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The article is based on many sources, in the original forum thread on Lenovo forums there are many people who faced the problem with other models, some weren't even Lenovo but the problem with Lenovo is that the BIOS is locked completely, those people (using ASUS and Dell laptops) confirmed the problem is solved after the switch to AHCI from RAID.
I'll spell it out: a Lenovo representative said "This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed. It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft." This is what people are reacting to.

Now, of course the rep might be mistaken. We need official clarification from someone higher up. But we won't get that until we go off on one and this goes viral.
It's also worth noting that some critical hardware components (e.g. CPUs since the infamous division bug) are formally verified as well, so manufacturing defects should be the largest concern for them.
For more context, consider (1). It shows the expected pay for someone with a masters in comp sci, working as an engineer in Belgium. It tops out at just over 5k (gross) a month, so just about 65k a year. Less than one third of 200k.

(1): https://imgur.com/a/zRWXT
Wait a second. Are you running Fedora24 on metal or on Virtualbox? If on metal, then how do the (unsigned) virtual box kernel modules matter?

And if on virtualbox - you don't actually know if it would run on metal. VirtualBox hides quite a lot from you.

(I expect that it will run on metal - I just don't think you have evidence one way or another if you are running it on vbox)
Love it. Just gave it the 101120th star.
Luckily for you, Fastmail eventually got their .com, so I believe @fastmail.com should also work now (not a customer so I don't know for sure).
Given that I don't know anything about this domain, in my experience "supports" doesn't necessarily mean "supports well" or "there is no technical reason the browser stack slows this down, it's only the client's fault" or "would have been much easier to support in another stack without going through all this shit".

So I'm still not convinced.
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Yes, but has anyone verified that? The person posting it even said they've booted a Linux installer - if it was "locked" at firmware level you wouldn't even be able to do that.
A fews things I wanted out of CouchDB years back:
- faster bulk indexing
- space reduction, I think a simple couchdb to psql json was 1/10th of size
- ES6 or even ES5 - * its been a few years since I last looked but I remember you had to tread carefully - Object.keys maybe was one?

When I started with CouchDB it wrong choice for so many reasons, client had <30gb of data, couchdb was cooler than node.js, and I was frustrated with SQL Server. In hindsight sticking with SQL Server or Postgresql would of been better - older/wiser today.
They love Linux ..as long as you only use it through their products..
That's a total different thing, I did the same with my Lenovo G50-80 laptop, but the problem with the model in the thread is the Signature Edition and the BIOS lock, it's different from normal UEFI stuff.
Try getting the Uvex S1933X glasses. They work for everything in your view (obviously) without messing around with software, and probably works better too.

I have them, and they're amazing. I have pretty cool LED lighting in my apartment and can make my whole living room any color I want at night. If I set in to pure blue and put on the glasses, it's like being in pitch blackness (except a couple of items glow brightly).

It's not like looking at things with an orange tint at all, even though the glasses are obviously orange.

That being said - the benefits I get by using them is amazing. It's weird how much of a difference it can make, I get tired quickly after putting them on in the evening. If I forget to put them on I usually end up staying up too late, getting too little sleep and often ruining the next day. Personally I find it way more effective than flux.

By the way - blue light isn't just a negative thing, but also a huge positive. In the morning I use a Philips goLITE BLU HF3332, and it really improves both my energy and mood quickly after just a few minutes of usage.

Those two simple items, a blue light and a pair of blue-blocking glasses, have improved my life significantly. Try it out (especially the glasses, it's just $9).
All the specs for real world things I've seen are long and use fuzzy language. Making them formal enough to provide a basis for verification will only make them longer.
So, will I now see that very very nice mobile ui for outlook on FF mobile as well as on Chrome on android?

Edit: Yes!! Finally!!

Now, if only it would handle favicons the way chrome does it (many sites have a nice favicon for on the Android Launcher desktop in chrome, while in FF they get a low res white on orange star icon. Very ugly... On second inspection, seems like Chrome makes nice icon out of the first letter of the main domain and matches the main color to the one used on the site as a default, while FF has that star.)

Also, it lacks drag-to-refresh as it does in Chrome. But I can tap the address bar and "enter" of course.
First they came for the crapware license deals, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Windows User.

Then they came for spammer license deals, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Windows User.

Then they came to install back doors, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Windows User.

Then they came for my ability to install Linux—and there was no one left to speak for me.
> I've worked in other European countries without any problems (I'm from one of the ex-Soviet states)

Immigration in Switzerland is much different than in EU-member states.
Right. Thanks for that. I am reacting to the claims that it's "locked by Microsoft". This looks to be missing Linux support for an Intel device. Sad, but not unusual.
I wonder if similar ruling[1] for alternative OS'es as with browsers could be reached?

1. http://ec.europa.eu/competition/consumers/web_browsers_choic...
EFI = AHCI? EFI:EFI
Jeez, that's pretty bad. This seems like the most basic case that autopilot is supposed to solve, and yet it still crashes?
There are many experienced devs that worked on both sides of the fence and rather use an IDE than CLI.
What is this gibberish about being "on the wrong side"? Please don't make vacuous statements.
This is probably the standard "firmware is sending different data to different OSes", which has existed since forever. Or maybe it's just a shitty firmware bug or even a kernel bug.

However, I'm glad this is making this type of fuss. It means bad PR for Lenovo if they don't do any Linux QA (as they mostly never did). Good.
There's an undertone in this thread that meta-analysis is just what you do if you can't run a study. I wanted to note that there are scientific reasons to perform one in addition to logistic ones.
Of course. But it's O(n*2^n) at best, IIRC (The trivial is O(n!) - just test all orders)

There are simple <=2x and slightly more complicated <=1.5x guaranteed approximate solutions on metric spaces, but on most spaces there aren't even approximate solutions.
The thing that irritates me about this is Hangouts could already do exactly that, long before Messenger could, and did it really well. It's by far my preferred messaging app but no one but my wife actually uses it, so I'm stuck using Messenger instead.
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Edit: Clicked on tutorials and then Getting started.
> I'm curious about other sleep tips that you guys have. I really want to improve this as much as possible.

What is your screen usage (phone, computer, tv, tablet etc) like in the hour or two before going to sleep?

Have you tried reducing or eliminating it?
How is it different from having a conversation with the person next to you? Wait, are those assholes too? Or just when you can understand one of them, but not the other? Oh the misanthropy ...
It's certainly not the year of the Linux desktop, but it's not far off.

I've successfully switched both parents to Linux and non tech at our company run completely on Linux.

It's a real threat, especially with MS failing to innovate.
> email style messages

Care to elaborate? I'm having trouble picturing what you mean. Long form with styling?
Why definitely lossy? If you encode the deltas in a lossless manner, the result will be identical to the original image.
I wish but I am yet to see an SD card exceeding 10MB/s in practice.
Right. Obviously there is some justification, but if you hung out at slashdot way too long, you'd know there is a bunch of paranoid schizophrenic people manufacturing bizarre Microsoft conspiracy theories every single day.

The post even describes the issue pretty explicitly as "Linux isn't loading the correct disk driver", yet it still spun as some intentional FU "block". I guess with a domain like "fossboss.com" you should expect the lowest form of the Slashdot mentality. I very much hope HN doesn't start to deal with this sort of pure flame bait.
I'd like to offer a story of caution, and I do so with some hesitation because it sounds like it's been good for you so far. A friend of mine lost his life after committing suicide a month after starting Zoloft. His last messages to me were a discussion of what serotonin syndrome was like. He was excited and curious as always, which after reading online is common. I know I shouldn't blame the drug since he was depressed before... but it sucks to lose someone when it seems like their life was on the upward climb. Anyways, stay safe and be careful.
Interesting analysis, but ice anchors depend far more on the quality of the ice and the conditions than the actual strength of the screw. One reason I've heard for downward positioning is that the screw can channel heat into the ice and melt faster around it, so a downward positioning acts as a lever to keep the screw engaged.
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I tried it a few days ago with a bad connection and the video quality was outstanding. I'm sold.
I think you are quite correct, and that you've outlined a much more likely scenario than politicians implementing a workable universal basic income.

Sales of socially harmful goods (such as alcohol, tobacco and petroleum) are already taxed punitively to restrict their use and implement harm reduction. It's easy to imagine politicians implementing similar laws to restrict the sale of robots.

I suspect that such laws would not be very successful at addressing the problem but then I can't easily think of any laws work entirely as intended. If robots are to be taxed, it is their use which should incur the penalty, not their sale.
This comment from the reddit discussion is very relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_micro...

Quoth BaronH:

> Nope. You can turn Secure Boot off on the Lenovo Yoga models that this affects.

> They have the SSD in some strange "RAID" mode where Linux can't see or be installed to it, and neither can Windows unless you add some drivers to your Windows installer media. They removed AHCI mode from the BIOS. Then they wrote additional code so if you try to toggle it to AHCI mode with an EFI variable from EFIshell, it immediately sets itself back to RAID.

> For the last 11 months, they were silent on why this machine was configured this way. The only reason we know why now is because Lenovo answered my Best Buy review by stating it is locked due to the agreement they signed with Microsoft for the Signature Edition PC program, so it's very likely that all Ultrabooks in the Microsoft Store, and some outside the MS Store (such as at Best Buy) will eventually be configured so that Linux can't be installed, even if there are some now where you can install Linux.

> So consider "Signature Edition" a warning label that means "You aren't allowed to run Linux, per Microsoft.".
It was available for free on a floppy, but never open source.
Wrong, in real life random conversations are not recorded for an unspecified time.

The databases you mention have serious judicial requirements (in EU) and no free access by a company. Leaks of course happen, but they are treated seriously and are news items.

If Google had a breach, they'd do the same as everyone: cover it up or PR it down and fix it. They won't go bankrupt over even a string of break-ins.

There is less reason to trust them as they are an American company. In fact NSA had free reign over their data at some time and they didn't know about it.

While I would trust them much more than a random startup, trusting their database handling is different. Local, non collated data is often safest. Plus you're not a big target as a single person most of the time.
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This is so true. It's amazing what an extra hour or two a night can do for me. But who has time to sleep that much?!
Maybe someone can help me understanding.

Why is it OK to lock down smartphones, TV devices, consoles, but not OK for PCs?
Dupe, also really misinformed.
Don't worry, they'll discontinue the most popular one on a whim once people love it.
Good grief, things have moved on somewhat quickly since I last looked. As you say, some of those are scary indeed!
> I'm surprised Google Duo hasn't become more popular. It's a great cross-platform video chat app.

For apps that rely on network effects, pure feature competition isn't the only (or sadly, even the most) relevant factor. I commented on this in the Duo announcement thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12295847), but the gist was something like:

With GChat, they squandered a massive, decade-early networks effect advantage with ten years of inexplicably idiotic product decisions, rebranding, failure to adequately replace deprecated products, etc. I actually generally consider them to have the absolute best products in terms of feature quality, far more often than not; Yet at this point, I can't imagine why anyone would see a Google product that relies on network effects at all and not run as far away as fast as possible.
I now have Ochs' "Cops of the World" running through my head:

'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World
Our boots are needing a shine, boys
Boots are needing a shine

But our Coca-cola is fine, boys
Coca-cola is fine
We've got to protect all our citizens fair
So we'll send a battalion for everyone there

And maybe we'll leave in a couple of years
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World
Dump the reds in a pile, boys

Dump the reds in a pile
You'd better wipe of that smile, boys
Better wipe off that smile
We'll spit through the streets of the cities we wreck

We'll find you a leader that you can't elect
Those treaties we signed were a pain in the neck
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World
AFAIK bettertouchtool is not open source, so you have to place your trust onto one individual instead of the community. Not sure I want to do that as it has access to everything I type.
I assume you would say the same with Google Sites then? I've always found MediaWiki a bit of a pain to work with, but would definitely prefer more of an open ecosystem to a closed one.

Is there good hosted MediaWiki? I have too much other infrastructure to run and would rather not have to run more myself.
VirtualBox itself requires kernel modules to run.
He is saying that people will fill a 1TB card before swapping exactly the same way that people often leave thousands of photos floating around without backup.
If you read the blog post you might have noticed that they specifically mention Chrome's Incognito mode.

> But we went a step beyond this and we created a mode within Google Allo called Incognito (h/t Chrome).
All I want from this newest addition to google chat services is a decent overview of who is online and who is not. The rest is just icing on the cake.
This is awesome to generate art for prototypes, e.g. for boardgames (cards, etc).

Please implement that svg output feature. If you need any help, you can find my contact details in my profile.
The article literally states that it is only anecdotal in the very first paragraph.
I'm also one of 100,000
They aren't "devices" yet.
Many have suggested some form of physical exercise. My suggestion is swimming: it's usually relatively cheap, doesn't matter much if you're overweight, and physically very exhausting.

Also, you might consider getting some real data on your sleep and try to correlate that with your daily activities. I've used the Ōura ring for that to discover what helps me sleep better.
Check the liquid type of digitsP here:

http://conscientiousprogrammer.com/blog/2015/12/23/24-days-o...
Just recently there was a HN post about security bugs in Signal. Signal is open source and the bugs will be fixed at some point, but I wouldn't trust all these proprietary apps will follow the lead so fast.
The other HN thread suggests this not actually a dark conspiracy by Microsoft but simply a case of missing linux drivers for the storage devices.

This sounds believable to me. But I'll put my tinfoil hat on just for fun and pretend it was an intentional move. Could this make sense as a new twist on the old strategy, making it "Embrace, Extinguish, Extend"?
With the WSL, they made it theoretically possible to run Linux software on Windows. With that in place, locking existing users out of Linux might cause a lot less negative backlash as the users can still continue to use their old programs - except under the supervision of Windows. If this catches on, it could actually allow Microsoft to grab some if the more consumer-oriented parts of the Linux ecosystem.
Exactly, but somehow many seem to believe Google is different.
It's NOT OK to lock down smartphones, TV devices, consoles, cars, etc.
Someone should inform the foss-boss! when his website come back up.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Hello again MS, for a moment I was getting worried about you straying from your proven strategy.
My guess is that you are very unimaginative with your exercise. I find the gym boring as anything, but I do some fairly extreme whitewater kayaking when I get the chance to and mountain biking with a fair bit of hard downhill. I cycle to work and around the city (as its the fastest way to get around - it doesn't even seem like exercise when you incorporate it into your routine like that).

Boring is definitely not the way I would describe the way I exercise.
Something like tradition. The IBM PC has been an "open" system since the late 70's. Tablets etc (palmtops!) started appearing in the 90's, and were walled gardens from the get go.
EU roaming ban problem, so predictible
It would be more interesting to apply it selectively to LINQ on hot code paths and keep LINQ's readability where performance and allocations are not a concern
How is Bootstrap not quick? They have sample code for basically every possible scenario out there.

I'm basically a novice programmer and I've built web apps with it and Web2py within an hour or two.
The phone is generally a lot louder, and filled with a lot more "SORRY I MISSED THAT, I'M GOING THROUGH A TUNNEL".
Really waiting for the day where Google will accidentally release a new messaging app called Google Hangouts or some other name that they already use, because there are just so many it's impossible to keep track.
I'm in roughly the same position, and the absolutely frustrating thing is that they had (on gchat) the largest chat network at precisely the point where chat-over-IP started to skyrocket in usage. But then Google spent a year (apparently) willfully chasing away users from their communications products through obscenely incompetent product decisions over the next decade.

I spent almost half a decade at Google, and I _know_ that their product people are fairly competent, but the company is so badly run on the product side (in terms of incentives, etc) that product at Google has the emergent property of being extremely, extremely bad at what they do.
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I think Whatsapp backs up its chat history to Google Drive / iCloud.

For contacts it just uses the system address book.
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When was it okay to prevent me to do what I want to something I own ? Absolutely never ever. Region locking of DVDs, DRMs of all sorts, smartphones locking are plain, shameless abuse.

It's however particularly unacceptable to lock down what used to be open.
It is not OK in any of those cases. The widespread practice just makes it easy to rationalize "but we are not the only vendor who does this."
What's your point? I already know that there are a lot competition in this space.
It's part of the PC culture, and the Thinkpad/Lenovo heritage as ideal Linux laptops. But you're right, it's no different from what Apple/LG/Samsung/etc. do.
In the article:

> We take all the destinations that have an odd number of connections in this tree (Euler proved there must be an even number of these), and carefully pair them up. Because all the destinations now have an even number of edges, we’ve created an Eulerian graph, so we create a route that crosses each edge exactly once.
We are not biological computers.
So your problem is with "loud conversations", but you decided to use the very fuzzy proxy of "phone conversations" because........?
I'm pretty sure that there's no Cool Tech in the valley anyways
> Google Allo makes it easier for you to respond quickly and keep the conversation going, even when you’re on the go. With Smart Reply, you can respond to messages with just a tap, so you can send a quick “yup” in response to a friend asking “Are you on your way?” Smart Reply will also suggest responses for photos. If your friend sends you a photo of their pet, you might see Smart Reply suggestions like “aww cute!” And whether you’re a “haha” or “” kind of person, Smart Reply will improve over time and adjust to your style.

So for Google instead of snowflakes we are glorified chat bots?
I like it. I hope one day it can imitate me so well I can delegate all my chats to it. It will be like a mini-me!

> Have some fun. Ask your Assistant to share that funny YouTube video or play games with friends right in your group chat — for instance you can compete to guess a movie title based on a series of emojis.

Oh great, now I have a tireless assistant to help me spam my friends and make them procrastinate!
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I believe you don't need to be able to read/write to the hard drive when boot a linux installer (aka live CD).
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Calling Google a clusterfuck of a company is appalling. They would not do this without a strategic thought. Even Facebook has Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp and FB itself. All doing pretty well.
TVs, mobile phones and consoles didn't start their journeys are portable and free to modify devices as PCs did.
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Haven't you heard? It's now a popular trend, to claim that you do things differently just to be different, even though it doesn't make logical sense, and takes a lot of work. We call it the hipster hunger games.
A.k.a. "Screw to win" - his other books were titled "Engineer to win", "Drive to win", "Tune to win", etc.
I believe he exercises daily, not constantly. And what do we know about his eating habits? That 7 almond story isn't true.
If this happens as a step during each compilation then you probably do keep readability of the input source code.
I've recently actually done the latter, and gone back to SICP. Alas, it shows its age badly: it's too untyped for my tastes these days.

Yes, you can emulate dynamic typing in statically typed languages---but why would you want to if the static type system is expressive enough? (I can see how in Java dynamic typing might be the smaller hassle.)