skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the feeling it was a suggestion from an enterprise customer. The other thing: it isn't needed anymore to teach people how to use the mouse. It was amazing how that one game taught a lot of computer haters how the mouse worked. That damn card game was an addictive motivator. Not a bad lesson to learn if you have an interface concept that you want people to learn and practice.
I'd be a lot more interested to see statistics on adoption, and actual use cases by real people.
Typing this from a cheap Acer Aspire V5-471G (the cheapest make and model for given specs).
Remember you get what you pay for.

The laptop looks sleek, but build quality is very flimsy with issues like paint-peeling, scratches, and malfunctioning hinges causing display to flicker/black-out. Also Acer support sucks and traveller's warranty is not international warranty.

Beware of cheap thinner laptops. They may look nice in the store but poor construction and cheap materials will come to bite you later. IMO Budget laptops have regressed in this matter compared to older bulkier models (including Dell Inspirons and XPSes in my experience).

Can't speak for more expensive models though.
Are they going to start making you pay for MS Paint?
Please list enterprise-class software titles that are Windows only and impeding a corporate IT switch. I'm looking for some incumbents to slay. :-)
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Yeah I'm thinking of implementing subscribe2web: https://air.mozilla.org/subscribe2web/

Thanks for the input. BTW - I applied for the grant on web we want and have yet to hear back from them. That blog comes out of my own pocket (domain renewals, hosting, marketing, etc). Apparently they're no longer doing grants, but I may dream
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How are they planning to manage so many computers, given that Apple provides no practical enterprise management software for OS X?

Oh, http://jobs.utah.gov/jsp/wi/utalmis/oijoborder.do;jsessionid...

* CanHazImage * Pupet * Crankd * PlanB * Munki Required *

In other words, follow how Google manages their corp Mac fleet of "tens of thousands",

https://github.com/google/macops

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/managing-macs-googl...
> I suspect this is due to the algorithms handling reports - not an actual human action.

I understand your point, but I would add some qualifications:

1) Let's remember that algorithms are human actions. For example, if Facebook created an algorithm that deleted accounts based on user skin color in their photos, it would be a human action.

2) Facebook is a highly sophisticated software company, not someone who downloaded a library without realizing quite what it did. They are especially responsible for what their algorithms do. (To think of it another way, imagine how they would look if they claimed otherwise, 'we don't really understand what our software does'.) EDIT: It's also a consequence of priorities: If the algorithm's quality had a billion dollar impact on their bottom line, there would be no errors.

3) Facebook isn't just a private business. With so much power over the world's political and social communication, they have an obligation to ensure their members freedom of speech.

4) Transparency and remediation is necessary for #3 (and maybe Facebook already has it; I don't know). Such things always can be blamed on an algorithm or computer error.
Makes it a lot less likely for you to post some garbage clickbait.

Hardly. Buzzfeed, the epitome of clickbait, has author bylines. As does the Daily Mail. Some of the best blogs I've ever read have been anonymous, and the famously high-quality Economist has no bylines. The thing that makes people less likely to post clickbait on Medium is that there are no adverts to pay them for clicks.
Neat little tool, and love the size constraint!

I made a little JS bookmarklet a while ago that reveals script, style, and meta tags, and tries to display which tags are used to build the layout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp2d24t2POI

Are there any plans in the future to make your tool so the highlight follows that I tap on mobile? Keep up the great work!
>(imagine how bad it would be for e.g. Facebook if the general media started portraying them as supporting e.g. "terrorism").

The general public has to accept there are some things they don't like and still have the right to be there, and stop acting like a spoiled brat. IMHO. Of course that wont happen.
In 10 years of doing software security assessments I saw a total of zero (0) systems use BSAFE. It may have been popular with government contractors.

Later

There was also a period during which the Red Hat Secure Server that shipped with Red Hat Professional linked against BSAFE. Its release timing doesn't square with Dual_EC though.
Ask HN: How to deal with the credit taking co-worker
So I have a co-worker who is a really great developer. He knows what he's doing and does some fantastic work. But he has this one annoying quirk: he has this habit of over explaining and reexplaining things, at length and ignoring interruption, which has the unfortunate effect of making you seem stupid and him the reluctant teacher.

That's not so bad, I let my work speak for itself. The real issue is whenever I or someone else proposes a solution in a meeting or just in conversation with management, he does the reexplaining thing and then takes credit for your solution. Basically post reexplain, the conversation shifts to him and he's fielding questions about the solution etc. He takes ownership of it, both in his view and the view of management.

How can I handle this? My solutions and ideas are getting taken from me and he's becoming the go-to guy for management. We used to be approached as a team, now it's just him.
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Who is behind this? I'm interested in talking to them.
maybe the rise of internet "mob justice" is in part due to the masses losing faith in traditional forms of justice. Doesn't make it right or wrong, just a reflection.
From your article, you wrote:

>If you want the whole story here you should also be sat in a room testing this modal overlay with real people. Ask them questions:

“Do you like that overlay..."
[...]
It’s extremely unlikely that they like it.

Your opinion may ultimately be correct but your justification for it is flawed.

If you survey people, you get what's called a "stated preference." (SP) [1]

However, there's another concept called a "revealed preference" (RP) [2] and this often contradicts the "stated preference."

The web analytics Ramit Sethi believed in may also be flawed. However, the point is that statistics collection attempts to uncover "revealed preferences". Since RP is often hidden, the tools for uncovering it are not surveys. Instead, they use hidden cameras, or Point-Of-Sales transaction data, or eye tracking, or web analytics, etc.

There are many examples where RP yields more insight than SP. This is counterintuitive so we end up thinking SP is the correct perspective because it "feels right." Many real world examples have proven SP to be incorrect such as retail sales events, airlines, dating & romance, etc. I can expand those examples, or you can search google if you're curious about them. Annoying ad overlays on web content may be another area where RP trumps SP. I haven't researched it enough to know.

Your article gives more weight to SP than RP with no justification why it should.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice_modelling#Stated_prefer...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference
I guess that the most apps that are created with frameworks don't need any special speed but are more a special business case of some kind of e-commerce/marketplace/blog/forum and so on
All aircraft are engineering nightmares from the perspective of the engineers who work on them. It's a very stressful and difficult field.

That's not to really argue for or against your point, but more of a personal observation.
Embedded videos break, and on mobile there's no Ghostery/ABP :(
Yeah. Mob justice is not some tool of the oppressed.

The US had something like 5400 lynching between 1880 and 1980. It seems that a culture steeped in that behavior would help the internet like the winds help a roof fire.
>but is also more enjoyable and a more fun experience for the user.

It's hard not to be sarcastic about this topic, but I honestly want to know which game is more fun freemium than pay once?
I feel like these titles are pretty disingenuous, as far as I'm aware you get all the functionality of the old Solitaire game and more for free without being shown any ads at all, while the ads are only in a new game mode.

Not to say I wouldn't prefer there to be no ads at all, or that I don't find the price extortionate, but these articles seem a bit overblown.
Stats: https://stats.ethdev.com/

Transactions go live on Monday, if I remember correctly.
The games have been moved to the Store since Windows 8.1 (or is it 8?). See: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows-8/solitaire-mines... & http://www.howtogeek.com/122145/what-happened-to-solitaire-a...

Not sure when the ads and IAPs were added. I bought a new Windows 8.1 machine a month or so ago and the version in the Store already included the IAP prompt.
Only because calls are transient, one-party, and when the telephone was developed automatic censorship wasn't possible.
Optional end-to-end encryption is silly, why would I ever want there to be a possibility for my messages to be read by someone other than the person I'm sending it to? It shouldn't have to be something you turn on. Also it's only available for enterprise.

TextSecure and Signal by Open Whisper System are better https://whispersystems.org/

Use anything by Open Whisper Systems.

- Edward Snowden, Whistleblower and privacy advocate

Signal is the most scalable encryption tool we have. It is free and peer reviewed. I encourage people to use it everyday.

- Laura Poitras, Oscar winning filmmaker and journalist

I am regularly impressed with the thought and care put into both the security and the usability of this app. It's my first choice for an encrypted conversation.

- Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned security technolgist

After reading the code, I literally discovered a line of drool running down my face. It’s really nice.

- Matt Green, Cryptographer, Johns Hopkins University
First, I'm not forcing anyone, my opinion is completely inconsequential to your professional life.

Secondly, Ensorceled specifically said (s)he would start "enjoying the weekends", which implies the long hours were, unlike for you, not being particularly enjoyable.
Neither is kerosene. Many people reply based on their gut feeling, but that doesn't mean it lines up with reality. A chocolate chip cookie has enough energy for a person to go jogging for 20 minutes. No one is going to starve to death by lifting a weight every 20 minutes for a few hours at night. They might be able to lift themselves out of poverty if they stop paying for kerosene and read (or learn to read) in the time that they aren't working, which is likely at night.
I wish I could go back and check but didn't this happen with Windows 8.1? Seems weird to be outraged now as opposed to back then (unless I'm wrong of course).
Tell HN: The next “Who Is Hiring” thread will be on Monday
By popular demand, Who Is Hiring is moving to the first
weekday of each month. The next thread will be on Monday, August 3
at 11 AM EST.

Since the Internet abhors a vacuum, this weekend is at risk for an ersatz
who-is-hiring thread stampede. Would you all please flag these? They're
unfair to the users who get trapped in them, and figuring out who
eventually found their way to the official thread vs. whose jobs need
to be moved there is a royal pain.

Also, we've updated the FAQ to clarify that no one is allowed to submit job ads
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All of these banners are from the "Red Hat Secure Web Server". I don't know what that is, but someone else here might.

I'd be interested in finding out more about Red Hat Secure Server:

* It switched from OpenSSL to BSAFE-C in/around 2000

* RSA defaulted BSAFE to Dual_EC in 2004

* The last release I can see for Red Hat Secure Web Server is in 2003

* Red Hat Secure Web Server is EOL'd now.

A helpful Twitter points out this mailing list post from 2003:

http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.security.server

... in which it's stated that Red Hat Secure Web Server had been EOL for some time.

It's looking more likely that those Shodan banners are not TLS implementations with Dual_EC defaults.
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Nerd clickbait!
In Python 2.7, shouldn't you be using xrange() rather than range()? xrange() is a generator whereas range() will actually create the entire list and iterate it.

In case anyone isn't aware: in Python 3, range()'s implementation was effectively replaced with that of xrange().
That "terrorist" Kurdish group PKK has been in negotiations with the Turkish state for more than 10 years aiming for peace before their newly formed Kurdish political party HDP prevented Erdogan's AKP to become the sole ruler party in the last elections a few months ago meanwhile AKP decided to suddenly finish negotiations before the upcoming possible early elections excusing the Suruc bombing 2 weeks ago in which meaningfully 32 Kurdish socialists aligned with PKK have died trying to cross the border and join the resistance forces in Kobane fighting against ISIS which by the way is speculated to be backed up by AKP government itself for years and this move of breaking the negotiations is already adviced against by NATO which as you said is listing PKK as a terrorist group for years.

I know, politics always suck. That is not an excuse to get rid of free speech though.
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Except that the article itself doesn't say either of those things.

It says that 50-75% of employees could switch, and that IBM could purchase up to that many Macs.

It completely misrepresents the article.
I don't have any particular moral objection to this kind of business mode, I just doubt it will be good for Micrsoft. It coninues the trend of devaluing the PC and elimating any kind of premium pricing (outside of Apple).

I think that a lot of traditional users just want to buy something that does what they want without being nagged for further paytments. That is why thousands of people bought MS Office for normal domestic use. It was expensive but they bought it anyway. Now all they get is an invitation to an app store or a monthly payment plan. It is like selling a toy without batteries included.

Strangely Ubuntu feels like a premium product in comparison. It comes with lots of good software pre-installed that just work. The app store is filled with high quality free software with no spam or malware in sight. A lot peripherals will just work without having to install new drivers. In comparison Windows feels cheap and tacky.

Microsoft should sell Windows with Office bundled and make it expensive ($200+). Include a collection of high quality free software to get people started and emphasise content purchases instead of apps.
That's a constant factor of what, 6? Less once you consider the capacitor and row refresh circuitry?

And yet I cannot purchase even a 1GB SRAM stick.

I don't see why that equates to "just doesn't scale". Can you elaborate?
Did you pull the same ad with mobile and your MBP? I don't have the same experience, but it makes me wonder if you inadvertently ran across a toxic ad...
Hi, thank you a lot for supporting, the aim, actually, is to stay lightweight, but for sure you can bind it for your own pourposes and needs, like tap and select, or click and select, why not :)

This project was meant to easily surf the nodes and maybe highlight them, but it's still at early stage and any help is much appreciated!

Thanks for sharing the video, very interesting :)
> When done right, Freemium [...] is also more enjoyable and a more fun experience for the user.

I find it the contrary. It's a rare sight to find a modern non-indie mobile game that you can pay for and get a version that's completely free of advertisement, phoning-home analytics and other stuff I don't want, except for an actual game.

(Returning to article in question, Microsoft is actually the worst case imaginable. You don't pay to remove ads once, but subscribe for ad-free experience.)
Vox's garbage clickbait articles are out of control.
> maybe the rise of internet "mob justice" is in part due to the masses losing faith in traditional forms of justice. Doesn't make it right or wrong, just a reflection.

I meant neither to defend nor to condemn mob justice (except perhaps implicitly, by approving of the general thrust of the article), only to object to the specific grounds on which the paragraph I quoted criticised mob justice as opposed to traditional forms of justice.
This isn't really the same thing; lynching was primarily an expression of racial hatred. And the angry internet mob is definitely a worldwide phenomenon.

Mob justice is very definitely a response to feelings that the conventional justice system is either too slow, too narrowly drawn, or too favouritist to address actual problems. And it sort of works; I wonder how many hunting trips have been cancelled after this event? (Hard to know since they were secret and illegal in the first place.)
How is this different than paying Spotify for the ads to go away? People don't seem to mind that.
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"The formal justice system derives it decision-making from written laws and generations of precedent; it is adjudicated in a highly formal and regulated environment. It is often flawed, but is at least designed with the goal of fair and consistent treatment for both the accused and the accuser."

So if it fails while having had good intentions, there's nothing more to be done?
"You might even imagine a nation defined not by geography but by the rules and benefits of citizenship. Imagine that people of the future could opt-in to the virtual nation that suits them best." . I wonder if we will ever get there . But its eye opening just to think about it.
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I went from an x61 to a Tablet 2, and it's been lovely (the bluetooth keyboard with trackpoint makes it usable as a laptop for me).

Every generation of thinkpad in the past decade plus seems to've been decried as terrible by at least some people whose opinion I respect, and then I've bought another one and it's worked fine.

I have a feeling that while there may also be some degree of decline, a lot of this is that when a thinkpad's good, it's sufficiently good that when we have trouble with one we judge it far more harshly than normal.
Once upon a time we (that is, general medical consensus in the US) thought that milk would help treat ulcers, and that ulcers were mostly due to diet or lifestyle (overwork, smoking, etc). There was a model of how milk would be a good treatment, and doctor would recommend milk to patients with ulcers.

Starting a few decades ago, we found that "the vast majority of ulcers are caused by H pylori infection" (quote from http://www.ulcerresourcecenter.com/ulcers-and-milk ), and can be treated with drug therapy.

I point this out as an example of how even if there is a reasonable mechanistic model of how a therapy might work, which is widely believed to be true, that doesn't mean it is true. The Wikipedia link I posted gives reference to attempts to verify if NLP is a useful treatment, and concluded that it isn't.

As for "pattern interrupts and overwriting old anchors is heavily used in behavioral therapy", if you search for '"pattern interrupts" "behavioral therapy"' on Google there are very few hits. Duck Duck Go has even fewer. This suggests that "pattern interrupts" is not a term used in behavioral therapy. If you further look at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/?term=%22pattern+interrup... you'll see that "pattern interrupt" is not commonly used, with only 214 matches in PubMed. A spot check shows only a handful used in the sense you mean.

Therefore, the term "pattern interrupts" is likely not the term used in behavioral therapy. You are, I believe, making a statement about a homologous treatment, perhaps operant conditioning? But operant conditioning, and its application, predate NLP, so I don't think it's reasonable to attribute its effectiveness to NLP, nor would it be novel in NLP if Skinner discussed it in the 1950s.

("Operant conditioning" has 18356 matches in PubMed, and the first 7 papers all use it in the cognitive psychology sense.)
Not without further integrations, but there are proposals for blockchain-based decentral name resolution etc. Nothing you could directly use right now without a lot of effort around it, but I'm glad they are exploring that space.
The post is pretty relevant even today - I'm seeing more popups and slideouts and other s^&t now than ever :-).

However, it's a fact that they lead to more conversions, more signups and more sales.

It's pretty useless to complain about them - if the publisher's goal is to drive sales using content that will never be seen, that's their prerogative. If the readers don't like the popups, they can just say TC;DR and leave the site forever. Or use ad blockers (which publishers hate, for obvious reasons).

In the long run, analytics will show that drop in view numbers.
> And it sort of works; I wonder how many hunting trips have been cancelled after this event?

I think that the 'sort of' here is important. Mob justice is, presumably, very good at curtailing activities of which the mob disapproves; but, not only is there no guarantee that the mob disapproves only of 'bad' activities—as the Gamergate situation mentioned by the article proves—but, perhaps even worse, there is no guarantee that what the mob approves today it will also approve tomorrow, nor that what one mob approves another will not attack.