skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but that's still incredibly relative to the rest of the world (assuming you're talking about America).

However liberal your locality, it's still hamstrung by a variety of state and federal laws that make building effective government systems much more challenging than in other developed nations.
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Facebook it a tool to sell you stuff..
There's only two industries that describe their customers as users: Software and drug dealers.
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> Some of this is purposefully done for a reason. You want people to be buying more eggs, milk and bread. Not Candy and Jelly.

Only it doesn't actually do that.

If someone has $5 from their job and $5 from the government and wants to buy $6 worth of bread and $4 worth of candy when you want them buying $10 worth of bread, saying they can only spend the government money on the bread changes nothing.

And is almost universally wrongheaded to begin with, because individuals know better than the government what they actually need. It's too easy to find the government telling a diabetic they can't buy a candy bar when they need it to avoid hypoglycemic shock.
The numbers were roughly based on aggregated values across all our current partner companies working with us. Most of these orgs have not imported their historical data either, however they all have added support for integrating their own custom auth services into Talk, as that whole layer is pluggable, hence you might get most of the users auto-added with low participation.

The ease of use of the moderation system as well might mean that more bad comments are pushed out of the system, making it full of more higher quality discussions.

One of the pillars of Coral is to provide lots of research to assist orgs develop community strategies[0], I'd suggest taking a look if you're interested!

[0]: http://guides.coralproject.net/
There are also a lot of authoritarians in the US and globally who thirst for war as a vehicle to consolidate their own power.
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Having had to learn PHP to work on some WordPress stuff, I can honestly say that I find PHP 5.6 and onward to be a competent, usable language. It has its quirks, but so does JavaScript. In fact, I'd say PHP and JavaScript are now close cousins. The array methods are a bit annoying, but you can definitely write effective, clean code in modern PHP.
With the right tax structures, it would end up focusing on giving money to lower income individuals. You have an increased progressive taxation structure such that for upper-middle income people the UBI is a wash (IE, someone making $100,000 a year is getting and additional $12,000 from UBI but paying $12,000 more than they would have before).

The reason why UBI works well is because it's a cash handout (like the other person said, you're not specifying the needs of the individual), it's a universal and not means tested program (you don't have to go through a bureaucratic maze every time you become eligible), and it's instantaneous for people who have sudden changes in fortune (IE, the income stream is already set up).
According to their website all data is encrypted. From what I understand it's transparent and does not require enabling via an option.
You can slingshot off of anything in any direction if you can compute your exit vector correctly. A couple of loops between the Earth and Moon and you could pick up enough speed to get anywhere you want.

The trouble is computing these trajectories is pretty tricky and if you get even one manouver wrong you crater or burn up in the atmosphere.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but by design block chain is also non-anonymous. So if you want to, say, give money to Donald Trump, everyone could know you gave money to Donald Trump.
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I feel your pain. Beautiful language with no real peers in that regard, as far as I can see.
>The fact that every comment is another "article" is bizarre.

And yet right here on Hacker News, submissions and replies are both just "items" and the UX is fantastic. It's not so much about the way they are represented as the way they are presented.
Quite a few Americans go to other countries to use their cheap/free healthcare:

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

Note that America is hardly unique in this respect and is both a destination and a source of such traffic.
I just add links to HN/reddit threads at the end of my posts. Simple and elegant solution.
Here's one where an armrest of a chair was swabbed at the police station.

https://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/8691418-How-surrept...
Don't do that. Comment section is great to build a community on your site.

There is a reason why sites including former popular news sites loose visitors and visitors stay less long on those sites without comment system.

Also sites like HN recently started to heavily moderate news and comments. Lot's of things get removed and hidden away from visitors, to enforce their world view. So it's better to don't feed monopolies like HN and Reddit.
I always deny them. I have only ever seen clickbait sites use them, and I do not trust them to not abuse the system.
I see some difference between a checklist for starting a nuclear (or as you pointed out, shrapnel) holocaust and contingency planning.
The what what? This whitepaper? https://lightning.network/#intro

Show me some working software or this is all hand-waving bullshit. That thing's dated 2015, so where's it at?
This is a good thing --an algorithm with up to a 30 error rate is unreliable. One hopes this scrutiny will lead to development of more dependable and trustworthy algorithms. Also hopeful politicians don't have the ability to tweak things in order to fit their agendas.

For example an algorithm is too good at detecting which gov't employee is stealing from the public. Or it tells them they should decrease fines in some area to get better results --but that would affect their budget adversely, etc.
Every byte is placed with purpose.
Although I’m for universal income, one of my concerns is how do you prevent companies from abusing it, and inflating prices even more.

Drugs and medical treatments in the US are already very expensive compared to the same in other countries. If everyone suddenly has an extra $1k/mo, why wouldn’t the drug companies increase their prices even more?

To me (as a European) it seems like a better option is universal healthcare, to at least make life critical medicine and treatments available to everyone, no matter their financial status.
They are useful IMHO, but I only allow 1 or 2.

Maybe one for emails and one for my chess games. All the rest denied.
I believe that. I'll bet mead, beer, and rum were more affordable.
I do this exact thing. And make jokes to my team about how I practice "beverage-driven development"
What, you don't want your crypto client to need multiple 8TB drives just to boot up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GTqoiH3FUk&feature=youtu.be
> when I read an article online and want to know what other people are saying about it, I have no easy & simple way to do so

Surprised no one else has pointed this out, but that was one of the original problems that Disqus was trying to solve. E.g.:

https://www.usv.com/blog/disqus
I use explicit instrumenting APIs to generate flamegraphs a lot - useful for a lot of niches in gamedev - where we care about individual frames exceeding their frame budget. Being able to capture several thousand frames worth of flame graphs and then being able to drill down into the individual outliers is absolutely killer in this context. Sampling profilers are great for getting a broad idea of where problems might be, but not nearly as good as instrumented options when you really want detail. For example:

- Finding where we checked a file for modification on the main thread every few seconds, to consider reloading resources, causing us a 5ms spike that would sometimes cause us to miss vsync.

- Spotting a framerate hitch caused by the main thread stalling out on a contested logging lock under some specific set of circumstances for a frame or two.

- Spotting frames where overly aggressive background jobs simply starved the main thread out of CPU cycles.

- Which specific subanimations of a set (complete with names because I'm using an explicit API that lets me annotate them) are causing our optimization code to exhibit O(scary) behavior.

There's nothing here that you couldn't eventually figure out and solve with a debugger and a sampling profiler, but instrumenting profilers - and profiler APIs that let you add your own annotations - make the job way easier in my experience.
I'd like to see the attribution data. Don't hold your breath.
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GitLab tries to include all tools in a single package, while this tool emphasizes on code management. It provides some tools making code browsing and navigation much easier for daily review purpose.
Here's a ppt deck covering a relevant overview of the subject.

https://medium.com/@_NicT_/quantum-machine-learning-c5ab31f6...
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What “development” are you referring to, exactly? The alternate indications in many cases are already well known (as they were in the referenced article).
I feel you. I really do. It's been a rough week for a lot of us :(
> cash balances would stay the same

You read the original comment differently than I did. I assumed some magical doubling, as if every dollar bill in someone's pocket duplicated itself.

If you want to play "What If?" I guess we need to figure out if we're magically erasing everyone's memory of their previous holdings. If not, the world would go a bit crazy. Journalists would report it, we'd learn about the existence of magic, etc. So, I guess we'll need to assume that the magic doubling also makes people forget what they had before.

Let's see ... there might be a bit of a wealth effect [0], but if we're saying people don't remember their old balances, would they really perceive themselves as wealthier? This question is just too nonsensical to really pursue. It could be a fun thought experiment, but it's hit the point where I'd rather get some work done instead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_effect
> Americans somehow decided spying and hacking is OK

I'm still trying to remember when I was asked of this would be OK.
Whatever the setting is for “don’t you EVER pop a browser-originated notification. Don’t even ASK.” in macOS, I have that turned on.
So you use Facebook, once to let everybody know you are no longer on Facebook.

I'm lucky in the sense that I made a FB account, tried it out for two weeks, realized it wasn't for me and then cancelled so I never got hooked. But I can see that once you are in it takes a bit more effort to get out. But being 'on Facebook' should not be a prerequisite for normal social interaction.
> you could probably count on one hand countries that would be better to be poor in

That's not true; I'm American but I have personally been to more countries where the poor are (much) better off, in terms of health care or just generally. For instance, Canada, Japan, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Portugal, Belgium... well shit, let's just call it "everywhere I've been but China and Mexico". And even those last two could go either way.
I find creating an easy path to get thing started helps a lot. Is same idea on how games get you keep coming back and continue playing. How you create it is based on what you think is easy
Maybe a non-issue for you. Less so for others it seems. :)
Classical case of 'what gets measured gets optimized'.
Note that RocksDB is also dual licensed under Apache 2.0 and GPLv2 [1]. I believe they added GPLv2 to make it compatible with MySQL for MyRocks, because the original Facebook+Patents license might not have been GPL compatible. Then when the Apache Foundation decided that Facebook+Patents wasn't compatible they switched it out for Apache 2.0 [2].

But that doesn't clarify much. Specifically your question about dependency licensing. RocksDB only depends on gflags (BSD licensed) and various compression library choices (allowing a choice of licenses). osquery seems to depend on a lot more libraries [3], so the likelihood of running into a licensing conflict seems a lot higher.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/db/db_impl.c...

[2] https://meshedinsights.com/2017/07/16/apache-bans-facebooks-...

[3] https://github.com/facebook/osquery/blob/master/tools/provis...
I have never accepted one. If I wanted to read something regularly, I’d bookmark it and revisit it. Or subscribe to the RSS feed if I wanted to keep up to date.

To me, it’s just as annoying as apps with notifications, or websites with pop ups about newsletters. All of these things are generally just things trying to add more noise into my life.

I value my quiet. Are you offering more value than my quiet?
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In October, Microsoft officially blamed North Korea[1], as did the UK government[2], neither of whom is trying to lay the groundwork for war.

[1] http://www.itv.com/news/2017-10-13/hacking-threat-is-as-seri...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/27/uk-north-korea-behind-wannac...
Exactly, it feels like you are now working for the clock. I do think if you can focus for more than 20, don’t break the momentum. Is better to take a bigger break after than to force a break.
I so wish I knew what that setting was. Guess I could’ve googled it in the time I’ve written this reply.
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There used to be the Trackback system that would allow someone to write blog post and "ping" the blog post they wrote the response to. I am not sure what happened to that system.
> Say osquery wanted to include a GPLv2 library. Could it?

The resulting combined work would have to be effectively GPLv2 licensed; as one would be forced to take the GPLv2 option on the AL2/GPL2 decision.

However, it would leave open the option of reusing osquery code under the AL2 license; if you had an AL2 project, and wanted to steal some code from osquery, you could use it under the AL2.
>> The amount of negative press this received nearly cancels out all the positive news from Quantum's release barely a month ago.

> I call complete and total BS on this.

Well it's the truth. Use "Google News" and search for Firefox. You will see much more news sites write about the fiasco last weekend then about a faster Firefox.

And guess what, rather rude comments came from employee trying to clean up by voting down comments hours too late. It's time to fire the responsible marketing manager/exec. Mozilla is setup as a non-profit org but acts like a unicorn startup, playing rich and flying in all employees every 6 months, that also happened on that very day, so the corporate drones couldn't response and clean up the outcry in time.
I didn't request anything. I merely stated some conditions under which I would feel inclined to pay for journalistic content. Nowhere did I say that anyone is obliged to create such conditions for me.

Just like I don't buy lucky charms because I don't like all the things in there. That doesn't mean I think they're depriving me of something to which I'm entitled. It just means they're not getting my money.
You're comparing the wrong thing, PayPal's market cap and Bitcoin's market cap represent different things. A more fair comparison would be payment volume, in which Bitcoin has done 15B in past 24hrs, whereas Paypal has done 100B in the last quarter.
so they're taking the Yelp approach....
Thanks for the intro. Very interesting!
I actually want Mozilla to succeed -- to be clear.

But there are reasons I use Firefox -- the extensions, as is also the case with many others.

And I find a bit of irony in a "worthless" extension being force-fed to us, the month after stable kills off its, well... "stable" of now "legacy" extensions.

An as for Mr. Robot, since that's the topic of the extension of in question, I imagine he wants, for his browser, to "have it his way."

Security, yeah. But not loss of his ability to filter, "firewall", or even -- gasp -- spoof, what gets sent up and down. Or what his user agent chooses to do with it.

So, less "cross-branding", and more API updates and enhancements, please.
I’ve never accepted a notification request for any site. The only sites it might be useful for to me, I already use a SSB (aka Mailplane) that’s built for that site, so no need.

In the same vein, I absolutely hate the “requests your current location” notifications too. There’s basically only one or two sites I’ve allowed it.
it is referred to as an 'add-on' 12 times in the blog post by the Mozilla executive
There is only one that I've ever accepted. It's from Remote Messages jailbreak app that let's send and receive SMSs & iMessages from your PC on the iPhone.
A couple of strategies have worked for teams I lead.

One is to simply let the system fester until it falls over due to the debt and causes a customer to complain loudly, or if you have a competent Product owner/manager with your team she recognizes the need to pay it off before it becomes an issue. This is useful in an environment where product or sales want to deliver more quickly than good engineering allows. Note: document what is tech debt and why it exists as you build features. Make it clear while the features are built that the speed of development is not sustainable and use your documentation as support. Keep metrics (e.g. profile your code) and document how to make them better. You should know what is and isn't tech debt in this scenario. Document it so that you cover your butts and demonstrate the willingness to help the team achieve it's product or sales goals while you demonstrate the technical proficiency that gives non-technical folks confidence in your team.

Another is to simply keep a well documented log of items that are recognized as technical debt after the fact. Along with this, document how paying the debt off benefits the business.

In both cases perhaps the most important thing is this: build relationships with product, engineering leadership and sales to have the social capital to be heard and allow your technical competence to carry sufficient weight for getting time to work on debt.
It required turning on via an about:config preference, the code on GitHub seems to have changed since then for the separately installed version.

If you look into the repo history you can see what it was doing before:

https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/21ff53d2d5baab591d2...
I'm also standing when working, however, my feet hurts if I'm wearing a wrong shoes that day.

Guess people who want to try out standing desk may also need pair of a good & soft running shoes.
I deny notification requests 100% of the time.
Datalog can do those kinds of queries--transitive closures--easily, if memory serves right.

Datalog is a specifically chosen subset of Prolog.
> Waterfox - dead

I never would have guessed. Browsing this thread and writing this comment in my sparkling brand new Waterfox 56.

> Pale Moon - Still alive [...] Slow to adopt new features
Slow or reluctant by design. A fork from way back before FF started dismantling its UI. Many new 'features' will never be adopted by Pale Moon.

Snark is fine, but please base it on fact.
Can you explain to this liberal American what is so wrong with North Korea having nuclear weapons?

I realize a lot of nasty bluster has been exchanged between the U.S. and N.K., but besides their post-occupation invasion of South Korea in 1948, are there tangible examples of N.K. military invasions or attacks on other nations since its founding?

N.K. is poor, vulnerable and under constant threat of destabilization by the West. In today's geopolitical landscape, the only way to defend against being "liberated" by the U.S., as Iraq or Libya was, is to have a nuclear weapon.

If you were N.K., wouldn't you do the same as an act of self-preservation?
I dont fully understand this statement -- I've reduced Facebook browsing 85% because of newsfeed changes in the past year (i only see a handful of people, and at times dont even see my wife's posts for some strange reason (NO she is NOT blocking me)).

How is it good for advertising that I dont use their product much anymore?
I allow for chat webapps and GCalendar, and deny for everything else, even email. I don't trust any other site not to abuse them, and even if I did, there isn't anything else that would warrant an immediate interruption.

Now, if you're looking for arguments whether or not you should implement them for a user-facing webapp based on a sampling of HN readers' behavior, my guess is we're not really all that representative. If you think any of your users might find them useful, go ahead and implement them.

One caveat, though: most (all?) random websites that want to give me notifications do so by just brazenly requesting permission from the browser. I would prefer if there was a link/button on the website itself that I could use to opt-in (which would trigger the permissions dialog). It just feels sketchy when random websites request notification access (or location access, for that matter), without first presenting me a case for why they want it.
Perhaps it would set a good example for you to donate all of your discretionary wealth to a health-services charity?

If you're talking about making it taxpayer funded instead, you should remember that all taxes are collected under threat of violence and imprisonment.
I tried to do this but I was told to stop by HN itself: https://comments.network/

Seriously thinking about giving it a spin, remove the parts that HN was not happy with and relaunch it.
sigh You're going to exploit my alpha geek to make me go look and prove I know how to do it, aren't you? :-)

System Preferences/Notifications/Safari. There's a None option. Then Safari/Preferences/Notifications/Uncheck "Allow websites to ask for permission..." IIRC, I've not seen any mention of notifications in Safari since.
What is that http://ohardt.us/download-gmail-mailbox URL where you're supposed to download your email ? Looks fishy, though the hostname doesn't even resolve so not sure what's going on.
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