skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The switch to disable Cortana was removed, so now you have to use the group policy editor or (on Home), edit the registry.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-tip-turn-off-cortana...

Also remember to block searchui.exe in your firewall or windows will contact Microsoft every time you run local filesystem searches.
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>If you marked your connection as metered, I believe it respected that and wouldn't download it.

I don't recall windows 7 having any way to explicitly mark your connection as metered.

As for Windows 8 (I believe it's the same as Windows 10), you can't mark a wired connection (ethernet) as metered if I recall correctly, even though you might be on a satellite internet connection for instance which most definitely is heavily metered.
IMO it does not matter what other people are doing. I'm paying for this software so I want control (over my own hardware). Mobile is a lost cause but I literally can't afford to fight my desktop OS. It must work and be reliable.

Maybe I would accept forced security updates if they allowed live updates. Having to restart your computer is awful.

But that's not even the worse problem. It reset settings, install things you removed, services you don't want, remove features you had before for no reason. Not to mention drivers and all the update problems people are reporting. If there's a chance to break, I must be able to choose when I want to upgrade.

I'm willing to pay more for not having to worry about telemetry, MS account and all that bs.
Your Mac updates are indefinitely truly avoidable despite the constant nagging. You declined 875 times, and you can decline 875 times more, and forever after that.

Windows 10, in home edition, only lets you delay a limited time. There is a finite amount of possible total time before windows will no longer operate without applying the update. It will apply the updates on restart, or forcibly restart your computer to apply them. This is not the case on any other OS that I am aware of.

You are correct that Chrome applies updates when it is restarted, which is similar, but subtly different behavior. Chrome does not destroy my running context to forcibly restart. I've had the "red" about tag indicating critically out of date for a few weeks on a laptop, with no issues.

http://www.howtogeek.com/219166/you-won%E2%80%99t-be-able-to...
HN doesn't appeal to the general population. It works because it's niche to a specific crowd, that is probably more educated, and working towards a specific goal of improving things in general.
You might enjoy this: a 19th century encyclopaedia edit war over free trade policies between a British publisher and its American partners.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4xe2k1/chamber...

Source: https://archive.org/stream/chambersencyclo00unkngoog#page/n1...

I've sketched in some related information at Ello which I need to incorporate. This is strongly related to Friedrich List's National System of political economy.

The 18th and 19th centuries were interesting times.
Being good at content doesn't mean you're good at running a public forum.

We should have disaggregated comments and content from the beginning.

Hat tip to all the bloggers who just include a "Comments on HN" link at the bottom of a post.
> Taxi companies are not required to cater to handicapped individuals who are restricted to wheelchairs.

Actually, yes they are. http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/faq/faq_access_veh.shtml
I'm not sure about the US but in the UK what you're suggesting would I think be illegal. You shouldn't make things accessible just when you're a large company, that's a really disappointing approach.
I should clarify, I didn't mean it was trivial to Aetna. I meant it was trivial compared to the cost of the existing subsidies and risk corridors in the ACA, and that this is not an existential problem for ACA.

Over the past few months, several major insurers have either reduced or ended their participation in the ACA exchanges. That is troubling news. However, setting aside the political feasibility, it's hardly an unsolvable problem. If the risk pool does not improve, and insurers keep losing money, then we can raise funding for the risk corridors.

To put this in perspective, Aetna, one of the largest insurers in the marketplace, is losing about $300 million. We're spending about $200 billion/year on ACA currently.
So, does this mean that the folder is always "live" ?
By walking away from the exchanges they are just walking away from a money losing business. That isn't twisting in the wind.

The ACA established programs to make payments to insurance companies that got unusually expensive customers but the funding for those payments has been blocked.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160517/NEWS/160519...
Why make this such a limited set of options? Why not let me enter a path, for example, instead of hardcoding "/docs"? What if I want to serve my docs from a stable release branch or tag instead of "master"?
But where are the libraries? Compare the size of Smalltalk's ecosystem to Java's.

Not to mention the various competing flavors of Smalltalk, whose code bases may be incompatible with one another.
I agree, but one can't forget human nature. We give more weigh to the opinions of those we admire.

The same happens often in research. Papers published by well known universities get more exposure. It's not supposed to happen but it does.
It is hilarious but publishers also want the same thing.
Self admittedly, I am one of the P2P psychotic pundits. This is a good reminder that we need to tone our language down.

That said, if you can get your system to work with a single Heroku box, you really truly can simplify your life. That is what we're trying to do with http://gun.js.org/ , be able to start with a single machine and no configuration/setup/complexity. Then grow out.

We just had a discussion on the WebPlatform Podcast about all of this P2P stuff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYiArgkAklE) although, like I said, I probably got too jargony.

But props to circleci for calling out the elephant in the room. Great marketing actually.
Look at it this way: why would a lot of the best engineers want to work at Cisco? Maybe when they were the company they were 20 years ago, but today?
Thanks for the feedback. I will look into it.
I can't speak for Windows 7, but I believe you could mark an ethernet as metered in Win 8, but you definitely can't in Win 10.

Edit: I take it back, I was wrong. No ethernet metering. You can do it via regedit, but no way to do it from the UI.
Well, don't forget that China has been ready and willing to take the benefits of global trade when it suits them. 'We don't want aggressive imperialistic foreign multinationals coming in and bullying our poor domestic companies...', but sure, we'll take all of yor technology, programming languages, operating systems, do literally nothing to stop piracy of Microsoft software...

It's protectionist for sure, but please don't frame it in moral terms of exploitative foreigners. China has played a viciously exploitative game the last 30 years or so.

Plus let's not forget the other major reason for the firewall and other government barriers to foreign market access have been to restrict free flow of information to the Chinese population for purposes of control. It's very righteous to bring up Facebooks occasional gaffe, but you don't consider the CCP to have any devious political slant of their own?
Using insects to control insects is not without risk, as you note.

I think the key is to understand very well the insects you are trying to control, and the insects you consider using to control them. Sometimes you can find a predator/parasite that only attacks the pest insect and cannot survive without it. That should usually be pretty safe, because as the pest is eradicated the control insect will die off too.

If you use a control insect that attacks multiple species, or that has a way of surviving absent the target insect, then introducing the control insect can be quite risky.

The more resources we put to understanding insects, the more we can get the good outcomes and avoid the bad.
Pepper and Carrot
600 hours is nothing, that's only a few months before they are eligible again.
You can set ethernet as a metered connection in the registry and the Winaero Tweaker tool can do it for you. However, when I did it, I found manually initiated windows updates stalling on "Downloading Updates 0%" so I don't recommend that solution.

Instead, configure a group policy as documented below.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/328010

Note that Windows respects the "download only" policy but does NOT respect the "no reboot after updates" policy. To stop Windows from rebooting after installing updates, follow steps labeled #2 at the link below.

https://superuser.com/questions/973009/conclusively-stop-wak...
You don't really, but tools like kubernetes, which are really useful if you're deploying a number of heterogeneous apps, expect a container format as they aim at a market wider than just golang. The overhead of putting the service inside docker and following 12 factor is minimal and largely worth it, but if you're only running a single go binary, you could legitimatly go other ways.

Something like kubernetes also lets you abstract away the lock-in of your cloud infrastructure, so whilst it adds another layer and a bit of complexity, it again is arguably worth the effort if you're worried about needing to migrate away from your current target for some reason in the future.

As a framework it abstracts apps from infrastructure quite well. It's super easy for me to replace my log shipping container in kubernetes and have most things continue to work, as all the apps have a uniform interface.

Nobodies saying you can't build these things without kubernetes, but it definitely gives me more of the things than configuation managment systems currently do. Personally, I'd rather aim at the framework than handles more of what I need it to do.

Finally, bootstrapping a kubernetes cluster is actually quite trivial and you can get one off the shelf in GKE, so I'm not really sure why I'd personally want to go another route.
What's your dissertation on?
It didn't add to the discussion and the clarification graycat was getting at was hardly necessary. The overreaction edit added afterwards also probably did not help their cause.
I've used OpenMP a little bit, and I would probably avoid it for libraries.

I might use it to start out an application, since it requires very little code for dumb parallelism. But if I were making a real library, I would try to abstract the concurrency policy away so the user can control it.

This should be trivial by layering the library. Just provide a bunch of single-threaded functions, and then some OpenMP wrappers. Then user can call the single-threaded functions if she wants to do something different.

What I don't want is OpenMP baked deeply into the program logic. I think it shares the problem I was talking about. If you have 10 different libraries using OpenMP in an app, and the app is ITSELF multi-threaded, it seems like you have a mess of threads that you have no control over.
(No, but) You should start by downloading "Automate the boring stuff with Python".
It's all relative. Alberta is "high" compared to other provinces though in the ball park of the other prairie provinces (Sask & Manitoba) per capita, though BC only spends $18B-ish for a higher population.

Ontario spends $50.8B, pop 13.1m, which seems more efficient per capita than Alberta; France is inline with that per capita ; the UK spends $195.8B (CAD), pop 64.1m, which is even lower.

In general, health care is really damn expensive.
Hackers Use Google's Ad Network to Spread “Fake Login” Malware
For one, because AirBnB isn't creating new housing. It's a tech tool that allows users to skirt existing regulation and rent out their property, and is likely to make housing shortages worse rather than better.

You can't really skirt regulation in the same way when it comes to building housing. People are going to notice when you try to erect a 50 floor skyscraper in a historical district.
All the drive-by installs bundled into freeware/floss installers is enough proof that people don't read... I had to stop my mom mid-install after she clicked next pretty quickly, back before she had a chromebook... It was only chance that I was there with her... She almost installed 3 drive-bys with the one app she actually wanted... until switching one of my grandmothers to a chromebook, I'd have to remotely clean all the crap off her PC remotely twice a year... that wasn't at all fun.

I entirely believe there's a lot of people that just click on everything that comes up.
Keep in mind that because Canada has no public dental coverage, people who live the serial-entrepreneurship life, never signing on with companies large enough to have benefits-plans, just have constantly worsening teeth. I have a non-negligible number of friends here who want to work at a bigcorp for a while just so they can finally get coverage to do 5+ root canals. (As it stands, they're just constantly taking anti-inflammatories and antibiotics to get through the days.)
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"What is the alternative?" - a system of rights based on the nature of human beings. Human beings survive by producing the things we need to survive. We need governments to protect others from initiating force against us in opposition to our primary needs of living.

Will we ever see this in reality? No. But, the closer humans have gotten in history the better off they've been.
While you have a point I'd say the vast, vast majority of accessibility related things that you can do with mobile apps and web sites are so simple to do it's practically incompetence to not do that and that'll get you 80% of the way there, maybe even more depending on what you're building.
Automate the Boring Stuff is also free online: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
Boiled down, over the course of 20 years:

HTML -> PHP -> Flash -> C# -> Java -> Obj-C -> Python -> C# -> Angular.

Across these platforms: Web, Mobile, and Games

So about once every 2-3 years I change, although I have to go back to previous tech stacks for some jobs too (like I used PHP at a job only a few years ago).

I realize these are languages and not tech stacks, but I thought it got overly messy when I was being more specific, so the stacks are implied by these languages.

Usually I've learned the tech at least somewhat on my own before encountering it in my profession. For example, I made a simple personal site in Angular a few years before I started a job that didn't mention Angular in the interview, but involved a lot of Angular development, so I wasn't completely lost when I needed to start using it professionally.
Number 1: control. Number 2 and happy side benefit: protectionism.
Yep here's Cisco's statement on this: http://blogs.cisco.com/security/shadow-brokers
OK that's fair. I pretty much agree with everything you say here.

I think I am more concerned than you are that the structure of the exchanges will make them untenable in the long term but that's certainly a judgement call and we won't know the real answer for several years at least.
I'm not s vigilante if that's what you're asking. It's up to the legal system to punish people, not me.
Hey Microsoft!

Learn Linux and Android. You lost and they won.
And: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
If the government is going to be making all the decisions there's no benefit. But I doubt we would have had Obamacare at all if he'd proposed a single-payer plan. Insurance companies, which have a lot of clout in Washington, helped push it through because they expected to make more money.

Which, quite frankly, was stupid. It was pretty clear from the outset the ACA would break the US health care system so badly single-payer is the only option going forward.
Why? Can you not buy the Microsoft laptop at half the price, wipe out windows and install Linux?
This project is busy deploying a 2000 node Docker Swarm Cluster - https://github.com/swarm2k/swarm2k
> It assumes that the govn't is incompetent (which it often is in many areas, fair point), but then ignores the most obvious response, which is to diagnose and fix the problems at hand.

It's utterly impossible to fix the problems of government competence because Americans don't want their government to be competent. They want it to be supportive, and diverse, and all sorts of things, but competence is not one of them.

If American government were competent, it would hire precisely the people whose unions donate so much to American politicians.
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Maybe the Python automation book covers automated downloads, or maybe the CLI book will cover it.... =P Or there's always https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/
Not all employees tho'.
Yes, I saw that right after I made the comment and made an edit :).
Benefits of Win10 AU are:

1) Linux on windows runtime beta (commonly called bash shell, but it's much more)

2) dark theme

3) extensions in the Edge browser

4) Vastly improved stylus support

5) Slightly changed start menu

6) Improved action center, if you use UWP apps
OK, but at the same time by automatically dismissing a YAGNI objection as a "thought-terminating cliché" you'll end up with different sorts of ridiculous shit.

IME, the YAGNI principle is most useful with new-ish developers who've been taught certain patterns but haven't grasped the motivation for them and so can't judge when the overhead is worth it. In Java-land we'd be talking about the old every-class-must-implement-an-interface-and-come-from-a-factory clichés. It's not that it's a bad pattern, just that until you have multiple implementations and/or a need for DI it probably isn't worth the source bloat.

In that situation I think YAGNI is exactly the right objection, and I'm not sure what would take its place if it became widely Considered Harmful.
It's for quality and personalization, not for ads. This is Terry Myerson's blog explanation of data usage.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/09/28/priva...
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Couldn't agree more, I use my own name just because I use it everywhere, but on HN it's not called out and I rarely look at the author unless I think "I bet XXX wrote this, yep they did" or "Who wrote this, I'd like to reach out to them". I think it helps, to a degree, to help prevent/lessen group-think and people taking someone's word as law.
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> and it's been in use for 3 years.

At least 3 years.
I click on "threads" on the top menu. Not sure when it was added but it shows all my comments with replies inlined.
RISK seems to be the least mentioned word in this entire thread. "Insurance is a great method of hedging risk." Spot on. I wish we had education in RISK Management rather than what we have now.
Right, but they mainly did that by bringing lots of new supply on the market. It would have had a much smaller effect (though still noteworthy!) if they had simply balanced out mis-utilization[1].

The tech tools referred to in the story are only doing the latter; they aren't adding more rentable space and so are far more limited in what they can do about pricing or shortages.

[1] e.g. redirected taxis from long lines at major pickup points to sporadic pickups at less common places
Reading the other reply thread with slowerest gave me another possible solution, too.

Perhaps the comments sections for journalistic pieces from organizations like Ars, NPR, NYT, local news, etc could be more of a competition (like Slashdot). Top 300 comments get preserved, leave it open for a month with no comment limit and some light moderation, and let the conversation go wild (I like Reddit's system for this), then delete all but the top 300 at the end.

Adjust "300" and "top" to fit your organization's needs, just make sure they're clearly defined. Would also help limit the scope for an ML-based solution, too. :)
Having read several of these, I know they're good.

LYAH and LYSE are both VERY good. Like, really, really good. They are free, but if they weren't, they'd make this bundle worth it on their own.

Likewise, The Land of Lisp and The Realm of Racket are great if you want to think like a Lisper/Schemer. TLOL, however, is a better book, covering (I think) more stuff. TROR also suffers a library dependance, but I don't especially LIKE Racket, so take this with a grain of salt.

If Hemmingway Wrote Javascript is an excellent exploration. You'll see a variety of code, some good, some bad, some smart, some dumb, and all of it mind-expanding and entertaining. It demonstrates Javascript's remarkable flexability, and argues that there is no one way to write good JS: you should use the right tool for the job. It doesn't substantiate this well, but it's fun all the same.

I've heard good things about EQJS, and Write Good Code looks interesting, but I haven't read any of them, so I cannot pass judgement.

But honestly, most of NoStarch's stuff is pretty good. Not as consistently good as O'Reilley, but their best stuff is better than O'Reilley, although not as good as MITPress.

Seriously, if you're ever in Camebridge, visit the MITPress bookstore. It's full of good books, Has excellent staff, and sells off slightly damaged books at discounts that aren't even funny. And even without the discount, it's much cheaper than buying their stuff online.

/shameless-plug
> You know, I get this response every time I talk about this topic. I really dislike the "well no one is making you use / buy / watch / listen" to something. People can be critical of something they want to succeed. It happens a lot in certain game communities. What if I WANT to talk about politics, in a civil manner? Any sufficiently popular subreddit, just devolves into complete trash.

You're missing the point of e40's response (and others of its kind). It's not "stop whining, don't use it if you don't like it". It's informing you that there are still parts of Reddit you can get value out of if you change your usage patterns a little bit, instead of your blunt-instrument approach that leads to losing gems like (e.g.) /r/AskHistorians just because /r/politics is terrible. There's of course nothing _wrong_ with you deciding that Reddit overall isn't worth the effort, but there's nothing wrong with someone giving you an alternative in case you were unaware.

When Reddit blew up in popularity, almost everyone I know who'd used it for a long time got sick of the default feed (both submissions and comments) and then at some point found out that being parsimonious in your subreddit subscriptions can give you a pretty high-quality feed. Reacting with defensiveness and hostility to someone giving you that advice in case you didn't know is frankly just bizarre.
I think this article only makes sense in the context of the bad example given. An actual good idea for a startup wouldn't have such an obvious "hijacker" subset of consumers that just destroy your business.
I really like the interface.

I played with resizing the window of my Chrome browser to see how it would react, and the UI is resizing really well. However I did it quite a few times, from phone size to desktop size, and after a bunch of times the sidebar (with categories)'s scrolling is getting more and more sluggish. Just so you know.
I've seen some reports that DisableWinTracking is too aggressive and can cause problems. Personally, I use and recommend O&O Shutup10.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
I would love to see a short guide on how to organize your open source website on github (say a react website, since it's pretty popular), i.e. a recommended workflow to store sources, implement new features, build artifacts/assets and publish them on gh pages.

I did it in multiple ways, lately I had master with the code, and was pulling gh-pages into the build/ directory, but I always wondered how other workflows look like. And this changes/hopefully simplifies a ton.