skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's disabled by default on regular firefox.

I prefer to disable media.autoplay.enabled which is enabled by default.
I speculate that general-purpuse virtual machine management software would fit the bill quite well
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License means More Tax.

Why am I not surprised?

- Car License.

- TV License.

- Remember Personal Radios needed a License.

- Gun License.

- Travel License (passport).

Now Drone License. sigh

What else can the UK Government think of taxing?
Go to Preferences > Search and set keywords for each search engine.

E.g. I use "g" for Google and "w" for Wikipedia.
"g hacker news" in the AwesomeBar would then search for "hacker news" on Google and "w hacker news" likewise on Wikipedia.
Too bad it won't work on Firefox 57
I don't understand the extreme focus on brevity, though it does seem to be mentioned regularly. In practice I don't notice a difference between "begin" and "{". It's not something I have to think about, and my typing speed exceeds the speed at which I'm able to determine what to type next.

I understand avoiding excessive amounts of large boiler plate where standard patterns are constantly repeated for no particular reason, but that's not a comparable situation to individual keywords.
It has no countermeasures for Sybil attack. Therefore, the only trusted nodes in the Ripple network are owned by Ripple labs, making the entire currency much more like Visa than a real blockchain.
Right now mining equipment cost thousands of dollars... so for real, they can spend a few bucks on hardware.
Wow that's quite the jump. Do you have a software background originally or were you previously in real estate and now just getting back into it?
From my experience (max tab count of maybe 30, usual close to 4 or 5), when I tried to restore, I would always get the 'we tried hard, but couldn't do it' type of message, so I don't even bother trying anymore. My guess is that all the people relying on session storage are losing a bunch of data, but they just don't know it because how do you know when you lost one of 1000 tabs.

At one of my jobs, they instituted weekly scheduled reboots of desktops; after several times of getting my sessions killed by that, I started making an effort to close everything at the end of the day; I don't always close all my tabs, but often, and I never leave more than two or three. Whatever was interesting, but I couldn't read, I don't worry about -- if it's important, it'll probably come up again; I just leave a couple things open if there's work I need to do on them when I get back.
>Who will decide who is a freedom fighter and who is an extremist?

For the moment the "reagan meets the taliban" search still points to the right, non-brain-washing videos (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=reagan++meets+t...), so on this front we are safe.

On a more serious note, who ever thought this might be a good idea? Censorship never works in this sort of cases, it never has. All it does is it adds legitimacy to fringe beliefs. I for example still think that if it hadn't been for the martyrdoms and censorship they had to suffer early on the Christians and their sect would have had never gained such a following.
The NYT article about over-sharing vacation photos can be generalized to the widespread human nature of narcissism: people share too many personal highlights that most others don't care about.

E.g. new mother shares endless stream of baby photos while most of her 20-something ex-college friends/coworkers are oversaturated with it. (E.g. the sentiment that if you've seen one blob of an undifferentiated poop machine in diapers, you've seen them all.) Yes, the infant is The Most Interesting Person In The World to that mother so it seems logical to her that others would find her posted photos to be interesting too.

On a large scale, we simply have no self-awareness about our narcissism and its banality to others.

Long before the existence of the internet and Facebook in the days of film photography, hosts would torture their dinner guests by having them gather in the living room and flip through slides[1] of the hosts' vacation. The guests silently suffer through the boring presentation but of course, etiquette means nobody would dare say, "Joe, this is boring and we're going home now." Polite society on a large-scale, self-censors the expression of boredom which perversely continues the large-scale unawareness that sharing too many personal highlights is subjecting friends to cruel & unusual punishment.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=kodak+slide+carousel+slide+p...
"Darknet" is a brainwashing propaganda term.
Please do not use it, thanks.
Why pocket when we have opensource wallabag that you can either host yourself[1] or use as a service[2] ?

IIRC pocket has had some serious vulnerabilites exposed.

[1]: https://wallabag.org/en
[2]: https://wallabag.it/en
Well at least for yourself you could adjust code blocks with Stylish [1] and some custom css.

[1]: https://userstyles.org/
There's a good reason not to use edge: it's not available outside windows.
You sound like my old CS classmates ;)
Just tried it here and it seems to work fine in Wine.
Bitcoin CAN scale globally right now if remove 1 MB cap. If someone doesn't want to hold every transaction of blockchain they can use pruning, and some us us use it already.

For a simple user, it's not worth to keep all blockchain, because it does not matter. they can't change it or include transaction into a new block if they not mining.
Ok sure, and maybe I'll also stop using the TSA and funding war. Both easily justified under "promoting the general welfare".
There's something to be said for being civil, don't you think?
In my city they close the small parks (1-10 blocks, surrounded by cast iron railings) but can't do anything about the huge park that covers several square kilometres and has important roads running through it. There are some hookers and junkies and doggers there at night, but they have to go somewhere and they don't bother the "normal people" who are, after all, tucked up in bed at that time.

All this suggests that locking parks overnight is more about every government's burning desire to "think of the children" and control everything possible than any legitimate concern for public safety.
How does this translate to real use, as in actually loading the pages and having a couple dozens extensions ?

The ability to open 5-10 times more tabs than I use is quite and edge case that mozilla usually doesn't care about, but the real question is what is the point of this when it comes with making firefox totally useless for said use case by dropping support for extension that make it practical or useful.
Irony
It's worth reading the article for the details on loopholes.
Smart driving licenses
That seems unnecessary snarky to me.

The bug wasn't that the UI and business logic were (or are, I haven't looked at the code) intermingled.

But that a refactoring of the UI and a refactoring of the contract code were done in the same step.

If they were done separately, the smart contract refactoring wouldn't have slipped through unscrutinized.
Well, it's not even a metric, so that's the first issue. Second, I'm not a utilitarian.

But the issue with it, for me, lies in the ambiguity of what "general welfare" means. If you have a bunch of people driving cars, building stupid highways might promote the general welfare even though we should build bike paths and sidewalks instead.
Just don't submit to all of them at once, that's a good way to crater your google rank.

Some of those are also really spammy (Maqtoob) and I suspect have negative seo value.
Bitcoin hasn't solved the scaling problem. All these BIPs are just short term fixes which don't address the core problem. I opened a discussion thread on bitcointalk hoping to catch the attention of the core developers, but it seems they don't read that forum anymore.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2036368.0
Which also means journalists won't be able to access those videos as sources. Although, I'm not ready to call that a bad decision, because propaganda is indeed the biggest problem with ISIS.

This is just treating the symptom, obviously (why do young people ever consider joining a terrorist group? Certainly not through youtube videos as the only factor), but also treating the symptom is ok if we try to solve the deeper problem at the same time (unemployment? defiance resulting from corruption?).
Ok, so all benefits are equal, and all drawbacks are equal? We as a society can't do anything that's not beneficial to absolutely everyone?

I posit that a few things are not that harmful to make public, except in some cases that varies for each individual (like being in a witness protection program) if someone already has the means to identify you as you (such as a full name). Some of those things would be your address, what vehicles you own, wether or not you have stock in corporations, wether or not you're married, your age, your level of education and some other things. I don't see how the knowledge about these things can be used to blackmail you through social stigma, unless you did something illegal. I have the same feeling towards pay checks.

The discussion is wether or not pay checks are too private to disclose publicly, not if it's ok to release everything about everyone.
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The point of the post was supposed to be: Gee-- it's interesting that the site doesn't look visibly "broken" when viewed w/o Javascript, and that might cause people to just skip it.

It doesn't bother me to turn on Javascript when a site needs it. (If I complained about every site posted to HN that needlessly required Javascript I'd never get anything done...)

I'll turn it on by default as soon as websites stop abusing my CPU, battery, and bandwidth with their gluttonous scripts. On my machine, with sites I visit, the browsing experience is perceptibly better (and the machine stays much cooler on my lap) w/ Javascript selectively enabled.
That's not unusual at all. A lecture at Harvard Business School about startup IPO mentioned that first time founder CEO and first time board member get more often then not replaced. Read about the business case of Lewis Cirne who got replaced at his first company Wily, and founded later New Relic with many lessons learned.
True, but irrelevant.
> The truth is, especially at a large tech company, you are replaceable.

This will sound harsh to many, but I believe it's basically true. At large companies, the innovation has already happened; they found a market and are now mining it. Very few large companies can continue to innovate (Apple being the main example), but the rest just ride off into the sunset. Sometimes the market they're in evaporates, and they die, but usually they muddle along.

Venkatesh Rao[1] wrote a series of blog posts on this that are frightenly accurate and jive perfectly with my experience.

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Sounds like iota.org to me a blockchainless cryptocurrency based on directed arcyclic graph
Relevant parts of the government also know what my healthcare status is, but that doesn't mean I'm particularly keen to make it readily discoverable and benchmarkable by anyone and everyone that might wish to profit from this information.

Hacker News might just be the only place where you can see howls with rage at the thought of recruiters and HR asking them their salary in their current job with the obvious intention of not offering much more than that and arguments that this information should be accessible to everyone without question in nice little searchable databases anyway...
How is that relevant to a UI discussion?
I mean, most of those make sense - a 'car licence' (I assume you mean road tax?) pays for roads (in theory). A TV licence pays for the BBC. A radio licence presumably paid for the BBC before there were TVs. Passport fees pay for embassies and other foreign services.

It is hard to see how an expensive drone licence would be justified though.
get him to do a screencast, or many screencasts.
iOS 10 as well. Looks broken.
wonderful, eshell is a nice shellish emacs tool, makes me want to go further but so far it's very potent as is. another johnw gem
Actually, you can't use LN on Litecoin yet. Still waiting for the implementations.
C# has just implemented nested functions.
> This also helps when in most societies women are paid substantially and illegally less than men for the same job.

Any sources to back up this claim? I've seen it a few times, but whenever I dig into the source, it's usually poorly done or playing with numbers. I'll admit I've only dug into the topic a little, and most of the reading I've done has been focused on the US.

I remember reading a while back how some Google employees started sharing their salary, and I think they found there was potentially some degree of discrimination of women. I never dug deeply into it though, and I don't know the ultimate outcome. I don't deny that it could be accurate, I just haven't seen enough information to be convinced.

FWIW, I think you should be able to abstain for providing any of this information, if you want. It should be up to the person to make the choice. Personally, I'd probably be fine with sharing my salary for my workplace, but not my full taxes, which might include other sources of income. One good reason to not want to share this information is that you might not want others to know that you're engaging in other activities. To give an example which I've seen affect others, I've read of women that have been harassed and ultimately fired upon finding out that they're "camwhores" outside of work; although I'll note that I can't verify the veracity of such claims, and I haven't read of it happening in the US.

Ultimately, it comes down to being in control of the information being shared, and with whom. Ideally, I want as little information as possible to be publicly available, unless I choose otherwise. For example, I don't mind telling someone my height or weight, but I'd object to having it be publicly available. Whenever some piece of information of mine is publicly available, it's used in a way which I dislike. For example, credit card companies require you to fucking opt-out from their spam. The audacity of that is absurd.

I think information should be controlled by a trusted party (i.e. government), and people should have to information to share it freely by opting in to different programs. I fundamentally disagree with anything that requires me to opt-out (maybe with a few minor exceptions, regarding certain communications coming from the government).
The entertainment industry is one of the worst possible places to look to try and define "same work". You can easily have two people sat next to eachother where the audience wouldn't care if one was replaced but would leave if the other was. It's like saying musicians should all be paid the same.

I'm left wing and feminist as they come but this gender pay gap narrative is so consistently misrepresented it drives me mad. We're slipping into a society where all professions have quotas because everyone is terrified of a false narrative.
Are you sure about that? I couldn't find any information showing that men and women were paid differently for the same work.
Everyone can look at the numbers and decide the most plausible explanation :

https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-block-size?timespan=all

To my eyes, thats a graph of user growth, not a spam attack.

Similarly, this graph tells the story of an artificial barrier being hit up against :

https://quantblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/median_mean_bl...

In June mempools did go up to 100 or 120 MB ... I think due to new users, who then backed off as fees went up .. but even if we factor that out, there has been a steady increase over the past several years, and mempools are routinely up to 20MB every day - ie. 20x times the number of transactions are waiting for a block, as can fit in that block .. so they have to wait around to be cleared. This is not due mainly to spam, it is due to users wanting to send money with bitcoin.

I disagree that "SegWit is a block size increase" - taking the signature data out of the transaction, means the same 1MB block can squeeze in more transactions, but I think a more honest way of saying this is block "compression" or call it an "effective block size increase".

If segwit saves 50-60% of transaction space in the block buffer, then combined with an actual 2x blocksize increase, thats an effective block increase of ~4x .. which is urgently needed.

I also disagree that blocks need to be small due to the 'firewall of china centralization issue'. I suspect 8MB blocks would flow rather well across Chinas virtual borders, particularly if there are good economic reasons for those blocks to flow. Keep in mind we're talking a paltry 200MB of transactions per day .. I'm sure that level of bandwidth is dwarfed by general internet traffic.

Your explanations are presented as "very good engineering reasons", but I genuinely don't think they are.

Speaking plainly - transaction throughput, and thus user growth, is being strangled by a small block size.
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Personal radios need a license? I'm guessing you mean two-way walkie-talkies?

That's only if they use part of the spectrum regulated by Ofcom. If you use some of the unregulated spectrum then it's fine.

The rest of the licenses make sense. The TV license is particularly important as it pays for the BBC, keeping it relatively free from government interference whilst still creating top-notch content.
Your "mates" can f right off. It debases an otherwise very interesting article. If you're interested, here is another similar setup that went entirely DC http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/05/how-to-go-off-grid-in...
why is it in the public interest to make the search possible at all?
This is kind of how it works in Hong Kong,
but a bit more convoluted.
Aren't you refererring to "All of non-parametric statistics"? https://www.amazon.com/All-Nonparametric-Statistics-Springer...
Either way I can't recommend these books enough, really opened my eyes to the inner workings of statistics in a rigorous yet accessible way.
I generally don't have a problem the idea of registration, but 250g is way too low a limit. If 2.2kg is the FAA's lowest risk category, the limit should be closer to that.
Because people want instant feedback to get happy.
And getting back to Facebook after 1 year off has been one of my worse decisions.
...and the pics don't add anything to the text at all.

He probably just wanted to share his holiday photos.
> It used to be the best browser, and then something happened and it gradually became slow, really slow

In many cases, it wasn't that Firefox became slow but that people installed extensions which made it slow. For years, you could solve 90% of those complaints by uninstalling AdBlock Plus.
you of course where paid for the "non-disparagement" aka compromise agreements ?

Otherwise id be thinking well if they want me to sign this they must have done something wrong in the redundancy process
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I'm tired of Bitcoin's useless drama.
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It's only a matter of time before somebody delivers a too-cheap-to-meter DOI-to-PDF service.
How would this help with the scenario described by the OP? Are you suggesting starting a new virtual machine instead of a new browser window?
Radio only licences existed until the 70s and would cover people who used a radio but not a TV. TV licences include radio.
mempool size over the past 30 days :

https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-size?timespan=30days

Its almost never below 15MB - ie 15x as many transactions waiting to be processed, as can possibly fit in the next block. [ and blocks arrive on average every 10mins, so its a long wait to clear out the daily peak ]

To me these stats really do present a "very good engineering reason" to increase blocksize.
Presumably he's her boyfriend or just a friend and made the site?
Another problem with this is that it stigmatises (and in the long term will prevent) those with no wealth and a high income. I think it's madness but a more fair trade would at least be to also publish everyone's existing wealth. I make an ok income for the minute but am not going to inherit millions in property like most people I know.

Wealth is a much bigger problem than income for society.
I do know those extensions, but still prefer bookmarks. I just tag stuff unread and go on.
Objectifier: train objects to respond to personal behaviors. (2016)
What point do you live in the office? If you ignore time asleep at 56 hours a week, that leaves 112 hours a week. If you work 60 hours a week you're already living at the office.
> We as a society can't do anything that's not beneficial to absolutely everyone?

Are you aware that laws are enforced by government force? That is to say, if you don't obey to a law, cops will be sent to your house and if you resist they will point guns at you and shoot. This is a non-controversial fact that both leftists and right-wing economists, politicians and philosophers agree upon.

Now, with that in mind, I don't like guns and I think they should only be used in extreme situations. I don't consider knowing people's paycheck to be one of these situations where gun violence should be used and therefor I'm opposed to this law forcing people to publish their income as I think gun violence would not make sense in this case. If people do not want to publish this private information, then let them be. That's just my opinion though, if you believe it is worse it to kill people who resist giving up the amount of their paycheck (because that's how every law is enforced if one resists), then you're right, this law is great.
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Yes that's interesting. One thing that's always dogged me is that you can't really encapsulate snippets the same you can code.

For instance - it's easy to find a snippet for Quick sort, but if I want to add a user system to an app (something just as standard), that's like 30 snippets and across 4 files and it might not work.
Not walkie-talkies. Personal radios needed a licence. Back when the TV licence was the TV and radio licence, and there was also a separate radio licence. Radio licences were withdrawn back in February 1971.
Got me curious about non 1D histograms https://www.r-bloggers.com/5-ways-to-do-2d-histograms-in-r/
Depends the 2nd descends from common law which has the right to self defense which is its self a human right.
So what you say is that firefox does not do this. (unless you go deep in about:config which is highly discouraged by mozilla).
The problem with your hypothesis is that quantum mechanics make the calculation more difficult/costly, not more efficient.

The easiest way to show this property are quantum computers. If you have a quantum computer with n qbits, you have 2^n combinations, so to simulate a quantum computer in a classical computer you need O(2^n) time. So it's very inefficient.

[On the other hand, for a small set of lucky problems, if you construct a quantum computer you can solve in polynomial time some problems that require exponential time in classical computers. (But remember that not every problem get this speedup, and it's very difficult to construct a general quantum computer with more than a few qbits.)]