skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chicken and egg problem: Developers won't support your platform unless you have enough users. Users won't buy your platform unless you have enough apps. More than once companies including Microsoft have tried to break this issue by outright buying developers, but the monopoly effect is way too strong.

A third party platform will fundamentally need to beat Android so badly on platform features directly that app developers rush to it, users get excited about it. The hype has to be real. Maybe that's HoloLens for Microsoft, maybe it's someone else. But the admittedly incremental benefits Windows Mobile has over Android aren't enough to break that monopoly power. Nothing about Tizen, Ubuntu, Sailfish, etc. gets people talking about the cool amazing future of technology.
> I'm getting 30 TB of bandwidth as part of my 64GB RAM / 500GB SSD / Quad-Core i7 Skylake for €39 /mo

Yes, you're getting cheap pricing from an oversubscribed line.
Nokia sold their Here mapping division to a German automobile conglomerate. They have a big presence in the network infrastructure market. I think they recently dipped their toes back into the consumer market by acquiring Withings, a wearable products company.
Microsoft Starts Final Clock on Windows 7 Pro OEM Sales (2015)
> But you're not fooling anyone, so why not be honest at least?

Oh, come on, you know the answer to that. =) It's the same reason that people like Moldbug never met a thesaurus they wouldn't adopt and raise like a child. But, unfortunately, cloaking oneself in borrowed dignity doesn't really work.
It's okay, JavaScript is the new Java, complete with abuse of “patterns” and everything.
They only spam you? I've been called, on my desk phone 4 times in the last year by their head hunters. It seems no matter how many times I tell them no, they don't get the message.
Yes but there's no alternative to living, so it's not a factor to consider.
I certainly wasn't talking about Citi.
> Securing Windows 10

By the end of the steps, UAC has been left turned off.
And for those who want a bigger screen, a tablet works just fine. Assuming both your phone and tablet have the same OS, most things should be automatically synced between the two.
Yeah, I should have mentioned but that's what I meant by "genuine attempt". They never really pushed this. These things dont typically happen organically. Even the first iPhone sales were pretty average.

I actually bought a cheap Lumia to test this release out but on release they decided to drop my phone (which they already announced as compatible) from the upgrade so I never got to try it out.

Did anyone give it a go? Like/not?
The UI looks very good.
Microsoft Windows is still the most-installed OS by far in the consumer desktop and laptop space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
I think a software-centric approach is probably the smartest way to approach driverless cars and ultimately probably the most lucrative. It's pretty clear now that most people will shift from owning cars to simply paying for access to cars (a driverless Uber), so the market of selling cars will probably be pretty small.

I would imagine Apple would be more interested in a bigger market with higher profit margins. Software that enables the future of driverless cars seems more likely to be that place. That said I wouldn't be surprised if Apple still made a high end driverless car, because it would fit with Apple being a luxury brand and the market will probably still exist in ten years.
I have three suggestions to improve the OP:

(1) Make the fonts 2-3 times larger.

(2) Make the fonts solid black.

(3) Make the background solid white.
IANAL, but I believe press mentions upon request are treated as political donations by the FEC. If not properly disclosed, it may be a problem. I don't have any experience with election law or regulation though.
I was wondering why men tie their identity to employment so much. Is it because society expects them to be providers, and ridicules men who don't ?
> Most people don't care about all the apps that are available to Android and Apple on their work phones

You can see this clearly reflected in RIM...err...Blackberry's bottom line.
> It seemed like some kind of gleaming urban utopia

You should visit Toronto or Tokyo then, they'll blow your mind.
As someone not on Facebook, I'm finding it very challenging to tell whether that's sarcasm.
> If you do not have a copy, one can be easily acquired online. However, if you do acquire it online[0], you will also need to download additional software to activate the operating system. At the time of this writing, KMSpic[1] is recommended as the best and safest option.

I've had to flag this article. They're advocating piracy and linking to an activation remover and image.

[0] Link to a Windows 10 Image

[1] Link to a Windows 10 activation remover.
Sure, but that's why WMT shares are priced at a discount. The same thing happened to Apple, if you're not growing you will watch your P/E dive.
Another front page article now is a teenager that built a software-defined radio from scratch. For fun. With an FPGA, a home-designed 6-layer board, BGA parts, hand placed, and reflowed in an oven he made in only 3 spins. Ridiculous respect.

Now that he's built it and people are asking to buy it, he's not even sure if wants to (bother to) sell any.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12181350

I think there's probably about as much creative/hobby work getting done as before. Now, you're just hearing about the wantrepreneurs who can't get a Kickstarter funded. Those people probably weren't going to build something in the absence of Kickstarter/Indiegogo either.
They also tried (to some degree) your suggestion. Remember Microsoft Kin? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Kin

| Kin was a short-lived mobile phone line from Microsoft designed for users of social networking. Microsoft described the phones' target demographic as men and women between ages 15 and 30.
That doesn't sound like a healthy relationship.
They link to an activation crack.

Look at the link under "At the time of this writing, KMSpico is recommended as the best and safest option." It is an activation crack.

This is full on piracy, not just a customised OS image.
> Milo shows no remorse for the avalanche of misconduct he helped direct towards Leslie Jones.

He shows no remorse because she clearly didn't suffer from anything he said. Like I said before. Other people actually harassed, he didn't. Trolling a celebrity star of a bad movie isn't harassment by any measure. His comments were intelligent and funny. His article on Breitbart was scathing, which is why Jack targeted him, to set an example.

Also stated before, She was happy to leverage it for publicity. So much for being traumatized. And another thing, Milo doesn't launch abuse at Minorities. In fact, since he's in love with british black men, your comment has no value there because you're clearly uninformed on his background.

Milo attacks ideas and does sophisticated trolling. Judging by Twitter's crashing stock price right when this incident occurred, it can't be denied that Twitter's censoring of an minor media celebrity proved it made a bad move. So much so, Jack's been trying to put out the fire, even where he addressed it for a canned question during the investor phone call. He just wants it to go away.
> This has been done for quite some time, and it's unclear what value deep learning would add beyond the arithmetic we've used for a while.

I've seen a lot of these claims, and they're easily debunked by driving through a city. The usual case is a platoon of 5 cars cruising down an arterial. A solitary car pulls up on a side street, and the light turns read for the arterial just in time to stop the platoon for the solitary car. A sensible algorithm would let the platoon pass first.

There are endless scenarios of these, to the point where the light algorithm finds a local optima where it is completely out of phase with the traffic and causes maximum delay and minimum throughput.

A relatively small amount of effort going into cameras and an adaptive system that minimizes a cost function would save billions of dollars in gas, time, and unneeded road widening.
Mr Robot s02e04 easter eggs
So I've found two in this episode:

First is a onion from TOR under this IP: 192.251.68.251
You can just open it in browser
http://192.251.68.251

it will redirect you too

http://i251.bxjyb2jvda.net/

Another one is entering the IRC server that main character connected on ending where you chat with Mr Robot as Dolores.

Open in browser:

http://irc.eversible.co
Pretty sure Microsoft is advocating piracy by bundling a keylogger with the consumer editions.
You're insane. Maemo was fantastic, and completely blew everything away that was out at the time the N900 was released. iOS was awful at the time, and in its nth generation of being awful. WebOS wasn't bad at all, but I'm not seeing the vast difference between it and Maemo that you see (with no explanation), and I was running both.
Welp - and the crack is open source, right? So we know what it does to the OS?
It is not actually a keylogger in the traditional sense, and I think even that can be disabled.
> Similarly, it's probably loud enough to cause immediate and permanent hearing loss as well.

As immediate result of death due to body crushing down.
None of those threads mention the Rift CV1, the Vive, or the Samsung Galaxy S6 or S7 (the ones that fit in the current Gear VR headsets). I tried the test image from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2765793 on my S6 and didn't see the issue. That thread and this one https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/10924/true-bl... say it's only an issue around areas where the screen is actually black, so keeping things very dark would seem to be worse?
Most likely the ISPs drop/block the BGP routes, or just null route traffic for those blocks.
his 'thuggish role' you mean when he realized that the media were telling lies, where gaming websites were insulting gamers and he stood up for them on Twitter and Breitbart. What you call thuggish is really superior charisma and getting results.
Yeah, traditionally your data gets shipped off to Russia or Romania, rather than Redmond.
There is no keylogger in the RTM. Never has been.

There was invasive functionality in the alpha, but they were pretty upfront about that. Right now they only send online searches made in Cortana to Microsoft, anything done outside of Cortana is not.
Nokia went from the biggest cell phone maker in the world to being gone in less than 10 years. Tech is pretty unforgiving.
Yeah I reread his tweets there. They were no where near harassment level, again I reiterate. This is twitter's failure and it didn't help them in their stock this week. It may be a fatal blow as things continue and replacement platforms start to surface.
If you were on Usenet for long in the 90s, you developed your own way of answering this question.

My answer to cope with this is that there may be many different rationalizations in the mind(s) of the attacker(s), or none at all. It is impossible to understand the psychology of trolls. Well, maybe not impossible, but certainly not worth the effort. They are basically noxious pests, like cockroaches in a restaurant or wasps at a barbecue.
I've probably spent more time messing with F# on my Mint laptop than I have on my Windows desktop...

Part of that is that F# doesn't really have the level of tooling that I've come to expect from C# in VS, with ReSharper.

I would like a static analysis tool for F# that tells you when you are doing something that is legal, but dumb, as ReSharper does.
White-on-black is easier to read than black-on-white IMO.

Also, if you're using Firefox you can go to Options ‣ Content ‣ Advanced (Under Fonts & Colors) ‣ Uncheck “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above” and make the internet a much nicer place.
It will have to be a new platform. VR is the likely next candidate. But I don't think we will see widespread adoption until the units are self contained.
> Those programs exist to correct an imbalance caused by actual sexism.

But the evidence of sexism is the existence of the imbalance. This whole thing is circular.
Well, it might involve respecting fellow human beings and acquiring a bit of humility.

And I don't meant that facetiously - interpersonal skills matter. A lot more than pure technical skills, because they allow you to leverage groups of people to achieve bigger goals.
I just cannot think of a single decent motive for Microsoft to have done that. This is really unacceptable.
The start of my computer career
I'd assume so. As much as HN likes to ridicule the notion of "the patriarchy," this is a component of it that's awfully harmful to men.
Nokia didn't get shafted. They got $7.2 billion USD for the phone unit that was losing money at an incredible rate in 2013. They used that money to buy Alcatel-Lucent and now they're a major force in networks.

I honestly believe Nokia would have been bankrupt by now if Microsoft hadn't bailed them out. And if Nokia hadn't adopted Windows Phone, they wouldn't have had Ballmer's ear to convince him to sign on such a bad deal. Elop deserves more recognition for this manoeuvre than he gets.
Monumental proof to torment mathematicians for years to come
iPhone was great before apps. The full featured touch browser was a revelation. You could look up anything, from anywhere. I still spend 70% of my time in the iPhone browser, not in apps.
The character count of a random sentence ("Don't try to do accurate dynamic shadows on GearVR. Dynamic shadows") puts it at 68 characters. The Rules of Typographical Style suggests 66 characters is considered ideal: http://webtypography.net/2.1.2.

This is possibly why their textual content is narrow. It's designed to make it more readable.
Yes absolutely. Sexism harms everyone.
Many of us thought it was laughably hubristic at the time.
You can use fixed-point math to avoid this, but it doesn't get all the cool language support.
It's simple and effective.
It's not design to answer everything.
Head hits desk. The crux of the article, if you take away all the factors causing women to not have equal pay then women have equal pay. No shit.
What don't you like about Ancient COBOL?
In 2006, if you were to make the prediction that Nokia, a company generating 41B in global sales, would be gone in a decade, you'd be downvoted to oblivion.
Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time
I don't deny that there's value in having someone with no experience with the language be able to make some reasonable guesses about what the code does. It's hard to argue that this could ever be a bad thing.

At the same time, I think it's less valuable than it might seem. A vague, cursory understanding is enough in this case to get a gist of what's happening, but it's not enough to actually work with the code, except via luck. The intuition you describe works okay in this case, but it would fail somewhat spectacularly in other cases, for instance with the non-determinism of the list monad.
Why Do We Conduct Qualitative User Research?
Can't you just defer updates on enterprise edition indefinitely?
Regardless of contents, this is a bad way to write a guide of actions to take. Things like:

> Under the Wi-Fi tab click 'manage Wi-Fi settings', uncheck all options.

may mean something completely different in a few months in a system that's going to evolve under a single version. What if MS adds something like "don't automatically try to connect to devices on this network" as a new option in the future. Uncheck that too?
Some of it is legit I suppose but a lot of it reads like snake oil. Also I'm not sure "Securing" Windows 10 is accurate here as we'll see shortly. It seems to really mostly be about "Optimization and Privacy" in Windows 10. I'm mostly ok with the privacy portion or at least the attempt to do so but I would be cautious of any "Optimization" since care must be taken to not be doing more harm than good[1].

> You will be prompted by a User Account Control warning. Click 'change User Account Control settings', reduce the slider to 'never notify', and click 'OK' to apply the changes.

Securing Windows 10 would involve setting it to always notify. Also it should recommend running as a standard user and having an admin account be separate. I'm not sure I can take this very seriously as a security guide.

I wouldn't recommend messing too heavily with services aside from disabling the ONE telemetry service. Most things which aren't used won't be running anyway.

> If you have a desktop computer, you will want to change the power settings to 'High performance'

Not sure about this one... Modern processors (and Windows 10 itself) are pretty good at it and I've yet to have any issues with it running at balanced. If you want to disable the HDD power off feature that's fine but you can do that just fine in the default Balanced profile. I think this "tweak" is mostly snake oil.

Please take "guides" like this with a grain of salt as messing around too heavily may wind up doing more harm than good. Remember that more often than not, no you don't know better than the people who made the operating system. I think the privacy stuff comes from the right place but the rest of it sounds like mostly snake oil and this is definitely not a security guide so tread carefully.

tl;dr It's mostly snake oil and certainly not a security guide.

[1] Disabling the page file is an often cited example which almost certainly does more harm than good.
Jolla is the only thing that's left of that Nokia.
Thank you! Reading the title, I was interested. Then I saw the domain and thought "ugh". Then I remembered that Carmack is with Oculus, and Facebook bought Oculus, making it a natural place for him to post, and was conflicted. Conflict resolved!
In the ever-escalating arms race: if this detection method gains in popularity, will malware writers will adopt a form of "steganography" in their system calls, sneaking below the radar of these detection schemes?
Scores of City-Sized Siberian Wildfires
That's just arguing semantics. Anything that sends keystrokes to a remote server gets labelled ‘keylogger’ by me, regardless of whether Microsoft is getting it or a random hacker in $FOREIGN_COUNTRY.

And the rather invasive ‘keyboard analytics’ wasn't just in the alpha.¹ ² ³ ⁴

At least you can turn it off easily enough. Still makes me a bit miffed that it's on by default.

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1. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2974057/windows/how-to-turn-o...

2. https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/windows10-keylogger-securi...

3. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/windows-10-keylogger-can-track-ever...

4. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/31rxsv/disable_k...
The funny thing is that even myself as a techie/dev, I only use a handful of apps.
Tech Bachelor Hacks Tinder, Goes on 150 First Dates in Four Months
I tend to not fall asleep with it on - I wake myself up as soon as I turn my head (I'll have headphones on as well as the GearVR, so it's a fair bit of "stuff" strapped to your head). It's comfortable enough to watch full length movies with though.
this war will move to the users if Facebook decides to pull out of the country altogether. This is a very interesting case to follow: If Brazil 'wins', this might be the first case where a government says "I don't like E2E encryption on your app, get off my country", and a company complies. On the other hand, imagine if Facebook proper, pulls out of Brazil and that causes their government to fall. :-)
Twitter is in trouble. They even had a canned question on the investor line to give jack a change to sound like a leader and calm people's concerns over their censorship. They are censoring, there's no doubt at this point. And their stock will continue to drop. There's no way some new feature will satisfy 50% of the users who use but don't trust or advocate for the platform. Those users WILL jump ship as soon as they can. And the media will also split or defect to the more informative platform as well.
> It's sad because Microsoft could've evolved gracefully into a behemoth larger than Apple and Google

Why is it sad? It's enough that MS monopoly still plagues the desktop. I'd say it's good they didn't manage to bring the same sickening monopolistic lock-in to mobile. That said, current big participants have lot's of their own problems.
Trust me, a lot more work went into the iPhone's design than you'd think.

One analogy is brute force searching for an approximate solution to an optimization problem.

It's problematic when others take your solution if you did all the brute forcing.

Design is only fleeting inasmuch as an approximation could be fleeting. Others build off an approximation to find better solutions. But without the earlier solution, we'd find ourselves in a much different part of the sample space.
If your connected to a docking station for monitor access then you don't need to worry about battery life. Other than that windows does not really take much power in laptop mode. Smartphones have surpassed low end laptops for a while in CPU / RAM. It's just not an x86 CPU.
Baltimore Datacenter closure December 1, 2016
Do any phones actually support this? Are there any x64 phones out there?

Can you install full windows apps on them or are you restricted to the app store.
Don't know what the speed limit is there, but when an asshat is out of control at over 40mph, I wouldn't consider 30 feet of grass a "pretty big barrier" between myself and them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A2mWqLUpzw
The Architect Who Became a Diamond
It varies widely from state to state. Texas doesn't have alimony except under some narrow conditions, but Massachusetts is so liberal with it that it actively discourages women from remarrying.
there is literally nothing wrong with jaggies or aliasing
It's off-putting how he mentions "business won't like this". Like, they're the only market that matters. This aligns pretty well with my negative experiences with Microsoft products. It's an all businessmen/sales mentality.

Maybe it was hard for them to see that consumer hardware/software would become the predominant force in modern tech.
The contribution to the literature is showing how to measure and remove one source of bias from word2vec. Were you expecting something else?
Solid proof that there's little loyalty beyond whatever's attached to a wallet.

Love is a plaything for deluded teenagers.
Could these satellites have any implications for Facebook's drone and Google's Loon internet connectivity projects?
Semantics are important in this case. Otherwise any web browser is a keylogger by your definition.
Microsoft found 2,850 more jobs to cut
If my mobile phone has to be docked for most of the day, it loses most of its value and mobility.
I'm unfamiliar with a few of the acronyms used in the article:

SLAM

DOE

Definitions would be appreciated :)
Show HN: Cocoa native Slack desktop app (kickstarter)
For what definition of "healthy"? Few marriages are perfect, and many are quite broken in many respects. Stress drives people to do all sorts of things they might later regret. But if an affair is unhealthy, by that definition literally most marriages are.
It's a myth that companies can dominate every segment if only they'd execute better. Search, mobile, desktop, social, cloud, enterprise, productivity, streaming, VR, etc - there's no scenario under which Microsoft was going to own all of them, even ignoring the obvious anti-trust issues that would have guaranteed they couldn't be Apple. It's extraordinarily difficult for one company to dominate two major segments in tech.

Besides, Microsoft practically is Apple.

Apple market cap: $571 billion, and heading down, with a business that will continue contracting as they're pushed out of China

Microsoft market cap: $438 billion, and rising again

Azure by itself will end up being more valuable than the iPad and Mac businesses combined (both of which are declining).