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> I wonder if anyone on the Windows 10 dev team and/or their managers have ever heard of HIPAA, and how telemetry could... cause issues.

They've heard about it but they haven't posted anything interesting about it. Try searching for

"windows 10" hipaa site:microsoft.com

I'm not an expert but I'd guess that consumer Windows 10 out of the box doesn't meet HIPAA, simply because it sends searches to Bing. (You could, of course, type identical searches into Google, if you wanted.)

I'd also guess that business versions of Windows 10 with GP control can be configured to meet HIPAA. I did the above search expecting to find a white paper with the details, but, at a quick look, I can't see one.

Microsoft is targeting the health business via partners such as US Medical IT, and it has done a lot of work on HIPAA compliance for Azure. Similar work on Windows 10 may be overdue....

http://usmedit.azurewebsites.net/
Ah. Thank you.
and usually introducing quite a bit of latency
They also neglected to mention metrics, which I think is the twin sibling to logging. Metrics tell you what is happening, logs tell you what happened. Monitoring can be built off metrics as well, or by an external source pinging in (or both, realistically).
This whole thing seems so overwhelming. I understand negotiation is a skill that you can learn, but like anything else, it takes a lot of practice to get really good.

In a way, negotiation is the polar opposite skill as computer programming. As a programmer, what you do is anything but negotiation. You don't negotiate with PHP to get you code running the way you want it to. You tell it exactly what you want it to do, then PHP does exactly that.
> Grocery stores [...] aren't open on Sundays

Then I suggest you don't go to any of the catholic South German states e.g. with Munich in Bayern:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laden%C3%B6ffnungszeit#.C3.9Cb...

It's worse :-)
The difference is that the implicit contract is that HN is getting the keystrokes that I submit while this textbox has focus, like this text, but not when it doesn't, like the entire source to the death star that I just typed out after clicking outside this textbox.

The contract that you opt-into and on-by-default on W10 indicates that if I clicked the desktop and proceeded to type the entire source to the death star, there is a possibility that all or part of those keystrokes would get sent to MS and possibly stored, even though I had no intention of communicating or transmitting that information.
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I find the fact that many people who run companies that don't even think about building a product, let alone one that enables fast growth, call them startups rather tiresome.
Great mini survey!

Can you mention any key papers about NNs that manipulate existing code?
e.g. parse it, find design pattern, optimize, etc
I think this is just as interesting and already feasible.
Can you explain what you mean by JSON being an edge labeled tree in more detail? I don't understand and would really like to.
2 most common phone companies before the iphone era were nokia and sony ericsson.

Before making 3.5 jack mandatory by the GSM association, sony ericsson used proprietary connector for their headphone jack and nokia used 1.5mm jack.

We weren't using 3.5mm jack all the way from the first smartphone and we shouldn't stick to it for the future smartphones.
On the topic of ownership of property, yes, the guy owns the property. That is, until she divorce him, then she owns half his properties. LOL.

In other word, she already owned half his property, he just didn't realized it until she divorced him. Hahaha.
That was a reference to local elected officials in NC, not NC's reps in the US congress.
As a Schemer who hates Java, I only wish it was.
You linked to the US congress and US senate instead of the NC house of representatives and senate.

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChambe...

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChambe...

There are 10 black senators and 20 representatives, by my count, out of 50 and 120, respectively.
Except iPads don't run Linux, and iOS is ridiculously locked down and has very few usable apps for typical desktop needs (Android also has this issue, so I'm not shitting on iOS only).
I don't know if using Xeon Phi for rendering makes that much sense. It's sort of the problem it's least competitive to solve on a raw performance, performance per watt or development cost basis.

> However, ‘smaller’ is a relative term as current visualizations can occur on a machine that contains less than a terabyte of RAM. Traditional raster-based rendering would have greatly increased the memory consumption as the convoluted shape of each neuron would require a mesh containing approximately 100,000 triangles per neuron.

That sounds like a poor approach to this problem. You could write a shader that renders thick lines for the dendrites, and the rest of the geometry can be conventional meshes. The same shader could have a pass specially designed for lines and depth of field rendering. That's the one unusual shader. It's hard, but not super hard to write. [0]

Besides, unless you need this to run in real time (which the Xeon Phi doesn't anyway), you could just raster render and page in the mesh data from wherever. So what if it's slow.

I think highly technical platform decisions like Xeon Phi versus NVIDIA CUDA is really about the details. You have to educate the reader both on the differences that matter and why they should choose one over the other. The comment in the article, "no GPU dependencies," is a very PR-esque don't-mention-your-competitor dance around what they're actually trying to say: the CUDA ecosystem can be a pain since you can't buy the MacBook Pro with the GTX 750M easily, installing all its drivers is error-prone, SIP gets in the way of everything, Xcode and CUDA updates tend to break each other, etc. etc.

I sound like I know what I'm talking about, right? Intel's just not getting it. Show a detailed application of where Xeon Phi really excels. NVIDIA's accelerated science examples go back a decade, and some, like the accelerated grid solved Navier-Stokes fluids examples, are still state of the art.

The competition in rendering is intense. Some level of production-ready renderers like Arion, Octane and mental ray (specifically iRay, NVIDIA's GPU accelerated renderer) perform best or are exclusive to the CUDA platform. Conversely, you probably get the most flexibility from a platform like VRay or Renderman, whose support for GPU acceleration is limited. Intel embtree has a great presence today in baked lighting for game engines, but I think NVIDIA's OptiX is a lot faster.

[0] https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/drawing-lines-is-hard
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing.
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> I guess that makes sense, particularly if there are not very systematic rules that define those things

There are systematic rules for this, but you don't want to derive the result each time you want to express something. Compare it to applying a formalized multiplication algorithm each time you want to compute something from your multiplication table (up to 100) vs. memorizing the table. You have to understand the rules (just as you have to understand how multiplication works) for conjugating/declinating, but to apply them in practise you have to rote train them as often as you don't have to think about the rules anymore (because you really don't want hesitate for seconds what the correct, say, declination is).
xaml for UI.. FML
> Win10 is not going to be installed in any business that needs high data security either for operations or regulatory requirements like HIPPA or the SEC, etc.

Nah, I have worked with HIPAA compliant businesses before and as long as the data MS collects isn't (demonstrably) leaked to malevolent third parties they won't care. They upgrade to whatever MS tells them to upgrade and these kind of OS issues aren't discussed at all. They care about the privacy of the information they deal with directly but whatever the OS does under the hood it's assumed to be proper.
At some point I accepted that my English is terrible (I'm German) and I decided to not waste any more energy on being embarrassed. Lo and behold, that was were my English really started to improve because I used it much more and also more intuitively. Previously, I first constructed every sentence in my head before uttering it. That works to some extent but it prevents you from developing an intuitive understanding of the language. So my advice is: don't make your life harder than necessary, speak without thinking, you will make plenty of mistakes, but people will think you are cute. More generally, If you show your weakness in life, people usually react very positively.
Spoken like a true MS lawyer
My main hole with 2FA and Apple is that I don't receive messages on my devices – with the new system. There's still SMS / texting as an alternative but it gets annoying and is less secure too.
Obviously I was talking about people that achieved B2/C1 level of German but still couldn't "discuss Wittgenstein" with the natives, locking them out of proper interaction at their intelligence level, not about migrants that don't care about learning German at all.
One such process is what would have happened by default: let the banks who bought bad assets crash and burn. Now that we bailed them out, we have actually encouraged similar behavior in the future. The banks get all of the upside rewards, but none of the downside risk.

I'm not arguing that the bail out was necessarily the wrong thing to do. There's other considerations (like the effect on the rest of the economy) but this is one of the big drawbacks.
Why do we need to jump to ML-based programming again? I'm confident that as we build simpler interfaces and workflows for replacing the most modular components in our programs with AI, we'll begin to see which components are the next lowest-hanging fruit and what concrete ML problems need to be solved to model them.

We imagine a future where AI becomes a dominant paradigm for "writing" software -- I think that will be the case, but not in the way everyone suspects. I think 80% of the new value of software in the future will be derived from AI components, but that 80% of the production costs will still go into the structural glue code that supports the value-powerhouse models. Thus, most of the software written in the future will look similar to most of the code written today.

I also suspect that as the complexity of AI models increases, the structural code required to support these models will keep pace in complexity. For this reason, I see a future where the unit cost of high-quality software does not see any big drop, but where the value of this software continues to increase exponentially. A corollary to this is that valuable software will be no easier to program in the future than it is today.
That's exactly what I said, "we are as secure as is cost-effective".
It's safe to say that whatever worries the DoD may have about Windows 10 are going to be readily addressed by MS but most people/businesses won't have that luxury.
Then you should be able to memorize one of your backup codes, and you'll be fine..

I don't know if Apple does this, but Google's 2FA (and others) gives you static (printable - or memorizable!) backup codes in case you lose your device.
>A man shouldn't feel obligated to be masculine, nor a provider, nor a protector, nor anything he doesn't want to be.

Well, if a man doesn't want to provide for his kids, then who should provide for his kids? Should a man force his wife to provide for his kids while he sits around doing nothing? Or should a man force the government to provide for his kids?
Actually, it is important to upgrade to Windows 10 or any other updates to Windows because each iteration of Windows has additional cyber security measures over the previous ones, sometimes taking into account new features in the Intel CPU hardware.

I would like a simple single, privacy selected option.

Also, I want to be able to turn Cortana off.

But in my case I run mac with Parallels VM running Windows 10 as a guest so not so much of an issue.
The real threat to Gillette isn't new business models, it's the Mach 3 coming out of patent in the next two years. Soon after that you'll see off-brand Mach 3 compatible blades flooding discount retail outlets, and the whole "razor and blades business model" starts to break down.

That's why Gillette has been trying to transition people onto newer shaving systems (with however many blades) for the past decade. But people keep buying Mach 3, because it's great.
In NC when you get an ID or a license it is mandatory for them to ask 2 questions: would you like to register to vote? Register for which party? Unfortunately how the party system works, you can't just merely auto register to vote...as we seen this year in the democratic primaries you must register as a democratic in order to vote democratic in their primary.
>well regarded in the enterprise

I think this alone should be enough to cast doubt on it, based on my (albeit limited) interactions with "enterprise" software.

>I think it's bad reputation comes from anyone not using an enterprise language because the support just isn't there.

What, like JavaScript? I've had to read and write XML packets from a Node app to work with (surprise!) an enterprise app. I had probably 20 choices of libraries with varying levels of features, and the one I chose worked fine.

I was lucky, compared to some of the others on this page: The "RPC"-style XML commands and responses I had to parse and generate were all well standardized, so I just wrote a wrapper that extracted the completely opaque tree of XML into a flatter JavaScript object/hash that was really easy to deal with, and similarly made a wrapper that would trivially generate the monstrous XML required to send commands and responses back to the server. My JSON-equivalent objects were easier to manipulate (and would also have been easier to deal with in Java or, in this case, C#), equally rich in the information they carried, but could have been serialized with 1/3 the number of bytes per message. Totally a win-win-win.

What I don't understand is why anyone thought using XML that way was a good idea, and why it still is popular in the enterprise. Bad habits are hard to break, I guess.
I keep some Google and Github account recovery codes on a slip of paper with my passport, some more in my wallet, and all in an encrypted file on a server with SSH access.

Hopefully that's enough that I'm not too inconvenienced, should my phone be stolen.
That's the traditional focus of programming, but I wouldn't say that makes it the whole point. I very much expect programming to change over time
Your opinion about giving information to who. Is it good or bad thing?
I was today in a cafe with my colleagues. Some among us was supporting that giving information to local, medium business, private information (such as register with member card, or giving information such us address, phone, email, etc) can be more good than a bad thing, and government already has the information that needs to know. We don't need to give false information to registrations, or not full-filling the form, or afraid anything. In the end, with our given data, we can be notified if we are winners in a random competition that the company is organized.

On the other hand, the rest of us, supports that such small information and "small registrations", such registration with member card, registration to a website, all kind of registration forms electronic or not, can all together, be merged and analyzed, in such way that, in the end of the day, ends up with negative consequences against you. What is your opinion on these two sides?
Sorry, terrible typo, or braino. Instead of "the chance of Windows coming out is zero", please read "the chance of Windows 11 coming out is zero".
Ask HN: Canadian startup visa success stories?
Should one take it seriously?
If you are catching a Pokemon and you hear that Halo 3 has been confirmed, finish catching the Pokemon, then go and inquire.
Doesn't seem like all is well with that plan.

http://federalnewsradio.com/defense/2016/03/army-crashes-dod...
I can't speak for the certs, but I can tell you that the DevOps course was actually pretty good. It had many real-world examples, wasn't copy-paste-click-next heavy and had great intros to the newer tech such as Lambda.
"Figure 1: Even first in-silico models show the complexity and beauty of the brain"

Man the human brain is such a narcissist
As this is Apple we're talking about - most iPhone users stick with those nasty in-ear buds that come with the phone - it's not like they are going to notice the lossy codec comparatively over the rubbish quality of those buds (or the equally rubbish m4a low bit-rate that iTunes dumps onto the phone). I'll just bet they'll start evangelising about how 'improved' the sound is now that it's no longer over a legacy/obsolete jack. ;)
You're like the blind man who can only feel one part of the elephant. You can see greed, but you don't see the other two reasons.
The idea behind capitalism is that people who have money use it to start a company with the goal of making profits. For example, if it's a transportation company, they will use the money to buy cars or to hire drivers. Thanks to competition, they will have to make sure that they are providing a good service at a competitive price, and so if they want to get their profits, they will have to make sure that their company runs as efficiently as possible.

Those are the two ingredients of capitalism: competition and the profit motive. Once you take away one of them, things start breaking down. And that's why not-for-profits are notorious for being wastefully run and being taken advantage of by their senior management.
That's interesting. Two quotes from the Wikipedia page that I think are relevant to this discussion of management styles:

"[There is the following] implicit requirement imposed on superior commanders:

* to give their subordinates no more orders than are essential (every order given is regarded as an additional constraint upon its recipient), and:
* to be extremely rigorous, absolutely clear, and very succinct in the expression of their commands."

"Few armies seem to have mastered the approach. The Wehrmacht are perhaps the premier example—a degree of competence achieved only after rigorous training under Hans von Seeckt between 1919 and 1935." So Boyd's observations about WWII are corroborated by that account.
A bag of codes hidden in the pantry can't easily get lost
Etsy shop closes for a few days after Pokemon Go case goes viral
This discussion just confuses me completely. I'm a scientist (of the mathematical variety) and absolutely of the thought that human-made climate change is the largest current threat to human civilization.

But here we have at least seven different claims that vary wildly, from "catastrophe practically guaranteed" to "this problem can be handled in a straightforward way if we focus".

Given that I'm not a climate scientist, who should I listen to?
Extremely cheap?! Last I saw, a flex desk is about 350 Eur/mon, fixed 470. That's the most expensive coworking rate in the city as far as I know. But maybe you got a different deal.
I have to recharge my phone too, if I forget my phone at home I can't get a replacement for cheap, and after the initial setup, Bluetooth is easier than plugging in headphones.
Is it possible your boss might like your coworker (to your chagrin) and might even resent you for expecting _them_ to do something about it?

Might your bosses' attitude be: 'I wish they'd both work as a team' or 'why should I take one side over another?' Consider your bosses' incentives and interests: Bosses looks good to their bosses when their teams work together.

All sorts of intangibles add value in the workplace. You'd be surprised how far being the hardest worker falls behind things like: somewhat hard work with super supportive attitude, prior working relationships, nepotism, etc. Some of them aren't right, but you have to learn to work with them instead of against if you want to build influence. You need influence to make change. The best book is How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

In short, there's nothing you're really in a position to do except your own work and generate your own value and work with the people who want to work with you. That's leadership in a nutshell.

Welcome to employment. I've been employee, manager, and now self-employed. I want to stay self-employed because I like who I get to work with (me).
If you're correct, Paul Graham is going to make this very confusing for everyone.
What are "typical desktop needs"? Microsoft Office? Web browsing? What else?
Ask HN: Can I exchange money for knowledge?
For most my life, I've been working with Windows. However, for over a decade, I've always wanted to gain in-depth knowledge about Linux - from the kernel to the UI. To obtain mastery.

I'm at a crossroads in life. One path takes me to a high paying job working with Windows but gives me little free time. The other path is much more risky but gives me a lot more free time to do what I want to do.

If I take that high paying job, is there any way I can buy Linux mastery with the extra money I've earned there ($10,000 - $30,000)?
If they are moving to a paradigm where I can't listen and charge at the same time, the 6 will be my last iPhone.

I wish they would stop trying to shave millimeters off my phone thickness and address actual user needs like battery life. When was the last time any of you said, "Damn, I wish this phone was thinner!"? Probably never. But many of us regularly bemoan the battery life of our devices.
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Usually it's just a con in my experience, but more information is needed though to tell you if you have any real concern. Here's a few things myself or others would likely need to know to provide any real help:

1) What site were they threatening to DDoS?
2) Who made the threat?
3) What amount are they demanding?
I'm still locked out of a 2FA-enabled Dropbox account. I broke my phone while my laptop was undergoing maintenance. Still have a log-in token on the encrypted drive of a laptop whose boot password I've since forgotten...
I think a weird thing about kickstarter is that lots of campaigns just become places for pre orders. Pretty much everyone understands that the backer-amount just shows how much interest there is, but meanwhile the money is still being added to the amount that basically suggests "how much money will be spent creating this product".
Still waiting on a terminal-emulator/external keyboard combo that handles alt and ctrl in an emacs-friendly way (I simply can't retrain my brain to use esc for M-). If it also allows me to remap caps-lock to ctrl, I'll rename a child after it.
I think this video (Berlin as a Startup) is relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e22vY4CWpEI
But linux is easier to use than windows?
I completely agree. That section was a gross misunderstanding of what Continuous Delivery actually is. It should have actually been called "Packaging". The "Continuous Delivery" section was more about versioned packaging (and vendoring dependencies into packages), while the automation section was about configuration management of servers (which included deploying versioned packages).

If someone wants to understand what Continuous Delivery actually is (which is pretty well understood), there's a great book on the topic called... oddly enough... "Continuous Delivery" by Jez Humble. It covers CD pipelines like you mentioned, while also covering a bunch of the other listed topics at a high level in a much better way. Granted it's an actual book, but it's worth it's place on an DevOps/Release/Software Engineer's desk when implemented appropriately.
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