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> full system-wide indexing and instant search

We have been promised this since (at least) Longhorn. It's never materialised. I don't see it in my W10 machine (it reports the latest feature update as v1809 2019-06C).

In fact I just tried going to C: and searching for the word "journal". I am greeted with the familiar crawling green progress bar and "Working on it..." which has been there now for a full three minutes without showing me a single result. I'll cancel the search now.

There is so much else that is beyond broken. Layers upon layers of UX to peel back when you try to change something. Start in W10-styled "PC Settings"->"Accounts", end up in WinXP styled lusrmgr.msc to accomplish what I want.

Every time they add a feature, it doesn't get integrated with the old ones, so the old ones just live alongside. It's bloat upon bloat on the back of a snail riding a tortoise.

The MS corporate experience is just as bad. We have multiple coexisting Sharepoint versions, because the porting of workflows from the old one was too much work and too expensive, as they were not internally compatible. The other day, my colleague was trying to open a PowerPoint from a Sharepoint workspace, and was met with the error message

"(Dogfood only) An unexpected error has occured."

Then there is OneDrive, where you can also create shared folders, but they are not the same as Sharepoint. Except if you access them through Explorer, where they look the same. Except that in OneDrive you can create a folder in the root and it syncs, but if you do the same in the Sharepoint it just makes a local folder on your machine without any feesback. If you want to share a OneDrive folder with someone in another org, 95% of the time it fails. For obscure reasons, frequently that the two orgs' sign-on methods clash.

For communication there is Yammer, and Teams, and Skype4Business, and Skype, none of which can cooperate. Oh, and apparently one more called Kaizala. Oh, and there is chat inside all Office documents, which is separate. And if you reply to people's comments in documents, they get email notifications for those. Sometimes you need to use the web app to make teleconferencing work. Other times the web app fails.

You can assign yourself or others tasks in Teams, or in Outlook, or in Planner, or in ToDo, or in a separate Tasks app. None of those work together.

If Douglas Adams were still alive, he'd be paying Microsoft for inspiration for new material.
let the player open, long tap on the video, click save video
Can you measure when the user is doing a bicep curl with some kind of electrode? If you can, then maybe you could use that to send binary data using libcurl. True curl exercises in both senses.
Purdue Pharma offers $10-12B to settle opioid claims
If IP laws didn't exist, you wouldn't have to make due with the unimaginative pandering garbage Disney deigns to think up. You would be able to tell, share, and transform, movies. That is a vastly better world.

Nor world it cost so much to make movies, because the best way to do that, including the best software and hardware design, would belong to everyone.
> There are many many ways to monetize creation including but not limited to subscription, donation, live shows, advertisement, and commission.

But then it would be legal to duplicate it and thus you can remove paid subscription and paid live shows from your possibilities.

What's remains is ads/commission that you do block (the internet never forget [0]).

Donations then should be the only way to make content? That seems quite bad...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205076
It's just the largest, not the greatest, job creation scheme since the building of the egyptian pyramids.

So churn we all...

Hail the Powers of Babylon!
I would love a system semi-similar to trademarks. If a copyrighted work is unavailable outside the second-hand market for three consecutive years, noncommercial redistribution becomes legal.

Sane trademark expiration could end up making this partially moot, however.
Spotify is missing Japanese music because of licensing issues. Piracy may not be rampant in Japan but it definitely exists; look into Perfect Dark and Winny.
Yes please. We need to keep the web open and federated.
Ask the SEC.
reading articles on scientific paper is such as waste of time.

This is describing the introduction of the paper, i'd guess.

Since in cogsci the Gestalt effect/theory is widely accepted. What i believe the paper did (but i can't ready it) is to 'reverse engineer' the effect in some part of the brain and came up with an estimate of the number the process will 'estimate' based on your vision focal point into the collection of items.

...but who knows.
Your premise that he would like to help but he’s letting his ego get in the way is sadly flawed. Like Trump, he was lobbied to and campaigned on reducing environmental protections (allowing turning rainforest into farmland and lumber yards). There is much Brazil could have already done without the $22MM if it were aligned with his government’s interests to do so; the kindergarten EQ and the delusions of grandeur are only the icing on the cake.
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Not sure where we're getting our wires crossed here....

You described the "if you or I wanted to send a three-quarter-pound package..." scenario as "very misleading", because "They aren't comparing apples to apples. In particular, they take a retail price for fast shipping with tracking and compare to a wholesale price for slow shipping without tracking."

I asked: "Do US sellers have access to this slow shipping option?"

You have not yet answered that question. The "you or I" in this context is not large shippers, and "similarly priced" is not the same as having access to the same shipping options (and prices) that individuals in China have.
I think I tried to hard to make it short and sweet but lost a bit in translation. I'm not supporting their reaction but there aren't enough people out there crazy and skilled enough to run an annual event that pulls people in from hundreds of miles away. I belonged to such a group when I was too young to understand how much work it took for them to make it look easy. And I recall someone trying to replace the leader at some point.

What I have is sympathy for people who discover at the "last minute" that they have fucked up. It's never a situation I like being in, and it brings out better things in some people and worse things in others.

Uncle Bob started one of his presentations with a call out to notice the shortage of women in the room and an ask that people try to think about fixing that. I think a more productive approach for these presenters would be to say, "Look, I'm gonna present this year, but I'm gonna mention this in my presentation, and I'd like to help you figure this out for next year or this is the last time I'll be presenting with you." Nobody is on the spot, you have time to reason with people and appeal to their values instead of threatening them and their conference.

Daryl Davis doesn't get people to leave the KKK by issuing ultimatums. If a black blues musician can have a productive conversation with a Klan member we can have an adult conversation about representation in volunteer run tech conferences.

What kind of pisses me off about this SJW thing is that it's a lot of people who have only recently discovered that their world view is wrong and they are in what someone brilliantly called 'the asshole phase' of new understanding. Now they're punishing people for being a couple years behind them on the clue train.

My classmates decades ago were pointing out and volunteering to address these sorts of inequalities. One in the general case, the other in the specific case of CS degrees. None of this is even a little new and I have some pretty bad whiplash from the sudden uptick in activity and anger.

I love safe spaces. Some of the best, most at-ease times of my life have happened in someone else's safe space. I may not know everything about how they get built, but I know this for sure: You can't create them by threatening people.
Why make a space forge on Low-Mars-orbit when we can make a space forge in Low Earth Orbit for far cheaper?

That's the thing about all of this "Mars" discussion. There's almost nothing to be gained doing things on Mars instead of Earth.
It's weird walking away from 120 million but I think I might get what he was thinking. He was probably over confident with the tech, and thought it was close to roll out. He was also probably thinking the tech was worth billions. I bet Anthony felt he built the tech himself and he owned it. He probably wanted and felt like he deserved a bigger piece of the multi billon dollar self driving pie than just 120 million.
I was referring mainly to the EU countries.
Fairphone 3 an eco friendly phone running Android that is service friendly.
We have lots of community colleges and one trade school. Not to get philosophical, but CC's are some of our favorite schools to work with because you feel so close to the mission. CC's have huge huge huge scheduling problems that actually impact grad rates
Yeah, it's conceivable that his motivation was to make self-driving vehicles a reality at all costs (to save lives or something), and Google wasn't moving fast enough for him.

That doesn't excuse stealing, but it might not be as simple as greed or hubris.
As the OP said... "This is the hubris part"
Google's employee shuttles/buses are a decent example too.
Do you use the nvidia driver or nouveau which is known to be crap.
Hmm no one answers why they are down voting something on topic here.

Those who downvote this are doing so because You don't believe Google does exactly what Anthony did? That Google is a company who does no evil?

What I'm saying is relevant and truthful and as noted clearly well documented!
Unfortunately, it’s not the solution – the discriminator is only going to work well on deepfakes produced by that particular GAN model, not the plethora of other possible models.
Data Structures. Binary Search Tree in JavaScript
Some distros allow give you some flexability. RHEL as AppStream which allows you to pin particular sotfware to a specific version while upgrading the rest of the system.

The equivilent of Windows SxS would be like running everything in it's own docker container. Assuming each one was updated concurrently & they used a shared package cache this could still be quite fast compared to Windows.

Even accounting for Window's 'impressive' ability to let you install any combination of updates/hotfixes. It's basic software engineering that the common case should be fast and considering that in 99.99% of Windows instances are going to have all of the updates installed, it's very apparent that the Windows update system & SxS were pooly designed and is an major area at Microsoft suffering from brain drain. I feel the most likely case is that no one currently at Microsoft (and still working as a programmer as many of the old talent are either retired or upper executives) understands it enough to fix the issue.
NVIDIA GTX960 with an i7 and 16 GB of memory. That's not the issue.

I'd argue if it was the issue, even Windows wouldn't let me play any of these games with reasonable performance.
I really don't know, but I've done a lot of crazy stuff, including reg editing. I'm using it for all kinds of development, running virtual machines, web dev, game dev, music production, downloading and installing apps from unofficial sources. I use xshell for ssh stuff and cygwin (I don't like the regular cmd and powershell). The only time I had to reinstall it in the last 4 years is when I wanted to remove some bloat, tracking and uninstalling some default apps. I did it all at once and then restarted and I must've broken something. Other than that it's all good, everything works and I'm used to it.

I also have a macbook pro now and it's confusing to me still, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Either way windows 10 is more than adequate, as far as stability goes it's great, I can't say for sure about performance but looks fine to me. Or maybe I just won the win10 lottery or something, "it just works" for me. Either way it doesn't feel like there should be a better or worse OS, they just have somewhat different flows and each has their upsides and downsides.
The rate at which humans reproduce has been decreasing since the late 1960s.
You've perfectly articulated what I love about my current window manager (LXDE). Going to give XFCE another spin based on your comment.
The point is that it's asymmetrical. The US produces high value products (high tech bearings, specialized software), stuff whose value is lower than the cost of transport (paper) and extractive goods (mining and agriculture). Other countries are more competitive on the low end stuff.

Look at electronics: yes, China has tons of people building phones, but Chinese companies get about $20 on each iPhone; other parts of the supply chain get dribs and drabs and Apple pockets a couple of hundred bucks, almost all of the profit. trying to do all that in the US wouldn't add much to the GDP and conversely would take people away from working on higher value goods. So for a wealthy country the tariffs not only don't help, they hurt.

Conversely US restrictions raise the value of Chinese companies working their own way up the value chain. Before those restrictions were in place it simply wasn't worth designing, say, a new chip; that takes a long time and while you're doing so other companies are smoking you by selling low cost chips designed elsewhere. Essentially the US was sucking the oxygen out of their competitor's market...but these tariffs stop that.

It's the same principle of why the US wouldn't want its NATO partners spending too much on defense: essentially bribing them to not have much military is cheaper than getting entangled in a future war on the continent. Again, trying to pressure them to spend more is a very expensive move in the medium and long term.
> Personally, I think they may have underestimated (or failed to fully predict) the anti-google, pro-privacy sentiment in the wings, and it's clear even from this thread and the issues on bugzilla that it's probably cost them enough privacy-capital at this stage to have justified the extra work required to self-host.

Or maybe the "anti-google, pro-privacy sentiment" isn't really all that big. Could be a relatively small but vocal set of people.
At work, I have to use a Windows laptop running stock Ubuntu 16.04 inside Virtualbox. This VM used to behave in weird ways - network got disconnected periodically (only a restart could bring it back), the whole thing would freeze all of a sudden etc. Finally, I got fed up and switched to Xfce. Absolutely no problems now. Thanks to the Xfce developers for a truly amazing piece of software!
UPU shipping from China is actually "airmail".
Happened to listen to a podcast about bee keeping and colony collapse just this past weekend. Thought it was pretty interesting and worth a listen.

https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/2019/caring-for-bees/
Hardest problem in computer science.
I participate in reddit gift exchanges, and frequently get recipients in the EU. What would cost me ~$10-15 to ship in the states or somewhere in asia routinely costs north of $50 for European destinations. And these are small things, nothing like the size of a picture frame. The $300+ cost for the frame doesn't surprise me at all.
I understand where you're coming from. I'm often frustrated by how our industry allows software to be incredibly shoddy. But attracting kids to programming is not the same problem as making sure they grow into adults who do their job well.

Different ages have different priorities. The best way to attract kids to any activity, including programming, is to give them something fun to do. Let them make crappy stuff that's flashy and fun. If they choose to stick with it, teach them to do it well and help them unlearn the bad habits.

Incidentally, I consider bad habits to be incredibly important. Yeah, sure, you can read about how to program well, but it's not the same as having your own bad habit bite you in the ass and learning from it. It's even better if you learn bad habits and then unlearn them while you're still young and not when it might impact customers.
Zhao Jiong released this excellent work in English not too long ago: http://www.oldlinux.org/download/ECLK-5.0-WithCover.pdf If you know Chinese it was originally done in that language, details are on http://www.oldlinux.org/ It heavily comments / explains everything in the linux kernel v0.12. Quite some time ago, but I agree with the assessment on its relevance for an "inductive understanding". The growth since then is largely in new subsystems, new drivers, but maybe not so much in core theory...

If you're more into the core theory and less about Linux in particular, a fun project-oriented approach to get more familiar with the basics would be to get a little development board for an ARM CPU and try to make a multi-tasking (real-time) OS for it from scratch.
>If you award admission bonuses for the symptoms of racism like being worse off financially or going to a poorly-rated high school, wouldn't you be adjusting for adversity in exact proportion to actual hardship instead of assigning an arbitrary value to skin color?

Black and Latino students have worse academic outcomes than their peers in the same school and income bracket. Though low quality-of-life metrics may be symptomatic of racism, high quality-of-life metrics do not indicate an absence of racism.
It would only be transparent if admissions were decided by an algorithm based on inputs. With these data from College Boards, you get no transparency: the schools are still allowed to do whatever they want, and now they get extra data for a posteriori justification of their decision.
I've worked in a converted parking garage office before, so it must be at least somewhat economical. It was kind of awkward; you could absolutely tell that it used to be a parking garage. but it was completely functional.
Kind of ironic because I can't find any RSS feed linked on this site (apart from in the blog post itself). Not even my RSS reader picks up that he even has a RSS feed. Bit odd to be commenting on others not having RSS on their site if his own site doesn't properly support it either.
Look at his list of terrible things in Windows, and compare to MacOS. Other than telemetry, MacOS is very similar:

* no Cortana (MacOS has Siri on all systems)

* no semiannual feature upgrades (Mac OS upgrades annually)

* not a single tile on the default Start menu (UI difference, mostly personal taste)

* telemetry can be set to 0 (the lowest level) (MacOS has some telemetry, although the specific amount is less, and Apple has been a lot less transparent about what they track)

* no "Show suggestions occassionally in Start" (This is stupid, but easy to turn off)

* despite some misbelief, WSL and Hyper-V work just fine (Apple doesn't offer virtualization at all, you have to buy a commercial product)

* receives security and stability updates for ten years (unlike Windows 10 Home & Pro versions, which reach "end of service" after just 18 months from their initial release) (MacOS only receives security updates for 2 years, approx.)

* no Metro/Windows 8-style/Modern/Windows Store/Universal/Windows apps like Store, Edge, Calendar, Camera, News, Weather, etc. (Apple has all of these apps in the App store too)

* no zombie games like Candy Crush Soda Saga, Bubble Witch 3 Saga, March of Empires, etc. that refuse to die (part of Microsoft's plan for "post-license monetization opportunities beyond initial license revenues" much like the recent Mail app debacle) (Plenty of these in Macos)

All in all, the differences here are pretty minor. Unless you're willing to run Linux on your desktop, your only options are pretty balanced in the unpleasantness they offer. MS supports Windows 10 for many years, Apple requires a full OS upgrade every two years. Both have App stores full of both good and bad apps. MS does a little more pushing of apps and suggestions, but it all can be disabled, and with Group Policies, it can be disabled centrally.

The main difference is in the telemetry, and MS gives you plenty of options (at install, even) to turn those down/disable those.
Scientists avoid gender bias when they know they’re being tested for bias
Launch HN: Zero Carbon (SS2019) – Water Refill Station
Hi everyone! We’re Robert and Aljaz, co-founders of ZERO CARBON ( https://www.zerro.xyz/ ). We build a water refill station where users can refill water on-the-go. Anywhere and anytime!
We are a father and son team from Slovenia. Aljaz is a mechanical engineering student at the University of Ljubljana, and I've had more than 30 years of experience in solving other people problems.

We started this at Startup school in 2018. When travelling, we always question about local water quality and usually decide to buy water single-use plastic bottles. But this is not sustainable and normal to produce more waste than we get benefits. We said it must be a better way to stay hydrated on-the-go then buying bottles. But as we all know, there is few or none access to really good quality water when out of home or travelling. So we started ZERO CARBON.

The myWater refill station device is serving each time fresh and purified drinking water. No hidden surprises (like Chlorine, sand, bacteria, viruses, nitrates, microplastic, etc.), and it is available to all public as the refill. Bring your bottle and refill it! We launched in Slovenia, users refilling non-stop in recreational grounds. It has been amazing to see the interest of users to refill the bottle they already own. Our next milestone is to deliver the first five pre-ordered units and taking reservations for next year.

We are interested to hear the HN community's thoughts on our solution. We are looking for a new city to launch. If this product sounds interesting, please give us ideas and nominate a city that needs this solution. If it's confusing or if you have any question, please let us know. Thx Robert Slavec
> Counting a solitary log that an IP loaded a resource is hardly the tracking that is harmful.

Well the thing is you don't know if it's a single log line. What if the 3rd party script you loaded has been modified by a malicious attacker as happened with the great firewall DDOS on Github last year?

As server operators, we have a responsibility to preserve the privacy and security of our users. This includes the possibility to leverage 3rd party services when we need it, as long as we make it clear to the users.

Having 3rd party requests taking place on the backend means you take the security/performance measures to ensure your website operates properly. Loading these 3rd party resources on the client side means those operational costs/risks lie on your users. You are literally opening backdoors to the browsers of all your users.

Also worth noting, 3rd party resources & client side rendering (among other recent silicon valley fashions) play very poorly with higher-latency links. It's a truly degrading experience for your users.
I think the worse RSS isn't in not having RSS, it's when they say "Hey here's a preview of what we wrote."

I really enjoy reading content on my terms on not having to go everywhere to get it. It makes my life much more peaceful.
Yeah, it should be coupled with a requirement to show that you can legally park if you want to register a car. And people moving into flats without a parking space should know that they can't have a car unless they also own a space to park it.
This is a Pepe flag, MAGA hat plus the “OK” sign with three fingers up.

Again I like Peterson. But keep saying this is a coincidence or innocent photo... I don’t know, I wouldn’t be caught dead in this photo.
Now I really want to play a beekeeping simulator.