skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if instead of fixing the OS directly, it'd be better to make the firewall changes in an Internet router and just send them the new one. You'd probably want to keep the existing router as well to avoid the need to login to find ISP settings (or avoid calling the ISP), but as long as the new router can be setup as a bridge to the existing one I see no reason why it couldn't work.

The added advantage of doing this is that you can block all traffic associated with Microsoft's user tracking servers, which should work (as long as Microsoft don't switch the server name in use).

Either that or recommend avoiding the Windows 10 upgrade. Windows 7 in particular should be sticking around for quite a while yet.
> I can't remember the last time I lost data to a file system bug.

You are probably not an early adopter of new filesystem technology. If you were sitting on the edge of technology, you would strongly prefer a provable filesystem.
There were fast assemblers. The SC assembler on the Apple II did maybe 1,000 lines a second. The x86 assembler from Digital Research was pretty fast too. You could play games with RAM disks and so forth.

The thing about cross-development on a mini or mainframe that killed you was the download time. I did cross-assembly at Atari, and it was always the download time that took soooo longggg. Wrote a few smart downloaders while I was waiting for dumber ones to finish. 9600 baud sucks hard.
I always thought the asynchronicity was the main positive of SMS.
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Yes.

I am a US resident though -- and a native American English speaker (which is more important than many realize).
I switch every hour between standing at my desk and leaning on the Mogo stool you can buy from this company. Great alternative to standing all day (tiresome, sometimes painful) to sitting all day (bad posture, induces weight gain from being sedentary). And you can still wiggle around a bit with it. I keep some blocks under my desk to help stretch my calves with while doing either.
But if you're truly 10x like the HN community, that adds up to a whole 20 minutes of developer time! Adding this among an entire team adds up to hours.
> Also, why is the cost of employees with overhead lower?

I think that's the cost of the employees for the 9 months (not 12) it takes them to do the required work.
Dave Mayer at Technical Integrity was very helpful to me.

http://technicalintegrity.com/
I've been using a Mac for over a year now and I can count on one hand the number of times I've used Spotlight. (And when I did use it, it was useless at solving my problems.)

However, on Windows the start menu search is actually useful to me, and I use it regularly.
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> I know you can already do that with the `COPY FROM` statement in Postgres but I always think it is a pain because you need physical access,

Nope, there's COPY ... FROM STDIN which accepts data inline, over a normal connection.
The division between private and public space is very much political, just as perhaps more famously free contra paid time is.

Public space is not owned by the watchers (in most jurisdictions). Even if it was, ownership does not translate well to physical space. There are lots of things you're not allowed to do with a place you "own", including building there.

Regarding permissions for surveillance, it's far from clear how such a contract works and what you even can be said to agree to. In some places, both parties in the conversation need to agree to recording a telephone conversation for example, and the same principle should hold true for email.
>will want useful features like Cortana, predictive search, page compatibility modes, allowing websites/apps to ask for her location (e.g. Google Maps), and her files to be backed up when her computer fails.

Have you ever had a grandma? My grandma literally plays solitaire and checks her email, that's it. She wants nothing to do with cortana.

I set my grandma up with Ubuntu and set the homepage of firefox to her email. I've never had a problem.
So, much ado about nothing
I also had this idea then found out a startup called Blendle is pursuing it.
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Timely. I'm reading "The Truth About the Drug Companies" by
Marcia Angell. Per Wikipedia, Dr. Angell is "the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts". So, a good person to write a book on the issue.

Just one more example of how drug companies are taking their customers for a ride. Knowing that a drug has a finite patent life, a drug company will stagger the release of two drugs that are pharmacologically similar by patent-wise different. The drug company will introduce an "improved" drug (which we'll refer to as "nu") just as the old drug's (which we'll refer to as "pro", as in before) patent is about to expire. This is accompanied by pricing tactics such as raising the price of the "pro" drug above the "nu" drug so as to incentivize patients to switch, paying generic-producing companies not to make it, and giving hospitals preferential pricing on the "nu" drug so that it is prescribed at hospitals but then patients pay the higher rate when they go home. One of the most insidious effects of this strategy is that, the drug company is either purposely pricing people out of medicine they need or knowingly selling an inferior product for a decade or more.

Highly recommend reading this book if interested on this subject: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2004/jul/15/the-tru...
I don't think developers have problems with user-enabling technologies (at least I don't). What we do have problems with, however, are technologies that suck away our battery life and CPU time with little or no return, all while bringing a steady stream of exploitable security holes. If Adobe had actually made a serious effort to make Flash a lean, secure machine it'd still be around. Instead, they decided to just keep tacking on new features rather than spending several releases doing heavy optimization and only reactively dealt with security, so here we are.

The bottom line is that nobody but Adobe is to blame for the death of Flash.
Is it not true, then, that if you don't pay for the upgrades the base solitaire app contains ads? If it does not, then I and presumably also the people making a fuss about this have been misinformed.
LAX is not, Tegel-Berlin definitely is. It's not universal either way.
I'm sorry, why did the most ignorant thing here "had to be said"?

https://fixubuntu.com/

Now we need instructions for iOS and Android...No clue about OSX though.
Is Google Drive Down?
I cannot connect to any of Google Drive services - while all other google products seem to be working fine. I am sitting on a healthy 4 Mbps connection.
My personal computer is not a phone. I do not require the help of a spyware disguised as an AI to operate it. I have a mouse and a full keyboard.

When I want to interact with the internet, I use a browser. This browser is managed by many extensions that cut down on the information that is being sent about me. I do not want my operating system to talk to the internet without asking me.
Exactly, you don't even need to configure an account/email with an online service to use your phone if you go this route.
What concerns do you think you're separating exactly, when you're dealing with presentation-tier markup and code that combine intimately to a single component?
The US isn't big on censorship, they're big on data collection. The MPAA and RIAA are HUGE on censorship, but they aren't government entities.
Most likely fly on round trip tickets, in which case the return flight was already paid for.
> If you don't use voice or ink, why are you worried about sharing your voice and ink data with Microsoft?

For what it's worth, I don't think this is a fair assessment. Sure, with ink data, you actually need a tablet or some kind of input device in order for Microsoft to collect and send data. But almost every laptop or off-the-shelf computer nowadays comes with a microphone, and they will be more ubiquitous now that voice recognition and input is becoming more accepted by the general populace.

The problem then, is that the microphone is _always_ on, and could potentially send _everything_ you say, or could listen in at any given moment. The problem is that with voice data, the feature 1) can't be inspected and 2) will send data, even if you never use the service. Most important here is the latter point: I shouldn't be subject to the terms and conditions of using a service if I am not using a service. By not agreeing to the terms and conditions, I don't get to use the service (Cortana). If I'm fine with that, and don't want to use that service, then the terms and conditions of my data being sent to Microsoft should not apply to me (i.e. my data should not be sent).

Doing otherwise is shady behaviour, regardless of your opinion on the usefulness or nefariousness of the feature in question.
What kind of company are you?
> He was especially right about ...the crime of speaking out against the government.

You lost me here. In 1984, the populace was afraid to speak out against the government, even in private to close acquaintances. I don't believe this is the case at all in our society -- both individuals and the media seem very willing and able to criticize the government freely.
Thanks for this! It's really hard to browse/search for MOOCs.

That said, looking at your site now it does seem to have a problem with courses being listed as "always available". A couple of examples:

[1] https://www.coursebuffet.com/course/1081/202-Logic:-Language...
[2] https://www.coursebuffet.com/course/1253/270-Digital-Systems
I'm not sure you are correct. According to the w3 spec for HTML attributes [0], html element attribute names must consist of one or more characters other than the space characters, U+0000 NULL, """, "'", ">", "/", "=", the control characters, and any characters that are not defined by Unicode.

Granted, it isn't necessarily what I'd expect to be legal, but it doesn't look illegal either. We may just need to add some logic to HTML colorizing syntax checkers in our IDEs is all.

[0]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/syntax.html#syntax-attribut...
Yeah how is multi-touch implemented under the covers? Does it really require a multi-threaded UI?
I've been interviewing candidates recently and 'I just prototype in matlab and throw it over the wall to the implementation team' is a big negative in my evaluations (we don't have a wall in this company and I will fight to keep it that way).
Oh right. Math. Yes. Good call.
Heh, apologies for being reactionary in my comment. Seems like we're on the same page then. :)
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Really? In my state (Virginia), officers have to write the number or whatever of the statute that you are breaking when writing a ticket. Is there anything like that in your state?
I don't think it's ignorant to advocate for one platform over another?

I understand that Mac and Ubuntu both send stuff back home but the amount of things you have to do on a Windows machine to disable this just seems really hefty compared to a Mac or better yet Ubuntu machine (or some breed of Linux)
Wait until they run short of funds.
The user is always right? Wrong
In the US, large international airports don't work that way.

Yesterday I had a purely-domestic itinerary out of Philadelphia -- which is an international hub for US Airways/American Airlines -- and while waiting on my flight I wandered in and out of the international terminal several times without facing any additional security (I like watching the larger planes come and go, and the lounge in that terminal is nicer).

Which is the standard way international airports work in the US. There is no concept of "once you cross this point, you have to clear customs again to exit the terminal" here.
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Do you find it easier to buy your coffee or brew it at home?
Maybe it should include English words as well?

Beaver returns nothing

'caca' and 'pede' do return, so props for that

'bosta' matches but maybe Josta should?

'sharmuta' also matches (with a different spelling, but it's probably a variation)
I think there are few if any post-WWII wars that works like your idealized model of war. Most of them have been very assymetric from the start, such that one state's population hardly has it's 'conditions' touched at all while another's way of life is completely destroyed -- but that doesn't mean the more powerful actor always 'wins'.

For instance, did the US 'lose' the Vietnam war, because the Vietnamese somehow made conditions in the U.S so horrible that the U.S. had to "agree to terms they would deem unfavorable before the war"? It just doesn't make sense to even try to frame it that way.

How about the U.S. in Iraq or Afghanistan, did one side 'win' because they made life so miserable for the other side that they were willing to accept conditions they would have seen as 'unfavorable' at the beginning? The question doesn't even make sense, it's got nothing to do with what happened. And indeed, it could be argued that the worse U.S. forces made the lives of Iraqis, the more resistance to U.S. forces there was, it got the U.S. no closer to 'victory' to immiserate Iraqis.

Let alone wars against 'internal enemies', which if you insist on framing the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as a war, it clearly is. Did hostilities between the UK government and the IRA cease because one side made the other so miserable they had to agree to terms they would have considered 'unfavorable' before? Again, it doesn't even make sense to frame it that way. If anything, the reverse, the Irish were no longer nearly as discriminated against or as subject to military occupation as they had been earlier in the conflict, and this in fact was pertinent in cessation of hostilities.
Surely Clang! had significant hardware components, too?
ebiggs is describing the way things work in many airports in Europe (and some in Canada, when there's US customs preclearance).

But it's not at all the way things work in US airports with international service.
Absolutely.

The main structural problem is the blanket protection from the market that the people/govt offer to the pharma companies. Many shills continue to argue that this is necessary for pharma to make progress.

The problem is that this a quantitative question -- how much protection in $$ should pharma companies receive that would still not get in the way of real progress? -- is given a blanket non-quantitative answer by fiat. The answer is neither known for certain nor a constant of nature, it changes with time and situation. Any mechanism addressing this problem should have a fast feedback loop and pretty much the only scalable mechanism that we have for such feedback on economic affairs is the market.

Rather than subverting the market, one should actively involve it to create an efficient market where the people/govt and the pharma companies negotiate the level of protection that they can both agree on.

Patents are a mechanism that largely nukes this negotiation completely in favor of the pharma companies.

A parting thought borrowed from Upton Sinclair : if the justification for patent protection is high dev costs, it only ensures that the dev costs will be kept high to enjoy the (dis-proportionate) protection.
> Both are simple changes and not nearly the same scope as W10's abuses.

Apple isn't limited to collected data just about those two things though. The fact is, Apple's OSs send, by default, a lot of data about you. It knows a lot about you, and by default, can do a lot of what people are afraid Microsoft can do.

If Windows 10's privacy issues are an issue with you, Apple is not an alternative in the slightest.
Maybe for a simple box, but for an injection moulded curved enclosure like the headphone example? If you didn't get that designed by someone who'd done it before you'd be taking a huge risk.
> So many things that would be easy to say out loud are
> not worth typing on a phone screen.

Yet even less worthy of a phone call.
That photo shows where the galaxies were then, not now.
No.

We bill $120 hourly. If the client CC the whole team on a problem, the whole team is going to take time off their current work to read the email. (5 mins * 6 workers) They are then going to reply to the message (2 mins * 6) and then investigate (10 mins * 6). A manager is likely going to step in and manage the team (30 mins). Finally, one developper is going to fix the issue (1 hour) and all the other developers are going to require getting back in "the zone" (average of 11 mins *6).

That's three hours (or $360) wasted for an email that should have been properly sent to the product manager or to the support team. If the client do this every week and nobody notice it and educate him, he is going to waste thousands a month of the project's budget.
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Is there an appropriate exercise for extending the muscle endurance of the back?
You can't down vote a comment, that might be a reason.
BTW, why do I always feel like betting in a horse race when choosing a web framework/library? Hoping it'll be maintained long enough, hoping it'll not be deprecated after 6 months for the new cool kid...
I'm not a big fan of google or Apple and I don't think the fact that other big companies rape your privacy justifies Microsoft raping your privacy.

The NSA is making sure no one gets too outraged. You're allowed to get a little upset about windows, seeing as no matter how mad people get, Windows will still be a huge part of tech infrastructure --it won't go away--, and it also placates the masses, it makes them feel like they're rising up and accomplishing something and that they're "right". In the end the NSA is going to spy on you whether you want it or not. There is no opt-out.
This falls into they "why bother" class of things for me. You're never going to catch `everything`, and this stuff almost always causes very broken edge cases for people.

I can't use my real last name at the apple genius bar last I checked because it's "offensive"...
I think the best part of this is that you might be able to sell yourself as a friend if you have high credit.

Of course assuming this is a two-way street, your credit would also be impacted...
Approximately zero most of the time - and potentially hours of productive work. I really like this comic for it's accuracy and I've shared it with a few project managers at work so that they'd leave me alone.

https://i.imgur.com/3uyRWGJ.jpg

A 10 second interruption is enough for me to lose 10 minutes of my time. Have twenty 10 second interruptions in the day and I've lost over 3 hours of productive time. Interrupt an entire team who potentially lose 10 minutes for that 10 second interruption and across a team of 10 people you've potentially lost 30 hours of productive time.

Less meaningless distractions is better.

Would you enjoy a book if I interrupted you every 3rd page for 15 seconds?
>On the other hand it's literally what everyone does because it's the logical, sane, smart decision to make.

What you are forgetting to point out is that companies practicing nepotism have found a local efficiency maximum. That, right now, nepotism is the best way to hire the right people.

Ideally, there would be better methods to evaluate people, and the value in discovering those methods is quite clear.
I fail to see the connection. If private registration was not allowed, people could still sit on a domain indefinitely. I'm sure many people do this already without private registration.

I use private registration on a few of my domains to avoid unnecessary harassment.
While this is a technically true statement Selenium is neither easy to setup nor easy to learn. It's documentation (of at least the libraries I've used, which were the recommended ones) was atrocious and not at all consistent.
Python/Django in favor of .js (Meteor, angular, backbone, ember, whatever...)
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Where is ORTC now? Is it still getting integrated into WebRTC?
We're not discussing geological timescales here. All the teams I've worked on lose a lot more than the couple minutes after an all-hands "something's horribly broken! whoops, my bad" panic.
Maybe there will be a working REPL for C++ in the future:

https://github.com/vgvassilev/cling
It seems a natural consequence of any government: after it's installed its primary function shifts from serving the people to be to preserving itself.

edit - If this is true, how could one design a government that naturally trends away from self preservation as an emergent phenomena?
Same - I vow to make sure that never happens to my kids, even if I have to homeschool them.
Yeah I've done many whiteboard interviews and I'm well aware of algorithmic problems, complexities, etc as I have a BSc and an MSc in computer science. Codility problems do test for those, but their problems are usually some sort of puzzle or brain teaser type of questions that I have hardly encountered in my work.

It's not that I "failed" to get into Toptal. I refused to take the codility test after seeing it as I didn't see any point in doing so. I'm sure I could solve those codility problems in 30 min. each if I practiced similar problems for a couple of weeks, but why should I?

I told them this, and their condescending response to me is why I called them stupid. Programming is a vast field, and not every programmer is going to find such puzzles "interesting and challenging".
Hear, hear. Flash was the most wonderful laboratory.

Also: The Flash Virtual Machine is the real problem. It's bloody awful and buggy and slow. The tooling was fabulous, though. ActionScript (3) was (IMHO) excellent, well-documented and easy to use for developer-hackers. MTASC and then the Flex incremental compiler were great too, and I'm sorry they're out of use.
I dodged this bullet, because the first time I needed a string with two dynamic parts, was in an attribute.

This doesn't work:

<h1 className='{a} {b}'>...</h1>

So I did this:

<h1 className={`${a} ${b}`}>...</h1>

And then simply used this style everywhere, because it worked for text-nodes and attributes.
Gigaom is back? I thought it abruptly ceased operations (other than leaving the static website up) back in March.

It doesn't look like there are many new articles being posting, but this is one.
This seems like damage control more than an actual threat. CEO getting ahead of the story before any bad press can make it something.
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
I thought this was taken out in the latest releases?
We use distelli at vida.io. It is well done, stable, works. Will definitely check out CD option.
> I go to a thai place in SF that skirts the ban by using the heavy "reusable" bags as disposable ones. There's no difference between these and actual disposable bags other than that they are thicker. They're still small and worthless to reuse. And there's no chance to ask not to get one.

If there is no chance to ask not to get one, they aren't, as I understand it, "skirting" the ban, they are straight-up violating it just as much as if they were using the regular disposable bags in the same role rather than the heavier, notionally reusable ones (presuming, of course, they are covered by the ban at all; I think there are scale rules on who is covered, so they may be a non-covered entity that just has been less able to source the old bags because of the ban.)
There's a difference between writing down a justification for actions you've already taken and having your entire internal thought process open to public review.