skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The extension is essentially just an advertisement for Mr. Robot, which has a big budget. Presumably they pay for their other advertising, and pay their employees to develop their own web sites, whose URLs are built into the extension, and which receive special treatment by sending a custom header in each request.

The obvious problems with how the extension was distributed and described aside, I think Mozilla still deserves to be paid for developing and especially distributing such advertisements, because it has cost them time, resources and reputation.

Pre-installing a plug-in in the development build is a service that many people would pay for -- please install my bitcoin mining extension (and don't forget to enable its configuration flag "extensions.pug.lookingglass.super.awesome.download.accelerator"), it needs a lot of testing!

How much does Google (or whoever) pay to be the default search engine, and how much is automatically installing an extension in the test build worth?

If the Mr. Robot show is sincerely activist, they should be happy to pay Mozilla what it's worth for Mr. Robot to benefit from such special treatment. Especially if it was their idea to distribute and describe it the problematic way it was. At least Mr. Robot could barter in kind, by doing an episode all about the virtues of Mozilla, with a flashing download link at the bottom of the screen? ;)
I do. I'm Italian and I live in Poland.

What is your point?
> What if our secret advantage is that not everyone is on it?

Facebook might have started out that way, but don't think that angle is gonna help you build a new, even bigger, Facebook.

How long did Facebook actually stick to its "Only students" rule? Imho that was more marketing than anything else.
I have the hardest time finding standard 4.6-oz cocktail glasses. No, I don’t need to make an 8-oz martini; that would probably kill me.
This is a really cohesive statement of the opinion I have about it, thanks. It always surprises me to meet people that can't push their internal boundaries to even think about the possibility. The kind of thinking that if humans haven't done it before -- and taken plenty of pictures! -- it can't possibly happen. The same person that thinks, "Well, since nobody has eaten all the stars in the galaxy for computational power, aliens can't possibly exist," despite the fact that we can't even generate the kinds of radio signals that would be needed for our own receivers to pick them up beyond a handful of light years. I will go to my grave dying to know how and why people think this way.
It is sweeter and more intense, it tastes better in smaller quantities.
Mostly for fun, but also to 'optimize this experience', I'm building a Pomodoro android app that adjusts work duration based on brainwave data from an EEG headband: https://github.com/NeuroTechx/neurodoro
> I didn't know there was a proven reason why we sleep...?

I don’t know if you’re being coy and trying to say the opposite—that we don’t have one, and therefore op is wrong? If so: they didn’t say that was the reason. Just that it was what happened during sleep. Could be a side effect of sleep. We know about some of those, as far as I’m aware.
Sorry, I don't trust myself or you to exercise restraint. The ONLY thing that keeps memory usage in check is physics.
Think about it like this:

Two chefs.

Chef A gets really easy to use ingredients and produces a good dish with them.

Chef B gets rubbish ingredients but spends time doing amazing techniques with them anyway and produces a good dish as well, maybe even a bit better!

If this is all we know about the chefs, I'd say it looks like Chef B is the 'better' chef. It's not their fault they got worse ingredients, and they managed to do a great job with them.

You didn't need Chef B to handle Chef A's ingredients, because they were simple. Perhaps we should thank the supplier for that! But Chef B is still the 'better' chef.

It still might be nice if Chef A could do some of the amazing techniques that Chef B did, even though their ingredients mean they aren't required all of the time. They may help in some cases.

The .NET CLR JIT is Chef A, the JVM's HotSpot C2 JIT is Chef B.

I mean if we judge a JIT just by the quality of the output and don't consider the input, then reducing to absurdity an identity JIT for already-optimised machine code to the same machine code is the best JIT in the world. Clearly it isn't.
The .NET runtime is weaker on the JIT side, but the lack of type erasure on generics is very complicated all on it's own. Java doesn't have to deal with this. In fact, .NET is the only VM I know of with this feature.

Fortunately, it permits a lot of interesting manual optimizations you can't easily express when runtime types aren't available.
I see--thanks.

I still think it's very hard to both spell and pronounce as a name for a product, though...
The KmK requires as minimum either Vectorial Analytical Geometry, or Linear Transformations (and both of these topics would teach people about this topic).

States can add upon these requirements, and several require both.
Not only are you being rude, you're providing no value to the conversation.
That's a false dichotomy, since the yacht builders will be taxed and taxes pay for a good education for all (in a far less arbitrary way than wealthy parents' charity).
Anytime you normalize a workflow around using unsafe commands, you risk desensitization to those very warning messages you're relying on to save you.

If you have one rebase with a force push a week, people will quickly stop asking "who did the force push", since it has become normal. They'll instead just let the force push come through to their local repo, just to find out that the force push rolled the repo back a year. Now productivity is halted dead until someone goes in and fixes it and makes yet another force push.

The worst part to me is that it makes the repo lossy. The entire purpose of having version control is actively subverted in the name of "clean".
^ Correct.
Are you getting meaningful data from the Muse? I tried it a while ago and didn't get usable data.
"lack of control on our own data (the comments, in this case)"

That's what worries me about every single website out there. Suddenly they consider users' comments "their own data"
yes, and most people have grudgingly accepted the semi-weekly FF updates in order to receive the latest security updates... to hijack that update contract to push a marketing agenda is counter productive
Have you looked into cordial glasses? They’re made for this! They’re the perfect size for a nice port after dinner.
IOTA is probably the closest to what you suggest
If you were to magically split every dollar into two dollar bills, prices would almost immediately double to compensate. That implies that the dollar is now half as valuable.
Sometimes I read about projects like this and just think to myself "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."
Most comments on any random blog would be the lone comment left by that particular user, right? Don't these things follow some kind of power law?
Thank you I will look into this. The way my machines were installed is stock Ubuntu and then Firefox ESR from this link:

https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-esr-latest-ssl...

That went into a separate directory (~/ff/) with a symlink from /usr/bin/firefox to /myhome/ff/firefox/firefox

After that I locked down all access to mozilla domains to make sure it would not do anything funny again.

I'm not sure where that 'channel' link you put there lives, I assume that's one of the about:config settings?

Possibly it somehow managed to use the settings from the original browser installed with Ubuntu rather than the ones that it came with. That would at least explain the weird upgrade behavior.

edit: located the 'channel' setting it's app.update.channel and it is set to simply 'esr'. But I have no idea what it was in the past, this is a completely fresh installation in my homedir.

Thank you for all your time, I have to go to sleep now.
I think you meant Grindr, try posting bare chest pic on Tinder and see how far it gets you.
A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms
For you other folks that do this. How many Pomodoro's do you do a day?
> 2. I have yet to use a phone in the last 8+ years that I didn't destroy the 3.5mm jack on over the course of <1 year of running.

Plugging the headphones straight in will transfer huge amounts of vibration directly to the solder joints on the jack insider the phone while running. Maybe consider an adaptor that brings a right-angled plug out to a socket for your headphones, much like [0]?

[0]: https://www.jaycar.com.au/adaptor-3-5mm-stereo-socket-3-5mm-...
"In the morning, there is a peak of productivity around 10AM, then it decreases until lunch time. After lunch, it starts to increase with a peak around 4PM, then it starts to decrease from 4PM until 7PM. Then, again, starting from 8PM, I restart working and there is a gradual increase with a peak at 11PM."

shudder
Thanks. Sounds like their apology feels genuine to you; appreciate the feedback.
Independent Voters Changed More Than Alabama
Why not? You leave a comment on a website, the websites stores it, it's the websites data.
>Then our task is to persuade them that the huge effect would be positive!

No, the task is to first create alternatives which are just as accessible and user-friendly as Facebook, and then sell them to the mainstream on terms they actually care about. Why would my 60-odd year old mother who uses Facebook to talk to her COPD support group even care about Diaspora? I don't know what the answer is, but I do know the answer has nothing to do with open source, anonymity or censorship-resistance.
Litecoin Is the Hero We Need
nice catch :D
> definitely have no interest whatsoever in spending any more time doing DevOps for the blog.

Honestly that's why I use a managed blogging host. I have better things to do with my time, such as writing content.
That sounds super-ambitious, but if humans can make LIGO, there must be a lot we can do.
> Is there maybe a better aftermarket adapter?

Westone makes a decent Bluetooth cable with MMCX connectors so you can plug it directly into buds themselves, without a separate 3.5mm cable.
I apologize for missing your question.

Well, first I used the new brackets to calculate the tax and found us slightly in the black. Then I dug out my last year tax return, added four numbers -- income tax, property tax, mortgage and donations -- subtracted proposed 24K standard deduction and applied our new bracket (35%) to the difference. Subtracted the first number. Felt robbed.

That said, I'm waiting for my CPA to get back to me with the projections for 2017 along with the tax reform impact estimate.
I have 1 BTC but I lost the wallet. So that's one less BTC in circulation. (Literally, it is impossible for that BTC to circulate).
Have there been any studies comparing the direct effects of THC with REM sleep?

It seems remotely plausible that cannabis could be inducing a REM-like state while the user is still awake.
I may be parsing it incorrectly, but I take "private prisons" less literally since I know that private prisons are the vast minority. Instead of thinking about the prison itself, consider the "prison industrial complex" in a way that you might consider the "military industrial complex." There are a lot of people who make a lot of money off our prison system, and it includes everyone from food suppliers to lawyers.

Also, private companies now house nearly half of immigrant detainees including a $1 Billion facility the Obama administration purchased to hold Central American women and children seeking asylum in the US.

Specific examples of lobbying are easy enough to google. I might suggest starting with the "Kids for Cash" scandal where two judges got millions of dollars in kickbacks from for-profit juvenile detention centers for sending more kids to their facilities.
You are not guaranteed to win a credit card dispute. Depending on the card, it takes a great deal of your time to file the dispute and continue to submit supporting evidence down the line. You are paying 1-3% on all of your transactions for this privilege; do you really want to pay that 1-3% every time you buy coffee? On the other side of the token is the merchant. How often do they lose out from a fraudulent credit card dispute? There are many businesses that refuse Amex for this reason among others.

The blockchain and smart contracts provide interesting ways to tackle these problems with clever and transparent protocols. It is not difficult to imagine a credit score system (https://hellobloom.io/) that is based off a transaction history tied to an identity token (https://www.uport.me/). In that case, merchants and customers can choose who they want to engage with based off reputation and history.

That is one way of doing a transaction with a merchant. Another way would be to use a hashed time lock contract that allows you to get a refund on demand. In that event, the merchant has to trust you.

As both a consumer and a business owner, I am excited to see a highly diverse market of options for how we do transactions, as opposed to a market dominated by 3-4 players.
We're talking about 200 years before the thing is even 1000 AU away. Even 100 years from now it will probably be comparatively trivial to send out a probe to visit the asteroid, let alone 200. Also, interstellar asteroids might be comparatively more common than we've seen so far, but given the basic factors of how widely separated stellar systems are it's quite likely that they are still very rare. So even if we have discovered many more interstellar objects traipsing through our Solar System over the next many decades I highly doubt we'll have so many that we wouldn't want to visit all of them.
They're actually terrible points, which are very shallow and not pertinent to the situation
The issue isn't with the level of abstraction, but with the side-effect based workflow of some of the more common commands. The most visible of these is unstaging a file.

The syntax is "git reset -- <file path>". What does that do? Well, it tells git not to change the head pointer. Of course, it wasn't going to do that anyway, but as a side effect of not doing anything, it makes a decision about what to do with all the staged files. The default resolution is to unstage everything so that everything that happened between the old head and the new head can go in the stage. When you add the "--", you're telling it to only apply that resolution to the specified files.

So what you're actually telling Git is, "don't do anything, but when you don't do anything, move these files out of the stage so that you have room for all the files that you're not going to stage."

And this is why I used Git for an entire year without actually knowing what "git reset" does.
Serial rapists aren't that rare. Here's a Fivethirtyeight article that covers the two major studies about that over the last few years:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-most-campus-rap...
The crux of the disagreement between the two major studies is that one indicates serial rapists commit most rapes, while the other indicates 10.8% of college men are rapists and many do not do so serially.

Anyhow, gives some stats to pin calculations on.
I typo'd.

I was trying to show there was support for them providing stability, as for them failing to do this.
Yes, that is true! During my PhD program I used the same methods to study metalorganic solar cells.

If anything, fast quantum calculations would make an even bigger difference in materials science than in drug discovery. That's because druglike molecules have been studied a lot, so classical approximations (though limited) at least exist.
Some people don't recognise that they aren't ceremonial. There are a couple of sensationalised arrest videos where somebody's trying to make a big deal out of being 'aggressed' by the Queen's Guard.
That sounds a bit like a hamster in a treadmill or a rat with an electrode in the brain linked to the pleasure center.

7 days per week, averaging 11 hours per day you're going to have a pretty solid case of burn-out after you do that for a few years more.

Work-life balance is important if you want to avoid that sort of episode. I wished I could go back in time and do a couple of years again with a bit less pressure.
This framework has been posted before.

The solutions I write using homegrown utilities are both more elegant and faster than any framework or library I have ever seen posted to HN or recommended elsewhere. Not to mention smaller and more agile. IMHO.

All frameworks and libraries that I have seen will all fail given the right input i.e. fuzzing.

I think parsing and transforming the content from webpages is just viewed as work that no one wants to do because, for whatever reason, webpages are still unpredictable.
We're talking specifically about people forgetting things that they want to remember, I don't think your hypothesis applies.
Unicode, UTF-8 and multilingual text: An introduction
Too early to tell with regards to concentration, fatigue, or any measure directly related to productivity. We can get good classification of basic eyes-closed-alpha and are hoping our ML approach (RNNs + LSTM) and enough data will carry us beyond that.
I assume it’s like snack, but with an initial sh sound.

It's German. I would bet it is more like shock, but with an N added.

(I can't readily verify that. I am in a library and all searches for the pronunciation lead me to audio files and I can't listen to them.)
I've heard from some that 20% time has since become 120% time (at least in some non-engineering orgs). Thoughts?
It means whenever it is being used. Manufacturing silicon chips involves temperatures from room temperature to ~1300C.
How often do you upgrade it, and ... is your total effort suitable for a small / personal blog?
I think i'm going to have to disagree. For every Jimi Hendrix, there are hundreds if not thousands of people who put in the work and end up as uncredited studio musicians or releasing albums on bandcamp that only get bought as ratio buffer for someone on a private tracker.
It's your data and the website has a responsibility to steward it.
Why not remove comments entirely? Most people engage on secondary platforms (twitter, facebook) anyway, and most comments are garbage in my experience.

Ironically, while trying to post this comment I got ... Bad gateway: The web server reported a bad gateway error.
Or perhaps it called revert but it wasn’t doing a git revert, it was doing a git checkout to simulate an SVN revert... I’ve seen this in at least one GUI.
That kind of crap just makes it harder to unwind problems when things go wrong and to learn the tool.
FWIW, the majority of states allow for one-party consent audio recording -- i.e. one person secretly taping a conversation without telling the others: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2011/0...

Not sure what the history of case law regarding audio vs video recording, but it seems video recording is almost always legal in public areas (i.e. not a dressing room). Video being subject to a two-party consent rule, or even one -party consent, would make most video surveillance illegal, such as security cameras outside of stores.

https://lifehacker.com/what-you-need-to-know-when-recording-...
Thanks. Do you have time to expand on why this counts as a genuine apology to you (or not?).

Interesting to me that all it takes to count as an apology to some is the words 'we're sorry'.

I hope to find similar discussion(s) where an HN user practiced his hobby of rewriting corporate apologies. Also nice to have another example where initial response can be completely tone deaf with little consequence.
Bitcoin is big. But fedcoin is bigger
> To confirm the finding, though, researchers will have to show that it's possible to cause memory problems in a young brain by disrupting these rhythms, Seibt says.

To be fair, the article does say this, albeit without discussing it very much.
Well, in that case, I'm off to the gym.
The author can't read the comments if people only make them on other platforms.
I wondered too - but the only other post on that blog tells us he's a phd student, so it's a little less surprising - at least to me...
Osquery: Change license to Apache 2.0 and GPLv2
Credit for noticing this goes to an IRC friend.
Yeah I realized that for the level of readership my blog has, even the time I put in writing a post is probably not worth it, let alone writing template files and figuring out the idiosyncrasies of the templating tool of the day (which almost always has negligible documentation)
Most people in the US go to a specialty retailer if they need wine glasses, and a nice one has Riedel or something comparable. The sales associate will invariably say "oh this is made to enjoy red Bordeauxs, this one is for white Burgundies, etc, etc" and they will be nudged to go fancy. I don't know if they go in with the expressed plan to buy an enormous wine glass set, but just look at https://www.riedel.com/restaurant/collection/d/sommeliers/bo..., it's 30 oz. I think it's fair to say there is an element of industry pushing consumer demand in a more expensive direction. Also, I think it's fair to point out Riedel is European and has been around for 250 years.

Also, even if I was presented with that wine glass, I would expect nothing more than a standard pour. I don't think you're being entirely fair to Americans in this particular case (even if a number of them would be happy with a pint of wine).
It uses the GenerateDataKey API against a single master key.

At the client side, yes, could send an SNS notification, or otherwise go indirectly via a Lambda.

Or, alternatively, stream CloudTrail logs through Lambda to achieve a similar result.
That's some nice bigotry you are trying to stir up there, buddy. Go back under the alt-right bridge you live in.
That's going to happen regardless of there being a comments section right on the page.
perhaps you should break down the task into larger chunks that you could do for a few hours of intense focus and then do the pomodoro technique after lunch where you go through the motions on smaller tasks that you don't feel motivated to do?
It might be harder for older brains to forget the right stuff.

Wanting to remember something and remembering something isn't as much of a conscious choice as we would like.

I have noticed that my recall speed is exponential in the quality of sleep and exercise. If I work out, have a great sleep (post exercise sauna), I am sharp. If I trash myself, I have a noticeable 500ms+ access latency. Not for concepts, but for words. Words always take longer.
Before any comment about "real friends" keeping in touch outside the social media, the second tweet:

>A friend I've known mostly online for 15+ years died this weekend. Our friendship started on an old gaming forum, but continued on Facebook.
Sure they can. Author could specify a unique #hashtag for the post that can be used on Twitter/FB. Not sure about other platforms that support hashtags or similar concepts, but its not out of the question to track comments like that elsewhere.
Nitpick—based on your statements, I'm curious as to how you can claim manipulating the DOM be faster/more efficient than using a virtual DOM? I was under the impression that the very opposite was true, which is what gave birth to the virtual DOM. In any case, good work.