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> For one, I've seen children accustomed to using touch interfaces blurring the line between physical and virtual, i.e swiping at physical objects like books, photos, even walls. I've not seen this behavior with those used to non touch interfaces.

I don't know, I have the urge to tap words in books to bring up definitions after using ereaders for the past ten years.
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There was no shortage of hype peddlers and ignorant people with authority before the internet. All the internet did was wake more people up to this fact and force them to either start thinking critically or turn into cynics.

What changed is the peddlers and powerful fools have bigger audiences now. There's less space for the niche con artist because all the marks are in someone's downline throwing all their money and credit at a lost cause.
It depends on the age of the child. A toddler who is still exploring the world is one thing. A 14 year old who swipes at a book is a problem. (I don't know the age of the children from these anecdotes.) On the other hand, a toddler who explores the world as if it is a touch screen has been given way too much time on a touch screen. So there is definitely a problem there.
Even more important is the nature of PCs vs mobile devices. The mobile platform is designed to commoditize the user and create a stark division between users on one side and content and software creators on the other. You can't easily create anything of any substance on a mobile device and the ecosystem discourages it by e.g. treating user data as unimportant.

PCs were designed to be devices for people to create things.

Its largely a product of when the two platforms were created and the economic forces at play. I wonder what mobile devices designed to empower the user would be like?
me_cleaner does not disable the ME. It is a partial disablement of ME functionality, but some functionality remains enabled. The ME firmware is an Intel-signed proprietary binary blob part of which is instrumental in the system boot process, so complete removal is impossible.

me_cleaner and/or the HAP bit, or the services offered by laptop vendors which is basically doing the very same for you, may certainly reduce the degree of attack surface and the extent to which the ME poses a threat, but it is not a complete disablement or removal, and you are still reliant on a non-modifiable binary blob to bring up your system; referring to it as removal is misleading.

Since the firmware is proprietary, it's hard to make any guarantees to what extent a reduced-size ME (via me_cleaner and/or the HAP bit) reduces attack surface in practical terms. My understanding is that even with the HAP bit and me_cleaner applied, the ME continues running at least some functionality after system boot is completed.
Think about managing tens of thousands of server in a datacenter. An ability to do everything you can do form a local console (and preferably more), without physical access or a KV switch, is very important.

Remotely managing a corporate desktop or laptop, e.g. fixing an OS-level problem remotely, may also be important.

OTOH I'd prefer this functionality clearly delineated, usinf strong encryption, and with an explicit reliable "off" switch (preferably physical).
> For those who find LinkedIn pointless are you making crazy bank already and find no need to raise your salary by using recruiters who offer you better jobs weekly on LInkedin?

LinkedIn is useless even for me, and I'm not making crazy bank yet. I have given up on it completely. I just wanted to use it as a tool to keep in contact with some old mates of mine. However, I keep getting spammed by recruiters, despite me having explicitly stated I'm not currently looking for another job.

Furthermore: when I'm going to go and look for a new job, I'll avoid all recruiters like the plague. They're a bunch of parasites who'll be the first to go down when the bubble bursts. I've worked with quite a few of them, and nearly all of them were completely useless. Worse than useless, actually, with all the lies they told both me and potential employers.

> Or maybe they are the programmers who hate facebook and social networks in general; have no clue how to use Linkedin to their advantage?

Jesus christ. If you start projecting anymore, you should point yourself at a wall and start a Drive-In theatre.
they can write and submit their school reports with smartphones

I can only imagine these reports must be completely trivial if they can be written without the use of a keyboard. Standards aren’t slipping they say...
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Unfortunately I get this impression too. I teach digital multimedia (even that's a dated term) workshops to young adults (mostly early 20s) with mental disabilities. We use 'old fashioned' computers with a mouse and keyboard. What I've noticed is the their proficiency with touchscreen related technologies is just as good as any young adult. However their proficiency with a 'traditional' computer is somewhat lower. But until this article, I wasn't sure if my observation was true for the entire young adult population, or just those with mental disabilities.

Now, I don't think there's anything sacred about using a traditional computer - the paradigm of moving a mouse and QWERTY keyboard is kind of strange, when you step back and think about it. What's concerning is that touchscreen-enabled apps tend to be more consumerist, and less conducive to creative endeavors than traditional computers. Maybe I'm just tooting my own horn here, but I think it's more important to reason with spreadsheets, write posts, and even make a video with graphics than how to use Amazon Kindle/Fire/Whatever nonsense tablet they've decided to push out there.

Even just making a site used to be this creative endeavor, something you figured out by looking around at source code on Geocities' sites. Now we (myself included) just type text into fields, who's html/css/backend has been configured by someone else.
Why not both?

IE, Firefighters will stop the spread of fires by setting controlled fires.
I'm glad she told the story. When William's death was in the news, everyone was talking about "depression." This really wasn't the full story behind his death.
Definitely.

When the Agile movement started out, it was very much about empowering teams to do good work. But the form that won, Scrum, was the one least disruptive to existing corporate hierarchies. (At least until somebody invented SAFe, a comically unagile Agile process.) I have very rarely seen "we're doing Agile" shops where technical concerns weren't entirely overruled by business concerns, when the goal of many early Agile proponents was to bring them back in balance. (And here I use "business concerns" advisedly, in that they're often much more about the political concerns of managers, not the actual needs of customers or the business.)

Your point about "legacy garbage rivaling the mountain of shit they used agile to replace" is spot on. If an org does a big rewrite without fixing the problems that got them the mess, they just get another mess. Switching from manager-dominated waterfall to manager-dominated mini-waterfall with some Agile labels slapped on doesn't fix the broken feedback loops and distorted values that created the legacy garbage. It would be as if George Washington had declared himself king after the Revolutionary War, or when a left-wing dictator overthrows a right-wing dictator. Deeper change is necessary.
Dynalist is missing a key feature from workflowy which is the keyboard shortcut to jump from bookmark to bookmark
modern building styles are significantly more expensive per square foot in north america than more traditional styles since they use more steel and concrete.

In europe wood for stick frames is expensive enough it doesn't make a big difference, but here in north america stick frames are incredibly cheap.

Combine that with American's belief that size equals luxury and you get mcmansions.
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Thank you that you appreciate it. I use it because browser cannot remember password for one domain. I do not want to use commercial software specially to store password so I use this script.
Facebook isnt a user facing CRUD app with business analytics for advertisers?
This is a really good tip! I make this too when i go apply for a new job. And, unfortunately, the market works as your describe it: "depend on a huge number of factors".
This was a pleasant surprise to see on Hacker News this morning! I work on the Observability team at Stripe and have been the PM for Veneur (and the rest of our metrics & tracing pipeline work) pretty much since we released it ~2 years ago.

If you're interested in learning more about how Veneur works and why we built it, I gave a talk at Monitorama last year that explains the philosophy behind Veneur[0]. In short, a massive company like Google is able to build their on integrated observability stacks in-house, but almost any other smaller company is going to be relying on an array of open-source tools or third-party vendors for different parts of their observability tooling[1]. When using different tools, there are always going to be gaps between them, which leads to incomplete instrumentation and awkward (inter-)operability. By taking control of the pipeline that processes the data, we're able to provide fully integrated views into different aspects of our observability data.

The Monitorama talk is a year old at this point, so it doesn't cover some of the newer things Veneur has helped us to accomplish, but the core philosophy hasn't changed. I've given updated versions of the talk more recently at CraftConf (in May) and DevOpsDaysMSP (last week), but neither of those videos are online yet.

[0] https://vimeo.com/221049715

[1] e.g. ELK/Papertrail/Splunk for logs, Graphite/Datadog/SignalFx for metrics, and maybe a third tool for tracing if you're lucky.
The BBC love to divide the population into “digital immigrants” and “digital natives”, always with the subtext that the “natives” are superior. But their so-called journalists can’t even understand that the “digital immigrants” that they sneer at actually built everything and the “natives” are mere consumers
I personally use trello for keeping track of the things going on in my life. I don't necessarily use it to set goals for myself but whenever I want to do or learn something I make a list for that topic on my board. Then I start adding content (in the form of cards) to the list, to flesh out what it is exactly I want to achieve or how I might get there.

I sort lists by priority, so things that are the most important are on the left of the board. This really helps keep me focused on only a few topics at a time. Usually 4-5 lists are actively worked on.

I also have one list completely to the left of the board for things that need sort term attention. For example a paper I need to finish by next week or if I want to, for example buy a new pair of headphones, I make a card for that on that first list.

Then finally I have two general lists that are usually somewhere in the middle of the order about "Blog posts and Articles" I need to read and another one titled "Books" (list of books I am interested in reading). I keep both of these lists fairly short so nothing ends up forgotten in a forest of cards.

I found that keeping track of everything really helped me get more stuff done. But it also helped me to discover new things I want to do.
I don't like mcmansions either, but it's hard to follow these made-up ideals.
Does this mean that if you configure ME in your BIOS in a certain way, it is not exposed to the network?

It sounds almost too good to be true: the attack surface is removed by a BIOS switch?
Yeah definitely. A phone is considered much more necessary for basic functioning in a modern society - whereas the computer is a little 'extra'. Naturally poorer people only invest in the more basic, cheaper thing.

I believe projects like Raspberry Pi were attempts to mitigate this issue too. Hopefully they gain more traction in society at large.
> Young people who can’t use keyboards

How is this different from previous generations?

The examples listed (not knowing how to use a keyboard, not knowing how to double click and not knowing what a 'cell' in a spreadsheet is) were all extremely common among my classmates back in highschool (and this is talking about the 90's here, so computers were in fairly widespread use at this point).

The new digital divide is just like the old one.
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> On the other hand, a toddler who explores the world as if it is a touch screen has been given way too much time on a touch screen. So there is definitely a problem there.

You are making quite an assumption here. People of many centuries ago would also say that we raise our kids in a wrong way, because we don't teach them how to survive in the wild or how to work a potato field.
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"All models are wrong. Some are useful."
"Beer took a cybernetic approach to designing organizational structures"

What are the other approaches?
In the same way that your browser and "hello, world!" are both just some compiled code.
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I've absentmindedly pinched to zoom on books and occasionally mentally ctrl+z when I screw up. Not a major problem.
I've worked outside the valley more than I have in it.
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How about the German idiot Apotheker that blow out all the WebOS equipment for fire sale prices. Thats fine, he limited losses. But at that point WebOS had acquired some market share by doing this. Then he said: "We discontinue WebOS"

WebOS was a good mobile OS. An excellent MobileOS. The hardware was great. I had a very tiny one with excellent look, feel and haptic.

WebOS could now be a major mobile operating system.
Re:Abrash, I think that highlights a big challenge: someone who is that well respected, and a founder, will probably be fine no matter what. The people who need the system to support them are the ones without that kind of social capital, and this can be true without any intent — it’s so easy for those social cues to work subconsciously.
There is a Python script that can take a BIOS image (either from a vendor or scanned from a running system) and remove all ME components that are not absolutely required to operate the CPU. I have never tried it.

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
... blockchain as the coded constitution for a future AI world:
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/10/computational-law-sym...
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Your site has some auto-playing video below the fold and a spinning GIF of a globe from 1995. It's cluttered, noisy, and unclear. There is no point of focus. I can't get as far as figuring out what sets it apart or makes it better because I had to close the page.

Compare this to Mastodon--which you dismissed with all other open source social networks--where the project lead thinks hard and openly about the accessibility and value of virtually every UX change.
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I could have been more clear. That was directed at the first clause:

> You can disable these “features” on enterprise

Or are you saying that it's not good that they can be disabled (perhaps because people get lazy, run out-of-date vulnerable software, and end up infected with ransomware or part of a botnet?)
I use a Trello board that I update weekly. There's a list of tasks, and then 7 lists for each day of the week. I assign the tasks to each day and archive them when I've completed them. If they're only half done, I just shift them to the next day and so on. For things that need to be done by a particular date, I assign them dates and link it to iCal.

Having been doing this for the past 3 months and it has helped put some structure into my life though sometimes I find it a bit too micro-managing. It also gives me tunnel vision since I can only do short term plans.

I've tried various other GTD and OKR methods without success. I've noticed that if I don't look at them at least once a week, I'll quickly forget about it and return to my old habits.
Are you talking about the Libertarian party?
I remote from a location less than 1h commute from a big city. Means I can have a big lawn with a house on it and swim 5 minutes walk from it. But I can also get all the stuff you only find in bigger cities like a large selection of restaurants, concerts etc. The downside is that it’s not small town cheap, but it’s definitely half the cost of living just half as far from the city or in the city proper.
France is a central-governed country (in contrast to Germany), so everything outside Paris is a smack dab in the middle of nowhere.
Sports analogies.
In your standard NHST test, sure. But you can do different models. If I'm reading OP right, what they do is a mixture model, in which effects are assumed to come either from a zero-mean distribution or a positive-mean distribution with unknown probability _P_/1-_P_ and then you fit the collection of >2k effect sizes to find out what value of _P_ best fits the dataset as a whole. Apparently the best fit assumes that ~70% of effects are actually ~0.

This can also be done nicely with a Bayesian mixture model or a spike-and-slab multilevel model, and that is what is done in "What works in e-commerce - a meta-analysis of 6700 online experiments", Brown & Jones 2017 http://www.qubit.com/sites/default/files/pdf/qubit_meta_anal... (although they don't formulate it in terms of a sharp null but ask the more relevant 'probability of a >0 beneficial effect', which for some kinds of A/B test has a very low prior - like only 15% for 'back to top' A/B tests).
"probabilistic" is probably the word you're looking for, and yes I agree, I'm fascinated by the idea of trading off a little bit of accuracy for massive performance gains.
I've seen this claim over and over, and failed to see how this is a big deal. Most people in Japan in 80s couldn't type either. (An English typewriter wasn't something that most people would use or own.) Even if kids can't type, I bet they would learn typing faster than the kids 30 years ago. Sounds like a fuss about nothing.
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This is so painfully true.

My mum’s partner has LBD. It’s still considered obscure: the diagnosis only came after she pushed and pushed. But it’s insidious - the inevitable, relentless breakdown of a human being. Two years ago he was a bright, independent man, with an active social life, a dozen interests and a retirement to look forward to. Now he can’t sit down in a chair without missing and she can’t leave him alone for more than a couple of hours.
recruiters who offer you better jobs

But they aren't offering you a job. They're not even offering you an interview. All they are offering is to add your CV to a pile they already have.
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Better bicycles are ok? There are all sorts of restrictions for UCI events. Recumbents are immensely faster than upright bikes --- banned. Beam bikes (like trek y-foil) are a bit faster --- banned. There's a lower limit for bike weight. You can't add fairings. You can't add motors or energy storage mechanisms. The stated goal is to maintain the primacy of man over machine and to some extent rider safety. Of course bikes do slowly change over time in ways that are presumably advantageous to their riders, but you aren't allowed to make huge leaps all at once, which makes some sense as it's fine if everyone has the same advantage (but also, pointless and expensive for amateurs).
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Sadly this isn’t implemented yet; it’s going to take a real rockstar developer to build a formal grammar, parser and runtime (I imagine the easiest thing to do will be to map the language onto e.g. JavaScript, much like what TypeScript does).

The language has some conceptual similarities with Shakespeare, for instance; Shakespeare also has a poetic way to specify numbers based on adjectives with positive and negative sentiment. Shakespeare is fully implemented and used occasionally for comedic effect in programming contests; see http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/sh... for a rundown of the actual language.
I'm not sure that that is the case, any longer. I have a lot of trouble with our college-aged interns, because they will barely make an effort to try doing something before getting stonewalled and bailing out to go ask someone to do it for them. Sometimes I just want to yell at them to run the code and see what happens, and then try to figure out why what happened happened. And these are computer science majors.
That's awful.

I don't want come across as trying to convert or be rude, but what does Windows provide, both home users and businesses, that open source operating systems are unable to do?

As someone just kind of starting out, is Windows promising for future career building?

I understand backwards compatibly and larger selection of games, and that hardware manufacturers will provide software.
I wonder what other (somehow) laptop-worthy CPUs offer a better management engine story?

* AMD processors do have an equivalent management engine (PSP), but I didn't hear anything about remote exploits for it.

* Beefier ARM CPUs also have something like a management engine ("trustzone" only accessible to the manufacturer). I have no idea if it has any remote-access capabilities on any common hardware. On RPi the trustzone is absent.

* Power9 does have a management engine, but it's open and you can upload your own management code. The CPU is not an option for a laptop, and hardly even for a desktop, though.

(Edited: spelling.)
I have swiped on books several times now. Just a temporary lapse, I laugh about it and a few years later it may happen again.
Exactly. There is survival bias precisely because flat organizations have never survived long enough to become the dominant form.
Part of the reason for the decline in self-built in homes is advancements in modular home building. They're much better, and more economical than ever before. Even my Dad, who self-built two large homes himself, admitted it doesn't make sense to self-build. One is better off just working more in whatever specialty they do, and getting a modular home.
Is it wierd that none of this stuff bothers me? I’d never have noticed a problem with any of those houses.
Strange claim about what the site 'implies'.

I use hashids and did not assume such things.

I use it so a jerk end-user can't keep incrementing an integer-based URL param.
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There's a non-exhaustive list here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi...

Intel® Atom™ Processor C Series

Intel® Atom™ Processor E Series

Intel® Atom™ Processor A Series

Intel® Atom™ Processor x3 Series

Intel® Atom™ Processor Z Series

This being said, this is the current status for my old Atom N270 (2008): https://imgur.com/a/pbeJ306

Unless the tool is wrong, but I think it was generally marketed as a reliable source. In which case maybe someone can recommend a reliable one to test the vulnerability.
It’s easy to be relaxed when the financial pressures have been lifted. But if you need your community to survive (e.g. LGBT in conservative small towns), that’s not fixable.
At the very least, I think it's pretty safe to assume that in 20 years the Internet Archive will still be around and we'll be able to look at 20 year old HN threads there.