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You could just turn off all studies in Firefox. It's a simple option:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/shield#w_to-opt-out-of-...

If you're wondering what OSMC is:

> OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Linux. Founded in 2014, OSMC lets you play back media from your local network, attached storage and the Internet. OSMC is the leading media center in terms of feature set and community and is based on the Kodi project.

https://osmc.tv/about/

Maybe it could if Google didn't own so much of the web and it's surrounding ecosystem. I'm not aware of any challenger to Chrome in the browser space.

I'm sad too but the reality is Firefox is being slowly smothered by Chrome's ubiquity. Only a tiny minority of Web developers test on anything other than Chrome and mobile safari.

Firefox is my favourite browser, I use it every day but I often have to work around bugs in websites caused by this lack of testing. I think Microsoft don't have a choice if they want their browser to be popular it has to just work and the only way that is possible is basically for it to be Chrome.

The only thing they have going for them is:

* They have the most popular operating system in the world

* They have the most popular browser in the world

* They have the most popular search engine in the world

* They have the most popular advertising network in the world

* They have the most popular video platform in the world

* They have the most popular mapping software in the world

* They have the third most popular cloud platform in the world

It seems to me that they're doing at least something right

As pointed out later in this thread you can now buy a support plan that allows you to file tickets directly from Google [1].

Unfortunately it starts at $100 per user per month and that tier won't get you a number to call, just a ticketing system, and in my experience response times are in a minimum of hours. For actual production systems you're going to want the $250 per user per month option that gives you a number to call.

> I really like the product that Google has - but they are running a cloud service like a b2c service. When it should be run like a b2b service.

I couldn't agree more with you about this. A lot of people love to knock Azure and AWS but their support, in my experience, is in a completely different league to GCP.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/support/#support-options

Although it's horribly expensive this is a desktop computer that I would actually love to own, I feel the same way about the Surface Studio as I used to feel about the iMac although it's closer to the pricing of an iMac pro.

Unfortunately I just can't justify the $5k pricetag, is there anything out there that offers a similar touch & pen enabled, all in one format?

The article actually mentions Fakespot [1] which has a chrome extension as well as ReviewMeta [2] which as far as I can tell doesn't. Neither do exactly what you're asking but they seem quite useful from a quick investigation and highlight some of the issues highlighted in the article when you look at the linked product.

[1] https://www.fakespot.com/

[2] https://reviewmeta.com/

You are very right, I apologise for being very wrong. I would delete my comment but I think it's best to leave it.

How come the title of the submission doesn't match the title of the post, is that intentional?

Title of the actual linked article is 'A Web Design Crash Course: From one non-designer to another' which makes a lot more sense to me.

>> Here you describe NATO as a hostile force but it's clear that the countries joining NATO were wise to do so as a defense against a hostile Russia.

> The cause and the effect. 'hostile Russia' is a result of NATO expansion (among other things), not vice versa. From Russia's perspective it was not wise from NATO to accept those wise countries, expecially considering NATO had an aggrement with Russia on this part.

The argument that Russia is just defending itself against hostile expansion rather falls down when you count the number of countries that are members of NATO who have been the victim of Russian expansion (0) compared to the number that are not a member of NATO who have been the victim of aggression (more than 0). That rather implies that being a NATO member protects you from Russian invasion and explains the desire, for every country that can, to join NATO.

>> Perhaps the Russian state should focus on addressing those issues instead of invading and trying to destabilise other countries.

>Usually you have to deal with both internal and external issues at the same time.

Perhaps but Russia does not appear to be dealing with the internal issues which is my point.

St Petersburg is well within NATO artillery range from Finland is your argument that Russia should annex Finland or that Finland shoud not be a member of NATO?

My argument is that the only reason Russia supports the Assad regime is for the benefit of its only foreign naval base. I don't claim that there is any malicious intent on the United States as far as that action is concerned.

I was addressing two separate points, the effect of liberal democracy on Russia and the NATO expansion being treated as a threat. I probably should have made that more clear.

Russia supports the Syrian regime because it contains the only Russian overseas naval base [1]. This is the same reason Russia anexed Crimea, which is now conveniently a Russian naval base.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_naval_facility_in_Tart...

> But from Russia's perspective, why should it fully trust the West that was so recently its enemy, and when the attempted adoption of liberal democracy and capitalism in the 90s failed so spectacularly (Russia's GDP fell by a full 50% and life expectancy dropped by years

You say this is because of the failure of liberal democracy and capitalism but your citation says it was most likely caused by:

"rising poverty rates, unemployment, financial insecurity, and corruption"

Perhaps the Russian state should focus on addressing those issues instead of invading and trying to destabilise other countries.

> Not trying to shill or defend Russia's invasion of Crimea or Ukraine here, but if you just look at the map of a formerly hostile alliance moving steadily eastward and you were Russia, would you really just throw up your hands and say 'yes, that is how the world should be' and tacitly accept it?

Here you describe NATO as a hostile force but it's clear that the countries joining NATO were wise to do so as a defense against a hostile Russia.

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We're funded and profitable and currently scaling out our team in beautiful Budapest, Hungary. We are currently recruiting for the following roles:

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Bitrise (YC W17) is a Continuous Integration and Delivery platform focusing on mobile development. We help developers to automate their every-day tasks so they can go back to building great apps and have more time for their ideas. We'd like to create an ecosystem for software developers which they can use to build, test and distribute their apps in a way that it feels natural and fun. We take being open very seriously and we love to automate everything!

We're funded and profitable and currently scaling out our team in beautiful Budapest, Hungary. We are currently recruiting for the following roles:

Marketing

- Head of Growth

Engineering

- Senior Backend Engineer

- Senior Frontend Engineer

- Senior Tooling Engineer

- Junior Tooling Engineer

- Technical Support Engineer

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If you know it's uncalled for and frowned upon then please don't do it, you're just making HN worse for everyone.

I've been working on Fructika https://fructika.com for the last few months as a little side project. It's an app that helps you manage your fructose consumption (my partner suffers from fructose malabsorption).

It's cool because it makes her life better and I've had some great feedback from other people trying to manage their intake of sugars about how it makes their lives easier :)

So it looks like one of two things has happened:

1) The British government have built AI tech capable of identifying extremist views in any video at the incredibly low price of £600000, doing what no other technology company in the world is capable of.

2) A smart consulting company has convinced the British government to waste £600000 on building a model that can flag certain videos from a very specific training set but in real world use is horribly innacurate and completely useless.

I'm a bit baffled by how you think turning kilograms into decigrams is 'a right royal pain', multiplying by 10000 seems pretty simple to me.

The rather awesome, cross-platform, Microcharts (https://github.com/aloisdeniel/Microcharts) is built on top of SkiaSharp.

Sorry about that, Ghost was applying some weird styling to the table. Should be fixed now :)

The support period for an iPhone is at least 3 years of regular patches and feature updates. Most Android phones on the market will have a 'support period' of 12 months if you're lucky. My point is that the roll-out of updates to Android is unacceptably poor and inconsistent and relies on optimism on the part of the user.

The use of the word hopelessly was probably unnecessarily dramatic I agree but I'll leave it there so your comment makes sense.

I have a HTC 10, a flagship device that's barely a year old the fact that I now have to wait a couple a months for a patch to what is clearly a critical vulnerability is just ridiculous. The fact that anyone without a flagship device should now throw that phone away because it will probably never be patched is despicable.

I totally agree with your hope that this will kick both the manufacturers and Google in the butt enough to get something done about this. I don't like our chances though!

As an Android user is there any mitigation for this other than ditching my handset and switching to an iPhone or waiting (hopelessly) for a patch from my vendor.

This really does highlight the absolute disaster zone that the Android handset market has become as far as updates are concerned. I'm sure the Pixels will get a fix relatively quickly but almost every other Android user is going to be left in security limbo.

You could turn on Private Listening[0] at work, that way the boring background music won't affect your suggestions.

[0] https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/the_basics/how-...

While I know that there's not a lot of love out there for Microsoft OSes I'm pretty sad to be left to choose between the one true hardware/software combination from Apple or the wild west of the Android world.