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>If they haven't found anything in the telemetry that makes headlines yet, most likely there's nothing to find.

There's plenty to be found and Microsoft isn't even hiding it:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...

That data, even at the "Basic" level, is enough to be used for 'bad things'. And since it's on someone else's computer you can't know who has access to it, so you can assume the worst.

>Singling out Windows is ridiculous.

Just Windows 10. Because it's the only mainstream desktop OS with forced telemetry and no opt-out option.
What I find disappointing is that the left, who used to represent the working class, is missing this opportunity to address that class's needs explicitly.

The fact that this huge amount of dissatisfaction is being channelled into squabbles over immigration rather than, say, supporting massive upgrades to vocational training infrastructure, is a huge missed opportunity.
Because Microsoft didn't write the drivers for 100% of hardware... and tbh, if a company wants they can pay Microsoft to write those initial drivers, and provided the hardware for testing, iirc, they tend to maintain those drivers between versions. There are plenty of drivers that are written by MS, it's pretty common with Printers iirc, and works pretty damned well.

Because foo pro-audio, or bar cnc-board didn't want to update their drivers, or for that matter, more often than not, had a weird installer that simply didn't follow proper practices, doesn't work in the new version of Windows isn't MS' fault.
How many times... the Prime Minister IS democratically elected! If you're interested in how it happens, follow the upcoming Conservative leader elections.

As for the countries appointing a Commissioner, it doesn't matter as Commissioners have a clear mandate to avoid taking instructions from their own government. In other words, they don't represent the people that appoint them either. If you don't believe me, watch this video from the European Commission's own YouTube channel, see if you can spot the bit about not taking instructions from their own countries...

http://youtu.be/nWpgO1EPO_Y
Ask any DAW studio owner for a tour. The first thing they will show you is the isolation of all fans/equipment from recording booths and mixing areas.

It's a point of pride in studio design today. The NPR article mentions similar isolation from the newsroom.

Fans have a tonal center around 110-220Hz, then a lot of harmonics that essentially generate pink noise... nothing that can be corrected in post production or flipping the phase.
"What's your opinion on how an employee should deal with a founder who clearly believes more in the A16Z stance on stock options more than the Adam's?"

Value the options at zero and take appropriate steps.

It may not be the statistical expected result, but it is the modal outcome anyhow.

"Appropriate steps" isn't just "quit". If you're happy with the cash salary than you don't have a problem, for instance, or the experience, or the lifestyle, or any of the other reasons you may be choosing to work at a startup.

"Obviously it's in the founder's financial best interest (at least on the very surface level) for employees to not have the option to leave the company with shares at all."

Well, yeah, but that's sort of vacuous; it's not in the employer's best interest for employees to be compensated at all. But that makes hiring pretty challenging.

"What are some strategies an employee can use to make the point that Adam's perspective is a much more employee-friendly one and, thus, better for the company?"

There isn't a general answer to that question, because it depends on your status in the company. In some places, even opening that conversation will put you halfway out the door. In others, they'll fall over themselves to fix the problem if you just mention it, because they'll not have heard of this before. You need to judge the situation you're in, and play out the possible scenarios before you step in to something like this. But I'd suggest you're going to need a very solid position to change something this fundamental about a company.

Generic advice: It's always easier to negotiate from a fallback position of strength; unless you're absolutely confident in your position, consider having a job in hand before starting this talk. (You don't have to tell your employers that you have an offer in hand.)
A large part of today's population already resides in big cities around the world. Would it be more plausible to research on how we can improve the situation in the current cities, instead of starting from scratch.

It's like Software, where you come up with a large code base that is ridden with problems, but somehow works most of the times. You can either dive into that and improve it or you start writing your own system from scratch.

I am sure YC would have thought about this. Just want to know why they choose starting from scratch.
This is literally Burning Man.

Burning Man creates a 70000 person city in the middle of the desert from scratch every year. It's exactly what you want to prototype any number of urban design theories.
There's no reason you can't combine the two. My experience in Padova was that there wasn't a huge difference, as the local supermarket wasn't a tiny corner store. Some items we'd buy in bulk less often with our car.
Interesting to think that most job fields that exist today existed then. One notable exception being computer programmers, probably the number one occupation of HNers. Wonder what new job field will exist in 2115.
Minimum service periods already basically exist, in the form of a vesting “cliff”. A typical vesting schedule has a 1-year cliff, meaning you don't really get any of your equity unless you work at the company for at least a year.

However, 2- or 3-year cliffs could make sense as an alternate way of promoting a long-term mentality.
That reminds me of a 1920s drawing of the "city of the future" that had several levels of roadway with a promenade or pedestrian level on the third or fourth story: https://worldstreets.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/future-city...
One must distinguish those voting for the Brexit from the politicians advocating for it. I doubt many of the former are free market advocates, but the latter may be because they typically are not part of the former group. Many politicians are (somewhat) opportunistic and change opinion whenever they think it gives them more power. That makes sense, as, for example, one may prefer getting a seat advocating beliefs that are 80% aligned with one's belief to getting no seat advocating one's own beliefs.

In extreme cases, opportunism takes the upper hand, though, and people or parties simply move to where the votes are. One could argue even that is not a completely bad thing. What's wrong with a politician so devoted to his profession that he is willing to set aside his own preferences for those of the people he serves? In some sense, it is like a physician giving birth control recipes to those who want them while personally being against birth control. Hard to understand, maybe, and also not something one should expect from everybody, but not necessarily a sign of an evil mind.
True. Also, if Google Trends were for some reason down for the last weekend, journalists would keep looking for "evidence" of stupidity until they found something else.
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Thank you for taking the time to write this response, I appreciate it. I don't want to write too much publicly for privacy reasons, but I did have a blood/hormone test today, and I do have prior experience w/ this issue. I think my issue is more with low neurotransmitter levels making me susceptible to depression, although, there's a lot of psuedoscience on this topic.
Interesting article! Thanks for sharing.
I fail to see what is their "complement" that benefits by commoditizing netbox. In fact it could be used to create a competitor.
Are digitalocean not selling just VPS anymore?
I am curious what DO has up their sleeve, because they were really ahead of their time with 5$ VPSs.
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But the upgrade still requires that the user accept the EULA. I agree that the system is hostile to user preference (any reports of a computer behaving in a way the user doesn't expect should be examined, whether the user "should know better" or not) but it's important to get to the bottom of exactly what happened, and sometimes that requires figuring it what the user actually did, not just what they report they did. Anyone who has worked in tech support has this instinct.
In the public repos, there no substantial new work taking place with IronPython.
You're right, but my point stands: commission members are obligated to represent the general interest of the EU as a whole, not that of their home state. They're precluded, by oath from favoring the policies that maximize the prosperity of their home state.
> How many times... the Prime Minister IS democratically elected. If you're interested in how it happens, follow the upcoming Conservative leader elections.

The upcoming Conservative leader elections will elect the new prime minister, and will not be a direct democratic election of the British populace, so that would seem to support the upthread claim that the PM is not directly, democratically elected.
If they offered me a 2016 Corolla in trade for a 2002 Corolla, I'd probably do it.

edit: If they had a recall/replacement on the car because it was unsafe for other drivers on the road, people would probably agree as well.
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Regarding the performance, Anime is equal or better in some cases than the other javascript animation libraries out there.

Not sure to understand what you mean by "coordinate multiple animations", Are you talking about some kind of timeline?
> a button was removed from File Explorer

Would that be the "Go up to the parent directory" button that was removed in 7 by any chance?
I thought the same thing initially. I started writing something about Amazon Marketplace sellers, then had a "wait a minute..." thought and tried searching for "kodi." I was quite surprised!
> no rent problem

I take it you don't live here, it's arguably worse but salaries are noticeably higher so it's impact is not as big.
Is there a tutorial to run Prometheus on pure CoreOS cluster?
I'm not sure that it's entirely fair to force MS to maintain N forks of Windows until the end of time.
At Quora we decided not to have a higher "minimum service period" aside from the standard 1 year cliff. The rationale is that the vesting cliff is what everyone is expecting as the minimum. If a company wants to have a higher period before someone can leave and retain their stock, they should just increase the cliff to that length of time to make it fully transparent.
Dang, why does your mod account repeatedly promote certain certain political ideologies and censor polite and reasonable comments from viewpoints contrary to those. In particular, please state for the record whether the actions of your mod account represent the official viewpoints and policies of the ycombinator board members. Also please identify clearly and specifically which ycombinator staff controls the dang censorship account and whether they are paid staff. Please consider this an official inquiry. Thank you very much in advance for your reasoned and official response.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/its-still-illegal...
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Generally the add-ons are for streaming websites, which are generally the target of the infringement issues here (not to say the user isn't breaking the law, they just aren't likely to get in trouble over it)

This is also the source of he issues here. The Kodi team is blamed when these illegal sites are taken down.
I see, yes. The database corresponds to jOOQ's Catalog, not the Schema (except in MySQL, which mixes up these concepts)
I'm not sure I agree that "the company has a huge incentive in firing him a day before he vests." First of all, the direct and indirect costs of hiring a replacement can be massive, and potentially larger than the value of the stock that isn't vested. An employee doesn't have to be "essential" in order to be extremely valuable, especially early on. Second, a company could make a habit of firing employees right before they vest, and even if they managed to completely mitigate the damage internally as soon as word got out about this practice they would suddenly find it impossible to hire quality talent.
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I grew up in late-80s Taipei, which is a different (but at the same time, recognizable) beast than modern Taipei.

Back then there was no metro, there was a sea of private jitneys and buses fighting each other for bus stops. Traffic safety was utter shit.

The government had minimal involvement in food safety. Private "certifiers" sprung up to plug the gap, but piracy of food safety certification stamps was rampant, and the whole having to check the packaging to see if some product was certified safe by your preferred certification provider was a persistent stressor.

Building codes technically existed but enforcement was non-existent. Partial building collapses were common. The skies were a tangle of wires running overhead from competing TV, phone, and other companies, each of which needed their own set of last-mile infrastructure. A lot of it was poorly installed, accidental electrocutions weren't uncommon. It was all kind of Blade Runner-esque in hindsight.

The way I see it, I lived in the libertarian paradise some HNers dream of creating, and it wasn't really all it was cracked up to be.
Exactly that sort of libertarianism. According to such a view, a world wide state would be less oppressive than a nation state because the center wouldn't have the sort of local knowledge to make repression truly effective, it wouldn't have the petty and internecine struggles that make local politics nasty, and it would have to fight through all the intermediate layers of administration in order to implement repressive policies. Because of this reason, small political units such as North Korea and Eritrea can be more oppressive than large ones such as Russia or China could ever hope to be, and most oppression in the United States takes place at the local rather than national level (e.g. excessive incarceration, civil forfeiture).

TL;DR: neighborhood bullies are far worse than the average dictator.
* FreeBSD is listed on CoreCLR GitHub repo (https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr).
See current build status here: http://dotnet-ci.cloudapp.net/job/dotnet_coreclr/job/master/...

* Also, see doc here (last updated in feb though): https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...

* Laslty, FreeBSD arrived on azure last week, so it would be quite surprising if support was dropped.
"right away" doesn't mean the instant you get home. It's more like the next two to three days.

Yes, in an urban environment you generally have less stored food. But usually not zero stored food. You also have less space to store it in, which makes shopping every other day more convenient. Trading off time for space and whatever conveniences urban living might provide you.
> And the argument that "we should keep trying the same thing" eventually falls flat with no results. So a headlong leap into the unknown looks better than pounding your head against the same wall over and over again.

Agreed, but it only looks better. Things are bad, but they can still get much worse (see Venezuela, Somalia, Syria...)

It's not good enough to do something random. We need something that will actually help.
That's BS. Advertising how awesome $vendor is with updating their own hardware but failing to note that it runs like crap, that user should do the research and isn't possible to revert, while nagging you with update notifications should result in a class action suit as well.
You'd be surprised.

My ex-girlfriend's mother sent me a link to some small little device for sale on Craigslist a while back and asked what I thought about it. I forget now exactly what it was, but it was basically something like a Chromecast but that streamed TV shows, movies, etc., off of the Internet and displayed it on your TV screen. I think it was $100 and she was going to buy one -- it was advertised with bullet points such as a "lifetime subscription" and that you could now cancel your Netflix, et al., subscriptions.

It was only after I described how they really worked that she decided not to buy one.

ETA: It was something similar to this item [0].

[0]: http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/ele/5655216394.html
This is what it seems like to me. Lots of people see the rich getting richer and having the politicians solidly in their grip to prevent the system from changing. They're trying everything they can to try to break up this status quo and try to push some of the balance back towards the people. The Brexit is only the latest effect, we also see Donald Trump's otherwise inexplicable rise to power and Bernie Sander's incredibly impossible campaign gain way more steam than it had any business getting.

People think that it's just big business rigging the system to make sure they get most of the money and the expense of the average person and politicians are along for the ride. Something about the big wall street bailouts and the skyrocketing wealth gap and years of stagnant real wages for the working class may have something to do with it.

Theoretically politicians with "big government" is supposed to be the people's answer to corporate power. Also labor unions. However, globalization has weakened government power and nearly destroyed unions and now businesses are running away unchecked and creating a new guilded age.

I had really hoped that bleak dystopian 80's futurism (see: Blade Runner) wouldn't come to pass, but it's looking more and more likely with each passing day.
Border guards aren't supposed to have a sense of humor.

Imagine how many non-resident/non-citizens enter the US daily. Now imagine if everyone of them were allowed to jokingly answer these questions. It would make doing their job that much harder.

It's much easier to treat all declarations as serious, rather than try to weed out the jokes. And because of the nature involved investigating, anyone who willing makes false statements are punished.
All to be expected. 1) Things are clearly less predictable now. 2) The mega banks are in bed with the central banks, of course they want to send a message.
I don't think all programmers need a proper algorithms class.

Think about construction. There are manual laborers with no domain knowledge that can do basic grunt work for pennies on the dollar, some with domain expertise to guide the grunts, and people that coordinate the entire construction project.

Then there's an entirely separate group of people actually working on architecture... designing the building, ensuring the structure can hold load, meets customer and legal requirements, and can be delivered on a schedule.

At my company, a good SDE1 hire is someone that's at the architecture-level... they might not be able to design a skyscraper but they can design a house. Yet 90%+ of their time will be spent putting up walls and installing plumbing.

That's ridiculous for everyone involved.
https://blog.archive.org/2016/06/02/copyright-offices-propos...
Facebook totally was a hair on fire problem - if you saw a cute girl on campus and you wanted to look her up - all we had was a stupid freshman "facebook" (book of faces and names) and a crapy web version of the same.
But people wouldn't invest their money in productive assets. Given more spare money, they buy bigger televisions and shinier cars. Financial ignorance and materialism are some of the most basic woes underpinning society.

Their thought process is well-illustrated by a recent exchange I had with some children from a background of poverty:

Me: Maybe you should save that money instead of spending it.

Them: Good point, then I can buy something more expensive next week!

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Children they may be, but I know their parents and that mindset did not appear ex nihilo.
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I was meaning to compare, say, Washington D.C. and Memphis. Most Americans live outside the 'top tier' cities like DC, NY, SF, LA, Chicago, etc. About 26 million (out of 320 million) live in the ten largest cities in the U.S.

Even assuming half of the US lives in cities, about 130 million people live in smaller ones. My point was that smaller cities are actually more popular, and I think the numbers still support that.
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> Google App Engine's dev_appserver.py completely broke after an update, caused in part by another Google library being installed (protobuf...). Still not sure if the fix was rolled into a release yet...

We've been having a lot of fun with how tricky namespace packages are in Python. We've got a fix in for this issue that should hopefully be in the next SDK release, and we're looking into ways to better isolate dev_appserver from the OS environment.

A simple workaround is to activate an empty virtualenv before running dev_appserver.
> So ^Z is a case of convergent evolution.

More likely common ancestry, no? DG RDOS also used ^Z to end input (not sure if it was stored in the file); also PARC built their own PDP-10 clones.
There is precedent for these types of acoustic attacks. One interesting paper from 2014 that comes to mind is this: https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/

Basically, the idea is that even though clocks run at GHz (which in acoustics, would be impractical ultrasound), modular arithmetic (exponentiation) takes ~milliseconds to run, which means they produce acoustic signatures in the kHz range, which travels easily (and omnidirectionally from the kind of small aperture that the motherboard represents) in air and can be acquired with cheap microphones.