skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RPN is so efficient when you are running a series of calcs when you learn it. I feel icky now if I use algebraic input or calculator and I have to backspace. It's like using a word processor, not a calculator! I am in Emacs all day for all things. It is a big mess of a world I like muddying about in!
The bailout was loan rather than gift though, and I believe eventually made a small profit?
Miners could mess with very recent state, but if you download enough blocks with full state to be confident of finality for the earliest one, and verify just those transitions, you're still safe.

If the incorrect blocks were published on the network, they'd be rejected by other miners, so you don't have to look far back unless (1) there's a sustained 51% attack on the whole network, or (2) you're a very juicy target and a huge miner can take over your internet connection, and you don't notice a large drop in difficulty.
That's exactly what YAGNI/KISS encourages. Don't make things more complicated than they need to be right now. That includes used technologies.

I'd much rather use a simplistic tool while I still get away with it, risking having to switch to a more complicated tool later, than starting off with something way too complicated for what I need.

Chances are the difficulty isn't in switching from REST to SOAP, or the other way around, but in dealing with the all the assumptions that permeate those 50 KLOC. In the end it just comes down to having a clean code base that can be steered in another direction.

Note that I only mean not dealing with what cannot be easily be foreseen. Turning a blind eye to what you should know will soon be a problem, is a different story. As an example, if you ignore concurrency from the start, that will be hard to set straight later.
Given they'd just one a lot of people back with 57, this was a pretty dumb thing to do.
>"And what's with the UI on their publications"

Agreed, its a content platform with a where the content fights for attention with the medium.com branding. How many people do you really "never miss a story from"? I generally avoid medium.com for this reason alone.

I'm further puzzled when I see companies using medium for their company blog as well. All I can figure is it must be recommended in some user guide to "growth hacking."
The wages across income levels were not stagnant in 2016 (http://www.epi.org/publication/the-state-of-american-wages-2...)
The source is a bit misleading - the 12.8 trillion includes money the fed spent to buy assets, driving interest rates down. They've been slowly unwinding that position, and it's not as if they were giving the money away.
To say it like that is absolutely disingenuous and misleading.

He was approved by the EPP, European Parliament (that is directly elected) and European Council (whose members are heads of states or government and they are directly or indirectly elected in their countries). If people wanted him out strongly enough he would be out. But most people don't care about elections to EP enough to even show up, turnaround in 2014 was 42%.

Ministers, heads of government, speakers of the house, military officers, police chiefs, other parts of the executive branch, presidents of national companies and the central bank, heads of intelligence agencies, military officers and other positions that are the actual decision makers are not directly elected but appointed by the winners of direct elections (often a single party that doesn't even hold the absolute majority of popular support, as is the case now in Poland, where PiS has 51.5% of MPs with 39% of votes due to few quirks of the rules) in many countries and that's apparently not an issue to anyone at all (i.e. not anyone attacks PiS on that fact, even though they deflect all criticism by saying they are "representing the will of Poles") but when the same process happens in the EU among a much larger group of country heads and MEPs and with an absolute majority in place then it's the end of the world and dictatorship.
Apologies to the HN readers who felt the need to downvote me for implying due process is necessary for a civilized society.
Grit is a muscle, train it
"more and more people will be unable to handle the capital costs of new cars."

Over 80% of new cars are financed so I think we're already past that point.
Unfortunately I've not had time to do browser research, what are people switching to?
& in English "does a mathematical model of time exist?" is the proper way to ask the question. The better question is "Does time Exist? And in what way does time exist for humans and does it exist in nature without humans?" Seasons are temporal but becuse some material things repeat in nature does that add to more and turn into time? For nature without memory one would think time doesn't strictly exist. Time requires memory of before and after and now it seems...
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major tl;dr
It's great to see Sam calling attention to this problem.

I'd argue that it's not really about ideas as much as it is about the public being much more accepting of authoritarianism.

The broader values of free speech and free expression come not from an aesthetic judgment of particular acts of speech, but from a desire to limit the power of authoritarian governments to suppress speech/expression.

We're seeing in both parties an amnesia about the downside of authoritarianism, and this filters down to things like office culture, university culture, and the perception of the trade-offs associated with various freedoms.
Because someone who is "in a position of power over the other party" never falls in love (or plainly lusts -- which, unless we're in Victorian times somehow, should still be considered OK) with the other party, or vice versa.

If only life could be so nicely compartmentalised as anglosaxon cultures dream...

The whole distinction should be in the abuse of such relationship for coercion (e.g. Weinstein style) -- as opposed to the mere presence of such relationships...
One of the allegations in the post is that C (the band member - named in the bloomberg article) came up to her and made a comment about her dress being too sexy while she was presenting at a poster session.

If you are a person of social standing in academia, it shouldn't be hard to figure out what a poster session is for - and it's not flirting or criticising people's dress styles, which hardly counts as "socialising". People are there to talk about their work (and have no good options for getting away from you).
Thank you, interesting.

>Up to this point, Opera was trialware and had to be purchased after the trial period ended. Version 5.0 (released in 2000) saw the end of this requirement. Instead, Opera became ad-sponsored, displaying advertisements to users who had not paid for it. Later versions of Opera gave the user the choice of seeing banner ads or targeted text advertisements from Google. With version 8.5 (released in 2005) the advertisements were removed entirely and primary financial support for the browser came through revenue from Google (which is by contract Opera's default search engine). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)
Show HN: Awesome idea for posting an email address
Colin’s idea of adding 1 to the username string is genious. Thanks Colin!
JOE also had a calculator: Esc M

It tries to include features of a Casio scientific calculator, so includes things like statistics / regression (of selected block) and engineering notation display. It inserts underscores between every three digits for easier reading: 0.123_456

It is not reverse polish.
Because it was the language of UNIX distributions (not called that, but it's the same concept).
What if he agrees with all your allegations that he is rapey and misogynistic? In that case, wouldn't it be better if he adopts the policy than not? I assume you'd agree.

So, if you are misogynistic, following this policy saves you from career suicide and harming others, and if you are not misogynistic, then the price is small. Therefore, it's best to follow this "no socialization with subordinates" policy.
I’m not sure if there was an official announcement, but:

> We didn't make any money off of this; it was intended as an easter egg in Firefox for fans of the show.
https://www.metafilter.com/171227/Your-Reality-Is-Driven-By-...
Fork it ?
It would be a good name for a network that learns by making some other network stupid.
I've been using Opera since Mozilla shoved out Eich and Google fired Damore. As far as I know, the Opera folks aren't particularly authoritarian. Opera works pretty well; I actually like it better than Chrome.

EDIT: I wonder if the downvoters are more upset that I use Opera or that I'm critical of authoritarianism?
Damn. This sound like the actions of a few inside Mozilla... Cause it's definitely not in line with the organization's stated goals. So where's the accountability? The people who made these decisions should be held accountable.

Also, even since 57, this week Firefox ("stable" build) consistently gets hung up with just one tab open and spins 100% CPU on one thread. I hope it isn't trying to invert the word "robot" when the thread gets stuck.
Saving clicks: the title should be read as "I'm no longer using Facebook", not "I no longer work for Facebook"
I saw this a couple of days ago and it feels a little "stating the obvious" to me. Water conducts electricity so why shouldn't a wet string?

All we need now is some movie where someone flies a kite into a bunch of Ethernet cables in the rain and downloads the internet into their head - not sure what else this "discovery" is useful for, fun little experiment though.
Saying "there's no legal way to go after them!" I find kind of upsetting when bankers can hire great lobbyists to ensure they set up the law favorably for themselves.

Definitely agree we should have paid off mortgages instead though.
The reason why there aren't any bankers in prison is Enron.

Enron and Arthur Andersen were aggressively prosecuted. Many top execs went to prison, Fastow and Skilling. Lay would have gone but 'died' before sentencing. But Arthur Andersen also lost 85,000 jobs. Enron lost 4000+. Employees pensions were wiped out.

Politicians and prosecutors do not have the stomach for that. Citizens don't have the backbone to elect politicians who have that stomach. (US Attorneys are appointed by an elected politician and confirmed by elected politicians.)

This is really just one more wrinkle on too big to fail. That and regulatory capture. And also Citizens United. And a few other things.
A howlingly bad submarine article
well, unix was written in it, making it a natural choice if you're writing unix programs, or if you are writing programs on a unix.
What Is Monero? The Cryptocurrency where privacy matters most
> updates have been known to re-enable it if you turn it off ... But it doesn’t matter - you’re going to re-enable it on the next update.

It's surprising how ... trustworthy Chrome is in this regard. My default search engine is set to DDG and through countless updates Chrome has never once attempted to reset it to Google.
I played around with jscodeshift and ASTExplorer a few weekends ago. I found it to be fairly opaque. All I was hoping to do was remove a wrapping function and replace it with its child/children. The documentation for jscodeshift is fairly rudimentary. I had high hopes of creating examples and submitting them as PRs... but alas, a weekend is only so long. Perhaps this weekend will have me giving it another shot with this tool.
Netscape Navigator.
I think for some definition of "not in control", I would agree that men are not in control of their sexual urges. More specifically, while I think in most situations I'd be fine, but if I've had one too many drinks, and the social situation "feels" appropriate to me, it might be possible that I do something which I'd later regret.
Google Assistant Receives ‘Hey Google’ Phrase Support
Drew changed to qutebrowser

Source: the blog post
I'm saying the disparity is due to personality difference. Which, even if cultural, can't be changed by the tech industry. I find it very implausible that the differences are cultural at any level. And many possible cultural explanations have been ruled out.

Poor and communist countries have less gender disparities because people have less choice over their careers. E.g. poor parents shove their kids into STEM because it's see it as a way out of poverty. In rich countries people have the freedom to pursue their actual interests. And so statistical differences in interests start to matter.
And the article doesn’t even mention the Cliqz controversy [1]. How can you try to promote your browser as the privacy-oriented, user-first alternative and at the same time run into shitstorms like this all the time? Shouldn’t there be someone who can properly judge the effect of decisions like this?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15421708
The 'bankers' most responsible are Greenspan and Bernanke. Everyone loves a witch hunt, but blaming the financial crisis on private bankers for legally following misaligned incentives created by the government is ridiculous (and the norm, unfortunately).
Let's call it the Torvolds principle instead. "Pence" has unfortunate connotations.
Rest is not an RPC protocol. If you need RPC you should use an RPC protocol. Rest is not universally applicable. The verbs don't map well to anything beyond simple CRUD operations. If you want to do something that isn't one of those operations it is going to be painful.

You can get all the benefits of the plain text serializataion by using json or even xml as the payload serialization format with a much richer set of verbs. You can even use HTTP as the lower level protocol if you want and gain all the benefits that that gives you.

Most of the pain people experience is when they try to use REST when they need an RPC protocol instead.
I expected this to be the millionth blogpost about p-values.

It's pretty clear that any organization is gonna have some powerful men (people?) in it who sexually harassed people. I don't think any industry is free from it, though some industries may more conducive to it (hollywood and academia for example are industries with cults of personality, and a lot of people desperate to be involved in it).
Add some data center capacity for a cryptocurrency co-lo.
I'll grant TFA lacks imagination, but...

One can't prove a negative.

This meme needs to die. On HN, of all places, we should all know that the difference in difficulty between proving P and !P has nothing to do with one of them having a negation in its syntax.
Couldn't tell from the readme, apologies if I missed it, but: does the optimization happen if the optimized files are already present?
It does not matter how few they are, if they are the ones making the decisions then they represent Mozilla. Unless dramatic change occurs immediately, we can only conclude that Mozilla is shoveling crapware into Firefox.
The bailout was a loan and the US taxpayers actually made money from the bailout loan itself.
Yeah, same here. Awful performance and stability on MacOS. Going to back to Chrome <sigh>
Here's an open question that I'm having a hard time finding an answer for:

I have a series of images that are basically screenshots of a visual novel (pretty much a comic book). Most of the space of the screenshots are identical from image to image, and I'd like to compress these files together to save space. My first thought is to use some kind of video compression format to do this, but I'm wondering how to handle playback (currently the windows built in image viewer is used).

Backstory: My wife enjoys reading VNs on her phone and screenshots them so she can re-read them on the PC. I've automated most of the capturing of screenshots via some adb scripting and a WPF app that talks to the phone, but the resulting files are quite large and I can tell that I could be smarter with how the resulting files are stored.
this reads like longform apologia for government inaction and banker exploitation...

at one point the interviewee makes it seem like the government didn't do prosecutions because it would have taken a lot of paperwork.

why do we pay taxes?
The same way if someone steals your car, you buy a new one and the economy as whole (GDP) is in profit.

What bailout did (also via QE + ZIRP/NIRP) is prop-up property & asset prices effectively legitimising the prior speculation. This prevented resetting of prices to the levels where people would start buying again for non speculative reasons. Effect is young generation sees houses at 10x earnings whereas the average is 3-3.5x. Boomers sit on tons of unearned house equity that is only there because land prices are inflating like crazy.

For capitalism to work well there needs to be a mechanism for wealth destruction, at least for the "unrealised wealth".
Watching the whole thing unfold has been heartbreaking. Most mozillians do not support this. This Twitter thread is one insight into it: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/941709048529014784

Firefox 57 gained a ton of good will from a lot of users, and they pull this crap right after. They absolutely should know better. They should have known better with Pocket; they should have learned from Pocket.

"Fork it" is not an acceptable answer. The problem is not with Firefox, it's with Mozilla. Mozilla is a good company at heart and they're an important pillar of the web. Losing them to stupid stuff like this sucks, we should fight for them. There's tons of Firefox forks, none of them get the point though, you might as well use Chromium. If Firefox disappears and the fork remains, the fork dies because maintaining a web browser is work that needs a corporation's backing behind it (or a government's).

Mozilla's role goes beyond the web browser as well. Its mission was to "keep the web open", "keep the web free". This goal was reflected in projects such as Firefox OS, Hello and Persona (and to some extent, Thunderbird)... but atrocious management made those projects a waste of time and money.

It's not Firefox you need to fork, it's Mozilla.
Mozilla must believe that privacy conscious users make up a small percentage of their user base. There's no other explanation for moves like this and their "differential privacy" fiasco from August.

Between that, broken U2F support in FF57, and pages that are broken in FF but work fine in Chrome (I assume due to devs catering to the huge market share) it's becoming increasingly difficult to stick with Firefox.
I use protobuf at work all the time (not google) and prefer them over almost all other serialization formats. To be fair, I mainly work in Scala, C# and JavaScript where great implementations exist. In the case of Scala, IntelliJ just needs to know that the generated source files are just that and then it „just works“ for me
The 3D game doesn't work for me, when I hit play all I get is a white screen with light pink/teal/yellow coloured pixels/blocks flickering at the top of the screen. I'm on an intel integrated graphics.
It would be nice if the home page had some kind of an example page or report. I don't want to sign up for something if I don't know how it works first.
It depends on what part of the US you're in. The Bay Area and Northwest are ultraliberal, so conservative and even moderate voices get suppressed. The Midwest/Bible-Belt is ultra-Christian so non-Christian voices get suppressed. The South is ultraconservative, so moderate, liberal, progressive, non-Christian, and non-white voices are suppressed.

The best places for free speech are SoCal and NYC. Both areas lean liberal but have large conservative populations, so extreme viewpoints on either side of the political spectrum get suppressed, but everything in the middle comes through just fine.
Way back in olden times? Yes. You could buy Netscape Navigator in a box.
*one -> won
I started trying Vivaldi a while back, mainly due to performance issues. It's missing some of the features I've grown to like about Firefox and has some additional bugs, but overall it's considerably faster.
Being able to switch between Google accounts in Chrome is so huge to me now that I can't use anything else.
Ground-up rock dust works wonders: https://remineralize.org/
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Does anyone know if the Developer Edition was affected?
Thanks for that! The lecture series is a true gem.
That's your subjective opinion though. There are studies that report very high rates of false accusations. You may decide they aren't good studies or you don't believe them or whatever, but if other men don't write these things off immediately, it's not hysteria.

Many of these recent allegations would certainly not have been taken seriously in earlier times: the bar for a report to be considered false has been raised to stratospheric levels. Once, if a woman claimed she'd been sexually assaulted by a man, the fact that she didn't bother to report it, voluntarily chose to work with that man for years afterwards, was routinely photographed in public looking happy with that man, tweeted about what a great time she had that night, wrote him thankyou notes etc would all have been considered fatal to her case. Nowadays many people seem to believe that it's impossible for women to lie or exaggerate such claims and thus ignore any evidence to the contrary.

In such an environment, it does actually make a lot of sense for men to just avoid working with women. The norms of justice can't be relied on, so total exclusion is all that's left. Not that I'd do it. But I understand those who do.
Spontaneously catching fire five days after a crash seems really good! Somewhere between five seconds and five minutes is when it would be problematic.
> It reinforces the glass ceiling / old boys club, because friends talk about business on the golf course (or at the LAN party), and then women get excluded from that.

Some might, I don't. Some crap people do crap things. I discuss work issues in work. Out of hours work discussions exclude all kinds of people, people with families, women (again in particular) with children and those who prefer work situations to social ones. I occasionally meet male and female colleagues one-to-one in coffee shops during work hours, to talk things through, but I don't drink alcohol with them.

I haven't studied Pence's view, but I am a married man and I rarely meet women socially one-on-one. I socialize very occasionally with my team . I have seen so many times where a manager socializes with his team, then they do a bit of texting, then one hits on hard times and needs a shoulder to cry on, then they fall out and the company has a sexual harassment case to deal with where maybe it is just a 'lovers quarrel'.

I agree with the other poster that said that having sex with close colleagues is wholly unprofessional. There are plenty of people on earth.
I gave it a good strong shot when 57 came out (I had been on Vivaldi for a while). The performance was way better for sure, but it still wasn't quite there. I also hate how default zoom level still requires a plugin and isn't built into the browser.
Or that the privacy conscious people don't bring in revenue. As soon as the foundation/corporation split happened, some people warned that the end game would be the corporation seeking profits at all costs.