skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah there should definitely be a "Hey Cortana, off the record,..." query mode.

I'm a bit conflicted now. My girls are 7 & 9 and they've been using Microsoft Accounts. With the final Win10 build having all this (none of these settings worked a few months ago), it looks like I've got a lot of reading and explaining to do for them.
I've been exploring the state of world geopolitics for the last couple of years, and the ironic thing about all this is that the German media seems to be predominantly composed of news outlets and journalists who more or less peddle stories that are created by a foreign government - with the purpose of serving that foreign government / while betraying its own...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGqi-k213eE
It will be interesting to see how these numbers change with OS X 10.11 with Safari's new Content Blockers enabled. That will result in less network connections and less JavaScript.
Wouldn't surprise me if os x is hard coded to display its own apps more favorably. Brings to mind how apple hard coded the wireless signal bars to display better AT&T signal on the original iPhone to boost sales.
> Just to be clear to everyone on the thread: it's very unlikely that there's anything practical an attacker can do with the modulus bias in a situation like this.

Correct. This was just the first thing I saw in a cursory glance through their app.js file.

I haven't reviewed Crypton.io and can't say whether I like it or not. What don't you like about it in particular?
There's a huge difference between being considered a "serious" TV personality and an "unserious" one, and what your public image is.

And even then, it depends on audience. FOX News personalities express far worse sentiments daily and mean them than Clarkson ever has. Their audience is fine with that.

Paula Deen was supposed to be a nice upstanding older woman showing people cooking. Even the claim that she might have used a racial slur in the past torpedoed her career.

Clarkson's public image, and one that he intentionally curates, is one of being bombastic and politically incorrect. He can crack whatever jokes he wants without it going to hurt his career in the US. In some respects, Howard Stern might be a good comparison of someone with a fairly similar type of image.
I dont' know why so many people are surprised by the Cortana data vacuum. Doesn't Siri send everything you say to it to Apple or a "trusted partner"? Why would Cortana be any different?

The keylogger and Start menu ads are just creepy though. I shouldn't have to opt-out of targeted ads INSIDE MY OS.
Honestly, I think these people are dicks: http://kalw.org/post/how-tiny-shipping-container-community-c...

Not only is this an issue of residential codes. The other problem is that they're doing manufacturing in a residential neighborhood that's not zoned for manufacturing. And it's disturbing the neighbors in the area with noise and even sewage spillover.
"If you are the repository owner, and you believe that your repository was disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification, you have the right to file a counter notice and have the repository reinstated."

Guilty until proven innocent.
Wouldn't a fire in a shipping container be pretty much disastrous though? I can't even imagine how hot it would get.

I liked the idea of a shipping container home, but my brief research into it showed it's not much/any cheaper than a regular home.
I used it in a Django project for specifying the urls, to have an easier time parsing them to build client-side validators.

I'm sure there are better solutions to that though, and I never got around to actually generating the validators.
"Send typing and inking data to Microsoft to improve the recognition and suggestion platform"

"Typing data" sounds like keylogging. If it's what it sounds like, that's really emphatically not okay; that would include all passwords and the contents of all emails sent.

Would someone with actual knowledge care to chime in and say what data is actually sent? If it turns out that Windows 10 really is sending keystrokes to Microsoft by default, it seems likely to cause a significant backlash from Microsoft's business and government customers.
I think you slightly misunderstood the GPs point: we should care about the dangers, but we should teach them to autistic children in concepts and ways they understand, and focus on teaching them how to emulate those behaviors, rather than saying that they're broken because they're missing it at the hardware level.

Why shouldn't the spellchecker be to dyslexic kids what canes are to people who have trouble walking -- an accepted solution to the problem, rather than shouting they should walk better. Well duh! They already want to walk better.
It's not a clone, it's deobfuscated code from the game client that's being used in several sites to host an exact copy of the agar.io client, with their own ads. If you actually read the DMCA, it's pretty detailed in how it violates Miniclip's copyrights.

An example of clone that doesn't infringe their copyrights (written from scratch, not derived from the original game): https://github.com/huytd/agar.io-clone

Disclaimer: I'm the agar.io developer
Welcome to the DMCA.
MS seems in the mindset "Can't beat 'em, join 'em" as we're only In-App Purchases away from a freemium OS.
To be frank, if I was running a computer that was designed for peak performance, I probably wouldn't use Java. There are some very significant performance issues with garbage collection that prevent you from making peak use of them machine.

Supercomputers aren't built so that people can squander the resource (desktop PCs, closest clusters, and phones fulfill that role).
Why not use Safari? I find the UI to be leaner, frugal energy usage as well as being faster in loading many of the websites I normally browse.

The only exception is that I use Chrome when developing.
I don't see why this article mentions all those add blockers, discuses the moral implications, and then completely fails to mention Privacy Badger.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

> Because Privacy Badger is primarily a privacy tool, not an ad blocker. Our aim is not to block ads, but to prevent non-consensual invasions of people's privacy because we believe they are inherently objectionable. We also want to create incentives for advertising companies to do the right thing. Of course, if you really dislike ads, you can also install a traditional ad blocker.

If more people used this type of plugin, it would provide incentive for advertisers and advertising to behave better while still allowing for the existence of add-supported business models.

I don't even see any mentions of that plugin in the comments on this page? Are people not aware of it? Do they not like it?

I do find that it isn't perfect. Some of the scripts that is blocks are sometimes required for website funcitonality. When page is broken I sometimes have to check and modify the rules for that page. This isn't ideal for normal users, but should be acceptable by people with sufficient technical ability (such as users of this site). As more people use it, I am sure this feedback will improve the rulesets that privacy badger uses.
Every company that has access to your encryption keys can be prompted to give them up with a warrant.

You can keep them from having the key. That's one way around it. Using hardware of some kind (and there are multiple.)

You are also free to use another solution that might meet your strict requirements to personally review the encryption, filesystem, device driver, and memory management code of your operating system to verify it's operating to your specifications. There have literally never been so many options for the privacy minded person with the time to pour through a metric ton of C code.
PGP solves all of those. Encrypt on device and prevent the cloud operator of seeing anything.
I'm sorry, but this argument has never been anything more than entitled bullshit.
I want to give you a little context here, because I assume most non-german readers will be unfamiliar with netzpolitik.org. netzpolitik.org is a professional blog about politics in the information age, financed mainly by donations. They report and comment on political and legal issues concerning computers, the internet and technology in general.

netzpolitik.org has covered the 'Geheimdienstausschuss' (a parliamentary working group, formed after the Snowden leaks) extensiveley, like no other german-speaking media. They also played a critical role in the public debate around data-retention, voting-computers and many other issues in germany in recent years.

I think, chances are high, that they will never be convicted. Still, this will send chilling effects on critical media, blogs and journalists.

The german journalist associaation called it an attack on freedom of the press.

http://www.djv.de/startseite/profil/der-djv/pressebereich-do...
That wasn't part of the question.
Mindset is important; you can free yourself and unlock door. On this subject, Jay Abraham has some excellent food for thought.

Recommend reading his book. Here's a quick video interview> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X6Dfmi_GSk
Microsoft/NSA advocates ITT.
Are the games really worth it? There's a lot of games out there. You can live with missing a few Windows-exclusive titles.
I haven't double-checked it, but if that's true then a DMCA is fair and appropriate IMO.
So you're killing ads in apps now too? Sounds like another great reason to avoid developing for your platform.
Freezing tends to damage (amount of damage depends on freezing techniques) hydrophilic cells, so basically anything organic. Even frozen tissue still deteriorates to some degree. Which means that not only new techniques for drug discovery have to be devised, but more importantly, techniques to account for deterioration and change in chemical structure.
You really don't want someone who did sleep at that microscope for past 5 minutes to yell "this seems familiar to compound x" and have your titles removed at the blink of an eye.
You could add an option to manually "track" a website instead of always saving content.
If you have 'less' on your system then it should work because I'm manipulating the options that are passed into less. I'm setting the less options here: https://github.com/dbcli/mycli/blob/master/mycli/main.py#L42...

You can try that from the command line yourself. Try:

less -SRXF <filename.txt>

That should print the file and not clear the screen when you press 'q'.

You can also override the pager to change from less to something else right from inside mycli. For example:

amjith@localhost:(none)> pager cat

That will use cat instead of less for paging the output and that should keep the output in the screen but it won't page them like less.
From https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-des...:

A global passive adversary is the most commonly
assumed threat when analyzing theoretical anonymity
designs. But like all practical low-latency systems,
Tor does not protect against such a strong adversary.
Why do you say it is an excellent course? I started it and so far I found the professor to be uninspiring and the lectures lacking in preparation and detail.

I much rather read a book.
They should look into the container park in downtown Las Vegas (Tony Hsieh's pet project) which has been immensely successful - city codes and all! :)
For most users, this protects them to a useful level. Most users don't think losing a password is a big deal and would be very upset to learn their data is lost because they forgot. That's an anti-feature.

The number of people that'll be protected from leaving their laptop in a taxi, or home burglary, or selling/trading-in a device, or just snoopy relatives or acquaintances, etc. is large and MS absolutely made the right call here. Otherwise, you'd have "experts" giving advice to disable this feature or suffer data loss.

Also, if they use OneDrive to back stuff up (like they should!), the security damage is already done as most juicy files will be unencrypted in MS's hosting and still subject to warrants.
Is there a way to permanently block submissions by people who whine about not getting recognition that they think they deserve?
> Why would you change the class of an object rather than create a new object as a replacement? Because there might be references to the object all over the place, and updating all of those references to point to the new object might be a lot of work or even impossible.

Logically speaking, updating all references to the new object would be equivalent to change-class.

If you update all references to an object to a new one, you cannot tell that there is a different object. In fact there is nothing to tell; it isn't a different object.

For instance if both X and Y in some expression (EQ X Y) previously point to the old object, then after this global update, both X and Y point to the new object. EQ returns T either way.

(Think about copying garbage collectors.)
I'm not talking about encryption keys.

I'm talking about the data itself. Sitting on my harddrive, as it is.

As I understand it microsoft is saying that they could siphon data from my computer if they deemed it necessary.

Maybe that's an adversarial reading of their privacy statement[1]. But it clearly speaks of accessing files in private folders.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.asp...
I remember when "Here and Now" first appeared on my local npr affiliate. I was taken aback at how out of step with their other content it was-- unintellectual, poorly informed host(s), focused on the latest 'hot' media topics du jour (minus the insightful introspection found on other npr programs)... for me, it added nothing of value, and felt like a waste of my time, so I stopped listening and assumed others did the same. I can't believe it's still airing.
> OK. What I'm trying to say is that backing up to OneDrive is optional. You get the choice. You can protect the key with a TPM or a smart card...It's not an all or nothing thing. You have options there, if you are interested.

Except that the default is both insecure and privacy-violating.
This is a terrible idea. The problem is not finding cheap building materials but optimizing land use.

I look around the bay area and I see a ton of single family homes. Where are the large multi-story apartment buildings?
> why should anybody who hopes to make money off of content choose to show you anything?

Nobody is forcing them to use advertizing to support their work/site. If they're not making money, they should change their business model.
It seems the author of the repo wrote a new implementation of the backend but copied the code from the frontend. I dislike the DMCA process and I find some other stuff in the complaint I disagree with but it seems like the repository was infringing.
In this [1] excellent book, it is said that they do it as form of saving. Basically, they don't have bank accounts, and they know that if they don't buy those 1-2 bricks right away after they get paid, they'll spend the money on something else.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Poor-Economics-Radical-Rethinking-Pove...
What do start menu ads look like?
Should we start banning repos with "master" and "slave" too?
> I'd far rather pay for quality content than put up with ads all over the web.

Completely contradicts your claim of "for free".

How do I know it's worth my money before I try it? When I'm purchasing a car, I can take it off the lot for a test drive. In the 90's, video games had demos (and now that demos are rare, I almost never buy video games I haven't played at a friends' first). When I purchase food - I know what I'm paying for. I know what I'm getting. Many purchases I make "guarantee my money back if I'm not totally satisfied with the product or service".

When I purchase a journalistic article - I have no idea if the quality would be worth my money. I have no idea if it's going to be well written.

Nowadays most articles I read contain factual errors, stretches of the truth, extreme political slants, author biases, and general muckery of something I would not pay for. But I didn't know that it was something so bad I would use to wipe my ass instead of reading it until after I had already read it.

There are websites I use that are 100% free and donation-only supported. They not only meet but exceed their monthly donation goals consistently. These are sites where the users give a damn whether the server is still online next month or not. The website has been online for the past 5 years and there has never been financial troubles.

Perhaps instead of using an "ad-based" business model websites should use a "value-based" business model. Where, if the website is valuable enough to the users, the users will choose to sustain it out of their own desire to continue to use the site.

If your journalistic site doesn't offer any additional value to users. You sink - and nobody would care.

I wouldn't bat an eyelid if the entire Gawker media conglomerate crashed and burned and had to shut down. I wouldn't care at all - and you wouldn't see me donating money to keep it online - because they provide no value to me.
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Casting in C++ doesn't change an object's type. It changes the type of the reference or pointer through which the object is viewed. The run-time-type-info (RTTI) of the object is the same.

Lisp change-class really changes the type. (There are no typed references in Lisp that correspond to what's going on in C++ with up and down casting; the object is just the object.)
>The difference with autism and mental illness is that you are born with autism. That's probably not the case for eg schizophrenia or bi-polar, although there's probably genetic factors pre-disposing people to these illnesses for many cases.

This seems a very odd way to differentiate what is and isn't a mental illness. Consider that the brain is a growing organism that is undergoing massive changes from soon after conception til near one enters middle age (28) with some minor changes after then, to define the point at birth as some baseline seems arbitrary. Take schizophrenia, while not present at birth there are some theories about how it works that would indicate it is there at birth but doesn't activate til late teen/early adult years (it has been a few years since I last read heavily into it). Or consider sexual orientations. Are you born with it? Well you aren't likely born attracted to one gender. You probably don't even have a concept of gender. But you may be born with an underlying structure that would give a really high predictability as to which you orientation you will even up having. (Note: I'm not saying any orientation is a mental illness; I'm only using it to give an example of something which you may or may not be born with depending upon how you view being born with something.)
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All of which could be done locally. There's certainly no shortage of processing power available to do so. All of those services have APIs.
Never cared to search for the whole documented list of flags, usually I toy with one or two. Thanks again.
If the plebs want to hand over the keys, go right ahead. Those of us in the know will always be able to encrypt so whatever.
While it would be a little reassuring to find out what Windows 10 is currently sending, you should note that as the privacy agreement sounds like keylogging, Microsoft are claiming the right to start keylogging even if they don't quite do that now.

Also, enterprise editions of Windows apparently have more opt-outs... regular editions cannot opt out of all data collection. (sorry, can't find the page that I read this on)
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I just found out that my laptop has a signicant longer battery life if I use dwb instead of firefox (vimperator). It's a bit crude, but i start to like it.
To be fair, at least the DMCA gives the benefit of the doubt to content hosts via the safe harbor provisions.
I believe that you are mistaken. Could they turn over your BitLocker recovery key to the authorities that would then use it to decrypt your HDD that they have already taken from you? Yes.

Are they going to reach out over the internet and take your data? No. They are not going to do that. I follow this stuff really closely. I promise I haven't seen or heard of a capability where they can remotely take data from your machine and turn it over to the government.
Tab audio indicators and muting in Firefox Nightly
Ok. This is cool... :)
Critical BIND bug scores PATCH YESTERDAY grading
> If you flip a coin and get 10 heads in a row, your likelihood of getting a tails on the next flip (assuming a perfectly-balanced coin) is still 50%.

If you flip a FAIR coin, your odds are still 50%. If I flip a coin and get heads 10 times in a row, I'm betting heads for that 11th flip.
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There's an interesting comparison here to the advent of airplanes. Lawrence Lessig goes into it a bit in Free Culture but the basic gist is that when you owned land and a house, you owned the land "up to God." Then airplanes came around and suddenly you didn't actually own all the area above your house, just a portion (relatively) near it. In large cities, you can even "sell" the air rights, so fancy buildings will buy the top whatever "floors" of neighboring buildings to keep them low and allow fancy tenants to keep their nice views.
I used to flag bad submissions, then my flag link silently disappeared for about a year. Since I must not know how it's supposed to be used, I rarely flag anymore.
Are there academic history programs focused on the history of engineering, science and technology? These will of necessity reference the surrounding sociopolitical context, while bringing light to patterns that remain relevant to modern STEM disciplines.
I have tended to feel the same way but arguments can be made that allowing unrestricted doping would force those who want to compete to take something potentially/increasingly dangerous to their long term health in order to do so at the top tiers (as if you didn't, there would certainly be someone who would be willing to burn the candle at both ends for the fame and money).

Even in the case where you were to break things out into a doping/vs. non-doping leagues, I have a feeling that in the ultra-competitive world of top athletes, there would be a temptation to get an edge in the non-doping league by similar means as are used today thus buying nothing (except, perhaps, an additional league of super-human athletes who I suspect would get more recognition, fame, and money than their counterparts and therefore push more athletes into a doping arms-race).
> For most users, this protects them to a useful level. Most users don't think losing a password is a big deal and would be very upset to learn their data is lost because they forgot. That's an anti-feature.

"Would you like to store a backup for your drive encryption password on Microsoft OneDrive? If you choose not to do so, and you forget your password, all of your data will be lost. [Yes/No]"

And none of that warrants a ToS that says they can use that backup for anything other than helping you recover your data.

> Also, if they use OneDrive to back stuff up (like they should!), the security damage is already done as most juicy files will be unencrypted in MS's hosting and still subject to warrants.

Hence why client-side-encrypted backups are a good idea.
Minesweeper and Solitaire are now freemium...
Agree, the question I guess is if there is any research into finding a way to make the ghost "part of your dna" in some way so that it's tied to you and you to it?

I know this is probably naive sci-fi but I have heard crazier things. I guess at the end of the day it requires that the interfacing is not just digital but also somehow biological/genetic.
Nope - I actually quite like it in this instance. I don't tend to like it in the general case though, as it's usually done poorly.