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I don't care about Mozilla or Firefox. I used to, but not anymore. Two reasons why.

First, copying Chrome's UI.

Second, forcing Brendan Eich out.

These days Mozilla comes across as a bunch of whiners and activists rather than a technology company. Maybe Rust will be successful but I don't want to be part of an ecosystem where straight talking and free thought is banned. Do you want to submit a pull request and be told not to use gendered pronouns or avoid using certain words because it makes people feel unsafe? That's the kind of world Mozilla occupies.
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How does it differ from cPanel/Plesk and similar non-cloud-branded server management solutions?
Doesn't sound bad to me at all. I'd happily live in a shipping container to get rid of my one hour BART commute either way each day. My east bay rent is more than double that too. It seems better in every way that matters to me.
That's a really interesting future option here, hard to see how it will compete with free adblockers though.
We're getting side tracked somewhat, but these preferences are a bit arbitrary. In my experience every platform I ever encountered has both interesting options and frustrating limits to its configurability. If we're being honest, we're just prone to silently live with the weaknesses of whatever platform we're currently fond of using.

> Nevertheless I'm glad that those files are there and that I can look up how to edit one if necessary[1].

Well, you can look up how to configure OS X's scrolling direction as well, same as for most customizations where dedicated apps exist that are really just thin wrappers over the command line [1].

1. http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-manually-change-the-scroll...
I tried so hard but 2 browser: one for browsing and 1 for dev just doesn't work for me.
This is an important moment in history, yet so few realize it. Congratulations guys!
Having kids re-prioritizes things sure and careers can languish because a parent might not stay in the office till 7pm to socialize, or be available at any hour and respond to emails till you hit the bed as the childless or (single or paired up) can do but if you don't mind not keeping with the joneses careerwise, it's doable.

Not everyone has to be the superachieving career minded semi-absent parent.
According to the project lead:

"Maguire told Quartz that the company intends to provide “the full internet,” but also noted that it will work with network operators’ bandwidth needs and business models."

http://qz.com/468376/facebooks-internet-beaming-drone-is-rea...
> Yet those who had children had different attitudes. Of millennial men who were already fathers, 53 percent said it was better for mothers and fathers to take on traditional roles.

Is this because (by definition) those millennials who've already had children must then have had them at a relatively young age? That might be indicative of a more traditional attitude towards adulthood and, by extension, towards gender roles.
There's a danger of looking at things from within the tech bubble. Perspective is everything and I'm not convinced mainstream will be so accepting when the privacy concerns gain greater visibility. The same drive that is making ad blockers a concern will probably come into play. It'll take one successful hack for reality to set in for many. I personally don't want that type of personalization or targeting.
Perhaps written content will end up going down the music route, with subscription based aggregators?

Certainly something that Apple News seems like it could be well placed for.
Have you tried Chromium? Just curious because this is my go to browser instead of Chrome and I am under the impression that it should not do this. Although I could be mislead. easy download through the following: http://chromium.woolyss.com/
Fundamentally a perfectly rational world is unrealistic. Humans do behave irrationally, even insanely. Humans also behave sub-optimally because they are trapped in systems full of crazy perverse incentives. The world itself is full of paradoxes and chaotic feedback loops; the best intentions rationally and logically executed can and do lead to perverse outcomes that would not and maybe even could not be forseen.

A perfectly rational world is supposed to be realistic. It is supposed to be like reality.

Even in our reality, people or the things they do don't always make sense, but you can find out the reasons why if you just dig deep enough.
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GT has an undergraduate major working with it, http://www.hsoc.gatech.edu/undergraduate/major, BS of History, Technology, and Society.

Took a fair number of classes in it while I was working on CS and generally enjoyed and learned a lot in them all.
>> Rationalist stories make a deliberate effort to reward reader's thinking, and teach him to get better at it.

> Because presumably women are incapable of rational thought, amirite?

Do you honestly believe this is what that sentence means? Honestly?
It must be late, because I looked in the comments section on the article and to my surprise I found interesting ideas and view points. I'll look again tomorrow.
Thanks for the link to that code, it was a pleasure to read. I then went back and read a GIF decoder I wrote some years ago in C++, code which I am very fond of -- it's pretty much the same code (as you'd expect) but my code is decorated with a lot of noise surrounding error handling and memory management/cleanup, as well as some unfortunate object oriented noise related to general style of the project it had been written for.
This. I don't use gmail, but I use youtube. And when you've logged into youtube, you've logged into your "Google Account". So you can't have youtube open in one tab, and not have your history from other (non-incognito) tabs logged (modulus some tweaking of various preferences that aren't obvious or intuitive).

There's no reason why they couldn't to the same thing Mozilla does: a) have a pretty clear account thing for "sync", b) have a pretty clear page for opt/in out on what to sync, c) Have working self-host sync solution, d) have an open source sync solution so you can easily see what's going on, and how things are encoded/stored.
There's data that shows that's not true. Check out the number of hours of paid work by mothers over time in the past 50 years, and the corresponding decrease in housework. [1] The world is not changed by "new-age articles and psychologists." It's changed by technology that reduces the hours required for housework.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/us/17kids.html
I guess it doesn’t make all that much difference which sign: it’s an arbitrary choice. It’s just a bit confusing for students to define the electron charge as -e instead of +e, or draw diagrams with arrows pointing the opposite direction of electron movement. http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/direct-current/chpt...

On the other hand this guy seems to appreciate the definition: http://www.austincc.edu/wkibbe/truth.htm
In the case of Facebook, no they do not.

First, that's a myth. There is no legal fiduciary responsibility to shareholders beyond the basics required by the SEC (which does not cover anything to do with maximizing profits et al).

Second, Zuckerberg controls Facebook. He has less realistic responsibility to the shareholders than almost any other CEO of a big public corporation in US history. The dual class share structure ensures he is able to ignore shareholder concerns and pressure that most other CEOs simply cannot.
Please explain? I am genuinely curious of knowing how that would not help security wise (apart from the very obvious MAC spoofing).
Not changing from the default is as much a choice as changing to something else. They shouldn't have changed it for updates, but for new installs.
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I'd probably wait a few years on teaching programming. I love the work in this field, though. Scratch was my favorite since it practically turned programming into something as easy as Lego blocks and more like Flash than OpenGL/DirectX. Kids were throwing together all kinds of great stuff with some pre-10yr olds making quasi-corporations. It was just amazing to see all that potential unlocked.

Props to the tool designers and the kids building stuff. I can't wait to see what the next leap in that category brings.
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I'll bite.

Your mind is wired by evolution to assess, evaluate and react to human behavior. It is equipped to defend you another humans' attempts to influence your behavior for their own ends when you interact with them in person. Software that you run daily should be able to bypass those built-in protections in a more subtle and personalized manner than traditional advertising or propaganda could ever dream of. In an untrained mind it won't meet resistance but the mind can be trained; the "bigotry against 'robots'" (really, human organizations acting at a distance) on the part of humans who read enough stories like this one emerges as a result and is completely justified.
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About 70 academic historians signed an open letter opposing the new A.P. U.S. History framework so it's not surprising to see NPR jump on this.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/06/...
It really is not that much of a big deal, IMO. And I'm really not a Window fanboy.
Interesting, one of my favourite professors uses Processing for the Introduction to Programming course at my school and decided to make students plot based on an array he pulled from NBA top 10 player data (or at least 10 or so players). Definitely forwarding this one to him, maybe it could be turned into a challenge for students. I wonder how this would look in Processing with Python (it's supported as an addin).
Here's the thing - I want my history to be available and searchable to me, because I often want to go to a page I visited previously. However, I'd prefer if others couldn't read it and I wasn't showed ads based on that. At the moment, Firefox provides a good browser that doesn't profile me or share my history with "trusted third parties".
> Is there a tech scene now?

Yeah - it's small, but seems to be taking off.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223997

I had some doubts about moving back to the US from Italy, but so far we're really happy in Bend. We'll see how the winter goes.
I'm in the same boat. I dual-booted from 2001 to 2003, but then just switched to Linux full-time. I'm strongly considering dual-booting again to play with Windows 10, but I'm also pretty sure I wouldn't know how to do anything.
I wouldn't hold my breath over MSFT software market place. They are notorious at dropping support for this as soon as they feel it doesn't enable them to capture more market share.
> turn it off

For now. This crap is going to get a lot harder to avoid when the Intel SGX instructions are widely deployed and it becomes possible to extend the lockdown from SecureBoot to the kernel and kernel-authorized apps.

I suggest fighting it now, while it is still just an annoyance.
James "Kibo" Parry -- could be. Or perhaps they are both named after Kibo, the dormant volcano at the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kilimanjaro#Geology_and_...
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I liked the claim that political correctness killed racism and pedophilia. If that's the case then I'm all for it!
Too much conspiracy, but how we all wish it was just theories.
Nah, Forth is too weird. It's determined by how Moore wants things to work as much as anything else. Example: lets force modern computing experience into 18-bit many-core (?!). Wirth's languages are a better start in that they're readable, fast, easy-to-learn, map to real-world use better, and easily extended. The interactive design could be added easily to a simple language/runtime like Oberon.

Alternatives include Scheme and Python. One has a long history teaching people and the other is developing one. Python is one I recommended to someone's kid with good results not long ago. Closer to pseudo code as BASIC was while having quite a community and industrial-strength libraries.
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I agree with you on second point. I once read a whole article on how industry wants our devices to be for consumption instead of creation and it made a lot of sense. Getting kids to actively approach devices as a form of personal empowerment (and entertainment too) seems like a better approach. They might get a good job later, too. ;)
"Just" need to convince devs to port their code to yet another platform ..... sic. Let's see how long MSFT and Valve can pretend they cannot get along.
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Ah yeah, I can see why! But I'm a cheapo startup founder. My safety for a thousand bucks a month? Sure I'll give it up!
Rational fiction does not depend on the entire world being rational, only the main characters. Choosing to make the main characters unusually rational is no worse a sin than making them the "prophesied heroes of destiny," or any of the other special abilities usually given to protagonists. The rest of the world is free to be crazy—many plot points in Methods of Rationality, for example, develop as a result of thinking critically about the canon irrational magical world. (Magic itself isn't irrational, but the lack of characters exploiting overpowered artifacts like Time Turners and the Philosopher's Stone is.)
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Windows 10's Term & Condition is wide enough to encompass what ever MSFT might come up in the future to track and catalog you as a good, willing, consumer. MSFT has stated that Windows 10 should be the last version of the OS in the current retail format, and therefore, technically, any update/upgrade will still be considered as Windows 10.

MSFT might not want to log everything you write on their OS, but who knows what they will deemed acceptable tomorrow under the same EULA?
Have you thought about switching tracks within technology? Management is a hard tough problem. Becoming a good manager with a technical background can help you solve problems at a bigger scale without having to actually program your way (alone) through the entire thing.

Alternatively, you could get back into school, get a PhD in something applied. Say Machine Learning or Statistics. I would argue a lot of jobs in research labs (Microsoft Research, Google etc) are less about writing a load of code but about solving an interesting problem.
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Out of interest, how does Win 10 compare with Mac OSX in terms of being able to install and change default browser?
Given Apple's penchant for lock down, I'd expect it's much the same as Windows?
The core of this all is defaults. If somebody makes an experience with defaults that benefit themselves, that feels like America to be for better or worse. The important part, the crucial part is that they remain choices. While we could and do fight for a web with defaults that don't mean profits to big companies, shouldn't we also work to ensure that we have choices in the first place? When picking a platform are there choices you don't get to make?
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I said effective tax rate not marginal tax rate. It looks like US and CA income tax has brackets, so even if your marginal rate is 37% you won't be paying that rate on 100% of your income.

That said, I'd believe that if you include expenses like health care your net pay would be ~40% less than your gross pay. :P
Good point. I guess in this way C++ has a quality similar to dynamically typed languages.
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Interesting - Windows Defender is an antivirus product for Windows 8+. However, for Windows 7 and older, it is only an anti-malware product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Defender
I'm not sure you completely understand what all this is about. It's not about whether Windows 10 is any good, its about the default privacy and browser settings.

I really (really) like Windows 10, but it really annoyed me that the same privacy settings that Windows 8 defaulted to "off" were suddenly defaulted to "on" in Windows 10.
> - The Unabomber Manifesto - Ted Kaczynski

That's a really weird thing to have as a favorite writing and to advertise.
Having visited Amsterdam, I'd be curious to live there on a permanent basis, although I am also in love with mountains (which the entire country lacks...) - as I think a lot of people who end up in Boulder can relate to.

Booking does have a somewhat strange reputation when it comes to their coding style, I'm not sure if I could really come on board fully with their workflow.

Ha. I haven't gotten a Perl job in Boulder since 1999, and I don't know if I've seen one posted since then, either. My expertise is a little broader than just slinging Perl, fortunately, but I do find it to be a most agreeable language to a creative, visually-oriented mind.

What am I referring to is the scenario where you can apply for a job, and rarely even expect to hear back from a potential employer, as the total number of people also applying makes that impossible. This, I don't think, is very different from other areas of the country.

Google moving to Boulder is sort of a mixed bag, and there is a number of people who are not looking forward to them coming.
It's a fine line for sure. I recently recommended ChromeOS for my mother. Her problem is that she runs programs that compromise her OS. The malware I've removed from my parent's computer is hugely invasive and it is usually tied to her account. Given the choice of Google having some of her privacy details or some unknown crackers, I'd much rather have her expose that information to some cooperation that has public scrutiny over how they handle that data.
Honestly, as someone who kinda grew up with two super-achieving career minded parents (on the scale of "majorly influenced their respective academic fields"), it's possible to keep a top tier career going strong and raise kids.

By their example, you have to be pretty ruthless about work/housework/childraising division, though: my parents split weekends and weekdays, so when I was young it was either the day we spent with mom or the day we spent with dad, with a few evenings and dinners together, and as we got older we had a lot of unsupervised freedom (not really a bad thing, imo, but it might mean not living in a crowded suburb or a city). However, it's certainly possible to be on the forefront of the /field/ you are in and still raise reasonably well adjusted kids evenly, it just takes a lot of effort from /both/ parents and a lot of conscious organization and division of tasks. They did have very flexible work schedules (including being completely able to work on weekends), though, which probably made it a lot easier than the (traditional) "You will work from 9am-5pm on Monday through Friday" most corporations (still) expect.
The #1 reason for all of this is actually "that's how it has always been done", which is strong motivation for non-core things in a startup.
Great to have a resource like this. By way of providing some hopefully constructive feedback, the language seems a bit excessively informal: "Safe Rust is For Reals Totally Safe. Unsafe Rust, unsurprisingly, is not For Reals Totally Safe. In fact, Unsafe Rust lets you do some really crazy unsafe things". I get the idea that's it's trying to be friendly and street, but it's a bit out of place in a document like this (I was just waiting for 'shizzle' to pop up). There also looks to be an excessive use of emphasis (italics).
The vast, vast, majority of the murders are drug and gang related and are confined to the bad parts of town on the east and west sides of the city. It looks like a large swath on the map because Baltimore used to be the third largest city in the country and is currently at half the population it was at it's height. The good areas are around the inner harbor, Fells Point, Canton, Federal Hill, as well as from the harbor running north to the JHU undergrad campus area, around Charles Village and Hampden. Personally I've lived here 10 years now and never felt unsafe. Another positive is that unlike SF single women outnumber single men by a large margin.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/baltimore-insider-blog/...
I was taught, like everyone else, that I should grow up to be brilliant, rich, famous, hard-working, caring and empathetic. Someone who can code software in a flash, hustle up a great deal and then send Christmas cards to the relatives. But in the end, "doing what it takes" would break me and my limited personality. I might be able to manage the Christmas cards.

There's a whole big world out there, and I take posting on HN as a nice little luxury in it. Hard to appreciate, I guess.
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Rust prevents memory leaks about as well as GC'd languages do. (mem::forget in Rust could easily be written in your GC'd language. Rc/Arc leaks are more of an issue, but they're pretty rare because reference counting is uncommon in Rust.)
Somehow I think a lot of the HN crowd (and particularly startups) will not understand the point here.

Saying you have dedicated sysadmin/ops staff is practically punishable by death in some tech circles, because DevOps means a junior dev can just write a few lines of ruby to setup, manage, monitor and maintain your entire tech stack, right?
> There's been a growing call for the city and California to adopt what is known as the "Idaho Stop" law. Since 1982, Idaho has permitted cyclists to treat stop signs as yields and red lights as stop signs, which allows bikers to conserve energy, clear intersections faster, and become more visible (and thus safer) by getting in front of traffic.

Err .... maybe they should look at what push bike friendly countries are doing on the old world? I don't know like Denmark or the Netherlands ....
The screenshot in step 2 suggests to me that the settings app does not recognize browsers other then Edge on the system. I wouldn't know what to do if I saw that without being told to click on it for options, as there is no hint that it's a drop-down menu.
It's now owned by News corp, same as Fox.
We have ten fingers, so it's pretty intuitive.
When you actually have to use it what's amazing is how much congestion and packet loss there is. On paper it looks like a zero-impedance source of data but in reality it barely keeps up.
WOW. You have the balls to post eugenic nonsense (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9970695) from an account easily tracked to your real identity. Those are some big, big balls. Congrats.
I disagree, it is extremely affordable compared to SF (A good amount of nice housing for 200-300k) and Tech salaries are largely the same as SF.
NSA attacks most people. It's just selective about who it targets for special treatment after going through everyone's stuff.
Respectfully, I don't think you know what a troll is.
Great tutorial with lots of examples, these are the kind of Haskell learning resources we need more of.
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The "they can do what ever they want with their private property" argument doesn't matter. This isn't about what they can do, it's about what should be done.

No nothing should be required of these organisations. But their products serve humanity. They SHOULD have a sense of moral obligation to do the right thing. As should we the people have the responsibility to hold private monopolies to high standards so as that they help most people (not just shareholders).