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My friend wasn't illiterate, this was more a UX problem of the installer (your display isn't compatible). He had gone and cleaned his system of all but the essentials and had uninstalled GoToMyPC months ago, he just couldn't figure out WTF the installer was talking about (he assumed it had something to do with his video card, a R9 290, which he made certain he was using the most recent drivers for - and our entire group of friends uses the same card and upgraded with no issues). If the installer just clearly stated that the "GoToMyPC Display Adapter" wasn't compatible he would have quickly whipped open device manager and removed it - hell, it even took me about 10 minutes to figure out WTF it was talking about and I am the go-to guy for fixing PC problems.

Honestly, that is a lot of the problems with the Windows 10 upgrade experience, poor UX (something which Microsoft has rarely been known for during install/upgrade time). I have never seen a machine just randomly upgrade itself to Windows 10, but the way Microsoft presents the damned pop up has a big blue "Yes, please!" button that most people are just going to click to make it go away - then come back shocked that their system "upgraded itself". It's entirely anecdotal, but there is 6 computers I manage for myself and my family, out of the 4 that don't live in my house (some random Dell AIO, a Lenovo Yoga, Lenovo IdeaPad S405, Dell XPS tower) between the time I last worked on them and the next they had been upgraded to Windows 10 without any issue and without any complaint. To be fair, they were all running Windows 8.1 already, so there wasn't a bunch of shocking UX changes outside of Cortana.

All of these systems were owned illiterate users, my grandmother, mother and aunt. To be fair, there wasn't any odd hardware configurations, but nonetheless I was shocked that these systems were upgraded without me even getting asked in "why does this look different" questions.
Well, Brexit is a pretty good way of voting against finance. The most scared about Brexit were in the City.

(Not that I think that Brexit was a good solution but they have a point).
What are the problems with the small stores that you describe?

- expensive?
- few products?
Something else?

If pricing is an issue the question becomes,

How do you assist small retailers compete with massive chains?

A problem I have thought about quite a bit as my dad once owned a small corner shop
He had to close it as the chains make it impossible to compete on price with bulk buying discounts.

I believe what happens is due to the layout of our cities we end up with large chains, malls and big box retailers. It's a virtuous cycle...
If the computer is sleeping it can wake up. Not sure about hibernate.
That is a crappy metaphor.
I think most urban planning has gone far, far beyond actual noxious externalities, to be honest. I agree there's a line somewhere, but in the US, the balance is completely out of kilter.
Is some information missing from the article? I'm eager to use this but it's not showing me how to set up my `tasks.json` file.
Would you build rail transit underground in a new city? A large part of why subways are even things to begin with was because they were added late in the development of most cities that justify building them. Newer cities like Dallas have above ground commuter rail exactly because the city still had room to build it above ground.

If anything, it is much more valuable to segment the city in ways that you don't need subways or roads. You should have districts that are internally navigable strictly by foot, bikes and tram between adjacent districts, and only have rail / road when going beyond the local microcosm of city.

You want greenery anyway, you might as well put it in the bounding lines between regions of your city and have the roads / rail between those to minimize noise pollution outside of the transit hubs.
Kinda, yeah. Keep in mind, this is traffic, not selling goods. "Supply and demand" economics doesn't really apply in the same fashion.

If you widen streets and add more lanes, then more people drive, until they've filled up that street's capacity. But they don't really stop driving.
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Well, I imagine that if someone offers support for those platforms they won't say no. But they'd probably also need for stuff such as the CI chain.
It's disappointing to me that some people defend racists and xenophobes against being called racists and xenophobes. This is what they are, and it's completely appropriate to call them that, and worse.

Please note the "status quo" is in fact moving away from racism and xenophobia, very slowly. This is much better than scrapping the "status quo" in favor of plunging back into racism and xenophobia.

If the "status quo" isn't working for you and you want to scrap it in favor of Trump or Brexit, then you probably are not affected by issues like racism and xenophobia. And you need to look around you at minorities, immigrants, and Muslims, and consider them carefully before making a vote. For them, the "status quo" is definitely an improvement over Trump and Brexit, and we definitely shouldn't forget about them just because we're upset with things changing very slowly.
I'm not sure I entirely buy this. Aren't the same groups who tried to hoodwink us into thinking income and wealth inequalities are natural, normal, unavoidable, or even non-existent the same folks who were on the side of the Brexit? That was my impression, at least.
You owe me a beer.
I thought the same, and as per fovc's comment, below, I think what their statistical analysis did was basically a coarse fourier transform.

In the Harry Potter example you can see that a higher frequency is very significant. But the exact frequency is probably rather arbitrary from book to book, whether there are ten peaks or five, say. So I'd imagine, over lots of texts, any particular higher frequencies is less significant, leaving the lowest modes to dominate, as you point out.

So overall, a rather uninspiring result, I felt.

Though if we're both missing something, it would be good to know!
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I did not, thank you; fixed :)
People are unhappy because as a group they're too stupid to vote for people whose interests actually align with that of the voters. So we have politicians that spend a lot of money to get the votes from the hordes of idiots who base voting decisions on things like 15 second attack ads played during commercials, and the minority of voters who make informed decisions are silenced as a result.
We've been through this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11844253. Please stop commenting like this here.

Presumably the .NET announcements were pre-scheduled, so if there is any connection between these posts, it must go the other way. But I don't believe there is. On the contrary, coincidence is almost certainly what we're seeing here, and in that case it is probably only the strength of your feeling about this topic that makes you see it otherwise.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11987313 and marked it off-topic.
Check up on what Haussmann did in Paris. He got many things right.
It's not showing under recent comments for me?
If that perfectly matches the product... I guess so? If Google never existed, it would of sounded silly to others I'm sure.
It's more like 10, and you probably don't do it 7 days a week. You take a bus or train to your convenient stop near the market. Walk into the market, grab a basketful of goods, pay, walk home.
I hope the aspiration for new cities would start with the presumption of density. An experiment like this should be trying to solve a problem, not just add more urban sprawl, and you don't get a city culture off preplanned road infrastructure and zoning laws.
> I sincerely hope anyone applying to this is very well versed in urban planning and its history world-wide, because there have been many misadventures in planning, and those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

I think this is one of the most insightful comments here vis a vis YC's plans, and it's one of the reasons I'm in the "markets" camp. I know I'd prefer to see more mixed-use, bike/pedestrian friendly cities, but ultimately I'm wary of even my own "plans" and think the freedom to have people doing different things, and let cities evolve naturally beats even the best of plans.
I don't think anyone but a very early and very senior employee will be able to change a founder/company's perspective on this. The best attempt would be to walk away from the offer and explain explicitly why -- even if that doesn't work for the situation at hand, it will guide the market.
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I thought this wasn't a "libertarian utopia for techies?"

When you look at how ordinary people choose a city to live in, the most important variable is who else gets to live there. Everything else is a rounding error.

Boulder, Colorado is a beautiful little city. Its population is roughly the same as that of West Point, Liberia. Compare a city with the legislation and architecture of West Point, but the population of Boulder, to a city with the legislation and architecture of Boulder, and the population of West Point. Which would you rather live in?

When you treat human beings as generic, interchangeable parts, you're missing the first lesson of Christopher Alexander's approach: design real solutions for real people. You probably wouldn't fund a YC company that assumed the world consisted of 6 billion interchangeable customers.
Odd, doesn't look like that to me: http://i.imgur.com/wREiKKE.jpg

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Related, car companies campaigned to invent "jay walking" and give cars the legal right of way
It is true.

I stated how it was in the past[1]. Anyway according to [1], it looks like ntfs-3g still uses a proprietary version of ntfs.sys

[1] http://superuser.com/questions/139452/kernel-ntfs-driver-vs-...
Does this work with encrypted video? The sample image came from an unencrypted source, but it seems like a big violation of the HDMI spec if these IP extenders strip the HDCP off before blasting the data over an IP network.

This could be a rather major caveat to this solution if it only works on unencrypted sources.
Of course there is no unambiguously 'right' choice between two or more definitions that give the same answer, but I think that it is more common to switch your (1) and (2), and define ln(x) as \int_1^x dx/x.
> No, they're not. I've seen the markets in action, and one ends up with shopping malls surrounded by four-lane streets with no crosswalks.

That's almost never "the market" in action. For one thing, street design is obviously under the purview of the local (and possibly state and federal) department of transportation, not private developers. Plus, local zoning regulations usually have minimum parking requirements that strongly incentivize those kinds of car-centric shopping malls. It's hard to build a pedestrian-friendly area if the law says you need to use a ton of space (often more space than is used for the actual buildings) for car parking.

> Now one can go all "no true Scotsman" on me

It's not "no true scotsman", it's simply the truth that it's the government pushing car-centric design. Now, in some cases the market might ALSO want car-centric design, but it's hard to tease that out when the rule of law is so strong to begin with.
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The issue is that any Trump supporter is immediately labelled a racist xenophobe. It's also possible to be anti-immigration and support many of other Trump's policies despite not being racist or xenophobic. People always jump to that conclusion though, hence the OP's frustration with all the name calling.
No. If you really want a high performance Windows friendly server software, try Java. But honestly I would not use .net for anything past excel plugins.
Would saying you'd go home, and come back with your firearm still be using it? What about threatening to go buy a firearm? How about saying you once went to a shooting range and shot a firearm? Telling a story about going hunting with a gun? Talking about an episode of "How it's Made" where they made a firearm?
On a side note, one interesting thing about deep learning is that it requires less advanced math than other branches of machine learning. High school level or early college level should be enough.
Not even joking, take a look at TempleOS and HolyC... Terry Davis has made some wonderful features that allow for formatting code files and embedding a variety of rich content (like images or videos).
Simple: globalization and automation have allowed the haves of society to make money at a faster pace than ever before. The lower costs passed onto consumers are used to blunt the effect of stagnating or falling wages.

For every formerly-prosperous-now-struggling American or European, there are a hundred formerly-starving-now-stable Chinese, Indonesians, Indians - name it. That is why the global order is being railed against in developed countries while workers in developing nations are happy enough to be living considerably better than their parents or grandparents ever did.

This also explains why the minority groups targeted by the DNC are favorable to Clinton: they are used to being pandered to with no results, but at least the modern Democratic Party assured them protections and higher standards of living than the alternative - why rock the boat?

In the end, the ONLY solution is for the West to come TOGETHER to solve the problems that have dogged their societies and are sure to do so when developing economies become sufficiently developed. Otherwise, we will fight each other separately while the economic drivers (cheap labor) of developing economies will be happy enough with their newfound living standards to threaten to take down the global system that has benefited them directly and clearly.
thank you for your answer :)

as far as; is it contagious?
yes, it's incredibly contagious, in the sense of a virus and how viruses are spread.

We have two immune systems in our minds, logic and fear.

Logic tells me when something is feasible.
and fear tells me when it's not.

religion overrides logic with fear to hook into your faith subroutine and take it over.

everyone is susceptible to this attack, but those who are poor, hungry and desperate for something better are more susceptible than others.

so while talking to your neighbors is good and all, you and your kids are now more susceptible to attack and all it will take is getting you when you're at your weakest, and they'll be there, waiting.
it sounds more nefarious than you think it is, but they, like men with women, are only there for a single reason. theirs is different but singular as well: to infect your mind with fear and self doubt and open the way for religion to come in and take over.

and once it does and your fully in, it doesn't matter if you change your mind later, because now you have to change your families minds, and they may be more affected than you depending on their defenses. and kids have none. and so now you're stuck and you make excuses and stick up for your lapse in judgement and infect others because you're totally bought in.

I've seen it too many times for it to be a one off. I've been told by so many religious men that they are only in it because their wife/family is. but they don't understand that by letting it happen they're creating Another generation of logically weakened humans.

and therein is my issue, religion makes us weaker, easier to dominate and placate. religion is a virus.
Seems like VCs would do well to buy some housing. A few more years of rent hikes down the line, "far below-market housing" could be a seriously compelling employee benefit. Apartments big enough to raise a family in would do wonders for employee retention.
>You can turn it off via group policy if you have windows enterprise.

No, you can't. You can only set it to a lower level.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...
This is great news! I know that some of the devs from MS visit this site. Good work guys!
If with this you mean requiring a restart then arent' you wrong? Ubuntu is linux, right, so it's an operating system, and it has stuff like /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs so it's not like all linux flavors out there don't ever require reboots.

If you meant forced restarts at a given time (or whatever windows 10 does) then you're right. For now, and hopefully forever.
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> While the EU or other institutions may be "right" in their aspirations, the fact of the matter is that the status quo simply isn't working for a large number of people.

Recent events are also a referendum on what "right" means.

Even if unrestricted free trade is wealth-maximizing, such policies are not necessarily the "right ones" in a democracy. A simple analysis of the situation suggests that in fact democratic policies should generally maximize the wealth of the majority of voters, even if those same policies fail to maximize national wealth.

One of the reasons for the frustration with the intellectual elite is their failure to realize that arguments in favor of the economic efficiency of free trade really miss the point.
Pinpointing vehicles with high precision under adverse weather conditions
If you read the piece with John Oliver's voice in your head you'll get the true intent behind the words. Tongue-in-cheek I think is the term that used to be used though it has fallen on hard times of late (possibly due to Globalist Elite agenda, hear hear!)
I know. That was why I wrote "even though it's a good idea to do so, if only for the sake of clarity".

Registration makes trademark ownership clear. It's not essential, but a really good idea.
I haven't found anyone using Windows X that thinks it's better than Windows XP. Windows 10 is better than Windows 8 but still worse than XP. My father-in-law was pleased that his Windows 8 was replaced by 10 automatically because he hated it and was about to return his laptop.
No article here - "Oops! That page can’t be found."
But then you (rather than the landlords) can pocket the rent increases.
There's absolutely nothing in Pyret forcing you to write `where` blocks with immediate tests. You can also put your tests in a `check` block, which can float anywhere, and in another module.

What we find valuable is to write a _small_ number of _illustrative_ examples, which we call the “sweep”, that summarize the main behavior of the function. Think of it as essential, runnable documentation. When you come to a new codebase (including your own, six months later!), these help you quickly page back in what the function was supposed to do.

The sweep is also really useful for peer-review, which is another especially valuable technique in both education and industry. We have done some nice studies on its effectiveness: http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pcgfk-...
>10-Year Exercise Periods Make Sense

>I agree with Adam's post

>I don't think companies should take back stock compensation on a technicality.

Isn't a 10-year period a technicality?

Anything that can take back compensation is a technicality.

Heh, can't even get a response without downmods.
How strongly is Pyret committed to the JavaScript runtime? I read jpolitz's recent comment about the contortions that you have to go through to support recursion while not overflowing the stack or blocking the UI thread, and I wonder if it would really be so bad to require people to install a programming environment on their computers. How common is it really for students to be limited to what they can run in a browser? Anyway, have you considered a non-JS runtime of some kind?
Well, besides libraries, performance.

.NET supports proper multithreading (no GIL) and it is also much faster than CPython.

If IronPython gets ported to .NET Core (maybe it already has, I don't know), then you'd get those benefits for free.
They feel spammy when attached to spammy comments from new accounts, and the comment/post seems to specifically target a site with decent traffic such as HN. Standing alone, I don't automatically have a problem with an affiliate link.

Not that davidw needs my endorsement, but the dude's got 43K in karma, and I've seen his comments around elsewhere. I'm fine with letting someone like that slide. As he points out himself, one can expect a little beer money from affiliate links unless you really go out of your way to spam the link.
They were regulated by materials and physics. Automobiles, HVAC, steel, etc. throw all of that out the window and can result in urban environments that aren't great for humans.
> too stupid

> hordes of idiots

This is exactly what I'm talking about. You're saying that 51% of Britons (or voting Britons) are "a horde of stupid idiots" that are swayed by money spent on advertisements.

Note that this also implies that the "smart people" on the "right" side haven't thought about running persuasive advertisements? Or can't do so effectively?

If idiots are so easily swayed--and not only swayed, but swayed to vote against their own interests--shouldn't it be easy to get them to vote your way instead?
No, because the information in articles is usually available in literally hundreds of other places with nearly identical content. That someone on Hacker News submitted a paywalled article is not a reason to support them, it's more an argument to provide a different source. WaPo is just as much "junk" as many other sites, depending on your perspective.