skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a different group of people that are working on multiprocess Firefox. There was an update about the status a month ago:
http://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/multiprocess-f...

Making e10s work is a long process of converting existing code over to working when webpages are running in a separate process. For instance, if you do "copy", then the actual copying is occurring in the child process, but of course you want the parent process to know what chunk of text you copied so you can, say, paste it into the URL bar.
Oi I've been using it for years; I feel insulted by your insinuation! (exaggerated sarcasm)
The key differences between Paris and SF in this regard are:

1. In Paris, nobody has a chip on their shoulder about a nearby larger city. In SF, sour grapes about all the attention NY and LA get led long ago to our population pretending they don't want to be a big city. (Even though now it's actually within our reach)

2. In SF, a large number of people drive everywhere but live in garageless houses -- or they have single-car garages but own multiple cars. They resist building because they don't want to compete for existing parking spaces.

3. SF lacks a decent underground train system, so anything that puts more cars on the road is hotly resisted, and people believe that a garageless building next to a train station will be filled with new car owners.
I note this, but don't find that it absolves you of personal responsibility.
The problem is, how do you define them? What prevents the wealthy to produce a parallel structure which has the real power?

I think this goes back to what other people said about the wealth and power, that it's really hard to separate. I think it's possible, but at the cost of strong suspension of personal freedom (of what to do with money).

Still, even if we had what P.G. is proposing, it would be a step forward.
Inequality is an important topic to discuss, but unless I skimmed too quickly I haven't seen this factor addressed in the article or the comments here:

I'm pretty sure that a significant number of poor people essentially have 0 assets or even debt, so if you own virtually anything you already "own" or "control" more "wealth" than millions or maybe even a billion-plus people.
It's the same thing when you see statistics about the Waltons having more wealth than the bottom third of America or whatever.. technically true, but also so do you and so do I.
With respect that's as blinkered a view in the opposite direction. Neither the "Jobs was a genius" nor the "Jobs was an asshole" narratives are incorrect, but neither are complete and as such neither is particularly helpful or enlightening on it's own.

To me at least, what makes Jobs most interesting is what he achieved despite being an asshole and how that played out. He undoubtedly was a thoroughly unpleasant individual and people who worked with him will queue around the block to tell you that, but he also, coming from a pretty low baseline, turned Apple into the largest company in the world by getting many of those same people who will tell you he's an asshole to build genuinely great products.

The most interesting people are rarely one thing or the other - that's what makes them interesting.
The question is this - is this due to capitalism, or if we'd moved past capitalism, would this have happened far far sooner?
You can have the price react quickly without needing to invest in microsecond response times by having auctions every 5 seconds or so as suggested by Larry Harris.
The first schematic editor I ever used displayed with Regis graphics [1] on a VT125 terminal. But it only used a small subset of Regis. One escape sequence would put the terminal in a mode that mapped the 8th-bit set bytes to a bunch of arc- and line-segment glyphs that were entirely sufficient to display a circuit schematic. (And the 8th-bit clear bytes retained their ASCII encodings for labels.)

Drawing with these characters was very similar to these ascii drawings: one byte gave you a piece of a line (or an arc), and you built a grid of them. The schematic editor took a simple here's-the-grid-coordinate-of-an-element representation of the schematic, adjusted the offsets of the glyphs of that element, and built-up the grid of bytes to send to the terminal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS
This is because the US Democratic party could be considered center-right by European standards, with the Republicans heading into extreme-right.

If a party in the UK hinted at dismantling public health care (the NHS) out loud, they'd be lynched (either in the polls or the streets, whichever was more convenient).
How do I find out what "privilege" I have? Do I have to work harder to actively offset this imaginary benefit society has somehow determined that I've been born with?

I'm sick and tired of this privilege bullshit. I didn't get to where I am now because of being a white male.
That would explain a lot indeed.

And don't take any offence with what's been said above, it's funny to see a word / idiom / expression being taken over by the english language, as much as the opposite; ie : The Hangover being translated Very Bad Trip.
To me it reads like the usual right wing rhetoric, and that any tax collection is some form of evil socialism. Not quite sure how these people expect their flag waving military, for example, to be funded without the big corporation paying their fair share, but there you go.

Bunk. Being anti-tax has nothing to do with being "right wing" at all. In fact, the entire term "right wing" is 100% meaningless in modern terms.

Plenty of us who oppose taxation ALSO oppose our empire building overseas military operations, and aggressive foreign policy, and want the military rolled back to only what is required for defense of the USA. I for one want the US out of the "world police" role.

Just cutting a huge chunk out of the military budget would be a great start on reducing government spending and decreasing the tax burden.

Never understood why many Americans don't see paying tax as the ultimate act of patriotism, paying for the country they claim to love.

Our country and our government are not the same thing. And Americans have a long history of having issues with excessive taxation by the government.
Publication is not straightforward. For example, if I publish an article in a Springer journal, Springer owns the copyright on it. They, not I (the scholar), have published it and are making money off of it. It is my experience in publishing scholarly work that inclusion of other figures is often considered to be copyright violation and not fair use.

And let's say that he's self-published, or used some service where he owns the copyright. Even then, he can't change the license on something just because of "fair use". He is free to publish his article under Creative Commons, or license the figure, but he can't do both.
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There is a surprising amount of prudishness about naturally occurring and long-used psychoactive substances here. Once the harm from some traditional ways of ingesting them are ameliorated, the prudishness is irrational. What if nicotine is "better" than caffeine, which I'd wager most readers here have ingested this morning, at boosting cognitive function?

If nicotine, or cannabis, or whatever isn't seen rationally, it will be left to some packaging genius to create the equivalent of a Nepresso pod for vaping it, or consuming it in whatever way is convenient and stylish. That seems weak-minded for a crowd that pats themselves on the back for rationality.
Work on generational GC has been proceeding in parallel with the exact rooting work. You can see what the current generational GC performance is on standard benchmarks like Octane by looking at the "Firefox (Ion, GGC)" line on http://arewefastyet.com/
Great finally some drivers I've wanted have been merged. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.13-DriversArch
The Future of Tech: Interoperability, and AllJoyn Doesn’t Realise Its Potential
If the level of wealth redistribution via taxes was higher, than the average member of the society would be better off, that's almost for certain. Reasons for that:

- Let's say A earns $1000 day and B earns $20/day. If A was force to give $20 of his earnings to B, this 2-person society would be better of. Because the standard of living of A would decrease slightly but the standard of living of B would increase significantly.

- There's a rich get richer and poor get poorer effect.

- Lot of wealth gain is a result of pure luck. Wealth redistribution serves like an insurance policy. Examples: bitcoin mining, finding a gold mine.

(Of course, there are lots of negative effect of wealth redistributin. What I'm saying is that the optimal level of w. r. is higher than the current level.)

But - while I know that the society would be better off, as a developer I would be worse off, so to be honest, I'm not really in favor of higher taxes.
Those papers focused on people that didn't use VPNs or Tor to mask thier location.
Completely depends on how much fraud there is. Maybe there is much more credit card fraud in the EU?
I have been incredibly happy with FeedBin as well. They don't screw with my feed.
He's also hilarious, just watch "Kimble goes Monaco" on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ZBZV8hFb4 (German, but with english subtitles I think).
If we are looking for inequality and focus on outliers, we will always be able to find unfairness. Over the last 30 years, large portions of the world population have seen dramatic increases in per-capita income. If the masses are benefited, it seems natural that the outliers will lie out even further.

Data from: http://stats.oecd.org/#

Taking the two most populace countries over the last 30 years:
- China per-capita income, in 2011 dollars:
1981, US $282
2011, US$8,319
30x increase in per-capita income

- India per-capita income, in 2009 dollars:
1981, US $472
2009, US$3,203
7x increase in per-capita income

A large portion of the world population is benefiting from economies that grow with technology as the catalyst.
I too discovered git add -p some time ago, and it has been very handy! However, a few days ago, I decided to finally give magit (an emacs extension) a go, and it really beats everything else I've tried out of the water.
It appears to be down. I'm curious to check it out since I was working on something very similar.
For the state of your fragile self-worth, I recommend staying far away from the Lifetime movie channel.
Who said that I even visit torrentfreak?

/facepalm
I would have to agree with xux's points. You really do want to make sign-up as simple as possible. Possibly even consider authentication with Facebook, Google, Twitter?
(When trying new layouts/features you should keep A/B testing in mind)

Also, admittedly I haven't signed up so I don't know exactly how it works, but to build on what namenotrequired said, you really do what existing members to be the ones bringing in people.
Perhaps you could make it a bit more 'personal', by allowing users to inside facebook friends, and possibly building private league boards where a group of friends can complete against themselves rather than with strangers. I think it's these sort of strategies that will help encourage users to invite their friends.
Although it is important to make inviting new users as easy as possible, please don't over do it. There are many apps that force you to connect via facebook, or constantly badger their users to invite people. These tactics may be effective but personally I'm against these very aggressive acquisition tactics at the expense of your existing members' user experience.
Right, with hindsight we can clearly see that he wasn't an expert, just like all experts that turn out to be wrong.
Linus Torvalds receives Bitcoins for commits in the Linux kernel source
The HN audience is really tough -- it requires that jokes actually be funny before reckoning them a net addition to the conversation. Preferably funny and insightful at once, but I've seen things substantially upvoted just for being very witty.

This is a Good Thing because it means HN discussions are less likely to get swamped under an avalanche of cheap jokes. (Cheap jokes are much easier than insight.)
Is this the equivalent work of Oilpan project for Chromium-Blink? https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/59f...

Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y7_0ni0E_kxvrah-QtnreMlz...
A question that occurred to me reading this: ATMs aren't connected to the internet, are they? (Seems like that would be very tempting for the bank in terms of convenience, but very dangerous.)
Because Art History is so incredibly important. Whatever could we possibly do without more people studying Art History?
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I read some articles and I knew most of the stuff there. But my eyes hurt after visiting that website but even if it's just a hate site put up I will continue to read the articles and reply you later this evening when I have more time.

But on first glance, it doesn't show any real picture of what happened. Just the typical hate campaign.
I suspect you may already be aware, but if not then here's a related project https://github.com/creationix/js-git.

Lest you misunderstand, I'm not saying you should stop development, I just thought it might be of interest!
The usual jokes suggest that a bomb defuser might want to run really fast sometimes.
"those with political power"

Apologies - should have been clearer - I meant elected officials and employees of the state or quasi-governmental organizations.
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Consider applying for an in-house job with a digital media agency or a dev shop. You'll get paid a normal salary while building up a portfolio of client work. If you work with a small team, you'll also get a chance to learn what sort of clients are looking for outsourced development work, which is obviously helpful when striking out on your own.

You haven't told us much about your experience level, so I can't comment on whether you're qualified to land desirable freelance projects yet. I can tell you that most of the freelancers we have on Lambda (http://getlambda.com) have at least 5 years experience and have either done some client work before or are currently launching a startup. I don't think we have anyone with an empty slate.

Right now, it's much easier for developers to get in-house positions. Almost everyone I speak with is looking to expand their in-house team and they need some convincing to try working with a freelancer instead. Freelancers can make a lot more than salaried developers, but they also tend to be more experienced.
Make sure to look around a bit for different OSM tile renderings, the .org default is a little dry for outdoor stuff. This one is nicer:

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-streets-terrain/

This site maybe doesn't have the greatest UI, but it works for exploring some of the data that is available:

http://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/en/?zoom=9&lat=40.44379&lo...

(If you click the "Routes" button in the lower right it pops up a box listing the routes near the current view)
>The business model of ads seems to work, otherwise there would be no Google or New York Times to complain about.

Traditionally (i.e. in the print version) the ads in an edition of the NYT did not contain malware that was going to infect my computer and install toolbars and key loggers.

Google ads point to sites that contain malware. If you want people to stop criticising Google ads then maybe you should drop whatever Google+ stuff your boss thinks you are working on right now and fix the fact that searches for 'Firefox' return ads that point to sites containing malware downloads.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/jX5Lt9F.png

One of those sites even has a page offering a malware infested Chrome download (although I couldn't get it to show in an ad), so maybe that will motivate you to act. (googlechrome.xtremedownload.com‎).

A brief search seems to suggest that those sites bundle the apps with toolbars and unwanted browser extensions that do things like inject ads into pages and so on. Potentially they are doing even worse things.

>Web pages present you with what the content creator wants you to see. Chrome extensions as documented in this article change that out from under you without telling you. Do you see the difference?

The difference seems fairly unimportant when the content creator (in this case Google) is happy to serve me ads that are just as malicious as these malware browser extensions.
The rise in income inequality is driven by technology and those who know or can embrace it.

The rise of the super rich is driven by people stealing money out of the ground (commodities oligarchs) and tax loop holes (carried interest being the most notorious) creating a regressive tax policy at the very upper end of the income spectrum. Zero % interest rates help both parties b/c they are big users of capital. Plant/equipment/storage costs for commodities and HF/PE crew borrows a lot of money.

The super rich like everyone (The Economist, in this example) to focus our energies on point 1, so we don't mess with their loopholes and 0% interest rates.
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I love Spark, is about time to start the NoHadoop movement!
If wealth was a linear fuction of skills or hard work, the wealth inequality would be way lower. Most of the current unequality is actually caused by the rich-get-richer effect and luck.

(And skills or hard work are just luck too if you think about it.)
>> "NHS patient data to be made available for sale to drug and insurance firms"

read as: Private NHS data given to companies to improve bottom lines and discover new revenue streams
You may well be justified in doing what you do, I'm not arguing for or against it, but comments like the ones you make contribute to the whole popular "women are better than men" trend that we are experiencing.
Except if you don't tax profits, you're forced to tax consumption instead, forcing consumers to bear a larger than fair share of the tax burden.

It's really hard to properly tax corporations because they have the resources and the motivation to really fight back. But we shouldn't stop trying.
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Doesn't a lot of the cash that VCs invest come from the extremely wealthy?

[Companies I've involved in have had investments from personal investment companies of near-dollar-billionaire level individuals].
Well the alternative is "If only we all did our jobs less efficiently everyone would be better off". Which is clearly stupid.
I'd be interested in what is involved in landing on something with effectively no gravity. How does it differ from the usual planetary lander?
Search is useless if I want to discover new trails I don't even know the names. Show me a huge list grouped by city, state (or country) and tons, and I mean fucking tons of pics.

Plus maps and info on how to get there.
I really hate these presuming "you don't know about" (a dozens of other variations) titles. This by itself makes me not want to read the article at all.

And I didn't use or know about the feature.
> There are quite a few differences between the races. Bone density is one example.

Or, you know, skin colour, eye colour, hair colour and hair straightness.
hmm. i've used git pretty regularly since 2010, after coming from svn. the more i use it the more it reminds me of being the administrator of a website -- sure, i _could_ have a password recovery form, but it's much easier for me to use this python script i've written that just edits a user's row in the logins table... that is, i've found git to be incredibly powerful, but in the process i've forgotten the safe way to do everything.
They have numerous remote working developers across Europe. Makes sense their HQ to be there; also, in terms of taxes and etc as far as I know everything is pretty tight.
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I originally thought his comment was sarcasm as well. His subconscious bias is making itself apparent and he's not consciously aware of it. Same with the other posters who replied to my comment. They're trying to disagree without actually making a point.
We require people with children to pay less taxes or subsidize them and provide those children with education because the value educated people provide to society is far higher than the actual cost of educating them.

I would wager the same goes for long-lived, but healthy individuals, but this seems very hard to measure and I cannot find any numbers. So I would understand if you don't see this as a convincing argument. Especially since "value" should mean more than just money here.

How do you keep people "maintaining the responsibility oneself" if you just let them continue to hurt themselves and then provide therapy funded by the general public?
Elegant design, great job!
Corporations pay out taxed dividends from their profits.
I learned most of my git-fu from Sourcetree. It exposes a lot of the little-used git functionality.
The story of this move is pretty bizarre. The company that made it isn't a movie company, the writer was the son of the production company's owner, and it just got lucky getting a name star attached to it.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ashton-kutcher-steve-j...
"voluntarily"
Why not add the human element?

Just a bit of passive moderation by a humans like students or amazon turks in app-stores/extension libraries for fake and malicious apps would go such a long way.
True, but it's different for different people. I've known people who would turn get really dizzy to the point they couldn't stand after smoking. It's not for everyone but that doesn't mean nobody should be allowed to use it.

On a personal level, I went through a period of using ~2 ozs a month (every single night) and I was able to cut down to once a month pretty much instantly. Sure I thought about going back but there wasn't any 'physical' addiction as such.
IIRC, the term swatting stems from the eighties, perhaps even earlier by phreakers and such. It could be that it's more popular now, since there are more hackers/douchebags on the internet now than there were then.
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7070945
It's not imaginary at all though. Do you truly believe that there is no benefit in everyday life gained by being a white, straight, middle-class+, male? Is there not a benefit to going to a school that can afford up to date books? To not have being open about you sexuality be a real risk to your career and health? Is there no benefit to not having racial slurs yelled at you? To not have many people in society assume that you know less because of your sex?

Pretending that privilege doesn't exist because you haven't been on the wrong side does no good to yourself or society.
Who says people don't use it? I use it because command line is kind of non-customized.

But being close to your CLI is never bad. After all, the tool might comprehend git badly. Git CLI rarely makes mistakes about Git.
polymorphism is actually orthogonal to the ideas around metaobjects like classes. They are both powerful ideas. but can be expressed in different ways. Languages like Common Lisp and Haskell allow you to express polymorphism entirely through overloading of functions, for example.
pure speculating here...

Perhaps the lander could land on the front of it. Ie, it is moving just a little bit slower than the comet, and uses the differential speed as a "artificial" gravity for the landing.
>Now, you seem to be suggesting that the HFT sees your order before it hits the matching engine

HFTs pay brokers for order flow so they get orders before they hit the exchange and decide to trade on them from their own book (at NBBO) or pass them on to the exchange. Besides jumping the order book at the exchange they get advance information on orders about to hit the market.