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I've made multiple attempts recently to switch to Firefox as my primary browser, but I never could stick with it.

1) It's simply not as responsive. They've worked really hard to keep up with Chrome, and I respect that, and the recent overhaul did make a big difference. But Chrome just feels like a piece of physical machinery, where Firefox still feels like a piece of software.

2) The dev tools are just not quite as good. As with general performance, they've always been very close, but there's just something about them that's off. Enough to disrupt my work.

3) Firefox mobile, at least on Android, has weird high-friction scrolling behavior that doesn't match the rest of the OS and feels terrible, and there's no way to turn it off.

I use Firefox for casual browsing on my gaming desktop, but that's about it. I'm rooting for them, but there are just improvements that still need to be made.

On the bright side, Chromium is 99% OSS (as opposed to Android, which is like 70% OSS). I think a fork could become a competitor if Google took the project in a direction that was just really egregiously bad. Let us not forget that Chrome's rendering engine, Blink, was itself a fork of Safari's WebKit.
> I could have gotten the same benefits with SSR and ported it to react native

Are you saying that rhetorically? In my experience, React is no silver bullet (e.g. different router and styling mechanisms for RN), trickiness dealing w/ timezones in SSR, etc.

And besides, the point here was largely about bundle size and fast time-to-interactive. Next.js optimizes a lot for developer experience, but you're definitely still going to be shipping a pretty sizeable JS bundle with slower characteristics than a hand-coded "closer-to-the-metal" thing.
Per my anecdata, it wasn't a research university, just a liberal arts college. From what I can remember, most of the donated funds that my extended family gave went to scholarships, though I'm not 100% on that.
On a high DPI screen I still find it a little straining. To me the width is acceptable enough but the color is about as light as I'd want, and a shade of dark blue that strangely blends with the off-axis color-distortion of my inexpensive LCD panel so it makes me feel like my eyes aren't adjusting properly.
I might be missing something here, but he's buying a bunch of stuff in the name of the LLC but they aren't actually LLC expenses. Isn't that a violation of tax law at minimum? Possibly something more serious like fraud, no? I have a side business and it's an LLC. I know I can't just start buying cars, houses, cell phones, etc. and claim them as business expenses.

How is he doing that legitimately?
No, not every company has pricing power, which is the ability to raise prices without losing sales to competitors.

Unless you have an essential good. No company has complete pricing power. If Apple tripled the price of Macs, no one would buy them. The Mac’s demand is far from inelastic.

> Coke has pricing power on Coke
That's an interesting claim, but not one I've seen the evidence for.

Have you compared the price of a Coke to a generic cola?

A premium price alone does not establish pricing power (in fact, that the sustainable price is some additive or multiplicative premium of the price of competing goods would be evidence against pricing power.)

And this is different than Apple charging a premium how?

If Coke actually had pricing power such that increases in price did not produce movement to competing products, then, yes, it would mean it was a monopoly, because the descriptively similar products would empirically not be competing with it

And this is different than Apple?
It may not be a runaway hit, but if you have kids and an Echo device, you should ask Alexa to "Open the Magic Door". It's essentially a text adventure with fun sound effects and good storytelling.

I can imagine a future where Magic Door or something like it becomes a big hit. BTW, there's a web site for the game: https://www.themagicdoor.org/
California (or are least Alameda County) has the same system
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Can you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart? We're trying to prevent discussion from degenerating here.
this is already on the front page...

please check for duplicates before submitting! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19368815
FreeTube is an easier app to "recommend" because it has a full GUI wrapped around YouTube, which lets you watch, search for, and browse videos just like using the website. You can subscribe, watch playlists, read comments... get in-app notifications on your subscriptions... all locally loaded in the app with no account. I also believe you can export all your data to move to another machine. It comes in many linux flavors, as well as mac & windows.

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

It's literally all the best parts of having an account on youtube, no account needed.
Move fast and... wait.
I see that you've unsuccessfully tried to install various versions of FF. The problem might be in your FF config, which persists across versions and types (stable vs nightly).

The ~/.Mozilla/firefox folder contains all your FF profiles, there should just be one profile named something.default. Delete that folder and start FF and it should work.

That folder does contain all your settings so those will be lost (and you can also copy this folder to other computers to copy your entire FF configuration :).
Next month Microsoft will remind Windows 7 users to upgrade
At my current company, it's an email to the team promising to bring in for donuts or pastries friday morning.

People rarely leave their machines unlocked anymore :)
Maybe this is actually a lesson about why not to be a bitcoin shill, instead of a lesson about how to vanish.
You run a simple HTTP server on your computer, then download your files over Wi-Fi using your phone's browser. Works nicely.

cd my/directory && python3 -m http.server 80
So HackerNoon is like those YouTube partnership networks.
Especially since it has a bunch of (local) government-granted monopolies. Let's eliminate those.
Closest is multiple profiles but no, nothing as seamless as containers.
The problem with that table is that this only lists the entry methods, which are supported in all browsers. However, the actual work is hidden behind parameters, not all of which are supported by all browsers, and some have to be in weird combinations. One example is that Edge does not support PBKDF2 in any form, which makes many of their further support a bit weird to use.

Here's a site where you can test your browser's compatibility with many combinations: https://diafygi.github.io/webcrypto-examples/
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you.

Weird that they have so many of them on "mail fraud." That part confuses me more than it enlightens me.
Ive tried to explain this to you, but you clearly aren't interested in the reality.

What mechanism allowed these unprofitable farms to grow in order to purchase the smaller farms - where did the money to do this come from? Please consider that they are (without exception) unprofitable and have become proportionally less profitable as time has gone by.

You clearly have no understanding of the economics of dairy farming if you think the farmers - large or small - are setting their price, or if their profitability is in some way dictated by how they operate on an agricultural level. Its subsidies, plain and simple.

I don't understand your agenda in trying to make this out to be something else. I get that this is an entrepreneurship forum, but this is the exact kind of example we should recognise as destructive - not framing it as good business in any way.

EDIT: I should clarify, I'm not suggesting that the owners of large dairy farms are evil. It is the system that is forcing this upon them too. If they didn't do it, they too would go bankrupt. If thats the ideal of "go big or go home", well, there can be only one...
Kotlin: Navigation in Multi-Module Projects
I wrote several software development articles for Hacker Noon on Medium and I was able to accumulate a decent number of followers. I feel that Hacker Noon contributed the most value in terms of reaching the right users. Medium just capitalizes preexisting network effects and adds no real value.
So, does he just never visit family and friends to maintain privacy? Sounds lonely.
Buying them in the name of the LLC doesn't mean they are being claimed as business expenses.
Your link seems to indicate that the spec hadn't changed, that was just speculation that was disproved on inspecting the wreckage, and it turns out the design was basically bad in the first place, due to very tight safety margins and the poor understanding of engineering a ship at the time.
Personal attacks are not ok here, and we've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

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I came away with a similar impression.

OP uses the word free twice, in both cases meaning $-free.

"We [...] open sourced most of it, and made all of it free."

From an enterprise licensing perspective, 'open source' as a subset of 'free' just means I shall have to spend more time with lawyers and accountants.
It wasn't posited as advice to a specific question, but rather a guiding principle, which is still valid and bears repeating given the frequency of the mistake.
IBM is preparing for a UK exit from the EU
What about Z or B?
Part of our long-term vision is to increase the number of tools we provide to our customers to help with the other tasks associated with managing a property. These tools may include tenant background checks, rental payment solutions, etc. Right now we are laser-focused on tackling property maintenance and making the most efficient processes possible. Most of our customers currently use other solutions alongside Latchel that help with tenant management and accounting.
Same here. Every few months when Firefox is in the news, I give it a try again, and I keep wanting to like it, but everything just seems slightly laggy compared with Chrome on my 2014 MBP.
Google’s new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (Pixel only)
I wish the open source world would wrap Blink into a usable browser product that doesn't have all the things we might not like about Chrome (or at least that allows a lot of settings for removing them and customizing it in ways that Google may not want to do with Chrome, because they don't think it is in their corporate interest).

It's a lot easier than building a whole browser from scratch. I salute what Mozilla is doing but I still don't want to use their browser because it just isn't as good, in my opinion. (Firefox also does't support the MIDIAccess API yet, which I need)

Obviously a lot of people agree that Chrome is better. I'm a lot more likely to use Microsoft's Blink browser than I was to use Microsoft's fully proprietary browser, but even better would be a fully open source, community steered "UnGoogled Chrome".
You should be aiming to release on at least a weekly cadence, preferably daily or possibly multiple times a day. Why? 1) If a bug is found in production it's more likely that the dev that built it still has context on what they did. The dev will most likely be able to fix the bug faster if told within a week about the issue. 2) For customers its amazing to be able to see a bug fixed within a day or two.

The caveats. There may be legitimate challenges to deploying often that you will have to overcome. Some industries (such as FDA-regulated industries) require documentation and some specialized testing. If you have a change management board, you will probably need to work with your compliance/security team to change the signoff process to something more light-weight that still addresses the risks/requirements. If you have manual testing, you will need to automate some of the testing. A lot of this requires work done to automate steps.
MIT AI: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics (Leslie Kaelbling)
I know that this is tinfoil-hat territory, but isn't the problem of Boeing 737 MAX recent crashes related to software issues? It would be scary. I'm referring to this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-max-receive-updat...
If you have any that disambiguate between average and peak blood glucose levels I would be really interested in reading them! To my knowledge no one is really studying this because it is hard and if you are successful proving that knowledge we came up with in the 50s still holds isn't very attractive for most research institutes :(
No personal swipes in comments here, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The browser with your Facebook cookie already has access to that information. In what way is some other piece of software different? How is Thunderbird or Signal different than Firefox?
The biggest change to my diet when I went vegan was that I replaced meat with various other protein sources. These are typically going to be soy (tofu) or wheat (seitan) or some other type that is made of a widely available and automated food source. By eating this way, I am making my food production far more efficient. 75% of all of the grain grown in the US goes to feeding cows, pigs, chickens, etc.; the meat industry. This is because feeding animals to feed people is highly inefficient.

I don't know that I eat more fruit & vegetables than the average US citizen. I'm not particularly a fan of them, although we do include them in dishes that we make.

My first point is that being a vegan reduces agriculture by a great deal.

I'll also submit that it is highly likely that in comparison, due to the processing around meat, that it has similar if not more exploitation of people in its production, and not a small part of that is the sheer amount that the agricultural sector needs to grow in order to support it. They chop down the Amazon Forest to grow soy. Not to make tofu, but to feed cattle.
Also, news reports about eyewitness reports are notoriously unreliable.
Time is Ltd. uses data from Slack and other software to improve productivity
1) The direct comparison to the A380 is the Boeing 747 which is being phased out as well. It's not a rivalry that put either of them out, just realities of modern air travel.

2) McDonnell Douglas (maker of the DC planes) is now owned by Boeing and was an American company.
>They tried to compete in both the media player, digital music, and phone market and failed.

Yes, they tried to compete, not just buy whoever they could and abuse the rest of the market which means the conviction had the intended effect.
Reviving cells is not same thing as reviving an organ along with its interdependencies. Perhaps we can revive a cell, with some luck get a stem cell from it, then develop eggs and sperms from it, fertilize it in a dish and then grow it in an artificial womb to create a new animal. With few iterations we might be able to get the original species back.

That in my opinion is a better way than actually reviving a person or brain.
UPDATE:
The EASA has banned now aviation space for whole Europe.
> The difference, in this case, is objectively measurable: Canadian poultry, beef, dairy and produce are generally safer than American.

I'd like to see sources for that, and even if that's true, it doesn't imply that the market subsidies are the cause of that.

> Also, I'm Canadian. I'm not making an American tech salary, not by any stretch of the imagination.

You don't have to be making a tech salary to be less sensitive about the price of beef.
The TLDR on this is -> I tried to login to my Chase account today, I've been a customer for over a decade or so and this wasn't an unusual occurrence. It kept redirecting me to use the Android/iOS app or check the system requirements. I tried a couple times, I even used a different browser.
Lo and behold I found out that they don't support my operating system for some reason (I use FreeBSD) and they also don't support Linux.
I'm tempted to close my Chase accounts but I kinda like getting Amazon points.
This reminds me of the 1990s...

I should add, installing a user agent switcher lets me login, so they're just being rude.
see TNonFreePooledMemManager

https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/fcl/pooledmm/tnonfreepo...
Hopefully with time we'll be in India, too ;)
Really? I didn't know that. I figured that was kind of a must, but apparently not.
I'm happy with CF's service and this isn't a complaint. I was serving ~80TB of data (mostly in South America) and paying 80 or so dollars/month, so I completely understand why I was contacted. But I keep seeing these messages that people aren't forced to upgrade and that traffic is truly unlimited...

This was the first email: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/2019/01.png

I then replied that I couldn't afford an Enterprise plan and that I understood about the costs of serving 80TB. I was offered a $3000 plan: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/2019/02.png

I explained that 3k was too expensive for me, but I would be fine with something up to $500 even if that meant less POPs/features. Or I could leave Cloudflare too. The price dropped to $1500: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/2019/03.png

I asked for a few days so I could move some heavy files (under the 512MB limit) to a ~$120 OVH server and reduced CF's usage to under 2TB/month.

Again, I'm not complaining. I still use CF's service (last month I used over 150TB with Backblaze B2), but it's true that some users receive emails telling them to upgrade and that sometimes these emails imply that the site will be kicked out if nothing is done.
Still seems like at least one to few, no?
That was true a few years ago, but definitely not anymore.

Especially the teens are gone, but increasingly so is the 20-40 segment.
No university says "get really good test scores or pay us a million dollars to get in". Universities get to keep their pretense of having objective admissions and that you can't buy your way in, and the donor gets admissions, personal advertising, and a tax deduction.

There's a reason no university simple states a price on their admissions page
All you have to do is properly label any such spending as an owners draw or disbursement. As long as you properly report any income received and don't call personal spending a business expense you're not doing anything wrong.
The browser will never send the key across the network by itself because it is in the fragment. Of course, you have to get the url with the fragment off your computer and to the intended recipient, so a MITM of this communication could intercept and download the file before the intended recipient. The intended recipient would know that this has happened, though, as the link will then be expired (assuming it was set to 1 download); if this is a fear, I would suggest adding a passphrase and sending the passphrase out of band, for example over a voice call.
This seems like a pretty straightforward issue of an employee doing something shady they should be fired for. I'm sure they will and the schools will put into place checks to make sure this is harder in the future.

> Is donating 'sexual favors' ok ?

Prostitution is currently illegal and I'm sure this against the most colleges code of conducts. I really can't imagine a possible future where this becomes a problem. "Come to HigherEdUniv, we accept an SAT score of 1400 or 1200 and a blow job".

> Should the same principles be applied for job promotions in private corporations ?

Sexual favors? No this is currently illegal and falls under sexual harassment / prostitution.

Giving a lot of money to a corporation for a promotion. This seems like pretty straightforward yes, companies exchange money for control all the time. YCombinator is founded on it.

Giving a lot of money to a boss without the agreement of the company for a promotion. This is shady but I've never seen or heard of this happen in the U.S. Normal corporate governance seems to take care of this issue.

> Is it ok to do similar differential treatment, for different students, for their grades throughout the study, and not just initial admission?

From a legal standpoint sure this seems ok. How long would a university exist if they did this, not very long.

> … aren't those kinds of behaviors, that are then breading the 'financial services execs that 'look the other way' and caused financial crisis of '08?
Completely different problem and set of behaviors. These types of scams involve only a handful of people and have very little impact on society. Financial crises happen pretty often and affect everyone in the U.S.
The article is scant on details - what was the bill and why was it controversial?
I don’t think it was a technical issue. On the mail side it was a social issue — first gatewaying to the internet, then a desire to use a variety of clients.

FWIW, XMPP appears to have reasonable performance.
Of course. It is definitely exciting to have a computerized system. I just found it somewhat amusing considering Epic's reputation.
Maybe $30k net. He could have sold the old house and car for a market price and then purchased a new house and car for a little less. It is entirely believable that he found a run-down shack in North Carolina to buy for less than twenty grand.
Most of my long-time friends are in a private Slack we are all logged onto 365 days a year. Of course, Tim's connections span a wider relationship gradient, and I just don't have any equivalent to it other than LinkedIn chat (which has its own share of problems, since not everyone I worked with actually uses it - or cares about it).

(I also used to work at a place which maintained its own XMPP client - we open-sourced it on GitHub, but apparently new management decided to retire the repo... here's a fork for posterity: https://github.com/yaye729125/sapo-messenger-for-mac)

However, he does raise an interesting point - the Internet is less social these days, either due to baloonning growth or lack of depth, and it diminishes us somewhat. I swapped some e-mails with Tim, and Aaron, and a few other greats (a couple on Tim's list, too), but those interactions were always fundamentally different from "open" chat.
That is great. It seems like a lot of work. I have often wondered how hard it would be to find an honest, reliable contractor if I were to get a property in a distant city.

I would be happy to outsource all that work to you, and I hope you succeed so I can hire you. But how would you guys find one?

In other words, the issue with finding someone long distance is that you can't check them out in person, or see their work etc.
>Uber/Lyft are hopelessly dependent on iOS and Android

At least uber isn't, and maybe more recently lyft also moved out. You can use the uber mobile website to hail cabs. I don't have google play services or the uber app.
"it's all a joke" is only a valid defense when like you actually market yourself as a comedian or satire (like Stewart, Oliver, Colbert, Maher and snl do).

And I reject your comparison to Covington for a host of reasons. Some of which include:

- no one arrested for attempts against the Covington kids

- the Covington kids aren't blameless, while they weren't the only bad people, their behavior wasn't admirable. That's a far cry from calling a grieving parent a fake

- those shows, when they did even cover the Covington thing, covered it for a few days, they didn't make continued comments over years.

This "both sides are the same" talking point is garbage.
I agree, though this isn’t what occurred. University IT is wonderous to experience though I am speaking from an experience of just 1. Hopefully your mileage varies.