skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone in Orange County wants to meet up sometime?
From that source, it looks like the story depends on the region though (for desktop). In order of decreasing use of firefox:

* Europe: Firefox overtook IE in 2011 with ~40%

* Africa: Firefox overtook IE in 2012 with ~40%. It looks like Firefox had the best chance of "crushing it" here.

* South America: Firefox overtook IE in 2015 with 12%. Peak was 32% in 2010

* Asia: Firefox overtook IE in 2016 with ~12%. Peak was 28% in 2011

* Oceana: Firefox overtook IE in 2017 with 12%. Peak was 32% in 2010

* North America: Firefox peaked at 30% in 2009 and was half as common as IE until 2015-2016. It still hasn't overtaken IE
How to Launch Your Own Blockchain Art Marketplace
Thank you for your free book.
Another great book is Gilbert Strang's book: Introduction to Linear Algebra. Also Boyle: Linear Algebra and its Applications.

Perhaps your free book can be used to develop some evolving tool for the student. For example: the student take a test and then the book select the best exercises and topics for that student.
How does that contradict what I said?

> they care about using their computer without forced interruptions

> MS should be focusing on: doing the updates as unobtrusively as possible

How exactly did your problem happen? There are ways to manage this so it doesn't cause this kind of loss. It's not ideal that you have to use them but if you work with valuable data you should take all precautions out of principle.
But how many of those solutions work as well as Dissenter? Do any of them hold a strong position on free speech?

Edit: I was genuinely asking because I had not heard of similar solutions prior to today. But go ahead and keep downvoting me. That'll teach me to engage in honest conversation.
> the biggest issues with Windows Update: it's unreliability

I have the same experience, and i always took this for granted... but after i bought a Macbook i learned there are actually operating systems where updating is flawless.

Windows updates are such a huge mess.
It is possible to be too critical about a magazine article, but it can't be stated enough that the evidence that economists are abusing maths is weak.

Most of the evidence points to the economists abusing assumptions, which is hardly a mathematics problem. Most assumptions can lead to elegant math. The biggest problem in modern economics as practiced is the tacit assumption that because practically all people would like to be able to consume more the system should favour consumers over savers. Which is a logical non-sequitur, so that can't be pinned on mathematics.

They may as well call the modern approach to interest rates the "Global War on Savers". Anyone attempting to save without moving into stocks & other assets will be wiped out long term.

The risk from using maths is irrelevant compared to the damage done by assuming a bad value structure - and there are so many forces influencing the value structure (particularly political ones) that I don't see how mathematical beauty could be a problem for economics as a discipline.
How is this different from Histori.us or any other implementation of the WCS? The title seems calculated to be confrontational but then it is Gab (which probably also means this won't amount to much).
I wonder what percentage of insurance companies' profits are from fraudulent collection attempts like this.
My understanding is "necessary" is determined by the insurance company, after the fact, and is subject to negotiation.
Hmm. I am not sure if I want to meet HN people. Not that I don’t love the community. But I like the relative anonymity of this page. There is a reason why we don’t have profile pages with pictures here.
Conversely, if you already learned how to solve problems, learn to code.

Especially for women or disabled folk, most likely you've been shoved to learn how to define a problem, how to communicate effectively, how to break a problem down.

If you've done that part already, just learn to code so you can apply your skills to larger problems. Or better, get more of your time back.
Sometimes it makes sense, for consumable goods or even non consumable things like storage containers, where you might buy more of the same item at different times. Other things like books I agree don't make sense.
Have you thought of integrating some form of exploitability analysis[0][1] for the crashes|etc. fuzzing locates?

So let's say I upload some FOSS project and end-up finding some crashes|potential vulnerabilities. Have you considered some sort of tie-in|integration to bug bounty programs so that I could get a small pay-out without having to go through the trouble of figuring out how exploitable a given crash might be, and more importantly to actually have to deal with trying to get the attention of the project?

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2013/06/13/exploitab...
[1] https://github.com/jfoote/exploitable
> I'm curious (genuine curiosity, not meant sarcastic), why is Firefox only now switching to CoreAnimation? AFAIK CoreAnimation has been around since Leopard which makes it nearly 12 year old, which is positively ancient in the tech world.

I think CA was only moved to the window server relatively recently. Before then, my understanding is that it simply used OpenGL in-process, so it had no energy advantages over Firefox's built-in compositor. There was also a long time when the APIs to host CA content in the window server were private APIs and only Safari could use them.

> Also, coincidentally, do you know what exactly causes the H264 problem on macOS?

I believe, but am not sure, that H.264 is decoded in software in Firefox but is decoded in hardware in Safari.
>openmeet.io

I've heard bad things about the IO TLD. What about openmeet.org? I'm just starting in Webdev but I'd like to be involved!

https://hackernoon.com/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-produc...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15663988
Yep. And when corporate IT has installed some batch script that runs periodically and flashes a console window that steals focus while you're in the middle of typing, and then after it disappears 0.1 seconds later, for some reason nothing is in focus, that's super awesome.

If I didn't develop software, geek out on building my own IT infra, or play PC games, I'd really try to stick to an iPad. :-(

Edit: Could anyone suggest any tools for finding the culprit here? It’s over way too quickly to catch in Task Manager. Like, I’d love a little live view of all the UI windows that have been created in the last 60 seconds, with a snapshot of the process tree that started each one.
Very impressive indeed; I only clicked the 'Visible Speech' link thanks to reading your comment; the diagram illustrating the lineage / spread of the the 'Yukaghir Love Letter' is worth the click alone.
Can you give an example of beauty (or assumed beauty I guess) just being oversimplification?
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I would imagine if the US got into a cruise missile fight with China the US would be building ships and other equipment at a scale unseen since WW2 and compliance would probably not be the chief concern over winning the war.
Nobody made a "logical argument", it's a fact or opinion.
AI goes from niche to interesting. Or at least at the moment it's widespread with things like Alexia and Siri but not very good but should get better.

We are at an interesting point hardware wise. You can make an argument that the approx processing power to be equivalent to a human is around 100 TFlops (https://jetpress.org/volume1/moravec.htm) and the cost of that drops about 10x every 5 years (https://aiimpacts.org/wikipedia-history-of-gflops-costs/) and is now of the order of $10k (https://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/47726-nvidia-unleashes-th...) which would make that about $1m ten years ago and $100 ten years in the future. Cheaper hardware may lead to a fair bit of innovation.
So that the resulting patents are made available to the public for free. My impression is that those universities you listed make a great deal of money from the co-ownership of patents produced by their staff.

I'm not saying they should be excluded, but I don't think they would be willing to participate if it meant giving up a cash cow. I could be wrong though.
Not me. All gristle and bone. I taste like your used glorkin.
I certainly feel the gap between chrome and firefox has narrowed. I struggle to think of a reason NOT to use firefox anymore. I do find myself clicking on that red fox more and more. I've sort of made firefox my incognito "browser".

If the firefox vs IE wars taught me anything its that tech savvy users have a huge impact on adoption. If you win over the nerds they will install firefox absolutely everywhere. They will develop their stuff to work well with firefox.

Chrome hasn't quite become ie6 yet but I feel like if trends continue Firefox will become power users favored browser. Firefox even today is still more extensible and customizable. It also has a more credible reputation for privacy. I believe even now the threat of Firefox is what makes Google hesitate to do things like kill ad blocking.
Hypothetically speaking, suppose we didn't care about privacy at all. In that case, what are the disadvantages of a single browser engine taking over the market?

I suspect one disadvantage is that it's harder to innovate. Specifically, your new browser engine has no hope of sticking if all websites are heavily customized to Blink, rather than to open standards. It may seem that it's not a problem if Blink is open sourced. However, writing a new engine that works exactly like some legacy engine is nearly impossible, even if that legacy engine is open sourced. OTOH, writing a new engine to the specifications of well-designed standards is much more realistic, since presumably those standards are (a) clearly spelled out, (b) written with the idea that they can be implemented without a million lines of legacy code.

Of course, this assumes that the community can create high quality and efficient standards. It's not obvious, given how difficult it's been to achieve in the past, when there was more competition between browsers.

Does it sound about right? Any other disadvantages I haven't thought of?
That's funny since Torba blocked me for posting information from Gab's own financial filings.
Ask HN: Private Startup Shareholder Taxes
Hey HN, new user for anonymity purposes.

I'm a former engineer at a startup company that issued options as part of the compensation. Two years ago I executed those options and I am now a regular shareholder. At the time I had to handle any AMT tax associated with that transaction but that was all done in a previous year's taxes.

I'm now just sitting on my investment and plan to do so until the company gets acquired or IPOs. Is there anything I need to do special for taxes in the years during which I'm just holding? (like this past year that I'm currently doing taxes for)

TLDR; More generally, do private company shareholders need to do anything special if there is no liquidation/taxable event?
Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose
Lol. Andrew Torba is banned from Hacker News so he's commenting on here now with Dissenter. Classic.
Brought back centralization and generate private keys based on email+password.

How is this an improvement?

I would look the other way when someone claims to have "solved" anything blockchain related
Uh yeah because installing the media pack on windows is near bat shit crazy..
Does the delivery of HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales have any bearing on this - they aren't super carriers, but they are pretty close.

Does the pentagon calculate that there's some flex as a result?
Thank god I managed to click the right button about 100 times and retain my Windows 8 installation. Mots of my friends weren't so lucky. The clicked the close window button instead of "decline" or whatever it was called and got the "free upgrade".
Custom shaders with Three.js: Uniforms, textures and lighting (2014)
IMO the world is heading towards a hot war where each side is confident in their ballistic defence capabilities against nuclear attack. We have to hope it isn't overconfidence.
Functional Anti- Inflammatory Human Proteins Grown in Tobacco Plants
Things don't have rights, but I am not surprised - today's clueless voters don't even understands what human rights are.
For example, they think they somehow have rights to benefits that cannot realized without restricting or hurting the rights of others.

The lake legislation is nonsense. The issue is the lake has no owner (or has a bad owner, the government). If it were private, rest assured people would be sued for damaging the owner's property (lake). If you're not the owner, you have no right to sue somebody for anything related to the lake.
> The only way to solve a lot of problems is to be able to really reset the state of everything which is not worth trading for your ability to better compulisvely hoard chrome tabs.

WTF problems is the system creating that require it to blindly reset the state of everything?

I get “we have detected a problem that may be resolved by us forgetting your Chrome tabs”, but doing it by default, just in case? Not acceptable in 2019. This is the sort of behaviour that makes people hate their computers.
You'd need a landing page where you can post details and get feedback.

There are few discussions in the thread about open platforms, but I also started a community on https://spectrum.chat/canada. I'm Toronto-Waterloo based. Let me know if you have any ideas.

In my experience, if the groups is small enough but has sociable members, they will just agree on a time and half the expected number of people will show up. Even 5 people is a success IMO.
I don't know - pricing options using Black-Scholes uses assumptions (i think normal bell curves) that aren't exactly true and LTCM for instance went under showing that. i think the big difference between economics and physics is that maths is used in finance as 'credibility' and the mortals just assume it's correct because the wizards say it is and crank the dial up to 11 (sub-prime affected a lot of normal people). In physics, the wizards are just talking to other wizards and the mortals don't even enter the discussion (honestly, LHC is cool and all but other than a couple thousand physicists, no-one would notice if it stopped working).
Are they? It seems like a billion dollar asset that can be destroyed with a few million dollar missile is a little outdated?
This is fantastic! I'm planning on taking linear algebra in the fall and a glance over this makes me think it will save me tons of time searching youtube and etc for explanations of trickier concepts.
Libel much?
Yes but Powell's is one of the best bookstores in the world. It's a huge operation in a well-known populated city, not a small one-man thing.
Disability insurance, like other insurance, is motivated to find loopholes with which to deny you. Make sure to read the fine print while you're still well and able.
Is't a large part of the history of physics about doing away with wrong assumptions based on beauty? Circular orbits of planets etc.
The need for windows update to be working to install the VS2017 redist was a super annoying move by microsoft.

It wasn't required for previous versions of visual studio.

Because windows update is non-functional for so many windows users (mostly due to piracy) we we basically forced to change to static linking to avoid the need for the redist.

Of course, after we changed to static linking we started to run into a bunch of virus scanners giving false positives with their heuristics because all viruses are statically linked.
It's not all "public servants", just police. And sure, it's not entire personnel files, but it's a sensitive part of personnel files.

So hey, I'm not normally so friendly toward police. Back in the day, one of my favorite songs was MDC's "Let's Kill All The Cops".[0,1]

But I've mellowed. As I've gotten older, and less of a pain in the ass, I've found police to more than not be helpful. One state cop even helped me to change a flat tire. Maybe I reminded him of my dad.

Mostly, though, I feel strongly that we all deserve privacy. And I don't think that public shaming is a good approach for dealing with such low-level "public servants" as police. Seriously, a bad cop will maybe fuck over maybe 100 people per year. But a bad judge could fuck over maybe 1000 per year.

And what about bad state attorney generals, governors, presidents or Supreme Court judges? That's where to focus, I think, on better public access. When considering the tradeoff between privacy and public accountability, the key factors are power and authority. The potential to do damage to the public interest.

0) https://genius.com/Mdc-lets-kill-all-the-cops-lyrics

1) MDC = "Magnus Dominus Corpus", "Millions of Damn Christians", "Millions of Dead Children", "Millions of Dead Cops", "Missile-Destroyed Civilization", "Multi-Death Corporations", etc [alphabetical order]
this is not a tails alternative. it's a workstation for pen-testing. like Kali
So their network hasn’t had any downtime? Any idea why they would only guarantee 99.9% uptime on their network?
I wonder why the US is so determined to have a large carrier fleet?

With the advent of anti-ship cruise missiles, carriers have lost the decisive edge that they had during WW2. It seems like few nations are willing to bear the development and maintenance costs of modern carriers. Yet the US continues to build carriers as if they were at war! Furthermore, there is a huge uproar (along with legal challenges!) whenever anyone dares to suggest even slowing down the rate of carrier deployment. Why is the US so set on a policy that every other developed nation has eschewed? It makes no sense to me.
> remove support for 3rd Party Ad Blocking

that's a bit misleading, no?
Yeah, that's it. It's not as bad as I remember, but I still get a lot of the same vibes from reading it.
You identify yourself to the network as the legitimate owner of an address by signing a transaction with a private key for that address. So using your coins offline involves signing your transaction using a computer that is air-gapped and then manually transferring the signed transaction to the online computer to be pushed to the network. There are user friendly ways of doing this using QR codes and similar things.
Another thing I should have mentioned here is that Julia's multiple dispatch helps a lot with this problem, since you can provide specializations in the dependent package. So e.g. Flux.jl only needs to have generic code, CPU and GPU code and I can provide TPU specializations (where necessary - hopefully not often), for any function that needs it (yes, talking to upstream is required here to, to make sure they're aware we're doing it, but at least they don't have to maintain it).
I see nothing that resembles a revenue model, which terrifies me: where's the thing I'm not seeing? Are you rewriting Amazon purchases to use your referral code? Are you selling data about me to third parties? Are you not monetizing at all and hoping to make up in "exposure?"

When I can't spot the money, I wonder what I'm missing. Your lack of privacy policy (at least, I can't find one!) doesn't help.
So... it’s a mobile echo-chamber with delusions of trolling a web that isn’t even aware it’s being trolled, because they won’t sign up to see the trolling? That’s so... so weird, even by Gab standards.
>Probably because Apple take privacy seriously,

by making google the default search engine on iOS?
The first few versions of OS X were more NeXT-like. They felt dated.

Very interesting. My first Mac was an OS9 machine that came out so close to the release of OSX that it came with a free upgrade coupon.

I had a NeXT at work at the same time, and my memory is that the two environments were significantly different. Different enough that I gave the OS9 machine to my wife when OSX came out because it was so easy to use (she had a PS/2).
You bundle your paper and cardboard. How much metal do you throw away?

https://www.newlyswissed.com/a-primer-on-recycling-in-switze...
Getting started with Laravel Mix for front end development
How is electric expensive, if you're getting electricity for free from your wind turbine? No matter in what form you get energy out of it, it's about the same, modulo efficiency.

Effective? A watt is a watt. A heater putting out 2000 watts of heating intensity is exactly as effective whether it runs on electricity, nuclear fusion, or burning dried unicorn poop.

Some electric heaters (like baseboard units) don't circulate air very well. They sometimes get installed under windows and basically just move hot air toward a cold window. If we take that to represent all manner of electric space heating, that is a strawman.
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Dan Robinson with an Indepth Overview of Interledger Protocol [video]
> You should never have hours worth of unsaved work open. NEVER. Don't blame windows or whatever, just dont ever do that or at least bear your shame quietly.

I think this might be the result of laypeople bringing phone OS expectations over to a desktop OS.

For many phone apps you never have to worry about saving or closing them and there is little difference between opening an app that wasn't open before and resuming one that's not been on your screen for a while.
Do you have examples of this?
(I am not thinking of RHEL world but people picking up support for specific mid sized projects?
Yes. This drives me crazy as well.

What you have to do is use group policy to manage your firewall (secpol.msc) and tell it to ignore local firewall rules.
Except for the graphics performance which is still terrible...
Beyond Local Pattern Matching: Recent Advances in Machine Reading
But it's not necessarily so much if it saves me an hour of driving and shopping.
Where does the value of newly printed money come from — is it a free lunch (in which case, why not print quadrillions and make everyone a millionaire) or does the value come from savers (in which case it’s stolen from them by debasing the value of their savings)?
Short answer, yes, it absolutely can. The reason they call it a rat race is that if you stop running (producing at a certain level) you will likely be thrown off the treadmill.
This is a great name, because at least 90% of your customers will find it funny. Some friends in Boulder made a company called RaffleCopter, and its meme-inspired name (based on ROFLcopter) seemed to help it get much more attention than it drove away. https://www.rafflecopter.com/ Another good thing about both names is they work even if you don't get the reference. I think that could be a must.

I don't know much about fuzzing but I'm inspired to give your tool a try if/when I get a chance.
So same as gglass now, how is that one doing in the enterprise market btw?
Pentagon must be audited, audits made public we should constantly point out how incompetent Pentagon is.
There is no moral way for a pharma company to increase demand for its product.
I think we also need way higher res HMDs than today, like at least 2K per eye
"You can't know or understand possible ET motivations or capabilities."

True, but my argument is that their intentions fundamentally don't matter. The real costs of acting on ill-intentions through interstellar space would probably give any real life Klingons or Romulans pause.

Meanwhile we fly, sometimes even into space, drive, walk outside, stay inside, eat/drink things that we shouldn't (but enjoy), and a thousand other risks which are substantially more real on an everyday basis... and many of those risks also come with rewards that can make life much more full and rich.

I think making contact with aliens would most likely just 1) confirm we weren't alone or 2) might actually be of benefit as we exchange knowledge and ideas, and/or 3) tell us that evolution tends to creates fearful, xenophobic entities where it also develops intelligence... in that order and with no further consequence than the knowledge.