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Firefox and various extensions, forever it seems. I think the update will have many switching over, or back...
> Note that the webextension APIs are still under active development.

In which case, switching to webextension support exclusively is premature at this point, don't you think? It would have been better to wait until the API was robust enough to allow 99.99% of legacy extensions to be ported.
The DRM situation was such that Hollywood had the power to deny access to something Microsoft and Intel's customers wanted. Those companies might fear that if they didn't implement DRM, customers would buy a competitor's display or CPU that did implement DRM and let them watch movies.

I don't really see what the analogous situation would be with insurers and Fitbit. Fitbit won't lose customers to a competitor that violates their privacy.
AMD Announces ROCm 1.7 with Tensorflow Support
I am hoping postmarketOS will be a good alternative.

Still being developed and not ready for prime time yet.
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Tell me that doesn't look like the Terminator version of the Demidog from Stranger Things 2
Apple clarifies what Control Center Wi-Fi, Bluetooth toggles do in iOS 11.2 beta
All modern mobile phones have a baseband processor with root backdoor. OnePlus is only remarkable for having a second one.
For those who look for NoScript replacement, uMatrix[0] (from the maker of uBlock Origin) has got you covered (with "A Desperately Needed User’s Guide"[1]).

[0]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/umatrix/
[1]http://adamantine.me/index.php/2015/11/18/umatrix-desperatel...
I was listening to this on NPR and saw that they also allowed them to take 10 trucks of weapons with them...I mean...couldn't they have just targeted those trucks once the convoy left? I don't get it.
I had low expectations when I bought the Series 3 because of what has been said in the past about the battery life but my findings are similar: I put it on in the morning at 7:30am and it's still got ~65% when I'm getting ready for bed. I took it off last night around 11:30 and it was charged back to 100% by 12:15.

I too had a Pebble Time and while that lasted seemingly forever, I'm very very happy with the Series 3's battery life and charge time.
You will be surprised in how many modern recipes lack of critical details (My mom is chef and try to replicate many!).

Contrary to belief, is not about quantities. The procedure is more critical
Facebook will happily ban real people using names they are commonly known by if that's not their birth name. I agree that false positives are bad but they need to take a look at their prioritisation of these actions.

https://www.shortlist.com/tech/facebook-has-fixed-its-real-n...
Complaining about voting like this just injects inflammation and deflects the conversation further off topic. And then users downvote or flag you more because it's against the guidelines. So please just leave it out and comment civilly, substantively, and on-topic instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Huh, I can't replicate that in Fedora. Are you using a binary downloaded from Mozilla directly, or from one of the various Debian APT repos? Can you email me with more info (my HN username @mozilla.com), especially what desktop environment you're using, X vs Wayland, etc.
It's legacy.
Pretty much the same thing happened in the 80s when there was a precipitous drop in the price of oil. The anger fomented by that is exactly what got Chavez and his socialist platform elected.

Now, of course, it's "all socialism's fault", just as last time it was "all capitalism's fault". People have short memories.

So no, it wasn't socialism that's causing Venezuela to fall apart any more than it's going to be socialism that will Saudi Arabia to tear itself apart in the next few years (they've have more cash on hand right now but they are hurtling towards exactly the same place).

It's Dutch Disease and the resource curse.

>Longer still: They allowed the state to control the oil revenues entirely, and because they wanted to enrich themselves, they promised unsustainable entitlements to the public which eventually fell through when the oil price dropped slightly. Because they didn't give a damn, the private sector was not involved to invest any portion of the revenues, and the government couldn't possibly care less to invest them.

Yes, their real mistake was building some houses and hospitals with the oil revenue instead of letting it get siphoned off into swiss bank accounts as was happening before /s

The "private sector" (powerful Venezuelan business interests) essentially plotted its own demise when it launched the 2003 coup. That was unfortunate, as was Chavez's response to crush them, but it was to a large extent, self inflicted.
The contention of course derives from Scandinavia broadly being the sole positive argument that modern Socialists have to rest upon as an example. If you take that bogus example out from under them by pointing out that Sweden is nowhere near being a Socialist nation (quite the opposite in fact, they're a booming private market economy with vast private wealth), their world-view implodes.
No video download helper. Anyone got a good way of downloading video streams?
It's just that if security is a core priority, you'd expect to see this mentioned at least once. Based on what I read, the core priorities are speed, privacy, and convenience.

Compare this to Chrome, Safari, and Edge (tagline: "A fast and secure browser that's designed for Windows 10"): https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/features.html, https://www.apple.com/safari/, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge.

Perhaps this is just a marketing or internal communication issue. Did somebody from security engineering have a seat at the table when the Firefox 57 marketing material was discussed?
And his voice? Lots of the top youtube game reviewers arent exactly attractive physically, but they have classic radio voices. Totalbiscuit and most all of the yogscast fit the profile.
Closing someone's https://aws.amazon.com/ account for any reason potentially destroys their business and (if not reversed promptly) loses data.
That's interesting. We actually use quaggaJS quite heavily, and haven't found any large performance issues even on lower spec devices.

That being said it did take quite a lot of time to get to that point (tuning scan frequency, resolution, and a bunch of other things), and we looked into scandit recently (our company does use scandit in other products) and even though your library can detect and scan barcodes in worse conditions, it didn't really improve scan times or fix our biggest issues on web, which by the looks of it are the same issues you are running into. (iOS 11 being a pain in WebViews and sites added to the homescreen, and lack of the focus management APIs meaning you are at the mercy of the autofocus), plus the requirement for a license check at runtime is shooting our big use case in the foot (some of our users run the webapp offline for days at a time!)

But we have looked into some webassembly for some of this code, and I'm glad to hear it holds up about as well as expected on lower spec devices. I was worried about lower spec devices not being able to handle the larger "binaries" that WASM tends to produce.

And this is really off topic, but I'd love to pick your brain on how you "solved" the constraints issues on some devices with the getUserMedia stuff (flipping the aspect ratio requested, some devices rejecting all constraints except 2 or 3 "blessed" resolutions, problems with orientation affecting the returned resolution regardless of what was asked, etc...). I understand if you can't talk about it due to company secrets, but I figured I'd give it a shot! If you are open to it, my email is on my user page.
I don't mean to be rude, but so what?

There's no need to specifically mention your favorite streamer, or your favorite game. Just because PUBG is popular right now doesn't mean this is a phenomenon centered around PUBG. There have been many streamers making A LOT of money for years now. League of Legends, Counterstrike, and DotA 2, for example, have always had large fan bases with "Top streamers" making similarly ridiculous amount of money in tips.
A big chunk of those 2,000,000 players are Chinese no?
Use 52ESR.
You don't have to go back to the middle ages for that. I have a recipe book with recipes from my grandmother and her contemporaries which are often just lists of ingredients. Knowledge of how to assemble them is assumed. Even some of the ingredients already aren't what you think. "Sour cream," for example, is naturally soured (spoiled) cream, not the stuff we now buy in the grocery store.
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Tried this. It was too complicated and slow enabling every subdomain by hand.
I would think most people say socialism in this case because it was put up by many influential people as a proud of example of socialism back when times were good. It's the same thing when socialists point to failing capitalistic systems and say "capitalism".

It's the problem of people not wanting to properly discuss things and always fall back on blaming people based on labels.
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I'd think because at least publicly they've placed a great deal on emphasis on accounts being real, with the stated goal of producing a certain kind of environment. If your social network becomes polluted with trash and even brutal scams, then won't engagement go down? But I guess they've run the numbers.
Wayland out of the box?
Typing could be perfectly optional like in the ES4 proposal 10 years ago.

Using TS is great for pure JS, but certain libs like Vue are still problematic. A "native" solution would be much better than TS or Flow.
Plenty of us have been using and living with Firefox without using one of the deprecated functions of XUL, or using them minimally. For those of us this release has been fantastic, and I'd wager we make up a considerably larger proportion of the userbase.
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Do search indexes typically not include an identifier for a given resource? Seems to me that an index would be almost useless without them, as the match itself is more often than not far less useful than the document that contains it. Unless the information you need happens to be in the surrounding blurb.

So yeah, I'm not sure why you'd have to "crawl" through physical media when a search index ought to tell you right where your match is located. Is that not the entire point of indexing and searching?
Two years without saying which APIs they needed.
I wouldn't be so sure of GitHub if I were you. How long has it been the biggest player? It wasn't so long ago SourceForge was dominant and look what happened to it. GitHub is beholden to their investors, and it will make decisions that benefit them at the expense of their users. Services like Pinboard thrive as some random dude on the internet. I use a business model that doesn't have the same risks to longevity that GitHub does.
I'm a co-founder of Refdash. Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I largely agree with things that you said. I think that interviews need to become significantly less stressful and more objective.

One way in which we're approaching the stress of interviews is to strip away the bad outcomes and allow people to approach interviews as "there is nothing to lose". Another way is experimenting with different types of interviews such as group interviews or project based interviews. Sometimes the issue with those experiments though is that they're even harder to standardize.

I think that in addition to what you said, we need to get to a measurable level of improvement. We try to measure the repeatability of our sessions in two ways: 1) when the same session is evaluated by two different interviewers, the ratings across dimensions should be equivalent and 2) (this one is harder to experiment control) when the same person does two interviews, they should be evaluated equivalently on the intersection of sets of things that were evaluated.
By optimizing for these two ways of repeatability, we are hopefully going to move toward much more objective driven evaluations that capture the engineer's understanding of different areas and not just the spur of the moment.
>> * private property, but rather than being owned by capitalists it is owned by the state

Wha? How is state-owned property considered private property?

Also, I would have said Venezuela was socialist because the socialists in my country said it was. And I'm fairly certain members of their ruling class described their country's government as socialist.
Is testability a reason to change your design?
If you don't see any reason why it would be different, you're not looking.

Apple is aggressively privacy focused. Apple is the most valuable company in the world, and none of that money has come from selling users' data despite the fact that they're sitting on probably the second most valuable corporate dataset in the world (behind Google).

And while Fitbit might also be very clear about their users' privacy, they don't share one quality Apple has: a virtual guarantee that they won't go under new ownership in the near future.
There's no need for a NoScript replacement. Giorgio Maone (author of NoScript) says NoScript for Firefox 57 will be released today:

https://hackademix.net/2017/11/14/double-noscript/
No extensions installed. Literally just downloaded firefox.
Clicked on NodeJS cheat sheet. Got an infinite "loading" message. Checked console and found 3 "BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT" errors.

If your website breaks because I have an ad blocker, then I'm not interested in your "documentation"
The Top 500 supercomputer list is out, and it's now 100% Linux
Finally Zuckerberg Shares Routines
People do a lot of things that baffle me.

Spending $100-500 for some entertainment is actually reasonable and not at all baffling.
Red Hat Introduces Arm Server Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> extremely weak states like tsarist Russia

This is unwarranted, it has almost managed to win WW1 (which was unwinnable anyway, hence "almost" counts)
Weaknesses identified by Bloomberg:
[1] It's decentralized; there's no CEO
[2] It's open source software people can copy
[3] It's subject to competition from new coins

Ha ha ha. These are only problems to institutional people who are investing in Bitcoin as an asset. For people who want a decentralized, censorship resistant medium of exchange, these are all features.
A zero-knowledge proof for the existence of God
That's not true. Your browser does exactly the same things that it did yesterday.

If you chose to update to the new version where you knew exactly what extensions would be running and which wouldn't... well, your fault.
What does that have to do with... literally anything?
Its literally the difference between watching pro sports and playing sports yourself.

I think Dota is a great game and I could play it, but I'm not that good, especially when I'm not playing regularly. So I have the choice of playing it and watch myself air-ball abilities or watch the equivalent of Steph Curry score from the half-line and beyond.

Think about it, its a competitive game where you're matched with players of equal skill, so you'll win exactly half your games. The ones you lose can be very frustrating, sometimes taking the pleasure away from playing the game. But if its someone else who's winning/losing, I don't mind.
Sorry about that inconvenience. The current plan is to revisit WebSocket debugging in Q1 next year, per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885508.

Part of the delay is the complete rewrite that most of the DevTools are undergoing. As we move from legacy, in-house solutions (XUL) to standard web technology (HTML/JS, React/Redux, etc.) as part of the "devtools.html" project: https://github.com/devtools-html/
This is such a passive attitude. I don't think the passive, judging members of tech organizations will ever take responsibility for how they are dragging their orgs down. Because, by definition, they are passive and take responsibility for nothing.

But the truth is that organizations fail more often because of their passive, "why won't anyone lead me properly" attitudes. And this smacks of it.
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Hmmm... I read this, got distracted, followed links, and bought a game in a Steam sale (Avadon 2 - £2.99).

I think I'm doing it wrong.
If you need to scrape content from complex JS apps (eg. React) where it doesn't pay to reverse engineer their backend API (or worse, it's encrypted/obfuscated) you may want to look at CasperJS.

It's a very easy to use frontend to PhantomJS. You can code your interactions in JS or CoffeeScript and scrape virtually anything with a few lines of code.

If you need crawling, just pair a CasperJS script with any spider library like the ones mentioned around here.
I don't mean to be offensive but reading your statement alone shows me your bias. 1) You constantly referred to the developer as he. You may not realize it but the language you use is an indication of the prototypical picture of a developer you have in your head 2) You are making a strong assumption based on one point of data, your "experience". I am not trying to belittle it but here's a counter. Based on my experience, I have hired developers who did great at algorithmic interviews, design and coding. Guess what, they SUCKED as developers. They didn't understand architecture. They weren't willing to learn a new language or framework. They couldn't properly evaluate why a framework would perform poorly. They had terrible communication skills which matter because their team didn't understand them and they couldn't make a strong case for why their point was right.

Point is, although there might be place for algorithm coding in developer interviews, I am willing to wager a large chunk of my salary that performing well in algorithm interviews doesn't necessarily correlate strongly to performing well on the job.

Why? Performing well on the job needs to be properly defined in it's context first.
Major props to the Fedora project, really gotta get this off my chest as I had Yet Another "distro-hopping just still ain't worth it even in 2017" moment yesterday.

Somehow I have accumulated 4 laptops still-in-running-condition currently. Every rare once in a while, on a lazy weekend or when caught with a cold, I feel I should experimentally check out other distros and/or DE/WM combos than the singular one that has proven time and again for me to work-out-of-the-box, on any machine, after a swift painless install, without headaches hickups or troubles: Fedora with Gnome 3 (manually tweaked down to ultra-minimalism later on of course --- wouldn't mind i3 but guess what, it just freezes out-of-the-box, and the others seem to be abandonware).

Whether it's some some Arch or some Suse, Xfce DE or i3 or other WM.. it always either bugs out severely right in the live environment or during their install, or immediately after.

Great for tinkerers, but my reasoning always immediately jumps to "meh I have enough own code-bases to tinker with --- I might wanna tweak a properly running system but not trouble-shoot its setup" and so I just restore Fedora+Gnome3 and think, "ah well, maybe in another year from now".

We're talking bog-standard laptops here: an XPS, 2 older ThinkPads, a very budget Asus.

I'm quite grateful someone pointed me to Fedora when I got over my 3D gfx fascination phase and was more than ready to ditch Windows again "stat". Really stands on its own. (Granted, Ubuntu also seems to work well for many but I don't see any benefit over F now that I know about it =)
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I am well aware of Google and I have said nowhere that it's either or. My point is that there are a lot of people who ask for funding who don't need it because they aren't actually solving anything fundamental.
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"If we didn't prevent it, then you'd be stupid to not go to college take out $120k in loans and then declare bankruptcy at 22 prior to taking a job"

Yeah, but that's exactly why no one would ever lend that amount in the first place. That, I believe, was the OP's point. College should not cost what it does. And part of that reason is federal guarantees upon the debt. So colleges can raise the price and since the debt is guaranteed creditors are happy to lend. Essentially, there is no check and balance on the price of education that exists for pretty much everything else that might be financed (i.e. a car).

"IMO the only way to solve it is to put the school on the hook for part of the $$ if the default rate exceeds X%."

Totally disagree. That seems to violate every notion of contract law that exists. The colleges are not taking part in the loan process. They are not agreeing to take any monetary risk on the individual. They are simply offering a service at a (bloated) price. The debtor agrees to take on debt to pay for the service and the creditor agrees to take the risk. The college should not be brought into that totally separate contractual agreement. That's like holding an employer responsible for debts that an employee defaults upon because the employer had cutbacks and laid off the employee.
Apparently, the issue was a Gateway timeout while fetching some JS file, because the list of links finally loaded after a minute or so.
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It is a mixed bag.

Netflix works on just about every device you can watch video on. In the living room, that includes everything from the latest top-end game console (e.g. Xbox One X) all the way to inexpensive streaming sticks, cable boxes, etc.

Some streaming services work on a limited set of devices (partly because they likely have to re-implement their app for each platform). Amazon Prime, Hulu, and HBO Now are examples.
The developer of Waterfox has promised to continue supporting "legacy" add-ons, so that's an option you can explore.
But NoScript will be released today:

https://hackademix.net/2017/11/14/double-noscript/
This was possible until today and FF57 with the "Keychain Services Integration" plugin -- but it can't be ported to WebExtensions.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keychain-serv...

I will miss it and I'm not sure what to do next.
> building some houses with the oil revenue

Do you mean "in Miami" here? Because in this thread that's where the money supposedly go.

A lot of countries live with Dutch disease without crumbling.
Tell that to the tens of thousands of streamers on Twitch who have 10 or less viewers, who absolutely are not getting rich.

Like others have mentioned it's a combination of luck to get the initial attention, and skill to maintain that following (either actual video game skill, entertainment skill, or a combination of both).
Well sure, I would classify the placebo effect as a psychological explanation.
> put the school on the hook

While I agree with that (a lot), you can repossess a degree. The school can choose to disavow knowledge of a student. Employer tries to verify your degree, nope, don't know you. You cannot repossess an education, but you can repossess a degree. How important that is, I'm not sure. Your other solution (clawing back money from the schools for useless/overpriced degrees) is far more elegant IMO.
Verizon is finally killing Compuserve Forums
I assume this puppeteer:

- https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer
not as elegant as a single button, but this does the same job:

* Ctrl + Shift + C

* Select your div

* Press [Delete]
You have statistics for teachers? That's just plain stupid to be honest.
I believe this was the same battle fought by local bookstores when Amazon was just an online bookseller.

I suppose someone will try again. It's largely a network effect and economy of scale, perhaps?

But then again, people build new browsers, car and/or space technology companies, or similarly "insurmountable" projects.
https://www.waterfoxproject.org/