skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's time there was a legitimate, organized fork of Firefox. None of this Iceweasel nonsense, but a proper, mature, organized initiative to diverge from Mozilla's codebase. They've made it very clear with the addition of Pocket, suggested sites, and now this addon that their calling has been diluted in pursuit of sustaining their own existence.
> To say something and receive "mean words" or "consequences" can usually means that nobody is engaging your argument.

Advocating genocide (e.g.) is not deserving of engagement.

Anyone attempting to persuade you that genocide is in any way beneficial to humanity is not going to be persuaded by your "open and honest" counterargument. Their intent isn't even to persuade you. Their intent is to persuade other viewers of your argument that "reasonable people can disagree"
> I live in probably the most competitive market

Well, that's why. Competition drives prices down.
My default search engine is set to DDG on Firefox and through countless updates Firefox has never once attempted to reset it to whatever Mozilla are taking money to promote now.
So, people are angry because of an easter egg in Firefox?

It did not collect any data, it did not have any effect on the browser (unless you turned on the preference) except look spooky if you look at your list of add-ons.

So yeah, it was spooky, and it could certainly have been done better, but come on, it was an easter egg dedicated to a spooky tv series.
Ultimately, and I don't say this as an excuse but as reality: if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer. Yes Mozilla is a foundation and gets a lot of donations but you'd have a much stronger leg to stand on if you paid for the browser. Are you willing to pay $50 or more for a web browser so that there's no temptation for the vendor to sell out to advertisers?
I am also concerned about the accountability. It's been some time -- 48 hours or so, and not even a brief statement from management?

This is like PR 101 to me. The most shocking thing so far is their silence -- Mozilla is not a new organization!!
> Causing financial crisis wasn't illegal. Unethical but not a crime. Except for some cases of misselling products, banks playing against the customer etc.

The exception there swallows the rule. Prosecutors could have, and in previous financial crises did, prosecute top executives under the laws against, for example, wire fraud.

They didn't this time for reasons outlined in the excellent book: Chickenshit Club (https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Department-Prosecute...)
Short answer: would you say the same thing to a recovering alcoholic regarding hanging out with his old drinking buddies at a bar?

tl;dr

For me, it's a matter of risk tolerance. I have a very low tolerance for the risk of cheating on my wife. So based on my best understanding of the circumstances that tend to increase the likelihood of infidelity, I try hard to avoid those circumstances.

> Doesn't this attitude perpetuate the harmful stereotype that men are not in control of their own sexual urges?

First, "stereotype perpetuation" isn't something that just happens to people. A person has some ability to accept or reject adopting belief in a stereotype. So I'll let other people take responsibility for what they believe regarding this topic.

Secondly, what you're seeing is a male being in control of his sexual urges. My post was simply giving insight into one of the mechanisms by which I do it.

> Shouldn't someone in a committed relationship be able to control themselves better?

Well ideally, yeah. But I didn't design the human condition.

> Do you really not trust yourself?

I try to have an accurate understanding of my strengths and weaknesses, and to plan accordingly.
Excuse for not taking his (alleged) talent to Wall Street and making billions of dollars.

> it has nothing to do with my point

which was:

> A professional manager has to make a lot of decisions and still has to invest money even if they don't have any insightful ideas.

Implying that Eli's talents could not be deployed on Wall Street because he could not operate under the constraints on which professional money managers have to operate. But that's not true.
It's a better user experience
I agree.

If you control client and server and the server's functionality will for the foreseeable future is limited in scope, xmlrpc is the boss.

We had a django/rest based internal microservice. Was a pain to build and maintain. Switched to xmlprc (it's in Python stdlib), removed tons intermediary code, and wrote only a few bits of new code.

This talk by Jonas Neubert opened my eyes to how xmlrpc can be the glue for Python (which is already glue).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEyVfiix1Lw
So what's the plan to sustain the existence of the fork?

Browsers are very complex and expensive to keep cutting edge.
As someone who is currently applying to jobs, this is a very important question and the answers are, unfortunately, exactly what I expected: everyone's experience and suggestions are totally different.

Which sucks, because I really wanted to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm still fairly new to the field, and I don't have a vast network to tap into (which is what it seems like most people here prefer to do).

So here I am, thinking that my resume/CV is actually starting to look nice (PhD in a hard science where I spent the whole time doing/writing Monte Carlo simulations and analyzing data, plus 1.5 years at a tech startup doing backend and Android dev, plus proficiency in many languages, SQL, etc), and I'm getting almost no interest in my applications. I had one local guy contact me and one corporate job that made me take an SAT-style online test and a "personality test" that I guess I failed because I haven't heard back after that.

I think I've sent out nearly 30 applications in the last couple of months. I've been mostly sending them out via Indeed and WeWorkRemotely.com. Is this field really that competitive? I'm not even getting to the "perform like a trained monkey" interview questions- I don't get any responses at all!

I can't imagine that my cover letters are all _that_ bad. I mean, I try to customize them to each job. I try to keep them brief.

It's just all really, really discouraging.
I think that other big cities that are progressively closing to cars have it right.

If I look at paris, it already has a very dense subway system. The main drawback is that it closes between midnight and early morning and that it could be even denser.

Close the roads to cars (except emergencies and buses), promote bikes and electric longboards (along with other transportation systems that are easy to carry under your arm when you are done) and you have a solution for megalopolis.
The incredibly obvious thing that somehow most people are not connecting here is the solar shingles or roofing tiles. They can't continue to push the old-fashioned panels with the same enthusiasm at the same time as launching the solar shingles. Combine that with the fact that they are the only producer of those particular tiles that they are selling and have a bottleneck, and I think that explains it.

There are other non-celebrity companies that make solar shingles, see at the bottom of this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_shingle
As alarming as this is (and it is alarming) at least it's explicit.

Another worrisome case is of blacklists/rankings that you can't see. No-fly lists that no one knows why you are on. Secret watch lists. Conspiracies against people with opposing political views with no clear way to know what views may have triggered this and no path to straighten a misunderstanding up.

I oppose oppression in all forms but if we are going to have it, explicit is better than implicit. (And flat is better than nested:).
I know someone who worked with Travis at a previous company, not Uber, who has been saying for years that he was clearly a sociopath.
What's wrong with Pocket?
Firefox devs need to eat.

Chrome is sponsored by one of the largest companies in the world. How will a free open-source project ever compete with that? Of course they’re trying to make money.
People are basically good, right?
They're ruining their brand image. It's hard to be considered trustworthy when it appears like you compromise your values due to financial hardship. It reminds me of the Ubuntu Amazon integration thing as well. One of the Cardinal rules of free software seems to be don't sell your users by forcing 3rd party integration nobody asked for.
It would be cool if someone with insight into the mozilla community's structure could elaborate on how consensus to deploy experiments like this is established. I know that mozilla is very open, but as a fairly huge community it's still somewhat opaque to outsiders like me and I wouldn't know where to start looking. Are there pertinent mailing lists? Are things like this hatchd out on bug comments filed against the Shield product on bugzilla?
By the way, what about the victims of this public transport attitude ? Such as this making it impossible for disabled and elderly to do groceries ?

(and let's not forget things like Amazon just don't work unless they exploit delivery men if you do choose to answer this question)
So the banks make shady moves and need a bail out because of their bs. They get the money, and since they just got caught, and actually use it the way it should have been the whole time. From that they made a profit. Technically, wouldn’t they have made more profit if they had been behaving the whole time? So technically they did lose money.
It's really an astounding accomplishment to make a browser developed by a non-profit less trustworthy in this respect than the one developed by the world's largest advertising company.
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In https://progmp.net/froemmgen-middleware2017.pdf, the authors compile a domain specific language to eBPF from inside the Kernel for a research prototype.
Faster than Quantum?
> Definitely agree we should have paid off mortgages instead though.

So if Donald Trump has a mortgage on a penthouse apartment worth $25 million the government should have paid that off, but some family making $15,000/year that can't get a mortgage in the first place should get nothing? Pay off all the mortgages is a terrible idea.
Well it's probably not fair to call it an Easter egg if it had a commercial tie-in and presumably resulted in money for Firefox. Those are called ads. No matter how whimsically they're packaged

But yes, people do like to get up in arms about free code bases that they don't pay for. People need to keep in mind the Facebook rule -- that when you don't pay for a service, you aren't the customer, you are the product.
Hi!

You don't need to sign up to use the app. The 'try it' mode allows you to generate and see the reports without signing up.
To setup the alert though, you will need to input an email.
But you're right, it should show the process upfront. That explanation is on the works and will be on the next version of the frontpage and/or the TryIt part.

Meanwhile you can set a phony email although you won't get the email with the alert of course to see how the process works.
But I would love to know what you thought of it through the chat or here.

The link to the try it mode is: https://beta.secureit.io/tryit (or click above)

Cheers
For the other side of this argument, see Bill Black.

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/category/william-k-black
https://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/william-k-black
https://twitter.com/williamkblack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black

He was one of the group which brought successful prosecutions during the Savings & Loan crisis in the '80s, and he has very little sympathy for the failure to bring similar prosecutions in response to the GFC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=221&v=J8CqaHTygS...
I don't care much about the reviews, but I care a lot about the fake / phony / not-as-described merchandise: http://seliger.com/2017/01/09/tools-continued-careful-buy-am... . I've actually changed behavior and tried harder to buy from the original maker, if possible.
Net Neutrality – The End of Google’s Biggest Subsidy
Kind of...

In the beta there is a "cache" option, and if an image exists in the cache it will just use that.

However since I use the webpack asset system I can't easily (or safely) check the output to see if it exists (because using the asset system, other plugins could completely change, rename, combine, or delete files after my plugin runs, so trying to detect those files could break things for a lot of users).

1.6 should be promoted to "stable" soon. I only put it in beta since I won't be able to completely test it till Monday. (I also screwed up and merged it into master before I realized I wouldn't be able to do the release untill Monday, so the master Readme has options that won't work in version 1.5)
That’s even dumber then.
Depends on exactly what you mean by "the bailout". In dollar terms the fed's actions were much much larger than TARP.
There are a lot of benefits to a driverless Uber-clone that I think you're overlooking.

1. Driverless Uber means that you don't have to pay for an expensive human driver
2. I expect that the number of driverless taxis will be far more than the current number of taxis+Ubers/Lyfts, because suppliers are limited only by the capital costs of the cars.
2. As a passenger relying on driverless taxis, you no longer have to pay car insurance.
3. You no longer have to pay for parking.
4. You no longer have to find parking.
5. Businesses will no longer have to pay for parking.
6. You don't have to pay Uber for the entire trip -- you can get a taxi from home to a bus stop or light rail station.

The benefit of renting a driverless taxi over owning a car is that most commuters are only using their cars for an hour or two a day. This turns car renting into a by-the-hour spot market, which is far more granular than renting a Hertz car for a month.

But I think that freedom from parking will be the really big incentive that pushes driverless cars forward. Cars are really big, land in cities is really scarce, and car storage is a really wasteful use of land. We currently have homes and malls and offices surrounded by miles of parking[1]. I expect most of that parking to go away within a decade or two of driverless cars becoming popular, as owners reclaim it for more profitable uses of the land. And without abundant free parking, driverless cars & taxis will become more popular.

1. https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/app/uploads/2...
If some are too far gone to save, how do you explain the fact that US poverty rates differ to other countries and between states? And if some can’t be saved, does that mean you don’t try to help anyone? The toxic open sewers and resurgent third world (what ever that term means) diseases seem like something even those at the top of society wouldn’t want in their country. Reduction in poverty has been achieved elsewhere and blaming the victim doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny.
iCab
http://www.icab.de

Theres also a nice iPhone app with tons of functionality
> Firefox devs need to eat.

This is just greed.
I had completely forgot about Netscape in a box!

I like that business model. Something that just works, no ads, nothing. The sublime text model is good too. I will happily pay a one time license for a browser for $100 if it meant no ads and they gave me some cool functionality for it, maybe additional customizations? Then add a solid built in password manager that I know is provably secure that they sync between my devices for me while allowing me to have my own backup, I’d pay $5/month for that through Firefox.
Why the scare quotes around 'died'?
I got massively downloaded about a month ago for complaining about the direction that Firefox was going. I was hoping I'd be wrong about the general direction they seem to be taking in this article doesn't give me much hope for that prospect.
Surely we lost money if you include how much we overpaid for assets, land / housing and services of bailed out industries. And then how much was lost in pensions / savings due to zero interest rates.
Even if you could buy a browser do you seriously believe that would change _anything_, like even in the slightest? These days they still track you whether you buy or not, the data is simply too valuable to ignore.
>> California made a suitable starting point for the UN visit. It epitomizes both the vast wealth generated in the tech boom for the 0.001%, and the resulting surge in housing costs that has sent homelessness soaring.

Or you know, the decades or under-investing in housing and public services that has sent homelessness soaring.
It is impossible to fork Firefox and survive. If you destroy Mozilla all the users will migrate to Chrome. There is no successful financial model for browser development. Browser development is a financial black hole and requires alternative revenue streams for developers to put food on the table.
Do you have link to the proposed text for this bill?
Mozilla has taken on all of the worst qualities of a modern University...ostensibly for the "public good", but really just a vehicle for the whims of a few "enlightened intellectuals" who will "save us all" (from ourselves apparently)

but hey, Mr Robot uses Kali Linux (they only show us this about twenty times per episode) so he should be fine
Unauthorized federal spending (in these two departments) 1998-2015: $21T

Federal debt (2017): $20T

$ 20,000,000,000,000 USD
"Tesla declined to comment for this story, but has previously said that while sales are down, margins are up. The company expects its fourth-quarter solar installation numbers to be higher than those of the third quarter."

Lets assume what your saying is true, as is the above statement (and the article hints that there was concern about the debt model solar city was using).

The decline in sales and the increase in profits look like there is an attempt to right the ship, rather than persist with a model that doesn't function well.
Bear to the right!
Interestingly, the qutebrowser repo has a list of similar projects: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser#similar-projects
> Which brings in all the problems with the Pence view. 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.

Yeah, and I feel bad about that. Hopefully things like professional societies, meetups, etc. can mitigate those factors.

And realistically, in my experience as an experienced software developer, the whole golf course / LAN party thing just doesn't happen. Or if it does, I'm certainly not benefiting from it either. Maybe for CxO's or people in sales, I wouldn't know.
We have private market ranking systems like your credit score.

Quantifying karma is a good idea, if implemented correctly and within limitations of accuracy.
No, that wasn't me. I think you are incorrect, though. Fox was only an example, this story was carried by most national outlets. And I've never met anyone who changes their mind because the majority is against them and is silencing them. It just brews resentments and causes people to dig in.

If people changed their minds just because everyone else disagrees with them loudly and violently, how would any previous social change have come about? New thoughts and perspectives always start as minority views. So majority consensus must not be enough to change someone's mind.

Also, this really isn't about winning. We're all losing right now.
Causing financial crisis wasn't illegal

Risks were grossly and knowingly understated, which was against the law. People were betting with other people's money, with all of the upside but very little of the downside, so it isn't surprising that the market as a whole completely twisted the risk profile, as a largely corrupt industry.
This is definitely the geekiest, most awesome thing I will see today. Fantastic.
It won the Hugo award in 2015, which makes a pretty strong case that in fact it is in the top 1000.
Agreed, I now NEVER trust any company or startup anymore with my data. Everyone is involved with spyware of some sort.

I thought Mozilla was an exception, Oh well. :/
While I agree with your assertion, with regarding equality that one should not go to meal with anyone else following the Pence rule, however there is something I think you're not taking in consideration.

Right now, socially-wise, women have the upper hand on making claims of sexual harassment. The same power does not go to men.

This imbalance makes the "Pence Rule" make more sense.
>Give examples.

Read page 6 of Damore's memo. He gives a number of very serious examples.

>Do you personally feel that a field where 80% of the workforce is male (vs a 50/50 split in overall demographics) is "actively discriminating against hiring males? I find that argument very, very, VERY difficult to defend.

What are you not understanding here? If 20% of qualified applicants are female, but 30% of new hires are female, you must be discriminating against men. A 50/50 split would require severe discrimination. Damore suggested they were lowering hiring standards and setting arbitrary quotas. I find this very, very, VERY difficult to defend.
I worked at Amazon as an intern in 2005 and recall a talk on fake reviews. There were groups of people who wrote fake positive reviews for each other's books. Today I have friends who sell on Amazon and they write fake reviews for each other's products.
"Not only are these experiments enabled by default, but updates have been known to re-enable it if you turn it off."

are you kidding me? Mozilla risks our opsec and I did't even know?
I just switched back to Firefox too :/
I am deeply disappointed in so much software lately, especially by the folks who once championed software freedom, privacy, and quality.

A lot of people thought the Mr. Robot stunt meant that they had been hacked. Well, you know what? They were hacked. Someone installed software on their systems without their knowledge or explicit consent.

(Side note: I also discovered last night that Firefox Quantum does not use or support userContent.css - maybe this is a Stylo thing but it really annoyed me.)

(EDIT: per the below, my experience with userContent.css doesn't seem to be shared. I may have messed it up on my end. Will report back when I get a chance.)
I am trying to switch from Chrome to FF, but FF is making it really hard. Some sites freeze regularly. Facebook the other day was trying to open a YouTube link. 30 seconds of complete unresponsiveness. Google products work unreliable as well (inbox freezes, black tab on google maps). Just very frustrating overall and I keep finding myself back on Chrome until I realize what I am doing and conscientiously switch back
It was very common back before Firefox. Netscape, Opera and Omniweb (which in Mac OS X's early days was the best browser for that platform) were the biggest ones. Internet Explorer made it a very tough sell on Windows, and Firefox and later Chrome completely destroyed the market by giving away a better browser than the commercial ones or Explorer. Opera and Omniweb ended up going free as well because the market just wasn't there anymore.
how do you reach that conclusion?
Instead they've gone for the very nice Tesla experience. You put down a deposit and no one contacts you for a month. You ask for specs (architectural and performance) and get squat. You call them and the sometimes return your phone call. You ask whether they can give a rough install date and you get squat.

It's a roof for Pete's sake. I'm a bit surprised anyone puts up with this crap. A shoddy underspecified solar install above a roof is one thing. An actual roof, that's supposed to be waterproof and such, is rather different.
Thanks for the list. All new territory except Cloud Atlas which I enjoyed immensely.