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Chrome only exists because Google were afraid of lacking control over the stack they use to deliver their content. Firefox was already 'good enough' long before it ever appeared, and Google could easily have dedicated engineering resources if the problem with Firefox was purely technical, much as they do with Linux.

FWIW a lot of Google behavior can be cast as an analogy to a paranoid control freak. Net neutrality is an obvious one, the incredible lack of any demarcating information useful for traffic shaping in QUIC is another. But of course both of these are really about citizen rights and privacy :)
I've managed to find on netflix some TV shows I fondly remembered from the 1970s.

They stunk. All of them.

TV shows have gotten a lot better. I think it's because the production of them has soared, and the competition is fierce.
I mean this question without any malice or partisanship, because I’m genuinely curious. What’s it feel like to watch those in your political in group seemingly lose their minds? Has it affected your opinions or relationships with fellow conservatives?
And now they're 504ing...
Went over your head didnt it? Nobody is talking about banning software. Here we are talking about developing software that is specifically designed for governments for hacking phones and spying on citizens.
It seems to me based on the articles you linked that the Indian Supreme Court flagrantly disregards the constitution regularly!
That's not a difference in what's right and what's wrong. It's a disagreement over what the developers are actually doing.
Dropping support for legacy extensions absolutely gutted what made Firefox different from every other browser. I'll use Firefox 56 and NoScript until the end of time before I use a browser with tabs above the address bar.
I still use Firefox on my work computers and personal. The reason simply being that I feel the performance is better than chrome most times. I used Firefox / Mozilla for many years, then went to chrome when it was new and shiny, but I’m back to Firefox as I believe it truly is the better product. They just need to somehow market it better to people.
I think the other responses summarize the problem quite accurately. In fact, I alluded to it when I mentioned the littering of cars.

People who park cars believe in an inherent first claim to all roadside space above other users and they are extremely aggressive in their resistance to even the slightest loss.
Israel is pretty much constantly shelled by rockets. And there are capable state, and quasi-state actors behind that who officially claim they want it to be eliminated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_a...

The fact, that majority of its population can enjoy relatively peaceful life is thanks to organizational, and technological superiority of Israeli military. Which depends on work of Israeli engineers whose motivation is therefore exactly the same: do military tech to stop anti-Israeli "Axis".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18590944
That's tens of millions of people, what the problem?
I've also noticed a similar thing happening regarding seemingly important issues.
Hacker news may have been hacked
Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge
>no flat tires

Ive had plenty of flat tires on scooters. In fact I had two in one day resulting in me finishing my commute to work in the rain. It was great.
8200 and it’s sub units is double in size as the entire Israeli navy so they are closer to 10% than to 1%.

99XX and 81XX are each more than 1% of the active IDF personnel and they are much smaller than 8200.
Do you have any more info on running your own mail server? I looked at doing so but was promptly steered away because of blacklisting, servers that allow it and redundancy.
Kubernetes 1.13 released
> It’s absolutely overkill, and I love it. Its fast, stable, and pretty cheap to host.

I think this is going to get way more expensive than you're imagining based on experience running those services especially PhantomJS.
This is a very fair response and I completely agree with you.

In fact, I would argue that part of the negotiation that cities ought to do with Bird and Lime and others like it is to make any deploy conditional on the passage of and adherence to scooter parking laws.
Not a stupid question! The bikes in the Baltimore bike share (and I think also the NYC bike share) had electric motors that would work with the rider to make peddling easier. Thus they had to be left in charging “yokes” when you were done with them.

As for why a non-powered bike couldn’t just be left around, here are a few thoughts:

- As some people have mentioned, bikes are just bigger, and take up way more sidewalk space. If Bird and Lime have gotten unpopular, a “Bird for Bikes” would probably make people livid.

- Honestly, the fact that Birds and Limes come with Anti-theft mechanisms and GPS transponders (which run on the same battery as the motor I think) makes them a bit harder to steal (and there aren’t easily removable parts or a viable black market for selling them). Even a non-powered bike would need a charge every once in a while if it relied on power for its transponder.

- I think the “we supply’em, you pay us to ride’em, we pay people to charge’em” business model is just a straight up new thing that happened to be first successfully done by a scooter startup. I imagine it would be hard for a person in a minivan to pick up tons of bikes for charging without having to remove their minivan’s seats. Again, scooters being small is a big advantage, which is probably also why bigger “sit down” vespa-style scooter startups don’t seem to be a factor right now.
Firefox is still slow on a very beefy Win10 PC and a MacBook Pro 2015, if you have more than 7-8 tabs open.

I keep giving Firefox a chance but not much is changing.

Not sure if the rewrite in Rust was worth it.
Still, I would have thought it is good practice to notify your users if you leak their data to thieves. Quora did the right thing and should be applauded.

As a counterexample, it seems that Newegg had a massive breach (thieves installed JavaScript that skimmed credit card numbers for weeks) in August, and even though my credit card was likely stolen, I hever heard about it from Newegg.
DeviantArt is a good alternative.
We could go China style and just get rid of the fed and have the government print its own money. That would be way too easy though.

Edit: The difference is when China bails out its banks it doesn't loan the money into existence to do it. The U.S government must borrow the money from the fed and the interest rate is paid back by the taxpayers. Yes, the interest paid back to the fed goes back to the government, minus expenses. However, those with very large amounts of money, trillions in aggregate, can piggyback on this system and earn enormous risk free returns where they would otherwise have to carefully invest in non-risk free instruments. These risk free assets are unavailable to chinese investors forcing these large savings into various productive (or non-productive based on their investing skill) investments in the economy. They can't go into T-Bills either because of strict currency controls. In the U.S the risk-free trillions invested are guaranteed by the power of taxation of the rest of the productive economy. This austerity to pay the bondholders and ensuing liquidation is what trashes the rest of the economy on a regular basis in Western economies. This doesn't happen in China because the banks get bailed out with printed money and they keep on lending without putting the government in debt or requiring taxes to be raised or austerity.

That China has not had a Japanese style prolonged credit bust even though it has been predicted by "The Economist" and other supposedly learned publications on a regular basis for the last 30 years is a sublime mystery that defines explanation because there is a stubborn refusal to objectively understand and analyze the Chinese financial system. I'd say it's a new paradigm in human organization that really defies western understanding because our financial system is so enormously politically protected by all that trillions in passive capital that gets risk free returns.
Thanks for the recommendation! They're currently $399 on Amazon, however, the scooter seems to have a rating of 3.3/5, which is concerning — with reviewers noting various build quality issues.

Anything with a 4+ rating and enough reviews seems to go for ~800+, which is why I haven't purchased one yet.
I would expect a TV show from the 70s to work as well now as a current show would back then.
This is quite good. I wish it would go a little further and let them expound on why they settled on those choices, but I understand that's not the intention of that interview format.
Services like this have existed for a long time. There's ThrowAwayMail.com, temp-mail.org, and a few others that I used years ago which I can't even remember. Those services also have the added benefit of rotating domain names and private email access.

All that aside it's a cool project!
Valid point. If you're aggressively farming data, so much so that you log them in automatically if they are logged into the google account then you better be careful with data too
I have switched to Firefox on mobile as well. There are some occasional hiccups (rare), but the speedup and battery life you gain from ad-blocking makes it totally worth it.

For those who are evaluating, please install AdBlock before you take a call - and do try it for a few days.
Not anymore, at least in Europe. The GDPR began to move things in the right direction.
Yep, my town temporarily banned them because of safety issues, I liked the dockless bikes better because they at least had some barrier to entry that anyone who wasn't versed in basic riding safety couldn't just pick one up since most bike riders know the basics.

That said they are cool when used properly, but they're being regulated and towns are starting to charge taxes/fees to make sure they're not a nuisance and require them to leave them in low income areas.
Firefox Release Engineering [AOSA Book]
>I didn’t know I had a Quora account. How is it that my email or information was exposed? You may have signed up for Quora some time ago. While you might not have regularly visited or used Quora, your account remained, and this breach may have exposed some of your information, such as the email address you signed up with, the password you used, or actions you took on Quora.

Would be nice if websites measured user activity and could 'lock out' or otherwise release their data if they never use the site; at least, confirm with said user via email if the account is needed.

But in this era, I'm sure companies would prefer to keep whatever data they can get.
I think you might be looking at a different side of the same coin as GP.

Betting that the Fed will have to cut rates because of a recession is a bet against equities and other risk assets.
For #2, might be the same issue I posted about on HN a while back, particularly if you have a 13” MBP. I corresponded with Mozilla employees, but I still don’t think it has made much movement toward getting fixed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18072091
Skip in SF is sort of doing that. The app makes you take a picture of the scooter in its parking spot when you leave it.
What extensions in particular do you use that you can't find equivalents on Firefox?
Are you able to provide any information on the recent Bitcoin fork, and thoughts on Bitcoin SV?

This article is a good High level explanation.
> 2. Anecdotal evidence, but every time an update of Firefox (and most notably Quantum) is released people laud how fast it is. On my 2015 Macbook running Mac OS Firefox has never been faster. Maybe there are things behind the scenes such as caching playing a role, but web pages load slower, scrolling feels sluggish, videos drop frames and freeze or get out of sync. It isn't an enjoyable experience compared to Chrome or Safari.

This is my experience too, unfortunately. I keep using Firefox instead of Chrome now to support Mozilla and their positive attitude towards end-user privacy, but compared to when I use Chrome it is an annoying product to use with the endless waiting and lag. Using Linux, so maybe it is just really only optimised for Windows PCs (arguably their largest user base)?
I have not shared the same experience, with Firefox often being much slower than Chromium. Especially on Linux.
Center for the Study of the Drone Weekly Roundup (Dec. 3, 2018)
Quora Hacked, 100M users Accounts compromised
No harm comes to the company after a breach so from their perspective there is no risk. Since there is no risk there is no need to improve security or reduce retained data.

It’s not really a security issue as much as an incentive issue.
> You literally walk around them, I don't see the issue.

It's not an issue for most people but I live up the road from an old folks home and often see the residents heading to the shops in their mobility scooters. If there's a dumped lime scooter blocking the footpath it completely stops them from using the footpath until someone moves it out of the way for them.
> it's hard to argue that drop isn't related to a drop in the underlying number of users

We would need more data to determine that. What the site here is showing is a decline in the percentage of marketshare, which is a relative measure, not an absolute one. Even if Firefox were seeing a net gain of users, if it's doing so at a slower rate than the market is growing overall, then that would be reflected as a decline in marketshare.
In more developed areas, there are three options. Fast (main road for cars), medium (bike lane) and slow (sidewalks). I'd imagine birds would ride in the medium and slow lanes. They go up to 15 MPH, which is the run-speed of a human. Should runners be on the bike lane? I don't think so.
What?

My advice is to study the techniques, to better guard against them. This much is obvious, no?

Though illustrative, I acknowledge The Illuminati and the Subgenius stuff are not very accessible.

Thank You for Smoking https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944 and Network https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958 are probably more your speed.
For me Firefox desktop differentiates itself from all other major browsers for their built-in content blocker and support for other privacy-oriented features.
Thanks for the reply. I'm not arguing that scooters are beyond reproach. I'm for development of scooter regulation in a way such that we as a society can harness the benefits from it. Being against them just because they don't work in the current regulatory + road system setup in my mind is at risk of forgoing potential massive benefits for us as a society.
Probably. Mozilla getting funding would depend on these numbers. And one of the most common addons is user agent switcher. For awhile Netflix allowed Chrome on linux and not Firefox (even though they assured me that wasn't the issue). But I could get around it by doing a user agent switch.

People do this for fingerprinting too. I'm sure there are plenty of people that always have it on and set to Chrome.

Also, Mozilla higher ups might be using these statistics to see how worthwhile the new features and work they have done.
Its Bitcoin Cash, not Bitcoin, that forked.

https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-cash-abc-vs-bitcoin-cash-sv-e...
Dropping support for these extensions made it possible to create Firefox Quantum. Also, I'm using Firefox with tabs on the side with Tree Style Tab and a simple userChrome.css hack. No need to stay with an outdated version just for that.
How sad... I have switched to Firefox about 8 months ago and have been really enjoying the browser. It's just difficult to compete against the giants of Google and Microsoft. I mean anywhere you go there will be messages like "Try a faster browser- Download Chrome" on any Google site, or the extremely difficult user interface to switch default browser on Windows. I really wish for Firefox to succeed in the long run, just dont know how it could be possible.
How would it ever stabilise? There is a hard limit to the number of coins issued, and unless the market is static, the value of bitcoin has to go up.

I haven't seen a good explanation to that problem.
There are email parsing libraries which reads the raw headers and extracts relevant information(to, from, subject, body, attachments etc).
The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day
Well equifax didn’t harm any of their customers so their bounce back should be no surprise.
Just as soon as oil and gas stands on its own (it doesn't) and correctly prices in the negative externalities (it doesn't). Then the free market can knock itself out.
Yes, Lindy the expert:
https://medium.com/incerto/an-expert-called-lindy-fdb30f146e...
Ask around in ML quarters how important is feature engineering that will sort things out for you.
It's nice and responsive on my 4-year-old Win8.1 desktop and my 1-year-old Win10 laptop, with dozens of tabs open. I'd be curious to see the common factor between the people who say it's slow, because it certainly isn't for most (some?) of us.
Dirac Devtools for Clojurescript use the custom formatters api to render Clojure data structures and Firefox hasn’t implemented it.
Who would know it is deployed on another countries' citizens? If anything it is the Saudi who chose to use it, why shift the blame to the original developer? Hope you understand the point now.
They do indeed, but then for some reason, they also say "this breach may have exposed ... the password you used" [0] which is a statement I think is wholly incompatible with the notion of "hashed with a salt that varies for each user" (but please let me know if I'm incorrect).

They can rightfully say "encrypted" to a lay audience because the definition of encrypted is not so strict as to require decryptability, but why would they say that the password might be exposed?

[0] https://help.quora.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020212652
I haven't tried 'em in a bit, so to be fair, maybe it's better now.

But last time I tried:

Scooter coverage was too sparse to be useful.

If you did try to chase down one of the sparsely scattered scooters, usually it would be missing. No way to make it play a sound to help locate it, no way to report it was missing.

Gave up and just kept skating everywhere. Whereas I found Lime and Bird to be a practical alternative mode of transport, before they got kicked out.
In San Francisco, I wouldn’t trust leaving my bike at a bike rack. That’s why the bike/scooter shares are so useful. Otherwise I would ride my personal bike everywhere.
While I disagree that oil subsidies equate to ICE subsidies, I’d appreciate a link if you think it has good information.

I’ve attempted to research this issue before, but the information I’ve found is very poor. A common problem is grossly inflated figures that include deductions that apply to every business.

Also, I haven’t found a resource that accounts for the full tax load on oil. For example, electrics are not subject to the sizable per-gallon taxes on gas and diesel, which means ICE cars are subsidizing electric’s road usage.
No, there isn't. You're a liar.
The traditional NASA ideology is risk averse. It's way easier for them to spend billions doing all kinds of tests and modelling to ensure mission success on the first try. This looks suspiciously related to unwillingness to do multiple similar missions on the side of the customer - i.e. Congress in this case. Once in 1990-s there was an attempt to do things "faster, better, cheaper", which today could be named "move fast and break things", but with some inevitable failures the approach fell out of favor.

As for asteroid mining, Caterpillar was considering lunar base operation equipment on a previous iteration (G.W.Bush program). You probably right, they'd present a hefty bill, but I somehow doubt they'd offer something truly innovative. Maybe with new scrappy startups we can drastically slash those non-launch costs - then we'll come back again to the question of launch prices.
For start: to get on GOG your game cannot be shovwelware. I buy from GOG first.
> As I recall, because people were already programmatically generating endless numbers of malware extension IDs to avoid blacklisting.

Which is a good reason not to use the extension ID as the sole method to enforce the blacklist, and is why anti-malware software generally uses a signature-based approach.

> More generally, if you come up with an obviously superior solution to a problem that someone else has claimed is important and difficult, and has spent considerable resources addressing, perhaps it would be more constructive to investigate or ask questions to test your understanding of the situation before assuming and asserting that the other people are doing it all wrong?

You're implying this is a novel problem that hasn't been widely studied by everyone and that they're not actually doing it all wrong.

> I do know (I work for mozilla though not in this area) that the step was taken to address real, and very active, threats to security, privacy, and stability.

There are many ways to solve a problem by trading it for a set of different problems. Centralized authoritarian control is exactly that. And those things can be popular in the same way anything that externalizes costs and internalizes benefits can be -- because that type of thing seems attractive to the people not directly paying the cost of it. Until the victims (in this case the developers and users whose apps you prohibit) devise a way to protect themselves. Then you end up in an antagonistic relationship with your users and addon developers. What's the cost of that?

Meanwhile there are other solutions that don't do that.