skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Examples: they abandoned their Persona project. At a time where identity, sign-in, authentication and security are as important as ever, they've left the field wide open to privacy-invasive companies like Google and Facebook.

Rather than build an OS, why not create the foundation or platform for others to build on? I am thinking of Electron here. Although, I am not a fan of Electron, the framework and approach are gaining a lot of traction with developers. Where is the slim, fast, embeddable Firefox engine that's easier to deploy and develop than Electron (and superior to the heavy embedded Chrome)?

What about offline capabilities for web apps? Firefox should be trailblazing in this space. This is a huge privacy advantage (amongst other things) over cloud-based systems.

I really want to see Firefox succeed, but am worried they have lost direction and focus, or even the ability to excite and inspire developers with their future plans.
Same here. All Material Design webpages I've seen so far feel too "blur" to me - I'm not sure if "blur" is a correct wording, but what I mean is that, with MD, the buttons, sections, and so on, are no longer clear on my eyes...

Am I alone?
Whether the economics of having two or more airframes would work remains to be seen. That's two of all the expensive bits.

I can see short haul, lower speed routes working with less radical battery approaches. Probably have to have multiple battery locations per plane for weight and balance.

I'm incredibly sceptical of SST and replacing Concorde.
incentive-caused bias

There is a literature on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias
Congrats!

Realm and React Native is now my go-to, keep up the solid work :)
See the movie gattaca for a decent exploration of this theme.
Because, from healthcare, to consumer products, to software, to books, the US is paying full price to subsidize the cost to much of the world. The US is the profit center that makes possible the steeply-discounted-almost-free sales elsewhere.
Absolutely - I'm sure that a bit of innate talent can improve one's rate of learning, but 90% of the willing can do it. The best programmers that I've met just loved the art and science of computing, had respect for their craft and very high standards of quality, were undaunted or even motivated by new challenges, but most importantly, put in the necessary time.

I doubt things have changed much since I went to college in the 90s, but back then, the ones that did well at CS either had been hacking computers since the Apple II or spending enormous amounts of time at the lab (or both). Also, when at the Microsoft campus in the 90s, it was not a coincidence that the most expensive cars were the ones that were in the parking garage the latest.
In Firefox I get an empty list of currencies. When reloading it stays at the loading animation. No output or errors in Firefox console.
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They use counterfactuals, so they are comparing apples to apples. There are other ways to do it. One of the easiest, yet most effective way is matching. You can match your observations with various statistical models, k-means would do a very good job here, and then run a regression. Compare parameters and you are done. It's not a rocket science.
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But then the US government would be able to tell the NYT, CNN and NBC what to print and what not to print (No, you may not print that news which embarrasses the President, It's against Regulation 5v).

> Only the people that comprise them do.

That may work to defend Facebook and Twitter (which allows anyone to post anything, Copyright stays with author, so perhaps it can get away with "safe harbor"). Once the newspaper decides anything (and definitely if it owns the IP), it's now their freedom of speech which is impaired, not the authors.
I'm about the opposite of you. Not a good programmer, but I excelled at the 'formal stuff.' Automata theory, regular expressions, compilers, operating systems, discrete math... these are all areas where I did well. Labs and programming assignments held me back. Although I will say that I feel infinitely more comfortable working with memory allocation in C than I do with anything involving JavaScript.

I also don't think the overall grades were bimodal. I guess I was in the second mode in programming intense courses and the first mode in theory heavy courses. I also feel that most of my peers were either the same as me or the reverse, like you. Wouldn't that create a single mode bell curve?

Of course, this is all purely anecdotal
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> I have an association of HP producing total garbage.

It's so sad what they did to their brand. A cheapish HP laser has been our main lab printer for 14 years and zillions of pages. When I bought it HP was the no-brainer buy. Is it really true that if I bought one now it'd be no good?
> Phone(Mary) is just some integer

Exactly right. But the problem is that if Phone(Mary) is a function that returns an integer, then what is Phone(Mary, X)? If you're going to be syntactically consistent it must be a function of two arguments that returns a value. It's probably a predicate that returns true or false. So Phone(Mary, X) == True IFF X is Mary's phone number. But now you have the same problem of distinguishing Phone(Mary, X) and "Phone(Mary, X)" as you did Phone(Mary) and "Phone(Mary)".

It's even worse now because extensionally (i.e. where functions applied to arguments are equivalent to their values) you can now substitute any true statement for Phone(Mary, X) and obtain another true statement under the law of substitution of equals.
You can do this, but it is roughly equivalent to using a battery pack to heat water for a steam engine; it is a very bad idea.
When it's explicitly allowed by the rules, it's no longer "jaywalking."

You're right that it doesn't mean this is safe in general, but the original comment is wrong that you should never do this.

What previous-value-checking logic are you referring to? I would expect .pointee = 42 to compile down to a single store instruction.
You are absolutely right, I guess I better correct that, thanks!
This should be made available every where. But then they can't charge us for offline and background play.

YT would get more views actually if they allowed offline now. It would also help with the puny data allowances wireless carriers are imposing these days. The offline will take the power away (in a small way), from the carriers.

They can provide the same experience as today, ads and all. People can watch YT on flights, while driving and what not. Amazon video allows offline usage today and been for a while.
It's actually a feature that goes way back to the Compartmented Mode Workstations that were sold in Orange Book days for higher security than regular UNIX. The higher-security ones often balanced security and performance by figuring out which components had to be secure and shared vs which they could just duplicate without trust. Epstein et al's TX is an example with many details:

https://www.acsa-admin.org/2006/papers/epstein-paper.pdf

Vendors of separation kernels, with Green Hills in lead, started distributing MILS workstations with browser VM's and such in 2005:

http://www.ghs.com/news/20050419_secure_products.html

Tahoma started first browser-oriented OS running on Xen and Linux in 2006:

https://www.gribble.org/papers/gribble-Tahoma.pdf

Finally, OP Web Browser applied POLA and safe languages internally around 2008 with Chrome partly copying it (with less security for performance):

http://www.cse.psu.edu/~trj1/cse543-s15/docs/grier_sp08.pdf

So, high-assurance community has been on this with numerous projects and products released. Many had small, strong TCB's. The oldest had the color schemes and everything. QubesOS is the newcomer with less security than many forerunners but great usability & openness. Better than average Linux distro. Closest to prior designs with active community is genode.org.
In UK, software contracting rates are almost always quoted and billed based on days.
> They even go to church, amazingly enough.

I don't see why this would be amazing. Many terrible people go to church. Some even use it as a form of moral self licensing to rationalize doing evil.
write letters to your senator. Done enmass, this can really change their mind - if they see their electorate care, they are going to add the angle to their campaign. Make sure you vote, and also remember, democracy is slow and painful.
You are correct that it's wasteful, if one joule of electric energy and one joule of chemical energy cost the same.

But if you are getting electric energy for free from solar panels, and you're getting chemical energy by pumping taxed dinosaur carbon into the air, then you might find that the electric energy could be more efficient.

You're absolutely correct that it's wildly inefficient by any metric now. But if clean electric energy became wildly abundant, that would change.

In computing, there are all kinds of wildly wasteful things (web browsers) that are the best way to do things because computation is extremely cheap. It's very interesting to think about what kinds of devices would make economic sense if electric energy had the same price collapse that computation has done.

The fact that we "burn electricity" in electric water heaters, stoves, and toasters rather than only using high-entropy energy sources like gas water heaters and gas stoves is an example where present-day electric energy supply chains have beaten out the theoretical advantages of only using high-entropy energy sources when it is possible to do so.
Follow this advice! 3k users is awesome. It validates your product. Get more users to do more money.

It is a nice challenge and you'll learn a lot.
To be sure, if you persist long enough, you’ll manage to teach more people these things, but I’m quite willing to assert that there are some people (I won’t say anything about percentages) that will simply never be able to grok some of these concepts under any circumstances short of substantial neural adjustment. (Even if I ignore the easy target of mentally disabled persons which I would easily win your $20 with.)

Just like I will never be a marathon runner and never had the slightest chance of doing so, however hard I tried, because of biology.
Yes, it leaked during the Win2K release cycle I believe. And you're probably thinking about the kuro5hin website, where someone claimed to have analyzed it. (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3BlVJSk...)

>One programmer wrote an article on it saying it was actually good code.

"one programmer" commenting about 30+ million lines of code. Yeah. uh-huh. Anyway, you can still find the kernel's source if you care to dig around. Its the Windows Research Kernel but it's mostly unchanged from the commercial codebase.

>The problem areas seem to be little hacks they had littered everywhere to keep 3rd party hardware or software from breaking.

Those are mostly relegated to the compatibility shim layer. You can turn it off, in any case.
Wow sir. That is really a great list of examples! It actually seems [very very] feasible to make a simple system that could automate this based on the language used. It would be a worthwhile endeavor, but like you say, would take a lot of time/effort investment.

Perhaps an open-source effort that does this (tracks and updates current laws and shows diffs) could be a worthwhile beginning?

I think every senator and representative that has ever had to amend legislation would delight at the thought.
My understanding is that scientists believed it was tidally locked for quite some time (until the mid-1960s, and not confirmed until Mariner 10 in 1974-5): the resonance between its rotation and its orbit (together with limitations of where in its orbit Earth had a good view of its surface) meant that observers routinely saw the same surface features in the same places. Some of that history is discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)#Ground-based_...
You do realize there was a time that you could pay for WhatsApp, don't you? But now you can only pay with your personal data. Sorry if that doesn't quite suit your agenda, but that's how it was and how it is.
Yeah. But again, it doesn't seem like there is a huge and vibrant developer community inspecting the code, implementing features and fixing bugs; looking at their gitlab and their redmine, it seems like there is almost no activity.

(It's possible I just don't understand the websites; looking at their GitLab and Redmine, I start to understand why is Github so popular; I cannot find anything there :(( )
Yes, they are hefty. I don't know if you can find one that's only a printer. We have a printer/fax/scanner model that's now around 10-15 years old. I can tell it's getting ready to give up the ghost soon. We have actually had to use the fax part of it recently, too. The scanner in it is terrible for anything other than scanning documents to PDF. Completely unusable for photos. (Taking a few photos of a photo with my DSLR and doing an HDR merge produces great results, whereas using the scanner produces crushed blacks and blown-out whites with no way to fix them.)
What could a fair system for rewarding inventors and patent owners look like?
Try NewPipe, it's an open source YouTube downloader and background player for Android:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.schabi.newpi...
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Um. If we reach a height of no friction, what are the electric jets compressing?

If there's air there's friction, if there's no air there's no thrust. Rockets take their own oxidant.
Voting! And easily verifying a) your vote was/is counted and b) is accurate for what issues/candidates you voted for. In fact, we could eliminate most candidates because they are only there to "represent" the wills/intentions of their constituents. Gloabl PKI pairings for voting would eliminate the need for a lot of "representatives" and we could do more direct forms of democracy instead!
The next generation will want to download the video and store it, just in case it gets pulled because of content owner rights.
Their inkjets aren't bad either, when I do print I frequently want color but not often enough to want to spend 2-3 times as much upfront on a color laser printer. So far I've replaced the cartridges in my MFC-J4420DW once with the XL sized cartridges for ~$40 and they're still at ~70% capacity after printing 200 pages in the past year. Sure, I'd pay less with a laser printer, but for the volume it made more sense to amortize the cost than pay it all upfront.
Brother is playing the game, too. My 3-month-old Brother MFC (printer, copier/scanner) just refused to recognize the generic ink cartridge I bought off of eBay. I had to pry the RFID(?) chip off the empty Brother cartridge and hot-glue it to the generic cartridge. Now it works.
This is not about financial cost, it is about weight and complexity. It would be less costly and more efficient to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen (using solar power if you like), then use them to power a rocket engine.
Google etc. are not in the same business as the credit reporting agencies.

The latter collect your data and sell it to third parties. The former collect your data, keep it a tightly-guarded secret, do not sell it to anyone, and use it to make their own product more profitable.

I think the difference is important to keep in mind.
I don't really get all these material design kits and themes. For me the material design look is very closely tied to google products, so anything that is not a google product that makes use of these material design themes comes across as pretty derivative.
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> Instead of burning fuel, you can use electricity (something like an arc welder) to generate heat.

Why go through all the trouble of using electricity as the heat source in a Brayton cycle engine instead of the obvious solution, using electric motors? Your statement that "we don't know how to go supersonic speeds with a fan or propeller" is clearly wrong, since supersonic aircraft have been flying with turbofans and no afterburners for almost five decades now.
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I think the main thing is that Microsoft makes billions from what lock-in remains in their tech. They are probably very afraid that open-source would've made things like OpenOffice happen for all their locked-in tech at great development speed and compatibility. Plus on better platforms that Microsoft doesn't sell. Maybe even ReactOS greatly accelerated by the availability of source. ;)

That's my theory anyway. They share source with some but highly selective with plenty restrictions.
plus a special sauce for counting the number of specific bp repeats, due to in-del events, this is not something I am not too familiar, but presumably the number of a specific k-mer repeats you have in these genes of interest might correlate to a specific type of cancer? (would love to hear someone who is an expert in this field their opinion).

"Copy number variant" refers to larger deletions and duplications that can occur in the genome. There isn't some specific cutoff for size, but some examples in these kinds of genes would be an entire exon or gene. There are countless studies that find correlations between specific variants or CNVs and risk of cancers.

Standard variant detection is pretty straightforward. CNVs are harder because they are longer (several hundred to several thousand base pairs) than the raw data (150 to 250 bp for Illumina)- you don't get single reads that span the entire variant. You have to normalize then look for differences in coverage, or look for split reads (where the read is aligned on the border of one of these CNVs).

This kind of funding baffles me because they don't seem to be proposing anything new at all (maybe slightly better CNV detection?) and there are already lots of labs/companies doing this kind of testing. Maybe they are working on being very efficient to offer a better price.
As far as I'm concerned I think you should get only the TV screen and choose your own 'smart' box.
Well, he's kind of right, if fuel cost was suddenly zero, the profit margin would explode, and planes wouldn't need to fly as many flights to recoup the capital investment.
And this is definitely not just theoretical. Any conservative collector must also be non-moving. The Boehm GC for C and C++ and Apple's GC for Objective-C are both existing examples.
There's already a demographic that'd do that sort of thing - see reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists for horrifying examples. Your concern is dead on, and we'd need some serious progress on youth rights for me to be more comfortable with unrestricted designer babies.
Tech is a vast field. We are having trouble finding a Django developer where we are. Project managers decision to hire based on this, my opinion is we should look for a good all rounder, as Django knowledge only makes up around 25% of the knowledge that is needed. Someone that knows HTML, some JavaScript, any other framework, how to set up remote servers and use a database effectively. If your only skill is Omnicore, your suggestion makes sense, but there are so many different things to learn, that having a wide knowledge base makes sense.
CouchDB doesn't have any iOS code, are you perhaps referring to Couchbase?
The common thread in all the examples there is that choice are made for parents for the sake of society or "the race." I'm not familiar with Alien Nations so I can't speak to the OP but clearly not all genetic manipulation or screening is actually eugenics.
The current generation already does.
Looks promising. Doesn't seem to support subscriptions, though, which is the problem every unofficial YouTube app seems to have. Probably because logging in and accessing subscriptions requires the API, which has a ToS.
One of the beauties of a niche site like Newegg is that they actually understand which products are interchangeable or related.

If I search for USB splitter by price on Amazon, I'm going to get flash drive cases, then USB cables, then flash drives, then I'll get into splitters. Newegg knows I didn't mean that, and that "products like this" shouldn't include everything with a USB connector on one end.
Gauss noticed that the sum of the first n numbers is n(n+1)/2, while in grade school. One can prove, via induction [0], that the sum of the first n cubes is n²(n+1)²/4. Clearly the latter expression is the square of the former.

[0] The inductive step looks like this:

(n-1)²((n-1) + 1)²/4 + n³
(n⁴ - 2n³ + n²)/4 + 4n³/4
(n⁴ + 2n³ + n²)/4
n²(n + 1)²/4
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there is actually no way to get money from them. Most of them know what they are doing. They will setup an empty corporation thats only assets is the patent and then hire themselves as legal counsel for the corporation who gets paid 100% of the proceeds from any lawsuit so the company never has any money. If they lose a lawsuit their patent will be invalidated and have 0 assets so there is nothing to take from them if you try to collect damages in a counter suit, they will just declare bankruptcy and fold the corporation and make a new one
I think with taxation we could also do very cool things: Say your nation taxes at 30%, what if every voter had a subset of that value (say, 12.2%) that they could choose which district or set-of-needs to fund?

Like maybe I want my 12.2 to go to education for kids 6mnths-12years, or maybe I want to fund state medicines, and my neighbor and I both pay the base rate that covers necessities like roads and stuff, but he may fund shelters instead of medicine specifically with his 12point2. It could be really wonderful.

In effect, people may become more participatory in their own governing systems, and could actually direct funds instead of relying on bill-makers to figure out where to spend monies/resources.
A couple more paragraphs and I'd start scoring your post using [1].

"running on top of matrix shape" means nothing.

[1] math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html .
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How is "conflict-free sync" done? The usual approach is last-write-wins, which is just a euphemism for "randomly losing user data", or CRDTs or Operational Transforms, which severely limit the data models one can sync.

I'm happy to learn about a silver bullet here.
But why would it need a rewrite? Adding a download and some other buttons?

>It wouldn't make much sense as a feature of the existing app.

Why?
A Concorde-load of fuel costs around $40k (100000 liters * $0.40/liter). From your numbers, a 90-minute recharge costs $550. So apron costs don't seem like the deciding factor.
I fail to see how blaming the civil war on Lincoln is justified. Please elaborate.

EDIT:
The issue of slavery was only the spark. The conflict that escalated into the civil war was multifaceted and at its core reflected two very different views of the American union.
USB 1,2 and three has been backwards compatible.

Ethernet is. Most WiFi gear is.

For most video equipment there exist some kind of adapters.
Ambitious, but it feels like science fiction right now. The principles seem reasonable, but we have no reason to believe that SpaceX is capable of pulling this off in the foreseeable future. We'll see if Musk can convincingly explain it in his speech in 40 minutes.

Also interesting to note how close fan speculation actually got to the truth: http://imgur.com/a/87OOT
> If that zeitgeisty soft morality issue changes I pray to god that our acceptance of flaws and realistic human behaviour from our political class changes too.

Most countries aside from the USA are pretty blase about their politicians' personal behavior and morality. It's this silly idea that politicians should be paragons of personal virtue, independent of their public and political virtues, that gets the US in such hypocritical binds.
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