skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with the approach to just say "this all sucks". It sucks in particular ways, but I do agree with the other comment that this system has gotten humanity this far, so there are certain benefits to it. I hope in the future we'll have better systems than money to be able to allocate resources.

So we need to understand why part of it sucks, why part of it is great, and develop better alternatives that are also great but suck less. For example, it is important to keep track of who owes what to whom, otherwise people can't trust each other to make promises on a large scale with strangers. It's less good that people can gain a lot of profit simply by manipulating numbers and moving financial instruments around. Part of this stems from all value judgements being collapsed down into a single number which of course can never be self-consistent [1], part of it stems from informational differences between actors and other real-world deviations away from what a "perfectly-liquid" market should look like. If financial activity was truly a "market optimisation" mechanism, we ought to be able to replace the entire thing with a neutral algorithm and get rid of bankers and personal profits here completely.

[1] you cannot totally-order a 2-vector (and in general a n-vector) so that the ordering obeys the neighbourhood principle
Are you sure? As I understood it, the first two things that the ME runs on boot do much of that configuration. I can never remember the name of the first, but the second is the bring-up (or BUP) module.
It's been covered to death, but it's a vastly different approach that is closer to what other browsers provide, allowing many extensions to share the vast majority of their code across Edge, Firefox and Chrome (and descendants.) It also is highly asynchronous, which has become more important as Firefox has become multi-process and multi-threaded, and more secure, both from a usability standpoint (users have more control over add-ons) and from a low level standpoint (extensions are more 'sandboxed' than before.) There's more advantages but needless to say there's no turning back, so hopefully the missing features needed to implement what people want will arrive with time.

As for me, I'm just happy to be running Firefox as a daily driver again.
I was reading a speculation that there was a run of new nuclear waste processing tech in Mayk factory just two days before the they started to register the high readings. So it's possible they had an accident there. I will try to find the blog post but any news can be regarded as disinformation from both sides.
[dozzie@zorn /srv]$ ls -ld foo
drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel uarch 2 Nov 21 12:57 foo/
[dozzie@zorn /srv]$ touch foo/nabla
[dozzie@zorn /srv]$ ls -l foo/nabla
-rw-r--r-- 1 dozzie wheel uarch 0 Nov 21 12:58 foo/nabla
[dozzie@zorn /srv]$ id
uid=1001(dozzie) gid=1001(dozzie) groups=1001(dozzie)
[dozzie@zorn /srv]$ uname -s -r
FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1

This is called "BSD semantics". You can get the same behaviour with
appropriate mount option for Ext2/3/4 and XFS.
Thoughts on UI tests
Good but unsuprising. A much more newsworthy story would be if a US Court ruled otherwise.
If lots of ordinary people started using Tor, then perhaps this would solve something. Until then, ISPs will just throttle "unidentified" connections along with anything not coming from Netflix, Amazon etc... .
How is that not a scam ?
That kind of game theory doesn't work because you'll never get close to 100% vaccination coverage so long as there are infants in the world who are too young to take the vaccine and adults who think the diligence of others will keep themselves covered.
I wrote about my learnings on GZIP for a JS library on here: https://medium.com/@fpresencia/understanding-gzip-size-836c7...

Mind you, it is not as well written nor with such cool tools/graphics. On the other hand my article more practical for real projects IMHO since I focus more on the code structure and general patterns.

I love reading about those crafted tiny files and micro-optimizations though.
It’s covered in the “Trial and Error” section.
The State of C# – What Have I Missed?
Interesting. An entire website devoted to snark about software. Not very nutritious, but it tastes great going down.
I feel like iterative deepening is a more optimal strategy in this context.
Given the latencies shown in the article, if it's 30x that it'd probably take a few hundred ms to render. I'd view that as unacceptably slow; your milage may vary. Also, I suspect 30x that is optimistic for a complex site; it is a single small table.

400m sessions a month doesn't really sound like that much...
The first time I heard of Tencent Holdings was earlier this year. They are holding company with business across many verticals. I heard of them because one of their businesses had copied a game for the Chinese market without giving the original developers their due. And it turned out they were quite notorious for it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent#Copying_claims

Here's their presentation on how they protect/respect IPs:
https://www.tencent.com/legal/html/en-us/property.html

And this is just tip of the iceberg.

If people think EA is bad with it's monetisation policy, wait till they try one of Tencent's games.

And if someone thinks FB is bad and addictive, try reading about this company and it's grasp in China.
Ok, here is how I found it:

* google "samsung multiroom app for mac"

* the second link leads to http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/tv-audio-video/where-can-i...

* click the link that leads to the main page

* no https!

which was quite confusing..I mean if google does not redirect to https, I was full within the range of sane assumptions about Samsung not supporting https but I see that they actually do, thanks!
I'm pretty sure that the technology you are using depends on being able to uniquely identify someone to work is a defense against a GDPR claim against that data, but I am not a lawyer.
Ask HN: Good blogs for junior developers?
Hey HN,

I am looking for interesting content aimed at junior software developers. I am thinking about, career advice, sharing experience, professional tips, education guidance. Not exactly tutorials and courses.

I am a junior developer myself, but I also started to blog about my experience (rodrigohgpontes.github.io). It would be great to exchange some ideas with people in the same space. I just couldn't find any.

thanks!
Is there a genuine use case for changing the default search engine from an extension? Even if it has to be confirmed by the user, it still seems like a dialog that many users won't read and click on Yes anyway.
It's a bit more than that. It's your thoughts now and your emotions now and your sensations now. Just generally reflecting on thoughts is vague, the point of mindfulness is not to reflect on past thoughts or future speculations.

This then gives you the power to manage them better in a few ways, including that thoughts are just thoughts and you don't have to act on them all, and actually be aware of how you're feeling and what actually caused that and how to manage that feeling if it's destructive.
10 Onboarding Lessons from Product Experts
What filesystem was that? And why is this behavior filesystem-specific?
Grammatically Rooting Oneself with Parse Trees
Maybe they're catered to the lowest common denominator (the elder).

I've been thinking a bit more about it and I don't remember audio-speedreading being mentioned in the Learning How To Learn course (which I followed, and I hold both teachers in high regard). I think I am biased from the text-speedreading shenanigans.

> Of course it all depends on the host.

Point taken.

My theory is it also depends on the reader. As I grow older, I find it is more difficult to follow things. Sure, my vocabulary still slightly increases but I also think things through more, am more experienced, and eventually I'll end up with Alzheimer's. Hence my suggestion it is catered to the elder. Certainly not for HFAs. (I used to talk very quick as well as child. It was annoying as fuck to everyone, not in the least my parents.)
As far as I understand it's a slippery slope.

Prioritized traffic just opens up the possibilities for a lot more controlling measures of the internet. Power corrupts, so it's just a matter of that of this being abused by people in power.
[Meta] Do we really need to rehash the same discussion about tree-style-tabs/insert-favourite-extension-here every time Firefox is mentioned on here?
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Are they planning to add a local file writing API too to WebExtensions (tried to search it but couldn't find). Every browser is trying to standardize on Chrome's extension model (which already has local file writing support), but "only so much", and that's a problem.
They try it at the end, and it apparently doesn't help for gzip, but it does for brotli in this case.
Probably not, that would be a government / legal issue. If you're in the US, you're fucked because there's enough people that don't want the GUBERMENT to inject MERCURY in our kids that gives them AUTISM.
My Chromebook runs a copy of emacs with my org-mode and I love the ergonomics of the near-tablet sized/weighted, full keyboard style. But: if I walk with that under my arm (I walk to work!) I'm going to get it robbed.

For some reason, street thugs care much less about cell phones. Too hard to visualize from safe distance whether you have a latest model or a quad-chip cheapo.
I love firstPartyIsolate and resistFingerprinting. These should probably be on by default.
Oh, thanks, didn't notice it.

I found compressed size to be rather unpredictable and unintuitive, especially if the size of your file is significantly larger, than 100 bytes.
What is a good replacement for DownThemAll! ? It was such an important one for me, now lost too :(
rpi + rpi camera ?
I'm waiting on this one too! In the meantime container tabs provide an ok-ish workaround (it's possible to unload all tabs in a container). But not nearly as nice as tabgroups was.
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In practice, it's actually quite common for parts of countries' culture to be deliberately created. A lot of the US's patriotic customs only go back to the early 20th century, for instance.
Could you point me to a source about the defamation threats that hampered this story from being published in Australia.
Reddit is a halfway decent way of doing this though.
BountySource suspended from GitHub
Arq 5 Mac security update
There's some side-effects, even up to death, to preventable diseases like polio, whooping cough, measles etc too; I'd say it's a "greater good" kinda thing, small chance of complications if you take the vaccine, big chance of debilitating diseases for your child and people around them if you don't.
Why it didn't happen in Fukushima?
It's interesting that the release doesn't address the seasonality of the effect unless it falls under the possible initiation handwave. Is there some other temperature dependent effect on such flows?
Also wondering about an unchained 'fetch'. Still can't get or set some headers (https://github.com/github/fetch/issues/163).
Comparative Audio Analysis with Wavenet, MFCCs, UMAP, T-SNE and PCA
Presumably he means 'tlb.
Personally, I backed right away from it and went for paid certs with a client. Not great when it "kinda, sorta" works on Amazon Linux. The cost of the certs from namecheap seemed trivial compared to digging through GitHub issues to find out why the particular version of certbot running on a cron task hadn't renewed properly on a (customer production) EC2 instance. Screw that.
That's not the stepwell - it's a dam in China. Here's the stepwell photo:

http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Burtynsky_W...
Demonstration from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man...

$ faketime '00:29:00' man
What manual page do you want?

$ faketime '00:30:00' man
gimme gimme gimme
What manual page do you want?
Check website stack from the terminal
Interesting, i wonder how effective resistFingerprinting will be...?

"If true, the resistFingerprinting preference makes the browser report generic spoofed information for data that's commonly used for fingerprinting. Such data includes the number of CPU cores, precision of JavaScript timers, and the local timezone. It will also disable features that are used in fingerprinting, such as GamePad support, and the WebSpeech and Navigator APIs."
Just when I thought FF57 was great.
Now switching to Nightly :D
Will this deter anyone buying this super expensive phone?
www.messenger.com is an official interface to fb messenger that mimics the mobile apps. Doesn't load up the timeline, etc.

Most of my friends are on FB messenger but I never look at facebook itself.
To save others time, the output of GZThermal is a PNG image called gzthermal-output.png.
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Techdirt combines this thread in one article [0]

[0]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171030/12364538513/portu...
They're clearly adding APIs that they think are necessary, vs the ones addon developers actually need and clamour for. We've seen this in the entire process. Mozilla is not interested in listening to the actual needs of the developers. They just have their own idea of "brand new cool features" and they're gonna roll with it. Disappointing.
Crypto – Tether (USDT) Hacked for $30M
> any foreign order censoring EFF would be unenforceable in the United States under the First Amendment and the Securing the Protection of Our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act (SPEECH Act).

This way of naming laws is incredibly childish.
Healthcare.gov Dental Plans 2017 – Dental Coverage and Health Reform
There are more than 20% people who are not covered with dental care insurance and many children are suffering from advanced disease like giant holes in their mouth. However, the treatment of adult is not much expensive as general medical care. Here we will discuss on affordable care act dental coverage.
Schedule 4 is way safer than Schedule 1 in general.
Black Silicon Straps Waterproof Watch Bands
Check out Stanford's Lagunita.
I only wish I could tap the map and have it go there. I keep having to operate it using the phone controls, and the signal goes to the US and back even though the damn vacuum is right next to me. This leads to > 1 sec response times, which make it impossible to steer.
I guess this means that the extension handles the searchinput local, which seems like a very legit use case. Maybe we are lucky, and it means ALL adressbarinput is handled by the extensions, in which case this supports vimperator-style interfaces.

Another use case coming to mind is to compensate for the horrible bad ability to define your own searchengine. Leting a extension handle this would be an improvement.
The css hack is probably temporary, and for me it was easy to add works very well (it looks exactly the same as before to me). Other than that, what else is "less nice"?
Tencent surpasses Facebook in market value
Similar to this, since i'm in ecommerce. Does anyone know of "load plan software" for packages.

Given the height, width and depth of every product and the package dimensions available?
From the email:

Arq for Mac Vulnerabilities Fixed

Mark Wadham (thank you Mark for all your help identifying and helping to resolve this!) identified a vulnerability in Arq 5 for Mac where an attacker could become "root" user. The issue was the way Arq applied the set-user-ID-on-execution bit to helper apps (for auto-updating, backup using administrator privileges, and restoring). The affected helper apps were arq_updater (for auto-update), arqcommitter (for backing up) and standardrestorer, arqglacierrestorer and arqs3glacierrestorer (for restoring). The fix for this issue is implemented in Arq 5.10:

When you double-click the Arq icon in the DMG, Arq copies itself to /Applications and sets the permissions on the application bundle to prevent non-root users from modifying it.
Arq will only set the set-user-ID-on-execution bit on the helper apps if the Arq app bundle is installed in /Applications.
Bitcoiners say that things are good for bitcoin whenever its price goes up (because they care more about price than anything else in the bitcoin ecosystem). Bitcoin skeptics like patio use that phrase in a more tongue in cheek manner
They're both on Stanford's Lagunita, along with excellent courses on Computer Networks and Databases.
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Bitcoin Falls on $31M Hack of Cryptocurrency Peer Tether
You'd think Tumblr is better for following up on new artists (painters etc.) but it isn't.

I have an alt facebook for looking at artists. But frankly I wish the kind of stuff I enjoy (mostly asemic writing and related) was on reddit or tumblr. The facebook interface isn't good for looking at art.
(Not a tree style tabs user, but ... ) Yes, because

1) Someone here might know more (updated) about when's the support going to be added for the same,

2) The Extension Author might comment on when he's going to add the support for it if possible,

3) Some of the geeks here might know a good replacement of it (because Firefox's "Find a Replacement" is not as good as it's supposed to be).

4) When people say "me too", some other Hackers around here might be inspired to write one from scratch, or Firefox people might see how important it is (I know about Bugzilla's voting system, trust me, that doesn't work)

Firefox has just broken people's workflows that were set in place for years, and they are naturally concerned. Let it be.
Surely they're more dense near the sun? Not sure you can assume a uniform spacing and not account for the gravitational attraction. But I'm sure you know more about this than I do.
Anecdotal evidence, but for Japan that seems to be changing. Popular Japanese art site Pixiv rolled out TLS to the entire site in the past year or so, before that it was only used during login.

As far as Korea goes, they've got a whole different bag of worms going on, at least for a couple more years. Look up "South Korea Internet Explorer" for some astounding stuff if you've not heard of this before.
I think part of the problem is that Firefox doesn't have flexible, high quality tabs. Vertical tabs, tab trees etc were really popular extensions.

Personally I'd be happy to see Firefox have tab feature chrome natively has:

- Scroll wheel to move between tabs (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285812)

- Ctrl+1 (2, 3, ...) to jump to a tab. Ctrl+0 to jump to the last tab. [Edit: This works with Alt, nvm!]

- Multi-select tab management (Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click to select, drag, snap and move multiple tabs)

Back when Firefox initially got a lot of market share, its killer feature was tabs. It almost feels like they forgot that :(
Why marathon runners in the United States are getting slower
Ditch for loops. Here is a case study to convince you
I have four Wifi networks: One for me/trusted computers, one for untrusted devices without internet access, one with, and one for guests.

My network can access everything else, the untrusted networks can only initiate connections to my home server on the firmware upgrade port (which is used by devices around the house that I've made and which often look for OTA updates on my server), and the guest network can only access the internet.
Is it like the Sailing Stones we have observed in the desert but with grains of sand?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones
This is especially likely given that many sites considered HTTPS in earnest only when Google started aggressively factoring it into search rankings or when they needed HTTP/2 for performance. Search & site speed are a lot easier to make a business case for than privacy, unfortunate as that may be.
Negative pressure is a common term when referring to differential pressure. The place I most commonly see it is for isolating rooms with positive[1] or negative[2] pressure relative to their surroundings.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_room_pressure
As far as I'm concerned Firefox is dead. I'm sticking with 56 and Pentadactyl for the times I need to do extensive research online where it is so much faster to browse and find things.

Otherwise, I'm using Safari and weaning myself off of all the power of VIM like browsing. Safari also happens to be so much smoother and does not kill the battery.
I agree, pointing to a location, or even selecting a rectangle on the map should work.
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Some of the comments are that this version still lacks api improvements to let such extensions work well, which seems very relevant to a new release.
Mark Zuckerberg's Theory of Community
Alibaba’s AI Fashion Consultant Helps Achieve Record-Setting Sales
dump -> dumb
Big Tobacco's anti-smoking TV ads begin after decade of delay
What is "keyed Vanilla-js". As I understand the definition of keyed, it's a feature that js doesn't have.

EDIT: from the blog:

"All modern frameworks have some kind of binding between data and DOM nodes. This binding is especially interesting when data consists not of a single item, but of a list of items. If data changes the question is which DOM nodes should be updated, inserted or removed."

It's unclear because it seems to talk about data binding (which is not part of js), but actually is talking about an identity association between a DOM node and a data object. I guess it just means there is a one-one association between nodes and data points, and when a data point [identity] changes, the corresponding DOM node is entirely destroyed and recreated.
I'm not sure what you are arguing against.

All I'm saying is that the situation is bad as-is, and it would be good to not make it any worse.
Before you could click the icon in the search bar and select another engine. Now that's more hidden, so an extension to change to e.g. DuckDuckGo is an easy way to do that.
> The minor versions are interchangeable.

They are not, at least in Scala. See 2.12.x.
On Tor, everything is slow. And quite a lot of sites ban you because the anonymity tends to be used to cause trouble.
If you want an entertaining if opinionated defense for studying compilers, Steve Yegge's got ya covered: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-foo...
Integrated last-mile drone delivery by Matternet and Mercedes-Benz
I get that HTTPS is good for anything that's got sensitive data, but what really is the point of enabling it if you've got a static, old-school informational page? Aside from avoiding getting dinged by search engines?
http://captive.apple.com/ is another one.
Also worth pointing out that those are for mobile data, not home internet. I don't believe Portuguese ISPs have the same kind of clustering into packages for home internet, even without net neutrality.

In reality, we aren't going to see a dramatic and immediate cable-ization of internet post-Title II. The more insidious threat is the slow war of attrition against non-cable-owned streaming and other services that tilts the playing field against certain kinds of startups.
I bet it is a reference to the ABBA song "Gimme Gimme Gimme (a man after midnight)"

Edit: I see that is the explanation given on StackOverflow. This is probably the fewest bits needed to encode a widely-distributed earworm.
Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. jump to a tab in Firefox. Alt+9 is the last tab.
Productive?

Where is the innovation in portable screens/keyboards?

I will stick to a surface pro.
Regardless of the format; the statement still stands, even if it's overly combative. There is functionally no requirement for wildcard SSL that can't be met another way- the other ways in almost all cases are better for user security. Not designing for it (just like not designing for cloud failure) isn't someone being belligerent about nothing it really only emerges out of laziness or unwillingness.

(or, you have a legacy application which is architected a certain way, which is similar in my scenario of having a "non-cloud ready" application.. it's not a good reason to architect things in future this way)