skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once tried to take a picture of a deer, that I saw running away from me and hiding behind a tree. I knew perfectly well were it was, in which direction it would go, and had enough time to set my phone's camera properly. And yet, thanks to a slow auto-focus and low light, my pictures ended up a blurry, unrecognizable mess. Not even I would believe my story.

I gained a lot of respect that day for people who claim to have seen something and yet have no evidence other than blurry, shaky films. If I couldn't do it under perfect conditions, I don't expect a random guy to become all of a sudden a great photographer. In fact, if I wanted to get a picture of a plane right now, with the equipment I have at hand, it would be barely more than a small, dark spot.

I don't know whether UFOs are real (and, even if they are, if they really are aliens and not weird, unknown airplane prototypes). But the lack of HD footage would not be on my top list of reasons against it.
PDF.js has had a huge amount of its own vulnerabilities.
This looks like it's just scraping copyrighted material off NPR's web site without their permission, and reformatting it.

See NPR's terms of use, which explicitly states that their material is copyrighted:

https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179876898/terms-of-use

"You may not reproduce, distribute, republish, upload, transmit, display, prepare derivative works of, publicly perform, sell, transfer, assign, license or use for commercial purposes any copyrighted material on the NPR Services without the prior written consent of NPR..."

If NPR finds out about this, you'll be hearing from their lawyers.
Isn't a bigger issue is that computers are getting faster and thus hashes are faster to calculate?
Hahaha. Welcome to the real world. It is not pretty.
This. REpresentional State Transfer stands in opposition to Remote Procedure Calls - except for a very narrow subset of hypertext/hypermedia applications.

The part I find most interesting about Fielding's thesis[1] is the introduction with architectural overview. He managed to map out modern Web apps perfectly - they can be REST (Web app with db/storage backend, perhaps extended with something like webdav) which is amenable to multilevel caching, smart client;movable data: json api js app, or smart client;movable code: js/Ajax - executing js delivered by server on client (subtly different from a "pure" js/json app (which is similar to an XML/xslt App).

I don't know why the hype of rest lead people to insist on conflating their architectures.

[1] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
Sorry, FBA = ?
I agree. In a perfect world React is probably a better choice. But the world is not perfect. I don't have time to investigate a gazillion third-party libraries and educate myself on best practices. Vue is a nice complete package with great documentation and excellent first-party libraries (vuex and vue-router). It's basically a one-stop shop into modern day Javascript. Ideal for smaller teams or teams without JS experts.
It is a certain subset of seven notes (from the usual 12) known as a scale. Using only notes from a single scale is supposed to make it easier to match the music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_scale
I am not claiming it is a legal defense, just a reason why rich, powerful men pressure women into sex and then seem to genuinely think it was consensual.

But I am not really speaking to "What do we do after the fact?" I am speaking more to "How does culture change so you see fewer rapes to begin with? How does culture change so fewer rich, powerful men are oblivious to the fact that their wealth and power can be a form of pressure for a woman they are pursuing?"

I was raped at the age of 12. I have not been raped as an adult. I don't want to be raped ever again. I am not interested in fostering a culture that does a better job of throwing all the rapists in jail. I am interested in fostering a culture where people do a better job of negotiating consent so we don't have women feeling violated while the man who had sex with them is completely convinced she wanted it and she consented by failing to say no strongly enough.
That does not adequately explain what happened over O’Hare airport https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_O%27Hare_International_...

or any of these other sightings really.
It would be great if people would go out more to meet real people and have real conversations.

Edit : What is so brave to admit a company is a problem ?
It's not prejudice. And big surprise, you're exactly like me, just unwilling to vocalize it.

The fact that people are rushing to downvote me for voicing a contrary opinion (and emboldening others to disagree and downvoting me too) is the exact embodiment of what I just described. Like it or not, human beings don't like outsiders and people that others dislike
To me, matrices and matrix multiplication really represent the "calculus" of linear algebra. When you are studying real analysis, the theory part (closed, open sets, definition of limit points, continuity, etc) are not actually that helpful when doing a computation (calculating and integral or derivative). It often makes sense to teach a student the calculation side before the theory because its easier to get a intuition for.
Prisoners in California are being used as firefighters. It's not an easy or safe job and I'm pretty sure they aren't doing it just to pass time.
> The rest (unavoidable pun, sorry) ...

The remainder.
Exactly. Thanks for proving my point.
Portuguese drug use has gone up in fact. But Portugal isn't even a good test case because it's a country that didn't have much of a drug culture to begin with. It's not very helpful to cite it as a useful test case for possible American drug policy, as people have been doing lately.
I don't know why this is being downvoted, because it is quite accurate.

Jesse Eisinger's "The Chickenshit Club" - is a book written entirely about the OP subject. I remember a podcast with the author, and this was a key point.
This appears to reference Terry Riley's In C:

> In C consists of 53 short, numbered musical phrases, lasting from half a beat to 32 beats; each phrase may be repeated an arbitrary number of times. Each musician has control over which phrase they play: players are encouraged to play the phrases starting at different times, even if they are playing the same phrase. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_C)
I pledge to give $20 to Mozilla once:
- they apologized for the fuck-up
- they pledge to stop doing that kind of stupidity
- they reconsider the employment of those really responsible for it. Not just the ones that wrote the code, the ones that asked for it which are likely more paid than the coders anyway.

#firefoxpledge

Many of us here are Firefox users, but I'm sure most of us are really happy to use it for free.

If Mozilla is desperate enough to agree to some big cable companies, or some big search engine marketing contracts. Why do the users blame them? Maybe we should support them instead and help them to get out of that vicious circle so we can all enjoy a less corporate internet.
Great write up! I would be remiss to not mention Paperspace https://www.paperspace.com where we also offer cloud GPU infrastructure that is less expensive and more powerful than most of the larger clouds.

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What utter rubbish. All this says is that "sociologists out there disagree hence you are wrong". The post is one giant appeal to authority. There is no discussion of why they disagree. Or that there is a consensus, or that different fundamental values may motivate different people.
The Mr. Robot thing is not the first one of these issues we've seen with Firefox, but most of them (from my anecdotal perspective) seem to be either with web dev (teams managing moz web properties), ui design (e.g. the privacy issues in about:addons I linked to in a comment above) or extensions development* (this Mr. Robot thing, Pocket, and a lot of issues with the entire Test Pilot project).

I'm curious about whether the problems being discussed in the article above are not so much systemic to Mozilla itself (as many commenting here fear), but rather an issue with management of certain teams within the organisation.

* I refer here to teams working on web extensions, rather than those working on web extensions APIs.
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Yeah, that part is more OS X's fault, but either way it makes Firefox unusable for me. It seems like it may be related to Firefox's video CPU spiking issue.
>"in general" covers all changes of all variables.

What I meant when I wrote "in general" was "as a group."

For example, Anil Dash, CEO of Fog Creek Software, makes a blanket statement about Christians in this tweet:

https://twitter.com/anildash/status/928815535206424576

"No other religion’s followers in America insist on every public official being of their faith."

That is a statement, not about a specific individual or group of Christians, but Christians in general. And it's offensive and ridiculous. I know many Christians, but not one of whom for which that statement holds true. Well, I suppose it could be true for some, but most, I know for a fact, it's not.

It's like someone saying "Jews are cheap." It's a blanket statement that I think is offensive and ridiculous. However, I've had Jewish relatives who were, in fact, the cheapest people I've ever known, beyond caricature, and I said that about them, in particular, on more than one occasion.
A giant fallacious argument. Hard even to read. See examples below.

> "That your post elicited outrage from a large body of people who study sociology, politics, and culture should provide you with some evidence that, perhaps, you are wrong."

Argumentum ad populum. Appeal to Authority. Slightly softballed with the perhaps, but it doesn't make it better.

If all we ever did was listen to the experts, the earth would be flat still.

> "So, maybe it’s a real problem when you share your thoughts on something you don’t understand."

Where's the line where you're "understanding" enough to talk about things?

I can't get through the fallacious logic enough to see the real argument here.
"study"
Tl;dr? This is word salad and isn’t saying anything other than “Sam Altman shouldn’t speak about this because he isn’t a sociologist”. Where is the author’s rebuttal?
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Too bad there aren't alternatives to Uber for people who can't manage to not piss off their drivers. They don't give a bad review unless you give them a really good reason because they're more worried about their stars than a little bit of unruliness on the part of passengers because, you know, dealing with stupid people is 99% of the job(err...side hustle).

Sounds like the system is working exactly as intended to me.
Nobody is freaking out about anything. We're talking about due process. Being an asshole isn't a crime, rape is a pretty bad one.

Assholes get hired all the time, even when it's known. Ever read Linus's emails? Yet I'd work with him in a heartbeat.
Fraud is a felony offense.

It's simply not possible to sell subprime loans as AAA investments without a liberal sprinkling of fraud.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-k-black/the-two-docum...

Some other reading on the subject:

>the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, in its final report, uses variants of the word “fraud” no fewer than 157 times in describing what led to the crisis, concluding that there was a “systemic breakdown,” not just in accountability, but also in ethical behavior.

>As the commission found, the signs of fraud were everywhere to be seen, with the number of reports of suspected mortgage fraud rising twenty-fold between 1996 and 2005 and then doubling again in the next four years.

>As early as 2004, FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker was publicly warning of the “pervasive problem” of mortgage fraud, driven by the voracious demand for mortgage-backed securities.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/01/09/financial-crisis-...
The idea that people believed the earth was flat is a myth.
If your sensitivity to anonymous criticism is really that severe, I’d suggest building a kind of emotional immune system and just getting on with your life. Certainly that kind of sensitivity to the speech of others shouldn’t inspire you to wade into a cultural crossfire, especially if you’re in such an advantageous position as a Sam Altman.
>You are right on one part — culture acts as a filter upon collaboration. For some reason, you assume that the people who are harder to work with — those less capable of empathy or at least compassion — are the ones more likely to profitably explore the space of technological possibility. I’m not really sure how to address that.

Of course the people who are harder to work with are the ones on the bleeding edge! SSC had a great post on this[0]. What are the qualities that make a good scientist? Curiosity, open-mindedness, looking for errors in the dominant paradigm. Not coincidentally, these are also exactly the qualities that lead people to question the popular orthodoxies of the moment.

A good scientist would never be so absurdly naive to assume that society "drawing a line" necessarily "limits harm". Society is often wrong. Society has drawn many, many stupid lines in the past and there is no reason to believe that we have moved beyond that.

Also, someone should alert the author about the replication crisis. There are extremely good reasons not to trust sociologists.

[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-a...
Slander - "Some statements such as an untrue accusation of having committed a crime, having a loathsome disease, or being unable to perform one's occupation are treated as slander per se since the harm and malice are obvious,"

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/slander
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... to you.
Here is an example of ~$65 item merged with others https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076RS1WRZ/ref=oh_aui_deta... – a lot of five-star reviews (marked as verified), but very bad quality.
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I highly recommend a 30 Day trial subscription on Consumer Reports (CR) online if you're looking to buy a big ticket item. You can put in your CC# & other details and get free 30 day access to CR testing of a lot of products. Then cancel before the 30 days are up. You may end up paying a little more for a top notch product, but you can be assured if CR reviewed it, you're getting what you pay for.
We have a god damn piece of metal on Mars and it can send back HD self-portraits. Seeing is believing.
I still think you seem to lack the willingness to engage in exploring how these type of men
think, which also means that your verdict about lack
of feedback not being the reason doesn’t appear too convincing to me. Otherwise you would be aware that “being ignored” is widely considered “playing hard to get” among men with this mindset. Emphasis on “play”. If one has been exposed to a certain type of mindset and has internalized it, this person’s viewpoint and their perception of reality might be absolutely different than yours (and mine).

This of course is a re-occuring theme of the past year(s). People not making the effort to understand why others act/behave/vote radically different. It seems to be unbelievably hard to
acknowledge that what might be despicible from one’s own viewpoint might appear completely reasonable from someone else’s in their specific context. Which doesn‘t excuse their actions but explains why they have not been seeing/noticing the obvious damage of their behavioral patters.

In order to change that person’s viewpoint requires work from
the ground up.
This is also a genre of cookbooks. For example, https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Da... .

Here's a list of 46 such recipes: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/one-pot . Mmm, I think it's time to make jambalaya again.
"I got one am very pleased to see the EU doing good work against tax havens. It's no wonder the British press hate the EU so much."

Oh please!

Jean-Claude Junker - the #1 man in the EU - was the architect of Luxembourg's tax-avoidance schemes.

Your statement very difficult to comprehend.

The UK is a regular taxed entity. It is NOT a haven really in any way.

Meanwhile: Luxembourg, Monaco, Lichenstein, Isle of Man and a few others are broadly tax havens, and Ireland is a huge haven in specific corporate circumstances.

Not only is the EU rife with tax havens - but they are also duplicitous in their application of the law.

The EU's grab of billions from Amazon, Google and Apple is theft of private property.

The EU is acting like Venzuela or a banana republic.

Re-interpreting the law retrocatively 25 years???

These 'big corps' will do everything possible within the law to lower their taxes - but they obey the law and pay their taxes.

If the EU, in 1980 had said 'here are the rules' - then big corps would comply.

But the EU deciding one day that 'oh, this tax law, which we have actively accepted for 25 years as meaning 'this' - now means 'that'. Retroactively.

This is what tin-pot dictators like Putin do when they wish to nationalize specific industries - and it's scary to any business person and bad for business.

The EU's job should be to make sure there is relative tax harmony, that the rules are clear, and then that people follow those rules.

Not to change them willy nilly and grab billions because of socialist populist sentiment.

If they want to change how things are - change the tax laws. that's it.
I had a hard time making a query it would accept.

Really I want to type "Sweet Home Alabama" and have it work. Instead it required me to either fill out multiple fields or enter more than 100 characters of text. That's a long query.

I cut&pasted a paragraph from Wikipedia about a famous song and got query results in which I recognized none of the artists, songs, graph labels, and other references to (at least) Wikipedia if not the actual world.

BTW, I build this kind of thing and would love to talk shop about it: please look at my HN account and send me an email.
This looks like an authoritative answer from a Mozilla coworker, and it's totally incompatible with the message and tone of the linked article "Firefox is on a slippery slope" which makes it sound like the extension was on by default.

So who is telling the truth?

The one thing I know is that I am writing from a Firefox right now and don't see headers, inversions etc. at all. The examples given in the article should have all been inverted, right?
The rails metaphor is especially weak here. The author's argument conflates the idea of rejecting an established field of knowledge outright with Altman's critique of the absolute way in which some ideas have become taboo in society.
And Japan?
This article was co-written by the author of that book.

I also recommend that book for those who are curious about evidence-based, well-researched accounts. Written by a journalist. It leaves aside the question of extraterrestrial origin as unprovable and only attempts to answer the question, "Is this phenomena real?"
This is a relatively incredible set of claims. Care to back them up?

Specifically the 10x more likely to be exonerated of murder than rape, and the more surprising claim that a majority of false rape claims end in the guy being screwed, by which I assume you mean jailtime.

All of the evidence I've seen directly contradicts both of those assertions, so I'd like to know how you concluded that.
Ha ha good luck if you plan to build a new house- maybe there are regions where you can live few years without a roof
> 10 times more likely

> in the overall majority of cases

[Citations needed]

Because the actual formal-accusation:conviction statistics completely disagree with you. Only something like 25% of reported rapes in the US result in an arrest — let alone prosecution or conviction.
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Can you even beatmatch these? They don't appear to play any coherent rhythm or uniform tempo. They will however create a beautiful soundscape regardless of how you time them.
The accountability is at the top. In this case, I would be very surprised if that was not greenlighted by Mozilla's CMO. Whether others down the chain complained or not doesn't matter much, since not everyone can vote with their feet.

But this is happening way to often lately, and the typical "I stay at Moz because we are still doing good stuff and no one else would step in" you hear from employees is exactly the card that the management plays. It's sad, because the mission from Mozilla's manifesto is more important than ever, but MoCo is not the place where this important things will happen.
We've had that, except by word of mouth for most of humanity's history. I think that it's one of the ways we got here, unfortunately.
Both Google and Microsoft have published their API design guidelines, which are very much RESTful. Both companies have applied their guidelines to broader set of products at very large scale. At least, we have not seen alternatives that would be applicable or scalable to companies at Google or Microsoft scale.

API design is like UI design or car design or clothes design. It is a form of craft, which does take time and skills. API design is for customers to have best experience, it was never meant to save time or work for the designers.

Disclosure: contributor of Google API Design Guide.
Motivations can be very different, as you say, drug addicts need help not jail time. Norway seems to me as a progressive nation, I hope they are on the right path.
Please review the "Show HN" guidelines:

"Show HN is a way to share something that you've made on Hacker News."

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
It's just our internal jargon, nothing nefarious intended. Things shipped over Shield are called "studies," A/B tests in the installer are called "funnelcakes," etc.
At least take an off the shelf computer vision algorithm, feed it through an adversarial network and generate some fake images.

I saw a UFO today. I have no pics. How can I report it? Yeah, sure.
"Pushing the envelope for their own gains at the cost of delegitimizing EU institutions"

Why does the EU exist, if not 'for the gain of the member states'?

Do you see the psychological paradox of Federalization?

A better argument is that if there is such contention, then maybe some of those EU level institutions should not exist.

And remember, the head of the commission is JC Junker, the very architect of Luxembourgs special tax schemes.

The job of the EU+Lux is to make the tax laws clear, not screw things up for business who by and large - just pay the taxes they are owed, but at the minimum possible rate.
Thank you for your response but I don't trust you. I don't believe your characterization of how this extension works is correct. That is a huge problem, it means I do not trust Mozilla.

What's being done to make sure this never happens again? How could something like this happen after the Pocket fiasco?
I'm not sure why this post is getting such criticism.

The entire argument made here basically reduces to the concept "if everyone around you is telling you you're an asshole, the most probable conclusion is that you're an asshole" but in a more diplomatic way.

Which, having read the original post in question, seems a reasonable response.
> It's financial wizardry that both the banks and fed made money, where does their profit come from?

From an accounting standpoint it's very simple. Asset prices collapsed during the crisis. The Fed held onto them. Asset prices return to normal levels, and everyone profits overall.