skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of how much it is to Thiel, the amount of the gift relative to the rest of the person's political fundraising matters.

For such a significant amount questions about quid pro quo arise, and even if the quid pro quo is determined to be ethical/legal, there is still the question of whether an non-constituent should be able to influence a race to such a degree.

Pretending like a gift of a few hundred thousand dollars is anything like the maximum $2,700 donation that can be made to a congressperson for the purposes influencing them is silly.
Agricultural genomics: Feeding a growing, hungry world
The volume today was over $4 billion. Let's say you'd need 5% of that to move the market enough for people to take notice. (Given the large volatility, this actually seems conservative) Are you suggesting that there are people who are regularly buying and selling more than $200 million worth of cryptocurrency a day?
> Do people actually use satellite imagery other than to appreciate how cool is to look at one's house from above?

Definitely! I used it when trying to find a good spot to view the recent eclipse - I wanted to find an open place that would not be obstructed by buildings, trees or mountains. I've used it to understand better how water drains through my community and across my property.

> Reviews are mostly around average 3 stars for most places.

That is exactly what I'd expect!

> Because there are two types of revies

That seems to be hyperbole.

> Automatic re-routing is good. Especially with traffic information. However it is miserable where there are unknown closed roads.

That's definitely true. Paper maps would not have this information either. In a worst-case scenario, you could use a Google Map like a paper map - disable routing and trying to plan a route manually!
I opened the same exact tabs in both FF57 and Chrome (7 each) and sorted by memory usage in Activity Monitor. When adding up the main task and helpers, FF57 used significantly more.
All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
Yes I think we're mainly using "first class" to mean different things, but we can both agree that Rust and Go have both been designed very carefully around concurrency :)
How did you define custom containers? I only see the 4 defaults of personal, work, banking, shopping.
Yes and it's color coded so you know what container each tab is associated to. By default all tabs are in the default container. You can long-press the + tab icon to select what container the new tab belongs to (I believe this is FF58+ only) or File > New Container Tab > Select Container. Here's a screenshot of two AWS Management console tabs with 2 different containers.

https://i.imgur.com/1gtX1Om.png
Cool, I signed up for updates and left my use case in the comments.

edit: grammar
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
> “If generating money out of thin air by using a computer program seems absurd, that’s because it is,”

Erh, this is literally how every bank does it when they extend a loan.
That’s the one! Thank you!
I switched yesterday from Chrome to FF 57 on my MBP 2014. Chrome was faster, but now FF is the clear winner. On Windows, I have been using FF for the past 10 years. Also, Firefox Sync is just amazing.
Disclosure: I work for AgileBits, makers of 1Password

Making extensions cross browser can still be a bit difficult. Our focus here was to get something readily available for a browser that was in high demand on platforms that we were getting a lot of requests for (Linux and Chrome OS).

I believe browser support will expand over time with this extension, it's just that we didn't want multiple browsers slow our progress or prevent us from doing cool new things.

Give it some time and I anticipate we'll see browser support expand.

Kyle

AgileBits
Did they do an actual test/sample before prescribing th medication or just take a guess?

Congratulations on escaping all those terrible symptoms!
I never left FF so picked 57 up as a normal update. Love everything about it so far except the new theme which is taking me longer than I'd like to adjust to (not a big fan of the dark blue/cobalt menubar).
Firefox was my first choice ever since it came out, but I stopped using it when it got unstable a few years ago (even on a brand new macbook!). I've been using nightly for about a month with no crashes, so I'm mostly happy with it. Sometimes it goes crazy with CPU and I have to close a few tabs. I'm still using Chrome as well, for now.
You can't confiscate a brain wallet
I've been on FF Nightly for the last couple of months but recently switched back to Safari. On a MacBook 12" (i5) Firefox did terrible things to the battery life and generated enough heat that I'd often find the CPU throttling.

Neither Safari or Chrome have the same issues. I haven't really tried FF since the nightly jumped to 59 but I keep it updated and occasionally check to see whether this has been fixed.
I rely on Chrome and Google's integration. I'm pretty sure I would catch on fire if I try to change...

ps: I use both, chrome for personal stuff and FF for work.
That was great, I'd love to see a full blown HN discussion on it rather than just a subthread... this part jumped out at me:

> I see this as a real danger even if - especially if - we eventually succeed in meeting everyone's needs. In a society where everyone is continually satisfied, the growth of an egocentric world-view is all but guaranteed. Just look at how easily things that were wild utopian fantasies or fabulous luxuries a few decades ago have become "rights" in contemporary American society. In a society where instant gratification is the norm, any obstruction of the will, however trivial, will be seen as a direct personal assault. The more routine gratification becomes, the less able to cope with interruptions people will become...

I agree and feel like this can at least partially explain the rise of PC, identity politics and the culture war.
That's why you don't spend it. You save it.

See Their's Law, good money drives out bad.[0] People will hodl Bitcoin and spend fiat, driving up the price of BTC in terms of fiat until it absorbs some significant portion of global currency value. There are only 21 M coins; a deflationary crypto currency isn't for buying coffee or micro-payments.

It is displaying similar qualities to Gold in countries where governments have debased the currency.

[0] http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/speculative-attack/
There are multiple companies doing this. Check out TenX and Monaco for example.
Disclosure: I work for AgileBits, makers of 1Password

I posted this elsewhere, just pasting here since it's the same question/concern and gets the same answer :)

Making extensions cross browser can still be a bit difficult. Our focus here was to get something readily available for a browser that was in high demand on platforms that we were getting a lot of requests for (Linux and Chrome OS).

I believe browser support will expand over time with this extension, it's just that we didn't want multiple browsers slow our progress or prevent us from doing cool new things.
Give it some time and I anticipate we'll see browser support expand.

Kyle

AgileBits
To enable it in FF57 you have to enable the options in about:config (I believe it's enabled by default in FF58). Go to about:config in your browser and enable the following flags: 1) privacy.userContext.enabled and 2) privacy.userContext.ui.enabled

Once they are enabled, you can create under Settings > General > Tabs > Settings
Yes, I believe I got that.

My point is that I don't agree. I think the US system "gives you way more options" because students aren't specializing so early.

Why should you focus on your major though all of college, to the (near) exclusion of other topics?

While I look at the sample schedules at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Germany#Timetable... and wonder about all the time wasted in religious studies.
Nice! Would be interesting to have sites accept payments from librapay accounts, so it can be used as an alternative to paypal too (without the fees!)
Arrogance and crude humor are intrinsically, by its very definition, "offensive".
I think the core contention here is that, at the end of the day, you are better off because of rising housing prices. You're complaining about transnational prices on your massive amount of equity while brushing aside the fact that you have such a massive amount of equity because of the real estate market.
Well, one of the people in the scenario uses tab characters, not spaces.
I'm wondering how long it will be until Revolut fully commit to supporting BTC on their cards.
Me! I have been running nightly for the past couple of months and it is really good. I use uBlock, Res, Ghostery and Imagus. I use Compact and Dark UI mode and it seems more compact than chrome. Also I noticed it consumes a lot less memory, but CPU is 50/50 I'd say. One thing that I find a bit weird is that I find that some Google services work worse, like YouTube eats more CPU than on chrome when it is not maximized and sometimes my connections to google time out for seemingly no reason.
They should really accept multiple cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is too slow now with the blocks full. At least Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash should be considered.
This is a counter-example to the tired meme that crypto-currencies are only a benefit for criminals.
The problem is the extreme inefficiency of the trade-off. That electricity is probably being converted to Bitcoin at a much worse exchange rate than a large miner would get, so we are essentially wasting electricity in order to give the donor a better story than giving directly.
Understood, but this isn't a founder pointing out that they have chosen this life, this is an investor (by definition has a profit motive) in an educational context (startup school) saying that founders can't be successful and that they shouldn't even try (question was "how do you know if you have what it takes?") unless they sacrifice everything else in their life for the business.

It's the difference between a priest or a nun following what they believe is their life's calling and a televangelist promising their audience blessing if only they'll sacrificially give their life savings as offering.

It's also worth pointing out that Ron Conway (as far as I can tell) was never actually a founder himself. He's not had to take his own advice. To be fair, I'm not familiar with all the details of his life, so maybe I'm mis-characterizing.

I've spent a good portion or my career working with and for startups and small businesses, so I'm not just against them on principle, but this advice, coming from this source really feels off to me in the same way that as a Christian televangelists feel disturbing and off.
Meteorites.
Nice! I never knew this existed. This will make my life easier using sites that don't really have multiple account management.
First, I want to clarify: You and I may be thinking of "static" somewhat differently (maybe I misused the term). I'm not thinking of e.g. HN as static in the sense of unchanging over time, actually it constantly changes in response to user interactions. But when I personally visit a page on HN, the page I receive mostly "static" in the sense of essentially serving me a set of text, not responding dynamically to my actions (except a little bit in the case of HN).

Second, fair enough with regards to your work experience, but for me, most sites I visit are just serving text/images/video, not interactive or barely interactive.
This has just convinced me to try it.
> It doesn't even have market makers or any real rules yet.

Blatantly false -- you clearly don't monitor crypto exchange order books full time (I do). Even most small-cap altcoins have active market makers running 24/7 for ALT/BTC, ALT/ETH and ALT/USD (where supported).

> But in such a tiny volume entity like bitcoin, any large player can easily move markets.

Do you know from experience? There are some extremely low market cap altcoins -- you should give it a try. I do not think manipulating markets for any length of time is as easy as sideline commenters seem to believe, and it certainly is difficult to make it profitable.

Also note that many of the highest market share Bitcoin investors were early crypto enthusiasts or wealthy venture-cap-type investors, not professional/active traders. If and when there is concerted market manipulation with hundreds of millions behind it, these early adopters are certainly taking heavy losses.
I don't think it has switchable video cards and I'm not sure how I would find out. I've never taken it apart.

I've never had an issue with WiFi.
Or you can install the multi-account containers add-on in FF57: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
I mean, in every modern country you have the right to someone elses time and labor. Most places have socialized medicine, literal usage of someones elses time for free and compensated by society as a whole, you use roads you didn't directly pay for, etc.

In a lot of places you can (or used to) get free water. Literally other peoples work for free.

Almost all the structural parts of modern society are built on providing people with services for free that come from the tax pool. You can even, depending on country, get free housing through poverty programs!

But in general, modern states exist in part to forcibly take from some to give to others by the whims of the majority. They all do it. "Public" housing is just another proposition in that spectrum of policies.

But specifically:

> according to who?

Currently them, but if it were according to most in most democracies that would mean it would eventually become law.

> What entity is coercing the 'should' in that sentence?

States, as with all other legal uses of force.

> What law of nature says that housing should be free?

No law of nature says property rights exist (especially intellectual property), but we make those up to establish civilization.

You can definitely be ideologically opposed to those ideas! But their existence shouldn't be a surprise, humans have been establishing radically different rules of society for millennia from one another, and seeing someone on the Internet propose something you find far out should be expected!
Disclosure: I work for AgileBits, makers of 1Password

We've already announced that 1Password 7 for Mac will be available via standalone licenses, and 1Password 7 for Windows will offer standalone vaults and be available via a standalone license model.

So nothing is changing in that regard. Our 1Password.com is the default solution we send our users to but standalone vaults are an option for those that wish to continue down that path.

Kyle

AgileBits
I'm not sure roughing it in a balloon would be the my idea of a good time once the novelty wore off.

What if the small balloons were the size of a Las Vegas resort, and the average ones where something like Manhattan?

I wonder if there'd be some tangible benefit to colonizing Venus for adventurous entrepreneurial types... "There's gold in and/or on them thar clouds!"

The society that might arise in an entirely fluid, borderless geography might have a certain attraction. Venus might wind up being the next Las Vegas, writ large in the 21st century.

With floating cities, the idea of a space elevator isn't that crazy. What could we do with space elevators on Venus?

You could have ultra-high altitude balloons that can act as staging centers for rotorvators. Those would be way cheaper than space elevators to manufacture.
> Bitcoin is too big for a few "whales" to have a sizable effect on major price trends

But small enough to have miner pools controlling 50% of the hash rate.
Switched yesterday, so far loving it! My objection to Chrome was mostly on principle (anti-Google), so it's nice that there's a performance-based reason to switch to Firefox as well.

Though I just ran into a problem that reminded me of why I stopped using Firefox in the first place: I used xdg-open a lot (in Emacs), and Firefox tries to supplant that whole functionality. It advertises itself as being able to open pretty much every file under the sun, and then prompts you to choose an application to actually use to open the file.

I wasn't asking you, Firefox, I was asking xdg-open.
>>“What I can tell you in broad strokes is that Jihadi sympathy is rising in the area. With any luck you might just spot the ISIS flag being flown in the open,”

Like you said, that area is virtually 100% Catholic, but in all areas, police are MERCILESS with such things. Free speech takes a backseat.

>>“As far as advice goes, when you touch down get a decent knife and keep it on you.”)

Yeah, a woman with a knife. Anything can happen, and crimes of opportunity do happen, but she'll probably be 10 times safer than walking at night in average dangerous US city. For one, anyone touching a tourist--and they have--will be hunted down. He'll end up with bruises for resisting arrest :)
You know, I think LinkedIn actually has a point that blocking certain scrapers is in the interest of their users' privacy. Of course, they are really just trying to stifle a competitor (glad the judge called them out on it) but I still think they should have a right to block scrapers at will.
Exactly my scheme! You are going at about the same rate too: I’m on about page 1500 since 2009.

My one difference is that I don’t keep my notebooks. I scan them then discard the originals. I’ve got so much material hoarded that the only way I can afford the storage is to keep digital copies only.
They buy more expensive homes than they need (or stay in the one that housed a family of four way after their kids have moved out) and pay off the mortgage. That's "saving" for retirement; they expect to get the money they've payed on their mortgage back when they sell it. Some practically only pay off the interest because we can do generous deductions off it and we have low demands of paying off the principal (or at least we used to have, now the Department of Finance is advising the government to require that banks make higher demands of paying back the principal) and why should I pay off the mortgage in full if the property prices always go up? At least that's the reasoning.

I have nothing against paying off your loan, but seeing it as your one and only retirement investment is something I have serious problems with. You should live where you are most comfortable living, I don't want people speculating in their homes on a casual basis "knowing" it always pays off. If you're going to really invest in your home, renovate a floor and rent it out. That way, you're contributing to the economy, you're not just speculating you're value investing and you know what the revenue stream of your investment really is. I had the privilege of growing up in a wealthy household with 7 bedrooms and after me and my brother moved out my parents decided three rooms was enough and converted the house into three apartments, living in one and renting out the other two.

Many of the neighboring families however don't like the idea since it means work, but they also don't want to move into something that won't grow as much over time. They're staying put even after the kids have moved out in hopes of cashing in right before retirement.
You know there's a light theme you can switch to in Customize mode, right?
Competition.

Crypto markets, although slow, don't have companies worth billions of dollars and thousands of employees trading.

There are actually windows that can stay open for minutes at a time, rather than seconds or milliseconds.
How else can money be created except through credit?
Is there also a proxy/VPN support per container? That would be stellar :)
True for some altcoins, but not Bitcoin. You can see the hash rates here: https://blockchain.info/pools

And even then, most pools are largely decentralized and heterogeneous -- controversial political/technical changes by the pool owner would absolutely trigger an exodus of hashrate from the pool. (As happened during the BTC/BCH fork.)
Ah, got it. I use Nightly; there's a Container Tabs > Settings page in Preferences. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Should I get out my tinfoil hat or is it more likely that Chrome is just taking advantage of optimizations that other browsers don't have access to or knowledge of.
I'm pretty sure he/she was talking about me. :-)
My kids are into her and I like it enough to watch with them sometimes. At first I rolled my eyes (mostly at the baby talk), after a few videos I was impressed. Now having watched dozens of them, I'm really amazed at her combination of creativity, artistic skills, attention to detail, and the massive amount of labor she must put into everything from test recipes to social media marketing. I barely cook and am uninterested in pop-culture but she is weirdly an inspiration to me.
> For poorer countries even $2-5 could be a well significant amount. One can probably have a meal for that money.

Or ten... You're a little out of touch for whom you speak for.
Have you tried OrgMode? I find it sufficient for most needs.

Especially with Org-Babel you can develop and document scripts at the same time. Give it a shot if you haven't before.
oh yeah, i'm definitely not expecting an on the spot explanations of every single thing, but eventually i'd like an insight in to why something was rejected (if it's a major thing), 'tis all. That can be later on in the week or when appropriate, or after fires are out or whatever.

Not saying there needs to be consensus (i.e: I agree), I don't necessarily have to agree with every single thing I've been asked to do in order to do it, sometimes a job's a job.

When I was composing that post I was thinking at a relatively coarse level of a previous experience (which to be fair is at a different level to the original article).
I switched about a month or so ago once Nightly hit 57. I have to say I love the speed and performance of it.
It's been years that I abandoned Chrome ;) Was using Safari mainly and Firefox for web dev purposes. But FF 57 impressed me so much that I switched a couple of days ago, moving all my bookmarks, history, plugins etc to FF. Goodbye Safari, hello FF. :)
Firefox has a read mode for this. It displays only the relevant content, in a very eye-friendly font. It does not look very pretty in that mode, but it very easy to read. I love this feature.
We might have to switch to double-hulls, with the outer section filled with hydrogen. That would be concerning in an atmosphere with appreciable free oxygen, but I suppose you have a plan for that.
I really, really wanted to switch, but I saw that switching tabs with mousewheel (which can be done in Chrome and most other Linux apps) is still not possible, and the Tab Wheel Scroll extension, which I previously used to work around the issue, is no longer compatible.

So Firefox is unfortunately an unusable web browser for me :/
I can't, relying heavily on google docs and google keep lately.

I have been browsing with FF 57, Chrome still feels faster to me.
...PH?
This is an interesting topic, but it would be nice to see a sample of the report in the README or elsewhere.
I switched from Opera to Firefox with Firefox 56. Firefox 57 is just amazing -- although I had to go and kill all of that pocket bullshit.
It does.

So if you purchase a subscription, you'll sign into an account for 1Password in the app. The presence of an active account (one that's in paid status, or trial) will unlock the standalone licensed portion of the application. So you can freely use those features to your hearts content.

At least, that's how it works for Mac and iOS. I contribute to those teams specifically on the development side so I'm most familiar there, I'm not sure I know enough about Android to comment there and be accurate. If you need to know about Android I can find out though. Regarding Windows, not currently because version 6 is 1Password.com only, however, version 7 will add standalone vaults and a traditional license model, I anticipate it will copy our Mac application but until it ships I can't guarantee anything.

Kyle

AgileBits