skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, my mistake. I was inadvertently thinking of what Microsoft charged PC manufacturers for pre-installation. The retail copies included extra charges to cover boxes, discs, distribution, the retailer's margin, support, returns etc.

Unfortunately I can't find a list of Windows retail prices, but originally Windows was sold much like an application. That is, it assumed you already had DOS installed.

From what I recall, the official retail was something like $99 and you could pick up a copy for around $80 or so. (Some programs came bundled with a run-time copy of Windows, though you couldn't used that copy with a different application.)

Windows 95 upped the price because Microsoft was charging for both DOS and Windows at the same time. On that basis, something like $200 doesn't sound wrong, and that's around the price Windows has sold at ever since. (Unless, of course, you buy a pre-launch offer.)

Software and hardware prices were generally much higher in the old days, of course.

On stability, I found both NT4 and Windows 2000 to be very stable. With other versions, they were stable if they were correctly set up on decent hardware, you only used Microsoft drivers, you were pretty careful, and you restarted every day.

I could usably run Win98-XP for about week. I would never find out how long I could run NT4 because I was dual-booting it ;-)

Eggs are fragile, but they generally don't break if you handle them carefully. It was much the same with Windows...
Anyone who associated with that sociopath Steve Jobs was questionable in my book. I'm not surprised.
> Uber paid hackers $100,000 to delete stolen data and keep quiet

Really? Really? Come on!!!
Uber says cyber breach compromised data of 57M users, drivers
Ever tried using an old iPhone?
Maybe if you can organize a class lawsuit.
I absolutely agree in this case, but remember that every other “frenzy of outrage” was also thought to be earned and deserved.
Good night stories for rebel girls - https://www.booktopia.com.au/good-night-stories-for-rebel-gi...

It contains stories of 100 famous women throughout history to inspire young girls to be whatever they want to be.
Three months ago they were oversubscribed for their debt offering. It might cost a little higher rate, but if they need more money they can get it and they're not going bankrupt. The well isn't dry.

To put numbers on it, Tesla projects by end of next year to be producing 10,000 Model 3 a week at an average price of $42,500 with 25% gross margins. That is $106,250,000 per week in gross profits.

Over 50 weeks, that's 5.3B in gross profits and over 21B in revenue.

They have high SG&A relative to other automakers, but there will be plenty of cash flow to fund further ambitions and pay off the debt it took to get them there unless they're grossly overstating profitability, capacity, or demand.
>Seattle residents are encouraged, when they see a banded crow, to report its location and activity to that page.

if you think about it, the major difference between these crows and users in 2017 is that the crows don't have to have 15 seconds of their life stolen by a popup about the researchers' privacy policy that they have to agree to before they're able to get on with their lives.
Fair enough on schedule 1's flaws.

I meant that it hasn't really been properly tested by enough people. And there are things like ecstasy which have some fatal strands because production isn't regulated. The legal drugs will at least have much, much higher quality control and safety checks.

Other drugs may give you Parkinson's or something 20 years later but it's just not tested at all on something like psilocybin.
My overall point is that people don't actually care. It's just virtue signaling. If people cared they'd have consistency in their actions. For example, you probably are very consistent in the fact that you probably will never cause physical harm to someone.

Consistency isn't impossible at all. People are already very consistent in doing what simply is convenient for them. In the case of Uber vs. Lyft, if you live in an area where they're priced similarly and are of similar service it's easy to switch to one or the other under the guise of trying to do the right thing, or whatever.

Not using Uber hardly requires any effort. What, ten seconds to uninstall an app and install the alternative one?
What does a CEO know about accounting? Should they be held liable for irresponsible accounting practices performed by their subordinates if they are not an expert in accounting?
From the experience of two of my friends in the past month, they had that in-app system "error" and had to do the same emails and 5-day level delay.
The point isn't that it's $700, rather that it's (at least) a month's salary, even used, for someone in a more developing country.
Less regulation would be better than the system we have now - where large and connected corporations can buy get out of jail free cards.
It's not free. Some videos are free to watch, but the others, including the exercises are behind a $249 paywall. The title is misleading.
They Planted Porn in ISIS Propaganda, Then Sowed Chaos in the 'Caliphate'
> It's controversial because some people believe, reasonably, that opt-in is the only ethical model for collecting potentially sensitive information like browsing history, "anonymized" or not.

You presuppose that it's reasonable, but is it? If you can prove that you're doing everything right to protect the user, should you not be allowed to collect the data?

If we just call every non-opt-in data collection unethical, no matter if it can actually negatively affect users or not, then you're levelling the playing field in favor of those that actually collect and use data unethically. Because you're essentially saying that it's all the same, unless you're not collecting data at all.

And for some services, you simply do need to collect data, and sometimes you even do need it to be non-opt-in, because otherwise your data sample will have a severe bias.

> Mozilla stated "Cliqz uses several techniques to attempt to remove sensitive information from this browsing data before it is sent from Firefox"[1], which is very different from "no personal data will be collected". Even just a list of domains can be enough to reveal someone's identity.

If you just so happen to read one sentence further than that, it says "Cliqz does not build browsing profiles for individual users and discards the user’s IP address once the data is collected.". That says exactly that no personal data is collected.

And yes, a list of visited domains can be used to identify a person, but it's not necessary to store the visited domains aggregated by each individual user for this. They'll just intermix the domain lists from all users.
OP should post this on the /r/politics
Special Report: In modernizing nuclear arsenal, U.S. stokes new arms race
Crows are crazy smart. One of em snuck into my mechanic’s garage, stole a small package of sunflower seeds from across the other end of the shop and had a sunflower seed party with his buddies in the parking lot.
Ireland promises progress in Apple tax recovery in coming weeks
Why bother? I just deleted the app and forgot about it. Is there something I should know?
Since when was Robert E. Lee stripped from the history books? Not sure what you’re trying to say.
Define 'misuse'.

If they sell ad space based on your geolocation, is that a misuse?

If they sell your geolocation, ip address, and search history together, is that a misuse?
A Review of Udacity’s React Nano Degree
The way I see it if you edit some of the content passing though your service you're responsible for all of it.

If companies want to do away with net neutrality they also have to lose the legal protections that being a common carrier give you .... just wait until the family of someone who died in a terrorist act sues you because the terrorists used your ISP .... because you're responsible for ALL the content on your wires
In contract, saying to "get a lyft" can be confusing, if not meaningless.
Etsy CEO: How Net Neutrality Shaped My Life
> ("half two") is the German idiom for "halfway [between one and] two o'clock"

You may find 'half to two' easier to remember.
Another breach that 2FA and SSO didn't stop. 81% of all breaches now originate from compromised credentials mainly acquired from 3rd party data breaches. Most organizations believe that 2FA and SSO are the answer but this proves they are not enough.
> The user-space piece is all written in Go, which is generally more trusted than C within Google

Someone should read "On Trusting Trust" and note its author…
yet strangely, wayland removes the frames-of-latency known as 'remote windowing' in it's quest for 'improvement'..
> I find these stories about people like this exhilarating. I think we all yearn to do this, and yet few of us do.

I disagree. I think humans are social animals, and people like this -- who choose to live in isolation for an extended period of time -- are an aberration.
How many commenters do you think make their money in the tech industry?

Always follow the money.
Ask HN: Any 7-figure-year solopreneurs?
Yeah well, it is what it is. Instead of having alternate syntax to pass the first argument, we can at least get first class syntax to pass a custom `this` argument. That will at least allow us to talk about `this` being a function argument, not a special magic "thing" - and there will be just one thing to learn, the big difference between (x.f)() and x.f()
Yup. I just watched some video of a hardware engineer expat visiting Mumbai. Freudian YouTubing, for sure.
Huh? General Lee was the Commander of the Confederate States Army. No one is stripping him from the history books; he had an important role in history. It's the monuments glorifying him that are being removed from public spaces.

Feynman similarly was responsible for actual important works in physics. He won't be stripped from history books.
Wow, I wasn't aware. I did some searching and his own writing is even more damning (the chapter "You Just Ask Them?" in "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!")

> Well, someone only has to give me the principle, and I get the idea. All during the next day I built up my psychology differently: I adopted the attitude that those bar girls are all bitches, that they aren’t worth anything, and all they’re in there for is to get you to buy them a drink, and they’re not going to give you a goddamn thing; I’m not going to be a gentleman to such worthless bitches, and so on. I learned it till it was automatic.

Further excerpts and discussion here: https://restructure.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/sexist-feynman-...
There are two separate infractions here that shouldn't be conflated: allowing a data breach to occur, and failing to disclose a breach.

As far as I can tell, the perverse incentive you're describing is that the if the penalty for a breach occurring is too harsh, it could lead companies to cover up a breach rather than disclose it. A penalty for failing to disclose a breach would be meant to discourage that, and I don't see how that penalty is itself a perverse incentive.

The penalty for a data breach must be harsh enough that it would cost a company more than it would to guard against it. I don't believe that there exists a penalty that satisfies that condition yet is also light enough that a company wouldn't cover up any breaches that occurred.
Net Neutrality Is Crucial–But It's Just the Start of a Long Battle
I really don't think using 2FA and the direct hacking of an individual developer's machine are all that comparable here.

Who cares about access to individual dev's machines if the credentials to access code on github are obtained - 2FA at least offers some degree of protection in this scenario. The scope for attack is extremely different.
My uncle, a top professor at a top 10 US research university didn't have a phone until two years ago. He did fine. In fact, he attributes his significantly higher productivity to not having a phone.

Donald Knuth gave up email in 1990. Too distracting. (I dunno but I wouldn't think he has a cellphone)

When I started grad school in '07 I wanted to forgo a cellphone. I couldn't. My advisor was even annoyed I held out on a smartphone for as long as I did (caved in 2010).

In 2013, sick of my smartphone I went back to a dumbphone. It was great until 2015 when I started working at a place so crappy I have to routinely tether my phone for productive internet access.

My point: it's very possible to live w/out a cell phone. Frankly it's not even hard (I "forget" my phone at home). However, unless you're tenured or are otherwise your own boss, you'll be forced to have one.
S3Proxy gateways to Azure as well as Backblaze, Google Cloud, and Swift:

https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy
It’s just not possible to be perfectly consistent in all your actions, we’re all hypocrites somewhere if you consider all down to the root. We probably all hate forced child labor, yet we all own smartphones, all of them most likely built with resources mined by children under grueling conditions. (This text Is typed on one) Still, don’t let that stop from doing the right thing once in a while. If we all did the right thing most of the time, we’d still be hypocrites, but the world would probably be a better place.
Well I hope Uber asked for the hard drive shredder receipt this time around.
The ones that care about the security of their code base host it internally anyway.
> their achievements would go to someone else

It doesn't work like that unfortunately.
Thanks for the heads up - some articles for those that are interested: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/ed-catmull-on-wage-... http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/pixars-ed-catmull-emerge...
81% of all breaches now originate from compromised credentials mainly acquired from 3rd party data breaches or data leaks. Most organizations believe that 2FA and SSO are the answer but this proves that 2FA/SSO are not enough.
Am I missing something? How do we see the tool?

Edit:ugh the archbee logo at the top does nothing on mobile
They can do both with NN gone. Force the consumers to pay for different packages and lanes, and then force the services to pay for access to the subscribers.
I think every SR-71 story I've read has been engrossing, and this one is no exception. Thanks for the link!
Yes that book is one of my favourites. It really made me believe that you can build something big while maintaining a great culture for everyone. I thought the mostly awesome films were proof of this - what a fallacy. This news is very sad indeed.
This is an interesting point. I hope the EFF et al are on standby to start filing lawsuits once this starts happening to see if it's actually legally sound.
> Trying to make data breaches much harder has some unsettling implications. "Make CEOs responsible" or "make companies in general responsible". Ok. Sucks if you're a startup, but ok. The big ones are going to turn around and put a clause into every engineer's contract to the effect of "you are now directly responsible for the code you write, if the company is sued because of a bug you caused, we're suing you".

Contracts aren't laws and, particularly, don't have unlimited ability to create new forms of liability. Even if this would be effective, it can simply be negated by a safe harbor clause protecting individual employees without specified degree of authority from liability for breaches outside of actively concealing vulnerabilities from the employer or revealing them to exploiters.
SIGINT resources are under-allocated for domestic defence of civilian assets.
I feel its too diversionary. The Model 3 has immense magic to everyone, car buyers, investors, futurists, the fate of Tesla itself.... Smoke and mirrors don't work when you know its smoke and mirrors.
> It happens with TV all the time.

We're seeing it with #metoo right now - the most drastic example is of course Kevin Spacey with House of Cards, but I wonder how many other core stars will have similar problems with sexualized misconduct, and how TV series (and movies) will react to this.
> We probably all hate forced child labor

A false premise. If that were true, just like you stated, we wouldn't support it. Actions speak louder than words, and all that.

EDIT: I realize I sound far more judge-y than intended in these posts. My overall point is that people should just do whatever makes 'em happy while doing the best you can (w.r.t. everything else). Trying to emphasize the morality in your actions is just wrong, imo.
This would be easy to check by checking radio signals emitted for the phone. This might be an expensive experiment to set up, but easy to check.
If Apple claims to care about protecting privacy, the onus is on them to prove that they actually do, e.g. by publishing the source code to show everyone that it doesn't collect anything.

Otherwise, the assumption is that they do.
The article definitely appeals to anyone with a Robinson Crusoe fantasy. Framed less generously, you could be reading about a squatter on public land supported by bi-weekly food shipments.

Somewhat related, the homesteading culture is pretty vibrant and full of tech savvy folks like Jaimie Mantzel. His island fortress series is fascinating:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1p7jFXjL7Q0qMii08oAeAQ
Wait until the EU GDPR kicks and in fines of up to 4% of annual turnover or 20 million kick in...
I don't understand what is the value compared to AWS SDK + create-react-native. Can someone give me on example of before Amplify / after Amplify?
The problem with all vim-style extensions is that they have been limited in potential functionality. For instance they won't work in any builtin pages such as about: pages or the new tab page or https://add-ons.mozilla.com. This forces the user to think about whether their command will work or not and induces an uncertainty in their flow.

The other issues regarding limited control over the browsing experience may be resolved with future API expansion, but the previously mentioned hobbling is something with which we are most likely permanently stuck.
https://archbee.aiurlabs.com
I guess you should ask her if she thinks we are about to go through the 40s or the 60s again.
I think it is even more complex than that. Even people without famous achievements have good and bad aspects.

Hopefully over time we all learn to temper the bad while growing the good.

Some do a better job than others, but also we can never know the totality, bad or good, of any person.

In my opinion that’s important to bear in mind when people disappoint us, or we disappoint ourselves.
Welp, I thought clicking the title takes you to the website :)
Today's SMBC comic is relevant to your argument: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/wait-a-sec
I think sharing congresspeople's private login information from leaked sites as public record would light a useful fire under their asses.

If its already freely available on the dark web, the bad guys already have this data. Might as well level the playing field and make the public aware of the extent of the issue.

At least prepare the number of .gov and .mil accounts that have been compromised, huge blackmail risk for people who have access to top secret info.
Every day we see more evidence that boards of directors and senior management should be personally accountable financially and with respect to their liberty for the company they are managing or overseeing doing foul things that they ought to have known.

The "I didn't know, I just took a vast salary to play golf" argument should not be any kind of defence. If there is the real prospect of going to jail, golfers will resign, those who take the job would actually take an interest and have the ability to do so.

An idea whose time has come.
What do the new laws say about VPNs?

Losing net-neutrality seems like it threatens to derail free speech and lock-in monopolies. The ability to compete in a market and voice political dissent are considered by many to be natural rights.

Shouldn't we be prosecuting these people as criminals for attempting to subvert our human rights?

Does this violate our constitutional rights?
that doesn't protect you from GitHub employees snooping around.
So one should absolve themselves of any way they could stop it in a peaceful and legal manner?
YugaByte DB P99 Latencies with Netflix Data Store Benchmark
Charlie Rose had the best interview show on TV for decades, and is now just gone.
I don't think Microsoft really thought about the server market until NT4 came out, and people started using the "desktop" version on small servers....

However, the Unix business was a huge mess at the time. First, the all vendors were at war with one another, then they divided into two warring camps (SVR4 vs OSF).

While they were busing fighting one another, Microsoft nicked their cheese.....

Update: Of course, Windows NT was designed by the same guy as DEC's VAX VMS, so it's got that in its DNA. Maybe he was thinking of servers as well...
This would require a very strong assumption that geniuses are a commodity. That all it takes is to be in the right place and be given the right opportunity and anyone could have done what he did.
Those were the 80s computers though. We've gone a long way since then.
Last time I checked, Robert E. Lee was still in the history books.
Just pigging-backing on your comment. If you did, here's a guide from Github on how to remove it: https://help.github.com/articles/removing-sensitive-data-fro...
It certainly has been interesting being a customer of HPE's software business (now MicroFocus) over the last few years.
Please tell me more about how even less regulation would have held Uber accountable.
I assume it was password reuse from one of their engineers or something similar. If you could compromise GitHub itself there would probably be higher value targets (source code for upcoming AAA games, Coinbase, government organizations, etc.)
If something is going to be uncompetitive in any case, you strip the power to leverage that for additional control from the uncompetitive thing. Government road networks face no competition, but that's virtually never an issue because no one is leveraging that monopoly to restrict competition elsewhere, not to charge rents beyond what it takes to maintain he road network (or even sufficient to that end.)

Last mile connectivity is a natural monopoly, whether or not it is a government monopoly.
It does. But your website doesn't work on mobile
He's trying to say that he's the victim here, a white man suffering from reverse discrimination, sick and tired of having to tolerate people writing bad facts about Robert E Lee and tearing down his statues, which deeply effects him every day of his life, because tradition. We've heard it all before.
The main videos are free, the intros, exercises, and solutions are behind a paywall.

But I agree that this is a little misleading
I understand the problem but I am not sure what a sane balance might be. In general a data breach is something companies want to avoid already.
So many stories are going to come out over the next few weeks that it will get to a point where none of it sticks. If everyone's a pervert, then nobody is.

(And that will be how Roy Moore wins.)
i can remember watching these take off/land at Kadena air base in Okinawa while i was stationed in Camp Hansen (USMC).

We assume they were flying recon missions over North Korea. They would take off then quickly bank almost 180 degrees

we referred to them as "Habu" because that's how the locals called them, which is the name of the large black (and extremely poisonous) snake indigenous to the island.

i recall reading that the SR-71 was originally designed as a strategic interceptor, rather than a long-range recon bird.
Fuck Ajit Pai. Internet access (and healthcare) is like universal education, a basic human right. I hope a news organization finds some resignation- or imprisonment-worthy dirt on him... bribery, corruption or other such revolving-door impropriety.
It’s not a false premise. It’s just not humanly possible to change everything you don’t support. We can’t move all back to self-dug caves and till the land with our bare hands. You need to pick your battles.