skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went the other way, left law and eventually picked up coding.
You might be paying for the hardware and two or three OS versions. It's in Apple's interest to keep everyone upgrading, so they might as well just put the average expected OS upgrade cost into the hardware, and rely on planned obsolescence (which is pretty easy as computer hardware keeps improving) to keep that expectation relatively low. Sure, a few users will upgrade hardware all the time and a few will never upgrade, but that doesn't throw off the economics too much.

(I also feel like analyzing specific pricing decisions is missing the forest for the trees of "If you're not paying for it, you're the product." It mostly applies to whether an entire business model is free, e.g. Facebook. Several years back, Microsoft used to give out free memory-card-to-USB adapters for the original Xbox, intended for keyboards for MMORPGs, but also useful for jailbreakers. I requested one. Did I become the product?)
It's not. The parts of Google that caused concern to the EC (Search, Shopping and Android) are still under the same company.
> Greenland is a poor country. Perhaps Denmark simply wants to help out. This is ethically reprehensible. Greenland is poor, but compared to many African countries it is fabulously wealthy

Earlier:

> Much of the Greenland population is Danish, unsurprisingly

I don't see that it's "ethically reprehensible" for Denmark to focus its charitable efforts on Danes. What did I miss? Gwern even calls this out:

> if that is Denmark’s true reason, shame on them for letting [...] ethnicity warp their ethical judgement to such a freakish extreme.

I'm pretty sure it's better for 100,000 Africans to die than for my sister to die. That's not warped judgment.
> Eating gluten free when you're not gluten-intolerant is like using crutches when your legs are fine.

^ And you're not a cute Japanese girl in a lolita costume, also wearing an eye patch and some bandages. In that case, crutches "work" for you.
See http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/opinion/the-campaign-of-de....

The recently released videos do not show that that Planned Parenthood illegally sells tissue from aborted fetuses as has been claimed. They are propaganda and a distortion of the truth. They are not a game changer.

Now, can we move on? Women have the right to choose. It's a settled issue. We cannot afford to waste time on this issue when we have so many other existential issues (including unconstrained population growth) which need immediate attention.
Bohemian Style Made Easy
I opened a bug (well, feedback item) during the preview about this. Even with the various group policy settings set, there was no way to disable web search. Rather unacceptable. One would think this has regulatory and compliance issues as well, no?
Has a sovereign state selling off land to another sovereign state ever been considered profitable in hindsight?
"Sipping tea in the garden" ⊕ "getting firebombed" is one hell of a false dichotomy.
New app marketing guides by Realmac Software
> This also happens on iOS with spotlight. As far as I can tell there's no way to turn it off.

You can turn it off from Settings > General > Spotlight Search. Uncheck "Spotlight Suggestions" and "<Default search engine> Web Results".

The "About Spotlight Suggesstions & Privacy" link at the bottom of that settings page gives you instructions on how to do it too.
It's funny how Cisco's CEO is not Indian.
Those videos should not change your desire to make abortion safe, legal, and rare; or your disgust at the knee-jerk notion of defunding all of Planned Parenthood's women's health programs.
I agree; some stories are more damaged by spoilers than others. If the primary appeal of a story is a shocking surprise, the spoiler takes much of the fun out of it. But some stories aren't particularly hurt even if you know the details.

However, in this case, the spoiler (which I read long ago) told me that it's a film I want to skip; I don't enjoy stories with bad endings, no matter what message they're trying to convey or point they're trying to make. There's too much of that in reality already to seek it out in fiction.
I looked into blackphone a while ago. If I remember correctly the first thing it asks for is your e-mail address so it can sign you up to their proprietary anonymity/cloud service. I'm not sure if this is still the case, but if it is I think they've completely misunderstood their target audience. Thanks for reminding me though I will have another look into it.
> The Copenhagen interpretation makes a leap of faith with the Born Rule as it is based on Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics.

The Born rule was introduced in Born's paper on description of a scattering experiment with help of the \psi function that is a solution of Schroedinger's equation. Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics had nothing to do with it.
I rarely use the Spotlight or Start Menu keyboard searching because of stuff like this. If it doesn't reliably produce the right result each time if you only type a small amount of the name - which it doesn't - what's the point?

(Call me crazy, but because of this I've come to not mind the basic Windows 8 start screen. It's not as good as the classic start menu, but compared to the Windows 7 one you can at least arrange it for quick access to a larger number of programs.)
I am extremely intrigued. A few weeks of mostly solitude wherein I can see a few interesting sights, meet a few interesting people, and the whole thing is extremely affordable? This sounds right up my alley. Now, to convince my wife and family…
PG?
Basic, significant factors like screen real estate, input devices & processor speed.
I mean, it's an 18-year old movie. What did you expect? That nobody ever talks about the plot of movies forever and all time? There's a time when we have to say "okay, people have probably watched it, it's safe to talk about it freely now", and 18 years is definitely more than enough time for that to be the case.
Shouldn't you also have a third button to list available actions, or would you throw that away? Overloading the select button would be just as confusing; I hope you don't want to do that.
Do you mean being arrested? Because having your permission to stay/work revoked with a given time to leave the country looks like being deported for me. After that, even a touristic visa will be harder to obtain again.

Please, don't get offended. I'm not a heavy user here and I don't have permission to downvote posts.
The only hint of surrender was the Japanese approaching the Soviets to broke a negotiation of surrender, to which the Soviets essentially ignored. That's hardly "begging".

They wanted to keep all the land they had gained imperially (Taiwan and some other land, I forget offhand). Which was essentially an "OK, we lose. But we get to keep everything we took before we lost." which was denied by the Soviets and would have been denied by the US.

The issue being glossed over is that anyone speaking against the war or saying Japan would lose would be murdered by fanatical military leaders. If you were against the war, you were against the Emperor and Japan. A traitor.

Civilian deaths are not justified by political military conquest. Especially when any civilians who speak out against the political military conquest are killed. That's a lose:lose scenario for the civilians and I don't see how anyone could morally justify such a choice.

"Die going against your country or die because of it." is hardly a choice...
At least, with those, you can audit the code and have someone fix it. No such luck with proprietary software.
I installed Windows 10 yesterday and used it for a couple of hours before coming to the conclusion that I made an error in downgrading from Windows 7. Windows 10 feels more like their phone OS disguised as a desktop OS. Perhaps the most jarring part was how ugly legacy (Windows 7) apps looked in Windows 10. They didn't even bother trying to make these apps look nice. Also, their services are plastered all over the place and there's little you can do to turn these off. And then there's the numerous privacy invasive "features" proactively turned on for you when you install it.

Luckily, you have 30 days to change your mind and return to Windows 7. I did it within hours. I never liked Windows 8 and I think I dislike Windows 10 ever more. No wonder they're giving it away because had they tried to sell it then it would have probably met the same fate as Windows 8.
Everyone is Broken

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PXyrCRd1ikw
Are you intentionally ignoring the fact that Apple rakes in 95% of profits in the mobile sector?

Each thousand dollar phone is making many times its manufacturing costs in profits. I expect that there is a large enough margin on phones sold to fully fund R&D not just for iPhones and iOS but the Apple Car, its OS and battery technology, and whatever other projects are in the works.

Apple makes their money selling premium ITC. They don't need to sell your personal details.
Lots world wide could be fitted with a standard socket so that your container house could be (1) taken from the ship, (2) put on a truck, (3) fitted on to a lot.

Sockets could be stacked to create medium density housing. You could relocate your house to any city on earth with the right socket.
Sure, but Berkshire is also explicit about the fact that they only acquire pre-existing "remarkable" businesses.

They may benefit from the firehose, but were already self-sufficient without it.

That’s in stark contrast to the Google/Alphabet model, where there’s no way driverless cars could exist independent of the adwords firehose.

It’s waaaay more speculative. On the order of VC investing. Rather than Berkshire’s value investing.

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Stand up desks.
Free as in freedom, not beer. You can look at the code of the free software, therefore tell if it's phoning home or not. More importantly, changing it.
Paul Graham (http://www.paulgraham.com/)
I read "mad sex" on the cubes of their alphabet landing page :/ is this on purpose or am i that much of a pervert ?
It will when Google is manufacturing cars, or is joint venturing with a car company to manufacture them.

The Google guys are smart. You don't do something like this without a long term strategic aim.
I wonder - does that get you in the door to do the free upgrade more than a year from now? I wouldn't mind upgrading once 10 has had a little time to age properly.
Many software projects I use are hosted on SourceForge. While SF has been using some nasty techniques with binary installers, the source code is, as far as I know, untouched.

And, as soon as it's touched, the project maintainers can shut down the SourceForge repos and move on to someplace else.

It's not a guarantee of security, privacy or anonymity, but open source is still your best chance to get any (or all) of the three.
The point is that what you consider evil, somebody else considers good, and vice versa. Furthermore, we define good in terms of evil and evil in terms of good. The existence of one necessitates the existence of the other, whether in the past, present, or future.
Which you could turn off without any problems. The issue with Windows 10 that is still being reported is that it searches when you turn that feature off.
Except apps like this should probably not be using the OS CA store, and instead just pin their own CA cert. Doesn't seem to be the case here but in general I think pinning is getting more adoption, isn't it?
Um, to repeat: "these (sic) series of articles" as referred to in this blog entry.

There are no links leading to any, at least that are visible on Chrome or IE.
Fixing drug resistant bacteria.

Here's the plan: You go into the doctor's office. You give a small blood sample to a machine. It finds the bacteria in it, and DNA sequences them. It then looks them up in a library of known antibiotics, and prescribes for you an antibiotic that will kill exactly what you have.

If it can't find an antibiotic that will do the job, it sends the DNA sequence to the US CDC. They hand it to a supercomputer, which solves the protein folding problem, and therefore can determine what the surface of that bacteria exposes. They then derive an antibiotic that will kill it, and add it to the library in all the doctors' offices.

Taking the blood sample is a solved problem. Scanning the DNA is close. The protein folding problem is harder, and deriving an antibiotic from the surface geometry is really hard. So those are the problems that need solved to do this.

I think it could be done in 30 years, but I can't guarantee it...
That's why the winning move is not to bet your own money, but instead to convince some whales to pay you fees to invest their money. From that perspective good algos are really just a marketing cost.
Google's bombshell announcement includes an amazing Silicon Valley shoutout
you make a very valid point!, Thx, :-)
It's not Microsoft's data traffic to grab. The user is paying for it and Microsoft should treat their users with respect. Not making users pay for data that benefits Microsoft would be a start.
I believe the idea is that human notions of 'evil' are based on imperfect knowledge, at best. Therefore, quite often one person's 'evil' is another's 'justice' and letting people rampage in pursuit of it does not make for a peaceful society. Rather, people have to be able to work together in spite of their differing ideals, instead of hoping to be able to eliminate or marginalize everyone who might not believe the same thing.
I think it's the implicit judgment that is more powerful. If you were to declare, "I'm a summer; I can't ever wear yellow!" no one would care. When you refuse someone's bread, though, that's a different question. Food has historically been a way to bond, in some particularly ritualistic ways. (We "break bread together", history has people eating from the same dish to symbolically and practically show trust, etc.)

Much of the current GF stuff is not that good, whether you're looking at environment, cost, culinary quality, or health benefits. Why eat a bar of tapioca starch? It tastes terrible. And my delicious almond-flour brownies are destroying the aquifers of California even though they give me a delightful 300+ calories per serving. On the other hand, the proliferation of GF goods allows people with real problems to sit down with family and friend and eat crappy sandwiches together without anyone feeling judged by the presence of a lettuce wrap, and that has its own benefits. Irrational, or not? Yes.
Counterexample: Ubuntu sending local file system searches off to Amazon because apparently online shopping and file searching are things you want to do simultaneously.
Are they really running Windows? I wouldn't, if I was them.
world of warcraft and binge watching netflix or hate watching netflix, depending on what I'm in the mood for.
> Evil should not persist out of any sense of balance

I don't think the quote supports the idea of evil persisting out of balance, but rather that to advance the greater good one must balance the need to oppose the notionally evil things (which nonetheless contain good) with the need to oppose the evil contained in things which are notionally good.

Its the only interpretation I can see which makes sense in the context of the sentences that the one on balance follows. What is preserved is not the balance in the state of the world between the sides (or between good and evil), but the balance you recognize between the good and evil in each side, a balance that is lost when you commit to one as "good" and ignore the evil it contains, and the good contained in the other.
You are wrong. Here’s the CDC’s mission statement:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

To accomplish its mission, CDC identifies and defines preventable health problems and maintains active surveillance of diseases through epidemiologic and laboratory investigations and data collection, analysis, and distribution; serves as the PHS lead agency in developing and implementing operational programs relating to environmental health problems, and conducts operational research aimed at developing and testing effective disease prevention, control, and health promotion programs; administers a national program to develop recommended occupational safety and health standards and to conduct research, training, and technical assistance to assure safe and healthful working conditions for every working person; develops and implements a program to sustain a strong national workforce in disease prevention and control; and conducts a national program for improving the performance of clinical laboratories.

CDC is responsible for controlling the introduction and spread of infectious diseases, and provides consultation and assistance to other nations and international agencies to assist in improving their disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion activities. CDC administers the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant and specific preventive health categorical grant programs while providing program expertise and assistance in responding to Federal, State, local, and private organizations on matters related to disease prevention and control activities.

http://www.cdc.gov/maso/pdf/cdcmiss.pdf

Poor diets are clearly related to “preventable health problems”, and can be mitigated via “health promotion and health education activities”, etc. This falls under the CDC’s
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, DNPAO. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/division-information/aboutu...

Here’s the CDC’s nutrition webpage: http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/
Did YouTube Just Scam the Entire Record Business into Free Streaming Licenses?
CloudFlare API/Login Down right now
Django's South does this. http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial/part1.html And now, the next version of that is built into Django core. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/migrations/
So? It's after hours trading. Its silly to pretend that it's a real 6 percent boost. Let's see the price tomorrow. Thats when you can say this is a legitimate spike.
Oxford’s online Bodleian archive: illumination for all
GateProtect UTM. Pricey but secure [made in Germany, regularly audited by other security companies, guaranteed no NSA back doors].

http://www.gateprotect.com/en/Products/UTM-Solutions
Complete AI is no the hardest problem in CS, parsing text is. Joking aside this reminded me of that CSS vulnerability that allowed attackers to read peoples mails: http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/12/generic-cross...
Hello, Windows 10 IoT Core
Are people really happy if they have to do Check-ins and tweet?
If you read the reasoning against the hamburger menu (i.e. it is basically a "misc" option that doesn't indicate its contents), then you'd know that none of those factors matter here. Screen real estate isn't even usually a difference between web/native.
Yea i don't like this image hosting service either. I'm on some bad wifi atm and it actually froze my UI for a minute.
I'm intrigued too. But at $120/day for a few weeks... that's a few thousand dollars. That's not in my vacation budget at the moment.
Doesn't work with cert pinning.
Not really, heck, on Android and iOS around 40% of banking apps don't even check the certificate at all.

Most people, even most developers seem to be pretty clueless with this stuff.
Here's a list of servers Windows 10 contacts on startup. There are probably more, but these are the ones that showed up.

BN1WNS2011508.wns.windows.com

OneSettings-bn2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net

a978.i6g1.akamai.net

americas2.notify.windows.com.akadns.net

any.edge.bing.com

bingads.microsoft.com

bl3302.storage.live.com

bl3302geo.storage.dkyprod.akadns.net

client.wns.windows.com

corp.sts.microsoft.com

diagnostics.support.microsoft.com

directory.services.live.com

directory.services.live.com.akadns.net

dns.msftncsi.com

en-us.appex-rf.msn.com

fe3.delivery.dsp.mp.microsoft.com.nsatc.net

fe3.delivery.mp.microsoft.com

i1.services.social.microsoft.com

i1.services.social.microsoft.com.nsatc.net

ipv6.msftncsi.com

ipv6.msftncsi.com.edgesuite.net

login.live.com

login.live.com.nsatc.net

pre.footprintpredict.com

register.mesh.com

settings-win.data.microsoft.com

settings.data.glbdns2.microsoft.com

skyapi.live.net

skyapi.skyprod.akadns.net

skydrive.wns.windows.com

ssw.live.com

ssw.live.com.nsatc.net

statsfe1.ws.microsoft.com

travel.tile.appex.bing.com

v10.vortex-win.data.metron.life.com.nsatc.net

v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com

watson.telemetry.microsoft.com

watson.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net

wildcard.appex-rf.msn.com.edgesuite.net

win10.ipv6.microsoft.com

win10.ipv6.microsoft.com.nsatc.net

wns.notify.windows.com.akadns.net

www.bing.com

www.bingads.microsoft.com
Might be in the minority, but I strongly disagree with the assessment that Miyazaki-san's final film "The Wind Rises" was not amongst his greatest. I re-view it every few months for inspiration and find it holds up quite powerfully with each repetition. Japanese anime does Italian neo-realism in epic scale. The engineer as the manifestor of dreams. War as a terrible catalyst of progress. Surreally creepy voice acting by Werner Herzog as the mysterious Castorp in an homage to Thomas Mann. What's not to love?

For more on the controversy here's a link to the Chicago Reader review that sums up why some perceived it as being sympathetic to fascism:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-wind-rises-hayao-mi...
What do you mean "apps like this" ? The OP is talking about the Windows 10 OS, which uses the OS CA store.
20% time would be for nascent, university-like pre-startup projects. The conglomerate structure would give them somewhere to go, without needing to fit into search. But I admit, that's quite a leap. An internal-YC would fill the gap, but there's no evidence they're doing that. So I think you've torpedoed my idea.
It's almost always true that holding real estate is better in the long view than selling it. I expect my house to continue to rise in value indefinitely. Doesn't mean it's never the right call to sell it.
A bronze medal is third place, not last place. Twenty-five countries competed in the luge in the 2010 Winter Olympics, and twenty-two of them went home without medals.
I can confirm this: it also does not happen on my machine.

However, it does download some app images that are displayed in my start menu for apps that are advertised in a "play and explore" category in the Start menu.

If I select Settings in the search menu it says "Online search isn't supported in your region". I can enable Online Search, but even then I need to explicitly select "Web" as opposed to the default "My Stuff" before it opens a browser and connects to Bing.

This machine including privacy settings was migrated from Windows 8.1. When I installed that I selected custom settings and disabled most of the privacy sensitive settings.
That is an absolutely horrible visual presentation of information.
The real profit is in moving your startups to your portfolio company's cloud hosting platform.

e.g. Snapchat on google app engine. Ironically google is the only one profiting off snapchat userbase...