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Because applying rot13 to copyrighted data won't suddenly make it legal. It'll just make it slightly more annoying to read. This move couldn't possibly offer any kind of legal defense.
Yeah right: TINA, anything left of Reaganism is a rose-tinted delustional pinko socialist infantile temper tantrum. It's all about "poor life choices" and we need to "make whatever your country Great again".

Why did I even wake up this morning to read this?
I used SQLite to analyze web server logs at my last job (devops at Xero). SQLite supports in memory databases which are very fast. I'd parse a bucket of logs into a table, then run some queries against them and write the results into Graphite. The results ended up on the ops wall, and generating another data point was one more SQL query in a config file away. Wonder if they're still using it.
To be honest, I think LA, a historically car-obsessed city, has been utterly transformed by Uber/Lyft.
I'm working on something open source / maybe disruptive in this space but I'm not ready to announce anything yet. I'm always looking for collaborators though. I think there are easy solutions to all the problems you mention. For example, if you need data, go to youtube.
Sqlite was a postgres fork, off of 8.something, IIRC
When people say SQLite is everywhere, they mean it. Heck you're likely using it right now as you browse HN since Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc all use it.
We have just started hitting goals for inflation and job growth so it makes perfect sense that a poll from 2015 will indicate that the public is discouraged.

edit: look at the CPI chart I posted and you will notice the period of deflation in 2015. Deflation is bad.
I've voted on the issue, and after some to-and-fro I decided to say yes.

I'm not sure how much of a factor the fear of terror was in the overall voting population, but for me personally it didn't play a big role.

A short rundown on why I decided to vote yes:

-it's typical Swiss compromise: the added competences are comparatively small (especially compared to the competences of neighboring countries) and a judge needs to approve any actions beforehand. The Swiss judicial system is perceived to work generally quite well and is fair.

-other organizations which are not democratically legitimized (Big corps, such as Google, Apple and foreign intelligence agencies: US, Germany) have much bigger capabilities to perform any such actions in Switzerland than the Swiss government. I'm not really comfortable with Switzerland being a blind spot for its own law enforcement.

-And I think one of the biggest factors: trust in the government: the political system in Switzerland gives the citizen much more power in terms of checks and balances. The "divide" between government, political elite and the people is one of the smallest compared to other European countries. This generally prevents or prohibits any too extreme forms and consequences of any passed laws.
Any of you use a lightweight desktop environment like on high end expensive system. Why? Does it matter if you end up using lightweight desktop environment on a low end system and end up using resource intensive apps on top of it?
Well, you get 4 months off during the year (Christmas break + summer). Any other business jobs, you only get 1 month off at most.
Except it does bind into the microphone and consumes audio stream using standard OS APIs, it just doesnt propagate it further .. as far as we know.
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Guessing wildly:

1. The linux desktop has been reworked so hard and so many times to try and attract and accomodate those good ol' "my mom uses linux!" as a means of obtaining critical mass for the other things (drivers, well-polished software, ...). The few that this model attract are equally fine with their smartphone and a laptop built around a browser.

2. From (1), it is not even an attractive target for dev- work. I used Linux as a my main "desktop" from the days of downloading slackware over BBS in the early 90ies up until I was introduced to OSX around 10.4. I tried going back after Apple making it increasingly more awful after 10.6. I hated every minute of it - all the things I hated with new OSX was replicated, poorly. an endless stream of internal frustration "no I don't want to automount this usb stick what is wrong with you?", "why is my volume settings jumping around", "yes I plugged in a device, I don't need to be notified that I did what I did please shut up", "oh so two audio feeds with different sample rates are a no go?", "my mouse is low on batteries? I'm not using it, it's not even connected?", "hotplug monitor? enjoy panic and reboot", "I know there's updates to be had, there's always updates to be had, fuck off - daddy's working". I waste more time turning things off than I previously ever had to do turning things on. Now my (non-NIH) regular linux desktop use is confined to VMs that I just reset from template, do my thing and then murder.

3. Not even 'cool' anymore. The 'fragmentation' of the desktop was an attractive feature to young me. Jumping between WindowMaker to Enlightenment to KDE opened a lot of ideas as to what this thing could be used for, I enjoyed tinkering (still do, but not on this chimera). Now they are all convering into mostly the same confused pig but with different shades of lipstick. The same useless animations and effects and none of the useful ones.

"We" lost the mobile race (and never really took to participating) and payed the price with what is effectively a kernel fork. There's a good chance that VR can actually turn into the next "Desktop" (displays are nearly there, eyetrackers, haptic gloves etc. incoming) to make the browser look more pathetic. How many projects are seriously working on it, or is that already lost?
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If you dislike government intervention, you should realize that people like this are the prime cause for it.
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Except the diversity quotas, or EEOs as they call it now, almost never allow for truly norm-bending individuals to access those roles. Having a different skin colour does not make or break group thinking.

It's a mirage, at best, and a sad state of affairs for racial perception at worst. That trendy cult of diversity is only contributing to kick-start racial consciousness among white people and that fragmented society is going to blow-up in your face, down the road.
Their actions don't really follow that concept and haven't for a while
If you have no option for better teeth, how much does that impact you? Serious question.

I really should have framed my example in terms of happiness rather than quality of life.
From a security perspective wouldn't you be better served by having an up to date OS?
Name widget asks the name endpoint, date widget asks the date endpoint, age widget asks the age endpoint...
It would be simpler if property taxes where capped to the relative value at purchase by the nation's inflation level, not the retail inflation of a given property... If they want to offset that have it applied as a property sales tax that isn't allowed to be more than N% of the home's sale price.
I will never use Brave, no matter how popular it becomes.

But yes, I have considered the opposite situation. And indeed, it's happened. It has only been 2-3 years since a majority of Americans have supported gay rights. It used to be that people would boycott over anything remotely supporting them. Most sponsors pulled out after Ellen Degeneres announced she was gay.

The thing with free speech is that it always works both ways. If you truly care about it, you always have to defend those that are indefensible. Yet in this case, supporters of Eich seem to think what he said was okay, but what his protestors said was not.

The people who protested had every bit as much of a right to their speech as Eich did to his. I believe Proposition 8 was a failure of government: that the rights of the minority should never be subjected to popular vote (tyranny of the majority.) But Eich was perfectly within his right to spend his money to say something truly abhorrent. And since freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, so too did the people using Mozilla have a right to voice their displeasure.
There are a number of instances where this kind of tax system becomes absolutely regressive:

1) You will force people out of their homes after a certain point. By delaying the payment on the taxes until sale, after some number of decades the amount of tax owed upon sale will be far larger than the value of the property, and no buyers will be found. So you're going to squeeze out not only ordinary family-residential ownership (nobody wants to buy a house that they know they'll just need to resell in 40 years or else pass some point of no return) but also commercial development (even if you can afford to buy multiple tax-deferred properties, you'd be developing on the land knowing that it'll be almost impossible to sell it on towards future development in a few decades) and infrastructure development (what, the government is going to pay itself on its enormous property tax bill when it needs to eminent domain private property to build new infrastructure?).

2) What happens if the old person never sells? Their children inherit the huge property. Do they owe the deferred tax upon transference? Does the tax continue to defer? If the tax is owed upon transference, and the children are unable to pay, and they're unable to find a buyer because the market crashed and no buyer is willing to pay that much tax - what happens? Does the government bail the children out of its own tax bill?

Not only does deferring the taxes get rid of the primary benefit of the property taxes for local governments (stable and dependable tax income year over year), but it dramatically incentivizes rentals and short-term ownership. Short-term ownership is terrible because it disincentivizes investment in the property itself. Ultimately development disappears and you have people either long-term renting from short-term owners shuffling the properties among themselves or short-term owning, and since the people who do need short-term housing are people like college interns, you'll find that the amount of talent is only going to decrease and put further upper wage pressure on engineering salaries.
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Unfortunately Chrome/ium has the best security story at the moment. Mainly due to good separation/sandbox. Firefox is only now catching up, slowly. So while I'd like to use FF, it's simply not a reasonable choice for me.
This is pretty ridiculous advice.

Death has a 100% chance of happening to all of us, and it is rarely predictable.

Being healthy and safe won't save you from a drunk driver, for example.
Incomes of those that have managed to get a job are rising because of state-mandated increases in minimum wage - not because of natural market forces. Businesses have two ways to compensate for the higher cost of labor that has been imposed on them: they can hire fewer people, and they can raise prices. Some will do both. But prices will rise - they just haven't yet because most of the increases in minimum wage were fairly recent.
try Vivaldi, its run by ex Opera CEO. Pretty much like new Opera minus chinese/ad company.
Since I work on Chromium, I kind of care about this... We're still an open source project. We still take a lot of external contributions, as far as I know.

Can you point to concrete cases where Chromium has not taken contributions (without giving a good reason, that is)?
find can batch arguments using +, much like xargs:

find . -ctime 2 -exec ag blah {} +

This makes startup latency less important.
Ha I actually know what you mean, php serialized data having string length as a parameter always confused me
> Other services that use your number will attempt to tell others you're trying to send them a message if they're not signed up yet. Allo? Not so much.

Doesn't it send them a text with a link to get allo? I'm certain it sent my wife a text like this.
Why dont all these companies ever just use real enterprise software?

There are about a dozen message systems out there that will handle much more than Kafka with minimal or no operational overhead while supporting everything they need.
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This shows that the story behind is still even more relevant today. Looking at what rubber-stamping is happening with "web standards" ....
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Think of all the mess with python2 and python3 co-existence.
The only reason chromium is my primary browser is the developer tools (it's a pain to use Firefox for normal browsing, but Chromium for debugging.)

I can only hope for chrome's devtools to be ported to firefox. (firebug is close but slow).
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Oh, just for completeness. On Zillow (and we all know how accurate or not it is) the house apprasises for ~1.8 million.

The zestimate for rent is about 4300. So not terribly under market.
local.<domain of site i'm working on> set in my hosts file

Or just "localhost" if it's a personal project with no domain
There are many terrible diseases today for which there is no effective treatment. Do you believe people are happy with that situation? I don't.
It's not a false dichotomy, it's an actual dichotomy. Handing out microscopes vs handing out malaria medicine. If you can do both, that is wonderful, but we aren't even doing the malaria medicine very well, it's probably not time to start figuring out our microscope plan.

But lets just be honest here, getting every kid in the world a microscope is a dumb idea. Most kids that have microscopes don't use them, they collect dust, and then get thrown away eventually. For the handful of kids that actually use them, the kind of microscope you would be able to afford to give out to everyone would be a piece of crap.
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> a computer with a single, fixed program alone

I'm not sure what you mean by a "fixed program". Is a statistical clustering algorithm not a "fixed program"? Even the human brain is running some "fixed program", as we cannot reprogram our brains to efficiently run general sorting algorithms on "bare neurons".

> "general problem solving ability" seems about right for some value of "general"

It may be more useful than nothing at all, but I don't see how it conveys too much information. Clearly, a universal Turing machine has a "general problem solving ability" for much more general values of "general". So I'm not sure how much information "general problem solving" conveys. More importantly, why do we even need a definition? Statistical learning is very effective at solving some useful problems. Why do we need to philosophize about the relationship between those algorithms and human intelligence before we have more data?
No. This is incorrect.
For every person who says Chromium's developer tools are better than Firefox's, you can find another person who will say exactly the reverse. It's possible one of the two positions is correct and the other is not, but I find it more likely that people are just used to particular developer tools and that there is no significant difference between the two. People get work done with Firefox and Chromium's developer tools equally, you just have to learn to use them.
> He resigned because he was asked to resign.

Sorry to post a link, but I responded to the same argument already here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12579498

> So if somebody who thinks firing people because they have different political opinion than you is wrong, would arrange to get you fired from your job - you'd be completely ok with that, according to your beliefs?

If they were truly my convictions, I would stand by them and tell the world that I was fired for my beliefs. I wouldn't suddenly become a liar. Especially not to protect the company that just fired me.

If what you say is true, and there is zero evidence that it is, then I would lose the very last tiny bit of respect I have for Eich. It would also mean the Mozilla board was truly and utterly incompetent; because this was an extremely predictable result. They already knew of Eich's donation. And anyone with a functioning brain would have realized that this would become a much bigger issue when he was promoted to CEO.

We do, however, share common ground that nobody should be fired for their personal beliefs (nor for that matter, for what they do in their personal time.) Yet at the same time, I refuse to accept a world where I would be denied the right to protest an abhorrent individual. Say there were a company run by a neo-nazi grandmaster wizard of the KKK that wanted to commit genocide. But hey, those were just his personal beliefs! Would you still be against anyone refusing to use that company's products? Against anyone saying the company shouldn't have hired such a man to lead them?

The critics who called for his job were wrong to do so. Saying a man should be fired for his beliefs was almost as bad as saying that gay people should not be treated as equal citizens with the same rights as straight people.

> Mozilla absolutely, totally and completely caved to the protests.

Prove it. Or if that's no longer required, then NASA absolutely, totally and completely faked the moon landings.
My interest waned when Mozilla fired Brenand Eich over a political donation.
Keeping choices open for the future is one good reason to use Firefox. My main reason to use Firefox on all my devices is because it is much better than Chrome. It has more predictable behavior, it does not require to be connected to a major cloud, I can tweak it to my liking and I do, I can backup the configuration, and I can do advanced but necessary things such as "text reflow" on my phone.

I have switched back to Firefox one year ago, and never looked back.
Taken in the broadest sense of the term, insurance could be long term food reserves or a contract with a neighboring village for assistance in times of need in exchange for premiums.
> Unfortunately Chrome/ium has the best security story at the moment.

And the worst privacy story and resource handling.
ACT sounds interesting. This is from an Amazon interview with its creator, Steven Hayes, who's written a book:

We get a lot of training in how to develop and use our minds, but we get very little training in how to step out of the mental chatter when that is needed.... Learning how to get out of your mind and into your life when you need to do that is an essential skill in the modern world.[1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Get-Your-Mind-Into-Life-ebook/dp/B005...
"He resigned of his own volition..."

Yeah, I'm sure he just up and decided to resign with zero pressure from political insiders and the flash mob causing outrage. That's probably what happened.
> On either side of the bay between these two loci are a number of vibrant and interesting places as well

I wouldn't call them either of those things; they're very nice suburbs on the Peninsula (west side) and less nice suburbs in East Bay. The northeastern ones (Danville, Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond) are too far to commute to South Bay from. And none of them are interesting.

There's also public transit up and down the Peninsula but it's very unreliable because the governments here refuse to invest in anything, or build anything, in the hopes it'll make everyone leave again.
But Firefox is soo slow on Linux...
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Even if I'm in web development I use Firefox on a day to day basis. When it comes to debug a large SPA Chrome has nicer features, but companies are not working for the commun benefit and Google is no exception.
What makes you believe Chromium has better sandboxing than Firefox? That may have been true in the past, I doubt it has much truth to it today. Furthermore, if you use GNU/Linux it should be trivial to give your web browser better sandboxing than what it does by itself. (You can use AppArmor or SELinux, you can run it in a systemd-nspawn container, you can use Firejail…)
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As someone who is currently planning to buy in Manhattan, $650k for a 1br in Yorkville sounds about right.

Quick Streeteasy eyeballing around 86 suggests the maintenance need not be $1500 either -- you either get a fancy elevator building at that price, or you get a walkup at a lower price than $650k.
I'm genuinely curious what the perceived threat is. I'm not happy about having a handful of browsers being dominant, but Chromium is legitimately free software. I'm very slightly worried that most people choose the Chrome branded version (which is not free-as-in-freedom), but there is so little between the two that I'm not sure it matters. V8 is forked into Node now so it would be pretty difficult to do horrible things even though Google controls the parent project.

The only thing that I can think of that seems like a risk is the amount of influence that Google has on things like whatever the replacement of CAs will be. But the situation is already so bad, it's hardly going to get worse.
I completely agree with you. I'm all for muting. The issue is the semantics of blocking in Twitter, which prevents those blocked from seeing subsequent tweets.

You end up with situations where public figures can limit their audience to only those who agree with them, which isn't healthy for anyone.
yep it does that why I instantly uninstalled !
Do people really get viruses through their browsers still? Can't think of that happening to anyone I know
I generally agree with the sentiment here, but somewhat similar to using Linux over macOS, my experience has been that it's just a worse user experience in exchange for "doing the right thing." In the end, it's about how much you're willing to sacrifice convenience and user experience for an ethical ideal.

For me, the last time I attempted to switch from Chrome to Firefox, it drove me nuts after a few days because of one behavior: When you click a web link in another application, it opens it in your non-incognito (or whatever that's called in Firefox) window, even if the incognito window is the one on top. Instead, you have to copy the link from the other app, tab over to Firefox, and manually paste it into the incognito window. This is a flow I use many times a day, and having to do this workaround was really annoying. I found a thread about it on Firefox's issue tracker, but it was closed with a response that basically amounted to the developer telling the user that reported it, "this isn't a valid use case."

I may be able to switch back to Firefox when they implement that feature where each browser tab is essentially an isolated "incognito" context, which is really what I want. The distinction between "incognito" and "not incognito" windows has really just been a proving ground for the idea of concurrent browser sessions isolated from each other, which is a much overall solution to controlling your privacy on the web.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Paradox