skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only beef with Firefox is multiple webpages don't render well for me, but those pages render fine in Chrome and IE.

I haven't stop once to debug why (I just switch to Chrome but sometimes do report the websites to Mozilla), can the reason be in Firefox being more pure and the others browsers allowing more quirks? If this is the case, isn't this bad UX?
I have tried it many times but failed. The reason - if firfox memory goes too high, which happens frequently, there is no option to kill single tab(in the stable version) like Google Chrome. I have started using Firefox Nightly (because of separate process feature) but it keeps on crashing. So I am ready to jump on it as soon as we have new stable build with separate process for each tab.
Apple Promotes Strange New Game Type in iOS App Store, 'Pay Once and Play'
U.S. Government to Release Largest Index of Government Data in the World
>the AT&T case where someone accessed records on public URLs

For those not in the know, that someone was weev [1].

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT.26T_data_breach
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it's called an editorial. sometimes people who write things have opinions
Counterwise, you've just illustrated why I pay absolutely no attention to the IoT and will be surprised if it really gets anywhere any time soon (like, probably within my lifetime, assume a quarter century), and make sure nothing bad will happen when my rock solid AT&T DSL does occasionally go down.

Heck, Heinlein discussed this sort of thing in his 1966 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Even after reading that thread, I still find the conclusions quite compelling. I have no doubt the data could be +-10% off easily, but even if it is 10% off that is still a pretty shoddy state of affairs.

They are definitely trying to provide good data if nothing else...
Its been my recent experience too, I keep a lot of tabs open and began to notice Chrome was filling up my memory.

Very strange that Google let the situation get so bad. Mind you I find the Chrome developer tools far more powerful and intuitive than those in Firefox which stops me moving entirely.
exactly!! I don't want Google everywhere.That's why I changed the default search engine to duckduckgo. Let's see how it goes.
This is a fantastic article. Can confirm. Agree with it 100%. Most people are just lazy, or outright incompetent (outside a very small area of expertise).

A wide range of expertise with the ability to rapidly deep dive wherever needed is what I consider a rockstar.
Matplotlib is awesome. I just wish the API was cleaner:

figure.set_frameon()
axis.set_frame_on()

pyplot.xlim()
axis.set_xlim()

This is really pain to deal with when you convert a plot into a subplot and have to switch to the different axis API. Some of this is damage from copying Matlab's legacy but it could use a polish. If you don't use an editor with IntelliSense you have to constantly look up methods in the docs to find the right spelling.
Consider this fact, for perhaps a hundred years prior to digital technology consuming just about everything we collectively produced gigatons of paper output. How much of that is available today? A thousandth of a percent perhaps? Almost all of it has been lost and most of what does remain is available because it was related to someone famous or some famous event, or because it was widely replicated. Digital data is easy to replicate and spread widely. Given how cheap it is to store and how it gets cheaper every day it is not inconceivable that every bit that is generated and "donated to the public" will survive forever.
Using Octopart data to choose parts for the Common Parts Library
I'll switch back to Firefox when they stop re-arranging the UI. Every year or so it gets changed. It's what drove me to Chrome in the first place.
The logical result is to add a 10 second delay to all your requests. It's the right thing to do.
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How does Tabasco Sauce get away with it, given that it's made from tabasco peppers (named after the Mexican state of Tabasco)?
Show HN: API for generating invoices on the fly
If HFT lets Vanguard lower their costs, the savings of which are passed on to their customers, that's more money in the retirement accounts of regular people.

I just got an email that the expense ratio of my Vanguard target date fund is going down, so costs were reduced somewhere.
This article doesn't seem consistent to me. The title and first paragraphs sound more like an order to create this organization to facilitate the sharing of data and to encourage companies to participate, but does not require companies to participate.

And then I read:

>The move comes as big Silicon Valley companies prove hesitant to fully support more mandated cybersecurity information sharing without reforms to government surveillance practices exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Is this order a mandate or encouragement/facilitation to participate? Is he going to withhold liability protection to companies who do not participate?
While I don't think weev should have gone to jail, I can't help but think there was a sense of "we have to get this guy for something," like locking up Al Capone for cheating on his taxes.
You can report these issues to https://webcompat.com/ where Mozilla staff and others will help debug them and report them to browser developers or web site publishers, as appropriate.
There's a difference between "there's no benefit at all" and "the benefits don't outweigh the downsides." There are many benefits of the Nest smoke detector. Easier to test. Easier to silence a false alarm. Less likely to wake you up in the middle of the night with a battery warning. Built-in night light. Integration with the thermostat home/away features. Notifications of an alarm when you're not home. Easy identification of which room the alarm is from when you have multiple interconnected alarms. Etc., etc., etc. Now, are those benefits enough to justify the cost and to outweigh the problems? I dunno. Do you care about those benefits? It's up to you. But there are clearly benefits.
I recently switched to Safari for similar reasons.

Safari is much faster than it used to be. It's also tightly integrated with my phone, including password management functionality (similar to LastPass) that works on all my devices. You can also get AdBlock for Safari now, which wasn't always the case. It also has a snazzy built-in RSS reader and just looks better than Chrome.
Both, but only because the US-made Sriracha sauce is imported by the ton.
The linux kernel goes one step further and includes…

(void) (&_a == &_b); \

… which makes sure that the types are actually compatible, and not just having one converted to the other.
I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph ...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I've accumulated over the years[...] I had to stop and say "wait, what?"

To leverage his analogy that it is like coming home to a new house to find that most of your stuff is already there, it is like not cleaning your house and not taking out the trash for three years and then moving into a new house. Yeah, it's clean and new, but why is it better and will it stay better?
While I agree it was egregious I think people may be missing the point. The FBI is getting a huge black eye here, Goldman is already losing out. This is how our system works.

Goldman over reached and through their efforts got this guy arrested. That they could do that, is a problem, but now everyone involved has been thoroughly spanked (with some bonus civil case spanking as well it seems). So the next time Goldman call's the FBI, they are going to be treated much more skeptically and the agents in charge are going to be unwilling to do anything based on Goldman's "word". Because the agents will remember this and they do not want to be the butt of interagency jokes, or up on civil liability.
Steele interviews McCarthy, a really nice interview http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Steele-Interviews-John-McCar...
That's a funny use of the word "mere"!
It's irritating that they're not just pushing all media through DirectShow, since that's the Windows native framework for doing it and it automatically supports whatever codecs are installed. Their excuse is that they don't have enough control over what codecs users install, which is a bit disappointing.

ffdshow has been able to play H.264 and a bunch of other codecs for a long time, and a not-insignificant number of users probably have that or some other codec that can...
Well, yes, the problem isn't necessarily that they contact the authorities but that they apparently have their ears.
Google Is Shutting Down Google Helpouts, Its Expert Video Chat Service
> What do you do to stay motivated...

Don't underestimate the Mental Game aspect of this work, it can be absolutely brutal. Recommend reading Mark Divine on his mind gym concept, unusually good >http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465530-the-way-of-seal
Chicago suburb. $120 for 50/10. I have one other option, but I stopped doing business with AT&T a decade ago. I agree this is better speed for the price than yours, but only marginally. Areas with affordable, reliable, fast broadband are the exception, not the rule. There are very few areas with competition.
I have some serious issues with Chrome (the permaloading, it's new download blocking 'feature', poor startup time), but I did not find Firefox remotely an improvement. On my system it is half as fast, twice as buggy, and even more memory hungry than Chrome is.

I think people overstate Chrome's memory usage as a factor of performance; IME it's still less than FF in total most times, and largely that memory cost doesn't seem to come with the performance impact of FF's because of the way Chrome handles processes.

On my Win8.1 system at the moment, Chrome uses about 400mb of RAM. Firefox routinely ballooned up to a full 1GB or more. Even on FreeBSD, it was not at all unheard of to glance at top and find FF consuming as much as 1.4GB.

The idea of switching back to FF because of Chrome's memory consumption seems frankly laughable to me. FF's memory leakage is infamous, and literally goes clear back to FF Beta, and still hasn't been fixed a decade on.

And since Opera is a joke now, and Safari a toy, and there being zero real viable alternatives, that means Chrome, for good or ill.

I'd really appreciate it if they'd stop telling me what I'm allowed to download though. At least they disabled the autodelete function.
ISPs have to submit coverage data to the FCC (Form 477) twice a year. This data goes down to the census tract level which is generally far more specific than a ZIP Code.

I'm not sure why they aren't using the more detailed information from http://www.broadbandmap.gov/data-download
This article is trying to apply startup advice to massive tech companies.

"Culture fit" is actually really important when you have 5-10 people working on a new company. It's better to have hegemony than a diverse set of opinions when your runway is 6-12 mths and you need to make concise decisions to survive.

The reverse is true for huge tech companies. Lack of diversity hurts their business in many ways.

Pretty much everything this article says is startup advice misapplied to major tech companies who are well beyond startups.
The particular emphasis on one-pass algorithms might seem self-evident, but the thread running through all of this is an engineering challenge that is very relevant to HFT. If your algorithm takes 60ms to evaluate your current position on each tick, by the time you are finished, the market has moved to the next zip code. Thus, to keep up with the market, you might find yourself rewriting the network stack for better response time.
Funny, that's part of why I use Chrome. Having all my Google accounts and apps available is a huge feature to me.

Plus Firefox crashing is a huge downside.

As for privacy implications, there's no reason to believe Google does anything inappropriate, and I rather like having my internet experience tailored based on past behaviour.

To each their own I guess.
I am one of them. Can't believe how Comcast has monopolized themselves in South Philadelphia. No choices. It's the most irritating thing ever, and will most likely make me move to another part of the city (or another city entirely) if they don't shape up.
EBay dumps Marathon for Aurora
U.S. Droughts Predicted to Be the Worst in 1,000 Years
They want to make their little OS inside your current OS, so that's it, they introduce accounts, users, apps, notifications... Meanwhile most people (including me) just want to browse the damn open internet.
I don't hate it, but it's not great either.
Asking for help does three things.

1. It makes you look junior.
2. It makes you done with your work earlier
3. It deprives you of an opportunity to practice tackling difficult problems on your own

It's something that helps the company in the short term at your own expense.
Finally, We Know How Much Plastic We Toss into the Ocean
Firefox on Mac still has too many visual issues, and the devs often drag their feet on fixing them. Lion (released 2011) added "bounce" scrolling and auto-hiding scrollbars. It took them nearly half a year to fix the lack of auto-hiding scrollbars nightly builds[1], and even longer for it to finally make it to mainline Firefox. Firefox still doesn't have bounce scrolling. To add to that point, the first high-dpi (retina) laptops were released in 2012, and nearly three years later, Firefox still contains a reasonable number of icons that aren't in 2x (Retina) resolution. I suspect that these and other similar issues relate to the unfortunate decision to continue using a cross-platform UI toolkit (XUL).

Personally, I've also found that, despite Firefox's distinction as the browser to popularize the idea of extensions, it now tends to lag in that department. Sure, you can get Adblock, but the stuff available on Chrome tends to be much more diverse these days. Finally, it's still not multi-process (though it's finally getting there.) [2]

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_activity.cgi?id=636564
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/Roadmap
My Amex credit card issued almost a year ago has a chip and PIN.

Also, have you read this on Amex's Australian site?

https://www.americanexpress.com/au/content/chip-and-pin.html
Sergey must not have visited HN, because it seems safe to say had they found that in the browser history it would have been mentioned as well.
They are free to that, just please give me a reasonable way of opting out.
Japan Has More Car Chargers Than Gas Stations
If you want to work for Microsoft or Google, while you likely can't get away with using your employers's $2K, the best books to read are Cracking the Coding Interview and Elements of Programming Interviews. Both books have very solid algorithm questions which you can use to go research the various algorithms and learn them. Although, I'd wait for Elements of Programming Interviews v2 which will include Java samples, as opposed to C++, but that's just me.

McDowell's The Google Resume also has some useful tidbits in it.
http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/215714/employee+rights+...

They've already "clarified" and "closed" that loophole. Next time, the programmer actually would go to jail.
The reliability of Firefox's post-crash 'session restore' is what made me stick with it for good over Chrome. Life of a power tabber.
You are. Most of our history has been preserved in books that were inaccessible to almost everybody and that nobody opened for hundreds of years. The important thing is that things are preserved somewhere, even if to read them you need a fully equipped laboratory and boffins in white gowns. That's how we read our most ancient documents anyway. Once the information has been retrieved and copied, it's safe.
I can't speak for Silicon Valley, but I have one verified datum wherein I interviewed for a position and received an offer. I wanted to negotiate on the offer because I objected to the expectation for a 45-hour work week at the same pay as that prevailing for similar jobs with 40-hour weeks. There was no negotiation. I literally did nothing more than question the 45-hour week. They didn't even withdraw the offer; they just cut off all contact. No call was answered or returned. No e-mail received a reply.

During the interview, they had mentioned that they were having trouble expanding at their headquarters due to lack of available qualified employees. Gee. I wonder why.

Weekly hour expectations for salaried exempt workers is already a suspect practice, in my view, but expecting work outside of normal business hours is definitely selecting against candidates who are not unmarried and childless. Schools, preschools, and day care businesses operate based on normal business hours. Generally, if your spouse works, you want to come and go at the same times of day. You don't want to live the rest of your life in cubicle farms.

Maybe the tech industry is not racist. Maybe there is just one particular demographic that just cares less about exploitative work arrangements. Maybe that demographic has historically had less reason to distrust authority. Maybe the quality selected for is not age, race, or sex, but sheer naivete.
Something I noticed the other week - Chrome on Windows will scan my desktop on startup (all the icons go back their generic version, and then return). Why would they do that? My desktop isn't where the cache is.
Did the same.
Oh god... Thanks for pointing that out, hilarious and saddening at the same time.
To be fair, the trend of the browser usurping the OS has been going on for years. Any browser that wishes to stay modern and competitive has no choice but to leverage the inner-platform effect to a full extent.
Sure, some people may like that. All I ask is a reasonable way of opting out.
The Shumway interpreter and JIT work in other browsers, but the installable extension to replace the Flash plugin as the default SWF handler is currently Firefox-only. But pull requests are welcome! :)

You can try Shumway in other browsers without the extension at the project website:

http://www.areweflashyet.com/shumway/

The SpiderMonkey team's "Are We Fast Yet?" website also includes some AS3 benchmarks running in Shumway on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari:

http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=28&view=breakdown&suite=shu...
This article made me think about these idea for a bit. I thought of something that may not be very practical right now, but could be a way forward for these things. I think what a really good home automation system ought to do is a bigger version of what the Nest does.

All of the light switches, blinds, alarms, climate control, music, TVs, etc could be manually controlled at first, but there's a system that watches how you change all of them and coordinates it with your location and the time. It could look for patterns of doing several things in a row or doing them at the same time, and either offer to or just start doing them all together for you. Like you normally turn on lights 1, 2, and 3 when you walk in the door from work, so it notices and starts turning them on for you just from opening the door. Or you normally turn off lights 2 and 3 and turn on the DVD player within 5 minutes of each other, so it starts just turning off those lights when you turn on the DVD player.

Basically, something that notices what you already do and tries to do it for you, without you having to program things in with a smartphone or something. I bet normal people would love that. As long as it wasn't laggy and buggy, of course, which could be easier said than done.
It is never a good idea to assume that a can opener[1] will always be available. While your decoder - an extra tool - may be available in "many" cases, there will always be a sizable minority of cases where it isn't. As the performance benefits of fixed-width fields are orthogonal to the fields being ASCII-vs-binary.

> SCTP / "transport-layer protocol"

So we move yet another step down the path of obsoleting TCP port numbers by adding another layer of indirection[2]. Re-implementing ports by tunneling everything over HTTP{,2} was a bad idea when it started over a decade ago, and it's still the wrong way to solve the problem.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assume_a_can_opener

[2] See RFC 1925, Section 2, rule 11a. ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1925 )
The "Mob" API has exactly one public method: start().

It doesn't return. You can't be sure if it worked.

And, most importantly, you don't have the ability to say "no, no, it started against the wrong person" or "okay, that's enough." It will run at its own speed, maybe finding a new target when the first one is destroyed.
Maximum likelihood is literally the simplest thing classic statistics will tell you. No serious statistician will regard this as meaningful without at least some indication of sample size, confidence interval or whatnot.

The worst-case nature of classical/frequentist statistics is very well exposed in PAC (probably approximately correct) analysis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probably_approximately_correct_...
Show HN: Odrive, a universal sync folder, get dropbox to everything
There is the KNX standard, but it's to home automation what the USB standard is to PC expandability. Yes, there's a standard, but saying that you're going to build a KNX installation is like saying you're going to build a USB installation. It can do anything, but anything you want it to do requires specific software, and the software in the KNX ecosystem is either a proprietary lock-in or just plain horrible.
I find it interesting that they find Aurora to be more stable and powerful than Marathon.
Unemployment Is Killing 45,000 People Each Year
I run Chrome with
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --renderer-process-limit=9
and it's much better that way: Less total memory consumption and killing a renderer unloads many tabs at once.

It seems to me that the focus on security by isolating every webpage from each other went to far recently. When I started with Chrome I think they used to limit the maximum amount of render processes much more. Of course if there was a serious security hole in e.g. webkit/blink then one tab could have stolen data from another tab more easily. But it consumed much less memory
Did that last year and couldn't be happier. Whether performance and memory use is better or worse, I've grown wary of Google's pervasiveness.
I'm thinking of moving to Graduate Hospital, I don't live in Philadelphia despite the name. Is there a resource to see availability for different parts of the city? I didn't really consider this issue.

edit: nvm the link is the resource, though it doesn't appear to be that accurate of a representation
noun
1.
British Slang. a foolish or contemptible person.

I would say Source Safe is your best bet.
Scientists in US are urged to seek contact with aliens
It shows 17 providers for Cupertino but many of them are business only, a lot of them don't even show claimed bitrates, and it looks like it's counting LTE as broadband (while it's fast, it's insanely expensive to actually use for more than a few gigs per month).

It's been a couple years since I moved out of there but at the time I'm pretty sure I only had one true broadband choice, Comcast. This being a few miles from Apple and Google.
Chrome works fine, too.
Study: World dumps 8.8M tons of plastics into oceans
Ask HN: How is Apple's bundling different than what MS in trouble for with IE?
I'm referring to the bundling of their maps, mail and other apps on IOS.

See link for additional detail on similarity with Microsoft:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
We updated the title from "European languages linked to migration from the east" to the subtitle of the article, which references the DNA evidence.
Recording of Albert Einstein talking about the common language of science
How did you loose data that way?

And I agree 100% with you!
What makes Safari a toy?
No, the writer wants hits to the story. That's how he gets paid.