skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, usually I hear this line of reasoning from people in other engineering fields who, in my opinion, are just being babies about the fact that software is so accessible and there are brilliant people doing great work who nonetheless didn't go to university. It is really surprising to hear this come from someone who is actually a developer themselves.
Strongly agree. It's still unsurpassed. And it worked well on systems with 64mb of RAM (maybe even less) without stomping all over the rest of the programs you were running. Seems like no-one can even "Hello World" a desktop app these days without a 100mb download and requiring several hundred MB of memory all to itself.
Well, the minuscule group they just shat on is the same group of people who make purchasing decisions and recommendations for a ton of consumers. Even if someone doesn't run Linux, laptops that support it have often proven to be more reliable and have a higher resell value.

For everyone asking me what laptop they should buy, I'll be sure to let them know how disorganized and confused Lenovo support tends to be.
As I said, it doesn't happen to everyone, it doesn't happen to most. But is does happen. Here is someone who it happened to in Cleveland: http://www.ideastream.org/news/be-well-why-do-babies-die-in-... . Note, not on drugs, not high, not drunk, doing the "right things." Had researched co-sleeping safely etc... I head her talk on the radio about it. The cause of death was determined to be her breathing on her child's face while they were both asleep. This just isn't the kind of risk I would be willing to take.
Glad to see Catalyze continuing to push forward. Congratulations.
Wait, does RAID actually save power over AHCI (single-drive RAID)? If so, how?

For one thing, no benchmarks I've seen of nvme SSD has shown them to be significantly faster if the BIOS is set to RAID, but I've not heard any thing for or against the power savings benefits of it.
But the idea that a random customer service rep. would have information about something that was not a public position of either Lenovo or Microsoft, to me, seemed unlikely.
How do you mean G+ has emptied out? Honestly curious as I've been keeping tabs on the whole dynamic of the site -- from initial high hopes to present near-complete disillusionment.
Their spin that it is "our super advanced Intel RAID chipset" really plays in their favor, given that their BIOS uses a single goto statement to intentionally block access to the ability to set this chipset into the AHCI compatible mode that the hardware so readily supports, as evidenced by the REing work and the fact that other OSes detect the drive after the AHCI fix using the custom-flashed BIOS.

So, why are they reluctant to just issue their band-aid patch to the BIOS -- after all, it's really the path of least resistance here?

Yes, there has been some deflection of blame here. The argument that every single OS except Windows 10 is at fault for not supporting this CRAZY new super advanced hardware doesn't make much sense.

"Linux (and all other operating systems) don't support X on Z because of Y" doesn't really apply when "Z modified Y in a way that does not allow support for X."

To state it more plainly, this "CRAZY new super advanced hardware" has a trivial backwards compatible mode that works with everything just fine, but it is blocked by Lenovo's BIOS.
> Nobody ever outsources Profit Centers.

The ironic part is that for every engineer being outsourced there's a new project manager being hired. And managers aren't any profit centers either. So why is this then?
It still does not work out. I am working at a major cancer center with 2.*00 employees incl. 1200 scientists. We have a budget of ~250 million. So you could pay for this centre for 15 years with Zucks money. Hardly enough time to treat all diseases or even "just" cancer, and I can assure you, we are not slacking off.
I was reading a book a couple weeks ago and there was a throwaway line that really stuck out to me. I think it was a David Foster Wallace book

It was something like all the great themes are taken. We've taken all the great themes and adventures and created theme parks where you can go to experience a fantasy yet know this isn't real. You know it's not authentic.

I'm butchering the meaning of it, wish I could figure out where I read it

Edit: I found it! apparently, it's from a 1990 movie I've never seen nor heard of, which doesn't sound right. I'm like 80% sure I read it in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

"You see, there's nothing to do anymore. Everything decent's been done. All the great themes have been used up. Turned into theme parks. So I don't really find it exactly cheerful to be living in the middle of a totally, like, exhausted decade where there's nothing to look forward to and no one to look up to."
Whenever you enter the username of a user with a website, the website link links to namial.us instead of the user's actual website.
Just responding to this dreary trope: if you don't pay taxes, under ordinary circumstances, you won't be imprisoned. Your paycheck will be likely garnished or some of your assets taken to cover your tax debt. For tax evasion to enter the realm of "now you're going to jail" (like Wesley Snipes) you've got to do a lot more than simply fail to write the gubmint a check.
Minor gripe: that's the time it takes you to read both the introduction, think about the context and judge the comment. Presumably, one would save a few seconds (and thus a lot of time in the long run) by being aware of the context and the article while working.

Still: major amounts of work. Though I presume that having comments hidden by default would take off some pressure: commenters won't know/notice their comments takes 14:55 or 13:29 to show up publicly.
Relatedly, I wrote this to automatically rewrite rails controllers that wanted to implement strong params

http://ruru.name/entries/upgrading-rails-to-use-strong-param...

not "smart" but worked well enough for me
To be fair, signing an agreement like that wouldn't look good for Lenovo too. Considering Microsoft's history, it's also not that outlandish.
that's a view, but did anyone actually ask Lenovo for official comment before posting the story as gospel truth? From what I've read, I saw no evidence that they had. I'd just suggesting a slightly more measured approach might have worked just as well....
On the other hand, most "support small business" proposals boil down to "make someone else pay to keep this person in business". It's worth asking some tough questions about which businesses generate enough value to be worth making others pay to keep them afloat.
My thoughts exactly. Also, why did they do it? Don't we have enough messenging apps already?
Well, my impression was obviously wrong, but I learned something, which is cool!
Sure it does: http://main.abet.org/aps/AccreditedProgramsDetails.aspx?Orga...
Maybe it varies for people, but I've usually seen a good friend step in, rent out a spot at a park, get some tablecloths and balloons and things to snack on. They're also starting to be more co-ed, too. If you go all out, maybe $100-$200.
I've done the startup thing. I've done the corporate LOB thing. They both can be great, they both can suck. Frankly, it mostly depends on your boss.

But the point of the article is to not pigeonhole yourself. Don't be that guy who wrote that library, or the guy who maintains that app. Be the guy who brings value to the business. Be the guy who is considered an asset no matter what role they have, because you are working towards the goals of the business. Be the guy who knows when to say, "Yes, I can code that, but we can buy it just as cheaply, and let me focus on more important details of our business."
Maybe something's wrong with me, but I have to wash my hands for at least 20 seconds just to feel the soap residue wash away. If I don't, my hands have a filmy feeling afterwards.

I think it depends a lot on the water hardness from the sink you use, as well.
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You make valid points. But I'll still make a feeble attempt to defend Facebook.

Speaking for myself, I've had some interesting and fun conversations on Facebook and even met new people that became friends in real life. I don't pay much attention to the check out how wonderful my life is posts and more attention to something that seems more genuine, is interesting, or the basis for some banter. I actually enjoy seeing pictures of people's families and they seem to enjoy when I post pictures of my son but I don't do that very often.

I've already accounted for the positive bias on Facebook so it does not affect my view of the world. I'd imagine most people who've survived on Facebook this long have done the same, not to mention I think the nature of posts has gotten beyond the burnishing one's image to more balanced life challenges sort of posts. I'm talking about my feed so others might not be seeing this trend but it's possible a lot of people have said fuck it I'm going to tell the truth on here.

I am friends on Facebook with close friends and family but yes a lot of my "friends" are a hodgepodge of people I met once, met online somehow, and some I don't even remember where they came from. So the net result is a sort of fantasy community. I'm not sure there's anything wrong with a fantasy community though as I experience it as real. I'm not sure if that's a contradiction but I'd better get off HN for the rest of the day as this is topic is consuming. :-)
> Related, it appears school supplies are not only ineffective against bacteria that cause diarrhea, pneumonia, and impetigo, but may cause these ailments.

Obviously we need to reduce the amount of school supplies these children are exposed to. I suggest we force them to replace everything with tablets. That will undoubtedly solve this problem once and for all. Anyone that objects to this just doesn't care about child health in developing countries. /s

It's actually kind of depressing to write that, and realize the sarcasm marker is desperately needed not just because Poe's law, but because it's all too plausible to think this might be a common conclusion. :/
> The fact is that property does not enjoy the benefit of government-provided services. People do.

The cost of building a road to a given property, building infrastructure for electrical and sewage services, etc., is not dependent on the number of people living in the property, nor on their incomes. It is dependent on the location and size of the property itself.
That was part of my reasoning. Installing Windows is a huge pain in the ass compared to installing Linux. If you need a service pack you have to go to their website, the download links are always difficult to find and buried under walls of text that nobody cares to read. And there's always a chance that the download link simply won't work for some stupid bureaucratic reason, such as "Use Windows Update". And if Windows Update fails, you're really SOL.

In Linux, if you're missing something it's a simple matter of "apt-get install something" and it almost always works. The rate of failure for Windows updates and installing proper drivers and software in windows is much higher.

And Linux is far more likely to work out of the box on most hardware. Windows installs never have more drivers available than what ships on the CD/DVD. With Linux Net Installs, as long as your Ethernet is supported, and it probably is supported, the rest of the system will be up-to-date.

I have recently installed Windows 7, Windows 10, and Linux, I've used each for a number of months. Linux was the easiest and friendliest. I've been using Windows for years so I'm not a newbie, it's a terrible operating system.
Since when is it firmware's business to care about dumb users well-being and, more specifically, to disallow switching perfectly capable storage controller into standard AHCI mode?
> If technology is hurting your life, the problem could just as easily be with you as it is with technology.

In large part, that's what the author is saying: "And I realize that this is, in some ways, just another tale in the vast book of human frailty."

Humans are weak in the face of what we've built, some (the author) more than others (you). That doesn't mean it's a problem for everyone, but it's definitely a problem for some.

And to use your comparison to alcohol: humanity has millenia of experience with the consumption and overconsumption of alcohol. We basically know the risks. "The Stream" has only existed for something like a decade and it's only getting stronger every day. IMO there's nothing wrong with being very cautious about it and quickly reacting to ill effects.

I wouldn't say I'm addicted and I have nothing close to this author's problem, but I do find "The Stream" lowering my quality of life, so I'm working on moving away from it.

Also, another quote from the author since you seem to be very upset with him over a bit of a strawman that you set up:

"...it reveals, perhaps, that we are not completely helpless in this newly distracted era."
The initial example seems broken. In Safari, it looks like

3³ + 4⁴ + 3³ + 5⁵ = 343533+44+33+55=3435

This is apparently because it shows the same example in two different ways in the HTML, the first using MathML (which renders the superscripts), and the second using straight HTML (which doesn't handle the superscripts properly).

In Chrome it's broken a bit differently. Here it render as

\displaystyle 3^3 + 4^4 + 3^3 + 5^5 = 343533+44+33+55=3435

This is similar to the Safari version except Chrome apparently doesn't support MathML so it renders the annotation instead (\displaystyle 3^3 + …)
They do have false positives. Quite a bit. They just fool themselves into thinking they minimize false positives by their hiring process.
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I see this train of thought in Apple-centric forums like MacRumors and here on HN. The typical "I can't believe Apple is doing X!" or the "Why hasn't Apple upgraded X yet, Apple is dead! I'm moving to X company now".

I work in IT. I see and use many different laptops all the time. These people really don't get how bad a lot of the other options are, even when they look great on the companies marketing page.

The reality is that innovation in laptops died when the tablet and phone boom took the market by storm. Apple hasn't been innovating with the Mac, but neither has anyone else. Any new MacBook Pro will be just another step above the already steaming pile of trash that the majority of "PC" laptops are.
Silly question, but is that nested illustration an accurate representation?
Isn't that what epigenetics and methylation-tagging is for? Keep the code for the protein in the genome, but don't express it until some biochemical condition is met.

Copying long chains of barely-used DNA is relatively cheap for higher-order multicellular organisms with intergenerational intervals spanning 25 years instead of 12 hours.

Bacteria are better poised to re-evolve the capability when necessary, but if your species only expects ten thousand generations between solar or geomagnetic events, keeping that anti-radiation gene around for 250 kiloyears makes more sense. Of course, during that time, it may get damaged by mutation and not be repaired by sexual reproduction, but you only need one male with a functional antiradiation gene and enough females to not die before reproducing, and you can repopulate the species within 10 generations of a radiation crisis, instead of spending 100k generations reinventing radiation resistance.
Complexity as defined as the number of discrete components, sure. Complexity as measured as engineering man-hours, I'm not so sure.

The time that body engineers spend on FEA, CFD, tooling & welding design, paint & trim, finishing...even without a new engine and transmission, there's reasons why a new vehicle is a ten-figure outlay.
I wonder if their rationale is that a negative comment is more insulting and less constructive if it has a more specific target. E.g., there are fewer Saudis than women. That seems a bit backward to me, though.
There was a scare a few years ago because Grapefruit Seed Extract was found to be contaminated from some suppliers. But Waterwipes in particular was never impacted, and tested their Grapefruit and found it pure.

As far as I know the only downside/limitation of Waterwipes is that they only last about a month after being opened. That's because mold can grow on them since the Grapefruit is only mildly fighting bacterial growth.

We've never had it be a problem but are also using them regularly. And as I said, they helped reduce diaper rash to almost being a non-issue.

PS - The irony is that Grapefruit Seed Extract was being contaminated with compounds which other wipes contain by design, like Triclosan and Benzethonium Chloride. So people switched away from Waterwipes (because it MIGHT be contaminated) into using a product which is designed with that "contamination." Irony of ironies.
Is this a variant of Spolsky's line that no good programmer should ever have to look for work; if you are good, work should just fall into your lap? Because it's horseshit.
Today’s college students have diverse needs
TBF, the difference is that the comment about women didn't call for sterilizing all of them, which NYT pointed out as the reason for rejecting the Saudi Arabia comment.
I rather wonder why those philanthropists think they are the best to decide what to do with the money? If I understand it correnctly, neither Zuckerberg nor Gates have given up much control over their money, they just cannot use it anymore for themself.
You just have no idea how logic works, If you dissent against people who think they are dissenting against a idea, then what you are actually doing is agreeing to whatever those people were desenting against in the first place.

Its double negation law in action.
So you cannot really dissent against a dissentor without very clearly sitting in the middle and stating so.
I don't think dice are a good analogy since previous jobs affect the ability to get better subsequent ones. Yes, names on a resume and knowing the right people are important.
As I noted in another comment, a "proper PE type thing" exists for Software Engineering. In fact, it's an actual PE exam since 2013. It's probably higher level than you had in mind though, if you were expecting a focus more on algorithms than software lifecycle?

Software engineering topics:

http://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SWE-Apr-2013.pdf

Electrical Engineering -> Computer Engineering topics:

http://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PE-Ele-Computer-...
> I'd be interested to hear everyone's strategies to combat this

For me, it's all about latency: I try to introduce a barrier for being able to access typical time-wasting sites. If there was a way on OS X to reduce browsing certain websites to pre-broadband speeds, I'd be all on that.

> For personal things, I deleted Facebook and feel quite a bit better.

I did this too. So glad, don't miss it at all, and actually feel like I talk to my friends more now as a result.

I'm still on the fence about contributing to a community like HN (anyone looking at my profile will see a big gap of about a year). It's a nice community with useful discussions, but I'm not sure it positives outweigh the negatives for me (distraction).

I also try to get my news via newsletter now, e.g. I get the top HN articles emailed to me rather than checking the website manually. That way I get to stay up-to-date without that 'slot machine' effect of just refreshing the front page when I'm taking a break.

Overall, I strongly believe the Internet is addictive. I'm glad it exists. It's enriched my life in many ways. But the addictiveness is certainly real, and it's something I'm trying to actively address in myself.
Just to be more clear, because it's the fourth similar post of the OP.

From the FAQ (linked in the previous comment):

> A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there. (But only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.)

I. E. If you post outside the official post like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12405698 (521 points, by whoishiring, 20 days ago, 927 comments) then your post will be killed and nobody will see it.
You misread it. RAID forces the use of the Intel driver vs the Microsoft one. The Intel provided driver enables power saving.

So it's not the RAID that saves power, it's the [use of the] driver.
Fair point that.
As a student doing his graduation internship in a large corporation, I'm starting to see these things in real life.
Is this going to be anywhere close to the norm? I'm starting to consider a nomadic lifestyle.
Selective memory is disregarding all other areas where MS is actually encouring or trying to make their products work on Linux. The future of Microsoft is not Windows. I am also not disregarding the fact that I might be wrong, but as a Windows and Linux user, it seems strange to possibly alienate potential users with a Linux blocking move.
So why i can't install Ubuntu on my Lenovo laptop?
Yes it does. As a business owner, more taxes means less money for employees (and less employees hired).

People that don't understand taxes never consider this and immediately think employers are just greedy.

Inflation is also never considered, which is exactly why we have to keep raising minimum wage in the first place.

Minimum wage increase will not help anyone in the long-run. It will only inflate the cost of goods and services for everyone within a few years.

The real answer is more education
Pokemon GO Trading details discovered in a recent code dump
Ok. Reprehensible.
... they are still redeeming things to do, but yeah, ideally you'd skip the scamming part. The Rockefellers made their money flatout on scams, but their name is fairly redeemed at this point.
What do you mean by "don't look for a job"? What specific action or attitude are you suggesting is superior?
That's a view, but realistically Microsoft's Anti-Trust lawsuit days are now long ago, far further than say... Google's (http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/20/technology/google-android-la...)

Realistically all corporates are out there to make money, this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

that said I don't think witch-hunts with inadequate factual backing help anyone. This would appear to be one of those cases. A single customer support rep. makes a statement and it hits the front of /r/linux and HN without anyone actually checking with the companies in question.

Not everything is a conspiracy theory....
Wasn't Lenovo the company that shipped unremovable malware with laptops? Considering the almost impossible to disable Intel management stuff is also there, I can only imagine the kind of parasite living on these machines.

Why would anyone buy their stuff?
"This guy" is relatively known for hacking on Linux laptop drivers and a long relationship with Intel hardware and power management in particular, so I'll stop short of appealing to authority and just say I value his speculation even if it is that. (Which I don't think it is.)
And who is more qualified?
It's really awful that the top comment has nothing to do with the piece linked here.
Users don't have any other channel to ask Lenovo besides the forums and (apparently more effectively) leaving poor reviews on Best Buy and Amazon.
Why does some random organization get to decide whether or not people are a thing? It'd be one thing if it was the government, but this is like saying that no one can be a "soccer player" unless the USSF says so.
Fourier Transform tutorial
I would put it the other way: PEs and FEs are wildly underpaid for their abilities.

They are paid at the market price for the low job-growth market they're in, unfortunately. It's the same story with mathematicians and physicists who become finance quants. The finance world pays much better.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/lenovo-denies-deliberate...

official comment from Lenovo denying it.
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What about chromebrew [0] (homebrew for chrome os)?

[0]: https://github.com/skycocker/chromebrew