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Obviously if the hardware is all integrated together, then you can't do isolation as I described. However, in your parent comment you used the example of a GPU, which is something that can perfectly be fined be isolated, and provided you can write an open-source driver and can bitsniff all the data coming in and out of your untrusted GPU, then you can be reasonably sure it is not for instance sending your screen data to your network controller.
It might be because I married a Russian but when I visited, Russians were nothing but welcoming, even strangers unknown both to my wife and me.
[Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla, but I'm not involved in Firefox decision making]

> Mozilla wants to make Firefox look like Chrome, probably to replicate features which seem to draw users in

This is false IMO

> by changing the extensions API to make it less powerful

This is not about copying Chrome. This is about moving off of an API which was effectively "our entire codebase is your public API, here, have fun", which is horrible for making it easy to evolve the codebase. We had this problem with electrolysis (multiprocess firefox) already, lots of addons broke because of it. Additionally, the base of this API is XUL, which is a technology many want to phase out.

Firefox is using the same base extension API as Chrome. It's a sensible choice -- if you're going to design an extensions API from scratch, why not standardize the base so that many extensions become interoperable. The base manifest format and most of the normal APIs from Chrome are the same, however the new system has many other APIs which chrome doesn't have, and the intent is to continue adding these so that most of the former very powerful extensions are still possible. But I'm already using extensions that won't work in Chrome because Chrome doesn't expose that functionality.

> by supporting standardised DRM in the browser

If Netflix didn't work in the browser Firefox would not have any users left.

Mozilla fought this battle, and lost.
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I don’t. Radioactive decay is practically the very definition of the quantum effects I mentioned.
Have you looked at Biostar?

https://github.com/ialbert/biostar-central
>I often wonder, if the market crashes again will we be in another great depression that leads us to ww3.

It's still unclear that we would need another one. Going by the WWII timeline, the invasion of Poland would be roughly in the next year.
Wouldn't this be the opposite of what you want? You'd weigh down the current bottom face, making that face more likely to be on the bottom for future rolls.
Arguments about Apple's and Netscape's ability to compete were actually core to the windows antitrust case. It wasn't about market share.

Again: an argument that Google is exploiting a monopoly in video needs to be able to explain why Instagram et. al. were so successful in the face of it.
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it'll be really helpful if you explicitly list its supported language.
Right. "More secure" is largely in the eye of the beholder. And if the public at large doesn't know the difference, it's a tree falling in the forest.
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Honest question. Why do you care what people post online? The great thing about reddit is that you get to choose which communities you subscribe to. Your mentality is the equivalent of "I can't go to bed. Someone on the internet is wrong".

I think your basic premise is wrong - that "racism and xenophobia" are on the rise. You can't measure the number of people who aren't racist because you don't hear them. And before you argue that "not saying anything is being complicit" it's just not true. As a "minority" I just don't care what someone on the internet posts. It doesn't have power over me.
of course if your GPU can DMA anything, then all bets are off. But provided you are in control of all pathways connecting to your GPU, and can bitsniff the traffic, then you can verify that it isn't doing anything that your open-source driver doesn't want it to.
Why not start with a VPS like Digital Ocean? If/when you outgrow it, consider something else...
Stack overflow may offer lots of fancy features, but, in my opinion, the essence of what they do should be easily achievable by any competent group of engineers. Genuine question - I don't get it, what does this bring to the table? A voting system?
See the implementation lists for both specs:

https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/master/imp...

https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/master/i...

Now that things are 1.0 we expect many people to start implementing the spec. For example, the transition steps required to add OCI v1.0 support on-top of Docker v2.2 support for an application primarily involves changing a few strings. See the implementation notes here.

https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/6060c3b6c6...
> I believe relational databases (Postgres is what I have experience with) has defaults that are basically correct, and unlikely to cause significant issues, whereas in my experience MongoDB did not have this.

Strongly, strongly agreed. Learning every moving part in InnoDB (as an example) is quite a task. But not knowing about those features will rarely burn you, and it's usually apparent when you need to know something you don't.

Meanwhile Mongo... well, Mongo says a replicated write is complete as soon as it's queued to be written. They eventually updated the default settings to be slightly less catastrophic, but still far from good. What you don't know about Mongo can and will hurt you, which arguably makes the appearance of ease a drawback.

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/
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The 4-Hour Workweek is the first book listed and I have heard of it so many times I finally decided to read it. I picked up an old copy from the local library and I'm a little over 1/2 way through.

So far I have not been all that impressed. Just in general it seems so light on anything really concrete and more just a motivational book. Where it does have concrete things though they are just really out of date (One example is that they recommend Yahoo Stores where today someone would probably use Shopify or another alternative. Another example is there is a LOT of talk about using magazine ads, but how many people are actually still reading/buying print mags today?).

What are other people's thoughts on this particular book, and what about the updates in the latest edition? Has it changed enough to be somewhat current when the realities of today?
In Sam Quinone's "Dreamland" (well worth a read) he talks about how the opioid epidemic stayed out of the public eye for so long, and he attributes a lot of it to the general perception of addiction as a moral failure, or weakness - parents don't talk about their dead children dying of addiction, because of the shame and judgement they feel [0]. So a lot of the deaths (and the suffering that can lead up to it) is hushed up. This tide is turning, now, as people are more willing to speak honestly and openly about how they and their families have been affected by addiction, and the realisation that anyone can be addicted to opiates, and it's not just a matter of not having sufficient backbone to resist their effects.

On the matter of self-driving car investment, vs opiate addiction treatment - car makers need to turn a profit, so they need something new to sell. A lot of people also commute daily, and don't enjoy doing so. So in the (distant) shiny future where your car drives you to work, they are building something that I think a lot of people will be willing to pay for, or use as a service.

[0] Addendum - it also avoided the public eye because of where addiction was happening, and who to. A lot of it started in smaller towns, often those struggling economically. The kind of places that don't get a lot of attention.
Well he’d be coming at it from the quantum angle, which I agree makes it more complex. However I did add that as a major caveat.
If you use a mid range windows or mac like the article author uses an ipad pro, meaning nothing running in the background and no high cpu build steps on the machine itself, then latency and battery life would be excellent.

The ipad is not magical. Were you to run actual dev workloads on the machine itself it would be sluggish with terrible battery life.
I thought US has one of the highest food safety standards in the world?

Also, broadband and high speed rail are infinitely easier when the landmass is over 15-40x smaller and population density 2-10x greater than the US.

Our medical care system sucks though - service is excellent, costs are not.
The tech industry is going to have to come to term that it's comprised of fundamentally winner-takes-all markets. The economies of scale the winner can get are tremendous, while the spending efforts are relatively low for software. So it's basically a monopoly machine. The only way this is countered is that new markets keep being created, so that helps new entrants.
I wonder if you'd get more performance with mechanical balance changes or a magnetic table surface and individual electromagnets on each die face.
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One additional cause of new Chrome installs taking over from Firefox: bundleware. Chrome is foisted upon users as install-by-default bundleware when users install or update lots of different apps, especially free antivirus apps on Windows. Just clicking "Continue" when your free antivirus on Windows updates will cause Chrome to be installed and set as the default browser. Here's an image of Avast tricking you into installing Chrome: http://imgur.com/hNZLbmL

I've had to fix this for three family members previously as they were using a free antivirus and couldn't figure out why their browser looked different and didn't have an ad-blocker now.
The original report is full of dubious country placements.

They claim that Chile is #57 from 60 in friendliness. Haha, ok.
maybe have a dense liquid in a die, and have something "float" internally. Like a ball bearing in Gak slime or mercury.
I agree in general, but some communications platforms (like Reddit, and like Facebook...and probably like HN) can be more or less accomodating of "echo chambers" that validate and magnify extremist viewpoints. On the other hand, similar effects can nourish minority cultures and communities...it's a hard problem.

I agree that free speech is a good thing, and I think that "You have to take the bad with the good, because we don't agree on what's good" is a broadly useful philosophy. But systems which take in both bad and good, and strengthen the bad more than the good, are themselves bad.
Indeed. Pick a thread even vaguely related to race(usually black people) or religion(usually Islam). Most of the time they are heavily downvoted so they'll appear near the bottom(sort by "controversial"), but every now and then one of their hateful copypasta screeds is upvoted near the top. I guess their brigade gets to it first in that case.
On the other hand, PG built Hacker News specifically to get a reddit-like that has it's own culture, identity and moderation policies.
> service is excellent

Lower life expectancy suggests the service isn't that excellent.
> Mozilla wants to make Firefox look like Chrome, probably to replicate features which seem to draw users in, by changing the extensions API to make it less powerful

The current Firefox marketshare is a predictable outcome of that strategy; by eliminating everything that made Firefox distinct from Chrome, they've made made going with the biggest, most well-funded version of Chrome the most reasonable choice. It has resulted in a Chrome monopoly, but there's really no way to prevent it: even when given a explicit choice between Chrome and mostly-Chrome, people will usually choose Chrome.

edit: After the elimination of the old-style extensions, I've run out of distinct features that justify sticking with Firefox, and am left with pure ideology. An ideology that I don't even think that Mozilla places any importance in anymore, so I might as well be using Chromium.
>what are the odds of Steve Jobs starting multiple multi-billion dollar companies over multiple decades

High. The first success is luck and the rest are a consequence of this initial lucky break (namely via generous access to capital).
Great example of finding what users really want as opposed to what they say they want.
Then again, if you're going to push into Postgres you might as well store the temp unstructured records there too
> The economies of scale the winner can get are tremendous

Once more, though: how do you take that frame and then explain the success of Instagram, which launched straight into the face of the unbreakable monopoly you posit?
If you study all your life for something, you want it kept held close to you as possible until "the right time" to extract maximum benefit/glory/$$$/fame etc. Wouldn't you?
I recall even the standalone flash installer coming with Chrome bundled (or at least pushing for it) at one point.
Generally for a loan there's a set of roles, each of which is different and perhaps not entirely independent, but mostly.

Negotiations would be done by the "servicer" of the loan, who gets to charge a fee for this. There is also the "originator" of the loan (think the website where the person taking out the loan clicked on the affiliate link, but in meatspace). The "owner" of the loan is generally considered to be the person who currently puts up the (remaining) principal.

Each of these roles may or may not change hands as a result of a transaction, but generally only the risk role changes.

There is a large business "originating" loans, and over time during the credit cycle the business becomes originating ever more risky loans until the whole thing blows up and we get into panic, tighten lending standards (overtighten, generally), and go back into the business of loosening up.
If you are a top 10 site you won't need an EV, but if you are in a small business in a competitive market it could help.
I'm generally not against this particular sort of design, mainly because it doesn't pretend to be a "normal" webpage. It's a very specific sort of guided presentation.
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Turns out that you can pop a normal (non-rechargeable) CR2032 in the K750 to replace the rechargeable ML2032 that's already in there. Pretty decent chance of a CR2032 being at the hotel front desk or at the corner store. However, if you do that, it's important that you disable the solar-recharge feature, perhaps by taping over the solar cells.

After having my K750 for about three years, the ML2032 stopped accepting a charge, which made the keyboard nonfunctional. I did the ML2032->CR2032 replacement, put black tape over the solar cells, and the K750 came back to life. That was about a year ago with 8+ hours per day of use, and the CR2032 is still going strong.
I take it you don't browse many comment threads, then. Anything vaguely related to black people or Islam and they are virtually guaranteed to show up, spreading their soundbites and gotcha's.
That sounds like a startup idea. Make ROR and Python have an IDE as easy to use as the VB IDE.
I know nothing about the specifics, but the quality of produce at the supermarkets is light years better in the EU than in the USA, in my personal experience.
I've been a loyal Firefox user since the earliest couple versions. Something like 12-13 years or whatever. I like the interface more than Chrome, among a few other things about how it operates.

I can't leave Firefox open on even simple pages, without it consuming ~5% or more of the processor with one tab doing nothing. If I open numerous tabs, forget about it, Firefox will eat the processor (brand new machine, i5-7400, new Firefox install). I can leave Chrome running almost perpetually without problems with tons of tabs open. Right now I've got seven tabs open in Firefox, and it's consuming 706mb of ram, for a few stackoverflow pages and HN. I've had that resource abuse problem with Firefox essentially since the beginning, across a lot of varied PC systems.

Over the last year I've gradually stopped using Firefox because I can't stand its horrible performance any longer.
if the die is leaving residue, that face is getting lighter, and therefore will want to be on "top"
ironically, the_donald is just one subreddit while there are literally dozens of specifically anti-the_donald subreddits that people complain about having to unfollow
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I'm not sure that I'm quite as critical, the technique itself looks useful for some scenarios.

I've worked on a Windows project where we solved a similar problem by booting from vhd, so you can "just" write a new vhd, uniquify it with the per machine config, update the boot menu and reboot - all data are on a separate volume, naturally

I'm surprised they went to all this effort for only 2000 machines though.
It's not just about social justice warriors IMO, it happens everywhere you can translate politically correctness into money.

I would even go further to say social justice warriors are rather cute because all they have to gain is 15 minutes of fame. What's really dangerous is the mainstream media, because they have a lot to gain from using this theme to bring down entities. A lot of controversy => A lot of page views => A lot of ad revenue. And they are desperate for more ad revenue as content becomes more and more commoditized.

There's a serious conflict of interest. While these clueless public bash on other people for being "politically incorrect" after reading these intentionally provocative articles, they don't realize that from media's point of view they're nothing more than vegetable being farmed. This is why I have no sympathy for the dying media companies.
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Ask HN: Any plugin which restricts websites from consuming info about ur PC?
when you install an mobile-app, it asks for information it can access, like location, contacts, storage etc, Can you get somewhat similar behavior [as in allow/restrict] websites which access your location, machine info etc...
This could maybe, possibly be true if it were possible to have complete knowledge about the (quantum) state of the universe, but that is impossible. The uncertainty principle isn't a hypothesis, it's not even really a theory, it's a direct mathematical consequence of the laws of quantum mechanics.

I want to be clear that my point is not merely a technical one. I'm not just saying "it's technically impossible to have complete knowledge," I'm saying that it is physically, mathematically impossible. The laws of physics do not allow it. One might argue "maybe it's not possible, but if we did know the complete quantum state of the universe, the universe would be deterministic and we could predict everything," but this is equivalent to saying "if the laws of physics were different, then the universe would be deterministic."

Edit: To the distinction you make between "physical" and "quantum" processes: There is no distinction. Quantum effects do diminish in magnitude with increasing size, but they never truly go away. You can predict the motion of macroscopic objects with what may seem to be an arbitrarily high degree of certainty, but in truth you can never have 100% complete knowledge of even macroscopic properties. I still disagree with your claim that the universe is deterministic in any way, even if you conveniently exclude systems for which quantum effects are substantial.
You could just use a deck of cards with numbers on them. That's the simplest way to do "Gambler's Fallacy Dice" IRL. For example, there's a popular Catan expansion pack that replaces the dice with a deck of cards with numbers on them for just this reason, because in Catan each roll of 2D6 represents different regions of the map paying out so if a number never comes up it never pays out.
I think the "Why?" section's conclusions are off the mark. It basically blames Google's advertising of Chrome for Firefox's decline, and even goes so far as to say "Firefox’s decline is not an engineering problem."

While I don't doubt that Google's advertising of Chrome has drawn away some Firefox users, I also don't think that we can ignore or deny the many controversial changes to Firefox that have likely had an impact, too.

Just off of the top of my head I can think of things like:

* Frequent breakage of extensions when first switching to the more rapid release schedule.

* Frequent and disruptive UI changes that didn't bring users much benefit, such as Australis.

* Removing the ability to easily disable JavaScript.

* Taking many years to get multiprocess support working. (Not that I'm suggesting they should have rushed it, of course.)

* The inclusion of Pocket and Hello.

* Sponsored tiles.

* Users who report experiencing poor performance and high memory usage.

* Disruption caused by requiring signed extensions.

* The removal of support for OSes or OS releases that are moderately older, but still do have active users.

I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting.

Even if they seem minor, those are the kinds of things that can cause users to switch away from Firefox, or not even start using it in the first place. Losing a small number of users for a variety of minor reasons can add up very quickly, as well. Furthermore, those issues don't really have anything to do with Google or Chrome.