skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Compared to Facebook or LinkedIn, for example, it has much less focus on the network aspect, connecting individual users, and a much larger focus on what is being posted.

They are completely redesigning and rewriting the website from scratch with the objective of turning into an actual social network. Look what the new user profiles look like: https://www.reddit.com/user/spladug
I'm surprised no one has mentioned "the morning paper" (https://blog.acolyer.org/) yet. Some papers are more advanced but a lot I found are definitely approachable. You can subscribe to the mailing list and get a new paper every day, along with the author's summary!

That aside, I'm very impressed how he can keep up with this rhythm.
I updated to 57 from 56 and now FireFox won't launch :(.
While I understand and mostly agree with your general sentiment, I think you're downplaying the extent of how valuable the machine learning is in this process. The reason why we need all these sensors and machines currently is because we need a reasonable picture of how all that data works together so that a human being can look at that picture as a whole and make some deductions.

This isn't the first time or the last time that computers have been able to find patterns in much simpler measurements simply because they're not human. A similar example, although not quite as advanced, is the ability for a computer to extract sound information from a black and white video. Computers have been able to recreate sounds from behind double-paned glass by analyzing vibrations captured through videos. Humans have had to rely on various arrays of lasers, sonar, and other directional instruments to get 1/10th of the accuracy that a computer algorithm has been able to achieve from a simple, low-quality video camera. The point is that more machines and sensors doesn't always equal a better diagnosis. Better analysis of existing sensors and tech, even if it seems to be lower fidelity, can actually yield more accurate results.
Dynamic pricing data can answer your retail business questions
Fundraising – The Basics of Meetings
It's doable if you already have a large team of experienced web engine development experts, a multi-million budget and years to spend on just planning.

Implementing an open standard shouldn't be like this. Even proprietary formats like PDF are much simpler to implement than CSS.
The animation is really fun.

Maybe I am unusual, but I have never in my life been annoyed at image load time, even in the dial-up days. I just simply open a new tab or window and continue reading an article or writing code if loading takes too long. But when websites start adding "progressive" placeholders that don't decrease the load time but increase the CPU, that's what annoys me since they prevent multitasked work from being done. If I don't care about the images on the page, I'll continue scrolling, but when my scrolling becomes laggy while an image placeholder is being rendered, it's just unnecessary.

So think carefully if you want to take over the resources of your users' computers, which trades visuals for feel. "Feeling" your website (interacting with it) is more important than its appearance at all points in the loading sequence.
I think "China is Enron" is closer to the truth, in the longer term. I expect to see a collapse of the CCP in my lifetime. China itself will survive of course, just like the oil Enron owned still existed.
CentOS 5 and 6 are not supported based on the link you provided.
According to the dev, a version that would work more or less like the original is waiting on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318532 which apparently has implementation but has been cockblocked for 3+ months by somebody in the review chain.
I generate blurred thumbnails from my photos, and then output progressive JPEGs at 80% quality (which is low enough for my purposes and provides a smooth output)

Code is here:

https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy/blob/master/sushy/utils.hy#L...

The thumbnails you refer to are part of EXIF data, partially designed to allow digital cameras to render previews inside the camera itself in more resource-constrained times.
It's more social then Facebook to me. I get to meet new people based on intrest (sub-reddits) Facebook and LinkedIn is how you connect with people you actually know or 1 degree of separation.

Reddit exposed you to new ideas and people. Some good and mostly bad but it is much more "Social" in action.
Self-Destructing Cookies is not a WebExtension, you want Cookie AutoDelete.

https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/
What is the trick? I do know progressive images and use them, others argue its bad ux seeing the shitty version first.
We don't have directly control over most of the Windows (they are controlled by VS Code itself). But feel free to file an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python.
Is there a curated up-to-date list of reasons somewhere on the internet that explains to a naive end-user why he/she should pick a given distro?
Why is Twitter API so open ? I have been playing with it for a few weeks and I can find almost every data I want. How does it benefit them ?
> Unfortunately, we'll never know because the courts read disparate impact as proof of discrimination.

“Disparate impact” which is prrof of illegal discrimination is not just unequal impact by protected category, it's unequal impact that cannot be shown to be sufficiently tied to job function.

> Stupid people should hold less power in society and discrimination is the means to keep stupid people away from power.

“Stupid people” are not a protected class; discrimination against “stupid people” is not generally prohibited, nor where this is actually tied directly to job performance is discrimination against “stupid people” that incidentally has effects on a protected class owing exclusively to the distribution of stupidity.
With that said, it's exciting to imagine that Reddit going public might actually lead to a further crackdown on hate speech.
>JS is a language and not a bytecode media

Does it even matter when most people are using it as a compiler target (even just from newer versions of the language)?
I'm not sure why preprocessing progressive JPEGs is an advantage of using this method instead, since you have to process the images to generate the SVG files in the article.
Hacks for speeding up user research
TLS 1.3 and 0-RTT in HAProxy
Announcing IFQL – A New Query Language and Engine for InfluxDB
In a Sign of Gene-Editing Frenzy, Startup Pitches Editing Without CRISPR
No, the baseband radio will not be connected to the SoC via DMA.

They are proposing to use an external baseband with a USB or UART interface to the main SoC and a kill switch.

https://forums.puri.sm/t/level-of-freedom-of-librem-phone-es...
Maybe it is just me, but Tree Style Tabs is ridiculously slow on FF57. Takes about 3 seconds between the moment I hit F1 and the moment the TST sidebar is done loading.
Keep in mind that they see a different spectrum. Any video you want to show them may need to be projected with special software or hardware to make those images look like bugs.

(It's not necessarily true, but worth thinking about.)
I think that the bigger issue isn't founders in relationships putting off marriage, but founders who are put off dating all together.

I worked as much as I could on my startup the first two years. I knew that I could have successful dates individually, but that I didn't have the bandwidth to sustain the followup interactions dating would require. I put off dating for those two years, and went the company eventually went bust I definitely regret putting my life on hold like that.
Without Tab Mix Plus Firefox 57 is not an option for me. Does anyone know of an extension that allows multiple tab rows? Tab Trees and like extensions don't cut it. This is the main reason I never switched to Chrome.

It's too bad FF had to abandon it's massive library of legacy extensions for this upgrade. The myriad of extensions is one of FF's main benefits over other browsers. I've happily accepted lower performance in trade for configuration options. I suppose the most popular extensions will eventually be ported.
I'm impressed. It seems to be in total working order when trying out collectgarbage, __gc and __mode[0].

Code:

print(_VERSION)
local a = setmetatable({}, {__mode = 'v'})
local b = setmetatable({}, {__gc = function(x) print("Deleting: " .. tostring(x)) end})
a[1] = b
a[2] = 2
print(table.unpack(a))
print(collectgarbage'count')
b = nil
collectgarbage()
print(table.unpack(a))

Result:

Lua 5.3
table: 0x50a748 2
21.4033203125
Deleting: table: 0x50a748
nil 2

[0] - 3 features tied to the Lua GC, to simplify, they basically are (respectively): forcefully running the GC, finalizers that run when object is collected and weak refs that don't hold the object alive on their own.

Perhaps http://www.lua.org/demo.html could be replaced with that for users who have JS enabled.

Again - just wow, that's really nice, Lua in a browser.
Will it be possible to get multi-row tabs back?
>expect major improvements after one week?

Beginner's gains ?
The advice here is almost literally: making money is more important than people. And then we wonder why we have companies like Uber captained by people with low regard for others?
It's boring data, encrypted in transit (HTTPS). About the only thing intermediaries can learn is that someone used Firefox at the time of the request.
I am extremely unclear on whatever point you're trying to make, here, because it really does seem to come from a place of ignorance on WASM and JS. It makes no sense.

It seems like you're claiming, in a really roundabout way, that WASM will never have DOM access, even though it's planned[1]. There are even VDOMs[2] for WASM already. Future WASM implementations that include DOM access can absolutely, and for many folks will, replace Javascript.

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md

[2]: https://github.com/mbasso/asm-dom
Kind of off-topic, but the world is really hurting for something like a distributed version of Zotero; a standardized format for collecting, distributing, and collaborating on reference lists. It's a shame that the Zotero team has no plans to make the Zotero sync protocol itself distributed or self-hostable, because in my (probably naive) opinion it would be a real killer application for both universities and private researchers. If I had enough money to fund this development myself I'd gladly do it, and if someone else kicked off the project I'd also gladly donate.

The only free-as-in-freedom-ish alternative to Zotero I know of is JabRef[0] plus a browser extension like JabFox[1] and either a manual WebDAV/Rsync synchronization solution or Bibsync[2], which hasn't had been updated in 3 years. And it still lacks the collaboration utility of a Zotero public library.

[0]: https://www.jabref.org/

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jabfox/

[2]: https://github.com/minad/bibsync
Hey, excellent project. I think there are a lot of applications fur such remote browser service. I really like it. More in depth detail on security features and history tracking would be ideal.
PTVS itself is open source so there's no worry there (our whole team does it's work as open source wherever it makes sense, and in this instance it would).
>reinvent the wheel, it's how we get better wheels

-john carmack

-michael scott
Isn't UEFI way more complex? But I'm not sure if that's a problem because of Windows and all the drivers it has to support, or if it's a problem with the specification. I believe it was the latter? I think Google mentioned that in its recent talk on removing Intel ME.
Mind though, that this effort will almost certainly die off after June 26, 2018. That's the EOL date of Firefox 52 ESR, meaning the actual end of Mozilla supporting legacy extensions.

This sort of cynic statement is based on this legacy extension system having been a major maintenance burden for Mozilla, so now one developer or even a small team trying to take that over, I can hardly imagine to work out.
Gnip is Twitter's enterprise API business with annual subscriptions to firehose and decahose access. This is month-to-month billing for improved API access and data quality.
There is nothing unethical about it. Marriage was an economic arrangement long before it was a romantic one. And it still serves that function: it diversifies peoples' income sources, changes their risk profile (as the article points out), allows amortizing many fixed expenses, etc.

For most of history, society has told young men to get married so they can form households. There was a good reason for that (aside from propagation of the species): it's very difficult for a single man to, for example, run a farm by himself.
Stop spoofing your user agent string, install it, then resume spoofing. It should be

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0

by default for Firefox 57 on Windows 7 64-bit
It is strange how people have such a hard time believing this.
thanks - we'll look into that.
They need the ad dollars like everyone else.
And in the end: are you willing to pay for the electricity more? - - no way!!

It's like a religion but without knowing the holy book. Nuclear is the answer or someone better find out how to store big amounts of energy if we want to have it all solar.
Sounds like great advice if you are interested in developing coronary heart disease, impaired cognitive ability, and a host of other health-related issues.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1005/10051205

http://www.circadian.com/blog/item/22-5-negative-effects-of-...

Oh, and do you literally expect a "great" entrepreneur to work 24/7? Good luck with that.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-can-huma...
Ghost Star – Adobe has released security updates to address
Yup. It's a new "field" if you will, and a lot of people are getting hurt during the birth phase. That said I've noticed streamers focusing more on being game agnostic, they'll demo new games and take note how much of their fan base follows. If the new game is a success they'll keep at it, if not they'll migrate back.
So what you're saying is that people are stupid?

If people are misusing the DOM API at a fundamental level(to do non-DOM related things), that's not a fault of the API. It's as if everyone has forgotten that DOM means Document Object Model. The vast majority of websites and web apps are not very complicated on the client-side, so I'd say that the DOM API generally does its job well. Trying to do anything that's not about constructing a document or is doing heavy amounts of animation or node replacement using a document-building API is asking for a bad time. It's quite implicitly attempting to break fundamentals of computer science.

Making the API one uses to render pages in a browser a free-for-all doesn't solve the problem, and you end up losing many of the advantages of having actual standards. What would be better is for the browser to provide another set of APIs for things beyond the "expertise" of the DOM. This kind of the case right now in some regards, but there's a reason why React and Glimmer use things like virtual DOMs and compiled VMs. I'd argue that a standardization of such approaches could be a different API that probably shouldn't even be referred to as a DOM because they are meant to take a lot of shortcuts that aren't required when you are simply building a document. In a sense, WASM is intended to fulfill this purpose without replacing the DOM or JavaScript.

Object-oriented programming is quite often misued/misunderstood. Does that mean it's a "bad" concept? I wouldn't say so. Education tends to suck, and people are generally lazy and thus demand too much from the tools they use.

I'm not copping-out because I'm not putting the DOM on a pedestal. Calling it a bad API because it doesn't work well for a small minority of cases is a total mischaracterization. If it was an objectively bad API, it wouldn't have seen the astounding success it has.

EDIT: I'm not saying that programmers are stupid... but that their expectations are sometimes not congruent with reality.
There are thousands upon thousands of micro controllers. The space is crowded. I'm not surprised that google doesn't rank an article that is poorly worded.

I find the title intriguing too... but on HN and with 100 upvotes already. It's pretty terrible in a search context. If I am looking for a comparison, I'm not clicking on something called "the amazing microcontroller".
Not much of a surprise that (mostly) men like looking at pretty women talking about video games.
Cloudflare Acquires Neumob
Definitely, and they are cousins. In this case, it was specifically a marijuana terpene IPA.
If an API is meant for documents and you're using it for applications, that's not the API's fault
It's an ignorant joke designed to deligitimize cryptocurrency in the eyes of the reader.
iPhone X Isn't Worth It
Firefox did not drop support for Selenium. Selenium IDE, a record/playback test creation tool, stopped working in newer versions of Firefox, but a) Selenium IDE is only one part of the Selenium project, and b) The Selenium team is working on a new version of IDE compatible with the new Firefox add-on APIs.
> Most of these points smack of rosy retrospective bias.

Well, accusations of bias can go both ways. Maybe it feels bad to admit that there is a serious problem with no obvious solution in sight; and pretending that we don't see anything is how we bury our collective heads in the sand.

Instead of accusing each other of biases, let's discuss evidence. As was mentioned in a few comments in this thread, high-school textbooks in multiple countries are gradually dumbed down, so much that 20 or more years old textbooks are now considered a material for gifted kids. (I can confirm this.) Your turn.

> Kids have great attention spans if content is delivered to them in a way they can engage in, for instance, interactive computer games.

If the only problem is that humans are losing the ability to learn without playing computer games, perhaps we could fix it by making all the necessary games. But we better start making them really fast, because there is a lot of knowledge to cover.

And while we are at this type of solution, we could also fix problems with nutrition by genetically engineering a broccoli that will taste like heroin. Situation is not that bad if kids are still willing to pay attention to addictive things.
Shut Up and Calculate
You can disable "toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled" in about:config.

This affects more than just the pulse, but you'll probably actually be happy about that...
Getting Acquired, Founder Conviction, and DevOps in Continuous Delivery
That's a nice research/prestige project but I question the economic viability in comparison with, e.g., delivery by bicycle. But of course, then you would have to deal with humans and that's probably not one of Amazon's strengths.
Coreboot has some pretty solid ARM support too. Modern Chromebooks (both x86 and ARM) use Coreboot with a "depthcharge" payload. You can even use Libreboot at this point to bring up an RK3288, and boot into ChromeOS or a traditional linux. Even cooler is that if you do your own build of Coreboot, you can provide your own OS verification keys, and use vbutil to sign your own OS and have custom verified boot.
> - You can mute audio on a page clicking the little speaker icon in the tab

Although I don't know if chrome has this on by default nowadays as I turned it on so long ago.

But mute audio on per tab via speaker icon is available in chrome as well.

in chrome://flags/

* Tab audio muting UI control

If enabled, you can mute/unmute per tab via doing same thing.
Absolutely, the one reason I had never left Firefox's side during Chrome's best moments were the few extensions like Bamboo RSS reader and Tab Mix Plus, which I never found good alternatives to and just were indispensable once I tried them.
Firefox 56 still works.
I'd encourage you to watch the niche streamers, playing games with smaller audiences. It's very, very, similar to i.e. pornographic cam shows, strippers, and gambling. Traditionally poor working-class demographics will throw money away for little more then a nod in their direction.

My theory is that its anthropological, people want to belong to the group. The isolation of being behind a computer ironically amplifies the phenomenon, people become more desparate to connect and the only outlet they have is to donate.

Finally there is the rabid success of the female streamers, many of whom wear low cut shirts and exhibit flirty behavior. While there are many talented female gamers who deserve their place in the twitch spotlight, there can be no denying that a portion of the demographic caters specifically to specific male inclinations...
An Interview WithStanford Math Prof. Gunnar Carlsson on Topological Data Analysis
Nuclear launch order can be refused according to retired US general
He's talking about the idea not implementation, that something that horrible is at the front as a weeding mechanism.
How is a collection of scripts for which you can easily read and edit the source code "worse" than installing a rpm package or a compiled program?

The thing about signature validation can be easily resolved with a simple text replace. About dependency tracking: as I said, it is not a package manager and it uses dnf under the hood, which already does that.

Unless you only install open source software AFTER doing a full source code audit. You are blatantly overreacting just to look as "security conscious".

For disclosure: I don't have anything to do with the project other than the fact that I have been using it for years without any issue.
I'm finishing up my final semester in the program. As with anything, you get out of it what you put in to it. I felt it was possible to get an A in any course with just a surface understanding of the material. However, there is a lot to learn if you put the effort in.

I really enjoyed the courses on Machine Learning (CS 5644) and Social Media analytics (CS 5664). The Computer Fundamentals (ECE 5484) was an interesting course for someone with a non-CS background. The database courses (ACIS 5504, ACIS 5524) were fairly in depth, though it's a very large space to fit in to two courses. The BIT courses were too nontechnical for my liking.

The course Web Development (CS 5244) is good only if you want to learn JSP. The material presented on Javascript is from W3Schools. The course also misses a great opportunity to shine by enforcing the use of a VCS system over the dozen or so iterations of the course project. The program badly needs a course dedicated to front-end web development.

If you expect Coursera quality lectures you'll be disappointed. Expect little more than uploaded videos and pdf downloads. I'm happy with what I've learned from the program, but wish I would have gone with GT and kept the $20k.
This is exactly why I love Bitcoin threads like this so much, they always contain a bunch of idiots who inevitably lose their Dunning-Krugerrands to scammers and insolvent exchanges, of which all the regulations with fiat they claim to hate so much are there to prevent in the first place.
If security guards don't know how badges looks like, your security organization is crappy as hell. It does not matter whether badge looks ugly or not, guard is supposed to know it.