skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> And shame on the government for not doing any due diligence in trying to prevent this acquisition/monopoly.

> Monopoly? In 2012, Instagram had 40 million users and no revenue[1]. Hardly a monopoly.

I think you misunderstand. Facebook is the monopoly in the grandparent, not the independent Instagram.

I believe the GP's point is that the government should have blocked FB's acquisition of IG, so IG could have provided competition for FB.
Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to be the case for me. I've been wanting to switch back to FF for some time but just opening a website causes my MBP CPU to go nuts, seems 61 is no different for me.
Especially since we see the government in need of debugging, but we don't see the cause of the bugs in the source code...
Ask HN: What open source software does your company need?
What type of new (or improved) projects would your company use if they existed?
> many counter-service food outlets have added a tipping option to their credit card process

I see this as just a little bit underhanded... creating the expectation of a tip in situations where one is not needed.

Also, the presence of a tip jar does not create the need for a tip.
Preferences > Advanced > Uncheck Use Smooth scrolling works for me on Linux. Do you have this option.
> One could (and many have) write volumes on why this is the case, but I believe the simplest explanation of why the Hard Problem is Hard is that we are unable to even state the nature of the problem in a satisfactory way.

Or the nature of our perceptions simply fools us into thinking there's actually a problem to solve.
Open about:config and search for 'wheel'. There are ~50 options for tweaking scrolling, including one to disable smooth scroll and ones to tweak the scroll distance.
Milankovitch cycles combined with other geological events (think Lake Agassiz flooding into the Ocean) are what domainate natural climate variability.
If it's an open secret then the advertisers will adjust for it. Radio and tv stations have been working with fuzzy audience numbers for years and advertisers go along with it.
Sorry, what’s different here? The second line is there so that its signal can be subtracted (inverted + added) from the first line, no? I guess I didn’t realize it also had the the inverted audio signal on it, though, thanks.
There's two ways:

1. At least in FF 60, go to the menu button, then "Preferences". Scroll down to the "Browsing" section and uncheck "Use smooth scrolling".

2. Go to the "about:config" URL. Search for "general.smoothScroll". Double click the row to toggle the value to "false".
The benefits are greatly exaggerated

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/10/trophy-h...

The money doesn't end up where it should and the oversight is minimal.
Why it’s time to curb widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides
It's in preferences, under Browsing.
Apple starts building iPhone 6S in India to lower costs
I had the same issues and avoided FF 57+ because of it. I just tried FF 61 and my results were mixed. Twitch and Youtube still made my CPU temps spike a little bit. It seems worse than Chrome but better than FF 57.

Google Maps, unfortunately, still made my CPU temp spike 30C+ as soon as I opened it. I use Maps a lot, so this is still a deal breaker for me.
That sounds like the developers messed up some Javascript references that are unable to be cleaned up to me. But interesting nonetheless.
> communicating small segments of data wirelessly between terminals

Packet radio? Or, if you're content with short range, what do you need that isn't provided by wifi?

It's not the ISPs you have to worry about, it's the FCC or other local radio authorities. Because radio is a locally-shared medium, bad implementations can jam it very easily.

> Dht is already at the core of Bitcoin

No, it's bittorrent that uses DHT.
That is covered in the README.

[0] https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda#5-anonymise-a-document-for-p...
I think it's cool that in a lot of ways JavaScript has "converged" as well. 5 years ago I was a hater like all the other cool kids, but JS today is a fantastic language in my opinion. There are still warts, for sure. But I enjoy writing ES6 almost as much as Python, and for a lot of things I enjoy it more.
These debugging tools are amazing. They also mentioned Hubble, some kind of visualizer for rr execution traces. I didn't find any information on it.
prolifiration of synthetic cannabionoids kind of defeats your point.

the only counter is to not ban anything
Attend  or speak at  more developer conferences
Yea, most of my browser time spent during free time is strictly on Twitch/Youtube/Netflix. Until these see improvements, then I won't make the switch.
Would you mind providing some links to these biodegradeable plastics? The last time I checked bio-degradeable plastic was nothing more than a marketing sleight of hand: Essentially just micro plastic bound together with something biodegradeable like corn starch. The plastic still enters the environment, skips the part where it breaks down from large pieces to tiny ones, yet still contaminates the enviroment.
Adding issues from other organisations into GitHub Projects
I remember this article ... from 2013.
I wish it wasn't, but IE11 is still a major browser, at least too big to just dump completely in my experience. The UK is worse than most countries in that regard though with higher than average IE11 usage.
QuteBrowser?
His main point was we don't have enough data for the 'very typically' label. To prove this, you need some sort of data.

Instead lostcolony was asking for evidence that this is not the case, implying that we should accept 'very typically' with no evidence, and expect proof of absence to change our minds.
Thank You! I was pretty sure it was the Bulls but I couldn’t find it after 3 or 4 Google searches, and chalked it up to too much drinking in college.
This is what we revealed a couple of months ago on hackernews https://saleemkce.github.io/timeonsite and the web analytics tool based on it. https://medium.com/swlh/introducing-time-on-site-analytics-f...
Reported via email, and now fixed.

Requesting URLs such as `file:///etc/passwd` would result in viewing the contents of arbitrary files upon the host. A common security problem I've discussed in the past:

https://blog.steve.fi/if_your_code_accepts_uris_as_input__.h...
I agree with you, but also have to say that what he did shouldn’t be outside the law imo.
Did he make a bad choice, or is the law unjust?

Same with the CFAA abuses.
> interact with see in node.js

It's almost as if it's a Turing complete language with ability to make system calls!!! I'm impressed. Node.js FTW!!!!
TIL about the Blub paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blub_paradox#The_Blub_paradox

Thanks for that.
My tipping strategy in this situation: If they simply take your order at the counter and bring your food out, no tip.

I also don't tip in places where you are expected to bus (clear) your own table, unless other service has been provided.
Same response as prior... this article is about plastic waste clogging rivers not CO2. Yes, there are other problems that also need better solutions. Stop conflating different problems. I have news for you: they don't plastic wrap cucumbers to save on CO2.

EDIT: And, yes, I have tunnel vision on solving the problem presented in the article not some other problem. There is no price for carbon that is inducing agricultural producers to minimize it.
Could it be that the inability to state the hard problem sensibly is because there is no such problem? I understand it's a somewhat unsatisfactory Dennetian response, but there is the possibility that as neuroscience untangles the softer problems of consciousness, the alleged hard problem will melt away.
It really is the case. VOIP in the middle isn't a problem. MGCs can translate between the callee's phone being on-hook to a SIP re-INVITE with inactive media. In fact, I've worked on projects in the last few years to do just this.

Telcos move slowly.

You're right about mobile networks though - that's a different kettle of fish.
It does, switch to the Dark theme and try it out.
I belong in the dustbin of history, we're hanging out in the dustbin and I'm throwing a party. Everyone can come wrestle in the mud.
In this particular case, he had all reason to believe his work was being used by some to do illegal things. But even then, is that any different than the people who work on TOR knowing full well it is used to abuse children, or who work on military weapons knowing that innocent people are targeted? Should a gun seller who has reason to believe the buyer might do something illegal with their be punished for making the sell anymore than any of the tech products used to circumvent laws (from minor laws dealing with content piracy to major laws dealing with child abuse)?

Can we draw a definite consistent lines on where helping criminals commit crimes is moral, where it is immoral, where it is legal, and where it is illegal?
Give it some time.

Kim Kardashian has a 110 million followers. After the Russians (or whoever...maybe just that "400 pound dude in the basement") get her to become the next president I am waiting to see what boywonder shows up and says to Congress.

We know what he and his exec staff thought about fake news before the election. Now who here thinks fake imagery is not a thing? Just take a look at the content produced by the top 100 accounts.

There is going to be a special place in history for the damage boywonder has done. People will have to invent new terms to describe it. Nothing like it has happened ever before.
California Government Considers Creation of 'Fake News Advisory Group'
Graceful degredation. Use JavaScript to add in these details, but it should still work without.
If only it worked how you describe.
I'm pretty sure most advertisers already do adjust for it, because they know how big of a problem it is. But that's not what I meant to focus on.

What I'm trying to say is that, like Twitter, IG will probably start to lose a lot of public respect and valuation if they keep boasting "we have 1 billion active users!" once the general public starts to get wind of the fact that the 1 billion number is bullshit.
that and lack of bounce-scroll make firefox feel very clunky on mac, sadly
Engineers have created cement alternative to reduce concrete’s carbon footprint
Ask HN: What is better PM tool for marketing and design agency: Trello or Asana?
What are the limitations of those two? What other tools do you recommend?
I wonder if it's an education problem. I would wager there's quite a few of us who would be attracted to legally questionable work for big payoffs. Even FBI higher-ups have sold secrets to foreign countries for money.

And according to the article, he was discovered after all, the stereo shop that hired him were impressed by his installer work.
A law professor explains why Walgreens can deny birth control prescriptions
Our medical ethics prevents us from directly studying consciousness in a way that would give us strong casual explanation. I'm unsure if we'd ever allow it actually.

We might get around the edges, but until you can show you can directly turn consciousness off (and back on again probably) in vivo, in the same way we try to do with every other "effective" medical treatment, the strength of any proof is going to be inconclusive.

The closest we'll probably get is eventually creating some system which convincingly displays the characteristics that humans recognize as "Consciousness." Hopefully we can stop talking about it then.
The OP said was distasteful when they turn into "political orgs with a political agenda".

The EFF is in fact, a political org with a political agenda. They don't pretend otherwise.

Whether they are working on behalf of the public all depends on your relative viewpoint.

Pretty much all of them believe they are working on behalf of the public, even the ones HN would classify as industry lobbying orgs, etc.
Brotli is amazing. But...

> Brotli can compress faster than gzip and still produce smaller files

Huh?

> For dynamic content, we'll use 4, which still produces smaller responses but takes less time to compress than gzip or brotli on a higher setting.

Oh if you compare to gzip max. But who runs gzip max? Gzip 6 gives decent low cost compression. Gzip 9 is barely smaller but much slower.

Algorithms have their sweet spots. Brotli (small), LZMA (fast), gzip (somewhere in between).

Knowing nothing about my clients, bandwidth, or dynamism, I can turn on gzip without really a second thought.
Ironically, it’s the daily activities such as flying glorious ocean fish on aircraft which dump huge amounts of CO2 and water vapor into the stratosphere, or trucking them in refrigerated trucks all across the country, that led to this problem.

I know you were /s here, but I point this out because there is a huge amount of personal responsibility implied by climate change. Even if one doesn’t believe humans are driving it, climate change is happening and humans have to deal with it. From a mitigation perspective, individual consumer choices have a large bearing in his successful we will ultimately be.

People don’t like the implications, though, and either most people don’t connect the dots or are in denial that their choices count. Sadly, this trend is worse among climate change believers.[1]

Kidding aside, ordering less fresh ocean fish during winter is a meaningful personal start.

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/7/climate-skep...
In the rare case you win (there are legitimate win a car contests that are not trying to get your private information) there is a lot of paperwork to fill out. In the best case you would be sober before the paperwork is done.
I understand this isn't because of some evil plot or crazy corporate machination, and I'm talking of different teams, but it's interesting how Google (which spends a lot of resources on developer relations and web performance education) created Brotli, released it, and then mostly stopped advocating for it.
Did anyone else discover the "Good News" voice in Firefox's reader mode text-to-voice? It reads the current page to the tune of "Pomp and Circumstance"!
I experienced a broken back button after clicking a few different menu items.
> Could federal-level law enforcement theoretically charge someone in a cannabis-legal state for drug offenses?

All these dispensaries are having a problem getting the money they make into the banking system because of federal law enforcement potentially going after the banks for laundering drug money or somesuch.

Don't think that's actually happened but it could which is enough for the bankers to steer clear.

I was reading a while back the biggest problem for the feds is local enforcement simply refuses to cooperate with them (since it's legal under state law and their job is to enforce state, not federal, law) and they don't have the resources to cause as much damage as they wish.
Firefox Sync is bad in so many ways.

A few more settings that don't sync:

- Cookie exceptions

- New tab page config (Top Sites and everything else that you see on that page)

- Certificate exceptions

- Personal certificates
The thing I wonder is whether some of this value is coming at the expense of people reading books. My guess is there's a significant overlap in the demographics. Which is too bad, because I view books as a positive for society while Instagram really seems to be a big net negative.
So you think instead people should be playing around with SDR on licensed spectrum?
> I feel bad for the founders of Instagram. They could have been the next Zuckerberg

Like Snapchat, you mean? The risk is that, failing to acquire Instagram, Facebook could have built a clone and turned their massive user base to it. Instagram could have been in a distant third place. We'll never know.
Minimalism / “less is more” ?
Facebook (the company) is in for the long haul and this is a perfect example of it. It's insane how Zuckerberg has managed to establish the company so well in a segment (social media) that is so susceptible to fads. Facebook.com's usage could very well plateau, but the company has Instagram, WhatsApp, and some bets that are yet to play out (Oculus VR). Zuckerberg isn't lucky here, he just has incredible insight about what matters in the social media business and what he has to do get there.
Trump's idea to merge education and labor departments makes a lot of sense
> In the most performance-sensitive contexts, JavaScript hinders rather than helps. Its dynamic type system and non-deterministic garbage collection pauses get in the way. Seemingly small code changes can result in drastic performance regressions if you accidentally wander off the JIT’s happy path.

I'm seeing this repeated more and more as a compelling case for using WASM. I've even repeated it myself. Does anyone know of examples of JS optimized for one VM not performing well in others, leading to a significant cost? I ask this as a Rust/WASM fanboy. Not doubting; just curious. I feel like I've already read a couple anecdotes but can't remember.
> Vitalism and dualistic theories of consciousness both belong in the dustbin of history.

Science adopted materialism as it's guiding philosophy prematurely. We've since added electromagnetism and quantum theory to science, but still the hope for the falsification of vitalism persists.
How come I always find out about Firefox updates from HN faster than actually getting the updates? Honest question.
Video has been a big culprit for me - in both FireFox and Chrome. I've actually taken to using Microsoft Edge when I plan to play video.
The earlier comment was about people bringing their own silverware, dishes, and cups, with a washing station at the restaurant.

I think you've switched it to takeaway containers for take-out? That's a rather different topic. Certainly we know that recycled glass containers worked for decades.

But the main issue is non-biodegradable objects. Why would we worry about returnable-reusable boxes to replace, say, cardboard pizza boxes?
Apple’s guide to AppleSoft BASIC came with my IIGS and was my first programming book. It seems so much harder to get started now.
But that's what you'd be doing if you permitted user-controlled transmissions from ordinary cell phones. The analog hardware in a cell phone is tied to specific frequency bands. So you'd have user-controlled transmissions, not mediated by the cell towers, on the LTE bands.

Also, LTE-U was interfering with Wi-Fi. In general, the unlicensed bands would be a lot more useful if they weren't quite so unlicensed and every radio had to follow certain basic rules.
Looks like "babie lato" has two translations:
https://en.pons.com/translate/polish-english/babie+lato
The checker concludes that because my server doesn't allow TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 it “Does not use a secure TLS version”, when in fact it does allow/require TLSv1.2 (and the checker does connect via TLSv1.2 later on). Is that an intentional conclusion or a bummer?
E-commerce firms can flourish using this amazing online form builder [pdf]
Money spells is also one of the most important forms of white magic spells
> until you can show you can directly turn consciousness off (and back on again

But we can, and we do -- every day. That's exactly what general anesthetics do. It's also what happens during sleep.
To me, what's depressing is the amount of energy people spend proving their experiences were so amazing versus actually experiencing them.
Sounds like your computer. :)
Why does it have be one or the other? I think the two of them can be rather complementary.
Julia does very well at calling libraries with a C ABI, and Rust can be used instead of C or Fortran, if you really need to (although, in over 3 years, using Julia to develop commercial products, I've not once needed to use C or Rust, as I originally had thought I'd need to, Julia has met and surpassed all of my performance expectations)
I've also found that Julia handily beats any other language I've used (which is quite a few over 44+ years of programming!) at one metric that is frequently the most important to me, programmer productivity.
"I expect them to work on behalf of the public, rather than being anti something without good reason."

Certainly you realize whether they are working on behalf of the public depends on your relative viewpoint?
Don't forget asset forfeiture and increased tax rates / deficit spending.
How would you answer the same question from a vegetarian? We eat meat for "fun" too, though we would be able to survive on plants.

The answer is that most people don't care about animal suffering.
Pretty sure that is just macOS.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1488112
Design Patterns for Deep Learning Architectures
> I feel bad for the founders of Instagram.

That's like feeling bad for someone who sold bitcoins at $10. The company they sold was worth $1bn (to Facebook) at the time. It was not worth $100bn.
That link refers to forum posts for January. Firefox has only been supported officially on stable versions since May.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1password-x-p...

It's now as easy as adding the extension and logging in.
nginx does that already. The problem is it'll stop you being able to reload configuration on other bits of config. Once there's a config error nothing can reload.

Limited blast radius don't really apply when it comes to nginx config errors (which given its origins is understandable). One error in one bit of config and it all stops.
I don't think that counter argument can be made. Until the crime is proven, the assumption has to be that those assets were gotten legally. Otherwise, really, what's to stop police from seizing the assets of anyone who's case might be shaky?
> The climate system is one endless positive negative feedback system and we don't have enough data to say anything truly conclusive other than the climate is changing and things are getting hotter.

The no-feedback warming per doubling of CO2 is 3.7 W/m^2, which is held to be roughly equivalent to 1 degree of global temperature. There are some fairly readily ascertainable facts about climate change, sufficient to demonstrate that it is happening, and that it is caused by human CO2 emissions. The Earth is a complex system, but the critical effects are at the top of the atmosphere, which is much less complex. The lower bound for the warming effects is consequently very well known. And it's not so much the case that there are large quantities of this other well-known greenhouse gas lying around, and more like we misnamed this planet. There is uncertainty when trying to model anything, but I'm afraid at this point the "not a serious problem" warming scenarios have been ruled out.
> sense of absurdity.

nailed it
I subscribed for startinfinity.com beta and it seems they are solving trello limits and have really great UX.
An organisation always has some kind of culture. If it is "defined" (I interpret that as something being written down) or not doesn't really matter. Whatever is defined in that sense is not really the culture of that organisation. You can define your culture in any way you want with whatever value statements you desire an organisation to embody, but most likely those will not reflect the actual culture in the org.

That's not to say that trying to be explicit with the culture you want in an organisation is bad. It is just recognising that the words are not the culture. The people, the way they interact and the atmosphere in the company and what drives it is what creates the company culture.
Which is strange considering this article was in the comments:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-bc-us-sci--30-years-of-war...

According to the data it's reporting from NOAA, scenario B has occurred (one degree of warming). El Niño seems to have little to do with it as well, as the warming is concentrated away from it (North America and Europe).