skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"allows decentralized software to stand on equal or greater footing compared to centralized services."

While that's great from a CS/FOSS/EFF/hacker perspective, the question is what's necessary for such software to be on equal ground in the eyes of ordinary users? My guess is that the decentralized/centralized split isn't (yet?) it, but rather the UX and functionality. Few open source end-user apps are entirely original and cutting edge; most are poor knockoffs of commercial products or are failed commercial products that got open sourced.

To me that's why sandstorm didn't make much sense. I applaud your efforts, I really don't want to rain on your parade -- I poured my sweat and tears into a startup that failed as well so I get it -- I'm just reacting to what seemed like not-honest-enough reasons for failure on the website. It's really important to know what didn't go right for next time lest you make the same mistakes again.
Chrome feels invasive to me.

It's always wanting me to sign in to my Google accounts and sync everything. Why would I want to sign in to a browser?

It wants to run extensions as background processes (wtf?). Why would I want my browser to run "apps"?

It's like it wants to be an OS wrapped in an OS. Why wouldn't I just use my OS?

At this point, it just feels like bloat to me. I want a browser. That's all. I guess I use Firefox for what it doesn't try to do.
It's really cool to see a writeup for this on real-life images. Similar work at Pinterest http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/05/scaling-convnets/, for Anime scaling https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x and for sprite scaling (can't find the reference I'm thinking of).

This tech has been around for several years, and some variation was presented in concert with the Boston Marathon investigation. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/hallu...

(Not clear if this was used as part of the investigation, or if it could be used for future investigations)
They could have a solution out the door in less than 24h but it may be a mitigation (ie, disable the service) rather than a proper fix. But that's pretty easy. In fact, it's usually the first thing an engineer does when verifying a bug report - "Ok I've reproduced it, now let's shut off the service and make sure the problem goes away."

Release a patch that disables the vulnerable service and give people a way to bypass that and turn it back on once they've taken proper internal measures. (Read the CVE, block ports, etc...)
Great feature. I use an app for finding coffee shops that collects similar info (only about coffee shops) but it's nice to be able to know in advance if parking near a place is free / paid, street / lot, easy / difficult.

One challenge here is that the difficulty probably varies by time of day and day of week.
I genuinely just like it better than Chrome or Edge. I think Chrome is an excellent browser, and for about a year I used Chrome instead of Firefox (due to Firefox really not working anymore, having to restart the thing several times a day -- I also tried Opera, but it didn't fare any better) but I never liked using it as much as I liked Firefox. So at some point I tried Firefox again, and it has stuck so far. It's probably still not the most stable browser, or the fastest per se, but I generally like Mozilla's design decisions a bit better than Google's, and, well, it's super subjective but between Google and Mozilla, I have a bit more sympathy towards the latter (without hating the former or anything).
I also use Firefox on my Android phone. I like that it can synchronize my profile, and it's also quite usable.
Frankly I'm reasonably happy about the state of browsers (there have been times where, in my role as web developer, I wasn't quite so happy ;)) overall: seems like everybody's made at least a decent browser. I'm glad I can pick whichever browser I like best, not whichever one sucks the least. :P
Also, I've been using it since 0.4, the first browser that could replace IE6 well for me, at that time (compatibility was still an issue -- am I old?)
- TreeStyleTabs
- Vimperator

The Chrome alternatives for both of these do not compare well. Cvim, vimium, etc lack a lot of depth like .vimperatorrc (a config I can track in Git!).

The TreeStyleTabs alternatives in Chrome require a separate sidecar window in Chrome! This mikes window management a nightmare. Sigh.
Oh yes, lecture us some more, Brian Chevsky, CEO of Airbnb:

http://news.sky.com/story/airbnb-flat-owner-jailed-for-rapin...
Or just remove the adjectives, give me the percentage and let me decide for myself.
Facebook shareholders urge company to replace Mark Zuckerberg
who is paying 100,000 USD / year in Vancouver vs 30,000 USD / year for a junior developer?

It's unbelievable that the average entry level's tech worker in Vancouver makes just as much as a barista in Seattle.

You can't compete or create a world class unicorn in Vancouver, period.
Because I can't have a browser consume all of my memory.
I don't worry about the browser collecting usage information to sell to information brokers. I have a lose trust in the Mozilla foundation to do the right thing.
Co-founders out at S.F. payment startup Revel as investors take over
Someone Is Paying Strangers Online to Beg for Betsy DeVos's Confirmation
Same here. Mounted on the host with the restriction to running containers.
Do they both not belong to "horrible behavior?"
Google does publish https://github.com/google/lmctfy at least, though.

Edit: did publish
You're welcome, on both counts. I hope we can help you not get stuck if you give it a fourth try :)
Perhaps he/she (they) can just hijack the Democratic party. A lot of liberals believe in gun rights. They can just do what Trump did to the Republicans.
nice. wish pixelCNN/wavenet wasn't so computationally heavy to train and run
It's not that you don't get to keep your tips, it's that your tip goes towards the guaranteed hourly rate. And it's not at all uncommon, and certainly not unique to GrubHub. In many cases jobs that involve tips will guarantee earning $X/hour, and if you don't pull enough in then the store will kick in the extra. I think it's the same with GrubHub. They don't pay you $10/hour, they guarantee that at a minimum you will earn at least $10/hour in tips + delivery fees + mileage.
I opened Instagram the other day and saw a grey error message show up across the top of the app... it said something about a React error. I didn't get to read it well because it quickly disappeared. I thought I was tripping. Good to know I wasn't.
> green cards are equally distributed to all countries.

Well, no, but there is a cap on the per-country share of the total quota in each eligible category.
Thanks for such an elaborate explanation. And yes, we do take Calculus, Linear Algebra and Stats as part of the CS curriculum.
I have to say, the end user API for Rocket is pretty nice.

But damn, there's a lot of compiler magic in order to simplify the request and response signatures.

It would be great to see more documentation on how to deal with naked Request/Response objects that can be constructed by hand. I'd love to use Rocket to develop some API on top of it, but that means I want more access to the underlying objects below.
Are there any popular languages that support SOA 1st-class? C++ is largely competing with GC languages where it is difficult to avoid separated heap allocations for every tiny bit of data.
Manga Studio is quite awesome, one of my favorite pieces of creative software ever. I wish it could be used to make vector art too - then I'd never need anything else.
'From the ground up' doesn't always equate better. In this case, why not just innovate and improve on the tools that are already in use?
I'm getting tired of having to allow scripts to even get to see the images. Why dont they use <img> tags?
I thought I was the only one - chrome's address bar is unusable for me.
100% the same - Chrome might be the faster browser, but it doesn't matter when it's hobbled with ads. I imagine that's even more significant when you have an older phone.
How does this differ from Imgix?
I don't avoid medium links, I avoid reddit links, links from dedicated haters, links from dedicated virtue signallers, people who pretend to be from the bay area but they moved here and are not actually from here and various other issues of necessity. I enjoy the format and the recommend feature so we can actually reach people and I like the design. Idk I just have fun with it, here's mine.

medium.com/@thecolorofnight

https://medium.com/@thecolorofnight/sayings-from-the-catacom...

>Sayings from the Catacomb of Eustorgius the 'Epicurean'
Yes and no; I've always really enjoyed http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/24729... as a comparison between the two.

It's old enough that it's before Rust 1.0, so some of the syntax is a _teeny_ bit wrong (int isn't a type any more, you'd use isize) but the macro picture is the same.
I use firefox because despite all the missteps that mozilla takes; I still like the company. I fell like mozilla have their heart in the right place and that they try (sometimes against all odds) to do the right thing. I want to support mozilla and that's why I use firefox.
You can elect congressmen in 2018 that could codify Net Neutrality as law instead of a regulation. Trump would probably veto, but with a sufficient margin you could override it.

Administrative regulations aren't really democratic. Easy come, easy go.
> Do cable companies in the US have any competition?

No they do not. Yet, this is due to government regulation. If you'd like to read about the historical development of cable regulation this article provides a decent summary: http://www.uclalawreview.org/cracking-the-cable-conundrum-go...
This would be the modern version of the suburban development fallacy - building neighborhoods to a finished state with no method for organic expansion.
I'd refer you to Peter Turchin, War and Peace and War. He argues that it's not capitalism that leads to wealth concentration, it's peace, stability, and prosperity -- since we can see this problem worldwide, and very far back in history. Since peace breeds wealth concentration, it eventually ends in a crisis (normally a period of major wars); the crisis mostly kills people and ruins lives, but it also disrupts concentrations of wealth as a side-effect. Eventually the wars end in a peace of exhaustion, with wealth a little more equitably distributed (or at least enough wreckage that everyone can make money by rebuilding), and a period of peace and wealth concentration begins again.

Solutions to this problem that have been tried and failed include:

* Endless war. This doesn't do much the problem of concentration of wealth (warlords as well as capitalists have high wealth concentration), and it creates sociological problems; for details in a familiar context, read Albion's Seed, specifically the section on the Borderers/hillbillies/Scotch-Irish.

* State ownership of some productive capital (Britain after WWII) or basically all productive capital (the USSR). This works well for a while (see How Asia Works), but if kept around for too long it breaks down, producing complacency, mismanagement, and an inevitable fiscal crisis. Thatcher and Gorbachev did pretty much the same thing, for pretty much the same reasons.

* Wage controls, price controls, tariff walls, heavy internal regulation. The New Deal, Ireland under De Valera, all European governments before the 1700s (see Braudel, The Structures of Everyday Life), and the Tokugawa Shogunate did this. For as long as the will to enforce everything exists, this approach sort of works, and it slows down wealth concentration and the development of crises; but it doesn't stop them entirely, and the crises are likely to be really explosive when they hit. (See also the 1700s, 1968, and the fall of the Tokugawas.) It also leads to technological stagnation, which has other obvious problems.

* Letting the market work its magic. See Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, for why this is intolerable in practice.

Don't ask me for a magic bullet, none of the ones above work and I don't know what others there could be. Perhaps the solution is to just be aware of the problem and try to manage it...
Tab Mix Plus for Multirow tabs

I guess I'm in the 5%.

I have been responsible for a lot more installs than just my own -- lots of those people with little to no extensions. But in the last year or so I've switched to giving people Chrome (it just makes more sense these days) and when I'm no longer using Firefox I will definitely have no reason to advocate for it.

But I understand, I'm on the losing side. The way that I've used the web for the last decade is going to be obsolete and I will have to suffer with whatever I can scrounge together to continue to work effectively. Whatever browser I can make that happen with will be the one that I use. If a lot more people had learned how awesome some of these add-on provided features are, they would have continued to be supported.
I personally think England(best America) produces better tea than the USA(worst America). Does it mean the USA is inferior in general?
Domestic policy is really Congress's responsibility, but they've granted a lot of regulatory authority to the executive in the past few decades. You can lobby them to take back some of that authority and do something sensible with it.
@martinbigio here in case anyone has questions
Yes, exactly.

Oasis brings in enough revenue to cover Sandstorm's serving costs (for Oasis itself, Sandcats, updates, etc.). Oasis is also very low-maintenance for us, since Sandstorm in general is designed to be easy to maintain. So there's no reason to shut it down.

Our other paid offering, Sandstorm for Work, brought in very little revenue, so it made more sense to make it free to drive growth.

I do believe there's a future business in Sandstorm, perhaps centered around the app market and supporting paid apps. I believe that as long as we keep improving Sandstorm, a few years down the road we may be in a place to revive the business. But mainly I want to keep working on it because, honestly, I really enjoy it, especially now that I don't have to think about boring business-y stuff. :)
When people say garbage collection they usually mean a tracing GC.

You can twist words and say that shared_ptr means C++ has 'garbage collection' but I doubt anyone would agree with you if were were to word it like:

"C++ has a garbage collector"

Ref counting is a form of 'garbage collection' in so far as it is a way to release memory, that's about it. I certainly wouldn't consider Rust's Arc<T> a 'opt in garbage collector'.
Really funny piece. It really feels like one of those Order vs Chaos battles, with Russians on the Order side. Guys found the order in randomness, I'd like to see the math behind their operational methodology. Also, why iPhone?
This is how hyperlocal services should be built
start a company only to have vulture capital take you out of the company you sweated and bled for with a huge chunk of your life?

please tell me how this predatory behavior remotely aligns with an entrepreneur's interests.
- I've never felt coerced into creating an account to sign into or felt like I was tying myself to a system built around the goal of selling me ads.

- I can disable EME and choose not to install Flash, and that applies to most other features that I don't want to use.

- I started using it around Firebird because of its nature as a lightweight browser that provided extensions to let me pick and choose my functionality. I think of Firefox as a piece of software that says "yes" to the way that I want to do things more than it says "no".
I hate to be a debbie downer but the results don't look particularly great to me. For comparison, see "AffGAN" [1] and "LAPGAN" [2] for better (IMO) super-resolution results using GAN-like techniques. Granted, all three papers are applied in somewhat different settings (different input/output resolutions, different datasets), so direct comparison is difficult.

[1] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=S1RP6GLle

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05751
Yes, there's an option to do a CS Minor here. But the thing is that I am more of a coding kind of person and I don't really like Math that much.
I know, think what he could have achieved by simply ignoring the other party and tweeting about his feels.
Likely related to Samba TV, connecting viewing data for advertising.
Wrong. From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_%28Roman_army%29:

"The word decimation is derived from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth"."
> They just work out to be cheaper because they don't provide other costly things that many hotels do.

Like local hotel taxes.
I love Firefox because it's like the Emacs of browsers [1]. It's self-discoverable, it can be scripted and it has dozens of wonderful extensions.

To me, dropping their plugin architecture to achieve compatibility with Chrome is a bit absurd. Vimperator, GreaseMonkey and many others make Firefox unique.

[1] I know there's Conkeror, but the project seems to have stalled.
I turned the project into another independent study and created a 3D animation language. About a decade later, I was introduced to the first feature film compositor centered around the GPU, called Shake, and it's node layout looked creepily familiar to how the Frame Knowledge System was when I last used it...
There is more free floating capital. There are VCs in the US who are willing to invest in all sorts of things and willing to take chances. There are few VCs or banks in Canada that would take a chance on Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat or Uber. Brain-drain is a problem but the bigger problem is lack of capital.

Also, its in the employers best interest to keep salaries down and convince their employees that living in Canada (Vancouver instead of San Fran) is better (how ever you define better).

Yes, especially true. I've yet to see any Canadians who have actually received a raise in recent years. No one talks about it and no one knows whether their salary will be increased to at least meet inflation. It's a little messed up.
A bunch of people have already mentioned a few extensions, like Tree Style Tabs, that I consider important, but there is another big thing keeping me on Firefox: inertia. I have been a user since it was "Phoenix". If I wanted, I could change to another browser, but for now I would rather not have to go through the trouble. I have everything as I like it, more or less, so I will continue using FireFox ESR until it is impractical.
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Are there any dumb TVs at all? I keep thinking there has to be a market for it. It just doesn't make sense to be at the mercy of the TV makers to be able to provide apps and updates - when we have Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast, PS4, Xbox One and on and on that can provide a much better experience.
Hacker reveals dark arts of Russian blackmail and spies
>No processes

From my understanding, the initial rollout of multi-process has a single render process (in addition to the main browser process). There are ongoing experiments to determine the optimal number of processes, so it's likely to increase soon. In the future you can force this to 1 by using the "dom.ipc.processCount" pref if you don't want your process manager to resemble Chrome.
Mathematical Modelling,
-1 + 1 = 0
Implementing a Principal Component Analysis In Python (2014)
Yeah, I had actually looked through this documentation. It's state of readiness convinced me that it wasn't yet a viable solution.
My news workflow is: open news.google.com and then open-in-new-tab the news stories I want to read. Then I can read the loaded pages later or offline. AMP's JavaScript hijinx break open-in-new-tab or accessing the original page's URL.
who cares about initial costs when you're designing a sustainable system? If you spend $5k / yr on groceries, are you really going to be upset about spending $1k on lights 10 years later?

But to answer your question directly, the efficiency of LED vs CFL in terms of lumens per watt is about 2:1, so on that basis alone the payoff of running for 14 hours per day is about $8 / year / bulb. However, since the bulk of fluorescent output [0] is in the useless trough of photosynthesis sensitivity [1], it is closer to 4:1, so the payoff between your linked $5 bulb and a $35 PAR-tuned grow bulb would be a little under 2 years.

[0] CFL output - https://goo.gl/images/kF1dvH

[1] PAR sensitivity - https://goo.gl/images/dY40YW
these clauses are pretty common for this type of contract. it allows the service provider to not have to worry about whether or not their contract allows them to kick an abusive customer off their platform.
No, but Wikipedia backs me up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_%28Roman_army%29

The only other entries in the disambiguation page are about signal processing and a comic book.
Checking the source the class is "progressiveMedia js-progressiveMedia graf-image" so in essence they don't use <img> tags for control. They could add in <noscript><img/></noscript> though.
What I said:

> ... advertise in such a way that suggests will walk out with a lot of money

What you said:

> ... advertise that you will walk out with a lot of money either. Only that you might.

No one said casinos advertise that you will for sure walk out with a lot of money; my point was that they imply that you will walk out with a lot of money. The distinction seems obvious to me.

> So you're changing the point from "they advertise in a misleading way" to "people can become addicted to it"? That is a different argument so I want to be clear if we're moving on from the original point.

The point was never that casino advertisements are misleading, but other advertisements are honest; the point was that casino advertisements are misleading in ways that are ultimately life-ruining. For similar reasons, we hold cigarette and alcohol companies accountable for the content of their advertisements.
1. Addons. Google has censored YouTube Center because it allows people to download youtube videos. Pentadactyl is also important and not really possible to such a depth in Chrome (though I will admit I haven't had it installed in a while due to constant breakage). Tab groups is another that is unlikely to be available in WebExtensions, at least for a while. Call it insulting if you will, but it is the reality.

2. Open Source, both in long-term direction and not just code. Recent moves have dampened this though (Hello, Pocket, blocking addons from outside AMO, unsigned extension blocking)

3. I don't trust Google. Once upon a time, this was not the case.