skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is coming from the Chief Marketing Officer...!? If this was a marketing/advertising related debacle, then the buck stops with him.

Either he approved this (which shows privacy isn't on his list of concerns), or he doesn't know what his marketing department is doing (which doesn't speak volumes about his leadership).

Interesting that no other Chief Officer is writing the letter.
GloFos new 12LP is perf optimisied, is it not?
This is what I thought. I regularly enjoy a "modern" glass of wine, but for port wine, even a full shot glass is too much for me. It's just so heavy and sweet. The glasses depicted in the article seem to hold exactly the amount of port I would be able to comfortably drink in 10-20 minutes.
Comparing raw hardware with one of the dozens of services offered by AWS is absurd to say at least, as you’re basically ignoring the whole platform that enhances “EC2” - of course raw hardware price will always win, but that doesn’t really mean anything as the comparison isn’t a good one.
Which I had installed, which happily upgraded to FF 57. (I still don't get how that happened the first time, it could have been Ubuntu doing the upgrade, it could have been FF itself but I don't have time to dig this out and I'm not even sure if it is something I'll be able to prove one way or the other.)

I've gone so far now as to drop any mozilla.org domains through DNS hacks to make sure this never ever happens again, because after I downgraded it the first time it happily immediately updated back to 57 in spite of having all auto-update settings switched to off.

Back to 52.5 it is for me. No more tricks like that. Which is sad because if there is a critical security vulnerability in this browser I'm likely not going to notice immediately.
The developed world mostly started following USA with QE+bailout based currency supply policy.

Now that USA is playing a different game the rest will probably follow that too.

It's just that the USA is ahead of the game again.
>Demonstrated that Mozilla has the ability to silently push addons without any kind of notification to the user that their browser behavior has been patched.

If you allow firefox updates they can silently push any code on to your machine, right?
The core audience is not who you aim for.
According to the article, this "free" service comes at the cost of their readers privacy, not being in control of your whole blog (comments) and increased loading time because of the size/requests needed.
I have submitted this before, however I have now moved this from static site MVP to web app built in ASP.NET MVC running on Azure. There is more of a workflow going on with messaging on the site so the mentor doesn't have to reveal their email until they are happy with the mentee.

If you are listed on here and don't want to be please get in touch.
Wow, average of over 5 hours of pomodoroing per day 7 days a week for two years. Sounds exhausting
This is also the same person who wrote a defensive non-apology on the evening of the initial publicity, so it seems like they owe us an explanation of why they were wrong then that's missing here.
Prostitution cases dismissed because cops’ cameras mistakenly recorded audio
I have noticed that not sure if I have ever heard a reason.
> The Book of the Runtime documentation states "The goal of the CLR is to make programming easy"

In case anyone else is interested, that quote comes from https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...
My biggest issue with blogging is that my writing isn't that great, and that while I'd rather write on a wordpress platform, medium is just easier to write with (WYISWYG). Or even posting on a discourse forum is easier. That, and blogging is technically not productive so I can never find a happy mix between the 2.
OTOH, the phrase “drink like a sailor” for heavy consumption of alcohol exists for a reason; RN alcohol rations probably aren't a good indication of society-wide consumption patterns.
Creating a Backend for a Simplified Version of Pokémon Go with Tarantool
I think this is a troll, just look at their username. But. Who am I kidding we're all throwaway accounts on HN.
You mean like Cloudflare did when the cancelled Stormfront's hosting for being assholes? That copped a lot of backlash.
Since 1700, wine has gotten 7 times better.[1]

[1] http://drinks.seriouseats.com/2013/06/wine-history-paul-luka...
There is no adequate competition, this is an orphan drug that will sustain at most one producer. Fun fact: most generics are sourced to very few producers because margins are so low, competition is working.

There are similarities to fine chemical shortages: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/06/16/spa...

The world can do without sparteine, but orphan drugs call for regulation as natural monopolies, or even government subsidies.
Dammit, I see D code and I want to learn the language so badly. I just need to find the right project for it (I might have something in the pipeline, as there's some stuff I need to do with libav and I really hate the idea of using C++.)
I assume the idea of the ARG was that it promotes Firefox to viewers of the show as much as the other way around.
Winter Holiday Packing List
How to achieve money blogging in three easy steps:

1. Attract people with titles like this one

2. Make your blog popular (???)

3. Put advertising

Thanks for reading this post!

PS: How I made $100,000 a day with one weird trick

(Long sales copy follows)

"I used to not make money and now I made $20K! This system is great!"

(Keep

Scrolling)

If you act now it will be only $10!! And we chare you $300 a month later.

PPS: Does anyone know why they always use the word weird trick? The author comes across as super unbiased that way? LOL
I read HN while waiting for things (filling the kids bath, boiling tea water, etc) when I don’t have the time to really dig into something. It makes me feel like I’m being productive.
Yup. My homelab currently looks like 2 x HP Z400s for grunt work, and some HP microservers for light duties. When I'm not actively labbing, a microserver does daily home network duties (Pihole, firewall etc) and sips power.

All of this was acquired for bargain prices second hand. I'll probably sell it on in a few years for at least 50% of what I paid, too.
Having a speaker on your bike also seems to be a bad idea. Biking is dangerous and you should be aware of your surroundings.
I've noticed the same area with the vast majority of murders is also the same area as the vast majority of rapes, you are correct that it is a particular culture problem
I think wine glasses became bigger to let the wine breathe and exposing as much surface as possible to air. Same logic as wine decanters.
> 3) Demonstrated Mozilla's marketing department lacks the good sense to respect these capabilities for the loaded gun they are

This is the most critical issue, by far. Apparently nobody ran this by any reasonable person or went through any reasonable review process before shipping it.
Looks like the wrong URL. The Looking Glass Add-On update can be found here:

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/update-looking-glass-add
It seemed like a fair apology written by a non-tech person who may not understand the situation 100% and was given some bullets to write about.

We must forgive them and stop being so negative. They've made their apology. If _this specific_ thing happens again then I'll join you with some pitch forks.

To be so negative and full of hate isn't healthy for anyone.
Bitcoins don’t actually exist as separate entities, all that exists is a record of who transferred what amount to who.
0?

Brainstorming a couple business ideas is my breakfast exercise. It’s a brain-teaser, not anything of real value: I don’t have true insight into many other markets to answer the question of “why isn’t this already being done?,” and in the markets where I can answer that question... well, I’m currently working on an implementation, not broadcasting it.

Ideas alone are value-less. A decent market sketch would be required before it was worth my time, never mind my money. And even then: if you’re pumping out 3/day to the masses and not investing in these ideas yourself, you’re signaling these are really shallow, low-quality ideas you don’t actually think are worthwhile businesses.

If you don’t value these ideas, why would I?

(Aside: the likelihood that you’ve consulted in enough industries to sustain 3 worthwhile ideas a day is incredibly unlikely. It’s far more likely you’re spitballing in ignorance of many/most industries, or your ideas will revolve around the handful you’ve been deeply exposed to. The latter is much more valuable than the former, but again, does it sustain 3 ideas a day?)

For contrast, I pay for stratechery. What it lacks in volume, it makes up for in depth of analysis that few other places provide. You’re swinging in the opposite direction, and I don’t see a value proposition in it.
Personal opinion - re-reviewing a pull request when someone has erased all context from your last review of that PR via a rebase and force push is a royal PITA. Especially for changes that span more than a few files. Did they address your concerns? The only way to know is to go back through all of the changes on that feature branch, and hope you don't miss anything.

This, in contrast with just reviewing the latest commit, potentially going back to the rest of the changes with an eye towards the latest commit.

It frankly bugs the piss out of me when people rebase and ask me to review their latest changes - it feels disrespectful of my time.
Agreed that alcohol is Bad. Not related to sleep, but there is also lots of science stacking up now on the connection between alcohol and cancer.
> The built-in porcelain is stupidly inconsistent and confusing.

That's why I end up using the plumbing commands to do things that porcelain commands don't let me do directly. For example, I'll use git diff along with git apply and recountdiff (from the patchutils package) to stage individual hunks or edit hunks prior to staging.
Did you really not know the "force-feed" browser upgrade was coming, and that add-ons were going to break? We've been talking about it on HN for a like a year before it happened.

They also had to do it at some point, XUL was a dead-end.
Yes, very much so. I wish more people in this thread could understand this from Mozilla's perspective.
He takes a while to get there, and doesn't quite drive the point home, but this is actually what André Staltz is proposing. Mesh-first devices. If we start at the bottom of his article, here's basically the plan:

1. Work on polishing IPFS, CJDNS, SSB[1], Beaker Bowser and some others into a "mesh-first" setup.
2. Sell, subsidize, or outright gift mobile devices to offline users in Africa (I'm going to assume these are android smartphones) setup to automatically join a mesh network, with these apps installed.
3. Users will transport these phones around, adding and creating content. Their phones will automatically sync content with other devices as they come in range. In general, only content that the user is interested in (that they follow) will be synchronized, though some may act as hubs syncing all manner of content for later redistribution.
4. As usage grows, there will be various regional and national mesh networks that build up.

I think a good comparison is to Cuba's weekly sneakernet[2] distribution, just with wireless mesh.

[1]: Secure Scuttlebut is one of the author's creations: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
[2]: https://www.wired.com/2017/07/inside-cubas-diy-internet-revo...
The average wine-drinking Briton in 1700 almost certainly had servants.
I make this type of comment a lot, but what's up with naming nowadays?

How is Schnack pronounced? How easy do you think it would be to tell somebody to try it out and how high are the chances that they'll misspell it and give up finding the site?

I don't get it.
A privacy-focused Disqus alternative
https://github.com/adtac/commento
I find that I frequently want to dump a table from some webpage into a sqlite db file and run queries on it. Most sites don't offer a CSV or XLS download option, so a simple script to scrape the data usually ends up being the simplest option.
Looks like I'm going to be the guy to shout "correlation is not causation" today.

What if older brains decide to filter more, store less and this is reflected in the brainwave patterns? A young brain might go "accept accept accept accept...." whereas an older brain might go "accept reject reject accept reject...". I'm pretty happy about having forgotten a lot of stuff.

After all, the older you get, the more you have to throw out to accommodate new memories. And it's mostly trash. So why remember it over sweet youth?
Ya, I just got an apple watch a couple of weeks ago and noticed this as well. It's crazy - ~4 hours of deep sleep on a normal night and 1.5-2 on a night where I've had even just a single drink
+1 for the desk. I generally stand all the time but gettin the right height is critical. The adjustable allows for that.
I believe that is a strong part of the current outrage: people did not realize that this existed and was turned on. Since actual studies would collect actual user data (unlike this now), the fact that it surprises people suggests that they did not obtain meaningful consent for their data collection.

At least from a quick search, I could not find good documentation what studies do exactly to avoid or properly handle personal data, it's possible that they do a very good job of that. (Suggestion to Mozilla: talk about these details at least after the study is done, show what you found. Hopefully: More tech-content to publish, less questions, less ugly surprises)
Look, I'm not saying you are a paid shill, but 2 cents worth of thinking would lead you to the truth:

Any self-driving car can map out your roads. Saying "no road mapping for your [future] self driving cars" is silly. It could be boiled down to "no camera borne cars" which necessitates no self-driving cars.

And if they don't want our self-driving cars I don't want theirs.
Hi,

I'm sorry you had this experience.

> (...) where I fairly critically depended on an extension that suddenly stopped working (...)

We communicated about the old addons deprecation for over a year. I'm sorry the news didn't reach you, but we tried.
If it didn't reach to you in time for a year, I doubt we could have done anything more to not make it sudden for you.

> User trust is earned bit-by-bit, you can lose it all in a day.

I know. You can imagine how I feel I hope.
Step 3 should go before step 2, or else you'll lose most of the profit.
> I'm talking talking about the repercussions of decisions in the language that affect the implementation

Well fine I welcome and respect your opinions on this topic, and you're not even wrong, but that's it's not remotely what anyone else is talking about in this thread!

We're talking about what the two main JIT compilers on the two teams have decided to implement, given the constraints they have from their input. We're not talking about how generics were implemented, or language design changes, because we're talking about how the JIT compilers work.
I disagree here. Case-insensitive file systems have existed for decades, and are part of the development landscape. Any tool that works across multiple machines needs to support them. In this case, I blame Bitbucket, for not providing any way to treat this as a merge conflict.
?? I prefer coke (American coca-cola) because it is less sweet (drier) than Pepsi/RC/generic. It also works well for an upset stomach. The people I know that drink Diet Coke basically drink that exclusively and it's not a brand thing, it's the taste. Now maybe that's an in America thing since in other countries maybe drinking a coke is more of a status symbol. I think Mexico drinks the most coca-cola in the world. That being said I do like Mexican coca-cola.. but I can't remember if it is more or less sweet than American coke.. I'm guessing it's similar but maybe the pure azucar helps.
Collective Hyping Detection System for Identifying Online Spam Activities
Westone makes a Bluetooth cable with the same connectors used on most Shure IEMs: https://www.westone.com/store/music/index.php/bluetooth-cabl...
Dynamic Reconfiguration in 5G Mobile Networks to Detect and Mitigate Botnets
Yes, that's why I had the stable version installed. You know, the one that wasn't going to put me on a dead-end.

That's what it's for in the first place.
Sounds like an IL analysis could point out all the problematic cases without all of the pain.
Initially I was going to let the other responses stand on their own but I had a new thought.

Unfortunately it seems the spec by fiat process is the least problematic this way.

Someone standardizes a thing that has been working for them for a while and they want their partners and maybe competitors to work with it.

It has to be a fairly conservative spec as well, something that can be defined concisely.

And let me be clear: this is a necessary but insufficient quality of a good specification. Ramming an opinionated spec down everyone's throat that is clearly tilted to only be achievable with your company's patent portfolio is not playing nice, and people tend to sense the insincerity.
I get a completely different image from that passage in the article. I imagine both certificate authorities, and the domain system as great examples of mistakenly necessitating middlement in a systemically flawed manner.

With regards to the second passage, I suggest you address the literal wording instead of putting your own (strange?) spin on it.
The author is pointing out that the value in the facebook post is from the user, your friend, aka a human. The fact that Berliners renting rooms out to a visiting Parisian will be using an AirBNB middleman versus the model a Craigslist entails, being essentially free classified ads.
One can discuss WHY things are the way they are, but do try to get the basic gist of what the author is trying to communicate.
Energy-Efficient Near-Threshold Parallel Computing: The PULPv2 Cluster
Agreed. Isn't the old rule, if you have to spell it in a loud public space (rather than just saying it), then it's a bad name?
Actually, when I see the videos of the Phoenix Lights, I immediately recognize plane-dropped flares. Every video I've ever seen of those lights appear to me to be plane-dropped flares. I spent many years in the infantry and deployed four times and I can tell you with certainty that's what they are. I think even the Air Force came out and said they had dropped flares that night.
Congrats to having a child. A study claims, "Stimulating the Brain’s Emotional Center Enhances Memory" https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/st...

Perhaps you can deduce a cognitive exercise to juggle up your memory prowess?
> Sleep allows the brain to catch up on the day's events. That is, it buffers certain things to be processed in full later

Citation?

I didn't know there was a proven reason why we sleep...?
You can also manually edit the hunk to remove the 2 lines you don't want to stage and use the recountdiff utility to update the hunk header.
Yeah, that gave me a pause too.

Then again, he might not have a "hacking background" but might have a strong embedded/networking background so he knows where to look, considering how he found exploits that blackhats missed.

So either he's that good or blackhats are two-bit[0] criminals.

[0] No pun intended.
Weight, tissue elasticity, muscle tone: all three are effected by aging, and all three effect snoring.
Recognizing Detailed Human Context in the Wild from Smartphones and Smartwatches
It's German for 'chat'.

Here is the translation including audio: https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/schnack
Reminds me of a story an old coworker told me. He was working as a repair tech back in the days when computers had tape drives. He was called out to a military base where they had just moved their computer one floor up, because the tape drive kept glitching. It would start up fine but then error out some seconds later, seemingly at random. After staring at this for quite some time he finally decided to stretch his legs and wander to the window. And what did he see, but a radar antenna rotating around. The glitches happened every time the antenna was pointed in his direction. On the lower floor it was out of the beam so there wasn't any problem.
When are we going to separate prosecution so that a non-govermental agency could get access to these and perform the prosecution themselves?
152 Simple Steps to Stay Safe Online: Security Advice for Non-Tech-Savvy Users
I assume it’s like snack, but with an initial sh sound.

And I don’t think software projects with inscrutable names are a new thing. I still have no idea how to pronounce “PostgreSQL”, for instance.
Isn't wine also meant to be in a bigger glass so the vapour collects in the glass better for smelling?
Healthy Routes in the Smart City: A Context-Aware Mobile Recommender
Citing WTO numbers is essentially lying.

A successful WTO claim against America is tantamount to fiscal settlement. The same is far from true for China. They routinely rip off foreign companies. Google "Nortel China hack" and come back to me about something equivalent that the Americans have done. The Americans aren't angels, but they aren't demons either and China does not respect international norms or laws.
Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things
I know the add-ons would stop working, that's why I had a perfectly good FF 52 running which was supposed not to upgrade. The fact that it did (on all three of my machines, no less) caused me no end of annoyance. Fortunately I've managed to fix it, at the cost of lots of lost time in the middle of a time critical job.
This is true about non-memory hard coins, as almost all the first gen coins were. This might not be true about memory hard coins like XMR, especially when HBM2 chips cannot be manufactured quickly enough and raw compute power does very little as a mining power multiplier.
The magic of the SSD controller can introduce rather surprising failure modes that you should probably care about.
DaSCE: Data Security for Cloud Environment with Semi-Trusted Third Party
> Extremely unlikely. Even GPU mining with good hardware cuts it close with energy consumption depending on your energy costs.

What? This is seriously wrong. ROI fluctuates between 200-600% for XMR and its derivatives.
I have always said Post-gres-Q-L which is probably wrong but it's too late to change now. I'm committed.
Ignoring the racism baked into that comment, smart people in China probably have more job opportunities than ever, with greater opportunity for wealth creation. China has one of the hottest tech industries in the world: Tencent and Alibaba each have market caps above $450B USD, and Baidu, JD, and NetEase are all in the $50-80B range. All these companies are rapidly growing. Not to mention the booming startup ecosystem across the country.
Copy Number Variations Detection: Unravelling the Problem in Tangible Aspects
I think type info in TS is 100% gone in runtime. Here's a blog post that explores why you can be confident of this: http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2016/04/typescript-types....
Because that’s exactly what I want to do - give my home encryption keys to amazon.
I find the proposition of moving off Disqus and the performance improvements in shnack very compelling, but worry about managing spam and a server.

I haven't looked at the repo yet, but I wonder if it would be possible to make the datastore pluggable so that you could replace SQLite with, say, DynamoDB. It seems like at that point you could potentially keep everything serverless.

Barring that, would it be possible to separate out the frontend code and define an API such that a lambda function and serverless backend could be produced for this?