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Everything Microsoft's doing with Windows 10 is already following Apple's example. Requiring an online account to log into the OS, offering free OS updates with extreme nagging. Integrating an ad-supported software store into the OS. That's all stuff Apple had done way before Microsoft.

People just don't bitch about Apple because Apple is "cool" and Microsoft is "lame". I guess.

And Apple's raking-in of massive amounts of $$$ shows that it's exactly what people want. So it should be absolutely no surprise that Microsoft's following their lead.
There is a difference between regular mandated services and waking up one morning to find they have replaced my much loved (and customized) Mercedes with a bloody Skoda.
I experience that constantly on any laptop I use because I pretty much never turn them off - they go to sleep mode when not used. Every now and then I find the laptop running with a clean desktop after logging in - because it decided to reboot and install updates somewhen during the night.

I've been an enemy of automated updates ever since, many years ago, I went to the kitchen to boil the water for a tea, and there suddenly I heard the PC speaker beeping - oh, Windows decided to count down from "5 minutes" and reboot.
> Can you imagine if VCs made the analogous argument that angel investors should not be entitled to their returns unless they matched the later VC investments?

VCs can and do make that argument.
That's the interesting thing about looking through the output of any computer algorithm. I have often done this with random walks using markov chains.

By editing 200 lines into just 3 or 4, you are actually adding a lot of information. It makes the computer seem smarter than it is.

If we could create a "good poem" evaluator + editor and tack it on the end of a "random poem" creator, we could perhaps get some good results.
Location suggestions anyone?

my 3 priorities would be;

- close to Silicon Valley and California High Speed Rail

- no one should really be living there (no status quo)

- has to be close to a body of water (better climate)

I think I found the perfect location!
Link to Google Maps: http://tinyurl.com/gnzquv3

The exact point where the couple is drinking wine in the picture can be the Dolares park of the new city :)
That's a tricky question because of subjectivity and the shift towards a postmodern lens. The question what is Art becomes entirely dependant on the viewer/creator.

For me Art is the act of expression. To poets, the reading. To painters, painting. To hackers, hacking. The object is simply a object left over documenting the process (although utmost attention is provided to the object during the act).

Kitsch I would define as engaging that creation mechanism with substandard intent. Maybe to copy a photograph with paint, or just muck about on a canvas because there is an hour to kill. When the focus is the documentation, it becomes programming for programmings sake, and loses the artistic merit.

At least, through my eyes.
IME, the win in the application layer is when you can have faster copies pulled from a cache or validate rules that don't relate to other records.
Montreal's Underground City is a pretty great example of how to give public pedestrian connectivity underground in winter. Well worth checking out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City,_Montreal
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Walk away. I waited too long and lost a year of my life. It took 4 years to get back on track.
The camera on the bot should switch to wide-angle / fisheye view when it moves, then switch to a regular lens for faces when it's still / just rotating in position.

The wide angle / fisheye view would provide a more typical FPS-like frame of reference, while the 20-35mm view makes faces appear realistic.
The concept of good/bad market is attractive, but I'm wondering is this is really a good model. How do you account for innovations that require a market to learn its benefits before they want it?

In the beginning, a market for a innovation looks like a terrible market. Few people wanted a PC in the early days. Vacuum cleaners were a hard sell when they were first introduced, and there are countless other examples. All of these markets required that the buyers be educated and they had to be convinced it was worth the effort to learn how to use the new thing.

It seems to be, saying "don't be in a market where it is hard to sell" is great in theory, but honestly I think every truly innovative product has to create their market to some extent.
This. You cannot consider Tokyo as an example of (successful) urban planning without understanding the role of the railway companies.
Well if it doesn't work 100% of the time, they shouldn't bother to try at all. Let's just curl up in the basement and cry instead.
Ask HN: Can a company clawback vested stock options?
I voluntarily left a well-known tech company after the 1 year stock option vesting cliff. When notifying the company that I wanted to exercise my options (within the 90 day window) they informed me that they were exercising their right to claw back and repurchase those options.

I'm curious if this has happened to others in the tech industry. What recourse do employees have in a situation like this? What should one look out for to avoid this in the future?
I'm assuming you live in San Francisco? As a visitor, it seemed to me that this was more due to the insane car-bus road-sharing conflicts, the inability of Muni buses to accelerate up a hill, and the deluge of 4-way stops.
Speaking of SMP, it's also sad that whenever an x86 or ARM or whatever CPU with more than 4 cores is announced, what's the first thing tech media and most people say? "Who can make use of more than 4 cores anyway?" or "There aren't any programs that can take advantage of more than 2 cores.".

I've never understood how people seem to ignore the fact that you can run more than one CPU intensive application at the same time or even have breathing room for light applications while most cores are busy heavy processing.

I can easily saturate all the cores you throw at me with the usual tasks I'm busy with at a computer, so give me more cores, more memory. And I run highly parallel tasks like image or video processing or compiling code.
This is a really good point. The left seems to have switched from supporting the working class population and fighting for equality and better living conditions to basically supporting the 'wealthy college student' demographic and attacking their old supporters over identity politics.

It used to be that parties like the UK's Labour party supported the working classes (while also supporting equality and being against prejudice). Now it seems like the average left wing political party/group mostly supports the upper middle class social media user demographic, the type who think complaints about trolling on Twitter are more important than class inequality, the lack of housing or wages stagnating.
Oh, frak their idea of "idle time". I went to settings to change it, I honestly wanted to give it a reasonable time window when I'm not likely to use the machine. Guess what? The "busy time" is limited to 8 hours. Because no one ever uses a computer for more than 8 hours a day? Well, but I do. Frak that.
ghostscript is licensed and embedded in some printers, so if you found and exploit, it's quite likely it would work on those printers too. However, I suggested it mainly as convenient implementation to learn & experiment with, since it's a very faithful implementation of the spec.
I am reminded of something from Levy's Artificial Life book. In Thomas Ray's Tierra artificial life simulation, one of the viruses learned to exploit information left over in the virtual processor's "registers" from a previously executing virus.

I had something similar happen in an artificial life program. My collision resolution had a bug in it, so organisms exploited that to make it easier to reproduce. (Everyone could occupy the same square, so that made it much easier to find mates. It's kind of like SF.)
Hardly a majority at 9% though, in most cases 9% is just as good as 0%. lol
What marginalized groups is Trumps rhetoric spreading hatred and bigotry towards?
>it's just considered a cost of doing business to be robbed blind by the executive team.

Who are they robbing? Shareholders! But shareholders choose to be shareholders. You don't like what the executives are up to, you can sell your shares.

> private armies to put down, via deadly force, anyone perceived as a threat to the company's profits.

Ok, now you are being inconsistent. You think it's wrong for executives to be paid above-market wages, but you think it acceptable for employees to be paid above-market wages. Every dollar paid to an employee above market wage comes from shareholders!

But none from taxpayers. All out of corporate profits.
That's pretty normal. I hear people who've never been south of the Mason-Dixon bashing the South on a regular basis. They get all their information from coastal journalists. Who've never been there either.

These are the same people who would bristle if you said something bad about people in another country and say "How do you know? You can't understand a place by reading about it in the newspaper."
I've seen a few city designs with an elevated pedestrian walkway on the third floor.

I think part of the problem is how to grow trees in that environment. We have pretty good data on how important greenery is to happiness.

I was sitting in a coffee shop the other day, looking across at a store front that has had a high rate of turnover. It's on the wrong side of a busy, complicated intersection, but the back half of the building is still in a high pedestrian traffic area.

It occurred to me that if they tore out the building and replaced it with an arcade, they'd solve several problems. They'd get more modest square footage store fronts on the edge of an existing retail area, and they'd break the psychological barrier that keeps people from going around the block.
For someone with no responsibilities except work, 70 hour weeks are sustainable (did it for 3 years, not to be recommended, but no burnout.) People report way larger numbers of hours though and probably have to handle more than just their work; I don't know where things start to break down, they ought to somewhere.
I agree with this approach.
Whos gonna pay for 100,000 outlandish salaries? If they all only earned 10 usd an hour....You do the math.
So happy to see an article about this issue... A few months ago, while apartment hunting, I was thinking to myself, why are people accepting this?

Several apartments here in Austin, TX do this. In my search, I found the biggest offenders were Greystar and Camden properties. They lock you in to these silly "Entertainment" packages. Exclusively Time Warner, Grande, or AT&T depending on the property.

If you're already in a contract with a provider, you'd have to break your contract just to move in? That's ridiculous.

It's really unfortunate, as some of these properties are located in very desirable locations. I couldn't come to terms with being forced to use a certain provider. So I found a property in a less desirable location that offered full competition among utilities.
You can disable utcsvc and prevent it from being re-enabled. Since doing so also disables Windows updates (which is why you shouldn't do it) you can also be sure that future updates will not re-enable it.
> Cities using TV franchises to block competition and extract tithes is a huge part of the problem

I can't speak to Baltimore, but in NYC, it's the landlord that's responsible for this, not the city.

> The economics of FiOS don't really work out without TV service

I can sort of buy that argument in areas where they have to do all the buildout themselves, but in New York, Verizon was handed the existing fiber network that already ran past people's doors. Then Verizon has the gall to claim that they've fulfilled their obligations of wiring the city because 'everyone has fiber running past their door', even where they did literally no work and simply sat on the fiber that others had already built for them.
Mics (and to a lesser degree high-end preamps) are not so easily replicated as digital gear.

If you want the sound of a Neumann U87, or U47, or Shure SM7, or 57, then nothing - nothing - is going to scratch that itch like the right mic for the job, if you really know what it is you're listening for.

Preamps and signal processors too... I once thought as you did: that digital DAWs have so many advantages over hardware that it just never made sense to put $5000 into a particular piece of hardware when the same money would buy a pile of digital plugins.

Until I had all the digital gear possible, and I came face to face with GIGO: garbage in, garbage out. Audio starts life as analog and that's the beginning of everything that follows in the signal chain. Past that there are certain non-linear things that happen in analog that are particularly euphonic and hard to reproduce digitally.

For example I've got pretty much every plugin compressor ever made, but nothing can take the place of my UA/RE175 compressor, because it's delightfully nonlinear and chaotic and valve-y.

And even if you could perfectly model it, what you can't do is put it where you need it: in the signal chain before A/D conversion, so you're packing as much information into the track as possible. The same goes for mics. Mics distort the sound more than anything in the straight signal chain. Every mic has a fingerprint - once that fingerprint is in the sound, it's there. Same goes for the fingerprint of the musicians instrument / amp. And the room. Etc.

And thus my maxim: the earlier in the signal chain you can get the sound you want, the better.

"Fix it in the mix" is the devil. "Fix" is something you do to a cat.
Having seen people close to me experience this, I feel for you.
However, I haven't heard any success stories that have made it any OTHER way. It's usually in looking back, that people say burn out was wrong and I probably shouldn't have done it that way. What's the alternative?
I found an overarching theme or message above and beyond the words in the human written ones (guess 5 of 6 correctly). This isn't just a theme tying together the lines, it's more of an arc of understanding.

Of course, I did incorrectly guess that one of the poems was written by a machine, when it was a human.
Yes, the standard contract is completely opaque to the employee, and they don't have the specialized knowledge required to understand it. And the company sure isn't going to help you. So value the funny-money at 0.

If the industry wants to change this perception, then there should be a widespread standardization on a contract that is fair to the employees and it should be easy for employees to understand any diffs from that standard.
That is exactly what I mean. We try to establish what a probability of 0.5 means, i.e. that the relative frequency converges to 0.5 if the number of trails goes to infinity, but that is not exactly true because there is a (possibly vanishingly small) set of outcomes where the relative frequency does not converge to 0.5. This in turn forces us to state that the relative frequency only converges with high probability, but now we have used a probability in our definition of probability, i.e. we made some kind of circular argument. I just skimmed the article you linked and I am not sure if I read it before so I will read it again, but from a first glance it does not look like any definition in there is suitable to avoid the problem.
You have to pay for Windows just like any other software the creators don't want to give away for free.
> that will never happen in America.

It happens a lot in New York City, and other dense urban areas in the US.
Many languages already have something like this. For example, look into ENSIME, ghc-modi, and Racer. I guess the innovation here would be a common protocol for "any" language, but I somewhat doubt that this will have much adoption outside of the .NET/Typescript communities.
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Is there a Kindle version?
> Her $10,000 figure reflected estimated lost compensation as well as the cost of a new system.

The article doesn't go into what she does for a living, so I'll leave the compensation part alone.

But why did she need to buy a new computer? Did Windows 10 flash her BIOS? Or is it just the standard "oh my computer is slow, better just buy a new one"?
This is a very nice postscript related story in a recent HN comment about Wes Clark:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11184792
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It's a form of grid illusion[0] that makes you take notice of movement in the background.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion
That's the very reason I didn't use any Metro apps on my work computer. They would get swapped out of memory and killed whenever I ALT+TABbed from them. Not joking. Every time I wanted to switch to a normal app for a second and then back to the Metro one, the latter would have to "restore" itself (and guess what, it never restored to the point I last left it).

Of course I know the reason - that's because my machine is memory constrained, I routinely run on ~90% RAM usage. But hey, that 8GB of RAM isn't here for vacation, it's to be used.

Personally, I find the mobile app lifecycle - which is where they took the idea from - to be incredibly annoying. I like to have control both when applications die and when they start up (which, on Android, is utterly unpredictable).
My specific comment re: students was in reference to the perpetuation of "people who were searching 'what is the EU' have already voted on Brexit". That falsely assumed that those searches were from people who had already voted on the topic, suggesting lack of proper background information for such an important decision.

Young students are a group who may likely search for this information after the vote when it had a major impact on their country as before the vote it wasn't necessarily important for them to have detailed knowledge about it.

I'd hope we would never penalize someone for trying to get background information, no matter how "simple", before making an important decision, regardless of whether they're a student or an adult.

To an even broader point, imposter syndrome is hard enough when you just feel like you're behind on your fundamentals, let alone when you are actually behind on your fundamentals. Improving yourself should never be stigmatized.
This sounds like the past 10 years of my life. I can't even enjoy normal life activities anymore... And I can't afford to take a long enough break to recover (if that's still possible?).

I don't even care about memories anymore - I'm in survival mode; I'm just a bullet moving towards its target.

It's like I've been running through a tunnel as fast possible for a long time and I can finally just see the light at the end of it, but I know there's a train coming in my direction and if I don't make it out of the tunnel in time it's going to get really dark and ugly.
I'm one of the lucky ones. I moved into a brand new building in queens ~6 months ago, and though the management company said it was ready for both Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS, when I called Time Warner (to move my existing cable plan to my new place) they didn't even have the address for my building in their system (to their credit, the building was an empty lot on google street view). Verizon did, so I jumped ship. Installation literally took an entire day, but now I've got 100 Mb symmetric, though I actually get closer to 120. And, the hardware is nicely hidden away in an embedded alcove in a closet.

As an aside, i've only got internet, I will never pay for a cable tv subscription again.
Many people would choose to live in a royal palace - but not many would choose to pay the full cost of their decision.

Cultural attitudes about apartments and raising children are just that - cultural.

Inner city problems are another kettle of fish.
That list is for the 3.5 release, not the 3.5.2 patches
I also don't agree with this whole "It's the racist people in the country who voted cause they hate refugees" perspective either.

The UK has been bad for the EU in general. Don't get me wrong, the EU has its share of supporting wars, supporting the US (and hence more wars), but the UK is a huge piece of that. It's part of the five eyes and the hegemony.

The GPB has been horribly overvalued for years. It's bullshit the UK gets so much leverage in the EU, yet they refuse to adopt the currency and refuse to be part of the Schengen Area (which combined with their high GPB value ensures they make a shit-ton off long term backpackers; most countries get 120 days of tourism in the UK, but only 90 per 180 in the Schengen Area).

It's a two year exit process. I'm sure the UK will make new work/visa agreements so many living abroad can still do so (and if not, well you have 2 years to see if you can get a visa), but I don't see it being reverse. It was a voter initiative. That's not something you can neg on.

Scotland has talked about independence and it's often been viewed in the same light as the UK leaving the EU. But now that the later has been shown as possible, maybe it's time to finally break up this weird not-really-a-country country.
There is mining for data and there is mining for data.

Monitoring which features I use? Opt in.

Monitoring what I do? Uninstall if possible.
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> but I suspect that solving problems of existing cities will probably lead to better long-term results

Isn't this what local governments are all perpetually trying to do in every city?

The cool thing about this YC initiative is that it is considering such a drastic green-field approach. It may turn out not to work, but it seems worth trying when you look at how poorly the alternative often works (e.g. the gridlock in SF over housing).
I had this same problem with AT&T! Wasn't until I raised a childish stink on Twitter (eye roll) that it got resolved.
Can someone explain how a nucleus can be anything other than a sphere? How do the protons and neutrons at one end of the nucleus "know" to be pointed, while the same collection of particles at the other end "know" to be rounded?
On visual design, if you don't have a visual designer you are simply asking someone who is not a designer to do it instead. You're fooling yourself if you think you are somehow not doing it.

Having a designer on board from day one in no way means that you can't experiment. In fact, a good designer would have told you about many of your other recommendations such as "user research is important."

I'd replace 9 with "Not taking design seriously."
You showed them that this tactic works, and have rewarded them for anti-competitive behavior. I wish I could say you've won in this situation, but at what cost to the rest of us?
That's more or less Erlich Bachman's strategy in the show "Silicon Valley". Buy a house and rent it to one man startups for equity...

Life imitates art...
> However, by "aspie" I specifically mean someone detached from emotion and any sense of duty towards other people. Is there a better word you would suggest I could use?

"People detached from emotion and any sense of duty toward other people" -- not every idea has a good single-word term.

Of course, that would still be an improper mass insult in the context in which it was used, but at least it wouldn't be using a slur for people with a particular mental health diagnosis.