skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A normal user application, i.e. firefox, should not have access /var/log/messages. The zeitgeist db can be queried by any application running with the users privilege.
Although to be fair the fedora 22 installation I'm running allows me read the logs launching journalctl as a user, so there's that.
I don't think zeitgeist has much to do with the Windows behaviour (or with the scopes behaviour). It's just a potential security risk, albeit a minor one.
I think it’s just an artifact of the way the ODE gets discretized. You could probably figure out more precisely by reading the code, though it seems to be written in an ML-like language without any comments, so code readability is going to depend a bit on your familiarity with such languages.

https://github.com/imeckler/diffgeo/blob/master/Main.elm

https://github.com/imeckler/diffgeo/blob/master/ODE.elm
Millions of people find all kinds of things offensive. One half of the political spectrum finds the other offensive. That doesn't mean we just ban everything.

Nobody cares that you are offended. Get over it.
Until I got to the 77 CE part in the title, I had hoped to see some study about the effect Pliny the Elder (the beer) had on Dolphins...
More interested in getting rich and then becoming an angel investor locally. I find the concept of really early stage ideas far more appealing than institutional investing.

Now I just need to get wealthy myself...
The link I posted above explicitly says they don't charge for those applications and services.
Hah, I see what you did there. ;)
Why is that background image 4000 x 3000?!

https://c9.io/blog/content/images/2015/07/Chatuchak_Weekend_...
I learned a lot from Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032281.do)
Existing DX11 cards will be compatible with DX12.
While I use PostgreSQL whenever I can, it is significantly easier to design a backend using a cluster of SQL Server machines, than it is to design a backend using several commodity machines with PostgreSQL. The former is just more mature, but you pay for that.
tl;dr from the FAQ:

Q: "Why should I trust you?"
A: "Because you should! We're good people! Honest!"

I'd love to trust a service like this, but there's no credible effort to actually establish that trust.
Data remanence is a really hard problem. Are you sure this lives up to your claims that "the file is completely deleted without a trace"? How are you storing them? Do they ever hit e.g. an SSD in plaintext?
For example, if your inputs are images or audio recordings,

Just wanted to add: and word/character/phrase embeddings.
Good! We definitely need a new UI framework that will be abandoned in a few years. Why can't MS improve one of the existing ones like WPF or WinRT (what happened to that anyway?)?
I've found a lot of people are using "the usability is terrible" to mean, "It's different and I don't like it." Do you have an empirical evidence to suggest the usability being good or bad, or better or worse than before?
> I understand people didn't like the Win8 start menu, since it was only accessible in full screen and would hide your desktop entirely, however I never heard any one give a reason why they would think tiles in general are terrible.

Tiles increase the space taken up by each item, which increases the likelihood of needing to scroll or page menu items, which is okay UX on mobile (though moreso on phones than tablets, IMO), but pretty bad on desktop (extra bad if it is side scrolling.)

OTOH, Tiles are a great UX for quick at-a-glance access to information and access to frequently used apps; sort of a dashboard interface. Its actually not a bad thing to have such a configurable dashboard, it just serves a completely different need than the pre-Win8 Start Menu, and doesn't make a good substitute for it. There's probably a good UX design possible for providing desktop and dashboard interfaces on the same device, I just don't think Microsoft has nailed that yet.
Agreed, it is just that my example covered one particular race being discriminated, so I wanted to make it clear. For some reason, people think only non-white people can be discriminated against.
20% of 30%+ IRR returns (which is representative of the top quartile) is more substantial than a 2% management fee
How the open sourcing of government creates opportunity for software engineers
iOS 9 beta 3 Jailbreak untethered rumors
Oh, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But you generally won't have to pay for a licence to run Linux or *bsd in a vm. I'd assume one would want/need to run Windows software on windows (reactos/wine aside).
That's not the same thing though. Calling someone a git is just calling them stupid, calling someone a retard is saying they're so stupid they're mentally disabled and they should feel ashamed for it. It's pretty insulting towards people with mental disabilities.

Even Linus has said he named git after himself because he's so egotistical.
>I agree that the word may be down on the offensiveness scale, but it is still offensive to some people.

Who gives a shit? 'fuck' is offensive to some people and it's all over github. This enforcement is completely arbitrary and this is what is causing the backlash.
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What, are you so sure about that? You don't want to own property for a living, using nothing more than a legal title to take ownership of the goods and services produced by those who happen to work on that property, pay them less than the market value of those goods, and use the difference to buy titles to even more property? And then rely on the state to protect that property -- with extreme violence if necessary --- all without having to even step foot on its premises? Are you mad? I'd love to be able to do that!
- How did Reddit get acquired, and why?

I wish I could just copy paste the section from my book, but it happened because word spread about reddit and how well we were doing (this started right around when Steve + I got back from Google in Nov 05 and turned down their acqui-hire offer) and the head of Biz Dev from CondeNet reached out to me via a mutual friend. He proposed we work on a project together (lipstick.com) and this ultimately led to acquisition talks.

- Why did Alexis leave Reddit originally, and why did he come back?

Our contracts were up Halloween 2009 and I stayed on for a few more months to get things in place and wrap up some things before leaving to go volunteer in Armenia with Kiva for a few months. Needed to get away from SF and connect with my roots.

I was on the board when Yishan made his sudden departure and ultimately came back because the timing was right + reddit needed the help. Reddit means so much to me and it was really hard watching it struggle.
Supposedly, Palantir's latest is a Series I: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/06/24/report-cia-backed-bi...

And Alien Technology raised a Series L: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/09/alien-technology-rfid...
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/05/robert-farago/break... It looks like tracking point is closing up shop.
a16z == Andreessen Horowitz
JS is not really a low level language in any sense.
Provably false with the extreme example: Google.

Gmail, Maps, Hangouts, Search and a few others are regularly in the top 100, if not top 20 apps in the iOS app store. Thats at least 5 apps that stay on top. Several games are able to d the same for short durations of time as well... like the derivatives of Angry Birds and a few others.

The constellation works with a series of self established services. It only works as a spin off of the spin off is actually BIGGER than the core app, i.e. FB messenger. Otherwise you should just be looking to kill off the features you were looking to spin off.
Why and How to Secure Your Iframes with Sandbox Attribute (HTML5)
Isn't UWP just the current name for WinRT?
SQL is actually a pretty terrible syntax, though. Relational algebra is beautiful and elegant, but SQL is a dated, '70s-y syntax on top of that.
Exactly, and you can't simply set a left margin because the scrollbar width is different in every OS.
This is what bootstrap does: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/83bfff7f0765503b990b9...
In my experience muscle memory is just as easy to pick up with typing the name of an app than clicking - apps I use all the time I can open by typing their name without thinking about what the name is, apps I don't use all the time I find myself opening the metro start screen and wondering which will happen first, remembering the name to type or spotting it in my tiles.
Honestly sounds like a 'real name' for Kevin (it mentions his Christian faith, and Joseph is a 'better' Christian name than Kevin).
I care less about a sustainable business and more about social change. Watsi > Uber. That sort of thing. shrug
Except for "lame" in a formal context is still a relevant term.

I can't remember the last time I heard "retarded" used with the intention of referring to a developmentally disabled kids. Whenever I do hear that usage, I do point out to those people that the term when used that way is offensive and they should stop using it that way.
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For the curious (and if it wasn't obvious enough from the file extension), the language is "Elm" : http://elm-lang.org/
Absolutely not, I'm already too close to the head of the 'against the wall when the revolution comes' line for my moral comfort.
Did you have a privileged/sheltered life or was it rough?
I am genuinely asking because you brought up hate crime.

Did you have to endure much of it growing up? Is that why you relate a world that essentially means "dumb" (not physics) it to hate crime.
The state of mobile development:iOS and Android app dev following WWDC, Google I/O
So encrypt client-side?
Please do! It would be a place where people go, hack and network with like-minded people, and move on. You would have lots of screening to do though.
Privacy is analogous to security. The only private computer is one that is not turned on. Connecting a computer to the internet makes information about you less private. That's as true running Linux as it is for Windows...turn it on and connect it to the internet and information about you leaks because the fact that your computer connected to the internet is loggable on the internet side of your router.

More importantly, that information about you leaked because of your deliberate decision to connect to the internet. The only way Microsoft could have protected you is to prohibit your connecting, and even then you'd probably work around it because that's more or less how Windows 3.1 machines connected to the internet (with 3rd party software, I'm not suggesting Microsoft prohibited connecting, they just didn't support it).

Load on user land apps and more information leaks, and Microsoft can't prevent it. Run OS features that require a web backend and there's more information leaks. Nobody can provide a fulfillable written guarantee of privacy for web connected apps. Microsoft's privacy policy reflects this reality.

Can Microsoft treat your with a different level of respect for your privacy than Google? Perhaps, since its business model is different. So it's really a matter of tradeoffs and trust and alignment of interests. If Microsoft's policy is a problem, and it's no worse than Google's provision to use your data for new products and services, then don't use Windows. But at least Microsoft is being honest for the industry standard definition of "honest". That that standard is less than "We'll use your data however we please" is unfortunate.
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Can't you just put Steam in the equivalent of the startup folder?

I've not used Win10 but all I do with Win7 is act as a bootloader for Steam. I don't really anticipate ever doing anything else with it, either. I assume there is something analogous to the old startup folder.

I mostly seem to spend my time running modded minecraft (FTB) on linux anyway.
> With GPL, anything which isn't client side code should be fine, especially since legal advice from GPL authors have said that SaaS and GPL do not put any additional requirement on the service provider.

Legal guidance from GPL authors is of somewhat limited utility; they aren't your lawyers, and for software where the FSF isn't the copyright holder as well as the license author, it doesn't even have the utility of being a documented representation from the copyright holder as to their intent with license they were offering.

They also are employed by an entity with a vested interested in promoting the use of the GPL.
​OpenDaylight dawn: Open-source software defined networking goes into production
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This is ridiculous! Is there no other way to test features on OSX ? or like a cloud environment?

Not only is this waste of money but also non eco friendly buying all that hardware
REST only works with JSON content?
That's only 5ft by ~2ft and cost more than my 8ft x 4ft panel did (though finishing it was a bitch).

Would work nice on a smaller desk though :).
Monitoring High Availability on Galera Clusters for MySQL
The oddest result I ever got from WordLens was when using it to translate a page of poetry on a plaque. The output was wonderful :)

WordLens was awesome for translating fragments of foreign languages - stuff like signs, menus and so on. But its offline translation seemed to be little more than a word->word translation, so there is a huge scope for improvement there. Very difficult when working offline!
Modals have always had a place on native apps, and they similarly have a place in web apps. If you're working on something in a single page app, you shouldn't be taken away from it just to open some settings.
Not sure why you got downvoted. This comment opened up my eyes to the reason why I am biased against traders. If I dislike people who are rewarded for the risks that they take I should also be sympathetic to those who took those risks and lost.
Backwards compatibility is a STRONG point of windows, but the GP is right that it doesn't make for a nice, consistent user experience.

The file picker is one of the worst offenders, as the applications that you use the most have a tendency to use the worst version available, and it's impossible to pass your settings from one version of the dialog to others. There are versions of the folder picker that don't even let you paste a path copied from your current open Explorer window.

(Why is it that, in the 21st century, NONE of the major desktop vendors has thought of putting the list of currently open folders in the Save dialog window? Not the "recent" folders, not the "frequent" folders, but the actual folders I'm working with, RIGHT NOW?)
A normal user application, i.e. firefox, should not have access /var/log/messages. The zeitgeist db can be queried by any application running with the users privilege.

Zeitgeist itself runs with the users privilege (it's not a system daemon, it's started by the user's session), so that hypothetical application could simply log the data itself. There's no leak of information to underprivileged processes.
I think expanding this EFF project would be both easier and better than starting your own, if they were interested. You get added publicity for free plus credibility.

They could have an expanded version with more details, which satisfies both goals.
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You can argue that it's bad, but for fuck's sake, don't compare it to a totalitarian regime that killed tens of millions of people. Please.

Why not? Before it became official government policy to discriminate against jews in Germany, it was considered socially acceptable to do so. Those people voted in the totalitarian regime. Recognizing this as a first step towards greater atrocities is not out of line.
Yahoo! Arrow [0]?

Not available on any of my Android devices.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahoo.arro...
> The researchers’ attack requires that the adversary’s computer serve as the guard on a Tor circuit.

This is a great reason to run your own Tor relay, even if it's just a private bridge for you and your friends. You can even use a pluggable transport of your choosing -- I picked obfs4 to make otherwise identifiable Tor connections look like random noise to my service provider.
Genomics data is only 'big data' until you have an alignment. After that the raw data can be archived or even deleted. Most secondary data such as variants and expression data are not large at all. The only real problem in this field is that bench biologists tend to rush head first into sequencing without involving IT early in the planning process. The tools already exist, it's the communication that is lacking.
Feature suggestion: use the arrow's frame of reference instead of a global one.
This is great to see. We are prototyping something similar - want to deploy static sensors instead of strapping the sensors to vehicles. We initially thought about the vehicle option by partnering with Uber/Lyft. Definitely cost effective but getting relevant data from the same location at different time slices will become a function of the vehicle's presence at that location and time. A bit difficult to manage with a vehicle fleet whose primary function is something else. Worth further exploration though.
They take up a lot more screen space. Netflix is a clear example of this problem, sure showing pictures is nice, but scrolling 3 pages to the right just to look at a list is annoying.

The 'real' advantage is displaying status information, but most applications like calculator / Photoshop / Skyrim don't have status information. Further many things like weather might seem like the current status are useful, but knowing the current temperature outside or a what the stock price was 15 minutes ago is generally fairly useless and wastes screen space.

Consider, the screen shots showing the current user's name. Unless I forgot my name I can't think why displaying it is helpful.

PS: Don't get me wrong having a sperate 'tile' menue that's differnt from the start menue like a personal home page might be useful. But, I suspect it would rarely be opened by most people.
I was using https://usetorpedo.com (similar service) before it shut down. Probably some lessons to be learned from them.

While I didn't use it super often, when I did want to use it, it was very valuable. Thanks for building this!
Weird question but do you use (or have used) VB.NET for anything?
No, it is not fine to use what you described.

The difference is that you are picking on a particular nationality, while "retarded" is a generic term meaning "mentally under-developed" which, while certainly not a term of endearment, may apply to any human.
> There is no more elegant way to work with sets,

There are, but SQL is good enough and has so much inertia that its hard to see any alternative getting much traction.

(Its kind of like JS in the browser.)
So, the claim is that any guard can identify the sites Tor users that use it connect to 88% of the time? That's very bad, if true, because the guard also knows IP.

Edit: glancing through the paper, it may also require monitoring the webpage, in which case it's less severe. I'll wait until there's a good writeup by the Tor Project itself.

From the paper

>Indeed, we show that we can correctly determine
which of the 50 monitored pages the client is visiting
with 88% true positive rate and false positive rate as
low as 2.9%
There's a saying in private equity: you can't eat IRR.

Venture capital funds aren't the worst products in financial services, but if they're as wonderful as you seem to be suggesting, why is it that there are lots of firms that haven't received a carry check in years and most VCs don't invest any money of real note in their own funds[1]? Is it possible you're overestimating?

[1] https://hbr.org/2014/08/venture-capitalists-get-paid-well-to...
rpm and fast don't really go together. dpkg is much better. dnf will be interesting.
You should probably filter out .exe files otherwise Chrome and other websites might block you off.
I found I could only rotate for about 90 degrees plus/minus. I tried to circumvent the problem by dragging my cursor outside of the window and bringing it back in on the opposite side so I could continue rotating. Strangely, the game sensed I had come in from the opposite side and reset the rotation to the exact same 90 degrees. It's purposefully attempting to be infuriating.
Why stick with XML? Why not use HTML for UI frames?

The startmenu could have a more "responsive design", allowing one to resize it any size would be easy (not just a few predefined sizes that are supported in Win10). HTML would suite itself for the UI of Edge too, similar to Chrome, Firefox (Android), FirefoxOS, WebOS.
What happened here wasn't that the copilot sat there waiting for the intended time to come about and pressed the button exactly at that intended time and just didn't know what the time was supposed to be. What happened was that he was frantically trying to concentrate on a zillion things at once and pressed the button a bit early because he thought otherwise he might end up pressing it too late and he had been warned about the dangers of pressing it too late but not about the dangers of pressing it too early. If there had been an autopilot, most likely the autopilot would have pressed the button at the right time while he was looking at something else.
Clinical trial simulator (publication bias)
Now it says

> file.io is a project of humb.ly. It was created simply out of the joy of trying to build cool things on the internet, and we thought it may be useful for others. We take privacy very seriously and do not save any data once it has been deleted.

But going to humb.ly still doesn't really get me to trust you, there's not even any identifying info on that page. Two projects, one discontinued and one -- it seems -- novelty "religion".
Chinese restaurants did it first.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. [1]

Please note I am not suggesting that this simple issue is in any way remotely related to the seriousness of what this quote refers too. However, plant enough seeds over long enough and you wake up one day without being able to express things that cause other people to be offended. You don't have to like what someone does or says but they should be able to none the less.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
I think Windows 10 is pretty much free as in beer for most ordinary users so the wallet threat is pretty flat.

I read Microsoft's policy as more legal cover for the reality that data gets stored all over the place. The internet is full of caches and nobody can guarantee that they can identify all of them, much less control them. The nature of people's complaints show how vulnerable Microsoft is to some jury believing "they should have known."

If you want privacy, don't turn on your internet connected devices. TANSTAAFL.
I got used to that years ago by purchasing a programmable game keypad. No one loves the lefty's.
Ethernet cables are huge.

I welcome not longer having a gaping hole in the side of my computer. Wifi has come a long way and if people want to use ethernet it can be run through a multi purpose more modern port with a smaller footprint.
ThreeJS is a library on top of WebGL. It's an implementation detail -- whether it uses ThreeJS, stackgl, or your home-brew library, it still uses WebGL as its primary technology.
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