skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Classes with other students are just about the least effective way to learn a foreign language.

Well, sure a private tutor is better, but that's a lot more expensive.

Without a teacher of some sort that can provide feedback, I have no idea how I could have learned elementary Mandarin (that is produce and listen to sounds radically different from my native English).

From what I've seen the ability for computers to give feedback on what you are doing wrong is far away from a trained human's.

> The Pimsleur model could take you all the way to fluency,

I've been looking over their website - it seems like it is just audio lessons and no tutor is provided? If that is correct, how would someone learn to correctly pronounce words in say Mandarin using this?
Alright, but that's in the UK.

In Muslim countries it's illegal.
It was the same for me. Firefox 66.0.3 on Xubuntu 19.04. I also turn off a lot of phone-home behaviour. And I never had any problems with extensions getting disabled. I have no idea why I wasn't affected.

But frankly, "not being affected" isn't good enough for me. Even if I dodged this bullet I might not dodge the next. I'm looking for an alternative browser. Falkon has been interesting so far. It's a little bare-bones in many ways, but at least it's immunue to any future Mozilla screwups.
Adding to that: one of the fundamental EU rules was freedom to do bussiness anywhere in EU. That worked in favor of Western countries which had their corporations opening offices in Poland, and making huge profits here.

After some time Poland found some niches for itself, e.g. Polish transportation companies dominate EU market in truck freight. What was the EU response to that? They recently passed change in labor laws, that would make this business unprofitable.

So: common EU market is fine as long as Western countries benefit from it, but Poland or other Eastern countries making money from business in the West is against the rules :)
>Please stop invoking the term concentration camp. We all know the imagery that term conjures (perhaps that is the intent of users such as yourself).

If you don't want people to say you're putting people in concentration camps, perhaps you shouldn't remove millions of people of a specific ethnicity from their homes in order to lock them up in a camp for an indefinite amount of time.

Uighurs have been clashing with the Chinese government for over a century. The government is just attempting to cement their grip on Xinjiang by wiping out Uighur identity to remove a rebellious element. Concentration camps rarely start out as death camps. When governments realize that the only real way to remove an ethnicity is to kill them, that's when they turn into extermination camps. The only real hope we have to prevent this, is to convince the Chinese government that the bad press isn't worth it.

>#1 as it would give them every excuse they could possibly need to "liberate" such an oppressed peoples.

There is no realistic scenario that leads to military intervention within the borders of a country with nuclear weapons and the capability to deliver them.
Some of HN understands hard determinism and once in awhile I see an interesting post. Otherwise it's just a comment triggered from reading the article. I enjoy it.
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bcc https://github.com/iovisor/bcc if you need low-level abstractions or bpftrace https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace if you need something simpler (similar to dtrace)
> Why not? Did they thing the actual answer was smaller or larger?

Good question - I don't know. I didn't pursue it, but where it was obvious, smaller. Thinking back now, years later, my impression of one student, is that of a feeling of great smallness, contrasted with a concrete length, maybe yielding a "no, that doesn't feel small enough".

> Is the answer not yellowish-white?

What color is sunlight? ;)
I would like to show your project to some friends, thanks! Does it support h323?
The JPEG spec is a bit on the verbose side, and most of it can be skimmed easily; for example, one of the sentences near the beginning is "An encoder is an embodiment of an encoding process." There's also specifications of lossless modes and arithmetic compression, which you probably don't care about for a first exercise; the "baseline DCT" is the only variant that really matters. The spec is nearly 200 pages, but the diagrams and flowcharts take up a significant amount of that space.

Interestingly enough, the JPEG2000 spec is at first glance not that much longer, but it is far more terse, so the size of the spec is only a rough estimate of the complexity and work it'd take to implement.
Raw reality and experience is organized in subtly different ways in a different language, in a way that can't quite be fully translated "to learn about" to your native language. It is a bit like just reading about basketball in a book without ever playing any basketball or even watching an NBA game.. I am actually on the opposite side: I'm bilingual, but never truly mastered a third language, and always wondered if I'd feel it is "marginal" or would feel like an entire new world would open up like it did with a second language. I've spent a lot of time studying mathematics and I also feel like that substantially feels like learning an alien language to talk about space and structure.
where is there a concentration camp of nonmuslims in the muslim world? and why even bring that up?
Yes, Cone: http://cone.jondgoodwin.com/
Even Visual Studio Code is more performant than Eclipse and you can create a Linux distributable of .Net and deploy to Linux from Visual Studio.

And before you say there are non Linux mainframes. Yeah I know - another dead end technology along with .Net framework and C++/CLI.
Last summer I replaced an iPhone 6 or 6s with a 7 that cost about $500, or half the cost of the new, high-end phones. I don't perceive the new ones to offer 2x the value of a new or refurbished 7.
All, you can install latest add-ons here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases
Good question

Those are higher level triggers affecting visual cortex.

Ultimately in order to perceive reality visually, photon needs to interact with your eye machinery (again on quantum level) resulting in nerve impulses being sent to your visual cortex, which decodes and interprets visual signals.

Hallucinogens mess with the chemistry of the brain affecting how it interprets reality.

Although those are higher level triggers they do not bypass quantum part, different reality gets created due to different chemistry in the synapses of the brain.

To conclude, event when you are hallucinating you are experiencing reality but in a messed up way.
> Unless your job requires driving, there’s no incentive to drive in central London.

Then nobody does it?
Advertising is 100% bullshit, both in this space and elsewhere. I'm not sure why even well-paid people in positions of corporate power don't seem to get it. It's similar to Gell-Mann amnesia.
It's not like they had a choice…
THIS IS THE ONLY ANSWER GOATS ARE BEST!!!
Great idea!

Install from a random web link to file on a "cloud" server.

What could possibly go wrong!
"A blue-badge style disabled exemption"

Why? Why not change motability so that it only includes electric vehicles?

Or are you suggesting banning all vehicles? In that case what's wrong with public transport/mobility scooters?
It would certainly be wonderful if this led to a Linux kernel module that was free of Oracle.
I audit software updates by looking at developers announcements and community discussions (in social media, forums etc) before installing updates.

Then, even if developers keys and computers are compromised, I would notice something is wrong.

* No, of course that I don't always do that. I even don't often do that. But I did do that in the past, and I'd like to have the option to do that.
Open source software can't have a backdoor because the code is available to review.

Got it.
Has anyone compared the efficacy of goats vs raking the forests.
I think their comment was either confusing or they misconstrued something. QtWebEngine uses code from Chromium [1], not the other way around.

[1]: https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine
You cannot rely on “check at install time.” An extension could be installed by a crapware installer behind FF’s back. You can’t go and remember the trust state at install time either, because that memory would need to be kept locally and could be modified by a crapware installer. So the only solution that prevents circumventing the check is to check the signature when the extension is loaded.
Unrelated, but I just wanted to say Dave2D is great. I'm normally not the biggest fan of Youtube product review channels; I think they're a little vapid. Dave seems objective and gives insightful, broader analysis and does a good job of putting products in context of what's available.
I can't say if it's "good", but OpenJPEG is the most prominent one and endorsed as a reference implementation: https://www.openjpeg.org/
Is Gitlab CI available as standalone solution? I don‘t need a source code solution, just an CI solution.
They are far from catching up on compilation, GC and low-overhead observability technology. Those developments didn't happen in 1994; they have been happening continuously over the past 25 year (e.g., in the past few years we've seen ZGC, JFR and Graal), where Java is still far ahead of the pack.
https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2018/07/17/pipenv-promises-a-l...
Can a POE (power over ethernet) access point become POE router?
My isp currently has MAC binding so just as a life hack i have given the MAC of the wifi router and all the members can use the wifi (including guests) whose MAC is not submitted to the isp. so now my isp has put up POE access points in each home in my building.. i don't want that obviously.... is there a way to bypass this?
Is this not the assumption of many SQL databases that make certain guarantees about complying with ACID? I'm not a DB expert but feels like something I've read before.
It's also the reason why people mail sensitive data to their private mailboxes and that no matter how hard some companies try, they can't make their employees stop using Excel as their primary work tool.

'arcbyte over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19827012 does have a point - a lot of potential exfil risk is caused by companies doing their best to make it as difficult as possible for their employees to do their jobs.
> there's also commonly social housing in those sorts of locations

I never noticed this. Is there some reason for it or just your general impression?
66.0.3 64 - Win10

FF shows the fix add-on as being installed with the standard pop-up notifications in the menu bar. However, in the browser console, I only see the error msgs that I've listed in my other posts.

???
It's just another database collecting unknown information about me ("anonymized" in some way that may be reversible), stored for an unknown length of time, and enabled by default. Just ask. Plenty of people will beta test software for a $20 gift certificate, or even for free, but they should be given a choice.
(Hi, I'm the author of Manifold) Manifold works equally well with Java 8 - 12. While no IDE is required, it is designed to fully leverage Java's static type system, which heavily benefits from the static analysis provided by a topnotch IDE like IntelliJ IDEA. Code completion, deterministic refactoring, usage searching, feature navigation, incremental compilation, etc. -- suddenly these productive features are now available to any resource connected with Manifold e.g, GraphQL, JSON Schema, Javascript, etc.

Re Intellij v. Eclipse. I'm just one guy banging on a project; I only have time to build and maintain one IDE plugin and right now my focus is on IntelliJ. I'd like to start working on an Eclipse plugin at some point... or trick someone else into doing the work ;)
Just let it go man.
I've never been a fan of Apple because of price. I liked the Google Nexus a lot, until the prices rose also.

Now on a S9 from work.

Fyi: I still prefer the bare Android experience and not the Samsung shell though
Tell that to all of the Android OEMs that are losing money...

Even Google has only made less than $30 billion in profit on Android....(https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generate...)

But yes there are cross platform GUIs for .Net.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/CrossplatformGUIsWithOpenSour...

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/blob/master/readme.md

Yeah they probably suck and don’t look are behave like native apps - but no cross platform framework does.
Sorry but I just have to accuse you of being a shill.
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I had this problem too. I’ve been able to get over it by from coming up with a scenario, even if it’s completely fabricated, where what I am doing can be useful. I also make sure that I incorporate something new that I want to learn in the project. Whether it’s a language, library, whatever. Then I give myself a date I can quit. Normally it’s about two months. This makes me really consider whether I want to take something on because if I do I force myself to dedicate two months of time to it. If I enjoy it still at the end of two months then I continue otherwise I move on to another idea. At least in that time I because a little better at whatever I was trying to do. That’s the real goal anyway.
What Is Design?
Give me a smartphone I can install with what I want.
Food that looks fun is generally more appealing to our little ones
It doesn't stop them from trying, however, and severely damaging the experience of users who do know what they're doing. They even invented the term "self-XSS" and contributed to the decline of JS "bookmarklets".
Yes I know they exists. But my definition of “good” is does look and work like a native app? That’s not true for anything Java based or Electron or .Net.
You have the right to walk or not walk with whoever you want and associate with or not associate with whichever race you choose.

What makes you feel the need to have your thoughts publicly vindicated?

> I keep seeing this and I ask at what point do we start shaming Chinese nationalists

> the Chinese way is not right and I will not associate with any business or person who is Chinese

From this statement it seems as though you're trying to generate some kind of grass-roots support for that line of thinking? If that's the case, there are already well established communities for that, such as stormfront.
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I have all of the privacy options unchecked including studies but Normandy (which I've just found out about via this issue) is still enabled.
Thanks.

> Does it support h323?

No, and there were no plans yet. But we probably can add support if someone will need it.
Nationalism really has nothing to do with my response. A fully-admitted-in-advance pedantic sense of accuracy does.

The Web is significant. I'm well aware of its history, and the (yes, publicly-funded) Arpanet and Internet. But the WWW not the whole 'Net, and other than some path-dependent accidents of history (see Meredith L. Patterson's "On Port 80" https://medium.com/@maradydd/on-port-80-d8d6d3443d9a) would probably be subsiding now largely due to mobile tech. Designed in Cupertino, built in China. (And likely designed in China before much longer).

The point remains that TFA talks of partitioning the Internet, not merely the Web, via mostly Internet-specific, not Web-specific, mechanisms.

Cheers.
Hey doop, replying to you here since your post is showing up as dead so I can't reply to it.

If you installed the xpi you shouldn't need to do anything in the browser console, and your addons should have come back. Obviously the latter didn't happen.

Chances are a connection failure in the browser console is unrelated, the browser console is basically constantly spewing error messages, you should just ignore them unless they are in response to something you did.

All I can really suggest over the internet is to try reinstalling your addons - that might work - in which case I would assume they just got uninstalled somehow. If it doesn't I'm not sure what to suggest, and I can't realistically debug something too complex over HN comments. You might just have to wait for mozilla to publish an update to the browser that fixes this properly.

I do want to emphasize that I'm just some dude on the internet being helpful by the way, not associated with Mozilla or anything.

Edit: Just saw this error message you also posted: """WebExtensions: failed to add new intermediate certificate:"""

That sounds like an issue that happened when installing the .xpi? Did it give any other related debugging information?
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And Apple increased prices even further because they saw this coming (might as well be a self-fulfilling prophecy though).
I got an iPhone X from work but wanted a personal phone as well and just bought an iPhone 7 because it felt ridiculous carrying around two brand new really expensive phones. My previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy S9 but I decided to ask for an iPhone when I changed jobs, to avoid Google.

I actually prefer the iPhone 7 to the X and even S9, I see very little reason to get anything newer.
I couldn't tell from that review what the book was actually about, the Amazon summary:

One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be his first encounter with Robert Parkin Peters: plagiarist, bigamist, fraudulent priest and imposter extraordinaire.

The Professor and the Parson traces the strange career of one of Britain's most eccentric criminals. Motivated not by money but by a desire for prestige, Peters' lied, stole and cheated his way to academic positions and religious posts from Cambridge to New York, Singapore and South Africa. Frequently deported, and even more frequently discovered, his trail of destruction included seven marriages (three of which were bigamous), an investigation by the FBI and a disastrous appearance on Mastermind.
This feels a bit like Project Lombok: adding cool features to standard Java.

I like the Extensions option. It works very much like D's UFCS mechanism.
This sounds like a threat model and mitigation developed by a college intern.

How, exactly, is a user land application going to protect itself from modification by a computer admin? I think DRM, anti-virus, and os vendors everywhere would love an answer to this.

This threat model completely fails to account for live patching, trusted cert root modification, dll hooking, etc. Either the Mozilla security folks are incompetent / winging it, or this isn't the real reason.
I'm am American and recently moved to Europe. I had to get a new phone because my old contract wasn't up. I had a LG G6 before, and ended up with a Huawei P20 and can't imagine why someone would pay 3-4x for a Samsung or an iPhone. The camera is phenomenal!
Evidence for this (as a generational phenomenon) could include the reduction in the top income tax rate as boomers came of age. So in that sense I agree that they, generationally, may have disliked taxes in comparison to what immediately preceded them.

As far as I know, the Federal income tax (in the US) started out as a way to finance war. So it would be more like going into McDonald's and paying to have someone stand there with a gun and threaten/kill anyone who tried to take your (or anyone else's) Big Mac. There was no homeless, hungry guy in the corner suffering if not for the forced generosity of a third party. My only point here is to say that, in an abstract way, the current income tax was formed on an idea of protection as a transaction, not on being generous towards down-on-their-luck people. I believe that context is important when we talk about generations later rejecting taxation because they don't see what's in it for them.

(But I'll also admit / point out that, in the context of when the current Federal income tax started, young men were being drafted to fight in WWI, which I think is way worse than any tax in terms of the individual vs. collective. As in, there's no clearer way to say that the state owns you than it being able to send you to war potentially against your will.)
You might be interested in Daniel Dennett’s thoughts on the matter, if you aren’t already familiar with him.
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Can you share an example card? I can’t picture what you’re doing.
I'm just pointing out that it is also correct that the girl die from respiratory failure.

I do not claim to know what is the author true intention or whether its helpful or not.
hmm, should it be installable by default, not only on the about:debugging page?
I purchased a new iPhone 6 for under $200 cash about two years ago. You can get them a little cheaper now.
> there was a hidden dead-mans handle that's been triggered

The add-ons were signed by a certificate with an expiration date, which means that the add-ons are trusted until that certificate expires, not that they're trusted in perpetuity. It's not a hidden dead-mans hand; expiry is and has always been part of the process.

I think it's arguable that it shouldn't be part of the process, and having things like 20-year expiry satisfies the letter of the spec while being even worse than no expiry, but it's not a hidden dead-man's hand. It's how it was designed to work, and isn't considered optional.
Deadlifts will make your back strong.
You can start with almost zero weight and slowly work your way up.
At any age. I really mean any age, even 85 or 90yo
The reason I don't want to upgrade is because I don't want to lose all my legacy addons, a lot of them dissapeared and there are no alternatives. I can't understand how Mozilla can break my browser remotely and force me tu upgrade to a more restricted browser...
The check only runs once a day.
Smartphone innovation stopped a few years ago and the general public is finally catching on. At the same time, there is little difference between cheap models and expensive ones. Taking both of these into account, Apple still increased their prices significantly counting on their brand as a fashion statement more than anything. It should be no surprise that sales are significantly down overall and especially for Apple. I expect this trend to continue and likely accelerate in the future.
> Those still would have their certificates checked on installation.

How? These extensions were not being installed through the normal mechanism. The malicious extension installer will just set the flag that says "this extension has been verified".

> And honestly, I think it is security theater to attempt to defend against attackers on the same or higher privilege level.

I understand that, and Mozilla does too: "By baking the signing requirement into the executable these programs will either have to submit to our review process or take the blatant malware step of replacing or altering Firefox." [1]

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/04/15/the-case-for-exte...
No C programmer has ever been good. It demands an inhuman level of perfection, or formal methods that boil down to a theorem proving language with C window dressing (the mostly-proprietary stuff Rust competes with).
> There are suburbs all over the place if that's what you want.

Not SF obviously, but most places where these debates pop up ARE suburbs. Thats the whole problem. People spend forever finding a place that suits their need, and then others come in trying to transform them into something that suits theirs instead. Which is fine I guess, but I'd be hard pressed to say one side has the moral high ground.