skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When 10" tablets were introduced I would have bet, at the time, that they would replace laptops on many corporate desks where tasks were limited to document creation and email. After all, touch was such an obvious advancement in UI, especially for the users least into technology for its own sake. Tablets seemed like the ideal device. On top of all that, one of the first places I saw iPads proliferate was among MDs. Hospital elevators were a focus group that seemed to predict success for tablets.

Instead they have hardly made a dent. Even in schools, the tablets used by Amplify in Chicago schools were a notable failure. The market seems to be mostly discretionary use at home. I have a tablet with a touch sensor that's dying and there isn't a compelling new product I would buy. Strange.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is unflaggingly digging away at realizing a consistent, compatible implementation of Windows everywhere and polishing a touch-able Windows so that you don't run into tiny touch targets and other pitfalls. I had predicted touch-first platforms would run away with the market before Microsoft could grind off the jagged edges of a touchable Windows.
I disagree. Saying "this claim is more than a little ridiculous" also contains the connotation that the speaker must be out of his mind.

And in case, we're doing a meta discussion on rhetorical semantics now, which is besides the point - because you can't argue away that saying "this claim is more than a little ridiculous" is just plain bad form.
Can you be charged with obstruction of justice if you haven't been charged or served a warrant? i.e. just being suspect doesn't put you in line of perjury charges in this case.

I'm not a lawyer, but that was my interpretation in case that's wrong.
I disagree with the article.
I think it's better to get hacked once every 2 years than to suffer through 2 years of Windows updates.
The updates that Microsoft considers urgent are actually not urgent at all; most security issues typically affect a limited
subset of users.
If you keep adding "magic" and doing careful research on what magic works and what doesn't, you end up roughly with the modern field of machine learning.

Random forests are a method that's often effective in taking into account many interactions among high dimensional data.
To be fair you can often get free delivery on a ~$7 item on amazon, and that difference between firing off 1-click purchases on amazon whenever you want vs saving up a list of 5 things you need so you can hit the delivery minimum is a big qualitative change in how I buy stuff online. Reminds me of the difference of having to keep a running total of which friends owe money to whom because no one has the right amount of cash vs Venmo-ing immediately to settle any purchases.

On the other hand, sometimes that $7 Amazon item would be a $3 item at CVS or some other store and you really are paying the full cost of shipping, it's just hidden from you.
I occasionally offer to dox people to show them how bad their OpSec truly is or as an example of why I don't use social media like Facebook for privacy concerns. Doxing people is often trivial since nearly anyone contributing to discussions online have large online profiles. It isn't a very difficult task - just a game of connecting the dots and knowing how to construct specific Google search queries (eg: "site:___ + 'some info'").

If a journalist can find it - any internet layman who knows how to Google can find it.
>>If you make $32,400 a year you are in the top 1% globally

This meme needs to die. You
may be in the top 1% globally, but cost of living is based on your country and state/city. Making $32,400 a year as a household puts one not much higher than poverty level in America.
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> Browsers these days install updates without even asking the user, and complaints about that are rare.

Until the browser decide to break something you used (see firefox and alsa support on linux, or firefox and australis, or firefox the upcoming drop of non web extension extensions, ...). Automatic update should be limited to critical security and not significantly alter or break user experience.

> Meanwhile, every time I update my Linux installations, it's painless.

You're lucky you did not have to deal with upgrading ubuntu, or linux mint update packs, or used a distro like sidux, or have been hit by a systemd bug preventing the system from booting making evident that systemd also broke the emergency shell used to fix things.
Updating a linux system is usually less painful than a windows one, but it is not as flawless as your experience paints it. With the advent of systemd it is now more windows like requiring reboot and tightly coupled versions.
Well that is true. But generally it really winds me up that people moan about the weather in the UK. You can do almost anything in drizzle that you can do in the sun, except for maybe outdoor parties. Sun all year is boring and texture-less.
How does that help? What will a flight attendant do if a pilot is hell-bent on flying into the ground? I'm not sure the second pilot could do much either.
Which shows that this isn't at all about being an "entrepreneur". An entrepreneur would be an exploiter which is already rich enough to pay for other people (as low as possible of course) to dig for gems which he then confiscates as his property to get even richer whilst doing nowhere near as much work as those who do the digging.
The video is slick-ish, but we've seen it before. How many healthcare professionals (doctor, nurses etc.) were asked? Simply throwing a new OS at the problem doesn't solve things without the end users input or without an real understanding of the issues that they and the sys admins face. Also, the cost of hiring staff to maintain and manage is higher and retraining would be a massive cost too. "Just use linux[0]" is almost the same in this instance as saying "you're holding it wrong".

[0] It's really all the site and video say...
Thanks for pointing it out.

It's one of the downsides of autism that understanding the intent of other people can be hard or impossible, so I'm always grateful for hints like that.
I'm not sure the people behind this are going to bother researching it themselves.... but if handed to them they might choose to do so.
I do more an more with my iPad. I may get the new Pro version when it drops.
Why doesn't MS segregate its Windows Uupdate into Security Updates, New Features, Performance Updates and give control to the user?
For the casual reader, the "bad writing" aspect of the difficulty is severely outweighed by the "lack of domain knowledge" aspect, by several orders of magnitude. If you take a random modern research paper, and put it through a handful of editors to make it superbly written in a clear, convincing language that gets its points across very easily, the casual reader uneducated in the background knowledge will barely be able to tell the difference.
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"It's basically a prestige project, and is going to leave Airbus and European tax-payers on the hook."

I wasn't aware that Airbus was subsidized by EU taxpayers. How does that work? Is it done in an indirect way, like in the US, where companies like Boeing get tons of defense contracts, or something different?
Have you seen the #DeleteUber backlash? Do you think the people who participated in that would appreciate having an Uber called for them?
A common misconception with "self-taught" is that theoretical knowledge is always a black hole. This isn't true for music or development.

There isn't anything keeping you from learning the Lydian-Chromatic Concept, or how to fully understand the 12-Tone System in music. There also isn't anything keeping you from learning key fundamental concepts taught in Computer Science. The information is out there. And most information is free.
adware, malware and spyware.
While I don't know the answer, this is what I'm thinking:

1. I should be able to "monitor" user behavior - anyone who starts using the VPN to transact 1TB+ gets their license revoked.

2. Have a terms of use which acts as a CYA in the jurisdiction where the Linode is located.

3. Charging users a small amount of money every month should a) block script kiddies and b) tie an anonymous user to a credit card.

Advice welcome of course.
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This is the perfect thread to realize just how biased HN is against Amazon. They are literally providing shelter to homeless people and so many posts are complaining about it...

Perhaps we just see a nice thing for what it is?
The best part about not using Windows outside of work is that I can now legitimately tell 99% of the people I know that I don't know how to use their system (Windows or OS X).

You don't get free service from lawyers, accountants, doctors, or mechanics, I don't see why people expect free help from me. I used to help people, but I've realized how limited my free time is, and I prefer not to spend time doing work-like activities outside of work.

I will direct people to the appropriate resource if they ask for advice though.
> If you make $32,400 a year you are in the top 1% globally. Thus you have the power to fix it, at least on the small scale

But we also live in a rich nation, and things cost more. If you're a family living in New York, $32k a year isn't going to leave you with a lot of spare cash to send to families in need overseas.
You can try never10: https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
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This will be huge for Waymo and the Lyft killer or the other way around depending on whether self-driving technology becomes a monopoly or a commodity.
If only "Murdoch's rags" were doing this sort of thing, the media landscape would be a lot better than it is now.

Once you personal preferences because you happen to be ideologically aligned with a particular news source, I have a hard time seeing how pretty much any of the major mainstream media outlets is better or worse than any of the others. (Yes, this includes the New York Times, too.)

Ironically, I was just complaining on HN a couple of days ago about the near-death of investigative journalism and how when historians go to assign a date for that event it'll probably be in the past. So it's even more egregious in some ways than I think it initially sounds that these journalists dox'ed this guy... they don't seem to have the resources to do much truly investigative journalism nowadays, and this is what they spend those scant resources on! Why not just come out and tell us all that they're too afraid nowadays to do any investigative journalism on anyone with even a hint of power?
My reason: I don't live in an IT perfect world. Moving parts that always break with updates.

I have third party provided configuration in some machines and most of the Windows updates break these configurations. When it happens, I have to call these third party and a non-IT person come here to reconfigure things.

These configurations are mostly client certificates that work only with IE8 or older (!!!). Their websites use ActiveX, Flash or some other buggy tech. I have the option to maintain my computers working without patches or I update my Windows and wait 2 days (or more) before they're able to reconfigure my machines (and this downtime costs a lot).

I try to sandbox these machines in my network, but you know it is not perfect.
Computers DO last 30 years, though. Sometimes the capacitors blow, but that's a fairly easy fix, and is a risk in all electronics.

The main problem is that computers improve much more quickly than musical instruments, or cars, or whatever. I have computers that are nearly 40 years old that work just as well today as the day they were made, the only problem is these old computers don't run the modern apps we want. They don't have music players, or web browsers, or even convenient Internet access.

The computer didn't get worse, the world just moved on. Likewise, your old Core2Duo machine from ten years ago is just as good today, except it was made for an era when Windows fit inside of 256mb of RAM, and javascript was only used to make your cursor a weird color.

Computers don't get slower, we just ask them to do more things.
Which one of them?
What ever happened to being innocent until proven guilty?

Besides if he wasn't innocent then there would be a crime that he could be charged for and/or a warrant produced to search his devices.
So the confusion here is about the term 'knock.' In this context I believe it's being used to indicate the nature of the mechanism of entry.

It's a 'knock' because the entry of the code is used to indicate to the people in the cockpit that someone outside wishes to enter. It is the people inside who can then decide if the person is allowed entry or not, even if the code is entered correctly.

So in that way it's similar to knocking on a door, just one that is authenticated with a code.
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There is one but it is not included with windows. You have to download a piece of freeware dedicated to customizing your windows.
Sorry i don't have the name of this in mind.
Those two operations are called "meet" and "join", and in principle they work with any linear subspaces (point, line, plane, etc.) So the meet of a line and a plane in 3D is a point, the join of a point and a line in 3D is a plane, etc.

Wikipedia is good on this stuff if you are patient with mathematician's way of expressing things...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_and_meet

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_subspace

"Lattice of subspaces

The operations intersection and sum make the set of all subspaces a bounded modular lattice, where the {0} subspace, the least element, is an identity element of the sum operation, and the identical subspace V, the greatest element, is an identity element of the intersection operation."
As a music engraver, someone who creates scores on computer, no longer on metal sheets, I feel like my niche industry dodged a bullet here. But alas, it is less about the literal engraving part and more about the design of the graphics involved and new software like Dorico is a big step forward for increasing the output of the average engraver leading to more scores in general.
> So why now?

I think it's because it's cool to use the word "cyber" now in the news. It makes news outlets appear edgy and with it. Infact these cyber attacks are nothing new, and have been an ongoing problem for organizations like the NHS, the only difference being there is a remarkable uptick in the scale of the attack. The reason it stands out is because it's a cluster, instead of a slow, trickling problem for the NHS and other organizations.

> What's so special now?

The sophistication and worm capabilities. Were it not for the Shadowbrokers leak, small time malware authors had to use tired old strains of malware to spread. Now they can draw upon the vast arsenal of the Shadowbrokers leak and appear like state actors, which they are not.

If anything, the leaks were a blessing, because now we can mitigate against such attacks. NSA's mantra 'NOBUS' (No-one-but-us) does not apply here.
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Uber backed down, though I would say I've only seen them once and not "plenty".

http://fortune.com/2017/03/27/uber-self-driving-cars-san-fra...
Tipping is actually expected by your Uber driver, though, despite what Uber says. The difference is that Lyft drivers will never know whether you tipped or not. Uber drivers, on the other hand, might give you a poor rating for not tipping.

As someone who also is skeptical of tipping, I can't for the life of me see why you'd prefer the Uber model.
<pedant>Asiana isn't an American airline</pedant>

Either way, the main point still holds - the American airline industry, along with its foreign counterparts in Europe and Asian, do an amazing job keeping the flying public safe.
It's illegal to lie to investigators. (They're allowed to lie to you, but not vice-versa.)
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I am just saying the current slower update cycle is considered slow because the expectations have been tuned to an unexpectedly fast growth.
Or maybe, just maybe, some things really are complicated and there is no quick and easy way to learn them. You really have to struggle and hit your head several times until enlightment comes to you. Books and teachers can only do so much, they can help you and guide you, but often there simply does not exist any magical way to convey stuff to make you instantly understand it.
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Whites are now ~8.3% of the global population and declining, even in absolute numbers, and soon to be a minority in their own countries [1]. Odd that this is so celebrated, but diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks I guess.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/03/race.world
>As I said, I am not in favour of the security services having these powers.
> We should just pay up.

I'd say it'd be a very solid investment. If it's made open-source and some attention is dedicated to build a community and a vendor ecosystem around it, it'll save the NHS and many other similar organizations everywhere a huge amount of money.
This is how I like to use Docker. Especially if it's a project that I'm working on every day. Docker-compose makes running a single app and all of its dependencies locally really simple.

The other use case for Docker, for me at least, is running specific versions of libraries. The other day we had a problem with npm and it was working for everyone locally. Turns out we were a few versions behind and it was much simpler to do `docker run -it node:0.12 bash` than to install the node version manager alongside my homebrew install of node.
Even worse, it isn't a journalist making the mistake, it is someone patting themselves on the back for having unique insight into the advantages Amazon has over competitors.
I do as well, but when I built it, I was doing so with the thought that I would have to replace a lot of components every other year. It's a gaming rig that I maxed out - and it's still capable of playing the latest games on maximum settings at 1920x1080. It's not as good at 4k with the latest titles, but that doesn't bother me a lot.

So despite my plan to replace components constantly, I haven't actually had to do it. This has made me realize how little practical value constant upgrades to these components now provides.
The "$$$ extended support agreements" funded the development of those fixes. Why would anyone pay the agreements if Microsoft just developed and released those fixes for free? If organisations are stupid enough to lock themselves in to 16-year-old software and create more work for Microsoft I'd say they were well within their rights to charge.
This is naive. You don't know what data you will care about in a year. The ability to have and keep all the data is incredibly valuable.
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All my (UK) programming gigs have been 37.5 hours and I'e never had to work overtime. Generally it's optional at a higher rate of pay.
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Electron apps strike me as the 201x's Visual Basic application. It's more polished looking, prettier, and uses a (debatable) better language. But it's mistaking a prototyping system for something meant for releases. It's easy for people to get it up and running and do lots of neat things. Fine, now you've got that out of the way, get the underlying code to be fast and memory efficient and you have a deliverable application. Don't do that, you're just shipping a prototype.

I see something similar in the hobby hardware space. Everyone using microcontrollers (and some really powerful ones) for tasks like homemade smart lights. It's way overkill, but it gets the job done and done quickly. And as a hobbyist it's great because it's infinitely reusable. But that doesn't make it the right thing to use for a shipping product.
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But with Amazon, without prime, they take as long as possible to deliver. My last delivery took 8 days and was only dispatched the day before.
Exactly, all the same hardware makes it possible to exchange images, bit for bit SD-card copies, that run on any of the same model RPis, this is incredibly powerful and handy. For example, installing ROS (Robot Operating System) on Linux can be a PITA, but there is a ready made ROS on Ubuntu Mate for RPi3, so you have it fully functional in minutes.
I can't figure out how to log in on this. I use the CLI client which seems to have no way to auth the new device.
The Media likes to have gripping headlines that create celebrities . Presenting a person as a Hero is a tried and true way to do this.
Once you do that to a person the hazards of being a celebrity pop up . Doxxing from media and anonymous , people digging up dirt on you etc... it is an unfortunate situation and it's ruined many people's lives .
I had the original iPad Mini pretty much since its release in 2012 and only recently replaced it with an iPad Air 2, and even then the only reason I could come up with to replace it was "I'm wanting to make apps for these devices again, and I need something newer to test on."

Sure the browser on the iPad Mini couldn't handle too many tabs at once, and some apps started looking like they took a bit longer to load, but overall the iPad Mini was still doing everything I needed it to do: play Netflix, board game apps, music, browse the internet, and still felt pretty much as fast as the day I got it.

Which I can't say the same about Android devices. Those tend to feel like slugs over time.
Open the door.
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For an application where you would expect shared spaces for kitchen/bath/etc, and a trade-off of comfort vs capacity, it is. It is higher than other family shelters. Which could be unused space, or perhaps colocated adminstration, or whatever. It wasn't a complaint, just an observation.
Why do you think they don't work?
Please provide sources for your statement that "3/4 of university opportunities goes to women". I did a quick check at SCB which keep these kinds of statistics for Sweden and I can't find any support for it. I also tried to find support for your statement on parental disputes, but the numbers I could find differs from yours there as well.

There have been many discussions on trying to even the gender-gap for certain professions, for example getting more men to be teachers (or getting more women interested in IT). I do not know how successful they are or if they are worthwhile, but I don't see a clear gender bias.
FYI Lyft drivers are paid out every $50 or every week, so they don't know exactly who is tipping (unless you like them enough to tip $40 on a $10 cab ride).

https://help.lyft.com/hc/en-us/articles/213830188-Express-Pa...

Lyft is intentionally fuzzy about ride pricing, so even though the driver total is shown real time, it's hard for them to know how much the rider was charged given surge pricing.
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I'm a parent with a child that's currently being subjected to Common Core (second grade). I'm mathematically inclined, when I took my SAT I scored in the top 1% in math.

My evaluation of Common Core so far is that it's terrible. Students are forced to learn multiple ways of doing basic arithmetic, which is highly counterproductive and confusing if the child mastered the topic (and concept) with the first approach. It also lacks any aspect of what this essay stresses - helping children see the beauty and creativity of math. The emphasis is on learning processes by rote.

We'll see how things progress in the next grade, but I'm not optimistic. Private school is looking very attractive.
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Agreed! It's a great service, with quality content.