skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing with Brendan happened ~3 years ago now. A lot of the leadership that was there at the time is gone now. How long should Mozilla be punished for that?
The majority? No, far from it.

By far the vast majority of popular extensions were ported well in advance, NoScript[1] was a notable exception, but even Tree Style Tabs is available now.

[1] I've found uBlock Origin in dynamic mode to be superior to NoScript, anyway.
I'm in the same boat, but the progress they have been making as of late is really impressive, and it was markedly better than the last time I tried it.

Will probably try again in another 6-8 months. I have problems with Chrome eating tons of memory, hoping the new FF gets a lot leaner (and robust) as their newer tech gets integrated. Plus, the blog posts on their usage of Rust are really fun to read!
> But yeh, patterns are a sign of a weakness in the language.

That line of reasoning never ceases to be amusing by how silly and self-defeating,particularly as those who make those claims try to pin ignorance on others while manifesting their own ignorance. They seem to be entirely oblivious to the fact that the main goal and usefulness of patterns is to communicate intent and provide semantics and use a common language to describe common problems. A function is a function but a strategy pattern isn't a state pattern. Those who miss this fundamental difference are totally oblivious to what design patterns actually are.
> My point is we'd never launch such a slow vehicle
> as Oumuamua, because it would be relatively easy
> to build a significantly faster one. Even with
> todays technologies.

There is one plausible reason. If a civilisation had serious doubts about surviving much longer, they might launch a slow ship as a last ditch effort, in case they didn't make it soon after. After all, even we could theoretically keep improving propulsion tech before sending out probes, but that didn't stop us from launching with our best efforts so far, even if only to test. And that's another reason. Maybe this is a test craft...

We will never know for certain unless we can send a probe to this rock.
I don't think it's the energy extraction that's changing, but people's set points for weight.

> It also doesn’t help that the sugar lobby/industry is so powerful, and sugar/corn syrup is in everything.

Corn syrup ain't good, but we have fat people in other parts of the world, too.
Yes, CPU would have to make sure that only one thread is updating the value and this would definitely increase latency for other threads.

"Guaranteed forward progress" is barely of any interest here. They actually mean, that in the event of a thread randomly stopping for some reason, other threads will still be able to perform atomic operations, because no thread can actually stop in the middle of an atomic operation.
> Does the new Firefox have a password sync feature like Chrome's?

It's had that for years, and I'm yet to have a problem with it.

> As an aside, one silly thing that tarnished Mozilla's brand for me was the treatment of Brendan Eich. I may not agree with his donation of money but I think impinging on his rights is a far more fundamental immorality than what he was accused of.

I can't decide if what they did was wrong or not, but I'm not totally comfortable with that issue either... no person or company is perfect though.
> I hope future generations judge us harshly for this.

I understand it's annoying to jump through hoops to prove your intelligence, but what else are we supposed to do? There are already colleges like Western Governors University that provide fully accredited, self-paced, online college degrees. Are you wanting the top colleges to do this too?

You've got to question the impact on the college's social status that such a change would bring. People don't (generally) go to Harvard for the superior education, they go for the social status that being a Harvard graduate brings. If we make such a school globally accessible, wouldn't that dilute that status?
I can taste the difference.
Sure, it technically applies - but I doubt it will have any effect. Compare it to hacking across border where there is no extradition. At least until some form of GDPR is rolled into international trade treaties.
I highly recommend Sam Altman's course "How to Start a Startup": http://www.openculture.com/2016/07/how-to-start-a-start-up-a...

I watched it on my lunch breaks, it's a great, thorough introduction.
Watch some rocket separations. Usually they end up tumbling.
Journalist Investigating Trump and Russia Says 'Full Picture Is One of Collusion
It hasn't stopped either Chrome or Firefox[0] from releasing Safari skins on the AppStore, but unfortunately neither are actually Chrome[1] or Firefox[2]

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firefox-web-browser/id989804...

[1] https://blog.chromium.org/2017/01/open-sourcing-chrome-on-io...

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/05/22/update-on...
>In Vancouver there's a well oiled mechanism of bringing duffle bags of cash into casinos for cleansing, in plain sight and with the knowledge of law enforcement. There was a small scandal recently where police got involved for some reason, but nothing will come of it.

That's a very interesting fact, do you have a source so I can read more about it?
Mozilla should fix battery drain issues on Macbooks. I used FireFox Quantum for a couple weeks and dumped it y'day due to its battery abuse.
Ask HN: How to access websites blocked by ISP if NN is repealed in the US?
If Net Neutrality is repealed in the US, and ISPs begin blocking/throttling internet traffic to certain websites, what would be some ways for users to workaround their ISPs controls?
>My objection is just that: genetic drift != speciation.

What time-scales are we talking about here? If it's on the order of hundreds or thousands of years, then yeah, you don't necessarily expect speciation to occur. If your time-scales are on the order of hundreds of thousands or millions of years that's different - and hundreds of thousands of years may be too small. Are you trying to claim that genetic drift over geological time spans does not make speciation highly likely?

>They are still completely interfertile with Europeans after 1000 generstions!

A thousand generation is nothing.
Not look like crap?
> I don't see how to use it as a VST, though I see VST mentioned in the docs as a thing that will be implemented as a plugin, so I guess it's on the radar.

Correct. For the time being, it is possible to do some audio/midi routing to make it work in a DAW using 3rd-party utilities. (Easier on a Mac which already comes with the ability to create virtual MIDI devices, and composite audio devices.) From there you can set it up as an "external" instrument in most DAWs.
That's absolutely correct, of course. Socialism, the common ownership of the means of production, must necessarily be democratic.
It's not about that. It's about choosing not to use an existing, appropriate solution because it is not being developed and run locally. There can be valid regulatory or security reasons to choose that, I'm only considering the "keeping money local" argument.
>But the idea that speciation happens EXCLUSIVELY by random mutation and "natural selection" is just handwaving theorizing.

What alternative mechanisms are there?
>>India and China both have nuclear weapons, meaning death trigger for everyone on earth, you don't want to touch that.

Yet they--and USA, Russia, France, UK etc--also have millions of soldiers and spend gazillions a year on conventional military stuff. Usually try to outdo each other.

>>Tibet on the other hand is a very long, complex and different story

Complex it is, but it's now 100% part of China, regardless of whatever.

>>in China, nobody think of India or Vietnam etc as enemy

Yet, they all have militaries and somewhere on the shelves they plans to attack /defend from each other.
They are friends until they aren't.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/opinion/sunday/vietnams-o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93India_relations#...
This looks cool, anybody used it yet?
Yes, it had that for years - including master password protection.
ClojureCLR is definitely cool, and a few years ago I wrote a simplistic window manager [1] using ClojureCLR for scripting. But local jobs that want a C# person aren't probably the same kind of people who will be open minded about CLR languages, they probably just want someone who can maintain their plain-jane .NET apps that were written by someone fresh out of community college (which is ironically where I learned C++ and VB.NET).
fond DOS memories of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F29_Retaliator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJmlWdmP2M
For now you can use inter-app MIDI and audio to use it as an external instrument in most DAWs.

I use it with RogueAmoeba's LoopBack (like SoundFlower, but less glitchy and way more flexible), and feed that into a composite audio device in the Mac's Audio MIDI Setup app. That gives me a stereo pair for assignment in Ableton's external instrument.

This is really not that cumbersome to setup. Once you setup the inter-app config, you never have to change it. I created an External Instrument preset in Ableton with the corresponding MIDI out and Audio in, so it's really just a two-step process to use it: Launch VCV Rack, and load the External Instrument preset.
When Hinton approves, you know you've done well...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7ew7ba/d_c...
I get access to code, but I have to sign an NDA beforehand, in most cases.

Reputation is everything to me, so I'm not about to do something that'd abuse that trust. It's just not worth the risk.
Wave Gliders [1] have been making trips like that for years. They're powered by waves, rather than wind, and they're quite controllable. They can generally stay within 30m of the desired track. They use GPS and Iridium. It's a commercial product, and you can add small sensors.

[1] https://www.liquid-robotics.com/platform/how-it-works/
But clearly they do! That's what the entire article is about. Boats also have to deal with other boats - not as much, but it's definitely there, and the results of getting it wrong tend to be worse. alkonaut's question was, basically, what's hard about this compared to driverless cars? My claim is that you have roughly the same requirements (yes, including paths and obstacles) but way more variables.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucellosis
Poor contrast and unreadable font is still visible even on your screenshot, the complaints are valid.
Tree style tabs work ok on FF57. I expect it to become more polished with time though.
Proactively Handling Certificate Expiration with Ssl-Cert-check
I've been working on a product to help Farmers and Gardeners so have been talking to many different types of farmers from Container Farms, to Aquaponics, to Indoor Greenhouses. The industry is vast and there's pros and cons for every type of system. There's no silver bullet.

This video is pretty informative for someone interested in this topic on the business side. It's titled "The 5 Elements to make $100k on a Quarter Acre"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvIQgyPkmoY
Are you using scaled resolution? Then it's a known issue that is being investigated and will hopefully be fixed soon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
For what it's worth, almost all McDonald's are franchises. If you buy a breakfast sandwich there, the money likely goes to a local owner.
Not sure what math you are doing, but 4am - 1pm is 9 hours of work, over 6 days that's 54 hours.
Thanks but I'm highly skeptical of the wording, it sounds suspiciously like a pyramid scheme. If they really were in contact with remote Clojure jobs, I don't know why they would hide them behind a free email course. That doesn't seem to benefit the employers or employee candidates, only the people behind this website.
On previous years I've seen great discounts for tech books (not ebooks) from O'Reilly, but now that they closed their web store I can't find any deals on dead tree books.

Has anyone seen discounts for paper books, tech or not?
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. I'd love to see a writeup on how your team has been using Redux, what maintainability benefits you've seen, and how the app's performance has improved. If you do write something, please ping me @acemarke and let me know!
Expensify SmartScan uses Mturk, exposes a trove of personal information
Is a slow relate, but stil interesting to remember how many species sit in drawers in the museums, waiting to be discovered and named. Some of them probably extinct yet and only exist as specimens. If one researcher just misplace a bug and put it in the wrong box, the specimen can be "lost" and unreachable for thousands of years.

Taxonomists able to fix this bugs, in literal and figurated sense, are vanishing quickly on the other part, both by lack of resources and new blood. To save hundreds of insects that nobody knows and nobody cares because they are just another almost identical bug, is a titanic task.
Thanks for the suggestion. There is also a right of first refusal clause, this is separate and states:

The Company is hereby granted the right, [... within a time frame ...], to repurchase all or any portion of the Shares.

I'll seek out a lawyer, I guess. Thanks!
Time always matters. Getting information back in 1,000 years instead of 10,000 years is huge.

And faster ships aren't necessarily less efficient, in many ways they are more efficient. Chemical rockets are incredibly inefficient.
So, after some authority fucks up and explodes a nuclear reactor complex, I'm expected to trust that everything is perfectly fine?

Yeah, no. At Fukushima, the civil authorities didn't know what had even happened for awhile.

Academic analysis of risk falls apart on the ground. What happened in places like the World Trade Center and Grenfell tower, and minor high rise disasters that I've experienced first hand have taught a clear lesson: know your surroundings, know all of the egress routes, proceed with caution, and get the hell out.
Ah, I would like to learn everything but I actually end up learning nothing. The blame should go to my own laziness but I prefer blaming the vast number of choices. If only the brain machine interface was available. I'd download it all straight to my brain rather than a computer.
Survey of Decentralized Exchanges
Rebuilding Quantum Theory From Simple Physical Principles
They may well be buying locally (as in within Canadian borders, or perhaps even within the province) but they certainly won't be buying from small individual producers for the simple reason that a small scale farmer can't supply enough beef or eggs to satisfy McDonald's consumption requirements.
The author answers some questions in the comments as well. Worth checking out!
I downvoted you (sorry, It's not often I do), and it wasn't knee-jerk. Because:

1. In both your comments on this thread you seem to want to relitigate some beef with 'random mutation and natural selection', even though that wasn't the point of, and isn't directly relevant to the article cited, Which is about the (predicted, but now for the first time observed) role of hybridisation in speciation.

2. You seem to have left your understanding of the mechanisms of evolution somewhere in the 1970s. I did my PhD in the 1990s, and I don't recognise "The idea that speciation happens EXCLUSIVELY by random mutation in natural selection" [caps yours], Except -- to be honest -- from historic papers and antievolution websites (though I'm very willing to believe it is a misunderstanding shared by journalists). Certainly the people I studied with had a much more nuanced view of evolutionary dynamics, not to mention one that didn't assume sexual reproduction or closed species.

3. Proof is for mathematicians. Obsession with proving evolution is again, something I only know from creationist rhetoric.

4. Citation needed for your bullying claim. There are certainly some who think natural selection is the most important mechanism in evolutionary change, there are those who would emphasise genetic drift, they go to the same conferences. Your image of the state of the science is fiction, in my experience. (Though I've been out of academia for 15yrs).
No one is being punished - I'm not their parent not their government.

Which is sort of my original concern. Mozilla was neither of those things to Brendan Eich, and yet more and more we see employers and influencers behaving as though they are.
As a Brit now living in the US, I can't help but feel like the popularity of packaged sandwiches in the UK is largely driven by the fact that people in England are terrible at sandwiches.

A ham and cheese sandwich in the UK is usually a thin layer of ham, a thin layer of cheese, and some butter.

In the US, it's thick wodges of both, plus tomato and lettuce. It's just a more compelling option, and a small sad thing in a cardboard box pales in comparison.
Why should it be $X and not $Y you pay?
This topic seems to make you rather emotional.
Boom Luxury Converted Nuclear Missile Silo Lists on Airbnb
Basically, the author questions the American Dream.

"Hard work brings success" is paraphrasing the American Dream.

The author now says he learned that success does not depend on factors that can be controlled. He uses the verb learned in contrast to taught to emphasize that he thinks this is true.
Sorry I don't, its been almost 3 years now since I was in the industry, but the good news is they tend to have a good seo presence so duckduckgo should help.
We could have built project Orion in the 70s to get to another star system in hundreds of years or less.

There is no way we'd use chemical rockets, or even NERVA type nuclear to go to another star system, there is simply no hope they'd even get there as anything other than dead hulks in thousands or tens of thousands of years.
I think the complaint of the article is that complex products are being sold to customers who don't understand them. You certainly can witness that with municipalities that are close to going bankrupt because they bought instruments that backfired on them. The while financial crisis of 2008 was pretty much about people buying things where they couldn't assess the risks.
Risking an opinion here, since I am in no way expert on that area, I'd say you have to change advertising first.

Maybe pay walls work long term, but it is certainly hard to get out of the ground with one. There is no way to become known without publishing on the open. There is a Linux development bulletin that has a mixed model of a pay wall, but anybody with a direct link gets to see the article. I don't think it's viable to start with such model anymore either.

Intuitively, it feels like there is some advertising value that can only be delivered by quality oriented journalists. If that is the case, you will have to detect that niche and run after the advertisers one by one. Since there is practically no quality-oriented journalism out there (and there haven't been for a long time) it is hard to point at any model, or even to discover if that niche in fact exists.
I'd go a step further and say most people would benefit from a series of 3-6 courses on life, available freely, online.

Structure on how the modern world works, that'd be great.

Having clear tracks for specific bachelor degrees is a fool's errand, because most people get higher education to make a living afterwards - online courses don't give you a living (outside of web development and a few other very small niches)

Even if online education did allow people to make a living - it's just so incredibly miserable to learn on your own in comparison to a college/university environment! You can take a course or two and it'll be fun - a full curriculum, you have to really be an unusual person to make that happen.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Tim%20Ferriss%20silicon%20vall...
Maslow's Hierarchy in action - Tim Cook is at a higher section of the pyramid than most Americans. He's probably at a stage where he's looking to achieve things he cannot achieve purely with money. Hence the "money isn't everything" argument.
The minority head of diversity at Apple being replaced by a majority member because the minority former head said something that goes against the received narrative is unfortunately what we've come to expect --what she said isn't even controversial, but it does go against a certain narrative where everyone must fall in line or else.
Well, the argument is that for any natural number n we can make an n-gon. So we have a one-to-one correspondence between natural numbers and dimension 2 polytypes, so by definition the cardinality of that set is aleph zero
Let me paste my answer to another user reporting (seemingly) the same issue:

Are you using scaled resolution? Then it's a known issue that is being investigated and will hopefully be fixed soon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
The company response stated:

> A tremendous amount of engineering would be required to reverse engineer the product as well as to create new firmware.

Which implies they failed to understand what they were being told. The engineering required to do this exploit has already been done, so it doesn't matter how hard it is. Once it's been done, it's been done.
XUL extensions e.g. the user interface could not be ported, the notice they were given was "this will stop your extension working" with users being given the advice from advocates "don't worry we'll build some replacement APIs sometime soon..."
The hard problem here is wear and tear on the equipment. Consider whether the rigging and lines on this boat could manage a trans-Atlantic passage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRJVjCL_wNo
This drives me mad, too. The NY Times does space-bar scrolling right. Random example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/opinion/immigration-visa-...
love that!
I'm extremely skeptical, but it might work for the tiny percentage of people who can be hypnotized.
These books present ideas that ought to be explored, especially by those who might disagree with them.
Well don’t forget that the current/surf are just as important, it’s not just wind. Then there’s also the fact that you don’t really ever stop, unless you’re heaving to or setting anchor. These factors when added together sort of compound the difficulty in programming intelligent decision making, because you can’t avoid accidents by hitting the breaks as easily or just steering out of the way, everything has to work with this universe of waves and wind and (almost) never stopping.

That’s just under fair conditions. Under foul conditions, I can’t really imagine how you can have a program make sense of this stuff, since all the sensors are going to be all over the place, and you sort of need a human to make sense of it all. So under those conditions the it’d probably be easiest to just heave to, but then it’d probably get off course.

Also don’t forget that GPS is unreliable. The ship could probably do dead reckoning better than Columbus, but that’s something it absolutely must be taught in addition to everything.

I think a fair analogy would be to flying. You could make the argument that flying isn’t as complex as autonomous driving, but they’re just different. Sailing is about one degree of freedom more simple than flying.
woah good news
Reading comments, it is not as black or white as it initially looks. There is definite effect that can be observed, with say 80+% of users.

I can't overstate the importance of properly phrasing messages, wrong intention or phrase can be harmful. I am always very careful when trying to help customers how to phrase something.

Either way it is not all shoddy and shows results.

Author of http://smartcodehq.com/subliminal/ here, sorry for the shameless plug.
your [1] was too lazy, please force
The problem is identifying the better products. Price alone doesn't work.