skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your argument. How do reviews drive revenues? If all fake reviews were taken down, wouldn't buy less stuff from Amazon.
On the one hand, the behavior she describes is unambiguously sexual harassment, and no well-meaning person would behave like "S" did by accident.

On the other hand, I still remember Donglegate, so this trend towards more men being accused of sexual harassment makes me nervous.
Mozilla bought pocket early this year. The pocket integration was before that in mid-2015.
No you can't, you need to leave stopping distance for safety reasons. If anything AVs will leave more room between cars than human drivers.
"Sign in" as in into Chrome Sync?
There are groups that do both: buying the first batches of products and writing nice reviews, then the seller will pay for what they have done, it's a mature business these days: you hire a team to market you at Amazon by faking reviews after "real" purchases(will be compensated or rewarded under the counter afterwards). This is very hard to detect indeed.

Maybe Amazon can have some AI algorithm, that is for any newly arrived products with non-sales yet, monitoring the activities on them closely,the fake purchase and review must have some common pattern(same address, same ID, same IP,etc).

But then, why does Amazon want to do that? it will decrease its own profit.

So yes, customers will be the one got screwed up no matter what.
I mean the whole thing is a repackaging of the idea that nothing matters except whether you tried hard enough.
Examples of which part of my statement?

That coworkers sometimes show interest in one another? Or, that HR complaints sometimes arise from coworker relationships?

Here's a nice article from WaPo if you'd like to read about a deluge of new complaints at HR departments and social media.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/11...
ESPECIALLY since there exists a whole "add-ons" infrastructure to handle extras.
> There's a lot of power in branding, apparently. People keep saying things like, "Mozilla is a good company at heart", and I'm at a loss. Mozilla 2017 is nothing like the Mozilla that existed when the Foundation was established, or when the Mozilla Manifesto was adopted.

I don't know, Rust and Servo seem to show that there's still the hacker spirit that was there at the beginning, it's just they accumulated a lot of 'business types' if you will over the years and they need to put that engineering face back at the top, instead of being too focused at running a multi-million dollar enterprise.
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Nothing is wrong with statistics. This is just a sexual harasser. Why frame it as a new social issue in statistics when this is a very well known general problem in society?
Exactly what I was thinking. By putting a question mark in the title is taking away from the urgency of the situation. You really have to wonder?
pdf.js seems to work quite nicely.

Seems that's no different than opening with external program, or using a plugin, or using an extension. After all,those things can be updated, whereas the browser should have more core functionality that enable new document types to being opened.
Haha...I'm in the same boat and need to stick with one.
Not just but mostly. The biggest time-based costs are:

- Insurance. Some policies have surcharges or discounts based on mileage but it's mostly an annual cost for a typical driver. (Plus excise tax and state inspection.)

- In northern states, corrosion due to salt in the winter happens even if you don't drive a car many miles. My Honda dealer is always amazed when I bring in my old '97 Del Sol with minimal rust; I've just garaged it in the winter for about the past decade.

- Some fluid, belt, etc. maintenance is time-based

- If you want to have a relatively late model car then of course that's a time-based cost. But, if you hold onto a car until it becomes unreliable/expensive to operate then you're back to auto costs being mostly a result of mileage.
I agree that there are some oversteps in the current atmosphere (e.g. equating asking someone out for drinks with harassment [0]), but this doesn't seem like that kind of case at all.

>One night after the conference talks were over, a bunch of conference participants and I went for a swim in the ocean. While I was swimming around, S repeatedly grabbed me under the water, putting his hands on my torso, hips, and thighs. I tried to play it off and swim away. He picked me up and pulled me into his chest. He then started to carry me away from the rest of the group, presumably to have some sort of private moment with me that I had absolutely no interest in sharing with him. I struggled, gently at first and then more forcefully, and he let me go.

Serious question, is that (a quote from OP) something you'd call overreach?

[0] https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/11/daily-...
Extra Credits made a video about Sesame Credit a couple of years ago. It's 7.5 minutes long, and well worth the watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI

Being a game design channel, they discuss Sesame Credit as obedience to the party, gamified.
TOR is funded by the government, among others (others including Mozilla, heh). https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en

Although they should probably not be in charge of the actual development, is it really crazy to think that Firefox could be funded by governments? At some point it is a public service.
This is happening because people now assume Amazon's prices are the best - always. But, that is not the case. There are times where people are knowingly listing a product about market prices to catch people who are caught unaware.

Once upon a time, I bought two boxes of Ener-G. It was only later I found out I have paid 100% markup on those boxes. I felt stupid that I hadn't verified the prices on the manufacturer's site.
Agree, it’s like asking why techies aren’t in prison for causing the 1999 .com bubble and subsequent crash.

But bank bail out didn’t cost 13, let alone 3 trillions.
It seems to work in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Seattle. Of course it could be better in some of those places, but those cities could not exist in their current form without mass transit.
You also need hardcore vent systems.
No, the legacy decoder is virtually unused. This loop was designed to take advantage of the rules of the DSB.

OK, think I see now. The DSB path is only able to inject one "way" per cycle, and through NOP padding you are able to ensure that each "way" only contains a single instruction? While I can find clear descriptions of what can fit in a "way", I haven't found a clear statement of the "one way per cycle" restriction, although it would explain observed behavior.

Practically, it seems like the effect would be the same if one "defeated" the DSB and came up with a similar strategy for causing the legacy MITE to trickle in instructions. The overall goal is to restrict speculative execution of loads and stores in cases where one knows that the speculation is going to fail.

You'd think that there would be an MFENCE/LFENCE/SFENCE way of solving this more directly, but I haven't found it yet. Or maybe just a LOCK? Maybe a creative false dependency to keep the processor from getting to far ahead? Interesting. Thanks for helping explore this.
Devil's advocate - there is also value in embracing laziness and looking for ways to minimize effort. I train a muscle to look for easier, cheaper alternatives.

I loathe effort so much that even a banal day to day activity like folding clothes upsets me. I switched to a 'bin' system that allows me to sort a load of laundry into bins in a few minutes.

I've perfected several 'one pan/pot' type recipes. A rare and particularly sophisticated meal might use two pieces of cookware. Oh and ask me about nutrition bars. At least one meal a day is in bar form.

Anything non-perishable I might need is shipped from amazon. For perishables, I shop at a store down the street like I'm robbing a bank. In and out in a few minutes.

Effort feels wrong. Like I'm missing something. I can still do it but my mind is brute forcing the ways to make it easier next time.
Like Konqueror? It isn't going that well. The web is evolving fast, and for good reasons.
I’m fine with REST as a transport mechanism though the resource overload constraint (Swagger) is the sort of thing that might make me dump it.

If I want to overload get with a custom search end point, I should be able to do that without someone’s idea of a perfect resource definition telling me I’m wrong.

This is the sort of thing that made me remove WCF from my resume.

Simple and flexible. This should be any standards mantra.
Those who refuse to learn history are doomed to repeat it.

REST is not the end of history, there can and should be successor architectures, but RPC is not that successor. It’s been around a very long time and fell out of fashion for good reason. It is a convenient approach that can be used if you have major control over all the interfaces, endpoint implementations and underlying infrastructure, as Google does for its use of gRPC. It really falls over if you want independent implementations and variable infrastructures over a large scale, as is the case for most Internet / Web interactions.

RPC is fundamentally flawed in that it tries to pretend that the network doesn’t exist and that distributed systems don’t have fundamentally different concerns than single computer systems. A good overview of this history from 2009 is here:
https://www.scribd.com/mobile/document/24415682/RPC-and-its-...

Keep in mind that REST only became popular around 2007, it was an uphill battle to popularize it from 2001 onwards. The web had grown to a mammoth, and vendors couldn’t make money off it, so wanted to replace it with CORBA or some other RPC (SOAP). It took a concerted effort to fight that in standards bodies, on mailing lists, on blogs. Those days didn’t have Github or social media or a myriad programmer conferences. The posts are still up if you want to see them. This history of having to fight to be perceived as relevant and useful is why REST tends to have a bit of misguided religion behind it. SQL proponents had the same issue longer ago.

The Web and REST led to the largest increase in networked computer interoperability in history, after the TCP/IP suite and Telnet. The architectural style is what catalyze JavaScript into such a ubiquitous language as it made mobile code a first class citizen in the architecture. It’s what catazlyed Google into a powerhouse as it baked self describing, uniform interfaces as the standard, enabling spidering, indexing and analytics on a global scale. Moving on from it will be harder than people realize.

By all means, be an engineer - use RPC if it fits your problem and constraints better. Use event streams if it fits your problem better. Use GraphQL or SPARQL if a data query interface is a better solution for your needs. There is no one architecture. But please, rants about how the world would be better if we all did RPC, it comes across as very divorced from the wide variety of problems and suitable architectures out there.
You might be able to take the train or fly, but only with the lowest class of seats. There might be something punitive in this, but another aspect of it is that you don't want to sell expensive things to people with bad credit.

There are myriad ways people try to get out of paying for things -- returning them, cancelling last minute, filing complaints -- that leave the merchant holding the bag even after a sale is seemingly complete.
> plural of grit "coarsely ground grain," Old English grytt (plural grytta) "coarse meal, groats, grits," from Proto-Germanic *grutja-, from the same root as grit (n.), the two words having influenced one another in sound development.

But I mean realistically hominy grits are not very popular in the UK. You can read some kind of amusing old 18th-Century letters with people writing about "I don't know how people can stand to eat this crap" talking about cornbread and grits and the like, because English people took to eating corn (or maize for our Commonwealth friends) more due its being readily available in North America than a conscious decision.
Hmmm.. Thanks for this perspective. It was quite lost on me, but maybe if it worked for you, it did for others too.
Regarding the performance improvements.

Sometimes it seems it's more about job security. How many rewrites do you need?

Mozilla's Law:

(Use McConaughey Voice)

As Intel processors get faster... Mozilla's software stays the same... speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
Multiple fraud violations[1][2]? It's interesting how Martha Stewart was put in prison for insider trading, but the financial industry's Culture of Fraud lead to practically no one going to prison.

There really needs to be a way to hold top executives accountable for the culture they've created, such as at Well Fargo where millions of fraudulent accounts were opened due to the intense pressure created by executive growth targets. This is similar to financial firms bundling shitty loans, paying off a ratings agency to call it gold while knowing full well it's full of shit, and then passing those loans off golden investment opportunities. Yet the people who get caught are those at the bottom.

If you create a culture that encourages bad things(fraud) and do not have checks and balances in place to catch bad behavior(fraud), then you should be held accountable. Typically the executives state they had "no knowledge of what was going on" in the company/department they were supposed to be running and were paid handsomely to do.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/business/in-sec-fraud-case...

2. https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/enf-actions-fc.shtml
>because the new version is horribly buggy and crashes all the time.

Really? I haven't experienced a single crash, and I was on nightlies before 57 was released, so I could try Quantum.
You're making a fool of yourself, if you think that other browsers are better in any way, shape or form.
As Lenin put it, the capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him with. Basically big media will produce all kinds of "anti-establishement" entertainment, carefully tailored to be just this side of risky.

Damn it, they managed to sanitize and mainstream punk!
I tried to buy my son a remote control car on Amazon a few weeks ago. I gave up after wading through 2 pages of 5 star reviewed products where the reviews all looked the same, all had the same structure. Many referenced "my 11 year old son", or the name of the company. This seems like something that can be weeded out using ML sentiment analysis. If too many reviews have the same structure, your posting gets demoted. If I could have found one legit looking review I would have bought that car, instead I gave up and went to The hobby store.
I keep an HP48 in the office and an HP28S at home.

I might buy another HP28 for the car. :D
Is this malevolence or incompetence?
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This sounds interesting... Integration with the major password managers would help adoption I'd think.
The ship exists but whether it remains the same ship is a matter of opinion; and yet Theseus sails onward.

I see Mozilla as suffering from a crisis of identity, internally; it's acting as though it is staffed by believers in the manifesto but is now steered by those enamoured with The Bay Area and its ways.

Rust, Firefox 57, and even FirefoxOS are/were noble efforts to succeed in delivering on the manifesto. Pocket and this latest advert update smack of an executive that is thirsty to exploit the Mozilla brand for profit.
Wait

> I am a PhD student and it makes me think about teaching female undergrads at all or taking them on for projects. If I meet female undergrads for teaching, it's already only in public places in the department, never in my office or an actual teaching room. I am not the type who would ever make lewd comments, or anything of the sort, but it does not matter. There are no bonus points for being a good guy, an 'ally'.

The article is about a man claiming he was sexually harassed. Why do you consider only female in your scenario ?
Just found out it was Mozilla Talk.

I actually thought it was good to be "forced" upon every Firefox user. Unfortunately it came during mass migrations to Chrome.

Because if it's an extention you won't have the same impact. If it's forced then you can be sure to connect with every other user of that browser and see what they've said about the website you're browsing.

Of course I fear the security issues in such a feature. One XSS vuln and EVERYONE is affected.

Edit: I misunderstood. My memory was that it was a built-in feature of Firefox that worked on every site. But Mozilla Talk requires a server infrastructure. Of course, makes sense now that I think about it. Where else would your messages be stored.

Perhaps some sort of p2p thing but I don't think Mozilla would go that route yet. It's not mature enough.
Mozilla does seem to be trying very hard to make those of us who have been trying to lead people away from Google/etc and onto their browser look like hypocrites.
No. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-16/net-neutrality-–-en...
Interesting. As a non-native speaker I wasn't really aware of this meaning of the word "grit", but it seems very similar to the concept of "sisu" [1] in Finnish, often regarded as an integral part of the national character of Finns and considered very difficult if not impossible to translate exactly. Wikipedia does list "grit" as one of the mental characteristics "sisu" can be thought to be a combination of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu
I am reminded of when Apple stuck U2 into everyone's iTunes library (though I actually think this is weirder and worse). It seems like an inviolable, cardinal rule is "don't push things on me that I didn't ask for".
Solar will go big when interest in home ownership goes away due to innovations like Uber which is reducing long term car ownership or multiple car ownership. Once home ownership goes away and we can subscribe to smart, intelligent homes powered by solar and other renewable energy sources, it will begin the golden age of Solar. Unfortunately, we are still 20 years away from this vision.
Gah, the worst part of this is Firefox 57 is good enough that I want to switch to it. I wish they would at least issue a "that was dumb we won't do it again" statement or something.
Ask HN: Is it possible to solve the Lisp dialect library problem?
Lisp, and all the concepts that come with it, are fantastic, but it's hard to justify it as a business decision when there are languages like Python out there with a massive amount of library support.

What is the argument for Lisp? Or how can any dialect of Lisp catch up and be relevant as more than a learning tool?
> the new version is horribly buggy and crashes all the time

That has not been my experience, so let's not overstate personal anecdotes as facts.
Can confirm.

Tons of my friends from MIT and Stanford go to Facebook targeting or Google Maps tracking for $150K. That's more than many HN readers make. So it's natural these HN readers are jealous: making $150K with a bachelor's and spying on people with hot, bleeding-edge technologies? Damn. It just doesn't fit with their understanding of how the world works.
Google is not regulated but they actually created their business. When ISP they actually build internet but they are not alone. Because internet is a interconnexion of network. And a lot these network were build by states(the firsts interation internet was created by US military). How could we paid them to use some NASA network...?
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not. Across many species, males exhibit forceful sex behaviors. Those behaviors increased fitness.
Chromium pushed (and kept pushing) me to open an account in order to install addons.
I never used the Mozilla sync-feature, but have no problem with it announcing its availability once in a new install. And likewise for the Google-browser, if that's what it does.
That's a great strategy.

I try to use a similar strategy of getting myself to train: I should go there and get dressed and if I still don't feel like it I can go skip and go home. So far I have only skipped it once, and that was after I trained for 20 min.

It's also perfectly applicable for when you should work on a project but it's hard to get started. Just force yourself the first 10-15min and then you can stop. It's almost always the case that you will continue after the initial struggle.
Well, thankfully the extension did not actually do anything at all. You would have had to manually enable it in about:config, before it would have done what you described.
For ray tracing like this, going the supersampled antialiasing route is pretty much equivalent to rendering the scene at higher resolutions. For example, to get 4 samples per pixel, you need to render at double the resolution in both directions, or 4 times the number of pixels. Of course, techniques like FXAA which are commonly used in rasterization based realtime rendering are possible as well, and would have much lower performance impact.

Another thing to think about is that in any monte carlo based rendering algorithm, such as what would be used to render modern movie graphics, antialiasing is basically free. These algorithms already work by running thousands upon thousands of samples per pixel, so distributing these samples inside each pixel has almost no performance impact.
Where do you live? Would you mind to tell more about you?

If you do heavy maths like what you appear to do, I'd suggest you go for a finance company to become a quant.
... And not speaking of all the 1-star reviews that just relate to some "horrible" delivery problems with the carrier.
>In short, I think you're believing me to be saying something quite different than I am.

It's possible that you /meant/ something different, but everyone can read what you said. What you say matters my friend.

>This has nothing to do with jury nullification. That's a situation where conviction is certain, unless the jury finds the law unjust.

Nonsense, jury nullification is inherently intertwined with this topic, because if we're writing laws that may be unjust in order to ensure that they cast as wide a potential prosecutorial net as possible, the only defense that the citizenry has against a corrupt bureaucracy is consistent defiance via jury nullification. The problem is, consistency is incredibly hard to achieve across a whole population, which is why we should not be writing laws that can be abused by the corrupt.
This is why most people cannot become a Navy Seal. At some point you hit physical and mental ceilings and your body has to stop.
The French tried that around 1800, and while it likely was very satisfying to guillotine the rich, ultimately it didn't do anyone any good.

The Russians tried it again in 1917, didn't work out well for the lower class then, either.

Pol Pot did it too, with similar results.
Indeed. The first indication was perhaps when they freaked out and decided to chase Google on version numbers.

After that they got into all kinds of "social signaling" shenanigans, and the rest is history.
Time to do away with whoever led the charge on this one.
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