skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the parent was referring to playing a fifth on the top two strings with a slide, not the blues shuffle (which dates back to at least Robert Johnson).
RIP Chuck.
I guess nobody saw the video of him pissing and farting on hookers huh? Classic Chuck.
Ever wonder why Russians are so good at politics and espionage?

There's a very popular board game they're also very good at, and have been for at least a century.

Humans are humans. And game theory is the same for every game, only the medium changes.
I think it's safe to say it's way too early to call it a "hit." Remember that Google Glasses were also a "hit" among bloggers and techies and other influential people. Of course in hindsight we know this was the wrong kind of attention.
If "y" isn't a thing, then "is x really y" has been answered.

Gluten is not the only thing wheat is made of. The research suggests, but it has not been confirmed, that FODMAPs may be the thing that many people diagnosed as gluten-sensitive are actually sensitive to, and the gluten is just a proxy.
I don't disagree at all, but it might be easier to get a better app than to get Windows to stop doing crazy shit.
All that can squarely be blamed on Sergey Brin.

I guess he let all the comparisons to Tony Stark go to his head...
This sucks, of course. Yet all the comments on this thread saying the solution is to simply switch platforms ignore something very fundamental.

I like to say "Nobody goes to Home Depot to buy a drill bit; what they want to buy is a hole."

I don't use Windows because I want to use Windows. I use it because there are things I need to do that can only be done with it.

The "just switch to Linux" reaction is an understandable engineering reaction. And, frankly, if your world is limited to web development and some forms of embedded development it might make a ton of sense. Yet, from a business perspective it makes no sense outside of scenarios that fit Linux well.

For others it isn't that simple. What would the Linux proponents suggest we do with hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in software not available on any other platform? Solidworks, Siemens NX, Altium Designer, FEA and other simulation tools, CAM and other manufacturing tools, an myriad other applications ranging from business to medicine to engineering that depend on this platform.

The goal of a business is to deliver goods and services, not to play with operating systems. The operating system is irrelevant. It's all about the software that runs on it and the utility it provides to users. As an aside, this, I believe, is exactly where Apple has gone wrong. By insisting on having totalitarian control over everything on their platforms they have effectively limited the utility of their devices. At the same time, this is what makes them so good for a certain range of utilization scenarios.

We use Windows because it is the only way to buy a hole. We could not care less what OS is under the hood. All we care about is the hole we need to drill.

And, frankly, Microsoft has been making a better product with time. I've been using MS products since DOS on the original IBM PC (I bought one when they came out for $3,200). Save missteps here and there, MS software has always improved with time. What they need is our feedback in order to make it even better. The criticism is fair, of course.
That's an interesting take on it.

What is it like to consciously make decisions you feel are morally bad?
I dont think I've ever cared whether a person was looking at me while conversing.
Yes. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about tautology. Adversarial ML examples are clearly errors if they were part of the test set, and part of "correctness" is reducing the error rate (correct model, correct parameters, etc.).
Can Microsoft not just fix their online shopping experience?
I'd just put all the static libraries/resources on a common CDN for Federal government sites.
That's a different sort of "t", isn't it? As in the lifetime of a state, rather than a measurement of duration.
I think I had two loans that had payments totally 200-300/month. I know one was around $150/month for sure. The other maybe $75.
Completely agree. I tried Ubuntu a few years ago because I heard that distro was comparably easier to use and my experience was frustrating. It took me 3 hours just to get the speakers to work, and the wifi connection would regularly drop off.

Windows just works, and I'll happily pay money for a good product.
People do this to regular cars already with acts such as stealing stop signs. In some ways self driving cars will be easier to fool, but in other ways more difficult (eg, intersections with stop signs may also be contained in a database).
In browsers, ad blockers are being used more and more commonly for even non-technical folks.

In native apps mobile apps, there are some okay ad-blocking solutions.

But when the ads are baked into the operating system itself... I have a hard time seeing Microsoft or Apple losing the ad blocking battle.

So, instead of getting ads somewhat sandboxed inside a browser, in the future we may be getting ads inside the start menu, inside spotlight, on the toolbar... and instead of semi-directly funding content providers, the ad space will only ever be funneling money to the these same huge companies to spend as they see fit. Bleeech.
I really can't underline how stupid you make yourself sound by writing that utter toss, so I simply conclude that I very much doubt you have any idea what Linux was like 15 years ago – considering that you have no idea what it's like now – so why refer to that at all?
Do you know what the words "allergy" and "sensitivity" mean? They are being used as jargon by medical professionals, and it's not clear to me that you're using the words the way they do.
If you like heavy strategy games based in historical events, you should take a look at the COIN series (COunterINsurgencies) by GMT http://www.gmtgames.com/. Actually, their whole catalog is full of great historical games, including the the highest-ranked game on BoardGameGeek for many years Twilight Struggle. They are definitely NOT party drinking games though, and require both time and dedicated study.

If you're looking for a 20min party game on the same vibe, I can't recommend The Resistance: Avalon highly enough. A more recent take on the hidden role and voting genre is Secret Hitler, but I didn't try that yet.

Links:

Twilight Struggle: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12333/twilight-struggle

Cuba Libre (COIN series): https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/111799/cuba-libre

Other COIN games: https://www.gmtgames.com/c-36-coin-series.aspx

The Resistance - Avalon: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128882/resistance-avalon
Do you find it more comfortable to constantly fight with your malicious OS vendor about its greatly annoying and disrespectful decisions?
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How do you enforce uniform education about say, hygiene without a license?

You say there are zero reasons but I think there had to be at least one once, and probably still.
Installing Windows 10 on activated Windows 7/8 installs still upgrade to digitally entitled license. Just did it the other day. I didn't believe it 'til I tried it, but it worked.
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Or paid you any attention?
Wow. Put ads there!
If you read a basic 100-level nutrition textbook, I guarantee you that you'll recant your statement. The problem isn't that the disciplines are disconnected from reality, but that people are treating bleeding-edge research as if it's scientific fact, rather than taking it all with a grain of salt as you would do in another scientific discipline.
One thing you can do is look at how much the company has invested in the product. There may be a reasonable risk they may shut it down if it doesn't tie into other products that the company offers and they don't try to integrate it with other products (Parse). On the other hand Google has invested heavily in Firebase and it offers far more features than when they bought it, and it integrates with many other Google products.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, though I'm not connected with Firebase.)
perhaps that update will never get downloaded onto my machine
When companies think their business is to monetize their customers to the last penny instead of making a product people want, it is the beginning of the end. True for Microsoft, true for Apple. I think, long term, we will look back at 2016 as the turning point.
The "sad" part is that outside of the thermal thing (i think) all this was going on for years before Apple introduced iPhone. But over night it was the "jesusphone" that was the definition of "smartphone". Heck, one reporter tried to redefine it as the "superphone" at some point...
Lol, this happened for Windows many years ago and everyone was running around screaming about it. Oh Linux does it too? Suddenly it's a great idea! LMAO
Most of those issues are discussed in the podcast. The real advantage of it seems to be the head mounting and voice control, allowing the doctor's hands to be free (and washed/gloved) at all times.
Because it helps the comprehension of all the machines, belonging to giant corporations or otherwise. And if they understand the site, they can use that information to help us, the users, by presenting relevant search results about caramelising onions and the semantic web and so forth. Yes, it will help Google sell advertising, but the benefits to the rest of us far outweigh that minor inconvenience to some people's idealism and politics.
>I have a hard time seeing Microsoft or Apple losing the ad blocking battle

At the risk of hijacking your comment, what's the present situation with regards to running Linux on Apple hardware?

I quite like my Macbook and am generally tolerant of MacOS (mostly because it's POSIX-y enough to feel familiar), but would definitely consider installing a Linux distro depending on how well it worked.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, neither do I see how that has any relevance right now.
A brilliant showman. If you can make your way through the corny "Rock! Rock! Rock!"[1] movie of 1957 you'll see some pretty awful performances from artists of the day. But then on comes Berry[2] His segment was heads-and-shoulders above the rest and still enjoyable today.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCt4_Dwt-Lk

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jKrHzps0XM
You can install it and run it without a license, this causes a watermark to appear but it's still fully functional.
You would probably be better served with something from Vuzix.

https://www.vuzix.com/

Their products are full Android devices, as best i can tell.
And neither is macOS - it's cost is baked into the hardware.
Some browsers hide the www from the URL (even if it's actually there,) so I think customers notice it less.
Or, more simply put, it's about practice versus theory.
Someone had set up a Wikipedia page about me
Ooh, awesome - then we can persuade all those sites we keep hearing about to mark up their fake news using these microformats, and the world's information problems will be solved!
It kinda was, but then Sergey Brin happened...
2016, dupe: https://medium.com/@rikhigham/the-mvp-is-dead-long-live-the-...
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It is mind boggling that he took over the GOP but take over it he did. And dismissing Trump as not any republican is as No True Scotsman as it gets. In particular, if Republicans wanted him gone, Trump would be gone tomorrow.
Unfortunately, most of the higher end CAD/CAM software is Windows only. Solidworks, CATIA, Creo, etc.

Siemens NX is a notable exception (Win/OSX/Linux). Seems like the only one though. :(
And I seem to remember when Microsoft squeezed out the market of accelerated sound cards, like SoundBlaster Live.

It effectively killed their audio market overnight, with the fact that everything had to go over their DRM stack.

We could have had machines with DSPs for sound, GPUs for accelerated array math, and general purpose CPUs for everything else. But MS decided that for us... Even though us Linux people can use advanced DSPs and the like.
Probably less effective than showing a celebrity you're no longer a fan by unfollowing them on twitter. They won't care. They can get people using other means.
Windows is hundreds of dollars. And what part of Linux makes me the product?
I agree. Linux is a world full of obscure acronyms and undiscoverable CLI commands. RTFM or nothing. I would like to switch to Linux (particularly when I read these things) but I just don't have the time to learn all the basic things the hard way and deal with all the compatibility issues.
The perception to end users is that it is. When was the last time you heard a /normal/ end user even considering that Windows had a price as part of their computer build?
> I'm not sure sociology would still have its credibility intact if it were to have as many failures as economics

A lot of sociology is unfalsifiable. However, this is a field in which many people still look up to Marx--a sociologist whose predictions were falsified in a rather spectacular way.

Foundational microeconomic theories, however, are easily verified in many everyday cases and frequently used to make money in practice. Furthermore note that we're pretty sure about when the foundations apply and when they don't. Being able to say "I know when this is true" is a very powerful thing. The non-economic side of sociology can't say anything like that.
Google owns YouTube and Gmail, both of which are oft used by children and adults alike.

This adds new data, because now a parent-child link is established, and the user's "child-status"/age is confirmed by the parent using this tool on them.
Chuck Berry, Rock and Roll Innovator, Dead at 90
I just don't think it makes sense to put something on there that has no practical purpose.

The mere idea that someone could covertly record with Glass is silly, and there's tons of cheaper, far sneakier ways to film someone.

I get what you're saying, that average persons didn't know what the device could or couldn't do, but I don't think that's a justification to add a light that makes no sense to include.
That was a limitation of the initial implementation in UE4.14, not the technique itself. They iterated on it in UE4.15: https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-15-release...

> Forward renderer now supports shadowing from movable lights and light functions.

> Only 4 shadow casting movable or stationary lights can overlap at any point in space, otherwise the movable lights will lose their shadows and an on-screen message will be displayed.
> how to turn them off

If you feel the urge to turn it off, switch to GNU/Linux. Turn annoying things off is not a solution, it is an excuse.
I ditched File Explorer for Directory Opus a while back, no regrets, especially now that there are ads baked in.
Linux Mint officially does not support upgrades (at all). Their literal directions are to backup your data, re-install cleanly, and then restore your user files (implying it's not recommended to restore settings).

Debian provides a generally well supported and documented upgrade process. However it's the sort of thing that you frequently want an expert on hand to do. Still, many people pay to have their car's oil changed.
I never understood this thing:

"If something is given to you for FREE then the product is YOU."

You can be the product either way. They could be selling value to both sides. Why stop monetizing someone just because they paid you?

Also you could be a user without being a product if they get their value elsewhere. Yes, user numbers are an input to their bottom line but that's it.

Basically a MARKETPLACE has two sides. As long as one side is paying you can call the other side a "product"!
> Being outwardly assertive and confident absolutely wins elections and grants, but this is not at odds with an ability to internally re-evaluate one's beliefs

Sure - except if one is outwardly confident about something that they're actually not completely sure about, it implies that they aren't concerned about the possibility of misleading people. This seems diametrically opposed to being humble.
I searched for "How long does it take to caramelize onions?", and Google returned an infobox with "35 to 40 minutes" highlighted (from this article) along with three other results in the top ten explaining how most articles about caramelising onions are wrong, from 2012 and 2014. So this particular problem seems not to exist? Although, it could have been fixed in the last week, I admit...
Cyberferret refers to "the opening riff to Johnny B Goode", which is extremely similar to the opening riff from Ain't That Just Like a Woman. For some reason the link I pasted started several seconds in, which might be causing confusion.
No you're missing the point. A computer cannot wrap text reliably. It does not know how to.
Are you trying to imply that Russia is skilled in politics and espionage because they're proficient at chess?
Well, by writing "Any reasonably well built desktop PC does that" it seemed like you imply that most models available in the market do it as well.
I wonder how many of these industrial applications will want to remain on a platform that pushes unblockable updates that keep adding more telemetry and leakage of data. I am not even convinced windows 10 is usable in a sensitive environment like a law firm, a bank or in healthcare. Big companies will use enterprise versions and pay IT people full time to block all that shit. Smaller and medium companies just use the pro version and don't have the resources to configure it properly.
> think about them in terms of which actions are available to a user at each endpoint

It's called the Capability Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
>Using the Microsoft Corporation as his benchmark, Mr. Luttwak says that the new high-tech titans produce much capital but relatively few new jobs. The rich get richer, but those driven out of work by the computer revolution are forced to take lower-paying service jobs. The unskilled they displace turn rationally to criminal activity like drug dealing.

Prescient.

Facebook is a $400B corporation, one of the world's most valuable, and it employs, what, 15k people? Before, your bigcorps like Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil employed hundreds of thousands.

We no longer need labourers for factory work, to fight wars, to flip burgers or drive trucks. People say that automation will only create more jobs and freedom, but I have a hard time believing that. Automation is the ultimate triumph of capital over labour. The rich don't need Middle America any more, because most Middle Americans don't have any worthwhile skills. Americans in "flyover country" are increasingly unemployed, filing for disability, and dying of opioid overdoses. And people wonder why Trump got elected.

I'm parroting the points made in this delightful talk here, by a YC alum no less: https://www.facebook.com/antonio.f.garcia.martinez/posts/101...
Maybe you meant $10/mo/team[1]? There is no monthly charge for pipelines and you can have as many pipelines as you want within a team. 1 pipeline or 5 pipelines, you just pay for dyno time of the apps in your pipelines -- pro rated to the second.

Pricing is similar for Heroku CI -- you pay for dyno time to run your tests.

Note: I work for Heroku and feedback welcome at heroku-ci-feedback@heroku.com (about features or docs).

[1]: https://www.heroku.com/pricing
Why use CNAME at all? You can put the same IP address into as many A records as floats your boat. Bonus: saves a round trip to the DNS server.
I use Ubuntu, one of the most popular desktop Linuxes. The one that has this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2840401/ubuntus-unity-8-deskt...
Excellent! Thanks for passing along the technique. This is an interesting evolution.
Not rage inducing at all but brings up another part of the problem nicely. Do you remember the great Vista SKU explosion? That was when Microsoft tried making 16 or 20 different "versions" of Windows with different prices aimed at different markets. I believe that the goal there was not confusion but to capture revenue from people with specific needs, something which back fired on them from a customer support perspective.

The "enterprise" model of software development often has a base product that you install with all of the features but individual features are enabled or authorized by specific authorization keys. This was something VMS did and I'm surprised that Dave Cutler didn't make it part of NT unless it was protected by patent or something back in the day. But generally game mode is a wonderful thing for gamers, turns your PC into an "x-box" like experience, and makes it easy to use from across the room. As a gamer would you pay $25 to enable that? $50? For me a killer new feature is Windows System Linux (WSL) which I use all the time now. Would I pay $50 to enable the "developer edition tools"? Probably. But then I want bug fixes for those tools essentially forever. Pay for features, bug fixes for free.

Even there however you end up with odd cases where things like NFS support, is that "enterprise" software or is it "developer" software or both? You know the "enterprise" guys have no problem paying $500/seat to get "enterprise" support but if they only want NFS client support and they pay the $50 "developer mode" upgrade instead Microsoft might feel like they are leaving money on the table (they aren't but that is a longer post).
>I'm aware that Windows 10 is a "free" OS, but trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs.

That would make sense if the benefits were more than the costs. Which, for the average people, aren't.

Just the hassle of using a new interface, much less one that needs more admin work like Linux, is enough. And let's not go with compatibility with the various tasks people do.

(And no, most people don't just "browse and read email". They also want to be able to see all kinds of videos, they want to be able to do stuff with Office documents they receive, they want to transfer and/or edit their daughter's birthday videos, and so on...).
I am curious, when HN became reddit? This seems like a total social shit post not in keeping with HN.
VPN use is going mainstream, I think.
That's when I quit using Ubuntu. And sure, you could turn it off ;)
all the up votes for that. I kept trying to remember what Biggie song had sampled that. I could hear the beat in my head but not the lyrics.
In general, you haven't made any arguments.
This brings to my mind the novel Se una notte di inverno un viaggiatore of Italo Calvino where there are many references to computers analysing and writing novel, and also a particular scene (that of Lotaria and Silas Flannery in a dialogue) where a young researcher,instead of reading the novels, makes a frequency based index of all the words in a novel and analyses themto find out what it is about

That aside, as a person who's both a self taught programmer and a humanities student with literary aspirations, I do wonder how digital technology and text craftsmanship interacts andcan interact in the future. Certainly a thing worth a deep research.
Actually, this raises some rather large questions about intent of someone fooling a self-driving car. Laying a trap for the occupants, so that they can be easily robbed.

Like the mischief being mentioned against trucks and Uber's by drivers (we can almost guarantee this will happen), what about just strait up traps for robbery?

There were some cases of this with the Pokémon game right?
I agree that forced reboots are unconscionable, but there's nothing the OS can do about power failures, as long as we're using volatile DRAM for main memory. There's also the possibility of crash-causing bugs in the app itself. I think any app used for content creation has to do auto-save.

(I worked on a micro-Emacs-clone, Mince, in 1981, that ran on a 64KB CP/M machine and had very usable auto-save -- on floppies! You can't tell me it's too hard.)