skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rational arguments like yours are not what I'm talking about. When I say fascist/totalitarian/neo-Nazi ideology, I mean exactly that and nothing short of that.

I do have some issues with what you wrote.

My first problem is with IQ tests in general. Psychology is a soft science. It's recently been revealed to be even softer than we thought. The replication crisis in psychology and other soft sciences has made me very skeptical of science that's not hard enough to be tied immediately down to physics, math, and logic. In softer sciences the beliefs of the researchers seem to have a disturbing amount of effect on the outcome.

My second and larger problem is that racism and sexism are extremely common. Years ago I would not have said that, but the recent outpouring of overt hard-core racism and misogyny has convinced me that the activists were right. Either a huge number of formerly not-racist and not-misogynist people suddenly underwent a mass conversion, or the taboo on openly discussing these topics was broken on social media and people suddenly started saying what they really thought. I lean toward the latter, since the explosion of this stuff was just so fast and so extreme.

Given that huge numbers of people are racist and sexist, it's extremely hard to untangle any biological a priori differences from outcomes owing to prejudice.

Personally I think both you and the activists are right in that both causes are in play, but the only way to find out what percentage is due to what is probably to attack prejudice as a potential cause and then see what residual remains. Prejudice is easier to address than genetic differences since ideas are not encoded in DNA and we don't really have the technology (yet?) to boost intelligence physically either through genetic engineering or augmentation.

I do not personally support heavy-handed imposition of quotas as advocated by some activists, but I do think something ought to be done. Again I wouldn't have said that years ago, but the explosion of racism and misogyny on social media changed my mind significantly on this issue. I've been driven a lot further to the left on numerous issues in recent years from being just so shocked and appalled at ideas that are apparently much more common out there than I would have thought. I thought that stuff was dead.
Wasn't an original idea of Edge that it would have several different quirks modes where it would use the old IE renderer to work with old corporate websites and such to be extremely backwards compatible? Could this break things for some companies with old IE-only internal websites etc? (Not that I don't think these should have all been made to work with chrome long ago.) If they are going to try to maintain some kind of quirks mode, would that be open sourced?
It's likely because of Electron. Microsoft already creates applications for Electron (which is Chromium) so maintaining that compatibility is likely a high priority.
The problem is not the promotion criteria. That's fine. After all, promoting people for successfully completing projects is hardly a stupid or irrational way to reward people. The alternatives are all worse.

The problem is there are too many Googlers, so they keep inventing busywork projects that don't need to exist (like reinventing messaging over and over) because otherwise there's nothing for them to do. The ideas:people ratio is completely out of whack.

Why are there too many Googlers? Because Google would rather spend money on hiring than returning excess profit to investors.

Why would they do that? Because their stock voting structure prevents investors from forcing their hand, and because of an essentially delusional culture/belief amongst senior management that they hire the world's smartest people, that they will never run out of ideas, that there's always more to do etc etc. Management can't accept that Google might have tapped out, ideas-wise, and maybe its natural size is smaller than today not bigger. It takes quite some humility to say "we're spinning our wheels, the profit we generate could be better deployed elsewhere" and they can't do it.

Watching this process play out gave me a new appreciation for why shares have voting rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...
>"- It would mean Edge would not be cross-platform, a huge strategic mistake on Microsoft's part. People want to use the same browser across devices"

Realy? Id prefer different browsers optimised for the device. I don't even think theres much similarity between the desktop and the mobile browser anyway.

Any benefits other than bookmark sharing etc?
> I'm assuming I'm not the only one who's afraid of Blink becoming the new Internet Explorer; instead of people following a web standard, they'll follow what's Chrome-compatible.

This is already the norm. I use Safari and find many sites have issues. Before that I used Firefox and many sites had issues.

Typically the JS works, but styling often looks different (and worse) on Safari and Firefox.
>our society should not be catering to the whims of everyone who claims harm

I guess the whim of the slaves claiming harm shouldn’t be catered to. Clearly, anyone complaining about existing power structures are whingers and their opinions must be ignored. That is some real bootlicking.
MS could have chosen to base their platform on Firefox, but they chose to go with Chromium.

We can lament the passing of Edge, but I wonder how people would have felt if instead of Edge they just had this announcement as the replacement for IE. Would we have cared? No one seems to miss IE.
Mine too (55mpg average Skoda octavia which being much like a Passat is in their 'luxury' category). I'm guessing they make assumptions about the mix of electricity on the grid. Seeing as we are able to purchase green electricity here they should let us alter that assumption.
This is step 2: Extend.
​CNAB: Docker and Microsoft's Cloud Native Application Bundle
True true. It's not the only one :)
They still want you to switch to Edge - they just are admitting that having a NIH syndrome is from a business use case not useful here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
I'm doubtful they would/can change the controls over transparently. My guess is that once the Chromium engine is ready, binaries built against new Windows SDKs will use Chromium, and existing binaries will continue to use EdgeHTML.
> PhotoDNA is a technology developed by Microsoft [...]

Some other services by MS that might build on this:

* https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services

* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services
> Oh, I see: you probably didn't know that CSV formats is also means character separated values, and can actually use non-printing ASCII characters as delimiters.

That seems unnecessarily condescending. JSON can also mean Janky Serialized Object Notation, but that's not the common case.

> I guess your experience with character separated value files is very limited.

In practice, using something other than a comma is a good solution for some problems, but not others (eg transfer corruption or you know, the OP's use case).

> a heavyweight solution like JSON.

I've literally never heard that phrase, nor does it make much sense. At best it's 2 more characters for wrapping braces with existing quoted data/numbers and at worst you have to make up a new non-interchangeable format as you run into exceptions from the diff, which can affect past encodings. Sounds more involved than using JSON. shrug
This sounds a lot like going from the Lock/Mutexes/Semaphores paradigm into an Actor system.

OP - i.e. @ingve - it might be interesting to take a look into some strategies - like the pull one - on Actor systems like AKKA
I got called away while writing this earlier and rushed my last point which is clearly wrong. It is too late to edit.

Instead:
To use a home built transmitter you need amateur radio license, except in certain specific low power situations. To comply with those situations would be difficult without specialised test gear.
You're stating that it's literally impossible to not be political. I don't agree. You can very well keep politics out of the work place. A ban against any political statements accomplishes that.
Unless you want to filter for the most determined only !
Beginner's guide to long short-term memory networks (LSTMs)
W3C might be too slow, but eschewing at least a rough consensus and instead just ramming through whatever you feel like is the other extreme end of the spectrum. And Google is no saint, so if it benefits them and only them, who cares, Chrome will support it, the community be damned. And this - of course - applies to depreciation of functionality. (Think about any web feature/standard as another Google property, like G+ ... scary? But that's where we're headed with the Blink hegemony.)
> If Microsoft knew that Edge in its current state is inferior, why did they try so hard to make every windows user switch to it?

Because the quality of the product has nothing to do with Microsoft wanting to maintain dominance at all costs. But don't worry, they will continue to try this with the Chromium-based browser, too.
Reflecting on Rust and WebAssembly in 2018
This was incredibly informative, thank you very much.
Looking for recommendations on external OWASP web app testing
I am looking to find some recommendations on external OWASP web application scanning. The tool should be able to do continuous scans and provide reports on the given endpoint. We are a small startup and require setting this up for compliance and security.
Agreed. I see zero chance that Edge will suddenly be ported back to Windows 7. And it would be almost as big of a shock if the Chromium-based Edge is not UWP.
The SDR they talk about in article introduction is specifically using cheap USB TV tuners in combination with open source software to capture various signals. The list of applications is really impressive: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/applications-2/
Yup. 2006-2012, still live in Highfield.
I think you basically answered your own question. If you assume there really is no viable business model--and isn't going to be one--why wouldn't you take what you can while the taking is good before the suckers, excuse me investors, realize it is all smoke and mirrors? Waiting presupposes either a better exit in some other form (i.e. acquisition) or improving financials/other business metrics that let you price higher for an IPO.

ADDED: And as maxxxxx wrote, it seems as if there are a lot of risks for the general economic picture and I'd expect both Lyft and Uber to be hit pretty hard in any significant downturn as they're luxury goods to at least some degree.
Yes I can run a Plex Server on a circa 2009 Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz laptop running Windows 10. Back in 2009, I wouldn’t have wanted to run anything on a computer from 2000. In 2000, I definitely wouldn’t have still been using my 68030-16Mhz Mac LCII from 1991.

My mom is running the latest version of Chrome on a Mac Mini from 2006 that I put Windows 7 on. How much luck would you have had running the latest web browser on a computer from 1994 in 2006? In 1994, I had a PowerMac 6100/60 (PPC 601-60Mhz) with 24Mb of RAM and a 250Mb hard drive with a 486 DX/2 daughtercard with 32Mb of RAM.

Today, I can use a 5 year iPhone 5s. Back in 2013, I would have been masochistic to run an iPhone 3G.
I haven't read the whole thing, but my favorite part so far is 317E (1)(c), which says that the "listed acts" (the things the government can require you do to) include "installing, maintaining, testing or using software or equipment".

In other words, they can just hand you a flash drive containing malware and force you to install it. You're not allowed to say no, and you're not allowed to tell anybody.
I do not think it is trivial to port EdgeHTML. Don't forget it is a fork of Trident with the legacy parts clipped away and some cogs polished, replaced or added. Not meant to run multi-plat, not even meant to run outside Windows 10.
I'm saying that the closest thing we have to a well-adopted standard for securing a "simple PUT request" for something as security critical as a password is called OAuth.

You need CSRF tokens to avoid replay attacks. You need some way for an app to Authorize: that they have permission to update someone's password. That's probably some sort of application whitelist. That application whitelist probably needs a permissions flow for a user to agree that Password Manager Brand X is indeed their password manager application of choice. Do we have a standard for such permission flows and app-specific bearer tokens? Oh look, it's OAuth that says "hi".
Not bad for a starting point! a few comments

It's awkward having the MPG and overall CO2 emissions on separate folds of the screen. I shouldn't need to scroll around to access ~10 numbers.

Also the UK is weird, we use MPG for fuel economy but will measure CO2 emission in kg.

Your transit calculator misses the opportunity to suggest a combined bike+rail trip which is the most practical.
30 years ago the bit of Berlin that I currently live in was literally — not metaphorically, not boogeyman scaremongering, not playground insults — Communist.
This is in regards to the programming language, not the survival game.
Which Google services are baked into Chromium?
Web developers "building for Chromium" is a travesty. It's every mistake made when IE was dominant, repeated. Just do a find and replace from Microsoft to Google. If you are a web developer, please don't do it, and don't try to convince yourselves that it's OK. It's not OK. It wasn't OK before, it's not OK now, and it won't be OK down the road. I don't care that it's expedient; like your reliance on third party tracking scripts it shows you don't respect me.

Microsoft has done us no favors today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU95v23MQ4c
Transmitters are not even expensive. A Baofeng is around $20. Some CW kits are $5.
It's hard to fix deadly CIA communications system problem
hahahahaha haaa (me laughing at you)
The final season is still siting on my DVR. I'm not sure when I'll be ready to watch it.
You can make rational arguments, but the rational advocacy organization quickly learns that it's a great deal less effective than hyperbole and emotion.

And if you want to bemoan that, hey, I'm right there next to you, but, here we are....
This is so important to consider, chromium is more than a browser these days
> IndieGoGo is a haven for scammers. They have absolutely no interest in protecting you. Even if you point out that the scammer is actively scamming currently, they won't do anything.

They actually do protect their backers better than Kickstarter sometimes:

this ongoing scam on Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stillalive/polygons-the...

the same project was actually closed by Indiegogo as the creator is a notorious scammer:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/polygons-the-flat-4-in-1-...

Kickstater doesn't protect anybody at all. Kickstarter doesn't get involved in anyway after funds change hands and they take their cut.
To your first point, I think it's about priors about password choices. To take an extreme example, even if a site allows up to 32 alphanumeric characters, we don't just say passwords on this site are uniformly secure under metric (26+26+10)^32 because theoretically a brute-force approach would have to go through up that many permutations. (Such a number is an upper bound on your password security.)

In particular, short passwords with up to 8 characters are weaker because they form a small and common subset of passwords that people often draw from, and attackers exploit that by trying short passwords first.

Passwords that are 3 dictionary words, with possibly some small perturbations like punctuation inserts or replacements (which helps but only expands the space so much), also form a relatively small subset of passwords that people increasingly draw upon, and attackers aware of this will tailor their brute-force search accordingly.
but their whole business is built off people owning cars.

i understand people in dense cities may drive less and some not have a car at all, but a car is people important to anyone outside a city in ways ride share will not replace easily. this has nothing to do with lack of public infrastructure, it’s the benefits of being in control of your time
Businesses that make their money on ads have no reason to ensure their product works on a segment of the browser market that almost entirely blocks ads.
Microsoft is not an active rival - at least not from a technical perspective.

It is probably up for Mozilla to make a choice: will we implement the standard or will we mimic the behavior of Blink for compatibility reasons (which may be incorrect in some cases).
Having more chefs in the kitchen is not necessarily a better thing.
European. The BBC Micro was a smash hit all over Europe.
As an Ontarian, sure we have a decent amount of hydro and nuclear, but there's been a lot of problems. Fair Hydro for one.
No, a bomber plating bombs almost caused a causality event.
Intel Announces Neuromorphic Computing Research Collaborators – Intel Newsroom
Quick! Mine bitcoin for a day!
> There is a weird belief, that's particularly American, that if you're not outwardly hateful towards black people, you're not racist.

I think the underlying assumption is that a "racist" is someone who spouts bigotry 24/7, and that racism is black and white (pardon the pun) rather than a spectrum, where even an otherwise "decent" person can act or say something racist on occasion. This is why the common refrain after a person does a thing that is blatantly racist is "I am not racist - everyone who knows me knows this is not who I am" despite the empirical evidence.
Users don't care what's inside. Brand awareness is important. Edge will live on, even if it's just a Chromium skin.

And if Google abandons/closes Blink, MS will be forced to spend a bit on browser development again. (Or they'll just fork Firefox.)

Currently it's a win-win for them. They need the web to deliver their services (outlook, office365, azure), now they can develop those cheaper, as they don't have to spend that much on testing as Edge and Chrome will be likely very close.
And (B) is an issue. It's essentially deflationary economics. Why spend money now when it will be cheaper/more profitable next year? Once pricing on batteries stabilizes, you'll probably see more people willing to commit to big battery projects.
Being fine with the status quo is not the same thing as being "against a better working environment for everyone" and is wildly, insanely far from being "literally pathological" - your words, not mine.

Please, reflect on your position for a moment there. You're saying that anyone who is happy with their workplace and thinks things are OK is engaged in "literally pathological anti-social behaviour". That's the kind of overblown, extremist rhetoric that makes diversity initiatives a toxic topic in the modern workplace - it's a demonisation of anyone who thinks that maybe their firm has bigger things to worry about than a never-ending, apparently unsatisfiable quest for "equity".

In other words, people focus on attacking solutions as opposed to helping create better ones. That behavior is pervasive, insidious, counterproductive, and seems to be picking up steam.

It's actually your behaviour that's counterproductive here. There is never any obligation to propose something better when criticising a proposal.

It might be helpful to the proposer, and if someone can think of a better approach then you'd hope they would propose it. But if something is a bad idea, or represents a bad tradeoff (there are no solutions in life, only tradeoffs), then it's a bad idea and shouldn't happen. This is independent of anything else. Indeed, making the status quo worse is absolutely possible with any change, and something people are right to point out if a proposal might lead to it.

That doesn't make them insidious, or counterproductive.
I'd love to see a map that shows trends. Which areas are getting richer? Which are getting poorer?
I worry "grand conspiracy" views distract from the problem of public opinion often being in favor of the bad ideas.

After Snowden I had a couple people I barely knew comment to me something like I should "stop there from being more Snowdens" as a software developer, since they saw it in very simplistic terms as "my country = good, this guy = sabotaging my country" but I didn't run into anyone offline who shared the privacy-conscious reaction with me.

I think that explains why these things pop up everywhere much more simply. And without changing that perception, the other battles seem like losing fights.
Me too! Although it has been sitting in my list of potential projects for months so kudos to them for actually doing it...
It doesn't support things like SSO / federated authentication, multiple password fields for 2FA, multiple username fields for realm/domain and individual account, etc.

The web already has a perfectly good solution for arbitrary forms, and has had it for decades. Just use that.
Don't think it's just the US.

I once worked with an otherwise lovely Swedish software engineer, who was constantly spouting anti-Danish "jokes" and insults. It was disconcerting. I wasn't sure whether to stand up for the Danes, tell him a lie that my mother was Danish, or what. Is anti-Danish racism even a thing?
I don't think you can conclude from "things got better when browser vendors took over" that it'd be the same if there was one vendor dominating. They keep each other honest at least to a degree, forcing that issues are discussed and things thought out instead of someone in a browser team coming up with an idea and shipping it the first way they can come up with.
Wrong person to reply to :) I don't really think it's worth porting it to Linux either. Although I'm sure the Wine people would have a field day with it.

But open sourcing it for the sake of practical domain knowledge, if not history, would be good.
For the units, do you mean US Customary or do you really mean Imperial? The gallons are very different.

There is even a difference in miles if you want to be picky, with the US using statute miles in some states and international miles in other states. The international mile is 1.609344 km, and the statute mile is about 1.6093472 km. This isn't a huge difference.
Can you imagine the irreparable harm caused to society by teenagers taking half naked selfies?
I have traveled to Europe a handful of times and never heard of this until now! Time to add this to the list of things to check out next time. Very cool. :)