skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My high school precalc textbook actually walked you through the process of writing a simple quadratic formula solver program. By this time, I had actually already gotten into writing TI-BASIC (as the first time I really started learning to program, failing to wrap my head around both python and C before) and I had created a slightly more complicated formula program with input sanitization and error handling, as well as a few other silly formulas. After this chapter I started passing around this program, as well as a small game I had written. These things were probably the most recognized I will ever be for my code, and I still have both programs.
I'll be looking to downgrade to Firefox Extended Support Release 52.4.1 [1] and using the hidden settings to enable Electrolysis [2]. Currently on 56 and it's very fast but with 57 tabs mix plus is gone [3].

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/#en-...

[2] https://fossbytes.com/how-to-make-firefox-faster-by-enabling...

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/
The amount of desktop usage hasn't gone down with mobile usage going up. Desktop isn't niche.

That said, more market share for Fennec would be nice.

(This comment written in Fennec.)
If the airlines offering decent seats don't have a competitive advantage, that's either because A) they're not marketing it very well, or B) people don't really care.
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.

Yes if you're using accrual basis, but not if you're using cash basis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_of_accounting

(Any big company will be using accrual basis, though.)
The signing into an account in Chrome almost got someone fired at a small customer of mine a few weeks ago. Fortunately they called me first to look into it, I pointed out that the porn bookmarks in question were years old and that since Chrome was signed into a personal account it was pretty likely that the same account had been used by other family members at home.

I also wrote this up for the owners to send to their staff, feel free to reuse if appropriate for you:

We’ve seen at least one situation recently where a user “signed in” to Chrome when prompted, which brought that user’s personal bookmarks and website logins onto their work computer. While Chrome offers this as an option, there are no situations where your personal account should be linked to a browser at work – if you need to be using personal email, etc. please do so from your own phone or other device on your own time. This is for your own privacy and security as well as for the practice – we want to not have your personal data on our systems, and you don’t want your private email, bookmarks, etc. accessible to anyone else who happens to be at your desk while you’ve stepped away.

If you have linked your browser to a personal account, please remove that connection using the instructions below.

You can check whether Chrome is linked to an online account by clicking on the small person icon at the top right corner of the window – just to the left of the “X” to close the window.
•	If you click on that and it asks you to sign in, you’re not linked to an account.
•	If you click on that and it lists a personal account, click on “Manage People” to open a new window listing connected accounts. On each account there are 3 dots in the top right corner – click those and “Remove this person”
•	If you see a name rather than a generic person icon, click on that and use “Manage People” to remove that connected account.

Firefox offers a similar but less-used version of this that would have required creating a Firefox account to use Firefox Sync. If you have done this with Firefox please disconnect it; if you’re not sure then you almost certainly haven’t done this in Firefox and don’t need to worry about it.
I think it was something about having 8bit waveforms.
Atimelogger
And yet they still have positive karma.

Most upvoted comment: +318
Most downvoted comment: -377k

Somehow this results in 7,438 comment karma for the user. What the hell reddit?

edit: and no, the sum of the rest of their comments does not add up anywhere near 377k.
Not all the population qualified to vote as they are not UK nationals.

There again, statistics often get skewed to fit a narrative-for example: take 100 people and 99 earn barely minimum wage, the 100th is a footballer and paid millions a year. WIth statistics you can claim that those 100 people contribute lots as high earning tax payers. Which highlights how statistics can and do get abused to fit a narrative.
Can Robots Join Religions?
Your biometric measurements are essentially secrets. They work today because it's far too difficult for a thief to steal your device AND copy your biometrics at the same time. This makes them the most secure tokens we have in real world use, given the number of people with 0000 passcodes.

Eventually they may become easy to copy, then their utility as secrets will be gone.
I recently (a couple of weeks ago) finished giving Firefox another try for about two weeks. Sorry to say, but it just felt laggy compared with Chrome. I'll give it another shot when the new rendering engine is fully integrated into the release channel.
Perhaps because Mozilla doesn't have a News platform? So it is easier to believe that they are doing it for you. I don't mean to imply that Apple have any other motives, I know nothing about them except that there appears to be a greater likelihood of a conflict of interest.
The root cause here is probably high stress, to which walking more is probably going to be helpful, but for people under chronic stress (as I am from time to time) it can be hard to see how to make the time for that.
I'd add that from an engineering perspective, 'brilliant' jerks aren't even that brilliant.

An actually intelligent person is happy to prove his thinking via truthful argumentation (and unit tests, documentation, and so on), and also happy to get his points refuted by similarly reasonable peers.

Anything other than that approach is noise.
CRDTs explained – supercharge your serverless with CRDTs at the Edge
The new research [0] on similar causes of diabetes, Alzheimer's, and cancer is exciting as one could target major killers at once.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSo-p7DafpA
I agree that is a valid issue, but it's still quite a different scale than using Google.

If I understand correctly, you're saying that we should be careful about saving passwords in Firefox if we could be the target of a National Security Letter from the US. The attack would be detectable, so it cannot be used very often (and they would need a really good excuse for doing so).

By contrast, Google takes all our data and can do whatever they want with it, without a warrant/NSL?
> Would your startup hire Linus if he hadn't yet created linux and git?

No.
Eben Moglen is no longer a friend of the free software community
Time to read up on some British History. The last time this happened was during the reign of George II when the UK rejected Europe and Hanover and turned its eyes to the world.

The tune "Rule Britannia" was the marching song for the 'patriots' who pushed for an independent UK based policy.

The result was the industrial revolution and the UK becoming the pre-eminent power on Earth.

So we've sort of done this before.
Bosch tries to become an ultra-secure tech platform
The situation I've encountered is a jerk who was actually fairly mediocre in his abilities but whose bully characteristics and brash confidence had led many of the non-technical people in the company to believe he was extremely skilled.

I think one reason people become bullies is because they know they can't back up their decisions with skill. Linus is brash, but is quite able to work well with people and has the results to prove it.

Most people who adopt bully tactics are simply doing it for tactical reasons to hide their own weaknesses.

The myth of "brilliant jerks" is harmful because it lets any jerk pretend he's doing it because he's brilliant, when chances are he's just afraid of being unmasked as mediocre.

As a corollary, engineering culture should be very open to every member of the team learning and being very open to lessons learned (read: mistakes made) in the process. Bullies often intimidate by criticizing others' decisions, which creates an atmosphere of fear that prevents rational thought and stifles group learning.
Check about:support and look for a number higher than 0 in the "Multiprocess Windows" entry. Old extensions or something may be keeping you from running multi-process.
Serverless Demystified
Wow, 10,000IU in one big mega dose?
No, we should not have a "proper password" in addition to a login. People use their phones without passscodes or set them to 0000 all the time. Edit: The worse problem is if biometrics fail in that scenario, you can't access your device ever again.

In the real world, effective biometrics are the most secure login tokens we have.
Yes, well, as long as it covers the basics somewhere. Someone living on only basic income won't be able to afford to live in Manhattan. They'll have to move to rural Alabama.
I question if the kinds of businesses they discuss are really relevant to the hacker news crowd. You can start a restaurant chain because you want the restaurant chain to operate a particular way.
maybe with mono, I have not tried that yet.
Whoops you are correct, dropped a zero or two there. Makes it even more impressive.
Can I check I understand: Firefox has

- Profiles

- Containers

- Persona tabs

?
Where do you get such a cheap VPS? I'm paying $5!
When I explain various aspects of concurrency and multi-threaded programming to non-programmers, using analogy of people doing some tasks really helps.

I've picked this up from Feynman's lectures on computing - highly recommend them!
are you suggesting it's similar, or that it's a fork, or something else?
- Actual Linuses start up their own projects

- A successful startup does not depend on miracles, geniuses and such.
Slowdown on Facebook and Youtube up to getting stuck (exactly what I talk about) was reported in some form at least since February this year, e.g. this Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5sikxt/firefox_unb...

I've found that link after my GF complained many times, and I've seen the CPU at more than 90% (40% in Kernel) and Firefox stuck after only her visiting Facebook and scrolling down. It was hard even to kill the Firefox. I saw bugzilla entries too. Some quadratic loops for every element, triggering recalculating "everything" even if the result shouldn't change were mentioned if I remember.

What I claim is that on 56.0.2 (the most recent version until tomorrow) is still not better, FF getting stuck and CPU being fully stressed, and that the "subscriptions" can't be the only issue (which is the only scenario that the developers accused if I remember correctly the bugzilla conversations). The computer seeing this at almost 100% CPU and Firefox remaining unresponsive has only two cores, AMD CPU. If it's accidentally "better" on 16-core machine of some developer who doesn't use the mentioned sites anyway, my girlfriend can't change it.

Of course nobody is going to give FF developers her own Facebook access for them to reproduce it.

As for my GF the most of the internet are Facebook and Youtube, I suspect she'll really have to switch to Chrome if it continues. She already did "refresh Firefox" or however it is called now more than once. No change. And she is certainly not an outlier (and regarding the slowdown I see, I type these words on Firefox 57 (I downloaded it after reading other comments about the FTP availability, I see "Stylo true (enabled by default)") on 4 core / HT Intel and typing these last lines is also quite unresponsive and my notebook fan started at maximum even if unsurprisingly for 8 virtual cores I don't see much CPU use on the indicator -- something is still obviously wrong even on the very light site like HN and on the more powerful machine -- I guarantee you I see this only in Firefox and when I use native programming editors everything flies all the time).
And they shouldn’t rely on consumer-level security protection.
> Most referenda are run on the basis that a super-majority is required for any significant constitutional change.

What percentage was required in the Scottish independence referendum?

What percentage was required in the EU/EC exit/remain referendum of 1975?

What percentage was required in the referendum to join the EU/EC in the first place, in 1973?

(The latter being a trick question. There was no referendum to join at all, zero, yet a majority being required (and achieved) to leave is deemed a "horrific travesty of democracy" by people who voted differently.)
The article states as "proof" that it is possible to eavesdrop is based on what the FBI could do in 2006. That was before the first iPhone or Android reached a customer.

Is FB somehow able to hide the notification that the iPhone displays on the top when an app is using the microphone?
Right now it is kind of a cleanup phase ending with massive code reuse. But ultimately, I believe we continue to see both .NET Core and Mono flourish. Why? Because .NET Core and Mono have very different targets. Mono has nearly a decade of being factored into any kind of platforms while .NET Core and the CoreCLR will stay a workhouse for dedicated use cases. Same for the .NET Framework which has a full dedication to Windows with it's huge legacy and compatability burden.
Hmm, I see. I live in Greece, so I don't really have an intuition for how much sun one needs (we get eight months of sun or so). What you say makes sense, thank you.
Maybe you still can't live in Manhattan but I don't really see the point in a UBI so low that you can't afford to live in a city at all.
I have successfully avoided Prime up to now. This might be the tipping point.

OTOH, despite creative quibbles it's hard to imagine surpassing the film versions, so maybe I can just watch those a few more times.
The Mill folks are a good example of going right for the high end.
From what I can tell the article lists guidelines based on consumption (how much Vit D to take or what is recommended), but seems to fail to mention that absorption can vary by person. I think the better method would be to get a blood test and find out where you are and supplement (or get more sun) as needed to bring levels within normal to optimal ranges. But again, what is normal or optimal? Where is the mention of Vit K?

In my experimentation, it takes about 5000-10,000 IU per day supplementation + outdoor sun exposure 3 days a week for about an hour each day for me to be in the (or what I am hoping is) normal/optimal range (around 60-70 ng/mL). My sun exposure in that hour is hiking outdoors in full/partial sun mid-day with no shirt on. So 75% body exposure I guess? I am assuming that normal or optimal is mid to upper values in the lab results ranges for Vit D. In the case of Labcorp, the range referenced was 30-100 ng/mL with anything around 30ish and under being definitely deficient according to the lab results description of the range. So in my case it does take quite a bit of sun + supplementation to get optimal. Now my results above are based on summer sun exposure. In the winter, obviously that will be reduced (colder less outdoor skin exposure + sun is low in the sky) so I'm curious to see what difference I see on the labs without the sun exposure part.

There are some nice phone apps that helpful in figuring out sun exposure and Vit D. I have used D Minder on the iPhone. You punch in some stats about yourself (skin type, age, % of skin exposure and it asks you a few questions to confirm skin type based on your experience in the sun (do you burn easily, just get red and tan, just tan etc). Then based on your current geo location, sun angle in the sky (winter vs summer and the time of day) and time you want to spend exposed to the sun it calculates Vit D absorption in IU. Granted I'm not sure how accurate it is, but based on my labs and supplementation the biggest eye opener to me was how much sun it really takes to make a difference between deficient and normal/optimal. I do tend to believe now that the old recommendation of "15 min in the sun per day is enough" is false. That might be enough to stave off rickets, but I think more is probably in order for optimal living.

However, with all this said it would be great if there more studies on what the optimal or disease preventing blood levels are - with emphasis on blood levels and not just IUs intake per day.
> Anything other than that approach is noise.

Agree with everything except: 'Anything other than that approach is noise.' It is signal that the individual is not capable, and dangerous to work with.
Build as you go
Large publicly-traded companies can also offer RSUs---doesn't this still apply in that scenario?
My levels came back at a 5 ng/mL. Which is somewhere between dead and vampire. It wasn't shocking entirely (nowhere near enough time outside), although they said they had rarely seen levels so low before. I was fortunate to not be suffering any measurable problems from it. It was suggested by my doctor that I should aim for 30 to 60 ng/mL (ideally closer to 50-60). I began taking one-per-day 5000 IU of Vitamin D3. Took care of the deficiency in short order.
It was only added in the last couple of weeks I think. Clicking the menu button in the address bar then “Share page with” shows it for me.
Thanks for the tips! I think improving the list would be good, I like your suggestion. Adding/removing places would be very cool too, I hope to add that.
exactly. i cant believe nobody here seems to know about profiles or about:profiles. its the perfect solution. my setup is tree-style tabs (recently made to work with 57) and a different profile for each task (one profile for each language im learning, one for music, and one for each research topic i might be pursuing). whats your setup like?
Yes, it's paranoid, but I respect your decision to do it. However the imperative mood used in your first sentence is totally inappropriate. That's exactly what Profiles are for; the vast majority of people are going to want to process personal issues and work issues without signing in as a different user.
My opinion, the two most important vitamin levels to check are vitamin D and B12.
Many people are easily deficient of both.

Some say 60-80 blood serum level is the optimal (80+ is possibly toxic) while others point to 40-50 as healthy
> The Flying Car

Oh, sure. Why use enough just enough energy to propel yourself forward to your destination when you can also use a massive amount of extra energy to fight gravity the whole way?

> capable of flying above congested roads...

If flying cars became popular, this advantage would be destroyed by the congested skies.

> will require a new kind of air traffic control

Boy howdy. And create new categories of horrific accidents. Let's not build a world where a drunk driver can plow through the roof of a school, shall we?

A more sensible answer to traffic is 1) more remote work and 2) better mass transportation.
I feel I've always done that because I learned programming through Usborne's books, and her work reminds me of that. Usborne books helped me grok difficult things very fast when I was about 10 years old. For a while, when using variables and arrays, I would always think of robots grabbing things from shelves.

Examples and PDF downloads (!): https://boingboing.net/2016/02/07/usborne-releases-free-pdfs...

I wish those were still around when I was learning about pointers. Would have made things so much easier!
Shame that said author and all the MEP's since the article was made into law have overlooked displaced nationals and not one of them have thought to address that oversight in article 50 and avoid chaos. That for me highlights how fickle many MEP's are when it comes to politics as they would rather retort to rabble rabble over fixing a long-standing and glaring issue.

Shame on them I say.
Basic income based on other's addictions ? I doubt people around here would welcome drug money being redistributed to a close community distinguishing itself from outsiders by blood, but somehow, this is acceptable.

That being said, there is an easy counter argument to this article: Canada's "first nation". They receives millions in government funding which ends up to be redistributed arbitrarily by "band chief's", often in the pocket of their own direct family. It is not uncommon to have their income in the seven figures while other members of their band fall to real vice, drugs and drinking. (facts confirmed by many first nation members when I living on treaty land). Also, it is not uncommon to see natives who tried to integrate with Canadian society being ostracized by their own community and seen as "traitors" (once again, step family experience).
$150 for a printable parts of the mask.

Then "hand made" skin, which they don't reference cost or time spent creating.

Then "hand made" nose, which they don't reference cost or time spent creating.

Also makeup, which they don't reference cost or time spent applying.

This is a security firm serving up info with HTTP, not HTTPS, ducking every serious question to the point it seems likely they are hiding something. Even if everything they claim is true, their attack vector is so difficult chances of success would seem to be effectively nil.
Senate plans disastrous tax on vesting that could kill stock compensation
These things are so far off in the future that it is impossible to know when they will end up being useful. Back in 2013 I read this article:

http://www.businessinsider.in/markets/the-8-game-changing-te...

I really liked the presentation where they not only talked about the technology but also looked at some data points.

Since then I try to read all articles about world changing technology but most of them are fluff pieces gushing about stuff which might not happen in the short term. It is difficult to get good articles on this topic.

Does anyone know any such grounded articles published this year?
Hopefully they're incentivized to pour a huge budget into these given the "competition" of the movies (and GoT) and they make it worth the Prime subscription. (Personally Prime has so much value add these days for me I can't imagine not being subscribed anyway.)
Well, if there truly is a Bob then sure, I probably wouldn't want him on a team, but I don't even know why they are being addressed simultaneously. Bob is clearly a sociopath.

I might not be personally all that bothered, since people tend not to get the better of me, but it probably wouldn't be productive to have such a person in a team, and there's a good chance they don't care enough to be productive, and most people wouldn't work with them (as this thread shows).

There's probably only one way you could employ Bob, and that's as an external solo contractor.