skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the problem with telemetry in general? For almost all of the important products I use I like to send usage info -- my expectation is that they're more likely to improve features that I use as a result.

And if you use a web app, e.g., Google Apps, they get all this data plus more (and completely not anonymized).
Will you consider it bad if it sends a crash of your executable with all debug info/source code in it to Microsoft? How about it you are developing a competing product to microsoft one?
Even nuclear tech was specially developed with government funding. P and GGP are arguing against the fantasy show because it doesn't behaving according to their own fantasy.

edit: In fact half the time tech moves in the opposite direction. Going onto the internet to argue that potentially civilization-changing technology won't be used largely for entertainment because it'll end up exclusively owned by government shows a profound lack of awareness.
I prefer just using the standard library with a muxer like gorilla/mux.
Ask HN: What are good resources for learning data modelling in cassandra?
I have started using cassandra for one of the projects I am working on and I did datastax course on data modeling. However in practice, there are several cases where I get stuck with what would be correct way to model data. To give example, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41025245/cassandra-update-value-in-one-of-the-clustering-column So I am searching for good sources to read more about data modeling and explore more real life examples. What are resources that you found useful?
The only places where it never shines through the whole winter are the poles (right?).
Doctors, data, and diseases: How AI is transforming health care
In this case, as I've documented, the way many modern religious studies people use the word is closely aligned with the etymology I gave. Whether that etymology is historically accurate has been disputed, but the fact that people use the word to mean basically the same thing as the purported etymology is not.
> but is it realistic to run 1M OS threads? It feels like the overhead per green thread is much lower

What kind of overhead do OS thread have that green thread doesn't ? I'm aware of the stack size, but is there something else ?

If the stack size is the only culprit here, what prevents the admin from manually setting a small stack size that will be enough for most operation (in practice, I don't know how useful the ability to grow dynamically the stack size in languages with green threads).

> An OS thread may be paused while holding a (vm internal) lock, but the vm scheduler would not preempt a green thread in the middle of doing something that requires a lock (ex: Delivering a message to another green thread)

That's an interesting point.
The Case of the ‘Missing Link’ Neutron Star
I did just that, cannot reproduce.

Did you actually try this or is this based on one of those articles about the open beta of Windows 10 that had a lot more telemetry you couldn't disable?
Debian and I'm surprised more people aren't saying so. Ubuntu or Mint, which are built on Debian do not add much value these days, IMO and Ubuntu's 6 month release cycle is intolerable. If you get behind with upgrades you are screwed.

Even after all these years it's hard to beat apt-get. I think a lot of people dismiss Debian as unmodern or some how less than the distros built on it but that's hardly the case. Debian "testing" has all the latest software and yet is still very stable. Many people are scared away by the "testing" release but this is what Ubuntu and Mint are based off of.

I find Arch, Gentoo and many others to be a lot of work. I don't have time to spend fiddling around with the OS.

Don't get me started on Fedora/CentOS/RedHat. yum/rpm is just horrible if you've used nearly anything else. I think the only reason this OS family is still alive is because RedHat managed to sell so many copies to big corps and universities. I think people still use it mainly because they were exposed to it at school or work and don't know any better.
Started with CS/Space Engineering then had an intermission with two art degrees in Bay Aera and NY and then started doing open hardware projects. Initially multitouch stuff around the time the iPhone came out, then an open source laser cutter, and more recently an adaptive oxygen system for pilots.

Occasionally I also do art projects with decent sales through a NY gallery.

I have always seen art as exploratory, a frontier where you push what is thinkable and communicable. An example would be the literary pioneers that preceded space exploration. In other words playtime to widen your perception before you narrow down on a problem and solve it.
yup
http://i.imgur.com/FXxoNpS.png
My Ubuntu install has telemetry. It also defaults to sending information to Amazon.
Cool!!!

Yeah I'm so glad there's someone doing what Hickman is doing. I hope and wish that programming education were dispersed into non-STEM programs.
Although I agree that the "out of the box" experience is still not great on linux, I would ague that it's much more competitive. Most things do work out of the box. And at the end of the day, I have full control of my machine, and the software is being pushed by a group of people who don't see me as "the product". I can't say that about Windows or Mac.
I seriously doubt that Windows 10 is doing anything so grave as to require you to run some arbitrary PowerShell script you found on the Internet with elevated privileges. If you do not understand every single command in this thing, you should avoid it, and if you understand every single command in this, you don't need it.
The only thing I didn't do is to block MS servers in System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file. This is useless in my opinion, MS can always change them or add new ones.
The point is, you shouldn't. He's generally pretty accurate though, because he actually investigates stories instead of just accepting them. And that's what you should do if you don't want to be caught out. Some stories are just urban myths (David Mikkelson's/Snopes's original focus), many are just press releases, some are planted by various PR outfits, others are planted by people with a particular agenda. Be skeptical, and investigate whenever you can.
Carrot and stick does work. Dan's talk has more to do with extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation, but you can quite easily create a carrot and stick motivation by creating circumstances that allow someone to accomplish or chase after goals they're intrinsically motivated by.

If you're working at a company where the incentives are just cash bonuses based on awful metrics, then yeah that's an anti-pattern. But the basics of human instinct are the same across the broader set. Suggesting developers are unicorns is a little off-base.
Going to an Ivy League school does not help the student earn more money compared to going to a non-Ivy, except for students from certain disadvantaged backgrounds.

"students, who were accepted into elite schools, but went to less selective institutions, earned salaries just as high as Ivy League grads."

http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution/2...
As someone who uses the big three desktops daily, freedom is just one facet. I also want an operating system that respects my time. None of the free operating systems out there do that.

Considering the state of Ubuntu, probably the "easiest" to use desktop out there at the moment, my freedom is second to my ability to get a working desktop.
He is just saying shit...
Yet none of that matters if top companies don't interview at your school for internships...which they don't for the most part.
Degree in Graphic Design, work as Sr Frontend Web Developer. The ability to take criticism and learn how to provide constructive criticism has been valuable, as well as attention to craft and detail.

I interface with designers daily and it's great to see their eyes light up when you says something like "yeah I can increase the leading, no problem".
I will be upgrading to this as my main machine as when my current MBP pro dies. It's 4 years old now. I will miss macOS though. I have a Surface Pro 3 and its just horrible to use - both as a tablet and laptop.

edit: A bit more detail: I've done a lot of reseach into gaming laptops in the last month as I'll be starting a job using unity in Feb. The Blade seems to be just a little bit better than ASUS and MSI offerings. I think the Alienware machines just look like cheap junk so didn't really look into them.

They are all priced incredibly closely it really does come down to your preference for style and minor feature variations.
I'd say Ubuntu or Fedora. I found both to be quite polished so you just need to install your development tools without having to configure anything else.
"Unremoveable" by all definitions but the dictionary one.
I don't know if physicists do it on purpose to get published, or whether they've drank too much of the kool-aid, but "dimension" is another one of those terribly overloaded terms. String theorists say that the universe may have 11 dimensions. So cool! I wonder what's in them!? Maybe my childhood puppy is there! But do you know what they mean? Only that one or more of their equations had an exponent of 11. That's it. There is no correlation or evidence of that translating to physical, or interesting, dimensions that we think of.
'State of panic' grips Northern California
Ubuntu LTS - if there's as proprietary driver not included in the kernel, this distro is most likely to be supported none the less by the bigger OEMs. Additionally, if the latest packages aren't included in the distro, the developer is very likely to distribute a .deb or PPA to let you get the latest and greatest for an LTS target.
I went to a bootcamp in Toronto. The admissions person I spoke to made it sound expect an internship or a permanent job after the bootcamp depending on my progress and experience. I've been doing RoR full-stack dev for a few years so I thought for sure I could land a salaried position after the 3 months were over. (Plot twist!)

Many of the "mentors" didn't know the subject matter, and were struggling themselves in their careers. On day one, the at-home prep-course we had completed in advance of starting the bootcamp was re-introduced, so basically there was little point in doing the prep-course because you repeat all that material in class. Turns out the at-home prep-course exists mainly for the bootcamps to get a different tax code classification so they can pay less federal/provincial tax.

The companies that hire from the bootcamp use a government grant so they can pay their new hires $5/hour and the government covers another $10/hour. This is only for the first 3 months (they call it "probation period"). So new hires make $15/hour for the first three months, and then if you prove yourself (and they actually have the money to hire you), they roughly double that pay to around $30/hour after the "probation period".

Right after graduating I lost three job opportunities (even though I have a few years web dev experience, and these companies were very interested in me) because I'm over 30 and this gov grant all the companies are using only applies to people 30 and under. I started telling companies: "Hey, I'm 3x years old, is that an issue?" and some confirmed to me that yes, it was an issue, and that they were no longer interested in interviewing me.

I ended up getting hired by a startup that had me apply for another type of gov assistance that would allow them to pay me the same $5/hour while Ontario covered another $10/hour. I was their first employee. I built approx 50% of their app during my probation period, by myself. When I was done the 3 month probation period, they offered me $7/hour, a fancy title, plus bonus pay when (if) they get VC funding at some point down the road. I refused and am now looking for another job. The Career Services person at the bootcamp hasn't sent me any leads, but it's early Jan so I don't expect much, and I'm doing OK networking on my own.

This is the second time I've worked for a startup that used my labour for near minimum wage pay during a "probation period" and then tells me they have no money to pay me a fair wage. First time this happened was in Berlin. There are many companies in Berlin that survive by hiring people, paying them 1/2 industry standard pay for 3 to 5 months and then kicking them to the curb. Companies in Toronto appear to be doing the same.
Thanks for sharing. I believe this is entirely reasonable given the trend of data breaches, which occur everyday. LinkedIn suffered one of the largest breaches, which compromised millions of users.

Corporations think that they can disregard the laws of nations and act as independent entities. They use their financial power to influence legislation and steal freedom from individuals. Unbiased regulation is needed to stop expropriation.

It's a shame that the article depicted this as censorship. Russia has been under heavy and unjust criticism for quite a while now.
Why is Canonical the only option here? There's plenty of other Linux choices that don't use telemetry.

Also, if you use a browser that respects your privacy, and treats you like an adult, then you can turn that telemetry off.
Harvard pays up to 90% of costs, which in my case was the full cost of the state school I got a scholarship to.
A good general one to rip out the bloatware is:

Get-AppxPackage ** | Remove-AppxPackage

Safe but sometimes you have to execute it restart and execute it again for seemingly no reason but it works and won't damage anything. Run powershell as admin.

EDIT: A cursory glance of the script doesn't show anything dangerous. It may do thinks you don't want though but PowerShell's pretty decent to understand what's going on even if you don't know the commands specifically.
The Dash buttons are the same ting. I'm willing to stipulate that there could exist some item that I order regularly enough to want a dedicated button (but don't want a subscription, which would probably give me a discount) and that Amazon reliably has a good price on it. But I certainly don't have anything that falls in that category.
Thanks for the links.

"Negative ads have been a hallmark of presidential campaigns for decades, because polls show they work.

But conservative strategist Frank Luntz, president and CEO of Luntz Global, LLC, has conducted various focus groups on the effectiveness of political ads, and says this latest batch is different in one key way.

"It's one thing to be negative," he observes. "It's another thing to demonize your opponent.""

Me quoting Frank Luntz, of all people.

Luntz is closer to the mark. The demonization of each other during 2016 was stomach turning.

McCain and Obama never did that, that I recall. (Their surrogates certainly did, of course.) McCain even batted down the birthism crap and defended Obama's patriotism.
King – man + woman is queen; but why?
The US blocks websites that violate copyright law, because it's seen as important for US business to do so. Different countries may have different priorities on what they censor, but all do censor. How is this different?
> I saw the 90's first hand.

The 90's were courtesy of the west, who sent 'advisers' to Russia to help with the transition to capitalism. Most of the issues the west has with Russia today have to do with the fact we wanted them to stay in the 90's... That was the ideal as far as our leaders are concerned.

> I got access to a whole lot more information

No, you just got access to a different kind of propaganda.

You think families don't struggle here, while the elite take in bribes, engage in cronyism, and send their kids to elite schools? The Clinton's weren't worth hundreds of millions before Bill took office, where did they acquire their wealth? All our corporate 'elite' control our governments, they bribe them (sorry, 'lobby'), and get favourable business deals. The only thing the west has going for it is that people are distracted enough by our relative wealth (enough to buy iPads and shit) to be complacent to all these issues...
I figured out why: because there are two of them, it's a little awkward... I might have a PR for you, we'll see :)
People believe in information that confirms their priors.

This is one way to look at the problem and one that fits in with the contemporary interest in cognitive bias. An alternative explanation is that people more easily intake information that activates their schema.
I upvoted you because your comment suggests that English is not your native language. Even native English speakers have a problem understanding stuff, but that's not a reason to downvote a comment.
OpenSim/SecondLife inworld computer
>We shouldn't have to fight the OS, this is ridiculous.

I know what you mean, but as a Linux user, I feel like I'm spending a fair amount of time fighting the OS, too..
They are pointing out that it is almost contentless since there is no more natural state of affairs than a domestic consulting company providing services to its own government agencies.
Yeah, my first Windows 10 install I did a lot of the things in this script (disable Cortana, Bing search, P2P updates, etc.) and my machine worked fine... for a time. Things slowly started to go REALLY downhill, to the point where I couldn't search the start menu and had to find the .exe for any application I wanted to open, I couldn't view any images with the default image viewer, the file explorer barely worked, and a whole bunch of other weird things.

Eventually I gave up, reformatted the drive it was installed on, and re-installed. Everything's been pretty much fine since then.
100% agree with this. Debian is stable and highly supported.
Law is a different story altogether though. I was talking about undergrad.
Fun. But note, the toddler didn't select or crop their own art, here.
There are such things as "found poems" and in truth, there is such a thing as "found art", too - of high quality.

On the other side of the equation, here's much better grounds for modern-art-skepticism:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-experts-tricked-by-pre...

I don't think you can accuse an empirical study of being
thoughtless gainsaying.
Unstable is hardly adventurous. I have ran unstable for 15+ years as my desktop/laptop. I have never had more than a couple hours of downtime and no data loss. Things rarely break in unstable anymore, that's what experimental is for. Moreover apt-listbugs prompts me about bugs in any package I am about to upgrade.

Seriously, install apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges. Unstable is not that adventurous.
Games and Photoshop
Because we are not donkeys?

Let's hire some smart people, but then we'll trick them into a,b and c. They'll never suspect it.
The PIN.
I'm not sure why LinkedIn is being targeted for privacy concerns. The entire point of the site is having a presentable, public profile. Most users want others to see them in the way that their LinkedIn profile depicts them to be. A large percentage of LinkedIn users purposely make almost all of their LinkedIn information publicly available.

This is as opposed to more private data like personal, private messages on social network sites (I assume most LinkedIn messages are professional and tame), browsing history, etc.
I think the idea of a web framework in Go is too application level oriented where as Go is a great language to write infrastructure. If you implement a microservice, look for microservice frameworks. A web application itself seems to broad. I would almost always recommend to find a custom implementation.
Angular Authentication with JWT
If this implant lives up to the promise of being "matchstick sized", then delivery is trivial. Like existing hormonal contraceptive implants, it could be inserted under the skin with a hypodermic needle. There are no shortage of healthcare workers with training in providing vaccination; training them to provide these implants would take a couple of hours.
I think that's something else. If we keep that line, it errors with:

ld: library not found for -lPython.framework/Versions/3.5/Python

The "lib" variable is set to "Python.framework/Versions/3.5/Python".
The login screen where you input you password, or the lockscreen where you have to press spacebar to "slide up" the image to get to the login screen? For some reason Windows 10 has both even on desktop.
True that. I reread your comment and realized I misinterpreted it.

Skepticism is good :)
Imagine that, the US Government making vague, unverifiable statements to support actions against a foreign government.
What OS would you use? Or are you windows based?
I am pretty sure they removed that default in the new versions of Ubuntu.
I can look at my network traffic though. It also tells you exactly what registry keys or HOSTS entries are being added, which you can verify.
I've written entire components for networked and multiplayer modes for games, and an algorithmic trading system that uses ML in C++ using just structs, unions, templates, functions and composition (no polymorphism or inheritance).
Long time windows user: you can disable windows update in the services menu. Open run --> services.msc
Muni doesn't run this directly; it's contracted out to NextBus, a division of Cubic Information Systems since 2013. The NextBus web site says their vice president of engineering is Molsen Fahim.[1] But his LinkedIn profile says he left that job in March 2016 and moved to Cubic in another role.[2]

NextBus's interim general manager is Blair Brown, and his LinkedIn profile says he's been "interim" since 2015.[3] He was previously chief operating officer of Temple Beth El, a synagogue, and previously held some sales jobs, including being head of sales at NextBus in the past.

So there's the problem. Cubic bought a working system, the technical people left, and the sales types now in charge can't keep it going.

[1] http://nextbus.cubic.com/About/Management-Team
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohsen-fahim-7035a34
[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/brownblair
> but is anyone else running an earlier version of Windows?

Anyone who has one of the new netbooks that have 32 GB drives, because it's hard to get 16 GB free to install the update.
Yum has been replaced by dnf in Fedora.
So, the Chilean Navy has some strange footage, probably corresponding to some other country's secret aircraft, and they... get it published on Ars Technica and invite the literally-schizophrenic "UFO" community to take a look at it?
Porous 3d graphene is 10x stronger than steel, but lighter
I'm having some difficulty finding it, but Terry Tao had a nice exposition in one of his posts, I believe the crux was computing/bounding traces of powers and then being able to conclude the result. My work is almost purely on the analytic side (hence perhaps the RH skepticism), so I don't know the right reference off-hand.
Tell that to my employer! Sometimes we don't get to choose our OS, but my personal PC is running Ubuntu. This script is a treasure trove of commands that just killed off over a dozen annoying and undesirable Windows behaviours that I haven't had the time to hunt down.
I am running ArchLinux right now on a my machine (webapp dev and network technician) and I don't recomment it. I don't blame ArchLinux per se, but rolling updates are no good for someone like me.

Updates break things. Often. Almost every time. And you don't notice until you need to use that broken thing.
To install new things you may need to update whole system.
And you break something completely different.

-PHP7 just released? Yes, we will replace your PHP5 and leave you in agony (compile from source, or wait for AUR and compile it too).

-Networkmanager GUI works with VLANS? Pfff, who uses VLANS, some bug will remove them for you. Use nmcli. Or roll back to older version. Oops, that depends on old library that can not be installed anymore, beacause everything now depends on newer version of that library.

-Wine drag&drop support works flawlessly in one version? Guess what won't work in next? And in next it's the clippoard.

-Prepare for the new world order, Chromium will now train you reading right to left by writing to input boxes backwards randomly.
Desktop Linux is eventually consistent?