skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely a different taste than blue bottle/sightglass/stumptown -- darker, more old school. Somewhere in between a modern "overtones of fig with hints of wet grass and fog" or whatever and reallllly old-school burned-mud served to you by a wheezing italian dude.

But I think its pretty damn tasty, in it's own way. (I also like the lack of a "high-end" feel...it's friendly + funky, and reminds me of the hippie-run shops of my childhood in Oregon.)
This is basically me. How beautifully described aha
Forum link where Lenovo employees confirm the issue:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Security-Malware/Potentially-Un...

And here's the money quote about the malware:

"Superfish Inc aka VisualDiscovery aka Similarproducts application will hijack ALL your secure webconnections (SSL/TLS) by using self signed root certificate authority, making it look legitimate to the browser"
Exactly how the NSA pwns your hard drive
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FYI, Your top two links fail since they're capturing the second quotation mark inside the markup.
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This is cool, but it doesn't seem to good as good a job as AppZapper/AppCleaner/CleanMyMac when completely uninstalling something. I found a couple apps (esp those with preference pane entries) where there were some leftovers that the other cleaners would've caught. Regardless, it's cool to have an option for the command line.
What's your point? That's only 22% of the population. In the US the middle class forms about 60% of the population.
Which framework has tried to replace the DOM?
Learned a bit of NodeJS/npm today. Wanted to do a quick project to serve a personal want.

Constructive advice would be appreciated.
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They may not have succeeded, but they did build an infrastructure that could probably handle a true success.
Also, if you can post some code examples where you "feel you are missing something" I (or others) might be able to provide the functional examples.
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Interestingly that's getting less common in Scandinavia. It's the "proper" transliteration, but many people with names like Søren prefer to anglicize them as Soren rather than Soeren, if anglicization is needed. Not universally, but it's my impression of the trend.
A good middlee between minimal and "realness" is material design, which plays off of what you are saying (the ease of the brain undrstanding layers and depth).

The amount of effort for good minimal design and good "classical" design is probably the same for people well versed in either. But in either case you still need to learn about it to make it look ok. Shoddy things have always looked shoddy, no matter how many gradients you slap on it.
Shared memory multi threading will still be a big barrier to porting over many native applications, like games. Unless asm.js fixes that?
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Very cool, have you tried running it against popular open source projects like wordpress or symfony?
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You are right, it does use that if available. It grabs a bunch of other system state as well, depending on the situation.
It's neat that they can play a duet that results in actual gameplay; but generally I think you are correct, a player trying only to win would inevitably play something pretty awful sounding. (It would be hard to establish a musical parallel to game play on one piano - let alone two!)
Aha, I didn't look up the densities.
> today we combined our group focused on cloud services with the group focused on our Firefox desktop

What are some examples of Mozilla products created by the "cloud services" group that will now be taking ownership of the browser? E.g. Persona, Sync, ..?

Is the cloud services team separated from the advertising (tiles) team?
That sun cracks me up almost every time.
Just out of curiosity how is the ink usage, could it run for longer then a without replacing the pen or refiling the ink?

EDIT: Just saw the super interesting comment bellow linking to a reddit thread where it calculates the theoretical values of ink usage.
Actually, tptacek isn't suggesting that the murky status of TrueCrypt's source code is why you shouldn't use it, he's suggesting that the disk encryption mode itself (XTS) is why no one should use it.

Edit: As for the personal side of this, check out this lovely new account, and the comments made (you might have to enable dead comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Onymous
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Swift.

I'd start with the new Stanford
cs193p videos. Try some of Ray Wenderlich's tutorials.

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?q=Ray+game&age=1000...
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I definitely agree that there are alot of things out there these days. It's difficult to keep up with those trends. But in my experience solid fundamentals translate well to any "shiny new object". The interfaces are different, and sometimes there's something really innovative about new approaches.

IMO in order to maintain a sanity about it all, you really need to dig into "what is this shiny object really accomplishing". This can help change one's perspective from "I need to learn it all to stay on top of new trends", to the realization that "There are really only a handful of truly innovative things happening behind all the shiny objects".
These are separated teams.

Cloud services: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices

Content services (tiles): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Content_services
None have tried to replace all of it that I know of.

People have tried to replace things like text editing (with canvas-based editors), CSS layout of the DOM (with various JS solutions involving absolute positioning), native MathML support (MathJax; this one has of necessity done better than most, because of so many browsers not having native MathML support). There are a bunch of things out there that attempt to replace or augment the built-in form controls, with varying degrees of success.
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I actually have found memories of Windows 95, Service release 2.5 of course.
Yes programs crashed here and there but it wasn't until Windows ME did I know the true meaning of crashing.
Thankfully I had also had Windows 2000. I thought it was the best piece of software ever written at the time!
Yes, nt 3.51 was pretty cool back in the day, however, your snark is a lot less interesting than the article, which went over quite a lot of things MS not only found, but wrote workarounds for when possible, so Win95 would work with crappy programs. Furthermore, Windows 8 does not have the 16 bit subsystem in the vast majority of systems shipped. None of the 64 bit versions of the operating systems ship with 16-bit Windows on Windows, and the 32 bit version is pretty much only shipped if you have very specific needs.
On my google page right now, I see "gmail images [squares] [bell] [plus]" I don't have a clue what the squares mean or what the plus means, and the only reason I know what the bell means is because it lights up sometimes. To me the squares should mean "tile the stuff you're looking at", but there is nothing to tile, and no reason to press it. The plus should mean "add a new thing here", but what would I add? I don't know.

I suppose I could investigate, but I don't need google to do anything worth investigating.

My phone has a "tiles" button, too, but it apparently means "menu." (There are multiple such buttons, each looks different.) It also has a search button I've never pressed.

I feel that iconography is far too overused, and it is especially unsuitable for the kinds of abstractions we use for software. It's one thing to put a toilet or a phone on a sign, and a completely different thing to put a circle with a wedge, or a pair of rectangles on a sign.
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This guy beat Dark Souls with a drum controller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02my_zhX4Bs
Good suggestion, I've not tried that yet! I'll see about doing that tomorrow. I believe both of those are able to run on HHVM already, so I'd be curious to see what hussar finds.
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Nice graphic, but someone needs to update the valuation on Fab. I am sure they are not worth 1.3 billion anymore.
I'm currently working through this book. Overall it seems like a good introduction but I wish it had exercises at the end of each section. I learn best by working through specific problems.
That's what is called "leadership without (formal) authority." If you are knowledgeable, helpful and approachable, your teammates will naturally gravitate toward you when they are in need of guidance. This sort of organic leadership is in many ways much more valuable than the artificial leadership provided by formal, top-down authority.
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That's pretty amazing. Does their SSL MITM proxy even validate the certs they are rewriting, or are all these Lenovos completely open to MITM? (And the certs are marked "all purposes", does that include native and java code signing too?)
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Texting is old school. Pexting looks cooler!
It's definitely as probable that it was an attempt to impress as it was futile :)

And yes, I know I'm hellbanned, but hellbanning is fucking stupid so it's hardly more stupid to keep posting from a hellbanned account. I'm just going with the rational of the site ;-)
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No idea why you couldn't reply to me, but....

My point is that visual impairment is not mutually exclusive with other impairment, even though people often assume it is, consciously or not. This is an extremely common failure mode, not just in this discussion.

And while of course you _can_ implement whatever else you want, in practice somehow almost no one ever does. Doubly so for the cases they don't think about or demographics they decide are too small to bother with.

How well accessibility agents work on JS heavy sites today really depends on the site. At one end of the spectrum, there are JS heavy sites that still use built-in form controls instead of inventing their own, have their text be text, and have their content in a reasonable order in the DOM tree. At the other end there are the people who are presenting their text as images (including canvas and webgl), building their own <select> equivalents, absolutely positioning things all over the place, etc. Those work a lot worse.

You are of course right that accessibility can be had without the DOM, but "webgl" is not going to be it either. Accessibility for desktop apps typically comes from using OS-framework provided controls that have accessibility built in as an OS service; desktop apps that work in low-level GL calls typically end up just as not-accessible as your typical webgl page is today. So whatever you want use instead of the DOM for accessibility purposes really will need to contain more high-level human-understandable information than which pixels are which colors or what the audio waveform is. At least until we develop good enough AI that it can translate between modalities on the fly.
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The government has apologized, and society widely recognizes that as something that was wrong, and shouldn't be repeated. I would suggest that Democracy has survived in that sense.
Strange - as far as I know, that version of Chrome supports WebGL. Do other WebGL apps work ok?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
"The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting: gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter."
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The idea that it's "all over for democracy in the US" is usually undergirded on a belief that civil rights are being chipped away over time. That belief is ignorant of history.

In 1789: http://www.fjc.gov/history/docs/seditionacts.pdf

Matthew Lyon, a Republican Congressman, was prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned by the Adams government for publishing letters critical of the administration. See also, the stories of Thomas Cooper, James Callender. If Obama acted like the founding fathers, half of Fox News' anchors would be in jail!

The history of the republic has been a back-and-forth between the civil rights and security. Heck, the impetus for the Constitutional Convention was the failure of the federal government to put down an insurgency in Massachusetts!

Objectively, Americans have more civil liberties today than they were when the ink on the Constitution was still wet. That was before expansive readings of the First Amendment. That was before broad readings of what "due process" requires. Was a time when the Bill of Rights didn't even apply to the states!

The idea that NSL's are a signal of the end of the republic is ludicrous and ahistorical.
Folks don't seem to note the torn out walls, men with jackhammers, blowtorches, rivet guns, nor do they catch sight of the enormous, bold hazard signs.

For some, it's a gleeful traipse into the 5m deep concrete pour, briefly regretted. I salute those brave souls! Why they do what they do may never be known, even to those who partake, but they do it with conviction! And, it's a damn fine thing, if you ask me!
I run an agency that works exclusively with NGOs (marketing, design, development). This is an interesting solution, but I am curious about if you offer an API? The link in the site footer doesn't go anywhere.

The problem I see, is that all-in-one solutions do a lot of things but are really masters of none. Does the CRM allow integration from the NGOs website automatically? Does your email marketing support list segmentations? Is PayPal the only payment option? Most NGOs have long standing contracts with merchant service accounts.

I like the idea, but I am not sure I could recommend it to our clients based on the information from your website. Lots of potential for this type of system.

Right now we usually setup clients on Salesforce, super great discounts for nonprofits, and lots of out of the box integration already available.
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I believe Mozilla should start an advertising network and offer cloud services like webmail, docs, blogs, photos, etc so people create an everlasting bond with their properties while maintaining the open web motto they are already known and praised for.

An extra couple billion dollars a year wouldn't hurt either.
The story isn't that malware is installed, the story is that there's an SSL MITM + Javascript injection.

Maybe the link should be changed? http://www.myce.com/news/lenovo-laptops-come-with-preinstall... but even this story doesn't have enough info.

Please, if you have this malware export the cert and post it. This has the potential to be really dangerous.
I would be really interested in this!
thx @ydant, never heard this before. Very nice way to describe the process.
While it has cute aspects it's also a very cheap, elegant solution to automation on a whiteboard which most people probably think of as out of reach.

It's somebody's project, not a cat video.
"... didn't actually invent it ..."

Kenton, agreed but close enough. Implementation in code has more value than the specification.
right, I would have rather written "their opacity", rather than "their lack of opacity".
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Good story.

Re anger : Have you met the internet? He is 14 years old and hates everything except tentacle-porn.
I think a lot of it stems from the general suckiness of having to fire people and our desire to try to minimize harm to others. But sometimes trying to take the approach we think has the most empathy in it ends up being the worst approach.

I've never had to bulk lay off people before, but based on my experience surviving a couple, the one that worked out the best for everybody was the "just do it" rip-off-the-bandaid all at once approach. The one on one approach just sewed terror into the entire office while it was happening.

It reminds me to this day of how horror stories work, with the long build up of expectations, waiting for management to make it to your end of the hall was the worst.

I've also learned, management 101, don't fire people with notice, ever. Not only was it terrible and humiliating to have witnessed, it opens you up to disgruntlement as the employee's emotions build up and down. Even somebody you don't think will do something, might, in a fit of anger at the unfairness of it all, do something stupid.

I think many of my former bosses were definitely devotees of the kind of HN "let's build a family and a cool place to hang-out, not a business" mentality that permeates lots of startup-land.
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> Thomas changed his comments about 50 times between when we were replying to one another and now, so in all likelihood what I've written makes no sense in relation to what he's written anymore.

I was watching his comments and your replies back then in real time, and this did not happen at all.
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Seems like Mozilla is more of an investment company than a software corp.
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And, you know, buy a video service and make some glasses too. All in the name of not doing evil, right?
absolutely agree on that one, I'm still learning ios/android native anyway, already have famo.us down pretty decently, going to try the create plugin route because i feel the gains on UI are surpassing doing it all native for both but just doing famo.us vanilla rather than angular because not convinced perf is great on that
This looks more or less like a reskinned Standard ML. Which is cool, because SML is awesome :-)
From the Wikipedia article, it's not clear for me that Truvada stops completely the transmission. But the studies are more serious and the results promising that 99% of the usual overhyped drugs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenofovir/emtricitabine
"Moving Forward"

"achieved positive growth again and dramatically reset our global search strategy"

Did anyone else find those phrases to be a bit too much corporatese for Mozilla?
I have a US bank account & use OzForex (you can use USForex as a US citizen). I've also used XE Trade in the past.

Transferwise is awesome (much better UI), but not as good as OZ/USForex or XE in terms of rates.
You were seriously watching all of our interactions over the course of the past 6 hours, with enough detail so as to be able to diff individual comments over the entire time period?

Well, I guess that's possible...
You're the one making a big deal out of a statement as simple as "use something better if possible", trying to turn it into a contradiction so he can be "wrong".

Use cases where the security fails are a huge red flag. Mentioning red flags is not sensationalism.
I guess we're probably ok with the Y2118 cvs-export bug.
Sounds like me. What I've found helpful is to reduce the scope of the project. Focus on base hits rather than home runs.

Not quite the same as "MVP" if MVP implies permission to release something crappy and incomplete.

I shoot for something small, polished and excellent.

The finishing stretch is hard. One has to learn to enjoy this process; documenting, adding unit tests (if needed), jumping through hoops like CPAN or the app store.

I think finishing is a habit we can build.
Pretty sure tcpip was included (but not installed by default) in win95 from day 1; plus! only added internet explorer.
Shameless plug but currently there's one bug in the postgresql driver for HHVM preventing me from switching our companies projects to HHVM
https://github.com/PocketRent/hhvm-pgsql/issues/52

if any charitable mind feel like giving me an hand, I know C++ but I don't know where to apply the fix they are talking about.
You don't have to live in the US to set up a US bank account. You just need to physically be in the US.

That said, I think your resident country needs to have a relationship with the US. I was approved no problem as an Australian, but one of the devs I work with from Ukraine was declined.
So Instagram Direct Message meets MemeGenerator.net. What's special about this? What's the business plan? Where does the income come from? Or is this just another one of those silly things that sell out their users in order to stay alive?
That's not what he said, he said it's actively harmful to promote the use of TrueCrypt. That's a world of difference from "use something better if possible".
Obligatory comment about how if you can't match it in linear time then it's not a regular expression.
Aside from donating to the EFF, how can I help?
In addition to writing RE2, Russ Cox has a set of very readable articles on implementing efficient regular expressions here: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/
My favorite illustration is the monoidal pirate ship:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/lyah/pirateship.png
Agreed. Longtime user -- I was on the Netscape 4.3, then 7.1, Kmeleon project, then Phoenix, then Firdbird, then Firefox? I cant keep up.

With that being said, Mozilla has been (in my mind) the pro consumer, pro internet org to challenge the establishment. So far, its worked wonders -- we have a diverse ecosystem, new burning edge interfaces and plugin market places to boot. The partnership with the Tor project gave me hope. However..reading that PR blurb/intro made me want to pluck out my eyeballs. Where is the heart? The direction? The challenge?

Mozilla -- Its time you returned to your roots. Find the spark that set you free and fan the flames.
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I really feel that this is a good time to advertise the website I am creating. Basically, it's an indie appstore for indie developers who feel that they are not getting enough exposure on other platforms and wish to go one step further. Contact me at <myusername> at outlook.com if you are interested. I will probably do a show HN soon. Links in my profile!
It's frankly amazing that Win ME managed to be so much less stable than previous iterations of Win 9x. I dealt with it for a year or so in college before I was able to get my hands on something better, and it was basically a "run once" OS, as in you ran your applications once and then rebooted because anything else would guarantee the appearance of the BSOD.

People complained about Vista, but it was smooth sailing in comparison.
That's my point. Currently, you cannot really replace the DOM since that's kind of the extent of the exposed APIs.

None of the projects that you mention are really relevant to the discussion. I agree that they didn't change shit but it's precisely because they are still built on the DOM and cannot really go below that in the abstraction layer.
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My guess is they're trying to be especially corporate and professional and bland after the whole Eich debacle.
It finds the best image for your message. Message with images, way more expressive than plain text. Quite fun to use.
I think that some Lenova laptops are available directly from Microsoft as signature editions, that is, with no crapware. I recently bought an HP signature edition laptop and it was great to have nothing but Windows on it.
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