skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keyword searches have become unreliable in Quantum for me; it often goes to the homepage of the search site instead. If this affects you too please file a bug report, thanks!
> being noisy accomplishes a little

And a bunch of people being noisy accomplishes a surprising amount, if you can be noisy in the right channels.
None of the sites where I've been using U2F works.

Some/many sites are sniffing the user agent.

And as far as I have googled, there may be a bug in Mozilla's implementation (or maybe a different interpretation of the standard) that they are currently fixing.
Any comments on the cliqz experiment? Sending visited URLs doesn't sound very careful.
As I understand the elongated shape has only been determined based on the light curve. I'm guessing this assumes no big changes in albedo along the surface. It might actually be a much more round object with one light and one dark side. Iapetus is an example of an object with such coloration.
With Uber I considered a 4 to be "nothing wrong", and reserve 5 for "amazing service above and beyond".

However it seems that drivers who have an average of say "4.2", despite being perfectly fine and giving above and beyond service 1 in 5 times, gets kicked off. This means that 5 is acceptable and there's no way to mark above acceptable.

I'm odd, I don't expect every trip I get to be above average. That's clearly not possible.
I wouldn't do that right now.

It's available, and it works for some sites (Github), but not Duo or Google or most sites.

The reason behind this isn't Firefox's fault, Google has a js u2f library that they've written that relies on implementation specific details. It's not easy for Firefox to switch over to that particular unspecced behavior, nor should it, really, so you need to wait for Google to fix it and consumers to pull it in.

Usually the effect of this is that yubikey login doesn't work on some sites, however a couple weeks ago it went to the level that GMail login didn't work at all; it would log you in and show the progress bar and get stuck there (without even throwing up a JS error)
I'm surprisingly sympathetic to idea of nationalizing the internet, but the paragraph about "deregulation in general is bad" seriously baffles me. Not only because taking a principled stance on "regulation as a whole" is abhorrently coarse for me, but they specifically reference the airline industry -- and then links to an article talking about how good deregulation was? -- without blinking an eye or realizing that a vast majority of people view the 1978 airline deregulation as an obviously good thing.

I'm now slightly less convinced that nationalizing the internet would be a good thing.
What password manager do you recommend?
What does the Condé Nast CMS have to do with Chromecast (or other bits of Chrome branding strategy)?
Raise your hand if you want to spend your free time writing that
Sure, I think the initial reason was a cleaner codebase and BSD licensing. Feature-wise I doubt that it would matter for 90% of the users, but then again, probably a lot for 1% (who really like one particular feature a lot).

I generally set up both the same way and sometimes even forget what I'm currently using.
I managed to remember the first 18 elements of the list.

On a more relevant note, it's easier to remember a large number of things when they're related to each other in meaningful ways. So the results of this little memory test aren't very good predictors of your ability to remember things in a real-world setting.
Kudos to Mozilla for the new Firefox. I really like it!

Though I'm quite sure I won't switch from Safari, since I don't want to exercise my fans anymore. Tried Firefox Quantum and it really feels fast, but it's still on top of my "significant energy" battery list. When I think about it it would be really hard to beat a native GUI browser with something made for cross-platform, so I feel a bit desperate.
Decent gaslighting attempt, but no.

This is not paranoia, scummy software developers have actually sent much more than crash reports. And crash reports may contain private information anyway.

Before anyone says Mozilla is different: http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-tests-cliqz-engine-whic...
> Conventional wisdom has been that private industry is better equipped to handle things than the government. Deregulation has been the agenda of baby boomer conservatives. And it has failed. It has failed the environment. It has failed the airline industry. It has failed education. It will fail the internet.

The biggest trend in administrative law over the last few decades has been reductions in the degree to which the government micro-manages the economy. In both the U.S. (with bi-partisan support) and the EU, industries have been privatized, invasive regulatory regimes have been replaced with light-touch ones, etc. Germany energy law post-1998, for example, is pretty recognizable to someone familiar with American energy law. There was a time when the government either owned major industries, or micro-managed things like the routes airlines or trucking companies ran and the prices they charged. Pretty much the whole developed world has agreed to get rid of most of that.

By and large, these reforms have been overwhelmingly successful. In the U.S. and EU, you can go almost anywhere and get a 4G mobile wireless connection, using networks built almost entirely with private money. UPS and FedEx--and services like Amazon built on them--are the direct outgrowth of the deregulation of air freight. Consumer airline ticket prices are a fraction of what they were a few decades ago (even though airline technology has evolved very little in that time!).

If you look at hiccups like wireless data caps or airline seats getting smaller as signs that deregulation has "failed," frankly you're off the reservation. Just look at areas of the economy that haven't been subject to deregulation. Some of the worst environmental effects are caused by public water utilities, which have for decades failed to make investments to improve their infrastructure. In most places, public water utilities freely dump untreated sewage into rivers when obsolete combined sewer/rainwater systems overflow, they poison kids by pumping water through ancient lead pipes, etc.

Re-regulation and nationalization is on peoples' tongues here in the U.S., but I'd suggest looking over the pond to see what they're doing. How did Sweden wire up its country with fiber? It wasn't through massive government investment, or by forcing private companies into the charity business through universal service obligations. Stockholm empowered to municipal operator to lay dark fiber, with no government subsidies and no mandate to cover any particular portion of the population: https://www.stokab.se/Documents/Stockholms%20Stokab%20-%20A%.... The network was built out not based on "public interest" considerations or trying to fight urban poverty, but simply by building in a demand-driven basis to high-value customers first.

And unlike the U.S., Sweden didn't wire up rural areas by forcing private operators to subsidize rural customers. Instead, it simply gave rural residents a 50% tax break on the cost of hooking up their own fiber: http://www.ftthcouncil.eu/documents/Opinions/2013/Rural_FTTH....
Non-flippant answer, in case this question is genuine: there are no laws against what any individual banker did, or else there is insufficient evidence to prosecute the bankers under any law they hypothetically broke. Not so with this engineer.
I'm still extremely sad that Firefox OS was sidelined and Mozilla appears to be permanently stuck on "faster browser tech" instead of innovating on open standards where it actually matters (like mobile phones, social data standardization, etc).
Do you remember the monopoly ATT "ma bell" when a long distance call to friends or family was so expensive that it was reserved for emergencies or very special occasions?

Maybe they weren't actively hostile in their pricing but compared to today when you can talk to anyone in the world for no cost, it's not something I'd want to return to.
How about sending the URLs you visit? This could actually happen to you, since you likely live in Germany based on your comments: http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-tests-cliqz-engine-whic...
Why does that not apply to development in general? Or perhaps you find it does?

While "if I understand the steps which got me here, than I understand where I am" may not be guaranteed (especially if you don't know where you started from), it is almost always among the more effective ways to proceed (though it is not particularly helpful if you don't know where you are going.) It can help avoid getting lost, which is one of the reasons for doing development incrementally.

There is no way in which I can see that turning a salamander into a horse has anything to do with refactoring.
Why don't you file a bug report?
We've asked you many times not to post unsubstantive, inflammatory political comments, so we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it is more that many of the safari folks work at a hardware company where people will file bugs and show up at their offices if need be when battery life is affected for said hardware.
We’re killing each other with Pokemon Go
I think they are burying the lede, and being a little disingenuous with the big "Get Started, It's Free" button.

we will be introducing subscription-based pricing when RememBear leaves the public beta phase.

https://help.remembear.com/customer/en/portal/articles/28907...

A non-subscription product would be one thing that would get me to move off 1password.
That last line of yours is so very true. Whenever i find myself going down the rabbit hole i pick up the nearest relevant academic text and just speedread the relevant chapter to tailor my search doe relevant readymade solutions.

Developer life is like googlefu xtreme edition
> So, give it some time before using the browsers (currently only Chrome) extension. Virtually all other password managers had security issues here.

Do you have a source for that? We are currently using teampasswordmanager.com and I was wondering if there are any known security issues I have not heard about.

Altgough the author refused to provide the sourcee, I had a look at the Chrome Extension anyway, but any additional info would be great.
It's not a bug in Mozilla's implementation.

Google has a JS u2f library that relies on an implementation specific detail of Chrome's U2F impl. Lots of folks use this library.
To design your software perfectly requires to know the future. You want the things that will change flexible and the rest simple. In practice, you will not hit the sweet spot and either over-engineer too much or hardcode too much (or both in different parts).
Yes, I meant “random errors to DNA”. I don’t think they have quantum nature. So the problem is how good you can reproduce environment. I can see no obstacles why we can’t solve this problem.
Baby stem cells are freezing for future use. It is real. it happens now. BTW, you can get exact DNA copy in case of IVF if you think it is crucial.
I don't know much about that. I'm talking about Firefox in particular.

Edit: Ah, this is a part of Firefox. It looks like they're using some crypto/privacy features such that "aggregation is not technically feasible".

Strongly blinding stuff that way isn't new; e.g. the safe browsing stuff uses differential privacy.
Why is this downvoted? is there something wrong with KeePassX?
Not migrate to python, migration away from Rails. I'm suggesting Python as an alternative to Rails to start with.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/16079/airliners-and-f-1...

In the story they said they were having a hard time tracking it with radar
What? 1+2+3+4+5+6+7 = 28. 28 / 7 = 4. So 4 is both the midpoint and the mean?
Offtopic: 'ciao' doesn't mean only 'goodbye' as the author seems to imply given the title.
It means both 'hello' or 'goodbye'. It is similar to the Hawaiian 'aloha' when used as a greeting.
What if they merge? Then what?
>And look at where semis actually park when they're taking their 30 minute and 11 hour breaks

and you believe either the Trucking companies, the Regulators, or Telsa give a shit what works for Actual Human Truckers....

Telsa is looking ahead to full automation anyway so humans are seen as a inconvenience, and if they make it hard on Truckers that will just give them addition ammo for any concerns regulator have in replacing Truckers with Automation. To these companies The fact that is might be hard for Truckers to find a Charging station that falls in line with Hour of Service rules just proved we need to eliminate the humans
Learning Ruby would give you a big leg up over starting from scratch learning Python.

I don't know if you are familiar with any programming languages at all, but many skills translate cross-language...the paradigms are the same. Particularly with Ruby & Python which are very similar languages. They're good at the same things, by and large.

Taking your Ruby skills over to Python will be a matter of "google: [python thing] in ruby".

For a specific example, Python has a unique thing called "list comprehensions". Using that google string you can get some great ideas about replicating that functionality in Ruby.

Anyway, on a grander scale, picking up new languages is the easy part of programming--even when they're not so similar.

Best of luck!
It reminds me of Phoenix (to become Firefox), and how much of an improvement it was over the Mozilla browser. It makes me wonder where things went wrong, as I recall the Firefox of ~2005 being snappier than the one of ~2015. The only discrete drop in performance that I can remember was the addition of the AwesomeBar (which was worth it, but it really annoyed me at the time that just typing in an address became sluggish). Of course, my memory about these things could be completely wrong, and in any case web 2.0 gradually took over and websites accreted JavaScript faster than the hardware could improve, so comparing today with 10-15 years ago isn't really fair... Well, congrats to the Firefox developers, because it really is a pleasure to use again.
Other countries don’t have an entire political party who sees it as their mandate to sabotage all government social services.
And free smokes in jail!
I agree on the cleaner code, but I actually prefer the screen license.
KeePass, pass, PasswordSafe, KeePassXC, bitwarden, enpass
You can easily see how well the reality matches your forecasts by going back to 2007. Did the masses of unemployed people seem happy to be freed from the burden of "overspending"?

> how about a stable money supply with very low (if any) injection of money by the government?

Majority of money supply in existence is some form of debt. I have $1000 cold hard cash, I put it in a bank and the bank then lends it someone else. Now there are $2000 in existence. Central banks don't and can't control this process directly. This is the vast majority of money out there. The amount that CBs prints is really tiny in comparison. In fact they are aiming at exactly what you suggest - some relatively low inflation rate but they tend to overshoot because they can't get the precise inflation rate they want and undershooting makes the process much harder to control.
The fact that money is debt is exactly the reason you're now seeing inflation in US, even though the Fed stopped printing money long ago. Now they'll be starting to reduce money supply but you'll continue to see inflation rise until some sort of equilibrium is reached or (more likely) next bust comes. The money printing is supposed to act as a sort of confidence boost in recession/depressions but now that confidence is back, the money supply is growing and growing even though money printing has stopped.
Shows available on Netflix depend on location.
Phone numbers are 11 digits long, usually split into 5 and 6, but sometimes 4/7 or 3/8, and even 6/5 and 7/4.

Not that anyone remembers phone numbers nowadays.
Telecom is like health care. What we have now combines all the worst things about a private system with all the worst things about a state run system.
If you use keepass the you can export your passwords from Chrome in there and then use that for both Firefox and Chrome
Not yet. The idea is to squeeze the edrive into a small device, that can be attached to any bike in 3-5 seconds (no tools or skills required). Drop me a line, if interested: quickandslow80 at gmail_com.
To be fair though, as per the report all of these "Critical" vulnerabilities were fixed by mid-2017. So they're listening, at least.
I'll take the bait and explain why I'm downvoting you.

The parent posts had literally nothing to do with left vs right. It has to do with accepting the results of misinformation campaigns, and post-factum not taking steps to revert malign legislation.

Even in the case that I give you the benefit of the doubt in that you're taking "pro-net-neutrality" to be in some way left-leaning, the bulk of the arguments I've read fall into the "empiricism" bucket rather than "partisanship," either citing precedent of negative outcomes (portugal) or the industry's proven inability to self-regulate (local monopolies ala comcast, fights against municipal broadband, etc).

I'm also somewhat entertained that maintaining a competitive business landscape has somehow become "leftist." To my mind that's very pro-small-business/free market to prohibit large entities from soley dominating a market and legislating protective walls; even Reagan took an aggressive antitrust stance; this not even touching on that internet looks a lot more like a utility necessary for "survival" in a modern world than a good nowadays.
Government interference is precisely the cause of our high medical costs (for instance, what do you think would happen to the price of Doritos if the government required everyone to purchase one bag of Doritos every week?).

Second to that is the government interference in farming (specifically, corn subsidies, which have led to an increase of corn products our food, resulting in higher inflammation levels in humans and the animals we eat, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, etc.).

IOW, more government == more worse
Better healthcare outcomes? I think you mean access: For example, the NHS looks very good until you realise that the rankings include access; Based on case-by-case outcome alone, it ranks relatively poorly - certainly less than most people would guess.

The US government spends about the same on healthcare as others do, the difference is in the amount of private healthcare spending.
I feel OK talking about the audit report, the basics of security for password managers, and the dynamics of using an audit report to market a product, and I feel OK talking about what my preferred password manager is, but it occurred to me I wasn't psyched about doing both on the same thread.

It's not hard to figure out, but it's not a conversation I want to have on this thread. Thanks in advance!
It hasn't been receiving improvements or maintenance for almost two years, and as a result, it has been forked and is actively developed by a different team under the name of KeePassXC. So nothing inherently wrong with KeePassX but you need to be aware that it is almost abandoned at this point and that there is a better alternative
If structural engineering were a relaxed and informal field with a lot of trial and error and no entry requirements, your example we be a good one.
I "learned" RxPy in a couple hours yesterday (a 3rd party lib I'm using has an interface that requires me to use them), and I figure I'll share a bit about my experience:

1) the documentation is supremely lacking (subjects aren't even mentioned in the RxPy repo https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPY)

2) the generic documentation points to language specific documentation – that's 80% just "TBD" (http://reactivex.io/documentation/subject.html)

3) it's actually quite simple once you figure out it's just code level pub/sub with a new naming convention.

4) there seem to be some opinionated perspectives around using it in the community, though largely from a JS perspective (look into "should I use subjects").

Despite those flaws, I've found it pretty accessible, and I'll actually switch out some home-grown code for it.

[edit] I noticed some other comments complaining about execution handling (threads, etc.) so I figured I'd update this and say, maybe I got lucky as it's all pretty straightforward in Python (as long as you understand your app's execution environment (threads, asyncio, etc.) -> https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPY#schedulers
Unless it's a Pickelhaube.
I tend to remember 3 things when it comes to things like shopping or tasks. Add a fourth and I usually end up getting something wrong or forgetting it.
Has anybody alleged that the private key was stolen or cracked? Can you cite anything at all or is this just conspiracy theory?
When people want something nationalized, it usually comes with the asterisk *as long as the gov officials managing it are part of my tribe and preferred policy set. This isn't always bad, since sometimes we all are in general agreement, but it's important to ask yourself: in political systems power can shift fast, do you want these policies to be part of this shift? Do you want the internet to be managed by trump appointees?
I use [https://syncthing.net/](Syncthing) because it's serverless, works on various Linuxes and Android, pretty easy to set up, and I trust it.

I trust it because I can get it from 3rd-party repos — Debian, Fedora, F-Droid — and I trust that they wouldn't all allow malicious software that claims all communication is encrypted.

Syncthing's forum uses Discourse. The whole thing just smells of competence.

Of course, it may not suit you.
> The current political system is broken - the FCC is symptomatic of that.

If you look beyond the crisis de jour, the FCC over the last 20 years has largely followed the same path as the other telecom regulators in the developed world. Denmark, for example, deregulated telecom until recently getting rid of its version of the FCC: https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/mercatus-layton-altern... (warning: PDF).

The biggest impediment in the U.S. has been state and local governments, which have frustrated Congress's efforts. While Congress, for example, made it illegal to grant local telecom monopolies in 1994/1996, state and local governments responded by imposing such onerous terms on potential new entrants that nobody but incumbents wanted to invest. In Baltimore, for example, Comcast has a de facto monopoly. The press, which is largely ignorant of the nuances of telecom regulation, paints it as Baltimore giving Comcast a monopoly contract: https://baltimorebrew.com/2016/10/18/city-set-to-approve-10-....

In reality, there is no exclusivity in Comcast's franchise. Rather, the franchise requirements are so onerous that no other company has even applied to build a network in Baltimore. That's despite Baltimore actively trying to solicit Google and other companies to come in and compete with Comcast: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/snubb....

What few people in this debate appreciate is that telecom is monumentally capital intensive, and that money has to come from somewhere. Moreover, that money is always the subject of competition from other needs. If we depend on private industry, investing in telecom has to be sufficiently attractive in comparison to other investments. If we depend on the government, money spent on maintenance and upgrading telecom infrastructure is money we don't spend on schools, public transit, etc. There is no "free lunch" where you get private companies to spend tens of billions of dollars a year while simultaneously adhering to a raft of government-set public interest objectives.
This! Large refactoring can and should be done, but reviewer should be warned in advance and goals of such rewrite should be very clear. And after the rewrite, code should be treated as alpha and properly tested. And rewrites should be rare events.

Anything else should be done incrementally, in small manageable commits.