skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is article is just PR-driven propaganda.

Notice how, for example, it hits on a bunch of focused, high-level talking points (faster, better memory management, Facebook container, etc). It also includes rebuttals for potential objections to its main thesis (e.g. sure, Chrome has hundreds of thousands of extensions compared to FireFox’s 11,000 — conveniently hyperlinked, btw — but don’t worry because FireFox has all the main ones you’d want like LastPass).

This article was clearly written by a PR team hired by Mozilla and seeded to the NYTimes for some undisclosed amount of money. I’d even go so far as to suggest it’s high placement on HN is being manipulated by the same PR firm.

Now... let the downvotes to my comment commence, which only further proves my point because many of them are probably coming from the same faux HN accounts being used to elevate the article to the top.
Wait, it had left?
You can reopen tabs in a private window, but the session appears to be lost when you close the window.
Retro Gaming Coffee Mug
Turns out politics has an effect on people's lives, who knew?
There exists no universal perspective of what is harmful and what is not. In fact, the notion that prohibiting gay marriage is harmful is nowhere near as universally accepted as your comment makes it out to be. Remember, California passed Proposition 8 (the proposition to ban gay marriage) with a 52% majority in 2008. Eich's views were in line with the majority. Mozilla sent the message that the majority of Californian voters are not welcome at their company.
I followed Eich to the Brave browser. It's really great, but the devtools still don't dock within the window but they're working on it.

Firefox crucified their CEO over his PRIVATE conservative views and that was scary how quick the mob turns on someone. If they turned on the got damn inventor of javascript, how quick will they turn on your minion employee?
Software will absorb new humans as just another object, and map them into some form of homelessness, because that's the most efficient use of us.

Personally I'd feel happier if I grew up on a community surrounded by people that I knew and cared for, instead of being routed around like a tinder hookup, endlessly bidding for cheaper container storage.

I think that's something worth sacrificing a little bit of algorithmic efficiency for.
You're correct. I missed the flagged response.
I gave Firefox a new try. Mostly because after a chrome update my location bar search is broken. I think due to some bug the text and selection colors are all white. Well someone at Chrome dropped the ball.

Firefox feels really fast and light. I think I’m Making it my primary browser from now on.
> "are you sure" before closing Firefox

I believe this feature gets disabled if you enable the feature that automatically restores your previous session when Firefox is opened.
Not necessarily. It could be running in a sandbox, or as unprivileged user, and accessing your app's API over localhost would allow for privilege escalation.
Then there’s the problem that fMRI is hardly providing us with a complete view of everything going on in the brain. The same goes for the other instruments we have. Who knows what parts of the puzzle we’re not yet even seeing?
it depends on the motives...
The act was definitely "doxing" any way you slice it. Folks at Mozilla actively chose to find a touchy topic, and expose it to cause the "bad culture fit" argument.

I'm not here to start conspiracies, I'm simply stating that the entire event left me feeling that there are some big players at Mozilla that will use ethically gray areas to achieve their goals, and the people who indulged in that gray area won and are still part of the organization.

Due to that, I am out. I should state that, politically speaking, I was not in solidarity with Eich's position. I am opposed to what people at Mozilla did.
The article seemed a bit confused and meandering to me. The side spiel about modern life requiring most of us to up sticks and put off starting a family is the more interesting part, but not really expanded upon.
I actually spent the last few weeks preparing an audit for a company within an order of magnitude of assets. I’ll give the report a more thorough read later on.

As a side note though, the organization I work for takes in client funds and then grants them out to nonprofits. Technically all of our assets are legally unencumbered but our clients absolutely expect to have access to them. The definition of unencumbered depends on the internal lawyers’ views of their commitment to any clients and investors.
...and a picture of the Grand Canyon, and a recording of Beethoven, and also somehow a couple of sonnets, depending on what the temperature is.
Stop upvoting this! I was comically wrong! :)
He wasn't outed - his donation was public. Its not like some secret conversation was recorded and then reported out of context. He didn't accidentally donate $1,000 to oppose same sex marriage. Once called out on it, he didn't apologize or drop his support of Prop 8.

He made a decision and he stuck with it. And Mozilla employees also made a decision. His decision was to oppose their right to be married. Their decision was to oppose his privilege to be their CEO.
I also disagree with Eich on that count, and I think he feels greatly conflicted about how his religion requires him to behave, but given that mobs can't handle subtlety was there any other option for Mozilla?
When you're brought in to add something at a critical time but instead push for bigger changes because of inability to work with an existing codebase that means they need to find a better programmer for the time being to do the role you were hired for.

It's rare that existing employees don't realize a codebase is crap, and starting over they could do better...that's not why contractors are hired, to state the obvious.
I find Ayn Rand to be quite similar to Karl Marx.

Both use cherry-picking and unfalsifiable approaches to history and sociology to construct a narrative in which there are two classes: the noble, heroic people who produce all the value; and the awful, leeching parasites who attempt to co-opt that value for their own use.

The differences between them are rooted entirely in which class each views as noble and value-producing versus which is parasitical.
Re: 1: It wasn’t wrong. There are Mendelian traits and complex traits. We shouldn’t forget we’ve basically tracked down most Mendelian diseases since the human genome was published. Still some to go but we will hopefully have all soon. This is a huge accomplishment.

Complex/quantitative traits on the other hand have been known for quite some time. I don’t think it’s anything new, but the landscape is becoming increasingly clear thanks to large scale GWAS and analyses from many groups including Pritchard’s.
Vibrating alarms are nice. About the only thing I miss from my Fitbit.
"Stop liking what I don't like," in twenty inches? Listen, some people want a short commute. There's nothing bad about Google building housing near its campus. It's good for the environment, good for health, good for the city, good for employees.

Hell, it's even good for family, which the author seems hung up on. You know what you're not doing while driving home from work for forty five minutes? I would accept an arbitrarily short commute to work. If there were reasonably priced dwellings in the building I work at, I would live there. More time to play with my kid, cook dinner, or whatever else.

And then he goes on to complain about affordable urban housing. Well, is it sinister to live near work, or isn't it? I agree that WeLive's prices are very high for someone who intends to stay put. But . . . that's not what they're for? Should we get rid of hotels too?
Nice setup, looks productive! What distro are you using?
How is Pocket any different from Safari’s Read It Later, or all of Google’s equivalents? And unlike the other browsers, Pocket while included by default, is still an extension instead of baked into the browser.
If you have two windows, each with a different Chrome profile, that counts as a different session, right?
You can remove it from new pages. Use the gear icon in the top right of the new tab page to customize it.

Or just open the Options page and click Home way over on the left.
I don't get it either. This will be super niche unless they also allow landscape video, or people just rotate their videos and post.
All successful Influencers have crews shooting for them with professional gear. None that shoots vertical.
It's utterly bizarre how so many people can view politics as if it were as value-neutral as supporting a football team, or as if it's all some high-minded abstract debate.
Of course there’s no sponsorship disclosure. That’s not what the OP means.

This article was seeded by a PR firm. It’s not directly sponsored by Mozilla. It’s been professionally “placed” in the NYT.

Then again, I don’t know why I’m arguing with you. Judging by the style of your comment, I’m guessing you didn’t really go back to check if the article contained any sort of sponsorship notice (because, seriously, what real person would do that and then come back and leave a comment?). Your account is probably owned by the PR team that got the article placed and then pushed it to the top of HN. #AmIRight
Never switched off.
What's different about the home page?
NASA Unveils Massive Asteroid Impact Preparedness Plan – ExtremeTech
Tether: According to FSS report 100 percent covered by USD
If you are using tuple calls be careful updating because in this version they are removed. You can use erlc option tuple_calls to bring them back but in some cases it doesn't work.

Particularly ChicagoBoss is very broken now.
The link in the article ( http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2018-May/672... ) is more helpful than the article itself.

> I am somewhat tickled by the notion that you might have a problem after deleting half a billion directory entries.

What's wrong with performing 500 million operations on a file system? There is an expectation of very high reliability when it comes to file systems.
As shitty as I feel defending it, what if it was a religious opinion? I don't think we can have genuine, defensible political opinions so opposed to human rights.
SEC Documents Detail Scores of Fraud Allegations Against Coinbase
The mere fact that a lot of people believe something, doesn't make it right or just. Justice is protecting the weak and the powerless from the powerful, not voting on who has human rights and who doesn't from week to week.

Also, Prop 8 was in 2008. He was appointed to the CEO position in 2014 - 6 years later. He had every opportunity to apologize. Everyone makes mistakes, even big ones. But, he refused to apologize. He held the same opinion in 2014 that he did in 2008 and he made that clear.

Why would he have the right to express his opinion on same-sex-marriage but Mozilla employees wouldn't have the right to express their opinion on his fitness to be their CEO?
It’s a goodwill gesture without letting too much known. (Worked for companies that did similar when dealing with big banks and were privately held)
> I always thought the intent behind nodes/anchors was not so much graph models but rather to take repetitive YAML and make it DRY. That appears to be how it is used, e.g. in gitlab's ci YAML.

That's how I use it too. When I read about competing formats, that's the first feature I check for. It's really key for readability and usability in some use cases.
Don't even need that. Later this year BGI will allow you to submit zygotes and they'll provide a 23andme compatible report. And you can plug that in to dnaland and find out which zygote you should select for the most intelligent offspring.
I listened to an interview of Zillow CEO today. Housing prices are on fire, above the pre-recession peak of early 2000s, but it's not because of a bubble. It's because of a housing shortage. The high-mid and high end of the market has been getting lots of new construction but the low end doesn't because lack of demand (less buyers esp with post recession lending practices) and because of high land prices. Also, rent is very high now and this prevents people from saving up for a down payment on a house.

Have you ever asked yourself why there isn't a wall Mart or Starbucks of housing? Why are all houses not owned and rented out by a small group of wealthy entities? Just like every other market, it should trend toward consolidation right? Perhaps it just hasnt been given enough time.

Anyway, I think we will see these high prices continue for a long time and demand for cheaper housing, combined with new sat internet, driverless cars and other things, will grow and eventually spill over into a massive flood of cheap housing outside city hotspots.

Wework is massively overvalued, is engaging in borderline fraudulent bonds with high interest rates. Nobody wants their creepy day care centers or to live in their foxconn dorms and I predict that a good many of their bonds will go into default.
WOW, thanks for this! This extension is awesome. This provides all the functionalities I use vimium (in chrome) for, but what does it for me is this:

> Want to remove the extra chrome: run `:guiset gui none`

Top bar with so much padding is one of the main reasons I am not using Firefox.

Also the awesome command bar at the bottom is something that I've always found missing in vimium, (which has an omnibar but it's placing feels awkward.)

I think I am going to make firefox as deafult.
I'm sad this view isn't more common.
I'm afraid that, given enough generations, transgenderism will once again be considered a mental illness. It generally takes a child to see that the emperor has no clothes.
The ‘Right to Try’ Could Cost Dying Patients a Fortune
There's also "CORS and RFC1918"[1], which IMO would be a great way to stop apps from unintentionally exposing themselves to the open web.

[1]: https://wicg.github.io/cors-rfc1918/#headers
I'd remove Ghostery. Not only is it useless once you are running uMatrix & uBlock Origin, they also used to sells your data (page visit, blocking, and advertising statistics) if you activated a feature called "GhostRank". Not sure whether it's still true or not.
Organic Molecules on Ceres Are More Abundant Than Previously Thought – ExtremeTe
Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish
Designed to distract and deflect. Goodwill on financial solvency matters was completely destroyed after they suspiciously "dissolved" their relationship with audit firm:

https://www.coindesk.com/tether-confirms-relationship-audito...

This is somewhat reminiscent of Michael Cohen's "proof" that "[he has] never been to Prague in [his] life." (in his case, a picture of a cover of a US passport). It is not actually proof of anything useful, but does manage to help control the narrative in a specific way

https://twitter.com/MichaelCohen212/status/81899127768556748...
I switched to Vivaldi a year or two ago after using Firefox as my main browser for the longest time. I've considered switching back, but every time I run up against several features in Vivaldi that I am just not ready to part with yet:

1) tab stacks,
2) the ability to save and reopen an entire session,
3) a page load progress indicator in the URL bar,
4) using Ctrl-F highlights the position of all matching locations in the page in the right-hand scroll bar, and
5) the window panel, which keeps track of all closed tabs and windows so you can reopen everything if you accidentally close a window.

Some of those are small perks, and some of them are major. I'd love to see Firefox implement some of them.
No it just means more than one gene would be needed to be modified. Don't know who was ever thinking that traits weren't polygenic. If they were monogenic then there would be no variance in traits.
If a lot of employees are (very) uncomfortable with their CEO, that CEO is toxic for the company regardless of whether their views are private/public, right/wrong, just/unjust.

One of the two have to go: The CEO, or the employees. Do you want to live in the world where Mozilla fires thousands of employees who disagree with their CEO's view that gay marriage should be prohibited?
Presto! You have a duplicate key in the first example.

Also...

print (json.dumps(json.loads(js_data), indent=2))

{
"bar": false,
"foo": true,
"# A multiline..": "",
"# .. bar variable": "",
"# A foo variable": ""
}

Presto! ;-)
I'm a little amazed at all the reports of problems in the comments here on HN. I have been using Synergy for probably 15 years now, and have had very little issue with it. I use it to connect Linux, OSX and Windows. I use what appears to be version 2.0 on Gentoo as the main driver/server (the machine where the keyboard and mouse are connected).
It would be nice if US health insurance was a bit more roam-friendly as well. Becoming out-of-network with a $14k deductible just for moving to another state is a bit annoying. Last time I got new insurance outside of open enrollment (via a special exception for moving) it took a few months after moving to process & approve the exception. Having to transfer medical records is another aspect.
Solar Water condensation
I am working on a water purification system that is fully off grid solar powered, to make lousy well water drinkable
I would love to hear from other off grid hackers mad their projects
Announcing Nvidia DALI and Nvidia NvJPEG
Is there a reason to use both uBlock Origin and uMatrix? I thought uMatrix was a more explicit version of the same functionality as uBlock Origin (and written by the same guy).
> Folks at Mozilla actively chose to find a touchy topic

That's a strange way of referring to having someone run an organization who actively works to curtail the human rights of some of his employees. And said employees and their supporters speaking out against that.
The biggest reason I use Chrome is for Casting purpose. I would have dropped Chrome a long time ago if it weren't for that. I use Safari as my primary because of the battery benefits but still have Chrome. How are the dev tools on Firefox? Not a big fan of the Safari dev tools. Chrome is also my go-to for dev stuff.
Except the crackdown has arguably led to faster evolution of tax havenry. Over the past 15 years the traditional tax havens have lost considerable business to new jurisdictions offering more complex and cheaper havens (e.g. trusts and property schemes), attracting smaller customers (e.g. small-time multi-millionaires) who previously couldn't have afforded to indulge in these activities. The market has grown. That was inevitable to some extent but when your achilles heel is your ability to respond to change (which government agencies suck at) it's a risky strategy to shake-up the system.
Conversely, I will never use Brave.
I read your first paragraph... but then I read the rest of what you said.

Having read the whole comment, I'd say that is spot on. I knew some SQL, but didn't start with Active Record. We used SQL client libraries to connect to our SQL database, which didn't have a Rails app built onto it until well into my second year.

I did all of that, except for the implementing ActiveRecord and the meta-programming. So I didn't really do any of that. We didn't have a production Rails app until it was clear that I was gaining proficiency, and I'd be sticking around long enough to get a handle on how to manage it. (I didn't write most of it. And we avoided metaprogramming pretty much at all costs.)

We had a production Microsoft Access app (no really, VBS in Access 2000), with a MySQL server on the backend, along with tons of perl, bash, and ruby to glue the important parts together. There was a Java app that handled the web side of things. I don't think I'll ever work in a place like that again! But it was the path I took, and now I work on pretty much exclusively Rails.
And who gets to say what protections people should and should not receive? If a company genuinely believes that pro-LGBT views are harmful, then in your framework they're equally justified to fire employees that donated in opposition to Proposition 8.

I think a lot of people forget that there's a world beyond liberal urban areas. Allowing it to become socially acceptable for companies to fire employees for their political views is also handing a tool for conservatives to suppress their employees' liberal politics.

And again, it's sending the message that the majority of Californians are not welcome at the company. It makes Mozilla hypocrites whenever they purport to support diversity or inclusion, and gives credence to the idea that Silicon Valley companies are deliberately hostile towards non-liberals.
It took the Paradise papers to show that Bitfinex and Tether were connected and it will likely take a lawsuit to show how their banking is too. My guess is they proved their reserves by borrowing from their customers for a short period of time.
I think Python is perceived as easy to pick up because it's a scripting language, not because it's dynamically typed. I wish I could recommend a statically-typed scripting language that's easy to pick up, but I'm not familiar with any mainstream ones (and I'm probably too far from the newbie stage myself to be a good judge).
Ask HN: How to ask for a favor?
Hello HN,

I want to ask an organization for a favor, to make some special consideration for my startup, outside of their normal protocols.

How does one goes about this?

What are some good resource to learn about writing an effective request?

Should I even try it?
> his donation was public.

I think that is wrong too. Anonymous speech is important, and therefore so is anonymous support for speech. That was a lot more clear to LGBT folks before their opinions gained cultural ascendancy, when they benefited from anonymity when expressing their previously heterodox opinions. It helped them win. And there is much more winning to be done for other good causes that are still taboo.
It's also the fact that CEOs embody and represent the entire organisation in a way that individual contributors and even mid-level managers do not. This is a part of the job, alongside the big salaries and the yacht parties.

Consider how people's opinions on Mark Zuckerberg colour their opinions on Facebook, or how often Satya Nadella is referenced in conversations on Microsoft's corporate culture and how it may or may not have changed (and how the previous culture is often literally referred to as the "Ballmer era").
Doxing is publishing PII. Political donations are NOT PII and are in fact supposed to be public. It is completely legitimate for a CEO's political donations to be scrutinized.
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I've noticed that as well, but then I just realized there just aren't many places where people are talking about the specific thing I'm querying about... which is a lonely feeling :(
Eich's donation became widely known in 2012, when he was still CTO. Nothing came of it until he was promoted to CEO in 2014.
>The act was definitely "doxing" any way you slice it.

How exactly is taking publicly available information about a (comparatively) high profile individual and sharing it doxing?

Political donations are public information[1]. As far as I can tell, (and according to Mozilla), the group that made public the information about Eich was The LA Times, in 2012. Two years before he was made CEO[2][3].

In what way is retweeting a two year old newspaper headline about the recently promoted CEO of your company remotely doxxing?

[1]: http://projects.latimes.com/prop8/results/

[2]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...

[3]: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/04/business/la-fi-tn-br...
that's because there was a hurricane that moved a lot of ice around right near the end of the melt season. If there's less than 15% in the area, they consider it melted out. It's an anomaly year.
How does this differ from the existing "Message deletion/retention" feature that was present before this? Did the existing feature delete messages, but not keys? Is the old feature and the new feature combined, or are they still separate?