Microsoft's new small print – how your personal data is abused - <AUTHOR> https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-print-how-your-personal-data-abused/ <comment><USER2> TL;DR: "By using Windows 10, you relinquish any expectation of privacy".

Stallman is an optimist! This "privacy policy" is much worse than what we expect from malware [1]. Cryptolocker might hold my files hostage for some bitcoins, but they're not going to sell me out to aggressive lawyers or overzealous law enforcement.

[1] [http://www.networkworld.com/article/2926215/microsoft- subnet...](http://www.networkworld.com/article/2926215/microsoft- subnet/richard-stallman-windows-os-is-malware.html)

</comment><comment><USER3> Not happening. Sorry this has gone on long enough.

Closed both Microsoft accounts and cancelled my MSDN and AP subscription renewals.

I do a big chunk of my work on a CentOS desktop machine already. There's not much of a push to chuck everything in an 8.1 VM and start moving it all over. The MSDN licenses I need persist past the sub so that's enough for me.

I've been on the verge of doing this for a couple of months already anyway for ref.

Edit: Also, I'm really not happy about the pro-Microsoft spin all over the media recently. It appears to be covering up a number of nasty changes behind the scenes and lacking in critical analysis.

Edit 2: Proof: [http://imgur.com/a/ZYWZM](http://imgur.com/a/ZYWZM)

Edit 3: does anyone know of a decent 4G modem for a laptop, preferably one that works in Linux. I can then skip my phone as a tether and use a dumbphone.

<comment><USER4> Just for the record, this article seriously paraphrases the shit out of an actually very specific part of the ToS.

[https://www.microsoft.com/en- us/privacystatement/default.asp...](https://www.microsoft.com/en- us/privacystatement/default.aspx)

"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to: 1.comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies; 2.protect our customers, for example to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of the services, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury of anyone; 3.operate and maintain the security of our services, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks; or 4.protect the rights or property of Microsoft, including enforcing the terms governing the use of the services - however, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property of Microsoft, we will not inspect a customer's private content ourselves, but we may refer the matter to law enforcement."

Definitely close your accounts if you want to protect your data, no fault there :) But make sure you know that this article doesn't actually tell an accurate picture.

<comment><USER3> Yep. I read the actual agreement first, don't worry :)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> How do we not yet have a metric for noting specific security policies, so we can create a matrix of how different companies handle this information? I'm appreciative of information on what personal data policies Microsoft uses, but I'm _more_ interested in how it compares to other companies. How is it the same or different than Google and Apple?

This is _extremely_ important. Right now we have an extremely inefficient market with respect to privacy. Users don't know what policies companies have, and even if they know where to find that information, it's extremely inaccessible. Making it easy to compare services would allow users to actually distinguish based on this metric, which is the first step towards pressuring companies to actually _compete_ on this metric.

Simplistically, this could be achieved with a set of data policy components (account information, login information, purchase information, location information, various activity information items, etc) and their policy on them in well defined terms, such as Not Applicable, Does not collect, Collects but does not share, Collects and may share, Collects and known to share. That would be the start of something beautiful.

<comment><USER6> Terms of Service; Didn't Read ([https://tosdr.org](https://tosdr.org)) is a project aiming to achieve what you describe, but it's mainly for websites and web applications.

They need much more contributors though.

<comment><USER5> With a much more clearly defined set of items they measure this is fairly close to an initial version of what I was describing. With that and a standardized legend for the rating for each item (save the specifics for a mouse-over) it would be fairly easy to create a service matrix of selected services.

<comment><USER7> TOSDR isn't just a good service, it has some momentum and an excellent dataset already. If the right people were to start contributing it could gather quite a lot of steam.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> It is a little unsettling when you read these policies.

This is probably for Cortana. She has to understand and process your voice commands, learn your nickname and preferences to be effective. She already works in Windows Phone (very nicely), and I don't think a little phone processor would be enough to power her up. In fact, she doesn't work without an internet connection, at least in WP. What happens is that she takes the information you input to the cloud, processes it there with more than enough horsepower to do her stuff and brings it back to you. I suppose this is how it'll work as well on PCs.

So for all this to work, yes they need to collect our data. Face it, with any smart assistant that we want it's going to be the same, they're all cloud powered. Doesn't Siri also require a internet connection? Probably Alexa too, and any others work exactly the same.

It is a necessary evil to have a useful virtual assistant. Although if we don't want her we can opt out of the MSA account, as someone posted in the comments. Unsure if that removes all the privacy concerns, that would be useful to know. On Windows Phone it did (you can opt out of sending data to MS and Cortana is disabled).

<comment><USER9> On Windows 10 you can opt-out as well. In fact, using Microsoft account is an opt-in while installing. You can just make a local account and certain features would be off by default. If you try to access them it will remind you that you need an MS account to access them.

The fundamental problem with this privacy policy is the scary wording. When Gmail first came out, Google was (probably) the first company to read emails to figure out ads. But they enforced the not-touched-by-human-handsiness claim hard throughout. MS, on the other hand, not only says it will collect data but again and again mentions "disclose when necessary." There are too many uses of "disclose." It almost sounds like they will just hand over data without much conviction.

<comment> irq-1 > On Windows 10 you can opt-out as well.

Few IT departments will allow opting-out -- it'll be part of how your work computer is setup, and part of your job to use it.

<comment><USER10> Surely those same IT departments expect you to keep your personal data on your personal machine :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> The real reason I'll never use Microsoft products again: I'm sick of legally purchasing software and being treated like a potential charlatan every time I change a component of my computer or upgrade. I have lost countless hours to Microsoft Tech Support for licensing issues (which, to be honest, are reasonably efficient these days). However, the older I get, the more I just plain resent having to deal with this intrusion into what should be an experience I control.

Microsoft licensing is hellish, I've worked with it for years and I still don't entirely understand it.

<comment><USER3> Indeed. Wait until you have to deal with an audit. Apparently, even on microsoft's advice on licensing, we still owed them about £50,000 of missing licenses after an audit...

Most of this was down to a SQL Server upgrade where core and CPU terminology was changed.

<comment><USER12> I'm currently arguing for serious considerations of SQL Server alternatives for selected new development work (and where reasonably achievable), in order to mitigate spiralling license fees. The main issue is that mostly those fees are paid by our customers, but ultimately our customer's cost is our cost. Collectively it's becoming a stupid amount of money.

<comment><USER3> We're only keeping it around due to a pile of stored procedures and coupling (see an earlier thread on this I was whinging about). PostgreSQL is the next step. We'll pay for support via EnterpriseDB still.

Our main SQL cluster is two 48 core HP machines with 512Gb of RAM each and a big EMC SAN. We want this as lots of much smaller machines but you can't really scale down SQL Server once everything is coupled into it.

<comment><USER12> > stored procedures and coupling

Right. Funny how 'best practice' became to use stored procs rather than generated queries. Partly because it constrains and defines the API exposed by the DB and greatly helps avoid SQL injection issues. Those things can also be achieved with a well written code layer, and as for the 'API', well, we have so many stored procs that that argument has become somewhat tenuous.

There's the performance aspect as well - having the DBA know what queries will be 'thrown' at the server. But again, it's not black and white, it's more that the stored proc does tend to limit really bad SQL queries moreso that open ended srting queries, but 'it depends'.

<comment><USER3> Rather than write another reply, I'll link you to my thoughts: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9928688](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9928688)

<comment><USER12> Nice reference discussion, thanks. Sounds like we're on the same wavelength.

Our main issue (IMO) is that if you get a SQL Server person in to solve SQL Server performance issues then you're likely going to go down the route of one massive all powerful SQL Server box which just compounds the problem. A broader solution of moving away from pure SQLServer and towards distributed work, caching layers, etc. is probably a saner long term path to take. But in business short term thinking generally takes precedence over long term.

<comment><USER3> That's very true which is why we wrangled the architecture off the database folk :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> 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.

<comment><USER14> We have been in an economic feudalism for the last century. The fact that companies have all the right and none of the duty of a normal person in front of the law with the all power money can buy means there is a strong disparity between normal citizens and them. Corporation have effectively replaced the Lords of the previous despotic regimes in the Western World.

Only when we cease to consider Corporations more important than the rest of the economic actors can we move the balance of powers back where the it has been intended by the previous revolutionary movement.

But this is kind of off-topic with this news.

I hope MSFT get a bash for this kind of niceties and implement an opt-out solution for all their in-built spyware.

<comment><USER15> >The fact that companies have all the right and none of the duty of a normal person in front of the law with the all power money can buy

Can you unpack that for me? I own a corporation and enjoy nothing of what you mention. I fear I'm missing out on something.

<comment><USER16> See [1] for an overview of corporate personhood. They don't get _all_ of the protections and rights of a human being, but they do get a surprising number of them (like free speech) even though they never die, have children, or serve in the military. They also can't be jailed, and not all laws that apply to a natural person apply to a corporation. I'm sure that GP has some other examples of "none of the duty of a normal person" in mind, but that's what I know of off the top of my head.

Regarding their power, I think that corresponds to corporations' ability to amass wealth and influence (often) faster than an individual. Of course there is a spectrum -- national defense contractors with billions of dollars in the bank can have a surprising amount of say in the way things are run, but an incorporated small business might have a hard time getting a local zoning issue addressed.

[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> > Summing up these 45 pages, one can say that Microsoft basically grants > itself very broad rights to collect everything you do, say and write with > and on your devices in order to sell more targeted advertising or to sell > your data to third parties. The company appears to be granting itself the > right to share your data either with your consent "or as necessary".

And this differs from Google's and Facebook's usage policies how?

Throwing out a red flag at this point for a corporation stating that people^H^H^H^H^H^H^H _users_ are their product is the quintessential example of "closing the barn door after the horse is out."

<comment><USER18> We (edit: _used to_ [0]) paid for windows, we shouldn't be the product.

I believe the problem (and I am outraged about that) comes from the fact people are paying for Windows and practices such as the collecting of e-mail and contact shouldn't be necessary for 1. the OS to run smoothly and 2. for MS to cover for a low selling price.

The OS and its default bundled application's set price should be enough to guarantee MS doesn't need a user's private data and metadata to provide the product (aka: we gave MS some money, they shouldn't need our private data to make money in order to keep the price `low').

There are many things like "data about network you connect to" that need to be collected and stored on the device unless the user wants to introduce the same password over and over again. This has to be stated somehow and phrased.

Now if MS stores it on-line through the windows account for convenience it's almost the same thing _if_ it's encrypted and hashed so MS just stores something that can't be exploited if leaked.

I have been looking at Surface recently and now I wonder if I can run Debian on it.

[0] but considering the upgrade path implies a paid product (win 7/8) it's a huge change for the user and my point still stand.

<comment><USER17> You make a cogent argument, which I almost completely agree (excluding an OS vendor storing account info on their own servers).

The consideration I hope to make evident now is: how do your points differ when applied to an Andriod device for which Google has been paid _their_ licensing fees by the device manufacturer?

Facebook's offerings are different, true, yet their Machiavellain use of whatever is presented to them warrants inclusion in this type of discussion IMHO.

<comment><USER19> _Andriod device for which Google has been paid their licensing fees by the device manufacturer?_

As far as I know, Google charges no licensing fees for Android (not even for the proprietary apps / "Google Mobile Services").

[http://9to5google.com/2014/01/23/google-we-do-not-charge- lic...](http://9to5google.com/2014/01/23/google-we-do-not-charge-licensing- fees-for-androids-google-mobile-services/)

<comment><USER17> Fees can be extracted in many ways:

      While Android is open source, the Google
      applications, like the Play Store, Gmail,
      Google Maps, Google Play Services, and others
      must be licensed. This licensing agreement is
      called the "Mobile Application Distribution
      Agreement" (MADA) and comes with tons of
      restrictions.[1]

This is only one example and the monetary considerations are unknown.

1 - [http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/new-android-oem- licen...](http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/new-android-oem-licensing- terms-leak-open-comes-with-restrictions/)

<comment><USER19> The link I posted above explicitly says they don't charge for those applications and services.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> I'm going to hold off on the "free upgrade" to Windows 10 until I can find a trustworthy and comprehensive blog post on how I can disable all of the privacy-invading "features".

Not linking a Microsoft account with the local account seems to be a good starting point. I also plan to do my best to get rid of OneDrive and Cortana, neither of which I have any use for. But I have no idea how to go about discovering and tackling all the other possible channels for data leakage, which we're bound to hear about in the days and weeks to come.

Free upgrade means you're no longer a customer. It's a cliche, but it fits perfectly this time. Some of the things I'd like to disable will probably require upgrading to the Pro edition, which of course is only available to paying customers.

<comment><USER2> 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."

<comment><USER20> Well, I guess it's inevitable as long as I'm using a proprietary operating system. I don't expect Apple to be any better. Heck, even Ubuntu nowadays comes with ads that you need to opt out of.

At least if I get Windows 10 Pro, I'll be able to turn off non-security- related updates.

<comment><USER2> > Heck, even Ubuntu nowadays comes with ads that you need to opt out of.

No longer true. Canonical took a lot of (deserved) flak for making that feature opt-out, and last year they finally fixed it [1].

[http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon- produc...](http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-product- results-opt-unity)

<comment><USER21> Are you sure? IIRC the last LTS version I tried (14.04) still has Amazon search on by default.

<comment><USER2> Actually, no. That article was dated Mar 31, 2014, so I assumed that they switched the configuration option by 14.10.

.... but some searching indicates that they won't get around to disabling online searches by default until Unity 8 is default in Ubuntu. It seems that Unity 8 won't be default until 16.04 [1] or later [2]. So I rescind my previous statement. Canonical deserves as much scorn as you can dish out for disregarding their users' privacy for 3 years and counting.

[1] [http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-8-desktop/](http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-8-desktop/) [2] [http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-16-04-LTS-Won-t- Have-U...](http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-16-04-LTS-Won-t-Have- Unity-8-by-Default-the-Community-Will-Decide-480129.shtml)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER22> I dislike the Microsoft privacy policy. I don't see a better way for it to navigate the legal minefield. If they promise any meaningful kind of protection, it is inevitable that it cannot be delivered.

The wired world leaks data. Much of it by design, e.g. to a first approximation all browsers work with cookies, store history, cache content, use some sort of thumbprint for SSL, etc. No browser vendor promises _operational_ privacy because implementing it would make the browser unusable. Just using NoScript (as I do) is a bit of a pain in the ass. Microsoft has a browser plus a whole lot more stuff including third party vendors, and big stacks of cash to make itself a lawsuit magnet...some lawyer somewhere will allege transmitting an IP address is breech under a strong privacy policy.

The reality is that nothing you do on a computer connected to the internet should be considered private. The Microsoft privacy policy reflects this reality even if it upsets the world some of us wish existed [so long as we don't have to give up our mobile GPS, Uber, and iTunes]. But it hasn't existed since the days of credit card processing over copper. I admire Stallman, information wants to be free. Alas "An atom blaster point is a good weapon, but it can point both ways."

<comment><USER23> > _nothing you do on a computer connected to the internet should be considered > private_

That doesn't excuse Microsoft and others for becoming more and more invasive. And voting with your wallet works.

<comment><USER22> 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.

<comment><USER23> I think at this point, most people have a really screwed notion of price ...

1\. preinstalled / bundled Windows is not free, the " _Windows tax_ " being very real

2\. this upgrade is not free for XP / Vista users

3\. Windows 10 is not free and will probably cost about the same price as Windows 8.1, which is $120 for the Standard version or $200 for the Pro version - it might turn out to be cheaper this time, but that's only because they are changing the license to be tied to a particular device

4\. Windows being a platform, is a complementary to Microsoft's Office 365, OneDrive, the Windows Store, Exchange, etc... the Windows Store in particular charges a revenue fee and is the only source possible for "modern apps"

5\. personally I can't use the standard version, as it is missing features I need, like BitLocker or the ability to make a bootable USB drive - things that with the other operating systems I get for free

So in case I haven't been hibernating to wake up in some weird future in which a beer costs $200 and comes with strings attached, yes, voting with your wallet is significant.

<comment><USER22> Linux with support from Redhat costs money, too. On the other hand, I've got four Windows licenses at the house that I can upgrade for the price of Ubuntu...which I will do, even though only one machine doesn't primarily run Ubuntu.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> As a small business owner, my main concern is that there are no assurances that my competitors large and small will not be able to see my contracts/suppliers/budgets/sales/processes at some point due to this ambiguous 'disclosure' mentioned or perhaps through some flaw that allows access to the data collected from the computers used in my small business.

I must be missing something here since I know Microsoft wants Windows to be used for businesses and the privacy of this information is vital to that.

<comment><USER25> I'll get the popcorn ready while waiting to see what hospital IT have to say about this.

They have already banned use of Microsoft's new mobile Outlook apps (iOS,Android,Win Phone) when they found out that these are actually thin clients to a cloud service that performs MITM on the hospital Outlook server to download, store and processes all email (the cloud servers aren't even fully Microsoft--they became Microsoft's via acquisition). And of course it stores usernames and passwords in order to accomplish this (confirmed by common sense, obtuse fine print and deceptive non-denials by Microsoft support). The penalties in HIPAA and HITECH aren't jokes (and now include jail time).

</comment></comment><comment><USER26> Anyone else use Noscript?

I just forwarded some comments re MS's privacy statement to a law-related listserv. But everyone responded they couldn't see the text I cited from MS. It turns out that the document looks very different with noscript than it does without. With all script allowed (ie for those using IE/edge) all the scary stuff hides behind "learn more" buttons.

Check it out for yourself: [https://www.microsoft.com/en- us/privacystatement/default.asp...](https://www.microsoft.com/en- us/privacystatement/default.aspx)

I'll be adding this underhanded approach to my loooong list of reasons to love linux.

</comment><comment><USER27> Does this apply to users of Windows 10 in general? If so, it's going to be totally unacceptable to law firms, DoD customers, and anyone who competes with Microsoft or their advertisers.

<comment><USER28> Most of the privacy invasion comes with logging in with a MS account. You can login with a standard windows or domain account and then all this integrated cloud stuff doesn't really apply.

<comment><USER29> Not completely true. Don't forget you need an account, for instance, to buy, install and use MS Office 360. I bet if it wasn't for the Office, many people would move away from Windows easily.

And don't forget windows comes with Defender installed, which collects user metrics out-of-the-box. IE/Sparta also collects your usage data. Even windows "search" does.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER30> So let's drop all pretense here. As a citizen of an European country, using Microsoft Account™, NSA can look at anything I do?

<comment><USER31> It certainly already does and your local spy agency too.

<comment><USER30> That is demonstrably not true. But that is not even what I was asking about.

What I was talking about is an online feature, called Windows Account, which works online by default(!). Therefore we must ask ourselves what is Microsoft doing with that information.

<comment><USER32> >That is demonstrably not true.

Please do demonstrate/prove that then.

<comment><USER33> I don't disagree, but burden of proof.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER34> It makes a lot of sense now why Windows 10 is being given away, even for those running pirated Windows versions:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224880](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224880)

I had a feeling about this ever since the first announcements that Win10 would be (monetarily) free. That old saying is still relevant as ever: "If you're not paying for it, you're the product being sold."

</comment><comment><USER35> Anecdote: Created new and unique Microsoft account 3 weeks ago with the sole purpose of testing w10, used it only ONCE to log into w10 vm. Started this VM today, logged into outlook and what do I see? 2 spam messages and one google news bounce.

How do you trust a company like that with any data?

<comment><USER36> I suppose you're implying that Microsoft sold your new account name to spammers? It could also be that you used a name that you, or someone else, have used at a different place and the spammers simply try sending mail to all the big email providers with that name in the hope of reaching someone. That would seem like a more probable explanation to me.

<comment><USER37>
        Created new and unique Microsoft account

I figure it was something he hadn't used before.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER38> 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 felt 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.

<comment><USER39> finally someone who gets it!

you want a service that requires your data? you have to give your data. you don't want to? don't complain for the missing service!

<comment><USER38> 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, or we'll just learn to accept invasion of privacy as a default.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER40> Does any of this apply when we use a local account with Windows?

</comment><comment><USER41> Honest question: is one better off using Apple's hardware and OS or is Linux the only alternative?

<comment><USER42> Apple are just as bad as Microsoft. And some Linux distro's are headed in this direction too (Ubuntu).

<comment><USER29> Agree! Ubuntu and similar, along with zeitgeist pre-installed, do exactly the same.

<comment><USER19> As far as I know, Zeitgeist doesn't send that information to anywhere (it's kept in the computer), so I don't see how it's even nearly the same.

I don't like the bloat, but I don't see it as more privacy invading than any other system logs.

<comment><USER29> Zeitgeist stores your information on it's datahub, where 3rd party applications can retrieve it from. Nothing prevents such applications from sending this information elsewhere, once accessed.

As this comes out-of-the-box by default, and is in fact a pain to switch off, I compare it to this new windows behavior.

<comment><USER19> All your criticisms apply to syslogd as well: it stores your information in a central location (/var/log), which 3rd party applications can read and upload to somewhere else, and lots of software expects it to be there, so it can be a pain to switch off too.

Should we compare syslogd to the new Windows behaviour?

<comment><USER43> 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.

<comment><USER19> _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.

<comment><USER43> I know that, what I meant was that there is information stored _about the past_ , that a malicious application could not get otherwise (i.e. it can record stuff only from the moment it is installed).

On similar note, I rememember someone arguing that the baloo/nepomuk db was a security threat, I guess since it makes slightly easier to search among the files on the system for a string like "password".

Both claims are technically true, and in neither case I believe they are practically relevant, neither for security nor for privacy. I was nitpicking, I guess.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER44> If the setting are synced between computers and Cortana is a personal assistant, how they can work without backing up the data and collecting the behavior?

<comment><USER45> There are two approaches.

First is technical. Encrypt everything on originating devices and store the encrypted copy to which Microsoft would have no key (not even escrowed one). Not like this works for all cases, but a lot of data - like browsing history or WiFi AP passwords - does not require server-side processing.

Another is legal approach. Have sane privacy policies - not "we'll use your data as necessary" \- and make sure users opt-in. Not like this also works - certainly not against all adversaries, but at least you can sue.

</comment></comment><comment><USER46> For a company that ran a heavy Scroogled campaign, the irony is amusing.

<comment><USER47> So true. But, it's good to see these hypocrites finally expose themselves.

</comment></comment><comment><USER48> Default syncing with MS services is really bad for privacy. Unfortunately we are living in opt-out world now.

<comment><USER2> > Unfortunately we are living in opt-out world now.

This is a hyperbolic statement. Here's a fixed version: "Microsoft has created an opt-out privacy-hostile software ecosystem"

The world is not Microsoft. You're free to use alternatives.

<comment><USER49> Network effects mean that there are few pragmatic options left. The GP may well be free to use alternatives but at what cost? Should they be selecting future employers based on the employer's choice of software?

I may well be free to go live in a (digital) cave but presenting it as a _viable_ choice merely exacerbates the existing problem.

<comment><USER19> If you're on your employer's computer, you already didn't have privacy, so nothing's changed in that regard.

<comment><USER49> True, but there's a difference between 1. your employer having a bunch of information about you and 2. your employer signing up to a ToS with third parties that effectively hands over all your info to them.

Point 2 is probably not unusual but were starting to see (imho) more pernicious attitudes. Examples include the current Windows discussion, where your employer may be perfectly happy to sign (on the employees behalf) that your data be sent off to Microsoft (and used for whatever Microsoft deems 'necessary'). There was also the announcement of Facebook at Work, which I'm sure would be more than happy to cross-correlate the 'work' you with the 'personal' you, in order to 'provide a better service'.

In both these scenarios, I'm sure the company will act to protect itself from exposure, but it's unclear what choices the employees really have.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER50> The unique advertising ID is possible to opt out of and if you opt in again it generates a new one so you won't get associated with the old one.

Anyway is it not as if apps aren't collection information on people without asking already.

<comment><USER51> Anyone up for making a Windows version of XPrivacy that generates a fake advertising ID, randomized so there's no way to associate any two sessions with each other.

<comment><USER52> Why do that when you can just turn it off?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER53> I'd be interested to see an independent audit on how much of this data they (and google/facebook/apple/etc) are collecting is being used to help improve training of Cortana as an assitant (or other tools that directly assist the user like Google Maps) , and how much of this data is really just for selling to advertising companies, and how much is mandated by governements.

I know this isn't binary some data may be dual purposed (training and ads for example) but I'd like to see an audit of what it's used for.

I'll never get that, but it would be interesting.

</comment><comment><USER54> They say they can read my browsing history. I wonder if that's IE only or will they reach out into the Firefox and Chrome, etc.

</comment><comment><USER55> People need to take into consideration the fact that that is how you build an assistant or an AI. You need collective data gathered from a vast majority of interactions with a user. Besides, I am pretty sure this is how Google, Apple do it. All big corporations use your data in a form or another.

</comment><comment><USER56> And we thought Microsoft was a paragon when it comes to privacy[1]. Albeit, [1] was about cloud services.

[1]. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9058283](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9058283)

<comment><USER57> It's worth noting that Microsoft is heavily afflicted with the "left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing" syndrome. Most of its product departments have antagonistic relationships with one another at best. The cloud services department(s) could have entirely different policies and philosophies from the one that makes Windows, which further has different policies and philosophies from the team that makes Office, which further has different policies and philosophies from the team that makes Surface tablets, etc.

</comment></comment><comment><USER58> Finally! Microsoft going all in :D This is going to be fun.

</comment><comment><USER40> For those using a local account and having no use for these gadgets, would firewall rules be enough to prevent Windows from leaking data to Microsoft?

</comment><comment><USER59> um yeah, this is how the entire internet works. You can't possibly think that Google Chrome doesn't do the same thing.

</comment><comment><USER60> I was expecting this kind of thing today. I'm surprised that there is only one "oh noes muh freedums!" post on the front page.</comment>


The Science of Smelling Old - <AUTHOR> http://priceonomics.com/the-science-of-smelling-older/ <comment><USER2> This article fell a bit short of an explanation, as I still don't know how 2-Nonenal got there on the first place..

<comment><USER3> If you click the "2001 study" link, there's more detail, including:

> Furthermore, analysis of skin surface lipids revealed that w7 unsaturated > fatty acids and lipid peroxides also increased with aging and that there > were positive correlations between the amount of 2-nonenal in body odor and > the amount of w7 unsaturated fatty acids or lipid peroxides in skin surface > lipids.

> 2-Nonenal was generated only when w7 unsaturated fatty acids were degraded > by degradation tests in which some main components of skin surface lipids > were oxidatively decomposed using lipid peroxides as initiator of an > oxidative chain reaction. The results indicate that 2-nonenal is generated > by the oxidative degradation of w7 unsaturated fatty acids, and suggest that > 2-nonenal may be involved in the age-related change of body odor.

Is there an a organic-chemistry dermatologist in the house?

<comment><USER4> It would seem reasonable to think that age-related slackening of the skin may have something to do with this.

<comment><USER3> Assuming their hypothesis is correct, I'd like to know where/when the W7 molecules are breaking down. If it occurs gradually at the surface, then it may be something you can treat topically with soaps or creams.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


The New Organizers - <AUTHOR> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-exley/the-new-organizers-part-1_b_132782.html <comment><AUTHOR> Whatever your politics, there are some lessons here for entrepreneurs. The effect that he describes at the end of the piece seems to be much the same that Paul mentions in his piece about the difference between founders and employees.</comment>


Illinois's so-called tech leaders have failed the state - <AUTHOR> http://www.sachinagarwal.com/illinois-so-called-tech-leaders-have-failed-t

<comment><USER2> Venture funding is a poor proxy for tech entrepreneurship anywhere but in a few VC hubs; we should just stipulate that the majority of those dollars are going to Palo Alto and Waltham no matter what Pat Quinn does. But no matter where you locate, most tech startups aren't going to get funded.

That said, Chicago does very little (if anything) to support tech startups.

There is a "Chicago style" of startup --- 37signals and Threadless being the most visible examples --- with bootstrap backgrounds and ethics. There are things that Chicago could be doing to foster those kinds of companies, which don't require financier gatekeepers, grow organically, and are less speculative and volatile than valley shoot-the-moon companies --- which work well for San Jose only because there's always another shoot-the-moon company to fall back to when your current one fails.

Illinois could:

* Provide tax and fee incentives to technology startups

* Adopt policies that encourage development of tech-friendly office space outside of the loop

* Make its own internal processes more accessible to tech entrepreneurs, in the same manner as Data.gov, to create opportunities for companies to add value. Chicago's own IT infrastructure is, for instance, a shambles.

* Look for opportunities to work with local companies to showcase products and create calling cards for selling into the _huge_ prospective client base in the Chicago economy.

<comment><USER3> Thomas, I disagree with your proxy statement, but we can do that over IM. Also, why stipulate? We can look at the data to see if that's true (and I will).

Again, I do believe the per-capita data is the correct metric, as that accounts for differences in population. While no one would be surprised that California gets the most money, the per-capita figures might be of interest.

I'd love it if you wouldn't mind copy/pasting your comment to the post (even with the first graf). It is being passed around political circles in Springfield, and it'd be good for them to see it. The post is only looking at the data (which proves that the leadership has failed); it is deliberately silent on "why" and "how to fix". I want others to suggest those things before I take a swing.

<comment><USER2> If per-capita dollars was the right metric, the Greater Los Angeles combined statistical area would pull VC investments down to Southern California, which is more than twice as large as the valley.

Similarly, New York startup investments would dwarf Boston investments.

Money goes to San Francisco because of a feedback loop set in motion and sustained by a network effect. Fighting it is like fighting the tides. Illinois doesn't have the will or the wherewithal to compete with the valley on the valley's terms, and shouldn't bother trying.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> I'm not an Obama basher but there's no way he (or Sen. Durbin for that matter) can talk about the new 'entrepreneurial spirit' in America that's leading us out of the current economic malaise and then point to his home state.

No politician in Illinois has ever met a tax s/he didn't like -- and passed into law. The state budget is a mess, underwater by 11.5B, the governor was recently impeached for attempting to sell a vacant Senate seat, the City of Chicago is selling off it's expressways and parking meters for immediate cash, in Cook County we have some of the highest sales taxes in the nation, that budget is underwater too and state pensions pay more money to retirees than was paid to them during employment.

Now look at 37Signals -- they're a great company, in the city, hard-working, focused, and making money. They're tough-minded business people and for me, an inspiration to keep working hard on my idea.

But I have no illusions -- the risk in Chicago is _always_ entirely your own.

<comment><USER5> The Illinois state budget might be a mess, but heck, California has been issuing IOUs and is nearly bankrupt. I'm not sure if the state budget necessarily has anything to do with startup-friendliness.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> _which is just 1.99% of all deals in the States_

Considering there are 50 states, this seems about... average?

 _Illinois averaged just 20th amongst the 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico in startup dollars per capita for the 2001-2007 period_

I think that means there are 32 other states/DC/PR doing worse...

<comment><USER2> As he points out, some of those 50 states simply get no startup activity; if you pre-qualify the states and exclude places like Wyoming, we're below the median.

On the other hand, Maryland is a bad example; Maryland has artificial incentives for VC dollars, because of fedgov contracts.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> This is particularly embarrassing as the state has a very good flagship tech school at the U of I (the most visible internet product coming from there being paypal, which ended up being based in California).

<comment><USER2> Yeah, those "web browser" thingies being a close second there. ;)

<comment><USER8> As well as LLVM being the new up-and-comer of the group.</comment></comment></comment>


How to Autogenerate Forms in React and Material-UI with MSON - <AUTHOR> https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-autogenerate-forms-in-react-and-material-ui-with-mson-5771b1b7e739 <comment><USER2> Try STIGMA --> [http://shujutech.mywire.org/corporation?goto=json2web](http://shujutech.mywire.org/corporation?goto=json2web)

It translate JSON structure into WEB UI with bootstrap look and feel with sliders to represent array of objects, datepicker for date type fields, numeric masking, currencies formatting, combobox and etc.

Click on the "Generate Advance HTML JSON" for the advance example.

We should standardise the JSON format so everyone can generate the standard format from the backend to then have it rendered by the browser.

</comment><comment><USER3> Why not use JSON schema for this? It is already well established and another well polished rendering layer on top of it would be a welcome contribution. Plus you'd be able to leverage the existing JSON schema libraries on the back end.</comment>


How did Tim Cook fix Apple's broken supply chain? - <AUTHOR> https://www.quora.com/How-precisely-did-Tim-Cook-fix-Apple%E2%80%99s-broken-supply-chain?share=1 <comment><USER2> Efficient Supply Chain's only get mentioned when talking about Amazon or Walmart's but it's unbelievable how complex Apple's supply chain is and how much it contributed to Apple.

</comment><comment><USER3> I understand that inventory is evil but how does supply chain really solve it? I still have to keep X number of unit in inventory (aka "buffer") to deal with fluctuating demand. A top answer says that Apple now keeps only 2 days worth of inventory which is quite impressive. If suppliers somehow can do "on- demand" same-day manufacturing then so can I (no?). I would in fact think coordinating between various parts of supply chain will cause inherent delays which will in turn increase the inventory you will need to keep. The large complex supply chain is kind of anti-thesis of monolithic gigafactory concept by Musk. One may argue that Musk isn't successful but I would say with enough capital he should be able to scale up and might get same results as Apple.

</comment><comment><USER4> As non american, I'd love to know more about this kind of business with China, and how it relates to the US government political choices. Why the US looks so scared by China, if it has such economic relatons eith it?

<comment><USER5> > As non american, I'd love to know more about this kind of business with > China, and how it relates to the US government political choices. Why the US > looks so scared by China, if it has such economic relatons eith it?

It's not just the US. The entire west is afraid of China. In around the Reagan years, the US - along with almost the entire west - offshored their manufacturing to China et al. Of course, now it's been about 40 years since and almost all of large scale manufacturing has moved to china (i.e. steel).

In the end the west wanted cheap imports, and they got it. But IMHO we are beginning to wake up to the fact that nothing is for free (as always), and what the west gained from having a virtually 1-billion-strong externalised pseudo-slavary labour force, they will pay in their own demise as an entire western generation grows up unable to build anything, begging to be economically annhiliated. The west made china a god and asked for bountiful reward - who wants to bet they will give it to the west forever?</comment></comment>


Show HN: Etcher – an open-source and cross-platform SD card image writer - <AUTHOR> http://www.etcher.io <comment><USER2> Always great with more SD card image writers. :)

This one seems very easy to use 3 steps done

</comment><comment><USER3> This looks nice for a lot of people, especially those who are new to e.g. the Raspberry Pi.

Personally I can't see myself using an Electron app for writing to SD cards… I guess I will just stick with dd.</comment>


NITA:"we want to regulate the web" - <AUTHOR> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/presentations/2010/MediaInstitute_02242010.html

<comment><USER2> I think this is a big mistake there is no need for any more government action, until there is a serious problem it'd be best to let evolve on it's one. From the article, here's a quick rebuttal to a few points: (* is there point, -- is rebuttal)

* If users do not trust that their credit card numbers and private information are safe on the Internet, they won't use it.

\-- If users do not trust the system a new one will be rapidly developed to ensure their trust; there is too much money involved for this to exist as problem. Hell it could be as simple as credit cards being issued with a token that generates valid numbers for given amounts -- one time use, and limit on how much they can charge. If you don't get they item then you chargeback.

* If content providers do not trust that their content will be protected, they will threaten to stop putting it online.

\- They may threaten to stop putting it online, but it will only hurt them. This is backwards thinking -- they're trying told hold back progress. This seems like a way for them to force draconian drm on the populace.

* If large enterprises don't have confidence that their network will not be breached over the Internet, they will disconnect their network and limit access to business partners and customers.

\-- This is probably the most responsible thing for them todo. Security is hard, and if they cannot secure their network I don't see how that is anyone else's problem. Of course prosecuting the criminals is the responsibility of the government.

* If foreign governments do not trust the Internet governance systems, they will threaten to balkanize the Domain Name System which will jeopardize the worldwide reach of the Internet.

\-- Anyone can run DNS servers so this is not a problem. In fact we might see new protocols/applications to manage mutli-dns system. Once again this is non issue, if the machine has an ip address then it doesn't matter how you look it up. Hell, we could make phone books full of them.

* Those are just some examples but I think this issue of trust applies to every actor on the Internet.

\-- Those are pretty poor examples of how the government might try to wedge itself into the internet and destroy something awesome.

<comment><USER3> Your comments make it sound like the author implied "we need to take action about this." The surrounding text from those points:

 _I say yes but just as emphatically, I say that the government's role need not be one of a heavy-handed regulator. There's little question that our existing regulatory structures are poorly equipped to deal with these issues. They are too slow, they are too backward looking, and they are too political to be effective.

But it concerns me that in the absence of some level of government involvement, we will lose the one thing that the Internet must have—not just to thrive, but to survive—the trust of all actors on the Internet.

...

A good place for policymakers to start as we define our role and what our actions should be is to preserve and maintain trust in the Internet.

...

At NTIA, we're not a regulatory agency, but as the principal advisor to the President on telecommunications and information policy, I think we have role to play in preserving and building trust on the Internet._

He did not present those points above as places for the government to insert itself. Rather, he identified those as places where trust is important. The surrounding text states that he does not yet know what role government should have in maintaining that trust, but it's something that needs to be explored.

<comment><AUTHOR> What's most frustrating about this is that it's about copyright, it's a part of a world wide trend initiated by the US Gov't that started in South Korea and NZ, reached the EU with the changes in the UK and France are the most apparent not to mention the secretive and scary ACTA negotiations. basically what the gov't is saying is the Internet has done exceptionally well without our meddling but because of the request of some special interests we will have to take another approach.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Regulating the internet is as stupid as trying to stop the tide. The internet is beautiful because it's non-centralizing, simply put you have virtually no legal jurisdiction to take action against anyone or any website, usually because most are hosted outside of your country. However, every website owner has full legal jurisdiction to sue you if they fuck with your website. Basically put, you might own a few rivers but you don't own the ocean, do what you want with your rivers but you won't get rid of the ocean.

Legislating against content or quality of service online will serve no purpose. Someone phishing card numbers will simply move their operation overseas to a country with no legal interest in the matter (in reality most phishing operations are hosted from countries most people doubt even have the internet). Once you start hitting websites of small businesses who can't meet certain standards (access for the legally blind, etc) or securities or whatever requirements are arbitrarily assigned, they'll simply host themselves in a foreign country.

Introducing regulation into the internet will backfire dramatically, likely forcing major closures of many server hosts in the US. Once even a small percentage of users switch from US servers to foreign servers, then the US server prices will begin to spike, once the prices are uncompetitive then the US servers are closed. You've suddenly lost any ability to regulate anything. I really can't see the introduction of legislation doing anything other than making a country a no web development zone.</comment>


Traction Verticals - <AUTHOR> http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/04/in-the-pursuit-of-traction-have-you-considered-all-verticals.html <comment><USER2> Minor correction: my last name is McKenzie.

If you'll permit a minor bit of information architecture geekery, I think this list could be thickened out substantially into a hub about traction with a spoke about each "traction vertical" (I suggest rebranding that into something more instantly comprehensible). Then you could go into substantial detail about each without totally overwhelming the visitor. Think of the classic wiki structure (tiers with reference nodes and progressively detailed leaf nodes, with interlinks where appropriate), although it doesn't have to be a wiki.

For example, SEO is a pretty deep topic, and there are facets within facets and multiple competing approaches to it. Rand Fishkin and the guys at SEOMoz do great SEO, but they tend to use a different bag of tricks than I do. You can better do the compare/contrast thing if you're not trying to encompass the entire subject of online marketing on a single page.

<comment><AUTHOR> You misspelled my name on your post so I misspelled yours. J/k :). It's fixed now.

On your bigger point, I completely agree and am in the process of creating a forum/wiki for this purpose. That is, it will be a place where people can share tips, tricks, results, etc. on each of the traction verticals.</comment></comment>


Announcing FL Studio 12 (with a "Vectorial UI") - <AUTHOR> http://www.image-line.com/documents/news.php?entry_id=1429029712&title=announcing-fl-studio-12

<comment><USER2> Good to hear! I used and love Fruit Loops back in version 3 in 2003.

/s Now all they need to do is release it for native iOs and Linux ;)</comment>


Video: 15 story Ark Hotel built in 6 days in Shanghai - <AUTHOR> http://www.archdaily.com/88245/video-ark-hotel/ <comment><USER2> I read a couple of specialized news blogs written mostly by people out of Hong Kong about things going on in China. It's pretty amazing story involving 1/6th of humanity.

Here's some good blogs if you want to follow along:

<http://www.zonaeuropa.com/weblog.htm>

<http://www.chinahush.com/>

<http://www.danwei.org/>

There are many others. A good movie to watch is "Manufactured Landscapes" if you want to see the dark side of all this.

Also, "Dwelling Narrowness" is a good mainland Chinese drama. Some versions on the Internet are available with fan contributed English subtitles. It does a pretty good job IMHO of talking about a lot of the apolitical transformations that are going on in Chinese society.

<comment><USER3> It's quite a coincidence that you both mention Manufactured Landscapes and I happen to be currently watching it on Sundance. I'm a fan of Burtynsky but had never heard of the movie before. Synchronicity.

<comment><USER4> One more vote for Manufactured Landscapes. The forever shot in the iron factory is a major revelation.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Forget about the time to complete. The real advancement here is the use of insulation!!! Most Shanghai structures are poured concrete with zero insulation. Cool video.

</comment><comment><USER6> This should have took considerable time for designing and manufacturing the modular parts taking into account not only the final state of the building but also hundreds of construction stages. The parts should have been manufactured and factory assembled with extreme detailing and with very low tolerances so that the final on-site assembly required as little work as possible. Also, the logistics should have been planned with excruciating detail and with more workers and site equipment than normally required. I think the total time from design to construction took many months or even more than a year and it cost more than conventional construction. Not that I mean to undermine the effort; this is a marvelous feat of engineering and logistics.

</comment><comment><USER7> Was there some reason to build it in 6 days with a half dozen cranes and working all night? Was it to show off for the Shanghai Expo?

<comment><USER8> They didn't work all night.

<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1895987>

According to their website they're an air-conditioning company, based in Changsha, providing products to 70 different countries:

<http://www.broad.com:8089/english> <http://www.broad.com> (Chinese)

Not entirely sure why they've got into building, but they emphasise the sustainability of their construction technique. The owner likes to show off going by his private jet, the fact he built a palace in the style of Versailles, and the 130 foot pyramid on the company campus, picture in the impressive article below.

[http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/03/mr- zhang...](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/03/mr-zhang-builds- his-dream-town/5616/)

Chinese version:

<http://www.broad.com:8089/news/read.asp?id=226>

More details on the building in the video at

<http://www.broad.com:8089/english/down/en_kj.pdf>

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> I like how they worked straight through the night. In fact, they work around the clock on many infrastructure projects, including roads. It shows that they want to get things done fast.

I wish they would do that in America more often. Wouldn't things get built faster and employ more people if they worked around the clock?

<comment><USER10> I miss that in Europe too. I guess unions & high labor cost are to blame. At least in the US you can go shopping on sunday while in most of Western Europe everything is closed. When I come back from Asia I'm always amazed at what a lazy bunch of bums we have become.

<comment><USER11> Neither of the things you mention are caused by labor costs.

European stores are closed on Sundays because the law requires them to be. It's a measure to allow mom & pop stores to compete against the WalMarts of the world while maintaining quality of life.

Construction happens during the day because people in western countries value silence, and therefore the laws are written to prevent noisy things happening during the hours that normal people are asleep. Road construction at night seems like a great idea, until it happens on the road in front of your house.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> The build process reminded me of Ikea furniture, where many components are pre-fabricated offsite.

Can anyone comment on if this is the norm for large buildings?

<comment><USER13> It is now. A lot of the buildings going up in Dubai were assembled elsewhere and shipped in. I was watching Discovery Channel and they had the elevator shaft, bathrooms, and staircase in prebuilt modules. then they just stacked them up like Legos.

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> Forget robot soccer teams striving toward a goal of beating humans... I want to see robot construction crews that can beat that autonomously.

</comment><comment><USER15> That doesn't look like Shanghai

<comment><USER16> A commenter says it's at Changsha:

[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Changsha&sll=28.22818,112.033081&sspn=1.045401,1.783905&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Changsha,+Hunan,+China&ll=28.22818,112.939453&spn=1.045401,1.783905&z=10)

<comment><USER17> It's not even close to Shanghai.

<comment><USER18> 'Shanghai' was likely stated to make it more easily place-able in the mind of the reader.

<comment><USER19> this is totally WRONG - it's 1000km away. It's like saying "Microsoft is headquartered in San Francisco" to make Seattle easily place-able in the mind of the reader.

<comment><USER18> I get that, I am saying they did it on purpose regardless.

<comment><USER19> no my point is that the author most likely got the wrong information than having done it on purpose. I can understand a person not being fluent in a foreign language, but I can't understand a person misrepresenting a distance of 1000km on purpose.

Most likely it was just bad editing/bad writing - and it's unconscionable to explain it away as "on purpose".

And by the way, the original article now has the corrected location: Changsha

It wasn't on purpose - just a mistake.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> Well. It's not built. Ark Hotel Shell built in 6 days.

But still - WOW!

<comment><USER21> Actually, more like "shell assembled in 6 days". To build it they needed to first prepare the foundation which can take several weeks prior just to get it solid and firm enough to support such a structure. While that is happening they need to be crafting the panels and components in a factory. Then they can bring it to the site and start assembling. With enough labour on site it can be done. Pre-fab is far more advanced in Asia than here and in places like Japan a house can be assembled and ready to move in within 3 days (fully finished). Toyota builds AWESOME steel frame homes that are earthquake resistant and insulated for sound and energy efficiency. Still, the land has to be prepped first and that takes the most time (no good to have an earthquake proof structure on a poor/soft/shifting foundation).

Now... what we need to see is what that hotel looks like in 5/10/15 years (doubtful it was built for a lifespan beyond 25 years as most prefabs are built with short life expectancy and planned replacement).

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> Like a hackatron but for construction.</comment>


Finally, Fusion Power Is About to Become a Reality - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/s/2069/finally-fusion-power-is-about-to-become-a-reality-c6b8b5915cf5 <comment><USER2> The joke has always been that practical fusion power is eternally 25 years away.

This article defines "about to become a reality" as "11 to 50 years away".

Progress.

<comment><USER3> Yep, the title is unsupported in the article and it's overoptimistic.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Fusion power is already here, in the form of solar. The reactor is just not located on our planet. I think storage of the sun's fusion power is probably an easier problem to solve than actual fusion, and I think that very shortly the economics will become compelling enough that it will happen without the government spending billions of dollars of OPM (Other People's Money) to do it. Any utility that can feasibly cut the cost of its fuel input to 0 with a reasonable capital expense would be insane not to do so, and I think that capital expense for this is in the process of crossing the 'reasonable' line in many areas of the planet.

(Sadly, in my native eternally cloudy West Michigan, the payback on a solar array is still "maybe never")

<comment><USER5> Solar energy is the very-long-term future of energy in the "Dyson sphere" sense, but it's hard to efficiently extract solar power on the surface of the Earth. It's significantly easier than it was, but even the theoretical incoming solar energy within a country the size of, say, Britain wouldn't be sufficient to maintain their current standard of living. Fusion could deliver a world-changing, post-scarcity level of energy compared to our current energy usage requirements.

You _could_ get similar results from solar by collecting it in space and transporting the energy to Earth somehow (either by direct beaming or by shipping down some sort of refined chemical fuel). But that's just the beginning of the process of building a Dyson Sphere.

<comment><USER6> I think your calculation is a little pessimistic: even if we include all sorts of things that today aren't powered from electrical generators, 200,000TWh is plenty to power the whole world for a year. Assuming 8 hours of sunlight per day of 200 watts per square metre (not an unreasonable figure), that's "only" an area of ~400 square kilometres (assuming I haven't dropped a zero somewhere).

That would be difficult but not impossible to fit in Britain.

This of course ignores problems of storage, inconstancy of supply and so on, but there's no problem with total capacity that means we cannot maintain a standard of living way above what we experience today.

<comment><USER7> Remember to include non-electrical energy use too. Many kWh of oil, coal, and natural gas are used in the UK, for industry, transport and building heating.

<comment><USER5> To make matters worse, also keep in mind the energy cost of closed-loop synthesis of jet fuel from atmospheric and oceanic sources. (Yes, you can turn CO2 and H20 back into hydrocarbons with solar power, but it's considerably more expensive than just drilling the hydrocarbons out of the Earth's crust.)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> There is a nice writeup of the wendelstein 7-X.

[https://www.iter.org/doc/www/content/com/Lists/Stories/Attac...](https://www.iter.org/doc/www/content/com/Lists/Stories/Attachments/680/ITER_W7X.pdf)

Their conclusion: The technology was challenging and exaberated risks. But most problems were rather generic for a project of this size. Also the thechnology problems were novelty and tolerances. Neither of which SPARC alleviates.

Lastly founding: Wendelstein started with an estimate of 500 million euro and doubled to 1 billion euro(I count only doubling the cost as an success for a project of this size). ITER is currently at 20 billion euro for construction and 5 billion for operation. The 75 million dollars are cute. Even if the management team is very competent, they need probably a hundred times that. I am aware that the 75 million are just the seed money but still.

Also Wendelstein was 8 years over time (measured by target completion date at project beginn.) So when the startup says fusion energy in mid 2020ties I hear fusion energy in mid 2030 ties. Or they don't survive because they can't secure founding in a phase where the startup hype has left and maybe even a recession hits.</comment>


Online appeal unearths historic web page - c-oreills http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22652675

<comment><AUTHOR> just for the record and to please the prospective downvoting mob, here is a warning to any non-westerner members:

"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [where Y>X]

source: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report

ISBN: 9290831693 <http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264>

Berner was looking at RPC as his dayjob to give control commands to machines. What Berner did, was to use the Interface Builder's precursor on the NeXT he got as a toy to put a gopher-like link into the text properties field, where the font boldness, size ...and colour and underline were. This was a graphical workstation, and not spread world-wide at the time (NeXT was an expensive toy). Hardly an innovation. And not everybody was allowed to toy around -- certainly not western equivalents.

Nobody has really heard of Groff, Pellow, Nielsen and the rest, who made it work multiplatform, over the command-line, etc. ie. a universal world-wide. Nobody was astonished by them back then, because what they were doing was nothing special: several such systems existed already both commercial and academic. They were the cheap students, whose work allowed it to be opened up and given away without charge.

WWW grew like it did because of two reasons: it was free of charge, because it was actually made by cheap and disposable students, and the then changing climate of the deregulation of the internet, of which some companies ie. Vermeer, Netscape could take early advantage of.

CERN likes cheap students' work, and sell if off as stellar examples of innovation by CERN. Read Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics by Veltman to learn more about CERN, if you feel to downvote.</comment>


Geeknet Inc. confirms the receipt of a company acquisition proposal - <AUTHOR> http://geek.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=915087

<comment><USER2> When I go to ThinkGeek I know that I'm being pandered to as a geek, but that's okay because ThinkGeek treats the geek demographic with respect.

It's all too easy to just slap some popular geek culture references on a t-shirt or a hoodie and call it a day. Likely profitable, too, considering how many "daily tee" companies I've seen. Those companies don't get much brand loyalty, they could disappear tomorrow and a replacement would step right in to fill the gap.

If anything happened to ThinkGeek, I don't know if anybody else could fill their shoes without years of effort. Whatever happens, I hope they retain their brand and their reputation.

</comment><comment><USER3> It's strange that they're releasing this after they've signed a merger agreement with Hot Topic. Are they trying to raise the bid enough that the eventual winner pays so much that they can pay Hot Topic to go away? Is this a common occurrence?

<comment><AUTHOR> The board approved the merger, but a majority of the shareholders need to approve. Once 50% of shares have been tendered to Hot Topic presented, then the acquisition can go through.</comment></comment>


IOS 7 will define Apple's future going forward - <AUTHOR> http://vator.tv/news/2013-09-18-ios-7-will-define-apples-future-going-forward?utm_content=vmialik%40gmail.com&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=iOS%207%20will%20define%20Apple%26%2339%3Bs%20future%20going%20forward&utm_campaign=VatorNews%20-%20iOS7%20will%20define%20Apple%27s%20future%3B%20Google%20looks%20to%20solve%20aging%20crisis%3B%20Why%20the%20Internet%20makes%20us%20angry%20peoplecontent

<comment><AUTHOR> The first time I bought an Apple product it was iPhone 2, and I felt like a traitor, because before that I was using the latest and greatest with phones like Sony Ericsson's K790i, and I always thought Apple products were not for the trendsetters/uber-people/top-of-the-line but more mainstream and more of hip before hipster was around type of product. However, after they added copy and paste I really began to appreciate the simplicity, stability, and functionality.

I resonated with this article quite a bit. For SEO work and regular tasks I still prefer a Thinkpad with a Trackpoint and a great keyboard (X201 is my current weapon of choice) (My dad was a Sys Admin at a computer Recycling company and so I had quite a share of various laptops from major computer companies in Silicon Valley.) However for video/audio I have a maxed out Macbook Pro i7 (pre-Retina), iPad 3, and still use iPhone 4S, had iPhone 5 and sold it.

So here is the thing I have iPhone 4s, iPad 3, and Macbook Pro (pre-Retina) with no desire to upgrade at all.

iPhone 4S vs 5, the screen on iPhone 5 is too big. 4S feels perfect in my hand.

I agree with Steve why would I want a smaller iPad 4, if I have iPad 3 that is bigger size having retina?

Macbook Pro (pre-Retina) is the last laptop that can be have its memory and battery changed without having to take it to Apple Store having to do that is a hassle.

Now iOS 7, its throwing away all-things-apple-design and now following Android? The main reason I advocated Apple products was simplicity in its like real life skeuomorphic design (more here: [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/...](http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/scott_forstall_fired_skeumorphism_the_design_concept_that_s_tearing_apple.html)) I love that. You have seen the latest TechCrunch article on other App companies following suit and redesigning, with Hipmunk being a good example of over-simplistic Android feel that is not very user friendly.

All that background to say, I was hoping Steve Jobs would instill a culture/legacy after him to continue with the same thinking and mindset about the design. Yet, now I see how much of what Apple is was tied to Steve Jobs. Its a little scary: to have Apple changed after Steve Jobs, and sad, thinking about what Apple will become in a few years. More comments appreciated!</comment>


Why synthetic biology and the Netflix model are the future of medicine - <AUTHOR> http://gigaom.com/2014/05/03/the-gigaom-interview-why-synthetic-biology-and-the-netflix-model-are-the-future-of-medicine/ <comment><USER2> 1) the glowing plant project isn't doing that great. There have been scant technical updates to their blog, despite the promises of their founders, and they've quietly pushed the delivery date from April to July.

2) the ability to print large quantities of DNA for a given patient is not really going to be necessary. For the most part any "biologic" drug that might need to be personalized is most likely going to be 99% common "boilerplate" plus 1% or less "personalization". For example, antibodies, which have a massive common region plus a small amount of variable region that is an 'adapter' to whatever you're going to use the antibody for. We are well, well within the ability to synthesize this amount of DNA at an affordable cost, and have been for a while. Not to mention that you'll still be giving 'the same drug' to more than one person, that's because human variation is not that high (especially everywhere except for africa due to population bottlenecks in human migration).

3) The point about the netflix model is an interesting one.

</comment><comment><USER3> One of the things worth pointing out is that biological effects are hilariously noisy. Even many of our best genetic correlates aren't that clear cut. A lot of what we know still relies on large sample sizes to help cut through real confounding factors. And if that's what it takes to detect causal genetic effects, then we'll have to understand whatever we do to 'fix' these (whatever approach we take) will have to deal with the same type of issues.

In other words, personalized medicine isn't going to be this amazing thing that will let us conquer all our illnesses. It will be a tool that will bring significant improvements, possibly even order of magnitude improvements to those with the right genes or illnesses, but it's not magic.

</comment><comment><USER4> Computer simulations of living cells? We've got a _long_ way to go before we get to that point.

The current techniques we have to model _single molecules_ in natural environments (solutions) isn't that great right now. Modeling a cell is several magnitudes more difficult.</comment>


Display Instagram and Google+ profile pictures in your website and mobile app - <AUTHOR> http://cloudinary.com/blog/display_instagram_and_google_profile_pictures_in_your_website_and_mobile_app

<comment><AUTHOR> This blog post describes how you can embed profile pictures of Instagram and Google+ users in your web or mobile apps. Profile pictures are automatically fetched from the remote social networks, manipulated and transformed in the cloud on-the-fly to match your graphic design and are delivered to your users optimized and cached through a CDN. Sample code is included for Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python & Django, .Net, Node.js and jQuery.</comment>


Phil Schiller seems to deny talk of cheap iPhone - <AUTHOR> http://9to5mac.com/2013/01/10/apple-marketing-svp-phil-schiller-seems-to-deny-talk-of-cheap-iphone/

<comment><USER2> Would be sweet if Apple was developing a quality dumb phone a la iPod Nano or Shuffle. I like my phones small and with the iPad, I don't use my iPhone nearly as much as I used to.

</comment><comment><USER3> Why are the quotes from Schiller borderline incoherent?

It sounds like they were made up by someone with a poor command of English.

<comment><USER4> They're translated from the Chinese translation.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers></comment></comment>


Ask HN: Should this video be banned from HN? - <AUTHOR> Saw this post on the the front page earlier, noticed it got  deleted when I tried going to comments. I'm curious what the community thinks about the deletion and contents of this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP6uyX9hDc0
It's a woman's perspective on being ostracized in the Atlanta tech scene. Author claims she was falsely accused of doxing and stalking people in order to get her banned from meet ups and event spaces, because of her political views. <comment><USER2> No. She was relating her experiences. It is a fact of life today that your politics will get various people upset to the extent that they will do what they can to besmirch you name and reputation because they feel that you are sub-human for holding a viewpoint that is different to their "righteous" viewpoint and therefore you can be and should be treated with contempt and anything that happens to cause you harm is acceptable.

People have been doing this for millennia. Political correctness has existed in every generation and though what has been defined as the political correctness of time changes, it is the nature of people to hate those who are different or hold different opinions to those you may hold.

It is okay to have robust discussions. It is okay to actually hate the viewpoints or lifestyles of others. What is seriously not okay, is to hate the individual. They are just as important as you, irrespective of sex, age, race, wealth, political viewpoint or religion or any other characteristic that makes them different to you.

I am a disciple of Jesus Christ and I may hate a particular lifestyle, a belief or viewpoint or particular attitude, but to hate the person is against all that I have been taught. Especially, when I come from a place that is, in effect, no different. All people are precious, so very precious. My God came and lived as the perfect man and then chose a death so incredibly horrible just to allow every single person who has ever lived or will ever live to have the singular opportunity to be forgiven for every wrong they have done. We all have the choice to accept this or refuse it. But in all essentials, no one is able to make it in their own. In that everyone is alike, no exceptions bar the one who is God and man, Jesus Christ.

As has been stated elsewhere by various people of varying beliefs and viewpoints, if there is speech you do not like, then use more speech to counter it. However, don't go to the place of killing someone just because they are different or believe different things to you.</comment>


Show HN: Planify.cc Put your publications on orbit - <AUTHOR> https://www.planify.cc/?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=show-hn&utm_campaign=put-your <comment><AUTHOR> Hi there, i'm launching this online tool to schedule publications on instagram (Image, Videos and stories). So any feedback is much appreciated. What do you think of my landing page ? thanks

<comment><USER2> Heya, it's a pretty cool idea, looks neat at first sight, although there is some polishing to do. The pricing section is a little unprofessional although the overall experience is good

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi, thanks for your feedback i've made some changes to the pricing page what do you think ? Regards

<comment><USER2> Much better, although check the navbar you translated "princing" instead of "pricing" ;)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> Maybe better language contexts in the popup? It seems to be in french..

<comment><AUTHOR> Hi, what do you mean ? Thanks

<comment><USER2> He means that most of the translations aren't yet completed and that the Drift popup is in french</comment></comment></comment>


Load Balanced Actors with Akka and Scala - <AUTHOR> http://jimplush.com/blog/article/183/Load-Balanced-Actors-with-Akka-and-Scala

<comment><USER2> I would recommend using the "getting started" tutorial from Akka instead, it covers the exact use case:

[http://akka.io/docs/akka/1.1/intro/getting-started-first- sca...](http://akka.io/docs/akka/1.1/intro/getting-started-first-scala.html)

That page also has some key features including the use of PoisonPills and stop hooks to terminate all threads once the tasks are finished and sending messages betweens workers and the master actor that are missing in the OP.

Also, web crawling is an I/O bound task - so why limit the number of worker actors to the number of cores? That approach makes sense only for CPU bound tasks. The approach in the tutorial to accept number of workers as a parameter is better practice imo, so that you can tinker with it to maximise throughput for your particular problem.

</comment><comment><USER3> Nice example - but it might give the wrong idea to the unfamiliar. Local worker actors like these would typically be thread-pool backed and then the load balancing is free (need not be explicitly coded). Remote workers do of course need to be load balanced.

</comment><comment><USER4> nice and simple example for something that confounds people like myself. Thanks for putting it together.</comment>


We need to talk about crying at work - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/@jcolman/crying-at-work-8bef51ae7c47 <comment><USER2> The author's argument that crying at work is seen as more acceptable for men than women doesn't really align with my anecdotal experiences. Maybe I just live in a bubble where men crying is more looked down upon than women crying.

Any other commenters willing to share their experiences with this?

<comment><USER3> Most everyone will view crying as acceptable in some circumstance. Whether it's death or a child, or loss of money, or deep frustration, everyone has a limit above which they consider the trauma a reason to cry.

The author might conclude, that many people think that men have a high trauma threshold before shedding tears or to put it in a other way: men will only cry for "good" socially acceptable reasons.

This means that even if someone is crying for the loss of their sports team, people looking on will assume the tears are for a good reason and won't inquire. Their stereotype influenced their expectations.

<comment><USER4> > Most everyone will view crying as acceptable in some circumstance. Whether > it's death or a child, or loss of money, or deep frustration, everyone has a > limit above which they consider the trauma a reason to cry.

And, as a flagged comment mentions, what we should be doing here is not so much as work shouldn't be a place that induces crying.

As for outside circumstances leaking in, sure, that happens, and it will continue to happen as long as workers are humans and not robots. Spouse got a terminal diagnosis? Totally okay to cry. Traumatized by bosses, coworkers, customers, _etc._? No, that shouldn't be happening. Using tears to emotionally manipulate people? That _double_ shouldn't be happening. I don't know where losing sports teams fall on this continuum, but I'd rather not deal with tears in the workplace because some people I don't personally know didn't score enough points in a game.

This is not a men vs women issue, although I believe it's at least willfully ignorant to think that men and women can "get away with" crying in the same circumstances and at the same frequency. I have no idea if the author didn't suffer from his crying at work because of white male privilege or not, but, work is work, a business relationship, and crying is not conducive to maintaining a business relationship, IMO.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Who is we and why are we being told what we need to do by an unidentified person in the title?

Ive got no idea if this article had any valuable content because I refuse to read things with these kinds of titles. If they had something of value to say I would assume they wouldn't have to resort to a threat in the title in the first place.</comment>


Space Mono - <AUTHOR> https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Space%20Mono <comment><USER2> For some reason this contains fi and fl ligatures, which look pretty odd on a monospaced font:

[http://imgur.com/4tJkbaK](http://imgur.com/4tJkbaK)

<comment><USER3> I'd not spotted that before reading your comment, and went looking expecting a double-width ligature, which would be quite cool. Squeezing the ligature into a single character width seems sub-optimal for a monospaced font.

<comment><USER4> I've done the same with my own programming font (mononoki [http://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/](http://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/) ) There is a difference between a ligature that a font may provide when you type in f and i and the unicode point 'LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI', that is in there for historical reasons.

the first one would make sense as double width character, the second one should be single width to show, that the unicode point 'LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI' is meant

<comment><USER3> That's an interesting point. But in this case, I had typed 'fl' and 'fi', so surely your first clause applies?

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Am I missing something here? Is this a new font or something? Is it a recommended mono used for coding? Do people like it?

I am pretty happy with Monaco

<comment><USER6> I've been using Monaco for years. Something about it is very pleasing to me. However, I'm sort of bored with it and haven't been able to find a suitable replacement.

<comment><USER7> I really like (and currently use) Input Mono.

[http://input.fontbureau.com](http://input.fontbureau.com)

<comment><USER8> Chiming in to agree. I like how you can customize certain characters (like `*' being at the top or in the middle of text, `g' being one or two stories, `0' having a slash or dot).

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Gotta say, wasn't that interested when I clicked the link thinking "yet another programming font". I must have 30 or so installed and yet still end up using Consolas (mostly because it's the default in my IDE and I've had to reinstall a few times this last year).

I will say, though, that I have always hated the traditional "a" used in fonts, preferring the more simplified one that's typically used in handwriting, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was one of the very few that use my preferred style. Yes, it can be ambiguous with the "o" character (though this has never been a problem in practice with the font configured even at the small sizes I use) but I find it more ascetically pleasing for whatever reason.

<comment><USER10> I think you meant "aesthetically pleasing", but I'm looking forward now to using the phrase "ascetically pleasing" in earnest :)

<comment><USER9> You are correct ... I misspelled it, right-clicked it and let spell checker replace it without looking at the result. Oops!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> If you are looking for the TTF download: [https://github.com/googlefonts/spacemono/tree/master/fonts](https://github.com/googlefonts/spacemono/tree/master/fonts)

</comment><comment><USER12> I could really use a serif monospace font for coding and terminals. Haven't found a good one yet.

EDIT: Bitmap fonts preferred for crystal clear rendering and performance.

<comment><USER13> Operator[0]

[0]: [http://www.typography.com/blog/introducing- operator](http://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator)

<comment><USER12> That's sans-serif.

<comment><USER14> There's a monospace font Operator Mono on the same page.

<comment><USER12> Thanks, but unfortunately that's not what I would call consistently serif, more like some letters looking hand-written.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> W and g are really weird...

</comment><comment><USER16> I've patched the font for powerline [https://gist.github.com/andreicek/b369bff8807be005be7cd5ac4f...](https://gist.github.com/andreicek/b369bff8807be005be7cd5ac4f77b66d)

</comment><comment><USER7> This looks cool, I especially like the lower-case characters (with the possible exception of the descender on the g). Also, the idea of using a monospaced font as a display font rather than a font for restricted environments (terminals) is new to me.

This may be a tangent, but speaking of mono fonts sponsored by big SV firms: Am I the only one who would like to see Apple's San Francisco Mono (which they stealthily debuted at WWDC) released properly (i.e. as an independent font file)? It's currently in the Xcode preview, but you can't use it anywhere else.

</comment><comment><USER17> Font's cool, but damn, gotta remark on Google's UI polish in (what I assume is) Material. It's so smooth and fluid -- I'd love to create something that coherent.

<comment><USER18> Not so fluid on my Chrome on Android. Bring up the search sidebar and try to scroll it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> the numbers look really ugly. I'd hate to see this in an IDE

</comment><comment><USER20> After testing it my conclusion is that it is not as good as 'monofur' if you want a monospaced eurostile inspired font.

</comment><comment><USER21> Being geometric is good, but why the /g is so strange?

</comment><comment><USER22> I've added it to the programming font comparison: [http://www.s9w.io/font_compare/](http://www.s9w.io/font_compare/)

<comment><USER23> I'd fork it and add a sample of [https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font](https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font) (more like a terminal font than a programming one) if I had a Windows machine with Sublime Text on hand. Can you add it for me?

<comment><USER22> Sure, I'll add it later. A Github issue is the easiest next time so I don't miss things here in the comments

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> Yep, that's a font.

<comment><USER25> And here I expected a disease.

<comment><USER26> I had space mono once... not fun.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER27> (o^^)o Something went wrong. Please try again soon.

Thats what i got in iPhone.</comment>


The Wrong Way & Right Way to Apply For A Job - <AUTHOR> http://betashop.com/post/7518265396/the-right-way-wrong-way-to-apply-for-a-job#notes

<comment><USER2> Using a system that's built for receiving job applications, like JobScore/JobVite/Resumator, let's jobseekers communicate with you the way you want to hear them.

Using the hacked-to-fit solution in LinkedIn to receive applications and complaining about the quality is like using Facebook as your company's main site and then complaining about the lack of control you have.

Also, you can't complain about how people apply for jobs if clicking the "View Job" button makes you login first (Good luck pitching that requirement to privacy-savvy people...) You'd think the former CEO of Jobster would know better...</comment>


How Anxious Reappraisal Can Help Turn Anxiety into Productivity - <AUTHOR> http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/can-three-words-turn-anxiety-into-success/474909/?single_page=true <comment> jon-wood Its an interesting approach to anxiety which at least for me could actually work pretty well I think. I'm naturally quite pessimistic and will lean towards thinking of all the ways things can go wrong, for example right now I'm in the final stages of moving jobs - notice has been given, I've got an end date at my current place, and just waiting for the final reference checks to be done for the new place, and I'm shockingly anxious about it all. New job, new people, new technology to learn, and a pretty tight schedule once I start.

Thinking of it in light of this article I can easily look at it as me being excited about the move. New job, new people, new technology to learn, and I get to jump right in and get going. I'm going to be using this approach more I think!

</comment><comment><USER2> Wow, looking forward to my next panic attack to see if I can subvert it toward something beneficial haha

<comment><USER3> You're already doing it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> +1

I used something like this before a presentation in front of a crowd recently. It almost felt like I wasn't giving enough room for any of the anxious thoughts that would've forced me into anxious mode. Any time I thought any anxious thoughts, they got pushed out by "I'm going to do well and that's that." I was completely shocked afterwards at how well I'd done (from my pov), but it's definitely been great in learning just a tiny extra bit about myself for self improvement purposes.

</comment><comment><USER5> Works for me... I'm fairly intovert and used this approach in the lead up to my first professional speaking gig last year :)

</comment><comment><USER6> This is pretty good advice and I've had some personal success with it, my problem is I get anxious over really minor situations.

Simple conversations with people, too many people being in a room, stuff that I really don't need to be amped for, I just don't want to feel like I should run away as fast as my sprinter sticks will go.</comment>