skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never heard of plentyoffish users in USA, nor bumped into advertising except PR on web-biz sites. I have heard of users of Match, Yahoo, JDate, and seen advertising for eHarmony.

Is this a case where someone launched a product that conquered the non-USA users that USA companies ignore?
You're correct but this is not an argument against screening on the distribution end. Not everybody will do this and if you can protect them from problems due to their own lack of screening then you should.

Just because you can avoid problems on one end if you do everything right doesn't mean you shouldn't also try to avoid problems on the other end.
And yet the President of the United States (and a member of the Democratic Party) just negotiated a deal entirely without the help of the Israel, in fact with a lot of hand-wringing and public protest from Israel and its leadership, a deal which Israel is very publicly angry about despite it being arguably in their self-interest to defuse tension within the Middle East.

Doesn't seem so much like we're in the pocket of Israel, at least not anymore.
How Google makes improvements to its search
Wow that's a great post! Puts into words the thought process I've gone through many times before.

Would be even better if your site had some TLS love! ;-)

Thanks for sharing!
I quadrupled the speed of our (Docker) container test rig in a day
spez the CEO has made public time commitments for certain updates.
Much like for Multics, Algol, Smalltalk, Unisys, Plan-9, Modula-3, various LISPs, etc, the kinds of people who care about bad technical writing probably have a budget that allows them to pay for more than AWS.
> Mine will pay for a new mask (~$150) every 3 months, and a new machine every year (~$1k).

Wow... that's some great insurance! I've got decent insurance, but mine will only cover 80% of costs, on a mask every 6 months, and a machine every 5 years.
Agreed. It's not like there is "something else to buy" that actually helps..
Market has already corrected.
Oil strikes again. The CIA / MI6 butt-buddy backed, Oil industry demanded Iranian '53 coup has been resonating through American geo-political policy and ramifications for decades now and has weakened the USA in the long run by, like you mentioned, pushing Iran in the direction of Russia and China, but also the other members of the BRICS block that really are the future.
> Pocket was added internally and not as an extension because it was easier.

> Not sure how it was easier, since there is already a Firefox extension for Pocket which could have been shipped as an extension installed by default (but removable by users who do not want it)

Developers said that this way was easier to maintain. I am not sure why either.

> A lot of privacy-aware users will expect Mozilla to provide a way to easily disable and remove what are essentially features tangential to the core functionality of the browser. By making it a feature integrated into the core Firefox, the users now have to jump through various hoops to come close to achieving that. Having it as an extension makes it much easier to do so.

The hops thing works both way. What is better to have features enabled and then those that do not like them disable them or the other way around? (genuine question). The thing is that Pocket is not doing anything there unless you use it. So if you're not using it, then, its not actually working and removing it is two clicks away.

So, let me ask you a question, you prefer a browser where stuff is disabled by default and you enable them at your own will? Can you give me pointers into what about discovery of said features?

Thinking the other way around, what about a browser where features are enabled and then you disable what you do not like? Why is that bad in your opinion? The customize menu that allows you to reorder and remove features is not enough for you?

This is not a taunt or dare, I am asking questions because I think that when two groups have opposing views we can make a good civil discussion and come out with positive things we can do to fix any possible problem or at least to present to other groups as our desired behavior.
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

Wanted to be the first :-)
Number of birds killed per year by wind farms: 368 000

Number of birds killed/year in the USA by cats: 3 700 000 000

Four orders of magnitude.
Which aspect of the functional programming paradigm cannot be done in Javascript?
It can't actually happen. NASA only has enough Pu-238 for three more RTGs.
> Misogyny and a belief that women are favored aren't incompatible. If anything, they're compatible beliefs.

How is dating websites being lopsided in favor of women misogyny?

The systemic use of the blanket term of misogyny in these cases seems more like misandry, to be fair.

Why not stay on the point? You can't control of tone of Heartiste. He has the right to express his opinions, don't you think?
The browser vendors are fixing bugs faster. Also, Flash is not required for surfing most of the Web where as a Web browser is. Flash is additional and unnecessary risk.
Dumb question: is buying a domain, posting a hoax story about a company on that domain, and then executing trades to take advantage of the fluctuation in that company's stock price illegal?
Please don't use inflammatory sarcasm when commenting on HN, especially when the topic is inflammatory to begin with.
> but we don't need to engage in overly sweeping or simplistic arguments to make that case.

Utah has shown, through data, that it is cheaper to provide housing directly to the homeless.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/housing-first-so...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/home-free
> Brainfuck language has a whole page worth of variants, implementations, uses, IDE's and so on. I doubt anyone will argue that we should use it for commercial projects.

Well, I fear Brainfuck does not have commercial vendors and users willing to spend money on that. Lisp has that.

> whether it's mainstream or worth using.

It's not mainstream, but there are people finding it worth using.

> That Python, inspired by LISP, lacks every one of these problems is probably a reason for its success.

Python is not at all inspired by 'LISP' and not even by Lisp.

> My old trick was doing imperative programming in LISP for rapid iteration and then auto-generating equivalent code to be handed off to a C or C++ compiler.

Common Lisp compilers do that C code generation for me. No need to write macros for that.

> Another is to reimplement Python & its standard lib in LISP in a way that integrates code in both.

That has been tried already. Doesn't interest Lisp developers much. For a Lisp user there is little benefit of using a mix of Python and Lisp. Either use Python without Lisp or use Lisp, especially since Lisp has the better implementations and allows a wide range of applications.

> What do you think about the options?

The Lisp to C options exists already in multiple forms (GCL, ECL, MKCL, mocl and a few in-house implementations). Another Lisp to C++ is under development: CLASP.

Python in Lisp also exists.

https://common-lisp.net/project/clpython/
But somebody likely made a lot of money on it.
Super impressed to see how far David and the team have come. I remember talking with him down the road from my flat three years ago about the inkling that Zesty was then. I remember when Chris first joined him and they showed me the first screenshots of the mobile app in a bar in London before they hotfooted it off to San Francisco and now they're raising $17,000,000. A pretty amazing ride. Congrats guys.
LambdAuth: Server-Less auth service using AWS Lambda and DynamoDB
If you're saying that the images of all of the point sources manage to "miss" the image-sensing regions of the camera sensor, then I seriously doubt that explanation.

For one thing, it assumes that only a small fraction of the image sensor's surface is actually capable of detecting light, which would make it very inefficient. Typical consumer digital cameras can capture over 30% of the incoming energy, and presumably New Horizons' camera can do better, being specifically designed for a low-light environment.

More importantly, no atmospheric "diffusion" is required to spread out the incoming light, because it's occurring anyway through diffraction at the camera's aperture. The angular resolution of the LORRI camera is specified as about 1 arcsecond, which is comparable to the atmospheric seeing conditions on a relatively clear night on Earth.
Is there a reason why you can't do functional programming in JavaScript. Unless I'm mistaken, there isn't anything about JavaScript that explicitly prevents you from doing functional programming.

Even then, I think we all understand that the OP isn't trying to be strictly pure and is simply trying to explain the concepts in a manner that those used to imperative development can easily digest.
while I think "cognitive dissonance" is the phrase you were looking for, you just came up with a great punk band name.
Google Launches Eddystone BLE Beacons Technology and APIs
This looks really cool, in particular the telemetry packet is a nice idea for transmitting sensor data with BLE broadcast packets. Using that you can 'passively' read many nearby sensors without having to connect to them. I've had some similar ideas and played around with doing similar things using a nRF51822 (like a BLE radio + little cortex M0 chip) but ran into a ton of trouble with the BLE API's of various operating systems (like CoreBluetooth on OSX and bluez 5.3 on Linux).

In particular most BLE implementations like CoreBluetooth and bluez have a lot of caching and assume that a device's broadcast & advertisement data rarely changes. This causes a ton of trouble when you put frequently changing data in broadcast packets since you can easily get stale or cached data instead of the most recent broadcast. I'd love to know if the Eddystone developers ran into similar issues with their telemetry packets and had any workarounds.
It's not a secret. The replacement for NPAPI is the Web APIs. The port of Flash to the new NPAPI--the Web APIs--is called Shumway.
That's probably true. Instead, it disrupted what was already there, which is still not recovered. Part of the problem was the subway comes above ground downtown, which means that they completely tore up our Main st., and businesses left and never came back.
Windows 10 – To be released July 29th
I'm not sure, I wonder if The Onion has ever affected stock prices.
It all depends on the work you do. If you're coding, the knowledge you gain during the experience is valuable too. If you're in sales and marketing, the networks you build are valuable too.
You are in for a treat. This excerpt from Fast Times at Ridgemont High (worth watching in its entirety) tells you what you need to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLTTugZ4BIw
As I suggested, I won't be shocked if it is infeasible in the end, or if it practice it only works on the lower end of the scale, or that it has significant issues with the other considerations you laid out in your deeper reply, such as condensation. I just know that we can't do the math as if we expect this little thing to be doing all the work.
Indeed did raise money: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/indeed
I actually asked a bunch of psychologists about this. Most people will either freeze or run. If your inbuilt reaction is to run, you are already in the lucky group. The goal is to use it, if possible, while running, so I tried to make it as simple as possible to activate. Unfortunately, because of Apple restrictions, you still need to launch the app, but I'm experimenting with things like using notification center for faster access
Of note: they're giving away free copies in exchange for contact info.
That's a legal fiction though; Google had no effect on Motorola Mobility beyond shuffling finances and patents.
It is a pump and dump mixed with fraud plus likely trademark and copyright violations imitating Bloomberg. It is certainly illegal.

EDIT:Fixed a typo.
> I think you mean anti-Israeli.

No, I think I mean anti-Jew. I don't think they care where the Jew comes from.

> One can be opposed to the actions and policies of a state without referencing its inhabitants or their religious notions.

Absolutely.

But when those same actions and policies are undertaken by numerous other regimes in the region to a far worse degree and those same actions and policies are not criticized when coming from those other regimes ... one must wonder what motivates those pointing the finger.
Quoting the About page of the Mozilla Input site,

"Firefox Input is Mozilla's primary feedback mechanism for products.It is set up to be a method of one-way communication about your experiences in using our products, the Internet you view it through, and what Mozilla can do to make that experience better"

So please provide do provide feedback on various Mozilla products on Mozilla Input and not just limit it to this Pocket integration.
Yay for automated trading! This is exactly the kind of thing that everyone says is the danger of automated trading with NLP.
First you pump then you dump. :)
I completely agree with using what feels comfortable with ones values and ideals. Can you tell me what browser you moved to?

One thing that we can talk about is that Mozilla is the single browser vendor working in the open. The source code, the development process, the roadmap and teams are all open. You can be a part of the development process and help make the Firefox you want.

The cool thing about the Web is that we can all be makers in this medium. Our collective strength and will can do amazing things when we work together. If you moved to a closed source browser or to some browser where the development is not that open, then, why not move back and help make it better?
one point could be to generalize what an existing libraries do... perhaps... but I don't code much so I don't know
Agreed. If anyone can tell what kind of backend stack you're using from the basic GUI/user-experience, that's a problem. If they go digging, sure, but it shouldn't be obvious.
I'm curious if the majority of the trades were executed by humans reading it or essentially algorithms that scrape the web for articles.
Also, if you intentionally released a bogus story and benefited from the rise, you bet it's illegal....and they (SEC) will almost certainly find you...
One slightly annoying thing i found right now is that if i have a plugin set as disabled in about:addons, it will not show up on the update checker found in the top link.
If anyone is interested in some vocational training in metal fabrication, check out The Fab School - http://thefabschool.com

I've not seen any equivalent programs in the US for woodworking.
MBAs are pretty big fans of paying someone else to make their internal presentations look shiny...
Exactly. Well, it charges tuition for foreign students, however they were around $1000 for a term, so Bachelor degree would cost you $6000 in tuition fees.

Living in Warsaw (room, food and alcohol) would cost you $350-450 a month if you're willing to have flatmates, and $550-650 if you want to rent a whole apartment.
I wonder if it would be more interesting to fire a sizable dumb projectile into Pluto and then after you've past it a bit (with proper alignment of the spacecraft, sun, and pluto) observe the absorption spectrum of the gas/dust cloud produced.
Leaving the Solar System Real-Time Simulation
Well I never took the PE exam, and it is a couple of decades since my undergrad and graduate engineering degrees that included a couple of courses in thermo, so things are a little rusty, but prodded by a few of these posts I've just dusted off the math and made a go of it. BEST case, requires an 8 oz zinc-air battery. And they are going to sell that, and the device itself for $3..?!

Part of my reaction is that I am a patent attorney, and every patent attorney gets 'inventions' that come through the door from well-meaning but essentially clueless people. After a while you get to develop a bullsh*t detector. This one just rang my gong. I suffer from sleep apnea and I know what a real thing it is, and the idea of these guys just walking away with $$ from desperate people, just, again, rang my gong.

I will say that it has been fun seeing these posts--thank you!
Just Created the Game. Smiley the Movie. Enjoy
Most likely shorts, they probably saw this spike and knew it was coming back down soon.
I think you're on to something there. Poor range is the complaint I hear from many owners of sports sedans/coupes. Chris Harris (a well respected automotive journalist) listed this as a chief complaint about his E92 M3 (the V8 powered car). I just drove my E92 M3 on a 2,000 mile road trip from Florida to Virginia, and I can empathize. The car managed 23 MPG on the highway, but I had to stop every 300 miles or so in order to fill up to avoid the anxiety of running out of fuel in heavy traffic where the car would average closer to 19 MPG. That still bests the Tesla's range by a reasonable margin, but it's enough to make M3 owners complain, so I could see it being an issue for potential Tesla buyers.
Automated trading likely made the problem worse, but I have to imagine it started with a human. Imitating the visuals of another website on another domain is a trick designed to fool a human as it would be trivial for a machine to know the difference.
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Seems to me like modeling every single job based on census data seems unnecessary. Couldn't you also use maybe even just other census data or zoning data on the types of businesses and then pattern based on density, esp. with such rough grouping of classifications?

Great work thought.
If the term "ancient roads" actually appears in the historical documents related to this (not sure if it does or not), it could say more about Vermont's Francophone past than anything else. In French it would be appropriate to call these "ancient roads" (anciennes rues) in the sense that they're "old" or "former" roads, like how ancién regime just means "former regime."
The data is very dubious - they've mapped the entire Googleplex as "Retail, hospitality, and other services". The North Bayshore area east of Shoreline is listed as "Manufacturing and trade" - most of that area is Google now.

Sunnyvale and the Stanford area look pretty accurate though, and it got the big office park near Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman and some of the industrial areas in Santa Clara. Perhaps it's working off an old data set (~2000ish)?
If you download the source for uBlock/uMatrix, and run locally you avoid the auto-updating of the add-on while being able to vet the source.
Those figures always sounded surprising high to me.

The initial reddit page has one ad above the fold, but most detail pages have the ad placed way below the fold.
Oops, typo. Although I am curious what a dump and dump would accomplish...
>Extremely few people have active IPv6, it seems unlikely to catch on now.

Except that over 20% of the United States has IPv6 connectivity. In fact, you might be using it without knowing (most mobile providers have it now, in fact some use IPv6->IPv4 translation methods) [1].

>Remember though, this leaks all interface IPs

Does it? Maybe you should file a bug so that only routable interfaces and non-LL IPs are used. This does seem like a problem.

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...
23rd International Obfuscated C Code Contest: Winning Entries
I was under the impression that UIWebView performance was on par with native Safari as of ~iOS 8.
Apparently, there's no way to use API Gateway with Cognito, it looks (and should be possible) there are so many lacks in the documentation... I'm following this forum thread [0] regarding Cognito integration in JS.
[0] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=645618#...
The psychology of people in high pressure, threat to life situations, is fascinating, a huge chunk of people freeze or do the most ridiculous stuff.

Well worth reading "The Unthinkable" by Amanda Riley, for an interesting overview. Though there is tons of academic literature on the subject.
Just out of curiosity, how will removing Pocket integration and Hello (a thin UI over WebRTC) personally? Both are lazy-loaded, so the only bloat they add is "visual bloat". This behavior is seriously disappointing from the Firefox community.

I've been using Pocket since it was Read It Later and I was pleased to see it integrated into the browser. Mozilla is working on a Reader mode[0] but it does not seem to be ready for public consumption yet (despite landing in 2012). Most people don't even know it exists, and it obviously does not save it for later (unless you bookmark it). The implementation is open-source (MPL license), although Pocket itself is proprietary. Hotword detection is not absolutely necessary for browser functionality, yet I hear no chorus of complaints from Chrome users. Should Mozilla be prohibited from partnering with proprietary third-parties whether or not it benefits their users?

Hello is even less of an argument. Firefox Hello is a simple Javascript UI for the existing WebRTC spec supported by Firefox, Chrome, and Opera[1]. It allows people to communicate without having to set up accounts, sign-in somewhere, and works against the platform lock-in of proprietary services such as Facetime, Hangouts, and Skype. If it's disabled by default, the service becomes useless. My parents shouldn't have to enable it about:config for me to talk to them, nor should they have to download another plugin to use a technology built-in to the browser. I understand the security implications[2] in IP leakage[3], but I don't see a simple fix that doesn't neuter the functionality (although this comes close[4]). W3C has stated their position on fingerprinting[5], but at least Mozilla is actively working on the issue.

0: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/02/07/mozilla-starts-to-push-read...

1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/which-browsers-will-wor...

2: https://twitter.com/incloud/status/619624021123010560

3: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959893

4: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/statutory/

5: https://github.com/w3ctag/spec-reviews/blob/master/2015/05/f...
Hacking the Revenue Lifecycle
Please don't rewrite the titles of stories you submit to HN, unless they are misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You're implying Shanghai is an empty city with nothing below ground. It's probably got just as much subterranean junk as New York does.
Gold level Blue Cross plan via Obamacare. So yea, while not the absolute best it's pretty good.
I've noticed worse energy consumption as well, I wonder if this has been reported anywhere.
When scenarios like this happen, who actually loses money? Obviously some person/firm made a lot of money on this story, but there has to be an entity on the other side who also lost a lot right?
This looks really nice - are you planning to support other OS, like Android, WP or Blackberry?
this is not support, its basicly running the plugin inside wine, with all the attendant issues that invokes.