skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
~Easily. If they espouse opinions contrary to my own, they must be government shills.~

~Oh, hang on. I accidentally left my foil hat on. Let me take that off.~

It only takes a slightly elevated level of awareness. Usually, just knowing that it is possible that a participant in the discussion could be a paid propagandist is enough to spot likely candidates. While you can never really know for sure, if you check their posting history, and they only seem to care about exactly one thing, that's a strong indicator of suspicion.

On some of the message boards I frequented in the past, the general subject matter was such that it was extraordinarily easy to spot the cop whenever one showed up. They always did exactly the same thing, and it never worked even once. It usually went something like this.

A: Hey guys, we should get together and *do* something.
B: Sure. Tell us your plan and we'll tell you if we're in.
A: [*describes an overtly criminal act, usually involving violence*]
C: Go back to writing traffic tickets, undercover cop.
D: Do you actually get paid to annoy us, or are you doing it on a volunteer basis?
B: You should take a look at your bosses instead of spying on us.
E: [*spouts unrelated crackpot claptrap*]
(end of thread)

On a more general forum, such as HN, with a much larger and more diverse audience, it is a bit more difficult to spot the paid propagandist. And the professionals have honed their skills in the past few years. They spend more time setting up for the payoff, building reputation and credibility, before using an identity for a mission-critical message. They almost certainly have voting rings set up on every site that uses voting.

Anyway, any genuine NK astroturfers would probably be doing it from a non-NK IP block. They're just brainwashed by their cult-like government, not stupid. They ones trusted to access the Internet to further the interests of their leaders almost certainly have access to Chinese, Russian, and American IP addresses.
Yes, that's what they meant. Rip tides aren't usually that wide. The best thing to do if you get caught in one is to remain calm and swim perpendicular to the current.
> And you and I have different ones now they need to be harmonized.

Hum... No. Not at all. A company is perfectly capable of making mayo for different health requirements.

There are a few cases where harmonization is needed (mostly between small and poor countries), but overall "harmonizing" laws is just a propaganda presentation of giving exorbitant benefits for an external company that is bribing your government.
Have you checked out PowerPivot? I've been developing in Excel for 15 years and created many a convoluted formula along the way. Two years ago I moved all Excel development to Powerpivot and I hardly write any formulas in "regular" Excel anymore. PowerPivot provides more of a formula IDE (along with DAX Studio), along with a ton of other functionality. I think it's clear that's the direction sophisticated Excel development is going.
How do you get feedback about localisation?

Russian version shipped with the word "Создать" (literally "Create") as the translation for the "New" mark in the list of all applications, despite many heavily upvoted posts in the feedback app.
It depends on how long the answer is. If it's more than a sentence or two, I'll reply with "I'll write you a brief report on that by day after tomorrow." and that work will be listed on my next invoice. If it's a fixed bid, I'll estimate time for the work and submit a change to the bid. The key is to explicitly notify the client that it will take billable time if in fact it will.

If a client is peppering you with short questions, collect them into a single response. Sometimes you may have to set expectations about what you'll charge for and what falls below that threshold.

I very much like the "pin" feature of Inbox, and I use it to keep hot issues within easy reach and to make it visible to me when they pile up. As others have pointed out, next-day response is not rude, Set expectations about that, too, if you have to.
Yeah I looked into this. At least in NY, I don't get any severance package or benefits. I only worked there for 5 months (6 is required[1]) and I'm still under my parent's health insurance and never bothered to sign up with my company's plan.

However, this is definitely something that people should know. If someone is reading this and aren't clear on what their rights are, it's super beneficial to read up on this stuff before you get let go.

[1]: source: NY Unemployment office http://labor.ny.gov/ui/claimantinfo/beforeyouapplyfaq.shtm#0

Edit: I misspoke. I might be eligible for unemployment benefits from the state (I'm putting in an application), but I certainly don't get a severance package from the company.
Bitcoin isn't "the blockchain" any more than Internet Explorer is "the browser". When people talk about "X in the browser" it's understood that they mean any generic implementation of a web browser.
Some pretty bad stitching artifacting during the bicycle section. Looks like dynamic range is going to be a problem too: when biking under the overpass, the whites were blown out and overexposed, while the darks were muddy and underexposed.

Can it produce 3D footage, I wonder? Intuitively, it feels like 360-degree 3D video would require a heck of a lot of cameras.
Of course it's pertinent. It tells the whole story. The TPP is being negotiated exclusively by the hyper-wealthy private capitalist elite who have no connection or concern for the well-being of the vast majority of citizens. These people live in a different world than most of the readers of any newspaper or magazine. The accommodations hammer this fact home. To not mention this would whitewash the story in favor of the negotiators, and allow the reader to make his or her own (invariably incorrect) assumptions about where the talks are held; in a public venue, government offices, modest accommodations as suitable for public interest group representatives as it is to high-powered corporate oligarchs. It would be journalistically lying by omission.
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I went to the Privacy statement [0], to the "Reasons we share your data" (click on Learn More) and it does not sound scary at all (it' pretty much the same as any internet company that holds customer data). It's very clearly worded and I know exactly how/why my data will be used, so I can decide if I want to go ahead or if I don't.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.asp...

There's also a Data Retention section further down that specifies how long your data is in their servers.

edit: In the top section (Personal Data we collect) it also says: "You have choices about the data we collect. When you are asked to provide personal data, you may decline. But if you choose not to provide data that is necessary to provide a service, you may not be able to use some features or services."
One con to doing that is how relatively large that would be inside the computer. Have you seen the inside of these computers? There is almost no space to spare.

although adding the 3.5mm headphone jack to an auxiliary board was super smart. people keep dropping them with headphones inside.
I'm genuinely curious, why do you take the view that this is a private conversation in public?
Sending data back & forth between web or desktop apps is so much easier than with “mobile apps”. Even on the same device, apps are just too isolated. The platform vendors do everything to disrupt what makes collaboration work elsewhere. They need to destroy the round wheel so they can sell you a trilateral crap version of it for N times the price.
I would only deploy and run my code in Linux, but with VirtualBox I get all the benefits of Windows for applications (my favorite editor, mail client, Excel, mp3 player, IM client, a hundred other things) and a local Linux VM that works the same as my production environment. It's the best of both worlds. And no compromises like Cygwin (ugh) or the frustrating almost-but-not-quite Unix nature of OSX.
Would that actually work? Wouldn't the trial version still notice that it was initialized more than 90 days ago? I don't want to initialize the OS whenever I use it.
Meanwhile, abortion is killing hundreds of children today, and no one cares. Alternatively: ISIS is killing people for not proclaiming Mohammed as their prophet. Or: an African-American person is being killed for his skin color. Getting this upset over a lion is ludicrous.

Seriuosly, the guy bought a hunting license and killed a lion with it - if you want to blame someone, blame the government that sold the license.
That is yet another argument for why one company should not become a virtual library of Alexandria for oss.
I have a few recordings where I can hear breathing and the clicking keys and valves.
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This article really belongs in a private conversation or a comment.

When I open an article I am really looking for original content, not some "I disagree with this other dude" evangelism.
There is a great chart showing the categories of players involved, as well as the companies: http://www.lumapartners.com/lumascapes/mobile-lumascape/

At the left are the advertisers, and the right is the end user. In between you can see so many boxes with lots of logos. The sheer number of companies is what contributes to so much of the ad "weight".

Even if the browser had some sort of overview, the players before wouldn't just hand over control. For example Verizon would want to control what happens to users on their network (and already do so).
I saw a similar (presumably joke) page a while ago: "enter your CC information and we'll tell you if it's been hacked".
A week with no email/texting/on-demand economy apps allowed
An annotation of the Rust standard library
For one thing it hides the scrollbar which in some browsers causes the whole page to shift by a number of pixels. It's not the worst thing but it's a little bit distracting. My QA people recently sent me a bug that was basically this issue.
3 times it seems. Maybe it's better to not give any legit details about yourself whenever possible...:)
Wow this is cool. I'll have to add apiminer to my ide later.
1. Stay tuned. We've received a lot of feedback on that. We do look at the Windows Feedback app reports; it's all automated, so once something gets upvoted enough it gets routed to the feature team.

2. I'm personally working on all apps list improvements. I don't know if I can share details yet until we push stuff out to Insiders.

One UI feature that makes dealing with the narrow list a little easier is the jump list that pops up when you click one of the letter headers. It's just one of these bad boys:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/window...
Windows 10 may be free, but it comes at a huge price to your privacy
If the "Microsoft Solitaire Collection" only wasn't so slow.
All your criticisms apply to syslogd as well: it stores your information in a central location (/var/log), which 3rd party applications can read and upload to somewhere else, and lots of software expects it to be there, so it can be a pain to switch off too.

Should we compare syslogd to the new Windows behaviour?
>she wanted regular standups even though it was just her and myself for many of the minor projects

This was the most hilarious part of my last company; they hadn't hired any coders yet and I was expected to do a standup meeting with myself and two of my managers. Daily. At my current company we have a daily standup meeting for everyone where the CTO is in on it (can you say micromanager?) and it's just a hassle because you know he's going to come back a few hours later to each of us and ask for a status report anyway.
Through the feedback app. After enough upvotes, it gets automatically routed to the feature team for triage.
I could see the image on mural.ly, but it got stuck on a certain zoom level (I'm using my android). Thanks for posting the high resolution png.
Forget about mobile, modern web sites suck everywhere, desktop included.

Giant banners that stick along the top of the screen. Infinite scrolling that (1) leaves all elements loaded, severely limiting the amount you can scroll, and performance as you scroll deeper and (2) breaks the back button and (3) breaks bookmarking and link sharing. Click-interceptors that ruin the ability to command click to open in a separate tab. Shitty attempts at navigation transitions that ruin the Safari's built-in Back w/ swipe transition.

Not to even mention the ungodly amount of intrusive ads on many sites.

And God help you if you have flash enabled.
Without knowing what product is being testing, how can you say that "Any Mac hardware will do"? Like I said - if they're wanting to test on the specific hardware that their customers are running the software on, you can't know that for sure. A Mac Mini has a different CPU/GPU to an XServe, likewise a Mac Pro, likewise a Macbook Pro.
You have a point. I had been thinking about sensors and computation, but the ambient use of touch was something I hadn't considered.

I still don't expect I'll ever want one. :-)
E-Commerce Dashboard – All vital business KPIs within a single service
For a harbinger of what's to come, look into what's happening in Romania with their Rosia Montana gold mine.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-11/paulson-ba...
http://www.miningfacts.org/Blog/Mining-News/Canadian-Miner-P...

Basically a Canadian company will most likely sue the Romanian government for refusing to allow an open pit gold mine. They won't do this in a Romanian court.

Just like we saw with Greece, sovereign nations are no longer all that sovereign. Treaties like TPP, and TTIP will further remove decision making capabilities from sovereign states. It's kinda crazy.
People with learning disability have been the target of eugenics in various forms. They've been subjected to sterilisation sometimes without their knowledge and sometimes against their will. They've been interned in segregated care homes. They've been murdered - either directly killed because they have LD or allowed to die by doctors refusing to provide medical care or placing DNR notices without the patient's (or their family's) knowledge and consent. They've been shot and killed by police who lack skills to work woth people with LD. People with LD were used as subjects of medical experimentation against their will and without their knowledge. They were told they were being innoculated against hepititus when they were being infected with hepititus. (This was in the 1970s, a long time after Nürnburg Code and after Helsinki agreement). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School

Hundreds of thousands of learning disabled people have been killed purely because they have a learning disability. I stand by the genocide claim.
Hack Cancer: Doom and Gloom
I initially found them a pain point because they weren't explained well - and because the name is pretty bad IMHO - but after all they're pretty simple.
Principles to Intranet Success: Part 2- Information Architecture
No, like I said, it's exactly the same. If it decides it's a system drive, you can't unselect it, and it's very easy to make something a "system drive" when it's really entirely non-critical (a drive with some games on it, for example).

I at least found the one tiny non-critical service I had installed from my downloads drive - a PS3 controller driver. Ironically having removed that, the drive in question is now impossible to include in a backup. WTF.

It's all very frustrating when you just want to make an image of a single drive.
Why 40-Year-Old Technology Can Sometimes Beat the Cutting Edge
It's worth noting that the Supreme Court has generally given rulings that suggest that intimate that software patents are broadly unpatentable. The key decision that allowed software patents in the first place was State St., which was never heard by the Supreme Court (indeed, in Bilski, every opinion went out of their way to emphasize just how wrong State St. was).

Between Bilski, Alice, and even the older decisions of Benson, Flook, and Diamond v. Diehr, SCOTUS has generally held that most software patents are basically inherently invalid. It should also be pointed out that many patents favored by trolls would also fail obviousness and/or prior art tests: the problem isn't that the patents are valid, it's that trolls can extract money from people by charging them somewhat less than the cost to go to court to prove that the troll's patents are invalid.

One way you could fix the system is to punish the trolls for knowingly peddling invalid patents: if an entity gets three patents invalidated by the court system and they've been aggressive in suing people for compliance with those invalid patents, then all patents that they hold are summarily invalidated and they get prohibited from enforcing any patents for 5 years. On top of having to reimburse everyone they charged (plus damages… plus interest ☺).
This is incorrect. The USAF put great emphasis on airmanship, to a level beyond what it expected for a GA pilot in a Cessna.

Also, the USAF Academy is famous for their gliding program. One of the glider pilots who trained at USAFA subsequently flew as US Airlines 1549 and glided into the Hudson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesley_Sullenberger#Military_...
They claim 10 times the density of DRAM, which falls quite short of the density of NAND.
Didn't receive the update. GWX app is gone now. WU says Windows 10 upgrade is reserved.
OpenSource at IFTTT
>And, well, you can send and receive patches using any means you want.

I would prefer an built-in interface, which is why I asked for it.
Google Analytics had a self-hosted version, or more specifically Google Analytics was a self-hosted solution when it was Urchin before Google acquired it.

You could still get the self-hosted version for a price until Google killed it in 2012.

The reason Google doesn't want you to do this is simple: they want the data.
How would you go about testing your internal endpoints?
The next Web standard could be music notation
Having done whitewater kayaking for a long time I cannot stress this enough. You need to practice being under water with being denied surfacing even if you strongly want to.

Once you are calm, you can orient yourself by observing air bubbles for example, even in turbulent water.
I didn't realize Chrome supported panoramic video like that. Pretty cool.
I encourage everyone here to give UWP apps a shot

I did, and while UWP seems still a bit immature it sure is nice. Unfortunately I have a couple of existing and pretty huge WPF apps and it does not seem you can 'port' that to UWP in some way (except like rewriting all UI code - or am I missing something?) so I don't think I'm gonna switch anytime soon and I'm probably not alone?
This is excellent - clear, concise and covers the main points. Thank you.
Really though, he does seem like a marketing puppet... I have to say the title of this posting is pretty suspect when combined with the account creation date.

Edit: Ohh, green means new it doesn't mean poster. Well, who cares.
Top mobile devices in India (from visitors to www.savetheinternet.in)
> Well, if the market sees a technology as solving a particular problem it will adopt it.

Bollocks. The "market" is not a sentient, rational entity. There are many more factors that go into market adoption.
As a freelancer, I can tell you that if you appropriately set expectations with your clients, you can answer emails whenever you want. Personally, I answer all of my emails at 11pm. Nobody else is awake and there's no danger of an immediate reply.

If a client has an emergency, they can call me. My phone hardly ever rings.

To answer your question - no, I don't charge for emails unless the volume is excessive (> 10/day or so, not counting notifications from PM systems and the like). At that point, I just bill them an hour for "Communications and Project Management" and call it good.
I meant the people wanting to talk could go to the conference room and, you know, have their meeting/conference/whatever.

I'm in an open space too, so I definitely feel your pain.
Created using Django and Google's MDL.

Would love to hear some opinions from HN about the general idea and implementation.

Android version available at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ebserver.m...
Heh, well that's pretty good validation for my idea; another startup is doing it; CauseSignal, hope they do well!
The Web Platform Is Too Low-Level
I don't remember what the number is, but mobile browser performance is a fraction of that of desktop browsers and the number hasn't changed much in the past 5 years.

This is worrisome to me because if it means we've tapped out on ARM performance then we need to look to a future without ARM on mobile.
Mailing lists? That's the one thing on SourceForge that I'm having trouble migrating elsewhere.
Driver's licenses, passports, utility bills, bank cards, all are considered 'forms of ID' in the UK, which you might need to use to open a bank account or get credit, but there's no 'ID card'; there's no obligation to have a driving license, or a passport, or whatever.
That looks good, thanks for sharing
As a small business owner, my main concern is that there are no assurances that my competitors large and small will not be able to see my contracts/suppliers/budgets/sales/processes at some point due to this ambiguous 'disclosure' mentioned or perhaps through some flaw that allows access to the data collected from the computers used in my small business.

I must be missing something here since I know Microsoft wants Windows to be used for businesses and the privacy of this information is vital to that.
" In a classic study, UC Berkeley biochemist Bruce Ames and his colleagues found that “99.99 percent (by weight) of the pesticides in the American diet are chemicals that plants produce to defend themselves.” "

This is on the same level of "co2 from trees is a major contributor to global warming", and I wasn't at all surprised to see that the author is at the Hoover Institute.
Top Employee Productivity Killers Released in Survey
Wi-Fi Threatened by LTE in Unlicensed Bands
As apps grow, and features increase there is always a pressure towards a "mega app” of many features and an opportunity for the "micro app” of focused features. The old adage of “Desktop apps are novels and Mobile apps are proverbs” may not hold as mobile matures, there is nuance.

Mobile applications are especially sensitive to this pressure of feature growth since the users are often interacting in short “mobile minute” spurts of need at a specific time and location ( of course not in all cases, youtube iPad engagement is much longer). The juxtaposition of large apps that support the desired feature and a small app that just does the one desired feature is where larger app stakeholders are trying to hold user base by providing the best of both words by splitting up apps and creating app ecosystems “constellations”.

Some things that are not discussed in this article that discounts the current state of mobile apps is the new integration/federation capabilities provided by mobile platforms such as deep-linking, custom actions and widgets.

Another interesting situation is how a “north star” or “keystone” app may fit into this by providing the highly valued "single sign on” authentication feature for an app ecosystem. I despise login screens and passwords fields in mobile and its Im happy to install a second app so long as you federate authentication.

Maybe in the end one app makes a product but two make a platform ( or maybe just skip the ‘app’ all together and make an API )
Nokia to make virtual reality camera for movie industry
Actually I meant the guy having his call in the conference room

In the offices where I'm at now though, conference rooms have become the quiet spaces though. Life imitating HN comments I guess ;)
For that matter, wasn't this Agora CSRF published many months ago? Or is this a new one?