skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen the series, but I also find the idea of ARGs interesting.

What it's being discussed here is not if the addon is interesting or not, it's the fact that Mozilla, a supposedly freedom and privacy advocate has installed something in all of our computers, without our knowledge or permission as a publicity stunt for a different company and, when found out, the best explanation we've received is "Oops! You guys shouldn't have seen that".
I don't think this addon did data collection. The backslash is about pushing unwanted code onto the user's machine, not about the addon itself doing something malicious.
As current events show, companies can't control that either. It is just a matter of realizing the obvious.
Shit. I'll get that fixed ASAP. I don't know why I thought it was Fox.
New Magazine for all
Mostly. There are some exceptions, mostly not easily detectable by wireshark while Firefox is idling. These are things like extra requests made while browsing ancillary to the requests you're explicitly making, certain browser functions needlessly requiring an internet connection when they could well work fine without, and also in the form of "bugs" that slipped into the browser largely out of a lack of consideration for users' privacy by devs.

The point here is that, while competitors' browsers might be worse, this doesn't mean that being "almost private" should be good enough for Firefox.

Saying "but Firefox is still better than X at privacy" doesn't mean they can't be better. X is setting a very low bar.
>It’s an architectural style defined by Roy Fielding’s thesis (who also was the editor of HTTP/1.1 RFC). It attempted to describe the Web’s architecture in neutral terms and how it was derived by combining previous styles.

It's application for what are essentially RPC needs is which I consider cargo cult.
If they don't, you might be able to obtain one through a freedom of information act request.
As if it's not already via your cell phone?
If you're going to be introducing a programming language, you should have an example function on the home page.
On one hand there's some intuitive sense to that; by nature of being combined entities with a less risky business class you have less exposure to the fallout.

On the other hand, when you say "fared pretty well" do you mean insofar as "they didn't totally implode"? because at a glance every "bog standard bank" I'm pulling up #'s for over 06-08 did pretty terribly.

That all being said, I'll echo, I agree that glass-Steagall wouldn't have prevented the financial crisis; and potentially had minimal mitigating effect, but stand by my core thrust that it's a datapoint of consumer-serving regulation being overturned by the interested parties to leave us in a situation where instituting even stronger regulation that might impose criminal consequences is politically infeasible.
Yeah there was a huge overreaction to Matt Damon making that exact point the other day. Any sort of attempt to bring nuance to the conversation is interpreted as being apologist.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/matt-damon-shares-all-his-bad...
Bears vs Lions Live Stream Free
https://www.facebook.com/events/535704946805324/
> That's not how any of this works.

Weird then, considering that I've seen >5 companies go through that process. Something that you say doesn't work one way clearly does.

Planes are vastly different than data-centers. Depending on what you need, a brand new data-center can run as little as a couple hundred dollars for a server + parts, and <$30 / month on everything else. What is the cheapest plane you can buy?
Seeking profits at all costs is a bit much. Mozilla isnt great here or in several past instances, but they are still above many other corporations.
No, they just show less respect for me.
Original post on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15924093
Regarding your last point: this is an idea I first encountered a couple years ago in Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness", and it's been on my mind ever since.

Monetizing successful people's advice on how to become successful seems seems to be a pretty profitable endeavor.

Accepting that success, among many other things, is more random than post-hoc explanations make it seem is scary yet somewhat liberating at the same time.
US does own the money supply and print money, if you question our authority then you may be destroyed

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWuAct1BxHU
But FireFox is on a slippery slope. So, I think it is very much interesting if there are limits one can enforce legally, or not.
I do not agree with your first sentences. You can work hard without being insane. In fact you can decide to work very hard based on reason. 'Teach Yourself Stoicism and the Art of Happiness' by Donald J. Robertson is a great introduction.

> You have to have faith that your grit will achieve those goals and pray to the gods of achievement everyday

Having faith, that your grit will achieve your goals is also sort of insane. It's irrational for sure. Whether you achieve a goal or not is out of your control. All you can and should do is to try your best.
Babies in incubaters anyone? Not like it hasn't been done before... Outrage is easier to generate than proof.
Fargo perhaps not the best example - they weren't punished because the company as a whole lost money, the targets had effectively set up the frontline employees to defraud both the company and the customers.
Until it gets activated again with the next restart or update.
Bears vs Lions Live Stream Free https://www.facebook.com/events/535704946805324/
> A simple RPC API spec takes minutes to define. 'Rest'ifying takes much longer, there are a million little gotchas, no real standard.

The thing is, RPC is fundamentally broken due to the nature of distributed computing, and REST is not. All the time you have to spend doing things right is … the time necessary to do things right.

And REST really is very simple. The problem is the cargo-cult nature of folks who don't really understand it.
Again, Sam misses the point - saying today that 'gay people shouldn't have rights' is not the same as saying 'gay people should have rights' 20 years ago (or honestly probably even 5-10 years ago). Arguing to take rights away from people is in no way equivalent to arguing to treat people equally.

Controversy is not a measure of worth or consideration. Instead, we should be considering what impact our statements have on other people. LGBT rights do not negatively affect straight people. But homophobic ideas can and do hurt gay people.
I suspect this was killed more for striking too close to home than for tone. It reminds one of this passage:

> "The prohibition will be strongest when the group is nervous. The irony of Galileo's situation was that he got in trouble for repeating Copernicus's ideas. Copernicus himself didn't. In fact, Copernicus was a canon of a cathedral, and dedicated his book to the pope. But by Galileo's time the church was in the throes of the Counter-Reformation and was much more worried about unorthodox ideas."
Last year I got kicked off a jury for (they don’t say why, but I’m pretty sure) saying I couldn’t possibly consider a 20-year sentence for the crime of receiving stolen property worth $500 or more.
People in this thread are really overdoing it. Mozilla and Firefox are still nothing close to what major tech companies do with user privacy.
Anyone looking for a browser project that disables these add-ons should look at the 'waterfox project'.

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/

Full discloser: I use waterfox as a renderer for conkeror [http://www.conkeror.org/].
Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in the Hackers Tracking Tool “Trape” from “Boxug”
"We've putting this thing that nobody asked for in everyone's toolbar, with no option to remove it, because we think everyone should use it"

That was the hate. If they released it as an official extension, fine, but they baked it into the browser and didn't let you opt out.
Building a secure, fast, usable web browser is a near-impossible task on its own. Anything else they do involves a couple of orders of magnitude less effort. Mozilla would still need the vast majority of funding they currently get to do that.

The problem isn't that they're doing too much - it's that they have nearly no business model, and any attempt to create a business model appears to be selling out to users.
The program collected video and audio recordings of reported U.F.O. incidents, including footage from a Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet showing an aircraft surrounded by some kind of glowing aura traveling at high speed and rotating as it moves. The Navy pilots can be heard trying to understand what they are seeing. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” one exclaims. Defense officials declined to release the location and date of the incident.

That’s pretty interesting, but it doesn’t necessarily sound like UFOs in the alien sense. Presumably research is being done into using plasma to cloak from radar, and this sounds quite a lot like what I’d expect from that.
Developers often have bills to pay.

Griping should be weighted by how much money YOU have sent, no?
No, anyone who would discriminate or support discriminating against someone based on something as irrelevant as sexual orientation is a bigot. Got it?
This was rolled out to Firefox stable and you're opted-in by default on stable too.
That depends on a lot of factors.

Some people are into porn. That doesn't mean they want porn everywhere all the time on all sites they frequent.

This is why we use NSFW warnings on sites like HN: People here are not necessarily averse to viewing and discussing sexually explicit material, but they want to make sure they aren't fired for doing so if they are on their break at work while reading HN.
Me neither. It could have been communicated / written better, but it does not equate them to Nazi Germany like some people paints them because if this.
I don't really want to write a grammar essay, but when you have two verbs in a sentence (orbiting, found) you should avoid splitting the dependent clauses (orbiting a distant start, found with AI help). Otherwise confusion may arise over which dependent clause belongs to which verb.

Sentences are clearest when written in the active rather than passive voice, and this is especially true in headlines. 'Scientists use AI to find new planet' is far better than 'A planet is found with help from AI'.

The Elements of Style is by far the best good to good clear writing in the English language.
http://www.jlakes.org/ch/web/The-elements-of-style.pdf
"If you have any desire to buy a house without a crushing commute in the bay area, FANGs are the only other alternative."

Meanwhile, ethical people either commute, don't buy house or work elsewhere. You are talking about it as if house in the most expensive city was some kind of entitlement or absolute need that absolves one of any ethical considerations. For that matter, neither does "I want fun work".

Meanwhile, thread about low paid workers being priced out of any living is full of people blaming them for pretty much everything.
I'm a big fan of solar power, but solar farms are a waste of land; put them on roofs and over parking lots instead
Ah, a privacy oriented browser where a single intern with an out-of-touch marketing department can push crap to millions of users.
My search for a "just a browser" browser lead me to this:
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

It's a fork of Chrome, with all links and connections to Google compiled out.

I'm not a fan of using a fork of a major browser for the same reason that a fork of Firefox relies on the continued existence of Mozilla - but I guess I trust Google to continue existing more than I trust Mozilla.

It's a shame. I want to like Firefox. But I'm finding it hard to find the trust.
It seems even less controversial when two different departments do it.

I assume you're talking about something like your ECM doing a follow on and your ER putting out a positive report?

I'd argue that it means your compliance department is doing a great job. You generally don't want the two to talk to each other...
Sorry I wasn't talking to, but the people not commenting, I should have made that clear.

I don't mean angry disagreement and antifa, I mean social disapproval.
> Since when did we become convinced deep learning achieves "global optimality" as they put it.

There are a couple of papers over the past few years arguing/proving under various models that the local optima in deep models either are or are within epsilon of the global optima and this is why SGD reaching only local optima results in models that still work well. I assume these results are covered in OP (haven't read it yet, just answering your question).
No, paying taxes on income is something different. You of course have to pay taxes for your whole income; new taxes that include requirements for explicit registration and so on have been introduced.
> if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer

Debian. FreeBSD. OpenBSD. Dillo. Netsurf.

Or, Windows 10.

Sometimes, free stuff is a product. Sometimes, you pay and are still the product.
Thankfully, the future of solar technology doesn't depend on the USA anymore. China is the biggest producer of solar panels, and will continue to employ solar technology for its internal development. These factors will make the US adoption irrelevant for the development of solar technology.
This. And if Mozilla cant develop a browser with $500M a year from Google, their problem is inefficient allocation of capital (I.e squandering it), not cash flow.

500M will employ a lot of developers.
More like indentured servitude; the “new” slavery is in prison labor.
Wait what? San Francisco has introduced legislation outlawing the discussion of ideas? Or did someone just post something nasty about the author when he posted something they found nasty?

Nothing to see here except someone having the vapors over being told their ideas are shit.
I do use https://tinypng.com/ to do JPEG or PNG optimise. Not bad at all.
In my opinion, I think it is important that we maintain a belief that it is possible to distinguish between progressive controversial ideas and regressive ones.

Am I placing too much faith in reason?

An issue I take with Sam's initial argument is that it seemed to imply that it is not possible to tell the progressive and regressive apart.
pdf.js performance is horrible, and now without NPAPI it is impossible to view PDF in firefox tab.
I wish that Amazon could split the market place off. I disliked it from the first day they introduced it. I want to buy from Amazon not some company I've never heard of.

It's if course never gonna happen. It's too convenient for Amazon and most users probably don't even understand that they aren't buying from Amazon.
Ah the pain and peril of being too wealthy for someone to take you aside and tell you to just stop digging.
I used to think this way, you see, the fed actually made money in the process, how is this a bad thing?

What actually happened was that major banks were facing a mix of liquidity and solvency crisis, meaning that they were going to go under, but not only they got a cash bailout to deal with liquidity crisis. They also got a QE policy that prop up asset prices they hold, which is equivalent of giving them money and not getting it back.

It's financial wizardry that both the banks and fed made money, where does their profit come from? There are 2 possible scenarios:

1, as fed unwind its balance sheet, the market is going to correct and eventually the fed ends up losing money (to the banks who cashed out first)

2, fed successfully controls the pace of unwinding, so instead of crashing the market it keeps market at a subdued level, absorbing economic growth in the next few years. In this scenario, the profit fed and the banks made are coming from today's and future investors.
How on earth is this related to money?
None of these factors (although relevant to the article) would explain why TESLA has lost market share compared to other solar companies.
I'm glad someone mentioned Toki Pona.

mi pona mute mute e toki pona. mi kin pilin e ni: jan lipu pi ni li pona all e toki lili.
I do not get the impression, from the previous post nor this one, that Sam is unaware of the distinction between the impact of/consequences of/hurt caused by one controversial stance 50 years ago ("gay people should have rights") and the opposite one today ("gay people shouldn't have rights").

If this distinction is something he understands (which, personally, I believe he does but hey, I could be wrong), could it be that it's not him missing the point?
> because he feared that his 'out of place' political views would, in his words, 'indirectly limit his career options.'
Why he supported Trump is pretty irrelevant, but I found his opinion reasonable, though I disagreed with his overall choice.

I think in SV, it is a completely reasonable precaution. If you openly declare you are, say, a communist (I don't mean "support Obamacare", I mean real communist, as in nationalize everything, ban private property, etc.), chances that people would shun you and that hurts you carrier are pretty small. If you say you voted for Trump, chances are higher, and I've heard people say as much pretty much open text.
Médecins Sans Frontières actually released a press release [1] two days ago reporting that more than 6,700 Rohingya have been killed in one month. That is their most conservative estimate. MSF does not use the word genocide, but their report points towards it IMO.

I find the fact that you're suggesting that the atrocities are being made up by the Rohingya tasteless. Thousands of innocent people are being killed, that can't just be brushed aside because other members of their community have been involved in insurrection.

[1]. http://www.msf.org/en/article/myanmarbangladesh-msf-surveys-...
That's pretty cool,
I plan to do something similar but with a cheap smartwatch, a lot o Chinese smartwatch are based on the same soc family, and usualy are pretty hackable.
But they bought the company, now they are an extension to the company. What the hell is the difference?
BTW the minimal emit of the class-based example will be removed by Webpack since the runtime representation is never used. Best option if you use a bundler.
i'm multi-modal--train, bus, car, feet, & bike (before it was stolen)--so i especially appreciate your points, but i don't think it has to be an either-or situation. let's build more efficient cars/roads and build better public transportation. let's level the playing field--stop subsidization (or at least even out the subsidization) and internalize unaccounted-for costs like road maintenance and pollution, and let them compete.

even though musk might seem short-sighted in his approach, his vision and determination are admirable. let's have more of that, especially in the public transportation space.

(i agree that automated cars is not going to be a panacea, at least not in the next 30 years, but it's an meaningful step forward in transportation tech)
Mozilla Mr. Robot promo backfires after installing extension without permission
This time, at least, he lists some specific examples of topics he thinks others don't want discussed. An improvement over the last post
Ask HN: Node framework with best testing support
I am working on Sails JS for a large project and trying to write unit tests in it.

I am not too happy with the support for unit testing in Sails. It takes a good 7-10 seconds before it starts running the test cases, there is no out-of-the-box support for fixtures as well.

Are there any frameworks that can handle test cases in a more efficient way?
Yeah the fake reviews are bad for business. I'm buying much less because I know knock off Chinese white label products are being marked up 5~7x the wholesale price from Alibaba.

I don't like being used as an arbitrage opportunity. I think that if unaddressed it could harm Amazon in the long run.

Validating authentic and genuine reviews is still a very much under-developed solution, still relying on an equally weighted consensus when it's overwhelmingly skewed to positive bias (fake reviews up the average rating).

I now read the bad reviews very carefully. they are often always sandwiched or quickly buried by broken english reviews.

I can't remember how many times I bought a 4.8 star item and realized it was from Alibaba with just a different logo. I definitely won't be needing Amazon Prime anymore.......

but where else will I take out my shopping binge desires?
Only cheap car radios do not do diversity. A lot of cars have three antennas and three or more tuners. You do not see all antennas, with a lot of cars you do not see any radio antenna.
Two questions, for anyone that cares engage in free discussion of ideas:

If someone were to make a disparaging remark about Christians, in general, in their workplace, should they be punished or fired for it?

If someone were to make a disparaging remark about Muslims, in general, in their workplace, should they be punished or fired for it?
You keep using that word as an insult. :)

Please be more respectful of other people's opinions and try to learn about their points of view.
If you want to know why they need all this money:

"Every six months, Mozilla gets all of its employees from around the world together in one place, for a week."

http://words.steveklabnik.com/user-agent-moz-a

They just act like RichCorp.
Isn't that icecat?
Are those things really taking up much employee time? Frankly, they don't seem like it. And some side projects are nice - like Rust and Servo. Persona too, even if it didn't caught on.
As a counterexample, every time I have valiantly tried to use Grit to face a challenge that's uncomfortable and hard for me naturally I have failed miserably. In all occasions, I would have been better just quitting the challenge or doing it in a different way that didn't require as much grit.

Yes, you can say that I just wasn't "gritty" enough, but that's the same as saying that everyone who injures themselves in exercise wasn't "careful" enough. You're redefining "careful" in order for your theory to be right. Sometimes bad outcomes happen even when you do everything you can.

My goal here is not only to discourage you from trying hard to achieve your goals (that's a goal, of course). The main thing here is to get ready for life to kick you in the face no matter how much grit you have, and sometimes, precisely for having a lot of grit (no, I won't go into details).

The most important skill isn't grit, it's the wisdom to decide when applying grit is worth it. And no, I don't know how you train this or even if it is trainable. It might be just luck.

Instead of relying on grit, stick to what you do best and don't try to use grit as a replacement for talent or other qualities. If someone is naturally better than you, in a competition they'll just get grittier than their baseline and eclipse you.

This is anecdotal but so is the linked article. For any aphorism there is an equally valid and opposite aphorism.
One generation of bureaucrats after the business relationship ceases to be profitable.

Look at what happened to Whitey. There was no serious progress going after him until after all the people who stood to lose anything from it retired away with their pensions. Regardless of their pros/cons as an instrument of financial security tying future financial security so directly to time spent serving the status quo puts a obstacle in the way of any sort of high speed change to how things are done.
People keep confusing extreme disapproval of ideas with censorship. If you say "the Holocaust didn't happen!" and people decide that they don't want to be your friend anymore and private organizations like corporations and universities decide to no-platform you, that's not censorship. That's just people exercising their free choice en masse.

There are some ideas that are justifiably extremely unpopular: racism, extreme religious bigotry, advocacy of genocide or apology for such, etc.
Un-Googled Chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium