skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it still not the privacy-oriented browser of choice

But multiple forks of it are, Brave being the chief example. The rendering and JavaScript engines do not impact privacy.

> A browser fueled by huge amounts of corporate money is generally going to look and act better, but at the end of the day, you're still corporately controlled, open source or not.

Partly true. They hold a certain amount of leverage, which I agree it would be great if they didn't have, but they can't just do whatever they want or people will simply jump ship. There's a ceiling on how hard they can push things in a given direction at a given moment. Of course they can push slowly over an extended period of time, which is the real danger. But I still think enough people are paying attention that the power center would shift if they started truly abusing it.
What exactly is the unique selling proposition of medium?
No, but they can choose their home, which is the relevant analog. If you don't like Charter, just move to another city. If you don't like the Apple App Store, just buy another phone.

Yes it was one of the deciding factors when I bought my house was the internet service available.

But if I don’t like Apples policies it’s a lot easier to buy another $500 phone than a $400K house.

What is the competition for Safari then?”

Opera Mini....

Also, the App Store is an app.

Apple “sells” the App Store?
> You're doing yourself a disservice by mentioning Damore at all.

> Damore has also since proven himself to be an utter chode

This is the appeal to shame fallacy, pure and simple.

> in his unwavering insistence that he is 100% right

I have yet to see solid rational arguments against his assertions that do not fall into one fallacy or another (appeal to moderation, appeal to emotion, strawman, appeal to... you name it, I've seen it). Until I am shown a well-worded rational argument against his actual assertions, and not some strawman that outrage-powered anti-intellectuals chose to discredit, he is correct (so far). I read his paper, all he did was propose organic solutions to an organic problem, I didn't see what was so outrageous about that.

Critical thinking seems to be a vastly underrated skill these days.
thanks for the heads up. Should be working now.

Two options for revenue that I'm considering: charging schools for profiles with photos and videos aimed at potential candidates and job advertisements.
I would stress that constitutionally parliament's vote on "no deal" is entirely irrelevant – the currently legal status is that the Treaties will cease applying to the UK on 29 March, regardless of the outcome of that vote. In other words…

func brexit(){
if(deal){
exit(deal);
} else {
if(!deal) {
exit(null);
} else {
if(postpone){
wait(TIME);
brexit();
} else {
exit(null);
}
}
}
}

However, this is subject to change. Motions can (and will) be amended.
As am American, that's exactly what I thought when I read GP's comment.

The losing side is always more emotional and vocal in politics. The winning side has nothing to prove, except during a re-election. It was that way for Bush, Obama, Trump, and it will be true of the next President.
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No one knows better than software engineers how difficult it is to make inherently reliable software and how much complexity can add to the difficulty of making reliable software.

That said, the cost of not using latest fuel efficient airplane would indeed be huge and the actual reliability of modern aircraft is very high and has been increasing over the years in which fuel efficiency also increased.

Sometimes, human can hit on a formula that produces objects that satisfy all the given parameters more fully rather than compromising on any of the requirement. But it's quite plausible that these formulas cannot be milked forever - thus the "Max" may be the point where tradeoffs stop working.
There actually is a similar flowchart in a linked article. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/08/the-brexit-...
It could be a platform difference. I mostly use macOS; sounds like you're on Windows.
A better experience here means just a little bit more bearable to use, not a luxury product experience.
All city high schools are assigned by choice/match. I think with middle schools it varies. https://www.baltimorecityschools.org/high-school-choice
Haven't touched Pidgin or Adium for ages, although I've got them installed on Linux and/or macOS (really liked them). The way of IM has changed, so many social features added into IM making it more like a social chat profile presence... As we leap into the mobile age, also, over the last few years, services like Google Talk (XMPP).

IM services used on a daily basis: Slack, WhatsApp/WeChat, Keybase chat (for serious stuff). Sometimes I still use IRC, very rare though.
MCAS is not a fly-by-wire system. Pages and pages of speculation by arm-chair aircraft designers going on. So depressing.
Conversation is different but even there you can be much more strategic with filler sounds.
Right. If it's pre-designated then you're fine as you're not making a decision. The other grey area is making decisions about what work that vendor will perform. Often there are many solutions to a work order.
*vote, not election, pardon
I'm a bit confused as to why politicians always bring up ‘ignoring the will of the people’ when it's been shown that ‘the people’ have been lied to on a grand scale and there is evidence that Cambridge Analytica had worked pro-Brexit.

I guess nowadays you cannot convince people with facts anymore. You can only convince them with covert, subliminal ads on their social media feeds.
Ahh so only maintainence. Dang. Still a nice service but I don’t get a discount from the current property manager for him just collecting rent on my behalf as I used him mostly to get my current tenant but now the 8% a month is torture.
You don't need ordered delivery
I never quite understood this. I'm from eastern EU, I don't consider my country "poor", but people who are on the bottom of the economic ladder do not eat beef here ( cheap beef is ~4usd/lbs, chicken thighs are 1.5usd/lbs ).
Maybe it's just my ignorance, but for me this sounds equally ridiculous to someone who expresses his concerns about how poor people could afford lobsters if the price goes any higher. Pure meat is expensive, and it's a luxury, not a necessity.

The prices of meats are roughly equal to the US and making 20k$/yr makes you rich here, money won't be a limiting factor when it comes to food. Avg. salary in Missisipi is 40k$/yr, and that's the lowest one.

Of course you can't eat out in the nicest places every day from that salary. This is what constitutes being poor in the US ( not being able to do that )? You can always cook at home, and it's very cheap, is the price of the food really a big weight for people in the US ( let's say the bottom 40% )?

Maybe being poor is just being poor compared to others in your area, and it's mostly a mental thing. I lived on 250usd/month and life was good. Went to the farmers market, cooked my own food, I felt spoiled by the food choices I could make. I can make amazing food from various intestines, the taste is amazing, cheap as hell, and it's the best quality protein you can get your hands on for example.
I wish duckduckgo had supported Firefox in addition to building their own privacy focused browser https://duckduckgo.com/app
Actors Huffman, Loughlin among 50 charged in college admissions bribery case
Theres a vote tomorrow on whether to reject a no deal brexit, the the consensus is that will pass, with the PM presumably asking for an extension, so no deal still isn't a given.
The comparison of massive and powerful organizations to ma and pa grocery stores is really tiresome. Stanford university has a hell of a lot more power than your grocery store and occupies a privileged position in society. They should have proportionally more responsibility to society than your grocery store.
It must be mentioned that SF housing prices - i.e price for median homes - are now nearing levels where regular people may never be able to pay off their mortgage. And these homes are increasing 15% in price, every year.

That is, IMO, very dramatic.
Hi David,

The link you posted, when sorted by 'Latest', becomes a pretty damning indictment of what HackerNoon today appears to be, which is a low-grade content mill masked by a few really great, impactful articles. Most of the content however wouldn't be out of place at Huffington Post or Forbes.com.

* "3 Programming Languages to learn in 2019"

* "12 JS Concepts that will Level up Your skills"

* "6 things to know when self-studying Machine Learning"

This is the worst kind of SEO keyword stuffing you expect to see from bloggers on LinkedIn, not a reputable publication. Just my 2 cents. I hope you are able to clean up the shallow content, but it doesn't seem like a very deep pool to begin with.
"this conversation is too miscommunicative to be had"

...is exactly the sort of conversation that needs to happen
Just jump in, whenever. I have a private whatsapp chat with a set of friends from highschool/university and sometimes I come back to hundreds of unread messages. Just skip to the end. It's like a conversation at a party, you're not supposed to follow every single thread.

It's certainly better than seeing them every few months (kids, etc).
And if the remainers had won with a 'tiny margin' the same argument could be made. It's clear you have an agenda though you don't apply the same arguments on the other side for those whose pockets are well-lined directly by the EU. I do understand that turkeys don't vote for Christmas. As for your comparison with fascism, you need to extend your reading on the subject.
Yes, it has been quite widely reported here and elsewhere such as the Firefox bug trackers, that the Firefox performance on Mac is quite inferior. Which makes me very sad. Though it does not seem to affect all Mac users
The electoral college determines the presidency, so Trump and Hillary campaigned for the electoral college, and Trump won.

If the popular vote won the presidency, Trump and Hillary would have campaigned for the popular vote, and there's no way of knowing what that outcome would have been.
That does seem to happen sometimes in connection with the EU, doesn't it?

But I don't think it quite fits here. The people of the UK voted for an abstract Brexit - one in which everyone could pin their dreams for what it would be. When there is a concrete Brexit plan - the best negotiated deal, hard Brexit, or whatever - when it's no longer something amorphous that you can imagine is whatever you want, but is instead something specific that you can't change, the people do in fact know more. They know what the deal actually is. Letting them ratify the actual deal rather than an abstract one seems quite reasonable to me.
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Thanks for posting this. I found this particular article to be much more interesting and universally helpful than the other similar articles on how to hire that have been posted to HN in recent weeks.
I agree. Just last week on HN(ews) someone asked what the most popular Medium blog was and I was about to say HackerNoon just from seeing it everywhere, but when I went to their site it was all low-quality articles about putting your Tesla on the blockchain.
I think that some subset of users just won't engage with any content that isn't on a platform they already know, or appears to be on a shiny new platform of some kind.
This seems like corporate PR blaming "3rd world pilots" and am not sure it's such a smart move. If your plane requires substantially different handling & the interface does not accommodate it, it seems to me the problem is not the pilot.

It seems more likely that the plane suffers from some elemental design problems that were insufficiently patched over to pass inspection in order to protect the already invested capital.
> there is a fear that concrete evidence

Fear of the truth... Always a good reason to not do something. ::eyeroll::
The invisible div broke scanout compositing on Edge, not Firefox.
I think Apple should step in and really help Mozilla with funding and more.
> Once you start valuing your privacy, you'd see that no amt of fast scroll behaviour is going to convince you otherwise

I highly value my privacy; I switched to iOS because of it. I only use Chrome at work. I've got comprehensive content blockers set up on mobile Safari, which is where most of my personal browsing happens.

> As for web-dev tools, doesn't Firefox ship a developer-only edition?

I'd assume that's a version designed for developers who work on Firefox itself, not developers who use Firefox to work on the web. There would be no reason for them to omit some of their dev tools from the regular builds.

> On the flip side, you might want to try Chromium-based Brave or Vivaldi instead.

I tried and loved Vivaldi for a little while, until I ran into a catastrophic dev tools bug (can't remember what exactly). I also enjoyed Brave for a while, but it ended up being too slow too (this was when it had an Electron interface instead of being a fork, so it's probably better now).
Amish families bring the baby into the barn at a very young age, to get exposed to the hay, animals and general dirt. They have astonishingly low levels of allergy among their community members, despite having similar genetics to their Swiss forebears who are typically allergy-ridden.
I use FF and duckduckgo. I spend a lot of time on the web and i cannot complain about anything... I only use chrome for web development and google for SEO optimization...
The argument I responded to, as I read it, is that you can't trust any organization to evaluate news sources. That can't be true. I don't so much care about NewsGuard --- I don't use it --- but we delegate all kinds of judgements, many more important than this one --- to experts, for good reason.

By all means, pick NewsGuard apart.
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And what if you find this out, but worked your ass off and got straight As during your degree? Were your parents giving you unknown help then, too? Can you ask them? Where does it end?
yep , this. and even twitter is somewhere-in-between
Because European courts have decided that Article 50 can be unilaterally retracted.
Space Opera is the funniest science fiction novel I’ve read since HHGTTG (2018)
Well, at least somebody has a plan.
such airframes induce more drag and burn more fuel

As a curious bystander, I assumed using fly by wire tech to achieve stability would involve using control surfaces, which increase drag by their nature. How would an airframe that's naturally stable and doesn't require control inputs burn more fuel?
How is the FAA responsible for crashes outside of its jurisdiction? There haven’t been any 737 Max 8 crashes in the US. I can’t speak for Ethiopian, but Lion Air and Indonesia in general have a pretty bad safety record. Lion Air was removed from the EU safety blacklist in 2016. In 2013 another Lion Air 737 (not the Max 8) crashed into the ocean near Bali. Lion Air has had pilot test positive for crystal meth (2012). Lion Air has had multiple major incidents with various 737s over the past years.

The Ethiopian Air copilot only had 200 total hours of experience. In the US, you need an ATP certificate with a minimum of 1500 hours to even be a first officer.

Before we start throwing sand at the FAA, why not ask how a 200 hour pilot gets into the copilot seat of an airliner. Let’s also ask why Lion Air failed to fix a problem with the airspeed indicator. During a previous flight the day before the crash, the pilot reported a problem with the airspeed indicator and deactivated the anti-stall system. Lion Air didn’t fix the problem and the airplane crashed the next day. But that’s Boeing’s fault? Lion Air is a shit airline with a horrible safety record. Southwest Airlines uses only 737s and you can count their major incidents on one hand and their fatalities in over 47 years? Just 1.

Lion Air fatalities? Hundreds over multiple incidents. Ethiopian Air? Much safer than Lion Air, but much less safer than Southwest. Ethiopian has a fleet of 108 airplanes and Southwest has a fleet of 754, including 35 Max 8 planes — yet not a single incident despite flying an order of magnitude more frequently than those other airlines.

Air Canada has 24 8 Maxes in the air as does American. Along with Southwest, that’s hundreds of flights per day without incident, but then there is a crash with some third world Lion Air plane where maintenance is provided with proverbial duct tape and Ethiopia Air who has a student pilot as the first officer? Perhaps instead of grounding specific airplanes, we should ground specific airlines, because it’s clear than Ethiopian and Lion Air ought not be flying until they can figure out the basics such as maintenance and pilot training.
Sure sure sure.
Why not just spend money from tax receipts to lift up communities instead of giving this easily corruptible power to people?
> That's not a good enough reason not to write multithreaded software

Possibly not, but it's a very good reason not to use multithreaded software, when a simple single-threaded alternative is present.

It's a very practical decision in my case: I'd rather rely on something that I know eliminates entire categories of bugs, if performance is acceptable (it is for me). Also, if it breaks, I can dive in, understand it and fix it. Simplicity should not be underrated.
Because either (1) no deal is already priced in, or (2) markets remain confident that the upcoming sequence of votes before them will lead to some other outcome than imminent no deal Brexit.
Not the user above, but also vegan with similar views (except about large corporations, I love them). If you assume that farm labor must be exploited to harvest crops, and that animals are an inefficient way of spending the crops (calories in are greater than calories out), then you reduce the total amount of crops used to feed someone by taking the animal out of the equation. It's all about chasing the lesser evil.
This reminds me of a paper put out by a few researchers at Google Brain: `No Classification without Representation: Assessing Geodiversity Issues in Open Data Sets for the Developing World` [0]

The take away was that existing open image datasets are biased toward western contexts (eg what a wedding looks like), leading to low performance when applied in non-western contexts.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08536
Boeing is moving to address potential issues in new 737 as Europe bans its plane
Can you sell me on SUSE a little bit more?
> they won't keep up with security patches as quickly as the project it's forking

And they often take a baby-with-the-bathwater approach to removing Google from the picture. For instance, that project completely disables Safe Browsing, requires a convoluted process to install extensions, and breaks automatic extension updates -- in each case, because the functionality depends on a Google-hosted service.
Oh, don't worry, we started quite a while ago. But thanks anyway. :-)
One must wonder why an organization supposedly focused on trust would have mislead you like this.
I was able to log in with Firefox from Linux, no user-agent switching.

A similar claim was made against Apple recently.[0] In that case the redditor was able to log in at a later time. Maybe you triggered a false positive in their security checks.

edit: Chase has had this "ban" against *nix in place since 2016 [1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/atc0av/apples_apple_...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160731113350/https://www.chase...
You can trivially add keyboard shortcuts to this solution after it's implemented - with 0 rework. Moreover, the is absolutely no guarantee that an arbitrary JS library for modal popups will have better usability. And I have yet to see one that will not fail if I block JavaScript, creating horrible user experience for everyone who does so. Funny how usability concerns go out of the window when NoScript/uBlock users are involved.

Personally, I try to avoid modal popups altogether. There is almost always better ways to structure things. The whole concept of "modal" UI doesn't map well to the "document" nature of web elements.
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This is long overdue. Many college programs have gotten really bloated and over-priced. Students are often saddled with debt they can never pay off because the degrees are not providing skills that employers are looking for. This is not perfect, but a step in the right direction.
If they want to gain market-share they should prioritize Macs, since most web developers these days prefer them. The more developers who use Firefox, the more it'll get tested with, the better support it'll have.
What is the use case of such a tool? Real a question.
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> Saying that there is no difference and gender/behaviour is 100% the result of social pressure basicly means that for example gays are also conditioned, so this "theory" actually agrees with nutcase things like gay conversion therapy.

oh wow. this is a great point.
I can still log in from Linux (Ubuntu) just fine and I'm not doing any user-agent spoofing.
Membership of the EU has been a hot topic before the EU even existed. Ted Heath got us into the EEC without a referendum in 72, and then offered us a vote to remain or leave in 75. The scaremongering about leaving back then was almost exactly the same as it is being presented now.

My opinion is that a deal cannot be negotiated among uneven parties. Right now, the UK can either leave with no deal, or leave on the terms demanded by the EU, with no concessions whatsoever. There is no table for negotiation. It is leave or surrender. Once we leave, we are no longer the begging party asking for concessions, but the roles will be reversed. The EU does not want to lose one of their largest export markets, and will quickly change their mind about a trade deal.