skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also confused. Perhaps they have an earlier court decision that enjoins them from banning sellers for this kind of activity?

Failing that, perhaps they're seeking the court decision so they can't appear to be biased, in future courts eyes or in the eyes of a potential anti-trust suit? Keep in mind Amazon is basically both a provider here (of the "Amazon selling platform") and a consumer of that platform ("Sold by Amazon") and weird hybrids in-between ("sold by X, fulfilled by Amazon").

It could simply be that Amazon does not want to be seen as banning their competitors. Funny situation, I hope the courts understand it well, which may be part of why Amazon is bringing this suit so they can define the terms and the tone of how the suit is eventually brought.
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It's easy to tell otherwise. If the OK Google detection was server-side, there'd be a constant flow of data trickling from the device to some server (at least when the phone detected sound). No such flow is seen.
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Mobile apps autoupdate by default, there's a difference between that and being forced to auto update. Mobile apps are also usually sandboxed heavily (more so on iOS than Android as I understand it...but I am not a mobile dev).

In my mind, auto updating was not one of the most attractive features of Chrome. In fact, auto updating for Chrome was one of the reasons I and some others I know stayed away from it for so long.

Web apps aren't binary blobs that users have to download and implicitly trust to not do nefarious things to their system. In fact, most browsers sandbox web pages to a large degree. Not to mention it's an entirely different architecture...with its own challenges.

Operating Systems run on hardware ostensibly owned by individuals (although this is constantly being diminished by corporate practices). But average Joe running Win 8 is not a security risk for MS...it is a security risk for average Joe. Backwards support is a huge cost for software companies in general...so I think the auto updating is not so much about protecting you or I, it's about protecting Microsoft's bottom line. And using nefarious tactics to force and trick people into upgrading just underscores this point. It's taking (some) control of "your" system away from you and giving it to Microsoft. Not to mention that OS's are very close to hardware (about as close to hardware as software can be).

Basically...there are tons of reasons why OS's are not mobile apps, desktops apps (like browsers), etc. and shouldn't just be auto-updated with whatever Microsoft decides to send down to your machine on a whim.
Because it breaks shit?

It is true that it's a security risk, but instead of forcing something that people clearly do not want, why not make something that they do want. Make a product they want to upgrade to.

Everyone is framing this like it's all for the user's benefit, but lets tell it like it is: It's a huge money-grab for MS that happens to have small benefits to users.
The fact that every cancer is different and arises due to the accumulation of random mutations is strong evidence that it is the result of dysregulation, not a regulated process. If it was adaptive to have an age-limiting "kill switch", there are much more direct ways to achieve that. (e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo#Mass_flowering)
It's very cool, but has different goals than TrueCraft.
jbob2000 makes the error of being too vague (didn't define awareness). You're making the error of being too specific. Under no suitable definition of awareness do GANs exhibit awareness. They are a very specific and narrow statistical tool used to solve a specific problem they are trained for specifically.
That was a long time ago. It has changed hands several times since then.
Yes, until Microsoft finally ends this madness?
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I migrated my personal blog from Blogger to WordPress a couple of years ago. I'm pretty happy with it.

I had originally wanted to migrate it to Drupal, but I couldn't find a good solution for Blogger-to-Drupal import that worked for me. (At the time, I was doing a fair amount of Drupal work at my day job, so it seemed like a good idea, but in retrospect, I'm glad it didn't work out.)

I know there's a lot of stuff out there that's "cooler" than WordPress, but I like it. The ecosystem for plugins and themes is huge. You can find most anything you want, usually for free.

I'm hosting my blog on a plain vanilla shared Linux host, rather than on WordPress.com or another managed host. I like the flexibility of doing it that way. It's a little bit of work to keep up with plugin updates, but not much.
I read a lot of people's comments of how their older PCs were bricked while I was fixing two issues when my laptop from 2009 was force upgraded.

I wait until there's been a service pack release before ever installing a new OS. Also I was perfectly happy with Win7.
Why not last year? They don't have data for it?

This is the only reason I still have to go back to Google a lot. When I'm searching for some programming language help/tutorial, I mostly use the last year (!gyear in DuckDuckGo to take you to google with 1 year search), since I don't want to be seeing how to do implement something for my app in Android 1.6 or Python 2.0 (for instance).
We are on "PureDarwin – An Informal Successor to OpenDarwin" thread.

It is all about having a OS X clone, not yet another GNU/Linux userspace clone.

So I am missing:

- Objective-C 2.1 support

- Swift

- Swift Playground

- Storyboards

- Plist editor

- Instruments

- Core Data

- ...
Exactly what you said. Torus is exposing block on top of what could be described as a log structured FS. So while you may not know about LBAs, there are LBAs involved. I took a look at the code and you are putting a FS like ext4 on top of your block device. Any time an LBA is written to, you append to your store. This causes sequential access to become random, and in addition causes unneeded garbage collection issues.

Further more, it appears to me that etcd is now in the "data path" That is, in theory, each access could end up hitting etcd.

If so, I really would question why anyone would do this at all... this is not how any storage system is written.
It is interesting to see people call an image a "cover" and a website a book even when the said cover actually never covers anything nor there is a book in there because a website.

Digital books are so broken!
You are welcome. It was an interesting exercise.
I had a look at the UK and found a company called http://www.doorsets.org.uk. These guys look like they import these kind of doors into the UK, and they say their brands are manufactured by a company called Grauthoff. They have an English site at http://www.grauthoff.com/en/ - I couldn't find any USA importers but there might be some leads for you to try out there. Best of luck. Perhaps someone from Grauthoff can tell you if they export, or possibly there are companies similar to Grauthoff.
It may make sense at a certain maturity level of a company, e.g. VC investment in startups. I'm talking about large public companies with relatively mature business models.

It's almost impossible to change a business model once it is operating at scale, but management tells capital it can happen all the time.
Any citizen of 18 years or older who works, do community work and avoid criminal charges would be stage 3. If someone cant pass those 3 rules, then what value he will bring to society anyways? His vote should be penalized. Dont get me wrong, its not to favorite good people, its to penalize people that cant do good to society. Vote strength should be based on your involvement in society and helping the community. Alcoholic bum should not have same amount of voting power as doctor. Yet, system would not discriminate poor people, since the rules are easy to follow. Rich people as part of their community work could speak at schools, drivers help people pass driving tests and unskilled workers clean woods from wild dumping places. Simple system that would allow lower taxes since the government would need less resources for public work done.

I would see many people avoiding doing the 40 hours of mandatory public work per year, so that would release them from being strong majority and their passion/patriotism would be graded this way.
I agree with your statements about Windows 10. In my case, I don't use my Windows laptop for day to day anymore. It also told me that Windows 10 is not optional and it will happen next week and there is nothing I can do about it. It sits connected to my TV via HDMI cable only to stream DRM related content such ad HBO Go, Netflix, etc.

At least once a week, it takes about 30 minutes to apply updates. Where my computer would restart several times.
I believe Apple tried to do just that in the early days of the 68K to PowerPC switchover (I may be confusing them with another company), but it ended up not working very well.
> With the law as it stands, though, copyright is the best tool we have. In this particular field, it's already far weaker than it should be—it offers borderline irrelevant protection (even as it lasts far too long) that fails to reflect the things that make software a creative, challenging, expressive endeavor.

We have patents, and those desperately need knocked down a peg. In a world where companies exist solely to sue people for implementing shopping carts on web sites, I celebrate this win for fair use.
The current hypothesis is that humans have a longer lifespan because having living grandparents conferred a survival advantage over having only parents. Arguing that elderly relatives confer a disadvantage would seem to directly contradict that hypothesis, unless somehow grandparents were beneficial but great grandparents were not.
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I share your feeling. I am actively seeking of moving away from the tech field. I am still trying to figure out how to do that (maybe PT MBA will help not sure). My wife who is a software engineer will also exit the tech field in few years, so will my sister.
Yes those are the toilets! I was amazed by them and found that the flush control clicks out and the access to the cistern is behind it, and that's why typically the flush button is so large, because you just tile the whole cistern into the wall and mount the toilet to it. Interesting design. I've read that it isn't without its problems and has to be installed quite carefully. But it seems very widespread in Germany.

The doors - yes. With beautiful solidity. I had a look and possibly Grauthoff is a name of one manufacturer. When I was last in Berlin I kept looking for labels or manufacturer marks but I couldn't find any. I daresay someone in construction in Germany would immediately know.
>Sounds like that wouldn't have worked for you because of scholarship requirements, but at UCSD, many students who had the choice simply took 5 years to graduate in Engineering. It is truly difficult to manage the rigor of these classes while giving proper time to general requirements.

That's exactly what a lot of my peers did. It's what I should have done, if not for the money.

>Unfortunately, the result is what the RAND institute already identified - top US students behave rationally by avoiding PhD programs in the sciences in favor of professional degrees in law, medicine, dentistry, etc. This is only one factor, but I do think the situation you faced - less specialization at the undergraduate level - also plays a role here.

I think the financial factor at the undergraduate level is just as strong. If it takes five years, or an inferior curriculum, to finish a degree in the sciences, and students have to pay large sums for each semester (and often face "bonus charges" from loss of financial aid after finishing four years without having completed a degree program), then as it occurred to me when summing up: we are paying people not to study science, and penalizing them when they try anyway.
And it's a public-to-private transaction, not a takeover.
Because the decision what operating system to run and what version is one that should not be forced, 'consent' and all that.
The overconfidence effect [0] is real. I see it in both made up games (90% of the class thinks they'll score in the top 50% on a test, or 90% of people think they're better than average drivers) as well as real situations where people overestimate their ability to meet deadlines. In complex software development projects, this overconfidence has a lot of second and third order effects.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconfidence_effect
> forced to settle for less than they are legally entitled to

That's fine for some kinds of cases, but the exercise here was to value the economic consequences of the release of a tape of him having sex with someone. The actual amount of money one is legally entitled to for that is basically the definition of a subjective wild ass guess, let's not add fake precision to the analysis.
I didn't mention pay parity anywhere. The majority of pay disparity between men and women in the U.S. is due to job/field selection imo. The questions we have to ask are ones that determine why people choose certain fields, what social pressures are there, etc.

Which is why I agree that we need good data, but the best I can do is actually talking to women and seeing their problems, and they're remarkably similar.

That office romance bit might be different in a situation in which you have an equal number of male and female coworkers. But when you bring in a disparity of 5:1, asking out your coworkers, you're literally just having people being pestered all day.

And honestly, you're referring to a study that disseminates itself via an ad carousel with no methodology I can find. A survey of 2000 people with no published methodology is hardly reliable.

There's a reason you've never done it, and most women I talk to cringe at the idea.
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This sounds like it's meant to be a correction, but the post your responding to mentions neither legal fees nor damages. Are you responding to the right comment?
I took screen shots with my phone while the upgrade ran so I can participate in the class action lawsuit that will never happen.

They're a bit blurry because I was using the outrage filter.

I suppose the settlement would be a free one-month trial of MS cloud services. And at the end of the month they'd auto upgrade you to the highest cost tier.
I think you were missing the sarcasm in my comment. ;)
This is essentially an entire feature of the updater. Imagine the meetings and project management involved.
Also involves C, so:

C Python, C Python Go, Go Python Go
> Rather than sharding, consider federation. Anyone should be able to run a server and allow "doorways" or other access points to other servers, hyperlinks.

> You could host your own area and connect it to other areas hosted by other people.

Sounds like Croquet/OpenCobalt/Qwaq/Teleplace/Terf (hooray for forks!). Different spaces can be hosted by anyone, like Web pages, and the hyperlink equivalent is a 'portal' which you can step through to go from one "world" to another.

As far as I understand it, the client processes the world via a stream of events, which a p2p protocol tries to keep consistent between all of the clients (e.g. user avatars) inhabiting a world. Going through a 'portal' switches your client to the another "world", and hence another event stream, so there's no central authority.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt for example.

Edit: It seems to be p2p, rather than server-based, according to:

> The Open Cobalt application leverages peer-based messaging to eliminate the need for virtual world servers/commercial services and makes it very simple for end-users to create and securely share deeply collaborative virtual worlds that run on all major software operating systems.
No, I'm use to reading Lisp. Something else, but I'm not a designer and can't quite put my finger on it.
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Sure they can, but as you stated, you turned off the default setting to auto-update.
Finally, an opinionated build tool.
I believe you're talking about Saverin:

http://mashable.com/2011/04/13/facebooks-complicated-ownersh...
As a computer engineering student (the programming counterpart to electrical engineering), I still prefer C over C++.

I dislike C++ because it's just so unbelievably complicated and hard to learn. There's a special place in hell for the abominations C++ calls error messages. Clang helps, but not enough unfortunately.
>Is a sunflower aware?
It's more aware than a rock and less aware than an insect.
IIRC, Stylish for Chrome fixed this a while ago and Stylish for Firefox never had this issue to begin with.

JS-based styles are still subject to a bit of delay because of script parsing/executing in case you're using those.
That's completely ludicrous. There are breast pumps, there is formula, there is no compelling reason that a mother has to stay at home. The question becomes is this a biological imperative or a social imperative, and until we remove the social portion it's too confounded to tell. Why do we also assume that men have no "overwhelming paternal instinct?"

The answer is that we have an ideology strongly rooted in the past and justified by the ridiculousness that is modern evo-psych.
Push messages on GCM are going through immediately. The push server is not queuing up messages to send them all at once. I admit that could be helpful but Google is not doing this either.

The alarm manager - where apps can schedule to be run at some point in the future - is in fact grouping those events together. But that happens entirely independent of GCM. The Alarm Manager is part of Android where as the push service is a proprietary Google service.
Switching to an entirely different OS is the solution for a bunch of users who are complaining about the difference between Windows 7/8 and 10?
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My somewhat small company does this for Debian packages, maven artifacts, etc. We use Artifactory for all of it.
Exactly, it became a dumping ground for things that weren't goign to get their own app. It's hideous, I've stopped using it entirely.
Those people are wrong. Other commenters dealt with that below.

RE free will itself, I'm thinking it has more to do with metacognition and general complexity of thoughts. People may have free will, but they're running the same "free will algorithm" - give them the same inputs, and most of the time you'll get the same outputs. A lot of people don't want to consciously accept that, but it's a fact. It's e.g. why economics works at all - because people are predictable at scale.

But when do we most often reference the concept of "free will" in practice? In evaluating degree of responsibility for decisions. "You did X, which was the most obvious and beneficial in the short-term option, but you could've done Y or Z, which would be better - therefore you will suffer consequences". Or, "I won't do X even though the situation tries to manipulate me into doing it; I notice I'm being manipulated so I'll do Y instead". Scenarios like these refer to the human ability of a) non-greedy optimization (long-term planning), and b) being able to go meta many levels up, to notice their own patterns of thoughts and use them as an input to the thinking process. A feedback loop over metacognition if you don't mind.

This is still all pretty deterministic. The apparent randomness - I think - comes from the fact that a) two people never have perfectly the same set of inputs, because the internal state is dependent on one's life history, and b) in some cases slight variations in those inputs cause huge variations in outputs (butterfly/hurricane and all that). In a way, the main connection between "free will" and randomness may be just that a human doesn't have capability to perfectly predict the thought process of another human. We can do that to inanimate objects, we can do that to algorithms we write - at least in principle. But we know that other humans will always suprise us (at least because they can notice we're trying to predict them and start acting random to mess with us).
I'd like to see more of this in tech startups. Especially with all the free info from groups like Y Combinator that's online to help them. Just people in college, on summer break, or even retirement just cranking out code for a platform and doing sales trying to make it work. Should be more success stories out of it. I think most of these people just try to do too much themselves without external support both as a sounding board on their ideas and for how to run a startup. They probably read business books more tailored to lifestyle businesses and such whereas a startup has different rules.
Neither of which I would use for palette based pixel pushing. For that I use something like Promotion or Aseprite. I tried to pixel with Gimp and found it frustrating.

I use Krita for painting and sketch work (animation now) with my Wacom or Surface Pro, I use Gimp or FireAlpaca (new on the scene) for manipulation and finally Promotion or Aseprite for pixel work. There is really no killer drawing application that does it all. Which is probably a good thing.
I run countless software that is not compatible for some reason or another with Windows 10 and would need to be ran within a VM. In fact, I'd be using Windows 10 to emulate Windows 7 literally 100% of the time. So why not stick with 7 rather than suffer a performance loss from running it within a VM?
Probably just for the business users.

"Less evil than Oracle! And cheaper!"

Heady days.