skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, one thing to consider is that "natively-integrated" applications are slowly losing ground to cloud-based applications. Look at the apps for Chrome - they run on Chromebooks, Mac, Windows, and Linux.
You guys should publish a content-editable abstraction that fixes regular cases first and then build stuff like collaborative editor on top.
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."
Is it? The exact boundaries of Article 8 are unclear.

http://www.problemneighbours.co.uk/what-can-we-do-about-neig...
Could you filter this traffic on a network level? Having to provision and update every Windows PC on a network would be an administrative nightmare.
I'm curious to know what aspects of HTML5 you think harm UX and SEO.

I was under the impression that overall HTML5 benefited search engine indexing through defining and encouraging the use of semantic tags and embedded microdata. Plus extending the capabilities of the browser with geolocation, drag-and-drop, extended input types, etc.

If by "HTML5" you mean that more extensive browser capabilities lead to the trend of building fully client-side/single-page applications, maybe I could see something there.
These things happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KpzGfC9JP8
> display managers

You mean "window manager", right? Why would depend on a specific WM unless you were writing a WM-specific utility where no decision would be necessary? Your application only needs to target X11, which is implicit when you use a pre-existing toolkit.

> audio devices

What audio devices? Just write to the default ALSA device. Better yet, delegate the problem by linking to something like OpenAL.

I'm sure there are edge that are more complicated to port, but that is true for any OS. For most apps, porting shouldn't be particularly difficult.
But they might just use their wifi connection ;)
Me too. Found it to be a useful and interesting post – thanks mtgx.
Introverts can easily be good at certain types of sales, which as you correctly point out can often be more about problem-solving and where client interactions are usually structured discussions rather than battles for attention. But not all types of sales are the same, and selling magazine subscriptions door to door doesn't reward deep thought and is certainly tough for people that aren't energised by the prospect of introducing themselves to hundreds of people per day, never mind people who find forced interactions a bit awkward.

I think it stretches the definition of "introvert" somewhat to include people who chose to do door-to-door sales or flogging popcorn at football stadiums for fun, as Warren Buffett reportedly did.
I am also seeing downvotes in this thread I would not have expected, for what appear to be legit issues with Windows 10, even if some of the rhetoric is a wee hyperbolic.

I dont normally like to go meta and talk about voting, but this is the worst example I have probably ever seen.
The questionable part is that they're there in the first place and enabled by default. I'd be fine with that if the telemetry and what not was opt-in as opposed to a lot of toggle switches spread across multiple settings.
An interesting/semi-related question comes to mind - do the majority of comments on HN come from people who fall on the more extrovert side of the spectrum, or introvert side?
I think the fact that this is the top comment says a lot about the general sentiment of people working in the tech sector.
Or just switch to a less hostile operating system. As more things move to the web, this is becoming a very reasonable proposition.
There have been similar bugs in browser JITs that allow websites to escape the sandbox - usually incorrect optimisations that cause the JIT to elide bounds checks when it can't safely do so, probably since those are the easiest to exploit.
I didn't but I suspect because their first link looks like a malware pinata. They should have just linked to Github, rather than to some site with a whole host of fake "download" buttons, that looks a lot like CNet/Download.com.
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> New York had it far worse than us

Yeah, some of the banks were paying people to defer their offers to a later date.
For this reason I'm considering updating my Terms of Service to include a 'Windows 10 clause' clarifying that any OS that can't be trusted in its default state is in direct violation of any NDA provided by me and would nullify any NDA imposed by other parties.

This because, imho, the issue with every proposed 'fix' for Windows 10 is the same: The deal the Windows 10 buyer made with Microsoft is that Microsoft is allowed to monitor you. There is no guarantee that Microsoft won't disable any fix at a future time, like they do now with methods to bypass their software features (like activation).
The problem, if there is one, is not the data breach. The problem is this voyeuristic curiosity. It never even occurred to me to look at this data. How low would my self respect have to sink before I found it a good use of my time to go strolling in a sewer?
I think they were just pointing out that equating the racism seen in the US to the racism seen in Japan skews opinions. Racism is racism, no matter how overt or covert. Racism is defined as "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior." While in Japan you may not face much overt 'antagonism', you do, from what I'd read frequently, encounter overt and covert 'prejudice' as a non-Japanese.

So, your post referenced a person from the US as an example of Japan not being racism, but that seems like a simple matter of severity based on previous experience.
True. But Ubuntu is one of the most popular distros. I have noticed, for many non-technical users, the name "Ubuntu" is synonymous with linux.

At the end of the day, most of the technical users know how to stay protected. Atleast the type of people who can install a linux distro on their main computer.

It's kind of our fault, we need to make the general public understand these risks, we need to make solutions more accessible. Because, if this sort of thing continue, we would one day suddenly wake up to a world that would not respect anyone's privacy. How many big companies are caught violating user's privacy, remember superfish?

The funny thing is, big companies are starting to be more and more confident violating their user's privacy.
Any counter-example about this particular case?
The author claims that Chrome and other desktop browsers will be revoking all Flash support. Like it or not, the opposite is happening. Flash is directly integrated into Microsoft Edge. Google has also doubled down on supporting the Flash plugin in Chrome for the long haul; they continue to enthusiastically cooperate with Adobe to write code to improve the plugin. http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/07/significant-fl...

Adobe has no intention of ever announcing an EOL for Flash. People only think to use "EOL" and "Flash" in the same sentence because Alex Stamos made a melodramatic tweet during the uncomfortable 48 hour timespan between the world becoming aware of the existence of Hacking Team's 0-day and Adobe releasing a patch to fix it.
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The problem with a one-click approach is that one person's "legit feature" is another person's privacy nightmare.

I have no use for Cortana, so for me, it's nothing more than an annoyance to be disabled. But for others, it might be the one reason why they upgraded to Windows 10. Likewise, some tutorials out there advocate disabling Windows Defender, but I consider (at least some parts of) Windows Defender to be a legitimate feature.

I'm trying out Windows 10 in a VM, and so far I've managed to disable: everything in the privacy control panel, advertising ID in Edge, Cortana, OneDrive, web search from the taskbar, feedback, telemetry, and the half-crippled Start menu. Now it's just a slightly faster and flatter Windows 7. I'm not sure if I'll ever let it out of the hypervisor though.
Basically M$ adoption of this strategy is the death knell for any semblance of privacy on the PC.

I think if anything it would be users accepting this strategy by installing the new OS that would be the death knell for privacy on the PC. So far, it doesn't seem clear that this will happen, though.

The reaction from business is predictably hesitant anyway. Some of the concerns about Windows 10 won't apply so much with the more business-oriented versions, but in any case it seems likely that large organisations are going to do their homework, other than maybe a few high-profile early adopters who may or may not have been offered unusual incentives in return for being flag bearers.

As for home users, there was reportedly a post from someone on the Edge team a few days after the launch that gave some figures about adoption generally. They looked quite impressive at first sight, but if you extrapolated from the reported adoption rate, it would still take a substantial increase or a very long time to shift the market as a whole onto Win10, despite all the incentives and nag messages and free upgrades Microsoft have been pushing this time.

The one tiny data point I can contribute myself is that based on analytics I just checked for a consumer-focussed site I run, Edge hasn't even moved the needle on browser distributions this month.

So I'm not sure Microsoft get to sound the death knell for privacy on the PC. They can provide an OS that reduces privacy and raises concerns, but that doesn't necessarily mean people and businesses will choose to use it. Time will tell.
Yes we have funded high beta investments with high beta capital. This works great in the boom, but the unwind is a killer.
HN is not really tech worker dominated anymore.
> The Chinese Government has been graying out, if not altogether fudging, their economic indicators and propping up domestic investors.

Oh, is that specific to China?
I thought it'd be profiles of folks who went above and beyond myself. I now realize it's who cares as in who provides care, not who is empathetic.
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> supposedly opt-in but they were so convenient that most people opted in anyway

How is making a feature (that is opt-in) good enough to get people to opt-in a bad thing here?
That's literally a bog-standard privacy policy clause.

You can find the essentially same four points on everything from Ubuntu to Wikimedia.

Can you be more specific about which part of it you find particularly unreasonable? Can you explain how the claims that the privacy policy allows MS to share data with the MPAA are founded?
This is a main reason that I have avoided Android so far. The iOS permissions model is a far better model. At least with the next release of Android (Marshmallow) they are fixing some of this and hopefully you will be able to use apps without giving them access to so much info.
I am really impressed with the Team Jumpshare. They have got a world class product !!

Congrats nakodari !!
There is a weird catch 22 in that the pervasive use of TLS makes it much more difficult to firewall things like this. I suppose you could setup a MITM that checks everything before it leaves your network but that just feels wrong.
Russia walks the thin line - large population, huge social spendings, military spendings also, restrictions on borrowing cheap capital. Might be first to fall.

Makes me really want to move my savings (which are already in dollar mostly) out of Russian banks, but I'm not entirely sure where to. Or just burn those on something?
Linux on the Desktop works stunningly for me.

Seeing as you're an OS X fan I'm going to link you to this HN thread so we can go ahead and stop pretending that trash OS "just works":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10010395

As far as OSS interfaces go, I wouldn't be surprised if you're using an open source browser right now, seeing as the closed source alternatives don't compare.

Windows has nothing to show for the billions of dollars put into it. Every installation of windows I've ever had was a piece of crap that got bugged out after a months use. It would be snappy at first and then it would start taking five minutes to boot, then when it did boot the whole OS would choke as soon as I opened the start menu. Then you have to give it a "cool down period" before you open any programs or it'll choke again.

Linux doesn't have this problem. It's a myth that Windows "just works" or that os x "just works". You have just as many buggy drivers and weird issues on those operating systems as you do Linux. For me, Linux with GNOME is just the easiest to use, most stable, prettiest, OS out there. I didn't have to use the command line or configure any text files. It just worked.

To install windows 10 I actually needed to use command line instructions from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3081048
As a poly guy I like how this incident holds a mirror up to society.

So many people who lied to everyone about how they believe in mongamy.
I was mostly expecting this to showcase 'fringe' roles - the kinds of roles that you don't hear about or see discussed in NHS careers literature. Instead, it looks like it lists the same categories and roles as those found on the NHS Careers website.

I know for a fact (and was surprised when I found out) that some NHS trusts employ UX designers - not a role mentioned by any NHS careers literature (so far as I've found). That's the kind of fringe role I'd be interested in knowing about - what a UX designer does in the NHS, how it's different to other sectors, who his stakeholders are and how someone might enter such a role. For common roles, I can just look at the NHS Careers website.
All the toggle switches are under the Privacy screen in the Settings window.
Naw, the irony is that we
think that we are studying the
dolphins while, actually, the
dolphins are studying us and
we still have not yet caught on
to that! We're the ones in the
zoo cage! And the dolphins are
so smart that they can study and
understand us without use of
hands, computers, cameras, etc.
A repost, but a charming story.
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The US produces almost as much oil as Russia, but is a net importer.

Saudi Arabia runs a large deficit at current prices, but has a pretty large pile:
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=19971
The story is similar in Norway.

In Russia it's not as rosy:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-26/russia-may...

On top of the dwindeling reserve, Russia has been given some stiff fines from international courts for unlawful actions, for example $50bn to Yukos shareholders.

Edit: there certainly are also nations that are in at least as deep problems as Russia, Venezuela for example.
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I was about to post exactly this. :-)
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> Starting in grade 5, we have a mandatory BYOD and the Chromebook is our recommended device.

Is this a public school or private? In a public school I cannot imagine that that is legal since it is highly regressive. And before you say a Chromebook is "only" $150-200, that is 1/2 of someone's pay cheque and many are living pay cheque to pay cheque as is.

Even school uniforms are seen as a hardship for the poor. Doing freaking computers is just mind boggling to me.
‘Serial polygamy’ means a sequence of multiple simultaneous relationships. You mean serial monogamy.
I heard his son was fluent in dolphin language.
Sharing your password via Wi-Fi Sense to your friend gives him access to the network, but no knowledge of your password and no ability to share it.

Sharing your password via word-of-mouth gives your friend your password and access to your network and the ability to share it further.
If you have a proven technique for making Windows 10 not phone home, post the details here.
Actually the FPU instruction set, even if stack-based, is quite complete and the implementations are effective, not often not slower than the more "modern" ones, except when there is a possibility for parallel processing. And SSE doesn't have 80-bits precision at all.

MMX is something that is probably not much useful today. But FPU and SSEx are both usable, especially when using assembly.
Yes. The real worry is if this is shared by those outside the tech sector. We can all sit around speculating if the sky is going to fall in without it really mattering, but if it shared by those outside then it can become self-fulfilling.
If you develop for Ubuntu and Fedora, many distributions will mostly work with your program : all Ubuntu flavours (Unity, GNOME, XFCE, KDE) and derivatives (Linux Mint, Elementary), maybe Debian, Fedora flavours (GNOME, KDE) and derivatives (Red Hat, CentOS), etc. You'll have to decide for a widget toolkit (Gtk+ or Qt), but a Qt program will run fine on GNOME (the design won't be perfect, but it's like a Qt program on Mac OS X or Windows). Dependencies isn't the big problem : you have a single sound server to look for and other drivers aren't important for a simple program.

Of course it's complicated, more complicated than Windows, depending on your type of program. But seeing how Valve made it work for games, I think it's going to be seen more and more.
- Norway: lots of natural resources, low population, spends only part of oil money (in fact, Norway makes more money per year from the oil fund (i.e., money saved from past oil sales ) than it does from actual oil sales.

- Saudi Arabia: lots of headway to cut spending; standard of living is already very high, with huge reserves to soften the impact of short-term price volatility.

- US: has imported oil for decades until there were enough combined geopolitical and economic incentives to start using its own; exports < 10% of all exports.

- Russia: > 50% of exports are oil; heavily cash-strapped already, so all decreases in oil revenues are directly painful; few options to diversify; too small to be a market maker. Oil money is a direct driver of improving economic circumstances, which in turn provide for much of the countries relative stability.
It certainly applies to Norway, Canada, Australia (commodities) and Saudi Arabia as well, among others.

It doesn't apply much to the US. Among the major oil producers, the US is by far the least dependent on the oil market for the domestic economy's well being. It's arguable the US benefits more from cheap oil (industry, consumers, gasoline), than it takes a hit due to the loss of oil jobs and growth in the oil field in general. $40 to $50 oil has slowed oil well expansion and exploration, but US oil production is still sitting near all-time highs, and that will continue so long as oil doesn't go to eg $25-$30 or so for an extended period of time. At a range of $40-$50 for 2016, current projections are that US oil production will expand by another 500,000 barrels per day.

The dollar turning, which has crushed commodities, has pushed Canada into a serious recession, and is threatening to push Australia into one. To make matters worse, China's growth has been trending down for ten years - they temporarily spiked it back up after the great recession at the cost of tens of trillions in debt. China's economy tanking, is hitting any commodity dependent economies very hard.

In Norway's case, they get to start from an amazing position of strength overall. They have extremely low unemployment and a very high standard of living. They have the sovereign wealth fund to lean on if times get really bad. It's very likely that five years of cheap oil will hit Norway very, very hard. They're already facing a scenario where they'll have to tap the sovereign fund to deal with their budget demands. That's not going to get any prettier any time soon. The party is over, but Norway has a lot of wealth accumulated from it, and can weather this storm better than most.

Saudi Arabia has $640+ billion in foreign reserves that they're depleting by the month. It'll get worse over the next year, but they can weather it for a few years yet without a threat to their stability or economic well-being. Saudi is of course also among the low cost leaders on production, so while their budget demands $100 oil, on the other side they have among the best margins on what they are producing.

Out of the group, Russia is drastically worse off. Not only have they been trying to significantly increase military spending at exactly the wrong time, not only are they under international sanctions, but they're starting from a position of national weakness compared to eg Norway: their people are not well off, their Ruble is being hammered, and they're run by a dictator that is not good at managing the economy (as witnessed by their complete non-diversification the past decade plus, which has left them vulnerable to this outcome in the commodity market).
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First graphic OS I had the chance to use and I still remember how blown away I was.
I am using Linux since about mid-2012 exclusively, I switched after wasting a month trying to get git in command line working properly on Windows.
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Microsoft was an early adopter of PRISM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg

> same thing to Google

So what? The claim was about not using Microsoft's products.
This is small stuff, compared to the headaches MS and Windows 10 will have with foreign governments. Snowden showed us that the US regularly spied on the German, Brazilian, Mexican and French governments. I wonder how anxious those governments are for Windows 10 adoption.
The article is saying they're turning out to be brighter than we thought.
This is a fascinating idea. It'd be interesting to see a graph mapping the age of a page to the size of the linked images. I would bet that there's a very clear correlation - full page background images as a design trend really blew up a couple of years ago, so prior to that it'll be much more likely that a high resolution image is an anchor with the content of another image ('click here to view' from a thumbnail) or just a 'click to view' link. These days you'd need to drill down in to the CSS.
Saudis have huge cash reserves and can survive on a much lower oil price for longer. The US is already shutting down rigs and other production to get costs in line. As a country the US doesn't require oil exports to stay afloat. In fact, from a strategic standpoint the US prefers to import other countries oil and stock pile its own.

I'm not sure about Norway.
KDE is the best UI there exists and has been since about 10 years already.
Yes, probably works for most of the things, and overriding require() is probably only done in JS for browser apps and not for node stuff.
Norwegian here. The entirety of the earnings from the oil industry is funneled into our Sovereign Wealth Fund, and has been for decades. A few percent (4% ?) of this fund is spent each year by the state. So we are not as hard hit as the others, and the state can basically keep spening money at our present level for many years. Note that oil companies in Norway is scaling back, so our jobless rate and tax income is being hurt, but so far things are only getting interesting for those laid off and those directly in the oil business.
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He was threatened with 55 years in jail for abusing an account with the American College of Physicians after clicking accept on the EULA.