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The diagnosis of the first repair case is a Macbook Pro that has had liquid spilled in its internals. [0]

From a business and service perspective, Apple repair must first fix the liquid damage that may be causing the dim screen. Replacing the screen without first fixing the liquid damage may simply reproduce the issue and/or damage a new screen.

The customer balks at the quoted price asks the Apple Genius Bar rep if there are other options.

The Genius Bar rep hesitates and informs the customer there are no other options under Apple repair.

Of course there are other options outside of Apple authorized repair, but it is likely against Apple policy to recommend an alternative (i.e. assuming indirect liability for poorly executed 3rd-party repairs).

That said, in this case it seems entirely reasonable for Apple repair to proceed by first fixing the most obvious damage that may be causing the issue. While this approach may be more expensive than is necessary, it's also more likely to produce the desired result if the issue were not caused by the screen itself.

Paying money for premium service is anathema to many consumer advocates, but Apple is well known to meet their obligations for devices protected by AppleCare while only doing the bare minimum for devices outside of warranty. From a practical standpoint, buying AppleCare is highly advisable given the likelihood of device failure inside of 3 years, the cost of repairing such failures, and (most importantly in my opinion) the extraordinarily high level of service Apple provides should something go wrong inside the warranty window.

I apologize if all the above seems like bias toward Apple, which I readily admit. I have been a customer of Apple for nearly 40 years and while I have sometimes been disappointed with some of Apple's polices and products, I have almost always felt well-treated by Apple repair.

[0] https://youtu.be/o2_SZ4tfLns?t=128

EDIT: Changes to penultimate paragraph to better highlight the value of AppleCare as a contractual service. Change "extraordinary" to "extraordinarily".
> Since all outcomes are 0 or 1, and drawn with the same (unknown) probability, we know that the number of ones and zeros follows a binomial distribution. This means that the confidence interval of a “k out of n” scenario is a Beta distribution.

Pretty confused by this sentence. The mean of a bunch of 0s and 1s cannot follow a beta distribution. The support set is not continuous. I think the author is making Clopper-Pearson intervals, but dropping some terms.
A lot depends on where and how you work. If you are responsible for development and end to end operations down to the VM, K8s and Docker make a ton of sense.

If someone is doing that for you, ie. roles are separated, or you don’t want to take it on and prefer to outsource it, then a higher level abstraction like Heroku makes more sense. Debugging is different (still possible, just different from if you owned the full box).

This split also accounts for why AWS Lambda is growing in popularity (and debugging is probably its main gating factor).
no. Thats only how the chrome extension works. In FF, its actually a true split.
China does have ambitions, sure, but they're mostly local ones. I was mainly talking about cases like Kim Dotcom, where the U.S. reached all the way to NZ. China doesn't have Five Eyes, has not attacked a foreign country etc. It does not mean this cannot change, but I get the feeling China strives for a more local "sphere of influence" strategy, (hence the things like you mentioned), whereas the US strives to maintain "global dominance". As someone sitting in Western Europe, I don't think China has that much interest to dominate here.
This is just nuts. Prosecutors have been given enormous trust and power by the people so they also should have enormous responsibility and be held to the highest standards.
Funny that you mention that—the color surprised me as well! I used https://asciinema.org/ to record, which captures ANSII escape sequences. I'm guessing there's some sort of default colorscheme applied, since I've done little to individualize my terminal.
This argument about "violation of rights" which assumes some absolutist intellectual property right, I realised you don't even have to engage in it. If I could push a button and transfer a million pounds from Ed Sheeran's account to mine, I'd do it without hesitation. Even if you accept the argument that I really should pay him $10 per album he should count himself lucky that society has constrained my theft to those limits.
Hopefully MS joining OIN would further discourage patent trolls.
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Even better, give buses priority at stop lights when they are behind schedule, or intentionally delay them when they are ahead of schedule. This is being done in a few countries and it seems to work quite well. Why predict when you can control it?
>How does a code of conduct and a hiatus for the guy who was cursing at people reinforce the decision to stay away? The only way that makes sense is if she weren't previously aware of any of the documented cases of Linus' abusive behavior, and that seems quite unlikely given she was already using her own "shadow ecosystem" years ago.

I did not read it that way. I read it more of calling out both sides as being toxic. And I do not think she was speaking specifically about Linux, but the whole dialogue these days about codes of conduct. She's indicting both the pro and anti crowds.

But in reality, all of us (including me) are projecting. She simply doesn't spell out what she's talking about.
> Stealing is the right word. You can spin it any way you like, but taking something that's for sale, without paying for it, is the definition of stealing.

it's hardly as clear cut as you are making it. if I have an apple and you take it, I no longer have the apple. if I have five apples and you take one, I have four left. it's hard to imagine you taking something from me that I will still possess afterwards in the same quantity. I would argue that the sense in which most people use "take" does not include copying.

to further my point: the law in the US, a bastion of copyright enforcement, clearly recognizes the difference between theft (a criminal offense) and copyright infringement (a civil offense). you can't go to jail for piracy.
> only because companies aren't entirely stupid

[citation needed]

Cents per user is still a lot of money if you have a billion users.

Maybe the real value of tracking is the perceived value of tracking?
It's a good way to combat competition as tracking requires that you already have a large presence.
Doesn't "guaranteed to be resident in RAM" mean the memory gets backing?
Part Two: https://medium.com/@panderson555/work-grad-school-a-data-sci...
I don't think that's what the parent was claiming; the parent says "gender and aggressiveness" were most important and skills listed on the resume as providing such an unclear signal for actual hires that they were not picked up by the AI.
I hate the insipid social justice warriors here.
Indeed.

I am quite curious about details of the model. For example, the single largest contribution to real world interview process variability is interviewer (for resume screening, who screened that resume, etc.). Wouldn't it be possible to code interviewer as categorical variable and separate resume-intrinsic? effect and interviewer effect? They must have tried this, haven't they?
If the policy lead to children in cages why were the pictures that lead to the outrage from years prior?
My company does the same with PGP Desktop.
Ask HN: How do you foster strong engineering culture in your organization?
What steps can a VP of engineering or a CTO take to inculcate high engineering standards, specifically software engineering. I understand hiring is a big part of it. But apart from this what has helped the Googles of the world to stay world class? How is knowledge management and learning done at these places?
What we really need is non-universally compatible storage devices.

Or maybe one day data transfer will be like money wire transfers. Fill out some paperwork, pay $30, you’ll get your data on the other end...

All data will be owned and custodied by government and data banks. One problem is data is much less fungible than money.
All the news that isn't hacker news. News about startups, venture capitalists, and other silicon valley douchebaggery isn't hacker news. That's business news. Get it out of my face.
>when I could be wasting that time writing blog posts for venting resentment towards communities I don't want to be a part of in the first place?

>There are plenty of projects whose communities don't gel with me. The solution is not to participate, not poo-poo them online, explaining how everything would be better if they just did it your way.

I honestly don't see how your posting this comment on HN is any different from her posting it on her blog.
so, it's a more compact HoloLens, with better content/games?
How? By their nature patent trolls don't have products so they don't care about OIN's patent portfolio size.
OIN requires that members provide patent licenses for all patents that are part of a "Linux System". So unless there is a ClearType implementation being widely distributed with Linux, then I would assume this doesn't apply.

But if someone writes something like that and integrates it into common Linux distributions, then maybe. I feel like this is ripe for (the right kind of) abuse.
I think we basically have the same view. I don't support black box machine learning models. I do support using automated tests and simple well defined objective criteria though, which is basically a transparent AI model.

It's just that generally what seems to distinguish whether something is called "machine learning" rather than "data science and modelling" is that the former is black box and the latter is not.
Javascript OFF and zdnet link works just fine.
In android terminal, I made a script which would set a nice coloured PS1, a few handy aliases, shell functions & PATH extensions upon app startup.
BTW command line on android is very useful.
Thank you for sharing. I'd say the virtual product market needs to adjust, it's not a new idea, but whatever laws are applied (and piracy laws are strict in my country) only a few pirates end up fined and the torrent pages just move their servers offshore. I'm sad to see those few poor souls getting caught because really, it looks like everybody is doing that.
Impressive! It would be cool if you could implement some of the pi-hole DNS blocklists in your DoH CDN.
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Leading questions and/or alt accounts are my biggest gripes right now. I called out an account for being a Facebook employee or something the other day. They were literally copy pasting the same response over and over. It was a paragraph from some Facebook documentation.

Another alt account suggested I should be banned for calling out the other user.
I think a lot of the "confidence" is taken essentially philosophically too. A lot of people who are willing to work on the prosecution side firmly believe in some type of "procedural justice", the notion that a verdict reached by properly following all legal processes, even if factually incorrect, is a just verdict. There's a big "assuming the process is fair" part of that belief, but those people don't go in thinking the process is unfair, and then also contributing to the process being unfair.
Front page quality seems to have deteriorated. I brought this up in an Ask HN and I think I came off as self-righteous and that was my fault.

But I think the crux of the issue is I just don't get how certain low-quality stuff makes the front-page and a lot of high-quality stuff from new gets missed.

I've actually created an RSS feed that grabs anything in New that has gotten at least 1 upvote. It's a lot of content but at least it is going beyond what is displayed on the front page.
Literally all of the time? If I copy something from you, that's generally 100% legal. The only other exceptions are things like patents, where the inventor/creator has to go out of their way to activate copy protections. "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper [candle] at mine, receives light without darkening me." --Thomas Jefferson

Before 1989, copyright was also opt-in. Check out the timeline under "Notable Dates in United States Copyright" https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1a.html It's a mess of shifting categories and retroactive extensions.
Agreed. At first, I thought I wanted notifications, but now I let it slide, and watch how the conversation moves, often to an unexpected direction.

I increasingly find that I'm happy to let it go that way, rather than 'defending a position'. This, of course, makes the need for comment notifications less important.
Despite 4,230 words the article never really addresses the title and instead wanders off on verbose tangents.

So I had to go and search for the answer myself.

No, it was not mandatory to perform the salute if you were not a German citizen. Yes, it was often easier to do so; the Portuguese Consul General was beaten by SA thugs when he failed to do so, but couldn't be charged with any offence.
Isn't that the same thing as "Threads" in the header?
I'm still a little skeptical since this applies to "Microsoft" and not any of its holding or investment companies. A great move to earn trust is to "Open Source" almost expired or useless patents.
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I think there's also a subtle point here that an AI figured out that Amazon hiring was biased more quickly than Amazon itself.

I wouldn't go so far to say that running your history through an AI is necessarily proof of anything though (esp. in court). Imagine using another company's historical data to suggest that they're discriminatory.
Who wants to be sold to?

Everyone. Everyone wants to be sold something. Because when someone sells you something, it means they have listened to your problem (and maybe helped you discover/understand it), and offered you a solution using resources you already have. Sales, done right, is one of the best parts of human social behavior. It's mutually beneficial, a win-win.

Sales has a bad reputation due to bad actors, not due to sales itself. Smarmy behavior, dishonesty, and taking advantage of others is not inherently part of sales, and it's definitely not part of good sales.

"Objections are goals" is a sales technique. Overcoming objections is Sales 101, and a big part of that is turning negatives into positives.
Not just getting rid of Ballmer, but promoting Nadella to the job. That pick was the turning point.
Probably OneTick.
Microsoft android revenue was already going down:
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-android-patent-lic...

I am sure most of the FAT patents must be expired at this point since patents last 20 years and FAT32 came out 22 years ago. The Chinese manufacturers didn't have much of incentive to pay Microsoft.
My version of being Nice and Respectful tends to skew toward "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all".

Which topics still have a good experience on Quora? I find the quality of the discussion, especially the quality of many of the questions themselves, to be quite low. They need more aggressive community moderation to filter out duplicates, miscategorizations and nonsense before potential answerers are notified/requested. It makes the site look bad.

Almost every day I get an email that says something like "nerflad, so-and-so requested your answer to the question 'how dows computer work?'". Nearly all of the music questions are especially asinine and I just don't have the patience.

Like so many others, I have completely stopped using Quora. Yes, occasionally there are still diamonds in the rough and Alan Kay will pop in to say something, but these kinds of interactions are the exception rather than the norm.

Stack Overflow's moderation is considered Draconian by a lot of people, but it's their lifeblood in my opinion. Q+A sites need a hedge against the descent into Yahoo Answers madness.
Most users from third world countries can't distinguish between ads and content.
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doesn't surprise me. most college students I've talked to recently (other than cs majors) genuinely have no idea how to pirate stuff (ie, don't even know what a torrent is). most are satisfied with the meagre selection on Spotify or even radio services like Pandora.
Depends on whether there have been subsequent court rulings on the FAT patent. If the value of the FAT patent was reduced by court rulings, it may have factored into the donation of the patent to OIN. If the patent was upheld in recent court rulings and revenue from the patent has been increasing, that would put the OIN patent donation in a different light.
<F9> in Firefox to open in "reading mode" - majestic.
It's a quite interesting move actually. It indicates undoubtedly that Microsoft's business model also radically shifted away from selling software to selling hardware, subscription services and user data & analytics. It's not surprising now that Microsoft doesn't plan to make money off patents. So they make that huge OIN move to promote themselves as a big OSS supporter. That's quite a PR move, I'd say, a nice one though.
> Google may be hurt the least, but I doubt they're a "beneficiary" in economic terms.

So, relatively Google is the biggest beneficiary.
Interesting. For me with Chrome+ublock origin I still get the auto-playing video. With Firefox+ublock origin the video appears but doesn't play. Instead it shows a red and white "I'm still loading" icon over the video, which is quite annoying but much better than auto-play. Is this what you get?
Why would one train on "all hires CVs"? It'd be "engineering CVs", moreover it'd be "engineering applicants CVs", not "engineering hires CVs".
I spent a number of years working in tech organizations where the male:female ratio was 60:40. Now I work in a similar org with the same rules where it's more like 85:15.

The difference is that old place transitioned administrative staff to IT roles in the 90s/early 2000s when more things were computerized. Those admins, financial analysts, program analysts were more likely to be female and had degrees in liberal arts, accounting, business/finance, etc.

In the newer place, they filtered based on computer-related degree upon hiring. That automatically excludes many women. Once hired, female candidates advance as well or better.

Anecdotally, I've hired interns in recent years with no tech-specific qualifications as an experiment. If you select for "smart and gets things done" I don't see much of a disadvantage for many roles. You get some duds too, but it wasn't as dramatic a difference as I expected.
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No thanks.

A recommendation from 4-chan and a PoC and a talk at a blockchain hype-conference? Think I'll steer clear.
You cannot possibly be serious:

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Using 100mb+ of memory?
Simple, there's some really screwy economics.

Distribution of content is a "near-zero" cost relative to content production. However, the value of content distribution value is much higher than content. Furthermore, the value of the distribution of the content rises exponentially based on the collective set of content.

It's basically designed as a winner-take-all environment, so you have a bunch of digital fiefdoms. Or as put by Jim Barksdale on How to Make Money: "you either bundle or unbundle".
>What does mp3 purchasing from Amazon look like from other countries ?

Speaking from a UK perspective, everything I've purchased from Amazon UK has been provided as DRM-free MP3. Amazon UK (and possibly elsewhere) has an AutoRip feature where CD purchases are also added as gratis downloads. This extends to prior purchases, too – I was a bit wary about downloading some items since they were bought as gifts for people via their wishlist…and yet since I was the purchaser, I was the presumed licence holder…but didn't have the CD in my possession. The same goes for CDs that I'd bought, listened to and subsequently sold, which presumably transfers the licence to the new holder of the CD…and yet I can still download the album via Amazon Music. Tricky.
> The number of women and men in the data set shouldn't matter (algorithms learn that even if there was 1 woman, if she was hired then it will be positive about future woman candidates).

This is incorrect. The key thing to keep in mind is that they are not just predicting who is a good candidate, they are also ranking by the certainty of their prediction.

Lower numbers of female candidates could plausibly lead to lower certainty for the prediction model as it would have less data on those people. I've never trained a model on resumes, but I definitely often see this "lower certainty on minorites" thing for models I do train.

The lower certainty would in turn lead to lower rankings for women even without any bias in the data.

Now, I'm not saying that Amazon's data isn't biased. I would not be surprised if it were. I'm just saying we should be careful in understanding what is evidence of bias and what is not.
Remember now Linux is part of Windows via Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu). This is very important for me as developer and I am using it every day.

By joining ONI MS is strengthening parts of its offerings (Linux), and maybe is using (or will be using) existing ONI Linux patents to defend that part.
If these women are applying for tech jobs at Amazon, they're by definition interested. The uninterested (male or female) are not relevant to this discussion.

I must say, I am frustrated by this being brought up in every discussion of women & STEM. Want to discuss the leaky pipeline from physics PhDs to full professor in physics? "Maybe those women did a PhD in physics despite not being interested, and they just didn't notice before!"
Really like the way Satya Nadella transforms M$
I dunno, would you describe every AR platform as "Hololens but a little different"?

One thing that got briefly mentioned in the article is that the Magic Leap has an external computer, which you can put in a pocket or clip to your waist. It runs hot and it might cook itself if you block the airflow to the fans. Also, I've never heard of anyone needing to wander around for 4 minutes before the Hololens started tracking properly. On the plus side, Magic Leap has two different focal planes where HL only has one. Apparently this helps a lot in making users feel a sense of depth to the images.
The explanation seems overly simplistic. If the difference in volume of male candidates mattered, then I would also expect to see a bias in favor of applicants from larger universities. That seems like too obvious an issue in the way the algorithm was designed.

I see four possibilities here:

1. The algorithm was designed in a completely inept fashion

2. The algorithm design was sound, but ultimately ineffective

3. The algorithm was sound and effective, but results were considered discriminatory.

4. There's something biased about how employees are rated--the data that would feed into the algorithm, which is possibly more of a human element.

Edit: Added fourth possibility
"...any training dataset based wholly or in part on current employees is going to demonstrate a bias against women,..."

"Demonstrate" may be the wrong word. How about "encode". And in the future, "enforce".

[Edit] On second thought, it would seem like there would be a way to filter out a "raw proportions bias" (like 80% of the resumes in the data set are male) before training.
It is not "using" but allocating the addresses. The committed memory will be vastly smaller. This is how virtual memory works.
What to do during break from work?
What do you guys do when you have a break from work to give yourself an energy boost for the next session?