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Microsoft installed an app in users’ system trays advertising
the free upgrade to Windows 10.

Not satisfied, the company eventually made Windows 10 a
recommended update so users receiving critical security updates
were now also downloading an entirely new operating system onto
their machines without their knowledge.

This is essentially equivalent to saying: You've been running whatever version of Windows, but we'll trick you into installing Windows 10.

Specifically, when prompted with a Windows 10 update, if the
user chose to decline it by hitting the ‘X’ in the upper right
hand corner, Microsoft interpreted that as consent to download
Windows 10.

The previous trick didn't work on all of you, so we'll go on to change the default behavior of our dialog boxes in order to trick you into installing Windows 10.

By default, Windows 10 sends an unprecedented amount of usage
data back to Microsoft, and the company claims most of it is to
“personalize” the software by feeding it to the OS assistant
called Cortana.

And while users can opt-out of some of these settings, it is
not a guarantee that your computer will stop talking to
Microsoft’s servers.

This probably explains it all.

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Microsoft appears to have learnt a lot from LinkedIn [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/590664399041519617
> Not being a parent, I can still comprehend the hardships of new parents

No, you can't. Your next sentence ...

> (NYC subway stroller parents please don't ram in a Humvee size stroller during peak hour).

... is a nice demonstration of your selfish, thoughtless, demanding, lack of understanding.
I should've been more clear. The story sounded familiar, because I worked with them and recognized them based on the username.
Neighbors are friendly to each other in the USA. It depends a lot on where you live, especially whether you're surrounded by homeowners vs urban transient renters. It's not that renters are necessarily unfriendly, but they aren't as invested in neighborly relations since everyone is so transient.
LinkedIn Sues 100 Individuals for Scraping
Do any consumer AV suites actually try identifying and removing or quarantining state-actor-level malware?
how ironic : LinkedIn will pay $13M for sending those awful emails: http://fortune.com/2015/10/05/linkedin-class-action/
Laptop battery dying isn't catastrophic to the image of the company.

Tesla having bad batteries would be a PR nightmare. Toyota has taken similar measures with their prius, never let the battery go anywhere near a deep discharge. Through over provisioning you can make sure that any given cell is always in its optimal range, and in a big car like a tesla, extra weight wont be that negative. Laptops "need" to be thin and light, so over provisioning the battery means less usable life per charge and/or bulk.
Figure 4: replica p had the intent of deleting the node while replica q wanted to tick it. The final outcome is not what either human intended. Replica p would see their action partially reverted, replica q might not be able to discern their action in the list (or outright undone if the application skips invalid records).

Consider storing a single value in a document:

{ "A": 1 }

Q updates it to 2, P simultaneously updates it to 3. What is the correct outcome? Interactive consensus would be required even if humans were doing this by hand; unless quantum, there exists no accurate merge. That's not to say that CRDTs are useless, just not as grandiose as "automatic and accurate."
OTOH in KDE Plasma 5, if you have the great event calendar widget, setting a timer is just a couple mouse clicks away :)
I prefer my writing as unambiguous as possible, so I also like that way of writing it. Like someone else mentioned, "mousewritten" is not necessarily the same as handwritten, so that could be part of the problem.
This seems hastily written and not very well though out. Half of the items seem to be things that you can switch to or out of. Also it seems to be playing into peoples opinion that google is evil.
Are there any excellent books on this topic?
Anti-Virus only finds the very most common virus' and malware.

I think only 30% of malware is detected~ I remember reading about that a while back and this was after advanced heuristic methods had been around for a while.
It is mind blowing how many Walmarts there are in Bentonville, it honestly just doesn't make sense, but they are a good reflection of well kept WM stores.

Coincidentally I went to the Joplin store too while visiting Bentonville. Coming from Miami I have to admit I had zero interest in Bentonville aside from the business opportunity, but I was actually in awe of Bentonville, in particular the downtown area and Crystal Bridges Museum were exceptionally charming, and I was surprised to find locals actually had a tremendous amount of gratitude for WM and the Walton family (in my experience such wealth and influence can generate resentment). For what it is worth, I even decided I would return just to run the Bentonville half marathon.
Using GitLab Labels
Ask HN: How do you communicate code changes to other business units?
Say we use JIRA for agile development and git for version control along with CI/CD tools such as jenkins.

We deploy a lot of code so how do we communicate to other business units stuff that has gone out? I see a lot of of 'hey did such and such go out?' in chatrooms but also, how does support/sales/etc know the work we're doing if we don't communicate it out?

We have not implemented a changelog but that seems like it's developer focused which would not be useful (unless we published it) to other business units.

I'm curious how other teams are solving this - thanks!
Glad to have diversity in the world - we don't have to get teenagers hooked on the same exact social network or the same app, regardless of where they are
Ask HN: Why hasn't the Semantic Web caught on?
It's just classic sovereignty.
> HN is living proof.

of what? that you don't need a separate mobile site (or js) to show a most basic wall of text?

open up amazon.com or walmart.com and see how your justification holds up. certainly, there are simple layouts with sparse content that can be made responsive easily (blogs, image portfolios, etc) but this is a far cry from proof that a broad statement is at all applicable.
Android would not be Android if it wasn't open source, too.
He's a content curator for a particular category of content. Would you prefer to follow all of the relevant sources and sift through the cruft yourself?
Amazon experiments with tech teams of entirely part-time employees and full benefits
I suspect the math is right but the writer doesn't understand the difference. 150k credit + the standard 35% rate on 1m cost would be 500k net. But this only actually works if you would have had to pay 500k in taxes to begin with. If you're losing money or doing other tax avoidance stuff, you don't actually get the full benefit.
10k Apart – Inspiring the Web with Just 10k
So are you suggesting that you should be able to leave your key in the door as much as you want beacuse you're under no obligation to protect yourself?

The argument here is that perhaps Walmart, as a large retailer, should take security measures, just as a homeowner should not leave his key in the lock. Yes they don't have to have security, but then it may not be reasonable for them to demand immediate police response, just like I might not expect the cops to help me every day if I leave my key in the lock.

The clause you added about rape is just wrong in so many ways.
My dad was targeted in a fake parking lot accident con at the Walmart in Joplin on west 7th.

As you say, the crime patterns pretty much match the neighborhoods the stores are in and that ain't in a good one.
Turkey to release 38,000 prisoners, frees space in jails post-coup
You can do some of that online. Please forgive the LMGTFY link, since I'm really just trying to demonstrate a feature of Google's search engine:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=5+minute+timer
>But if the parents in the office are more productive with their children close by

As someone who works from home with a toddler on the other side of the door, I'll go ahead and challenge that assumption.
They take a similar amount of code to do stuff but Curl is easier to read.
/* NOT IE */
@supports (@supports) {}

IE does not support it so it's kind of pointless, no? If I ever actually make the user of a feature query, I would need to create a backup plan for everything and then another backup plan when that backup plan fails!
They are presenting an algorithm, not a product, so any implementation would be free to make it available in a different way.

They specifically do address this point about how developers would deal with it in the conclusion of the paper.
Optimistic way of seeing this is :
Since there is enough inequality in world - one needs to strive towards spreading 'usage or applications' of 'best-programming-languages' to entire mankind. eg: what if all (most) humans on planet had education, water, electricity and internet. Unfortunately I can only see so far. So there is enough work cut out in our lives (I think).

Pessimistic way to see this is : since there is enough inequality - what if few people turn to evil-cyborgs and create more inequalities. And eventually cultivate human colonies envisioned in Matrix to their own pleasure in brain (or cpus or gpus or tpus).

Another way to look at this is - all work produced by humans are result of their neurons firing up in certain way followed by motor movements. Hence your every line of code in editor and a cup to drink coffee are a result of lot of neurons firing by you and others respectively. In a way you cannot differntiate one is programming and another is not. So question that remains is ? Is your current code/work good or bad for human neurons using it ? So good or bad perception is mostly horomones/neuro transmitters in various parts of brain ? Writing this has made me feel - most humans are already a form of AI when compared to animals - eg: so what is the good we are searching for whereas elephant herds in africa are following rain patterns and reproducing like ever - they have more neurons than we do ? Was fun to let imagination go here.
Because not only is he a world renowned expert in his field he is also able to break things down for the common audience.
Almost certainly, yes. Internet Explorer wasn't open source and neither was Windows. The problem is not open source vs. closed.

The issue is how Google interacts with it's manufacturers. The biggest problem with Microsoft's behavior in the 90s was the way they exerted control over other companies. And that is the same problem today with Google. Few people realize it because Google keeps their agreements with manufacturers strictly secret.
NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments
> relate to the product

Based on my non-comprehensive empirical study, that describes about 3% of hero images in the wild. That is, unless almost all products are deeply related to fashionable twenty-somethings using a laptop in a coffeehouse surrounded by cute stationery with interesting organic textures.
So, commenters do not seem particularly impressed with this workflow.

What is a good workflow around git?
Should have just branded it Windows 7 SP2. But I guess everyone expects MS to support multiple branches of code forever.

These discussions always avoid talking about the merits of data-driven design and always assume malicious intent.
Non-profits are regulated so it's transparent what they do with the money other people give them. In this case, it's Mark's own money. Even if he executed the sketchiest imaginable scheme, he's only wasting his own money. He is free to start a commercial company with it instead, but he decided the goal should be to do some good.

The time this will become a problem is the second the company accepts money from other people. Then I will join in picking up pitchforks.
Show HN: We Built an Autonomous RC Car Using Neural Networks and Raspberry Pi
That's a bit like looking at the source code for Linux's TCP stack and saying "All that work just to make a TCP connection? I'm definitely not using Linux".

If all you want is a select in React, you can just do `<select><option value="A">A</option><option value="B"></option></select>`. The tutorial is showing how to roll your own select-like control using divs. I doubt that it is much easier to do that using any other JS framework.
Maybe not, but if you have good numbers you'll have a good valuation and any investor who comes in will need to put more money on the table for the same share.
> China is playing this game just like the United States is.

Is it? I don't recall the US erecting a massive firewall which keeps foreign competitors from competing here.

Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba are all free to try to woo American consumers. So far they haven't seen much success.
Interesting concept!

My feedback is that I'd frame it more as a story than a game. Guessing the password felt like it was going to be one of those Frvade-type games, but after that it was simply taking in the story.
+1, howewer I do recall countless "works best with minimum 800x600 resolution and Internet Explorer" disclaimers.
TiVo Series 1 “Lifetime” Service lasted about 16 years
Nostalgia exerts a strong allure, and extracts a steep price
That's not really what I meant. I mean in the cases where such 'super-malware' has been clearly identified and plucked apart by security researchers, could your average commercial AV kill it? I did some googling and found out for myself that apparently, they do:

https://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid...

https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedi...
If the driver can charge >2.3x more for a Tesla per mile, which isn't all that ridiculous (considering the prison-grade vinyl seats, constantly yakking ad screens and near-criminal lack of legroom in Camrys with plexiglas dividers), it starts to make more financial sense.
Less, but not much less. There's actually an enormous amount of taxi legislation almost everywhere (in the US). There are many, many, many airports where taxi drivers have to pay a huge fee just for the privilege of picking up a fare there. In some places as high as $30-50.
From the article:

>The federal government ... grants a qualified child-care program a yearly tax credit of $150,000. In addition, the government allows a company to deduct 35% of its unrecovered costs from its corporate tax bite.

This may just be unfortunate phrasing. The author uses the word "deduct" but then says its deducted "from its corporate tax bite", not EBITA. As you point out a reduction in EBIDTA does reduce the tax bill, just not 1:1 like a tax credit. The phrase isn't clear that its another tax credit or a deduction.

Minus points for a lack of clarity either way...
Most people are not aware of how poorly they communicate and so they are upset when you don't just "know" what they mean.
@CuriouslyC can you share a link to your project for the PostgREST ecosystem page (or at least in a private email)?
It is also interesting to me in what cases you needed to create RPC functions to get the functionality you need out of PostgREST? Is it inserting data in multiple tables with a single request?
Should we even consider 3 years old article as valid discussion point?
That's correct of course. But, do you know of some benchmarks showing the real world problems those AM3+ boards can have? I'd really be interested in a proper source.
There's definitely a dark-pattern there, in fact Microsoft uses them quite a bit in Windows 10 to get you to enable a new feature that you wouldn't otherwise. It's not new though, so I'm probably just conditioned to expect it. The setups for all their OSes have had a screen or two like this but it's generally for more mundane things like enterprise features or something.

I have not experienced any nagging to activate Cortana on any of the 7 devices I have it installed on. I disabled Cortana during the setup screen on each and that was the end of it.

Now a recent update added the Search button back on tablets that you can't get rid of, which is annoying, but Cortana still isn't enabled. If you click on the button it's just the bog standard Windows Search. Someone mentioned this was part of the Anniversary update but neither of my tablets have enough drive space to perform the Anniversay update but I still have the search button in the task bar. Either way it's lame.
Ahh ok, household income is different. Fairfax VA has an average household income of 110k and has a Walmart. So, that's reasonable even if they are down market. Anyway, I would be real careful of using survey's for this stuff, people lie.

PS: Average income of their shopper != average household income.
An Ancient Mayan Copernicus
systemd runs services in their own cgroup by default and gives you control over the resources alloted to those cgroups.
I use a pen and a pad of paper. But I have to have the right kind of problem - more of a big-picture issue. I can't be trying to do something that requires close interaction with the code.
This article chooses to focus on the negative and thus facilitates fear. The only assertions that are made are about the fact that there is a lot of Google created or controlled software that is in use today. The article does not explain at all why the author is so scared of this fact.

Ultimately, one can choose to use whatever tools they want, so if you're scared of Google's software, rationally or irrationally, please just use whatever does not scare you.
There's a huge demand for low-income retail.

WalMart can't effectively compete in the middle-income market. It has image problems, it would have to do a huge overhaul, the space is already filled with many others. If it leaves the low-income space it will leave a huge opportunity for others to enter.

Nothing can legislate away the low-income market and as long as it exists there will be companies who want to enter it. Laws can shape what that market looks like and what environment is for the people in it.
I am the author of jeviz.com. Currently it is only for US locale. Immediate benefits are you have more options for search sorts. For example most choose a department and select "Most review" sort option to sort by number of reviews which is not visible in Amazon.com site. When you login you can save your search parameters and synch your mobile, desktop search parameters. There are about 50,000 categories in Amazon you can do full text search for categories. There is advanced book search more accessible than Amazon advanced book search. Please tell me what are the features you want more.
If anything, the Go people have repeatedly claimed they don't know best -- because Google famously uses a huge monorepo with all deps vendored, and don't do "package management" as such -- and have preferred to let the community find a solution organically.

Which is also why we ended up in this frustrating profusion of competing tools (Godeps, Glide and many others, plus the messy business that is git submodules) rather than a concerted effort towards a unified solution.

I don't at all believe the argument that they can't design something because they don't need it at Google. They're engineers, after all. You don't need to use a bridge in order to build one. There are plenty of existing tools (Bundler, Cargo, NPM, Cabal) that can also be used as case studies in how to do things right (Bundler, Cargo) or don't do them wrong (NPM).

In my company we use Glide, which is the best solution I've encountered so far, but it's beyond buggy, and struggles with some Google repos that need to be flattened in order to avoid duplicate, conflicting dependencies (glog and pflags, sigh).
Very informative, thank you.

But still, 1 in 6 < 20K
and 1 in 2 < 50K

Thus, for half of their customers, and especially 1 in 6 lowest income, Wal-mart does a tremendous service in helping people to stretch their incomes.

If you've been reading the news recently for the past two decades working class people in these wage groups have not seen income growth. Wal-Mart has helped them to still live.
If your company is going to provide on-site care, their are really good reasons to make sure its a separate area with its own access doors and strict instructions on whose allowed into the area. Kid's at people's desks is a terrible idea, and frankly deprives the child of valuable play learning time with other children. Webcams should be sufficient for parents.

Some small things to think about:

1) custody disputes are a pain in the butt and you are now part of it

2) going on the theme, who picks up the kid is actually more complicated than just the employee who drops the kid off (come in early with Mom, but get picked up by grandparent to be with other kids is not uncommon) - get this crap in writing

3) get the food correct for the children - you need to feed them - you are now running a restaurant

4) Lysol - wholesale purchases

5) Make sure you follow all codes and do the required number of fire, tornado, etc. drills

6) Read the Early Head Start and Head Start staffing guidelines as many places require you meet those. Also note, those flexible Silicon Valley hours are going to be amazingly fun with staffing requirements.

7) Security camera setup with DVRs - should go just fine with the webcams

8) Be a nice employer and do the assessment tests for your staff

9) know the facility requirements in detail.

If you spend the time and money on setup, you will have an amazing workplace. If you half-ass it, you will be sued a lot.
> I think if you want to be competitive in the OS world, you'll probably need something like this.

This. We still don't have a half decent, open source desktop AI assistant - The only kind that I would trust to access my personal data - GNU/Linux (Ubuntu?) has to catch up a little bit here.
From what I can see, AMP is really less about "here's some cool new tech", and more "here's a buzzword and some conventions" to encourage sites to write lighter-weight, better designed web pages (or versions of web pages).

It seems like a sugar-coating over the "use modern HTML and make less bloated pages" pill.
I think you're relying too much on the photo-op images rather than the points of the story text itself.

An employer offering in-house childcare has benefits, this does not necessarily mean your kid will be sitting on your desk and you will be taking care of it.
I'd say it goes beyond than building physical or virtual things. I'm talking about something that resembles compound interests, where you build knowledge or experience over previous knowledge and experience such that in some years you are way ahead of where you are now.

I'm basically saying that the high churning we have now does not give you enough time to build significant experiences that you can use later on in life, and, as such, it's the opposite of a good investment to the future. It is almost as we are only living for the present status, forgetting that on the future we will have less patience and energy to have to "re-learn" almost the same things.
> For whatever reason the majority of PC manufacturers just suck at making batteries

They just suck at making battery cooling systems (e.g. all-plastic cases) or neglect to include one altogether. If there is one thing those all-metal MacBooks are good at, it's dissipating heat.
It looks like he expects it to pay off after 200,000 miles, where he was paying > $1000 a month in repairs on his Subaru. So the question is still very much open.
I'll throw out Marshall Rosenberg's "Nonviolent Communication." Call it one framework for listening centered around resolving conflict between individuals and groups.

It provides examples of the kind of active listening and questioning mentioned in the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication#Four_...
https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Mar...