skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, I think Amazon is fine with selling at low margins. Look at their Kindle devices.

If anything they don't need to make money from device sales if the phones come preinstalled with the Amazon market as they can make money off app sales and get more developer mindshare.
Seven editions, huh? Looks like Microsoft still hasn't learned from Apple ...

(No Apple fanboy here, either - I run Linux and FreeBSD and wouldn't spend money on Apple products any more than Microsoft. But this - product range management - is something they clearly get Very Right).
First Wine needs to understand WinRT application model.
Nazi gold train 'found' in Poland
> This is a suspicious article.

Agreed. But what I put to even more suspicions are your arguments...

> If humans are being replaced with computers, then there will be need for fewer managers, supervisors etc. This would cause a decline in demand for people with "human skills" also.

No, when non-human tasks get delegated to non-humans, human skills will be where humans will be most needed, and this goes in line with data presented, and is fairly self-evident.

> Is the author trying to prove women are naturally better at these things?

Author gives research in support to that and you quote quotation of it yourself.

> If women are naturally better at certain things, it is not a stretch to imagine that they would be naturally worse at certain things.

There's no need to stretch anything, that's a fact. It is dangerous thinking, I agree. But so is atomic energy, AI, gene splicing... Besides being dangerous, it's also inevitable.

> This could be impede our quest to bring about gender equality.

I resent generalization our without further specification on who exactly.
Not to mention Lucasfilm (Obi-Wan Kenobi).
Is that fair? The article looks a bit spammy, but seems to be an actual test not copied from elsewhere.
Why touch the abstracted method/function when it's perfectly being used by other parts of the code?

If there is a new requirement that will need you to change this method/function, that means that you need to copy it and make sure you name it to easily document whatever this new requirement is.

Now if this abstracted method/function has a lot of code that you don't want to be duplicated, then you might wanna refactor it with SRP as your guidance.

In addition to SRP, side-effect free methods/function will greatly help.

I hope I made sense here.
You mean for you these accounts shows the correct values?
Hope your boss ain't reading this!
Ok. Url changed from https://github.com/getlantern/lantern?.
Yes, I can confirm the same behaviour with your account.
How is it blogspam? It looks like a comprehensive test.
While the first 3 have some merit, the 4th one is terrible.

> 4. It Is Morally Wrong To Even Look At The Ashley Madison Data. If You Have Looked At It You Are The Truly Evil One – Far Worse Than An Adulterer – And Nobody Should Or Will Care What You Say Or Think

Saying it is morally wrong for anything is shorthand for "I totally know my argument has no merit whatsoever, but I am really hoping that you overlook that due to some of our shared values"

A lot of "morally wrong" stuff got "morally right" in the last century.

And of course you are not invading anyone's privacy. I can totally recall some FISC decisions that data given to a third party does not have reasonable expectation of privacy ...

The best argument to not look at AM data is that: Nothing good will come out of it.
Chaos Projectile – Run 'n' Gun meets RPG (egypt setting)
TL;DR: AN APP I USE FOR FREE IS TRYING TO MAKE MONEY OFF MY DATA!!!!!! Oh wait, they contracted me to say they weren't. HEY GUYS THEY WEREN'T, FALSE ALARM!!!
Have a look at https://enchaosprojectile.wordpress.com/ for background info.
> The design can be iterated on and experimented with...

All you're arguing here is that engineers should do design. Do you think it's likely that an engineer (at an equivalent salary no less) would be better than a designer at design? Outside of small start-ups, your argument holds no water unless you want to say division of labor should be avoided.

> ...as long as you can ship.

You don't need a shippable product to learn and develop. Iteration and experimentation can be done more efficiently with design methods such as prototyping. Why should an engineer build something before gathering evidence that it will work?
I guess Michael Scott was right after all..
They didn't seem to know about e10s in Firefox Nightly which would have solved their "no separate process" thing.

Measuring peak CPU is very, very stupid. The best Ad Blocker should have near 100% CPU but for an extremely short amount of time. Using 100% CPU is making the most efficient use of the hardware, not being inefficient. Now, I think due to the way they're measuring, it's actually closer to being average CPU because task manager samples over a period.

Also: "Firefox didn’t like this page at all and we couldn’t get consistent readings to run tests, on every refresh the browser would simply not respond or crash."

Huh? I think somethings wrong there. Firefox obviously renders tmz.com. A bug in the thing they used to monitor page load times? Did they check the performance impact of it?
In the article, best = most lucrative.
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I feel like I would get distracted by looking at this. Maybe not a big deal but I'm curious of its utility.

Any measures we can take to increase road safety the better because the death toll is just far too high and while I love to drive I can't wait for computer controlled cars.
On Linux I use NTFS-3G[0]. Never had a problem.

[0]http://www.tuxera.com/community/open-source-ntfs-3g/
Yes, certainly. In fact the media is pretty active and usually reliable. They also help by letting people know to "Stop believing in rumors and stay calm".
But I think the problem here is similar to that of older, non-tech savvy generation falling victims to Nigeriam mail scams. The thing in India is, a vast majority of the new mobile net users in India (majority belonging to lower income category) have been introduced to the internet very recently and hence are bad at judging what's spam and what's not.

So imagine an area which is already tense and then the local youth get forwarded messages with an Image (pulled from the internet) of a burnt body and then some poorly edited text at the bottom saying "This is what xyz community did to our brothers. We have to stand up to this!". That's when things go terribly wrong. Please note that this is just an example and that is definitely not what happened here in Gujarat this time, but it has occured a few times in the recent past (Muzaffarnagar riots) and so the government takes no chances.

But yes, I agree there has to be a better solution than just an outright disruption in services.
It is not seven editions, it is two (excluding Enterprise, which aims for a completely different area).

The rest (the other editions as you called them) is for different purposes and platforms (similarly to iOS in Apple's case).
When making assumptions about people and basing your comment on those assumptions from my experience you're mostly wrong.

1. I have no cellphone.
2. I have no "face trackers, license plate readers" in my rooms.

1 + 2 "And you are wrong about the every room thing" no I'm not.
It has always been the case.

In countries like my own, where the majority of IT market is consulting with very little product development, you need soft skills.
The King's physician may or may not be the best physician in the land - but he is definitely the best remunerated!
India has decided over the years, for better or for worse, that keeping the nation together is more important to them than freedom of speech. This is why the film censorship board is so strong here compared to most other democracies, for instance.

I'm an American expat living in India and it's still quite alien to me after a few years. The government really can tell you to stop saying something because it offends someone else. They can do that because the alternative is that hundreds or even thousands of people die.

My opinion on that decision isn't terribly important because I'm not Indian; it's not my decision to make. It's a very deliberate compromise that the Indian people have found over the decades.
OTOH, sometimes you might be building something that gets beginners into something, before they need those extra features. E.g., I don't yet blog, and if I were to, starting out with Ghost or similar would be very appealing. Only later would I understand what I need/want enough to roll my own.
>A 2013 paper by two Oxford researchers projected that nearly half of U.S. jobs would be vulnerable to automation within 20 years.

Who says "social skills" can't be automated?

> But “computers aren’t good at simulating human interaction,”

Not yet you mean.
> Have you ever found yourself driving behind a semi-trailer truck? If you’re on a single-lane highway or road,

Very rarely! it strikes me just now - this pretty much never happens to me anymore, due to 2+1 roads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2B1_road
If I'm behind a truck and have oncoming traffic, it's because I'm on a smaller road and very near my target (or very near a larger highway) so no point in overtaking.
IIRC, some settings were only accessible through the metro settings and not the normal control panel. (user config maybe?)
Gorlansky book, 800+ tasks, PicoLisp
Intercom to double staff to 280 after raising $35m in funding
And the most absurd thing is...
It's all legal.

I wonder how this state has forgotten to protect who absolutely need protection.
They are people, and I know it, but severe mental impaired persons selling their "possessions" to shady companies, it's not the best thing to leave unsupervised.

The state also seems to consider the economic aids as a salable good. They should be shielded by these companies. Mental impaired persons are the weakest in resisting this type of aggression. The aid should be destined for the well being of people and not their ruin.
Jordan Hubbard mentions some of his reasoning behind going back to what he did at Apple (among other things) in this thread: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2015-Aug...
This is pretty much the preferred cure from what I've gathered. If you can build a PC with two GPU's (or merely one PCIe and one integrated), you can game, use Photoshop nearly natively.

But as you have said, it's not as straighforward as I'd like. I haven't tried it yet but it's nice seeing others having success.

Are there any up to date guides and best practices for this?
You may not always want peace. Could Americans have "peacefully" convinced the Brits to turn back and leave them alone?
It's free if I suffer no cost. Do you bait and then throw up some monstrosity of an ad in a forced attempt to brainwash me? Or, maybe you don't bait and just force me to watch the ad. Either way, I suffer some cost, in the very least in having to detect the attempt and retreat from your page.

To act like that is not a real cost is...baffling.
I haven't heard much about FireChat in a while.
it's not that petty - having multiple windows open in Windows 8 literally hurt my eyes.

It's hard to switch between them and find what you need when everything looks the same at a quick glance. Goddamn flat design, it's stupid and I can't wait until everyone does another 180 and goes back to a more sane UI.

Now, Windows 10 is supposed to be a bit improved, but it still looks more or less the same as 8...
The article's solid and substantial, it's the first I've seen to quantify the effect of ABP's acceptable ads policy. Also they have a view all button that works.
Nice i like
And the problem with those features is that the graph isn’t linear but exponential. The last 10, 1% of features are always 90, 99% of the work, and the thing that dissuades people like me from using something else without those features.

Proper Markdown and footnote support is usually one of those things.
For web development being on linux is just natural. I feel it is the right choice.

On HN when someone says "development" it is usually taken to mean "web development". Let's not forget there are worlds outside that domain, like embedded software and hardware where being on Windows makes a lot of sense due to the tools.
Dealing with complex JSON responses in AngularJS
Yet whole applications are written around it and they work perfectly well. Not saying that is an argument that it is somehow a good idea, just that while it might looks bad, it also works ok when done properly.
Try Dexpot - still the best virtual desktop manager for Windows :-)
Not interested in the discussion, but just to correct:

"-from the article, broken eye sockets and arms aren't enough to call a fight. "

That's not true. When a referee sees a serious injury, they will stop the fight. Of course the web is full with clips of fights with lots of blood and stories of winning fights with broken bones, but that's selection bias - nobody talks about those hundreds of thousands of fights where neither participant has more than a few bruises, if that.
Can ghostery block ads? I thought it just blocked trackers
Yes, UDDT toilets work so well that environmentally conscious people install them in homes even in places with good access to water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine-diverting_dry_toilet

In arid third word countries people have low tech outdoor arrangements like pit toilets.
That just seems... idiotic. Not only would it raise taxes across the board and deflate currency, that money could _at least_ go to some charity.
Sorry, you're right. The format looks like blogspam; I closed it nearly immediately. A "10x" title, ads, a "Norton" icon at the top (what?)...
Funny that you say that - even Russia doesn't want Windows 10 as the OS for government institutions because it's so intrusive: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%...
Codementor, a Learning Platform for Developers, Launches Live Group Classes
Wow, that makes it "useless"?? Sounds like a very esoteric and unusual working style to me.
> No, when non-human tasks get delegated to non-humans, human skills will be where humans will be most needed, and this goes in line with data presented, and is fairly self-evident.

The point of simula67 is that the quintessential job that requires good interpersonal skills is management. Managers are there to manage technical workers. If there is less of a need for technical workers, managers have fewer people to manage, and you don't need interpersonal skills to machine-manage. The end result might be that we can cut out all of middle management, and that this "purge" will offset the higher (relative) demand for people with interpersonal skills in other areas of the workforce.

All very hypothetical and full of assumptions of course, but then, so is the original article.
While I recommend a switch to Linux/Mac, you can make updates behave like Win7 by opening "Edit Group Policies" in the start search. Then look for Windows Updates for the option.

Without this done windows will actually download updates automatically while you are ingame or something else network sensitive, it's so fucking stupid.
Why is it better to have the video inside your own car?

Isn't the point of this is to try to remove a real life visual obstacle from the real life view seen with your real life eyes?
> broken eye sockets and arms aren't enough to call a fight

There's MMA, and then there's no-holds-barred (or vale tudo, literally "anything goes").

MMA in the western world today is an organized sport, with rules to protect the fighters, and has little to do with how the Gracies used to fight in Brazil. Yes, you can still find nhb events, and you can still find MMA events that are freakshows, but events like UFC, Cage Warriors, Bellator, etc. are very well organized, and fighter safety is important.
Galactic butterfly spotted in deep space
C and C++ dev on Windows is a pain on the ass.
On my GNU/Linux, I can use pkgconfig to get the lib dependences, and cmake could grab the deps very well. On Windows, I end doing ugly things to get the dependencies working...
Start with small insults. But be careful not to create hidden tension. And it will take years.
I'm not arguing that all advertising is misleading and evil, I'm arguing that the nature of the industry skews companies incentives towards intentionally misleading people.

Take Google for instance - it started out with good intentions and it has consistently blurred the distinction between its ads and content ever since. Why? Because that's how you get more ad dollars, of course. If being misleading didn't mean profits, Google wouldn't do it.

If you want to find the most egregious behavior in the advertising industry don't look at the small fry. Follow the trail of profit.

>And honest ads can help people find things they are genuinely looking for

They can, but that's a happy accident and a byproduct. The advertising industry is not geared to help connect people to things they want. It is geared towards invoking desires for things people didn't otherwise want and putting your name ahead of competitors in people's heads.
As of 1st of June, the proceedings are available on the JMLR website http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v37
Yes, he is mistaken. BJJ is certainly practiced in favelas, and there are people who use it to give youths something to do, as a way to keep them away from crime, drugs, etc.

See the Tererê Kids Project, for instance: http://fightland.vice.com/blog/social-change-through-jiu-jit...
Without advertising, many (real as in "sells goods" sense) businesses would not find any real growth.

I think you're conflating advertising with marketing. Marketing is what grows a company, and advertising is a part of marketing (how big or small a part depends on the business). We could have no advertising and still have companies informing people about their products.
Organizing a Bookshelf with Multivariate Analysis
I believe it's this one. It's tone really throws me off though:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/10/...
> Though, I still don't understand what the comment I was replying to meant by, "Step 1: replace everything with something else."

If you have to replace things like the "start menu", the built in pdf reader, the built in settings app, etc. etc. all because of the same UI design flaw it starts to feel like you are fighting with the OS to get to the level of productivity with which you were previously accustomed. If you feel the need to have to do that, then something is wrong with the design of the OS. Obviously this is a subjective opinion that can differ for each individual, but considering the horrible adoption rate of Windows 8 it seems likely that this is an opinion shared by many.

Objectively, forcing apps to run in fullscreen mode can be a huge waste of real estate for large computer monitors. The gestures required to summon the "charms" bar and the app switcher are completely unintuitive and awkward for a desktop UI. Things like that make far more sense for mobile devices, but it appears like Windows 8 tried to combine mobile and desktop UIs in a confusing, frustrating, an inefficient way. It's quite telling that these were major design errors as Windows 10 backtracks from that philosophy almost completely.
This is a factually incorrect statement, as a citizen of the place myself.
As opposed to writing it all from scratch? I don't mean to be facetious...
Interesting!

This could work with two nvidia based cards ? And when the VM isn't On, the host could use the main GPU ?

Someone share more info about this!
You have a fantastic mindset in that you can call multiple billions of dollars "almost nothing"

Well, when you consider that the Iraq war cost to the USA has been at least 1 trillion (this is not just what the DoD spent), spending tens of billions on fusion research doesn't sound so bad.
Oh please. This isn't the same. What these guys were trying to do, was to bully the state into placing their community above the rest.
Moonforth – Tinker with an Interactive DCPU-16 Forth
People only use 20% of the features of an app. The problem is that everyone uses a different 20%.
Of course. Nobody in power wants fusion, as most of the political class have vested interests in petrochemicals. We're all going to die in the next few decades. Such is life.
Yes, people forget that Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 fame was a consultant on Hackers. If you thought that was unrealistic (and OK, it was), revisit the other '95 hacker movie: The Net.
NTFS on GNU/Linux was rw without any issue from years ago.

I have a big partition with my user data on a NTFS partition that I shared across Windows 8.1 and Kubuntu 15.04 without any issue. The only problem that I could have is that if I unplug the computer on Windows, I need to reboot on Windows to mark it-self as safe, so Linux can mount it again without any warning message.
Best analogy ever!
Out of curiosity, when people talk about Western European salaries in general, are they quoting the before-tax figure, or the after-tax figure?

I ask because this practice seems to vary by country / continent quite a bit, and makes a rather large difference. So, e.g. if someone in Berlin quoted a 4.4k euro figure, would they likely mean after tax?
You can, but only on AMD GPUs. Nvidia GPUs have this disable unless you buy very expensive "cloud" model.
You take such a mature and balanced approach toward content on the site. The content is interesting and thought provoking. It's why HN is my primary source of daily news. Please keep it up!

I'm now watching the 35 minute documentary about Agafia and surviving in the Siberian wilderness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68

A metaphor just occurred to me: Hacker News is like a better Internet version of what the Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel used to be in their golden days (back when MTV played music videos, before reality TV). HN is much better than that, since those were still TV, and did not cover business and leadership, but that's the best analogy I can come up with at the moment. I get far more out of reading HN-provided links and comments for hours than I ever did TV.
Why you use Windows music/video player when it sucks ? VLC can do the work much better and not show ads.
How does the dupe detector work anyway. First I thought one could resubmit after a certain amount of time... but no, I submitted this only a day or two ago. Maybe links can be modified (add a ?resubmit at the end, for instance), but nope, I submitted with exact same URI. I wonder. (Not complaining, just curious if anyone has insight into this).
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Yes, but to be fair, the article does go on to say:

"...their work poses several outstanding questions. For one thing, their sample size of 34 patients was tiny. Researchers are planning to attempt to replicate their findings using transcripts from a larger cohort of at-risk youths."
Update — I expected a lot of downvotes, and I have not been disappointed! :D

"You cannot change the truth, but the truth can change you"
No it isn't. I have noticed that during my career I have had very few measly pay rises (and 1 decent one). Switch job and I usually get at least 10% more.

Its crazy, as on some systems that I have worked on it has taken me 6 months to get fully up to speed (not that I wasn't productive before then, just a lot slower). Rather than pay 10% more, they will let employees leave and pick up the tab for a new person learning the system.
Is that setting available in Win10 Pro, or just enterprise?
Removing steps of common processes
Win 7 was excellent. It was the OS with the best defaults and features out of the box (even now, but specially for the time). Very little fiddling around was needed.

Win 8 made me switch to OSX. No regrets, but I miss Win 7 sometimes.
Here were the takeaways from a discussion I had with a friend about this.

Initial setup is likely cumbersome but straightforward.
Marketing is where all the effort is.
The sector you choose has to outperform, which you have little control over.