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>> Based on my own experience as both a student and a teacher, I have come to the conclusion that the best way to learn is through "guided struggle".
>This is the only way to "properly" learn mathematics or science. Anything else is only making you think you've learnt something.

I agree with this statement but I think it misses the point entirely. Guided struggle is indeed necessary, but learning some theorem without seeing the impetus for its discovery is like learning how to play an instrument without understanding that the intent is to make music. Yeah, with enough time and struggle, you might be able to go through the motions and play some scales, but most people don't learn to play instruments that way, they learn to play a simple song or two, then go back and start with the scales and building musical theory.

Math textbooks sometimes try to do the same thing, but it seems like they always come up with the most inane and pointless exercises.

All of this is just to say, learning they why of math can help someone learn the how.
This would be the same platform as their server CPUs I think, so you're probably right that the desktop market is limited. That being said there are still a decent professional market that might be interested in something like this. I.e. 3D modeling, video editing, machine learning, etc.
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Sorry but fair share is a crap phrase and completely brushes over the two facts.

1) No business pays any tax, ever. They are collectors of tax only. The embed their taxes and fees in the products and services they sell which means the consumer is the payer. So at most they are guilty of collecting and not turning over taxes. The tricks you bemoan exist because politicians and countries of the EU can still bargain to better support their own people and do so.

2) Considering the level of taxation in Europe, if you think that services are inadequate you need to ask your officials just what have they been spending it on? How are few hundred million or another billion really go to fix it without spending discipline.

As for philanthropy, welcome to the US. It has always been a social quirk of the US for people and companies to step in. Its what they do. Its a social agreement built on history. It should be celebrated, not demonized.
A more accurate analogy would be going to the doctor to get vaccinated, only to discover that it comes with a dental checkup and cleaning. Some people are going to love that. Others are going to wonder why they got something that they did not ask for. A few are going to become paranoid and claim that the doctor also injected a brainwashing drug (even if there is no grounds for their claim).

Microsoft needs to deliver updates in tiers in order to regain trust. Simply dividing it up into mandatory security updates, optional bug fixes, and optional feature upgrades would go a long way to addressing that even if the default is for all three tiers.
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Yeah. Is it correct to say that the only reason she could prove her innocence from the rape charge though is that she at that point revealed she was a women?
I keep having awful luck with USB power adapters and RPis, to the point that I buy a specific adapter to go with each Pi.
This is an excellent piece and does answer my question actually. People simply conflate fairness and equality and that seeps into the discourse because it makes for easy platitudinal soundbites. Of course, taken to its logical conclusion, equality looks like this[1]. No one actually wants that world.

[1]http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
Sorry, I'm not sure how what you said contradicts what I said (as in "No, that's not what's happening here"). It's certainly useful, specific information, but it doesn't negate my broader point.
It's nothing to do with the support guys. It's do with the support by the vender.

When you deploy an os over something as large as the NHS, your going to hit a few snags, perhaps at the code level. You will need somebody who you can phone up, who will then go bug fix those issues.

Vendors like redhat have support licences that support this. And those licences are still fairly expensive.

If NHS was going to deploy a Linux Distribution, they will have to bring a Linux distribution vender onboard which would take the role Microsoft does now.
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"Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither."

Knowing history that's usually what they get. WannaCry used an OS vulnerability that would have existed regardless of how locked down user space is.
If you're going to try and create a project that attempts to persuade a public sector procurer to make a major platform change, having a wacky Team page is probably not the best way to go.
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They may not use the term "doxxed" lightly, but they also don't provide a definition for it. I have no idea what it means. I guess it means "give credit by providing the name." Maybe?
I'm not sure about Visual Studio but there are alternative to MS SQL Server and Microsoft office. If you're stuck with windows, then you should consider sharing resources with other people in a similar situation.

Download the updates manually and share them via USB storage with other peoples, assuming you have other people in similar situation around you and they are willing to do the same.
I'm glad you mentioned it. There's lots of evidence (even from the emails I've been getting) that most people might be skimming even sentences and guessing, rather than actually reading the words. This could partly be from the way they test reading in schools, and partly from the oral nature of most writed (e.g Twitter) on the web.
> Last time I tried, photos still didn't support hierarchical folders

iOS 10 does support it, but it's kind of hidden (you have to long-press on the add album button to get an action sheet to add a folder) and I don't think it supports re-arranging anything (gotta do that on a Mac and sync it)
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My point is the poor quality of the writing, not the obtuseness of the science. Theoretical physicists and mathematicians aren't novelists.

Writing in a clear way, without drammatic grammatical errors, is not "dumbing things down".
Legacy sortware could be isolated, for instance in a VM.

Also there is ReactOS which is an open source older windows which might be useful for running old windows software on a relatively secure OS.
Well, it's been an adage for many years - names sell newspapers... I mean, clicks and ad views.
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It's like cheapish g34 quad setups all over again. Looking forward to benchmarks.
The free market argument is so frustrating to hear, and yet I do hear it from people...

You can't expect free market theory to work when you take net neutrality with one hand while giving ISPs the right to practically pen state legislation, deny access to lines and sue up and coming competitors into oblivion with the other.

You end up with the worst of both worlds: government sponsored unrestrained monopolies.
I used to think like you, then I saw Quora become an useless "stupid questions answered by smart people" site...
If you don't know what the NHS is, you;re not the target demographic.
As someone who works on the foundations of quantum mechanics (how to formulate, why we think it's right, etc.), I'll disagree with this. The fact that much of the detail from many experiments is available somewhere is not much more useful than being told that code is available from the authors if only you email them and wait 3 months. The barrier to figuring out this stuff are immense.

Furthermore, it's not necessary to communicate the actual, usually circuitous, route taken historically by scientists. Instead, you could just describe the series of hypothetical simplified experiments whose results would lead one to quantum mechanics and rejecting alternatives. This is never attempted in a serious way (trivial uses of the Stern-Gerlach experiment as a model of quantum mechanics not withstanding).
He nails it in the article: once you have a fairly modern iPad there is not much reason to frequently update. That said I would expect Apple to make money also on selling media like TV shows and movies, books, Apps, etc.

I think Apple's best strategy is to work hard to have the best integrated, iPhone, iPad, macOS, iTV, iWatch. Apple loyalist will keep the revenue stream healthy.

I feel like I have gone over to the dark side here: I have quit my FSF paid membership, shelved my Linux laptops, and have a much less complicated work-flow and entertainment experience with my macOS, iPad Pro, and iPhone. I feel like I have greatly simplified my life at the expense of free software, etc. ideals.
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This was mostly Murdoch's rags, which, unfortunately, many folks can't distinguish from actual newspapers.
He isn't directly on their payroll[0], but he is definitely not a neutral observer. He has financial interest in Microsoft's success, as he is primarily a consultant for their products.

[0] https://www.troyhunt.com/microsoft-regional-director/
Nope. 6 core 12 thread CPUs came to the mainstream a while ago, AMD brought them. The Ryzen 5 1400 is $160.

Intel is playing catchup.
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You mean Raspberry Pi B+, Rpi B3 or Rpi Zero W ?
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Turning off Windows update is not enough I'm afraid. Better remove this misery-ware completely from your pc and move to Linux. Linux is better, safer, cheaper, and more fun overall!

For apps that don't run on Linux for now, like Adobe, I'd rather move to OSX. Only reason for me to install Windows would be some obscure game that only runs on that platform. I honestly cannot think of any other reason to install Windows.
If you don't make your website a megabyte-sized monster, it isn't a problem. Serving simple html/css content is possible to more users than hn has at any given point in time from a single-core Pentium 2. Anything more than that is just bloat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing
dox = reveal identity. Nothing more complicated.
It's essentially a contronym now.

Not unlike "egregious" [1].

[1] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/egregious
That's a mistranslation of the above post. The poster intended to say that Microsoft's updates can be legitimately harmful whereas modern vaccines aren't.
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I think parent comment was discussing the names rather than the hardware.

When I think "Raspberry Pi" I think "Oh yeah there's not very many of those, and they're super cheap and low power and useful"

When I think "Dell", I think "Conglomerate"; when I think "Optiplex", I think "stupid-expensive desktop machines"; when I think "FX160" I think "oh great a !@#$ing model number to look up specs for". Yeah, it's 'cheap' and 'powerful' and 'useful', but far more effort goes into identifying its purpose. And, since it doesn't have any GPIO, it's useful in a different way.

Honestly, it's like comparing apples to oranges. One just keeps the doctor away while I use the other as the base for soups.
>The embed their taxes and fees in the products and services they sell which means the consumer is the payer.

This is only true in some cases, but what actually determines whether the business pays the taxes out of profits or passes it along to consumers are the elasticity of demand and elasticity of supply. In an extreme example, think of a monopoly with large profit margins facing extremely elastic demand; it will have no choice but to pay the bulk of the tax out of profits. I didn't review these links carefully, but it looks like you can learn more at [0], [1], and [2] if you're interested.

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

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microec...

[2] https://www.boundless.com/economics/textbooks/boundless-econ...
I am trying to sync hierarchical folders from photos to the iPad, but they get flattened to one level of hierarchy of folders, i.e. only the folders containing the pictures remain, but no hierarchy above them.
Yes, he did

> "F.C.C., in a Shift, Backs Fast Lanes for Web Traffic
" ... The proposed rules, drafted by Mr. Wheeler and his staff ... [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/technology/fcc-new-net-ne...
I have used such pi setup to enable a distributed backup with pi and the disk placed at a remote office. Worked really nicely. The only inconvenience was Ethernet cable that I have to pull to a storage room. Now with WiFi it would be even simpler.
It publicly releasing the IRL identity (name, address, etc) of the person behind an anonymous online identity. The term applies more to places like reddit/twitter/4chan than to someone's own blog, but it's generally considered a form of harassment because it's an invasion of privacy.
It's hard to say how comparable those numbers really are. One manufacturer could be only driving routes that they know are the most challenging for their system, and another could be running laps on the freeway.
> If some journalists were able to find his identity, he can safely assume that the people behind wannacry are also able to do it. Maybe he'll take some measures to protect himslef more now.

The people behind wannacry targeted Russian banks. Chances are they already died of unexpected radioactive contamination, accidental stabbing, or unfortunate neuro-toxic poisoning.

Anyway, comparing these journalists as "sphincters of bad journalism" is probably even too positive. Unlike sphincters, that do have a useful purpose, tabloids could be wiped out of this planet without any negative side-effects.
What if I have a compute module and compute board? That's still a Raspberry Pi, right?
Came here to say this. Many of my friends run pirated copies of Windows because they cannot afford a license, and they cannot use Linux either because they are dependent on Windows software.

Usually I'd say it's their own fault but fuck it, it's Microsoft's fault. Everyone knows Windows licenses are overpriced and that if Microsoft actually cared about collective security they'd bring the price down. Stop pretending you're not a part of infrastructure.
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I think ESP8266 boards (running something NodeMCU) are becoming the more popular replacements for Arduino. They're super cheap, and have integrated Wifi.

Cool thing about them is that you can write in C-like AVR code (like Arduino), or micro versions of Lua, Python, and other choices.
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You want someone "overqualified" who can tell the difference between a fungal infection that just needs a prescription anti-fungal cream, and one that is affecting more than just your foot and/or requires something beyond a cream.
We use OfficeVibe (http://www.officevibe.com) which allows employees to provide anonymous feedback (good and bad) and helps us track our ongoing progress. It's quite helpful.
I experimented with something similar using iOS. Let me know if you want the link to the Github repo.

I realized quickly that lighting conditions have a huge impact on the success of eye detection. My dad suggested that reading the steering sensor is another good way to detect drowsiness. I've been meaning to take another look now that I have a wifi OBDII adapter that will work with iOS, but haven't had the time.
It was the Sun, the Telegraph and the Daily Mail. Only on of those belongs to Murdoch.
Maybe this will inspire Microsoft to come up with an update system that doesn't mandate a system restart.
The Ryzen CPUs just came out, no OEMs yet, and the sales are not a blimp or Intel's radar yet.
Coffee Lake is honestly a more interesting part, it's a 6 core with an IGP, AMD's APU will be 4 core maximum atm.

I know it hurts but AMD needs to have ship an almost unreasonable number of units for several consecutive to be considered mainstream.
If Ryzen will be anything like the Athlon 64, AMD would fail to capitalize on it and just be behind Intel when it comes to iterations.
> The people behind wannacry targeted Russian banks.

Do you have a reference for this?
How much of a performance hit would be expected for single threaded performance with the new 16-core processors?
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That makes no sense. It's like saying that "yes" means "yes", but it could also mean "no".
Waymo is going to win because of (1) better sensors and (2) better onboard computing power. Other companies can potentially compete in the former domain but literally no one in the world can go toe-to-toe with Waymo and siblings in the latter department. The ML powering Level 4 driving decisions is not cheap in dollars or power consumption and Google is already way ahead of the curve when it comes to custom fabrication of those type of systems.
> The truth is that each of these is feasible for a large competitor to replicate and it’s reasonable to think that Walmart could build or acquire these capabilities within the next few years. The key component to profitable 2-day (or 1-hour) delivery is the customer’s proximity to a distribution center.

This is incredible. Walmart has free two-day shipping on orders over $35 right now, with no membership required, and yet people are still writing articles like this asking, "will it be possible for Walmart to get 2 day shipping within the next couple years?"

Because of the problems with third party sellers (combining different sellers into the same product page, comingling, fake reviews, etc.) it's getting harder and harder to buy stuff on Amazon, plus you need a prime membership to get fast free shipping. I've also had tons of problems with Amazon deliveries since they switched to their own logistics company. In comparison, Walmart is looking better and better by the day.

This isn't some day in the future, it's now. I'm seriously considering cancelling prime and just using walmart when I need 2 day delivery.
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It's definitely weird, but there's a reason (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/25/mi6-gareth-wil...) that they considered this as a real possibility:

> But his former landlady, Jennifer Elliot, told the inquest that three years before his death, she and her husband had heard Williams call for help at 1.30am from the annex flat he was renting from them in Cheltenham, where he worked at GCHQ.

> They let themselves in with the spare key and found the codes expert lying on his back on the bed, in boxer shorts, with his hands tied to the bed posts with material so tight it had cut his wrists.

> In a statement read to the inquest, Elliot said she and her husband had both been in shock. Her husband asked Williams: "What the bloody hell are you doing?" Williams told them: "I just wanted to see if could get myself free."

> The statement added that he did not appear sexually aroused, and was "very embarrassed, panicky and apologetic."

> The couple, who never spoke to anyone about the incident, said they concluded it was "sexual rather than escapology".
Computers could be built to last 30 years and more

I like to play with 8-bit machines, BBC Micro, C=64, Atari 800 and the like, all 30+ years old, the only repair they need is when a capacitor dries out and thats easy to do with the manual and a soldering iron. The constant upgrade cycle of so-called modern machines is clearly, totally artificial.
Many were requests for deeper looks at "communicating with aliens". Many were about more information for how to get around our "bad brains".
And this could provide well-paid, satisfying jobs and apprenticeships in the UK resulting in systems that don't have to be rewritten in under a decade because a monopolist decided to break compatibility.
Ok let's place the 'if' game.

- If Microsoft had coded its software properly there would be no need to patch vulnerabilites,

- If the NSA had told Microsoft about the vulnerabilities when they were discovered instead of exploiting it (Assuming the NSA did not tell MS to not patch them on purpose),

- If Microsoft did not have decades of being untrustworthy gathering the logical response of disabling auto-updates,

- If Microsoft had not paid vendors to have windows pre-installed on new computers it would have the monopolistic position it has today,

- if the NSA exploit and tools had not been made public,

- and so on...

All these are also valid ways that would have prevented wannacry spreading.
He applied for GHCQ but while waiting for clearance, he was offered a better job offer.

https://www.malwaretech.com/2016/05/infosec-without-degree.h...
Not that MS is completely without fault, but we have to remember that they're supporting an infinite amount of configurations. Apple's OSX (on the other hand) is supposed to support a limit configuration controlled by Apple. It's a recipe for disaster.
Does anyone actually believe this is anything but a biased hit piece?

It becomes clear about half way through that the author's real problem is that faculty (who the author belongs to) have lost political control over universities.

The focus on administrators increasing costs tends to be a red herring to distract you from the fact that state funding per student has fallen dramatically.
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I had an employer attempt to have me sign an NDA, NCC and, forfeit any rights to software I'd written in the previous 20 years, to them!

Pound sand.

So I was back on the street 2 weeks later.
GCHQ / CESG / etc do some arm's length work with a few people without directly employing them.
Not necessarily.

What he's saying is that all services Amazon provides are going to have both internal and external customers. Both will drive the service to be better, and never get complacent.

External customers will signal that the product sucks by not being customers of it. Internal customer will force the product to be reliable because if it isn't your director will hear about the costs of it not being so.

Bias: 5 years at Amazon. May someday go back if the startup I joined falls.
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Agreed. I can't reliably get a bluetooth speaker to connect to three different computers, so I think "everything will be automated" is a lot further off than some people are claiming.
Agreed. It seems to me that Apache Nifi (for provenance/replay) + jupyter/zepplin/r-studio (for exploring) + airflow (for final workflow) would be a good, open source starting point.
Exactly, the NHS spends an absolute fortune each year and if they put out a tender somebody will support it no matter the specifications. Sure, some of the larger Vendors will get their noses bent out of shape but who cares?

I mean we are talking about large multinational pharmaceutical, medical equipment and software companies buying something from the largest employer in the world with a tech budget of roughly £1 billion a year (I think).

If the NHS stuck to it's guns, somebody would provide the goods.
Halfway down the page there's a typo where a paragraph is duplicated:

> of variables such as financial markets...
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