skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understood the split is strict ethics v. politics. Gamergate never had anything to do with technical meritocracy, that's just the way users see the games. I can't help but think you're trying to perpetuate some false meme.
I was playing around with Web Workers and saw a bit of a gap when it came to image manipulation. A lot of examples provided for browser based image manipulation relied on the canvas api which workers do not have an interface to.

Using the JPEG decoder from the Mozilla pdf.js project as well as a JPEG encoder from Adobe I demonstrate how you can do somewhat heavy lifting in the front end for images without locking the main thread.

It works in Chrome for the moment but should work in any browser that allows FileReader in the workers (FireFox only allows FileReaderSync) but I could get that to behave nicely so FireFox is unsupported for now.

Also the output image will probably be artifacted but I wasn't focusing on quality just yet.

One interesting thing seems to be that there is very little difference in processing time between the single worker vs. multiple workers examples.
It's no different than Windows Update telling you that there is a new update available, except that this time it's an update of the entire operating system to a new version. Calling it "adware" is a stretch of a largest magnitude.
Not even "personal" MSDN(AA) licenses.
I'm really excited for this release and especially excited about Cortana. If it works as advertised I'll be buying a windows phone. I'm ready for a device that i can just talk to with a normal voice and ask it stuff.
It is a false analogy though.

If it's just a commit message, then I can see why you would think this construes as a `private` conversation (i.e. message between committers). But, it's also in the README which, by default, the first thing you see when you open up the repository.

The better analogy perhaps, is the author is standing with a signboard containing some offensive language in some corner of a public space.
But see also this (on the same page) if you're using VLC in the US:

"libdvdcss

libdvdcss is a library that can find and guess keys from a DVD in order to decrypt it.
This method is authorized by a French law decision CE 10e et 9e sous­sect., 16 juillet 2008, n° 301843 on interoperability.

NB: In the USA, you should check out the US Copyright Office decision that allows circumvention in some cases."
This is nonsense. Self-censorship occurs whenever somebody censors himself. In polite conversation we might call it discretion (or valor). In a fiduciary or confidential relationship, we might call it adherence to the duty of confidentiality. In a contractual relationship, we would call it nondisclosure. In employment, on one hand we might call it professionalism—or self censorship on the other—depending on the context.

Regardless, the term "self-censorship" is not germane to or inherent in only citizen-government interactions.
I don't get it... are you complaining that you were revoked a license to a software that came bundled with windows?
I'm not an expert, but I would suspect that life in North Korea is good training for being very careful with things like this.
Has the Startup Nation Become the Scaleup Nation?
I generally agree that reading is a lot more efficient but some people have different learning styles and videos work a lot better for them.
There's also (bad) university lectures that are essentially just the textbook in lecture form without much extra benefit. I've always wondered why people bothered attending these since I'm a "book learner". I've had a couple of long talks on the topic and now understand that some people simply learn better with audio. Unfortunately for them it's less convenient than reading (time wise, quick reference etc.) but it's still good to have the option.
Sounds like a system I worked on for an investment bank. Sure you will be employed for years fixing hack upon hack, but its not very rewarding work (in the non financial sense).
I still wouldn't like it as I wouldn't have any control over the content I post. Let's say a company you hate buys a relatively common word. You can't use it without advertising the company you hate. They have effectively stolen that word from you :)
I got the upgrade from 8.1 Pro last night:

1. The OOBE experience ran twice. It rebooted half way through the first one to apply updates and then I had to do it all again.

2. It lost the product key and won't activate even though this is a genuine copy from MSDN. I guess I have to wait for a key from MSDN later today. Not end of the world but a pain point. If it isn't activated, hardly anything works now.

3. However that's all pointless as it hangs solid after 3-5 minutes reliably. That's not enough time to even roll a single windows update in so I'm shafted.

This is a rock solid Lenovo X201 that has never had a single problem with any Windows release. It hasn't crashed once since I bought it new.

Not impressed. Spent an hour rolling it back.

I imagine, considering this was quality well tested hardware, that this is going to be nothing but hell for people. If even 1% of people have this experience, the media will blow big time and I'd hope that they do.

Edit: on my Sony VPC-J1 AOI machine that fails with "Windows 10 upgrade failed" after pissing around for an hour. At least that didn't hose the machine.
Ah interesting! I missed that.
>And this differs from Google's and Facebook's usage policies how?

By very little. Why are you still using google and facebook?
Censorship is not by defintion done by the government. It's perfectly correct to say "GitHub is censoring X on their platform".

Now censorship by the government is a much worse act, because you can't just go become a citizen of another country, but it's still censorship if a compay does it.
The way sourceforge has gone down the toilet, they'd* have to pay me to take it of their hands!
Twitter is all in the users. If they start charging for an account then they lose their users, and therefore a large chunk of their appeal.

With that being said, I don't know why they don't charge for verification. Hell, open up additional verification for businesses and start charging them to use Twitter. There's a surprising number of verified users from all around the world ans as far as I know they're all using Twitter for free, like the rest of us.
Be sure to read the licensing fine print about data collection for advertising etc.

https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-print-how-your-persona...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966236
How do you know that they don't? You state it, but you offer no proof to support that.
A few years ago we introduced svn in our company, to replace PVCS. After 4 years, we managed to hunt most of our source code down and get it commited somewhere. Now, we have loads of contractors, some good, some bad, most cheap, and almost nobody longer than a few months. After seeing what insane things some of these guys managed to do in subversion, I simply don't dare introducing git: The history rewriting features like rebase in their hands scare the hell out of me. At least with subversion, i know that what's in there stays in there. git is great if you can trust your people, but svn is a better choice in a large political company that does not care about what happens to its code.

And dont get me started on the abuse of backups or build systems.
The HackerNews effect, was unfortunately down for 3 min. Should be okay now. Apparently login into Wordpress was a query to much.
Official ISO downloads:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...
Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
Self-censorship as a term has value whenever people fear losing something that is important to them. With governments it might be their their career chances, personal freedom or even their life. With companies it might be your online identity, your data, your social contacts. Imagine being removed from Facebook/Google/Twitter/[your social network of choice] for writing the wrong post/email. While it is certainly orders of magnitude less threatening than being tortured by the secret police, it is still a deterrent.
They can't "out" you. Because privacy.

IMO this ought to be a global rule. It's completely unacceptable to have a private company arrogating to itself the ability to "out" you at its convenience.

Fuck contracts. It's wrong.
Here is our React/Bootstrap modal component:

https://github.com/gitboard/gitboard/blob/master/src/js/comp...

Initially we used a 3rd party component but we finally wrote this much simpler version. It uses only React state variables to show/hide the modal and does not require any jQuery or Bootstrap JS to work (both of which can cause problems when mixing them with React). Feel free to reuse this code, the whole repository (Gitboard) is currently licensed under AGPL but we would be happy to provide e.g. an MIT license for the components or even make it public domain (as this is hardly more than a code snippet).
Sometimes, I really have to wonder about the exact machanisms involved, whereby one company sells out a thriving community to some other souless marketing goons, and everyone on the outside of the deal knows that the magic is over, and the aftermath will end poorly, but the buyer still seems to believe that "touching things" isn't the exact sort of behavior that will destroy the thing they paid so much for, thus rendering it unprofitable, and unwittingly destroying even their own desired goals.
You're reaching, that term doesn't target any particular group.
I wonder if anyone bothered to contact the hosters? If not I think this is in poor taste. As far as I'm concerned when you see issues like this the right thing to do is to reach out to said companies, detail the problem you found and give them some time to fix it before setting up a wall of shame.

Besides that, being up to date with software patches is hardly the only measurement of good security. The fact that some hosters don't even provide 2FA for your account would have me equally if not more worried, as would their practices regarding storing data and credentials.
Sorry to comment on a super dead post, but I like this comment "unless they radically alter the economics associated with the overhead costs required to maintain quality." That is my focus, but it's really challenging. The margin is comfortably high in Japan, but ignoring quality kills retention and maintaining quality brings overhead costs back up to the level of existing franchise-model businesses.
Because PHP au contrary to Apache returns the full packaged version (so PHP packaged version are easier to check out). Also having e.g. OpenSSH ubuntu version strongly suggest you are using PHP ubuntu version. In that way we could cross out some of the packaged versions.
It's a valiant effort, but you're navigating a privacy minefield. Even if you find/disable all the known things, a single windows update can introduce a new opt-out "feature" that undoes it all. Your effort might be better spent migrating to a less invasive system.

"Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once – you will have to be lucky always."
Thanks. The following concerns paging, not the base/limit system:

From a security and reliability perspective, I'm saddened to see that rwx got supported while --x did not get supported. That is backwards. Having to change permissions after code modification is not bad; this provides a convenient point for cache flushing and ASLR-enforced address changes. Preventing executable code from being misused as data is valuable.

I'm also saddened to see that user access implies supervisor access. This too is exactly backwards; nothing should be both user and supervisor accessible. Given that data access can be performed at a less-privileged level by setting MPRV=1, the ability of the supervisor to access user pages normally is especially strange.

Lack of distinct did-execute and did-read bits is mildly annoying. If a page is marked as being accessed and executable, one must assume that it is now in BOTH the instruction cache and the data cache.

I have mixed feelings about having page frame numbers shifted over by two bits. The win is Sv32 getting a reach of 16 GiB. I suppose this is worth the minor annoyance when debugging OS kernel code.

Other than that, I like it. It's certainly sane. The traditional page table is pretty good for the middle bits of the virtual address. I think it is less good for the upper bits due to ASLR, and I hate to see anything that encourages a failure to use all 64 bits of the virtual address space.
Is it a "notification" or a longterm limpet on the hull? I looked at a relative's W7 machine and there was a promotional application ("GWX" - Get Windows X?) running permanently with no apparent way to decline its offer or uninstall it.
>The actual nightmare scenario is that people with learning disability are killed by doctors because those doctors think "retards have no quality of life".

Woah, that escalated quickly. How the hell did we go from offensive words to hospitals as state run eugenics labs in one sentence?
I wonder if what we're seeing here is basically the beginning of a new era of some sort of feudalism, and the end of "the age of equality".

The French revolution, US revolution etc. talked about and put equality into their constitutions, and that has kinda been the prevailing world view ever since. Although, I guess the real cause for this were technologies like the printing press, gun powder and the assembly line - technologies that made people more equal.

But now, even if most people hear about this, I'm guessing that most will continue using Windows. For the last 200 years or so, we've had various leaders standing up for the little guy, but I wonder if anybody will bother in the future, when they see that most "little guys" will not even bother to switch operating systems or use a different search engine in order to preserve their freedoms and rights.
It's also the kind of environmental activism I'm willing to donate for (i.e. Sea Shepherd).
> Note that the upgrade will remove your Windows built-in DVD player.

That's bonkers. Ok, it was never a great player and every half-decent geek uses VLC or better, but still, plenty of people use MediaPlayer every day.

Tech support hotlines will be overwhelmed by furious customers.
http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-media-center-gets-laid...

"Microsoft confirmed to ZDNet that Windows Media Center is indeed finished, and users who upgrade to Windows 10 will no longer see it."

http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-will-include-option...

"In a statement on his Twitter account, Windows Insider leader Gabriel Aul provided this tidbit of news:

"The main scenario people used WMC for was to play DVD. We'll provide another option for DVD playback in the future."

Exactly what this option will be, and if it might be free or if it will cost Windows 10 users extra, has yet to be announced."
So in case of contradictory information, the pilot always has the final word, provided he takes the safest path possible ? Aren't there times where his judgement might be clouded or controllers better informed ?
That is actually illegal in Finland because it's illegal to circumvent the copy protection. Technically you need a licensed player. A few people have turned themselves in for watching a DVD on Linux and they received a token fine.
Their system is subject to EU data protection and privacy law. They probably could actually just refuse her service, that would be a different case. Although if they started banning transgender people, or foreigners with strange names, on that basis it would collide with equalities law.

And it sounds like German privacy law prevents requesting identity documents (which are, after all, government issue) when not actually required for fraud prevention. Theoretically US law has a similar rule about social security numbers but it's not well enforced.
Fitted: Activity trackers train users to love lives that are all work
I'm a bit amused that you think Cortana will outshine Google Now in this area. Let me guess, you're used to Siri?
You're not the only one that is bothered by the article. The thing that triggered my radar was that the entire thing read like fiction. If it looks like a duck,...

The dictionary sounds like bullshit. North Korean and South Korean are completely different dialects, with different orthography and spelling. Bigger differences than different spellings in English. I can't see a dictionary like that being of any use to his family.

There is no way sources can ever be checked, and that means anywhere from 0 to 100% of the article could be fabricated.

(edit: an analogy to better describe the dubious usefulness of the dictionary, it would be like a native Greek using a French-English dictionary to learn English)
Presumably you have to do an in-place upgrade if you use these? I can't see any mention of what key I am supposed to use (from the reservation tool) if I want to do a fresh install.
If you don't want to wait, you can jump start your upgrade with a moment's fiddling:

http://www.redmondpie.com/force-download-windows-10-free-upg...
Can someone explain what this does?
"Facebook changed the profile to her real name against her will ..."

How did they know her real name?
They explicitly said that it CAN be used both as a storage and a system memory. Indeed it is slower than DRAM, but the difference is relatively small, DRAM is not even twice as fast, according to the provided data DRAM is only 1.5 times faster.
HP itself is convinced they have a monopoly on the idea. Technology doesnt have to be successful if you have an army of lawyers working for you. Who wants to bet HP will sue just to keep Micron from shipping products for a couple of years.
Higher level generator HDLs shine when you want something heavily parametric. VHDL and Verilog code generation features are way too weak, so having a higher level meta-language helps a lot.
A lot of users in Germany already, from my experience, 'use pseudonyms' (you just put a real-enough sounding name that's fake) and be done with it.

Facebook should really not try to make the same mistakes as G+ in that sense
Did anyone with a dual boot configuration already try the upgrade? This article [1] suggests that, for once, you don't have to restore GRUB after the upgrade.

[1] http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki/insider_wint...
I assume this link should be:

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegra...
This focuses on the wrong thing. Ads/monetization is the best performing part of Twitter (and widely acknowledged to have the best leadership). Twitter doesn't have monetization problems - if they stopped spending on R&D and M&A they'd be very profitable.

Twitter has new user acquisition/retention problems and this doesn't address that at all (and the only appealing thing about it appeals only to power users).

People invest in Twitter because it's supposed to be a fast-growth tech company. If user growth slows, that narrative is shredded, and so is the stock price.
Perhaps, but what makes it a nice place is the limits on how awful people can be.
Please excuse my ignorance on this topic.

- Why is this happening in the first place?

- Who is this entity that grants a loose patent?

- Why isn't this entity being interrogated ?
Frankly, good.

I honestly have no issue with people managing to contain their own righteous opinions (for either side of the debate) and not smash thousands of characters of spam and spam images into issue trackers.

That's not what they're for.

If the issue doesn't affect you directly (and it doesnt), and you're not a contributor to the project, then dont get involved.

There are places for discussions to happen.

Github issue trackers are not that place.
This doesn't suprise me at all. Big data-hungry companies like Facebook or Google know A LOT about you. I'd say they even know a lot of things about their used that their used don't even know about.
Anyone related to a person with LD probably somewhat cares about it, especially if their relative has been the victim of hate crime or life-risking stigma.

"Hate incidents" (not necessarily crime) are very common. In the UK a person with LD is more likely to experience a hate incident than someone who is gay, or someone who is a member of a religion.
I wouldn't say it is as bad. Basically as you scale relational databases, you end up sharding and loose a lot of the relational features, and basically end up with NoSQL. In the majority of cases I see, people are not dealing with "big data" but think they are.
I've been on the "insider preview" for a few weeks now, and I must say that I think Windows 10 is an absolutely amazing OS. Definitely the best Windows I've ever used. Also the best desktop OS I've ever used, but I hope you'll believe me about the "best Windows" even if you can't imagine why a developer would possible want to run something other than $YOUR_FAVOURITE_UNIX.

If Windows 10 is as well-received as I expect it will, this might really impact Microsoft's position on phones as well. A core feature of Windows 10 is an app store that doesn't suck, with apps that can easily be used on devices that don't resemble tablets. Windows 8 really had this wrong, and 10 fixes it. I think the Windows 10 store might actually get used.

I've seen a glimpse of that future with the mobile app of Dutch weather site "Buienradar". They made a new Windows Phone app which totally rocks, to replace an old extremely crappy one. I didn't understand why they invested in an app ecosystem that is so clearly on the way down, until I found the exact same app in the Windows 10 store - just larger and with more info on the same screen. But it's very obviously the same codebase. My guess is they actually wanted to make a Windows desktop app, but adding phone support was such a minor extra investment (because of MS's "Universal app" thing) that they did it, despite the abysmal market size of Windows Phone in the Netherlands.
It's only a notification until you can't turn it off. It's incredibly difficult to get rid of it on a non-domain attached windows 8.1 machine.
Read the last part carefully so as to fully understand why your first statement is incorrect.
>Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship :^)
Pretty impressive scalability.
I can confirm that. I didn't see anything about Windows 10 in the Windows Update window, but upgrading via the tool worked perfectly for me.
Oh, one other problem. The referenced (R) and dirty (D) bits are only updated in leaf nodes. I strongly suspect that any performance you gain here will be more than consumed by OS software needing to scan all the leaf nodes for these bits. If you update non-leaf nodes, then the OS can use those to avoid checking many of the leaf nodes.
If you had no concerns running a pirated copy of the old version what's stopping you from getting a pirated copy of the newer version?
Off-topic, but isn't Alexis the guy behind firing Victoria and setting Ellen Pao up for taking the wrap? Not once did he come forward and say it was him.

I've heard he's an intelligent guy, but I have a particular disgust for sly people. Just bear that in mind when listening to advice from him.

(Didn't actually listen to the Podcast, maybe this was mentioned?)