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I'm with you on the superiority of a unified search/URL bar, but why would you resist a one-time tweak that takes 15 seconds and fixes the problem forever? Or just install the Omnibar extension, for that matter.

If that's literally the one reason you don't switch, and that one reason can be handled with no more effort than swapping the shortcuts on your desktop, I just don't get it.
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I use Vimium and I like it, but it's crippled by Chrome's extension model. Extensions aren't really part of the browser, they run in the context of the page you're looking at. This means Vimum's shortcuts don't work on the new tab page or when viewing PDFs, and they're unresponsive when repeatedly changing tabs. I'm trying to switch to Firefox + Pentadactyl, which seems much less hacky, but there are enough differences to make the change difficult.
er, just sayin..gpl might not be necessary? paradox's ck2 and many of bethesda's games are much modded(er, i dont play fps, but i think there are many 'source mods' on desura?), but not gpl? i think they all have drm, yet manage to sell some dlc? so er, the comparison is not as clean as foss vs proprietary?
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Mystical? I think the meaning of 'choice' is well-understood. I believe philosophers have reinvented the meaning so they can put it into their wholly imaginary framework of doubletalk.
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Actually almost forgot about this, but I tried watching a video on FF recently, and Chrome used about 5 percent of my CPU (with about 10 other tabs open), and a lot of extensions, too, while on Firefox I had just a few add-ons (some of the same as on Chrome), and only that video running. It used 15 percent of my CPU.
There is, however, a surprising number of Government tech jobs, but they don't pay well. There's a big base (Joint Base Lewis-McChord) with a bunch of contracting jobs, and Tacoma has a small amount of tech jobs. Nowhere near the level of even Seattle though. I know from experience - I live in Tacoma with no real desire or ability to commute to Seattle daily (at least for a couple more years). I also am not willing to work in Olympia for less than 75k (and even then the job would have to be pretty interesting), but most of the jobs are .NET C# type things, which I don't currently have experience with, and the ones that are left pay more like 55-60k,
I think it is energy? I live in Canada and our middle class has the highest income in the world but we also use the most energy per capita. That's the simplest, other than entropy, life is about reducing entropy, richer people spend more money on insurance. Civilization tries to reduce surprises for its citizens.
I have the paperback. It's just fine. If you're happy with an ebook, it's available for free.
Except that there are plenty of people who are willing to work for these terms.

Doesn't make it OK. We're not machines. We're not robots. We're not fungible resource. We're people, and we object to creating a society in which the rich and powerful play off the less fortunate against each other, creating a race to the bottom until every employee is scratching out a bare existence in the knowledge that if they so much as ask for a five minute break they'll be fired and replaced with someone slightly more timid. Obviously the rich don't generally object to this.

But then, the market doesn't tend to like that.

Which is why we have government and unions. "The market" is meant to be a tool that serves people and makes life better. It's not perfect, it's not magic, and applied excessively it makes people miserable; there is very definitely a time to tell the religious caste in society that worships "the market" to get bent.
Ksplice is now owned by Oracle, meaning it's dead and buried (unless you give Oracle your moneyz).

Look at KPatch (included in RHEL7 as tech preview, will probably mature in subsequent minor version updates):
http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2014/02/26/kpatch/
That's effectively how I see it: as a simple human, I consider light as an instantaneous phenomenon. Its speed seems to be the maximum attainable for about anything, but a man-made processor has the power to execute a simple computation in less time than what it takes for light to travel 9 centimeters. Isn't that impressive? Doesn't that cast doubt on how far we can improve our CPUs? Just remember that a thousand years ago, our beat creations were basically piles of rock.
Most companies are still struggling with the infrastructure to collect and analyse data. This is largely an exercise in distributed systems, and definitely not expertise you'd find in the statistics dept.
There are a bunch of State Tech jobs too, not just for lawyers. They don't pay nearly as much as Seattle jobs. Tacoma doesn't either for that matter, and Tacoma doesn't even have the Government thing going for them (just the base).

There is some "trickle" effect for tech jobs slowly making their way south (I see regular postings for Tukwilla, Renton and even Federal Way development jobs), and some in Tacoma, but my experience is they tend to hold onto that 50-60+ hours a week work ethic, but only pay 35-45k. No thanks.
I use Chrome on everything, no plugins. I can't remember a crash in the last year on Windows or Mac but Linux has lately been telling me it did crash but it really didn't. What are you on? Got any plugins?
I'm 25+ (25 and 7 months) and I just started using snap chat with some people I know.

The biggest selling point is that nothing is permanent, or at least it has the illusion that nothing is permanent, you don't have to think too much about sending an embarrassing picture because it's gone in 1-10 seconds, which is great for just having fun with someone. I'm not even talking about sexting, just random chats.

It's completely against anything I have done so far (any picture I take is stored in at least 5 different locations) that it is almost scary.
I just luckly made my way into IT (A lifetime dream of mine) but previously I worked at a plastics factory(QC tech). They would demand you work overtime with 24 hours notice. They get orders 2 - 3 weeks in advance at minimum. After a while you have to consider that this might be intentional, its hard to set up a job interview when you have to change your schedule with 24 hours notice. So its not just fast food that does this, though it's new to me that this happens in the UK.
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I want them separate.

If I want get things from my history then that's one box, if I want to search then it's a different one. Two completely different sets of suggestions, for different purposes.

Works perfectly.
Why is this a bug? There are no guarantees (beyond not going backward). You can't count on dense ids anyway. What if you have concurrent transactions that get ids and some of them abort?

It's your application that's buggy if you are relying on dense ids.

Definitely not a bug, and unclear why it's a feature. It just is.
Minor correction: Opera has followed Google on to Blink.
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Austin seems the obvious choice. Of course it's hotter than hell there, humid, and you probably have to have an eye out for Tornados.

Personally if I had to pick anywhere but the Seattle area (perfect for me, the gloom doesn't effect me like it does others), it'd have to be either SLC or Boulder/Castle Rock (both near Denver).

SF is probably better climate, IMO, and the idea appeals to me, but the cost of living combined with the traffic... no thanks. Seattle traffic is above what I consider acceptable, SF would kill me.
There was only two economists discussing the future of jobs :(

Robotics and automation are changing business from labor intensive to capital intensive. Wage share (share of wages from the GDP) has been going down since early 70's in all OECD countries. Automation will continue to increase that trend together with more competition from third world.

The job loss should be considered as one issue in downward pressure for wages caused by automation. Workers can compete with with automation by earning less. People from developing world will be able to compete against automation longer.

Removing cashiers and logistic workers with automation and more sophisticated vending machines might generate bigger dent to the jobs than self driving cars (They have vending machine in Italy that makes fresh pizza starting from the flour).
I was hoping for a "b*tch" somewhere...
The health care tax could be regressive, say 5-10% of your income below first $100-150k, and then 0% of the remainder. This way, even the richest would not be affected that much by that additional tax.

Actually, even without additional tax, if US government dropped Medicare, Medicaid and other state sponsored insurance systems in favor of universal coverage, it would have enough money to have world-class healthcare system without any additional taxes -- the US government _already_ spends as much on health care per capita as Germany, or France, and 30% more than UK.
I also keep several hundreds of tabs open for months on end. I use Firefox and have simply accepted that it will crash about four times per day, requiring me to wait a few minutes while it restarts and reloads the tabs.
Together with the developer tools this will be a hell of a release. 33 sounds nice.
It's the equivalent of a spam site. Don't bother.

Think about it. A 14-year old made the app (purportedly). Not that it's impossible but you can't find it. Think about it.
What are we to do? We build data visualization software, but firefox is REALLY slow at rendering SVG (so no d3 for us). We have a choice of asking our customers to run ie11 or chrome, since both run quickly.

We would recommend firefox, since we really like the Mozilla foundation, but the performance of it is so bad we have to steer people away from it.

It is a sad state of affairs.
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In the same way that you'd get out of poverty: by transforming resources into products and/or services and selling them. Your resources might be time (labor), skill/knowledge and capital (land/natural resources), same with countries. Take into account that many countries are rich (i.e. full of resources) but can't manage to climb out of poverty due to mental/social obstacles like corruption, religion, culture, etc. I am not an expert, just my opinion.
This is not lock in (not for the purpose of lock-in anyway)
- it's for security reasons and it is in fact exclusive to Windows. Chrome was getting abused by thousands of extra-crapware installers which would install extra extensions etc. They have taken a gradual response to the issue but it always came down to ">99% of outside extensions installed on windows are crapware. This is exclusive to Windows due to its permission model. This gives users a very bad impression of chrome. Now what?"

I get it, honestly. But hey, if you don't want lock in, the hell are you doing on Windows?
In fact, the infamous memory leak Firefox was 'famous' for was fixed in version 2.5 which tells me that anyone who still complains of memory leaks in Firefox is one who you do not want to listen to for advice.

EDIT: I may have the version number wrong, it's been a long time, and, yes, the "leak" was a combination of things and not just one thing but my point is the same.
I hope that FF keeps to be different from chrome. Otherwise why not use chrome directly.

I am using firefox because it is multi-threaded (vs. chrome's multi-process) and thus lighter. My version is still 28 since it has less dependencies than current one.

Be different, otherwise FF may die.
Seriously, why isn't DuckDuckGo the default search in Firefox? Or maybe on first launch a list of search engines pops up with DDG at the top?
Firefox on Windows is nice, but on the Mac the UI feels just slightly off, presumably thanks to the XUL layer. Until they finally ditch XUL and just start doing native UIs, I suspect they'll always be playing catch up in the "feeling native" game. Here are a few examples:

* Still no elastic scrolling, 3 entire years after that became the standard scroll behavior for all Mac apps (this started in Mac OS 10.7)

* Still missing HiDPI icons for most toolbar and sidebar icons, 2 years after the first Retina Macbooks were released

* Took nearly THREE YEARS to adopt the new scrollbar style first seen in Mac OS 10.7 [1]

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636564
> If you think this is "only a problem on those crazy Windows 8 notebooks"...

Many Chromebooks also have touchscreens.
I think part of the problem is that he's using median income for the census tract, not a measure of housing cost. The assumption seems to be that a census tract with a median income similar to his will be affordable for him.

But there are many reasons that might not be the case. Some off the top of my head: presence of asset-rich but income-poor retirees with paid-off mortgages; longer-term residents grandfathered in to a gentrified area via rent control or other stabilization measures; presence of university students, who tend to both have spending power out of line with their actual income (due to family, loans, etc.) and access to dorm housing; bimodal distributions where a moderate median hides a neighborhood that's half unaffordable and half a ghetto; people with employer-subsidized housing (faculty housing, military housing); etc.

Other income-based measures might give a better idea, though. Median income of working-age adults who've lived there <5 yrs could give an idea of what people who've recently made a similar move make.
They are a Tech company, they make most of their money from ad's for now, but I expect in the future, it will be from AI and robotics, since they are investing incredible amounts in those areas.
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Some time ago I made a very (very) light-weight extension for myself that works well for situations in which I have hundreds of tabs opened. It closes them all and stores the linked titles in a simple HTML page (thus searchable), ordered by tab session. It is inspired by OneTab and it is open-source.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-grenade/
Fix the terrible rendering on Android. Seriously, Firefox has literally the worst rendering out of all mobile browsers. And by worst, I mean slowest.

Firefox feels fast on the Nexus 5. I use it over Chrome, because I want to disable third-party cookies. Chrome on Android doesn't give me that option...
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I am 18 years old startup founder from north africa : last year was my final year at high school.I spent most of my time working on my product so I got bad grades and didn't qualify for engineering school.They did put me in design school and now I can't get even a PHD or masters degree.I always wanted to be a computer scientist or at least an engineer : my dream is destroyed now.I can't work without a degree in computer science and can't even a get a visa for Europe or USA.What should I do ?
additionally, on the google help page explaining all of that, it also has a guide explaining how to get around the restriction (which is easy as, drag from the download bar onto the extensions page (last time I used it at least))
Previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8158579 (7 points, 6 days ago, 2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8099348 (2 points, 18 days ago, 1 comment)
I'm calling bullshit.

Firecrap will support HTML5 DRM. What kind of choice are you talking about? We have _no choice_ (well, except from way smaller projects, which doesn't matter. I can't see the majority of users using netsurf or some other cool project).

Yes, I still use firefox from time to time, but the situation is getting worse. Instead of fixing older bugs, they keep adding new ones. Huge memory leaks and for what? For a browser that supposedly let's you view... web pages.

I begin to think that unix and it's simplicity destroyed my way of thinking. ;)
I can see what you are saying, but NACL is a big deal.

It isn't ONLY c/c++ but any language that can compile with LLVM, which is almost every language.

Think about it, new scripting languages, new compiled languages, anything language you care about. You want to write in Haskell? fine... do so, and have it run instead of javascript.

This IS a big big deal. No language is perfect, so the ability to use any of them? It is huge.
Why should we choose a product that is qualitatively worse (in my opinion, this is up to debate, but just compare the JavaScript engine, V8 owns) just to keep having a choice?
A free market works exactly because people choose what they like the most and let the things that can't compete die. Through this darwinian selection, products gradually converge towards a better quality. What you are proposing is completely irrational.
If Chrome were to suddenly drop in quality for any reason, there would be a million people creating a better solution. But there aren't because Chrome works very well right now.
Boulder and Ft. Collins look pretty good in my book: there's a fair amount of sunshine even though it gets cold, universities, not too big, lots of outdoor stuff, and decent tech scenes.
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One thing I want to point out immediately when I saw this post: Chrome makes virus-like auto-update, It just freak me out. Google keeps their product auto-update and gave a reason: better services, but ALL I CAN FEEL is FINFISHER is coming closer and closer.

Second, Firefox give me more freedom so far. I can install whatever plugin I want, regardless whether violate Google's terms of service. Instant example, you can't download a Youtube video with chrome store app.
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"Among the Wakashan Indians of the Pacific Northwest, a grammatically correct sentence can’t be formed without providing what linguists refer to as “evidentiality,” inflecting the verb to indicate whether you are speaking from direct experience, inference, conjecture, or hearsay"

This is amazing. But I can't grasp the difference between inference and conjecture - they are both 'figuring out'
what happened rather than knowing or hearing?
Because Google pays hefty amount of money to Mozilla for keeping Google as default search engine.
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-caption-...

personally I use it along-side

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ft-deepdark/

http://i.imgur.com/AvBjeSz.png is the result on windows 8 with a bit of settings changes
I was an ardent Chrome supporter and always wanted to make the switch to Chrome. Thanks to your post, the switch has been made. I feel a lot of difference, particularly with respect to how easy my Google searches were, since I was signed in. But then, that's the whole reason why I am switching to Firefox.
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I'm having trouble understanding why this FUD is the top story on the otherwise excellent HN. Having choice is good, but assuming Google's domination would be a bad thing just because it was bad with Microsoft doesn't give Google enough credit. I currently use Firefox because it is the least crappy browser out there, but I'd love to switch, because it still has stability issues, particularly with animated GIFs and video.
Nope, that's just to deceive you. They still just want/need your attention and more of it every year on more surfaces. Online Media is way too profitable to "pivot" away from it :)
Fast website loading and JavaScript engine speed are not the only qualities people care about. Adherence to open standards and transparent procedure, lack of vendor lock-in, or diversity in the market are qualities themselves too. Just remember the dark years of web, when IE was dominating and web was stagnating.
This very recently launched crowdfunding site is a spin-off venture [1] of the Bay Area based Buck Institute for Research on Aging [2].

A bunch of people (such as the folk at experiment.com ) are in search of the magic bullet that makes KickStarter-like crowdfunding work well for research. I don't think a straight port can work, as the incentives and motivations are all very different. But I'm optimistic that someone will find the magic recipe that will open the floodgates.

This is an age of distintermediation, and crowdfunding seems like something that will inevitably take over a chunk of the sort of research fundraising that presently flows through big per-disease charities. But do people who go beyond a nebulous support for curing a specific disease really want to pick and choose projects, or are they happier rooting for teams? If the latter, science crowdfunding may inevitably shift in the direction of a LabCures-like approach.

[1]: http://www.marinij.com/novato/ci_26246445/new-buck-institute...

[2]: http://www.buckinstitute.org/
Not really. People chose windows because there was simply no other choice (they still do).

Simple Darwinian selection is rarely that simple. Free markets are rarely really free.
I think most of the things I'd want to see first would come in the standard library and in unicode handling.

I'd probably argue that most uses of metaclasses are a reason to step back and make the code simpler. There are a few cases where they come in very usefully, but at least in open source code, they create a barrier to understanding and increase complexity.

ython starts to get ugly when you start writing code that does "automagical things", and that's somewhat tolerated because it's not a language for building automagical things.

Or, to say it another way, if you have to think about how the interpreter works, your python has jumped off the idiomatic wagon a while ago.

That being said __slots__ as a performance enhancement is crazy useful - and I'd like to see more things in that area.
Though for most people, the thing that would lead to cleaner code would be a more powerful and elegant standard library.
This highlights the irrationality of browser wars. Can FireFox be both 'least crappy' and 'stability issues'? Selection is made on emotional grounds, and rationalizations created after the fact.
Isn't this the way Europe conceives and legislates this? (I ask half rhetorically and half genuine.)
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Do you think that the board of trustees for a university should be elected by those students and others living on university owned property? Many universities own far more than 1 square mile, they are essentially mini-cities with their own police, courts, etc. Is it a fundamental problem that universities are not run as democracies?
For me Firefox is just superior to Chrome with the Tree Tab Style extension and the absence of multi-process.

The multi process in Chrome is implemented in a very bad way that multiply without a reason the RAM usage, it is better implemented in Safari but still heavy, I eventually have crash in Firefox once a month, but the session manager addon can remedy. As for addons they use way less memory in Firefox, you can see it with the about:addons-memory addon (yes another one), "add block edge" uses around 25MB, whereas in Chrome it is 10x more. I still use Chrome for webdev, but the firefox dev tools are progressing.

Tree Tab Style is a better way to navigate the web, you can see more tabs because screens are wide and the web is vertical, so it makes a better use of the screen. Also the tree structure is better for the way to browse the web with hyper-links, it is like a multi stack trace of page you saw.
Yup ABP is killer. I'm also unwilling to upgrade to Australis at the moment, as I can't find a Mac-compatible theme that isn't painful to use with it. (Hate, hate, hate monochrome themes -- color coding the buttons may not be trendy but it improves usability, and has for the 20 years I've been using web browsers.) And Firebug has some major performance improvements with FF31 and newer.