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FTA: "Mr. Khosla advocates truth-telling at every juncture, even if it is painful. He calls the book “Lying,” by Sam Harris, his philosophy for life. When he started Khosla Ventures in 2004, he put the phrase “I prefer brutal honesty to hypocritical politeness” on the website, and it has always been there."

Well, Mr. Khosla, let's be brutally honest. You've amassed thousands of lifetimes of wealth. You didn't earn it, because that is mathematically impossible, you can't spend it, because that is mathematically impossible, and you're being an asshole by building fences around it so that no one else can enjoy it, and you don't even enjoy it yourself. Society needs zero people like you.
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Who would pay the woman for her domestic work? The man? I suppose he could buy her food, shelter, even gifts. Now there's a thought...
I think if getting the SDK was enough to crack the copy protection, it would’ve happened eventually.

The key seemed to be the descrambler.

Why on earth did they scramble the executable in a deterministic way?
Firefox ate IE's lunch. Really, it was Firefox who begun a revolution in a web-space. At some point Mozilla rebranded their browser suite named 'Mozilla' into Seamonkey, and started Firefox as a separate product (not a part of suite of apps like mail client, IRC client, web browser, and calendar). It was around 2005, though I believe wikipedia can tell the precise date. The result was a rapidly growing market share, I remember celebrating this as the end of IE domination. I was linux-user then and IE domination and IE-only sites was a pain in the ass.

Then in a couple of years Chrome emerged. It was a way simplier than FF, it had no firefox's complex dialogs to customize a lot of things. Chrome helped Firefox to eat the rest of IE market share, and then started to eat into Firefox market share.

It was like this. Funnily that people doesn't remember that, believing instead that it was Chrome who overthrown IE. It was Firefox who changed web to a point when web-developers couldn't ignore non-IE users, and had to check compliance with standards, not just check whether their sites works with IE.
The Xbox's more natural competitors were the PS2 (which had come out the year before) and the Gamecube (which came out about the same time).

Maybe the Dreamcast too, in theory, but I think it had long been obvious it was a goner. I think Sega might even have dropped it by the time the Xbox was released.
That's dishonest. At least, mark it as your point of view. I was eager to switch to Chrome when it came out because Firefox was very slow. Firefox 3 was terrible in that regard and it never got any better.
How AI could help us with ancient languages like Sumerian
Get this... there is only one (1) prion protein! All mammalian prion diseases are directly related to the PRNP gene.

People talk about Mad Cow, Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jacobs, Chronic Wasting Disease, Scrapie, and a dozen other diseases like they are not all manifestations of the same underlying problem with PRNP gene variants.
Is there a decent convention for naming your specifically-for-deps module?

‘go mod init vendored’?
Cloud changes the business dynamics with the chip business.

Before a Dell purchased a chip from Intel and sold the server to someone else.

Now the companies buying are running the servers. That changes everything. I would expect more and more the chips used to come from the big cloud providers.

I would expect once Google gets Zircon further along to build their own CPUs that are optimized for it.

I do hope they use RISC-V ISA like they have with the PVC.
It's well worth learning and using despite "features" like that.
Almost like a late 70s tv show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpjFU_kBaBE
By this reasoning, users should have been flocking to Firefox since Firefox 57. It's technologically great, in terms of both performance and UX, in addition to the good message.

Doesn't seem to work, though.
All good points, thank you! I think I underestimated the level of control Google holds over Chromium.
some reading:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/12/27/memristors_an...
Tapir: Typed API Descriptions
A new Firefox OS? I'd love to see this happen.
I attended the exhibition last Friday. It's impressive. A lot of original objects from Kubrick and it's films. Truly great.

I took the guided tour, which is free. (Note that the guide is in Catalan; the exhibition is in Catalan, Spanish and English.) It was really great. The guide had read many of the books and made many interesting comments. For example explained what other actors said about Kubrick. It was like 1 hour and a half. There is also a audio guide (they provide you with a card and a headphones).

I'll have to visit the exhibition again to see it in detail. A friend said he had already seen it twice. Note that with ticket of 1 day you can visit it twice, which is nice.

Also note that the exhibition in Barcelona has content of another exhibition about 2001 Space Odyssey. So it's a '2 in 1'.

There's a lot of people there tough :/
Powershell Remoting has been a thing since Windows 2008, at least. Almost everything Microsoft made in the last decade has had Powershell support.
That would make sense if not for the fact that there is substantial evidence that frquency of fires has very little influence on how frequently any particular parcel of land undergoes fire.

In other words, the fire happens nit because somebody lit it but because the environment is ready for it. If you prevent sources of fire then you just get larger fire when the inevitable spark happens and it effectively makes up for all the "avoided" fires.

It is better to have more smaller fires as they are better controllable than one single humongous fire that overwhelmes our resources to control it.

To avoid fires without getting rid of all trees it is better to figure out the conditons that make fires happen more frequently on any particular piece of land, like dropping water table or drying climate.

I am afraid that until we have drones to detect and remediate EVERY fire, immediately, within minutes, there will be no easy solution.
6) Even better: Built-in Tracking Protection can likely serve the same use case and gives you better performance, because jumping into JavaScript code and back for every request is costly (it's not a high cost, depending on hardware though).
Oh my god, I love this. Of all the rigged-up gaming solutions I've heard over the years, this might take the cake.
Ah maybe they are doing that too - good point. I suppose there is enough information gathered to easily detect those people, though I can't think of a good way to completely stop it (other than not increasing the price over time).
Could you share some insights on what you think is "extremely non trivial"? In what way is Kubernetes harder than what's to be expected of a technology that orchestrates serverside software? Doesn't this rather depend on the actual services you want to run rather than Kubernetes itself? Obviously it won't reduce complexity of what you want to run, but it makes deployments of it pretty straight forward as far as I can tell.
In the UK it's been common advice to buy the worst house in the best neighbourhood. Perhaps it should be the other way round for your wellbeing.
My understanding was that TreeStyleTabs (which was FF's killer feature the last time I used it) was incompatible with their new plugin APIs? Or did I misread that?
Might be because the browser history is limited by default: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1039372

Details on the ranking algorithm: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/Places...
This will annoy a lot of people, but: turn on the subtitles and turn up the speed. Large sections of it can be zoomed through at 4x or 8x speed, returning to normal once people are talking.

Large ares of it are basically "wow factor" shots which looked really impressive in 1968 and lack a lot of that to present-day viewers. Sometimes it feels more like an agonisingly slow pan across the concept art.
Yes. But the point is that you don't have to "dumb down" your program to prove to a static analyser that it is correct.

Look at the kind of programs that NLL now allows. You wouldn't have to jump through those hoops in another language.
What's also amazing, is that if you sign up for a Firefox Account you get privacy preserving sync: The data is encrypted & decrypted on your devices. Mozilla doesn't get to see your data.
is cell count / microorganism density relatively constant through species?

How different would 'a blue whale worth of lab mice' be if counting volume/mass/cells/microorganisms?
I don’t understand why everyone pretends that the process of electrification and the cost of oil are unrelated to each other.

Time and time again we see that public interest in oil free ways of doing their lives, from electricity cars to electric furnaces waxes and wanes with the cost of oil. If oil prices drop the progress of electrification will slow down massively.

And, every drop of oil pumped is more carbon. We will burn all that oil. If we hadn’t discovered it (or discovered it much later), it wouldn’t go into our atmosphere and risk our species chance of survival.
The Canadian startup scene is brutal. We have all of the downsides of valley startups with very few of the benefits.

About five years ago, during my last job search, I interviewed at a well funded (Series B) AI company that was looking for a VP of Marketing. After a few months of interviews, including many early on where they had asked me for my salary expectations, they offered me a starting salary of $70,000 CAD saying that they had to "save money for Engineers because AI is expensive and engineering is more important."

Another company I had worked at early in my career had two "co-CEOs" (who constantly bickered all the time in a power struggle). The claimed to have "flexible work hours" as long as you put in your regular hours and were there between the core hours of 10-3. Since it was a long drive away from me, I started doing a 7-3 shift to avoid the traffic. I noticed that the younger staff would arrive around 8:30 or 9am, but was told that they were staying until 7 or 8 at night and ordering pizza each night because nobody dared to leave before the CEOs, who were two young single guys just out of University. I felt guilted, and would end up putting in a few extra hours here and there, but, when it came time for my performance review, I was told I wasn't a "team player" because I wasn't staying to tough it out with the rest of them. The one other employee who had a family and didn't stay late said "You don't pay enough for this to be my full life" and the CEO said "well you make more than we do and look at all the time we put in" - he couldn't understand the difference in the fact that this was his company that he owned, and for others it was just a job.

I've got probably a dozen stories of Canadian startups who expect top 0.1% talent, pay below market rates, and want you constantly in the office. They try and make themselves seem great with office dogs, and catered lunches but they are classic underpaid corporate jobs, with even higher expectations.

After a few years, I could see why Canada faced such a brain drain of talent to the valley. Even the University of Waterloo, which is famous for its Engineers notes that Canada even companies in the city of Waterloo have trouble retaining their grads from going to the valley.

I started working remote and haven't looked back. But, it's a real shame because I think Canada has such potential to be a great startup market and yet the culture is way off course.
Why on earth did they scramble the executable in a deterministic way?

Because they wanted official developers to be able to create MIL-CDs that would load.

They just didn't want anyone else being able to do that.
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Except for "I have to buy hardware", that's... just not true. Even buying the hardware can be circumvented but let's stay strictly legal here.

As OP said, it's unix, at least extremely unix-y so you don't have to learn apple specific languages. You can choose to do so for better integration to their system and vision and UI idioms (and should I say, macOS native applications are the BEST thought out applications you'll ever have the pleasure of using in user experience side). But whatever code you run in Linux will be trivially ported to macOS.

Learning a new OS is... I mean it is a new thing to learn but it isn't like you didn't learn the OS you are using at some point. Unless you think that there should be one and only one OS for the entire universe that everyone uses, this is an irrelevant point.

For the IDE, again, you don't have to, but you can choose to learn. Most popular IDEs natively work on macOS just fine, and you can just use your terminal like in any unix system, use your build scripts etc.

For macOS, you don't have to be compliant with anything, you can distribute your apps the old fashioned way. If you want to be in their dedicated store though, yeah they have rules. I think that makes sense.

For iOS, that store is the only way to distribute software and your points would make a bit more sense. But I actually am on the fence about the merit of the walled garden approach of iOS. Android ecosystem is a cesspool of malware. I can deal with malware on my computer. My computer has the resources etc. And computers are my job. But my mobile phone IMO has to run trusted code, I will happily delegate some standards to a central body as long as they manage it sufficiently well. When I install an app, I want to be sure that there are reasonable protections about what they can and can't access in my phone. I take my phone with me everywhere, it knows A LOT about me. I can't disassemble all binaries I use to make sure they aren't doing anything shady. Apple has automated tests for this stuff. I know it can't be bulletproof but it is something. They are fast to respond to exploits and they manage to keep their platform secure.

If a "free for all" device was popular, I'd still manage. I'd just have to be EXTRA EXTRA paranoid about what I install in my phone and it would decrease my productivity and quality of life quite a bit. That I can manage. But the whole ecosystem would be A LOT less secure. Not many people would exercise discipline. Viruses, malware, rootkits everywhere, billions of people carrying them in their pockets everywhere. My inclination right now is that that would be a worse deal right now for the world. While Centralisation and corporate power is something I generally despise, in this case (mobile OS, walled garden, corporate control over what apps can and can't do on their platform), I think can see the merit as long as they don't majorly screw it up.
And increasing the supply of oil slows down the process of electrification.
a.) Mozilla owns Pocket.

b.) The ads are entirely local and do not track you. They're an attempt to diversify revenue sources away from Google. Chrome doesn't have to do that, since Google tracks you.
I followed the “Math” topic and found my feed filled with silly, primary- and middle school- level homework questions.

That’s when I stopped to use Quora.
“Mom and pop” businesses around the country show otherwise. A few restaurants with a very loyal customer base or outlier popularity might do well, but certainly not most. Same with hotels, rental cars, airlines, retailers, etc. There’s just advantages to scale that can’t be matched, and if there’s margin, someone is going to want a piece of it.
> In his films, Kubrick exists as a kind of deep state, while his fans are conspiracy theorists.

I love Kubrick, but does anyone else grow a little tired of the legacy management around him? With each generation of film fan, he's become the go-to-guy to project this archetype of the cinematic Godhead onto. Meanwhile, scores of equally detail-focused and enigmatic auteurs of his era slip through the cracks (eg, Visconti, Antonioni, Bresson, De Palma, to name a few).

Kubrick's unparalleled achievement will always be becoming a film-artist on studio dime (he established himself just before New Hollywood took off - and had cultivated enough of a mystique to carry-on after it crashed in the early-80s). But plenty of his contemporaries exercised the same degree of control that this article talks about, yet they're consistently overlooked because Kubrick became this meme of the cinematic Übermensch.
I came here to say this. I was sure I had read it before.
i had that 100-in-1 kit too, and yeah, it was pretty non-accessible for a kid. got a few of the things to "work", but not any real understanding of how to make changes to anything to try something different. always thought it was my own limited brain. then we got a sinclair zx81... and i never looked at hardware again.
Of all people, the folks here on hacker news, are in the best situation to change that.

Be vocal! Use your influence!

And if you have the means: donate!
The Battle Between Qualcomm and Apple in China
You realise those people didn't break the law, right? You can't just throw someone in prison because you don't like what they did, their actions actually have to be illegal.
Open source has won the software, however it mostly runs on closed-source and proprietary hardware. Perhaps open hardware is the ultimate answer.
This article may have been on here yesterday and seems relevant [1]. For this guy it's probably not about fighting for what he believes is "right", it's all about winning. He bought land, a fight ensued, and now he relishes the opportunity to crush his opponent (average people).

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/rich-peop...
The best example was in the sequels when Neo affected the machines in the ‘real’ world while he was also in the ‘real’ world. You can interpret that as this all taking place in a simulation, but that means he could have arbitrarily results. If it’s a simulation then him picking up a rock and turning it into a spaceship is viable. Alternatively, he has some undefined mystical connection to the machine world, though again same deal.

But, you see this stuff much earlier, take ‘residual self image’ and consider what that’s supposed to mean.
The letter I received from Marriott went straight to my spam folder (Gmail).
There's one for Google and one for Twitter, too. Both are not maintained by Mozilla, but by third-party devs, but the code changes are straight-forward (replace domains, make Google container tabs red by default instead of blue, use different icon). I use them for several months, and I'm pretty happy about them.
I too am interested in this. Alternatives, and the reasons for it. It isn't easy convincing suits - nobody is gonna get fired for suggesting AWS, so unless they are presented with a strong alternative, it isn't easy convincing managers not to go with AWS
Despite best efforts, there's just no way around the general notion that affecting the tide affects all boats.

Of course there is. You just add a minimum scale requirement before these obligations kick in, so they only affect sites that are big enough both to cause significant problems with illegitimate uploads and to have the resources to do something reasonable about it. Laws are written like this all the time in places with more sensible legal cultures, but the EU is infamous for not understanding why that is useful, and that brings us back to quanticle's point.
A bug in Microsoft’s login system made it easy to hijack anyone’s Office account
What part of the GDPR makes things difficult for your side business? Every discussion I run into has people claiming this sorta thing, but my reading of the text make it fairly clear that for 90% of non-despicable use cases there's really not that much of a problem...
That's been fixed recently but there is another issue - Google search results from the home screen always open in a Chrome view, even if your default browser is Firefox. You end up with an awkward mix of Chrome and Firefox.
NYC Subway Trains Might Start Moving Faster
I know it's a tempting thought. Mozilla has certainly evaluated (and discarded) this possibility – as you mention, it's not a good idea.

I posted a few reasons for this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655028

Also

> If chromium is open source other companies could share the control over code right?

The sole governing body for Chromium is Google. Other companies get exactly as much control as Google decides.

That's the opposite of, say, the Linux Kernel or Rust. It is my understanding that Firefox is also heading in the same direction as these, i.e. towards shared control by all stakeholders.
> Each word is counted once, so pimps, pimp, pimping, and pimpin are four unique words.

Congrats you just discredited your entire analysis before we even got to you including various slang and misspelled words.

What a joke, but not really surprising if you consider rap to be anything other than the painfully tuneless stupefying noise.
Who whole point of escooter rental is to be dockless. You need to be able to leave the scooter anywhere.
I've been working on one of my own that attempts to bridge some of the gaps between Forth and the rest of the world,
feel free to take her out for a spin:

https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl
I went through a layoff once where my whole company department (about 30 people, mostly machine learning engineers with PhDs) was laid off in a big restructuring. We were all located in a major US city.

Several of my colleagues (one with two young children and a brand new mortgage) needed well over 6 months to find their next job. Few places were hiring for their skill area and _many_ companies passed on them just because having a resume gap from the layoff is an instant HR filter.

On top of this, paying for your own insurance even with COBRA is prohibitively expensive, like $600/month for an individual, upwards of $1500 for a family.

Some other teammates affected by that layoff faced really severe ageism during months of interviews before finding a job.

In other words, your comment is hopelessly myopic and I hope you never experience the kind of grim unemployment that many people face, even developers in job-heavy cities, because you don’t seem equipped to survive it.
I have used Darcs for years and absolutely loved it's user friendlyness. Theory of patches makes for some elegant use cases. I'll have to give Pijul a try! Only downside of Darcs was it's performance in some edge conditions. Pijul looks like it's built on an improved version of the theory.