skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience has been quite the opposite. Amazon's​ reliable and fast delivery alongwith its amazing customer service have been 2 key influencers in me spending 10,000s of dollars every year there. I have a habit to check Amazon first for any item I want to buy and if I can't find it there (or sellers who are part of Prime fulfillment), only then I venture out to another site or, most probably, buy it from a retail store.
That's what I thought too reading the title, but the windows tax makes sure it comes pre-installed with computers and for most people it means having to deal with windows.

It should be "tell people to use a non-windows OS" instead.
If anyone wonders why you would keep such an old computer as an Apple II, that should be an immediate failure of your class :)
What would be the legality of stating " My password is not XYZ", when XYZ is the destruct password. Can you get the obstruction of justice charge if they try it and it destroys evidence?
Aren't you bothered that they push updates as you try to turn the PC on ? Or have you not experienced this part of windows update ?
+1 for the magazine mention. A lot of what I learned from tinkering with computers back then came from magazine and the floppies (and later CDs) of shareware they tended to include.
I would make a joke about how everybody used to read books, but before SO there were forums and before forums there were mailing lists and newsgroups.

plus Perl was king so there weren't any right answers, or an infinite number of right answers I should say.
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Otto was fraud, with Uber's knowledge, right from the beginning. While Levandowski was working at Waymo, he and Kalanick had one of their little nighttime walks where they hashed out the deal: "you take Waymo's stuff, found a throwaway company, and we'll buy it a few months later". Of course, this couldn't be proved in court since there were no records of this deal, but it's absolutely what happened. (EDIT: Note that even Alsup thinks this is what happened, he just didn't think there was enough evidence to take action on it)

Hence, there is no way Uber will sue Levandowski. He'd simply spill the beans and then Uber would be screwed.
Netflix is likely to loose more money from unsubscribing than revenue lost from the increased ability to pirate.
I think Uber and Levandowski have some sort of agreement that says Uber will defend him in court. In light of this, it would be difficult for Uber to argue they have grounds to sue him.
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This might well be the single reason SETI didn't detect any signals yet...
I thought the standard trick to prevent the upgrade to 10 was to use never10 to disable the upgrade.

https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
With how many questionable practices Uber is guilty of partaking in, I wouldn't be surprised if attempting to manipulate Hacker News was one of them.
My parents' 80286 IBM PS/2 came with MS DOS 4.0 and a manual. I worked my way through the manual, trying every command. One day I tried RESTORE. This ended poorly, since it overwrote the entire contents of the 20MB hard drive. But on the plus side, I learned how to install an operating system that day, as I installed DOS again from the floppies. Fortunately, we still kept all of our files on floppies at the time, so nothing important was lost.

At any rate, that machine also had EDLIN and BASICA, and that was the start of my programming career. I didn't have any books on BASIC, and the manual was pretty scant when it came to information about BASIC. But I did have a friend who was into BASIC, and he pointed me in the right direction a few times.
Back in the day we had books and magazines. Computers used to come with books explaining how they worked and how to use the BASIC that came with them; there were programming books available for sale for skill levels from beginner to professional. Magazines often had program listings printed right in them; you could type them in or send away for a cassette or disk with the programs from that issue on it. There were magazines available for each specific computer type (Apple, Commodore, Tandy, etc.).

I know, I'm dating myself here, but man was it a good time to be a kid and learn how to program.
Let me take the contrarian side and say you will have small 1-2 seat Self-Flying vehicles before Self-Driving Cars.
It's really not Stack Overflow that we should be asking about, it's Google.

Programming became a lot easier when you could just type a question into Google and it would find that someone asked the same question in some forum or newsgroup. In 2003 Google would always include results in a site called Experts' Exchange, which was basically an earlier version of Stack Overflow.

What was different, though, before Google, was that when I got stuck, I often spent a lot of time inventing (or guessing,) a workaround, and my workaround was often incorrect, fragile, slow, ect. In today's world, I'll often see the workaround show up on Stack Overflow first, and then a better answer show up, and then a better answer.

(edit) Another difference is that documentation is essentially annotated today. If the documentation is confusing or misleading, it's usually clarified in a stack overflow or some other forum. Before Google, if documentation was confusing, you were stuck guessing or hacking. That was very time consuming.(/edit)

So basically, before Stack Overflow / Google, there was no globally searchable database of questions and answers. You would get stuck on simple things for a long time, and move much slower.
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The title screams bias and misinformation. It presumes Uber took technology from Waymo, which the judge rules against by stating that "Waymo’s patent theories are too weak to support any provisional relief" and "it has become clear that Waymo has both overreached in defining its trade secrets and made moving targets out of its asserted trade secrets to evade defensive arguments".
Google? No such thing. AltaVista maybe.
I could have sworn that with Anniversary and later this is no longer the case, as people used that on their home network to get Windows to shut up.
Something untouched in the article, or at least I missed it, both companies I've worked at have seen declining iPad users.

My interpretation is that for people that love the device, LOVE it. For people that thought it was going to be a laptop replacement and wanted to try it, decided it wasn't.

For everyone else, it just became that device that sits uncharged on the coffee table or bookshelf now.
Effectively this means that if they were using it, and they continue using it, they can add contempt of court to the list of potential charges I guess.
From reddit:

My brother in law has a "habit" of going to jail. All. The. Time. My wife wants to know when it happens, so I setup a script to poll the local jail inmate rosters, and send me an email when his name shows up. It works pretty well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/308ucq/how_do_you_u...
I was reading Piketty then stopped to read this transcript. It was a strange, jarring experience. Try it out.
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The judge could have gone that broad and issued a total injunction, but he purposely didn't. I've been involved in situations like this. The end result is likely the status quo. Both parties will fight over it more, of course. But if Uber says they don't have or use the documents, they'll just continue business as usual.
I think some guys actually proved that in the 1930s. But so what? Program analysis and testing complement one another.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337507
That was the researchers' fault for using Windows as the platform for all this work. They should have known better.
I'm totally clueless at this point in history. How are people still getting infected with shit when you give them these two rules:

1. Don't use a public IP on your laptop on the internet.

2. Don't run shit or use IE.

Bypass 2 if you're a developer and you are experienced in this stuff.

Seriously, I genuinely want to know, because the people that just got this, are going to continue to get shit in the future.
Do you think it would be possible to link your HN and reddit accounts?

I just creeped your whole comment history and you only leak a small pattern of facts here (country, gadget, a couple repeated interests).

The interest related subreddits would likely still be a pretty huge haystack.
>>It presumes Uber took technology from Waymo, which the judge rules against

FTFA:

"Judge William Alsup in San Francisco says in the ruling that Waymo has shown “compelling evidence” that a former star engineer named Anthony Levandowski downloaded confidential files before leaving Waymo. The Judge also says evidence shows that before he left Waymo, Levandowski and Uber planned for Uber to acquire a company formed by Levandowski."
Only if someone is actually willing to buy part of the company. The last person valuing it at a gazillion dollars doesn't mean that the next person will value it at a gazillion dollars.
Lattice [1] originated as DeepDive [2][3], a statistical inference project led by Christopher Ré at Stanford.

[1]: https://lattice.io/

[2]: http://deepdive.stanford.edu/showcase/apps

[3]: https://github.com/HazyResearch/deepdive

DeepDive was discussed previously on Hacker News [4].

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8736739
I've had many problems with Amazon as well. If I buy a physical good from their website now, my operating assumption is that I will not receive it and will need to ask for another one (which I also likely will not receive, then cancel the order).

So, I better really want whatever that thing is, in order to put up with the current insanity of dealing with them.
If "you're creating value" there is going to be some sort of network. It can eventually get to the point where you'd wish everyone would just shut up (a pretty common open source Dev complaint).
I'm actually surprised that printed cookbooks are still economically viable using any kind of publishing model.

They remind me of those books from the 1980s filled with printed copies of the source code for computer programs. You would input the text from the book using your keyboard, and compile/interpret the program. That was how many programs were distributed, because a printed book on a truck had higher bandwidth than any other readily-available channel. And then there were also books about learning to write your own programs that may also have included some source code. I think that cookbooks filled with recipes are like the former, and books about learning to make your own recipes are like the latter.

Those recipe books simply became obsolete with ubiquitous Internet access. Countless recipes are open source and freely available. Barely anything in a recipe book is eligible for copyright protection. You can basically rewrite instructions in your own words and make your own drawings or photographs, if any, and that boxed spaghetti with canned marinara recipe is now printable as part of your own cookbook.

So it is very smart to--as with the book in the article--load up all your recipes with copyright-protected photographs, rather than leaving them out to cut print costs. But even so, that book as described seemed more about trademarks and brands than content. It might be useful for franchisees or for professional imitators. When I am cooking at home, I rarely even refer to a recipe, and when I do, it is just one of the thousands of results from an Internet search.

Does anyone here still bother buying cookbooks? Would it not be more useful to simply learn how to cook without referring to recipes? Who needs that level of restaurant-style uniformity and consistency in their own kitchen?
You just hung out on IRC and mailing lists.

It was clumsier, but it worked.
Do people really learn _only_ from SO? I mean sure, it can solve problem at hand but learning a new language or technology? I don't see how it could compete with books in any way
"consuming content online" is such a broad advertising term it becomes pretty much useless if you bring in other devices in the discussion.

So what is the actual demographics here?

You'd at least need to have more money left then most of the above mentioned demographics. You'll also need to be prepared or willing to use an apple system. It's very likely that you already have at least one other Apple device that you already use to "consume content online". Which brings us back to the question that appears often here:

Why do you need another one?
I may be mixing up the years but in '98 I think a 333Mhz Celeron wasn't necessarily cheap. Not top of the line for sure, but also not your average dumpster find.
Maybe make some commercials? "Yeah, we've got free 2-day shipping, and you don't need a membership. Or we have 1-hour pickup. How close is your nearest river?"
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Ugh, one more thing to loath about Windows.

Get some error code, search for it, find 1001 sites that offer you to tell exactly what is wrong, for a price.
Formally declaring a profit just results in a higher tax bill. Better to reinvest in R&D if you can keep the growth rate up. AMZN was < $40 in 2008, now it is pushing $1000. That's why shareholders are happy to let Bezos keep reinvesting.
TL;DR: The OP says Amazon's key advantage over all competitors is that the company's internal operations -- from server provisioning to database storage to inventory management to fulfillment to call-centers -- are also sold to external users as services, forced by competition to remain highly competitive on quality, features, and cost efficiency. No other company has made its entire infrastructure available to the world as competitive services in the same way.

It's a compelling point.
I disagree. It's only good if they find something, which to me is doubtful given the fact they didn't find something already, and given the fact that the judge didn't issue a single injunction against Uber for trade secrets. As far as I can tell from reading the injunction, there wasn't a single case of a trade secret from those documents making its way into Uber's technology.

The fact that none of the technology made it into their Lidar designs makes it hard to believe that anything will be found. The idea that somehow discovery will determine there was something stolen seems pretty low at this point.

I agree that the order to compel returning the documents is interesting, and to me potentially the most "damaging" if they are forced to fire Levandowski.
For now.

Their plan, as far as I can see, is to totally dominate the market. Once, and if that happens, they will raise their prices, and once again the little guy's money will be going in the pockets of the big guys.
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how do they enforce this though? I mean they can return the files, but could have hidden copies any number of places.
> then Apple's product line is cannibalising itself, which would also be an issue.

It would be like if they created a product category that made another product category obsolete. Like, say, the iPhone and the iPod.
Ask HN: Has the HN entry about Sam Altman running for office just been removed?
I'm sure it topped the home page ten minutes ago. I came back two minutes ago to see if there were any comments, and the entry is nowhere to be found.
What happened?

This was the story: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/y-combinator-head-who-pushes-basic-income-is-reportedly-running-for-office/
1) I don't post with my account in flamewar topics because of fanboy downvotes.

2) The article omits pretty much any important detail that is in favor of this boogeyman company so readers assume the absolute worst. Check out pfarnsworth's comments here to see that this is actually a ruling very much in Uber's favor. He did a better job of commenting than me.

I'm also pro-Apple, pro-Monsanto, pro-Facebook and pro-every-other-company journalists love to hate and only tell one side of the story because I've personally seen my company maligned unfairly by the media.
Wow I didn't know there was more than one way to write Monte Carlo, Haar, Point-cloud algorithms. At what point does "hire an engineer to do something" become "common-knowledge"?
If this is a ploy to get more mainstream candidates to steal ideas from your platform, also an OK idea.
Wikipedia had more membership growth in the time where there was no money for yearly conferences and community outreach.

Wikidata mainly works because it's programmers do a decent job and people like to participate. It doesn't work because WMF invests in community outreach and yearly conferences. It's get's a lot of money from the German chapter, so it shows some usefulness of the chapter but it's not a result of the community building spending of that chapter.
Its in house CFD software and the saved state feature has been broken and at the bottom of people's priority for a while unfortunately.

Definitely gunna use this as an opportunity to resume that conversation though
I ordered an air conditioner right before a big heat wave where I live last summer. I also subscribed to Prime at the same time to get the free shipping, because I figured why not. Here's why not: when they completely dropped the ball and never gave the air conditioner I ordered to the shipping company, their bright idea to make up for it was to give me a free month of Prime. Hooray.
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I like the part where he "supported" his thesis that a certain class of comments is "spam" by checking a random sample of the associated email addresses against HaveIBeenPwned and finding that 75% of them showed up in there, but did not bother to make sure this is actually a real signal by checking a random sample of "real" comments as well.
At 80k new cars a year that's a 4mil a month waste of money. Tesla couldn't survive giving each car a 50/mo data plan forever.
> Why Amazon is eating the world

For a very tiny and solipsistic definition of "world", yes.
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That transcript is harrowing.
And you can reasonably draw the conclusion that is a plot for stealing technology? It's perfectly reasonable to tell someone that, go make an MVP and we will acquire it.
I always appreciate the occasional poster with a gleeful attitude towards copying. I wish there were more people like him such to change the public's view on pirates.
...despite being told by police that he had “nothing to worry about” and was not suspected of any wrongdoing...

Never talk to the police. Doesn't matter what they say, never, ever talk to the police, about anything, for any reason. Talk to your lawyer. The police are not on your side.
You may want to look at running a Plex server.
As I understand it, Google is granted expedited discovery and Uber basically has to allow Google to give a stamp of approval that they aren't using stolen tech.

I imagine that puts the burden of proof of "stolen tech" on Google though, so they can't just make claims without evidence.

Any attorneys want to confirm/correct my understanding?
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While perhaps (probably?) all the criticism of the papers is justified I'd note that the subject of the doxing doesn't seem very concerned about it at all.
The existence of fields that merge math and programming does not mean that "doing math" and "programming" are similar actions/similar fields. I've studied both and there is a world of difference.

> How else would the math be invented in the first place?

Usually the first step for problems to be solved is their expression in a mathematical way. See the heat equation: Newton (and probably others, history is not my strong point) already captured the core idea of heat transfer (transfer rate is proportional to the temperature difference) but it could only be really solved by Fourier once all of those ideas were put in mathematical expressions.
The fun and beautiful is what drew me in. As I got to know the rest of her (smart, good head on her shoulders, confident, compassionate) it became a no brainer.
This is why I like Linux - you don't need to learn the commandline just for basic OS functionality. Windows really needs to get a decent GUI already.

^_^
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It was marked as a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14342198
Don't kid yourself, he is already under their thumb. Look at his proposed budget, three things had a budget increase and two of them contain intelligence organizations. These groups aren't unified.
Checks out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dDmeDeygRik see 5:30
I totally agree with you. Unfortunately, it is becoming culturally acceptable to push destructive updates on users. Dropbox for Linux downloads and installs new binaries and unlinks the old ones. Of course Chrome does this. Firefox does it too. I shouldn't have to be so vigilant in defending my computer.

Of course it is not as bad as on OSX, where if you install any Google product, like Drive or Chrome, it will nag you to authenticate it, by misleading you with messages like "We need you to authenticate so that our software can run properly" (It will run fine without you authorizing it). Google will then install the deceptively named "Keystone Agent", which runs as root, and monitors your filesystem for Google software, and will silently delete and replace it with the latest versions. Often, these newer versions remove existing functionality, such as the ability to disable DRM in Chrome [1].

The reason for this pattern for updates, is because users might not agree to this if they were given a choice.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514415
> If you want to run batch operations, use the right product.

Sorry, but this does come across as a bit asinine.

What's the right product for running software written for Microsoft Windows, if not Microsoft Windows?

"Users running their applications" isn't just Grandma on Facebook, or your little sister playing Candy Crush Saga. Microsoft's unquestionable strength has been it's support for enterprise, small-business and professional desktop users. There is a lot of deserved anger thrown their way as a result of deliberate decisions to force flexibility and choice-limiting behavior down the throat of their core market.

My shop is small, but I can count COMSOL, SolidWorks, OrCAD, LabVIEW, various SPICE frontends, and a dozen other small odds and ends for instrument control and data capture without even leaving the engineering suite. All of which are going to be forever stuck on Win 7, at this rate.
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It's 100% true that they've forced a revolution in price/performance. You forgot the much cheaper motherboards and RAM on Ryzen. Intel HEDT has been out of what most people consider a reasonable reach. The more attractive of the HEDT chips started at $1050+ (6900K). Add in your quad channel RAM and LGA-2011-v3 motherboard and you have quite a bundle. Not part of pricing but the AM4 promise for socket longevity further seals the deal for enthusiasts.

Either way, I'm happily using a newly built R7-1700 in a Node 202 mini-ITX case with a Geforce 1060 Founders Edition. It's very quiet and having 8 cores and 16 threads is far more useful than I assumed it would be. It's one of those things that you didn't know you needed until you have it. I use it for so much stuff, and it handles it all with ease.

If nothing else, the 16 threads get a workout daily as my Steam Link is set to do CPU encoding and that uses 8 threads. Beautiful image quality on the TV as a result when the fam is doing some gaming. I'm in love with this system, very happy with Ryzen. Thanks to AMD! :)