skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all we know, Lenovo and Microsoft have been in communication and Lenovo asked or was ok with Microsoft doing this via Defender. Also, Defender specifically flags this issue as a "CompromisedCert", indicating that the impetus for removing it was not necessarily the app itself but because the private key for the cert was found and leaked everywhere.
> 1.) Which US computer company has ties to US government? Literally owned by the government?

But Lenovo isn't owned by the Chinese government, either.

> 2.) How is US government authoritarian? Have you actually lived in a country that has no elected representative?

The existence of more dictatorial countries doesn't mean the US isn't authoritarian—it is a spectrum rather than a dichotomy.
Not a materials person, but wouldn't shredding and chopping leave you with small fragments of fibers encased in resin. Fiber length is important to the strength, and I'm not sure how well new resin would bond with cured resin. I'd think the result would be much, much weaker.

Chopped mat fibers would also defeat the purpose of carbon fiber in aftermarket auto parts, which is to be pretty.
Sometimes this is the only way to get CPU scaling to work properly, as the drivers for the laptop's particular quirky ACPI implementation may not be available sepatately. It's no fun having a clean system that either runs at 1999 speeds or burns a hole in your desk. Linux can be a bit better on some systems, but worse on others.
Anything that maximises engagement increases impact/growth/revenue. When apps are joy-inducing people engage with them more. Jank works against joy.
This is the kind of legislation that can be enforced selectively. Don't like the guy? Is he with the opposition or is he a journalist? This makes it dangerous to democracy.
This reads a lot less like a scathing critique of modernity as it does yet another affluent Westerner looking for self-actualization by excoriating everything that made him rich and idle. He thinks he's not rich and idle any more just because he gave away his life savings?

Whether he wants to believe it or not, he's the beneficiary of modern largesse. He doesn't take government handouts or whatever, but the only reason he can have the sorts of thoughts he's having about nature and religion is because he was a Western-style education and enough free time to develop a philosophy. He can dumpster dive, he can spend time on the Internet and at the library figuring out how to live off grid. It's easy to take for granted the careful, focused effort of millions of people over thousands of years to give him all of this. The knowledge he finds in the library isn't cheap, even though he's not paying for it.

Because I guarantee you, off-grid living wouldn't be nearly as much fun without it.

I don't mind if you want to go off-grid. I had ideas myself about doing that. I read about van-dwelling, building my own small house on a trailer, earthships. If that's what you feel you need to do, by all means go play in the dirt, get it out of your system. Just don't pretend it's morally superior just because you've failed to fully appreciate everything that brought you to that point to where you could renounce the modern world.
>The only place I could possibly imagine that mattering is for fast-twitch video games, or theoretically videos

It's about scrolling and animations. In videos it 24fps is enough because you have motion blur. In fact higher frame rate makes videos seem unnatural..

>Do people really care if their website/mobile app is 60 fps? Who are these people?

People who prefer native apps to webapps. Quite a lot of them actually.
For [1]: [2] disputes [1]. It states in [2] that it's the top 20% of _high school_ students on page 17. A very different stat. And [1] doesn't say college graduates, it just says graduates.

For [2] It's strange when I see these stats. Where I live in the US, 60-80% of high school teachers (depending on school) have advanced degrees (masters or higher). And that's also a weird stat to cite. What percentage of teachers with 5 years experience graduated in the bottom third? That would be a more important stat.
This is repeatedly recommended, but I think it's overlooking that not all manufacturer customization is entirely evil. You then to hunt down all the drivers for bits of the motherboard. Are you sure your power consumption settings are optimal after you've done this?
In EU we do have laws that make unreasonable contracts unlawful. This sits with "buyer beware". A buyer should take efforts to learn about the contract they're entering into, but supplier can't hide onerous terms deep in a complex contract and say that they warned the buyer.

> I think that it is a very life altering precedent to say we ban adults from consenting to things because they don't know what they are consenting to.

We already have this in "informed consent" - the permission a patient gives for medical intervention. The consent has to be voluntary and made after being informed - in a way the patient can understand - about the risks and potential harms as well as the benefits.

We also (at least, in England) have regulated advertising ("legal, decent, honest, and truthful") and strict consumer protection laws.
(not disagreeing, just documenting)

The benefits of being a teacher in the US:

- Summers off (mainly a big deal because other professions have very little paid leave, not like the 4-7 weeks + holidays common in Europe)

- Very friendly to taking time off to start a family (thanks in large part to unionization. See previous item for why this is a big deal in the US)

- Health insurance usually good (Only matters because our healthcare system is so broken, see previous two items)

- Decent to good retirement, assuming politicians don't find a way to raid it.

- Consistent job market—most cities have about the same teacher/population ratio. i.e. you don't have to move to a certain place to find a job.

- You get to help kids learn (sort of, see last item below)

A lot of the appeal comes down to gaining European-like worker protections and services (effectively, though from the employer in this case), which is sort of funny. Something rarely considered when promoting mandatory vacation to all workers, universal healthcare, and protections for maternity/paternity leave: these would have a huge (negative) effect on the numbers of people going in to teaching, absent some substantial increases in pay or other perks. Not that that should discourage anyone from promoting those things.

The down side:

- Little respect/demonized by politicians. Relatedly, many benefits above under constant threat.

- Worse pay than a talented person, especially in STEM, could make elsewhere.

- Constant stupid pointless methodology churn that approaches the level experienced in programming, but to less purpose and possibly generating even greater stress.

- Maybe 75% of your work is basically secretarial, and a fair bit of that isn't directly helpful in the classroom (much of it's not helpful at all, to anyone—yay bureaucracy!) which can be discouraging if you went in to the profession because you wanted to teach.

Source: watched my wife go through an elementary ed. major and several years in the classroom, friends with lots of teachers.
McGill is a great university for a lot of the more "classical" fields.

However, you're right, McGill is far from being the top engineering university in Quebec.
Yes. Anything less than this becomes perceptible and starts to make the UX feel janky or sluggish. That is a huge turn-off for a lot of users, even if they can't pin down the exact cause being low framerate.

And framerate in UI is a different beast compared to video. A menu animation running at 24fps feels much choppier and sluggish than a video running at 24fps.
Sorry for the delay - there are many aspects of this that can be patented. Consider all the following inventions:

- Alterations of the RNA that guides cutting (natural system uses two RNAs, which researchers fuse and alter for efficiency of the mechanism)

- Alterations to the protein for efficiency and specificity (e.g. making it nick instead of cut both strands)

- Methods/strategies (how to express the various features, tethering multiple together, how to select only cells that have the changes you want, etc.)

- Applications (use of this system to do something novel)

However, the largest and most central is the use of the system itself for something that does not occur in nature and is non-obvious. This is a system bacteria use as an immune system against foreign DNA. That is not at all related to genome editing. So if people have a problem ("How do we engineer the genome of this cell?"), and then they come up with a novel strategy ("Let's combine these pieces together, using Cas9/CRISPR to cut, then introduce another piece of DNA in a certain way to serve as a template that hijacks the endogenous DNA repair mechanisms to introduce engineered changes."), that is pretty clearly a process of invention to me.

You can't just patent something existing in nature, and as you can see from the examples above that's not at all what is happening here. There is tons of innovation that is novel and non-obvious.
The 'western rim' is not inside the National Park [1]. The 'legit' Grand Canyon, the one covered by the National Park is very accessible (the rim)!

[1] http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/skywalk.htm
(I am not a string theorist.) String theory makes plenty of testable predictions, they just aren't new so it has to compete with Quantum Mechanics. It gets into questions of how to choose between multiple theories that make the same predictions.

For more info, Leonard Susskind (one of the theory's founders) has a lecture series on it here: http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/string-theory/2010/fal...

I haven't watched them but they're likely to involve upper level undergrad or graduate level math.
Except cloudflare doesnt give away a private key that can allow any arbitrary person to do this for any arbitrary site with little effort on affected machines.
s/Chinese//

It's not we haven't thought about replacing management with shell scripts...
Sophos naked security has a good a-z on superfish
There are far more differences than similarities. I would analyze them more before making an accusation (didn't sound like you were just trying to harmlessly point out the similarities).
>"Harvard: The McGill of America"

mmm and they didn't realize that McGill is in America too? May be the parent post has a point...
Agreed! Further, things like DOM diffing help but are an optimisation and can only take us so far. The answer is in the layout engine, no?
May experience is different. During a masters program in education a TA confided that when grading our papers he found that the writing from those with math and science degrees was OK, but they all were competent in their subject matter. The writing quality for English/History majors was all over the place - some of the best and worst. We concluded it was because it is easier to objectively test math and science proficiency. Profs are OK with failing you even if your work really hard.
This is repeatedly recommended, but I think it's overlooking that not all manufacturer customization is entirely evil. You then to hunt down all the drivers for bits of the motherboard. Are you sure your power consumption settings etc are optimal after you've done this? Have you installed all the drivers "manually" via their inf files? (e.g. Nvidia drivers come with their own pile of bloatware)
Hey, I use a desktop machine. That paints me as some kind of startup weirdo. Granted, it runs linux, but still, it doesn't fold in the middle or have it's own monitor and keyboard built in.
Massachusetts is larger than Finland and has a better educational system. How does Europe fare when compared to the US?
"Enhance" is the weasel word you use when you want to try to convince someone something is better, but you can't actually explain in detail what's better about it. Whenever you see a marketing claim that something is "enhanced" the warning bells should be sounding.
After trying to get an open source project on Nial started with little success I pulled the plug on it 3 years ago. However there now is some interest and I expect to put up a new source that supports 64-bit addressing and integers shortly. It will be put up on Github when it is ready. Any one interested in taking part can contact me at jenkins@nial.com Mike Jenkins
I'd be curious to know what brands or models are considered safe by these agencies.
People who took an indirect path to success
It tickles me that Superfish is a DFJ-funded [1] start-up based out of Palo Alto. Reporters are focussing on Lenovo's Chinese lineage. Yet this bubbled up out of our backyard, from our own lack of diligence (or scruples).

[1] Edit: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the $4 billion Menlo Park VC firm that backed Baidu, Hotmail, Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter.
I loved (well still do) my T model. It has a strong magnesium case. Very solid. Heck it lasted 7 years. Including travel and other abuse.

It didn't have bloatware crap installed (as say US govt or big companies would not like that). It came with a smart card reader and such. Had a fingerprint scanner (back when there were not common).

Initially also they didn't have all these "consumer" models (Y,G,W,...).
60fps is more of a label than a measurement. Not 60fps, but "60fps", which translates to "as fast as native app transitions".
I think it is pure coincidence.
It is because of current design trends, this is ok for current websites to have this layout and design principles.
The reason this sort of speech pattern is still mostly intelligible is that consonants are actually more important clues markers to the listener (as a general rule).

For example, you could probably interpret "thuh kwuhck bruhn fuhx juhmps uhvr thuh luhzy dug" quite readily, but not "duh dwid drowd dod dudd oded duh dudy dod".

It is true that vowels are sometimes the distinguishing phoneme between minimal pairs, but the reality is that we are quite adept at calibrating ourselves to cope with vowel variation.

One example is actually head size, of all things. I won't go into all the psychoacoustics involved (not my area of expertise), but your brain adjusts its expectations for how a given vowel should sound based on the speaker's unique "instrumental" qualities. In other words, you can end up with two very objectively different waveforms that your brain is able to match up without hesitation.

A more familiar example is dialects. A Southern American speaker might say "ice", and to a General American speaker, it may sound much more like "ass", but this kind of variation doesn't really lead to the hilarious confusion one might expect. After a quick "scan" of another dialect, we usually adapt fairly quickly, and we retain those "settings" for the next time we hear a similar dialect.

One example that's not so easy to work around might be the pen-pin merger. In general, it leads to few mix-ups. But those speakers, "pen" and "pin" are homophones, and unlike other such pairs (bin-Ben, lint-lent, mint-meant, tin[t]-ten[t], win-when, etc.) they may not be easily differentiable by context. In response, many speakers refer to pens as "ink pens" and pins as "stick pins", which avoids the ambiguity (animal pens and female swans aren't really an issue I suppose).

So even when vowels lead to genuine ambiguity, we get around it pretty easily.
Microsoft updates Windows Defender, fries Superfish like a piece of Carp
As a Mexican, I don't like it much either, but I'm also tired of trying to convince the world that America isn't the US.

Here is some consolation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29g57XTYgLE
I can't remember the details of this either, but as I recall it was done in liver because when you inject DNA into mice the liver basically filters it all out, so you get very high efficiency in the liver, but no where else!
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There was more variation in language before the courts of Europe began dictating the usage of standard dialects. Languages may have changed even faster in the past than they do now (not counting the vast increase in jargon we have in the modern world). The internet may not have publishing gatekeepers like books have had for centuries, but like books and the courts of yore it probably still does more for encouraging people to use the same language patterns rather than different ones just because it's so accessible. If the movies of Hollywood have influenced the usage of English worldwide, how much more so would YouTube? Long before the internet, multiple Latin American countries started chopping off certain sounds in Spanish words. Although it makes it difficult for other Spanish speakers to understand clearly at first--and they may feel like their language has been maimed, as you put it--the ones doing the chopping seem to communicate quite easily with one another.
> teaching is viewed as overpaid babysitting

I'd vehemently dispute that chartacterization. I've never once in my life run in to anyone who felt that way, with the possible exception of some politicians and union heads.
I was screaming about how I hadn't learned anything in math between grade 4 and 8. Nothing. Think about that. We did fraction math for four and a half years

I ended up being taught the same thing many times in math classes, but I noticed that my classmates -- even in honors classes -- had completely forgotten the last time we had learned this. They insisted they had never seen it before. The teachers had been through this many times so they weren't surprised.

I don't know why I could remember it when other students cannot. A tiny part of me says that those kids hated math and shoved it out of their brain as soon as they could. I'm not sure that's fair of me. My wife says it isn't and that I'm the unusual one with the math brain.
This is dead right.

The fun begins when you think about how this impacts anything that tries to scrape web pages, because the side effect is going to be a lot of impenetrable data silos.

Google and co will have to actually run web browsers in the cloud and use OCR to do indexing if they aren't already.
It's not, but you don't need one. You can make your own disk or USB pretty easily: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-re...
This article is terrible. Just a bunch of ranting with no citations to the points the author brings up.
If breaking an undocumented feature is such an egregious affront, the proper approach would be to vote with your feet.
It would be lovely if this could get solved. Making an app that works across platforms would be ideal. But every app needs to work smoothly and without jank because engagement is key. Even if you don't mind it matters to more people than anyone trying to avoid native apps likes to admit.
Yes, yes, I get the downvotes. But, come on, everyone was thinking it.
I don't know how fundamental the problem is in terms of fixing it, but it is fundamental in making mobile webapps. I remember making an auto-complete friend selector a while ago (the kind that filters as you type) - I had the JS filtering through names in less than 10ms, but the resulting DOM updates immediately brought every keypress to around 400ms, which is visibly slow, and worse, laggy.

I started work on a canvas-powered alternative before giving up - but I'm glad to see the React Canvas has gone with it. When I have some free time I'll be playing around with it to see if it lives up to the hype.
Actually, the price (for the OEM) of buying completely integrated components is lower than buying separate ones. However, OEMs don't like to show that to customers. So each step in upgrading RAM or SSDs or whatever is worth $100 or more, which makes it way cheaper to just buy separate components...

I'm envious of your attitude for not really caring about your laptop's size. That makes it a lot easier :)
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Yes, not all manufacturer customization is evil. But my point is that no one in my circle trusts the manufacturer enough to leave any of it on their machine.
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shrug. I thought someone needed to do machine learning as a service, especially that can be accessed from Python, so I upvoted an article on Azure. I think presentation should be separate from data, so I upvoted a comment on posh.

I'm a OS X / Linux person (my name's probably in your distro somewhere) and sometimes Microsoft does good stuff.
BTW, it's Lenovo. I wouldn't be surprised if other manufacturers had adware installed but perhaps remedied quickly rather than a PR disaster.
You're looking at the Changelog. The README is next door, and it explains:

> This repository began as a GitHub fork of joyent/node.

> io.js contributions, releases, and contributorship are under an open governance model. We intend to land, with increasing regularity, releases which are compatible with the npm ecosystem that has been built to date for Node.js.
Microsoft has done some shady things, but at no time in Microsoft's history would they have installed this.
> The respondents may have just applied a mechanical procedure and did not do any kind of sanity check.

That's exactly what rayiner is saying: they don't understand what they're doing, they're just applying some formula, because they've been told to apply that formula.
It seems there is some kind of job that regularily changes titles to upper case. We had that happen on the io.js 1.0 thread.