skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can still get HDMI capture cards as the more popular streamers use them so their main computer is unencumbered with video mixing.

Most video cards these days have built in support for capturing video and encoding it on the fly in hardware, with a <5% impact to performance. This wouldn’t work for these guys as its probably a feature enabled by the driver.
Tip for Android users:

Fennec F-droid.

Firefox wants to be (a less evil) Chrome, which is great for the 90% but that leaves the rest of us scrambling. No I don't need my browser to support DRM in order to watch Netflix ffs...

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
This guy sounds like the stereotypical "rockstar" developer. These types create endless drama and ruin team dynamics by insisting that everything be done their way due to their supposed brilliance. The situation you're in now is exhibit A. Expect more of the same at every turn from here on out.

Also, food for thought: if nobody can review his code, what evidence of his "greatness" exists other than his saying so?
Yes, wholesale broadband rates are dirt cheap and falling like a rock forever because of improvements in technology.

What you pay for for broadband in the home is:
1) last mile connection (expensive to install)
2) bribes (sorry, "franchise fees")
3) advertising to maintain the illusion of competition
4) customer support to help you deal with your anger and cancel/activate you when you switch between various shitty providers to maintain the illusion of competition
It is possible to choose the loans. The default rate for for profit colleges is high, but you don’t need to buy those loans.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-looming-student-loan-...
I don't think Meltdown depends on eager (both-branch) speculative execution.

I think you are being overly gentle responding to this flaw in the explanation. Not only does the bug not depend on both-branch speculative execution, I don't think there even exist any x64 processors that do both-branch speculative execution.

I'm almost certain that all modern Intel x64 processors do branch-prediction and speculatively execute only the branch that they predict as most likely. If that guess is later proved wrong, they throw away the executed but not-yet-retired instructions and execute the correct path.

Am I wrong about this?
Shortest path was something we were thinking of implementing, but yes, we didn't have an immediate need for it so we didn't. The main complexity is switching between different IJK coordinate systems across different icosahedron faces.

If you only need to know the hex grid distance between the hexagons, but not the actual path, there's a quicker algorithm looking for a common parent between the hexagons (but can have unpredictable slower paths when the hexagons don't share the same base cell, and might have to fall back to an A* algo in that case, anyways).

I don't know what exactly they mean by "joins" elsewhere. We usually use it as a hash index, but the index has a gosper-like curve so b-tree indexes work on it, too, for particular use-cases, and you can also use the parent-child operations (just some bit twiddling) to get approximate area joining super cheap, too.
Raw being something like `var x : int | str`, and anonymous like `var x = rand() ? 1 : ''` (where int|str is inferred)? Or do you mean something else?
If reality had conformed the rate of homeownership in The US wouldn't have been declining since 2008: https://imgur.com/a/O2uF8
Exactly. While it isn't ideal for your personal development as a human being to always hang out and live with people who confirm your unconscious biases, at least there it's somewhat understandable and isn't the end of the world. But allowing your unconscious biases to influence hiring decisions is disastrous for diversity.
We already have modern math, ZF or ZFC set theory and model theory.

What advantage does this offer?

What disadvantage of ZF or ZFC does it address?
Uber’s Payment to a Hacker, and the Fallout
Software is generally a lot more complex these days, and telemetry data is needed to stay competitive and keep improving.

Using Firefox as an example, look at how many improvements they have made over the last 5 years. I'm not here to argue whether we need these feature or if Firefox 2 was the last version of Firefox that we needed. Firefox (or Chrome, or whatever) wouldn't look as great as it does today without lots of data.
It's not just the ability to learn and use.

Language learning does not stop when one becomes proficient in it. You keep learning new usage patterns, all the corner cases and nasty surprised and start to remember libraries and their features. You become gradually better and faster in the language you use. After decade or so you can become really good.

For a really experienced programmer there is a drop in productivity even if they are able to learn and use language better than more junior programmers.
Isn't it already a common knowledge when someone says "the Fed prints money", they're flipping digits in their computers and not actually printing paper bills?

The Fed doesn't print the paper bills anyways. The Treasury does it.
Not all languages are created equal.
> Indeed. I wonder how they can get anything done. (Other than posting on HN itself, that is)

It's very straightforward. I allow javascript on the sites that I trust to run javascript - in a protected environment. There are tons of ways to do this.

I see how long other's computers take to render simple pages, and I just shake my head.
Ask HN: As a dev (not investor) which crypto$$$ are you most enthusiastic about?
Well, there is Synthesis OS [1] where the kernel can rewrite itself on the fly to provide synthesized system calls (think of a specialized `read()` call that can return a file line-by-line for just a simple example). But even that is (was?) almost 30 years ago.

[1] http://valerieaurora.org/synthesis/SynthesisOS/
Wholeheartedly agree.

Make the process a conversation rather than an interview. Get to meet the person, have lunch with them, talk about what motivates them and what they're passionate about, discuss tech stuff, and at some point during that hour or two both you and them will have an idea whether you want to turn it into a steady relationship. :)

I like to add a code review stage to the mix, where we show them a small chunk of intentionally badly written code that might come up during a code review, which has both obvious and more obscure issues related to syntax, clarity, efficiency, etc., and you judge how they approach it and what issues they bring up. I've found this to be quite a useful metric that mostly replicates a real world scenario, but in a more comfortable setting than asking them to write code on a whiteboard.

And you try your hardest to block any biases for/against them you might have when making your decision.
Write Python and be happy. Writing in uncommon languages maybe looks nice in paper performance terms but it has higher costs of maintenance and hiring over the long term. Assume the 'great programmer' falls under a bus or gets a better offer at another company, how hard will it be to deal with all that legacy code?
Blaming is the least productive thing when it comes to these things. Maybe the developer wrote that at midnight after a long day of work, and at that time it sounded like a good solution...
Firefox is not transparent enough? Their privacy policy is pretty straightforward and there's a ton more technical details on the wiki.
Magic SysRq key
Sometimes the situation might be:
1. Choose what the less gifted team members are comfortable with and everyone might produce.
2. Let the gifted ones rule, they might do great things, but everyone else are not producing.

You might say that the gifted ones belong in another team, but as we know reality bites...
I have only one modest proposal: No. More. Whiteboard interviews!!
People disabling telemetry will often be the same ones complaining about "poorly written applications and company X should know better". Well they don't because you disabled telemetry, now the company or organization has no data to improve anything, be it performance, crashes or even UI. Bug reports are not enough.

This is the sort of argument that gets thrown around often, and I disagree completely --- data collection should always be opt-in, not opt-out. Normalising the invasion of privacy and subverting the default expectation thereof is harmful to individual freedom.

Respect the users: let them tell you what they want, when they want, and how they want. Don't paternalistically monitor them or tell them what they should/"really" want.
> Let's disable Javascript too while we are at it.

That happened a few years ago.
> You have a "great programmer" on the team that keeps on creating stuff that the others can't review or contribute to unless something more common is enforced.

What good are they, then? If the decision to use Python has already been made and acted on then a mediocre Python programmer who can actually commit would be more useful that a genius whose code is useless to the project.
Alternatively, you could skip the hegemony debate and just abandon natural languages altogether...

http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd...
Seems like a fairly safe investment since even bankruptcy doesn't take care of them... Until the Government will have to forgive all of those loans...
Wouldn't the deflationary economy only discourage investment in the least value-producing economic activity?
Radical dimensions
Just because it's not obvious to the user, doesn't mean it's not going towards bug fixes and other improvements.
Maybe my view is warped because I don't work for an SV startup, but I would consider anyone with less than 5-10 years "entry level". I rarely see job ads for anything except interns/entry level and "senior engineers". Someone with 3-5 years of experience probably has some job security but definitely doesn't count as "senior" in my mind.
Add-ons perhaps? Does Brave support those?
> That's not quite fair. There are people motivated by truth and there are also people motivated by ideology.

I wasn't singling out anyone in particular just the whole 'deflation is the debil' theory.
Automation tools are enabling Washington D.C. to publish its laws much faster
Ask HN: what is the best Hacker News client for iPad?
I am trying some from Apple Store, but I did not find a really good one.
it's very hard to completely anonymize data... companies have so much data nowadays that they can de-anonymize it more easily.
s/specs/PoCs/

Write one.
I wonder why lakes aren't salty?

It's clear why rivers and lakes that eventually empty into the ocean are fresh. Rainwater washes the salt downstream to its ultimate destination.

But many lakes do not have an outlet that leads to the sea. Water flows in and evaporates. Where does the salt go in that case?

Or is it possible that the article doesn't tell the full story, and that salty rocks are confined to a limited number of areas?
Wow... you guys are jaded as hell. Annoyed by stickers, annoyed by synthesizers, annoyed by stuffed cats. Sure, downvote away, but still...
bathwater.baby = false
That actually seems like a rather higher bar than /we/ have to deal with. Image, auditory, touch and taste data come in on distinct signal paths before going to higher-level feature processing.
JavaScript is Eating the Blockchain
Some of us are assholes though and don't really care about helping you out with making money. No offense intended.
Ya that's one of those hard things to balance.
O2 and H2O are both too heavy to escape earth.

Earth loses few kilograms of hydrogen and tens of grams helium per second to space.
I don't completely disable javascript but I use uMatrix... it seems like a good middle ground...
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Ai chat bot made with batch
Amiga floppy collection of cracking group Bamiga Sector One to be archived
It also seems like a natural way to solve problems when your entire economy rides on a recession cycle.

Loans loans loans, recession, loans loans loans, recession.
MS-DOS wasn't that great. Oh, don't get me wrong, it's great at being a singer user, non-reentrant interrupt handler on a painful to program architecture [1]. A lot of applications skipped using device drivers entirely for things like the keyboard, video and serial I/O (using such made the program run more slowly).

Do you know how much work it was to redirect the input/output of an MS-DOS application? It can get pretty insane [2].

[1] You had to pick a memory model to compile against for one thing---tiny, small, medium, compact, large or huge. You had to deal with FAR and NEAR pointers, and it really drove home the point that sizeof(int) != sizeof(long) != sizeof(void *) when writing C on that system.

[2] http://boston.conman.org/2015/12/13.1 More info here: https://github.com/spc476/NaNoGenMo-2015
Please remember to set the evil bit properly when you do.
Georgia resident shoots postal carrier, claiming revenge against Union government for battlefield death of great-great-great-grandfather
It's not really clear to me how this differs from Firefox for Android. Removes some DRM? Anything else?
Diet Coke Rebrands
I like your view as it's progressive. I think you're right to imply that the current state of crypto is a mere glimpse of better and more mainstream things to come.
Perhaps we could at least say it's not novel/new?

What grabs the attention is isn't so much the procedure or technology itself, but the narrative that we're in a future where this kind of thing might be genuinely useful to somebody someday.
Out of curiosity...what are the other langs and what is the business you're in? Python is a great language for a lot of uses, but obviously not everything.
Location is pretty useless. It is based on what address your ISP has in most cases.
Make Your Productivity Great Again
Really? He helped get the first comprehensive tax reform in almost 40 years. That's the exact definition of effective.
You're on a website that functions by social interaction validated through votes of other people.
It's also possible that he's now the richest person ever (not accounting for inflation), so it's a good time to write an article about such an individual. There are probably a bunch of similar articles on Bill Gates from his tenure.
How to hack a pc the ethical way
You can't get 80% of anyone to do anything.
Would have not gotten the backlash it's getting if the author was a bit modest and titled the repo:

"How to get rid of FireFox features you don't need", or something like that.

Security is an important issue, but as someone who thinks WebRTC is the only missing piece of the puzzle that could help bring true decentralization to the Web, I think bashing on WebRTC just because of its security issue is short sighted. (Not to mention a couple other features mentioned on there)

But if you're so paranoid about security that you're going to disable WebSockets, I think web browser is not the only thing you need to worry about. There are ton more attack vectors and hackers can hack in no matter how you get rid of these "FireFox bullshit" to increase security. After all, most hacking nowadays is based on social engineering.

One thing I agree though is "Pocket Integration" IS a bullshit.
Most lakes have an outlet. The US great lakes for example all share a river that's also the source of Niagara Falls.

On top of that, some lakes do get salty. Such as the 'salt lake' near Salt Lake City.
Right order of magnitude. There's 1.33×10^9 km^3 water in the ocean. .510×10^9 km^2 surface area on the earth. .292 of the surface is land. If I did the math right that's about 29,000 feet.
> Normally, water that has accrued in a drainage basin eventually flows out through rivers or streams on the Earth's surface or by underground diffusion through permeable rock, ultimately ending up in the oceans. However, in an endorheic basin, rain (or other precipitation) that falls within it does not flow out but may only leave the drainage system by evaporation and seepage. The bottom of such a basin is typically occupied by a salt lake or salt pan.

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

It turns out that they are salty. They are often not as salty as the ocean though because oceans have been getting saltier for millions of years.
I added an exception and read the page I received. A single author describes changes he made to his Firefox options from 29 onward. There is no plural "they", and, to my understanding, the information is not current.

Should this information become inaccessible because certs weren't paid for?
People are tuned to communicate their emotions really well. Reading what humans are naturally evolved to constantly broadcast about themselves to others doesn't really take such sophisticated sentiment analysis to read into.
You send them data. Now they have your IP. You don't know if it gets deleted.
You manage to selectively quote the worst offenders in the filing while also ignoring the more benign comments (incl. one that called out Breitbart as being pro-Nazi, which I would hope you would agree that they are trash).

You also ignore the selective censorship of usernames going on, when he could've censored all the names to ignore igniting any potential witch hunts. Can you provide an explanation for this? He could've shown the pattern without putting other people at risk.
The problem with the US Social Security trust fund is that it's misnamed. It should be called the giant equity stash that the US Government can convert to bonds and borrow against. The fund should be flush with cash, however, that'd be fibbing. It would be flush with cash, if it weren't borrowed against for other things in one form or another. For example, the GW, Reagan, and Clinton used this to their benefit. src: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/politics/at-heart-of-socia... Given that these were bonds, the payments will come due back to the trust fund in one form or another....I'd suspect financed with more debt.
You forgot the last step, which is to respond to every link posted on Hacker News, regardless of what it's about, with a complaint about how the site doesn't function correctly with your unique browser config.
Time scale. Lakes are static bodies of water for a few thousand to a million years at a time before some flood or glacier or whatnot flushes them out to the ocean. The ocean stores the accumulated salts of 4.7 billion years of surface rocks.
Some lakes are salty. The Dead Sea and the Caspian, for example.

But many lakes do not have an outlet that leads to the sea. Water flows in and evaporates. Where does the salt go in that case?

It sticks around. The terminal lakes which aren't salty are generally ones which only formed recently (e.g., after the most recent glaciation) or ones which are not fed by rivers (e.g., Oregon's Crater Lake).
> I found the ubiquitous "BABY ON BOARD" signs far more annoying.

The little customizable families with tall stick figures for adults and tiny stick figures for kids and stick figure cats/dogs drive me utterly insane, for some reason.
This is pretty impressive. Powershell has been pretty slow for a lot of my uses lately. The author said this took ~30 secs. How long would a similar script take in Python? They're both slow on the language performance spectrum, but I bet Python would be significantly faster if anyone is less lazy than me to actually write some code.
Halfway there, then.
Hands-On with the ZEISS VR ONE Connect Headset – CES 2018
If we as a society would stop buying cheap food

While voting with your wallet and trying to be a conscientious consumer is great, the asymmetry between ad=hoc networks of consumers pursuing smarter more sustainable choices and people who are directly invested in selling crap fora quick buck is huge. Since the large industrial concerns can spend a fortune on advertising and demand creation how exactly are you going to 'force their hand'? So far evidence suggests they often just create an additional line of healthier-seeming products at a higher price point that can be marketed to your demographic segment.
> for most people it’s fear-mongering about nothing

To be fair, a core argument in favor of Firefox is essentially fear-mongering about google and your personal data. It always struck me as odd that actions many people would call "shady" if google does it are condoned in FF because Mozilla.
Are your sure it's just software? I work in the aerospace field, where we hire pretty much ever kind of engineer there is. The hiring process looks pretty similar to me for all engineering disciplines.
It takes more CPU and battery to compress the video than to leave it raw. So sending a lossless or semi lossless version of the video should theoretically work.
Worse Than Useless: Financial Surveillance
> You buy the computer when you need the computer.

But this isn't a general rule for other goods and services so they have to devalue the currency to encourage people to not save? Because monetary inflation is basically a tax on savers.

> In a deflationary economy that $180k loan at 3% would have a real interest rate closer to 5%.

Which is why they would adjust the interest rate to take deflation into account.

I can see this argument in today's economy since inflation is built into everyone's calculations and borrowers would be hurt if they couldn't rely on inflationary pressure to adjust the interest rate downward but that doesn't prove that deflation is inherently bad, only that people are capable of long-term economic calculation.
Sure, if you can find talent that’s willing to do that.

But trying to convince someone who has a cushy day job at a more developed company is going to be way harder without great severence packages.
Memory holing is easier now than in the book.
The magic of iOS was in its design and human interface components. That Apple was able to turn OS X so quickly into iOS by reusing all the low level components shows us how little is happening in that space ATM.
> It's been sustainable to this point

You aren't serious, right? We are literally in the midst of the 6th great mass extinction in the history of the planet due directly to human population.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-s...

The ecosystem is literally being crushed under the masses of humanity. 75% of flying insects are gone.

http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-insect-population-fly...

Bird populations are massively down.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/report-fi...

Human beings are being literally infused with hundred of industrial chemicals that we saturate the environment with - and have no idea how they are effecting us.

https://www.forbes.com/2010/01/21/toxic-chemicals-bpa-lifest...

Runoff from the massive farming operations required to keep so many billions alive is causing hypoxia in our waterways, further destroying our planet.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/deadzone.html

This doesn't even touch on the other ways human overpopulation is destroying the habitability of our planet (global warming, deforestation, massive islands of plastic and garbage growing in our seas). You have to be incredibly uniformed or truly delusional if you don't understand that we are massively overpopulated.
Because the editor think it aids the agenda of the paper.
I hope no one listens to such misanthropic suggestions. But at least you're being honest with the implications of your philosophy.
Interesting historical fact: The salinity of the Earth's oceans was proposed as a clock for measuring the Earth's age by Halley in 1715. This method ultimately arrived at ages around 50 million years (it didn't account for salt losses due to tectonic activity) and was one of the major stepping stones towards establishing public confidence in the idea of an "old" Earth.
Why People Hate ISPs
Actually, it wasn't done. Every one of his Earth Conduction attempts ended up a spectacular failure.
Some people don't want to have children - this will of course lead to the entire human race shrivelling up into a crisp and going extinct! Reductio-ad-absurdum for the Lose!