skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Mozilla's own data (https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity) they went from 303M monthly active users at the end of Nov. 2017 to 277M this year. This is a serious drop.
Scrolling feels really off (non-native) to me, at least on Android - e.g. it coasts at a noticeably lower velocity than other apps after a sharp flick.
The conspiracy is mostly in your head. No sane company would do this.
What specs are your device? On a mid-2012 non-Retina MBP with a regular HDD, Firefox Quantum made my laptop feel like an entirely new machine. It was significantly faster than Safari, nevermind Chrome.
You can also set up wildcard aliases, e.g. I have the equivalent of *@example.com, leading to addresses like hackernews@example.com.
At least we have different filters now. Nobody is going to buy an obscure digital book that only has 0.8 stars, and Amazon probably won't recommend it to anybody.
https://xkcd.com/1269/

Just be a nihilist, guys.
> Given that Israel regularly employs deadly force against civilians

???????

Say what now?

The Israeli combatant to non-combatant death ratio is among the best in the world, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio

If anything developing such software would be a moral imperative, not something to be upset about.
Website push notifications shouldn’t be a thing. Way too ripe for exploitation.
This is absurdly alarmist. While we can all agree debt isn't a good thing, there are a plethora of tools the Fed and the US Govt has at its disposal. It could:

Buy higher than market prices, such as how the BOJ or Eurozone manages its yield curve

Cut social spending programs such as Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security

Cut defense spending

Increase taxes

Inflation cuts existing debt amounts

Or any combination of these. Realistically, most of these.

This yield curve inversion has long been expected and isn't some kind of harbinger of doom. China meanwhile has its own set of precarious economic issues and isn't guaranteed anything.
Not to mention the inability to integrate with iCloud Keychain. I have over 500 passwords that work across every app on my phone, my computer, and tablet. That’s a big switching cost for me. Add to that the performance/stuttering that I still seem to get even with Quantum’s improvement, and I can’t see myself switching from Safari anytime soon.
Fair enough but why don't they just straight shut it down?

I don't understand the need for such PR dances. Nobody believes the carefully crafted copy-paste statement of the CEO anyway.
> so being able to adblock

Firefox Focus is my go to browser on Android, and it has ad blocking built in (as well as cookie / history erasure).

That said, have you tried installing Blokada from FDroid? It sets up a local VPN on your phone and routes all network traffic through it, blocking all ads in all apps. It's astonishing how many ads and trackers your phone would otherwise download in a week.
I find it quite funny to see so many Quora breach emails when I first go to the site.
The oil depletion allowance (curtailed since its glory days) was a major one, at some point allowing the deduction to continue way past the original well investment was recuperated.

As far as the modern state of tax incentives -
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/... and discussion of the current carveouts https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-the-oil-and-gas-industry-s...
Would Google Make More Money If They Charged for Searches?
It's official now: https://status.bitbucket.org/
I suggested elsewhere in the thread, it'd be neat if they included a fourth class in the model: hub owners, in addition to the existing classes of supplier (Bird), riders (customers) and the chargers. The hub owners would register their places (private residence, business, campus, city area, etc.) as bird hubs, and people would only be allowed to ride birds between hubs. This would solve the "trash/get-off-my-lawn" problem.

The hub idea isn't feasible unless tons of people are already riding birds and creating a mess everywhere, because people probably wouldn't sign up as hub owners unless the demand was already deemed high. They are probably just ramping up usage right now until people start complaining, at which point Bird will be big enough to start issuing out hubs.
Agreed. I never would have thought that the problem that motivated Persona would have been solved this way... but the combination of TouchID/Face ID and 1Password has made account setup/maintenance sufficiently frictionless.
Murdering people is immoral in any society, but whether a given slaying constitutes murder or not varies widely. There's justifiable self-defense, capital punishment etc.
That's only part of it. The other part is that - invariably - they get hacked.
Does anybody know what the title of the biography about Landau is?
> Extensions are second class citizens in any other browser.

I'd say Firefox's support for extensions is better than Chrome's, even after the change to WebExtensions. The author of NoScript, for example, thinks Firefox has the best environment for add-ons:

https://hackademix.net/2017/11/21/noscript-1011-quantum-powe...
Combine matrix.org with things like Azure Sphere, AWS IoT Core and Google Cloud IoT Core -- these parallel networks could be in turn be sliced up into aspects. Then, we can go to the next level of networked computation.
Shameless plug: we've got a map of dockless scooters & bikes available in cities across the US over at https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/mapping-the-impact-of-d...
I agree with another commenter who said that C.S. Lewis is likely more well-known for the Chronicles of Narnia, at least in the broader secular sense. He was a talented writer. That being said, Mere Christianity is pretty clearly preaching to the choir. It is a Christian apologetics book, and the arguments put forward are all problematic. Some of the more notable arguments are so bad that they don't typically get brought up by Christians who regularly debate atheists, like the trilemma he popularized.

The book is well-written in the sense that in the hands of a believing Christian who is not likely to approach it critically, it can become an influential source that helps the Christian justify their beliefs to themselves.
I use privacy.com and Lastpass to help with this problem. Any time there is a service I have to have a business relationship with that I don't trust to keep my info secure, I use a unique password and a unique credit card number with a tight limit. What's nice is that they tie the card to a single vendor too.

For example, the water company. I know the water bill is usually $50 or less, so I set the limit to $60/mo. As it turns out, they did get breached. I got an alert about someone who isn't the water company trying to hit the card for 80 cents. Most card runners use amounts under $1 because most credit card spending alerts have a $1 minimum. But privacy.com warned me, so I warned the water company, who was very thankful. Turns out their 3rd party provider had been breached and they were grateful for the alert too. Ended up saving a few thousand of my neighbors a lot of headache.
I completely agree with you. However, I tried containers in Firefox and miss them so much when using Safari.
Retroactively, right?
I'm also a cyclist but am pro-scooter...but, yes, I found that super disturbing. In fairness, the lifespan is 4 months. 3 months of profitability. Either way, it sounds crazy wasteful. Obvious questions arise (and answers are alluded to in the article): How much of old scooters are reclaimed? Obviously some scooters are stolen / utterly destroyed...but for the ones that break down, is some percentage re-used?

Also, are there planned improvements to the lifespan? These companies have been operating for a crazy short amount of time considering their growth...so hopefully they can improve this as they bring the scooter design in-house.
Mozilla did this (below) once, about 15 years ago when knocking IE from it's 95+% 2004 marketshare, they need to find a way to do it again:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - R. Buckminster Fuller
Until 1password gets compromised.

https://thehackernews.com/2017/02/password-manager-apps.html
We all have wants, but I can't blame FF for not pursuing them if the numbers in the link can be believed. Safari has a much smaller adoption rate than even FF, so it could be argued FF are doing more things right. On a link about desktop browser adoption, I don't see the value of complaining about FF issues compared to a lesser adopted browser or comparing to a mobile browser on an OS that doesn't allow real browser competition anyways.
The Partially Examined Life and Philosophize This! are both entertaining.
>not sure how I feel about seeing them in piles outside of public schools

Kids treat them like shit but what is there to do?
Yeah, you know those bastions of Communism known as Fox News, The Hill, Breitbart, Conservative Review, Military.com, Right Wing Watch, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, TheBlaze, CATO Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and all those other left-wing news outlets on the whitelist.

"Left of Lenin" get out of here with that nonsense.
True, agree with that
I think there may be an element of overload avoidance. When you live so close to so many people your choices are to avoid or engage. If you engage you then have to actively limit the level of engagement or risk being swamped, either by too many people or by to deep an engagement.

Where I live there seems to be an agreement that interactions are limited to a smile and a hello how are you? The expectation is that you will respond with something positive. Nobody really wants to know your depths of dispare. I have a feeling that if somebody did really respond that they were desperatley lonely then in general most people would engage with a noncommiting conversation.
> have to buy expensive LNG from Uncle Sam instead of their Russian neighbours

which has absolutely zero externalities
Why would I use a proprietary web browser when good open source ones exist?
Luckily your bank and your health provider probably have decent security, because those two industries face extra heavy fines for breaches.
Israel is operating its warplanes in Syria today. I would dare say that combat air missions in a country that is not trying to invade you, and that did not invite you, constitutes "employed force offensively".
It's a simplistic model where workers have "less power" and employers have "more power". Both sides need each other. Workers only have less power individually because they negotiate separately. That's as true for software developers as it is for anyone else.

The "perks" I see being offered for software developers are essentially free for employers to offer at scale. When you're paying someone a 6-digit salary, "free drinks and food" at work are cute but pointless. Anything of real value, like working conditions, are never up for negotiation. I see lots of people here saying they've never been paid for being on-call (nor have I). Most people I've asked say they'd prefer, and are more productive in, a private office, but no employer in my city offers it. You can't just switch employers to fix this.

"Union overhead" is very low, for what workers get out of it. Strikes are actually quite rare. Boeing machinists are a giant union here, and they haven't been on strike in over a decade. Voting and compliance are strange things to complain about. Either they're already done today, but in different contexts (e.g., one-on-one meetings, if your manager listens to you and has the power to give you what you want), or they're not done today, and it would be a great improvement for workers if it were.

These complaints sound downright bizarre in any other context. I don't hear anyone looking at a modern democratic republic with safety regulations and saying "Well, things like voting and compliance are just more trouble than they're worth".
In bitcoin :)
The Federal Reserve is part of the government.
This is the email that they sent to users: https://nfil.es/w/kHYd7t/
Nvidia Uses AI to Render Virtual Worlds in Real Time
I think he's running into the issue that when the phone is playing loud audio through the speakers, it has trouble picking up voice over that. iPhones don't have the same audio separation hardware as HomePods.
It would be nice so then someone could fix the bugs with gitter.im
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. You don't get to decide what goes on someone else's property, it's simply not your property.
I think your article just confirms that Israel does indeed regularly employ deadly force against civilians. Most other countries manage just fine without doing so.
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Any tech site has this annoying feature.

Also: Some parts of NYTimes, and Slack.
Razor has these in Tempe, AZ. Basically a scooter with a seat on it.
I don't have any problem at all with people who own scooters. They seem great.

I have a lot of problems with a) companies seizing arbitrary amounts of public space for private businesses, b) venture-funded litter cluttering the streets, and c) novice scooter riders with no training turned loose on sidewalks I am trying to walk and not die on.

And I also have a lot of left-over ire for scofflaw companies. Yes, Uber got away with it. But no, would-be titans, that's not permission for you guys. It was a one-time trick.
They're all over Atlanta. Midtown probably has the highest density of them but they're all over downtown, west midtown, Old 4th ward, Decatur, Reynoldstown, Cabbagetown, etc.

Go down Memorial or DeKalb heading east in the morning and you'll see rows and rows of them freshly set out ready to be kicked over like dominos by some jerk.
Clearly this is well orchestrated and professional. I'm wondering what could be the motivation for such an attack. There is no monetary benefit whatsoever. Perhaps some AI company wanting to acquire solid data to train their models?
250k is a big deal in the US.
The rust rewrites are ripping out loads of old code.
This is one of my gotchas (and I prefer to do so from the commandline). I also need a good extension manager and a session/tab manager. The extension manager makes it easy to disable extensions that are only used occasionally. The session manage makes it easier for me to keep tab count down.

I have found a few session manager options on Firefox but most suffer from permission bloat and poor UI.

Last I checked, there was nothing to make it easier to manage add-ons.
I believe you're being cynical, because this forced name policy allows for answers to be of higher quality, which is basically their entire selling point - being a better yahoo answers.

If you want anonymity there are other platforms for that, stackexchange for example.
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On the one hand developers have one less engine to worry about. On the other if it becomes a chromium monoculture then Firefox loses.
I must be in a bit of a minority but my main objection to these would be the installation of an app to use them - I am perhaps too privacy-conscious and admit I haven't attempted the signup process but even with a throwaway email address, I'm not comfortable installing it on a device I take with me when I leave the house; I even Uber via the web interface and would probably stop using the service if they hamstrung that more than it is already. Is this something other HNers concern themselves with?
Great news! I really tried to like Edge, and used it exclusively for a few months. It just couldn't do the job.
What the Heck is OAuth (2017)
Would have been great if the yanks had this mentality towards the troubles in Ireland instead of supplying the IRA with weapons and explosives. Moral relativism is always fun.
Tim Cook to white supremacists: ‘You have no place on our platforms’
At that point why not just buy a scooter?
I live in Santa Monica and that sounds exactly like my experience. Don't you also love those hideous red bikes from Uber? haha Fortunately I'm seeing less of them.

At the very least, people should actually get licensed to ride these things. I know that it requires they have a driver's license, but that doesn't mean they're actually trained to ride these scooters around in traffic. At that rate, why even bother having licenses for motorcycle riders? A regular driver's license and training for a regular car is apparently all they need.
I'd work there just to have an opportunity to ask Matt SEO advise :)
Why not do the exact same thing with cars? Heck, why not just break into people's homes and rob them while you're at it!
Yup this too. Easy to detect divergence if you compare the output of the rng on both sides of the network at the start of the frame.
There are no bad decisions, only bad outcomes. Every decision is the best one possible at the time. Recognizing this and, more important, believing it, enables you to stop beating yourself up over how things turn out.
I wish privacy.com or something similar was available in my country, Entropay seems to be the only thing but it's not allowing new signups.
Reminds me of http://astronaut.io/# - a page that plays Youtube videos that "no one" has seen before. Just random moments of people's lives they wanted to capture, then a few seconds later, something else. It's highly soothing and rather touching. Kids singing, school projects, birthdays, strange nothings that you have no idea why they videoed, let alone uploaded, it.
Not sure it’s the way to go if you want to make Firefox better. The concerns about OP matches my experience coming from Chrome.
netmarketshare collect data from their slim clientele base. A few years they had to modify their data using weighting to get inline with other websites. Other sites have more accurate data which will reflect browser usage more accurately. I recommend using wikimedia's data. It's one of the biggest sites that open up their usage to the public:

https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit...

If you select all the browsers, you can see Firefox numbers are even more dire. going from 10% to 5% in the last 5 years.
> believe leadership is responsive to employee concerns and believe they can influence the direction here

And that belief is great. But what happens if leadership does nothing? What if they do as they are currently doing and making excuses about it? They aren't currently saying there are any plans to change the course on this. Will those same people you mention leave when nothing changes in another year? I doubt it.

As I said above: your friends want their free lunches, their high salary, their status-symbol job. They'll convince themselves leadership listened to them and will ignore that they didn't change anything.

And lest you think I'm being an asshole about this because I'm not in the situation: I have quit a good job over ethical concerns before. Had meetings with senior leaders that I truly respect and said "this is wrong". They wouldn't budge so I walked. Got a job paying less money. Slept a lot better at night.
Doug Stanhope was talking about how he was in Norway and there was a 12 hour show that was all about a single boat trip. He said he loved that kind of tv and that even if he had been on that boat ride he would have stayed in his cabin and just watched the televised version. He made a joke about how he would have to stay and watch the whole thing just to see how it all turned out.
Microsoft is looking to replace its Edge browser with a Chromium-inspired one
For testing a client side app in development locally against a remote API, disabling cors is really handy.

I have localhost.com in my hosts file and a local web server to run around it, but it's still really frustrating not being able to turn it off entirely.
Because then you have to worry about it getting stolen, and you have to remember to charge it. Part of the magic of the birds is that when you're done, you just get off of it and park. 0 anxiety about somebody stealing it.
Link to the interview?
It was quite a bit different then. IE was in the "first mover" batch. Chrome is the "last mover". It was easy to knock out the first mover as things had stalled yet there was still lots of innovation to be done. But browsers have since commoditized, and the door for differentiation has closed. Especially as browsers inherently need to match each other through web standards. I don't see a way for 2D browsers to rise up against Chrome. Firefox, after hundreds of millions of dollars over the last several years, hasn't made radical changes.

Personally, I'm chasing VR and AR to be the new wave of the Web, where browsing experience will be heavily differentiated.
> The killer feature is "send this tab to your iPhone".

You can do the same in Safari with AirDrop and Handoff.

If you enable iCloud for Safari, you can see all your Safari tabs from other devices.
Corollary: you can be a good doctor and have a terrible attitude as long as you internalize the latter.
The cost of wrong address
This. Bonobo, Ross From Friends, Jacques Green, Ta-Ku, and Four Tet are some of my go to's. Recently was recommended Frederic Robinson as well and liking him so far.
Having the tabs at the top is much better because of Fitts's law [0], essentially making their size infinite in one direction and therefore much easier to reach with a quick flick of the mouse.

Although it is possible to move the tab bar using user CSS [1].

You're also missing out on a much faster browsing experience with the newer versions. In the older version I remember the scrolling lagged when I opened a new tab in the background, that hasn't happened in a while.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

[1] https://www.userchrome.org/what-is-userchrome-css.html#movet...
This is the reason why most game physics engine run with a fixed timestamp. You normally set the hz update of your physics engine to either 120hz, 60hz, 30hz. Now if your rendering engine is rendering at 120hz and your physics engine is working at 60hz, you can do some very basic interpolation just simply using the objects mass, velocity.

Otherwise you run into situation where large deltaV, or very small deltaV completely break the physics calculations. The next is that rounding issue and precision with double still creep in and having a physicist engine that is deterministic for a given hz and float/double speeds up development time.