skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's start gathering statistics on how many times people open their refrigerator, or use the toilet, or take a shower.

What's more concerning about these data aren't these specific numbers, but what other data that implies that they have, what they can do with it, and what they can infer about you from it. Privacy and anonymity aren't (reasonably) possible on a Windows 10 operating system.

Any entity knowing that I have even turned on my PC---without explicit action to notify someone of such, such as posting this message or sending e-mail---is a privacy violation.
Storing Passwords in a Highly Parallelized World
North Korea nuclear H-bomb claims met by scepticism – asiannewsnetwork
Just to clarify. I certainly listen to my users. I may even err too much on the side of adding everything they ask for, leading to a more complicated product. (e.g. here are the completed items on Readlang's uservoice page: https://readlang.uservoice.com/forums/192149-general/status/..., and more suggestions come in via private channels too)

The thing is choosing which users to listen to. For now, I've decided to make an awesome tool for individual learners. So I'm listening more to them, as well as my own gut feeling.
Aren't Bing searches included when you search for local files?
2016: A Bright Future for Digital Health Wearables
Hang on, wasn't the whole point of Cyanogen about removing bloatware in standard Android distributions and adding more privacy measures?

How can adding a large app that sends data to Microsoft help with bloatware or security..? I've used Cyanogen a little before on certain Android devices that had tons of built in bloat and themes to slim it down a bit. I definitely wouldn't want to swap one type of bloat for another.

Time to use a different slim rom from XDA I guess?
Which would be what OS?
can this be weaponised to direct asteroids to a particular place on earth? just asking for a friend.
Because the figures are from a PR fluff piece about how much everyone is using the new features in windows 10.
Tangentially reminds me of the recent Ludum Dare "best innovation" winning game entry that uses Google auto-correction (not translation):

Infinity Monkey Autocorrect

"This funk-filled game explores what would happen to the Infinity Monkey/Typewriter Theorem if it had a commercially-biased autocorrect. The game submits to a growing body of monkey-submitted literature."

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid...

View the growing body of literature submitted through the game by monkeys (players):
http://ld34.idumpling.com/manuscripts.txt

Extract:

"the difference, quickbooks online baby eats frog laid. the university favoured.. Dkdkbi ignored.. B bet but, the quotes"

Fantastic :)
Tri-wheel robots wobble really badly. For telepresence, the screen is at the top of a mast so wobbles are amplified. The balancing robots have very smooth motion.
Related algorithmic gaffe, "Google Mistakenly Tags Black People as ‘Gorillas,’": http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/01/google-mistakenly-tag...
Shattering the World Record for Fracking Earthquakes Is an Disconcerting Honor
Thanks for the recommendation. I think I had tried OneNote on iPhone a few months ago and dismissed it because I didn't like how it was laid out or something.

I just installed the desktop version and wow, it's really nice.! I particularly like how the rich-text editor works. Seems to capture the spirit of Evernote quite well.
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Sure, you can assign returned errors to the underscore black hole and move on. However, that is still consciously and deliberately "doing something" with it.

It is glaringly obvious in a code review that you have done this. Also, although I'm not personally familiar with any Go tools similar to PMD or Sonar in the Java world... it would be fairly easy to write a static analyzer that could scan code, recognize this pattern, and report on it (along with other code smells) in an automated manner.

Nevertheless, idiomatic Go functions return an error structure, and you must do something with that error structure. There is no ambiguity as to where the error structure came from.

Contrast that with Java's model, which is much more (pardon the expression) catch-all. There is endless debate on how wide or narrow to make your try-catch blocks, when to handle an exception locally vs. throwing it back to the caller, etc.

It is very common to deal with bugs that stem from silently "swallowing" exceptions at an inappropriately low level. It is just as common to see patterns where nearly all methods throw nearly everything without a catch at all... and there's a monster try-catch block at the top level catching the base "Exception" class.

Worst of all, there are entire classes of runtime exceptions which are NOT declared as throwable in the method's signature. The compiler has no means of insisting that you do anything about those, because the compiler doesn't know which ones are possible during a given method call. Go's error handling model is safer and better thought-out in that regard.

When you think about issues stemming from Java's handling of checked vs. unchecked exception types, it makes a lot more sense why Go went in the direction it did. Also, why Go application developers are discouraged from using "panic-recover"... and why Go library developers almost always recover from panics and create error structs for passing back upstream.
Patch-Free Intercepting of System Calls
How and why we moved to a faster release schedule
It was not an error. It is indeed a Mordor.
A wealth effect.

An ill-sighted policy, but striving at a wealth effect. The housing market was already crashing in 2012, and gold was booming so much so it seemed like a peak. Wages were stagnant and had been for some time. So where to encourage people to have a feeling of generating wealth? A stagnant stock market.

I have a feeling the Chinese leadership, as a body that agrees on consensus, understand western economic and political history better than anywhere else in the world. They also have a sense of control over messages that get sent out by official media.

This combination led to a belief that nothing can go wrong when the 2 are put together: in this case a stampede to the stock market and quite a few savvy investors recognising this.

This search for a wealth effect reflects something much deeper, however: There is deep malaise in China's economy which is felt across the board, and there is a desperate desire to keep the ball that has rolled for the past 20 years to continue rolling.
Curiosity mostly - usually if a page is particularly nice or particularly bad.

I also tend to check HN when people make comments about the horrors of table based layouts...
This is an insanely stupid title for an article that is essentially blogspam.
Lemonade is associated with a positive belief that Crash deserved Best Picture and iced tea is associated with a negative belief that Crash deserved Best Picture. I wonder what the consensus on Crash's Oscar is among Arnold Palmer drinkers.
If you're archiving at all then OTR won't encrypt them - it's not going to archive the ciphertext.

I guess offline contacts is a use case against OTR, though whisper's certainly has that sorted out already. https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/
Happened to catch rockstar astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Charlie Rose the other night and the subject of asteroid deflection came up. For small candidates, vaporization would be ideal. But for larger ones, any attempt at destroying them may have unwanted consequences. Debris fields, partial cleaving, etc. Sending a team of human miners with demolition expertise is not in the cards. So the current vogue in asteroid deflection would be to send something heavy to intercept the asteroid and deflect it a degree or two using only gravitational pull! A very clean and elegant solution that would no doubt make a great simulation or video game ;)

Mission Concepts and Operations for Asteroid Mitigation
Involving Multiple Gravity Tractors

http://www.ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201...
Here the cards are the content. So with your Evernote example, that's displaying some of your other content in the form of cards, but also this is a public system to showcase rather than a personal or private group solution.

I think the web site is probably more confusing than the app, especially if you're logged in the app and can view how to create cards.
This is good advice for success. On the other hand happiness is not the same thing as success, although they are related. This is the reason I put an unreasonable fraction of my energies into being very good at programming, algorithmization and things like that, instead of better diversifying my portfolio. Programming (the interesting kind) is something that I need to do to be happy.
Not having read the EULA / Terms of Service (I don't run Windows 10), Would running a script to turn off / block the tracking and data collection violate the agreements?
OMEMO lists offline delivery as a key feature. I would have been shocked if it did not support it because that would be a "useless and dead in the water" blocker for new technology in our mobile world.
Nice..

Though if I would work in such office, personally it would be rather awkward and cringeworthy experience on either end.

And the video did not show any advantages against classic conference video call (it wasn't the goal of a video, but if there would've been more uses for it, then it would've shown in the video). You basically just can wander around the office in glorified RC vehicle, drive into the conference room and chat during a meeting.
I like that. I could see them having NPR and BBC news report 'channels' with each article being a different program. That would be a serious hit agains cable and satellite TV. Sure, it's wouldn't be live streaming, but I imagine that live streaming is just another evolutionary step they could approach after they master the short new reports.
No, the article makes that rather clear: You don't have VS on other platforms. This is a cli interface for every supported OS/platform, while you had to use msbuild/xbuild previously (and a couple of things on top, nuget being one).

Obviously you can do everything .Net related already - if you're sitting in VS on Windows.
With figures like those I think you need an annual subscription option ($50/y, two months free for ex.)
I particularly like the Swiss solution: employ topical referenda, and stop insisting that "everyone should vote". I'd rather have 60% of the people abstaining to vote because they don't care or don't know, than having them "sell" their vote to the lowest bidder with the nicest tie.

Especially for a "master of puppets"/figurehead election like POTUS, the problem isn't "too many uninformed people", it's "too many topics in a single vote". Even assuming 90% of your voters are knowledgeable about 90% of the issues, they can't express any of their knowledge in that single button or pencil stroke.

The same is true for trying to "divine" meaning to the votes cast, as well: since every voter only expressed a single button press, it's easy to dismiss votes that don't align with your own views as uninformed.

You want elections with depth? Don't make voting mandatory (either socially or legally), and use topical voting instead of figurehead voting.
This is a bad security argument. With OTR / FS in general, you can re-encrypt the plaintext using a different local-only key after decrypting the forward-secure ciphertext. Then, the ciphertext that was sent over the wire is still forward-secure, and your adversary must seize your computer in order to try to decrypt the re-encrypted non-FS ciphertext you use for logs/archiving.

There really is no reason to use non-FS encryption over FS encryption for ciphertext sent over the wire.
There are multiple fad diets that are popular in the US that boil down to 'low carb'.

I often wonder if it isn't anything subtle, just that processed carbohydrates are incredibly energy dense. 100 grams of sugar or flour has twice the calories of 100 grams of beef (prepared bread still has more calories per gram than beef). 100 grams of greens or non starchy vegetables almost doesn't have calories.
Welp, it's officially the future once we have planetary defense laser bases.
I've heard very similar advice from a number of sources. Though I've also heard an argument that you should only avoid sugars as avoiding more complex carbohydrates will only slow your metabolic rate.
Google Play? I've successfully watched a couple of relatively recent films from the UK.
When your start menu (or whatever the hell it's called now) serves you ads you know you can give up on that OS and that the vendor does not care about the user.
I wouldn't be so surprised. They're a robotics company, not a web design company. They probably contracted it out.
Not parent, but W10 convinced to me commit to using only Linux at home. Used to be Linux-exclusive for years in college, so I figure why not. My work and portables are all OS X, which is still far more privacy conscious than W10.
I wonder if these "algorithmic errors" are the result of people "maliciously" training Google Translate, since there's the option to correct and give a better translation. I wouldn't be surprised if it were programmed to automatically assume that a correction is good if multiple people correct the same thing, which would then lead to these gaffes as communities like 4chan figured it out and "exploited" it.
"30% more Bing search queries per Windows 10 device versus previous versions of the OS"

wasn't IE/Bing the default in previous versions of the OS too?
Uhm, why does techcrunch not mention that Cortana's deep integration in Android sounds a lot like Google Now's deep integration into Android? And I agree with others, how can adding a large app that sends data to MS help with bloat or security?
Perhaps ironically, Evernote alienated thousands of power users when they did their big 2.2-->3.0 rewrite a few years ago. Evernote 2.2 on desktop (+ the browser extension) was tremendously awesome, and then they rewrote the whole thing in .Net and basically made the desktop client a webview, in the process removing about 90% of the features people loved while causing all the sync and stability problems people are still complaining about.

I want to love Evernote because having a centralized, cross-platform, easily searchable repository for both binary content and text is hugely powerful, and there aren't really any viable competitors in this space. But, I don't trust the company and I don't trust the product, so I won't use it, and I'll stick with several different other products that together mostly fill the same use cases for me. One of those is Google Drive, but it's even clunkier than Evernote (although sync works great!).
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What is currently an alternative to Cyanogen, that would be relatively easy to install and provide a fairly minimal but comfortable environment?
Just out of interest:

- Does the book claim that you can't get fat when you don't eat carbs?

- Is there a main reason for calories-in-calories-out being "damaging" as it says on the back?
I don't know much about them, but wouldn't inclines be harder for anything with more than two wheels? With two wheels, you can easily maintain balance, but with three you would have to have another control (or two) to make sure the 3rd wheel is in the correct direction and I presume change the angel as well.
I had a good laugh reading the article about how Cyanogen is trying to steal Android from Google, as well. Too funny!
The updates themselves are served over HTTP and signed, but the request that verifies an update is available is done over HTTPS.
They could do a T-800 shaped "remote manager" option...
I manage my blog (uses Jekyll) in Cloud9, one of those web-IDEs with a VPS backend, and it's great. You can get access to your own dev-box from any browser.
I agree completely. I don't see any justification for doing this, and it just further confuses and adds complexity to the user experience. MS/Cortana will never be able to offer as deep integrations across Android as Google does with Now, and that gap's only going to continue to grow as more 3rd party devs create Now cards and Now intents within their apps. I don't see that happening at all with Cortana.
One reason that I did not use Win10 so far(Windows 7 for Tax and the rest is Linux), to be fair, Microsoft is not alone doing this in the big-data-mining era.
Like Ubuntu?
What is happening on your smartphone screen is the next battleground for even more data points. Those who will be able to get access to, are only a few (Apple, Google, MS) and mostly only one of them at once.

- Google Now can screen scrap your current screen and use it how they wish as processing is done on the server side.

- Siri is well embedded within the iOS ecosystem since a couple of years

- Since MS' investment in Cyanogen, the try to push Cortana into more devices. Same as with Windows 10.

I really don't like it. As long as we can still turn such features off, I'm fine.
Serious but naive question: does a bottleneck curve trending toward CPU subsystems suggest micro kernel based approaches replacing spinning up virtual machines as a future trend due to the possibility of reduced overhead at the CPU?

tldr; Does increasing use of Storage Class Memory imply increasing use of microkernals?
Amazon Enters Semiconductor Business with Its Own Branded Chips
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Bath's my home town, I'm surprised by 'Science and medicine were the lifeblood of these cities', I always associated Bath as a party town for the rich (back in the 18th century), but the science/medicine link does make sense. On a related note, a few years after this diary was written, the astronomer William Herschel was living in Bath when he discovered the planet Uranus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel
Would, "Microsoft Reveals Details Collected Through Windows 10 Tracking" be more appropriate?
Windows 10 has it integrated into the start menu.
more like 5 years for console.
It’s a new year, meet Social Henry
> You have to factor in movie studios being reluctant to base their works on public domain work because it makes it harder to create a franchise out of it.

Didn't stop the very successful 2009 and 2011 Sherlock movie franchise, or the ongoing very successful BBC Sherlock movie series...
Like the ability to boot from a USB stick. Wonder if it can be put in a VM?
People have been doing "google bombs" like this for about a decade, haven't they?
This already exists in a video game. It's call kerbal space program. But instead of gravity you can attach thrusters to asteroids to deflect them. The mod was created by NASA.
And Word disguise! http://pcottle.github.io/MSWorddit/
New insect-inspired vision strategy could hasten development of mini-drones
My guess is no. Reason: steering towards is a smaller target than steering away. If you can only point a laser from over here, it's hard to steer an asteroid any way except "thataway" (normal to the most visible surface).
> Evernote has shoved so many features into the product that they haven't been able to sufficiently hone individual features.

...and that's a really hard problem to fix as you need management (who may not understand the root cause at all) to be on the same page as engineers working on the lowest level of the product.
Real Time Apps with VueJS, ES2015 and Webpack
UN library announced its most-checked-out book of 2015. It's kind of disturbing
Have you tried changing the default search engine? It's SIGNIFICANTLY convoluted. It took me about ten minutes to figure it out and I am 100% confident my parent would be incapable of changing it. I've watched them try.
Re: screen readers, this obsession with image and video on the web is infuriating. All I want to do is consume text, especially for news. Why is this so much to ask for?
Netflix and Tulia – Challenges for #NetflixInKenya
This part was particularly interesting:

But over the past couple of years, flash sales on the whole have faded in popularity as retailers saturated customer e-mail inboxes with promotions and less high-end excess inventory became available.

I wonder how far reaching this 'Groupon-effect' is for Ecommerce in general.
Yup. What the hell are these people thinking? That an operating system is a shopping mall?...

... and they're probably right anyway. Computing went mainstream, people who need tools and not toys are niche now, and mass market doesn't cater to niches.
Because static linking has been out of vogue for so incredibly long in the C/C++ worlds, and above that, most languages either compile down to C, or are interpreted.
PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data
Yeah me too, whenever I have a bug it's just my way of testing user loyalty.
Yes, probably.

Windows 8.1 with Bing (come on, who thought that's a good name for an OS?) has tiles that are ads for aps and games in various stores. No searching needed, these ads are baked in and served when you click start button. (Or whatever that's called now.)
From the article it is not clear what the motivation for the design was. Some efficiency might have been gained from having two wheels but the heavy gyro would surely have negated this.

A modern take on this is Lit Motors C-1 which aims to provide efficiency of a motorcycle with the safety and comfort of a car. http://litmotors.com/c1/
I doubt you could with Windows Firewall, but my firewall (Comodo) seems to do the job.

You can find all the known domains and addresses for the Microsoft telemetry and advertising networks through some searching online. I added them all to my hosts file as well as block lists in Comodo Firewall.

I did both because I assume Microsoft has wired access for some of these services in such a way that the hosts file would be ignored, as well as Windows Firewall.

I have my firewall also set to request user action on EVERY outgoing connection (all incoming stealthed, so no open or closed response) and so far all I have allowed out in terms of Windows processes is Windows Update. I haven't even allowed the error reporting.

The OS is still ticking along just fine.

Honestly though this whole approach they ahve taken with Windows 10 has really turned me off. It reeks of anti-consumerism. I basically just use this Windows 10 machine as a gaming machine now, and all my personal and professional computing is done on a separate Debian machine.

Microsoft won't be getting another penny from me for anything ever again.
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Postgres 9.5 Release Notes
In Ubuntu you can remove it very easily, in Windows if you disable one tracking or telemetry feature it will turn itself on after some time.
Traveling salesman uncorks synthetic biology bottleneck
For context (to explain your "probably") - Ubuntu in its Unity UI serves Amazon product search in its "start menu".
Good morning, and thanks for the response.

- This is a top priority, hopefully I'll have something (albeit crude) sorted for the weekend.

- I'm on the fence with pictures of food at the moment. I really want this focused on being a recipe manager for creators, without the clutter of being an Instagram of food. Not just another recipe "dump" to get lost in the mix. People focus on uploading filtered pics of everything, and it loses the spirit of creation. I will be adding more utilities to search for ingredients, and social aspects. But the pictures may be off in the far distance. I'll see how feedback comes in regarding it.

- Yes agreed, lots of little quality of life stuff to be done. I'm working on it :)