skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting target=_blank is almost always a bad idea anyway. Typically marketers ask for it to prevent users from leaving your domain when clicking a link to an external domain; the thinking being they will remain on our site longer if we force a new window on them.

Testing has shown that this doesn't work in practice, and instead achieves the opposite: the user in confused as to why they are in a new window, and it's harder for them to return to your domain. The user is confused by the ostensible "pop-up" (that they associate with ads) that has opened, and the Back button no longer returns them to our domain, breaking with their expected behavior.

Users know how to open links in new tabs/windows if they want to. In testing at the places I've worked target=_blank only hurts conversions. Personally I run a plugin that strips it from all links.
That’s a bit … vague. I mean, Fx Dev Tools has a grid visualisation that’s much better than anyone else’s, so that’s better UI right there.
AVGO and yes most expected Qualcomm to reject the offer to solicit superior ones. This isn't news to anyone, but rather a formality.
> maybe it is trivial to distinguish prints made on a surface from those in the structure of the surface

I believe it is. Fingerprints left on a surface are made with oils from the skin and are "lifted" off by applying a substance that sticks to it and literally lifting the print off the surface.
Nothing can beat Chrome in being the fastest to become unusable when opening many tabs ;)
It's crazy that, after 20 years, web standards people still haven't realized that the server is the user's enemy. Back in the 90s, this was demonstrated by popups, which eventually got mostly fixed in most browsers. Now we have this new pop-under mechanism, currently marked as WONTFIX, which will get slowly mitigated over the next few years. Window.opener and target=_blank are obvious avenues of abuse that would never have been added if web people had learned anything over the past couple of decades.
And once you understand it you can't see how you didn't understand it before.
I've found something similar. Kanban boards have probably made me more effective, but more than that, they've made work a lot more enjoyable by helping me limit the number of open projects at once.
according to the internet the browsers are comparable with html ability. that's good because it wasnt when the one browser with a monopoly was completely website technology incapable. unreal

chrome is still the most internet capable though. but saying that is kind of not important anymore since chrome is only a little more internet capable than other browsers
Well, there is per-field lazyness (with the ability to opt out). So product types can let each consumer choose which parts of the result to actually evaluate and discard the rest.
A perfect compiler would compile natural languages to computer instructions.

AKA the real "sudo make me a better facebook".
One extension I don't find a replacement for is Hide caption titlebar plus. It makes it so there's a permanent title bar even when Firefox is maximized. I had to change an xfce setting to hide the title bar when a window is maximized, meaning I lose the title bar for every application... Not ideal. Does anyone know if there is an argument to launch firefox without a title bar? Or set it in xfce for only one application?
The Mozilla Foundation IS a non-profit, with Mozilla Corporation as a wholly-owned subsidiary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation
Seems Reddit is taking measures about?

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/7cddyo/whats_...
That’s simply incorrect. I founded a company that raised a mammoth seed round in Silicon Valley (not $8m but more than $3m), and we do pay some high salaries, but Apple and Facebook still pay salaries that are much, much higher.

Critical employees have joined us while taking $100,000/yr pay cuts, despite. Having a salary in the six figures.

To think that startups can play that game of “equity doesn’t matter” is just wrong, even in an era of $8m seed rounds. I know HN likes to say “go for cash not stock,” which is a good way to negotiate if you want to avoid downside risk, but if you eliminate stock compensation there’s no way startups can play ball with incumbents. Full stop.
Stable Firefox 57.0 is already available on Mozilla's FTP server: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/57.0/

I am already using it, but had to reinstall uBlock Origin.
The scary side of biometric security
Anyone know exactly what "Performance Units" are, and if they would fall under this?
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But who would manage this federal portfolio?
They happen to make good games.
> Outside of just a big FU from the Republicans to largely Democratic states what is the end game?

I would bet that this is the end game. The entire tax plan seems targeted at "blue states," which already pay more Federal taxes per capita than "red states" when adjusted for Federal inflows.

At some point people will start asking: "why should we remain part of the USA? What do we get from Washington?"

I would not be surprised if the USA were to fragment by mid-century. The level of regional polarization we have today is unprecedented since perhaps the civil war.

Edit: I have a friend who's a little bit conspiracy inclined who thinks there's an agenda to fragment the USA. I find it hard to totally dismiss this notion given how politics is being played. There is definitely a far-right agenda to fragment the EU, so it's not an absurd notion.
> Am I just remembering incorrectly, or haven't they already declared "we're as fast as Chrome now" several times in the past.

https://arewefastyet.com/ refers specifically and only to Firefox's javascript engine. It runs js benchmarks only, not whole websites, and doesn't test responsiveness or rendering performance.

Javascript performance in firefox has been on par with competing browsers for a while now. The current initiative, called Quantum, is complementary to this effort. It is supposed to make the rest of the browser components fast, using among other things a new renderer, a CSS styling engine, and multiprocessing support.
And they need to work better in general. I use dev edition which has a much better UI (it's pretty much Chrome) but it's much slower and has weird bugs - if you disable sourcemaps, it won't let you inspect sources, because sourcemaps is null.
In theory, GTD is great.

In practice, it comes up short in several ways.

TLDR - For some years now, I use a system called Agile Results [1]. It's a method (with less marketing behind it than GTD) which has been gaining traction for a lot of good reasons. I couldn't be happier with it.

I won't get into the details, but its biggest edge against GTD is the flexibility.
With Agile Results, you can let go for a couple of hours or days, and the system doesn't fall apart, it's more organic.
It's oriented towards Results in several domains of life, in a balanced way. The manner in which it breaks down the hierarchy of projects, temporal horizons and relative importance of tasks is the real key.
It solves the same problems as GTD (eg, your mind is for thinking not remembering [of course, you can still incorporate spaced repetition for what you want to remember long term]).
But it solves them in a way which is more organic, focused and iterative. If you only implement a portion of it, it has the proportional benefits - it's not all or nothing.
It also lets you integrate parts of other productivity systems.

There's a book about it [1], and a 30 day program to getting started incrementally [2].

I realize it sounds like hyperbole, but, after some years using it, I consider the problem of productivity essentially solved.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Results-Agile-Way-Personal/dp...

[2] http://www.30daysofgettingresults.com/

[3]http://www.asianefficiency.com/agile-results/
It’s just mentioned as an aside in this article, but the work the Mono team is doing on WebAssembly is super exciting. Can’t wait to start messing with it.
It's already taxed whenever they exercise.
Don't extend life...we discovered these things because we are older and older. I don't think that the solution is getting older. Don't know why I'm always getting down vote too. Life and his mystery.
Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to imply it was a marketing site. But there was marketing surrounded it, and I distinctly remember it being used to show that they were, indeed, as fast as the other browsers. I remember a narrative being that the problem wasn't Firefox being slow, but FF being slow in certain perceived-speed areas (like new tab speed).

That's why I find these sorts of announcements confusing, I can remember them saying that there are already as fast as Chrome several times in the past. But maybe my mind is playing tricks on me.
> It does not matter whether Apple Face ID "learns" new images of the face, since it will not affect the truth that Apple Face ID is not an effective security measure.

They are saying the question is moot.

> However, we knew about this "learning"

but they are going to answer the question regardless

> thus, to give a more persuasive result, we applied the strict rule of "absolutely no passcode" when crafting the mask.

They ensured that the mask didn't get integrated into Apple's learning data by never entering the pin. The understanding is that whenever a failed face scan is followed by a correct pin, the face scan is added to learning data (since the assumption is it belongs to the legit user).
My RSUs have always been taxed on vest -- what am I missing?
Your Apple analogy might be quite apt. Mac has a market-share of something like 14%, but that's not Apple failing, that's Apple succeeding in targeting the expensive end of the market.

Firefox has a chance at doing the same thing with privacy-aware users and/or power users.

To that end, they need to stop dumbing-down the browser and endlessly playing catch-up with Chrome.
Curious to see how this plays out with Microsoft investing in cross-platform development with .NET Core and .NET Standard.

The consequences of having multiple competing cross-platform options are already evident when using tools like intellisense in VS Code where you can (or used to be able to) switch between Mono and .NET Core runtimes and certain libraries were only compatible with one. And then there are build tools like Paket which currently only support Mono even though Paket itself can provision .NET Core runtimes.
I don’t quite follow how this is different. When I got rsu’s at my former company they sold a bunch at every vest date to pay for taxes. Isn’t that the same as what they’re talking about here?
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try it: http://www.hitchhiker-api.com/

Hitchhiker Api is a Restful Api integrated testing tool that support Schedule, Response comparsion, Stress Test, support upload js file to hook request, easy to deploy it in your local server. It make easier to manage Api with your team.
How many? I typically have 2 windows with ~30-50 tabs opened in each of them. No problem at all, never was.
http://www.morbo.org/2017/11/linux-sandboxing-improvements-i...
So far, Chrome has better sandboxing support on most platforms (especially Linux), though Chrome's catching up quickly.

I'm generally optimistic about Rust code having fewer exploitable defects, although it's a reasonable argument to suggest that the previous C++ parts had a lot more public scrutiny.

Also, for me personally: I use a lot of different profiles and using multiple Firefox profiles simultaneously is a mess. The only UX that still works is about:profiles (all of the profile switcher extensions broke since the move to WebExtensions) and I've had Firefox beachball (hang -- I'm on macOS) on me twice while doing that.

Don't get me wrong! I love Firefox and I'm really excited about this change.
I'm waiting for full switch to Webrender and as result GPU accelerated video decoding on Linux and switch to Wayland at last.
Just one word of advice: be careful :) It's highly addictive.
There's so much inaccuracy in your comment that I feel needs to be addressed.

> Vesting has the unique property that before it occurs the shares are not yours and after it occurs, they clearly are (and can't be clawed back).

That's not correct. You're vesting 'options' i.e. the option to purchase shares at a certain price. Not shares. Even once you buy the options they are not easily liquidated.

> Nothing stops you from offering it. It's up to the potential employee to accept it, weighing the possible tax liability.

If it makes zero financial sense to anyone why would you offer it?

> In the vast majority of cases startup equity isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Paying their employee bonuses with cash would be a net win for their employees. The "losers" in this situation are established companies that arguably are already in a good position to pay out bonuses in cash (or at least include a cash component to cover taxes).

No, the losers in this situation are early stage startups, and employees who want to work at those companies and get rewarded in the potential upside. At an early stage startup there is no 'cash' to pay bonuses. Even if there was cash, equity comp is incredibly more valuable in a company that sees any kind of success. Clearly you're bearish on equity based comp, so be it, but it has been my experience that equity is the primary avenue people see any financial success in tech.

If any semblance of this gets passed into law, and it effects ISOs, I think it'll be the end of Silicon Valley as we know it.
Assuming that you are working with smart people, they follow you NOT because you read a leadership book and run some good leadership tactics on them. They follow you because they "choose" to believe that you know what you're doing in the context of your startup. Remember, they are smart people. And many smart people have strong bullshit detector.

People followed Bill Gates and Steve Jobs even though they were assholes not because they were "great leaders", but these smart people chose to believe that these founders had a great understanding of the landscape and can execute.

Therefore in my experience the most helpful books were those that gave me insights on how the world around us works since that helps with your world view. It's always great to have a higher level perspective.

For example, you could have looked at the chatbot fad last year and think that chatbots are the future, and went all in. Or you could have thought deeper into why the fad was taking place and work on a deeper problem. This type of ability is what attracts smart people to work with you.

This is only possible if you have a deeper understanding of the world. So read more philosophy and science books and more books that give you a better understanding of the world, than shallow business books.
> Right, which is where reasonable doubt comes into play: if the video was months ago it's completely reasonable to forget a password -- if it's two hours later they have a much tougher case to make about spontaneous amnesia.

You're confusing less likely with unreasonable.

A pass phrase long enough not to make the whole question irrelevant is hard to remember.

You may have it in short term memory until it gets displaced by "oh crap I need to hire an attorney and a bail bondsman and call my boss and explain this to my wife" type issues. You may be able to remember it sitting in a familiar environment surrounded by your stuff but not in a jail cell without any of those cues.

It's completely reasonable to forget something you knew five minutes ago. It happens all the time.

Haven't you ever walked into a room and been unable to remember why you did? And that isn't 128 bits worth of context-free random data.

> "Did you know she was under 18?"

> "No your honor, I forgot, it had been a few weeks since I saw her ID."

I'm not sure this is making the point you want it to. The real targets of statutory rape laws are pedophiles who rape eight year olds, and in those cases it isn't a question of memory. You may not have remembered whether the child was 8 or 9 but you couldn't reasonably have thought they were above the age of consent. Which is why nobody objects to putting those pedophiles in jail, or to the laws that make it happen.

It's the cases where there could be a legitimate confusion that create exactly this problem. You can't tell if someone is one year above or below the age of consent just by looking at them, which is why those cases are extremely controversial.

How is it absurd that you could forget someone's age? Do you know the exact age of everyone you've ever been to the birthday party of? You probably knew on the day of the party.
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I also learned to program in BASIC, but I learned by creating games on the TI-83+ graphing calculator. The limited nature of the platform led me to learn quite a lot in addition to the basics: performance optimization, garbage collection, matrices, lists, UX, maintainability, keyboard shortcuts, and how to read documentation.

Would I recommend this platform to someone else? Only if they needed to learn to program while pretending to do math homework.
I'm glad that it's happening, but at the same time I'm frustrated that it's taken 20+ years to adopt a limited subset of what Haskell had.
If you want to play a sim sports game (not a sports management sim though there's tons of those) or a Star Wars game EA is pretty much the only option because they have the licenses.
Ahah, not surprised. That game felt like a beta when it was released, I could not comprehend how they could release something like this. I only started getting back into gaming recently, and to my surprise, the issue of launching broken games seems to be industry practice. Battlefield 1 had so many issues, the new CoD:WW2 has so many issues. I stopped gaming a few years ago (last game was CoD:2), and I am shocked that the community endures this... but what is the alternative? Stop gaming?
I first encountered GTD in 2007. After about 8 years of trying, I finally accepted that GTD didn't work for me.

I think any workflow management has to be tailored to your personality. I digged that from the start and did not fall into the trap of being 100% David Allen compliant.

Some of my issues:

- My lists grow long. Way too long. I recall he suggests looking at the Someday/Maybe during the weekly review. That just overwhelmed me.

- Not enough attention is paid upon "upkeep". I know you're supposed to clean things out every week, but it was a lot of work, and mentally draining. David Allen did not seriously address cognitive load.

- I could never work out a system to handle "Waiting For" tasks. Managing it all on paper was impossible. And software never seemed to get it right.

- Although he talks about the 10000 ft view, etc - I felt he didn't give any real advice on looking at the bigger picture. GTD is an excellent way of focusing on minor projects while neglecting major ones. One needs to prioritize, and he just expects you to prioritize somehow.

Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head.

It definitely was not a waste of time, though. Some positives that came out of it:

- Not treating your Inbox as a TODO list

- Getting a filing cabinet (this paid dividends immediately)

- Making me learn more about org-mode customization in my attempts to implement GTD in it.

- Self knowledge about what works for me and what doesn't.

GTD is the flow that everyone goes through before encountering what works for them.

I later discovered the One Minute Todo List (http://www.michaellinenberger.com/TheOneMinuteTo-DoList-Eboo...). This filled in a lot of the gaps in GTD. His explanation of work stress in his book was very relevant to me.

However, even that didn't fully work for me, and I continue on my quest.

Lately, the thing I'm realizing one thing: As long as I don't control my inputs, nothing will work for me. Inputs are things like:

- Work my boss gives me

- RSS/Facebook/Twitter/News feeds

- Email

- Pretty much anything else that feeds into your TODO lists

Allowing a lot of stuff to get in to your inbox (GTD inbox, not email inbox) will make managing it much harder. Take a deep look at what category of items get in there, and start applying limits. I'm experimenting doing that with email by making incoming email based on whitelist only: If the sender's address is not in my whitelist, it will not show up in my inbox, and the the sender will get an email with instructions on how to get their quarantined email into my inbox (i.e. prove there is a human behind the email) as well as their email address in my whitelist.
Silicon Valley isn't the world. I think the reality is that a startup is often the "garage venture" or somewhere well below a well-funded startup. Most startups of the world don't have multi-million dollar seed funding, even many that do aren't paying 150k plus salaries.
This is pretty awful. It would kill the ability for startups to compete with large companies for top talent. There is no way startups can afford the salaries that Google, Facebook, etc. can offer.

It would also break the machine that mints new angel investors. A huge percentage of angel investors are people who got rich off options/stocks in growth companies.

This really seems explicitly anti-entrepreneurship and pro incumbent mega-corp.

Of course it also might have another (possibly unintended and not all bad) side effect: to drive startups out of Silicon Valley and other high salary high cost of living enclaves. A startup can offer very competitive salaries in many other places. Put a startup in Ohio or Michigan and $80-$100k can get you the best talent available on the local market... especially if you also offer much more interesting problems to work on than the enterprise salt mines that tend to dominate IT employment in those places.
While I'm pretty sure that Touch ID does have liveness sensing, that answer is nonsense. Nothing about capacitative touch requires liveness. You can manipulate a touchscreen with a hot dog.
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not true either, read up on past stories of skilled forgers of paper currency: their labor was surprisingly inexpensive.
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One thing that troubles me is why does a non profit open source browser buy premium offline ad space to promote itself? There's a huge "The new Firefox" ad in down-town Berlin.
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I think the way to look at this is as yet another attempt by dying but deep-pocketed industries to buy themselves a few more years of oxygen whilst their executives either retire and GTFO or they desperately pivot to the scary new age of Tech and AI that is already upon us.

IMO it's not partisan, it's just business.

further, this already happened once with AMT and Dotcom 1.0, leaving a bunch of rank and files with huge tax bills for profits they never actually reaped.
Lots of respect for Ryan. His ideas brought about major changes (for the better IMO) in both front-end and backend development.

It's hard to imagine a world without all of the tooling and frameworks that Node has brought about, even if has added an extra layer of complexity -- i.e. webpack.
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Been using FF consistently on OSX the last years, the improvements are really great - Kudos!

The various channels, like Quantum to stay on Beta, seem to have worked. Easy to understand as a user and hopefully helpful for the devs to gather important info. Plus a native dark theme, yay!

One thing that remains is performance of Youtube. For some reason HD videos start crushing the processor after a while. Chrome, Safari stay calm.