket fit any of the above descriptions.
Pretty sure the US and NATO had "flexible response" where they would have options other than MAD.

NB I'm having a binge of reading novels about WW3 scenarios in Europe at the moment, my favourite being "Chieftans" by Bob Forrest-Webb, mind you it doesn't end well.

[NB Rather hoping WoT gets to Challengers/Chieftans/M1s vs T-80s at some point...]
If your state space is 16 bits, then you can create a 4x4 2-dimensional space or a 2x2x2x2 4-dimensional space, but the total space is still 16 bits. You cannot simulate a 32-bit state space on a machine with only 16 bits of memory, regardless of how many dimensions the simulated space has.
> If I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I can't fix it

Most of programming btw is like that. Google throw an exception with a better error than "undefined is not an object". Maybe it's easy for me from the outside to pinpoint the problem, but it's usually about reading between the lines.

Their support is indeed poor, but you are not entitled anything and probably the lesson here is not to build anything serious on 3rd party platforms where you are unsure about licensing, legal questions. I've been burned once by SoundCloud legal team for using their public API.
The big difficulty here is letting people know that the project even exists. Most people here could build it, but figuring out how to bring in customers is the hard part.
Mozilla was spun out from Netscape but it itself is not Netscape as Netscape was aquired by AOL. 89% is still a far cry from anything Firefox has managed.

Either way you look at it Netscape did not bounce back.
I don't see how 'Cleaner Facebook' is a brand infringement. Anybody who downloads this app would surely know that the app is not made by Facebook (it doesn't attempt to mislead users into thinking that).

There is a clear distinction between claiming that something is made 'For Facebook' vs 'By Facebook".
Agreed. I think an interesting expose of this is Drew Houston's YC application where I believe he says he'd be okay with selling for $1M at that time (about a year's worth of work). I'm sure he had buyouts for $10M shortly after YC.
The general consensus is that his videos are very good. It's just his insistence that the real numbers shouldn't be used that is not accepted. Some mathematicians (1% of 1% of mathematicians) agree with him, most don't.

edit: Doing math without the real numbers is less elegant and harder, but it's philosophically more sound. It essentially means restricting yourself to math that can be described as a (possibly infinite) algorithm.

The lay person is more likely to agree with what Wildberger has to say than a mathematician. In fact, most people think that infinity in math is a process (potential infinity). But in math, we use absolute infinity. A completed infinity. 0.999... does not tend to 1, it _is_ 1. Infinity is completed.
> as you gain experience you realise how unimportant your local terminal is.

If I may be blunt, bullshit. Working on a remote server, especially one not on your local lan, is a lag filled pain in the ass.

Even if you decide to work on a local editor and upload to the cloud, your write-test cycle will be slower, and the best editors will require quite a few CPU cycles themselves to provide (their version of) intellisense, syntax highlighting, and documentation.

And this doesn't even cover ensuring that the computer is capable of handling remote conferencing - a resource drain to end all resource drains on laptops.

I'd go one step further and say that as I gained experience, I realized the value of the productivity gains from low latency and the freedom offered by working locally (I even keep local copies of documentation websites, so I never have to worry about them being down).

> Not that many coders 'often' travel on the job, as a proportion. Most are office-bound.

Internet can still go out in an office. So can power. People travel, work from home, and sometimes work from a conference. Why limit your employees for the sake of saving 1% of a software developer's salary (less, actually, when you consider amortization)?
Spider webs as vibration transmission structures
I've 25 tabs open and Firefox is reporting 250MB of Private Use memory use in Task Manager. I do have an adblocker though.

> so FF could serialize that content to disk when the tab isn't in focus

Isn't there an extension (Suspend Tab?) which does this?
There's always a fuse you can pull. And there needs to be a fuse, per regulations on how to build aircraft.

The stray MH370 signal was coming from the engines directly, presumably powered by the engine's internal power system, and it was engine performance telemetry to be sent to the engine manufacturer. The pilot might not have known about that system or unable to disable it (without shutting down the engines).
We're not talking about the future, so prediction is unnecessary. But to your point: in my experience as an experienced and security-inclined engineer, this is an arms race where privacy doesn't win.
> People talk a lot about courage in politics, courage in war; standing up in the face of great odds. These things are fabulous, wonderful, but I’ll tell you right now that I would trade them all for a world of these everyday heroes. What I thought I knew about bravery was nothing compared to what I saw in Hong Kong.

-- Edward Snowden

Truly worth the read. I encourage everyone to do so.
I learned this the hard way when I moved from a company that sold software to the manufacturing / health industries.

Companies that don't sell software, see it as a by-product and have zero worries about its quality, what matters is that at the end of the it delivers the outputs the actual business requires.

So beware of presenting prototypes in such industries, their are always the final product and code refactoring is not something that usually makes them sell more stuff from their actual products.

Also the code tends to be pretty horrible, because a lot is developed by external companies that usually tend to implement a just single set of features. It is almost impossible to write properly safe code, because no external is able to grasp the whole codebase in the required timeframes for delivering the new feature and leave to another customer.
Amazon subsidizing Android phones with ‘special offer' ads on the lock screens
No clue for #1, but for #2, the English name is typically given in addition to the Chinese name, and since it's in English it doesn't have any particular tones.
I have DDG as my default search engine, but for many things (mainly tech related) I use a !s command to search on StartPage. [1] While Startpage claims not to track users, it has some ads similar to Google (these can be blocked easily). Since it searches through Google, the results are great. That leaves me using Google somewhat rarely, like for example, if I want to search based on a specific time range or do a reverse image search. This approach provides me the freedom to be logged into say, Gmail, without worrying that my searches would be recorded and used for profile building and advertising (I take care not to search on Google while logged in to any of its sites in the same browser or a non-private browser window in the same browser).

[1]: https://startpage.com
Time for some irresponsible disclosure: https://medium.com/@xParXnoiAx/irresponsible-disclosure-52d0...
Thanks but even though I tend to overload, I try not to install more then one addon for one purpose. It's a mess already ;)
Hello is essentially a tiny amount of javascript that connects to the existing WebRTC infrastructure. Other services will make use of this infrastructure to provide the same functionality.

But the concept of having cross-platform realtime audio, video, and screensharing is very appealing.
Not to mention late payments often have an interest of 10 %.
My group at Microsoft was notorious for not spending money on hardware.

I did some math. If the money they spent halved my build time (easily possible at the time, since we were on spinning rust and they wouldn't spring for SSDs "because everyone will want one, and then what?") then they could afford to buy me a new computer every couple of weeks, more often if you computed the $ lost from the average imputed load (of $500K/year) of an employee.

Bean counters. Feh.
I used to thing like this, until I started working in the fun world of enterprise consulting in markets not related to software product development.

They just don't care.
Wait. Film is not just better for resolution, it has much better dynamic range and color depth than digital (digital is coming close, but still not there yet).

It's not because a technology is newer that it is necessarily better. CRT still holds some advantages over LCDs, Paper still holds advantages over e-ink, and so on. Of course Digital photography wins by a large amount for cost and convenience, but that's not the whole picture.
How Arianna Huffington Lost her Newsroom
Nope. Firefox ESR is at version 45.3.0. Firefox 38.x is insecure and should absolutely not be used.
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company."
-– Saturday Night Live, September 18, 1976.

Hey, fifty years.

(So, are we getting Baby Googles and Facebooks in another ten years, or are those times behind us?)
Ain't you special, calling a 14 year old an idiot. I'd ask what you were doing at that age, but I'm not sure you've reached the maturity yet.
The accepted and very informed answer to to a similar question on StackOverflow concludes that it is unlikely.

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2360/what-are-th...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-swept_wing#Return_of_t...

They do look incredibly cool though.
The amazing part is the offer and turning down of $30M.
Nothing wrong with SysAdmins, interfacing with a system used by other people is valuable in its own right.

I'd be more concerned that Minecraft teaches children to cut down trees by standing underneath them and chopping up.
Brene Brown has a brilliant take on public speaking, reputations, and being vulnerable > https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame?lan...
If you weren't a serial entrepreneur I think $1m is more than enough to invest and live off of for almost all your life.
My suggestion is to use it to increase the productivity of two people (you, and perhaps a friend or colleague) and then share your findings.
I'm not in any brotherhood, I'm not a missionary and I'm not waging some kind of Jihad to spread my ideology in the world.

You seem to not recognise that freedom cannot be obtained without self responsibility as you are constantly seeking to minimize the responsibility that people had for their own bad decisions and the bad outcomes that resulted from it.
"The Right to Privacy" by Warren and Brandeis.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...
It's almost as if the rules for humans were different than those for dogs.
Whats to say the idea they would be stuck with wasn't there favorite, number 1 idea?
Seems to be the equivalent of any "free - for a limited time" type offer that most subscription-based services use as bait.
Grain is not noise. Digital is cleaner because your pictures and movies go through tons of filters before you actually get them on screen.

If you go down to the microscopic level film goes way beyond the resolution you can ever hope to achieve with the best digital cameras out there. It's just not something that is expressed in pixels.
No, the boat doesn't talk to the satellite. They're two different methods they're using to improve coverage.
> "We should view genes, not organisms, as the fundamental unit of propagation. They optimize for their own survival, not necessarily the organisms." --- this is an insight.

Richard Dawkins wrote a book on just that. "The Selfish Gene" (~1970). However, recent epigenetics discounts just the gene as the sole 'unit' of propogation.
The book is an extremely good,fast-paced thriller. The movie, not so much.
I'd normally roll my eyes at this if this were a teen in the Valley, but a 14-year-old from small-town Alabama? That's pretty gutsy, good for him.
"Bing" as it is commonly pronounced in English doesn't exist in the Chinese language. Words with the pinyin 'bing' does, but saying it means 'disease' in mandarin is somewhat disingenuous, because it could refer to any of the four inflection and the very large number of words under each of those, like the word for ice, soldier, sideburns, guests, etc.
This is a bit of a slippery slope -- food, water, almost anything you could suggest "ought" to be give away for free.
Once the payload is delivered, the return trip is faster and less energy intensive (due to less weight). Why couldn't the drone just return to the same or even a different truck? I'd assume there is more than one truck per city.
erm, just because you didn't bother looking doesn't mean the 'tools and infrastructure' don't exist in India. There are a shitton of Makers in India. Yes, Indians prefer the more thinking sciences like math and computer science but saying that's because we 'simply don't have the basic tools and infrastructure to tinker' is ridiculous.

All that said, I am assuming the only thread to connect this conversation with the article was that of net connectivity ?
I'm curious how many people think about the Universe and how frequently. I think about it all the time and I'm not a physicist. Probably a solid 30 minutes a day usually before falling asleep. Almost religiously (ironic).

I have tried to talk about it with my family and friends but so many of them just don't seem to have the passion for it. Some times I feel even seriously guilty wasting so much energy thinking/reading about it. Sometimes even wondering if I'm even in right profession (even though I do love technology).

My current theory is that it just my personality type (INTP).
Vector Desktop an Electron that wraps the webapp and matix clients without videoconference support.

It's a good start.
Nothing wrong with the name Eugene, but it isn't as popular in the West anymore. According to the Social Security Administration, it peaked in popularity among American men at 20th most popular from 1927 to 1929. In 2015, it was 822nd most popular.

https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
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And I'd suggest that "don't stop and rewrite" is not the important lesson. It's "don't let your code base get to the point where you have to stop and rewrite".

Netscape's rewrite was 1997-2000. In 1999, Martin Fowler published "Refactoring", which showed us how to continually improve the technical architecture of a system without trying to stop the world. JUnit, the first really popular testing framework came out about then as well; good unit testing makes it safe to refactor boldly. And the Internet itself gives us the ability to release early and often, encouraging us to do everything in smaller, more manageable chunks.

Giant rewrites were just what you did in the bad old days. But we never have to do it again if we make a point of keeping our technical debt low and our releases frequent.
If all people felt that way no one would run drugstores, and there'd be ZERO plasters / bandaids available on the market.

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." --Adam Smith

...and thank goodness for that!
> I swear my mind automatically just remove them subconsciously.

That's a (rather quickly) learned behavior called banner blindness. :) [1] People get used to the locations where ads are placed on web pages and also the kind of look that ads have (flashy, colorful, animation, tiny picture with some text, etc., as some examples) and don't even look at them (these have been confirmed by eye tracking studies a long time ago).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness
>the existence of irrational numbers for example.

I think most of cases of "non acknowledging" are deeply personal aesthetic considerations. One likes to play with one set of objects and only with them.

In the widest sense existence in mathematics means that mathematical object is well-defined and the system used is consistent (you can't derive contradictions).

Of course mathematicians are free do limit themselves into
any subset of axioms or concepts they feel is "natural" or "real" and work only with them. But if they make philosophical arguments against other using irrational numbers, axiom of choice etc. I think they should argue that they are not consistent or well defined.
Her site is hosted in HK. Maybe it’s on the right side of the Great Firewall of China?
> the user's hardware matters more than the developers build farm

The user doesn't have to recompile their code every few minutes to do testing (or every few seconds for intellisense and other coding aids).

Developer hardware still matters. I can be productive without a masseuse. I can't be productive when it takes five minutes to run unit tests because my laptop sucks.
Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
Part 2: A SNMP introduction
The "why" is quite simple: Google is an ad company, and the entire reason they developed Chrome was to ensure they had control over the plugin ecosystem to ensure Google-provided ads could never be blocked. But ad blockers are becoming an existential threat to online advertising in general, so Google is likely trying to prevent them from existing.

It's a terrible idea because advertisers don't give a fuck about performance. I've ditched Chrome because it's just too slow with all the ads -- at least with Safari and Firefox I can run an ad blocker to cut down on some of the mountains of JavaScript trackers, overlays and animated banner ads that make the browser so effing slow. I know I'm not the only one in this boat.
The subalgebra of 3D Clifford using the scalar and the 2-blades represents quaternions.

The subalgebra using the pseudoscalar and the 1-blades can also represent quaternions.

You have to be careful using other people's implementations, because certain operations are anticommutative, so sign conventions and operand ordering matters a lot more. For instance, choosing whether K is defined as e3 * e1 rather than e1 * e3 depends on whether your base vectors square to 1 or -1.

Geometric Algebra is cool. It lets you say things like "the intersection of two spheres that don't touch is a circle with negative radius." You can't even represent a circle with negative radius in regular geometry.
haha, yes, I was thinking the same thing.
Ok. Will try. I think I see an issue here where I want to go back to a tab I have open on the train home.

If it is unloaded that means I have to connect to the Internet again to get hold of my page again?

(I'd think what I want is just to pause any javascript or other processing from any webpage that us not focused in the browser and not specifically whitelisted.)
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Well, my experience on the matter aligns with what falcolas says
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That is an extremely easily replicated technology. Turning down a buyout was a horrible idea, but good for him for making it that far.
Something to take note of was that analog systems could drive far more power than solid state systems at that time, especially given the USSR's relative backwardness in solid state electronics. It really is worth noting how montrously powerful that MiG 25's radar is. It could pump out 600kW. Western fighter radars top out in the low 10s of kW. (they went with raw power to burn through jamming).

I think the whole EMP robustness thing is overplayed everytime something like this pops up - I think that at most the EMP robustness is just a side benefit to the analog systems.
That's correct, it's the display that goes to sleep.
We used to have a local ping pong group that met regularly and I had a few friends who did it. Then they lost their venue for being to loud and boisterous. Apparently there were a few people who were intense about ping pong.
Deus Ex is totally a New World Order, Illuminati propaganda game series. /s
A search on dobsearch.com turns up quite a few people named Squirrel. It's far from common, but it exists.
I don't see how an add-on posted on the Chrome store is subject to Facebook's ToS. It might be aiding people in breaking the ToS, but is there really a law against that?
And they remain with nothing:

'The refugees who harbored him three years ago still live in miserable conditions in a wealthy city that doesn’t want them'
I can't see the online version, here's a link to the offline PDF (I think it's the same one as trying to be linked): http://pewpewthespells.com/blog/migrating_code_signing.pdf
I'm pretty sure this is the rational, utility-maximising preference for anyone who isn't already a multi-millionaire. The diminishing marginal utility of wealth means that $1 billion generates way, way less than 100x as much utility as $10 million for the vast majority of people. And if you need another reason (I wouldn't), there's the time aspect as well - how much is $1 billion in ten years time worth today? A lot less than $1 billion to me.
And plenty of Silicon Valley startups have rich/well-connected parents involved as well.
One big difference between Soviet technology and American - the former was designed to be cheap, rugged and to survive a nuclear war.

Unlike similar American jets, you can find Mig-25's in private hands today being maintained and flying.

It is one of the only private experiences where you can break Mach 2 and get close to 90,000' feet[0].

I love the Mig-25 - like the AK-47 there is something very admirable in a plane that is designed to both perform so well but to also be so easy to maintain and with such longevity.

[0] http://www.rusadventures.com/tour6.shtml

[1] "edge of space" flight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCVMuxx7YKY
1. The Developer of such an addon may not have ever agreed to the TOS

2. Google is under no legal obligations to enforce a contract between Facebook and the Facebook user

3. The TOS applies to the user of facebook, not the developer of DOM manipulation Plugin

4. To the extent the developer agree to said TOS, it is largely open to interpretation if TOS have any legal authority at all beyond giving the ablity of platform operators to ban users for violating them. I.e Facebook's recourse would be to identify people using the plugin and then ban them from the site. of-course Facebook has no desire to actually ban anyone for using a public so they use legally dubious trademark claims.
WaywardGeek built one on thermal noise that's on Tindie for about $35:

https://github.com/waywardgeek/infnoise

https://www.tindie.com/products/WaywardGeek/infinite-noise-t...

I remember him from the CipherShed project that was trying to reboot TrueCrypt. Discussed securing the build system & distribution. He seemed smart. I have no experience with Tindie, though, so I'd appreciate feedback from anyone that knows about them. He also includes BOM, etc on the GitHub so someone can source and build it themselves.
> So most of the emulators out there have to fake a lot of things in order to get software and games to run properly, or at all.

Not really. The emulators for recent systems don't try to emulate the hardware anymore, they emulate the outcome of the system calls and convert them to OpenGL most of the time (HLE).

That's actually necessary for stuff like the PSP. Sony made multiple revisions of the hardware over the course of the PSP life, and therefore relies on such a system anyway to maintain the output identical despite the hardware changes.