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>My bug that I found has to do with Excel 2016. At my company, we have many spreadsheets that use a feature in Excel called “Web Queries“. These allow one to download a web page, or a table that is on the web page, into cells in your excel document.

Ok, sounds janky, but go on...

>In my particular case, I am using this feature to connect our internal job tracking system that I developed to spreadsheets that are used for calculating pricing and energy savings (our company makes energy savings updates to refrigeration systems), and upload that result back to the tracking system.

Oh god why?? Why!?? What is this Frankenstein system you have created??
Bad to add things like Element.prototype.load
My understanding (please, someone tell me if I'm off base!) is that the infinity fabric is kind of like Intel's QuickPath Interconnect and the "uncore" in one.

In Intel systems it was* required to have the uncore clock be twice the memory clock-rate. The "uncore" clock rate controlled the clock for caches, the memory controllers, possibly other IO components, and the like.

It makes sense that certain benchmarks would be insensitive to increases in memory frequency if those same components were locked at ~2.1GHz in Ryzen's initial release.

On a related note: does AMD publish block diagrams for their infinity fabric or is there any firm information about how many PCIe 3 lanes will be available on the Threadripper platform?

* - I'm not sure if it still is, to be honest!
Excuse my language but what the hell? You talk about meditation to unlock a phone but you don't have the self control to put it in a drawer for half an hour? You want novelty-less focus from the damn app store? What kind of app stores do you frequent?

> Brainstorming: Suppose you must enter a random 3 digit code for an early "unlock" of no-distraction mode. The only way to get the code is to watch a blank screen for 2-3 minutes, where each digit is briefly visible at an unpredictable time spread out through the duration.

Hold on a second here. You want people to stare at a blank screen as a form of introspection. Additionally you want them to pay attention to that blank screen to see if a number briefly appears then remember that number while staring and being introspective. Good lord you think that task is relatively easy?

Also what is this "uncomfortable alone with their thoughts time"? Do people shower with their devices, are people literally never without these things? More importantly are you uncomfortable in your own head? I'm seriously confused by this to the point of being indignant and I'm only 25.
Same. After reading had no interest in model 3 as it screamed "Unworthy" and somehow not comparable to the what, 5 year old model s?

Not really thinking well done as I feel like it misses and possibly alienates both markets.

And 2 displays wow! What a premium feature.

Call it the way I seat it. /sorry
I took advantage of the Post and NYT's price reduction. Paying something like $10-$15 a month is pretty much a no-brainer. But at $30, I don't know if I'd read it enough to justify the cost.
Oh, absolutely, but the reasons aren't important if you're just trying to choose the best school for your kid. It's gonna be the one with the more privileged kids of richer parents, pretty much every time, and the fact of the kids being more privileged, with the attitudes and expectations that go along with that, will have a larger effect on educational (and other) outcomes for your kid than any other (plausibly/realistically-tuned) factor like funding levels (which will incidentally tend to be really good in rich districts, but that's way less important than the kids/families in the district) or teacher quality or anything like that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14426370
Uhoh this kind of removes one of the things holding me back from buying -

"""The last addition should excite those interested in virtualization. AMD has announced "fresh support" for PCI Express Access Control Services (ACS), which enables the ability to manually assign PCIe graphics cards within IOMMU groups. This should be a breath of fresh air to those who have previously tried to dedicate a GPU to a virtual machine on a Ryzen system, since it has thus far been fraught with difficulties."""

People have been fairly successful over the years combining their windows games box into their linux workstation by doing this.

I haven't dipped in but I am pretty tempted.

Can anyone comment on the stability of the linux workstation if the windows vm takes a dump via bad drivers etc? That's my concern is that my linux workstation is highly highly stable and I don't want to borrow problems just to save a box.
It doesn't say exactly that. It says that focusing on teaching a student in a way catered only to their learning style, real or perceived, leads to worse educational outcomes. Having a mix of teaching methods for all students rather than catering narrowly may be allowing the students to be better all-around students.
Actually people are not taking the default on Windows but instead using MS browser to download and install Chrome.

"Microsoft has lost over 300 million browser users in 2016, mostly to Chrome, tracking site shows"
> It appears to be proper judicial oversight of national security operations.

I'm not sure how you consider a toothless, secret court applying secret law "proper judicial oversight". If the FISC ruled that left-handed people were a threat to national security, would the FBI be justified in rounding up all lefties? If not, how do the lefties appeal this ruling?
They tell you about GEMA although as the cause of their fear, at least to me. The details, as you say, are probably different.
I don't think anyone who is serious about spending 70k+ on a car is going to be swayed by the model name. They're likely looking deep into the details and comparisons.
It's acceptable in colloquial sense: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/real#Adverb ; Also, I heard it's more common in some US states.
Even better: https://excel.uservoice.com/
I thought most people learn dancing by someone telling them the steps. At least in ballroom dancing. How do they explain the steps? "left, left, right, 1,2,3,4 turn" or similar. I never got really good but I think was a competent dancer.

In any case, this thread is not fun anymore. Either I am totally weird or there is some communication going wrong.
Perhaps - but that's outside the scope of this specific discussion about sidestepping the app and paying under the table so to speak.
Disagree on Google doing same as MS. They already could have on multiple fronts and have not. Vastly different corporate cultures.
The thing with these substances is that although these substances are best known for their psychological effects, they may also have some medically useful effects for somatic disorders. For example, some of the psychedelic phenethylamines and tryptamines are extremely effective agonists of 5-HT2A, which is a seretonin receptor found in the brain which modulates certain aspects of cognition. However, this receptor is also expressed throughout the body, and it seems to have something to do with rheumatoid arthritis. (This is why SSRIs are occasionally prescribed off-label for RA.) The phenethylamine DOI is actually such a strong agonist for this receptor that it is used in biology labs to study the receptor in vitro, and it has actually been studied and found to at least partially alleviate rheumatoid pain. [1]

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/jou...
This is a good start, but only a start. Real users don't just type in random URLs for your site -- they follow a path. They might hit your site at one URL, then follow a link to another page, then a link to yet another page, and so on.

There are tools to help better simulate the type of load that might be caused by real users, and I'd love to see a follow on article that continues this example with those methods.
In the industry I am in (mostly grocery, convenience, some specialty retail), most have moved to at least POSReady 7, and some are looking at Windows 10, though there are other concerns with PCI compliance there. Most of the large retailers are pretty good about keeping these things away from the general Internet, but once an attacker is in your network, most bets are off. The most important thing to do is to look for retailers who are using the standalone pinpad devices (i.e., they don't take your card and swipe it in the keyboard or on the display). These standalone devices encrypt card data before that Windows-based point-of-sale ever sees it. You can't steal card data from a POS which never sees card data.
Egyptair MS 804 downed by the explosion of an iPhone or iPad (French)
Could be a decent way to solve the current zoning / housing crysis. The only disruption not welcome in the Bay seems to be from Mother Nature.
Often enough the lecturer is the problem and cannot just be changed. That's a bold claim, sure, but in my experience not an uncommon opinion. "Lectures" I guess is directed at university classes, so your second paragraph seems slightly detached from the first one and from the topic of primary education.
Hi schveiguy,

I am just a completely random MS employee, acting on my own behalf, who is browsing HN on my day off from work. I work in Xbox and don't work anywhere related to Excel or tech support. I just repro'd your issue in under 30 seconds in Excel 2016, and also submitted an issue internally on this. I hope it helps :)

http://i.imgur.com/N6X2Lj4.png

Also, I'd highly recommend using the builtin feedback menu, e.g. "send a frown" highlighting the issue. As well as making a post on https://excel.uservoice.com/. I know on my current and former teams, both of these(feedback & uservoice) get looked at quite often, even if there is only a few number of votes on them.

edit: +1 to https://answers.microsoft.com as mentioned by mherdeg
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> all the markings of a successful psyops campaign

Internet commenters are much too quick to sling such tropes at others whom they disagree with. Please don't do that here.

Insinuations of astroturfing or shillage are not allowed on HN without evidence, and this goes beyond even that.
Wow. So pleased to see there are not a ton of Tesla fanboys on here. I feel like I'm in good company.
Yeah, blend is probably better if you're going for RAM overclocking. Which is really what's going on here. Or maybe something that's really hammering throughput or something (database loads come to mind).

Obviously you want to focus your testing on whatever subsystem you're trying to OC. I was just giving generic advice on overclocking. There is pretty broad consensus that Prime95 is a good stability test for CPUs.

Someone also suggested Intel Burn Test as a test that might catch some instabilities that Prime95 misses in a reply and then deleted it for some reason (why?).

In particular though, it's not just the memory subsystem you're overclocking here, you're really overclocking the interconnect as well. It will have its own "silicon lottery" and a particular point of instability, in addition to your individual memory kit's own stability characteristics. There are a lot of moving parts here.

I do wonder how much of this is getting the memory controller stable versus getting the interconnect stable. It seems possible they may have knobs they can twiddle on the interconnect as well.

[Serious question here:] I wonder if Prime95 or burn-test type tools would stress the interconnect with enough cross-core communication to be worth running.
They might have actually done it, but my point is that the incentives for companies to do so generally aren't there. And as long as there exist some large sites that believe the costs to adopting IPv6 exceed the benefits, ISPs will continue to give IPv4 addresses to their clients.
Firefox took marketshare from IE, because IE was terrible. It had no tabs. ActiveX was a security risk. Mozilla had amazing community management back then, and the community was completely in love with the product.

Many of those core supporters have been lost, because Mozilla stopped listening to them.

Chrome was able to gain users rapidly, because Google put a Google Chrome ad in the corner of the search results pages, claiming that it was faster, even when that claim became dubious.
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>Kids don't hang out on Wikipedia

Hey! I did that..
In theory, that is not necessary, you can transmit information even if the spectrum is completely saturated, by using Wi-Fi backscatter like in:
http://passivewifi.cs.washington.edu/

You neighbour's 802.11b will never see that another Wi-fi network piggybacks on him and goes 100 times faster.
There is even not the need to use the cumbersome CSMA/CA.

Indeed it is not an existing amendment, but if you are interested I would be happy to help someone to present a few ideas at IEEE 802.11.
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Thank you for mentioning this! I've been pondering this kind of fiber+thread design for a few days and it's nice to have some validation of the idea since I didn't know of any similar designs.
Interesting. Wouldn't work for me. I simply wouldn't use it because I know that every time I did and wanted to bypass it to use my phone I would. I would like to be able to use that same impulsivity that causes me to be glue to screens to impulsively block those screens for a long time. So if I wake up and decide in a moment that today is an analog day I make that decision and I am locked in. Having to reinstall an OS and lose data is the only deterrent that will work. One android app I used mentioned the "guilt" of having to reboot one's phone to use it again. No guilt here. I need to put myself in jail and throw away the key for a set time.
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Nope, DDR4-4000 is not "running at 4 GHz". SDRAM 133 ran at 133 MHz, but DDR numbers have always multiplied their frequency by "number of simultaneous transfers" or something like that. (The first DDR multiplied by two - "double data rate".)

Wikipedia has a good table for DDR3:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM#JEDEC_standard_modu...

DDR3-2133 has a 266.67 MHz memory clock, and a 1066.67 MHz bus clock (x 4), and a "data rate" of 2133 "mega-transfers per second". And a bunch of other details, it's complicated.

The point is, don't take the "4000" literally. It's complicated. And timings and latency can differ between models of the same "data rate".
This is something I know a lot about. Such people are systematically excluded from advancement in society in almost every respect, and the 'workarounds' that would allow them to participate fully and freely in the economy are crimes that can, at the discretion of prosecutors, result in the threat of a very heavy prison sentence. The penalties imposed for administrative non-compliance are wildly disproportionate to the scale of the offense.

This is by design; for quite a few years there was a notion in sentencing policy (and similar areas like this) that the best deterrent effect was obtained my multiplying the social cost of the offense by inverse probability of detection; that is to say, there is a fairly low chance of being caught but the people who do get caught are punished for both their infraction and that of all the people other people who weren't caught.

Essentially criminal justice today uses the language of morality (very popular with conservatives (qua Jefferson Sessions, who as an elf^H^H^H attorney-general is apparently magically immune from punishment despite his perjurious habits), but uses the logic of economics and incentives. The administration of criminal justice is for all practical purposes a commercial enterprise built around slave labor which depends on a steady supply of incarcerable people to function profitably.

A full discussion of this is beyond the scope of a HN comment or even a single article or book; entire careers have been devoted to the study and analysis of this issue. This law review article offers a somewhat accessible introduction.

http://www.masonlec.org/site/rte_uploads/files/Hylton_crimec...
You have found an extremely unusual and remarkable public school.
Have we considered the 'unethicalness' of the different actions? The pricing system is only going to be used by consenting individuals engaging in transactions of money for goods/services. Compare this to what goes into the cheapest clothing, perhaps involving forced labor, child labor, poverty wages, or lethal work conditions.

This also seems to assume there is an inherent wrongness in discriminating what price is offered, which many wouldn't find unethical (especially if the discrimination isn't based on protected classes).

I feel that the 'definitely' comes from a personal system of ethics that is by no means shared with others. A system that, at least to other systems, might be unethical to enforce on others.

I don't see how a single course in an engineering degree can even begin to fix this. I aced my ethics course but consider it a waste of time, not because ethics is a waste of time, but because what the course presented was so light as to be useless. Imagine giving a one semester intro to programming with javascript to MDs; that's what it felt like.
Google corporate culture is vastly different than MS during their heyday.
It's git. Just add the gitlab remote and push.
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> It almost feels like a kind of gaslighting, like you're trying to confuse people and muddy the waters.

Please don't let such insinuations of bad faith creep into your comments on HN.

There is widespread disagreement about this matter (e.g. the GP comment was both upvoted and downvoted, obviously not all by trolls) and those who disagree need to remain civil on HN. That includes (a) responding to the argument and (b) assuming good faith.
If you block an app, you still want it, but your wanting is frustrated.

Our goal with Space is to actually rewire your wanting system. If you use space, the impulse to open the app should decrease.

For us, real freedom is to kill the wanting.
Would you suggest reporting a card lost to get a new number issued if it was used at one of these locations?
Ouch, sounds like this author used a long phone tree and talked to about ten front-line phone support technicians, none of whom were able to file a bug report. Bummer.

Also sounds like one or more of those people advised him to report his issue in the web support forums at https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_... , which in my experience often get really good feedback from employees and expert community contributors ("MVPs"). It sounds like the phone technicians did a bad job of explaining this resource which this author might have mistaken for static help documents (it's not).

Things may have changed in the past few years, but back when I worked in the PM organization that owned updates to this Web Query feature in Office 15 (the prior version), I remember that MVPs and PMs would absolutely trawl those forums looking for user-reported bugs and trying to help get them workarounds & fix the root-cause bug. YMMV of course, but many members of the team spent time every week looking for primary-source user feedback.

I definitely can't blame the author for taking the angle "OK, I tried CS, I'm going to give up and write a blog post" -- certainly very popular these days and works great for getting in touch with a tech company -- but it's too bad that the author didn't manage to get in touch with the community at answers.microsoft.com. The MVPs, employees, and other contributors there are often phenomenally helpful in doing bug triage and devising workarounds or real fixes. Seems like a case where first-line support might have been able to say "we can't fix this, but we know who can" quicker.
I don't think that Rust has been around long enough to have created a monoculture. :)
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I'm lacking the technical knowledge to answer this question, but I would have thought it would be something within the realm of possibility, but since no one has ever done it yet, I guess I'm wrong and I would really like to know why.

My two cents: Wouldn't it be possible to just display ads in a sandbox environment invisible to the user and then display to the user an ad-free experience?
Very cool! I was wondering if something like this existed. I hope it works well.
As an engineer who has pivoted toward education (I worked in the Obama administration on CS Ed and games for learning) I want to say "of course technology helps!" but what the drumbeat of research shows us is that it is no silver bullet -- what's important is the WAY technology is used. Think of the technology as a tool. If the educator knows how to utilize the tool to enhance learning, then it will help!

Blended learning and personalized learning are two methodologies in which technology is actively valuable. You can learn more about those on sites like Edutopia and EdWeek. Here's a great summary article from EdWeek looking at concepts for technology in education: http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/technology-in-education/

I'm a big fan of using digital games as an engagement modality and curriculum augmentation. GlassLab and SRI did some work together a few years ago and their meta-analysis indicated that adding a digital game to a traditional curriculum could on average increase cognitive learning outcomes by 12%. Of course it varies wildly depending on the game and circumstance. https://www.sri.com/sites/default/files/brochures/digital-ga...
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Because if it's important, I'll hear about it somewhere else. And if it's interesting, I can find other articles. Content is a dime a dozen these days, why would I pay for it?
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because some phb only understands excel.
Personal observations:

Tablets/e-readers are great for schools. There are plenty of DRM-free e-books. Instead of buying crates of books, you can just buy some files and them copy them to all the e-readers on the school network.

I've never been able to manage physical flash-card decks, but once I got a smartphone I started using spaced repetition system (SRS) flash-card apps, which can organize (probably) millions of flash-cards and show them to you in the most optimal way for exploiting the long-term memory. I've learned over 3,000 Arabic, Japanese, and Korean words combined, thanks to SRS flash-card apps.

And in this day-and age where pretty much everyone is a network/system administrator (they just don't know it) it's important for kids to learn how to really use a real computer. The most useful thing I learned in my digital media class was how to organize files. I've never met an employer or coworker who could maintain a neat filesystem, even though an untamed Downloads directory would often be the source of their computer troubles.

There is a huge opportunity for these technologies to make schools better. But at the same time, that opportunity has been here for over a decade now.

One more observation: american public schools have horrible taste in software.
That doesn't remotely agree with your claim. That women feel more anxiety than men isn't remotely the same as saying most women can't handle adversity. Being anxious doesn't equate to not handling adversity, and if you read it this way it's simply more evidence of your sexism interfering with your reason.
First, many undocumented immigrants pay state and federal taxes; it's difficult to obtain a bank account otherwise. Second, their exclusion from the regular system of credit scoring and numerous other aspects of the economy that most people take for granted impose a significant hidden tax, albeit one that mostly flows to private actors such as landlords etc..