skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same happened to my mom just yesterday. My mom happens to be an anxious 75 year old woman who takes a long time to acclimate to anything new on her computer, and also relies on said computer for several critical areas of her life.

She called me in a panic from 6 timezones away, and I had to drop what I was doing and spend a good half a day walking her through the various transition and setup steps. Every 30 minutes she would plaintively ask me why she had to do this - she was perfectly happy with what she had and had no interest in anything new. Every time she asked and I had no good answer, vague thoughts that included the words "class" and "action" swam through my head.
How did we allow a single company to own 30% of a market, despite its expensive pricing (https://www.symantec.com/en/uk/theme.jsp?themeid=compare-ssl...)?

Comodo and Synantec are 32% each, then goes others. StartSSl is significant but 2%, Let'sEncrypt tiny for now: https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/ssl_certif...
Why Are There Violent Rabbits in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts?
The "PDE" approach is working by effectively setting some boundary conditions and solving a differential equation. The smoothness of the contours comes from the fact that they are generated implicity by a relativity simple set of parameters. A typical vector format would instead record each contour explicitly, which, even after smoothing, is a lot of data.

The big idea is to describe the image intensities as a continuous surface which can be approximated in 3+ dimensions, not a patchwork of vector areas.
Even if your hiring system is perfect, you'd still have a bell shaped performance curve. But since people understand that their hiring isn't perfect, they look for ways to keep improving. I wonder how many of those here who get their panties in a bunch over rating on a curve have actually had to manage, and make a profit from, largish groups of people.
To be fair, iTunes on Mac is also a buggy, confusing, slow and generally terrible application.
Sounds like this is a good way of removing idiots from the gene pool. If you think the correct response to a perceived slight is to ignore explanation and apologies and try to kill someone then fuck you if you die, the parents see as much to blame for the loss of their daughter as she is for her own death.
TLDR, HN, who'll be the Google of 2020s?

P.S. Speaking of UI and UX, HANGOUTS SUCK!! (I and a colleague were not able to see (and then listen) each other in a call for about 15 minutes yesterday, with avatars popping in and out, everybody seeing himself only and such, until one of the machines in my LAN was able to both be seen on the other side and heard, too)
It would be easy enough to just prepend something random to the bare email's anyway, or to replace the random bit with every e-mail sent. So you can still spam mailhero users.
Why? As he explains in the Q&A session after the talk, two frames of latency at 30Hz (2 x ~33ms) is still more than 3 frames latency at 60Hz (3 x ~16ms). You will always have at least 2 frames latency if you split the game logic and render stages like they did for TLoU on PS3, so in fact their PS4 engine has better framerate and latency.
Cool.

Me and a friend did this at university with the Ogre 3D engine and failed miserably, because I didn't know much abut C++ or thread safety.

We tried the actor model, every game object became an actor and sent messages around. The actors would then be spread over the amount of CPUs and the performance should rise with every CPU. In the end we got it running on multiple cores, but the message overhead killed the performance, haha.
Better than 8? Possibly, except that Windows update in Win10 is out of control - nagging, forcing reboots, quietly resetting itself to more liberal settings if you ever try to restrict it, and pegging your CPU the second you go idle for more than 15 seconds. I need a Windows VM for Visual Studio and have both a Win8 and a Win10 one sitting around. While the Win8 one does look silly compared to Win10, it also manages not to antagonize me on a regular basis.
I suspect that some sort of biologically driven urge to dominate the gene pool will keep humanity from ever reaching any form of utopia. As long as we are programmed to compete with each other, this will always reflect in the way society is organized.
To me it seems that all of these utopian scenarios have in common that people allow others to be successful, expecting the same in return. This only works if everyone behaves this way and seems easy to abuse by people taking advantage of others. In other words, we don't need to worry about retaining unhappy feelings at work, others will make sure that you will remain unhappy at work. Or you will become someone that makes others unhappy at work.
It may work on a small scale, here and there, but in general on a global scale I believe we are doomed to live in an endless cycle of evolutionary driven struggle of some sort. I do hope I am wrong, but in any case we are a long way from reaching it, socially, not so much technically. Which makes me a bit sad at times.
And by "unify" the author would most likely mean "change all the other apps to have Mac-like UI".
On the same note, they can just construct <random chars>.user@mailhero.io and email sent there will be forwarded to you as if that's the custom email address you sent out.
> "…they care more about monetizing their users than their users privacy or interest."

Sadly this is true for all but a handful of companies.
The rest of the world (not us) just wants a user interface that's consistent. People need the use of their computers nowadays. They build their lives on top of them. Sweeping that out from under people without asking is NOT ok. Many people rely on old/custom software that could have easily been rendered useless in the transition. This was not an acceptable response to users refusing to upgrade. They should be allowed to do that... They bought the old version. Who cares if the new version is free.
The main problem with this is that many services won't allow your mail address to have a + in it.
Mine is from IKEA mostly :/
I'm counting on it. When all this began I replaced my legit Windows 7 copy with a pirated one because it isn't eligible for the 'Windows 10 upgrade'.
Awesome service! Liked it!
Instant messaging doesn't rule the collaborative software roost
Nailing their own coffin, I agree
You mean the phone team killing nokia, the legal team suying linux based companies or the Web team wanting to create a gigantic censorship database or the game team creating a console always online with an always on microphone, effectively creating the biggest spyware of all time ?

But the PR team nails it, I agree, because despite everything microsoft does, people keep forgetting.
You can't disable users from accessing the Windows Store, from what I've heard.
One for show hn?
JVM JIT optimization techniques
Thanks for the warning. I'm not sure if they're being sleazy or just unthoughtful and incompetent.
I already lost an afternoon with family, which I don't get to see that often, because I was forced to fix things that went wrong on their devices after the unexpected update.
I had told them to "Just click the red x for now,if a message about Windows 10 pops up".
That's quite funny, I've spent the last few days achieving pretty much the same thing but with Angular2. If some people are interested about it I might write a few things about it as well
Still can't get an inbound SMS number in Denmark. Damn you TC gods
Adaptive Neural Compilation
This seems like a trivially silly article. In essence it argues: "OSes are special sauce and apps are commodities - Google should recognize this and stop trying to differentiate their app designs."

That's certainly a valid opinion, but its reverse is just as defensible - if one considers services to be special sauce and OSes to be commodities, then it directly follows that app UIs should first be consistent across platforms. And considering that Google's entire business model is based on the latter view, why on earth would they take the author's view?
> It's a natural step to use this data for compression, which is what the authors have done here.

I understood the pixels for compression were chosen randomly, not by how much they define the main features of the picture. Or you meant the selected pixels are assumed to be defining features when reconstructing the image?
Assuming that Symantec doesn't manage to deflect onto Bluecoat, and assuming that browser vendors are willing to actually revoke one of the largest CAs for misuse rather than wagging their finger.

The last time Symantec made a "mistake" with their CA (https://security.googleblog.com/2015/10/sustaining-digital-c...), Google said "Therefore we are firstly going to require that as of June 1st, 2016, all certificates issued by Symantec itself will be required to support Certificate Transparency." Interesting wording, "by Symantec itself". And now, a few days before June 1st, Symantec issues an intermediate CA certificate to a known vendor of MITM systems, so that Bluecoat can issue certificates themselves rather than having their "certificates issued by Symantec itself".

I wonder if Bluecoat will support Certificate Transparency?
You don't need to connect to any device to update your iPad OTA updates have been standard for a reeeaaaallly long time now
I think another factor is just intuition: taking medicine when you feel ill makes sense, but continuing to take the medication for several days after you feel completely recovered seems intuitively wrong to a lot of people.
Historically, competition is what drives humanity forward. For a utopia to be stable, it'll probably need homogeneity has well, which sort of defeats the purpose.
Still waiting for Alphabet to die. When will it die!
It may be acceptable in certain states and jurisdictions, but it is throughly illegal in others. Remember you aren't just MITMing your own network, if someone from your network connects to my server you are MITMing me too and you have not obtained my consent for that. Even if your state is a one party consent state, mine may not be or have laws that heavily restrict interception.
FWIW, there's already https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy which seems to offer the same features as your tool (and a little bit more).
In other words, is utopia still utopia if all its inhabitants are designed to uniformly enjoy it?
I completely agree. The Linux kernel workflow is the only way to use git effectively and the history is always useful and each commit is nice and self-contained. Some people apparently don't understand that "no squashing of patchsets" means that the merger shouldn't squash a patchset (not that the developer can't make the patchset clean) and that "no rewriting history" refers to master once things have been merged into it.
The fact it still tries to peddle me SILVERLIGHT despite that getting "Hide Update"d every time it's ever been offered makes me think that (separate from W10-related strategic malice) there's also basic incompetence in the way Windows Update is designed/operated. I don't believe it's in MS's current interest to actively promote Silverlight and yet there it is again and again.
OS-level threads are a crude big hammer way of doing parallelism - want to run a task? Just switch out the whole 8kb of stack, then switch back to a stack that's 99% identical. Cooperative multitasking was always known to be much more efficient if you could ever get it to work safely - but one misbehaving task killed everything

Ironic that with deployment we're moving in the opposite direction - we've decided we really do need the complete isolation of separate VMs/containers and are willing to pay the performance overhead because process separation isn't enough.
One advantage to my grandmother still using Windows XP: it won’t auto-upgrade to Windows 10.
I've been working with .NET, Xamarin, and Azure for a while. Those Microsoft products really are a pleasure, I have very little to complain about. Shame that it's only these 3 MS products that justify that statement.
It's like the OS team is in another universe

I'm sure it's not the entire team, engineers usually aren't sociopathic assholes.

No, this is undoubtedly marketing or management. Maybe even top management. Maybe Nadella?
In other other words, is Brave New World a utopia or a dystopia?
That is for Windows 10 Pro, which as far as I can tell they are not even pushing on small business like us. I am seriously concerned though. It was hard enough transitioning to 7.
Probably the code used to generate the 200TB was not 200TB itself, right?

So in a sense, the code is the proof, and the 200TB is just something it generates as a side effect.
Artificial intelligence
If we are trying to build artificial intelligence, should'nt it be smarter than humans? If not, whats the point - we have humans anyway. Can we do better than humans in intelligence that includes morality, ethics, emotions?
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This has consequences even in the medical domain!

Recently I sat in the waiting room of a general practitioner (in Germany), where all patients had to wait because their main computer was unusable. That computer started an upgrade to Windows 10 against their will and almost all patients had to wait.
Interesting. It would be nice to have tab support in the editor.

One thing I noticed was that it took several seconds to construct large shapes like spheres - It might just have been JavaScript being JavaScript, but it would be good if you could improve performance somehow.
fmri for example
While in general I'd agree with Jason, in this case I can't. There's a big difference between the case of Word on the Mac back in the 90s and Google apps on iOS.

I use Gmail, Google Maps and Google Docs, but I use them equally on iOS and on the web. What I want from these apps is a consistent UI on the web and in the iOS apps. I couldn't give two craps about what it looks like on Android. No disrespect to Android, but that's just not an issue for me.

Jason's position is reasonable. Making the UI on iOS more like iOS conventions would have advantages and for some people this would be a better option, but there's an extra issue here he's not acknowledging.
I think MIPS RISC/Os had 'green' threads in the 80's, or I could be mixing it up with Tandem terminology, where Fiber was a constant type, I seem to recall .. either way, the idea of a userspace-managed thread scheme is as old as the hills.

The question has always been: who deals out the work, the OS or the App? and as we can see, the question will continue to be asked, and un-answered, probably ad infinitum ..
Entity Framework Core and Telerik Data Access Support in Entity Developer 6.0
Exactly this. If it's so vital that we finish the dose, why don't you make a bigger deal out of it? I feel that doctors simply don't care enough. Is there any other explanation?
Commit messages are very rarely read. I'd say it's well worth committing anything that compiles (that can only help bisection, which is a much more important use for history than human readability). Even a non-compiling commit isn't really a hindrance - if it doesn't compile mark it as unknown (you're using an automated bisect script that does that, right?), and you end up with the same result as if that commit hadn't been made.
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What if the site they're connecting to has a problem with that? If I for example serve E-Healthcare records, and have an agreement that a given person that I have vetted has access to them, I might have a problem with your unvetted IT staff having access but how would I know?
This drives me completely insane as well.

Note that I would have no problem updating my iphone if it didn't force me to install the latest Xcode to keep developing on it.
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Programmer satisfaction by field
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Depends if you take pill of happiness or not.
Make people WANT to upgrade

You know, being faster and cleaner, added features, reverting what they borked up with 8. What they managed to achieve is a public disgust when someone mentions "windows updates" (in case Windows wasn't mocked enough already).

Good job MS.
as a developer who codes all day and has rarely ever talked to or seen a girl in person, what is it like to have sex once or twice yourself?
Three words for the author of this post: iTunes for Windows
But now your old truck is 70 years old and all the replacement parts have to be hand made by some people you called back from retirement. It's okay to keep it running to show it off from time to time, but it's no way cost effective to do any real work with.
The article completely mischaracterizes Subversion workflows, making the mistake of treating a Subversion repo just like developers typically use git repos ... one-repo-per-project.

Subversion instead is a tree with projects as nodes toward the leaves, each project with its own trunk, branch, tags. It's each of these projects that corresponds to a git repo. Teams I worked on always treated each project as its own "repo" ... so the central single Subversion tree became like our 'github' or 'bitbucket' ... and one could do all the lockless branching within each project, no problem. YOU COULD BE AS NON-LINEAR IN THIS APPROACH AS YOU NEED TO BE, with full support for branching, tagging, merging, etc.

Where Subversion was much better was in supporting consolidated views of multi-project build / release environments, or in mixing sub-project code in parent-project code. Using svn:external it was each to put "that subproject in this place in my own project". Using git submodules and other approaches is a pain. You end up having to check out a bunch of git repos and managing your own glue.
Well that's just lovely.
Agreed. This was a nice resource to use while I was taking a data structures and algorithms class.
> Did the creatives lose out on monetary gains in those cases? Certainly. And copyright law evolved to solve that problem.

Problem? Are you sure this is really a problem? We assume by default that it is, but think of this for a second: on the one hand, monetary benefits for a few. On the other, a restriction on the liberty to copy and publish for everyone.

This wasn't always the case: historically, only a few people had the ability to share or publish anything. Copyright wasn't so unbalanced then. Now however we have the internet.

Given this asymmetry, the well being of creative people itself is secondary to the well being of everyone else. The real reason why creative people should be paid is because we want everyone else to be able to enjoy their creations.

It's easy to get caught up in individualistic considerations, such as "I did, it so I deserve a reward", or the opposition between "the" artist and "the" consumer. This can reduce to ridiculous arithmetic errors, such as, the picture of "the" starving artist that lost significant income because "the" consumer didn't pay $5 for a song.

We need to grow a sense of scale.
Well, that sounds like an excellent case for tariffs.
Cellphones or Wi-Fi today are like cigarettes in the '50s. A huge lobby pretend they are just fine, people are in denial because they love them and we lack of longitudinal data about their effects on health.

But thanks to further research, and time, we are starting to understand better the effects of cellphone radiation on health. The World Health Organization already had a rapport in 2011 about cellphones possible dangers: http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/

Meanwhile, people should learn to use cellphones in a healthy way, and not living 24/24h with them (during sleep, for example). And at home would be better using cables instead of Wi-Fi...
How many of the hundreds of millions of people using Windows computers are affected like this that don't have someone tech-savy to ask for help?
There's no possible way Microsoft didn't think of this scenario, which can only mean that they simply do not care.
The VAT rate is irrelevant, since businesses don't pay VAT on services.
Just in case anyone may be interested..
https://github.com/WindowsLies/BlockWindows
100k€ prize for science projects/startups
One reason cable companies won’t willingly compete against each other
Too much uncomfortable truth. Many people here dislike viewing alternate reality's.
I know someone who worked on healthcare.gov (the initial one). Couldn't get an interview anywhere until he stopped listing it.
I guess a better way to say it is: Non-ionizing radiation can't cause cancer the way UV, x-ray or gamma rays cause cancer. We haven't found any other way radiation can cause cancer yet.
Typed character recognition...

Unbelievable
You may want to check this one out.. more specifically BlockWindows.bat

https://github.com/WindowsLies/BlockWindows
This isn't mainstream; it's barely behind the bleeding edge. Mainstream is Express, Angular 1.5, and Browserify, and you can have it up and running in five minutes, maybe fifteen if you don't have Node installed.
Because the very first thing many people would install is Adblock Plus.

Google, however, desperately needs mobile advertising, because people are using desktop/laptop PCs less and less (and more and more people use adblockers on these), and mobile advertising is the only space not yet "disrupted" by ad blockers.
Isn't it only 1.5GB that'd be left for user apps? I seem to recall 32-bit windows only had 3.5GB total accessible for some reason.
Worked there as a tech guy for 6 years. That is exactly how things worked. I very belatedly realised that the traders were right all along.
I wonder how does this hold against intellectual property rights... Can they own all the software I may produce on their OS?

It sure seems like they can have an easy access to the source code..
None of which, in this context, matters; none of those is in scope where the function is defined, so it won't be closing over them anyway.
'azet noted in another forum that with pathlen:0, this cert cannot be used to issue other intermediate certs, such as they would to place in a traffic inspection device.
When are groundless threats for patent infringement actionable?