skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So wait...these allegations are based entirely on the fact that Windows registry keys exist with ROT13-ed process names?

Let's just check the scorecard:

- Outbound packet captures showing that Origin is capturing this information? Nope.
- Proof that the Origin client is making a targeted effort to steal information about the user? Nope.
- Indications that Origin is accessing the processes of Firefox or Chrome in any way beyond getting their names? Nope.
- Indications that Origin is potentially capturing any information at all beyond the names of some running processes? Nope.

Cheat detection has been named a couple of times, and that's certainly plausible. I'd imagine ROT13 is used to prevent Origin from being spuriously picked up by antivirus software.
Steam used to check your DNS cache for cheat sites, they don't anymore.
> I didn't understand how I would set that up with your program

> I was just surprised to see it marketed as a backup tool instead of a file synchronization tool

https://www.hackerschool.com/manual, Ctrl-F, "feign surprise"
The copyright to the code of Popcorntime is held by its authors so a DMCA takedown on the code can't be issued on those grounds. However, it acts as a technology circumvention device (in a circuitous way) since it provides access to media that originally was encrypted.

17§1201 a.2:

No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

17§1201 a.3.A:

to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and
Unless they include a fair share of javascript* then this is complete rubbish.

* or any language targetting js.
Is Disconnect.me better in that regard?
Normally you put these kind of things in a contract beforehand. Nobody signs here anything in Holland without wanting to have some kind of exclusivity... The game is to get such a contract so they don't benefit direct competition and you have a valuable business model that can operate horizontally over the entire market. Exclusivity for the entire market (all niches, at all times, in all product forms) is extremely expensive, so they never want that. :-) It's even possible to come up with revenue from the SaaS offering feeding back to them thanks to them being one of your first customers in a pilot.

That all being said, I don't know the specifics of your contract and your relationship with your clients or verbal agreements of people in your company with this client.
I don't think it's just that it can access infringing content. I think it's that it was designed with the sole intent to watch infringing content. When you install and run it, it doesn't appear to have any non-infringing content available. Seems a lot different than saying they could just go after a generic web browser or a media player.
How so, exactly? By having less money than others? Millionaires are impoverished if you equate it with inequality.
That's terrific news.

The official word used is "coding", not "programming", which leaves a slightly bad aftertaste.

Anyway, there is already an option for the scientific students in the last year of high school, the so called "Computer and digital science" (https://www.ac-paris.fr/portail/jcms/p1_482196/option-inform...).
Didn't knew about the HTML part, which is not such a bad news, when most of the self taught programmers I knew started (real) programming it was either on a calculator or because HTML was no longer enough. Even if I don't consider HTML to be real programming, it's enough to be a first step in the rabbit hole, and we all know how deep this hole can be if you care to keep digging.

As for the outside of class hour part, as far as I know it's not 'outside class hour' literally but more reserved hours for non standard class activities ( back in my time that's were I was first taught English which was not a 'standard' class ). Besides, in primary school you only have one teacher, which means most of them will not be half decent at teaching CS, relying on volunteering teachers and/or parents seems like the good way to present CS to young children.
Dark Side of the Curve
I don’t know, they seem to be being hurt a bit in the eyes of developers right here in this discussion.
I'm the person in this discussion who is not actually a lawyer, but: it's not like "loss" of safe harbor is a landmine that blows Github's face off, right? They still have to be found contributorily liable for Popcorn Time, which would be a very difficult case to make given how Github works.

You also don't "lose" safe harbor, right? It's applied on a case-by-case basis.

I acknowledge that one very good reason to be careful about this stuff is to stay out of court, regardless of the fact that Github would inevitably avoid liability.
Cyber tech.com
Getting started with OpenGL on Mac OS X mavericks
The "stuff about boxing" has been discussed on the reddit thread, and I will have it fixed by tomorrow. Thanks for highlighting.

As to "Gc not being clever", the code is clear that it is intended to be clever in the long run, so the essence of the message could stay. Maybe the wording could be made more precise, thanks again for highlighting.

As to the "number of other wrong or slightly wrong things", I would be more than happy to fix the text if you have concrete remarks.
Microsoft’s New CEO Needs An Editor
What the hell are you talking about?

The article is about power, not money. Also, there's no suggested course of action. In fact, a legitimate course of action could be "stop using Google's services so that if shit hits the fan, they don't have your data".

How could enlightened self-interest of consumers ever possibly be construed as an assault on liberty (or whatever-the-hell)?

It's really best never to think of those you disagree with in terms of flat caricatures.
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Why is it that you are surprised to see it marketed as a backup tool?

I know about bup, thanks.
OnLearn
Also the fact that origin has to communicate with web plugins to work (battlelog etc.) seems to have been neglected as a possible explanation.
You quote exactly what I am talking about from Wealth of Nations. How is the "support of domestic to that of foreign industry" free trade in modern parlance? That is protectionism. Your paraphrase echoes what I am saying as well. The modern conception of the invisible hand is not one which leads to tariffs and protectionism, but international free trade. This is the opposite of what he said though.
Well if you trust that ghostery wont track you if you disable, I think it's pretty good.

I have never heard of them until now to be honest so I'm not the guy to ask.
I could see this being handy on larger group camps.

I'm a Scout leader and for a weekend camp will take a battery pack that will keep all our leader's phones charged for the weekend, but if it were any longer or wanted to give the neighbouring camps a charge, would need something solar or fuelled. From what I've seen of the solar stuff out there, most can't keep up with constant charging.
A quick hack I wrote using IDF's data feed.

Other pages using the feed focused on alarming citizens, I made this one to give the feeling of what it's like here.
Uhmm, looking at all the comments to my initial comment, I think this has gone offtrack:

- I am not against running, but I consider weight lifting a necessary addition to it.

- I am not talking about lowering body fat or aesthetics. I am talking about health. A lower body fat is healthier up to a point. Single digit body fat level is just an unhealthy as a 30% body fat level.

- In the same sense, this is not about how much calories muscles burn as this is irrelevant to health. My point is about the role muscle has in maintaining homeostasis in our metabolism.

- My point is/was to help Anand: My sweet spot for body fat level is 13-14%. This is where I feel and perform the best. Anand is at 19% and I believe it is because lack of lean mass; that´s why I recommended him some weight lifting.
I agree. Yell-caps in SQL are gross. I write all my sql in lowercase. It is case insensitive, every keyword. There is no other language that I write in where I don't use camel-case or underscore. SQL isn't going to be the exception.
Creating a map of the World Cup using Xamarin.iOS
Honest question: Why are neonicotinoids still used? Here's a typical news item of late:

Bird decline 'smoking gun' for pesticide's effects

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28216810

I'm an enthusiastic fan of making decisions based on best available science. So long as the decisions are revisited as science progresses.

Color me skeptical.

Seems like the use of neonicotinoids should be suspended until this mess is figured out. I can't imagine how that's controversial.

Ignoring for the moment that agribiz suppressed bad news. It also seems reasonable that all research is published, both positive and negative. Let the informed "free market" decide.
I think they have a lot of public domain films from archive.org. Not sure, though.
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It's fair to say, though, that Americans do worship the American flag with a religious fervor, to an extent other countries don't do. A kid who disrespects it isn't going to be taken to the countryside and shot by vigilantes, but he might very well be beaten up in the schoolyard. Because freedom and the troops.

Politicized symbols usually end up used as a substitute for the things they actually are supposed to signify, not as something that merely accompanies the signified. Here the mangos might've symbolized peace and unity of the country, but in fact they were a tool to rebuild the power of a totalitarian, murderous ruler who was responsible for the destruction of countless lives and cultural artifacts.
In Germany, this is contract is very likely a violation of "established/good morals" ("Gute Sitten", https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gute_Sitten ) and therefor null and void.
I read it as sobber, the social network for crybabies and whiners.
Bringing phones on a camping trip seems to me like you're doing it wrong.
Ghostrank? It's disabled by default.
One of the bare requirements is a statement that the complainant has a good faith belief that the material itself is infringing. This letter says they have a good faith belief that the PopcornWhatevers are being used to infringe. They then back that up with citations of related cases. This request doesn't meet the bare requirements you mention, they're chancing it.
> So... why are the 99% working on things they know will
> amount to nothing? I think this is the central thesis of
> the article. Yeah, there are a tiny number of disruptive
> companies out there, so what the hell is everyone else
> doing?

That is the question that, at some point, I think the author may have started with, or they may have run through a bunch of tropes and the question sort of emerged. Had they had a decent editor somewhere, that editor would have kicked the whole rambling thing back and said, "This is your thesis question, re structure this pile of nonsense to answer that question." But alas, that did not happen.

The reasons why people go to work every day vary, but my experience is that there are some generalizations which can be applied reasonably safely. One is that some folks work just for a paycheck so that they can get on with the rest of their life, and some work toward an end goal, some end effect. I have run into far fewer people who were working to a goal than I have working for a paycheck.

Sometimes the goal directed folks are aligned with humanitarian causes (like clean drinking water for Africa) and sometimes the goal is directed purely at acquiring wealth.

The interesting question for me, is that ratio 1%? Are only 1% of the people out seeking to make some significant change? If so it would account for 99% working on random things, but if not it would suggest that there are some folks who want to make a change but for some reason have been unable yet to put that into action. I make a hobby of looking for such people, its one of the things that I see in a lot of YC founder pitches, people who want to make a change but haven't yet mastered the recipe for turning that into results. And for me at least it is kind of why founders are founders, here are people willing to give up all of their earnings and take a chance at losing 2 - 5 years of their productive lifetime, to try to make a dent in the world.
> However, it is also possible - in contrast to generators - to iterate over those multiple times if needed, it is aonly not so efficient.

You can reuse a generator multiple times via itertools.tee():

https://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html#itertools.t...
True, what I meanbt is that the consumer software marketplace is originally built around those platforms. During the last several years, the market has been largely fragmented by tablets, but I have the impression they still represent a major segment. That said, industries and services may more easily accomodate the absence of these players.
Purely in terms of revenue stream, I wonder if Mobile Advert has caught on to Desktop. If you rely on advert may be Desktop is still a good place to start first?
Second release of LibreSSL-portable
A lot of people do care about helping other people. It is fantastic that you are not one of them but I find it an odd, yet more common theme now, that they like to celebrate this characteristic of themselves..
LD50 is one measure. For the consumer, half life and non-acute toxicity is probably a better measure to use.

The organophosphate (e.g., methyl chlorpyrifos, dimethoate, methidathion and methyl parathion) pesticides used in conventional agriculture have half lives of a little less than a week to two weeks on the surface (and a half life of years in water and soil), while pyrethrins have a half life of hours in sunlight and 2 weeks in soil.

Both organophosphates and pyrethrins have toxic effects on mammals, but one is less likely to be present on purchased produce since, at least, four half lives (97% degraded) will have passed for pyrethrins, in a single day.

In the extreme, organochlorines (e.g., aldrin, chlordane, dieldrin and dicofol [OK, DDT and such are in this class too]) were spayed on conventional crops. These have half lives measured in years (on the surface), and their residues are found, in the environment, decades after specific compound bans.

Finally, US grown rice/citrus contains arsenic (there is no safe limit established for inorganic arsenic) because of conventional pesticides containing arsenic being sprayed on cotton fields (California rice/citrus is generally safer than that grown in Southern states).

All this said, I believe (opinion) that USDA organic allowing the use of so many pesticides was a give away to big ag, so they could participate in the "organic craze" without substantially changing their production practices. Personally, I buy pesticide free vs. organic when available.
Those registry entries were not created by origin. They were created with rot13 by windows explorer. That screenshot shows origin specifically checking whether the entries exist. So origin has a list of files that it checks if the user has.
Steam's current client is basically terrible in all respects, try playing with SteamRE or one of its variants and it's insane how much better it is. Only a matter of time until someone drops a full featured open source client that performs much faster, more efficiently, and probably offers a better interface besides.
The program is probably hooking into the web browser, because you need to start some Origin games (BF 3) via the browser! Yeh, I'm not joking.

A similar thing happened for me with Googleupdate.exe it scanned all my hard drives ... They don't do it any more but I still remove googleupdate.exe every time it magically gets installed on my system.
This is a bit tricky, though! The Origin EULA is not necessarily post-purchase.

It is, if you buy the disk, install the game and then click through. It ain't if you download Origin, install, accept the EULA and then buy a game.

Still, it is questionable whether a contract that is rarely read and can be changed at whim is a contract in some legislations at all. This is still a HUGE open topic.
Much greater surface area, so that part makes sense at least for flame-based cooking. I doubt it offers any benefit for non-flame-based cooking (elements, ceramic, etc. It might actually be a detriment because it would dissipate more energy. It goes both ways).

It looks like the inside of the pan has the same fins, which makes sense otherwise they'd have uneven thicknesses. That would be a serious cleaning issue.
The source about HTML can't be verified. The first blog is referring to "fdesouche" (a controversial nationalist blog), which itself refers to an article from Le Point who don't say anything about HTML.
Someone else mentioned that the architecture is based of Sparc technology (Sun's line of CPUs, which is a mips derivative iirc). It's hardly a completely new architecture.
The concerns expressed in the post have nothing to do with conspiracy, and everything to do with power. Democracies are usually built in such a way as to prevent concentration of power -- not to fight a real or imagined conspiracy. Concentration of power in itself is bad enough even without malevolent intent behind it.
Yeah, but the money is taken from the lower class and given to the overclass by the government through property rights and similar laws. Who pays how much for the common good is an uninteresting question, as money is simply resource allocation by the government/the-powers-that-be.
A list of the London startups who are hiring product managers
A growing collection of Python benchmarks
Somewhat unrelated, but i'd like an API similar to this... but the colors would contrast well for someone who is color blind.
Integer Sequence Game
>I got several 0 marks (which got my math grades from 10/10 down _under_ the sufficiency and required me to _repeat_ the year) for arguing with the teacher about the limits of the machine words (I went with a print-out of a ~10 pages bignum library I wrote just to disprove her). I actually got suspended for asking the school director if I could be an assistant during these classes. I only have shitty memories about these times.

See that's where you messed up and made a mistake. In school you are supposed to learn but also not a huge dick to the teacher. "Yes sir. No sir" is all you should be saying and you get along just fine. The time to rise is college, high school is just kindergarden with the occasional make out session.
Note that github's dmca process explicitly states that takedown requests include an oath at risk of committing criminal perjury for knowingly false statements about copyright claims. We need to get a prosecutor to start trying these cases and putting people in jail to curtail the dmca mills and over-aggressive claimants.

https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy
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that isn't how the DMCA works. unless github wants to become liable for everything anybody uploads to their site, they have to take down whatever a DMCA notice tells them to take down. Popcorntime can contest it and github can restore the files if the takedown is ruled invalid, but until then github has no options here. The DMCA is very much a "guilty until proven innocent" mechanism.
...pesticides turning out to be more harmful than originally thought.

Licenses (to sell pesticides) should be periodically reauthorized, given the current best available science. Factoring cost to benefit in the authorization, of course.

Like all these intractable policy issues, at the heart it's about governance. Right now the burden of proof (of harm) is on the critics. That's inefficient and unnecessarily adversarial.
The article doesn't mention how the saucepan performs at low heat, which is a pretty important part of cooking. Especially if you don't have a great stove, the low end of the heat range will often be too hot, and so you rely on having a good, heavy, low conductivity pan that will keep its contents from getting too hot.

Boiling water quickly is nice, but ruining your custard because it boils is very not nice.
He had no idea that he was famous during this experiment/torture/show. Before starting he was told that "it might be shown on TV".
However, how difficult would it be for a foreign fab to rig the design of a customer and include backdoors?
All this makes me wonder if there's a p2p form of Git based on torrents, a "block chain" or similar where there isn't a master server to take down.
It may have changed recently but for sure until some time ago, an option that clearly said they are tracking you, was activated by default.
> We have the opposite view on this: you seem to think that the bulk of what the startup scene does is disruptive, with a few idiotic startups giving the rest a bad name. I believe the balance is in fact the opposite: a few truly disruptive companies and boatloads of "silly little startups like 'Yo'".

If you count "bulk" by "number of companies", sure. But that's not really a relevant metric.

There's a power law here: the bulk of what actually gets done is mostly done by a tiny slice of companies at the biggest end of the spectrum.

> So... why are the 99% working on things they know will amount to nothing?

Because we can only tell which 1% is good in retrospect. Almost all the good ideas also sounded idiotic to many people at their earliest stage.
Best inane comment from the article's comments section:

"Its dark black then."
The MPAA doesn't own any movies, but the are/were working as agents for the groups who do own the rights to those movies.
That sounds like a huge design flaw. It should have a hand crank to start moving air over the TEC so it can create enough power to run the fan motor.

It seems kinda wrong to be out in nature, burning wood to charge a device. Why is this better than a small solar panel? A panel wouldn't have the fire danger, could be left out all day and charge its own batteries. Also, the efficiency of a TEC is really low, lower than solar panels by a pretty large margin.
It's important to remember that before the days of no-fault divorce false allegations of cruelty were commonly made to justify the split to a judge. Both parties to the divorce would agree on the story in advance and testify to the same under oath. It amounted to widespread ritualized perjury and was one of the major deciding factors in the passing of no-fault statutes.

This is all to say, take the allegations of extreme cruelty with a grain of salt.
What about the Digital Ocean droplet for Gitlab? Pain free install and looks decent.
Why not a solar panel?
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"He could have ignored them, stumbled naked into the streets of a foreign country and tried to beg for help, maybe using some form of pantomime."

Leading, no doubt, to arrest, the summoning of an interpreter, and the extreme embarrassment if not prosecution of the producer or representative in SK of the show.

Seriously everyone: he must have gone through passport control in two countries to get to SK. I doubt if they let passengers through unclothed.
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