skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for the server stuff, but objectively speaking gamers should be using Windows 10. Even just ignoring DirectX, it has the highest compatibility with the most popular games and most up to date drivers.

I use Debian for work but the gaming rig is straight Windows. Shame SteamOS never took of, I was into it (got the steam wifi dongly doo on the TV in the living room with four steam controllers lol)
I'm sure this will have no unintended consequences...
The way some people see this magazine is the way I see some of the "adult" Entrepreneur/Startup Lifestyle stuff that's out there.
Let me google that for you: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=bristle...
That is an astonishing amount of money. Is it not possible to have everything packed up and shipped to their current location? Even if paying someone to do this cost $2000 for each unit that would still pay itself back after a year.
Busy, dimly lit restaurants, where I haven't gone ahead and explicitly setup shoots with owners. I'm not just going to walk in with a tripod at a random lunch. I promote food and cocktails for the Western, NY region. Mainly Rochester / Fingerlakes. So I'm out and about trying new places, ultimately deciding if I'm going to promote them before I even meet owners. I don't want preferential treatment, which usually comes when they know who you are. My followers expect that I'm giving them only the best food in the area, and not what someone has given me for free or done up extra special.
No you can't. It has the capacity to deliver 8 amps, but your body's resistance is too high to draw that current.

https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Car-Talk-Car-battery-...

EDIT - here's some math:

The U.S. Navy FIRE CONTROLMAN Volumes 01 - 06 & FIREMAN gives 1500 ohms as a common resistance approximation between extremities, either hand to hand or hand to foot, for an average human body.

I = V/R = 12V / 1500 Ohms = 0.008 A

8 mA is not nearly enough to kill you.
Good to see astroturfing alive and well in the comment section. This place is heading for disaster.
It's a tough bag, and unfortunate, because there are some really talented folks left swinging in the wind. Case in point - Kevin Mitnick, but that is a solid example to follow and take advice on post-computer access from yore. You don't exactly need the programmer job, considering there are many options for fronting a self-employed avenue and doing the consultant thing. The comments so far are much around small companies and beyond because the need is there more than the rigors of corporate American which places a premium on vetted resources w/o a mark on the record.

Hope this helps. There is plenty of work to be had and the avenues are wide and paved with honest wages if you advertise and remove yourself from the past and work towards the culture.

G'luck!
Barebones gnome has been great for me. One time I did the "full" install by accident and yea it came with a bunch of bullshit games and stuff, but otherwise it's been the most stable out of all of them.

Unity or whatever Ubuntu ships with did not like working from an install on neither my macbook pro nor my thinkpad, and it really didn't like my 4k monitor. KDE didn't like switching between 4k and my laptop screen.
If you can find the time, which I understand can be almost impossible if you're working, throw together a small portfolio and vanity site. I've landed a few gigs just by saying the right words, others by having something shiny to show non-tech folk or having at least some code to show that I am not full of shit to technologically competent clients. Hell, I landed more than one gig from blog posts about technology (relevant to clients) I wrote in high school.

I don't have a record, but it's never come up nor have I been given any hint that a background check was performed.
I was the same (win10 pro as well, immediately customized options), then I saw a fresh install on a customer laptop to setup, and oh my god what a mess.

Thankfully for now there are still settings to turn off most of it, and removing all squares/tiles form the menu makes the Start menu look like the classic clean concise style, but it's frustrating that most people get stuck with the subpar experience.
It just rolls. It doesn't jump like the actual spider does.
For that, you might have luck with a reputation management company. But that of course costs money ... Which you need a good job to get.
If I read this correctly, Windows is no longer a top level division of Microsoft and is a part of Experiences and Devices.

This is huge. Few companies have reinvented themselves as many times as Microsoft has. From developer tools (BASIC) to Dos to Windows to Office and now to Cloud and Services.

Under Nadella, Microsoft has regained the agility for which it was famous for under Bill Gates.
A link to the original, which Deadspin is just reprinting: https://www.outsideonline.com/1886411/la-matadora-revisa-su-...
Thanks for your info i was thinking about it too this principle happens in CCD based devices i think.
Car insurance is required by law and home insurance by many mortgages, so for those types of insurance, initial rates for a given coverage level should be uniform since demand and supply are understood quantities. Instead, they market policies on ancillary benefits, like roadside assistance, home warranties, etc.

Discounts for long term and importantly, low risk customers, are a way of securing future revenue by disincentivizing customers from shopping for lower rates elsewhere.
This doesn't seem any different than the known behavior of online merchants (particularly airlines in my experience) of listing different prices based on what they can infer about the user, or than a mechanic quoting an artificially high price to someone who seems less knowledgable about what's actually required (Seinfeld has an episode touching on this, blanking on which one).

That said, I have noticed that, the rare times I Uber to work (I work in a pretty big corporate office space), if I enter a nearby Target as my location, my price is often notably lower. This happens with Lyft as well. It's hard to tell if this is just timing based (sometimes just re-requesting fares to the same destination has a similar effect).
Could you provide a couple sources please, I believe many of us are not well read on blockchain literature.
When meeting my company's Head of Blockchain (not sure if the pun is intended) a while ago, I asked him if git would qualify as blockchain technology. He replied that "blockchain is not a technology, It's a paradigm shift". Literally. That statement was so absurd I didn't even know what to say, so it worked out well for him.
Forced update-restart immediately before I gave a presentation, with no warning. Malicious.
Ah fair enough; I think DuckDuckGo's extension does a similar thing with regards to trackers and appears to be easier to use (for me). As for a social network that doesn't spy like the current big ones? I'd go with IRC.

I know people have proposed alternatives like Mastodon or Diaspora*, but I don't think they're good alternatives either compared to gradually giving them up to learn old offline alternatives: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/jobs/quit-social-media...

As for Steemit, I think this "feature" is most absurd. I hope it never takes off:

https://steemit.com/faq.html#Can_I_delete_or_deactivate_my_a...

> "Can I delete or deactivate my account?"

> "Accounts can not be deactivated or deleted. The account along with all of its activity is permanently stored in the blockchain."
> The internet as we know it didn't offer the average user much value until the mid 90's

The Internet was useful to academic, financial, government and military users in the 1970s [1]. It was built and iterated to solve real problems. Real users' inputs, many of whom were experts in their fields, were incorporated into its design.

[1] http://www.computerhistory.org/internethistory/1970s/
Wow, they have a huge collection here! There's sets from when I was a kid included here. I do wish they had a bulk download button though, I'd love to hoard this somewhere.
I think the people who know not to microwave plastic, and don't, are a very small minority. The people who have never heard it are in a slightly larger minority. The people who have heard it's bad, but choose not to heed the warnings for convenience sake, are seemingly the majority.

Most times I've mentioned it to someone who is about to microwave plastic, they say something along the lines of "oh yeah, I've heard that before", as they continue to put their plastic in the microwave and start it up. I've given up on trying to educate people about it.
Seems ideal in some regards. Problems to solve, and opportunities to learn, and if it all falls apart you're just moving on to another new problem to solve.
That depends on how ready you are to dismiss the existing observational evidence for it. While it's by no means proven to exist, it's not something predicted by theory, so it's unfair to call it that. Supersymmetry, for example, is purely theoretical; whereas dark matter is a response to observations that contradict theory.
> you mention playing games, watch movies, and browse the web?! All three are possible on all mentioned systems

How is Far Cry 5 on Linux? How about MacOS?
Can people stop naming products "Spark" already? There's a programming language, Web framework, cluster computing technology, email client, and instant messaging client all named the same thing.
Yeah same, this works just fine.
Hear from the Techie Who Launched an ICO
What else are they gonna do? "Fuck this guy amirite boys? Eat shit Terry!"

Personally I have no problem with politeness, even if it's a veneer. There's a reason cities full of millions of people can function without clawing eachother's throats out, and it's got nothing to do with Law.
I'm genuinely curious how you'd do that... I can touch both battery terminals with my hands and feel nothing. Even if my hands are damp, nothing happens. My battery is capable of outputting over 700amps.
If you are there for specific things... for me (diet inspiration /keto, design inspiration, DIY projects) it's fantastic.

But your description is completely accurate if you are interested in anything remotely political.

I even had to unsubscribe from subs dedicated to my favorite video games because it gets so toxic.
Unless you believe Microsoft intentionally designed the OS to hose your presentation by rebooting right when it believes you are doing one, this is incompetent/bad design, not "malicious" design.
"Telemetry" that can't be fully turned off. I mean off. Not "minimal", not "disabled", off.

By itself this isn't horrible, but it (and many other Windows features, for that matter) crosses into malware territory when it treats the user as hostile (like re-enabling itself or working around blocks like DNS)
>Why are you saying "Facebook must go" rather than "people must stop using Facebook"?

I say that like I would say "shady credit pushers must go", although I also think people shouldn't resort to such services. Facebook provides a service free of charge but the contract isn't clear: there are consequences that must remain obscure in order to the whole thing work.

I believe it's pretty clear that Facebook depends on people inadvertently permitting systemic surveillance.

> Facebook is a private company that people freely choose to interact with.

Like many other companies that are, unlike Facebook, heavily regulated in their primary activity.

>People who care about the extensive personal data harvesting are free to stop using Facebook.

But Facebook has been collecting data of people outside of Facebook as well. In any case, people have elected representatives to protect them from harm in the meanders of technology concepts they cannot grasp.

> there is no shortage of people summarizing the salient details for them

That is hardly a substitute for regulation. Take the example of the agrobusiness: no one expects lay people to ponder the cost-benefit of many drugs and antibiotics present in food they "freely" choose to eat.

> I think you should be more afraid of government control of private interactions.

I'm not sure about that. Currently I am equally afraid of both.

>In the US and Europe it's already far too intrusive.

I agree. Unfortunately, Europe is becoming nothing more but a meta-corporation. Lobbying being legal in Brussels, common people have no way of matching corporate influence.
How Restrictions on Private Securities Offerings Harm Investors
Fair game.
I digged out a report from Bernstein (the same company that delivered the one reported in the article) from 2011:

"They have concluded that improvements to conventional engines will be key over the next 10 to 15 years and HEVs will become viable on a large scale by 2020. They believe near-term mass market adoption of electric vehicles is unlikely given the tough financial comparison with ever improving combustion engine vehicles. While premium-priced plug-ins may become viable earlier, by definition they will be niche products."

https://seekingalpha.com/article/310159-bernstein-and-ricard...
What people usually refer to as USB-C are 3 independent specs.

First there is the C plug and cable, including provisions for converting between C and the various A and B sizes. This is the spec that introduce various resistors to signal if the cable is a converter or (a very big or that has created much problems) if it can handle various watts at 5V.

then there is the power delivery spec that on paper can be used with any USB plug (yes, even your old A and B formats), and allows current to go in either direction at up to 20V.

And thirdly there is a continuation of the 3.0 data spec, 3.1, that include a provision for using various wires in the C cable in an alternate mode. This mode allows anything from digital video to PCI bus traffic to travel over the same cable, if both ends support the protocol traveling over the alternate mode wires. outside of alternate mode the 3.1 data spec can also be used with 3.0 A and B ports.

So even if your device have a C port, it may not be able to handle more than 5V at 0.5A and 1.0 data speeds...
Not sure this is what you're looking for, but I listened to a podcast about an organization (Defy Ventures) that helps formerly incarcerated people kick off entrepreneurial careers:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/con-jobs-inmate-entreprene...
Parallelizing a ClojureScript Test Suite, Part 1: The Guts of Cljs.test
Trusting banks, not comparing crashes.
Yes, I thought the same thing. I was picturing a bunch of marketers trying to crunch big data.
> Several states in the US are accepting tax payments in bitcoin.

Citation needed. The Arizona senate barely passed one such bill, but it would still need to pass the House and the governor. Arizona's government is known to do silly things in a vain attempt to be tech relevant.
Let's compromise and call it "depraved indifference". No update ever made is that important that it needs to boot me out of what I'm doing at the moment.

Things like this[1] should not be possible.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP31lluUDWU
Owner of windows 10 desktop, windows 7 laptop, and macbook pro here. Windows can go to hell. So many important things are crazy inconsistent. When plugging headphones stops being a complicated and finicky process I will consider re-evaluating my opinions.

Also do you know what the difference between a Windows fuckup and a macOS fuckup is? The macOS fuckup makes news while the Windows one in business as usual.

And there are adds. Built in to my OS. Fuck that.
Why does great Maker-Work usually require a Dictator? A Consideration
What about schools that run on Chromebook? Does any of the editing tool here support chromebook? The withdrawal of the YouTube Video Editor feels like a snub to Chromebook owners—and educational users, in particular.
Hi, how are your securities? Do you save a copy/version at your end even after i delete the video after editing?
No the rationale behind it is very different from the Uber case.

The reason behind hidden city fares is, the price of SFO-NYC-BTV is for the SFO-BTV market, to compete with other airlines' SFO-ATL-BTV, SFO-ORD-BTV, SFO-Whatever-BTV or SFO-BTV direct flight. It has nothing to do with SFO-NYC market, just for this particular airline it happens to route through NYC. It discounted more than SFO-NYC market because competitions on that market. That's why competition is good for customers (history has shown us that when an airline has monopoly on a market, you can only expect the fares on that market to go up). That's also why it's against the contract of carriage you have with the airline and the airlines are working very hard to avoid customers doing that (if you associate your frequent flyer number with hidden city bookings, they might cancel your account. they might also put you on a blacklist if you are caught doing this frequently).

The airline practice similar to the Uber one is charging more for frequent flyers. United was caught doing that a few years ago (maybe they are still doing that).
A Math Whiz Has Become a Crucial Political Figure in France
The question is, how badly do they want to catch it?

If it's something only a small fraction of the customers actually bother to do, it doesn't dig into their profits too much.

It effectively acts as another form of market segementation. There is a mostly fixed cost for flying an airplane; the marginal cost per passenger is relatively low. So ideally, you would have a paying passenger in every seat. Some passengers are more price sensitive than others, so you want to have the less price-sensitive passengers pay as much as possible, while still providing ways for the more price sensitive passengers to get fill up seats that are still available after that.

People who are willing to go to the trouble of doing this will happen, but you're still making money off of filling seats with paying customers, they're just acting as slightly more price sensitive passengers.

The airlines fluctuate rates for just this reason; they want people to be able to buy tickets at different prices, so price sensitive passengers can go to a little more trouble to book earlier or take bigger risks by flying standby or waiting for the price to go down if it's not appropriate, while less price sensitive passengers will just buy the ticket whenever convenient.

If this were being seriously abused a lot of the time, or there were automated systems which booked trips like this for you, I could see the airlines doing something about it, but if it's just a few people going out of their way to get a slightly better price, it's probably just considered to be part of the whole ticket pricing game.
I'm not seeing a problem here, assuming the hardware sold works as intended of course.
I have successfully used this (battery and power adapter):

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MZ61PRW/ref=oh_aui_se...

And this:

https://smile.amazon.com/Anker-Premium-Charger-PowerPort-Del...

Both have been solid with the Nintendo Switch. I have tried the Apple charger and it did exactly what this article said: basically stopped the ability to charge the Switch until I did a hard reboot.
> Simply to try to define "GMO"; do you have a better idea?

Yes. "GMO" is a scare term, devoid of any real content, used by tiny number of overly cautions ecologists and vast number of charlatans to trick gullible people into fearing modern technology.

> Since everything is "modified", the definition is meaningless if M refers to all modification

That's where you realize "GMO" is meaningless, and stop using that term.

> I like being a human rather than some organic molecules on the surface of a rock from which I evolved by this ineffective, dangerous process.

You are both. One does not contradict the other, and being made of organic molecules in no way diminishes your humanity. And being made of other organic molecules, some of which were purposedly put there to make it better (for varying definitions of "better") does not diminish the quality of your food. Which is not just declared by me, some guy on the internet typing some bullshit into the browser, but was actually verified by scientists.
> You can't tell me that you windows drives you nuts, and keeps tweaking and tweaking making it worse. Still it is (your opinion) better as linux GUIs or Apple's one.

Sure they can tell you that. X can be a disaster and a pain to use, and still be better than Y, if Y is a worse disaster.
They put "suggestions" for 3rd party apps right in the start menu. There's no way they're intelligently suggesting those apps either because they pop up almost immediately after a fresh install, and are often about games.
That has more to do with ubiquity than quality.
After literally just cutting their fucking tax rate.
Indeed. I had a lot of fun working on some of this stuff. Just gotta ignore that nagging doubt that it's all pointless.

At least I could console myself with the thought that, while I probably wasn't going to make a difference to the world, I wasn't going to harm it. The more conscientious of my colleagues over in the advertising teams didn't have that comfort...
Search on Windows is almost impressive in its "badness."

And I'd love to say it is a recent development (or "bug") but Windows search has been junk for many years and releases. I mean they themselves must know something is wrong since they tried to reboot it in the failed Vista offshoot (WinFS in Longhorn[0]) using a relational database instead of their current index. But since that failed, they just stuck with it and kept piling on failed concepts to a broken core.

Windows 8/8.1's web search took something inherently unreliable and tacked on a web search. Windows 10 tacked on a personal assistant. But often all people want is a reliable way to search file metadata (name, date, author, etc), file content, and misc OS constructs (Settings/Control Panel Applets, Shortcuts, etc). It gets none of that right.

If I was in charge of the Windows division I'd fire the entire search team, and bring in a fresh set of eyes. There's something dysfunctional in a division that can consistently put out such poor software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
In his own words that makes them smart, right?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-taxes-smart/
That just makes Amazon “smart”.
> An alternative reading of the magazine is that it is celebrating young creators

Who are creative within a narrow, conventionally "girly" band of creative endeavors. Teen Boss would not be interested in a 15-year-old girl who invented a revolutionary new type of automotive engine, because it is not a magazine about girls with grease on their hands.

Girls who want to should be free to engage in those kinds of "girly" pursuits, of course. To each their own! But by focusing only on those pursuits, Teen Boss sends the message to girls who are interested in other things (like STEM!) that they're weirdos who are walking away from success instead of towards it in their own way.
Coming from a logistics background, coordinating tracability data is painful within a company, even with help of ERP like SAP. But when you need tracability across an industry, it becomes almost impossible.

I had professional experience in an industry where we had to go to the plants to ensure rolls of paper certified from suppliers using responsibly-managed forests were physically separated from the non-certified ones. We needed the paperwork coming from China, then another one from the transformation plant in Morocco, then in customer warehouses across Europe.

An external protocol that would provide universal tracability, usable by any actor of the chain, seem like a great solution to a real problem. Blockchain provides some "neutrality", ie no need for each actor to find its own certificate provider (I imagine that service shops would help larger companies set up their systems, but the back-end would be common across all actors).

I'm not very convinced by pseudo-decentralized apps in most domains, but in logistics... very bullish !