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The three new features are really useful and I look forward to using them. I don't care about the others but I like seeing Mozilla testing new things. This is the right way to keep a browser alive. And keep paying attention to the basics, of course.

Update: About testing those features... I'm testing MinVid because they're logging basically only the name of the service I'm using, not the actual video. I'm not testing PageShot because they keep a copy of the screenshots: they're safe for office but they're not Mozilla's business. Actually, I could violate some NDAs by sending some of those screenshots to Mozilla. Worse, I'm not testing Tracking Protection because "When you engage with a prompt, we also collect information about the page you are on and the tracking domain that is being blocked". Mozilla won't know what I'm browsing.
I was thinking the same thing. If you're going binary just have a 4 x 4 dice face with different numbers of dots filled in.
Everything is open source and on GitHub. This is a rare project that was 100% open source from the beginning.
> The reverse could be to say the activists like Amy Goodman are exploiting the 1st amendment to push their agenda. She isn't really a reporter.

The whole point of the first amendment is that you can freely express yourself without censure by the government. And Amy Goodman is most certainly a well respected journalist.
She's shouting about their use of dogs against the protesters - that's not the same as participating in the protest!
The core problem are grant procedures. Universities get a 20%+ cut of grants a professor eecieved. Therefore they wants professors who receive lots of grants. Grant awarders are judged on their ability to choose applicants that create value using those funds. An easy metric is papers produced. And those who publish lots of papers in the past is a good predictor of future production. So these are the applicants that get funded.

Another problem is the lack of funds for professor positions relative to the number of trained applicants. With so many qualified academics, departments have to use some metric to base decisions, and publications is more measurable (grant $$$) than scientific value.
The best Calculus book I've ever found is free from MIT.

https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-001-calculus-online-tex...
impressive

is there a wysiwyg editor that removes the discipline out of this form of expression?
Perhaps even looking at credit card billing addresses or issuing banks maybe, if they're non US based and service is being accessed by a US IP address could raise a flag?

Just my speculation.
In my opinion, you need to understand the difference between hard work and smart work. Software development is like an art.
A person may spend 18 hours a day to create something that just works while another may spend just 8 creative hours to create a masterpiece.
There are many disadvantages of being a hard worker / workaholic:

* The expectation of your manager will get elevated and if one fails to be consistent in working for long hours, it's a negative.

* One does not have much room to accommodate something else at times of need. Think of an outage, you have already worked for 18 hours and fail to deliver at that crucial time.

* It's very difficult to innovate in an insomniac state.

Remember, doing hard work is easier that smart work. It requires much more learning and thinking. But, if you are able to do it, you will be able to contribute much more.

Appraisal based on relative performance: This sounds logical. If a person contributes better to the company's goal, he/she should be appreciated for that. Think yourself being that person it should make sense.

Note: I am not taking the political aspects of your office into consideration. If your manager loves late night availability, long emails at weird hours, it is his weakness. Probably, you can be smart and automate sending 'corporate bullshit' emails at night ;)

Or just find yourself a right workplace.
I don't have time for working I need to raise my kids before I die.
I used to be skeptical of the ADA but on a recent trip to France my girlfriend broke her foot and I had to push here around in a wheelchair. I realized how difficult life can be for disabled people when elevators are not working or a curb doesn't have a ramp. These are all very simple things and don't cost that much in comparison to other features of the building.

Since then I am a strong supporter of the ADA.
Last mile delivery is really expencive, if the drone uses 1$ worth of battery life per delivery that's still reasonable costs. It's getting everything else to work that's the problem.

Consider a golf course that can deliver cold beer out to the green via drones. 8 ice cold beers at ~10lb in a few minutes via cellphone app. A drone could probably do that 5 times on a single charge, and swapping battery's is easy. Charge 2$ extra per beer and it's both rather profitable and for now a unique experience.
That is indeed a perfectly valid trade-off, and not one the grandparent was mentioning. One thing worth mentioning is that if you don't read those books, you will probably not get a job that involves reading those books, nor will you turn your job into something that involves reading those books and applying their content.

If you are a software engineer, you can pretty much use linear algebra, calculus, algorithms in your dayjob, right there! Even if you write CRUD apps or the xth tower defense on android. It's all bytes and numbers and numbers stored in bytes and asymptotic behaviour and relational algebra and type systems and transistors, it just depends on how deep you want to look.
None whatsoever --- there are lots. They work well, although engines are heavy, so they have to be big.

http://mydronelab.com/blog/gas-powered-quadcopter.html

I don't know whether they use direct coupling or motor-generators, though.

Model aircraft engines have a long and time-honoured history. My father was into them as a child in the 1950s (before radio --- you controlled them by swinging them round your head on wire harnesses!), and still has some of the engines. Beautiful, beautiful engineering; about the size of my thumb, which ran on some ghastly cocktail of exotic oils and volatile spirits.
It's probably not Netflix's fault though. I'd wager it's the media companies who own the rights to the movies.
Huh? If you have US billing, you can only watch the US catalog, and you need a US IP, right?

But that's fine with the OP, that's why he is using his friends broadband anyway. The US catalog is what you want.
this is the nerdiest thing I've heard in my life, haha
There is not much to discuss in a practical way here, because the fear of the incident related to Mercedes's statement is near totally superfluous.

Many are imagining a world similar to our own today, but with self-driving cars; this kind of effort and R&D is meant to be applied graceful over decades, which isn't what Mercedes is planning for today and shouldn't be contextualized within out current modernity.

What I believe is envisioned (obviously IMO) and why I feel this is a superfluous discussion is because in the world of self-driving cars of the Level 4 and up variety we are talking about beacon detection e.g. there are no pack of kids walking behind parked vans, because they all carry detectable devices such as laptops that always run Wifi, iPads, iPhones, etc. Everywhere they go these kids are detected and reacted in a world of Level 4+ cars. This is the same for pedestrians. Buses are also self-driving and all are communicating with each other in real-time and in fractions of a second.

A Mercedes car in this world didn't just discover a patch of ice on the road that went previously unnoticed. The previous 100+ cars that drove over it detected a level of decreased and decreasing level of traction (probably on a predictable curve I'd even assume) and communicated it to the network that coordinates cars, traffic, pedestrian signals. It's insane to think that in a world of Lidar systems, infrared, AI and so that these things will just 'happen' as they do today; that isn't realistic or even reasonable.

Ice? Oil spills, diesel spills, specs of glass, even a snot rocket from your local motorcycle gang are all detected immediately and compensated for with heat, humidity, tire traction quality deviation etc. It'll be just short of outright freaking amazing what this technology will eventually be able to do.

For me this is just fun conversation, but ultimately totally useless beyond the ethical dilemma (which is more of a Pandora box discussion than anything), because it just won't really exist in any material manner in the future. Like a chicken or the egg. ;)

Sorry haven't had a reason to use that word in a long long time; too much fun to pass on.
> raised £409,000 in July 2015, seed round investors include JamJar Investments (The Founders of Innocent), The Collective, The Founder of Treatwell/Wahanda, Force Over Mass Capital, Jim Mellon and Pi Capital.

So they burned through $500k in a year and did not have any traction. Not too surprising they had trouble raising more.
> I like the term "tracer-bullet."

The term is actually from the book Pragmatic Programmer (a good book, though I'd say mostly for beginner-to-intermediate programmers, since a lot of software blogs are essentially just repeating the contents of this book ad nauseam).

I tend to do that too - get something working fast, and iterate over it. Focusing on perfect abstractions makes no sense if then you find out you're aiming in the wrong direction.
Management and the union. That's what's really missing here.
you rather misunderstand my point. The thing that really outraged me is that the parent comment (which I read before reading the article) wrote:

>It's going to be a big stretch to call her a "protester".

which is absolutely outrageous phrasing, and it happened here, on HN, not in an article comment section or youtube comments, or in some backwater county courthouse somewhere. Right here, someone says, "it's going to be a big stretch to call her a 'protestor' " as though that were any kind of crime whatsoever.

Imagine if it had said nonchallantly, "It's going to be a BIG stretch to call her guilty of thinking. I checked her writing, looking through her blog and facebook, and I didn't find any contraband thoughts. If she's a criminal guilty of thinking then she's hiding it very well. To me, she seems like an actual journalists: she sat in the press conferences, wore her badge, quoted official soundbytes, and I hope got prior restraint approval from the corporations she was covering before she decided to go live with it. If they didn't like her viewpoint they should have expressed it at that point or simply asked her not to write her opinion - I'm sure she would have complied. She doesn't strike me as a criminal or thinker at all!"

I'm not exaggerating.

That's how bad it is to have someone here on HN write

>It's going to be a big stretch to call her a "protester".

It's really, really bad. We have to push back very hard against this idea here. There is absolutely nothing wrong about being a protestor. Having protestors is in a very, very real and direct sense the exact and arguably "only" thing that separates us from North Korea. (Which I just watched a documentary on.)

By the way, this is despite the fact that reading Democracy Now is like reading Chomsky or, for that matter, Trotsky. I don't read Democracy Now, I don't consider it particularly objective, and I don't agree with their political views.

Our country is literally, not in some metaphorical sense, founded on principles of freedom that this phrasing of calling someone a "protestor" or defending that oh no, they're not a protestor, not Amy! She's a good and loyal Citizen --- goes completely counter to.
So Caddy has been discussed a few times prior. My question is who is using this for production? (In other words, not for a personal or hobby site, but an actual product). Is anyone using it stand alone (no nginx or apache involved - CloudFlare is ok edit: or similar), sorry if it was asked in a previous discussion I want to know if anything has changed since.
Their data scientists will now be building features like "tried to watch a movie from a VPN IP" for their churn models.

And another note: there are also people who simply do not allow comcast to filter their traffic and therefore always have a VPN. These people despite their efforts to watch netflix content approved for their own country, would be blocked.
Well, I guess it's time to get better benchmarks. Because FF regularly beachballs for me on web apps Safari and Chrome don't even blink at.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the guidelines. We're happy to unban accounts if you email hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll post only civilly and substantively in the future.
I think that attitude is willfully naive. Nobody likes having to go to court, it often costs thousands of dollars in legal fees if you don't want to take a risk. The "Send them to court and they'll be vindicated if they're right" attitude doesn't excuse using selective or vindictive law enforcement. Do you think they're going to send every single protester to court, or just the one who got millions of views?

Also without any transparency into randomness of how judges and jurors are picked, and a absurdly large number of laws, there's definitely major room for bending the law to one's will.

One example of this, though not the worst abuse, is OJ's 2008 prosecution where he got 9-33 years, and his accomplice who brought the gun got probation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_robbery_case
BLIT: An Early Windowed Graphic Interface from Bell Labs – AT&T Archives (1982)
> but I guess that is what is meant by "modern software"

That's what is meant by "modern software" if you just read on-line blogs. On-line tends to focus around on-line (also, it's hipstery and hot, so it gets lots of attention).

That said, the article is rather general and definitely applies to desktop-app programming too.
I work a lot. I'm working right now (took a break to read HN). I just enjoy getting things done and it's paid off well for me. I've learned though that my ability to work many hours and my drive to do so doesn't mean I should enforce that on others, so I don't let my teammates know when I work outside of normal hours. I don't send emails at night or weekends. I don't send code reviews on nights and weekends. I try to stay invisible outside of normal work hours to avoid creating an environment where people feel like they must work as much as I do. I realize that also means it might look like I produce a lot more code during my 40~ hours, but I think that's better than the team receiving non-stop emails and code reviews from me.

I figured I'd work hard while I have any bit of youth and energy left and relax later in life.
Depends on the book.

Many of them I don't finish. Some because starting the book meant just sort of browsing around and they stayed that way. Some that I started and read sequentially until I didn't and then maybe I browse in it or maybe I don't. Some because the book's content gets beyond my knowledge or interests or both.

Of the technical books I finish, it depends on the book. Depth of content, my level of relevant knowledge and the length of the book all play a role.

The pace at which I tend to read technical books when I am committed to reading them (but perhaps not finishing them) tends to be about twenty or so pages a night most nights while I am in that mode. That might mean ten pages a night for a deeply technical book (or thirty if it is so deep I am skimming it). It rarely involves doing exercises though sometimes it involves reading them.

For full clarity, I don't really worry about what I miss or not getting 'everything' out of everything I read. A lot of books are over my head. A lot extend beyond my interests. Also, I'm not in a hurry because the more other things I learn, the more I will tend to get out of any particular book.
Tried that... I think by now, Netflix has banned pretty much all VPS providers, most likely as all the unblocking sites went from one to another
System design derives from mission and project design. The lander is a demonstrator for a future rover, they had (for this particular mission) no intention to manage and support a lander for a substantial period of time. They basically bolted a few science instruments that fit the weight and power budget on the frame – but they are in no means essential to the mission.
It's not about working hours but your value proposal. You can't compare yourself to him in hour to hour comparison unless you work some mundane job where your appreciation and productivity is only measured in terms of hours of work put in.

Since it seems like you want compete with this guy but not put in the hours (and I don't think you should) you need to work smarter. Look up some posts about value proposals and find a way to increase your value for the team. I.e. focus your efforts in increasing your output per worked hour.
A constitutional republic, not merely a republic.
How can they know all VPN? Can I setup a private VPN somewhere?
Art ? So there goes my day... anecdotic - Today there was a farmers- and thanksgivingmarket - much crafted stuff, not real far away and it was a sunny day, so... There is a saying: "You have to imagine Art to your power of judgement, equal standing next to a babbling baby." I won't sound offending, but is it "proffessional skill" - Yours...
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Short answer is "no".

Long answer is, actually these changes already happened quite a while ago.

Most of the time, we tend to forget IPv6 is in fact more or less 20 years old now.

Support for IPv6 in OSPF (OSPFv3) was introduced in 2008 and support for IPv6 in BGP was added in 2007 (MP-BGP).

AS numbers encoding was also changed in 2007 (32bits ASN) to support all those new connected system.
I see UFOs all the time; I should really learn more about ornithology.
Your statement isn't logical and the conclusion doesn't flow from the first statement. By the same token, every country has a history of officials doing things they shouldn't. So this case doesn't deserve attention.
Actually quad chopters don't scale very well. The reason they work so well as tiny drones is they are mechanically simple. No need to tilt the blades, just apply less power and almost instantly you get less lift on that side. However as you scale the drone it's blades need to get larger which causes more momentum which slows the response time. You can try and force the blades to slow down faster but the forces quickly get extreme, or change their tilt to generate less lift.

But, if your going with tilting blades just use a helicopter design which is mechanically simpler than 4 tilting blades.
Netflix is available worldwide, but content is different in each country. They're blocking vps providers.

You mentioned TORONTO. two problems : you don't know which country the exit node will be in, and the speed is horrible
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It's easy to be dismissive of this, especially by working from the popular Warren-Buffet-index-funds-beat-hedge-funds story that makes the rounds. It's true that most hedge funds and active traders lose money (or at least, underperform the market). But as I am fond of pointing out, there are a non-negligible number of funds and traders who consistently and demonstrably earn significantly stronger returns than the market benchmark, even net of fees.

I am skeptical of Numerai for different reasons. If someone can consistently churn out profitable and novel equity pricing insights, it would be more rational for them to work for a more well established hedge fund in quantitative research. Perhaps more importantly, I'm skeptical of how they judge accuracy in their participant-volunteered insights.
or create a wrapper function ...

function withLoadingIndicator(Wrapped) {
return function(props) {
if (props.loading) {
return (<LoadingIndicator />);
}
return (<Wrapped {...props} />);
}
}

// ...

export class PersonRenderer extends Component {
render() {
return <div>personcontent</div>
}
}

export default withLoadingIndicator(PersonRenderer);
> Take a moment and reflect on a moment you experienced deep, profound kindness so that we can be on theh same wavelength here.

OK. Focused. Right here with you.

> The progressive solutions you see today are the natural result of blossoming intent.

The progressive solutions I see today look like kindness and decency unmoored from any notion of efficiency. There's no concern for what actually advances the goals we purport to care about with kindness and decency. There's just actions that leave us feeling that we've seen the homeless as equal people and thought kind things about them and expressed this with large dollops of cash and social tolerance.

Given that this has been going on for decades, I harbor a seed of doubt that this blossoming intent is going to manifest as effective policy in the near future. I find myself thinking that warm fuzzies are great, but helping people is better.

> When a behavior is only _ostensibly_ kind -- like when I'm trying to shovel dirty people away under the guise of helping them -- at best I prolong the real problem, and at worst I get an atrocity.

Prolonging the problem, solving the problem, and causing atrocities are all things that can result from actions. They are things that can result from actions rooted in cruelty and from actions rooted in kindness alike. Mao starved millions of people while genuinely trying to help them.

Thank you for trying. You have helped me understand why SF's policies are so completely broken - they're created and executed by people whose only real measurement is purity of motivation and for whom actually helping people is largely irrelevant.
it nice being reminded how boring and simple my job is...
Couldn't I make thousands of fake accounts and submit thousands of slightly different models. Then after a while I could push one or two of my stocks higher in my models artificially. If you represented a large enough % of the "data scientists" in this hedge fund you could make it look like your stock is "definitely" work investment. After they invest in your company, you could take off to the hills.

Hell, you don't even need to be the owner of the company. This would be a great way to obtain large amounts of political sway/power. Like a company/want it to succeed for some agenda? Make it look better as an investment opportunity. Dislike a company? Well that stock is going to do horrible next quarter. It's also a self fulfilling prophesy.

For all of you finance people out there, is what I am saying impossible or stupid? I hope I'm wrong otherwise this is a horrible idea.
The browser demo does seem to be working, however it seems very slow? Beautiful interface though! One of the best I've seen yet.

What is going on underneath? Are you guys using WebSocket or WebRTC? The reason I ask is because I wrote an interactive coding tutorial for building a distributed chat app ( http://gun.js.org/converse.html ), and it uses WebSockets to communicate with a federated relay peer server. I'm hoping to add WebRTC support but I'm curious what you guys are doing. Like, IPFS doesn't have pub/sub support right? So did you add this?
I imagine he would want to use his friends account too.
Journalists are allowed to protect their sources

While that's the common perception, it's not clear at all: https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/can-a-journalist-be-force...
> She isn't really a reporter.

She is one of the very last true reporter in the US, not a blogger , sorry a "contributor" who just write for clicks about "sexism in video games" as the majority of "journalists" out there today. She literally risks her life to get to the bottom of a story.
IP blocks are reserved by specific companies, I guess whichever ones aren't considered to be owned by a standard ISP get blocked off.