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Facebook is not the internet, and Mr. Zuckerberg had literally _nothing to do with building any single piece of the entire internet_.

The story is about Facebook and Zuckerberg and the headline is misleading. More importantly, why are garbage stories from "journalists" who don't know the material they're writing about ending up on HN?
Here's my favorite metaphor to explain Chrome and Firefox.

So, imagine you have two cars to chose from.

The first car, called Chrome, is really cool - it's quick, it's nice, it's reliable, it's comfortable. There's just one thing.

There's a guy on the back seat. He's always there. He writes down wherever you're going. When you go shopping, he makes a copy of the receipt. When you drive with someone, he listens to the conversation and makes notes. Which addresses are you visiting? And how long time do you stay there? And when you make a phone call, he listens and makes notes.

He then keeps this information forever, and sells it to various people and companies. They study you, like a bug, to see what makes you tick. So they know what you like and what you want, and what you're afraid of and where are you in life and so on. So they can manipulate you better into not just buying shit, maybe, but maybe to do more sinister stuff, like manipulate elections.

Of course, the Chrome car makers own some of the important roads, and they make them hard to use in other cars, because they want this dude watching you.

Then there's the Firefox car. It might not be as comfortable or as quick. I think it is, but different people have different experience. But either way, there's no dude making notes. In fact, when there are dudes making notes by the side of the road, the car tries to hide you and protect you!

Or you can use the Safari car, if you get the more expensive garage I guess, whatever.

Why the fuck would anyone use the Chrome car.

EDIT: and the long term Firefox car dfivers say things like "they change how the car looks, might as well go to SpyCar." or "there was some pressure on CEO of FireCar making company for political stuff, might as well switch to SpyCar." And my mind just goes blank?

And the dude on the backseat laughs and laughs as he profiles them so he can manipulate them.
Sounds like you just worked with some incompetent IT departments. IE is still the only widely 'supported' browser in enterprise, but most places I've worked have allowed alternative browsers (any of them), even when they have not been willing to support their internal platforms on them. I can think of no rational basis to decide Chrome is supported but not Firefox.
Attempting another switch thanks to this post. Installed on desktop and all mobile devices, settings imported from Chrome, everything set up with Firefox Sync... we'll see how it goes.
You realize 401k programs at most companies are treated as a pool just like pension funds right?

The difference is politicians had domain over the pension funds and decided to "borrow" from them and make them insolvent. The workers are not the ones to blame, the politicians who thought using the pension funds as a piggy bank are. Stop blaming the workers. They didn't cause this problem, and they paid into those retirement funds.

The politicians who caused the problem are the ones who want you to blame the workers, stop being their patsy.
> When is the last time a letter was added or removed from the standard English alphabet?

To be a bit pedantic, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s you can still find newspaper articles in Google's archive that use back in the mid 1800s.
Right, but if the point is to increase liquidity, the low hanging fruit is mortgage backed purchases. Homeowners will often take a smaller offer price in favor of cash because the closing process is easier/more certain. So Zillow might be trying to arbitrage that price difference between cash and mortgage purchases. And if they can find a way to scoop up part of the loan origination fees and the broker fees in the process, than I guess there could be some compelling revenues there.
Not to be pedantic, but a vipassana retreat is a 10-day (though not always strictly 10) retreat. Vipassana is not itself a retreat but a method for seeing the nature of reality.
I've heard that Hacker News is considering banning paywalled domains from the front page, and undoing any rank given by users who post paywall content. Seems risky, but I dunno, it's pretty annoying to click on these things and get blocked.
> In the very article, it's noted that Roskam was the direct recipient of campaign contributions from Intuit and H&R Block.

The contribution from Intuit was $13 600 over 10 years. During that same period there was also $21 200 from individuals who worked for Intuit. If we count all of that as being Intuit, that's a total of $34 800 over 10 years. For H&R Block, it was $2 500.

If $3.7k/year is enough to buy a Congressman's vote, a handful of middle class people in the district should be able to get together and easily afford to counter that. For a group of 10 like minded people, that's only $31/month each.

I think people generally get the causality wrong on the relationship between campaign contributions and the positions or votes of the politician. The politicians don't set their positions based on campaign contributions. It's usually the other way around--the contributors chose where to place their contributions based on the known positions and past votes of the politician. If that is not known, they place contributions based on party, on the assumption that the politician is going to generally go along with the party.
That's my guess also. If they have details on the specific aspects in the specific markets that drives prices, being able to "jump on a deal" could work out well.

The question becomes if there are enough opportunities like that to move the needle for them.

If I had to guess, I would have guessed moving into Lending Tree's matchmaking area would be easier and have a better ROI.
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The thing with the FF was it did not support U2F tokens in Linux correctly when I tried it few months ago. U2F requires some "U2F addon" that is incompatible with Quantum.

This is a no-go for me as I have numerous websites secured with Yubikey and without this the browser is just "YT/Facebook viewer"...

As soon as this changes, I might give it another chance.

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EDIT: Oh, FFS I just tried to look it up again and found property "security.webauth.u2f" which seems to be false by default. After enabling it U2F works! Geez, why would you disable that id default -_-
If you read the Redfin 10k, they were doing this already as a service called "Redfin Now." I think it is interesting that two large data-driven pricing services are both pursuing this strategy. If you have better data, it might be possible to make money just on your pricing edge.
My understanding is that contract code is a "library" of sorts, that was imported or called by parity multisig wallets.
I tried Firefox on OS X but it maxes my CPU frequently, doing simple tasks like scrolling or loading small gifs on Reddit, slowing my system down significantly. I noticed my fans spinning much more frequently than Chrome. It appears to be linked to using scaled resolutions [0]. Until this is fixed, Chrome is significantly faster for me, which is disappointing because I like everything else about FF.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=default&id=...
The premise of the study is what you said (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....).

However, this studies falls short of demonstrating that "strongly", or the claim than sitting makes some part of your brain thinner.

When looking at the data, age is the most important contributing factor, but the authors do not perform any multivariate measurement of age vs physical activities vs sitting time. Maybe it's because they don't feel the need to since, and they state it:"As with total MTL thickness, physical activity was not associated with any of the subregional thicknesses."

By redoing this study, including a many more participants, across the country, actually measuring physical health parameters instead of simply doing a survey. I also think they should have used non-parametric tests. I don't believe, and they don't show any indication otherwise, that their sampled population had a normal distribution, was in sufficient numbers, and the some of the metrics were independent from each others.

Since their data set is available and rather simple, one can readily redo the tests and find out that the strongest relation is Age vs MTL, that Age vs Physical activities also correlates strongly, as does Age vs Sitting. Contrary to what the authors reported, sitting and activities also correlates... So yeah that's a bust!
I currently take naltrexone with buprenorphine for my depression. I highly recommend checking out low dose naltrexone, which is usually defined as a dose less than 5 mg. There has been a large surgre of interest in LDN on /r/nootropics and /r/depressionregimens in the past six months. Most people are trying it either for autoimmune diseases or to reverse opiate tolerance. The typical starting doses for LDN are around 1 mg

Before anyone says that I'm just getting high, you should know that I've been on 20+ different antidepressant treatments and none of them worked. That includes ketamine and rTMS. So it was a medication of last resort. My other options were basically electro convulsive therapy or deep brain stimulation.

There is an experimental antidepressant called ALKS 5461 that is composed of buprenorphine and samidorphan. The company who makes it (Alkermes) recently submitted a new drug request to the FDA, but it was denied because the FDA wants more studies on how ALKS 5461 compared to buprenorphine. Samidorphan has a similar method of action to naltrexone, and the dose of samidorphan is 2 mg, combined with 2 mg of buprenorphine. If the FDA would have approved it, it would have been released in 2019.
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Eh... "Taiwanese" is usually pretty well-understood to be Taiwanese Hokkien/Min, both in English and Mandarin Chinese (台语/台語/台湾话/臺灣話).
The payroll taxes are earmarked. Stop trying to steal them.
Ever since the Mr. Robot Looking Glass add-on marketing disaster I have decided to give Mozilla a few more years to get their shit together with Firefox. Something is seriously wrong at a company if something like that can happen.
Competition with its own customers too. Isn’t this a conflict of interest?
Zillow is not to be trusted they have power to manipulate the market prices with their zestimate. Not only that but they're ridiculous leads pricing they charge the agents ($250 for every time you fill out the contact me).
A low priced home isn’t always a mispriced listing. It could be a fucked up home that’s super beat up and no one wants to touch. Or a seller that wants to get out immediately.
If this is accepted and implemented, could someone explain how Ethereum is a decentralised cryptocurrency?
Personally, I have 5-6 'must-have addons' that keep me on Firefox, but they've all now been updated for the new API. The only perhaps outstanding breakage is add-ons that implement alternative tab bars (I use a couple to put the tab bar on the side) -- they still are somewhat limited in how they can customize the sidebar, and the add-on now has no interface to disable the default tab bar, so you need to do that yourself with userChrome.css. As I understand, add-on devs are working with FF to address this soon.
Especially as a web developer, I gave Firefox a second chance and tried to use it's FirefoxDeveloperEdition - but debugging JavaScript was so painful. It somehow felt so slow compare to Chrome's JS debugger.

Has anyone else felt this too?
Sounds pretty old-school to me :)

Note, I'm not attacking you! What you wrote used to be true. It just hasn't been anymore, for a long time.

And, an offtopic sidenote, you're one of my favourite HN commenters. I learn something new or insightful in half of your comments.
If they want to change history to help a privileged group of people, they should have a generalized mechanism and process for doing so. If I can prove I accidentally lost 1 ETH, let alone millions, I should be able to retrieve it via that same process.

I love Lord Vitalik as much as any ETH nerd, but the more he dictates to help his friends, the more it will hurt the ecosystem.
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Yep, I experience the same issue on a 2015 13" MBP. Appears to be an issue w/ FF and OS X scaled resolutions (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=default&id=...)
> "I've heard that Hacker News ..."

Would you elaborate on where and what you've heard? As of 3 days ago, the HN stance appears to be the same as it has been for years and as described in the FAQ.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16814341
The debate is mostly happening here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/8cdqi8/restore_co...

This change has no consensus like the DAO fix did, and the problem it fixes is both negligible and self inflicted.
> the hack happened because of a weak passphrase [...] Levy [expected] his private key would still be needed to access the wallet. But the wallet generation tool Levy used, developed by ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, had a critical flaw in that others could access the wallet just with the passphrase.

Neither gpg nor ssh keys work that way. Why would Vitalik design the etherium wallet key like that? The passphrase is the last line of defense against people who have managed to access to your system, it's not the first and only defense against remote attackers.
It's already pretty inaccurate today (overestimates by about 10%[0]), so there's not much change there. ;-)

[0]: Very rough estimate, may be market-specific.
It's not. The Ethereum foundation will continue to merge EIPs like this that benefit them and their cronies.

The whole ETH/ETC fork was because they messed up the DAO contract, which set a precedent for "code is law, except when it doesn't suit us".
With respect to your analogy: What of Chromium [with the right settings switched in the user's favour]?
It's not the first time Ethereum has hard-forked to roll back a sufficiently bad bug in a smart contract, and it probably won't be the last. They periodically do hard-forks for other reasons as well. Eventually they might declare it 1.0 and stop doing this, but that's not how it's managed today. At this point I think users accept this as a risk of using Ethereum. Of course anyone who doesn't like it is free to try to keep the old chain alive (indeed, Ethereum Classic is still a thing that exists).
re: "The thing that woke me up to my over-reliance on Chrome was when Google implemented an ad blocker directly into the browser."

So what ever happened to that anyway? Has anyone noticed any ad blocking?
I find that good programmers will voluntarily request reviews whether or not they are required by process, and bad programmers will attempt to minimize them even when required by process. Having a policy is a good way to weed out the bad people, and won't affect the good people.
Based on the `import bitcoin`, it looks like it is using this library: https://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools
Gee, good thing that whole entire hash is in the headline. Wouldn’t want to misrepresent that huge meaningless string of numbers and letters.
If no other group is calling at a similar level, then it's not reversion to the mean. The mean has actually been shifted downwards.

> Since there was also likely some underlying health condition, you would expect the between-year variance to be large. It might well be that their program has no effect whatsoever.

The rate dropped significantly each year from 2015 through 2017 -- 3 years in row. It's possible this is pure chance, but it seems rather unlikely.
This is interesting. Is the problem here a lack of skilled labor force to do so? I'm wondering what prevents the US from having vocational programs to teach American workers those skills and kickstart that kind of manufacturing again.
If you believe a system where people with more money get more votes to be fair.
I found this site useful for practice: http://aa9pw.com/morsecode
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Thanks,Joe!
I have to admit though that a few of the model faces were a bit featureless and hard to remember, so I mostly got those right by eliminating the other two faces in each group of three, because the wrong faces usually had prominent, memorable features.

The random noise made it harder, but if you squint and move your head around while looking at it, you can remove a lot of noise, it's a nice little "analog" trick for situations like that.

But 34%.. Do you think you suffer from prosopagnosia? Or was there something with the test that made it extra hard for you?
Why should we listen to you? Have you even tried to turn that stuff off in Chrome? What did you find out?
A more accurate statement will be "Nearly everything you can think of has already been done or will be done soon and since this is a zero-sum game, the expected profit in the long term from quant trading is approaching zero"
"The Internet" is a buzzword, a marketing term, and so it means whatever it's user wants it to mean, however:

Those of us who live and work on the internet, and who understand how a distributed decentralized network functions, are going to hear "Internet" and think "A decentralized computer network utilizing intelligent failover routing, TCP/IP, Ethernet and Fiber".

Applications, protocols, these things ARE NOT the Internet. Applications and protocols can function and exist with or without the internet. So you see they are separate things.

TCP/IP is not "The Internet". Ethernet is not "The Internet". The Internet is only the physical network that spans planet earth. It is the cables, the equipment, the public address space, and perhaps even the people who keep it all operational. _Nothing else is "The Internet"._

Here's the problem: I know this. Other network engineers know this. 99% of the population of the planet earth doesn't know this. We need to stop tolerating crap like clickbait journalism that declares "Facebook == The Internet". Those kinds of statements need to be shot down and destroyed immediately, all of the time, so that people will learn fact from fiction.
Interesting; I use the nightly build on my Pixel 2 XL and it seems just fine, almost on par with Chrome.
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I understand I must not be in the "most filers" camp. I still have to go through all the work to figure out if I should itemize or just take the standard deduction. The effort it takes me to do my taxes hasn't changed. I wonder how many people actually have a reduced effort vs how many save taxes?
What makes "mere hacking" different from true enlightenment?

Is it just the perspective of the one who has the experience? As Tim Leary said: The caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly.
On Mac at least, basic UI like hover highlighting is extremely slow. Obviously everyone's environment, use case, and experiences are different. For me, personally, Quantum is not even in the same league as Chrome or Safari.

(Also, for me, personally, I think downvoting people who have differing experiences is less than productive.)
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Note that MDMA releases a lot of dopamine and possibly oxytocin, too. The unique pleasure from the substance isn't solely attributable to the serotonin release.

Other serotonin-affecting substances like LSD also affect dopamine.
I think it is literal thickness since they report the results in units of millimeters. (eg figure 2)
Let's not forget there's a standard 6% commission in US real estate transactions

I never really understood this, the last time I sold a house in the UK the fee was 1.5% and only on my side, the buyer pays nothing.
The dirty secret is that cryptocurrency development isn't decentralised; whichever group gets to issue software updates to most users is in charge.
Serious, not at all snarky question:

It seems like the Ether devs will mess with the block chain anytime something happens. This seems like a terrible way to manage one of the unique coins in the crypto space.

With that said, aren’t they worried about the risk this conveys to oncomers? Wouldn’t anyone think twice if there’s going to be a fork anytime someone screws up a contract at large enough magnitude?
Can someone explain this in terms understandable to a software engineer with familiarity with cryptocurrency in general but no specific knowledge of ETH?
Depending on what the issue is you might want a quick fix right away which can sometimes be hacky and then put in a long-term fix that is code reviewed by others to make sure it’s the right solution.
As a general rule I agree. But in this case it demonstrates that Ether is run by people, not math. That is not what many people want.

And indeed, I treat it the same way I do scrip in video games. But until you take away the ability to "rebalance the economy", it will stay a video game.
Ironically, providing a means to reverse disasters is probably good for Etherum; it reduces the number of investors who leave because they've been burned.
I'd argue that Amazon has many different groups of customers.
The point of contention is "all people" or "some people".
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Smart contract has a bug that caused funds to be lost in an indefinite state. I understand the amount was +$300M but give the fall in value is may now be closer to $100M.
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I don't know about the US, but in the EU Parliament, lobbyists need to be registered and I think all their meetings with legislators are part of the public record (maybe not the content, but the fact?).
Is it time for a second ETC fork ?
I think the buttons and the forms could look much better.

Buttons - the hover effect is weird and messes with letter-spacing.

Forms - the focus style is just a colored border, not enough to set a field apart. Bulma does forms much better - https://bulma.io/documentation/form/general/
There are so many WSJ links posted recently and all of them are behind a pay wall. Shouldn’t Hacker News links be shared in the spirit of open information?
Which I think is BS for numerous reasons. A few being, the income tax is not how the federal government was supposed nor should be funded. We need appropriated funds and taxes, not a slush bucket that ebbs and flows. Also, states that want to use income taxes to take care of their citizens ought to have priority and not penalize them. Encouraging subunits to be responsible for their needs is a good thing. Decentralizing services is beneficial by design, even if not as efficient. The US is huge and the needs of the states are so diverse we should leave it to the states to address their own needs.
I think it is disabled by default because it doesn't work with the U2F sites that aren't standards compliant (e.g. Google, Facebook). It's one thing if you have to go in and enable the feature and find out it doesn't work everywhere, it is something else entirely to have the feature "randomly" working on some sites but not others.
True, I only looked up "added". Thanks for that detail. I know there are a couple of other letters that used to be common-ish but are no longer.
This sounds very interesting. I don't think I ever encountered Cybernetics in college nor in all these years as a professional software engineer. Any more resources apart from the linked pdf that you would recommend, perhaps tailored to someone with a CS background? (I'm reading through the pdf, just wanted to see if there were other treatments on this topic)
Additionally, writing a compiler really helps a team find their edge cases much faster. Without a major software undertaking for an immature language, most of those bugs would be found (and likely not reported) by users.

But yeah, there's a little vanity too.