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16 GB is now small by modern smartphone standards, unfortunately. Your hardware is obsolete. It is what it is. The minimum memory size on new non-budget smartphones is now 32 GB, and on the balance of things, the correct trade-off has probably been made to keep making progress rather than maintain perfect compatibility with older hardware. The technology and industry is still evolving so rapidly that your phone does become obsolete in a few years. It's not stupid, it's a logical consequence of the rate of progress. All sorts of technologies on automobiles went obsolete very quickly within the first decade after the invention of cars, too.
Remember joking with colleagues back then about sourceexchange.com and how that sounded out loud.
I think analysts overestimate the amount of creating the majority of folks do at home vs at work. Yes, iPads may not take over the worksphere as envisioned, but at home, they certainly will in most use cases.
I started with PHP3, and spend so much time ready the manual. It was/is pretty good, well written and the comments can be pretty helpful.

Most programming language have manuals, and at least those I've used have been pretty good. People just don't want to read manuals, they just want the answer to their current problem.
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Yes, though the "cat is out of the bag" now with SO, so it could be replaced if/when it falters.

The next version might implement a versioning strategy, say questions/answers get archived every five years or so.
It concerns me more that the UK's healthcare system runs on a no longer supported operating system. Something that important should be kept up to date.

The UK's NHS computers were running Windows XP (which was EOL). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/12/nhs-hit-major-cyb...

Otherwise, the patch to fix the security flaw was released back in March before it was a real problem. There will always be holes in software, it's important to have a system in place to patch them in a timely manner.
That's what you get when a country begins to believe its own propaganda created by Hollywood about it's exceptionalism and might. In reality it's a borderline failed country (which calls itself by the name of the continent which it's part of), who failed in any war and military engagement. The difference between Christian and Muslim fanaticism, is non existent: especially violence toward its own citizens - and the more drumpfizm will linger the more evident it'll be. It all starts with basic education - which most citizens of the USA don't seem to have access to, lack of exposure to the wide world, outrageous coltural poverty and complete lack of awareness. It's not charming. It's deadly.
No, you arrest people suspected of having committed crimes and give them due process of law
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Haha yeah that's tough. It's kind of a bleak view, that all of the big tribulations of our world are nothing but the dog being wagged while different factions of the intelligence complex play petty meaningless games of king of the mountain.
Walmart bought jet.com so jet.com should fulfill that role.
It is espionage by the US intelligence community against US companies. A lot of these guys should be in prison.

I've repeatedly said on HN -- if the US tech companies can't build the most secure systems possible, the US government itself will not be able to secure their own systems. Secure devices and communication is not a given nor will it become easier.
> Highway bridges and other structures undergo constant inspection.

They are supposed to, but underfunding/mismanagement can abuse the overengineering (which thankfully existed in the first place!) and skip regular inspections, sometimes with fatal consequences.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/22300234/ns/us_news-bridge_inspect...
I like this, but Amazon still has a lot of work to do to address the pillaging of the commons they've been doing the last few years. They've been displacing people and capitalizing on public infrastructure for far too long without giving anything back.
What mid-range device only comes with 8 GB? And what price range are you using to define mid-range? Is there even a low-range (lower than 8 GB) if 8 GB seems to be the absolute minimum, since the OS won't even fit on something smaller?
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Honestly, if Windows Update worked like Linux updates tend to, I would leave them on 100% of the time. On just about every Linux system, I can upgrade the entire operating system and all the packages all at once without a reboot. Sure, the kernel does get updated from time to time, but the system is in no hurry to force the new kernel to load right away, and just switches to it at the next reboot.

By contrast, every single Windows Update that I deal with (a) requires a restart for seemingly no reason, (b) slows down the shutdown process immensely, and then (c) goes through sometimes multiple long installation processes, during which I cannot use my machine.

Of course, as a casual user, I would find Windows Update annoying enough to want to disable it. More so when my computer decides to restart of its own accord, sometimes right in the middle of me actively using it.

(Obviously, I am security conscious enough that I don't really disable Automatic Updates on my Windows boxes, and instead just remember to reboot my machine once in a while so it goes through them on my schedule.)

Could switching the Windows Update UI to a scheduled weekly reboot + updates (call it "Maintenance" or something) be useful? Would fewer people see the need to try to disable the updates if they could control exactly when they would happen, consistently?
Why does the computer even have to ask what the active hours are? If anything knows when the computer is being used, it's the computer.
I don't follow. Windows 10 has an action center, it shows everything pending. If there are security updates and they're frozen or pending restarts they show up in there if you misted the toast notification. Nearly all OS's have the problems of security updates being hidden unless they're forced (like a phone). OSX you have to click update inside the app store, Linux you have to check apt-get / yum update or whatever it is you do, brew you need to "brew update" - humans need to be part of the equation in some fashion.

I think the biggest thing is that people should care about being secure.. care enough to check for updates and be a part of the community they choose to be a part of - be it Linux/windows/osx/android/whateverthe* you want
There's another aspect of it though.
As soon as Waymo makes self-driving cars more popular, and there are less humans on the road - you just need inferior technology to be able to operate. Bootstrapping this is the hardest - after self-driving cars are a thing, normally we'll see accelerated move towards fully automated driving.

In the extreme case, if Waymo cars are 80%, Tesla cars can easily be 20% just based on the fact that Waymo cars will avoid most accidents made by Tesla software errors
I rather think Cage does the best job of "smearing" itself, bit there are always well-meaning people like yourself who stick up for them.
If you're still curious, this has been turned into a BBC mini-series called "London Spy". See: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/12/london...
I don't pay money for software to have to remove ads. When I write that check, the software should work for me, not advertisers.
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Didn't Intel try to do the same thing with SDP?
"only" 5% of the computers are running XP, which is an improvement driven through after a report given to Hunt last year about the risks of old IT.

It wasn't just affecting XP machines, it was affecting other machines if they hadn't been patched.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39918426

> We know there have been warnings before about IT security in the NHS - last summer a review said it needed looking at.

> But the problem is that over the last three years the capital budget - which is a ring-fenced fund used to pay for buildings and equipment - has been raided by the government to bail out day-to-day services, such as A&E.

> Last year a fifth of the capital budget was diverted.

> That, of course, makes it more difficult for trusts to keep their systems up to date.

EDIT: Here's a better post https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/nhs-cyber-att...

> One of the problems with digital government is reforming the technology infrastructure which underpins its services (‘legacy’). There has been much speculation about how the continued use of Windows XP operating systems within the NHS contributed to the cyber-attack. Although only 4.7% of NHS devices use Windows XP, these are spread across 90% of trusts. Computers that have not been updated with Microsoft’s latest software were susceptible to the ransomware. Meanwhile, NHS legacies are further complicated by the patchwork of contracts across trusts. This digital fragmentation is in keeping with the scale of fragmentation within the NHS itself.
If the password you give them also cleans your device you have given them the password to access your device. How is that lying or misleading?

I would argue their invasion of privacy is a crime but no one is watching the watchers, thus these types of measures are going to be used.
that last edit you made is a very important distinction, and as far as I understand, the future of the case more or less hinges on waymos ability to prove that stolen info made its way into designs. Its entirely possible that Levandowsky stole some documents intending to use them for a nefarious purpose, but the influence/info from those documents never made it into uber Lidar, at least in a provable way.
This is a little off topic but maybe it highlights the sort of people that worked there.

When I was an undergrad I had some Unix question so I emailed Dennis Ritchie (...!research!dmr) and asked him about it, we went back and forth a bit. Finally I asked him for his phone number and he sent it, I called him and we quickly sorted out my question. Over the years, I've called him a number of times. I suspect that if he were still with us he'd remember me, he seemed to enjoy chatting and passing on his knowledge.

I had to think about to remember if it was just email or if we talked live. My phone database put that straight:

$ call ritchie
Dennis Ritchie 908-582-3770 (W/bell labs)

I was just a kid in college, nobody important, I hadn't contributed anything of significance to the field. Yet he was happy to take time out of his day and share his knowledge. I've had the same experience with bwk, I had some ideas I wanted to hack into awk, emailed him and told him what I was thinking, not too long later I open up my mailbox and there is a tarball of ~bwk/awk, all the source, the docs, and the book in english and french.

Bell Labs was something special, pretty much everyone that I've met/talked to who worked there were really nice people and more than happy to share their knowledge. They only cared that you wanted to learn (and that you had a clue). Smart (enough) guy who wants to learn more? Sure, here's my phone number.

BTW, there is mailing list for old Unix hackers that I enjoy, if you like that sort of thing you might check out http://www.tuhs.org/ - it's got former Bell Labs people who comment on stuff pretty regularly. It's pretty nerdy, there is a long thread going right now about old Unix vulnerabilities (eg, passing the right negative number to kill(2) would get you root) but I find it fascinating. Another thread that's going on is why C choose to pass arrays by reference but everything else by value; another is a discussion of C's type syntax (not a lot of love for the pointer binding to the variable, people wish that "char* p1, p2" got you two pointers, not a pointer and a char.)
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The top-rated answer states that "the goal is to learn how to do mathematics, not to 'know' it". I don't think that's a defeatist sentiment or a rationalization for the state-of-things. It's certainly true that one would gain more insight that shows how modern-maths-as-we-know-it evolved from a centuries' long struggle to understand basic patterns (exempli gratia, Cox's "Primes of the Form x^2 + ny^2"). But it is also true that, when you are doing mathematics, such a book is not nearly as helpful as an impenetrable tome like Neukirch's Algebraic Number Theory.

From my own experience (which, I'll admit, is not much to extrapolate from), the former was great for its "insight" and the latter just had too much unnecessary "information". Until I got stuck in an actual maths problem. Then suddenly my opinion switched, and the latter became a trusted map through strange lands.

You're right about the amount of information that's encoded in a definition or theorem. And it is very difficult to portray why that information is important (never mind how to access it, see other's comments about scaffolding and cathedrals and the like). I fear that trying to describe why groups are defined like they are would just lead to more impenetrable tomes - but instead of being maps to the lost traveler, they'd be more like tourist adverts. But the questions the source was asking is "why are books like this?" and "how do others [learn maths] in this situation?"

Well, maths books are like this because they are guides to help people doing maths. And you learn maths by doing it. I don't think its defeatist to say that no book or lecture about riding a bike would compare to the experience of actually riding a bike. To paraphrase the top-rated answer, why would you expect anything different from maths?

But to answer the underlying question of both yourself and the source: how do we improve this? I think pedagogy should focus on getting to "do maths" faster. You really learn by getting stuck in a problem.
True! I don't like visiting walmart in person, but free shipping with a $35 order is incredible. I keep adding items in my cart as needed until the total is $35+ and get it within 2 days. The corresponding free shipping on Amazon is 5-8 days.
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Firms that implement software using software from a vendor (eg, Microsoft) have to follow the manufacturers instructions. If they feel they cannot do that, then they should use a different OS vendor (not Microsoft). That goes for proper, documented uses of the API but also for not using unsupported versions of the OS.

When people purchase equipment, there are equipment contracts. Medical equipment, depending on the type, needs to follow FDA approval guidelines. Clearly, not piece of equipment should allowed to be running in a hospital based on an unsupported version of an operating system. That is simply irresponsible.

Each newer version of Microsoft OS implements security features not in earlier versions. In some cases, there are changes to the Intel hardware for additional security that later versions of the OS take advantage of.

Again, firms and governments should not be using unsupported versions of hardware or software.

> "It is also unrealistic to expect organisations concerned with literally saving lives not to buy equipment unless they have a plan in place to deal with updating the software on or used with that equipment in arbitrary ways with arbitrary consequences whenever anyone responsible for any part of its software sneezes. The need for stability, reliability and longevity is precisely why so much in this kind of sector is regulated in the first place."

The longevity is mostly the supported API across different versions of the OS, and not the OS itself. Each version of Microsoft OS comes out with additional security features and vendors who use Microsoft OS (or any OS) need to plan for upgrading their application software that uses the OS and purchasers of application software should insist on it.
I was under the impression the others hadn't quite caught up but were stuck at 14nm and 16nm. Are you saying the nm claims are wrong or is there somthing more complex here in the industry I'm missing? Sorry, I'm not a hardware guy and have lots to learn in the area.
That is your personal opinion. I stuck with windows 10 because I like it. That is my personal opinion. Learn a little empathy.

I have a MacBook pro, a surface pro (windows 10), a gaming pc (windows 10), a Plex HTPC (windows 10) and an iPhone.. I'm quite happy regardless and I find all ecosystems have their +/-
If Craigslist makes ~600M in profit, Why the hell is Forbes giving them a valuation of 3B? That's a Price to Earnings ratio of 5. That's not conservative, that's insane. Am I missing something?
There are a class of bean-counters that specialize in assessing risk quantitatively. They would be found in the insurance industry. Though I would caveat that with the guess that the vast majority of that assessment is with models of risk attached to lines of insurance that have been long established and change fairly slowly.
For several years before Prime, Amazon offered free two-day shipping on most $25 orders, no extra fees or membership. Maybe it started out at $50.
I was wondering how they got that number; basically they use a $690M revenue guess from a third party, apply a valuation multiple from eBay and then multiply by the 42% Newmark owns.

Craigslist is unique; it isn't entirely profit driven and as far as Alexa 1000 sites; it might have stayed closest to it's original founding philosophy. I am not sure how they make money; iirc it was only a few select markets and select offerings like realestate. Costs are probably the lowest out of a site that size.

Awesome product; seemingly great philosophy; Newmark was early but he was principled and to that Craigslist owes much of it's success
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but then you have to give money to walmart, which I avoid doing.
Also, that first one was quite a bit bigger than 1 mm^2 [1] There's nothing for scale, but standing like that i'd guess 2 or 3 inches across, something like 800 mm^2.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor#/med...
> "In fact, reading the trade secret infringement part, it reads as though there's no question that levandowski stole documents and that those documents were used to create Uber's lidar using proprietary information from Google."

If this is your conclusion, then I think you misread what the injunction said. The point of the expedited discovery is to figure out whether or not the documents were used by Uber. The idea that there is "no question" that the documents were used is false.

"Finally, as to whether Uber has used any information enumerated inWaymo’s list of trade secrets, that is the main question on the instant motion. Accordingly,Waymo has received expedited discovery — including an inspection of defendants’ LiDAR devices, document production, and depositions of defendants’ engineers and experts — to shed light on the answer. Insofar as Waymo still falls short of showing use as to certain asserted trade secrets, this order declines to fill the gap with adverse inferences at this stage."

The injunction says that there are "serious questions" but definitely not enough to deserve a preliminary injunction.

"That being said, Waymo has shown at least serious questions going to the merits concerning whether some information within the 14,000-plus downloaded files has been used by defendants and qualifies for trade secret protection"

Again, this is just "serious questions" but there is no smoking gun, and the point of the trial. And don't forget that even the judge says that the discovery could turn up nothing.

"Further discovery may ultimately disprove even Waymo’s revised position that <redacted> is not generally known and economically valuable in the field."
The user interface and selection of ride products are basically identical where I live (SF Bay Area)
Honest question, is Walmart worse than any other big box store (Lowe's, Home Depot, Target, Costco, Best Buy) and why?
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Wow, yeah, that'd be a nightmare. I hadn't even considered that use case. I was just thinking of typical desktop use cases.

In a similar vein, imagine that you're ill-advisedly using a Windows server to host your node for cryptocurrency mining, and then it restarts when you're not around. You could lose serious amounts of money from that.
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>I'll admit, I've never been the victim or perpetrator of doxxing, so I may be missing something.

Most people leak information constantly and each bit or byte of information by itself is not important. However, in aggregate, people leak enough information about themselves to have it become sensitive information. What can be seen as harmless on its own can lead to more sensitive/"harmful" information being gathered.

For an example, let's say you share a photograph of yourself somewhere in London. Maybe you went on vacation, a business trip, a family visit, a honeymoon, etc. There are plenty of reasons to be in London one time! Now over the period of 10 years you've shared a few dozen photos of yourself in various places of London. What are the chances you live in London? Would you say the chances are higher than if you had only shared a single photograph?

Likewise, information that doesn't seem sensitive on its own can become incriminating when combined with other evidence. Scrubbing everything therefore is the best way to ensure you aren't leaving anything behind. It's also a lot easier to scrub everything than to read over years of post history to see if you've ever shared anything you maybe shouldn't have.
I think Google just made job of some sales manager at AWS Rekognition way easier.
And that's even more bewildering ...
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They represent some of those people. But only if they're considered stakeholders. See cutting of pensions, layoffs, poor benefits, golden parachutes, planned obsolescence.

If corporations actually represented all the stakeholders, salaries would be higher, retirement plans would be better, products would be designed to last longer, and golden parachutes wouldn't exist or be as big. Right now, CxO's get an outsized representation compared to their actual role within the organization; same for members of corporate boards.
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