skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox has had support for multiple profiles since before Chrome existed. This is a different feature that let's you segment individual tabs within a session.
John Thain the ex Merril Lynch CEO who spent 1.2 million dollars of company money to remodel his office[1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/business/27bank.html?mcubz...
The government doesn't try to prevent monopolies anymore, and once you're a monopoly you have more than enough power to stop competitors if you pay even a modicum of attention to them
You've described perfectly valid use cases for a browser to request additional information. But I think we can both agree that collecting data for the purpose of improving a specific product that Google owns (outside of Chrome itself) is wrong.
I considered that, and had a couple of thoughts:

1. HN is not a place where I seek "likes," karma (I know some do though), or share gifs of cats. Since there is karma and some sort of static identity attached to comments, though, I suppose it could be considered a social site to some. OTOH, I do not hold a Swedish passport, and do not plan to travel to Sweden, so tying my passport or other ID to my identity here would not be obvious, unless you count the NSA or whoever having the ability to tie my real name to this account.

2. I doubt HN is on the DHS list of 'social media sites' with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and whatever other sites you kids are using these days.

P.S. Please don't misunderstand me: I love funny cat gifs. It is the main reason to allow the internet to continue to exist.

P.P.S. Yes, the above P.S. was included solely to influence border security when they crack my laptop / phone and find HN on my bookmarked sites with my login credentials saved and start scrolling through my comments here. Fortunately, I self-censor to avoid losing too much karma with any single comment, which should keep me safely in the mainstream of contemporary public mores and avoid arousing suspicion.
Businesses that provide or allow iOS devices need to be ready when new OSes are released to the public, which can easily be done since Apple offers regularly-updated betas for months in advance. This is particularly important because even managed devices cannot be prevented from upgrading to new OSes unless all traffic is routed through controlled networks that block access to Apple update servers.
Because how this is being done is a completely mistake. They don't respect each other and do things against the law they supported before. But don't compare it with free speech, this is not what is happening now. I want an open dialog, not this bullshit. If you do something illegal you face the consequences, as this is completely illegal they faced them. Otherwise is that they open a public debate and discuss, talk with the people, negotiate the terms, etc. They could do things right like in Ireland, but they are not doing it. And the central government instead of open a dialog is closed completely to any type of dialog. Someone tries to open a dialog and they point at them and blame them. And they got more votes because of their attitude. So fight is served because politics don't want to talk and are making the people hate the other people.

To sum up, the problem is how are they doing the things and that most population support both of them (each one their party) increasing the anger and the hate.
I bet it was really tastefully done though.
If you take the total spend on welfare, and divide it by the number of people who claim benefits, you get $24 per day.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/05/04/the-aver...

> The reality, expressed mathematically, is: Total Spending On “Welfare”/Those who receive benefits = $24.77 per day. That's a lot less than $168.

I'd be interested to know where your numbers come from.
Screenshots, Send Tabs and more Faster Firefox provides upgraded features
> What's wrong with independence of small groups?

The extinction

Being smaller is stupid when you need to compete with much bigger countries in the rest of the world. It doesn't work in the practise.
What magazines on CD-Rom have to offer (1995)
San Francisco seems to be the only place where that holds true, and I say that not having tried to get a job there. The average length of time for engineers I know of trying to get a new job is 3-4 months. Any one of us could easily be a shit engineer but its in the 10s of people now. While that's better than a lot of industries now, that doesn't mean that demand outstripped supply. Its just at an ok point. If demand was much higher you'd see salaries rising rapidly at least and I know of few companies that are willing to give significant raises to keep someone vs hiring someone new. Why else is there advice to job hop so frequently to increase your salary?
I was interested in programming at a very young age, because of video games. I wanted to learn to make them. I was interested in video games first. What do they like to do on the computer? Can you find an opportunity for them to make their own version of whatever app they like to use?

I think I was quite naturally inclined to it, though, just like many other girls and boys. If you give your child opportunities to get involved, and they're not interested, it might be a sign that this is not their calling. Perhaps give them opportunities to get involved in something else, and see what naturally grabs them. This is more likely to help them maximize their talents.
It would be nice to see more visualizations and a bit to explain important features in them.
How much Rust is actually in the new Firefox? I'm not seeing any based on a casual click-around in the repo, though I'll freely admit I haven't scanned the entire source tree.

Edit: if there is any, can someone give me a link to the part of the source tree that has it?
> "Ukraine" never was a country until last century.

Nothing in the comment you replied to clashes with that. At all. The actual point, which stands unmoved, is something for which both Russia/Ukraine and Turkey/Kurds are mere examples.

> Maybe one of you down-voters could point out a Ukrainian state pre-1919 that identified as Ukrainian.

Why would they have to? They gained independence 1991. That's the most significant bit, no?
I have smooth scrolling disabled in about:prefs, which only disables it on my touchpad, not with vimium-ff
Presumably you would be trained on a simulator before being thrown into the room
It doesn't make sense for large projects to move to other systems. Control is lost of the history, which automatically disqualifies any platform. Using services others than e-mail will also entail a revamp and move to a different service every few years.

Email is a far lower cost and more reliable medium most other methods.
This also seems to be the equilibrium solution that academia has reached. You have your specialization, but your whole department has events and colloquia and discussions meant to stir the pot and move information between groups.
I was just thinking I need to try Firefox again the other
day.

We need to give Firefox as many chances as it needs because it’s one of the most important projects on the Internet today.
> Netflix is force of habit, it works great in Firefox now

Netflix doesn't work great in either Firefox or Chrome, but that's not the browser's fault. Netflix only streams 720p video to Firefox, Opera, and Chrome whereas it will stream 1080p or better to Safari, IE 11, and Edge:

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

You can see the playback details (formats, resolution, bit rate, etc.) of the video you're currently watching on Netflix by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+D.

I use Safari to view Netflix though I'd prefer to use Firefox. I'm paying Netflix for access to 1080p video, but I only actually get 1080p video with Safari.
"Quite a few"
It appears that Germany, at least, does have laws against hate speech: https://govtrequests.facebook.com/country/Germany/2015-H1/ .

Same with the most parts of the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_the_United... .

The US Supreme Court has never allowed something like this in the US: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... .
First, there's no real name policy here. Second, the quality of content and discussion is much higher here than on Facebook. Third, the HN community is tiny compared to Facebook. For starters.
No one is talking about anything. The attitude of politics of both sides is really an issue, and the worst thing is that they are both supported by the population, they get more votes because of this. I find completely stupid the central government not willing to talk about this while they negotiate with them about other things and even get their support. I still want a couple of Catalans tell me what they exactly want with the independence. I find a completely mistake to be independent, because being part of something bigger where people help each other is better. But I make this question several times here in this thread and still don't have an answer yet.
The government is turning Facebook into a new kind of surveillance tool
A risk is a bond you sell
yourself.

I would argue the issuance of the bond and the separate market for holding risk is key.

Developing a market is key to being able to fund smaller and smaller client segments. This is what I talked about above... with a single origin of corporate ownership there is an upper bound on the number of managers. You need to separate into two markets to meet the entire demand. It's just a matter of graph traversal distances. N corporate boards cannot manage N^2 managers.

But N^2/10 agents can manage N^2 managers. And they take 25%.
> it's given us Einstein, Michelangelo, and conversations on HN

two out of three ain't bad
It's also still considered one of the main-reasons for Chrome eating up all market share, that they now have the leading mobile OS under their control. You can invest a lot of money trying to remedy that, before it's actually a waste of money.

And a lot of technologies and standards that were developed as part of Firefox OS still are very much around today.

In terms of standards, they did a lot of work for camera and microphone integration, which they now needed again anyways with Google having pushed WebRTC to a web standard.

In terms of technology, the biggest thing is probably Asynchronous Panning and Zooming (APZ). Basically offloading scrolling, zooming and window resizing on the desktop to a separate thread.

If you remember how horribly laggy scrolling on Android Firefox was prior to Firefox 46, APZ is what fixed that.

And it's one of the main-reasons why desktop Firefox with multiprocess immediately felt so much better.
(Released in Firefox 48, but extensions needed to be updated to be compatible with multiprocess, so most people here probably didn't experience multiprocess and APZ on the desktop until around Firefox 51.)
I wonder if this / gradient descent would work with integers, and with mod 2^n as the nonlinearity.
> It may sound crazy ...

I don't offer an opinion on your business methods, recovery methods, or even the morality.

Instead, I point out that you're going to go to prison. As noble as you think your cause, they most absolutely will not care. Also related: I'd not count on jury nullification.

You do what you've got to do, but you are going to prison if you follow up on this plan. There are a few things one shouldn't play with; firearms, nuclear weapons, and the SEC.

If you're okay with long term incarceration and fiscal penalties that could bankrupt Bill Gates, knock yourself out. If you can be tied to your online messages declaring intent, it's really going to make for an angry judge. I've seen angry judges, they remind me of honey badgers.

Seriously, I highly recommend you seek legal council from a qualified legal professional licensed to practice in your jurisdiction. Morality and consumer complaints aren't actually things the SEC care about. They are only marginally less aggressive than the IRS.
Fun fact: most Swedes are covered by unemployment insurance, which gives you 70-80% of the income from your last job for a year.[1] I imagine this helps, as it's not only a safety net if your startup tanks, but also a runway for starting risky ventures.

[1] https://www.justlanded.se/english/Sweden/Sweden-Guide/Jobs/U...
Related: reducing system jitter [1]

[1] http://epickrram.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/reducing-system-jitt...
> Think like Warren Buffett for a second

Buffet is actually a fan of S&P 500 index funds, such as SPY:

Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15268726
Per The Washington Post at least 10 states come in above the $35,000 line per year in terms of welfare benefits packages (those include eg Massachusetts, Hawaii, Connecticut, NY, etc). The national median is near $28,800, again per the Washington Post (Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina are at that level).

CATO's numbers also match the Post's. They did a 2013 follow-up study to a prior 1995 study they did of work vs welfare trade-offs on a state by state basis. There is probably no more comprehensive source than their study, that I'm aware of.

"this study seeks to determine the approximate level of benefits that a typical welfare family, consisting of a single mother with two children, might receive"

[34 states come in above $25,000]

https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/the_wo...
for $BAR :: CPU, GPU, MEM, IO

What's the best way to visualize the relative $BAR usage of browser tabs in real time in the browser UI?

Could each tab have an instantaneous or averaging resource demand indicator shown? ...by a font modification, performance dial, color scheme, or animation...?

What's the best way to sort or select from all tabs, or a selection of tabs, by $BAR usage or a query on $BAR usage?
I wasn't too familiar with Ursula Burns, so I just watched a Charlie Rose interview with her. I like her:

https://charlierose.com/videos/29786
Hmm works fine for me on mid 2013 mbpro
> pushing a ton of deep blue in your face would not be considered good design by many.

Sorry to see that you're getting downvoted. Backlit, saturated colors like that are really unpleasant for some people. Designers should take that into account. Same goes for animation on pages that are meant to be read (another trend which is definitely not accessible for many people).

(Other than the color intensity, the page is great.)
this shit is so depressing to me. the amount of narcissism in my generation is unreal. pretty girls are basically mini celebrities now, with 500+ likes on every post they make, and a constant group of admirers telling her how attractive she is non-stop on the internet. there’s no way that doesn’t affect someone’s ego.

i get that this phenomenon was around before the internet, but i cant help but think social media made it a million times worse.
You are wrong about what is important. The important bit if quicklisp is convenience. I can download packages from upstream and verify signatures by hand if I like. With the new asdf registry format, just dropping it in a directory tree works.

asdf-install was not convenient and was insecure by default since it didn't solve the key distribution problem.

Having a single signer solves the key distribution problem, whatever its other flaws are.

You are right that all git:// and http:// upstreams need to go away.
Is webgl still slow on firefox?
They would notice pretty quickly. The California GDP is ~2.6 trillion. NY is another 1.4. Together, they're about 20% of the US economy.

And that's before we start thinking about agriculture. Of course, in that scenario, water becomes interesting.
> Forgotten Notebooks

Am I the only one who immediately assumed that this was an electronic sensor setup logging to some sort of ruggedized laptops that were somehow forgotten and later retrieved? I started thinking about the circumstances that would lead to such abandonment, possible measurements the apparatus might perform, the method for protecting the laptops from the elements, the power-generation strategy, etc., but it didn't even occur to me that the notebooks could be of the paper variety until I clicked on the link.
Hi! Firefox engineer here, and I want to understand why your Firefox is misbehaving.

Would you be willing to provide us a performance profile? Instructions are here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance...

Feel free to email it to me if you don't want to post the link publicly. I'm mconley at mozilla dot com.
For pre beta software, that's perfectly understandable.
Yeah, I'd be weeded out in training.

I don't even care if it's a bright red button with warning labels saying, "DO NOT PUSH!" I'm still going to push it. I might even push it first.

It's a great way to learn software, but probably not so good in a nuclear reactor control room. Like you, I presume they have ways to weed people like me out. It's not that I'm evil, or anything. I'd just be like a five year old if I had access to that many buttons.
Hi! Firefox engineer here. Check out this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371068

If you're interested in helping me figure out what's going on here, feel free to send me a performance profile.
the FIDO U2F code is rust: http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/webauthn/u2f...

otherwise here's the list: http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=&path=*.rs%24
This is needed in Puerto Rico right now.
The full list is at https://thec64.com/hello-world/. Summer Games II is included, but not the first. Maybe there's some sort of weird licensing issue for that, as it's owned by Epyx and all of the other "Games" series are there.
What I Learned Importing $10M in Custom Electronics from China
It's hard not to root for someone everyone is trying to discredit and paint as a vilain. He must be doing something right if so many people are against him.
Read about the first bit of Rust shipping here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/07/shipping-rust-in-firefox/

And many of the Rust things that make FF56+ fast can be found here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum
11.0.1 it’s a separate update. Not included in the main update. Very confusing.
Colony took a very conservative view of the way things may turn out. But even if they went ahead, they would have been far far far away from the cross-hairs of the SEC.

Colony are a legitimate business and honest. The SEC is only going after the egregious ones, as they don't want to kill nascent crypto/ICOs in the USA.
These ICOs are bad for the value of ETH, often millions are raised and then dumped the next day.
Ask HN: Can there be a separate hobbyists network?
Some network not controlled by governments, for people who want computing old style, before the web became a locked down government spied on and controlled surveillance system.

Sure it will be crap, limited, probably back fence to back fence, but at least if would feel Free.

How could such a thing be done?
In addition to these blatantly fraudulent ICO's, I contend that even the "legitimate" ICO's are a total shitshow.

It's not that they raise far too much money for their projects (although they do), its just that without equity in the company performing the ICO you simply don't get alignment of incentives.

Guys like Juan Benet talk about this utopian fantasy of coins funding open-source protocols, but think about the reality. A legitimate project raises 15-45million dollars with a stated intention. Even being well funded, it is still highly speculative, and most startups "fail". So the team raising money has 2 options. Spend the entire amount trying to get the protocol going - which will probably fail (as most projects do), or have a half-hearted go at getting the protocol going, and keep the rest of the money - a 100% chance of getting comfortably rich, but further decreasing the already small odds of the project succeeding.

If the protocol/token model is so good, then companies can launch a token and use that to feed profits back to equity-holders. There is no reason why investors should have to take their chances on some made-up instrument that puts an extra barrier between their interests and those of the founding company.
This could be a great thing for art in the long run. Contemporary Art museums like MOMA (mentioned in the video) have already been catering to these crowds, albeit unadmittedly. I would not be surprised if this observation planted the see for this idea. The result of art museums doing such has been an atrocity for serious art and art criticism, the latter of which has ceased to exist. Art has may other problems but acknowledging and putting a label on this phenomenon could force a light onto what these galleries and museums have become.
> Fixed or not doesn't matter, to him it's a risk for a) being tracable b) having bugs.

So Zcash should be a risk to him then:

a) Zooko's tweet about making it traceable.

b) Zcash's bugs:

.i) Right after launch, they discovered private transactions couldn't be mined - https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/zcash-bug-prevents-private-t...

.ii) Security vulnerabilities, bugs, attack vectors, etc - https://z.cash/tag/bugs.html
> While FF 57 is usable on my Thinkpad 42p I can not say it is twice as fast as the previous version.

I think their specific claim was twice as fast as Firefox 52 on one benchmark:

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/quantum-performance-test/
Please do. There is something to be said for using open source technologies even when they are not the fastest or most full-featured.

And has Firefox on Linux always been more performant? Because over the years, as everyone else migrated away to Chrome, I never really noticed all of the things that were supposed to be so horrible about Firefox.
It's a clone of the Competition Pro, the same design was used for the earlier Commodore DTV

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempston_Micro_Electronics#Com... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV
Agreed. I heard an ocean of hype about how freedom from regulation would unlock untold innovation. It's been fascinating to watch this space rediscover the reasons that the regulations were created in the first place.

One of the interesting questions for me is the extent to which the space will start to self-regulate. Once an investment type develops a bad reputation, it can be very hard to recover. That's why major stock and commodities exchanges are serious about regulating participants, and can be much more stringent than governmental regulators. Contrast, for example, the way investors feel about NYSE or NASDAQ stocks, versus the penny stock market, which is rife with scams. [1]

Based on the history so far I'm not optimistic. But maybe they'll turn it around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcap_stock_fraud
iPhone 8 Plus reportedly splits open while charging
They could probably disable your exploration reflex by teaching you in advance how the plant worked and what buttons did. Which, I guess, is just normal training.
I know it is sacrilege to look askance at Elon Musk. And I know that he has an apparently real business enterprise or two that are running right now.

But I’m struck by the constant barrage of PR for some new massive scheme completely unrelated to his mundane businesses — none of which are quite self-sustaining at this point.

Pumping stock prices with press releases. Where have I seen this before?

Is the only difference between Elon Musk and OTC stock promoters the scale at which they operate?

Note: I admire Mr. Musk and hope he wins. But I am a bit put off between the disconnect between reality (turning Tesla into a high volume automobile manufacturer, for instance, generating its own free cash flow) and the hype machine.
I always used the button to turn off the radio. This change really disturbs me to the point where I’m thinking about moving off of iOS.
Bryan Lunduke joins the W3C
I just found "Use smooth scrolling" under Vimium's advanced options. Might be this page: moz-extension://78ac0671-3b7c-4a05-8771-f46ecdb2b65c/pages/options.html#advancedOptions unless that random string is unique per-user and I just broadcast my password.