skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then they should bring back the old UI we came to love. I want my blue title bar on Windows, my menu bar, my status bar, my square tabs, etc, etc. Also, I can't imagine living without EdgeWise, so they would have to incorporate that, as well. Other people use different sets of features, which are also not supported in the new plugin model. How can Mozilla ever hope to plug all these holes (pun intended)?
I think it's a great example of our governments' misunderstanding of modern technology and security. Our current governmental computer systems appear extremely fragile[1] and prone to tampering.

If governments were actually serious about electronic voting, they need dedicated committees and bureaucratic entities whose sole responsibility is the maintenance and security of these systems.

I expect the United State to be absolutely crippled by cyber-warfare in the coming decades. On a state level, our government is simply incapable of recognizing the many vulnerabilities their systems have and compensating for them.

While personally I think electronic voting is a trash idea (couldn't we instead still vote via paper, and then read the results via ML? This would give us a "margin of error" of votes, but we would always have the paper ballots to fall back on), I think that tightening IT security is a good thing for governments to do. Especially considering just how poor computer security is for government entities.

[1]. Just want to mention I'm not a security guru. This is just my interpretation after visiting many government websites, reading stories, etc
I'm not shocked at all.

Just nauseated.
Blindsight
Nope, I want as low S&H as possible. In The Netherlands, the S&H is even free by law (sending back is for the buyer though). Even though some shops carefully hide that option.

Why I want as low S&H as possible compared to product price? Warranty. In the EU you get 2 years of warranty by law. If your product cannot be repaired, you can get your money back.

Now take the above example or take the example where you're unhappy with the product (e.g. you figure out the quality is bad, or a production error you notice) and want to send it back (in NL you'd have 14 days to do that for w/e reason, getting a full refund). If the item was free with an S&H of 12 EUR then you gotta send the product back for w/e S&H. It could be 12 EUR, it could be less. After receiving the item (for which you let them sign or else they claim they never got it back; verification costs extra) they'll issue a refund instead, worth 0 EUR. Of course, 0 EUR is an extreme example but even if the balance is out of the way the danger with relatively high S&H is that your refund is worth too little compared to your S&H.

Result? High S&H items have high failure, and are of low quality.

Of course its GLHF getting your warranty if the store is in Asia. Then again, I wouldn't buy directly from Asia. I'd buy from a shop I could verify is from EU, pref old EEG (Benelux, UK, Germany, France).

Either way, its false advertising to exclude such ridiculously high S&H from the total cost of the product. Customs calculates the price of S&H together with the cost of product anyway so you can't use it to avoid paying tax.
Soo... Uptake not looking like a great company then?
>>alienating your faithful users, myself included.<<

I wonder what the telemetry says about those plugins. If it shows a minority, than Mozilla many not give it a thought at all.
In the context of the American diet, yes, yes it is.

Most people's diet contains way too much salt, and therefore it is completely honest to say that salt is "bad for you".
If this is a talk, is there any video of it?
So when is this gonna blow up for someone?

Like are we gonna read about the U.S. power grid being shut down, or an entire state / nation wide election tampering?

It's absolutely terrifying how incompetent these folks are. Why is there no one marketing their skills to governments who have actual skills? Why aren't governments hiring employees with actual skills?

We used to have the most talented structural, mechanical, and industrial engineers in government positions or as government contractors. Is tech simply too young for that to have happened yet? Or are governments failing to adequately respond to their massive skills' gaps?
People talk about it thinking that it will come to Liverpool and it's not, as far as I understand it.

The entire hs2 thing will probably bring hour commutes to London (not from Liverpool) but I full expect to have to pay a premium which means the value becomes questionable imo.
Posted 6 days ago here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105726
Well, I am actually quite disappointed that everyone just believes this.
Sure, the projects are nice. But the reason the post is on the front page is because of his age (that no one seems to question). This is pretty different from other topics on HN.
The Multiverse: Origin of the Concept
Since OMP Tasks it is kinda useful for non-numerical non-trivial applications as well, though still kinda... odd. Odd but neat.
I would say the FF devtools are almost there. And I prefer using them. But there are small things here and there and keep bringing me back to Chrome.

Example of a network timeline.
Chrome: https://i.imgur.com/16ZLENd.png
Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/1j0NZcd.png

I get a better representation of the timeline waterfall in Chrome.

Like I said, the tools are almost there.
Ask HN: How can I make my city better?
Some context about myself:
I have decent hacking and marketing skills. My day job is to technically lead a team of developers and suggest the right path to the non-technical founders.

I live at Chennai, India and I don't want to move to a different city/country. I was born & raised here and this is where my family is. I want to make this city a better place to live.

I try not to be cynical but I have presented some issues below. I think the HN audience would give me better perspectives on how to approach them.

- Merit and knowledge are not valued. They are considered to be attainable only by the "privileged upper class". People do not want to work hard because they're either lazy or have given up. We have activists & protestors than a reliable workforce.

- The ones with talent have already migrated out of the city/country as the society doesn't value them and their career is also artificially limited. Wages are low and peer learning is inexistent.

- Infrastructure like roads, electricity and other public services are poor. I've written to the Municipal Corporation but have never received responses.

- People are wary of new business models and don't open their pockets easily. This makes it very hard for startups to grow here.

- There is huge pride in language and culture but most of it is fluff. People take offence if you dare to suggest that there are better ways of living with the help of technology. They perceive technology to be a luxury of the upper class. They also consider it offensive if you suggest that shedding some bad habits (superstitions) could lead to a better living style. Most people are deeply religious and during festivals, they block roads and play music at extremely high volumes in residential areas. And they even have police protection for such things.

What do you suggest that I do to make this city a better place to live in for people like me?
> Signals travel through the brain about a million times slower than electrons through silicon.

Correction. Electrons' drift velocity in conductors is quite slow and it doesn't affect signal transmission speed.
It's always good to hear about others, and the way we all seem to move through life haphazardly, and create this wonderful thing called society. Maybe even make it better, with all our variations.

> So seems to me you're quite functioning compared to them.

Good to hear it. I was lucky, diagnosed at a young age, and people around me to help teach me how to fit in, and the patience to keep trying.

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Always nice to hear stories from another perspective.

> After all, being unable to totally and completely understand other people is part of the human experience.

I couldn't agree more.

> (edit: not sure who downvoted you)

Shrug. This kinda stuff tends to be sensitive to people. Internet points aren't important enough to get in the way of a good conversation.
that's bad.

...but a surprising number of them are greyscale, to the point that i think that might be throwing it (some).
Back, when I was learning (I was 15 at the time) we didn't even have internet access at home, so you had to learn by downloading stuff in school, put it in a bunch of diskettes, pray none of them borked before getting home and then read for hours looking for what you needed to know. It was awesome, haha!

Now you kiddos have the internet and Github. Lucky whipper snappers! <screams at cloud>

Joking aside, great job! What other technologies outside of the JS stack are you looking into learning?
A lot of landlords & HOAs disallow window units. They also can compromise your home security
Sadly, I don't think the devs have much of a voice anymore. Corporate and upper management have taken over, as shown by the various SJW and usability debacles.

I'm always concerned of this happening to other large-scale independent FOSS projects. Special interests tend to take over without some benevolent dictator.
Voting is still done on paper in Norway. The votes are often counted automatically by scanning the ballot papers. In addition they will now be counted manually at least once as a security measure.
An anthropology textbook in college called "Culture as given, Culture as choice" - basically the good parts of Sapiens minus the preachy, questionable aspects.

Another college textbook, "Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century", I think is the best book you can read if you want to understand our capitalistic societies today.

"Incognito" was great for exploring models from cognitive neuroscience, in same vein as Hofstadter works.

French Enlightenment thinkers - esp. Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, who are not only awesome but in my opinion articulate the core of what's actually worth defending in Western civilization, not to mention are formative of actually good political views.

German idealism, really starting with Kant to lay groundwork, and working up through Hegel, has hands down been the most wild and impactful philosophical journey I've taken. I don't recommend it unless you have some formal background or unusually strong appetite for philosophical reasoning, or (not including Kant) you'll probably just dismiss it or simply not be able to meet the exorbitant time demands required to reach a satisfying level of understanding.

Writers like Borges, Calvino, theater of the absurd - just plain, intellectually stimulating fun.

Disclaimer, I like contemporary 'critical theory' tinkers too, because they make you think outside the box.
If Instagram were, say a government space, this would be called corruption; but, it is a private company operating a defacto public space, so it is seen as...employees disobeying their employer? Or what?

This is precisely the issue with company operated spaces: when there is shady crap going down, there's no accountability.
If it keeps working in FF 57 and won't break after every minor update, I might upgrade. I was actually thinking that providing some kind of officially unsupported backdoor for determined users like us might be a way out of this situation.
> Beyond that though, what I despise is that AirBnB seems to reap all the profits and accept none of the blame.

I dunno; it seems to me that in these cases, the people who are really to blame are the "tenants" who are actually breaking both laws and rental agreements.

I'm puzzled as to why the property owners aren't suing them to recover all the money they lost. I mean, yeah, lawsuits cost money, too, but when you're talking a $20k fine, I would imagine there's at least a good chance of recovering more than you pay...and it didn't sound like any of the mentioned owners were attempting to do anything to the bad-faith tenants.

I totally agree that AirBnB has some serious legal issues looming in its future in most if not all of the jurisdictions it operates in, but I honestly don't see these particular issues as being representative of them.
Or not ;)
I purchased an S5 Active, and I had seen me through when I would have clumsily murdered most other phones. I agree that ruggedization is practically essential.
The color purple: How an accidental discovery changed fashion forever
The problem is that Grewal, the owner of the house that was illegally sublet, isn't and never was Airbnb's customer in any sense of the word. There's no incentive to solve his problem and take down the listing. In fact, the incentives run the other way because the real Airbnb customer -- Grewal's tenants -- are generating revenue for the site.

It would be very interesting if one of these municipalities changed their ordinance to make the booking agent (Airbnb, VRBO, etc) liable for any violation. And $20,000 per violation in Miami Beach does seem ridiculously excessive.
Any reason why you created a new set of accounts on Twitter/GitHub?
https://github.com/KingPixil
It's really sad. I love Firefox, but I think when 57 releases, it'll mark the beginning of the end before everyone switches to Chromium, when they realize it's easier to switch browsers than to find alternatives for all their extensions due to Mozilla's way-too-early deprecation of the existing extension API before many developers are able to switch APIs. Many extensions simply cannot be switched, like Vimperator, due to lack of features in the WebExtensions API or the complexity of the change. Other extensions were developed as one-off projects, like "Google Similar Images" or "Remove Google Redirect in Google Results", so their developers are not around anymore to update to WebExtensions.

That and Mozilla's search for "anonymized personal data" kill the benefits of using Firefox in the first place, which for most people is to avoid using Chrome/Chromium, made by a conglomerate advertisement company. Just last week, I updated to 56 beta and despite disabling Pocket in my about:config, advertisements for news companies (Wired, etc) were displayed thanks to Pocket's "popular news articles" section in my previously blank New Tab page! Even Chrome does not force bundled software like Pocket, despite their stronger incentives for doing so.

I downloaded nightly 57 and it gave me a preview of how bad the extension situation really is. It's like a forced downgrade to a completely different browser, so why not switch to something entirely different at that point? This is what I'll be forced to do, after certificates expire in a few years in the then-out-of-date stable 56 distribution.
Hey Gandalf! One of the big disconnects in participation is technical vs. non technical. I still believes Mozilla is very welcoming to people that can contribute to building the product. However it's much less willing to let people contribute to decide what should be built.

Not saying it's good or bad - Mozilla has never been a democracy - but I feel this is what people complain a lot about.

At the same time I don't see the situation improving, with more and more product/project management happening behind the scenes in docs/platform that are not even accessible in read-only mode publicly.
Yes, every time I hear people talking about how evil or difficult threads are, I just think back to my frequent use of OpenMP. It is really quite easy to take a single-threaded program and make it multithreaded with OMP -- so long as the jobs only read, and do not write shared state.

Usually I will write a program that does the following:

1. Initialize global read-only data structures

2. Parallelize jobs across STDIN lines (or whatever)

3. Output results within a #pragma omp critical block

It works wonders, and is literally 5 additional lines of code to make a single-threaded program multithreaded with OMP. But only for some types of program. The concept is very similar to what GNU parallel does.

In short, threads are not the problem per se, they are just the wrong tool for the job if you have a multiple-readers multiple-writers situation. Message passing, databases, or something else are more appropriate in those cases. But you will pry my read only shared memory space out of my cold, dead hands.
Release Textics-Stream (Text Statistics for Streams)
The devs still have a voice in the sense that they can always quit and fork. Or, in case of Firefox, join the Palemoon team.
I checked the text on the pages, which Google usually seems to use as its primary source of classification data. Most of them have "interracial" or "biracial" on the pages themselves.

I also searched for "____ couples" with every other racial label I could think of. They were all exactly what you'd expect (stereotypically, anyway) for pages and pages.

This seems like a joke or hacktivism or something. It's so far off that it seems very unlikely that the algorithm is wrong.

Either way, I find it far-fetched that this reflects Google's culture. It seems more likely that it's an easy algorithm to game, and someone decided to game it. The "santorum" search results are a similar example.
Lol, no. The market cap is far away, there's just a dip. It will dip further and then it will go up till 6 k
For potassium, there's salt substitutes like No Salt. Calcium and traces of magnesium are needed too. Adding any more sodium is horrible idea because of the increased competition for adsorption and the risks (ie hypertension and fluid retention (swelling)) of adding more table salt.
Great to see my favorites here ...

> Snowball (Warren Buffet), Andrew Carnegie and Rockefeller biographies - for understanding the mental mindset to win in business (it's not what you think)

> Hackers and painters - for understanding startups and how/why they work

> Essentialism, the disciplined pursuit of less and Walden - for understanding how "stuff" gets in the way of happiness
Because these tenants have no money. If they did, they'd likely be buying properties and listing them instead of doing these illegal sublets. The landlords in the area will likely drastically increase the rental deposit (unless it's limited by state or local law to some multiple of the monthly rent). That's the only real security against a tenant.
Is there a good message passing library for C++? Sounds like something for the stl to include.
Goedel, Escher, Bach -- If you're reading this page you will dig this book.

Guns, Germs, and Steel -- how circumstance drove civilizations. Fun storytelling even if it's a bit too "just-so". definitely trains you to look at any situation and seek it's origins with less initial judgement.

The Visual Display of Quantitive Information -- gets at the essence of communication and medium. more than it seems!

The Alchemy of Finance -- "reflexivity", but if you're also interested in Soros or some finance storytelling it's worth it.

The Selfish Gene -- as everyone else has said.

The Prize -- the history of oil. huh? yeah. Likely to change how you look at the history of technology, government, power, the saudis, and geopolitics.
But why tho? How is it different then George Clooney doing some in-movie or news commercial on some new stupid perfume in the 2000s
Google mandates Android O kernel minimums inc 4.4 for SoCs productized in 2017
I have been reading the T3X book and code and I have to say that I am a huge fan of your work. I haven't finished reading it yet, but I have thoroughly enjoyed it so far! I can do successful 'make test' on Linux and NetBSD, but a trivial T3X program seems to misbehave on NetBSD. I look forward to getting to the bottom of it.

A quick question, if you don't mind: why do t.c and t.t differ slightly in the code emitted for t.memcmp, t.copy and t.fill? Thanks!!
"I want to go out". The door is opened. "Lemme think a bit. Nah, I just want the door open". We can't have the door open at all times! "Who do you think you are for me to care? You are a human, invent something."
This is pretty old by Flow and TypeScript standards. It's a year old, and the tools change pretty rapidly.

If people are curious about the differences, they're now almost entirely ecosystem-related. TypeScript has all the benefits and drawbacks of Flow (including type annotations in plain JS files that don't need to be compiled).
My comment wasn't specifically targeted at your blog post, more the general impression I've been getting of Mozilla. And sure, Mozilla is more open than Apple and MS, and probably a bit more open than Google.

But fundamentally, Firefox decisions are made by Mozilla employees, to further the goals of the Mozilla company (which makes money from those decisions - sure, to be hopefully reinvested). Firefox isn't like those other large open source projects where the codebase and thus decisions are owned by many independent (and mostly commercial) entities. Outside contributors have very little say in the product, so I wouldn't say its any better for people to contribute to Firefox vs e.g. Chrome. I.e. Mozilla wants their code - but in the many cases that have become publicised it doesn't seem like Mozilla wants their opinions.

(This is probably just the reality of end-user facing software projects with major UX components. But it's still sad to see contributors being invited in when they'll be ignored in the decision-making.)

// Edit: and it looks like fabrice_d made pretty much the same point while I was writing my comment : )
I'd imagine it's a fairly common replacement. I've seen event photographers do it quite a few times putting their cameras near lasers.
I'm bracing for a serious downvote... I have to admit that Anthony Robbins had a big influence on my thinking, particularly with "Awaken the Giant Within." The message was - you can control how you feel.

Nearly twenty years later, I can see the limitations of his ideas - the danger of creating an arbitrary belief system for yourself and the selfishness of simply deciding what you want and rigging everything in your existence to get it. I also came to believe it's OK to not be happy all the time. But I will always respect Robbins' direct explanations of human motivation and how it can be nudged.

That and 'Single Variable Calculus; Early Transcendentals'; the universe is about change and math can model nearly all of it.
Well, I'm nearsighted. So I can type on my phone without glasses at all. So I was really kinda annoyed when they set the focal distance on some progressives I had to 1 foot. Laptop reading was possible but uncomfortable.

I have given up on progressives altogether. Single vision for me is awesome. But my big recommendation is to educate yourself on the choices available cuz you can't expect an optometrist/optician to do this in five minutes.
Fair enough. I've only been a few times in the last few years and it's always been heaving. You had to wait in queues to get a seat in a coffee shop an that was during the holidays.
>Forbes says that recent generations of iPhone have sensors and lenses just big enough to cause damage if you point them at the Sun for more than a couple seconds, but that selfies that include the Sun are fine because the front camera and sensor are small [4].

i don't buy it. phones get their rear cameras pointed towards to the sun all the time. all it takes is you putting the phone on its back out in the sun. you'd be hearing thousands of reports iphone cameras mysteriously getting damaaged. not to mention that it's not really forbes saying that, it's some blogger that forbes sold its name to (a practice they're infamous for)
I'm going to be switching to the extended support release[1] (based on Firefox 52 but with security patches through June 18th 2018).

I don't mind WebExtensions, and cross-browser compatibility is a nice goal, but a half-baked system that breaks the most important distinguishing feature of Firefox (extensions that can modify any part of the browser) is ridiculous.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/