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Not pickup, it's free two day shipping

https://www.walmart.com/cp/free-shipping/1088989

There's also ShopRunner that comes free if you have an American Express card. You can use ShopRunner at a bunch of places like NewEgg, Drugstore.com, PetsMart, and more. Free two day shipping.

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/content/shoprunner.html
The company I work for ships a lot of packages each day. Shipments that are late, even ground shipments, are eligible for a refund if it is the carrier's fault. I have a python application that tracks shipments and let's me know which might be eligible for a refund. Saves us thousands each year.
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Reminder that this is the same person who attempted to publicly shame[1] Jeremy Guillory out of fighting for his fair share during GM's acquisition of Cruise. This attempt failed, and Cruise ended up having to publicly acknowledge the opposite:

"As part of the settlement, Cruise and its founder Kyle Vogt now acknowledge that Guillory was a cofounder of the company."[2]

On top of that, Sam's post originally included the statement "it’s important to the way Silicon Valley works that such behavior not be tolerated" in reference to Guillory fighting for his recognition, which he later removed.[3]

This is not someone I would support for any sort of public office.

EDIT: He's not above criticism, folks. If you disagree with me, how about replying and explaining instead of down-voting?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11490188

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/car-startup-cruise-settles-le...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11491011
Honestly, most mathematics professors I've had have attempted at giving motivation or intuition about things. Not always useful, not always correct and sometimes dangerously misleading, but the attempts are there.

Regarding the posts like mine, they come up because the majority is the other view on the matter: that there must be some way to hack this that somehow is going to be found in the HN comments, and that professors/book writers don't care. And the reality is different: most mathematicians care about intuition and motivation. It's their basic tool of work. But transmitting those ideas and transmitting them effectively is not easy. In fact, there's this funny phenomenon that I've seen in myself and it seems to apply to a lot of people: we forget the intuition we are given for a problem if it doesn't click right away.

I also refuse completely the premise that "people are still not solving it". In this post there are people linking to resources on books/pages with new ways to teach mathematics. People are solving it and each time getting better, and however it's never going to be straightforward to teach mathematics (just like it's never going to be straightforward to teach anything, mathematics is only seen as special because it has a lot more presence in education that other subjects).
The NHS had already opted out - because of the difficulties in upgrading.
Lyft strikes self-driving deal with Google's Waymo
I guess in the same way a farmer might listen to its cattle? A nasty disease or two would get fixed, nice food to keep them fed, but if they're telling the farmers "don't eat me" I can't imagine the farmers would be very receptive.

Likewise. Stop spying on me, stop advertising to me, stop pushing products I don't want on me, stop treating my computer like your personal playground.

None of this is going to gain traction. All of those are the point. No amount of listening will fix this.
i agree with your disagreement.

I find too often the "it's on SO" responses end up being circular, and people point various descriptions of different problems to the same single answer, which aren't applicable. Just spent way too much time last night dealing with CORS stuff, and kept linking to the same handful of SO threads/answers which were not the problem at all, but at some point in the google/search world, so many things have similar enough keywords that they all congeal together, making it harder to find the 'real' solutions.
> 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.

I haven't seen it put that way before. You're not alone.

One of the recent update cycles had some kind of interaction the video drivers on several of my machines, resulting in monitors connected via DisplayPort intermittently failing to wake up following a screen blank. The current workaround is for users to reach around the back of their monitor, unplug and replug the power. I burned an entire day on that one, plus the continued frustration.

Knock on wood, but I can't remember the last time I had to scramble for a security incident or malware outbreak.
Beautiful. Reminds me of the way that RIPA legislation in the UK to regulate covert investigation by police and secret services ended up being used by 800-odd bodies, including the odd local authority that used it to police potential abuse of school catchment areas by parents.
Not exactly. The innovation of SO was to allow folks to upvote the best answers to bring them to the top, saving a lot of time.

It's true that horrible PHP forums existed before that, but when google took you there the answer was often buried on page 4 of 7, sandwiched between dozens of the "trying to be helpful" posts instructing you to reinstall windows and reboot.

Oh, and expert-sexchange---hated that site with a passion, until I realized you could just scroll all the way to the bottom. Think that's when I became aware of the term "dark patterns."
I should be allowed to hire whoever I want. Don't like it? Outbid me.
Same here. I am considering cancelling prime too. Amazon is still pretty cheap. But I found the stuff on Amazon has low quality and I had to return stuff too often. Great to see some competition from Walmart. I am going to try it out definitely.
Same story here. :-(
Im no expert - but it seems the rollout for such speeds always starts in major cities. Then rolls from there... at least from the big providers. Demand for such speeds (outside of techies etc) is probably not as wide as you might think. Theres a ton of people who barely get dsl speeds that wouldnt even know any better.

Lots of factors, but $ is probably the largest
Don't know what kind of engineer you are, but I have BS EE with minor CS from top engineering school.

Airplanes have to undergo preventative maintenance. We don't count on airplanes not being maintained. Sorry.

Highway bridges and other structures undergo constant inspection.

It is one matter for individuals in their homes choosing not to update a computer or for a privately held firm.

But firms with stockholders, or governments must follow manufacturers instructions when they purchase equipment and that includes maintenance whether for their vehicle pool or other equipment.
In the US you should almost always tell police, no matter what the question, that you decline to answer any questions without your lawyer. Don't talk to the police, they aren't your friends. They are trying to build a case to convict someone, and not necessarily a guilty person.
Because few people make four dollars in the same amount of time it takes for the exchange to happen. So they are choosing it for a different reason. It's possible you may not be seeing the value in the service they provide. But for me personally they are as revolutionary (execution) as Amazon and Facebook.

To kill the any future competition they jut need to start a global loyalty program.
I think what makes SO more appealing than books to many is that SO questions are usually micro-focused on very specific tasks, and are often asked from an end-goal standpoint rather than a mechanical one. Where traditional reference has a prerequisite of a certain level of knowledge to utilize (mostly the capability to break down problems and know where those lines lay), SO users can simply ask how to accomplish their overarching goal and someone more knowledgeable can supply an answer detailing what the poster actually wants to do, with all the substeps laid out.

Personally, I have a hard time retaining technical book content unless I'm immediately utilizing what I've read, which is mighty inconvenient. If I stop writing code for the time it takes to flip through a book and find the relevant bits, I've lost my flow. It's much faster to google and flip through blog posts and SO questions.
I started in the 80's. when I was in elementary school.
I taught myself BASIC by typing in programs from books (TI/99 and Apple II).

Later (mid-teens), I taught myself C doing the same thing (on an Amiga.)

I also downloaded sample code from BBSes and the early Internet (pre-WWW.)
> The reason the attack happened ...

A reason. Real events have lots of root and proximate causes. MS could also have avoided writing the bug, or discovered it themselves with better auditing. NHS could have disabled SMB on systems that don't use it, or otherwise firewalled it.

And, of course, the NSA could have disclosed the bug when they found it instead of hoarding it. Or better protected their tools from theft. Or the Shadow Brokers could have better audited their disclosure to avoid spilling active hacks into the public.

Almost all of these things were required to get to where we are, and all of them are "simple and expected" from at least someone's perspective.

Lots of blame to go around, basically.
This is from their own page.

If you're using the iTunes Store or App Store for the first time

If you're using the store for the first time with an existing Apple ID, you must provide a payment method. After you create the account, you can change your payment information to None.
If you're creating a new Apple ID, you might be able to create an account without entering your credit card details.

The only way is with gift card which is not sold worldwide.
Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad
Replace Github with Facebook or Google and the question boils down to "Broken for who?" The whole reason that big companies love supporting logins on other sites is that it makes it harder for a user to avoid sending information to that company.
Does your PTO time roll over - or do you lose it if you don't use it?
Um, the article discusses an ongoing court case accusing them of industrial espionage last year, which may result in criminal prosecution.
How is that illegal? They asked for a password to their device. He gave a password which then cleaned the device. For all the authorities know, it was a clean device i.e., brand new. Maybe they enjoy regularly installing new OSs using a clean install.

This being illegal is equally as bad them searching devices in the first place without just cause.
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>There's plenty of wealth, that goal is already achieved. Good policy is a matter of directing it toward the determinants of happiness.

This reminds me of this quote:

"It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object: in those most advanced, what is economically needed is a better distribution"

-John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (1848, book IV, chap. VI)

One day we'll look back at the levels of wealth people today possess the same way that today we look back at the level of material prosperity people enjoyed in 1848, as being at the level of extreme poverty.

To prioritize ephemeral happiness over substantive gains in the people's capabilities is shortsighted.
The 5820K was an amazing processor. I have one as well. Its coming up on two years old, yet for $390 (at release) its only ~10-20% slower than a brand new $490 Ryzen 1800x, and much of that drop can be attributed to two fewer cores.

You're right on all counts. Ryzen was vastly overhyped. Its highly likely Cannonlake and KabyLake-X will destroy it when they are released in a couple months.

The world needed Ryzen to push Intel to lower prices on their high end chips. But, like most of the times when AMD "pushes ahead", Intel will beat them within a year, and hold that position for another 4 years. And then the cycle repeats.

I don't know how much longer AMD can keep this up. It seems like they're being propped up by their dominance in console tech.
The NHS had warned hospitals several years in advance that Windows XP would be discontinued and that they would have to upgrade the OS. The NHS took out a 1 year contract on Windows XP updates at great financial expense which gave responsible authorities plenty of time to do the system upgrades.
I only retired an Android tablet because the USB port broke, so i could no longer charge it (it just jumps straight to the firmware install screen for some reason).

Right now i am making due with a cheap Windows tablet i bought because of curiosity, and it seems to get the job done for the most part.

Actually i am eyeing another Windows tablet, because it offers a keyboard and a couple of USB ports in a 8" package. And the lack of such ports is what i feel has held back tablets as being nothing more than big PMPs with a net connection so far.

Yeah sure, there is OTG. But that means tying up the one micro-USB port on the device. And I know there are supposed to be some standard for charging docks related to OTG, but i have yet to find one that actually works.
Realistically, as soon as WASM is a good alternative to JS a good part of websites won't use a single line of JS.

Regardless of arguments for and against whether this is a good idea, market pressure to open floodgates to other languages will be far too high to ignore.

My prediction is that WASM will quickly evolve into a new way to containerize applications, very close to a full-fledged VM/OS. The market constantly demands more features and faster execution. The only logical conclusion is that the web browser will become an operating system.
Why intel i5s are better than i7s
Books, and subscriptions to things like the ACM (for papers to read). Before the internet I'd go to the corporate library (at Apple) and photocopy a few dozen papers to read every month. In my office I had a couple large bookcases with a few hundred textbooks. Read manuals from various manufacturers (e.g., processor references, chip docs).

(I've still got most of those books, and the papers are largely in boxes, and while many of them are kind of quaint, like the early Unix, Mac and Windows manuals, much of the material is still relevant and worth re-reading).

For learning programming: Read textbooks (e.g., K&R) and do the example exercises. Read kernel, compiler and editor source code for good examples. Find a mentor, ideally a hardass who won't let you get away with even tiny mistakes.

I was thinking earlier today that a lot of the reason why systems are so complicated these days is that we can get away with it because of resources like SO and Google, and in a sense we're creating "complexity we can't lift", but on a global scale now, and at some point this approach won't scale. You need to pretty good at searching for issues and triaging bad advice, and this is only going to get worse.
OK, how about this. I offer FDE as a service, anonymously via Tor. Your Linux machine uses LUKS, with remote unlocking via dropbear. But you don't have the decryption passphrase. Before booting, you must alert me via Signal with video, stating that you are not under coercion, with identity and time verification. Then I SSH via Tor, and unlock your machine.

The argument is that authorities can't force you to lie to me, in order to get your machine unlocked. And you don't need to lie to them, either.

But of course, you'd need to trust me implicitly ;)
Amazon does that now as a matter of course - maybe I just manage to order obscure Prime items, but it's common to see the order summary show a date > 4 days out, while having the Prime 2-day shipping also checked.
A large part of any scientists job is communicating results. The people you criticize may not be novelists, but they are certainly professionals when it comes to communicating technical knowledge.

However, this knowledge is only communicated to other experts in the same - often very narrow - subfield. Often the definitions that give you a hard time when reading a paper have been refined over several years and are basically known to all other people working in the same field.

This is not ideal, but there is simply not enough manpower to produce good and generally accessible summaries of current research topics every few months...
Why do so many on HN feel the need to structure their responses like this:

> Something Rude. Real argument, which is stronger with first sentence removed.

You may be right (or wrong, I don't know) but opening with rudeness or insults makes it more difficult to have meaningful conversations.
Basically the same, except sometimes you'd accidentally click an ExpertsExchange link in Google and have to hit the back button.
>then destroy that iOS installer

You can't do that in forensic investigations. Everything that is done to the phone needs to be verifiable to prove evidence wasn't planted. And besides, the FBI was more looking to set a precedent for future investigations than it was concerned about that one phone.
Dinosaur asteroid hit 'worst possible place'
I meant the NSA in this case, but I agree there is are problem organisations with data protection responsibilities that do not prioritise them highly enough.
> And computer shows...

It's worth pointing out that, for a lot of places in the world, there weren't such things. There certainly weren't where I'm from in Australia
In Walmarts case, free 2 day shipping above $35 is not the same as prime. That's a lot less compelling. Also the yearly membership locks people to amazon to an extent.
I switched my family from Windows to Linux at home because of the work involved in keeping a working Windows machine (with minimal user supervision) connected to the internet.
You're confusing free software[0] with freeware[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware
The tech world is two percent female
Again, this is configurable now.
Systems were designed better and documented better back then, and changed less frequently. They had to be, because Stack Overflow didn't exist to make up for language/compiler/runtime developer shortcomings.
"Active Hours" is such a stupid idea, too. I'm perfectly happy if my box has to reboot at 3am for updates, but I do actually make use of it in the morning as well as into the night, and as it shares some home-fileserver duties for the rest of my family, it gets used sporadically throughout the day.

In its infinite wisdom Windows won't let me set "7am-11pm" as active hours - it caps it at either 10 or 12 hours. So no matter what I set it to, Windows 10 updates will inconvenience me more than just about any other OS in the house.
I already acknowledged this in a cousin comment. As long as they can also be homeless for a single reason, the statements are not independent. A population of women who are homeless due to domestic abuse, but not for any other reason, simultaneously drives the share of women-homeless-due-to-domestic-abuse up and the share of women-homeless-for-reasons-other-than-domestic-abuse down.
Programming language books are and were often very bad. There was a huge industry in giving very detailed step-by-step guides that didn't help the reader to think and had very low information density.

Some books were useful to me, but they were "diamonds in the rough". Searchable documentation and result-focused tutorials available these days are usually much better. Although I can't understand the people who want to learn from videos.
It is a terrible business and business arrangement (eg, the original contracts to purchase said software or equipment that uses software) that doesn't insist that the purchased software/machine run on manufacturer (in this case Microsoft) approved OSs. If the manufacturer says upgrade, then upgrade. When you purchase software and equipment, this should be part of any standard contract.
>> However most people DO care when their computers spontaneously reboot themselves with no warning (sometimes even in the middle of "active hours"!)

> This is now fixed..

Once bitten, twice shy.

Most if not all of the non-tech people I work with would respond to this with "yeah, well, I don't care, I don't want to take the chance it reboots during a presentation/webinar/demo/etc ever again".
I think the fundamental thing we've gotten to is an incredibly ubiquitous kick drum phrasing (4 on floor) and the sounds of a TR-909 kick drum.
An alternate link, http://news.morningstar.com/all/dow-jones/us-markets/2017051...
The court order says that Uber was talking with Levandowski about buying his company _while he was still working at Google_:

> Meanwhile, emails between Uber executives on January 12 and January 13 showed they had prepared a document titled “NewCo Milestones v5” for Levandowski to review in advance of a meeting the following day.

He didn't quit until the 27th. If you're poaching someone highly-placed off of your competitor you either have a plan for how you'll prove that they _didn't_ steal secrets or (like Uber) you get court orders to expose all your files.
Can you explain the joke?
right you are! My apologies, my familiarly with CoDel is limited to the Linux implementation
I think it's important to remember what's good for the customer isn't necessarily good for the business. There's a reason the $35 minimum is in place- because for orders totaling less than that the business is likely losing money.
One of the main advantages of the Raspberry Pi that I rarely see anyone mention is the composite video output.

It's incredibly easy to build an emulation box with a Raspberry Pi that you can connect to an old CRT TV an have the true retro game experience.

If I wanted to do the same on a normal desktop PC, I would need to look around for an old graphics card with a composite output or for some HDMI<->composite adapter (which are quite expensive IIRC)
It is fixed. When you upgrade to RS2 it asks you about the services and you can disable them and you can disable automatic updates.

BTW, this isn't unique to MS.. phones update all the time and the concept of the phone is going to change.. soon you will have just one device that does everything. Are people going to complain that MS can't then do what Apple/Google do in regards to spying, updates & patches?
> force the phone to call home after factory reset

Sounds like a useful anti-theft measure?
Why would domestic abuse cause women to become homeless more often than men? If a woman runs away from her abuser, there are countless shelters she can go to. If a man runs away from his abuser, there is really nowhere he can go.
Accreditation is the US is done by The Joint Commission. Hospitals without Joint Commission accreditation cannot get paid for Medicare or Medicaid bills.

In Britain the accreditation is done by Care Quality Commission:
http://www.cqc.org.uk

What's the point of an accreditation agency if they aren't going to ensure that the hospital is run safely which includes running on current software?
I reject both your claim and your rhetorical switcheroo.