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I upgraded to Firefox 57 only to find all 4 of my extensions missing... I can live without others, but being without NoScript felt like walking on streets naked. So the first thing I did was downgrade to Firefox ESR, then I started looking for alternatives. Turns out that uMatrix fills this role perfectly (for me of course). Not only can I block/allow JS, CSS and similar resources, but I can do it based on domain / 3rd party domain matrix... Nice, I always hated that when I allow `gstatic.com` in NoScript for some domain it is allowed globally (for all domains). I will test uMatrix for a few more days just to see if I feel comfortable without NoScript, then I'll upgrade back to FF 57. It looks like this might have a silver lining after all. :)

(for the record: I hate it that they broke compatibility with older extensions, and I hate that they changed UI, but if that gives FF greater market share, then I'm all for it)
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Seems true enough to me, though I'm willing to be educated. Where is the Russian equivalent of, say, the Koch brothers or Soros? That is: wealthy, powerful people who use their wealth to drive policy aimed (often) at unseating the established government.

Russia had a few of those in the mid 90's. They're all jailed or exiled, or in more than a few cases murdered. Who are Putin's powerful domestic opponents whose existence you think is unfeasible to deny?
I'm a little over decade older than you but I've been around this business a long time.

Web development has always had young, inexperienced people going into the business. Things have always been changing really little care for methodology.

Things are getting better, not worse. The amount of elitism this post drips with is semi-infuriating.

I come from nothing. A poor kid with a good brain who was lucky enough to school with the financial elite because of that brain. Shitty, single-parent; handmedown clothes and shit Christmases. I had to fight my ass off and struggle to even get this career. I couldn't afford to stay in college and I didn't have the right attitude to keep my grades up for scholarships. I worked a decade-plus of shitty, low-paying jobs. I've been working fulltime almost nonstop since I was 14. I had to pay for my own senior year of a high school I didn't want to be at. While I've almost always had a career in tech, I started my development career at 30.

I have a very blue-collar mentality. I dress badly. I swear a lot. I am from the lower social classes and I'm proud of where I come from and what I've done. My work differentiates me from my peers. I make great architectural decisions and I get things done. I'm your peer because of what I can do, not because of my class.

What have you done to get where you are today?
They're not going to. The PSP has a hand in DRM (it runs 'trustlets' in a container), and DRM can only work through obscurity currently.
Looks much better than the huge towers for sure, but I can't find it in my country (Ukraine), unfortunately.
Can you please quote with ">" at the start of the paragraph instead of using a code snippet? This is unreadable on mobile; the text is 3x as wide as the (scrolling) viewport.
Difference is that buildings etc need to be maintained or else they break down. Sofware, baring weirdness like "bitrot" from unreliable storage hardware, do not break down.
Lost faith in the crowd here after reading these comments, against web scraping. Isn't this HACKERnews!? This is the same witch hunt mentality that ultimately lead to the prosecution of Aaron Swartz and look how that turned out.

The anti-scrapers: You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Where's that spirit of innovation and naughty-ness that PG always talks about in his posts?
Being open source doesn't really matter; it's having access to the keys. And they're never going to give those up because it would break the chain of trust for their DRM.
You could check out DigitalGlobe, Planet Labs, etc. You can also look at companies that take data from the satellite mfgs/operators and repackage it for customers such as Orbital Insight.
This is not news. Anybody who goes to con, particularly telephreak and friends, has known about Crunch for a long time, now.
Source?

coreboot was initially developed at LANL, a US Government laboratory. It's worth considering why that might be.
Seriously what are you talking about ?

Apple supports OSX 10.13 on seven year old devices and iOS on four year old devices. And the only reason they don't support it longer is because older devices aren't 64-bit. If it was an economic decision they would just match Android's support lifetimes.

Also I use a 17 inch 2011 every day and it's just as fast as it ever was.
Just apply. Most of the designers I worked with didn't come in with prior experience in space tech, nor did I as an engineer.
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How was this voted up?

>developers becoming blue collar workers

This is possible only in the lowest most commodified positions. There will always be specialists, regardless of the number of libraries, frameworks or SAAS that exist. You most likely have not looked at the edges of what's being developed by those doing the real science and writing papers on their progress and experiments.

>web development with inexperienced people

You are a freelancer. Everyone can call themselves a freelancer and throw together a quick site to say what they can do. You've stated your specialty is being a generalist. This puts you at the easiest tier because "jack of all trades master of none" typically means you just glue libraries together that have been made specifically to cater to people who don't have the special knowledge required to make those libraries. This is not an infrastructure engineer. This is not a WebGL expert, this is not a computer vision specialist, this a not machine learning engineer, nor a data scientist, nor statistician. Your stuff has been generalized and simplified from the esoteric skill, knowledge and techniques of specialists that came before you. You have been standing solely on the shoulders of giants that hunched in front of computers before you and I were born.

>spending time in front of a computer

Congrats, you finally noticed. Here's another thing that a lot of people don't seem to notice until it's too late: The ones that get paid the most are the salesmen. They're the ones that can prove that they made the company money. When they bring a check through the door it hits the bottom line, they prove their worth that way. As such, the people who live in the nicest places in SF? The $MM condos closer to Pacific heights or the apartments near the ports? Executives or Sales. People people. The engineers working for relative peanuts are living 5 to an apartment. Sales eats what they kill, Executives are similar in that they bring people in who provide the meat. The two ways around are that your startup lottery ticket pays off for FU money (highly unlikely unless you spot winners better than VCs) or to work at a BigCo[1] and rise through the ranks as an engineer (likely if you get in and contribute hard).

>medicine

You're looking at credentialed blue collar workers. It's a step up, you have more specialized knowledge but unless you handle it correctly you may still be under the sway of the hospital you work for, not to mention the cost of becoming one. You would be a doctor. Respectable but given your disdain for your current situation you may become just as jaded with it in 15 years time.

I'm not sure why I wrote all of this.

[1] http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
I'd be surprised if 16bit support uses a noticeable amount of power in a running system.
It's a since discredited number from studies on gallup polls. I think it was the freakonomics blog that had a series of posts outlining the issues with it; since then there were more rigorous studies concluding that the earlier conclusion was not valid.
I'm a current CS student who's had a couple of backend internships and am interested in doing stuff with scientific computing in the future (likely wanting to go into grad school for this).

In general, where can I find resources about the kinds of career starting points I can get into as someone with this kind of interest? It seems like the most popular kind of job with a bit more theoretical rigour than web dev is being a data scientist/machine learning engineer at a similar webdev sort of company.
Where's the law of physics that says the accounting practices and rules that states and universities presently use are set in stone?

The upshot of this is that the universities will have to change their accounting and bookkeeping. State legislatures might have to actually get off their duffs and pass some measures on an emergency basis. It's work for them, to be sure, but this is not an insurmountable problem.

In light of this, I think the headline is sensationalistic at best, misleading at worst.
If you are that entitled and lacking in self awareness, you will be unhappy either way.
> fancy features for efficient cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering

(shameless plug) RgbQuant [1] does the former, too :)

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/RgbQuant.js
Winapi and windows forms in .net. message loop for UI programming is a very very old pattern. It was just reinvented for web and JS. I don't know if people that created react actually ever used Windows message loop.
My main concern with this is the fact that if Secure Boot is forced (UEFI Class 3/+) users might not be able to change or manage trusted keys. It is quite sad that every few years we have to yet again have this conversation or defend the right to freely install software on machines that we bought or own.
Wow. You must have been upset for at over a decade now.

Because OSX has always shipped with applications. In fact every OS does.
Yep, and also literally classist. The fact that those things don't actually matter is a good thing imho. When programming, a guy from a country you don't even know can be as good as your "rockstar programmer".
Sadly the Linux ecosystem (baring the kernel and the GNU supplied coreutils) do not seem to do any better. And from what gather, Apple is notorious for breaking things as they see fit as well. Not sure how well the BSDs do in this regard.
I agree, I don't expect the kid additions to fully cover the costs. Trying to cover these costs fully is probably unrealistic, as it would lead to a very large salary spread between, say, a founder with 3 kids and one with 0.

The good news is that once you have kids you won't have time for parties or expensive hobbies anyway ... and the joy of having kids makes up for the financial disadvantage several times over. :-))
Complete nonsense. Plus note the intersection between FPGA dev and ML is likely to be practically zero and equally useless at quant firms unless you're in an AI firm building ML on chip. Far easier to go from FPGA to ML than the other way round.
There are more class barriers (and then, just the hard for any living human being ones) to becoming a doctor, it sounds like it would be a better fit if that is what your concern is.
First, I want to finish my bachelor's degree in CS in 2018 not to throw away three years of studying without any proof.
The most sensational news ever
If a founder is motivated by the mission objectives, then suffering only serves to associate those objectives with negative things. It is more likely to burn them out
Apple's diversity chief out after outcry
Changing to medicine is going to be as tough as staying in Computer Science. Also, since you are 22, if you change to medicine it takes close to 7 years to complete, not mentioning whatever mastery you want to do. (At least around it it takes close to 7 years, don't know how long it takes in your country.)
No, I failed out of university and am self-taught. I spent many years deliberately underemployed working on self-study and coding up projects at the limit of my abilities. I had decided to bet on investing in myself instead of just carrying out some boss’s wishes, which would be more optimized to benefit the company than my own growth and development.

Here’s a great resource if you’re starting out today: http://datasciencemasters.org
I mean, I’d rather just not have internet connected devices at all. But the internet is a commons, and people who don’t patch ruin it for everyone.

But, there’s a difference between auto update by default and forced updates. And there’s, again, the option of buying the same thing with no internet connection—pretty much nothing you own needs to be connected to the internet at all.
Throwing money into a hole is pretty much how the BMI/ASCAP music scheme works for artists who aren't part of their protection racket.

Patreon is worse at this point because they have already demonstrated they will seize and/or not distribute funds to accounts they dislike. That's one step above Paypal levels of horrible business practices.
> Pretty much every non-native language is being compiled first to a stack language that looks a lot like a shitty version of Forth as the IR.

It is not clear what you mean with that. I assume you want to hint that the CLR and the Java Runtime use a stack-based instruction set and are common compilation targets, which is true.

But there are lots of other virtual machines that provide a runtime that are not stack-based. For example the implementation of the Lua 5.0 runtime is register-based. An other example of a register-based virtual machine is Parrot.
Finally, some common sense and a realistic response.
OK, fine, then next time just say "assuming you're a 'white dude', check your privilege please" and be done with it. It's much shorter and makes your point much clearer.

> If every white dude who "stays out of politics" understands that a) they can do that because previous political activity of white dudes has given them that option, and that b) they are supporting that system if they participate in that system while not talking about politics, then I have no beef with them.

You are literally still assuming that everyone is using your definition of the word "politics." I don't know what else I can do to explain this to you. Re-read my comments I guess? Because you still haven't gotten it.
You are very welcome.

The use-cases for such a tool, as you mentioned on the website, is when the user doesn't want to get involved with a querying language like SQL. I somehow disagree with the premise that writing SQL is "tedious and low value", specifically for a generalist software engineer. So although I'm not an ideal user for your product, but I could imagine a whole category of users who might need to find data in an instance of SQL Server (or any other RDBMS). Putting myself in their position, what I would like to have in such a tool is:

– not only use the full power of browser (tabs, etc.), but also benefit from code which runs on client-side and improves the interactivity of the tool; i.e. more JavaScript to allow users to dig and drill deeper into the data without leaving the page or even the browser tab. The foreign key reference is a good example for that.

– export the data I'm looking at for further processing and filtering in an spreadsheet; integration with in-browser spreadsheet tools such as Google Sheets would also be nice.

– improved UX; e.g. I know that the links in "referenced by" column of `Customer` table should point the address, etc., but the presence of the link doesn't necessary mean that there is a recorded address for a customer. The user shouldn't have to click on the link and open a new tab just to find out that there is no address for a customer.

- allow the user to save their customized views of tables or joins and come back to them easily; e.g. she is the head of customer support for your company and doesn't want to see `PasswordHash` and `PasswordSalt` for the customers. All she needs to know is a view into this table with customers' contact information or in more advanced use-cases, number of orders in the past year for each customer in a separate column.

- more advanced users might like to be able to pass SQL through your tool and get the results as the table format offered.

Hope these help.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15724324
We actually had an engine which was based on neural networks, called Giraffe. It used an alpha-beta search with a neural network evaluation. The Computer Chess Rating List put it at 2500 Elo, which is a strong human level. It was very slow, searching thousands of positions per second compared to the millions that even weak programs can do, but it's widely agreed that the NNs were worth about 300-400 elo - if Giraffe could search at Stockfish speeds, and given the rule of thumb that a doubling of speed is worth 70 elo, that's 2500 + 70 * log2(3000000/3000) = 3270 elo. That puts it in the top 20.

Sadly the developer was pinched by Google to work in DeepMind. We suspect this was to help work on AlphaGo.
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It’s still obnoxious behavior that IMO should not be rewarded with a share. On my device, the “ad” was offscreen. Highly suboptimal UX. I saw the "Continue without an email address" prompt and thought “fuck them”, crashing my attention sphere like that. And forcing me to scroll-scan to get my place back. The web is full of startup how to stories; I’ll just wait for the next one to pop up on HN.
Cute ideas in there. Much appreciated
Because devs live and breath security. End result is that they develop blinders to anything else.

Also they know when and why to update stuff they work on, thus i never happens at an inopportune time. Nor do they find themselves having to wrangle the new dependency kudzu they created, because for them it built up over time.
>This 300M+ logic is the perfect strawman for people who don't want to solve problems

Within the US, people are able to move across states at will very easily. It is not a "straw man" in that I did not present it as argument being made by someone else. I simply do not believe in centralized power and large homogeneous populations.

I have been to Alabama, and I often can not understand what they are saying whether you believe it or not.
And no MAFF nor MHTML support in Quantum... as MAFF is/was great, now I have to keep yet another browser just to read my old files.
My feeling is that most criticisms of finance are based on a combination of a lack of understanding of what finance is and does, and indignation about how much money some people in the industry get paid. It's any easy target. Absolutely there are 'questionable people' in it, but are programers focused on getting users to click on more ads or spend time on a given app any better? Is tech really saving the world? There is so much more to tech than that, and most people in tech don't feel that's a fair representative of what they do. I think finance is similar, but I don't work in it so maybe I'm wrong...
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What makes you think medicine is not becoming blue-collarized the same way web development is?

What I would recommend is that you try to grow your business to the point where you have more work than you can do yourself, then start hiring people. When people work for you, you can impose standards on them with respect to how they do their work and how they conduct themselves. If social contact and elevated behavior are what you really care about (and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that -- I care about those things myself) then the best way to advance that agenda is to be the boss, and the best way to get there is to leverage the skills you already have rather than start over in a totally new field.
Part of the breakage is precisely due to the explicit intention to drop all the legacy APIs and the respective shims that have become too much of a burden to maintain over time.

One major technical change would be the deprecation plan of XUL/XBL (the toolkit used to build the interface, which could be freely accessed by addons) in favor of a wholly HTML future.
Love uBlock Origin. The author made it compatible months ago.
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Going back to the intel FUD paper, if you consider volume shipment as success as in their document, uboot looking thing with FDTs are the most successful paradigm by orders of magnitude.

The kind of systems using FDTs aren't going to switch I don't think. I have to imagine that ARM64 UEFI was done for marketing and by clueless product management. The CPUs and integration of ARM servers have been so pathetic, nobody was buying, and they were fumbling around at this level while ignoring the elephant in the room. TX2 and Centriq are the first realistic implementations for general purpose servers, and now they are unfortunately saddled with UEFI and ACPI.

This was a rare 2-3 decades kind of mistake. Not a lot of software gets that privilege.
I think you're a bit too pretentious. Your problem is not such much the field in itself but of how others look at you and your idea of class.
1) Mac supports multiple operating systems through BootCamp.

2) Apple has a beta program if you want to see what beta releases actually look like. What Apple is doing is releasing updates in a more agile fashion i.e. more frequent at the expense of longer test/fix iterations.

3) Apple has no DRM on the Mac and on iOS it isn't about rights management. It's purely about not allowing side loading of apps to ensure security and privacy.

4 There are plenty of ways to put videos on an iPad that doesn't require iTunes nor an OS update.