skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you sign in to Chrome, your bookmarks and full browsing history are uploaded to Google's servers. Only your passwords are encrypted locally before being sent to Google.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035 contains info on how the encryption works.

chrome://terms/ links to https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/ which links to http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ to define "how we use information we collect." From that page: "We use the information we collect from all of our services to provide, maintain, protect and improve them, to develop new ones, and to protect Google and our users. We also use this information to offer you tailored content – like giving you more relevant search results and ads."

Your full browsing history is a treasure trove of information useful for making Google's core services (search and ads) more effective. They would be stupid not to use it to improve the quality of their services. I challenge your assertion that Chrome is an altruistic endeavor.
Only 137,000 of the 1 million Unicode points are categorized as Private Use, and the library I wrote addresses the need for more private use codepoints. A suggested path for people needing private use codepoints is:

* Use the 6400 codepoints in the BMP

* Begin using plane 0xF beginning at U+F0000

* After using the 32,000 codepoints in the bottom half of 0xF up to U+F7FFF, if you're certain you won't need more than 137,000 codepoints, continue using plane 0xF from U+F8000 onwards

* Otherwise, skip the top half of plane 0xF, and go straight to plane 0x10 beginning at U+100000, and start using the surrogates when you get to U+110000

As for needing more than a million codepoints, I've been looking at whether it's possible to represent CJK Unihan characters compositionally in the 6-byte codepoints (U+4000000 to U+7FFFFFFF) in the same way Korean Hangul has been represented since Unicode 2.0, thus creating many more Unihan characters that don't presently exist. Perhaps there'll be a demand for them one day!
> interest more or less died out when antibiotics turned out to be so awesome:

With anti-biotics resulting in some serious issues with anti-biotics resistant strains of bacteria that might see a resurgence one of these days.
I am from Germany. Today I am perfectly fluent in english including idioms, puns (somewhat) and understanding american/english culture. To me Twitter feels like making sense to (native) english speakers (only). 140 characters and the english language go very well together, especially for expressing sth in an interesting way without putting yourself into too much responsibility (in case of doubt/trouble, you just say: "I mean 140 chars are just too short for being acurate"). I can clearly see there are (still) a lot of ppl from the UK (e.g. jumping into, when it comes to topics like "in Europe"), but imho Twitter has a language problem:

Twitter is a native / highly fluent english speaker.
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Don't look at asm.js benchmarks if you're interested in real-world JS. Look at them if you want to know something about the performance of C++ code transpiled to run in a browser, which is an interesting thing to know. And it's getting to be more and more relevant these days. (Even "real-world JS" is going to start using asm.js libraries, I bet.)

But asm.js execution is very different from JS execution, even in browsers that don't have specialized asm.js paths. Executing regular JS is all about balancing compile time and garbage collection with code execution. asm.js barely uses GC, and allows lots of opportunities to cache compilation in ways that would be invalid for regular JS. So the whole space of tradeoffs is different.
Thanks for sharing your experience.

May i ask you where and how are you transitioning your list away from FB?
I mean the services Google provides to users in the form of web applications, yes. The terminology is sucky.

As for concrete examples, Hangouts only works in non-Chrome browsers (including ones with WebRTC support) if you install a Google-provided binary blob. Which you may not be able to do.

Gmail only supports offline access in Chrome (see https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6557?hl=en the "two exceptions" bit). Whether not having offline access to your mail counts as mail "not working" is up to you, I guess; for me it counts as "not working".

Various Google properties use UA sniffing to deliver degraded content to non-Chrome browsers. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921532#c9 is an example.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=973754 is an example where as far as I can tell they built the feature around non-standard Chrome-only functionality even though Firefox supports the standard version.

Google news menus don't work in standards-compliant browsers because they rely on a Chrome/WebKit bug. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083932

Google patent search uses UA sniffing and locks out various browsers as a result. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1013702

Google Translate will fail to work in Firefox unless you have Flash installed (good luck on Mobile).... or spoof the Chrome UA string. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=976013

They do fix these bugs sometimes (the UA sniffing ones, where they just got the sniffing flat out wrong, tend to get fixed once someone diagnoses them). And sometimes not.
It doesn't seem to work on shadowbanned users, eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TempleOS

I'm not sure if this is a limitation of the API or not though.
Yeah, Firefox really needs some sort of "top". Right now, idling, my Firefox is taking between 20% and 40% of my CPU. I'm sure it's some tab running some dumb javascript, but there's no way for me to figure out which one. Sad, because spidermonkey must know which window a javascript context is associated with, so it could feasibly keep track of run time.
Yet. History hasn't quite finished just yet.
isn't whether a trademark is being violated a legal question? HLS just gets to make this determination on its own and act? seems odd...
Sure, wasn't making any comment as to whether it's okay to ignore 10%, just that 30% <IE10 is probably an overstatement.

As for whether it's okay to ignore... I guess it really depends. I actually ended up writing a mobile web-app with Cordova, so obviously my target market had no old IE in there. It might also be true that people on old IE are people on old hardware, the type like my dad who never does any ecommerce at all, and who may not be very lucrative visitors anyway.

Anyway I wonder if someone has some actual data on this, I can make up some assumptions but I really don't have a clue. I do often read that China and Russia are big IE markets (lots of windows XP and lots of websites that still use activex stuff). It'd be interesting to see which markets are high on <IE10 and what the average value (e.g. ad or ecommerce) per user from different browsers is.

Just checked on my own website, target audience are mostly 30-40 year old moms in OECD countries. <5% IE, and virtually all IE10/11. Just 5% IE9 and barely anything below. (mostly West-European audience.)
T-mobile is the only carrier in the U.S. with good coverage and unlimited data + iPhone support, so for me it's really my only option. They've been really great so far; only charge what they say they are going to charge, no contract, and no overages. It's incredibly disheartening to know that these basic requirements are unheard of for other large carriers.
I've been too lenient on my architectural taste lately as well. Looking forward to good discussion with the other architects at this site.
Screenshot is FF34 if that helps by the way.

And just a fun side experiment idea: I'm curious how the IBM Watson User-Modeling service would stack up out-of-the-box against how you currently do things:

https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/#/store/cloudOEPaneId=store&servi...

http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...

Could make for an interesting blog post if you have the time!
I agree. IE kicked everyone else's butt first (in terms of market share), and the Web stagnated. Then Firefox kicked IE's butt, and the Web didn't stagnate quite as much, but let's be honest -- it stagnated. At the moment, Chrome is dominant but no browser is really trampling its competition, especially not in terms of overall quality. And the Web is improving faster than it ever has. (Well, not quite -- the "catch up" phases of the browser wars probably saw faster improvement while they were happening.)
And more importantly it gets you votes from scared people.
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But they also included stuff like splay-latency which explicitly tests something that doesn't matter on the Web (support for incremental GC during script execution, which doesn't matter in browsers because the effects of a script are never made visible to the user until the script ends). Guess what, V8 has that and Spidermonkey doesn't.
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I'm using Opera instead of Chrome. I use Chrome Canary for web dev, but Opera is basically Chrome sans-Google. It's got all the same features as Chrome as it's based on Chromium. Just none of the Google account features. I've also dumped gmail for fastmail and am trying out duckduckgo, but if that doesn't work out I'll just use Google in an incognito window.
Opower - they have saved as much energy/CO2 as Solar has produced.
365 days a year for several years Google has had a Chrome banner ad on www.google.com showing to Firefox users. That page is the most lucrative property on the web in terms of eyeballs, so take your most outrageous ad rate you can find and do the math. It's billions per year worth of advertising.
I was never hooked into twitter, and could never understand what is up with some people wanting to advertise everything they do through there. However, for a lot of time I've used twitter for something that I felt it was really valuable and unique: news.

Whenever I got stuck on some unusual traffic jam I could have just open twitter and immediately see what was happening and sometimes even get some piece of advice like 'take this other route instead' that was very valuable for me. I wouldn't had mind to see a few ads along there or even pay in exchange of that service that I was getting from them. The whole 'real-time updates from people around you' is really good.

All in all really useful until a year or so, when they started 'filtering' their firehose of tweets. Now it's completely useless. I've found out that at major events (even when I click to see 'all' tweets) only a few tweets per second appear, which is completely implausible. The last few times that I tried to look something there I've found absolutely nothing but bs.

Example: Looking for 'ambulance OR police car at NEIGHBORHOOD' (because I want to know what happened)
Tweet results are:
@ladygaga - DOWNLOAD THE NEW SINGLE AMBULANCE FROM LADY GAGA - 4,397 Retweets 5,322 Favorites
@someguy - OMG AMBULANCE IS AMAZING! LADY GAGA ARMY! - 200 Retweets, 20 Favorites
...

So long, twitter.
I have had nothing but great experience with Namecheap.
It makes me happy that a chunk of Google's money is being used for Mozilla's purposes.

(Disclaimer: as a Mozilla employee, that includes my salary :)
For me the biggest annoyance is the utter lack of any sort of conversation tools. There's no nesting and the 140 char limit prevents quoting. So you just get a confusing flat view.
The best consumer reviews are typically found on Amazon. Moreover, you're still ignoring the problem of established organizations being unable to review the massive amounts of incoming products that are produced and shipped every year.
Why would you have to hide it? You have contract with your employer and it is normal to sometimes look for better contract elsewhere. Sometimes employer might use unfair means to keep employees but is that the kind of workplace you want to work in?

I would be open about it and from it's reasons. Sometimes they might even make an counteroffer or change things to better. At least this is how it should work in adult world. But maybe I come from different culture, so what do I know.
I pointed my smile.amazon.com account at the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation.

(Which isn't entirely altruistic; I am employed by the Mozilla Corporation. But hey, I do support Mozilla's mission; what can I say?)
In my experience, with vanilla firefox on a desktop (linux, i7), 1 tab with twitter open takes about that much processor power.
It's interesting some of the comments that the system decided were negative from my history.

Of all of them, only one was actually negative (and that one was about people that steal AWS resources for cryptocoin mining)

Hopefully I'll have some time one evening to have a bit more of a play with your work :)
> User reviews are highly skewed towards those with extreme experiences and often based on undisclosed idiosyncrasies. Users post a bad review after one negative experience, and there are many Amazon reviews where it doesn't even appear to be the case that the person has actually used the product.

Typically the greater the number of consumer reviews will offset this problem. Again, some information is better than no information.

> And aggregating a bunch of shoddy reviews can't compare to one good one.

As you've already mentioned, many people can discern bad reviews from good ones. It's not perfect but it's better than nothing.
Yeah, it could be kind of annoying in a way. I could catch maybe 5-10% of a Spanish conversation. Like I was saying in the original, I think I'd need to boost my vocabulary by at least 10x before listening to spoken Spanish would have much benefit.

Trying to listen actually kinda reminds me of learning Vim, where you spend what feels like forever at first totally lost, and doing the simplest edit seems to require so much mental effort that you can't actually think about the code you're working on.
comcast does/did the same.
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You have 200 tabs open?

120-200 in each Chrome, FF, Safari.

How do you find the tab you want?

For me each window has tabs on a particular topic, e.g. database api docs plus stack overflow (10 tabs), a javascript one (7 tabs), hackernews (18 tabs), paleo recipes (12 tabs), etc. Tab creation and deletion basically acts like a stack with the most recent/specific tab on top—and I'll garbage collect (command-w a bunch of tabs) when I finish with the specific task.

What happens when you're on another computer?

Laptop goes everywhere with me. 99.5% of the time I'm not. But that other computer also has fuckton of tabs open. lol

What happens if you accidentally close Chrome, do you open all 200 tabs again?

Yup. Various plugins make it less painful but it does hurt. I make sure not to accidentally close the browser.
Apply for jobs in other cities, or alternatively just ask your founder? There's less weirdness if he knows where you stand. Also he seems to know a lot of people who are hiring, so if he can recommend you then that might make it easier to get a better offer.
Hmmm... seems to work for me.
https://transfer.sh/TclxF/templeos.png

Here is the API call too.
https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/TempleOS.json

Something must have went wrong, sorry!
Yes I have in more than a few situations, but like I said people will be people and you can't change them. The only thing that will happen is maybe for 2 weeks they will change but they will slowly creep into being back to who they are.
By complaining to your bosses about it - it ends up looking like you are the problem instead of them.You would like to think your manager will see it your way but they usually don't. All they will end up seeing is that anonobot is the one always complaining to them and that your co-worker isn't. It's weird but it's true.
> I'd like to see a source for the billion-dollar-a-year campaign

I can't find a source for the figure right now, unfortunately. And the whole thing is a guess, since Google doesn't release this information. All it releases is overall sales/marketing spending, which in 2012 was about $6 billion if I understand right (see <http://www.quora.com/How-much-does-Google-spend-on-advertisi...). That includes salaries for the marketing folks, etc, not just direct spending on campaigns.

As I recall, the $1b estimate broke down something like 30% actual spend (primetime TV ads, ads all over the London Tube, etc, etc) and 70% in-kind placement (i.e. "every search you do on Google with another browser shoves an ad for Chrome in your face"). I'll see if I can hunt down where I saw that...

> That's 3 times Mozilla's entire budget

Yep.
My startup chosen by Apple/ also I am trying to make a better hybrid, crazy?
By day I am the CEO and Founder at Signal360.com ( Complete Proximity Platform:Beacons and more) Just selected by Apple in conjunction with our client the Golden State Warriors for best use of iBeacon. Four years in the space.

Side Project http://bit.ly/10wcCUx Trying to make a better hybrid vehicle.

http://bit.ly/1pSOh0Z

Elon Musk seems to have thirty companies, does everyone call him crazy also?
Please check your history. There was a JavaScript performance war in full swing, with both Firefox and Safari producing new JITs and working on improving them, before Chrome ever appeared.
Godaddy supports a lot of international TLDs that Namecheap does not.
Google Inbox is also Chrome-only. It UA sniffs and tells you to download Chrome if you aren't using it.
Right you are, I think I typed it all lowercase or camel case, thanks for the clarification :)
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If you look upthread, you can see these are probably false positives due to the image names of the corporate logos (see the note from 'thisisparker).

The EFF site tries to be very careful about embeds and not serve scripts or images from third-party sites. For example, YouTube embeds there use youtube-nocookie.com with a click-to-load wrapper so that users have to affirmatively choose to interact with the YouTube servers. That's described at

https://www.eff.org/pages/mytube-limit-privacy-risks-embedde...
Eventbrite may be useful.
That's all true but once you start accepting illegal input on a protocol for a long enough time you can't just suddenly go and break things without an automated alert to the customer when that particular thing starts acting up.

After all it would not be that hard to scan for which customers are going to be bitten by that particular change when it actually happens rather than using some fire-and-forget email.
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Great! I'm excited to hear about your findings. I'll try to incorporate them into the app! :)
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There is also pgstudio/Postgresql-Studio which is run as a standalone jar file on your desktop (java -jar jetty-runner-9.0.6.v20130930.jar pgstudio.war)

http://www.postgresqlstudio.org/about/features/
Jesus Christ... how can that be acceptable? How can there be no punishment for the idiots that flashbanged a family? It's reprehensible...
I dropped them many years ago over a similar issue, except in my case I was almost 40 miles from the Canadian borders and picked up a Canaidam tower... They slapped me with a huge fee for international roaming.

This was late 90s, so I think a 10 minute call cost like $150!
Not surprising. Third world country requires the third world police.
I just mean that there's not necessarily a need for any Semantic Web tech in the browser specifically. An application may certainly have a browser interface, but, to my mind, most of the "stuff" that involves working with RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc. is server-side / behind-the-scenes stuff that the user wouldn't touch directly. The various browser plugins that let you look at embedded RDFa, microformats, etc. are nifty, but I don't personally consider that kind of stuff a primary use-case for semweb tech.
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Should and may are spec weasel words, in specs there must (hah!) be 'MUST' and 'MUST NOT'. Otherwise a spec is just a piece of rope with a pre-tied noose.
If I view the results as a trademark & copyright troll, I'd guess Tumblr is the one who's got my back. Conversely, perhaps Tumblr's most valued customers are trademark & copyright trolls, aka large media companies.

[1] - http://www.adweek.com/news/television/viacom-tumblr-team-off...
[2] - http://www.thehubcomms.com/with-newly-appointed-director-of-...
I'd like a human with smiling face
Yeah it still happens, like this 10' x 6' painting for example from 2 months ago

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11034...
Chrome does not exist to give the world a fast and performant web, it exists to give google full control over the audience from request to delivery, it exists to increase google's control and serves as a collection mechanism for data that it would not otherwise get at.

That it's a performant browser is a side-effect.
As far as I can tell from using two optical HR devices, the accuracy is all over the place during exercise. So it's not as simple as -+X bpm. If that were the case I could live with it for sufficiently small values of X. But X may be 10, it may then go to 40 (no, I'm not exaggerating), then down to 5 or less. Like a bathroom scale, accuracy isn't an issue if it's consistently inaccurate. But during exercise optical HR monitors give the appearance of being a RNG with LED lights, without the advantage of sufficient entropy to be used for cryptography. IOW, kinda useless.
> I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be any widely-used and easily available HTTP conformance checker - unlike the well-known HTML validators.

There is one called Co-Advisor [1] that can be used to test web proxies. It is commercial and pretty expensive, but the online version might be free for open source projects. Squid and Apache Traffic Server are tested with it [2][3]. There was a USENIX talk that showed some Co-Advisor results [4]

1. http://coad.measurement-factory.com/details.html

2. http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/HTTP11

3. http://trafficserver.apache.org/acknowledgements

4. https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa12/rolling-d2o-choosin... (at 31:16 in to the video).
I predict in an act of desperation as usage goes from stalling out, to falling, Twitter will begin to relax their character limit. That's when you can be certain they're going the MySpace way.

Twitter was supposed to be a messaging platform. They lost that war, big time. Twitter became a heavily one-sided broadcast platform instead. As the WhatsApp etc. world eats Twitter's usage, all they'll have left are heavy broadcasters, celebrities, and so on (and those people will abandon the increasingly unpopular platform).

The reality is, Twitter doesn't serve enough of a stand-alone purpose any longer. Too many pieces of its value have been stolen away by competing products. Not to mention, nobody really cares about their social network on Twitter, there's minimal value to that (versus eg Facebook), so there's next to no barriers protecting them from erosion in that regard.

Simply put: Twitter isn't the best social network; Twitter isn't the best at photos / images / media / video; Twitter isn't the best blog platform; Twitter isn't the best messaging platform.

It's not the best at anything, and it will lose in part because of that.
It's not exactly what you're looking for, but try going to about:memory and hitting Measure. It gives per object allocations:

│ ├────6.04 MB (01.59%) -- top(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8518903, id=105)
│ │ ├──5.89 MB (01.55%) -- active/window(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8518903)
│ │ │ ├──4.64 MB (01.22%) ++ layout
│ │ │ └──1.25 MB (00.33%) ++ (4 tiny)
│ │ └──0.15 MB (00.04%) ++ js-zone(0x7fb875a85800)