skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. This is a modern equivalent of the (sadly no longer maintained) Unix rosetta stone.

I thought this might be relevant after yesterday's Powershell discussion.

Asides from current-generation operating systems, there's also links to official docs wherever possible and a GitHub project where you can add items - the whole app is built from markdown, so if you can edit that, you can contribute. We've already had a lot of pull requests from the SmartOS and FreeBSD communities.
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Without an explanation which part of the article sows FUD, it makes me think you just don't even know what that acronym means.
Or wix.com, which sounds like wichs in German (wank).
Of course not, you're turning off most of the features of the Operating System.

Normal people don't want to disable their OS.
Also, a textbook doesn't have everything you need, and knowledge and technology change; there's no substitute for a human with expertise.
That 1st picture - light from the right yet the '6km mountain' is shiny on the left. Perhaps its a 6km hole instead? Confused.
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For the intermediate lifter on 5/3/1, I recommend Big Lifts Pro. Calculates all the percentages for you, and has a lot of the different 5/3/1 variations built in.
Concrete illustrations based on things in your world -> procedural methods (your algorithms) -> formal proof seems to work in my teaching of basic maths to adults.

Have a look at the sample chapter from David Tall's book...

https://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Tall/themes/thre...
Heck, even I wont do this. (Roll back)
Bridge Facebook Messenger and Slack Etc.
Your cup may be full now but in the end it will be empty, and you will be taken care of by good people who have no idea you were such an ass.
I see that you've never worked in tech support. :) The sad answer is that yes, many users are confused by these ads, thinking that they actually reflect a problem with their computer, and proceed to install whatever they link to. Since the site is trying to help non-technical users achieve greater privacy, I find the inclusion of these kinds of ads disappointing.
Thanks for the post! very useful
poo is all good.
> The evidence shows that people don't value reusable bags highly enough

to not throw them out without a second thought.

> due to my own personal preferences

I'm going ignore the snarky tone and address the underlying idea: it's not just my own personal preferences. Clogged drainage systems (see Mumbai, India), visual pollution, injury to wildlife, increased taxpayer costs for trash and recyling; all are due to plastic bags. These are things that affect more than just me: they affect you too, they affect everyone. Plastic bags; their use and disposal aren't things that happen in isolation. Plastic is (effectively) forever. It will remain here long after you or I and our descendants are gone, choking the life out of some lake or pond.
Can fashion, politics, philosophy, or religion help scientists decide what to prove or what to know? Or is that also within the purview of science?
It depends. I am a bit surprised that reddit is not blocked. Neither is hackernews. Apart from classic Google, Facebook, Twitter, AWS is targeted intensely for its role in "affiliated freedom", to the point releases on github are blocked, others not as much.
In case anybody cares, IMO it's a great book but not a great read!
"And how do we expect things like Windows Defender or Microsoft's handwriting and voice recognition to improve if we refuse to share back any anonymized information with Microsoft?"

Exactly by not sharing any information with MS. If they didn't assume that people wanted to share their private information (they don't), they'd create software with proper architecture that doesn't need to connect to the could to do simple things like handwriting analysis and voice recognition.
The phonetic matching doesn't catch "Phuck"
Excellent idea, but the lists need to be expanded. Didn't catch any of the Slavic words I threw its way.
Here's the language from the patent causing all the uproar:

In a fourth embodiment of the invention, the service provider is a lender. When an individual applies for a loan, the lender examines the credit ratings of members of the individual’s social network who are connected to the individual through authorized nodes. If the average credit rating of these members is at least a minimum credit score, the lender continues to process the loan application. Otherwise, the loan application is rejected.
I have always wondered what could they possibly do with all the data they amass with Tempora, until recently I read about SEAS[0]. I just imagine the UK has something similar.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_Environment_for_Anal...
I keep going back and forth about installing one for my parents, after having had to deal with a couple of full screen "ads" that mimicked Windows having a security crisis.

I say "ads" because while the thing was a obvious (to me) scam, it came while browsing Facebook of all places. As such, the only way i could see it happen was via the Facebook advertisement system.
Throughout this thread, commenters are assuming that circuit breakers are helpful and useful. Yet no evidence in favor of that assumption is presented in the WSJ article. The CNN article quotes someone named "Dennis Dick" claiming they are useful without providing evidence.

Under economic theory, interference in markets prevents them from correcting prices and is therefore never a good thing. Certainly Milton Friedman [1] thought they were harmful rather than helpful.

Is anybody interested in sharing positive evidence that they are helpful? Helpful is presumably defined to mean they help prices stay as accurate as possible.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=5NQvv_Z-zKcC&pg=PA151&lpg=...
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"bite" is safe according to this tool.
Any french speaker does a double take when they see that word though, especially in certain sentences.

For reference:
https://askafrenchguy.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/petite-bites-...

Edit: Yes, I have submitted it to the database, it should get vetted eventually. A crowdsourced process for the vetting could be fun too!
There are good reasons to not think trans-generational epigenetic inheritance is possible though. The main piece of evidence is the reprogramming that occurs after fertilization where epigenetic marks are erased and re-established.

You could maybe argue that that epigenetic machinery was transferred trans-generationally during cell division to help in re-establishing specific epigenetic marks, but that's not really an "informational" inheritance.
Most classes have to teach the subject and how to program. Programming is beginning to be an essential skills so they have to choose a language to teach.

Also those classes that chose R, from my experiences, are non CS classes, the professor are from other discipline. They just want a tool that solve their need quick. An example is the Princeton's Stat class, the professor is a humanity major. The class gave us tons of data and we had to do ANOVA and such and we needed a computer to crunch so number can't do by hand. So he chose R which he uses a lot.
Should Tech Professionals Fear Automation?
Christopher Hitchens has an amazing book called "Why Orwell Matters" and I strongly advise reading it. He also does a takedown of Kissinger in "The Trial of Henry Kissinger".
The /r/machinelearning discussion (https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3iayyz/neu...) makes an interesting point about the 18 tasks thing:

> That was my first instinct too. Going back to the dynamic memory networks paper though, it turns out (§4.1) that these are the only two tasks it didn't solve almost-perfectly.
Unless you have an internet connection with an unlimited upstream data allowance you probably should disable sharing updates with other computers
I think the "only" part isn't referring so much to the exclusion of a textbook as the exclusion of projects and exercises. Videos and textbooks are both too passive. The biggest issue with MOOCs in 2015 is the relative lack of active engagement with the material through checked exercises and with teachers, tutors, mentors, and peers through one-on-one engagement (whether in person or via phone or chat) rather than one-to-many forums. Both issues are more expensive to solve, but I'm disappointed that Coursera hasn't used their paid courses to attack them. I suspect that the price of those courses isn't high enough to justify it.

I think that while we've added a couple educational tiers above reading books and articles on one's own, we're still missing one or more between paid MOOCs and "real" higher education.
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Do not trust yet - list is not complete. Some known Polish bad words are not there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
and the alternatives are?

osX invented all this. MS is just catching up. and apple don't even allow you to disable things.

android? chrome alone sends more info than whole windows 10+edge.

now, you could say Linux. but sadly your grand mother has no publicly available product she can buy with that OS.
Interesting! Wouldn't that make him in possession of stolen material?
The relevant difference here is that we have much more clarity around career-oriented programs and we're able to keep the slope under control. Most people can find and establish a reasonable career for themselves. We use a lot of economic tools to make it so it's possible to break into a trade or career, including university, etc., and these programs have been successful in keeping "the slope" semi-reasonable. This has not happened with obesity. We've allowed the food conglomerates to run roughshod over American health in the name of greater sales.

(There is also the difference that it's a lot harder to justify extreme effort expenditure on the tasks necessary for daily biological maintenance, like eating.)

If something is impossibly hard for most people, the answer isn't to scream until the populace does the hard thing, the answer is to try to figure out a better path. You've surely heard the expression "work smarter, not harder".

Taken to its extreme, your logic disavows practically all tools of human invention. "Why would you expect to be able to dig a hole without weeks of labor, clawing away at the dirt? The ground didn't get there overnight and it's not going to go away overnight." We could use a manual shovel and reduce the effort investment by an order of magnitude, or a construction machine like a front shovel or auger and reduce the effort investment by (at least) another order of magnitude.

"Just try harder" is essentially just telling everyone else to claw at the dirt with their hands. There may be a handful of people with just the right combination of determination and imperviousness to self-harm to do this to get a hole, but the vast majority are going to give up early, and it's the same way with the obesity epidemic. It's not about "getting something else to do the work" (again, I think one of the root problems is our supply chain, something most Americans have little to no control over). It's simply about finding a solution that works for the 80%+ of American adults that don't get "the recommended amount" of daily exercise (to the extent which some of these people are non-obese, it's mostly a biological accident (one that is liable to break as they age)) and buy their food from the normal grocery store.

We need to see it as the macro problem it is instead of making a collective assault on the character of the people who can't do it. That may have been an OK solution for the first few years, but it should now be apparent that it simply doesn't work. The trend keeps getting worse. I understand it's hard to let go of that perspective since part of the appeal of fitness for many is the superiority complex, but it's not doing us any favors. We need to let it go and focus on finding a real solution, whether that's returning to a normal food supply, utilizing pharmaceuticals intelligently, redesigning our working lives to include more requisite and natural calorie-burning activity, or something else, we need to find an answer that works and stop clawing at the dirt.
There are numerous photographs of Nazi concentration camps being liberated and the interns coming out healthy and fat along with their kids (who supposedly were killed within 15 minutes of arrival).

Palestinians have every right to be fat or skinny because it is their land, which they are defending against invaders. They do not have to justify their lifestyle to invaders.
much less "bitenuker" which is highly offensive to those who speak either French or Dutch.
From what I see, it's actually selling for USD$19.99. The $24.99 is in Australian Dollars.
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Frankly your "grandmother" is better off not doing this anyway.

She needs the anti-phishing filter, the anti-malicious app & URL filter, and will want useful features like Cortana, predictive search, page compatibility modes, allowing websites/apps to ask for her location (e.g. Google Maps), and her files to be backed up when her computer fails.

You can argue if certain things help your "grandmother" (e.g. telemetry, advertiser IDs, etc) but this seems like to throws the baby out with the bathwater.

PS - Windows 10's defaults could be better. But this takes it to the other extreme, disabling legitimately useful functionality (in particular security focused functionality).
>"The nsa could potentially read my email or track my location. But Google definitely already does."

I don't mean to detract from your mains points about why people aren't in an uproar over these things. But, there is a big difference between what "Google" can do to you, and what a government institution such as the NSA can.
to be clear, Immutable.js "setters" are only there because we don't have native syntax for updates. The article is talking about using setter methods to abstract over data changes so we have a place to run code when things change. That's not what immutable.js setters are for.
The problem starts when the curriculum attaches needless importance to fractions. 'Mixed fractions', wth curriculum-authors? Similarly with adding and multiplying fractions. The emphasis is more on the procedure and getting the student to be able to implement certain procedures, rather than understand the underlying intuition. Let's take two examples: 1/2 + 1/4 and 3/4 + 1/7. For the former there is a heavy intuitive reason for kids to understand adding half to a fourth. If you think about the latter, you are just adding two mathematical entities with little physical relevance. Equivalent entities are 0.75 and 0.142857, there is no good reason why one should stick to fractions when you are dealing with hairy numbers like 1/7. Kids aren't told this, and it complicates issues. The answer that kids are forced to look for is -1-1-/-1-4- 25/28, which is as unintuitively clunky as 1/7. They are challenged to add increasingly hard fractions like 13/37 + 22/7, etc. At this point, kids who can grasp abstract concepts do well, and those that can't get discouraged.

I think physically intuitive math and abstract math should be explicitly identified and treated differently in curricula. Else, the result will be clumsy contrived attempts to find physical relevance to abstract concepts and weaker students falling behind. Dreary contrived problems must be replaced with fun puzzles. Puzzles share the attribute of abstractness-and-apparent-uselessness with portions of the math curriculum.

Somehow teachers and parents find it hard to accept that some topics in math curricula are purely in the abstract realm.

The other meta problem and perhaps a big cause of math anxiety is that the curriculum and system doesn't have much wiggle room to fail at understanding something. The most important quality for success in later life is perseverance when you're stuck or when you hit a wall. The education system teaches the exact opposite: "it is not ok to hit a wall or fail to understand something, you have to learn this right now, else you're done for!" There is very little flexibility to allow students to fail, persevere, and repeat. This is worsened by the needlessly frenetic pace of the academic year.

Edit: D'oh, got 3/4 + 1/7 wrong, it should be 25/28
It's always interesting to review numerical mathematics at this level. If this interests you, you may want to read C Lanczos's book Applied Analysis and Hank Warren's book Hackers Delight as well as the classic MIT HAKMEM report available on the Web. On machines with highly asymmetric architectures it's sometimes worthwhile to use a superoptimizer approach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization). See the classic paper by Alexia Massalin and the gnu implementation.
Cortana is not an essential part of the OS. Malware databases can exist locally. You're just making excuses for MS's anti-privacy architecture.
Do you know of any high-quality phonemic dictionaries?
I love it when folks quote Sun Tzu, you can count on an inflammatory statement which requires clarification.
I'd imagine that for legal/security reasons, you'd get about the same response as any other company:

"We use better than industry standard encryption on private repo data, encrypted with AES-1024 and encrypted in transit via TLS-3 etc etc..."

But, I don't know. What was that quote? "Don't put anything on the internet that you wouldn't want to see on your grandma's coffee table."
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Superoptimization
"pipi" as well http://i.imgur.com/VcSKnTb.png
I'd be really interested in knowing how do they do the phonetic matching. Things like, the nonexistent English word "bocket" sounding like Brazilian slang for blowjob ("boquete"), but only when spoken the way a Brazilian would.

I think this cross-pronouncing thing would actually be harder to tackle: It's more important to try to match the way users on their home locale would say the foreign term, than the way the foreign people would say it.

To illustrate what I mean, consider the word Skype, said in Portuguese, is pronounced as if it were spelt in English as "Shkuipy" (I mean [ʃkaj'pi]).
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When a canary dies in a coal mine, it's not the canary the miners worry about.

The fact that the OS ships with a subscription-based freemium app with ads [EDIT: that used to be free] is, for many people, that canary.
Would love to see courses from https://www.kadenze.com/ listed on there. (Full disclosure, I'm one of their engineers)
I think there is plenty else that is wrong. For example:

* Corporate influence via funding studies (and not publishing the failures), as well as hiring away top researchers (e.g. Hinton by Google)

* The tenure system is vanishing, with more and more staff turning into non-tenured "associates", and fewer and fewer young hopefuls finding a successful career in science.

* Promotions are based on dubious publication metrics.
>The same for cloud based Defender. There is no reason I shouldn't be able to turn it off if I have an approriate replacement that protects my privacy.

Your AV is doing exactly what Smartscreen does and so do many security products. Its a common feature, where are the privacy guides for that? Oh right, there's a double standard for MS.

Also, the author didn't disable Defender because he is using a different AV. He left it on and just disabled the cloud definitions feature, meaning he's not going to be up-to-date on definitions. Cloud defs are a bit different than what you get via WU. Its a dynamic list of suspicious hashes that's constantly being updated via honeypots and such. The author clearly does not understand what he is recommending.
stability is a precondition for existence of any social institution

Luckily markets are an economic institution, and not a social one!

I mean, come on, who wants to participate in unstable market?

Anyone with a rudimentary grasp of trading or speculative investment?
You could draw the multiplication of e.g. 1/2 and 1/2 by dividing half a pie into another half. But you're right, it's harder in many cases and impossible in some.
The problem as I see it has less to do with the evil being done now than with the potential for the current infrastructure to be abused now or later without the citizenry knowing about it. The safeguards aren't about your emails being read. They're about future stakeholders not being able to abuse their privileges.
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Tcl was never meant for that, the Ousterhout way would be to extend Tcl with the data structure written in C. Now Lua has knocked Tcl crown of "designed from scratch with embedding in mind" but at that time Tcl was indeed quite unique and one of the easiest to embed. This in a backhanded way inspired Guile: scheme intended to be embedded and/or extended.

Talking about Guile, lots of fun things happening there lately. wiki.tcl.tk is a lot of fun too.
It would be nice this detected double meaning phrases, although it might be hard to implement.
In spanish many combinations of 'safe' words will generate very 'unsafe' meanings, probably many other languages too.
The difference is consent. You can't opt-out of government surveillance. Also, eventually the resources will exist to spy on anyone in real time, it is inevitable.
"expertsexchange" only matches the Chinese “cha”, and not "sex" or "sexchange".
Lots of apple, and google features are not essential part of the system.

Shall we turn siri off by default?

"Malware databases can exist locally" - You still have to download, and upload definitions. This is what windows defender does. People still complain about that.

It's not that I'm not concerned about privacy. It's the hypocritical nature of people. It only becomes a big issue when Microsoft does it. Anyone else, very little complaints.
"EDIT: Downvoted as usual for correcting false impressions about how free software and open source works."

Are you seriously suggesting that the OP you responded to was comparing "stolen" or "leaked" software to open source? That is probably why you're being downvoted, not because people around here have a false impression as to what constitutes open-source.
Well, there is a basic risk/reward here. If you just do arm curls working one muscle group and you'll be pretty safe but you won't be getting much return on your overall physical health. The deadlift involves your whole body and so you are increasing your surface area or exposure to risk of injury. But that was the whole point of recommending the deadlift in the first place, it works the whole body with one basic movement. And the movement is one of the most basic human movements, to squat down and stand up with a load. There are risky exercises that you should generally avoid. But standing up with a barbell in your hands is a well designed exercise where your body is just doing what it is optimally designed to do. The problem isn't the movement it is ignorance about the body in general and your body's movement in particular.

I think a compromise to your point (e.g. safer alternatives are better than deadlifting) is that advice to do heavy barbell lifts should come with the warning that injury can happen easily and be serious and/or permanent. Proper posture is best learned from someone who is experienced and that you trust your well being to.
Interesting, are you in Europe?