skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because rich people control politics, and only things that effect them matter (see Gilens and Page). For example, airport security is terrible because rich people bypass it completely. Transit is shitty because rich people have limos and helicopters. And where the prosperous do use transit, like in Switzerland, it's fantastic. If you want nice things you have to take the rich down to the level where regular problems are their problems too.
With so many (all?) of the prediction models being completely off the mark, and the lack of significant temperature increase over the last decade plus, the perpetual mention of pending climate catastrophe just isn't as relevant as it used to be.
The title is a little off-putting, but this guy was the most straight-shooting billionaire out there on what getting rich requires.

This interview gives a flavor of the style:

http://www.inc.com/articles/2008/07/dennis.html
NASA Scientist Studies Whether Solar Storms Cause Animal Beachings
I hope many people will realize what a superb comment this is.
> Love how the free market works!

Bet you'll love it a lot less when Amazon has eliminated most competition and will start increasing their margins to pay back shareholders.
“Health benefits” of moderate drinking disappear when controlling for wealth
Although there is obviously still effort being put into the supersonic programs, aerospace giants like Boeing and Airbus are working pretty hard to get a reduction in NOx, emissions and fuel consumption. We have gone a long way in designing a good aircraft, and have been making it more efficient over the last few years. One of the primary goals of these manufacturers right now is to become more efficient. [1] NASA has some mid-term goals for 2035 in terms of emissions, NOx and fuel consumption, in terms of TRLs.

[1] https://aero.larc.nasa.gov/files/2012/11/Low-Noise-Subsonic-...
> it is in the contract somewhere

https://golang.org/doc/go1compat
> For one, JS is also JITed

But not all JITs are equal; that's like putting Brainfuck in the mix because it has a JIT. It is worth noting that JVM JIT has years of research behind it and being statically typed only adds to he benefits.

> So, yes, it might be slower than the JVM, but not that slower for most practical purposes.

Sure, my point is that the "not that slower" varies on lot depending on the kind of computation would run and having a notion that these dynamic languages are fast enough just perpetuates the misunderstanding that there exists free lunch...
Old version of Skype clients will stop working from March 1, confirms Microsoft
I'm waiting for one.
Unfortunately, technically "not having curtains" could be argued as a breach of copyright law. However as referenced earlier in this discussion, this is where judges come into play. They should hopefully address the balance between harmful / intentional violations and petty litigations that harm personal liberties.

This may not be a perfect system but it's still better than having the law rewritten for ever conceivable edge case scenario that random folk can dream up.
Judging by the difficulty of maintaining an estate, I suspect you are wrong about Britain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_house...
That and other things too. It's definitely the new C IMO. I like how the author contrasts it with Java, "There were many things that did not copy across due to the comparative richness of the Java libraries...". Of course, I like Java about the same as I like Go (both great languages). But if you are used to the wealth of pre-made data structures in Java you'll find arrays, slices and maps in Go to be somewhat limiting at first. You'll soon get it though and start doing really cool things with Go.
>But some users don't care about fancy plug-ins and want improved performance and security.

All of those are probably using Chrome already. Other users care about productivity above all, and Firefox is unmatched in this regard, but only thanks to its add-on support that allows more than glorified Greasemonkey scripts.
As a happy vimperator user, I was very disappointed when I got to know that the days of this extension are counted because of that.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimperator/re...
extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tree-style-tabs
This comment does a fine job of opining on the incompleteness of a comment that the commenter has clearly not read in full. This is a great example of irony, I think, because your point about not pointing out where in the article the question was answered, was covered in the same sentence as this sentence in the previous comment. And here you are, claiming the comment as incomplete because it failed to point out the location of where the question was answered. But it did! You just skimmed it. It is in fact you who is incomplete. I think it is fair to describe this scenario as "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result."

RTFC before opining next time :-)
I may be lucky. My daughter is in a bog "bog standard" comprehensive in East London and loving it. The school really seems to like kids and has this nice balance between pushing for attainment and growing the whole person. So yes, she's doing well in classes but has also discovered a passion for playing drums, astronomy, Duke of Edinburgh Awards etc.

The head teacher says very plainly "I don't want to be the CEO of an Academy, I want to be a headteacher". I hope he, and the people like him manage to survive the changing system.
You might also like "The Knowledge" by Dr Lewis Dartnell.
Bill Gates famously said that anyone who finished TAOCP should send him their resume, but to me, anyone who has read and done all the SICP exercises would be a good hire, and it is a far more achievable task.

I had been programming for about 10 years or so when I read it and did all the exercises. It seriously leveled-up my abilities, in my opinion.
Stop Panicking: H-1B Visa Reform May Keep More Bright Foreign Minds in the U.S
I see, sure, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for clarifying.
Ask HN: How do you deal with managing cocky programmers?
Courtroom Video of Hearing Before Judge James Robart Re: Travel/Visa Ban
I think it shows that the author(s) behind the library is/are committed to improving performance.

Sure, a lot of companies like to publish benchmarks like this to make their product look better than it is (E.g. only showing the good parts), but in this case I know the author and I can vouch that he is independent and uncompromising.

You could argue that the baseline performance of a library doesn't matter as much once you start adding lots of custom logic on top, but it's still highly relevant for lightweight workloads (which are actually quite common E.g. Basic chat systems).
For a moment I thought you were going to say "The First and Last Men" - but then I realized I'd mis-remembered the title:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men

This is an excellent sci-fi exploration of possible future, especially given the year in which it was written. I've not re-read it since I've only finished it a few months ago, but it was an excellent read.
I have no idea what you're talking about - Firefox has always been fast to me. Chrome takes too long, and since I autokill duplicate processes, it lags even with single tab browsing.
I might be completely misunderstand the implications, but as I understand it, Mozilla are dropping an old technology that is slowing down the browser, and slowing down development of the browser, and which only supports a very small minority of plugins, that are mostly power-user features used by a small number of people.

Am I completely wrong in thinking this? Is there any evidence to suggest widespread usage of XUL-only features?
While I appreciate the concern behind the petition, I support the decision to simplify and modernize the architecture in Firefox, even if it does disrupt extensions.

If there was somewhere I could lend my name to say "I support Mozilla making this difficult decision and sticking to it", I would.
It doesn't mean illegitimate either.

For example, sites to reach people in places where there is state sponsored censorship. Sure it's not legitimate as far as the country do the censorship is concerned but people/governments outside that country it may be considered defensible.

Security researchers (white hat and pen testers) often have onion sites to provide some street cred.

If you want to blog but want to stay anonymous for personal reasons.

Although with several of those I see no reason not to use a legitimate web host or VPS providers.
48 tons of jet fuel to take 300 people on that route works out to around 70 passenger-miles per gallon, and that's not even assigning any fuel consumption to the cargo being carried. Airliners are pretty efficient. That's actually a pretty bad one, many airliners can do well over 100 passenger-miles per gallon.

Air travel makes up about 2% of human CO2 emissions. Certainly you can make an argument that a lot of it is pretty wasteful since a lot of people on airliners don't need to travel, but there are far better areas to worry about if you want to curb emissions.
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> $500K/year is mid-range doctor salary (some earn much more) - it's enough to have a nice house or flat (probably in an expensive area - meaning that its' not even that nice, just has a good location), nice cars, travel, a cleaner, pay for your kids private schools, and have a cottage/second house.

The suggestion that this is a middle class lifestyle is patently absurd.
This is exactly right. A far better form of innovation is to make better use of aircraft cabin volume. Every time I fly, it seems like a good 30 - 50% of the cabin volume is either (a) empty space of (b) overhead bags. Something like this [1] seems to lower carbon intensity and improve comfort.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/contour-aerospace-factory-des...
>It's always been an international community.

>People in pretty much every country are doing some pretty amazing stuff. A lot of it you won't hear about if you limit yourself

I agree, and this is why I am unworried about the recent moves to cut government research funding in the US. There are plenty of other countries with great research institutions.

Look what happened when Bush pushed out most of the stem cell research -- research moved to Singapore and China. But the world still benefited, just not US companies.
Yeah sure, they all steal your personal information. One of the reasons I forbid myself from ever signing something there.

I very much want to voice my opinion not to touch my xul addons, but I refuse to subvert my privacy in order to do that.
Y'all forgot about AMOS, although that came out quite late.
Emulation: counters everywhere
Anyone know examples of major companies providing these services with URLs to their websites?

It's fine if there in English, Chinese, etc.
Took me two reads to realize that the magical word people didn't understand, described as "reflected sound of underground spirits", was economics.

That moment of realization; d'oh!
From pure capacity management point of view this would work.

From financial perspective the cost of a first-class ticket is much higher proportionally than the space occupied by that seat. Full-fare first-class passengers subsidize coach passengers on a promotional or discounted ticket, enabling air travel for many.

Remove the subsidy, and average cost per coach ticket might increase, which is why Southwest (which does not have first-class in its fleet) is just sometimes, but not always, the cheapest option.
Yes plenty but this particular one doesn't work on Mozilla.
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> What would you think if big companies like Google and Apple pursued a conservative agenda? What if they were against same-sex marriage or legal abortion?

I would think it was bad and would think less of them.

That's why I said 'Progress shouldn't be dependent on a small group of unaccountable organisations'

We shuldn't depend on good things happening because corporations do them. But by gum, if corporations do good things I will applaud them - and if they do bad things I will criticise them.
Considering the need to lower our carbon footprint and the massive amount of fuel spent in subsonic air travel, this seems wrongish.
I read this every year

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040JHNQG/
I'm sure that most of the ruckus raised by people who haven't even used the Apple product they criticize can be safely raced to PR firms of competing companies. See [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=samsung+students+fake+review...
>>I think it shows that the author(s) behind the library is/are committed to improving performance.

No, it shows that they care about benchmarks, which are rarely if ever representative of real-life scenarios.
Thanks for the link, they were indeed timely pieces!
> viewing or downloading it encourages the sick individuals making it to create more of it since it brings them
> hits for their sites

It is doubtful that hits for .onion sites are enough to encourage someone to produce CP. Download and seed more, maybe. But producing more just because someone downloads it?

> literal money from paid purchases or subscriptions

Subscriptions work mostly because of copyright. If content is available free of charge elsewhere, it is not profitable. Free of charge distribution of existing content will drive its price down. If distribution is banned, it will be cheaper to produce new content than download existing one.

> That's not true of standard copyrighted content. In those cases, distributing it (legally or otherwise) is not encouraging something illegal to be done since producing said content isn't illegal to begin with.

Standard copyrighted content (music etc.) is different because it is possible to support artists by buying tickets for live performances, so piracy may benefit them. It is not true for CP.
I agree. There's a lot that makes me prefer Firefox that's not extensions.
I get the feeling that a lot of users really don't believe XUL, etc. is inherently less secure. I cannot say either way myself, but without the capability of the old plugin system Firefox has no real advantage over Chrome. It probably doesn't help that they are going with something compatible with Chrome which leads to a "why not just use the original" thought process.

I get the feeling that they could have got the new system done and as capable as the old before deleting the old. Transition periods are brutal as Python and Perl have found out.
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. If you (and anyone else for that matter) are curious, I live in Ottawa, Canada and am looking to get involved with backend or low-level work (though I’m trying to learn everything and anything that I can).
Agreed. Any success I have achieved in life has been despite my British state education, not because of it!
Short mention of a new book related to 1984: 2084 the end of the world http://www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609453664/2084-the-en...

Haven't read it yet, but it looks interesting
The global temperature anomaly in 2006 was 0.63C, in 2016 it was 0.99C. Tell me more about this supposed lack of significant temperature increase over the last decade.

Sources: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/ https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/graph_data/Global_...
"If Mozilla thinks this is the best route for them they should do it"

I'm all for Mozilla having the power to make good technical decisions, but it sounds like you are suggesting that Mozilla ignore their user base completely. That's a recipe for the death of Firefox, IMHO.

I know there are technical reasons that Mozilla is wanting to get rid of XUL, and those reasons look legitimate to me. The problem I see is that they don't have a replacement for XUL that affords the same level of customizability that it does. I've done a little work with XUL, and yes, it's no picnic. I would welcome an alternative that was simpler, and better designed. However, if the replacement only offers a fraction of the flexibility of XUL, then addon developers aren't going to like it.

"Input on features like that shouldnt be taken from users who will not have the long term view of firefox."

^ That's a pretty broad brush you are painting with there. There are a huge number of us who have been using Firefox since it was released in 2004 (and Netscape Navigator before that). I haven't taken a formal survey, but the feedback I've seen from the long-term users is that the depth of customizability available via Firefox's addons is one of the primary reasons they continue to use the browser after all of these years.

Also, I would venture to guess that the people most likely to continue using Firefox are these dedicated long-term users. But if Mozilla insists on ignoring the wishes of these users, they will lose the strongest advocates in their user base.

Ignoring your users is a terrible idea.

Again, I welcome a replacement for XUL. Just make it a full-featured replacement, and don't cut off XUL development until said replacement is indeed full-featured and reasonably stable.

Maybe Mozilla can't pull that off, but I would certainly like to see them try.
I think that the closed nature of CUDA will be its undoing. I think that a standard, like C++ amp or openMP-4.5 will be the the ultimate winner.

I liked openCL but it seems to be dying.
How to Become Rich with Your Own Business
Does your 70-year-old mother use Tree Style Tabs or Pentadactyl?
I re-read 'The Hobbit', which made me marvel again at such a delightful, thoughtful story, the world and characters that Tolkien wrought, and the morals of self-discovery and self-sacrifice... and sad for what the movie(s) could have been instead of what they were.
Add the following in uBlock Origin under "My Filters":

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> Btw it is non-consensual porn production which is harmful, not distribution.

Victims of child sex crimes have ongoing trauma from the knowledge that images of their abuse and suffering continue to be used for the sexual gratification of others, without their consent.
> The state CP today is essentially pay for tourture using bitcoin and tor.

This is actually the first time I hear about things like that. Any reference?
Why don't we just get a group effort to port old add ons going?
I'm glad you actually looked up what happened. Now would you please revise your original statement to read:

>the poet's Washington and New York elite friends put them on the statue to make European immigrants feel warm and fuzzy inside.

And then explain to me what that's got to do with what the average American thought about immigration, and then after that explain to me what that's got to do with how we should feel about importing tens of millions of non-European immigrants and throwing billions of dollars of welfare at them today. Thanks in advance.
"Any company building products in this space are about to feel the squeeze"

We are feeling the heat at http://www.reportdash.com
I'm not familiar with those other standards, thanks for mentioning them. I'll check them out.
I like how the petition starter threatened Mozilla to dump Firefox for other browsers and exaggerate 'millions' of users when the reality is they are only a small niche trying to hold back progress. The add-on pages show that these add-ons each command less than a tenth of the number he claimed.

I hope he'll be happy with Chrome.
I've not read 'Hard Drive', but I've re-read 'Gates' by Manes and Andrews, and can recommend it.
Is C++ AMP still going? I learned it about five years ago back when I was involved in GPU programming, haven't heard a thing about it since then.
If you want to jump right in, you can start with The Martial Art of Rationality, here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/gn/the_martial_art_of_rationality/
"Kingmaker", by Christian Cantrell[0]. I needed a dose of anti-plutocrat in my daily brain food and his novel was a fun near-future fix.

[0] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17687575-kingmaker
The way add-ons are currently done significantly hampers the engine architecture, and is a good chunk of the reason why multi-process took so long. All this synchronous access to engine internals is also why the first advice diagnosing performance problems is to disable all add-ons. NPAPI plugins also have similar issues, which is why everyone is getting rid of those as well.

Servo's architecture will also not support the old Firefox style add-ons, and we've known that the architecture would be incompatible for them (and NPAPI plugins) since the early days.

We want to enable people to build new experiences, but we have to find new ways to achieve this. Perhaps the technology the Browser.html team and us are working on will solve this problem. If you have ideas and want to help, I encourage you to get involved[1][2].

1. https://github.com/servo/servo
2. https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml
Say I read this entry in the series. If I end up liking it, would you recommend that I then go back and start from the beginning?
oh good lord are we pedantic. Yes, not everyone uses the same techs. All i'm trying to say is that we'll see more and more of it.

It's already happening with Elm, Elixir, etc.
No, I wouldn't agree. Collective bargaining organizations ("unions") are fundamentally designed to advocate for their members, not for peripheral issues in the industry (except where they directly impact members' work life balance, safety or compensation in a tangible way).

Personally, I would not be willing to join a union because I don't see any benefits they could give me in return for my money. I'm quite happy bargaining on my own, and advocating for the issues I care about, without a conglomerate middleman.
People don't go to conferences and business meetings primarily to do the things that VR and recorded presentations can replace. If they did, conferences would have gone away years ago.
I think military aircraft mostly like to tank after takeoff so that they can carry more ordnance. The maximum weight they can have in flight tends to be higher than the maximum weight they can take off with (especially when operating from short runways), so if you take off with lots of weapons and partial fuel, then refuel in flight, you can carry more than if you took off with full fuel.
Adguard https://adguard.com/en/adguard-android/overview.html

AdAway for rooted devices https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway
Rust Incremental Compilation Beta
Advertising does not equal flow of information.
Stallman?
The Renaissance by Will Durant, part of his The Story of Civilization series. I was inspired to review the Renaissance by last year's Burning Man theme, especially a collection of Renaissance inspired art by an Israeli photographer.

I'm kind of in a perpetual re-read of Pierce's Types and Programming Languages.
I think primary focus of this project was to showcase proper Redux implementation. There certainly are much easier ways to accomplish Tetris but that is not what they were shooting for.
I'm not surprised to find that the world "child", "children" and "family" do not make appearances in this article.

The civilizational staying power of polyamory is nil: it will devolve into the chaos of inner city single parenting or the barrenness of San Francisco.
The fair competition writeup is concise, clear, and wrong. You'd think patents didn't exist from this squib. It is legal to make agreements that restrict competition if these derive from patent rights, copyrights or other IP possessed by a single party. "the essence of a patent ... is the right to exclude."

But if two or more IP-holders collude to restrict competition OR raise or maintain higher prices (Apple vs Amazon) that is illegal. (IP swaps don't further restrict competition and are therefore OK.)