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I do not like microsoft because I think it has slow down the progress of computer science (MHO). In this case microsoft has done nothing wrong. It has given Samsung the right to sign executable because people would hate if microsoft was the only one able to sign executables. In his case, samsung is the only culprit.

I think microsoft has make many good moves recently because the public interest and its business interest are converging. Microsoft is in a hard fight to avoid becoming irrelevant. It has to lobby governments for commercial interests and at the same time, it has to seduce developpers by open sourcing (and leading technical innovation).
Cheap+Nike+Shoes+For+Sale
Ask HN: Someone copied my website exactly
I am working on a startup called KMSurvival[1] - a tool intended for cancer researchers generating Kaplan Meier Survival Curves. We just pushed out the 2.0 version of our website yesterday and I was just googling around checking how it ranked (very poorly) when I saw that there was a website called codemonkeyjava.com that was an EXACT duplicate of our site. It even said (c) KMSurvival. It seems that even the server requests to generate the curve are going to their own back end.

What can I do about this and is this something I should be worried about? There is a whois record with a person's name and email address, would that help?
Because then the lowest paid worker in the company would be an executive, and all the other workers would become part-time contractors.
So I'm all for solving current problems, however if I'm sure of anything, I'm sure that companies like Microsoft or Apple won't deliver a solution that solves these problems without locking-in users into a trap which is worse than the problem that it's solving.

And on Windows, this is the oldest trick in the book - in order to sell something people don't want, you first need to create the demand for it.
Samsung signed the software, of course. Who else would?
A man who was jailed on the fantasy evidence of a single hair
The trainers are all certified professionals, most of whom are living in the US and doing some in-person work as well. Once you sign up, you get a list of trainers to choose from according to their specialities, descriptions and photos.
The price for trainers varies, but it starts around 50$/month - much cheaper than hiring an actual trainer at the gym!
It's sad to think that with these laws being passed, regardless of what position you take, that we still don't have any Fair Use provisions in Australia. There was even a discussion paper [http://www.alrc.gov.au/publications/4-case-fair-use-australi...] put forward by our Law Reform Commission suggesting this. I would have though the productivity benefits associated with education and innovation alone would make this a no brainer
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I totally forgot about docking stations, which is probably a result of having plenty of USB ports. Is dual video the only reason to use a docking station, or are there other benefits?
Did you really post the link including the campaign-parameters? Oh will will so screw his analytics ^^.

Kudos from an analyst.
Lexus has created a real, rideable hoverboard
so now people are not satisfied with merely creating their own js framework - they want their own fork of atom as well?
> means to disable it.

1. Right click on the taskbar.

2. Click "Startup".

3. Disable what you want.

4. Click "Services"

5. Disable what you want.

This omits "Scheduled Tasks" (cron jobs) which can be set to execute on user logon. This is the single one that Microsoft still need to address.

Does whichever operating system you are comparing to Windows have a one-top-shop for the vast majority of startup configuration? Of the "big 4" (Mac, Linux, BSD, Windows) as far as I know this is a unique feature.

Proof-of-point: I have a copy of Linux, without telling you what the distro is, tell me how to disable the firewall (just an example of background software on most Linux distros).

> no notification or authorization

Does that operating system of yours do this? Which of the "big 4" do? I know that Linux and BSD don't.

> Microsoft is responsible for allowing such software to run in the background

So Microsoft is responsible for everything every Microsoft-stack developer on earth does? Does that mean that RMS is responsible for closed source software because some of it is made with GCC?
that happens now already, so we need to fight with it anyway
I post via bookmarklet, so yeah, whatever's in the address bar. hn sometimes trims most common parameters.
>First, from the little I've been tracking this issue, it appears it was the "relatively moderate", friendly, centrist, old guard Turnbull that was behind these moves. Chances are it's done as a favour to someone in Washington who needed something from someone connected to the Hollywood lobbies. Not the strongest of motives and the kind of thing that popular opinion can reverse.

With Netflix, Fox backed Presto (and the possibility of HBO) all starting up their streaming services over here in the past 6-12 months, It makes commercial sense to get rid of the free competition.
Imagine the desperation that would cause a person to stowaway on a high-altitude flight. But I wonder if those that do simply aren't aware of the risk.
Or run a private DNS server on their laptop.
How does a demo today work? :)
Turnbull is a hoop snake in drop bear clothing.
What is today's hype?
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Afaik nuclear is also a limited resource.
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Hit me up for a coffee, beer, or other beverage once you're settled, if you feel so inclined. I like meeting new people, and I've lived here for much of my post-high school life.
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The comment referred to here is one I made, and let me expand on the incident.

Firstly, the job application that Decade mentioned in that thread was not the coding assignment, but was a resume.

We will not ignore an answer submitted to our coding assignment. Also, we do give feedback to the candidate if we decide not to proceed. We have had candidates who sent in a revised submission which incorporated fixes to our earlier negative feedback and we have been glad to proceed[1].

This meme I see often on HN that people who do hiring are some antagonistic bastards out to get you is simply not true. I am as much a programer as any one of the candidates. I have tried to design the interview process - at least in my part of the organization - to be fair and humane ("Do unto others.." etc)
But I also have the other constraint that I have to make the process scale - hence the coding assignment. We are not using the code sent in by candidates in production. We have spent significant time developing the assignments - say, an order of magnitude more man hours than it would take for a typical programer to code up a solution.

I honestly believe that the "interview problem" is an essential complexity caused by the way the industry is set up[2]. I also do believe that a solution to the problem will not be handed down to us from the heavens. Each one of us programers have to help with the solution. Every time we get a chance to conduct an interview show some empathy and respect. Also, teach the professional recruiters working on your hiring team to also show the same. Make it clear that ill-treating any fellow programmer, even one which is not fit for the current role, will permanently ban that recruiter from working with you ever in any capacity. I also welcome efforts like Starfighter, Triplebyte etc from more prominent members of this community.

Now, the aftermath. After that thread, Decade followed up with me and we ended up sending him the coding assignment. Decade completed it and send us back the result, and my colleague's assessment of it was "This is the best code I've seen for this assignment. Let's take the next step". Few days later Decade came in for an onsite interview where he met various members of the team. We made him an offer, which he accepted. I am delighted to report that he started on the job the week before last!

[1] This is very rare, though. We do not hear back from most candidates. Few argue with the feedback, of course.

[2] My thoughts on the topic are at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1964932. The advantages of this set up, IMO, far out-weigh the negatives cause by "interview problem".
"at least partially"

What knowledge was lost then, that made the past 'better' (for a morally neutral meaning of that word)? (please don't say 'damascus steel')
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Looks like they are mainly targeting designers. Hard to call what they show in the video "code".
I had the same observation about Google Play Music Radio's audio quality and came on here searching for the bit rate and codec thinking it must be lower for the free radio product in order to segment and further differentiate the paid tier (many services like Spotify, Rdio, and Pandora do this). I'm using an external DAC+headphone amp. Also, note that the codec matters. AAC is supposedly twice as efficient as MP3. iTunes Radio, which streams at 256kbps AAC, sounds better to me.
HN has never had a "original titles only" rule. If it did, anyone could get whatever they wanted on the front page just by giving a post a manipulative title. That's why the guidelines ask to use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait.

Is this one misleading? I can't say. In cases where we are in no position to judge the accuracy of a dramatic claim, we sometimes add a question mark. It's a lightweight way to make the title provisionally conform to HN's guidelines while the community sorts out what's going on.
All major browsers and IE9+ support the video tag[0], there's no excuse to use flash for a video player nowadays

[0]: http://caniuse.com/#search=video
For a UI framework, show me a pretty demo with some example snippet code next to it and I will read on. Otherwise, I'm not motivated -- this is not the way you want people to read about your UI framework.
A to z directory
Often one is not 100% certain they are being discriminated against or for the reason. Rarely do people publicly admit their biases, particularly in a professional setting. In some cases people can't actually recognize the bias in their decisions.

Black people in America are often taught that they will experience racism, there's a ton of history to back up that assertion, and they have most likely experienced some event that confirmed this teaching. Given that context, racism often seems like a plausible explanation when not meeting some subjective criteria and it's hard to rule out.

As a black person you can't completely rely upon the experiences of white people (or other races) for guidance. It's not unusual for black person to mimic the actions of others and have a completely different experience.

I often hear the phrase "cultural fit", particularly in Silicon Valley and cringe. It feels like a new way to express prejudice and cronyism.
That is the anomaly, as I have stated above. It is an open question if we are able to extend that behaviour to the rest of humankind. Even China's one-child policy has not managed to control population growth. For that to happen, it would seem that we need to increase the world standard of living to the american/european level. Given the consumption footprint that would mean, it is highly questionable if we will ever achieve that.

Not impossible, just questionable. I still think Mad Max is more likely.
Is it safe/efficient to uninstall all bloatware from a laptop? I own a Samsung and over the years I've unninstalled the obvious bloatware without any problem. I wonder if I can delete all of them.
Tomorrow's yesterday's hype.
> "Culture fit" is the perfect mechanism for reducing diversity

I agree completely.

The problem is manyfold. Firstly "culture fit" sounds like a really great thing that companies would want. It has positive connotations, and its usage affirms that a) your company has a "culture" in the first place (a difficult problem for many orgs), and b) that you're hiring people that are just right for maintaining that.

Secondly, "culture" itself indicates homogeneity. Here's a fitting definition from Dictionary.app:

> the attitudes and behavior characteristics of a particular social group

"The attitudes and behavior characteristics" implies that there is one set of attitudes, one set of behaviors - which, unfortunately, is kind of the antithesis of "diversity".

Another issue is that people who share these things that make up a culture tend to get along and collaborate more freely, on average, than those who don't. That's not to say that people with radically different cultures can't work well together, but it's far from the path of least resistance (which I'd argue is what businesses are after). The less time, and thus money, you have to spend on forcing your employees to collaborate, the better. This makes homogeneity very desirable in the eyes of management.

It may be worthwhile to define a "company culture" along latitudes less tied to artifacts from other forms of culture - however, that sounds like an incredibly difficult task, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any company on Earth whose "company culture" doesn't reflect values from regional or religious cultures. Even if you did, then you'd still be gestating your own flavor of homogeneity inside that organization, by hiring exclusively for people who can get behind those values.

I also think, personally, that "diversity" is only a goal worth pursuing when phrased as "diversity in ideas", which, when reduced the useful subset therein, can be more succinctly stated as "innovation"[1] - and I think we've seen multiple times, innovation produced from very homogenous groups (or individuals, to whom it's difficult to ascribe much diversity at the level of granularity to which most people refer).
> who is signing software without giving a look at what he is signing.

Versign would by proxy, as one example. A certificate authorized to sign code was purchased from them. Samsung would directly, to prove that this shit software came from them.

Just like SSL/TLS. I could set up an SSL website that performs drive-by attacks, would Verisign sign that? Yes, yes they would.

Vericode isn't an gate keeper like Macs certificates are. It's designed to improve security: if I download a Samsung installer Windows will tell me that it is indeed from Samsung (during the UAC elevation) because the signature checks out. This means that I can be certain that unbeknownst malware won't be installed on my PC alongside the Samsung malware.

The story is different with WHDL (drivers), those are signed by Microsoft (in addition to yourself, I think).
in his zeal to repeat his unproven tautology over and over again, the author completely contradicts himself in the fifth paragraph ("I have made my case..."):

" I believe there is really no downside to becoming a Type #2 person and only upside."

Um, what ?

I'm guessing that sentence should say "#1" instead of "#2"... but given that the whole entry leads into an ad, I guess it doesn't matter.
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This sounds like a great use of taxpayer money. $30M is chump change compared to the upgrade cost, and as I've grown older I've developed a reverence for working code and working systems.
I'm not that surprised. SW Update and Easy Settings are among the two worst pieces of software I've ever used.

If I press the volume keys on my (i7, Ivy Bridge) Samsung laptop, I often have to wait several minutes before anything happens.

Better yet, a clean Windows install on that machine will always fail because for some reason the laptop lets Windows install the bootloader to the mini cache SSD - which the BIOS doesn't recognise.

I'm not going to be buying another Samsung PC.
How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it
Is this 'entrepreneurs news' or 'hacker news'? Luckily we have lobsters ;)
absurd nonsense
I believe one of the only amendments to this bill that got through was a requirement that Tony Abbott provide a formal response to that paper.
That was Karl Marx's whole solution. Make the workers own the factories.

We have a better way of socializing wealth. It's called the public stock market. Workers can buy shares of any corporation on it, not just their own, and they are protected by regulations.

Having said that, I think that we should tax the machines. We are building a cage for ourselves with machines empowering organizations to monitor and control us better. Like China making a rating for every citizen. Organizations aren't people and they use people to perpetuate themselves - those people who have other ideas (like "enviroentalism" or "concern for the elderly") have to acquiesce to the corporation's interests first. And with machines, the corporations will pursue profits ahead of loyalty to workers.

My point is, we should use our democratic governments to tax the corporations for benefiting from automation, and redistribute the money to the population as unconditional basic income. As machines replace people I won't need those taxi drivers and mcdonalds workers to do anything for me. I want them to have a check coming so they can educate themselves or just go consume things they need.

It would also be nice if countries would quit being in the mindset that every generation must be more numerous than the last - social security will be taken care of by increased automation, while overpopulation is not something you can take care of that easily.

Want everyone to be richer and better off? Have less kids.
If the poster actually stopped reading I don't think adding "almost" is good advice. I'd rather read the truth than a lie. However if I read a post that says "I stopped reading" I expect a good reasoning why to see if it makes sense. Unfortunately usually it's "i stopped reading because it sucks".
How America's Great University System Is Being Destroyed (2014)
None of the forms I filled in asked about I-485, they asked "Has anyone ever filed an immigration petition on your behalf?", which I had to answer yes to because my aunt at one point started sponsoring my mom for a sibling green card - even though that application was filed before I was born, and was abandoned decades ago.
That's pragmatic, he/she made the calculation that you have little political weight. Chances are there are people who contributed to his/her campaign or who are members of the community with more pull, and that you and your family aren't part of that group, and current members of that group disagree with you on the topics you brought up to your member. Or maybe he just did the maths and decided that an hour's meeting would have a higher return on investment with someone else.

There's no easy solution: either you earn influence and use it to further your agenda (a la George Soros), or you try and build influence in some other way, such as publishing reasoned arguments in an easily shareable format, which is what the EFF is very good at. It's never been easier to have some impact.
I guess the legislators didn't think the general public was informed enough about cookies for them to meaningfully, implicitly consent. I don't think many people read the already mandatory privacy policies, so I'd have to agree. That the use of, say, 3rd party analytics cookies is so commonplace seems neither here nor there.

(For the record: I would prefer a technological, rather than legislative solution here.)
I have access to and have been performing detailed analysis of a much much larger data set than they have access to. Location, salary, which job boards you use, and how high you come up in the rankings of which job boards you post to will have an effect that absolutely swamps their "magic number".

When someone has a proprietary number that they show you to describe something - "Textio Score", "KLOUT NUMBER", etc, you're being sold snake oil.

Don't waste your money.
Uh, extremely unexpected.
Canonical unveils its third Ubuntu phone, the Meizu MX4
Yes, but IME many tutorial presentations on these subjects never get as far as actually building a complete, functional compiler to demonstrate the concepts. Often they use some form of interpreter instead, which means they can use structures in the interpreter's implementation language that somewhat reflect the run-time structure of the implemented language using the analogous language features.
Switzerland publicly voted on a strict 12x salary limit for CEOs compared to junior employees. The proposal was rejected after 65% of voters opposed it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-24/swiss-vote...

The article also says that the same law (with public voting) would have had a much larger success rate in Germany where apparently three quarters of the population would vote in favor.

I wonder how such a public vote would turn out in the USA.
‘Silicon Valley a Meritocracy? Bull,’ Says Investors Panel at Inspirefest
This. I can't find a single example of an actual UI you'd build with famo.us on their entire site. How am I supposed to know what makes the framework worth learning if I don't see examples of what it makes possible?
I hear what you're saying and I guess it applies for large cities (somewhat), but in our smaller city (~100k people) we just walk places. 15-25 minutes is just fun, especially in the warm season.

Picnics, games, sports, lan parties, we just do them at home or on the public domain

hiking and other stuff needs some transportation, we either go with public transport or carpooling

I'm not saying I understand your situation, just that you don't necessarily need to spend a lot of money (or any) to have some fun with friends.
Wow...

> For example if there is USB 3.0 on laptop, the ports may not work with the installation of updates. So to prevent this, SW Update tool will prevent the Windows updates.

Pretty sure this sentence causes brain damage just by reading it. I hope this receives Microsoft's attention. They take Windows Update very seriously these days and will probably flip over this.
I like your example. Let's say it this way: With more electronics in your car you lose control over the car, but you gain control over the road, and the traffic around you.

Facebooks also works that way, now that I think about it. It takes control away over your data, but it enables you to interact with more people, which may improve your control over your connections.

Could we agree on that?
Well as long as China is doing enough to import whatever it needs, it's fine. Most countries need certain imports, and that's the market discipline that limits what they can do. They want tourists, they want dollars, etc. If China was a completely closed system with no needs then yes, they could probably get away with a lot more.
Maybe your average HN reader has better critical thinking skills than the average consumer of mass media groupthink.

Why, for example, is the Charleston tragedy more of a "race-persistent issue" than the almost two hundred people (mostly young black men) who have been murdered in Chicago alone in the past 6 months alone?

Who is really "oblivious" here is left as an exercise for the reader.
same here. to add to that list, as a tech entrepreneur, consuming pirated content hurts startups in that field, which indirectly hurts me.