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Your options are pretty much limited to Ubuntu distros unless you don't mind spending hours configuring firmware. MY personal favorite is Lubuntu. It's a really slimmed down minimal distro with LXDE., Super memory/cpu efficient.
Windows has a standard logging infrastructure across all apps, ETW, which can also be used for telemetry.
Studio art major here. I was a full-time oil painter for five years. My art created the economic conditions for me to need to find actual work, just in time to miss the original dot-com bubble.
Could you give me some reading to do? I had never heard of this before.
True. But I know of couple of examples where they found enough incentive to stay for years - be it good pay (even programmers are humans), pet projects, sense of loyalty, fear of change or any combination of those.
Yeah, that's what I don't get about posts like this. You can either be indifferent with (legal) telemetry collection in which case you don't need posts like this or you are not comfortable with the idea in which case you shouldn't be using windows to begin with.

You can go through all the hops, run every script out there and Microsoft can push a new update tomorrow that will put you back on square one. So why even bother when you can't ever be really sure you achieved what you wanted and for how long.
I don't understand the obsession with finding the perfect news source, the one source of truth, devoid of any bias. It will never happen.

During the election, I would go back and forth between super left wing and super right wing news sources. I found that was the best way to filter out the bullshit.

This is the only way to read the news. By reading many different sources of news, each with their own wild biases, you can triangulate the actual facts.

We should just be grateful that in the modern world we have access to so many different sources, instead of just a few.
I like Safari on Macs and iOS and Chrome on everything else. I would like to use Edge on my Surface for lower power drain, but it's still a bit too buggy and doesn't offer me anything compelling over Chrome.
Yes. Many worlds is the single obvious solution. It seems some people don't understand many worlds though. Or maybe there is some other definition I am not aware. I want to describe my understanding here for people's benefit.

The idea is that when you make an observation nothing special happens at all. For one, there is no wave function collapse. This is more an idea about how the observer experiences making a measurement. The salient feature is that the observer is not external to the system. He is a part of the system. His belief that the result was heads or tails is coincident in the wave function with the coin being heads or tails. In other words, the user becomes entangled with the system.

A toy wave function would look like this (I am leaving off normalization since I can't write a square root of 2):

Coin flip result, no observer:
|heads> + |tails>

Coin flip with observer, "Tom":
|heads>|Tom: it was heads> + |tails>|Tom: it was tails>

There is no collapse here. However, to Tom it appears as if the world did collapse. For the "version" of him that thinks the coin flip came up heads, his entire world is consistent with the measurement coming up heads.

I assumed most people who really understand quantum mechanics believe this (but I may be wrong). And that among them, there is no effort to say "There is no collapse" because indeed the effective result of the measurement is a collapse. I also use the language "wave function collapse" to describe what happens. This not because it is an objective reality of the universe but because it is the way we observe the universe.
Hey man this is awesome! Thanks so much for this.
The highest power to dollar ratio is got by building a bike. Pre-made bikes as very expensive right now as you point out. If you just want to try one out, go to a bike shop and test drive one. If you want one for yourself and you want it to be fast or go long then I would suggest building a battery pack with headway lithium iron phosphate cells, a lyen high power controller and a solid hub motor, maybe a crystalite. Endless sphere has endless documentation on how to do it. I don't know what your background is so there may be a learning curve, but I can say that you should learn that stuff if you want to get into ebikes anyway. Unless you want to wait 5 years for prices to fall.
it's not that hard if you know a thing or two about color and composition. that being said, some of these are not very good art imo
Harvard isn't a good example, they offer tremendous financial aid. If your household income is less than $65,000 (which could count as lower middle class), you pay nothing. By their figures 90% of households in America would pay less for Harvard than for a state school. [0]

There are many private colleges with a higher "sticker price" than Harvard but with a much lower discount rate (i.e. what the average student pays is much closer to that sticker price).

[0] https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works/cost...
To answer your question about Software companies, the main process that will be automated is software development. AI is coming and engineers will be leaving.
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It can be turned off. Not in Windows, only toned down a bit.
On one hand, I hear breathless reassurances from people like Frank Bruni (also at the Times) that "school doesn't matter" and "college is what you make it". At the same time, we get articles like these.

Now, as someone pursuing CS at a second or maybe even third tier institution - which is it?
Doesnt seem like it.
His credibility and views are going up like crazy with non establishment democrats and republicans.

If I had to guess, Id say we are still in the process of a new alignment.
I don't recommend anyone to use all the script. Dial telemetry down to Basic and then disable Cortana.
They care a shit ton about preserving your privacy despite the insane amount of info they collect. That said, if you're concerned about this, use Chromium (which has that shit turned off) and a ad/tracker blocking VPN service like Disconnect.me or PIA with MACE
Why do you trust snopes for political fact checking?
Seconded Lubuntu is a great linux distro for your battery. The one thing that annoyed me a bit, when I used to use it, was the keybindings was not in the settings, and you had to go to some file and add them. Not sure if it is still this way, as that was 3+ years ago.
Which telemetry on macOS is not opt-in?

Looking at this script there are seems like many more vectors on Windows then macOS and Ubuntu.
A while back, the Economist said, "a dumb rich kid has a much better chance at attending an elite school than a brilliant poor kid." If a university is to maintain the goal of admitting smart students, then this would be a step toward that.
Ubuntu is a good option. It is easy and things work. I've run virtualization of other Linux distros on it fine. The documentation and message boards are robust. The desktop bug reporting system has a lot of traffic (although it is not necessarily better).

If you need the very latest packages (although Ubuntu has PPA), or are developing for Linux itself, or want to know whether system components are all FLOSS, another distro might be better. For ease of setup and maintenance and stability, Ubuntu is good.
Ubuntu is not the only Linux distribution. Slackware is great if you want an OS that literally only does what you tell it to. Ditto OpenBSD if you're even more paranoid about telemetry.

Granted, they aren't for beginners, but that's the sliding scale in action.
I'd like PowerShell more if it wasn't MixedCase.
Russia has elections, and while there was some evidence of voting irregularities in the last one, the main problem is the lack of exposure to competitor politicians.
Razer’s Project Valerie Is an Insane Laptop with 3 Screens
Yep. I have a Surface Book as well. I am reversed from your usage pattern though, I work out of my home most of the time... due to that I use a nice beefy workstation day-to-day... so I use the Surface Book more as a tablet and am happy to do so. I notice my wife who only has the surface book is about 50/50. She'll use the screen portion in portrait mode as a tablet for reading in whatever room we're in, but otherwise uses it as a laptop for basic work.

The only thing I miss (which my first tablet, the Xoom, had) is mobile data support. Yeah I could probably buy an addon device for that, but I think that would be self-defeating for tablet use.

Anyway, Surface Book is a fine 2-in-1 and demonstrates that proper engineering can make the format work.
Yes, I am slightly horrified that AI is supposed to integrate this basic kind of logical flaw, which gives human societies so much trouble.

It would be OK to deduce that the expected answer is white or something like that (taking human unreasonableness into account).
Chrome is much better about power consumption since v50 or so
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We're probably going to see more of this as countries try and assert their sovereignty and laws in a post Brexit world.
Ctrl-arrow jumps over words, like Alt-f/w.

Ctrl-pgup/pgdown jumps to top/bottom of the current screen in mcedit without moving it.

Shift-arrow selects text as cursor moves, ctrl-shift-arrow jumps over word and selects it in mceditor in mc.

Shift-del (cut), ctrl-ins (copy), and shift-ins (paste) are parts of IBM CUA guidelines since 1988. Only shift-ins is necessary to implement, because mouse selection is automatic (no need for ctrl-ins) and shift-del (cut) has no sense. Unlike ctrl-shift-v, shift-ins is pasting mouse (selection) buffer. I.e. I can select a text with mouse in Firefox and then immediately insert it with shift-ins (or middle mouse button or shift-middle if mouse is overriden by an application) in terminal.

Middle mouse button pastes mouse buffer. Shift-mouse click works when terminal program overrides mouse behavior. mc and mcedit are examples.

All these combinations are working properly in gnome-terminal and mate-terminal. Some of them are working in rxvt too.

Ctrl-arrow and ctrl-shift-arrow are huge performance boosts.
>Glass will happily absorb infrared and reradiate it outside.

And some fraction will also radiate inward, so overall the total radiant heat flux is lower. This is the aptly named "greenhouse effect."
The low level of telemetry you're talking about is only available in Windows 10 Enterprise (good luck finding it) or Server editions, you need to set a GPO to get it.
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Here are some from the mainstream media. They're not the sort of articles that are being complained about, though.

Fake news: http://web.archive.org/web/20070220194853/http://www.timeson...

Debunked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_alleged_shr...

Fake news: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3664181/JK-Rowling-j...

Debunked: https://skwawkbox.org/2016/07/27/exclusive-interview-with-th...

Fake news: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3686082/Hours-challe...

Debunked: http://www.rationalskepticism.org/news-politics/uk-labour-pa...

Fake news: http://news.sky.com/story/corbyn-heckled-over-eu-vote-its-yo...

Debunked: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/06/news-agenda-...
> Are we in a time machine?

No, we're in the midst of a marketing push by Microsoft after a relatively weak Apple year. All tech product news is fake news.
My linux install does not have "telemetry" (which is really just a polite word for what people used to call "spyware").
Because an AI would be created by humans, and would therefore be modeled after human intelligence.

An alien AI, on the other hand, would most likely be incomprehensible to us, at least until we understood the aliens that created it.
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Oh is this 242-FZ? If so, that ate up like most of my Q3 2015.

My cynical reading of the law was that it was aimed more at having data physically on hand if it needs to be subpoenaed. But IANAL, so maybe I'm just being too cynical. Also what I did or didn't think of the law doesn't matter really, since higher ups decided what was to be done about the law, and I just implemented it.
+1 for Fedora (KDE spin) as well, only distro I've ever found to reliably work on laptop hardware consistently.

It's very actively developed though so sometimes kernel upgrades break propriety drivers, but that is extremely infrequent and is easy to fix.
If your family makes $100k, they'll pay, at most, $10k/year. That's about the average for in-state tuition so hardly what I'd call getting hosed.

Again, Harvard is not representative of all top private schools or event all Ivy League schools when it comes to cost of attendance.
> What's broken about namespaces?

The difficulty I have with them is they are open, not closed. Any piece of code can crack open a namespace and insert more names into it. Thus, you can have problems with "hijacking", where foo(int) is inserted, while unknown to you someone else inserted foo(unsigned) that does something completely different, and the compiler decides the latter is a better overload match.

Complicating things further, the names visible in a namespace are dependent on where the compiler is lexically in the code - more names can be inserted further down.

As a counterpoint, many have suggested to me that this openness is a critical capability they need for their code. My answer is that using namespaces in that manner offers little improvement over just using a prefix on the identifiers.

And so the debate goes on!
That's the sci-fi terminology and view that complicates and confuses the issue. Can reactions happen faster or slower, yes. No need to say "travel", that word has distinct meaning and connotations that lead to incorrect possibilities.
- According to your behaviours on lunch: There are small foodtrucks there who sell food like sandwiched, fries, noodles, etc. Mostly fast food related things. If you a more used to salad and eat in a calm location, go outside (you have to leave the campus for this)

I've attended the past two editions, and this was the only thing I disliked. The first year was OK-ish, though the food is not great even for fast good, but last year was pretty crappy, waiting in the rain in long lines.

As an alternative, I recommend a shop nearby[1] which makes decent sandwiches, and as a bonus it's located right by a beer shop with a wide selection.

[1] https://www.google.pt/maps/@50.81787,4.3799702,3a,90y,225.61...
I am not an expert, but

#1. You are average of 5 peers you hang out with (a good thumb rule).

#2. There is a huge valley between Software Engineering vs Computer Science (what is your goal here.)

For #1. meet-ups and getting programmer mentor is good idea.

If you really want to do pure CS, there is no alternative to college, but for Software Gig, a good programmer mentor gives better direction than College/University.

edit: this advice is primarily for second/third tier universities or comparing with them.
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Thanks! Unfortunately I use zsh, and from a quick Google, it looks like it doesn't use inputrc.
Rather than continuing to struggle against these features which will continue to be added, why not use an operating system that respects your freedom?
Ask HN: Why do no current Type 2 Hypervisors support DirectX 11 or higher?
I was curious as to the technical reason why no current Type 2 Hypervisor can support a version of DirectX version higher than 10?

Sure, I could use Linux + KVM or Hyper-V on Windows 10, but those can get messy and don’t have quite the ease of use of a program like VirtualBox or VMware Workstation.
Play competitive tennis :') It'd be a miserable paying job at my level, but the most satisfying life I could live.
"Everything just works" should be interpreted as an asynchronous piece of code, because there are no guarantees that everything will work "today".
None is disputing that every country can pass whatever laws now having companies care about operating in a given country is very influenced by the GDP and the local laws.
I wanted to switch from markdown to org-mode since it has great tool support ;) but maybe asiidoc is a better choice?
> to suggest someone would use it to build theme parks is downright retarded

What's the current primary use for machine learning? Determining consumer behavior? Guessing at which ads to display?
What do you try to imply or ask readers to imagine?

Are you suggesting Runssian govt is naturally bad and an agency contracted with them are inherently bad? Or something else?
Doubtful. Unlawful presence is a civil offense and there are no actual criminal proceedings for deportation. In fact you could be accused of unlawful presence without sixth amendment protections.
That's your opinion. My opinion is that Greenwald is one of the most important journalists alive today. It feels like there is mass disillusionment with institutions of all kinds, from both conservatives and liberals, and especially among millennials. The more people learn to think critically and independently for themselves, the better off the world will be.
It used to be tech was all about skill and nothing else mattered. Netscape, Microsoft, etc had lots of people with zero university - you just had to be able to code.

But something has changed since then. Now the big companies primarily hire from "target" schools - much like how finance does it.

Skill is still heavily in demand and a non top tier school isn't a deal breaker. But your working up hill.
The wave function collapse and "spooky action at distance" for entangled particles are somewhat different concepts. The collapse idea arises as a part of Copenhagen interpretation, which states that particle always exists in a superposition state (aka wave function of probabilities). So when audience asks, "well why is it that my measurement device showing particle exists/doesn't exist in one place"? The interpretation then says, "That, my dear fried, is because the wave function collapsed to a single state just when you did the measurement". People have been trying to explain and figure out what/why/when this collapse occurs to make sense of Copenhagen interpretation.
People are always saying that humans can't be evolving because 'evolution doesn't work that fast'; by the same token, plants/animals can't be evolving that fast either because their generation times typically aren't more than a factor faster (and sometimes can be slower - think trees). So for me the interest is definitely, if all these plants and animals are so visibly evolving for urban environments which have only become predominant very recently even by human standards, how have humans been affected? We already know that humans have evolved smoke-tolerance to cope with the health effects of fire, but what else for cities? More intelligence, extraversion, parasite resistance?
Math is super interesting. The reason why most people don't like it and/or think it's hard is because they did not have a great teacher. Once you understand the notation and grasp the basics it's awesome.

So, it's more the language of math that makes it hard to understand than it is about the math itself.
Yes, but the post is about Windows 10, not Linux.
tbh I mainly use windows cus of the great selection of pirate software available for it :p

EDIT: ps. I know Linux has great, more or less equivalent, free or very cheap software available but I'm too lazy to learn that other software.

EDIT2: I think perhaps a lot of windows users might fall into my category.
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Spyware and telemetry are not the same. Do you really think they are exactly the same?
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PlayCode have fully support mobile devices. You can write code and see result.
Please try on your mobile. It's work? Easy to use?
Rotate phone to album mode for better experience (full keyboard more useful)
All fear the big bad Russian bear, and definitely don't look behind the curtain that stands behind the American eagle.
I will also deny that I helped the Russians.
Yeah that imo best. I do donate 10$ during every year upgrade.
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>Does someone know a service which texts me or sends a push notification?

Nagios, Pagerduty :)

You can find more resources here:

https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin
We shouldn't have to fight the OS, this is ridiculous.

Before moving definitively to Linux I'm considering installing a proxy on my router, bloc all ports except one and just redirect Firefox and a few apps that need connectivity to this port.

I'm not a network guy though, might be complicated.
I do laptop only since I live in a small space, but I appreciate the suggestion.
Bitcoin has a first-mover advantage. Aside from technical insufficiency (another topic) one might suppose that network effect will leave all the imitators in the dust.
But...
The idea of convertibility to Bitcoin provides some leverage, and the idea that you'll be supporting creators right to earn from their writing; is motivating.
So, maybe.
There's also the fact that enormous computer resources and energy aren't deliberately wasted creating new coin. That's green.
Letting just anybody create money out of thin air is the sort of thing that govts have traditionally resisted (unless they're the ones doing it with qualitative easing, etc.) Bitcoin got traction because there was no headquarters for a government to shut down, no central database to seize or destroy; will governments decide that they can't monopolize the currency business anymore and let this stuff thrive?
Art major, here, and I agree with these points. Critical thinking, communication, and creative problem solving are all very valuable skills to bring to a development team.

The 2+ years of art history is somewhat less helpful...
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> Juggling fire is audacious.

Is it? The article points out that juggling fire is no more dangerous than juggling pins. It only appears audacious to an ignorant audience.
If you think this guy is a dick you should see a couple of other mathematicians who have a bazillion things named after them (Euler, Gauss, Cauchy, etc)
A vast majority is Registry config values, could have avoided the powershell "version" here.
If isn't opensource You can't trust it.
I'd rather struggle with some Windows warts than reverse engineer my drivers.

I'm not the kind of guy who would found a Free Software Foundation because of some Xerox printer drivers.
I agree with you, that the experience a lot of times not as efficient and that its not for laptops. I had some weird problems on 2015 Macbook pro (max config.) where the linux is not able to shutdown the system, and the whole experience requires a lot of experimenting.

Apart from the above points that you mentioned its definitely not getting you the out-fo-box working functionality that windows gives. But i think i am willing to suffer that much to have a system with more control and an OS which doesn't installs random apps without my permission like Windows 10 does[1].

[1] http://winaero.com/blog/fix-windows-10-installs-apps-like-ca...
Unremoveable software that is using my computer in ways I don't want it used? Yeah, I'd call it the same thing.
Sure there is.

> There's no excuse for this happening -- AT&T announced the end of life of 2G four years ago in 2012. Now Muni claims that the shutdown took them by surprise and they are scrambling to replace all of the old 2G equipment

Typically, what that means is, pulled out of the ciphered jargon, "Relevant technical information was not adequately conveyed to the appropriate management in such a fashion as to outlast political appointment churn, thus, the current execs had no idea".

It's a two sided problem: well meaning and ignorant top levels and wellmeaning and poor communicating lower management.

The other analysis is that the current leadership was hung out on a limb to dry by the people who did know it was a problem, and the current leadership couldn't surface the relevant information. :-)