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Any nuclear-related disaster plays into the hands of anti-nuclear campaigning, regardless of the finer details of the truth -- indeed Gyorgy's book for which the FOIA was invoked is titled "No Nukes: Everyone's Guide to Nuclear Power", so the assessment that it might have had adverse effects seemed correct.
I have to disagree about the linux desktop. I wish it was better, but for the first time in 10 years I started using microsoft (8.1) again on one of my computers. It has the same problems linux does: drivers, wifi connections. And when I try to close down to go somewhere, I occasionally get some kind of warning that I can't shut down or unplug because it's doing an update. Very aggravating (I'm getting a little wiser about it, but still I would like to be the one who decides when to update).

The problem, and the reason I wanted to give it a try, is software. Things like gotomeeting and such simple work there and are difficult to get working on linux. It cost me a (remote) developer, so I decided that my travel/home rig would be win 8.1 with linux in a VM. So far it's quite convenient, but I don't use much on the windows side.

I think with more adoption we could fix the software issues.
What they were wrong about was the importance of early mover advantages.

There is also a tendency to underestimate the "early mover disadvantage", if you will - if you move too early you risk ending up being little more than a detailed market study for a company that will succeed with your idea a few years later. The current wave of delivery and mobile services includes lots of ideas people were chuckling about in 2000, but now they are functioning pretty well.
Canada is in huge trouble as well.
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We have that problem for our desktop apps. Supporting the Windows and Mac versions is much easier than supporting Linux AND Linux has less users.
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Having lots of false information is (very) worse in many cases. People don't know it's false and will assume it is true and about you. So, for instance if this "False info Service" created an account (probably several) on AM, you'd probably be unhappy now. Or posts on some nasty 4Chan that prospective employers find. Or puts up false past address that happened to be the real address of sex offender and now your name shows up next to it on OMFGAMCGTBR.com. Or uses alias of some known criminal and a prosecutor subpoenas "False info Service" to find the real name/address of this criminal, you.

The only ways to not be embarrassed by what is online about you are. [And I understand embarrassment is not the only reason to be anonymous, but if people are honest with themselves it is 90% of the reason they care.]

1. don't give a shit / don't be embarrassed / don't live by other's standards or norms (this seems easiest to me but I'm sort of anti-social amoral and have not been giving a shit what others values as they apply to me from a young age, YMMV)

2. Don't do embarrassing things. Sort of corollary of #1 (as in the less you are embarrassed by the easier it is to not to embarrassing things.

3. Don't live in modern society. Get born some place with no electricity and kill (optionally eat) all the scientist who come to study/photograph you.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11819164/Met-Office-lost...

Can this really be about an app and about including probability statements? Good heavens.
>but there are constant reminders every day that you are not, in fact, Japanese

As someone interested in Japan, would you mind elaborating on this please?
I have a wife and four kids (two of whom are now living on their own) and I can tell you that it's sometimes impossible to power cycle them. Especially when they're young and excited - and the next day is Christmas.
> The original netbooks claimed some ability to run native apps, but did it poorly.

Back during the peak of the Netbook, my main PC went down. While I waited for parts I hooked up an ASUS Eee PC with Windows XP. Not only was it able to drive a 21" monitor, but also Skype video chat, my browser, and full screen YouTube without any stuttering or issues.

Netbooks got a bad rep' but frankly they were incredible value for money and even to this day have a somewhat unique form factor. Sure, you can buy ultrabooks, but they're a lot bigger and still heavier, plus they cost $800-1000+.

So I guess my only point is, sure, Netbooks are limited. They cannot game realistically, and full screen HD video is about the height of their potential. But they still do a lot of stuff extremely well, could run Office flawlessly, as could they run browsers.

Chromebooks have limited functionality, but not because it HAS to be that way, but because that is the product Google is selling. That's fine, but let's not pretend that Netbook's inferiority was the reason. And even if we pretend that it was, the hardware today kicks what Netbooks had in the butt.
Having flash die for video has mostly already happened and is a good thing.

Having flash die for websites (like small restaurant sites) has mostly already happened and is a good thing.

Having flash die for games would be a bad thing. There are hundreds of thousands of games on the web that are written in Flash that are a lot of fun for millions of folks to play. Just because you can't play them on your mobile device is no reason for the rest of us to lose access to them on our PCs. And, no, most of them will not be converted to HTML5 because they were written years ago and the author has long since moved on.
To crawl or not to crawl, that is the question
Sure. But now you have a two part device, with more that can go wrong, and broadly speaking a worse typing experience.

There's something to be said for the stereotypical laptop form factor.
The word obsolete just means not used/maintained/cared-about/relevant any more - it says nothing about age or heritage.

Floppy discs are pretty much obsolete yet spinning hard disks, the first commercially available units of which pre-dated the first available floppy disks & drives by 15 years, are still a current tech (arguably they are on the way out, but right now they are still very much here and will be few at least a few years yet).
Perhaps a more accurate description: provides entertainment vs the cost of a cable subscription. Plus, recession or not, they are riding the wave of chord cutting nicely.
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I've heard similar stories from people trying to buy from GoDaddy.
Thanks, you've definitely given me a lot to chew on.

I definitely struggled with a lot of the same questions. I thought a lot about the question of "when do you know a word well enough, and prune it?" and I came to generally the same conclusion, that there's not a lot of benefit from completely removing a word. The cost of asking someone to review a word once every 3-12 months is so low, that it's best to just keep asking them.

And for all practical purposes, that's what Nihongo does. In order to naturally bring a word to level 5 (the level at which we no longer prompt for it), it would take almost 3 years. And that's assuming that you didn't ever get it wrong, and never missed a day where it came up. I'm definitely the only person who's reached this (starting from when I started development on Nihongo), and I think there's a very good chance I'm the only person who ever will.

So practically, the question is what to do when something reaches the upper reaches of level 3 and level 4. Do you keep showing these words to them once every 2-3 months? Or do you continue to space them further apart? I'm not sure I'm convinced either way, but it's something I'll definitely continue to think about and re-evaluate. I have a little bit of skepticism around your numbers - for example, I don't think it takes 100 seconds to re-learn a word that you knew very well at one point and just forgot how to pronounce - but I think the point is valid.

As for spaced learning, it's an interesting idea that I haven't heard about before. The key thing I worry isn't being considered though is motivation. Unless a user is familiar with the theory behind it, I think forgetting and re-learning each word would be terribly demotivating. I'm definitely going to be doing some more research though.

Thanks for pointing me at all this, I've got lots of reading to go do!
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I have no idea if the the trackers are doing this or not, but you could use TCP/IP stack fingerprinting. It's a bit costly, so I doubt it's in use. But it could be one way to achieve it. It's certainly not 100% accurate, but my experience with nmap is the detection works surprisingly well:

https://nmap.org/book/man-os-detection.html
I do! First that is worldwide R&D. In the US it is only $26 billion a year, so we could easily cover it by doubling the NIH budget. Since in exchange we get new drugs at generic prices it more than pays for itself just in money saved on Medicare payouts. Even paying out $60 billion would be cheaper.

If that is too socialist for you we can merely replace patents with a prize system, where we award people a large sum for developing a drug. This is what pharma largely does anyway (wait for startups then buy them out once they've done the hard stuff) so not much would change. For $1 billion a piece we can get ten drugs a year at huge savings.

I got more ideas, but this suffices to demonstrate how easy this is if you think about it. Patents really are the worst way.
Looks like a very interesting web site, well worth a look around. Bookmarked. Those interested in ghost ships will have heard of the Mary Celeste, but what about the apocryphal Ourang Medan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourang_Medan

After a brief perusal of Sobify, I found http://www.sobify.com/vogelsang-where-the-soviets-kept-the-m...

I've been there, but visited mostly different parts of the site, and didn't find where the nuclear missiles were stored. It occupies several square kilometres.

The closest railway station is at the nearby village, also called Vogelsang. I had to press a bell to stop the train to get off, and put my hand out to stop it to get back on.
Since I own bar.io and foo@bar.io is a valid email address, I also receive some interesting emails from time to time.
> Nothing about Linux on the desktop "works fine". It's horrible.

This claim is usually made by Windows users who don't want to invest any effort and time to learn another desktop -- which they had to do in Win8 anyway.

Linux offers several nice desktops (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, E17, etc.) which we can freely choose from. I am a Linux user since the 90's and I have always used it as my primary desktop. It works perfectly well for me. I consider the new Windows metro "desktop" more horrible than even simple Linux desktops.

Freedom has a price. Education has a price. Both require the sincere willingness to do something for it.
China's market is very different than the markets in the developed world for a number of reasons (more isolated, less mature investor base, more direct government involvement, to name a few). So it probably isn't the best barometer for how other markets work.
Normally these kinds of terms appear on web services where the scope of disclosure is contained to the information you upload to the service (e.g. repos you upload to Github or posts you make to Reddit). Windows 10 is fundamentally different because the scope becomes everything the OS can suck up including everything on the hard drive and keystrokes from the keyboard.

You no longer have the option not to disclose something because anything that shows up on the PC may be fair game. Privacy is all about controlling who gets to see what information. Windows 10, being an OS, removes your ability to control what is shared in any meaningful way with its privacy policy.
You'd think they'd at least change the "Over 39,470,000 anonymous members!" bit. If nothing else, to avoid being sued for false/deceptive advertising.
It's far worse than even the baltic is indicating:

"Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe fell by 26.7 percent to $469 per 20-foot container (TEU) in the week ended on Friday"

"It was the third consecutive week of falling freight rates on the world’s busiest route and rates are now nearly 60 percent lower than three weeks ago."

http://gcaptain.com/asia-europe-container-freight-rates-have...
But if the friend who got the password via Wi-Fi Sense has access to the network, that means that at some point, the password had to be in clear text on their computer (since otherwise it wouldn't be able to authenticate to the network). This means that at best, they use reversible encryption, and at worst, it's just stored in cleartext somewhere (this being Microsoft, my guess would be in the registry).

I guarantee that someone will create a tool to get wi-fi passwords shared to them if there isn't one already.
They're also easier to centrally manage and are completely user agnostic devices. iPads can be made to be use agnostic devices also, but you have to disable almost all of the built in apps (since iCloud doesn't really accomplish it), and have people sign into some online service each time (e.g. GApps, Office 365, etc).

There's something to be said for a device where you can just grab a new one off of the laptop cart, install nothing, and login as any user with the full experience available.

Windows domain-connected PCs kinda accomplish that, but with a lot more management overhead.
Thanks Wingerlang,
Yes websites targeted for India are in English.
Thanks for you comments. I will look into issues.
I have not made website public ...I have mentioned for the first time on HN.
By the way, if you have any specific papers in mind that you think would be good reading, please let me know!
>When the tide goes out like it is now, you quickly discover that the bureaucrats in command economies are almost always incompetent and that incompetence was being temporarily masked.

So totally unlike those Wall Street genuises, with the trillion dollar bailouts and huge weath transfer crisis...
Well, even when you upload something to Dropbox, you also upload to "some" website.. Still confidentiality argument is quite sound indeed. I guess it is just a matter of how confidential your data in reality is..you probably shouldn't have it on desktop either!!

+1 for ability to wipe your data completely if you prefer so (either automatically or via some UI/request).
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And it wouldn't even be the first time. Microsoft had "Windows Embedded" (Vista and XP) which did exactly that. Essentially a kiosk operating system often used either for VB6 applications or for a web browser.
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> Can you explain how the claims that the privacy policy allows MS to share data with the MPAA are founded?

The MPAA could be a Microsoft "customer" that needs protection from piracy. The MPAA could run a service with Microsoft that needs protection from being "defrauded". There are holes in the policy large enough to drive a fleet of buses through.
And it's not just developers either. Flash is still pretty common in the animation industry.
Amazon CloudFront problems in the UK
"We are investigating connectivity problems between CloudFront and end users on certain ISPs in the UK." Definitely affecting me on BT Business Broadband - amazing how much of the web depends on this (including HN's own search!).
I hadn't heard of Chlorine, so this is effective as an intro/demo.

The implementation you use is the textbook "toy" one, though, which is a bit oversimplified and probably biases the perceived speedup. Simple and brute force often favors GPU implementation, whereas the communication can really hurt you in a more realistic algorithm.

It would be interesting to see what your comparison looks like with at least a spatial subdivision and connectivity analysis (the most obvious algorithmic speed up), proper anti-aliasing and a functional zoom. Even better if you did interior/exterior distance estimation...
> As far as OSS interfaces go, I wouldn't be surprised if you're using an open source browser right now, seeing as the closed source alternatives don't compare.

Since he's a Mac user, that's not necessarily a good bet. Safari wins out handily in battery life, and Firefox's UI text rendering (tabs/URL/bookmarks) is comparatively atrocious.

Chrome benefits from its cross-platform bookmark sync, but the snappier interface, extra hour of battery, and the fact that it comes preinstalled all make Safari a pretty popular choice on OS X.

EDIT: Though I suppose Safari is a sorta-open-source project in the same way that Chrome is. Mostly it's the same as WebKit, but not entirely. Does Apple get much in the way of community contributions, or is it a "we have to publish the source, but we're not going to take your input" arrangement like Android?
So... Microsoft wants to stop piracy by trying to read users contents (or so they say) ..

So in response, torrent sources help them by stoping them from downloading...

So torrent sites are giving MS what they want?
I'm not religious, but I think the appropriate quote here is: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."
I have no love for the direction in which Linux desktop seems to be heading today, but engineering concerns aside, it's been working fine for a long time.
Are there examples for using Semantic UI for a basic CRUD workflow?
Well if you want a prediction for a company that's going to take a huge hit in this downturn: Tesla

They're going to deploy the Model X into a temporarily contracting electric car market, with China upside down, and with the US upper class pulling back spending due to a big drop in asset values. The gigafactory will cost vast sums yet to finish and get functional, and then it'll hit the market with weak demand for several years at least. Meanwhile Tesla's growth on the Model S, which has already stalled out, will get hammered further, pushing their already high quarterly losses even higher - all at time when raising more capital is going to be painful.

Any company that needs a lot of financing to do what they do, is going to get hurt bad through this storm.
awscli is by far the most comprehensive CLI tool manipulating various AWS services, and I really like its flexible options and up-to-date release cycle. However, day-to-day AWS operations from my terminal don't need that much flexibility and that many services. Rather, I wanted just small set of UNIX-like commands which are easy to use and remember. So I wrote this small Python package.

If you are interested, please let me hear what you think!
> Over a long enough timeline shares have always gained.

Except in Germany and Japan after WWII
I agree with you that women (and men for that matter) find confidence attractive. You don't have to be in a relationship to be confident. I would be careful of conflating the two.

From my experience, most women are not interested in holding sex as a trump card. Like you and I, they are simply looking for companionship - for someone they can count on for support and non-judgement during times of crisis, but who will also push them to become better and achieve their goals. Like you and I, most are at least partially attracted to looks, confidence, humor, power, intellect, etc.

It sounds like you're pretty bitter about something or other. I think you should make more friends that are women so that you can talk to them about the way they view relationships.
Yes it is, I just finished it.

Although his writing style isn't always consistent, the book is totally worth reading just to get a clue on how 'cyber criminals' (used to) operate on a global scale. I said 'used to' because the facts narrated in the book occurred mainly in 2009-2011, but in the final chapter there is also some recent events.

Although the title refers to the spam problem, It's not just about spam itself, but it gives a full image of the surrounding cybercrime environment. Give it a try ;)
I would state this a different way. It's not an acceptable solution for the developer/designer/manufacturer to propose. However, for troubleshooting, it's the single best tool we have (and with all of the black boxes, the only tool in many cases).
It's like you knew what I wanted before I wanted it. This is great. I hated saving long "commands" for every operation I wanted to do. I will definitely check this out and use this!

Thanks!
Citation needed.

Also, if you are in public you are in public. I have no problem being recorded there.
If the only thing you ever use is a web browser, then you could use a years old iPad just fine. For students, keyboard is probably the biggest factor and for schools it is the price.
I understand that there are legal barriers around it per the privacy policy but the fact that someone at Microsoft can just decide that they need file X off my laptop and then fetch it is way beyond the pale. If someone wants the files off my laptop, they can get a search warrant and successfully convince my lawyer that I am legally obliged to decrypt.
> This means that at best, they use reversible encryption, and at worst, it's just stored in cleartext somewhere (this being Microsoft, my guess would be in the registry).

The status quo is that your password is already stored on their computer with nothing better than reversible encryption.
Who said anything about the US or Wall Street?

You're making the classic logic mistake of assuming because I said X, I also must be implying Y.
If I'm going to pick a new programming language I want to know a bit more than "easy" "c style" and "built in node" (that last bit is terrifying).

What about telling me about your compiler, or why you thought we needed another language and how this solves the problem?
Gremlin (over Spark) does not use GraphX. It simply represents the graph as a tensor RDD (i.e. a multi-layered matrix) and with the Spark functional library, it implements BSP-based vertex-centric computing (i.e. message passing). You can see examples and a diagram explaining how it works at this location:

http://tinkerpop.incubator.apache.org/docs/3.0.0-incubating/...
Those Ashley Madison users that aren't aware of the breach, or with families that are not aware are still possibly going to be targets of people will use the data to blackmail them. That is there may be a large number of AM users who will be made aware of it one way or another. If there is enough personally identifiable information in the dumps, strangers on the internet are going to use it as their personal piggy bank and send mass emails out to threaten whomever they find with black mail. They'll say "Send me $1,000 or I'll tell your spouse" and they'll keep doing it. Apparently home address and phone numbers are in the dumps for some members.
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Thanks for the comment! Yeah, I hear you. awscli is really awesome tool, but when it comes to day-to-day/adhoc operations, it doesn't do well like Unix tools. And that is exactly why I wrote this!
It's a misnomer, but is someone's attempt to define any tech company which is so far apart from the rest of the pack in terms of business practices and reach that they don't warrant being called 'yet another tech company'.

This usually involves under handedness, tax loopholes, and secret handshakes that 'normal' startups are too scared to execute on. 'Normal' startups have a market safety net to fall back on and can pivit anytime they want without much fanfare caused. Unicorns are not afforded this luxury because they are, well, unicorns.
For what it's worth, I had the same experience with my parents. I installed Ubuntu on my dad's laptop and my mum's desktop. They loved it for quite a while - it was much faster, no security problems and no weird errors. I was so happy that I left a few comments online similar to yours.

A year or so later, they both use Mac. In both cases, the inevitable question came "so I bought this <peripheral/software>, how can I get it to work?".