skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched from Firefox to Chrome the week it came out. So maybe 5 years? I've kept Firefox installed for testing web development and such though.

You're absolutely right that perception of speed is largely about experience. The animations are smooth, it doesn't jump around. But I can tell that the boot times are much faster now as well.

Both teams have done an excellent job. Seeing this release has encouraged me to finally donate to Mozilla. They do a lot of good for the web.
I switched from downloadable software to SaaS. Not really much more to it than that.
Love IT!

This was something I had wanted to build after I tried finding services for 2 kids who live with their Grandma. It so hard to find social services. I made like 20 calls and got nowhere. Didn't find 1 useful service. In the end we gave their grandmom a subscription to foodOnTheTable.com so she could save money on meals.

This site really needs some UI love though. It has to be super easy to use which its not right now.

Maybe some designers on here can help out?
Isn't User 15 proof that the entire market is flawed and the users were scammed?
The news title is misleading, IMHO.
Saying "Every Gmail message to be encrypted" made me dream about gmail allowing gpg encryption instead of only forcing https connection to be active.
Try Invoice Machine (http://invoicemachine.com/). I don't know if they support Greek characters or not, but they are a small Swedish team so they are definitely internationalized.
Wouldn't it be futile since the federal government has sovereign immunity? It's not as if you could sue for unlicensed use.
Loads! Thank you everyone - enjoying a nice purple-topped HN :)
Why would Denmark need to partner with any of those places? The EU is neither poor nor weak (sure, we'd think twice about getting into a war with Russia, but so would anyone, US included). We're quite capable of securing ourselves.
Working now, but thanks for drawing me back in for another fifteen minutes... :)
I think you are putting way too much emphasis on syntax here. The important contribution of Hack is the type system and this is something that a syntactic-sugar translator like Coffeescript can't hope to achieve.

I also wouldn't count Clojurescript here. Its a whole different language that just happensto compile down to JS.
This is a webview app not a native app.
Improved energy and transportation tech will do all of is a service. Right now he's making tech for rich people because the margins can be high enough to fund extensive R&D which will then be used for more universal needs. Tesla is basically a battery tech research company that makes cars to fund itself. This will be clear in the coming years as every other company has to rely on Tesla's batteries because no one spent as much money researching them.
On Windows Ctrl+B opens the bookmark sidebar, and ctrl+shift+b opens the "library" popup with bookmarks selected.
The key difference is affecting the runtime. All those typescript features can be compiled down to regular JS and typescript-generated javascript can be run in a browser without extending the JS engine.
There has been many illogical attacks against JavaScript. Google Chrome's smooth performance is backed up by JavaScript V8 engine. Node.js is being hosted by hundreds of start-ups as well as started-ups.
Why are we always negative to success?
Yep, realized it just now :D
still trademark was granted in 2003, and if you do a google seatch with date limit set to 2002 you will find plenty of multimeters with that look, Fluke was granted retroactive trademark for a look that was generic at the time. Its like Ford receiving 4 door car trademark :/
And that's CommentWang..

I'll get my coat
The difference being that the Westminster parliament complied with the wishes of the parliament in Edinburgh to have a referendum - which is hardly the case with the Ukraine and Crimea.

As far as I've noticed, guns and deaths have been absent from the debate around Scottish independence.
>autoplaying html5 would be a massive annoyance, because html5 video can have audio

This could be browser configurable. "Allow videos with audio to autoplay". Won't be worse than the flash ads with audio I run across regulary which autoplay audio.
Also, a lot of what we think of as vision happens in "software." A human looking at a human processes that information differently to a dog looking at a human.

Human's read faces, for example. To a human it seems that a lot more information is lost in the from the face part of the image than the hands area when you put it through that filter.
What startups want (from their accelerators): support – and maybe a bit of cash
Maybe it just weighs less because some of the students are secretly eating the candy.
It's not just Turkey. Most of the world writes dates like that. And yes every other piece of software that deals with dates will fail this test.
If you want to set up Elasticsearch and have a quick play around with some queries I have written a beginner friendly intro which you may find useful:

http://red-badger.com/blog/2013/11/08/getting-started-with-e...

Looking forward to reading this book! Elasticsearch has been a great tool for us.
Influent, a vocabulary acquisition and pronunciation game
Don't frameworks like this which try and emulate one platform very well get rid of the only advantage of building an app using web technologies, that it's cross platform. Apps using this will feel really out of place on Android and Windows Phone, and you'll end up spending lots of time porting the web app to those platforms if you want to support them properly.
I guess they wont "need" to set up the camera. But it is recommended as it is there to help with head-tracking. So your movements inside the 3d environment will feel more natural with more degrees of freedom.
The problem with that is that the aspect of a moving subject keeps changing.

For example they might wish to profile the radar signature in various wavelengths and from various angles. Carrier groups aren't co-operative to such study.
My office is a little too distracting sometimes, more than I am used to. It's not music. It's just that there is too much happening around me (lot of people in one big room). The artificial lights don't help.
> That's like arguing that if your book is longer than 300 pages, it must also use really big words and complex sentence structures. What?

I don't think this analogy applies. If my house is full of things, I prefer to put them in small, well recognizable boxes, instead of in one gigantic mess. This is simplicity too.
Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight: The Emptiness of Data Journalism
And it still has glaring omissions. One thing it still can't do is group theory. I'm not a mathematician, but I occasionally need some group theory stuff at work. This is stuff that is either tabulated or can be calculated easily by a computer. Like "show me a matrix representation of SU(3)" or "decompositions of SU(5)" or "irreps of SU(10)" or something. Group theorists have these little equations with circled operators, like 1+8=3 (imagine numbers in bold and a circle around the plus. I just made up the numbers, but they're usually as wierd), that I can never wrap my head around no matter how often I've tried. But they are kind of important for particle physics, and I hope that wolfram alpha will eventually incorporate that stuff.

Actual particle physics is also lacking, everything besides simple queries like "mass of the top quark" is missing (and the mass it gives is not up-to-date). I would like it to have "decay modes of neutralino-1 at m0=1000, m12=1000, ..." or "higgs mass=126, particle-such-and-such-mass=1000, solve for parameter-x" and it would show me valid values for x resulting in these masses. This is all easily implementable, but I guess the market for it is too small (otoh, I don't know what the market for "dog vision" is...(
No, the enemy is institutionalized secrecy.

A form of institutionalized secrecy concealed and locked away behind a highly-trained, tightly-regimented, hierarchical, ideological organization of indoctrinated, unquestioning personnel (recruited directly from high school, with the incentive of financing an over-priced education that would otherwise be out of reach, which would serve as a catalyst for a career of employment in jobs that will not hire anyone without practical experience), all bristling with automatic weapons, mechanized artillery, naval artillery, supersonic airplanes, 500 lb laser-guided bombs, self-guiding nuclear weapons and a vast logistics infrastructure to keep it all running. An organization that doesn't obey laws. Indeed, an organization designed with the express purpose of overriding the laws of every other country on earth. But yes, let's act within the boundaries of civilian law to ask for permission to make this complex ask for permission before not asking for permission.

Oh wait, this thing without a name is funded by a civilian political system filled with politicians that lie to me and don't listen to me, who are bribed by large, faceless, private, for-profit corporations that don't pay taxes, and make all their money providing logistics and equipment to the personnel that guard the institutionalized secrecy which disinforms me of its own existence, and it's all paid for by my taxes, which I get thrown in jail for refusing to pay.

...BUT I SURRRE ASKED FOR IT!!! I GET WHAT I DESERRRVE! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Here is english-dubed version of the leaked phone conversation between the PM Erdogan and his son, allegedly when trying to get rid of evidence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htUIHJuDNzk&feature=youtu.be
You can run your own Firefox sync server, but it's a pain to implement.

http://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync.html

Once it's up and running, though, it's seamless.

Edit: Hmm. Looks like they're happy to break this:

" Some unknown proportion of the user base uses their own Sync servers ... [Asa] I don't think we should worry too much about this group. If we can identify them and message them that'd be sufficient for my concerns."

https://services.etherpad.mozilla.org/sync-migration

Well, thanks.

Here's a code-dump of the new Firefox Account server. Not sure yet if I can implement this:

https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server
Cool. Time saver!
Two things. As much as I don't like the idea of incumbents using their weight to protect against innovative competition, is this not just the nature of a strategic view of competitive advantage? I mean, it's not nice, but it seems like strategy 101 to bolster barriers to entry to protect against new entrants. Without these barriers being possible, incumbents would presumably create barriers in a different manner (through acquisition etc)? It's not like massive incumbents will whither and die because they can't encourage legislation to be adopted, it's just a currently effective strategy.

Secondly, a semantic point, it talks about 'disruptive innovations', but surely the key characteristics of disruptive innovations, at least in the sense that Christensen described them, is that incumbents either don't see the value in them or else the product targets a segment with a low-performance product that incumbents don't see the threat of.

Tesla and Uber don't seem to fit this bill for me, they seem more like maybe sustaining and radical innovations, respectively, and I don't think existing value networks will be affected. They seem like they're just segmenting and differentiating to me. I can't see everybody driving around in Tesla-type cars bought in manufacturer-owned dealerships in 20 years, say, because as the article says itself, it only suits "innovative manufacturers like Tesla and Fisker that only have a very few number of models and who want to locate in high-traffic areas".

I don't think it's disruptive.
Solr Cloud is more mature and more customizable. ES is perhaps easier to start with, but you could get a lot more customization and power with Solr Cloud. The Apache community will ensure Solr always remains at a bleeding edge and stable for large scale deployments.
Weev Needs To Walk
Well, yes and no. They seem to think it's the winning design, or their user studies indicate it (I wouldn't doubt there is benefits to tabs on top).

Also their not Chrome design, is the fact they are also pursuing tablet users with huge icons.
I have to say I agree with him.

Charities get billions in donations while revolutionary and ambitious pursuits get none of that encouragement.

Charities are great but how about we focus on helping others do some awesome shit too.

Specially people who have proven to have the determination to stick with it and try everything possible until it works.
As nightly-build user I've worked with it a few weeks. I got used to everything - except the tab's on top (more mouse-movement and they just don't make sense, I don't get why they removed that option). But now working with classic theme restorer, so as long as they don't break that plugin everything's fine.
I'm on the fence about how generous this is. Fluke was obviously headed for some bad PR, they were allowed to get a 'trade dress' protection for their not-so-distinctive design (I've seen yellow multimeters from long before I ever used a fluke, yellow is simply a good colour for a tool because it makes it stand out).

Carlo Gavazzi (another manufacturer of measure and test gear) had a series of yellow meters with black backs (the reverse of the Fluke scheme), and other brands have had instances of meters with exactly the same scheme as Fluke uses today (Fluke originally did not use colour at all for their equipment).

The end result of all this is that a bunch of good, working equipment is going to end up destroyed, SparkFun will have to decide to continue their campaign in light of this PR move by Fluke and SparkFun's customers still lose. On top of that SparkFun's brand will be damaged and at least 2000 of their customers have a negative experience with them.

This is not about money, this is about a bunch of people being denied access to the tools they had already bought and no amount of PR is going to fix that short of those people being send a replacement (maybe with another colour, how many distinctively coloured multimeter brands could co-exist anyway?).

If they had been stamped 'Fluke' that would be another story entirely, but this is as far as I'm concerned just pushing for brand protection because the law allows for it.

As for the safety angle, that's a red herring, nobody in their right mind is going to assume the isolation class of a piece of equipment based on the color of the casing.
Twitter has been playing a pivotal role in connecting people and getting the word out via an unbiased medium. The effect of twitter has been phenomenal over the past few years in countries that have undergone political revolution. Much of the reality that the citizens need to know are blacked out by mainstream media because it's controlled by the government & corporations who are hand in glove.

Unfortunately, many countries have resorted to a simple fix of policing twitter. Second unfortunate thing is that twitter is still restricted to the tech savvy crowd. There's still a sizable population outside third world that don't know what it is & how to use it. But as long as we have un-policed social media tools, we might see large scale cleaning in the coming decades.
And simultaneously, you loose the main benefit of a native app, which is being able to draw on the work of all the really smart people who work on the native frameworks.

I guess if you're doing something that browser technologies are better suited for than native code, it might be a more pleasant developer experience. It might be fun to build a meteor app with something like this, for example.
In other shocking news it was also revealed by MtGox the first 100k BTC in the old wallet were actually the ones owned by MtGox and were thought stolen.
My Efforts to solve "Travelling salesman problem" through JavaScript
If you're referring to the recent FLUSH+RELOAD attacks, that is hardly ECC-specific. They also owned GnuPG's RSA earlier with the same technique [1]. On the other hand, if your argument is that ECC implementations are generally less mature, I can't disagree with that. I believe that ECC (using Edwards or Montgomery forms; debatable when using general Weierstrass form) is easier to get right with respect to solid implementations than RSA is.

With respect to theoretical attacks, it is of course impossible to know what the future brings. But as long as we're sticking with conservative prime fields, I think it's probably either going to be fine or all of ECC is dead. It's also not like integer factorization or discrete logs have reached some kind of complexity lower bound; it's certainly not impossible that we'll get a L(1/4) method in the future as well. I look forward to see how it plays out.

[1] http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/448
I'm not sure what the point of your argument is, but this strikes me as short-sighted reasoning. Going to Mars is just the first step. It's about making (human) life multiplanetary. It's a long term game and extends beyond the solar system, and this is how it starts. (Let's just hope we don't kill ourselves before this happen).
That is definitely the best way, I would say. Keeping cards close, and controlling the entire experience. Man, I would have to work to get there.
Thanks. There really should be some rule on HN against posting links that hide the text, although I've heard it's not obvious to those who post the links as apparently coming from Google it displays the full article.
really cool I think !
While I agree, Australis only breaks visual add-ons like Vertical Tabs, and the like. Not sure where NoScript comment is coming from?
I'm not sure that part of the article is correct. I've been using my old sync account in Nightly builds (now up to version 31) and it's still working fine.

Edit: I just checked with a clean install, and there's a button that says "Using an older version of sync?" It brings you to this page https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-update-to-the-ne... which basically says "unlink all your devices and re-link them." So I guess adding new devices to your old account doesn't work.
Yeah, the general rule is that you can't sue yourself, since you can't collect any damages.
I would disable any auto-playing audio technology on my Android phone; accessing the media volume control is such a huge pain in the arse - multiple taps and drags to rummage into the Settings and get to it.

NB: the hardware controls only set the ringtone volume, unless you're too late and the phone is already playing media†.

†hopefully - sometimes the hardware volume buttons still don't control media volume even when media is playing.

(You can get widgets to control the various volumes, but I've not found one I really liked).
"I have seen George Bush and he is a stupid Texan hillbilly."

"I have seen Ronald Reagan and he is a demented old man with no brain."

----

These "jokes" appear to belittle the people with real power, in the public's mind. It makes the people feel better. They make them appear harmless. It is a complete mistake to do this. It helps the powerful to spread these jokes, it does not help the people.

"oh he won't harm us, he's stupid. He wouldn't be evil, he has no brain. He wouldn't spy on the world, he's just a kid"
App Store now has "Indie Game Showcase"
Yeah, this is shiny and cool. But not native.
So it doesn't matter that the 'mythical' Apple AirPort devices don't run iOS?
The fact that such an extension exists, and that it may get broken again in later versions, says a lot about what Mozilla really think of customisation.
According to the article, the main thing that slows devs down is compiling the code? How insightful.
Still battling with Job Move
One of the classics from the photo directory there: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/photos/drag96.jpg
Java 8 adds this exact feature through extending annotation capability and adding hooks for pluggable type checkers, including a null propagation checker: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/annotations/type...

and an Optional<T> class (references to which can still be null for maximum hilarity): http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/api/java/util/Optional.ht...

I'm stoked. And disappointed the "elvis" operator didn't make it in.

I hope some day Java breaks backwards compatibility and eliminates null entirely. Then again, that's already happened with the proliferation of other JVM languages. But that doesn't me at my day job, where we have a large legacy code base... which would need to be ported to a backwards-incompatible version of non-null Java anyway. Hm.

Well, with Java 8 I can at least start to grow null-safe code within our codebase.
"Wolfram, could I see a hat wobble and a flarhgunnstow?"

"Yes Paul"
Can we please have a graphics hardware thread without your post-purchase rationalisation shitposting…
The correct term is open standard.
>really wanting to work for the NSA because they have the ability to do really awesome analysis like that with huge amounts of data

How about wanting to help your country? I thought that's the main motivation behind for most people who join the NSA.
This is just a fucking lie
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Agree with the overall text of your comment but I think this part was not what you meant to write:

> Of course, not much longer later the US dropped 2 bombs on Japan ending the nuclear war.
Must be spy-humor. Kinda like how some ex-gov't coworkers of Snowden assumed he wore an EFF t-shirt ironically.
I got to 1024. I am positive this game is possible to win. Please disregard the terrible finish...
http://imgur.com/HczKj8h
Count Brazil out too. Our electronic ballot machines are ridiculously outdated, and are not auditable by anyone outside controlled closed-door situations. When glaring flaws are found, they're quickly dismissed by the government, saying they 'can't' happen in a real environment.

It's Diebold hardware and closed source software. Diebold had it's voting machines banned in the US.

The new mandatory biometric identification system to prevent fraud is completely 'side-steppable', just as before. Voters are required to re-register for voting again, and upon registration have their fingerprints taken (all ten digits) and a high resolution picture.

The software used to hold and manipulate all this biometric data is the same used by our Federal Police, which is the same used by the FBI.

The STE (a department which manages ALL aspects of elections) has an agreement to share all this data with Policia Federal, and which in turn have an agreement with the FBI!

The biggest bribery scheme discovered here, the 'mensalão', used government money to pay out bribes to the oposition. One of the heads of this criminal organization, José Dirceu, is serving time in a semi-closed regime.

He got a job as a hotel manager during the day. The previous manager, who he replaced, had a salaray of R$1,800. Dirceu has a R$20,000 salary. How absurd is this? It reaks of collusion with former associates.

Sorry for the rant, and any typos.
The government is granted those powers because of the legal and social contracts we enter into as citizens of the country... it isn't, won't, and shouldn't be just like any other actor in a market. It's an organized, representative extension of the population of the country.
The point you "Anything but PHP" guys seem to conveniently ignore (or perhaps, not comprehend), is that at Facebook scale, you are going to have issues with many of these things regardless of what language you chose. They have specifically made this point many times. You and others point to some hand-wavy magical language which somehow doesn't have any issues when serving hundreds of millions of users. That doesn't exist.
Very impressive!
One of the best mimics so far. Performance is good and very lightweight.
Might use this for prototyping an app.