skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You wouldn't need to send information to Mozilla to get an update or get CA revocation lists.

Any request to Mozilla is sending info to Mozilla, and thus should be covered under the privacy policy. Every check for an update likely also includes the current version running so they can send back info on whether the update is important/security related or not. Even if it was just a "list all versions" request, it still signifies that IP used the browser. Similarly, a CRL list update signifies that the IP used Firefox and that the conditions that trigger a CRL update were met (which might mean an HTTPS address was visited, or it might happen at startup).

Any time Firefox implicitly requests data from Mozilla, that's something that they would likely cover in their Privacy policy. Chrome got a lot of flack a few years back for essentially the same problem, but with a twist. Every time it started it would download a binary blob from Google. It turns out it was the code to do voice recognition, which was executed after download. Fairly innocuous if you trust Google, but it was executing remote code from Google on every startup, so people were rightly disturbed by what they saw going on until an explanation was put forth.
Then you did not understand the quote. It's not about an objective morality (what is shameful, wasteful etc. to spend on). Spend the money you successfully exchanged with someone else the way you want it.

The morale case with the argument is that citizen should have their say in how their taxes are spend, and that each of one us have different goals so "living in dignity" cannot be accomplished by UBI.
HAXM is now open source
> You are spreading FUD

I was pointing out that this is a new opt-in change. The links that were posted prove it. Is that FUD?

> specific and concrete

In the absence of specific information, should we not assume the worst?

> data collection

That sounds reasonable for normal users, but any of this data can be used for fingerprinting, data mining, etc. Do you disagree?

One suggestion for improvement would be that the specifics of what data is collected and why would be a welcome addition to the Privacy Policy page, or perhaps a more detailed page that the PP links to. This would be something people could paste in public forums to refute incorrect statements... especially if the page was on mozilla.org instead of Medium.
Hah, to be fair I haven't had bacon in a long time. It'd be much easier for me to give up bacon if I know I can just have steak and eggs instead ;)

That would be the biggest hard no to veganism for me - lack of eggs. It's too critical for baking for me.
Have you heard of word mover’s distance? It works really well!
Re: your second and third points, they're donating directly to an already established bail fund that's been around for a few years and have seen 90% of the people they bail out show up to trial. The authors don't choose who the recipients are, but it seems the flight risk of the people selected is pretty low.
In Europe if you wan't to be a doctor and you were 19 you'd already be in first year of a specific medicine degree.
Hi HN, BoostARoota is a feature selection algorithm I developed in the spirit of Boruta to target specifically boosted tree machine learning classifiers. I presented this initially at the ODSC West conference in San Francisco a couple weeks ago.

Please take a look and give it a try, I'm open to feedback and how it can be made better.

Thanks!
Atom Teletype, discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704730
> Spambots aren't against Twitters ToS.

Hooooly shit, this explains so much.
Although I'm not sure it's something that can be manipulated for gain, I do think some people do better in different university environments.
They already have collaborative editing in their productivity apps, so they may have already poked at the idea.
Interesting theory, but they already started a pilot study in one village, and the results were nothing like that, so far. There seems to to be lots of local small business investment.

I also don't see anything about people moving in or out.

https://givedirectly.org/blog-post?id=1423924916713458127
Senate bill boosts taxes on stock sales
What if we take out the bail part and replace it with any charity?

Mining Monero for charity.

Thoughts?
The first and only time I heard about Oberon was when a fellow student told me quit his first CS degree.

"They taught us stuff like Oberon? Why not Java or C? I want to get a job later!"
I've used it on Java 8 projects. The VS Code Java extension reads regular Eclipse projects (.project, .classpath) and offers intellisense like completions, red squiggles etc. But that's basically it. I think there is also support for Mavens poms. What's lacking is the general refactorings, generating boilerplate (hashCode, setters, getters). It's too little for real work but it's surprisingly good so I'll keep evaluating it from time to time.
What does “cease providing” mean? Don’t you have the software? Isn’t the whole point of a standalone program that once you have it, the company can just go bust?
I was under the impression that Debian is in the process of moving to Pagure [1]. The reasons mentioned in the LWN article are not invalidated by Gitlab's announcement of dropping the CLA.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/724986/
Coding tutorials and product reviews in English by people who who don't normally speak English. So much respect for them too.
Is there anyone out there who does not associate Jim Cramer with "Bear Sterns is just fine"?
For the most part, they have barrier at entry in the form of evaluating against a different competitive pool of applicants and a different limited number of slots.
France. How are politicians incentivized to reduce welfare ?
Are there any other examples of this kind of surge happening?
Disagree. Insults are a problem if and only if they cause third parties to have unfairly* diminished regard for you.

To give a topical example, there does not appear to be any insult which affects Trump: if you hate him then the insults prove you right, but if you love him then the insults are just fake news.

* In some places and some eras, insulting Our Leader was punishable regardless of whether the insult was true. I think this is a bad law, and only falsehood-based defamation should be an offence — but even then there is a problem because humans treat lists of more than seven-ish items as endless and the internet’s perfect memory means you can probably show any given person has said or done more than seven socially unacceptable things.
I'd be tired of it if most of the people complaining about having a degree and not being able to get a job didn't major in something which is obviously not a good choice if you want to make money. What I am tired of is anyone suggesting that getting something like an Art History degree is a good idea for someone who doesn't already have enough money sitting around that they're not going to have to worry about their income. Pursuing your dreams is great and everything but not when you have to make the resulting poverty everyone else's problem.
Why was this downvoted? I didn't know anything about this, but it seems (in)credible:

"Mozilla pilots Cliqz engine in Firefox to slurp user browsing data"

"Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit," Mozilla says. "Cliqz uses several techniques to attempt to remove sensitive information from this browsing data before it is sent from Firefox."

http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-tests-cliqz-engine-whic...
So the average bail is $75? That seems extremely low, and if true, isn't there some sort of loan service that will lend those amounts to be repaid by the convict shortly after release?
Mining cryptocurrency today is extremely worthless, and you will spend much more on the hardware and power than the cryptocurrency you mine.
Christopher Tolkien resigns as director of Tolkien Estate
> Would you be any more capable to sell?

Quite possibly, yes.

Let's plug in some plausible numbers. Say someone buys a 3-bedroom house for $300k (they have kids). At the same time, 1-bedroom houses sell for $200k.

Time passes, the kids grow up and move out. Say house prices didn't change at all. You sell for $300k, buy for $200k, pay some agent fees, have $85k or so left over.

Now say prices went up and the 3-bedroom house is $1,500,000. You sell, have a $1.2e6 capital gain. $500k is deductible, you pay taxes on the remaining $700k. That's taxed at 20% federal plus the ACA 3.8% investment income tax (because your income is way over that boundary) plus state capital gains taxes. In California, capital gains are taxed the same as other income, at first glance; let's be charitable and assume you avoid the higher tax brackets (12.3%) and get taxed at an effective 10% here. That's 33.8% tax. So your after-tax sale proceeds are $500k + 0.662*$700k = $963k.

Note that your house went up in price by 5x. If the smaller one did too, it costs $1 million and you can't pay for it anymore. If it went up by more than that (e.g. if the primary inflation was in land prices, which it often is) you might be even more in the hole.

Things are even worse if you're trying to sell and buy something equivalent instead of downsizing.
There was a good dose of that, too, but there's also a good dose of that in 'honor' killings.

Our reaction was disproportionate, it did not go through proper legal channels (For reasons including them not really existing in the international sphere), the rhetoric used to enlist young men to fight these wars smelled heavily of it...
That is a great argument against the monoculture seen in some product categories.

If (almost) everyone runs Windows you’re safer if you run Linux.
Their infrastructure tracker has a lot of interesting info about the move[0]. You can also read through the development mailing list, it has a lot of discussion about the GitLab migration.

At GitLab we're tracking the blocking issues they've brought up in this issue[2].

[0]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Infrastructure/issues
[1]: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/
[2]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/35287
Regarding Teletype vs LiveShare, your statements aren’t fair based on what I’ve read. It appears the teams have been working in isolation. Also the MS team’s deadline was planned to coincide with the MS Connect conference. (Maybe Atom’s announcement was planned to coincide with QConSF?)
Why can't they both be bad? People who are racist are assholes. People who wield victimhood as a weapon are assholes. Neither of those groups are most people in their respective demographic.

Is this really such a difficult position to hold?
Different universities work differently in the US. Some have categories of majors, like UW [0], where some are free to declare but others have requirements/prerequisites.

[0]: http://www.washington.edu/uaa/advising/academic-planning/maj...
> a disproportionate number of MS shops

What breakdown of version control systems you seeing? If between a third and a half use GitLab I would love to know what the rest are using.
Does anyone know how to make the newtab screen dark? All the user styles seem not to work anymore?
Teams support has been released long time ago:
https://app-updates.agilebits.com/product_history/OPW6

And all our apps have bugs :)
In systems contexts "crash" means sigsegv or sigill (but not e.g. an intentional abort)

In non-systems contexts it can just mean "premature termination". Rust, having both kinds of programmers, uses .... both :)

So a Rust panic is a crash, but so is a Rust segfault, depending on who you talk to.

Generally I try to explicitly say "panic" and "segfault".
But the "U" in "UBI" stands for universal. In other words, UBI means everyone gets a basic income, not just the subset of everyone who currently receives welfare benefits. You get it whether you need it or not.

This distinction actually has political significance. One of the explanations that has been offered for why Social Security in the U.S. has proven so impervious to cutbacks or other political meddling is that it is universal in this sense as well; there's no maximum income at which you no longer receive Social Security benefits. This universality has helped Social Security escape the "for poor/minority/lazy people only" stigmas that peoples' prejudices attach to more selective welfare programs.

None of which is to say that you can't have a basic income project that isn't universal, of course; just that such a project is not a UBI.
I think Amazon is too big and too global for a couple deaths to really affect them at this point.
Speaking of space and planetary systems too far away to get to:

What's the current status of the EMDrive? Has it stalled? Is there a space-faring test due soon to see if it actually works in space?

It's seemed to have dropped off the news completely. (Reddit emdrive shows nothing of note.)
The comparison is between two genders in the same country, and not two different countries.
It wouldn't really fit with the PR narrative for them to just license IP from ARM, and they probably wouldn't develop nearly as much technical knowledge as they would developing the architecture themselves.

Aside, I hope my comment didn't seem too abrasive. It's hard not to get attached to something you work closely on most of your life.
yea and they're in the middle of a freaking coupe...maybe this is the only way to safely store/transport money in the region?
As opposed to attempts to make money, start wars (see “make money”), promulgate an ideology, win political points, gain power over a populace (Patriot Act), and just plain fear?
> preallocate

This will still use dynamic allocation to do the preallocation. You'll have a heap to track this which comes with its own overhead.
> If you’re only testing UBI on a small population, then 1) it’s not even universal, and 2) there will not be enough “beta testers” to (in)validate these criticisms.

Your point holds until history has proven who is right. Of course, any experiment on UBI that is constrained by a financial reality of whoever conducts the study needs to limit eligibility and therefore lose the proof of universality.

But: Do you have a better design for UBI experiments, given actual constraints?
See also: https://www.schneems.com/2016/08/16/sharp-tools.html
I had to drop Atom when it began launching white flashes when scrolling on a 2011 MBA. I saw that this was a recurring problem. Is that an issue that is being addressed?
If I might hijack this comment, I'd like to mention Snowdrift.coop as well, which is targeted at free/libre/open works. ("Disclaimer": I am a member of our fully volunteer team.)

Snowdrift.coop functions in a similar no-strings-attached style to Liberapay, but uses a unique donation model, called Crowdmatching, where the amount of the monthly donation is based on the number of patrons. The platform itself will be funded as a project on its own site (rather than taking a cut of donations), and will be run as a non-profit cooperative (getting governance set up is one of our top priorities right now, alongside a public launch; if anyone has experience/expertise and would like to help with this, please reach out).

The best introduction, although visually outdated, is probably the intro page on our wiki: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro/

I wish I had time to stick around and chat, but it's a busy time in my semester right now; there's a wealth of adfitional information on the wiki and there's usually people around in irc/matrix (#snowdrift on freenode / matrix.org; the rooms are bridged).
It would be interesting to see what would happen to Uber prices
The standards are lower there ;)
Chemical engineering as any engineering field requires rigorous studying and the jobs can be quite demanding (working in plants). It's not uncommon to start at $90k in an area like Houston where that can go a good way. The catch is you get sent all over the world to India...etc. This is for working at a place like Dow.
On paper notebooks -- I keep one, too, and I tried subject grouping which always failed for me within a few months.

I now write clearly visible headings and maintain chronological order. I often color code the headings: just underlining or highlighting the title with subject color makes it easy to find. Thid, with chronological order ingeneral, works well for me in lieu of a table of contents. YMMV.
This is exactly the kind of moralizing I meant
Does VSC have refactoring?
I can't register, because the "Register" tab on https://gitlab.gnome.org/users/sign_in doesn't work.

Issues (such as https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/json-glib/issues/26) show the initial message, but not the comments.

(I'm sure that's just tip of the iceberg.)
Have you tried the new devtools in the recent release? I've heard folks like them a lot more.
I have lost countless notebooks and other notes on paper. For those I haven't lost, I find it really hard to find what I'm looking for. I started consolidating my note-taking in google docs and haven't looked back.
Question: What data will be sent to the Microsoft servers? Lots of companies have very strict policies, most of them dont want their source code in any way at third parties.
Keeping notes and notebooks is a critical skill for any top-tier engineer. I love to share this quote for that very reason:

For this you keep a lab notebook. Everything gets written down, formally,
so that you know at all times where you are, where you’ve been, where you’re
going and where you want to get. In scientific work and electronics technology
this is necessary because otherwise the problems get so complex you get lost
in them and confused and forget what you know and what you don’t know and
have to give up.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
For XHR there's also an "edit and resend" button as well as "copy as cURL" which is amazing
If you need to perform a web-scale crawl I strongly recommend https://www.mixnode.com.
That would be nice. https://xkcd.com/927/
She was using a non-standard Apple charger. I have seen two of those blow up myself (as in the internal components were literally blown up, and the case was blackened). Assuming the cable was fried and the charger was in her bed, she would have been using an extension cord, which could itself electrocute her. There shouldn't be 220v output on the 5v output line, but those chargers are so crappy that anything is possible.

The only thing I don't get is why didn't the fuse blow?
> Relying on plant-based and artificial sources of protein is a recipe for disaster.

Protein is not the problem. Never has been. There are plenty of ways to get complete protein on a vegan diet.

But yes, there are often nutritional problems. My daughter tried really really hard to go vegan. She tried for a year and a half, doing all the right things, taking all the right supplements. She had to give it up. She started experiencing syncope (similar to a seizure) when falling asleep. Her LDL levels were too low. Her levels of various hormones were out of whack. Other essential nutrients were also low (we did blood testing to learn all of this). She now eats eggs, fish, and dairy, and takes fish oil. All her issues went away.

Some people have the genetic makeup to do well on a vegan diet. Many people do not, and no amount of supplementation will fix this.

Google for the many stories of ex-vegans whose experiences mirrored my daughter's. It's a difficult thing. I understand that many vegans are vegans for moral reasons, and it's very difficult to face the consequences of one's own genetic makeup. My daughter was angry at first, but has since come to peace with it.
Ask HN: What are you learning right now?
Can be anything. What are you currently learning?
The whole point of UBI is that markets are being manipulated as INDIRECTLY as possible. You aren't subsidizing people to not work (unemployment benefits), subsidizing people to work (minimum wage), subsidizing particular goods (housing, education loans) or inflating demand for a specific set of goods (food stamps).

You seem to be of the opinion that nothing can be done to eliminate poverty, so why even try?
UX Stamps for easy wireframing on paper
What software would you use to provide group voice chat for a screen share session? Discord?
How are sites going to trick the extension into believing the site is on a different domain?
> But I’m not sure societal issues need be debated there.

Then you'd better organize your workplace so you can tell your colleagues what they can and can't talk about, or believe is an important aspect of their work.

The line between ethics in the technology industry, and societal issues is likely not as bright as you think.

You may wish that there wasn't overlap, but that doesn't make it the case. Figuring these things out is difficult, but if we want technology to represent the intentions of technologists (not executives and venture capitalists) then it is incumbent upon us!
Seems like dotcom burst.
Sokra (of webpack) and I have hacked on a sourcemap visualizer which really illuminates exactly how the mappings work: https://paulirish.github.io/source-map-visualization/#raven

A few examples are available, but you can also drag in your own files to view those.
Imagine we had some hypothetical technology allowing us to send away a perfectly fine sleeper ship at the speed of the voyager probes. How would you decide on when to wake the crew? Ten years out, a hundred years out, a hundred thousand years out? "Exploring" the void is just pointless. Those poor souls could not even indulge themselves in the joys of flag-planting!
> and I don't get all the fuss with USB-A at all.

I don't get why people don't understand what the fuss is about.

external drives, external mice, external keyboards and USB drives. All of these are things that I or colleagues have/use on a regular basis. To spend north of $3k on a "pro" computer, but still get nickel and dimed to be able to use things that you could use 3 minutes before making 'the switch' is annoying/insulting/stupid. I'll go so far as to say had they even included a token C-A dongle in the box as a gesture... it would have been appreciated.

If only to do a backup/migration from an existing macbook, you very likely are going to be backing up to a non-usb-c device, and will need a connector just to do a migration.
Agree 100% about carefully considering consequences of crafting a skeleton key into our most prized technologies. The tech community, at least the most vocal subset in these parts, can keep pushing back against LE's cries for such a key, and it's clear there is merit to such an argument. It just seems to be somewhat provincial from a neutral perspective, however.

Taken from the "other side", it does not seem universally true that generally deployed strong, unbreakable encryption built into "secure" general-purpose commodity hardware is in the best interests of humanity going forward. It seems to be an open question. It was nice to see rational/objective/neutral discourse on HN in the past that considered all sides. But, such a universal perspective seems to be missing of late, and the more recent parochial attitude seems a natural form of pushback, given the current chaos. Hopefully good comes of this.

"Snow Dawg" is currently partaking in thoughtful discussion arguing against NSA's policies on his twitter, if anyone is interested.
Those numbers seem low. 90th percentile for computer science shows under 5 million which if we assume a 40 year career and even pay throughout one's career (to make it easy), they would make under $125,000 a year.

Fresh new grads at big companies make more than that and they employ a lot of people.
Typescript is great at catching bugs which would trickle down to the end user