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I’m not sure :) I think it’s because the stack makes it easier to see the state of the calculation, whereas without RPN I have to keep more in my head and can’t see it.

Basically what thomastjeffrey said.
let's not pretend this is some isolated incident. see: rest of this thread and many threads before it.

EDIT:

> The core idea (deploy an easter egg via an add-on) seems pretty reasonable.

no, no it doesn't. especially not when done silently, without confirmation and modifies headers and content on pages i visit.

in what alternate universe is this "reasonable"?

"reasonable" would be to push it to a tile on the new tab page.

EDIT 2: Mr Robot is the exact type of sensationalized shit i want to keep out of my tools.
Good name for a REST library. ;-)
Fair enough. When giving up sucks more—instantly—than pushing through, it's a whole different story. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
This is the line I remember when people try to force their supreme righteousness upon somebody. Sometimes people will use the word obvious as their primary defense, but that word is easily exchangeable with oblivious.
This is how it starts. One show, opt-in.

I happen to like Mr. Robot but what happens when a show I dislike is pushed on me. Later on, it's 5 shows with a forced opt-out. After that, it's a bunch of other stuff with a convoluted way of opting out (similar to "installing" a 3rd-party search engine).

Mozilla says it's a show it's users like... This is the scariest statement from Mozilla so far. It's the kind of thing the Facebooks, the Googles and all the others are doing via their surveillance mechanisms.

After a while, the browser will be littered with Kardashian stuff because the majority will dictate the lowest common denominator.
I am the lead engineer for Plenario. We act as the public API for AoT. Both projects are a part of the Computation Institute at UChicago and I work very closely with the engineers on their team, as well as with people from other partner organizations.

I would be happy to answer any questions people have about AoT or anything related to it.
One point that may be significant is that South Korea has only one land border, and it is heavily guarded.
Ordinarily I'd say a comment like that is inappropriate but "fuck all of this" was the comment I wanted to write immediately after reading this story, so all I've got is sympathy for that position.
It's literally a pejorative for low-life drug addicts, there's no subtlety here. Low-life alcoholics get called drunks to basically the same effect.
Monoprice also sells through Amazon and most, if not all, of their items qualify for Prime (something like 1000' cable spools might not qualify, but the everyday consumer stuff generally does). Never had a problem with any of their wires.
This sounds like a sponge operation to gauge how much experimental flight testing programs may impact the public, how secret it is being, collect debris that falls into public hands, etc. Obviously if it was done under the auspices of a military operation that would lead to questions. But no one questions the motives of people posing as UFO investigators.
Except those carefully designed URLs are often behind a client side RPC library. So what was the point of doing it REST style in the first place?
See Glomar Explorer for other examples.
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I appreciate you taking the time and the work you do.

Let me state the obvious for your management: violating user trust is unacceptable. I expect Mozilla to be user-centric but I can no longer take that for granted.

This is a very dangerous action because it's not something that can be taken back. The addon can be removed but it shows very poor judgement on the part of Mozilla leadership and now I have to doubt all future motives.
> But IMO such a change would do more to strengthen the drunk college party tradition than it would to weaken it. Girls would be even more likely to party wildly if they weren't scared of being assaulted while doing so...

I don't think you thought that one all the way through. They also wouldn't be allowed to have sex afterwards under any circumstances, which for a lot of women I know would be a problem. As far as I know this is already the law essentially, but not in practice.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." -- John Ehrlichman, who served as domestic policy chief for President Richard Nixon when the administration declared its war on drugs in 1971
"Every X should Y" is an excellent way to say your argument has zero nuance to it.
> And if someone says “we shouldn’t go into business with that guy—he’s shady,” nobody asks “well if he did what you’re accusing him of doing, why didn’t you file a lawsuit?”

Criminal accusations are much worse and deserve a much higher standard of evidence. Also, I think you're wrong. People ask that question all the time in the civil case.
First thing I‘d ask is if South Korea had a high amount of users and addicts and deaths ever in the past. I could imagine US and Portugal are more similar to each other.
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What does that mean specifically? Women can already press charges when they accuse someone. The problem is, many women don't. I see no evidence of women not being allowed to press charges on a mass scale.

I understand it's a traumatic experience, but so is all of violent crimes.
If it makes my life better and I know a few people who said that it also makes their lifes better - then surely it makes someone else's life better.

Now you could argue that it may also make someone else's life better, but we can't yet make any official research on the topic due to the legal framework against drugs.

On the misinformation clause - I can't say there's much misinformation on the dosages and expected effects on the hard reduction websites. They do their job well.
Even if the add-on is "enabled," it's doesn't initialize itself unless a specific about:config value is also manually flipped: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/59659431fd2a75c33ac...

And, for good measure, here's an official quote confirming that we're pulling the add-on from Firefox: https://gizmodo.com/after-blowback-firefox-will-move-mr-robo...
On the impact of QE, that's not entirely correct. Banks found themselves flush with deposits (that's good) but low interest rates also killed their profitability (banks are structurally net receivers of interest rates). And negative rates cause further problems as you can't always pay negative interest rates on deposits, but that's what the bank will receive.
I whole heartedly agree with this along and this seems to be confirmed by PG's essay on painting[0].

For me music seems to be a natural hobby and creative outlet. I see a lot of overlap between coding and writing/making music. At its core, both use code and abstractions into something that humans can enjoy.

And now I find my software engineering skills being directly applicable to making electronic music as well. Making music gives me a fresh outlook on working in tech and making products.

Anyways, that was a personal rant.

0:http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
I won't dispute that history; just trying to add context to this one and agree that it's disappointing.

As to your edit, I absolutely agree. That's what I meant when I said pushing the add-on was not good. I was only suggesting that an add-on is a reasonable place to implement an easter egg, since it's separate from the core browser code. Distributing that add-on is a different matter, and I personally disagree with what happened there.
Consider the Consequences of #BelieveAllWomen
That’s done at other levels, with funding and staffing.
But you can't just decide to avoid making assumptions, because the shape of your API strongly dictates the shape of your handler methods. I've never seen an API migration that didn't involve rewriting nearly the entire API layer.

Even worse, you have to maintain both the old and new versions of the API code, because turning off the old API endpoint is going to take at least a year.
It's political. For reasons I don't fully understand, part of the identity surface area for a certain (hard to articulate, but let's call it "Trump-sympathetic") political orientation has come to include "the Rohingya Genocide is manufactured".

It's difficult to understand why that would be a useful stance; it seems like pure malice, since neither side of this conflict is particularly germane to US partisan politics. But if you dig in, you're going to discover that Rohingya Truthism is a phenomenon of the performative branch of the right wing.
Blogging seems to be a popular creative hobby not only because it has a low barrier of entry but it also helps you communicate better. On the other hand when I play the piano, do abstract art and write poetry these are important too.

To be honest a Creative hobby not only solves the problem of making you more creative but it allows for an escape and release of thinking of other things. Even if you aren't optimizing yourself creatively it helps.

Writing comments on HN would be even lower to a barrier of entry and still qualify as creative. I'm sorry I couldn't hold back to go a little meta in this comment ;-)
Why is boring the way to go? Here in L.A., we keep on widening the freeways and traffic is just as bad. Boring is just another channel that will get clogged once it's built. Mass transportation is a better way to go. Also,policies that make it desirable for people to work close to where they live will help.
Well the actual driver inside should last you a lifetime, the plasticky headband on the other hand...

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Also related:

The Sennheisers branded ear pads or Brainwavz (IIRC) ear pads are a bit expensive ($20+).

You can get generic "memory" foam ones on AliExpress for $4.

It's not actually memory foam and they might send you the wrong type, and it's a tight fit (just remember to breathe !?) but they work.
People lack depth perception in the sky which makes it easy to wildly misunderstand things.

A great example shown by some UFO show was a side camera from the space shuttle. The footage has a nice curvature of the earth, with lot's of little specks that seem to be orbiting it way out in the distance. You see a maneuvering thruster fire then in slow motion a few heartbeats later these specks shoot off in a new direction.

Now, if you assume they where large objects far away they must have been moving incredibly quickly and have insane acceleration. However, if you realize they are flecks of paint etc/ near the shuttle pushed out of the way by the maneuvering thruster then they where not actually moving fast relative to the shuttle at any point.
Spotify New HQ in Stockholm – Paying $1.38M a Month in Rent
Sounds good, but that makes me ask, so why aren't they already widely deployed? Makes me think there is some problem you aren't mentioning.
Actually a big part of the problem is hinted in your examples: feature creep from native programs into the browser.

I think it would be an interesting, more private, and safer online world if browsers only displayed HTML and a minimum of JS rather than being entire operating systems, and anything like media playing and high interactivity occurred in native programs.
No, let's not. "These people" are women and children. No infant in her mother's arms, no 12 year old village girl ever attacked "security forces", which is a name no organization of armed people who facilitate mass rape and the murder of children deserves.

That you could even make the argument betrays something deeply warped about your understanding of not just this conflict, but of conflict in general.
If they had money in the bank, maybe they wouldn't need to run these kind of NBC promotions? Maybe they wouldn't need to place advertisements in the new tab window?
I can see it now. "Facebook reorganizes and parent company will be called Appbook."
Maybe instead of a litmus test on their political donations, Mozilla needs one on whether its executives respect users.
Ah yes, the growing pains of ruining people's lives for having the wrong opinions. Just reasonable growing pains!
"Do you see the psychological paradox of Federalization?"

No, it is exactly what I am talking about ;-)

I just wanted to point out, that for Luxemburg to join the rounds EU-de-legitimizers is a whole new ball game. Just an example: LUX politicians were pushing for the EU to make "Letzebuergisch" an official language of its own, while linguistically its just a variety of German (not even a dialect). Although that attempt failed (because science), the audacity gives a hint of how much Luxemburg gained from the EU so far.

It shows how much incompetence and disarray is present in the European political leadership at the moment, if even Luxemburg is starting to delegitimizing EU institutions.
how is this significant in any way to the topic of drug-related deaths?
> Hate speech is not an opinion in this sense: it is not something presented as an argument or topic for discussion.

According to J.S. Mill, free speech should only be constrained to the extent that it violates what he calls the harm principle:

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."

He makes a distinction between causing harm and causing offense. Revulsion, disgust, psychologically upsetting speech, discriminatory speech, insults and so forth fall under the latter category. Free speech which merely causes offense should not be prohibited according to Mill however controversial or contrary to social norms such speech is.

But how strong the definition of the "harm principle" should be is subject to debate.

Contrast for instance, screaming "Fire!!" in a theater - which might cause injury and death from a crowd stampede - with "All <insert_ethnic_group> are inherently inferior to <insert_other_ethnic_group>".

The difference between causing harm and offense is that harm is universally injurious, whereas as what causes offense is only experienced subjectively.

Although I find blatant hate speech detestable, there is a worrying trend where a majority of people consider hate speech to mean "anything that we disagree with". In our times, it is difficult to speak frankly or be a contrarian without being demonized. And this is precisely what J.S. Mill calls "tyranny of the majority" and consequentially what leads to loss of individuality in society.
The obvious question is how would those numbers change with a shared car. It's quite possible it could be cheaper for many even with a higher per mile cost.
Say that you are interested in investigating puzzling phenomena, and you have the money. What more logical step is there than to approach your senate majority leader friend?

Such oddball connections are probably the only the way such a program would ever get funded.

Edit: well, obviously he didn't have the money. Misspoke. I meant the means (a company with the required infrastructure).
Yeah, where I’m reading online reviews and sold statistics, I always have to mentally normalize for the fact that most people just buy the cheapest item.

I wish sites like Amazon had a feature such as “people who buy similar quality items to you, also bought this...”
I doubt it was a no-bid contract. And there are far more lucrative programs which raise far less eyebrows than this.
Rates of "past month" and "past year" drug use has decreased. These are more useful measures than some others, such as "lifetime use".

Rates of injecting drug use have decreased.

Drug use in adolescants have decreased.

Rates of harm have decreased dramatically.
Alphabook, surely.
Its a lottery you can throw with research.

Say you want bookshelf speakers. Going with the budget pick I might get Pioneer SP-BS22-LRs, but they're around 4500RMB here in China. Other reputable brands come in around 10000RMB, which is so far outside my budget its not even funny. But most of these speakers are made in China anyways, so you start sleuthing. K, i find a post on an Audiophile forum that tells me that HiVi(/Swan) makes the drivers for most upscale Audio equipment. Let's check what HiVi has. Ahh, they've got a bloody gorgeous pair of speakers for 1699RMB[0], and a passable one for 699RMB, and an official Taobao store. And they'll do.

Boots I would not buy from China, in China, you can return them and test.

For budget headphones, Senneheiser is what I get in Germany, Tascam if you're in the US, JVC for Asia. Don't know any Chinese brands of note there.

For smartphones Xiaomi is blowing it out of the water right now. Their Redmi（红米） line is incredible value. Then there's Huawei, Meizu, OPPO, Honor, and whatever Hammer(Chuizi) is.

[0]https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=542718449070&ns=1&abbuc...
Will be interesting to see the responses compared to 4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6223466
lmao remind me again who owns the economist? and why u think they would snitch on themselves?
This shows a misunderstanding of the us legal system. You or I don't press criminal charges, a DA does. We can report a crimes, this girl did, the rest is up to the state.

Here the girl reported a crime, there appears to have been compelling evidence that what she says was true, and the state declined to press charges.

That's not her fault, it's a systemic failure.
> Causing financial crisis wasn't illegal. Unethical but not a crime.

I don't know why people keep repeating this. It feels like brainwashing of some sort. Why do people repeat this? Did Obama repeat it a lot at the time, and because many people liked Obama, they just bought that excuse?

It just feels so strange to see people argue against their best interest. Do you want another financial crisis to happen because of the bankers once again? Because that's how you're going to get one - by ensuring nobody gets punished for the last one.

Also, in his final years, Eric Holder admitted that the main reason he didn't go after bankers wasn't because "they did nothing illegal" but because he (and Obama) "thought" (or got paid to think) that jailing the bankers would "hurt the economy". I've never seen a more bullshit excuse.

Also, Holder, but only after he quit the administration, had some "regrets" that he didn't go after the bankers.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/eric-holder-banks-...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/sep/25/...

https://theintercept.com/2016/07/12/eric-holders-longtime-ex...

The entire government system in the U.S. is corrupt from top to bottom. Everyone in an legislative or executive position seems to either only ever do the bidding of their rich donors or ensure that whatever actions they take while in government doesn't hurt their private employment after working in the government (especially when they intend to work in the industries they regulate).
A number of episodes of The Great Egg Race are available on the BBC Archive: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/great_egg_race/

Wonderful stuff. RIP.

Oh - he was a contestant an episode of on The Adventure Game, which is now available on DVD. Stands up very well to the test of time.
> Are you so incapable of taking...

Please leave this sort of thing out of comments on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lots of good stuff in here. Shared it with my company, as it has advice that's not just applicable to front end repositories.
Their behavior here with regards to handling the bug tracker is exactly the same as with Cliqz. So this isn't a one off thing. It's the start of a pattern and a dark one at that.

And speaking of which, I made a post prior to FF57 asking where the Cliqz situation went and got no responses. Any idea as to what happened with it? I haven't seen any updates on the situation since and feel like it's just been swept under the rug.
On top of what you've all said drug use in Portugal has only gone up if you look at "have you ever in your life, even if only once, used drugs?"
Yep. That's like one of the key religious/spiritual beliefs. Humans are incapable of good judgment due to lack of omniscience. Nobody can make a proper moral judgment of any individual since you don't have perfect knowledge of all their past and future deeds and circumstances. Even Christianity subscribes to this idea "vengeance is mine". Ballancing of universal scales is best left to a mystical omnipresent entity that has access to every bit of information in existence.
Why aren’t any congress people in prison for causing the financial crisis?
The coming crash of Bitcoin is inevitable
Except the object is clearly visible on the F-18's IRST camera footage. It was also picked up on radar by a surface cruiser and a nearby E-2 Hawkeye. See: https://fightersweep.com/1460/x-files-edition/
The code for the sensors is on GitHub. I’ll try to find if the actual boards are hosted anywhere.

https://github.com/waggle-sensor
Facebook is the ultimate individualism app.

Before, you had media that was consumed simultaneously by all members of the family or together with your friends. There were some, not that time consuming media sources targeting a certain age group.

Facebook targets all age groups and compartmentalizes everyone perfectly into their own echo chambers.

People consume stuff together less, compared to times when they consumed television or similar media.

Even families don't spend time together watching their favorite comedy shows or similar as much as they used to. Shows are all compartmentalized.

That's what targeted advertisement and machine learning do. Tweak for the best click through rate.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but there might be some effects of people consuming information mostly alone without any external input, other than their echo chamber. I've definitely felt this affect me.
So how on earth did GuitarPang ever miss this one?
This is nearly as bad as in the U.S., although I assume you probably don't have the same racial component.
So what would you do instead? Alice and Bob work together and Alice accuses Bob of rape (or really any personal crime like assault or theft). The police investigate and either decide not to press charges or Bob is found not-guilty in court.

After the fact it's clear that Alice and Bob working together isn't good for either of them. And to the best of your knowledge Bob isn't guilty of anything -- unless you claim to know better than the police and the courts.

If you were the manager of Alice and Bob what action would you take that you belive is fair?
Augmented content creation: Harry Potter
could be this ATFLIR pod, same reticle seen here:
https://theaviationist.com/2017/09/21/heres-the-video-of-the...
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> One can't prove a negative.

Fine. One can't necessarily prove a negative. Only if you can prove the negation of the assertion can you "prove the negative".

Now apply that logic to: <Musk> I can reduce the cost of boring by an order of magnitude.

Can you prove that he can't? The gp was (over)simply stating that just because no other digging project has done what Musk claims to be able to do doesn't necessarily mean that Musk can't do it.