skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a more in-depth analysis of windows 10 and what is sent to MS

http://aeronet.cz/news/analyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-j...

For those who don't speak Czech:
-It sends all text you type anywhere (not just into search) every 30 minutes to MS. If you type about a holiday to your blog, next day you'll see holiday ads.

-Every 30 minutes it sends your geo-location and network information.

-If you type a telephone number into Edge it sends it to MS after 5 minutes.

-If you type anywhere in Windows a name of some movie, Windows will start indexing all your media files after a while and will send it to MS after 30 minutes of your inactivity.

-After installing W10, it will send about 35MB of data once.

-After turning on your webcam for the first time it sends data to microsoft once.

-Everything you say is transferred to MS, it works even if you disable and remove and uninstall cortana. Parts of Cortana are needed for the core of the OS to run.

-Voice is transferred every 15 min, 80MB of data.

-After 15 minutes of your inactivity or when screensaver is on, network activity ramps up and everything else is being sent to MS.

-Blocking in hosts doesn't work, IPs are hardcoded into their code and DLLs.
Flash is like a staunch zombie - just never dies.
For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, the AI koan on power cycling:

'A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.'

See the rest at
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html
> The phrase that being overweight is "simply calories in vs calories out" is both trivially true and completely unhelpful.

Why is it completely unhelpful? The corollary is that if you adjust your intake to X (where X might have to be determined empirically for the individual), and use planning and your conscious brain to know when and what to eat, you _will_ lose weight.

This is a revelation to some people, who, once they realize the simplicity of it and plan around it, are able to completely change their bodies. Many of these same people try various intuitive plans that don't work for them (because they don't have the intuition) or try to manipulate exercise first (which makes some people increase appetite).

If you don't believe me that it works, is useful, and is a revelation, go lurk on the myfitnesspal forums for a while or /progresspics on reddit and read how people succeed.
> That's the point. If you sell immediately, it's roughly the same as getting cash. If you sit on the stock, you need to worry about capital gains/losses and the tax implications.

No, you only need to worry about having a capital loss. A capital gain and the associated taxes are always going to put you ahead of the game.

> Short-term capital gains are a pretty big deal. The gap between short-term and long-term capital gains taxes is up to 20%.

Be that as it may, 60.4% of something is better than 100% of nothing.

> Sure, you can play the market-timing game. I don't think that holding stock for less than a year is generally a good idea, due partly to the tax difference but largely because I'm not trying to time the market.

I'd say it has less to do with timing the market per se, and more to do with already being overexposed to your employer as a source of financial risk. But I agree with your underlying point that for most people it makes the most sense to sell imminently.

I commented to clear up some things about the tax code. Although it is a mess, rarely is it the case that it reverses incentives altogether. And it certainly doesn't here. Having a short term capital gain is a good thing, not a bad thing.
It's made worse by the fact that when people give up on losing weight (and most people that fail to do so eventually will give up), they tend to give up by giving in to their own stereotype - eating buckets of fried chicken and guzzling soda. They've created a scarcity reaction in themselves by avoiding all the unhealthy crap that is out of proportion to the actual hardship involved - psychology is a messy business.

So then people see them indulging themselves and think "No wonder he's so fat, look what he eats", and confirmation bias gives them a nice hug.
> What you do on the public streets is presumably something you don't mind the people seeing.

The law of certain countries disagree with your.

A simple example that applies to the Italian law and to almost all continental EU countries. You are allowed to take pictures of every public crowd, simple. BUT you are not allowed to share (display) those pictures if they contain elements that could lead to the identification of somebody who is "already known to the general public". [1] The definition of "already known to the general public" is very fuzzy.

In addition, you are going to be in trouble if you publish a photo a crowd where there are minors and the faces of those minors have not been blurred or authorized.

[1] http://www.fotografi.org/pubblicabilita_foto_ritratto_esempi...
All the CEOs I'd consider "evil" have been faithful from what I can tell. You're making an argument you can't support for reasons that seem 100% emotionally hysterical to me.

"Look at other women?! I'm not buying his product!" This is no different than "A Hindu running a company? No thank you sir! I only go with good honest Christian men!"

In a large company the CEO does little more than attract investor money and recruit senior leadership, if that. The idea that his sex lies are going directly in your software is hilariously puritanical.
There's actually a fair number of security researchers looking at browser-level exploits like those in JIT (c.f. pwn2own). My colleague Chris Rolhf co-authored a cool study on attacking JIT: https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/resources/jit/
One reason why flash is not going anywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_televis...
NSTimeZone
Wow that's insane! And I'm glad you're an awesome parent. You should post a anonymised screenshot of that email sometime if you can, this is pretty ridiculous.
I just want to offer everyone a professional piece of advice. Large down moves in equity markets is exactly when you should buy equities because that's when expected returns are at their highest.
So whats the cause now? China being a big bubble??
I didn't realize Acorn was a solo act. I ignored since I bought Pixelmator first, but now I have to go buy Acorn to support the guy just out of respect.
See for instance: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/9p_services_using_srv,...

TLS tunneling is common. v9fs and diod give SSH port forwarding as an option. It's very generic, so the options are plentiful. 9P is formally transport-agnostic, from what I recall. Plan 9 natively preferred IL over TCP for a while before officially deprecating it around 2003.
Stop with the, "They criticized a company I like; they must be hostile to them!" stuff. It's a pretty spot on article.
Could one make a bot to make money off crashes like these (like gp post suggested). It would seem circuit breakers would limit that possibility, and also, didn't they revert trades in the past during such flash crashes as well?
That's exactly the problem: "it fits with the majority of use cases". What happens when I want to create a form-group element where label comes after the input? Do I need another component like <FormGroupReversed /> or do I need to add an attribute "reversed" to the initial component? I guess I have to go look in the documentation. So here I am, searching documentation to find a way to simply change the order of html elements. And that's just an example. Not to mention that in a week I won't remember what exactly the "reversed" attribute means.

The thing with html, you're gonna start fighting it sooner or later. And when this moment comes, i would prefer to find solutions to the wide-known html problems, not to the problems specific to this library, which may kind of create them in the first place.

One of the advantages of React compared to Angular is that you don't have to learn specific angular syntax — you are encouraged to use native javascript as much as you can.
Same goes for html — i'd like to use native html as much as I can. It has enough problems of its own, but at least I know those problems, and which I don't, i'm pretty much sure i can google solution for.

But these component-wrappers are not solving html problems, they are creating shortcuts which are definitely shorter, but rarely intuitive and introduce new syntax and may introduce new problems.
What's more disingenuous is they tie guns to suicide.

Suicide is a mental health problem, not a gun problem. The problem isn't that guns are an efficient tool for suicide - the problem is people are attempting suicide to begin with.
I am a solo programmer. In London. I rarely see anyone in my day to day. I work from home. I binge work, sometimes for 18-24 hours at a time - I loose track. I love it. I love my life.

I have almost finished my latest fun project. I'm collecting 25k data points a second. I control 38 servers. I have automated absolutely everything.

i would love to sell it now, but not sure how
All the figures in this book is missing (or at least up to the end of first chapter that I've read). Anyone knows where I can find the figures?
No wonder they intend to no longer describe what's in an update... Only using Windows in a VM still. Just set the network connection host-only. Didn't really need internet there anyway, and given these circumstances, I might as well get rid of it completely. I guess any inclination I had to think Microsoft is on the way up just vanished again. Too bad it also means I'm probably going to throw away my plans of diving into F#. Open source, but still too tied to this company I'd better just give up on.
Many Steam games work great under WINE, both on Linux and OS X desktops!
> Thinking for yourself and eating a naked mole rat every day for dinner because "they don't get cancer"?

I bet naked mole rats taste great. I wouldn't hold it against anyone.

That said, the problem runs even deeper than what you indicate: "mainstream media" (and even not-so-mainstream media) also tends toward things like faith healing and magic crystals and "a $GEOLOCATION_RESULT mom discovered this one stupid trick and doctors HATE her!" because humans are enamored by the extraordinary and tend to give extraordinary things undue attention. It's rare to find a news organization that doesn't fall victim to this for the simple reason that they are run by humans who - more often than not - have difficulty identifying and addressing such biases, and in turn inadvertently pass them on to their readers and viewers.

This is the same reason why Peter Popoff - despite having been uncovered as a fraud decades ago - is still in business, getting paid programming on the Discovery Channel while selling "Chernobyl water" that's probably from some tap in Odessa, TX. Humans crave the extraordinary, and when they don't, they crave wealth.
Ask HN: Best Small Company (~25-50 Users) Router Setup?
Without resulting to hiring an IT consultant, what would be a good wireless routing hardware setup for a company in a single office with around 25-50 employees?
Boot off a live CD (e.g. Ubuntu) and run lspci from a terminal session then post it here.

You may find the drivers you need are available in a separate 'restricted' or 'non-free' repository. It is unusual these days on desktop/laptop oriented installs to have to 'hunt down' anything.

Very very recent hardware can still be problematic mind you.
It's less fair, though, to say, "Nobody knows with what will happen next, therefore X will happen next," as the grandparent did. Surrounding the argument from uncertainty with a few popular talking points doesn't make it any less fallacious.
Help seeking is definitely part of the problem. UK charity "The Campaign Against Living Miserably"[1] and Australian charity(?) "Soften The Fck Up" both campaign to make it easier for men to talk about mental health and to seek help. UK charity "Time to Change" has a number of campaigns to destigmatise mental health, some of which are targeted at men.

But in the UK there has been a rise in rate of suicide amoung people already known to MH services, so we need to be a bit careful not to put all the "blame" on help seeking behaviours.

(I'm interested in other anti-stigma organisations, where ever they're based and whatever demographic they target.)

[1] Calmzone is currently banned from Facebook. I don't know why. https://www.thecalmzone.net/

http://softenthefckup.com.au/ -- they don't censor the word on the website.

http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/
Finding things in the sea is basically a question of radar reflectivity and the search area. A ship in the north Atlantic? Its big flat steel sides reflect lots of radar signals, and the search area, while large, is (compared to the pacific and indian oceans) rather small. I don't doubt that anyone looking for this ship would find it fairly quickly.

The problems with MH370 were twofold. One - initially nobody actually knew where it was. The search area was HUGE, and for the first few days there was much less information about the aircraft location. The eventual search area was selected based on quite detailed analysis of the satellite pings the aircraft sent. This took time. It took 9 days for the search to even start in the southern Indian Ocean. Even once they'd figured out roughly where it had gone down, the search area was still astronomically big. Two - aircraft wreckage isn't nearly as reflective to radar as a ship. An aluminium panel floating flat in the ocean will have a very similar reflection profile to the surrounding water.

I think you need a fourth option. Large countries definitely have a technical advantage, but the military still has to obey the laws of physics. Large budgets and no legal restrictions probably put military technology a generation or two ahead of comparable civilian technology - it's better, but it's not magic.
Show HN: Webaudio waveform stem tracks mute/solo/volume
We will retire and the Fed will end up bailing out the IOUs on the SS trust fund.

This is not a problem so long as it's done once. All SS money ends up strengthening the metric formerly known as M3, so it'll work out just fine.

The problem is the closely-held belief that There Must Be Suffering or we're not being responsible adults. The economy has been liquidity constrained ( outside of bubbles ) since 1980, with the odd 24 or 12 month period off.

http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/3212.html
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, that link says "holdings" which doesn't mean "buyers."
How iOS ad blocking performs in the real world
Ashley Madison Offering $500K Reward for Info on Hackers
I don't mean they have to specifically have this or that account, the point is building your own portfolio of work and a history of productive professional engagement has never been easier. Maybe you already have a work history that puts you beyond that kind of issue, but for those who don't there are numerous ways to build a presence. Don't like GitHub or programming phones? Heroku has a free tier and there's always Google AppEngine. SO doesn't float your boat? How about a blog on a subject that does? I can't even count the ways a young techie has to stand out from the crowd. I'm not saying it's required or in any way mandatory from my perspective, but given a choice between two otherwise similar candidates, the one with an engaging and accessible portfolio of work will win out.
Thanks, Mr. CEO!
Interesting read. Kind of like a mosaic identity.
You probably have adblock on.
This is just ideology.
Just the other day...

Terry Davis showing a game using his own graphics libraries, compiled with his own compiler, running on his own OS:

https://youtu.be/EsFPq6I13vA?t=300

Though I suppose the article has a commercial/organisational slant.
As those bonds mature, the Fed is continually buying more to keep their balance relatively constant. Nothing is "over" until they manage to withdraw all that extra liquidity.

Which is the tricky part.
works fine for me on firefox (adblock on). you have to click the right arrow ">" for the presentation to begin.
That was hyperbole on my part really. There are about 10% of people with some form of diabetes, and one or two percent for the other conditions. That's a 'large percentage' if you compare it with other unifying factors across the population (you can't say '12% percent of people have X condition' for many medical problems), but I guess it's not strictly a large percentage on it's own.
Even easier (buying hubs is hard) and possibly cheaper (switches with mirror ports aren't the cheapest) is to just stick two network cards into your linux box, set up a layer-2 bridge and sniff everything going between.

CentOS/RedHat derivitives: https://www.banym.de/linux/centos/setup-bridge-device-on-cen...

Debian/Ubuntu: https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections
It was obvious hyperbole, directed at the poster I was responding to, a fairly typical speech pattern. Did you actually get the impression I was trying to suggest that literally every thin person in the country thinks in the same way?

But you clearly missed my point. Eating is a cause and an effect. If every obese person in the country ate exactly like 'the thin people do' (by which I assume you mean the same foods and quantities) then yeah, most of them wouldn't be obese. That is exactly the kind of 'simple statement' I was talking about.

If all of the stupid people in the country learned the same things the smart people do, we'd be in much better shape educationally too.
Usually happens before a big political shift. Buy the viix.
Yeah, right. Quick and dirty CLI experience is a bit different from fancy GUI!
Radiolab had a story on it:
http://www.radiolab.org/story/antibodies-part-1-crispr/

As I recall: it works great, is super cheap (~ $80 per application?), and is pretty easy to use, they successfully used it on rats already and it seems like it should work on any type of organism.
Microsoft's got even bigger balls then I thought they had... I hope this is the beginning of the end.
Dwarf Fortress is definitely one of those cases. I was (kind of) surprised it didn't make the list.

Beyond it being an ongoing epic masterpiece of a single man (with contributions from his brother), what's particularly amazing about Dwarf Fortress is how much it has inspired and influenced OTHER games being produced, despite being an extremely niche, unforgiving, and unapologetic game.
Thanks for the answer so far.
Let me give an example. I've been told that iOS developers these days, who are experienced (eg: over 4 years experience) should make $150/hour as contractors.

I've seen people trying to hire iOS devs ("agencies" that doe client work type places) for $80-$100 an hour.

Is toptal-- the "top %3" paying closer to $150? Or closer to $80?
The $xxxxB sat in banks as excess reserves that the Fed paid interest on. None of it hit the real economy.
7 Knee Surgeries Forces Pro Basketballer to Retireand Start a Business
> I would imagine that while it's easy to edit the sequence for cells in a petri dish, editting the cells of an entire organism (human) is not likely to happen in our lifetime?

We've been doing it experimentally for decades, though the technique is controversial. Recently, a few gene therapies have been approved for clinical use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy
Agreed! How hard is it _not_ to do something? If you eat less than your BMR, you will lose weight. Period. The fact that _maybe_ there are some people who can overeat and poop it out instead of storing it as fat is interesting, but so what.

Obesity is the worst problem facing America right now, and we're all enablers.
Ask HN: How do I learn about financial matters as a software engineer?
Hello there,

Just wanted to ask how I can learn about financial matters like equity, stocks et al? I am a recent grad and have little knowledge about financial management. I'd like to know more about it so that I can plan my finances better.
"Calories in vs calories out" is really just Occam's razor in action an hence helpful. At least it was helpful to me to re-engineer my lifestyle from 10h TV per day and fastfood as a teenager to regular workouts and healthy food.
Apple CEO Tim Cook May Have Violated SEC Rules with Jim Cramer Email
Very true, and in fact I had "almost entirely" there for a brief moment. Although I'd like to offer the counter-argument that journalists should be listing known agendas and funding sources that may create biases when reporting on these stories. That's their job. I know it's an idealist pipe-dream, but to me a journalist's highest calling is reporting on corruption and corporate shenanigans exactly like that.

So yes, this is more of a shared problem, but the media has let us down here, too.
I'm not sure I understand your answer. The event listener is added via react's 'onClick' attribute which is consistent across all elements.

Things like button's text, color, visibility is nicely controlled via adding/removing classes. And this <Button /> element can create enough spaghetti of its own, too, with attributes like "size", "type", etc, if overused. And with some attributes it can be hard to distinguish native html attributes from component-specific attributes.
Great teaching tool, thank you.
Is any of this verified? During a previous posting of this it was largely dismissed as propaganda [1]. If someone has reproduced these findings that would be very interesting.

What would be even more interesting would be for someone to intercept the spying data that is being sent back so we know for sure what's being sent.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053420
Beta is a coefficient that attempts to measure an investment's likelihood to move 'with the market.' The total market has a Beta == 1 by definition, with beta ratings above 1 indicating higher volatility/sensitivity to market movements, and vice-versa. See Wikipedia for how the calculations are made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_%28finance%29

In this context, I a 'high beta investment' is likely to move with the market, ie) is dependent on some aspect of market performance. 'Beta capital' I think refers to using sources of capital that are likely to become more or less available depending on the market. I've never heard of capital sources being given beta values though, so I think this may be a finance/VC colloquialism rather than an actual calculated value.

Disclaimer: I am not a VC and may be totally wrong.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/beta.asp
Of course :)

I agree that employability is something the students, parents and society _want_ after college.

But look at it this way, if a student decides to major in philosophy, whose fault is it if the student graduates and ends up as a admin-assistant on the first job out of college? It sounds like some want to blame the university system and that's wrong.
The vast readership... on a site where open source is the primary religion and the readership includes a significant population of Slashdot escapees. Look up "confirmation bias" and "preaching to the choir".