skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am currently running Win10 Dev preview full fledged on a daily work machine. Off topic, Win 10 works great except for a few USB bugs not allowing me to format USB drives.

My usage is not as high as im reading. But a lot of my usage comes from Adblock. I have 5 browser windows open, with about 5-10 tabs each, im currently @ 760mb on Win 10.

A nice bug I get is from Firebug. When I am debugging a site, and I try to hover over my Taskbar icons to grab a new window, it flashes for about 2 seconds on whatever im hovering, and I have to try again, the second try usually leaves my taskbar windows open. If I close Firebug, this problem stops.

I also notice when I run flash (I stream mixtapes from datpiff.com), my usage goes sky high. I have been trying some debug options in about:config, and I think I have knocked the usage down by modifying a few lines.

Also another bug I experience on Win10 with Firefox is my top bar will completely disappear, I have to alt+F4 to close out Firefox and re-open. Maybe Firefox 33 will fix some of these issues.
Themes design can learn from the real estate industry for 2015
"If they add credit history and Landlord-Tenant court, there is a big market in the real estate rental business."

Also a lot of regulation due to FCRA (which I'm personally glad for, considering the consequences of incorrect reporting).
I feel bad for people who have made stupid mistakes in the past and are increasingly going to be haunted by them where ever they go.
I sincerely hope you are joking. Dbus-as-IPC doesn't make for composability at all, since each program must be aware of (1) the names and signatures of each other program's dbus-accessible methods, and (2) each other program's behavioral semantics with respect to the method invocation.
Nope. On FF33, when I type in a one-word, no-TLD hostname in location bar, it takes me to my default search engine, while asking "Do you want to go to hostname?"

The whole point of having separate bars is to clearly distinguish use, and to ensure data doesn't leak. This bothers me, too.
I was once proud to be called nerd
Yes, the ports use emscripten to convert to JavaScript/asm.js.
You shouldn't be searching in the URL bar. There is a search bar for that. If anything, it should be a toggle to allow searches to execute from URL bar input, but for IT folks and others who recognize the distinction, searches from the URL bar are frustrating and insecure.
Yeah i just see Go as an alternative for web technologies, where Rust is much more system level focused. I could be wrong, but that seems to be the direction I see with Rust.
When the Guy Making Your Sandwich Has a Noncompete Clause
Why Payments Suck
Cosigned. Pretty disappointed.
Voting is how we got the current government. Choosing between two lying, corrupt politicians won't change anything.

We need to replace Congress with 1 house made up of 1,000 randomly sampled citizens to get true representation.
* I managed to fix my top bar issue within minutes of my post. Don't know why, but I decided to add a skin to my Firefox ui - this fixed my issue 100% it seems, I am not getting the error at all anymore
I’m typing this on an Macbook in a house with just Macs and iDevices after getting back from work where everyone uses Macs, but honestly what’s wrong with just going down the Linux road? It’s politically better, hardware is as good as you want to buy and there’s no app store vetting (unless you install Steam).
> Silverlight was a dead end I agree but it is still officially supported.

For how long though? The parent post was talking about everything working 20 years into the future.

> ActiveX is still supported. It's just COM.

Are you disputing that there are companies still out there that have internal apps reliant on IE6? I'm not saying it's smart, but at this point keeping IE6 going has to be work. If they could upgrade, why wouldn't they?

> This is a processor limitation.

When you are predicting that your 18 year old app will continue to function out-of-the-box for another 20 years, how is hardware not a factor?
Ok, so Coda 2.5, BBEdit, TextExpander and other developer-type apps can't be in the App Store because they can't be sandboxed. Fine, if it's a developer-type tool that has to do things most everyday users aren't going to need, do it outside the Mac App Store. For everything else, the Mac App Store is great.

In fact, I'm such a fan of the Mac App Store that I wish every app could conform to it's rules so I wouldn't have to dig out a lame license key, or heaven help me, email the vendor for some time sensitive generated key thing.
Hm, not easy to find. Could you please share the link of that blog?
I think it could scale the same way that, say, a massage parlor scales: by hiring and training more people. Except in this case you don't run into space limitations since everything is done online. If folks are willing to pay their premium rates [1], it could work! $350/mo is pretty steep, but I'd rather pay that and get results than $0/mo and no dates.

[1] https://www.datingring.com/premium
That's a great package, but what I don't get is why the "mozilla bundle" name if this works just as well on Chrome?
Are you in SF or NYC? Those are the two cities we're live in. Will be launching LA / Boston next. If you are NYC or SF and are on the waitlist, we're able to get most people off within a week. Email me - lauren@datingring.com if you're still waiting.
In the summer of 1980 I celebrated my freshly minted B.S. in Journalism by blowing most of the cash I collected in graduation gifts on a TRS-80 Model 1 computer.

...

More than 20 years later, I found myself with an urge to touch that magic again by building my own computer from scratch.

From the text, it sounds like 2002 is accurate.
That makes sense, I hadn't thought of it that way. I guess the degree to which people donate to such agencies without restriction is related to how much trust is involved for that agency. Thank you for sharing the link with the podcast.

To be honest, I hadn't realized that the CDC had a foundation until I saw this today and had been wondering about how to be able to direct funds to them specifically (I did definitely know about other relief agencies, such as Doctors without Borders).

I had been specifically wondering about the interplay of the newer crowdfunding models (like Kickstarter or even Watsi) and traditional donation models here, and whether there were new/different opportunities for rapid response methods to approach this kind of challenge (and how one might go about it).
Salesforce Hackathon live judging
"If you look at a detailed diagram of a complex design, it is even worse than text."

Not necessarily. (Or horses for courses, or YMMV, or however you want to put it.) For some kinds of things, diagrams seem to do awfully well. Not all kinds of things, there are plenty of people who overuse diagrams, but some kinds of things.

E.g., consider the success of Feynman diagrams. They're at the edge of my expertise (I did a Ph. D. thesis on QM calculations, but not the kind that uses them) so I'm not 100% confident of this, but I have the strong impression that no one has developed a textual form that represents those relationships in a way that most people find comparably clear.

Or consider the humble "graph" (in the common usage, not the math "graph theory" usage). I do not want to deal with the text replacement of a nontrivial scatter plot in a typical experimental paper, or a diagram of a clever waveform in an radar ECM monograph.

Or consider the humble map (again in ordinary usage, not math usage) of e.g. Florida or the US interstate highway system.

Electronic circuit diagrams, medium-complexity Venn diagrams, and probabilistic inference networks also seem to be cases where diagrams can be hard to beat.
Decentralized storage is definitely cool, but I'm not convinced the blockchain is the right place to do it. There are already multiple implementations of decentralized storage like this, like Tahoe-LAFS, Freenet, or SpaceMonkey.
Given how the JVM ecosystem looks like and what is planned for Java 9+ in terms of mechanical sympathy, I have my doubts.
Have a page about our matchmakers that we'll be adding back this week, and you also get more info about your matchmaker after signing up.

You're completely right that we should have more info on the matchmakers featured prominently on the site. Appreciate that feedback and will be changing that soon!

(In short - they've been with us for the past year and matched thousands of people.)
Call me "shameful, cynical [and] fearmongering" but I don't think the ineffectiveness of the CDC on Ebola is due to lack of resources or that $25 million will make a difference. They have a $6 billion plus annual budget ($25 million is a 0.4% increase) and rarely pay for the actual treatment of patients. Instead they are primarily supposed to do research and disseminate information in advance of health threats.

I think it is pretty clear the the CDC has become just another calcified government bureaucracy who ordinarily gets very little oversight or feedback from the outside world. As they recently admitted - just like the Houston nurse they blamed - they cannot even follow their own safety protocols (anthrax and H5N1 debacles) because of their toxic culture[1]. It is a real challenge (perhaps impossible) to prevent these problems from developing in any large organization - including private sector firm (think big semi-monopolies) but even more so in government. More money could even make it worse as bigger bureaucracies are even less effective - just like putting more programmers on the failing project.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/us/after-lapses-cdc-admits...
Did they remove the DRM infection mechanism in this build?
And with .NET Native even more so.
From Miasma to Ebola: The History of Racist Moral Panic Over Disease
A Chinese educational CPU - similarly to how a lot of US colleges teach a reduced subset of MIPS using SPIM, these authors are trying to teach using their CPU0 architecture and a Verilog implementation they wrote, which students can simulate or synthesize into an FPGA-based SoC.

http://jonathan2251.github.io/lbd/about.html#motivation
MOSIS (https://www.mosis.com/) will do runs of 20-100 ASICs. I've never used them but I just requested a couple of quotes, and it looks like their prices range from a few thousand dollars to a few tens of thousands, depending on process and size.
Most experts think that Ebola presents low risk to US so I am not sure why CDC should spend significant resources on it. Private company is working on vaccines and at current funding CDC is perfectly capable of handling a few cases of Ebola in US. Voiding visas of everyone who was in Liberia, Sierra Leone and other affected countries together with mandatory three week quarantine for few US citizens who was there is probably all that is needed to be done. Should not be too expensive.

CDC budget for 2014 is $6.8B so 25 million is drop in a bucket anyway.
Some of the money is going to the Mozilla Foundation.
CSS Font Stack
What did you do instead?
The demos all appear to use asm.js .

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8454768
Some of what you pay goes to the Mozilla Foundation by default.
How would I find those anthropologists' arguments? Sounds interesting. (I majored in anthropology, a long time ago.)
I agree Apple is to blame here. But, disagree with the logic.

> What's the point in them wasting their time just skinning something that is guaranteed to be slower than Safari

I'd say, consistency of user experience and sync'ing my bookmarks etc. Skipping iOS means you are losing a reasonable chunk of users who fall in the category of wanting the same browser on all their devices.
I was really surprised to see that you're actually disintermediating microfinance. Other crowdfunded/donor-choice orgs create profiles after a borrower has received a loan, and pay any loans made to that profile into a pool for future borrowers. I thought this was a scammy but necessary part of the business model until I saw your new loan growth - very exciting development in microfinance.

I'd be curious to see how BI can inform your strategy in areas like market selection, which can be especially crucial in microfinance. Which region should you enter next, and what type of borrower should you focus on first? There's plenty of data out there for analysis, but maybe others' repayment rates for models like lending circles may not correlate too closely with yours.
What's a good example feature list for developing for a client?
I'm a new programmer and I am now competent enough to begin looking for clients. What's a good example of a feature story/list that I can use to reference how deep to break things down?
Yoric is an engineer at Mozilla. "Thanks" seems relevant and the downvotes seem unnecessary.
Thanks for this feedback - very helpful.

1) It's now on our list to add signin without Facebook, since that's been such a popular request.

2) The problem there is that if you don't like your second match, then what? What's hard is that matchmaking isn't a common thing you pay for, so people aren't used to the risks involved. If you go to a restaurant, you generally don't ask to try out a meal for free, or ask for a second one if you don't like the first. If we were to provide two choices, we'd have to raise the price. We're the one matchmaking service where a personal matchmaker is going to send you a match for $20 .. most charge thousands.

Additionally, it's not so much about the business model as it is about trying to change the way people so quickly write one another off. If you know you only get one shot, and this person has been chosen specifically for you by a matchmaker, there's a much higher chance you'll give them a shot, which is what we want. People are far too picky and miss out on lots of great people. If you want 1,000 chances, there's always Tinder :)

And lastly, we're going to build a free match into the signup flow, so there's at least that :)
It will be incredibly valuable in 6 weeks when 34 lands in stable. Or you can use Firefox Beta 34 when it launches this week and try it out now. If you choose to try the beta, you can use Firefox Portable in beta form to keep it separate from your standard local install. We generally release it same day or next day as the standard beta.
It's just a tool that you can use to visualize Go internals. Nothing is tying Go to any browser.
San Francisco, CA - Full-Time SocialWire

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* You'll need to be fairly self-managed. You'll be working with many of our clients concurrently. You'll build your own processeses and documentation along the way that will define how our company operates.

We're offering great salaries, full benefits,stock options, unlimited PTO, free catered lunch everyday, laundry service, and much more. To apply, visit: http://www.thesourcery.com/jobs/815
Or they're in science, or engineering, or in a trade business where kilograms are more common than Imperial units, or they're a recent immigrant, or they're being silly because they want to joke that they're a drug dealer, or...
> Otherwise it should hit all Firefox users' about:home page within the next 24 hours.

That's a massive promotion for Humble. Wow.
Have you seen the cost of living in SF? and Lawyers and Doctor are pre entry closed shops and make far more than the average Engineer.
Yeah, I didn't mean my comment to be a devastating take down. I just find it frequently useful to try and state things more clearly and correctly when faced with hyperbole.
we use a form editor to create documents for claims and policies. They are form letters that usually have a combination of data from the claim system and custom entry for the specifics of the claim.
Do you think http://www.magic-1.org/ is down because the CPU is overloaded from hacker news reader requests, or because it's no longer running? (sob). At least whois of the domain is still the maker.
Sorry about that - great suggestion. Will add that to the form.

shkkmo is right that the reason we have you fill it out is so that we have the ability to launch new cities faster.
I remember reading about "vendor" branches in the cvs documentation (probably in the early 2000s), which if I recall correctly were trying to solve a similar problem to sub-modules in git. So I don't think the Rubyists invented the term.
Agreed. I think blanket statements like "medical science has established that it is an almost completely useless organ [1]" need to caveat this with "medical science as it currently stands today".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8454918
> It was a bug in the kernel, as Torvalds has already admitted.

Where?

> It's obvious you're not a programmer.

I certainly am, and he's right. Stop trying to deflect blame. The kernel isn't responsible for preventing init from doing stupid things, init shouldn't do stupid things.

And most importantly, when your code does stupid things that breaks users, it is your responsibility to fix it, no matter what you think anybody else's code should be doing. If you can't accept that, you're a menace, and need to stop writing code.
In addition to some money going to mozilla, asm.js was also designed by mozilla.
Announcing the First Beta Release of Secure Hunter Beta Version
Well it's about efficiency too, Coffee Meets Bagel does the 1 day a match thing and after 4 weeks of non matches (either I wasn't attracted to them or they to me) I just quit the site. Compared to a minute spent swiping 30 people on Tinder, or a minute or two reading someone's profile on OKC.
JUNIOR “CIGANO” DOS SANTOS HIGHLIGHTS KNOCKOUT
Firefox gets H.264 support, Cisco open sources OpenH264
Writing Fast Ruby [Slides]
My guess is that, while the games technically run on chrome, they require the asm.js optimizations that only Firefox has atm in order to run at a decent speed.
Clicking through on the article I ended up browsing through several of the projects on Zidisha and reading the founding story. Very impressive project!

Having lived the last year and a half in South America I really believe in the power of micro finance as a tool against poverty. It's really eye-opening to see from up close how difficult/impossible it is to escape poverty without access to credit.

Good luck with the project!
The difference between <input type="text"> and <input type="date"> is that the former has been around for 2.5 decades and looks nearly identical across all browsers, while the latter does not/is not. Also, note that you can style <input type="text"> quite a bit: different fonts, different border, different colors, padding, adding icons, placeholders, focus/unfocus behavior. Lastly, note that text inputs are extremely simple: the interaction is to get focus, type/select/copy/paste/unfocus. A datepicker is orders of magnitude more involved.

Design-wise, yes it matters a great deal. Once again on iOS, <input type="date"> works better than any alternatives. On the desktop, it is markedly worse: you get strange colors, weird layout that doesn't match your design, etc. The look and feel is in the weird space design-wise: it doesn't match anything in your OS, but it also doesn't match the site's design (almost ever).

Once again, in theory a nice well thought-out universal datepicker built right into the browser would be fantastic. In practice, I don't see that happening and the inferior JS-based alternatives end up working better in real-world products.
How one startup mapped Brazil's confusing favelas
Mozilla is a nonprofit whose goal is to promote the web. So it is very important that this runs well on Firefox, Chrome, and on all other modern browsers - if it didn't, this would be pointless for Mozilla to do.

Mozilla helped out here, but the goal is to show that games on the web can be fun, and of course that means anywhere the web can run, in any browser.

edit: the distinction is also noticeable in that this is the Humble Mozilla Bundle, and not Humble Firefox Bundle.
A-men.
The key moment was when they allowed in-app purchases for free apps in October 2009, after introducing IAP in March 2009. If they had held that line, the app store would be a much different place.
"You can easily diff text. Text works with version control systems."

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

It is very strange to me how hard it seems to be to convey this to almost anyone who has not experienced it in serious computer programming. E.g., a few times I talked about it with lawyers who work on complex documents, and got nowhere. And occasionally I have even run into subcultures of programmers who didn't get it (and/or, relatedly, the power of build-automation tools like "make").
The Everlasting Lightning Storm of Venezuela
I asked this last time...

Does this remove the horrible Australis UI?
An App That Lets You Converse with the Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary
Cool. Thanks for posting. (Owlchemy here) Feel free to ask any questions about the process.
More info on Rap Back: http://www.aci-na.org/sites/default/files/credentialing_-_ch...
I've sunk countless hours into FTL, this bundle is worth getting for that alone.
Africa Calling
Bézier OCD or Why You Should Know About Point Placement
> hat's off to Zuckerberg

Is it hats off or hat's off? I think you're right. The saying is 'my hat is off to you'
Matter – Extensive UI Kit for Sketch and Photoshop
The real reason about windows 10 is not windows 9
Awaiting the Boston launch.
The rendering engine is a non trivial portion of what Mozilla is. To be an advocate of the web user in standards discussions involving things like HTML5 and ECMAScript. If they do not have a large enough market share of web users on their engines, they will loose their voice in those discussions.

When you use a browser on the web, you are literally voting for who gets the most control of those discussions.
Your specific vote is only important when the election is to close to call. If X is up by 80% in the polls you can probably stay home and nothing happens.
Ethical Quandary: iPhones and Encryption
Design of docs is straight out of 2002.

I like it.
Great story. Your pitch for the product on the medium article is better than your pitch on your homepage, btw.
Not the one you asked, I did PT for my lower back and neck injuries. Along with losing weight and following the doctor's orders (don't lift heavy stuff for a while, improve posture, etc.) I've recovered (mostly) from both injuries. Still some things I can't do or that I have to be more careful about than if I hadn't been injured, but nothing severely limiting (mostly it's just good practices anyways: be careful how much I lift, be careful how I move when lifting, watch my weight, exercise to strengthen supporting muscles and improve range of motion).
I wish they would put some effort into making Firefox feel more native on OS X, for example:

- Builtin support for Keychain (without relying on an extension).

- swipe-animation when going forward/backwards in history.

- "over-scroll" (you know, when you can sort sort scroll past the top and bottom of the page).

I know it sounds a bit vain, but I simply can't make a switch unless the look and feel is native to OS X.