skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concerning thing is that our police here seem to think that they are soldiers who are in Iraq.

They also fail to recognize that scanning large swaths of civilians breeds intense resentment from an already hostile population and ends up causing more support for the insurgency. Knowing American cops, I can't envision an iris scan being committed without some snarky negging from the officer.
Well, so let's talk about what W10 is doing right now.

You are dismissing what somebody claimed to see W10 doing, because you don't think the source is trustworthy. Fair enough, but the privacy policy claims the exact same thing.

Now you are claiming that the privacy policy is just some fictitious document where MS writes every kind of stuff their client won't like to read, but they also won't bother practicing? Despite evidence (weak that it may be) that they are practicing it right now?
time to start rocking these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRj8whKmN1M
> I don't want to be a brat, but what is the possible overlap between people caring to use Tor (for whatever reason) and people using Windows 10 as the host OS ?

Journalists.

There are many journalists who need to cover sensitive topics, who are not particularly technically literate. They need to be able to buy a system off the shelf, do some minimal and easy amount of installation of privacy protection, and be reasonably confident that it will work and they will not be outing their sources to whatever particular despot is listing in.

Of course, Tails is a better solution for that. But in terms of being able to allow them to do their job as easily as possible, it would be preferable for them to be able to install the Tor browser bundle on their existing OS rather than having to learn an entirely new one (and possibly dual boot in order to run some Windows-only software, and not keep it isolated well enough and thus leak information accidentally).

It apparently took a while to teach Glen Greenwald enough of how to use Tor and GPG in order for Snowden to be able to communicate with him. We need to make this process easier, not harder.
> is already being made illegal... (see: burqa bans)

I'm not even allowed to wear a baseball cap in my local public library.
It's hard to see the utility in a bunch of individual unassociated dictionary words being sent back. Maybe there is some that I just don't know about. However, my money is on them being more confident in their scrubbing than is warranted. There have been so many cases in the past where companies have scrubbed and anonymized data, only to find that they missed something critical.
I got the Nash consolation prize
> Poor engineering of the reactor itself? Absolutely not. The reactor was engineered extremely well; if it hadn't been, the radiation release due to the extended loss of backup power would have been much worse.

I've always had trouble understanding why the nuclear reactors weren't powering their own pumps. What sort of engineering situation led to them requiring yet another generator? Were they powered from the power grid instead of directly from the reactors?

> It was bureaucrats who were too ignorant to understand the issues involved.

This is so frustrating. But we can't expect elected officials to be experts on every subject matter.
Love this. Sometimes testing can be a huge pain in the ass. I know more than one project I work on where getting them to run is a lot of effort in itself.

There is something to be said about code quality and having tests run in under a few seconds. The ideal situation is when you can have a barrage of tests run as fast as you are making changes to code. If we ever got to the point of instant feedback that didn't suck I'd think we'd change a lot about how we think about tests.
These changes don't sound like they're really addressing the core problem.

Here's how things currently work:

- Broadcaster sets rates.

- Cable company negotiates and eventually settles (with or without blackouts).

- Cable company bundles these rates with other rates from other channels and passes it on to the consumer.

- Cable company gets the backlash from the consumer as a result of rate hikes.

So as you can likely tell, broadcasters have too much power, because cable companies will ultimately be blamed either for blackouts (failed negotiations) OR for rate hikes. So it puts them in a lose/lose situation.

Instead what cable should be doing is:

- Unbundle channels entirely.

- Pass on rate increases to the consumer for that specific channel.

- Itemise how much of what you pay goes to the broadcaster Vs. the cable company

- Alternatively the cable company could charge $0 on the channels themselves (100% broadcaster) and charge a "delivery fee" or "service fee" on the entire account.

This way the broadcaster gets blamed for the rate hikes directly from consumers, and consumers now have more power to drop certain channels if they feel the value they receive is lower than the cost they pay (e.g. $5/month for Trutv).

That's what the FCC should be doing.
In other words, they're acting rationally.

If the market clearing price for rental accommodations increases, why shouldn't landlords raise their rents in concert with that changed market dynamic?
My family and I lived in Mountain view for 2 years. We knew we'd only be there for a year or two, and decided to rent, not buy.

After two years, we'd sunk $120K into our rental. Meanwhile, a friend bought a house at the same time for $1.3M and sold it just before we left for $1.6M. Even after real estate commissions, taxes, mortgage interest (which is tax deductible) and upkeep, I'm sure he came out well ahead of us.
Meh. Not impressive.
> how a stock performs long term.

i.e. increases in price. If it stayed the same long term there's no point holding it due to the opportunity cost.
I totally agree. I just moved my family of 4 to the Bay Area and we chose to just buy outright, despite the huge sticker shock and more limited availability.

To meet our needs (space + good schools + public transit commutes to SF) we were looking at upwards of $4K/month to rent a dilapidated shack where we'd likely have to give up our family dog to qualify as renters. And then be subject to 4-5% increases per year from the landlords.

Paying an extra $1K/month and getting both the mortgage interest deduction + property tax deduction made far more financial sense. And we actually got more choices in terms of better quality housing for our family.
That's what I wonder as well. We've been inundated with mobile interaction for the last 7 sevens that maybe it's ok to start peeling off some of the layers.

If you started with the flat iOS UI from the beginning it would have been very difficult to get accustomed to. Nowadays, we don't rely on those skeuomorphic affordances because we assume touch interfaces are the defacto.

That said though, I do agree that we should think critically about seasoned vs beginner interfaces. We should strive to accommodate both without causing detriment to one group or another.
You can raise this at https://windows.uservoice.com/forums/265757-windows-feature-...
It depends how you define bloat. If you define bloat strictly as number of dependencies, then sure, the Node ecosystem encourages more "bloat" than any other mainstream ecosystem.

But if you define bloat as "inclusion of features I'm not using," the Node ecosystem is lean and mean. If I only need 15 of the 250 functions that Lodash provides, I can include each of those 15 functions as an individual package. Yes, it increases disk space, because each dependency ships a package.json and a README and subdependencies aren't shared, but disk space is cheap. Decreasing the surface area of my library dependencies is worth it for my development happiness.

I think the criticism you want is "ultra-modular." You can make an argument that Node's proliferation of tiny, one-function packages is a maintenance burden and causes discoverability problems. Personally, I disagree: any effort to move towards a world where you never have to write a line of code someone else already has is well worth it. And from an end-user perspective, it shouldn't matter at all. `npm install` on average takes no longer than `gem install` for me, despite NPM pulling in orders of magnitude more packages.

(Python might be bloated; have you ever looked at the complete stdlib? There are some horrifying pieces: urllib2, email, turtle (?!).)

P.S. Check out libsass [0], a re-implementation of Sass in C with [probably] bindings to your favorite programming language.

[0]: https://github.com/sass/libsass
Compare the usability of newer versions of iOS with older versions, then. In my opinion, there's been a lot of regression.
Yeah, you have to trust the site and their providers of course. But how do you know your OS provider doesn't serve you backdoored updates? Until it was abused by malware, Windows Update used to accept stuff signed by a 512-bit RSA key. Do you personally reverse engineer every binary you accept?

This will change soon though, they're working on browser extensions which will keep all content client side too.

EDIT: Clarified some points, added a little more detail.
Except when it's not a moot point.

My wife likes to watch soccer when it's on. We have basic cable, so we don't have ESPN. It's either watch using an antenna attached to our TV, watch using low def blurry crap the cable company shows or use some virus-laden app to watch it with a computer.
That's awesome. Let's keep in touch :)
Facebook’s Privacy Breach: Your App usage data is out in open?
Lenovo is now off our desktop purchasing vendor list.
At least with google I know they're trying to sell me ads and I'm the product.

With windows 10, I have to pay for the software, and somehow I'm still the product? I don't know their end game, and its really sketchy.
Author seems to me to mainly focus on the gestures of an interface. I'm not a big fan of greasy fingered swiping on a tablet or phone. I'll use it if I have to, but won't prefer it.

Three fingers swipe up is back and two fingers in a circle is save?! Not literally, but there's usually a dozen different gestures all with ambiguous meaning. At least ambiguous to me. But I don't have an immediate fix for the tablet interface.

I guess I'm an old fogy and prefer typing on a keyboard with my withered vestigial arms.
Show HN: Branch Deepviews – Autogenerated app content previews with deep links
If you have seen Ridley Scott's Prometheus, this might be a bit unsettling to have in your home. Last thing I need is a Xenomorph running around the house!
I guess this isn't up for discussion on HN.

Blasted from the top page straight out of the top 1000!
The source-code in OpenJDK can be inspected and OpenJDK itself can be forked if Oracle's stewardship goes awry, which is the whole freaking point of open-source, so I don't see how that can compare with Windows or iOS.
Air Drop not working is a technical bug. It should work (but often randomly doesn’t for no discernible reason).
Are Windows Retail Version Upgrading to Win 10 OEM?
>BTW: assuming they can do this stuff, they presumably can read the sensor pretty darn fast

What's funny is that the iPhone (and a high end Android phone) has way faster processors than your typical $10.000 DSLR.
I don't know what am I supposed to see in your test. I see the image in its original resolution but much darker.
You must not be from around here :-)

The cost of the most significant expenses in family budgets: housing, healthcare and education has been rising far, far above (10-15%) the official rate of inflation (2-3%) for years now.

These cost increases have been "remedied" by providing semi-cheap debt (housing and education) and tax breaks (healthcare). Not sustainable.
I like the concept in theory, but the execution (just looking at some of the screenshots on the site) looks poorly done. The interface is unbelieveably cluttered and hairy. I don't think I could code in that at all. :/
The evolution of the Dolphin Smalltalk MVP application framework (2000) [pdf]
Another reply to my comment has disputed the claim but on a different reason. Sweden is saying they're happy to do the interview now - they weren't previously - in the UK now but can't get permission from Ecuador.
Startup pioneers
In this case it is a bit unfair.

The difference is mainly about leasing agreements for Tesla cars and how much such a lease is worth to Tesla. GAAP was/is definitely too pessimistic. Tesla's own accounting may be too optimistic. I believe Tesla's guess is pretty good. We'll see.
Well, AWS's costs have been constantly decreasing during the last years. I am actually quite impressed with the new RDS Aurora update, both as far as performance and pricing. Especially since migrating from MySQL is as complex as a configuration switch, with a 5x increase in performance!
There is an interesting symbiosis developing between NYC Mesh and my startup Canopy: the data mesh wants power, the power mesh wants data. Both want the other to be more resilient and less expensive.

In the pic at the top of the article, taken on my rooftop, you can see a white, round thing. This is a ubiquiti nanobeam wifi radio. Just below it you can see a solar panel. It belongs to an off-grid solar power unit called Ra http://canopyrising.com/#ra. The nanobeam is now bolted directly onto the solar power unit Ra enabling the node to support the local data mesh during a blackout.

On the roof and inside Ra, a beaglebone black runs the http://sunpress.co network of websites directly on off-grid solar power.

Ra also delivers solar power for lighting and usb charging in the form of the Canopy Cuba table http://canopyrising.com/#cuba , a bedside table that stores days worth of power and is found in the http://tremolino.co guest rooms 1 floor down.

Canopy aims to create a marketplace where neighbors who invest in the products to generate solar power trade with those who invest in capacity to store it.

Unlike traditional solar and storage, which is limited to property owners as it requires financing, design, permitting, and installation; Canopy is accessible renters and owners as it is low cost and requires no financing, no design, no permitting, and no install.
Clinical trials begin for Russia’s first medical exoskeleton
Yes, they existed, and that's where we got the fare data from.
Amusingly, I also have a cheap-ass Jeep, and gee, you're right, it has no problem running the radio for at least an hour with the ignition off.

So if you think this is a sustainable, scalable state of affairs, at a time when automotive tech is undergoing its greatest disruption since the horse, we'll leave the discussion at that. I'll just say that I think this is a really bad time to aim their business plan at a fixed target, and one that I'm not sure they actually understand.
>I don't think it would properly recover an image with a dark field with the exception of a single pixel with a value of 10^7 above the dark noise.

Then again it doesn't matter, because that's a contrived example (the photography equivalent of a "microbenchmark").
Can anyone please share the list of GPO's to block in enterprise environment
Works fine for me
So Lenovo figured 6 months was enough time for the PR dust to settle on the Superfish fiasco [1] before risking customer security again.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9072424
What kind of security measures do you have in place to prevent from malicious attacks?
I miss the super saturated double gradient Bloomberg used to have on their banners and feature images after the redesign.
Yup. Our house already has two little nightmares running around.
On the other hand, Tesla's accounting only figures on spending a few hundred dollars per car to pay for free, unlimited SuperCharger access for the lifetime of the car. Which is frankly absurd. You put a free, unlimited SuperCharger in somebody's backyard and of course they're going to use the heck out of it; it's like getting paid $15/hr to read the internet or a book or whatever else you do while charging. That's free money.

At 22% profit without credits that means with credits they're making say at least $40k profit per car sold. This is like 1/4 year of sales... but they need ever more money, now? Why? Maybe Model X reservations are cannibalizing S sales? Or they need to throw money at 3 because the competition is going to have an equivalent car out sooner? Or so battery factory comes online before LG Chem's new production?

This doesn't add up for me. It seems to me either their accounting is not accurate or they are seriously far behind the competition.
Where's an App for That? Applying the Unix Philosophy to the Modern Desktop
> Your guess, while not a winner, was better than those of 95 percent of all readers. Take a bow.

So the answer to this headline, finally, is "yes." Eat it, Betteridge.
I'm super curious how Stripe approaches end-to-end testing (like Selenium/browser testing, but maybe something more bespoke too)

My understanding is that they have a large external dependency (my term: "the money system"), and running integration tests against it might be tricky or even undependable. Do they have a mock banking infrastructure they integrate against?
This idea keeps coming up as stephengillie said and he made a good point as to why it's the other way round right now.

I think it's more important to cultivate an entrepreneurial attitude and business skills with consultants / freelancers. Many freelancers still see themselves as mere coders / temporary employees whereas I think they rather should consider themselves business problem solvers and entrepreneurs.

The IT freelance market pretty much depends on recruiters, who are nothing else but expensive middleman and gatekeepers. At least part of the reason for this is that freelance developers apparently can't be bothered with lowly stuff such as the everyday problems of running a business.

This attitude is a fallacy in my opinion. Not only are business problem solvers paid better than developers but approaching your work from this perspective is also a lot more rewarding in the long run. Using JavaScript framework A or B or Java technology C or D? I couldn't care less. Solving an interesting business problem? That's something entirely different.

Besides, seeing yourself as an entrepreneur instead of a temp worker will allow you to talk more confidently with recruiters and clients alike.
Good point, but it's not just about limiting one's ability to move. Tying up most or all your savings in a down-payment plus taking out a large credit line sometimes means not having the freedom to invest elsewhere, go back to school, start a company, or start a family.
IRL privacy cat and mouse game.

There is already some work in the privacy clothing area. Almost makes it look like items for a sci-fi RPG.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2969732/privacy/how-japans-pr...

If you’re worried about Big Brother monitoring you from security cameras, Japan has developed eyewear that can keep you anonymous.

The Privacy Visor consists of a lightweight, wraparound, semitransparent plastic sheet fitted over eyewear frames. It’s bulky and not exactly stylish, but it could have customized designs.

It’s meant to thwart face-recognition camera systems through a very simple trick. It reflects overhead light into the camera lens, causing the area around the eyes to appear much brighter than it normally does.

http://ahprojects.com/projects/stealth-wear/

Building off previous work with CV Dazzle, camouflage from face detection, Stealth Wear continues to explore the aesthetics of privacy and the potential for fashion to challenge authoritarian surveillance.

Presented by Primitive at Tank Magazine were a suite of new designs that tackle some of the most pressing and sophisticated forms of surveillance today. The countersurveillance solutions include a series of ‘Anti-Drone’ garments and the Off Pocket™, a privacy accessory that allows you to instantly zero out your phone’s signal.

How long until they're outlawed just like encryption will.

edit: is there any proper way to easily quote text? So that it stays text wrapped.
Open Source Integration with Apache Camel
That is because the Japanese currency has been moribund for about 15 years. There have been many periods where you could actually make a profit by lending someone money at 0%. A 1% interest rate in the US would not even keep up with inflation; the lender would lose money on every loan.
Show HN: Realtime news monitoring in your Slack #channel
...and yet, if you want to watch, say, the Superbowl online, you do need cable.
How do you arrange your PG clusters, are you using streaming replication?
Look. Seriously. Like, totally.

Not everyone interested in Tor is educated enough to reinstall an OS. Or they need Windows for something else they do. Or 50 other things. Or maybe we're concerned about VPN leakage, or any other thing than tor that we might use to obfuscate traffic.
> Can you give some examples of the stuff that does actually have switches?

Yeah, if you disable the Search thing in the start menu for example, it _does_ stop sending your queries to Bing. That switch does work. It just sends a bunch of tracking info instead.

On Enterprise, you can also disable telemetry which does appear to work.
Here's the paper link: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/publications/pdfs/Nayar_ICC...
Apple releases iOS 8.4.1 with Apple Music and Beats 1 fixes
I don't know if I'd agree with you. For as far back as I can remember, renting has been cheaper than buying when I did the math. Only very recently, with skyrocketing rents and nearly-zero interest rates, has buying become cheaper month-to-month.
I don't like this argument. It's not necessarily you who has to audit your software. You can pay other people to do it. Big companies can pay for it. Your government's institutions can pay for it. If on the other hand the software is closed-source, then that's not an option. And especially for governments and for big companies Windows is a security liability.
Apple releases OS X 10.10.5 update with Mail, Photos, and security improvements
Oh, do not misinterpret my discussion here. I am in no way interested in starting an agency. In fact, quite the opposite. I would like to find one ;)

I get contacted by recruiters all of the time and that is the problem! Which should I listen to? Which should I make a relationship with moving forward to find more business? Which are going to negotiate well for me?

The other issue is that we are paying them for their services, whether we like that idea or not. We may not be having to handle the tax implications and whatnot, but ultimately they negotiate a rate for me of say, $100 an hour. They negotiate a rate with the client of say, $150 an hour. To the client I cost $150 an hour (in fact most recruiters put it that way to them, that is my "bill rate"). I am paying them 50% anyway, in this scenario.
> Video is a done deal. Most cable companies lose money on their video packages anyway; they're a loss-leader for broadband subs at this point. In 5 years, nobody will be talking about the video business.

If that was the case, cable companies would stop selling me the TV package when I already pay the maximum amount for internet they offer in my area.

Yet, somehow, they are always willing to sell me cable TV with free HBO for 12 months and a $50 gift card for $19.99/month.
> OpenJDK itself can be forked

Tell that to Google.
If the commission rate affects your IRA return, you are trading far too much.
This doesn't make sense. If $200 Windows laptops were as nice to use as Chromebooks, they'd cannibalize mid-range windows machines rather than ChromeOS devices (and would be bad for OEMs' margins).

I value the simplicity, speed, security, responsiveness and convenience of my Chromebook, not just the low price tag, and I'd be stunned if these new budget Windows machines offered any of those things.
> Create a single hi-res image and Resize.ly will do the rest. You no longer have to mess with different image sizes.

What does that mean? What does Resize.ly do exactly?