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Well, XUL-based extensions are not scraped yet. They will, at some point in 2017, but we're not there yet.

The reason to scrape them is simple: the total API surface of XUL-based extensions is pretty much all of the internal APIs of Firefox, which means that any change anywhere in the code of Firefox breaks some extension accidentally. That's a compatibility burden that Mozilla could afford when the only competitor was IE, but it makes the development of Firefox much less nimble than that of Chrome & co. So a new, less invasive and more future-proof API is sorely needed.
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> *his words, not mine

Who's words?
Its pretty easy to identify politically motivated people who are affiliated with politicians.

For one, it's pretty obvious for a moderately discerning reader to identify talking points that come from a party and campaign. Second, most political activity is public record and you can get registration and contribution records for anyone. Dig a little deeper and you can figure out who the persons family does and where they work.

The fake news phenomena has nothing to do with all of that -- it's just pure propaganda. It's easy to identify, but 80% of the population isn't highly engaged (many people don't realize that clearly identified "sponsored posts" are paid content!) and has no idea... they are looking for infotainment.
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I can't tell if this is ironic or not.
Fight back against the white supremacists and neo-Nazis and racists and write nationalists, both in real life and online. You think they're ruining a website? They took control of the USA. The might take control of France. I can't imagine how tired you'll be of them after they've run the world into the ground.
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That is the Pattaya font on Dply, which itself is a version of Lobster, which was/is a very popular font for Logos and websites. You will be very busy if you accuse every project which uses Lobster to be a ripoff of Diply. What do you mean with "everything"? The use of the color blue?
> I could easily see ~alt-right~ fascist journalists donating $1 to many different left-wing parties to get a record of affiliation

Why? Anyone who cares enough to verify that will quickly see through it.
Surely the burden is on the extension developers and not Mozilla?
I absolutely love MOAI! Thank you for your work.

It is a really well designed engine. And it's community has a lot of talented people.

I'm deeply saddened that it appears to be dying. And that I don't have more time to work with it and contribute to it.
Your comment reminded me of this: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

There seems to be some nexus between claims of originality/authenticity and DRM.
> Now, people around the site are wondering what the repercussions of this will be.

They should make it harder for anyone other than the user to edit their comments. Maybe sign the messages and store the signature so a flag shows up if the signature doesn't match.

Or users themselves could sign their messages and put the signature as part of the message. Is there an add-on for this?
I have seen many weird ties and handkerchiefs... Why is it such a stretch to believe that there exists a design in which there is a map with either different famous pizza shops or a map with different regional pizza types on it? My boss had a tie with pizza on it years ago. Either he's a pedo or perhaps the more reasonable explanation is that it's just a stupid tie with pizza on it.
Also,

> a very specific hack, that required someone to have said "fuck /u/spez" to be changed

This is untrue. E.g. he edited https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ee6gs/announce... too. The post he was commenting on has before-and-after archives you can look at.
>"The power of statistics is to tell you when a model (the null hypothesis) is (most likely) inconsistent with the data so that you can confidently rule it out"

If you know whether your model is consistent with the data, you know whether it is inconsistent... I think you are talking about some other issue than I am.

The point about deducing the null hypothesis from your explanatory model is that the null hypothesis is precise. In that case you will get a strong test of the model, and it will get stronger as more data gets collected. Using a default null and and vague alternative is the exact opposite. (check the Meehl 1967 paper I linked earlier in this thread).
Assuming distributions that don't correspond to reality can also lead to a lot of muddled thinking.
The point is that in Ethereum's case, the extent of the problem is vastly underestimated by almost all of the participants. In most other cases, it is a risk that can be mitigated or accepted, but in Ethereum's case, it undermines the fundamental premise ('trustless' contracts.)
I hypothesize this is not so much about influencing US policy and action directly, or even about spying on assets, but more about mutually assured destruction for when a cyber war breaks out.

The state actors responsible for this want the US to know that they have these records. That they can attack/disturb/flood the personal computers, social networks, and family of these soldiers / military assets.

Also note the apparent warning in the Shadow Brokers auction:

> You see what cryptolockers and stuxnet can do. You see free files we give for free. You see attacks on banks and SWIFT in news. Maybe there is Equation Group version of cryptolocker+stuxnet for banks and financial systems? If Equation Group lose control of cyber weapons, who else lose or find cyber weapons? If electronic data go bye bye where leave Wealthy Elites? Maybe with dumb cattle?
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Eh, is this sarcasm?

NASA has outsourced things since the original Apollo program, massively.

NASA has never brought a single astronaut into space on a fully NASA-made rocket. Especially with parts like these, they're commonky outsourced.
That's a pretty cool service, I think I can use that for a github project of mine.

You should consider adding a "shutdown and delete" button to get rid of VMs when your users are done with them.
There's no forum where the people running it don't have trivially easy access to do what he did. The point is that he has clearly shown what kind of thing it takes to push him that far, and it's clearly not done trivially.

E: I'm trying to say, your perspective is off. Reddit is an internet humor place. Just because it's big enough to have a CEO doesn't mean it's suddenly run with all the seriousness and as tight as a bank.
Ctrl vs CMD, again.
I work with OwainX and he is having some issues with his HN account right now (he's blocked from commenting?).

He wants to make sure that everyone knows he's heard your suggestions and comments and is working on them.

An Expire Now option for free servers should be coming later today!
Github.com can't modify your commit records without modifying top level (observable) artifacts.
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Yes, the second edit backfired massively.

The reason pretty much all posts in the_donald are upvoted by users is due to the fact Clintons Correct the record was downvoting the_donald posts in hordes.

Again if Reddit would not have aligned themselves with one candidate named Clinton they probably wouldn't have this problem now.
In Haskell it's sometimes (often?) used for strict versions of functions e.g. foldl and foldl'.
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Pretty cool! Spun up a new server in like 30 seconds. I can see this being helpful for small POC's and the like.

I'd say a good next step would be to add some more user-data example scripts for common setups.

Awesome job!
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Would it be possible to add NixOS as an option?

I'd find that very useful for demonstrating it to people, which... okay, might not be why you're running this. Nowadays I'm handing out shell accounts to my own server, which is mostly fine, but misses out on some of the functionality.
I work with OwainX and he is having some issues with his HN account right now. He wanted to make sure that you know he heard your comment and an Expire Now option is coming for servers on the free plan later today!
Yeah the syntax is clearly Haskell, the semantics are more ML-ish.
Yeah, I didn't notice that you could change the OS when rebuilding a server. It should also let you edit the cloud-init script thing.
HN has a hide button. Click it and something's gone, no questions asked. That should be the standard.

FB has some hide buttons. Click it and up pops a menu. Click Hide Ad. Up pops a dialog asking Why don't you want to see this? Choose It's not relevant to me. This is followed by a Thanks dialog. And after it's hidden, it's not hidden. There's a grey box saying and asking You won't see ads like it. Undo?

FB also doesn't have some hide buttons. For suggested pages, I was getting a completely offensive German page. There was not way to hide it. And it showed up regularly. To be clear, I don't speak German and I really wasn't interested in what the page was purveying.

Their iPhone app is even worse.

If there's anyone from Facebook reading this, y'all are idiots.

Google News is pretty much the same. Frankly, everyone is pretty much the same.

I should be able to click hide or left swipe and it's gone. And no, I don't want to answer a quick five minute customer support questionnaire. Y'all don't like Ad Blockers? Well, I don't like not being in control of what's in my face.
So, will extensions like pentadactyl or Tree Style Tabs be able to exist after "some point in 2017"? Ignoring rewrite time etc., will there be APIs available to do what they do today?
In clojurescript we have RUM (another lib on top of react) where you can render your HMTL on the server (without using node, just on the JVM). It's also blazing fast and works very well.
1. Mr. Pence did not support "state-mandated" conversion therapy. There's a long way between giving funding to organizations that offer a service, to mandating that people partake in it.

2. I'm not convinced by the smears against Mr. Sessions. His record, which includes desegregating schools and prosecuting the case that led to the execution of a KKK member responsible for a hate crime, speaks more of him than some unsubstantiated allegations and a joke. The NAACP is way more than a civil rights organization. They are very political and do not have unanimous support even among blacks. His comments about the socioeconomic makeup of immigrants from the DR has nothing to do with race. It is actually a very valid point to be critical of low-skill immigration when the US has a tragic surplus of low-skill labor.

3. The accusations against Bannon are the most ridiculous of all. He's someone with a history of service to country. Many Jews, gays, blacks, and hispanics have all come out in his defense.
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Clinton conceded. She is not the one demanding an audit.
You'll really appreciate this research on the evolution of self-awareness and mirror neurons: https://www.edge.org/conversation/the-neurology-of-self-awar...
Agreed. I moved to Python form Perl 5 years ago because of Python. I feel I never know Python as well as I knew Perl, but I do know Django really well. But then the built in functionality means I rarely need to go too low level with my code.
This is great but a "destroy" button would be good.
> Democracy in action

For a weird definition of "democracy" where one person has 25% of the votes and the vote itself is badly/too quickly announced and organized to the point where almost no one votes. This doesn't even take into account the incredible amount of shitty actions or plain incompetence from the Ethereum Foundation guys at that time or since then.

A quick (tongue in cheek and quite partial in its tone, but also pretty accurate) recap of the events leading to the HF: https://medium.com/@WhalePanda/the-complete-story-of-ethereu...
Indeed it is terrible news: Poverty is rough.

To be precise, the law and regulations were appropriate decades ago, when it protected workers, but in its current form, oppressed them into long underpaid, non-livable, labor. In my view, the Obama administration change in regulation, now blocked, was restoring the original effects and outcomes of those laws and regulations, and probably as originally intended by those whom passed it.
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If you feel "I'm sorry" is too short, the only reason you can give, is the reasons why it was wrong what you did. As long as you don't leave out major important ones, it can strengthen the apology, showing sincereness and that you really understand.
I have to believe most people just don't think about issues beyond a surface level.
At least they are releasing new versions yet:

http://www.downthemall.net/downthemall-3-0-5/

“After a rather long long time, with many new things to address such as Australis, e10s, limited time we could spend on the project, a little lack of motivation after mozilla required mostly pointless signatures and announced to kill XUL add-ons…” - Nils, September 2016
The MSM is butt hurt they don't control the narrative anymore. The last election proved that. They are scared. Their current strategy is to label their call for censorship as limiting the reach of fake news. Of course everything not in line with whatever narrative they control is fake news. They find some real fake news and attempt to blur the lines in people's heads by associating real fake news with anything not MSM.
None of those things happened in a free market
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Great news!!. Hope other cities like Chicago learn from this and start enforcing it.
Apparently you talk about a thing different from what everybody else in this
thread call a "freelancer".
Ok, so would an algorithm that uses genetic programming have a consciousness like we do? Would it be capable of feeling pain?

This is what I'm interested in, but what the theory presented here fails to explain.
32 to 64 GB of RAM and up to 9TB disks sounds pretty great... But out of curiosity, when would you ever need that much on the go?
I certainly was not arguing that. I mean that the judge fucked Christmas up for a bunch of poor folk by blocking a well deserved change in regulation that no longer served its original intent in protecting laborers.
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> everything else is 50k jobs paying 28k via a recruitment

I have no idea how that even works. Every time I got a job from a recruiter in the UK I got 100% of the month. Recruiters get paid on top of what you get paid, not you paying them.
People could've kept using a continuation of the old chain without breaking anything. In fact, some did - see Ethereum Classic. People decided to use the forked Ethereum because they believed it was the correct choice, not because someone made them.
Ugh, I should have double-checked that neither glyph has a pre-composed code point. I switched the example to 'x́q'. (Writing it as 'g\u0301p' would also work.)
I tried it using Google play books, and also FBreader. The specific table depends on the screen size, font, orientation, etc. In my case, it was one of the tables in the preface, when viewing portrait mode on my phone. When bringing it up on my tablet, the same effect could be seen on any other table that happens to start at the end of the page.
I can agree, at least regarding immaterial identity politics. "He said, she said on Twitter" needs to be thrown violently from our politics. "She couldn't get housing because the landlords are redlining black people" is a real, material problem that must be addressed, as is the displacement of whole communities by urban governments who refuse to build new housing for transplants to live in.
Perhaps more expensive to cool? I wonder if large office buildings have to be cooled year round.
Let's assume for a moment that "conspiracies flourish on the right" is true. If so, I'd have to say that must only be true in parts of America. I have met lots of people with both right and left wing views outside of the USA (some of whom were also Americans), and didn't see any obvious correlation between political viewpoint and conspiracy theories. If anything I'd say there was a slight left wing slant if we include very generic conspiracy theories like "the banks and big corporations are trying to undermine us all".

If it is true then I would guess the reason is the relative lack of conservative media in America vs say the UK. In the UK if you want to get viewpoints from the extreme left and right just pick up the Guardian and the Express and read both. In the USA it seems harder. Are there any mainstream conservative-leaning newspapers? Whenever I see the term "conservative media" used in America it always means Fox News which is only a TV channel. Breitbart seems to be tapping into that market segment but again, it's not a newspaper.

If you have right wing views and have figured out that there aren't any media outlets that subscribe to your worldview, I can see that this would very easily look like a generic conspiracy and that in turn would breed receptivity to fake right-wing news simply because there are so few places with good reputation where such news is likely to be covered.
Give a hint of the company then
Of course Zuckerberg wants to bow to Chinese censorship
I think this is a task for a very simple shell script.
There's a bit of cognitive dissonance in this view, i don't think its funny from the point of view of the commenter.

Imagine that happened if the political viewpoint of the commenter aligned with something you were not against? Or what if there are edits that Spez isn't mentioning that are more intrusive than what he's admitted to? A commenters own text isn't his own.. It's a slippery slope.
Bad PR is still PR.
This is a talk that I personally enjoyed about this https://youtu.be/NPtAIVieh4k?t=8m5s (Dileep George, from Vicarious)
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You're saying that if someone you disagreed with changed your words of protest, it'd be all cool and good?
You're not very good at moderating things if you need shadowbans.

>It's asymmetric warfare; moderating a single troll costs about ten times the effort that troll puts in, and it scales geometrically from there.

This really makes no sense.

Moderators are always in the advantageous position.
First, on the FAQ's section "How do I connect to the ssh service on my server?" is a typo:
> An ssh-key is required to connnect to your server.

Second, any plan other login/signup methods?

Cool idea, I'll play with it.
Ah Great!. so they created 230K jobs between 2010-2015. but: there was a ~200K jobs loss during the 2008 recession. So only 30K additional jobs between say 2010-2015.

How do robots enter the picture ? Hard to tell from the data.
I'm grateful that I have running clean water on tap that I can drink from or wash from, that goes hot or cold on command and doesn't run out.
I found this to very shady.
He claimed that he first started with the fake news to:
"then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction"

But then why didn't he stop when that didn't work? I would guess that it's just a way to try to rationalize his shady business to himself.
hehe thanks :) i didn't know that was a problem for beginning websites

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> is pretty much all of the internal APIs of Firefox,

But that's also what makes them more powerful than any other extension API.

If your box is airtight then there is no out-of-the-box thinking.

An almost trivial example: Internal APIs can inspect the current (as-enforced) sandboxing flags of an iframe. Which is not the same as the sandboxing HTML attributes on the frame, because those can be changed without effect after loading and also due to inheritance of sandboxing effects.

This tiny tiny tidbit is useful when making content-filtering decisions.

And it is just one among countless others.
Surely the left wing equivalent of talk radio is the newspapers?
I didn't like the idea of permanently losing 1 of the only 2 usb ports, although when connecting android tethering I lost one still. I wanted a solution that would allow me to have internet and also be able to connect a mouse and a usb drive.
Oh, absolutely. I'm still an interested watcher/user of ETC. And indeed, people "voted" in the end with their mining power (which is why the original chain hasn't disappeared).

I just believe that their actions basically destroyed any future that ETH (and likely ETC too) might've had - it's dead; if the initial hard fork wasn't enough to remove all credibility in the project, the circus since then (subsequent forks, attacks, incredibly mismanaged communication...) certainly is.
Amazon has a "free tier" for a microinstance. You need a cc to make an account,though.
> A lot of us here have questions about voting machines, people voting who shouldn't, etc.

I thought only Republicans keep continuing the fairy tale of non-citizens voting, which they then use to justify voter suppression of poor people and minorities; which is the actual question this election.
> The topic of debate is around do YOU a presumed reddit user want to continue to support such a site.

Yes. Absolutely.
> He spent a bunch of campaign funds by buying from his own businesses.

Is that illegal?
Never got to try how much this Macbook did in macOS (I bought it used just to tinker with Linux/FreeBSD, but the time I used it, battery on FreeBSD was on par with Linux, if not slightly better.
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You can consult https://www.arewee10syet.com/ ; seems authors are mostly showing some efforts to migrate their extensions. CTR: seems OK, uBlock: uBockO: seems OK, DTA: bug, but at least tries to be e10s compatible, Mardown here: unknown (supposedly not compatible?)

You can try yourself: either install https://nightly.mozilla.org/ and load it with your addons (it uses different profile) or use your stable one and look at about:support page for "Multiprocess Windows" cell if it states 1/1 and does not mention "(Disabled by add-ons)" you are covered. You can try some about:config alterations [0] to force it if you are adventurous. In this case, it might be nice to install "Add-on Compatibility Reporter" [1] for tracking and sharing your findings.

[0] http://superuser.com/questions/1096974/how-to-check-if-multi...
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...
Reddit never had credibility to lose. Reddit is a link aggregator with comments, not NPR.
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Gitlab is the first real competitor that make me really thinking in a migration, i just have to convince everybody here in my company.
This is because typewriters are so much less messy. They require nothing but some space on a desk. People,big only For sleeping, need some privacy.
Very nice project, a lot of times I wished there was something to start a server for a quick ssh/ping/traceroute/debug from outside my network.

Well done!

A few security aspects that I've noticed so far:

- calling the action(s) with an id that doesn't exist will show a pretty useful stacktrace, it should probably be disabled for production

- calling the action(s) with ids close to my server, I can do things to other people's servers (presumably, I didn't confirm the action for any of those, but I can at a minimum see what others have named their servers)

Not trying to be abusive, I just want to make sure we find the security bugs before the bad guys do, because I really like what you've built here.