skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you think of money as “intermediary token of value”, this makes a lot of sense. If you have a love of money, you will naturally tend towards whatever has the highest money-in-to-value-out ratio. With Google, however, the user is the product, so Google only want to put as much value in as to make sure the user stays. And yes, that does result in a good and polished browser, but only because it’s what keeps users from going to another one.
I agree that capital punishment for drug offences is abhorrent, but in terms of personal safety you need to also consider other risks.

Singapore has a population of 5.6 million and each year about 2 people are executed for drug offences and about 12 people are murdered.

In the US for each 5.6 million people about 270 are murdered each year.

There are plenty of other risks to consider but I think you are probably safer in Singapore.
I just recently visited a site (afterschool program) that silently failed for me using Mac Chrome where Safari worked fine. All other assets other than the login form loaded making me wonder what I was missing.

I almost missed a mandatory form that finally resolved by calling the number on the contact page. This is the sort of thing that used to be the other way around...
Great landing page.
All the best.
Why We Want Pattern-Matching in JavaScript
* purported atoms
* purported molecules

* purported cells

* purported persons
"... and, sadly, the 3 to 4 months for the kitten to grow was
ultimately what doomed Bonsai Kitten's chances of being the most
successful startup out of Senior House."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten
One reason is that the variety and number of extensions available is far lesser on Safari compared to Firefox. If someone is dependent on several extensions, then it may be a no-go.
Yes. The old miniature PC motherboard formats are disappearing... almost gone. In their wake are custom machines, sometimes known as SOM (system on module) which are much smaller and produced for a combination of embedded applications such as TV set-top boxes. I project these will steal more desktop and laptop market, as they are so cheap. Example @ http://shop.t-firefly.com/category.php?id=2
Would multiple profile / personas help for this?
I'm on the Polymer team at Google. We've been helping the YouTube team, who's been doing a ton of work to update to the final v1 version of the webcomponent specs. So far it's a bit neck and neck between Firefox launching version 63 with native web component support (eta October) and YouTube switching the main desktop app over.

These are new standards, and there were a number of breaking changes from the v0 specs to v1. It's a lot of code to update, but we're working super hard to get all of Google onto v1.
Standing up to Google is meaningless if you’re not being smart. The number one feature of Google is their overwhelming intelligence. Throwing a fit and compiling some software semi-ignorantly doesn’t stand up to anything, much less this type of power.
wow, the youtube design sucks
This doesn't answer your question, but I thought I'd mention: A lot of great engineering goes into Firefox too. I really think you ought to try the version of Firefox that enables WebRender by default, when it comes out. I've been using it in Nightly on Mac, and it's seriously worth trying.
Made me chuckle
Step 1 to reading a mathematics textbook is finding 4 hours per day to work through it. Most people cannot do that.
Yes it does. Literally doing anything other than blindly using their products and not giving a shit is standing up to them. It doesn't matter whether you're smart or not – anyone can do this.

It doubly stands up to them if you make a blogpost or a tweet saying "I did this. Here are the steps I followed." And this is less likely to happen if you discourage people from doing it.

Honestly, it's a bit depressing how little people care. We're supposed to be the activists and the world-changers. But when it comes to merely doing anything at all, you're likely to get ass-blasted just for attempting the lowest common denominator form of protest.

EDIT: Replying to your reply to my reply to your reply: If you click on a comment's timestamp, you can reply directly to it, even if HN's benevolent software doesn't normally show you the reply link.

The reply link hides in order to discourage pointless flamewars. Like this one.
Geez, I didn’t realize Google and Bing had search by image. I’m still using tineye.
What do you think of my podcast, Bits vs. Bytes?
It is all in the eye of the beholder: see the Mari Le Pen charges. But I'm sure it is fantastic to pretend that it is done not for maintenance of the status quo but for some other, much more glorious reasons.
> I don't think that's the best use of everyone's time or energy.

Seems like there's a simple solution to this dilemma. Assuming build time is the single determining factor:

If the value of two hours' build time overnight is less than the value of a privacy-enabled build of Chrome, then build Ungoogled Chromium overnight.

Else, get Firefox.
Wouldn't it be better to move onto Brave then?
We could apply the principle of least astonishment to get a feel for correct behaviour without resorting to sterile arguments about what proportion of users understand the difference between a web site and a web browser.

If they looked at a slightly risque URL on their phone, would the average user expect Chrome on their laptop to autocomplete that URL?
I am an Engineer at Celo https://celo.org/ - Our mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all.

We aim to give financial tools that will help people to self-actualize. Many people in the world do not have the basic financial tools for lifting themselves out of poverty -- a sound currency and property rights -- and we aim to provide those. Second, we aim to create a system that connects people to one another through the financial system; especially those that have been disconnected from the financial system.

We have a flat & open culture and value diversity. We are hiring at our SF and Berlin offices: https://celo.org/jobs

More about Celo: "Hello From Celo" - https://medium.com/@celo.org/hello-from-celo-34bf195cb99
It is called mocktails and every proper cocktail bar has at least as many as regular cocktails. If your cocktail bar does not, then you are overpaying for a spruced up dive bar experience.
I think AI will win with bedside manner even if everything else is equal.

Overworked humans suck at being humane.
Wow, just downloaded and I'm very impressed. Vivaldi is a real pleasure to use. Thanks for the recommendation.
Closest I've got:

> While the story behind the coinage of LGTM remains murky at best, the earliest known use and explanation of the acronym can be traced to a feature summary of Google Mondrian, a peer-review software application for programmers, posted by Niall Kennedy[3] on November 30th, 2006.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lgtm?full=1
Yeah, Chrome isn't so good that I find a need for the open source community to maintain a fork of it. ⌘Space Safari and I get on with my life.

It's been interesting to experience Internet Explorer, then Firefox, Chrome, and finally coming back to operating system default browsers with Edge and Safari and being perfectly content.

The leverage Microsoft and Apple are utilizing with their operating system ecosystems is fairly pleasant, creating better out of the box experiences. Installing more software just feels like such a nit-picky user experience that I don't want, especially with refreshing my systems now and again.
fwiw even Nightly is quite stable these days, I can't remember when it last kept me from getting work done. And the addt'l telemetry is just a pref away.
> When I do go out now I drink diet soft drinks so that I don't get constantly asked why I don't have a drink.

That's probably one of the absolute worst ideas one could have as a substitution.
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18052923
Replying to your reply: no it doesn’t. You learn that chrome takes a long time to compile, and that’s about it. Yes, blindly chasing convenience is the root of this evil, but expecting people to forgo all basic conveniences is not realistic, and therefore not valuable. Now if someone made a reproducible, trustable ungoogled Chromium that would actually practically help. Listening to your computer fans whir for two hours isn’t practical for most people, and is therefore not a practical real solution to this problem.
I had a border collie years ago, and I can’t agree enough. If he didn’t get the chance to run and play and work every day, he’d get really anxious. You could tell when he neeed more stimulation because he’d sit on his bed and suck on some sheets he likes to chew on, and just stare at you. I had an active life and so did my family, so he was rarely bored, but the average person would be at a loss.

Plus they are so unbelievably smart, as in significantly smarter than a very young human, and think of how much trouble little humans get into when bored! He was a good boy though, incredibly loving, and in the 99% of times we could meet his needs very happy. We’d run around for a couple of hours in a nearby mountain wilderness, then go home and take a nap together.

A good boy. I miss him.
Implying Microsoft wouldn’t turn back into the scumbag it used to be, had they regained their market dominance.
"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

— John Erlichman, domestic policy advisor to Richard M. Nixon
Not only are standardized tests (and thus preparatory high school tests) stringent against cell phone use, but companies such as TI have had a monopoly on the market for a long time. It's great to see a competitor that uses a more modern underlying language, that costs as much or less than the TIs do. I really hope this calculator or something similar starts to catch on at secondary schools in the U.S.
> "You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
I tried 69 at the time. Haven't checked for a few days.
Your vision is well thought out and fairly realistic. I hate it though. Absolutely hate it.

The potential applications you describe around dating or knowledge display literally make the wearer see the world as a set of data points, which—while quite 2018—I believe is incredibly dangerous even without bad actors. It does not leave room for anything that doesn't fit into some arbitrary set of database columns or set of graph nodes or ML model; no room for nuance; no allowance for change or for the unknown or for the unexpected. Eventually, the data overlays stop augmenting reality and come to defined reality itself.

My ideal smart glasses would let me see and experience differently; see new spectrums of light or watch music dance through the air. In a world with no bad actors, AR adventures would take me new places and introduce me to new people. Visual augmentations would let me try on new personas or express myself in new ways. Reality itself becomes hackable.

If history is any guide, the future that I dream of will never come to pass and in 20 years these words will seem as quaint as those of early internet utopians. And yet I still have to believe in it—and I will still keep trying to explore it—because the bland, data dystopia that you unwittingly offered a sneak peak of is just too horrible.
Thanks for sharing! Thought provoking read and a good walk through how a society like Star Trek's 23rd-century Earth might arise.
It's nearly always overblown. A new paradigm usually renders the evidence more probable, giving a more precise and accurate explanation, but it rarely fully contradicts old paradigms, since that would leave it with their replications and evidence to explain away!
> pulling in over a 120 billion web pages a month

Can you tell more? That's 45K pages per second, and assuming that each page load on average takes 1 second you already need 45K workers. Are you talking requests or really loading web pages and evaluating them?
I love how Safari sips battery on OS X, but its performance is glacial in my experience. With Chrome I can, for example, type “was” and hit return at normal typing speed and expect the browser to have autopopulated “washingtonpost.com” from my history and take me there. With Safari on the same newer high end macbook pro, autopopulate takes up to a few seconds, so hitting return takes me to the page half of the time and searches for “was” the other half of the time. Pages seem to take longer until the first meaningful content loads, too.
Ah thanks for that tip. Yes let’s not flame :)
Intellectual Dank Web
>Maybe I'm just confused about the definition of "paradigm".

Well, as the article points out, Kuhn himself never fully defined it. However, I think we can get a productive account out of reading it as "overhypothesis"[1].

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b182/a0184613376d49dcec5f5a...
In this case the object detector has been trained to recognize elephants. It's just never seen elephants in such a setting (living room).

It would be similar to a situation where a human, who sees an improbable object for a given environment, reevaluates his initial perception/understanding of that environment. I can't come up with a good example of such a situation, but you get the idea.
Rather one could attempt a protest of a higher denominator, for less effort, by using a non-Chrome-compatible browser, which also does more potential good in the long run by giving webmasters any reason to give a care for browsers that aren't unilaterally controlled by Google.
In all seriousness, most Silicon Valley "why we truly matter pitches" are just shovels full of something.

We'd probably be making bigger differences in the world if we contented ourselves with making a living, and then stepping away from our keyboards to go befriend people who are going through hard times and serve our immediate communities more directly.

Making money matters if it enables you to turn around and help other people directly and immediately.
With all due respect as I do not know you what so ever, I suggest having a chat with one of the non-PC doctors. Real chat. Like "your time is valuable because you are really good at what you do. Like $500 an hour valueable... This is my lifestyle. Tell me what I'm doing wrong or pat me on a back if I'm doing it all right"
maybe they make their own in-house Pixar

It would be interesting to see if there was a mandate to use Apple gear in the render farm.
I started a podcast a while ago and would really love your guys’s opinion!
This doesn't make sense. Options should have been adjusted for the split.
The iPod shuffle did it:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC003AM/A/apple-ipod-shuf...

I used non-Apple headphones with one and ended up with a nice black scorch mark and broken iPod, I guess because a bit of sweat got in there.
Sun-synchronous orbit
Well, most of the fighting against "invasive mass surveillance and questionable social engineering practices" has also been done by leftists, so there's that...

Centrist average Joes usually don't care about such things, and right wingers applaud them to help the police and such.

As for libertarians they are against them when it's by the government, but fine with them when a private company (even one the size of a small nation) does it as part of a "voluntary" employment contract.
The ARM Machinists Atlas
You seem somewhat unperturbed that the entire crux of your original argument was faulty... maybe time for an update on your priors? Don't mean to sound unfriendly :)
I have to ask, how much time have you spent outside of the US?
Why would a==b be a problem with the XOR swap trick?

function xorSwapTest(min, max) {
for (var i = min; i < max; i++) {
var a = i, b = i;
b ^= a;
a ^= b;
b ^= a;

if (a != i || b != i)
throw Error("Problem with " + i);
}

return true;
}
Open Machine Learning Course
>But just like a contract, where the sides don’t agree, one is entitled to have the contract enforced as written.

Where in the Constitution does it say that?

Because if it doesn't, then the entitlement you're describing doesn't exist as far as it's concerned.
None at first. I was hired by a client after the dev shop I worked for went under. We were so inexperienced/grateful for the job we didn’t think to ask for any equity. The salary is just below market average, which is fair considering my experience level.
Some background: this is my first startup, we’re a team of 5 (CEO, Android, iOS, Web/CTO, Customer support).

6 months after we were hired the runway began to get tight and we had to take some semi-drastic measures to stretch it: the CEO (who hadn’t been taking a salary for quite some time) asked us to stay on but work half-time until we were far enough along to raise the correct amount of funding. Because I believe in both the mission and the CEO I offered to stay on full-time for half-pay and half-equity. For the past 5 months half of my salary has been converted into shares. Instant vesting, shares are being given at our current valuation. Each month translates to roughly 0.1% of the company.
Title needs a "(2013)" tag.
Yes, but they also come with Google's release engineering, so at least you can be somewhat confident they've not been subverted in some way not intended by the authors of the browser.

The way Ungoogled Chromium is distributed is way too yolo for my tastes. Would be nice if it had reproducible builds or was packaged into a reputable distro or thirdparty repo.
As a Canadian who moved to the Bay area, this is true. Finding a Canadian company that is going to be competitive with Bay area salaries is almost impossible even if their revenue is in USD.

Even large US companies generally require internal transfer to Canada to take a pay cut in addition to changing to Canadian dollars.

To make it worse, Vancouver has a high cost of living but low salaries.
I don't like to be "forced" to do anything, but I happen to like browsers that sync! This way I can save a file to my "reading list" or add a bookmark at work and I'll see it at home. Very handy.
Performance may have been an issue years ago, but nowadays safari is just as fast and consistent at rendering. I use safari as my default now, including for web dev, and have chrome ready in the rare case I need it.
Interesting that we both posted the same quote within seconds of one another.
That's not true. The more you drink the more you can drink. If you either gradually or cold turkey quit for a few months to reset, you would be amazed how less alcohol you would need to feel smashed. From my understanding it is basically training your liver and kidneys.

It is also quite funny: anesthesiologists always know who lies on the intake forms based on the answer to alcohol consumption question. The more the drink, the longer it takes to put them under.
I just finished spending two months on DuckDuckGo, and landed back on Google simply because I was tired of searching for so many things twice: once with the original search, and once with g!.

I really want a Google alternative. Maybe I'll try Bing again, too.
I’m cofounder/CTO at CareZone (.com). Our mission is to help people care for themselves and their families.

The US health care system is disorganized, inefficient, and overwhelming for patients and their families. We aren’t “solving healthcare”, but we provide tools and services that make caregivers’ lives easier.

This matters not just for the obvious reason that so many people need help, but because relatively little effort in the health care system goes into helping patients and their caregivers with the responsibilities the system dumps on them.
Possibly a reference to criticism of Kuhn in this book, among his other writings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense
> A mistaken include in a build file, most likely.

Yea, "whoops we accidentally downloaded a surveillance device on your system!"... If that sort of negligence can happen, what else is the browser currently doing, or capable of doing in the future, "accidentally"?
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-tha...

Mostly under "2. What is the right dose of melatonin?", but you should probably read the whole thing.
why not Safari? Or is the issue non-MacOS OSs
Almost surely an allusion to Sokal's eponymous hoax: He published a hilarious gibberish paper in "Social Text", with the glorious title Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

Later, Sokal and Bricmont published a book, Intellectual Impostures (Fashionable Nonsense in the US) about postmodern "intellectuals" abusing scientific terminology (eg Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, Bruno Latour, and Jean Baudrillard); that would be the rogue gallery presumably.

It's an entertaining book, and I think those writers are guilty as charged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense
News Site to Investigate Big Tech, Helped by Craigslist Founder
I wonder what the issue is. My experience with safari on my old macbook air is speedy with no power problems.
I checked out brave a few times but every time stopped using it due to the bulky feeling of their interface and the forced remembered sites you visited that show as an icon when you open a new tab. I take as much offense at browsers showing me every single site I went to without an easy “turn off this feature “ toggle as I do with chrome forcing itself into my browsing experience. When will a browser come around that is light and does what it’s supposed to do - let you browse.
> What happened to “do no evil”?

It was considered "stupid" so they dropped it:

https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/13/4326424/eric-schmidt-once...

I thought that even if "evil" can't be well-defined, its general meaning probably encouraged a culture that tried to focus on ethics. When your leader says that trying not to be evil is "stupid", it has a different effect on the culture.
At first, I was confused, because I've been using this feature in Safari for years. But then I remembered that years ago I installed an extension called "Omnikey" that provides this: http://marioestrada.github.io/safari-omnikey/, https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=ec.mario.omn.... If this is the only thing holding you back from using Safari, install the extension and switch. It's been working so well for years that I forgot it wasn't built in.
While you're right about how long it takes to type a function on a calculator like this, this calculator is a huge step up from the TIs kids use on the SAT right now.
>The app is much more secure especially on iPhone or modern androids with crypto enclave or what ever it is called. With that even if a customer installs malicious app and grant it a lot of permission, the bank app can still be unaffected.

"crypto enclave" isn't a silver bullet that magically prevents you from getting hacked. it might keep your signing keys from being divulged, but if the attacker has root access (or jailbroken), there's nothing preventing the attacker from getting the enclave to sign whatever request it wants. at the very least it can corrupt the legitimate app's memory to force it to make a transfer.

the security comes from sandboxing, not secure element/enclave.