skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't see why any free software user would consider it unreasonable to charge for delivery of a service as long as the source code for the service is freely available. There's nothing in the FSF / OSI that says anyone is entitled to free operation of software!

There are consumer orientated services like Newsblur (http://newsblur.com) that do this. There are business orientated services such as SugarCRM (https://www.sugarcrm.com/) that do this.

SaaS is the likely saviour of "commercial" open source.

That said - yes users are unreasonable! All users, all the time. Whether it's open source or otherwise. Unfortunately, lots of open source users think the giving up of their time to report a problem means it should be solved, and they can't do it. The only thing I can offer is that it tells you how important what you created has become to them - think of it as a reverse compliment!
Any source for this? Reading everyone's emails requires them backdooring their server so that it saves plaintext password or symmetric key on login. Were they doing this?
I like the Little Snitch style "allow/deny per binary" thing. It's really unfortunate that it needs a new kernel module because current default firewalls (pf, iptables, etc.) only operate on IP addresses don't know anything about processes.
This article is clickbait bullshit. It attacks the (then unconfirmed POETUS, now POTUS) for absolutely no reason at all. The remainder of the article in no way deals with the threats from government surveillance, and only
Tech question: Does Firefox has technical process seperation of tabs nowdays? This is one of the main features of Chrome since 1.0 and just want to know if Firefox has something similar finally.
In general it is not possible, because your system can replace the font face specified by CSS with something else, and the browser doesn't know. For example, what font is used for "font-family: serif"? Fontface Ninja doesn't know.

In these cases you can sample the font and analyze it with something like WhatTheFont! or Font Matcherator.

https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

https://www.fontspring.com/matcherator
It's unlikely that 500m or 800m investment is 1.) all in cash or 2.) given out on day 1. If there are proper investor controls in place, cash is likely staged in and noncash vests over time as milestones are hit. At least, I hope that is the way it is setup...
So it needs ads then? Or it needs to be self hosted? What's the alternative for someone to build a business on the internet like pinboard does?
If managing multiple ssh/vnc/rdp sessions RoyalTS is a must have.

https://www.royalapplications.com
If the attacker has physical access to your machine, you have bigger problems. They can just read the autofill DB at that point.
When I implemented the GNU APL mode for Emacs, I tried to make it as much as an IDE as possible. I modelled it on SLIME, and it has a live connection to your runtime, and provides things like jump-to-definition and completion based on the functions available in the runtime.

I even coerced SES (the Emacs spreadsheet) to act as an editor for large arrays.

I would argue that I have suceeded at least partially, such that I can say that it's definitely possible to implement an IDE for APL.
I agree with what you're saying, but I stopped paying for the NYT for similar reasons. My subscription isn't enough to keep them in business, so either I'm not paying enough or they're wasting my money.

If I pay for something that I could have easily and legally gotten for free and then it's plastered in ads, either charge me more or revisit your business model. I want to see them stay around, yes, but I wasn't getting the value for my money that I expected to get.
>> " Google does 3500m or so daily searches"

It's difficult to define what constitutes a "search" these days. Since google release autocomplete search in 2004 [1], each letter you type into the search bar results in a search query.

So simply searching for "superbowl 2017" would result in 14 searches because there are 14 characters. So, do you count that as 1 search or 14?

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/how-go...
It's in a sort of alpha state I believe. Will be a while until it rolls out to everyone.
Not true, at least according to https://www.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial/iptables-tutoria...

Edit: Looks like that only matches the process "task command name", so it probably won't work for full paths. I guess that's why they use their own kernel module?

Edit2: Never mind. That feature disappeared with 2.6.14, 10 years ago: https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2007-January...
You said it right!
Company Raises the Price of a Drug That Fights Infant Epilepsy by 85,000%
Elixir does have a Windows installer. And yes, I was testing out the WSL.
How Discord Stores Billions of Messages – Discord Blog
Yes. Listary is the one thing I miss from Windows after I switched to Linux Mint. (well, that and running Foobar2000 natively)

Also I wanted to mention 7+ Taskbar Tweaker (http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker), which is a fantastic little util that helps you make your taskbar just the way you want it. Mousewheel over taskbar for volume control, middle click closes programs, etc...
I like this.

Linux has been missing a personal firewall with good GUI for a looong time.

I'll probs give it a try on a VM and see how well it works.
Why do I even need this? Isn't it by default so that site1.com can't see cookies from site2.com for example?
Not sure how this might affect privacy, or maybe you're doing it already, but couldn't you guys sample every time someone runs a search and then the same search with !g ?
that page does not load when using https:// in the url (for me)
Persistence is undervalued
I think you're in the wrong thread, this one is about who "did a significantly better job than Nate Silver and 538 in estimating the level of Donald Trump support", not who would win the electoral college.
I say kick the politicians and media off twitter.

Both have more to gain than loose by pandering to the lowest common denominator, and that's what they do consciously and subconsciously the whole day.
Uber business sales channel offers very little value add, and charges for it. They don't get it yet, and that may be a fundamental mistake. It makes me think they're not as smart as everyone wants them to be.
I suspect the main reason for Google's stranglehold is that it's usually set up as the default search engine for many web browsers (both for desktop and mobile) and the vast majority of users don't change that.

In spite of its good growth rate, DDG will have to change tack if it wants to make the leap to the next stage.

*FYI, DDG is my default search engine.
I'm using a MacBook Pro with Windows on it as my main development environment except for iOS native stuff obviously.

1. install chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/, and install everything with it

2. install conEmu for a decent command line

3. install git for windows, which comes with a bash shell that brings you all the linux commands, inlcuding ssh.

This brings a Windows PC relatively far. You can even get ssh-agent working with an according .bashrc script (along the lines of https://github.com/joaotavora/holy/blob/master/share/zsh/ssh...)

This does it for me to do node / web-dev / java/ android centered development, I prefer it over macOS and Linux.

Things I do not use:

1) Cywgin. Quite the behemoth, and I get by with git bash just fine

2) The Ubuntu Subsystem. I tried it, had trouble with ssh stuff, seems not ready yet...

3) putty. the open-ssh that comes with git is better and closer to linux.
> * it's just plain sloppy*

Sloppy is an oopsy. This is negligence.
What Is the Oldest Computer Program Still in Use?
It does, sadly!
San Francisco is strange. A lot of the males are gay, taken, or creepy/weird. What's left has to deal with the same thing as women. That is, many women have fed into the "odds are good, but the goods are odd" BS and have become arrogant, annoying, and delusion, though they are nothing special.

With women, I'd say something like, "the odds aren't good, but the goods are still odd." They aren't usually creepy/weird, but they're high maintenance, SJW'y (sees everything as some sort of unfair treatment, complains about every little thing, constantly creates more headache for everyone, etc), bitchy, full of themselves, annoying, and don't seem to realize most see them as a waste of time.

They're like those worthless draining idiots at work who like taking advantage of someone trapped in a bad situation and who say the dumbest thing (addressing others as though they're idiots) every chance they get. Oh wait, it's the same people, but now they're outside work while trying to repeat the same thing again.

Once they are off the table, only a handful of women remain.

In my case, while I was there, the handful left were often attracted to me; however, I kept noticing that if I entered a relationship with one and it didn't work out, that would be it. There would either nothing else, or I'd end up trapped (didn't work out, so therefore..) cycling through the same handful of women.

Trapped. Suffocated. Dead end. Dead end. Trapped. Dead end. Suffocated. <repeat>

That's what constantly repeated while I was there. Everything would lead to a dead end, and it was almost as though there were a group of people trying to keep it that way.
Who Else Wants Unified Messaging?
^ that's completely ridiculous.

Sounds like Reason can run the show as well (OCaml's crufty syntax has always bothered the SML'er in me), going to give this a look.
>They don't need to change themselves to conform to the author's expectations of what would make a good mate.

No, but the author is also free to be who they are, and not consider them as good mates.
Shaggy Dogs and SpiderMonkey Unwinders
Edit: I guess I'm misremembering how Chrome works, or maybe they changed it since I've last used Chrome seriously. I'll leave the comment so the replies make sense.

Original comment:

I'm kind of surprised that Mozilla went with a per-tab approach here, since they went with per-window for private browsing (while Chrome did the opposite: per-tab private browsing and per-window profiles).
>A boardroom firing someone is not violating anyone's rights.

Which is why "firing someone" doesn't appear on my very lengthly list of everyday tyranny that libertarians endorse.

>Shame on you and your inhuman demagoguery.

Good luck with your selective literacy problem.
Do you use Xfce? If I recall correct, they asked for writers not long ago.
Facebook bought Oculus for 2 billion, and what were they buying there? Oculus had a prototype cobbled together using off the shelf parts by a teenager in his garage, a successful kickstarter campaign, and John Carmack jumped on board.

And that made Oculus worth two thousand million dollars to Zuckerberg.

The acquisition sent a strong signal, though. Shortly afterwards a bevy of competitors, big and small, started throwing out offerings.

Maybe signalling is the only reason to make these outrageous investments. Google thinks AR is important, a massive bid on an early frontrunner can kickstart an arms race which generates talent and knowledge, and even if ML fails, so long as AR in general succeeds, a consumer tech company such as Google will be able to benefit from it.
Funny, because that's the only level of support that matters. 538 got it wrong where it counts.
>"This doesn't deal with the design of code and the long term effects of choosing the wrong API."

Yes it does. With this approach, any change to the design requires a change to the specs to be made first. I already indicated the specs could evolve over time to allow for refactoring and new features.

>"It also doesn't handle new features, at all, because the tests have not been written. Even if you enforced a requirement for tests with coverage, the tests could (and usually would) still be wrong.

Trying to take conscious, adaptive, intelligent response out of the loop is a mistake."

You've misunderstood, as I stated before, discussions still happen, they're just focused on the specs.
>No one is ever obligated to date anyone else.

In lots of social systems, including the US up to some date, they are.

>But that doesn't make it okay to criticize people for their personality traits (which don't hurt you.)

Isn't that a critique of a personality trait?

And why would it be bad to criticize people for their personality traits? Personality traits are what inform people's actions and behavior.
Turkey Parliament Triggers Referendum on Presidential System
This is already the approach taken with the operator overloading methods with single-method traits like Add, Sub, and so on. Arguably things like .abs() and .exp() also logically belong in the same category and therefore should be implemented as small traits of approximately one method each.
Swiss Police Are Ready to Blast Drones Out of the Sky at Davos
That's not right. Chrome's incognito mode is per window.
Anyone interested in China's real economic condition should have a look at the ongoing analysis by Michael Pettis:

http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/444

And Christopher Balding:

http://www.baldingsworld.com/

Like other China watchers, they tease economic reality out of ancillary economic data that is difficult to spin (eg. capital outflows, HK-China cross-border trade, energy consumption).

The picture is not good. Reforms are needed, to increase low and middle-class domestic consumption; and perhaps a trillion? in non-performing loans must be written off. The rules for foreign trade and investment in China need to be rewritten to allow for unrestricted foreign competition and investment in the broadest of terms. In sum, system inefficiency in China markets must be rooted out quickly to avoid a much worse crisis.
What do you mean? It opens a new window?
Flightstats is a popular service. Not free though: https://developer.flightstats.com/getting-started/pricing

Similarly, Google sells api access to their flight search api: https://developers.google.com/qpx-express/v1/pricing

I have no idea if DDG could leverage either and not wreck their business model.
> With these abusive messages, he incited others to attack and unleashed a stream of hate, directly violating The Twitter Rules.

The bar of what is considered « abusive » is becoming very, very low. It seems the simple act of criticizing the public actions of an individual is enough for one to become an « abuser ».
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13448870
The site claims to be non-partisan, but the only presidential names cited are Republican, and it ignores abuses and issues under Democratic administrations, except the NSA surveillance scandal.

Admittedly, they are seeking input from disaffected people at a time when Republicans hold the presidency and both houses of Congress, but it seems they are so completely biased they think their examples are "non-partisan."
Food-grade TiO2 impairs intestinal and systemic immune homeostasis in rats
I disagree, it's hardly impossible. I would say any reasonably gifted maths grad student who has chosen the right combination of subjects (the requisite math, some cryptography, along with a low-level programming course or two), would be able to start working on attacks on EC systems.

Do those people grow on trees? No, because it's a much less common specialisation than most others (like aiming for the financials industry, or statistics/analytics/big data) simply because of the number of paying jobs in each field.
A request usually implies a question. You didn't ask one. You simply stated you didn't know her. Your post was actually far more condescending as written.
Sure is! You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HakaHEDs7Q
Congratulations on the big growth.

I'm annoyed that I can't set DDG has the default search engine in Chrome (Android). I hold a bookmark though so 'duc' autocompletes to duckduckgo. Not too inconvenient.
I might be remembering wrong, but I'm pretty sure Chrome started with per-window private browsing before eventually upgrading to per-tab.

So Firefox seems to be just jumping ahead of that initial limitation from the start here.
Yeah usability is a toughie, an other feature I'd be interested in would be some sort of container inheritance (e.g. sub-identities in a work context when clients provide office 365 identities or to test projects under different identities all within the broader work context) but that's even harder to make easy to use.
Postgres Parallel Indexing in Citus
The problem is when site1.com is Twitter, and site2.com includes a Twitter button, then Twitter can see that you are browsing site2.com
src: http://www.lemonde.fr/sante/article/2017/01/20/alerte-sur-le...
"Now, for the first time, we have official confirmation that GDP (in China) has been fabricated."

How much have the numbers been changed?
Try the Little Snitch Research Assistant, it might be able to help.
site1.com might include embedded images that are hosted by site2.com, so may site3.com, site4.com, site5.com and site6.com

Now site2.com (aka facebook like button) knows that you have visited both site1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

You can work around this in some ways by disabling "third party cookies" but this breaks certain features, such as using your facebook identity to post comments on other sites, so sadly all browsers enable this by default.
Politics, period, has further turned the platform in to a cesspool. Removing a single account is not going to correct that course. I guess this is just what happens when a social or media outlet becomes mainstream. To illustrate, I'm sure everyone has enjoyed a coffee shop, bar, or restaurant that later morphed due to loss of niche crowds or mainstream success. Rather than trying rollback time, best to try and accept it for what it is. If Twitter's reality does not suit your preferences, move on. We don't own it.
With the controversy surrounding Trump's ties to Russia and possible hacking activity by Russia during the election, I can understand why some people would view Trump's presidency as illegitimate. Lewis happens to be one of those people and was simply asked his opinion during an interview. It would be surprising if know one had expressed the view that he did. Given that I don't see how what he said could be controversial, irresponsible or destructive.
I believe this exactly is the situation that Damasio describes in the book I mentioned -- his patient "Elliot" had no emotions and couldn't make decisions.

See for instance:

* http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/06/how-only-using-logic-de...

* https://intentionalworkplace.com/2012/03/15/how-emotion-shap...
John Lewis is a hero for what he did in 1965, but now is also an elected official for many years. It's totally fair to criticize or discuss his work and results -- we're not North Korea...
Lying about it makes perfect sense from a reputational perspective. Just because they're right legally, doesn't mean they'll be perceived to be in the right morally by potential customers.

They would profiting from other people's voluntary labour. That fact that labour might have been performed illegally, in violation of Nintendo's intellectual rights, won't detract from that fact for many.
@devoply, I think the best term to describe akjainaj is a parasite. A parasite is an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense.

Based from his response here, I think he is just a troll.
I find Ellen Pao to often be wrong and ineffectual due to external and internal factors. Lauren Betchelder, referenced in Paos article, is an 18 year old mature and accomplished individual. She had a strong biased against Trump and when she said "you're no friend to women" she was probably not wrong, but she shouldve realized she would face backlash. Random people ard brought into the spotlight from being put into image macros-- much less than arguing with a presedential candidate.

Ellen, you're not only wrong about censorship which shouldve been proven to you-- but you're not making the right case. Trump potentially shouldn't have Twitter. however, the internet isn't going to stop being offensive, nor is Trump the only offensive person on the internet.

The most core tenet of America is freedom of belief. Like Henry, I think I think Pao is wrong and what she says is horribly damaging because it notmalizes censorship much as the "fake news/only trust us" meme; BUT I would spend my lifetime fighting for her right to say it.
Can't a process forge its name and icon?
Can you tell us what do you mean by "encrypted program"?

Do you mean that if all operations of a universal Turing machine were homomorphic then you can encryt the code with a hard-coded input and get an encrypted output?

Can you also elaborate on your server example? I don't understand what you are trying to do. (Whats an "encrypted server"?
I've been doing this for years using both Firefox' and Thunderbird's multiple-profile features.

Just run "firefox --no-remote -ProfileManager" and here you go.

So the serious question is: how is this any different from using multiple profile?

Multiple profile also have the pro/con that they are actual different processes, so there's no information leak between profiles whatsoever (well, unless some serious hacking happens).

Edit: being different processes with different profiles, they also have different configuration folders, different cookie sets, different password storage locations etc...
They're used in brain-machine interfaces: http://cs.brown.edu/~black/Papers/nips02Final.pdf
That is a bit tricky. You could argue that the MX records for a domain that is "in scope" (www.uber.com) are in play. They don't specifically say you can only follow CNAME and A records...and you do have to follow CNAME for some of the listed domains.
Downloading from several mirrors at once makes sense, but using "download accelerators" to cheat on TCP congestion control is just wrong. Some mirrors will even ban you for making more than 4 connections at once.
Good point. However when you switch to a different search engine in your browser, you'll likely still have incremental search for the new search provider.
I gotta raise a whole big stink about "but so-and-so said it was awesome and they can't be wrong".

I've been hearing the same things about the Meta 2 (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/meta-view#/entity) for months now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxwrXacMe6Y

And then I got to try it two days ago. And it was decidedly the worst AR experience I've ever had.

I have a laser-cut box of acrylic from a Kickstarter here called the Seebright Ripple that was basically "Google Cardboard for AR" that I'm about to throw away and even that was a better experience.

You can't trust first-time user reactions to mixed-reality technologies. They get lost in the concept that they are seeing any image at all. They don't know the competitor devices on the market, and don't have any comparison to be made to properly evaluate the object.

In the Meta 2's case, the only thing they had over the Hololens was wider FOV. In every other aspect, it was worse: heavier, tethered to a computer, not adjustable enough to make the image comfortably visible, extremely bad tracking, extremely bad hand gesture input. And yet, Robert Scoble thinks this is the most important product demo he's ever seen. They could have gone out onto the conference floor at where we were and found better tracking running on an iPad [0]. It was embarrassingly bad.

So what is the Magic Leap? We won't know until they actually show us. There hasn't been any real evidence on it yet.

[0] And at this point, if you're going to be tethered to a PC, you might as well just use Vive's Lighthouse tracking. Save yourself the time, money, and bad customer reactions.
Nothing to worry about.

Just take both mc and visa cards.