skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would anyone actually prove something like this, short of getting Twitter to admit it? What he has seen is:

> my tweets only go out to a subset of my followers. The rest don’t know I tweeted. My followers tell me this is the case. They have to visit my timeline to see my tweets.

What other proof could anyone realistically provide?
Privilege is king.
Accidental orders could be what they're going for on purpose here. They'll bite the cost of refunds (customers get to keep the product), leaving only the memory of how easy it was to order.

Is parasitic marketing a term?
> The trouble with Firefox chasing Google Chrome compatibility is that, once they get there, Google will probably change something so some Google service is essential to an add-on.

I'd be more concerned that, once they get to Chrome compatibility, they've simply sacrificed one of the key things that differentiates them from Chrome. Firefox's die-hard adherents use extensions heavily, and many of the most popular, particularly those that are on Firefox and not elsewhere, depend on the old XUL layer or other APIs that have no replacement.

I don't think users are going to see it as a great improvement that they have access to Chrome extensions they didn't want in the first place. Instead they're going to focus on the fact that they're losing the functionality that's been keeping them using Firefox.

I don't think you'll need Google to act maliciously or really do anything at all to have this end poorly for Mozilla.
I don't really see a problem with that. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only moving parts in higher end laptops are fans. Nothing will break, so why not?

I mean, it's annoying to do I guess, and requires hardware to detect shaking, but it's not terrible.
He actually adresses this point:

> Realistically, can I quit Twitter and be a successful media personality without it? Not in today’s world. The only way I could make that work is by having a huge presence on Facebook or Instagram.
Popularity of StartPage.com and DuckDuckGo sign of consumer concern about privacy
Illustrated algorithms
I cannot continue working on my add-ons anymore
Just get a touchscreen already. Then you can draw like on every other device you currently own.
> ‘They started asking people, “how much stress have you experienced in the last year?”’ The doctors also probed whether participants believed that stress was bad for their health – and then looked at the records to see who died. ‘People who experienced a lot of stress in the previous year had a 43 per cent increased risk of dying. But,’ McGonigal continues, ‘that was ONLY true for the people who also believed stress was also harmful for your health. People who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful were no more likely to die – in fact, they had the lowest risk of dying of anyone in the study, including people who had very little stress.’

I'm not sure the causation goes in that direction. Couldn't it also be that those who take damage from stress feel that stress is bad for them, and those who aren't affected by stress negatively feel that it's good for them? To throw a silly example... Vampires believe that sun is harmful, humans believe a bit of sun is good for them. But believing won't make a difference for the vampire.
What is even more baffling is how they can possibly employee 80,000 people. With that many people you think it would be possible to actually update their products regularly, and make the updates compelling.

Apple is floating on the surface, and bloating like a dead whale. They have no vision what so ever, and if they do, it's process engineered out of the company. Their previously outstanding product engineering is even falling down. Unless Mr. Cook is able to find or trust a visionary the company will continue to downward spiral.

There is a fine line between a vision and a hallucination, and Apple is hallucinating right now.
This is an interesting question. I'm not a neuroscientist or anything, but I'd wonder how this question relates with brain waves, as well. I guess there's research into how these signals cause integration within the brain http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v2/n4/full/nrn0401_229a.ht... - I guess I'll check back here in a couple hours and hope somebody's chimed in.
Last year I watched Dr. Gazzaniga's 2009 Scotland lecture series on Youtube. I noticed an inconsistency that bothered me enough to email him, but never got a reply.

In his third Edinburgh video lecture[1], he shows two videos featuring patient J.W.

In the second video, the test flashes RED and BANANA to his left and right hemispheres, respectively, and J.W. is asked to draw what he sees. He then proceeds to pick up the red pen with his left hand. But, the hand's controlling hemisphere only saw BANANA. How did it decide to pick up the red pen?

Similarly, in the first video, the words MUSIC (L) and BELL (R) are flashed. He's asked to point to a picture of what he saw and he uses his right hand to point to BELL, but its controlling hemisphere only saw MUSIC.

[1] https://youtu.be/mJKloz2vwlc?t=1113
high on the front page already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13503107
That's what trials are for. The trial system is deeply imperfect, but investigating someone with a view to putting them on trial is not inherently untoward. You seem to be arguing that a trial should precede an investigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBInet
Heh. Funny that I just updated to Firefox Developer Edition 53 and now Tree Style Tab (one of the addons that will go when XUL stuff does) has severe theming issues and weird flickers.

It'd be nice if a mod could change the title to "I cannot continue working on my Firefox add-ons"
Shoes.com shuts down
>" Coming from a C++/Objc/Go background I was used to creating an object on the heap and holding a reference counted/garbage collected pointer to the object wherever it was used. This is shared ownership of state, a style of coding Rust considers to be so egregious that it is a compile error."

Is the idea that because anyone else can come along and make reference to the same object on the heap mean "shared" in this context? If so would the opposite of "shared" be "owned" or "owned exclusively"? Is this what borrow checker is "checking" then?
It's not entirely off base. A few Buddhist monks have indeed taken their practice to exactly that extreme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu
"Might his lower Twitter engagement have something to do with people getting sick of hearing from him about Trump?"

Do you really think the attention he gets on Twitter DROPPED because of him talking about Trump?
Buses are what’s next in transportation
I totally agree. For me, weight training is about learning to sit with extreme discomfort and push through it. I think it's easier to deal with bad feelings if you look at them vs try to block them out. Training is practice for that.
Or you could have a touchscreen and launch an application to do the all the things you want. Plus other things!
The newer version is called visallo. https://github.com/v5analytics/visallo. same people different company/platform
not op, but this is essentially what SEO boils down to. More links to your site from legitimate sites with high page rank push your site up the natural listings.

It doesn't matter how 'pure' a site is, you can still buy a link, it just costs more.

It's all about looking at how the algorithm works, then gaming it. Tinker with Twitter and facebook, spend some money, keep the results secret. Sell this information. Do what works to your clients.

Bot nets work. For now. Does Twitter want to kill them? Maybe not, active accounts is a big number that they love to tell people.
Facebook from beyond the grave
I feel like, if you mean "if" say "if". As opposed to doing a little dance that has the effect of "if true do this, otherwise do that".
I really like this website and I was quite surprised to discover you're from Kraków :) (dobra robota!)
Have you considered showing job offers from nofluffjobs?
Majority of 80,000 come from Apple retail stores.
Per Warc:

A survey of 2,500 consumers by IDC looked at key areas of privacy concern for consumers across four vertical industries (Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, and Government). This found that 84% of respondents were concerned about the security of their personally identifiable information, and seven in ten are more worried today than they were two years ago.

One possible sign of change is the growing popularity of privacy-focused search engines like DuckDuckGo and StartPage.com, Google alternatives that promise not to track their users.
Same here, if tree style tabs stop working then I'm off to Vivaldi.
I thought they started requiring identification to buy those at least 5 years ago.
It's just incredible that they're going to do away with XUL. Imagine if Google somehow decided to remove all the Android apps in the Play Store and told everybody to rewrite their apps or die. And what's even worse, most addon writers don't even receive money for that.

This is going to kill the addon community but I guess they don't care at all.
You can set vendor ID, product ID, product string, serial string, release version, and max power requested. "Manufacturer string" is set to "Silicon Labs". After doing that, you can lock the device against further changes, if you want. This is all done via SiLabs "Simplicity Studio", which is a big IDE for their microcontrollers into which they wrapped up some of the device-specific tools for their simpler devices.

Thus, you can force the host machine to demand a device-specific driver if you need to. By default, it appears to the OS as a USB to serial port device.
Linux and Windows recognize it as such, without special drivers. Linux mounts it starting at /dev/usb0; Windows mounts it starting at COM3.

No bit-banging, though; it doesn't have the hardware.
http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/p/my-sandbox.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12880792
It seems like you'd have to pick up your laptop gingerly, no?
It would be cool to generate these using Vega (https://vega.github.io/vega/) and embed them directly on Wikipedia (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo).
I'm not sure who's down voting this, but feel free to provide, you know, ACTUAL feedback. I own one, I can attest to it. I currently own two macbooks as well and am extremely familiar with their trackpads.
exactly, why not just a sheet of plastic the same size to throw in to the laptop sleeve with the machine
That is how twitter works - it doesn't show every tweet from everyone you follow in your timeline, it shows a subset based on what it considers most relevant.
Some ethical frameworks deal in prohibiting/limiting behaviours rather than granting permission.

One could argue this is even preferable. Interestingly, as a line of inquiry, it leads to having philosophical difficulties with the Bill of Rights.
Ask HN: How much do you think about frivolous lawsuits when you start a project?
Reading HN I realized that its a big thing. Curious how much that gets factored into what you do or don't do when you start something.
The shareholders control the board, who is actually in charge of the business. Officers are appointed managers acting on behalf of the board.
the fact that they have no replacement for removed [and much-used] functionality seems completely nuts to me. their market share will plummet. i understand that old stacks must be removed at some point for security/performance/ergonomic reasons but leaving so many extension devs and users out in the cold with no alternatives is unthinkable.

i really believe they are signing their own death certificate. neither google nor yahoo will pay much for search traffic of a browser no one uses. i say this as a long-time fan, nightly firefox user and bug submitter (since v1.5). everything since Australis has been an unmitigated trainwreck :/. When Classic Theme Restorer [1] stops working, i'm sorry but i'm out....probably to https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium for the time being.

my hope is that someone builds out a nice cross-platform browser around servo, or at least i can hack on https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml

http://electron.atom.io/ is an option, too

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...
Efforts to Prolong My Husband’s Life Cost Him an Easy Death
This was my thinking as well. I'll probably move to the last ESR ('extended support release') before the cutoff period, just so I can keep using Tab Groups.
How do you get enough people to want to go into the giant Faraday cage event space to make it economically viable to operate?
Aw snap, Beyond Australis and its slim chrome is one of the best way (along with tree style tabs) to regain some vertical space with sub optimal resolution (namely, the 1368x768 of my x220t).
We should be totally okay with court ordered records requests against specific accounts. That's LEO doing his job. It doesn't look like these two letters were court ordered however. Even so, it was bounded time against two accounts and of course you don't want to tip them off.

It's the bulk tap rooms, such as the AT&T one, that ARE the dragnet and highly abusive of our rights. I feel like this whole NSL release program of late is a distraction tactic to take our attention away from the real abuse.
Bummer, makes sense though
Could GPS Satellites Be Replaced with Synthetic Diamonds?
Set a breakpoint in first expression in the function that is being mapped unto?
> 1) almost no company will just up and fire a developer without warning, even in "right to work" states. A company will always
2) have the manager or HR talk to the developer to try to resolve a performance issue. It's cheaper than firing and rehiring a new developer. It also saves time.

Hmm, I've been fired from my last two positions without any warning or prior notice. In the first instance, I was a full-time employee and I got stuck on a piece of functionality and I was simply let go. I made co-workers aware of the fact that I needed some sort of help, but one day after a prolonged period of being denigrated, I was let go. When asking how come no prior warning was given, I was told "you could see it coming."

The most recent position was as a consultant and I was working with deadlines that had slipped for a number of reasons mostly outside of my control and I had to handle numerous support requests in addition to that -- which led to a severe case of burnout. My contract was abruptly terminated one day, without prior warning.

I took what I could from both experiences and improved my skills as much as I could, but there is always the domain-specific hurdles that arise.

My point is that there are some companies out there that are ruthless, so far in my experience it seems that this mostly applied to the smaller ones. I never oversold myself or my skills and I did ask for a second opinion when I felt things were taking too long. It could just be my luck thus far.
Yes. The whole "Are you looking for a business computer or a consumer computer" initial decision point is one of the most offensive aspects of the Dell site.
Doing it for profit is hardly a better excuse than following orders. Should we not hold it against Trump that he ran casinos which preyed on the intellectually and financially disadvantaged?
Sundar Pichai (Google) on fear of foreigners (2015)
>Try to remember the last time you heard anything positive about Russia.

Why would you assume the troll army is trying to make "Russia" look good? It's far more likely they would focus on individual goals like keeping the US out of Ukraine. Or making us look bad on the international stage to other countries. They don't need to look good, they just need us to look bad. Putin isn't an idiot, no amount of propaganda is going to change the fact that some of what happens in Russia will never be accepted by the rest of the world. He just needs to look better than the alternative. It's far easier to make us look bad than himself look good.
Shadow Regulation Around the World
> - Interview people who were there about what the journalists were actually doing and what happened when they were detained

Agreed

> - Mention the political background of the reporters and/or any history of participating in protests

That is (or should be) irrelevant unless you want to support a story. We do not know if they were actively involved.

If you say they were Democrats, some people can conclude they provoked it. Others may think it's the Republicans attacking innocent journalists.

Same with being active in the past. How does that tell anything about this case without creating bias.

What if I was active in environmental protests, but I just cover politics as a job?

> - Explore legal precedents and ask experts to help explain why they may have been arrested

You would need to ask the policemen. Not the "grunts", the ones who gave the order. They should know why they gave it. But they declined to comment. So the answer of any expert might be "if they were detained, they probably did something wrong".

> - At least mention the fact that if we don't know all the facts, we can't assume they were wrongfully charged

I believe we should conclude "they were brought in and it could be for a number of reasons:

a) they broke the law
b) they refused to cooperate
c) they didn't to the best of their ability prevent someone from breaking the law (I don't know if this concept applies in USA, I'm from Czech Republic) - that includes even just calling a cop
d) they were scooped up to sort out later (determine their contribution or provide testimony)
e) it was a mistake"

I tend to sound forceful, but I'm not ill willed. I'm trying to raise some points that I think do or don't bring value to reporting on this issue.

Thanks
It's sad that you're being downvoted for this.
> Almost nobody runs mobile Firefox, so that turned out not to matter much

Well. The number of installs of Firefox for Android is a nine-digit number.

Depending on your perspective that can be thought of as a big or small number.

But it certainly is not "nobody".
StackOverflow – Year in review 2016
No sure what you mean exactly, but IntelliJ will show ever-expanding expression list to choose from when setting a breakpoint even when they are chained and on a single line as well as displaying return value from last method call. In my experience debugging such method chain is no different to any other debugging bar variables names.
It's a bigger problem in general with both Twitter/FB and how they filter the order content is displayed (sometimes called "the filter bubble") in order to drive up engagement and revenue.

The average person doesn't care about federated social networks and the average dev or admin doesn't have the time outside of work to setup and maintain one for his or herself.
If Tree Style Tab doesn't work anymore. What are the reasons to use Firefox? Also what are the alternatives. I tried Chrome but the Tree Style Tab-like plugin is clumsy.

Should I just not update firefox and wait until devs realize tabs were meant to be on the side? Honnestly as a power user I can't browse the web without tree style tab anymore.
I have become addicted to having long thinking session in the shower. I probably shower too much.

I often go in there. Make sure all lights are off. Usually sit or lay in bathtub with just shower on. Close eyes and relax and think(and daydream). It's sorta like a combination massage / isolation chamber effect for me. Spending time doing this daily keeps me centered, focused, clear minded, and lastly reduces any temporary stress I have.
I'd suggest having a look at the new (unfinished, but that affects mostly the later chapters) rust book. Here's the ownership chapter: http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ch04-00-understanding-owners...
You certainly invest a lot of effort in dishonesty. Not sure that's anything to be proud of, guy.
Someone smarter than me can explain why and how, but I had also heard that streams in Java can perform better than equivalent imperative code as well as being null-safer.

This is because the standard library can forego memory allocation for temporary data structures implied in expressions throughout the stream statement. Also, the Java 8 VM can apply other aggressive optimizations to the lambda functions to inline them.
"You can't simply be done with Google. Too big. Trust me. I know, just like China. "

On a serious note. Escaping Google on the internet is impossible. Can't be done without inconvenience.
My seventh grade teacher strongly enforced #1. Parents would complain to her all day long that their kid spent a lot of hours on so-and-so assignment only to receive an average grade. Her response was always that she did not care how much time was spent on an assignment- if the end result was crap, you were not going to get a good grade.
What's wrong with b-corps?

Im not saying they're a silver bullet, but they do seem to provide shareholders and boards tools to resist being sued for putting concerns besides short term profits at the forefront.
tivo+cable card is pretty close to this now - especially since they added the button to skip ads in recorded shows. It definitely could be better, but if your primary sources of video content are mostly cable/TV channels it is probably the best experience. Also it integrates netflix, hulu, vudu, amazon, and cable's on-demand into a single search (at least it seems to, I have not used hulu or vudu through my tivo). You tube is still a separate search though.
I like functional program a lot, but that very first transform of a chain of if's into a horrifying mess makes a pretty good case for using if. In the if case, function2 and function3 were called identically, but in the functional case suddenly things are inconsistent.

Is this a satire?
Facebook text notification vulnerability
I thought this was an Jepsen-style article on some distributed systems at first.
You mean the Nseers registry that was in place, probably build by the same SV companies, and Obama just dismantled it to make Trump look bad? Yeah..

Registry used to track Arabs and Muslims dismantled by Obama administration:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/22/nseers-arab-...
My Asus UX305 has a very similar design to the 13" Air but a Core M CPU, no fans, and a great 1080p matte IPS display. The track pad is excellent as well.

It cost me $600.

That all being said, I switched from MacOS to Ubuntu a couple years ago because I was finding the increasingly frequent notifications and general ugliness/usability of newer MacOS versions were becoming very Windows XP-esque.

I might very well be the only person who prefers Unity to MacOS.
Is it possible to distribute videos in an encrypted form using this CDN?
I wonder how vetting of Certificate Authorities will happen. I suppose that if your OS has a sufficient number of trusted CAs, then any browser can rely on those.

But consider this, from Debian's ca-certificates package:

---

This package includes PEM files of CA certificates to allow SSL-based applications to check for the authenticity of SSL connections.

It includes, among others, certificate authorities used by the Debian infrastructure and those shipped with Mozilla's browsers.

Please note that Debian can neither confirm nor deny whether the certificate authorities whose certificates are included in this package have in any way been audited for trustworthiness or RFC 3647 compliance. Full responsibility to assess them belongs to the local system administrator.

---

So as long as Mozilla allows OSes, and presumably other browser forks, to benefit from their CA vetting and monitoring activities ...

There really is a lot that does, or should, go into browser development and maintenance.
Yes, that is exactly what I mean to suggest.
Silicon Valley isn't SF. Even SF isn't the SF you're referring to, as far as liberal politics go.