skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why Alison Griswold wrote an article to complain that an online business promptly and correctly filled her order.

It's just a bunch of little lenses, not a shipment of plutonium.

You can buy reading glasses in various diopters off a self-serve rack in pharmacies and other kinds of retail outlets.
I have the same experience, I couldn't even run 2 miles without inflammation flaring up in the knees (I tried to build up distance many times) - but after running with Evo barefoot shoes for about 2 years (which allowed me to run 10k:s without problem), I can now run with any type of shoes - but my technique is completely transformed with much shorter stride length and a high cadence.
I remember it was asking if I want participate in studies when I installed FF for the first time.
Scientific American looks awesome. Love the ads too,

p21:
Atari's new remote
pre-programmed computer ping-pong
game can be used with any size TV set, black
and white or color.

p14:
> HP's 9825A: a powerful new
desk-top computing system.
Through its novel architecture and speed, the 9825A runs
programs, accepts keyboard operations, and controls
instruments-with apparent simultaneity.
...
> The 9825's storage capacity includes
8K bytes of internal read!
write memory, expandable to 32K
bytes; in addition, each bidirectional
tape cartridge can store 250K
bytes. Its built-in tape cartridge
drive can access data in an average
of six seconds, and transfer data at
2750 bytes per second. At these
speeds, and with memory load and
recall capabilities not previously
found in desk-top systems, it becomes
entirely practical to interrupt
a long program, transfer it to tape,
run a short program, then reload
and continue the first one.
I don't remember if this is opt-in or not, but I do not have it in my Firefox. Maybe I just removed it myself immediately after first install, when I went through to update all of the privacy and other browser settings.

I agree that it seems like a crappy extension, and people should be upset about things being preloaded to their browser.

But there's a point here to be made, that if you're concerned about privacy at all today, you need to look at the settings of any software after you install it. It doesn't matter how much previous trust you have for the developers. This should just be default behavior so that any surprise is met immediately, and not after any damage it could perform has been done.
I don’t see the harm in a good organization contributing lot of value to this world having a little fun.

Some of the comments are mentioning IT managers banning firefox, those will be the same IT managers doing all the other pennywise/pound foolish things that make you try not to work on their team in the first place.

Maybe it’s actually good to put something scary sounding in there to raise awareness. It could help people understand that scary phrases are not the most common sign of foul play. When the real hackers come for you, they usually dont look scary at all.
It's a variation on a LaTeX style called classicthesis (http://www.miede.de/#classicthesis) based on Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style. Unfortunately this particular version has messed up some things (notably line length), so use the original!
If it were so, reading glasses couldn't be sold off self-serve racks.
It honestly sounds like you didn’t read the article then
I understand it all too well, but when Mozilla is posing as a public benefit company with the "good of the Internet" as its mission this kind of stuff is inexcusable and should be called out all the louder.
Can data that is supplied with an intention to be publicly accessible i.e. public domain be restricted. If the public was asked, "When you supplied your picture, your name, and then created a public URL to become fully searchable, was your intention that that information was to be restricted or was your intention that this was information you publicized about yourself to make it possible for potential employers to find you?". Answer, "Yes, it was 100% my intention to become searchable so that employers would be able to seek me out". Conversation is over.

LinkedIn creates an implied covenant with public consent (mostly) to then publish and make discoverable their professional profiles.

While LinkedIn 100% should have the right to stop others from embedding without permission since it's possible to claim the data structure and presentation is proprietary to them, this should never extend to the actual data itself, since this was willing gifted by the actual owners (Joe public) into public domain.

I think an argument could be made that LinkedIn is being burdened with a degree of data mining that affects their business and therefore should be able to charge a minimal fee e.g. an API firehose to acquire the data in bulk from providers in an raw data stream.

That seems reasonable depending on the charges associated with that offer, this would be the correct compromise, since their data structure is all that actually separates their service from say About.me or any other site of that type. All of which don't disallow scraping; as long as it doesn't present as a DOS attack (of course).

Anyway my comments are as a marketer and not a programmer or lawyer, but personally I'm very interested to see this case resolved in a manner that doesn't suit LinkedIn in the slightest.
We can overcome them without removing them, by extending "us" widely enough. This is how a number of religions handled it, leading to their expansion over large swaths of diverse nations.

Seeing most everyone on Earth as ingroup improves collaboration and thus propels culture / prosperity.
I can see how Silicon Valley standards have to rise up to Wall Street standards and they're not there yet. Tech like Auto/Finance/Space are new to SV and they're all full of scaling woes. Traditionally "SV style" has been to be scrappy and accept a healthy amount of breakage, and never say no to incoming demand, even if it's crippling your platform.

You have a point that SV needs to get into the mindsets of the industries they are trying to disrupt and rise to those higher standards.
See, that's why you just say that it's an incredible technological achievement. Gotta work on those Social Credit scores.
Not about bikes specifically but I've been a bit surprised that formal showrooming hasn't become a bigger thing. My guess is that, if you're going to have storefronts, for a lot of things you might as well stock merchandise for impulse buyers or those who want to take something home right now.
> If nothing else, mischaracterizing a clearly-labeled presumptive statement as a "damn lie" reveals your malice and discredits your POV.

Oh come off your high horse,

> FCC was not anxious to implement these rules and did not do so until the very end of Obama's term

is not presumptive, and it's a bald-faced lie.

> It was clear that ISPs did not fit the legal definition of Title II carriers which is why they weren't just classified as such at the beginning.

Oh look, an other lie. DSL ISPs were classified under Title II until 2005 when Bush's FCC reclassified them.

> It was clear that it was not likely that they would retain this classification

It was not clear at all, and regardless there is no "burden of net neutrality repeal" following a court order.

> whose primary contention, by the way, is not that net neutrality shouldn't exist, just that Title II is not an appropriate regulatory framework in which to cast it

And that's a bullshit assertion, as I told you in my previous comment the only reason Obama's FCC reclassified ISPs under Title II is that the courts ruled net neutrality could not be enforced otherwise.

And regardless of judicial review risks, the only alternative would have been a brand new Telecommunications Act. In 2015. With a GOP legal majority.

But funnily enough, "concerned Ajit Pai" has been hard at work reclassifying ISPs without either waiting for the court decisions you state was clearly coming, and without putting any effort into building a new regulatory framework.

You know what that sounds like? Concern trolling.
GP meant the style of writing English, not code. Funny messages almost always end up causing problems at the end of the day.
> "On the other hand, actively interacting with people — especially sharing messages, posts and comments with close friends and reminiscing about past interactions — is linked to improvements in well-being"

Seems sort of self serving that the solution is to generate more content for facebook. The next article is going to conclude disabling ad blockers and making microtransactions will finally make you happy.
Including capitalism on there seems gratuitous. USSR was no better at land stewardship than us. Cuba, N Korea, the same.

It's more about human nature than capitalism or any economic system in particular. If anything capitalism is capable of including externalities, if we choose to. If we don't, eventually, we will face the issue, as many others. Not the ideal way to dal with issues which are decades in the future. Classical example is national debt and of course, climactic change.
a FANTASTIC website for both modular synthesizer enthusiasts and guitar pedal enthusiasts!

www.modulargrid.net
From the link you posted:

"
The majority of Mozilla Corporation’s revenue is from royalties earned through Firefox web browser search partnerships and distribution deals around the world. Mozilla Corporation’s revenue and income support for CY 2016 was $506M, as compared to $414M in CY 2015.
"

Let's assume that "browser search partnerships" is what google/yahoo paid for having their search engine be the default in the search bar - "distribution deals" sounds just the sort of thing this thread is concerned with.

So: half a billion figure - check, shady consideration for the money - check until proven otherwise.
FUD you.
I was hit by a van a few weeks ago. I was on my bike, waiting to cross a busy street, the van was next to waiting to turn right and the driver was looking to his left to see when traffic stopped. Unfortunately he started moving before he turned to see what was in front of him. I was knocked off of my bike (I wasn't moving when I was struck) and my bike ended up getting run over & destroyed

It was a pretty surreal experience. At first I flipped out at the driver who was at work at the time. A woman called 911 and the police came to take statements. The driver was pretty apologetic afterwards and I apologized for being an asshole.
It wasn't until a few hours later that I realized that I could have died pretty easily. He put his foot on the brake reasonably quickly after he hit me, but had he accidentally floored the van, I would have been run over too.

I also felt pretty bad for the driver. He probably got in some kind of trouble at work, and I realized that while I was mostly unharmed and only needed to get my bike replaced, he could lose his job. I know that getting hit is pretty serious, and the reason was because of the same carless behavior a lot of people that drive seem to do (myself included).
I am astounded of the faith people still have that companies and 3 letter agencies will not store and use their data forever, after all the revelations in the past years. And to think this is YCombinator News, not some random news website.
Maybe if that was actually the goal, it might have been a good thing. But all I received was marketing blabla to tell ads are enhancement.

And if Mozilla really are different, then they should communicate different - honest.
I understand the reluctance on the part of Dems, for the reasons you point out.

I disagree that voter fraud is a non-issue, mainly because it gets brought out every time a Republican candidate loses. It is technically a vulnerability in the process, even if it isn't currently being exploited. Why not patch it? If nothing else it will stop those specific complaints. If we fix enough holes in the process then voters will start to feel more confident that results are legitimate. This is important if we don't want to descend further into political tribalism and violent conflict.

The mobile ID units sound like a great solution.
Is it obviously a technology problem?
This is pretty good for beginners.

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

What I found helped me the most was find some real world things that you'd like to accomplish and just start digging in. You'll learn the things you need along the way. I don't usually find tutorials very helpful as they just tell me to type some exact thing and surprise surprise I get the response from the tutorial, that doesn't really teach me much.

Good luck.
I think this phenomenon is the fundamental problem of any two-party system and is one of the issues in American politics. The "us vs them" feeling is a lot less strong when there are multiple parties. This feeling leads to more divisiveness in politics and eventually trickles down to the whole population.
>But then it becomes Us vs Them on the other side of the border.

Yeah, maybe that's better on the other side than inside though. Like if President Trump started a huge "Beat China" campaign all about making sure America stays the world hegemon, that could bring a lot of neighbors together even if it widens the gulf between me and someone on the other side of the world. It's hard to say.
I'm drawing a blank. When is it good nowadays?
I completely agree! Today, as far as I know, only Facebook Messenger comes even close to supporting it.

Specifically, Messenger can show you an "online now" tab, indicating who is currently at least using Messenger or Facebook, and can even show you "Active now" versus "Active 30m ago".
I've noticed this feature in their iOS app for a while now. Waze is by far the best nav app around, glad it's getting more press.
I wonder if Links2 or lynx can be ported as Chrome add-ons.
Could AI help to create a meat-free world?
I'd say technology is a contributing factor but obviously not the only one.
Yeah! Like Stanford Medical School in 2017. http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-b...
Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination by Tim Wu (2003) [pdf]
Similar to that recent article posted here about how "experience retailers" are inverting the relationship of the vendor. (Where an experience retailer is actually a marketing arm of the manufacturer).

But yes: I would love to able to drop by and get my bike fixed by someone competent.
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> I don’t see the harm in a good organization contributing lot of value to this world having a little fun.

One potential downside is that now people might not pay close attention to the installed addons. "Oh, must be some Mozilla thing", as GoldenDwarf quietly consumes user CPU cycles to mine cryptocurrency for someone else.
(One incredibly minor detail that emerged during the Scalise shooting incident is that Congressional Democrats and Republicans play baseball together... but each party gets its own team. A better way to overcome division would have been to have teams composed of a mix of parties)
Automatically updating an already enabled add-on is hardly the same thing as silently pushing a new one.

Security updates were and still are configurable to be installed after prompting, also when they are installed automatically I am notified that this has happened.
There is also an implicit trust in the vendor that only security-related functionality should be changed in a security update.
I can't think of any examples in which it is good.

I also think that is a mischaracterization of the problem, and of the solution.

Our instinct is to trust those in our communities, and distrust those outside our communities.

While that was useful in the past, two significant things have changed:

1. We are in a civilized society where it is to our advantage to begin relationships with trust rather than distrust.

2. We are not in separate communities fighting over basic resources, but in a large community where smaller parts work together.

These changes mean that the problem stems from us not trusting each other, and fragmenting the larger community.

The solution is for us to realize our limitations, and overcome them, by trusting those with whom we are unfamiliar, and working together as a larger community.
As someone who ran collegiately and have multiple friends that were Olympians, national champions, and national record holders (quite humbling really), I would caution people from 'switching' to barefoot running.

It certainly has its place, but I've heard of too many people trying to make a switch to it only to get injured. The biggest arguments behind it are that 'it's a more natural way to run' and that 'a lot of Kenyans and Ethiopians do it and they're the best in the world'.

The truth is, they've been running that way pretty much their entire life. You (most likely) have not. Your feet will not be able to handle the beating that their feet can. I have never met a professional runner that identified as a 'barefoot' runner. A lot of runners will work in some sort of 'barefoot' training, but it's minimal and used to build up stabilizing muscles. When a single run can take you over gravel, onto a sidewalk, and through a trail in the forest, it's next to impossible to run barefoot or even with a 'barefoot' running shoe.

You are certainly free to do as you wish, but barefoot running should most likely be used as a tool at best. If you really want to make a complete transition, you would likely need to approach it with the same rigor and dedication someone would use when training for a marathon.
Looks like a subset of the open-source https://mermaidjs.github.io/
> some way in which the stat is misleading

The number they have for topsoil generation is how long it takes if you don't try to stimulate it. There are lots of ways to increase the rate of topsoil development. So that bit is a tiny bit misleading, because while some of what they are kind of implying is permanent can be reversed.

That said, the situation is very bad. Ways around could possibly include non-traditional agriculture (hydroponics et al) or other less palatable things, like dietary changes or increased farming regulation.
Aging eventually impairs the brain. If life extension is possible, it will have to protect pretty much all your organs from aging, and why would the brain be excluded?
My car's XM (digital satellite in the US) radio generates artificial white noise when the signal drops out. If the signal doesn't come back within a couple of seconds, then you get silence.

I'm told GSM phone calls do the same thing, apparently so you can tell the difference between a temporary dropout and a dead line.

It's kinda funny.
Are you kidding? Progressives openly reject science when it doesn't fit their ideology. We saw that with the response to Damore.
Which is very useful, but doesn't solve the problem that those people will almost certainly die of radiation exposure from fallout 2-4 weeks later, unless they get to a shelter within 15 minutes or so, and stay there for 2-4 weeks, at a minimum, without running out of supplies or going mad.

Or that they'll die of starvation and disease 2-4 months later.

Or of the effects of nuclear winter 2 to 4 years later.

Or that virtually everything they're used to - food manufacture and distribution, electronics, machinery, transport, energy, medicine - will no longer be working, and maybe one survivor in a thousand will have the skills and knowledge needed to start even the most basic rebuilding program.
running may not seem like it, but the way you think about what you are doing especially in a race scenario can make or break you quickly... I recently ran a half and did almost all of my morning prep beforehand wrong.. forgot some key things, freaked myself out just before the race and did far worse than I had trained for... if you think you've messed up, you've messed up :)
But what if there is a group whose strategy is to take advantage of the trusting nature of everyone else for its own gains? In that case it would be advantageous to unite against them. Universal cooperation and trust is great when there are no attackers but it needs to be hardened against attacks somehow.

Also, does universal collaboration necessarily bring the best results? Seems like there might be a number of people over which universal coordination becomes infeasible.
The first isn't a self-contradiction; it just places the speaker in the first camp.
People are lazy.

The ASCII C0 separators -- FS, GS, RS, US -- are non-printable (by design), but this impacts their usability by laypeople, because they don't show up as obvious symbols in a plaintext editor, and most critically, they visually seem to be absent from keyboards, so additional domain knowledge is required for people to figure out how to produce them. So instead, people developed all sorts of formats that are subject to delimiter collision.

Also, ASCII is recognized as a widely-deployed standard now, but this wasn't always the case. Computers used dozens of different codepages to represent characters with bytes, and while 26 English letters, 0-9, and some punctuation was always present, control characters seldom had equivalents in a different codepage, so interchange was a problem, because in most machines' native codepages, these delimiters were absent.

ASCII actually abbreviates 'American Standard Code for Information Interchange', but it largely came to be used for printable characters only -- "plain text", and not as a format for structured data.

Although by that point, the ship on C0 delimiters had largely sailed, to compound the chicken-and-egg problem, some codepages that were developed after ASCII often discarded the notion of control characters entirely, and redefined their byte sequences as additional printable characters. Windows-1252 was a notable offender [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
Something this decade told me. Everything has limits, even casual "tech" like social networking and internet. To each his own but remember to be curious about subtle changes.
Amazon Basics rechargeable batteries actually have higher capacities than their name-brand competitors.

I saw Amazon Basics pants last night. But there's some places even I won't go.
Practice. Your feet adapt. I did give it up though, because stepping on rocks was still super painful.
The Soviets weren’t better at long term planning, take a look at the Aral Sea.
Can't argue against you there, but isn't the point of Proof of Work that it grows as our ignorance (inverse of hashing power) diminishes?; The smarter we get, the more difficult it gets.
I have it in my head that Apple started this (or at least gave it the major push to mainstream), with iMessage. My impression is that with a major chat provider with other lock-in (the phone, which has it's own lock in, the app store), Apple was able to provide a good chat experience, add extras hard to do with a more heterogeneous ecosystem (facetime, automatic evasion of SMS fees for iphone-to-iphone messages), and keep the protocol closed without losing too many people.

Google, who was really the main chat in town at that point with gchat, had to either choose to extend XMPP some more or go closed. Closed starts to look really good when you realize that once you have a competitor with Apple's strength, market and lock-in, being open starts being a detriment, since anyone can write a client for your app for any platform, but you still can't support iMessage. Proprietary hangouts chats allow for Google to control where and how their chat platform is used.

What I'm wondering is how much of this I'm getting wrong because I'm not seeing the other forces at work. Anyone have counterpoints or corrections?
Just this week I've emailed with some contractors for some repairs at my house. Two of the three I received emails from came from an @aol.com email address.
Porn has horribly messed up our society. Have you been watching the news and all the sex abuse scandals? Plus all the stats regarding broken families, abuse of minors, etc. It's just all bad, and all due to porn. Cutting off porn would fix a whole lot in our society.