skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hell yeah I'm claiming APIs I have trouble understanding with intuition are not well designed. You might even call them... unintuitive. The entire point of an API is for it to be consumed; A nice uniform API like Stripe or Qt is easy even with minimal docs. If a user has trouble with your application, you don’t immediately blame them, you have a UX problem. If your API is hard to use? That’s a problem. This only becomes more true as the stakes get higher. How do you feel about unintuitive cryptography APIs?

Have I ever used an API that is hard to use and confusing? Yes. JIRA, Workfusion come to mind. The latter was a SOAP API. Thankfully, I don’t really need to deal with SOAP anymore, and good riddance. In case of bad APIs, my approach has always been to strongly isolate them from my code with an abstraction; most dramatically by actually putting a service up that just interfaces with the API I don’t like and provides a minimal interface to the functionality I need. At work, I usually have to do that, for security reasons, even if the API is good.

Anyways, I really, genuinely don’t have any clue what you’re trying to prove here. You’ve gone on and on about how bad APIs exist and imply this means I must be lying. So what do I have to do, link to some docs and say “Hey, check out how usable this API is”? I won't bother but the two aforementioned (Qt, Stripe) are great examples in two completely different categories.

And I have literally not even the smallest clue how this ties back to debuggers. I can’t recall a single time my reaction to a confusing API was pulling out a debugging tool other than printf; more likely I’d play around in a sandbox or REPL instead.
Richard Fontana explains licensing with cake
It's a signing certificate that is built into the browser to verify add-ons, not a normal TLS certificate that they can just update on a web server.

The change basically just imports the new certificate into the database:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/848b1502...
Not a great idea. You have no reason to believe deleted and cached copies aren’t lingering on you disk unprotected.
The wealth is still in the US, though. It did not go to other countries.
> That there's a large flat base of sub-300 phones

No, actually he doesn't say that. He says that people who don't care about their phone will take one for $0, any phone:

> Or, b. you’ve decided that just about every phone out there is ‘good enough’ and is more than adequate for your needs, so you’ll go with whatever one costs $0 with your existing wireless contract.

People buy many different phones (including high-end Android phones, and second-hand iPhones); the reality he describes doesn't seem to exist.

Also, including people who don't care about Taylor Swift in a study of the value of Taylor Swift concert tickets' value, is absurd: that some people (or even most people) don't want something, doesn't have anything to do with the price of goods. What matters is who wants it and how hard they want it.

Some people like Taylor Swift a lot, some like her a little, some like to go to concerts, some like to go out, some are looking for a place to bring a date, etc. etc. The author's binary division is completely artificial.
Unfortunate people learning to be deceied in miraculous ways – With All Women
Yes, let’s mechanize human thought. What could possibly go wrong?
And the Canadian courts are far more likely to say the infringement was acceptable, either in that court, or under an appeal if the government loses.
Is there a little more background to what is happening here? The link is to an ftp, so I have no idea what is broken, fixed or why it matters.
Full drive encryption and then using spideroak for cloud storage is a better and easier solution
They are trying to implement that tax here in KS. To screw me even further, the property tax is based on a average depreciation for all vehicles. Thus the used 2015 Leaf that I bought for $8,500 was taxed at $23k for a two year old car. I filed a “payment in protest”, but they don’t accept them for vehicle tax.
Hey if you’re getting into Product Consulting, I’d love to speak to you. I have a product that we think might be useful for product consultants and would love to get your thoughts on it
Yeah, the current binary model of "proven safe" is utterly broken.

First, the product is considered 100% unsafe and criminal to use until going through some defined set of steps.

Then it is considered 100% safe forever, and no further knowledge needs to be collected.

Any sane system based on gathering knowledge and saving lives would be very different.
Is that really true? r < g could still make sense if you're constrained on g and less so on r, as long as r earns some return.
Not in the USA[1] in 1975[2]

1) https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Monty-Python-and-the-Holy-...

2) https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-...
This is the best real estate site experience I’ve ever had on mobile.
The adjective "professional" can mean "performed up to the standards of a profession" or "performed for money". I think it's pretty obvious that you're responding to someone using the latter definition, and I very much doubt you are unaware of its existence. Perhaps you could make your point more explicit?
I think there could be a market for backup/wipe/restore services. Very feasible for phones leave minimally needed contact info during travel.

For laptops keep the is on device and user data on external pulled and put in checked luggage. Security's annoying but lazy.

Edit: removable storage on mobile could get popular as a privacy feature.
Good. If he has nothing to hide, he should have given the passwords.
There's a movie called "Unrest" which, in part, covers Dr Davis and his son I think. I thought it was a pretty interesting movie, it's on Netflix in the UK, not sure about elsewhere.
I typed faster than I intended. Yes, paradox. Another comment hit by autocorrect.

Thanks for the correction.
Very creative. Love the idea of using gsheets as the back-end so you can leverage the power of spreadsheets (which were basically designed for use cases like aggregating transactions!)
Thx. it's great
More copy-protected software now runs on PCjs
Thanks for spotting that!
It isn't A/B testing that is bad, it is running and/or modifying stuff in the user's computer without their knowledge that is bad. If a site modifies some part of their layout or whatever isn't bad, but a browser installing addons or changing settings to see if it will crash is bad.
Absolutely. English Literature (mandatory at my school) meant I didn’t pick up a book for pleasure for over five years after that.

Mainly they ruined reading for me with an intense over analysis that I could never get to grips with.

That wasn’t the only thing though. We used to go around the room with one person reading a page at a time, some people could barely read and it was absolute agony because it would take months to get through a book.
How much gratitude do you generally expect for simple, ethical actions that take almost no effort on your part?
Gives 66.0.4 now
Improving Edge Inferencing: AI chip bottlenecks and how to boost the efficiency
Were, I guess.
The FDA regulates (or fails to regulate) many different classes of products (drugs, biologics, devices, human cell and tissue products, supplements, food, tobacco and nicotine products, etc). FDA's authority and its effectiveness is extremely variable across these classes.

My sense is that the traditional drug and biologic drug parts still work reasonably well, but the biggest problems lately are coming from devices and from human cell and tissue products (and with products that are being pushed into those categories). A lot of this is due to the ways the laws have been written (due to lobbying and legislative capture), but some of it is undoubtedly a result of regulatory capture and incompetence.
Good luck finding an unused 3 letter acronym.
It's easy to break your encryption. Trust me, if you live in a country that has crap laws, they will actually extract the password from you:

https://xkcd.com/538/

Edit I'm not saying it's a bad idea to encrypt your drives, just that it doesn't save you from someone determined..
xpinstall.signatures.required = false worked for me on android
If your addons are broken, it will fix them. If you don’t use addons or they’re working fine, you can let autoupdate pick it up.

The release notes will be published at this URL:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.4/releasenotes/
Wow, thank you so much for posting/mentioning :-)

Have a great evening
Johannes
According to another poster on this thread, the same situation on a Tesla would be 5, not 2.
Which older versions, specifically?
It’s even worse in Australia:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/25/sydney-airport...
If you're THAT worried, then securely reformat disk and reinstall OS just before travel.
There's a few things that are problematic about this opinion piece.

First off, many of the items being discussed are related to surgical treatments. It is very hard to impossible to do a double blind study of a surgical thing. What are you going to do? Open a bunch of people up and only do the actual treatment on half of them? I've heard of this being done in very rare situations, but the ethics of this are pretty edgy.

Secondly, there appears to be a mischaracterization of women being disproportionately affected by things. This is a pretty complex topic, but lets balance out the offered information by pointing out that prostate cancer (men) kills more people than breast cancer (women) and receives a lot less funding

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/02/prostate-cancer-...

My personal experience with FDA regulation has been that they are being asked to do an impossible task, and not doing a great job of it. People close to me have been hugely (negatively) impacted by FDA decisions because they are going for a one size fits all solution for everything, and because they somehow fancy that they know more than doctors involved in a particular situation.
> It's just the usual tug of war between developers and users for control of the computer.

And the annoying part of this being developers who act as if they do not understand (or just brush off) the concerns that the users have.

Like, people want control over their own machines. How is that hard to understand?
I recommend binge skimming of books, blogs, magazines, looking for ideas and viewpoints. "Speed understanding," Asimov called it.

Mark the content that is novel to you, that is beyond your understanding, that you disagree with, that challenges your thinking, that makes you reflect or reevaluate, sparks your imagination.

And so conversely avoid reading further things well known to you, that only confirm your thinking, that you agree with, that is spoon-fed to you, that doesn't demand of you to apply its capital even after the cover is closed.

It's the deliberate practice of synthesis, analysis, and evaluation of reading that is the heart of all creativity.

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Gidé
Oh well, I do use chromium as a last resort, every few months. If this the alternative, I prefer to suffer Firefox shenanigans every now and then.

I was seriously annoyed by the move to the new add-ons framework, and stayed way too long on unsupported, unpatched old version, until everything I needed was available, to some degree at least, in the new framework. I tried but didn't stick to Chromium as my main tool.

As it is, Firefox is ugly on some days, but for me at least, it still the best tool available, and it still feel pretty much like mine.
The title is 100% clickbait. I refuse to read content with clickbait titles so thank you OP for the summary.
See https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-...
Once upon a time (years ago) i wrote a tool called bookbuilder, which did exactly this :-) Take a bunch of camera photos of a book on dark background, find the edges and extract the text part :-)
I'm not sure, it is still working, because it was java 6... but it is using the excellent boofCV library (http://boofcv.org)
If you would like to try it, give it a shot (tesseract 3 is needed):

https://mega.nz/#!EVxA0ZoD!6Uy5A4HexJbewXqkOLsW-4sj5IO5LOGef...

java -jar bookbuilder-0.2.jar --input-path=input --output-file=output/output.pdf --ocr-embed-layer --rotation-degrees=180
That is not a complete statement of the changes shown. In addition to the unexpired certificate, it takes step to reenable any addons that were disabled by the expiration of the prior certificate.
https://github.com/amark/gun

var a = {b: 1, c: {d: 2}, e: 3, f: {g: 4}};

a.c.z = a;

Every object has its own UUID, which makes circular references & sub-objects easy to reference.

a.c = (UUID pointer to c)

a.c.z = (UUID pointer to a)

a.f = (UUID pointer to f)

Now we can

(a.f.z = a.c) && (a.c = null)

c doesn't actually move, just the pointers on `a` and on f.

c now has a new parent (or could have 2 parents, since any graph is allowed).

Since everything is represented on disk/wire as a flat graph, all updates can be well defined as operations on `UUID.property = primitive/pointer` atomic changes in the CRDT.

This means there are only 7 operations to commute: (I hate switch statements, but someone helping me formalize the CRDT wanted it expressed this way)

https://jsbin.com/hedeqoxusa/edit?js,console (click run to see each operation applied)

You see order-of-operation doesn't matter.

Once merge has happened, history does not need to be preserved (no unbounded growth!) but it can if you want log/history.

Merged states can be stored as a flat graph on disk with a radix tree which allows for O(1) lookups on UUID+property pairs regardless of graph size.

There are some caveats though, of course:

Strongly Eventually Consistent, so don't use for banking.

Counter operations still grow-only but can be done in 12 lines ontop (see https://gun.eco/docs/Counter ). Rich text also grow-only.

Happy to expand on anything else, too!
Or they are lying with statistics (i.e. using the smallest excuse to justify inclusion as a positive).
Introduction to Formality
TBF he's giving them the data in the first place.
Any time anyone says anything negative about Tesla anywhere you get accused of being a shill for short sellers or the fossil fuel industry. That’s why people issue disclaimers.
Poll: In which cryptocurrency you send/receive most of your payments currently?
I was going by his posted benchmark. But correction,I had never heard of Vertx. It was 14% faster.
Of course we should
Exhuming the Glacier Girl (2009)
Couldn't have anything to do with the 300+ rockets fired at Isreal yesterday...

EDIT: Looks like its more than 600 rockets now.
one of the things that the founders of the American Republic attempted to do was to avoid the tyranny of the majority, that the public is opposed to what someone does and thus, for political purposes, laws are selectively enforced to punish the person the public dislikes seems to be a clear incident of such a tyranny.
I suspect wait times are lower in areas with fewer Tesla owners who need service.

I live in Silicon Valley and Teslas are everywhere. I know quite a few people who own them, and they all complain about reliability -- primarily software problems. If all of the Teslas on the road are as unreliable as the ones my friends own, there is probably a long line of owners waiting for service.
For context, I use a basic card and add the context with the word itself. Eg.

front-
define: comonotonic
(probability theory, comonotonicity)

back-
perfect positive dependence between the components of a random vector
from the article:

> But his insistence on a higher level of safety scrutiny cost Boeing time and money.

i would say that is the crux of it if there was one
Generally you would expect a simple amount of gratitude that takes almost no effort on their part. Like "Thank You".
the parent isn't saying to encrypt your drives, they're saying to encrypt your data and store it separately from your computer - essentially treat any devices you're carrying across the border as compromised before you even reach the border.
66.0.3 didn't break anything, but it was the last version to ship with certs that expired on Friday.
Fictional child pornography does not directly harm children, but it is likely that it does so indirectly by creating demand for actual CP. To me, it seems totally reasonable to make all sexualized depictions of children illegal for this reason.
This post is about western countries. The vast majority of western countries will not literally torture you to death, in order to get rando citizen's phone passwords.

Encryption works great for this usecase, that almost everyone in this thread will be using it for.

People being tortured for their personal phone password by a rando border guard in basically any country, just isn't something that happens, despite what the internet memes would lead you to believe.

Even in supposedly bad countries, I really doubt that this "attack vector" is something that happens frequently.
Still reading, but is that factoring in the labor and opportunity cost of managing a rental property?
Possibly, I'm no expert.

I didn't think about timescale though, the bow shock would require very short timescale (if at all plausible like you said).

If it happens on longer timescales, then maybe it's just surface heating from the emission of the other body.
Quite common in early-stage startups, 2-5 people including founders. As soon as the MVP is ready (first 3-6 months usually), they start around organizing things and prioritize stability, robustness over speed of delivery.

If the early engineers were experienced guys, a basic test suite and deployment pipeline would have been the first priority at the onset. It makes releasing frequent commits a breeze. Or else, they learn from subsequent hires to organize code, write tests and add extra processes. If they fail to hire such talent, they learn the hard way, frequent downtimes leading to user frustration and failing to retain them. It's crucial they realize this early on though, otherwise, this could lead to things blowing up pretty quickly leading to the death of the product.

Although I'd say, it sounds unusual for an investment bank. Doesn't sound like a company anyone would stick around for long. Sounds like inexperienced engineering leadership. If you're early in your career, I'd suggest looking for better companies.
There is still a lot of cheap housing in the USA. It's just not in the bay area anymore.
Do tell please, it would be educating for all of us. Hopefully you’ll find a less negative reception in this thread.
That is only fun because they already cataloged them for you. They made a little collection "used books for sale" with just the right size for you to enjoy browsing through. Now imagine you run into a barn full of books, a couple of containers outside, unsorted, all labeled "used books for sale" and no way to tell which were there last week and which weren't. At best you can visit 1% of the books this week, and next week the same 1%, or maybe another. That's what the issue is here.

Most people do not enjoy that more then once or twice.
Yes, true.

But if you are at the border and give to the officers all what they want ( access to your laptop and phone ), why would they have further suspicions to interrogate and/or detain and deep search your devices, if you are really a clean person, dunno, white, 30-40 years, suit up, good clothing, no strange stuff in traveling history..etc.?
It leads to worsening of the illness.
A CFS patient who goes beyond the boundaries of his energy reservers shrinks these.
That leads to smaller and smaller energy reservers, till you can't get out of the bed, sit upright, read longer text, type longer comments.
Be careful drawing personal advice from economic aggregates. Aggregate yield on investment or labor has little to do with individual yield on investment or labor. In other words, it doesn’t really matter what aggregate yields are only what your yields are. Often I’m not sure what the point of talking about aggregates is at all when it comes to labor. The gap between a software engineer salary and fast food worker salary is so huge I’m not sure I understand the meaning of analyzing the average aggregate yield of the two together.
not only days, it can be forever.
Yes, but it isn't (well should not be if they want to stay within the law) adding completely random drugs an garbage to the food. It may be seeking cheaper recipes with no sales losses, better recipes to improve sales, or something else, but it all has to be within the context of proper regulation, i.e.,, FDA. (we can argue elsewhere about the effectiveness of that system).

This unlimited testing can easily be seeking to better maximize psychological exploits with no regulation.

So, yes, I'm happy to see someone putting in a bit of control.
The statement that r>>g, except during periods of wartime, suggests a Peter Turchin-esque conclusion. The ruling class sets the rules such that r>>g, whatever rules are required to make that happen, unless they are engaged in a large military struggle such that they need the masses on their side.
Few markets have a market for "bad" employees, surely? What matters in the tournament situation is that the number #2 employee isn't as good as the #1 employee, regardless of what absolute quality level we're talking about.
About time. Embarrassing bug. The only reason i didn't permanently swap browser is because of the lack of alternatives since none has the functionality I apply through the addons.
I was already a bit mad at them for removing RSS support and claiming their proprietary service that's built in is an alternative, now their proprietary service keeps working (presumably, I didn't use it but it's not an addon so I doubt it's signed the same way) and I can't use the RSS addon.

I know this was a mistake, but I can't help but be mad that their proprietary built in stuff effectively gets a free pass and special treatment and meanwhile I can't use RSS and all my containers were deleted (those didn't come back after the study was pushed either).
And the language of "toot" is extremely hokey and will never be taken seriously. It implies farting for most Americans.

"Tweet" reminds people of birds. As in "a little bird told me". Which is appropriate for a gossip style network.
It's easy to dismiss cults until you realize how easily an intelligent person can fall under their spell. Many cults have very logical belief systems predicated on a few twisted axioms. If you convince an intelligent, rational person that those axioms are true, you have them. Often the smartest folks are drawn in because they are used to having beliefs and convictions far outside the mainstream which are rooted in reason(general relativity, for example).

I grew up atheist, but ended up spending about 6 years in a cult-like, nameless, christian denomination. It wasn't until the results of their belief system became absurd that I started to question the entire system.
Just moved to KS a couple months ago and paid more than in Washington (by a couple hundred bucks!) for registering a car. And that’s the part of Washington that had a special taxing district for the light rail. Not sure what we’re actually paying for.
Let the computer you used for encryption and uploading at home.. Take an empty/new notebook/smartphone with you to show at the border?

edit: place a big random data file, which looks like encrypted data on your alibi notebook. Refuse to give password and let the government lab try to find the password..