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There are legitimate cases where you need to avoid an update, if you remember a month ago when the meltdown/specter patches were pushed out some PCs did not boot, if you have your scenario where everyone is forced to update then people with affected hardware can't rollback because the update will be forced again on them, the PC would be unusable until a new update fixes the bug.

Similar bugs with non booting PCs, display drivers not working, other hardware not working, performance loses happened many times after updates, so you need to allow the rollback functionality to work.

A solution that would help in this case is implemented in some major linux distributions where you can chose to install only the security updates, this means more work for Microsoft but if Red Hat and others can spend the time to backport security fixes to the Linux kernel then MS should be able to do the same. I am aware of the downsides of this, but enterprise customers should ask for the security fixes only and not for all the eye candy changes and if enterprise get this special security fixes then the other users should have the option to get them too, paid customers should not be forced to run on bleeding edge.
Presumably if they can revive you as you are now, there's a fair chance they'll be able to just directly dump your memories and search for hex strings without ever actually running you.
At an early stage startup titles for the most part are meaningless. CTO in those cases is synonymous to "the one putting our ideas into code".
In light of what you say, what is your view of advertising companies accepting advertising from religious groups but rejecting advertising from athiest or humanist groups (advertisements that by any reasonable standard should be considered non-offensive)?
Don't know why you're downvoted. It's a relevant question. Synology is using samba for their SMB drives, haven't found a description on how the DSM is affected.

We're using LDAP so we cannot turn that off.
They require a photo ID to visit their parks? This immediately would drop them from the places I wish to visit.
Bill Bryson is the author of "A short history of nearly everything" and it is a very good book!
Causality is an artefact of the universe. From a philosophical standpoint we would need to establish that why is the key question or we are chasing a socks theory of feet. And that is assuming that why is about causality rather than intention. To paraphrase this abstract's ending, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then the mind of God would be knowable.
> Btw, I think we have common friends in Brighton. Your name occasionally came up when I used to work at Aptivate.

Hey! It's so odd when the virtual and real overlap. :-) I'll be seeing Alan this week hopefully.
As far as I can remember, the system-on-chip architecture limits the maximum amount of RAM to 1 GB (I'll try and find an official source, it's probably somewhere in the BCM283x peripherals documentation).

Not to say Broadcom couldn't spin a newer revision of the SoC with a different internal architecture, but for now it seems that >1 GB of RAM would require substantially more effort than just swapping the DRAM module on the board.
The main issue is that MS is forcing full updates not only security updates, you won't like it if your computer can't boot or for some reason MS changed the GUI,broke something you depended on.
This is what I tell my team:
1. Systems Thinking - Understanding the Big picture
2. First Principles Thinking - Starting from the fundamentals
3. Striving for simplicity
4. Learning to say ‘No’
5. Improving processes & working well in a team
I wish we had a better term for this sort of event than "end of life".

It's perfectly reasonable for the team who are the primary developers of Python 2 to say they want to move on and they aren't going to release any more updates after some specific date. After all, it's not as if most of us are paying them for their hard work, appreciated though it is.

On the other hand, it's also not as if Python 2 will suddenly stop working on 1 January 2020. The interpreter on my server will still run, and so will the scripts that have been using it for many years and have no reason to change because they're still doing a useful job.

The situation with purely locally-installed software it typically quite different to the situation with software that depends on some remote service or runs on someone else's server and is accessed via a web or mobile UI, where the developers can literally just turn it off and users immediately lose the ability to run some or all of it. I think we should be more careful about making this distinction.
Gigabit ethernet over usb 2? Will never reach gigabit speeds...
Hey, hardware is OK. Getting Linux to run on it is kind of noble.
Windows telemetry will by-pass the Windows firewall. You need to run a dedicated firewall box (that is not running Windows)
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This shows that there has been a change, not what caused it. How do you account for placebo effect and self deception?
I was really happy when Apple Music launched, because I had a huge library on iTunes that I had been keeping meticulously for about half a decade then, and I was a spotify user - I thought I could consolidate the two.

Well Apple Music responded to my enthusiasm by trashing my music library, mislabeling everything automatically and losing half of the library. I don't know if they fixed that, but that managed to turn me to a permanent spotify user.

Spotify too is making me unhappy these days though, because for some time now they are heavily emphasizing geography in discover weekly playlists, which isn't what I want as an expat. It's always a bunch of songs in the same style, listened to nowhere else but where I am now, and pressing the dislike button doesn't help. I guess I should get a VPN/use a payment method from my home country/switch to an alternative.
Surface hello works for me nearly every single time fast and seemlessly. Love it.
Now there will be an order of magintude less scam per popula, and without ads crypto bubble will fade and go away in few months.
Can't open "alt + /" on german QWERTZ keyboard.
Always found your notes useful, helps me decide whether to read a book.

An alternative to blinkist is https://www.getabstract.com/en/
Now if only Twitter would do the same, it's about 90% of their promoted tweets now. To me, it says something about the platform overall since they don't seem to mind these obvious scams marketing to their userbase.
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Yeah, same for Netflix; I can play a video with mpv, why pay for an app playing videos? /s
You are saying _I_ should die, even if there was technology to avoid it?
True, but still faster than 100Mbps, which can be nice
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I also noticed that. It's only ~280 megabits so seems a bit dishonest to call it gigabit. I guess what they mean is "gigabit ethernet standard" i.e. 1000BASE-T.

Also how does it act once its internal receive buffer is full? Is it possible to get the sender to slow down, or does it have to start dropping frames? Will important things such as ARP broadcasts and DHCP requests just risk getting lost?
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> Terribly poor negotiation tactics on their part, but still quite shitty of the owners not to give them a massive bonus after the huge success of the game.

If the game failed to gain traction would we be asking the devs to give a refund of their salaries?

> Given those ethics, I wouldn't believe a new team got better conditions without solid proof.

There’s nothing unethical with not sharing the bounties of success with those that aren’t sharing the costs of the risks.
This article was about ads, not content. That's the distinction I was making.

Google is very loathe to remove videos. I haven't seen that often, outside of copyright infringement or something truly illegal.

Demonetization is different. It's basically saying "we'll let you talk... But we don't want to reward you and charge our advertisers for it". It's a hugely slippery slope, of course, but... It's one thing to demand free speech (which Google isn't legally required to allow), yet a completely different thing to demand Google pay people they disagree with.
Yes! That would be most helpful.
That's great. You mean it from the perspective of helping people with your product, not from the perspective of helping your teammates, correct?
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Many of Lee Smolin's books are phenomenal, and despite being very indepth into their subject matter, are easy and enjoyable to read. Trouble With Physics is my favorite.
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This article is about ads.

But, to your point: are they? Outside of copyright infringement and downright illegal content, are they really removing any videos? I googled it, and all I found were terrorists and copyright infringement being removed.
Sure. Url changed from http://www.themindsetapp.com.

(It's better to email us at hn@ycombinator.com with this kind of request. We don't see most comments on the site and I only ran across this one randomly.)
I find Brian Greene’s books to be well done and engaging.
Why don't you set your connection to metered then?
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But I can do at my own choosing. And that's what I do.
Incentives work. Figuring out the correct incentives to achieve good results is hard. Keeping ahead of the people who will game them is hard. This requires competent management, which is obviously lacking. Fire the incompetent managers and fire the political leadership who appointed them (term limits might help here).

Since there are credible allegations of crime, is there an inspector general? There should be. If not, bring in the fraud squad and investigate the hell out of them. They'll leave.
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I do not fear non-existence. For most of the history of the universe, I did not exist. I have considerable experience with that. Dying appears to be unpleasant, though.
Like many here he was an inspiration for me too, I read his books at an early age and along with others it got me inspired to pursue scientific studies. It also helped me come to terms with the fear of death and eventually see the odds of sentient life and appreciate the ride without the egotistic entitled feeling that sparks that fear in the first place.Rip Stephen.
I think it's important to know when a theoretical framework can be applied to the full extent and when the real-life situation is actually a subset that behaves differently.

In this case the problem is solvable within the subset presented by the JavaScript language, but there are other cases where applying theory directly to real life constructs without considering the differences can lead to buggy code. For instance floating point numbers come to mind immediately.

I agree that discussions like this are sidetracking the whole point of a good article, but in order to avoid that, I'd use pseudo-code instead of a real language for presenting concepts like this.
You're quite right. I saw him once, giving a supervision in the Core of the Centre for Mathematical Studies. He walked among us ;)
As a technical writer working on an open-source docs project for another big-tech company, I can safely say that you’re overestimating the size of external contributions. People rarely want to work on docs, especially if they know that someone else is getting paid to do it.
Just finished the first session, feedback so far:

No offline option, I live in a poor service area so that's a long term deal breaker for me. I tend to queue up everything when I'm at uni. (Coursera, Lynda, Pluralsite, LinuxAcademy, Podcasts, Headspace all offer offline downloads).

The app crashed on my ipod touch, and of course it crashed at a pause in the narration so it took me a minute to notice, then I had to restart.

No seek option that I could find, so I had to start from the start.

I would prefer a one month free trial than a curated foundation set.

I also vote for a webapp (again with offline).
I don't get it. How does a chat without a threaded conversation model able to manage a large number of people effectively? Have you ever taken a look at chat that is fully threaded? As far as I know, Discourse was built by keeping gamers in mind who care mostly about what is happening right now which is not the perfect fit for an open source project.
Wouldn't that normally come with the ability to "vouch"? But I saw no "vouch" button for this one.
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> 'A short history of nearly everything' is extremely readable. Written by a comedic writer.

Bill Bryson normally writes travel books, so the way this book is written is not your standard science approach. This book in particular is very entertaining since the topic is out of the authors comfort zone.

A Short History of Nearly Everything is actually my favourite book to read while travelling, funnily enough.
I am sympathetic to your stance - I don't like Microsoft overriding my decisions. My worry is that this stance will eventually lead to harsh penalties for operating unpatched software and getting hacked, and I feel that's not something most users would want. How do we reconcile these two competing problems? It doesn't seem fair to me to have all the power of ownership with none of the responsibility.
Well there's a lot to unpack there. But it's worth noting that there's an enormous difference between doing something like this in South Africa, and doing this in America.

Of course the SECs view that any trading on US stocks is under it's jurisdiction, and Section 9(a)(4) of the SEC Act. It's known as stock bashing, it's a fairly usual form of market manipulation and attacking big American corporations like this is a great way of getting SEC attention.

So whilst it's potentially lucrative, it's also probably illegal and more a game of when they get big enough to be picked up by the SEC rather than anything else.

It's worth noting AMD's stock has not moved significantly right now, and these anonymous, rather weak accusations are unlikely to be effective, which would leave this strategy quite unprofitable.

-edit: somehow transposed India and South Africa
I don't know, but Japanese companies are notorious for never firing people, so it's very unlikely to be because they "fired everyone" as DiabloD3 was suggesting.
They already disabled TLS-SNI-01 for new certificates because of security issues [1].

This was a major breaking change, without any advance notice, but nothing melted down.

I'm sure the other validation endpoints are used a lot more, but the effect shouldn't be any different, especially if give a deprecation notice of a year or two.

[1]: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/important-what-you-need-...
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> For fully autonomous operation you need extra security features on the track which were not employed (fully sealed off track in stations, better emergency corridors, more reliable remote door controls etc.).

FWIW Lyon's Line D is fully automated (GOA4) and doesn't use enclosed track. It may have changed since but it used to not even have turnstiles, you could walk up to the track without any pause.

The only incident I can remember is a drunk who literally fell on a train from one of the elevated passages over the track.
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Keep in mind that this also makes it easier for any Amazon employee to improve documentation. That's 1,000s of developers who are equally confused about AWS APIs and are incentivized to make it better.
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The app could probably be optimized to the following:

def spiderIsDeath():
return True

Though surprisingly Australia does host some non-lethal animals and insects, including spiders. Most of the time people will be fine when bitten by spiders in Australia, treatment is quick in almost all cases.
>Google is a private business and they can do what they want,

This kind of an argument shows up every time Google or Facebook or some other megacorp does something detrimental to free speech. It would be a reasonable thing to say if they didn't control millions of conversations every day, show millions of ads to millions of people, and so on. When a company has a budget that would put it in the 20 biggest economies in the world if it were a country, this kind of a statement no longer applies. It doesn't matter that it's privately owned, its very existence impacts the lives of most people in most developed countries in the world, if it infringes on free speech, it should be regulated.
It's a long list, and reading from the bottom up (where the lower rated books are) is good fun.
I find I can just go into the settings and change my country, and Spotify will happily accept this. My GeoIP nor my credit card's country seems to have had an effect on the content in my library.

This is one of the joys of Spotify compared to other services I use, where it just accepts that I want the experience of the country I select, and not something arbitrary like an IP or a credit card (like Netflix, Steam).
Without knowing the details, the fact that multiple core developers quit seems to be some evidence that they were treated unethically. That's not something that happens in normal conditions.
Oh no it won't, that genie isn't going back into the bottle. Cryptos are here to stay, and they will continue growing for decades.
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Didn't they already have pxe support on the Model 3B? This is just a bug fixed version (and enabled by default).
I disagree. Half of the value of this game comes from the fact it forces you to learn a few things about real physics along the way. Beginnings ain't hard. You can easily get to orbit manually, and you can even eyeball your way to the Mün.

That said, something like the per-stage ∆v display from KER (a mod) should IMO be stock, both during construction and in-flight - without that one piece of information, any trip past Kerbin orbit gets too difficult - you either end up seriously overbuilding your vehicle, or run out of fuel in the middle of a mission.
Laughs in Linux.
It's a really nice development ecosystem I'm told.

Our developers write exclusively Windows software (games company) and even though it costs us multiple millions of dollars in software licenses to run dedicated servers, the "cost of porting" is high enough to prevent people from doing it.
Im prepping for Raspberry Pi X
Hawking's reputation will last as long after his death as that of Sagan, Gould, Boaz, Lysenko, Morris or any of the other popular culture performing cranks of this century. About ten minutes.
I agree.

I consider no black bar:

- a violation of the principle of least surprise

- a statement of discrimination

Precedent has been set by the fact that it has been used in the past.

If its usage is being wound down, I reckon this more than qualifies as exceptionally justifiable.
I guess that a man that was self-declared atheist would not appreciate the religious concept of "all good people go to heaven when die". I can understand that is a comforting social convention in any case.
I find it crazy that resumable downloads aren't the table stakes for an automated upgrade system.

Really, they also should be using erasure codes over UDP with TCP-friendly flow control in order to make more efficient use of noisy or high-latency channels.
Surely having your consciousness in some kind of computer/machine will be similar enough to 'locked in' syndrome to be a torture?

If they network you with others, it'll be a a true system of narcissists.
Last time I've checked, Harrop was everything but happy with the current F# situation (tooling, ecosystem, etc.)
> You mention not having a technical co-founder as a big turn-off. But we all know that unless you’re doing a ‘hard tech’ startup, customer acquisition can often be harder than building a product. Is it not possible to succeed by hiring external tech talent? After all, Kevin Rose famously built Digg with $20/hour Rent-A-Coder talent.

How is Digg?
It's selfish on an unfathomable level. And on top of that, it is self defeating. This is a stunt that you can only pull of once. Who in their right mind would ever want to work for, or even with, such horrible people ever again? How many who would've gladly paid them, will now pirate without the slightest remorse? I'm quite sure this move did cost them a lot of money in the long run.
Of course, I'm not criticising the fact that they publish those models, nor the models themselves.
But even publishing arguably polished python2 code in 2018 is something I take issue with if it's not a legacy code base
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ICOs are mostly useless - they are great for the founders but useless for investors. For now there is the hype that delivers new and new greater fools - but that will eventually stop and ICOs will face the hard reality of not being a very good at aligning the incentives of founders and investors. The problems are numerous - starting from the general problems of crowd-funding which can work for big companies (i.e. the traditional stock exchange way) - but is dismall for startups, to the specifics of ICOs which don't actually offer any formal claim to investors. TSOs seem to stay at the 'general problems of crowd-funding' level. There is also the theory that ICOs can enable funding of development of open protocols (think SMTP) so that the claim is on the network not on the company. I find this theory very vague.
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I think the OP is saying they are on a metered connection, and ran out of quota, so they had to go pony up more money in order to be able to finish their studies.
Funny... all the hackers reading this trying to figure out how they can "game" this system.
Sorry if it was implied in my post that their actions has my approval or admiration or any other feeling. The purpose of the post was purely sharing some background information I am aware of.

For the record I view their actions in the case of Capitec and AMD as attempts at blatant (unlawful??) market manipulation.

-edit Oh and there is also a difference between India and South Africa :P
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I think they have a chance if it can be shown that Google knew about the problem, because the SEC has special laws for advertising financial scams.
That’s one way of looking at it.

Another is to consider this as Amazon giving the users a standard, simple way of fixing the documentation issues they inevitably run into.
Why not just use a USB microphone?
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FYI PXE booting has been possible for a while now: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
Really? Interesting. People are social to an extent that they think isolation is hell?
> Pre-prepared is exactly how most obituaries are written

They are often written many years in advance. As an example, the Guardian's obituary for Billy Graham [1] was published ten years after its writer died.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/billy-graham-o...
When the internal receiver buffer is full, you drop the frames.

Basically any protocol out there has some way of dealing with dropped packets (including UDP's "don't care")

DHCP requests are usually repeated several times for this reason, the first one can get lost (this can and will happen even on a clean and underloaded gigabit homenetwork)
In fact, the crash at the origin of this whol debacle was caused by a train being stopped on the tracks and being rear-ended by another.
Stephen Hawkings stance on the NHS is an important part of his legacy. Any time there has been moves to further privatise he has always came out against it, and it has been hard for the government to argue against him