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> At the same time, US is expanding NATO with more and more countries close to Russia border. Why is it so difficult to figure out this makes them very uneasy? Wouldn't some kind of response be expected? Why would US be surprised by it?

One of the reasons could be that US and RF are very asymmetrical players in the game. The structure of control in RF is less reliable, to the point of having arguments (not in the Kremlin, of course) of passing nuclear arms to US (!) to avoid dangerous scenarios. The intents are also different, modern RF power is mostly interested in material gains rather than strategic development. Abilities are different - RF can't always adequately answer to some voids left.
Considering Microsoft is likely killing live tiles and there isn't much of a touch interface at all, I don't understand your problem. Are you talking about Windows 8? I genuinely don't know exactly what you mean at all.
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PC is Paper Cartridge, iirc.
Coco Chanel started her fashion career with sewing needles..
Changing your user agent to midori or links is surprisingly effective.
Any chance you can share that here?
Is it just me or there is lay off every other day. Tesla, Buzzfeed etc.

This does not seem like a economy at its peak. It seems like a contraction.
I agree that families with small children have a need for car-as-storage, but that passes after a couple years (per child). I'm not so sure about sports. For hardcore athletes, then yeah. But for your weekly biking or skiing or surfing trip, the equipment can be hauled on and off larger car-as-service's hired for the purpose. The rest of the time, store the equipment in a fraction of the space you would use to store a car with the equipment in.

Disclaimer: I was never a regular in any big-equipment sports.

If I'm wrong, well, like I said owning a car might still be fairly popular when they self-drive.
I have an annoying recurring bug in explorer.exe where, when playing full-screen media, the task bar is shown, obscuring the bottom of the content. I have a batch file on my desktop to kill/start explorer.exe it happens so often. That type of issue never happened in Windows 7/XP.
I've seen a lot of "Windows ruined" stuff, articles and such, but they always seem like issues that were always there about patching issues and such... or even just stuff that isn't an issue anymore.

I swear I see a lot of complaints but the things people cite seem like nothing new or ultra minor stuff that you could have cited all through Windows history.
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I regularly do 200MB/s per node with NSQ (I know, I know, apples to oranges but people should be aware there are choices other than apples depending on your use case).
But voice rec is not local

Voice rec was local until about ten years ago. You could even buy software dictation products that installed from CDROM and didn't need a network connection.

I shouldn't need a network connection to do anything voice on my own device. It should only reach out to the network for things it doesn't have local knowledge of.
I take it you don't know anyone who works at MSFT?
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Whats the population of your town?
I don't see anyone actually owning a self driving car, and hence I don't buy that they will be cruising to avoid parking. Why would anyone want anything to do with owning a car that could just be summoned at any time to taxi you where you need to go? No -40 gas-ups... no scheduled maintenance... no insurance.. no car payment...
That's an interesting thought (also imagine really drunk or high people giving instructions to their car).

Sounds like something out of Black Mirror.
Their target is specifically VPNs advertised or mostly used for bypassing regional restrictions and piracy.

Of course there's a massive grey area of "what about VPNs that aren't advertising that purpose but are used in that way" that they would exploit in the most hamfisted and self-beneficial manner possible, but that's par for the course for most corporate lobbying initiatives.
Just to add another anecdote, I really appreciated being able to listen to the CBC radio channels throughout the metro Detroit area, and CBC news is officially offered (and included in most packages) through the local cable provider there.

I didn't realize people in many other parts of the country lacked access to CBC on TV until I moved elsewhere.
>The state of the web in 2019 is frankly shameful. Those are tactics that you should expect from shady websites, not some of the biggest players in the field.

Because of ad networks, every site is now a shady website.
The accordion effect applies to highway traffic, though. The study discusses central cities that have (for good reason) expensive parking.

A steady stream of moving cars is not appropriate for an urban center, as they would form a barrier to walking, cycling, scooting which is apparently a thing now, etc.
As do Amazon and Microsoft. For that matter, "Detroit" (as a metonym for the auto industry) also have offices in Silicon Valley - Ford Greenfield Research is near Stanford, GM Advanced Technology in Sunnyvale, and GM Cruise Automation in SF.

When it comes to multinationals, physical location matters little - Google employs thousands of people in NYC and Boston and has offices all over the world.
Everyone will go by car everywhere, so there won't be less cars, only companies will own them.
From the comments it sounds like the real answer is cookies: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/am1hi0/a_created_a...
And sometimes A/B Testing is humorous.

Like when online publishers like Ars and TechCrunch A/B test headlines and pictures and I end up with a photo of singer Taylor Swift accompanying an article about Apple's iOS programming language Swift.
If they get sued, this will be why. Other TV services go to much greater lengths to check location, with server-side geotracing and/or mandating use of mobile apps which access cellular/GPS location
It would be make me so happy to see WINE supported as the first-class way of running Windows software.
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Not sure why this was downvoted to grey
Speaking as an OS engineer who's worked on both kernels a lot, Windows is way better under the hood for low-latency, responsive end user stuff than linux

Then again, WinMo 7 was way faster and more responsive than Android at the time, and look how that turned out..
>Nearly 900,000 people live here, making it the second densest city in the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

Uh... it depends on where you draw the line for city.

It could be anywhere between 1 through 21
I still have a Windows around for running Visual Studio and it seems the next iteration is resolute about making the GUI worst again (previous successful attempt at it was VS 2012).
I'm not trying to suggest it's shady, but it's clearly an employee perk that is not available to society at large. It's another effort by the company to make an "exclusive" community that benefits their employees and as a result helps retain talent for as long as possible. None of it is a philanthropic effort as originally suggested.
These are the basic forces of commerce. Or any interaction. Amazon, target, even my loca coffee shops are not aligned with what’s best for me. They’re aligned with what’s best for them, with an eye towards maximizing overlap.

But where they want the customer to do something the customer wouldn’t, that happens everywhere. It’s not limited to tech.
"You should not underestimate the power of a narrative or even impressions."

I'm not. I'm saying (from Shiller, world leading economist) - that narratives are usually wrong, and the MS case is evidence.

VS Code and 'open source' Chakra are very, small, things.

They are not even canaries.

(Caveat: Azure allowing linux is important strategically though)

I personally fall victim to this myself a lot, making undue correlations between some tech move or announcement, and actual business robustness. We vastly over estimate these things because we think and care about these issues all day. Most technology customers, and most Enterprises do not. If you have a look at where MSFT derives it's revenue and how consistent it is, that gives a clearer picture.

Second, that MS may appear to be more 'open' in these areas in no way implies any kind of success or revenue growth.

Apple is considerably more 'closed' and they do just fine, for example.

Satya in no way deserves a massive P/E ratio bump from analysts, there is no real basis for it.

MSFT stock price over the last 20 years should have been ballpark commensurate with it's revenues, fluctuating here and there. The 'big lift' after Satya had nothing to do with fundamentals really.

Ballmer took an already great company and massively grew it, launched XBox, moved into the cloud, grew enterprise services substantially, it's one of the most successful and robust evolutions of a company ever.

The 'misperceptions' that lead to 'false narratives' in this case are analyst's readings of pop culture tech trends, and we HN'ers overvaluing the importance of things like VS Code.
This isn't a "women's rights" issue. This is a _human_ rights issue.
Bill and the board deserve credit for bringing in Satya to captain the ship and steer it.

The ship is still afloat, with a captain able and willing to navigate it into new territories. That's really what they're doing and I think that in itself is a re-invention and worth remarking about.

Now, you can give them shit for the design of their ship, failures, practices, etc.. and rightfully so, but they are definitley re-defining their business in real-time, in my opinion.

I'd love to hear if any of that resonates as I haven't worked at Google or the other companies you listed to get a scope of the culture.

edit: steer
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Windows is subject to this sort of bizarre conservation of awesome. Any improvements in one area must be counterbalanced with an absolute shitshow in some other area. Windows 95 brought full 32-bit-ness to the average desktop, but it was a crashy buggy mess based on DOS that should have never existed because Windows NT was a thing. Windows 98 improved on Windows 95 in some ways, but introduced completely unnecessary IE integration and the Active Desktop nobody used. Windows XP finally brought the NT kernel to the consumer desktop, but it looked like Fisher-Price and introduced phone-home DRM integrated at a system level. Windows 7 seems immune to this rule, being a massive improvement over Vista and XP with few drawbacks, but was bookended by pure-shitshow releases Vista and 8. Windows 10 fixed many of the problems with Windows 8, and gave us nice things like WSL, but also gave us built-in spyware and ads-in-the-start-menu malarkey.

There's a reason why people say 2000 and 7 were the best Windows releases ever.
> researchers have shown that images generated by famous GANs do not generalize beyond what the training data provides.

Was really hoping to get a source for that, as that is a very interesting proposition to leave uncited.
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Yeah and it's a so so BD. I mean if you want space, go for sillage, the meta baron, l'incal or belthegueuse (jodorowski and leo are not french born, but the bd are born in france).
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Your question needs a little more focus. Specifically, what stage of startup? Let's assume Series B or earlier.

All the normal stuff like the top voted comment describes.

Missing from that list is the most important question! At A or B stage, what is revenue growth rate? At seed this is a different animal.

Second most important, and also missing (!), brief bios on the management team.

I'd also ask, combined experience of the engineering team, and often missed on a forum like this, combined experience of the sales team.
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Remember when Big Bad Ol' Microsoft bundled their Web browser with the OS, and that was beyond the pale?

That was so quaint.
Except that Microsoft didn't take venture money until right before IPO, has always valued profits over growth, and has sort of the antithesis of hacker culture. (See eg. Bill Gates' famous "Open letter to hobbyists".)
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I'm echoing the sentiment that a self-driving car would either head home or be part of a ride-sharing/taxi-like service. Hopefully we can eliminate street parking and put those lanes to use as vehicle and bike lanes.
Yes, I've heard about this problem. In this case, you as an employer have to change your questions for each new interview. There are some assessment apps that can do this task automatically for you.
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Yes, I do. I avoid anything made by Google as much as I can and I don't regularly use any of the mentioned services. I host my own mail server, use uMatrix and uBlock to block tracking, strongly prefer Firefox over Chromium and so on.

However, even if I wasn't doing all of that, it would make sense to reject any one of those, even if I wasn't rejecting them all. You have to start somewhere and Facebook is as good a place to start as any. The existence of many bad actors doesn't mean we should be paralyzed because we cannot achieve a perfect solution all at once.
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I think it has more to do with Facebook's recent algorithm change http://fortune.com/2018/01/12/facebook-news-feed-change/
Can't these cars just, you know, drive themselves somewhere else? If I know I'm going to be at work, for example, it'd be reasonable for my self-driving car to drop me off at work and go home (preferably recharging itself) before coming back to pick me up at the end of my shift, no? Why sit there perpetually wasting energy by circling around? Not like I need my car (and if I do, then I can recall it and wait).

For cases where I'm someplace for less than an hour, then sure, maybe this would be a problem. Even then, though, no reason why the car can't find a less-congested spot and idle about over there.
That makes sense. They are profiling your responses to the captcha, not just checking for the correct answer.

They always seem to make me "play" their stupid "find the cars" game a lot longer when I quickly choose them. 20 minutes straight one time. Yeah I felt violated. It was on my stupid state unemployment benefits application page. Talk about being kicked while you're down. Not only do I have to convince the state I'm a citizen and eligible, I have to convince google I'm not a robot first.
Being very vigilant is always good, but come on! "40,000 lives a year" is not something we were conditioned to believe is good because if fits someones agenda. It's unambiguously a very large public benefit by almost any moral standard.
Especially since nearly 1% of the U.S. population is currently in prison, and probably a multiple of that being ex convicts. That's a huge number. I know a couple people that were somewhat maliciously prosecuted that still have trouble because of it.

One was 18yo dating a 17yo (later married). The other was convicted of illegal gambling (had a poker club with people kicking in enough to cover appetizers).
Windows is a pretty good kernel, GNU/Windows (aka WSL) effectively feels like Linux, with some drawbacks mainly NTFS being very slow (which Microsoft are aware of and working on - see https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...).