skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. If they were making an adware and spyware free version of Windows 10, I would be more than happy to upgrade.

I know Windows 10 enterprise is adware/spyware free, but as an individual I have no idea of how to get one.
You won't believe it, but millions of people did exactly this, and are still doing it. US came to existence by immigration.
When I walk into a person's house and see a book shelf I look to see what titles are there. Or, I look to see who and what people are reading in a coffee shop. The reason is that I like to know what people are thinking. I don't get that from a Kindle.
It's actually not a big deal but with the issues Microsoft has had with Windows 10 over the past year, it makes for good media fodder to stir up the masses. When this first hit the tech news sites earlier this year, my answer to anyone shouting "OMG I can't have my Win7 on my Skylake, die Micro$oft!" was to politely ask them to attempt to install Windows 98 on a Core i-series machine. You could see the gears turning in their skulls and revelation would dawn upon them that yes, this has happened before, many times, and is a perfectly normal progression.

It's not even limited to Microsoft; you can't install Mac OS X 10.7+ on anything older than a 2nd generation Core2 Duo, and with good reason. OS X 10.6 ran like crap on the first gen Core Duo and Core2 Duo machines, despite being fully supported by Apple.

There comes a time when the software exceeds the capabilities of the hardware, and this is no exception.
You don't have to use cmd.exe for your terminal. I used to use xterm via Cygwin back in the day.
Yeah but the problem with installing a retail windows 7 on an OEM hardware (as in mostly laptop) that wasn't meant for this OS is that this is mostly custom hardware with no driver available
The whole premises of this whole technology is this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/50tyub/were_the_nerds...

In particular this bit:

>Our goal is to create a system where the URL a user guesses is the most likely to return what they are actually looking for. Economics says this design is the most likely to do so, because the URL is most valuable when it returns what users want.

I very much doubt that orthodox economics actually supports their claim. At the very least it's probably not as simple as they make it out to be.

This has always been a problem I had with crypto technologies. Those who get involved seem to have an attraction towards very simplistic economic notions and an aversion to more refined theory, that is much more able to deal with reality as opposed to that simple sandbox economic world their mindset seems to permanently inhibit.
From the README: http://git.the-compiler.org/journalwatch/tree/README.txt?id=...

journalwatch
============

journalwatch is a tool which can find error messages in the
systemd journal.

It is similiar to tools like
http://sourceforge.net/projects/logwatch/[logwatch] or
http://logcheck.org/[logcheck] except it's much more KISS
and only works with the systemd
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/journalctl.html[journal].
It works by defining patterns to match all log lines which
are not interesting, and then prints all log lines not
matching those patterns (or sends them by mail).

When you start it the first time, it'll write the default
pattern and config to
`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/.config/journalwatch`
(`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is your home if unset). Details on how
to configure journalwatch are available in these files.

Dependencies
------------

- Python 3 (tested with 3.3 and 3.4, should work with >= 3.2)
- `systemd` python module
- A working `sendmail`/MTA
(http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/[msmtp] is easy to set up)

License: GPL3
Your logic is terribly wrong. Part, or most, of what makes the use of these tools against human rights workers and journalists unsustainable is the outrage by us.

Try applying your same logic to people who murder journalists in order to maintain a deceptive narrative. Should we avoid having any qualms about that too?
> That being said, SSH's TOFU is not all that different from the process of installing a CA certificate in your browser so ... just do that.

except that it's 10000 times easier and 10000 times easier to claim that the remote key and the key you just trusted is the same.
The linked NYTimes article references 3 exploits dubbed the "Trident Exploit Chain" that are detailed in an excellent Lookout / Citizen Lab writeup [1] discussed on HN 8 days ago [2].

The target is sent an SMS containing a link to site that triggers the explot chain to remotely jailbreak the phone and clandestinely install the monitoring software.

Ahmed Mansoor, a UAE journalist, was recently targeted with one of these SMS messages and was immediately suspicious. Instead of clicking the link he contacted Citizen Lab researchers who connected it back to NSO group.

[1] https://citizenlab.org/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-ipho...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12360662
>It remains this way because Americans do not generally consider or believe Econ 101 ideas

It's not at all clear this violates "Econ 101". Supply and demand set prices, and wages are basically the price for labor. Increasing the supply of labor should necessarily decrease wages, and vice versa.

Imagine the extreme, worst case scenario. If the US opened it's borders completely, and imported every poor worker in the entire world into its borders. Do you really believe that average American worker would be better off? That they could compete with that, and be able to demand a decent wage?

>trade necessarily benefits both sides of the exchange

True, but extremely misleading. E.g. f you move factories overseas for cheaper labor, the local workers lose out, even though other classes may gain. The benefits of trade are not distributed among the entire population.

>cheaper labor => cheaper goods and services

Sure, but if everyone is making proportionally less money, they can't afford the cheaper services, and on net they are poorer.
Amazon and Starbucks pay less tax than sausage stall, says Austria
Heck - I'd settle even for a vet... any day...
That's the case in practice (both the internal limits and the optimizations). For example Common Lisp's ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT is a fixnum. The default numeric type is not bignum, however, the numeric tower is here to use them only when needed.
Memento at the W3C
"no fault insurance" kinda sounds like what we have in New Zealand with ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation). Everyone contributes a bit into it through tax, but the flip side is that _everyone_ on New Zealand soil (not just citizens) is covered for accident related issues.

For example, I was hiking (or tramping as it's called in NZ) with a foreign friend visiting. They were unlucky and broke an ankle. We called the police, a helicopter was dispatched, picked her up, brought her to the hospital and fixed the ankle up. Zero cost to her.

One of the many upsides is that it's quite difficult to sue for personal injuries in NZ - as ACC basically covers the costs (or at least, that's my understanding anyway)

Sure there are downsides to any system, and some people do fall through the cracks of ACC, but on balance, I think it's one of the best things about NZ (besides the nice relaxed atmosphere and killer scenery)
Brave Software incorporated more than 1 year ago. They raised $7M (?) over its existence. But no one practically knows about them. And who cares about ads and Bitcoin? I personally just ignore them everywhere, have kind of immunity already. The other people use AdBlock. Why would anyone want to pay for removing ads on web, use another browser for that, or pay for that with Bitcoin (who cares?)? I guess, I am missing the whole point of what those guys do and why...
There are now a shit tonne of C# postings. No need to learn those inferior languages.
In a flight that long that you arent that far into, landing early for a diversion requires dumping fuel (for up to an hour on larger aircraft) or risking the lives of the other passengers because the plane is over maximum landing weight.

So it very much is a case by case analysis of balancing the urgency for one passenger with the damage to the environment (dumped fuel) + risk to other passengers for a heavy landing + risks to other passengers from imposing a delay (e.g. Another passenger flying to a surgery).
I guess he was talking about soot and other aerosols. That's huge for air quality, but climate change is primarily driven by the fundamental law of coal burning: C + O_2 -> CO_2. If he managed to reduce the emission of sulfate aerosols (a likely target, since those are the primary cause of smog and acid rain) he is actually making the warming problem worse:

http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2008/06/common-climate...
> Win10 makes it incredibly difficult to try and trim down your Windows installation to its bare minimum, so that the disk, cpu, and network activity won't affect your gaming experience.

You are laboring under some really weird assumptions from the jump. Namely that you have to "trim down" anything at all. My Windows desktop is almost exclusively for games (occasionally a little C#). The only changes from the default settings I made is to use a local account instead of a Microsoft account, fiddle with the times for Windows Update

When I am idle, the machine is idle. There is no unnecessary disk activity (there is indexing, but I want that and the switch is in the exact same place it's been since XP). There is negligible CPU usage. There is no network activity unless Steam decides to do something in the background.

This is the future. We're in it. And if you are buying reasonably new hardware, stuff really just works.
Does this mean

a) older Windows versions will not run at all on those chips?

b) older Windows versions will still run but cause some problems?

c) older Windows versions will run without problems or performance impediment compared to old chips but some new features are not supported?

d) everything will work just as well but when problems occur Microsoft won't provide official support?
I think money isn't the issue here. Freedom is the issue.

If you're a regular person:

- You have no free time because you have to work non stop just to pay the bills (especially rent)

- You have no free speech because if you say the wrong thing at work, you might get fired. Workplaces tend to severely limit individuals' ability to express themselves freely (because people have their livelihoods at stake). It's usually a very tense environment.

- For a lot of whitecollar jobs, you don't even have freedom of thought. You can't do your work while thinking about other stuff; your mind has to be focused 100% on the work (and in a lot of industries, the work is increasingly mechanical and repetitive).

The problem is not lack of money itself, it's lack of freedom.
The only way to get freedom is through having a lot of money.
This kind of component mounting was a fore-runner of larger scale integration.

Quite a bit of circuitry from those days was made like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_integrated_circuit

Excellent mechanical properties (esp. with respect to vibration resistance) and more compact than the other mounting methods available at the time, it seems to me to have been the obvious choice for anything on spacecraft or aircraft.
The usual data massaging wasn't enough, like ignoring 19 of the 30 existing studies as of then, so they changed the confidence level required from the standard 95% to 90%. Look up commentary on their 1993 "Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders" for more details.
You can lower the importance of money by having great public services that will be paid collectively.
I don't see remote positions on your jobs site
There are already laws against homicide, though. Use those.
I made myself a set of shortcuts using Hammerspoon so that I could push windows to each of the 4 screen corners as 1/4 width, push to left half or right half of screen, or make full screen. This is really enough of the tiling WM experience (I had come from Xmonad) for the majority of situations.
Anyone else think it's a bit of a joke that a $1M+ bug still relies on the user clicking a phishing sms to work?
The colony has a queen. The workers trapped and waiting to die in the bunker do not.
It seems bbc can't get math right - increase of 2 degrees Celsium doesn't equal increase of 36 degrees Fahrenheit
> The best Linux analogue I can think of is systemd. It's not about resisting minor changes or sticking to an obsolete OS and expecting the vendor to support you indefinitely. It's about the rug being pulled out from under your feet and completely fucking over everything you liked about the platform, while all the people you hoped would take a stand, bow their heads and step meekly into line.

I'm not a fan of systemd, but I think you're way off base. First, this is more of a hardware support issue than a revamped init rapidly growing into a full OS like a cancer. Second, this is the way it's been done since the early days of Windows; it's only in the headlines because Windows 10 is a good punching bag.

> With Windows, you could keep using 7, up until now.

Bullshit. You can keep using Windows 7 until the day your computer dies. There's no magical switch being flipped that suddenly renders your existing Windows 7 installation inoperable the day a Kaby Lake CPU hits the local reseller's shelves. You're being deliberately disingenuous here.

> It's as if systemd were completely embedded in the kernel and every alternative distro and ∗NIX nuked from orbit.

No, no it isn't. Again, this is a hardware support/driver thing, and has nothing to do with what's going on in Linux land. For that matter, who exactly is going to "nuke every alternative distro and ∗NIX from orbit"? While systemd has taken over most of the major Linux distros, there will always be some like Slackware and Alpine that run perfectly fine without it, and no one from the systemd cabal will care. I'd certainly love to know how you think the BSDs will be wiped out by the spread of systemd too, considering that Poettering and Sievers intend for systemd to remain Linux-only.
The biggest problem I see with eBooks is that they are basically only useable with plain-text.

Once e-ink displays master color and formatting (probably pretty soon) I would not want to use a physical book anymore. Just a few benefits: adjust text size and zoom, flip pages easier, smaller and lighter, take all your books with you, read thousands of free books...
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Devon Air Ambulance used to tell a story, possibly apocryphal, about a callout to the middle of Dartmoor. In the course of treating a woman they had to cut off her cashmere top. After the incident they received a demand from the woman to pay for the damage done to her top, valued at several hundred pounds.

They replied that they would of course pay if she would reimburse them for the cost of the flight - enclosing a bill for £10,000. Answer came there none.
putting blame aside, the behaviour isn't particularly surprising if we assume that people are more or less rationally looking out for their own interests:

it's not in my own interest to reduce my consumption and emissions. it's very much in my own interest for all of you to reduce your consumption and emissions.

it's easy for me to change my own behaviour, but very hard for me to coerce you to change your behaviour against your own interests.

it is in my interest to support global regulation of everyone's consumption and emissions, including my own, provided i believe i will gain more than i lose by participating.
Blood Work #5 – August 2016 – [Consistency
There can be no such evidence because there is no such thing as a "veil of ignorance". You are fully aware of your social status. It seems likely that this knowledge informs your values.
I guess so, but when the basic Kindle costs about the same as a full tank of gas, or just a little more than a newly released AAA video game, it's hard to say that it is really restricted to the wealthy.

The biggest appeal of the Kindle is that you can read it outside in the glare of the sun, and the battery lasts for months. I would agree, that for most people, the smartphone they have in their pocket already is good enough for reading ebooks.
would this even work? my understanding of rope memory was that the value depended partially on the strength of magnets in a certain position in a copper rope.

what happens when the magnet becomes deplolarized? isn't the only way to ensure the bits he's got out are correct to actually inspect the copper weaves? for all we know they were tossed in the trash because they were defective
Why is having two never-taken branches worse than one never-taken branch?
Good point, but the rich don't want to lower the importance of money, they want to increase it.
What? How did the airline know of these conditions before hand? You don't provide your medical history when you buy a ticket.
When the AMD Opteron came out in 2003, did Windows 95 run on it? I don't think so.

Windows 7 is seven years old. It's just a reality that commercial software that old doesn't get support, unless you're an enterprise customer willing to pay for the privilege.
Consider that cybercrime could potentially turn off power for half of United States, launch a nuclear missile or deorbit a satellite over a populated area. Ability to say break into a say a Ubuntu or Red Hat binary server could server malware to hundreds of organizations including Governments.

As usual, there is no one size fits all and so Judges usually have leeway to decide severity of punishment.
So it wasn't Apple's fault then, right? Which means it's a business between EU and Ireland, and Apple has nothing to do with it.
The fears of globalization are various and not as simple as a GDP or employment rate. It promotes an uprooting and destabilization of people's lives as everything becomes more competitive. There is no guarantee that you stay near home, work in a familiar culture, build lasting ties in your career. These things aren't strictly a matter of globalization, and their value is not easily measured against the known benefits of bigger markets. But the status quo is to ram free trade down the precariat's throat without allowing protest or negotiation, with a paternalistic "we'll all be better off if you take it on the chin."

Analogies to the enclosure movement come to mind.
The killer feature for me is the built-in dictionary. If I've been using my kindle heavily for a while, when I switch back to a paper book, I find myself tapping on unknown words on the page, half expecting the definition to pop up...
My personal experience, from having been an e-book aficionado who eventually went back to almost entirely paper (cheap used hardcover when I can find it):

Ebook advantages:

- Cheap, no commitment, try before you buy

- Easy to transport, take 30+ books on vacation with no increase in weight

Dead-tree advantages:

- Higher retention of material (various cues for memory related to the physicality and layout of the book versus an indistinguisable smorgasbord of ebook pages)

- Greater tendency to actually read, since they sit around your house/living room taunting you, rather than being forgotten in some obscure folder of your device
Very naive. Commercials won't go away, they will be embeeded within the content. Product placement, paid sponserships, influencers.

You will always get ads so long as it remains profitable.
> I've never understood why U.S. is so protective in terms of citizenship. In most of the EU countries you get naturalized ( receive citizenship ) if you spend certain amount of time in the country and pass a test ( Germany I think it's 7 yrs ).

I think it's more complicated than that. My gf has lived more than 10 years in France now and she has to renew her visa every year, they never granted her the 10 years visa, let alone citizenship (she was discouraged to apply for it...).

On the other hand, I have a bunch of friends that obtained their US nationality quite easily. They started as illegal immigrants, got married, which gave them a green card and after a few years they obtained their citizenship.

These are just anecdotes, just to say that it's not so clear that it's harder to get US citizenship.
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>So what is the point of such system?

Let's go deeper. There's three parties involved in this market. Users, platform providers and content creators. The users dictate the terms. Where they go the others follow.

What is this whole technology providing for the users? Nothing, at least nothing of mass appeal.

It's a losing strategy.

The best example of this is Ebay/Paypal. They always put the buyers first for the same reason and Ebay alternatives who don't never catch on because the buyers don't want to use a platform that is not biased towards them.
Then should we consider Windows or other commerical software for anything designed to outlast a 5 year period?
Reminds me of Ceausescu.
35.6 degree Fahrenheit then.
To get an idea of what kind of grief arises from a legacy kernel on significantly newer hardware: XP doesn't know how to save and restore AVX register state across context switches. The cpuid instruction doesn't look at the OS, so AVX is detected as being available, but it doesn't work right. (This has been an actual problem for crypto code in Firefox.)
And how many users will do that?
Chrome shows non HTTPS sites as insecure, time to migrate and fix mixed content
Pilots do, but some of the flight attendants may not.
The bigger problem to me is the number was derived by assuming the modern American military could be equated to the ancient Roman military's expenses: If the charioteer could pay for 1/5 of Rome's annual military expenses, then his modern equivalent could pay for 1/5 of the US' annual military expenses.

It wouldn't surprise me if you could build ancient Athens from scratch for the cost of a single modern aircraft carrier. A quick google search shows 140,000 people in ancient Athens and 6000 staff on the biggest aircraft carriers, and it wouldn't surprise me if ancient housing were 23 times cheaper than military-grade ocean housing.

Not to mention we have vibrant financial markets and a strong economy. Ancient Rome had unusually strong rent control and price control laws:

"The Edict of Maximum Prices was an attempt to control runaway inflation and poverty in the Empire. The penalty for exceeding the prices of the Edict was severe: death. Not satisfied to execute just the seller, Diocletian decreed that the buyer was to be executed as well. As a final measure, if a seller refused to sell his goods at the stated price, the penalty was death."

If ancient Rome didn't have corporations, investment banks, revenue bonds, government-backed loans, etc. and had other terrible economic policies like above, then being rich(in terms of buying power for specific goods) wouldn't go as far as in our modern economy.
Three, not two.

And it will be worse because the two extra are checks that'll require a test instruction too, instruction cache overhead, sometimes a shift to line up the bits right.
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