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I hate when my phone wastes my time loading junk. A browser that couldn't even try, that couldn't be tricked into doing so, would find a market imho.
Last time I checked, loading local files as a new tab page required either installing a third party add-on/extension or creating your own[0] in both Firefox and Chrome.

Is that still the case? Did you find an easier option?

[0] Way easier than one would assume, you just need a manifest file next to your HTML file.

EDIT: A local web server instead of loading the HTML file directly also works and avoids the need for add-ons/extensions.
If you're on OSX and not using the "default for display" resolution, that may be the cause of the issue. Don't have the bugzilla handy, but I stumbled across it at one point and confirmed that that was the culprit for me. Unfortunately, I'm unwilling to use default display res, so I'm hoping that gets fixed soon. Would love to standardize on Firefox for my every day browsing.
When FF 52 first came out scrolling felt considerably laggy on my 4k monitors (Arch, i3 window manager, GTX950). It seems to have improved somewhere in the last year. I'm now using Firefox as my daily driver on all my devices.
This story is so emblematic of today's America. GoFundMe to help a veteran in need. Media attention leads to huge results. Everyone involved suffers from various addictions. Everything goes to shit. Lawyers, tech company and media likely the only ones making any money off this.
There are no trackers which don't force customers to create an online account and then upload the data. I looked at every possible product last year and the only exception is Apple.

And all the "science and medicine" done by FitBit according to this article has resulted only in confirming things that are already known. I was actually curious what insights they discovered and there are none.
Ask HN: Has anyone made a major life decision randomly?
Since there is often limited information available regarding the future success of two or more different life paths, has anyone here bit the bullet and flipped a coin or otherwise randomly chosen how to proceed in life?
It has always been dead or near dead. That's the point of a lean startup. It's a recession business operating in a surplus market. They're trying to make it successful despite market evaluation. (Can be a good thing or a bad thing.. mostly it's a bad thing for the long term economy, bad for customer value and solving customer needs)
If you haven't heard of it yet, I suggest that you look at Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), and start training yourself to aggressively fight any demons that might be haunting you. I highly recommend Ellis's book, "A Guide to Rational Living", which will train you in challenging your own self-defeating thoughts. Note that I don't mean this as a cure-all, but merely as one of the tools you (or anyone else!) should have in their life's toolbox.

The fundamental premise of REBT is that it's not the events in our lives themselves, but our beliefs about the events that upset our emotional state. Hence to change our negative emotions, we must attack through reason the beliefs that promote negative emotional states. Here's is a useful summary of the REBT approach: https://rebtnetwork.org/whatis.html .

What I love most about REBT is that it trains us to be our own therapist. That is quite empowering and liberating!
Interesting take on remedies, but I wish it had linked out to a serious exploration of why the consumer harm standard isn’t sufficient and what would be future legal grounds to justify regulatory action.

Just outright banning any big company from acquiring another company seems terribly distortive and unwise.
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Well git was made for text/file based programming languages. If SmallTalk had taken over instead, we would have the equivalent for image based languages.
What's the overlap with ImageMagick and its pals? This meant to replace or just be a smaller-tool-for-the-job?
Red Hat, Canonical, and Mozilla, I'd imagine.
Friends, Family, and Fucking for cash?

Don't knock it. It's helped launch many an Instagram influencer's career, I bet it's gotten a few startups off the ground as well.
Ask HN: How do you drive leads to your side project
How do you hackernews folks with side projects drive high quality leads to it, and what is your conversion rate so far.
what happens if you close the slack tab?

don't really think a bloated spa is ff's fault..

my standalone slack on macos takes ~500M
even blahut didn’t use blahuts book. he used cover
A lot of these abstractions, for good or for ill, make it easier for "large" organizations (where "large" here means > 10 people) to iterate quickly. Users do not need the abstraction, but it makes the organization as a whole quicker and more agile. It is an interesting question whether startups can enter a market served by a larger organization and disrupt it by offering lean products built by lean teams.
It seems like it would be far more efficient to just raise the minimum wage. But I guess that doesn't have a clever acronym.
>"The funny thing is that when you do that, you almost always make up your mind immediately."

The one adage I heard that's very similar: Decide to base your decision on a simple coin-flip. Throw it, and cover it so you don't see what side it landed on. You'll know very quickly which option you're hoping to see under that hand.
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There are many other companies that offer free email without relying on a "massive" ad business. Without knowing what you mean by a lot, but Dropbox, twosigma, most "unicorns" have an order of magnitude or more less headcount and offer similar pay.
> I think there is a time in a programmer's life when writing tools to make yourself more effective is finally worth it.

Indeed yak shaving should only be done when one has the breathing room to do so. It's just good common sense, except there are exceptions. Slack was a yak shaving effort. The most valuable things I've shipped have all been yak shaving efforts. I guess I'm just better at building tools than anything else. Perhaps I enjoy it more. shrug

To each their own, but if you're trying to ship a product instead of a bald yak you're going to have to do it the ugly way, with tools you could fix, etc...
Disruption wont come from yet-another-browser, and of course surely it won't come from yet-another-browser-with-less-features

It might come from a piece of software that solves a problem for some group of people that a browser can't, and then evolving towards the mainstream replacing the role that browsers have right now making them obsolete
The problem is that they repeatedly mismanaged and violated the BRs.

There’s only so many screw ups you can accept from a CA before you simply can’t trust them to do the right thing. Given that Trust is the basis of the entire CA system there isn’t really an option but to distrust the CA.

Note that multiple CAs have been distrusted in the past, and they were more or less instantaneous distrust. Symantec was a huge CA, and that got them through multiple errors that would have probably resulted in distrust for smaller CAs, and even the final distrust has had something like a years notice.
Separating "why" and "why should," multinationals get subsidies and tax breaks because they negotiate with governments, have leverage, and can "walk away." (to another country)
> Rommel, IIRC, was initilly just one of those kids carrying spades as pretend arms

I beg your pardon? IIRC is a poor excuse when a ten seconds Wiki search proves you wrong.

He was a frontline lieutenant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel#World_War_I
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Not an expert here, but aren't there more constraints such a spectrum if you have more population density? You can only fit some much data in an air band no?
>* Here's the problem: if you believe that what you watch have an impact on how you think, and you believe that the government should decide what you watch, then this democracy is less than ideal. Because the government then decides how masses vote. It's not a theoretical problem, it's a real issue in many countries, many people still watch TV to get their news and to decide who they want to vote on.*

Well, the government in this case is not deciding what the people should watch. They're deciding that they should not just be offered to watch stuff that comes 99.9% from one country, but that they should also have the chance (not the obligation) to watch their own content.

If the tables were turned and Americans suddenly had 99% e.g. EU content in their TV programming and online video services, there would be riots.

While Europeans watch tons of American movies, the US watches a tiny number of EU movies (and even those found tiny audiences). If it wasn't for anime (which is still a niche when it comes to mainstream audiences anyway) what Americans consume in foreign films would be a statistical error.

>Instead of taxing burger joints, maybe include more education about balancing healthy diet in place of shellfish classification in the school.

That doesn't have a chance with ads that hits people directly on evolutionary irrational parts of the brain -- or the abundance of fats, sugar, salt, and other substances in unheard of amounts (historically speaking) that directly create craving and addiction. Trying to get a kid to respond to healthy foods when they see a burger ad and taste a burger is like trying to talk logic to someone that tried a first hit of heroin.
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> break up that monopoly

You can avoid creating it. Look at Switzerland. But stable, well-run confederations are rare.

The US, and many other federated states (like e.g. India) do alleviate some of the problems of centralization by allowing different places to be run partly by local rules, and it does make a difference.

I heard many for-profit corporations are run in a federated way, too, because a huge monolith is not very adaptable.
Regarding Vietnam, there's a version 2.0 of that going on currently, and it's going very well.

Trade with the US represents not quite 1/4 of the Vietnamese economy. $46b in imports from Vietnam last year, with their GDP being near $200b. That's a 10x increase in imports from Vietnam since 2003 (their economy has increased in size by about 5x in that time, non-inflation adjusted). In the coming two decades, trade with the US will probably turn Vietnam into one of the world's 25 largest economies.

The US appears to be intentionally trying to build up Vietnam to help offset the rising hegemony of China in the region. We're running a vast trade deficit with them (5 to 1 ratio), and hardly a word is being said about it. The recent military interactions bolster that notion.

Colombia is an example of successful nation building (more like guiding/assisting, frankly) in South America. Certainly if we're listing failures in S.America, that's one of the successes. Their GDP increased from $40b in 1990, to $380b by 2013. It's a dramatically improved nation compared to 30 years ago, in just about all regards. The US has been aggressively intertwined (some would say too much) with Colombia the whole way.
Maybe Big Bang is more effective for iterative companies, those whose business model and PMF is well established. like a second wave of ride-share businesses who copy the Uber/Lyft paradigm but with enough of a personalized twist to secure substantial capital upfront.
I've been dreaming of putting an E-Z Up with 3 side walls around my desk. Maybe build a 4th wall and a door out of cardboard on the last side.
So what exactly stops a "bad employer" from just putting more money into automation?
1. is probably because you're using a Firefox feature. We don't have a find mode (well, we do, but it's terrible so I left it unbound). Ctrl-G/Ctrl-Shift-G cycle results in the Firefox feature. There are some function keys you can press too but I can't remember them.

2. Yeah. The annoying thing is it used to but apparently that was an oversight and there is some security hole there that Mozilla fixed. Amusingly, they have a secret god-mode permission that they give to their own Screenshot extension that makes it work on PDFs. A chap from OneNote was complaining about lack of PDF access the other day so maybe Mozilla will find some sort of solution.

We could bundle pdf.js with Tridactyl, hijack requests to PDFs and send you to our own reader, but I haven't been annoyed enough to resort to that as I personally just use Okular which is far better at rendering anyway.

Happy to chat in this thread or on Riot.
Wait for real? My highschool biology class lied to me.
Afaik, historically they switched from fast ships to bigger, slow ones to minimize fuel use per cargo tonnage. At the beginning of the 'standardized container age' there were fast vessels but they lost out to the fuel saving spiral.

If we're just bullshitting, more autonomous sailing vessels that mainly use streams and are automated could be used (like some autonomous little robot floats using wind for propulsion and the sun to power their electronics and small motors crossing the Pacific/Atlantic). But in contrast to the small robotic boats, they won't be able to correct their vector using solar power.

If there are goods that can arrive whenever but need to be cheap, maybe that's an option - but only if the ship can work without maintenance underway, which it probably can't during its entire lifetime.

Edit: The crew is there to make a ship work even though it needs maintenance.
I hate almost all software – Ryan Dahl (2011)
You do realize that Steve practically invented the term, right?
You are actually onto something: it's a fairly common belief among economists that all subsidies and tax deductions should be eliminated.

This probably isn't politically feasible at the moment though, so for now we have to take small victories where we can get them, like getting rid of the most obviously stupid and regressive subsidies.
I was at a company once where they were out of cubical space. There was an available office that had windows so they put some people in there and boarded up the windows.
If Amazon and Walmart could automate all these jobs, do you think they wouldn't have already?
What I mean is adding content dynamically after about:blank loads. You can set contentEditable to "true", inject some innerHTML, use the terrible DOM interface, or make a little JQuery to suit your needs.

You can probably also style about:blank to have whatever you want in it when it loads. I'd imagine that is done differently depending on the browser you're using.

On the other hand, I'm not sure why you'd want to when you can just set your new tab page to a custom page of your choosing.

Edit: clarification
You're probably well aware of this, but Vitamin D supplements have been life changing for me. There was an article a while back pleading to the FDA to fix the recommended daily limit, suggesting it might be 10x too low. I take 10,000 IU a day and the difference is very noticeable.
You can definitely skip product market fit. It takes some startups years to find true product market fit.

The price of admission of product market fit is a great product and a great team. Hard to do these things on a budget, especially as the space of "cheap" startups that can be built with a few 100k becomes more crowded.
The state has provided me far more value than Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Uber have.

If they want to regulate them, regulate them. If they want to dissolve them, dissolve them. I at least get a vote with the state; I get no such say with large tech corporations. If you would like to opt out of the state, you likely have the skills to emigrate to another country.
I'm still dumbfounded how we can have advanced so far in so many areas of science and technology and yet we are in the dark ages when it comes to nutrition science. Why is that?
I recall reading this in 2011, and went looking for it, but the original is now 404. I found the repost here
Does that apply to ethernet lines though? Those would still be dwarfed by other economies' speeds, right?
As long as Chrome is maintained by Google I'd never go back. Heck, I'd even start using IE before I'd turn to Chrome ...
I'm a tax-payer and I don't defend everything the government does.

There is only one organization in the US that is forcing me to pay a massive chunk my income towards things I don't even support.

Maybe once Google is capable of doing something like that we should consider breaking them up.
> Why do you think that is? I'm not sure what you're referring to exactly.

There are a lot of stories of people falling into technology entrepreneurship by showing up. I guess you could say that it was less competitive (which it was), but I also think that society was more lenient. We hadn't figured out yet how to charge a lot for everything. If some landlord was 'greedy' you could move to some adjacent area. Today with information spreading so fast everyone knows not only what something is worth but what it could potentially be worth and price accordingly.

Like this story from Max Levchin starting with "I didn't really make any arrangements, so I just crashed on Scott's floor" [0].

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/max-levchin-paypal-affirm-su...
Neutral news? I'd appreciate a few examples (unless it's the paid news agencies feeds).
Did they hold any valuable patents? As I understand the FDA came out and said the device didn't work and beyond that any evidence suggesting it did was not just misguided but fraudulent.
The big problem that immediately pops up to me is: a good chunk of the examples of low wage workers are in fast-food (i.e. the McDonald's example). Just about every fast food company out there is a franchise, and I'd be very surprised if there are more than a couple of franchisees which have over 500 employees.
That's another good point; someone barely learning to program is not at the point where they can understand or see the value in design patterns; at best you're going to create a situation where they blindly create design pattern code without understanding why they're doing it.
What about that vacation home he subsidized by embezzling money from a university with his wife?
why actually help people when you can just try to hurt the guy on top?
not sure about addons, but builtin FF sync should work and also allows you to self host if desired last I checked
It requires some money and resources obviously, but neither do you need to be Google or a Telco to setup an ISP:

About a year ago, FOA was contacted by Greg Turton of Cordele, GA. who was curious about what was involved in creating a FTTH network. Greg is a real estate developer who also owns several local hotels. Where he lives and builds homes is way outside of a service area that anybody wants to build good broadband, forget FTTH. Cordele itself has a population of only about 15,000 and is one of those small cities along the Interstate highway that are everywhere in the US.

We answered Greg's questions and led him to some of the FOA Guide web pages and YouTube videos about FTTH to get him started. More conversations discussed how to get connections as an ISP, types of components and suppliers, etc. Fortunately the local electrical utility has lots of fiber but they were restricted from building their own FTTH network because Georgia was one of 19 states where lobbyists for the incumbent providers got laws passed restricting their ability to operate a FTTH system themselves. But they were more than willing to lease dark fiber to Greg at really good rates. And there were good choices on getting an Internet connection.

...

http://www.thefoa.org/tech/ref/appln/FTTH-DIY.html
Who drove them to the airport, loaded their luggage, prepared the in-flight meals, fueled up the jet, and flew it?
An older semester from the last company I was employed at, because he always said: "You can have finished software or a dead-line, but not both."
I'd say it's a balance. I try to lean towards staying focused on my goal while keeping an eye out for potentially more important detours.
I don't understand this legislation or this perspective. If it is the job of the government to provide a strong safetey net, then it shouldn't be incumbent on private employers to do so. Why should Walmart be tasked with providing a complete livelihood for its employees?

If a job is beneficially for the economy, and individual, and an employer, though not enough to keep someone out of poverty - this is precisely when government programs should fill in the gap. And I would think should be the perspective of someone who calls themselves a "Democratic Socialist."

A huge part of the problem with how healthcare and labor benefits are handled in the United States is exactly this - that they are far to tied to an individual's job. Divorcing them actually helps all parties. Most developed nations operate this way.

Naming this legislation after Bezos is petty and vindictive. It's below the office of a Senator, and a bad precedent to set to using the power of lawmaking to single out individuals.
I can see the point, but the cheaper option for the corporation is still to pay the tax vs paying a living wage because not all employees will be using the federal support.
I've had tethering for years from t-mobile in the US. I've had at least two different plans over that time, and I don't recall ever having to explicitly request it or pay extra to get it.
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Chaincode Labs will be subsidizing flights to and lodging in NYC, so this is a great opportunity to get some experience building on top of Bitcoin using the Lightning Network.
Living wage is very dependent on geography. I don't think the federal government has the tools to enforce a living wage throughout America. This however sounds like a great idea that's difficult to argue against.
It's a win-win for politicians and corporations. Everyone else loses.

What's in it for the participating corporation? Well, money.

For the politician, it can be one or more of the following: Fulfilling campaign promises (ie, "I brought jobs here"), legal money (ie, corporation pays into campaign PAC), or illicit money (which usually requires some laundering using casinos, real-estate or cryto to secretly fund).
From the main project - Generally side project is more or less related to one or other ways to main project. It's easy to put an announcement for those related product on showcase and ask people to see, if they are interested.
Poverty is not justification to excuse bad or illegal behavior. If you follow your line of thinking, you'd have to give someone a pass for just about any sort of environmental abuse, archaeological pillaging, improper waste management, poaching of endangered animals, etc.

At some point you have to draw a line. Must we solve global poverty at 100% before we enact environmental protections? Or should we allow the only habitable planet we have for generations to continue on a death spiral and explain to our great-grandkids "well people were poor..."
Ether is in fact perfectly well integrated in the browser though metamask. It's a strange but interesting piece of technology.
Assembly, used this way, just means “the words that create action at the layer below which you cannot go”. Also referred to as “metal”.

Depending on where you are starting that could be JavaScript, or it could be Basic, or any of a number of things. In the browser it’s JavaScript.

This only makes sense if you can see that there are machines within the machines, within the machines.
It’s not efficient at all. In fact it’s quite the opposite. Minimum wage will reduce overall employment, because the price of labor increases.
I didn’t say pretend to attend classes. You could just tell the truth, you have a job or doing whatever you are really doing.