skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Far better is to not use Windows 10 and tell Microsoft why.
Well, presumably this had to be approved by the board, which is elected by the shareholders. So democratically speaking, yes it's fair. They chose it.
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Hi David, I was wondering if you could elaborate a little more on this thought:

"...for us to really take it to the next level and long-term defend ourselves against competition from the Sabre-s of the world, we would need to build our own reservation system and start hosting airlines. We would have to NOT be just a search provider, we would have to provide the whole platform for a major airline."

Is the sole reason for this the fact that the Sabre-s can always undercut you by providing the search for free or is there more to it? Do you know if Google will try to follow (or if they already have) that approach? Is it possible that the emergence of so many new online travel sites has changed the scope of opportunity for pure search providers?

Thanks!
When a client doesn't pay, you have two options:

1. Take legal action.
2. Take the loss.

Both have hard and soft costs.

Good luck.
> It's Ecuador demanding the terms, not Assange.

I'd be shocked if Assange didn't agree to them.
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"questioning" is misleading. He was going to be arrested in Sweden.
>And any computer can run just about any kind of code now.

Not if it's compiled (C, C++ etc.), uses compiled libraries (many Lua, Java and .Net apps) or any system calls/libraries (.Net)
Why would wages ever keep up with productivity? Wages will always be a race to the bottom between employees who have to work to not be homeless. The capitalists can exploit this to make wages as low as possible.

Productivity has nothing to do with it.
Steal from the rich, give to the poor...nah just let americans play with the stock market a bit easier.....which is actually (way) closer to 'steal from the poor, give to the rich'! Hoodwink Robin, more like.
If we're going with non-American books that shaped America, John Locke would have a much better claim than Karl Marx, given that Locke's ideas had a profound influence on the American form of government.
I don't understand the shame here. I've been wanting to buy one of these for the efficiency but just haven't had the money or found one made for adults that isn't way above what I want to spend. I'd love this. Are you telling me there are people out there with so little to worry about that they judge people who are riding a scooter? lol
Not to mention that unpaid internships decrease economic equality and social mobility by automatically disqualifying those who can not afford to work without pay.
From Lenovo's statement [0] it seems that the root kit was not installed on ThinkPads. This somewhat calms me, but I doubt that I can trust Lenovo any more. How comes that such big Hardware vendors go unpunished after the Superfish and now this? This is unacceptable.

It is time for fully open-source hard-ware with physical switches to turn off recording devices like microphones and webcams.

[0] http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2013

EDIT: added the [0] URL
Many are on Project Gutenberg.
Thanks for the link! Transcripts are great!
In my case it's different because:

1. I don't use my smartphone for work. I have to use Windows for work, and some of this is dealing with confidential information.

2. I don't use my smartphone to write sensitive documents. I use my PC to write all kinds of documents, some of them sensitive and confidential.

3. I am not aware of my Android smartphone or tablet sending all my typing to the cloud. If this is so in Android I'd like to learn about it, same as if it's true for Windows. I wouldn't be comfortable with it.
I will be moving in to Germany in a few months, and might find this beneficial. Do you list companies that will work with foreign non-EU citizens?
I think you're mistaking 'total desirable score' with 'natural beauty score'. I think the simplest model that's not too wrong is that the total score of a location is the sum of natural beauty with other factors, such as job availability, security, etc.

But, OTOH, the various factors are weighted by personal preferences, and you have expressed a very high personal preference for natural beauty. Now, I would like to know if that is also a 'revealed preference' (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10019913).
I don't see how making up lies is a good thing, unless one is pushing an agenda.

Reminds me of the DRM FUD against Windows 7[1] and the fake benchmarks claiming that Windows 7 was eating up memory and was slow[2].

And they end up getting a lot of attention and page hits from sites like this, so it's a vicious cycle, with people repeating this 'information' to others.

[1] http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-dr...

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-we-dont-trust-devil-mountai...
Apparently the said that a resolution was passed forbidding them from paying interns. Clearly they should not take on interns in that situation but they continued to take unpaid ones alas.
Also, I hated the razr lux a5. I literally bought it and took it back before leaving the parking lot. The foot space was so tiny that I couldn't even fit one full foot on it. At least, as far as I can remember.
> Assange could then have defeated the extradition request by showing his behavior was not a crime under British law.

Extradition is only allowed if it's for a crime that's illegal in both countries. Assange's legal team repeatidly challenged the extradition on the grounds that it wasn't a crime in the UK. The UK legal system consistantly said that it was.

Remember one of the charges/claims is that he had sex with someone who was asleep. That's a crime in the UK and Sweden.
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I completely agree about jvisualvm, I'm still blown away by the quality of the Java ecosystem. I've done a lot of server-side work on the JVM and it really blows away every single piece of tooling for C/C++.

While I'm no fan of the Java language, you get all these benefits for other JVM-hosted languages such as Clojure and Scala and that is fantastic. You basically get the entire ecosystem for free.
>There’s a point in every business where you can double down on the risk, you can exit, or you can raise money.

Doubling down on risk: does that mean grow the product and company scope using existing funds only?
119.99 for the Home version and 199.99 for the Pro version.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Windows-...

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Windows-...
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Yes, super happy the core team keeps as a priority minimizing the pain of tracking new releases while continuing to evolve Ember. Kudos to the core team.
I never claimed otherwise, and while that is factually correct, it doesn't mean any of the other things mentioned are suddenly not true. I think the fact that they reduced the severity of the allegations and even went as far as criticizing the prosecutors for not moving the investigation forward in years is quite telling as well. And while the court's decision might be legally relevant, given all the other facts and seeing how the prosecutor behaves makes it quite clear this is nothing more than a smear campaign.

I'm usually the last person to fall for any kind of conspiracy theory, but this case could literally be taken straight from one of Kafka's books. Given all the things we know about this case, and things that went on during the peak of Snowden's story (presidential planes forced to land, among others), it would be naive to think this is not politically orchestrated, and arguing on technicalities plays right into their hands.
Java is dying since Oracle bought it. Google made a mistake to build Android upon it.
There are definitely some odd choices on there. An obscure dime novel by Louisa May Alcott? How did that "shape America"? Her Little Women deserves a place on the list, certainly, but I'm not sure about this one.
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I think you don't need to be so sad.

> This book was an example of an interesting trend: I found that books illustrated with art rather than photos tended to age better.

The books that inspired you as a child and the books with illustrations that "age better" are probably many of the same ones.
It's actually inferred by hardware - the paper handwaves it because they wanted to focus on the software, but basically they're talking about implementing a low-accuracy micro-ADC at every site that automatically wipes the charge when it hits a trigger voltage and counts every time it does so. Number of counts = site signal level.

Not quite sure that's practical or how you'd implement it on a destructive-readout sensor, though. Right now the sensors with enough accuracy and sensitivity are all destructive.
Yeah, so I've been using that since a few days ago along with DoNotSpy10, and disabled almost everything. Then I installed a traffic monitoring tool and I still found Cortana to be calling home, even though I checked and both web searches (search box) and Cortana were disabled.

I think this article is right - you can't fully stop Windows 10 from calling home, no matter what you do or how many thing you disable.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...

And according to this article, Microsoft has an OS-level keylogger that catches all of your typed characters (all passwords, all "secure" communications) even from the virtual keyboard, for "no good reason".

http://localghost.org/posts/a-traffic-analysis-of-windows-10
Tony Goodman (Ensemble Cofounder) AMA (2013)
Guardian open-sources its image management solution
If you are receiving these questions as an interview ones, you should re-consider your application at first point.
The cases aren't really comparable. No matter what you think of Snowden, he definitely broke US law in a pretty serious way. Assange is a publisher, as far as anyone can tell he's not broken any US laws.
The means of production have never been more accessible. The ability to learn new skills/trades has never been easier. If the average person can't take advantage of them, then it probably has less to do with capitalism and more to do with the government and corporatist conspiring to keep them out of the game.
UK is in Five Eyes, Sweden is not. The UK is a co-founding member of NATO, Sweden is not in NATO. The USA & UK have a "special relationship", Sweden & USA don't. UK helped the USA invade Iraq, Sweden did not.
So, you are saying that while watering my lawn if I feel deep in my heart I'm committing a crime then I am, in fact, committing a crime?

Plus your stabbing example doesn't explain anything since you would have indeed physically harmed someone which is against the law in most jurisdictions. Considering your rape/not-rape example, a better example is that you would be arrested for thinking about stabbing someone in the arm as you are placing your hand on that arm.

If I were on the jury for either of these examples, supposed victim says no crime committed and the only evidence is the accusation from the state? There's no way you could convince me to vote to convict.
Why a boom in software development?
"Information transmitted:

All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:"

No. Way. I don't believe it. Someone please investigate.

Edit: looking at the comment section of this article it appears there are other skeptics that raise good points. I'd love to see someone attempt to independently investigate this. If I had time I'd do it.
I got a methylphenidate script sophomore year of college. I eat right and exercise. Drink Water. I give myself breaks when I'm really not feeling like working, and let myself bust out the work when I am in hyperfocus.
> This is a "computer scientists" understanding of photography, and this phrase alone can even be seen as "dangerous" by photographers.

The actual headline of the article is actually more informative and less misleading than the subhead:

"Unbounded High Dynamic Range Photography Using a Modulo Camera"

In photographer's terms, they're referring to ending blown highlights (caused by filling the wells in a sensel) not saturated images (caused by exaggerating color data).

There's a school of photography that basically lives and dies by over-saturating images (e.g. http://kenrockwell.com ) and they'd likely have a cow over the headline, but understand and be totally onboard for the actual goal.

Depending on how quickly the well can reset and how many times resets can be counted this will either be better or worse than simply improving existing approaches. The state of the art in full frame sensors is just under 15-bits of dynamic range. So to equal it an 8-bit sensor would need to be able to count resets at least 128 times AND be able to do this in 1/8000 of a second, at the same sensel density and efficiency! Don't hold your breath.

http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Nikon/D810

(I'd also suggest that trends towards using multiple sensors to assemble high resolution images will easily blow this away since they can use high- and low- sensitivity sensors to synthesize more dynamic range and resolution. Also see recent Olympus patents to capture polarization data at the same time.)

BTW: assuming they can do this stuff, they presumably can read the sensor pretty darn fast — so they should be able to eliminate image "tearing" in digital video and the need for mechanical shutters altogether. That's probably a bigger issue than dynamic range.

I suspect that clearing a well in < 1/10,000,000 of a second (which would only lose 10% of the photon detection time during a 1/8000s exposure) is going to be tough. Assuming 25% of the sensel real estate needs to be sacrificed to the modulo circuitry, that's a loss of 32.5% of photon data which is about the same loss as for pellicle mirrors (as seen in Sony's pretty unsuccessful SLT cameras) for a feature that won't be much use in many situations.
They're tax-deductible vacations, at least if the organizing group is a 501(c)(3).

I've done a (paid) volunteer vacation with the American Hiking Society[1], building a new section of the Continental Divide Trail in the Gila National Forest of NM. We paid for airfare and then a small "donation" fee that went almost entirely to food for the volunteers. It was a way to participate in a well-organized endeavor in a beautiful place while doing something I already enjoy doing back home (trail work), under the tutelage of a Forest Service crew. Not sure if all such paid volunteer trips are worthwhile, but at least the hiking society ones are reasonable; they're low-overhead and they handle logistics.

1. http://www.americanhiking.org/volunteer-vacations/
In addition to the listings from YC-funded companies under "jobs" in the top menu, there's also a set of monthly submissions from the automated "whoishiring" HN user:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

See the "submissions" link on the above page. The most recent are:

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996333

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996334

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996335

The "hiring" and "freelance" submissions might have some useful leads for you. Lastly, the HN site guidelines prohibit job related submissions outside of the "whoishiring" threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Perhaps because I am in Canada. I would have thought it would have said that rather than "incompatible".
> I imagine the UK courts would hold that a rape charge in the UK is similar to a rape charge in Sweden.

Although to be clear, there are no rape charges involved in the Assange case. The crime he is accused of in Sweden is not even illegal in some countries.
In addition, a lot of enamel will just stain after some time, which is normal; This is why some of the vendors are just going with black enamel these days, instead of the long-used white. I haven't tried baking soda to clear up the stains on mine, I'll have to give it a shot.

Also, if the enamel cracks inside the cooking area of the pan, you may want to throw out the pan; it may expose your food to contact with toxins used in adhering the enamel.
Point is: Russia, Russia, Russia is great on Czech website.

I'm just saying, for us it's on par with your prisonplanet.com
Sort of: If you only ever need a cookie set on app.example.com, you can do that and use assets.example.com. It'll work for simple applications and not much else.

Things like Google Analytics also set cookies by default on *.example.com so you'll have to figure out a way around that.
This is a list of the domains added by the script to the hosts file:

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This sounds like the reasonable interpretation is, they are reading the passwords for MS accounts like hotmail. But IANAL, perhaps one should use the most hostile interpretation possible.
> Finally someone who isn't a hypocrite and speaks the truth. The same people who are complaining about Microsoft data mining are the same people who don't have issues using Google.

Nope. You're making assumptions based on nothing.

I have an issue with both (or any) companies doing it, as do many other people.

I don't even use Google search anymore, and I certainly don't want my Windows searches consulting Bing.
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Is the way of life negotiable?

I think a large portion of the problem is that energy is cheap and it results to not very good decisions regarding the environment.

Strategic decisions:
For example cities in very hot and dry places, with urban sprawl, large apartments, air conditioning, lawns. Or conversely very cold places with a lot of heating.

Daily decisions:
Environmental burden not reflected almost at all in the price of foodstuffs.
Don't know if the text gains anything from the added typographical noise.
> The same people who are complaining about Microsoft data mining are the same people who don't have issues using Google.

I would bet cash money that this is false. There is more than one type of person on HN. If you interpret the actions of multiple people as if they were a monolithic entity, of course they're going to seem contradictory.
Like I said, the difference between the forecasts of past crackpots, and the current extinction event, is that the crackpots made crazy predictions with poor understanding of the world, whereas the extinction event is an observable fact

As in 'lets see how many species whe have left - oo, there goes one... and there another'.

Human beings have made a great impact to our environment and it saddens me an intelligent person such as you can bypass it with a shrug.

Do you remember the slight problem we had with CFC compounds destroying the ozone layer in the 80's? Well, it was an observable fact - and it was fixed by placing controls. So, less people die of skin cancer which I think is nice.

With your attitude we should have just let the CFC flow and tell australians not to worry so much about increasing cancer rates but rather just be cool and wear longer sleeves.

I have great faith in humanitys spirit and skill, but we are now a species which operates on a planetary scale and we should acknowledge it.

I would like to avoid ecological disasters before they become undoable ala easter islands.
So why stay in the UK? While appealing the extradition to Sweden, he was happy to stay in the UK. It was only when the UK legal system said that he had to go to Sweden that he went to Ecudarian embassy?
Checked my parents PC on a visit this morning to find the latest Patch Tuesday set of updates hadn't installed automatically because Windows Update was too busy advertising Windows 10. I was also greeted with a balloon popup rather than just the subtle GWX icon in the tray nagging me to install it.

Microsoft are pushing this OS fervently and, given their aggressive service integration, I've recently been musing about whether the Microsoft of today are really 'better' just because they've become more open with their software, or whether they're actually just a different, possibly nastier, kind monopolistic threat.

We could look back in 5 years and see the majority using Bing (via the Start Menu), Cortana, IE, OneDrive, and syncing all their devices through MS servers and cringe. Microsoft can't win on the strength of their brand when it comes to consumer facing services (except for Xbox), so maybe integration will see them break through and muscle out the likes of Chrome, Google, Gmail, Android, and Dropbox.... if W10 on mobile takes off that is.

Oddly, despite not owning and having never owned any Apple product, I find myself comforted these days that they are there with an almost bottomless pile of money.
Wow, how much is the UN paying you to shill for their crummy organization.
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I'm working on a PHP based solution for some personal projects ATM.

Feel free to check it out: https://github.com/diarmuidie/ImageRack

The big difference between ImageRack and most others solutions is that you pre-define the available image manipulations templates on the server side (for example a template for thumbnails, large images, iPad sizes etc.). I'm not a fan of letting the client generate multiple versions of an image by changing the URL (i.e. http://resize.ly/450x150/http://resize.ly/img/kittens/kitty-...).
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