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Does anybody know whether the Google Chrome / Chromium team and the Mozilla team are squarely behind this standardization effort? What about the Apple Safari team?

There's only one rep from Google in the community group. There don't seem to be any from Apple.

[1990s paranoia mode] this could be another Microsoft effort to embrace and suffocate [/1990s paranoia mode]
BMW has i3 (pure electric) and i8 (plug in hybrid). I drive a i3 daily and I'd say they have done a good job. It looks ugly but range is acceptable, performance is better than other options (Tesla is not here in my country) and the quality seems to be good overall.

I believe they'll adapt just fine.
If that distinction would exist (it doesn't) it would be another huge loophole.

Ill sell you a car for 1 cent if you also take the car care service where we email you a magazine for 60k. Tax avoided.

And companies within the country that would have to pay tax couldnt compete with that. So soon everybody in the country would be unemployed.
Physically Based Rendering[0]
Graphics Pipeline[1]

I'd also add Real Time Rendering [2] to that list.

[0] http://www.pbrt.org/
[1] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...
[2] http://www.realtimerendering.com/book.html
Discord is pretty snappy, even with tons of users..
Google Chrome Canary and Dev Builds Now Come with Built-In Ad Blocker
The latter is a terrible idea: Mail servers as well as networks can and do fail temporarily, that should not prevent you from sending emails to addresses hosted on those servers, that is exactly what MTA queuing is there for.
That 'fraud' has been advised by the tax authorities themselves. That would probably be a world-first that the tax authorities that just 'busted' you recommend how to not be busted in the future.
Also banning encryption would have bo effect on IRA. They were super effective without it...
It's soon depending on your requirements, but Shoelace is forward thinking and will only become more useful and relevant as CSS Grid adoption rises. As for Edge, it's 100% as of 16.
The add-on ecosystem of Chrome currently dwarfs Firefoxes. Firefox extensions used to be more capable, but there's just more and certainly more NEW ones for Chrome.

(I'm sure this was an important consideration for Mozilla as well - it reduced the supposed value of their "more powerful" XUL extension system, as in practice you can often find a Chrome extension to do what you want, but not a Firefox one)
India is fast adapting solar and it is expected to wean off coal in the next few decades. Solar, not coal, is India's future by 2030: Report - http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/sola... There is a bigger and more pressing problem with internal combustion engines. Due to the population and vehicle density, smog is a real issue in cities and the air is becoming toxic. Electric vehicles help address that issue.
But Firefox can already run WebExtensions (aka Chrome extensions).

So how does this change anything?
Surely it can be stopped by the courts though? They've helped force the UK back slightly on mass surveillance already [0]. I'm sure a challenge will be brought on the basis of freedom of expression (Article 10 ECHR) if any governments move to ban encryption. I mean it's an incredibly obvious impediment to free expression. I know personally if encryption goes I will be self-censoring a hell of a lot more (particularly when it comes to texting more extreme jokes for example).

Of course, with the UK leaving the EU and potentially tearing up the Human Rights Act it might not matter but as for the EU having power to stop this in EU member states I think the courts are the most likely solution.

[0] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3245181-C-203-15-amp...
The issue with the medical profession seems to be when you ask them about something not in their specialty.

Most doctors I've spoken to without a personal relationship refuse to comment and instead refer to a specialist.

... Which forces the patient to make his or her own choice, even though they most information they have is a summary from hurried medical professionals.

I understand why they do it, but it's a suboptimal result compared to their weighing the relative merits with their expert knowledge in at least one and offering advice.
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> Is there anything that actually requires deep, low level OS hooks or anything like that, that would justify a desktop client app, as opposed to a browser based app, running locally (with web sockets and such?)

Mh.. A great user experience? In line with other made-with-love apps, which fit in nicely into the OS?
Siemens is one of the biggest employers in Germany and has 350000 employees worldwide. Siemens is doing fine.
"Back to basics":

> css variables

> 32KB (unzipped)

That said, I do love it though -- I have yet to dig into the CSS variables spec but I like that it offers near-bootstrap level functionality for a lot less size.

Compared to my usual go-to, https://purecss.io/ though, it's super duper heavy, a factor of 10. Then again, pure doesn't have as many nice-to-haves.

Also, I really like the height utilities... I find myself writing these two utility classes ALL the time:

.full-height { height: 100%; }
.full-min-height { min-height: 100%; }
Keen Lab hackers managed to take control of Tesla vehicles again
'Anonymous' browsing data can be easily exposed, German researchers reveal
Not true, see e.g. Museumkaart, which is a non-profit foundation created by the Dutch museums that sells cards for accessing them for a flat fee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museumkaart
The difference is Tesla has a plan to scale up. How is BMW going to acquire all the batteries needed if they want to start selling 10x the number of i3s? They may adapt, but will surely lose their comfortable position in the market.
They were effective even with STAKEKNIFE embedded in the organisation at a high level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeknife
http://go.newsfusion.com/security/item/996832
In the US, it's uncommon for dentist to do cleanings. Are you sure it was t a hygenist?
I've been working on web extensions for multiple browsers lately.

Chrome and Firefox have workable ecosystems and accept more or less the same code, but package it differently.

Edge accepts almost the same code, but they had to change the "chrome" namespace to "browser". I suppose it was a question of pride. Also, Edge doesn't have a workable way to publish and to inline-install web extensions.

Safari accepts similar code to the rest, but organized differently. They have a slow and ponderous process for approving extensions for their store. They don't offer anything remotely resembling inline installation.
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Accessible color combinations and Machine learning
Coin Dance – Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork
Can't speak for OP but a lot of people's problem with Brexit isn't just the fact we won't be in the EU anymore but the things that come along with that. There's a lot of stuff our government wants to do that the EU has prevented until now. There's also the 'extreme' element in society feeling they can be more open now (racism, hate crimes, etc.).
Good. You don’t get to be isolationist and racist without losing the benefits of trade with the rest of Europe. The nation will be punished for the series of missteps that led it here, but this time they can’t blame diplomats in Brussels.
This is the third or fourth article about the cost of Brexit I read this week. Another interesting one was how ridiculously expensive border control and customs could become

There's still almost two years of negotiations ahead, but right now the rhetoric of the British government seems to be geared towards a hard brexit (e.g. "There will be no freedom of movement after 2019, even if we lose access to the single market").

The rhetoric on this side of the channel seems to be a bit more nuanced - but not much. Both sides have drawn some red lines, and they do not seem to overlap.

So, I fear we'll have a mostly hard Brexit in two years, and it will cost, the UK, Europe and many companies billions.
"But oh no, they would never do that ... they would only use this technology for productive purposes ... like catching bad guys".
Why not fold it and move to Bitcoin-only donations?

The authorities will have nothing to chase, the problem can't re-occur, accounting will be transparent, and accountants will not be required in future.

Seriously, Dutch should start a petition against their tax authorities for victimizing an open source project.
Facebook is going to kill LinkedIn.
What a sad story. My heart is broken. Please everyone, let's start a gofundme campaign for those innocent wholesale banks.
Stop spreading nonsense. There is a tendency amongst millennial Dutchmen (and other Europeans) to absorb American social issues and pretend they are also happening here so they can partake in the "struggle". The Dutch police is as fair, non-aggressive and understaffed as can be.

The fact that over 60% of Moroccan young males have been arrested at least once is not the result of a corrupt police force. The fact that Antilleans are 24 times more likely to be suspected of a crime than native Dutchmen can't be brushed off as pure racism. For the statistics to line up with your narrative, there would have to be an equal amount of crime committed by native Dutchmen (and other low-crime ethnic groups) that goes completely unreported and unnoticed, or there would have to be a huge number of innocent non-whites being convicted of crimes that they did not commit. Either conspiracy theory would require the cooperation of an unrealistic number of people.
I'm no legal expert but I think when they're parked up in an appropriate place (private land, layby, that kind of thing) they're considered a temporary residence? Who knows with our convoluted english common law!
Pretty entertaining. A little hard to see my own text box, a bug I guess? I have to hit return to see my text correctly and I have to do it again each time I continue typing. (using Firefox on Linux)
Well, not only the nation will be "punished" (and I don't think that punishing the UK for wanting to leave would be right).

This article is how the banks suffer, most of them are probably not from the UK. Not as a punishment, but as a direct consequence of Brexit.

And the EU will suffer too. So, Schadenfreude is maybe a bit short-sighted here...

Edited to emphasize that I do not think this discussion should be about punishment. And the linked article is definitely not about punishment.
While I have some sympathy for your perspective, this seem to primarily be an article about American banks losing money.
They have some fantastic dev blogs[1]. Their backend seems to mostly be elixir.

1: https://blog.discordapp.com/tagged/engineering
I'm not sure about this one. Got my doubts how well it'll hold up after 4
months of development, under deadlines, with multiple people on the team.

My gut tells me you'll end up not using half the components that are included,
and bend over backwards to make the config do what you want it to.

I much rather subscribe to the thinking in http://tachyons.io/ - just enough
helper classes to create any layout you desire, and doesn't mess with defaults
which means you can extend it to cover all edge cases.
Google already seems not to really care about extensions that much, as they don't work on mobile Chrome.
> And they require your little server-side script to include some SMTP library and connect to a mail server. That's too heavyweight just to get some short information.

Really? Building and deploying a bot made in an arbitrary language is less onerous than registering for a Gmail account to send mail reports through?

Perhaps it's just the author's sense of humour, but this didn't strike me as helpful at all. Notifications can be handy for some things, email for other things. Depends on the person. But it's not hard to set up an email account. That's partly why it's still around.
How to Leverage Your Relationship with Customers as an Embroidery Business?
My fantasy: they negotiate a deal, and then put it to a referendum with choices of Deal, No Deal, and "Please let us back in", having secretly arranged with top EU players about re-entry. Not going to happen, but a boy can dream.
Yeah, I've seen this happen with a good friend of mine I went to high school with. Super good guy, nerdy, smart, always wanted to be a police officer- hated the corruption, wanted to make a difference right? In the 10 years he's been on the force he's gone from beat cop to detective to State FBI Special Agent, and his thinking (illustrated on Facebook) has gone from blasting NWA's "F&$K The Police" to posting pictures of himself all suited up in his FBI gear complete with skull and crossbones patch running around in the woods "Looking for perps". He's got gold skull and crossbones grips on his service weapon. In his mind it's all "Ninjas and Pirates" but that, coupled with his descent into the thinking that "If you weren't guilty, you wouldn't run, and if you aren't guilty, you have nothing to fear from the police" is scary.
Yes, they've completely subverted the internet for their own use. You can send people in need to John Oliver's amazing piece though.
But the EU will suffer relatively less than the UK. And (except for Ireland) this will be concentrated on countries that are doing well at the moment and can absorb a small shock.
While I don't personally use Krita, I've been following its development for years and really admire the work that's gone into the app. Just donated a few Euros, good luck!
Really too bad. Especially with the situation in America right now I know a number of founders that had decided not to do the "move to California" strategy.
It can.

But it can't keep XUL compatibility and do major overhauls of the browser.

If XUL compatibility doesn't even get you a clear advantage in the add-ons area, should it block modernizing the browser?

Firefox can't be the browser that people use only because they're stuck on it because they have extensions that changes how the browser works. Think about that for a bit.
And don't forget that you're often not the first one in your network to start peddling this garbage.

My parents did it for awhile, after being turned onto it by another woman in the small town we lived in. But guess what? That same woman was already selling to 90% of our potential customers. Everyone who was going to buy a case of Glister toothpaste already had one sitting in their garage; who were we supposed to sell to?

The answer to the rhetorical question is, nobody. We brushed our teeth with our shitty investment for about a year, then wrote the whole thing off as a failed experiment that luckily didn't bankrupt us.
I'd like to know what are the "[f]or adults, surgical options for stimulating bone growth are gaining momentum, too, and can lead to shorter treatment times." .. referred to in the third-to-last paragraph? Is this something more than breaking the jaw and extending it like is sometimes done with legs to treat severe growth problems?
That was just the first one that came up. Critically, it's however the authorities (and it seems to depend on the state) define "operating" the vehicle.

But more to my point, you can still be arrested for DUI while not literally driving/sleeping in the backseat. Given the number of law firm search results that pop up, I'm guessing it's often a way people fight DUIs. So maybe these don't stick.
Is there a list we can see/review that Chrome uses?
I'd disagree. I like some of the Material related changes to Google Maps, for example, others seem like they were only done for consistency's sake with no benefit to Google Maps UX. Also IMO they managed to make YouTube even worse with the recent attempts to shoehorn it into their Material design.

The problem with a unified design language is you end up with the lowest common denominator for vastly different products. Material works great for Google Now, somewhat okay for Google Maps, pretty meh for GMail and terribly for YouTube. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.
IIRC, the EU already hinted that they would allow stopping the Brexit-Process, even though this should be impossible according to Article 50.

And they also said they would fast-track an application of the UK, if they applied for membership after leaving.

But I guess, from the EU's perspective, you would need approval of all member states for both, which is incredibly hard to get these days.

And the current UK government probably does not see any of these 2 as an option...
ING Bank charges about 7 cents per transaction on business accounts... it's free on personal accounts.
It's not that uncommon; I'm a member of a tiny cultural non-profit association, and we buy stuff (mostly props and other materials) from China regularly.

That said, I do strongly advise finding an accountant that specializes in non-profits. Ours works with a lot of cultural associations, so he knows that law inside out.
Amazon is attempting to trademark the glowing blue ring of its Echo devices
Yeah true. I copied part of my comment from another comment I did regarding Delphi. So this mention of SAP lacks context. None the less Delphi is lauded for the speed and convenience with which you can create database applications but but compared with a language that was designed especially for it is not that great and Delphi's abstractions you have to use to "do it the Delphi way" and get the outlined advandtages just fall apart in more complex scenarios and begin standin in your way or are straight anti patterns.
Elixir for the backend, they have around 5 million concurrent users.
HN is a Slashdot replacement - Reddit is a Digg replacement. Facebook is an AOL replacement - Google is a yahoo myspace replacement They will all look alike one day in every single way
First they need to negotiate a deal. I don't see Theresa May sticking around long enough to make that happen. Clock is ticking.. another 18 months.
The way I remember it, Reddit had pretty much already beat Digg by the time they attempted the redesign and pivot (which largely went hand-in-hand). Those changes were just the final nail in the coffin. But as far as Digg was competing with Reddit, Digg hat already lost.
A DDoS is often also used to describe infrastructure that cannot handle load by people who do not know what they are talking about. I suspect that is what has happened here.
Don't forget the natural medicine deniers over there! Just because they have a major bullshit industrie does not mean nature never made good medicine.

(I know I just went full circle)
Well, I have no doubt that the EU, the UK and most companies can survive this thing. It's still a waste of money...
One thing I didn't see mentioned in the article or here: a good laundromat typically has machines you wouldn't want to squeeze into your house. For instance, the one close to me has washers that accept 70+ pounds of laundry at once - great for washing blankets & other large items. Having that machine at home wouldn't make any sense, given that it's really only needed a couple times a year for an individual person.
> I think we will see the raise of alternative actors to fulfill the gap. Such actor could be criminal groups like mafia

Isn't this one of the reasons for the huge proliferation of gangs? Certain communities know that the police won't help them, so they establish their own organization.
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I'm sure they could find the money somewhere. I can only hope that no politician has read this and is thinking "I know, let's loan them the money at no cost".

This is a great opportunity for right-wing politicians to put their money where their mouth is. They claim to support free markets, so this is what they should do: allow banks to reduce or end business in the UK, and then allow the willingness to pay for banking in the UK to rise to the point where it comes profitable again to operate there. Banks are run by, well, bankers. Surely they can figure out the accounting on their own without government assistance.
The problem is that towing for any distance decreases the range dramatically, and most superchargers are not equipped for towing. Most superchargers require you to back-in, which would involve unhooking your trailer. Even the superchargers that are pull-through are often not set up to safely leave a trailer attached.

This review came up in the Tesla forums recently. It is a blog entry about towing a trailer in a Model X:
https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-x/2016/long-term-road-te...
> if web extensions become a standard, are they really even extensions?

They're browser extensions, not web extensions. If standardised, then arguably they will be a native part of the web stack, yes.

> strictly limits extensions to things the browser vendors explicitly did conceive of, and stamped their approval on

That's the situation today anyway. The new standard won't change that. Browser vendors may opt to follow the new extensions standard as a 'baseline' feature set, and provide further non-standard options on top of it.

Most extension APIs follow common patterns, and this standard paves those cowpaths. The standard needn't predict all future extension needs to be useful today. For comparison, the DOM is a standard, but individual browser vendors still experiment with their own custom DOM features, and these experiments sometimes get 'merged in' to the standard. Meanwhile, authors benefit from having a well defined set of features that work across platforms. Standardisation doesn't need to be final or absolute to be useful.
I know all about the issues with Firefox, the new WebExtensions and how the "old" XUL extensions which let you do "anything" are being phased out.

I just don't see how any of that is relevant to the original comment I replied to:

> But will Google allow this to happen, as it would strip them a huge selling point for Chrome?

In what way would standardizing WebExtensions, which are already supported by all modern browsers (sans Safari), strip Chrome of selling points?

Why should Google have to "allow" this?
Can someone explain to a distant *coin observer what this means? What it might mean for the price of Bitcoin etc?
Had they given it enough thought, they'd have pushed for replacement of XUL APIs in WebExtensions in a non-blocking way, for example. But they found killing all of the valuable add-ons of years worth of work of so many developers justified.
Xenophobia and racism aren't necessarily the same thing.

Edit: I'm open to the idea that some (edit: some portion of..I have no idea what the split is) supporters aren't xenophobic either. The "racism" tag just bugs me in this context.
German companies are generally known to not rush with new products. They work until they perfected the product and only then introduce it to the market. That doesn't work for fast changing products such as smartphones but works well for machines and cars.

This is true for both EVs as well as autonomous driving. The manufacturers have the technology but only introduce it once the whole package makes sense (incl batteries). They won't lose much market share because the market is currently so small (except for markets where tax incentives were very large).

Once EVs make economic sense for the majority of drivers (probably in 5-7 years), I'd expect each of the large German manufacturer to have 10+ models on offer. With the knowledge around other aspects of the car and their production capacity they can probably make up for the delay within a few months' of production.
That was always the recommendation I got, even as a teenager pre-braces. In the end, my parents opted for braces, which I had to wear twice for a total of 9 years. In the end, my 4 lower front teeth lost bone, so they were dangerously loose. I had a massive retainer to keep them stable for about 6 years. Last year, I finally had them removed and replaced with implants and crowns. I am much happier now, but it took over 15 years of pain, and roughly $30k. I have an expensive mouth.
Spotify was also doing this until very recently