skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was really impressed with how easy Windows 10 is to install and uninstall.

Not only did the installer and uninstaller not mess with my files and installed programs, it also didn't break my dual-boot setup!
Love stumbling across domain/site combos like this. Like the digital equivalent of holdouts/nail houses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holdout_%28real_estate%29). There's a surprising amount of them still out there.
Nothing to be surprised here.

Anyway, finally this might be the perfect time to consider a market entry again after a lost year so far. Lost if you were refusing to buy at much too high prices. Let it go down some more days and invest then.
I understand your point, and I may disagree (not really sure). This is misery, and it sucks for all involved. However, the meta-issue is privacy, how we are being eaten alive by a tragedy-of-the-commons situation where so very many people will allow our privacy erosion by simply thinking it doesn't affect them (the "Well, I've got nothing to hide" excuse).

The one thing that resonates with nearly everybody, however, is sex. Sex hits most of the 'bell curve' (to put it crassly).

So, part of me says that all of this information should be exposed, so that people start to 'get it.'

I don't know- I'm on the fence here.
Animals, herded.
Also try disabling hybrid sleep in power settings, that's usually the cause.
Seesawing pretty heavily at this point. It was back up to -500ish a few minutes ago, then back to -800ish.
I never tried FireFox Portable ... hmmm, looks like it requires a Windows machine (or a Linux box running Wine)

That might have been interesting if Mozilla had been able to get it to run on Macs.

We have a spare/guest Chromebook and it's been nice to hand it to one of my two daughters when they've cracked the screen. I'm not in IT but I'm just imagining how much easier Chromebooks would make my life. Especially if the management software is even halfway-good.
Saudi Arabia could be broke in ~5 years if oil stays at $40.
no, the smart thing is to quickly create a startup, uber for uhaul. slick app, shows all available trailer and trucks, you order and they appear in minutes, all transactions done through app.

there, go get rich (or not).
PRISM had nothing to do with any specific operating system. Be it Linux, OS X, Windows or anything else.

It was the theft of unencrypted data on dedicated fiber lines between data centers.

It actually didn't impact Windows, it impacted Hotmail, OneDrive, and other Microsoft "Cloud" services. Ditto with Google, Apple, et al.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
Speed is achievable in prolog in a variety of ways. One is to make use of cuts and structure code so that it fails early. Another is to optimize the hell out of the interpreter. Another is to rewrite prolog code in another language & optimize that (which is pretty standard practice for developing expert systems). But, ultimately, prolog is always going to be comparable in time complexity to a depth-first search. Tricks with cuts and structuring code to avoid deep recursion are, at best, equivalent to a time-consuming attempt to sort a tree such that the most likely desired results are the first to be searched -- which is to say, they don't change the underlying time complexity of the process.

In worst case, MYCROFT has the same time complexity as PROLOG. However, with notation of determinate predicates, memoization is possible -- something that PROLOG cannot do without fairly complicated analysis. On top of that, MYCROFT makes distribution of load trivial. Because of cutting rules and other mechanisms designed for optimization of PROLOG code on single systems without concurrency, any form of concurrency on standard PROLOG is difficult -- after all, you can spend a bunch of cycles determining a result only to discover that that result was going to be discarded by another branch and never needed to be computed in the first place. MYCROFT doesn't have this problem.

Worst case time complexity is equivalent in MYCROFT and PROLOG. However, average case in MYCROFT approaches linear time as computations occur even on non-optimized code, and average case in MYCROFT approaches linear time on non-optimized code as node count grows even for a static number of computations. Average case in PROLOG for non-optimized code is the same as worst case. Any arbitrarily large constant factor added to time for MYCROFT is irrelevant -- you can't optimize the depth first search out of a depth first search by writing it in machine code.

There have been other PROLOG implementations (commercial ones) that did automatic parallelism / distribution of tasks. I'm unaware of any that still exist, but it was being researched back in the 80s. There are PROLOG-like languages that have det vs nondet notation (MIT Church comes to mind). In this sense, I'm not breaking new ground. I'm unaware of any other system that combines det/nondet notation with aggressive distribution and memoization.

(This is not to say that the system is carefully optimized. Some behaviors are quite naive -- intentionally, because clever solutions in this case are subject to clever bugs, so it doesn't make sense to introduce them until the system is more stable. The system is written in Lua specifically to make an ESP8622 port easier -- even though a prototype in C was written & would have been more efficient. We round-robin requests rather than using a distribution mechanism based on hash similarity as originally planned in order to avoid dealing with potentially slow pure-lua hash implementations that would prevent the system from being portable. So, sure, it could be made faster. But it already has an average case better than any standards-compliant PROLOG system.)
Pretty good. It usually comes down to the drivers available. AMD is doing good things with open source drivers, while Nvidia usually lags behind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_timing#Evidence_for_mar...

> Studies find that the average investor's return in stocks is much less than the amount that would have been obtained by simply holding an index fund consisting of all stocks contained in the S&P 500 index.
I did it because of issues with W10 disconnecting from my Bluetooth mouse and WIFI issues. I tried many things such as reinstalling drivers and applying fixes suggested by others that were experiencing the same problems. Also, my computer got slower: slower booting up, and slower shutting down. I'm not blaming Microsoft because it could very well be my laptop that has the problem; the fact is, however, that ever since I downgraded to W8.1 my laptop is working fine -- all over again.
I think it's a bad sign when they can write an article and get it out in under 25 minutes...but by the time they release the article, the market has gone up by half the amount it fell on opening. This market is severely flawed.
Doesn't really matter that some desktop browser are still supporting it, with mobile traffic getting bigger every year, there isn't any use case for any typical website to support it.
Broadly speaking the US economy is quite healthy and people were expecting a correction in the stock market for some time. Within tech, it will have some negative impact on the plans of some companies as it will be harder to get lofty valuations based on 'fluff'... during such times investors want to see hard facts and real results to back-up value--but that's a broader trend thats been slowly developing for some time.

Internationally, China is clearly having a hard time dealing with the realities of 'the market.' People have long since suspected a lot of the figures coming out of China were not accurate and everyone knows the place is rampant with corruption and such. Things are going to get a lot uglier there before it gets better.
Well you shouldn't let mainstream media think for you ever and not only for matters regarding your health.
Tooling Up
Doing so online is less taxing than in person, so I don’t think it’s ironic at all.
The global panic might have a good reason, this is probably the first time China goes through a true financial crisis. Their ability to deal with such situation is by and large unknown to anyone.
You don't even have to get to the dump itself to see expressions of extreme paranoia. See anyone in the media simply at a loss about 'the darkweb' and it being so full of unknown things by its nature.
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How about a more useful index than the Dow, which fails to account for basic stuff like market cap? S&P 500 % drop or something would be more meaningful.

EDIT: The page in question lists it actually, S&P 500 down 4.1%.
Don't forget, system updating typically isn't straight forward depending on distro. I was explaining to my brother the other day the need to perform diffs on system configuration files after performing a system update. His eyes kind of glazed over as his brain understood the concept, but refused to accept that major linux distros hadn't evolved past it.
>>I went to delete my account only to discover they wanted $80 to do so. Well, I discovered their brilliant business model.

Hmm, so... did you pay? And if you did, have you verified your data is _not_ in the torrent dumps? It's been said that AM wasn't deleting as promised, even after paying, and that's a key part of a pending class-action-lawsuit.
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There's also http://www.robotmesh.com/project which is Blockly and Python for VEX robotics
Same.

Disabled every form of data collection possible from the Settings and also edited Group Policy and the registry to disable further collection.

I've also edited the hosts file and added entries for dozens of domains associated with MS telemtry and reporting.

At this point Comodo Firewall was still reporting some suspicious outbound connection requests which I've analysed and blocked most of.

System still works fine and is getting updates okay but I'm sure there is plenty I've missed or that people do not know about yet.

I'm honestly considering rolling back to a clean install of Windows 7 SP1. I'm really not liking Win 10 the more I learn about it.
Importantly it should be noted Myers Briggs is mostly considered bunk compared to the Big 5 test.
They are still receiving signups: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/63482830938637107...
To be completely fair, internet industry as a whole is hell bent on keeping users in, rather than letting them delete their accounts. The other day, I was trying to delete my Steam account and I couldn't find a way to do that and Valve happens to be one of the most respectable company on earth.

I don't know what will change attitude of our industry. I guess lot of us are still stuck with mindset of real-world brick/mortor shops - if you don't want do anything with Shop X just don't go there! Sadly this does not really work for loads of internet services. Perhaps we need a legislation like Right to Forget (I am not endorsing EU law fwiw).
> we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary

I think you are being a bit biased on this one. There are a lot of applications that the "free" alternative is just not good enough in comparison with the propetary one.

Just to name a few:

Gimp and Photoshop
Inkscape and Illustrator
Maya/3DStudio and Blender

I would even add Office and LibreOffice but the later is actually good enough for a good chunk of people.
I think Win 10 is the death knell for Windows.

SMEs won't touch it because of the privacy concerns. Corporates who have access to the full privacy features in the enterprise version are still suspicious of it.

Its main USP for the general public is that it's not as bad as Win 8 - which hardly seems like a win at all.

I'm happy to use Linux for some applications, but realistically I think most Windows users who are switching will move to a Mac.

Personally, I'm keeping well away from Win 10. The one machine here with Win 8.1 isn't getting upgraded - ever. I may even downgrade it to 7.
> Seeing as you're an OS X fan I'm going to link you to this HN thread so we can go ahead and stop pretending that trash OS "just works":

The operating system is fine. Complaining about a bunch of built-in applications gets us nowhere.

I'd rather complain about the fact that the default filesystem is case insensitive, for instance.
People who seriously used this site made their own bed and will have to lie in it, that's their life to live. But attacking this bunch of idiots at Avid Life is fair game; their security was stupid on a mega scale.
Bait and switch. Release a great service with sane privacy settings and policies, make any privacy-sensitive settings opt-in at first, get people using it and depending on it. Switch it to opt-out but no one notices or cares because they're already on the hook and it's a media darling. Then change the privacy settings and policies to something nefarious while leaving it opt-out. Even if the media brings up the new privacy issues, only the folks who are already privacy-conscious will notice or care, and they probably weren't using the service anyway.

See Spotify for a very recent example of this process.
A Culture of Trust (Unlike Amazon)
CyanogenMod is a barebones Android ROM that comes with permissions management.
@KaterKarlo123

And you seem to be driven by pure passion toward your beloved corporation that you felt the need to create an account here, 1 hour ago, just to inform us how mute Win 10 is compared to an android phone.
How do oil prices factor into this? The price has already been diving in this last quarter. Oil stocks also make up a huge portion of the Dow formula.
The correlation between the indexes is pretty strong. Despite the DOW not being a statistically great thing, it's very rare it's doing something significantly different than the S&P 500.
Yes, you can enter into the S&P 500...
Buying a TI graphing calculator was mandatory for my math class in 7th grade ~20 years ago, and those were around $120, or $200 if adjusted for inflation. That was at a public school, and that was only useful for a single subject, not every class in school.
> The controversy began because of a line in Microsoft’s service agreement. This allows Microsoft to issue updates that will stop users “playing counterfeit games,” according to TorrentFreak.

Game companies have been issuing updates that stop users "playing counterfeit games" ever since it was possible to do so. Microsoft is a game company, or one of the divisions are. It's interesting that they would stop there, rather than say "use of counterfeit software". That would be much broader.

Microsoft has been doing that for some time so what is the justification for gamers all of a sudden freaking out.
As an Eastern / Atlantic Canadian, I have always herd it "24 of beer" never "24 beer"or more common people ignore the "beer" part, for example "I'm going to get a 24 for the weekend".

edit: added a usage example
Thanks a lot for the detailed response! I'm a Rails developer myself, and have recently become increasingly interested in front end development. Have tried to embrace React et al. but am not convinced that it's what I need.
> Snowden released nothing specifically about Windows. No backdoors, no specific cooperation.

This is the exact opposite of what was claimed in many of the documents that were leaked. One example;

July 31, 2012

Microsoft (MS) began encrypting web-based chat with the introduction of the new outlook.com service. This new Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption effectively cut off collection of the new service for FAA 702 and likely 12333 (to some degree) for the Intelligence Community (IC). MS, working with the FBI, developed a surveillance capability to deal with the new SSL. These solutions were successfully tested and went live 12 Dec 2012.

From;
https://search.edwardsnowden.com/

That is the very definition of collaboration.
Here is the chart: http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/BDIY:IND

Can you explain why it worries you in a bit more detail? The drop doesn't look so bad.
Could you recommend a resource that would provide some good information on this? I keep hearing about ways to modify routers to operate this way, but have yet to come across something that clearly describes how this is done.
Microsoft could have been close to this, but Google is really executing here.

Make no mistake, this is not about the Hardware - this is training kids on an office suite. GDocs as a long game against MS Office 365. Kids get older, habits and skills stay. Brought up on Gmail, GDocs they will have issues with Word, Excel.

MS better step up.
One thing I'd really like to know, and obviously nobody will tell: There are surely STILL people signing up and paying right now, who don't know about the hack, or whatever. I'd just love to know whether their signups (not counting people who have recurring payments and haven't thought to cancel) have gone down 90%, 95%, or who knows, it could be one of those crazy things where they've only lost 50% of new users or something (although I'd doubt it).

A recruiter working with AM contacted me 3 days before the hack was first announced and was really pushing me to work there, and I kind of want to just be a jerk and email them today saying "Hey I'm interested, are they still hiring?"
All sectors are diving today. Energy, tech, healthcare, financials, telecom, even utilities.
I'm assuming the Fed will not raise interest rates now.
There are Git GUIs for Linux as well. I don't use them, so I can't recommend anything personally, but I'm sure Google could turn up something useful :)
I'm not saying that it's "take it or leave it".

I'm saying that if you're unwilling to use a Google account for this, then (in all likelihood) it probably isn't the best product for you.

The same way that if you're unwilling to use an Amazon (or Apple) account, the Kindle (or iPhone) isn't going to be the best product for you.
Please do try Fedora 22 with Gnome. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
Are we all experts who are capable of thinking for ourselves ("thinking for ourselves" seems to equal: inspecting the primary literature, or review literature, and coming to a conclusion)? No, we're not.

Thinking for yourself is untenable- we need scientists who are experts in analyzing data to provide specific suggestions, and disseminate those in the media. Unfortunately, there is little consequence to reporting false conclusions, or inaccurate health data, so I don't see any change forthcoming.
The article was probably written after China closed. Someone simply filled in the numbers at the open.
The one thing that drives me mad about the Chromebooks is Google Cloud Print. We don't use it very often and every time we do, it's broken. I don't know if it's something in our Brother printer or on the Chromebooks and I really, really, really don't care.

I just want to be able to connect the Chromebook to the printer and print.

AirPrint, on the same printer, works every time from my MacBook. But it doesn't require a "printer manager" to figure out what the printer's IP # is, point a browser to it, login, then use the admin interface to give permission to people via email and those people to click on the email.

It's Linux underneath so I don't understand why that can't be used to talk to CUPS or LPD or something similar in the same way the file system is used.
Those numbers are amazing, do you perhaps have a citation ? I'm a machine learning researcher and would love to include them in talks about data-aware algorithms.
I would think that not every human, regarding their weight/age/height, would not have to drink the same amount of water.

Water is delicious, though.
You can just remove "mainstream" from that post. It's of course fine to defer to experts on matters you know nothing about, but you really shouldn't let other people do your thinking for you at all, ever.
Health aside, some people report cutting carbs entirely or almost entirely helps them lose weight. As for whether it's "healthy", who really knows, but it appears to be statistically significant when it comes to weight.
At the end of the day, the average not-athlete person who just wants to stay healthy should just remember that magic word: "moderation". Everything is good as long as you don't have too much of it, and for the basic necessities (water), just follow what your body tells you instead of ignoring/suppressing it. You won't get fat because you've had 7 glasses of water rather than $MAGIC_NUMBER$, so there is no point in obsessing about these.

If you are an athlete, of course, things are different; but in that case you should probably talk to professionals, not blindly trust mainstream magazines.
Which completely falls apart if you are 'unlucky' and buy at the wrong time. So by its very nature, buying that index fund requires good timing as well.

Just ask Japanese investors.

Or Chinese investors from 2007. They went sideways for eight years, and after their bubble deflates will likely see 20 total sideways years.

Or the Nasdaq from 1999 to 2012.

Point being, even the premise of index buying requires some smart timing or your returns - if any - will be extremely poor.
Fortunately most or all of those updates are "Optional", in particular the two mentioned in the main body of the articlen (KB3075249 and KB3080149). So if you're set up to only install "important" updates you'll have skipped them, as I did.
I have to wonder how soon it will be before torrent clients just start faking their user agents and pretending to be from older versions of Windows.
But they were already collecting that data. They're still collecting it on 7 and 8. You almost certainly use several other services that collect the same data, or more. The only reason you think Windows 10 is unique in this is because Microsoft did THE RIGHT FUCKING THING and made their privacy policies understandable to regular people. And they're being criticized and villainized for this. It's childish and indefensible.
"occasionally reload blocks of code from disk" - It's not that simple. An ECC system avoids most HW related issues but does not protect you from SW errors which probably accounts for most rotting.

Why reboot it in the first place? If the HW has ECC, the SW does not rot unless it is poorly written.
Well, Android is open source and not free software. It appears that's what people want nowadays.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.e...
You probably didn't mean it this way, but I'd like to point out that formal validation certainly isn't incompatible with "agile" approaches, but it won't work the way that most people practice it.

At the systems level you often have a mix of both classes (like your Xray example, typically). And there is often a third path "failure has a well defined mitigation path" in the mix, also.
Trying to time the overall market is just as ineffectual as trying to time individual stocks. A consistent investment schedule beats hanging on to money hoping for a drop.
Interesting. I read sometime back that MS was going to disable changing the hosts file. I guess that was just rumor?
Given the forum, I was expecting yet another copyright infringement case being mislabeled as piracy. Nice to see a story about actual pirates in international waters.
The situation that illegal torrent sites are ambiguously banning Windows 10 users?

What kind of response do you expect from them?