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>No, that's explicitly not how MS updates worked: up to now, they were updates to existing OS, not automatic reinstall.

A semantical difference really, previous windows updates just didn't include major UX revamps.

>If I don't want it, I don't get asked if I want it: 19:00 there was a working Win7 box, 07:00 next day, there was a broken steaming pile of something, apparently Windows 10. No prompts, full auto.

surely you got an EULA prompt, no?

>Program files: deleted. Users folder: moved into some other location (both).

I certainly agree that microsofts QA has failed horribly here.

>In other words, FU, astroturfer.

One could easily accuse you of the same.
I wonder if a "road pressure" map would be useful to encourage people to know what they are doing. I've spent a lot of time in the woods in Michigan where there are developed roads all over the place. When there's (even moderately trafficked) roads 1/2 mile away in 3 directions, you aren't very lost, so I've never felt the need to be incredibly well prepared. When it's 5 miles in one direction the thought process needs to be a little different.
I was really impressed by WhatsApp's approach. When I installed in on my iPhone, it looked just like the native iOS messaging app. When I helped my mother-in-law install it on her Android, it had a totally different look, much closer to Android's native messenger. Both of us pretty much instantly knew how to use it because we had been all along.
I wrote a display server, a desktop environment, and a debugging/reversing tool
How is it a net negative? Should people not have the right to know exactly what kind of company they are about to do business with? When you invest in a product or platform, do you not want to be able to evaluate whether it will be around in 3 years?
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If cellphones and WiFi caused cancer you'd think we would see the cancer rates explode over the past 20 years. Have they?
It's a logo dude...
Playstation Now exists and is server rendering for games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Now
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Diff parser and pretty html generator
diff2html was revamped with:

- Added support for unified diffs

- New webpage

- Improved syntax highlight (thanks to @isagalaev from https://github.com/isagalaev/highlight.js)

- Improved diff highlighting colors

- Better file change identification

- Better identification of file renames, copys, changes, etc

- Added synchronised scroll to side-by-side mode
nah, you're going mad: http://i.imgur.com/1TPBQVU.png
In a bizarre conversation with a coworker once, they insisted (and of course they knew because their parents are doctors) that bacteria don't become resistant to anti-biotics, people's bodies do.

Turned out this was a major point of the anti-evolution stance at his church. I've since encountered the same viewpoint from a number of other people, all going to primarily small, ostensibly non-denominational, churches.
That was too traumatic to contemplate, so I referred to the FAQ and found relief in section 1.1:

"We pronounce curl and cURL with an initial k sound: [kurl]."

They do, however, note that the "fact it can also be pronounced 'see URL' also helped" [to choose the name].
You're definitely right, I was afraid of this kind of situation.

There is not much I can do anymore, I am too much enthusiast about what happened, thanks for saying it.
I meant using the web app on a computer and the native app on a phone. I usually do both in a single day for docs, gmail, maps, YouTube etc. Maybe my behavior is not typical.

The point being that we already KNOW the design language of Google, so the argument seems to be purely about esthetics. The design is consistent, just between Google products instead of between apps on the platform. I didn't get why Google pushing Apple's design would be more in the user's interest?

Tip for confused iPhone users : tilt your head/phone 90 degrees :) and the mystery button will turn into a menu button!
Isn't this simply an issue of risk preference? Working for privately held startups is more risky than working for established businesses. Presumably employees are willing to stomach this additional risk for the presumed upsides.

Is the answer really to burden employees with even more data, or just for them to be smarter about where they choose to work?
Ask HN: What apps allow extending their UI?
Trello allows developers to write Power Ups (https://developers.trello.com/power-ups/intro).

Front has plugins (http://dev.frontapp.com/plugin.html).

Any other examples?
But I liked his comment, and explanation! I also learned some. What are we supposed to say, "nice!"? :-)
Why do you want it to be anonymous in this context? I get you can drop the `return`, but I don't see how you gain anything (apart from a tiny reduction typing and a small increase in incomprehensibility) by using anonymous functions to define components (I know the pattern is used a lot in the wild, but there seems to be zero reasoning for it; lexical binding isn't really relevant here)
Meanwhile the FBI is supposedly flying over cities sniffing cell phones. It might not be easy to establish a voice connection, it seems pretty likely that it will be possible to detect the phone if it is broadcasting at all.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/spies-in-the-skies
I think you nailed it. What competition did in this case is allowed enough resources to be allocated for those projects - there are a lot of worthy endeavours today that are mostly competition-free and end up resource-starved because of that. Competition adds urgency to an issue, which reprioritizes things.
> I don't care who is behind that

Lizard people.

> It's pretty obvious

Is it? Have you gathered any statistical evidence that could show this tampering?
Sure- that's the article I was thinking about when I mentioned that it faltered. It still has quite the dedicated base, and with 1.3, has corrected many of the complaints (npm support, etc)
>I distinctly remember that most of the mean scores were between 8 and 9. One was as high as 8.7.

I was told by several people that the ratings are normalized to adjust for this.
>Go to "speech, inking & typing" settings. The dialog literally says they will collect your typing history.

And until someone bothers to do a MITM we really don't know what that means.

>The traffic is encrypted, and no one has been able to MITM it yet, as far as I know. But Microsoft has confirmed in the press that yes, they do this.

Are you sure? Unless they're specifically trying to prevent such you should be able to just drop in your own root certificate and MITM it with the tool of your choice.
It's not just MS pushing new stuff on people without much warning. A similar thing happened to my mom with the iOS 6 => 7 update that overhauled the UI. People (understandably) freak when you move their cheese. Apple seems to have gotten more of a pass for it than Microsoft is here though.

If you read the actual dialog box, it reads fine. Really. It's not a trick. The big change is Windows 10 being classified as a "recommended" update. Turn off recommended updates (only take "critical" updates) if you don't want Microsoft changing functionality on your computer. It has been like that for a long time. This is a very extreme example of it though and MS knows that--that's why the box exists, I think--they don't "warn" you about other upcoming recommended updates. Yes, they could do more on that box to guide you towards cancelling the upgrade, but if they mean what they say that the update is "recommended," your dialogs should be guiding people towards getting it rather than away from it.

Again, the bigger thing to question here is the choice to make it "recommended," not the dialog box.
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here more to read .. http://www.readnews247.com/detail/15985
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That's not what I meant. How could I make my comment more clear?

What I meant is that almost all companies will invade privacy to prevent and detect certain crimes. MS does it, but so do Google, Apple, etc etc.
We use it at Codacy! Really cool project. Congrats
Provided there is an original DVD. Current machines do not come with one.

My MBP originally came with Yosemite, but at the time it was delivered, El-Capitan was already out. So I thought, that it will be easier to update, while the machine is not customized yet.

Now I don't know, how to downgrade. The Apple Store offers only El-Capitan for download, not Yosemite.
IANAMathematician, but, a brute force proof is still a proof though, isn't it?

If I have the theory, that all positive integers smaller than 5 are also smaller than 6, I would assume I'm mathematically allowed to 'brute force' the proof by enumerating all the numbers > 0 and < 5 and then testing for each that it's also < 6.

If I can prove I enumerated all the positive integers smaller than 5 and didn't find any exceptions, I guess I proved my theory...

It's a silly way to prove my silly theory, but it is a proof. (I have also a truly remarkable proof, which this comment is too small to contain. ;) )
They have been doing this since forever and if I remember correctly, the EU told them to stop. I don't remember if they really did stop (at least, I'm not sure if they say they did, nobody knows what they really did of course).

/me opens article

Oh, it's about showing ads to non-users, not about tracking. The article doesn't even claim they didn't track non-users before. Clickbait?
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Great! NetBSD fixed this "logo" http://www.netbsd.org/images/NetBSD-old.jpg Now all we need is for R to get rid of this monstrosity http://www.jeveuxetredatascientist.fr/wp-content/uploads/201... and we'll be on a roll.
And then if we get enough monkeys/children in a room tapping away, eventually they'll write enough programs to solve every problem. That's it, maths is solved.
Cancer is a very broad church. There have been a lot of lifestyle changes over the last twenty years, very difficult to specify control groups ....
Does cURL support mailto/sip/tel?

No, it supports mainly schemes with a hierarchical-part - even though it works with 'file:'

For a logo there's absolutely no problem in using an element that's common and pretty identifiable
My guess: the type of company that would outsource development to Gigster is the type of company that would give up 20% of equity.

Or: the example scenario is too generous, which means a more probable payout would be even lower.
Noun or adjective - the term is overhyped to the point of being totally irrelevant.
I agree this one is far more elegant and IMO also more meaningful - the dots in it could be nodes in a network.

http://archive.li/TRDMX/c9b30e15b66869f9d7c9f825e9771b3b9828...

the important part of the name is URL after all. Logos are always tricky though; everyone wants to have input, which means you often end up with things like the last logo with lots of ideas mushed together.
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It's behavior is unpredictable and entirely different from all other apps on iOS. Especially hidden functions are aggravating.

Google's data is superior for points of interest but the app is less integrated with the platform (e.g. lock screen, watchOS)
So in order to protect my digital privacy, I should register myself at some alliance's website. It just doesn't make sense.

Either this whole internet advertising thing turns out to be a bubble after all — in that case; let it pop, see if we can't figure out something better. If using ad-blockers and tracker-busters helps achieve that goal; good.

Or we end up with an internet where all users settle somewhere on the privacy spectrum in an uneasy equilibrium. On the one extreme of this spectrum we have those who accept ads served them through exclusive IOS or Android apps and unprotected browsers, and on the other extreme those who refuse to play along and use ad-blockers and other privacy tools, and simply shun services that require you to opt-in to data harvesting (e.g., Facebook and websites that refuse to show content when they detect an ad-blocker).

I think we may currently have the latter — I wonder how stable that situation is.
He meant the WSJ article
This might shed some light - Curl Developer on URLs

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hGPFWP...
Finding the oldest image would probably work for most cases, as long as you found every instance of the image on the internet.

It might work ok for some of the larger comics/image producers.
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There was also this project: https://www.usenix.org/conference/dsl-99/verischemelog-veril...
>Microsoft can disclose, what you keep on your own machine.

Want to expand on that a little? Presumably the above quote is regarding skydrive etc.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that most users of google apps also use google-as-a-website.

So what's google to do, provide consistency between the app and other apps or between the app and the corresponding web UI?

That isn't a simple question with a simple answer...
Which company did you go to?
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Are you trying to say that if you are building a simple web app you should be building a server-side rendered web app using Rails/Phoenix?
Yes, I agree.

Considering a post-scarcity world, it is not difficult to imagine a pseudo-utopia with the way technology is going. Using the example of Manna, imagine the ability to plug into some perfect VR world that looks and feels just like reality. Why would anyone want to "compete" in that scenario?

Already today, human beings would rather stay at home and consume various forms of media (tv, games, etc..) than go out and "compete." Humans typically value security over a marginal gain in luxury. Even the risk-takers among us err closer to the security-side of this spectrum on the whole.

I think those in this thread that worry that humans will always have an innate desire to one-up their brethren are worrying about nothing or some close approximation to nothing.
It doesn't look that great compared to fresh PC titles. Are other PS4 games looking worse?
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Well yeah, the same way that at some schools you might be in the top 10% of your class with a 3.95 GPA and only in the top 25% with a 3.85.

They can calculate where you stand on the score, but when the question of whether you're in the "top bucket" comes down to whether one or two people out of the 6-7 who are rating you give you either an 8 or a 9 on a 9-scale, that's a pretty fucked up rankings system.
Ha me too, you are not alone. Then again I used the word exotic for esoteric for many years, I wondered why people would always deny the solution was exotic in a giggly way as i loud ranted everything was too damn exotic. etiquette was another source of laughter, at 33 i finally figured out how to say it correctly. shit happens!
I did too until I changed work location from always great signal to marginal. Lots of phone apps don't handle this gracefully (I think most expect perfect data). IMessage could have popped a dialog at 10s (30s), but decided to wait forever instead. Then I started to dislike it. This is a good time ago now, they may have sorted this, I've been Android the last 5 years or so. :)

Agree on the messaging. I miss just having adium or pidgin connected to everything, now I'd need a dozen chat apps to stay in touch with everyone!
Using Wikipedia as an authoritative source is actively discourage by Wikipedia project itself and by basically every university and research body in existence.

The Early Developments section you talk about is about the concept of copyright as it exist today, rather than the history of copyright law as it was made. The French law, while tangential, followed a different path and focus heavily on the concept of moral right, concept which does not explicitly exist in the US copyright law. US law focused instead on statutory monopolies, and loosely match that of the French commercial right that authors was granted. Authors moral rights, as the existed in French copyright law, was instead weakly incorporated into libel laws.

You claim that the US copyright law was started by authors guild, but three states had already enacted copyright statutes prior to the Continental Congress resolution. Where is your evidence that author protection was the intention behind the law makers of the time, which goes in rather stark contrast to every other aspect and the final text which focuses on the commercial aspects and not the rights of the authors. If the US copyright law was derrived from the French law, why is there no concept of "authors moral right" as there is in many EU countries to this day?
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Does cURL really need a logo?
While on the subject, what is the difference between file:/path/to/file and file:///path/to/file ? Usually I only see the latter being used.
I've made this mistake with LaTeX. I was so embarrassed when someone told me "Its pronounced lah-tekh".
In the article:

"I also suggested we’d try to work with :// (colon slash slash) somehow as a symbol, since after all the :// letter sequence is commonly used in all the URL formats that curl supports. And it is sort of a global symbol for URLs when you start to think about it. Made sense to me."

They seem to grok it perfectly well, but recognize the modern association people have with :// and urls.
I did also pronounced [kurl].
Didn't notice see-URL, because of a different pronunciation on "c". :)
Not sure how I feel about this, but the second link you posted is remarkably similar to my alpg[1] project. UI buttons, rendering, usage of Github gist for sharing, url format of shared links, etc. I wrote alpg 3 months back, and the that one has first commit 13 days ago... :| A bit weirded out by this but I am biased ofcourse. Should I care?

[1]: http://github.com/awalGarg/alpg
I have a couple of mates who have done that, they take antibiotics until they feel better, and then stop.

They really don't seem to understand the concept of antibiotic resistance. They're all engineers too, they really should know better.
20 years is not the correct period.

Wi-Fi wasn't mainstream back then and kids didn't have phones in their pockets all day long.

I believe we will have more accurate data in another 30 years.
I waited for years for Microsoft to get their .NET story straight once more, after the uncertainty generated regarding .NET's future during Windows 8 development and launch. Meanwhile, innumerous projects and libraries were deprecated by Microsoft .NET teams in favor of half-hearted attempts at replacements.

After noticing the tendency described on the article, of development & deployment tools and techniques first appearing on the open-source community, and taking years to appear in the Microsoft scenario, usually as imperfect clones with a small community around them, I decided to solve my personal conundrum by going straight to the source of that innovation process.

I've since switched to Linux instead of Windows Server, JVM instead of .NET, and Scala instead of C# and I'm pretty happy with that stack.
Another Hacker News user submitted a better story yesterday

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/everybody-be-cool-a-n...

but I see that this story with the alarmist headline got more traction on the main page of HN. That's unfortunate for understanding the underlying issues.
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> Does it brake and accelerate? If yes, then the car is responsible for braking and accelerating and any damage done while it is braking and accelerating.

Except that this car's manual, along with every other car I've ever owned and seen that had active cruise control, specifically states that the car will not stop for stationary objects. People need to RTFM. It comes with the vehicle for a reason.
I do, and I actually enjoy it. A lot of management today is controlled by scripts (at least in my env).
Oh, nowhere, just dumped it as we generated it. In my experience storing these kinds of things often isn't that useful anyway, when proving correctness of the answer it's as easy to start from scratch as go through a trace of what I did previously.
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> User interfaces should be designed for the user, not for the operating system.

This is a false dichotomy. You can be designed for the user without ignoring platform conventions.

Keeping platform conventions (and thus user expectations) in mind is necessary for good design.
Ignorance of the law is not a defense.
Yes because it's using a military grade sigint platform.

Capturing signals and reconstructing them isn't hard when you fly special mission aircraft.

But you can't just strap a picocell to a SAR aircraft and expect it to work.

Also cellphones don't have that much of a battery life if a hicker has one its most likely going to be either off due to them being out of coverage or dead due to battery drain by the time anyone figures out they are missing.

Considering the cost of such platform and the little to no use it will bring the money is probably better invested in high resolution FLIR cameras and more aircraft since anything that could ping a phone and get its location would cost more than a civilian SAR aircraft.
Or major driver changes, huh? Never ever ever had I a working device driver turn nonfunctional overnight. Before this "upgrade," that is.

Who exactly got an EULA prompt on an unattended, locked workstation with nobody at the sear? As I say, the downgrade was full auto: evening W7, morning W10.
Maybe I'm missing something, but can't a normal website do all that?

Or is the idea that you can feed message-only channels like email and Facebook messanger to it? But then you could just say "We don't really provide email support; see our website here: ..."

Kind of feels like using telephone menus when you don't have to.

(Nothing against your platform though - it looks very well done!)
I believe we have to discern between Unix as a concrete implementation (what is a process, where do certain files go, etc.) and the design philosophy. My remark focused on the latter. I would very much like to see modernization in Unix as a technology. At the same time, I believe that Linux owes its success to the adherence to a number of Unix design philosophies. This has kept Linux flexible across a wide spectrum of use cases and prevented it from running into a dead end, becoming stale.

Abandoning these foundations in order to optimize towards a very structured, hierarchical engineering ideal, will make Linux go more in the direction of BeOS or Windows. And I'm afraid that we don't have the resources that Microsoft uses to keep Windows competitive and backwards compatible.
The same happened to the address that I gave to the D-freemium file-syncing service... Never used that address anywhere else.
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Further from the brain but not the balls...
> Both of us pretty much instantly knew how to use it because we had been all along.

Exactly why going native is a really good thing - people can fully adopt your app almost immediately as they don't need to learn your different (knowing best) conventions and extensions.
700-900 MHz is used for LTE as well, and is usually preferred due to its building penetration characteristics.
I don't understand the discovery comment. I don't discover Bob the copier salesman. I decide I need a copier, search for copier retailers and then give Bob a call. Won't bots work the same way?
Or you could actually practice continuous integration and let everyone work on master.

Much simpler, opens the door for feature toggles, continuous delivery and more without any merge headaches.
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