skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also a very happy user of Aurora, the new dev tool features in r33 are making Firefox yet more wonderful to browse/work with. I was using Chrome exclusively for years until I began to realize the general ramifications of giving in to an 'all Google' internet. My only issue with Firefox is the still seemingly slower JS engine. I still feel SpiderMonkey isn't still as fast as V8.
second that. Visiting sites linked from even the first rated Russian sites frequently makes your IE or Chrome catch something nasty. Never with FF.
You can choose to accumulate wealth to spend on schools or malaria cures or paying people to build public parks. You don't have to buy shiny things.
Sounds to me like this was just a well that was dug by whoever was living there at the time, and later filled in. Every other aspect of the story just sounds like some kind of elaborate troll.
I just wish they'd focus more on producing a great browser and less on random, wacky, side projects. Not that the side projects aren't interesting, but the browser is what I care about. Even this person, who is associated with Mozilla can't say anything more positive than "[w]e have a good browser...".

That said, he's right... `sudo apt-get install firefox`.
Apathy disguised as pretentious minimalism?
what's worth paying for that? do you work as recruiter or the like?
I don't think that helps understand the problem at all. Are truck drivers a protected class?

Can you provide some evidence regarding intelligence of truck drivers?
I'm not going to switch because of some imaginary ideological reason I couldn't care less about. I'm not going to switch until Firefox is actually better (I use both on a daily basis when developing).
Everything you said is absolutely true.

Firefox rocks my world for all those reasons and more.

Hell, I would use it just for the Tree-Style Tabs addon, which isn't available for Chrome.

But I use Chrome at least as often as Firefox for one reason alone: when everything doesn't go smoothly and a page does crash, it doesn't take the whole browser down with it.

When Firefox hangs and/or crashes, it's much more annoying because everything is interrupted to a greater degree.

Chrome: Oops! This tab crashed, just reload it or close it and move on.

Firefox: Firefox has encountered an error and must be closed. Do you wish to debug?

As someone who spends a third of the day on the web professionally, and always has 10-50 tabs open, it matters.
Err... Didn't Internet Explorer have 90% browser share 10 years ago? (i.e. Microsoft achieved exactly what this post is warning against?)

And yet, somehow we aren't all living in a Microsoftian dystopia.
The thing preventing that is that the C64 "Datasette" couldn't trigger play/rewind/fast forward from software, so it'd require it to show a prompt to the operator for each file it needed to load... Someone should hack together an interface - the C64 has usable extra IO pins on the cartridge port that surely should be possible to hook up to them.

From a very cursory look at a diagram, it might actually be possible (don't know about safe) to hook the input that normally comes from the play/rewind etc. switch straight to suitable pins on the user port (or you may fry something, but the C64 is remarkably resilient to crazy people like me soldering stuff straight onto the PCB without knowing quite what we're doing, or replacing IC's with "mostly the same but not 100% compatible chips" just to see what would happen... it's a wonder I never broken my C64's)
Here's what's new: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/whats-new-node-v0-12-featur...
2x "life difficulty multiplier" is way lower that I would have guessed for someone born into poverty.
Don't forget that Firefox is fully open source. Rendering engine, PDF engine, updater, installer, all of it. Chrome isn't. Chromium is, but it lacks quite a few features of Chrome and Firefox and isn't available in stable builds for Windows or Mac.
"No, and it likely never will. Azul3D is for programmers and doesn't provide GUI-editors."

So, you write your levels using a text editor? That's not for programmers, that's for people who hate themselves.
As other people have said, to-do lists are great, but one thing I'd like to point out is that using a physical notebook over an electronic method of recording things has -- at least for me -- been highly beneficial. I carry a pen and small (fits in my back pocket) notebook everywhere I go. Taking hand written notes and doodling along side them is an excellent way to help your memory. Also, the slower act of manually writing can be very therapeutic.
I use Firefox, but it would be easier to recommend if it had a sandbox.
"... in a world that combines science fiction (advanced gadgets) and fantasy (magic, swords), whereas the western world keeps the two entirely separate."

If anyone is interested, Shadowrun is mixing gadgets and magic in its universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowrun
http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Its culture/context is mostly Western, with lots of Eastern elements thrown in.
I've been using IE11 ever since Chrome caused BSODs on my custom build, and frankly I don't really notice the difference very much.
Write things down. Review your notes.
It's excellent that you'd do that for him, and he was curious/receptive enough to ask and step through it all. So many times I've seen people stay ignorant to save face.
they did stall the internet as a development target for at least 5 years
The End is Nigh!
+1 switched to ffox primarily because of tree-style tabs.
A 68020 can run Apache just fine. A 68030 is only about 20% faster per cycle on a lot of stuff than a 68020.

Of course, with two dozen terminals active, things does change a bit...
There are always going to be people that use a particular browser for a particular reason and it's that competition that encourages the organization behind the browser to improve.

Instead of using baseless FUD to try and win people over to your browser, work on making it the best from a usability and performance standpoint so people move over to it naturally. That's what Chrome did to me when it came out and what keeps me using it today.
Even if chrome does end up gaining a monopoly on browsers (or google in general is in a monopoly position), eventually they will cease to innovate and will be taken over by the underdog (or the newest/best solution).
Yup, to be the default search engine.
I'm so glad they get that money.

aren't most biggish free(and open source) software projects in GSOC? https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/g...
Should we stop using/trusting anything that get resources from Google, ever?
My point is that if you think the rules we learn in school about language are the same rules that allow us to communicate and understand each other, you're failing to realize the massive complexity of language.

As for those "bi-" words, there seems to be more consistency with "biannually", than with "biweekly", or "bimonthly". Oxford only gives a single definition for "biannual":

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/biannua...

As a professional linguist, there are millions of questions about language I find more exciting than this :)
I've been using Firefox as my primary browser since it was called Firebird, and I have to say that I'm on the cusp of switching away from it. It seems like every time I update, the UI breaks. With the latest update, for some reason my address bar is gigantic:

https://i.imgur.com/2QlIZwo.png

It also enabled address bar autocomplete, which I did not previously have enabled.

The previous update, Firefox 29, came with Australis, which left me with a completely unusable configuration and required me to fiddle with yet another "classic restorer" style addon. I now use:

* "Classic theme restorer" to gut Australis
* "oldbar" to get rid of the AwesomeBar
* "Old default image style" to restore the old style for displaying raw images.
* "Switch to tab no more" to cut off yet another head of the hydra that is AwesomeBar
* "Undo close tab replacement" to restore the Recently closed tabs menu.

All to fight back against UI-breaking new features. I also had to muddle around with browser.urlbar settings in about:config to restore some kind of sane behavior to the address bar after AwesomeBar was introduced.

But what can I do? I obviously need security updates and the latest support for web standards, so I can't ignore new versions. But I'm tired of fighting a browser that I no longer recognize.
In fact, it looks like the blog is hosted by Blogger, which IIRC is a google company.
> You've been living in Oakland for the last 10 years. You work at a local place making $15/hr. You have built up a lot of friends and enjoy your life. Suddenly the tech boom hits. A year later your landlord decides to sell the house. You go out and try to find a new place but its twice what your last place was and over half your income.

> You know that if the tech boom didn't show up none of that would have happened.

The tech boom has obviously not hurt the real estate market in the Bay Area, but it's a common misconception that the tech boom is the primary driver.

There is a substantial amount of money coming into the Bay Area real estate market from overseas and a significant amount (perhaps most) of the domestic home buyers are not newly-minted tech millionaires.

The truth of the matter is that a lot of the well-paid tech workers cannot afford to buy in the Bay Area. This has impacted the rental market more than it has the home market, but the rental trend is one seen nationally.
I catch myself just throwing everything in inappropriate data structures myself these days, because the hardware lets me get away with it, and many recent languages makes hashes so ridiculously simple to work with and don't provide much more than that + arrays.

I don't like it, though.
If I'm going to have to be mindful of the GC I'd rather just avoid a GC language altogether. An abstraction you have to be obsessively mindful of is worse than no abstraction at all.
Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment
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If you enjoy mystery or thriller books, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's fictional novel Riptide is very enjoyable, and is based in large part on the Oak Island Money Pit legend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riptide_(novel)

No fringe conspiracy theories, just good adventure fiction. It's one of their non-Pendergast books that worth the read.

Oh, and at the bottom of the pit in the book? (rot13)

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Yeah, the tab thing is in progress. The problem is that Chrome was designed from the ground up to be process-per-tab, while Firefox is having to adapt extensive existing code.

Thankfully, plugins made it into their own processes a while ago, which has greatly reduced the number of crashes.
I don't really encounter bugs in Firefox more than maybe once a month.

That said, per-tab multi-process is coming as part of Electrolysis: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

You can follow along the roadmap here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis/Roadmap

It's already available in Nightly builds just disabled by default. If you'd like to try out a Nightly on Windows without messing with your local copy of Firefox, grab a copy of Firefox Portable Nightly and it'll run with it's own separate profile and Firefox install without affecting your local one: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test#...
I was a huge proponent of Firefox for years (since Netscape 6), version 30 broke it so badly I had to move on to Chrome, two tabs open no plugins and it crashes on a machine with 16Gb of ram if left open over night, and the bug is trivial to reproduce. Updates haven't remedied the situation. When Google no longer monetizes Firefox via paying them to be the default search engine I don't see Firefox staying relevant, it's a shame I miss built in (no plugin needed) tab grouping, I miss having a search box that doesn't tell Google everything I'm typing as I'm typing it, and I certainly miss the smaller memory footprint. I just can't handle the constant crashing, the webpages that render as a completely black box (whether video acceleration is check marked or not) and the continued degradation in performance while they spend developer cycles on things like making it look like Chrome (a move I detested) or removing options power users and professionals use. Most of the time I can use about:config to restore functionality but should I have too? (echos of Gnome).
yep, even North Korea has managed to do even plutonium device (though of course employing Russian specialists in 199x helped it)
Russia now requires public WiFi hotspot operators to collect user passport data
Not all games need level editors. Doesn't make much sense for procedurally generated games. Level editors provided with game editors often aren't appropriate for a lot of games and they need custom editors anyway. A team making a run of the mill fps is probably going to go with something more established, like unity, unreal, source or cryengine.
I worked in a college lab full of Mac IIcis, and they felt ridiculously slow even back then. :) I think people's memories get funny and they forget that it took minutes to launch programs and you could even watch the windows redraw.
You shouldn't use a product only because you're worried the competition will do something theoretical; you should use a product that provides you with the best value.

For me, right now, it's Chrome. Before Chrome it was Opera. Mozilla needs to focus on providing better value in their browser rather the current releases which seem to always contain odd half-assed features.
He's a great guy, really open minded and always learning. He taught me tons also, and he's moved far beyond where I could ever hope to technically.
What's wrong with the AwesomeBar? Every time the Firefox team has come out with a new feature, I've been excited about it, and it's improved my workflow.
We went through all this over the last few years with two kids and grandparents/family on the other side of the country. Both of us work full time and have the kids in daycare. I live in Canada though where a parent (mother or father) is given 12 months of leave after the birth of a child, so the first year is a lot less stressful than it could be.

If you're letting your house get dirty and the lawn grow wild it sounds like you're doing a good job or prioritizing things. It can be a tough thing to let go of, but anything not directly related to your health or paying bills can wait until you have more time.

"Life feels like one long, never ending to-do list where we can never perform well in any area of our life (work, being parents, home, etc), and we're both exhausted."

Yes, it's really fricken hard at times. There is no other way to put it. If you have family nearby, get as much help as you can from them.

This is cheesy and annoying advice, but live in the moment when you're with your kids. The days are loooong and the years are so short.
We shouldn't-- but I think the grandparent post is saying that "switch from Chrome to Firefox so as not to support Google" is not an entirely valid argument given the funding situation. Simply put, if you think "this is Google-related" is a reason to switch away from something, then maybe it becomes relevant that Google is funding a big portion of alternative sources?

Obviously there are a few issues with the argument, but I think it brings up an important point.. and demands that the anti-Chrome/pro-Firefox argument matures a bit more.
Article is in Russian, but the gist of it is that operators of hotspots are now required to log every person logging in, establish their identity and keep records of their passport number or other documents used for identification.

They are required to maintain these records for at least 6 months.
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Im sad to say there is only one reason left that I continue to use firefox as my main browser- The most excellent security addon, noscript, by Giorgio Maone. (and before you say chrome can block javascript- understand noscript does much, much more than just block JS)

If he was to port that to chrome, I would be gone in a heartbeat. Chrome is (from my experiences browsing the web with both browsers), a better browser in almost every sense of the word. Faster updates, Feels much faster browsing and overall just a more enjoyable user experience.

If firefox wants to stay relevant, they will have a real battle on their hands.

This latest design update firefox did is especially infuriating. The steps firefox was making me take to revert my experience to what I knew was insulting. I understand you want me to use this new interface, but you are going to hardcode it so much that I have to read a 3 page doc and install random addons to revert it? This mentality seems to plague mozilla. A bunch of FOSS guys get to decide what the rest of end up with every release.
Can you imagine what will happen to Mozilla if Google stops the contract?
IMO, it is just a strategy of Google. First make the Mozilla heavily dependent on it and later ditch so the Firefox can easily die
Of. Course. they could build a bomb; just as the most technologically deficient society in the world (N Korea) already has.

Building and testing a bomb accomplishes nothing positive for Iran's agenda: representing the threat that they could produce a bomb is invaluable to Iran's agenda. It is clearly for that reason the country is willing to absorb "crippling" sanctions in order to continue enrichment. Otherwise, why give up so much treasure?
I used Firefox (more specifically Iceweasel) as my sole browser from roughly version 3 until somewhere in the late twenties.

Recently I started using Chromium off and on because FF just seems to be so damn slow if I have more than four tabs open. Reddit + RES is so slow that it's completely unusable. I'm talking a several second delay between each keystroke and the character appearing in the input boxes.

Also, FF's sync is quite a pain to set up, especially if you don't have another device with you.

I fear the recent UI changes may have been the last nail in the coffin for me. I had a very nice setup using pentadactyl with some select add-on icons on the statusline. Now, that isn't possible. I have to choose between a superfluous navigation bar or no icons.
The issue is how much of that inequality derives from things inside versus outside our control. Many (most?) people who labor in a factory for 16 hours a day don't choose to do it rather writing code for an equal length of time for much higher pay. To the extent that the lack of choice derives from circumstances that a person didn't choose as an adult, that is unfair. It might be inevitable, but its unfair.
I guess that's kind of the problem though right? The hardware lets you get away with it, only until it doesn't. Then if you don't know the fundamentals, you're in trouble or you end up spending an inordinate amount of time and money trying to spread the task across dozens of systems in a couple racks of in some datawarehouse somewhere.
Fortunately, Mozilla has been working on this problem for a while now:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

I believe you can enable it right now in about:config (browser.tabs.remote), but it's not production-quality yet.
To be fair, if you've been using it since Firebird then you're not likely the typical user.
Isn't Firefox OS essentially a browser as an OS? Why have a dedicated Browser app, can someone explain to me how Firefox OS is architectured?
Chrome is much better than Firefox in terms of security, as the Chrome team has put a huge amount of time into it.
It's completely useless to most if not all pentadactyl and vimperator users, and actually interfered with my configuration of the former. Now no addon icons can be added to pentadactyl's statusline (well they can be, but they reset every time you start the browser).
If you think UI changes are annoying, they happen all of the time in Chrome as well.
That is true, but as we've seen in both the Krebsonline posts and elsewhere converting a stolen credit card into cash has more risk than converting bitcoin into cash. Some of the things that make bitcoin useful (its cash like behaviors) also make it a juicier target I think.
Wikipedia Receives $140k in Bitcoin in First Week
allow you to implement a single polymorphic function

What do you mean by this? And which type of polymorphism?
Awesomebar is awesome. Every time I need to revisit a site, I can type a few words that remind of me of the page and awesome bar just reads my mind and brings me there.
Is that true? It seems like an oft-quoted truism that when companies get big, they "turn into Microsoft," or (gasp), "turn into IBM!" This assertion is logically impossible to verify or prove. There have been less than a dozen monolith tech corporations, every one is different, and the world changes every day. Just because Microsoft "stopped innovating" (is that even true?) does not mean that Googe will. That kind of macroscopic extrapolation is predicated on weak logic and completely unreliable.

It remains to be seen, and likely forever will, whether large corporations suffer from some unavoidable, fundamental flaw that prohibits them from innovating. As a casual observer, it seems to me that Google is very aware there is a risk of that, and its executives consistently make moves to mitigate it. They silo small innovation labs like Google X within the company, they fund "moonshots," and they acquire as many innovative small teams as they can. They do all of that with more resources at their disposal than almost any other company in the world. So it stands to reason that if Google is consciously aware of the risk of innovation slowdown ("turning into Microsoft"), and actively throwing more money at avoiding the problem than any other company on the planet, that they have a far better chance of continued innovation than "the underdog."
Isn't saying 'Thank you' against the ethos of HN?
I think the difference this time is that if Google controls the browser AND the biggest websites, then they'll be more confident introducing features that lock you into that browser (See the offline storage bit mentioned in the article). With those lockin features more common, people will be less willing to support other browsers in the future, because they wont be able to offer those exclusive features. With that large userbase that can use cool features like those, other large websites will take advantage of the proprietary API's (see, the issue with webkit css prefixes right now). Lack of possible support from users means most alternatives wouldn't be able to gain any traction, which is going to discourage any growth in that field.

A comparison I think is valid is if an
IE only got complacent because hundreds of millions of users switched to Firefox over the years, and then the same thing with Chrome. It took them almost a decade and 50% of market share to start caring about their browser again.
Looks cool! Disappointed that there's no option to trap on integer overflow. Languages don't support it because processors don't support it, and processors don't support it because languages don't require it; a vicious cycle that someone needs to break.