skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really.

Windows, by default requests elevated rights from the user (the UAC dialog) if you run any exe that has 'setup' or 'install' in the name, or if the manifest inside/alongside the exe defines a requirement for elevated rights.

You can spot these files as they have a little Windows 'shield' overlay on their icons (Windows overlays that itself if it detects a file needing elevated rights).

So, unless you can elevate your rights (i.e. be admin, or type in admin credentials), you can't run most installers.

However, prior to Windows 7 your personal start menu folder wasn't locked down - and as a non-admin you could easily add/remove shortcuts from it. Since Windows 7 onwards it's now protected, so you need to elevate to be able to write to it.

Windows allows you to run (by default) software from ANY folder you like, but you can only (by default, again) write to some of your user folders and the the %TEMP% location.

So downloading the PuTTY exe and running it from the downloads folder or desktop is perfectly legitimate, although not good practice.

As an aside: I'm not sure if Chrome still does it, but I recall that if you try to install it and you don't have admin rights, it just puts an icon on your desktop, and installs all the chrome files into a folder under ProgramData which resides in your user hierarchy, instead of the locked down Program Files area. Which is one way of getting around the lack of admin-rights.
Like you said though, it is limited to a very few exceptions. Not every company that receives press grows as desired.

I was co-founder at a project that has received 10+ newspaper articles (progressively better placed) and growth kept declining over the months only to become negative.

However, I obviously understand that one can never look at these factors in isolation and that there are multiple variables on which growth depends. I would also not consider press to be a part of marketing really.
I find it more surprising that such a thing hasn't been done yet, or is too painful using existing tools. But you've definitely inspired me to give it a try.
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"Never again be stuck not being able to see cats do stupid things in animated gifs when you don't have your web browser available"
Lol they do know how to sell their software xD. Thanks for link.
Sen. Wyden: Border Searches of Digital Devices Should Require a Warrant
There are many places in the US where a significant part of the economy comes from tourism.
Read this months ago, why is this news?
Put it this way - If you ask academic questions to a senior engineer during an interview, you might as well hire a college student. It will cost you less money and the student might even be a better fit, based on your evaluation.
With a couple orders of magnitude more users, yes. Willing to pay $100/year to remove branding on a search engine you add to your website is far, far less common than "willing to pay to listen to music".
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13695495
The sun shines on everyone equally.

Isn't prison enough of a disincentive? You now want to take away someone's dignity after they have served the sentence which has been deemed to be the punishment equal to the crime?
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From the top of my head, I'd say this is a great opportunity for Algolia.
So, more room for Algolia et al?
I guess an important caveat for the exception to the rule is the product has to be so good that it just automatically makes money. A true self-driving car has an obvious path to profitability. A social media platform that is an existential threat to Facebook is an obvious target for an acquisition.
How is it distant? I have friends and colleagues who are already thinking about skipping going to he US on business trips for this reason.

On a slightly different note. Can this be used to send people home even if they are not bringing a device? I mean, wouldn't it be suspicious to not bring a computer or phone? And if border police are as arbitrary as people say, why not send people away for not having devices that could be unlocked. It would be suspicious couldn't it?
C. Harold Wills was Henry Ford's first employee and right hand man. Henry couldn't pay him initially so he granted him perpetually ten percent of the companies earnings. That became rather expensive and he eventually bought him out.

Wills wanted to build the perfect automobile which had to be built in the perfect town by workers who could walk to work. Having lots of money he bought some farmland near Port Huron, Michigan and created the town of Marysville.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marysville%2C_Michigan

Unfortunately Wills was a far better engineer than a business person. The car, the Wills Ste Claire, was quite innovative but he eventually went broke.

http://uniquecarsandparts.com/images/lost_marques/Wills_Sain...

There's an outstanding museum in Marysville featuring the car. My father restored a Wills Ste. Claire and it was always his favorite.

http://www.willsautomuseum.org/
Yes, but we're not Costa Rica. It's not grievous. And business interests aren't supposed to be the measuring stick dictating policy, some argue.
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If wiping your browser history is "suspicious", then surely so would be changing your password and not divulging the changed one, so how is that any comfort?
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I like the analogy of jet fighter pilots vs. airline pilots. Most programmers are metaphorically airline pilots, doing a routine job that is more about following the processes than elite skills, but some people wish that they were doing something more complex than they are.
I think it would be easier to just use solar and wind plus huge batteries.
> white supremacy has entered the political discourse

I must have missed that. Can you link to a few (mainstream) examples? The only thing I'm aware of are smears against Bannon...
I was strangely missing that piece. I was going to write in my comment that they are similar to pyramid scheme members, but thought that was a stretch.

My step-father and brother are both brokers, so I know how they operate, but I somehow missed how agents get a piece of the action.
Living in Japan, love the fact that I don't have to tip anywhere!
This is a repost (syndication?) of a blog post at:

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/02/finding-radiohea...

which is a summary of a blog post at:

http://rcharlie.com/2017-02-16-fitteR-happieR/

I didn't know that Spotify has an API. I see mention of a rate limit in the docs, but I can't find the actual limit. If I want to sort the tracks from albums released in a given year (say, ten to fifty out of a thousand-album collection) by Spotify popularity, will the limit get in the way?
Exit Music might be their most bitter song, but I'd say Street Spirit or How to Disappear are the saddest.
I wonder how many people would have an immediate answer at the ready, and how many would have to ponder and classify ( assuming similar familiarity with the Radiohead catalogue)
Well there are already deployed drones with tranquilizer dart guns that target humans. Used as "drone fencing" of sensitive areas. Example shooting from hexacopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNOL9Kz2WNE
Yep, that's a good opportunity for them, for sure. I'd start calling up universities and get a foot in for exposure, list them as enterprise clients, etc.
Twitter is 'ghost' deleting tweets without informing users
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I think a more fundamental problem is cost: Building one more explosive-drone is probably cheaper than raising and training one more bird, so an attacker would just send N+1 drones against N birds, and whichever drones detect interference can explode into shrapnel.

> Given the brittle, hollow nature of bird bones

Maybe they could make them little reinforced booties of kevlar and steel-sheathed talons? :P

Over in the realm of sci-fi, its interesting to contemplate bird-safe EMP grenades, or a neural-tap that makes the birds part of a spotter/targeting system for ground-based lasers.
I think you're selectively reading what you want to see. Slack's title line is "Where Work Happens". Work, teams, and productivity normally are not terms you use to describe chatting with friends.
While it's not worth it for me to pay $30 for the full paper of the main trial ('IDEA') cited, from the abstract I wonder about the conclusions drawn.

* What if the specific content of the full bundle of interventions – including a certain kind counseling & low-calorie diet – actually serves to make the tracker seem relatively less-important? (It might be the case that someone given just a tracker would focus on it, while those with the other interventions – all participants – would be more likely to view it as superfluous.)

* What if those losing less weight are nonetheless more satisfied with their progress, perhaps because they've gained in other ways? (What if they've lost less weight because they've gained muscle weight? There's no hint whether this was measured.)

* It's not clear how the "…those who employed the technology were no more physically active than those who didn’t… {t]hey also weren’t more fit" conclusion was drawn. Self reports? (How do you know someone's true activity without a dedicated tracker?)

* What specific tracker & software was used? Results could be very sensitive to UX issues – something minimal & academic might be hard-to-use and easy-to-ignore compared to (say) popular commercial smartphone apps. They only mention a 'website', not an 'app', in their abstract. (I would not often visit a website to check my activity or check my diet, but I view my wrist-worn Fitbit device, and its app interface, a dozen or more times a day.)

I suspect that to get a clearer reading of what just-a-tracker might do, I'd prefer a minimal focused study, along the lines of:

* every participant is asked their weight-loss goal, then sent a questionnaire once each week to self-report progress

* some participants are also given a commercial tracker, and their weekly questionnaire also asks if they're using it

* at the end, total progress is evaluated (and automated activity-tracker usage stats collected)

That could disentangle the other-interventions and maybe-not-state-of-the-art academic interface from the results.
But that's a stop gap measure at best, sure until the "personal calibrations" can be done programmatically. It would be a neat thing.
I call it the "Build It And They Will Come" Hollywood myth.
I am a linux die-hard, and for my use case (dev C++ target other UNIX platforms), it think it's simply the best OS around by far. For anybody even remotely interested in computer science and software engineering, linux is a great place to be.

But i am having a really hard time understanding the reasoning of people trying to put the failure of linux on desktop on anything else than the fact that the linux desktop experience sucks... always have and probably always will be lagging. The recent uptake and use of linux desktop have much more to do with the browsers overtaking everything than anything else...
I have a novel solution: use a delta ~~queue~~ stack! Instead of pushing straight numbers, push the delta of each new value against the next smaller value currently in the stack. Sadly I can't find a resource for this data structure. I learned about it in university when writing a sleep() function for an OS I was writing. On each tick, you simply decrement the first value (or pop it if it's 0).

[]

push(1) : [1]

push(2) : [1,1]

push(3) : [1,1,1]

push(3) : [1,1,1,0]

pop() : 3, [1,1,1]

pop() : 3, [1,1]

pop() : 2, [1]

pop() : 1 [0]
I believe that this Enterprise Search can be used for pages that are not freely available on the Internet. I've seen it used on portals where you have to be logged in to access the content.
I don't understand. What truth could they report that would cause them to be taken off?
They have to let US citizens in, provided you've proven citizenship.
It's not a Google product. So no. (not that I'd agree with it not adhering to those roots currently. Just that this project has nothing to do with company policy)
> You don't know what you don't know.

Self-taught developer with the mentioned "foundational knowledge." I'm very strong so far as any university-level CS subject goes. One area where I have recently learned that "I don't know" is anything beyond high school calculus - having started to play around with Tensorflow. You are most certainly correct and now, instead of immediately having that expertise at my fingertips, I have to self-learn it over a month.
If you programming with R, there is a bug with as.numeric() function
Stucked in time: http://www.excite.com/
"Honey Pablo"?
Microsoft launches Skype Lite Android app for India and other emerging markets
You could call the schema the Digitransit schema or the OpenTripPlanner schema. The best link for documentation is this (or a parent directory): https://digitransit.fi/en/developers/services-and-apis/1-rou...

For the list of endpoints, we offer three public endpoints ourselves:
Digitransit HSL - Transit routes, stops and realtime schedules from Helsinki Regional Transport Authority, Finland: https://api.digitransit.fi/routing/v1/routers/hsl/index/grap...

Digitransit Waltti - the regional public transport authorities in Finland: https://api.digitransit.fi/routing/v1/routers/waltti/index/g...

Digitransit Finland - includes long-distance route data from Finnish Transport Agency: https://api.digitransit.fi/routing/v1/routers/finland/index/...
Wow. This page is actually strangely appealing. It loads fast. I don't have to click off to another page to get the news headlines. Ads are restrained to just a couple square boxes.
and G Suite (formally Google Apps for Business)
If you have the product on the app marketplace and it's growing and generating money, there's no reason to bleed money. And it's absolutely no reason to shut it down. Make your operations more efficient. That will also help when scaling up.
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In my country they also look at the intent of the law. The intent of this law is to prevent you from rallying one group of people to feel superior over another group of people, over racial, sexual, religious and other issues. You can still say these things in private without repercussions.
But the university isn't "your" platform. It's "our" platform. Why would exactly you get to choose what ideas to present (and amplify)?
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OTOH, that 1GW drops to almost zero at night.
Lately I started to understand more and more about the benefit and importance of marketing and starting to market early. This article summarizes the benefits in a clean and easy-to-read items.

I think, hiring a marketer is a big problem. Let's say you are a group of engineers building a good product and you know you need to hire marketers. The questions are, how do you hire a marketer? What criteria do you seek in a marketer? How do people become marketers? One obvious choice is trying to find someone who marketed a similar product before but it is not always easy. I think this is also the case for hiring sales people.
Is that against a moving target through turbulent air?

Even easier: Build two drones, and have whichever one gets grabbed blow up immediately.
I didn't vote for Trump, however I did have some positive things to say about a few things he supported. Overall I felt Hilary was the better choice, however expressing anything not negative about Trump caused serious contention.
It's almost like a knock off of a Japanese "portal" except its not but rather its sort of a fossilized 1999, except it has SSL.

And to think they had the opportunity to buy Google for 750K after Vinod talked Page and Brin down from 1MM
Is there a reason compilers don't just use modular inverses and let overflow take care of things?

19 * 678,152,731 = 1 (mod 2^32)

19 * 9,708,812,670,373,448,219 = 1 (mod 2^64)

As long as we already know the size of an int Euclid's algorithm should be able to find these inverses if they exist.
Just another case of "all the gear, no idea".
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So this, having V8 5.5 means async await is now stable and available without command line flags? Awesome!
i have built products that went to millions of users, zero marketing. If the product is inherently viral, you don't need to market. Othwerwise, you do.
> I suspect they'll just settle for a leisure lifestyle.

This is basically the crux of the two sides of the UBI issue.

People against UBI believe others are no good and will waste their life if given the chance.

People for UBI believe others will use it as an opportunity to lift themselves up.

Why does the only worthwhile goal in your argument seem to be "get a good job"? People can find fulfillment with many other goals that don't need to be jobs.
Buried in the FAQ and not in the changelog for some reason:-

As of 0.68, PuTTY will no longer fall back to SSH-1 if the server doesn't appear to support SSH-2; you must explicitly ask for SSH-1.
I'm a huge fan of simulations, I don't think you can develop a 'good' embedded system without it. My way of implementing something embedded is:

* Develop a capture program for the input feed/sensors, and capture as much as you can.

* Develop a software model to recreate the input for a 'target' embedded system

* Write the embedded system against the captured input. That will get you 95% there.

* Run it 'live', check anything wrong (you will). Usual debugging & tweaks.

* Do a feedback loop if problem input comes in, and keep /that/ preciously for your test unit sequence.

* Once software is done, every time you make a change, run your simulator with all the test input you have and check your output for divergence.

I very, VERY rarely need to JTAG into a board, I'd rather spend the time on the simulation model and get it accurate as I can than spend time 'debugging' on the target.

That's why I wrote simavr for example [0], but I also use qemu lot for bigger systems. Unfortunately it's next to impossible to get anything upstream in qemu, so most of the work there just is dropped eventually [1].

[0]: https://github.com/buserror/simavr

[1]: https://github.com/buserror/qemu-buserror
A short V8 5.5 feature overview: https://v8project.blogspot.nl/2016/10/v8-release-55.html
> Example shooting from hexacopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNOL9Kz2WNE

Uhm, that's not real or related. That's some guy's visual-effects project, and the drone is CGI.

Perhaps you meant the manufacturer's movie here? Good luck shooting a diving eagle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OItoIIoSefI
The biggest issue facing the wearable market is that, despite having all the data, I still don't know what to do with it. We need to correlate cause and effect. It differs dramatically between individuals, so what's true for me is probably not true for you. We have a battle between privacy and usefulness, in that we'd ideally feed data from millions of people into a machine learning algorithm to start helping people actually use and benefit from the data. However, most people don't want to share their intimate health data to the cloud.

Another huge issue is that we haven't nailed the input problem: wearables can measure our energy expenditure, but not our energy intake. Until we can measure that as accurately as heart rate (and not just calories, but the nutrient breakdown too) then we only have one side of the equation.

We still have a long way to go before wearables are truly indispensable, and that's before we start considering the emerging research on gut bacteria and the role it plays.
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I’d like to feed The Chaos to it and see how it fares.
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I'm sure you'd be made to divulge the new passwords, but at least the passwords stored in their database -- that could be accessed by god-knows-who -- wouldn't be usable for the weeks or months between cross-border trips.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but if you actually sit down and attempt to add this to glibc, you will come to the realization that it is not easy at all. If you want to e.g. use the inotify mechanism you have a few key decision points to make

* There's no place where glibc can run an event loop to watch for the changes, the application might not have an event loop.

* If you need to integrate with an event loop the application runs, it'll work fine as long as the user remembers to hook up the events and deal with the corner cases. You can use this approach without any special support for glibc, and set TZ env. variable yourself when /etc/localtime changes - though at the moment that will only work for single threaded programs (setenv()/putenv() is not thread safe)

* If you decide to run the event loop in a separate thread, you force every binary to be multi threaded and have quite a lot of corner cases to handle when fork()'ing.

* If you don't run an event loop, you're back to polling for changes, and hardly anything is gained.

* If you use the signal driven I/O notification mechanism, you interfer with the application use of signals and I/O notification, and also have a host of fork() corner cases to consider.

vDSO is not a magic silver bullet that can solve this, you would at least have to have the kernel manage timezone support, or perhaps better, have the ability to transparently manage arbitarily data, and then expose that through shared memory that vDSO can use. This will not happen anytime soon.
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> Slightly less malicious were a whole bunch of EPS files that would play havoc with your screen: "gravity", which would make all your windows drop to the bottom of the screen, "black hole", etc.

I was just searching for those on the USENET archives to point to them here. NeXTSTEP users would usually post to the USENET with NewsGrazer, and one of its options was to post (and view) "rich text" messages to the USENET in the form of a uuencoded tarball of an RTF directory, much to the consternation of non-NeXT users. This was immediately before the introduction of MIME, and Mark Crispin was quite vocal about how bad style this was.

Anyway, I think it was Glenn Reid (maybe?) who started inserting these evil EPS attachments his Newsgrazer RTF postings, so you'd view his messages and your screen would melt, or all the icons in your dock would fall down. It was amazing. IIRC this seemed to be the impetus for NeXT to include a few security measures in their next Display Postscript revision, breaking all the fun.

NeXT also had an open, unprotected port through which you could send Display Postscript commands, mostly to do remote screen stuff a-la X. I remember once posting about how I didn't think this was a big issue, and the next day someone mailed me the entire directory contents of my hard drive.
Having lived for >2 years in 6 different US states (NY, CA, TX, MA, NV, MT)
and cities with populations ranging from 2,000 to 20,000,000, I can
absolutely guarantee you that rural white areas have the least internalized
racism of anywhere in the US.

First of all, I will note that none of those places are in the Deep South (e.g. Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, etc). I would claim that there are strong regional differences in racism in the US. While conservative rural areas in the West have a reputation for being pretty tolerant, that reputation does not hold for places that had a longstanding slaveholding tradition. Texas is somewhat of an exception to this, because of its rather unique history.

Secondly, are you yourself white? I only ask because I am not, and I have had the experience of going into a store in a rural, conservative area, hearing conversations stop and heads turn as everyone stopped to look at the different-looking person walking in.
Creating a risk to national security is moral? What planet do you live on?