skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been ages, and I did probably not touch Vista anymore after that (I used Mac at home after years of Windows&Linux, while at work it was mostly WinNT, Linux, Solaris...) so I cannot recall what specifically felt odd (apart from the UAC that at least for the first hour or so were cropping up with alarming frequency - the person I was helping lives far away from my hometown, so the idea of leaving her with mistery pop-ups wasn't really encouraging).

In any case, the UI was only a minor concern: I was confident that everyone can learn and adjust after a few hours of work with it.
But what I could not help to notice was that I still remembered clearly what happened when I started my first Macbook (three years before the Vista episode): the UI felt very different than what I was accustomed to... but it felt also much better. Intuitive, empowering. When something unexpected happened it was, most often than not, a nice surprise like "wow, the global search can find strings even in a just-closed Word for Mac documents!" (compare and contrast with stuff like Magellan on Windows) or how the progress bar on file copies worked (compare and contrast with https://xkcd.com/612/ ).
I can attest to the relatively low requirements of Windows 10. I'm running it on a circa 2008 Core 2 Duo with 4Gb of RAM. It's my Plex Server.
Is this true? When I Googled "how to make a pencil" the video started "Wrap a piece of paper around the lead..."
Your knowledge of WW2 is different from mine (and I've read quite a bit about it...). Hitler was planning to attack the USSR from day 1, where do you think the Lebensraum was supposed to be?

Regarding Russia, if the Russians truly have to eat grass again, Putin's head will be in a basket within 1 week.
About 5 years ago, I got a 1541 drive and an XA1541 plugged in the parallel port. The purpose was to 'rip' some disks (last used in 1997) I found in my mother's loft.

Most notably, I found an old story I thought was lost, and a trove of insane Boulderdash caves/levels I wrote with a friend - in the Boulderdash level editor - in about 1993.

I'm amazed that the disks survived. But finding the lost story - and some letters from high school - was great.

Find instructions here:

http://decompiler.org/doc_c64_disks.htm
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42254577/how-to-remove-s...
Hi lpolovets,

In the world of massive, multi 100 million exits where does a more 'humble' single digit Million exit's it with you and investors?
Plus, you can implement it with crabs!

http://www.complex-systems.com/abstracts/v20_i02_a02.html

https://www.wired.com/2012/04/soldier-crabs/
A huge percentage of Houstonians would eat out for lunch and maybe after work as well, even with a family. In a city of countless inexpensive restaurants, eating out might be the default for a lot more people here.
Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems [pdf]
Remember this when you'll write your first spec one day.
I can't edit anymore. It's probably because I live in Eastern-Europe, they don't target this region. Yet. Yikes :)
And the bigger problem is Americans are becoming immune to the suffering. Hell--there's a handful of you whom are rationalizing the homelessness problem right now. "If they just didn't do whatever?"

We used to be appalled, but now a head could come following out of an alley, and oh well? I'm embarrassed to admit I've become hardened a bit too.

My hope is we go back to being appalled,and not just at the usuall nations that we don't quite get, but ours. I don't see that happening. I just see more laws, roadblocks, and "educational will cure the problem."

Many of you in tech will feel the cold reality when this party dies down, or maybe there's a sympathetic parent that will offer a basement? I hope for the latter--a lot of you come from living, responsible families.

(We need to immediately build restrooms across America. F--- the Wall. We need places to chit, and wash our hands. When ever I have to go to SF, I actively think about my colon. Everyone should have the right to use a restroom.)
Developing Shared Code with Principles
There are very few fast food chains that originate in India - people either cook at home or eat home cooked food out of roadside stalls if they don't have the time to cook. There are a very few indigenous restaurants, even fewer chains. It's simply not part of the culture, in the way that McDonalds is in the US. Only the rich and upwardly mobile go into a restaurant / fast food joint on a regular basis.

To put this in perspective, a meal at McDonalds is affordable to most, if not all Americans. But the cheapest meal at a fast food joint (outside of a roadside stall) is affordable only to a minority.
Why the future doesn't need us
That's not a 0.2% fluctuation, but 1.6x decrease. Treating it as 0.2% would treat completely wiping automanufacturing jobs as "only", 0.46% fluctuation.
> Besides the scientifically proven downsides for society and general human wellbeing that inequality is known to cause .

(Honest question) do you have some citations where this has been studied, specifically in cases where the low-end of the inequality spectrum isn't poor? (i.e., to demonstrate the inequality and not the absolute state is the culprit)
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I think that at this point we classify countries as developed mostly by IHDI/HDI: (Inequality adjusted) Human Development Index. I'm from Romania, which I would classify as developing:

Romanian HDI: 0.802, IHDI: 0.714.

Indian HDI: 0.624, IHDI: 0.454

I think India still has a long way to go. So does China, in my opinion.
Remember that HN readers are demographically unrepresentative. Incomes are higher, urbanization is higher, professions are wildly skewed towards software, age is, I think, lower.

In my experience, most people eat most of their meals at home, and lunch is the most likely meal to be eaten out. But some people eat out all the time. For most of my 20s I went out for lunch every day. Now I do so once a month or so on average.
Ah, that makes since. Sounds like a much less complicated fix than my idea.
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This lead me to the discovery of FloydHub... Very cool stuff.

https://www.floydhub.com/emilwallner/projects/picturetocode
How beauty care companies can combine Augmented Reality with Chatbots
OTOH what business does the BundesWEHR have in the Mali heat?
You can't edit after 2 hours on HN. It's global, I'm also from Eastern Europe, cut it out with the victim complex ;)
No, it's not close to the same. There is homelessness in SF, but the level of poverty in India is breathtaking.
Exactly.

This issue is being discussed a lot and nothing is being done to fight it.

Microsoft and Google with Android - where the same issue can be seen - should step in with more proactive approach to solve this problem.

I don't have a solution but they should probably use some business incentives and possibly something directly from OS like built in benchmark scores/graphs, ideally compared to bare bones for the device so everybody can see how much performance you loose by getting all those "features" preinstalled.
PEs have continuing education requirements as well. They are, largely, a joke compared to what software engineers are supposed to do to prepare for a single FAANG interview. For example, Texas (where I would have been licensed had I pursued it) requires 15 hours per year, of which at least one must be ethics[1]. I went to a one-day power supply seminar sponsored by TI (just because I wanted to) that would have covered half that requirement. Are two day-long seminars really enough to keep current in anything technical?

[1] http://engineers.texas.gov/cep_info.htm
Just for discussion's purpose - how do you explain the rising diabetes rate in India through this lens? Data suggests that something, whether it's bad food or soda, is getting more mainstream adoption.
Thanks. This is great advice. I was part of a Toastmasters and the "Table Topics" were really challenging for me, but are exactly what I need to work on.
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What happens in libertarianism with under performers?
XCPng: libre XenServer
Not sure why you're downvoted. It's a perfectly reasonable trade off.

I'll be searching for ways to disable most of these mitigations too after the dust settles. I rarely run untrusted code, and for that I can probably find a way to run it securely depending on the perceived threat. A lot of what I do on my main computer is syscall heavy, and I don't like 25-50% performance hit.
> I see two reasons for why it has such a bad reputation.
> 1. It exposed how terrible device manufacturers are at writing drivers. nVidia alone (which only has niche hardware) themselves stood for the majority of Vista BSODs.

One of the things Fathi (OP author) writes is

> [. . .] ecosystem partners hated [Vista] because they felt they didn’t have enough time to update and certify their drivers and applications as Vista was rushed out the door to compete with a resurgent Apple.

This goes some way to mitigating the characterization of device manufacturers as terrible at writing drivers. When considered in the context of "a resurgent Apple", it also provides a counterpoint in the specific example of nVidia as a niche hardware manufacturer.

2006 was the year Vista was released, at that time, Apple was shipping the quad-core Xeon Mac Pro with macOS Leopard (later Snow Leopard) which shipped with an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT video card. [0]

I used this particular computer all the way through Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) and if memory serves, I had a handful of kernel panics over the course of 6 years. From all I could tell, nVidia's video card device drivers on Mac OS never interfered with daily operation (up 24/7 as it was also an authoritative DNS server for my personal domains).

So, device manufacturers may be bad at writing drivers but those drivers also depend on stable and reliable APIs of the target OS, and such details have to be communicated between the two teams. Device drivers are an interface between host operating systems and hardware embedded systems. As such, the reliability of any device driver will depend on the sharing of information between the OS and device driver teams just as much, if not more, on the competence of the device driver engineers.

[0] https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-qua...

EDIT: remove extraneous words, a couple proper nouns where appropriate, punctuation.
What does it offer over MAME (which merged in MESS), the grand-daddy of multi machine emulators?
That may have been the plan. It seems the UK will have around 24 jets by 2021. That seems to be what the current planned operation wing will comprise, but doesn't allow any for training, working up and maintenance[0]. The carriers are designed to carry 36 planes each. So I would say it is true.

Yes it is planned to work up the ship for operational deployment using USMC F35's if they are available in time.

Regarding the long timescale, the Audacious class Ark Royal carrier had an operational life of 24 years, so I would say not having the air wing ready until 3 or 4 years after commissioning is a pretty serious procurement issue. You have to remember that the UK does't have any carrier pilots (unless seconded to the US, but certainly not a squadron) waiting to just do a type conversion, you would have hoped that some aircraft were available to work up pilots before the ships are commissioned.

This is also ignoring the cats-and-traps vs VTOL debacle and the propulsion debacle that delayed both carriers. It makes you wonder actually, had the carriers not been delayed by this, they may have been ready even more years before the aircraft

[0]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/09/usmc_will_fly_f35s_o...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16106023
Graphs? All I see is charts ;)

Early on the article made an interesting thought - once we get ai right, we won't need to solve any other problems...
Interesting, I like this idea, I will try this. Thanks.
Gnome 3 is where I lost faith in the Linux community's ability to cohesively come up with a solution to user experience. Every time I log onto a system with Gnome 3 it give me a feeling of dread and anger. Gnome 2 had become one of the more popular, and fast interfaces and they threw it all away. Mate seems to hold the torch, but I want progress, not to be frozen in time. But Gnome 3 was just a complete FU to all the current gnome users. How arrogant.

KDE seems to keep it together. KDE plasma 5 seems an incremental upgrade from what came before, getting rid of some of the weirdness and converging on something sane. Progress at least. I can respect what they're doing.

Microsoft, in all it's bullshit, every few years seems to give the users what they want. Licensing is a headspinner, and privacy is questionable, but otherwise they still make an operating system that feels good to use.
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I don’t know that he thought it was a bad idea technically but that it wasn’t necessary for the user-facing features they needed, and would have been much too disruptive for the remaining benefits such as you describe.
Eating out in the west is expensive. Eating out in the developing world is comparatively cheaper, if you are middle class, you can eat out everyday (or get delivery) and it won’t make a dent in your budget. In china, it really wasn’t uncommon at all, hence the density of restaurants being much higher than in the west. India felt similar when I visited, much higher density of restaurants/street food than in most western cities.
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Women can also be great friends.
Royalty, bourgeoisie and peasants?
No and it never well be. Lets consider AWS. On-demand pricing, even reserve is never even going to be close, simply because there exists Amazons overhead, profit, etc. built into the cost. The only possible chance is spot instances. Spot instances start to approach a "free market". The pricing will adjust based on supply and demand. There still exists AWS overhead, as they aren't going to run them at a loss, just far less profit. If the price of say the p3 family of instances approached a profitable price point, then others would flock to using them, driving up the price, causing them to no longer be profitable. There also exist external use cases, such as AI, which can justify the computation power at a higher price point, as the value of the computation might exceed the value gained from mining.
Caller in Kansas SWATing Shooting Charged with Manslaughter
I've found most times it's not even that, but that the "bad code" was in most cases the best possible code that could have been written within the needed constraints.

You need a fix for problem "x". You can either write the ugly hack by next weekend knowing that it's going to be replaced by the big rewrite you have coming up in 6 months, or you can spend 1 month refactoring code to make a "proper fix" that will last another 5 months until the code is rewritten...

Of course when you have an audience, they get to read into this however they feel. Some will point to the hack as an example of how awful the codebase is and how bad the developers are, others will point to it and proclaim (wrongly) how dirty hacks are never a bad thing if they work, still others will talk about how much better their idea their idea would have been even though it didn't fit your exact constraints.

In my experience, very very few successful developers are "dumb" or "bad at programming" or whatever insults you see thrown around all the time. Most of the time it's just someone making the best of a shitty situation weighing several constraints while still keeping the product working.
Well that's interesting. The fast-playing 2d curve (the fourth audio file, under "Meander fast track") sounds a lot like a solo, a taksim, in an oriental scale - Ussak, perhaps, or Segah, although the tuning is western. It's like music made out of a heavily stylised and simplified arabesque. So cool.
Any good wikis you can recommend? I'd love to use github wikimore if it was trivial to upload images the way one cane with gh issues.
New MaMi Malware targets macOS systems and changes DNS settings
It’s a numbers issue. From a small base, any rise is a large percentage. And in India the small bases are large in absolute numbers. So if you have 50M people in your middle class and they drink an increasing number of sugary drinks, the rate of diabetes can shoot up.
Places like India have a much wider spectrum of extremes between incredible poverty and incredible wealth. North America has a subset of that spectrum.

If you don't believe this, I challenge you to drop yourself into 0-star in any place like India and see how it stretches you.
That's a mental health issue in the US. Every city has shelters, food kitchens, etc so if you are mentally stable, clean of drugs, and not too proud to take charity you don't need to be on the streets for long.

Where the US system fails is with mentally unstable people and drug addicts. This is nowhere near the same thing as an entire lower class of 10s of millions willing to work that are still homeless.
I am deeply introverted and I forced myself to go to meetups very often until I got over it being uncomfortable. It took a long time until I found/made my current "friend group" but you will find those people you click with eventually. For me, the key was finding a single really good friend who had a lot of other friends she introduced me to.
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Nor the American school system for me. ;)
Interesting. I had thought about game load times. Most use large agglomerations and shouldn't be too affected. Some games do load small loose files and would be slowed significantly.

I suppose the same applies to desktop applications. Most use a large executable with maybe a few dlls. Electron and Python applications that ship as source or bytecode will be much more affected.
Bandits and Reinforcement Learning (Fall 2017)
In truly competitive markets it wouldn't be so easy to park money for guaranteed returns.
Do you think that missile batteries on eight ships are what’s stopping Russia from invading Germany?
You didn't read the headline.

Or the article.

Or the referenced (linked) article.

Seriously: a rebuttal of what you wrote is easy, but amounts to rephrasing the article.
Probably the only fair method.
Though not an unquestionable and not ultimately reliable one, using comparably rare hardware and software usually is a valid security measure. Now as Linux has gained solid market share the "no viruses for Linux" era comes to its end and Linux-capable ransomware is emerging I am considering moving to OpenBSD not only because security is among the top priorities of its design but because it's a way more exotic too.
I assume those save language would still fail to defend against spectre. The problem is that the „code path with data“ executed in a speculative branch is not considered by the compiler but „fantasized“ by the cpu.

Remember that Spectre can be exploited through JavaScript JIT. The JS sandbox is quite comparable to the models used for save languages.
It's to prevent reading cross-origin images through JavaScript.
A canvas is considered tainted if it contains data from a cross origin image that was loaded without CORS approval. Tainted canvases cannot be read from by JavaScript.

I don't think this requires a 1000x slowdown but I'm not super familiar with this area of the spec. It should be possible to cache the tainted state of the canvas in a single bit, only updating it when adding new images to the canvas, and checking the bit when converting the canvas to an array.
The Gravity of Kubernetes
Stop reading soviet newspapers, they are bad for the brain
Ever hear of a milk bar? It’s like if your grandma opened a fast food place and served her best schnitzel, mashed potatoes, & coleslaw.

I first came across them in Eastern Europe, and they’re amazing. Home cooked meal fast for less than it costs to make it yourself.

Kinda like the ikea cafeteria but with better food.

Apparently there were dozens of milk bars in San Francisco generations ago
What tools does Apple give you to block iAds in apps?
Hoeveel keer per dag eten is gezond en doet je makkelijker afvallen
The OP said wifi w/o GPS. Give that a shot maybe?
I don't think you have any idea what "libertarianism" is, as most of your post describes a well-functioning social democracy, which is the exact opposite of libertarianism.
Life is even more strange, because plants use very little sodium, so the relation is not straightforward ...

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_in_biology

> In C4 plants, sodium is a micronutrient that aids in metabolism, specifically in regeneration of phosphoenolpyruvate (...) and synthesis of chlorophyll. In others, it substitutes for potassium in several roles, such as maintaining turgor pressure and aiding in the opening and closing of stomata. [Note: most plants are C3] [...]

> Since only some plants need sodium and those in small quantities, a completely plant-based diet will generally be very low in sodium. This requires some herbivores to obtain their sodium from salt licks and other mineral sources.
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The word 'dîner' also meant breakfast!

Wiktionary says: dîner, From Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from disieiūnāre, disjejūnāre (“to break the fast”)
As someone who knows nothing about graphics programming, I'd be interested in seeing a walkthrough or "literate" version of main.c.
yes. just read the patents.
interesting - tried to look up if i am correct - couldnt find any result

i always assumed it to be named as a nod to zuse the famous german computer pioneer.

but you might be right - might just be coincidence
PCI compliance had little to do with where you're hosted, but how you're hosted and what you do with data.

AWS is not a magical PCI compliance button.
You can do this on Windows 7 and Windows 10 too. Actually, I think it's the default, because it's one of the first things I disable whenever I get a new machine (I'm not a fan)!

I'm on mobile now, but from memory you right click the start button and go into taskbar settings.
It's a considerate effort to make the language more readable to foreigners
Down again. Amateur hour. Lol.
> the principle that money makes more money (the principle of investment and ROI), and I don't see how "competitive market" tackles this.

It doesn't address that because it doesn't make that argument, in that way. One of its starting axioms is that economy is a positive sum game. In the case of your statement, it might argue that (in the very general sense) money makes more money in a positive sum way -- more total wealth in the economy. Then to the latter it merely says that business that are better at making money (and generally, wealth) get to out compete those that don't. Its premise is it optimizes for wealth creation of the entire economy. I think that's the place to take the argument -- either that you fundamentally disagree with that premise or some outcome of it.

> It basically feels like the capitalism starts off from fairly-level playing field

Historically I don't think so. I"m not expert but read a lot and I'm currently under the impression that economies were historically locked down by government or tightly coupled government / mercantile entities.
India's GDP per capita (in US$ inflation adjusted) has quadrupled since 2000, if that isn't developing then what is?

https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9...
Do you have premium support with AWS? Maybe try opening a ticket.
Ethereum is going to win it all
Not automated, I do it manually when writing the commit messages according to https://github.com/dannyfritz/commit-message-emoji
Rockefeller for all his wealth, could not buy penicillin.

I’m just trying to make the point that productivity improvements diffuse out to everyone over time. Cell phones were $10K when they came out and now how many Indians have them?
riding ockham's razor is a religion for some. but that's ok.
Yea, I don't know how to shade with a mechanical pencil.
Its easy to check, just go to gmail and rewind to first emails you ever sent.