skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even common hardware devices as plain notebooks don't run properly with the "newer" OS. I have one notebook for which the drivers break with anything above Windows 7. I have another which can't be upgraded over Windows 8.1. For both Microsoft's "Get Windows 10" claimed they "will work" with Windows 10 (there were ads running on both which do the "check" before).

I've tried the upgrade for both. The Windows 7 one has problems with the WiFi card -- reason: Intel never made newer drivers, the old aren't actually compatible with the newer systems. The Windows 8.1 one has problems with the touchpad: reason: the newer drivers are broken for that model. It also has some display issues on the Windows 10. The WiFi card, the touchpad and the display effectively aren't replaceable. But the computers, apart from not running the newer OS, work without a flaw.

If I as a consumer with only a few computers have such problems, I can't see how you don't understand that the whole companies can have immense number of computers that work perfectly with their current OS and would simply break with the newer one.

They would not upgrade, but they would install the security updates. But guess what, Microsoft doesn't want to give the security updates to everybody who has Windows XP. Only after this failure they "exceptionally" did it.

So Microsoft is absolutely responsible. They can say "we'd prefer to motivate people to buy new" but they are still morally responsible for not releasing updates when there are so many actively used systems.
Or prior to then - or at least I'd imagine the further you go back from then the fewer of them there were.

I'm from a bit north of Brisbane originally and if there were any in Brisbane around the 80s/early-90s I never knew of them (I guess that's the other thing about the pre-web world, that it was a lot harder to know of what was happening).
Hololens may never be a commercial success, or even a very compelling product, but that was not it's purpose. Hololens at it's core is a POC and tech demo, and we are already seeing that tech trickle down into the next gen. The upcoming VR dispalys for Win10 will all incorporate the inside-out tracking developed for hololens. This is huge because it offloads a very large tech burden from display manufacturers which opens the market for more, cheaper, simpler VR displays. ML could see their market inundated with competitors before they even reach it.
Anyone remember the max amount of people allowed in a given aol chat room?
Yet again allow me to shill for this year's Rust Community Survey, which closes June 12 and is open even to people who've never used Rust: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/05/03/survey.html (Yes, I know it's linked from the OP, but who reads that anyway?)
The AutoDesk File: Detailed inside view of an early Unicorn (1994)
But there are other options that are available for the customer is not really much of a counter point, as there are almost always other options available.

People dislike shutdowns because they have invested time and resources in implementing something. Now they have to spend the same if not more time again. This has a cost involved.

How much work is created in our cultures because of the disposable nature of everything. Businesses use efficiency as an excuse of squeeze every last dollar out of workers. Yet on the other end the system is exactly the opposite of efficient.
Meteor is (to my understanding) an all-in-one framework with database access and realtime stuff built in.

Next.js is sort of a React project bootstrap/boilerplate that has some pre-selected configuration for things like styling components and server side rendering.
To be clear, I am not saying I don't understand his motivation in that position, only pointing out that it explains the senseless disclosures more than the theory of WL doing it to benefit Russia.
As it previously said it's two different projects. Meteor is a full stack framework where it does everything from data to rendering.

But Next.js is not like this. It's only for the UI (rendering)
You can build server rendered React apps pretty easily. It supports dynamic imports, prefetching, preloading and you name it.

Now you can export any Next.js app into a static app too.

Recently, Meteor adds some new JS features into it's build setup too.
That article points out it's a different version of the core on the desktop, SP3r2 instead of the SP3 that is landing server side. SP3r2 is only coming with 4 DDR channels.

It's not clear why they're deliberately using a crippled socket here for the desktop. I don't understand the value proposition, and can only envision it driving up motherboard prices. That CPU combined with a crippled socket is surely likely to end up starved of memory IO
find/grep/awk/ag get me a long way to be honest. However, I think this is a cool project because it makes filtering of file attributes (such as size) so much easier. No need for splitting strings and using regex. Cheers.
I guess I don't see it that way. Extended support (which includes security patches) are only for paying customers.
A republic is basically democracy with a few extra steps added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
Is this a point to the downside of bitcoin? Im not against it at all still, but this does prove it to be a viable method of payment for shady business that can't reasonably be tracked... without bitcoin (or other crytocurrency), what methods would be in place to collect this money that wouldnt be easily tracked?
Agreed, but PL had an excellent product, the flexible e-ink display, that had they sold it as a component[1] they could have funded any number of future products. Instead they felt they had the funding and runway to build the entire experience and dominate the e-reader market with a more durable, less expensive, and larger format product.

The interesting bit was that they were not wrong, if they could do all those things they could have dominated the market. But they had too much money relative to the market window. As a result they spent way too much time working through product issues that were completely unrelated to their game changing display and once full color tablet readers were a competitive threat they had too much margin pressure to recoup any of their development costs.

[1] And yes, I met with their VP of Marketing/Product Development and explained this to them when they had time to take the advice, but they did not.
I don't like people that recline (or planes for that matter), but I'm also pretty tall (6') and long legged. It's already painful to squeeze into the seat, and I either have to move my feet all the way under the seat in front of me (I kick the little footstand a few times), or I have my feet flat on the floor, and my knees get stuck behind someone reclining.
Seems if the query is always going to start with SELECT, that maybe it should be assumed?
I would never use this though, ack or find seem sufficient to me.
This shutdown had an incredibly healthy discussion internally. The reality is that this service had been unmaintained for a long while, but we'd previously chosen not to start this deprecation process until we had a GA service we could actually have someone migrate to (Cloud ML Engine).

Additionally, it turns out that very few people were using it. That's not an excuse, but the reality of ongoing investment. I fought hard for this to be our expected 1 year term, and we had hoped to have a somewhat cookie cutter guide for "Here's how you reproduce this with TensorFlow". Quite frankly, the handful of users of the prediction API likely aren't the kind to happily port to TensorFlow (and this service has existed since the sort of App Engine only days, so they're mostly hobbyists, but I still care).

It's never great to "have to" turn down a service, but ultimately when forced between letting the code rot and become a potential security nightmare versus give the small set of users some time to retool, the decision was made to go with the latter. No new features is an easy way to keep something running forever, but keeping the damn thing secure requires a team to stay on top of it.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
This seems to be a sort of excluded-middle error... there is lots of space available in between "Wal-Mart will never threaten Amazon" and "Wal-Mart already drove Amazon out of business". I'd suggest you just shop on Wal-Mart's site; you'll discover they have almost as many shoddy knock-offs for sale as Amazon have...
What if the service/whitehat did an ID verification before releasing the info they uncovered? Basically ask a few things generally like what credit report agencies sometimes ask (Which of these addresses are yours? What is your username on this site? etc). Only release the info if there's a match.

Presumably you'd want to get paid up front, since you'd have done all the work in either case.
I am definitely throwing around numbers, but I specifically asked if the math and economics worked out.

The people wanting a radical change to the system of income distribution need to prove their system works.

I'm sure someone has done the math.
I'm confused… This is an interview from 1969. EB White died in 1985. Not sure why you're remarking on the presence or absence of online-specific interviews in The Paris Review here.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14339720. Please post civilly and substantively here.
Next.js is not a boilerplate. It's kind a mini framework comes with it's own simple Router.

Basically it makes building client side apps faster and fun.
Check this for more info: https://learnnextjs.com/
That is, at least, the tumblr of a psychiatrist resident who writes a lot on the subject of FDA regulations. I really recommend his blog posts on the subject, like this one about how different countries (Russia and US particularly) use different drugs and for the most part don't even seem to be so interested in trying the drugs available elsewhere: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/16/an-iron-curtain-has-des...
> No, it is not.

Then your assertion they are pro-terrorist doesn't make any sense.

Helping to free people who were tortured at some point during their captivity isn't the same as being "pro-terrorist".

Being a civil rights group that opposes mistreatment of prisoners is going to lead to you representing or seeking to free unsavory people on the basis of their mistreatment (rather than their innocence).
How "old" is sufficient? Forever?

Is fixing 0-days sufficient "support", or do you think Microsoft should be forced to actively invest in security updates for end-of-life software?
>> When I hard reload the Craigslist home page for my state, it downloads right around 150 kb.

>> That is a thing of beauty.

I really find it sad that it's such an anomaly.
Banks have vaults to store money and other valuables.

Theft is going to happen even with great policemen. People who don't follow manufacturers instructions (especially when they are told the software is no longer supported and yet they fail to upgrade to a supported OS) are culpable. To run on unsupported software or not to run security updates on supported software is like banks without vaults. Just unrealistic in either case.
Performing Hyperparameter Optimization with Amazon Machine Learning
That number includes : "and an estimate of $1.2 billion in returns that investors forego on that money during the 10-plus years a drug candidate spends in development."

The math on that seems wacky as 1.4 billion assuming it's close to valid is spent over 10+ years and is not a 100% up front investment for 10 years. So, they are saying if you invest ~140 million / year after 10 years you will have ~2.5 billion from your expected 13% annual ROI which is crazy talk. Even 70m/year over 20 years is only 2.5b if you assume 6% ROI which is hardly 'safe'.

Given that, I suspect the other numbers are also inflated such as including 'failed' drugs which is classic Hollywood accounting.

PS: One of the classic ways Drug companies mislead is what they bundle under the Research part of R&D vs the Development part of R&D.
I literally wrote hand-written letters to IBM asking questions about BASIC.

Later: Borland Pascal came with a glorious full bookshelf of printed documention, and instant-access context sensitive help within the (console mode) IDE.
They passed up a good opportunity for price discovery: have the ransomware pick a random number between, say, 10 and 1000 and learn from that for future attacks.
That would certainly be an interesting new phenomenon if it existed. This article wasn't that. It's a rumor based on a hearsay report—in other words gossip. That kind of thing is rarely on topic for HN because it rarely has much substance.

This site exists to gratify intellectual curiosity (i.e. curiosity about how the world works), not the other, more highly stimulating forms of curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> It should be trivial to implement something that's 10 times better...

What would you be optimizing for? What changes could you make that wouldn't increase the page size or slow the loading speed?
Nice! I'm actually working on a similar project to push lsof and files from /proc into some postgres tables. Lets me do cool things like query log files across a ~6000 server infrastructure similar to:

SELECT distinct(l.name)
FROM lsof l, lsofer_runs r
WHERE l.lsofer_id = r.id
AND fd_type = 'REG'
AND l.fd ~ '[0-9][uw]'
AND l.name like '%log'
GROUP BY l.name, r.hostname
ORDER BY name

Best of luck!
A 50 Year-Old Teletype Powered by a Raspberry Pi
Scott Alexander [1] has some useful (critical) comments: "significant safety issue" is not necessarily what it sounds like.

[1] https://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/160559317596/kit...
I'm a little shocked it's that low. What medication doesn't have significant safety issues?
We got married before Obamacare so she needed to get on my insurance.
Isn't tax evasion the whole point of bitcoin?
I was playing around with Amazon ML and built a quick hyperparameter optimization example based on Amazon's GitHub example for k-fold cross validation. I'm an engineer at SigOpt so there's a SigOpt example, but I've also included a non-SigOpt hyperparameter optimization pipeline that updates the old Amazon k-fold cross validation example to boto3, runs as a single file, and lets you provide a list of hyperparameters upfront.
Given that they are working on an enterprise/industrial AR play

Where are you getting that from? Everything they are about is experiences for the home user in an entertainment context.
I assume "office online" means Office 365? If yes, how can I use it for free? Last time I checked there was only a free trial [1].

Microsoft does take my money--just because the cost for the OS is hidden in the hardware doesn't mean some fraction of that money isn't going to Microsoft, i.e. in the end I have to pay to use Windows. Windows 10 was not free either as advertised, since it required an older version to upgrade from.

Compared to Google's and Apple's offerings, Microsoft's do kinda look shitty.

[1] https://products.office.com/en-us/compare-all-microsoft-offi...
Check out PTC ThingWorx Studio. They're working on 3D CAD recognition and tracking tech for industrial and enterprise use cases. One of the more advanced products on the mkt based on my research (I think they're still in private beta though).
I am sorry if I seem frustrated. its just I can tell you are a thoughtful, curious person, who seems like you want to enjoy mathematics. but instead i feel like you are lapsing into a math phobia and a concern with trivialities. the fact you seem genuinely interested makes it more frustrating. mathematics is not notation. notation is just arbitrary historical nonsense. an OLD professor I know complains about using fraktur (annoying german script used in abstract algebra for ideals-german mathematicians in the 1880s developed the heart of modern algebra) because "we won the war". don't let it blind you to the beauty and depth and complexity of mathematics. yes sometimes its annoying AF. (god don't even get me started on what physicists call things). but the struggle is worth it and there are things that can be improved but there is no magic bullet
They still use it internally too, if you ever use ElasticMapReduce (EMR) then you'll probably see SimpleDB charges on your bill (very small amounts) because they use it under the hood to store cluster debugging information
I think it's more that if politician A did such a thing, it would give opposing politician/party B ammo to mount a campaign to incite backlash, not that the public cares enough to backlash themselves.
I've got a question about databases: why don't they use raw disk partitions instead of files?

If you think about it, a modern disk filesystem is really a form of database (but not the relational kind): various kinds of data (filename, date, access time, etc., and finally the actual data) are stored in a schema on the disk (which itself is abstracted by the disk controller) in a way that it can be looked up and retrieved quickly.

Most modern databases I've heard of use regular filesystems to store their data, so it's a database using another database to store data.

Wouldn't it be faster to eliminate the filesystem altogether, and just have the SQL database go directly to the disk, just like Linux swap partitions do?

After a little googling, it does seem that Oracle used to do this (but no more), and MySQL's InnoDB still offers this. Others claim that there's no advantage to this because the kernel handles dealing with raw devices better than the DB does, but I think it's more likely that the DBs just don't have enough development resources to try doing it better; filesystems are necessarily going to incur a certain amount of overhead, so it only makes sense that theoretically you could go directly to the raw device and cut out some of that overhead, though you would be replicating some of what the kernel's filesystem driver is doing, but in a way that's more optimal for the DB.
Agreed.

Rust is like a fresh breath of air, and the community around the language is a great example how an OpenSource project can work without being hostile to newcomers. Kudos to the Rust team!
He seems pretty chill about it: "When it was spotted on a second design iteration, we judged the temperature was going to be about 36 degrees (Celsius). But it's turned out to be more like 72 degrees. They are calling it the 'death ray', because if you go there you might die. It is phenomenal, this thing." [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/06/walkie-...
You should be able to use chrome or safari to load youtube videos in the web player, up to 720p just fine on it.
I found the iPad stylus to have significantly lower latency than both types of MS Surface stylus tech.
It didn't meet our needs in classifying hotdogs vs everything else.
Decentralization is the point of Bitcoin. It can still be taxed in any number of ways.
Are you demanding the same standard from commenters whose comment screams Google, Waymo, Lyft or Tesla employee?
I agree with you that Uber employees should divulge their affiliation, but so should those with a conflict of interest against Uber.

Edit: thank you for editing your comment (after I replied with mine) to divulge that you're an alphabet employee. Your behavior is commendable.

Edit 2: seriously?! A comment expecting people on both sides to disclose their affiliations was flagged?
> It's a really simple concept, and there are very few business ideas that can pull it off.

The vast majority of businesses bootstrap themselves. Not on HN of course :)
The very act of putting all those ideas into a mathematical expression is in essence programming. You take a whole bunch of ideas, codify them and put them together to either explain something else or produce a product - a theory or formula. Which in essence is what programming is.
I'm still on dabbling in Rust, but I'm fairly convinced that in another few years after this Tokio churn has gotten a chance to settle down and the async patterns are more broadly refined, there won't be many justifiable reasons to not write new projects in it, whether they're as low level as a Postgres extension or as high level as a DB-backed HTTP application.

Not being hindered by the compiler telling you what you can and can't do; freeing yourself from the write-compile-debug cycle, reducing it to repl-done; etc.
Further, try to take only what medicine you need, maybe just a Sudafed instead of a SUDAFED DM X + PAIN
My last company used Atlassian Stash and switched from a single project and monorepo to lots of projects and repos. I wrote a python script that uses the Stash API (via the stashy library) to update or clone selected (or all, including new) repositories.

I used it fairly regularly to keep my local repos up to date, and I know one developer who used it to generate gource visualizations.
Maybe the value is on the developer side of the equation. More layers of abstraction might enable faster development cycles or more advanced features at the cost of resource consumption.
Infant mortality and life expectancy are improving with modern medicine and diet. Most of our problems today stem from the over consumption of food and lack of physical activity. Cancer rates are at an all time low even though media makes it seem like everything(non caloric sweeteners, plastics, herbicides) around us causes cancer.

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/data/race.htm
"The warning informs the user that to unlock their system, they would have to pay a fine using a voucher from an anonymous prepaid cash service such as Ukash or Paysafecard.

[...]

By August 2012, a new variant of Reveton began to spread in the United States, claiming to require the payment of a $200 fine to the FBI using a MoneyPak card.

[...]

Rather surprisingly, Fusob suggests using iTunes gift cards for payment."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware

Apparently at least Ukash, Paysafecard, MoneyPak card, and iTunes gift cards have all been used.
just look at how successful a business that is, so simple, so little innovation and yet so much revenue. But despite all that, they have the best feature (X factor) in the wolrd: market timing.

ohhh what i wouldn't do, to time travel back to 1995.
Craigslist has the best mobile app out there. It can be found at https://www.craigslist.org
Enormously frustrating, if you couldn't afford books. Once I got a modem, I made several breakthroughs thanks to collections of text files, the greatest of which was PCGPE, the PC Games Programmers' Encyclopedia.

(Looks as though a few people have put it online: http://qzx.com/pc-gpe/)
Previous attempt by Dell, http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1253118
It works with traffic citations and with tax enforcement. I mean if from a behavioral perspective you're looking for a given result with minimized work, selective enforcement is a decent option.
Sam Zell on WeWork: “I wouldn’t let them near my business with a 10-foot pole”
I'm not blaming the victim, I'm offering helpful input as they are developing a CFD product. As someone who sometimes is asked to review purchases/license extensions of CFD codes, the ability to restart a suddenly interrupted calculation with minimum data loss is a must.
There are dozens of USB to misc. I/O pin devices. Pick one depending on how many analog, digital, PWM, etc. ports you need.
Simply put, here is what all SaaS startups should be doing
The simple pillars of SaaS growth are:
1. Attract highly qualified leads
2. Convert leads into customers
3. Grow and scale your startup

In my experience most early stage founders struggle with this. It's part of the reason conversion and retention rates are so low.

I'll be sharing more on this for a private group. You can get on the waitlist here.
It's only a beta test for an app so please bear with me. Thanks

https://www.getdrip.com/forms/5410857/submissions/new

p.s
If you have a simpler roadmap than I've described please share. This is what I've found success doing but I wouldn't assume that it works for everyone.