skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that money goes to the Mozilla Foundation, which uses it on the initiatives you can see at https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/initiatives/

Although the Foundation wholly owns the Corporation (we call them MoFo and MoCo internally), money donated to MoFo does not go towards paying MoCo employee salaries as far as I am aware.
Researchers shed light on the complex evolutionary past of bedbugs
I'm not sure I agree with OP, but you could at least skip clicking on the simple text ads that average joes use to try and get customers. Perhaps start with a list of approved ad "blocks" to click on.
But you’re also stuck with a phone that doesn’t work anywhere else. When you get into the boondocks when you are downgraded from their LTE network to their CDMA network you get much slower data than when you are downgraded from LTE to GSM.
Play on flavour of the month (FOTM), in this context meaning KPIs and other heuristics.
I don't think it's for those reasons, but the outcome is the same -- money donated to the Mozilla Foundation will not be spent on software development on Firefox, which is done by Mozilla Corporation. (I'm pretty sure it will fund Mozilla Foundation software developers, though, as well as all of the initiatives they list on the home page.)
> The smart thing to do is to have a public number and a private number.

What's the easiest way to do this?
That seems like a waste of energy.
Spend less by spending more?
> So your point is that there are no high priced smart phones other than Apple, therefore it’s a monopoly?

Nope. My point to is neither “there are no high priced smart phones” (there are) not “it’s a monopoly” (I have no position on that question). You should be able to tell that because I say nothing similar to either of those anywhere in the post you are responding to.

My point is that the existence of other players in a particular popular framing of what the market is has very little to do with the anti-trust definition of “monopoly”, which has to do with empirical competition (what do consumers move to or from in response to, particularly, price changes), not how markets are popularly described.

> If your point instead is that any brand that builds up a “pocket market” via good products and marketing is an abusive monopoly that just be stopped

Again, no. Building a non-competitive market via branding or other means makes you a monopoly, not necessarily an abusive one. You still have to abuse that monopoly to be an abusive monopoly.
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I understand that Apple defines the narrow market for iPhone apps. That doesn't mean anything illegal is happening. Antitrust law doesn't say that the existence of a monopoly is illegal. There has to be harm, or exploitation, or price fixing, etc., for the courts to take action. A monopoly may just be the result of great execution by a company and it may not be in violation of any antitrust laws. Again, controlling a particular market may or may not be illegal.

Also, while it is true that Apple is controlling the marketplace for iOS apps, it does not control the market for smart phone apps in general. There is a good chance that that is sufficient for the courts to find no monopoly. As many of others have pointed out, there are many, many examples of narrowly defined monopolies. With a different definition, there is no monopoly.

Of course, none of us know what the courts and I get your concern. My point is that the simple control of a marketplace (created by Apple) for a specific product is not a sufficient condition for court action. The benefits to consumers could easily outweigh any concerns about control. Time (years) will tell.

Here is an interesting essay on press (public) perception of monopolies vs antitrust laws:

https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/winter-2019/two-systems-be...
once I unlist my number from truecaller website (never installed / used their mobile app),

would it stop new people from adding my number to their database?

ie, I unlist in May2019. i give my number to a new contact of mine in Aug2019. and they use truecaller. would that re-add my name to trucaller database, or would my number stay unlisted forever no matter how many new contacts save my number in their phones with truecaller ?
The issue with patents is, no other team in the world is even allowed to try.
There's been at least one similar app around in the US for probably seven or eight years. Mr. Number is its name, although I believe it originally had a different one.

Edit: July 2010 release, 10M+ downloads, nearly 200k reviews. From long ago memory seeing names that have been submitted may be a paid subscription option.
Firefox anti fingerprinting breaks a lot of legitimate web features because they can be used for fingerprinting. Most notably every timestamp on the internet no longer shows the date in your timezone and every single website thinks you are a bot and blocks you or captcha spams you.
> Meanwhile the fund managers are the most conservative people imaginable and are far more interested in stable returns than making the world a better place, so the entities that have the resources for moonshots don't have the stones to actually attempt them.

You have actually given another premise to my argument. The world's resources (represented in paper money) is not being used to benefit the world, if fact, it's being used to lobby gov't to remove subsidies on renewable energy.

Feudal lords own the land just like today's capitalists (especially the whales) own capital.
... Don't you have to establish an HTTPS connection to use this API? Is that really easier than using the existing MySQL protocol? Or is it really so horrible that HTTPS is faster?

Things establishing new connections will never be as fast as things reusing existing connections. It seems wasteful to ignore this.
Next time I am messing around on a Linux desktop, I will give it a shot. I don't think that is one of the ones I've tried. Thanks for the suggestion!
Seems fine on my imac retina screen and retina mbp.
The Dreamcast had an incredible array of quality software, and ran at a beautiful full 640x480 while other consoles were for the most part stuck at 320.
> It used to be even better before the mass murder of the now-called "legacy" extensions,

I can't even switch because one of the vital extensions for my workflow do not exist any more and the author of the Chrome equivalent doesn't want to port it. (I even offered a little money, I probably can't pay enough for an experienced developer to do the full port.)
isn't that totally opposite of the *nix philosophy of everything is a text file?
Follow related searches randomly, use random fingerprints to simulate sessions. Click more ads. Search for terms on the advertiser's page. Click more ads. Search for random terms mixed with common terms in the session. Click more ads.

Spam the damn spammers and teach the AI with uncorrelated garbage mixed into the correlations it's already learned.
When you found a town that is extremely vocal in its ban on witch burning, it really shouldn't be a surprise to have it filled with witches. But that doesn't mean that witch burnings aren't a bad thing, or that towns with such a ban shouldn't exist.
Prince Town and Other Prince Town
> People want to use the web-browser that works best with the sites they visit, and the connectivity they have available.

Firefox has fought this uphill battle before and they didn't need telemetry to do it. When chrome first came out it had improved the UI and it didn't need telemetry to do it.

Since firefox added telemetry their market share has declined and their UI has got worse, the idea that telemetry improves products needs to die.
> The malware is still active and has a zero-detection rate in all major anti-virus systems.

Anti virus wouldn't really help in this case. I should also point out that it appears that HiddenWasp is targeting systems that are already compromised in some form.

The "achilles heel" of these sorts of CnC attacks tends to be, and is apparently so in this case, that they do need to phone home.

In this case, the IP addresses are known, and blackholing them with your firewall (try something like ufw [1], if you don't have one), or your hosts file, is enough. Using something like pi-hole you can also deploy these protections for every device on your network.

There are quite a few hosts lists maintained out in the wild [0], and tools like fail2ban to protect against brute-force attacks.

But, as usual, by far and away the safest way to protect your system is to not run untrusted code. You probably have a package manager, going outside it tends to be less safe.

[0] For example: https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uncomplicated_Firewall#...
You "triggered" far more upvotes than downvotes, which is one reason why the site guidelines ask people not to go on about downvotes like this. Would you please review them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20057158 and marked it off-topic.
CDMA networks are going away. As I pointed in another comment Verizon(the largest CDMA carrier) is sunsetting their CDMA network at this end of this year and aren't even allowing activation of CDMA only phones. There won't be any 3G to be downgraded to.
So they have a monopoly on selling their own product, essentially, I imagine would be the counter-argument?
I think that would be end of Firefox. Google pays Mozilla to have their search engine being default in Firefox.
A debate partner of mine told me a story about Seaman where a guy at a debate camp would call home every day to someone who he had arranged to take care of his Seaman for him while he was gone and he had the Seaman sitter hold the phone up to the Dreamcast mic so he could talk to his Seaman. I think the Seaman got despressed and died anyway.
Confused by:

VER=`echo $(uname -a)`

Versus just:

VER=$(uname -a)

or

VER=`uname -a`
Use Twilio Proxy
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> How about Firefox getting rid of their main source of revenue.

FTFY
Your experience matches mine, doing their homework and knowing that what they offer you matches your skills is great. This seems common sense but it's usually not like that. Thanks for sharing!
> officers should not get to stop me and shine a light around in my car

Why not? Which of your rights are they infringing on by doing these routine checks?

It's not like they're free to do anything they want. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that during a RIDE check, they can only check for sobriety, and any other searches or questioning will result in the charge being dismissed (unless the evidence of a crime is in plain view, like a gun on the dashboard).

Here's a great summary:

R.I.D.E. stands for “Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere.” It is an Ontario sobriety program that was established in 1977 with the purpose of reducing the number of tragic accidents and injuries resulting from impaired driving. The R.I.D.E. program has a narrow and specific mandate, which is to detect and deter drunk drivers. Conversely, R.I.D.E cannot be a tool for arbitrarily detaining individuals without reasonable grounds and in violation of their rights under the Charter. In fact, there have been many instances of criminal proceedings where charges were dismissed because officers over-stepped their legal mandate in the course of administering a R.I.D.E. check.

The R.I.D.E. program provides police officers with the legal right to perform planned roadside checks to identify and charge drivers who are under the influence of alcohol. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of R.I.D.E. as a justification for stopping and checking drivers. In this regard, R.I.D.E. is unique as it gives officers the right to briefly detain and question driver even if there are no grounds or probable cause for believing that a driver is over the legal blood alcohol limit, impaired or has committed any offence. However, while executing the R.I.D.E. program, police are not authorized to perform other criminal investigations or searches, unconnected with the purpose of R.I.D.E. There are many exceptions to this rule, for example, if illegal drugs or other contraband are in plain view in the vehicle.

From https://www.kruselaw.ca/blogpost/the-ride-program-and-your-r.... The whole page explains it all very clearly.
>so it'll probably take longer than the 100-200 or so since industrial food production began for our brains and bodies to adjust to the new normal.

Do people with bodies that are better adjusted to industrial foods reproduce at a faster rate? If not then I don't see any kind of evolutionary pressure that would cause people's bodies to adjust over the generations. My impression is that evolution in humans has stagnated since modern society came about.
That's part of the problem; standard practice for Japanese companies until rather recently (as in, within the past decade or so) was to physically print out a copy of the completed game's source code and stick it in a filing cabinet somewhere, never to be seen again. Most remasters of games released ~1995-2005 are based on beta code they happened to find on old workstations.
Yes, LTE does use OFDMA. The 3GPP UMTS and HSPA standards both used W-CDMA, which is probably what GP was thinking about.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19876355
Awesome launch!
Breaking Out with Viewport Units and Calc
This is non sequitur.
how do you know it is $30m in cash?
The title is wrong. There was no contract or agreement between the app and the journalist so there could be no betrayal.
Mark Cuban has repeatedly been on the wrong side of history, he is a grade A shitposter:

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/76275

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Mark-Cuban-Urges-ISPs-to-...

https://reason.com/2015/02/26/3-charts-that-show-the-fcc-is-...
no. it does not remember you delisted, so you will be added again :(
You'd think somebody could print money with a Dreamcast Classic instead of all the cheap looking Genesis things out there. I think the fact that the Dreamcast had too many arcade-like games would make it better than that Playstation Classic which had a lot of slow games that you can't easily jump in and out of.
I don't think you need a contract to fit the usage of "betrayal" here.
And Verizon is shutting down their CDMA network at the end of the year. It's an old technology that is being sunsetted. The problem with Sprint is that they are still relying on it for far too much (and they don't have broad enough spectrum holdings to make dual networks work well).

Additionally, a lot of Sprint's rural coverage relies on Verizon CDMA roaming -- which will be going away as Verizon sunsets their network.
30 December 2018
So it is okay to promote Google just because it makes them money? That is what allows Google to stay at the top. Why not ask FireFox users to donate a little money to fund development?
I’m a lawyer. This doesn’t make sense. What exactly did the clauses say? Did the “investor” make his (non) investment contingent on some types of conditions precedent that you didn’t meet? If yes, then he doesn’t have to fund his investment. But he doesn’t also get his equity. If no, then he breached and you have a claim against him.

I would not treat him as an investor and instead talk to a lawyer about putting him on notice that you’re prepared to sue him for tortious interference with your business. The other comments here about the requirement of consideration are correct. Also relevant: unjust enrichment and restitution [0]

I’m 100% speculating because you haven’t supplied enough information. The most important part of your post should be the actual language.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unjust_enrichment
I don't remember any recent redesigns. The Web Inspector has looked more or less the same since Safari 9 was released in 2015. [1]

[1] https://webkit.org/blog/5718/10-years-of-web-inspector/
Why do you hate being alive? Do you experience a net suffering? Why hate humans? Is it an ethical issue or something else or multiple things?
> If it gains any traction of social media, the comment will probably be deleted.

Please elaborate on why you think this. Is there past history or evidence of this type of behavior?
No problem!! Glad I could help!!
Interpreting user agent strings is what amateur programmers do. I don't generally expect high standards from Google engineers (a whole other argument I won't entertain here) but that's still pretty tragic for a top-five website.

And besides, your claim is doubtful at best since Chromium Edge doesn't share any User Agent string elements with previous EdgeHTML versions. Your YT developers would have needed to be intentionally malicious to match "Edg/" as a trigger to downgrade the user experience.
Maintainable ETL Practices at Stitchfix
Still within the centuries time window. :-)
I'm sure Amazon has evaluated every company that's available for sale at some point, but I'm willing to bet that's as far as their interest in Boost goes. This deal makes very little sense for them.
This was found years ago.

This "finding keeps popping up as a new finding...

My understanding is that its huge, but underwater and dredging/vacuuming it up would be massively damaging to the ocean environment not to mention so expensive it's not really cost effective.
Yet.

It depends on what China does with their huge reserves...
Well, before betrayal can take place there must be an implicit or explicit obligation or loyalty.
Be less vague?
Strange naming.

> Even though both groups’ incentives are ultimately the same, the short-term incentives they face diverge. Waiters stereotypically want more behavior changes faster, focused on either latency or throughput. Changers stereotypically want the structure clean and tidy (not all changers are the same — part 3 addresses the changer-changer relationship).

Is this a roundabout way of describing stakeholders and developers?

Structure changes vs behavior changes also seems like a circuitous way of describing refactoring versus feature work.

I don't think I got the essay. Would someone who liked it mind sharing what insights you got out of it?

My summary would basically be "Make sure features are added to keep stakeholders happy. But also try to interweave some refactoring to keep yourself happy".
Because anything else is silly. Am I allowed to release a Ford car because allowing Ford to have a monopoly on Ford cars is unjust?
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. Just because the article is about that doesn't make it ok to repeat it here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: What's your company's center of attention (obsession)?
Is it customers?

Is it competitors?

Is it technology?

Is it product?

What is it?
That's a lot of words that take literally no stance on the issue. You've slowly shifted back to an incredibly vague definition of a market and an incredibly vague definition of what an abusive monopoly is. At this point it's literally impossible to discuss the issue with you, because the definitions have become uselessly broad.
> portray Huawei as a desirable and capable but non-threatening partner

Out of curiosity and for the purpose of expicitness, are you implying a mirroring of what is often alleged to be China's geopolitical strategy, ie: appear to be a non-threatening generous partner right up until the last moment? This is what is often portrayed in the recent debt-trap descriptions of China's activities in Africa, South and South-EAst Asia.
It's more that most phones support most of the bands all the US providers use, so when the roaming policy changes, a lot of the phones will still work. The phone will be able to register with the roaming network.

Also, they can set up the antennas to broadcast on multiple MNCs, so it looks like a native network (i.e. T-Mobile can run LTE towers that broadcast as both the T-Mobile and old Sprint network so all Sprint phones can connect without a problem) (of course, this depends on Boost phones supporting VoLTE).
Not in Ontario, where RIDE checks take place. Canada has quite strict impaired driving laws.

Quoting Wikipedia[1],

The minimum sentences are:

For a first offence, a $1000 fine and a 12-month driving prohibition,
For a second offence, 30 days of jail and a 24-month driving prohibition, and
For a third or subsequent offence, 120 days of jail and a 36-month driving prohibition.

If no one is hurt or killed, and the prosecutor is proceeding by summary conviction, the maximum sentence is 18 months of jail. If no one is hurt or killed, and the prosecutor is proceeding by indictment, the maximum sentence is 5 years of jail.

If another person suffers bodily harm because of the offence, the maximum sentence is 10 years in jail.

If another person is killed because of the offence, the maximum sentence is a life sentence.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impaired_driving_in_Canada#S...
In addition to HDInsight being cloudera, it's also basically a legacy product. Azure technical solutions people are now all pushing databricks. And personally, when designing a new project, I don't see why you would use HDInsight instead of a bespoke distributed vm architecture with one (azure storage) or two-tier storage (one local to the vm, one in Azure storage) unless you really need to use some hadoop jar you found lying around.
Spotlight on Twistlock
Having side loaded apps personally, I'm not really sure why you're so pissed off.
Thanks for bringing these references up. However, I think the major reason is still censorship or too much censorship & political dissent. The aim of stealing source code is probably to hack the account of political dissents as Google pointed out. The action was more about "the political motivation related to dissent" than "against US economy". That's my main point.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/google-co-foun...

Brin: I don't think it's a question of taking on China. In fact, I am a great admirer of both China and the Chinese government for the progress they have made. It is really opposing censorship and speaking out for the freedom of political dissent, and that's the key issue from our side.

SPIEGEL: Four years ago, you allowed your service to be censored. Why have you changed your mind now?

Brin: The hacking attacks were the straw that broke the camel's back. There were several aspects there: the attack directly on Google, which we believe was an attempt to gain access to Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. But there is also a broader pattern we then discovered of simply the surveillance of human rights activists.

"Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. "
This appears to be targeted at Lambda function, which can't reuse existing connections between executions.

Also, establishing an HTTP connection is much faster than establishing a typical database connection, in my experience. I don't know why that is.
This is a very powerful JS blocking extension I used for a while:
https://jsblocker.toggleable.com/
What are frontier markets and why invest in them?
It doesn’t negatively effect it. I like it

I was highlighting what I missed when switching over
We had a guy who knew everything, and was a gate keeper to that knowledge. New VP came in, and said he had to no longer be a silo of knowledge. He kept being a silo. VP fired him and expected the team to play catch up, knowing the company would take a hit short term but be better long term. Buyer beware.
The same could be said of you. We'll never know, since your comment could mean anything.