skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't just look at data from the internet without touching it, you need to download it. The same holds true when reading data from the IPFS network.

In the process, you make it available for anyone else who ask for it, but only for a limited time; until the Garbage Collector (GC) runs. If I remember correctly, the GC run once every hour or so, so you probably won't reshare the data for longer than that.

You need to pin the data if you want to keep resharing it. This effectively tells the GC to not touch it.
Getting of the ground is key. Before you can raise VC money, you have to have traction. This increasingly includes seed financing as well. So either way, you have to take a huge risk to start a company where the outcome is uncertain.

When you run into a founder or work for one in the US, realize the absolute big risk they are taking. People in Sweden have a safety net to catch them. The result is people are more willing to take risks to start something and you also see more innovative startups that would otherwise be considered high risk in the US by founders.
In the USA, paid health insurance is tied to one's choice of employment, unless one declines the employer's coverage. Whom are you expecting to pay for health insurance if one hypothetically quits working for Google and starts their own one man/woman company? Or is this not factor in as a risk in your opinion?
can you provide some screenshots?
And the answer, particularly in light of the above link, is that compared to Firefox it falls utterly short.
This comment is extremely insightful and actionable. Thank you.
Because it did matter in 1978, there's a law that says that 1-O voting cannot happen, it's illegal.

Only all Spaniards can vote regarding the integrity and sovereignty of Spain.

If you think 1978's Constitution was approved under some form of oppression, fight that, there are clear ways to change the Constitution. But do not support any illegal activities that remove rights from the rest of the people in the country.

The root of the democracy is the respect to the law. Not "voting".
I'm sure there are individual Spanish nationalists that think the same about Catalonia. Central governments, on the other hand, generally behave rationally (read: in their own interests) instead of emotionally.
Teacher student relationships have spiked [1] with a third of the perpetrators being female (up from only 4% a decade ago [2]). A quick glance at the cases showed the female teachers in their 30s, but I'm digging more to get the age distribution from case datasets.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/01/20/...

[2] http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/why-are-so-many-fema...
How old are they? My boys are 5 and 9 and they aren't really interested in "programming" but they love the red stone things you can do in Minecraft. Red stone is basically electricity so they have learned to solve real problems and challenges (to them) like creating doors that open with pressure plates, etc. From there we got an AWS IoT button which will spin up a Minecraft server at the touch of a button.

All of this to say it may help to go into their world instead of them coming into yours. Find interesting problems or challenges they are having and show them you can help. Sometimes my being able to do something with programming will get the, "Whoa, how did you do that?!" Response. I don't expect my kids to actually write code right now but they do know that programming is voodoo magic and they are very interested in it.
Having a high-security option will be useful for more than executives and politicians. Lawyers, doctors, Equifax employees — anybody who touches highly sensitive data will benefit.

Email is used as a privilege escalation path to pwn almost every other service we use. And we're finding that 2FA isn't the ultimate answer — OTPs are easy to phish, SMS can be socially engineered around without much difficulty, etc. As the value of digital data keeps going up, the sophistication of hacking groups and governments has gone up as well.

A highly secure browser connecting to an account with limited API access using a physical token is an excellent step. I'll buy it myself if it isn't obscenely expensive.
https://t.co/HkxTKgzhr9
I asked how a law you have nothing to do with is different from a dictator's decree. You have no say in either of them.

I think the legitimacy difference has to do with inalienable rights. People have a right to representation in their own governance. That's what the dictator gets wrong. People also have a right to liberty - i.e. To not be slaves. A "law" that says you can't ever secede is making people slaves by taking away their right to withdraw from the political union they're a part of.

The argument above is that it's legal because it's written down. What I hoped to call attention to is that simply writing something down and calling it a law isn't necessarily better than what a dictator does.
Specifically we are talking about ICO, not generalities of blockchain innovation. I want to make that clear.

So first, I think you are making our point for us. Left completely unregulated, ICO is inticing people into making terrible investment choices. And lets be honest, people are not investing in in these companies because they care deeply about their success, and have been pitched with a complete business plan, a go-to-market strategy, show promising traction. They are doing it because they think they can make a quick buck. It’s just a matter of time before the SEC steps in an imposes the necessary regulations.
Are you saying Miquel Roca and Jordi Solé Tura are cronies from the dictatorship? The Constitution of 1978 was voted freely in Catalonia, and it is that very same Constitution what makes the referendum illegal.
I heard about these guys on NPR's Radiolab podcast a couple months ago, and the whole thing gave me a creepy feeling.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/ceremony/

They describe the whole ceremony the guys go through to generate the random secret key that seeds their algorithm and needs to be kept secret in order to prevent anybody from counterfeiting coins. It was an elaborate setup supposedly designed to prevent people from observing any details they might be able to use to reverse engineer the algorithm. But, despite all their insistance on bespoke cloak and dagger shit, there were a lot of times the process could have been broken:

- They're supposed to be driving to a randomly selected electronics store to buy the laptop that will generate the number; but the guy makes an "unscheduled" stop at a costume store so he can buy a wizard hat (and potentially hand off information with a third party who wants to know their destination, or to pick up some kind of surveillance device)

- When the time comes to type random numbers on the laptop keyboard, the guy covers his hands and the keyboard. Arguable pro there is that nobody can see which keys he touches, but the big obvious con is that he can slip that USB device he picked up at the costume shop into one of the USB ports.

- People are using their phones while this whole process is going on? Ok, seems counterproductive to all that paranoid security they were trying to have...

- Oh look, they noticed strange indicators that strongly suggested somebody's phone got hacked and was being used to spy on their skype conversation? Somebody that paranoid should have immediately shut the process down and restarted it at a later date. They didn't do that? Something sure is fishy with the guy running this thing.

tl;dr; I don't trust 'em
How Crazy Is Elon Musk's Hypersonic Space Rocket Airline?
> the State can't cause the removal of things like this app in America, lawfully; even if it has people's support.

It can however cause the removal of apps that are ruled illegal by a court; the only difference is the kind of app that would be illegal. The US already has all kinds of restrictions on free speech, or somewhat speech-like actions like distributing an app. That is backed by the US constitution, just as this instance was (apparently) backed by the Spanish constitution.

What is interesting to me is a) that you think everyone in the US is intimately familiar with the implications of the first amendment and concepts like the tyranny of the majority. That doesn't seem to be the case, given the striking number of people who think they can say whatever they want without any legal repercussions. And b) that you believe your argument to be so persuasive that someone who disagrees with you couldn't possibly have been aware of it.
Sure it can.

It already meets all the requirements to be a member, EU law is ingrained in Catalan law, it has the ability to negotiate and state structures. It just needs to be an independent country.

It would be better to be in the EU, but meanwhile that happens some bilateral trade deals with the EU should be relatively easy to accomplish.

If you're referring to recognition as a country, that's a separate and huge discussion. If Catalonia is not recognised it can't take its part of Spanish debt with it (might be up to 20% of the total) while being a rebel region not paying taxes and maybe under military occupation. How is Spain, which is still in critical condition with a debt of the size of its GDP, going to fare? This month Spain had to get a loan to pay pensions. This month!

So if Spain loses 20% of its GDP while keeping all the debt, how is it going to survive? And if Spain can't pay and falls, what's going to happen to the EU? You thought Brexit was bad? This is much worse!

A situation were the outcome of a YES vote is negotiated and Catalonia pays his dues is a win-win for every stakeholder: Catalans, Catalonia, Spaniards, Spain and the EU. Striking trade deals after that is pure pragmatism.

Just go through old papers about Slovenia or even the Baltics. It's all about realpolitik at the end and Catalonia has to be able to show its value to the world.
You have never lived in Catalonia, have you? Sad to read things like that. Sounds like the speech that the Spanish government gives every other week. Deplorable comment.
Okay, obvious question: are they portable enough that we could just wholesale import them into Firefox?
That was very clear, thanks!
They will demand a way to access their email even if they forget the plug-in key thingy.
The new behavior is fine. The problem is that they changed the behavior without changing the UI to show what it was doing, and didn't really tell anybody about the change. (A support article doesn't count. People don't read those things.)

I'd be a lot happier with the new behavior if the icons indicated it somehow. If they really wanted to go crazy, they could label the damned things!
That's the one. It's action packed mech eng banter, in a good way.
Divorce is a right and it was a right that had to be fought for.
Six Things to Know About Steve Ballmer, Youth Basketball Coach
I'm in the same boat; I might see if I can replace tab groups with tree style tabs, which is supported.
Chrome wasn't started from scratch. From day 1 it was built on top of the legacy laid by WebKit, which in turn was built on top of the huge amount of work done under the KHTML project. v8 and sandboxing were its crown jewels.

If Apple hadn't open-sourced WebKit, it's unlikely Chrome would have happened.
Cathedrals regularly fell down, and domes, and no doubt bridges too.
> In 2014 alone, there were 781 reported cases of teachers and other school employees accused or convicted of sexual relationships with students. My firm, Drive West Communications, has been tracking news reports of sexual misconduct by educators for more than a year. Every week has brought news of 15 young people, on average, who were sexually victimized by the educators entrusted with protecting them. That’s an abhorrent rate and a trend that deserves far more attention from school leaders and policy makers.

In a country with 73 million children, and roughly 3.2 million full time equivalent teachers. That's pretty much the definition of a rare event.

In general, any increase in numbers should be regarded as better reporting and better recording of crime, rather than an increase in that crime.

Female teacher on male student sexual crime has only recently been taken seriously (and it's still got some way to go to reach parity in perception with male teacher on female student sexual crime), so I'd expect reporting and recording of this crime to be changing.

You've posted two links, but one refers to the other.

> In 2014, Abbott said, two-thirds of reported teacher-related sexual misconduct cases with students involved men; that means one-third of the cases involved female teachers.

Does it? Or does it mean the sex of the offender isn't always collected?

I can't seem to find his data anywhere.
> started from scratch.

Nope, they started with webkit and wininet for networking which together might be make a good browser demo.
This is broken, because you absolutely know Google will keep your phone # around and linked to your account, even after deleting it from the UI. No U2F for me, cause Google has to know my phone #.. except I don't have a phone, cause I'm deaf.
The first Quantum release (57) is now on Beta, so if you want something a little more stable than Nightly it's a solid choice.

It's always a good idea to back up your profile first (where your bookmarks/passwords/etc. live), especially when downgrading:

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/back-and-restore-information-...
From a Clojure standpoint, I don't think there's much going on here beyond comparing this:

(defn at-least-two [x] (max x 2))

with this:

(def at-least-two (partial max 2))
The UK's libel laws are rather regressive (although they improved a bit recently for the GB bit the NI bit of the UK still has the old laws). There are books and documentaries which are available everywhere except the UK for this reason.

On a government level the UK regularly imprisons people for facebook/twitter posts (that would be protected by US first amendment).
Data on IPFS is accessed over P2P, not over IP. ipfs.io is just running a gateway. Anyone could do that. In fact; if you were to run IPFS on your computer, you'd probably have your own gateway on your localhost.

Somebody would just make their own public gateway, and the government would need to block another domain. Of cource, running IPFS for yourself would take away any need to use a gateway.
True, I was being slightly facetious. That's why the wording of the question is so very important, e.g. in the case of Scotland there was no "third option", which would have been further devolution of powers.
Thanks for this! Rikaisama had already sort of broken with e10s, and I had considered trying to port the Chrome version, but this is far better!
This one looks intriguing, any more info on it?

http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09...
Google thought I was a dog or maybe a god, dunno...either way it was probably as tragic as the article.
The subhead is hilarious considering the size of government in the Bay Area, New York, Boston and Tel Aviv, etc.
I'm not attacking any movement, I'm saying I think Snowden did a just thing and I respect it and have no reason to distrust his motives; the same is not true for Assange who's made it clear he wants to topple America. I watched Wiki leaks display bias in the election in a clear attempt to take down Clinton, so I don't trust his motives and have every reason to doubt him. Had he attacked both sides equally, it'd be a different case, but his motive was clear, do the most damaging thing he could to us, help Trump.
Generally, nationalist movements appropriate historical events (particularly wars), which were not at the time national in character, in order to create a historic narrative for their nationalism. See e.g. the place of Battle of the White Mountain (Thirty Years' War) in Czech nationalism, or the place of the Battle of al-Qadisiyya in Iraqi nationalism.
Firefox telemetry includes a unique identifier and system information. The data Mozilla is proposing to collect includes what sites a user visits.
Actually, both clients have been named “Messages” as long as they’ve supported iMessage.

The iOS client has been “Messages” since iPhone OS 3.0; before that it was called “Text” and had “SMS” written inside the chat bubble in the icon. iMessage wasn’t introduced until iOS 5.0.

The macOS client was originally “iChat”, then “iChat AV”, then “iChat” again; in this era it supported multiple protocols including AIM and Jabber. In OS X 10.8, the client was renamed to “Messages” and gained iMessage support in addition to the older protocols. Support for the older protocols was removed in the just-released macOS 10.13.
NASA recently published a picture of Annie Easley standing in front of something impressively retro-future-looking but didn't include an explanation of what it was:

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/annie-easley-computer-sci...
For all those older men seeking to score a younger women...head to the Philippines!

From the NYT comments:

"Yes a big age gap 'matters.' But to whom? And in what way? Can it be managed or ignored?? Yes! I was married at age 48 to a 24 yo from the Philippines. We had two beautiful daughters, twins by IVF (her fertility issue, not mine). Then she killed herself (bipolar issues and the local meth) when we moved to the Philippines. So now I have a 30yo gf: A reasonably tall and Truly Beautiful woman. We have been together 4+ years. and I am 73."
We called it a Service Worker because the API follows the W3C standard Service Worker spec:

https://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers-1/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...

I agree that the naming is not completely intuitive, but these are the names that exist and so we're using them.

I'm not aware of any similar spec for DNS workers so I figure we'll use whatever name we want there.
> Users can still put obnoxious annotations up.

No, annotations are deprecated, you can't add them to videos anymore. [0]

[0]: https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/03/keep-fans-en...
How do you get VC investment before you have a prototype or a working product? Building those take time. Time which you invest in not working and earning a steady paycheck.

Savings are finite, sadly.
I try to obfuscate and throw out as much confusing personal data as I can about myself, but I wonder if it ever does any good.
> general feeling is that we would not see nearly as much of a benefit in the "real world".

Wouldn't any benefit be interesting? Or is the engineering overhead just too expensive?
> I believe your are confusing web pages with graphic design.

I'm not. I remember the times of Bulletin Board Systems you had to dial into and then the transition to the popularity of the web. It has always been about navigating information. Sometimes the information is art. Sometimes the information is the interactivity itself. Most of the time the information is text. Once people realized that packaging was important, just like a hardback book with a wonderful cover and table of contents versus a manuscript-like stack of impenetrable pages, it became a matter of business. Nobody says a book can't have pop-up cut-outs that unfold when you open a page, but whatever the quality of a book is, it can be measured.

What I'm saying is that, I can appreciate what this webpage is doing, but I also would not say that it is a fantastic example of web design.

> Also, one could make the argument that a beautiful design can inspire another developer to make something beautiful. API's are often pretty dull. I find this design to be delightful.

My complaints with it should be possible to fully resolve while maintaining every one of those qualities you like about it.

> BTW, you can always use shortcuts provided by your browser/OS. Tap in the header on mobile, press "Home" on Windoze, and Cmd+Up on Mac.

I am aware of that, but often people are navigating mostly with the mouse and requiring the user to move their hand away from the mouse isn't user friendly. There is a human in front of the machine. It isn't just about the capabilities of the machine. Proper design is about the complete stack, including the biological part of it.

I don't mind if other people like a page. My concern is that people take it as excellent design that should be replicated, including its faults. If someone reads these comments and appreciates that, maybe it will do some good.
You'll probably enjoy "Ruthless: The Story of Amstrad and Alan Sugar in the 80's and 90's" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIXn9Tr5hI), an absorbing video that offers some opinionated explanations for the CPC's lukewarm performance in Britain and its success in other parts of Europe. While both the machine and the man were less loved, Sugar did of course have the last laugh as he ended up owning the Spectrum business.

Spectrum fan here, but I do love the CPC's eye popping colours :)
My thought was exactly the opposite. Some of them have modern computers right in the control room and still have all this gadgetry. There's just no way to reproduce that level of visual information on a small screen. Even at work I sometimes struggle with dual 32" monitors, I just need more real estate and have to constantly switch between windows and desktops. And that's for fairly mundane development tasks.
They do. But I would like to see homeless populations as a percentage of the whole population before making a judgement. I would still expect the US to have a larger percentage but not that much higher. I was in Denmark/Germany/Netherlands/France/Greece this year and saw a good amount of homeless -- though they've been dealing with a migrant crisis unlike the U.S. has experienced.

Many commenters here are extrapolating on their experiences in SF/Oakland/LA/Seattle/Portland and thinking the rest of the US has a commensurate homeless population. Spoiler: they don't.
This new UI is exactly what I've been waiting - I've been wanting to switch off chrome for the same reason I switched off of android - to simply diversify the services I use a little bit.

The old Firefox UI always felt old fashioned and made the adjustment that much harder.

This new version of firefox has been great - as others have mentioned it's really fast and the UI is simplistic with a side panel for bookmarks to boot.

Definitely kudos where kudos is due, looking forward to using firefox for the foreseeable future.
You can also train them to have a secondary home and fly between their primary and secondary home in order to achieve full duplex messaging.
they're OK with backdoors

See matthewdgreen response elsewhere in this thread. This is FUD.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15370744
It's part of the control room of this hydro-electric power plant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boguchany_Dam
Happened to me as well.

I am disinclined to correct their misinformation.
Tons of extensions don't work. My personal blocker is mouse gestures; the webextensions API simply doesn't support the workflow I've been following for 15+ years. Mouse gestures will NEVER work well on Firefox 57+, just as they will NEVER work well on Chrome.

Additionally, mouse gestures are completely broken on both linux and MacOS due to Firefox's implementation of right-clicking and that is not slated to be fixed before v57 releases.

Oh-- and there's no functional LastPass addon yet either. And 57 is in beta 4 and will be released very soon.

It is pretty fast, though. Good for benchmarks if not for actually using. Personally, I switched to Vivaldi.