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The good part of Microsoft is the division responsible for languages, compilers and cloud. Meanwhile an old Microsoft makes Windows, Office, etc.

While the latter has improved somewhat, only the former has reformed.
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What's discussed here are Siberian permafrost peat fires, not Alaskan forest fires.
Apparently it's relatively common: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/
Sorry for that.

That was a classic tomcat + reverse proxy setup with a fixed number of tc threads. All were being starved by waiting for the search appliance backend calls to return (60s timeout).
This is judgement I happen to agree with. However, I would like more consistency across every other field as well. Should it be legal for someone fraudulent like Stephen Greer to take people out to the desert to have alien/UFO experiences? Or psychics providing non-free services?

I suppose health services being in a category of their own is quite sensible. Losing one's savings to a psychic doesn't have the same mortal consequences as health-coach advice that could kill you.
I was involved in management of a small natural preserve. One of the activities was to control some of the more pestilential invasive species, such as Oriental bittersweet. But without a huge expensive effort, invasives really can't be eradicated or even very well controlled. I'd estimate that upwards of a fourth of the plant mass was invasive species, from allianthus to wisteria.

In the end, I decided it didn't really matter - that these new species were simply doing what all organisms do, which is to compete to survive and reproduce. The fact that they are doing so in a new ecological setting is just what evolution predicts.
More programmers == more code, more code == more bad code. But that's probably not the direction you wanted to go...
I mean.. programming books aren't really good bedtime reading.
> Of course not. Parental leave is offered to all employees right?

It isn't, that just the point -- it's offered to employees who have just had a child.

We can view accommodations of disabilities the same way. They should be offered to all employees to whom they apply.

> A clearly unreasonable one is not quite the same as a reasonable one is it?

I'm just not convinced this is a real problem.

> We disagree. That is fine.

On which point?

It's not a matter of opinion that plenty of companies are effective based entirely on remote work, right?
That's an oversimplification that ignores the fact that spectrum allocation is useful. very few things in politics are completely black and white as you presented them.
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> they do the push-up/plank thing if you want to speak

Is this punishment for having standup? Fine, let's get rid of it. Instead, let's have a team meeting over coffee for 15min every morning where we discuss our challenges from yesterday, and what we think we'll do today, and anything keeping us from working.
I went to RIT in 2003-2010 for CS and took Axel Schreiner's first Golang course (which AIUI was the second GoLang course offered anywhere, at a Uni level)

Among other classes I took with Axel, he definitely spent at least 20% of the time overall talking about Inferno. I never had my code in front of Dennis Ritchie, but I will throw in from my perspective, the most valuable part of a CS education from RIT was hearing that my code was terrible, just enough times to make me want to make it better later on, in my professional career when it has started to matter.
Effectively banning/exporting any jobs that aren’t productive enough to be worth paying as much. Price fixing always creates shortages and is an inefficient way of allocating resources. Less people will be hired, businesses will go under. Stupid idea and should be a constitutional violation, you should have the right to work for whatever wage you want.
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Ask HN: An API capable of detecting a graphical interface and associating data
I am looking for an API, regardless of the technology on which it is based, that is able to detect that a graphical window has been opened by the user.

It must then be able to associate data to this window, such as the name of the associated software.

Then, the API would have to do the same with the main widgets in this window (buttons, text fields, etc.).

Does it exist or will I have to develop it?
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You’re right!

In all probability the callousness in tone was the point. It’s also a common device in Russian literature of the time to gloss over such brutality and hardship. It’s a bit of a trope at how commonplace suffering was made to seem in stories and other writing by Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and other contemporaries. See also: God Sees the Truth, But Waits
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One of the most interesting parts of this is, at least on my computer, the link doesn't change to the "visited" color no matter how many times I click it. I guess since it 404s, Chrome doesn't want to make me think that I successfully visited it?
Following your suggestion, I’ve read it now in its entirety and I’m considering adding “subjective experience” to my axiom, but that might be too aggressive.
Not sure if it's bought or organic, but no other company gets the response Microsoft gets. The smallest triviality get praised, the biggest flaws get rationalized away. Like, people here were going wild when they added UNIX line-ending support to notepad.
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Assuming 3% inflation per year, it'll be $15/1.03^6 (6 years), or about $12.56 in today's dollars.
Even if you don’t mention free software. I absolutely recommend using free software for this.
>The good part of Microsoft is the division responsible for languages, compilers and cloud.

Putting their telemetry in your compiled binaries is ... real good? Marketing is the only thing that changed.
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Not to defend Microsoft, but SIDs are non unique. I think theyre only guaranteed to be unique per AD forest with the addition of the RID subauthority. Lots of domains are domain.local or other such commonalities and so may have duplicates. Microsoft would know this, so the intent does not appear surveillance or data collection.
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Doesn't it send full URLs anyway when you're signed into Edge or Chrome to sync your history?
The question was more about how the big the penalty is compared to running a MMU.

Also according to my (admittedly rather basic) tests the DIS VM performs far better than JVM.
The thing about being able to have remote workers is that it works best when the company culture works in a way where everyone could be remote

In fact, now a disabled person is going to likely be excluded from the team because they're working remotely. How do you include them? By making everyone remote. That way people don't rely on a culture where documentation is interrupting someone at their desk (ps they won't respond on Slack or what have you, because if you really need to ask them something, just come by & interrupt them at their desk)

So now in order to accommodate someone you have to change the work environment for everyone
Samba is working great for me. Several DCs, extended the schema for various different uses (storing TOTP seeds, Kopano mail attributes). Only thing that would make life easier is DFS-R for sysvol and WMI for 2012+ DCs. Used to be a nightmare but since about 4.3+ it's worked flawlessly.
Wait, this is not happening locally, against bloom filters or something?
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Other browsers use a _truncated_ hash. Easy enough to match to a known list of bad sites, but exceptionally difficult to reverse engineer a list of sites the user has visited.
To somebody who lives in one of the few hundred countries that uses Celsius, this just seems like a non-problem... While a lot of air conditioners adjust in single degree steps, plenty exist that go up or down in half degrees. A sous vide would probably adjust with a single decimal point. Digital thermometers basically also always do also. My weather app says it’s 16.1 degrees C outside right now... Easy...

Your comment about psychology is actually just you mistaking familiarity with your temperature system with something more universal. In countries where we use metric/Celsius, we find decimals super easy to think in because we’re used to doing it!
U2F saves you, most of the other options potentially make it worse.

If the bad guys are dumb and just were there to passively steal passwords then almost anything works. But if the bad guys are paying attention and stealing authentication secrets then it breaks down like this:

Passwords: Stolen if used while bad guys could watch

TOTP/MOTP/ similar software one time codes: Seed gets stolen by bad guys, they can generate the same codes as you now.

SecurID/ similar key fob type one time codes: Seed gets stolen by bad guys, they can generate the same codes as you now.

SMS: Now bad guys know your phone number. In a targeted attack they will "jack" the number and cause even more havoc, but you might be safe against script kiddies

U2F (or WebAuthn): The server doesn't know any secrets. It knows a cookie (meaningless gibberish except to one FIDO device) and a public key (public). Stealing these is futile and cannot be used to impersonate the user.

TOTP and SecurID surprise people because they forget that although the credential transmitted is just a one-time code, the _server_ (which bad guys broke into here) needs to know the same seed as the user does to get the same codes.
I began working remotely last year. I never intend to take another non-remote job if I can help it.
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Right, plus there are plenty of Americans who want to work for say $13/hr if the job is a rewarding one. The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 is arguably low enough to raise somewhat because why not, but $15/hr is clearly high relative to the current supply/demand equilibrium.
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With replication at 1 minute intervals and ten replicas, you can step back at most 10 minutes.

Same with replicas at 1, 2, 4, 8, etc minutes, ten replicas let you step back up to 17 hours.

Much more time to detect and correct a catastrophic error.
> Psychological safety, i.e., the feeling that voicing controversial ideas or dissent will not cause abandonment or loss of status, seems to be an important factor for making interactions between researchers particularly fruitful. It’s not clear to me how exactly this can be achieved.

I know I've read various articles/blogs on this topic, including techniques to achieve it, but it seems I neglected to save any of them in my EverNote. Anyone happen to know of any good ones off the top of their head?
Edge is the number one browser in the world for installing chrome.
Fundamentally, you can't solve vision in the abstract.
It needs to be tied to a concrete problem. With requirements that describe the operating environment and properties that need to be inferred from the image.
You are labouring under the misapprehension that we are not yet at the point of no return. We have already shot by it, and are falling through the air having driven off the cliff.

If everyone just stopped (the probability of industrialised society stopping dead in its tracks overnight is nil, and despite four decades of hand waving nothing has changed, apart from emissions inexorably increasing, and more and more chaotic systems being kicked into action), there would still be a catastrophe of immeasurable proportions.

Our time under the sun is done.

I think hope is insidious - having faith that everything will somehow be ok despite all evidence to the contrary is deeply counterproductive.

The best advice I can give anyone, and the advice I myself have acted upon, is to enjoy what remains of our short lives.
If you give a list of examples I can tell you how I would feel about them...
Very true. We're finding this out with bacteriophages, popular in the SU, but virtually unheard of in the West, until it turns out they can solve a problem of our own making.
Win.sh Opens VSCode Insider Edition Gracefully from WSL2
This is "the same verse" as what? Bundling IE with Windows? The same as making proprietary technologies on open ones? The same as strongarming Gary Kildall? No, no it isn't "the same". Anti M$ comment is just whiny.

This behaviour is part of SmartScreen, it's publicly known about, documented, optional. It's explicitly called out somewhere - when you install a new Windows 10 and it takes you through the privacy settings, there's mention of sending browsing data to Microsoft if you agree - https://1re4xlezju-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upload... - and that's been a warning in the IE first run dialog since before IE 11 - http://www.herongyang.com/Windows/IE_10_SmartScreen_Filter.j...

> When checking web content, data about the content and your device is sent to Microsoft, including the full web address of the content.

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement#mainsec...

SmartScreen for Windows Defender will send filenames, hashes and download locations to Microsoft as well.

This is less bad than "like" buttons tracking you around the web in an undocumented and not-optional way with no user benefit.

Is this so different to Google quietly signing you into Chrome when you sign into a Google website, and Chrome sync'ing your browser history to Google by default and sending URLs of pages you visit from the Omnibox?[1] Or "Sends URLs of some pages that you visit to Google, when your security is at risk" from the Chrome options? To Facebook scraping call records and SMS texts from Android devices for years? [2] Ubuntu with opt-out system data gathering in 18.04, and wants to gather data to track "relative popularity of apps"[3], or Steam gathering data about what games you play[4]. Would you believe, Wonderful helpful Google has every email you send or receive through a GMail account or to one, but Evil Microsoft has every email you send through/to an Office 365 account. Wonderful Google and Amazon could access any VM on their clouds, so could evil Microsoft on Azure - except Microsoft built Shielded VMs into Hyper-V to protect the VM from compromised hosts, and to keep secrets in the VM which host administrators cannot access. [5]

Tech companies spy on people for money, isn't as anti Microsoft an idea though, is it?

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.htm...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/17160944/facebook-call-hi...

[3] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-data-collection-o...

[4] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/07/steam-data-leak-revea...

[5] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/gua...
This is a really thoughtful article.

Expectations and norms are what come to mind.

For orgs: expect that disabilities can be invisible and need accommodations

For individuals: expect that you will need to advocate for yourself (especially before awareness grows)

I think that's a good starting place (not an end point!) to get orgs to what Bonnie says:

> People take their cues from you, if you act like your accommodations are normal other people will tend to react similarly.

From there orgs can work to deliberately increase their awareness > understanding > and accommodation of disabilities any of their talent may have.
Again the truth gets downvoted. Even Apple or Google are criticized more these days. People basically seem to pretend that M$ is run by Stallman himself.
I was tired of the default behavior in WSL when invoking VSCode Insider Edition, so I wired this simple shell script up to make it better. MIT license, use with caution, mileage may vary, be excellent to each other, <insert phrase here>
I'm greek and in my opinion this catastrophy doesn't actually have anything to do with the austerity. I'd like to express some personal opinions (please other greek people don't judge or make it polical this is just the opinion I've gathered by watching the news all this time): I believe that the catastrophy it's a result of three things (please forgive my english I hope everything will make sense):

- The Weather. From what I've head the fire had spread in very little time; it was something unprecedented. I don't know if the fires had started by arson but definitely the main responsible party for this destruction was the wind.

- The organization of the civil protection organizations (police, fire department, etc). Unfortunately the civil protection had not properly handled this. They were more or less caught with their pants down; they did not understand how big the fire was and were giving wrong directions to the citizens. Also, there was (and I don't think that there is now) no real plan to handle such situations; every is left to luck. This is more or less how everything in Greece works; sloppy and without a real plan; most people want to do their service, not have any responsibilities and go home. Very few people in key areas have a real plan or want to implement something bigger than day to day work.

- The residential situation in these areas. These areas are more or less a forest near the sea. During the previous years, when I passed with my card I saw some houses in these areas surrounded by forrest. Also there were various other strange things like homes having "private" access to the beach so people running from the fire were trapped and unable to run to the sea(!) Most of these houses did not have a permit to be built there but because of how the Greek government works (I mean in the previous 30+ years) they were able to stay their without any problems. They even had electric power, telephone etc even though they shouldnt since they had built in the forrest. Such things unfortunately exist in other places in Greece but nobody seems to care. This is more or less related to the sloppy nature of greeks and the governments here for like 40+ years.

Please notice that even if everythign worked perfect in the civil protection and even if there were no houses in these forrests, even then I'm not sure that the catastrophy could be averted. We've seen similar situation in much better organized countries than Greece. So there would still be much destruction (and probably dead people) but I think not at this scale.

Update: sorry my last sentence had the opposite meaning of what I wanted to say; it's been corrected now.
> Most of the time, it boils down to things like giving the person with crutches a little extra time to use the toilet because it takes more time. I don't really understand why this would be an issue for you since, if you had crutches, you'd be treated similarly.

I am confused. Where did I say that would be a problem? I am very very OK with reasonable adjustments.

Sick leave is something I expect from a non broken society as well.

I object to unreasonable adjustments.

Edit
Oh and if my employer times us on the toilet I am definitely looking for another job!
Other notable works describing WWI: Malins, How I Filmed the War (1920)[1][2].

Davis, Into the Silence, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest (2012)[3]

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30285/30285-h/30285-h.htm

[2] https://librivox.org/how-i-filmed-the-war-by-geoffrey-h-mali...

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602442-into-the-silenc...
Because it's too simple. Market distortions shift the price people pay away from what the true market price would be in a competitive market.

As an example, I live in one of the US's few competitive ISP markets. I pay $40/month for gigabit fiber, no limits. Comcast, which is often a monopoly or a duopoly, charges $90-140/month [1] for gigabit service, and they have assorted restrictions that I don't have to deal with, like data caps and limited upload speeds.

So what's the true market price for full gigabit? The person you're responding to, bassman9000 would apparently say it's $140, because tautologically that's what people pay. I'd say it's much lower.

Further evidence to support my position is that when you measure actual speeds delivered on gigabit, many of the ISPs are local providers, not the big nationals. [2] Customer satisfaction with my ISP is hugely higher than Comcast as well [3], with Comcast's Net Promoter Score actually being negative. [4]

Those are not signs of a competitive market, and if the market isn't competitive, I think it's a 101-level mistake to say that the price people pay is the true market price.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/comcast-offering-1-gigabit-per-sec...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xgne9/locally-run-isps-o...

[3] https://www.sonic.com/care

[4] https://npsbenchmarks.com/blog/best-internet-service-provide...
Yeah, yeah, the good old anti-M$ counter argument. The comment wasn't even anti-M$, it tried to curb the inexplicable recent enthusiasm for M$ on HN.
I would never assume Google doesn't know every site I visit with Chrome. Let's scrutinize all of them rather than hold them to different standards based on our personal narrative.
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I fail to understand why they can't just leave well enough alone. I suspect it's to use up more resources in order to sell more new phones. Like grandma always said, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Of course dong that wouldn't sell the newest, latest, and greatest phones and computers, tablets, and cell phones. As I've always said, there ain't nothing "free" in this life, you WILL end up paying for it in the long run, one way or the other. And that goes for email accounts as well.
If I were a shuttle commander, I'd find the idea of bringing a spacecraft inside the shuttle, where I couldn't verify the disarmed/ defueled state of the captured vehicles thrusters, deeply unpleasant.
If the choice is between using the money for one building that lasts 1000 years or 10 buildings that last 100 years, each, I'd pick the ten buildings, too. There will be new considerations anyway. Like cables, which weren't a thing 500 years ago. Or water pipes. Who knows what else we will want to put in our buildings, that are easier done with building something new than updating something old.
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$95 per session is definitely non-free :D
Code and .NET Core both send the same hash of the MAC (which at 6 bytes is hardly worth hashing) in their telemetry in order to correlate across applications.
Hilarious. The icon for the _entire category_ of social-networking-sites uses Facebook's logo. Unless I'm mistaken. No other category uses the logo of just one brand to denote its category. Now that's mind-share. Category penetration in 2012: 61%, in 2018: 70%. Oh dear, oh dear.
Seems like you can't save ANY page in Edge. Absurd lack of functionality.
Half of Google's employees would probably disagree with you.
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