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Yeah, that specific case wasn't fixed; it appears that Mozilla doesn't intend to let addons run on `about:`. However, they did make `about:` respect DNT by disabling GA.

WebExtensions currently fall short when it comes to any addon that modifies the UI significantly (tree-style tabs etc), though it's been mentioned in some other comments here that they're talking to addon devs to extend the API where possible.
At a guess there could be an initial download of the base app with the most common functions that's ~50-100MB that you can cache and then functions/plugins can be streamed in as a when you use them.
> I'm fairly certain that this application of machine learning will present some surprising strategies.

And so it begins...
Usha Ramanathan has noted many times that the so called 'savings' are due to two factors: global fall in oil prices, and more worryingly due to the denial of services from biometric issues.

Someone here worried it can be use d for genocide, You know what ? It's already happening.
I always prefer my clients to go for the custom native app. They wanted to have hybrid app for their hotel app. I feel hybrid apps are slow in performance and lack standard os UI.

Custom apps serve better and stand out among other rivals. You can create the app based on your customer's needs. That can be only done by custom mobile app design. It will boost product brand and user engagements ie: Airbnb, Uber, Tinder are good examples of custom native apps.
You wouldn't be surprised because that's exactly what you want to believe.

It's so funny: the more things change. For decades we've been hearing arguments about why women can't go to college, shouldn't vote, can't serve in the military, can't become doctors, can't become lawyers, won't make good judges, can't be a CEO, don't have what ot takes to do science. Every one of these idiotic arguments have proven false.

And yet nothing has changed. Here we are in 2017 with many holding out that software engineering -- a trivial pursuit that mostly involves sticking crap in databases written by real computer scientists -- is somehow special. Most women just don't have what it takes.

What it really demonstrates is that stupid people will cling to the status quo. In 25 years when in fact the majority of developers are women (because in fact we often see women dominate collaborative knowledge-driven fields) these arguments will look just as silly as the arguments that no woman could ever perform surgery without fainting.
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Does most of the money made by professional "YouTubers" come from Google or is that just a secondary income stream that is completely overshadowed by product placement and the like? This surely varies from show to show, but those where Google is just a minor part could potentially gain a lot more from the increased exposure than what they would lose in formal ads. One might question wether those shows qualify as "quality content", but it's Facebook, expectations are already low (not that they would be terribly high on YouTube). I expect a lot of crossposting.
Snap has itself to blame for using a complex UX that kept a lot of casual users out. I tried it a couple of times. Could never figure out how the damn thing worked and couldn't be bothered to try harder.

IG runs like a dream in comparison
I also wonder how dangerous fallout was considered to be, in the long run. I have the impression that up into the late 60s fallout was considered dangerous in the short term but not after say a year.
Good in its simplicity. Basically, they construct not-quite-but-local hyperfeatures using edge triangles and then compute a descriptor (perceptual hash) for all these hyperfeatures. In this way, you get many features on different scales allowing for retrieving composed images, and, when comparing, use the most informative fragment available.

The big problem is, a moderately complex image can yield n³ triangles, so you have to limit your feature space in a way that would have consistent behavior across transformed versions of the image.
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What you describe has also been going on for nearly a century, at least in Europe: movie (and ordinary) theaters with a foyer (anteroom?) were people drink, smoke (in the past, but also now in some countries) and socialize before the movie starts and during the intermission (a short 10-15 minute break splitting the movie in two parts customary in some countries so you can piss in peace, have a drink or a smoke back in the day, and restock on popcorn without missing anything).

And that's for regular movie screenings -- there are also all kinds of organized screenings, where people get to talk and discuss the movie afterwards, especially for art films and such.

But already being in an audience while the movie plays, and being aware of people's reactions etc. is a shared experience (and it had been alluded as such by tons of filmmakers).
Question: If I understand this correctly, it means all one would have to do is move 30-60 mins away from the center of a suspected target city to massively increase one's chances of surviving an attack on said city?

(From 20mt NK strike, for example)
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Allow me to clarify some things in my post:

I intentionally worked on the basis of stereotypes or generalisations. If 60% of group A wants prefers X over Y while only 40% of group B prefers X over Y, it's accurate to speak in general terms, even if there are many individual exceptions. Any discussion of women in technology _in general_, as opposed to individual women in tech, inherently relies on the ability to make generalisations.

As to how I presume it, I was basing my thoughts on the the science of gender differences. Take a look for example here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38061313_Men_and_Th...

In particular, "Results showed that men prefer working with things and women prefer working with people, producing a large effect size (d = 0.93) on the Things-People dimension."

By "care to become them", I meant less the _desire_ to be a good engineer, and more _actually_ enjoying the hours spent in lone engineering. It's one thing to want to be a good engineer in the abstract, or to enjoy holding an engineering role at a company (and some engineering roles in some company cultures are much more people-oriented than other engineering roles), and it's another thing to be somebody who would happily spend a weekend understanding some algorithm, and evenings developing some new open source library as a side project. There are definitely some women who will enjoy these over the alternatives, but not many, and far fewer than there are men, as shown by the huge differences in the Things-People dimension and the huge differences in how many men versus women actually do those things.

And I'll speak just for myself: sitting away at a screen chopping away at some problem often just isn't emotionally fulfilling. And I don't think women who are not engineers really envy those who spend their time this way.

I definitely support initiatives to expose more girls and women to technology, and to raise the profiles of minority group role models in tech. And perhaps the lesson of the Things-People difference is not that engineering isn't for most women, but rather that engineering needs to be done in a more emotionally connected and social way, for example with pair programming.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12697324
You realize she does lead her comment/ TL;DR with "He's secretly pushing an alt-right agenda"?
No.

First, the section is "Non-discrimnatory ways to reduce the gender gap".

You cannot reduce the "gap" by aiming at the women who are already at Google. This should be obvious. They are already there. To make a dent in the gap, you need to attract more women who currently do not choose to work in tech or not at Google. So nothing he writes is about his colleagues at Google, or by extension women who are already in or interested in tech. It is about potentially attracting those who are not currently interested in that career.

Second, this is about subtle differences in the distribution of preferences in populations with huge overlaps. So when you have an individual in front of you, you simply cannot tell whether they will exhibit this trait more or less by inference from the population statistic. And you certainly can't say "all X have more of this property than all Y". He even has a nice graph for this.

Third, it's not about ability, but about preference. "Women on average show a higher interest in people..." How do you get from "preference" to "ability"?

Fourth, you are assuming a symmetry where "higher X" implies "lower Y that's complementary to X". This would probably be true for interests (if I a am more interested in working alone, I am probably less interested in working in groups). But it does not translate to abilities.

In fact, one of the documented areas where gender differences in ability do show up is exactly a case of this lack of symmetry: you've probably heard that tend to score higher on the math SATs and women higher on the verbals. This is apparently not the whole story: men with high math scores do tend to not also have high verbal scores (and therefore prefer STEM). However, for women the two are correlated, not anti-correlated: those with high math scores tend to also have high verbal scores, so they have more options. And people with more options tend to prefer non-STEM options, regardless of gender.

Fifth, I thought pair programming was a Good Thing™?
> Also, the move to WebExtensions is a move to a more secure extension model. Traditional XUL extensions were comparable to the extension developer compiling their own code into the browser. Yikes.

Not if you previously moved to the Jetpack, err addon-sdk with cfx, err jpm tool. Now there's yet-another API to move to. At least this one will make it easier to develop portable extensions (but still not straight-forward).
The only freedom of the three freedoms that applies to users (almost nobody is a developer!) is the freedom to redistribute .

So it is basically about the freedom to copy someone else's work without compensation.
This breaks the HN guideline against calling names in arguments. Please don't do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14977201 and marked it off-topic.
the thing is, these apps are already multi-GB when compiled for x86/x64 platforms.

and please, please whoever is doing it - the performance will be crap compared to instant desktop. you can't get around it. it doesn't matter how powerful PC or how fast internet connection will be. I see it on gmail with my 100 mbs connection all the time, PC being quite performant one. when it was 800 mbs nothing changed.

I can accept it in gmail/facebook/whateva where expectations are low, but for anybody doing serious work in these tools, it will be frustrating, annoying experience for foreseeable future. As an complement to desktop app (say on the roads), why not. But nothing more
You mean excited? With WASM-native APIs for the DOM and WebGL we can basically run full desktop apps without Javascript hacks in the browser. That's amazing.

I could even imagine something like a browser but with no HTML or DOM. With just WebGL and maybe a few other APIs you could have a really awesome app platform.
The best metaphor I have ever seen to understand why proprietary software is evil.
> argues that cognitive sex differences influence performance in software engineering.

Damore never argued for this, he argued that cognitive sex differences could possibly influence interest in software engineering work as it done today and that difference in interest could partially explain the gender gap in tech. He then suggest that we try alternate approaches when we try to increase women's representation since they might work better, which hints at him thinking that women would be valuable as engineers at Google, just that the current arguably misplaced diversity efforts might not achieve that goal.
That's a gross oversimplification of the issue.

Would the same outcome have happened if this guy had posted his manifesto on a blog outside the office, rather than distributing it to colleagues at work?

Would the same outcome have happened if the various arguments in the manifesto had been individual articles on a personal blog over a period of time?

Would the same outcome have happened if the manifesto hadn't been explicitly critical about diversity hiring at Google, and rather had been generally critical about EEO law at the state and federal level?

There are so many ways this situation could have been different, but the lesson you choose to take from it is "don't express your opinion in public"? That's what really explains Trump.
> It's mysterious to me how literally every action a feminist takes is somehow directly responsibile for all problems that befall them, with every action that might possibly hurt a man being somehow a catastrophe in the making.

As I read it, the grandparent's sole argument was one of unintended consequences, specifically that censorship only intensifies certain problems instead of alleviating them.

I don't see how this can be interpreted as to hold feminists responsible for something -- I don't even see the relationship to feminists at all. Could you please expand on that?
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this is actually incorrect you can verify a tls connection was made to a server and a particular output was given in that tls connection with oraclize it.
I feel that "age discrimination" is not actually due to discriminating against age. It's that some older people are less willing to learn new programming languages and libraries, etc - that is what they will be discriminated against, not their age.
Yes. "Not actually being there" is very useful in this regard, and 60 minutes of commute can get you rather far away.
damn... didn't expect that, though also not FULLY surprised, but thanks for killing my backup dream :D /jk
I didn't truly understand regular expressions until I saw how they are executed. There are simple algorithms for executing them, so that might not be such a bad way to teach.
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That's if the installer is designed well and all the questions are front-loaded. Unfortunately not all installers are... Heck, I think it took Microsoft until Windows Vista to do it for the OS.
All this article is missing is the referral links - then I don't see any difference with other websites, which the author wants to distinguish from. Actually, there are some good websites around - it just takes a lot of patience to search...
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> Take Ossoff's challenge in Georgia. He lost by 4 points in a district that went for Trump by 19 points. Moreover, the Republicans were required to spend $25 million in order to defend a seat that they had most likely budgeted around $0 for. That's what's called a weathervane. Or a canary in a coal mine.

Isn't that normal? In Australia these sorts of elections usually swing heavily against the government of the day but are very poor predictions of what will happen at a general election. Is this not the norm in America?
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No, it assumes you have finite resources and finite bridges to burn, and advises that you do the resource and bridge allocation wisely.
Why do you not think StarCraft is a real strategy game?
So? Most symbols are 'unnecessary'. I'm pretty sure we could get away without ^ | # @ ` { } [ and ] for example. Hell Ancient Greek didn't even have spaces.
>So you start some sequence (like a new UIViewController) and interact with it via callback events instead of having a single (blocking) thread of execution that waits for the view controller call to return like a function. This makes it virtually impossible to deterministically model flow control.

Why on earth would you have a single blocking thread on a UI app?
Nah, as Sundar's response says, and I agree with, he didn't get fired for discussing things that shouldn't be discussed, or criticising ideology. That should be welcomed. http://fortune.com/2017/08/08/google-anti-diversity-memo-sun...

He got fired for the other bits, the casually implying 40% of the workforce were, onr average, somehow inferior and less suited to their work than men, and for not taking it down but stirring the pot, when he realised that he'd wildly misjudged the reaction people would have to it.
Yeah it really sucks when people do that. Glad it's not very often.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=plasma+company
If you click through to the creator blog you will find: "Over time, creators will be able to monetize their shows through Ad Breaks. We’ve been testing Ad Breaks over the past few months, and we will be slowly opening up availability to more creators to ensure we’re providing a good experience for the community. Creators can also create sponsored shows using our branded content tag."

https://media.fb.com/2017/08/09/introducing-watch-and-shows-...
We've come a long way if Linux-only features are considered a standard. I'm all for container standardization, but was rather expecting to hear about how AWS/AMI basically implementing POSIX.
> I used to have a useful feature that worked.

> Now I don't.

Well, imagine for a moment that you're whoever is in charge of firefox development at mozilla:

- You want to take advantage of modern hardware such as multiple cores, GPU's etc.

- You want to get rid of XUL which is an evolutionary dead end.

- You have an existing extension model which basically allows extensions to more or less freely poke about in the internals of the browser

- You want to improve security for users, both against malicious sites and (to a lesser extent, I suppose, but still) malicious browser extensions.

Now, what would YOU do if the constraint is that you can never ever break existing extensions?
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Author has misread, misunderstood, and misrepresented manifesto guys doc, attributed motives AND tried to tie this into the alt-right.
These invariants are standard practice in computer vision. In fact, you won't go anywhere without translation and brightness invariance, more often you need also scale (uniform) and rotation invariance, and limited projective transform tolerance.

There are various ways to deal with this in ML (not really an expert in ML), but AFAIU in most cases you get candidate transforms via model-based methods, and then make the decision using ML-based methods trained to allow for limited transformations (convolution nets are good at that).
The idea is for extensions to have the flexibility they have had. I don't think anyone would object to WebExtensions if it didn't cripple or make existing extensions impossible to exist in the future.

Also, this interest is not about the majority of the users. This is about the users who know about Firefox extensions and use a bunch of them everyday! I know my life has certainly become more productive and less stressful with several extensions than without. In my experience, Firefox extensions have also historically been of better quality and reliability compared to Chrome extensions. For now, I have just two examples for my case - switching proxy servers and saving/restoring browser sessions. I use Firefox extensions that work beautifully, and just as one would expect (they're Foxy Proxy and Session Manager), but similar extensions in Chrome don't work and I always end up fighting more with the browser and the extensions to have a better experience. To this day, I can't trust Chrome to restore a crashed session on the first (re)launch. So I use Chrome more as a one-off browser once in a while and try to avoid having long running sessions (my browser sessions on Firefox can span several days, weeks or sometimes even months).

My opinion is that technically savvy people must use their knowledge and influence to guide others to use things that make life easier and better. I have been following this myself by encouraging people to use Firefox and by showing them some great extensions to have.
The whole point of this is to move computation off the main chain and enable it to scale better.
> They help you get stuff out of the business

Nope; they help the business get the most out of you without getting sued. That's the alpha and omega of HR.

Their obligations are to the company, not to you. When they answer your questions, they do it so you can't claim later on that the company didn't tell you such and such or that the procedure XYZ was unclear, and sue them. They are nice so that you won't see the company as adversarial and sue them. And so on and so forth.
I think a big chunk of "why is the kernel's git workflow the way it is" is just "it's a formalized and tooled-up equivalent of the preexisting organizational structure where everybody was emailing patches, submaintainers had kernel source trees on their local machines that they were in charge of, etc". That said, one area I suspect the 'branches in a common repo' model will have trouble is access control. With the kernel's approach I can set up a tree for the Foo subsystem without needing to have any kind of privileged access to the 'official' kernel tree: whoever I send Foo pull requests to chooses to accept them, or not, case by case. I don't get to make unreviewed changes to other bits of code. (Disclaimer: I haven't looked at github's access control model, maybe it lets you lock down master?)

You can do kernel development with a "we give commit access out fairly freely" model, of course (I think some of the BSDs are like that, again as historical accident of the cvs style tooling they used to use); but Linux hasn't historically been socially organised that way, and changing tools is easier than changing organisational structure.
Note that men and women typically present themselves differently on CVs and in selection criteria, with men typically giving themselves credit for work done in teams while women typically talk about the teams they were part of.

This would easily explain why blind resumes resulted in a larger proportion of men being selected.

edit: to contrast with the orchestra scenario, a resume is not a skill test, while an audition for an orchestra is a skill test for exactly the type of skill that the candidate is being chosen for.
Yes, because you becomes dependent of the good will of the seller if you encounter bugs, limitations, incompatible hardware or if the OS updates in incompatible ways.
Ah! I see, and yes, that would qualify in the "Transit Pass" section, although it's really at least seven seats (the driver can not occupy one of the six seats). More specifically, it's "In a vehicle that seats at least 6 adults (not including the driver)".

It seems the details are here: https://help.lyft.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002073608--Line-C...

That makes me wonder, although the problem is solved from the technological & regulatory sides, how many of those types of vehicles are there. I guess that's why this option is only available in four cities.
Well yes, but companys interest in this case is not to have a PR fail at their hands.
What is containerd?
It seems like caffeine and creatine are the two nootropics with a substantial amount of evidence behind them.
The guy is absolutely pushing an alt-right agenda, it's plain to see in the manifesto, and that's before we get to his guest appearance on a prominent alt-right YouTube show.