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>It is not clear that privacy (specifically privacy of data on Microsoft systems from court order, if that's what you mean) is necessary for democracy

Microsoft has included a keylogger [1] in Windows 10 that's enabled by default. Everything you type from a Windows computer is stored on their systems. They also "may" collect data from your microphone. Every modern Windows computer is essentially a wiretap. And all that is just one warrant away from government agencies. They're collecting more info on you than the KGB could ever dream of.

[1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2974057/windows/how-to-turn-...
There are more and bigger "threats to democracy" (whatever that means) than what they are cherry picking here, which indeed makes this a very politically charged initiative.
Wrong, that change only happened in the dashboard, not on the actual blogs.
at that point you might as well just require() a js file instead of skirting around the issue of code vs config.
I have. They're awful
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806627
Gosh! How is this even legal?! Thank you for mentioning that.
You just downvoted me, that's really rude of you
This particular version of 20Q does allow quite a few answers besides Yes and No though.
Since nobody mentioned Anacron, I will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron
Deals with the server possibly being down for a period.
The "morphism" property is completely unneeded for idempotence and the "endo" part is implied :)
Newbie programmer here, but even I am already implementing finite state machines which handily fix this sort of issue.

Any sort of UI without them now feels archaic.
Any stunt that painful would not feel like much of a stunt. No, it was quite real.
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This is the most elitist thing I've read today, and it's only 10:30am.
> there is absolutely no consequence, the comment is in no way highlighted as unusual or unwelcome.

It's flagged and dead, unlike your comment, which is merely flagged. You're replying to a comment dang wrote after https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17808124 What else would you like to happen?
I'd love to see an x86 HP-UX build running on a Z workstation. absolutely not going to happen but still.
I wouldn't like to see that. What's an ad, what's a tracking script? Regulation like this usually has unintended consequences.

I'd expect the push to come from browser vendors. Either by blocking ads that aren't in those elements by default, or feeding them garbage data.
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What’s the problem? Public companies with the majority of shares owned by the executives have this same incentive.
After thirty years of smoking, I've found no real difference between sativa and indica strains. There are a half dozen different deltas of THC, and CBD has it's own. That's where the real variety in effect comes from. But it could be any strain that has this. The general consensus is sativa = active, indica = sleepy, but I've found it both ways. Ultimately the grower/gardener has a much bigger effect on the quality than the strain.
i seem to remember HP having made these a number of years ago
OStatus is currently implemented by Mastodon but essentially none of the rest of the post-Activitypub fediverse - we’ve more-or-less standardised on Activitypub as a protocol which solves many of OStatus’s problems.
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So how did they get LPs?

I don't know what the pitch was prior to "I turned $100k invested in Robinhood into $20 million of paper gains" but I think I have a pretty good idea of the conversation after.
This is great, but I'd like to know if it extends in the other direction; one of the great ironies of the Trump Administration has been the wrecking of the State Department, who along with the CIA have had a habit of getting involved in the elections of other countries. Up to and including replacing democratically-elected socialists with military dictatorships.
"...It’s clear that democracies around the world are under attack..." Yup, and it's very clear which country is responsible for performing most of those attacks. Is Microsoft offering any solutions to protect the rest of the world too?:
"...the country intervening in most foreign elections is the United States with 81 interventions, followed by Russia (including the former Soviet Union) with 36 interventions from 1946 to 2000 - an average of once in every nine competitive elections..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_electoral_intervention
Presumably the benefit they get from providing discounts to 4k companies will apply as much or more with 15k? It remains to be seen if they'll go for it, but people here are going to try.

The participation trophy analogy doesn't really hold because being open to all startups was what the original planners of Startup School (including pg, Sam, and others) really wanted to do. This forced things back in that direction, which hopefully we'll all be grateful for in the end.
An essential aspect of an artistic work, whether it is structured from words, matter, sound, or behavior is that it has a human author who “intends” it to be art. An important part of this is that it has no other intended purpose. (This is what separates it from design.) So it needs a human author. The AI created images could be turned into art if someone could credibly claim such authorship. In the instance of the images in the post, they are not intended as art, so some kind of metaphysical alchemy would be required to convert them. (A big name modern artist claims them as his own, with permission from the developers, and puts them in a show.)

In addition to the work itself, the framing or presentation is essential to complete the artistic product. Printing the images out on nice material and framing them would help.

John Cage’s 4’33” is (IMO) a brilliant performance piece. It requires the context of a stage, of live musicians to be effective. It doesn’t work so well as a recorded piece!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4′33″
That is hardly "all the alternatives". Some of the alternatives to the Vixie cron family (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17005677) are:

* Uwe Ohse's uschedule, http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/uschedule/ https://ohse.de/uwe/uschedule.html

* Bruce Guenter's bcron, http://untroubled.org./bcron/

* GNU mcron, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17002098

* Thibault Godouet's fcron, http://fcron.free.fr/

* Matt Dillon's dcron, http://www.jimpryor.net/linux/dcron.html

Other toolsets include Paul Jarc's runwhen (http://code.dogmap.org/runwhen/) which is designed for first-class services individually scheduling themselves.
Guys, maybe it will be reasonable to send emails with text like “check out your acceptance thru the following link”? Doing this you will track openings and if smth is going wrong, you will work only with guys that saw the wrong info.
And what about the last your decision: it will be really hard for you, but it’s the only one way to fix everything. So, good luck to you with this and thank you!
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Perhaps I have missed something as all the streaming services I have are for my personal use - but can't they just limit the number of concurrent connections from a given account?

It'd be pretty lame if you had to check if your friend wanted to watch something before using Netflix and that'd probably drive anyone who was actually a lost sale (rather than someone who will never pay in any case) to purchase their own account.

I realise there are family deals etc. but that's a risk the companies take in creating those deals (that they will make more money than they will lose).
At least you can try out a fictional one here:

http://www.falstad.com/circuit/e-mr.html
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NextDoor isn’t exactly technically savvy.

NextDoor is a glorified mailing list, but they don’t understand basics that mailing lists have handled for 20 years. For example: When a user activates Digest mode, he wants a SINGLE E-mail that comprises the day’s or week’s posts. But NextDoor sends the digest AND all the individual posts as well. No wonder their server loads are so high!

They also force people to use E-mail addresses as user IDs, which is amateur-hour and a major security risk for their target audience. And they also can’t figure out how to send notifications to an E-mail address that isn’t the same as the one they forced you to use as an ID. What if you change ISPs?

Sigh.
The Ashton Manual is good resource, but the state of the art taper method as far as I know is the liquid titration (via suspension, not solution) micro-taper. See, e.g., https://www.google.com/search?q=benzobuddies+micro+taper+liq... .
The Netherlands exports a huge amount of food and loads of the work is fully automated. For the work which isn't there's still a lot of seasonal work. For that they do employ people, often from lower paid countries such as e.g. Poland. Poland isn't far away from The Netherlands.

From what I saw in a documentary the Dutch farmers heavily optimize pretty much everything they can, not only through automation.
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From the logs it sounds like maybe the password was in some lookup file or something. i.e. somehow that password was leaked and added to some list somehow.

Maybe you’re right though.
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I'm very curious how this develops. It was already a bit strange to notice that one of the several container technologies available got significantly more visibility thanks to a smart marketing team and targeting Mac and Windows users. Personally, I'm using LXC and related technologies and see no benefit in switching to Docker whatsoever. Eventually most people run their containers on Linux anyway, and the LXC's way of doing things seems very native and natural in this environment.
I wish I could but I can't so I shan't.
> Why? Blaming only the stimulus and simultaneously ignoring identified behaviors is not scientific.

Nobody's doing that. Nobody is ignoring that behavioural factors contribute to addiction.

But you are making weird unscientific claims and spouting utter nonsense like "it isn't the nicotine or its addictive effects that make cigarettes addictive"

I mean seriously, that's utter, utter nonsense that can't be dressed up scientifically in any way at all. Nicotine is highly addictive. Nicotine is addictive in cigarettes, in e-cigs, in snuss, chewing tobacco, gum, inhalers, patches, all forms that people take it. Yes, addiction to any of these has a social and psychological aspect as well as a variable physiological aspect depending on the individual.

But to claim that nicotine isn't what makes cigarettes addictive is so insanely far wrong that, really, it's just stupid and goes against the evidence on this subject.

> Everything you have said to me hinges on your claims of "obviousness" and emotional distress at broad categorization.

This is also wrong. I've pointed out that you are factually wrong in your categorisation of drugs into two groups, factually wrong in declaring that one group is magically instantly addictive and one not, I've explained to you that your ideas on cocaine were not only wrong but weren't supported by your source material.

The vast majority of what you have said has been just plain incorrect. This is not emotional distress - you just haven't got a clue, and you can't back up your weird assertions and distinctions with evidence.

What it seems like is that you empathise with addiction to stimulants, possibly having had experiences and addiction issues with them yourself. But you don't empathise with people who use what you call depressants. You're taking subjective judgements and unscientific ideas and trying to dress them up or justify them as scientific.
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I operate on the principle that the Web was invented for publishing information to the world, so I don't publish anything (blog posts, comments, etc.) that I don't want available to the world. Hence I'm fine for bots to scrape it, copy it, aggregate it, whatever (as long as it's not plagiarised, but that's a different discussion ;) ).

Spyware monitoring my browsing habits, down to the real-time location of my mouse pointer, is not something I want to be exfiltrated from my computer and correlated into a political or commercial profile.
This was my first instinct uppon reading the title.

Up untill sliding windows, there is at least a paragraph dedicated to making the algorithm constant time. It is not mentioned why this is important, but at least it is somewhat noticeable. After that, the idea of being constant time gradually disappears.

At one point, he moves towards EdDSA. Ironically, (if I recall correctly) EdDSA was seen as an improvement over EcDsa partially because it is easier to avoid timing side-channel attacks.
This one comment sums up the changes nicely:
https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/issues/6910#issue...
A download went from 5 steps to 12 steps, to improve the Docker experience?

The irony is the resulting statistics might actually say less people had a negative experience with docker, now they dont even download and try it...
>"Microsoft collects and uses various types of data, such as your device location, data from your calendar, the apps you use, data from your emails and text messages, who you call, your contacts and how often you interact with them on your device. Cortana also learns about you by collecting data about how you use your device and other Microsoft services, such as your music, alarm settings, whether the lock screen is on, what you view and purchase, your browse and Bing search history, and more.”

>But this is not all, as this piece of software also analyses undefined “speech data”: “we collect your voice input, as well your name and nickname, your recent calendar events and the names of the people in your appointments, and information about your contacts including names and nicknames.

>But Microsoft’s updated privacy policy is not only bad news for privacy. Your free speech rights can also be violated on an ad hoc basis as the company warns:

>“We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to”, for example, “protect their customers” or “enforce the terms governing the use of the services”.

https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-print-how-your-persona...

>How to turn off Windows 10's keylogger (yes, it still has one)

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2974057/windows/how-to-turn-...
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So, kind of like children.
Chances are, a smartphone isn't going to give you the DoF you want (except by "faking it" using post-processing). There's a direct relationship between aperture for a given focal length and the front diameter of the lens. With a tiny lens and a low f-number, you're going to have a small focal length and therefore a wide DoF.
I heard this proposal a lot, and I think it's very SF/tech centered. Big tech and finance would buy every visa and suck all the talent from the world.

But sometimes the best value for the host country is to get an immigrant doctor that's willing to go to a rural area for less pay than the big tech engineers.
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https://www.hpcwire.com/2015/06/11/hp-removes-memristors-fro...

But what they watered it down to (and not delivered on that either) seems to be roughly equivalent to that fancy flash memory you can buy now for the new intel chipsets.
"Microsoft does not collect any personal information via inking or typing.... The data is put through rigorous, multi-pass scrubs to ensure it does not collect sensitive or identifiable fields (e.g., no email addresses, passwords, alpha-numerical data, etc.). Data is also chopped into very small bits and stripped of sequence data so it cannot be put back together or identified. The data samplings collected are limited; Microsoft is not capturing everything you write, nor is it capturing data every time."

https://lifehacker.com/what-windows-10s-privacy-nightmare-se...

So the keylogger part (your claim "everything you type from a Windows computer is stored on their systems") isn't true. Anything to back up your webcam claim? Your rant about what Cortana collects is necessary for Cortana to do its job, just as storing emails is necessary for an email service to do its job.
The controls don't matter - you can't get shallow DoF on a camera with a lens/sensor the size of the one in your phone. This is why the new iPhones mock it in software.
Yeah, I’m confused by this too. My experience and perception has always been the factory bottled stuff is way better than the fountain stuff you get in a restaurant.
I wonder how many of those bully-inducing UI features are also present in software like Mastodon or Diaspora, and are therefore disasters-in-waiting, to be triggered once critical mass of users is reached.
Seems like a very low probability event. This would’ve been done in the stock market a long time ago if this was a problem. Buy put options on Berkshire Hathaway and then kill Warren Buffet a few days later. Profit.
Just as a response to some that think this is indications of some conspiracy, or a billionaire president on the take from coal interests or whatever else.

- Ignore the pros, why shouldn't we have coal? It has negative effects connected with climate change.

- Ignoring the cons, why should we have coal? It's represents a good amount of relatively high paying jobs with no barrier to entry. This [1] article gives a fair overview of employment. There's about 174k jobs directly involved in the coal industry. The number of jobs that are indirectly supported by the industry is more open to 'massaging' but ranges from the hundreds of thousands to the coal industry's estimate of > 1 million. It's not a huge number of jobs, but what is unique about these jobs is the compensation and skills requirement. The skill requirements for much of the work are nothing but an able body and ability to learn. And the average earning for non-supervisory roles is about $22/hour.

The current president is not so concerned about the consequences of climate change - thus from his worldview he's going to see the argument against coal as being little more than a push to make these jobs just disappear. And this stands to be devastating to some states, and especially to some of the states that helped put him in office. For instance the entire labor force of West Virginia is 785k people, and of those you have 20k in mining alone and some multiple of that in coal dependent jobs. That's a huge part of their entire economy and laborforce. People constantly bemoan the lack of good paying jobs for those without in-demand skills, and this is one of the few industries where people without a strong technical background can get those very jobs.

I don't agree with Trump on this, but I also don't see why so many people seem to have difficulty seeing how people can come to different conclusions on things. People have different worldviews, and this is not only okay -- but a very good thing. And when you take even the briefest of moments to try to see things through somebody else's eyes, you'll often find that their actions make perfect sense, even if you might indeed disagree with them.

[1] - https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Coal_and_jobs_in_the_U...
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Yes, I considered that, and it wasn't a personal attack, but rather a plea. This was (I believe) a new account and one should, if possible, to read the full discussion first before commenting. If I was on Slashdot, I would probably use -1 Redundant, which tells the GP same thing as I told him manually.

Not to mention, Eco seems to be quite different game to what I am proposing. It might also have the mechanic of exact accounting for resources, but it remains to be seen how rigorous that is.
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American engineers are getting shafted by the H1B visa program. The H1B work harder because they have a figurative gun pointed at their heads. Work or leave the country. Why would any sane American work that hard?

It is a race to the bottom and the big tech companies at playin with fire. The societal damage is currently unquantifiable, but for an astute observers and people with common sense it’s not good.
I thought they also cheated on the RF emission test.
I think another proof that the U.S. is not about spreading democracy but only seeking it's economical interested is illustrated by Tunisia. The tiny nation is the only democracy in North Africa and is struggling economically. If the U.S. were adamant about supporting democracy, the obvious thing to do is to ensure that Tunisia succeeds in becoming a full democracy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#/media/File%...
And in 2005 Google came up with Google Accelerator, which has shown many sloppy programmer what happens when you use HTTP method which is supposed to be idempotent—GET—for others purposes. What happened that GA crawled all the links it found for prefetching and some of them were "delete" links in admin interfaces.
I think that was the biggest push not to use GETs to modify data :)
How does a yard translate to higher quality of life?
Because a closed-source company is open about being a for-profit commercial entity that is trying to make a dollar first and foremost.

Docker is "revolutionising infrastructure" or something. It doesn't have "make heaps of money" as it's primary goal. Partly this is because open source. There's an expectation that open source is also "for the greater good".

The cardinal sin of our times is hypocrisy. Being a money-worshiping greedy capitalist bastard is fine, as long as you're open that that's what you are. Pretending to be altruistic while actually being greedy will generate all the hate.
> people were foreclosed on when they should not have been

That's not what happened here, though; the homeowner managed to avoid foreclosure despite not servicing the mortgage, precisely because the banks messed up the paperwork.

There are victims in the overall saga: people who were missold mortgages that they were never going to be able to service, at rates higher than they were entitled to, who lost their savings as a result. But they don't feature in this story.
This is nothing more than a thinly veiled Office 365 marketing ploy.

If their 2FA is anything like what they’ve done with Azure I wouldn’t be holding my breath. Microsoft is barely out on parole in my eyes from their horrid security and privacy track record, and has shown many signs of recividism to be engaging in this charade.
In theory? Yes. In practice? No. UN is for all practical purposes controlled by the big five with permanent seats in the UNSC. The US' influence over NATO amounts to control. And so on. Most multilateral organizations are controlled by one of the big countries.
I'm not sure about how this works in the US but in my country (Germany) "commercial use" does not actually require money to change hands or operating at a net profit. And last I checked copyright laws (if they apply to the content) apply to everything you create, whether you monetize it or not.

That HN comment of yours? If it's sufficiently non-trivial, it's protected by copyright. Even though neither you nor HN directly make money of it. If someone scrapes HN and republishes that comment, you could go after them and demand they delete it.
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