skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate having lots of tabs open, and so the bazillion-process problem doesn't apply to me.

The difference between Chrome and Firefox, for me, is that some sites that work on Chrome don't work on Firefox. Other than that, it's mostly muscle memory of things like Chrome developer tools that keep me in Chrome.
If there's trouble with image, video or audio files, it's probably going to be because of DRM. The number of formats for those is small relative to the number of items stored.

Text documents in obscure formats can be more troublesome. There were many early word processors, and many file format versions. Those can be hard to convert, and there will be obscure text documents some historian will want to see a century from now. Converting stored text documents into some self-explanatory form like XML for archiving purposes is helpful. Even if the software doesn't survive, the text will still be there and someone can probably figure out the encoding.

Structured graphics files from old programs are a real problem. This is a big problem in the CAD world. CAD files aren't just pictures any more. They're detailed descriptions of physical objects and how they're made. Moving them from one present-day CAD program to another is tough. Going back 20 or 50 years will be tougher. People will have a real need to do that; buildings, aircraft, and industrial machinery last that long. The present compromise is to export such things in well-know formats that are viewable, but not necessarily editable.

Cerf is talking about preserving execution environments, so you can run old software years later. With so much "cloud based" stuff, and network oriented DRM, that's not going to work once the servers have gone away.
I use tabs-as-history and tabs-as-queue, but (despite the initial effort hump) I find bookmarks are better for cold storage.
The service was a good idea, but it probably needs to be decentralized to avoid a central party bearing legal liabilities.

Run by Google, it was killed by all the regulation surrounding the sale of services. Can't give medical advice, can't get payments in Europe, etc.
There are companies that reserve parking for mid-level managers?!?

I agree: that sends a terrible message.
Secrecy mostly because it's live intel -- these aren't your run of the mill hackers, they'll adapt. If you publish your intel each month publicly, they'll just make sure to run your intel against their latest malware and make sure you can't detect them.

Indemnity I'm not fully versed on (I'm just a dev, and this is more of a law area), but I get the idea that they want to be able to say, "Block these domains, and watch out for these email addresses -- they're spear phishing addresses" without getting in trouble for sharing those email addresses in the first place.

After all, if we're hunting for hackers, and the hackers end up being users of your website, do the hackers suddenly get immunity from being detected? If I see "l33th4x0r12345" as a user on my system, and I know that user just tried a bunch of XSS on my support staff, I'm going to want to let other groups know that "l33th4x0r12345" is a bad actor.
This is mainly a Mac only issue. I discovered that I was getting about 1/8th the amount of battery time recently. I thought it was a Yosemite issue, so I got some stuff to watch what was eating all my resources and causing my computer to overheat on what I would consider normal use.

Chrome was the culprit. Switched to Firefox and the issue is gone. However, I have recently gone back to Chrome when plugged in because FF has been crashing a lot and seems sluggish.
From the outside looking in, I am mostly impressed with the governance structure of the whole endeavor. It seems to me that it is a great model for other open source projects.

Edit: as someone involved with other, less mature (and less ambitious) open source projects, if you know of pain points in the governance of rust, i'd be interested in learning about them.
I have a bathroom where the water pipes pass through an outside wall. On nights where the temperature goes below 0 degrees F, I open the cabinet door under the sink so heat can get in there. My thermostat is programmed to drop to 60 degrees F at night but because the thermostat is across the house, our downstairs bathroom gets very cold. It's on a slab too. Pipes always freeze if we forget to prop the door open and the temps get down below or in the single digits.

I had been thinking of getting one of those wires you put on the pipe to keep it from freezing but it's behind a wall and very hard to get too...
There's an HEB supermarket within walking/cycling distance. There's also a Snap Kitchen prepared-foods store and a farmer's market.

If you like the idea of HOAs, you'll love Mueller. There's tons of rules around what you can and can't do on your property. The uniformity of the place is mind-numbing. But the people who live there seem to like it a lot, so good for them, I guess. I prefer some more diversity in people and architecture.
I've run into this with software vendors before. You complain of memory problems; they express confusion. "We never run into memory problems!"

Then you discover their smallest development/test machine is 128GB.
To me that sounds like your school's sysadmin team is to blame, they don't seem to have figured out SSO. Both schools I've gone to (undergrad and graduate) had perfect Gapps integration, and both work perfectly in Chrome.
I think part of the problem is that frequently/mostly, I want a dedicated input device like a switch or a dial, not my iPhone to control stuff like lights.

Nest has an app but primary interaction is with dedicated UI widgets.
And yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtNZGbpxl8k

"What I did was once the Gameboy starts it reroutes the data from Flash to a data stored on the FPGA containing the custom logo. Once it is done reading the data the first time it changes back the addressing to read from the Flash that contains the ROM. To sum it up shortly it Reads custom data then reads the real data the second time."

Sure, you could argue the rom has the copy protected data, but before the DMCA it was less of a slam dunk case then Nintendo intended because it was more a trademark vs copyright case.
This is a great read on this topic, by Artsy’s CTO Daniel Doubrovkine – http://code.dblock.org/2015/02/09/becoming-open-source-by-de...
I'm not sure if you are joking, but I have a linguist friend who mines Twitter for things like evolving language usage. She shares some pretty interesting things that she learns from it, too. I expect that being able to do that with a hundred-year (or multi-decade) corpus could be really interesting.
I'm just the idea guy
But this is already being done. Look at FS-ISAC - a private email list that shares IOC and spam data between banks and financial institutions.

What needs to change in the law that isn't currently allowed?
As such, having the browser loudly warn (irrespective of settings) about such unsafe defaults is still vastly better.

Yes. Loudly. As in "surrounds entire window with a red frame with INSECURE TEST MODE ENABLED", not as in "pops up notification that quietly fades out".
Appcelerator lost me when it switched to the whole Alloy thing that I don't really understand. And their most helpful evangelist bailed.
This is excellent for teaching infants how to produce hip hop beats. I'll test it out on my own kids.

http://samplestitch.com/?song=150&sample=impress
There has been a lot of work on `std`, but it's largely been consistency, cleanup and cutting APIs down -- though the recent path and IO reforms are more substantial, which is why we decided to put out another alpha before finalizing them.
It's not a "hidden agenda." It's their overt, openly stated business model. They're an advertising company.
> The government should provide a the money

So... the taxpayers.
"...when I boarded a mostly full Boeing 717, one of the smallest Qantas planes in the airline’s commercial fleet."

Apart from the 49 Bombardier Dash 8s in the QantasLink fleet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QantasLink
I guess what I wanted to call attention to that was relevant to Google was:

1) Did users lose anything by trying Helpouts that was special? Besides time, which comes with trying anything new.
2) Google tries really hard to warn users of services shutting down. Google Reader had a bunch of notice. Wave ended up being open sourced and handed off to a different project manager.
3) Google tries hard to avoid vendor lock-in. Take a look at https://www.google.com/settings/takeout or I can use the example of Google+ photo albums that put the download or export button front and center so I can upload them to Flickr if I want.

Now don't think I'm a huge Google advocate blind to their issues. In fact, what I was trying to call out was a healthy amount of skepticism to their product launches based on previous situations and comments around Google.
How are the graphics drawn?

I expected the grayscale pixels to be drawn with some kind of grayscale characters (like "-=#$"), but judging from the screenshots those are actual graphics.

Is it messing with the framebuffer, or does it really work with a simple terminal, like over SSH?
Pokémon Crystal: Remote Code Execution Through the Link Cable
I was one of the small group suffering (I think back around Firefox 24). It indeed was winning reviews & praise- but it was also completely unresponsive on my high-end machine. Several seconds of unresponsive, as if it/I were having problems with interrupts.

I realize most people didn't have that problem; it was probably a freak corner case on my machine.
The danger with specialist is the focus on developer-oriented value, e.g. you're front end guy spends all his time on designing his CSS code, instead of designing the page.

The key is whether you understand what's important for the business/product, not whether you've worked on the same stack.
Yes, I agree. I never give a site like LinkedIn access to any of my accounts, but I have noticed that it will suggest a connection with someone whom I've ever had one email interaction.

At first, I was bewildered, then I realized it must be because theotherparty granted access to their contacts.
You are missing anything that I said or linked to.

6% includes ALL losses for the entire distribution infrastructure. I am explicitly not missing that.

You also have not cited any evidence supporting your claim, so I don't know why I bother.
But Google domains makes a ton of sense while Helpouts make zero sense (for Google to offer).
Because maintaining a large catalogue of bookmarks is a nightmare; good luck finding anything unless you are incredibly meticulous about organizing them. In addition, I think it's a spatial locality thing. I find that I'm a lot more likely to come back to an article/page/etc. if it's still open than I am to remember that I bookmarked it and wanted to come back later.
This is a valid question, and honestly I'm not sure.

Once you're asking this question though, you've gotten past the point I think a lot of folks are hung up on, and that's the content of the intel.

I'd just like to get folks to a point where they're understanding that their mother's maiden name isn't getting blasted through the cybersecurity world.
There is no year zero in Common Era/Anno Domini.
Hilarious, this one didn't even last 18 months, it's almost like they're doing it on purpose.
I still use Chrome for one reason only: it's the only browser with a built-in default zoom feature.

I don't like manually zooming for every single page I visit, and the zoom extensions that exist for Firefox and Safari always break on certain pages.
I know what this conversation is about. We've all been watching the .gov surveillance/espionage Beast rise for our entire lives.
Well, they have editors, writers and so on...do blogs have the same structure as news outlets?
It's a little bit like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw2RT_vQDQk
The Faces of San Francisco's Mission Fire (Part 2)
Trader Joe's uses a clear bottle with a green cap and white printing. Dragon instead of a rooster, but it's way more similar than Tabasco's version.

https://eatingatjoes.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/trader-joes...

It's also terrible. At least when I tried it last year. Too sweet.
"particularly odd data"?

MISSINGNO. is basically just a certain species value (decimal 31, 32, 50, 52, 56, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 79, 80, 81, 86, 87, 94, 95, 115, 121, 122, 127, 134, 135, 137, 140, 146, 156, 159, 160, 161, 162, 172, 174, 175 or 181).
LinkedIn's APIs have historically been very restrictive. I can sort of understand that LinkedIn feels/knows it's sitting on extremely valuable data except that on further inspection it's almost all public data that just happens to be decently organized.
In release terms, you are not turning your store of energy into a mix of vapours, gases and particulates on every cycle and adding them to street level atmosphere, so that is an immediate bonus that batteries would seem to win on, especially in the built environments in which we live.

Getting and processing lithium and silicon are big messy industrial processes, but so is getting and processing oil and you need a lot more oil and it is much less abundant than lithium or silicon.

However oil already contains the stored energy you want, so until very recently it has been far less faff economically to distill oil, than trying to power cars by putting sunlight into metal using sand.
As a generalist I have to say we learn fast and we can get you from A-X faster than anyone. Do you care about Y and Z than hire a specialist.

Also being a generalist usually stinks in getting hired if they know that about you. So the trick is to sound like a specialist.
Let's Be Around in 20 Years
I have only the vague understanding that there are governance structures in place for open source projects. Can you go into a little detail about what aspects of this project's governance impress you?
It doesn't matter. The user gets a bad experience and blames Firefox. "Oh, it's those naughty extensions slowing everything down!" smirk the developers.

Do you think the user cares? Firefox is the one who opened themselves up to get abused by. (Same things happened on Windows, you'll get a machine full of crapware if you install popular apps. OSX has a curated app store. Look at the difference on an average windows and OSX machine.)

Some solutions instead of blaming the user:

* Name & shame poorly-performing plugins in the interface. (OSX does this with "apps using significant power" in the battery meter)

* Have a plugin speed rating in the store

* Have performance requirements for plugins (users will report usage data, you have X seconds to startup, if you average higher you will be reviwed/yanked.)

Asking users to not install extensions when extensibility is one of your selling points is not a good idea. Fix how they interact with the browser.
> People who know me professionally respect my skills and I don't need to flaunt them around github or anywhere else.

Then why do you need to flaunt it on linkedin?
mine:

* get connection request
* open mobile browser
* switch to "request desktop page" mode
* log in
* accept connection
* log out
* do not think about linkedin again until the next connection request.

can't understand why do they block the browser from using the remembered password on mobile!
Probably true, but I don't think the motivation on this is for Hack Reactor to make money... there would be much easier ways to make money that don't involve prisoners if that's what they were after.
Why start a company when no one's going to buy your product anyways?
I like Zed Shaw's Debug Macros. Actually his whole book is great.

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex20.html
Google has a patent on this: http://www.google.com/patents/US5718632
A feature that has already seen many proposed rfcs and long discussions is "Efficient code reuse" (a.k.a some kind of inheritance), summarized here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/349 It was explicitly postponed until after 1.0.
You absolutely must link your Google Chrome install to
your Google ID on Windows or you will lose data.

Oh man... Settings and bookmarks are not "data" in any substantial sense.

Incognito mode at all times, no Google ID ever, trash local history on every exit. I don't carry the expectation that my bookmarks must live on and follow me from machine to machine.

I don't care about what my search preferences are. I simply turn address bar searches off, or point it to localhost. I don't conduct rampant web searches from the address bar, because an address bar is an address bar, and I only feed it well-formed URLs. I don't waste my time regularly using web sites that can't provide me with a URL that isn't intended to be typed, and sub pages that I can't readily navigate to.

Address to long? No soup for you. Absurd URL parameters? No soup for you. Deeply nested pages, locked away behind a login, 30 clicks deep, and obscured by dark patterns? No. Soup. For. You.

Preferences are preferences, and that's all they are. The default install should be completely useful and practical as-is, on a clean install. If it isn't then preferences should be exportable to plaint-text using an open standard.

Firefox happily dumps its bookmarks as simple JSON. As a result, when I want to transport my bookmarks I can, although, digging back into my archive more than a year 50% tend to perish due to simple link rot.
Makes for an impressive read... perhaps too impressive. Reeks of curve-fitting to me.
"For instance, if I heard something—a melody, a chord progression—that had an emotional attraction for me, I would draw attention to it in the mix, repeating it and developing it further if necessary."
Sounds like a dressed-up version of n monkeys at n typewriters. Let them go, and when you finally see something that's identifiable to you as a word – "dog", tell them to type that more often. So every 20th word is "dog", with pseudo-randomness continuing underneath.
We would never enjoy reading a short story consisting of this, but because repetition is one of the most important foundations of music listening (http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/why-we-love-repetition-in-mu...), this works.

To me, while the project seemed interesting to work on, and most people would call the music beautiful, it doesn't really amount to what it's purported to represent.

Another (to me) important point: a lot of the compositions, with some notable exceptions, don't stray far from the pentatonic scale – or the individual elements are pentatonic in relation to themselves. The pentatonic scale is 5 notes that, to western audiences, always sound relatively pleasing in relation to the other 4. You could play something literally completely random in a pentatonic scale (perhaps with certain broad rhythmic restrictions), and western audiences would enjoy it.
If anything, I think this is just evidence that the process was actually carefully shaped at every step of the way by human tastes and intuition. The computer was truly more of a servant than a collaborator.
I worked with Geoff at his farm in AU, and he's done some amazing work there. His swale and pond layout, as well as the food forestry corridors for his animals are spectacular. Large scale implementation of arid desert techniques from the Permaculture handbook is one thing that definitely needs to be looked into.
> I'm not talking about costs, because it doesn't NEED to cost ANY money

Stopped reading right there.
I can't understand why anyone would give any entity access to their email, it's really baffling.

I personally see LinkedIn as horrible, and deleted my account long ago. They don't let you restrict who can view your profile, and they allow people to remain anonymous. For anyone who cares about Privacy, this should be a huge no-no.
App Container and Docker
I don't think it is that hard, it just isn't as useful. I have a tank in my basement that holds 300 gallons of heating fuel (basically diesel); and it is pumped to my boiler. Instead of diesel it could easily be gasoline to a car; but why worry about delivery, etc. when there is already a large infrastructure to fuel my car and the marginal benefits are tiny.

Whereas, if I bought an electric car; having the charger would really be a necessity, because having to wait 30-60 minutes for your car to charge is not going to be something that you want to work into your routine.
For what it's worth, one fact and an anecdotal observation:

One fact: Currently, Chromium-based browsers suffer from a nasty memory leak: each time one bring up an extension's popup UI, a big chunk of memory is leaked.[1] This alone for me justify using Firefox over Chromium if one has an extension which popup UI must be accessed often.

Anecdotal observation: I have noticed since a couple of versions now that it appears Chromium's garbage collector can be very lazy sometimes. To the point where I am wondering if this is a bug, because the memory would just not be reclaimed by the browser until I forced it through the developer console: upon clicking the trash can in the Timeline tab, 60 MB were re-claimed for one of the extension (from ~130MB to 70MB). This was after waiting for an hour to see if it would be reclaimed. Yes, there was a lot of idle time while I waited.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=441500
So, essentially, meat will get pricier and people will switch to eating more vegetables? Nothing to be cheerful about, but at least it sounds better than scenarios I thought about right after reading the article.
Tim Cook Takes Aim at FB & Google (Stanford Cybersecurity Summit)
How can we let FBI agents get away with arresting people for using Subversion? That's hardly an investigation into facts... more like an investigation into only the first definition of words, along with a lot of jumping to conclusions.
Given the lighting and subject matter, you could probably get away with a cheap crop sensor DSLR and a low end telephoto.

That said, here's my breakdown of their pictures:

1. Looks like a pair of Canon 7Ds with 70-300mm F4-5.6. The strap on the right suggests this. Even if we take the possibility of strap trolling into account, the labeling gives them away as Canon. The labeling also suggest that they aren't Rebel-series, given the all-white text. The side-ports also appear to be too large to be from Canon's full frame lines- although this is somewhat ambiguous. However, the pop-up flash button on the pentaprism hump firmly places these cameras as crop-sensor. The lenses match the Canon 70-300 non-L series. Sub-model distinction solely through cosmetics is difficult.

2. In the second picture the body is obscured by the owner's hand. However, the paint job of the lens clearly marks it as a Canon L-series telephoto. Judging from the size and twin focus/zoom rings, this lens is likely a Canon 70-200 F2.8. Sub-model distinction is again difficult at this resolution.

3. This camera is difficult, although clearly a Nikon. The label placement and lack of sync ports suggest a crop sensor model, but the left-side dial contradicts this. The high label disqualifies most options. The only seemingly plausible option is the rather old D200 (from 2005). The lens is also difficult, as the gold ring and dual control rings suggest a typical telephoto (70-200), but the lack of internal zooming contraindicates this. It could be an 80-400, but the size is a bit off. Hard to say.