skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The enterprise part is great to see (though it was something that seemed long overdue). I recently noticed on a Firefox mailing list that Mike Kaply (of Kaply Consulting, a company that helped with enterprise deployment and configuration of Firefox) had officially joined the Firefox team. Mike's presence is going to make Firefox in the enterprise much better.

On Firefox 60, I'm still not on board with the newest versions after the support for legacy extensions was removed. SessionManager, an awesome (legacy, XUL) extension, still doesn't have a perfect equivalent in the Web Extension world. Tab Session Manager, which has similar functionality, seems to be lagging behind and struggling with issues in Firefox that prevent it from becoming a good session manager.

If there's one thing I could ask the Firefox team, it would be to focus on enabling web extensions to do almost everything that legacy extensions were able to. Without the power of feature rich and stable extensions, Firefox is currently inadequate for me (though I still use it as my primary browser).
The play is to get enough users fast enough so that MoviePass sits between the theater chains and a big chunk of their customer base. Once that happens, MoviePass can start squeezing the theaters to discount the prices MP pays for tickets with threats of taking their theaters out of the MP system if they won't. If the MoviePass user base is a big enough fraction of the overall theatergoing population, the theaters will have to accept whatever price MoviePass offers them for tickets or risk losing access to their customers and kneecapping their business.

This is a long-term, Amazon-style play: burning capital up front to establish a commanding market position, at which point you can start raking it in by charging monopolist rents. But it assumes you can build a big enough user base to start dictating terms before you run out of capital, and if you can't, the whole thing falls apart pretty quickly.
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Not sure why this comment is grey, FF is now adware by objective definition of the word adware.

Wiki >Adware, or advertising-supported software, is software that generates revenue for its developer by automatically generating online advertisements in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process
Yeah, but right now, that money is locked in bank accounts, investment vehicles, etc, where the money can actually be used for stuff by others. With crypto, that money is locked away in "cold storage" where it's not available to do anything.
What's wrong with that ? I mean, FB is a free service.

(I don't have a FB account)
Maybe, but my experience with US companies is that surprisingly large companies sometimes think they'll get away with just doing stuff that's legal under US law and pretend the EU is just another US state.

E.g. I spent 3 years at Yahoo (more than a decade ago now) wrangling with US product managers that found it incredibly hard to accept that the "workarounds" they kept proposing for EU requirements for payments systems were highly illegal in the European countries we operated in, as a means to cut effort. My team existed pretty much only to form a protective layer between the US payments team and the European business because the European business didn't trust them to not pull a fast one to save time, because they didn't understand the seriousness of the requirements.

But in many European countries, the courts takes a very dim view on that kind of attitude.
Rougue Code by Mark Russinovich was a novel I enjoyed about a HFT heist.
DFU mode is a key combo on the device, so yes, you’d be fine.
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They do not have the same utility. I can walk out of my house and find people deriving value from wearing jewelry. Trustless, distributed ledgers, on the other hand, not so much.

At the moment, Bitcoin's primary non-speculative use case is light financial crime: money laundering, capital control evasion, ransomware, buying various illegal stuff, ponzi schemes, etc. I agree that it's possible that one day trustless, distributed ledgers will deliver enormous amounts of value. But it's important to distinguish between delivered value and potential value.
It's also good because this version will be supported in FF ESR for enterprise for another 11 months or so.
I find a physical notepad and a pen to be perfect for prioritizing and recording to-dos. Not sure why it needs to be "optimized" any further.
iMac at 20: The reaction after the 1998 iMac introduction
A similar company, Valeant bought drug companies, raised prices and slashed R&D.

Bid for Allergan Puts Valeant's Research and Development Cuts Under Scrutiny
$53 Billion Bid Puts Focus on Strategy of Shedding Research Operations and Making Money Selling Products

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bid-for-allergan-puts-valeants-...
Ah ok. But to assemble XML/SOAP for these kind of payloads you'd typically be using a lib such as JAXB, Jackson/gson, Spring (for Java at least) or SCA anyway.

Moreover, you could design your XML Schema such that both variants are accepted (using XSD "all-groups"), though typically record-like data structures are indeed described using XSD sequences which would cause the issue you mentioned. Again I agree XML/XSD isn't a great payload/schema mechanism for data structures such as maps; after all SGML/XML was invented for encoding text. It's being used because it was the first mechanism on the scene, and it continues to be used because it's still much more capable and mature/established in terms of data validation than anything JSON, especially for protocols used in communication with external partners/banks/authorities.
There needs to be a list of companies that offer some kind of on the job training.
American here; I just don't quite understand the premise. "Here is what you are giving us, and here is what you're getting in return" seems perfectly legit to me. If this interpretation of the law is correct, then the government is essentially saying the "in return" portion has to be eliminated. Which seems to be against the idea of trade.
You're always welcome to change the garish green in settings, and likewise hide the communities bar (although we expect communities to be used more and more in future, just as they are in Slack and Discord etc).

Meanwhile, the upcoming redesign pretty much removes the green and the circles anyway :)
I use Fail2ban http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page for auto blocking.

I take an 80/20 type approach and see what types of access is not covered by current rules, then I add a custom rule to cover that type of access attempt.
Me neither (FastMail and Gmail). sigh

But just yesterday people tried to "educate" me that it works with 60 and for 59 I had to toggle an about:config switch.

It's great that they support the proper web standard. It would be useful if all those web sites supported it. This is a long-known issue, and nobody cares about non-Chrome browsers.
It should be possible soon to build this as a Cloudflare App using Workers, rather than needing to build your own proxy service.
This is exciting, but I really hope that Terraform will add support for it in reasonable time. These days I'd prefer to not manually manage cloud resources if I don't have to.
Istanbul is not exactly Europe, and from what I hear from US friends they get special treatment there. Someone (from the US) I know swapped planes in Istanbul and said never again.
Reminds me of Classpass and it's business model evolution. Sounds like they have transitioned well after spending significant capital.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/01/technology/classpass-credit-...
How long would it take a EU court to notice, plan, and take action ? VW was blatantly lying about emissions for years and nobody seemed to care
Have you reported this bug? It's all fine on the old OS X Mavericks.
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Buying its tickets at retail cost is crazy...
Neat, I've never seen the link support from there before.

And yes, I wasn't arguing in favour of using a full HTML DOM, but that potentially some simplicity-favouring middle-ground might allow new and interesting features. As you've just demonstrated :P
On line 246 where the thread is created, you'll see that it's actually passing in the seed, not the version.
It's not one-third of their ticket purchases. Limiting the viewings to one per movie reduced the cash deficit by 35%. These are not the same at all.
It is borderline unusable on the most recent Macbook Pro and most recent version of OS X. Weird that it only seems to affect some people
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I'm curious as to how this behaviour is actually detected. I mean are they checking for outgoing network requests that contain something that looks like co-ordinates because presumably that would be trivial to obfuscate.

Or is this really just a case of rejecting apps that are asking for location even though the app has no real use for it?
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Gandcrab Ransomware Walks Its Way onto Compromised Sites
FTA: Tidal, which has rarely shared its data publicly, had a streaming exclusive on West’s album for its first six weeks of release and continues to be the exclusive streamer for Beyonce’s album. It claimed that West’s album had been streamed 250 million times in its first 10 days of release in February of 2016, while claiming it had just 3 million subscribers — a claim that would have meant every subscriber played the album an average of eight times per day; and that Beyonce’s album was streamed 306 million times in its first 15 days of release in April of 2016.

Does anyone believe those numbers on face?
All value is defined in relation to a specific person. There's no movie, for example, that everybody likes. But that doesn't mean that entertaining people isn't valuable.
It also appears to be EUR 20 per month. MoviePass is less then half that at USD 10. Often less then a single regular movie ticket.
The need to work less is a matter of life and death
I use Dropbox, and it generally works a-ok with Orgzly. That said, I rarely find myself using Orgzly - but it's invaluable when I'm on the go and need to check some info stored in my org files.

It used to have issues, but after couple iterations it seems to be working quite well now. Some time ago scheduled tasks even started to generate notifications on the phone, so now I find myself syncing more often just so that I can get those reminders when I expect to spend a lot of time away from my computer.

The only thing problem I had with it is that if I delete a file locally, and then sync Orgzly, it'll restore the file on Dropbox instead of picking up the delete. After having to re-delete some files couple of times I now remember to watch out for it, so it's not really a problem anymore.
> That is when I decided to change jobs.

I was really hoping that was going to be the conclusion, for your sake :). That sounds like an incredibly demoralizing experience.
Isn't it just as likely that this data is being sent to the app vendor's servers and then off to one or multiple third-parties?
I think you mean escape velocity and m/s

11km/s would be ca. 40000 km/s, in other words earth to moon in 10 secs.

By the way, if the ship is surrounded by fuel, ie. in Jupiter's atmosphere, it could use quite a lot.
Everyone in flamewars thinks that they're "countering demonstrably false propaganda". That's how flamewars feel from the inside.
"The London Underground, a system of similar size and age, has had no track worker fatalities since 1998."

As far as I can tell, the London Underground only allows work on sub-surface and deep tracks when the line is completely shut down. Like, not just slowing down trains on the tracks either side of the work, but not running trains on any of the tracks full stop.
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>... is software that generates revenue for its developer ...

does pocket suggesting stories somehow generate revenue for Mozilla?
Personally, I'd really not like to see a precedent set for a company entering a market, doing very well, and then being legally compelled to provide their product as some sort of legal right to an entire population. It might be a different story if said company is employing anti-competitive practices, but telling somebody that they're now legally obligated to serve a community because they're just too good at what they do, or so popular that nobody else can best them, seems a little too authoritarian for my taste.
What a bunch of crap. When I visited China, my iPhone was the thing that worked. I was able to use e.g. Apple Maps, iMessage without having to install spyware like WeChat.

If I were Chinese, I would get an iPhone and disable iCloud Backup. Yes it sucks that I'd have to do that, but it's way better than having spyware built into the firmware like domestic OEMs do (Huawei, etc.). It's good for privacy that Apple remains an option in China.
Good question. And the answer is the difference between companies who just want to make a profit (won't pay above market rate and hire anybody) and companies who want to dominate the world (will pay above market but will take only limited set of ppl).
The need to give the kit away if they want you to get hooked on their proprietary platform. Not charge $200.
Odeon chain in the UK have a subscription with unlimited(ish) viewing

http://mobi.odeon.co.uk/limitless/

I don't go to the cinema often enough to make it worthwhile but it is popular with my peers.
I know Google's scary, but having task management/scheduling built into and up-front in their Inbox is wonderful. When I saw that, I ditched the old gmail interface and haven't looked back.
Back when Titanic came out, some classmates of mine saw the movie 9 times in theaters.

Abuse is likely a big factor but there are likely some honest actors in there too.
Sounds like there could be large benefit from A) removing the punishment for tripping the signal, that causes drivers to go extra extra slow (well under safe and officially regulated speed) cause they know there are faulty unpredictable signals which they'll still get punished for tripping; and B) fixing faulty signals (which they probably don't even know about when all the drivers are slowing down so much in case of faulty signal that they don't even know which ones are faulty).

Contrary to the article saying "And there’s no easy fix", it seems like this would be a fairly easy fix?
They still haven't fixed whatever problem causes my Late 2013 RMBP's CPU/fan to jump to 80C and stay there while FF is open. Back to Chrome. :(
"Crypto is a democratizing force in a corrupt and unaccountable world."

People say this all the time without backing it up. Tell us, exactly how is that true? What is the exact feature of BTC that somehow makes it incorruptible, and changes millenia of human behavior? What exactly about BTC would prevent the wealthy people from buying up all the things the poor little people need?
Infosec fundamentals
I agree. First, it could be made a criminal offense for a company or bank to lie to credit agencies and then public prosecutors could pursue these companies for big PR wins.

Second, making giving and getting credit harder to do is probably a good thing for society. Do people really need to take out a half million dollar home loan from their phone a la Rocket Mortgage? Many cultures had/have very strict rules about charging interest on loans. Debt jubilees were common in past civilizations and seem necessary to prevent the masses from creating their own via revolution. Making personal loans illegal and bringing back the loan shark is not the way to go, but making going into debt to buy consumptive goods much harder would be big positive for most people in the US.

Like you said, there is a huge amount of money and power behind easy lending, so change seems unlikely. On the other hand, change seems to be in the air these days, so maybe one can afford a bit of hope.
Most of the memes will have been copied from Reddit anyway.
orgmode is better in a lot of different ways, but taswarrior is better with dependencies since it has a graph-based data structure, while orgmode is strictly hierarchical. orgmode has tags, but neither it nor org-depend nor edna quite approach the ease of graph-based dependencies. Org-brain comes closer but is a little clunky.
Scholarship for students interested in tech/saas
If you just want to schedule emails without involving too many third parties, you can do this in the Outlook mobile app by swiping right on any email. For the desktop app, right-click an email and use the "Follow Up" menu.

You can also do it in Google's Inbox app, but you have to swipe left instead. The Inbox website lets you schedule emails by hovering over an email and clicking the clock icon.
No need to guess, they are a public company and just released their 2018 Q1 Quarterly Earnings Report

https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2018/Q1...

From Slide 5:

Q12018: Europe was #2 with $3.036B in revenue

Q42017: Europe was #2 with $3.250B in revenue

And so on, it looks like every quarter on this slide has Europe in spot #2 behind US & Canada.
Old school now, but back in the late 90s I used GNU ddd. See some example screenshots here: https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/manual/html_mono/ddd.html#S...
FB is already in a shitstorm of bad PR.

They have a very easy choice actually. Either abide by the rules if they want to service EU citizens, or GTFO. If they want to give up a couple hundred million users and hand them over to the GDPR-compliant competition, that's their choice. It would be monumentally stupid, though. FB needs EU users a lot more than EU users need FB, but they're trying very hard to spin the press to make it appear the other way around.

It's like when McDonalds or a similar tax-dodging company threatens to leave a country if they face being forced to actually pay the taxes they owe. Leave millions and millions in profit right there on the table for their competitors to grab? Yeah right, ain't gonna happen.
Looks like the version is actually the seed.

self.thread_v1 = threading.Thread(target=self.verify_version_thread, args=(seed,))
Exactly. As long as you have a SSN and other identification out there, you are a potential target...
Could an adversary send buy/sell fake signals and profit?

Given the low bandwidth I assume they can't use very sophisticated authentication mechanisms
Kinda sounds like he's doing his part to keep the trains actually on time in a totally broken signalling environment!
Disclaimer: I'm the PM for Composer. :)

If the cost of Composer is an issue, ping me. Running a static environment _does_ have a cost, but for serious ETL it should be pretty inexpensive all things considered. You _should_ be able to use Airflow (in GCP or anywhere else) to call on other services, like S3/Redshift to operate without moving the data through Airflow, keeping network tx low.

If it's network traffic for the actual data moving to and from, that's unfortunately an artifact of how public clouds price.
How would one say this in a better Maori translation?
I assume if you made a business where the user can sell their behavioral data for a service in return, and if the whole goal of the business was selling data in return for a service, then I would interpret the data collection to be strictly required for the business goal and thus legal under the GDPR (given explicit consent).

The official goal of Facebook is not "buying your data" but "providing a social network". Thus, targeted ads are not strictly necessary for providing that service.
S/condiments/concessions?
Thanks for the take, that makes a lot of sense. Maybe movie pass will be bought / cloned by a theatre chain here.
Get a vaping kit (I'm using Vaporesso revenger x~ kit and it is good so far). With the vaping kit you only have to buy the liquid and change the every couple weeks or so (depends on your usage).

The problem: What liquid to trust since you are inhaling the thing to your lungs. I don't have an answer for that and wish there was some kind of highly reputable brand to buy from. There is also the option to do it yourself (DIY is very popular in this community) but I have yet to try that.

~ I'm in no way associated with the company and only mentioned it because of the experience.
The idea that FB, and personal data tracking in general, doesn't harm third parties is not universally agreed upon.
I can't see the appeal of watching a movie I literally just watched.
Does Pocket Sponsored Stories violate privacy? It doesn't seem like they track the user or anything like that. And, Mozilla claims their approach is "Privacy-Conscious".
Because by that definition Firefox has been adware since Firefox 1.5, released in 2005, due to the ubiquitous "Google" logo in the search box that every user sees by default upon installing the browser, and for which Firefox receives the bulk of its revenue.
I agree.

“Don’t like being tracked? Just let us watch EVERYTHING you do and we promise to stop people from tracking you.”

You’re putting someone in the perfect position to track you far better than anyone else could. You better REALLY trust them.
Why can't they charge you in data? If they present the deal to users as, "let us track your data, and in return you get to use facebook", is that not a trade that should be allowed? Isn't part of being able to 'be in control' of your data being allowed to sell it yourself?

I think the key point is being clear about the trade. I think FORCING all websites to only be paid for by cash is bad; you should be able to trade your own data for access to a service.
I think at the very least the bot should disclose that it is a bot right from the beginning.
Mozilla owns Pocket. They're not calling them Pocket Sponsored Stories to be cute. You, too, can now buy screen space in the premiere open-source browser: https://getpocket.com/sponsor

I think it's a disgrace.
Thanks! I missed this. Fixed. :-)
Collective action and watchdogs are certainly more effective but even with personal lobbying, people tend to misunderstand the point of it: it isn't to affect change for that one person, whether immediately or ever, but to accumulate the political capital requisite to compete adequately with other political powers in an adversarial interests system. Not doing something is basically forfeiting the game.
Wait and watch. You will most likely have to eat your words. Most people are like you - they think they know a lot and are not open to the possibility how technology can evolve and new use cases can emerge.
In which case there can be no EU competitor.
So, who else wonders what they could do if Glassdoor conveniently logged the IP of the reporters combined with the salaries? Little evil me would sell that data to recruiters so they can use it to figure out the least amount of money that will dislodge a particular person from their current job.
When banks abandoned American Samoa, the islands found a solution: public banks
Maybe a free public toilet that simply demands the right to broadcast a videofeed of its customers is a better analogy? Be they minors or not?
It's a big problem not knowing the audience.

[1] 47:00 https://youtu.be/_ZG8HBuDjgc?t=47m10s
Firefox in mobile is worth using simply for the reader view. It makes the mobile web tolerable again.
This reminds me of the scifi first contact novel "Blindsight", which while not the best writing is chock full of intriguing concepts, one of which is the role of the "synthesist": a career where your job is to act just as a communications bridge between those who are so highly technically specialized (including cybernetic body modifications) that they are effectively incapable of communicating to managers and government officials. Hence the role of the synthesist, just to be a neutral observer who can help decision makers make sense of reality.
One thing I discovered when introducing other people to Riot.im and that even confused myself was the sign-up procedure. You think you are signing up but instead you are trying to sign in.

Other than that I am happy with Riot.im.
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