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Your comment encouraged me to check out Vivaldi. I'm a very longtime FF user, since it was in beta. I'm one that primarily used Netscape in the 90s and Firefox being a successor meant something to me.

I'm impressed with Vivaldi. It pretty much has everything you could want built-in. This is exactly what Firefox needs to be in 2020. Tree style tabs (never my thing but nice to have as a built-in), adblocking (I'll always use uBlock Origin anyway out of performance paranoia but still good to see), unsmooth jittery scrolling option (just feels better), a dedicated search bar. I thought I was the only one who cared about a dedicated search bar still. Great stuff.

Mozilla should simply buy Vivaldi, rename it Firefox, hook it into their add-ons store, keep their existing iOS Firefox app, and add Firefox's exclusive features like secure Cloudflare DNS over HTTPS, container support, their excellent send link functionality to mobile etc.

I did use Opera for a time when it was first released and liked it, hearing Vivaldi is from those developers makes sense on how well done this is. Opera was more innovative than Firefox for the most part, in my opinion.

All that said, if I move off of Firefox it'll probably be to Edge. I never liked the idea of using a browser that isn't from a major vendor for overall support purposes. Microsoft has their own extensions store with most things in it already, so they're safe from Google's actions on that front. I see in Vivaldi you're directed to the Chrome store which makes me very uneasy. More uneasy than just using Gecko/Firefox (or my second choice, Edge).

Still impressed, this is what Firefox and Edge should be stealing ideas from. A "Vivaldi" from a major vendor is the best shot anyone has at attacking Chrome's marketshare, it's the only way at this point yet no one is doing it which seems so shortsighted.
What’s the rush? With so many people concerned about the election, if all of this is actually about the business viability of the service, surely it can’t hurt to make sure they’re fully resourced for the next few months so that no one will be in a position to say that USPS being shredded was a component of electoral fraud.
I don't see where the postal system is the problem in these scenarios. USPS does not print or count ballots

> “We are aware that some of the mailers may have directed the return envelopes to the wrong election offices.”

Nothing is fraud if you're naive/charitable enough in how you interpret things.
The Lincoln Project is fighting for sanity, but at this point the entire party will inevitably share blame for the disasters that have occurred under Trump. At any time senate republicans could announce that they would be agreeable to another impeachment, yet the party establishment continues to sit by and condone the country being torn apart. As a constituent, the only things to do are accept that the Republican Party has gravely failed, work on replacing the congresscritters that contributed to this mess, and plan for a shot in 2028.
I hope Apple stays its course.

- It's really hard to mess up apple devices for non-tech savvy people.

- I have learnt the importance of "It just works" and familiarity when my family got tired of Android and just bought everything Apple.

- I hope/wish to see Apple Pay/login implemented everywhere on web as well.

Would a tier system like the tax brackets help small developers?
Certainly the test is not the be all end all, other factors are important. Grades, recommendation letters, activities, and an understanding of the students background.

However it can help us evaluate who is able to perform in a higher learning environment and that they have the knowledge to study advanced degrees.
I had 4 standardized tests in my educational career, 4th grade state test, 10th grade state test, ACT and GRE. Only 2 of those were non-repeatable.
How many do students take these days?
From a financial perspective, it appears unfair to also charge 30% for in-app purchases after the safety guarantees of the app have been established by apple, thereby invalidating their claim that charging a cut of in-app purchases is also towards ensuring platform safety for their users.

Thing is, if apple lifted the in-app purchase cuts, then all apps would essentially switch from "pay to install" to "pay after install" and the apps would get their "safety certification" some for free - i.e. at apple's cost.

What seems fair in this case is to pay the platform vendors a fee for the certification and network costs (charged like aws perhaps) instead of the leeching that's happening. Even the _option_ of doing that over giving a 30% cut seems fairer than what's happening.
And the military is a pretty crappy service too! I've been paying huge amounts of taxes for it and it's never once kept me safe from enemy soldiers. Frankly, as someone who works in an office tower in lower Manhattan, the US military has probably put me more at risk of dying, all things considered. We don't want or need its services anymore.

Right? Or is the Post Office a special case?
The UC system is legally required to be race-blind.

They aren't actually race-blind, and funnily enough they're happy to admit that in official documents. The recent study on "should we stop accepting SAT scores from applicants" specifically noted that, although black and hispanic applicants have much lower SAT scores than other applicants, the effect of ignoring SAT scores on black and hispanic admissions would be negative. Ultra-low SAT scores are a plus! If and only if you belong to a certain race.
I don't buy it. A banana peel here, an orange peel there and before you know the whole street is full of trash.
PHP was just PHP for years.

Now I don’t even recognize what’s going on when reading code in a language I’ve used for my entire software development career.

It’s like a new language.

I want to be done with tech some days.

I just want to do my job, not relearn a language I’ve used for 20 years.
Well, one, because you wouldn't use both of them.
Just like some wealthy parents find a friendly doctor to diagnose their child with a "learning disability" to get extra accommodations on tests. Knowing how to work the system confers huge advantages on the privileged.
Again, irrelevant. Yes, of course it's part of the cost of mailing the medicine to veterans, but it's the part that we're talking about.

The cost of mailing medicine to veterans is _part_ of the cost of keeping the post office afloat. Other parts of that cost are the problem, and private alternatives which charge higher rates for infrequently recurring mail are actually less expensive to the government.
This is not taxing income, it is a tax on net worth. This is not done because it is completely unworkable. If I own a successful business, who gets to decide what it is worth?
Based on a lot of responses here, Santa Cruz seems really popular.:) I bet surfer dudes are getting a little nervous. I actually moved from a SF to a East Bay suburb in the Bay Area, and bought home on a 0.5 acre land. Great school, only 25 mins to SF, and all the nature
It's a gorgeous video! Which is weird and incongruous, lol.
I would like to play games I compiled (without asking permission)
What Apple is going is just obnoxious and as clear a case of anti-trust as has ever been.
30% of revenue for no services offered, just because they can, is the definition of extortion. The only thing stopping them from asking 30% off of your Amazon orders placed via Safari is because the consumer has a choice of another browser for free. Otherwise these high priests of design and aesthetics would make the shirt on your back cost 30% more.
Your app can't even tell the consumer that they can pay outside and avoid paying the Apple tax infinitely AFTER paying for their really expensive device. This is keeping the consumer in the dark to exploit them.
This isn't capitalism. This is monopoly abuse.
How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant
> Android does allow it. They allow you to install any software. Even software that allows you to bypass Youtube Ads. In fact that is one reason why many stick to android

You can install software on your own iOS with a free developer certificate as well. You cannot scale distribution though, which is by design, and ensures security of the other billions of users.

I did not mean just the software running in a container though, which is at the mercy of Android system. I want to control the software running on the computer I pay for, which most Android phones don't.
They knew that they would be banned so they had the ad and lawsuit ready to go. Obvious and pretty smart once they decided that paying 30% Apple is way too much. This is horrible timing with the monopoly talk in the media and Congress. I hope they win.
On the other hand, unless ML is your core competency as a business, plug and play models can get you really far.
This is not some new development. I think politics has clouded many people’s memories and judgements.

The USPS has been struggling for decades - at least since the 1980s. It had a near monopoly of written communication until then with a few high priced competitors for fast short messages (Western Union, Telex, etc). It was financially self sufficient with limited indirect subsides and support.

Then the fax machine arrived, then the overnight delivery services, then email and the internet. These developments ate into USPS’s business model which required huge volumes to support a vast and expensive infrastructure. For a time the rise of junk mail provided some relief but even that waned in recent decades.

Managment of the USPS was unable to deal with these changes for a number of reasons including government mandates and an inflexible unionized workforce. One persistent problem was huge pension liabilities arising from labor contracts. But the key issue was the high costs and diminished demand.

It has been bailed out several times most recently in 2012. In the next few years another bailout will be needed or perhaps bankruptcy. A long-term solution would require a politically sensitive restructuring possibly including privatization. Many other countries have either completely or partially privatized their postal systems with generally good results.
Double standards! Apple has removed so many apps from App Store because of the same reason.
I see more dark times ahead for California. If more of the tech industry allows permanent remote work, I have a feeling many of those highly paid jobs will go elsewhere. California gets a large chunk of its budget from income tax.
It's pretty simple, the government should only pay for stuff the market won't provide by itself. When the government tries to compete with market alternatives it provides a worse product, and it sucks up tax money that could be put to better uses, so why bother?

The market is not providing a military or water or garbage utilities, so if we want those things, we have no choice but to put up with the government's version of them. They will never be profitable so the government is the only logical provider.

On the other hand, the market is already providing a number of competent, successful mail delivery companies that are able to survive without taxpayer money. Why should we pay to prop up a bad business model (i.e. the USPS) when so many better models already exist, and anyone can use them?
Referring to this situation.
If you really want your system to work, you have to. This has been the case since the dawn of the computer age. Nowadays most desktop hardware is intended for Windows users. Therefore, hardware vendors make their stuff work with Windows systems and jump through Microsoft's hoop to get certified. Linux is just irrelevant for many hardware vendors. And without vendor collaboration, it is just plain difficult to write drivers that make full use of the hardware.
It would also increase local demand and revenue for whatever businesses they frequent. But nowadays that’s less of a given than ever before for sure.

I will warn you though that if you move from population centers you will soon discover a lack of the stores and entertainment venues from them.
It is simply not true that many have tried. HN has certainly not tried to solve this problem. They seem to be focused on much smaller problems, like preventing handfuls of friends from upvoting a GitHub project at the same time or Viagra spam.

As an example, HN could start requiring users to link their LinkedIn accounts. Every comment could show the user's current employer (if it's a major one) without revealing the user's real name. HN cold also disregard votes for google.com submissions for Google employees, etc. These steps alone would reduce the problem drastically.

No one would like to link their LinkedIn account, of course, but most people in tech have one and could do so in seconds.

That's an obvious solution but there are many other possibilities as well. And it would still be possible to maintain the ability for anonymous throwaway accounts to be used.
Wait, you’re OP so this really happened. Well played
In the area when I live Costco auto doesn’t cover the cars I wanted.

If it would - that typically is a great deal
Python may have Wats, but C has Nasal Demons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined_behavior#Examples_...
Weird how customers are able to compare models and purchase in almost all other walks of life
The Left is a very ambiguous phrase.

Also, separating outcome and opportunity is tricky because it's a feedback loop.

I don't disagree with you, I just want more precision [edit]: and nuance.
The fact that he chose to share Jon Oliver instead of Jon Oliver's sources indicates to me that he has not read those sources.
isn't that like most episodes of STTNG? All the fuckups are becuse exceptional situations, usually involving tachyons.

Or many others did too. Earth Final Conflict for one, the hand tablets. Hell Tech works amazing in black mirror, one might argue WAY TOO WELL.
> and co-ordinated to me

Except the part were Epic goes to court. To involve the legal system for a stunt would be largely unwise, unethical and punishable.
The guys in the photos, they're all gangsters, I tell ya an they all sound like Jimmy Cagney.
It is possible that some of those people would list "only one app store & gateway for digital payments" as a feature for which they bought devices based on that platform. I'd list lots of the things devs complain about on iOS as reasons I favor it as an end user, in fact. (for the record, I've also done iOS and Android dev)

They're not perfect at all and I wish very much that they had competition, but for me to consider it real competition with the product they're providing it'd have to be similarly locked-down. The locking-down is part of the value. There are already far-less-locked-down phones and tablets available for people who want that.
You can include such features if you are an OEM vendor e.g. Samsung can install their own app store as root and give access to all the above features.
Some more discussion of this topic I have come across recently.

- Dying to breathe: Mongolia's polluted air (babies with pneumonia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUNuHxrd7Y0

and these two podcast describing who is most effected by these issues.

- OPPRESSIVE HEAT: CLIMATE CHANGE AS A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE
https://www.climateone.org/audio/oppressive-heat-climate-cha...

- Broken Ground: Robert Bullard On Environmental Justice https://www.democracyworkspodcast.com/broken-ground/
you don't need a mirror for that. Just use a camera and a tv.
From the article that you posted:

> Ballot-printing firms couldn’t keep up with demand, and the already rickety U.S. Postal Service didn’t move the ballots to and from voters quickly enough.
IMO, this is all quite true and it signals an in-built ceiling in the mobile phone market, which I believe we're closer to reaching than people realize.

Perhaps the market's innovation that solves this walled garden problem will be towards a very different or very new kind of mobile communications product altogether, rather than a mere iteration on the now rather tired smartphone theme.
I was looking for good financing and Tesla doesn’t offer it.

Well, it technically does but at high unacceptable interest rate
> You have the legal right to jailbreak your phone and install whatever you want; neither Apple nor the Feds can stop you.

The law isn’t that simple, and even if it was, Apple does stop most people from jailbreaking most Apple devices most of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#Digital_Mille...
and this is just the second company. Others will jump in once shown that it works as a business model.
Much harder, but it wouldn't surprise me if the do later, depending on how this goes.
> Neither those platforms, nor the developers, seem to give a rat's ass about that freedom though.

All Pixel and Android One phones allow you to unlock the bootloader. Developers do care about that.
It's not in the Bill of Rights, it just happens to be in Article I of the Constitution and got its first postmaster general of Benjamin Franklin in 1775.

And yes, Jefferson expressed concern about it. And I don't disagree with him in principle; it can certainly seem like a waste of money. However, it has morphed into something beyond what was probably intended (as a lot of things in the Constitution have). Delivering medication, ballots, voter registration, government documents, delivering secret and confidential mail for the government, etc. These are things that I feel should be backed by the federal government, and paid for with taxpayer money because it benefits all of us to have a mail system that is not based only on profits.

I know you aren't disagreeing with me, and you are merely adding context, by the way. I am not trying to argue/debate with you.
> I don't see any reason that this child's murder is of national interest

I don't see any reason that Mr. Floyds death is of national interest
This is already the case. NY went tuition free for state schools for middle class income brackets, and admissions is still the same as it was in the past. I'm unsure where you got the idea that subsidized higher education meant that students didn't have to meet academic targets for admission.
> Google is User-centric

This is correct but the definition of the "user" here is different from the definition of "user" for Apple.

In the case of Google, the advertisers and the developers are the "users", and the people who are using the software are the products.

On the Apple side of things, the people who buy the phone or the laptop are the "users" and this is the folks that Apple cares about deeply(And ironically, they also suffer in the last saga by not being able to access their favourite game). That is why its always the developers complaining about Apple.

Yes, as a developer I think %30 is high and I wish it was lower but it is on par with Google. As a user, I despise the idea of giving credit card info on every app and service I would like to use. Looking at the behaviour of the companies who think they can force users what they want, I am sure that they are not going to be as nice as Apple on the payments. They will implement dark patterns.

As a user, I don't want to see another payment method, I want this to go away. As a developer I want this to go away by Apple lowering it's fees.
I guess you're talking about GSS, which works fine, but I haven't seen any mention of it on the internets until this. What bugs me most is that we're stuck with what browsers provide, and they not gonna do display: cassowary; or display: kiwi; no matter how loud you cry for something a little more sane than a bunch of css crutches glued together.

I'd totally use this too.

https://gss.github.io/

http://overconstrained.io/
No Xorg, just dbus.
Yes.. You're right.
Thanks for posting this. I will relay this feedback to the relevant teams.

- I want to see prices listed as total price, not price before fees which add 30%-50% on top of the listed price

* The total price display is something that is being experimented on at the moment and will likely launch to everyone soon. If you manage to get assigned into the experiment you can actually see this live now.

- I want to select properties where there is no one else on the property grounds. Airbnb allows people to claim "Separate property" for somebody's basement suite where you're sure to encounter the host/other residents

* Agreed this would be useful. Basically a privacy level designation instead of just binary Entire home vs not, although I can see this getting tricky with the diverse ranges of properties people list. For example, where would you put a condo on this scale?

- I want the pool/hot tub checkboxes to be limited to private pool or hot tub, and to not include results where the property has some membership to a shared pool in a HOA or whatever

* Also agreed this would be useful. Typically the listing describes this, but having a search filter would be helpful. On the host side, there are already designations for private vs shared amenities so it should be possible.

- I want the ability to search for keywords, such as "backyard" or "creek"

* This is an interesting idea. You see this on car selling websites and it's definitely useful. One challenge would be handling of multiple languages and the diverse ways people would describe the same attributes even within the same language, but agreed if implemented properly, it could be a super useful feature. Airbnb used to have a free text search engine and it didn't work well so it's been scrapped for now.

- I want to be able to exclude certain hosts from results. In some cities the same host runs multiple properties and they all have bad reviews. I want to hide their properties.

* Would a review rating filter basically accomplish this? Agreed this would be useful.

- I want to be able to easily flag or report listings that are abusing the search terms - claiming a living room as a bedroom, for example

* You can do this by going to the listing and clicking on "Report this listing" link under the book button.

- I want to be able to search for properties by driving distance from a location

* Stayed tuned on this one!
> This isn't about what Republicans do, or what Democrats do.

It's absolutely about what the current Republican Party in government does.

> It's about what enemies of the state do.

That may be true, but that doesn’t negate the preceding point.

> Many Republicans are speaking up alongside their usual opponents

Many former and out-of-office Republicans are, and over the past few years also some in-office-but-already-announced-retirement Republicans have.

A handful of ongoing Republicans-in-office have, over the last several years, expressed mild and momentary concern before returning to the ranks to toe the line on substance, but none of them are speaking up—or, more importantly, acting in ant substantial way.
Making a first-class gaming experience will require considerably more than this on iOS, and as far as I am aware, Safari's implementation is spotty at best.

My company spent years getting a passable Safari/iOS mobile web 360 video player working, a whole game like Fortnite would be another beast entirely.
Measuring the nth degree from 1st-gen immigrants is a pretty poor proxy for "personality".
People who act like bot appraisers on the first sign of disagreement only foster annoyance.
They didn't just "challenge the monopoly".

They made consumer experience worse by introducing exclusives to an ecosystem that was previously largely free of them. Then they bought over exclusives that were announced for other platforms.

That's pretty damn obnoxious to me.
So if fortnight was allowed to have their own App Store would it need to be downloaded via the App Store?

I see people on both sides of this issue and I know it’s heated, but I’m honestly a bit confused about how it would work in practical terms.

The iOS platform has been deliberately engineered —- for better or worse —- to have this blurring of the hardware/software divide... how do you overcome that if this challenge went all the way through?

It doesn’t seem like it would be as simple as downloading the storefront from epic.