skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why this is downvoted. I work in advertising as a conceptual creative. My entire career is about creating ideas like this for brands.

An art director and copywriter sat in a room together over two days and came up with lots of different ideas to generate PR for Mr. Robot. They presented the ideas to a creative director, who went through the work and picked the one he felt was most suitable. They presented it to the client, who supported the idea.

There would have been some line of communication from the creative agency, whoever owns Mr Robot, a media/PR agency and Mozilla. The idea was bought by the client, had the agency liaise with media/PR, got in touch with Mozilla with an undisclosed donation and the add-on was coded.
There are things I don't agree with that Mozilla does, but I will stand up for that one. The idea behind the "tiles" was to try to figure out a way to do privacy-respecting ads. And if you look at how it actually worked... it was actually a really good plan for how that could happen.

Mozilla's job is to find ways to push the web forward in ways that respect humans, and ads are, well, how the web mostly gets funded. So it's entirely within bounds for them to try to figure out ways to make ads work without invading people's privacy.
The labor cost, materials cost, maintenance cost, and right of way / easement cost in laying cables is a huge barrier both cost, time, and pain in the ass wise.
Can you characterize what you consider an invasion of your privacy? Can you bound what you would find reasonable for someone else to characterize as an invasion of privacy?
Subscription-based bots is one of their use cases. Of course, everyone has to opt-in first.
...of sweat. :)
https://blog.blockchain.com/2017/11/15/segwit-bitcoin-cash-u...
There is nothing that says HN submissions need to be from the current date.
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In JavaScript there is also:

https://enkimute.github.io/ganja.js/
So, a lot of people in this thread are saying that Mozilla is a non-profit. There are in fact two Mozillas. One is the Mozilla Foundation, which is the non-profit. They are not involved with Firefox development, as I understand it. The Mozilla Corporation, which I think is owned by the non-profit, does the development. I think the foundation just does cute videos and outreach and other things not directly related to writing software. I also understand that if you donate money to the Mozilla foundation, the money would not make it to Mozilla corp and thus would not pay for the salary of any Firefox hacker.

I've never quite understood how exactly does this financial arrangement work and I would be grateful to anyone who could explain this to me.
> if you're on Nightly, this is literally what you signed up for

no, it is not, because i signed up for nightly a decade ago when mozilla still had my trust and admiration. i signed up to help mozilla find bugs before they hit end users. i signed up for new web platform features and bug fixes. i signed up to see the perf and ui improvements.

what i get force-fed now is an additional mystery platter of ad experiments, privacy erosion, forced third-party integration, random auto-addons and who knows what else at this point - they can literally push anything behind my back. the absence of all of these things is the exact reason i have stuck with firefox. i guess this relationship is not meant to last.

as another comment says in this thread, it's literally the "Windows 10 of browsers". Want faster perf and more security? Just sign up for the next version with more ads, less privacy and random third party services we auto-push to you. I know Chrome does this too, which doesnt make it ok for mozilla - it just leaves me with 0 options. if i had other viable options, i would leave quietly and never post this comment.
I sense BS here. Come to SF, you'll see everyone sharing apartments. Having roommate is a personal choice, either you get in debt like typical american or live frugally. If someone doesn't have family in US and knows that he'll be kicked out because of his brown color, why would he spend money? Most americans are not stupid and americans have been pretty friendly to immigrants? Plain, simple lie. America has been always racist, look back how the orientals were treated in recent past. And, I/m talking about recent past.
I'm failing to see a problem with this. You're literally selling goods in someone else's store. Is it also a problem when grocery stores undercut and prominently feature their own brands?
I'm somewhat surprised that you are not seeing reduced signal quality during heavy snow. Are you using high transmit power, or some extremely directional antenna?
Yeah, interruption with noise is much less disruptive than interruption with silence. It's not a drawback of the technology though; it's a design flaw in the receiver not to mask the dropouts with some white noise.
I'm not educated on the statistics, but how much of the total meat consumed (let's say beef in the US) comes from the big bad farms? Is it possible to convert over to only healthier grass pastures?

I'm a meat eater who is happy to pay more and cut down, just wondering how feasible it is.
The TV transition benefited from the conversion to flat screen that happened at approximately the same time. Increased resolution was also a huge draw. None of that applies in the case of digital radio.
Good sales people at a bike shop can often convince a person that the cost of ownership over time for their new bike is less than that cheap wal-mart bike, and that it will be more enjoyable to use during that time. And often that's entirely accurate.

The hard part is getting the customer to go to the bike shop first, rather than the big box store.
Sorry to hear that. The point I was trying to make is that inequalities != oppression. I think it is important to distinguish between unfairness arising from random natural events (e.g. being weaker, shorter, uglier or below average in some other way) vs unfairness that arises from one group having authority over another group and placing undue constraints on them. I think it is hard to disagree that historically, women who wished to live a life outside of the cultural norm at the time were oppressed. I just disagree that beauty standards had anything to do with it.
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The Fool's Errand is indeed a gem. A very long time ago I played the low-res color version on my PC, but I understand the proper way to play it is in its original, hi-res monochrome glory.
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> It's a good reminder to keep your coins off Coinbase.

I'm finding that keeping coins off of Coinbase is easier to do than keeping cash off of Coinbase. It's fast and cheap to transfer cryptocoins to Coinbase, but takes me days to add cash.
Right-on-red is illegal in New York City, except at intersections where it's specifically marked as allowed (which are rare, and usually have turn lights or other features to make it safer). Unprotected left turn, though, yeah.
I think about doing this as well but heard a lot of bad things about the firefox build process. How long does it take to build for you?
I don't want to take away from their substantial achievement but I think it's an important distinction between "lab perfect" and "techniques that would not be allowed in any official marathon race in the world".
I still work a "full time" job, just because I love my job and the team I lead, so every year I am postponing my early retirement to the delight of my bosses...

I work from home (my team is spread across the country), but I talk to them almost daily, so frankly I am not sure what I would do when I retire for real. The trading is fully automated, so I would get bored pretty fast I guess...

For now the plan (written in sand in a low tide) with my wife is to give it a go maybe after the kids are out of the house (hopefully in a few years) and travel for a while...

It was a bit of a long winded answer, but as you can see I have no idea yet :-)
Another worrying development on the bitfinex story is that one of its employees has removed the warrant canary from his twitter profile.

https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/941707765910818816

I think this is a bearish signal until its clarified.
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I'd guess that propagation is by design, such as for use in outer joins.
How many fund-stealing XSS attacks has EtherDelta been hit with by now? It should be considered criminal that they still haven't put up a competent Content-Security-Policy header that would entirely block that class of exploits. Their current one is trivially-bypassable security theater that I tried reporting and got blown off. It's probably for the best that they don't have more attention.
I'd rather turn them into email list subscribers, so my messages always go to them without having to pay FB money.
Right, but at some point you are going to have to connect to an exchange if you want to access the rest of the internet. How are you going to pay for that connection?
>Back then, you'd sit and stare at your buddy list waiting for that person you liked to come online so you could say something witty, and then stew with worry if they didn't respond but remained online.

Or you'd get a friend/another account to IM them to see if they'd really blocked you or not.
Interesting article about augmented reality stickers
>Existing systems have stuck to using eye-safe laser power densities and can achieve around 10Gbit/s.

Implying that google's 20Gbit system isn't eye-safe?
Honestly, this is a fantastic idea. As a dad of a toddler I am starting to look for more math-oriented materials, and this will definitely be on the reading list.

I especially love the "How to write for this audience" section. It says: be concise, convey the excitement, say exactly what is important and why, and draw the reader in.

This is how most concept should be explained, to adults or kids, doesn't matter. As someone who's gone through an engineering degree, so much of it was written/presented in convoluted "this is going to be difficult" format, instead of this playful "here, try something tasty" one. Wish more educators would adopt this kid-friendly way for older kids too :)

Edit: Do you know any dads who have been very successful teaching kids math at home, better than they are taught in schools? I'd love interview them for my podcast.
Elon Musk proves time and again he should have no role in planning communities
I am baffled why the manufacturers aren't all offering direct B2B for the bike shops. There clearly isn't enough margin left for the average bike shop if they aren't moving the volume of bikes due to direct sales, but at the same time, all the supplies they need for servicing bikes are sold through some intermediary that's skimming a cut for the service of aggregating all the different manufacturers.
https://www.ogc.ca/ and https://norco.com/ haven't substantially reduced their margins since I last worked in a bike shop 20 years ago.

And aggregation is not a service that would be required anymore if the shops could just go direct to Shimano, SRAM, Fox, Maxxis and DT-swiss (etc). That aggregation can be performed by the bike shop itself via a B2B solution.
It's behind a preference flag because it's installed automatically, and Mozilla's the only one who can do that. That's also why there's a lengthy approval process before such an addon can be pushed out:

https://mozilla.github.io/shield-studies-docs/study-process/
Yes, it is unreasonable. You could say that any business "might [be] using the cash influx from newer users to cover cash outs for older users." Seriously, don't hide behind the word "might." It's a lazy defense of an accusation that's based more on emotion than reason or facts.

I once ordered a computer from Dell. The sealed box arrived empty. I went through few weeks of increasingly enraged emails and phone calls. Should I have assumed Dell was a Ponzi scheme?
random anecdote, I like shitty FM quality. It kills lots of signals but .. I like it. It's like film grain to me.
You can export your subscribers to MailChimp or download a CSV file. We have a special email address where you can send your newsletter and we make it look good and deliver on Messenger.

So your subscribers a are yours and exportable
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I've heard newer HDMI standards have HDMI Fast Switching. Skimming over the first URL google gave me[1] it sounds like the slowness is because of HDCP (HD Content Protection). Although, it sounds like it will theoretically take it from ~10seconds to maximum of 2 (average of 1) for proper implementations.

https://www.synopsys.com/designware-ip/technical-bulletin/hd...
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It's the other way around - the foundation owns the corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
>ToS terms that aren’t either expected by the user, or explained in plain text without having to click through anything, are considered null and void in the EU.

You mean like the TOS and EULA you agree to when you install the browser? That would qualify as "expected by the user" and "explained in plain text" both.
math is the biggest threat to bitcoin

cryptographic hash functions are only as strong as the magnitude of our ignorance
One thing I'll miss about AIM is that it's a communication modality that doesn't exist right now.

It was everywhere, and on MacOS it was integrated into the OS. For most people I knew, they had it set to join when they got on the computer. So it meant that you knew when your friends were at the computer, and you knew when you could have long "in the background" conversations with your friends.

It was just a different level of intimacy - I had so many longer and interesting, sometimes deep conversations through AIM (or through iMessage hooked up with AIM).

On a Mac at least, that's unlike anything we have now with facebook and Messenger.app. Now when you look at your buddy list, you have no idea whether they're at their computer or if they're busy or running around with their phone. I try to get my friends to join a Slack room with me, but we don't always have it
started, or we're in a different Slack room. At any rate there just isn't that
critical mass where you know someone is online and chattable.
You never possessed a bank or credit card prior to 1998?

Isn't the account on the card + your pin 2FA?
"Lots of people use Amazon" doesn't imply the level of control you're suggesting. Just off the top of my head there are:

- Fry's

- Newegg.

- BestBuy

- Andorama

- Wallmart/Jet

- Microcenter

- Directron

- B&H

- Costco

- Ebay

- Overstock

And if those don't suit you just about every company is happy to sell to you direct. Saying that Amazon has some kind of monopoly control on selling things is silly.
I only include a cover letter if the way I found out about the job opening /isnt/ through personal recommendations
> but 2FA was both possible and a consideration 18 years ago

You could setup your own dns servers obviously 18 years ago and in fact when starting out in the mid 90's that is exactly what we and many others did. (Criket Liu nutshell books from O'Reilly)

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Yep, I did. In fact, our government-provided tour guide was pretty open about that. I'm sure he felt that he could be open with us because the government largely doesn't care that much about micromanaging the impressions tourists get. So monitoring what he tells us simply is not a high priority. They care about long-term domestic control.

My point was just that for any short amount of time in most totalitarian states, you're unlikely to encounter the arbitrary crackdowns that have a chilling effect on free expression for people who live their permanently.
"maybe you made them angry and tried to do something illegal on their site so they shut your user down."

Ahh, crypto-punk-decentralized-liberatrians never seize to amaze with the level of double-think they can achieve.
How someone can hold both "the government is evil and might take your money" and "maybe you made this website angry so they didn't give you your money" at the same time is truly impressice.
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Just stop it. This is for MOBILE PHONES. Phones have a modem in them, the carrier can use this to manage data on a per app basis. This is NOT THE REAL WORLD OF THE INTERNET. Fuck I can't stand this shit.
I wish people just knew what RSS was, and what RSS readers are.

With E-mail being pretty unreliable these days unless you use a big provider (Gmail, Mailchimp, etc.)[1], people mostly uses IM tools for all their communication (messenger, hangouts, txt, slack). Even the last company I was at, I barely checked my e-mail and used it mostly for logs.

So something like this will pretty much turn messenger into another useless platform people will ignore, but it's because we already ignore all those other noisy platforms. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1]: http://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made-...
The original definition of a marathon involves running from Athens to Marathon in Greece, and when your average person thinks of a marathon, they think of the street races that happen all around the world.

Marathon running isn't necessarily a track and field sport in the way the 100 meter sprint is.
> A lot of phone operators use voip for calls.

I think the problem is that with "analogue" each jump can use a hodgepodge of their own voip going from Analog -> Digital -> Analog. So you can get multiple, lossy compressions with varying settings multiplied together. With user-initiated voip, it's a single compression over the whole connection. So it could be better than user-initiated voip, or a lot worse.

At least that's my laymen's understanding of legacy phone systems.
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Perhaps you'll be interested in someone's reverse engineering of how AnySequence was implemented?

https://gist.github.com/rnapier/3095ab4986fce8d4fe8d
Yeah that's totally true. Costs have been skyrocketing and I'm not totally sure why.
A few years ago, it was easy to say "well, all the issues are at the BTC <-> USD (or other fiat currency) boundaries". But today's bitcoin is nearly unusable even just within the confines of the bitcoin network. For small amount of bitcoin (less then $15) it is incredible impractical to make a single transaction. Fees are around $5 and often much higher, with confirmation times sometimes reaching 6+ hours.

Maybe there is hope with Bitcoin Cash (BCH), because it can piggyback on the existing bitcoin integration infrastructure. Or maybe Ethereum or Monero or some other altcoin will take the place of Bitcoin. But more and more, it's looking like the original cryptocurrency has failed to innovate and solve fundamental scaling issues and it's first-mover advantage won't last. If these altcoins can scale better than bitcoin, they only need to match bitcoin's integrations with the existing financial system to win.
> What do you feel the difference is between deficit spending and printing money?

The difference is whether the government borrows money, or simply creates it. (And yes, I am aware that borrowing money can create money, via the magic of fractional reserve banking.) When the government borrows the money, they have to pay it back, or at least pay interest on it. This puts some constraint on the government. Whereas if the government creates the money, there is no constraint - it can spend as much money as it wants. If you don't see why that might be a problem, let me ask you: Have you looked at Congress lately?

But if the government is using the money to create things of value to the society, what's the problem? That's a reasonable position - if the government is doing so. And for some government spending, that's true. But for a fair amount of it, no, it is not invested in creating things of value to society, and so no, society does not get a return from it.

Take the military, for example. It keeps other nations from destroying things of value to our society, but it doesn't create any value. (It creates jobs, and profits, but not anything of productive value.) And that means that it's a drain on society - the people who are in the service, or creating weapons, could be doing something else of more value to society - teaching children, or repairing roads and bridges, or building a better air traffic control system.

So if Congress can create money, it can divert as much of the actual productive ability of the economy - people and materials - to whatever Congress thinks will get more votes. Again, I say, look at Congress. Do you really want to give them the ability to steer unlimited amounts of the economy to do whatever they think should be done? I don't. It's a horrible idea.

I was going to answer more of your questions, but this is already long enough.
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To the dozens/hundreds of complaints like this, there are tens of thousands of non-complaints that you don't ever hear about -- users who use the service to buy/sell/withdraw without issues.

People are particularly emotional about Coinbase because it touches on their bottom line -- money. But let's not forget the fact that ALL startups have major scaling woes. Bugs in the tech being ironed out, overwhelmed support and engineering teams recruiting and integrating talent to meet the demand -- in Coinbase's case exponentially growing demand. If you've worked in a software startup you know how easy it is to be met with exponential increase in demand, and how impossibly difficult it is to stay above water growing a team at the same rate.

I'm positive on Coinbase due to their backing. YC, Andreessen Horowitz, DFJ, among dozens of high-profile investors. These guys want a $20B valuation, they're not interested in backing a failing company or a scam.
A grandfather like you and projects like that would have been a dream come true for me at 12. I bet many people here would say the same.

If he hasn't seen it yet, the "Nand to Tetris" course/book would be a perfect thing to work through together.
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You can just not install (and enable) addons automatically. Those addons should only be delivered to users who have 1) opted into the study process and 2) opted into the study in the first place.
Sure, but why install it on random people's installs, even in some sort of disabled state? Viewers should be called on to install it themselves. I'd be cool with, say, an about: page that makes it easy for users to discover it, but pre-installing the addon in people's browser's seems a bit much.
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I've specifically seen folks discussing converting to tether now (on the fear that BTC will fall) and waiting til 2018 to redeem due to pending tax cuts. So this would be an avoidance strategy.

I have no idea on the legal specifics or whether or not Tether/Bitfinex are going to be providing reporting to governmental agencies (like Coinbase+IRS are doing). The discussions I've seen often cite Tether as a way to capture profits in USD and holding off on the "real" USD conversion at a later place or time (taxes or restrictive outflows like China's $50k USD/yr limit). Basically viewing it as a way to operate in USD without creating a banking paper trail.

If conversion to USDT causes a legally taxable event that's going to remove a significant portion of the proposed use-cases for tether.

> If lots of people really are operating under a different belief then this is going to get really messy.

I think "really messy" is a given at this point. I was in Starbucks a few days ago and overhead a non-tech savvy man say: "I need to figure out how to buy some of that bitcoin so I can get rich but all the websites I've found are crooks!"