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The developer of the ePubReader add-on for Firefox is looking to raise $26,685 in funds in order to rewrite the add-on for WebExtensions.

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

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/569473473/epubreader-fo...
Out of curiosity, what is being used to have the dots on the globe in the landing page? I've been trying to find out how to do this for a while, but I don't know which libraries are designed for it.
Here's what David Lynch, an avid practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, has to say about it:

http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/david_lynch_explains_how_...
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..seeing something like this come from someone with the name of an infamous Wikipedia troll is just a little bit giggle worthy.

That said, no it isn't. the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue.

In other words, it's a way to proclaim "I am a good person!" to the world, usually in a vacuous or shallow way.
Am I the only person here who was considering switching away from Firefox a few years back because I didn't think they had a plan to really move their efforts further?

Honestly, I'm really impressed with their plans for Servo, WebExtensions and other recently active projects.

I plan on sticking it out for the long haul.

EDIT: qualified when I wanted to switch.
Prehistory studies changed my life. To think that humanity is here for 200000+ years really gives you a new perspective of society and of our own minds.
What "tap" function is the author talking about?
>Does anyone else forget if they washed their hair of not while having an epiphany?

I'm more likely to mindlessly apply body soap to my hair or shampoo to my body when solving problems in the shower. I'm always amused when my autopilot makes this mistake.
I have a different perspective. The fundamental issue with many IT departments out there is the people managing the IT department out there or the people working in the department. The cultural difference between the young and the very traditional IT are in conflicts. Finding the right talents (sigh every time someone said let's look for someone with scripting experience - no...please look for someone with software engineering experience).
I'd be very interested in a tool for diffing that gave some broad overview of how things have moved around. Otherwise, the kind of refactoring where you break things apart just creates a pull request that's harder to get oriented in. Which is a shame because a harder to gloss code review can disincentivize the changes that are needed most.

Conversely, it's just so easy to add an if statement there or any early return here, and over time you've got a 400-line method with like 100 branches and an Avagadro's number of possible paths. But you look at a two-line diff and say, "Hey, this looks reasonable."
What is FUNcation? Because 925 is boring and 420 is too much
> We had John Podesta, seventy years old, fall for a Russian phishing scheme that involved downloading an executable email attachment, presumably clicking thru the warning and running it anyway

What does Podesta's age have to do with anything at all??
Reminds me somewhat of:

'Cmd.io, or “Command IO” as we pronounce it. Cmd.io will let you use and share commands for the terminal, as a service, over SSH.'
http://gliderlabs.com/devlog/2016/announcing-cmd-io/
Get hired by Google and you'll be able to check it out. It bears a close resemblance to a Rube Goldberg machine.
Security is debatable. Sand boxing was just introduced. Customizable maybe, but between the australis, xul deprecation, and the limited theming API I don't think Mozilla really cares.

Also for a open source browser. Are you aware the is chromium? Or hell any number of electron based web browsers (which is also chromium).

Edit and loss of configurability is not the issue. Loss of Functionality is.
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He will get the support through amazing feats of negotiation.
Pfft, use a mirror.

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I've used this free program to make lots of diagrams: http://pencil.evolus.vn/Downloads.html

I don't know if it's the best thing out there, but it's pretty low risk to try it out. I haven't needed to look for anything better, and it does have some neat features.
> Unfortunately for my screen-doodling habit, new MacBooks have some kind of coating (AR? Oleophobic?) that causes the marker's fluid to bead up, ruining the effect.

I can confirm, my mid 2014 MBP screen is _ruined_. Tried alcohol, screen wipers (which actually made it worse)

I am this close to using a detergent (I know I shouldn't). Any suggestions?
Mystified by the downvote. Matt Cutts talked about the unintentional SEO advantage of exact match domains, publicly, and later they released an algorithm change to fix it.

And, I was "pretty sure", but searched a bit. My memory was right. Browsers used to tack ".com" onto things you would type into the url bar. The search box was separate at the time. Firefox, for example, had a setting called "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" defaulting to "on" that made this the default behavior.

These kind of domains did, at one time, have a notable built-in advantage.
I enjoyed your advice and on the whole rarely vote for anything on HN, but there's is a certain irony in you not handling this rejection well.

Have confidence that you said what you think, there's nothing wrong with it.

Voting systems feed on ego and self-worth. And I lost respect for your original comment after seeing the reply.
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This is the best I could find on the web. Unfortunately Galanter published in an era when everything was paywalled. I've had a lot of trouble finding blog-worthy writing of his, although his lecture is one of the few that I remember from undergrad years...

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-010-2245-3...
There's the capacity to make whatever mechanical equipment is required domestically as well as more aluminium than the country would require, I think most if not all of the above will be able to be manufactured.

The comment wasn't about being self sufficient and maintaining our current lifestyle, it was about being a piece of civilisation that survived an all out world war.
I believe they're referring to "contactless" use. Here are the reference I found:

https://www.shopify.com/blog/36816197-emv-chip-cards-are-com...

Tap (Contactless)

Data between chip card and a payment terminal is exchanged wirelessly when the two come into contact. In most cases, the customer will be required to provide no verification for smaller transactions. New forms of mobile payments like Apple Pay will also work this way.

Here's another article describing it (and potential issues):

http://globalnews.ca/news/2295763/tap-and-pay-cards-its-fast...

I'm by no means an expert! I just used google. Clarification and corrections most welcome!
The wikipedia page answers all your questions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...
Eh. At some point, the threat isn't how good your crypto is but rather how much you're willing to sacrifice to keep it that way.

Signal's authors may be more technically competent than a government security officer, but Signal can be coerced into releasing an update that surreptitiously changes the behavior of the application whereas well-protected NSA officers are (theoretically) more immune.
And yet, the newer laptops require a USB hub to be functional, which means you have this thing dangling from your laptop like a condom that was freshly used.
I'm not sure of the procedures used to protect the Apollo astronauts, but it hasn't worked very well [0]. Though, NASA says that its too early in the process to make any conclusions [1].

The key conclusion of the study:

> They found the Apollo astronauts’ mortality rate from cardiovascular disease was as much as five times higher than for astronauts who never flew, or for those who flew low-altitude missions aboard the space shuttle that orbited a few hundred miles above Earth.

[0] https://www.rt.com/usa/353865-apollo-study-heart-disease/

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-health-astronauts-id...
Sometimes very necessary. Windows 7 had a bug that caused it to spread boot information across multiple drives if you had more than one plugged in at install time, even if you specified only to use one.
It doesn't help if the web site is JavaScript only!
Sure, I'm just saying that there aren't legal repercussions from violating an unconditional act.
reminds me of https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk...
My girlfriend always does this to people when she finds out they went to x university. "Oh do you know this or that person". A university with 100k students.

Some people's brains don't consider scale/space when hearing a familiar connection. :p
>>Firefox is literally the only major browser

and I view that as a good thing, not a bad thing.

Being a clone of "every other browser" is not desirable to me

>and it shows hard in performance and in security vulnerabilities. I'm very excited to see Firefox finally catch up.

I care less about performance and more about functionality.

I can overcome performance with larger processors and more memory, I have 12 core system with 64GB of memory, FF is not hurting my system.
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What's the right role for someone who wants to deeply know some products enough to fix the code the right way, but doesn't want to be a dev? (Be a dev somewhere where maintenance is as valued as creation?)
Pay after delivery on Amazon would sure be nice.
Oh great, I've never heard of the Voynich manuscript now I've spent the last hour reading Wikipedia and watching this doc https://youtu.be/awGN5NApDy4

This is why I try avoid HN. But none the less, very interesting! ;)
> For all intents and purposes it's a tax

Yes, you're right. The rate is fixed, not based on individual risk. Really, it's no different than Employment Insurance, which is also more of a tax than an insurance.

> Are you suggesting that Canadians are ignorant of other countries health care systems?

I'm suggesting that the vast majority of Canadians, myself included until relatively recently, are almost completely unaware of affordable options available world wide. (Other than in the US, which isn't affordable at all)
The company officers or agents who were served with the letter could be held personally liable for failure to comply with the order. I think it's a little unfair to expect employees to go to prison for contempt of court in defiance of the order.
> Progress shouldn't be dependent on a small group of unaccountable organisations - but if such want to get out there and run their businesses in an, progressive manner that benefits society as a whole, I'm going to cheer them on.

What would you think if big companies like Google and Apple pursued a conservative agenda? What if they were against same-sex marriage or legal abortion?

The sword cuts both ways. There is no guarantee that corporations will always be on the right side of the culture wars, but they have enormous power. It's not a good idea to support corporate power because it happens to be on your side this time.
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So the solution to high medical costs is limiting the supply?

I guess if it works for rent, it'll work for medicine.
A cool quote:

"And taking the historical view, who, then, looking back, might be the first SRE?

We like to think that Margaret Hamilton, working on the Apollo program on loan from MIT, had all of the significant traits of the first SRE."
> I want his tax returns so we can get some clue as to whether his obsession with Russia is a childish crush on authoritarian bullies, which is a theme of his, or whether in fact there is a financial connection.

Which tax returns probably wouldn't tell you because even if there was it would only show up as revenue from some nondescript corporation in Delaware.

> I want his tax returns to find out just how badly he's been lying about his net worth.

Which tax returns probably wouldn't tell you because they deal with income rather than assets.

> I want his tax returns because I honestly believe he'll be humiliated by us seeing them.

At least you admit it.
Their security story is laughable. It won't be multiprocess. It won't have sandboxing. They deleted every test directory from the source tree.
Technically, yes. The company that hired me was bought by another company (B), which in turn was bought by yet another company (C). There was much shuffling of upper layers of management (mostly VP and higher) but that's about it.
Tragic. My friend in Canada says 80% of medical spending is in the last 20% of the lives of Canadians.

I read a similar story a few years ago,probably from HN, about a woman whose husband suffered a severe stroke. While he was in the hospital, the doctors told her he needed a pacemaker. Without thinking she said "of course" but she unknowing extended his life by 10 years because of this error. And he only got worse to the point where she wished he would die, which made her feel even more guilty. A truly horrible situation that no one should be put in, but we are because we have the technology and the misbegotten notion that everyone should live, even st the expense of life.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644v1.pdf

"China". To think I used to actually pay for your paper in my errant youth! :)
Well, I think it's less of a disconnect than a difference in priority. SRE's first priority is "stop the bleeding" -- take whatever immediate action you can to stop users from being hurt. That might mean rolling back the binary, reverting a data push, draining away from a broken cell, whatever. When you're serving thousands or millions of QPS, time is of the essence.

That being said, SRE does want to ultimately fix the problem (otherwise it's just going to page again, right?). But if that means tracking down a wrong config flag, cherry-picking a fix into a new release, etc. -- those are all things that can be done AFTER the bleeding is stopped.

Source: I'm an SRE
I too love GCP and have used it a bunch and really recommend it but I get the same reactions. Not sure what Google can do at this point.
Thanks so much! That was a really interesting read.
I kind of like it, though. It signals that you pay _exactly_ what you use, not a cent more.
Only the exponential phase is relevant, because you cash out midway through
> Got it, spite.

Even if that's true, isn't it a pretty poor reflection on a product if its users dislike its direction so much that they are willing to abandon it in spite?
Oh, does VZEROUPPER generate an illegal instruction if the OS has set the control register bit but has not called XSETBV? OK, that makes more sense.
Lol.. Guy builds stuff with stones, sticks and twigs, and it's at the top of Hacker News. If there are advanced alien races who study earth, I'll bet they have a Hacker News site where they have videos of people doing advanced ET Physics calculations with primitive Earth computers.
Sorry, but I love how someone with the username 'solipsism' is basically accusing you of being too ego-centric.
Why and when? Also was it a GCP issue or a general Google issue?
It seems a bit odd that they'd be enabling AVX in the bootloader. Any idea why they do that? Seems like something for the kernel to do during initialization (like most other features), not the bootloader.
The way Signal handles key changes is a not very user friendly for non-tech users. When the user's key changes, Signal does not automatically resend dropped messages like Whatsapp does. Curious whether the Signal users in the Government are aware of this.
> Is there any special reason to worry about your Echo being backdoored rather than your PC or laptops with their frequently built-in microphones?

None at all. There is also no reason to exclude the Echo from the list of backdoorable devices.
> iOS and UWP also were not designed with the intent to use single binary on any CPU architecture, independently from any appstore that could recompile for you.

It seems you never did UWP development.

UWP was designed to be architecture independent since Windows Phone 8.

Application's bytecode is uploaded to the store and gets compiled to each supported architecture using the so called "cloud compiler".

iOS development has moved into that model with bitcode on iOS 9.

Also there have been several C and C++ compilers across the years that could generate single binary on any CPU architecture.

For example compilers for OS/400, TenDRA, PocketPC.

> iOS also is not easy to use with any language, it assumes ability to link with a module written in ObjC. The pain of using UIKit with Python is comparable to using JNI.

Python is not a platform language on iOS SDK, C and C++ are platform languages on iOS, Android and UWP SDKs.

A good lesson in terms of productivity, is to only use SDK supported languages when writing production code any OS.
Put it this way, the music is patently artificial, if it exists solely within the scope of the fiction.

If the producers were not willing to cast a known artist, and granting creative freedom to compose real music, which would then be included on the official motion picture sound track, it's assuredly contrived, although it might be appealing.

Further driving this fact home is that, the actor cast in the role did not further his career as a musician, and no one claims credit for composing authentic music. This is a telling clue that it was composed expressly as a believable, high-quality prop. The people who made it were paid specifically to craft the music to fill the space required for the plot of the movie.

Now, take authentic music from other movies, which has been composed by a career musician, which then gets used as part of a sound track years later. It comes through, as obviously good, because it's selected for its high quality, as a known quantity.

Similarly, observe career musicians that have played roles in movies. Even if their acting sucks, usually their musical contributions still shine.

When examined in this way, the cheesey nature of the prop music is evident. This sort of perception is tough to balance, when asking people to suspend disbelief for the duration of the movie. It's hard to pull someone into the world of a movie, and then ask them to be impressed by someone who is not famous, and show them a world that is moved by his music when the music isn't truly moving.

Beyond that, we weren't even permitted to become emotionally invested in the character. Even though the circumstances of his demise are villified, there's no depth to his martyrdom because we don't bond with the character. We bond with the underground experience brokering brain-hacker main character. This is where the movie falls short, with respect to the weak cover-up conspiracy theory.
Interesting. I wonder what most people's thoughts are on the market/target area for Rust. My complete outsider perspective was that Rust was a "replacement" for C, C++, Ada, etc., and that "most" programs would be better suited to be written in higher level languages.
It is far far far far far way from replacing TreeStyle, as it has no Tree.... It just moves the tabs from horizontal to vertical, which has similar usability problems

It is better than Sidewise on chrome though, however TabCenter is XUL as well I believe, there are no APIS currently for it to be moved to Extensions,
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Agreed and although it should be obvious the other thing that blows my mind is that the intelligence is exactly the same only the base knowledge starting point differs.
Not if you have long hair like I do!
Vimperator is one of two things that keep me on Firefox.

The other is not having a single process per tab. I typically have 40-50 tabs open at any one time. On chrome that chews through memory. On Firefox it chews through significantly less.
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I think it's silly that people downvoted me for being curious about a controversial topic. I would never pay for followers because the point is actual audience, not the perception of one. I'm interested in it because social networks interest me, and so does the problem of validation of users on social networks.
Not a significant result.
Given this could lead to all sort of lawsuits, it's most likely they were looking for a "plan A" that didn't work and had to quickly unravel into a "plan B". Because they are shutting down, it's entirely possible the plan A left them without money in the bank and they had to announce it within the week (being Friday the best day for layoffs).
That doesn't stop high-energy particles. Neither does lead.
Well, I haven't read the book yet, but the commentary seems to suggest the SRE's role is more to teach the devs how to make their software maintainable, scalable and reliable, and then verify it really meets all of those traits.

As a developer, that is a service I greatly value, and greatly respect those who have that knowledge and experience.
Github link was posted as a comment by another user a few hours before you asked. :)
I don't think so. The product is the binary, which can perform better or worse, or have more or fewer features than the competition.

The direction of the product isn't the product itself, and reflects more upon the people who direct the "direction" of the product. This feels more like damage to the brand -- but as usual, I don't know whether the opinion on HN actually translates to the overall population of web users.

I mean, the new Macbook Pro is certainly a failure [doesn't go to 32gb ram], and hell wasn't that iPod a total failure [no wireless, less space than a nomad]? (I know, I know, that was Slashdot.)
It's like the battle that newspapers have against ad blockers in people's browsers. Twitter has to balance usability here.

People make fake accounts for everything everywhere for all sorts of reasons. Seems as though you stumbled on some fakes that may all be related (all posting starwars quotes) but maybe not. Could be just some off the shelf software that creates twitter accounts.

Probably a non-negligible percent of people with the job description "social media manager" create small armies of bots to do their bidding.

The first stop for any investigative journalist looking into this would have to be blackhatworld.com ... it has a really intimidating name but it's all just about marketing/spamming that violates terms of use.

> "Their potential threats are real and scary due to the sheer size of the botnet," he said.

Kind of overstates things. These accounts will likely be used for spam or advertising of some sort. Journalists have a distorted worldview when it comes to the importance of Twitter. I know you all love it, but the rest of the world doesn't really care.
Google Voice had a revamp just this week: looks like it'll be around much more now.
https://blog.google/products/google-voice/ringing-2017-updat...
The outcomes of historical, national, sporting events are not subjective. It would be easy to check and verify even if you couldn't do it that second you could still after the fact check and call out anyone pretending. With or without the exact identical text the "memorizer" used.