skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're assuming they're doing something they're not.

Microsoft is capturing text input and handwriting from touch input interfaces the same way Google's Android keyboard , Swype, or Swift Key do to improve predictive input, spelling correction/suggestions, personal dictionaries etc. Remember Windows 10 is touch enabled operating system like iOS or Android.

I'm not as familiar with the Apple Keyboard but I would be surprised if it didn't do that too in some form. Their Quick Type feature states it performs heuristics locally but it doesn't mention other aspects. Their policy states they don't collect personal information or conversation history but that doesn't mean they aren't capturing corrections or things they deem to be non-personal but sound pretty personal to me (e.g. occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier). Remember how researchers were able to identify Netflix users based on lesser anonymized meta-data? That non-personal information sounds pretty damn personal in comparison.

I hope you're not using a 3rd party keyboard on iOS with Full Access enable because if so then you agree to the same thing Microsoft is asking for.

I'm surprised you're ok with Apple recording Siri Queries and sharing them with Walk N’Talk Technologies who has humans listening to them but you're opposed to Microsoft doing anything similar in Cortona. How do you feel about Google Now? Did you ever use Google 411 because that was just a quick way to get a massive archive of audio samples.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9964230
While the features you list are important and true, our main focus is on convenience. To be able setup your personal cloud without deep technical knowledge. You can read up our intentions at https://dev.cloudron.io/about.html
I find it shocking how people readily accept Google's far worse policies, and yet are so concerned about an easy opt out.

For instance, in Android, Google tracks with GPS accuracy your whereabouts constantly. This isn't just what IP your desktop is attached to. Furthermore, there is no prompt telling you this happens with a very easy way of undoing. In fact even if you knew about this it is very hard to find a way to disable.

Secondly, Chrome send every website you visit to their servers to be logged. Again, this is not explained in some easy opt-out screen and in fact the only way to get around this is to use SRWare Iron, where they removed that code.

But Microsoft makes it easy for you to choose the privacy options even telling you about them on install.
Some of these are scary. But sending to M$ what I'm typing? That's the exact definition of a keylogger - it's straight up bundled malware.
Visa issues are a huge pain if you don't have a degree. Don't do this if you have any desire to work in another country.
That doesn't seem too invasive.
Politics: A man’s world?
"There's nothing holy about working in a factory as opposed to making a bed or cleaning a toilet. In the case of workers in the hotel industry, we have seen with good unions they can in fact earn a living wage and good benefits."

I'm wondering, where is the union going to get the money to pay a person that cleans a toilet $50,000/year+benefits? Oh yeah, from the companies that hire them. The most efficient way to pay someone is based on supply/demand/the free market. Anything else is just a smokescreen for a broken system that will eventually collapse.

So the question is: is this really going to be good for small companies? No. It will make it that much more difficult to actually start and run a successful business. The only ones that will be able to survive are large companies. Sanders will then complain that we don't have any competition left and try to bust monopolies..when these sorts of laws created the situation.

"In the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, the top one-tenth of 1 percent should not own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."

So instead of figuring out why the bottom 90% doesn't have this much wealth, the answer is to just steal it at the butt of a gun from the wealthy?

The wealthy may own lots of the overall wealth, but we are also more prosperous than any other time in history. The poor in the US aren't as bad as the poor in almost any other country in the world.

The US is where anyone with money goes to start a company. We have people literally sneaking over our borders and risking their lives to live in a country with more freedom than almost any other in the world.

It's ironic because what Sanders is proposing will take away freedoms, create an environment where only big businesses and governments can thrive, and create less social mobility.
If they're outside the United States they won't need a visa. They can visit and work in the United States office on business trips (usually max 90 days).
if you live in US and not a US citizen, you need a work visa to work in US
Can someone update the title to convey a little more context?
Why show the non-prompt? The users who don't want it can turn it off later, as is the case now.
Great post, i think you just missed one increasingly important aspect:

You dont have a monthly cap on how much of your surroundings you can take in; many people have caps placed on how much data they can download.

There is an actual measurable cost to advertisements over a metered data plan. It literally costs you money to even see an ad.

If it was 50 cents per MB, are you still going to enjoy that delightful little advertisement that just cost you 3 bucks to see? (obviously a hyperbolic price, but its the concept that matters here)

If you are 1MB away from your data limit and you go to some small website that loads 2MB worth of ads - are you going to be okay with paying an overage charge for viewing that advertisement?
Based on their charts, Asians are massively overrepresented and whites are underrepresented compared to US population. So I am curious what they mean when they say "underrepresented", will that include more Asians? If they meant black and Latino, they should just say so instead of vague euphemisms.
From a native Californian perspective, it just looks insanely wasteful of water. These are fed from some non-potable source, at least?

...Read TFA, nope. OK then. It is insanely wasteful of water.
What are you talking about? From the article, the "get going fast" picture displays the settings you're agreeing to when using the express settings. It's one page of content. And clicking on "customize" gives you more detail.

I mean, I agree with the article that the layout is definitely pushing people who don't care to just pressing "agree", but if you care about privacy, it's not like it's hidden from you.
The email I just received said:

> Within hours of the start of the intrusion, we were able to detect and remove the attacker, and shut down the attack.
Is now every service, but done on a computer, suddenly tech news?

If you look at the "tech" news media nowadays, basically yes. GroupOn launching a food delivery service or a fashion site launching an app is apparently "tech" news now.
Car insurance in the US is quite odd when you think about it. It's mandatory and if you don't live in a city so is a car so defacto you need to buy it. On top of that that doesn't actually cover your car! At the minimum level only cars you damage are covered so if you get hit by someone without insurance they are covered, you are not. Huge amounts of regulatory capture are involved and in my state (PA) it's almost impossible for someone to start their own car insurance company. I see plenty of room for disruption there.

"In America you can buy a car for hundred dollars, but it costs a thousand to insure it" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMHdGBz2AqI
I would hardly consider a troll post from an account less than half an hour old to be representative of the technology industry.
Come on; just because it's not tech news, it doesn't belong here?

Some of the best links I've seen on HN have either little to do with tech or show tech implemented in an interesting way.

The argument could be made that if HN was strictly code, frameworks, dev, etc. it would be a more boring place.
Honestly, I didn't know about it, but I'll take a look at it for sure!
"You" are the product now.
Most people don't intend to log in to Google Search, as far as they're concerned they're logged in to their email account. This is why Google got in so much trouble in France and the EU over the past couple of years.
Why we charged users to pre-order our Alpha (And why we'd do it again)
Given the amount of money Docker, Inc. has raised (>50M, three series rounds, etc.), I somewhat cynically think that this buzz about Docker may just be the result of a lot of marketing money.

I'm not really comfortable with such widespread adoption of a tool that is primarily a VC baby--NPM is setting itself up to fail (I think) in a similar fashion.

I do hope I'm wrong.
You are the product now.
Just did some research. Turns out there is a combo of physical servers and cloud-style provisioning/pricing: it's called bare metal clouds. Gotta watch it as some say that but are virtual. Here's one I found that's physical:

http://www.softlayer.com/bare-metal-servers

The physical separation is a prerequisite for any real security as you need control over what executes in the box and definitely don't want untrusted processes sharing resources outside of what's already in TCB. Combining a rapid-provisioning, paid-hourly, physical hosting solution with strong privacy policies (e.g. MyKolab's) and terms of service backed by contract would be an awesome offing for a niche market.

The niche, off top of head, is essentially two groups: (a) people needing temporary and/or scalable resources for operation on private data; (b) people wanting steady, scalable, private servers who don't want to go all out on running their own. Category (b) would put the physical cloud in competition with with dedicated, hosting market. Potential advantages are manageability, scaling, cost reduction due to pay-per-use, and integration with popular cloud tech (eg Docker) pre-installed on that server. So, anyone looking for a business plan to submit to YCombinator feel free to do an assessment of this market as I think it has potential. The existence of the above company confirms that but I can't say how big this niche is.
Is it template-based like Clerky (with the same Delaware C-Corp limitation), or is there more to it (advice on which document to use based on the situation, clauses that change depending on context, etc.)?
Ask HN: Raleigh. I want to work at Red Hat
Thanks for clicking and please excuse my arrogance. Most of you are professionals and have better things to do than read about me. I'm a student in the area and I live on my own. I'd like to tell my parents I got a job at red hat. It'd be cool to work in the mailroom or something part time. All advice is appreciated
As an autistic who has experienced shrinks over many years, some can be extremely wary about labelling a mental health condition whilst others can be the complete opposite, it can depend on many factors from where they gain funding, to their own area of expertise. I wouldn't rule anything out nor say you have anything but I have to say getting diagnosed helped me come to terms with a lot of things that happened to me or that I did earlier in life. Therefore I would certainly consider a new view on the subject if I was you.
I have a personal wiki powered by Org-mode[1] that includes several thousand documents containing the notes I've taken. I keep all the documents open all the time, and I use Ido[2] to access any document in under two seconds. A high-speed note-taking solution like this is necessary for me because I refer to and take notes up to hundreds of times per day. When I last evaluated note-taking solutions (2012?), no solution was both fast and feature-rich like Org-mode.

One example of a feature that Org-mode has that the other solutions I evaluated didn't was support for plain text spreadsheets[3]. This feature is very helpful to me because many of my notes include small sets of tabular data that I strongly prefer to include directly in my wiki documents rather than in a separate Excel or LibreOffice spreadsheet.

[1] http://orgmode.org/manual/

[2] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/ido.e...

[3] http://orgmode.org/manual/The-spreadsheet.html
We want you to use the same template again and again! What we are really trying to provide is the administrative support layer that doesn't currently exist, or is being done by a human. So we help you fill in that template faster, we integrate with HelloSign so that it's sent out for signature automatically when you've approved it, and we create folders and store the final docs there for you when you're done.

It's more of an end-to-end approach than just dealing with templates. The idea is you'd pay Ironclad $49/month rather than pay an assistant way more than that to keep you organized. Does that make sense? Would love any feedback if you think of this differently.
As a Windows Insider that has helped Microsoft squash bugs the last few months you must realize that sending bug report data is ridiculously important. Especially on a rolling-release model that this has become.
There are plenty of folks in our industry moonlighting as trolls, and plenty not outright trolling who still hold these sorts of attitudes.
Sure, I'm asking sincerely.
I get a certificate error when I visit the page from my Android phone. http://imgur.com/69AR8JG
Well, what could they do? Surely we can't expect them to contact us in a timely manner via email, SMS, and/or push notification.
We still have a substantial reserve of bitcoin and fiat currency, plus the pre-mined Ether which the Ethereum Foundation holds for further development. I can't speak on this officially, but Vitalik Buterin has mentioned it in the past https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/2zoawi/ethereum_f...
Looks like somebody got to ~8.7GHz through overclocking a ~4GHz cpu.

http://hwbot.org/submission/%202615355

I happened to catch an overclocking competition being streamed on Twitch one late night many months ago. It was really interesting to see more about the methods and techniques involved and how the competitions work.
> I would be more suspicious over placing exit nodes in libraries...

Librarians are more often rabidly pro-privacy and pro-anonymity than not. They're often very well read, well educated, and know their history.

> I just think it's sort of ironic because the attacks that have been performed all required possession of exit nodes.

Unless you have information that I do not (if you do, please link to it) control of a single exit node gives you no more power than your ISP already has over you. What attacks were you thinking of? Keep in mind that Tor explicitly does not protect against:

* An adversary that can listen to the communication between a large number of nodes in the Tor network and targeted Tor users. (Similarly, Tor cannot protect against a malicious adversary who controls a very large number (1/3? 51%? I can't remember) of the nodes in the Tor network.)

* Tampering with or recording of the data that leaves or is returned by a Tor exit node. (Again, this is an attack that anyone between you and your communication partner can launch, whether you're using Tor or not.)
no problem, hope it helps. if it helps at all my friend uses https://www.ableton.com/ he produces everything from hip hop to electronica with it. they have some great plug ins...for a price though.
It's been staying on my ear well with moderate exercise.
Classic premature optimization.

"Just add another database!"
I appreciate you clarifying. Yeah, that's certainly helpful to all kinds of people. Much easier to get started and grow in that market than pricey, bare-metal. Good luck on your business.
Could you tell me about that stool? Hows it work with the standing? Can you do like a kind of lean/sit or just, on or off?
"Here if you drive a friend's car, you're normally only covered for damage to third parties."

Even that assumes you have an insurance policy for your own car. If you don't, and you are not listed as a driver on your friend's policy, you would have no third party insurance coverage and therefore would be driving illegally.
This is quite a thing.

Does anyone know how they're achieving the 10gbps data rate? I'm wondering if they're doing something like vortex beam forming... http://www.gizmag.com/twisted-light-beam-data-transmission-v... and http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030401809... (Although this article is about using a physical fiber).
Yes, that is what I meant to say.
Since you're a huge note-taking nerd, I assume you evaluated Org-mode. What didn't you like about it?
MS is so aggressively international, I can imagine that they might cave to subpoenas from other governments. So now my home country plus at least the rest of the G8 can request my data.

Nope.
Clerky is awesome. What we're going for here is more of the automated record keeping and management. It seems like most company's legal docs are a mess (and I know from reviewing lots of them when I was an attorney).

The templates we provide can help you automatically keep your company's legal folder in pristine condition - we're not just setting you up with the template, it's the whole process layer from end-to-end.

To be clear though, we don't provide any legal advice whatsoever. We're designed to work with an attorney - so that if you need them to edit Section 2.1 of a document before it gets sent out, you can just have them hop in to the Dropbox folder and make the edits. It's the administrative layer for legal, not the advice layer.
this is only the case in companies that can/do sponsor large number of H1B's
Most US states require that a car be continuously insured as a condition of its registration, so I think a fixed per-month fee is inevitable.

Each US state also regulates insurance completely differently, so trying to break into "the US market" with an insurance company is really trying to break into 50 different legal areas. Very similar to the other article on the HN frontpage today about US "FinTech" / money transmittal companies.
@infosample, you are right. You cannot assume minorities and women will under-perform or are under the bar. The issue of people just don't give it enough thought when hiring. At the same time, you should not hire someone solely based on their gender or race. But if there are 2 candidates with very similar skill sets and meet the standards you are looking for, hire the one who will bring you more diverse background.
Using C++ to Connect to Web Services
BoardBookit makes boards more efficient and easier to manage
UX wins -

1. Readable typography.

2. Clean and simple flows.

3. Dedicated forms for credit cards, passwords, and notes.

UX shortcomings -

1. No way to tweak the password generator algorithm. This matters because different contexts need different things. EG mobile passwords should avoid special chars and be longer to tradeoff.

2. No way to search. In any reasonably long lived password file you will be unable to scroll through quickly enough.

3. No importer(s) for legacy password manager files.
I don't think Cisco's routers or Youtube's CDN or the typical iPad application have that capability. Stuff gets cached and logged automatically. Microsoft is a big target for lawsuits.
I think this could be really valuable but I think there are two hurdles it needs to get over.

1. Confidence that the docs are really "ironclad"

2. Flexibility with equity options

To expand on 2. I worry that having the basic stock option grant approach as the only option just solidifies further how embedded that framework is for employees. We discuss a lot on here how the typical option agreement is rife with pitfalls and typically leaves early employees high and dry even if there is a big exit.

I would suggest adding in the alternative of an Equity Incentive Plan which sells restricted stock to employees in exchange for a promissory note held by the employer and due at exercise. It is a bit more complicated but is better overall as it requires no out of pocket expense for the employee upon purchase (or even at exercise is the company chooses) and actually gives them real shares that can't be easily written off by an acquisition or later investment. It also requires an 83b election which is something that most companies don't know about - and would be very helpful to have an automated way to walk them through it.

[1]http://www.fwlaw.com/news/8-a-practical-guide-equity-incenti...
All this is public information, repeated many many times by the Tor developers themselves. It's on the "financial reports" section of torproject.org. Go and check it out.

It's good to be critical of things especially where security is concerned, but if the code is open, the protocol is open, the development is open, I don't see how it matters if it was a US Navy project?

(Pando's articles usually lack substance)
So how come Satoshi makes a brilliant breaktrough and released a really well designed/coded opensource project (Bitcoin) to the world without asking anyone for a cent, and then promptly disappearing (dead?) with all the coins he mined at the beginning not moved despite now being worth billions.

Yet every day, yet another project such as Ethereum, Maidsafe, Storj, OpenBazaar popup make grand promises via fancy websites and raise millions worth of bitcoin and then ... ... nothing.

BTW #3 on > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_funded_crowdfu...

Please stop with all the promises and "crowdfunding" (which downright smells) and actually deliver something.
You realize the 'personal assistant' functionality of today is slightly more complex than just speech recognition, right? Because, it is.
And yet their post is still getting voted into oblivion, even when nobody knows who votes for what.
Researcher says can hack GM's OnStar app (different from UConnect)
For me it's the other way round, i've been trying to use Firefox but the "pinch to zoom" feature in Safari is so smooth, and so crappy in Firefox, that i always keep coming back to Safari...
If you read a lot of text on a Macbook, being able to zoom quickly and efficiently becomes a high priority.

Things like this are much more important for me than energy-efficiency.
Many people have just become liability signees - architects and structural engineers come to mind.

I know a structural engineer whose job is to run building parameters across a special tool / model (which sometimes takes days to run), then adds a 20% padding to the values it returns and signs off the document.

Many architects, especially in my country where they're extremely badly paid and undervalued, are pressed into just signing plans with no input.
> OK then. It is insanely wasteful of water.

It's only a "waste" if the water is scarce. People rarely talk about wasting air (except to call someone dumb) because the air is virtually unlimited.

For example in the UK it's damn near impossible to waste water because it rains so consistently. Water isn't scarce. You can't really waste it, because there's always plenty more.

Even if you could pipe the water from NYC all the way to CA it'd be prohibitively expensive.

So the only way this is "waste" is if it's depleting the aquifer faster than it replenishes. That's possible of course. But unlikely, because NYC has been huge for hundreds of years now. If they're depleting aquifers it's only very slowly.
How do you know that's not legal?
I was like, holy cow that's a lot of contributors, but after reading the contributions section at the end, it really seemed like all those people were required to carry out a project like this. Is this typical for these types of studies?
Cool. I'm glad that I'm in the only top 10 bank in the US using stacakto.
I think we have just delivered quite a lot: the network is up and running, transactions enabled Monday or Tuesday, and the code is all FOSS and available for download.

We have shipped.
An OS which doesn't have any checkboxes at all could do this too. Do you trust an OS without any checkboxes?