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The situation with Vimperator is so sad, I can't use Firefox without it.

I don't like all those toolbars that clutter my screen estate, I prefer to browse the web full screen. There are a lot of projects using Webkit, and I also use elinks a lot, but I'd rather support Mozilla and Firefox by using the later when I need a graphical browser.
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i agree, and i like your 'see who who are'

i say the same when people cite the taxi cab number(o) story and suggest some kind of intuition or magic

ramanujan simply had worked with cubes enough to recognise the number, still very impressive, but anyone could do it with the kind of interest ramanujan had for number theory

(o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_number
I installed Firefox a month ago, but it's just so sluggish and laggy. I only have one extension installed.

Well, today I just switched back to Chromium (but went with Vivaldi this time).
> Android, iOS, and many other OSes do this all the time via rather granular ACLs.

If it were that simple, then the Chrome team would simply have asked the Android team to provide their expertise in designing Chrome's extension API. And of course, it's not like Android provides apps unrestricted access to the hardware (there's a reason that people bother to root their phones). Firefox addons are currently less restricted than Android apps.
The supermarket is obviously not cool with you shoplifting beacuse they have security guards that try to stop you from doing it, and they call the police when it happens.
The Wii U kits make with a special version Unity too
You can get the scans in India for ~ $50-$100 if you're out that way https://www.medifee.com/tests/mri-scan-cost/ https://blog.labsadvisor.com/2016/05/28/ct-scan-cost-in-delh...
Maybe you just didn't understand the "theory" as well as you thought you did.

I fell into the "it makes sense when we go over it in class, but not when I do it at home" trap often.
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Yeah, you won't find stories about that one in the news. But assuming it didn't get purged (and these things are wont to vanish), there were plenty of discussions / archives of the site. They used an obscure UN program to claim "partnership" with the UN by agreeing to abide by some set of principles, posted something to a UN website by virtue of that program and later got dumped when they were exposed.

The site itself was fake. The profiles were clones of each other, the images were mirrored images harvested from the web (to hide from reverse image search, but they weren't that clever because the mirroring was obvious).

The whole thing was basically a scam to make out JA as a pedophile, after which they ran off claiming to have been threatened. However, no part of the story held together.

Given how much work went into framing someone as a pedo and it got blown up publicly, it's kind of weird that it never hit the news.
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There is no perhaps about it: Every card out there that gives a decent amount of cash back has a very large interchange fee. The very best ones are easily a percent and a half more than the cheapest ones. Now, the small business might not be paying the fees in such a way that paying with a different credit card costs a different amount of money, but then that just means their payment processor is averaging fees out, and different averages would make the processor charge more overall. Still, using a credit card with foot benefits to you means higher prices in the long run.

This doesn't really happen in the EU due to a relative recent ruling standardizing fees, but that's also what makes America's super cards not be issued by their banks.

Credit cards, and payments in general, might seem really easy to model on the outside, but the whole space is a gigantic rabbit hole. That is why companies that abstract much of it away are valuable for even large merchants.
I use this all day long on Chromium -

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cvim/ihlenndgcmojh...

I also use this in Chromium -

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wasavi/dgogifpkoil...

Note that they do very different things from each other AND that they are running Chromium which is a SUBSET of the plugin features that will be available in Firefox (if all goes well).
They found protein, which you can't even consider cloning from (Protein is like the machine, while DNA is the blueprint to make that machine). One use is that if you find a lot of these proteins in different dinosaurs, you might be able to map out the differences to figure out who is related to who.
These particular modules consume seem to consume at most about 10W each. But yes, it is brighter than a TV.
Man it's loud haha, don't mind me, just relaxing to the sound of sand being crushed by a metal ball.

Edit: might be quieter with more sand. Realize that was just a proof of concept video. Also not sure if the gears can be made to be quiet.

Cool mechanical engineering, could build 3D printers and what not.
I'm guessing these didn't get modded down, because they're actually relevant and maybe interesting. Even if it's not interesting, it's certainly bikeshedding which is generally popular here :)
Er, designing an honest-to-god specified extensions API is harder than just telling addons developers to run wild with your undocumented and unstable browser internals. Appealing to PG makes no sense here.
+1 Firefox user for the better add-ons. The ones in Chrome/Chromium just haven't seemed as effective for me. Reading people's comments here, I'm actually learning about some add-ons I might add to Firefox! (tree style tabs, Vimperator)

And thanks to Debian, I appear to be using Firefox 45, so I guess the changes people are talking about won't hit me for awhile?
Is "Whale" a ycombinator backed company?
Someone or many people have been stealing forks from our canteen. We have 1 big fork and a handful of smaller forks left.
Thank you for clarifying some of the mysticism behind all of this. I had no idea QI even existed.
Mozilla's test pilot projects there serve to prototype proposed extension APIs. It's there to inform the design of what hooks are needed to make such an addon possible, so that it will still be possible in a world with only WebExtensions.
>They also sound like they're working with Unreal and Unity to make migrating games easier.

On a related note, Unreal 4.15 released support for Switch development.[0]

[0]- https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-15-release...
Extremely long sales cycles. In the order of 2-3 years. We write software for the cultural sector. Most of the sector relies on government funding of some sort, and we're often required to take part in tenders. Lots of annoying paperwork. Very slow and very opaque decision making. Tracking sales leads is hard like this. Making money is harder still. This problem worsens the year before and after an election.

Wearing another hat, I have the same problem in fintech. Slow decision making, long lead times and government meddling.
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Alternatively, you can duplicate a tab in stock Firefox by Ctrl+dragging the tab in the tab bar.
Yeah, brief googling has bacteria at 1-2% by weight, 1-10x by number.
Bolt's website calls it a subcompact car. Despite what it's actual volume is, it looks like a small car and is classified as one. The Model S is classified as and looks like a luxury full size sedan. Yes, the Model 3 is comparable to the Bolt, but it's not being shipped yet. So comparing the distance of a Model S and a Bolt isn't a fare comparison as the Model S is bigger and heavier, hence my earlier comment in reply to the comparison. If you think comparing the EV range of a 3,500lb subcompact Bolt as being good compared to a nearly 5,000lb full sized sedan then fine, we can agree to disagree.
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At very least it looks like it is founded by Justin Kan (Twitch, etc.), who is a YC partner.
Any clue if this will be able to also play retail games? Given Nintendo's track record of keeping supply up with demand, some of us may consider just paying extra for the dev kit...
They sure do at Amazon. Frugality is one of the explicit leadership principles and initiatives often have cost saving as a primary goal and always as a secondary goal.
I second this. You need screenshots and a video. It feels like you're trying to hide your product isn't ready or something, right now.
But what's the actual distribution of usage of emoji? I'm guessing there is a small-ish set that people actually use, just like there is a small-ish set of words that people will pick from if you ask them to pick a passphrase containing "random" words.

Unless you pick the passphrase for them, you're not really gaining the advantage of the search space size.
Maybe try to use their own interests and relate the code to a kid's story. How are you going to make the little lamb move 5 steps?

Sample to move 1 step:

function move(steps) {

$("#lamb").css({

'right': steps + 'px',

'transition': 'all 1s'

});

}

move(100);

becomes

move(500);

I don't know haha, do they even want to code in the first place.

Doesn't even consider requestAnimationFrame or proportional scale. Also I'm starting to realize jQuery is pretty big even the min version especially on slow networks.
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Unless it's tea. The only thing crazier than that is putting jam on your scone before the cream. ;-)
Xbox Live Arcade was absolutely terrible on the 360, akin to Steam Greenlight.

There were one joke games for a dollar, just like Steam has now.

There were overpriced games, bad games, shit games. Stuff that should be shamefully hidden on a hard drive long forgotten.

I am certainly glad about the death of Greenlight, and from what I can tell all the "indie@xbox" hype leading up to the launch of the One has been unfulfilled, with those games seemingly ending up on the PS4 instead.

I suppose whoever sells the most consoles gets to have the most indie titles.

Then again, I don't own either console, so maybe "indie@xbox" is better off than I'm thinking it is.

Nintendo had indie games like Stardew Valley ported over to the Wii U, IIRC, so I expect to see similar footwork done for the Switch.
On reducing cost on GAE while prototyping: https://goo.gl/BLutaI

GAE has flexible environment which has meant you can use stack of your choice which is unlike its previous versions.
If the patients are paying, you don't have to. So it makes sense, business wise.
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Except people will probably stick to a few common ones and do a pattern. Love eyes x2 heart heart, thumbs up -- just like people don't pick words uniformly.
Immediately Ctrl+F'd to see if anyone mentioned Dan Harmon.

https://youtu.be/KkUz8KgKHhA?t=6m24s
Coursera simply mirrors collegiate pedagogy: a professor lectures you for an hour, you take a quiz here and there, and then there are some larger assessments that prove mastery. Study habits and methods are entirely left up to the student. You could employ Dr. Oakley's methods, whatever works for you, or just breeze by without truly internalizing anything.

Coursera's missing one powerful dynamic of a traditional university, however: incentives to remember beyond a class.

Say you coast your freshman year without internalizing: you'll pay the price the following year or when you take some cumulative assessment like the MCAT.

With Coursera everything still feels very disjointed. Even in the specializations, knowledge doesn't need to compound for success. You can easily succeed in edutainment mode. Why take notes when you can use your hands for popcorn?
Web extensions are vetted by amo reviewers if they come from that channel. Is it going to catch every single malicious extension? Doubtful. Is it better than nothing? Yes.
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>A blockchain likely wouldn't help this issue either- high-speed traders would inevitably be dissatisfied with blockchain latencies and re-invent brokers that abstracted over blockchain transactions at a faster pace.

It's funny you mention that, because that's exactly what's already happened. Major bitcoin exchanges are internally handling matching and settlement for trading BTC<=>fiat, and part of it is because people do high-frequency and algo trading and need the lower latencies and fast execution, and certainly can't wait for confirmations to know if they really bought/sold the BTC.

I don't know if exchanges end up posting the moves of BTC to the blockchain, or if it's all just a big balance sheet internally and BTC only really moves on the blockchain when you withdraw/deposit. Probably varies between exchanges.
Reddit is decaying at an accelerated rate nowadays & many are looking for a good alternative. I know that's why I came here.
That doesn't use the new model. This is the WebExtension version of TabCenter: https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter/tree/webext
Depending on some details, that would quite possibly count as harassment or stalking.

If, on the other hand, it's on twitter, you use the block button, and other private matters.

And we can't really get back to to the subject, because your whole idea was "codes of conduct are bad, but legally prosecuting people for the same thing would be great!"
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Have a look at CoderDojo [1]. I did an IT project with the first class (patient zero) of kids from this organization. It was a very rewarding experience to see how great their "hands on" pedagogic approach worked out. The project - a website with front end and backend, full stack - was a great success. Amazing bunch of kids.

CoderDojo in an NGO that has spread globally. I wholeheartedly recommend it.Just don't leave your notebook lying around, or some curious kid might take it apart.. (no joke)

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There are plenty of add-ons that extend or alter the UI of tabs. There's eg. 780,000 users of Tab Mix Plus according to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/
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Fantastic answer! I wonder if there is software that could potentially improve some aspect of this cycle.
This is why in the US we have debit cards that behave like credit cards in every way except the credit line (and don't cut you in on the transaction fee). Very popular with teenagers and people who are afraid of credit (possibly for good reason).

Cash is legal tender for all debts. If you owe someone money without a prior agreement on form of payment, they must accept cash payments. They're under no obligation to make a transaction in the first place if you don't agree on payment method.
I use voice search all the time, even in a desktop. It's much faster than typing.
"This video requires 8 coins to watch."

Yawn.
I'm a student in university now, and I can relate to your experience.

What helped me a lot as a kid was being motivated to learn things when it didn't seem like "learning". For example, I was able to get the hang of programming by playing a game that incorporated it, and it succeeded because it got me excited about doing cool things. Maybe this kind of "gamification" could be more useful than just adding points and rules to things to make people compete.
Frankly video conferencing that doesn't suck would be huge.
I think the joke here is that if you're dead a refund is pointless...

Even if they do refund the money, they could make a killing on interest.
What's unreasonable and offensive here is baselessly claiming that an institution is arresting its students and alumni to keep them quiet.
Most average users have already switched to Chrome. Even slightly above average users are going to lose from the switch to WebExtensions.

I do not consider myself a power user of Firefox, but the two extensions I use (DownThemAll and tab groups) are not going to be ported.
These banal questions under the guise of "Ask HN" are getting out of hand.
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Article shows some thoughtful insight into how political organizations monetize emails and online surveys. I also think it shows how outrage can be used as fuel for opposition as well as kindling for rallying support for an in group. It really shows how powerful and dangerous disinforming with statistics can be.
cVim AFAIK implement the command line mode by injecting the command UI iframe and key binding events to every webpage as a content script. It works, but still less than ideal than what VimFX is trying to do by binding the shortcut globally.

There's also an ongoing discussion to try to port Vimperator to WebExtensions[1], which having everything as content script might be one way to do. However, it still doesn't give an ability to modify the UI as XUL/XPCOM Vimperator does.

[1]: https://github.com/vimperator/vimperator-labs/issues/705
I know what 2FA is, but what is U2F?

Sorry for the stupid question.
The interface is this: "on/off", "line selectx4", "clock", "latch", "R", "G", and "B".

So the loop is:

1) Clock out a row of R, G, B values for the number of panels you have linked together (64 x n)

2) Turn off the LEDs on that row (enable goes low)

3) Latch the value

4) Select the next row

5) Turn on the display (enable goes high)

(my repo which does this: https://github.com/ChuckM/1bitsy-examples/tree/master/demos/... )

Since there are 16 "rows" multiplexed on to one "row driver" you need to at least clock out a set of all the rows every mS to get a 60Hz refresh rate (or every 250uS for a 240hz rate).

It is "easy" to do 3 bit RGB color (8 colors) since each value in R, G, and B has one bit. To get shades you need to PWM the bits and that consumes more bandwidth (with the 240Hz I can get a nominal 4 'intensities' per color by PWM'ing within the 60 fps rate, more by PWMing across a longer period. (which leads to interesting effects btw).

The panels all come with these neodymium magnetic feet so you can just put up a piece of 20ga sheet and stick up your display very simply.

On the video I expect it is a camera problem, the LEDs turn off pretty much instantly. The only caveat to that would be propagation from board to board of the 'enable' line but that is less than a microsecond.
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I do not have a degree in CS. I am a dropout, and I bill well over $200USD/hr and I have a line of Fortune 500s waiting for me to be available again. Try arguing that John Carmack missed out because he didn't have a CS degree. The argument is laughable. Degrees are useful within a bureaucracy, but mostly worthless in a meritocracy.
Biology has figured this out by separating developmental evolution from learning. Developmental evolution evolves the genotype-phenotype map. For neurogeneisis evolution has evolved genes that generate the brain. Learning is then a fine tuning on hundreds of millions of years evolutionary algorithms. We can't get an Ape to speak but almost no human is impaired. Interestingly, the process of neurogenesis is controlled by genes which together form gene regulatory networks and when you represent those mathematically you discover that they're basically a special kind of neural network. Basically neural networks are a universal computational design that have been functionlly reproduced at least twice in nature.
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It's also not an industry you can permanently win. There aren't significant network effects.

There isn't going to be one or two electric car manufacturers. There will be dozens.
It's a really interesting approach, considering how rampant Wii hacking was. Maybe instead of hacking the consoles, pirates will just buy dev kits, paying Nintendo a bit of a premium for the privilege?

Maybe they're hoping to make a little money on the pirates...
Given his current attitudes on LLVM, I'm sure Stallman will se exceeding such a limit as an attack on free software ;)

Seriously though. I guess the majority of major FOSS software out there have a goal of retaining GNU compatibility, so I'd be surprised if this turned out to be an issue.
Not necessarily. It could sacrifice interior space for battery space.
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What are some of the useful skills you've built? I haven't found anything that hasn't already been built by someone else
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I'm not very technical and do artwork, but seriously am interested in general tech trends.