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Ya, there's nothing wrong with them providing this service. They just shouldn't be heralded as providing some great charity, I think that's all people are saying.

If they were providing full internet, that would be an incredibly charitable, generous, and positive thing. As it stands, it's just another business venture - which is fine, but not great.
"a dummy facebook app that blacks out your screen & says things like YOUR TIME IS BETTER SPENT ELSEWHERE & HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS: STILL IDIOTS" - @EvaGiselle
I believe Windows Defender only protects you against malware. You need a separate anti-virus solution along with it.
Would be nice if he even tried to lookup what these things are used for. It is well known things like OneNote let you search handwritten notes, for example, using fuzzy logic and context. So it is a clear benefit to users. Instead he seemed to just hand wave something negative about each.

Similarly, MS originally defaulted to not allowing cross site advertising identifiers by default and was criticized by organizations that make their money off this like Google and Firefox. Seems like they can't win no matter which default they pick.
And the person who bought the home in Palo Alto in 1981 is only paying 1/5 of the property taxes as the person in a comparable home who bought recently. California is really the epitome of having a tax code favoring land owners and the older generation over those relatively new to the job market.
He wasn't broadcasting his name in the first place; only you had the information (in the limited knowledge of the context). In case you are using this for anything damaging to him or for profit, that is what the Data Protection Act covers. That suddenly his name becomes public knowledge has little to do with this law.
A long-term, widespread adaptation can be if this was a trait that was selected for in an evolutionary capacity.
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That is wrong, they are the same thing.
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"Let's not over-engineer though."

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At that income level, the federal tax is %28 and CA is %9.3, so about %37 yeah. Max is 33+12 = %45. There's also ~9% sales tax in most parts of california but every time you go out you better tip %20.

And for all that, we get to pay for our own health care and retirements too!
In SF? All they have to do is wait 10 seconds and someone else will be around to rent to. Rent is going up while vacancy rates are plummeting, that's a landlord's market.
People do have the option of not using it. Giving people nothing without a say in the matter seems wrong. Other organizations are free to bring more of the Internet. Google is working on solutions too. It seems wrong to criticise others when you are offering nothing better.
I have second hand commercial support with a leader software in the market (that is I had coworkers doing the commercial support) and the amount of bugs and trickery some users had to go through with it makes you wonder how they can sell any copy at all.
Eh, I'm already at the top of HN. :P

More eyes to find errors before it makes into the beta channel, hopefully!
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I only trust Windows Defender from Microsoft. 1 - They know the internals of their own system. 2 - They have strong interest in keeping your OS running well. 3 - it is free.
I don't remember what the exact problems were, but when I tried OSX I found the only way to change some basic keyboard and mouse behaviors was to purchase apps that cost $20-$30 each. I remember not liking the inverted scroll and wanting all 3 mouse buttons to work as I was accustomed to. Also, the non-symmetric keyboard layout was very frustrating (where the Ctr, Super, and Alt keys on reside on PC keyboards).

Knowledge about Xorg config files is admittedly not very useful, but it's been years since I've touched one. Nevertheless I'm glad that those files are there and that I can look up how to edit one if necessary[1].

1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Using_xorg.conf
Definitely, I shall!
It doesn't really take a lot of intuition to know that the vast majority of startups are going to fizzle. Heck, "fail fast" is a mantra of the startup scene. Landlords just "know it" because they've already gone through it.

I think that the shared office spaces are really a wonderful solution so that young companies can have a great space without the long-term commitment. Ironically when we visited one (in Chicago) there were quite a few corporate "outposts" there with large companies like IBM.
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Watching the voting on this has been pretty funny. I wish I had the ability to divine the reasoning for every vote. For reference, this was a joke.
So Facebook is the new AOL/Compuserve in some places. Did AOL die because people prefer the full open Internet, or did AOL die because it was too limited? Either way, history will likely repeat itself. Are people on this thread really worried that as things develop, people won't want to reach outside of the wall garden eventually? I think they will naturally.
Strange that there are no iOS client.
It sounds like you've found a big part of the appeal. People go where the jobs are, after all.
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More like 5 years, right? :-p

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/fast-and-free-facebo...

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I just moved to the bay area for work and I rented from Brandon for a week while I went apartment hunting.

I don't think he's a 'scumbag' or profiting off of others misfortune. I was able to rent a place to crash for ~$150 less per day than a hotel would have cost and I had access to a full kitchen, washer/dryer, fast internet etc, which I wouldn't have had with a hotel.
Unfortunately all of Yelp's other offices (other than Hamburg) are exclusively sales offices (i.e. no engineering)
> Does Google let you replace default search with Bing if you want ?

Why yes, they do. If you want, you can even replace Google Now with Firefox search (using Yahoo by default, unless you change it).
Millennial families also have to deal with the stigma of 24/7 supervision of their children. A few generations ago, kids roamed the streets until supper time. Now if you let your kid walk to the park, you get arrested for negligence. We're obsessed with work, we're obsessed with being over-protective, and we're entitled to everything.

And let's be honest - men are in no hurry to pick up a second job when they can reluctantly blame the office's policies for why they can't pitch in more.

And how exactly is family leave or flexible work hours explained to single workers? Assuming married couples got policies changed so they could somehow both split their time between child-rearing and office work, single people will probably have to make up whatever time is lost. Because the question isn't "Do I have time to both work and raise this child", it's "How can I be at the office and dropping Timmy off at soccer practice at the same time?"

To make everything fair between single workers and working families you'd have to allow a workforce-wide reduction in hours, possibly accompanied by hiring more. Why do I get the feeling that might not happen?

The compromise here that would keep workplaces fair, is to not compromise for families, and force everyone to work the same hours. Which would require either that families get part-time jobs, or that one of them be 'the breadwinner'.

This also assumes the 2-parent model will remain the exclusive model this century. The next big fight might be over polycules for the right to co-parent if they're not a biological parent. Which would actually make time-sharing much easier, as it splits the work up amongst more people. But that's probably a good 50 years out.
They're well-funded for a tech startup, not Donald Trump levels of funding! Prime SF commercial real-estate is going for $500-$1000/sq ft these days, so buying, say, a 5-story, 50,000-sq-ft office building will run you $25-50 million. Tech VCs don't want that level of investment tied up in commercial real-estate; if they wanted to do that, they'd form a real-estate investment fund instead.
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The seed-stage VCs don't have the funds to plunk down a few million to lock in a lease, and by the time you raise an A round or further you're pretty much expected to have an address.

I guess Plug & Play Ventures is the outlier here, having started in real estate.
MSFT has done this by buying itself into the graphic API market long ago. Since then the last two main graphic hardware vendor have been poorly receptive to develop drivers for any other platform.

Hopefully, Valve OS's initiative might bend this and allow the Linux world to be at least on par with MSFT when it comes to graphic drivers. Considering that from the three main console out there, both the Playstation and the Nintendo are using a flavor or another of OpenGL, there is some hope for the future of alternative to MSFT outside the office and MSFT centric software development.
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They are multi-region: https://support.pagerduty.com/hc/en-us/articles/202830570-Wh...
Mostly agreed.

Fundamentally a perfectly rational world is unrealistic. Humans do behave irrationally, even insanely. Humans also behave sub-optimally because they are trapped in systems full of crazy perverse incentives. The world itself is full of paradoxes and chaotic feedback loops; the best intentions rationally and logically executed can and do lead to perverse outcomes that would not and maybe even could not be forseen.

Sometimes a rational investigation terminates with a big WTF. People see UFOS or Bigfoot all the time, and they're not all nuts. What are they seeing? Not enough information. The universe doesn't present you with all the evidence so you can tie a neat bow around it. It presents you with a dirty noisy incomplete data set so you can ponder it forever. (See also: bounded rationality. Bayesianism deals with this problem by defining truth as a float instead of a boolean, which I kind of like. Bigfoot might 0.0137384 exist.)

The universe gives us Fermi paradoxes and dark energy and Godel's incompleteness theorem.

That being said, I do like the aversion to the idiot plot. It's a big pet peeve of mine. I also like stories where all the characters have depth. To me that's just good characterization, something often lacking in genre fiction. Even if the villain (or the hero) is mad or irrational, there is some depth to it and they have their reasons however twisted these might be. But a lot of that is just good writing.

I also like the aversion to the deus ex machina, which is also lazy writing. If there is some kind of super-thing that intervenes, it should too be developed as a character with depth.
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While your point may be valid. Some of the things slowmovintarget mentions are still a problem for you: https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-print-how-your-persona...
The high rent problem emerges only when the market is over-heated, and subsides when there's a correction.

Anybody doing that would almost certainly be buying high and left holding the bag when an economic downcycle arrives.
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May be helpful for someone.
> GK Butterfield, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), will meet with executives at Apple and Google in Silicon Valley on Monday and Tuesday to tell them to “implement a diversity plan that will place more African Americans in the tech pipeline”

Aren't Apple and Google on the wrong end of the pipeline for this? We need more blacks on the input side, which is something Congress is far better able to address by taking steps to (1) bring elementary and high schools in poor neighborhoods (which are disproportionately black) up to the standards of better off neighborhood schools, and (2) make it easier for black students to attend good colleges.
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Right. So if you want to be worried about something --serious-- be worried about this https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-print-how-your-persona...
I have a 2nd partition with Windows 7 on my desktop, but I run UbuntuMATE (in Redmond panel mode) 99% of the time. I don't think I'm going to update from 7 to 10 anymore, just don't see the point with this and the hardware lock-in. I like my real license that I already have.

If I make any changes to my system I'll probably delete UbuntuMATE and Win7 and just run Mint. Seems really slick and mostly respects the user. Just despise those notification catchers in most distros like Mint. UM in Redmond mode is the only one that just flashes the taskbar icon upon notifications, which makes perfect sense to me. Less to manage/check on.
Even with the 83b, you'd still have to pay taxes on the current value. This is practical if the stock still has negligible value (i.e. you joined pre-funding), but otherwise you face being taxed on monopoly money.
You missed my point regarding the groundwater. My point is that the runoff from the hydrant must be treated before being released, and that treatment has a cost, which is reflected in the sewage rates.

Your other points regarding the origins of NYC water don't affect my argument: despite the apparent effortlessness of getting the water to that Bronx hydrant, said water has a price which is substantially the same in NY as in other areas like CA.

Perhaps that value is of interest when deciding whether there is any significance to spraying loads of it out through a hydrant, versus being parsimonious (i.e., "waste").
> I am pretty surprised by the far-reaching data collection that Microsoft seems to want. But, I am even more surprised by the fact that the settings all default to incredibly intrusive.

I can't see why anyone would be surprised anymore. This has been going on for years now.
Even if Tom Brady did smash his phone, it'd make zero sense
Federal Reserve's objectives operate at federal level, and involve national unemployment level (target rate of ~5%) and inflation (target rate of ~2%) http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12848.htm
This is true. A lot of people don't realize that bulk electricity prices are paid to all generators based on the price of the marginal watt to be scheduled. Natural gas turbines can turn on and off quickly, so they can respond to the market and are usually the ones to provide that marginal watt.

That means when natural gas prices decrease, so do profits for nuclear, coal, and hydro plants.

Google "location based marginal pricing" to learn more.
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Extremely summarised (and cynical) form of the story: twentysomething idealism meets life experience :)

In order to meet the requirements to fulfill the lifestyle desired in the article, it's more than just "workplaces must modernise". It's a societal shift. People have to be prepared for 'work hours' to shorten or move around... from a customer point of view, for example. It's not as simple as waggling a finger at employers - expectations have to be managed at all points in the chain.
I was wondering how they would handle the sewage unless they had a hookup to the sewer line it seemed like they were basically creating a campground.
I'm on the autistic spectrum, and "emulation" is exactly how I'd describe my social interactions as well. It always feels like I'm trying to emulate floating-point arithmetic on a CPU without hard float support. It kinda works if you can do a lot of integer operations quickly. But unless the emulator is really good, you'll get all sorts of rounding errors.

In some ways, I've even gotten a little too good at emulating some types of interactions. I'm still lousy at realtime verbal communication, but when it comes to written communication, I can catch all sorts of nuances and unstated assumptions that ordinary people often miss. It's one of those cases when an emulator or hypervisor outperforms bare metal under some workloads. Since my emulator is so lousy at verbal communication, I've optimized the shit out of it for written communication.

At the end of the day, though, all this heavy emulation takes a toll. My brain burns a lot more cycles (calories?) running the emulator all day long and rapidly context-switching in and out of it. It makes me exhausted after a few hours. I wish our society was organized in such a way that I wouldn't need to spin up my emulator so often.
Nothing like a noisy office space to boost productivity!
TL;DR Mozilla is complaining because MS is changing default browser to EDGE
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It used to be that we designed protocols for the internet, and now we instead build services on HTTP.

This is the best summary of What's Wrong With The Internet that I've read for some time.
TL;DR: Article says we're not as good/egalitarian as we'd like to be. Sure, but the data shows that we've come a long way. And things are getting better even faster, because technology increases productivity.

I recently saw a more current version of the graph from this NYTimes article (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/us/17kids.html), but the data indicates that both mothers and fathers in the U.S. are actually spending more time on childcare than they used to. Both. The biggest difference was in housework, which I believe has dropped quite a bit further in the past decade.

What seems relevant here (and not addressed in this article) is the extent to which technology powers social change like this. Social attitudes (the 'ideals') change because productivity gains due to technology means that household chores no longer take 40 hours+ per week.

I'm pretty sure the data from the 2010's doesn't take Instacart and other on-demand-everything into account because it has yet to be everywhere, but just think how awesome everything will be in this coming decade!
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If you do go through the installation/setup screen you will see that you have now a "advertizing ID". This made me feel edgy and I cannot shake the memory of the tattoo on the victim's forearm from the Nazi solution of its undesirable population, powered by no less than state of the art technical solution, provided by a top technical solution provider at the time.
> Other uses for autonomous solar airplanes? Delivering medicine and supplies to remote areas?

Or even, say in five to ten years when the cost of the technology drops, delivering unrestricted, high speed internet to hundreds of millions of people.
If you’re not familiar with RDBMS, general introductions to SQL and relational algebra should be useful. Back in uni our textbook was Fundamentals of Database Systems[1]. (It’s okay, but there are probably better books out there.)

[1] http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Fundamentals...
Traditionally, the (legal) argument begins with Warren and Brandeis, "The Right To Privacy", December 15, 1890:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...

That's been considered the foundation of privacy laws in the US. Europe generally has stricter laws -- for instance in Norway, until recently, it was technically illegal to keep an electronic[1] list of names and phone numbers of parents in a school class, or an electronic membership list for a club (esp: minor members).

That's now changed, and the requirement for being granted a "data license" are less stringent -- most electronic record keeping is legal -- everyone being granted a pre-emptive licence of sorts. However, that license is subject to things like a) being responsive in giving out/responding to requests to correct data, to show what data you have on an individual to that individual, and b) making a reasonable effort to keep the data safe.

Breach of those can lead to fines, and the revocation of the implicit license -- meaning you're not allowed to keep such electronic records any more.

Understandably Germany have a stronger emphasis on privacy, being a) a fascist dictatorship under Hitler recently, and b) half of Germany being under the Stasi also recently.

Why people in the US aren't more afraid of personal data ending up in privately held data banks where they are subject to National Security Letters, hackers, anti-union organizations working with big business, anti-native American rights activists and whatever else -- I don't know.

Maybe most people think that the next group to be frozen out of the job market won't be communist but Muslims -- and, hey, I don't know any Muslims -- so why should I be worried?

[1] Note the electronic bit. This is due to how trivial it is to link digital data, and how trivial it is to copy/get hold of a copy without the original missing etc.
Right, neither should be doing that in the case of an update. Firefox when updated in the normal manner doesn't make itself the primary browser. Windows 10 is behaving badly.

Firefox will only change things if you specifically get a Firefox installer, where it thinking that's your intent is understandable.
Also: Austin, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Seattle, etc.

Some things I like about a few of those: Pittsburgh is the 2nd-safest major U.S. city for pedestrians (after Boston) [1], is nice and compact, and a beautiful setting in a valley at the intersection of two rivers. Chicago has one of two 24-hour rapid-transit systems in North America (NYC is the other one), a beautiful lakefront, great deal of ethnic diversity, and is possibly the best American city for skyscrapers (NYC is the only other contender). Atlanta is walkable/bikeable if you live in the city, has the 3rd-largest gay population in the U.S. (after SF and NYC), and is one of the leading centers of Black American culture.

Overall imo there are lots of interesting urban places to live, the main issue is just making sure to live in the actual city rather than the suburbs, if you want a city lifestyle.

[1] http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/documents/dangerous-by-des...
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Wind has low power density, so it requires much more space. This probably is not a problem for US, but a serious problem for other countries.
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> "How can I be at the office and dropping Timmy off at soccer practice at the same time?"

Palo Alto resident here. I was walking my dog the other day, and I saw a vehicle drop a kid off, with the tagline "Uber for Kids" on the side. Got really curious b/c, well, how is that not just regular Uber/Lyft? And found out that they solve this exact problem. Parents can have kids picked up and dropped off at various locations by people who have been pre-screened by the company.

Edit: it's called Shuddle. Maybe companies can offer Shuddle credit as a perk to employees.
One avenue to explore would be genetically engineering strains of corn, rice, and wheat that have nitrogen-fixing bacteria. This would have the impact of reducing the vast quantities of fossil fuel we spend on the Haber-Bosch process and also free poor farmers from having to spend money on artificial fertilizer.

I am however utterly ignorant of the difficulty of doing this. I doubt this research would be funded by Monsanto or other companies which sell artificial fertilizer.
It's a little better if your device can run Cyanogen. Not great, but a little better.

I'm hopeful that Firefox OS and perhaps Ubuntu/Full GNU/Linux on phones will help. Canonical hasn't got a perfect record when it comes to privacy or openness -- but if they manage to invest the resource to develop a truly open stack that works on real hardware, I expect people to make other distributions that do pretty much whatever one wants.