skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both houses of Congress had a Democrat majority for Obama's first two years in office.

They had plenty of time to do a lot of things in those two years.
The ads during the show are super cringey. It's not as bad as the Alexa product placement, but still
Something was installed on my system without my permission, from a vendor that I chose specifically because they promise not to do things like that.

To put it another way - if I discovered a rootkit sitting in the ~/Downloads directory on my Mac, that would be a problem. If the entity that surreptitiously placed it there said that I shouldn't worry about it because it hadn't been run, I wouldn't be inclined to trust them.
RIP

On a side note, it would have been great if rather than discontinue AIM, they open sourced it and put it in the hands of the community. It feels somewhat wasteful to close the doors on such an iconic piece of software.
"messed up", like they messed up by re-adding Pocket to toolbars a few months back.

Do Mozilla have no QC, or is it purposeful?

All these "but it's only an add-on [we foisted on you]", should just be a bullet point on the upgrade screen "we'd like it if you used this".

This is Microsoft level "customer" control, where they just ignore any chance the customer doesn't want something changing and go ahead, it's being treated now as Mozilla's browser not the users.
This reminds me of trophic cascades and e.g the unintuitive link that killing wolfs affects riverbeds:

https://shadowproof.com/2014/02/20/trophic-cascade-how-wolve...

It like we can't understand complex systems very well. Almost everything we do seem to have to have major unintended consequences. We see this over and over again, we have to abandon the "as cheap and fast as possible" thinking !
I think people need reminding that we are a republic, not a democracy. Regardless of what you think of this Net Neutrality rule change, this is how things work in a republic.
How much JS knowledge does one need to start plotting with D3.js or Plotly.js ?
Same with 57.0 on macOS 10.12.

Edit: I have FF Studies disabled under about:preferences#privacy. I guess that is the reason why it is not installed on my machine.
The problem is that's not really a comment, it's a string which needs to be evaluated as data, wasting resources while never being used. In any sane language, comments are simply ignored by the parser or compiler.

Because Douglas Crockford didn't want people abusing comments in JSON by turning them into parsing directives, JSON doesn't allow using comments at all, even correctly, so everyone is left abusing JSON itself with workarounds that are objectively worse than just having comments.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing!
The emergency stop system should not be connected to the normal conveyor control system. It should be an independent system, since in an emergency the normal controls are presumably malfunctioning.
> They don't disagree, they just don't care.

Except this just isn't true. In NN in particular, the GOP tried to push legislation through, but the Dems only wanted Title II as the method. The disagreement is really less about NN and more about how to accomplish NN.
Not I. Even if I had that kind of money burning a hole in my pocket I think it would be better spent elsewhere.
I remember when my friend introduced me to AIM (and “instant messaging”) in the 90s.

“It’s like email, but faster”
Another difference is that the latter schema would allow students to have multiple graduations. Which could be totally valid, but in that sense it's not equivalent to the former schema.
>Hopefully, it's a bug, and that addon wasn't intended to be installed (much less active) universally like it is.

hey look, a voice of reason!

seriously. Mozilla is a company that has a long track record of dedication to openness and the free and open internet

this isnt Google, facebook, etc

let's all take a step back and give them a little benefit of the doubt here, until we get some facts on what happened.

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It seems like your statement was also a motte and bailey. With a softball statement that bad journalism is bad (non-controversial), you'd have us believe our whole economic system is also bad (highly controversial).
Something I'll miss about AIM and older chat clients is how compact they were. Most of these newer chat programs seem to assume you're going to have their application take up the entire screen.
Whistleblower Guardian for Spies Escorted Out of Intelligence Agency Building
I did not opt in and I have the "Looking Glass - MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS." extension enabled.

Adding my me-too because I was fully convinced this was user error until I saw it myself. The opt-in is busted.
>Nothing but damn lies.

Please review the civility guidelines. If nothing else, mischaracterizing a clearly-labeled presumptive statement as a "damn lie" reveals your malice and discredits your POV.

As I alluded to in the grandparent, it was not at all obvious that the FCC or other elements of the Obama administration were working toward net neutrality when the jokes about Obama leaving the baby to the dingos were getting flung around. [0]

> What burden of net neutrality repeal? There was no burden because there was no requirement to repeal NN.

It was clear that ISPs did not fit the legal definition of Title II carriers which is why they weren't just classified as such at the beginning. It was clear that it was not likely that they would retain this classification, whether a Democrat won the next cycle and a successful lawsuit overturned the rulings or whether the FCC undid it as is the case now with Ajit Pai (whose primary contention, by the way, is not that net neutrality shouldn't exist, just that Title II is not an appropriate regulatory framework in which to cast it).

Of course, in politics, all that really matters is brownie points, so as long as the public sees you as the good guy, then you win and it doesn't matter if a judge overturns everything you've done.

Obama made liberal use of this principle, and in some cases his staff would openly discuss the expectation that some executive action would not survive judicial review. Obama was pretty bad about his respect for legal structure and processes, but Trump takes it to such an extreme that saying this about Obama seems like a joke now. :P

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU
During the D maintenance, every part should be inspected. Things like fuel lines should be inspected much more regularly, ideally more often than it would take to rub through a fuel line.

But a visual inspection on a fuel line can be really difficult. I had a motorcycle with a leaky fuel line once, luckily it sprung a leak while warming up in my driveway and I turned off the bike before anything bad happened but it was almost impossible to tell where the leak was without pressurized fuel, the hose looked pristine without positive pressure to highlight the crack.

In race cars, they sometimes 'overpressure' the fuel line (above operating pressure but below max pressure) to check for leaks, I wonder if they ever do that routinely for aircraft.
Watershed Cyber Attack Brings Down Critical Systems
It would be sweet to play a whole game against AlphaGo at some point. Is anyone aware of when we'll be able to do that?
> My examples were to show that there are knowledge claims where this fails.

Except that your example was just an equivocation of no substantial relevance to the problem at hand that also doesn't really hold?

First of all, you should be well aware that we were talking about knowledge about external reality, so it's simply irrelevant that you can define knowledge to encompass awareness of individual personal experiences ... yes, you can, but that wasn't the topic of the discussion, and isn't contested by anyone, and thus doesn't contribute anything to the discussion.

Secondly, I hope very much that you were not implying that you can know that what you experience as the cause of pain is in fact the cause, because that is contradicted by phantom pain, which requires scientific inquiry to (a) know about in general and (b) distinguish from pain caused by what you experience it to be caused by in the specific instance. Which is also the only way we know pain is even a common thing amongst people, as well as the reason we know what causes pain in many instances.

And then, well, really, to an extent we can actually observe both causes for pain and whether someone is experiencing pain without the need to rely on self-reports, so the gap between what is purely subjective about the experience of pain and what can be observed about it scientifically is not as massive as you seem to suggest.
How fingerprint authentication compromises your security?
As a tourist that's how you felt, but did you speak to the people who live there? What you'll find is a people scared to criticize their dictatorship government, which is incredibly rich and lives a life of luxury whilst their citizens are very poor.
So 18 years of outdated security practices...
Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking
The end result would be better and the discussion around the lack of a free market in ISP's should be the primary public discourse.

NN doesn't solve that and removing it also doesn't solve that.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pgak38/the-fcc-ca...
The Case for .NET in the Classroom
That sounds like "no they haven't pushed an unsolicited advert at all ... except to people who offered to be in a development program, who they've pushed an unsolicited advert to" ...
No, that is not an excuse. They will not let you vote if you do not have an ID. Why should it be an excuse anywhere? I just looked it up; getting an ID is cheaper in the US than in the Netherlands. If it is somehow extremely difficult to obtain an ID in the US, then surely the fact that this would make it difficult to vote is the least of the problems, since you presumably need an ID for lots of other things, like opening a bank account and getting married. Why is the outcry only about voting?
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> Yeah, whatever points this article had were completely marred by terrible examples.

The article isn't that complicated. He meant to say exactly what he did say.

Which makes sense, given the entire point of tolerating free speech is that people are free to say terrible things, not "moderately uncomfortable" things.

Executive summary: (1) Open societies are more innovative. (2) Silicon Valley is becoming less tolerant of divergent viewpoints. (3) This is primarily culture-driven, but will likely have an effect on innovative science, which by definition starts as sounding somewhat crazy.
The acquisition was two years after the integration. The referenced comment says nothing about tracking being removed, only referencing a "special deal" whatever that means.

You are trying to muddy the waters here. Even if I were to accept your (wrong) explanations, they still don't jive with the image Mozilla is trying to project.
> Most people have a bike, but would never bother taking it somewhere fancy like this to get it fixed or serviced. They paid $100 for it at Walmart.

As with many other markets, the middle is being hollowed out - there's a large low-end ($100 Walmart bikes) and a niche of high-end pro-sumers who have disposable income and time to spend on expensive hobbies (I believe a "decent" mountain bike starts at $1,000-2,000, going up to $xx,000).

The old middle ground ($300-500 bikes bought by unknowledgeable consumers who need the help of local stores) is what is being gutted by the decline of the middle class' disposable incomes and the specialized knowledge high-end hobbyists can now attain thanks to the Internet.

Service businesses can do well targeting the high end. The low end products are disposable.
Python 101
I'm looking to learn python, any suggestions on books or online resources.
OK. So, how do you know that science works? Or do you think that it doesn't work or that you don't know whether it works?
Most PLs don't take off.

Language choice is mostly
dependent of social factors that can be summarised as "network
effect". In PLs that manifests itself primarily through a lack of
mature and numerous libraries.

Eiffel had additional technical flaws:

- Subtyping was	wrong.

- Handling of concurrency was wrong, in the sense that almost all
concurrency was hidden, instead of exposed. Eiffel was an anti-Erlang in this regard.

- A lot of modern PL features were missing, e.g. pattern matching,
first-class higher-order functions.

- The single most distinctive of Eiffel's features, built-in support
for assertions, was not supported by good-enough tools.

I would	argue that the last point is still the case today for all formal verification,
see e.g. Microsoft's Dafny [1]. Automating formal	verification	so
that normal programmers can use it routinely in mainstream programming is an
unsolved problem in December 2017.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/dafny
> How about, if you want to watch TV, get TV. Leave the internet to information that doesn't have an alternative.

Thanks for this valuable and insightful contribution.
This reminded me of a math professor during my undergrad. He would print out copies a math problem from some journal that published these kinds of interesting problems that are pretty hard and a little different from what you normally see in class. He would then put the copies in the halls of the math building. If you could bring him your solution and explain it to him he would give you $20 and mail in your answer to the journal, who would then send you back a little certificate and publish your name in the next edition.

It was by solving one of these problems (using math that was above the course I was currently taking) that I started to interact more with the math department and decided to take more advanced classes!
Cobra effect
Reminds me of this gem, wherein ads were called user-enhancing: https://twitter.com/dherman76/status/433320156496789504

> Excited to share the launch of @mozilla @firefox Tiles program, the first of our user-enhancing programs
Massachusetts officials vow to fight FCC rollback of net neutrality rules
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Their home computers probably don't run Linux, for one. They also don't have to worry about syncronization over the network, and they don't have much opportunity to learn about hardware and maker skills.

I think you initially misunderstood this to be a consumer-oriented project instead of a classroom-oriented project, but doubled down when you were corrected.
But it appears from the link thread that there was no individual opt-in to this particular study, done for what appears to be the purposes of advertising. Clearly it's not as bad as what I first thought it to be, but still sounds fishy.
Ask HN: Learning material for basic level knowledge about Docker, AWS and NoSQL
I will have an interview next week for an iOS role where the company representative said that I will be expected to know basic stuff about Docker, AWS and NoSQL databases. Being an iOS dev, I don't know much about these. What should one know to cover "basic" stuff? What materials would you recommend for learning about these?
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Same here. I didn't even known about Studies until reading this thread.
Metering is not a critical/safety component of the grid. It's an important business component, but it does not by itself guarantee safety or preclude safety measures from kicking in.

There are other systems that are used to monitor load/draw on the grid and ensure safe operation.

Things like smart meters can be connected to the public net and if compromised just cause a headache.

Your critical safety system should not be connected to public networks or at least should have strong protections.
This is the second spyware extension in recent memory.

How hard is it to fork Firefox with all this stuff hardcoded off?
Running FF58. I don't have it either. I also don't agree to stuff unknowingly. It's clearly spelled out in the settings under privacy that you can agree to this stuff. Nothing I've seen suggests this isn't happening. People are saying things but no one is backing up any accusations with any proof yet.
I do think they should just do the "free wifi" trick of redirecting to a new page.
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I admit I'm not a statistician (or someone that regularly does quantitative research) and don't really understand what a p-value says (without refreshing myself on it for reading for 30 minutes each time heh). So thanks for correction.

But I think many of the researchers applying it don't either, heh.

The real point is just that there are other statistical tests that might be appropriate here, and perhaps would be more reliable at catching this. And that there's actually widespread agreement among experts that p-value testing is widely wrongly used.

> large enough to reject the null hypothesis

Or at any rate, that there's a calculated max 5% chance of the null hypothesis being true, if the assumptions/pre-requisites of the p-value test were actually met. Which is still actually kinda large, 5%, depending. And as I try to think about and confuse myself, may actually be entirely the wrong test as applied here, not sure.
"Yet, in reality, beauty standards are a set of norms that reinforce the gender and class status quo in a patriarchal society."

Can you please expand on this? That is a very strong statement.
https://python.swaroopch.com/
The dice should have been tested before changing them. They might haven't been perfect dice to begin with. Also the lack of automatization is disturbing. I find it shocking that no robot arm or pattern recognition was used to do the tests. Poor wife indeed! "If only my husband was a bigger geek" she must've thought.
I've switched to Waterfox, because of things like this (including the Cliqz issues). I'm all for Mozilla making money and trying things, the problem is the way in which they do it. They fail to respect the users enough to communicate things, and have not been behaving like a user-friendly transparent company for some time now. I was a big enough fan to regularly donate and urge friends to do the same, but something has gone wrong inside the company.
I wonder how e-bikes are going to fit into all this, although I'm happy with mine the buying experience was awful.
Mozilla went through a year long legal discussion with GA before we would ever implement it on our websites. GA had to provide how and what they stored and we would only sign a contract with them if they allowed Mozilla to opt-out of Google using the data for mining and 3rd parties. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14 https://bug697436.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=73207...
I disagree with the notion that they're ambiguous at all. Foxit and Fox-IT have quite a noticeable difference in their names, IMO. (although they do have the same letters, so I get your point)
upload it to Google Drive for easy OCR to a doc

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?co=GENIE.Plat...
Your point of course stands, but this example may not be ideal. It is a country where the predominant religion follows ideas very closely related to those in the Bible.
> Why are systems like this connected to the internet?

Probably a variety of reasons. Here's one.

There was something I saw on my local PBS station that was about security and the electrical grid. They talked to some manager of a major power plant who had a phone app that could monitor that plant over the internet and pretty much completely control it.

They talked about how this app came about. The manager decided it would be convenient so he could keep up on things when he was away at conferences and such. There were no security experts involved in writing this thing, or in analyzing what the risks were of adding outside internet access to the LANs that control systems were on. It was all as casual as you or I might make a phone app that can turn on our garage lights.

The thought that there might be some danger in the control systems being directly accessible from the internet simply did not occur to anyone.
The Curious Case of the Broken Benchmark: Apache Flink vs. Databricks Runtime
We already have the feudalism. Facebook/Twitter/Google/Apple. They have tremendous lock-in on the current market.

Your content is theirs, and their policy is your law.
> at least $2 trillion to fix our infrastructure over the next 10 years.

I can only hope that some of this translates into some kind of New Deal work. Being just older than the millennials, I have felt for some time that I grabbed the last rung of a ladder being dangled from a helicopter as the building under me was crumbling into flames.
Yes and a big part of this entire issue is users deciding whether we can trust Mozilla with that power or not.
Was that outcry? I thought it was that or get sued. Been a while, though, so maybe I misrecollect.
It’s called “freedom of speech” my dude, and it’s actually essential to debate, even (particularly!) if you don’t agree with it.
I can give you the reason.

Everybody at aol stopped using it years ago for internal communication and switched to slack.

The team had also been cut down to a skeleton crew a long time ago and they stopped development on it.

The reason why they are killing it as opposed to letting it hang around for ever is that aol has been in a multi-year long process of moving everything to AWS and due to the way aim is architected, it would be a major development effort to make the move, and they just don't want to spend the money.

I'm going to guess the mail product will also face a similar end for similar reasons.
That lack of permissions make this illegal IMO. CFAA in USA and CMA in UK both make unauthorised access and unauthorised modification of a computer a crime.

I've used FF since before it was FF, and I've installeded it on umpteen other people's computers; strongly advocating for it. Since they sacked that guy for not conforming to a specific liberal ideology they seem to have gone batshit crazy ... what happened? Was he their main privacy advocate or something?
Menu > Options > Privacy & Security > untick Allow Firefox to install and run studies

I deliberately kept that enabled initially but if they're going to use it for Adware..
No thanks, am happy with the shell as is.
It's because the people buying the software aren't the ones using it.
Have you ever asked yourself about your mission in this life?
That's what the police allege.

She claims that it was direct humanitarian aid to the peoples in Syria.
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Neat!

FYI, 404 on the about page: https://cloudbackend.appdrag.com/About-Us.html
You are completely wrong if you think no US citizen has gotten a job or not experienced wage growth in the last 30 years.
Good point! Perhaps it's a holdover from smartphone chat apps, most of which were designed full-screen.
meanwhile slack grows and requires a much heavier desktop client, and people use fb chat like wildfire

clearly the issue is product mismanagement rather than cultural shifts away from 'this type of service'
I believe that B747 do get regularly tear down. They basically remove all the cabins, lots of the conduits and wires, remove the instruments in the cockpit, inspect hidden areas, and reassemble the whole thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_maintenance_checks#D_...
Because the previous ads for Pocket and Telefonica were effective and they don't care?
What platform are you on?