skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to a talk by Max Tegmark[0] (and its associated paper[1]), neural nets (particularly LSTMs) might be inherently better at this sort of thing due to the way they model mutual information.

Markov models are best suited to situations where an observation k-steps in the past gives exponentially less information about the present[2] (decaying according to something like λ^k for 0 <= λ < 1).
Intuitively, the amount of context imparted by a word or phrase decays somewhat more slowly.
That is, if I know the previous five words, I can make a good prediction about the next one, and likely the next one, and slightly less likely the one after that, whereas in a Markovian setting my confidence in my predictions should decay much more quickly.

So in answer to the grandparent, such a thing should be reasonably straightforward to build if it doesn't exist already, and it may offer improvements over a similar model based on Markov chains.

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0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MdSE-N0bxs

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06737

2. Why is this? Lin & Tegmark offer details in the paper, but it comes from the fact that the singular values of the transition matrix are all less than or equal to one (an aperiodic & ergodic transition matrix has only one singular value equal to one), and so the other singular vectors fall away exponentially quickly, with the exponent's base being their corresponding singular value.
Android is winning but the percentage that still use Apple is significant. Thank "the sheep" I guess...

The winners mentioned are the ones that require the most resources, so I guess they'll keep being that even with Bing, etc

I do use Firefox, sometimes it seems Chrome has more issues, sometimes it's FF, but I'd say they're pretty comparable (though FF has better dev tools builtin and it is easier to configure a proxy, because Chrome depends on a system config, which is not what I want to change usually)
Did you stop using javascript as well?
What does Chrome offer that FF cannot match currently? What kind of convenience improvements would you need to start using FF? Developer tools not withstanding.
My neutral (?) view on firefox/chrome:

- Firefox uses way less RAM

- Chrome is usually faster/smoother, even if not by much. For very odd or intensive sites. And for things like dragging a tab into another window and how long it takes until inspect element loaded.

- Firefox has Tree Style Tab, Chrome doesn't and will never have. This alone makes FF the only usable browser for me

- I find the non-optional non-native and childish look of chrome silly

- Some google sites like the play store and youtube just work better on chrome

For me, I use FF because of the memory, the styling and Tree Style Tabs. And I hope they keep on fighting. I understand the chrome users though.
The section in wikipedia that discusses this mentions that it is not clear that his employment by tobacco firms motivated his behavior:
From wikipedia:
'To quote his biographers Yates and Mather, "It has been suggested that the fact that Fisher was employed as consultant by the tobacco firms in this controversy casts doubt on the value of his arguments. This is to misjudge the man. He was not above accepting financial reward for his labours, but the reason for his interest was undoubtedly his dislike and mistrust of puritanical tendencies of all kinds; and perhaps also the personal solace he had always found in tobacco."'

I believe this is thesis of the original article as well.
I'm not from the US, but I did a little maths. $21(8 hours/day)(5 day/week)(4 weeks/month)(12 months/year) gives $40320 per year against $40K/per year annually as mentioned in the second paragraph.

Where's the comparison?
Deadlines and blind dates
Running a local DNS resolver for local development seems like an overkill. You have to have the resolver and nginx properly setup and constantly running (not that it's a issue)
Steps to Install Java on Ubuntu OS
Do you honestly believe that switching to firefox will be the change? Its purely symbolic considering firefox has been heavilly funded by google in the past [0] and likely still influences their decisions. A few developers doesnt account for the millions of people that use chrome, widescale change requires influencers and those willing to stand up, not a bunch of upset introverts with a distaste for authority.

Honestly, Im not sure what will help future and privacy considering your information is the number 1 comodity. But Im getting the impression that escape is impossible and we all should get used to being less "anti coorperation" and more "pro happiness"

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation
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I don't like seeing comments like the parent on HN. Instead of adding to a discussion of economics and poverty, it tries to distract everyone with politics and ideology by throwing around (rhetorically) loud, aggressive and unsubstantiated allegations, inviting a response on that level.

Ideology and anger are not substitutes for facts and reason; they are threats to all the latter have built - as they have been for centuries - and a danger to us all.
My problem is that the law isn't enforced evenly. Either you are allowed to discriminate based on race/creed/sexuality/politics or you aren't. As it stands, the BBC can discriminate like this:

>A range of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television departments, programmes, and radio stations are currently offering highly desirable, paid internships, but white people are prohibited from applying.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/670266/BBC-advert-white-peo...
I don't understand why it says "2 * (5 + 1) = 12" fits equally well as "x + 5 + 2 = 12" to the original pattern:

"5 + 2 = 12"

As it changes one of the terms of the original addition (2 to 1). The second solution fits better by my judgment.
Changing the the puzzle, seems like a bit of cheating...
Do you have any basis for this claim?
I don't responsive or mobile at the moment but I guess there is some kind of extension for that.

Remember FF extensions can be quite a bit more powerful than other extensions.
Agree with everything you said but you are blaming everything on google, mozilla dropped the ball with mobile, they were too late.
You can already play Morrowind in GNU/Linux using Wine. It works fine except for some minor glitches.
I found it impossible to debug very large scripts on Firefox. Searching for a string in the script is next to impossible, it would hang the interface for minutes. In Chrome it take seconds to do something similar, you can tell that the script is too big but at least it's debuggable.

Also as a user I cannot bear to use Firefox. I recently retried it (can't recall the version, IIRC it's the first version they introduced multiprocessing) and it still underperforms: I experienced (sub second) lag on UI interactions whereas I wouldn't using Chrome.
Microsoft Releases TypeScript 2.0 and Other JavaScript News
The only thing I miss after switching Safari->FF (moved away from OSX) for regular browsing is that all 'incognito' tabs in safari are completely isolated from each other and share no cache, cookies, bla. This seems like a small thing and I barely noticed it at the time I switched TO safari for all non-devtools related tasks (battery and perf was better on my lappy) but now, I do miss it.

Otherwise, I've no probs with FF these days. 49 seems solid on BSD, at least.
>prices will rise

While the overall impact of minimum wage increases on prices is far from settled, history has not shown it to lead to the catastrohic increases that are oft-foretold by opponents.

For instance, one full year after Washington's wage increase, we aren't seeing marked price increases [0].

If the effects of the wage increase on businesses was as profound as the doom-sayers wanted us to believe, then a year is certainly more than enough time to have seen them.

>they can hire fewer people

An expanding economy (which is partially fueled by higher incomes), helps to offset displacement of workers. Further, it's not as if businesses were seeking to hire workers they didn't need in any case. In fact, the ever-striving for optimal efficiency and productivity combined with automation is largely to blame for the lower labor demand/stagnant wages that precipitated the need for an increased minimum wage in the first place.

[0] http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/18/early-analysis-of-...
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Firefox is good. It has support for modern standards, is performant, has tracking protection built in and plenty of extensions.

Google is winning because it's bundling its browser just like Microsoft used to and is aggressively advertising it on all of its web properties, which might have a reach of close to 100% of the web-using population.
Firefox also has a reputation for being slow, gotten probably from people doing ridiculous things as keeping tens of tabs open and not restarting it for days - learn to use bookmarks!

Silly Mozilla thought they were fighting hand in hand with Google for web standards when Google was fighing for ad money all along.
Which programming languages are most popular (and what does that even mean)?
Tip: 2,000 hours/year is the standard, and usefully it's simple math (i.e., 2,000 * 21 = 42,000).

2,000 = 8 hrs/day, 5 days/week, 50 weeks/yr
// Difficult to change a viewpoint for those who never have lived in streets of Mumbai
Major features of PostgreSQL 9.6 [pdf]
Completely down from here too.

I may need to retract my comments about Akamai. Apparently 680gbps (or whatever it's at now) is the total amount of traffic the busiest site on the internet can be hosed with before the internet itself poops the bed.

So, you know, we did learn something from this whole saga.
If money can help Firefox, I think the community needs to rethink crowdfunding. A crowdfunding system should be implemented and taken to a new level. I imagine a system where features/issues are organized and funded case by case in a way a simple person can "vote with the wallet" for the desired FireFox.

This is an idea for open source in generally. I know BountySource try to do it.
One of those things I only realized recently: Google CEO Sundar Pichai's claim to fame at Google was the Google Toolbar. Under him, how can we expect Google to do anything but push pack-in bloatware?

Dark patterns like prechecked bloatware install boxes aren't going anywhere under him.
I think it's an extreme pov; Since Chrome is Open source we need not worry :)
Isn't the real answer to this to start a company (or some other form of organization)? Then the accounts and other ownerships are no longer tied to a single individual but to a virtual entity that can be controlled by other individuals when needed.
Yep, Firefox cannot play the moral superiority card when it pushes good people like Brendan Eich out for political reasons.
MonetDB lite embeds in R like rsqlite.
Also using Firefox (Developer Edition) as my primary browser.

But my observations are quite different:

- On my machine, Firefox uses more RAM than Chrome (Canary) for the same workloads and is slower

- Chrome is way faster. As a web application developer I notice that all the time. Chrome renders faster and the JavaScript engine also processes faster. Firefox likes to crash when reloading a page that uses WebSockets.

- I don't know your platform, but on OS X the default UI of Firefox is awful. That's the primary reason why I use the Developer Edition.
What's so bad about bash?
WDC test engineer describes some fascinating details of modern HDD
They didn't drop the ball. They tripped on it and fell on their face. Remember FirefoxOS?

iOS not allowing competitors also stuck a knife in their back.
Kyt – toolkit that encapsulates and manages the configuration for web apps
> 1998 or 2006, both years I was working full time in tech, when the economy seemed similarly hot but ''felt'' much more stable.

The economy, in hindsight, was very unstable in 2006. 2008 was the greatest economic collapse since 1929. There was also a problem in 2000.
I think it's only fair to tell people when they've been downvoted.

I downvoted you because that smug sarcastic smiley really set my teeth on edge.
I think people think Chrome is a best browser is because it performs better on Google products than any other browser. And as people are using GMail, Youtube or other, they see Chrome as the best browser.
Don't know the status with the author, but my general experience is that the better the insurance you have, the longer they will keep you. If you are self pay and they can't milk you for money, then they'll get you out of there pretty quick.
Are you really asking the difference between the CA bundle and some node+redis+python startup being able to drop authorized_keys across your datacenter?

... eh?
No, that was your interpretation.
It won't happen in USA first. Too much ideological baggage will prevent USA from believing it is possible (and actually oppose people who try it) before it is actually implemented and working in other countries.

I would like to believe that a dynamic EU country will implement it first but actually my money is on China. They fear riots, they need to keep people's income growing (even steady is not an option) and they don't mind being called communists.

This change will happen, but Trumpland won't herald it.
Sweden Wants to Fight Disposable Culture with Tax Breaks for Repairing Old Stuff
So every life form seeks to fight for survival and guarantee its existence. When the next life form emerge, maybe in the form of AI, it will lock itself in a war for control of the planet Earth.

This war will be fundamentally a pursuit of energy and resources, as it has always been. And this pursuit of energy and resources has always been detrimental at an exponentially increasing scale to other life forms which depend on the same.

As an example, if there is a nuclear war in the Indian subcontinent, the countries there will only be acting out of their need to guarantee their survival. However, the resulting fallout will have extinguished life forms at a pace that doesnt have any bearing in history.
Emphasis on the words free software. Games are very under-represented in the free software world.
> Firefox also has a reputation for being slow, gotten probably from people doing ridiculous things as keeping tens of tabs open and not restarting it for dayes

Do you mean it has the reputation from people doing this 5 or 10 years ago and it's stuck? Or is this still a problem for Firefox?
I find the design of Chrome to be nicer in general. Feels like there's less going on.
This is awesome.

One of my biggest gripes with Chrome is the inability to stop a rogue site from playing audio (on top of the music I'm listening to in another tab). CNN is one of the worst, as soon as I find the freaking video on the page and try to pause/mute it, the video controls slide away. Why can't Chrome allow me to just turn off audio on that tab? I have assumed Google doesn't give us that because it will interfere with their advertising or something.

(maybe there is an extension that will help? I haven't found one)
My (limited) experience with Rust is that it's necessary to unlearn a lot of C++ habits. E.g. forgetting that Rust likes to _move_ and C++ likes to _copy_
I start off skimming through a book/tutorials/how-to vetting if my idea of using XYZ holds and I ( hopefully) will not run into corner stones.

Then I would do "doing and learning" along the way.

This approach works for me, but sometimes I get a feeling of missing out something.

So I got me this new Haskell book:
http://haskellbook.com for further enlightenment and want to first work through the book before applying it to project XYZ.

SoI guess to get work done I rely on the "doing and learning" approach. To challenge my brain/learn a new way of thinking, I rely on reading the books without skimming.
I'm surprised that email is not corporate controlled yet.

What did email do right that chat did wrong? Afaik, there was once a good standard for chat.
It varies quite a bit by the city you live in:
http://www.businessinsider.com/income-top-one-percent-us-cit...

I am guessing they are are going by national numbers rather than regional.

In SF household income percentiles are these:
Top 5%: $349,693
Top 1%: $558,046
I started using FF since 0.7 version guy, I switch to chrome after the internal Mozilla stupid polemics for Brendan marriage position.
Open web? please, do me the favour..
FWIW, I do agree that snappy is the wrong solution to the problem. The correct solution is backing proper package managers. So I think we're in agreement. :P
There was a comment left by "conan77"[I am not "conan77" & I have not asked for any permission to repost it here, but I hope "conan77" will be cool with it as the comment was really nice and puts across the real issue rather well.]

"Let's say you have a bad Oreo habit. Like a box a day. With such Oreo consumption, you have negotiated a deal wherein you get a full month's supply for $100. 30 boxes or so for $100. Now a few days before the month is up, you run out of Oreos. You see, you have visitors , and they like Oreos too. You would thing you could just to to 7-Eleven and buy a box for $5. But you can only buy Oreos from your current supplier, as the local municipal government has legally mandated that there are only two OSPs (Oreo Service Providers) allowed to sell Oreos in your city. You have to pick one (which you have) and you can't switch mid-month without paying for the next month you'll never receive. So you get the extra box from your OSP, and pay the overage fee of $25 a box.

Yeah, the internet is exactly like Oreos."

source: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/intern...
Property is the belief system. Capital is just an optimization of it.

Resources are finite. Not everyone is equally efficient at allocating resources. Not everyone specializes in analyzing the most effective way to distribute resources. Capitol is intended to fit this role: those with past success in correctly distributing resources in productive areas make a profit, and thus have better ability to select correctly.

Of course, there are are a few great problems with capitalism under this perspective.

- Inheritence only makes sense as an incentive to keep being optimal close to death, but after the generation gap, the "wealth belongs to proven optimizers" is no longer true.

- Benefit of the system is skewed significantly towards the wealthy, which is counterproductive if happiness scales logartithmically with wealth, as it seems to.

- (What this article talks about) Wealth is encouraged to create more wealth, even if it is to the detriment of overall production in some cases.
Researchers restore first computer music generated on Alan Turing's computer
Governments in the Nordics need to encourage talent not technicalities
But failing in 2008 more likely would have caused a recession, What happens next will likely be 2008 with a multiplier. Nothing has structurally changed. We have a bunch more debt globally. Most of the problem children are treading water and many getting into a worse position.

I think we're heading for either 1) A pretty solid crash where a bunch of banks and pension funds are going to get smashed by the domino effect of finace going low risk or 2) High inflation (not hyper) as nations increase current monetary policy tactics to try and revive things ongoing, eroding value of wages/cash savings followed by a bigger crash.

And the elephant in the room for me is US/China national debt. The economies are so influential the world over. For US most forecasts have it stabilising at existing levels (relative to GDP). I just can't see strong economic growth to back up debt growth, or a desire for fiscal responsibility with existing political candidates. You'd need incredibly strong conviction (and political majority/backing) to pull back hard on required social/military spending to achieve this. And a vision for the future. I see the current candidates as short term responders.

For trivia the last president to reduce national debt during their term was Calvin Coolidge!
Very good point. Linux and Apache however are not consumer products, and the for profit companies that are using them are heavily contributing to the projects. The end users of Firefox are not contributing to its code, all development is done by Mozilla foundation.
The single largest issue is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1159042, but as another comment mentioned, there are many different cases that trigger performance bottlenecks.
The ease at which sites can be DDOSed to oblivion is "why we can't have nice things"? :(
My opposite viewpoint as a web developer:

Chrome is faster and renders better than Firefox is pretty much every way. Safari delivers faithful color reproduction and speed. I spent 10x as much time fixing Firefox rendering issues compared to every other browser, including Microsoft Edge.

Firefox has lost its edge. I do miss tree style tabs, though.
Another thing people don't seem to understand is that Chrome uses as much memory as it sanely can for the task provided. There are situations where it will use more, or less than Firefox, but I guarantee you in 99% of those situations, Chrome will be the one performing faster.
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Nonsense! Firefox Developer Edition [0] is the best browser for web development and it doesn't need Firebug as it has better built-in tools! Not to mention the lovely dark theme!

[0]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
And here are some facts that speak about zerohedge's credibility.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-29/unmasking-...
Interesting tidbit about a music video his future wife, Katherine Anna Kang, animated that used the Quake engine in the Feb 7, 2003 plan.

In the Waiting Line - Zero 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq336zk2cZk
Seeing as Hangouts is becoming worse and worse and worse(recent update removed tabs on the bottom of the screen, now it's all in a single window - and I get notifications in the corner of the screen with the full content of each message - really awkward if I'm in a meeting. In the old version, a tab would light up green and that was it. But the absolute worst offence is that there is no way to go back to the old interface - google took the executive decision to break it for everyone, so they did, I'm really pissed off about it), I would really like to switch to a different IM. Allo would be nice, if not for the fact that it doesn't have a desktop client. That's unacceptable.
Slightly shorter answer: because he smoked.
Also Citusdb which just got multimaster on their CitusMX cloud version and will release later on open-source.
I remember being left alone in the car at 7 or 8. If it was too hot I would have opened the window, or in extreme cases, stepped outside for some time.
The aversion towards upfront thinking and tendency to glorify the TDD slot machine is a bit unsettling.
I am downvoted, so I guess this was obvious sarcasm?
Linux did not outperform anyone. Companies did. Companies used and abused linux in such a way that the other simply followed the trend. Mainly because of the costs. And btw this is what Facebook and Google will be doing to most of other competitors as well.
This is pure / chinese style capitalism. We give you something good enough for free but forget about normal wealth distribution only a single entity / group of people will get rich and the others will have to pay a hefty price of loosing their privacy.

Linux and Apache and the others succeeded because they spawned a lot of other businesses that were just cheaper than the offerings from Microsoft or Oracle.