skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low contrast is a poor 'design decision'. You instantly cut of a percentage of your potential market by that design, such as myself. I have an eye condition that makes focusing difficult and your low contrast design makes pieces of your website completely illegible to me.
It doesn't yet, see the final paragraph here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/09/firefox-quantum-developer-...
> Vulkan is only on Linux and Windows

And android. I.e. everything but Mac OS, iOS.
The key is, which version a week ago? Unless it was nightly you wouldn't have seen any of the stuff in the OP.
The rich and powerful have always tried to get away with... anything they can get away with. Every industry, every political party, every time period. There is no humble and innocent team, even your team. If you think this isn't happening today you're just naive.

You should always be skeptical of those people, especially when the amounts of money start getting into the hundreds of millions+. Those people have nobody's interests but their own in mind.

Pretending that SEO companies are more or less scummy than a social network or a search engine or an oil company or an airline or a defense contractor is a waste of time. Be skeptical of all of them.
> However having something available as part of DB or Hadoop ecosystem enables reproducible execution while taking care of compliance (e.g. privacy), security, access control etc.

You are conflating a couple of things here.

Of course for real analyses, you want to run them on standardized environments with appropriate access controls.

But nothing says that "standardized environment" has to use a distributed database that, from all accounts, seems to harm more than help.

You could just have a RDBMS or even filesystem, which is appropriately backed up or replicated, on a single beefy VM or physical machine.

> The real opportunity lies in ability to add arbitrary compute/memory capacity to DB query execution flows.

Only if the tools used to provide that ability actually allow you to take advantage of it. If scaling up to 160 nodes doesn't allow you to be any faster than 1 single laptop, you probably could have spent a lot less money on just adding more RAM to a single beefy server than a 160 node cluster.
Vimperator, unfortunately, appears to be one of the few extensions that can never be fully ported, as it made use of API's that implied a security risk.
I agree, but I don't know that that is such an impediment that the app wouldn't be usable.
It's already been in Nightly for a while, which I was using specifically so I could take advantage of the things in this article.
Good eye! Sanic sped
Surely you mean Phoenix. Man those were better days. https://blog.mozilla.org/community/files/2013/05/2002_phoeni...
The value we see in the app navigation is the following:

The navigation is separated in three broader levels.
1. The first level is everything that is relevant in the moment (Inbox, Next, Away).
2. The second level is to organize everything Idea, Project or Archive. From time perspective mostly related to the next weeks.
3. And the third level is to review your hole system.

After a short time it will feel like walking through different rooms and levels in a building.
I've been using this on the nightly channel since 57 became available there and it has been an amazing improvement. Excellent work by the fine folks at Mozilla!

I starting using nightly expecting to have stability problems and then just drop it, but can't remember it crashing or having any issues at all.

The speed improvement has been nicer than expected, but it's particularly impressive that they've done it while also keeping things so stable and working all this into such a large complex piece of existing software.

This kind of work and their freedom focused goals will probably make a donor out of me.
>Firefox Quantum feels right at home with today’s mouse and touch-driven operating systems: Windows 10, macOS High Sierra, Android Oreo, and iOS 11.

What about Linux?
I'd rather they announced LPDDR4 support at last. It's just ridiculous when your average smartphone technically supports more RAM than your laptop.
Bikes can do pretty bad damage to pedestrians. Even if it isn't your fault as the car driver being involved in a crash with a biker is a pretty shitty experience. Yes, they are not as bad as cars, but it's a bad excuse.
At rendering the content available at the time.
Very few of those cases make it to court for good reason.
OK, yeah, if we're talking about some sort of tombstone operation I get it; I thought the claim was the nefarious overlords of Snapchat were keeping the data around, which was harder to understand.
If you don't mind me asking, why do you want to do this?
WebRender, last I heard, is targeting 58. It's certainly not in this release.

I use it in nightly via the config flag; it is pretty great but there are still some glitches from time to time.
I believe integrating webrender is still a work in progress. The big piece included here is 'stylo' the CSS parser from servo.
How to get your app reviewed by app review sites?
I have no WebExtensions installed.

I sent a feedback but I'll file a bug report right now.

edit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1403187
> Without the Ozone Treaty You’d Get Sunburned in 5 Minutes

Welcome to Australia.
The daily passes are aimed at tourists. If you live there then you want the monthly or annual pass. If you were to enroll in Citi Bike and paid for the annual pass up front today, you'd be paying what works out to 37.8 cents per day over the next year. That's worth it even if you only replace one cab ride per month with biking.
I use it already since a few days and it's a huge improvement. It's just way faster than before. The new slimmer UI is also great IMO, because it goes out of the way better than before.

Be aware that some extensions might not work yet. E.g. refind is one of those which need to be updated.
Still stuck waiting for my verification email, and it's not in spam. You should let people use your app as soon as they finish signing up.

Limit functionality or disable after a grace period to enforce email verification, don't stop people during the onboarding flow and lose their interest
I think that's not possible yet (but soon): https://twitter.com/Sesivany/status/908628645299748865

That said, if you use GNOME Shell, the Pixel Saver extension is great for me: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/723/pixel-saver/
>There are practical reasons for bikes going through red lights

I'd hardly call "I have a desire to be killed by a car" or "I harbour a blatant disregard of the saftey and wellbeing of those around me" practical reasons. The laws are written for the protection of everyone, not solely to inconvenience you.

Stop signs aren't something we really have in my country, but cycling through red lights has been the cause of death and injury for both cyclists and pedestrians.

I find it horrifying that you're so quick to disregard even the most fundamental rules of the road and worse yet aggressively defend your anti-social behaviour.
I'm not sure I want to see you out riding when it's over 25 :)
I believe that when it comes to search, the aim should not be about competing with Google in it's current form. That is impossible. The aim should be to change the architecture of search such that it becomes a commodity that anyone can plug into. Like what open source CMSes did to the AOL/Time Warner giant. Then the owners of this commoditized search can charge for their premium API on a usage basis, transforming search into an ad-free service found anywhere
I stand corrected.

Had more in mind the relational calculus, for which SQL is just a flawed expression query language for.
> Our global climate would be at least 25 per cent hotter today without the Protocol, said Garcia, a co-author of two world-avoided studies.

Hmm, without the protocol, the average daytime temperature would be (287K)*0.25 = 71.75 K hotter [1]. Phew :) I wonder what the article is trying to say.

[1] Using an average surface temperature of 14 degrees Celcius.
> That doesn't stop bicyclists at all.

It seems to stop at least a number of them, even in places like Denmark. Look at the answers to this question, "Do Danes ride a bike in heavy rain?"[1]:

> Yes, though fewer will than in nice weather.

> Bus fill up more then usual in rain, though

Or this blogpost about people from Copenhagen biking through the winter[2]:

> As mentioned before, 80% of Copenhageners cycle through the winter. That number is surely lower when we have hard winters with snowstorm after snowstorm, but the numbers are still impressive.

And keep in mind the number we'd be interested in would be lower - not just how many people generally cycle throughout the winter (which seems to be ~80%), but how many of that 80% still choose to cycle on particularly cold or snowy winter days.

So even if we could have infrastructure on par with Copenhagen, and even if we get a corresponding cultural shift (neither of these are easy or quick tasks), we would still need the other forms of transportation infrastructure to be able to handle the spillover that occurs when large amount of bikers don't feel like biking.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Do-Danes-ride-a-bike-in-heavy-rain
[2] http://www.copenhagenize.com/2011/01/cycling-in-winter-in-co...
>"The chairman and chief executive of Equifax, Richard F. Smith, retired on Tuesday ..."

>"“Speaking for everyone on the board, I sincerely apologize,” Mark Feidler, the Equifax board’s new chairman"

Where is the apology from the CEO?
"because despite the rhetoric, without them, the economy would take a huge hit"

I think its important to note that this was Democrats justification of slavery during the civil war as well.
Exactly what I was thinking. I have used communication tools such as Discord and Trello, but never Facebook or Twitter. So are they going to believe me when I say I don't use social media? Do I need to start up fake social media accounts just so I can have something to make authorities happy?
A person who quit drinking, but still acts in destructive / dysfunctional ways.
If the issue is as bad as it looks like in that screenshot, the performance profiler should be able to spot what's happening easily. Take a look at https://perf-html.io/
Surely he knew the photograph was fake, and just engaged in this transaction to send a message to his competition.
Pitfalls of Performance Testing
They will not work with standard LGA1151 socket so a lot of motherboard manufacturers are super pissed at this.

Not sure how much traction this will get to be honest.
What’s a useful definition of “privacy oriented company” in your mind?

To me, it’s: “a company whose profit incentives are aligned with their user’s privacy.”

You can go on and on about whether they’re “truly” privacy-oriented but to me that’s a meaningless distinction; a company’s profit incentives are the very definition of what they’re “oriented” towards.
Firefox Developer Edition Devtools Update
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While GNU's not unix... afaik GNU coreutils' rm has done exactly what you expect it to when given a single dash as an argument for who knows how long.

The problem is names that could be interpreted like options, like '-f' or '--help'.
3) msgpack. Can you expand on that?
I use this method and store/cache it for temporary passing between tasks in wf.
Looking to arrow to be able to extend capability of this utility.
hit the hamburger menu, then Customize.

In the lower right, there should be a toggle for it.

edit: not sure if that's linux friendly
I've had one for a few weeks now, my bike mileage has gone through the roof, they really are good especially if you are in a hilly area.
It amazes me that we humans were able to trust science, pass a law, and fix this problem. The Ozone Layer was a huge thing during my childhood in the late 80s and early 90s. Now faced with a similar threat, in the words of the great Jim Mora, we can't do "diddly". Even the Paris treaty doesn't go far enough or include the United States.
I get a result from wordpress.org followed by at least 4-5 from ebay's various domains.
I agree on the point that coding is not for everyone. But basic skills like problem-solving could help kids explore more things as well. I correct my point here and assert that like other extra-curricular activities, the impact of problem-solving should also and possibilities of what code can do, could also be taught at primary level. It could at least motivate some kids to pursue it further, so schools could play an important role in finding that motivation/interest. We don't need rockstar coders to teach fundamentals of programming, rather we should teach children how to learn and do basic handholding, and to guide them on the path ahead on either online courses or code camps. Thanks again for your viewpoint it was genuinely helpful and appropriate.
Actually the video confirms that the hoverboard was created by a Chinese American, living in Seattle, who also patented it. The Chinese versions even look identical to the patent filing.
Been biking in both Los Angeles & New York as my commute. In LA driving took 1-2h while biking took 1h. In my experience it's been faster for my commute, however there's still many days where there are no bikes where I live (UWS).

I can highly recommend trying out the Citi bike if you live in New York, it's so cheap and many of the companies pays for it.
Okay, but that's not in your quotation from Steve Blank.
https://godotengine.org/article/godot-getting-more-languages

However, compared to parent:

> GDScript will always be the main supported language, and our recommended choice for all Godot users.

> To clarify things: since the Mono runtime is relatively heavy, and many Godot users will prefer to stick to GDScript, we intend to provide the Mono-enabled version of Godot as a separate download.

They're also adding their version of visual scripting...
>"Equifax must be dismantled and driven into bankruptcy."

I don't disagree with that sentiment but you have to deal with the whole triumvirate - Equifax, Experian and Transunion.
I wonder how much of the rise of bike culture and disdain of driving in some of the young demographic comes from the problem of smart phone addiction. As highlighted in your first paragraph, many people don't seem to have the discipline to be able to just not look at their phone for 30 minutes while they drive somewhere. Biking could actually be a relief for some of these people as they have a socially good excuse to be out of contact for some part of the day. Sort of like how some people enjoy airplane trips because no one can call them.
That key values website has a terrific UX and design. I love it.
GDScript will not be replaced in 3.0 but they will add support for other languages, like C#.

Personally, I find GDScript quite OK since you can treat it just like Python, and I think there are some interfaces that enable you to use real Python in Godot (check out their blog).
Pretty sure we are coordinating with them to make sure it's available for the Firefox Quantum release in November. So this is hopefully only going to be an issue during Nightly and Beta cycles, and not in the main population.
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That's not how bankruptcy works. Assets are used to pay debts including legal debts.
I'm not sure if hiring the best InfoSec people is the way they will be going. They are very clear that their goal is to protect 'retail investors,' not to improve security. To me, that says 'put as many security researchers revealing the flaws in the systems used by large companies in prisons as possible.' Maybe put some kids running nmap on the NASDAQ website in jail.
Well, you could say that, but is it true? Perhaps the post-match experience isn't necessarily very good, and anyway I'm not sure raw quantity maximizes anything normal people care about.
Self-replying, I did not mean to imply that Babylon's codebase is generally unreadable or overly terse. I actually found it surprisingly easy to work in as someone who's never worked on a parser before.

I just meant that the code for for-loops in particular is complicated, and having very specific names helps in that area.
It's now generally thought that, even without a helmet, the positive health effects of biking outweigh the dangers from accidents.

And while everyone who bikes will take a fall at some point, the vast majority of those actually result in only a few scratches. I know it seems terribly scary to imagine falling of a bike. But I've done so twice in about 12,000k, and the joy of biking far outweighs the pain I've suffered.
They seem to be the worst of both worlds, I think there has been a lot of controversy about them using bike lanes in The Netherlands lately.
On the web? No, not much. :)
> "When the frequency drops below 50Hz, it suggests that demand is outpacing supply, and vice-versa when the frequency is above 50Hz."

As a former Transmission System Operator I can tell you the most likely scenario you see this is when generation trips offline (demand exceeds supply for a short time).

I've sat in an Arizona control room, 1700MW of NW hydro would trip offline and we'd see a massive drop in interconnect frequency.
Couldn't agree with you more, and I think the only part of my post that hit a nerve with you was related to fines for running red lights, which I should have been clearer about. (in Chicago we don't have those fancy stop light sensors) I too do an Idaho stop when approaching a 4 way stop that has no traffic, it makes the most sense. My main complaint as I live on one of the main bike corridors of Chicago is after a light turns red there are normally a herd of bikers that roll through causing traffic to sit still while waiting for them to exit the intersection. This screws up traffic and makes me irate, just as it would seeing car after car run the red light. We also have a lot of street retail which leads to a bunch of crosswalks, with tourists and children abound. Bikers come flying though crosswalks here and I've seen multiple accidents because of it. When a car hits a bike, the bike always loses, just the same as when a bike hits a pedestrian, the pedestrian always loses. I don't understand how my fellow cyclists can't see that as we complain about cars and their behavior.
I'm not sure there's going to ever be a good happy ground on sexual assault cases that'll please everyone, just due to the nature of the crime. Ultimately a lot of the cases are going to boil down to a he said she said even with evidence that something actually happened. Given all that though there were definitely big issues with how cases were handled before though, as a reaction there's been perhaps an over correction.
How engineers should think about design
I'd like to see the same comparison on a Mac. The Windows version of Firefox has been close to Chrome performance for a while. The Mac version has been significantly slower.
Is this going to find its way into Firefox mobile as well?
> In RDBMS, you have to fus with its schema, "you said 125 characters for that string field and you just received 130, FAIL". Its a STRING JUST DEAL WITH IT.

While standard SQL may have this problem, most concrete RDBMS do not, because they support a simple length-unspecified string type (or, in the case of SQLite, treat column types as documentation and mild hints rather than actual rules.)

> you have to create indexes

Absolutely not. You can, for efficiency, but (ironically, unlike some noSQL systems that require explicit indexes to support queries) you can query and join tables of relational databases without defining explicit indexes. This may, for some queries, be extraordinarily inefficient (it may not, if you've defined the schema well, because many RDBMSs implicitly create indexes based on schema features like PKs and unique constraints), but you can do it.
I'm sure Homeland Security can gin up a convincing-looking murder scene photo.
> He didn't submit it to HN, someone else did.

What difference does that make? It's still here, right? So people are still reading it from here, right?

>It's totally reasonable to expect that if people are reading his, the author of Pandas, blog, then they already know what Pandas

No, not when it's linked from elsewhere. Which is what happens with blogs. Like it was right now.
> set `xpinstall.signatures.required` to false

This seems to only work in the Nightly and Developer channel, not with the Beta channel. Is that correct?
I'm not sure why High Sierra is broken, but there are issues filed. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1379811 for the meta bug tracking all the ones we know about.

I'm guessing this will be fixed in a few days as people upgrade internally. So far, other than looking ugly, it doesn't seem to be causing any other problems.
Do you mean like this? https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
So you would rather people be treated shitty like everyone else than treat everyone else better?
I can throw my hat into the ring and attest to just how great 57 is. I can remember the Australis update coming out and receiving a mixed reaction, but I can't see this update receiving anything but praise. If you've been on Chrome for a while I'd definitely encourage you to try it out.

As a developer one small thing that's irked me is the recent removal of the ability for the dev tools to render html responses. There's an bug open here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1350229 but it seems to have stagnated. It seems like the functionality was removed on a hunch and it's not been added back in, meaning I have to head to Chrome to debug some ajax requests. This, and the lack of LastPass support are the only things holding it back for me.
You got 2 and 3 switched up. It's very simple:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5j6rPlU4AEizP6.jpg:large
Someone who wish to learn about developing game and its theory can get started here. http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html
Oh boy, I'll bite.

As you're probably well aware, several words in the english language have more than a single authoritative meaning. The version of 'can' they were probably using is: "Used to indicate possession of a specified capability or skill".

If the others do not currently possess that ability, then they cannot.
Not for the mobile 57 release, but I think it is supposed to be mobile 58.
What are you talking about?

Can Apple phones only call or text other Apple phones? Where is the 'buddy list'/graph/contact database that can't be easily ported to another social network?
I wasn't suggesting that. I was saying there's no real reason transactional and reporting data can't start with schematic replication and actually is more efficient.
>For most of us here around HN, judging from posts, comments, and discussions, the NoSQL era was very real

so you're favoring buzzword hype over actual production environments?

Who cares if people are talking about it but not really using it?
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Did you try current stable firefox or Developer edition or Nightly edition?

If I understand correctly, the photon changes haven't landed on current stable firefox yet. They have just landed in Developer edition. So you might want to give it (or nightly edition) a try.
Why Does Science Has to Be Falsifiable?
So he gets to retire with a golden parachute made with diamonds, how nice.
No the comment says China WILL lose its current momentum for innovation. It’s a prediction of the future

It’s pretty evident China fears outside competition when they block competitors from entering their market. They have no confidence in their home grown companies surviving contrary to hard evidence
The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto
You see bikers speeding in a 25mph? Are all the bikers in your city national-level endurance athletes on TT bikes?

It's so sad that people born into a world where cars are everywhere just have no concept anymore of what is human. You put a random dude on a bike and they are never going to average 20 mph, struggle to even get to 18 mph. Barreling up 15% inclines in SF at 30 mph is not normal.
Equifax shares halted, news pending