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In my experience, Windows 10 is a decent OS under the hood (eg, working with SMB network shares is much more robust compared to Mac), but the GUI completely ruins the experience. Win 10 is filled with annoyances like using no less than five different visual styles for right-click context menus. Not to mention Settings app that uses the same font and color for text and clickable links: there's no way to tell buttons apart from static text.

The whole GUI feels like something very poorly thought-out and cobbled together in a hurry by students for their first major school project, and unfortunately it stains the whole OS.
P.S. I talked with my father about this long ago, who was a B-17 lead navigator in the war over Europe. The crews flew their B-17s over the Atlantic to England. He navigated using a sextant and a chronometer, and they were 6 miles off when hitting the Irish coast. He said many B-17s were lost without a trace in the Atlantic crossings.
The main flaws with UAC is that you don't know what application is asking for it (This actually ties into a deeper problem which is, you don't know where application binaries reside, and applications are less predictable on Linux). Instead you have to correlate with what you've done recently, which might not align with the process that requested permission.
> Shuttle's glide ratio was 4.5:1 - barely better than a brick

A brick has a glide ratio somewhere worse than 1:10; the shuttle (at subsonic speeds) is closer to a sailplane (~40:1, or ~9× better than the shuttle) than a brick (more than 50× worse).
You might like the book Lost Connections by Johann Hari. The premise of the book, from what I can remember, is a mix between yours and GP's comment. It's basically that things are being over-prescribed, such as depression if you haven't stopped grieving after a year from the death of a loved one, as well as it happening more because our basic human structures are crumbling (namely, community). I definitely want to do a reread of it and pursue some of his leads more.
When we start having >300 kW CCS 2.0 deployments, and cars that can make use of them, this will be less of an issue:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System#Versi...

Until then, I hope that hybrids will be an option.
It's conceivable that this is the real reason. Maybe Windows is a "dragon king" statistical outlier in terms of malware. As an example, every once in a while a file "type" that previously nobody knew could be executed causes problems because someone finally figures out that it could be executed. MacOS certainly has problems with malware, but not even to the same order of magnitude as Windows.
Last week we had this exact issue.

We added an iPad and tried to purchase something, but the only card on file was long since expired and thrown away.

But in order to verify the account we had to enter the card's digits, which we did not have, and we couldn't add a new card because we hadn't verified the old one.

In other words we were stuck. Had to contact Apple support. Took several days to resolve.
Show HN: Geo-Info – A Simple Geocoding API
Home Speaker Cyber-Warfare
>Whether it's seen next to porn should be irrelevant.

It does not work that way. If some average person sees some brand advertised on WSJ and FT, and another competing brand on PornHub he will attach more 'premium' value to a first brand, and will pay more for owning product from this brand. It's only normal and a part of human nature.

People enjoy content from PornHub, but they want to be associated with something advertised on WSJ/FT/NYT/etc. People want to signal status, not just own a good stuff.
Hobby level clay 3d printing is still in its infancy. Current nozzles are >1.0mm, which are too big to create parts like this. Works for creating vases/decorative stuff though.
We've asked in email to agree that an extended trial will cost X USD or that for their billing terms they need to agree to annual pre-payment. It's less formal but with enterprise B2B every sale is a big manual (and hopefully financially worth it). Generally we get a quick 'ok' or find another person (decision maker) added to cc in the reply. All the paperwork and billing comes far later than the trial, we have no problem moving that to the second month of the subscription. Trials with our service often take weeks. If a prospective client doesn't keep part of the deal, e.g. not happy with the trial, we don't charge. LOI (or one sentence in an email) is just a tactic to force a decision or figure out of the opposite party is able to make a decision. I wouldn't overthink every deal, you win some, you loose some and sometimes the company stops replying to emails for no reason.
The island was in fact one of the original suspects when Earhart's plane first went missing but by the time the US Navy arrived several weeks later, storms and natural wave action would have washed most of the plane away.

The point of the analysis was to see if there was photographic evidence to suggest that it might have been the correct island all along.

Yes, it could be a tree trump or some other debris--but it also looks exactly like the wreckage of a particular part of her plane, which is enough to justify a more detailed search.

Like the Bismark's final resting spot, this island has a significant underwater seamount. If the plane landed on the beach and sunk, if could have slid thousands of feet into crevices in the seamount or even all the way down to the abyssal plain surrounding the island.
I've always wondered in situations like this: Is this a fine uber will actually pay? Does the US have any treaties with Colombia which put teeth in this fine inside US jurisdiction? Or would they pay it simply out of a desire to, possibly, one day, operate legally in the country and not want to start out on the wrong foot?

And more specifically, the three people who were fined directly; are they really going to get out their checkbooks (or would Uber just cover it)?

I've always wondered this; you hear about these multi-billion dollar fines Google/Facebook get from the EU, and obviously they want to continue doing legal business there, plus the EU is a great friend of the US, so they pay them. But with smaller countries that are, traditionally, not on a great political footing with the first world, what do businesses do? Especially in this case where they are operating illegally anyway? Pay up? Throw the letter in the trash and laugh over an $800 bottle of bourbon like a supervillain?
PGP Keyservers: The End of an Era
I too have been seeing this problem lately. I am hoping for a aggregator on this front. SOmebody who aggregates all tutorials and then rates them by (perceived) audience. I would gladly pay them. Happy to build something like this but do not know how to do the rating part!
What would be the strategic advantage of a nuclear cruise missile? Couldn't a cruise missile of any kind be shot down by a fighter plane? Seems easier to deflect than an ICBM, which they already have in abundance.
You'd also need to do that for

* schools
* police/fire/ambulance
* pretty much any locally allocated service

Which would pretty much be political suicide in any state.
This is no different to when Microsoft launched their passport services, MS wanted to develop a global register to verify everyone's identity. It didn't work.
The same identity dupe problem highlighted elsewhere re stripe inc registered in Delaware, also exists when it comes to code signing applications on windows.
Open Source AWS VOD Workflow
Actually, the switch from incandescent to LED street lights could easily smooth this over.

The old incandescent street and traffic lights were frequently hundreds of watts, on long chains over large distances.

This can be repurposed to car charging with little in the way of power delivery redesign.
we released a VOD template for AWS, feel free to share:

- https://github.com/trackit/aws-workflow-video-on-demand

TrackIt VOD template pros
1/ API to perform CRUD operations on the content

2/ S3 tagging

3/ Cognito integration

4/ Metadata stored in DynamoDB

5/ Easy configuration

6/ Easy install - one command to deploy the full stack and the s3 triggers

7/ m3u8 support
If minimal is what you want, you can install minimalist ubuntu and then only fetch xfce with `sudo apt-get install xfce4`.
Why would a medical journal cite Examine? Examine just compiles and analyzes research, they don't generate it.

Has any medical journal ever cited any supplements website? What would there be to cite??
I have used Zulip. It was fine in an environment where it was used to communicate among coders with a pretty rigorously defined and well-tooled workflow where integration with JIRA and github are important. In this environment it doesn't matter that less geeky users will find it less friendly than Slack, and coders are always using PCs or Macs and don't care that the Zulip mobile clients are ugly.

I'm using Teams now with a small startup team. It's fine for that purpose. There aren't enough of us to annoy one another.

Slack sucks in some ways. But maybe it sucks less. Most of my clients use Slack and are happy enough with it.
These folks are rather clearly a lot more sophisticated than "What's a Fletcher Munson Curve?"

In all likelihood they've had to tune things to a very fine degree, both in dsp and in the physical driver design. Because these are used in the near field, with the specific intent of leveraging acoustic cues from the outer ear, they won't be able to just reuse a reference curve developed for headphones or speakers.

They have a dummy head for binaural measurements, so this isn't a particular hard thing for them to calibrate.
A trend that seems implicated in what Nichols reports but that he doesn't touch on much is the secularization of identity. Expertise is much more threatening to people's egos as people come to identify with things that didn't develop to function (as religion did) as a wellspring of identity.
Like old people, or people who don't want to fall down and break a wrist or hip.

(and then there's what elon musk says -- all lease return model 3's will be added to the tesla automonous taxi network)
Libraries come to mind as a point of concern.

While one do library authors target? Does it split the ecosystem?

As long as one is a subset of the other, this works. If it's a Venn diagram, it hurts.
Very.

A similar tactic was used when Steve Fossett disappeared (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett#Disappearance_an...), and it was entirely unsuccessful.

There are a few challenges:

1. There is a direct relationship between the time and effort required to take imagery, and the image resolution. Which is to say, if you want imagery that's detailed enough that you can find likely evidence without a lot of false positives, then you have to spend a ton of time in the air at low altitude, and if you want to effectively search a large area, then you have to spend time at higher altitude where you're too high up to get useful imagery.

2. Humans aren't good at sorting out natural features from unnatural ones. My favorite example of this is the face on Mars. Same deal when trying to search through imagery for debris. People have a preconception of what a plane crash looks like, and it's usually wrong. They'll confuse light-colored rocks, trees broken by snow loading, and all kinds of other things for evidence, while completely missing actual evidence. So the problem with these systems for search managers is that once someone flags something in a picture, you're kinda obligated to check on it, which takes resources away from more likely search areas.

3. The technology isn't there (yet). Computer vision may get better than humans at this soon, but not yet, and certainly not in the kind of technology that even well-funded search organizations or adventurers has access to. NSA? Maybe. Us? Nah, best we get is grainy photographs of features 1m across from high up.

IR imagery currently has similar problems, there's just too much background noise in most cases.

Some kind of multi-spectrum imagery fed into a big convolutional NN might be able to do a better job of telling the difference between a rock and some twisted metal and plastic composites at 1m resolution, but I don't know if anybody's actually invented that yet.

I'm using 1m resolution here as a substitute value for whatever would be appropriate to cover a large area with reasonable resources. After the Camp Fire, Alameda County brought a really cool tech team out that covered large areas of the burn with imagery from drones. They got a 1cm aerial resolution that was good enough to satisfy insurance investigators. But, it required a lot of flight time and computing power to do that, and they covered a relatively small area compared to the search area for a missing aircraft.
Drastic reduction in pollution of my local environment.

Eventual huge reduction of CO2 emissions (once mining and other activities become fossil-fuel free enterprises). Small reduction now assuming local electricity sources are CO2-free.

Perhaps me aiming to reduce my CO2 emissions won't make a difference. I'm going to do it anyway. You should too.
Let's consider the real-world implications here.

Someone in your family, or village shows symptoms of Ebola. You get them diagnosed ASAP and there's still a one in three chance you're never going to see them again.

However, a confirmed case now has everybody's attention. Everyone who was exposed now has a 94% chance of surviving. Double the morbidity of the swine flu, yes. Still a quite stressful time for everybody, full of uncertainty and loss. But not the cultural-PTSD-inducing, apocalyptic catastrophe it was before.
Sure but virtually nobody cares about how to finitize a recursive function when they are trying to learn a new programming paradigm. Recursion seems to work just fine in languages that don't have any of these bells and whistles.

"Hey you can implement Fix" is like saying "now you can program in green" for most readers.
Article written by a black man, in a column called "Black Voices", about black beekeepers in Detroit, and moderators feel the need to remove "Black" from the title in order to "step away from the flamebait".

New low for Hacker News.
629k? A rounding error in their tax report
>> we’re making money writing it

So did they in PHP.
Plenty of foreign policy experts, perhaps most, were against the war.

IMO, one of the primary reasons why America has lost faith in experts is because most "experts" on television and lobbying Congress are anything but experts. They didn't study foreign affairs in college, have professional experience in the foreign service, nor have any other sort of substantial foreign affairs expertise (e.g. running major NGO). If they have any bone fides at all, it's typically via a series of political appointments. (Unfortunately, the ones who come out the other side of a political appointment chastened aren't the ones that get tapped for advice or commentary, especially on politically charged topics.)

What these lobbyists and pundits tend to do is echo the most radical ideologues in the scholarly community, particularly those whose theories nominally justify partisan political policies. The archetypical example is the cult behind Arthur Laffer. To most professional economists the namesake Laffer Curve is an obvious and largely uninteresting illustration of the relationship between taxation and market deadweight loss. All it does is beg the question of where the optimal point is. Laffer's substantive policies are radical and the vast majority of economists don't take them seriously. But to Republican politicians and the GOP platform Laffer lends their policies scholarly credibility, at least in the eyes of non-experts. But because Laffer's and Laffer-justified policies are manifestly broken in a way that is readily apparent, that has had the effect of making many people skeptical of experts.

The same thing happens on the left, particularly wrt to various theories about race, gender, and cultural identity more generally, not to mention poverty and crime. I don't mean to equivocate because I think the problem is much worse on the conservative side of the spectrum. There's a reason those Democrats, like Hillary Clinton, who bought into the Iraq War are considered "hawkish"--i.e. conservative--in foreign affairs. OTOH, it was leftist academics who seemed to have begun the scholarly trend of rejecting empiricism and skepticism in favor of radical ideologies. Among other things, radicalism is helpful for careers in academia, in ways similar if not identical to the dynamics of publication and citation in science. Beginning in the latter part of the 20th century conservative scholarship adopted these tactics and brought them into the mainstream of political culture in a way that hadn't happened before.

The fact of the matter is that American culture, particularly political culture, has historically been relatively conservative, so it's not a condemnation of conservatism per se to say that it was conservative politicians that brought radicalism into the mainstream. It couldn't have been any other way. In other countries with more liberal-leaning political cultures its of course the leftist parties that usher in radicalism.
This is because it's illegal to require a Canadian to provide their SIN, unless the use is on the list of exceptions [1].

One can still ask a Canadian for their SIN for reasons not on that list, but it is illegal to refuse service for not providing a SIN [2].

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/servi...

[2] https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/progr...
It's quite a bizarre thing. With one hand they embrace FOSS, stick a Linux kernel in Windows, etc and with the other they force updates that erase user files and break drivers.
I'd read this many years ago when on my own Hofstadter kick in the late 1980s. The points of cultivating a basic numeracy are well-made, and sometimes turn up elsewhere (e.g., numbers / timings all programmers should know).

There are also some blind point revealed in Hofstadter's own awareness. His comments on the length of account identifiers fails to recognise that the identifier-space itself is a resource and potential risk surface. When assessing and trying to archive Google+ content, the fact that the several billions (10^9) users were represented by 21 digit UUIDs (of which ~19 digits were significant) was a factor. The notion of an identifier space which can neither be feasibly exhausted nor searched (contrast: SSNs and phone numbers) has benefits.

(Phone spam based on random dialing would disappear if the dialing space were far larger, though as IPv6 critiques note, the idea of a vast an effectively innumerable space also gives rise to the prospect of attacks from that space.)

In discussing explosive yields, Hofstadter misses the significance of the inverse cube law. So whilst 1 tonne of C4 killed 214 marines, 10 tonnes would likely have only about 125% the lethal effect, if detonated at a single point.

(Distributing explosives increases the effective impacts, hence the existence of cluster munitions and the problems they produce.)

Tools such as GNU unts, or other units-aware calculators, are a great way of converting easily between different metrics. That's one way of increasing general numeracy.

It's also helpful to think of "traditional" (non-metric) measures as being very highly applied. 1.2 million litres isn't particularly memorable, but knowing that an acre-foot of water will raise the level of your one-acre pond by a foot, that the acre is related to a measure of work (the amount of land a man and team could plough in a day, literally Tagwerk in German), and that a foot is, well, roughly a foot, puts the utility back into these measurements. At a time when quick comparisons were useful and conversions infrequent, and domain-specific measurements were useful, these made sense.
Maybe not their current userbase.

But things are always changing.
Missiles generally are far faster than fighter planes. Remember anti-aircraft missiles themselves are missiles. There's a chance that these nuclear missiles could even outrun those.

These weapons are an enormous existential threat to people everywhere. Weapons like these will be used to help dictators stay in power permanently.
Public transportation takes a lot of time.

It doesn't necessarily lead to an efficient workforce.

The hour of commute time saved by driving could probably be translated into percentage points of GNP for a country.
When you have a handle on 80% of what needs fixing/doing, stop. Go get yourself a soda, son. (Not enough, apparently.)
Translating and Interpreting Chinese Philosophy
Take my upvote. This has helped us a ton. So nice that it resolves dependencies. Only issue we're running into is that we don't use it to manage our dependencies for our internal packages (only using it at the application level). I've been advocating we change so that we simply read in the generated requirements.txt/requirements-dev.txt in setup.py
That won't work for a few reasons: first, it's a one-way street, and parking is on the side that they are not on.

Second, having a cord across the sidewalk is a tripping hazard and illegal:

* https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/09/01/toronto-electric...

* https://archive.is/29o0a (in case)

Third: street parking is common, so even if the above two items were not a problem, there is no guarantee that there would be a space in front of their place.
I think if you're going to make a statement like that you need to be prepared to provide an argument to back that up.

Ten years ago if you had told me we'd be interpolating HTML into javascript I might have said the same thing, yet here we are with React/JSX. It's not only common, it's generally regarded as good engineering.