skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a long time Mozilla lover, I have been quite concerned about their dependence on Google for quite some time now. I'm really thankful that they have had the courage to cut ties. Must have been a scary decision.
We are Google's product, not Google's customer. Keep this in mind, and use Google sparingly.
BT is the worst. Their Internet Hub or whatever they call their router does not allow changing DNS settings, because that would circumvent their crappy filtering. Would someone please stop thinking of the children!
eNom DNS is down
I have a bunch of domains registered with eNom and also use their DNS. None of them are reachable. It appears to be a big problem:

https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=enom&src=typd
It's worthwhile to note that Yandex are, in principle, also a competitor. (They ship their own branded version of Chromium; I'm not sure what level it's built at, whether it's just a different theme and some minor additions, or built from scratch on the Chromium Content API. It is, however, frequently out of date and with known security issues, le sigh…)
Early Street View history: http://thetrendythings.com/read/7424
The state of the browser market provided Google the opportunity to be successful with controlling more of the distribution channel. Its clear corporate strategy that when you depend on a small number of others to deliver your product (search), you are in a weaker strategic position. Google offering a high quality browser helps reduce risk. The same goes for Android with mobile search, maps, etc.
New Search Strategy for Firefox: Promoting Choice and Innovation
Yeah, I thought about those. The OLPC is just too weird and outdated TBH, and e-paper devices (as much as I love them) are not reactive enough for active use like writing and editing. There's just no real option for now.
The only public numbers are from the the previous Google search deal (the one from 3 years ago). It will be a long time until the details of this new deal are public. In the mean time I (as a Mozilla employee) can say that all of the options Mozilla had for the new search deal were better economically than the now-ending Google deal. This was really nice, because Mozilla got to make a choice that wasn't about money, but was about strategy and what we want in the web instead.
Are you saying adding "encrypted" to the URL fixes the problem? Because, the author does attempt to access google directly over HTTPS. And it is not set up at the carrier level; Google performed the redirection from HTTPS to HTTP.
Gather: iBeacon Messaging App
Firefox OS does not use Bing. It used Bing a long time ago but all consumer devices are set to Google these days.
Sometimes it's okay to eliminate dependencies:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html
What Google seems to have done voluntarily will be forced on it tomorrow by repressive regimes all around the world.

Google seems to have failed us once more.
No, it's set up at Google, whereby they disable the HTTP for Google search when asked to nicely (£££).
Dear Google: remember that "don't be evil" thing? This is evil.
You understand that it isn't a "euphemism" as euphemisms are substitutions for vulgarity, not substitutions of vulgarity. Notice how the replacement you suggest, "unwarranted bravado," isn't blunt or vulgar? The term, as it was used, is a metaphor. As a metaphor, its imagery is fair game for criticism.

As for the criticism itself, I think it stands as the phrase is unnecessarily gendered.
"The next version" is already out. We moved away from the ZK sync a while ago, and use a much more user friendly model now.
The horror story comes in when folks go to the hospital only when they are seriously injured, the diagnosis IS brain injury, those 190 dead people could have been saved, and we don't struggle to interpret all the data as naively as we possibly can.
ISS says Microsoft's Nadella is paid too much
It's almost certainly down to the fact the Mozilla project just doesn't have the coverage yet.
What happens if firefox starts shipping with yahoo as it's default search engine?
http://mashable.com/2014/11/19/firefox-default-yahoo-search/...
If that happened to me I'd just keep the doubled password. It seems more secure (it's not), and I already remember it.

This approach just seems dumb.
Having no open source projects to show off = nothing special.

Having projects to show off = something that makes you stand out.

There's no way around this. I can understand why people haven't got open source projects to their name and that's fine but that doesn't change the fact that those that do will look better in interviews.
Or by a CA that is trusted by your browser....
> Question is can they catch Google?

I suppose they could, if they went for the same questionable bundling [1] and SEO [2] tactics as Google :)

Adding to that the fact that Google occasionally promotes Chrome on their various products (search engine et. al.), they haven't been particularly fair all in all. I doubt Mozilla will go that low, and I doubt they could gain significant ground even if they did.

[1] https://blog.avast.com/2009/12/03/avast-and-google-chrome

[2] https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/NAWunDzJSHC
I hit this back in August when I moved and had to wait 2 weeks for my new line to be installed correctly[0].

I didn't care enough to find out why, I always use a VPN when using WiFi and to be fair to BT they recommend the use of a VPN when using the BT WiFi service.

[0] It took BT 2 weeks to install the line correctly after cocking it up twice! Third times a charm. Great going BT! /s
Firefox ditches Google, goes with Yahoo
For the privacy conscious, I don't really see a need to ever use Google (except perhaps for images). DuckDuckGo and Startpage are perfectly fine for your average search query; they aren't terrific for fresh news stories, in which case you can proceed directly to a news source or an aggregator.

This is probably too much trouble for your average user, but for me it is worth it. Once you gain a knack for it, it really doesn't expend that much time, either.
The decisions were largely separate.

The goal of having a CA was to leave us the option of selling commercial plugins in the future. We no longer plan to do that so we got rid of it.

Separately, we kept hearing that the GPL is a hurdle to adoption at some companies so we switched to MIT.
I am not really sure what Light Table is and the announcement does not provide any information as such.
I think you're conflating the notion of value and productivity. I'd argue value is far more subjective than productivity is. i.e. Facebook is maybe worth $200 billion today, but with a change in the market may only be worth $100 billion tomorrow. Whereas productivity (lets say some ratio of features, bugs, time) is more objectively measured and less volatile.
Regarding Elon Musk, do you have a reference you can point to? Just curious.
For me, Beeradvocate integration would be a huge improvement over Ratebeer.
Send Rock Health your deck by tomorrow for $250K funding
This might just be a use of the magic "nosslsearch" DNS record: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/1l2....
I'm a BT customer and I immediately checked this out.

Using the latest Chrome/Firefox, searching for anything in the address bar is sent over https. Perhaps the author is being 'watched' as he is a surfing via BT's wifi pass?
This gets a little more detailed into the work, but compared to other papers that have sprung up in this area recently, our paper slightly frowns on the idea of distilling a complex image into a single short sentence description. In that sense we are a little more ambitious and we're trying to produce snippets of text that cover the full image with descriptions on level of image regions. I would call our results encouraging, but there is certainly more work to be done here. And I think one of the limitations right now to do a good job is the amount of training data available to us.
I don't think it automatically follows though that 10x environment leads to 10x programmers. I have now, in my career, come into perfectly fine organizations where hardly anything got done. A serial history of 0.2X programmers in an environment that didn't limit them.

So I completely disagree with the premise of the article. The 10X programmer exists and environment, while a factor, isn't the only factor.
As a Mozillian who also cares very much about open standards, I agree. Google has both a long and recent track record of helping to advance open standards - CalDAV, WebRTC, WebM, etc. - and I have no doubt they will continue to do so - e.g., Physical Web.

However, Google's purpose in the world is not to advance open standards.

That is Mozilla's purpose. That's why this is a strategic, long-term decision on Mozilla's part. A world with a strong Google, strong Mozilla, and strong Yahoo (and Apple, and Microsoft, and Samsung, and Intel, etc.) is better for everyone.

A world where any one of those entities controls too much power is worse.

For me, I look forward to working with partners at Google and Yahoo.
Thanks for this. Some good tips here. Been looking to make a switch to OSX.
I don't think there's any danger of Google taking over the Chinese market...

Perhaps Yandex is more at risk, but my impression is that Yandex dominates Russia much as Google leads the US. In Russia, Google is the underdog. Firefox's switch can only dampen competition in the Russian market, while users in markets without Yandex neither gain nor lose.

The rest of the world may stand to benefit, if these national champions expand beyond their borders, and if they offer users a better choice than the competition. But that remains to be proven. In the meantime, Mozilla's switch will certainly have a measurable impact on the current competitive landscape.
So much truth spoken
I just discovered that DuckDuckGo has some stuff in place to make it easy to add DuckDuckGo as your primary search engine in Chrome. Took me about three seconds.

I am going to give it a try for a solid week at home and see if I can live with its results. I have no idea if they're as good, but I hope so.
For anyone else wondering what the hell "BT" is, it's British Telecom, an ISP.
>However, assuming some minimum baseline of having a clue, the multiplier is more likely to be due to environment.

I don't think this is true. It's quite common to have a huge productivity variance between people on the same team.
Yep, we're affected too. Will migrate elsewhere first thing tomorrow. Any recommendations? Thinking AWS Route 53.
Note: BT = British Telecom, a UK internet provider
If they can successfully juggle marketing a good 'party line' and be holding onto their core values and be looking out for their bottom line all at the same time, then I have much more confidence in Mozilla's long term viability going forward. Mozilla's continuing existence is of huge importance to the free and open internet, and this announcement certainly gives me hope that they will do so for at least several more years. Good on them!
It seems like that technique no longer works.
Well, there was a good reason for that, for a long time: IE didn't even begin to support .svg until version 9, which means that it isn't a realistic option for deployment for anyone who needs to support pre-evergreen browsers.

I investigated them a year or two or so ago, because I found that AngularJS could work quite nicely within an .svg document, which opened up some exciting possibilities. My recollection is that at the time, there were some critical cross-browser problems with font rendering that made the topic very kludgy and complicated. I except that matters have improved since, but I do not know to what extent.
Yours is not an extreme case at all. In fact, this is standard fare in the industry, but nobody wants to admit it happens to them because it's embarrassing.

Europe has very strict vacation policy (mandated 5-6 weeks), healthcare benefits and employee protections (hours worked, overtime pay, etc). I wonder why that is? Western Europe isn't exactly a developing region. Maybe they realized that you can't give employers all the power and expect them to act benevolently at the expense of profit.

American work laws are dystopian. Being an employee in the USA is sheer stupidity. PG says as much during his essays. I always find the "Who's hiring" threads comically ironic on HN.

We're here not to be employees, but to become entrepreneurs.
Have you measured this assertion in anyway? I'm not making a claim one way or the other, but what I have found is that people's perceptions about what is indicative of good candidates is rarely what is actually indicative and data goes a long way to dispel/confirm myths.
Presentations like these make me realize how close we are to developing law enforcement (/police state) technology that will be very effective. I figure when the kinks are smoothed out, that we could run this on a video feed, and have crimes prevented right as they're about to happen. It's almost scary. Imagine 20 years from now, some guy pulls a gun on you, and a video feeds identifies his action, and immediately shoots a tranquilizer straight into his jugular with perfect aim.
This could work as long as the award of the credential actually signified a capability to do the job. Most of our current university education about software ("computer science") is only distantly related to doing the job.

By analogy to another professional field, computer science is to the working software-maker as physiology is to the working doctor. It's the foundation of the field, and so it's something one has to study at the start of one's training, but it's of little relevance to the actual day-to-day work, and it certainly doesn't form the basis of qualification.
The end of the thread (from earlier this year) seems to indicate otherwise.
> However, assuming some minimum baseline of having a clue

What does having a clue mean though? Being able to code a loop? Fizzbuzz? SQL? Google for stuff? Architect a small program, a medium program, or a large program? There's a huge variation in cluefulness -- which is entirely the point.
This reads like "There is no such thing as a fast car, only fast racetracks."

Surely it takes both?
That's just a lack of experience talking? There are many opportunities in a large project to get stuck or go down a blind alley. Even folks with a clue can do it. Someone who avoids these pitfalls can get far more done. You will inevitably meet one of them in time.
I just noticed this for the first time in the AA lounge at Heathrow today. They use BT for their wifi and I got a notification that encrypted search had been disabled by my ISP. So it seems like it's all BT internet products that are doing it.
> Note that Mozilla has had revenue arrangements with Yandex and Baidu previously. And Google doesn't exactly have clean hands in China itself.

What did Google do in China? I remember them pulling out of China, declining to participate further in censorship there, and being attacked (hacked) by the Chinese government. What am I forgetting?
I might get downvoted for this but I have two meta-questions:

I assume BT is a European (or British) ISP?

Is "seppuku" a common analogy people use? I just looked it up and was a bit surprised at the result.
That's precisely the point, it's part of the quote, the more Debian standardizes on the upcoming systemd distro, it'll get erased by RedHat real fast, who offers a differentiating advantage.

How do you differentiate your product if your core mission is to ensure
that your product operates exactly as your competition? The bottom
line is that you don't .... Theoretically, you could have a better
sales force or better service and support .... Yet these are the assets
of the larger, entrenched companies.

> As long as there are people who can benefit from a free open-source operating system

As if Debian were the only free open-source OS... Not even considering only GNU/Linux, where Slackware was first (why not also last?).

> and people willing to dedicate their time

A complete OS will take much more than that, if Debian loses relevance, people will leave. What differentiating advantage to choose Debian over CentOS or Fedora? Debian will have to fight that battle, being or not a corporation is irrelevant.

I hope Debian endures, but you have to understand that systemd standardization is not going to be positive to Debian relevance.
Environment and culture certainly play a big role in developer productivity. You can do a lot with average.

That being said in any kind of large organisation changing the culture is 100x harder and slower than hiring better developers.

IMO, building/creating 10x programmers in your area of business is simple but it is not easy.

- Ensure at least 25% of your developers times are spent on learning and development.

- Give them the freedom to work on what they think are the most important tasks to the business (e.g. Something similar to open allocation)

- Ensure you are paying your developers at least market+20% in order to minimise turnover so you actually get something out of creating 10x'ers.

Now go and try and change a large organisations culture to be like the above. I'll wait.... And wait... And wait
Too much preventable theft. Use 2FA everywhere and know what it can't fix
That's not what he is saying. His header is: "There is no such thing as a 10X developer (without a 10X environment)." It's p->(q is possible), not p->q.
We've come full circle to my original reply to you. If you are going to learn to touch type you are starting from zero with QWERTY anyways so using a new layout wouldn't add any additional time.

> there are literally thousands of things you can do that will be much more useful than learning to touch type dvorak.

You could say this about any skill or hobby. You are not the arbiter of usefulness. Plenty of people have derived utility from learning to touch type Dvorak or Colemak. You're writing them off out of pure ignorance.
Patch to Log SSH Passwords – One Year Results
What's the big deal about GMOs?
Fastmail has a good Calendar app in addition to Email, Contacts and File Storage. It doesn't really have a Docs replacement, but it does have a Notes app. I use all of them and enjoy it quite a bit.

It also is probably worth noting that, while Apple is plenty evil in its own ways, if you're looking to avoid the rampant data collection of Google, Apple is significantly better in that regard.
To fix overload swap queues for stacks, set a timeout, and clear the stack when you estimate based on throughput the the time will expire.

eg.
On a webserver where people get refresh happy, I'd set the timeout at about 5 seconds. If requests are taking on average 2 seconds and the request is already 3 seconds old, return a 500, drop the connection, etc. Then clear the rest of the stack.

Answer requests in a LIFO manner as at least that way in an overload condition some requests are answered and the 'queue' is cleared quickly.

It's like when you have 3 papers due and only time to do 2, you elect to not do one so you can do the other two. You should ideally kill the one that is due first.

Sacrifice a few for the good of the many.
They've been down for around a half an hour now:

https://twitter.com/enom

No ETA.

Seems to be back now.
British, and yes. The latter is also sometimes jokingly referred to as "sudoku" in communities like Twitch.
Personally I would skip any job ad that asked for "10x programmers", or ninjas or whatever else is popular right now.
DuckDuckGo's main problem is that they don't pick up new results as quickly as Google does. Otherwise, a query on DuckDuckGo looks very much like a query on Google (the top results are often identical.)

If you can't find something on DuckDuckGo, try using Startpage. Startpage uses Google as a backend, so it often has fresher results than DuckDuckGo.
I saw this behavior on a public wifi in london once. I think it also blocked "encrypted.google.com".

Apparently google has an option for network administrators to force a redirect to "nosslsearch.google.com". Oddly enough, the "learn more" page has removed the reference to this domain, but it's in the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20140827203531/https://support.go...
I understand you want to remain anonymous, but care to give us a clue about your credibility? Do you work for Mozilla? Google?
> However, I can't take a stack seriously as an enterprise or production ready piece of software when it does something like iterate a list recursively in performance sensitive code. It's just bizarre.

Which is why open source is so beautiful -- someone who is "more serious" can come along, download the source, rewrite that functionality and submit a fork request.
Yes, this certainly only applies to BT public hotspots, not normal home internet.
Well, for one thing, Ghostery is veeeeery slow (or was last time I checked). For a second thing, what makes you think that it's going to block less than Ghostery?
Morgan definitely knows what he's doing. (-;
That page describes exactly what is happening:

The network administrator can adjust the DNS configuration for www.google.com to point to our NoSSLSearch end point. For regular http traffic, the user will see no difference.

We will not serve SSL search results for requests that we receive on this VIP. If we receive a search request over port 443, the certificate handshake will complete successfully, but we will then redirect the user to a non-SSL search experience. The first time a user is redirected, they will be shown a notice that SSL has been disabled by the network administrator.

Google provides an option for network administrators to disable SSL searching on their own networks. It doesn't involve paying Google. You can see in this thread that filter manufacturers and their clients (schools, etc.) were the motivation for this feature and they'd simply block services that didn't allow filtering if the feature didn't exist.
Formicarium – an anthill simulation/sandbox game a la SimAnt
If you or someone you know refer to Arch Linux as a less stable distro then read
The MPAA can f*ck right off.
If you make a system that's designed to replace SQL, doing everything SQL does and more, built by people with a lot of SQL experience, great!

But you get a lot of data stores making custom APIs without a comprehensive plan. That's what causes frustration. APIs that aren't generic. APIs that don't handle relations well or at all, sometimes with it bolted on too late.
It's unclear if Facebook's success depends (at all) on the choice of implementation language (beyond picking an obvious loser, which C is not, in the right hands).
Maybe, but most of the studies (I'm thinking of Peopleware's examples) indicate that the environment is the dominant factor and the difference in people is mostly noise.
A tip about migrating to duckduckgo, if you break down with the results and need to go back to google, just add !g to the query and it'll route you forward to google with a redirect. Just be aware, even if you are using DuckDuckGo via the Chrome Omni bar for searching, those results still end up in your Search History on Google (see https://history.google.com/history/ )

As a result I'm on DDG + Firefox at this point
it hasn't been British Telecom since 1991.

these days they're into just about everything: landlines, tv, internet, mobiles, you name it.

they tend to have a notorious reputation for providing a bad service, with their internet service being the prime example... god help you if something goes wrong with your phoneline.
1. Yes.

2. "Suicide" is a common metaphor, and "seppuku" (a Japanese form of ritual suicide) is sometimes substituted as a more colorful synonym for this usage.
From the article: "Let’s first start with the mythical 10X developer: there is no such thing."
And how many users can do that? I'm pretty experienced, I know a number of the fingerprinting techniques that can be used to track me, and I have no idea how I can browse while avoiding them all.