skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I say compensation I'm not restricting it to "monetary compensation". In this sense, the years of "monopoly" over someone's work to benefit from it as they see fit is the actual compensation I was referring to.

As a developer, most likely your clients hold the copyright to the code you write, especially if this is not explicit in any other way. And even if you go one step further, the entire free software movement is based on copyright: the existence of copyright is what guarantees software remains free once published. Otherwise, people could just fork the code and close the source again.

To your last point, given that copyright already exists, is in place, and lasts for way too long, I believe it's the other way around: the burden of the proof lies on whoever wants to change it.
Makes me wonder how much other kind of data they didn't reveal...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection add a new 32 dword "AllowTelemetry" and set the value to 0.

Then, open Services and stop & change startup to disabled on "Connected User Experiences and Telemetry" and "dmwappushservice".

There are bunches of tools and scripts around to do it, but those 2 things are really all that you need to do. Microsoft doesn't stop you from "opting out" of Telemetry by making these changes. All windows updates / etc still work.
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"a kodi setup" means what?

Do you have an HDMI input on your television?

Is there a reason you can not use a chromecast? Apple TV? Roku? Linux PC? Windows PC? Mac PC? chromebook? Amazon Prime HD Stick? Intel Compute stick? an old laptop? a ps4? a ps3? an xbox 360? an xbox one? a wii? a wii u? Many bluray players?

I'm genuinely curious what you're running kodi on that can't run netflix.
"You make it sound like people killed and died over this."

He really did not.

Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cyanogen user on n4 for a long time because I don't want g' bits and bytes on my cellphone I find this unsettling.
I see the following points on it (I would refrain from calling them plus or cons).

-The reason I did the change is avoid G using MY device as their personal Wifi scanning station, the switch meant battery 2-3x more, I hope Microsoft doesn't mess with Android that way.

-If they roll it for all devices I hope they keep a version without it, or an extra package to install like g apps.

-Nice to see Microsoft being so flexible and going on so many fronts, the more they diversify the better, if this makes Android better; Android users win.

-Could this be the start of Microsoft Android?.

-Does "deep integration" offer any kind of advantage?.
Debian?
This is completely false. Scientific studies, controlled, on nutrition and health are going back at least 30 years, and in these 30 years you can find a huge amount of quality research and quality data.

Problem is that no one looks at meta-analyses, no one reports about it.
WHO has reports that are sometimes half-assed and clearly * put large food industry * neutral.

Just take the newest biggest report on eating processed meat being equivalent to 3-5 cigarettes per day (cancer up by 18%). They did a meta-analysis on 800 articles, and in those articles and conclusions authors clearly state that meat can be substituted by alternatives that do not cause cancer, but WHO decided to skip that and mention that there are health benefits to eating meat (high iron which is not that high compared to plant sources, B12 which of course, cannot be found anywhere except animals and fortified foods).

They do the same thing with milk, supplements etc.
"Piggybacking"? Presumably, they're hitting a REST API served up on an HTTP server on port 80 or 443 (hopefully 443...)

And sure - stick it behind a NAT, learn the servers that the systems reports to, block those (or set up your own DNS); nothing that the average mainstream consumer is capable of doing.
Please don't expect an indie software developer to be able to compete price-wise with Dropbox or Netflix.

There's (still) plenty of space in the market for boutique software offerings. I think it's his marketing that needs tweaking, not the pricing. Getting better copy and better targeting could mean 10x more revenue, at which point he can think about cutting prices.
Though I understand why this is done and I'm glad there's a XEP now that's not broken like the previous one I'm not sure OpenPGP is viable.

It might work for tech savvy users but frankly I don't think most people have it in them to correctly and securely manage the lifecycle (creation, access, storage, usage) of a key.
I had to install a plugin for chrome to redirect bing to chrome. Just in case I ever happen to click on the search bar in the bottom which searches the internet.

Can you turn that off? So that it only searches your local pc?
It's awesome that I can share info how many pictures I saw. Totally recommend it to everyone who has pictures!
I'm pretty sure some reporting and telemetry is still active even after doing those things, unless you run Windows 10 Enterprise.

You can get around that by blocking it with a (non-Microsoft) firewall though.
Given how little we know about digestion and the interaction between us and our gut flora I'd rather not limit the variety of my food based on the latest fad. From what I know, certain beneficial bacteria like to eat fibres and starches, a high protein diet can have negative effects on those.
Most of the ones you describe are not consumer facing, they are, or at least were in the case of MSFT, primarily business facing. Consumer facing applications have to be EXTREMELY simple to be huge because people have no attention span and will do the absolute minimum amount of work.

Occam's law for software development: The simplest product will win in the consumer marketplace.
Just ask pjlmp about it. He seems to still be bitter that the lispm and wirth's stuff lost to C and unix.
Why the quotation marks? If you were working on Google Translate, then dealing with this sort of thing would be on your TODO list as an exploit, not an "exploit." As a user of Google Translate it's not helpful, either (that a user thinks that Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia are both evil states does not mean that the user is helped by reading about a war of Mordor against Mordor.) It's funny and all, but it's definitely an exploit.
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What Chicago startups would you put on the list?
> you still need to upgrade all software on the planet and all routers on the planet.

No, you don't. The biggest benefit to using IPv4 as the routing-infrastructure and extra bits (maybe an IP option) to describe the host is that most of the Internet (routers, etc) don't need to get upgraded, only hosts. Routers don't normally mess with the packets so only the first/last wifi/switch actually need upgrading. This is a small number of devices (certainly much smaller than all!).

There could be a few routers that lose the option, and one option is to just fix those routers (still a much smaller number than all routers), but another option is to rely on connection tracking only when the service is behind such a router. The ubiquity of UPNP suggests this path would have worked just fine.

NAT gives us a 32-bit port number pair, which requires memory, makes denial-of-service attacks easier, and is complicated. An IP option means that the hosts track the connection themselves.

Another option would be to move port numbers into DNS. This might've been simple (48-bit addresses are pretty big), and only affected new services. We upgraded all of the webservers and web browsers faster than IPv6 deployed, so this probably would have just been a simple matter of mothballing IANA.

However, I worry we're not actually arguing about what we think someone a decade (or two) ago thought could be the direction to talk about solving a problem.

IPv6 is the biggest deploy attempted on the Internet, and it's been miserable. We should be talking about its failings, its mistakes, and how we could do better knowing what we learned, not patting ourselves on the back for doing the best we could've done knowing what we knew. IPv6 might be inevitable at this point, but that doesn't mean it was right.
Do all of those support static linking with the default tooling? (That is to say, not just hypothetical support, but actual support)

Jeez.
You want me to read it? Okay.

I don't like the introduction, mostly because I believe what he ridicules to a degree (AI is an existential risk, I have enjoyed HPMOR more than Rowling's work, and I'm not quite sure that making lots of money and give it away is worse than working directly for whatever cause we want to support).

Bayesian grace

Bayes T-shirt means certain asshole. Well at least it made me smile.

I agree that Bayes' theorem is not that notable. The product rule, more fundamental, is more representative of the laws of probability (the actual basis for bayesianism).

Of course, the "formula for the perfect brain" is computationally intractable…

The association between Bayesianism and Neo-Liberalism looks like an ad-hominem attack —doesn't apply to me, at least.

I can't comment on this "Bayesian revolution". But I'm already suspicious of the whole essay at this point, and cannot trust this paragraph.

Amazing Bayes

What the author fails to acknowledge here is that to the extent it can apply, Probability theory is that amazing. There are, like proofs of it working very broadly, and it relies on very few axioms. (Jayne's work in Probability Theory: the Logic of Science leaves little doubt about that.)

Absence of evidence is evidence of absence. Often very weak evidence, but evidence nonetheless. Whoever believe otherwise doesn't understand probability theory. (Maybe the author conflated "evidence" and "proof", or "evidence" and "strong evidence"?)

The correct application of probability theory is computationally intractable in many cases. I can see how it would be unworkable for historians, who have to juggle with many many kinds of evidence. Not having read Richard Carrier however, I'm not sure this objection is not yet another strawman.

Accusing Bayesianism to be responsible for confirmation bias is ridiculous however. Confirmation bias does not follow probability theory. It often follows an incorrect application of it however.

Less Wrong

Okay, I'm out. The insults are too blunt, came too soon, without any justification so far. SIAI (now MIRI) as a doomsday cult is a strawman. As for LessWrong, Eliezer specifically warned about the dangers of using rationalist's tools for rhetoric purposes —how your own biases can increase when you know about biases.

I'm not taking the effort required to search for and debunk any justification that might come later. He just used up my patience.
The article's picture of Sergey Lavrov and its caption is comical and clever
Easily removed and has been removed by default in the new version.
I feel scroogled.
Your extension is similar to many other instant-translation extensions on Chrome store. I.e. Google Translate extension (which I use and am quite happy with) is free and has 5M+ users.

IMHO your real problem is that Readlang do
es not offer enough features that would differentiate it from other free offerings.
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Which is why the author is granted a period of time in which they are the ones controlling/exploiting/restricting/etc their work. What I argue for is that this should not be forever. In fact, I would argue that the current generation should be free to derive work from works of their generation too, and not be restricted to "things from the past".

Whether the derived work is bad or good is beyond this conversation as one could argue is original work is not good/bad enough.
Right, shouldn't have thrown them all together. Corrected the comment.
Almost all of what you said applies equally to Python when using NumPy, Pandas, and SciPy.

In R, a Factor is also the bizarre result you get if you load a flat file incorrectly. Lots of things in R proceed without stopping on errors, and you end up with weird data that isn't really usable but still lets your program continue.
> The biggest problem we have today is that uninformed people form such a large percentage of the voting pool.

Considering that 90% of voters have basically zero influence on the government, I think we wish that was our biggest problem.
Great point. I guess there will be a year when more ppl will be killed by drones than by guns operated by human.
Can you provide a working 3v4l.org example of this issue? I'm very interested is what triggered it to not output the correct values for json_encode and serialize.
I don't necessarily disagree, but the problem is you could say the opposite. If you claim that police officers should have the same rights as a civilian, couldn't you argue that civilians should have the same rights as police officers?

I believe that the role of "police officer" comes with the idea that before defending yourself you should be prepared to defend other first.
Yeah I've never seen an implementation of OTR that blocked archival—in the journalistic sense, it's still on the record so to speak. (That being said, OTR's deniable authentication means I can use my plaintext archive to recall the conversation but I can't prove to a third party that it's from who I say it was—nor would I be able to if I was storing the encrypted conversation.)

With the above considered, I'm curious to hear another argument for OpenPGP over XMPP rather than OTR.

(Edit: Should say that there likely are OTR implementations that archive the ciphertext, or don't automatically archive at all. However, having used OTR in Jitsi and Adium, both I believe keep regular old plaintext logs.)
There was some bad update that asked you to confirm what you wanted to open certain file types when you had already set the default, but I've never seen the telemetry tracking options change, and I've double-checked the settings a few time to verify that they haven't changed.
IIRC this only affects Cyanogen OS and not CyanogenMod.

http://www.androidcentral.com/difference-between-cyanogen-os...

So, you should be able to avoid Cortana by using CyanogenMod instead.
You bet that the smart-toilet manufacturers will track the usage. :/
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Ask HN: How to accept payments globally as a business in Sub Saharan Africa?
I have worked over a year on a small side project and I'm ready to launch it. Only thing blocking is I can't use Stripe or even Paypal to accept payments. I was aware of this obstacle when I started but I was hoping that by the time I would be done, Stripe would open in my region.

So my question is, did anybody (not necessarily from Africa) find the same difficulty in launching their business ? How did you go about it ?

PS : My customers will be mostly from the US and Europe.

Thanks
Also related, Google Translate can "learn" and "translate" lorem ipsum: http://tinyurl.com/hue43an

Not sure if this is a bug or a feature.
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think cyanogen is different from cyanogenmod. One is the rooted power user rom, the other is some more standard style rom without root.
Users will _only_ consider your pricing to be expensive(ridiculous) if the service you provide does not match up to the money they are paying.

The easiest way to know if you are being too expensive(ridiculous) is to compare your own service and pricing, to the average service and pricing provided by companies offering a similar service.

I pay $19.29 annually for the Pro Finch VPN service..
https://www.finchvpn.com/order/?product=pro
I don't think the pricing is high,,, i find it very fair compared to the service i get.
Ubuntu has indeed probably exchanged a notable percentage of its userbase with this affair.
Oh really[1]?

>Second, there is no evidence that “culture outweighs economics as a matter of public concern” among Frank’s working-class white voters. The apparent political significance of social issues has increased substantially over the past 20 years, but more among better-educated white voters than among those without college degrees. In both groups, economic issues continue to be most important.

Do the poor vote against their interests, or do upper-middle-class people in poor areas vote their own interests while suppressing the vote of the poor?

[1] https://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/kansasqjps06.pdf
That was my first thought, but the article has this paragraph near the bottom:

"Although translations are managed automatically, it is possible for users to suggest alternative translations manually.
However, the BBC understands that this was not how the errors were introduced."
I fully agree with the complaints, but I never understood why this outrage doesn't happen about e.g. Gmail (or all of ChromeOS for that matter). Lots of people virtually live in Google Apps, which certainly does a lot more tracking than Windows 10 does.

The argument that "it's OK because it's on the web" just doesn't cut it anymore guys. An application is an application.

We should just be as angry about browsers that do tracking and web apps that do tracking as we are about OS'es that do tracking.
In the past they were supporting XMPP but they deprecated that at some point.
And worse is that the only reason I have windows in the first place is to play games. I don't need to do anything else on it, but I have to have it in my life because big game companies will not make games for linux. Hell, I'm so excited for Oculus Rift, but at this point they have even dropped Mac support (understandably, they don't have the graphics power), so if I want to experience VR currently, I'm completely limited to windows, not even playing indie and valve games on linux.
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How would one quantify who much CalPERS has lost to high frequency trading?
It is pretty much accepted now that high frequency traders are, through dubious relationships with various stock exchanges, front running the financial markets. The hardest hit are large institutional investors. While it might be hard for some of us to care about whether the Bank of Canada is having it's bottom line marginally effected, I think we can all be incensed that pension agencies like CalPERS are getting fleeced. This directly affects California taxpayers. This being the case, is there a ballpark estimate of the cost to CalPERS attributable to high frequency trading?
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Language wars again :)
I think both languages have their own strengths. I come from a programming background and took to Python. However, I often come up in situations when there are R implementations to some advanced statistical routines and none exist for Python. I'm sure vice versa would also be true. So, this is an attempt from that angle :)
No you can't. It looks like it can, but there are various edge cases that aren't handled.

See https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/01/20/docker-and-the-pid-1-zomb..., section "A simple init system".
Which VPN services have you tried? I've found Tunnel Bear to be good enough for streaming Netflix in HD and they have a very easy to use Chrome Extension + Android App.
Illegal immigration from Mexico has turned negative since the Global Financial Crisis and the Great Recession. There is basically no "massive illegal immigration" of Muslims at all.
All good points (though to me, option 1 is more preferable to option 3 :)

I'd like to point out, if you're not aware already, that tor additionally supports authentication for hidden services on the network layer. You can put a "HidServAuth" line in your torrc, which will then create a key line you must place into your clients torrc. Only clients with the key can connect to the hidden service. You could use that either in place of or in addition to bespoke web app auth and SSL. That way you also prevent people enumerating tor hidden services from knowing what's running behind your service.
Open source OSes look more and more attractive every day...

I still haven't upgraded and I'm preventing the updates to 7 that add the telemetry nonsense, but I can't help feeling like I'm getting more and more watched every day.
In this thread: mostly web devs whose sites and apps definitely don't use analytics.
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Active balancing is actually really cheap, if I'm remembering correctly. In an ideal situation the cost should be zero as the corrections required would be infinitesimal. That case isn't really reached, but the robot I worked on massed 150 kilos and probably spent way more power on computational homeostasis then it did on balance.
You mention that R doesn't deserve the bad rap it had 5 years ago. Less than two years ago I learned the hard way that R reference counting had only three possible counter values. 0, 1, and 2+. So if you took a second reference to something then deleted it, that object's reference count would stay at 2+ forever. Then if you modified it, Copy On Write would kick in, even though there was only one reference living. This was the source of crippling inefficiency in production code. I asked about it back then and the reply was yeah, R does that, hopefully it won't soon. Broken Copy On Write was not acceptable to me in 2014.
Does anyone have an estimate to the difficulty of using Dafny as an annotation to programs written in another programming language?
I'm thinking of one on a different OS (Linux) than the MS Windows OS for which Dafny appears to be written.
Yes. Stay well away.
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51% of the voters control 100% of government.
2/3 or them could be described as "right wing"

purely a right-wing phenomonon

In your opinion then, what should we say to someone that thinks 2/3 is equal to 100%?
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MS has received and paid about €561m monopoly infringement fines from EU Commission for "forgetting" again to provide the choice of browser in the first 14 months of Windows 7 [1], totalizing €2bn fines from EU. Times seem to have changed though, as no-one seems to be pursuing MS for Windows 10.

[1] Last lines of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp_v_Commission
Interesting, I wasn't aware PostgreSQL didn't have UPSERT until now. MySQL has INSERT on DUPLICATE functionality that is similar.
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I'm not happy about Gmail tracking, but the information Gmail has access to is limited to what ends up in that email account. An OS's access is potentially everything on the computer.

To me, privacy is about control (deciding who gets to see what) and having an OS that phones home with who knows what information means I have no control once information touches my PC.
if nothing works, you can try bitcoin.
I think the implication here is that a person may think something like:
"Well, they may not help the economy, but they will stick to my core issue that is important to me and I will be happy with that."

When I speak to most people on politics they truly believe their candidate is better on almost ALL the issues, not just a core value they agree with. Whatever the underlying lever you believe turns a specific set of people to one political party or another, they have an annoying habit of also buying into the other BS the party will spout.
I wouldn't use Windows (especially 8+) for anything other than superficial activities like gaming. It's a shame as Windows is more polished, but I miss the days when an OS was an inert thing you didn't have to think about (damn you Internet!).