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I started using it about a month ago, because I was getting annoyed with some bugs on Safari [1]. That was on El Capitan, as my Mac was old enough to not support Sierra. I have since gotten a new Mac and am on High Sierra. Firefox has been working well enough that I have not checked to see if those Safari bugs are gone.

There are only two things I've found that annoy me on an ongoing basis with Quantum, and two things I wish they handled better.

• The English spelling dictionary that comes with it is terrible. You can add a better spell check dictionary from the add-ons page, and that helps. Even with that there are weird gaps, though. Consider these words: millisecond, microsecond, nanosecond, picosecond, femtosecond, attosecond. It knows them except for picosecond and attosecond. It seems odd to me to have femtosecond but not picosecond.

Chrome knows them all except attosecond. Safari knows them all.

Although it does not know picosecond, it DOES know picoseconds. Huh?

• I miss the "look up" command on the right-click menus from Chrome and Safari to look up a word in the MacOS dictionary and present the results in a pop-up. I can use the system keyboard shortcut cmd-option-d to open a selected word in Dictionary, but I like the pop-up better. I've got an add-on that adds a lookup to the right-click menu, but that just opens a web-based dictionary in a separate tab.

The two things I wished they handled better were certificates and containers/profiles.

• Safari and Chrome use Apple's keychain for certificates. If I want to add a non-standard certificate authority's root certificate, or trust a self-signed certificate, all I have to do is import it via Keychain Access and set the trust level and it then works in Safari and Chrome (and Mail and Messages...). Firefox uses its own certificate management, requiring that I add everything to it separately.

• Using more than one profile is awkward compared to Chrome. If all you care about is keeping cookies separate [2], Firefox container tabs look like a good alternative, but I also want to keep bookmarks, caches, and history separate, which seems to be beyond what container tabs can handle.

[1] There were two that were particularly annoying. (1) When returning to a page via the back button (or corresponding gesture) it would sometimes freeze for a few seconds after it displayed the page. (2) Occasionally it would get in a state where during a back gesture it would freeze in the middle of the animation of the previous page sliding in. I never saw it recover from that.

[2] Keeping cookies separate is probably good enough for a large fraction of the things that would drive people to multiple profiles. It suffices for things like checking a work account from home or a home account from work on a service where you have accounts for both home and work.
For large sizes like that, I think you may be able to get good deals on a sort of larger dumb monitor that is used in airports to display flight information, and to a lesser extent rotating decks of static advertisements. They aren't typically sold direct to consumers. I'm not sure whether their pixel response times are good enough for regular entertainment video streams, though.

I haven't done much digging on this, since 40" is plenty for the longest line-of-sight possible in my house.
> someone who I’m perceiving as a white affluent male

Of course you are.
I am not certain whether this is a joke that flied over my head, but in case it is not:

The whole point of the parent comment was that on IRC you do not know other people's background and can not be discriminatory.

Most scientific evidence is the exact opposite of your allegation - when the "tribe" of the other is not know you assume they are of your tribe and do not discriminate. Project Implicit and "stereotype threat" are good phrases to google that would provide rigorous scientific studies around those and other similar topics.
Dizelaš: the ‘Serbian gopnik’ style that defined the 90s is making a comeback
Agreed. Mall's attempted to remake the idea of a "city center" but because they were largely single use - shopping - and you had to make a special trip to go there versus it being on your way somewhere or within walking distance, they ultimately are going to fail. Some malls are attempting to evolve, to their credit.

Ultimately it's a failing of zoning. You have houses here. business here. shopping here. library (if funded but probably not) over there. But these things should all be intermingled with the exception of manufacturing.
You are doing good. Now go and post some comments, get other accounts to post comments. Add a summary of the article, maybe use an application that generates an automated summary.

Create some long tail words and through those into the comments and auto summary on the page.

That should rank you a bit for some words in your group. Right now, Google is thinking you are just providing duplicate content.
Thanks for the feedback; narrow lines should help the contrast issue in theory (less eye movement to read a paragraph), but I know there's a wide range of visual acuity, and I can't account for it all on my own.

That said, I realize the current contrast level of the main body text is an uglier compromise than I would like, so I've filed an issue on my little CSS library to remind me: https://github.com/WorldMaker/lcars-moderne/issues/2

Also, I've tried to make sure that the Reader View in both Firefox and Edge works well with my blog. I'm still surprised Chrome has not enabled its Reader Mode by default like the other browsers.
Debugging with git
that 75-90 seems right, but I know several in Austin/Houston that are not senior level (and have just a few years exp) making low six figure salaries. I would think the range for senior is closer to half of your 250-400, though.

However, unless you're making double in SF what you would in Austin/TX in general - I think you wouldn't be doing much better/the same/or maybe slightly worse, comparably.

If you were hired straight from college to work at a big company/one that pays graduates very competitively - then yes, SF or similar will always be better.
I had an Amiga and the user experience was not comparable to a modern PC, except if you squint really hard. Like really hard.
They probably have nothing in mind. This isn't something they're planning to make so much as something that would be cool if the technology existed. The fact that in-wheel motors are put on the same level as "detecting wear and damage", "micro-channels containing 'healing chemistries'", and "supercapacitors out of carbon fiber panels that can be used to form the body of the car" gives an indication of how likely this whole affair is.
All the destruction that was unleashed in its aftermath, could have been avoided, if PM Modi had heard the best economist he had at his disposal, and not an accountant masquerading as one.

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/11/07/a-year-later-it-s-sa...
I just tried in chrome (and again in ff) and got on the same order of magnitude of requests. 700+ for html, ~200 for amp.

No crapware, I keep my computer pretty clean (4 ext: tree tabs, ublock, bitwarden, https everywhere). I probably just got unlucky.
Some would point that a lot of Jan Dhan accounts were flush with much smaller amounts. So any large sums of cash held by someone found a way to get into the system and back out again within a few months.
Against a Tax Increase on Berkeley Students
It makes more sense if you're one of the oligarchs. I mean, not the logic of the argument, but the reasons for supporting it ;)
Comparing the Dynamics of Cryptocurrency to Indian Political System
I don't understand this desire to immediately assume bad faith in these situations. It's a complicated situation, involving a lot of actors. Yeah, probably some of them are acting in bad faith. But probably most of them are just trying to develop a functional cryptocurrency. This stuff is very hard, and having it all so decentralized only makes it harder.

Personally I was hoping for the 2x fork to succeed, or, barring that, for some kind of miracle switch over to Bitcoin Cash, which has the 8x capacity without the baggage of Segwit. But realistically this is probably the best outcome for Bitcoin for the reasons outlined in the message.
Right, but the point is how many jobs does Amazon create delivering all those goods to you compared to say a Sears or Walmart?

The modern day middlemen are doing a better job with way less people. Hence the Retail Apocalypse...
Potentially but when you're at a store you can immediately tell the if the store has a good or bad purchasing department. It does provide tangible positive value.

You're silly if you think that the industry isn't already using large data analysis to do this job. There's still plenty of value by having a human at the end of the tunnel to actually interpret it though.
Show HN: Hash Heroes – A daring Ethereum lottery game
They should have said "Unix-like" OS, as Minix is definitely distinct from Linux.
I don't see what is not realistic about it. We are talking about things which are incredibly difficult to value because there is no market for them to set a competitive price. In your Apple example the most productive employees are all in the US not island nations. If the money is being held by on overseas subsidiary then Apple can't use the money as it otherwise would if it could freely cross borders.
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Of course - but why would we trust politicians to have the ethics/morality to construct their own checks and balances?

My point is that politicians cannot be relied upon to have morality. Checks and balances are needed to ensure even those without morals adhere to some sane laws.
Yes, but I live less than two blocks away from two stores that factor into my lifestyle: ACE Hardware (i own a house and can do a lot of the maintenance on my own), and a local pet supplies store (1 dog, 1 cat).

Yes, i definitely pay a premium for purchases I make at each one of these. But it’s not an astronomical amount, and it makes more sense if you think about these kind of stores as local warehouses.

Why don’t I just have a 70lb bag of dog food delivered every n days? Idk, I don’t want to have to think about the dog food until I have to think about the dog food. If dog food shows up when I’m out of town, or there’s actually a weeks worth of food left because Externalities, now I have an extra dog food storage problem.
The GraphQL Framework seems cool, specially the GraphQL CRUD API. However I don't like the idea of having to use GraphQL Schema Definition Language, I want something that takes my MySql or PostgreSQL Schema and automatically generates the code to allow me to perform CRUD operations over it via a GraphQL API, and extent from it...
There's already a national aggregator... Amazon. Anything more 'nationalized' would smell of socialism and nobody's ready for that.. Though I wouldn't mind socialized medicine/education personally.
> how could Snapchat possibly be threatening to the Chinese government?

Any messaging system that the Chinese government isn't able to assert control over and have access to gets banned.
and with Bonjour/Avahi zeroconf, this should be a totally workable thing - but there are security issues with this approach, and in general its more complex to implement right and have it "just work" - so they choose the easy route and use the cloud.
Wow, what a rabbit hole of creepy obsession and crazy. I wish I hadn't asked.
Look at the graph. It clearly isn't the case.
These things go in cycles. When I was a kid if you wanted a toy you went to the toy section of a department store. The department stores spent decades contracting as specialty stores boomed. And now the specialty stores are shrinking in favor of the big box stores.

It's likely the specialty stores are being crushed by online retailers. Their raison d'être was always having more inventory depth than general retail, e.g. the shoe store has a much better selection than the shoe department at Sears. But if you're after selection, you can't do better than your browser.
As an American, my interest is in seeing the quality of life for my fellow citizens improve first.

Yes, people in other countries are people too, etc., but they also have their own governance, their own resources, their own economics systems to manage and oversee.

I can take no active part in any of that--only my own country's.

Until we have one world government, I'm always going to prioritize the places where I have at least some capacity to pull the levers in ways I think are better for people.

(This is why I dislike, in general, the specious globalist argument, "but the poors overseas deserve wealth too," sure they do, but they also live in sovereign nations and it's up to them to guide and shape their own.)
How would you feel about Electron projects if Electron was instead:

1. a single shared runtime install, installed transparently by the first thing to need it (similar to how the Adobe Air first-use experience worked), rather than a vendored dependency?

2. a shared VM that ran its apps in separate V8 execution contexts (like how browsers isolate tabs), but with a lot of shared resources so that each Electron app didn't end up with a GB of (mostly redundant) memory consumption?

I find that most people don't object to HTML5 apps per se; they just object to the way Electron handles things. The above was going to be the strategy of Chrome's "app-only runtime" mode, until they just killed off Chrome Apps altogether. I still think it's a decent strategy, all-said.
I even order all my food online. The only stuff we buy in physical stores are stuff we want now (“crap! I’m out of coffee”)
By doing jobs that do not scale. Such as submitting the content, and answering the questions submitted.

By doing things that do not scale, you are able to develop a strategy faster since you are in the trenches seeing what is most likely to fail.
The rule in the film business is that success comes from a 50:50 division of production and marketing expenses. For open source projects that equates to spending about the same time on promotion as on coding. Of course that can include running a public forum or so.

If that's just not your bag, maybe team up with someone who loves your creation but hates coding, and would derive satisfaction from writing documentation, running a forum, or promoting it. Then, listen to each other.
This is a neat idea, clever integration with metamask too. Quick question, I hadn't used metamask before - is it legit?
The VM used for Colaboratory appears to have 13GB RAM and 2 vCPU when checking using psutil (so a n1-highmem-2 instance). Not bad for a free product.

However, the VM uses Python 2.7. (Per the FAQ, Python 3 support has no ETA)
Snapchat's Abysmal Usability and What Led to It
Build a Blade Runner Sci Fi World with WRLD UNITY SDK
Yes ... it's a very powerful pattern and Redis streams look promising; building event sourced systems is still perceived as difficult, but I think a lot of that is because people are picking overly heavy, complicated plumbing for it when it's not really needed to get started. This has great potential to help with that.
I think the America that will result from this die-off is a better place. Less suburban sprawl. Less giant eyesore big-box stores that no one enjoys spending time in. More informed purchases because people buy stuff online where it's easier to compare reviews.

But I think there will be significant, very painful collateral damage to people during this transition and I've very sympathetic to people hit by the job losses. Retail is one of the few remaining sectors in small towns. Most other work is becoming increasingly concentrated in big cities or automated away. The days of the US as a patchwork of thriving small towns is ending, but many people still live in those towns. Worse, the ones still there are often there because they are the least able to move — poverty, family commitments, etc.

The US is rapidly turning into a country that has no place for the unskilled, but is also failing to provide the education needed to deal with the millions of unskilled citizens.

I'm also confident that in all of this, it's not the finance industry that's going to be hurt. They'll pull another "too big to fail" maneuver and we taxpayers will bail them out, yet again transferring money to the ultra-rich.
this is all coming together nicely with this amazing market bull run from 2009 coming to an end some time in the near future.

timing the event is hard if not impossible.
First look at Tesla’s new Supercharger with solar arrays and owners lounge
Come on, I'm talking about a storage space, not controlling peoples life.
Something on the order of 300 Wh/1-2 MJ, yeah. It would cause a large fire or a small explosion. That's around equivalent to a couple hand grenades.
So HN is full or libertarians I realize.
Good PR for FaceID. Plane lands after wife discovers sleeping husband's affair
Btw, S2X got just cancelled :) https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/928308522370195456

As you can see what happened here, 'consensus' means more than just miners.
Could you elaborate on quant jobs requiring PhDs? Do they look for a very specific PhD (i.e. statistics), or is it just a blanket requirement to get past the hiring screens?
I agree with you 95%. But 5% of me recognizes that certain items require a test run before purchase. In my case those would be Audio equipment, instruments and tennis rackets. None of those can be confidently purchased solely on the impressions of others.
This and the "retail apocalypse" piece are quite sobering. There are going to be a lot of homeless elderly in the future.
Recently I was tempted to buy a fancy tool but when I picked one up at a store I realized the handle didn't fit my hand at all. Talking over alternatives with an experienced seller was helpful. Retail has an important future even though it will be smaller and more focused.
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The irony is that they were originally supposed to provide all of those things:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-gruen-effect/
Wow! Site is down, can someone copy the text over here?
No he's pointing out that we 'anti-tax' the poor currently via entitlements and maybe we shouldn't as much because it allows them a sustainable way to not escape poverty.
This isn't really limited to malls.
> The review section of e.g. Amazon doesn't seem to cut it.

True, but neither does the strip mall surrounding a Best Buy parking lot.
Most of the time smaller items like AAA are more expensive online than say Lowe’s, Walmart, or Costco. For me I will always choose the cheaper option which has been brick and mortor.

I will never order groceries. Picking my meat and fresh produce is something I will never outsource. Especially if it is more expensive.

I order online because it is usually cheaper for electronic accessories and books.
True, but what then can stop this evil entity called Apple and all the rest of them?

Only children and the very slow still believe in "democracy", which is obviously just another name for the rule of those who own the media and/or are rich enough to bribe politicians.

What other recourse is left but the threat of violence to the physical individuals that in reality control the imaginary legal persons called corporations?

Too bad what passes for the "left" these days is busy fawning over Tim Cook's homosexuality while the sick become homeless and the globalists vacuum the earth for profits. It almost makes me long for the days when the left was Marxist and we had the Red Army Faction and the Red Brigades, instead of blue hair lesbians and postmodern identity politics.
Plus, the strategists that put these retail chains in this debt are no longer there actively working on strategy within this mess. There is more profit for them, personally, working on other deals. Net result, the "rock-stars" set up a mess, pull huge gains from the table, then leave the 2nd or 3rd team to navigate a very difficult debt load they left behind.
Stanford Shopping Center and the Santa Monica downtown thing (I forget what it's called) are very close to what you describe.

What malls do have is space, and that kind of large space owned by a single entity is rare these days within a reasonable travel time away. Redevelopment potential is definitely there.

Also, a professor of mine once wondered why we don't have great public spaces like they do in Europe. Then he realized that we do -- in the form of college campuses.
> Let's make towns have downtowns, with beautiful brick roads, scenic ponds with some ducks, perhaps a waterfall, some nice cafes, a lawn with benches, some parks, some nature, trees, live music, a library and museums.

You would think! I live in Santa Monica, California, and we have exactly that in our downtown area. The retail shop turnover is insane -- a large amount of shops come and go from the area, despite the massive amount of foot traffic the area sees every weekend (and most weekdays during the summer).
Is SAML supported and if not is it planned in the near future ?
I'm not a fan of Snapchat either, but to support your claim because "Older people are not using snapchat" could have been applied to Facebook 8 years ago, and look where they are now.
You do have some degree of control, you just have to do a better job of persuading me why this was a bad idea.
At least the law was on our side.

Try suing Amazon for a similar cause.
You know, people said that about furniture and clothes and now people buy them online without a second thought.
How to Use Performance Counters with .NET Core: Current Solution and Alternatives
Do you still see this as the likelihood if as predicted by many futurists that 40% of jobs are displaced completely by 2030, and no sort of safety net like guaranteed basic income instituted?

I personally think we're headed for a crash that's more than just a depression but something on a whole different level. Dependent of course on automation / job losses / politics between now and 2030.
Interesting thought. I actually hate big stores because I have to walk a huge distance to find the right section, it’s harder to find the thing I want, they’re more crowded, they’re more likely to be understaffed (30 checkout lines with 2 cashiers is very common)... It’s typically a much bigger waste of time than going to a small store.

But I’m definitely a purposeful shopper: I’m always in and out with one goal in mind, I never “browse”. Maybe wal-mart and the like are more attractive to people who just kinda want to browse around and kill time?
That was my understanding too. And as other reported that maybe it was use case dependant, loading imgur front page is harsh, no need for video, webgl or anything too fancy. And of course it's much less the case if at all under chrome.

I wish I had tools and knowledge to analyse the perf/stack locally, really.
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> Of 1,200 shopping malls across the US, 50% are expected to close by 2023.

From the Wikipedia entry mentioned at the top of the article.