skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having an intelligent non https submission warning could be good... You could go so far as to flat out refuse to send a cc number in the clear.

The degree of dependence on the search engine is troubling, would be interesting to see how much could be handled by a local mini index without involving a 3rd party.

Also think browser history could be a lot more useful if it were organized better. For example, maybe grouping pages by the search terms that led to them... Also would be nice to have a quick way to get a detailed history on any given site, along with the pages led in and followed out.

The main way I still use bookmarks is for organizing reference material, I think this could be automated partially as well.
Microsoft could afford to get complacent as IE was not their primary driver of profits. Google being an advertising company - it needs to control users through it's browser to gather more data and build algorithms to use that data, which will be eventually sold to advertisers. The two situations are not comparable at all.
I wish we could find a more comprehensive measure of "class" than income, because I think this broader measure has a much larger effect than income itself.

Technically speaking, you'd put me in the mobile group. Growing up, my parents never earned more than median wage and were consistently in the bottom third of the income bracket. Thankfully, I've been lucky enough to leap into the top 5%. I'll be buying my dad his first house soon.

Yet, I've never felt particularly mobile. My parents were both college-educated, and my aunts/uncles are decidedly (upper) middle class. It was always expected that I'd go to college and succeed in careers. By this measure, I haven't moved at all.
I think that this is the correct response.

It's also worth noting, though, that the current situation has the potential to be more global and pervasive than all of those more localized historical examples.

I seem to recall an intelligence agency official or general saying something to the effect of "America will be remembered for it's networks the way that Rome is remembered for its roads." I can't seem to find the quote right now, but I think it's illustrative of the bounds and limits of our present apparatus.
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A bigger takeaway from this blog may be the centralization of information (regardless of the company that does it). I'd be less worried about my browser of choice, and more about my ability to retain ownership of my data.

FWIW, I've started self-hosting as much as possible of my 'critical' items, be it at home, or on a VPS. You don't need vast amounts of bandwidth, and it's become much easier to setup over time (OpenVPN, OwnCloud, gitlab, or even just using a NAS with such features).

Items that you want to share are a slightly different matter (size, bandwidth, server security, etc), but in general I dislike putting my entire life on social media anyway.
The dynamite was not found in the main hole but one of the "auxiliary tunnels". It was probably left from the previous excavations.
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So your personal perceptions trump hard numbers from businesses that get paid to track real estate data? Cool beans.
I don't know if OP is contributing to this project but FWIW having some code examples in the homepage would help with the adoption.

(I clicked to the GH page and there is no code in the readme there as well.)
Or "Firelight".
No, I pulled a more wordy version of "that's an appeal to authority fallacy". And I believe my point still stands. The author is speaking of issues that are several orders of magnitude of complexity above "writing amazing web software at Mozilla" and also impacted by a variety of fields that are very different than software engineering. Thus he is only marginally more informed than your average HN user.
I use double-entry bookkeeping as a metaphor when pitching software testing. It's particularly helpful with non-technical audiences who have backgrounds in law, finance, or accounting.

You write software tests for the same reason you do double entry: error detection of a technical system that has expected results. The only difference is that accounting has "real" numbers whereas software is algorithm definitions, so you have to plug in real values to run the tests.

It's also telling how similar (and unforgiving) both software and accounting can be. The mischaracterization of a column in accounting could be the difference between profitability and insolvency for your company. The mislabeling of a macro in your program could be the difference between correct execution and a segfault.
>>Some parents literally just won a lottery rendering that justification moot.

How many billionaires exist in the world? Say X000? How does this compare with the world population? You seem to arguing that Y is a failure in life, because X was born to a rich guy.

I wouldn't go to an extent to argue that your initial conditions in life don't have a effect on your future. But at some point of time as you age, that argument just dies.

>> In the end money has no moral weight.

You can either say that and not make money, or go out and earn money. At the end having money would have solved most of your problems and may be even your kids's problem.
So you don't think that people will become less motivated to work if they know that at any time the rug can be pulled out beneath them?
SEO happened. Wasn't Google created in 1998?
I can guarantee the code and network has other bottle necks that hurt things a lot more than a 10ms GC.

Sure in a small percentage of places, maybe, but show me a real study where this is shown to be a real factor in deciding a successful company.
I took this to mean code correctness and thus a measure of stability and security as added benefits. Generally assurance implies some level of confidence that the application will behave predictably even in the face of unpredictable inputs and will revert to sane defaults whenever possible.
The whole phrase would really be "the next time we were together" but I wanted to give the ol' shifting finger a rest. (My caps lock is unmapped.)
Ah cool. The Starbucks in Shanghai didn't have wifi when I was there. Good to see it changing - slowly.
Linkedin is becoming a game company. If you pay some money, you can view others' profile anonymously. If you pay some money, then others won't view your profile anonymously. If you pay more money, you can view others' profile anonymously, even they are paid users, if....
From a software/hardware engineering perspective, how difficult is it to get into the slot machine game? I imagine it must have quite a rigorous set of guidelines and testing procedures that must be followed diligently to avoid running afoul of regulations set out by gambling states.

Also, I assume it must require a lot of trade show visits to try and sell major casinos on your machine, since the number of customers for your machines is severely limited. Is it an upfront cost business (aka, they pay you $XXX for each machine) or is it more of a partnership with the makers where the casinos share profits on the machines with the developer/designers? Off the top of my head, I'd think the latter would be more feasible as I'm sure popularity of machines must be somewhat short lived, as there always seems to be different machines all the time.

Anyway, I'm curious if anyone with more experience in this area could give some brief highlights on what it's like working in that arena. I've always been curious :)
I'm pretty sure that's just supposed to mean "applications that you really want to not have bugs in". Like code that will be dealing with large amounts of money, say. The web page is pretty light on details; I get the impression that Wyrven is something they're using more as a research platform at this point than as something for developers to actually use.
I don't follow your logic.

The more you work, the more you get paid and the less affected you will be by this sort of thing, so I would assume this sort of risk motivated people to work harder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_Un... and http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/rb/RB_905DRRB.pdf

Asian American (mostly first or second generation immigrants) have average household income 14k higher than White Americans (mostly native). It's a pretty good indicator of education and class level of immigrants. Also Asians are famous for their work ethics and respect for eduction. Even if first generation is poor and work blue collar job, the second generation is much more likely to get college degree (~5x more likely than second generation Mexican).
We used a single 500 MHz web server at the ReactOS.org project and it handled the slashdot/reddit effect til ~2008. Slashdot.org was the 8 biggest website in the world back in 2005 (Alexa ranking). I coded a novel CMS in PHP that generated hundreds of static pages in 2-3 seconds. Our open source project team as well as dozens of translators (27 languages) used the RosCMS ajax-based interface to edit the content. Back then ajax was little known and GMail used iFrames instead of ajax. PHP based MediaWiki, phpBB, bugzilla also run on the same server, and all used our central logon system. That's the old version of the website: http://old.reactos.org

On a recent project my social website served thousands of concurrent requests on a notebook class hardware with a single CPU. It uses nginx and HHVM (Facebook's PHP JIT VM).

And @vidarth is right that people usually don't know how many objects they create. But if you tend to care about speed you better should be careful. The same goes for database access, raw optimised SQL with good indexes fly.
All that extra logic sounds like its approaching garbage collector territory... The more you massage it, the closer it becomes.
And Twitch...sorta
Fully agree. I thought the GC only paused for 10 ms, which would be bad enough, if it's a full second... that's insane.
In addition to a to-do list, I started several years ago to keep a running log of what I'm working on from moment to moment. In the short term, it's useful for getting back into the flow of work after an interruption like a phone call or a meeting - you don't have to remember what you were doing when you were interrupted and what you wanted to try next. In the long term, it lets you go back and figure out why you did something a particular way. I'd prefer to be able to use a paper notebook for this since that would make it possible to draw diagrams and such, but I reluctantly use a text editor so that it's more easily searchable.
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You could, but once you're not allocating things, why not write it in a language without a GC?
Is it me? or the pdf is no longer available for download?

Thanks.
their F.A.Q. states that they expect performance not worse than ARM, which sounds like a dealbreaker (there wasn't anything similar in OpenCore movement like… ever!).

Fabrication: these guys do it http://www.lowrisc.org/ and don't forget about chinese production companies who use custom MIPS now — this is a great altarnative for them. Actually, this applies to any government which needs verifiable hardware non-tampered by NATO
I like the idea, although really this is very similar to Chrome (and other browsers) where you just never open the settings tab. Except for the search bar, this is just one of today's browsers with tweaked defaults.

I really don't see the disadvantage, minus the small developer overhead, of having all the choices they have made here configurable.
I didn't notice any spelling or grammar mistakes and it pulled me in enough to make me read the whole thing. It's very, very thorough; someone did their research and spent a lot of time writing this.

He was only explaining popular theories that have been proposed. Not claiming there is any truth to them. This is like saying wikipedia isn't reliable because they list the exact same crazy theories and even some other ones in their documentation of the site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island#Treasure_theories
If you have adhd please watch the start of this video. ADHD is _not_ a joke. Its dangers are highly under-emphasized.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyDliT0GZpE

Use him as the gold standard for research.
pardon the hijacking, but what's with this trend of everything above the fold looking like an entire complete page with almost no content? half the time i land on sites like this, i sit there for 5 seconds wondering where the hell the content is. the scrollbar is not that visible, guys. if i dont see partial content hiding at the bottom of the fold which would clue me into the fact that there's 10 more pages worth of scrolling, i'm not gonna "get it" by noticing a scroll bar.

the pretty UI is not worth the horrid UX

EDIT: i think repliers are focusing too much on scrollbar visibility. this isnt the main issue. i have no problem with the scrollbar being visible on other sites. it's plenty visible on my Win 8.1 / Firefox 1080p res. The problem is that A) i dont want to scroll an entire page before i begin reading and B) i dont want it to be the primary (and sole) indicator of additional content. I have to look over to the side to get the only cue, it's really annoying.

/rant.
I found this on wikipedia which is interesting:

>The appearance of a man-made pit has been attributed partly to the texture of sinkholes: "this filling would be softer than the surrounding ground, and give the impression that it had been dug up before",[38] and the appearance of "platforms" of rotten logs has been attributed to trees or "blowdowns" falling or washing into the depression.[39] An undetermined pit similar to the description of the early Money Pit had been discovered in the area. In 1949, workmen digging a well on the shore of Mahone Bay, at a point where the earth was soft, found a pit of the following description: "At about two feet down a layer of fieldstone was struck. Then logs of spruce and oak were unearthed at irregular intervals, and some of the wood was charred. The immediate suspicion was that another Money Pit had been found."[40]
What you are saying is false.

Even erlang will have some pause times, that has nothing to do with availability. And as mentioned, this is only when GC pauses happen.
It will be available in the future maintenance release http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0466/
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I come from a country where casinos are much rarer than they are in the US, and I recently went in my first casino ever after living in the US for 4+ years.

So I entered this weird place in Montana, with colorful machines everywhere. A more experienced friend instructed me to play a certain machine, in which I put $5 and got 100 virtual "tokens" in exchange. Then the machine asked me to pick 7 random numbers from a 10x10 grid. I touched the 7 numbers, and pressed a flashy "Go" button. The machine "randomly" (of course I have no certainty that it was truly a random process) picked 7 numbers, and only 1 of mine matched. Total gains: 0. I repeated the process several dozen times: select your numbers, press a button, watch the machine make funky sounds as it "randomly" selects number, see if yours match. The best round I got was when 3 of mine matched, and I got back something like 10 credits, going from 47 to 57. 10 minutes later, I was at 0.

It strikes me as a tragedy of our modern society that such contraptions make for a significant portion of state income, and that they are as popular as they are. It is sad that the average American citizen does not have a sufficient grasp of basic probabilities to even consider putting money in such a machine, because it means that the school system essentially fails at preparing kids for the real world. And it is sad that governments are encouraging those temples for theft to prosper the way they do. Because it really is theft - just a kind of theft where the victim is coaxed into it with the help of smoke, mirrors, and free booze (not unlike the phone scams that prey on the elderly and manage to extract thousands of dollars from them). And not only is it institutionalized theft, it is institutionalized classist theft, as the vast majority of the victims are from the lowest socio-economical classes of society.
But the whole point is that this browser isn't meant for technical people. It's not meant for the kind of people that feel the need for a different `Downloads` folder.
WiFi is pretty ubiquitous in most coffee shops large and small in Beijing, doesn't require a passport either (although I think technically it is supposed to)
Meanwhile, thousands of authors support Amazon, and question not only Hachette but the "Authors Guild" which only protects the 1% of super-rich authors (who, coincidentally, are mostly signers of the Preston letter.)

For a different viewpoint on all this, see the posts of Barry Eisler and JA Konrath who've been covering this issue for YEARS.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/
One more corollary is that people have a vested interest in thinking their failure is because of other people's successes.
The dirty secret is: nobody cares because the ISA doesn't matter.

When programming a modern microcontroller, I regularly think: "Gee, I wish I had more pins." "Gee, I wish I had documentation on that peripheral." "Gee, I wish I had better tool support." or "Gee, I wish I had more RAM/Flash/MHz."

I never think "Gee, I wish I had a better ISA".

I applaud the effort to make an open microprocessor especially in light of the increasing efforts to put trusted module crap in our computers. However, this has no commercial advantage in any way other than that.
The meals are made in our own kitchen. The nutrient needs are determined by taking into account your current height and weight, ideal body weight and your goal (for ex, gain 30 pounds of lean muscle vs lose 10 pounds) and your activity needs (active lifestyle, serious fitness enthusiast, athlete/bodybuilder etc). The food is prepared by certified chefs and under stringent quality standards, all ingredients are sourced from approved and certified purveyors. No integration with wearables at this time but possibly in the future if there is enough demand for it.
Small correction, the 80486 was on the market in 1989.
The half minute window was only required to reprogram mining pools to mine into the attackers pool. The effects of the attack last much longer than the time needed to execute the attack.
It was the default in Chrome, and I believe its the default in IE as well.

It has its upsides as well, you generally only need to target the latest stable version of Chrome.
I agree with not defaulting to saving downloads in the "downloads" folder. Many people don't really know how to use their file manager. (For years, my mom would open Microsoft Word and organize files there.)

Why not default to saving downloads on the Desktop? Where did that file get saved? Oh, there it is!
On the other hand it would have anyway. Without the incentive on treasure, it would have been abandoned entirely. And anything degradable would have deteriorated long ago by now.
Thanks a lot for your feedback. All great points, well made.
I've noticed that too and also do not like it.

I'd prefer the traditional style article and thumbnails where necessary (not just for the sake of cramming images into articles).

Maybe they've done testing and this style article gets read/shared more, it certainly looks more official and permanent but it's still just a blog post / news article.

This is where I first saw it, and it's annoying to read the huge text and adjust to the images that float under text: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/that-time-an-air-force-f-16... Apparently they never even considered what it would look like when someone tries to print that article, the 1st half of the page is a solid black image, then the text is laughably large.
Not being snarky, but Youtube with HTML5 is so smooth now.
I'd think /tmp by default would make sense, effectively your downloaded files would live inside Firefox itself, ready for you to drag/save them out. It's in line with where modern computing is going, making the filesystem less relevant by the day.
Being a distinguished engineer at Mozilla does make it more likely that there is something significant behind the "things I can't talk about".
Is it a billion dollar business? Just because Google, reportedly, bought them for a a billion dollars doesn't mean the market is worth that much. Many people in the industry I've talked to seem to think there is a relatively long road ahead (i.e. years) toward some semblance of maturity. If anything, this is a large bet on the future. One that could easily go awry.
I don't love it, but think of it as a book or magazine cover or full page picture at the start of an article. I've just started scrolling on every page I land on at this point.
Okay, you can enhance the API that already exists for this I suppose but I'm not sure how you could write a library for that purpose.
There only in a few cities in the US where you can gamble like that, it's illegal in most places.

Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Indian reservations, cruise ships, and casino boats are the only places I can think of that allow gambling in the US.

I'm not sure if there is a loophole for horse racing tracks or how that works.

Video gaming machines might be what you what you saw but they're really not much different than an arcade that spits out tickets. I think those video gaming machines are becoming more rare / illegal.

Our brains aren't wired to correctly calculate the fact that we're more likely to lose than win.

Same with lottery tickets, people get addicted to those things and don't stop until they run out of money. Even people in Haiti would receive a little money (meant to be used for food and other essentials) and spent it on lottery tickets.