skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pentadactyl too is horribly broken. I'm running Firefox's Extended Support Release for this very reason. Will probably have to bite the bullet and switch to Vimium within a year.
We haven't done diddly on nuclear storage for about 40 years, maybe more. Still stored onsite in infrastructure not designed for long term storage.
Please just let people try it. No signup flow, no barriers. Just let us use it. If it's as good as you say, we'll want to save what we've created; you can get us to sign up then.

Also, you should really user-test landing pages like this. I get that you love the design and content. But the page is not for you. Book 5 people in your target market and study how it works for them. Then revise and book another 5. Repeat until people are actually engaging with the topic in the way you want.
How is your reply diminishing Apple's stance on privacy?

Yes, people do compare and choose based on their priorities (and wallets). That's how competition works, isn't it?

So again, I fail to see how your comment changes anything. Of course people compare products.
How to improve ssh security in cloud compute services
I tried that out of curiosity and did not have the same experience. I selected some text and when right clicked, got the typical copy/search/etc... dialog. I'm using Chrome on Linux with Ghostery and uBlock among other plugins. Perhaps one of those interferes with what you experienced.
How to Make a Remote Team Work Really Well Together
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15332122
It's not necessarily the wrong choice for their use case but this explanation is a little misleading. Vulkan and DirectX 12 were designed to reduce the overhead of draw calls and to enable multithreaded dispatch. That makes it feasible to render more objects with more state changes but the efficiency benefits still apply (in theory) when rendering fewer objects, particularly on a multi core CPU. Wasting less CPU on rendering API overhead is always a good thing - if you don't use the efficiency gains to render more stuff you can use the spare CPU for something else like better physics.

Both APIs are harder to use however and it's quite possible to end up less efficient than older APIs by using them badly plus current implementations can be poor, especially on mobile, so there are still good reasons not to use them.
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It's not as fast as Focus, but if you want an alternative to Chrome Firefox for Android should work better with Google Apps that are (probably) broken due to Focus's anti-tracking features. It is based on the same rendering engine as desktop and should benefit from many of the future speed improvements of Firefox 57.

On Android Chrome is arguably better if you want Google account integration or raw speed, but Firefox for Android has a more traditional UI, extensions, and is fast enough for most of my browsing.
I haven't had any issues using Firefox for Android... Firefox Focus is not a general purpose browser, so some issues are probably expected. Try Firefox for Android and install uBlock, or any of your other favorite desktop extensions!
Or affluenza. Rich people don't go to prison in America, the ones that do are the rare exceptions.
> But what happened to Docbook?

What, isn't everybody using DITA nowadays? /s
Sagestream is another (rarely used) credit bureau: https://www.sagestreamllc.com

Notably it's used by Bank of America

More information: http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-credit...
I remember when Brazil did that with respect to fingerprinting. They started scanning fingerprints because US starting doing it to the Brazilian citizens when they arrived in US. Didn't follow the story after but annoying citizens of the other country by reciprocating in-like is a common strategy. Onerous visa requirements or moving from requiring to not requiring visas is also done.
No FPGA onboard either.
I've been trying to use bing as a primary and google as a backup for a few months now. IME, Bing is good 60-70% of the time, but often times I'm exploratory-searching and bing is pretty much useless here. Google, manages to somehow find the right link, especially when I am guessing the keywords. On a side note, Google often tells me theres million+ results (e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=SIEMENS+pc+based+automation ) and then shows me only 10 pages of 10 each. Seems like over the years Google has been pruning the results quite a bit.
Texas will want to get rid him (yes, difficult) now that the Eastern District Court of Texas racket is up. It’s a competitive disadvantage now.
The one problem with that plan, is apple have mostly stopped improving their OpenGL driver in favor of Metal.
It's really impressive. I thought I'd be using C++ a lot more when I started seriously digging into UE4, but more and more it's just to make helper functions so the primary logic and asset management can be done in blueprints.
I did not know that. Thanks for the info.
Still, it's your and only your job to undo this.
It's a distinction without a difference in this case because both are positive attributes to have in immigrants (independently or jointly).
I'm confused why everyone (both regular users and plex pass users) gets ads.
>Shit-quality manufacturing (that's the fault of western companies; China manufactures to the specs you give and pay for, it's western companies that decide to cheap out on products)

Many times, US companies take Chinese products "off the shelf" and slap their brand on it, based on a spec that the Chinese company themselves came up with on their own. Most manufacturers have catalogs for you to browse, and many are quite reluctant to modify their designs with your own specifications, although this depends on the company. So I would disagree that it's western companies cutting corners. Typically the manufacturers cut cost to increase their own margins, regardless of what spec you give them.
This makes me so nostalgic. In my mind, this is a spiritual successor to the Vic-20/Commodore 64 type computers. Meant to be programmed out of the box, with an environment that is reasonable for a motivated individual to learn and hack on.
Correct -- and no country with a higher population is higher ranked.

Or even close, really.
Watch this robot use nunchucks
I love dash and was excited for this, but the navigation is madness. Someone let UX drive this one. Being surprised by the novelty is not a good UX experience.
Holy cow, $187 per click, that seems ridiculously high and no wonder has attracted attention of all kind of bad faith actors.

Granted, I have not checked AdWords in 10 years back when most things cost less than $1 per click, save for some mesothelioma searches which used to go for $10-15 per click.
Uber doesn't want to comply with regulations because it takes away their advantage? Gee, what a surprise.
This is one issue our President should take some executive action on, if at all possible. At the very least, people should not be charged for credit freezes for the next few years, and existing laws should be reviewed. Taking action against Equifax would be supported by the vast majority of Americans.
I've been extremely happy with Firefox's recent transformation. I was using Edge for a while as my primary browser, because it was definitively the fastest and it was worth tolerating a couple of bugs in exchange. But I'd put Firefox now as being more or less as performant, and that's before Quantum.
Lol. Ok so you are taking this halting thing and think that it means generally that no computer program can predict what a computer program will do, and therefore that proves that we will never have computers writing programs, and therefore never have general intelligence. You are really misinterpreting that stuff and not thinking it through.

For starters take a look at the field of program synthesis. It's not AGI but it demonstrates the first thing you misunderstood.
> I would encourage anybody who thinks cyclocommuters are particularly bad actors to stand on a busy urban street corner and count the percentage of drivers who are actively engaged with their mobile phone.

Also, every single time I see a complaint about cyclists, it neatly ignores that a dangerous cyclist would be orders of magnitude more dangerous driving a car. Based on mass alone, stopping distance will be much higher as well as incurring more serious injuries (including much more likely death) and property damage. Every time I bicycle instead of drive, I'm doing drivers and pedestrians a favor. Of course, I stay off the sidewalks and try to do the safest things possible.
> but someone should still be motivated to go after me civilly for that.

In most (all?) other developed nations it is the role of the executive branch of the elected government to regulate and punish businesses so as to prevent defuse harms. This business with the civil justice system being distorted to create self appointed, profit seeking, ad hoc regulators is not the only way to skin the cat.
Hell, 8.3 filename creation is still enabled by default on 10. WTF?

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc959352.aspx
A woman killed a few years ago by a bike? That's terrible.

Not quite as terrible as one pedestrian being killed every 1.6 hours by cars though. (2015 figures for the USA)
Last time I was in Montreal my Uber driver wouldn't drop me at the airport, instead he dropped me at a hotel attached to the airport - he told me reason being in Montreal undercover police officers have been known to wait in the departures drop-off area and impound cars if they suspect you to be an Uber driver.

Interesting side note the driver actually was an airport employee - he would drive for Uber twice a day, once to work (he would hang out by the area of the city with lots of Hotels to try and catch and airport trip) and once on the way home. I thought that was kind of awesome.
If Apple hadn’t included a mechanism to override the rules this ‘vulnerability’ wouldn’t exist in the first place.
Firefox sandboxing does not use Rust. Servo sandboxing (work in progress) does.

It's not accurate to say that Firefox has no sandbox. Sandboxing work has been rolling out for many months now, and later versions have increasingly restrictive sandboxes. You can see the current status per version here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox#Current_Status

Hardening the sandbox is a constant work in progress, but it's not as simple as "compromise of browser engine automatically means arbitrary code execution as running user" any longer.
This a most pointless decision. making firefox fast at the expense of the extensions.

why would it make people switch back to FF? because it's 1% faster than chrome? come on, it's 2k17 and few care about that. Edge might be faster than both and people still would not use it. FF had its selling point to power users which is why i'm currently browsing from ff.

Now there is no reason at all to use it. I guess there is no reason not to use it either however i think people will go with the bigger brand name. Maybe power users will switch to some more niche browser. Maybe everyone will go to chrome.
Try getting your money back if it's stolen. (And try convincing the bank you didn't give someone your PIN!) With a credit card, it's the banks money.
Perhaps you missed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15299849
> Bikes make everything about traffic better, and most bikers observe the traffic laws.

Anecdata time.

Practically every single day I'll see bikes casually going through red lights, usually moving between pedestrians crossing. Now, I'll freely grant that they're usually paying enough attention to be safe - but you can bet motorbikes (and even cars) could make those very same judgement calls - except they'd get done by cameras/police.

Bikes are not obviously safer than a car to me as a pedestrian. They're less predictable, less regulated, and typically less careful of pedestrians. Heck, they also probably travel faster than cars most of the time in central london since the speed limit is 20mph everywhere on the rare occasion there's no traffic.

Then of course there's the idiots riding along on the pavement because they can't easily filter through traffic and why should they have to wait in line to move on etc etc.

I'm actually pretty solidly pro properly segregated bike lanes, but if I had to rate drivers vs cyclists in a "most likely to have a collision with as a pedestrian" I would easily go with the cyclist.
Brazil does tit-for-tat and practices complete reciprocity :)

Shortly after 9/11, the USA required Brazilian tourists to use a fingerprint scanner. A Brazilian judge made a rule for American tourists to do the same:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/10/world/us-and-brazil-finger...

It was a huge mess at first because Brazil hadn't required any other countries to do it in the past. I suspect that customs threw away the fingerprints at first (it was done with ink originally), but it's done digitally nowadays.

Brazil does this for all countries. American tourists, for example, have to pay $100 for a visa because Brazilians need to do the same in the U.S.

To this day, it's considerably easier for Europeans to enter Brazil than Americans. While the U.S. hasn't rescinded the fingerprint law (that I know of), it's possible this policy prevented escalation...
If you have the time, please file a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ it's pretty painless. We definitely care about Firefox on Mac. Thanks.
Just as an aside, I used LastPass for a long time, and held on in discomfort for a while after their acquisition, but their inability to keep their Firefox plugin updated or even working finally convinced me to switch to 1Password. I couldn't be happier, and their Firefox extension is modern and well-done!
Dead to me ever since they decided to raise the price with 100% for no reason (from consumer PoV) whatsoever. Classic bait & switch.

Is there an easy way to convert your current Lastpass database to Bitwarden?
You can either change your job, or you can change job.

There are no perfect jobs, so you have to find one where you'll be able to live with the downsides. Is having no career progression a downside you can live with or not? How about having to do lot's of overtime? Or being underpaid? They are all questions only you can answer.
Thanks for your comment! We love feedback (part of our DNA) ;).

One of our biggest challenges is making a product that is flexible for teachers but which is hard to misuse. Bad assessment rubrics give bad student experiences, and unfortunately we can't make them for the teachers. We are in the process of writing a small booklet for teachers on how to make rubrics better.

The challenge with anonymity is especially a problem in smaller classes. We make sure to strip metadata from the submissions, so if people don't put their names in the documents, the only way to determine the author is to know the content or the writing style. It sounds like the challenge in your course was that people were working on different projects and that you knew who was working on what?

The psychology part is the most tricky. We want to make a setup where the incentives are correct, but where people don't feel scared of giving feedback to each other. The way we primarily do this is through feedback-on-feedback where receivers of feedback are asked to review the quality of the feedback they received, and then we let the teachers moderate this and students flag problems. I don't think we are completely there yet, but I can definitely see that we are making progress on solving this :).
Pocket is now owned by Mozilla, and is going to be open sourced. What separates that from any other functionality built into the browser, for instance Firefox Sync or Autocomplete?
Plex is a business that needs to monetize. For private local media, we need to revive and renovate VLC.
In uBlock/AdBlock, try blocking third-party domains like .doubleclick.net or .tapad.com (but not .disquscdn.com) and block third-party cookies in your browser's settings.
This change wouldn't likely significantly help Google though: Their shopping service doesn't bring in a lot of revenue AFAIK. The primary concern is that the EU's ruling defines the issue with putting services they own in general in priority placing in Google Search: Something Google does with a large number of it's products.
Like many computer things, Docbook had (and as I understand it still has) a life in a certain domain. But, for reasons that are perhaps not perfectly clear, it never made the jump to hyperspeed. It just never became the thing.
"You are not throwing me out! I chose to quit you first!"
You assume facts not in evidence and write as if your biases are evident as the truth.

China has a history of blocking outside influence in order to control the populace, so fear of competition with apps may not be the motivation.
I am a beginner as well. The actual worst case time of an algorithm with big O notation of O[log n] is [(a * log n) + c] where:

[a] represents the idea that there may be an arbitrary number of steps in the portion of the program that is proportional to [log n]

[c] represents the idea that there is a constant amount of running time overhead that is independent of the core efficiency of the algorithm.

Big O notation is convenient because it gets rid of [a] and [c]. It can be misleading because [a] and [c] might dominate the run time in all practical cases. It can also be misleading because as [n] becomes large, O(n log n) often approximates (a log n).

Here we are only doing one O(n log n) operation...so long as the sorted array is memoized and used for future operations. Note that if the array is sorted destructively, then the memory is [a' * n] or O(n} which is the same as having an unsorted array (though [a'] may be bigger than the factor required without sorting.

Anyway, I don't really know what is or isn't a naive solution. But I've read a bit of Knuth and I don't think he would encourage looking for unneeded complexity because algorithms and computer science are hard enough just taking the simplest approach.
Sorry that USA messed up all the other environmental treaties, like the Kyoto that they signed but the Senate didn't subscribed. Maybe we wouldn't have Irmas and Marias by now.
Up next the Austin method. Local competition fills the void providing better service than before proving that it's the technology not the company that's making the difference. Being Canada it would be funny to see a government corporation as the replacement ala liquor.
You can't create the amount of money you are talking about without severe economic consequences. That should be obvious.
> VC

Consumers have an app in their pocket that has everyone they know in it and can make a video call with two taps.

For corporate video conferencing there are paid solutions just like everywhere else.

So a free desktop app like Skype for video conferencing has no appeal.

> Baidu

The Baidu translate app has all those features and even a mini app for conversations in a walkie-talkie-like mode.

> Maps

You can set a future time for routing by public transit, and the real-time routing is pretty good. It doesn't try to predict road traffic conditions in the future. If Google has that feature I'd be curious how useful it is.

> Email

Big companies that have email have email systems. There's no demand for widespread public free email accounts because the public has no interest in email unless it's the only option.

I think the issue here is that it's easy to look at the features you use like Hangouts or Gmail calendar integration and think that Google is "ahead" technically. But in the Chinese market, the same needs are met in different ways by different products on a different mix of devices. So the features that you look at as "missing" haven't been developed because the market just doesn't care about them, not because Chinese internet giants lack the technical chops. They don't.

I think the way to look at it is not who is ahead, but that these are different markets with different values and the products look quite different, but you can't easily compare them by checking off features.
Here's an idea - let's punish the scum that creates those ads instead of demanding that Google plays the moral police for the whole world. You're literaly demading that Google (a private for-profit corporation) becomes a private censorship force instead of going after scum that creates those ads.
You should change the following in your whitepaper though:

"..It contains information that is confidential and privileged. If you have received this document in
error, please notify the sender and delete this file."
Welp - when you have $489,000 stolen from you in the manner it was stolen from me, you tend to make rash decisions. I literally did do this - and I have zero qualms about telling him such.

So I couldn't care less of your opinion of the situation - but you were not there. I have no issues. They are scum opportunists and its amazing how the whole freaking country just let this happen...
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-ceo-hired-a-music-m...

Equifax “Chief Security Officer” Susan Mauldin has a bachelor’s degree and a master of fine arts degree in music composition from the University of Georgia. Her LinkedIn professional profile lists no education related to technology or security.

Her LinkedIn profile has since been removed entirely.

A copy is shown here:

https://www.hollywoodlanews.com/equifax-chief-security-offic...

She was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at First Data Corporation, until July 2013.

The snippet posted there shows her previous jobs as "professional".

No security person I know has zero security experience on their resume.
LPDDR doesn't seem very relevant for desktop processors, but I do wish they'd get on with it for laptops.
> impound cars if they suspect you to be an Uber driver.

How do they impound the vehicle if the driver is in it? Do they arrest the driver first?
They pretty much said the same thing about Calgary, and yet after review they still followed the regulations and are to this day operating in the city.

I find it hard to believe Quebec will act terribly different.
I'd throw the issue over to DARPA and see if a more advanced solution is possible. Maybe we have giant solar powered aircraft combing the skies collecting CO2 and breaking it down to carbon. Or build a laser that zaps the stuff, lasers are cool, everyone loves lasers whether your gay, straight, right, left, or just don't give AF - you still love lasers. I don't know if the science behind any of that is feasible, but we have done a lot of stuff as humans that wasn't viewed as feasible at some point. And, it gets rid of Republicans main complaint of impacting the economy. Of course this would require funding, but it could be packaged into a nice shiny defense bill.

It's better than our "solution" of not good enough incremental progress on reduction and not good enough incremental increases in renewable energy. Neither of those baby steps deal with the amount of CO2 already in the atmosphere.
Austinite here. I still use the local competition even after Uber returned.
I have studied the science on AGW and believe the central hypotheses to be true. However, I reject the moralization that has become the bread and butter of environmentalists. I've had many "ends justify the means" conversations with people who believe they can/should make energy usage a moral issue.

It's a science and engineering problem, not a moral one. The religious fervor around much of the environmental movement (complete with significant social virtue signaling) turns me off both the person and the message by association.
Nuclear is a source of energy, fossil fuels are both a source and a compact & relatively lightweight means of packaging it. Purely electric-powered cars have only relatively recently become viable for general use, and it's still not viable for aircraft. Building nuclear power plants doesn't solve that problem on its own.