skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about learning about technology. It provided a creative and social outlet for an ostracized, emotionally neglected kid to create. I look at my own 10yo daughter today and her life is planned out for her. Kids don't ride bikes after school, climb trees, or do other activities where they're in charge. Instead they go to whatever extracurricular activities their parents signed them up for. In her case that's choir, piano, and tennis. There is a lack of self-directed outlets where they can explore their boundaries until later in life.
I tried Firefox 57 hoping to like it, and I found it's still too alien feeling on the Mac. The scroll bar looks, behaves, and animates differently. Text selection looks and behaves differently. Even the cursor blinks differently. It feels out-of-place.

I wish there were a community effort to build a true native Firefox version, instead of trying to recreate standard Mac behaviors.
There is nothing preventing these GUI frameworks from working on .NET Core. They might need some work to support it but its entirely possible.

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
In my market Lyft line is consistently half the price of Uber pool, I’ve started using Lyft again because of this, experience is identical
That's the official line but I honestly don't know anymore. We were trying to write a few cross platform libraries that we could also consume in Framework. We could not get .NET Standard libraries to import into Framework Apps without entering a dependency hell that made me long for the DLL Hell of the 90s. We discovered that re-targeting .NET Standard projects to .NET Core would allow them to be imported into .NET Framework projects without issue.

Of course you can't import .NET Core libraries into .NET Standard so in the end we actually made projects for each of them with links back to the .NET Standard libraries' files.
>ugly black title bar

One of the best thins in the new FF to me though (also macos). I still hope apple will to something to their gray ui. I'd love to have dark theme for the ui, not only for menubar and dock.
You may wish to read 15 USC § 290e. There are other exceptions.
$300B War Beneath the Street: Fighting to Replace America’s Water Pipes
> I typically have hundreds, sometimes low thousands of tabs

They should probably ditch all in-memory stuff, and just use the drive, so they can support those cases when you really want to have a "low millions of tabs open."
and ok, fine, if the experience is exactly the same - what's the incentive to switch or even set up the second app? Uber wins on first in, same as if anyone local remembers, Hailo eventually gave up and pulled out of the city because couldn't get users over etc
"And that would be the end of equity compensation in startups as we know it."

Good. This entire industry is a lottery. We all laughed at the slot machines in the hospital in the movie "Idiocracy". "You could win free health-care!" And yet we're all hoping to win a life of luxury on the start-up lottery.
There is no market in a post internet age.

The average person is not technologically informed enough to even be a market participant and that is why gaming is such a disaster.

The human mind did not evolve to make rational decisions regarding technology and hence the free market is a myth for those who don't grasp evolution did not make our minds to live in a high tech capitalist society.
There are some examples of parent publishers with less-than-exemplary reputations simply letting successful child studios/publishers do their thing. Activision, for example, owns Blizzard, but plays fairly hands-off with managing them. My understanding is that Ubisoft (based in France) gives a similar amount of independence to its subsidiary Montreal studio.

On the flipside, I'm not sure about how EA manages all its subsidiaries. There was a apparently a lot of political pressure on Bioware to adopt EA's Frostbite engine leading to all sorts of headache in the development of Mass Effect Andromeda. And after all that dust settled, now there is no more Mass Effect for the time being.

You can read more here: https://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-t...
Improving NYTimes Video Experience: Live Streaming Platform
I saw that the other day - don't know what benefit, exactly, Lockheed is trying to convey with that stat
Funny, I remember contacting the Gates foundation many years ago now about chronic illnesses and the then-new discovery of ipRGCs/pRGCs (which we will find have a critical role in Alzheimer's) and hitting a total brick wall. Paraphrasing them, "this wouldn't help the third world" - we know better now.
Brilliant Jerks in Engineering
I'm with you that copying all of Google's data is unlikely. It's a serious project for Google itself to significantly move around its own data internally. My point is that very extensive, damaging information could amount to a mere 100TB subset of it and it's not implausible that could be copied in a day at 10 gig/s. To obvious? How about 100 hosts each pulling 100 meg/s? That's feasible right now. When you really get down to it the datasets I fear being leaked the most are a lot smaller than that.

Most bandwidth is used sending many copies of the same content. Attackers aren't going to be interested in downloading the popular video 100 million times, they're just going to grab the logs which are nowhere near that size, and although large it's not implausible that even the best security teams wouldn't notice until it's too late.

There is no hard rule that the leaks need to come from the same central database either. That is unlikely considering the fact that large scale services are already, and necessarily, distributed. Imagine thousands of attacker hosts receiving from thousands of compromised hosts.
This is quite sad.

One thing i've been shocked by over the years is how often even well educated, highly intelligent individuals have a very poor education in personal finance and make terrible decisions. Theres just so much noise out there and its still crazy how much of the investment management industry exists despite showing negative value. If I had to sum up personal finance advice for the average person in a few bullets it would be this.

1. Invest in a well diversified portfolio that pays very low fees (vanguard funds for instance)
2. Do not try to time the market
3. Save as much as you can as early as you can - maximize your 401k/ROTH contributions
4. Never carry a balance on your credit card from month to month

And yet so much goes wrong...
Holistic Resilience
It sounds click-baity and is probably making people think of other internet junk like "you'll never believe this crazy trick to do X". It's also just an unnecessary sentence since the reader is already expecting that if they keep reading you'll give more details.
I just installed. Wow I am impressed :)
How did they accomplish this though? Is there a timeout where, after enough FaceID failures cause a fallback to passcode, FaceID is accepted again without entering a passcode in the interim?
also for the record, I used Uber initially and for years solely to hail licensed taxis. Purely out of convenience. The drivers were smarter about roads which is a big deal, generally more available etc. Only in the past year or less have the Uber X drivers gotten better at local directions and more plentiful, so then cost wins.
ARM Benchmarks Show HPC Ripe for Processor Shakeup
The thing I can't stand about it is closing a window causes a multi-second beachball on latest Firefox / macOS. Really annoying. This is with a cleaned out profile and no extensions.
Yeah I get the feeling just based on the article and the comments here that people are referring more to the waspy formal dinner party and not so much the more casual / common incarnations. Obviously growing up and all that we would get together with families around the neighborhood all the time and have barbeque or whatever. As an adult I've been living apartment life, along with everyone in my social sphere, so dinner parties aren't really a thing but getting people together at a bar/restaurant is..

Dinner parties to me are just sort of a funny cultural quirk that I don't really get, I guess. Another one is how everyone else knows all the common dances at weddings. I've been to a few but not enough to, you know, get the choreography right lol.
Another simple explanation is that there is a large industry around domestic animals, with consulting opportunities that don't exist for wild animals.

I don't doubt that improving welfare is important to Grandin, though.
Give it some time. I was expecting not to switch because of lack of Tree Style Tabs until around end of year. But I switched some weeks ago. Some addon authors use this opportunity to make a better addon. A few days ago GreaseMonkey has been released with a new API. And of course there will be new addons made by other people to replace lost functionality. It's happening, just not overnight.
>specifically, my keybindings not working on built-in pages

This is a restriction for chrome-store extensions. You can install one manually without with "feature"
"We must recognize, in our day-to-day lives and in our governing institutions, that Earth with all its life is our only home." It's definitely all to easy to fail to appreciate and comprehend this simple fact.
What's a good tool for managing the various lists/projects? I've tried Google Docs, Apple Notes, and Txt files.

I'm good at making giant "inboxes". From there I move them into 20-30 separate files, but it's tedious -- trying to find the right GDocs tab in Chrome.

Then it's hard to pick out the top must-do items from the 20-30 lists.
On Java 8+, you can use G1 GC which has very few knobs. On the other hand, CMS GC has a lot of knobs you can tune depending on your workload. JVM (Hotspot in this case) believes in flexibility over a one-size fits all. YMMV.
So basically they can choose the colour of the glitter on the turd we're going to have to eat?
The outsiders are coming in anyway, renting existing Mission apartments when their leases are up. New buildings are not required to stimulate new residents - that’s already happening.

(New buildings can make a previously-ignored place newly attractive, but usually we’re taking about neighborhoods that are already popular and/or have good immutable features like proximity and transit access).
Yep. Our own playbook turned around on us.
> Firefox is right now truly the best browser, at least for my usage patterns and needs, but even if it weren't, I would still use it, because when web standards are endangered due to a monopoly, then I consider it my duty to support the underdog.

I just love that the web community actually thinks about this, and actively works to avoid monopolization and nonstandard behavior on the different browsers.

Recently, I have moved into desktop development (using Qt and GTK+), and it is atrocious just how difficult it is to deploy a non-trivially sized native application on the three common operating systems. I really wish that the desktop development community could have unified around a similar set of standards for all the OSes when it comes to desktop applications too.

The web application platform is painful in several ways too, but I think they have nailed it with attention to standards compliance and weeding-out monopolistic behavior
Sysadmins vs. natural disasters
I think the law has language about how it's vested unless a substantial amount of additional work required of the employee (e.g. continued employment).

It's like if a company receives a bill for something they bought in 2016, but don't technically pay it until 2017, the bill would still show up in their 2016 reports.
Thanks for this. It's a nice breath of fresh air from the usual marketing pieces.
Which means that they have to compete on marketing against Google.
not really sure why this is that interesting, the UK will still drop out of the EU in March 2019 even if Parliament rejects the deal

so it's not a case of "Parliament rejects, UK stays in"
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback!
Russia has a plan to compete with SpaceX–but it has a flaw
I.e. "But dudes, just WHY is the garbage piling up faster than it can be cleared, now?"

Love your plaque line - although plaque is compensation and amyloid beta and tau are not, or not per se.
It was originally. It was removed last week.
I held hope based on the studio acquisitions that would allow them work independently and simply pocket the profits. Shuttering Visceral was the nail in the coffin for me.
Enlighten me. We both said XML is not for data storage, no?
BSC's Mont Blanc 3 Puts ARM Inside Bull Sequana Supers
It’s news because this is part of May’s attempt to convince people that Brexit is set in stone, and irreversible.

Edit:
http://www.businessinsider.com/legal-advice-brexit-can-be-re...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/10/brexit-date...

More nuance: http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/63955?lang=en
This is only useful if the binding vote is to decide whether to accept the deal or revert Article 50.
Existing grants would be grandfathered in, so giving them back may not make much sense. Future grants, though, should just be killed and you should negotiate for higher pay.
IBM shares updates on DOE's Summit supercomputer
How to Get Rid of Brain Fog Naturally
New Project: Data Science Instruction at the US Census Bureau
You are totally wrong on the wasted effort. FirefoxOS actually pushed a lot of the performance improvements that are seen as wonderful in this release. I kind of LOLed when people re-discovered things like how sync layout was bad. So much knowledge was lost in Moz when they killed FxOS that it's a showcase of bad leadership.

The desktop browser was stagnating because the browser owners had no idea where to drive it, and some people with the castle keys were change adverse (some finally "left"). They took as an excuse that they could not get support from the platform team, so the platform team killed FxOS support and ended up being absorbed by the Firefox organization to become just the fx backend team (great strategy!). I guess the platform VP was so frightened by the Tofino experiment and Fx Desktop moving away from Gecko that he didn't understand that was betting on the wrong horse long term.
I had my EA account stolen last year, and getting it back was really straightforward and pretty frictionless. You just need to pick up the phone and call them (or you can also put your phone number in a form and they will call you, so there's no waiting on hold).
As for how a citizen scientist proceeds, go to pubmed.com and read the abstracts of at least 400,000 medical articles. I did.
Maven Repo Has Invalid Cert, Breaks Downloads
Just go to https://repo1.maven.org to see the error or try to compile anything.

Does anyone know the right person to ping about this?
For the stock market founders don't make good ceo in most other metrics they are probably the best to build companies. In today's world it has all become about the capital appreciation for stock holders to the detriment of everything else. A company that has around a billion in revenue and just 1-2% profit with few growth prospects is considered bad but a company that has a billion in revenue but 5-10% loss and is growing revenue by 10-20% is considered good.
57 is the big improvement with a huge jump in performance. Definitely give it a try.
I was shocked when I got my vitamin D levels analyzed a couple of years ago. Yeah I work inside most of the time, like most programmers, but I also walk to work and easily get 10000 steps a day, so I thought I'd be OK. Nope, guess it wasn't enough especially since I'm in Chicago. My levels were in the deficient range. I now take supplements daily.
I think you're right to call out that it's not competing in every way, but there are some cases in which it is competing directly—and it's in those cases where it can be a frustrating developer experience.
The Tenderloin is already made of medium to high density affordable housing; to convert it to luxury housing or “clean it up” would be the opposite of what YIMBYism is about. The people living there have nowhere else to go, so it’d also be pretty cruel.

We want currently exclusive low-rise areas to become mid-to-high-rise and less exclusive.
I've just installed 57 for me. The English Dictionary is gone -- now all the words I type here are with wiggly lines, I see "add dictionaries" but I had the darned dictionary already and what's the use trying to add the same? I don't know what to do next. The extensions are all gone, including the NoScript for which the developer claimed that he's adding support for new Firefox -- I checked noscript.net -- I have had the very last version. The mozilla site writes "Not compatible with Firefox Quantum". Noscript was the most used extension from a dozen I have had.

From the less used ones, as an example I've used "Copy Plain Text 2." Now I see there's a new similar and compatible extension by somebody else I guess, but it's obviously more limited: "Note: WebExtension API does not allow setting Copy PlainText as the default copy function of the browser at the moment, neither does it allow user defined keyboard shorts. Once there are such an APIs, I will add the feature."

Others have no replacements at all, not surprising seeing the limitations even for the simple "Copy Plain Text."

(Edit: regarding performance details see my other posts here.)

It's really as bad as it can be.

It's really bad.
Take the extremes; is cancer incidence markedly lower in perpetually sunny cities like Phoenix or Los Angeles compared to perpetually cloudy cities like Seattle or Portland? Surely the data would show if there were a notable difference for people exposed to 11 months of sun versus 10 months of clouds.
What about property tax deduction? Why isn't that on the table if you are concerned about fairness. Texas has some of the highest property tax rates in the country. Why not focus on that deduction?
As someone that has been doing desktop development since the MS-DOS/Amiga days, and is quite happy to only touch Web development when obliged to do so, I wonder what those problems are.
I'll admit I only skimmed TFA but it doesn't look like we have enough information to conclude that.

It's illegal to steal mail from a box that's not yours, or from the post office, or a mail carrier.

It's entirely possible to accidentally open someone else's mail - many of us just open whatever's in the box, especially homeowners. That's not illegal, it was in your box and it was unintentional and done without malice.

What's illegal is if you then intentionally prevent that mail from being delivered, IE, throw it away. So if you scrawl "return to sender" on it and put it back in the box then you're perfectly legal. There's no indication that the author didn't do that. Edit: that's what I get for skimming, they didn't do that, but are trying to track down the heirs.

Furthermore, you are certainly allowed to open the mail of the deceased if you are the next of kin. In fact, you can put in a request to get their mail forwarded to you with the post office.

There's other cases where it's entirely legal to open someone else's mail, such as mail addressed to your minor child.
.NET Core and Mono are two different implementations of .NET Standard.
It's a standard as described in the name.
A sufficient number of people seem to enjoy the games in the end. I guess mission successful for EA?
Clickable link: https://repo1.maven.org
Why would you be shocked? There's all sorts of nasty things in these tax proposals for the less than wealthy. They are looking everywhere they can to find offsets to make the tax cuts for the donor class work under the budget rules.
It's the controllers of large pools of money who simply make money off of transactions and who are separated from accountability, responsibility, or even caring about incomes who are making the bad decisions.
Well, for me at least, I always recognize if a button click/UI interaction doesn't force a visible and immediate UI response. That's one of the main reasons why I switched a couple of years to Chromium and now back to Firefox. It really responds fast. I totally agree that there were _very_ few instances where I noticed a rendering time difference.
>3. The CPU eco-system including ARM's is a bit sclerotic. It is not the lic cost that is the problem, it is the inherent lack of flexibility in the model.

When not even Google can get a CPU without built in IME/PSP "secure" processors running insecure code, that seems like an understatement.

It seems like almost everyone is ignoring the epic fallout of a truly malicious entity discovering and silently exploiting a remotely exploitable security hole in for example Intel ME. They could more or less shut down whole countries by a key press.

And that would be just the start. When you can't be sure if there is malicious software remaining deep inside your processors, you pretty much have to shred them. And the motherboard, and the disk drives (http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack), etc. You simply would have to replace your whole IT-infrastructure. Then you need to try to figure out what sensitive data was lost... It would be a nightmare for sure. If I were Google or Amazon I would be absolutely paranoid.

How much will it cost for USA to implement a replacement for Social Security Numbers after the Equifax leak?

As our dependence on IT increases it becomes a more attractive target, so a well protected IT-infrastructure will be an absolute necessity in the near future. To be able to build a secure infrastructure, we need a hardware foundation that we can trust. We simply don't have that today!

Shakti sounds like it can be the foundation we need, I very much hope so.
Don't you have to do more work to make a claim about who is subsidizing who? How much does each state receive in federal grants and aid?

And the guy in Texas has more money in his pocket than the guy in New Jersey no matter what. It's a weird thing to get hung up on. Nobody ever talked about the fairness of this deduction before. This was cooked up as a GOP talking point in some smoke filled room somewhere. Class envy as a Republican tactic is a curious development.
That's part of the problem, though. For a lot of these games, the player does enjoy them - just not the loot boxes and how they have affected how quickly "free" players can unlock things.
I have been reading A Random Walk Down Wall Street.

The premise seems to be that these actively managed funds, on average, don’t do any better than the market index. So just put your money in an index fund and avoid all the fees from the so called experts.
I'm not sufficiently familiar with Chrome's architecture to speak comparatively, but Firefox Quantum (57) has a significantly improved sandbox thanks to finally going fully multi-process (full status at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox), and replacing C++ components with Rust prevents certain classes of potentially exploitable issues at compile time.
Increasing density both requires and enables building out excellent public transit. You’re right, it’s not compatible with mass car usage. But it’s the car usage which will have to go.
if this passes (doubtful) do you all think we will see a massive surge in secondary market platforms ?
I'm under the belief that vest for tax purposes isn't until the share becomes liquid. If the startup can't exercise then, for tax purposes, has the share vested? I believe it has not (and have, in the past, filed taxes on this belief, with the support of my accountant.)
Bill addresses this in the piece:

I’m making this investment on my own, not through the foundation. The first Alzheimer’s treatments might not come to fruition for another decade or more, and they will be very expensive at first. Once that day comes, our foundation might look at how we can expand access in poor countries.

It's intriguing they're able to draw that line, but it makes sense if they want to keep the Gates Foundation focused.
Because they have different runtimes, and Microsoft has been trying to clean up the mess created by Sinofsky regarding .NET, UWP and C++/CX.