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"Although I can't understand the people who want to learn from videos."

I think the appeal must be the very low rate of information transmission. Watching someone typing slowly onto the screen, while saying out loud what they're typing, under the guise of presenting a "tutorial" on how to fetch input from the keyboard ("tutorial" being a very grand word for a slowly presented code listing) is something anyone can keep up with (although probably shouldn't bother).

That said, compare those to things like Casey Muratori who manages to push information at a higher rate doing essentially the same thing, except that he isn't just reading out loud what he's typing. Again, the information density and transmission rate thereof cannot begin to compare to a book, but there is something of a range to be found.

Straying from the topic, I've come around to the conclusion that there are a lot of people who want to be able to do things, but really don't know how to learn. To take on large amounts of new information, to think with it and ally it to what you already know and to adapt it to your purposes, and to do this for an extended time, is a skill like any other; it must be acquired, and exercised. If you don't know how to learn, if you aren't practised in it, a decent textbook might be simply unassailable for you and all you can do is inefficiently monkey-see-monkey-do your way around SO until eventually you've put together enough pieces to start actually building your own understanding.

So I suppose I've come to a second answer to the question; before SO, you either didn't learn at all, or you learned with an efficiency that must seem blisteringly powerful to some kid trying to bootstrap himself by trying to find the answer to "Why does it break when I try to store a string in a single char?" without even knowing that's the question to ask.
Back in the day, we self-learned programming by buying a box of blank punch cards at the campus bookstore, waiting in line to use the keypunch machine, and then waiting in front of the printer bins for the line printer guy to roll up your output like a newspaper and deliver it. There was lots of down time for reading the manuals very carefully.
What concerns me regarding Amazon becoming a retail monopoly is what happens when Amazon can't sustain itself with respect to persistent economic downturns? Like just one bad year I suspect could wipe them out if they're not careful. So putting all our eggs in one basket isn't good in my opinion. I'd rather have a dozen smaller retailers which half could go down in flames than one huge one which causes a long term disruption if it files for bankruptcy.
This is sad--you people need to come to grips with your materialism and cut...that...shit...out. There's nothing you can buy that will actually make you happier. I'm just as guilty as anyone, quite honestly, but am trying to get better. I look at my neighbors just filling up their houses with shit they don't need. Yesterday, I was driving through a neighborhood and lo and behold there was a house with two full Bagsters out in front full of--you guessed it--shit they didn't need!

I wonder if I can order a Bagster on Amazon? Ayup!
"There's no mystery: the iPad IS a computer, and its update cycle reflects it."

For me, the upgrade cycle is longer than for a laptop. I still do most of my reading on an iPad 1 (from 2010). When I replace it (soon), it won't be with another Apple product since I'm a bit miffed that I can't upgrade it and the web browser crashes with certain valid HTML. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the hardware and the battery life is still amazing.

My plan is to either get a Kindle or a cheapish Android tablet and will definitely go for something lighter.
I wonder how realistic a static computer could be given its full of app-stores and internet.

I imagine video game consoles and other forms of electronics, at least up until recently probably were build as you say.
Yeah, bought a Nook (Ereader) in the UK where bookstore was swapped out and then died. So glad I hadn't bought loads of ebooks, because I'd have been fuming.
Really appreciate the comment Dan. HN can be a pretty difficult place to be if you work for the "wrong" employer.
> Writing code these days is SUPER easy. Write stuff, run or compile it, get an error, search Google for said error, click on SO link, find answer, implement answer, move on with your life.

At the same time, language APIs have exploded. In 1998, you could literally memorize all of a language like ColdFusion. External libraries existed, but weren't as depended on like gems or node modules are today.

However, I think your statement is very true for certain classes of applications. For example, many Rails apps are very much gluing things together. Michael Hartl in his popular tutorial even describes "Googling the error" as an actual technique.
I find it funny that one of my complaints with my current work environment is that the GP UAC setting for power users is just slightly too low. As a Power User (subclass Developer), I know its my job to not do something stupid (with great power, comes great responsibility, after all) and I happily lean on UAC to do its job and help catch me from some of my own stupidity.

I like the Secure Desktop and its forced context switch and I've worked to train myself that A) as a Power User, if I'm pushed to the Secure Desktop its "Serious Business" and pay attention, and equally importantly B) as a Developer, if my app is pushing to the Secure Desktop and it's not for something critical to system security, I wrote something wrong (or one of the libraries I'm depending upon did), because my non-Power Users should probably never see Secure Desktop prompts in almost all of the apps I write.

I don't particularly want and am not sure I need to input secondary security credentials every time I see the Secure Desktop, but I'm happy with the default options in Windows these days and as a Power User welcome it.

(As for feature whitelisting, I think this is an underappreciated part of the Universal Windows Platform [UWP] still. I'm hoping that as more Enterprises start to see Windows 10 S they will pick up on the platform benefits to the UWP and start to mandate Store/UWP-only development. I think the Appx app model of UWP is a game changer for a lot of Enterprise security and that if some Enterprises weren't clinging so hard to "oldest LTS Windows Microsoft supports" deployments, aka Windows 7 is the current Windows XP, there would be a giant demand for UWP-friendly Enterprise developers that I've not yet started to see.)
I think you meant to refer to the NSA instead of the FBI.
Volunteers tailor Ubuntu Linux to UK’s health service
this sounds...out of my skill range. thanks tho
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Motherboard price is square to the number of sockets. (This is actually accurate, look it up; and for somewhat good reason).
THe "ads" are recommended apps. You can disable that.
Me and my friends often share articles on our xmpp chatroom, some of them are behind paywalls and we all of use don't have subscriptions to the same websites.

So I have a parser that checks for url of paywall articles being posted. When it happens, the python script logs to the corresponding website and rehost the content of the article on my server. Finally it posts a new link — with no paywall this time — in the chatroom.

This required asking my friends for their login information on the websites where I don't have a subscription, but it made the whole process of sharing articles way easier.
This is nonsense -- a complete misinterpretation of the patent.

Read the patent title:

> Disabling Prohibited Content And Identifying Repeat Offenders In Service Provider Storage Systems

This is for online storage services, like OneDrive. It has nothing to do with desktop OSes.
> A few are going to become paranoid and claim that the doctor also injected a brainwashing drug (even if there is no grounds for their claim).

Except that there were demonstrated cases of MS inserting the "brainwashing drugs" on the updates. Many people had legitimate copies of Win XP bricked by XPA, MS alti-malware broke install a couple of times in Win7 (and off-line machines were bricked by DRM more than once), and, finally with Win10 we've officially got the spyware and adware coming through updates like people were long expecting.
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> But I have changed my passwords quick enough that I am sure my email was not used to spam in this instance

Why do you think that would matter? You don't need to give the FCC your email password to post a comment to these proceedings.

All you need to post a comment on the FCC is: name, address, and email. They do not validate that the comment-poster actually controls the email address they used. You can request a filing conformation, but that's optional and only says they received your comment.
Amazon doesn't seem to have a clue. My experience with Amazon as a third party seller is they run their operation like a trainwreck. I'll give you just one example. Once I shipped a box of commingled items to Amazon's wearhouse. It was received, checked in, and I sold all my inventory quickly. A month later I started randomly selling more inventory without restocking. How could this be? I ran though my reports and figured it out. My inventory was checked in a second time. Amazon didn't even have a database constraint to prevent that. They gladly sold all my "inventory" a second time and paid me for it. It's been two years, nobody has noticed.

Heres another example(s):

http://www.orensmoneysaver.com/2016/03/amazon-and-mysterious...

>I sent in 14 [items]. 14 were received, 1 was lost and 1 was found. How many should have? 14. How many does Amazon say I should have? 11. How many units do I actually have? 9.

I stopped selling expensive items on Amazon. Every single time I listed one I got 10+ messages a day from scammers. I reported all of them to Amazon but their report button seems to go to /dev/null. They just don't care enough to filter out the obvious scammers. I then got my seller account dinged for marking too many messages "no response needed." So I got dinged for not replying to scammers.

Here's another take on some of the unresolved problems with scammers on Amazon and why it's not taking action

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/01/12/why-amaz...
Ah, I see. So the thing that looks like a painted white line on the left is actually nothing of the sort? Am I wrong to be puzzled by the fact that the central and right-hand lines are white, but (assuming what you say is right, which I do in fact assume it is) there is no white line at the left of the road, only a yellow one?

(I'm in the UK, where we have white lines at both sides. Perhaps the US is different?)
WAT!? Oh noes, in the feudal times, they had PRIMA NOCTA AND EVERYONE SUPPORTED IT!!!

Yeah, there were abuses. Seems more then than there are now. Western Ethics have evolved and are now reflected in ALL of our institutions in some capacity or another. It's not your government protecting you from evil corporations. It's people. Always people who believe things. Change those beliefs and you change everything else.
I'm not really seeing the corollary between Windows and Python in regards to new versions and the requiredness thereof. Windows is proprietary and has a cost, and customers of it have a business relationship with Microsoft. Python, by contrast, is free and libre, and is offered with no warranty implied. If the lack of support for Python 2 is proving to be an inconvenience for you and you won't upgrade to Python 3 for whatever reason, well then, all the source is available, and you can do the needful. Hell, you can even build, release, and distribute your own fork of Python 2 that gets continued updates. None of these options are available with Windows.
TDP is and always was an expressly manufacturer- and product-specific number, though. It mainly exists for OEMs to match parts up with the correctly sized heatsink.
I think that such wide popularity of internet is driven by illegal content (music, tv shows, movies, books, etc). At least that is one of the rare thing that have some value on the internet. If you take away that, what is left? Cat memes, and fake Facebook friends?
That's due to them using it as a way to limit fake accounts and account spam.

Quite reasonable as a trade off and as you mentioned it is possible to circumvent the need for a traditional credit card.

Plus, if you're against that then you'd have to be 100% off the grid anyhow - any bank or utility company (inc your phone company) knows more about you than Apple.
The article employs an advanced technology called "hypertext" whereby you can click the links embedded within it to find out more.
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That mindset worked well when our towns and businesses were smaller and tight knit. We live in a different world of global corporations with far larger areas of responsibility and externalities. Helping Seattle is great. However, people throughout Washington deserve help... you won't find Amazon, much less Seattle individuals, taking a 5 hour drive to volunteer.

As a shareholder, I don't expect or want Amazon to take ownership of community help. Their work is admirable but ultimately limited in scope and efficiency. Adding in overhead for accounting, tax enforcement, these issues would received more money and higher ROI if we funded them through higher taxes.
I agree this should be upvoted more than ten times.

It's staggering to me that so many recent revelations have shown that in their efforts to protect us, the 3 letter agencies have allowed vulnerabilities to exist on our machines -- and considered them assets -- without warning us.
I'm not even sure what Windows 10 is, is it a PC OS or a sort of consumer tablet OS designed for consuming media? Currently, we're testing LTSB to cut out all this cruft and that's the cruft we know about. How long until these secret features are activated on a newer version that MS threatens us with every 6 months? I saw MS cut out the GPO setting to block the store on its Pro versions recently. I think monetizing their store is their main concern and 'illegal' downloads cut into their margins.

Turning a PC OS into a front-end for a store has very perverse incentives. I suspect this stuff is going to get much worse going forward.
US faces crisis as pension funding hole hits $3.85tn
You missed the whole point of my post. I said specifically said Amazon's moats have nothing to do with things like 2-day shipping, which are easily copied. The FBA program, as one example, allows any Amazon seller to ship product to Amazon's warehouse, and then have that product be eligible for 2-day (or faster) shipping - with zero effort (and unbeatable fulfillment fees). That program - and the dozens of others like it - will be extraordinarily difficult to copy.
A lott will depend on who the future Windows customer is in the consumer space. Is it the end-user paying for an operating system to get his computer to do the things he wants, or will Windows be 'free at the point of service', and will IP owners pay Microsoft to produce a consumption platform the masses. Of course, both are not mutually exclusive.
Agreed. I have an original iPad from 2010. It's running iOS 5.1.1 and is not compatible with many current apps, but still does what I need it to do: web browsing, email, and Netflix.

I might replace it this year with the 9.7" model announced in March, but I have a good laptop and no particular need to replace the iPad. Not yet.
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Exactly. This is clear FUD.

Every cloud storage vendor flags pirated content similarly. Most won't instantly ban you for putting a copy of Avatar on their servers, but they do stop you from sharing it with other users so they aren't used as a distribution mechanism for pirated content.
Back in 1992, I had a Compuserve account and remember carefully conserving my initial free or bargain time over many months. In late 1993, I got an internet account on NERDC at UF for $0.01 a minute at 9600 baud. Bought Kroll's book [1] and eventually, one month I got a bill for $10.00.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Internet_User%27s_Guide_...
I grew up in the mountains of Southern California. No mentors, nothing other than an 80386 running DOS 5.0 and QBASIC. There was a book on BASIC at the local library which became a staple of my programming education.
>these secret features

What secret features, exactly? I read the article and it's about a patent.
They'd have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt you were tampering with potential evidence to convict you. So they'd have to try and prove in court you gave them a password which cleaned the device.

> For all the authorities know, it was a clean device i.e., brand new

Just because you can get away with something doesn't mean it isn't a crime.

Lying to or misleading investigators is a crime, I don't know how to be more clear than that.
The comment you're replying to points out a lot of obnoxious "We know better than you" flaws in Mac OS X that the user has no power to override. I don't see how that's a defense of Apple.
The recent hacks used NSA tech, the FBI had nothing to do with it. The OP is generalizing that un-closed vulnerabilities in the hands of any government agency are an unacceptable risk, which I agree with, but let's put the blame for the current issue where it belongs.
Apparently according to uber not at all, to quote the ruling

> Defendants have also presented an “independent development” narrative in which they developed their own LiDAR technology without using any confidential information from Waymo. That narrative, however, studiously omitted any inquiry into Levandowski’s work, essentially erasing him from the history of Uber’s self-driving car development. Put differently, the record shows Uber bought Levandowski’s services for a tremendous amount of money and positioned him at the forefront of its self-driving car efforts but is barren on how Levandowski has been earning that money and title.

(and later)

> Indeed, defendants have already carefully crafted a narrative of their self-driving car efforts that conspicuously and incredibly denies any meaningful contribution by Levandowski - even though Uber, in a deal worth approximately $680 million dollars, hired him to lead those efforts.
I'm thinking of making my next desktop with a support for giving a virtual Windows machine access to a video card -- near native performance, but Linux for the host OS.
> There's plenty of blame to go around, if you want to play blame games. The "free market" has no mechanism for 3rd parties to affect the decision making process. Microsoft has its policies, well known to the buyers, and the buyers accepted this as well as their own policy to delay recommended upgrades."

Nobody forced people to purchase Microsoft software. There are other vendors (Apple, Linux based systems). But if they choose to purchase the software, they need to follow the vendors maintenance instructions if they want properly operating equipment.

Does United Airlines ignore the maintenance instructions of Boeing or Airbus? If they even thought about it, the FAA would be all over them.

In the case of hospitals in the US and the UK there are accrediting agencies. In the US it is The Joint Commission. In the UK it is Care Quality Commission. If the people running hospitals are irresponsible and choose not to follow manufacturers instructions for maintenace for any capital equipment, then the accrediting agencies should refused accreditation.
So if I fill out the paperwork in advance Microsoft won't ruin my night? How generous of them. I'm really glad that linux gaming is increasing year over year, because gaming is about the only reason I still use windows at home.
Google "persistent homology" and "Rips complex" for a completely different approach.
> Most people are better off in most material ways than they were in decades past

I see this sentiment a lot and I find it utterly meaningless.

The issue is not that people have higher or lower living standards than they have in the past, but that their share in economic prosperity is declining while the shares of a small few are skyrocketing.

That is a serious problem that will lead to a sort of modern feudal rentier society.
Ask HN: Editable video for teaching programming?
A while back there was an editable video site for teaching people to program. You could pause the video, edit it, and run the code, then resume.

I can't seem to find it anywhere. Does anyone remember the name?
I suspect the answer to the 8C16T category is going to be "Skylake-X".

Intel is still sitting on a ~10% lead in per-core performance in real-world applications, and Broadwell-E is handicapped in a number of ways. Skylake-X is going to be a huge step forward. I think the 6C Skylake-X chips are going to come real close to the 8C Ryzen 7s (let's call it within 5-10%). And that leaves the 8C Intel chips with a pretty solid lead.

(Synthetics like Cinebench are definitely tilting AMD - but I don't see a corresponding lead in real-world applications, on a core-for-core basis)

If Intel can maintain premium performance, they can also maintain premium pricing.

No question the race is on, though. Next year is gonna be interesting, when both companies have sized up the other and fully prepared their responses. There's some obvious fixes for AMD (like the interconnect, or just getting memory stability fixed), and Intel could do something like put the L4 eDRAM back on their dies to get minimum framerates up[0].

[0] http://techreport.com/review/28751/intel-core-i7-6700k-skyla...
For those who think that using free software would be similar (naming ubuntu or even centos).

The real question is why a hospital is still running windows xp even though it's not supported by its own vendor.

The answer is vendor lock ins. The upgrade is not a matter of simple command. Upgrade cost involves more licenses and hardware upgrades (which is not needed as old hardware is fine, but this is how things work between microsoft and hw vendors) it's like you need a new buy watch to apply dst summer time.

Also mirosoft and old school desktop software vendors used to make sure switch or upgrade cost is really high ex by using non stanard formats.. to lock users from switching to mac or linux

If you remember active x and internet explorer specific vbscript...

If you use free software from an expensive but decent vendor like redhat you can upgrade software on same hardware

And if it software was expensive you can switch to centos, scientific linux or pay anyone to handle that for you are fair rate. There is no vendor lock in. Every thing is stardard and no vendor lock in.
People work fewer hours but the aggregate demand for labour per capita has increased substantially, meaning the average person earns far more per day than people in the past, working fewer hours per day.

If people chose to work more hours, the hourly wage would decrease somewhat, but total wages paid out would still increase, since it would contribute to higher levels of production.

In other words, people work less because they choose to work less, not because there is less demand for their labour. There is objectively more aggregate demand, as measured by constant dollars spent on it, for labour per capita.
Disabling it is tweaking. The default install of Windows 10 comes with ads and all sorts of other bullshit that doesn't benefit the user (in an operating system that you paid hundreds of dollars for, mind you). You have to go out of your way to opt out of it, and most users will not ever realize that such opting out is even possible.
Same way you would C code. Tell the compiler you want to compile for debugging, and then connect your debugger to the running program. Marks in the code will tell your debugger what things are called and which line in the source code you are on.

JS today is often transpiled anyway, so you have to use some mapping to the source code to do debugging (eg. source maps).