skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
|Why is everybody driving in random lanes?

Because that's closer to how humans drive. As infuriating as it is, midwest-USA traffic follows almost no rules about what the left lanes are for.
Thank you for elaborating!
Does HBP run in your family. I'm 30 and have both HBP and Mixed Episode Bi-polar disorder. I've been told by my docs that they both are usually influenced by genetic conditions. Half the time the doctors disagree on what numbers actually represent high blood pressure. I had one lecture me about putting stress on my organs and that I needed to be on meds now to another saying it's not even bad enough to treat. I opted to try to meds and they seem to work so far.
Since tools like Siri grow more useful as the crowd feeds the cloud and Siri learns from the masses, I wonder if that too will happen with Amazon. Will its speech recognition service evolve to reflect what the service itself has learned from its many clients? Will the service indeed have the same capabilities of Alexa or will Amazon reserve the best part of the technology for itself?
In that case the plain text link would be just as trackable.
I very much agree. While the new font itself would be progress in my opinion, the play with :// just seems forced and out of place to me. It also somehow doesn't feel very future proof.
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How have I not known about this before!? Sluggish Firefox performance with uBlock has been annoying me for ages and the horrible ads on Chrome are unbearable. Brave has just become my new browser on Android.
It's OK to say "These all suck" rather than choosing the least crappy option.

I've been using Firefox since it's inception and the Communicator Suite before that. To me this just screams out as a plea for attention to the younger generations.

This is like some weird episode of Saved By The Bell where Mr Belding puts on jeans and a ball cap to try and fit in with Zach and Slater.
You can use aria2c on the command line to generate the torrent file from the magnet link, so it's just as easy, only a little slower.
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Isn't that basically Gitless? (http://gitless.com/)
> Trying to control other people's actions is a recipe for failure.

Trying to control other people’s actions is called a law.
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It's interesting that you mention this here, as it seems to me that the Firefox and Mozilla brands do in fact try to appeal to different groups of people. I believe the Firefox brand caters for [a] while the Mozilla brand seems like a better fit for [c]. [b] seems to be somewhere in the middle...?
I think it depends on how it's handled. If the CEO fosters an open environment where employees can put forward contrarian views but everyone respects that the final decision ultimately rests with her (including saying "no") then in my experience the company will be one with high morale which in turn generates success. The alternative is a CEO who views objections as disrespectful and gets rid of any "disruptive" people. I've experienced both scenarios, and the second is never anything but a disaster that leads to high turnover and the best employees leaving for roles where they are actually valued.
Not the same as the rumbling sound, but doing some sort of opening in the ear internally does give some wicked bass. I do that when in the shower as opposed to singing.
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Dangerous and harmful to the US government?
Yeah the whois thing should be done ASAP before you start to take on more users.
That is not Unix. Unix is small, composable, correct and 80% of what you need (you write the rest). It doesn't mean 20% of quality was sacrificed.
The millions they are getting from Google are probably spent mostly on salaries, since developers are expensive and it takes big teams to build products like Firefox and do marketing for it. Saying that they "burn through millions" is mean spirited, since that's the cost of doing business in this industry. Plus they've earned those millions, so it's theirs to burn.

They also can't stand still, so they invest in experiments and R&D, much like how companies are doing. Most of those experiments are failures naturally, so they tried Firefox OS and failed, they tried Persona and failed, but that's what experimenting is, HN readers should understand that and without burning some money on that, you'll never build those projects that make a difference.

Reading your message again, I don't understand what's your problem with Mozilla. And why is Mozilla under so much pressure on HN, whereas companies such as Apple and Google are getting a free pass on how they spend their money and on moral issues? Is it because they are a non-profit? That's the only explanation that's reasonable for what is in my eyes a huge double standard.

> Alternatively, ditch "Mozilla" and "Foundation", and rebrand as just "Firefox". Everybody loves Firefox.

Except that Firefox per se isn't why I love supporting them. I'm supporting Mozilla because of their values and I use Firefox as my main browser because I trust Mozilla to protect my interests more than I trust others, not because Firefox is technically the best, because saying that at this point wouldn't be true.
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If we're allowing javascript, then you might as well use links. It would be just as easy to check for selected text to find out what the user copied from the page.
That looks good. Thanks for the tip.
That's a hybrid WiMax/LTE network. I'm not saying WiMAX didn't work at all, but that it was massively over-hyped. Where it has been got to do useful work, it's mainly as a complementary technology to other wireless networks.
I think he means to highlight that a single newspaper advert was the entirety of Mozilla's marketing at that time and the product was revolutionary.
Yes, I experience that when stopping a loudish song when wearing headphones. Who would have thought that sudden silence would cause an uncomfortable reaction.
They also can't stand still, so they invest in experiments and R&D, much like how companies are doing. Most of those experiments are failures naturally, so they tried Firefox OS and failed, they tried Persona and failed, but that's what experimenting is and without burning some money on that, you'll never build those projects that make a difference.

There is a reason those failed (lack of focus or any long-term plans are one).

Reading your message again, I don't understand what's your problem with Mozilla. And why is Mozilla under so much pressure on HN, whereas companies such as Apple and Google are getting a free pass? Is it because they are a non-profit

Have we been reading the same HN?

I think people are critical of Mozilla because they are one of the few groups trying to build an open web and their constant back and forth and closing down projects has had some real effects on progress.

Also, the firing of Eich for political views will always be controversial.
The "skeptical" angle fits the organization (and some part of its users) well, IMHO.
Are there white papers on some of the algorithms they're using? For example, they mention getting a face similarity score, but there are quite a few ways that could be done.

The idea of lowering the bar for rolling out these kinds of tasks seems great, but I'd miss being able to think about the underlying models.
Are there white papers on some of the algorithms they're using? For example, they mention getting a face similarity score, but there are quite a few ways that's often done.

The idea of lowering the bar for rolling out these kinds of tasks seems great, but I'd miss being able to think about the underlying models.
Show HN: OctopusNote – Keep documents and reference text in the mindmap
Presumably if you select and copy from a page's source view (eg via Inspect in FF) then you'd overcome tracking of specific interactions?

Or if you just block scripts.
The problem with machine learning software often isn't a lack of openly available algorithms. Those are well-researched and well-documented.

The problem in most cases is a lack of openly available training data. No open source library helps you with that. It's the data itself that needs to be open-sourced. Companies like Google and Amazon naturally have a huge amount of relevant data but they aren't exactly eager to share that data with the world (which by the way would have huge privacy implications as well).
>specialized in underserved areas

Arguably WiMAX did useful work in Africa where it's long range was a particular advantage and it was better able to address the relatively low subscriber density. It filled a gap before being supplanted by more capable LTE networks.
The original is objectively better.

There’s a lesson in here somewhere on why you shouldn’t make design decisions a public matter.
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OctopusNote developer here.

I am trying to spark some innovation in the information organization field.

Most organizational tools are only ok when working with little information. When your notes database grows up, more and more problems emerge: difficult to navigate and efficiently use that much information.

One thing that could help when working with many documents (or notes) is a text referencing in a mindmap.

At OctopusNote I am experimenting with various techniques to find the right mix of features that could improve human's information processing capabilities.

OctopusNote now has a strong technical base and can be easily transformed to various note taking or mindmapping tools based on modern web technologies.

For example:

has a reliable almost-real-time conflict-free sync

has a high performance mind-map engine that can render and navigate tens of thousands of branches without any lag

has a full text search that can search in parent > child relations (for the mindmap part)

has a really convenient document search with tag filter, full text search and instant search

can extract web articles

etc.

There is a possibility I will open source it, if I will find a sustainable business model.

Now imagine what would be a perfect information organization tool that would let you keep, navigate and most importantly use that information efficiently?

Just one condition: the tool must be efficient with thousands of notes.
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He used the tools in the right way, and it was no small feat that should be dismissed that easily. Just a quick summary:

1) Give consumers what they want instead of what you think they want.

2) He used tools as intended. Instead of wasting time implementing Erlang trying to achieve the best messaging platform ever, he went with something that was popular and was easy to understand for everybody at the time, which was PHP. Then went on to improve the system as they needed with HHVM, React, React Native, etc.

3) As much as somebody can hate Facebook for being a social network/privacy leech, which is something a lot of programmers dismiss precisely because of the social part, just the fact they popularized React as one of the defacto front-end frameworks speaks volumes about how they can push real innovation for everybody else.

4) And even simple stuff like sharing pictures. I still remember vividly how awkward was to share pictures before Facebook. Sure, I think Flickr or similar stuff was there already, but nobody is going to keep clicking on your gallery so they can see how an amazing photographer you are. Sometimes the greatest innovation is in the simplest things, and if you ask me, this was THE feature they brought to the table.
That's interesting, if only because it let me know that Digital Ocean provide DNS-hosting - for free - which they introduced a few years ago:

https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/digitalocean-labs-...

I had no idea, but if it is free (and more reliable than their virtual machine hosting) it might be worth looking at in the future.
Every mail client I've used, including webmail, has blocked external images by default for at least the last decade.
Well what kind of things do you expect to hear about the corp/foundation itself? If you exclude info about their projects, then it seems almost tautological you're going to hear self referential stuff!

I've heard Mozilla's "politics" are very much different to what I prefer, but whatever. It doesn't leak into the end products. As long as they keep producing a browser that prevents Google Browser from taking over, they're a force of good. And Rust is amazing and probably life-changing for me, so that's two massive positive things they do.

As far as the logo, that "retro" dinosaur looked a bit outdated. I fully support them "burning" millions on branding if it means more people use Firefox. I use FF for "freedom" but that's a tough sell. Even technically inclined people I know use Chrome and don't wanna change because of freedom.

My only request would be for them to throw more weight behind Rust. The community and tech is amazing. But getting buy-in from clients to use Rust might benefit from knowing there's a "company" behind it. Maybe.
Shorting BTC on a BTC exchange involves more counterparty risk than I want to take on. (Folks have asked this before; see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6894594 )

My current best option is hoping that a) the Winklevoss ETF gets approved and b) an option chain develops for it, in which case I will buy puts consistent with my belief that the long-term FMV for the ETF's assets is zero. (Exchange-traded options in the US are guaranteed by the Options Clearinghouse Corporation, which is why -- absent global calamity -- you can be very certain that e.g. puts on Google are worth money even if Google goes out of business or the people who sold you the puts are insolvent when their broker hands them an exercise notice.)

There is theoretically a DRW subsidiary which does over-the-counter options but they have a $25k minimum trade size. It would also require a lot of due diligence for me with regards to counterparty risk; it's not clear whether their options would reliably compel performance or that they would be in a position to backstop the failure of their clients in the event of total systemic collapse of the Bitcoin markets. It's also not clear to what extent that DRW would backstop them if they were insufficiently capitalized. (For an illustration of why this matters, read The Big Short, for the amount of heartburn that various folks betting against the housing market went through when it became obvious that they were entirely right on the merits but that some of their counterparties were almost certainly going to go bankrupt due to how wrong they had been about the housing market.)

(I've spent way too much time thinking about this, since "Bitcoin will eventually fail catastrophically" is the biggest answer to "A belief about the future state of the world which I hold strongly after reflection and which doesn't match the beliefs of some of the smartest people I know", which sets off my "Either I'm wrong or I should be betting against them" antennae.)
I really like this redesign it's clever and interesting; it looks more modern to my eye and makes me realise that Moz://a are all about the web. It presents several ways in which the logo can be shortened and I had to go to the Mozilla site to look up what the old logo was. I'll remember this new one instantly.

The way of thinking in your comment is really common... let's look backwards, never modernise or improve things. Never make a considerably better Macbook Pro (in terms of design anyway), BBC website (thousands of users says every redesign is terrible and they want this back: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4832892.stm) or logo identity (I still rate the 2012 olympics logo - https://www.fastcodesign.com/1670429/the-surprisingly-smart-...). Let's keep everything the same or look backwards to see how we should move forward.

I know lots of people doing interesting things at Mozilla and I have no idea why they get such a bad rap; the worst thing they have done is shutting down Persona IMO.
A great many practical ML systems actually delivering business value are just scaled linear and logistic regressions (if not custom coded rules!)
You might want to move to some other tld. nic.in has some absurd rules. dnssec and whoisguard are not allowed with it, for example.
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:) so cool.
Isn't closing down projects (that don't seem to be succeeding and are taking resources) exactly evidence of focus?

Eich wasn't fired. He quit because he felt Mozilla was put under too much pressure because of him. Ironic you should remark that given the point of the post you're replying to: he quit exactly because of the reason you are using as justification.

I wonder what will happen when it leaks out the new CEO voted for Trump/Hillary.
ah good old 4chan, that explains your disposition and social skills.
It's like languages in computer science, there's no "one fits all" in terms of office space organization. Some prefer open-office setups, some prefer being quiet in a private space. I actually like a mix of both. Or event of four types of workplaces: from home (no commute, no money spent on food, my vinyl record player), from an open-space (open connection with people you know), from a coffeeshop (connection with people you don't know) or from a private meeting room (private connection with people you know). We need a mix of all of those, and managers need to trust people: they know best where to work to be the most productive.
He went to Hong Kong. In parent we can see you conveniently call that China, but that isn't the same.

Besides, we have his word, and two (or three) witnesses who saw him destroy the content of the SD card.
Write your own. Someone making good money isn't going to open source their program. Finance is all about money.
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> The problem with the "pay for quality article regardless of where they come from" theory is that you don't know what "quality" is until you have already consumed it.

If you read my comment above, that's basically what I'm saying. You are delegating your quality judgment to Blendle, so you are not paying for quality articles "regardless of where they come from". You are paying for quality articles that Blendle sent you. You know it's worth your time to go through the list because you trust Blendle's reputation.
Sure we would, it would just take longer. A thousand years instead of 50. But just like we still use bridges and roads thousands of years old today, our distant descendents would still be using the exact foundations of what we produce now.
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> That's latency, not correctness.

That's "eventual consistency" in replication
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This is terrible. Whoever "That One Privacy Guy" is, should really consider not being a dick and stop pushing VPNs as a privacy tool.

And yes, you're a dick if you even kind-of imply that VPNs might be good for privacy without immediately providing a strong disclaimer: if it matters, they aren't.

Edit: Oh wow, it's worse than I expected. Check out https://thatoneprivacysite.net/choosing-the-best-vpn-for-you...

The vast majority of the recommendations here have absolutely no connection with reality.

This entire website is bullshit, here's a few quick quotes.

>a. More on Trust

>As a lawyer represents your legal interests, a VPN service (among others) represents your privacy interests.

>c. Jurisdiction
>In the last few years, certain revelations have been made manifest regarding the mass surveillance programs of various countries around the globe. These countries are known as the five, nine, and fourteen eyes. These countries not only spy on their own citizens where they can get away with it, but they spy on each others, and swap notes to bypass governmental restrictions on power. If a service, or the people who run a service is based in one of these countries, it’s not unreasonable to expect that they may be susceptible to unlawful searches and compromises made in the name of national security

Suggesting that NSA & Co. don't spy outside of FVEY (or fourteen eyes if that's what you prefer) countries is utterly ridiculous at it's face and just makes it look like the author hasn't studied this stuff at all.

Instead of blogging about mass surveillance and unlawful searches, maybe focus on the more realistic issues like search and wiretap warrants which are ridiculously easy to get in some countries?
Notice how they make it difficult and painful to file DMCA complaints:

https://www.skytorrents.in/dmca

Genius.
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> this is not science;

Didn't the war on drugs didn't put a damper on this? Although they seem to be finding medical uses MDMA now. I just wonder how many things we could be benefiting from that have been shelved because of prohibition.

I use light therapy in the winter. It feels like it at least helps wake me up on those days when the midwest skies are nothing but grey. I don't know if there is any science behind it. I sit out side as much as I can the 3-6 months that it's decent out.
Chef cannot rollback. Chef is mainly for deployment but I think screwdriver focuses on CI. CD is not his business.
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If employees aren't happy they are more likely to leave. That's a more measurable cost and problem open offices have.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13419444
Being able to write good and cool code is nice. Though there is more then coding skills to be a nice person to work with.

Wild (personal opinion, though many corporate would see the same https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/125894?v=3&s=360), erratic(see post and his GitHub history) communication; You can be the fanciest rocket science software coder, but i'm not surprised he has an employment issue. (do not read this as, i think its correct he has an employment issue)
To be honest I'm not even sure what the point of the video is. There's a lack of context since Mozilla hasn't even announced the new logo yet in written form -- we can expect a blog post later today.

I perceived the video as a semi-official summary from the design team showing off their work, rather than as a Mozilla commercial.
I am currently in your same situation, and I have to agree that this change in behaviour was needed in order to integrate with the scandinavian mindset.
I don't think it's that simple. Which developer wants to build a reliable, realtime database?
I remember the individual products like Lex, Polly, and Rekognition being discussed on HN after they were announced. However, these were individual threads, not about this page.

There are a number of duplicates as well.

Lex: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072813

Polly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072944

Rekognition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072956
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That's a word substitution that doesn't make sense in and of itself.

The 'misuse' of "begs the question" has a meaning that logically follows from the words.
Just tell him it is annoying, half-jokes work wonders for this kind of stuff: hey, you should watch out for this guy, he will drive you insane with his headphone assault, as if he was testing a mic or something.

I worked with this great guy once but he had this tendency to fart from time to time, until during lunch with the team, I just said, jesus, I'm going to install a fart detector under every chair to see who is the sucker farting all the time and then just call him out loudly. Not going to say that it worked 100% but, it was like a 90% improvement, plus we all had a big laugh every time we hit the topic.