skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two OSes you mentioned are used by less than 10% of the market - 6,49%, according to the link below.
Windows 10 is used by 23% of users.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...

There are many people who consider the older OS versions to be "better" than the latest Windows X.
What "better" means is quite subjective - familiarity, stability, privacy, compatibility, etc.
I really don't know, because I haven't used Windows in many years.

Finally, there's the "pirates" - hundreds of millions of people who run older versions of Windows, which are easier to crack because they're not as 'cloud-enabled' as Windows X.

But all in all, I agree that it's not such a big of a deal..
So in 30 years the president will be giving clemency to a bunch of non-violent hackers we locked up during the "War on Cybercrime".
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It's interesting because if you remember, there were some Diaspora nodes (or pods I think?) supposedly spreading "terrorist" propaganda. Certain pods started blocking that content, but others just let it through. There were complains, but this was the nature of decentralization. In effect, this was one of the realize goals of Diaspora; to transport censored content.

From what I've gathered, LBRY doesn't offer this same type of decentralization.

I checked out the old GNU MediaGoblin site to see how it's been coming along. It would be nice if we had a real decentralized, easy to use, video hosting service.
This is spartant

Do not really qualifies as colony, only as an accumulation of doomed individuals. I wonder if is even really disconnected from the other members. Ants can climb easily a rusty suface, can fit in any crevice and can dig.

Or maybe ... to take a look to the same big fat exit that humans used to enter in the bunker.
As someone who has lived in multiple countries and currently resides in one that I wasn't born in: yes. Yes you do.
> Free software refers to freedom,

Philosophically speaking, maybe. In practise though, free software are considered because of pricing and not freeness.

Bring a PAID open-source software for a comparison in front of your directors and/or fellow engineers. I did that many times, from $1000/year to $3M/year subscription.

Even the most open-source aficionados will quickly reveal that he doesn't care about open-source. All he thinks about is pricing.
This is mainly for brochure style websites so a page is a typical page, content and images. The per page charge is generally for the ongoing maint. so as the site grows the monthly fee for hosting/updates grows.

For speciality pages or something really complex those are quoted as a one time fee to create them. If they don't take a lot of time I might just create them under the subscription model as well. The clients understand that the per page pricing is for a typical webpage, custom pages, functionality and forms are quoted as they are requested.
Many of these properties are new builds and drop in value as soon as they are 'lived in'.
> please don't write untrue absolutes like "Desktop Linux is great".

> [Linux] is on the whole a subpar experience compared to Windows and Mac OS X.

Well done.
By trying to fit in mandatory payments, they screwed up.

They should have focused on doing everything else well, and perhaps introduce voluntary payments (i.e.: donations) later.

Mandatory payments ain't gonna fly; Even assuming they somehow made the technical part work, which I don't see happening, a system that's the same but without the payments is bound to exist. Guess which one people are going to use? If payment is strictly voluntary, however, then a single system is enough.
Seems reasonable, it's extremely difficult for hacking by itself to be a particularly serious crime. Of course, murdering someone by hacking their medical equipment is still murder.
Ordinary people that work for a living ought to be able to have kids. As stated in nations with more sane safety nets not being upper middle class isn't synonymous with being financially and socially unstable.

When better than half your population has a small but non trivial chance of ending up in the gutter something is wrong.

The people that are hard up are people who differ from those who are getting by only small sets of circumstances.
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> When I am idle, the machine is idle.

Perhaps this is the case for the majority of Windows 10 installations. Or perhaps you're a lucky — and exceptional — case.

I can only add my anecdotes to your anecdotes, and I have no large scale statistically significant figures to claim my anecdotes are the general case.

But my anecdotes completely disagree with you. Two Windows 10 installations under my care in the past exhibited wild, mind-of-their-own-esque resource usage when they were supposed to be idling. One was a upgraded-from-Windows-7 physical installation (with no malware, I can attest to that) on which explorer.exe would start consuming ~ 60% CPU usage when left idle, another was a virtual installation of fresh Windows 10 without any apps installed on which the host hypervisor reported arbitrary, persistent (upto tens-of-minutes at a time) CPU usage rise.

And the sheer lack of things I could do about it frustrated me. Ultimately, I had to replace the Windows on the physical computer (a friend's laptop) with Kubuntu (thankfully, she liked the new experience), and replaced the virtual machine with Windows 7.
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Its extremely easy for it to cause thousands to millions in damages. If I burned thousands -> millions in property even if nobody was hurt it would still be a serious crime. Its also a potentially lucrative area which ought to be counterbalanced with high consequences.
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A while ago I moved to Arch Linux and started using the i3, a tiling window manager. This is an unusual setup, and not one everybody likes.

I was surprised at how many GUI bugs there were in the stacks of the mainstream OS's when I had to work on some in the last few weeks.

If you are competent I recommend moving away from xubuntu, or at least its defaults. Take note of the programs you like and install them on the new system, or note the ones you don't and replace them. Swapping wm's is pretty common.

A tiling wm is not for everyone, and my job doesn't involve much mouse work, however when I have had to use GIMP and Inkscape they have worked pretty much perfectly in their fullscreen beauty.

But yeah. Not for everybody.
..and the board of directors of many major banks should all be in jail after the 2008 financial crisis. They're not only free, many of them kept their bonuses.

1% of Americans are in the incarnation system or out on parole. That's more than all of the other high income countries.

Our legal system is hardly fair, and this is another example of it.
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As someone who has taught people to crop or enhance or grayscale millions of images from the command line I think you probably do not understand where people are coming from.

There are no GUI people and command line people. There are people that know how to use the command line, which takes effort before it gives results, or you can use the GUI with instant gratification.

Most people follow the easy path, as they should. But for garyscaling the easier path is the command line and it is very easy to sell it when they face a problem like this.

If you understand this, you can make the learning transition easier and almost effortless.

People are not stupid, I have taught people using vim. They saw me doing it and thought I was crazy, I made them do it after a great Steve Jobs like reality distortion field and I converted them, now they only use vim.
I'm writing this 2 hours into a 14.5 hour flight from Shanghai to New York [0], and I'd just like to thank all physicians everywhere who have answered the ding.

[0] https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL87
In the EU there are similar laws. Compensations start as soon as a plane is delayed by more than two hours. My dad has gotten quite a substantial chunk of money back on a regular vacation ticket after it was delayed for a few hours.

You have to ask, but I have noticed in recent years that they're quite open about the fact that the program exists, with posters all over most airports.
Doesn't this kind of sound like payday loans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payday_loan ?
I think that this is a bold statement unless you dig the colony and search for a queen. The same hole collecting ants could collect easily young queens. Nothing prevents the area to be colonised by winged queens origined in the other colony. Not even bats, the surface colony should have a swarm each year.

On the other part, the absence of spiders is much more interesting. Would point to that spiders can't live with a pure diet of ants. Formic acid probably.
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I've been playing around with WebGL recently and built this inspired by drawing parametric curves on the screen.

I also wrote a post about this http://www.appsketch.xyz/p/2
While this indicates that there are lots of people who never read ebooks, it does not actually say whether more ebooks or print books are being sold and read. The Pew survey notes that the mean number of books read is 12, while the median is 4. This means that one-half of all readers surveyed read no more than 4 books a year, so the other half of all readers must average over 16 books a year. It's probably even more skewed than that, although numbers are hard to come by. This skewing of the book market probably accounts for the fact that ebooks are far greater than 28% of book sales, although accurate figures are hard to come by for several reasons (sales reports from industry groups don't include self-published authors, the fastest growing part of the business, for example). However, it looks like people who read fewer books are probably much less likely to switch to ebooks, possibly because the change costs time or money, possibly because people who read fewer books are probably on the whole less technologically adept than people who read more. Also, print books are still assigned from an early age in most schools, with ebooks being a secondary alternative in education, meaning that people still start with print books and that nearly everyone reads some print books unless they are very uneducated.
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The NYT again reveals its inability to look at anything outside of its comfortable Western bubble. The global trend of the past 10 years has been a wave of efforts by entrenched rulers to suppress free elections, free press, and a rise in corruption. There is a rough consensus among most watchdog organizations that track this sort of stuff on a global level that measures of freedom are getting worse or in the best case holding steady. The majority of the world's population does not live in democracies with honest elections and justice systems that are free of corruption. Sure you can argue that maybe on some 50+ year long trend things are getting better but to write a column like this in 2016 is just tone deaf. This is why no one wants to pay for the news.
Bit of a tangent, but that was a surprisingly readable article for TheRegister. They seemed very clickbaity with CAPITAL LETTER WORDS scattered around not so long ago. Are they now back to this more reasonable style in general or was this a fluke ?
In some sense, but there is a key difference.

"Companies can typically repay the loan as a percentage of cash flow so payments naturally adjust to revenue."
I stopped using Ubuntu when it went off in that weird direction with the UI.

My HP Stream 11 runs Mint XFCE and we put Mint Cinnamon on the laptop my wife uses. Both these just kind of get out of the way and are mostly unnoticeable, which is mostly what I want from an OS as a user.
No limits on the amount of devices, though IIRC after using 10 different keys (for each version) you have to ask for a refresh.

To be honest I'm also unsure on the details of how you can use the OSs you get from the MSDN license.

edit: I checked my subscription, for enterprise editions you get 2 multiple activation keys. I've no idea how many activations these keys allow. It's worth noting that you get two for regular enterprise, 2 for the N edition and 2 more for the LTSB version.

edit2: nevermind! Turns out that if you want to stay 100% legal the msdn subscription is pretty restrictive:

> Many Visual Studio subscribers use a computer for mixed use—both design, development, testing, and demonstration of your programs (the use allowed under the Visual Studio subscription license) and some other use. Using the software in any other way, such as for doing email, playing games, or editing a document is another use and is not covered by the Visual Studio subscription license. When this happens, the underlying operating system must also be licensed normally by purchasing a regular copy of Windows such as the one that came with a new OEM PC.
Is your question related to the Google Form/Survey you submitted a while back? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjXJ8stnCoCd1TRZIW...

That submission got blocked because HN doesn't like URL shorteners (https://goo.gl/ in this case). Feel free to submit the full URL of course.

Personally I'd love to see one or two sentences introducig why you ask the questions about usage. The form looks quite sophisticated to be just curiosity.
Off topic: I understand your arguments, but every time I read something like "mostly cheap used hardcover", as an author myself I have to ask: You are aware that the creative behind the work you read does not get a dime from you?
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I was reading this book called 'In The Plex' which talks about the beginnings of Google, how no one thought of using back-links in ranking web pages and how Larry Page used it to make Page rank it's a fascinating book to read, and surprised to see how everyone missed an idea like that.

Fast forward to today, has search reached its climax? Can't there be any other search engine that will deliver better results than Google? There was a time when people talked about social search for a while but that too died down.

So is there a new frontier for search? Will there be a better search engine in the next few decades?
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In the UK you're not legally required to provide assistance unless you have a duty of care.

When you're lifeguarding you have that duty of care. When you're a passenger on a flight you don't.

(I think once you start providing assistance you need to keep doing it)
I recently was forced to drop windows onto a partition on my main laptop. As 8, which came with it, is a PITA I decided to put on 7.

Install goes OK, system comes up and I have no Wireless Drivers. Fine. I plug in Ethernet. Doesn't work. Urgh. Ok, grab drivers on phone, use phone to transfer it. Nope, won't recognise anything in the USB3 ports.

I end up booting into linux and copying the driver install files directly onto the windows partition. If the drivers hadn't been available for windows 7 I would have been completely stuck.
Is this sarcastic?

Borrowing millions of dollars at 20-30% to compete with some cash rich companies who already dominate the market seems crazy - (borrowing at 5% could be another matter).
So you're saying blockchains prevent this because proof-of-work? I.e. that you literally can't run a Sybil attack, because the only way to impersonate N miners is to actually run N miners?
This is a very different book, it definitely impacted my personal life.
He literally helped me go out of an infinit loop in life when it came to interactions with women and humen connections:

Game Over: From Pick-Up Artist to Social Heartist

https://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Pick-Up-Artist-Heartist/dp/...

GOOD LUCK!
I don't trust any programmer who hasn't at least once felt dirty about some code they just wrote.
And Apple just got punished for what Ireland did, and is paying Ireland for the privilege. This makes dealing with EU countries a much more problematic venture. Countries trying to improve their economy can't introduce new legislation without it being suspect. Also, Europe was benefitting from that money. Moves like this will cause American companies to repatriate their money so the EU doesn't decide to come up with another number when they are looking to balance a budget item. How do we pay for all of these refuges? Sue American companies...
thats still half of China's population. Thats basically still a country in transition from a rural era to an industrial one. In any developed country the percentage of folks living in cities is way higher.

Census in 2000 in the US reported 79% of Americans living in Urban Areas. It is surely even higher now.
Well, it's a guessing game to know what company the parent parent is referring to and there are two well known recovery software but I didn't want to give out the name so others could keep on guessing. So I just wildcard masked the thing.
It's an obfuscated reference to a popular open source data recovery toolset. I think the parent was trying to avoid potentially "outing" GP against their wishes, by making a vague reference that some might get.
A great desktop operating system works just out of the box without any ridiculous quirk and doesn't force the user to spend time to find a solution.
I might call it broken, but for sure not great.
Heh. Yeah. I know I have.
Youtube had the challenge of being one of the first streaming services, and it's operating at an unprecedented scale. I am actually wondering, how many orders of magnitude youtube has more traffic than pornhub?

I am in distributed systems and try to work exclusively on hard problems. So when I say "simple", that is biased on the high end of the spectrum.

If you go to pornhub.com and looks at "popular keyword", you'll only find thousand or ten thousands videos. In a way, there is not that much content on pornhub.

All major websites have challenge. Pornhub is a single purpose website and a lot of the challenge is in video delivery, which can be outsourced to a CDN nowadays.

"simple" is maybe too strong a word. I am trying to convey the idea that it has limited scope and [some of] the problems it's facing are understood by now and have [decent] solutions.

That's not to say it's easy ;)
Probably not. Google will likely remain at the top, although they'll continue to improve. It might end up being effectively a new engine decades from now, but it will most likely get there by evolving gradually over time.
Where is the falseness here?
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It's interesting to note that The Verge uses the word "prefer" in the title of their article but the underlying Pew Research report[1] does not have that word anywhere.

What Pew did was telephone some people asking them how often they read and also whether the format was ebook or paper. It seems logical to infer a "preference" from the answers to those questions. However, it's not that simple because a major reason people read "paper" is the higher cost of ebooks (which also includes the significant cost of a Kindle device.)

In other words, the economics of paper vs ebooks may be skewing why more people read hardcopy books instead of electronic ones. (E.g. If you telephone people asking them what car they drive, more will respond with Kia and Cheverolet but that does not mean people prefer them over Lexus and BMW.)

To extract a pure preference, it seems like you'd have to devise a marketing experiment which disguises the costs like this:

Choice A: $450 for 50 New York Times best sellers in paperback format.

Choice B: $450 for a Kindle preloaded with the same 50 ebooks.

Then you observe which package actually sells the most. We'd then see if more people value the paperback with the ability to resell, the tactile sensation, the simplicity of no batteries more than the e-reader with the minimal space & weight, the font size adjustability, the searchability, the ability to load more ebooks after the 50 preloaded ones, etc.

The above experiment may also have different outcomes depending on genre (fiction/novels, non-fiction/college textbooks) and age group (20-something, over-50, etc).

[1]Pew Research pdf downloadable here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/09/01/book-reading-2016/#the...
Look, you might want to think that over again.
You shouldn't feel bad. If something like that is technically possible, and there's a demand, someone will write that code.

The only two ways to fight it (that I can think of) are:

1) Make it technically impossible (open firmware, open hardware)

2) Make it illegal

There's of course a third way - not give a crap, and just let them watch you.
Tons of stuff. Food on the plane, facilities in the lounges, free newspapers and magazines, choice of entertainment, friendliness and helpfulness of the staff, choice of drinks, quality of the seats, space in between the seats, quality of pillows (business class), flexibility in terms of carry-on luggage, clear information on website, useful website for reservations and what not, reasonable price, and so on, and so on.
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I will always prefer physical books. Way back in the 80s when I was in grade school, books were my only form of entertainment that didn't require me to leave my bedroom (extreme introvert speaking here).
Plus, there's the irresistible smell of the ink, glue, and bleached paper.
> So think about the system your code is running in, if things are getting parallelized at a higher level, it may not do any good to do it again at a lower level. Instead, focus on algorithms that run as efficiently as possible on a single core.

Generally this is a extremly bad advice. Especially with:

> What you forgot was that the web server was already parallelizing things at a higher level

Apache parallized like that. and it was bad.

Nginx then introduced a eventloop, which was way better. however your application still needs to deal with it. i.e. if one request is blocking (taking too much time) your nginx will block, too. if that happens on all worker threads your website will be extremly slow.

A EventLoop mechanism always means that your stuff should be non-blocking and that is hard. this is especially hard when dealing with external resources, i.e databases, external services, caches, file io. when you just say "well my webserver will handle that" you will be in a really really bad shape.
Assuming that the story you've told actually happened. Yeah, two kids in a school didn't want to enter the pool, and they've sent them packing back to (where?) because of that. Have I understood well what you described?
Your heuristic failed here. The writer here opposes raising taxes and even uses the favored fiscal-conservative term "expropriation" (her words: "expropriation is a one-time trick"). She exalts Adam Smith and the free market. She's no social democrat.
And... then what? You get a small community where some people will establish themselves as leaders and be in control. It would be worse.
As my siblings are saying, the same molecule but different concentration. This is the reason why you should handle dynamite in gloves: otherwise you absorb nitroglycerin through skin, lower your BP and faint.
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business . A vital step in becoming a more (instrumentally) rational person is to track and calibrate your beliefs.

This book teaches you of how to do that.
I can't imagine reading anything technical or even most non-fiction on a phone, but for plain old entertainment-grade fiction it's doable. I read most of the Aubrey-Maturin series and The Expanse series on my phone last year.