skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you experience a bug like that, report it!

People's mental model (Chrome fast, lean; Firefox slow, bloated) seem to really not update quickly. When Chrome hangs it's "That's weird, something must be broken, the website sucks" when it's Firefox "Well further proof the Firefox is terrible".

For the record, my 2012 MBA, which is probably weaker than your Lenovo, has no issues with Firefox at all.
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That assumes $800 a day. If the OP is a student, whoever is hiring him is probably expecting to pay closer to $200 a day. But they should also probably assume it's going to take a student 4x longer to finish the project (if ever), so it probably comes out to about the same price either way.
Actually there is or was a WacomTabletPlugin for Firefox at least, but I have no idea about the state of that.

In any case, as soon as Qt (with support for threading), eigen3, exiv2, fftw3, expat, fontconfig, freetype, gmic, gsl, iconv, ilmbase, libjpeg, lcms2, libraw, opencolorio, openexr, libpng, poppler, pyqt, python, sip, libtiff, vc and zlib can be built using one of the compile-to-javascript whatevers, we can take a look.

I expect it'll be some time...
I’m not sure what problem you see OpenGL solving.
Not surprised at all. Anecdote:

A friend and I used to run a website that tracked activist short sellers and their campaigns, and published all that information as a nice centralized database basically.

Hedge funds were, by far, the most interested in this - which was surprising to us, our original target audiences were auditors and legal firms. My impression from this experience is that the more successful hedge funds are just mass-ingesting data from everywhere they can, and somehow trying to make sense of it.

It's totally an arms race too: Once one of them is ingesting data from a new source, everyone else has to start doing it as well lest they fall behind. It was significantly easier to convince new clients once we had a few clients already (very much like the FOMO people speak about when fundraising).
There seems to be a copy of one of the technology releases here:

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2625-apple-sk8

I haven't downloaded it and looked at it.

One of the slides at that URL has Dave Yost's Clint Eastwood fillColor displayed in it. :-)

I think you can run it as long as you have a PPC machine. Perhaps one of the Mac OS emulators that emulates the PPC could do it, too, if you had the ROM files.

In case you're not familiar with ROM files, the old Mac OS, before OSX, was not really an operating system in the usual sense; it was really a large subroutine library, the bulk of which was burned into ROMs in Apple hardware. Emulators for the old Mac OS need to have working copies of the contents of those ROMs in order to run the Mac OS. ROM files are a little bit inconvenient to come by unless you have an old working Mac and a tool for copying the ROMs.

Way back in 2004 I proposed an open-source project to build a new SK8-like environment, and even got buy-in from some of the original developers and users of SK8. Then I got terribly sick and didn't work on anything at all for a couple of years. When I finally began to work again, it was with a lot less energy and ambition than I'd had before.
CEO of Bulletproof Coffee shares why he left Silicon Valley and moved to Canada
Well, it doesn't in theory, but it does in practice. Natural phenomena are only fractal over a certain range of scales. Outside that range they follow normal rules.
Those who do the most (productive) research often don't seek any fees, because most of them don't accept outside capital :)
yep, apparently (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-50936)
Setting goals is (really) crucial for every business
Why would people building cross-platform guis care who funds the work?
This doesn't run afoul of my understanding of the EMH. I would expect an equilibrium for the stock market to be when the amount of trading by well informed individuals is such that the marginal cost of another hour of research is equal to the marginal benefit of another hour of research. Not: when the marginal benefit of another hour of research is zero.
Don't know where you live, but in some country rail are include in the city... When I was Young I was using that track as shortcut and this was way too Dangerous. If you want live you use your brain and stop telling other to take responsibility from your own mistake.

There's too many pedestrians involved in car crash, even if many country are agressive with speedup, most of the time these pedestrians was wrong. Same case apply for autonomous vehicule
I have no idea about presskithero... But we can't just use a closed platform for our stuff. As for the first question: we, obviously, use Krita for icons, headers, banners and screenshots, but that's just because we're making Krita. It's not what Krita is made for :-)

And don't even think of trying to make mockups for whole websites in Krita!
How revolting, between nitwits who voted for Hillary purely because she was a woman and nitwits that dismiss votes against Hillary as purely a masculine act of defiance towards women in positions of power -- I don't know what's worse. Clearly some people are only capable of reducing others to arbitrary superficial qualities inferred from their own prejudices.

Is it really beyond your comprehension that someone would judge Hillary based on the quality of her character rather than her gender?
>Who said I live in MA?

Statistics/stereotyping said so. If I guess that every New Englander on HN is from MA and lives east of 495 I'll be right far more often than if I pick some other place in New England.

>There are still days that it stays at home and the trucks and SUVs come out because the snow depth is above the bumper.

I've lived in all three of the northern New England states and currently live in MA because money is more important than happiness right now.

I was kind of looking forward to telling someone from MA that you don't need more than AWD car amounts of ground clearance on roads that never get more than 5" of snow between plows. Even in northern New England it's very rare for there to accumulate more than 6" of snow on public roads except maybe a few days a year and even then only in the most rural areas.
> I studied math and didn't see a number larger than 10 after I got my BSc.

Presumably you were not a kid anymore at that time. The OP was mentioning about how easy is for kids to acquire/improve their maths skills if counting is made easier by the language itself. That probably doesn't correlate that well with those kids' academic performances 15 or 20 years later, but that was not the point.
Maybe to understand the making of a language, it's the subject of this paper.

And « There are hundred of wiki engines and hundred of languages! Why yet another wiki and another language nobody will ever want to use? »

Here some elements to begin an answer:

A wiki[1] is a web application which allows collaborative modification, extension, or deletion of its content and structure. Following the first wiki created in 1995 by Ward Cunningham hundred of wikis have moved us from simple consumers to creators of shared informations. The best known of wikis is Wikipedia, full of rich documented pages written by authors supposed to be neither web designers nor coders. Wikis come generally with rather rudimentary and heterogeneous syntaxes to enter, enrich and structure texts. At the lowest level documents are created using HTML & CSS syntaxes. But writing HTML/CSS code being rather complex and at least tiresome, intermediate syntaxes, for instance Markdown syntax, have been created to make things a little bit easier. Everything works well but the code quickly becomes rather obfuscated, difficult to write, read, edit and maintain. In fact, the Markdown syntax is not intended for writing rich documents.

Works have been done to build enhanced syntaxes, true languages, in order to unify authoring, styling and coding, for instance CURL, LML, Scribble, SXML, LAML, Pollen ... But these tools are definitively devoted to coders, not to web designers and even less to authors, making difficult - if not impossible - a true collaborative work. Hence the {lambda way} project!

More on that in http://lambdaway.free.fr/
But that would actually be very surprising!
> I don't care why Apple's interests are aligned with mine, as long as they are. When it comes to corporations, dealing with one whose bottom line is aligned with my interest is exactly what I want.

Agreed! I have no problem with that either, and I think it's great when it happens!

> Also, Apple is not 'pretending' to care about privacy. While they have had some embarrassing bugs, they do put privacy as a high priority. Many speculate that Apple is behind in the assistant category because of privacy concerns.

Just because you don't like the fact that they are pretending, doesn't make it untrue. I'm sure that to a certain degree they do care about privacy, but when push comes to shove, they choose money over privacy. They have the ability to design systems with privacy inherent in them, yet they choose not to.
Even if you ignore possible asteroid impacts, there's no telling what kind of issues having red dwarf star & its brown dwarf companion so close can create.
Short answer: It depends.

More useful answer: It is the market expectation that salaried employees devote their work-related efforts to the benefit of their employer. This issue is work-related, even if not related to your job description; your consideration for best efforts for fixing it is your salary.

If your employer wants to be extra special nice, they may decide to award a discretionary bonus. This will be calculated against your normal pay, in line with other discretionary bonuses [0], and not ordinarily on the incremental business value contributed by your discovery.

[0] At US companies in the tech industry there is wide discretion in these with the lower end being 0, the lower end of plausible being "Here is a gift card for $20 at Applebee's", the mid-range in the tech industry being ~$1k, and the upper range being "AppAmaGooFaceSoft can be quite generous when they want to be."

Broadly speaking if you want variable comp you generally have to be taking on substantially more risk that W-2 employees normally take. If you were a consultant who successfully sold an engagement with the same outcome, you might well be able to negotiate $50k or $100k for the outcome.

There exists substantial variability in work cultures around the world with regards to this question; I know of no geography which is more likely to award a bonus than the US and many which are materially less likely. There exists substantial variability between industries (with finance and sales-oriented professions being most likely to pay directly for an outcome) and within industries.
Paid it off just now. Thanks for the advice!
I'm curious as well - I have a really hard time getting videos to work on linux.
1. Agreed, private action is not enough, public (political) action (as happened in the EU) is needed in addition.

2. Having said that, spreading the awareness of this problem (as people are doing with this hashtag/campaign) is a good thing.

3. Maybe you can't avoid being in some database, but you can be in fewer databases with less information, and make it harder to aggregate all the information about you.

4. What do you suggest, resigned fatalism? Of course, you can do something. Avoid Google products, avoid Facebook, use a VPN, avoid tracking cookies, etc. - there's a ton you can do. Use different emails for different purposes, for example.

5. If enough people start caring about this, then companies will (have to) take note.
How is this even a security issue? This wasn't a "breach", right? This is just Facebook pleading with CA to not do naughty things with their data, and CA refusing.
How is this better than using a string? (Actual piece of string, not text).
These people don't have to be very old at all, actually. I've seen plenty of young people start acting like this at a company after working there only a year or two.

That being said, if it is an older person doing this, then it can be difficult to let them go without it appearing to be due to age discrimination.

But I've seen enough layoffs to know that for a lot of companies, it's all about saving money by getting rid of these people, not about their performance, at least every time I've seen it happen.

I've even been told directly in a layoff it was because I was one of the higher paid people in the company (it was a game studio, so I still wasn't being paid all that much). I guess I was old for someone in the game industry, since most people start fresh out of school and burn out of the industry in less than five years.

My manager got laid off as well, who was in his 60s, did excellent at his job, and had tons of amazing experience (I wish I worked on even just one of the cool games he was lead on), but it was definitely because he was one of the highest paid people there (if not the highest), not because of anything else.
Adding guns probably doesn’t increase crime rate. It does the mass murder rate. It is precisely gun crime that I abhor. Thus I'm opposed to their availability.
You can. That doesn't change the fact that they did not ask your permission to scrape your personal data from your personal website. They are many other sites that will do the same. Facebook profile seems to be safer option than personal website if you look at it from the angle of data privacy.
You can't walk down the street wearing invisibility cloak in real life. Likewise, you can't have a rich digital life without leaving some of your data here and there. Maybe scraping personal data should be illegal.
You can do what codecov does; They keep updating the same comment with the latest result.
Thanks, very good point. Initially I thought that shorter the better for URL, but since it doesn't have to be entered then it makes sense to make it a bit longer to be unguessable (and for sake of completeness, the port is randomly decided at each run).
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I'm torn on the question of dye - not so much for my hair (where a braid to the middle of my back is more likely a concern than silver temples) but for my beard which has by now turned mostly white.

I'm half wishing I'd grown it out and bleached the last few bits this past winter to start establishing as a part-time Santa. "No, it's white because I'm also a volunteer Santa during the season."
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Doesn't that exist already? I'm happily using 1Password with Firefox.
This is reporting not analysis.

It's representing the views of people who have quit facebook over Cambridge Analytica and explaining why they did it.

Writing your take on the article is probably in the works and probably takes a lot more time than 2-3 days. Reporting on something is what newspapers mainly do. Analysis and opinion usually comes later and from other sources.
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Absolutely. You got to think: "what am I getting out of this; is it really worth it?". Maybe you'll then realize that it's best to keep your data out of somebody else's computer.
Notifications are the most frequent offenders, in my experience, and it's followed by the Location one. It seems to me that they'll provide four individual settings one for each permission in order to optionally globally disable the relative one. I don't think it's going to be one button to kill them all though. I'll disable cam, mic and notifications, but I do share my location to some websites very occasionally.
Yes, they are different from English. In English you say "one herd of cattle", "two herds of cattle", and so on. You just need to know a plural of "herd" and the regular numbers.

In Japanese the numbers themselves depend on the counter. You can't say "one day", "two days", "three days". You can only say "one day (ichinichi)", "foobar (futsuka)", "bazbar (mikka)", and so on. And this counting system is used pretty much only for days. Except similar words to "foo" and "baz" here are also used to count some things. But not the others.

Also the rules of combining a numeral and the counter are very inconsistent. Here's my implementation of Japanese counters, suffices to say the English version would be like 5 lines of code:

https://github.com/tshatrov/ichiran/blob/master/dict-counter...

And here's the pronounciation generator for so called "regular" numbers.

https://github.com/tshatrov/ichiran/blob/master/numbers.lisp...

I.e. 1000 = issen (ichi+sen) 3000 = sanzen (san + sen), 800 = happyaku (hachi + hyaku).
The best part of the "great American melting pot" for me is the fusion of cuisines. Trying to knock a restaurant or food because it isn't "authentic" is completely missing the beauty of the different combinations of flavors and styles that arise. Texans know the difference between Mexican and Tex Mex, and can enjoy both without having to act like one is superior.

By the way if you've never had brisket chili I highly recommend it.
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From hacked client to 0day discovery
Is this contention mostly taken care of by out of order execution and hyperthreaidng? These topics aren't mentioned in the article (or I missed them).
Zoom seems to have compatibility and works well.
Came here to comment exactly this. The expression on the face is expressing all the wrong messages about the service.
There is a lot of debate between efficient and inefficient market theories. Most hedge funds would ascribe to the inefficient market theory and so it is not surprising they are eating up public data.
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My guess is that the Oort Cloud is where the mothership turned off its interstellar drive.
In 20 years we're all going to be laughing at how barbaric and abusive all these forced arbitration clauses were.
Ex-CEO. He cashed out already, so he can say whatever he wants.
There is no end. I suspect multi generational data to be endlessly more nasty.

We do have other approaches. That I can obtain your employment contract, take your picture as you walk in and out of buildings and when you visit the beach, figure out your birth day and who you hang out with...

...doesn't mean I'm allowed to or freely share/sell every detail of your life.

We could for example create a license or permit for gathering a type of data. Like: If you are a dating agency you can ask for peoples sex. If you are a head hunter you may gather data on employment history. If you have a taxi service you can ask for peoples address.

We could also adopt a government issued key for things like signing petitions.

Where the data is stored could also be subject to regulation. Its possible to keep access logs with specific justification for each bit of sensitive information accessed.
I go by what the Constitution means. It’s meaning changes from person to person. And from era to era. I don’t feel bound to interpret it according to how the founders would interpret it.

The second amendment means to me something different from what it means to you. As I’ve said all along In these threads, fight for your rights. Advocate for your position. I will fight to change public perception.
As tempting as it is, I don't see it as useful to compare Socrates' Athens to any of our modern nations. IMO this is what's wonderful and exasperating about Plato: all of his arguments are based on a bulletproof ideal, a mental concept, that he himself never actually finds in real life. First principles, I guess, to reason from. In several of his dialogues, when Socrates himself is pressed to locate these ideals in real life, he has to recourse to myth or folklore. This doesn't invalidate them, in my opinion; but it's an important context for discussion. I guess what I'm saying is, it's a thought experiment; presumably even Socrates' Athens is not actually Socrates' Athens.

I guess as I sit here writing and thinking these thoughts, I'm coming to see it as actually kind of a strength. If, like Robert Kegan [0], we see identification with abstract systems (like laws, principles, constitutions, etc) as developmentally more sophisticated than identification merely with tribes, then like him we can also see it as still more developmentally sophisticated to learn not to restrict one's identity to a tightly-defined set of abstract principles; we can hopefully learn to adapt our identity to our circumstances with best intentions and a lightness of spirit. I think Plato's Socrates, with the occasional recourse to myth and folklore, is a pretty inspiring example of this.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan
It's not that difficult. The names are different but they "make sense". It's like 'fifteen', 'sixteen' and 'seventeen' stretched up to 100. Different names, but the pattern is sort of obvious with a few exceptions here and there.
From what I've been able to gather, teens prefer creating "ephemeral" less-curated content in favour of throwing up "permanent" posts to Facebook (for all/too many to see) until it's past its use by date. So in a sense, they may or may not be more conscious of being seen by their parents who are mostly tech-savvy (compared to past generations anyway).

So if what I just wrote is somewhat true, the commonality between Cambridge Analytica and teens preferring Snapchat to Facebook is actually privacy or lack thereof (perceived or otherwise).

As for mass exodus - Hotmail, MySpace, Flickr, Yahoo... Where does one draw the line - is Facebook invincible?

I believe that more people care about privacy than they themselves realise. It's only a question of how much it'll take for patience to be tested. Keep in mind that easy-technology (the iPhone) has only been around for hardly more than 10 years; a lot of "non-geeky" people are still learning the ropes of how to balance their digital and physical lives.

Also don't forget that this is only one piece of bad news that Facebook has had of late. We're still wondering how useful online advertising really is, and how often it's gamed by ad click-fraud, etc. Aside from that, I can't comment on where FB's share price might be at any future point from now; not that I should even care.

Edit: With reference to big companies and which ones can eventually fail, I recommend reading Benjamin Graham's "The Intelligent Investor".
I think the difference is that wearing a new suit and having a shaved face signals that one cares enough to make the effort to appear neat. Dying ones hear (with a natural color) however is a modification of one's appearance that one whishes to remain unnoticed.

Not that I think looking neat is super important (my own appearance is just one step above "hobo") but it feels acceptable to me that some jobs require it because it correlates with other personality traits which are important like self-discipline and not being a "precious snowflake" for example.
It's not clear whether there is, in fact, any obvious or easy improvement on what the US has already. If there was it'd likely have happened already. I mean, I live in the UK which has outright banned handguns and doesn't consider self-defense justification for gun ownership, but that won't fly in the US - it's unconstitutional and goes against the principles the country was founded on, and it'd require an lot more trust in your police force and a much less rural population - and probably wouldn't be enough to satisfy gun control supporters anyway.

Surely the burden for coming up with a reasonable, sensible gun control proposal should be on the people who're insisting we could have one if it wasn't for the pesky NRA and their gun nut supporters?