skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounda similar to fiber latency. Ive never thought about this before but the amount of time for a round trip to a leo satellite, shouldnt that be in the range of 10 m/s. (1200 km / 300,000 km/ s) = 4 m/s x 2 i wonder whats the complete breakdown, is most of it inter satellite optical communication? Does this offset the additional 8 ms because its a simplified topology?
I see your point. But large tech organisations commit these faux pas/atrocities (depending on your point of view) all the time, regardless of their relationship with profit. I think the reason they happen at all and the shrill tenor of the associated backlash come from the same place though - a kind of echo chamber insularity.
The high expense is caused in part by the current high volume of vulnerabilities.

Vulnerabilities and updates are inevitable, but the current volume of them is not, by orders of magnitude.

The volume of serious exploits could be reduced dramatically if we started to more seriously apply the principle of least authority (and an important technique and way of thinking about that is capability security -- in fact an important technique to make 'brickless updates' easier to achieve too, I suspect).

I think how to kick-start the industry to actually do that is a difficult problem.
I hope this post mortem includes insight into how the bug tracker is being handled. We've now seen with Cliqz and Looking Glass that there are certain members of the Mozilla team that have no qualms with making controversial tickets private and locking/deleting comments in public tickets. That's not a behavior that fosters trust in a community that is in dire need of it.
I'm not refusing to believe in the hypothetical reality. Of all the hypothetical realities I can conceive, "actually aliens" is the one I want most to be real. I want to live in that world, and not just see it in fiction.

What I am refusing to do is believe that hypothetical reality to be more likely than it is, based on the evidence (or lack thereof) presented and what it does or doesn't actually prove. I'm slotting it in the rank it deserves, which is slightly ahead of demons in likelihood but still less likely than everything else.

But yeah, the likelihood that it's aliens is not entirely zero.
This article is not visible from the main page of the blog, or via search:

https://blog.mozilla.org/

Probably a mistake? Probably...
It is only important that people accept it. I think we can call that mission accomplished.
The kits are from a Detroit Police warehouse. The rest of Wayne county has different police forces.

The oldest kit was from 1984, not all the kits.

Your Wikipedia chart shows Detroit has been at least 80% non-white since 1990.
Yes, cheap medication and cheap accessible care is impossible. Its not like you can get $2 tetanus shot without any waiting in china in a walk in clinic or anything.

oh, you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoU_9G1Ae_I
I was in the cli only camp, but I just looked at GitUp and that actually looks really useful!
I would love to completely put alcohol aside as you did. However, I don't know how I would put beer and wine aside permanently. I couldn't tell you the last time I had a cocktail or distilled alcoholic beverage, but I love to drink craft beers and occasionally a glass of wine, solely for the taste. I cannot stand the feeling of being buzzed or drunk, I just enjoy drinking a few beers on Friday and Saturday night. I've noticed that it does affect my sleep though as I am often tired on Saturday and Sunday, even if I got 8-9 hours of sleep.

I have a similar issue with other foods, like cheesecake. I love eating cheesecake on occasion but every time I eat it the very high fat and sugar content upsets my stomach.
I have noticed that loss aversion often takes over for me. If I have the choice of doing what I know I enjoy or trying something new, which may not provide me any enjoyment, then the option that I know I will enjoy wins. It is not that trying something new is hard, but feeling like I missed out on the thing I do enjoy is. Same reason I feel more comfortable keeping $100 in my pocket than giving up the $100 for a chance to recieve $1,000 in return.

If you consider soda to be a special treat and are looking forward to the Coke to fulfill that special treat, I can completely understand why it would be difficult to reach for the off-brand version instead. Granted, if you're crusing a six-pack of soda every night, where you can throw an off-brand sample in the middle and can quickly fall back to old faithful if it falls short, I understand it less.
New York City Moves to Create Accountability for Algorithms
They outline the experiment they need to run, every participant gets a neuro hat but neither the participants or investigators know if the participant got a 'sync the waves' hat or a 'disrupt the waves' hat. Then look at the results and unblind the hat choices.

EDIT: From the article -- "But the study also suggests that it's possible to improve an impaired memory by re-synchronizing brain rhythms during sleep.

One way to do this would be by applying electrical or magnetic pulses through the scalp. "The idea is to boost those brain waves and bring them back together," Helfrich says.

Walker already has plans to test this approach to synchronizing brain waves."
For me the motivator is the fact that they cost me a couple of hours in lost time due to their botched upgrade. This last episode is just icing on the cake and illustrates how completely out of touch Mozilla is with the users that make up their core.

It's roughly on par with Apple pissing all over the designers and animators and movie makers that were their lifeblood in the pre-Ipod days. Only in Mozilla's case they don't have an Ipod.
My experience is that the efficacy of the Pomodoro technique depends a great deal on both user personality and type of work. It may be that the way you want to work and the things you’re working on aren’t a good fit. That’s fine.
If you are interested in an alternative to Disqus, take a look at Graphcomment, there is a free plan as well, plus we dont resell your data.

https://graphcomment.com

Disclaimer: I work for this company.
All that will happen is that the growth rate will slow down. When that happens, the opportunity for people to spend on investments that offer a greater return on investment will become attractive to holders.
Another thread on the front page right now is talking about how it's very difficult to get views on your blogs now. And I've felt the same.

5-10 years ago I used to get 2-3 digit views on my posts. And I used to use Wordpress / Blogger and the like.

Then, when it became fashionable, I spent a lot of time (at least 20-30 hrs, and mind you this was not the geeky kind of work, it was like refactoring code using just grep) converting the blog to one of those static generators, and I suspect that I spent more time migrating all posts than the TOTAL TIME all readers combined have spent on my blog since then.

Now I am almost regretting migrating and definitely have no interest whatsoever in spending any more time doing DevOps for the blog.
That's my point. More choices = better for business. Not everyone is scared of being scammed because they pay with a crypto currency.
My guess would be that a PR person did not think about the aspects that went wrong and was more enthusiastic about having a clean way of delivering this. Not much to do, it just appears, no need to tell people how to install an add-on, no issue since it doesn't do anything to people that don't turn it on. Privacy check passes, since it doesn't do anything that impacts privacy. (Which the first press responses focused on pointing out). Since it's supposed to be stealth (it's an ARG), only a small group is involved, hyped about bulding this cool thing.

Totally could have happened that way, totally missed something crucial at every single step that came back to bite them.
I don't have access to the private bug myself, but I can try to reason about it.

I believe that at this point, opening up this bug would do exclusively harm and no good to anyone.
There's nothing I can imagine in the bug to be of value to our understanding of the situation.
If the people working on it were oblivious to what they are doing, then it would just look plain stupid from hindsight 20/20.
If the people working on it were aware and hoped that no one will raise a fuss, then it'll look even worse for them.

The important fact is that Mozilla reacted, and that the leadership does have access to this bug. Whoever was involved is probably currently involved in debriefing what has happened there and that bug is part of it.

I hope it'll be open at some point, but I'd hate if access to the bug resulted in a witch hunt and public shaming of that person/people which, as we all know, the Internet is great at.

We know that our leadership reacted and we know that they recognize what has happened. I'm not asking you to trust them, obviously that has to be regained and the process is painfully slow, but I do ask you to give them time. The emotional reaction is short-termed. I hope that this incident will have a long term positive consequences to our project.
Here's a good review that came out not too long ago:

>Specifically, newer findings characterize sleep as a brain state optimizing memory consolidation, in opposition to the waking brain being optimized for encoding of memories.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9ac5/c749244b9e2509a670a816... [pdf]
In that case, it seems we have a different metric for a JIT compiler being "better"? I was going by the quality of the final output, but you seem to be going by the complexity of the intermediate optimizations it goes through? Which I admit also makes sense, but it's not what I expected: when someone says "is X better than Y", the obvious implication is they should choose X over Y since it would yield a better result, and yet that generally wouldn't be the case here?
You might enjoy reading the section, "Intensely Single-Task," in this article, Philip Guo's "How to Be Effective."

http://pgbovine.net/productivity-tips.htm

He also expanded that section into a full article:

http://www.pgbovine.net/intense-single-tasking.htm

Here is an excerpt I think you might find useful: "This tip has had the greatest benefit to my effectiveness: When you want to work on a task (e.g., from your to-do list), get your mind to enter a specific 'mode' where it only knows how to do that task. Forget everything else. Remain fixed in that mode until you get tired and have to "break character". Then move onto the next task and repeat."

I think it addresses: "Tasks take way longer to complete with forced breaks, especially if the breaks are longer."
He's getting pushed infront of the bus, though I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't the only officer who knew what was going on.
Brian, I love your work but seriously. You've mispelled "read" as "understood" there and to write it off as a dismissive attitude toward debugging in toto is not something you should lower yourself to pretend to believe. Deep breath. DTrace is awesome, Oracle is not.

Yeah my kissing may not be up to scratch either... ;-)
I use either the GUI on Windows or a set of batch files I wrote to automate basic things.

As long as all you're doing is pull, branch, merge and commit, I don't think it matters.
> If more people carried cash, we might see fewer muggings because anyone with just cards can just call their bank and have them turn off all the cards if they get stolen.

I don't think it makes much of a difference. People used to carry cash almost exclusively and muggings still happened with regularity. The difference between now and then is that your cellphone is the first object removed from your person (which will later get fenced at a recycle-your-phone kiosk and shipped overseas), followed by a quick rifling through of your wallet looking for cards.

For debit cards, a gun gets thrust in your face, a PIN is demanded (if you aren't abducted and taken to the ATM altogether) and you get pistol whipped while they withdraw $500. It used to be done on a succession of ATMs but I don't know if the FIs impose caps on ATMs withdrawals now.

Thieves know cards can be deactivated so they'll make like Bain Capital and load them up with as much debt as possible before busting out. The primary goal is converting your plastic currency (debit or credit) into something that can't be terminated remotely (such as cash or prepaid gift cards) before you have a chance to make those calls.
Oh! I didn't see that in your previous message.

Did you file a bug? I don't understand how your ESR channel could update you to 57 as it's still on 52!
One apologizes and any consequences are automagically cancelled?

Also, hadn't they already learned the lesson with Pocket?
This has a number of very good books, including many I have read already (and so won't get it). Recommended to take a look through it.
http://www.delish.com/food/news/a39120/super-sized-beverages...

"For 25 years, a 26-ounce drink was the biggest soda a person could buy. Then in 1980, a shift occurred when 7-Eleven began its Big Gulp campaign. Big Gulp fountain drink cup sizes steadily rose throughout the decade and beyond, beginning at 32 ounces in 1980, then climbing to 44 ounces in 1986, 64 ounces in 1989, and a behemoth 128 ounces in 2006. Called the Team Gulp, the 128-ounce cup holds a gallon of soda."

Wine is lagging behind. More wine please... :)
Good point and I agree. That said I still don't think this would count like a true libertarian experiment because -like you point out- it is in the real world where you still have to abide by the rules of government/society.

But yeah, this is probably the closest we have gotten to a libertarian test-drive through technology.
> supporting millions of users and tens of millions of comments

That seems like an unusually low number of comments per user, best case 99:1.
The sound is quite different. I would never use them for music, but for the spoken word they seem fine.

One problem they have is that low, intense frequencies (most modern pop and electronic music) can actually cause them to bounce on your skull, which is quite uncomfortable.
Small world. I spent some long weekends at a cabin on green lake (BC interior) with a party line.

Party lines used standard telephone lines. The joke was that they had nothing to do with the cost of the wire. The cost of the wire is a tiny part of the cost of installing the system. It was the phone company not wanting to install the switching gear. Sometimes the party line was tied together within BC-Tell's box. So when they installed better switching gear everyone suddenly had their own line. That's different than barbwire rigs that ran over single lines. (BC-Tell is now called "telus")
and has discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956325
As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, neither do I, chances are that Ubuntu did the upgrade but after I downgraded FF to 52.5 again it did it once more.

So there is really something weird going on there. But it's end of the year and I have a ton of work to do not related to debugging browser issues so it will have to wait until I have some spare time.

But thank you for caring, it really means a lot to me.

Oh, btw: backwards compatibility is a thing that most users appreciate.
I feel the same. I wonder if a free heroku account and a docker image of the setup would work if you really wanted this? Seems like full on DevOps is not necessary for a very self-contained simple commenting app like this if you wanted to self host with minimal cost/effort.
XCode rolled out a feature that allowed you to do an interactive commit just by click on/off switches. My first use of that feature screwed up the repo by committing the wrong pieces.

No thanks, it’s CLI for me, regardless if the IDE promises git support.
Clearly Canadian system is flawed and unable to viably finance modern drug development.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/11/25/the_strange_t...
How not to do a crypto interview on CNBC
Free advice -- worth what you paid for it: for sites who don't get many comments, it doesn't matter what they use. For those that get lots of comments, the two most important things are building a community and moderating it. To a large extent, community depends on history presented cogently. To that end, showing a user where they are in a thread and what they haven't yet read is paramount.

Build distinctly better moderation tools, and the experience will be enjoyable, too.
Maybe.

What about enterprise installs, where IT must have control over what gets installed on the company's computers..?
There has been some effort to use quantum computers to solve machine learning problems. One for training neural networks [0]; and another for unsupervised machine learning [1].

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05304.pdf

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05771.pdf
You realize there are parts of the world where English is not the main language?
But that's just a 1.5x in potency. Doesn't explain the 7x increase in size.
Is there a chance you're not on esr channel on Ubuntu?

This is the channel that stays on ESR - https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-esr

Hope it'll work for you and I apologize for the incident!
The website isn't loading for me, so here is an archive snapshot (although it doesn't seem to load graphs and such).

https://web.archive.org/web/20171219000015/http://mehdi.cher...
> Demand for dollars is (like anything) organic and capricious, but the supply is directly controlled by the Fed.

This is actually wrong. Money really consists of 2 things:
1) Government debt
2) Private bank credit

The Fed only controls the amount of bank reserves, which is a function of:
1) Policy (federal funds rate target, reserve requirements)
2) Demand for reserves from private banks

The fed cannot create or destroy money, because money as we know is either a balance in a bank account, coins, or notes. The fed's operations are always either neutral towards bank account balances, or swap physical currency (coins or notes) for bank account balances.

The government creates money by spending it into existence, and destroys money by collecting revenue. Private banks create money by lending it out, and destroy money when loans are paid off.
> This is almost certainly due to Japan’s imbalanced age distribution.

The main issue is very similar to the US 2008 financial crisis, because of a huge asset bubble which encouraged Japanese banks to create a huge debt overhang. This turned most of Japan's banks into zombie banks, liquidity dried up. A textbook debt crisis.

Debt overhang and risk averse banks, leads to a pull back in propensity to spend or invest, which lowers demand and triggers deflation.

Yes, demographics can alter the long term tendency, but there was a step-function change in 1989 and in 2008, it wasn't like people suddenly became old. The common theme was a huge debt crisis, banking system collapse, followed by anemic response by the Japanese until Abe.

Greece had a huge deflationary spiral at the same time their debt crises hit, you think that's a coincidence? You think demographics explains the deflationary spiral in the Great Depression, which was mirrored in the US and UK? There was a 30% deflation in 1930-1932.

Let me quote Friedrich Hayek, the patron saint of the anti-inflation Austrian brigade:
"I agree with Milton Friedman that once the Crash had occurred, the Federal Reserve System pursued a silly deflationary policy. I am not only against inflation but I am also against deflation. So, once again, a badly programmed monetary policy prolonged the depression."

A deflationary currency is simply a bad idea for a currency, it has a built in penalty against borrowers -- and regressive in that regard -- and would put downward pressure on demand. Couple that deflationary currency with one that is highly volatile, whose issuance can't be controlled, and you have a recipe for an future economic disaster.

I'd go one further, if it some point in the future, SHA-256 is cracked or some flaw was found in your crypto-currency, you've managed to centralize a flaw whose scale of attack is world wide, and nearly instantaneous. If such a currency replaced all other currencies, you'd in effect, have detonated a virtual electro magnetic pulse over the world economy, making trillions worthless overnight.

Do we really want to put the store of value of the entire world under something whose value could be erased in a nanosecond if there's an undiscovered flaw?
Because goquery is only a DOM parser/manipulator and not a full-fledged (or even half-fledged) "scraping framework"?
Form forwarding service for AWS Lambda
I use aliases for the most common commands, gs, gd, gb, gco, ga, gc. You can guess what those do.
It is always funny to see Americans using huge (as in HUGE) glasses to drink wine, believing that it is the French distinguished way of tasting wine, and being disappointed when they discover that French people just use regular/smallish glasses in any context.

No, it is just Americans confusing 'big' for 'refined' as usual :-) (and bigger for more refined, and even bigger for super classy).
>According to the city of Bellevue, detectives used hidden cameras to document elements of the crime of patronizing a prostitute. “Unfortunately, audio conversations were unintentionally captured between the suspect and the undercover officers in 61 of the 110 cases,” the city wrote in a news release. State law requires two-party consent to record audio conversations.

So it's legal to do surveillance by video recorder but not audio recorder? I don't know what to think about that.
The second statement is not dependent on the first, although it is related.

There is also quite literally nothing racist about it, but you've proven my point quite well (in that you see racism where it doesn't exist, a specific example of the more general point I was making).
Ask HN: Recommended password manager for personal(non-techie) use?
I'm looking for an easy to use password manager, with support for Mac, Windows and Android(Linux would be a +).

While I was talking with my girlfriend the other night, she was baffled at the idea of having a password manager - something I(wrongly) assumed people knew about. So what would you recommend to a non-techie friend/relative?

Further, while I would love to selfhost, opening ports is problematic at the moment - so that is unfortunatly out of the question for the time being.
monero is where it's at imho
Network debugging over VMWare to a 2.6 kernel (e.g. RHEL 6) will not work much of the time; a virtual serial port must be used instead.
I find that pomodoro is really only helpful for when I am reluctant to do the task or where I don’t know what I’m doing to such a degree that it is helpful to expkicitly block out 20 minutes to flail at it followed by writing up the relevant questions.
As a base problem of "I need fast storage and CPU resources" isn't necessarily solved in the cloud either. If you're deploying hardware that needs to write large amounts of data daily and requires high CPU availability, even if AWS pricing was ok, you're still connectivity bound, which itself is an increased cost. I can also see this being valuable for MSSP's deploying assets across client networks and wanting to manage encryption keys in the cloud, vs on prem.

None of the additional Amazon cloud features are even in play with the above scenario.