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You can delete the button, and you can go into about:config, turn off switches and set strings to "null". But the code is baked in, and your work to disable it will likely be reversed with each Firefox update. There's nothing nefarious about the Pocket code in Firefox from what I've seen, but the service it connects your browser to is opaque, closed source, and the ToS is hostile and aggressive towards openness.

In short, it should have remained an extension.
Can you do necessary things that don't need inspiration, such as respond to email, pay bills, or clean your office?
IMHO Flash was pretty good when it was still Macromedia Flash; after Adobe bought it, things started going downhill.

I think the file format itself is quite nice (it's much more compact than SVG, for example) - the real problem is with the interpreter's implementation...
Here's what I do... I have a relatively-simple pet project that I understand thoroughly. When I decide to learn a new language, I do so by reimplementing the project in the new language. That way, I have a structure to the learning based on the project I fully understand. I then read/skip-through/hop-around books and other learning resources as I need to understand various components of the language to implement the features on the project. Here's one example implementation of it, which I need to write anew to learn Swift: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pyramids/id589550650?mt=12
The reddit board wanted the facebook success story, but the problem with reddit has always been that they can't control the users like facebook can. They needed to usurp power back from mods into admin hands in order to bring online very unpopular features that will enable reddit to be a commercially viable operation. Gold wasn't enough for them and they are struggling now even to get past 50% of gold required per day... so they are thrashing around in the water right now.

Pao was a glass cliff employee meant to be there during this crisis period. Any formal investigation might uncover evidence that reddit higher ups encouraged Pao's villain status through sock puppets. If the world hates one person they ignore the corrosive policies.

Now they have usurped control over the mods and the structure of reddit itself, they can dismiss any posts that are negative fairly soon and make it look like the front page algorithm is just doing housekeeping... which is required if you want advertisers to feel good about money changing hands.

The next phase will be some more staff shuffling and some very very unpopular changes that the team will seem very over-excited about introducing (fauxgasms ensue) and we'll be left wondering what the hell is going on long enough for the changes to be irreversible.

This recent front page revolt of mods shutting down all their subreddits was tactical. The admins wanted everyone to get over-saturated with the revolt before the new changes became apparent. Over the next six months reddit will become more and more like facebook in terms of forcing us to see what they want us to see on the front page.

They've been gaming this system from the top since the beginning. One needs only look at r/hailcorporate to see story after story of astro-turfing and fadvertising.

Reddit is a company that sells entertainment in the form of conversation. That's their goal. They are succeeding because even if we're all complaining about them we're all having a conversation about them.

So like everyone who isn't square, I'm over now on voat.co having my own conversation about movies and programming with people who want to talk to me... not sell me something.
My strategy is more or less to start by figuring out the structure of a text. This may be in the table of contents, introduction, index, chapter sections, or subsections. I generally scan the text as fast as possible to find all the essential points of interest, marking them down for future reference. What I do after this point is likely different than most. As every text I read is digitally formatted, I don't actually try to remember or deeply understand much at all on my second pass through the material. Instead, I will open a text editor and copy and paste the passages that strike me as most essential, retaining as much context as necessary to retain the original meaning. On my third pass, I will restructure the extracted content, cutting out the redundant parts, re-mixing, or re-expressing them until each chunk I want to remember is accessible and concise. This completes what I'd call the conceptual phase of my reading, which takes a fraction of the time it would take if I were attempting to understand the work using a more linear or comprehensive approach.

There is still much I don't understand at this point. This is natural since I haven't had an opportunity to apply the information to a personally meaningful context. This is the point at which I begin the practical phase. As most of what I need to know is documented in my notes, I will keep it on hand as a memory queue as I engage with specific questions or problems that interest me. And so when an issue comes up that I can't settle, I refer to the notes and also search around online to find out how I should apply the content in that particular problem situation. It's over the course of this process that I internalize the most vital details. That's where the learning happens, at least for me.

Another advantage to this approach is that you will have a type of mnemonic device to reboot your knowledge. As most people forget practically everything shortly after moving on to new subjects, it's critical to have a way to index the information you don't want to forget in the future. Something along the lines of a "memex" (or external memory system) is a good metaphor for what I'm talking about.
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Hey,
I am looking to reach out to local newspapers in a specific state/city. Is there a site which lists them ?

Thanks ?
Anyone know what the biggest exit for a bootstrapped company is?
That's called Malvertising :P
A Chief Engineer still has a budget, a CEO and a board to answer to. The budget is especially important - if a promise is made to deliver X and Y within six months but you can't hire enough developers to get it done then even the most talented Engineer in the world is going to fail.
Interesting, kind of inaccurate, and omits many belief systems. Also doesn't show the various interactions between religions, derivatives, etc... The easiest and most canonical examples would be how Mesopotamian (ie. Sumerian/Babylonian) religion influenced Judaism and Islam, or how Proto-Indo-European religion influenced northern European, Hindu and near-eastern religions.
I would guess it's more like "I will be building out the product we needed all along, but now with intense board scrutiny, half the budget I wanted, a quarter the timeline we need, and a new CEO (who I may not like). I'm rich enough that I don't have to put up with this shit. See you guys."
"People breath about 5 liters of air per minute at a low activity level. That’s 2400 liters in an-8 hour period. Air weighs about 1.2 gm/l = 2.88 KG moved in an an 8 hour period."

I'm not sure if this device is plausible, but I know this calculation is not useful. You're calculating the mass of air moved, which, first of all, does not itself say much about the energy required to do so; for instance, horizontal motion doesn't require any net energy (though any real device doing so will of course need to do something to accelerate and decelerate, there's nothing to say it can't be very, very cheap). Second you appear to be discussing it as if there isn't a pair of lungs right there providing motive power. I do that much moving of the air every day (plus a bit, probably, I'm a tall guy) with no batteries at all.

This thing is not responsible for "moving all that air"... it's responsible for a pressure increase of the air, which is at least somewhat equivalent to saying it's responsible for "moving air" but only a fraction of the value you computed. They say it is supposed to do from 1 to 20 "centimeters of water". According to the Great and Mighty Internet, 20 cmH20 is 0.02 atmospheres, just to give some perspective. I do not have the math to calculate the energy requirement that represents when the air is in motion itself; my physics would only be sufficient to calculate the energy implied in pressurizing a closed container from 1 to 1.02 atmospheres, which is useless in this case. Perhaps someone else can pop up for that.

(Bear in mind I took a full standard College physics-for-non-majors course set, using full calculus, and what I know from that is that what I know is inadequate... if that also describes your experience, your education is inadequate too. We're going to need to hear from someone with more specialized education.)

My suspicion is that yes, this device is plausible, but the final version is going to be larger than the versions shown. Whether it crosses over the invisible line where people become unwilling to wear it is anybody's guess, but... sleep apnea sucks and those masks do suck too, so there's some room for these guys to work in. I'd classify this as a "considered risk" rather than "two orders of magnitude impossible". I reserve the right to change this assessment as more data comes in, especially a (good!) physics analysis of the real energy required to do this.
If he did that it would diminish the clicks for people who can associate plastic with other items. I think very little people are associating polymer to their pop bottles.
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We don't go to those sites anymore.
Not really. In much of Asia, which is most of the world's population, two wheelers dominate. Traditionally bicycles, which was followed by motorbikes in South and Southeast Asia and electric scooters in China.

There's a reason why they continue to dominate, and it's not just the cost of cars (I've regularly seen people riding bicycles worth more than many people's cars here in China) - it's because they're practical! Parking, repair, exercise, lack of traffic congestion, etc.
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Try noFap and meditation.
True, you're right. But I guess if you have a way of achieving the same goals without doing that it should be favored?
About a month or so ago. The rationale was that Firefox used to have or intended to have a similar read for later feature but they decided to scrap it in favour of direct integration with Pocket. Oddly enough, Mozilla employees claim there wasn't money involved in the integration. See this thread for more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9667809
It is a little late for a response to this question but I just had another thought.

Maybe a local Uber-like business. One that only servers one city.
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Honestly, it sounds like Bethanye dodged a bullet by getting out now.
I wouldn't be worried about this bad results, they're still one of the current best series producers, people love the binge watching option and they're releasing new series like what ? Every two months ?
You should also learn how to say natural and sparkling in addition to water, if you have a preference when travelling in europe.
The US is still a young country. They are currently in their (perhaps declining) outward expanding imperial militaristic stage. For this, excessive patriotism is required, is absolutely necessary.

It has been the same for any outwardly expanding empire, from the British, French, Spanish, German in more recent times back to the Roman / Greek days.

The first rule for near constant warfare, get the flags out, get the crowds chanting....
I do some exercise or something that makes me feel productive:

- Clean the house a bit
- Do some yard work
- Get some exercise (bike ride or stretching & 7-minute workout)

I find that if I do any of the above - especially if I am NOT in the mood to! - makes me feel a lot better!
Pao is the only one of the three who left for any reason that might be gender-related, though.

And, yeah, the harassment of Pao was very misogynistic -- and racist to boot (people were calling her a "ching chong cunt") -- but there's nothing to indicate that the other two had any problems due to their gender.
Maybe it had absolutely nothing to do with gender?
I think you're assuming it potholes in the same way as asphalt. Even if it did, it would be repaired most likely the same way potholes are repaired today, by infection new plastic into the hole and forming the previous layer to it, just like we do with asphalt today.
We already use JanitorMonkey. It would likely involve tagging the instance in AWS with a tainted tag, and adding code to JanitorMonkey to do the normal mark-and-sweep.
I think they would have paid attention to traction, bicycles are pretty popular in Rotterdam so I can't imagine them not having put much thought in to it.
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This is a bit off-topic, but some of the user feedback (esp. in German) is really childish.
Calm down - you can simply scroll down to the content and hide the view counter.
From what I've seen, being a CEO, CTO, etc is almost inherently a glass cliff. You either keep things running smoothly or you will get let go.

Besides, Ellen wasn't even fired. She resigned no?
Just do the first step. Just one step at a time. Get the notebook open. Open the program. Stare at it for a while. Think and meditate. Remember why you like to do this. Get yourself caught up into it.
Reminds me of the early part of this guys story... http://tylertringas.com/storemapper-store-locator-bootstrapp...
As an aside, we shouldn't even accept your first assumption there, because it's demonstrably not true. There are all kinds of thing that tools like Flash (and Java, and Silverlight, and even ActiveX controls) have previously been useful for that HTML5 and JS can't yet replace.

But your main point is a very good one. There are way too many people in the industry right now complaining about those older technologies who think that the world somehow magically owes them updates to 10-20 years of past work, just because their bleeding edge browser-native tools have finally reached the point in the very recent past when they can do some of the same work to a useful degree.

There are also way too many people moaning about how these plug-ins are such horrendous security problems while ignoring the facts that (a) every major browser also has a less than stellar track record on security issues, with Firefox and Chrome patching numerous vulnerabilities in updates every few weeks, and (b) moving the more advanced, and often hardware-accelerated, functionality from plug-ins to native browser capabilities isn't really reducing the area of the attack surface, it's just reshaping it. Given these facts, there is little reason to assume that browsers will inherently be more secure just because plug-ins were forced out in favour of native technologies. As others have been pointing out today, the reverse might actually be true, because at least the plug-ins have a degree of isolation and click-to-play safeguards are now widespread, while the trend with browsers (again, particularly Firefox and Chrome) is to remove obvious settings that would allow users to turn off certain functions.
Actually I want to avoid having to think of it as bad guys vs good guys. And information are mostly (unless you're an insider) <greek|german> guy revealing the truth about the other.

I'd love to have a real map of the economic relationships between banks, investors, governments.
From what I understand Shumway (https://github.com/mozilla/shumway) is being developed for exactly that reason
Six years old though. Still interesting historically.
The real world is a huge range. In my experience, something like 75% of the world does..

1) Push out a new code

2) Shut down all prod servers at once

3) Restart them

Maybe during a weekly maintenance window.. maybe at 2am.. maybe at noon.. depending on the company and clients. Basic assumption is "Meh, people will reload if the page is down for a few minutes"

Even though 0 downtime is the "right" way to do stuff, seems like the ops level of many places is not that high.

The fact that you have scripts and are making some kind of attempt for less downtime puts you in the top 25% of the internet.
>Hacker News, the mens’ rights messageboard

i knew it! this y combinator thing is just a ploy to empower men!
I don't know why exactly they chose to include pocket into Firefox. I do know that it has been stated that Mozilla does -not- receive money from Pocket usage.

I'm very confused as to why they didn't just leave it as an opt-in plugin.
Unless she got in the position, took one look around and realized there was no way to get to the goals stated... in the long term, better to move on, do something else than get stuck with the bag of poop once the musical chairs are done.

I have no idea what's going on inside reddit, just my two cents / devil's advocate thing.
> That seems like an awfully low bar for someone in that position

Given that Reddit has repeatedly said "our infrastructure/codebase is super-complicated" every time users have complained about server stability and the lack of features, that might actually be the truth, and being Chief Engineer is a task that's doomed to fail.
there is not only the fact that they need to be developed... if I remember correctly they gave dates to have them in production. maybe she felt she could not have them done on time.
> Maybe they were just a terrible driver. I live in a cold U.S. State and have never slipped on Ice

This wasn't winter, there was no ice, and it was low-speed urban driving. The wet crosswalk simply had close to no traction.
Not to shoot the messenger, but it annoys me when these things are viewed through the lens of artificial divisions such as nations. I understand that space exploration has been used as a tool to further many political machines, but it seems silly to me, especially when staring at a picture as beautiful as this from a distance that makes Earth seem so small, to think about the people living on this planet as anything other than humans, rather than citizens of different countries. It just feels divisive where it should really feel uniting. (Kumbaya!)

I really hope we someday get to the point where no one really cares what "country" achieved the next space exploration milestone.

edit: To be fair, I am really heartened when I see how international the teams that do work in the space station generally are. We've come a long way.
I don't understand the complaint here. Do people expect Mozilla to build everything themselves?

Reader View is a great feature that was clearly missing. Adding a third party sync to it is really no different from picking a default search engine to serve location bar entries.

Pocket is fine, best of the trio (Instapaper, Readability) IMHO. I actually switched to Pocket from Readability, which was getting buggier, a few weeks before it was integrated.

Getting all that while bringing revenue for Mozilla to support further development of Firefox is a win-win-win. Unlike Hello or "Share This Page" which I have never seen anyone use.
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It's _extremely_ early for that framework unfortunately, and development is quite slow.
Are you suggesting Bethanye is lying? Her reasoning for leaving has nothing to do with being a women, and everything to do with being a smart engineer who won't take shit. Remember, Ellen was instituting policies to make the place more equal for woman.

Frankly, this has nothing to do with being a woman at Reddit, and everything to do with Reddit seeming like a hostile working environment. It just so happens that these 3 people are woman.
Definitely write a post about this. Why a flashlight? Was no laser pointer available?
1) Type about:config in the browser's address bar and hit the enter-key afterwards.

2) Confirm that you will be careful if the prompt appears.

3) Search for browser.pocket.enabled.

4) Double-click on the preference to toggle its state from true to false.

This disables Pocket in Firefox and the icon should be gone once you restart the browser.

Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/05/14/how-to-disable-pocket-in-fi...
If everyone drove 1mph do you believe there would be as many car accidents from slipping? Nope. This type of event occurs because of human misjudgment.
I don't follow your logic at all.

And you do not escape the fact that the device has got to move almost 3 kg of mass with about 1 watt.
The Pocket integration is open source, and it went through the same peer review process all code goes through before being pushed to the repositories.
Sometimes it's natural to take a break, don't beat yourself up about it! Try to stay positive instead of stressing yourself about output. If you can't manage your psychology around it, try searching for 'psychology of rest' or 'creativity and rest' or something else likely to turn up positive results about random breaks, then convince yourself you're taking the most pragmatic approach!
I was upset about not orbiting Pluto initially but the objects they've identified in the Kuiper Belt are dissimilar so that information will be just as valuable IMO.

We just need to start setting up bases!

ALL YOUR PLUTO BELONG TO US!!!
I put some music on. This always snaps me out of it. Of course, it depends what sort of music. Loud, obnoxious, and appealing. Something I haven't heard in a while.
Ask HN: Help with algorithm for ranking content on interaction count and rating
TL;DR
Content that has a low interaction count may have a 5 star rating because interaction is low. Content with higher interaction counts may have a 4.5 star rating and shows below content with 5 stars and lower interactions, even though it is probably the better choice.

In our app we show a list of content (in our case Nightclubs) and allow users to sort based on 3 properties: Name, Rating, Favorite count. Name is self explanatory, it's just alphabetical ascending. Favorite count is also self explanatory, think of it as a like count and we sort descending. Rating is where it get's interesting... I'm looking for a fair "score" to rate venues on instead of simply rating. The problem with rating is venues that have more bookings are naturally going to have ratings below 5 stars. Our best venues with 100's of bookings have a rating around 4.6. This is a problem because most of our users are choosing to sort by rating, but those 4.6 rated venues with a ton of buyers are being shown below venues with minimal buyers that happen to have a 5 star rating. So my question, is there a fair algorithm that can take into account buy counts and rating to sort more naturally?
Particle tests are a dime a dozen. You could have seen the same things in Flash 10 years ago.

BTW I'm on a Mac viewing your (66k polygons) example in Chrome - and my fans started spinning almost a few seconds after opening your link. Five of those running in parallel and my laptop would probably explode.

GPU seems to be going crazy - http://i.imgur.com/t4qC0LJ.png