skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Said this in another thread:

Not sure what the fuss is about, the same old rule applies: if you want your data to be private, don't use any form of cloud services - server based voice/video chat, cloud storage services (google drive, skydrive, icloud), digital assistants (siri, cortana, google now), any contextual based delivered services which "learns" anything about you to provide you with any form of automated and/or dynamic experience.

If you want to be treated like you live in a box, then you're going to have to live by it.

Everyone complaining and "fed up", closing their MSDN accounts, boycotting MSFT products - you're in an echo chamber which won't be heard as our devices become more service oriented rather than boxed solutions. MSFT is trying to stay relevant, not undermine their massive user base. Whether it is right or wrong, I don't have an opinion on, but if you think MSFT is a pioneer in this space, you're being unjustly biased.

I guess the only thing we can complain about is that we aren't given a "closed/boxed" solution and able to accept the TOS to services we want on an adhoc basis - we have to go and disable services and hope that the TOS we agreed to needn't apply.

Perhaps these are growing pains for the direction services are heading because we shouldn't have to accept invasion of privacy as a default.
Is there a guide to help a friend skip iOS and Android too? Because phones are incredibly more personal than an old boring productive device like a PC. People are walking around with a microphone and camera on them all day.
It had product-market fit. But, was a no-margin business. Although Uber is the same, it makes it up with surge pricing. Still, it was a good try and I am sure some startup will figure out a business model in future.
Right. The problem is that 99% of users are going to be using these defaults--not that you or I can't figure out how to disable it.
I know emotions are raw when something like this happens--I don't think the comment was intended to be, or is, insensitive, just part of a discussion around events in their lives.
This is why PagerDuty needs a decentralized solution for customers. If products like Chef can have both Hosted Chef and Chef Server and Atlassian can have both both Hosted and Self-hosted options there's no reason they can't have the same so you don't have to put your employees potentially sensitive on-call and server incident alert history in one basket.
They can be applied by the owner, but I guess I was thinking more of the ability to have a required 'component' field or a required field for the type of the ticket.
Great questions! Thanks bluusteel.

We'll see regarding other educational settings, right now it's very targeted on these sales / customer service. What we learn here however can be applied anywhere.

Card types are a bit automagic and templatized based on the course type. I.e. if it's a sales pitch there are different templates & exercises than if it's about a product.

"The space of tech products that help improve learning seems more sparse than it should be." -- Completely agree.
No problem. I hope I don't sound too negative. It can be fun to play around with ideas like this, and trying to see if you can crack your own systems. But there is a huge gulf between "this is fun and I'm learning something" and "I've discovered/built something totally new that other people will want to use", and if you aren't familiar with the current state of the art you aren't even speaking the same language.
Our Experience with Holocracy so far. Anyone else have stories?
Mozilla did agree, following the criticism on Pocket, that shipping new things like Pocket should be done as addons, and would do the work to fix that.
"Well, if the Fed doesn't tighten, they're at a pretty high risk of introducing serious inflation into the economy."

I doubt this will take place. If anything, I think we will see deflation?

These low interest rates have provided gambling money to the 1 percenter's. (I don't want argue--just the way I see it.)

There's a part of me that want to cash in on these low interest rates(part owner in a home in the Bay Area--that people really seem to want.), but my inner voice--wants the fed to raise rates?

Why--the poor/middle class have been left out of the recovery(unless you are in tech.). We get essentially 0 % on our meager cd savings accounts. We can't gamble in this bubbly/momentum/free money stock market?

In essence, what the poor/middle class got out of this recovery is no change in wages, higher rent, higher fees, and 0 percent on our savings. (I do appreciate the access to health insurance though. At least, they(hospitals) can't attach my interest in a home-- if I got sick, and managed to survive? Before Obama Care, I couldn't get health insurance, and always knew I was one judgement away from being homeless.
(For those that hate ObamaCare, I would be happy with a 2 million, nationwide--homestead exemption, incorporated into our federal bankruptcy laws? All homes should be judgement proof.)

So Janet--raise the interest rates. The rich boys are just gambling, and laughing! They have so much money they don't know where to put it? The REIT's are buying up too many commercial/residential units; on your free money--I sometimes wonder whether its foreigners(who can buy a home in the U.S., as easily as picking up a phone), or REIT's whom own more?

See, only the banks, and their Best clients are given this free money. I am not seeing the trickle down? We got out of the risk of Depression? It's time to raise rates, and never bailout another bank again.
Wut? .com is supposed to be for commercial sites only. I see it everywhere, regardless of if someone is selling something or not. .net is for network infrastructure, I see it used all the time. Other than strict TLDs like .gov, they're used for things other than their intended use all the time.

.io is a good way to get a name that would otherwise be taken up by a squatter while still having some technological tie. The former is really what it's all about.
I believe the correct way to do the counting for this problem is to list the valid orientations with an eel in the corner and divide by the total amount of valid orientations. This is correct if you assume that the artist is choosing uniformly from the set of valid orientations. Let me list a couple of valid orientations (X marks no eel and O marks an eel). Pretend the first position is the top of the L and you go down then to the right as you move through my list (corner is in the 3rd position if 0-indexed):

XXXOXX
OXXOXX
XOXOXX
XXOOXX
XXXOOX
XXXOXO
OOXOXX
OXOOXX
...
OOOOOO

These are some that are not valid as it doesn't satisfy the owner's conditions:

XXXXXX
OXXXXX
OOOXXX
XXXXOO

If you wish me to list all the valid combinations I will, but it a simple matter of combinations.

EDIT: Reformated my answers as HN clobbered my newlines
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It seems like if the compromise were due to a failure on the provider's side, rather than the more common stolen/phished credentials, PagerDuty would be more clear about laying fault where it's due. It would help clarify that they didn't directly make an error, and allow them to put the ball in the provider's court to respond.

Instead, the post's comment makes a reference to "an administrative panel provided by one of our infrastructure providers". It's not clear if this refers to the provider's internal tool, or the administrative panel they expose to customers for administering their accounts. If the former: I'd prefer they name the provider. If the latter, it might be worth clarifying the wording so it's more clear.
Yep, this is what I think too. The Pocket and Hello case could at least have a disable option, even Google allows you to disable the new features that it brings in Chrome like Google Now and more recently the "Ok Google" hotword detection.

However, the Australis case is much more complicated. An UI is tons of code, if Mozilla opted too maintain two different codebases they would need to update both everytime they added a new feature. This would be a maintenance nightmare, to say at least. I think it's ok to have this feature as a separate extension, maintained by people that actually care about the older interface.
Everybody mourns in a different way, and not everyone knows them in the same way. I don't think we can (or should) really dictate how people will treat the death of another.

Nothing here has crossed the line of disrespect.
Exactly. Either way they don't stay long. Landlords have learned the hard lesson over the years.
A big thing Julia has going for it is that it plays nicely with Fortran. Lots of legacy numerical computing code has already been written in Fortran, so it's a big draw for some companies.
Yes, it's very good for a pop-science book.
Care to check out "SideProjectors"?

http://sideprojectors.com (I run the site by the way).

It's a market place where people buy/sell/discover side projects. You might want to check some of those projects. Maybe there might be some that you would be interested in buying, or just to be inspired from. :)
If you're a startup founder with fiscal authority, do your darnedest not to sign long-term anything unless it reduces both long-term cost and risk more than it adds to liabilities. There are a bazillion dot-coms in the 1990's that optimistically over-expanded and got stuck paying rent for years afterward on empty buildings they furnished but never used.

Seriously, expand only if you have people stacked three high and just enough to cover the next 1-2 years of conservative growth. And don't spend arms and legs on new furniture or other generic, high-depreciation items, get gently used kit from liquidators and recyclers. Enterprise shops throw out perfectly good stuff because they're redecorating or it's lifecycled out because it's recurring budgeted. Capture every advantage of their waste to your benefit.

Put another way, don't waste cash to look rich, spend some to make staff and yourself comfortable enough to get the job done and keep morale/productivity up (Penny wise, pound wise.) A badge of honor for entrepreneurs is spending as least as possible with the best results. Only looney billionaires buy diamonds to use as doorstops. (Sure most startups flush cash down the drain, but there's no reason for founders to inordinately waste investor's cash because it counts against their reputation in future dealings.)
To echo my sibling poster that's just bad design there. My old work place had 1.25 gpf toilets and those thing could flush a giraffe (niagra conservation flaperless, i've extolled their virtues before).

Also as having grown up in the sticks in Alaska, with an electric well and significant power outs, let me just say: walking half a mile to break open some ice, draw 3.5 gallons of water and walking back is some bullshit. I love me some low flow toilets.
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No. I want you to pull your head out of your ass and realize that if elections ever changed anything they'd be outlawed. The game is rigged from the start.

Switzerland is a semi democracy. In Switzerland, People are allowed to organize a vote to reject laws and to enact laws. And there's nothing public officials can do about it. They are powerless against popular vote. The only thing the oligarchs can do in Switzerland is to manipulate opinion through the media. In certain Swiss cantons, common people gather four times a year on the canton's capital town square and vote laws by raising their hand. It seems like the "masses of uninformed people" in Switzerland are doing a better job than your mafioso leaders of whatever stripe because Switzerland has a much higher standard of living than the U.S. and incidentally has never waged war on anyone even having no oil reserves at all. Note also that democracy in Athens lasted for two centuries, which is longer than any of the today's republics and was one of the most powerful city-state of the time. So much for "direct democracy" not working. So now, please, don't bother with the usual parroting of platitudes (such as "human nature") and go educate yourself.
I wish people would do that. I know when I see jobs that interest me, they're almost always in SF or NYC. Neither location is somewhere I'd flourish. Seriously, what is the actual appeal of SF? I just don't see it.
Noob question: What if the developer who "might" have infringed on the patent, open sources his work, and it's made available on github with multiple forks, and now there's a whole community behind it, and so on?
I was a daily one for years, then completely moved on once I had Hickory (we use it for ourselves internally) and trained to get into YC with it.

Happy to talk more about this and talk go over what we're thinking. brian@hickorytraining.com
Like I said, I'm not sure this was a winnable fight. And yes, writing a good DB implementation from scratch is really, really hard. But...

First, keep in mind that lot of this decision was political; if Mozilla had lobbied for it a lot of fudging could have been done. Instead Mozilla made sure that a strict reading of the rules was used by which, yes, WebSQL clearly failed.

And no, Mozilla probably didn't have the resources to implement SQLite from scratch, but:

1. They could have worked with others. Apple, quite clearly, was much more invested in WebSQL than IndexedDB. Could they have contributed to a join effort? We'll never know.

2. In particular, the rule about needing two seperate implementations is good, but it could have been fudged here; a bigger problem was the lack of a spec beyond "whatever Sqlite does". Did Mozilla have the resources to clearly specify how a reference implementation should work, even if the only actual implementation remained Sqlite? Maybe. Would that have been enough? Arguably.

3. In the event, IndexedDB was not a real replacement for WebSQL; at most it was an important tool that could be used to build one, some day; a process that is still ongoing (eg, with PouchDB) and has no real end in site. Even if we lacked the resources to really bring WebSQL up to par and re-implement Sqlite from scratch, we apparently lack the resources to bring IndexedDB up to par too. If we're doomed to spend years struggling with broken implementations and poor browser support either way, what did we gain with IndexedDB?

Like I said, I don't know that there was a good solution to this. But I feel like Mozilla helped ensure we got a bad one.
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That'd probably help them out hugely regardless of the results. I'd be interested in reading the findings if/when they're posted.
So, a second ago it was that you can't use a local account...but you can, so now it's..."The defaults are bad and people are dumb."

Literally all of the people who install it or buy a PC with it installed have the choice of making that decision or purchase.

And you're right, they won't change the defaults and that's not a travesty of some kind. It actually really doesn't matter to most people. Not because they don't understand it. They do, and they want to use it for one reason or another. People in our technical circles overestimate the importance of this stuff by some fairly crazy amounts.
To add: you can use software like Raccoon: http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon

Use it with a throwaway Google account to download apps from the Play Store, then use adb to install them on your device. This works fine for apps which don't rely on specific Google libraries or services being installed on your device.
If you want to run a tor exit node, you can improve the security by subscribing to a rigorous hygiene process that provides accountability of your security upkeep.

* System Hardening

* Log Monitoring

* Intrusion Prevention

* Write proceses

* Perimeter Control

A compromised tor exit node is no good because all it takes is switching on NetFlow and all those sensitive packets are captured.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-the-nsa-or-anyone-else-...
>Microsoft still essentially owns the desktop with Windows

So what? That doesn't mean they are obliged to comply with whatever you think is "the right thing"®.

I'm gonna highlight another another big difference that you seemed to overlook.

Microsoft is a company, their mission is to generate profits for their shareholders and they are the owners of Windows 10, because they developed it. Mozilla is a non-profit corporation whose main product, Firefox, is software that has been developed and tested (to a big extent) by people who do not get paid a single cent, because they have faith in the project and the overall mission that Mozilla attempts to portrait.

Now, I really want to understand your side, please explain, how come what Microsoft did with Windows was wrong but what Mozilla did with Firefox was ok?

Edit: Downvotes, but no arguments, as expected.
Samsung’s profit center
Aight, you got me there :)
Did they move to SF?
You can actually customize a large part of it and turn all of it off.

You can't firewall it off, but you can learn how it actually works and just turn it off.
Wikipedia is publicly editable. Most people forget that these days.
I guess I just disagree that it would have been good for Mozilla to fudge the standardization rules.

The rule of having multiple implementations is an important one.

And it might have been possible - surely Google and Microsoft, who supported IndexedDB, had the resource to write an alternative implementation. I don't know the history enough to know why they didn't.
What if the alternative is not launching it at all?
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How about this: It was wrong for Microsoft, and it was wrong for Mozilla. But it's worse when it's Microsoft, because it's easier to move to a different browser than to move to a different OS, and so it's harder to escape Microsoft's attempts to force you to do what they want you to.

Also, Microsoft has much more of a history of deliberately doing this to people, and so the suspicion is higher with Microsoft. Mozilla might get the benefit of the doubt; Microsoft does not.
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Stealing Wi-Fi is wrong
I'm wondering who the victims are. If the list were released it might depress their stock prices temporarily.
Haha, yeah. I'm happy to text you everyday and tell you where your keys are. It will most likely be a guess however.
If somebody forces people of misfortune to pay more because they're stuck, just to make a buck, that's pretty inarguably unethical.

If somebody gives people of misfortune a significantly cheaper option, which has its fair tradeoffs in delivered product, while still being profitable, I don't see much of a problem.
What happens if those areas simply don't start doing well again? Large parts of America have been declining for generations (West Virginia, much of Ohio, etc)
Eating chicken is morally worse than killing Cecil the lion
>Please don't quote unless it's an actual quote. - bpodgursky
I actually didn't say that what Microsoft did was wrong. It's a complex issue, and you can see multiple points of view in the HN discussion here.

I am not convinced that what Microsoft did was wrong, or that it wasn't wrong.

I am just sad to see people try to divert the conversation from the topic of Microsoft and Windows 10.
Well your parents inherited almost a million dollars of real estate so comparing your situation to theirs seems unfair.
AOL open-sourced Netscape because it lost, for a wide range of different reasons. They included trying to charge for browsers while giving away free betas, not letting PC magazines distribute the code, not letting ISPs customize the branding, discontinuing Netscape and replacing it with Commander (? this is all from memory), buying a whole bunch of server companies (thinking it could use its client to sell server software), behaving with extreme arrogance to the rest of the web industry, using Netscape to feed users ads on its home page, various bits of really crap marketing and a lot of crap code. I could go on.

Netscape was really badly run.

Apart from all that, Microsoft just outsmarted them by rewriting IE in parallel (ie two project teams) to componentize the code, and by making IE more standards compliant than Netscape, and by some really good marketing.

Did you know that AOL continued to distribute IE even after it bought Netscape?

In fact, Microsoft had more and better programmers and just out-iterated and out-distributed Netscape in a fast-moving market. Netscape didn't have a clue until it was too late.

When Netscape was the best browser, it had an 80% market share even while Microsoft was bundling IE. It really wasn't the bundling that killed it.
If you are a company set up on another structure, we can take the documents you're currently using (from your lawyer for instance) and set them up on the system for you. We're designed to be the infrastructure layer, not necessarily the ones coming up with the templates. But we do have those DE C-Corp templates up since many YC companies are set up that way.
I think Firefox sets itself as the default when you upgrade it and choose default settings.
It was so different back in 2006. At Quantcast, we sublet a big space that Snocap (Shawn Fanning's second company) had abandoned when they shut down. It was cheap I dunno maybe $2/sqft/mo. We paid $1 for all the existing furniture.

Then we needed to sublet our old space at 2nd and Townsend. Shawn Fanning's new company Rupture wanted the space. We hadn't moved out the furniture yet, and they were interested. So we sold it to them for $1. Way more relaxed back then.
Well, you're right that it requires centralization, but at least the amount of data you need to retrieve centrally is that much smaller. It would benefit the global infrastructure greatly if I could retrieve websites over LAN if they'd been cached by a computer there.

My wife and I visit a lot of the same sites, even see a lot of the same dynamic content (same facebook friends, etc). Surely there's some community effect that would make this a huge bandwidth win.
Actually, I think Microsoft is getting a lot of things right recently. This may be my naive mind getting caught up in their clever PR moves but seriously, I would give their stuff a shot if it wasn't so hard to adjust (1) after ten years without Windows in my house.

I still remember the whole Internet Explorer bundling antitrust debacle and, while it took about a decade, I believe this is a different Microsoft we're having now. I'm not suggesting they learned something from that from a moral point of view. Better. Consumers are increasingly hostile to monopolizing companies and "extremist" movements like the FSF have their fair share in raising awareness. Microsoft is probably just moving into the openness direction because they have to if they want to keep their customers' business. So, to put an end to my rambling: I can't support the kind of freedom the FSF stands for, but I have to give them credit for (in a small part) forming the public opinion.

(1) tiny footnote: I was about to call their products shitty, but I guess "It's not you, it's me". Stuff just feels absolutely foreign to me :(
Since I can't reply to your reply I'm going to post here.

These problems are not mutually exclusive. They are all serious problems.

And you seriously think most people know what that stuff means?

"Oh! Gee thanks Microsoft. Record everything I type in the operating system to make your autocorrect better" or whatever the hell they do with it.

They absolutely do not then realize that when they named a file "my-pot.jpg" and then search for "pot" in Cortana (which is stored by the way.. even for local searches) that information could be used against them in the future.
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Of course the FiDi is accessible by Caltrain-just get off at Momtgomery or Embarcadero. New stereotype of SF tech workers- lazy and class privileged!
Also not true. Consider kubernetes and mesos. Both are open source.