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> How much do you pay into those if you're not earning anything?

Afaik (and I really don't know for sure, because luckily I had never the misfortune to need it) it is paid by the welfare system. However, there are many rules and obligations to be edible and honestly, I wouldn't want to have to deal with the bureaucracy. There are several steps towards this. First, after becoming unemployed, you'll receive unemployment support, but only if you've worked before! They also demand that you use your own savings and securities to support yourself. After that runs out, you'll receive the bare minimum monthly allowance, which is around 300 to 400 Euros per month. You don't get that easily. As long as there are relatives, the state is very likely to get the money from them first. You'll also get free housing, but that's also far from what one desires (bad neighborhood, very small, etc.).

> Do you still get health benefits when unemployed?

Very likely, because health insurance is mandatory for everyone. So the system is built upon the idea that those who are able to pay also support those who are unable. However, it is very frowned upon to "abuse" this system and rest in the social hammock (that's a very literal translation, sorry). That's because the whole social system is regarded as a safety net, but not for individuals who don't want or can't contribute.
Agree with Gys.

I’m uneasy at my data hosted on your webapp. I think it’s better to manage my data with a desktop application.
I'm no expert, but I gather that a big factor is ad networks failing to adopt any kind of standards for HTML ads. Make a SWF that meets certain requirements and you can use it with any network, but use HTML and every site has different rules about all the sizes involved, whether you can use libraries, how stuff gets cached or doesn't, etc.

It's not my area but, but considering it naively I wonder why all the ad networks don't just pick a version of Swiffy, then keep using SWFs with the rule that the content has to play well with swiffy. (Or maybe they already do such things.)
I have a full installation of Ubuntu running on my glorified browser notebook and it can be used as a normal laptop. It performance can be a little slow when working with very large data sets but on the other hand it was just about $300 including tax so it was an enormously good deal.

I love it.
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Except for telemetry (and that you can turn off in the Enterprise edition as well) you can turn off all these features.
of "the remaining" gender inequality?
Bittorrent clients send something equivalent to a user-agent. I haven't looked into it, but I'd guess that typically includes the operating system?
Or just change your real name to John Smith.
Not that the average user necessarily knows this, but in principle can't the user agent string sent by the browser be spoofed?
You left out the circumstances under which they will share your data.

> comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies;

> protect our customers, for example to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of the services, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury of anyone;

> operate and maintain the security of our services, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks; or

> protect the rights or property of Microsoft, including enforcing the terms governing the use of the services - however, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property of Microsoft, we will not inspect a customer's private content ourselves, but we may refer the matter to law enforcement.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.asp...

Additionally, the privacy policy section you and I are quoting applies to many Microsoft services, including, for example, OneDrive. Otherwise, the "private folder" data they're talking about could only be whatever bits and scraps telemetry and Windows Defender picks up, based on my reading.

That seems perfectly reasonable and also confirms they won't be sending any of your data to the MPAA.
Russia has already forbidden Windows 10 use on any governmental service.
Crashes occasionally, but npapi crashed for me as well. Main advantage is that you get new flash version, that some games require to run.
I wonder if making your social media account mimic a spam bot would get it flagged for deeper deletion on the host servers.
> It would be nice to see a separate post on this process and any performance comparisons.

We (I) see gitlab-git-http-server more as a functional improvement than as a performance improvement. It is a better match for slow Git HTTP requests ('git push', 'git pull') than Unicorn+Rails.

Having said that, I am also curious about what this change means for performance and other areas. It already helped us find a performance issue in the Rails app.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2341
Was that even legal?
They are talking about trackers, not anything web based. So unless a client announces the underlying operating system there shouldnt be any way to implement such a block.
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Sure, but its not about user agents.
"port their software to Linux". The main issue there is that there is not one single linux, the market is very fragmented. Getting the binary format right (which is the same across distros) is the trivial part, just set the proper compiler backend. The hard part would be getting all dependencies and especially IO sorted out. The wide range of display managers, audio drivers that needs to be supported to simply "port their software to Linux" means that this is unfeasible yet I'm afraid.
Here's what I did:

1) turned off everything in the Customization section at install

2) Used http://pxc-coding.com/portfolio/donotspy10/

3) Used https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking

Then, I installed a traffic monitoring tool - and surprise surprise - I still found some stuff trying to randomly connect to Microsoft's servers, similarly to what Peter Bright from Ars discovered (btw, "telemetry" can only be fully disabled on Enterprise version of Windows 10):

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

I blocked those, too, and for now the Windows 10 spying monster seems to have settled down - BUT - new story points to the fact that you won't even know what Windows 10 updates will do in the future. That means that on machines where they see they can't spy on you anymore, they could push an update to bypass those protections and still spy on you.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/21/microsoft_will_expla...

Windows 10 really seems to be designed based on an NSA/law enforcement's wishlist. Any security or privacy measures you might take on it can be rendered useless by an update, and some articles even say Microsoft gets all of your typed keys (so all passwords).

http://localghost.org/posts/a-traffic-analysis-of-windows-10

When I find some time these days, I'll wipe Windows 10 and never look back.
Just based on my observation as a French person, I'd say that the French are getting fatter as well. It only makes sense since more and more people are abandoning the "French way" of 2,3 meals a day eaten at the dinner table at fixed hours with the family, a healthy dose of red wine and variety in the plate. More and more people are falling to the sirens of Starbucks, McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut because it's easy and convenient.

The irony in this is that in the meantime in the United States (home of aforementioned franchises), a decent fraction of the population is going the other way and starting to eat healthy, incorporate more cooking and good produce into their diet. Funny how cultural soft power is so strong...
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There is a very visible, underlined, clickable "reply" button under every comment.
The "password sharing" feature of Windows 10 is sufficient reason for me to never allow anyone with Windows 10 access to my network. Ever.

That's the way I'll opt out. Not by changing my SSID.
Has there been any response or explanation from Microsoft yet with this situation?
I'm pretty sure that people won't use their 3G / 4G mobile plan to download movies, music or the latest Linux ISOs from torrent sites on their smartphone with 16 / 32 GB of total storage.
It's not funny, it's tragic -- which can have a element of dark humor. It's exposing several dark facets of human nature: the desire to cheat on one of the most solemn commitments a person can make, and the vengeful joy others take in seeing those cheaters exposed.
I'm not quite sure what you're confused about. The gender inequality that still exists. It's pretty straightforward.
Does anyone know how the trackers themselves can detect Win10 users, is the Win10 TCP/IP stack sufficiently different to previous versions of Windows that you can fingerprint it?
Apparently this kind of "identity management" service already exists. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/21/internet-s...
yeah, in my opinion the decline in shipping is far more worrying than the recent stock market crashes.
What is the difference between a fake profile and a pseudonymous profile? Is it really fraud to use something other than your real name in non-financial settings? What about other-than-real data? People have been using fake names and fake data since the dawn of the net; why would this be any different?
Yes if you actually write software for desktop Linux you know that it's not that much of a problem to actually do it if you want to. There is enough free software available, you know often written by individuals without multi-million dollar budgets, that I have not had need for using a Windows machine other than to compile software for Windows machines. If multi-million dollar companies actually wanted to support Linux they could do it without breaking a sweat. The only reason they don't is because Windows user base is so large and Linux's is so small that the benefit does not justify the cost.

All you have to do is add a significant user base, say 5-10% of the market and it will be competitive with Mac and I am sure there will be lots more commercial software for it.

I would also like to mention that my sister is a total computer dummy. Her computer always gets infected with malware and lots of it. But I installed Linux on it because I did not have a Windows install disk. And she loves it because it doesn't get malware anymore. And she loves the fact that she can install free software using Ubuntu's software center. That's a true story.
For those who still think Flash is dead, Adobe should anounce EOL, and it doesn't support mobile, see the Adobe Flash roadmap: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadma...
You can't know if they are truly disabled, unlike ubuntu which is nowhere near what windows 10 does.
This can be solved by containers.
Note I specified 'batch'. One mainframe app I'm familiar with handled > 50% of mutual fund transactions in the US. Including 401k, this could be > 100 million transactons per day when follow on broker/dealer cascade transactions are accounted for. Each transaction required non trivial amounts of processing, reporting, and logging.

Also note that a 'transaction' in this sense is not a http request response. The way it's used in mainframe systems it's a business transaction which can include 100's of smaller 'transactions'.

Banks and other financial systems can't perform daily reconciliation until markets close and stock and fund prices are known. Hence these systems store everything up to process in a nightly window.
Buy what? Overpriced apartments and cars? I go to the mall and see nothing very interesting, imports are already very expensive, even made in China goods are expensive, I mean 800 RMB for a pair of Levi's wtf!? The only cheap things are food and taxis. I do most of my clothes shopping on trips back to the states to save money.
No: http://www.sacurrent.com/Blogs/archives/2015/08/21/city-empl...
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Debris fields are a harder ask distinguishing the debris from MH370 from just the normal trash of the ocean. The ship has the benefit of being a large defined whole and we have a lot of info on other ships' and their location (though the tracking of ships is far from perfect it relies on them keeping their beacon on). It strikes me as a much harder problem to find MH370 because in order to resolve the debris they'd have to take very high res photos so it'd cover a very small area in one shot.

So 2 & 3? They probably used some satellite imagery to look for large chunks but the effort to do the small survey was beyond what they were willing to expend without a better idea of where to search.
It is very well possible that behaviour like This will result in massive problems in the European Union with its much more atrict privacy laws. Microsoft should ask Intel about huge fines.
The privacy issues from Ubuntu are nowhere near what windows 10 does.

> None of Ubuntu's official derivatives (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc.) include the feature or any variation of it.

Ubuntu it's not the only distro out there, you also got Linux Mint and ElementaryOS for beginners.
It doesn't need to be solved by containers. I can easily import KDE packages onto my lubuntu distribution and everything just simply works.
It doesn't matter much what the current implementation does, when Microsoft has asserted (and demonstrated in practice) that they can send arbitrary updates at any time (and without explanation).
The immoral business behavior seems to be the hackers' motivation, based on what they've written. They sought out to destroy the business. I'm guessing they'll succeed in that.
Presumably just the useragent and the javascript navigator.appVersion.
Why specifically Russia and not Norway, Saudi Arabia or ... the US ?
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IANAL and I am in the US, but I'll play devil's advocate and present the worse case scenario. Your app launches, Big Bad Company comes along and says you infringed on their patent or trademark and sues you. Without the legal structure in place there is a chance you will be held personally liable.

I think YC makes that statement for people who have no live product and are just a team either with an idea or idea in development. What they are trying to avoid is having to make costly changes to your filings once you join YC.

Personally, I would say that if you are that far along, preparing to launch, and plan to make a business out of your app, then file. Spending money now can potentially save hundreds down the road. But again, IANAL.
Not in the EU.
Ask HN: How did you evaluate a potential co-founder?
How did your "evaluation" methods pan out?

I am looking to partner with a guy I only partially know right now, I wondered if anyone had any advice on how they approached bringing on, or starting out with a cofounder.

How did you learn whether or not this potentional cofounder was a good fit?

Thank you!
I'm not panicking yet, it's just on my to do list. I think the gov will try to keep the currency stable, because otherwise there will be lots of panick. The stock market is one thing, few people are exposed to that, but most people have huge savings in cash; there would be riots if they go to 7 since the weakness would lead to price increases.
Err no. It's great that you have just discovered functional programming but your claim that the data presented by a relational database is only unnatural for object oriented programming is absurd. When you join tables you get something like this:

User1 firstname1 lastname1 role1 rolename1

User1 firstname1 lastname1 role2 rolename2

User1 firstname1 lastname1 role3 rolename3

This is purely a result of how the database works. That data is never presented to the user in that way. It has to be converted into a new form.
They are talking about private trackers. All of these trackers have their own website and that is the only way to get access to the lists of torrents.
Visualisation is usually more interesting.
Windows 10, now OS X... and meanwhile I have installed Linux on all my workstations. Looks like big corporations are shooting themselves in the foot.
How else would you detect the operating system of the client making the request?
Uber is burning through cash, without fresh investment they cannot keep going on their current course.
> But I also do not approve on taking action that would result in folks I do not know getting exposed. Folks have a right to their own lives.

I do not think there is such a right, because what you are describing is (in probably many cases) a right to break an agreement (marriage in this case) and keep pretending that you honor it until you yourself disclose it.

In simpler terms: you may have "a right to your own life", but do you have a right to lie to your partner?
Sure, but Windows IoT should be plenty good enough for Microsoft to build a ChromeOS clone on top of it.
What do you think it's about, then?
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"Shiller P/E is 50% higher than the historical mean of 16.6"
No Linux distributive is mentioned in that article. I have no doubt that a combination of RAM, SSD and CPU can achieve great things with right software.
For some hatred of the US is so core to their belief system that they end up very confused and defending communism.
either more weight increase grip or it doesn't, you are arguing both: the weight that you moved to the rear and allows to shift balance of brakes back comes from the front tires, reducing their grip by the same amount it increases rear tire grip

it does however increase the leverage of front tires on the car center of mass - but then that weight at the end makes getting the car straight after a corner an issue because for the same reason you get higher rotational momentum
In the article it talks about trackers blocking access though
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I think it's obvious he's talking about China as a country that has a capitalistic economic infrastructure with a communist social ideology & political structure.
He said use Linux, not "Ubuntu" There are plenty of linux distro that _do_ respect your privacy.
The big hold-up in streaming media is support by the vendors of streaming servers, supporting both html5 and flash at the same time requires transcoding and many of the services (mine included) require flash on the uploaders side, either for historical reasons or because they rely on obscure features not present in video device access primitives available using javascript.
I don't think it does, it's just a few bytes. There's a client with a different identifier for the major platforms (µTorrent on Mac, Linux, Android IIRC) but that doesn't include the OS version.
Good job that people have a choice of desktop environment.
There's also a very strong bias towards keeping what you learn secret by default because you don't want to let your adversary learn your means and methods, e.g. particular spies, "national technical means" like surveillance aircraft back then and satellites nowadays, how you do analysis, all the way up to the scope of your efforts.

I'd add that this disaster doesn't seem to implicate the US nuclear industry at all, sounds like it was part of their plutonium breeding effort, which is for weapons. Back then and for a very long time Oak Ridge would enrich natural uranium to, what, 5% U-235, and then it goes into a separate cycle which could and no doubt someday will include reprocessing (although not for weapons grade plutonium, too much Pu-238 and Pu-240 if you let it brew long enough), but didn't then nor does it today.
Ask HN: Could Win10 data leaks be managed by some kind of firewall or parental-control software? I mean, if we know what sites are being accessed, just block those sites.
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Shyness is the lack of self esteem in social circumstances, it's more than feasible to be a shy extrovert. The best explanation I've heard is that introverts spend a majority of their time in social circumstances scanning people, trying to understand how that person "works". That takes a LOT of mental energy.
Yes and no. The original netbooks claimed some ability to run native apps, but did it poorly. Chromebooks don't claim to be more than Chrome, but do that well. A small part of this is Google Docs, but a bigger part is the general rise of webapps.
I'm pretty confident that we'll see a reversal in the trend, for humans at least. The last 70+ years have been unprecedented in the history of nutrition, with high calorie and high fat food being more affordable than ever and with the addition of additives (such as the "E numbers" in Europe) also tastier than ever. We were simply unprepared to deal with such a high availability of tasty and highly nutritious food, because most people didn't know what a good diet looks like. the term diet in itself is a pretty new term, the whole concept of choosing what you eat might seem pretty absurd to earlier generations, which simply ate whatever they could get.

But I'm confident that current generations will adapt to these new circumstances in our nutrition and start learning about their diets and start teaching their kids how to eat properly. and I'm pretty certain that within 50 years or so, widespread obesity will be nothing but a short and weird artifact during the turn of the millennium.
Does it matter?

If there's enough pressure for MS to respond, they'll spew some bullshit to placate the masses. What they won't do is change their spying ways.

Besides, it's probably not even all Microsoft's fault. I bet governments are pressuring them to spy on us on their behalf.
Actually, China goes way beyond that. Where the U.S tries to nudge things one way or the other indirectly (by changing interest rates and the like), China has total control over their economic & monetary system (including the banks). And they exert that control almost daily. It's one of the reasons why the Chinese Yuan will replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
According to this if you're careless about installing all windows updates 7 and 8 will do the same:

http://www.hakspek.com/security/updates-make-windows-7-and-8...
The Flash Platform can be used to create mobile apps for Android / iOS. It won't work in a mobile browser, though [except for a small subset of old Android / Blackberry devices].

Whether it is a good idea to do this is open to interpretation.

Honestly, though, I am not going to lose any sleep over developers / programmers / businesses who are not keeping up on latest development trends.
The Bogleheads Guide to Investing is quite good and short. I read it before Graham and it helped my understanding quite a bit.
> Unfortunately, the one thing that I haven't figured out is how to make a bit-by-bit clone of an existing btrfs filesystem.

Have you tried btrfs send/receive?
I have to admit - I thought this would be an article about bicycling and the usefulness of physical fitness in being a better (XYZ).

Not disappointed, but not what I expected.
My family owns three. I'm the only holdout (not a good platform for development or gaming). They are light and handle web pages fairly well, which is all most users seem to require.
I do remember this event, when Microsoft was forced to admit they did not use any of their their own technology other than the desktop and it resulted in a big hit to the credibility of any the Microsoft server technologies.

But the result actually meant Microsoft had to then eat their own dog food and in a strange way it forced Microsoft to greatly improve their server platforms to where they are today.

So in a funny way it probably backfired on those early Microsoft detractors.