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> Certainly you can: it's software--anything is possible.

As the IRC channel topic on #jsapi on irc.mozilla.org says, "Nothing is hard to implement in isolation."

No, not everything is possible given finite resources. Some things are possible only if you sacrifice others. That might be actual things you need to remove, or the opportunity cost of adding more complexity to satisfy contradictory constraints and hence not improving something else.

As a concrete example here, if you have an extension model that relies on synchronous access to the page DOM _and_ the UI at the same time, and now you want to put those two things in different processes, you have a few options:

1) You can throw out the extension model.
2) You can write some complicated synchronous IPC proxies.

Make no mistake, option 2 _does_ mean trading off responsiveness: if the web renderer process you are trying to poke at is busy, then you will end up having to wait, and if you wait in a sync proxy that's a pause in the UI process. And that's what you're trying to avoid in the first place.

Note that people did in fact create the sync proxies, as a temporary measure, while working on providing better APIs to be used instead, to make the transition easier for extension authors. There are conflicting opinions on whether this is the right time to get rid of the sync proxy bits, but it does in fact need to happen at some point.

As for your opinion that "the developers are no longer the people who built Firefox", here's another data point. My first commit to Gecko (this is before there was a Firefox) was sometime in June 2001. I'm not trying to reinvent anything for the sake of reinvention. But I do think there are fundamental problems with both supporting the existing XUL addon ecosystem and making a number of long-delayed architectural changes that we don't feel like we can delay any longer. Again, we can argue about whether this is the right time for those changes. But I think it is. As a simple example, needing to support the existing XUL addon ecosystem would make the Stylo project (using the Servo style system in Gecko) harder. So if we're trying to get Stylo done by sometime this year (which we are), that gives you an end-of-life of ... well, right about the Firefox 57 release.
The article addresses at least some of these points.
Correct! You're the second person to find the answer (the first was not on HN).

Now for the extra credit part: What's the connection between this solution and string theory?
The winner will be named "lord of the flies".
They are upgradable.
Carbon fiber can be laid up in polyester resin but it doesn't make sense to not match capabilities between the resin and the reinforcement.

A glass fiber/polyester panel will be no worse than a carbon fiber/polyester panel. So if you choose polyester you'd be a fool to use a reinforcement more expensive than glass fiber.

So as a practical matter, the decision to use carbon fiber reinforcement implies the use of epoxy resin.
I like the double entendre in the title.
Consider the headlined article, for starters. A simple

ln -s /etc/passwd /tmp/test_at.log

which any unprivileged user can quietly do, before running its examples for at, will ruin the system administrator's day just after 21:26.

This is the basis for many of the problems with files in /tmp : predictable filenames written-to without care by privileged processes. It is a widespread disease that is the reason that the systemd people arrange to run many programs with PrivateTmp=true .

In this particular case, root's own home directory would have made a much better private playground for the test_at.log file.
I run S3stat, and that's a pretty fair description of the service we provide (for that price). It brings in a nice living from small businesses that can perform the basic arithmetic described above.
If I publish my application on GitHub, how can you know for sure I didn't make changes on the server side? Appearance looks the same m, hence why SRI only solves the front end trust, but the entire as a whole remains a blackbox, thus what previous OP meant.
The Electrolysis project took forever in large part because of the attempt to support XUL addons with it. It's hard to take seriously complaints that "Electrolysis took forever" given in the same breath as "oh, but you should keep XUL addons and just pay whatever complexity and development time penalties are involved in keeping them". Pick one or the other, please....
Also I assume the decisions that don't benefit the end-user (touchbar, keyboard, thinness, etc.)
Oh Yes their marketing sucks but products are awesome. QtCreator is one of the best c++ editor and debugger. But the marketing just sucks.
I found it frustrating (but also understandable) that the running costs apparently don't include any personnel when they almost certainly dominate the entire expenses.
If you care about getting on the Web safely, Webconverger has reproducible builds at https://build.webconverger.com/
The Basque language has a characteristic style of lettering that dates back to the Middle Ages. So now I wonder how Basque architects write...

http://www.nabasque.org/fonts.html
Hey, OP here. I don't really care about Pao, but posted this again because of the details it provides on how the NYT operates in general. In particular, there's this paragraph:

"I often hear from readers that they would prefer a straight, neutral treatment — just the facts. But The Times has moved away from that, reflecting editors’ reasonable belief that the basics can be found in many news outlets, every minute of the day. They want to provide “value-added” coverage."

If there was a good post analyzing this, with lots of links to primary sources, without getting bogged down in other distractions, I would've posted that instead. But I unfortunately haven't seen one yet.
You didn't answer the extra credit, how this relates to quantum physics. I'd love to know that.
Huh - that Twitter feed obviously is tilted towards only showing women and PoCs as engineers. It is not just a "guess" - you can look at that feed and check for yourself. And at least you can come to a different conclusion than me, because I cited the source. With "I guess", it is just a reinforcing reference to already existing bias. (For reference, here is the feed: https://twitter.com/lifeatgoogle )
I would love to hear more about the SR-80s. I'm a Koss guy, love the 60ohm sets (PortaPro) and always been Grado curious but heard they don't have a lot of bass and very bright. $100 is about my limit for headphones (no amplifier will be purchased). Headphones have to be one of the most difficult things to purchase, and I've been burned enough that I keep coming back to my Koss.
The crucial point, however, is that while FP multiplication is faster than integer division, converting between a floating point and an integer is very slow: cvtsi2ss and cvtss2si have a latency of 6 cycles each. This adds a latency of 12 cycles for each of these multiplications.

For divisions by a constant value that don't easily decompose into shifts you can fall back to multiplication by a magic constant which is the integer reciprocal. (This is also something compilers do and is what's being explained in the article.)
Is this a move to enter in to the VR space. If it is then its awesome.
I regularly notice that if I open in a file in Explorer that launches an app that's not opened, or launch a taskbar app, it will open on the opposite monitor.

It's baffling since I often physically move my main monitor, either bring it closer in front to sit back and play a game or rotate it to the side so I can watch videos from the nearby couch (with a trackball as controller).

I never determined that it was opening them in a remembered fashion, in fact I'm pretty sure that sometimes closing the window from my main and relaunching another file it will pop up on the other side again, so I made a habit of dragging files to prevent that.

The impression I got is that it is spreading to the less busy monitor as a "favor", but it's not consistent - can't reproduce right now. I really have no clue what the logic is, and whether it's the behavior of some apps I use or the OS, or something weird related to having 2 mouses plugged in.

Either way, it's very annoying.
So this is something that surprised me as well, especially given we don't offer free plans or a trial.

When we spoke to our users they said the following:
- Way faster than Jio (We offer 100mbps)
- The price was so low that they didn't mind paying
- They don't trust reliance and the ID process of getting a jio connection
- It's so cheap and fits in their daily routine of getting chai, cigarette, etc.
As a big fan of carbon fibre who used to work for CSIRO (development of scientific document publishing) and now rides to work through Albert Park (on the actual race track, which is a public road around the lake) and can see the huge transformation taking place that is assembly of a F1 race track, this has me doubly excited. So thanks for the links. :)
FTA it is my impression that this is about making 3D GUIs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13694142
Yes, if you post the same comment on two different blog posts the can have different content. Context matters.

I have not abandoned the line of reasoning that objecting to pitchforking is generally a good thing. You are the one who is arguing against a comment that objected to pitchforking. I don't even understand why you are asking this question.
This was a neat brain-teaser (I took an information theory class years ago so it was a nice refresh), but the answer ended up being a lot less interesting than I had hoped :P
Sadly, I can only give the Google answer to this one:

> Working on a branch of physics called supersymmetry, Dr. James Gates Jr., discovered what he describes as the presence of what appear to resemble a form of computer code, called error correcting codes, embedded within, or resulting from, the equations of supersymmetry that describe fundamental particles.
and Moodle... no matter how good the theme, the logistics of using (and administrating/developing for) that platform is so confusing.
Depends on the app. If you are making a storage app then you can do client side encryption so that it doesn't matter if s3 is compromised, they don't have access to your data.

SRI means you don't have to worry about your js getting modified so all that's left is the html. My claim is that there are lots of situations where I can trust something to serve html honestly enough for my use.

It is possible that my bias for web apps that connect to real services (of the sort a desktop app might) rather than as a thin veneer over a black box service gives us a different perspective.

But I do ultimately agree that some support for enhancing trust in the initial html document should be built into browsers. I guess such a thing should involve being able to get a hash of the actually downloaded and running code and document and being able to postpone an update until I've had the opportunity to check it's legitimate.
I know, it's unrelated, but its 2017 and

> Unfortunately this was not easy to find on NetBSD, because we are still using CVS as the source control system

seems just weird.
Are you using Chrome or Electron apps? Chrome rinses mine in about 3-4 hours, whereas Safari lasts all day.
Lay-up is also environmentally sensitive.

Bombardier spent a lot of money in trying to locate the Learjet 85 fuselage lay-up process in Mexico, instead of Belfast in the UK, only to find that the resulting parts were delaminating because the process had been developed for Belfast's climate and sea-level pressure.

Eventually the 85 project was 'suspended', as it remains today. Unfortunately most of the staff at the Querétaro site were laid-off as a result.
The worst is when you are in the middle of an Excel formula or a line of code and windows covers your screen with a full screen banner. It's not UX wizardry, it's common sense...
Military junta it is.
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I even had the Touchbar die on me when waking the laptop from a previously drained battery. The whole Touchbar was just black, requiring a full reboot. This only happened 2-3 times in about 6 weeks, but still.
I also have occasional problems with externals Monitors (i use two, one through DVI) staying black and requiring plugging out/in to fix.
These small annoyances are just unnecessary as it worked perfectly before. I don't really see a benefit in the Touchbar anyway. When I alt-tab out of spotify it will show the spotify icon to control it but as soon as i got to another app it will steal the focus and i have to go back to Spotify manually. UX nightmare.
Some of them were. Pretty much all my shareware titles were on CD-Rs because that's how my friends and I shared them.
Usually they just take the discount and pay late.
I did look and we disagree. Perhaps you can quantify what you saw?
My company struggled with it for years and there is still no end in sight, we have been "hacked" several times through vulnerabilities in WHMCS.

Mid last year we changed to https://www.blesta.com/ and since they are open source with a good security track-record - we hope that the issues will be over. The only drawback is that they don't have as many 3rd party integrations yet, and that customers have to get used to the new interface.
APIs, the pretty face of your microservice
Top 5 Techniques That Increased My Productivity in 2016
Plugging a Frida hook I developed to let you seamlessly CTRL-ALT-LEFT/RIGHT to have rdp-sessions-as-virtual-desktops and be able to switch back and forth.

Niche but changed the way I use VMs forever.

https://github.com/riverar/remotedesktop-keyfilter
Tales of a React Native Beginner: Why GraphQL Is the Real MVP
We do this by adding a hash character (#) to a link.
By design, browsers don’t share anything after this
character.

...and I stopped reading there.

It is astonishing to read that. Just absolutely mind blowing.

Browsers absolutely can and DO share things coming after the hash (#) character in a URL. How?

JavaScript! It's absurdly easy to siphon anchor hashes out of the address bar with JavaScript, and send them back to the mothership, or anywhere else for that matter. It's basically how oh-so-many Very Big Websites work.

Are you kidding me?!
why the heck she shouldnt sue?
I'd be looking for a laboratory where flies wear helmets full of electrodes connected to a computer.
point 1 true,

point 2 bullshit, people complain about nvidia's drivers all the time.
Crazy, I would never have imagined climate dependant industrial processes..

That said I just saw a talk yesterday about DNA folding and of course trying to replicate the experiment in a different lab caused a tenth of degree variation which voided the whole thing.
Counter to this; I work at one of the biggest game publishers in the world, and the assets and source for one of it's most famous games from the mid-90s simply doesn't exist anymore.
I said it was cute, not that it was interesting. :-)

(And while asrp's answer is correct, it would have been nice if he had stated what the code is rather than merely citing the fact that it exists.)
Try a "real" virtual desktop app, not the Windows 10 toy.
http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/
Huh? The actual article is titled "Australia for the first time has the capacity to produce carbon fibre from scratch and at scale, thanks to CSIRO and Deakin University." This seems to be Australia getting its first carbon fiber plant, not a technical breakthrough.

The carbon fiber industry had overcapacity in 2013, but demand is now up a bit.[1] The biggest producer is Toray (Japan), but there are lots of others. Wind turbine blades are starting to use carbon fiber. Automotive isn't yet a volume user, but the fiber industry is struggling to get in the door.

Right now, the limits on using carbon fiber seem to come from the problems in making stuff out of it. The process described in the parent article ends with a spool of thread. As of 2014, that sold for about $20/Kg, which is cheaper than 3D printer filament. Making an auto part out of that cost $80/Kg. Some new technology was supposed to bring the manufacturing cost down.[3] But as of two years ago, the cost of the base material wasn't the limiting factor on use.

[1] http://www.compositesworld.com/articles/supply-and-demand-ad...
[2] https://blog.carbonfibergear.com
[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/sgl-fibres-idUSL5N0MP2RP20140...
Yes, F1 race car composite parts are still largely made by hand (assisted by laser cutters, 3d printers and other high tech). The ability to produce prototypes isn't limited by the availability of raw materials.

That said, an improvement in carbon composite manufacturing could still help them if the amount of manual labor could be reduced.
Deluxe Paint was an amazing tool! I spent so many hours on that tool doing animations and paintings. I wonder what happened to that company?
I'll give it a shot, going through the first 100 tweets or so counting men, women, skin colors, is that what you mean? Hope to get round to it later in the day.

And btw I think it gives the impression they don't want to hire men, it doesn't prove that Google doesn't want to hire (white) men. But if they are interested in hiring white men, they might check the message they are sending out.

For sure their reputation is so good that white men will probably still apply in droves, so whatever (same probably goes for women and PoCs, anyway). But in my opinion they will also drive away some people. (edited to add "in my opinion")

And as I said - it is fine if you disagree, but at least there is something tangible to disagree on. That's different from simply playing into some stereotypes. Seriously, you are defending here the equivalent of "I have heard all blacks are criminals, and therefore it is true, no matter what you say". Wtf?
I'm sure they would not mind a whatsapp like buyout offer, at least as an option. That, and secure messaging for the masses.
Oh no, you don't want to pour hot water on milk ...
I think that's a good idea. Thanks.
I, too, can't see from the CSIRO article how costs will crash. It looks like they just discovered a wet spinning process and patented it.

Maybe the OP's article theorises why this may be the case, but I can't load it. Is it just that it's no longer purely a trade secret among facilities?
175% on my laptop, full screen.
> on a demos CD that shipped with a magazine!

You can submit an image of the CD to the Internet Archive, exactly the kind of stuff they're collecting:
https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive
I feel like a nontrivial root cause of cost disease is USian land use restrictions that make real estate pathologically expensive. The devastating effects of bad zoning policies end up severely driving the cost of real estate -- and real estate prices, both for housing and business/industry, end up affecting a whole lot of operational expenses for both employees and corporations (which then in turn affects prices).

(It's not just simply "regulatory burden" in general (except maybe healthcare) as explained in http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-... -- there's hella many industries and services and goods affected by cost disease, and the regulatory burdens too much to be a root cause -- real estate / housing costs is a more likely common cause)
The app I used to read this article relies on well formed markup like this. There is significant value in using descriptive markup compared to the cost.
Giving Context to Best Practices
Many years ago, I got a bug report about a feature in an ex-coworker's code. The complaint was that the program would hang when you added the tenth item in a GUI. It turned out that it didn't really hang, but took a half hour to execute because the algorithm was inadvertently exponential. Further examination of the code revealed that the result of the exponential calculation wasn't even being used. So I didn't have to figure out how to make the algorithm linear - I just removed the useless code.
Why single out men? incompetence doesn't have a sex.
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>But they will also drive away some people.

What evidence do you have for this?
Fame complicates biotechnology research
Continuous Integration. CircleCI vs. Travis CI vs. Jenkins
This is genuinely awesome. I can't wait to try it out!
Is it legal to take away their options? Sounds like a bad precedent to set.
I suggest you talk to your peers and see if they feel context is a subset of content.
Resurgence? When was it ever popular? Iirc, market share right now is under 5%.

I say this as pretty much a lifelong Linux desktop user. I've been waiting and hoping for it to take off, but.....
At the expense of alienating C++ devs.
https://gist.github.com/b097fded87a2b16863947acd3a975b2a

This is code produced by GHC 8.0.2 for the program

module Test where
factorial :: Int -> Int
factorial n = product [1 .. n]

The module thing is necessary to produce the object file without a "main" function.
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how Israel does that? are you refering to the nazi hunting?
This article also hints at one of the reasons why humans chafe at economic inequality, and a rising tide lifting all boats is not enough to produce utopia: there are some resources - desirable reproductive partners, status, land (esp. near others of high status) - which do not become more widely available as prosperity increases. The pursuit of these goods can even become more immiserating in a society with large differences in relative status, as the coveted attention of others flocks to global superstars rather than local stars. The author shows that these approximately zero-sum goods can be largely reduced to "attention".
"The wet spinning line machinery takes a sticky mix of precursor chemicals and turns it into five hundred individual strands of fibre, each thinner than a human hair."

Even if I am willing to believe they are actually counting the strands (could be the case, especially if they are really long), I can't believe that this machine produces exactly 500 in each batch, so I suspect something is missing after "five hundred". "500 micron long strands", "500m of strands a minute" or something like it?

Also, regardless of whether a unit is missing, how does this compare to the competition?
Your ignorance of history is astounding. Who allowed your ancestors to come to your country? The indigenes? Half your country was "made" on the backs of slaves.

You should acquaint yourself with the historical grand migrations of the world's peoples over the last several millennia, and the rise and fall of empires far more powerful and long lived than yours in order to fully appreciate that how things are is not how they have always been nor how they will always be.
Google ordered to share Gmail messages from non-US users with FBI
‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story
Living in a country with a bottle deposit (Germany), I have never encountered any of the points you brought up.
Yes. He may well feel terrified. Perhaps irrationally so. I'm sure he shares that feeling with a great many people that support stronger migration controls.
As noted elsewhere in this thread. UK consumer law also forces bundled 6-year warranties on electronics which adds substantially to the costs.
That is a nice configuration - rather powerful. It is a very long way beyond your current configuration. Reading your other responses, it would seem that you might be better off doing some more work and waiting until you are clearer about what you need. The great thing about PCs is that over time you get more for your money. So delaying the decision until you really need a new system works in your favour.
Paragraph in article contradicts article's title, "Worsening “mental imprecision” was the key, rather than people simply being verbose, however. “Many individuals may be long-winded, that’s not a concern,” said Sherman."
hey, that's a chris crawford article... Anybody knowing what he's up to right now ?