skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Three practices set romance writers up for success: they welcome newcomers, they share competitive information and they ask advice from newbies.

That last one is interesting. People entering a field do so for a reason. It might just be to do a job and get paid, but it could also be because no one is making what they want. Newbies unconsciously represent gaps in the market where someone with better execution could make a killing.

Brb, got to dive beginner programming forums and look at the types of projects that are so pressing that someone is willing to learn how to program.
Bitcoin and All crytocurrency is nothing but Pyramid scheme!!!!!!
Mosquitoes can learn the association between mechanical shock and smells
Mozilla should fix no exit confirmation for Ctrl+Q. It's just too easy to close the browser this way, and extensions that offered this feature aren't working anymore.

It's really a problem in general, there is no way to make an extension that customizes browser behavior itself (rather than page behavior), since WebExtensions can't do that.
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hi, I just started a fake local news service

/s

sigh, everything is gamed
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It's really hard to make a living just by writing books. If you write non-fiction related to your day job they can be really powerful promotional tools. Book author still has cachet. But I'd be starving if my actual book sales (which are admittedly priced for maximum reach and not maximum revenue) had to pay the bills.
And thanks for responding ...

Heliocentrism isn't truth, it's opinion [that's my opinion, lol!!]. Einstein's relativity makes heliocentrism false in demanding that there is no aether and so no special points in space.

Science provides our understanding of a best current description of reality - the whole point of scientific endeavour is to demonstrate we were wrong and that our understanding/description was flawed.

Moreover it relies on maths, which is provably unable to verify it's own consistency and completeness.

Furthermore it's an axiomatic system that produces a probabilistic framework that gives us little to hang our conception of reality on [what I'm saying is our perception is not particularly informed by physical reality, we have to subdue our instinctive perceptions to work with what amounts to our best, most consistent, physics view of reality].

Science gives us as much truth as we can see in a well lit test-tube.
about:about shows that about:robots still works, at least
Mueller team interviewed Facebook staff in Russia probe: Wired
What's the definition of a startup here? SpaceX has been in business for more than 15 years now. That's 2 years before Facebook, and I don't think anyone considers FaceBook a startup at this point.
Good. This was complete protectionist BS.
Disguising a real gun as a toy sounds very similar to the famous example of unprotected speech of falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater. First, it is a type of falsehood. Second, it is likely to cause real harm. I would be surprised if disguising guns would be viewed as constitutionally protected speech.
I use both, ssh <host> "nsupdate -l". That way I don't trust nsupdates security model, yet I can still automate updates from any machine I choose.
"Turn right, go right. Well except every captain with his boat will tell you they will go left."

Is this really true of ships with steering wheels? I know those with a fixed rudder control do work opposite the desired direction.
This happened in the early 1960s, when it was legal to have both segregated bathrooms and unsegregated bathrooms, as the workplace pleased, and segregated bathrooms were more common.
And here I was thinking I have been a professional developer for last 2 decades. But since I only touched Outlook at the very beginning of my career and still use webmail rarely, I guess I was only fooling myself ;)
I too believe they are neglecting a significant user base. Thunderbird could be a rock star product for Mozilla with many times more users (if not revenue.) It is very useful now, but the potential is immense.

So why is it being neglected? There is some history here; way back when Netscape was a kitchen sink, factoring the mail client out of the browser was an important and successful decision. The mail part, Thunderbird, became persona non grata for some; it certainly lost the bulk of the mind share to the browser.

However, I think the ongoing indifference is because there isn't a workable business model. Firefox is an advertising platform from which Mozilla earns hundreds of millions. It isn't clear how Thunderbird is supposed to earn.
>but at least it has to be understandable

And then there is James Joyce :-)
You have to be able to explain this in a way that normal people are going to understand and care about. Whenever issues with cryptocurrency come up the true believers trip over themselves to post how it will all be solved if everyone just does this one additional thing nobody outside of the community understands, or if you just use this other cryptocurrency that solves this problem (but probably has other problems that are solved by this third cryptocurrency).
I wish IEEE would put up the whole interview. After all, I own the copyright on those words. I am making inquiries about it.

Rather than reply individually to the misimpressions of my work on this Reddit page, let me refer anyone who wants the true picture of my software deliveries, design variations and former ambitions, to
hyperland.com/HTbrew-D11

Or you might look directly at two of my productions, Cosmicbook (2003, with Ian Heath)
xanadu.com/cosmicbook
with visible links between pages-- you can make them too--
and
OpenXanadu (2014, with Nicholas Levin).
xanadu.com/xanademos/MoeJusteOrigins.html
showing transclusions (origins) only, no links. See above paper for further explanation.

I am not a programmer, but a designer-director of software (like Doug Engelbart and Steve Jobs, but with far fewer resources). Every delivery is a negotiated reduction of a vision against resources, technical restrictions, and time. (Not to mention misunderstandings and disagreements.) It's like directing movies, but with more options, more gotchas and less fun.

I am proud of the working stuff I've delivered and grateful to those collaborators, and I haven't given up yet.
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Not sure a spoiler alert serves any purpose if I have no idea what work is being spoiled until I read it.
FWIW, all my libraries work with both CUDA and OpenCL.

While I agree with your sentiment, unfortunately Nvidia is the only vendor that pays considerable number of people to develop the ecosystem. AMD basically says "get lost" by refusing to put more than a handful of people on the job of providing OpenCL libraries. And, BTW, they change their minds every few years. I hope that HIP won't be abandonware...
The semiology of such a graphic, Mr. Ouch symbol, may be adequate, but its utility and practicality is severely lacking. Imagine if you were to put instructions together to be able to reproduce Mr. Ouch; or, imagine if you were a construction worker trying to follow instructions to mark this logo on a hazardous surface -- Simplicity and reproducibility are the hallmarks of an optimal graphic symbol. Mr. Ouch fails at this. Furthermore, rather subjectively, Mr. Ouch does not convey sophistication nor a professional aesthetic -- it looks like someone made this up using Clipart, and it does not convey a sense of seriousness and an authoritative tone.
I thought the gaining philosophy here was to make "destructive" operations easy to undo, rather than having warnings and confirmations before carrying them out?

Quitting Firefox and then starting again and restoring all tabs fits well with easy to undo.
I think it's grounded in fact rather than rhetoric. Here's some more context on that school shooting stat. The fact that there's been an average of 1 a week since 2013 is, I believe, exceptional in international terms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/kentucky-school-shooti...
The worst-case scenario of losing access to your personal wallet is pretty bad, too.
Why is "Statistics" called "Machine Learning" ? $$hype$$
Air Force One Needs New Refrigerators. They Cost $24M – Defense One
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Over 100 Million XRP ( Ripple ) worth 130 Million USD was also allegedly stolen.

Source:

Here's the original tweet from Bloomberg Tech Reporter in Toyko, Yuji Nakamura. https://twitter.com/ynakamura56/status/956790270036619265

Tweet In English:

> Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck halts withdrawals, deposits, trading in NEM. Rumors is a big chunk was moved from their wallet. Also seems >$130m of XRP moved out too. I called Coincheck, but they wouldn't answer questions and asked me to email them

Here's the actual Ripple XRP Transaction that is moving the 101-ish Million XRP out of the Coincheck account. https://xrpcharts.ripple.com/#/transactions/FC32DBF1C0CE6780...

Here's a news page / story that is following this and updating it frequently. It mentions that XRP was also stolen in addition to NEM. https://bitpinas.com/news/coincheck-suspends-nem-trading-rum...
I don't see how it can undo everything, if you'll lose data in the process. Not every open page is static and some can have user input and what not. Exiting the browser will wipe it all out, and restarting it isn't going to help.

So confirmation for Ctrl+Q is a must, there is no question about it. And if you don't want it - they can make an option that can turn it off.
You are right and I'm an idiot.

I got introduced to them the other way around and didn't fact check. Sorry about that.
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Apparently I'm the only one who doesn't mind ctrl-b as the prefix.
You'd really classify this article as even-handed?

>I’d say the lives of young men can be improved more through loving attachment than through Peterson’s joyless and graceless calls to self-sacrifice.

One of the many asinine misrepresentations littered throughout this hit-piece; the entire point of Mr. Peterson's work is to allow people to experience joyful, meaningful life, instead of living in abject misery.

Besides, what kind of activities creating "loving attachment" among men, or women for that matter? Voluntarily associations of like-minded individuals working together towards a common-goal; an expression of their ability to get things done will earn not only the respect of others but, more importantly, themselves.
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And who will abitrate the collateral? While it's smart wallets and crypto currency it can be enforced by cryptographic proof but when the collateral is USD then it's going to have to exist somewhere.
I just did. I agree. And I cannot because I have a mac.
We have mechanisms to stop people from doing this and arguably they should be used. I can't set up a donation table with the Red Cross symbol or the Disney logo.
Too bad that symbol has recently come to mean "contains a multitude of fidget spinners"
and about:robots
This is silly: lots of Amiga computers are still around, the Amiga community knew about these images for years. They didn't do due diligence and studied previous/related/existing works.
This is so ignorant.
> ... one of the most requested features has been the ability to hide tabs with the WebExtensions API. It was a key element of some very popular legacy add-ons ...

It's weird that they are not mentioning Tree Style Tabs by name. But, at least they're listening the the user requests.

I don't use the plugin myself, but I heard that one of the gripes of the new WebExtensions version is that it still shows the normal horizontal tabs.
Ojai used to be that way when I was growing up. Normal summer night could see so much.
So you're saying Jordan Peterson is a deeply honest classical liberal trying his best to work his way to truth and inspiring millions of people of all sorts of political outlooks to improve their own lives?
> To better support mouse gestures, browserSettings.contextMenuShowEvent() has been added in this version. This new API can be set to “mouseup” or “mousedown” by extensions to determine when context menus should be shown.

Looking forward to using FireGestures in Linux again.
> 1. Don't use wordpress, you'll catch a virus.

For security I would much rather use WordPress than any other open-source CMS. There are hundreds of people around the world trying to find security holes in the core CMS every single day and any ones that are found are quickly patched. There is a reason it's used by many enterprise users.

From https://wordpress.org/about/security/ :

> The WordPress Security Team is made up of approximately 50 experts including lead developers and security researchers — about half are employees of Automattic (makers of WordPress.com, the earliest and largest WordPress hosting platform on the web), and a number work in the web security field. The team consults with well-known and trusted security researchers and hosting companies.

(Disclaimer: I work for Automattic on WooCommerce)
They mention tab groups. Mozilla, why do you play with my feelings?
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PHP pays most of my bills, too. Used to write a lot of Perl, too, but that's fallen by the wayside. I'm integrating more Python and Node.js, but the lion's share is still PHP.
It would seem like the likeliest scenario for a future dark age is neighboring towns (or tribes, I suppose) tell tales about how everyone who goes into area X eventually dies not long after.

Every few generations some brave, ballsy kid shrugs off these old wives tales, goes and camps out in area X, and gets ill and dies not long after. The legends endure... at some cost.

Of course, it depends how strong the radioactivity/toxicity is. If it leads to cancer 30 years down the road, and no immediate signs, then it gets a lot messier.
Incredible huh, it's also due to the acceleration of technology. If you wanted to do this in, say the 1970's, you'd have to hire someone to follow each car. With video cameras with good enough resolution you can start recording things, but someone would still have to watch them, or review the recordings manually. Now, computers can read licence plates and recognizes individuals from their faces, they can have eyes (cameras) everywhere and they don't need sleep. And Petabytes of storage are affordable.

Was it DHS that had drones constantly recording Cleveland from the air, and if something happens they can just rewind the footage to see who, where they came from, etc? (Also being used in warzones, IIRC)
So you use AWS for their hosting and want to stay in their "world", fine. I don't use AWS for hosting either and my equivalent of 12 health checks ends up being $33 which gets over the $100 figure I mentioned earlier.

If it genuinely takes you an hour a month to maintain your own setup, I guess your logic makes sense but for me it doesn't.

You've also basically admitted its alot less than 1k domains.

If I hosted with AWS, it would massively inflate my hosting costs as well. Lol.
I was once at a reading by a famous writer, don't remember the name. When asked what the secret was to be a bestselling author he asked people to take a close look at the word "bestseller". There is a reason why it's not called "bestwriter".
The female price of male pleasure
For those curious: CRS-7 was a resupply mission for the ISS, had a bunch of miscellaneous cargo on it (a bunch of food, experiments, etc.) Nothing too important as far as I can tell. 99% American/European/Japanese supplies. And a single thing for the Russians: a wrench :)

Amos-6 was an Israeli communications satellite that would've provided satellite internet over Europe and Africa.
I commented this on Ars. It got downvoted so many times that it's now hidden on the website. Also I was accused of being a Russian bot several times.

``Just because the US intelligence community gets attribution details in 2014 doesn't mean they didn't fake the attribution for the 2016 DNC hack. That's like me registering an account with your username on some site and posting stuff with it - many digital "fingerprints" can be faked. Readers of Ars should know this.

Also, the author's claim that the US intelligence community attributed the DNC hack is dubious. James Clapper did, and he threw around a debunked "17 intelligence agencies" slogan[0], but the man's a retired partisan[1]. Recall that the DNC would not let the FBI do actual forensics on their hacked server[2] - well, there's one intelligence agency that didn't get a chance to make an attribution. Recall too that the Crowdstrike's hack report claims were debunked by the Ukranian army[3] & authenticity of the C&C software was questioned by many in the cyber security community[4].

[0] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/07/06/clapper_c...

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/lawmakers-re...

[2] http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/05/09/the_fbi_i...

[3] https://www.voanews.com/a/cyber-firm-rewrites-part-disputed-...

[4] http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-smoking-gun-for-russian-dnc-... ``
If you ask them to cover insurance for 6 months, they will probably do it given the circumstances. Health insurance is usually the most negotiable thing.

Beside that, just accept that you no longer work there and look at them just like you would look at any other company. Can you offer them something that would help them?

A good thing to offer is that, once they rebuild the team/hire new people, you can help them get up to speed. It is not confrontational, it focuses on something positive for the company too making them think about better days, and you are not committing to anything in the short term (and you probably won't have to do anything in the long term either).
Because this way you have a public ledger that can't be mutated without notifying the public. Not everything that blockchain gives is for the trust distributed use case. For that fact, proof of work is the only thing that is purely there because bitcoin's blockchain needs a distributed trust system.
It'd be nice if they mentioned how much the position pays.
Altitude and humidity definitely play a factor in the seeing clarity. There's a reason the really big telescopes are built on top of mountains. The thinner the air, the less atmospheric distortion. The current favorite location for observatories is the Atacama Desert in Chile. Extremely high altitude and humidity in the 0%-1% range. I'd guess only Hubble gets better views.

Sea level beach locations are horrible for imaging with the ocean mist and humidity. However, visually, watching the stars rise/sink into the horizon of the ocean is one of my favorite sites for just watching. The power of ocean waves and the enormous sky just helps put into perspective our place in the universe.
As of July 2016 Bloomberg estimated that AirBnB had 2.3 million listings[1]. At just 0.2% of their entire listing base, culling 5k bad ones from time to time seems pretty reasonable.

But more to the point, this was the original comment I'm responding to:

>They need to address the issues around people leaving flats empty after people leave and turning them into permanent AirBNBs instead of renting out room to people who actually live there.

If the NIMBYs weren't allowed to have a strangle-hold on supply, then it wouldn't be a problem for the wider market if some property owners turn their units into AirBnBs.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-11/airbnb-fa...
I do the same thing (pointing a Route53 entry to my IP) with a script that runs on a Raspberry Pi in my living room. Very happy with the setup, though Cox changes my address so infrequently that it's almost unnecessary. In the name of sharing a python implementation, or maybe just shameless self-promotion, here's mine: https://github.com/benrad/pydydns
> unfortunately Nvidia is the only vendor that pays considerable number of people to develop the ecosystem. AMD basically says "get lost" by refusing to put more than a handful of people on the job of providing OpenCL libraries.

Vulkan itself is developed and supported well, and it already can be used for compute as far as I know. But apparently there are some features that come from the OpenCL world that need to be filled in. It wouldn't be AMD's exclusive effort. So hopefully things will start moving.
Microsoft's MVP threatens users with persecution for disabling Windows Update
Perfect! First time seeing this, I would be recommending this next time. I often get this same question.
And zero mention of AMD support.
There is a distinction between those two statements - firing white men in and of itself increases "diversity" by adjusting the gender and racial balance of employees, but hiring black people does not increase average productivity unless you believe that all black people are lazy.

That is, the first statement does not require the assumption that all, or even many, white men are bigoted in order to make sense, and the mention of race and gender is directly relevant. (It would also be true that firing white men at random would accomplish the same goal; the meme author is trying to say, why don't we fire the bigoted subset of this group, because we want to fire bigots anyway.)

I think it's a defensible position to believe that the statement isn't acceptable anyway - but I don't think the two statements are analogous by any means.
>Are you making an "intent is irrelevant" argument about speech outside the workplace?

I am accounting for the fact that people of different backgrounds interpret statements differently.

>What if the speaker cares about expressing frustration about bigotry?

It is simple to express frustration about bigotry without using bigoted language.

>Do they have to get your sign off on how to express it?

They can do whatever they like, but if they act like a bigot, don't be surprised when they get labeled as one.

>they have to choose between expressing anger about it or participating in a constructive dialogue about ending it

Stop putting words in my mouth so that you can defend bigotry.

They are free to express their anger any way they wish. However, if they way they choose is to be a bigot, then they will be called a bigot.
Seems reasonable to not mention a specific one by name so as not to play favorites going forward if someone else wants to make a competitor. Or maybe a Grid Style Tabs, or who knows what.

I imagine it's the same tone they use for discussion of adblocker related features, "we need this for content blocking addons" rather than "we need this to support uBlock Origin."

Hiding the top tabs can be done in current versions but you have to go digging through settings folders and set up a css file with some rules. There's also a built-in header on the sidebar than can be hidden by similar means. Hopefully they'll also let us hide that header (it lets you switch to other sidebar views like Bookmarks and History that I don't want to use in the sidebar) so I can avoid the css setup in the future.

https://i.imgur.com/mMlrU1n.png
Something that drives me nuts is how stateful about:config options are. If you set them once, either through about:config or using a user.js, they will stay like that forever unless you explicitly unset them.
This is insane. Face tracking, body scanners, license plate tracking, TSA, cameras on every city street corner, militarization of the police, citizens united, allowing police to force blood tests on DUI suspects, search warrants via text messages, police confiscation of property with no guilty verdict...

In just my short 35 years in America the bill of rights are being steadily eroded.

It feels like it would be super easy to get an truly authoritarian president in office who is able to lift term limits and assert control over the press and the America we know and love is no more.

If you truly want to fund one organization the ACLU is the biggest one in my opinion. Without a free America everything else falls like dominoes