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Yeah, that's an immense cultural shock for everyone not in the USA.

I'm not surprised by it, but it feels... out of place. If anything, they should be chanting "NASA", as not all of the USA is onboard with the space missions.

If overt patriotism is what's needed to get more NASA funding, then so be it.
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Well hardware decoding of flash video has improved over the years, but I can tell you that while I can play 1080p hi def videos without seeing much bump in my CPU (on the laptop), when my aluminum macbook pro is freezing cold to put on my lap in the winter, nothing warms it up as fast as playing a random youtube video with Flash.
Mozilla used to champion the hacker ethic.

Until a group of outsiders on social networks with no stake in Mozilla came in with shame tactics. Even people with little connection to them would use them as a vehicle for their own benefit.

Bring back Eich.
Could you share some of those strategies?
This is great. Let's continue: remove pocket, remove hello
Unfortunately, Flash still plays Youtube videos more efficiently than HTML5. On weak hardware this can make a difference between smooth playback or choppy video or watching videos in much lower resolution that you normally would with Flash.
Can I just ask why you've chosen Senna as your name?

(It's a laxative).
So, I used to work at a company where the VP of Engineering actually declined to take the resignation option. I'm not naming the company or any of the people involved, partially for their privacy, and partially in case I misremembered some of the details (this was five and a half years ago).

A little background: at this company, "engineering" included not just development and QA, but also customer support, IT, and shipping & receiving (but not documentation or product management, both of which were under marketing). Also, for some reason, the operations people of our offshore office also reported to the VP of Engineering instead of our corporate management. He had a lot of power just based on of how much of the company reported to him.

The VP basically turned the technical side of the company into his own personal fiefdom. He took the idea of acting as a filter (which is a good thing) and took that to such an extreme that he was acting as a brick wall (which is a bad thing). It was almost impossible for product management or sales to find out what we were doing, and we were mostly kept in the dark and drip-fed small details about the business side of things. Worse, he would start projects without the rest of the company's knowledge and tell us the order to create them came directly from the board (in reality, he was trying to impress the board). At one point, he conceived a project, sold it to a customer, and then started development all without sales, marketing (including product management), or the CEO knowing about it.

Eventually, the CEO had enough and asked him to resign. He gave the VP a month to announce his resignation and leave. Guess what? The VP just sat on it and acted like it was business as normal. A month later, the CEO had him walked out first thing in the morning and had one of his most loyal executives distribute the new org chart containing a massive amount of changes to prevent so much of the company from being centralized under a single VP ever again.

(In case you're wondering, the company has since had a successful exit, by the way.)
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Not where I'm from :)
If you wanted to tie yourself in knots, you are succeeding.

The degradation that I saw was that, in the analogy, women are sexually objectified. Women appear in the story exclusively in a sexual context, where there is no good reason for that. The context makes it clear that this is normal and expected within the (male) OP's world.

"No one would dare miss out hitting on the blonde". There is a clear generalization here, that everyone should find blonde women most attractive, or at least be socially required to act as though they do. Perhaps women are also expected to find the blonde woman most attractive, or perhaps women's opinions aren't really worth considering.

You might re-examine your own gender and sexuality biases in this context.
Since interest rates are a man-made concept, one must wonder what a "natural" rate of interest actually is.

Words like "Artificial vs. natural" attempt to ascribe illegitimacy to what is mostly a policy difference.
Which is odd, because that means Mozilla is paying Pocket for it by funding developer and support time. The fact Pocket is not paying is a bad thing: it's a one-way drain on Mozilla resources. How is this a fair partnership?
However, Congress changing it subsequently puts the US in breach of the treaty, and potentially subject to whatever arbitration system was built into the treaty. The US generally has the power to get away with this without significant cost, but smaller parties to the treaty do not.
If that's true (seems like it would be), I'd think the long-term advantage off an offshore wind farm is still advantageous. In addition to the other reasons mentioned above, am I making this up or is there generally much greater wind activity over uninterrupted water (i.e. offshore) than on land? Perhaps the benefits would outweigh the costs in the long run.
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So these are produced in large panels, which are laid on a compacted roadbed, or perhaps on concrete supports. The problem I see is that of the joints - as cars & trucks drive over them, they'll flex the plastic, causing loud "thump thump" noises.
I'm sure Mozilla did what they thought was best for themselves at the time.

For me personally, I would prefer most to see it separated from the browser, available as an extension only, so that there is better competition in the extension space, and so the users have the absolute most choice. Barring that, I would prefer to see Mozilla roll their own rather than, as you put it, "pick a winner".

Hard-coding a third party's product into your own is a bad idea; what if Pocket changes their terms of service to be even more user-hostile than it is now? What if they decide to start doing things the Mozilla Foundation can't stomach? Mozilla would then have to go through the same steps again to integrate a different third party, if they decided to keep the same paradigm in place. And I'm not just picking on Pocket, I would be saying the same thing with any proprietary third party service.
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The other concern is bugs in the implementation that injects clipboard access into the JavaScript sandbox. Write-only might be the intent, but this could open up possibilities to gain read access.
Are these feelings correlated with anything? Do you feel this way after a particularly tough time at work? Do you feel underlying anxiety about your startup?

I generally ascribe to the "show up and do something" philosophy on days like the one you're describing. I tell myself that I can have the rest of the day off guilt free if I just do one task that I've been meaning to get done. For me the biggest challenge to working is starting, so generally once I start working on that one task, I find new energy and will continue working once I finish it.
I like the idea that the CEO can resign in a hailstorm of racist and misogynist vitriol but that subsequent departures won't have anything to do with gender.
I noticed this behavior when I fired up an older Mac I hadn't used in a year or so, it was refreshing that Flash always required click-to-activate, and I made this the setting on all my machines a while back and started suggesting to my friends to.

Some websites' video don't work as well, they have JS or CSS that interfere, or assume that you don't have flash installed, or retaliate as if you are an ad blocker, so I'm glad to see this is becoming more widespread, those problems may be fixed.
Thanks for posting that. It led me to the best comment I've ever seen on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932261
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Yeah, I don't blame her at all for leaving. Reddit seems like an incredibly poorly run company.
The "kill flash" screeching has been at full volume in ignorant tech communities for at least five years already.
Besides Vincenzetti being an idiot for other reasons, the idea of a traceable bitcoin isn't as bad as you make it.

Imagine if we had such a system managed by the central banks of governments in addition to their paper fiat, together with a law that makes its usage mandatory for _companies_ over a certain size.

There would be no more banks in the loop to hide shady practices, and no more room for big corporations to avoid taxes and money laundry from illegal activity, no more splitting of companies into subdivisions so that a small mailbox on some island makes billions while the rest is officially broke.

The general population would still retain their anonymous paper (which is actually anonymous, not pseudonymous like bitcoin) and if you're too lazy to do your tax report on paper and give a shit about somebody else knowing about your transactions (because lets face it, people give all their data to credit-card companies and payback bonus point systems already) you can use the digital fiat too.
A dating site is only worthwhile if other people are on it. Obviously it's possible, but you need people on it to attract more people.
Great job. The UI looks good on my android.

I like the idea of entering data into a single place, and having different visitors see customized resumes.

Some thoughts I had (keep in mind I'm not a UX, entrepreneur, or resume expert):

1. In the demo on my phone, I like that you can easily navigate between sections with the nav bar. But I think others might not realize it's available. It might be good to have the navigation instead be small tabs on the top. Or tell users how to navigate.

2. In the skills section, you emphasize the skills relevant to that employer. Would it be easier to separate them into two sections: the skills must relevant to a position, then other skills. The other skills might be initially hidden. I think it helps someone scanning a resume quickly. Overall, I think it's important to minimize the time it takes someone to get the information from the resume. Maybe ask recruiters to give their opinion of the demo. I think a good testimonial from a recruiter might make the website more attractive to potential users.

3. I'm not sure if I'd pay that much to try it. I understand the problem. If you give a 30 free trial, and they get a job, they won't pay. But maybe it can be free at first. If it works, try to get testimonials to put on the website. I don't mean to be insulting or condescending. And that might not be the correct solution. In just saying I'd like to try it, but don't want to pay that much without seeing testimonials.

Again, I really like the way you're solving the whole resume problem. The trade off between customizing and generalizing. Quality vs quantity. The demo gives you a good idea of how it works, and it looks good on my phone.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing this.
It's a free PR tool. Why shouldn't Reddit monetize it? Currently it costs the PR folks nothing to put them on Reddit, and gets them a decent chunk of exposure to a very-hard-to-advertise-to demographic.

That being said, I have no idea how you convince someone to pay for an AMA, or how to monetize it in general.
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At least some of the Ubiquiti gear can run OpenWRT.
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> what should we do as engineers?

Well you can warn people off, but you can't make people disbelieve what they want to believe. In similar situations I've suggested that folks wait until they can be ordered and the crowd funded units have shipped. Then they will have a good idea of what they are getting. If the crowd funding fails or they are poor quality, they will have saved themselves aggravation and money, if it works then they will be available as a product.
I'm not sure it's doing the anti-sexism effort any favors that we're turning anything related with women into a sexism case.

You know what's an equally likely reason that three women are gone from reddit? Reddit was employing many women, so when people leave, naturally some of those will be women.

It doesn't look like anyone was fired or made to quit because she's a woman, so let's not play the sexism card just yet.
Someone said they want Reddit to have 1 billion users.

That's nonsense!

Just imagine if you wanted to drive HN into high-growth mode. It would kill everything here.

If you take a community site (and Reddit is a community site, not a society site) and add people not in the same community mindset, you end up with twitter trending topic nonsense of six million middle school girls yelling for attention at boy bands.

People use Reddit (and HN) to get away from the bulk of the world, not to have the bulk of the world join them on their private anonymous message boards too.

Basically, Reddit can't massively grow without fundamentally changing it. At the core, it's just an online message board. Those have limited TAM based on topic+culture of the entire site. If you want a billion users, you don't have Reddit, you have ReddTwitBook+.

Source: used to work for a VC-funded niche online message board site that was unable to grow no matter what they tried. same pattern: promises of growth, no growth, management changes, promises of growth, no growth, etc.
Something I noticed after making my Flash click-to-activate a while back. That seems like a HUMONGOUS tunnel to create in order to allow copy to clipboard, and fairly irresponsible on GitHub's part.

What developer doesn't know how to copy to clipboard?
Have a little coffee for a quick pick-me-up. I just drink little by little till I don't need to any more. I try to keep the coffee to an absolute minimum, and save it till I'm really feeling lethargic.
He now, I'm not attacking her character, and I'm not calling her weak.

What I'm saying is that there is no possible way anyone in that position, in that span of time, with all the personnel changes going on, could possibly understand the problem well enough both in technical terms and in terms of the management and resources and budget, to come to a reasonable conclusion that it's just impossible.

Now, perhaps there is something else going on, like you said, and in which case, well, that's her decision and right to do whatever she wants. But that's not what she's saying.
It's possible that she resigned after she tried that and they blew her off.
How is killing yourself a correct solution to anything, and what is "n" in your equation? Humans are experience integrators with the rather interesting (and unique) opportunity to "emit" the useful integrations that make it easier (or possible) for others to perform a similar integration. We do it on a personal level with children and friends; and on an impersonal level with books and papers.
Competition may breed innovation, but surely it's not the truism you suggest.

Sears is an example of how the introduction of internal competition does not lead to useful innovation - http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/07/16/do-inter...

(It may lead to increased levels of backstabbing, but that's hardly innovative.)

Humans are a social species, so also have an innate nature to cooperate.

Also, the concept of 'country' is a rather recent invention. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state#History_and_origi... for some context. It's certainly possible that kohanz's "hope [that] we someday get to the point where no one really cares what "country" achieved the next space exploration milestone" can be true yet still have competitiveness.

Perhaps space exploration of 100 years from now will be lead by volunteer teams based on, their WoW clan membership. While preposterous, the teams could still be competitive even if they are not organized by nations.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. Sometimes you feel lethargic, sometimes you feel inspired. The best thing to do is enjoy the heck out of the lethargic times and avoid judging yourself too harshly -- you're only human.

Over time you can try to identify things that lengthen lethargic periods, and things that inspire you, and try to build those. However, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being demotivated from time to time. I just see it as a natural recharge time between inspired times.

Some things that I find bring on inspired times:

- Sit around and disconnect from the internet. Boredom is fantastic as a motivational tool.

- Exercise.

- Do nice things for your friends and family. Invite people over for dinner, play board games, mow your grandmothers' lawn. Or just write them a letter.
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Don't most of the Chrome vulnerabilities used in pwn2own end up being Java or Flash vulnerabilities?
To piggy-back on revx....

Consider getting some blood work done. I found out I have a high incidence of Epstein Bar (related to Mononucleosis) and if I don't regulate my diet, I get completely drained of energy and will for anything. This also affects my sex drive and as revx mentioned, my physiology after orgasm. I call it the sex hangover.

I found that yoga and walking also helps a lot, I look for yoga videos on Youtube, the prettier the instructor the better ;)
There's a native cross-browser API that's slowly becoming more compatible from Javascript.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=clipboard
People thought the same about Digg.

That said, I do agree that it will take more than just community / company politics to have a big impact, but if Reddit is pushing for growth and make enough missteps in the actual functionality of the site, that combined with the already unhappy userbase could spell trouble in my eyes.
I didn't realize Pocket was a third-party service. Perhaps this should be made clear when updating Firefox.
Looking at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?sort=us... it looks like Adblock Plus and Video DownloadHelper are really popular. Adding those by default would make things better for everyone. Lots of people are loving those addons and using them on a daily basis. They do not do you any harm if you don't use them. You could just click the addons menu and remove them.

Yeah, petty, but well...

How many of the Firefox users actually wanted Pocket and how many are using it? AMO says 217,149 users which is a laugh.

Back in the days I felt like Mozilla was about user control and also privacy. Now you add a third-party feature that gets to know things you want to read later or your other devices without there being any need for them to know. At the very least, this information should be end to end encrypted.
agar.io seems to have done fine for itself in HTML5 as massive, popular multiplayer game in browser.
This feature (or the decisions behind it) does harm non-users. Firefox devs have publicly claimed that it will replace Firefox's current reading list. Before Pocket integration, the integration of Reading List into Firefox Sync was planned, which is a end-to-end encrypted service with very strict ToS -- much stricter than Pocket's current ones: http://dustri.org/b/firefox-youre-supposed-to-be-in-my-pocke...

Claiming that no money was involved makes the situation much worse -- it implies your core values have changed.
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> Remember, Ellen was instituting policies to make the place more equal for woman

ellen is famous for repeatedly fucking over her female colleagues at kleiner. what are you smoking? she doesn't care about anyone but herself
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I'm not very versed in ME politics but I think the US's stance is more ideological than pragmatic. The us does not need Iran as imaginary enemy when it has real enemies elsewhere -factions in Pakistan, isil, etc. Even Putin is a bigger threat to US political clout in the world.

On the other hand, because of political history, the U.S. is a very convenient enemy and israel is a good distraction too. But as we know from British and french history, the designation of foe and friend and ally can change when it makes politics sense.
> That's why with the introduction of UEFI, flash parts finally grew in size again?

Assembly programs are typically smaller than ones written in C. No surprise there.

> It's also _much_, _much_ larger than coreboot based solutions implementing the same purpose (my tests indicate that UEFI takes 6 times the LOC over coreboot for a minimized code base that provides a boot menu and the ability to load a signed Linux kernel from disk)

And does 1/6th the amount of "stuff." If you drop a bunch of uEFI features, of course you won't use as much code. Is that controversial? There's a reason CoreBoot is so infrequently used, it doesn't do many things that people take for granted with uEFI.
WebGL is about more than games, for sure, why would you want to block acceleration?

You can go into add-ons and make it click-to-activate like flash, however.
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(clue: the ECB is in Frankfurt)

Sure, physical location is paramount...

Let's count the members of the main decision-making group of the ECB, the Governing Council.

Two Germans. Twenty-three non-Germans.
Reddit is a community hosting site, according to some recent PR I read, so the idea is that, unlike HN or Twitter, you can create your own "Reddit", where you're part of 15-20 small HN-like communities.

HN could be on Reddit, for example (in theory).

In fact, that might be a good exercise -- what tools would have to be added to Reddit to emulate the HN experience for any given subreddit? This place is fairly heavily moderated by a vetted and trusted team put in place by PG himself, for example -- how do you emulate that level of quality in a moderator group, and then multiply it by the 10k or so subreddits? Maybe there's a way to get a slightly lower quality moderator that scales better, or something.

A Reddit user's "workflow" hasn't significantly changed in the past 8 or 9 years. Maybe that's the problem.
I cannot believe that terrible site is worth 575. It's basically the trailer park of online dating.
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Couldn't agree with your reply more.

Re the flappy fan, I know I've read sometime in the past couple of years about a design that was trying to replace rotary fans, and it was piezoelectric in nature. I found a few but none that looked like they would develop any appreciable pressure. I think stacked piezeoelectrics could be built up in such away that you could create a material pressure differential, but not in something the size of a tootsie roll, and not anything that could move enough volume to let people breath.
Why does Facebook call for a Flash kill? It's nearly the only site in my always open tabs that is still using Flash.
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