skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they paired up with a search provider other than Google, does that make them any more independent? If they only get 70%, or 50%, of their income from a search engine, does that make them independent?

A non-profit that has a taxable subsidiary and receives the bulk of its funding from the search industry does not strike me as being particularly independent.
It's obviously hard to be feminist if you think women are worse than men.

Your experience of self proclaimed feminists and full time motherhood is very different to mine, and it's not just a generation gap because my mother was a full time parent and a feminist (still feminist, but spends less time parenting these days) and my sister is both as well.

I am also pretty skeptical of the interpersonal understanding and self awareness of women who explain that they just never get on with other women because of the issues those other women have, and men are just so much nicer - it's usually as much about their issues as anyone else's.
Except Edge doesnt even support basic things like Server-Sent Events: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...

They also haven't actually replaced IE11 which still has plenty of usage out in the wild. MS had a good start but they continue to stumble in their efforts today. Firefox has done much better with 1/1000th of the resources which should say something.
100% sure I read that from one of the core devs but cannot find the reference.
You're not going to install a nightly build on your friend's or mom's phone though. Your parent is already sold on FF; just waiting for Quantum to be released on Android before pushing it.
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WDYT?
Nodes are ephemeral and sybil attackable. Mining block is in fact consensus. If miners empty block forever whats next?
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Mozilla don't really care about mobile. The (too) small mobile teams do care, but the company as a whole doesn't - which mostly explains why it's so rough.
So they tell themselves they have a right to a well paying job and that their right to a good livelihood is more important than the rights of the people Uber screws over?
VPN and Tor are still vulnerable to something like this: https://btc-hijack.ethz.ch/, but satellite, that's pretty cool!

I guess if a country wanted to they could jam satellite communications, close their borders and cut all major fiber lines, but that still wouldn't stop the ham radio folks from running pirate stations broadcasting blockchain updates lol.

Thanks for the correction!
This begs the question: Is it healthy that one of the most important technologies today (web) is also very complicated (=expensive) and thus effectively limiting number of players.
Yes your responsibility includes putting out water cups for voters at local polls. Your title is more of "hey dude" rather than "Your honor"
It would be nice if the article provided some data.
They seem to have a knack of making big money from other people's projects.
Taxes in France have been collected in Euros since the beginning of 2002.
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Citations for "cutting how much they were going to pay"?

Mozilla revenue is up, they're making a LOT of profit, and the Yahoo deal was supposed to be 5 years so they're not likely to be losing money by switching to Google:
https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-revenue-jump-fuels-its-fir...
...yes? people have done ethically questionable or outright evil things for money for all of history. Why would it stop now?
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> Tech does not pay for experience.

Nor should it. You should be payed for the type of work you do and there is only so much an individual contributor can do. However, at big companies, there are many levels and compensation ranges by a factor of 10 from the lowest level to the highest. You can make those big pay bumps but you have to perform at the required skills for the next level for which there are only so many available positions.

And from what I have experienced, while individuals can stall in their career progression if they don't pursue the responsibilities required for the next level, the higher ups are extremely correlated with experience.
I couldn’t care less about downvotes. Most of the time, they are indicative of disagreement more than anything else, and I come here for discussion, not glad-handing people for meaningless votes. Furthermore, the issue of tax law/enforcement isn’t going to be solved by whining at Apple. If you don’t like the laws that offer legal loopholes for large corporations to lessen their tax burden, your lawmakers are the ones you need to be protesting, not Apple.
You'd do well to _curry_ favor with him. Wokka wokka wokka!
> The gentleman who tweeted about Apple's mistake actually apologized for it on Medium

I read his statement but I don't see an apology there. It's a reply to people who are saying he should've practiced responsible disclosure.
Friday night sushi night

My best friend (and co-worker) and his wife did a regular event every Friday night at their favorite sushi place. I was invited one time and decided I needed a break from work, and so I agreed.

At the event, the woman who would ultimately become my wife was at the other end of the table, and I over heard her talking about an upcoming trip she was going to be taking with some friends to see the famous Frank Lloyd Wright “Fallingwater” house. FLW has always been my favorite architect, so that caught my attention and we talked quite a while. I later discovered that she was the only woman I have ever met who had also read “The Silmarillion”, by Tolkien.

Many things have happened since, but it wasn’t long before I realized that everything was better when we were together.

Almost twenty years now. Wow! I can hardly believe it!
The fun of some debates is that they are never resolved.
Probably not since 1998
He who breeds most wins.. traditionally the power of the catholics
That's capitalism, exploitation of the poor by the rich. It concentrates power to the detriment of society. In EU Apple and FB are avoiding taxes, in US telecoms steal $400B from the public and gauge prices. Is there any way to keep money and power from concentrating like that?
It did not worked. And big names were not just following orders anyway. But it was not just covardly way out. The prewar German culture really thought that way. It was heavily militarized state and following orders was valued. In that culture, if you followed orders you should be fine and not following then was something very bad.
Don't forget hours and environment. I made 6 figures out of college for a relaxed 40 hour work week in an air conditioned building and i get to wear sandals to work everyday.

There is a reason software developer is consistently ranked as one of the best possible jobs.
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This is incredibly naive.

1) As other posters have already noted, these miners have economies of scale already set up to dominate any fork that still utilizes the SHA hash. Changing the hashing algorithm would be akin to creating a whole new coin.

2) All sufficiently de-centralized crypto mining eventually devolves into an electricity arbitrage game. ASICs are way too easy and cheap to build to give anyone a lasting advantage via computing efficiency, and once you normalize for capital costs whoever has the cheapest energy wins. For scale you also need access to lots of bandwidth and proximity to fabrication of the hardware begins to matter since mining is a zero sum game. Given those needs China will probably end up dominating most sufficiently de-centralized crypto mining.

3) You drastically underestimate the political, economic, and social cache of the Chinese miners in both the Bitcoin and general cryptocurrency world. Not only do these guys underpin a niche industry (that's worth lots of $$$), but they have their own network effects at this point.

I think the main takeaway, which forking can never solve, is that the second any kind of decentralized currency shows any kind of value the powers that be will seek to centralize it. This is a problem with TOR just as much as it is a problem with Bitcoin, and one that I'm not sure we can solve today. Maybe one day we'll get another paper from Satoshi solving it for us.
To be fair, SSE never got much adoption to begin with. Their web socket support is top notch.
If you don't use math, it's almost certain that you're writing inefficient code. There's no way to estimate big-O complexity of the procedures you're writing without at least some math. Unfortunately these days it's considered ok to write chat applications that consume several gigabytes of RAM, so maybe nobody cares about efficient code anymore.
Heh, bad wording; I should say that I had performance problems within a few minutes.

I did eventually get something that kind of worked, but that took about a day, and still suffered performance issues, probably because I had no idea what the hell I was doing (and still don't, really)
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they have cash reserves but still they issued corporate debt in the US indicating that they're financially savvy AND they don't have free access to their overseas cash hoard. So hiring within US and spending 1bn will cost them a lot more. And if they leverage debt using their overseas cash...well that'd be another pandora's box as they're so big they'll probably move the prices of the entire industry along with every US corporation with funds outside the states...
Let the providers fix it. Contact the people potentially affected if you can.
That can change; it depends on the publisher's perspective and goals. Our goal is always to publish fewer better books. (I stole that line from Prentice Hall. They forgot it years ago. :)
How does the US have 27.64 Mbps average upload? Even Comcast only provides <= 20 Mbps upload...
Taxes are a pretty good method of wealth distribution.
According to your link, Apple was forced to pay the taxes they owed. Isn’t that how tax laws and enforcement are supposed to work?
'évasion fiscale' has to be tax evasion not tax avoidance which implies legally minimizing a tax bill which is what every rational organization and person does.
Castes are about as far from communism as it gets.
I guess it's not wrong to call it their original engine, just remember it's a two-decades-old development that started at Netscape.
But there's a gradient at the top - the more money a company makes, the less % taxes they pay.
Because 80% of the legislators of the state aren't from the bay area, and have no stake in setting local zoning, and really are in no position to say whether the results are atrocious or perfection.
I definitely agree. Book publishing, in my opinion, needs to shift to meet the changing needs of readers. Many tech book publishers continue to publish the way they have for the last 20+ years but the world has changed. We don't need more, poorly written and poorly edited documentation. We need better books.
You can buy the future in hardware - assuming you have a design. Given you can already buy compute power over the cloud today, 'buying hardware from the future' could perhaps mean a different architecture than just 'a large number of CPUs'.
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This is not the result of Capitalism is the result of Governmentalism.
Then maybe you should questopm your assumptions. There is certainly no reason to think it will crater the economy. Whether it will help much is questionable. If it does, Democrats could take 100 seats when coupled with the Trump antipathy.
I don't understand the liquidity of bitcoin, maybe someone can please explain to me.

If I'd bought what today is, say, $100M, and I wanted to cash all of it out tomorrow, could I do it? Could I actually have $100M in my bank account the next day?

Edit: ok, not in one day. Let's say, over 6 months, whatever it takes. Can I withdraw $100M?
> Need-blind admission requires need-based aid.

What are you talking about here?

Need-blind admission would be "we'll make the decision of whether to admit you without considering whether you can afford to come". It's analogous to an iPhone offered for sale at $1000, even if you can't afford to pay $1000 for an iPhone.

Need-based aid means charging less money to people who, in your judgment, can't afford more. It's analogous to finding scruffy people on the street and giving them 70% off coupons for iPhones.

There is no logical dependence from one to the other. An Apple store does practice need-blind admission, and definitely does not practice the "required" need-based aid.
Tax authorities need to move to a rule of thumb flat tax on revenue if overall tax take isn’t high enough. It’s so unbelievable seeing someone like Tim Cooke just bare faced lie about Apple’s tax avoidance schemes.
> As other posters have already noted, these miners have economies of scale already set up to dominate any fork that still utilizes the SHA hash. Changing the hashing algorithm would be akin to creating a whole new coin.

No it wouldn't. The hashing algorithm is not intrinsic to Bitcoin. Changing it doesn't need to impact anything else.

> 2) All sufficiently de-centralized crypto mining eventually devolves into an electricity arbitrage game. ASICs are way too easy and cheap to build to give anyone a lasting advantage via computing efficiency, and once you normalize for capital costs whoever has the cheapest energy wins. For scale you also need access to lots of bandwidth and proximity to fabrication of the hardware begins to matter since mining is a zero sum game. Given those needs China will probably end up dominating most sufficiently de-centralized crypto mining.

That is true for PoW based mining, sure. Proof of stake doesn't have that problem, though.

> 3) You drastically underestimate the political, economic, and social cache of the Chinese miners in both the Bitcoin and general cryptocurrency world. Not only do these guys underpin a niche industry (that's worth lots of $$$), but they have their own network effects at this point.

I agree that they dominate and will continue to dominate hashrate. I disagree that that is a significant problem.
I was talking to a teacher in management who worked with finance, he told me that tax havens will never get solved to this day.

Every developed country has its own tax haven. Even if a country manages to ban banks from transferring money to a tax haven, businesses would move to other countries or find other loopholes.

It's a race to the bottom. I guess the only thing that would solve the situation is a global agreement against tax havens, something that would require a lot of diplomatic work between countries, so I guess the UN would be involved somehow?

I hear so many people ranting about the government increasing their taxes, so often in their anger they sympathize with companies who use tax havens, surprisingly, saying it's the fault of politicians and their whole "gang".

I am still waiting for voters to be attentive to this not sexy problem of taxation, and maybe, maybe, if large companies's image suffer from it, maybe things will move... But it would require citizens to at least be aware of the accounting of all of this...
This is sad news. Years ago we developed a Linux Journal Press imprint but it didn't really go very far. Many great authors have written for Linux Journal and I've enjoyed many excellent articles over the years.
..Swipe down to refresh intervenes with google maps or canvas bad interactive content on firefox focus. I just opened a ticket.
How much has your work differed over the years. FANG companies have many levels because they work at such a large scale that they require people that lead other developers at all different levels (the orgs with the super high level engineers are also massive with hundreds of engineers). They also grow so fast that their teams are constantly expanding so they can support the additional promotions.
> The iOS version is a WebKit wrapper by necessity (Apple mandates that all alternative browsers use the system-bundled WebKit for user experience reasons)

Which is why viewport values like maximum-scale, minimum-scale, and user-scalable do not work on iOS10+, no matter the browser.
An industrial resource extraction operation is not in anywhere near the same moral category as more neighbors.
Ya, it'd cause some short term disruption, to be sure. But it's not an existential threat. And it certainly doesn't make Bitcoin 'centralized'.
Yes, totally. And the rest of the community can simply move to a fork with a new hashing algorithm that their hardware doesn't mine. Which is exactly what would happen if they tried anything. And is exactly why they will never try anything.
A bit of a bummer to hear, especially when Massachusetts is shutting down its only nuclear power plan in 2019. The plant produces the vast majority of the State's renewable energy and about 15% of its total power. It doesn't sound like there are real replacements lined up.
Interesting take. I do think state-charts (and state machines) can potentially be a huge benefit to both design and development. However, your login/auth examples are really poor fits for this kind of solution. While you could use statecharts, you could also just use generalizable global form validation. There's not a lot of benefit in defining statecharts for common UI paradigms.

That said, here's an example from my own recent experience where formal statecharts/state machines became a necessity to even move forward.

My colleague published a finite state machine for swift (https://github.com/softwarenerd/Stately) that grew out of necessity from a project we worked on together.

The project (https://news.microsoft.com/videos/cities-unlocked-a-voyage-o...) was creating a turn by turn navigation system for the blind.

From a workflow perspective (and UI/UX) it was never terribly complex. There are a handful of primary actions, with a handful of intents and a single common workflow with branching outcomes. Over time and iterations, we reduced the workflow complexity quite a bit further as well.

But we kept having more and more functional regressions and exploding bug counts as more and more subsystems and capabilities were integrated into the experience. The issue was that, while workflow and UI were both simple, the number of potential application states exploded.

For a long period we used simple if/then logic, followed by tracking increasingly global variables to detect state conflicts/dependencies during flows. This was messy at best and became an unmanageable nightmare.

Enter the state-chart. We followed nearly the same process as you've outlined, with visual charts first. It gave us the initial frame to build a state machine from, followed soon after by sub-hierarchies. It worked well for us because the majority of our states were not many:many interdependent. Most states had a 1:1 or 1:few correlation with others.

Statecharts likely aren't the next big UI paradigm because most applications are driven by workflow (Line of Business apps) or by state machines that are already well-known (form validation, auth, network graph navigation, CRUD, etc) where those charts are already implicitly well handled by browsers, services or existing frameworks.

I think the magic area for statecharts is in applications with many independents or semi-linear state workflows that don't match up to visual or experiential interaction workflows.
It is claimed Satoshi has around 1M BTC[0]. But this is only "worth" something if the private keys haven't been lost, forgotten, or intentionally or accidentally destroyed, and given the lack of movement there is no evidence of this.

[0] https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-f...
Depending on what you are studying, both the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto are great graduate schools to consider. UBC has the added bonus of being fairly inexpensive for grad school.

After getting a graduate degree it is also fairly straightforward to become permanent resident, if that’s important to you.
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Up this. In the last few months, I've seen people buy mining computers without doing their homework. Who controls the bitcoins that's mined ? They can't really say. Will it still be profitable when the next generation mining equipment is plugged into some very cheap electricity source ? No clue.

All kinds of advertisments for shady bitcoin services aimed at the general public.
It's not really about equivalence. It's about insulting some other political affiliation for something your political affiliation is guilty of. And the key word is insulting: you're not trying to change anyone's mind. You're just out to condemn and belittle. It's very ugly as seen from my perspective, and the downvotes for pointing it out are ugly too. Especially when you can't downvote away people with disagree with you and expect it to help your cause. And even more so when I don't even disagree with your politics, just the broken partisanship involved.

Your type of tribal thinking is a cancer that will cause much hardship for your country in future.
Prediction for Bitcoin price
Very, very much no.
What are you saying? Regulation is how you prevent raw capitalism from blindly spewing negative externalities.

Even Lenin came around to that idea eventually.
Don’t make it required.

It’s your right to live without one.

You just can’t get on a plane, get a drivers license, get your tax refund or get a student loan without it.
Just think of it as owning a share of a stock.
Except that that doesn't really broaden the ecosystem, unfortunately.
Most exchanges have limits on how much you can cash out per day so it's very unlikely you could do 100M in one pop.
I'll add that this is literally what smallnamespace endorsed elsewhere in the thread [0]: exile for unwanted former citizens.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15834153
It exist but it's not statistically significant enough. It certainly doesn't warrant the huge drawbacks of disinfranchising voters.
Yes, the reason the Allies had jointly agreed not to allow that defense was because they knew the Germans would use it like they did after WWI in Leipzig.

But, the Allies also had to reconcile this with the Yamashita standard; that commanders have to take responsibility for what their subordinates are doing even if they haven't explicitly ordered it to convict other war criminals, most famously Tomoyuki Yamashita for the crimes his soldiers committed in the Philippines.

Which leads to this back and forth tennis game at every ethical discussion of who's really responsible; the boss or the peon? IMHO, convict them both.
The thing is that that, in turn, is somewhat of a reaction to people using native apps instead of the web, creating lock-in for other ecosystems.
What website is this?
It seems to focus a lot on how Trump is doing great, how bad muslims/islam is and on how we should focus on other things than global warming ("carbon dioxide is not a harmful chemical in the traditional sense of the word. It’s actually essential for all life on earth—plants need it to live")
To me this is just the typical example of people that profited handsomely because of:
1- being sons of rich people
and
2- being disgustingly lucky

Bitcoin is a braindead bubble with no fundamentals whatsoever, these guys just happened to have a few million lying around, they put it into something that made absolutely zero sense and ended up billionaires.