skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The global financial sector is about 13-19% of the global economy, and 20-30% of the global services sector: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/030515/what-percent...

Which is higher than it should be, but thankfully not 70%...

The above probably includes the accounting industry but not all employee accountants/cashiers embedded in all companies, but even if it did, it would move the needle only a bit (maybe 10% of employees?)
I applaud Mozilla.

Never had any use for extensions. For me Web browsing is all about HTML/CSS and some occasional JavaScript, everything else is better achieved via native apps.
Mocking people like that makes them look more reasonable. Please don't.
I must say that Mozilla have made the right call with extensions in Firefox 57.

Web extensions are probably a small part of it but I have switched back to FF after ~5 years of Chrome. I also like the redesign but the killer feature was the noticeable speed up.

I consider myself a fan again!
They're older than Lederhosen.
Not sure about a buffer object, but a tether on a reel might work.

You harpoon the object, then let it pull the probe, giving lots of slack according to the engineering tolerances of the harpoon in the object (don't want it to come loose), the tether (don't want it to snap), the reel (don't want it to spin apart or get stuck or any one of a number of things), and the probe (don't want it damaged under extreme acceleration).

With enough tether and a low-enough-friction reel with magnetic bearings (think of the ungodly RPMs), you can accelerate the probe at almost any speed you'd like, within reason, although it would be best to accelerate as quickly as possible without risking. And remember that you only need to get the whole harpoon/tether/reel (HTR, or HiTchhikeR; you saw it here first) mechanism in range of the object as it passes by, so it can be bulkier than you would put on a probe moving under its own power. Or you could start off as usual, maybe with a gravity assist, which would allow for a less sophisticated HTR.

Then if you want to be clever, you can turn all those RPMs into stored energy. But that might not be worth the trouble.
I don't think it can be simplified enough for that approach to work. There's also limited room for single issue votes - you can't be a single issue voter on multiple issues! And a big part of American politics is people being single issue voters on guns or abortion regardless of how corrupt the candidate is otherwise (see Alabama).

Maciej ("idlewords" on HN) has started https://techsolidarity.org/ as one possible solution.
Herd immunity. If only sensitive data uses HTTPS, all HTTPS use is suspicious. If everything is HTTPS, the fact something uses HTTPS no longer makes it suspicious/interesting. It also makes policies banning access to HTTPS websites (i.e. clumsy traffic control) unfeasible.
i have used its very simple to configure with cerbot and best of all its free
A better place to start might be: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/TabHiding
Did you even look at the WP History? The person who set the DELETE proposal on the page did so because he literally refused to believe that the collaboration existed, and that it looked like some sort of hacker website. I don't know about you, but I don't go on wikipedia to argue with my grandmother about the colloquial phrase hacking, and whether or not hackathons for children are evil or whatever.
Why and how we roll our own infrastructure monitoring
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> Back in the early days you couldn't get a certificate without faxing in a copy of your business registration.

Well well, guess who could easily spoof that one.

> A certificate authority's digital imprimatur implied something substantial about the credibility of a site, however imperfect the process.

Not just the process. SSL downplay attacks and lack of certificate pinning already existed back in those days.

As long as those attacks are unknown you may still be reasonably secure against a MITM from a banana state government or a random ISP.

Also, lets not forget that running your entire website on HTTPS was expensive on resources before the 10s.

So the argument "because we can" makes sense. That doesn't mean all that information has to be encrypted. However, if you want to harm a surveillance state, then one act is causing significant noise. Uninteresting, encrypted data is noise and potentially yields plausible deniability.

The other argument is "because we have to". Different attacks have been demonstrated on that one: hostile networks such as ISPs injecting ads, hijacking DNS, open WiFi, impersonating fraudulent websites are just a few examples.
As a counter-anecdote (don't mean that in a snarky way), I am absolutely terrible at reflecting on my thoughts, feelings and physical state without some form of mindfulness.

I also notice a marked decrease in anxiety or tiredness after meditating. While of course that could be a placebo effect, almost all other things I did to deal with anxiety (including CBT) didn't really do much, despite my belief that they would.

I've talked to a number of people who didn't really see the point of meditation, only to discover that what they were already naturally doing was essentially a similar thing. Or they just didn't feel the need.

Similarly, I've met people who can smoke cigarettes for months without getting addicted, people who can remain calm in incredibly stressful situations, people who just don't understand the concept of 'boredom', etc.

Perhaps you're just one of those people who don't need it, and I'm kinda jealous of you if that's the case!
on its face it's pretty stupid: acronyms that are so contrived (or worse, misleading) that you have to shake your head when you hear them.

but there is at least a little bit of value to having a brief, specific name to use when referring to it that somehow relates to the topic at hand.
Stay Awhile and Listen is an interesting one on the development of Diablo

https://www.amazon.com/Stay-Awhile-Listen-Legendary-Video-Ga...
Part of the reason is that most users of some popular addons don't participate in the open source community, reporting bugs, commenting on them to add details or tell why are they important, etc.
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Less web startups, less innovation. Sorry, I can't be more specific about the future. But I can be about the past:

Google probably would not have taken over search with its better ranking if AltaVista could just buy being much faster.

Social networks probably would not have overtaken Orkut (culminating in Facebook after may interactions) if Orkut could just buy being much faster.

Reddit (and Hacker News), if slow as molasses, might have lost to traditionally curated news sites (this one is a stretch).

Stripe wouldn't seriously compete with PayPal if it was much slower when it was starting.

So, what giants of the future will we be drowning on birth tomorrow? Specifically? No clue. But I'm very confident that they exist.
Was on the front page of abc's news site... not sure how unreported that was : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-13/academic-claims-hes-be...
The Economist had the same thought:
https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/217308...
If your use case is so simple that essentially any browser meets your needs, why do you find it strange that others might have different needs?

I never understood why people have such a hard time with choice. And why saying something no longer meets your needs evokes such reactions.
Vaguely reminds me of the virus in the movie Hackers.
Chrome parity would be good, but I think that with little effort Mozilla could make a tremendous improvement:

- Multiple-row tab bar.

Such an obvious improvement over tabs scrolling off the screen sides or squashing them like Chrome does, I don't know why it's not being considered.

It's already been done by Tab Mix Plus (or was it Classic Theme Restorer?). They only need to copy it and polish it a little.
Reading these recurring discussions, there is a bunch of Firefox users that used FF's extensions to change everything about the browser. You could change Firefox to be a different user experience entirely. But this has become way more limited.

For users that are okay with the common way browsers work, all this new stuff is great though. Firefox Quantum is so fast and it still delivers all of the mainstream add-on functionality.

I'm firmly in the second camp. Give me any browser that I can install uBlock in (and hide most buttons except back and forward), and I'm good to go. With Quantum, I switched over all my browsing to Firefox. Including on Android, which hasn't even had most the Quantum improvements yet (its UI has just gotten a much needed update).
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The download, parse, and startup time isn’t considered, so while this excellently captures runtime performance metrics, it’s not the whole story. Does your app replace thousands of rows in a table?

And yes, I’m questioning the time I spent getting Preact to work rather than going with the React herd. :)
It's interesting that the lack of this data was one of the failure points for Target's $4.4 billion USD Canadian expansion that ended in failure. It's a really interesting story [0]

> A team assigned to investigate the problem discovered an astounding number of errors. Product dimensions would be in inches, not centimetres or entered in the wrong order: width by height by length, instead of, say, length by width by height. Sometimes the wrong currency was used. Item descriptions were vague. Important information was missing. There were myriad typos. “You name it, it was wrong,” says a former employee. “It was a disaster.”

> Getting the details from suppliers largely fell on the young merchandising assistants. In the industry, information from vendors is notoriously unreliable, but merchandising assistants were often not experienced enough to challenge vendors on the accuracy of the product information they provided.

> The investigative team estimated information in the system was accurate about 30% of the time.

[0] Source: http://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/what-really-happened...
While it’s nice to have it as default behavior when it makes sense, it’s also nice to have setgid as an option rather than the rule.
Why don't you want to upgrade beyond Yosemite ? I just bought a new Macbook Air and its been nagging me to update.
On a Mac: Cmd + 1, Cmd+2, etc + Cmd+9 for last tab
Ask HN: Android malware or virus?
I am seeing many ads while opening WhatsApp. I am being directed to a site googlev1.com automatically whenever I am using browser. Is my android phone infected? How can I get rid of virus, malware on Android phone? Need free solution.
I'm not a single-issue guy myself, but the question was something along the lines of "How can we make this happen?" and the answer is "focus". Otherwise you're just going to be another special interest group in a vast sea of special interest groups. The American political system has an entire machine dedicated to folks like that. I don't see that as being worthwhile.

But admittedly, I'm just random-internet-dude. If somebody can start something I think has a chance, I'm happy to help out in any way I can. It's an important (critical) issue.
The tabs.Tab.isArticle does not seem to be in chrome. Anyone know how they detect if a page is an article or not?
Those aircraft limp along at a tenth the speed of a typical commercial flight. That's the main reason I said "effectively". I mean, there are useless pure-solar cars too.

Trains might be closer but when single locomotives are measured in megawatts I'm not very confident.
That cannot be a reasonable dealbreaker though. If you follow that advice you can't do business with any business. Nor any NGO for that matter.
I guess it's mostly inertia.

Many people who don't live in the tech news bubble like we do might not have even heard of let's encrypt, or haven't realized that they could use it. Or the bad old "never touch a running system" mantra at work.
ISPs are known to profile their customers by looking at unencrypted traffic or even inject ads.

Delivering browser exploits by injecting into unencrypted traffic is common practice.
The coming digital anarchy (from 2014)
This is great! Thank you. Lots of great feedback here as well :) Look forward to following along and making more informed grocery choices.
Is the reason that nginx wouldn't start because you're specifying the certificate location in the config?

So when it goes to start up it will fail because ther is no certificate in place? (If not then tell me why Nginx won't start).

If that's the case, don't link to where the certificate should be. That'll let nginx start, then the certbot-nginx tool can run and it'll add links to the generated certificates directly to your config files as part of the initilisation.

All it does is insert the paths to the certificate files before the final closing bracket of any server block that listens on port 443.

I use Ansible and automate the install of new server/sites, unless there's something extra different with Docker, the automation process should still work fine. It also still works if your config is setup to redirect all incoming from port 80 to 443.
Which (shared) web hosts remain opposed to Let's Encrypt?

Namecheap (my host, until I get around to switching) still is, for business purposes. (their customer service rep gave me some BS about "security" as to why, but it's really because they make a ton of money selling certs)
Stepwells in India are a rare and forgotten beauty. Just sit there and listen to the silence, you'll love it.

Most Stepwells are found in Rajasthan and some in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat too.
Tor websites (hidden services) cannot ban you because they cannot identify you via your link connection (this was the point of my original comment)

Just because the current Internet was built with IP addresses etc. for the 1970's doesn't mean it has to stay that way and Tor has proven you can at least solve the NN problem with onion routing.
I never said that such deaths form dam failures didn't count. The only reference I made to dams is that the model (physically traumatic & psych-related death) is well understood. Deaths due to low-level, widely dispersed radiation is not.

I'm afraid you were wrong to be "pretty sure" that I copied the argument from Wikipedia, I haven't read that page (until you pointed it out now). My comment comes from what I've picked up working for 10 years in epidemiology at Oxford. I didn't "conveniently" leave out the next sentence, and I wouldn't have quoted it anyway as its effectively tosh. There is no discernible increase expected on current models, but the current models are accepted (by most experts) not be useful predictors, as described in my initial post.

It's not "scare-mongering", it's being open to scientific discussion and exploration. Blind-adherence to your view-point doesn't help anyone but the nuclear industry.

Let's have open and honest debate. Even when that means we say "we don't know".
Except some researchers have disabled it? Including Google.
I'd add a couple of things.

1. as sizes grow you'll be better off using CSS to style rather than attributes -- this will often be a much bigger win than fiddling around with #00f vs blue.

2. I think replacing rect's etc. with paths can be problematic esp if you want to animate elements based on attributes i.e. much easier to interpolate from width=10 to width=20 than figure out what the intermediate path commands might look like. Also, if you want people to be able to edit the resulting SVG keeping with semantically meaningful higher level features such as rect and circle will help editors to understand what's going on and provide the power tools for modifying those shapes
Hannah Smithson at Oxford has a beautiful research programme looking at medieval descriptions of rainbows and their relation to modern color spaces: here's an example that combines scholarly study of illuminated manuscripts and data from the Hubble Space Telescope. https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/publications/464345

Interesting additional fact: 'rainbows' are not the same thing as the pure spectra that you might get from a prism.
I'm not sure how allowing extensions to change privacy settings is going to increase user privacy.

And while it's becoming easier to manipulate any website you visit, with basically nothing stopping a malicious extension from stealing user data or just taking over any online account, actually extending the browser UI, the original goal of many former extensions, is extremely limited.
Authenticity. To prevent somebody from modifying the page against your will, e.g. ISPs/Wifi hotspots inserting ads into all http pages.

Example (out of many): https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140908/07191228453/comca...
Brainstorm with me: I want my website to go viral, how?
It's possible to cut the ship in half in port if the ship is loaded or unloaded in the wrong order. Each cargo hold must be filled evenly. Filling one hold first and leaving others empty bends the ship and breaks it.

I have seen a picture of broken bulk carrier in the Rotterdam harbor when loadmaster made an error.
There's always going to be stuff which is automatically renewed while you don't want to, or stuff you need to manually renew when you have to.

I have a wonderful suggestion for anyone who wants to combat this problem: put the end date in your agenda! If you're a busy person put multiple notifications about it, or learn to look in advance in your agenda.
oh, also, in my experience the best optimization tends to be reducing the number of decimal places in complex path commands to one or two.
Regardless of your feelings towards patio11 and his views on Bitcoin, this is not appropriate. Speculating about his emotions like this is a misdirection that dances around de-legitimizing his views without a real rebuttal to his point. Moreover, he’s on this forum, so you don’t need to talk about him like this, as if he isn’t here.

If you have a substantive rebuttal to make, do that instead of engaging in passive aggressive character assassination. What you’re doing is probably satisfying, but it doesn’t convince anyone else that you’re correct who doesn’t already side with you, and it’s insidious in that it steers the course of the conversation away from an individual’s point and onto their identity.
How Google Gives Us Insight into Searcher Intent Through the Results
Well, there's always services like CloudFlare which would offer free certificates - thus even allowing for pages hosted on GitHub Pages to be served through HTTPS.
It prevented me to verify my identity with my (non Canadian)bank for a good while :-(
Properly configured Tor connections look like regular HTTPS connections on port 443 otherwise most who need it couldn't use it without getting thrown into "re-education camps"

Also I'm not talking about using Tor to connect to "regular HTTPS" sites like Amazon or Netflix where they see you as some special citizen of the Internet (one they don't like) I'm talking about things like Hidden Services where there is no external gap between networks being exploited.
That's an awesome tool. I wish it would output to the terminal, too.

Thinking about that, as an exercise in Unix philosophy, how would you add hex output to such a tool? One could add a -x option or such that would output like xxd(1), but then you might want to go and implement more of xxd's options like maximum line width and such, leading to the duplication that composition of tools is supposed to prevent. But how would you make it composable? Either gzthermal would need to understand xxd's output, or xxd would need to know about terminal escape codes to properly map the coloured output.
I'm an aggressive unfollower. Too much clickpait, virtue signaling, feel-good meaningless inspirational quotes, suspect sources, self-promotion, etc., and I unfollow.
There are a couple of reason. Encryption also preserves the data integrity. That means your ISP cannot inject ads or tracking scripts. I’ve heard that this is already quite common in some countries (including mobile services in the US). This also means that nobody who sits between the server and your internet connection can inject falsified information into that static page.

You also have more privacy. An attack can see that you are accessing Hacker News but not necessary what comment section you are on (though it can sometimes be inferred by the page size).

You might not care about that about your oldschool static side but someone who lives in suppressive countries might because it might make a big difference if they only access Hacker News for the latest and trendiest node framework or if you actively research the comments about articles how your country does something bad.
replying to myself, it simply is the html tag <article>. Didnt realise it was that simple.
What is firstPartyIsolate ? Could you please explain?
That's what I told my wife for like 3 years (as she has been an Apple Watch day-one user). I finally caved and got one.

Everybody else that commented on this post beat me to the punch, more or less; but because I have to spend less mental energy digesting the notifications, it ends up being LESS of an interruption - not more.

You don't have to sit at dinner with your family, KNOWING that your phone buzzed, wondering whether it was an important work email, a text from your boss, or your dipshit best friend multi-texting you 30 photos of sick bikes that he wants to buy and / or thinks you should buy. ;)
Have you followed any of the links?
Chrome tabs sort of suck, they shrink down to no text if you have too many, firefox has a minumim size of tab and lets you scroll the ones that are visible at a time.

Ctrl+1 (2, 3, ...) to jump to a tab.

works for me, Ctrl+0 doesn't
There are studies that has show that people can distinguish a color faster and better if their language has a word for it. If we assume this is true, your version would work better for english in particular. I suppose that more people can make a difference between green and cyan and blue and cyan, rather than between blue and indigo and violet and indigo.

Personally, I do not actually know what indigo is supposed to look like and an image search shows everything from blue to violet.
Windows oneliners to download remote payload and execute arbitrary code
Yes, especially given the fact that it already does the exact same thing when you tell it to go back to the dock (ie it finds a way to a spot on the map, its dock).
"Russia reports radioactivity 986 times the norm after nuclear accident claim"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/russia-radioac...

"Russia’s meteorological service has confirmed “extremely high” concentrations of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 were found in several parts of the country in late September, confirming European reports about the contamination this month."

Events repeat, denial at first for a month and than downplaying the accident and the contamination of larger part two continents.
I would switch to ESR version - at least you will get security updates.
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Its slant depends on who is the prime minister.
In Korea?
Ehm, on my Haswell motherboard there is a HW jumper called "ME disable" and it works quite fine...
Also people have found different methods to set a bit that effectively shutdown the ME: These were put there by Intel even if they aren't official or supported for the general public.
Great to see that new users are getting catered for meanwhile those of us that used Firefox the whole time get ignored.
They’ll just slow all Tor connections, unless you pay $50 for the “Tor+ bundle”
If you mean the stuff under "Additional Privacy Controls" you already surf without the functionality that can be turned on with this API. That means that the new API allows you more privacy, at least until you install some extension that maybe overrides the extension that turned "on" that privacy functionality.

So it's like before, adding a new extension is always a security risk.