skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Made a jump to Firefox as primary browser on macOS this month. My setup involves heavy use of the new containers feature and a tree-style vertical tab panel, which AFAIK is unique to Firefox and offers neat visual browsing history.

Extension rundown:

— kesselborn’s Conex, a Spotlight-like quick container switcher/tab finder. It’s set to auto-hide tabs not in the current container, and I use it to routinely create one-off containers for specific tasks

— piro’s Tree Style Tab, with a workaround setting to make it play well with Conex and a couple of custom styling rules

— MarsCat’s Switch Container, which allows to re-open a tab in another container (used with caution)

What unblocked the switch for me:

— There’s now a working tree-style tabs extension in Quantum

— The new Web Authentication API removes the need for Keychain integration in the long run

I’m wary of getting too used to a heavily customized setup, and am still figuring out the best way to back up my Firefox profile. Previously I relied mostly on stock Safari and Chrome, which is still great for its developer’s tools.
Airbus and Boeing both use Ada for their avionics.
Pell: the simplest and smallest WYSIWYG text editor for web with no dependencies
That also explains why they don't see a problem with scheduling meetings every other hour.
Maybe a while ago, and I guess it's down to what sector you ask, some will say neither.

Bristol has been touted as the second city for a lot of agencies, so a number of large contracts now go through the city. Outside of large businesses and hardware/microprocessors, the startup culture is thriving, and there have been a few successful exits to large companies (i.e. Twitter, Microsoft).
Back2Basics: The Story of Trait – Part 3
I'm not if it's at all effective, but Stack Exchange has a product for that https://patents.stackexchange.com/
I think you have to be more precise when making claims of this sort; in this case "establishing a global clock" is not very precisely defined.

I meant this in the straight forward sense and what GPS essentially provides, a means to globally agree on the current time with a reasonable high resolution.

Suppose we have an oracle that implements this protocol: it publishes a new public key every hour, and at any time someone can present it a blob of data which it will sign with the private key corresponding to the current hour's public key. Furthermore, you can query it for the set of all blobs it has signed with a given public key.

You don't state it explicitly but from »[...] the set of all blobs it has signed with a given public key [...]« I assume more than one blob can be signed with any key pair and I would then also assume every user can get an arbitrary number of blobs signed with each key pair, right? Or did you imagine a limit per user or key pair?

It is obvious that one can implement a distributed ledger with the only security assumption (for each user) being "I trust this oracle" and "I can determine the current time".

This is, at least to me, not obvious and I tend somewhat towards thinking is it not possible or at least not easy. If my interpretation from above is correct and there is no limit on the number of blobs that can be signed with each key pair then it seems to be at least non-obvious how one could reimplement Bitcoin on top of the oracle. Everyone could just fork and create arbitrary long chains of blocks because there is no proof of work slowing the participants down which I turn means that the longest chain is not necessarily the one that the majority considers valid.

Only if the oracle had a limited capacity and all participants flooded the oracle with request as fast as possible one could hope that the majority would be able to create the longest chain assuming the oracle processes all requests fairly. Maybe there is a way [substantially different from Bitcoin] to build a distributed ledger on top of this oracle but, as already said, it is at least to me not so obvious that I could quickly figure out how to do so.
And the reason given for closing it demonstrates zero understanding of the question being asked.

"Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam."

The question is asking how to find the specification for an XML format. This is very much a "only one correct answer" kind of question, not a "which X do you like best?" kind of question.
Can you please post a blog guide on administering these paper-cuts.
Asserts as Comments
Crossrail is a well-done project. But just to be clear: there were fully 68 years of feasibility and planning studies prior to getting the funding for construction. Since then, it's been laudably smooth sailing -- but if one considers the pre-construction planning work, there's substantial room for improvement.
How Chinese traffic cams catch honking ban violators
Yes! I did the very same thing and came to that same conclusion.
The whole point of moving to the cloud was to make themselves harder to block. I don't think they would self-defeat by limiting themselves to a single /64 or something.
I have a lot more in my bank and just bought a apartment in a pretty expensive area ( 30 years old)

I'm in no way rich, but have no money troubles. I also saved a lot, worked a lot and lived with my parents pretty long
TROUBLE DETECTED IN INFAMOUS DARK MATTER SIGNAL
A Silicon Valley coding school – with no teachers
I have a few friends who fought to grow their company out over years and ended up doing very well.

Funding just means more resources to execute the idea, but doesn't ensure success at all.
Back2Basics: The Story of Trait – Part 2
I just read this yesterday:

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2018/04/11/Researchers-find-...

I know we all see at least half a dozen of these a year, but nobody can say in advance how they'll turn out (unless it's just obviously badly designed research). This line of inquiry certainly seems to have some promise.
That isn't how explorer's right-click context menu works. It's basically just a list of file extension pattern matches in the registry and command line to call when they're clicked:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\7-Zip.7z\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\7-Zip\\7zFM.exe\" \"%1\""
You don't need to be owned by the state to follow commands from it.
It's the personalities/characters of the people that lead to these immature behaviors. They're only increased by open plan offices.

I'm in an open plan office and people are quite respectful. I'm maybe 95% as productive as I'd be in an office, mostly due to conversations that happen occasionally.
Securing Puppet with Conjur
All of Latin America, Eastern Europe, etc has been having such regimes for ages...

China that infinite8s mentions in his comment could also be considered as such.

Heck, Franco's Spain lasted for 30+ years...
I really dislike mailchimp. You spend a lot of money every month and get almost no innovation from their product. It seems like there’s an opportunity for a new enterprise mail sender to take away mailchimps top customers. Through the mailchimp API the service could review the historical open/click rates and if they show sufficient quality then a one button click could import all of that data. The enterprise mail sender could get there if they were willing to offer a free service for the first six months to build up the algorithmic reputation.
I'm with you on this one. I ask colleagues for a quick tea trip if I haven't talked to anyone the whole day. It drives me insane to not to talk to someone.
The biggest safety feature of a unicycle is that you don't even try to go fast.
This only applies if you can't short things. If they short a ton of coins, destroying the network becomes very profitable.
Announcing seL4 with RISC-V support
"...such as only in the top 1/3rd."

Contacts don't stay "upright" in the eyes, so I'm unclear how this would be at all beneficial.
I was reading through the paper, and it read like a female gathering rating their boyfriends or new suitors. The algorithm depicted in figure 2 goes, how old is he? over 30 uh? Does he have a house? Yea? Nice, Where is it? Toronto, WOW.

I shouldn't be surprised that a machine learning neural model is classified on the merit of users who are the nosiest classifiers :).
AI UX: 7 Principles of Designing Good AI Products
Fig 2 basically encompasses what most machine learning production services look like, minus the socioeconomic classifier. Should we all start trying to patent our classifiers now?
>On-Premise

Ugh, NO! It's Premises. Get it right, Zulip! (and the countless people who screw this up every day.)
I've rarely seen coaster brakes, especially among the non hard-core bikers here in Paris.
It's worth noting that both 500Startups and Techstars exist, and are probably the closest things to YC that aren't YC, if you're looking for something like it.
> If I were to wipe a Huawei latptop and install Ubuntu, is my device still vulnerable to malicious rootkts etc. what if I swapped out the harddrive.

If the rootkit is in the firmware or BIOS, you'd still be vulnerable.
Agree with all here, ycomb is a means to an end, and the end is your idea coming to fruition and doing what you intended.
Or more likely... targeted ads.
I worked on one for nearly 2 years. We were distributed, but across the same time zone.

Every day for standup we would skype into a standup call. After the meeting we would all leave the call open but put out mics on mute. If I needed someone all I had to do was unmute and say their name.

It gave the benefit of working remote, but being able to communicate like we were working next to each other. It also let us have an "open environment" where I can listen on any conversation but also turn my volume down if it was distracting.

There was also an added benefit that if part of the team was doing a screen share (trying to fix a bug, or go over UX) anyone was able to watch if they were interested.

We two rules and they worked well.

1. If you were going to turn your volume off or leave the call you had to leave a message so the team knew. If someone needed you they could call you directly.
2. Be considerate of chatter. If a conversation or screen share was going to exceed 30 minutes, take it to a private call and leave an open invitation to others. This was so a single conversation couldn't dominate the main call

It was the most effective and performant team I have ever worked on
Gold only has to be mined once, bitcoin has to be mined every time it changes hands.
BVP's anti-portfolio is absolutely beautiful. It's so difficult to tell a success from a failure.

Sequoia, on the other hand . . .
You're supposed to write a patent as broadly as you can while still being a non-obvious improvement over the prior-art. That lets your monopoly apply as broadly as possible and make it more likely that you can successfully prosecute an infringer.
Shared Autonomy via Deep Reinforcement Learning
> It's often claimed that _all_ steering on a bike requires countersteering, but that is false.

Sounds like you've never ridden a motorcycle? It's obvious on a motorcycle that you counter-steer all the way through a turn.

If you analyze bike steering more carefully, you will also find that you're always counter-steering. But the definition of counter-steering might be different than you think.

You have to think about the front wheel's turn angle in relation to your turning radius. If you're riding in a right turn circle, then your wheel position will be turned right and not changing. In order to change that turning radius, you will always steer in the opposite direction of your desired direction relative to where your steering is at steady state.

So counter steering doesn't mean that if you are turning right your wheel is left of center. Counter steering means that to turn more right, you need to steer left of where you were. When making small adjustments, your steer might be right of center at all times even though you go from a right turn to a sharper right turn.

In other words, it's the delta of your steering angle that is always counter, not the position of your steering angle.

Does that make sense?

One easy way to understand why you're always counter-steering was given in the video: a bike is physically equivalent to an inverted pendulum. In order to move the pendulum in a given direction, you always have to move the base the other way, at all times. This is true on a bike too.
I think is some amount of specialization (which makes you generally good in your chosen area of expertise) balanced with some amount of broad experience, which puts the "icing on the cake" and lets you discover connections that other people in your organization could not.

I am mostly working as a Java developer for large and very large corporate backends. I also have following experiences:

- sysadmin for critical applications,

- embedded development for payment terminals with severely restricted resources but lots of requirements

- algorithmic trading (guaranteed single-digit microseconds request->response)

- infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code, etc.)

- Linux kernel and general Linux platform development

- high level (automated reasoning, optimizations)

- embedded with control theory

- cryptographic protocol design

All this I think makes me much better Java backend developer that I could ever be if I just spent all that time on Java backends alone.

I frequently make various connections, am able to build much more efficient and reliable applications that I could without that added experience. I have much more balanced (you could say, mature) response to new technology, language features, frameworks, etc. -- in no small part thanks to Common Lisp, at the cost of no longer being content with Java. Or C++. Or any other fancy language that is not Lisp.
>You can’t ever be a master if you worked for the whole life in the same programming language doing the same thing.

The "doing the same thing" part, you added it.

You can very much be a master if you "worked for the whole life in the same programming language" and doing multiple things with it.

But even limited to a narrow scope, you can also be a master C++ programmer doing only games programming or network services programming.

You don't have to do some of this and some of that to become a master programmer.

You might not have the domain expertise to write a database or do DSP, but a domain expertise is something different from C++ mastery.
I've told people that I'll knock $20,000 off of my pay for an office with a door that closes. Everyone treats it like a joke.
This is install and forget. With Chrome Profiles you have to change your behaviour. i.e. opening a new window in the right profile before you open facebook. Also, one slip up with chrome profiles and you could end up with a facebook cookie in the wrong profile.
Building one's own release is easy. Before I get into how, you should be linking to https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/1.8.0/prod.html for installation instructions -- that's the much simplified install instructions for the latest release.

In the Zulip development environment, you can build your own release tarball with `tools/build-release-tarball`. Or you can just clone the Git repo and run `scripts/setup/install` directly (similarly, you can use `scripts/upgrade-zulip-from-git` to upgrade to any Git ref, which is great for running a pre-release version or a small fork).

The "expects to have the whole machine" story is just that we need to configure third-party services like nginx, postgres, redis, and memcached, and it's very hard to write configuration for all of those to support Zulip that doesn't carry some risk of breaking an arbitrary third-party app that might have been installed first.
> tree-style vertical tab panel, which AFAIK is unique to Firefox

For the major browsers, yes. Some Chromium off-shoots have them though.
This is designed to be run inside an organisation with some degree more trust than what you have in your situation. You should submit some feature requests (https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues) for these things because they do come up in some business scenarios (e.g. a way to plug-in virus scanning.)
Thanks Dale! If you have an id you can fill out app survey and get a 100 stacks! Here's the link: https://contribute.blockstack.org/b/mpktxj/view
If we make the transactions more efficient, lowering the fees, we might remove the huge incentive to mine so much. That would be great.
> Apple had a "backdoor" to access data on its own phones via installing a build that disabled password attempt throttling. The FBI simply asked Apple to use its backdoor on the FBI's behalf, not to create a new backdoor that the FBI could use on its own.

Source? My understanding is the exact opposite. Apple had not backdoor, but the FBI wanted it to create one like the one you described for it.
The most correct answer is in fact, yes I do have something to hide from you. All this reasoning and rationalizing is a distraction from that main point. I have stuff I dont want other people to know, and there is nothing wrong with that.
I'd ask you what are you trying to hide..

Seriously though, this is a good read that still rings true. The author does a lot with both privacy and surveillance..

https://www.danielsolove.com/nothing-to-hide/
We use Mailtrain behind SendGrid. SendGrid charges out the ass for keeping contacts and doing newsletters, so we use Mailtrain to manage lists and campaigns. Mailtrain tracks clicks and stuff too, which is all we really need. We've never gotten a positive ROI from emails, but use them as a way to finish off a marketing budget.

My only gripe about Mailtrain is its development stack. There was a bug and I wanted to fix it, but it has one of those "magical" type environments where things magically link up and work, which means a ton of investment on my part to figure out what's going on.
In 'The Submarine,' PG mentions:

> We managed to get press hits in almost every publication we wanted, but we never managed to crack the print edition of the Times.

If anything can be said to have "cracked" the NYT, this insubstantial puff piece should qualify. Not sure if it's in the print edition, though.
How I discovered the APNIC password leak
It's not a waste. Each miner is expending resources in order to get something valuable. (Bitcoin.) They will continue to do so until the value of the resources they're expending is higher than the value of what they're receiving in return.

You don't get to decide what's wasteful and what isn't; each person decides that for themselves. That's just how economics works.
The claims section (at the end of the document) is what is used to determine infringement. The rest of the document (including the figures) just illustrates what the invention is and describes how to make it.
I would point out that those tourists come to town and pay taxes, some of which go to pay for local needs, including care for the homeless.
great job, it’s pretty hard to sell clojurescript withoit any context(I mean, somebody tell you his success story or explain why it is good). To make who comes here adopt on clojurescript, I think this page should have some links on sucess story or open source applications. And it will be more attractive if it has more logos here, instead of plan text links IMO.
Close ... "why no USB3.0 port in 2015" is closer to my sentiment ...
AKA a "nice problem to have" ("oh, we're now so successful we have to rewrite the app in another language to lower our infrastructure costs".

Most of the time you aren't gonna need it (because you wont go far anyway as a company). And when you do -- like Twitter and Facebook did, you'll be swimming in users and money already anyway...
Front Camera: 0.3 Megapixels

Where does one source a webcam this crappy in 2018? Did someone find an old stock of 90's sensors in the back of a warehouse somewhere?
> WHOIS is extensively relied on by spam fighters like Spamhaus

Does anyone of importance still use those? Google and other major email hubs have long switched to AB testing and building user profiles as their primary filtering tools. They want to gather that data to improve efficiency of their targeted advertising, so I trust them to be good at it.

Smaller players might not have resources for that, but how do those opaque third-party blocklists help them? In the best case, those "anti-spam communities" do nothing. In the worst case, they act as data-harvesters, potentially leaking information to (lol) _spammers_. Why should we care about their future?
I suspect you can ride it with a hack: either raise your center of gravity (to get into bike mode) or lower it (to get into trike mode).
I thought a majority of hashing power was in China, though admittedly I haven't paid attention in awhile.
I'm curious to know how well this new material handles exposure to humidity/water, as I've grown some of the kombucha leather and its durability seemed to go out the window once it becomes wet (and possibly is exposed to significant humidity).
I'll have to check, because I don't believe it. I wonder who's right: me or a bunch of randos on an internet thread.
I imagine the dye is bound up in the polymer (it's a soft lens). In that case ongoing migration would be a similar problem as tearing.

That's how one of their patents sounds:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7261844

(the patent is about making only the center of the lens photochromic, apparently because having the whole lens change color bothers people)
Where does it say his parents paid for it? Was the PhD a requirement, since he quitted it?

How expensive would renting an appartment be in that time, 750$ / month? Did he rent one? Because he doesn't have a house there and stays with friends a lot of the time https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Elon-Musk-does-not-hav...

He and a fellow student rented a vacant frat house and transformed it into a nightclub. Quite a daring and bold move for a low-income college student. ( https://sites.psu.edu/danielpassion/2017/03/24/entrepreneur-... )

Don't overreact. I never said he came from poor. Why do people keep misreading that?
Well, a famous example is Microsoft. Though the recently built and renovated buildings are moving toward open plan offices, about 80% of the buildings in the Redmond campus are full of offices. Which office you get is purely based on tenure. I remember it took 11 years of tenure to get a window office in my old building. Some new hires were doubled up due to space constraints. But I was in the 70% of office holders who had a single office from the beginning. It was fun to be able to decorate my office. You could really see people's personalities in their offices. Offices would also double as quick meeting rooms for up to 5 people. No overhead for booking conference rooms. All in all, it was a great perk of the job. If only they had free food...

Even if you have offices, people would still barge in, cutting into your uninterrupted time. Funny enough, in the open-plan at Google, where I am currently, I get far fewer walk-up interruptions. It's always good to ping people on chat so they can respond async.
Thanks for the detailed post. The rogue word seems to be a bit too strong, as I totally understand how GitHub generated the cert thanks to Let's Encrypt. The surprising bit is that when granting them the right to handle all internet traffic for the given domain (back in 2014), I wasn't expecting them to use it to generate certificates.

Then Let's Encrypt was released to the public (yeah), and today I am happy that GitHub generated this cert. However, I was surprised to see it was generated "in my back", without any kind of notice and no public documentation of the feature.
Ah yes, I remember when Obama was forced to select this guy during the great rebulican shortage.
We haven't patented it, but sociology has studied mating through the lens of socioeconomic classes for a while. What you describe is upper middle class mating! You just forgot to ask if he is an engineer, a physician or a lawyer.