skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why I fully support every person having access to family planing methods as I don’t think anyone should be having children they don’t want, the relative cost of children would still cause differential changes to the population even if 100% of people had health care access.

Children are much more expensive to the highly educated, both directly through things like housing and education, and indirectly via opportunity costs. The more expensive you make something the less of it will be consumed unless it is a Veblen good.
Most of the other diverse parts of Spain aren't clamoring for independence from the collective, perhaps Catalan can follow their example.
I'm not sure that the ship would be strong enough to withstand a water landing. It'll come down on its tail, and then it will (I think!) tip over, which will probably smash it to pieces.

Aborts also leave you with too much fuel on board, probably way too much fuel. You could burn it off with the engines, although you'd want to actually use it to reach your origin or destination if possible.

If you abort early, you can still reach the origin. If you abort late, you can still reach the destination on the remaining engines. So the pertinent question is: do these two regimes overlap, or is there a gap, and how big? I don't have the answers, and you may be right that there is one.
"by mere chance"

Is that your opinion, or do the Catalonians and people outside Spain agree?
I didn't read it as selfish or disrespectful, but perhaps false with regards to true depression?

Really don't know much about clinical depression, but heartbreak and mild depression that average people go through can I've found to be lessened by helping others. Probably mainly because it takes your mind off of the fact, and also because you feel fulfilled in the end. Two things that don't happen if you sit at home sulking alone and constantly replaying your past over and over.
Yeah, that situation is a mess and should be embarrassing for those involved.

I can use Hangouts for simple messaging from Firefox, but as soon as we need to hop on a call I need to boot up Chrome. Often I forget and try to answer in Firefox just to get the error message. Then I have to start Chrome, login to gmail if it's logged out, wait for everything to load, and then answer the call. Ends up taking a fairly long time to answer an incoming call sometimes.
> the wealthy landowners were facing the extinction of their wealth... so they started a war

As someone who doesn't know much about American history: What happened to the wealth of those Southern landowners after the war? Did they get to keep it?
I've been a Chrome user since it was first available. I've tried to go back to Firefox multiple times. When the containers plugin hit the front page a week or two ago I decided to try it out.

I'm not using the beta or nightly builds because I'm lazy. However, Firefox with containers has sold me and I've switched to it for everything except development. I'm too used to Chrome Dev tools it's been hard to switch :|

I absolutely love Firefox+Containers though. I just wish I could make it auto-open-in-container with wildcards. For example, open all *.mywork.com pages in my Work profile.
The question is, can we start an industry on Mars that is efficient enough today such that the cost of producing and maintain infrastructure (solar panels, mining equipment) is lower than the output from the products?

This is in my opinion the wrong question, and the answer is unequivocally no. People will not go to mars to make their fortune, at least initially, they will go for research, for glory and because they can. In centuries to come the answer will be yes, but not on any reasonable timescale. People will move there anyway.
It wasn't a victory at all; existing medical procedure failed to stop huge numbers of deformities. As a reactionary knee-jerk response, the US instated vastly overwrought medical restrictions.
Pretty sad to see this happening in a western country, in the EU no less.
I've been using multiple profiles for months on Firefox via `firefox -P profile1`, `firefox -P profile2`.

What's it changing to, moving forward?
Of course.. It's not cherry picking. I said IT sector is doing pretty well in India. I never claimed anything other than that. Most majors have hard time finding any job in their sector.
Did you look at the link I posted? There's a ton of high-quality evidence for what I said in the medical literature.
If you added this with RTMP+WebRTC ingestion support all of these [1] companies would probably jump on the opportunity... and dozens more would start up in that space ;-)

[1] http://interviewingsoftware.com/
I agree: humans generally don't tolerate mistakes from machines if the mistakes are not similar to those that humans would make. And people generally don't recognize their own intellectual shortcomings in comparison to others (other human cultures, other non-human animals, machines) as long as those shortcomings are common within one's peer group. It's unremarkable to be unable to memorize long passages in a literate culture, but it's an intellectual impairment to have a hard time distinguishing similar symbols like U and V. In an oral culture the relative importance of memory and visual symbol disambiguation are reversed.
Yep, my Nascom 2 was a kit (2000+ solder points!). I maintain nascomhomepage.com which has most everything. If you have anything not already there, kindly share!
What is the moral issue here?
Yup. A "hole" in space in some sense, though I must admit I haven't thought of it such extremely concrete terms[1]. I imagine that realization went into the naming :).

[1] I mean, we usually imagine we can retrieve things when they drop into a hole, but that's not really a thing in this case. (Excepting Hawking radiation and the absurd amount of computation/time you would need to reconstruct the original state information from that. If you thought the time-of-evaporation for a Black Hole was long, you've got another thing coming when it comes to reconstructing the state from that evaporated radiation! Not that this has has any practical bearing, but it's fun to think about, right?)
I have plenty of battery issues on MacOS with both Firefox and Chrome. When it's a concern, I try to use Safari. I would probably use it all the time, but it's still awful when it comes to speeding up HTML5 videos (edit: including the latest Safari technology preview). It wasn't all that long ago that it didn't even do pitch correction. Now it does, but it's weirdly tinny and echoey. Firefox and Chrome both handle it fine.
Sometimes the terrible writing is what breaks the suspension of disbelief.
Self-fulfilling prophesy right there.
I was using developer extension and it disabled all of my beloved plugins. I hurried back to the "normal version". How is the update of the plugins to the new browser? Will it go live with uBlock, Tree tabs etc?
I like to think of myself as both reasonable and not corrupt. I can't see how being obliged to give up your right to secede because a document you didn't write, sign, or agree to, says you give up that right is any different than the decree of a dictator.
Would you consider this as "huge foundational advancement"?
> At some point, a company will have enough funds to purchase its own military

I don't expect funding is the only big barrier between a company and its possession of a military force here.
If impersonating senders was so easy, phishers would be doing it. Yes anyone can lie in the From header, but any sane mail system would reject it as unverified
> usable and attractive to an average user.

I think you nailed it there, Ubuntu is a least common denominator of the Linux distros. Canonical found their niche, good for them.
I'm fairly certain that 'gross incompetence' is a core value in this sector.
Yes, I'm a lawyer. I'm not your lawyer though. And it doesn't matter -- even non-lawyers are capable of reasoning about legal topics. You do not appear to be a lawyer, yet you have an opinion.

The takeaway from this article is just wrong, b/c it implies that the SEC thinks token presales are all inherently fraudulent. That is not correct.

Many ICO's are illegal securities offerings, probably. And many are also fraudulent. These two things often overlap. They are not equivalent though.

Howey is a FACT DEPENDENT TEST. That means, if you are planning any kind of token offering, you have to get advice about your specific circumstances.

As a heuristic, "stay away from ICOs" is pretty solid. No one will be harmed by this. Many people will be harmed by participating in crappy ICOs, either as promoters or buyers.

However, HN is a forum for technical discussion, and I'm criticizing the technical basis of that article.
That's not correct. In mother tongue terms, 55% of population in Catalonia has the Spanish as his tongue (mother/habitual tongue), and 35% Catalan. The "economic power" is in hands of Catalan-"ethnic" people, though. Source (official): https://www.idescat.cat/pub/?id=ed&lang=en

"The first casualty when war comes is truth".
Give Firefox another chance, after Mozilla recently announced opt-out telemetry? Give them another chance now that they're siding with the likes of privacy-ignorant Microsoft? The same vendor that keeps bolting on features that seem irrelevant to its user base, such as "assumed touch", app store etc?

Surely one would only offer Mozilla another chance once they have extended an olive branch, rather than a closed-circuit television camera?
Two quotes from his newsletter:

> Passive investing is all the rage. Buy SPY, make regular contributions, retire. That’s today’s wisdom, and it’s completely wrong.

> Think like Warren Buffett for a second

I don't know what he's trying to sell, but I wouldn't take any financial advice from him.
After the most recent LastPass extension vulnerability, I no longer run LastPass extension in my default browser (Firefox). I have it installed on a different browser then copy/paste as needed.
How can Jeff Bezos, a globalist, pro-government, socialist possibly do Snow Crash justice?
One might argue because they were "distracted" with making a phone OS and other endeavors.
When shipping internationally if cost rather than speed is the concern you ship by boat. Shipping by rocket over a plane would just be another higher tier of service. If Musk's pricing is to be believed it would make shipping between continents potentially faster than shipping within the continent. That would change the industry.
I use Sencha ExtJS every day.. (now v.6). We still have a few applications with it but have recommended that my clients move to React (for new development). I have heard a lot of complaints over the years about Ext's complexity and I guess I would have to agree. It's a bit like writing windows code with MFC. Not completely horrible if you know like the entire library, but somewhat daunting at the beginning. The grid control was pretty nice (I think someone commented on that), but the newer component based architectures are much better.
That's AngularJS released in 2010.

Angular 4 is TypeScript and therefore much less hacky.
> It’s no secret that Mozilla squandered a lot of time and energy on various projects that went nowhere (think its mobile phone OS, IoT services, creating a built-in video chat service, etc.).

The "built-in video chat service" is a webstandard. Called WebRTC, got mainly pushed by Google. Every modern browser implements this. Mozilla just decided to build a service which implements the server-side of this protocol. Which they needed anyways to test their client-side implementation.

So, the only squandered time and energy is that of the UX people that polished that server-side implementation up for public use.

And in return for that, Mozilla got excellent testing of their client-side implementation and direct feedback, if maybe people would want the Foundation to allocate some money to run such a service.
AFAIK this quantum release was mostly about a new/better CSS engine, right? If this helps this much, I'm very excited for webrender.
> - You’re in denial

> If any of the above apply to you, you might want to consider improving your self-awareness.

How are you supposed to know you are in denial if you are in denial?
Spain has an independent judiciary. In China, and I guess also Venezuela although I know less about it, the judiciary is heavily influenced by the government.

Of course their governments see that as the way it should be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_law#Rule_of_law : > Despite the newly elevated role of courts in Chinese society, there still remains some consensus about defects in China's legal system in regards to progressing towards the rule of law.

I have never read anything similar about Spain.
Does the upcoming Firefox start as fast as Chrome? Rendering was never what I had problems with; startup speed is literally the one reason why I haven't switched.
We are just in the process of launching something similar at Converse to allow users to extend our conversational workflow capabilities to add their own modules, events, including extending API endpoints and the core UI.

Definitely a good way of doing things, still looking for more beta testers but feedback is very positive so far.

https://get.converse.ai/v2.0/docs/plugin-development if anyone wants to kick the tires on it, all feedback welcome.
Very few people are bothered by the movement to WebExtensions, multi-process, or removal of complete themes. Many, however, have stopped using the browser as it has felt slow and clunky for quite a while now. The recent changes have actually attracted me back to the platform after a decade of using Chrome.
It's merely [citation needed], it's not [who?].

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/23/china-must-res...
Companies such as Wipro, TCS, Cognizant and Infosys are considered lowest in this sector. No kidding, they pick up 1000s in a single day from a single college. e.g. see http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/placement/statistics_2015.html

> SRM University sets new placement record of 6064 on Day 1

> The highest offer was from Wipro 1641, followed by TCS 1611, Cognizant 1506 and Infosys 1306.

You can imagine the quality of interview when they have interviewed at least 1500 students on a single day.
Hello from 1995: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1136
How not to respond to a security disclosure
Angular is better for larger applications, I like it.
gvim -v (and set mouse=a) from the terminal and emacs xterm-mouse-mode are both at least 10 years old.

I'm not really familiar with it since I'm not big on the mouse but I believe it all comes from the GPM (general purpose mouse) server, at least that is what ncurses mouse support is based on.
>Fair, fair, it's communist not tax-capitalist. I shouldn't have said "tax."

It's not just that. Powerful central governments don't function on the idea of everyone chipping in, they function on the idea that they can oversee the use of resources and allocate them in the best possible way. Normal people don't get a say in terms of resource allocation and don't get a say in who makes up the central government, so they aren't 'chipping in' in a meaningful way, as that implies it was their choice.

>Top 40%. It does seem absurd to me, did you look at Figure 2 that I linked? That is the inversion of a meritocracy.

I am not surprised by the news that 75% of doctors come from families that make over $50,000 a year. To become a doctor, you need to go to college, which costs money, then go to medical school, which costs more. During that period you must also not need to provide for your family so there's also a significant opportunity cost.

That said, the fact that this rate is increasing may be cause for concern, as noted in the article. Frankly, there is also another significant issue: the idea that you can become a doctor at all as a realistic goal, which I think is also a barrier - many people don't believe it is possible for them when it actually is.

As for the 100 medical students, I bet a lot of those doctors did not return to the United States to practice medicine, as they would have to do their residencies here to get licensed.
Speaking from experience with a corner computer desk made out of MDF, yes - I'm amazed it survived being disassembled and moved at all, but it didn't make it the second time.
Obviously "what we do" is influenced by Congressional makeup and how PR alters it, but that's pretty much what the diff between a binding and non-binding referendum means in practice.

And maybe forcing the issue is a bit too colonial, optically.
for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13909365
A Catalan here. Quite a bad description, I think.
We should remember that Catalonia had its own language forbidden to even speak in the street for 40 years during Franco's dictatorship. Language and culture was kept alive thanks of people keeping it in secrecy.

When "democracy" returned, some of the competences they had before the war were returned to the government.

After 6 years of demonstrations of 2-3 million (out of 7million) asking to hold a referendum and receiving NO to any request, it was announced and proposed one year ago in order to agree it with Spanish government, but they would not even discuss it. In the end the unilateral way is the only way to hold this referendum.

Why shouldn't it be allowed to ask people's preferences? Isn't it democracy? People who doesn't want independence can say NO. Laws should serve people's desires, not forbid participation and opinion.
Nature succeeded in creating human-level intelligence with one trick and no understanding, so clearly it can be done. It did take a while though. More tricks and more understanding would probably help speed things up.
That's impressive. Using FOMO to get you to read something you don't want
And the point I am trying to make is - It is not the spring you believe it to be. Let's take a look at actual IBM India salary, should we? Here's the data from glassdoor:
https://www.glassdoor.co.in/Salary/IBM-Salaries-E354.htm

Most freshers get near to Associate Systems Engineer. The salary range is between 3.7 lakhs to 8.65 lakhs. This is farcry from what you believe it is. Yes, there are colleges whose salaries are pushed to the limit thanks to the startups but majority are not as well of as you might think.
I wonder if it's time for ubuntu and friends to seriously consider ia32?
But that's putting the cart before the horse. You need the ICO to get enough investment to build out your platform, when you have a fully functioning platform, who still needs investment?

And if a platform is a prerequisite: Just build the barest possible platform MVP, much like a pre-launch landing page.
As long as it's your political ideology, right comrade?
Do you close your browser that often?
Government could probably just block any DNS requests that want to resolve the ipfs.io domain. Though Spain probably does not have the censorship infrastructure deployed for that the way a country like China has.
I think the replies critical of your comment are unfair. In my read, it is not critical of depressed people. To be depressed _is_ to be very self absorbed. It isn't a character flaw, it's a result of the condition.

The advice to make yourself do things can be helpful. Speaking personally, in periods of depression I have left the house less because of pessimism about how good a time it would be, or whether it'd be worthwhile. It's helpful, if you can, to ignore those feelings and make yourself do things, for the simple fact that it's good for you.

As you say, "if you can" is the rub.
Force touch works, but why is the interaction different from other browsers?
Sure, but how many people are trained in skilled trades?
Looking forward to CPUs getting on-die FPGAs so we can actually chuck some fully deterministic timing tasks onto them. Even if you're running on metal without an OS, there are heaps of things that can stop your code from running with predictable timing, and it seems like it's getting worse as CPUs are getting more complex.
VC funded company...
The other day I was walking out of my closet, turned, and nearly jumped out of my skin because some clothes hanging from the door briefly looked like a large man standing right next to me. I'm not sure that our failings only happen under unusual circumstances, but rather maybe we're just used to them and don't think about it much.
Why should they? Tor is managed by the Tor Project. It is bundled & shipped as TBB already, using Firefox. You already can use it if you want to, so why would they bother with implementing Tor in the mainstream version of Firefox? They could only offer it as option (because not everyone wants to use Tor all the time) and this option is already satisfied.
A Large part of the reason they couldn't easily address the UI performance was because of the old extensions.

The reason that Firefox switched to webextensions was in order to switch to a formal extension API that could be supported long term, instead of the old open integration API which made it difficult to readable without breaking all sorts of extensions.

There reason they adapted the web extension API that chrome uses, was because it largely made sense, was already pretty fleshed out and would allow extension writers that were already familiar with that to also target Firefox.
There is a difference between illegal and unconstitutional. Do you see any penalty associated with that section?

Constitutional law set limits on the state, and defines minimum rights of a person and applies to the state.

A crime is breaking a criminal law, which applies to people and has defined penalties associated with it.
It's proven unsolvable for computers (i.e., Turing machines). Whether that makes it impossible for humans to solve (as a matter of course, or as a matter of Turing's proof) depends on whether you believe that we are isomorphic to computers. Which, to be fair, is exactly the belief that underwrites artificial intelligence. But then Turing's proof involves a program that inspects the halting oracle you're using, which isn't well-posed for humans evaluating halting.
If I remember right, they are one of the richest regions (second only after Madrid) and they contribute to about 20% of the GDP.
Not to mention Firefox for Android that supports extensions (uBlock etc.).
Ask HN: CS as a philosophy
I think of CS as a sort of philosophy, art, and sometimes a religion.

For me, the manipulation of ideas in CS and Math are the stuff that make me interested in these two disciplines in the first place. This feels more or less artistic and powerful. Think of lambda calculus for example, or linear algebra (in it's geometric interpretation) or even ordinary calculus with limits and stuff. These things represent reality and are so beautiful they almost seem godly, or at least to me.

I always have this feeling and it's what pushes me everyday to turn on my computer and stay all day constantly looking at millions of tiny light bulbs and hitting plastic buttons with my fingers.

Personally, I have never felt any other thing pushing me to CS (or Math) and I have a tendency to infer that this is the only reason (or at least the main one) why people love CS.

I would like to hear stories of other people about that matter.
This was what I was thinking, until three days ago someone mentioned here about Bitwarden. It's perfect, no more LP for me, you should try it too :) https://bitwarden.com/
Please don't.

Edit: actually we've had to ask you not to do this so many times that I've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439986

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14435711

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13206873

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13199294
I guess what I'm talking about is more relevant when riding in a tight urban core like say NYC. In that case the traffic is not actually moving that fast making a bike much more efficient.
You're frankly not a reasonable source of opinion on the rule of law if you don't consider laws you didn't write, sign or agree to, legal.

Also, if Spain is like most countries (but I really don't know this for a fact), but elected representatives will have signed or sworn or something similar to uphold the constitution.