skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PS - I flagged this article on purpose because I don't consider a random Reddit thread to be a legitimate source.

You should be flagged here then, not because you don't trust Reddit but because you haven't checked any other sources, including these linked in the comments here, long before you posted your comment!

It's documented by Microsoft:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351

"How to manage the Windows 10 upgrade

Automatic scenarios

The Windows 10 upgrade is automatically blocked (that is, no further action is required) on computers or other devices in the following scenarios: .."

Note: no further action is required to stop computer to being upgraded only on Enterprise!

"Non-automatic scenarios

You can manage the Windows 10 upgrade by using any of the following methods."

Managing here means -- you can read slowly the whole article -- the ability to disable automatic upgrade! No action taken -- upgrade happens. Even if you have hidden the previous update! You have to enter the proper new registry entry or group policy:

"administrators who want to prevent Windows 7, Windows 7 for Embedded Systems, Windows 8.1, and Windows Embedded 8.1 Pro clients from upgrading should enable the policy settings that are discussed in this article."

It's not that "no click" is needed, it's that the people who do that click don't have any idea what is going to happen, e.g. they are not the "qualified administrators" of their own computers. Like most of the people who let other people installing them software. Now it's just something like:

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Win10....

Dark pattern par excellence.

Hard to believe but true.
The problem is that traffic engineers disagree with your assessment of efficiency. You are effectively using aggressive driving (a crime) in order to circumvent actual laws (yield to mergers) and to self-righteously defend the worldview that you have constructed in order to provide a superficially logically consistent explanation for your emotional frustration about losing out.
That's just for the (non-removable) button in the taskbar. There are in fact a number of different updates related to the upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10.
Joe Gebbia How Airbnb Designs for Trust
Oh man I needed this yesterday. Was doing some livecoding, stupidly decided to run npm install, and there was dead air for waaaaaay too long.

This would've been perfect.
>Or alternatively how Badoo could have saved $1.9M by coding in a compiled language.

Considering the extra baggage and ceremony that comes with most compiled languages, that sounds like a bad proposition, especially given that they ALREADY had 3 millions of lines of PHP working just fine.
I would assume that internally there would be some lookup to know to deliver an email to `myemail@gmail.com' to the actual user at `my.email@gmail.com', but I could be wrong. I can't test this because my email address doesn't use periods.
And optimistically, maybe a way to give some of the other community stakeholders, like Typelevel, a more official seat at the table. But I haven't heard anything about what Typelevel feels about this, so maybe I'm speaking too soon.
There are other concerns to keep in mind, eg. the upgradability of storage to use next gen cards that use 3d nand, etc. I'm sure they thought through a list of concerns before going this route.
> True, but the bigger issue is, will the current occupant of the vehicle ever say yes?

People are already doing this with their houses (Airbnb). Why not their cars?
I created a ulam spiral visualization for this article using JavaScript and HTML5 canvas. The demo and source code are at http://silveiraneto.net/2016/03/14/the-prime-conspiracy-visu...
Because it's not hipster and bro-cred-compatible enough...
> From everything I know about PHP, while not being a PHP programmer, it has both low productivity AND low performance.

You should probably stop, it's quite embarrassing. It's obvious your "everything" is just about "nothing".
The mindset of "fail fast" wasn't a thing when Knuth wrote that statement.
My concern comes more from the angle of scientific integrity rather than systematic oppression, but I thought your point was sound and it made me ask myself "why do we, as readers, care that this subjective experience comes from a scientist?".
And who usually don't have much else to show for in any other language.

Where's this better than Wordpress (in functionality, not codebase) project in another language, for example?
That was the problem I always had in my pre-cloud days. We were usually running racks half-full because of power restrictions in the DC. It was convenient because you could keep you cold spares and tools in your expensive space, but it always seemed like you should be putting more useful stuff in the racks.
Lexis – a programming exam invigilation system for Linux (2001) [pdf]
All I can tell you is that it's listed under optional updates, and it's automatically checked[0].

[0]https://imgur.com/wOO1jzz
I've studied EE before at master's level, but I'm going back to do a master in CS with 4/5 courses in ML. In the end I feel there is a great advantage in being able to implement the algorithms you design for ML applications.
What do you think?
I'm a recent Dropbox Pro subscriber -- I've been a user for many years.

Really glad to see what's been going on from behind the scenes, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the future will bring to the front end of Dropbox.

Thanks guys!
I'm really hoping this crap badly affects the computers of some large justice/gov systems around the world (and/or the home computers of senior judges).

That should get the right people involved for sticking the boots in.
So subtle, that product placement though...
One of the best arguments for Rackspace is that their cloud offering is far more straightforward and easy to use than AWS, and they have boatloads of SDKs (https://developer.rackspace.com/docs/) and client libraries as well. Even better than Rackspace as far as ease of use is Digital Ocean, which has tutorials very basically every topic you can think of googling and a ton of libraries too (https://developers.digitalocean.com/libraries/). I'm not saying that any of these are better or worse than AWS, but if we're talking in terms of usability and learning curve AWS is a bit of a beast to fully grasp compared to other IaaS offerings out there due to its shear number number of constantly growing offerings.
An AI with 30 Years of Knowledge Finally Goes to Work
nice work, i am interested in this kind of information, but i am no big fan of the edutainment video format, i prefer text or a university lecture.
some feedback about the first video:

- why the music? should this be information or an awfully mixed guitar rap song with the worst flow ever? i can't stand the use of elevator music in these kind of videos and also regard this kind of video production as an act of disrespect towards music in general.

- why not use more descriptive variable names, e.g. hours and score instead of x and y? the mystification of these kind of things comes partially from generalised abstraction and undescriptive variable names. since you already use a real world example, why not reflect it with the variable names?

- less speed, more pauses in general do good for demystification of such a topic, the typical 10-second-attention-span youtube-edutainment-video-style might not really fit here

- the drawings and the general flow are nice and well done
Geohot is probably going to be the first in the race to kill someone with a buggy self-driving car.

“The human eye has dynamic range. You’ve all clicked
the HDR button in a smartphone camera. Cheap cameras
are two to the 10th [in doing range detection]. Well,
the human eye is two to the 30th!”

2^30 in "doing range detection"? What? Presumably what he's actually talking about is contrast ratio, and 10-bit ADCs in cheap image sensors.
Loretta Lynch and the Government War on Free Speech
http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/11/im-sorry-but-your-email-addr...
I thought Autopilot was nifty but it wasn't until I slogged through ~40 minutes of rush hour without touching the pedals or wheel when I realized how awesome it really was.

Which car can do this?
Tiling is the least useful thing that tmux does. Event the name (tmux) implies that it's core competency is something else entirely -- multiple sessions, kept open, switching between them, persisting, etc.
Another useful, related, online course, Statistical Aspects of Data Mining (Stats 202) from Stanford & GoogleTechTalks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRsMEl6PHhM&list=PLA4B3B4CB6...
If it's something a sophomore with no background beyond calculus can handle, it is simple stuff. It's ridiculous that treating software engineers as though they have a bachelor's degree in STEM makes you a "LambdaBro."
EULAs aren't legally binding in some countries because they're not disclosed before the sale. So this might protect them in the US but I could imagine it becoming a problem in other countries still.
Is it built for exact reverse image search or is it able to retrieve semantically similar objects?
It's super weird to me that Minecraft is now seen as a "kids game". I'm sure kids play it, but everyone I know who plays it is adult or high school age.

It's really sad to me to see people turned off by it because kids play it. It was never that way when it first came out and when I was getting into it. Now I leave my Minecraft shirts in the closet because I know people associate it with childish things.
Thanks, that sounds plausible, that it's the result of their fear of Windows XP.
Because LXD is jusr LXC with an API.
All Autopilot equipped Teslas.
Precisely - I think of this quote as more about how profiling and micro-optimizing your code should come last - but basic stuff like choosing the right data structure for the job should be something any programmer should jump at.
How Imgur Became a Megacommunity
Perhaps, like the rest of the body, the brain is more an interface between the physical world and the "true self" (call it "soul" if you prefer). That includes relationships with others' interfaces.

In this view, changing the brain merely changes how we perceive the world, our behavior in it and, thus, how we are perceived by and relate to others. Interestingly, it can also change our sense of our own self in relation to the world.

When you consider disorders like depersonalization and derealization, they seem to be exactly a defect in this sensory system. The nature of who you are hasn't changed, but your sense of who you are has.
Perhaps typing the email caused you to hit space bar or the return key while the popup install windows 10 prompt was active? I've had this happen with regular reboot messages from windows updates.
I was running under the assumption people ran their software "out of the box" and wouldn't want to adjust settings given an absurdly low number of people actually change defaults.

If we're going to take into consideration configurations... even when adjusted it still isn't quite right. There are also issues with debanding and sharpness, see: http://i.imgur.com/qrutuP6.jpg

A properly configured MPC-HC will beat a properly configured VLC. Although many people probably wouldn't care about such minor differences - some people do.

I'm not too heavily opinionated since the end result is visual and thus comes down to personal preference. Given the details are minor and most people wouldn't even notice without showing them, I don't think its of great importance. But if someone's going to be digging through config files and taking time to set something up - they should start with better software and adjust their settings from there.
An AI with 30 yrs worth of knowledge finally goes to work
Unix-like split command in Python
Some sites only use Flash like Crunchyroll or Quia for DRM purposes (and lack of technical chops)
My caffeine usage has varied quite a bit. At one point I was drinking a cup of coffee in the morning, some caffeinated drink during the day, and then tea in the evening, around seven o'clock. When I was eating a college dining hall diet, I was drinking a caffeinated soda with every meal, plus coffee in the morning, and tea (mostly green) on average once per day. These days I hardly drink any caffeine. The transitions between these patterns have always been abrupt, and I've never felt drowsy or had a craving or headaches or anything following a reduction of caffeine consumption.

As a kid I was taking 30mg amphetamine daily, which I stopped taking abruptly and had no withdrawal (I did eat a huge amount in the days following, but the drug was causing me to not eat and lose weight). I had been taking it for about 6 months. Later I was taking 54mg methylphenidate 5 days/week for about two years, and I stopped taking it abruptly and again experienced no withdrawal symptoms.

Different people react differently to drugs.
credism: the belief in value
Credism is the belief in value. Value takes on many forms, but these forms can be broadly classified in one of two categories: social and economic. Social value refers to the principles and views held by individuals. More deeply, it reflects the culmination of interactions with the self and with other individuals. Economic value refers to the network of goods and services underwritten by capital. This network and the transactions within it forms the foundation of the economy.

As time goes on, the distinction between between social and economic value blurs. One instance where this happens all the time: the media. The media carefully crafts information for the masses with the intent of promoting an agenda or boosting viewership statistics or both. The bias in this information is characteristically apparent, yet people often take the information at face value. With the advent of the internet, the need for a responsible way of transacting social and economic value has never been greater.

Credism is the belief in value, but it’s also much more than that. It’s about exercising our social value in ways that can drive economic value. It’s also about bringing truth and awareness to the opposite circumstance--where economic value attempts to drive social value. Credism is only spread by its participants, but the effect it intends leaves a lasting impact on the lives of others.
Not at all. I work at a decent size enterprise...

Buying off the shelf hardware providing an s3 style API saves us a significant amount of money, and while our scale is large, it isn't a fraction of what Dropbox is.
Where do the candidate stand on net neutrality and surveillance?
If you haven't seen it already, you might be interested in subreddit simulator https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator which is pretty much that but for upvotes on reddit. It's at most kind of amusing at times for now
The Prime Conspiracy Visualized Over an Ulam Spiral in HTML5
I re-posted the link that works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11286089
It turns out that the average number of flips to get HH and HT is 3 - someone else on the thread described it well - on average, the number of flips to get to a "H" will be 2, and then you will always stop on the next flip - 50% at flip 3 with a HT, and 50% at flip 3 with a HH. Explained that way, it makes sense that the average number of flips is 3.

But, I still find it strange that if you are flipping with one particular scenario in mind, HT or HH, that the average number of flips goes from 3 to 4 or 6, even if I can reason it out with a bit of thinking.
Short men and fat women 'get fewer chances in life', research says
What do you think about this script on Voat? :
https://voat.co/v/technology/comments/853510

I'm really curious to know your opinion Hacker News. Is this a good way to live with Windows 7 now? It seems to be open-source, easy to apply, it disables telemetry and Windows 10 crap.

Any better alternatives?
it goes deeper than that because of the way our bodies metabolize chemicals we often have to pump poisons in to kill something at far greater toxic levels than to kill that thing if it was outside our bodies
Yeah I think that's the one! Wow good for them, I remember reading about them last year, then after that I never really heard about them again.
While a simple HTTP interface is easy to code around, I quite like the AMQP protocol. It's fast, efficient, reliable and powerful.

We currently use it to send hundreds of thousands of messages per second, large and small, around the world to different data centers and it always works smoothly.

For anyone interested, Microsoft Channel 9 has a great 6 part series on the AMQP 1.0 protocol: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Subscribe/The-AMQP-10-Protoc...
It depends on how you implement median selection. You can get O(n log n) worst case if you want.
How to Memorize Pi
I'm deeply suspicious of these 'just so' explanations. While it's not at all surprising that QE would be a major driver of the past several years, I'm not convinced that the flat graph is so meaningful. The regression is interesting, but ultimately it is just correlation, and only one of many tested.

I also don't think the market is neatly divided into segments of having a single dominant driver. That's a major assumption about how the market works, and is supported by simply finding 'flat spots' on the many charts produced.

I think this is valuable analysis, but conclusions like "the Fed caused ..." are just nonsense. A smart investor could use this information to look for trend changes, but they do not explain the market.
I'm curious if users can get free certificates like in the past, or if they will have to pay for them.
Uber driver blamed phone app for shooting rampage
I suppose this isn't as egregious as, say, some guy writing a book saying that God is real because of a dream he had and you should totally believe him because he's an MD.

That said, what's to say that her experiences (which perhaps highlight the limits of science) are more valid than anyone else's experiences which do the same.

The reason I find it troubling is because it fits into a multi-hundred year paradigm of, say, indigenous people not being believed about their medical knowledge until some white guy flies down to South America and puts his stamp of approval on it. Or, say, some western religious studies scholars flying to Japan and teaching them what their religious beliefs really are, or whatever.

I'm all for experts when they have real expertise and something to add. But what I find troubling is when a supposed lack of credentials is used to systematically invalidate the knowledge and experiences of certain groups of people, especially when those credentials have no actual relevance to the issue(s) at hand.
Two things:

1) I would rather have three walled gardens than one.

2) In the time since Microsoft's reign, things have sped up a bit. Anything that Google builds can be re-built by a teenager on a home computer maybe 5 years later. Since Facebook launched it's already been beaten twice: first by Instagram, and then by SnapChat. Even Google Search was bested by Siri (in terms of consumer relevance).

The current era is just nothing like what Microsoft did. It was incredibly depressing back then. There was a sense that you couldn't really do anything interesting because Microsoft would just copy it and destroy you. I don't see that attitude today, even with the entrenched powers you describe. It's more like "We can do anything because Google can't do everything". The definition of "everything" is just so much bigger now.

So to Microsoft, I say good fucking riddance. You thought you deserved to turn the world into your playground and now you're paying the price.

I do see Google trending in this direction... Googlers seem to think that they deserve to have all the funnest toys and not share them with the outside world. I suspect that's what will take Google down in the end. But the mindshare is theirs to lose. I don't think they have the power to hold onto it against the wishes of their community.
Wait so 'criticising government policies' is now grounds to classify a high school student as an extremist? Is this seriously the America that exists today? This sounds more like something a paranoid regime somewhere overseas might come up with but not the U.S.

I can say for a fact that I had my fair share of opinions on some pretty ridiculous government policies during high school, at this rate I would have been singled out as a person of interest. What stupidity is this coming from a 'world leading' country.
Adding/adjusting these two variables in ~/.tmux.conf should stop TMUX lockups and control the flow:

c0-change-trigger
c0-change-interval

edit: you probably know those 2 already so maybe they don't control large tar.xz files
5 Outbound Sales Prospecting Tips to Exceed Your Sales Quota
Up until last year, typing "PHP [anything security- or cryptography-related here]" into any popular search engine would lead you to bad practices.

Then this happened: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/293930/problematic-...

Stack Exchange websites rank well and they allowed myself and others to provide better answers than they had previously. This leads to more developers being exposed to safer, cleaner ways to solve problems. Which means less terrible code being written from following terrible SO answers and tutorials.

And now things are a lot better. There's still obviously work that needs to be done, but:

- The ecosystem (i.e. tutorials) is improving
- The language is improving drastically
- The community is pushing towards better practices
- Framework developers are taking security seriously

A lot of people don't like how PHP used to be, including most of the people who put time and energy into making it better. You're not alone.

P.S. If you like the direction things are headed, help us make 7.1 even better:

* https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mcrypt-viking-funeral

* https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium

* https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php71-crypto
PEG is basically a thin abstraction over recursive descent parsing. Everything you can do in a handwritten parser can be expressed mostly declaratively in PEG.

And, no, there is no single reason not to use PEG. Especially when the choice is between a handwritten parser and a PEG. There is a lot of stupid FUD about PEGs, you should ignore it. Your links are pointing to the ignorant, incompetent mumbling of those who never tried implementing a proper PEG.

And I never met a language for which writing a PEG parser was not totally trivial. A pro tip: use PEG alongside with a Pratt for the binary expressions.
CSS Architectures in 2016
This is something I discussed with some fellow AI enthusiasts 2 years ago. We tried to come up with some "reward function" that would encourage very general behavior and reward more generally intelligent AIs.

The idea I had was to reward collecting blocks of different types, with exponentially decreasing reward. So finding a block it's never found before is 100 points, the second it finds is 50 points, and so on. It encourages exploration and touching on as many mechanics of the game as possible.

The important part is that the AI learns on its own though, not programmed to do specific tasks by a human. However it should perhaps be given recipes and some other meta information, because discovering those by chance is highly improbable.
SXSW also refused to give a US Olympian her badge until she removed her hijab: https://twitter.com/IbtihajMuhammad/status/70872225098001203...
Because, for one thing, it's not someone's god-given right to move from a lane that is nearly standing still from one that is moving fast.

"Gee whiz, I just joined this freeway, and damn it, I'm gonna edge my my way all the way to the fast moving left most lane at practically ninety degrees to the traffic flow."
InversifyJS a powerful lightweight IoC container for JavaScript apps
Assuming you are there to respond to the dialog.... if you aren't, then the timer will go off and it will be too late.
Georgette Packaging (YC W16) Makes Custom Branded Boxes and Cups for Bakeries