skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I downloaded Nightly on a lark. 4 addons disabled, with a link to this page:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-...

>You can still personalize Firefox with add-ons the same way you do now, except they won’t break in new Firefox releases.

This is a bald faced fucking lie. And I don't mean that in the "sorta misleading" sense, I mean that somebody wrote something that they knew was false and 'outta be slapped for it.

57 is getting pushed out the door with missing functionality, and that is an absolute fact. You absolutely "can not still personalize Firefox the same way you do now", because you're taking that away from everyone without having the replacements ready!

I can sorta understand the reason to kill XUL/XPCOM, but what I can't understand is this desire to drop it on the world come November before all the bits are in place yet.

Guys, Firefox isn't going to turn into a pumpkin if you let it cook for another few months.

On another note, all companies have a resource that they may not be aware of. It's called "good will". Mozilla is burning prodigious amounts of theirs:

* Between the CEO drama,
* the UI rewrite that was apparently received so badly it's getting reverted 4 years later
* the forced addon signing,
* the telemetry dark patterns,
* the forced addon breakage...
* the junk like Pocket, Hello, and VR APIs recieving nontrivial amounts of developer attention while stuff people actually use like print preview and SSL is either ignored or have years old debilitating bugs

Combined with the demonstrated "fuck you, we know better than you" attitude that permeated all of these decisions (I really think Mozilla and GNOME are going to wind up under the same umbrella at some point)...

And what to show for it? Pissed off users, and an also-ran niche browser with almost no tangible competitive advantage (and in fact, a mounting number of disadvantages)

I've got no faith in this company anymore. Eventually, there is going to be a "Mozilla foundation shutting down" topic at the top of this site, and the people making the decisions are going to be completely blindsided as to why.
This from the race of clever monkeys extracting liquid sunshine at 5 million times the rate of formation.

The Saturn V stage 1 engine produced 166 GW of power, roughly the electrical generating capacity of France at the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(power)

The total net metabolic rate of 7 billion humans is about 700 GW. 18.1 TW -- only 100x the first stage power, is the total average human power consumption as of 2013.

The 770,000 litres of RP-1 (kerosene) represent some 18.3 million tonnes of primaeval plant matter converted over tens to hundreds of millions of years into petroleum. Per unit volume, it's very nearly the highest energy-density fuel available from chemical reactions (hydrogen does better on a unit-weight basis, but even that buys you only a factor of three. Oh, and that's what the Saturn V used in its upper stages (where the volume requirements for LH2 were viable).

What you're wishing for is what you've already got.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-IC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1026391317686
It's worth pointing out that that the Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) has been providing this sort of service for at least a decade (I remember seeing them parked outside of train stations in 2008):

https://www.callabike-interaktiv.de/de/registrieren
It was similar in the UK. House flippers fuelled the bubble. Eventually, it got so big, that even the common man on a reasonable salary was struggling to afford a home. Mortgages still got approved, and sure, people with lower incomes would be the first to default, but they were clearly not the cause.
Understanding Misunderstandings in Source Code [pdf]
Yes, I know how things work.
I just imagined my life if none of the technologies were invented, except an amazing store of value + great currency at the same time.
Tinder Experiments: a quantitative socio-economic study
> Full disclosure: I'm one such contractor. We work with small and local government. Cities and counties mostly.

...

>If you are a government organization and the OSS you are using has a bug, who do you contact to get it hotfixed ASAP or find you workarounds?

You, or someone like you, presumably?
Subprime means high debt/credit OR low credit scores. There was a lot more of the former than the latter (flippers, speculators, developers, etc.) Prior to the crash.
Cool article. I am trying to learning AWS Lambda, it will help to build something .

Thanks for sharing.
The Metabolist Routine (2013)
https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman
From what I hear from my fellow Android users, it's a common story. And yeah, it happens less for iPhone. My thinking is that partially it's a platform fragmentation to be blamed. As long as the phone is new, companies will be running perf tests for it, but it's physically not possible to rigorously test an app for 2+ years worth of Android devices. While in Apple ecosystem 2 years == just 2 devices. I'm an Android user from the inception and I observed this ~2 years trend for every one of my phones. My wife's iPhone 5s (not the strongest device by any means) seems to be still fine though.
> It's far easier to swing an election by hacking a few voting machines than to forge thousands of ballots.

Millions of ballots.

You can go further. Australia has independent electoral commissions which run the elections. Voting is compulsory and preferential. The entire process is overseen by scrutineers -- individuals appointed by candidates -- so there are always multiple mutually-suspicious observers in the room. Many of the most subversible steps in the voting process, for example replacing a ballot box that is full, have to be cross-signed by an electoral official and at least two scrutineers appointed by different candidates.

A hand count is performed three times, again under the supervision of scrutineers.

If there is a arithmetical doubt about the outcome of the election, it can be voided and is re-run from scratch. This has actually happened once when several ballot boxes for the Western Australian senators were lost during a federal election. It was very unlikely, but possible, that those votes could have changed the outcome of the final senate position.

The High Court voided the entire Senate election and it was redone.

Elections must be trustworthy. Cumbersome, people-intensive systems are paradoxically better at this. The odds that a malicious attacker could replace millions of hand-written ballots, subvert hundreds of independent professionals, subvert thousands of independent volunteers, subvert thousands of mutually-hostile scrutineers and also fool thousands of journalists is low.

I would say substantially lower than the odds for being able to subvert a single programmer or sysadmin.
years later gai machines dig up old hn archives and wonder at the stupidity of the downvoters :)
You would be wrong. It is a widely held belief that the government forced lenders to give mortgages to unqualified poor people, and that is what caused the crash.

Here is pushback against that thinking from 2008! It still has a lot of traction, probably as much as it did in 2008. With a bit of effort I could probably find a similar article from every year between then and now.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2008/10/subp...

Edit: from 2013
http://www.businessinsider.com/republican-explanation-of-200...
Anything networked is a fail. If machines were offline and had an extremely simple, embedded code base, and all they did was to mark (highly visible, perhaps square) marks on a paper, 100 to a line, of vote tallies to be humanly summed, it seems like it would reduce error. There could still be punch card ballots that each person verified were entered correctly (ie directly read) to have a better trail as well. But there isn't really a need for a computer for that. It could all be analog/mechanical.
Oh hi another Kurzgesagt fan! :D
The Bay Area already has this, in the form of Google Bikes, which sometimes (often?) find their way off-campus.

I have before come across one outside the entrance to my apartment building (the one I live in, I mean): The bike was standing on the walkway, obstructing it. I found that interesting, because the building has two underground secured area for bikes, and residents can take their bikes through to their apartments.

You may reply "Well, where was the outside bike rack?" And you are right, there is none. But, in response I bring up the Whole Foods not too far away: They have a bike parking area, and the Google bike was parked not there.

Of course, it's possible (likely?) that a Googler hadn't left it there: Someone could've taken it. Either way, I think the point still stands: You have effectively a station-less bike sharing plan, and bikes are ending up outside of where they're supposed to be.

Does Google still do 20% projects? This seems like an interesting thing to study!
> If they were in fact all Ponzi Schemes then people would already be in jail.

Well it was the SEC that oddly of all the ICOs published an opinion on the DAO, the one ICO that was hard forked (erased from existence). Though if the DAO wasn't erased, based on the SEC opinion it is fair to say they would have brought a case right? I mean its not exactly fair for them to conclude the DAO was an illegal sale of securities and then not enforce the law.

Separately, we have instances of the SEC contacting ICOs and informing them they are in violation of the law and the ICO investments being returned to investors...so I think the SEC has fully weighed both sides of the equation.

Certainly the comment you are responding to did not say ICOs are ponzi schemes, they just simply applied your ICO logic to another situation, but truthfully many ICOs will turn out to be ponzi schemes and outright fraud, and likely the DAO was neither (surely it would be fraud if they were the hacker) but they still were likely violating securities laws.
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I saw an adult riding one in the suburbs yesterday. Really weird to see an adult riding a bike without the full spandex gear.
The Progressive Assault on Laissez-Faire by Barbara Fried.

It's more pragmatic, aka not Marx/theory but it has some good arguments against our current econ/legal framework.
> The problem is this: we don't have any machine that simplifies vote counting while being as trustworthy as having many people count marks on many sheets of paper.

Except there's no problem. Hand counts work fine.

Impatience is not a reason to substantially weaken the foundations of democratic legitimacy.
Those loans are still extended today, and there are lenders like LendingClub or Prosper catering to those needs in personal loans market.

However, with their typical junk rating they're a small portion of the market, interesting only to investors with an appetite for risk.

The systemic trouble started when instead of junk those loans were rated AAA, which then opened the door to pension funds and institutional bond funds.
Build a REST API amazingly fast
> I can't stand the current FF UI and I will not give up on this.

Then the simple way forward is to make your own browser, isn't it? Use an embeddable engine which does all the hard work for you and focus on making the UI the way you insist it must be. It really could be a single developer project.

So why not just do that?
Plus: what if it does, and someone wants me to prove how I voted?

Ballots are deniably secret to prevent vote buying and menacing for votes.
Is there a third-party AR library that can be bundled in an android app, using existing cameras/sensors? I wonder.
yeah, i was trying to allude to that. I found the way of looking at things compelling, regardless.
> Progress of society does not even enter into it, at all.

Capitalism in America, 1800-1900, brought along with it enormous, unprecedented, and historic improvements in longevity, height, and reductions in infant mortality.
The two things aren't mutually exclusive. The government absolutely did strongly encourage writing loans to less conventional borrowers, with the implied threat of civil rights investigations.

At first, the encouragement was tied to home ownership programs that pre-screened applicants and provided training for owning a home. My dad ran one of these for a few years, and they were remarkably successful at transitioning section 8 recipients to homeowners and often homeowner/landlords.

Later, they decided that wasn't fast enough and they skipped the education and screening and just wrote loans.
Having to use something like Redux, conceptually solid but so full of boilerplate, instead of re-frame is kind of like having to use Java at work instead of Clojure.

Some of us are just lucky, I guess.
I still don't think you're appreciating or demonstrating an understanding of how debt affects people's thinking and behavior.

I have dozens of friends and family who are in the top 5% of the US population in terms of math skills who have all tried to play "smart" games with debt and come out as big losers as they continued to play. I'm talking software engineers, dentists, doctors, pharmacists, tenured math professors, and so on.

The problem is not math skills. The problem is not managing deadlines. The problem is that these people are human and are not immune to the pernicious effects of debt. Even you. Even me.

Here are some things you haven't considered or acknowledged:

* How debt influences the choices we make. Would you have bought such an expensive car if you had to pay cash? Statistically, the answer is no. If forced to use cash, might you have opted to buy a less expensive used car? Are you sure you didn't buy thousands of dollars more car in order to "save" a few hundred bucks?

* How managing debt takes over space in our minds. What could you be if you could free up mental capacity for other things?

* How debt warps our perspective and plays to our human weaknesses and short-term desires. Are you sure you're coming out ahead? How do you know?

You can't run an A/B test on yourself, but you can open your eyes and take a look around. It's not pretty out there.
> No, we were talking about hacking, not things like DDoSing.

What exactly do you think they're talking about when they write "hackers"? They're talking about DDOSers and data ransomers. Criminals, not some romantic bringers of justice, or something.
Well, even if it is not impossible today, the likelihood of making it big approaches zero.

In 2010, people were hungry for iOS games, but the supply of quality games was limited.
There were few people who were able to write good OpenGL ES2 apps.
Now, there is the Unity engine and others.

For several years now, the market has been saturated.
Years ago, I already saw a 1000 new games per week in Apple's iOS store.
I suspect this number is larger now.

The one-man app-store hit days are over.

Also... Apple no longer gives you free visibility in "new releases."
Worse... it makes you bid on the search results (!!!!)
> They are various forms of abuse imagery and are both crimes and evidence of crimes.

They can be that and still be porn to some people.
I personally believe it's a valid excuse. Amazon should be included in the blame and should play a larger part in helping to provide automatic scanning for sensitive data, virus/malware protection, automatic data protection policies and other tools that can automatically detect/protect information. It's the lack of (local enforcement?) of data protection laws as well, similar to how a bar has to ID patrons before serving alcohol or lose it's license to serve. There simply needs to stop being a Wild West mentality in IT. At a minimum it shows the importance of design & UX.
Capitalism in India (and many other countries), 1990- is bringing enormous, unprecedented and historic improvements in poverty levels.
I just hope we don't sling shot back to individualistic ownership driven economy (as opposed to sharing economy). Sincerely hoping that after the dust settles there is a tiny bit of forward progress.
You see this a lot in IRC channels, but you also see a lot of people just helping everyone. The secret is that most of these people have a pretty basic level of knowledge themselves, and that's one of the reasons they're in those IRC channels. They do it so they can find out gotchas and solve small problems to become better at something. I've done problem solving for strangers on IRC, and I must say: it works, in that it seriously improves your own knowledge.

And the thing is: this is one of the greatest things about open source ! You can actually easily get someone to help you with basic problems. You can just join one of these IRC channels and go from "mediocre C programmer" to "slightly-above-mediocre C programmer that knows 5000 gotchas most don't" in a month or two. You will get invitations to projects and you will find yourself far more motivated by helping out people than by, say, an online course.

But yes, IRC requires a bit of a thick skin. And whilst there are plenty of women and even teenage girls there, you quickly learn that on a topical channel you should not tell anyone who you are.
"Past returns are not predictive of future gains." After taxes, im pretty sure you'd be lucky to get 5% amortized yearly returns.
> Small communities aren't being trampled upon, they're the ones doing the trampling.

lol. You have an hilariously parochial point of view.
* Swift is one of the best-designed languages out there.
One feature I dislike about swift is the Optional type and the "?!" business, borrowed from Scala, I assume. It makes coding experience much less pleasant, yet providing little value-add. What is wrong with good old nil?
> A utilitarian would say that is a equal outcome to everyone having equal measures of happiness.

lots of people (myself included) would strongly posit that utilitarianism is a thoroughly incomplete foundation for a moral framework.

to be clear, i think it's absurd and callous to treat those outcomes as equal for anything other than a back of the envelope calculation or a thought experiment.

if you're going to put forward a philosophy 101 idea, at least do the philosophy 101 level work of trying to defend a controversial point of view against charitable objections.
I agree 100%. The beginning was good, gave many unconventional views of what is the essence of debt and money, especially in other cultures and periods in history. But in the middle of the book, the author started rambling about the history of everything with a loose connection to money or debt, with no real point to be made. I gave up reading somewhere around there.
I assure you I am not being sarcastic. By history and by the objective metrics used by economists capitalism works and alternatives tried do not. There are two legitimate criticisms of this I'm aware of: (1) capitalism is less optimal than scheme X that has never been tried yet, or (2) the metrics used by economists doesn't measure what we should value--maximizing them doesn't necessarily result in optimal outcomes, as measured by better social utility metrics that we should be using instead.

TFA falls in the first category as it makes an argument (which I believe btw) that interest rate policies in place result in net transfers of wealth from poor to rich since the 80's.

I could also believe arguments that free market capitalism is a form of local gradient ascent of the GDP landscape that does anticipate or react to global or systemic risks like global warming.

I could also believe an argument that our metrics of societal prosperity don't measure what we really want, which is a moral judgement about whether the society is better or not. E.g. if all the wealth gets concentrated in the 1% and the remaining 99% becomes figurative or even literal slaves, that's probably a worse outcome even if productivity increases. The problem is that while it is easy to cook up such what-if thought experiments, it is not easy to quantify the result into a mathematical model of moral social utility. Come up with such an objective, measurable metric and economists will start using it. Seriously try coming up with one and you will see why no one has. Moral philosophy is still a field of philosophic arguments, not solved problems.
I was interested in Pale Moon, but you just convinced me to skip trying it. Sandboxing is top important, and WebExtensions are rather important there.
I've also seen "ninja" defined as: No Income, No Job or Assets.
State Capitalism / Socialism in the USSR did the same in less than half the time.
Real Estate.
I bought into Vancouver's RE bubble.
Bubble still grows though.
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My point is that you cannot replace GDP with a better metric of societal "goodness" without objectivity defining "good", and that is an unsolved problem.
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Sounds like you're arguing a different point. My assumption was that 'x' == "86 million" AND 'x' == "the amount it costs to develop the software". So, I would just replace "86 million" with "actual cost of developing the software".
The Age of 1,000 Streaming Services Is Upon Us–and It’s Going to Get Ugly
> urban voters are currently disenfranchised

That's an odd way to complain about not being utterly dominant.

> We have Trump because the system discriminates against urban voters, i.e. currently the majority is being damned.

That's a pretty myopic read of the situation, and not very valuable. The solution to something like Trump is not to create a permanently disenfranchised and forgotten hinterland, which really seems like your desired outcome.
Ask HN: Do you read magazines? Which ones?
In the area of the Internet, do you spend money on magazines? Do you buy them in their printed forms or a PDF form? Do you consume them as soon as a new edition gets out? Is there a magazine you would say it is essential to HN audience?
Exactly. If you've never debugged code with a logic analyzer, you can't understand what a hellacious bespoke PITA embedded realtime software can be. Personally, I like this stuff, but it's not everybody's cup of tea, and while your experience is transferable to the next problem, your work product often is not.
This is one of the most powerful books I have read.
This was a pretty funny episode that discusses the most evil people ever to come out of Harvard University including Henry Kissinger.

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-100-chapo-go...
Because you need the mental fortitude to not liquidate your ETFs in the next crash.

edit: that being said, what you said is what I almost always tell friends who have the temptation to augment their income through side projects.
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Blaming house flippers is like blaming a pastry chef for my extra pounds on the waistline - it's a side show, to the real cause.

oil prices reached record levels before 2007 financial crash. Then western economies were being forced into recession by the rising cost of energy and responded by hiking interest rates - that then triggered mortgage defaults and over-leveraged borrowers throughout economy collapsed.

We are and always have been reliant on oil - it's not determinisim but it is dependency.

When oil prices go mad, so do we, and if we are over stretched it breaks us.

We are still over stretched (personal credit at all time highs etc)

And oil has very few places to go but up over long term.