skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
«beyond that they've not created many new business opportunities»

What an understatement. As of 2 years ago, at least 729 Bitcoin businesses were created¹, received $1 billion in investments², and employed thousands of persons.

¹https://venturescannerinsights.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/the-...

²http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/02/technology/bitcoin-1-billion...
> Only people with a feeble understanding of the world, economics and finance will seriously engage with the idea one can make money out of thin air,

You don't need an econ degree, to understand fiat money multipliers but it helps, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier

> wasting electricity

Is it fair to cite this as a blanket criticism, given the number of projects seriously looking at non POW consensus?
I'm talking about general AI as an engineering challenge
Hey, if you've tried the beta or nightly versions, you can't expect them to be stable until the enter the stable version.

If you've tried the stable version, the stable version is still one version behind the changes that are coming.

I honestly recommend giving it a go again in two months.
Computers Have Had Emotions for Quite Some Time
Betteridge's law never fails
I always wanted to understand what type of independence do you want exactly. Could you give me your opinion? Between a completely independent state as if Cataluña had a cristal bubble around it and nothing can enter or leave it, and the current sittuation, how much independent Cataluña wants to be? I heard some people wants to be an associate State to Spain and others to be a completely separate state (which means things like enter again the european union)
"surprisingly benevolent" eh? I'm guessing you've not been a paying customer with outstanding bug reports?
fyi: Advantages is misspelled as advanta(d)ges in Paragraph ~6 under "A website stored in IPFS"

Thanks! This is a great read
You seem to imply that backing the ref or independence is unanimous or that the Catalan courts are arbitrarily following the bidding of Madrid.
lmgtfy: https://signal.org/blog/doodles-stickers-censorship/
"but how can anyone be breaking the law by stating their preference"

Because an unofficial referendum - which will not remotely reflect the actual will of the people - will still have dramatic political consequences.

Nobody is 'banning' anyone from 'signing a petition'.
This article leaves out the new generation of distributed consensus algorithms used by databases like Spanner and my employer FaunaDB.

You can read a comparison between Spanner's atomic-clock based approach and FaunaDB's consensus algorithm here: https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-consistency-at-scale-span...

And if you want to look at how these consistency tradeoffs show up in application programming, check out the bit about serialized indexes in the second half of this blog post: https://fauna.com/blog/consistent-transactions-in-a-globally...
They don't contribute, they have an independent economic system which comes from ancient times. Basque Country and Navarra have this privilege.
I'm going through the same thing, more or less, at 39. On top of that I haven't accomplished what I expected to and see people much younger than myself do.

It's very hard and I have "started over" so many times that the energy that you get from that is starting to wear off which is almost more scary. I am starting to feel that I really need some sort of lucky break from the universe or I will never move on. Which is scary because I am not very spiritual and I don't really believe that is likely to happen. But I carry on because I wouldn't know what else to do anyway.
unfortunately, force touch is not supported by all Macs. it's unfortunate that this doesn't work in the battery-saving browser of choice for a lot of people (myself included), because the website is gorgeous.
Last I checked bridges came before Newtonian Mechanics and it seems strange to argue this wasn't a good thing. Admittedly paper writing wasn't the main mechanism of transmitting knowledge but it's fairly common for human engineering to come before the full theoretical foundations as opposed to after.
Kalashnikov Hoverbike
Perhaps `ag-grid` : https://ag-grid.com/best-react-data-grid/
I don't think it's controversial to say that China isn't a democracy, unlike Spain.
Out of curiosity, why am I a imperialist-minded European? What makes you think so?
> suddenly wants to split off?

Suddenly?
It does if the questions are very carefully considered. Designing good questions is not easy.
I'm on Firefox 56. Is there a way to see if my extensions (and FT DeepDark theme) works on 57?
Making a colony on the Antarctic, in the middle of ocean, or underseas are all ways that allow you to "get out" that are much simpler to colonize on a large scale.
The question that popped to my head was why FreeBSD? I stopped using it for anything back in 2006. Since much of this tuning/debugging/analysis relates to the OS/kernel shouldnt the article start there?
As a side note, if we are talking about politics then this comes on the heels of the Kurdish vote to pursue independence from Iraq with 92% of voters in favor (I read 72% turn out).

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41440747

Both the US and Britain condemned the vote, which is morally disgusting after the Kurds and Peshmerga supported both of them in at least 2 wars (Iraq War of 2003+ & fight against IS).

It's okay when developed countries invade developing countries to "spread democracy", but when ethnic subgroups attempt to seek independence non-violently it's not?
It's interesting to visualize what % heritable actually means. Here is a graph from a recent study trying to predict height from human genes. They found a correlation of 0.64

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4qSTryry0so/WcAhygytvTI/AAAAAAAAS...

That means, in practice, your height outcome tends strongly toward a fairly narrow range around the predicted mean. I found it illuminating to visualize the pattern.

(The full article is http://infoproc.blogspot.ca/2017/09/accurate-genomic-predict...)
I think we agree on one point: To do great things, access to capital is necessary but not sufficient. If all it took was hard work, I'm sure lots of us would quit our jobs today and get started!
That's too bad. Battery on my work MacBook (and making my whole system beachball constantly, even with only a handful of tabs open) is what got me to switch from Firefox to Chrome ~6 years ago, and from there to Safari for even better battery life (and avoiding Google).
> there is ample evidence that you're better off without one.

Not anything that can be called rational evidence.

I've suffered several falls in which I heard a very loud crack: that of helmet hitting pavement, hard. That would have been my head, each time.
It's not quite a new profile since the container retains all your configuration and extensions and a profile doesn't.

It's more similar to a private browsing session, except things aren't forgotten, and you can have as many as you like. And they're tab level so you can treat them they same way you would a tab.
I'd be interested in any way to help out too. As part of the Scottish independence movement, our Catalonian counterparts are comrades & allies. Other than solidarity protests over here, I'd love to help in some way.
I think hiring contractors is sufficient these days. The governments do it, no reason that companies can't. In Iraq, many companies hire the exact same outfits as the Pentagon.
This sounds like a really powerful feature. I love how it uses JavaScript, which makes it much more approachable for web developers.

My experience with Service Worker APIs hasn't been very positive, although I don't have any suggestions for ways it could be improved, so I apologize for the non-constructive feedback. Maybe after using it more I'll change my mind. I recognize that everyone involved is likely working hard to provide an API that's capable of handling a wide range of problems, many of which I likely haven't even considered.

Here's a more actionable complaint: fetch doesn't support timeout or abortion. I have a hard time understanding how this isn't a problem for more people. Say what you will about XMLHttpRequest, at least it supports these basic features. As an end-user, I always find it absolutely infuriating when things hang forever because a developer forgot to handle failure cases.

I'd love it if you published a locally runnable version. Aside from making it easier to configure and experiment, it would give me peace of mind to know that I could continue to use the same configuration if Cloudflare decided to terminate my service.
I meant what does Ubuntu Server come with. Is it Unity too?
My outside perspective is that as with any other major project, backwards compatibility and the momentum of old code/bugs.

I don't think they've been "waiting" to solve the UI issues: it's been years of slowly deprecating old systems like XUL, and implementing new systems like e10s. That's been years of anger or at least angst for extension developers, as much backwards compatibility was broken one piece at a time.

The fruit after all that hard work is the new UI.
Firefox's strength was originally that technically astute people liked it and people who saw them liking it followed suit. They lost a lot of geek mindshare to Chrome when Chrome hit the scene, but I see this as a return to roots. People who know enough to understand the difference, see that very interesting things are happening with Firefox, and in addition it's not offered by the world's biggest advertising company.
He knows a thing or two about, you know, privacy. And Zcash's main feature is, you know, privacy :)

For the crowd, Zcash obfuscates the sending address, the receiving address, and even the amount transacted, using zero-knowledge proofs.
Smart Media Tokens
The judiciary in Spain sentenced a Ministro del Interior (the 2nd most powerful political position after President) to 10 years in prison.

All western democracies have the executive branch influence the judiciary in more or less degree. But it's a huge jump from that to single-party systems like China or, de facto, Venezuela.
This is the version that breaks the legacy plugins and switches over to WebExtensions API.

Add-on developer are still catching up, but I think that the majority will be ready for the 57 release in November. I tried switching maybe two weeks ago, and I couldn't, simply because of one extension that wasn't ported.

Looking around, and I was able to find out that they've been working on it and two days ago I've installed the testing version of the add-on and made a complete switch to Nightly.
Humanity used fire for a long time before combustion was understood. Even today Anesthesia is not well understood at biological/physiological level that has not stopped its safe use and innovation through Clinical Trials. Maybe competitions and empiricism are the best approaches to building intelligent systems. Why get caught up in Physics/Math envy?
Welsh Climber on Anniversary with Wife Killed in 1,000-Tonne Yosemite Rock Fall
I've heard pro-independence people twisting facts for over 20 years... Not surprised anymore.

Democracy is deciding new law based on current law following people's desires... Like it or not, every day meter of Catalan soil belongs as much to a Catalan woman as to an Andalusian man...

Nobody in his right mind would say that Catalonia is an oppressed region by Spain's government... Quite the opposite actually.
I can definitely not recommend AGGrid. It has all of those features but it is incredibly awkward to use.
Your example is not running smooth for me, it has a slight delay when moving elements.
https://openbazaar.org
Well, the comment about no zero days was in the context of trying to remain productive while depressed, not how to avoid burnout during periods of intense productivity. Do you agree context matters?
Reinvent information access ("search") for the mobile world. The current paradigm google mini-me model, or even glorified chatbots like siri, are nowhere near where they should be. This necessitates a complete rethink of the search<>browse paradigm.
If you go to the add-on page of your extension there's a "Works with FF57+" if it works.
The ones that are packaged into the Developer Edition of Firefox are amazing. I'd say even better.
I mean, at this point do we need to clarify? Yes, the commenter is a fascist and yes that is basically what they believe, although it would be more about the rule of law than any kind of protection.
I gave it chance, just 2-3 days ago with Forefox Nightly. Again. I am giving Firefox chance maybe twice a year for last couple of years (before went through couple of browsers as daily drivers). This time it could not even properly render my Outlook.com mailbox, when I edit draft and go to end page (CTRL+END) screen scroll properly in Chrome to end of page, while in Forefox it stayed on top until I moved cursor in editing field with arrow and then it jumped where it should be in the first place. Also scrolling with scrollbars was veru unresponsive on many ocassions.

So sorry, but for me Firefox is just huge fail if they can't get even one of the biggest webmails to work properly or scrollbars. And better not complain about start times, unresponsiveness, etc.

I like idea of Mozilla and would be very happy to switch away from Google (only reason why I don't install microG on my Android phone is Google Photos which are ireplacable and AFAIK backup doesn't work with microG) but they provide inferior products.

It's even worse on Android, it's bunch of stubborn nerds who don't even give people option to Pull down to refresh, so people like me will never switch to FF on mobile, no matter if they would be at least on par with Chrome for Android or faster browsers like Brave (which they are not, firefox on android is slowest browser you gonna ever see if you bother to try and compare with other browsers).

I expect nothing else than being downvoted to oblivion by local FF fanboys.
Honestly chrome sticks around because:
1. it's not bad
2. CMD + Shift + C opens the dev tools and allows you to select DOM nodes. I use that religiously...
>> I had more trouble finding this setting than I should have. Appears to be hamburger menu -> customize -> (bottom of page) density drop-down -> select compact. Still not sure if I like it. The tabs alone are still way too big for my liking.

Assuming it's the same as every Firefox since they started copying Chrome, the alt key should bring up the old-fashioned (and much more usable) menu bar.
What fascinates me from reading the article is this expands the scope of the ancient Egyptian economy. While we assume the pace of technological change back then was far slower and less disruptive, it is still a remarkable accomplishment that their civilization's economy lasted intact for over 3,000 years. Much of that time the economy existed was built on barter, without the abstractions we take for granted as superior, such as money.

Now with Tallet's contributions to our understanding, not only did that economy support the massive royal bureaucracy and pyramids projects, but apparently much more extensive brown water and offshore naval infrastructure than we previously thought. The taxes were apparently quite heavy [1], but somehow they made it work for a much longer time than any extant civilization has existed. The kind of archaeology that could explain how they pulled that off would be really interesting. I don't think it could be explained by a single factor like "just" slavery, or "just" religious devotion, etc.

[1] http://classroom.synonym.com/taxes-were-collected-ancient-eg...
Citation needed.

Google Analytcs and ads are so widely that most of your browsing will be tracked regardless of browser, even regardless of your search engine (but the search engine is also quite major since they can track what you were trying to search for before jumping into the web).

But there's also a privacy policy explaining what chrome actually sends:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/
Plans Rolling Ahead for Seattle Light Rail Extension to Ballard
Is Eclipse still written in Java? I wonder why architecture support has to be added at all.
>Forgetting about Catalonia for a moment, isn't it fundamentally amoral that a part of the country where prosperity has (by mere chance) concentrated suddenly wants to split off? Isn't this taking wealth-inequality to the next level?

Nope. There's nothing "sudden" about Catalonia splitting off. Franco went out of his way to incentivize it, and while the governments that followed him haven't been genocidal, they haven't exactly encouraged anyone to remain.

Of course it sucks for Spain, but they very much made their own bed.
Yep, also those subtle sound effects make it really enjoyable to just drag & drop those blocks for fun
I would have helped you. But I'm categorically insane.
That's usually a problem with one of your extensions. Maybe you can identify it through about:memory.

But good news, Firefox 57 will probably actually fix that. By 1) breaking unmaintained extensions for good and 2) switching to an extension API which makes it much harder for extension developers to make such mistakes.

Also, I don't know if this will be in 57, but extensions will probably eventually run in individual processes as well. And then you could just shoot down the process of the offending extension.
Given what I expected Oracle to do to MySQL, if being late on fixing bug reports under a support contract is the worst of their sins, then I stand by my statement.
Rust was pretty much designed to solve problems for Firefox. It's IMO the best bet Mozilla has made these last few years and we're just starting to see them reaping the rewards.
While not as beautiful, your library is a lot more performant to be sure. After throttling my CPU by 6x, everything still felt really smooth with interactjs, while Shopify's lib began to choke. There are pretty big differences though. Shopify offers swapping and sorting, and even supports feature like force touch.
Still comes bundled with Pocket. No thanks.
Russia is also grateful for his sacrifice.
In somebody else's backyard. That's why you have concentrated areas of poverty. The government used to enforce this through "red lining" but since that has now fallen out of favor the language used to oppose these projects is now based around environmental impacts (the schools are full, the traffic is bad, it's a potentially toxic site, etc).
Complain to Google. They're the ones not complying with webstandards.
HN is always good for massively-ignorant-grand-political-statements-from-first-principles theatre.
OP is confused.
The I in IBM stands for International (Business Machines) - from 1924, according to Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
There is a huge gap between having a referendum on independence and actually being independent.
Am I spreading FUD or isn't it that zcash has had overt support/investment from US 3 lettered agencies?
> Cannot see how 'force touch' adds any value, though.

I guess if you want to scroll the page instead of dragging elements - having force touch helps distinguish two actions. I know it's different but in google maps for example it's super annoying when instead of scrolling down the page - the map iframe is trying to zoom out.
most AI researchers have never opened a textbook on cognitive psychology or neurobiology , or any of these 'soft' sciences.

how do you plan to build artificial intelligence with no model of intelligence, without learning about important experiments in learning and memory , it's the complete ignorance that drives me crazy.

AI is not for specialists.
Indeed, the OP practically describes a Taylor Swift video.
If you make a fortune and then turn around and invest that fortune into a new project, you no longer have your fortune.

Meaning, he's probably limited his investments into the new company.
I like the idea, but right now too difficult for me. My best score is 9. Let's see if practicing helps.

Are there any good games that help improve typing skills?
No, this version has so many groundbreaking changes.

It starts to be fully multicore, CSS engine was re-written in Rust, there's a new design (that they've named Photon), Pocket integration is now slightly tighter, WebExtensions become the default, and they've redesigned the developer tools.
What's a good way to make an open office more tolerable? My lab is a large rectangular room filled with desks and computers. I don't really have enough space to make cubicles, and I can't get more space. I'd love to improve the work space for my researchers.

Right now my lab is basically 3 rows of desks in an open office plan, with probably 6 people there on average, but closer to 10 during summers.
There's still that "Firefox is installing updates" modal that shows up the first time you launch the new version.

But after that bad first impression, launching Firefox 57 is very snappy.
How does this deal with proxy loops?

As an example, I would assume worker is making requests with the internal view of the site, but can not have an internal view of other sites or security problems would ensue.. So what happens when two of my sites have service workers fetching something from each other on each request?
Holy shit! People are hiring planes to ship them GPUs!?

Jeasus!! Gibson was far more prescient than acknowledged;

"the future is already here, but not evenly distributed yet"

Wow...

I had such opportunity and ability to buy bitcoins in 2012... and I missed that boat.
There very may well be other reasons, but a large one is that Eclipse is written using SWT, not AWT/Swing.

SWT is Java, and has a platform-independent API, but has platform-specific implementations. (SWT JARs are unique per OS/architecture)
roars by cyclist after 2 seconds' wait, races up to traffic ahead, slams on brakes, gets passed by cyclist at the stop sign 30 seconds later
Never abandoned Firefox. Now what? :)

And please, donate to Mozilla, if you can. They really do deserve some help. Fighting against giants like Google, MS and Apple... They have products running on all kinds of possible platforms, also on old Android phones! And they have some of the best extensions.
IAC was in Adelaide (Australia) this year, but I guess he did have to fly in for that.
Now I'm curious: Which hypervisor has that limitation?
as long as we don't run out of PIDs... spoken like a true hero
It's perfectly correct and legal to discuss it within Spain too. (And it's been discussed non-stop for years).

The app ban is a court in Catalonia preventing some public servants to keep using their positions and public funds to go on with an act that's been deemed illegal.
How do you know when you're talking to a real Hamlet?

BTW I hadn't heard your Hamlet counter before, and I like it. A similar one might be: just because someone sold you the Brooklyn Bridge doesn't mean you own it. The flaw is there are other ways of checking those; for intelligence, there are none. Behaviour is it (at least, so far... still awaiting a non-behavioural definition of intelligence).
What I do not like is that I fail at the beginning if I start typing before three letters are visible. That feels a bit annoying.
Why does the limit of a minimum of two characters on the screen exist at all?
On the one hand, look at these maps [1], that show the results of the general spanish elections since the dissolution of the dictatoship. Do you see the upper-right part that is nearly always different than the majority? That is Catalonia.

Catalans also have a different language, a strong sense of being a nation (their "local consitution" says so!), etc.. Money is one of the reasons, but not the only one, not even by a long shot.

[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Elecciones_en_España#Dis...
To be fair, that was a fallback and was used only if you didn't annotate your dependencies, which is what Angular expected you to do.
Born in '81, about a 1mi walk home, we spent most of it walking through the ditch on the side of the road, playing in drainage culverts under the road, etc. Not safe, but fun!