skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
F.lux – It makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day
Oh, I know, it 'needs to be managed' because its 'scarce'. Having lived in Los Angeles for a significant period of my life, I know exactly where 'water management for the people, by the people' leads us .. to desperation for some, prosperity for others.
I don't see how one statement excludes the other. C is not the best tool to write secure software, but at the same time people have figured out how to use it securely despite its deficiencies. Heartbleed was a failure of both the tool and how it was used.
I would love to see you explain the funny part about it. :)
Code Quality and Broken Windows
I'd think that would work against the claim being asserted - that external links affect neutrality - given how closely people watch the BBC for any possible bias and berate it for assumed bias (with or without cause).
The US isn't the country with top-notch doctors. There are some top-notch doctors in the US.
While I do agree, there have been many signs that times they are a changin'
is this meant to be a joke/sarcasm?
That area, while cheaper, suffers from lack of easy Metro access though. You pretty much have to bus it to Crystal City for Metro access for the commute. As far as Metro access goes, Pentagon City and Ballston may be the cheapest places on the VA side of DC that have proximity to the metro & are close.

The Maryland side is cheaper, but nobody likes Maryland :) .
While useful for communication, recording via smartphone is still a tricky affair.

This was listed on HN recently, and as soon as it becomes available, it may be a more viable option for recording video than a smartphone camera or even a GoPro http://www.polaroid.com/cube

It also has no bright screen to draw attention to itself and the small form factor makes it easier to mount in clothing and, if you have enough time to do so, the MicroSD card is easy to remove and conceal/transfer if you need to hand over the camera.
Amazon, Its Friends and Critics
if Ukraine had retained the nuclear weapons, they would have been the Russian weapons, and Ukraine would not have been flirting with the EU/NATO sphere, etc ... your implication is tempting, but does not include all the story
Firefox 33 will have native h.264 support so that will solve the video problem.

September 2nd will bring 33beta
Have to agree: For me firefox performance is much better. I currently have 413 tabs open, use a 3 year old lenovo laptop, everything works flawless and is responsive, unlike chrome.
Can Pseudonyms Make Better Online Citizens?
Pro tip. Install emacs. Install sicp from melpa. Profit.
It's not like they have a choice now, the other choice here is to shut down the company.
That's also why they launched Firefox OS, they hope in the future to depend less on Google.
that would defeat the purpose of them creating Chrome in the first place - to have access to product (by which I mean people using the browser) activities.

What other advertising company has ever had as many fingers in as many pies?

It’s entirely possible for people in parts of the USA be getting a large percentage of their web content (search, news, video, social etc) from a Google web property, using a device controlled by Google, using an internet connection controlled by Google.

Just to remind you - Google is an Ad company.

People talk about the Apple “reality distorion field” because people willingly buy in to the Apple ecosystem, but Apple have nothing on the religion like status Google has reached with some people.
I do think this can really go a very long way for the development community, we hope people helps share and contribute.
> Google is bent on establishing platform domination unlike anything we've ever seen, even from late-1990s Microsoft.

Because they make a good browser? Firefox is still slow, hangs frequently and the developer tools are still not up to par to Chrome's. All IMO of course, but as a developer I don't have the patience to use slower, clunkier tools "just because".

Also, Mozilla gets most of its revenue from their partnership with Google[0]. Is there a difference between using a Google made browser or a Google funded browser?

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google
Looks great, the landing page could do with an example of a email digest though.
We obviously have very different ideas about what “benevolent” means.
I use Chrom(ium), Firefox, IE, and Opera, and even Lynx, so I have no particular loyalty to any one browser, but it doesn't feel like there is all that much of a choice anymore among the "mainstream" ones as they all seem to be converging in design. Even Opera, which used to use its own rendering engine, has moved to WebKit, and Blink is not all that different from WebKit either. I certainly hope Mozilla will never choose to turn Firefox into yet another WebKit shell, and neither Microsoft with IE.

Web developers trying to make their pages look exactly the same in "all browsers" may enjoy a browser monopoly since it reduces the effort, but I think that's the wrong way to do it; instead, they should aim for "similar enough" - after all, content is what site visitors are after. The idea of progressive enhancement/graceful degradation, which can make for a better environment for browser diversity, seems to be completely lost on many developers.
Amdahl's law is a SOB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Thanks! We'll add this!
With this and kivy (posted yesterday) I now have a new project to work on :)
I hate out of office replies. Usually they are just filling my inbox with something I already know or don't care.

If I need a response within a short timeframe, I'd email the details AND use a synchronse communications platform, like a telephone.

Use the right tool for the job, whats next the post office offering out of house replies to people that post something to you?
German Agents Secretly Recorded Hillary Clinton
Make sure to checkout https://ffdevtools.uservoice.com if you have any suggestions for the firefox devtools dev team.
You can try the latest Beta build (August 14) of Web Clipper 6 here: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/60185-web-clipper-6-fo...
Firefox is definitely behind (on Linux) when it comes to UI fluidity. It also seems like pages load faster in Chrome, but that might also just be one of its UI optimization techniques.
The unrecognised benefits of grade inflation
I doubt they'd do that.

First, "at will" employment is pretty complicated. It's not as cut-and-dry as it's made out to be. Besides, this is a detrimental reliance case: you're arguing that you relied on an offer that was fraudulent, and if they fired you in the first week and couldn't show that it was part of a business layoff or due to criminal behavior on your part, you'd still have that argument.

Second, once you rescind an offer, that person's pissed. Letting that person into the building, even for a week, is not something a risk-averse company is going to do lightly. Third, companies would have all sorts of internal-publicity/morale issues in doing this: hiring someone for a week just to can him on an obviously phony performance case. Fourth, companies care as much about disparagement as about lawsuits, which is why you can often get a settlement even if you don't have grounds to sue (or, more commonly, the suit wouldn't be worth the time put into it). Of course, you shouldn't threaten to disparage in a severance negotiation, because if you don't know what you're doing you can end up unknowingly committing extortion, but it is a concern on their side.

Companies are risk-averse and want to protect their reputations and avoid headaches. Once they've rescinded the offer, a 3-5 month severance is easier than taking the risk of letting you into the building. What if your boss and team like you (and, in the first week, why wouldn't they)? Do they really want to deal with the morale mess of firing you in the first month?

Of course, this doesn't apply when offers are rescinded for legitimate reasons (whole-office shutdowns, massive layoffs) but that's not what we're talking about here.
"Web developers trying to make their pages look exactly the same in "all browsers" may enjoy a browser monopoly since it reduces the effort, but I think that's the wrong way to do it; ... The idea of progressive enhancement/graceful degradation, which can make for a better environment for browser diversity, seems to be completely lost on many developers."

Sometimes it helps to remind them of IE6 in order to make webdevs realize that a monopoly wasn't that good for them either.
Please enumerate at least some of those signs.
Funny SQL Server bug, that MS calls a “feature”
> I wonder if there's really no way to stop Firefox from wasting that space above the tabs

Don't put the tabs on the top of the screen. You are probably concerned about vertical real estate because you have a 16:9 display. Horizontal bars just don't make sense any more.

Install the Tree Style Tab extension. Shove all your tabs into a sidebar. Now your browser has an eye-friendly aspect ratio. Plus you can have more than twenty tabs open at once without reducing the page title to a mere favicon.
Full disk encryption or other situations where manual intervention is a hard requirement to get the system fully back online is one situation.

Any instance where you're running untrusted binaries on your server you'd want to update ASAP and not worry about getting pwned while waiting for scheduled downtime.

Before Oracle closed it to new customers, Ksplice was fairly cheap, ~$3-4/mo/server.
A look inside the ISP Xmission circa 2002
As a Firefox stalwart, my only sustained complaint about it is that the plug-in architecture is pretty crappy, but that's mostly a minor complaint so long as you avoid installing anything but very well understood and mature plug-ins. Chrome doesn't do all that much better here, since although its plugin architecture doesn't suffer quite so badly reliability-wise, plugins can still violate your privacy pretty much arbitrarily (modulo the relevant appstore blacklisting it, which is a pretty impotent reactive measure, as we've seen).

Firefox memory usage has always been, and I suppose will likely to continue to be far ahead of Chrome, since the desktop implementation is now largely identical to that used in Firefox OS.
what tab addon do you use?
we didn't look specifically at libreoffice, but we considered a number of other free or online spreadsheet offerings. excel is attractive because there's a widely installed user base. we are however considering integrations with other spreadsheet offerings. we hope to have a free activesheets service available for trial.
No they should try as hard as they can. Bent meaning look at the amount of resources they put in to have a piece in every aspect of someone's internet/app experience.

The reason why they got involved with everything is that they faced threats to their web business from other companies bent on dominating the whole platform (web/cloud apps) This is a good thing too.

But as developers and techies we know what happens when one company becomes too dominant. This benevolent create competition part could end up with us being in the same situation the web was in 10 years ago. We can all get lazy and say well Chrome is great and so are a lot of these web services Google makes that are slowly but surely moving away from standards. But the tech community possesses the resources to help keep Google honest, and Firefox is a major tool in that.
That's not a word that comes to mind when I think of Google+
There is a much easier answer.

Take the billions of dollars the pentagon and homeland security is giving to these departments and instead of buying useless armored tanks and other nonsense, buy a wearable camera for every cop in the country.

There are 700,000 cops in the usa. Bulk purchase at $100 each is $70 Million. Throw in $30 million for tech support, downloading, etc. and you are at a "mere" $100 million. Since it is a government program, budget it at five times the cost and you are still "only" at half a billion, which is a fraction of the pentagon's program.

Fund it now, make it a law they have to wear it at all times while on duty or instant termination.

"suspects" will behave better, cops will behave better, it is already proven.
Torrenting The US
Exactly. The reason Google succeeded is because they made really good (often the best available to date) products. I think whatever type of "monopoly" they now enjoy is well deserved, and apparently, they still don't abuse it and crank out great products instead.
> However, what if one day Google Chrome has 70%+ market share?

Oh, I agree with the tonality of the article, alright, but i don't subscribe in the "White Knight Firefox" story. Firefox is in bed with Google already, I don't like one bit what they did with the recent update and UI changes, and the performance of the browser in general is so bad it's not wonder people are switching to Chrome.

We need a much better competitor than Firefox if we want to fight against Chrome's domination.
It has ferry service to SF, so commute wise it's not terrible. Just be aware that the ferries don't run super late, so you'll be restricted when it comes to staying out late after work.

Downtown is decent (although a shell of its former self), the waterfront is good, there's good sailing & kayaking opportunities, easy access to Napa & Sonoma, plenty of hiking around. Not a bad spot.
Ask HN: How do countries get out of poverty?
I know this is very 'off-topic' but I've tried Googling this and didn't manage to make much sense of what was returned.

I'm currently staying in Malawi (one of the poorest countries in the world) for a few weeks and I don't understand how the country can improve economically. I'm hoping there's a development economics/someone who knows a lot about this stuff who can explain it in simpler terms than Google could.
Why you will fail to have a great career: Larry Smith at TEDxUW
Not op, but I just use the built-in one. On OS X, press CMD+shift+e and you'll get a overview of tab groups, you can create new groups, etc. I have a "main" group (the default one) and one group per pet project, subject, etc. I tend to use these instead of bookmarks, since they stay around even if the browser crashes.
Because they figured they'd get more money from sharing ad dollars through Google search than they could do through Bing I would guess.
Does anyone know if their Google partnership is worldwide or do they work with Baidu/Yandex in other parts of the world?
In this article, I count eight instances of "data scientist" and zero of "statistician." Three instances of "data science" and only one of "statistics."

I suppose "data science" is a slightly broader term than statistics, but isn't statistics still at the heart of it all?

Edit: Here's a WSJ blog post arguing that "data science" and "statistics"/"data analysis" are separate concepts: http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/05/02/why-do-we-need-data-scie...

I'm still not sure I'm sold on the idea that statistics is a subset of data science and not the other way around.
I bought octopus.org with the idea of launching a non-profit. It turns out, I discovered that for-profit is a better model for my project so I redirect traffic from this url to theoctopusapp.com. Would love to buy octopus.com if I had the funds.
I constantly see google hiring people for the XUL language, which firefox uses. Can anyone give some insight on the usage?
That CPU and RAM consumption is likely due to extensions (AdBlock Plus being the most common hog). Unless you're running a really old version, Firefox is usually smaller than Chrome these days.
For some reason, our cultures generally put a negative spot light on boredom. In hindsight, I've found boredom to have the reverse effect - it has always been the germination of some new phase, something deeper and more satisfying always crops up.

So ... be more excited about the unknown stuff that's now going to flow your way!

As I read your post, I was reminded of Richard Feynman's tale of how he idly began playing with the physics of an object on a spinning plate that was thrown by someone in a cafeteria (am wondering whether my recall is right) ... and ending up with some very interesting physics that got him the Nobel.

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Yo Bitch – World’s first production Android app in Ruby
I disagree. I'm having to force quit Chrome about 5 times a day on OSX and it breaks with amazing regularity on my android phone.

Not joking but Firefox just works for me.

It's annoying because, despite warning to the contrary here, the Google ecosystem just works.
Somebody call Marissa Mayer....I smell a $30 million payday for these kids. Seriously though, they saw a problem in their daily lives and tried to use technology to solve it. If they repeat that process enough times, eventually they will succeed with something. Based upon the screenshots, this specific app looks like it could use some polish, but then that could be said about Yo and Snapchat.
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Isn't that a good reason as any to not put all our eggs in the Google basket? One of the two major browsers and two major blogging platforms are already run by Google; the world's biggest search engine; the dominant mobile platform; the most used free email/map service, to name a few. I love Google, so I don't want it to get to a point where corporate execs can turn it into something that its founders didn't intend it to be.
This tends to confirm Lee Smolin's embryo-theory of cosmological natural selection.

Source : http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selectio...

Cosmological natural selection
Smolin's hypothesis of cosmological natural selection, also called the fecund universes theory, suggests that a process analogous to biological natural selection applies at the grandest of scales. Smolin published the idea in 1992 and summarized it in a book aimed at a lay audience called The Life of the Cosmos.

The theory surmises that a collapsing[clarification needed] black hole causes the emergence of a new universe on the "other side", whose fundamental constant parameters (masses of elementary particles, Planck constant, elementary charge, and so forth) may differ slightly from those of the universe where the black hole collapsed. Each universe thus gives rise to as many new universes as it has black holes. The theory contains the evolutionary ideas of "reproduction" and "mutation" of universes, and so is formally analogous to models of population biology.

The resulting population of universes can be represented as a distribution of a landscape of parameters where the height of the landscape is proportional to the numbers of black holes that a universe with those parameters will have. Applying reasoning borrowed from the study of fitness landscapes in population biology, one can conclude that the population is dominated by universes whose parameters drive the production of black holes to a local peak in the landscape. This was the first use of the notion of a landscape of parameters in physics.

Leonard Susskind, who later promoted a similar string theory landscape, stated:

"I'm not sure why Smolin's idea didn't attract much attention. I actually think it deserved far more than it got."
I expect 2 things from Firefox before I consider seriously switching:

1) Bring security sandboxing already.

2) Fix the terrible rendering on Android. Seriously, Firefox has literally the worst rendering out of all mobile browsers. And by worst, I mean slowest. I don't know whether it's some kind of on purpose delayed rendering, or if it's just that slow, but they need to change that. It's especially more obvious on lower-end phones (where Firefox OS is supposedly making a big push).

Also, after all this time, Opera Classic (not the new one) is still my preferred browser on Android. It acts the way it should when double tapping (makes the page big and usable). Chrome/new Opera don't really do anything when double tapped. And it has the fastest rendering.

It also still has a great mobile browser UI. I don't know what Opera did with the new one, but they totally killed that UI in it. Anyway, my point is, Firefox could learn a thing or two from Opera Classic for mobile.
As a wise woman once said to me, "You can approximately solve the exact problem, or exactly solve an approximation of the problem." Truly these were wise words, and wiser yet are those who can choose correctly between these two (meta-)paths.
Do you look at the mantle piece whilst poking the fire ;)

Personally I wouldn't care if it looked ugly as long as it renders stuff right.
> * Multi process is coming soon, it will be enabled by default at version 35 in nightly.*

Please let that be true. Do you have links at hand where these near-future roadmap decisions could be tracked?
I want the independent processes for security reasons, not memory reasons. Firefox continues to be the most hackable browser because it's lacking that, and also a terrible choice for Tor, as long as it doesn't get it.
Money is an addiction, like a high score for the world's oldest, most fucked up MMO called "capitalism". This MMO has been patched so heavily that it's totally unmaintainable, incomprehensible spaghetti code. The gameplay is wretchedly paced, totally unbalanced, and unfair due to the ridiculously silly positive feedback loops strewn everywhere. It rewards people lavishly for bullshit work that doesn't really benefit our species much less the species we're busy exterminating through neglect. It really needs a total rewrite from the ground up, but that's called "revolution", and it's generally bloody and awful and no fun.

You win the Internet for Saturday, August 16, 2014. That is all.
This would be because, given the workload, your external drive isn't quick enough to keep up with the CPU while your internal is?

You could obviously use something like nice / ionice if you don't want to kludge an external drive about, but to me it seems like an inherit problem with our systems that we can make them unusable just by doing something like a compile.
Firefox built in dev tools are clunky as anything, right down to not being able to resize bits so you can see the data in the panels. However firebug fixes that instantly.
Keep in mind that the performance here is that of mobile WebView components, not PhoneGap particularly. Mainly PG just creates a shell app that creates a WebView and then runs your content in it. So whether your content would perform better today than two years ago is a matter of whether iOS and Android have improved their WebViews[0]. PhoneGap, for its part, has added more platforms and gotten a much improved extension system in the last two years, but nothing I know of that would seriously affect performance.

[0] Android WebViews seem to improve steadily, while always lagging a bit behind the real browser. iOS WebViews were crappy for a long time, particularly because Apple kept Nitro for themselves while third-party hybrid apps used a way slower JS engine. But iOS 8 apparently made massive strides here, and WebViews are right on par with mobile Safari (Nitro, WebGL, etc). Or so they say; I haven't tried it out yet.
Lock-in has already begun on Chrome. Now you can't install Chrome extensions from anywhere else but the Chrome store (which means only stuff Google agrees with). Chrome is as closed-down as iOS and WP8 right now (For shame, Google!). It's actually the main reasons I'm waiting to switch from it soon. But not until Firefox gets a security sandbox.
Iowa City is on that map. Medium-sized cities in 'flyover' states make sense - walkable, affordable. And Iowa City is a University town, so lots of things like culture and diversity.

Of course I live outside town, even less expensive. For the price of my San Jose house on 1/4 acre, I have 80 acres in the country here.
Apple and Debian: A tragic love story
Yup, my post was a bit incomplete: I loved to play with those browsers, but they always left me feeling frustrated. I was hoping that times had changed, but your response seems to say that hasn't happened yet.