skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should mention that the accuracy is lower than the methods mentioned below.
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Ask HN: Way to stop click hijack
Hi all,

some sites (eg io9/jalopnik/gizmodo) hijack the default behavior of my clicks. Middle-clicking on a link should (Firefox) open the link in a new tab.
Some sites override this behavior and turn it into a simple click, ie the link is followed in the same tab.

How can I disable this behavior? Ideally a setting in FF, otherwise a bookmarklet would be great. An add-on feels excessive. My search-fu is really letting me down. Grateful for tips.

(PS, I already have bookmarklets for making all text black (ie resolving poor-contrast sites), another to be able to allow selecting text, yet another to allow pasting password into form. If you'd like one, I can paste them below.)
You're not on the most compact density though. That circle around the back button only appears on the "Normal" and "Touch" densities.

Right click the menu bar, hit "Customize", and you can change the density to "Compact" under the density dropdown at the bottom.
€600B and Counting: Why High-Tax Countries Let Tax Havens Flourish [slides]
I wasn't planning to go that broad, extending this outside IT would need serious research in HR mechanism for each of those categories. I'm not calming that that I know HR in IT but this project kind of evolved from my needs.
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Logitech has a bad track record when it comes to hardware that requires ongoing services. I was a Logitech Alert customer, and had nothing but problems with both the hardware and the software. Their power line adapters would take down my entire network. And the software was buggy to the point that it was unusable.

They've abandoned the line of products and a class action lawsuit is in process.
Lutron’s wireless offerings work off local ISM bands. No cloud required.
But personalization can also work against you.
If for instance Google wants to favour one political candidate over another they could "personalize" your search results by boosting positive sentiment articles and filter out those with negative sentiment towards that candidate. And since Google search is still viewed as fairly objective it could have massive impact, and since it's personalized it's very hard to detect.

https://www.wired.com/2015/08/googles-search-algorithm-steal...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39938599
You caught me exaggerating! :-) My phone can actually put together 3 messages. (Not that I use Twitter.)
I’d never really entertained the notion that there might be earlier forms of writing, and if they existed, what form they might be expected to take. This is a really fascinating issue. Maybe we’ll find scribbles that resemble Linear-A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A) all over the inside of this hidden space. Wouldn’t that be exciting, even if we couldn’t read it?!
The argument is that the focus is on the companies when the problem lies within rule-making. We cannot expect entities to obey rules that aren't there, whether these entities are individuals or companies.

The distinction has to be made between what is lawful and what is moral. The law is a system that we all have to comply to (which may or may not be perceived as moral), morals are subjective and built on experience, environment, etc. Laws are often made with current/major moral views in mind.

Tax evasion is clearly perceived as not moral, but it's lawful. We cannot expect companies (or individuals) to obey moral rules, since it's kinda unsolvable (morals being subjective). On the other hand, we can expect them to obey law.

Again, focusing on companies in this case is pointless and unproductive, no matter how shocking it is. Governments like to criticize tax evasion, but they are the only ones who could do something about it. We have to go after them.
>In nearly every subfield of computing, along nearly every metric, most people would kill for a 20% improvement

I doubt it. 20% is not even worth to turn a straightforward algorithm to a more complex and convoluted (but more performant) one, or to switch backend technology, or db store, etc.

As for a "20% faster processor"? Big deal, I was raised in an era when we got 2x faster processors every 2 years.

(Besides, we do have processors that are 20% faster than others, and they don't "dominate" the market, even at the same price range some might go for perceived quality stability -- e.g Intel vs AMD, over the small speed increase).

>And yes, a website reduced by 20% is significant.

To whom? It's as if people never heard of opportunity cost.

Just go measure how many websites, even leading ones, go to any great measure to reduce such bloat, and you'll find that it's not that significant in the real world. Up to a point, of which 20% is not even close, you can be bloated without punishment in the modern web.
It'll be used for private messages, I assume. I guess the rules aren't as strict there.
This is one reason I don't want to buy into a single IoT thing which depends on a cloud-component in order to work.

Because those are not things you buy to own. Those are things you rent and which only keep working as long the owner is willing to keep them running.
FWIW, when I met Paul Dix a few months ago, he had nothing but good to say about the new Prometheus. They released this blog post shortly after our meeting:

https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-now-supports-promet...

I wouldn't see them as competitors so much as complimentary. Influx is really going for the long term tsdb storage, whereas prometheus is more shorter term with higher resolutions and alerting.
Firefox stable is v56, Beta v57, Nightly v58+. Next week, Stable will be v57, Beta v58 and Nightly v59.

v57 is a vast improvement over v56. Can't really say about Chrome because I haven't used it for a while. Main difference between v57 and v58 (performance-wise) is that WebRender (the "Quantum Renderer") didn't make it to v57, so you may want to wait for Beta v58.

I've been using the beta channel for years now, it was better than Stable for my browsing habits -- never had an issue.
Tesla's competitors are so great at making electric cars...in theory.
>If you have "experience" but have never felt the need to dig a little deeper now would be a great time to do so.

Talk about getting priorities wrong!

How deep does one dig in? How long? Is it time well spent? With software it can be a rabbit hole and it is prudent only to dig deep enough to get the work done reasonably well. One can certainly debate how 'resonable' one should be, but that's besides the point.

Now if I were to dig in 'deep' into the chemical contaminants of the water or food that I drink - that in my opinion is time well spent, and takes enormous priority over digging up the innards of JS( one could go right up to the level of what's happening at the CPU level when a line of code executes.). JS - my foot!

Sorry to take a dig at you, but if indeed your priorities are digging deep into the things that matter - like the water you drink then I will take back my words and apologize.
Keybase.IO and my Karma
Hello, everyone. This is my first time with Hacker News. I became aware of this through "keybase. io", I'm creating a German presentation. Now I wonder how I can increase my karma (>= 2). Greetings Erik
Actually what is moral (according to utilitarianism) is to avoid as many taxes as possible and then donate as much money to efficient charity. A lot of first-world government interventions are inefficient human-welfare-wise, mainly because they focus on problems within their own country.
That is a disaster waiting to happen.
What I was trying to get at is that if something is literally the best option available then there's not much point complaining about it.
If it becomes known that no Disney-made film will be considered for major awards, the actors and directors who are typically in contention for such things will suddenly be busy when a Disney-affiliated producer calls. Those who are persuaded to come anyway will ask for more money.

Executive producers are often hoping to win awards as well as make money; they'll be leery of the situation too.

Always look for the bottom line. The boost to Disney from winning any given award is minuscule, but the extra cost of talent can be significant.
Painful? Nah.

Use a combination of windows and tabs to achieve the same grouping. Use the awesome bar to search and switch between tabs, if you need the search functionality. Stop having 100+ tabs open, that's what bookmarks are for.

I'm sorry to say that your usage pattern is extremely non-standard and based on the whims of an unpaid extension developer. So you can learn the intended usage pattern for the browser, donate to the extension developer to make him port the extension or create a new extension yourself.

Jumping ship to a browser known for privacy issues seems like a really bad choice in this context.
I am not a big fan of the shoes, but I am a fan of Nike socks and underwear.

I am not worried about fakes from less famous brands, but I would not buy any Nike products from Amazon; I get them at local retailers, Nike's online store, or Niketown if I am visiting a big city.
They ought to buy Pillpack.
> I think that, in a functioning democracy, laws are dictated by whatever views are currently held to be moral by the largest portion of participants in the democracy.

Unfortunately, "participants" turns out to be decided by lobbying influence, not votes.

So yes, definitely an issue with this democracy.
- What if people don't want to pay for the extra bandwidth?

- What if your site contains lots of bandwidth consuming content? (read: large/many images)

Do you think your point would still hold?
I still don’t get how this can be legal. I understand that it is up to the consumer to repair the devices when they break due to cheap components (which are only meant to last one or two years) and are out of warranty, but if a company knowingly destroys your goods (via a software update) which is 100% intentionally and there is no way for you to fix it (either via a self hosted solution or any other solution) just sounds criminal to me.

I hope that one of these days, a laysuite will be filed against any of those companies which sets a precedent how to handle those situations.
Read the original posts and saw the package capture screenshot. It seems like it sends stats on how many keypresses there are on a key-by-key basis, not an actual keylogger (ie it doesn't send the content of what you sent).

It sends this in cleartext over http, not https. Again, not the content of what you type, so your url+user/pw is not sent (at least not according to what is known now).
It wasn't anybody's "old shitty IM messages", it was details about a product under development. The IM messages has been out there since the very early days. The linked article references the "dumb fucks" IM messages exactly not at all.

And looking for (and finding) a specific person who has violated a specific, well-understood rule and sanctioning them is not exactly what a witch hunt is.
As sibling said: Change the tab 'density' in Firefox from 'normal' to 'compact' under Customize > Density (at bottom).
I don't think so, because to a very real extent there's a solid core of Apple fans whole will not leave the company's products, no matter how shoddy, no matter how buggy, no matter what. Granted, not everyone is a John Gruber making silk purses out of sows' ears[0], but many folks simply don't consider anything other than an Apple iLife™ to be worth living — never mind that Jonathan Ive's stuff isn't terribly attractive (someone please get that man some colours, and maybe a French curve), macOS usability has fallen hard, and the (real) benefits of Apple's walled garden simply aren't worth the (also real) costs.

[0] E.g., of the iOS i-issue, he writes (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/11/07/ios-11-i), 'What I’ve heard is that this is a machine learning problem — that, more or less, for some reason the machine learning algorithm for autocorrect was learning something it never should have learned,' which is about the most lenient take one can have on the problem. I'm actually a little surprised that he hasn't posted that the impossibility of using the iOS calculator is deliberate, to force one to slow down and reflect.
You should wonder what kind of judge would punish Sci-Hub in absence, given the US is like as not to imprison and disproportionally fine whomever is sent to represent Sci-Hub.

This is not the 1800's anymore. You can't expect someone to /want/ to come to YOUR court to HELP YOU apply YOUR LAW in YOUR NATION, especially not with the HUGE RISKS!
My first language is Portuguese. Google failing to give me English results for software related queries was the one main reason I switched my browser search to DDG.
> This only supports code completion in JS and TypeScript. I have code completion plus snippets for a lot more then that with vim.

No, this only supports the extended features fro completion for those languages. It should use the simpler completion system for other languages, in which case you are using vim's support anyway.
They have facial recognition data though. If the uploading user is not the user in the nude photo, and the user in the nude photo has not checked a box that says "I permit other users to upload nude photos of me" then block the upload and flag for review.
That analogy is hard for me to follow. Again, for the most part, no laws are being broken.

One that's probably more relatable is itemized deductions for US taxpayers. I can deduct the property taxes and mortgage interest for my house from my Federal income tax. Do people take advantage of that and deduct the costs for ridiculous mansions? Sure. Shaming them for it is silly. If that exemption isn't fair, then put a cap on it.
70% downvotes on /r/apple, posted 17h ago.
What's the security story these days re: Firefox v. Chrome? I switched to Chrome a few years ago (for the most part) because, at the time, Chrome was considered more secure. Has this changed?
Why is my post not published?
It isn't spam...
>Could it be the prevalence of ophthalmologists instead?

It's orthogonal. More doctors would mean more diagnosis. But more short distance indoors fixed focus screen work stress on the eyes would also mean more patients.

Too little time outdoors

Research has found that spending time playing outside as a child may reduce your chances of becoming short-sighted, and existing short-sightedness may progress less quickly.

This may be related to light levels outdoors being much brighter than indoors. Both sport and relaxation outdoors appear to be beneficial in reducing the risk of short-sightedness.

Excessive close work

Spending a lot of time focusing your eyes on nearby objects, such as reading, writing and possibly using hand-held devices (phones and tablets) and computers can also increase your risk of developing short-sightedness.

An "everything in moderation" approach is therefore generally recommended. Although children should be encouraged to read, they should also spend some time away from reading and computer games each day doing outdoor activities.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/short-sightedness/causes/
Maybe 15 years ago. IR35 has made that approach tax-neutral, at best.
Furthermore, the nature of competition means "moral" companies, moral defined loosely here as those who pay more taxes than legally required, are at a disadvantage to "immoral" companies who pay the legal minimum. It's a prisoner's dilemma for executives that really do want to do right by their communities.

The solution is to fix the tax code problem. If the moral "rules" don't apply to _everyone_ then they are worthless.
Seems like it's only the Logitech Link product, not all Harmony remotes.

I've been buying used/refurbished 880 remotes online for the last few years. I still think it's the best IR remote ever made.
> When you maximize Chrome's window the space above the tabs disappears, making Chrome's footprint smaller than that of Firefox.

Firefox does the same thing. You can also choose whether you want "drag space" or not on non-maximized windows, or even an old-fashioned title bar. It's all in the customize option (where you can also switch to the compact theme).

FF takes up less UI space than Chrome, when the compact theme is used.
The tax haven countries should be subjected to overwhelming, crushing sanctions. They deserve to be international pariahs.
Yep. I updated it long before you commented. Apologies for the miss there. Read it wrong.
If your reading this and it describes you, over at Security First (www.secfirst.org) we build open source mobile tech that helps activists, aid workers and journalists stay safe all over the world. We are looking for contributions to our code base, uaer testing (and we are also hiring for a full time Android dev).
WBK (https://www.bzwbk.pl/) seemed more than willing to open me a bank account quite recently. There were a few more forms due to my being a US citizen, but it seemed like actually fewer than my wife (a Polish citizen with a US Green Card) needed to do the same thing. Maybe things are stricter in the West than in Poland?
OmniDB 2.3 has a debugger for PL/pgSQL functions
I don’t think anyone should be learning from India until they fix with their massive list of problems.
WooCommerce Pricing strategies
I agree, that sounds like the better solution. Maybe it's not as user-friendly to have the user go through the hashing process client-side (I assume for the average user, it'd require providing a separately-downloaded application, which presents its own security risks), but Facebook hasn't had a spotless record when it comes to manual review workflow. Your suggestion would seem to at least greatly reduce the initial workload (assuming that many/most submitted hashes are matched only much later, if at all).
Umm, is this actually happening though? Teh linked forum post is just speculation and then a bunch of people freaking out...
Tax evasion is and always will be, illegal. Tax avoidance is legal and undertaken by every single sane tax-payer who pays the minimum tax but computes that amount in accordance with the tax rules. The courts are available for redress if the tax authorities think the rules are being bent. Judgement is a legal matter and not one for debate by armchair moralists.

Those who don't like the way some tax laws operate in the realm of complex company operations should lobby the law-makers not those tax-payers working in compliance with the law.
There's no need to curse. :)
I was about to make a similar comment regarding the title (as a startled Harmony One and Harmony Hub owner).
Quantopian CIO departs as “crowdsourced” hedge fund’s performance disappoints
Not really. This is well-understood problem with well-understood solutions. There is no reason to believe that Facebook doesn't have both the resources and the motivation to get this right.
I really can't understand if you're being ironic or not, but I hope you are because Microsoft has been under fire for a long time for their behaviour and even fined for it in the past.

No "invisible hand" there, more like someone yelling loudly at them.
> the company will develop in-wheel electric motors, which would eliminate the need for a single large engine.

A 'single large engine' is only needed in ICE cars, electric vehicles have a 'small' motor, and can easily have multiple motors. It's already being done by Tesla and Rimac.

To my knowledge, an 'in wheel' motor would not be desirable due to unsprung mass, so a motor on the chassis connected to the wheel with an axle probably what they mean. Having 4 individual motors would be a first (I think) for a production car, it would allow for some very impressive traction control
The algorithm was discovered/invented by analogy to Quantum Mechanics (with which it shares many similarities, but also important differences: the algorithm deals with probabilities, while the actual quantum physics deals with amplitudes, of which probabilities are the square).

Most of the stuff on that repository dates back about a year, and I first read about it about then here on Hacker News, but searching for the actual article has me swamped with references to quantum mechanics and physics.

Anyway, it has very general and broad applications indeed. Audio, 3D voxel spaces, et cetera, beyond the obvious 2D pixel space.

UPDATE: found the original entry on Hacker News, it was indeed first mentioned a year ago (with a few subsequent reposts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12612246
A good sociopath would have been charming.

I think they’re very aware of the problems and they would rather be in the good side of the issue.

I think he just doesn’t know how to convert this or talk about it in a forum setting well.
Unless population slaps Disney in a face with a soggy trout by not buying its products or services for a year and until Disney

(a) apologizes

(b) publicly fires everyone who supported that decision nothing is going to change.

Of course nothing is going to change because the population wants to see the next Star Wars.
Of course. People assuming that they'd toss drugs in with their random goods are not even trying to comprehend this business move.

They bought World Foods. They didn't start storing week old bread on their shelves.

The pharmacy division would be a completely separate process subject to all the additional _legal_ requirements all the other pharmacies adhere to. They're not going to just have buckets of Percocet lying around on shelves for anyone to access.
A lot of the responses here are missing the point. It's not that Apple must behave morally with regards to taxes, and not just legally.

It's that Apple claims to behave morally, and doesn't.
I found these slides: https://www.slideshare.net/InsightTechnology/dbtstky2017-c23...
No. Just 1% of the cash evaporated, as opposed to 33% as Modi predicted, and majority of that was probably just due to loss or unlucky circumstance.

For such a disruptive event, that's pathetic.

The only winner was the banking system, who saw one of their major competitors (cash), hobbled. Modi now seems to be saying that this was the point all along.
The Palm Beach Post posted on their blog about three ads for Mar-a-Lago. The three ads were published on July 27th and all have an address at the end with a job number to reference. The server ad at the bottom seems to be the one they are referring to.

http://realtime.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2017/08/07/want-a-sea...
So is Tesla :-)
Test subject does not imply having public your medical data.
Or reduce the amount of influence money can have on an election. Reducing the government's power will just enable them to continue skirting around the law. If the government has no teeth, then why would any business (or anyone for that matter) follow any rule to it's fullest.