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> They moved it into the settings app, so this is no longer just "Open Firefox, click 'set as default'" anymore.

AFAIK, both ways should still work. The settings app is just a replacement for "Default Apps and Programs" (or something like that) which was in since Windows 7, maybe even Vista.

Edit: At least in Chrome, clicking "Make Google Chrome the default browser" opens up the settings app to the correct view, so it's only a matter of selecting the existing browser and choosing Chrome. It's not one click anymore, which kind of sucks, but I wouldn't call it hard, even for an average user.
Not yet, but always good to get the request for more features.
Although astazangasta is complaining about rent, he doesn't actually want to buy land either. He thinks he is entitled to free land.
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I don't think there is anything, including yesterday's fed statement, to suggest rapid tightening. Smart money is currently on a .25 pt increase in either September or December, with September slightly more likely.

That's less because the numbers (measured inflation and unemployment) actually call for an increase and more to just remind markets that: rates won't stay at zero forever and non-zero rates aren't the end of the world.
I have a plugin that suspends tabs, although to be honest, I haven't noticed huge improvements.
An expense chart.
How to Benchmark Your Server Using SysBench on Ubuntu 15.04
I always thought a BIG benefit of SoMa is the fact that you can draw employees from East Bay and South Bay (as well as SF itself).

On the other hand, a, say, San Mateo -> Oakland commute is pretty much untenable.
Isn't this like totally giving away the Enquirer's[1] secrets? I enjoyed the discussion too. Next up, deriving a set of makeup (cosmetics) steps that need to happen to have your face recognized as some other persons face.

[1] a gossip newspaper which often (always?) has dubious photographic evidence backing up their claims.
Nice to see that those who are pro child molestation still getting press. Classy New Yorker.
Ask HN: Help me find profitable side project
Can you recommend any kind of (small/middle/big) side project which may lead to some cash (even small).

Project you might use for pennies but didn't find any.

Maybe image resizing, watermarking or any other you wish existed.
What kind of fee do you have in mind for not using their contract of adhesion? Unless I'm buying thousands of copies of the OS I doubt I can even get that negotiation started.
the East Bay is way bigger than Oakland/Berkeley. Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, the Lamorinda area, Danville, Pleasanton -- all very nice, safe towns with good bart access. No startups there though.
What’s it like to be a top Magic: The Gathering player?
loved this comment

> There is a button for error reporting. You just need to scroll down to see it.
Oh and the scroll bar is hidden
> You receive Social Security roughly proportional to your contribution.

Well, its a monotonically increasing function of your contributions, but its not proportional to them, because of the bend points.

> If you remove the cap on contribution and/or means test the receipt then that pretense is gone.

Means testing might arguably do that in theory (except that it empirically doesn't in practice, as SS is, in fact, already means-tested via the rules for taxability), but how does removing the contribution cap so long as further contributions above the old cap still contribute to the benefit calculation?
That comment was directed at any readers who clicked on this interested in a more private cloud offering comparable to dedicated servers in isolation. I clicked it hoping for something like that. Every similar link on private clouds was something like Cloudron or a hybrid cloud that scaled up using something like Cloudron. It was all virtualization.

So, far from a gripe at Cloudron, this second comment is for HN readers who were looking for what I was looking for. Also found the appropriate buzzword ("bare metal") to help them find comparable offerings. Far as Cloudron, the co-founder already helpfully told me what their goals/market were, they made sense, and I wished them well on that. That I had nothing more to say on that tangent is why I made a separate comment for bare-metal, cloud hosting.
Just to give a little motivation, the first is changing your titles on a terminal when you use man, less or vi...so instead of having 5 terminals open all with the same cryptic title of "someuser@somehost - Terminal" you can actually tell which man page is which (pretty good, I think)

The second is how to install a local wiki on your box. It's a great way to access local docs, keep notes for projects, etc. My example uses MediaWiki but Docuwiki also works. Check the pictures I posted and you can see a good example of its use.

Anyway, hope someone finds this helpful ;-)
I use chrome as a on-demand flash player when needed, and hands down, the DevTools are excellent.

But other than that... I switched to safari a few months ago and after a little "learning curve" I love it. Scrolling is butter smooth, performance is perceived really good, the UI is minimal (I don't use bookmarks anymore), and handoff or pinching for a tab overview is great for me. uBlock and Ghostery are really mandatory today for a convenient browsing experience and are available for safari, too.

What's really missing: favicons in tabs, pinned tabs and a dark mode for the window chrome, that matches the dark menu bar in yosemite. AFAIK, favicons+pinned tabs are coming with el capitan.

Just my 0.02$
Great, but only if can switch. The poll answers aren't particularly inclusive.
I think you are onto something there. I feel like it usually is the C-level exec that feels he can out perform both the advisor's models and the market in general.
> ~$300/mo mortgage for a small rural house in the middle of nowhere

How's the internet access out there?
> OS-wide incognito mode

Great point...

Where's that utopian future where we bounce between a dozen purpose-built VMs, each customized to the task we're doing?
Most startups fail pretty quickly. It seems reasonable to me.
>Well that fact that you and your buddies are busy down voting me speaks for itself...

There's a reason this is in the HN guidelines.

I'd just like to note I'm not their buddies and specifically downvoted you because:

1. You're repeating yourself.

2. You're not being realistic about what it takes to write a complicated programming project.

3. You're not really being clear what about their crowdfunding position 'stinks' besides that crowdfunding is commonly used to fund scams (and even that I got through inference).
Some numbers:

The current water rate for NYC is $3.81/hcf. For sewage, $6.06/hcf.

The current water rate for LA is $5.23/hcf. For sewage, about $4.23/hcf.

One "hcf" is 100 cubic feet, or about 748 gallons.

Hopefully, the water sprayed from the hydrant is treated before being released. Most groundwater in LA is treated unless the rain overwhelms the treatment facility. This implies that in either case, the cost is about $10/hcf.

This would be one way to put a price on running water -- and to me, it implies that this counts as "waste".

Sources:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwaterboard/html/rate_schedule/ind...

https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/ladwp/aboutus/a-financesan...
And what secrets are those? If you think that you are secure because you don't use bitlocker or windows AND THAT'S ALL that you do...you aren't secure, you just have bad UI.
Country's missile man and ex-president late APJ Kalam's funeral today. Whole country mourns his death. He was a muslim.

Diversity is a strength. Yes people take advantage of it but India has always come out stronger as a nation after each tragedy.
Just regarding that "context": Clarkson never used the word "nigger" in show, let alone made a play with it. But depending on context, I think it might be okay.

However, publicly calling Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot" certainly was intentionally offensive, which you can conclude from the Royal National Institute of Blind People being offended by the comparison, the Scots being offended by the comparison, and the association of idiots probably being somewhere trying to prepare a statement about being offended. Guilty as charged.
When dot com companies failed, their work was thrown away or sold for pennies on the dollar to companies who ignored it. Decentralized systems built on Ethereum are forces of nature: they don't get shut down and don't depend on any group in particular for their functions.

Some products might be too early, but they'll just keep running with their small user bases until the market is ready. Companies should proceed with caution, but individuals who want to make an impact should start today.
I don't really buy that any particular ratios are more or less aesthetically pleasing. Seems like designer received wisdom.
Can you cite a source that describes that freedom?
Nope. The default browser can no longer be changed anywhere but the system preferences, applications can not set themselves as default.

Been that way for a couple months in technical preview builds, with even first party software (OneNote desktop vs modern) continuing to ask if you want to set it as default, followed by a system popup telling you to use the Settings app.
I don't think it's FUD at all. asm.js is legitimately a more practical approach to the problem than NaCl, which is tied to the Pepper API. You can go back to the conversations on the plugin-futures mailing list in which everybody except Google was in agreement as to what should have been done instead of PPAPI; Google went with PPAPI anyway, sealing NaCl's fate with regards to adoption. Nowadays, we have Web Assembly, which Google and Mozilla are both working on, and which combines the best of both worlds. As for ES language improvements, I don't see at all how extending the existing language constitutes "bloat" over having two incompatible VMs. It's strictly less bloat, because you don't throw more VMs into the browser.
There's an OS project run by Joanna Rutkowska and some other folks called Qubes that does exactly that. It's really interesting work by sharp people.

https://www.qubes-os.org/
US Navy will field 100 kilowatt lasers and ten shot per minute railguns by 2020
Nothing less is expected from the desperate gang called Amazon.
I tried to change careers once, going back to school to go into medicine. Took a semester off to help a buddy with a software development project and make some cash, and never went back. While that says more about me in general than what you're talking about, for me it was a matter of finding problems I cared more about (in my case I was writing public health software) and teams I enjoyed working with. I'm certainly in no position to judge your skillset, but say above that you feel comprable to a senior Google engineer (the relative merit of that being a whole 'nother topic!) yet you mention in another thread you have a sense of trepidation about reading code, working on only new projects, and you rarely feel satisfied with your non-trivial code. To me this suggests perhaps some room for growth as well. I had a great deal of the same feelings about my own code (even to this day on occasion) but i've developed much better elegance to my code as well as an ability to shrug the lack of elegance off as a necessary evil sometimes.

I gave up on the medicine thing because as much as I love the field of biology and human health, the lab experience wasn't so much better than coding that it would have changed my life, nor the practice of medicine so financially rewarding it would have compensated for opportunity cost as a reasonably well-paid developer. I've found that my career's had up and down cycles but overall I'm very fortunate to be in this line of work. You might as well, but I don't think you're crazy to want to leave the field either.

Whatever you end up doing, best of luck to you in the endeavor!
Thanks thyselius! As I said, this was my first shot at building a web site and it was suggested that I post it here once it reached MVP status. But what I'm learning (and not just from your comment) is that people want to see more flash! I'm thinking I need to implement some sort of carousel on the landing page so it doesn't look so stark -- or something like that! Like I mentioned in my first post. The breadcrumb links at the top of the page are accessible (without creating an account) for anyone interested in what the page is about and how it works. I'm not sure what more I can do. Yes, It's a lot of reading but the first paragraph covers the gist. Thanks again! I really appreciate the feedback!
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Move your office to the seaside. Right now
Analyzing Vita Themes and creating custom ones
One of the forced updates in W10 disabled overclocking of g3258 on chipsets not blessed by Intel.

http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=441&title=kb3064...

You have a choice of bios that lets you overclock but W10 will only work on one core, or bios that takes away overclocking and works with forced patch.
At least with W7/8 you can block this particular update.
Most other people don't spend hours and hours in front of camera trying to come up with material that can be brought together to a funny show with lots of jokes.
I don't mean to attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence, I'm just saying it's a huge dick move regardless of whether they did it on purpose.

You'd have to ask someone inside MS if you want to know what they were thinking.
New Yorkers Love Uber. But Is Uber Good for New York?
Yeah, I haven't been happy with them. Luckily it's just the "marketing site" that uses it, not the actual backend server.
Slow but available. There's a lot of empty land if you aren't picky about where you live...
The goal of the tax is not redistribution of wealth. The goal is to fund the benefits. The tax is capped because the benefits are capped.
Only until it's locked down and killed for 20 years.
Like Oakland. Can get to SF by BART if needed.
>“You can paint a single sea creature of your choice on each of these canvases, with one condition. I would like to see a picture of an eel when I move my gaze vertically or horizontally. So there must be at least one eel in the vertical column and at least one in the horizontal row.”

It does not mention each canvas must be a unique sea creature - merely that it must be single (one sea creature per canvas). I'd paint an eel on every single canvas, out of laziness.

Introducing a bet to not paint in the corner means I would paint on 5 canvases, not including the corner piece. This changes what I am predicting though by skewing my decision. It's asking a completely different question. As catbird pointed out, this is like asking the probability of flipping a coin. Then asking what if you knew the coin was biased to always land on heads and you placed a bet with a friend about the result being heads or tails, what would you vote?

The probability is 1 in 6. Their are 6 canvases and only a single corner piece. When introducing the bet, do we assume you want to win $2 over paying $1 100% of the time? If so the probability turns from 1/6 to 0/6 - as the artist, in their best interest, would never paint an eel in the corner.

The probabilities of 1/4 and 1/3 are asking different questions. It's no longer asking if the piece is a corner piece but whether it is at a specific end of a row or column.

It's extremely naive because it doesn't say which end of the row or column forms the L with the column or row. Therefore both ends are valid and it would be 2/4 and 2/3 because the eel could be at either end and still form an L.

So it's 0/1, 1/6, 1/3, 1/4, 2/4, and 2/3 depending on the actual question being asked.
Congrats! I think there is some awesome opportunity in this space. Best of luck!
You never heard him talk about the French?

(Or Germans, for that matter.)
Except there hasn't really been. If you look at their graph of wealth by age for all cohorts, the younger ones are actually ahead of the older ones up until the 2008 recession hits; and yeah, they drop after that, but then resume climbing. The effect does not look drastic unless you cherry pick a few years to focus on.
The license agreement should be set up such that installing a bitcoin miner is not allowed despite not being explicitly mentioned. Same for key logging.

Companies need to get out of the habit of writing terms of service that permit the world.
Landlords deliver value by managing and providing a physical space to work in, but when the landlords have lobbies and use their political power to artificially restrict the supply of space and jack up the prices to no end, then it is evil.

The landlords are therefore parasitizing the economy.

Although this article is about commercial space, residential space is just as outrageously priced. I think there should be three things that should never be allowed to be artificially restricted just for the greed of a few: food, water and housing.

Here's a good Economist article on this: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21647622-land-centre-...
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9970033
Check out my edit, they seem to have moved from the system popup you talk about to just opening up the Settings app for you to the right UI, so it's not as great as the one click experience that was there before, but not as bad as having you do all the work.
Your sarcasm is entertaining, but the big difference is that while neither company/product is perfect, Microsoft still essentially owns the desktop with Windows. While Mozilla's Firefox is just one among several choices of web browser, currently #3 in the rankings.

It is extremely easy to switch web browser. It is not easy to switch OS. On a Windows machine, if you are savvy enough, you can install Linux, but otherwise, you need to buy a Mac in order to avoid Windows. And you need to learn a lot in order to drop Windows (easy for us here on HN, hard for 99% of people).

It's fine if you dislike some of Mozilla's decisions with Firefox. People have complained and in fact Mozilla has changed some decisions following that criticism. But the situation is just not comparable to Microsoft with Windows.

For that reason, I don't see a point to diverting the conversation. The topic here is Windows 10.
True it might be misguided for Ethereum, but I meant my comment to be taken in the context of other distributed crypto tech being worked out. It was more a criticism of the blockchain. Surely we can find some middle ground for a "web-of-trust" between a few nodes and everyone. I think maidsafe settled on 32...I forget, and I don't know enough to know the dangers there.

But yes, I realize that for storage it is ideal to use another service, I just fear normal developers inability to tie the two safely...frameworks like Embark do seem help there (though I find IPFS too slow for my stateful needs).
While I disagree with some of your sentiment, I can't help but scratch my head at some of their decisions. Extensions are coming later, but the OneNote drawing thing is shipped first? Huh? It just doesn't make sense (nor does it work all the time, but that's more of a bug issue and not a decisions issue).
Has anyone done the analysis at which point the higher rents and labor costs outweigh the benefits of access to low cost capital? At some point it makes no sense to start a new business in the SF area even when taking into account access to investors.
That's a delightful observation. Is the book worth reading?
Change your feelings. It's much easier than changing how HN works or what peeps on HN do.
Having businesses that are built just to explain software is not a sign of failure, it is a sign of success. Microsoft Windows has the same and no one could say that they were not a success for over two decades. It means that WordPress has "crossed the chasm" into the "early majority."
About WebSQL
Firefox already had (and still has) Sqlite dependency (it is uses for bookmarks, history, ...) it is not the issue. The problem is that the Web SQL standard states "User agents must implement the SQL dialect supported by Sqlite 3.6.19." [0] which made agents rely on a outdated dependency and non standard (sqlite is not SQL ansible compatible) SQL. A nightmare for Web standards. They made the right (and hard) choice.

NaCl isn't portable (Mozilla is working on Web Assembly)

Dart excerpt taken from Dart FAQ; question: "Will the Dart VM get into Chrome?" response: "No. Dart is designed to compile to JavaScript to run across the modern web, and the dart2js compiler is a top priority for the team." [1]

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/#web-sql

[1] https://www.dartlang.org/support/faq.html#q-will-the-dart-vm...
"Modern Portfolio Theory, Efficient Market Theory, and Capital Asset Pricing Model espoused by the world's leading financial economists" is also a fantastic lie. Who are these world leading financial economists? The worlds best investors believe such theories are pure nonsense. The best minds in finance do not believe in MPT, EMT or CAPM. Pure garbage written by people with physics envy.
I just don't think that's an accurate picture. They aren't recording your voice and storing it somewhere. Browsing and search history are collected by other platforms for predictive browse ahead and autocomplete, and it's a useful feature. App usage is collected for diagnostic purposes.

You don't have to use a MS account. You can use a local account. 10 is different from windows 8 in that regard. You can take Cortana off the taskbar. Use a different browser in incognito mode all the time. Store your encryption keys in a TPM, smartcard, or Active Directory. There are actually lots of options. You have to actually look into it though.
> Maybe Amazon email addresses

Even if a user registered with an Amazon email address, what does that prove? That an Amazon employee used Angie's List?

As justboxing mentioned, it's completely possible that it was used by Amazon employees for personal use.

> CC's belonging to employees of Amazon

I want to say that's really unlikely. That would mean that there's a database of credit card numbers associated with their owner's employer, which would be troubling on multiple levels.
I mean, if you wanted to be sure you wouldn't get caught with your mistress, you basically would have to wear a bag on your head, no? Or at least her meet her indoors. You certainly wouldn't complain about invasion of privacy when your wife's friend sees you with the mistress on a date.
My girls are 7 & 9 and they've been using Microsoft Accounts.

Well, maybe Child Protective Services should be involved? They intervene when children walk home alone from the park, perhaps they'll start to intervene when children are raised to use Microsoft products? http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parents...

Just kidding, of course. But my daughters are now 14 and 17 and I don't think they know how to use Microsoft products. We've been on OS X for about 10 years.

So maybe CPS should investigate me? Am I doing my kids a dis-service by not exposing them to the dominant OS?
This is why I've always shied away from working with governments. In a previous life I was with a small, successful startup that wanted to sell to the Federal government. After researching it, we learned that getting on the approved vendor list would be a massive effort (relative to our available resources), so we ultimately decided not to tackle it.

I suspect the reason so many government web sites suck is that those contractors "core competence" is navigating the byzantine purchasing process. Being able to write good code is far down the list of qualifications.
How would you fix WebSQL? Writing a from-scratch implementation of SQLite seems like the only option, and I don't think Mozilla had the resources for that at the time.

I agree the situation sucks, but I'm not sure how to fix it even today.