skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What many do not realize that this crisis, while regional, has the potential to fuel global conflicts in near future. There are roughly 5 million refugees in Bangladesh at present, a country which itself has poor infrastructure and struggling under the weight of its over population. A large number of these refugees are children and young adults, who saw their villages burned, family members raped and killed. They will be easy prey to Jihadist propaganda. They will be recruited by extremist groups, they will commit atrocities in the name of revenge/religion, which in turn will increase the anti-muslim sentiments around the world. Nationalists and ultra-right leaders will use this as a platform to rise to power.
> While on the surface that might seem like a workable idea, getting input validation right is going to require more syntax (making it far less clean)

Input validation will go into the router, which I have created for Express, Koa and React. Application code will not have to deal with validation or parsing.

> Specifically, URLs are only ever string data, so without type annotation everything is strings, even if it looks like a number, array, or even more complex data type.

You'd have to pass more complex data types either in body (as JSON) or as parameters with quoting. Current router does however, infer types to the extent of:

//Params inferred as string, number, boolean and number.
curl "http://www.example.com/search(Jeswin,20,true,x)?x=100"
And yet, strangely, no one blames the SEC.
I've been an overly faithful Firefox user since the first versions, through all of its performance problems and lagging behind Chrome. 12+ or whatever years of daily use. I was thrilled with the quantum update, finally Firefox was competitive again.

I agree with the article. Whoever signed off on this obvious user abuse, should be immediately fired. It's inexcusable. I use Firefox so I don't have to use Google's Chrome as my primary browser. If Mozilla keeps behaving badly, I have no reason to use Firefox, it's that simple.
The open review system (anyone can review any item) maybe made some sense when it was just book reviews, but makes much less sense for all items. A good start would be to only allow reviews on verified purchases. At least then it would be much harder for bad actors to up stakes on a listing and clone to a new one once the authentic negative reviews piled up.

Verified reviews can be faked and gamed as well, but it is harder, more costly and time consuming.
Indeed, this is how IceCat works: by taking the Firefox ESR release and sed'ing out things like EME and telemetry.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/makeicec...
There's something of value to the energy and enthusiasm that Elon seems to be able to generate. Even if the initial version of the idea is dumb he may be able to iterate it until it's not, if he's creating more buy in and excitement than everyone else.
Well ignoring that it altered your headers and display of content.... yeah had no effect at all.
That is quite the bit of straw manning! I'm simply asking how anybody would propose to solve the problem even given the unreasonably simple scenario of absolute power and no economic considerations. Even in this 'toy scenario', nothing really seems particularly viable.

One major problem you'll have with comparing other nations (or even states) is genetic issues. The exact heritability of addiction is not clear, but the fact that it has a heritability that ranges from significant to extremely significant [1] is clear. As always, not all people are the same.

[1] - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008....
Yes, it was possible but did not happen. Somebody(s) has to be the person/people that does it. Nuclear powered rocket engines existed in the 1960's, but little to no work has been done on that problem since then. If someone develops one in 2361, proclaiming, "not big deal, we could have done that four hundred years ago" is a bit silly.

Musk went to NASA's website back in 2000 or so looking for the man to Mars plans and found nothing so he started a rocket company to bring down launch costs by a factor of 100. Ten years later reuse of rockets is happening. Amazing isn't it. Let's see what the next twenty bring.
I usually look at the 1 star reviews first and see if the complaints are user error, unreal expectations or really a poorly designed product.
Back in the day you'd chop down some trees, build yourself a shelter on none's land and live of fishing + farming + hunting. It gets harder (impossible?) to live without assets or ability to make money for someone else hired work. Perhaps if they pooled their efforts?
Do you have examples of that occurring, or is it just conjecture?
(I'm pro-net-neutraility, for the record)

By not having net neutrality, being an ISP is less profitable. This sounds like it's only supporting those "greedy corporate fat cats," but consider this: why are there so few ISP's in the first place? Answer: it's not really profitable. By removing net neutrality, you give the little guys a lot better chance at their own ISP's.
Are you implying that public transport, which in Europe is required to have accessibility measures like ramps and elevators, is worse for someone in a wheelchair than a regular car they would never fit in (let alone in the driver seat)? Most elderly also benefit from the same measures.

EDIT: I don't really understand the Amazon question. Maybe I didn't understand the original question either.
How disappointing:(
With the new Privacy Regulation in the EU, and since Mozilla is distributing FireFox globally, would there soon be a way to sue Mozilla in the case of privacy invading updates?
I rode the cog railway up Pike's Peak a few years ago.

If you EVER get a chance to ride the train documented here, or any other such train, BY ALL MEANS take it. The views are just spectacular. And, on a train, you're not distracted by driving, so you can watch the view the whole time.
It's hard to objectively compare lossy encoders. Yes, there are various metrics, but you will get very different results depending on which metric is chosen.
I've given money to FOSS projects before (last time $5 for a really basic color picker for elementary OS).

I'm sure people would give something if Mozilla asked--kind of like Wikipedia do it with a message on their site.

Why can't they just do that? It doesn't look like it could hurt more than this.
Ask HN: What software that does not exist yet would pay for?
I am currently looking to start a side project (I am a software developer myself) but have no idea which tangible problem I could solve. And I don't want to write another TODO app for the sake of doing it.

Do you have any headaches that you think could be solved by a piece of software? If yes, is this something you would pay for?
Couple of questions come to find:

a. How is this data accessed? Can anyone in my network access this? Because even if we draw a parallel to credit scores, not everyone can access my credit scores.

b. What kind of behavior is this encouraging? Most credit scores track bigger picture items - credit card payment, loan payments etc. But, suppose I can see my credit score go up and down then I might end up trying to avoid a specific behavior.

c. How does the scoring work? If I buy say from a company known to sell VPN services, do I lose points?
https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156496789504 exemplifies the poor misunderstanding of the userbase:

> Excited to share the launch of @mozilla @firefox Tiles program, the first of our user-enhancing programs

To call advertisements "user-enhancing" is an affront and betrays values like privacy that Mozilla claims to espouse
Three Blockchain Companies That Could Change Everything in Traditional Lending
Arnold Swarzenegger suggested tiered pricing 25 years ago, that a big-budget movie like Terminator 2 should be $25. The problem is that movie budget is inversely proportional to audience budget. A big, special-effects movie appeals to kids with no money. A deliberately paced character study like Lincoln appeals to grown-ups, who could afford to pay $25.

With what I see on Youtube that can be made with one person and a copy of After Effects, maybe one day kids' movies will be the cheap ones. The superhero movies will "just" have special effects and some mid-priced actors. Meanwhile the grown-up movies will have all the best screenwriters and actors, which will be the major expense left after technology levels everything else.
You say that like those are the only options. They may unfortunately be the most common, but outside of the Silicon Valley brogrammer bubble there are companies working on real problems, and not just trying to expand corporate mass surveillance while patting themselves on the back for "changing the world".
I would be very surprised if any telco were using any sort of compression internally (other than G.711, obviously). 64 kb/s with RTP/IP framing overhead is about 100 kb/s, that's just not a lot of bandwidth anymore that it would be worth installing hardware to do de-/compression. Even a gigabit link can carry ~ 10000 such calls--that's a drop in the bucket compared to the internet needs of the many more than 10000 subscribers that you need to ever have 10000 concurrent calls (probably more in the range hundreds of gigabits, possibly terabits).
I fear that that spot is taken by Robowars now.

They're not even robots...
If you can call arbitrary bpf functions I would imagine it would be trivial to allow loops through recursion, perhaps borrowing the 'gas' concept from Etherium to avoid infinite recursion and/or using too much time for function application?
Sorry but where's your evidence?

Mozilla is still today doing incredible work. The work on Quantum was extremely forward-thinking in a way that most corporations cannot support; it brought us Rust, which is a fantastic contribution to the ecosystem.

Furthermore, Mozilla has always had troubles with judgement and mismanagement, this is not new. The problems that have been surfacing are old problems, they're just getting more severe.
I don't see the analogy. In the rule of law you have a code of law, judges, juries and long deliberations. In criminal law the bar of evidence is preponderance of evidence, while in mob rule you need no evidence and you do not have to listen to both sides.
Because by 'dying', Lay's conviction was vacated. Of course, that meant he didn't go to jail but it also meant that he didn't pay any fines, leaving his rather large estate secure as an inheritance. W even went to his funeral.
Years ago, I saw an interview with someone who was or had been in Special Forces in the military. He talked about how hard training was and that he got through training by telling himself he was just going to stay until lunch. After lunch, he would mentally commit to the next hour or two or to making it to dinner.

This completely changed my concept of such people and became a cornerstone for getting me through a lot of challenges in the last roughly decade.

People who do hard things aren't simply awesome at everything or blessed to come from the right family, have the right education etc. Some of them are getting through hard things by managing their emotions and psychology with some of the same tricks used by political prisoners being subjected to torture and trying to not break.
> Until then just provide security fixes.

You'd lose the non-security bug fixes and the performance improvements. I wouldn't like it, and it would surely be obsolete/irrelevant extremely fast.
Singapore and HK are more like city states in a strategic position without a hinterland. I doubt anything can be extrapolated from them.
I just don't understand what the point or justification purpose of this massive give away is supposed to be in the first place. Why are people with about twice the median income (=can qualify for a mortgage on $400,000 home) getting a multi-hundred thousand dollar check from uncle sam?

If we are going to do wealth distribution why not start at the bottom and work our way up, instead starting in the middle and working our way up to the upper middle?
Yes, it's not a crime previously for both the providers and the viewers; however, viewers unofficially announce or utility public information is plagiarism
I'm completely sick of hearing about "grit" in any context not involving corn (I'll give John Wayne a special dispensation). Can we move on to the next pop-psych concept that explains everything?
Because it's impossible to run a >$600 million US-Dollar business in China without involvement from the Chinese government. The same government that heavily spies on its citizens and blocks access to the internet with a huge firewall.
Or you could just put a train in the space taken up by 10 automobiles. In LA, each rail car can hold roughly 100 people at capacity, and each train has 3 cars, so we're looking at a 5x-29x increase in capacity over Musk's underground freeway proposal.
The helpers are in http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.15-rc3/source/kern.... See the field gpl_only. For the list of which helpers are available in which hooks, the code needs to be read, to find things like: http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.15-rc3/source/net/....

Unfortunately, I don't believe the high level list of which hooks have gpl helpers is published, so reading the code is the best method currently.
While I appreciate the clarity of this approach ("Don't screw the crew"), when people spend lots of time in the company of someone, and their is mutual attraction, relationships will become romantic.

Work celibacy is not the answer, and it often leads to keeping sexual relationships clandestine, which enables further bad power dynamics.

Discouraging a rapey dickhead enabling culture is a far more successful investment of effort. Policies against inappropriate supervisor relationships are a good idea though.
Third-party sites are not "easily" detecting them. They have no idea what the performance of their "detection" is, in either direction (false +, false -).
A more apt analogy is taking the best mathematicians and having them exclusively work on stock market algorithms on wall street.

To pretend this is isolated to SV is ignorant. This is what you get in capitalism
What makes the "elite ruling class" immune to the Dunning-Kruger effect?
Amazon is starting to feel more and more like eBay. The same product sold by multiple vendors under different names, questionable reviews, clearly fraudulent sellers and so on.

I used to love Amazon but now when I look for something I dread to do so on Amazon because I don't feel I can trust anything there.
Huh? You paid X dollars a long time ago for the Honda. If instead you and your identical neighbors had been sharing a sequence of Hondas which were driven continuously and then replaced, your contribution to the purchase prices (i.e., the total price of all those cars divided by the number of neighbors) would have been less than X dollars (since your Honda is still running). Furthermore, it would have been spread out in payments over 14 years rather than being paid upfront in 2003. Therefore, you could have kept that money in the bank stock market earning interest.

That's the cost I'm talking about. The maintenance cost of raw sitting time (rust, freeze-thaw cycles, etc.) are additional.
A TED Talk.
Hey thanks, I used this recently with responsive-loader and it worked great, although responsive-loader was a little finicky to get working!
Did you read what I wrote? You can put buses into this system and charge by how much space the vehicle takes up. If a car is 1/2 the space of a bus then the bus pays 2 times the price and the people in the bus pay 1/20th the price. If demand is high enough then car travel will get very expensive and the system transitions very nicely to a train system with only large, packed buses traveling in it.

This system is also nice because people could choose all types of different ways they would like to travel. From sleeper cars, to mobile offices, to cramped seats on a bus, to stand-only packed in like-sardines, we are now in a Japanese subway situation.
People give fake reviews all the time in other circumstances (e.g. at work, reviewing papers). Human nature really can't be changed. You just have to keep your skepticism and read critically.
> And realistically, in my experience as an experienced software developer, the whole golf course / LAN party thing just doesn't happen. Or if it does, I'm certainly not benefiting from it either.

It tends to be much more subtle than most people expect. The boss asks your coworkers about you and people say nicer things about people they're friendlier with. Or you're hanging out with someone outside of work and end up talking about work for a minute, and having the extra information makes you look good. Or your friend gets a job at a better company and then you have inside information and someone to put in a good word for you if you want to do the same thing.
Dillo was awesome last time I have checked.
I don't think its a great comparison. Uber has repeatedly broken the law including stealing trade secrets, spying on competitors, and sabotaging them. They aren't toeing the law to figure out what regulations make sense for ridesharing. They are flagrantly breaking every rule so they win.
Can you elaborate on the concern? Not challenging your point, just trying to understand how concerned I should be.
or Medium post.
Very strange to see that. Are the managers responsible at Mozilla not aware that a significant part of the appeal of Firefox is user autonomy and privacy? No reason to gamble away your reputation by violating user trust like that.

I understand they need money to develop a browser, but surely there must be better ways to promote partnerships. I personally probably wouldn't have a problem with Firefox asking me to opt-in to ads and promotions in the new tab page at first startup to support Firefox, for instance.
Bioperl is specific to biology/genomics to my knowledge although you could probably use it for other tasks. I'd use PDL if it had more use and support and was easier to setup, but it's a pain in that regard. I've tried installing it on windows via strawberry perl & activestate and won't be trying again after the 1/2 hour install repeatedly failed tests.
Edgar Allen Poe on Chess and Checkers
> $12.99 in the store and $27.xx at Amazon!

Was this from a 3rd party seller? I have seen a lot of 3rd party sellers have listings for pretty outrageous prices. I think they're either trying to catch people who don't shop around / don't know what the product is worth, or they are just not managing their pricing well. On a lot of popular products you can see an example of the latter where Amazon themselves will be selling a product for a given price, and then if you look at other offers you'll see the same thing being sold by other sellers for double or triple Amazon's price.
It's simply slope. 1st derivative. Slope 100% = 1 which is equivalent to a 45° angle.
Good advice but incomplete in my opinion. Discipline(grit) is good, but developing it without a concrete goal is very hard.

He uses push ups as an example and states that it's not for the physical conditioning, but to train his grit. That's his goal. He's chosen this thing and has probably thought for a while about its value, and has come to the conclusion that it is worth the tradeoff is the time and pain of the pushups.

Goals are personal and the same might not work with everyone. If 'developing grit' is some wishy washy thing that an article on the internet told you to do, then you might not stick with the pushups. If your goal is to pass a fitness test for becoming a firefighter or something, and that's something that you really, really want to do, the pushups become easy as long as you hold your ultimate goal in mind.

The most disciplined people in the world got there not because being the most disciplined was their goal, but discipline was necessary for attaining it.
You don’t need to run a one-party police state in order to have a functioning public transit system or limit urban car use, and it’s entirely possible to have a one-party police state while also having car-dependent suburban sprawl.
I don't think Amazon has marketed themselves to be low price leaders for a long time now. In fact, a lot of people around me know they pay a slight premium when shopping on Amazon, and do it nonetheless for the convenience it offers.
"It is impossible to fork Firefox and survive"

Pale Moon did this a while ago and is still around, although in need of donations as many other volunteer-driven projects.
https://www.palemoon.org/
That's actually why I created it in the first place! I no longer use responsive loader any more (fully offline web application, so the responsive images just weren't worth the extra complexity at that point), but it does work wonderfully once you wrangle it under control.
I'd never used userContent.css before, but just tried it and it works fine. 57.0.2 (64-bit) on Win7.

I'd suggest raising a bug.
I don't think the problem is sourci g individual donations. It's more of a predictable revenue model they can make decisions on. Crowd funding the expenses of a whole corporation seems a difficult process to take on every year.

Sustainability is something that plagues every open source project.
I just don't think that anything SpaceX or Tesla have done is science fiction material the way you wrote. They are really good at commercializing and streamlining existing ideas and they have the courage to do something first.
Synonyms.
>> Amazon – who has some of the world’s most advanced ML – really needs to step up its review fraud detection game.

It's not in the interests of Amazon to be on a crusade against fake reviews. Mass fake reviews are the driving force of revenues.

AMZN will always maintain the balance between public outcry and absolute minimal effort to show that they're doing something against spammers.

From my side I maintain the right to buy the product and then write "not as described" as a reason for free return for full refund with free pickup.

Quite often vendor/seller will give you refund without requiring you to return merchandise.

I don't feel like I been abused too much by fake reviews as long as I can "abuse back" with my free return.
This article seems to think content providers have been on an unlimited data plan and the elimination of net neutrality means they must pay per byte.

That is not the case. Netflix and YouTube already pay in proportion for the bandwidth they consume.

Aside from being factually incorrect, the article's incoherent, rambling style is awful.
It's short for /sarcasm
> It's a terrible idea mainly in that it is unfair to everyone who didn't drink the kool-aid and buy a house because the value was supposed to always go up. Not just because wealthy people might profit.

It's a terrible idea for a lot of different reasons. Above all because it isn't a good idea. It doesn't come out of any kind of problem solving or optimization logic, just "wouldn't be awesome if I didn't have a mortgage anymore".

> But I don't think we've learned because people are still arguing over whether we should have just thrown the bankers in prison, like the system wouldn't just replace them with more bankers.

People are influenced by fear as well as greed. Of course the system would just come up with more bank executives. We'd want it to. But those bank executives would have something more to fear than just an earlier retirement than they had hoped for. Their greed would push them in one direction and their fear in the other. Hopefully the two would balance out to something closer to the social optimum. At the very least we should expect it to be closer than when there's nothing to fear at all.