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I somehow got added into the Quora ecosystem some time back, without even actually signing up from memory. Just one day I'm getting notifications that someone is talking to me on Quora.

Even though I didn't explicitly set up an account, it seemed to have done it for me already. I just assumed it was one of those shitty content aggregation platforms like the sorts that steal all the posts from Stackoverflow and rebrand them.
For Microsoft this makes perfect sense, they can keep Edge UI and use that to build there own non Google experience. Maintaining the underlying details and stuff is just overhead, rather they can entirely focus on new things and experiences.
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it was a handful of factors: erdogan having strong evidence like you said and leaking it slowly to maximize impact, the fact that it was a journalist meaning journalists paid a great deal of attention to it, the fact that the details were almost like fiction, and the many people opposed to the atrocities in yemen/general opponents of the saudi regime using it as a convenient lever against mbs. there are probably a few more notable ones but those are the main currents as i see it.
Which is crazy for a browser that claims to be "privacy focused" that those settings aren't all in the "privacy tab" with the _two_ that are...
What happens to chakra?
> Considering they make 22M, you'd really think they'd spend money on at least getting a single professional video editor, if not more.

...why? Their current production values seem to be doing well.
I'm still amazed to this day that people give real names to their online accounts. I'd never put my real name anywhere online. It works quite well for me and if my data is leaked, I'm still ok. Probably I should use more email accounts to don't be linked, but it's fine anyway.
What unique protections do they have that your company wouldn't have if you started a (regulation compliant) bank tomorrow?
> which increases system RAM usage and hinders performance.

I can see that it increases disk space, but everything on top of that is questionable. I believe DLLs will share/reuse memory pages even if they were downloaded in separate bundles.
> Over time, the content creator and the audience share so many moments together, it becomes an emotional bond and a substitute for people's social needs.

I've wondered about this for podcasts too. I noticed a scary habit where I would play podcasts when I was feeling lonely. Over time, you feel like you're pals with the hosts and something about the audio format checks the social needs box in your brain, thinking that you're hanging out with another human. I don't want to unconsciously sate my social needs with podcasts so I've been more intentional about my listening.

As for people growing attached to the persona, here's an interesting case: https://youtu.be/VJJ90qpzark?t=458
But why would they do that? It makes no sense.

It’s like buying a car from a friend then turning around and selling it for a dollar.

You hurt yourself more than you hurt the other person.
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It was within a month or so after the official release of Firefox's new theme that it became publicly known that Chrome was working on a new theme, too. So, there was no way they could have adequately responded to that. You just can't rebrand twice within a year.
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How much does this apply to a child employed by his own parents? I know the normal child labor laws don't apply -- at all -- in that case.
Terms aren't binding on someone incapable of entering a legal contract.

Google just needs it to cover themselves because they can't track under 13 legally
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By pushing this complexity up the stack and also having redundancy in storage. What's not correct can be an error and result in retries from the client that may be routed to good storage.
The web works best when there's a European-style balance of power with actual balance [1]. Microsoft, Apple and Google are like France, UK and Germany. Each of them have their own interests. Microsoft had their own interests when they actually had a native developer ecosystem that was thriving, but now that it's gone they have deprioritized Windows as a business [2], made Windows 10 a data sucking "OS as a service" (that doesn't even have QA people anymore other than beta testers), and is now all in on PWAs for their app story. They are in fact more like Google than ever before. That just leaves Apple as the only opposing source of power.

Mozilla is Poland and is destined to get f*cked as their market share drops and any negotiating leverage they have to get Google TAC money disappears (they're more like Saudi Arabia is to the US, a vassal state, rather than a Great Power).

These are dire times for the web. Only Vestager can save us now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_balance_of_power

[2] https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/
Yeah, this is just depressing and honestly a little baffling. Seems contrary to Microsoft's interests - why let Google control this aspect of the Web?

(Obviously, MS will maintain their own fork and can permanently fork away whenever they want/need to, I guess, so it's not like they've locked themselves in forever, but still)

I actually wasn't aware of the problems with Edge. This is the first I've heard of them... I hadn't heard much about it from either devs or users, so I assumed lots of people were more or less happily (or at least uneventfully) using it as Windows' default browser.

Never thought I'd be sad to see Internet Explorer (or its descendant) bite the dust, given what a plague upon humanity IE was for so many years, but I'm not sure this is the happy ending we might've wished for.
I read the ToS before posting that. It's overruled by the fact that the adult can utilize the service and legally YouTube can't force a parent to remove their child from the room while said parent is utilizing YouTube. It's perfectly legal and does not violate the ToS. The parent is using YouTube, the ToS applies to them and not the child.

It is that simple. It would be laughed out of court on any challenge as an issue.

You can also use thousands of other popular sites that are 13 age restricted while in the presence of your children.
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> Isn't it exhausting to live like that?

I always wonder why these kind of folks even bother to visit sites like this at all? Isn't this a tech focused site? Why are you here if you hate advancements in technology so much?

It reminds me of all the bitter old curmudgeons on Slashdot back in the day. Every post about advancements in HDD storage or more memory had at least a few highly voted comments droning on about the dangers of bloat and why all anybody really needs is green screens. Articles on higher resolution monitors, or fancier TV's would always have a couple predictable upvoted comments wondering "why do we need all this extra resolution?"

These kinds of comments really don't add anything to a discussion. They just bring a lot of negative energy. For some reason people always seem to upvote them--probably because they sound edgy or controversial. I just roll my eyes at the old grumps and move on with my life.

The big danger is the site gets taken over by these kinds of grumpy people. Then the site starts a slow decline into irrelevance as the world passes it and all the people still using it by....
Thanks, that is what I was missing. It makes sense that Edge would be preferred on Win 10 touchscreen devices.
Your sample size of one is incredibly convincing. /s

People who are isolated, bullied, low self-esteem, shut-ins, suffering mental illnesses, or a host of other factors can and do fall into echo chambers of radicalization and extremism. You see the results in the news every day. Of course forms of it exist, like what happened to op's daughter.
I'm a developer. IRC is still the best to me, after all these years.

Social networks come and go. IRC is FOREVER. ;)

I've been on IRC for just shy of 20 years. It is still the network that provides the most value and help, BY FAR.
I am envious, Firefox 60.3.0 performs like a snail for me on Linux with just 20 tabs.
Equifax’s customers are whoever pays them for access to data. Their customers are not the people who had their personal data exposed.

The first rule of Web 2.0 is still true: if you are not paying for the product you are the product.
Something tells me we'll all stop hearing about Kubernetes someday but we'll still be talking about Linux.s
>I actually wasn't aware of the problems with Edge. This is the first I've heard of them...

Same, but neither of us actually use Edge. Just like nearly everyone reading this comment.
Not really. China holds a very small portion (less than 10%) of USA debt.

https://goo.gl/images/e6Jmrb
And that's the irony; if they weren't, this youtuber would make exactly $0. $0 != $22MM.
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OTOH, maybe the family enjoys doing as much as possible themselves.

If everything needs to be professionalized, where does that leave the hobbyists and the amateurs? Should there not be room for them? If not, why?
Ask HN: Now websites ask for your Real name, ID/Passports. What's next?
In the future, I think we will need to make a full background check like when you apply for a credit card to use any service. What do you think?

I'm a bit worried about this and what can we do to mitigate this problem?

Another problem is that this data will eventually get leaked (see quora today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18594564 ), so your real identity will be linked to everything you do online forever.

Why is it bad? You might lose a job, you might get lower credit score or you might even get more limited in life (can't buy flights, high-speed trains, hotels or travel freely...) ... just because you posted something that is not conventional or similar.
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BTW isn't there a viable distributed P2P alternative perhaps? Something like Aether but without content life time limit?
The release cadence is public. If you run upstream be ready to do frequent updates. If you are a cloud provider you should also be ready to do frequent upgrades.
Given their lack of security, I’m guessing they have no idea of the value that I provided.

It’s all good though. Knowing I helped thousands of my neighbors is compensation enough. Besides, if they gave me a credit, they’d have to hike everyone’s bill to compensate!
If they didn't, then no company will ever harm any customer.
This was described in 1956 by Horton and Whol in the paper Mass Communication and Para-social Interaction.

> One of the striking characteristics of the new mass media - radio, television, and the movies - is that they give the illusion of face-to-face relationship with the performer. [...] The most remote and illustrious men are met as if they were in the circle of one's peers; the same is true of a character in a story who comes to life in these media in an especially vivid and arresting way. We propose to call this seeming face-to-face relationship between spectator and performer a
para-social relationship.

They even use your term 'persona' to refer to the individual behind the glass.

> But of particular interest is the creation by these media of a new type of performer: quizmasters, announcers, 'interviewers' in a new 'show-business' world - in brief, a special category of 'personalities' whose existence is a function of the media themselves. [...] Lacking an appropriate name for these performers, we shall call them personae.

http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/short/horton_and...
It also doesn't support flexbox very well. Had lots of issues with that a year ago.
I'm not responsible for or in control of product plans, but we are testing and tuning much of the work for mobile, yes.
They were already filled out, but with non-answers. For example:

> When did you first learn of the issue? How was it brought to your attention?

> We first learned of the issue on November 30. Upon learning about the issue, we immediately launched a comprehensive investigation and remediation effort.

There is absolutely nothing in there about how this was brought to Quora's attention. Did they see identities for sale on the dark net? Were they approached for a ransom? Did a user inform them? Nothing.

The other questions ditto.
Because spreading your knowledge is one of the best ways to pay it forward that there is. (Among many other reasons!)
Not inside eshell but inside term and ansi-term that are more complete terminal emulators inside Emacs. Though they lack tramp-support
This kid has made more money than I will ever see in my whole life. I’m not jealous I’m proud! I hope he’s got some good support around him as all that money so young could be a recipe for disaster if not managed right. High school comes to mind: if I was a self made millionaire in high school oh man I would likely have been even more wreckeless than I was.
The Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation are separate entities.
Eh? I mean, most of the money comes from sponsored videos.. So hot wheels, thomas the train, surprise eggs.. etc.. some are obvious, some are the kid playing with the thing. It's funny that we cut the cord and don't allow kids to watch nick jr or disney jr but instead allow youtube where the subversion is greater. My kids don't watch any (or very few) traditional ads but they know exactly what is hip. Most of this was from youtube kids. And now they have the surprise toys. Genius. Is it bad or good? I mean don't take your kid to target or walmart or the supermarket or the airport...
How can I know if a version is no longer supported? I found their docs talking about the four previous versions, but that seems to just be about the documentation and I can't find a statement about the software itself. Does the Kubernetes project do anything like Ubuntu or Node.js with the LTS concept, or is it a situation where you need to be running a version within the last x releases?
What other options do they have? Even on HN you hear "I use Egde to download Chrome". Many of you here don't test your own work in Edge. At the same time Microsoft is getting the heat that Windows 10 is unstable and the last major update shows that it is. Very urgently, I imagine, Microsoft is trying to change the perception of Windows 10 by doing everything they can to make it more stable. Changing the browser engine is a big step in that direction. It is a step they have to do because.. and now comes the down votes... YOU don't test your work in Egde and because YOU tell all friends and family to use Chrome instead of edge. I bet many of you even helps friends and family in downloading it. So stop complaining about monoculture. Many of you helped create it.
well, that turned into personal attacks quickly, didn't it?
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It’s unfortunately already been the case. Mozilla’s money comes directly from Google and Google has had the heavy hand over all web standards decisions for years now.
The XUL extension I miss most is Pentadactyl. Tridactyl is a pale imitation, and still immature. Qutebrowser has potential, but still lacks critical extensions like uMatrix and uBlock Origin.
I know what Google is.

Aren't changes to many open source projects gated, like the Linux kernel?

On a serious note, doesn't the license allow forks? Couldn't a large company just fork it and make changes without Google's approval?

Once it becomes "de facto", couldn't one argue to setup a foundation outside of Google's control as is done in many other open source projects?

I get that people hate Google but why bash on the project being open source; is it not open "enough"?
> This is why if you squeeze a crystal the internal wavefronts interact relativistically.

Where I can read more, please?
What does that even mean to support it? It's not like you can't ask questions the general community to get answers. You also don't have a support contract with it since it's open source software. And if they did release a patch for it, you might as well upgrade anyways since there are tons of new fixes.
I’ve paired a bit before, and #5 is definitely true. I can only handle 2-3 hours of it.
> but I don't understand what the U.S. or the West is supposed to do about it.

Stop actively and vocally supporting the violent consolidation of power that the murder was part of?

> We can't go to war over some guy who wasn't even our citizen, killed in Turkey, by a foreign government.

We could, especially since he was a US permanent resident and a journalist for US publications; we won't, but then going to war isn't exactly the only possible action.

As well as he aforementioned steps, we could just stop aiding the war being wages by he regime.that committed the murder. The political threshold of support for such an action is much lower than going to war.
sweet the hockey fad is kind of old I want my child to be a youtube star
Does it have to be future US productivity? Or because dollars are the global reserve currency, can it be future productivity of a nation that buys US treasuries?
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> "what can we do to mitigate this problem?"

You can always refuse to use web sites that ask for personal information without a legitimate reason. If enough people do this, these sites will either change their practices or disappear.

Which web sites did you have in mind?
you can see something awful and metafilter as examples. they're miniscule and dying now, but somehow despite being the bonafide scum of the internet 2000-2010, something awful has chilled out (and metafilter was always pretty chill)
Rumors are that it was a disgruntled ex-employee.
That doesn't seem comprable to lyft when you can't order one to show up wherever you want.
Yes. Within hours of registering my account, Quora emailed to let me know that my name sounds fake and that I have to prove my identity with government ID, or I can't use Quora on an equal basis with other users. It really burns me!

I think part of their reasoning is "hey, we have prominent users! Let's make sure everyone knows it!" But Ask MetaFilter has famous users. They are in no way diminished by my pseudonymity.

Plus I know how to change my name. I can spend $100 at the courthouse, and get an ID that would force Quora to let me use my preferred name. My point is, Quora doesn't get to be the impetus for my legal name change. I don't need Quora's permission to call myself what I prefer to be called.
Mozilla was working on a tracing JIT for JS before Google announced V8, although I believe V8 was released before the first version of Firefox with TraceMonkey was.
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Ah OK – I read this wrong then. My bad. I am confident, or at least optimistic, they will make improvements, if not, then I'll let you know how my foot tastes.
This is the wrong strategy for adoption. Edge adoption will skyrocket if they give Win10S / a UWP-only version of Windows away for free. Edge locked and minimal ad support with no data collection business model. Or, give the user the choice between the two SaaS support models that they prefer, one of those combined with being funneled to MS services (Bing etc) should make it sustainable. This will result in being good for web standards, empowering MS, Google, Apple and Mozilla independently.

To increase Electron app performance on Windows, it's a good way to go about it. But I have to wonder if in time Electron will be around when wasm will be a better universal app platform to build around. Little to no performance issues to resolve there.

So some good and some bad. But I can't say that I think it makes as much sense as working hard on pushing wasm and releasing UWP-locked Win10 for any vendor to install or user to download.
You absolutely can build a new browser based on chromium. That's what opera is. It shares a lot more than just the blink code.