skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I reacted that way because dude said he read the white-paper and somehow took this as a historical analysis of volume. Which it is not.

I use historical open, high, change, last, settle, prev. day open interest, plus several other fields I use to help recognize patterns and properly weight time-series data.
1. Firefox Accounts & Sync is a terrible mess. Its security is still broken[1] and it's insanely over-engineered[2].

I really wish it shouldn't have existed, and instead Mozilla would've focused on providing an API to build a synchronization service upon. And then, whatever - their services could've been an pre-bundled extension.

2. I believe all of those SaaSes (i.e. Firefox Screenshots, too) shouldn't belong to the browser's core. Those could be distributed as pre-bundled extensions (which they actually are, but in a special way), but not as a part of the browser itself.

This is highly opinionated, though. I just feel that rather than a browser, Firefox is becoming something like a service platform. I don't like it for the same reasons I tend to value self-hosting over the dependence on others' services, and Free Software over non-free options. I recognize others may feel very differently and possibly even welcome that.

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[1] Authentication pages are still served from network, so if you use it - you trust Mozilla to not steal (or, better say, not be forced to steal) your password and the encryption keys. The protocol is stable for quite a while so I really don't know why they're still not fixing this.

[2] I wrote an alternative self-hosted Accounts & Sync implementation, so while I'm biased I sort of know what I'm talking about here. Four different authentication protocols (BrowserID, Hawk, OAuth2 and JWT), multiple non-standard HTTP headers, and the whole system just reeks of the NIH syndrome.
Strava's data lake for all of our activity data streams
Seeing some comments about Firefox vs Chrome on macOS below, here's my experience ...

After several years of using Chrome I've switched to Firefox and I'm not going back. I do occasionally use Chrome, like for Node.js profiling.

In terms of performance, Firefox has been behaving better than Chrome for my usage patterns, using less memory too. Usage patterns matter a lot though. For example Google's own apps (e.g. G Suite) tend to be optimized for Chrome, but I'm not using Google's apps that much.

Stability has been improving, e10s is finally here, we've got multi-processing and it's working. It's not so keen on starting one process per tab as Chrome, but I like that, as memory usage tends to be better.

I've liked the "sandboxing" of Chrome's extensions, having a permissions system that's better than nothing, however I trust Firefox's Add-ons more because Mozilla has a trustworthy review system in place. At the end of the day, when you give permissions to an Add-on for accessing your data across all websites you visit, you can always get screwed with a simple and silent update from that developer and there have been countless of extensions on Chrome's store turned to spyware over night.

Either way, Firefox now has a permissions system in place, they've been introducing it gradually.

In terms of features, I love how natural the Awesome Bar is when trying to go back to a page from history. This is in comparison with Chrome that makes you do more searches on Google. It also has had some great extensions for tab management, some of which are now broken due to the transition, but I'm pretty sure they'll become available again, because hackability is in Firefox's DNA. Consider that Firefox on Android has supported plugins (and ad blockers) from day 1, whereas Chrome still doesn't.

But overall, even if Firefox would be the worst one on the market, I would probably keep using it because it's the only browser whose makers have been looking after my interests as a user, for example being the only major browser that tried opposing DRM or patent encumbered video encoding.
Still waiting...

Sorry, every Godot post will have that joke.
And you'll want Verizon to monitor the content of your phone calls to catch fraudsters.
Oh, wait, what was the narrative again?
That's not true, CEOs are increasingly compensated in stock options, which are at least theoretically correlated with performance.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2014/02...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-21/key-quest...
Plex News. It’s the perfect complement to your media library — video news from some of the most trusted sources on the planet,

I always get nervous when companies start talking up the credibility of news outlets. To me, it indicates a lack critical thinking especially when the very next image on the page has logos from CNN (of "reading wikileaks is illegal if you're not a media outlet" fame) and TheBlaze (of Glenn Beck fame).

I suppose you could write it off as marketing fluff, but.. still. That little nagging feeling. So long as they give me the ability to ban specific sources from ever showing up in my feed, fine, otherwise this will just be another feature that has to be ignored to avoid consuming propaganda.
I like the fact that Mozilla is honest with the comparison test video and actually shows Chrome being faster than Firefox on a few sites (e.g., Instagram and YouTube).
I am averaging around 150 MB per tab here.
The US doesn't have a data-protection law, but how can you say their recording of the information is in good faith if they allow unauthorized people to make spurious changes via their systems and security practices?
Although I disagree about the value of hedge fund managers, it is true that the rise of these "supermanagers" is a huge component in income inequality trends in the US. Here's a thoughtful and spooky comparison with the corporate structure of Nazi Germany, where I first heard this term: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reic...
Again, thanks for the information. I'll definitely take that back to my team and see what we can improve on!
Includes naturalized citizens too, so creates two classes of citizens even at the border. One that cannot be trusted...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adolfoflores/people-are-worried-abo...
OpenSMTPD, current state of affairs [pdf]
North Korea taps GOP analysts to better understand Trump and his messages
> Assuming a reasonable portion of these are refugees(or from third world countries), wouldn’t that be a fair link to make?

No.

Among other errors, you seem to be assuming that immigrants from third-world countries are a representative sample of the population of the country.
I think a simple test for how innocent the UI logging is would be: does it get uploaded all the time or logged locally until a crash happens?

If a company is hitting an external API with every interaction, I'm guessing it's for gathering data on user behavior. The question then is whether or not it's anonymous.
That was Sidecar, AIUI. Drivers figured out their own formula for what it would take them to do a job, and riders got to make the tradeoff of how much more to pay for how much nicer a car/driver. It didn't explicitly handle a tipping/no tipping premium though.

It also went out of business. I suspect that was because Uber/Lyft were much better at straddling the line between "your a contractor" and "we can commoditize the experience".
Side note: What is the fascination with skinny font weights (100 in this case) for the entire body text? It's incredibly hard to read. Here's a screenshot of the page with the first 2 paragraphs in a normal style:

https://i.imgur.com/bdU8Mex.png
I made something similar though not as good.

http://redditile.com/r/food

https://github.com/ubershmekel/redditile
Seems like Tree Style Tabs got ported to the WebExtensions version now! It still can't hide the tab bar (API will come in later releases) but it works!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

There's also the Tree Tabs extension which I don't like as much.
I will do this thank you for your feedback. I didn't release my results until my models were better than baseline in evaluation. Hence better than flipping a coin. I published the results of my evaluations so you can see that. Its not a crystal ball. Its an indicator to help in trading decisions.
Yes, he is/was an investor in Twitter (according to his AngelList profile).

Although, I find Twitter the simplest social media platform to control the information stream that you consume. Actually, because of that, it is the only social media site that I usually visit.
The article is about Florida, where these legal protections haven't existed until recently.

Hooray for the free flow of commerce across state lines, so Florida clinics can import 75% of their "customers" form out-of-state.
Enzyme + Jest snapshots are the best UI testing system that I've ever used!
Does serviio provide any kind of organization or custom interface? After plex suddenly quick working on my media server, I started using miniDLNA/readymedia to stream things to my roku, but the organization and interface of "Roku Media Center" leaves a lot to be desired.
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Some parts of the OCI use the patent-only OWFa: https://www.opencontainers.org/release-notices/v1-0-0
Multithreaded rendering on Android
Sorry, there was so much to do in the release that some issues crept into the new docs. We'll fix them soon. :-)
> So this is the time for leaders to speak up with openness and honesty. Make time for people to ask questions or share concerns.

This is so true. It's implied in the article, but I think it's worth calling out explicitly that meetings like this promote transparency which, in turn, promotes a positive culture.
MMS aren't we tired of corruption. Aren't we tired of scared image in India. MMS has always been puppet( his tenure during PM) and good guy in hands of SG and RG ; what are we upto.

Man who can't stand for himself, is he going to lead us !
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I thought we were opposed to Google using heavy-handed tactics to police the Internet. What if Google's enforcement ended up kicking a marginalized person off of their ads platform, or required advertisers to put their Real Names on their ads?
Yawn, muh slippery slope. According to people like you, we should never do anything because it might result on something. Don't invent strawmen arguments. No one is saying anything about phone calls here.
It may be a bit naive. going to keep working on this and I have found my indicators to greatly increase my own trading results and making the models evaluation numbers improve is very exciting and interesting to me and maybe others.

Thanks for the one compliment :)
I've found that google maps performs worse in firefox and I get random %100 cpu spikes from websites in firefox that I didn't get in chrome. I'm on a mac using firefox 55.
Technically speaking, you (still) can.

Delete /usr/lib/firefox/browser/features/firefox@getpocket.com.xpi (or - better - rebuild the .deb package to not include this file) and the Pocket will be gone. Same for screenshots@mozilla.org.xpi.

Sync and DevTools are tightly integrated, though. I'd really really wish it would be realistically possible to remove Sync and replace it with something else.
It's astounding to me how easily people shrug off 'corner case problems'. Some things need to work in every case, and many complex systems have to be designed to accommodate every 'corner'.

"How much cheaper would buses be if they didn't need to be wheel-chair accessible? Surely 99% of people don't have wheel-chairs."

"Our nuclear power plant is designed to withstand a 10M tsunami, nearly all of the earthquakes and tsunamis in the past hundred years have been smaller than that."
Depending on what era you are looking for, your local city library or university libraries will have lots of newspaper articles and age-old journal publications on microfiche.
Like every other piece of OS software that is known to be covered by patents
I actually know a couple who met on hot or not, and are now married. I didn't even think this was possible, but it turns out there was a comments section...
Huge Databases and Internet Connectivity.
These shady centers have been testing the boundaries of the law for _decades_. Google is the modern version of the Yellow Pages.
I'm the same but my "logged in" mode browser is Brave. It's chrome + privacy
Also my models beat baseline in evaluations so I'm stoked on that. It took some doing to produce results with time-series data.
> CTO/Cofounder of Jive Software

Matt's a great guy, and it's fitting that he'd be involved with Plato given that his next startup is a tool for managers (https://koan.co/).
That's OK. This is about emergency services, and emergencies are, by definition, corner cases.
Interesting. I wonder if the Instagram slowness is due to Stylo, we have had troubles on Instagram (specifically wrt data URI parsing) before, but IIRC we fixed most of that.

Of course these troubles were when IG was unreasonably slow, it's quite possible there are further issues to be fixed there that we never noticed because it was "good enough".

Or Chrome's approach is just superior for IG and some other sites. Quite possible.

Still, this sounds like something to investigate.
Mozilla is still doing something with the keyboard shortcuts API to make that more capable. I don't know what exactly they're doing, it won't be as powerful as Vimperator, but it should be a good bit more powerful than Vimium.

This (obviously) won't be in Firefox 57, but should be ready relatively soonish after. So, this is something that they have already been actively working on for a few months. I'm guessing 59 or 60 from how I've heard it described.
I have heard from ex-Bing engineers that Microsoft had deprioritized search R&D a couple of years ago. Since then there has been an exodus of engineers from that group.
However the "dial 9" issue is still present. Esp. in an environment with "dial 1 for long distance" and a lot of long distance calling. I've always thought it would have been better to "dial 8" for an outside line. That way the first two numbers of a long distance call are not also the first two numbers of an emergency call (91).
Did you ever consider that it OK to select people in a way that manifests as privilege?

Why is it such a problem to select for culture when determining who can and can not enter your country?

Do you mean to imply that it isn't a problem for foreign people to enter a country and effectively change the local ways of life? Especially when the majority of the world's cultures happen to be lived in poverty.

And here you've made the assumption that I am white.

The race of immigrants is incidental to the distribution of education, wealth, and cultural practices similar to those in the U.S.

Also, I love how you're lumping in privilege of white immigrants with that of "white privilege" in the U.S.. It is a remarkably myopic view, as whites are not a powerful minority everywhere. More importantly, the entire philosophy is a tautology when you cherry pick and accuse all walks of white life globally as being privileged.

I cannot believe someone is seriously arguing about white privilege as if it is in anyone's best interest to tear down the institutions that seemingly support it.

If people like you didnt make certain research topics forbidden, we could answer scientifically what proportion of the average differences we see are racial/genetic/cultural. But instead we bury our heads in the sand and scream "white privilege".

You dont even know my ethnicity, you fucking racist. And how deep do you want to go down this rabbit hole? Are Slavs white? Are Jews white?

Fuck you and your divisive politicking, and normalized racism.
> Godot 2 has a custom scripting language which will be going away

It's not going away, it'll still be in 3.0 and probably forever after. Just in 3.0 you have the option of C#, as well as C, C++, D, Nim, and others if using GDNative.

Edit - if it's for your kids, there's also going to be visual scripting in 3.0 (which basically is the same as GDScript, in visual form).
In reply to and0, you also need to keep in mind that companies alao might need to know which behaviors did NOT cause a crash to figure out the root cause of a crash as a sort of control group.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: JD X Selects Nvidia  for AI Logistics and Delivery
The security assumptions that SGX is built on are flawed. They assume that no side channel attacks will be mounted to determine the processes that occur in side the chip. You can even build software to do side channel analysis on the physical chip:

7:16:26 Daniel Gruss / Michael Schwarz - Cache Attacks on SGX
https://youtu.be/eCE2OzKIab8?t=26193
Not all. Computer-based services like Skype often don't support calling 911, even though they can call other landlines. (They're pretty clear about this when you sign up for an account.)

I have an ObiHai box at home that lets me use Google Voice as a my landline VoIP provider for free. However, I still have to pay a second SIP provider about $15/year just for 911 access.
My work phone is a VoIP device. Sits on my desk, looks exactly like a phone, has a handset with a curly cable, and can call real phone numbers. The fact that it's actually a VoIP phone has no bearing on my actual usage of it. Therefore, I expect that when I dial 911 (or at least 9-911) on it, it does the right thing.
Won't be surprised if fibers get patented in some sense, but who knows
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

yep. I don't know if it will cleanly update; so it may lose your settings.

(Webextension ports have to spend one release in "hybrid" mode where they'r a webextension wrapped in a legacy extension shell to port settings correctly)
> 1%? I don't think that's a real number. It can be much faster, especially since this is just one of many-to-come improvements.

I am getting 73 in Speedometer 2 on Chrome Canary vs 66 Mozilla is touting here. Also as shown in their own video, Chrome loads faster on some pages. So FF might actually be slower. It's definitely not noticeably faster than Chrome.

> Well, performance is one reason. Security could easily be another

Both of those things can be counted in Chrome's favor as well.
Accelerating AI Inference Performance in the Data Center and Beyond
Ultimate Cognition à la Gödel [pdf]
I'm not, by any means, a licensing expert but OWFa (the new spec license) has the following termination clause:

> All rights, grants, and promises made by me to you under this Agreement are terminated if you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in a lawsuit against me or any person or entity asserting that its Permitted Uses infringe any Granted Claims you would have had the right to enforce had you signed this Agreement, unless that suit was in response to a corresponding suit first brought against you

Wasn't this the problem with the previous BSD + patents license? Not criticizing by any means, I'm genuinely curious.
There are users who value OSes where things are "just working", out of the box. Even more, there are users who value if OS has lots of stuff pre-installed.

There are users who value OSes for being absolutely minimal, so they can install only the stuff they want.

There are users who build their OSes from scratch, compiling each piece from source, fine-tuning every option they want to touch, manually defining every aspect of their system.

None of those approaches are wrong. And each of users may voice their discontent if things are not the way they prefer them to be (and that's good).
Marwan Refaat
"Want to escape? Avoid Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat. Avoid venues and media built around group signaling and conspicuous consumption."

There won't be any escape, just a move toward smaller more focused online groups each with their own mores. The future looks more like a world of Slacks than a Facebook.

It's fascinating that this is happening in both social media and the world (Brexit and the fragmentation of Europe) at the same time.
Hmm but do you interpret that to be the act of processing while the consent was in effect is not retrospectively made illegal, or to mean that data shared/obtained while a concent was in effect is still legal to keep after the consent is withdrawn.
Visual Studio and Xamarin take iOS support to 11
How the Puerto Rican Diaspora Is Staying Connected After Maria
You have to take a week off or spend 4-5 weekend days in training, making driving on Uber a lot less attractive as a part time extra while your already employed.
So this looks better than the status quo, but is it really trustless? Couldn't OWS still be compelled to drop something in that walks & talks like this secure enclave, but enables remote collection of address books? It seems we've just moved the trust down the stack into hardware.

Kinda depressed that we seem to have given up on the scalable Private Set Intersection problem. It's a hard problem but an important one for privacy-preserving social apps.
I am a little sceptical of using A/B tests on accessibility features. What, precisely, is being measured here?

The acceptance criteria for accessibility features are narrow to a specific group of users (actually, the users fall on a continuous spectrum). Furthermore, there are legal, ethical and moral obligations. Would those be thrown out if the A/B test was a fail?
I know a lot of you hate this but the model has correctly predicted the correct direction of movement at end of day 9 out of 11 days since my model was under baseline and I began publishing my results. I know I've said this a few times but its not a crystal ball, its a value that can assist in trading decisions.
Cache Attacks on Intel's SGX 'secure' Enclave Chip Daniel Gruss Michael Schwarz
I think you misunderstand, what you're doing is even worse than picking up pennies, your strategy just boils down to punting futures with no hedge or any form risk management to your open position. You're just gambling on coinflips. If you backtest your "model" you'll find that external macro event induced crude oil moves will completely wipe you out because you have no hedge against them.
Watchcast has the same issues Marco brought up. Developers should not condone Apple's overly-aggressive platform limitations by sacrificing good UX just to release a feature.
If the variable has a null value and the call is invalid then the compiler isn't required to compile it to anything specific; this includes the idea that the compiler isn't required to compile it to a jump-to-address-zero.
Your analogy makes no sense.

For Verizon to catch fraudsters, they have to police their customers' behavior. The key is customers' behavior, not their own behavior.

Oil companies don't need to violate customers' privacy to clean up oil. They don't need to do anything negative to customers at all.

The same is true of banks paying for financial crises and Equifax paying to privacy damage. All they'd be doing is fixing their own mistakes, not policing their customers or users.

As for the relationship with OP: Facebook's users and customers are different. Because such a large percentage of the public uses Facebook, the company's duty to protect its users should come ahead of its duty to protect its customers. If FB kills a few shady corporations, it's not nearly as bad as if those shady corporations harm actual human beings.
While I agree with all that is said here, I feel like its far more easier to observe existing systems and explain them, than to prescribe a solution that is practical and workable.
> They're doing hard work, just not scientific work. It's not "better" or "worse" than science; it's just something completely different.

It's amazing how much of this would apply to alchemy, or astrology, or religion.

So the question becomes, why would anyone pay attention to it?