skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To this list you can add the deal breaker - Firefox is not mining your data and then passing it on to the NSA.
Plus, Sony will stand up to a crowd and lie their face off. I wouldn't be surprised if the DRM differences between PS4 and XBox One aren't actually different.
That's probably just Atom being slow as hell.
> many of its changes have simply been copying the way Google Chrome works

Yeah all car manufacturers copy each other as well. They all got steering wheels and other things that we expect of modern cars.

I don't think the fast release cycle nor the copied UI is an improvement, but they should take from Chrome whatever they think is an improvement. In fact, I believe Opera was the first to use this UI and you could just say that Chrome is lagging behind Opera, if you follow the twisted logic of howtogeek, but I might be mistaken on who was really the first.
Steam Beta indicates possible game sharing
Yeah, there are generally two things keeping society in order. Ethical beliefs about right and wrong and fear of punishment from the powers that be for breaking the law. My concern with the NSA is that there is a culture of "the current laws are unduly stifling on our jobs, so us ignoring them is 'required'", coupled with management's belief in same and thus non-interest in prosecuting people that cross the line. Not to mention such prosecution would inevitably be public and thus the program exposed and the public seeing it is being abused. Taken together you have a perfect recipe for safeguards that exist in theory and are utterly ignored in reality, "for the greater good".
For free soft, I used to install AV, but it had horrible chance of getting messed up by user by installing 30 days trial and blocking me running my small viruses on my own comupter. MSE all the way, no way to accidentally install trial and allows to run everything I want.
It's a marginal description of what we are.

It takes a true nerd living in a nerd bubble to interpret a human being as a data processing device.
It just occured to me that this a reason to favor corporate sales offices over dealerships. Dealerships have a much smaller incentive to play the long game and so try to squeeze every last penny out of you whether you need that option or not (or through shady practices like weird processing fees).

I hope tesla wins over the car dealerships...
The article was meant for very non-technical users, but I did find it hilarious that the task manager proving the superiority of chrome because each tab has a separate process so delays in one tab don't affect delays in other tabs showed... 0% CPU utilization on them all.

So whereas chrome has X number processes each using 0% for a total of 0*0=0% use, firefox would just have 0% cpu on its one process for a total of 0% use, obviously a substantial difference between FF and Chrome LOL.

I use both and the main thing I notice is they're so similar that you'll see articles from one or the other trying to differentiate themselves from the other to gain user share, as if the users can tell the difference. Even the addon / extension names are either the same or about the same.
Was that mainly a plug for "Rebtel"?

I mean - is figuring out how to talk to a client over the phone somehow a stumbling block these days? Everyone has a phone, right? It's still an essential thing.

And if you mainly use Skype, you can just call with skype anyway... why would you go setting up some other weird phone service?
Define.js - A simple module loader
I like to use tabs and I usually have lots of tabs open. After getting used to Tree Style Tab [1], using any browser without vertical tab arrangement (in trees) is a PITA. There actually was a crippled vertical tabs feature (named "side tabs") in Chrome, but the developers eventually removed it [2]. One of the best things with Firefox for me is that it allows for these more low level changes of browser behavior and UI.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-se/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

[2] http://www.techerator.com/2011/11/a-fond-farewell-to-vertica...
I am a physicist by training and I was a hard core reductionist. But then, reduction to physics is just another philosophical stance and not an inductively generated statement like the laws of physics. Also, induction (empirical not mathematical) is not fool proof like deduction.

Even if we arrive at a TOE, how do we justify that the universe will always obey those laws in the future? Physical reductionism is easy to understand but upon closer inspection seems to lack a strong foundation.

Also, the laws of physics have zero consequence on logic and mathematics upon which the enterprise of physics rests on along with empirical data.
It should be noted that some feeds only have content in them for a very short time (eg a matter of hours). This means your browser would need to be running almost all the time or you could miss content, and you wouldn't realise it.

I switched from Google Reader to tt-rss which I run on my home server. That "server" is actually a 6 year old laptop (built in UPS) that consumes a trivial amount of power compared to my machines running Chrome.
American skinny, not real world skinny.

Just like how obese is "curvy" or "chubby" over there
Ask HN: Startups for the poor
I'd like to use my knowledge to help poor people. I sympathize with Yunus social business idea[1] because I think it could scale.

All the startups I know are directed to mid/high income people. Maybe is because of the difficulty to build something useful and profitable for that sector or because we don't even think about them and we don't have idea how to help them.

Thanks.

I'd like to know if someone is adressing this problem or thinking about it. Any experience or idea is very welcomed.

[1] http://www.yunussb.com/social-business/
Correct with respect to the issue discussed in the article.

Though I was answering the related hypothetical question "What happens if an official update bricks your device and the warranty expired?".
At least with the bare metal option, a bunch of goons have to break down a door with assault rifles blazing.

Freedom-loving hippies get a little more outraged when you have to kill some dogs, damage someone's home, and break international and national law to do your warrent-less search and asset-freezing seizure than if you just issue a secret command to an ISP to hand it over data or else the government will make sure the ISP gets lowered a peg on their business protection plan.
RSS articles usually have links to other articles. So, reading on a browser saves a context/app switch if I want to follow a link. Also why I feel youtube/twitter etc is better on the browser.
Google Petitioned Intelligence Surveillance Court to Disclose Gov. Data Requests
This is optimizing for the wrong thing (developer convenience vs. user experience). People like using tabs in their browser more than windows.

This also ignores the other important benefit of mparch: sandboxing. The browser needs some elevated access but the page content does not.
Why wouldn't you want a multi-process architecture? It's bad enough that so many apps can utilize the quad core CPU's we have in our PC's. At least the browser is one app that can fully take advantage of multiple cores, unlike most apps out there.
I actually switched to DuckDuckGo because the Chrome team decided to make using a Google a worse experience than using any other search engine in the latest beta client.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=230607

Unfortunately, DuckDuckGo results are way worse than Google from what I can tell so I still end up frequently going back and searching Google for things :(
Author here. I had a blast writing this. Thanks to everyone who helped me out with it. I'm constantly amazed by the compassion of the tech community.

If you spot anything you want fixed, or if you just want to check out the source code, raise an issue here: https://github.com/garbados/jepsen-couchdb

Thanks, gang :D
The context was implied and definitely applicable. This is now becoming pedantic so let's invoke Godwin's law and stop valuable electrons being pushed around for no reason.

The nazis did it.

Everyone happy now? :)
Apparently Carpathia just shoved Mega's HDD's (or maybe full racks?) into a warehouse instead of wiping them.

http://inagist.com/all/347346225932165120/
I hate to be "that guy" but "irregardless" is not actually a word. I have known some people to use the word ironically but that doesn't come across well in text.

regardless - without regard to

irrespective - without respect to

adding the prefix ir- and the suffix -less is doing the same thing twice, its a double negative.

Ha, there's even a wikipedia entry[1], I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless
There's also a PowerVR core in some of the Intel Atom chips.
Back then, you had to enable a preference in Firefox to enable full color management. For people who cared about it a lot, this was more or less OK. The commenter there probably didn't know, and you see people further down mention that. I'm not sure which browser was first to have good color management on Windows, but in any case Firefox had it within a year or so of when wider-gamut monitors started to become popular. Chrome didn't have it for about five years, and during those years I never recommended it to friends because I couldn't use it myself.
And he's now unable to prove that the "evidence" isn't faked, since he can't access the servers himself and verify the contents.

At the very least it should make a good case for an appeal.
Part 1 of the post (http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/05/02/chicken-scheme-part-...) focused on CHICKEN, this one focuses on SPOCK, a Scheme that compiles to JavaScript.
This is better than Chrome's complete lack of configuration. I like my browser to select the entire URL when I click in the URL bar once. On Windows, all browsers do this. On Linux, I don't know of any that do. The difference is, Firefox lets me change that option in about:config whereas the Chrome team blows me off by saying "that's the way native Linux browsers work".

How many Linux users accept "that's the default and you can't change it"?
Agree, at least put a bit of heat-shrink tubing on that. Though, I'll admit to having done worse.
In comparison to Dotcom, we are all skinny people.
Moving the box didn't work very well for me.
Even if this were true (and there's no reason to believe that Google Chrome is being used in this way), there's still the open-source Chromium browser.
The Manual Labor of Code
One day soon a robot will replace me. I'll be focused on some gnarly coding problem, happily munching on green grapes and slouching like the meatbag I am, when the interaction designer, call her Alice, will walk by and ask me if I want to go look at the neat new system she just installed. She'll say, "It's going to make our job much, much easier!"
As Americans I think we have reached some kind of milestone for irony when we are being (validly) lectured by the heirs to our cold war nemesis about privacy.

BTW, I think modern day Russia is pretty epic to visit, and there are a lot of brilliant engineers there.
I would really wish that Firefox provided a way of disabling all external services, including Googles.

If you go to the about:config and search for "Google", I would like the ability to disable all these services.
I use firefox mainly for hierarchical vertical tabs (tree style tab plugin). I often have up to 50 tabs open at once, which is unmanageable in ie/chrome. Also session manager is amazing, never have to worry about losing tabs. I also like how firefox loads tabs on demand, unlike chrome which opens them all when you open the browser.
OP not about PS4. Don't care.

(seriously, are you trying to start another PS4 / XB rage thread? Stop trolling)
Chrome won me over with their custom window. I'm unwilling to give up a title bar of useless space to go back to Firefox.
Not that I'm disagreeing :) but it happens on my desktop too.
Disagree.

Let's say you are accused of robbing a convenience store. The police take the security footage, review it, and then erase it. According to everyone that saw the tape, you did it, and perhaps they even retain a few seconds of footage that shows something like a coat that you own.

Would you think it fair that one party gets to use evidence to convict you, that you yourself are not allowed to see, or use for your own defense?
This is a big deal, though - not for MegaUpload, but for the many people who used MegaUpload to host their files.

I can point to many computer games that were distributed through MegaUpload - perfectly legal games - that have now disappeared, at least from public view. (This might have been a bad idea - it was - but many of these games were made by inexperienced creators, and what's done is done.)
Memcached text protocol Ada implementation
The Information Machine [Eames 1958 Video]
Come say hello, we'll be the only guys in the room in suits.
In our bizdev meeting yesterday we had a conversation that was very much along the lines of this post. It mirrors our experience over years of A/B testing completely.
Not quite sure I fully agree with this, having played myself with a/b tests for big box publicity, changing the message as lead to tremendous changes. Same for the website, conversions has changed a lot, not always for the better.

I do fully agree that buttons color really doesn't matter, which may explain OP new vs old website conversion rate, frankly it's about the same layout, without any different call to actions.
Nope. The architectures are just way too different for it to even be feasible. The Atmega line is missing too many features this would need, like memory-mapped IO to be even vaguely feasible as a replacement. You might be able to wedge a low-end ARM microcontroller in there, but it would very much be wedging, and you'd run into way more problems than it's worth.
Follow-up: How to find your A players -- it's all about culture fit
To add an anecdote to this, I had a bricked Xbox 360 due to the famous "red ring of death" within the first two years of its life. Shipped the broken system to Microsoft and received a brand new one in two weeks from Microsoft that has worked ever since. Failing hardware sucks, but the way Microsoft handled it was great.
This article is full of so much wrong I can't even finish reading it. Why is this on the first page.

Source: I do conversion optimization for a living.
Full rewrite is an ambitious, but very good initiative. Firefox has done (and is still doing) a great service to the web, but its origins can be traced to the Netscape Navigator, one of the very first web browsers. For a huge system like this, it is hard, if not impossible, to change the fundamental architectural decisions, such as a single process model. It is better to take the experience and design a new system from scratch.

I hope Servo can avoid the second system syndrome.
Reading this actually made me feel better about Tesla as a company. For every new vehicle concept, I expect the manufacturer to find at least one safety-related design flaw after production begins.

If you are that manufacturer, you can save a little money by quietly telling your service centers how to fix it without informing the public. Auto manufacturers do this on a regular basis, even with serious powertrain safety issues like the ones found in Ford's 2009+ Ecoboost engine and Audi's 2002-6 CVT. Like Ford and Audi, you will probably get away with it. Your customers won't notice the pattern until their cars are well out of warranty, and then they'll blame it on age. If anyone dies as a result (and their family connects it to you) you'll just settle confidentially out of court.

As far as I can tell, that is not what Musk chose to do. Tesla will be fixing the issue at no expense to the customer, before the NHTSA or the class action lawyers force their hand. I truly respect that decision.
It is quite hard to explain! I didn't get it from the headline "heartbeat monitoring" - I assumed it was a medical startup.

It's definitely a problem I have, particularly checking backups reliably run. Feels like it should be a feature of, say, Pingdom though.
A discussion about the best products for freelancers to do things like project manage and bill could be interesting, but this article is exactly the kind of vapid, thoughtless, blog-spam drivel that I would love to have wiped off of HN entirely.
Non-profits find it culturally difficult to pay Google-level salaries to developers perhaps?
An article transferwise.com recommends TransferWise - humm.
Nvidia's Linux driver is more or less the same as their Windows (and MacOS, etc...) driver. They can't just open source it. Intel has an open source Linux driver and a closed source Windows driver.
I'd say it was mainly a plug for "TransferWise".
Something tells me a*b<c and yet they're still recalling. Bravo!
Empty your cup
Source: Your opinion. Perhaps you would like to elaborate and add to the conversation instead.
Entelo's Data-Mining Surprise
And yet, despite all that, the following two concerns will probably keep me returning to FF :

1. Vimperator (neither of the Chrome equivalents comes close, IMHO)

2. My slowly declining trust in Google

I do wish FF would support multiple tabs a little better, though.
In this case, the videotape also contains a lot of peoples' personal files that they were hoping to get back one day, maybe.

(Pre-emptive edit: I'm not saying the host should have to take losses for this; the investigators should have been responsible for paying for/backing up the 3rd party data.)
I can't accept your complicated worldview. Iframes, for example, don't need to be new processes. One process - one window - one DOM. The only new process should be the rendering canvas/window. An iframe, or any nested resources can re-use cookies associated with a window/process, including caching. In order to persist tokens/cookies/cache between processes you hand them their own copy when you spin them up and write them out to a common, re-usable place when you close, but for the most part I consider browser statefulness to be more like a flaw than a feature (I constantly clear my cookies, form data, and history). how about a "save session" button, rather than the default being to cache objects and cookies in some common blocking profile that only allows one session and that, when it crashes, it all comes down... If you really want to share, you wrap those services up in a library - which is closer to the present model - but you have to know that in doing so you are making it harder to isolate things when they fail... And isn't that what's wrong with most browsers?
Well generally it makes sense to use that userid as a primary key everywhere rather than the username. You only need the mapping of username to userid in one place. Their current scheme also makes it sound hard to change your username.
And ~20-40 hours of hardware hacking.
Oh that's right, you can't make anything real with software you pay for. I had almost forgotten.
By that definition, and you being picky, we can safely assume than nothing can brick any device.

What? Your CPU burnt during the last upgrade? Not bricked! You just need to go through the simple procedure of soldering a new CPU!
My device does something similar. When a new update comes out, 95% of the time the update will fail. When that happens, it continues to fail no matter how often I retry.

Through much trial and error, I found a way to make the update work every time. This may look stupid, but I swear it works:

1. Try the update. It fails.
2. Turn off the console.
3. Take the hard drive out.
4. Turn on the console. It will fail to boot and shutdown.
5. Put the hard drive back in.
6. Turn on the console. The update will start again and succeed.

I have no idea why this works, it makes no sense to me. But it's been working this way without fail for a few years.
Assembling my first 3D printer (a Portabee)
Yeah..

If you don't have anything to give to the discussion, maybe you should not comment.
It's easier and easier to track, ad retargeting works this way for example. But yes it is still harder to track accurately.
I'd assume it works just like pressing a button while the coffemaker's brewing a cup. You'll probably have to resend the text.
5 New trends in web design layouts
You are absolutely right, this is clear evidence that Google is evil.

In fact, this chain of evidence is of such brilliance and importance for mankind, you should be appointed US Attorney General.

We should once and for all end this evil and put all Google employees in prison.
Kick My Habits
I've been a long-time user of Opera, who switched back to Firefox and then back to Opera a couple of times.

Opera has been consistently much faster and better designed than Firefox. But it has one major, glaring fault: it's closed-source. I just don't trust closed-source software anymore. I also had concerns about privacy-invading directions Opera was taking (such as sending all of one's keystrokes to a search engine as you typed them in an address bar search -- your typing rate could be used to aid the search engines in uniquely identifying you). So I switched back to Firefox and have been using it steadily for a few years now.

With Pentadactyl, Firefox is much more usable in many ways than Opera was. Though even Pentadactyl can't make up for some of Firefox's ingrained faults, such as it's atrocious bookmark manager, or Firefox's incredible slowness.

I refuse to use Chrome on principle, because it spies on its users by default. This behavior can supposedly be disabled, but I have serious ethical objections to any browser that starts out in that state, and is associated with a spyware company like Google. Chromium is better in that at least it doesn't start out by spying on you, but it still lacks addons that are as capable as Firefox's Pentadactyl and NoScript.

Most recently I've started migrating as much as possible away from all of these bloated browsers. On 99% of the websites I visit, I now use w3m embedded in emacs. This integration gives me far more power than even Pentadactyl in Firefox, and it's far faster than any of the popular browsers.

w3m's main weakness is that it can't handle Javascript, but that's a strength too -- as I don't have to worry about Javascript exploits.. and 99% of the websites I care about don't require Javascript to function.

I am happy to get what I care about most: the content -- usually in plain-text format. And for the few sites I care about which annoyingly insist on using Javascript for full functionality, I can always use the other browsers as a backup. This approach might be a bit extreme for most people, but it works well for me.
Let Your Boss Hit The Floor
What we did in KWin 4.11