skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting on my trusting hat, I would think that MS is only transmitting enough data to keep the machine running and virus free without any intervention from the non-technical people. So it would be a safe machine for a small company without any IT staff. A lot of those companies just take the computer out of the box and plug it in and don't do anything further anyway.

I don't see why they don't just add the option to disable that with appropriate labeling, though, if nothing else to satisfy the more vocal, privacy-concerned folks.
Dividends can underwrite the value even if never issued, the same way a government guarantee can make debt 0-risk even if the guarantee is never exercised.
Contrast with a "tulip economy", like bitcoin, where there is no intrinsic value — only investor sentiment/expectation. Bitcoin and gold are worth money because you expect others to expect others to expect etc it to continue to be worth money.
Time-discounted expected future dividends act as shared knowledge: everyone knows that if the price dropped below a certain point, the company can start issuing dividends and the price would immediately recover. Because everyone knows that, the price never has to drop that far, and it's never necessary.
the definition of being an _______
A method that works is fixing a saw to something that would insulate you from the arc(like a broom handle) and just cut the cable. This is basically the oldest safety trick in the book when it comes to jointing power cables.
Honestly, I think that sort of thing is happening.

Look at the changes to the Post Office. Two seemingly small things combine to put real pressure on what is otherwise able to operate just fine.

One was a change in rates, which basically favored large publishers. Small distribution and citizen mail subsidize big publishing, who then can ramp up on their volume.

The other was a pre-pay requirement for benefits that is just nuts! Something like 25 years.

Now, the Post shows a loss and there is a lot of discussion about how to "improve" it, privatize it, etc...

I'll bet there is a fair amount of this type of thing going on. Some analysis to identify critical targets, planning to impact them, then messaging to maximize the leverage / profit / change from those impacts.

Anyway, back to the Post. Either one of those things would have been both manageable and to a degree justifiable. Both combined are a real mess.
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Yup, he is the inspiration behind the name! ;)
Eh, I feel like it's middle-road. If you genuinely had a deep-seeded care about ethics in software, you would be RMS, not using any sort of non-free software. This is exactly the type of thing that justifies his stance.

On the other hand, if you are Randian, then taking the bounty is the ONLY ethical thing you can do, as Apple explicitly does not pay bounties of any amount.

While I'm troping, I'll take this chance to say that Down with Microsoft, Google is a hypocrite for "Do No Evil" and Cult of Apple are idiots...
>In video games

in console games
Intelligence is selected for in humans. Therefore any individual gene that significantly boosts intelligence should be expected to have already spread through the population, or has a trade-off that reduces reproductive fitness.

The same can be said with drugs -- any chemical that your body could have reasonably produced on its own should be expected to reduce your reproductive fitness. So brain drugs should nearly all have side-effects.
Give the people what they want!
Plex doesn't really have much of a notion of files. It prefers metadata that makes sense to non-technical users. While this is at the cost of tweakability, I think it's the right call.
Except they never explored the problems they faced. The maquis had about 3 episodes worth of issues integrating perfectly into the crew. They had to ration things apparently, no one ever seemed to mind. Damage wasn't a problem, lots of spares I guess. Oth r than he Doctor it was 7 years of the same people (which is true for most series, except ds9).

So much wasted potential.
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The closest I could find in the docs to what digi_owl said is the following:

> Internally, these functions send a single datagram with the state string as payload to the AF_UNIX socket referenced in the $NOTIFY_SOCKET environment variable. If the first character of $NOTIFY_SOCKET is "@", the string is understood as Linux abstract namespace socket. The datagram is accompanied by the process credentials of the sending service, using SCM_CREDENTIALS.

I can see how someone would be reluctant to rely on that, even given the interface promise and the nudging of the systemd developers. To be more consistent with what's a stable, public interface and the admonition to avoid internals, I would probably drop the word "internally."

Indeed, I've created a pull request:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/1759
She had to pose is what I'm getting from this. Granted, I'm not one of those people who thinks modelling is simple, but I'm not following what is severely dark about that.
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I just double-checked and it's working fine. Maybe it was an intermittent issue with JobScore, the service that hosts our View Open Positions page. Is it working for you now?
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Cross-database queries add a powerful dimension to Azure SQL Database
> is this cultural?

Making it about one guy and his cultural background is a bit stupid, in my opinion.He is what, Indian? does it influence its way of thinking, maybe. Does that dictate Windows 10 strategy? no. This guy was mostly unknown before he becomes CEO of Microsoft, I always thought Sinofsky would take Balmer's job. My point is, MS board chose a rather "unknown to the public" and more discreet guy to represent MS in order to change the image of the brand. Which worked. Who came up with that new business model, we don't know, Nadella certainly vetted it though.
Bashir is supposed to be lame for the first while. It's part of his arc that he starts out as a talented, but arrogant doctor and inexperienced officer but grows up as the series grows.

Also Alexander siddig is a pretty good actor.
I agree that it's a cryptic statement, but I think he meant that bubbles are characterized by investors believing irrationally that an asset class is cheap and buying it. Therefore, investors believing that an asset is not cheap indicates that there is no bubble.

Another way of saying it is that if people are generally skeptical about the valuation of an asset class, it can't be in a bubble. That does leave one wondering why said investors would continue to buy the asset, though.

With many bubbles, the thing that breaks them isn't investor worry about valuation, but the sudden cascade of failure of mechanisms built on top of the valuations. In the case of the real estate bubble, this occurred because huge numbers of bad loans suddenly stopped being paid when interest rates went up. That broke all the financial instruments built on top of them.
Glad it worked for you, but that doesn't make it good advice. And doesn't change the lack of uniqueness. It's usually a mistake to generalize from your own experience, when thinking about pedagogy. I'd wager that most people would do ok following that advice as if it were true ... But not as well as if they'd read as well.
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Ask HN: Considering a job offer at a “unicorn.” What should I know about equity?
I'm deciding between job offers - one at a Big 4 company, one at a so-called 'unicorn.' I like them both and know I'd enjoy the work and teams at either. On paper, the later offer is better - slightly higher base, much more equity (on paper).

My question: how does one compare the value of RSUs from a Big 4 company (with a clearly known value and relatively predictable future performance) with shares in a private company? On paper, the shares in the latter are worth much more (based on the current public valuation). Are there any caveats I should know about - can I assume the numbers I'm being given are reasonably accurate? Obviously, there is much greater risk at a company where the valuation is heavily based on future growth.

What questions should I ask about the shares, or what other factors might I want to consider when weighing these offers purely on compensation? I've read about different types of shares, liquidation preferences, etc. How much of this could a candidate expect to know about and should it factor into a decision?
Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds
Another one for the record books!!!
It's in PHP, so what do you expect. ;) jk
Quality post. Thanks for sharing.

If some of these timers are implemented as separate OS tasks that can interrupt each others, what's to stop one from taking a bit too much time and throwing off the timing of another?
Show HN: A new general-purpose API solving common and complex problems
Serving certificates from Redis with OpenResty and ssl_certificate_by_lua
Prosecutors and the Spiderman Principle
It's not fair to quote Nadella saying "I was inarticulate". That comment only happened after, as Wikipedia puts it, "a strong backlash". Melissa Waggener (a very smart lady who I've met) probably gave him a good talking to.
The truth is, the only intellects that matter here are those of the mods. If they don't find a subject interesting, it's objectively uninteresting.
When this Emdrive stuff first hit the news, I was positive it was just another crackpot idea or scam that wasn't being properly tested, in the vein of E-Cat or the 100s of other examples of 'physics breaking' inventions you could find with a cursory Google search.

However, the fact that so many labs, including Eagleworks, are building these and detecting thrust from them is making it start to grab my interest. I'm still extremely skeptical, but some of that skepticism is starting to give way to genuine excitement for the 'what if?' factor.
"as opposed to"? People only have one money?

I threw $n at a shot to get an honest, articulate voice on stage at an early-primary-season debate, to hopefully influence the party/eventual candidate's agenda. It didn't work. Oh well.

I have a $500 iPad sitting on my coffee table gathering dust, too, which was the bigger waste?
That's a shortcut for the wopr page
Wrong link, but everything is back to full speed no matter what :)
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I wonder what the party is like for these guys. Like, how do you celebrate this?
> Microsoft has essentially forced me to turn off Windows Update on all my Windows 7 machines/partitions...

Same here. It's very annoying that they're trying to force a major upgrade. I don't like Windows 10 - I don't like its frankenstein UI and I don't like its privacy implications and I find myself in the odd position of having to jump through hoops to keep it off my PCs.
Mc video tutorials
I found this extremely demystifying.
Good article explaining how cross db queries work in the azure SQL world
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Actually, no—we plan on replacing "Executive" to "Emoji" in the current CEO's title, so that spot is already taken.

Probably "Head of Emoji" is the career ceiling for this particular position, although "SVP, Emoji" is also a possibility (will bring this up at next board meeting).
> I don't see why they don't just add the option to disable that with appropriate labeling, though, if nothing else to satisfy the more vocal, privacy-concerned folks.

Your last point basically contradicts the first one, IMHO, because you have an OS that itself becomes a giant spyware. You don't know what MS is doing with all that data. The could very well resell them to 3rd parties, give it to states, ...

And the "you can't turn that off" is obviously by design. You can't turn off a spyware.
I'm sure Slack isn't the best available tool; I just know it's better than IRC.
This, combined with Microsoft trying to trick people into thinking they need a Microsoft account in order to create a user account, shows how far they have fallen.
I have a very low-traffic blog that I'd like to see more visits to. If I can get enough traffic, I'd like to monetize it via affiliate ads- but at this point that's a long shot, due to it's apparent invisibility. Today I published its best content yet, written by an expert in his field. I hope to be able to publish high quality content such as this more often, but I don't know yet how I'll source exceptional writing.

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Seven Bridges of Königsberg – Or the invention of Topology
Hey guys we have loads of aliens who want to migrate, let's use our advanced technology to set them up a series of colonies.

Though actually, that would have made a decent episode of tng
LiveJournal did it.
> because upstart could grok the scripts without change

I don't believe that's the case. The "service" command (which is part of the sysvinit-utils package, not Upstart) invokes either Upstart or SysV init as necessary, but Upstart itself has no awareness of the SysV init world. You couldn't have an Upstart service depend on a SysV init one, list SysV service status with Upstart, or enable a SysV service through Upstart.

In case you're curious, the wrapping on the systemd side is more comprehensive. SysV scripts appear as units, and systemd parsed the semi-standard metadata at the top of most SysV init files to determine when the service should start if enabled (translating from the traditional run levels). As units, the SysV init scripts are possible to enable/disable, start/stop, and list using the standard systemd commands. They can also participate in dependency graphs alongside systemd units.
Sick Beard will handle this for you (you can just not hook up a usenet client if you dont need that bit)
Show HN: List and selectively download files from ZIP archive
Yeah -- it's supposed to be physically Read Only.

There are some corner cases requiring physical access (you could physically replace the RO firmware, or fake the switch). I don't think it does full remote attestation validation of the local OS before talking to cloud services, although it does some other stuff. I should look into that more.

But really, what I want is the ability to put my own enterprise key in there, in a write-once area, and do exactly what Google does now.
Some people are more attractive, cooler, more interesting, than others. It's not some evil plot by the corporations to make us feel bad about ourselves. These people are really out there. The left wing narrative that all bad things that happen to us stem from some structural power imbalance in our society, is blind to this fact of nature. So they need strange stories like this to explain away the apparent differences in how popular and cool people are.
Dates back to Win8 I think, Win10 actually improved this.
Tim Cook says it will be open, but did not say when: http://9to5mac.com/2015/10/03/tim-cook-apple-tv-universal-se...
Ask HN: Resource for estimating UI design costs
I was wondering if there is a site that estimates the "intrinsic weight" or minimal memory footprint of UI components like UIViewController (iOS) and LinearLayout (Android) in different contexts. Wouldn't that be an interesting tool for UI designer/developers like myself. I am just considering putting a UIViewController on table cells, not sure if it's even possible yet. It would be neat to select generalizing criteria like OS version and device family, and choose one or more components (consider for e.g. UICollectionView within UITableViewCell x10), and then see lower/upper limits on the estimated resource costs (rendering time, required memory) of basic design recipes.
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She's trying to create a movement out of it: http://www.letsbegamechangers.com. I'm not sure how I feel about this, if it's sincere and genuine or just a marketing ploy. Hopefully the former.
I don't know what I think about campaign finance reform. On the one hand I have the obvious concerns about money buying influence. On the other hand, money tried real real hard to buy the 2012 election and failed comically.

Meanwhile, the free speech issues involved in regulating campaign spending, while admittedly very inconvenient for all of us, are real, and no appeal to plutocracy extinguishes them.

Certainly: the approach Sanders seems to take to this problem, of literally amending the Constitution to neuter to First Amendment and then delegating to Congress --- yes, this Congress --- an unlimited power to regulate political speech, is not OK with me.

There are lots of reforms I want to see happen at the federal level. Sentencing reform, accountability for prosecutors, financial markets regulation, health care, school funding, health care, drug decriminalization, and health care are all I think good targets for top down federal regulation. Campaign finance, I think, might be a better thing for states to grapple with first.
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There is a country that is the poster child of fast and loose monetary policy - Japan.

No matter how many rounds of QE, the Japanese economy has yet to grow in real terms. [1]

This is further exacerbated by the fact that the younger generation are not marrying and having children, which leads to a demographic nightmare.

Overall, the USA's future is looking a lot like Japan's present day situation.

The solution is to return to the original Bretton-Woods system, where countries had a fixed interest rate regime tied to gold (or cryptocurrency, whatever commodity works best in this modern era) instead of the dirty float systems that are routinely used around the world.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG
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Corporations would use Win10 Enterprise (which has the None/Security level as an option) and set most of the privacy options using Group Policy.
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