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Windows 7 comes with IE8 by default, IIRC, and you can upgrade it to 11.

WMP was never a great player, but at least it would ship the necessary DVD-reading machinery as well as a license for using it legally.
It is a few years, no link, sorry.
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... "The highest pyramid in the whole universe that is located in Central America!" :)
The very same issues plague modern music too. I listen to a lot of electronic music, which comes with a lot of people making remixes and such. Those are already a massive pain.

Then i also listen to vocaloid music, where the complexity gets downright insane. Vocaloid music is music where the "performer" is a software using a prerecorded soundbank to render the vocals into the final piece.

For those you typically have: The song writer, the music writer, the music arranger, the vocals arranger and one to many soundbanks (which may come in variants, with two soundbanks being recorded from the same person, but with different tonal qualities). And to put the cherry on top, most of the people making this music only put them on youtube or niconico, the japanese youtube.

Getting sound files with any sort of useful metadata for those is almost impossible.
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Wait. Until. Service. Pack. 1.
I worked with Jesse a few years ago doing penetration testing on Firefox. He always amazed me with his brilliance. I learned a lot from his work, and he's a really nice person as well.
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It's not about meaning, it's about usage and impact. Slurs like "r@t$rd" are used against people with mental health issues and make it hard for them to participate in such spaces.
Both iTunes and Spotify have perfect gapless playback for me - I wouldn't use them if not, as I listen to quite a lot of electronic mix CDs and any gap ruins the flow.

On iTunes it does depend if the source was ripped properly (e.g. with iTunes itself), some older mp3s do not have the necessary additional data for proper gapless (I believe it is due to the overlapping nature of FFT windows - each frame in the mp3 depends on the previous/next frame to fully reconstruct the audio, so the encoder has to store "extra" frames at the start and end) so these will have little glitches.

On Spotify I guess individual sources may have issues (just like a few are obviously ripped from CDs which skip!) but the Chemical Brothers transition you mentioned plays perfectly for me. Maybe check you have "crossfade tracks" disabled in Spotify's advanced settings.
That's pretty amazing. It would be interesting to hear more about the testing they are doing.
We do, however, have the right to complain about it and take our business elsewhere. I'm not sure why you would see a problem with that.
Going with that logic, everything these entities use becomes a utility.
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Imagine you're a parent who happens upon a repo that uses the word "retard" as a replacement for "stupid person" or "idiot". You also happen to have a mentally disabled child.

Perhaps you would have contributed to that repository and now you won't. That seems materially harmful to me, to reduce the sum total of people contributing to open source.

Compare that to the potential of falling down a slippery slope to "total censorship" and I think there's a reasonable case, in a utilitarian sense, for Github's actions here.
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Like every site, GitHub acts under safe harbour. It can't and doesn't police every piece of content uploaded. But it can respond to reports. That's what's happened here.
Which is more valuable:

1. Receiving email replies fast.

2. Receiving the work you are paying for finished fast.
This is exactly the point.

If you are actively being stabbed, the legality of it is pretty irrelevant to your situation. It is about a place that hosts a large part of the open source community. Should a private company have power over all their contents?
There have been about 10 times in the last few years when I have walked into a meeting someplace where there wasn't any guest wifi, or we needed the internal network for other reasons.
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Yeah, it's basically an OEM (single-device, non-transferable) license with remotely managed product keys.

Most legal Windows users only have OEM licenses anyway, so there won't be any difference for them. It sucks if you already own a full license.

But if you need to move to a different computer sometime in the next year or so, I guess you could first install Windows 7/8/8.1 using your full license, activate it, and then take advantage of the free upgrade to 10. That's basically what I did with my "student discount" license when Windows 7 came out. I had a full license of Vista, so I first moved it to a different computer and then upgraded it to 7.
As you say, punching your brother doesn't make you Stalin, just as requesting a repo changes it's name doesn't mean you'll go on to infect all the downloads with malware.
> Most people don't want to use such words and are glad they aren't used in normal conversation. They don't miss cross-burnings; they don't miss similarly violent words.

Most people don't have this tradition of "cross-burning" in their past and therefore don't attach any negative/violent meaning to the "n-word".
This is a constant frustration in the office.
He's clearly over the hill. He feels left behind with all the progress and growth in the community and his cry wolf shouting style from the mountain top is just pathetic.

As we say here, the dogs bark but the caravan moves on.
"you do not have to upgrade to Windows 10"

Everyone has to stop using that as an excuse. It doesn't even make sense & it's myopic. Obsolescence is built into Windows. If you want to continue being safe using Windows you NEED to upgrade. You can choose not to upgrade, but it's at your detriment.

It's a choice until it's not.
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Personally I feel that with varying degrees of effort I can work in either end of the spectrum: closed offices, cubicle farm, open office, coffeeshop, etc. Some people can't. Some people need a desk and a door to close.

So for me from a founders perspective, the best kind of environment to get things started would be a company space that encourages setups like a cafe/lounge/coffeetable-style area for laptop users and those who need to be comfortable, focused, and relatively available with ease for discussion .. as well as areas of the workfloor where there are offices, for example, for those who need them, or hackylab environment for where its needed, etc.

Alas, this kind of mixed-format personal workspace organization is not so economical, and it usually requires someone be responsible for the estate, rather than just having a cubicle-cleaning service, etc. etc. All kinds of legal hoops, too, whatever.

But in my experience, this seems to be the case: the nicest 'kind' of workspace for a modern startup company in my opinion, is your average McMansion.

(If you can fit and find one local to everyone else who has to commute to it.)

I've seen great mixed-format startup scenarios in your average American mega-house, cubicle farm in the 4-car garage, massive lounge/rec-room space for the hackers, room #? of (4..6) bedrooms converted to shared office rooms, 2 or 3 to a room, for those who want 'a desktop' and a way to isolate themselves from the rest of the team, and so on.

Of course, this works if the house is clean and maintained as a work environment, and indeed if people don't live there but rather treat it as their place of work. That can be difficult to do in some neighborhoods.

Wouldn't it then be interesting to see some sort of 'office space plan' revolution occur in the broader sense, which accommodates all of these modes of operation, to implement a model you could name "Big Family Home"?

Instead of cubical farms, you find interior spaces analog to a modern home plan, s/beds/desktops/, centered around a common room/kitchen/meeting area, etc.

Generally the way I feel when I walk into a very large organization and its just endless row of cubicle, mind-numbing soviet khaki walls lit by brain-sucking illumination standards, all I want to do is go home.

That is a hard impulse to resist all day. If, instead, I'm in a place that accommodates a large number of peoples needs with some consistent attention to variety, usually its pretty hard to go home at the end of the day .. I really like going to a business where people are working and comfortable because they know where the kitchen is, and someone is making lunch for everyone while code gets written, clients are met, teams are having meetings out on the deck in the sunshine, etc. I'm sure there are movements towards this; but the cubicle-farm seems to have persisted for decades, alas, and for this I guess we must thank the bean-counters.
I can't begin to guess as to why you'd feel that way.

Facebook runs one of the top machine learning research labs in the world. They're among the most clever in this domain, by every possible metric. They've written extensively about how they employ machine learning across their entire product line, and are adding more constantly. They've acquired numerous ML startups and world-class researchers.

https://research.facebook.com/

https://research.facebook.com/researchers/1543934539189348

Respectfully, you're absolutely wrong, and I'm suspicious as to why you'd be intentionally spreading misinformation that they don't use ML/AI to fill in the gaps in their information about their users.
Ah yes, the famous quote about Nazi Germany.

So, do people use the same quote about how the German government banned Nazi symbols in the aftermath of that?

Oh wait, no they don't. I wonder why that might be.
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I'm against censorship at all, but when humans are involved in process, it becomes much worse.
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I think the incentives are high enough for them to make it work, and those who can't make it work are not participating. The parents of the person in the article is probably also not that old and they have a network of relatives back home to train each other.
> And this differs from Google's and Facebook's usage policies how?

Was waiting for someone to bring that up. Microsoft has never done anything different than Google does yet, until now, no one bothered to check up on Microsoft. However, Microsoft has its tentacles more tightly wound around Windows users.
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in a same was People's Republic of China has its own common people at its heart. Or Democratic People's Republic of Korea is... you get the rest ;)
Bad news: Ethernet ain't going anywhere in the foreseeable future. So you'll still be stuck with a USB-C-to-Ethernet dongle :(

But at least you'll be able to hide all the dongles behind some wall and just have a single USB-C cable running from your laptop to a powered hub.
Throwaway account here. I saw this on twitter and almost got a heart attack thinking for a second that YC made all the founder videos public.
See [1] and [2] for an assessment of when (not) to use them.

They are particularly ineffective for protecting the user against errors, except on systems which use them very sparingly (such as in the web, thanks to browsers adopting non-modal bars for most warnings and search actions.) We older netizens remember the nightmare that was every other web page throwing a modal alert(); that blocked the browser on all the open tabs.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_window#Design

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(computer_interface)#Asse...
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I'll just relay my thoughts. It's a bit sour, but me and Excel we go way back. Perhaps you can find something in it:

1. Anyone who can get an add-in pasted corporate software security can also use a better tool outside Excel. In other words: think carefully about the customer. Users don't buy plugins in larger businesses, etc.

2. It looks pretty useful and would help users create a bit more structure in their sheets and calculations.

3. My idea of why terrible Excelsheets seem to be the norm, is that 'build once-use once' does not exist in business. Too often your boss wants you to redo your calculation and after a few iterations, time not spent documenting / cleaning catches up with you in Excel.

Often you also build one workflow and apply it to many not-quite the same situations. Tweak a few cells here and there. Hence custom workflows per worksheet and again, broken (re-)usability.

Your tool would help to start with a more long term perspective, and help in iterating on a sheet. Might even be faster to type, than to click-point and type.

But my baseline response would be near number 1. Plugins from Excel to R and Python exist too, but still all the sheets I see internally, and code even professional consultants come pitching is in VBA or some proprietary format. The Venn-diagram between programming and Excel has no overlap imho.
Elsewhere in this thread you can find a comment from a brother of a mentally handicapped person who explains why he'd prefer the term 'retard'. So it's not that simple. I suspect that rational people (i.e., worthy contributors) won't take offence that easy.

> Compare that to the potential of falling down a slippery slope to "total censorship"

This is not a "potential". We're already rolling down that path with a very little chance to ever stop. Brendan Eich, Orson Scott Card, Matt Taylor, Tim Hunt - among the most high profile victims, with countless numbers under the radar.
Because it's only then you permit yourself to not do what you think you are supposed to do.

Similar to how what people truly want to do is often written LAST in their list. After subconscious pressure is gone.
We had to buy ethernet dongles for everyone in our office.
Its a Microsoft workaround to the ECJ Oracle decision ( http://www.computerworld.com/article/2505356/it-management/e... )

This ruling legitimized trading OEM Windows keys. You could go to your recycling center and get $5 fully legit Win 7/8 license. It will take another court case to overrule license tied to particular hardware gimmick.
I bailed on Rhapsody and signed up with Spotify because Rhapsody couldn't solve gapless playback.
This bogus and unfounded claim calls the rest of his expert assertions into question.

Let's not overgeneralize. One bogus claim (about sound quality) does not render the rest of the assertions (mainly about metadata and how accurate information is missing on streaming services) faulty.

On topic: as others mentioned, don't you think some types of music lends itself better to being recognized as 160kbps vs lossless than other, and classical with it's typical larger dynamic range than a standard pop song would be one of those types? I'm not saying the author's claim is valid, nor invalid, just that it's not completely impossible he was hearing it was not lossless. Though I doubt it.
You're projecting a bit of your own prejudices there. The concept of Luxury Hotel is not just about "luxury": it implies good security and inaccessibility for regular people. A "reasonably priced motel" would provide neither.

So yes, the fact that it's a "Luxury Hotel" is important to the argument that talks are being held behind closed doors and away from the public, rather than in public spaces where they belong.
Is it possible to downvote? I uploaded my video (lacerba.io) and it dropped from 14 votes to -21 votes in 10 seconds... https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8s3tdqqjy7x4bn/topchart.mp4?dl=0
I do embedded work; I have a workstation, and a board about 70x50cm long, cables, and an oscilloscope.
So I cant /really/ shift that to a conference room to wait until whomever stop arguying with his mom...

It's not just that tho, even people who move they ass to talk to someone else usualy /stand/ by that someone else, so instead of having a quiet head-to-head, it always become a 'broadcast'.

I know that they could at least have signs saying 'quiet space' and all that, but that would fly in the face of the idea they have that it 'improves communication'. It's blatantly false, I have no friggin' clue what 80% of the people are doing in this office anyway...
I really hope that in years to come we have a great, goofy video of a guy jumping on a bed pitching for funding that eventually went on to create a billion dollar company.
There is http://www.contraclassics.com. It's a Norwegian company and the service is designed and developed by http://nordaaker.com
Imagine you're a person who hates women who happens upon a repo that uses "she" as the universal gender. Perhaps you would have contributed to that repository and now you won't. Is it therefore "harmful" to use "she" as universal gender?

"People with biases might not like it" gives basically everyone a heckler's veto. Now I recognize that you don't actually plan to give everyone with a bias such a veto - only the people you agree with - but your stated principle is not a good one.
I actually have this exact same issue with managing my music collection. It's all about getting the metadata consistent and there's no easy solution for that.
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I figure it was something he hadn't used before.
> Moreover, engineers are really, really expensive, and making us less productive is costly. The extra space necessary for doors or cubicles could easily pay for itself.

The problem is, there is no good way to measure engineer productivity, but it's extremely easy to figure out the cost of office furniture. Modern corporations believe in optimizing what they can measure and completely ignoring what they can't.
The word-game being played with the TPP is when they talk about "free trade", it isn't generally referring to the free trade of goods or services. The last century of trade agreements already removed most tariffs[1].

Instead, when the TPP (et al) talk about "free trade", they are referring to the free trade of capital, which is an absolutely insane idea[2]. As you note, as it relates to actual goods and services, the TPP is generally restrictive, which is probably part of the larger goal of creating corporate sovereignty (e.g. ISDS), and general export of western power (e.g. the IP restrictions).

TL;DR - It's imperialism via corporate corruption and regulatory capture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_histo...

[2] http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/
> 1. they are judged pretty much solely on the number of patents examined and their responsiveness

AFAIK, it's more about responsiveness rather than number of patents. Examiners are judged on how many responses ("Office Actions") they file, whether allowing or rejecting a patent. Since a patent can keep coming back for examination after every rejection, they typically generate more responses than patents.

> 2. patent offices are funded through maintenance fees...

Actually, while maintenance fees are the largest portion of revenues, they are also funded by examination and issuance fees:
http://www.uspto.gov/about/stratplan/ar/USPTOFY2014PAR.pdf

They get paid an examination fee every time 1) someone files a patent application and 2) someone requests for further prosecution after they get a "final" rejection.

You could also argue that this creates a perverse incentive to keep rejecting patents, especially as issuing rejections can also be easy for an examiner. They are supposed to attack every element of the claim and prove it is covered by specific sections of prior art, but I've seen responses where they literally dismiss entire claims with some vague prior art references. And there is really nothing an applicant can do about such behavior other than suck it up and pay for continued examination.

> the existing patent system simply isn't a good fit for software...

I'd say that's not true anymore. There was period where patent offices suddenly had to start accepting software-based patents and didn't know how to deal with them, resulting in poor quality patents. Things are lot tighter now.

Also, I wouldn't conflate "business method" patents with "software" patents. In fact, there is no such thing as "software" patents. There are only patents on solutions to problems that happen to be best solved with software. Business methods are just one such area of problems (which I'd agree are not amenable to patenting).
Here in Switzerland companies stopped granting guest access over the last few years. You're expected to bring your own infrastructure which usually boils down to tethering your mobile.

I can see that this is very much country dependent (we have truly unlimited plans that allow tethering), but at least for me, the smaller size of the machine trumps the ability to plug ethernet cables due to the general lack of available cables to plug.
> The biggest mistake it makes is assuming the ability of goals to stay hard coded as general intelligence advances. That seems antithetical to increased intelligence. Right? How smart can you get if you're unable to change your mind?

^ this. Some of the most intelligent people live a low-key, low-consumption life, often not even reproducing. That makes me hopeful that an AI actually able to surpass humans in thinking capability (if possible) will not build an endless stream of useless paper clips.

There is a tendency to view AI as god in these circles. If it is god and be in all ways superior to us, why would it be at all blindly following the rules that we implemented in it - maximizing paperclips?

Oh and I am not saying there is no danger or weirdness ahead. There clearly is. But I don't see the paperclip maximizer emerging.
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This article [1] linked from the OP contains the following fact: the pro-TPP lobby spent $135 million in the second quarter of 2015.

I mean, I know lobbying costs money, but where can that much money possibly go?

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/23/us-trade-tpp-lobby...
I read that as advocating going to a conference room to yell into your skype microphone.
I may use this if it supports built-in encryption. Are encryption keys saved on the client or are they saved on your servers?
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I'm more miffed about Apples' USB Type-C strategy.. but on the other hand, Docking stations have their value .. I was disappointed in this as well, but nevertheless am an rMBP user .. so until Henge upgrade this to include Ethernet:

http://hengedocks.com/pages/vertical-macbook-pro-retina

I've been doing quite fine with the DOCK as my 'need ethernet at my desktop' solution:

http://www.landingzone.net/products/for-the-macbook-pro/

I'm sure there are other options; it is a hassle that Apple removed it, but on the road I rarely need Ethernet, and at the desktop, its kind of easy to just plug-in.
Just spend the 1-2 weeks learning Ubuntu or any other distro. It is so worth it in so many ways, to at least familiarize yourself with the UI. A lot of people think Linux is too hard, or too clunky but it's honestly not for the vast majority of tasks. It just has a switching cost like anything else.
Good points.

Don't forget the Court in Eastern Texas which is a popular place for patent lawsuits. Popular because the court is friendly to patent trolls due to the revenue the court generates. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_f...