skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your critique of Brave doesn't square with my understanding of the Brave ecosystem since I started seriously following it just before the BAT ICO.

This technical interview with Eich was extremely illuminating and I'd urge you to watch it, particularly the second half: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUtHhYes6-A

The current ad-tech ecosystem is a complete disaster, and Eich's vision for replacing it is, I think, genius.

Leverage properties of cryptography to build a browsing experience which respects privacy but retains opt-in ad relevance and anonymous metrics, and further leverage developments in cryptoeconomics to balance the requirements of user <-> publisher <-> advertiser in a properly-designed content generation and consumption ecosystem.

I find the whole idea elegant, ambitious and pragmatic.

What specifically do you find anti-user about Brave?
Procedural Pirate Map generator
I scan through the new section and then check replies to my comments, usually senseless comments and downvotes for having an opinion.
Kind of tangential, but what how did we retaliate against NK last time it was "asserted" that NK was behind cyberattacks --i.e. "Sony hack" IIRC, Obama said we'd respond appropriately at a time of our choosing, or words to that effect.
Notifications can be useful for web apps. A good rule of thumb is to only ask for permission when the user interacts with your app. For example, I ask for permission when the user clicks a button with the text "Enable Push Notifications" on the user settings screen. Then I let the user choose what kind of notifications they'd like to receive - typically CRUD actions for entities that the user cares about.
Here's another perspective - I am not coming to Firefox over this.

After literally years of struggle with Chrome and Firefox I finally switched to Safari (recently I switched to iPhone so on mobile too) and yes for personal browsing, on a Mac, this is really better than any other browser out there and Quantum felt as good. No, I don't have benchmarking scores, but I am speaking from an end user point of view.

I was a lifetime Firefox user - started browsing on it when I bought my first laptop in 2007 and never touched anything else until Pocket happened and after testing Quantum for a few days I was so happy that the Firefox is back. I don't think so. I guess I will sit this one out. It's not an isolated incident. They have been doing it constantly since Pocket.
No. I thought that I made that clear. Such advice is appropriate from family, close friends, mentors and managers. Everyone else should keep it to themselves.

But the problem is that people gossip. And they judge. Covertly. As in "I don't trust this woman. Why does she dress like that? She'd be disruptive. I'd better not hire her."
Except that Profits = income - Expenses (in simplified form).

So, that 20% Profit you mention is money NOT spent on infrastructure investments.
> at a conference

Such a Hacker Newish assumption. In the so-called real world, most people travel for all sorts of other reasons than conferences.
You should really distinguish between "the US" and "the Trump admin". This may be a little hard, but the latter has no credibility internationally.

The Trump administration is clearly pushing for a stronger take on North Korea and its had no problems lying in the past. Sure North Korea might be behind this, but at this point Trumps credibility is so low they might as well be blaming unicorns.
In Firefox: go to about:config and set dom.webnotifications.enabled to false.
I've purposely enabled them for my works slack, and they have been extremely convenient there.

I have intentionally denied them on every other website that asked, not many have asked.

I'm glad they exist. Currently they don't seem to be widely abused. If they become widely abused a "default to silently deny" policy would handle any user-hostility.
I tell my team I practice 'pee-modoro'
I accept them 0% of the time. Always on purpose. 100%. Yes I’ve never once seen a “allow notifications because some actual benefit”. It’s always just forced pop up with no elaboration of why I might actually care to give this permission. It’s usually also pops up the first time I visit a site. Why on earth do I want to sign up for the “new blog post” notifications before I even know if I like this blog. It actually immediately discredits your site in my opinion.

I can imagine a responsible implementation Like others are explaining here but have never seen it in the wild myself.
I would argue it's more important while biking. If someone cuts you off while you are in a car you can risk a collision but with the bike it doesn't help not being at fault while you are dead. So hearing cars is very helpful.

I try to bike with the assumption that nobody sees me and I have to be ready for anything. Same with a motorcycle. Always assume to not be seen and always be aware of your surroundings.
Sudoku solver in recursive CTE (Postgres)
> People subscribe to the studies sidechannel BECAUSE they want to try out new features

AFAIK, you are opted-in by default - I recently had to disable it on a clean installation.
I think you have that wrong, 90% of people fail at opening and operating restaurants.

Some folks have a very high success rate.

I think the failure rate I’d restaurants is more tied to the types of folks who open restaurants than the business model.
One of the most popular recordings of the 20th century was basically in tempo with the resting human heart, with just that intro.

"The Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd
Links seem to work well too.
this season was softer I felt, though still good
Are there any good introductory pieces on quantum computing? I feel like I've heard so much about the subject, yet have not found a good paper to read that outlines the essential concepts/topics involved with it.
The same way they did before social media became a thing, presumably. More pertinent is how you can now have a what’s considered a genuine friendship entirely by interacting with someone on fb.
The one point that might matter is if one thinks about how the US switched to being all rah rah after we went to war against Iraq for WMD as you describe and some pretty tenuous claims to a connection with terrorism. It does not seem to be outside the realm of possibility that it would not be beneath an unpopular government to use that as a motivation to make itself unassailable ( as in we're at war, it's unpatriotic to not support the flag/troops.)

A lot of evidence points to the official US entry into the shooting war in Vietnam after what appeared to be totally fictional attacks on the US Navy - because the president did not want to appear to be weak.

The other thing is the act of congress enabling the President to authorize force after 9/11 is almost unconditional if he/she just says terrorism. We should have rescinded that after Osama bin Ladin was killed.
Peephole: Predicting Network Performance Before Training
> apparently not a single person involved in shipping the extension had any concerns

You don't know this for a fact, do you? A lot of discussion goes on at companies that we don't always know about before a decision is made by someone holding a more senior position.
No, not scary and confusing. Users (meaning non-power-users, generally) aren't always stupid. (In fact, given how well they can break our stuff, I'd say they're often smarter. But I digress...)

What I'm saying is while we might be comfortable looking at plain HTML with #000 text on a #FFF background, a user isn't going to enjoy it very much.

While we might use ctrl+f to hop around a page, a user will probably prefer a search bar with instant results that doesn't cause them to lose their place on the page.

Consider: my mother (not picking on her!) definitely notices when websites run slowly. She hates it. (I got my lack of patience from her :-) However, I'm confident she would trade "slightly slow" Facebook for "have to refresh the page after each action" Facebook.
Is Secretive Virtual Reality Startup Magic Leap Dreaming Up the Future of Music?
At $8.5B, Shopping App Wish Worth More than Macy's, JC Penny Combined
Yes. Thats the one :) Thanks
I've had this experience a few times, when a friend has popped into mind and I looked them up only to find old posts eulogizing them. It adds an extra gut punch not being able to actually mourn with other people because you didn't find out in time.

The reality is that Facebook doesn't assume your Friends are your friends. It assumes you want to keep interacting with the same people you most recently interacted with. It also assumes you want to see things you're likely to Like or comment on. On the whole, this probably leads to them more reliably providing that dopamine hit when users check in, at the cost of being useful for actually staying in touch.
>> Even when you’re merely at the edge of this trap, your defect rates will be dominated by issues like double-free errors and malloc leaks. This is commonly the case in C/C++ programs of even low greenspunity.

Citation needed. In my dayjob developing a major game engine in C++, we spend zero time on double-free errors or malloc leaks.
Another thing they don't want on take off or landing is a bunch of dense wedge-like objects flying around in case of a fuck up.
We Might Be Eating Cactus in the Future
IIRC one solution is to use pressurized hydrogen gas pumped through a heat exchanger instead of explosive charges. That way, the pressures and temperatures involved can be controlled precisely.
If I may, I see a lot of ICOs now promoting pre-sale with some amount of coins locked in. So they might say - 20% of the coins are held for development team. Out of this, 5% (or 25% of the developer coins) are released each year.

Any ideas on how this is implemented?

And is there a way to change supply later?
On the other hand, I was in the process of moving over to using Firefox as my main browser, and this has me reconsidering that decision. Chrome is far from perfect (and chances are I'll move to Firefox or some fork anyway because the main process in Chrome keeps seemingly pegging one core [constant 20-25% CPU usage]), but they haven't made the obvious mistakes Firefox has (adding Pocket to the default browser, the handling of this extension) and I generally feel it stays more out of your way (probably a personal dislike of mine, but I wasn't fond of opening Add-on settings and it presenting a list of suggested stuff to install).
And indeed, perhaps they have manipulated NK to become just the threat that they need. Scary enough, but not very dangerous. Except to SK and Japan. And to China, which may in fact be the primary target.
I deny them 100% time. Almost all websites seem to ask them nowadays. However, very few websites seem to ask once I have denied it permanently.
Co-sleeping, where the child is in the same bed as the parents, is generally considered dangerous.

But I suspect you're biased, we have a baby that slept overnight (mostly) from seven months, but we have friends with a five year old who won't sleep for more than two hours at a time.

Some babies are easy, some are not. Just like they're people, really!
Because it was turned into an addon following the debacle, which was the correct move. If you're going to make jokes you could at least research the material?
There are a number of conspiracy theories floating around regarding the reasoning behind the war in Iraq and the role that US, UK, and Iran all played.
Spend the money on a mat to stand on. It makes a huge difference versus standing on a regular hard floor.
Another data point for 100% denial here, my gf authorized one for the local newspaper (she's also an avid newsletter subscriber)
a race-based correlation (like we controlled for class, and the discrepancy was still present)

Racism runs deep, doesn't it?
Searching for Good Neural Networks with Neuroevolution
> A good rule of thumb is to only ask for permission when the user interacts with your app. For example, I ask for permission when the user clicks a button with the text "Enable Push Notifications" on the user settings screen.

This is absolutely the right way to do it. A little unobtrusive in-page suggestion to enable notifications is not a problem; I've enabled them for Slack via such a notification, for instance. But I'm never going to grant a site notification permission if it pops up the browser permission dialog without interaction.
So the blaming starts... And like the Electric Six were chanting "... let's start a war, a nuclear war..."
I like keepassX, which is cross platform, offline, and simple to use.
It's possible to create a Facebook client using the API and get a feed the way you want?
China's Wild Bunch: Startup Investors Are Cashed Up Cowboys
100% of the time, with a single exception yesterday for an Apple support chat window I had open among a bunch of other ones on a laptop without an external screen. There are a few exceptions where thry’re worthwhile but it needs to be part of a focused experience.
Are you being penalized for having duplicate content on medium and your blog?

What is the disadvantage of writing more of a shorter 'teaser' story on medium to funnel traffic to your blog?

Is that what you do with twitter and and reddit (funnel to medium)?
That’s such a vague statement you could either be wildly wrong or mostly right. If you’re talking average profit margin, yes medications generally have higher, but electronics are fairly good margins generally too. If you’re talking market cap / overall market size, you definitely aren’t correct. Even the biggest pharmaceutical company pales in comparison to the electronics top three.
Balloon Wars: Part 16 of the Secret History of Silicon Valley (2010)
This "apology" is written by the CMO. Why is the CMO writing this apology? Why didn't it come from the CEO or the COO, the people actually responsible for shipping the product?
Having these kits evaluated and the DNA indexed is certainly valuable. Multiple kits revealing the same person is definitely valuable information for law enforcement.

But something this article ignores is that the DNA collected for a rape kit does not prove that a rape occurred. It proves that sexual intercourse occurred. In some cases, there will be evidence of physical injuries for a rape kit. The accusation, the nature of the evidence in the rape kit, other evidence, the likely credibility of the victim to the jury, etc. all need to be evaluated by the police and prosecutors in deciding whether to continue to pursue a case.

This part of the article really gets it wrong:

>Q: If you arrest someone for homicide, let's say the wrong person gets arrested, no one tries to convince the people there wasn't a homicide.

A: Right.

Q: They might say it was the wrong guy, or we can't find the person who did it, but no one says there wasn't a murder.

Actually, people do argue that there wasn't a murder. Not every killing is a murder, if it is in self-defense for example. Interestingly, I think the person being interviewed realizes this is not a very good argument, so they more or less ignore the reporter on this point. But the reporter is clearly not looking at this story critically.
Although not a FF derivative, I've been using Vivaldi for a while and do enjoy it. I hate not supporting an OSS browser though, but found even with the performance improvement in FF57, it still didn't compare to a Chromium based browser like Vivaldi. It's got a decently large userbase and could be a viable alternative.
> We quickly settled on Electron as a platform to build the app.

Ah yes, because when I want to play music, my first thought is, "doing it inside an entire web browser engine is the logical choice".

It's especially bad that they're comparing it to WinAmp. WinAmp was in part popular because it was extremely minimal and resource-light.

I'm so sick of electron apps. My battery hates them. My processor hates them. I hate them.

Maybe give cmus a try, which is almost the literal opposite of an electron app: https://cmus.github.io
I can't recall ever hearing anyone say they "hate Ruby".

Ruby is designed to make programmers happy.

Ruby and Rails are "boring" because they are mature and do their job extremely well, so the cutting-edge devs that helped get them there got bored and moved on to other newer ecosystems.

If you are more interested in getting the project done fast and efficiently and you don't mind doing it someone else's way, then RoR is a good choice.

If you like to do things your own way, then Rails will probably frustrate you because it is very opinionated on how things are done. You can override everything, but some people's personality is more suited for the node.js world that is far less of a framework and more of an ecosystem of libraries.

These are 2 popular posts that will help you figure out if RoR is a personality fit for you:

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/rails-is-omakase.htm...

https://medium.com/@timbuchwaldt/rails-is-boring-thats-great...
> North Korea has acted especially badly, largely unchecked, for more than a decade, which is false and a political swipe

You couldn't be more wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_border_incidents_invol...

They've tried to kill the South Korean president every chance they got, kidnap citizens to train spies, blew up civilian airplanes, killed an American soldier over a fucking tree near the DMZ, multiple tunnels underground for invasion discovered, Pueblo, shelled an island, sunk a frigate.

Yeah I'd say they are unchecked and have been acting bad ever since day 1. I mean the whole Korean War started because of that one fat fuck.
Both refactoring and GC.
BOOM!
FATALITY!
It's more likely something that they can use when they go to Congress begging for more budget than a pretext for war.
Pomodoro Cup ?
How Language Listings Could Widen Silicon Valley's Gender Divide
Perhaps it would set a good example if you stopped using any product or service developed with tax payer funds.
Indeed. I get that people are upset about this, and might even switch to Pale Moon/Waterfox/what have you, but those that switched to Chrome? Whatever your reasons for switching are, privacy really cannot be it.
Old mill town aims to become manufacturing center of human organs
I'm a big fan of Ada, and I dabble with it whenever I can. All of the features you mention are great about it; just be warned that there's not a whole lot of learning material online.
Beg your pardon but this suspiciously look like a way to (unwillingly) hijack the thread away from the Facebook algorithm by introducing a vaguely related subject many people care about too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15943176
Always deny except for Slack.

I don’t even enable notifications for most apps on my desktop or on my phone. There are enough distractions in modern life already.
Thanks for the additional information.

In any case, the claim that "no user data was collected or shared" is suspect.

Users who enabled the extension and visited NBC Universal's site (and others) were sending extra HTTP header data to the server, data that identified them as a Firefox user, of a specific version, who had a particular extension installed -- that's how the "engagement" worked.

Do you think the server(s) that handled these types of "special" requests were configured to specifically _not_ log the incoming traffic or extra headers?

Do you think that NBC Universal would spend the resources to build an elaborate[1] ARG focused on digital "engagement" with fans, form a relationship with Mozilla to promote the show and ARG to Firefox users, but also specifically _not_ collect data about those users?

It seems unlikely.

[1] https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Mr._Robot_AR...
0%, no exceptions.

Any website that asks for them gets immediately flagged as an entitled piece of s--t.
Why would anybody do something like this that installs unwanted software on millions of devices worldwide just to provide entertainment to a handful of fans of some television show most users, I suspect, haven't even heard about? I have difficulty believing that there was no payment; if there wasn't any payment, what exactly was Mozilla gaining from this?
Hire some folks from fiverr.
Yup, this is the more artistic stuff to me:

http://www.headphoneamp.co.kr/ftp/sijosae/Gallery/Circuit/Ci...

http://www.headphoneamp.co.kr/ftp/sijosae/Gallery/Circuit/Ci...

http://www.headphoneamp.co.kr/ftp/sijosae/Gallery/Circuit/Ci...

http://www.headphoneamp.co.kr/ftp/sijosae/Gallery/Circuit/Ci...

Under the "Circuit" heading.
If you code alone, use the best available which generally I assume people would say Ruby.

If you are intending to collaborate then python might be a better choice as its more popular.

Just a different take. Either one is great.
The extension is open source and free software, and did not violate your privacy. The bad thing about it was that it was unclear that it was so, which really indeed is bad communication, but let's not pretend that Mozilla is not a champion of privacy, open source and free software. It's just that they're not perfect, which is a shame, but that's it.
Moore's law is slowing because of the exponential increase in R&D and manufacturing costs to push to the next generation.
I like it that Nextcloud and protonmail have them. Other than that I find them extremely annoying. Its like a twitter friend request just to send you adds, I have never accepted any of them.
Or it could be that the Tories/NHS are trying to scrape some egg off their face for being so fucking stupid and cheap as to keep running XP.

The general public is a bit more forgiving when you're taken down by a nation state rather than a bunch of criminals preying on a deliberately unlocked door.

Microsoft, probably being mildly cognizant that you don't win new contracts by accusing lucrative customers of rank fucking idiocy especially when it's true, will naturally play along with the conspiracy theory, especially since the chances of strong evidence pointing to the actual culprits coming to light are so low.
"Kelly believed it was most likely that Iraq had retained some biological weapons after the end of inspections.[7] After the end of the ground war, he was invited to join the inspection team attempting to find any trace of weapons of mass destruction programmes and was apparently enthusiastic about resuming his work there. He made two attempted trips to Iraq. The first was on 19 May 2003 when he was prevented from entering Iraq from Kuwait because he did not have the proper documents.

The second trip was from 5 June 2003 to 11 June 2003 when Kelly went to view and photograph two alleged mobile weapons laboratories as a part of a third inspection team. Kelly was unhappy with the description of the trailers and spoke off the record to The Observer, which, on 15 June 2003, quoted "a British scientist and biological weapons expert, who has examined the trailers in Iraq." The expert said:

They are not mobile germ warfare laboratories.
You could not use them for making biological weapons.
They do not even look like them. They are exactly what
the Iraqis said they were – facilities for the
production of hydrogen gas to fill balloons.

It was confirmed in the Hutton Inquiry that Kelly was the source of this quote."

From:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)

See also: the 45 minute claim.
Confidence. I have two projects that I've been working on for years but always chicken out when it comes to actually putting them out there. Next year I'm going to learn how to dive in, be brave, and roll with the punches to hopefully gain much needed end user feedback.
<clever analogy to some CS concept. life is a computer. human is a machine. brain is a program. all is binary. 0010100101. why does the treadmill speed up the harder i run?>
More intriguing to me is how some people here are trying to claim this isn't North Korea, where it has all the markings of past North Korean cyberattacks and consistent with published findings about their specific departments tasked with the goal of raising money for Kim's private fund.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_39