skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't expect anything different from the WSJ, but it's worth pointing out that pro-net neutrality is also "corporate" in a way. Small to medium size Internet commerce / content businesses have largely been the driving force behind public awareness of net neutrality, in my opinion.

(I've noticed this time around that the largest Internet companies have largely kept quiet about the issue this time around. The fact that there has been such a big public response to this to me shows how important keeping an Internet around that is more than just Google/Facebook/Amazon is.)
More bad rulings from the Ninth Circuit.
Mozilla has been a dumpster fire for quite a while now.
> posted on 2018-12-14

OP cheats at time too, posting this a full year ahead of schedule. :)
A similar process does happen naturally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus
FYI: https://www.wikihow.com/Load-Dice
From the page:

> No changes will be made to Firefox unless you have opted in to this Alternate Reality Game.

Also, from the same page for those that appreciate irony:

> One of the 10 guiding principles of Mozilla's mission is that individuals' security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. The more people know about what information they are sharing online, the more they can protect their privacy.
Better yet, it appears that these "studies" (read: Mozilla pushing addons to your browser without notification or permission) are default opt-out.

Will they stop doing it? Of course not. I can't recall any time that this company has changed course in response to outcry.
I'm looking for a way to do non-destructive curves/levels. Without that, it's not a photoshop killer.
You can disable these studies under Options | Privacy and Security
Could you please be more clear? I disabled all my extensions and still don't see anything there that is based on feelings?
Is anybody going to mention the elephant in the room here? Viz., We are all discussing a legitimately framed wariness/fear of GMOs. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> The name of the country is the Netherlands, not Netherland.

I disagree. I'm Dutch[0], and I find it stupid that English speakers always pluralise our country. We've been a unified country for quite some time now. Netherland is fine.

[0] Yeah, "Dutch" is another one of those weird things that English inflicts on us. Why?
i don't think its a bad thing that Snapchat will replace Facebook. People don't want an imitator.

The whole point of Facebook is to "record personal history".

The whole point of Snapchat is to maintain "privacy". It fills a void that Facebook was never meant to do nor intends.

Before someone says "you can still screenshot" on Snapchat. While that is true, the platform strongly discourages it and millions of users do not screenshot for every single photo. Whereas FB, is default "save"

The way a platform facilitates interaction is very important.
Wow. So Mozilla lets advertisers push extensions to your browser? Is that right or am I misunderstanding something?
Mozilla can't stop doing crap like this. I love the engineering behind it and thr tech but I don't want any of your shenanigans. This makes me affraid to update.
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WSJ: The Internet Is Free Again
Yes, you need to register in advance in both places. However, SSNs are known to be fairly easy to use fradulently. Much more so than the UK's NI number, which is far better managed, tracked, and linked more closely to employment and social services. In the US, there have been many instances where the SSNs of dead people have been abused for a variety of reasons [1].

As to photo ID - there is no federal mandate to have photo ID for voting, and only 15 states require voters to show up to polls with a photo ID [2]. And those states that do are routinely accused by democrats of voter suppression for this requirement. That's kinda the point. One side argues that SSN verification is ripe for abuse, the other side argues that requiring ID is voter suppression.

In order to claim that the system is not ripe for abuse, I think you'd need to prove that SSNs are secure, which is gonna be a major problem because they are definitely not.

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/11/dead-peoples-social-security...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_ID_laws_in_the_United_St...
"But there is nothing preventing them from reassigning some of their stock to you"

This will actually result in a tax event valued at the company's value no? This is the reason they offered ESOP in their claim.
Having Nato boundaries inch closer makes Moscow & St Petersburg vulnerable to a first strike from a short range ballistic missle without warning -- this could happen faster than anyone can react with like 10 min lead time. All joining Nato does for eastern European countries is ensure their citizens can go on adventures overseas with Americans and come back in a casket and secondly it plasters a big ass target on top of them for a nuke -- I guess they are too stupid to realize that the Americans and British would prefer to have them die over their own citizens. Nobody cares about a conventional invasion dude, the prospect of eastern Nato states invading Russia is laughable, there are easier ways to commit suicide. Lol "real democracy"? Like the "real democracy" that plunged the Middle East into absolute chaos? Or failed to contain the spread Islamic extremism across Africa? Or stop Saudi funded Madrassas popping up in every Muslim country? Your entire democracy developed because North America is isolated geographically from immediately hostile nations, and with no real threats and having grown pampered and fat it is only natural to intervene in the affairs of others. Given the American competence in Iraq/Vietnam/Syria why aren't you suspecting that the export of "democracy" doesn't work yet? A color revolution through some proxy freedom institute isn't really desired anywhere given past outcomes -- let's assume the Arab Spring is an extension of that too, I'm sure the money comes from the same source. Take a look at the countries that share a border with Russia and the implications of having an imbecile in power there -- Europe being pumped full of refugees via Erdogan's Turkey is a nice preview for you. Western European style democracy might not be desired or even feasible in Russia.
IBM Is Missing a Disruptive Innovation in Her Own Hand
The concept of net neutrality is as old as the internet itself. Are you saying facebook was founded a decade before the internet was invented?
Developers have a million other ways to be cute and clever.
SpaceX CRS-13 Live Webcast - December 15, 3:35 PM GMT
Seems kind of like it is part of an ARG. I can't say I'm totally against something like that; Mozilla's gotta make money somehow, and as long as it's not selling out user privacy it's a better tradeoff than Chrome.
Rural north-west here, same issue. I get it, there are some cattle ranches which would turn my stomach, but the average ranch around here is hundreds of acres of unfarmable (or unprofitable to farm) land dedicated to a few hundred head of cattle (i.e. you don't see the cattle most of the time).

They're oddly beautiful spaces to look upon, compared to the mechanical oddity (circular fields in a square plots) that is the modern farm.
Star Citizen backers are completely insane. They've received $100's of millions USD amd for what? An alpha proof of concept.
WTF? I thought aircraft maintenance stipulated that all parts have to be inspected, some often, others seldom, but none never.
Clicking on the circles seems to do nothing in Google Chrome.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15860970
Oops, I obviously meant 'P is the policy'
yes we need a few more stories like this, or else the ban will be too blatant

(btw i m sure some woman used USD to move cash to ISIS, but it was never news)
It's a common breeding technique to create individuals with identical gene pairs so that all offspring will be guaranteed to have the gene. This is what "purebred" means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-breeding_organism
In North America, much of the land now used for grazing cows was formerly occupied by bison (which are so close to cows that they can actually interbred).

I seriously doubt that this caused any significant net change in methane production.
Yeah, but in Russia they use nine women to produce a baby in only one month.
At the core of this confusion is Islam. Islam is not just a religion it is a code for entire life. I have met many Pakistani people who frown on the fact that USA allows women to walk around without Hijab. They would prefer Sharia over US constitution any day. They would love to see Pork banned. These are educated people and not some radical morons.

Sadly for American approach towards Islam has been that "Religion is good, some people are bad" in reality that should be "People are more or less same, religious ideology is bad".

Unless the American society confronts Islam it is going to be hard for a young Muslim person to appreciate and support the freedoms.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lookingglass

The Mr. Robot series centers around the theme of online privacy and security. One of the 10 guiding principles of Mozilla's mission is that individuals' security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. The more people know about what information they are sharing online, the more they can protect their privacy.

...which you've done by installing a fishy-looking addon without our permission and making us less likely to trust you?

Well-done, Mozilla.
VideoLAN: blockchains must be private and untraceable
Adds are annoying yes, but they are only bad for your privacy if they track and profile you. Adds allow for free stuff and they can be done the right way. Granted this is becoming more and more rare so I understand your standard association of adds with distrust. The adds you refer to are non tracking (please tell me if I'm wrong though) and will slowly be replaced by sites you visit (often).
I expect it was thought through, and the thought was "a few hundred thousand people use this service still, it's running under one employee's desk* and is completely unfunded, no effort above the minimum is to be expended."

*Not sure if this was explicitly said or someone's joking claim during a past discussion of the shutdown.
Spent years working in a bike shop, so this was a really interesting read for me. He may be right, but I can't help be think that most people just don't care enough about their bikes to have enough customers to sustain a good Service Shop. Most people have a bike, but would never bother taking it somewhere fancy like this to get it fixed or serviced. They paid $100 for it at Walmart.

He said something in there that caught my eye:

"Think back to the '80s when market experts were predicting that internet sales were going to doom UPS and FedEx ... Huh?! Crazy as that sounds, that's what experts said, which made absolutely no sense to me."

Is that true?
This happened to me yesterday, so I looked for it.

The Extension actually does nothing, but invert (make them upside down) a few words on specific sites.

It's an experiment called "PUG ARG" to check whether page contents sniffing works. Its page doesn't reference any Bugzilla issue or Wiki page, while https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Shield/Shield_Studies/Queue doesn't list it.

The source code references https://support.mozilla.org/kb/lookingglass, which (as of now) only says "test - 12817".

The add-on tests whether specific words can be detected on sites; the current list has nice picks like "revolution" and "privacy". Of course, this is only a test, but in the future Firefox might look for specific terms in the pages you load and do specific things based on them.

The other thing it's doing is to send an extra header to three specific sites: https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b0894.... I suppose the words and the domain are a reference to the Mr. Robot series.

The add-on describes itself as an "Augmented Reality Game Experience" and was made by a certain "PUG Experience Group": https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b0894....

Of course, Shield Studies are supposed to be a way of making "more informed product decisions based on actual user needs".

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_loo...
Somewhat tangential to this particular issue, but this is a good lesson for developers in why you should be dry and explicit in your writing.

Sure `alert("FFFUUU WHY U NO WORK");` keeps you entertained for 5 minutes while you debug a problem but when that accidentally gets to prod...
This defense might actually work in Germany/Sweden.
I too have been playing with color quantization as an exercise so I won't like at your library as I've been trying to do it all on my own and don't want to see other approaches yet, but here he is not quantizing them so his is going to be faster. Also there really is a trade off in trying to reduce the number of pixels and then clustering versus just clustering on them all. How many times you loop and how much those loops costs isn't as cut and dry as I thought.
I hate the fact that Firefox increasingly makes me jump through all sorts of hoops to find all the hidden options to turn off their various spyware attempts. Its the Win10 of browsers...
This kind of visualization is useful to understand why filming an actor in front of a green screen makes sense for special effects.

If you look at such an image, you will have two clusters of pixels, one for the green screen, and one for the actor. By selecting the appropriate cluster you now know which pixels you need to replace for compositing your actor in front of a CGI background.
it's because javascript is unityped.
Yes, I have my logs because I used Pidgin since before they offered chat history within AIM.
Quite an incredible feat!
yes. at least with BTC you have an audit trail.
The problem is many Republicans have, off the record, admitted that voter ID is specifically about voter suppression, and that voter fraud is a non-issue (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ackno...)

That makes Dems really, really reluctant to support those laws.

Now, objectively, is it fair to require ID if it's free, and easily obtainable? Probably. But those are both more complicated than you think. Per your Alabama example; do people know about it? How do they arrange a free ride if they don't have internet access (such that they can find the number to call)? For the working poor, are these IDs availabile "after hours", i.e., on Sundays and outside the hours of 8-5 (answer: no, the only locations are governmental offices)? Is the process from departing from their home, to the location, and back again, sufficiently short that a working mother with her kids will be able to take that amount of time? And what about the trip to the social security office to get their SS card, and etc (because the process of getting an ID is a pain in the ass if you don't have anything to start with).

Alabama, which you mention, still doesn't have mobile ID units, which was talked about as part of the bill that required voter ID (in 2011...), and which is still listed on their governmental website ( http://sos.alabama.gov/alabama-votes/photo-voter-id/mobile-i... ). The technology exists to know when no adult at a given address holds a photo ID, and to send out a letter to ask if any resident wishes to get one, and if so to please send in a reply letter with a date and time they'd like the mobile unit to show. But we don't do that anywhere, and none of these proposals suggest doing so (because these proposals generally aren't willing to actually spend that much money to prevent voter fraud, because, again, it's a non-issue)
Same two contenders as the original competition in 1965!

Significantly updated but still disappointing in showing how little aerodynamics has progressed in five decades.
Stating demographics != analysis

Pointing out that "white people won Trump the election" does not really mean anything to me. Which is why I asked for clarification from OP. I feel like I'm supposed to understand some veiled inference, but I'd rather OP explicitly say what they mean.
Ask HN: How do you use your e-reader?
I love my kindle. Currently I only use it for books, but I’m interested in hearing how others use their e-readers. Specifically:

- When do you read?
- What do you read?
- How do you get content onto your device?
> I fear that the heavy anti-republican, anti-business sentiment will morph into a call for communism

I wish. I wish every conservatives fear about socialists / communists actually came true. Unfortunately, I fear the West will quickly slide into fascism waaaay before we actually start taking alternative economic systems seriously.
2017 Roundup of Internet of Things Forecasts
Historically those kids would have been working already.
Currently, when non-modified crops have offspring with GMOs, the result is usually unviable (because that's what GMO owners would like) or distributed accordingly to Mendel laws. If modification is maladaptive, it's going to disappear. If it's cosmetic, it's probably not going to dominate.

But with gene drive, virtually every offspring will be modified to, and their offspring too, leading to modification of the whole species to monoculture gene.
Go to settings, look in Firefox Data Collection and Use.

Why are these turned on automatically? Plus, I turned mine off, and now they're back on again, with this looking junk installed.

What the heck Mozilla? What happened to caring about the users? We definitely can't trust Mozilla anymore.
CPIMobi
Hopefully this means I'm not going to have to explain to my kids why Youtube doesn't work on the TV anymore at the end of this month.
> Unfortunately

This is quickly becoming my least favorite corporate buzzword.
if Snapchat had a website, then users could screenshot photos/conversations without notifying the other person. That's exactly why they don't have one.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15930073
That was actually the inspiration for this project :)
Didn’t I see something on here recently about Mozilla increasing its revenue significantly? [0] ;)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15880565
Says right in the article that they also caught her trying to sneak $9,500 USD in cash out of the country on her person. This is a non-story not sure why it was even worth reporting. Perhaps it was notable because it is one of the few instances where someone actually used a crypto currency to send money to alleged terrorists as opposed to the thousands of known cases where they used EUR or USD.

She probably had to fly the cash to them because her BTC transaction was stuck in the mempool.
I am pretty sure that taking a loan with the intention to leave the country and skipping out of repaying is fraudulent.

Naturally its up to the prosecutor to prove the intent.
Ffs .. I've just checked my addons b/c of the headline and sure enough it has been installed against my will.

I've been very loyal to mozilla over all these years but this really is not ok. If they keep doing shit like this I'll switch to a fork.
I don't generally bother with away messages but I, for one, am routinely away from Internet devices for hours and even days at a time. Not everyone is plugged in 24/7.
looks quite interesting. do they provide any fellowships or financial stipend to attend this course ?
Impact of Trump Administration on Health IT and Is Health IT in a Bubble
I agree. I'm amazed to watch the right take on the popular media in a mocking and sarcastic way at the same time the left is approaching their own media issues with rehearsed statements and carefully-worded press releases. It's like the behaviors of the two parties have flip-flopped in the past ~3 years.

I've been hearing "The Left can't meme" for a few months now, and the right seems to be proving it to be true.
Well, there's another neat thing that you can do if you want to generate an interesting 2D -> 2D representation:

* Take fourier transform of the image for each color R, G, B

* Randomly scramble the phase of the transformed image.

* Perform the fourier inverse of that scrambled phase image.

The result is another 2D image with the same colors AND spatial frequencies as the original image. It looks like you took the original photo and vaporized it into gas. Interesting.
In similar news "CNN" uncovered that Al-qaeda is indeed the biggest stakeholder of Bitcoin
"...first chat app of its kind since 1997"

Wasn't ICQ the same kind of chat app?
I'm even surprised we didn't have this kind of news already. It's a predicted behavior for governments, let's how anti-fragile the system is (grabs popcorn)
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Lidl and Aldi?
ah no, /s was unknown to me; also hard to google, what does it stand for example? /serious?
Mozilla has been going downhill very fast since Brendan Eich was removed as CEO. There was some controversy at the time and it made sense why he was removed, but it seems clear now that Mozilla took the wrong choice in removing him as it seems he was keeping the ship on course. Now it is floundering from numerous sides.

I think Mozilla should look into getting him back before they all end up losing their jobs.
I'm using FF57 and did not get this addon. Was I just lucky?
Ads abuse the user's time, attention, and privacy. Minus the tracking, that's still two factors of abuse rather than three.
Uber's 2016 data breach affected 380,000 in Singapore
the transformations between color spaces are smooth maps, so each of the 3D objects would be the same thing (with some warping and stretching)
>> Why are systems like this connected to the internet?

For convenience. In business they call it "cost".
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I can: when they renamed firebird to firefox.
Preview your font on any websites
I’m not sure what the stated purpose is for the .lol tld but it is difficult to take a service seriously when it uses a domain like servers.lol
doesn't it? I don't understand
edit:
ignore the 1000$ part. what i mean is that one focus of the product is to make designer less dependent because there won't be a new file format for example. but cpks was talking about the danger of becoming dependent. thats what i didn't get
I dont think this is new - a lot of bike shops are repair only now, with a few loyal customers.

I also think that bikes are getting more technical - electric shifters, the tolerance limits on gears means that its increasingly hard for people to repair their own bikes. So bike repair makes sense, and they can probably charge

At the higher end - lets say $1000+ bikes bike shops can still do a good trade as people new to the sport probably need a bike fit to ensure they are getting the best machine for them
> Mozilla's gotta make money somehow

They're a nonprofit; they're not allowed to just "make money". And, they already take donations.
well, theres about the same amount of thought put into either tweet
I've read rumours that Satoshi was a close person to Kim Jong Un, probably some conspiracy theory
Future of advertising on Alexa
You probably don't want comments sent on the wire, but if you like JSON as a config format but want it to me more human-tolerant, you can try HJSON:

https://hjson.org/

I like it more than any other config format, really.
Yes, hopefully this won't now happen.
How exactly are they registering to vote? Have you ever actually talked to, or worked with, someone in this country without a visa? I have and without exception they stay as far from official government interactions as they possibly can. They don’t fly, they mostly don’t have health care, they don’t get welfare, food stamps, disability or any other kind of government assistance — all they do is work and eat and pay rent. In many ways they are the ideal Republican fantasy!

They definitely do not vote! There are more published examples of Republican politicians illegally voting than there are of illegal immigrants voting.