skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pop Launches an App That Makes Video Chat as Easy as SMS
> ambient sound being uploaded to the cloud (SIRI, etc.)

To the best of my understanding, Siri doesn't do this. Siri listens, locally and on-device, for the hot phrase. (I know that the Moto X does that for 'Okay, Google Now'.)

Anyway, to the other points: I get something for providing information to Google. My location isn't terribly important to me and the benefits outweigh the risk. Ditto an online internet connection. My phones, iPhone and Android alike, both run whatever software I want--Cydia was the first thing I installed on my iPhone and Android accepts applications without qualm. (And I don't use applications that can turn the camera or microphone on without my knowledge.)

This is spying on my e-mail and my bank. It has literally no positive attributes. There's just such a massive difference to me that I get confused at your core claim.
Based on time-stamps, at the time you posted there were 4 comments, of which 2 complained about the lack of applications and 2 engaged seriously with the material. That seems too early in the discussion to be accusing the community (as opposed to 2 individual posters) of being "butt-bothered".

On the other hand, there were no further such comments after your post, so maybe one could say that it worked. :-)
I really hate to admit it, but I love the lighting adapter. Blows micro USB out of the water.
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In general, that's correct.

However, depending on your jurisdiction that may be a crime. In that case, I or the state might be able to prosecute you under criminal law. I don't generally understand that to be within the meaning of "sue" though. And, again in general, criminal conviction leads mainly to punishment rather than reparations to the victims.

Oh, and exceptionally, if I'm your "model" then without me signing an appropriate release I own copyright on your photos, so I may be able to sue you for losses (probably to the value of you buying an equivalent market-rate DVD or something).
I've been subscribed to their mailing list for a while, and its been nicely curated. All the development takes place on Assembly [1], which is really cool!

[1]: https://assembly.com/gamamia
Filename metadata absolutely does deserve protection! I'm not sure why it's become a ground truth that filesystem-level crypto must leak filenames.
Ask HN: Where to turn for architecture questions?
Hi all,

I am currently transitioning away from the typical monolithic .NET application architecture and would love to bounce some questions off of people who have experience dealing with scalable systems.

Where does one turn for questions such as this?

As an example, I am looking into doing something like the Heroku architecture approach. The front end web servers receive an http request and route it to a worker to process and return the results. I would manage the communication through message queues. Is offloading the web server processing to a worker an insane idea?
At my company, we've been beating our heads to the wall[0] in getting multi-term synonyms to work correctly in SOLR. e.g.

fruit extractor => fruit juicer, citrus juicer

Does anyone experienced enough have a clue if SOLR 5 can help with that?

[0] - http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2013/10/27/why-is-mult...
At least some MSPs are managing cloud services for their customers, so ask around. Maybe Google/MS have lists of their resellers somewhere?
It's not a bunch of baloney. If you have used Nexus 5 post-lollipop you will experience significantly decreased battery life. http://blog.gsmarena.com/benchmarking-android-5-0-lollipop-b... Project volta doesn't mean improved battery life. There are many factors to battery life that are not addressed by Project Volta.
iPad 2 iOS 6, stable
The recent kerfluffle in which the ElementaryOS team changed their download page to try to hide the "free" option and said "We want users to understand that they're pretty much cheating the system when they choose not to pay for software" makes me super hesitant to even try it. I'm not sure I want to be using a Linux distro produced by people who think that free-as-in-beer is a bug.
This is not about surveillance or privacy.

This is a massive, well-established company deliberately introducing a gigantic security hole into all secure internet services, including the ones you use for online payments, banking, and governmental services. It's a security hole that can be exploited by anyone with moderate technical knowledge, and it was all done for the sake of showing you ads.
This would be the perfect tagline for Hololens:
Hololens - carry a cinema sized tv anywhere you go.
Also some Toshiba laptops....
well, so is counterfeiting money, but banks usually don't try to give you fake notes.
Have you used Inbox?
Loving the progression from a newsletter to a hacker news style site, great stuff, I hope a solid community forms around it.
@JustinBrookman just linked[0] to this FTC ruling against HTC in a similar case in 2013: http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/02/htc-am...

Choice quote:
The settlement requires HTC America to develop and release software patches to fix vulnerabilities found in millions of HTC devices. In addition, the settlement requires HTC America to establish a comprehensive security program designed to address security risks during the development of HTC devices and to undergo independent security assessments every other year for the next 20 years.

[0] http://twitter.com/JustinBrookman/status/568466666771910657
ANother reason to install your own OS is that SSDs are much cheaper from Newegg than as laptop upgrades.
Some ad-removing proxies (basically the exact opposite of Superfish?) and antivirus need to do MITM on SSL as otherwise they would be completely ineffective against ads or malware served via SSL.
Outstanding. It's like a ridiculous Law & Order episode where the defendant goes "I wasn't even in town that night."

"So what's your face doing on all of these security cameras at the scene of the crime?"

"... uh..."
Not to mention that they open sourced their interface for rendering React on canvas, which is opens the door for more (smaller) companies to do the same. What they did is phenomenally friendly to the open source community.
Lack of open protocol implies that client choices will be essentially limited to what the service provider offers. This is bad user experience.
And here I am reading the comments still with no idea how to pronounce cache. Is it "cash"?
I've switched between Chrome and Safari for years - always preferring Safari. However Safari was always too buggy to use consistently. The latest version is very stable in my experience which was it's biggest drawback previously.
How much has MS truly open sourced? SQL Server? Windows? Visual Studio? MS Office?

No, MS has realised Linux is winning in the Cloud and want to open source their development platform in a desperate attempt to stay relevant.

That said, Google strong-arming phone and tablet manufacturers, and indie musicians on YouTube is pretty shady too.
Melanoma in the eye is most commonly of a type called uveal melanoma. Ocular melanoma would be any melanoma in the eye, including the more common skin types (e.g. nodular, or superficial spreading, which is the most common subtype) which metastasized to the eye (very rare). Uveal melanoma confounds most of the effective melanoma treatments to date, even the most current and exciting treatments that have come on the market in the last few years. The reason (rather, one reason) is that it shares few of the same genetic targets that the more common subtypes have.

A primary tumor which metastasizes elsewhere in the body has characteristics of the primary tumor, including genetic markers, which is what allows a pathologist to determine a likely origin.
Good points.

But it can also be illuminating to try one of the wagons on for a bit and see how it feels.
"This is the big thing everyone's talking about? It's just like some X I put together 10 years ago,
with a couple layer of warts to deal with concerns that didn't affect me."
US TV Networks Speed Up Shows by 8% to Fit More Ads into 30 Minutes
We also switched to crashlytics. I like their flow for new testers, they do not have to create an account.
Yeah, that doesn't happen.
Yes, and we use it pay companies in the US that we use. Anything that annoys the banks is OK in my book :)
Agreed. Too often it's the blind leading the blind.

"Oh download this script, and run it as root", or "Edit this file and paste the following". With no real understanding or awareness.
What about Windows 8 do you feel is copying Apple? The big changes are utterly unlike anything I see in OS X but maybe I'm missing something.

Personally, I like Windows 8. I don't use the Metro apps (or whatever they are called now) but it's basically Windows with a lot of incremental improvements. It seems like most people complain about the new Start Screen replacing the Start Menu. I've long used the Windows button as search rather than as a drawer for apps that I wade through* so the Start Screen is just a bit nicer looking with no functional difference from Windows 7.

* If you aren't doing this you need to try it. Hit the Windows key, type what you want, hit Enter. It's a huge improvement over hunting through the Start Menu.
Putting .NET Core on Github? Visual Studio free for small teams? Surface Pro? Office across all platforms, many of them completely free? Giving away Windows 10?

Maybe none of those are things you'd use, but to other people they're a pretty big deal.
In UK, as I understand it, unauthorised access to computers and networks/communications under the Computer Misuse Act is a strict liability situation: you only have to do it to break the law, no harm needs to be shown. MitM-ing my connection would be unauthorised access. It's a crime.
I think what you are referring to is Cert Pinning.

[1]: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/29988/what-is-ce...
Firefox, gives a tough competition to Chrome. And I have tried multiple times to switch.

Unless ofcourse, there is a Chrome only website.
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No, I'm not a big fan of gestures, for me keyboard control is more important. Smooth 2-finger scrolling works, though.
It's not about the upgrade cycle of the hardware, but the software. Browsers stay up to date automatically, even on 10 year old PCs. Phones are often abandoned by their providers and run old versions of the OS that are not automatically updated to the latest browser tech.
You can also just double click on the title bar.
Correct. So OEMs can load whatever crapware they like, and Microsoft doesn't even know what they're loading. The idea of a "vice like grip" is nonsense.

What Microsoft does instead is offer Signature editions that are crapware free....
>> "And they are focusing on moonshot projects for exactly the same reason that article claims is Google's problem - being complacent."

MS Research has been doing this kind of thing for years. Most of the projects never go anywhere. Google isn't the first company to do R&D - they're just really public about it to try and improve their public image.
Apple is definitely not immune to stupid things. They've done a lot of stupid things.

Apple have also made tons of mistakes when it comes to security and privacy.

But I still have a hard time seeing Apple ever intentionally adding a feature that proxies all a user's encrypted connections to inspect the content and insert ads.

Tim Cook's recent speech at the Cybersecurity summit sounded pretty earnest to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI6DvV2muDE
Both pronunciations are acceptable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNSxRru3I4

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10155/data-pronun...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/data#Pronunciation

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data
Would you argue that Glass did not move the market, regardless of its success?
> partition tolerance

Yes, see [1] and [2] for a comparison between Solr and Elasticsearch. I should mention also that ES are working on the partition tolerance issue as described in [3]. I am currently using 1.4.3 and am wondering if anything was addressed in 1.4 for resiliency.

[1] http://lucidworks.com/blog/call-maybe-solrcloud-jepsen-flaky...
[2] https://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch
[3] http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/resiliency-elasticsearch/
See, I do not understand people who say Windows 8 was "sooooooooo bad". It was not bad in the slightest. It ran extremely well. It had a different UI. That's it. And even with that, the 8.1 update brought back much of the old UI stuff.
Yes. I actually like it - but most people I've talked to don't want to manage email that way. I eventually switched away myself due to lack of support for other email providers & unified inbox.
Their response is basically that this wasn't even a problem, but they'll still stop because people are making a big deal out of it for no reason and it's good to keep people happy, even when they're idiots.

This seems like a pretty good reason to drop them. When you catch somebody misbehaving, and their response is "fine, I'll stop, but it wasn't a problem" then you can't trust them at all.
Coase, Ronald H. (1937). "The Nature of the Firm". Economica 4 (16): 386–405

http://www.sonoma.edu/users/e/eyler/426/coase1.pdf
Although irrelevant now don't hotels still charge crazy amounts for the in room phone?
Largely unrelated to your post, but it was incredibly difficult to figure out where you were located (and even more difficult to figure out if you shipped to the US).
The difference is that I go to the supermarket every week and spend money, so coupons save me money on stuff that I'd be buying anyway.

In contrast, Internet advertising offers me pretty much nothing of interest.
https://twitter.com/agl__/status/568443835841261569

Thanks for making HTTPS non-mandatory in HTTP/2, IETF!!
It's a shame this got downvoted in the backlash. Almost everyone has something they'd find offensive if it were put non sequitur in some technical resource they were reading. It's very possible to be lighthearted without being needlessly offensive. Things that the majority would find offensive basically become invisible and unquestioned norms, but when the majority has to consider that other people have touchy topics too, they'd rather just fall back on the invisible norms than consider points of view they simply don't feel like considering. It's telling that you mostly have glib remarks, dismissals, and downvotes instead of any real counterargument.
Not certain about the OP's reasoning, but doing aggregate functions on the database server is often more performant than doing the same in your application. This is, in part, because of the smaller result set sizes.

Also, it's useful having logic baked into the database rather than your application in the case that you need a different application to connect to your database. It's a problem, for example, if you're maintaining your foreign key relationships through ActiveRecords's relations and ignoring it on the server. It makes it much easier for junk data to get in the database.
Doesn't support Linux, bummer.
Fedora is a great platform if you like to be living in the future, where what Fedora does today is what other distributions will reluctantly pick up on in a few years.

Fedora was one of the first to move to chkconfig-style scripts, and it was one of the first to systemd. It sort of forces you to learn new things, even if you don't want to.

The big downside is the updates taper off really quickly, so unless you keep rolling forward, you'll soon end up with an orphan distribution. Fedora is the philosophical opposite of the Ubuntu LTS releases.
yup, the correct pronunciation can be heard here:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

Hard k, short a, silent e
There's also another crowdsupply linux laptop that's a little more practical than the Novena: Purism's Librem. Its whole raison d'etre is to be a high-end laptop that's libre everything -- pretty apropos, I think:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop
I can't help but feel collaborative people / teams collaborate. Collaborative && Creative people find or make, within the space they have to work with, space to collaborate. Hiring someone to design / make a space more collaborative is sort of like buying a mansion in hopes you'll be able to afford it.
Interesting. imo TED talks are much better in text format like this.
On firefox, middle mouse button click on the title of the game opens a the game page BOTH in a new tab and in the current tab. And middle mouse button click on the game's image opens tha game page in the current tab.

Please don't break the middle mouse button.
As someone who spends almost every day working on mobile web stuff, I promise you - doing anything involving custom animations on scroll is awful. Because you have to hook into the onScroll JS event and change properties on the fly, the effect is usually janky at best. Particularly on iOS < 8, because it didn't fire onScroll events regularly.
Well, truth be told, most products and services out there are crap, and if something is actually good (or stupidly bad), you'll learn about it anyway. People like to talk about things that solve their problems well. Hell, in tech the Hacker News itself is a nice place for that; most of my "product discovery" happens here. Sure, maybe sometimes you will be late to the party, but you'll find out about good products eventually, and hell no, I'm not going to look at ads unless forced at gunpoint.
Please, linux users, mention your experience with high-res displays since many of us would like to move to a 4k display in the near future.
We have a Lenovo G710 at work that was purchased less then a month ago and the amount of bloatware installed on that thing is quite amazing really it's almost a type of art.

The Superfish cert is there, however the VisualDiscovery service that injects the adds was at some point disabled as I could only find remnants of it in form of INI files and registry keys.

A quick fun fact, There are two encrypted INI files located in the Windows Folder :

A.) VisualDiscovery.INI

B.) VisualDiscoveryOff.INI

If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the guy that developed this shit then I don't know what will.
Win+X is glorious. Other than that, I agree.
So says a site that still forces full page ads before allowing content (with ads in it) like it were still 2001.
You mean the Java for which the reference VM (Hotspot) and compiler were not open-sourced until November 13, 2006 [1], roughly corresponding with the Java 6 release?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK#Sun.27s_promise_and_ini...
This insane Mac-powered bicycle from 1991 will make you jealous as hell
After Years of Video Failure, Can a P2P CDN Save the Day in 2015?
Inbox is a copy of MailBox and Accompli's mail app...sometimes we have to give credit to others...
I think you have to opt-in for that behaviour now.
> if I'm your "model" then without me signing an appropriate release I own copyright on your photos

You sure about that? AFAIK the copyright is with the creator, i.e. the photographer. Model release is required on for privacy purposes, not for copyright.
Microsoft Intune tries to do that for SMBs. Haven't tried it however, so cannot say I recommend it, but if they're mostly Windows machines it might work for you.

For the $6/user/month you also get a Windows 8 Enterprise licence I believe (although check with them re:that).
> Yet your example of charge stacking is contingent on carrying a felonious amount of drugs

It's incredibly easy as the felony amounts have been made very small. Further, the police generally weigh the container the drugs were/are in so if you have a plastic container that weighs 1 ounce, prettymuch no matter the quantity of drugs inside it's a felony.

Also, the estimated number or drug users is 23.9 million Americans as of 2012. While that might mean that the "average" American isn't a drug user, it does mean that there are more drug users than say Asians in the US and a very large percentage of the Black or Hispanic/Latino populations.

By your logic, we shouldn't worry about those folks because they aren't the average american (mean, median, mode) and yet the civil rights movement arguably disagrees with you.

Furthermore, when it comes to convictions the average American isn't a felon, won't ever go before the court, etc. And yet we offer these people protections (various Amendments to the Constitution, various Federal, State and local laws, Miranda rights, etc) even though they're not average as per your definition.

Given that the justice system is setup the way it is, your casual dismissal of it seems strange.

EDIT: links

http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/nationwide-t...

http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/data/demographic.html
Perhaps he grew up on a farm. :-D

That kind of discussion (and much worse) often occurs at the breakfast table on many farms without anyone ever batting an eye.
I'd seriously contest your assertion about Vista being a "modest improvement" over XP. Although from the perspective of the UI you could argue that Aero was just a glossier version of the basic 95-era desktop theme, the core OS modifications were massive.

Just take a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_features_new_to_Wind...
Windows 8 was more of marketing and positioning failure than a technical one. It should have just been a mobile-only fork of the OS with a completely different name (Surface OS would have been fine). By muddling the waters and wasting effort on the desktop, Microsoft confused users and produced a product not completely up to par.
The Ars Technica story [1] has more detailed coverage.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with...
You were that guy promoting the "NHS internal market", weren't you? This is basically what happened: individual hospitals run by trusts, services contracted in. GPs responsible for allocating budgets. It hasn't made much of a difference beyond increasing the number of administrative staff.
This crashes chrome on iOS. Seems like a cool project though.
They're faster to type, and I suspect I find them more pleasant to read (this is hard to test). AIUI, IIRC and similar are good disclaimers to make, but they're basically boilerplate, and don't need to take up lots of space.

Similarly, compare "(c) 2015 philh" to "this post is copyrighted by philh, as of 2015".
Does anyone know when this started happening (installing of superfish)? Seems mid-2014 according to the article?
> When you catch somebody misbehaving, and their response is "fine, I'll stop, but it wasn't a problem" then you can't trust them at all.

Indeed. This kind of response is one of the most disrespectful things you can do to another person. "Hey, what are so upset about? Chill, it wasn't a big deal anyway!"
A little background on Rachel, from that fine New Yorker article, "The Throwaways" (12/09/03):

By the time Rachel was twelve, she had been a ballerina, a Brownie, an equestrian, and a Weeki Wachee Springs Little Mermaid contestant; by eighteen, she had learned to play the flute and the piano, gone skydiving, and hiked the Grand Canyon. By twenty-three, she had completed an undergraduate degree in psychology, interned at a mental-health institute, and travelled internationally. She loved to cook—she’d prepare elaborate multicourse meals for friends and deliver homemade matzo-ball soup to an ailing classmate. She was given to hatching big plans: She had initially dreamed of going into counselling, but decided to apply to culinary school. She would invent a new form of therapy, she told her dad; perhaps troubled kids who hated talking to a therapist from an overstuffed couch would open up as she taught them how to bake cakes and make spaghetti carbonara.
I second Xubuntu. Out of the box, it works great, looks good, and Ubuntu has very good hardware support these days (trackpads with multi-finger scrolling works, for instance).

Kubuntu is ok, but sometimes terribly laggy (like when logging in).