skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using Firefox for about 5 years, I'm still using it and despite that I'm anti-Mozilla. The browser performance has always been fine to me and 57 doesn't look particularly "faster" as they are advertising it.

I'm one of the dozen people that care about a browser being user configurable and not doing any analytics, telemetry, experiments,... . Mozilla has lately been working exactly against this. I have about 80KB of patch files just to remove all the crap Mozilla managed to stuff into an otherwise perfect browser like: advertisements, telemetry, more data sharing, geolocation using google servers, a social network and proprietary binary blobs for service integration.

When I build a clean version of Firefox then I'm happy too.
> it's useless without some semblance of structure.

If you are starting out (so literally know too little to provide your own structure), then looking up student handbooks is a good place to start. Here is the relevant section of Harvard's: https://handbook.fas.harvard.edu/book/fields-concentration

You obviously do not get a course for course match, but from there you can pull up the syllabi or go off course titles.

Personally, I think the biggest weakness with MOOCs is the lack of academic recognition. I can take a MOOC course from Harvard, do the work, and get no credit. But if I put down $3,000 and do the same exact course through Harvard Extension school; all that work is pseudo-magically accredited and can be used for things like degrees and satisfying pre-requisites. And to be fair, that $3,000 gets me access to a TA and sometimes the Professor (if they field questions or host their own office hours), but the price tag for "accreditation" leaves a foul taste in the mouth.

I hope future generations judge us harshly for this.
This is a horrible ad filled website, but Number 5.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/ebay-buyer-seller-scams-fraud-...

I am curious why you thought this claim needed a reference. It seems like a pretty basic form of fraud everyone should be aware of.
Jetbrains offers free intellij licenses for open source. Sauce Labs and Browserstack offer free selenium vm’s for open source too.
There are remote Clojure jobs. Some guidance here https://purelyfunctional.tv/
This may vary significantly by country.

In Poland the Art. 292 of Criminal Code and Art. 122 of Misdemeanor Code says something like "an item, about which on the basis of accompanying circumstances should and may be suspected that it has been procured by an illegal act" and directly addressed accidental fencing of an item (Art. 291 and 121 respectively address intentional/knowingly fencing an item).

I have no idea how that works in practice but googling "accidental fencing" in Polish ("nieświadome paserstwo") brings up a few results about people who bought cheap stuff online and it turned out to be stolen.

Here's one case like that with a lawyer's answer/opinion if you want to try Google page translate or can read Polish: https://www.eporady24.pl/nieswiadome_paserstwo,pytania,6,64,...
He more so explained his story, which was essentially: “I studied hard, got into a good school, and got a great job,” rather than explaining how he focuses on the process. The only example of “process” was his discovery during his internship that he _should_ focus on process.
Banking on web apps to save Firefox won't work out while the browser continues to not support CSS styling of scrollbars. It's so fundamental to so many modern web apps- and a major part of why they tend to feel slightly worse on Firefox.

The bug's 17 years old now.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790
I found this reason to hit quite close to home:

5) Silicon Valley also has an insidious infection that is spreading -- a peculiar form of McCarthyism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism) masquerading as liberal open-mindedness. I'm as socially liberal as you get, and I find it nauseating how many topics or dissenting opinions are simply out-of-bounds in Silicon Valley. These days, people with real jobs (unlike me) are risking their careers to even challenge collective delusions in SF. Isn't this supposed to be where people change the world by challenging the consensus reality? By seeing the hidden realities behind the facades? That's the whole reason I traveled west and started over in the Bay Area. Now, more and more, I feel like it's a Russian nesting doll of facades -- Washington DC with fewer neck ties, where people openly lie to one another out of fear of losing their jobs or being publicly crucified. It's weird, unsettling, and, frankly, really dangerous. There's way too much power here for politeness to be sustainable. If no one feels they can say "Hey, I know it makes everyone uncomfortable, but I think there's a leak in the fuel rods in this nuclear submarine..." we're headed for big trouble.
Neural net taught another for Wavenet
FWIW I work at Indeed and think this is pretty cool.
Org mode is outliner with some advanced features. Those features depend on what you want to use and they range from time tracking, through cross-linking and reference tracking, inline code execution up to spreadsheet (and it's nice Excel-for-programmers kind of spreadsheet, not a stub). Browsing headlines should give you idea what features are there:

http://orgmode.org/manual/index.html#toc_Tables
What does he work for then?

IF he really gave a damn about people he should e.g. make sure working conditions improve at their plants.
Oh hello HN. I'm the author of the linked article. Someone texted me that I was on the front page of HN, though I couldn't guess what for. I guess I'll stick around a bit and answer questions.
I read a blog post a few days ago about a Clojure compiler from the CLR which is being actively maintained to produce bytecode for Unity. It was posted here a few days ago but didn't seem to gain much traction, perhaps there's more interest in this thread: http://nas.sr/magic/
Free software can help with that. In my past two jobs, I've worked with a business platform which we adapt for our clients by developing custom modules, and there's a decent community of small companies from over the world which sell mostly to their internal markets but share modules under Free licenses.

Of course, nobody is getting rich from this, but there are many of us making a very decent living.
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I agree. Generally also as time goes on news channels become obsolete as new competition appears.
Something on this page just asked for permission to record audio and video via my browser.

Wow.
Twitter suspends 45 suspected propaganda accounts
Or it would become a sentient being somehow while in deep space and haunt us back in 2271.

V'GER ..
That was what I was thinking about. Let's see if people flock here
I have been using Firefox again for a while now after completing my Google exit and I’m enjoying every single day with Quantum. The real game changer for me was the introduction of container though. I only wish they also had separated history.
Hell, here in Canada at least, McDonalds is trumping up that it buys it's beef locally. Same with eggs.
> better than the egg-inspired food product in a McGriddle.

People always use this as an insult, but how cool would it be if fast/processed food providers had actually found a way to make eggs/chicken/beef/etc artificially? It's been an area of active research with decades of failed attempts to show for it. Achieving fast-food level quality would be a huge step forward.
Is there any possibility we could launch a really fast space probe that could overtake this object and report back, maybe within the next decade or so? Do we have the technology now to pull alongside this rock (and it's going to be slowing down)?
They could just be forced to make the offer instead, and if the original owner is willing to accept the damage, they can refuse to sell.
Murder a well-known software monopolist with a chainsaw (PPC, Classic Mac)
Look, gramps, you either fit into the box or you don't matter. Get with the program and start buying your groceries from costco or your toilet paper from apple.

Also watch "Raise the Steaks" episode of King of the Hill.
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Domain Pascal Language Reference (1987) [pdf]
I learned in high school that species are distinct when group B can no longer produce viable offspring with group A.

Is it more complex than that?
As the author of the post. Just a couple comments...

1) I am referencing a team lead not myself.
2) I still agree that no one was right or wrong in this situation, and it had the right intentions to stir up discussion to see what people thought about it.
3) If you have reference to other posts that I have put on my site than you will see that as a leader you have to surround yourself with people who are better in certain or all verticals than you.

Check out this post (https://www.softwareteamlead.com/lead-by-example-characteris...) on the characteristics I strive to exemplify.
Browser sync in FF also does not sell your data, and works on all major OS-es, including obscure linuxes. I also love the «send tab» functionality - need some info on my desktop tomorrow? Send tab, and it’ll be there when I log in!
But it could rotate about its long axis for artificial gravity no? Seems more "natural"...
> We didn't choose this. A majority of voters voted against the current administration.

That’s a cop out. Of course we did. The electoral college is our system. If it doesn’t work, then who but us should fix it? Even if you believe the last election was influenced in underhanded ways, we collectively fell for it.

But instead of working together, we’ve become a nation of finger pointers: Not my problem, someone else screwed up.
We take that approach as a last resort, when direct compensation is not possible.

Imagine if I dumped a bunch of toxic waste into your carpet. Would you accept it if I said, well, it would cost $X to completely remove the toxic waste, and the economic value of the DALYs lost by members of your household is $Y < $X, therefore I don't have to do anything?

I'm pretty sure such a thing would get laughed out of court. I'd be required to clean it up regardless, or if the value of the cleanup exceeds the value of the house, to buy you out. I'm not allowed to keep poisoning you just because it's too expensive for me to stop. Why should a nuclear accident be handled any differently?

The answer to that semi-rhertorical question for other types of pollution is often, "Because there are N polluters and M victims and it's not practical to handle N x M transactions to settle the damages." That doesn't apply here, where there's only one polluter.
YouTube Faces Fresh Backlash After Ads Appear Near Pedophile Comments
Yes, but only a small/unknown brand can successfully hide the fact that it's been cooked in a bunch of fat and properly salted/spiced. Once the brand becomes big enough, people are forced to confront the fact that the good food is good on account of being unhealthy.
Site is down for me. archive.org works: http://web.archive.org/web/20171124170013/https://www.contex...
Egg synthysizers exist and they're shaped exactly like chickens.
you don't have the eqvielent of green top milk like we have in the UK ie a herd that has much stricter regulation and testing?
What 2,000 Calories Looks Like
Tunnelbear launches Remembear password manager
I agree that customers generally get worse pricing on more complex products, but I don't think this is necessarily bad for the customer. To use a simple example, the market for on the run treasuries is much more liquid than the market for off the run.

If I need to take an old long bond off my books that has 10 years left until maturity then it might better to just sell it instead of going short the on the run 10 year even though the on the run has better pricing.

Dealers are just better equipped to handle the complexity so the higher profit margin on more complex products doesn't necessarily lead to a worse result for the customer.
Two factor won't protect you from a spear-fishing attack.

The attacker can submit your info to GitHub the moment you submit to the malicious site. You receive the token via SMS as expected, enter it on the second page of the malicious site, granting them access.
From dream to reality
The difference between Comanche and Game Gunship 2000 is remarkable. Very good write-up of the techniques.
Well there's no such things as a "hop" at Layer 2.

And as others also pointed out its an optical amplifier, there is no "decoded, error corrected, and re-transmitted" being done along the path of the submarine cable.
Note that, the article being from 2015, the promised future post for the 23rd is already live at http://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-23rd-of-the-month/ and differently fascinating.
If his emotions are buried so deep, that there no way to see real world consequences of them, than maybe it is better to say, that there are no emotions?

I think, that mottos in Western culture are just pathetic ones. Western culture knows nothing about how to raise steady emotions in people. I was born in USSR, and I saw how it should be done. But there is one consequence: with experience comes tolerance to external attempts to raise my emotions by some lovely motto. Now it is really hard to. "All people deserve to live healthy lives" -- what is it? I was grown on ideas of Worldwide Communist Revolution and bringing freedom from damned capitalists to all people? I read books, I watched films, discussed this in a classes, I learnt world history in terms of societies struggling to make one more step toward communism. And after that I hear motto for preschool kids. The topic for boring school essay about role of Communism in bringing healthy life to everyone. I had eaten tons of this shit before I came to a school. I have eaten even more in school. Why I should have any emotions now?

Really, I can hardly believe that any adult can be touched by such a motto. I'm unable to understand it, even when I try to imagine how it could be, if I was not born under ideologic pressure.

The Black Swan can be a good motto, because it is a symbol of some non-trivial idea, because it reminds me something that I can forget to think through one more time. It reminds me about ideas which I want to think through again and again. But "healty lives for everyone" is something like communism, it will not be like that in the overseeable future. It is just one more ideologic lie, which is must be spoken due to some social protocol. Pointless tradition.
Is this in Germany where the CAP supports small scale hobby farming in order to buy the faming vote ?
I had a similar thought. I think the important point is offering some sort of equitable buyout rather than just deciding for everybody. The details of exactly how much an equitable buyout would consist of are somewhat less important.
> Firefox can take comfort in the fact that it is now virtually tied with its former arch-nemesis, Internet Explorer and its variants.

Instead of an IE monoculture, we now have a WebKit/Blink one:

Chrome: 54.57%

Safari: 14.59%

Alibaba UC Browser: 7.86%

Opera: 3.89%

Samsung Internet: 3.41%

Android: 1.90%

That's a total of 86.22%. Plus ça change.
> If Oumuamua is a ship, the question would be why didn't they [build a larger and faster ship]?

Because they didn't know we were here?

Supposing you're exploring the galaxy, hyper advanced technology doesn't free you from efficient resource use as a priority until you can easily build enough to explore every star.

Given how many stars there are, I wouldn't be surprised if high tech civilizations still used the cheapest ships they could build.

I'd be curious if our EM emissions would have yet reached any potential source of the object...
Flashbacks to playing Delta Force in the 1990s as a kid. Looking through the binoculars at a long open distance (say 3500 metres), only to realise that the same hill repeats 3 times :-)

Delta Force 2, released in 1999, still used a voxel engine which could already be hardware-accelerated, supporting "stretched voxels" which were able to simulate high grass.
Reading most of the replies here reminds me the gun debate. It’s one side that has experience with said subject and the other side that has zero. And they argue.

Some posters don’t believe there is any difference between eggs from a small farm where the chickens roam the yard eating naturally and Tyson sized operations where they are all cooped in a mountain together.

Ethics of the two approaches aside I grew up in a small farm town in Kansas. I’ve eaten eggs straight out of the chicken my entire life. They not only taste better they last longer too. I can take freshly laid eggs and put them in a dark coolish place like my basement on a shelf and they will last well over a month. Do that with store bought eggs. I dare you

Another example is raw milk. If you’ve ever had raw milk and then bought store bought milk it’s shocking how different in taste, mouth feel, and richness there is. Raw milk is flavorful, slightly off white from the grass diet, rich from a lot of cream and if you compare that to milk at the store which is watery, chalk colored, sweetened with sugar, and lacks any cream.

It’s night and day. One is healthy for you the other is watered down, profit maximized chalk water.

There is a big difference in veg as well. So for those posters to say there is no real difference clearly have never eaten on a farm. There is a noticeable and large difference in quality, taste, smell, longevity, and nutrition between small farm non gmo and organic produce and dairy and store bought garbage.
I think google did a «good job» (not as in «good guy» but as in «effectively») pushing chrome by shoving it down your throat on the google search page. They will keep doing it. Therefore, it’ll be the first alternative after booting into windows the first time. As people switch computers, more and more users drift over to chrome. Most people stop bothering at that point, they set up their computers once and consider themselves done.
This is fantastic! I really enjoyed playing with the web demo. Thanks for open-sourcing it, and for the excellent explanation!

I have a bit of a fetish for old-school 3D tricks, I'm currently working on a 3D project for the Sega Saturn using jo-engine.
If you believe that consumers are rational actors in a free market you indeed need to rationalise behaviour like "not buying the cheapest/best possible thing".

If your theory cannot explain a behaviour you can add an imaginary product called "lifestyle" to the equation and stick with your flawed theory.
Only if you can/do meaningfully anonymize the data. Eg, knowing the subnet of most/all Norwegian isps, it's trivial to recover ips that are simply hashed (probably even with salt), similarly Norwegian phone numbers are only eight digits, so any kind of deterministic mapping is likely to be too trivial to actually amount to anonymization.

Also rember that one of the goals is to avoid illicit linking - so being able to verify that ip n.n.n.n is the same as slow_hash(salt+other-ip) won't fly as "not storing".

In general, anonymizing data in sparse populations is tricky - where "small" can be quite large. Just imagine building a bitfield of variables like: sex,age +/-50;2 bits. Rough location (easily 6 bits), browser (2 bits), mobile? 1 bit - that's already 12 bits etc. See also NYC taxi dataset, eg (not the article I had in mind, but seems to cover similar points):

https://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-star...
Well hey... It's possible. Not likely but possible.

It could be a dormant long term hibernation ship en route somewhere. Computing it's trajectory would be a way to look at this. Very long term deep hibernation would be one very plausible way to go to the stars.

It could also be a ship that malfunctioned and died millions or even billions of years ago. If it were traveling very fast it could play stellar gravity ping pong for a long time until eventually settling into an orbit, hitting something, or being ejected from the galaxy. Picture some insectoid alien mummies playing silent vigil in cold intergalactic space until the heat death of the universe and bust out the theramin.

Whatever it is I wish NASA could cook up a flyby. A light small prove could probably get tossed on a high enough energy trajectory to catch it and take some pics. Surely the first extrasolar object is interesting.

Edit: elsewhere several people pointed out that a tumbling object like this might not be an interstellar ship/probe but a spent expendable acceleration stage for one.
> Because we do not want the union "benefits" that aren't really benefits.

"The union protects and improves Members' wages and conditions. Our successful bargaining campaigns continue to deliver fair wages and better conditions like superannuation, site allowances, redundancy pay and income protection. In the year 2000 this branch of the CFMEU won the 36 hour week, giving workers 26 paid days off a year."

Also get 5% YOY pay rises, which allows wages to stay in line with inflation instead of stagnating. You're being naive with your comments IMO, ignoring the reality of the matter and trying to pitch us into a "everyone's different and should be able to negotiate" which has been shown to be damaging. How much data do you need to see about stagnating wage growth and consistently growing executive wages to see that this "we don't need unions" argument is ignorant of the truth?

> We do not want another group controlling our workplace or forcing us into horrible, one size fits all, collective bargaining agreements. We want to be allowed to negotiate for ourselves.

http://www.epi.org/blog/strengthening-collective-bargaining-...

http://www.epi.org/publication/how-todays-unions-help-workin...

You can believe what you want, you do realise that most of them don't FORCE you to join, but you will likely just be treated like a leech, which is appropriate.

Please provide some data for your claims because I'm straight up gonna say you're wrong on the majority of your points.

> We believe that it is very much in the self interest of workers to prevent unions from destroying our industry with overbearing rules and regulations that prevent us from doing our job.

This one (and a few of your other comments strike a nerve) because I think that you have the entire purpose of unions confused, unions are there to provide workers, me and you, your parents, normal non-1%ers, an opportunity to get a fairer distribution of the pie, not ALL of the pie, just what is fair. If you actually provided some concrete examples of industries where you don't think the unions should be, I could have easily pulled data up on their profits, compared it to their workers wages, and it would be a lot easier to make the point that most companies can afford to pay workers better wages, which is a win-win for everyone, the idea that if I work at McDonalds, and am an enterprising individual, and ask for a pay rise vs my other workers, is laughable, why would they bother? They've crushed dissenters, and now because of the shit conditions you work in, they'll just fire you and grab someone who doesn't ask for better conditions. It's an incentive disparity, companies have no interest in paying workers more.

For example:

https://twitter.com/VirginTrains/status/881138129176014848

Here's a good one, ITT they acknowledged that they understaff consistently and expect workers to be able to work their rest days so they can keep staffing requirements low. Then naturally, it's the workers fault when they actually take their rest days.

Man, the more I read this comment, the more I think you're just trolling.
Petition for the Resignation of FCC Chairman Ajit Varadaraj Pai
I wonder why they did - FF was always safer in so many ways, helping you instead of the advertisers, having a separate certificate store made it safe against nasty BIOS level viruses, etc etc
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Sending a Spacecraft to the Interstellar Asteroid
Probably. Strap a big overpowered upper stage behind a little lightweight payload and you can fire something pretty fast.
Zelle Processed $1.5B Worth of Payments in October – Up 90% from Oct.2016