skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really welcome Mozilla's effort in fighting the uphill battle against browser fingerprinting.
I am however very interested in the terms of Mozilla's partnership with Disconnect. Are obsoleting their add-on for Firefox out of the good of their hearts?
I don't think the parent is saying that it will be a challenge for them, just that it might reduce the chilling effect.
Money Laundering, usually refers to activities where the illegal cash is mixed in with legit cash flow, especially with help from a cash intensive business like a car wash or a salon, but in the scheme I mentioned about, the second leg of the scheme, of buying albums, etc, there is nothing illegal about the transaction itself, only that the proceeds used for it was obtained through non-legit means.
Great! I look forward to these protections being included by default in the future, as they allude to.
If they quickly move now to replace all their tellers to contractors, I will then judge BoA on that action. Until then, good on 'em.
ImagineFest is missing (EDM camping festival in Georgia)
I bet game "journalists" have an inside competition where they have to pick the most annoying (or overplayed) filler put in games as an after thought to bump the game play hours metric, and write the most romanticized elegy full of pseudo philosophy and grandeur.

I've seen this for everything in shenmue, for the endless grind in FF, even for the coding bugs(!) and reused art in Mother.
Leonardo Davinci the Greatest Genius History
Seems like they're just using a blacklist? Those seem to be able to be gamed pretty trivially.
The republicans haven't bragged about it, but I'm guessing limiting SALT deductions to way below the standard deduction will drastically reduce the number of filers itemizing deductions. That leaves you with form 1040 which is roughly half a page front and back, not much bigger than a postcard. Certainly, if you have capital gains or other things, you'll need extra schedules, and maybe you need to send w-2s, so it's not necessarily their ideal, but it's actually a large change.
The world doesn't need any more Logan Pauls
Writing and history were pretty new at the time too so we probably don't even have a record of what they were called by the people who used them if they ever wrote it down to begin with.
'SnapCrap' app invites San Francisco residents to report poop on city streets

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SnapCrap-app-San-Fran...
Can you expand on why Brave is "close to a shakedown operation"? My impression was that they were on the up-and-up. Plus, I'm all for just about effort being made to move away from the current ad economy. I'd rather pay for services directly.
Julia's "niche" is essentially an improved, free Matlab. At least, that certainly seems to have been its initial impetus.

Now it's grown far beyond that, and is acknowledged by its creators as a true, general-purpose language.

One example is its use in real-time robotics:

http://www.juliarobotics.org/
Ah yes, the hacker mindset which protects us from scams.

Now let me tell you about my new ICO, you can get in on the ground floor
Are you suggesting California is short on land or comparing the state of Texas to the city of San Francisco?
How many work emails is too many?
It's like saying it except for where you say "has to be."
Bank tellers start out at about the same as some retail/fast food workers.

In the past, to make $20/hr you had to be a 'personal banker' where you had to push products like checking accounts, loans, and retirement accounts on your customers.
That's MY button not theirs.
Facebook AI Open-Sources PyTorch-BigGraph Tool for ‘Extremely Large’ Graphs
I'm sure this conversation will be looked at during discovery in any future lawsuits:

> Boeing also designed the system to rely on a single sensor — a rarity in aviation, where redundancy is common. Several former Boeing engineers who were not directly involved in the system’s design said their colleagues most likely opted for such an approach since relying on two sensors could still create issues. If one of two sensors malfunctioned, the system could struggle to know which was right.

> Airbus addressed this potential problem on some of its planes by installing three or more such sensors. Former Max engineers, including one who worked on the sensors, said adding a third sensor to the Max was a nonstarter. Previous 737s, they said, had used two and managers wanted to limit changes.
How can a computer model prove the existence of something physical? Wouldn’t it have to occur in real life before they can make this claim?
Love oobleck - really neat stuff.

From the article, it seems that what’s described is slightly different. While oobleck requires certain stimulation to achieve its states (standing still on Oobleck, you will sink; walking across oobleck, you’ll be fine) the potassium contraption described chemically appears to be a solid but is also actually melting.

Forgive me if I didn’t do a good job describing, but I felt the difference was worth pointing out. Perhaps it would be fair too to say that the potassium did require a little prodding at 20,000 an increase in pressure to that of earth.
The government developing software to better interact directly with its agencies should be a mission of 18F and the individual agencies. Our Congress is thinking of doing the opposite.

Companies have no natural right to continue making money without competition from the government.

EDIT: Where does this ban the IRS from creating their own portal? It requires the IRS to continue the Free File Program, but does that explicitly bar the IRS from its own system?
At the very least, you don’t (and didn’t) need to take classes to learn to program. Cprogramming.com and the Java trails were what I started with. (And lots of books from Barnes & Noble.)
Yes, it's fragmented, especially in the mobile and dev board spaces. That feels different than not knowing if two Java 11.1.2.3.4 builds are the same thing.
I took programming classes in elementary school 20 years ago. It wasn’t officially a programming class but we didn’t really need 8 years of school to learn how to type and use spreadsheets so eventually anyone who was ahead of the curve was taught programming even if it was something as simple as Visual Basic.
> I wonder what a script for an action movie would look like if it was just based off of statistics of all the previous action movies...

Have you seen the Transformers movies?

> ...Probably watchable.

See above.
One new thing is that this is a single element, not a combination of molecules.
Can you elaborate on why you cannot browse that site? From your comment it is not clear to me what the problem is but it reads as if you are trying to blame mozilla.
I understand your criticism of my argument, that in this case only what is popular would be available but not what is niche and interesting.

I still make a point that there should be some barriers of entry with humans (moderators?) as gatekeeprers to prevent the spread of this this kind of misinformation, and that would cost more money than what is happening now, it is up to youtube how they choose to recover that cost.

Trying to do some clever AI on videos after the videos are uploaded is trying trying to close the barn doors after the horses are gone.
I wonder of 'trickle down economics' works when the money is injected more closely to where it's supposed to trickle from?

While I don't think Bank of America has a large percentage of skill workers compared to knowledge workers I think this sends a very forward thinking message.

The debt waters are rising for both consumer and corporate and I assume we'll see a correction soon that once again hits middle class and lower class folks _almost_ ready to make a mobility play.

$20/hr during the coming lean times could be just enough to keep some folks from losing too much ground.

I'm just guessing at the rationale but it does kind of make me want to switch banks in support. Next few years could get rough for +60% of the US population.
* It becomes relatively speaking more profitable for Chinese ASIC manufacturers to directly sell their miners compared to mining themselves. This will diminish their oversized power in the ASIC market and decentralize mining in terms of operators.

Don't see this equation actually changing. Like you mentioned, operations will just be moved elsewhere. ASIC manufacturing and mining "tech" will still be hoarded and profit maximized.
The funny part about Bitcoin news is that for supporters, anything is good. "This is good for Bitcoin", as they say.
苹果和橘子
This is not a non-newtonian fluid.
1) Affordable housing
2) Population density
3) Reasonable work-home distances

You get to choose 2 of the 3 constraints. Much of California's political situation is about people believing they can buck the constraints and have it all. You cannot, as long as there's free movement in this country. People come here for jobs, and the old residents demanding that the constraints all be met is causing things to go down the toilet. And people are getting angry at the failure of government to take a position against fantastical thinking and actually solve the problems.
> The term originally referred to lies coming out of Microsoft

No. It originally referred to the marketing strategy of IBM, which basically consisted of casting doubt on the viability of their competitors. "No-one's ever been fired for buying IBM."

It specifically did not mean outright lies, but the strategy of pointing out that when the market consists of an 800-pound gorilla and hordes of chimps, the chimps might be nimbler to respond to your needs and offer better prices, but you never know when one of them gets bulldozed, and if your infrastructure depends on them, that might be really bad for you. It is not necessary to lie to do this, and good FUD explicitly just consists of carefully selected verifiable factual statements that cast doubt on your competitors.

It is an extremely ballsy marketing strategy: "Yes, our product is worse and costs much more, but you know that we have done this for decades and will still be doing this and supporting you for decades to come." It sold mainframes like hot cakes, even when competing systems sometimes were literally an order of magnitude less expensive.

The association with Microsoft comes from how Gates was really impressed by it, and copied it for Microsoft, once they got big enough to use it. Unlike IBM, Microsoft used the term FUD internally, as revealed in the various documents that were leaked and/or published through discovery.
I'm from Chicago and spent a third of my life in NYC. I'm honestly amazed at how clean NYC is.

The first time I ever saw a ticker-tape parade after the Yankees won the world series in 2000, I assumed NYC would be covered in paper for months. Everything was completely covered in paper! By the next morning you couldn't tell anything happened. Not a single scrap of paper anywhere on the streets or sidewalks.

Same thing after the annual West Indian Parade. After the parade, the streets of Canarsie are absolutely taken over by people partying, dancing, drinking, the floats pass back through the neighborhood, and it's just complete chaos. Next day: like nothing happened.

They have garbage cans on every corner, and most are managed regularly enough. My wife is from Queens and she constantly complains about how hard it is to find a public garbage can in Chicago. I never realized it before, but she'd absolutely right.

Also their snow is handled far more efficiently - even if you don't have an alderman or police chief on your block.

NYC is definitely dirtier than Chicago, but it's pretty damned clean, considering how many people there are in such a small space.
It seems like someone along the way cleverly changed the valid and reasonable talking point about the intense and excessive energy use/costs away to a narrative Bitcoin (et al) are causing climate change - which is of course absurd; one of the bigger problems of Bitcoin (et al cryptocurrencies) is that their defence mechanism depends on using a higher amount of energy than someone who'd want to attempt 50%+1 attacks (or lower % take over attempts are still possible, just not guaranteed to allow double spend).
Microsoft SQL server ain’t free to use in production.
I can't say they are typical, but we've had two candidates become somewhat agitated when challenged about their experience, e.g. you said you were a developer for 2 years at company X but it seems that you mostly did support. This resulted in a tirade about job titles.

Another red flag for me is when candidates are asked about their level of expertise on a scale of 1 to 10 on a technology and they reply with anything above 7.

Statistically there are people that are going to be able to claim 8 or above out 10 on any technology, they just probably can command a higher salary that the company I work wishes to offer (we put salary ranges on our job ads), which means that they are exaggerating, can't judge their skills (either because of self delusion or because they just think the technology doesn't have that much more to offer) or worse lying.

The thing is we were asking this to be able to tailor the questions that we would ask. No point in asking somebody who says their skill level in sql is 2 about pivot tables.
i don't think it's as simple as just doing it. is there a way to delete your personal facebook while operating business profiles/pages?
I think the changes are reasonable, but the lack of historic support and the timeline of the changes are not.

Java is deeply engrained in much of enterprise software, which is slow and difficult to change. The licensing change was not given with nearly enough heads up for companies to properly assess their options and migrate to OpenJDK if they choose. From a user perspective, where it’s known that switching JDKs and updating major versions is often not a straightforward task, it sure does seem like this was carefully planned to make it too difficult to move off the JDK that just got a lot more expensive to use.

My company is dropping Oracle JDK entirely and moving to Open JDK, and over time transitioning off of java wherever possible directly due of this change. We are not a small company. It took several months just to figure out the scope of how widely the JDK was in use, we had to cut Oracle a hell of a cheque to avoid licensing issues, and we aren’t doing it again. We have a dedicated team assembled to move off of Oracle JDK now.

The general consensus of the Java leaders in our company is that this is a last ditch effort money grab by Oracle to leech money from Java, which was feared from the day that Sun was acquired.
Unless they are reducing employee counts in favor of hiring contractors, then trying to score political points about a hot-button issue like minimum wage.
Sounds like someone has discovered cats.
How about Windows Update, Xbox, OneDrive . . . There are plenty of services Microsoft runs that could help provide this information.
“Chromify” any .NET Core App in a Windows Desktop App
Now that's what I call a "Hacker" - ex-employee automation scripts (2015)
I don’t know if I’m whooshing here but I did get a chuckle out of this.

It’s not really redirecting you, aren’t you redirecting it? :P
Played with the MJML Email framework and this is the result
I agree with the public folder issue. In my experience they still sync much better than OneDrive and Google Drive though. For me the syncing is a lot faster and has less issues.

They are also the only ones I know that have a Linux application.

That being said I don't pay for their premium service because it seems to expensive compared to OneDrive and Google Drive.
Depends on your job and work requirements?
What I took GGP to be talking about though was lightweight in terms of cognitive load. Like "can I just run the thing please!" aka yak shaving [0]

[0] https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/
I started programming at 15 after getting into custom WarCraft III maps, went from a GUI Interface to JASS (WC3's scripting language) and finally started using C to make my own small mini-games, I imagine it's not an uncommon path among young people that want to be game developers.
20 or 25 years ago, I heard San Francisco get described as "the Amsterdam of the western hemisphere", which put it high on the list of places I'd want to visit some day.

Sad to hear it's declined so much.

(In the mean time, Amsterdam seems to have improved a lot.)
I’v been using cloud build for background tasks. You may need to write a function triggered by pub/sub and submit a cloud build though.
That and LEGO, especially the often-looked-down-upon act of building sets from the directions, which are pretty much a series of "spot the difference in a 3D scene" puzzles.
> Not everyone got a tax cut and the cuts went primarily to businesses and the ultra wealthy. The President also tried to make the cuts look bigger by changing withholding requirements.

I don't think the first claim is representative, and I don't think the second claim is true? Most people did get tax cuts; even if the bulk of the value went to businesses that's not in dispute. And despite concerns in 2017 that it could happen, there's no evidence that withholdings were artificially over-reduced. People who were already withholding the right amount were basically unaffected, while the people shifted from overpaying to underpaying constitute more symmetrical error. (Which does have some downsides for collection.) Even the Government Accountability Office views this as a purely logistical event.

More cynically, conventional wisdom says that popular perception of tax cuts is based almost entirely on the fact/size of the return received. Increased take home pay was talked up, but reducing the number of people receiving rebates is hardly a productive trick to score votes.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/6/18214039/ir...
I do appreciate the feature!

But how feasible would be to limit the amount of info retrievable from the JS layer instead than relying on a black list of domains serving fingerprinters?
Uber didn't do enough to warn women about series of rapes by fake Uber drivers
I wonder if something like that would work in a ballistics armor application?
If you have a malicious browser publisher, you have bigger problems than the networking layer to worry about.

The browser already has access to all your keystrokes and all the data it's displaying to you. In some way, it's a "Man In The Middle" that sits at the UI layer and will be able to sniff anything both ways irrespective of the networking layers.

That password coming from your "secure keychain" (or any other password manager)? It is also visible "in the clear" by the browser. Only challenge-based, out-of-browser authentication methods will keep the browser from seeing your secret, but it'll still be able to snoop your interaction both ways, and make sensitive API calls on your behalf (like transferring money, etc). There are other methods like OTP that also limit the exposure of your secret, but don't protect against the main threat of hijacking an authenticated browser session.

Thankfully some services add another layer of authentication for "sensitive actions", but it's not that common, and it is often weak (for example, sending an SMS with a code). Better than nothing of course.
Americans Are Experiencing Racism
So when poor people are scamming other poor people 'it is ok'?

It is only bad when middle class or rich lose money?

I am surprised Krebs is doing that and e.g. Western Union (as he mentioned in his article - Twitter) isn't actively hunting these down every-single-day!!
These jobs aren't really high-quality work. We need less of them, and we need to provide those doing it a safety net or retraining for when they are displaced. Nobody should do factory jobs or other menial work just because we can't think far enough ahead to give them something new to do.
TenFourFox dev. It's not.

Mozilla used to support embedding, and this is what largely powered Camino and K-Meleon back in the day (embedding Gecko within a native widget toolkit), but disabled this in 4.0 due to maintenance concerns in the service of making it a brave new XULRunner world.

Virtually all of the remaining Firefox and Mozilla derivatives are still essentially XULRunner applications even though XULRunner itself has gone by the wayside. Also do note that many on the list someone else posted are actually forks. TenFourFox, for example, is a heavily modified Firefox 45; Waterfox, Pale Moon and the UXP project are based on Firefox 52. Even K-Meleon today is XUL-based.
The cynic in me says this:

Great press for BoA perfectly timed where automation will completely remove the need for these low level jobs within 5-10 years.
Of all the fantastical things bitcoiners believe, the idea that the mining industry isn't directly responsible for a huge amount of CO2 emissions is one of the most egregious.
Yes, it does. Ignoring cities with fewer than 75,000 people, it’s the fourth most dense city in the US:

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

Automobile-based suburban sprawl is the only functional development pattern in the US because we’re so bad at building and maintaining public transit systems.
What they describe doesn't sound like a non-newtonian fluid, although it's possible that the atomic-scale behavior they described manifests non-newtonian behavior on a macroscopic scale.
LoopBack 4 March 2019 Milestone Update
I'm not sure why this was downvoted. US companies have been caught regularly adding backdoors to products sold abroad (from the top of my head, I seem to remember IBM admitting the charges, Microsoft being caught red-handed, etc.)

Last November, Emmanuel Macron gave a big speech about the fact that the EU cannot rely anymore on the US as an ally for cyberdefense, because the US spent so much effort spying on the EU (and regularly getting caught) that it was not even nearly possible.

So yeah, I trust US companies about as much as Chinese companies, which is not much.
i'm not totally sure what 'fractal geometry' is, although there is something called 'geometric measure theory'..

the canonical text here is Federer, although it's supposedly a tome. Krantz's _the geometry of domains in space_ appears more approachable.

...

also, note that these topics aren't totally separable.
apples and oranges. Houston is over 600 sq miles, the metro area is 1000S.

If you’re going to compare SF and Texas, start with Highland Park, Bunker Hill, 78746 or the Montrose.
Not saying “US NUMBAH ONE” but those indexes are just biased to whatever the index creators prefer. I could make one that heavily indexes gun rights, lack of hate speech laws, gross income per capita, or even military strength and suddenly we’re number one if not close to it. It would be just as valid a ranking. In other words those lists are largely rubbish. Never mind they rarely break things down by demographics, preferring to look the other way.
Citation needed! Renewables are not free of externalities. Hydro damages environments.

Wasting renewable energy on crypto mining prevents that energy being used for something productive and so drives the need for more renewable capacity or drives further use of fossil fuels.

Bitcoin is an environmental disaster in the making. I see mining as akin to a religious rite that diverts potential away from useful activity and towards a fantasy instead.
Another Decade of SOM Language Implementation
I think there is something to the notion that this has to do with acculturation though. There are plenty of men that suck at sports and have bad spatial awareness, but society provides way more outlets and social reward/pressure to develop those skills to men than it does to women.
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It's true. What's the point you're having trouble with?
The United States began its War on Poverty in 1964, prior to the War on Drugs. It's been running for more than 50 years https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2014/03/19/the-wa...
If I'm not mistaken, Firefox's currently built-in Tracking Protection also borrows from the base Disconnect blocking lists. So this would not be the first time they've used them.