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> How's that going to happen if the current duopoly reinforce their position by removing net neutrality?

I have a hard time imagining that we remain stuck with the status quo for more than 20 years. Markets love to move money around. Comcast is already stale -- their customer service is crap.

I'm not saying that the change will come from markets, necessarily, or that the impetus for change comes from the government. I just think things will change and eventually we'll see more competition on the last mile, or, something that mitigates the current problems.

And, they'll change because we care and are working to do something about these issues, not because we sit back and wait for something to happen.
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The clock thing is highly dependant on workload. If your load is append only, clocks within a few seconds would be fine. If you truly have competing writes for the same key within ms, then clocks need to be pretty good. Most big data stuff I see is closer to the former.
Or maybe you shouldn't have to give up a password without a subpoena. Or at all. They can seize it, let them try to decrypt it.
It feels quite good to live an active, goal oriented life in comparison to a more tentative or even goalless one. I've tried all three and it would appear that the mind and body respond better to the former.
Your viewpoint is shared by many, but there are lots of enterprises using proprietary cloud features. They either use an abstraction layer for running on a laptop, or otherwise a CI process that kicks off dev instances and test cases on demand, forcing you to be online when you check things in. That's not terribly new. Teams have had to find solutions/standins for things like AWS load balancers, lambdas, certificate servers, etc.

Cloud spanner, being fairly new and unusual (SQL, but no INSERT/UPDATE), though, doesn't yet have a big name customer. Jda.com and quizlet.com were their reference customers.
i don't want uber to die because subsidized fares are wonderful.
The Telegraph, The Sun and the Daily Mail are utter shitstains.
> Try to figure out how something like Amazon's systems work and you'll run into a deafening wall of silence.

It looks to me recent history contradicts this point. Amazon is responsible for the Dynamo paper, a mandatory thing to know if you're going to deal with open source NoSQL DBs. All the big players have released how they work internally, giving us Storm and Heron, Luigi, LevelDB, and so many others. Surely you have heard of Kafka ? Coming from a big one as well.

I seriously can't understand where you get this from. The amount of internals that is shared is really interesting.
They seem to exist in the NiMH chemistry [1], but you might have to try a few brands to find decent-quality ones. That said, if you can find ones that work reasonably well, they'd be by far your best option. And I'd be amazed to see them in a brick-and-mortar shop, other than a specialist battery store, and maybe not even then. (If those even still exist, anyway.)

Another potential issue is that NiMH cells seem to run at a somewhat lower voltage than alkalines do throughout the discharge curve. I'm not sure whether that would pose an issue for a device like this; while it probably sips power, it might have a large voltage drop, which could conceivably result in shorter operating time from a cell that runs at a lower voltage to begin with. Still, I'd say it's certainly worth a try.

(Edit: forgot link.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/LUITON-Ni-MH-batteries-rechargeable-O...
I used the timeout as a general term. You can have a timeout of 0 and N app workers. (see fail_timeout) If they're all busy, you would serve 502 immediately. Nginx can do the static file serving likely orders of magnitude faster than your app.
I think you're probably right which, given that "tonight" means between 02:00 and 05:00, explains why I never get around to applying those updates.
> Of course Microsoft blasts Win10 installer files down our very expensive, very slow satellite link […]

The lesson there is that you should always quarantine computers that need to be pinned on very specific versions of an OS, especially in such a precarious setting! Those computers should not have been able to communicate over the internet at all, except for those cases where communication is part of their purpose (e.g., monitoring the experiments), and that should happen via a dedicated VPN allowing only the traffic necessary.

I'm surprised this isn't the standard operating procedure for this kind of case.
I update my phone every other year because the camera gets noticeably better (my phone is my only camera) and new radio systems and bands open up to increase data speeds.

None of that applies to buying a new tablet.

I'm finally considering a new laptop for the 30% CPU boost and WiFi 802.11ac improvements over my 2012 model.
I have a PC that I sometimes turn on that acts as a Plex server. I download my movie, it gets automatically added to the Plex library and my Sony Android TV set has a Plex client installed.

My Sony tv also runs Kodi that has some interesting plugins for watching movies.
YouTube's only a platform in the technological sense. Think about what it is in the very basic sense, a raised platform in a public area. While YouTube is public, it is not raised. If you go to YouTube's public marketplace, you must build a raised platform yourself if you want to have one.

It's the difference between me publishing your videos to my YouTube feed and PewDiePie publishing your videos up to his feed.
I've never tried drugs but the sudden emotional understanding you describe is all too familiar.
How many people have died in Waymo cars?
It's an interesting prediction, but it's hard to see this becoming a universal situation. Most likely, the aging population will be able to get around more easily, probably a lot of young people will rely on "TaaS" vehicles to get around, and the majority in the middle will continue to own.

It's hard to imagine giving up my minivan which I use to haul stuff all the time -- gear for wedding gigs, furniture, etc. Not going to replace that any time soon.

But when visiting another city... TaaS would be sweet.
> I don't know why I'd choose a operating system does that.

Me either. Stop using Windows.
> If you can't do them on an iPad then you simply can not consider it a "work machine", in the general sense. You can do those on a 15 year old laptop with ease.

If it's something you can do on a 15 year old machine, which is otherwise nearly unusable (last week I turned on my 2001 Titanium Powerbook G4 for the first time in years; it could see my WiFi network, but not connect), then maybe that's not a very useful definition for "work machine".
Well it's just that one position is more comfortable than the other. If they don't update and have an issue then it's on them. If I insist they turn on Windows update and then something goes wrong then it's on me. It's a bit cowardly but as a Linux/BSD guy I just can't stand doing Windows support anymore. Every version is worse than the last, everything is dumbed down to the max and when something goes wrong you're screwed unless you're a PowerShell wizard.

The other day I helped a friend set up a new computer, we installed a brand new (paid for) Windows 10 on it, straight from the Microsoft-provided DVD.

It worked just fine for a few hours, then it would get stuck in a reboot loop continuously. You'd log in and 10 seconds later it'd hard reboots.

Given the brutality of the crash I assumed a driver issue or something like that. Turns out it's just Windows failing to install an update and crashing the OS for some reason. So I thought "well, let's just boot up and quickly disable auto-updates". You can't do that. "Well let's boot up in safe mode". Nothing works in safe mode, you can't access Windows update (the page remains blank). We ended up downloading an updated version of windows and reinstalling it.

I have a Windows 10 PC that I use for gaming, the creator's update installed itself the other day. Amongst other niceties it added a MS edge link in my taskbar and changed my desktop wallpaper. I also noticed that it tries to argue with you when you try to change the default browser from Edge to something else ("We're good now, we promise!!"). Minor details, nothing major but it adds up to a general distrust for the OS and the feeling that I'm not in charge of my own computer.

I just can't put up with that nonsense anymore. If my friends want support they'll run Linux, otherwise I'll let them deal with Microsoft's support or whatever.
When a legal rights don't exist, people go for a way to enforce their rights technologically.
Don't forget your Senators and Representatives. That might be a more effective route than public comment.
Majority of software I use only available on Windows. Visual Studio, MS SQL Server and Microsoft Office. I tried switching to Fedora.
But they don't.

Autism is the product of having a differently wired brain than a non-autist does. It's something you're born with, not something you can get later.

Certain medications used by pregnant women can result in children being autistic, but I seriously doubt that this extends to any vaccines as well. Perhaps some really exotic ones maybe, but common vaccination definitely not.

Source: I am autistic, read up on it to be able to better deal with it and am dealing with it on a daily basis.

And truth be told, I don't know if I'd be better or worse off without it. It doesn't make my life unlivable and I guess the understanding of autism of most people is too much based on rumor-mongering and hearsay, than any actual facts.
Every possible job doesn't need to exist. We shouldn't put the whole online world at risk so a handful of people can make a buck.
Good on them for making it feel familiar, but stealing all those icons straight up seems pretty risky.
I think having a fountain of money is certainly a good thing, but other companies today enjoy consistent funding and they're nothing like Bell Labs.

For example, Verizon and Comcast. Both rake in vast sums, but where is the fundamental research and contributions?? It appears that mostly gets folded into boring vertical business initiatives.

I suspect a key difference is that the old Bell Labs wasn't beholden to excessive Professional Project Management running the show and making sure everyone has their nose to the grindstone at all times.
Bingo, I could have phrased that better, this is exactly what I meant. I was thinking of the message as "partner with us and try to screw us and you're in for a world of hurt, partner with us and treat us well and we'll make sure you're taken care of"
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You're more concerned about the software being provided to you by Microsoft ... then you are for faceless hackers connected to the Internet

Yes. And there is no /s on this comment.

We don't use much recent Microsoft software because we no longer trust it. They are going down a path we don't want to follow.

With the older OSes that we do still use, principally Windows 7, we are similarly sceptical about updates, and typically we only apply necessary security patches now.

[Edit: For whoever is downvoting a lot of the comments with this sort of sentiment, you might consider that objectively we have had far more downtime as a result of bad updates from Microsoft than as a result of malicious actions by hackers over recent years, and I doubt we're alone in that.]
"Sure, it's not impossible"

I'd say it's inevitable, the only question is when.
Yes, taxis and public transportation are Uber's main competitors.
Nice idea, but any links whatsoever to the NHS or permission to use their logo? There's no sign of such yet on the site.

If you really want to do this, one thing you'll need is to make sure existing vertical market software works perfectly in Wine - e.g. Informatica, which is stupendously popular in England and Scotland and is officially supplied by NHS Wales.
its a very good idea – not a good name choice. Healthbuntu maybe at a push.
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I've semi-retired my iPad first generation mini because it has trouble rendering beffier web pages like Business Insider and New York Times. It reloads several times when it runslowon memory for rending. Pages with multiple viedos are a problem. Also Apple no loner upgrades the OS for this model.

I replaced it with the new cheap iPad. It has twice the memory, twice the screen resolution and 20 times faster CPU, and costs less.
I would have liked to see a story from the journalists on how easy it was for them to find the guy and then they had responsibility alerted the person on those points w/o revealing his name (you know like what security researchers do)
How long was this in the making and also it must have been very beneficial that last weeks cyber attacks occurred?!
10 dollar microcontrollers are way more powerful then pen and paper. In 10 years they may be as powerful as today's $2000 computers.

It's a matter of scale. You can do general electronics with some AA batteries. If you want to build a nuclear reactor, yeah there will be interest from others in your affairs.
It's becoming more obvious to me with time that math and its corresponding proofs are very similar in concept to our code and unit tests. Theorems like our software are built from rudimentary building blocks, each needing to be understood in order to build the software and then the tests are the proofs that each of the building blocks are correct...

What's missing for a lot of people is "What does this theorem apply to? Why does it apply? How do I break this theorem down into its component pieces to understand it?"

Indeed if your math text started off with a concept of a real world thing you're trying to figure out and then break it down to a series of paradigms that the student understands before applying each of the mathematical components that applies to each of these paradigms before finally combining them all to the final theorem, people would get it far more easily and be much less intimidated by it. Then over time students will spot paradigms that combine more elegantly to the final theorem and understand how to substitute them.

I think Math is being taught backwards in schools and this is why so many people are intimidated by and shy away from math... and I was a student who both struggled and enjoyed Math... and I still struggle with it because we were taught to think about it backwards.

We started out well with the basic building blocks, but somewhere between basic algebra and calculus, this all got turn around ass backwards. Where does the motivation to understand derivatives and integration come from if one doesn't understand the implications of their application?
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Any recommendations for effective image searching? Google Images is the only real player. Also Tineye, but it rarely throws much up. Any alternatives?
That's not my point. Enabling Windows Update shouldn't be a trade-off. The fact that disabling it constitutes a quality-of-life improvement for many demonstrates that Microsoft is doing something terribly wrong.

I should be able to tell my friends "yes, you should turn on auto updates, there's absolutely no reason not to" without having to follow with any caveats like "oh well, it can upgrade your OS, reboot on you when you don't expect it and change the ergonomics of your desktop without asking you but in the end it's worth it for the security updates, and it's not like you have a choice anyway".
One of my fondest childhood memories was nearly crashing a three story ferry into the side of a canal after the captain let us hold the wheel. He very quickly took over and I doubt we were ever in danger, but I can definitely understand a reluctance to let kids even stand close to the cockpit controls. It's all wholesome until an engine shuts down!
I believe it's unethical and deeply hypocitical. Also, I don't believe it's effectiveness. So both I assume.

If there was such a scenario in which you describe, the correct act would enable all shelters to accept both genders.

If there is no reason to exclude someone, it's better to be inclusive otherwise you will not get an equal society. This is my belief. In reality, there is never an equal amount of anything so by being inclusive we have eliminated any opportunity of being unequal.

Let me give you another scenario to illustrate my point. Think about women in IT, surely there are less women in IT. We could potentially boost the stastistic by offering women all educational costs covered by the government (an actual suggestion in my country). Sure, it may work but in the same time, who is to say when it's finished and now we don't need it anymore? When it's exactly 50/50 or when there is more women in field? Also, what about every other field where it's not equal? What about all men that don't get covered and have to pay for their expenses themselves? What do they think about this and how will their view on the subject be in the future? But the biggest question of all that is always unanswered is why should the gender decide who gets a great economical benefit?

I asked a lot of questions but my belief is that those people negatively affected by this would feel a deep injustice and would want to fight it at any level. I think they would take some of that blaim on the women that got their expenses paid and perhaps even try to punish the society in some way (like tax avoidence).

It may be irrational, but I am pretty sure that is the exact way me myself and others would react. I think by using sexism to fight sexism, you will only introduce more sexism and potentially other problems that is totally unintended (like Donald Trump).
It's nice to see something like this being proposed, but, the NHS probably have a tonne of bespoke software running on top of Windows, all of which would need to be ported. And given the fact that they don't have the funding to even keep their existing systems patched and up-to-date, a full-on migration is out of the question, unless the cash is raised...
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My pet theory is that there are financial incentives to make bad text books.

Text books are usually written by university professors, often the professors from whom you are taking the class. There are absurdly many entry-level textbooks for a subject whose beginning parts probably haven't changed in over 100 years. They do this at the behest of the university, which will be capturing their royalties under an IP clause in their employment contract. The university intends to sell this book for upwards of $200 to a captured audience of teenagers who don't yet have the life experience to know they can opt out of putting up with bullshit. If the university doesn't have a constant churn of new editions, then the books will very quickly filter into the secondary market where they will be drastically discounted. So universities pressure professors to write textbooks quickly. And university professors aren't exactly the best-paid vocation. Invoke "good, fast, cheap: pick two" and you see it's "good" that is getting dropped on the floor.
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My primary reason is orchestration. By putting it inside Docker it runs like every other application in our Kubernetes cluster.

If everything you run is Java, it might not make sense, but in a polyglot, the uniformity can be really beneficial.
Does this solve any of the problems that hospitals would have previously had, according to other posters on HN, wherein updating software can render a piece of equipment no longer having been tested properly/breaking the system because of some reliance on some weird software implementation?
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Medbuntu, maybe
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In cmd or PowerShell:

shutdown /r /t 0

AFAIK, this has always avoided updates.
Ah gotcha! Yes, ours will be public, too! We are just too busy ramping lots of things up for the private beta. But we'll definitely have these public.

Would love to get your signup for the private beta to get detailed feedback. Especially given your experience with kaggle.

https://blog.machinelabs.ai/2017/05/11/introducing-machinela...
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Or the free O&O ShutUp10 tool provides a nice GUI to edit a lot of these settings (no more Cortana integration is one)...
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I fill the gas tank because I monitor the fuel gauge, not because it warns me that it's nearly empty.

Using an appropriate analogy to make something clearer works better than shoehorning something to push your view.

I plug my laptop to charge the battery when convenient and operate in a geographical area where power shortages are still an exception so I have no fuel issue in my computer usage whether I use automatic system update or not.

Actually I do not use automatic system update, if there is such a thing for this OS, it is discouraged as updates can sometimes break the system if applied blindly.

How exactly can someone not applying updates when windows asks for it put everyone else at risk ? What risk do I face from this from behind my BSD firewall on an Arch linux powered computer ?

Then again my experience of windows computers since windows update was introduced is not in line with what you describe here, getting even worse in recent times with updates applying themselves with little to no warning, sometimes running several times in a row: logs you out of your computer, applies updates for 10-45 minutes, reboots, applies updates for 15-60 minutes, logs you in, crawls your computer down by downloading more updates, logs you out of your computer, applies update for 10-45 minutes, etc...

I've witnessed this happens 3 times in a single week, the owner of the computer was pissed, I'm paid by the hour and happily browsed the web on my linux laptop while the client pestered against his computer, microsoft, technology, corporations, politicians allowing this to happen and so on.
Eh? I'm under the strong impression that Adobe works nicer on Mac than Windows.
It's not a blurry line at all. You defend their legal rights, but you don't support terrorism.
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I'm not sure if this was from the same thread. Someone was arguing that people who say Electron apps (that is, process intensive apps) shouldn't exist are the same ones trying to stifle innovation. I wound up not replying, but that belief is a crock of shit. It's not that Electron apps shouldn't exist. It's that Electron apps can be a huge trade-off between idea => product ship date and resource use for an end user.

I understand that abstraction comes with a cost. You tend to lose a little bit of control of exactly what your code does, and there will likely be more cycles used (sometimes trivial, other times not so much) to accomplish the same task. It's one thing to push the boundaries of existing hardware for the sake of productivity. It's another to say, "Yeah using Electron apps for text editing is fine. Just make sure you can bankroll bleeding edge computer builds, and you won't see any performance degradation."

How does that seem like a sane line of reasoning to anyone?
Holding shift while opening the power menu and clicking Restart used to do this, but admittedly, I haven't tried it in a while.