skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the first release of W10 several registry keys and policies have changed in very confusing ways. I can't remember what exactly but I had to change my personal scripts several times based on the changelog of other tools. Privacy and settings like default apps were also reverted (reset to default) when you updated. They installed some apps like Candy Crush Saga on Enterprise. I don't see that much of a problem here, it's understandable since they are letting go of legacy stuff, bugs happens (even more after you cut your QA department). Now it's time to stop with all the excuses. Get your shit together.

From: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...

> Security. Information that’s required to help keep Windows, Windows Server, and System Center secure, including data about the Connected User Experience and Telemetry component settings, the Malicious Software Removal Tool, and Windows Defender.

I have all the possible settings configured, from registry to policies and I still see random connections everywhere. But it's ok because it's not telemetry, right?

> What is NOT telemetry?

> Telemetry can sometimes be confused with functional data.

Is anyone taking legal actions against Microsoft about all of this? Does anyone care? Not everybody can switch all their machines to Linux/VMs, this whole situation makes me angry.
Total shot in the wild here, but would YC be interested in having an intern? (Waterloo student here, so something from Sept. to Dec.)
I wish it would end. I'd like to simply hide all paywalled articles. Why not offer a flag?
> It's embarrassing that manufacturers are still making computers with silicon chips in them.

You might even zoom out a bit more and go with, "It's embarrassing that manufacturers are still making ATX cases". Just as ATX cases have been able to accommodate several generations of computing, modern 737s are effectively different aircraft than early 737s even though they share common properties.
Feeling Sidelined by Mainstream Social Media, Far-Right Users Jump to Gab
Because you're subsequently buying into the same inflated market.
absolutely. it is utterly terrifying.
The correct alternative is to disallow (or at least flag) paywalled posts.
The 3 things business leaders worry about (and how to solve it)
Much like ECMAs reply in this thread, I've also resigned myself to pretty much never owning a home. Although I earn enough to get by on, I'm out 80-90% of my weekly income in rent, power, internet, and food leaving practically nothing to save. I hardly ever eat out, thought I had a decent job and try to put as much as possible in high interest, but every time I look in my savings and think yeah that's looking good, I check house prices and a deposit has gone up another $1500 on what I've saved. It's debilitating, a feeling that I'm literally putting in all this work for nothing. Sadly, it's not just living close to the city anymore, anywhere within a few hours of Sydney is ridiculously expensive. Much like you, I'm not too concerned about carrying on renting, and I have time to wait out the market, but if this trend continues I feel like my whole generation will be permanently locked out of the market, and hence out of one of the most effective retirement savings vehicles the system has.
I read that Windows 10 uses peer-to-peer file sharing with any other Windows hosts it locates on the same network.

This way each Windows computer does not have to connect to Microsoft to download, e.g., the Windows 10 "upgrade". It seems like this could also be used to evade attempts by users to block such downloads by blocking Microsoft IP addresses.

Windows 10 could propagate itself through a network of Windows computers, like a ...

Seriously, how does this work in pratice?

Windows 10 does peer-to-peer file sharing automatically without requiring any user interaction?
> “When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn’t buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each,” he said. “We’re at a point now where the expectations of younger people are very, very high. They want to eat out every day; they want travel to Europe every year.

The modest house where I grew up in the D.C. suburbs (1,150 square feet, three bedrooms, built in 1950s, okay school district) is estimated on Redfin around $600,000.[1] That's a $120,000 down payment. According to the article, millennials spend $3,100 a year eating out. Even if they cut that out entirely, it'd take them decades to save up that down payment.

The cost of housing and rent has gotten so out of control in major metro areas that the usual frugality tips don't make much of a dent. What good does cutting out your $4 latte out do (maybe $100 per month), when your rent is $2,500 month for a 1BR?

[1] My parents bought it in 1990 for $175,000. People in my dad's line of work certainly don't earn 3.5x more than what they used to back then.
I wouldn't charge different rates. The way I look at it, when I'm charging an hourly rate, the client is paying for my time. What value the client derives from that time isn't really relevant to the cost.

Or put another way. I know I can sell my time at X in the market, because I have done so before. Thus, it makes no sense for me to sell it at a rate lower than X, regardless of what I actually do.
Would this be suitable for money-making side-project advice and goals?
There are people who believe paywalls are the least-bad solution compared to a world where journalists can only make money from advertising (thwarted by adblock) or writng corporate puff pieces and lowbrow clickbait.
Govt subsidies?
Frankly, “settings” in an OS don’t fill me with any more confidence than “settings” on Facebook: software has bugs, and other reasons for not working as advertised. A toggle switch coded with the best of intentions may still not be consulted everywhere that it should, and even software that is correct today can be wrong in 3 months when somebody important quits or a feature is added and nobody thought to check the setting for that new feature.

If this is important to you, demand more open and peer-reviewed source code, and demand that things run behind carefully-controlled walls like sandboxes and limited host files. Don’t just run your organization by trusting one software vendor.
Blockchain Glossary: From A-Z
That's interesting in that it was the second link on the topic I found, which I followed from another article which was even more clearly blogspam.

IS there an article with a link to the UBS study or is it behind a paywall?

(the Telegraph article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/05/19/electric-vehi... )
Another year of another decade; Microsoft as dishonorable as ever.
To be fair you don't actually need 20% down. It's recommended but hardly the norm. Plenty of people will do 5 to 10% down. Veterans need as little as 3%.
I keep my notes from books, talks, etc as a repo of markdown files so I can access it anywhere. I also have a second private repo for personal notes. For meeting notes, I like Dropbox Paper.

https://github.com/tedmiston/notes
I'm guessing if you went and talked with the parents and peers at those schools that they would place high value on athletics and low value on academics.
I was going to ask why you use this over Apple's Notes app. It looks like you're the author, so perhaps even why you chose to build this? I like the themes and Markdown support.
Indeed, there is already a proposal for an enum syntax in dotty that looks almost exactly like that:

enum Tree[T] {
case Branch(t: Tree[T])
case Leaf(t: T)
}

https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/1970
Users vs. Thought Leaders
99% of code will be analytics tracking user actions, 1% actual useful functionality.
Hahaha, out of curiousity I zoomed in near my house and saw a curious little stub off a road with a pretty high usage. I was confused until I realized it was a local brewery tasting room. Nice place to end a workout!
MS Support consistently and repeatedly told me that enterprise allowed me to disable this stuff.
If I can't control the egress then I can't verify PCI compliance. I've already had to revert a client to Win 7 because they failed a PCI compliance audit using Win 10 Enterprise. Which, by the way, is very expensive for small businesses.
Win 10 Enterprise isn't viable for business.
I have a bunch of small business clients and I've had to use a whitelist firewall to pass PCI compliance, someone said here that a whitelist firewall is borderline unusable.
I've sunk so much time into that solution and I can attest, it's not viable.
This boils down to the baby boomer generation doing a terrible job at saving for themselves outside housing, and demanding millennials buy them out of their investment. When they don't, they scream "stupid millennial, why don't you just have more money" ... so they can ultimately get that too. They are largely not very desperate, yet still so afraid that even in their later years they horde wealth.

In the Bay Area, I feel like rent or buy, I'm just working hard so the older generation can continue living well off our backs. The vast majority of them have made no intelligent investments or savings other than property. And they are now incentivized to make life as miserable as possible for the next generation, so they can live out their remaining years as well as they are accustomed too. My landlord whined about how she makes so little, whilst attempting to hold onto 2.8mm USD in property.

I find it hard to swallow... but also inevitable.
Presumably caching will tend to mitigate both of these issues.
The big difference here is that states can simply buy access to, e.g., a Cisco Nexus and attack it from inside and out until they find a vulnerability in NX-OS, let's say, a malformed CLI-via-HTTP call.

Whereas, what software does a Google switch even run? What's the architecture, the APIs? You basically need someone inside Google, or for one of these things to fall off a truck. Way more involved and expensive than the 10k you might spend on a Nexus to throw it your lab and set your hackers on it.
But this is new territory, and researchers shouldn't give up just because it doesn't work very well now.

I recall that the iPhone/iPad were preceded by attempts at tablet computing that were very crude in comparison.

Give it a couple of years and see where it leads.
Competition is good.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/1*SCO-6zyGCoAcxPC_WAZXMA.jpe...
Why was it discontinued? Seems like a win-win to Google and Employees. I thought gmail came out of this 20% time...
It's also much easier to stay where you are than to move. Real estate is a very illiquid asset and it is supposed to be. If you perceive your house being worth more 12 months down the road it makes sense to stay until that point.

This is where you get people taking out second mortgages. It be a great idea today but horrible 5-10 years out. Once valuations correct many people will be under water and looking at defaults.

Real estate is not where you want overvaluations and (huge) inefficiencies.
Sure. But it exists/existed. No magic says that everything in JS has to be non-blocking.
i generally agree. i think theres some penny-wise pound-foolish thinking going on among people who are critical or eating out or buying lattes. it may sound stupidly tautological, but i think the way to get rich is focus almost entirely on boosting earnings, since that has much less of an upper bound than spending does a lower bound. or course theres more than one way to do it, and i think it would certainly be more satisfying, once accomplished, to accumulate wealth by careful, daily effort rather than managing to find some firehose of money. but it seems like most of the time it tends towards the latter.
Got a laugh out of this:

How big would a 68000 microprocessor be at the scale of the MOnSter 6502?

Also about 19 square feet (1.7 square meters).

Are you going to make a 68000 next?

No.
Another standout from my chat with the engineers that day, was the fact that each individual fan blade on the 777 engine was worth far more than my car... I think it was almost the equivalent cost of 24 Porsches spinning around that initial stage of the engine - let alone all the compressor and turbine stage blades behind that!
Yes, this is called "delivery optimization" and it's on by default. By default, Windows Enterprise/Education only pull updates from Microsoft and the local domain, while Windows Home/Pro will also pull updates from other peers on the internet.

You can turn it off, or disable pulling from internet peers, but given the OP, who knows if MS actually respects that setting? I guess we have to roll the dice now.

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-windows-updat...
Bayonetta or thr Ai code from F. E. A. R.
If I'm reading you correctly you're saying FB/LNKD aren't substitutes for audience research.

I'm with you so far, but wondering if these channels can be cheaper / more effective ways to access that audience. In part because it's a platform people are looking at, and in part because these platforms leverage existing 'once-removed' circles of trust.
Windows has done this forever with enabled apps like SCCM. I think it was released in 2008.

It allowed us to remove hundreds of local depot servers unless there was an SLA on reimaging.
I'm planning to release in the next week or so - there's just a few bugs that I'm trying to iron out first.

If you like, I can contract you from my plain-ol-gmail when the platform's ready?

The platform will always need an email addy however - I use it to send people an administration link so that they can access their slides (and delete them if need be) at a later point.
I think it's been taken down, but the Startup Engineering MOOC on Coursera taught by Balaji Srinivasan (of Stanford + a16z) was extremely valuable to go through, both from a technical and non-technical standpoint. It was kinda like the "How To Start A Startup" course going on right now except slightly more preparatory for the technical challenges involved.
Easy, Amazon. They don't make anything.
The capped real estate taxes (in CA) is a perfect example of this.
I can't agree with this more.
A client straight up failed a PCI compliance audit, replete with daily fines, for using 10 Enterprise. They decided to pursue legal measures against MS for false claims.
I really hope this gets elevated because reverting to win 7 is a solution with a short life span. The other solution is to rebuild infrastructure on top of a different platform but that's prohibitively expensive.
What about AWS?
I don't think they do it on purpose. I think Windows is just a patchwork of cruft at this point.

I'm sure the Enterprise version shares all the code with the non Enterprise versions which have all the spying ... analytics... enabled, so bugs are bound to happen that let this escape into the Enterprise version.
I can agree with that! It's been about two years since I looked for a flat in downtown, the same goes for lunch menus. I guess it will also depend on the area someone's looking for. But I can agree with those numbers.
> I recall that the iPhone/iPad were preceded by attempts at tablet computing that were very crude in comparison.

That's a very poor analogy. Here we are talking about stuff that is not even functional, technology wise.
How Roger Ailes Polarizes TV News
They make Alexa voice tubes and kindles and tv boxes and tv shows. (I'm probably missing a few things)
I think this is an unconstructive question. We better ask ourselfs what can we replace them with that is fundamentally better?
To provide some context: this was famously mentioned as the reason why millennials can't afford property in Australia.
Weird, I don't really use any of those companies. I switched away from Google (although I guess I still use Android and Maps, so not entirely), I don't own anything Apple makes, I don't buy things or rent services from Amazon, and I haven't used anything Microsoft in years.

I sometimes use Facebook to talk to non-close friends, although I do use Whatsapp daily, so I guess that counts too.

All in all, I don't think it's impossible to escape at least one of them.
I'd have to second this. Especially how they manage to support nearly every browser in existence by serving a (sometimes vastly) different Google homepage based on the user-agent.
Google rolling its own hardware is a key security pillar. This is a good read on the topic:

https://cloud.google.com/security/whitepaper

(work at G)
I haven't used anything Microsoft in 5 years.
The fact that they renamed the telemetry setting from "Off" to "Security" is no coincidence.
The best way to help a nation is not to help the population flee their otherwise workable location. As others have stated, it's not politically correct to state the obvious: local rule has utterly failed. British or American occupation has always been the best option based on factual national statistics.
> consistently delivering Musk-ian type efforts

I bet Elon Musk has a number of advantages, such as: not doing laundry, not preparing meals, not washing the dishes, not going to the grocery store, avoid driving to work (either have a chauffeur or a very short commute)… Basically, not doing any work but "work".

He's rich enough that he can pay somebody else to do everything he can't be bothered with. That frees him to take care of his companies and have other creative ideas.

On the other hand, think of the work of the average housewife. She would do most of the house chores and taking care of the children, and would plan all of it. All that on top of a 40 hour work week, plus commute. Let's see: 8 hours at work times 5 days, 2 hours of house work per work day, then 8 more during the week-end. Add, say, 30 minutes of driving to work (and 30 minutes back), and we get 63 hours of work per week. And that's a conservative estimate.

Just try asking her to do personal projects on top of that.
>"In the battle for talent, quant-focused firms often are reluctant to call themselves hedge funds or even investment firms. Quant firms would rather emphasize their similarities to cutting-edge tech companies in Silicon Valley."

Mirror, mirror, on the Wall [Street,] who's the [quantiest] of them all?

I sense many money managers can't differentiate themselves with current ops and now want "quant headcount" as a differentiator in pitch decks.
Is User Entity Behavioral Analysis a Canary in the Coal Mine?
I maintain "talk/paper" as the talk video links to the paper; the opposite happens to not be true, which is why it is so much more interesting to tell people "there is also a video". FWIW, if your goal is just to link to different landing pages or sub-representations of the same thing, we could also submit the PowerPoint file itself. (I will also say that I guessed it was moderators that made the bump but purposely didn't make that explicit. That to me just underscores the need for a more fundamental fix to the way that content appears, as it makes clear that the twentieth time posted this was also just going to be do poorly again without manual intervention.)
This Exactly. Companies like Amazon, Google, FB, Microsoft need 10% of those features. However oftentimes there's a bug in the 90% of the software that they don't use which impacts something in the 10% they do use. This causes a long delay in the roll out of fixes and creates a lot of disruption in scaling out the network. Furthermore Cisco must test all those features before they can ship a new product. This results in delay of new physical layer technology into the network. What the big 4 want is that new tech to get to market faster so they can keep up with the demand. The problem ultimately is the pace of network technology is not keeping up with the demand of the webscales.
Sydney prices are absurd. Keep saving and wait for interest rates to rise. If they ever go to the 17%+ territory which we had back in the 90s then there'll be a country wide firesale, and you'll be sitting pretty with your cash savings.
warning: paywall
Point taken...
But look, then allow you to run their database on Linux now!!

It's proven time and time again that if the entire org isn't behind something, the good deeds of some get vastly overshadowed by these kind of games.
Maybe not many products that end up on your doorstep, but they dominate in supply chain management. It's a very high and expensive barrier for any startup who would want to compete with Amazon.
That's because there's no "right to be heard." Just because we have a right to speak freely doesn't mean we have a right to be listened to. You might be free to say whatever you like, but everyone else is free to ignore you; owners of publishing platforms are free to not publish your recorded words.

As I said, freedom of speech does not automatically transfer into a right to be heard.
Ditto. This is a tough situation. WSJ articles are generally high quality and probably worth paying for, but if there's an unbypassable paywall then there's no reason to feature it on HN.

We could use it as a prompt. Maybe the comments could be a zone to talk about quants and wall street. That might be useful, but it'd have to be explicit.

EDIT: I've actually wished for prompts on HN, for what it's worth. Other sites typically have ways of starting conversations without articles, and Ask HN's usually die except for a few lucky ones. Usually you end up in a situation where you want to talk about X but have to wait until a tangentially related comment is posted, and then sort of shoehorn it in awkwardly. Being able to spin up a "Quant thread" would be nice without a specific topic or question.
They also do distribution. Granted that isn't something they "make", but it is still a legitimate service.
> Which Tech Giant Would You Drop?

I guess Google, since they're indirectly the most responsible for clickbait headlines.
By scent.
Internet Gobbles Up .15 Cent Crocs Only for Company to Cancel Orders
This is not a problem with "longform" writing, it's just a problem of poor writing.
Definitely Amazon. As a customer from New Zealand, their online shopping site is almost impossible to purchase from (any item I look at does not ship here), and some of their practices are so misleading as to be illegal in my country ('one click' buy X at price $Y, which when billed then includes another $Z for freight).

Never again.
Feedback is a gift.
Show HN: Newsbump – a news platform with annotated and versioned reports
Hi HN! I have been toying with this idea for about a year and half and have built a prototype. Long story short:
- A platform to request news updates about anything that traditional media has long forgotten.

- A platform where anybody can post news updates

- A news report format that can be annotated by the editor instead of ML programs extracting pieces of information e.g. facts and opinions

- Explicit association between claimed facts and supporting evidence.

- Versioned news reports

- A place to discuss / chat with the reporter.

Website: https://newsbump.in/

What do you think?
> It's not because houses are more expensive: the average house costs about a third more than it did in the 80s and early 90s

For what it's worth, this whole 'Avocado toast' thing comes from the "Australian Housing Affordability" 'crisis' that's going on at the moment, where housing prices have raised 70% just in the past 5 years alone.
what search engine do you use?
Blaming someone else. Typical millennial behavior.
>My biggest expense is rent, which is about 25 % of my after-tax income.

Yeah, you're not on average wage.
HN is awfully biased, and I'm certain almost none of us here have actually lived on minimum to average wage for a long time.

Include comment about personal experience under this post.
Ask HN: What's your method for getting to know a new codebase?
When you start a new job with a large existing codebase, what are your techniques for getting to know it as quickly as possible?
I tried to achieve the same. But still need to use Skype for some work contacts. And for first time in many years I felt in love with a MS product: VSCode (well it is coded by a very talented sub branch from MS in Switzerland).

So nowadays I'm coding Linux production software on a Mac with a Microsoft editor ;)