skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't necessarily disagree but then what should that burden be? "More likely than not?" I wouldn't even feel comfortable sending a child to time out if there was a 49% they didn't do it. Reasonable doubt is, at least to me, pretty much the gold standard for all forms of punitive action.

Also, if you aren't going to follow the justice system's outcome then what system are you going to use to evaluate the evidence under the new burden? The court of office opinion sounds terrifying.
It’s ludicrous if you assume they’re using diesel engines and air screws or something.

If they can snap accelerate with essentially infinite jerk, as observations seem to suggest, then they’re not playing by the same rule book as us, and have fancy inertialess tech that’s beyond our ken.

I’m not some true believer in little green men, just a scientist who won’t rule out what seems impossible just because it seems so.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and all that.
> He shows that Freud was a fraud who deceived himself and succumbed to pseudoscience.

The author themselves presents an unscientific viewpoint as fact.

Agree that much of Freud's work cannot be proven or reliably reproduced but the author doesn't do much better.
The article disproves its own point about Atom. It tries to show how things aren't successful if they aren't easy to use, but rightly says that Atom is extremely popular, despite not opening large files.
> Is the extension on or off when it gets installed invisibly?

You could argue technicalities for either, but semantically, it's off by default.

The add-on is implemented as an "embedded webextension" which is wholly contained by an outer "bootstrapped add-on." The bootstrapped add-on controls whether or not the embedded webextension gets initialized, and that's all it does.

The bootstrapped add-on is literally just this one file: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/59659431fd2a75c33ac...

The outer shell is on by default. The embedded webextension is only initialized by the bootstrapped add-on if the user manually flips the "extensions.pug.lookingglass" preference in about:config. That preference is off by default.

> why not just have the user actually install the extension at the time of consent, rather than prefetching?

That's what we're moving to by pulling the add-on from Firefox and posting it on AMO.
I use the same. After trying many options, is the one that fits the best.
So we should just not report on it then? What's your point?
Also note the timing. The program began in 2007. What else happened in 2007? The Democrats got control of the Senate, turning Minority leader Harry Reid into Majority leader.
This is a bit of an overgeneralization. Are all computer science graduates software developers? Are professors with PhD degrees in CS not considered Computer Scientist? Your statement assumes graduates stop at the BS level and get programming jobs.
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Except how do you prove someone owns bitcoin?
just about anything people invest time into is going to have some sort of value, 'despite faults'.

that doesn't really speak to the value of progress, reflecting on the status quo, or creating something fresh with lessons learned from the past.

i don't really get the 'leave you be' bit.
> Why would people think they're not buying from Amazon when they're on the Amazon web site and their credit card gets billed to Amazon?

Because Amazon tells them when they're looking at the item that it's sold by a third party? And then again when they're checking out. And the items sold by third parties include an invoice and receipt from the third party? It's not a difficult technical issue - it only requires basic reading comprehension, which I'd expect most people using Amazon to posses.

Obviously everybody commenting here has figured out what's going on, and most people I've talked to about it (technical and non-technical) have also figured it out, so I just can't see it as Amazon tricking everybody.

My assumption is that most people buying from Amazon do know about and understand third party sellers, but aren't bothered by them enough to do anything.
He was very clear about dipping my hand in slowly, and not moving it at all, as that would’ve shaken off the boundary and resulted in frostnip - but this was the 90’s, when getting kids to put their hand in cryo was just one of those things you do.
"Given the similarities of the populations and the actual overlap of membership, in recent months I have been forced to conclude that the difference in culture is due to a difference in moderation. So, you do good work and should be proud of that."

Although the moderators certainly deserve credit for contributing to a civil atmosphere on HN, the users have a lot to do with it too. There's a lot of self-policing, as it were, going on here, with users who already buy in to HN's constructive comment ethic downvoting and calling out posts that go against that. That takes more than mere intelligence or education, but a willingness to adhere to commonly-shared norms of what's good for the site -- in HN's case it's constructive, helpful comments.
No, I'm not blaming her. But I am wondering about her motivation, and level of self-awareness.
Ask HN: What were your best sources of passive income in 2017?
Side projects, affiliate revenue, apps, investing, other.

Previous 3 years:

2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13150144

2015 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10726489

2014 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402
Excellent point. I fear many attempts at the open web failed because they were a little too anti-capitalist or FOSS-purist and ignored basic economic realities.
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When someone says "I don't trust you", "I don't believe you", spews a series of questions, and then responds by reiterating their statements without reference to your answers, that person is not so much listening to your perspective, as they are fantasizing about stepping on your face.

I actually appreciate your thoughts, but maybe it would be better to let Mozilla, the company, respond in a full blogpost.

One man does not stand well against an internet mob out for blood.
There is one big assumption made in articles like these that I think are worth exploring.

These quotes (and several others in this piece) all take as a given that it is important to constantly be striving to get better at your work:

"Creativity drives more creativity."
"You are now a better thinker and coder."
"More perspective means better products"

The author doesn't consider that many of us are content with our current abilities. I'm content with my ability at least.

In fact, I probably have spent too much time in my life focusing on improving my abilities, which I regret. I should have been spending more time with my family, especially my late father. I should also have been spending more time improving my physical health like making healthier food choices and spending more time being active outside.

There are limits to how productive one can be in a professional environment. In my experience, most of the time there are structural limitations to improving the quality or speed of your work.

Having a career is like a marathon; take it slowly and try to balance everything so you don't burn out.

Why not have a creative hobby just because it could make your life more fulfilling? You don't need to pick up a creative hobby just because it makes you a better scientist/engineer.
Mueller obtains “tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails
You appear to be arguing that that doesn't hurt everyone equally is not really harmful?
The CDM modules are not integrated with the browser. The browser only has an (open source) sandbox to run them.
Hey! Author here – needed disclaimer that I work at contentful, but this project is not really related.

I've worked with several CMS/translation systems, and while decoupling using API is great, and eliminates needs for excel spreadsheets, editors and translators still have no clue what is 1-to-1 relation between something in their new editor app and the actual application.

So, here I am trying to highlight these sections, so editors can quickly understand what different sections actually mean.

I would love to hear some feedback – whether it is about implementation or about idea per se!
A more apt analogy would be asking if an artist isn't creative because they put a jigsaw puzzle together.
When we (biologists) study other species, we travel long distances to examine them in their habitat. We try to hide so we can see them in their natural state, without our interference. If one suggested that this were 'dumb' or 'grandiose', then they would be ridiculed, as they would have exposed their own ignorance through that comment. The thought that a species might travel far to investigate another species in situ while attempting to avoid contamination is reasonable to a non-zero number of biologists.
If you give up having clean code, you can even fit a raytracer on a business card: http://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/
Certainly. Their experience would allow them to recognize a lot of covert signals ("dog whistles") which would not be obvious to other viewers.

The same goes for pornography. There's a lot of weird porn which gets away with being on sites like YouTube because it's too esoteric to be recognizable by most reviewers. For example [NSFW but not explicit]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWW8_8fc0-E -- there isn't any exposed genitals or sexual activity in the video, but it's clearly made to arouse people with the right fetish. (Just look at the comments if it isn't obvious.) A reviewer who's familiar with "weird porn" would likely be much better at recognizing fetish material, even if it's a fetish they don't personally enjoy.
Ask HN: How do you list your achievements without hard metrics?
I have skimmed through resumes, both real ones and examples, and frequently I come across achievements stated in numbers. "Accomplished XX% performance increase saving costs of $XXXX for the company in the quarter"

I'm sorry, but personally I find it hard to relate to this. I have worked for several companies as a software engineer, but there has been very little concern or motivation for management to track things meticulously by the numbers. The best I can do is ballpark estimates using words like "dozens" or "30-40%". Are these metrics still acceptable to use in your job history?
> That's what we're moving to by pulling the add-on from Firefox and posting it on AMO.

Why was this not done in the first place?
Every schizophrenic should take their medication. Every small child should ride in a carseat. Every forest camper should be careful not to spark forest fires.

Every argument should have nuance.
The two articles form a single piece. One is a sidebar to the video at the top of the other.

In such cases, rather than dedicating two front-page slots to it, we leave the main piece up and link to the auxiliary one in the comments.
9 days ago there was a thread for 2017, too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15869527 (didn't start with 'Ask HN')
> Do people honestly think that Goldman Sachs paid 5 billion dollars in settlement money because they did nothing legally wrong? No, they agreed to pay such a large settlement to avoid criminal convictions, because what they did was a crime.

Not saying your facts are wrong, but it is very hypocritical of you to accuse others of "garbage logic" with such a terrible argument.

Due to incentives in the U.S. justice system, particularly with regard to prosecution, many, many innocent actors settle or plead guilty even if they're innocent. This problem is well-known and documented.
Wasnt it the bankers who were publicly saying that the company going for an IPO is going to change the world but privately saying its full of shit.
No they wouldn't need to. They'd just have to advertise CSS + HTML, and the app browser would just use their internal CSS + HTML engine (possibly written in WASM for better sandboxing). There are probably a whole spectrum between those two extremes (all the code in the server, or all the code in the client).
> 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.

But what exactly? I can't really think of anything that would work without an interface description (like a HTML form).

Let's have a few informal RPC signature conventions for example for retrieving a Web page (the equivalent to HTTP GET). It would make developers lives easier. But essentially there is no problem with replacing links with remote procedure calls.
Quite recently I think. You can’t be blamed for missing it, the documentation is inconsistent on if it is supported. (https://mobile.twitter.com/danielwithmusic/status/9421780263...).
If you're near San Francisco, their Museum of Modern Art had an amazing exhibit with like 15 projectors each playing a different artist from a large piece called The Visitors. I'm not sure if it's still on, but if it is, it's totally worth seeing. It's really amazing:

https://www.sfmoma.org/publication/soundtracks/ragnar-kjarta...
I totally agree. Also whoever she reported to. Because her presentation reflects on them.

If someone had done that to me, I would have gracefully fended them off, verbally and physically.
I don't know how they got those numbers either, although I could speculate on a simple way to do a back-of-envelope calculation by Multiplying the following:

* commuter average hourly wage
* time spent in traffic (basically time the commute took in traffic minus the amount of time the commute would hypothetically take if drove at the speed limit)

That's easy although imperfect...might also want to account for other things like delayed meetings due to traffic.
Yes the borders between are categories are blurry but it helps to start with a crude generalization. The only people I know who call themselves computer scientists publish papers, and most people don't start calling themselves computer scientists until they join the scientific community in some way.
I'd argue that most sites are "documents" that have had "apps" unnecessarily shoehorned into them for cosmetic or financial reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle

One of the most important books of the muckraker era
I like it, but I think it'll catch on faster if you call it whuffie.
See anything associated with SEO.
Well, they can't do that job as we all see.

The original reason behind them establishing Mozilla Corporation over Mozilla Foundation was that they can keep this practice going while being safe from taxmen reprimanding them for pocketing what is a charity income from tax standpoint.

Now, Mozilla Corporation bills Mozilla Foundation for "service offered at a market price" to do its "socially beneficial, free of charge and any expectation of remuneration" activity, which is selling ads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle

Heh, beat.

TL;DR it was basically a massive expose on the conditions in the food and meat-packing industry in 1904 that lead to the creation of what is now the FDA, and the establishment of regulations concerning food sanitation and requirements about ingredient purity that we still greatly benefit from today.
It's usually more performant to store them as framebuffer objects, so this way they could stay in the memory of the graphics hardware.
Think tanks and advocacy groups are synonymous with lobbyists. It’s like a “rebels vs freedom fighter” thing.
>i don't really get the 'leave you be' bit.

Simple. More than a few people here seem to believe, as the grandparent comment suggests, that the web is a lost cause, or irredeemable, and all those people seem to want to do is to constantly complain about it.

I'm simply suggesting that if people feel the web has nothing to offer them, that it would be more productive for them to kindly leave it for a network that better suits their needs. Otherwise, rather than wanting to "fork the web and start over" they could consider working to improve what we have.
> The bailout was necessary but a tough pill to swallow

Capitalism for profits and socialism for losses.
fake reviews are an issue, but so are low-quality reviews.

for example i've seen quite a few books with a modest handful of reviews have their stars tanked by some terrible bad-faith reviews by people who take an issue with the book that isn't directly about the quality or merit of the content. (this really shows up in political and philosophy areas.)

this isn't the end of the world if i take the time to carefully survey reviews, but i just don't have time to give every book due process. few people really do.

i really wish i had some way to ignore individual reviews as well as everything from a reviewer - 'ignore' meaning that the site discounts their contribution to scoring when rendered for me.
The most interesting historical tidbit I learned from reading this essay, is that when you are playing devil's advocate, you are implying the person you are arguing with has been nominated for sainthood.
Recent versions of several Linux distributions and FreeBSD have made newer clang and g++ versions available, which both have decent support for C++17 features.

For example, Ubuntu 17.10 provides clang-5.0-3 and g++ 7.2.0. Installing clang 5 there is as easy as

sudo apt install clang-5.0

It's also easy to install various compilers side-by-side there, without messing up the entire system.

For die hard everyday C++ development, one probably does not want the C++ compiler run in a somewhat restricted container and experience all the potential trouble and limitations.

However, containerizing the compiler is a good way for providing a standardized build environment, because one can pin the exact versions of the compiler, libraries etc.

I have also seen people moving all their not-so-important stuff and/or the components that they do own maintain themselves out into Docker containers, in order to keep their base systems lean and clean. And so they can get rid of the containerized things easily should they become irrelevant. Plus keeping the containerized things relatively stable and unaffected by changes to the base system.
This isn't your main point but service quality hasn't dropped on airlines. You can still receive gold plated service if you are willing to pay the prices that used to be paid (or just fly enough to get sufficient status). What has happened is that the market has provided what people actually want: cheap flights with no frills.

Airline deregulation has been an unmitigated success for customers.
Why would the Chinese government need to explicitly state this? The parallels are clear. The inventors of Sesame Credit and the Social Credit System have access to the same history we do about the FICO system.
Bought BTC in early July, cashed out recently at 600% my initial investment. Some of it's gone towards Christmas presents, and I'm going to put the rest into a side project for (hopefully) a more stable source of semi-passive income.
Brave browser looks more appealing all of a sudden
Your question, as posed, presumed the answer would be different for men than for women. Why else pose it?
Because lowering interest rates and pushing for deregulation is not illegal.
In my state it means a misdemeanor. Also anecdotally, it's not hard to get these cases dismissed here through a combination of a clean drug test and preemptive community service hours. But I have still spent time in jail for a case that was ultimately dismissed and the state law allows for significant (relative to the 'crime') prison sentences for simple possession, even though we are considered "decriminalized".
Nice, but where do you keep your private key?

Why storing and syncing a private key or multiple private keys is better than storing and syncing a complex password or multiple complex passwords?
I don't quite agree, because as the HN guidelines have pointed out for years, classic flamewar topics rarely involve anything new to say. And boy is that one a classic.
> it remains to be seen how it will play out in practice

Drug policy reform is extremely difficult to carry out well, mostly due to the social impact it has on both the populace and governing bodies - adjustment doesn't happen immediately and are likely to be bumps in the road. From the sound of the article, it sounds like Norway is headed in the right direction, though it may take everyone a bit to get on the right path. Still, this is already happening elsewhere in the world[1], and I think it will continue to happen more as time goes on.

I don't know many details of Norway's drug policies (nor Portugal's, for that matter), but it makes sense that decriminalization + treatment, when implemented well, will generally far exceed incarceration when it comes to overall effectiveness and impact on reducing drug abuse, crime, and deaths.

I hear people are pretty happy in Norway (compared to the states, at least), but police harassment is never any fun - I hope things improve there.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
> most Linux distributions are just cosmetic variations of the largest upstream distros.

Plenty are not. I am impressed by how usable community-based (non-corporate) distros are (e.g. Gentoo, Arch). This is truly indigenous technology.

> they all rely on Torvalds and everyone else for the kernel (heavily funded by donations, companies, etc)

This is an interesting thought. I believe the Linux kernel would continue to be viable on a purely volunteer basis, without corporate subsidies; I can't prove it though.
What are you talking about? I've been gaming exclusively on Linux distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, SteamOS and Solus) for the last few years and it's been great. Site/community gamingonlinux.com is a testament to Linux gaming being a viable platform.
Lets compare Firefox with Windows or Mac or any other popular software that you guys pour money on. What I find most interesting is why you pay premium to get locked into a propriety closed source platform, getting "updates" pushed to your systems all the time, like force feeding chickens. While I'm most likely wrong I think this is actually a PR stunt, that somewhat backfired. At least they got you talking about these issues.
LODs refer to simplified versions of the original mesh. So they are not flat like billboards, and still have the "depth" to them. Think for example, a pine tree with many shapes for branches in the foreground, but in the distant background the entire body of the leaves can just be a simple cone.
Switching from Firefox to Chrome is jumping from pan to flame. Google are at least as bad, and in all probability much worse. The Safari saga. In fact, the amount of protestations one here are deeply suspicious.
Are there numerous creditable sightings of unidentified animals that are consistent with unicorns? And if there are, are unidentified animals something the military has an interest in?

There are numerous creditable sightings of unidentified things in the air. Are they aliens? Almost surely not. But no matter what mundane phenomenon is responsible for unidentified things in the air, it is of interest to the military.
Like the progression from http://www.motherfuckingwebsite.com/ to http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/.
Now why does everybody mean different things by "REST"? Maybe because the idea "REpresentational State Transfer" was never that clear from the start.

So that's some common ground. It's a bad idea.