skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it just is a victimless crime is all. Clearly the author of the parent post didn't hurt anyone, so it had no victim.

It's probably not worth it to get into it, but I think I'd prefer a situation where you don't get punished for "pre-crime" like driving under the influence, but you get punished extra harshly for anything that causes damage as a result of something like that. So crash into a pole when sober, pay a fine. Crash into a pole when drunk, fine plus 3 months in jail. That sort of thing. Similarly you can imagine a lot of the outrage about jaywalking would go away if jaywalking were legal everywhere, but causing an accident or traffic jam while jaywalking would carry a hefty fine. This allows people to make local risk assessment decisions for which they are taking responsibility (it's 2 AM and there are no cars around - is it worth it to cross now knowing that if I do end up causing an accident or traffic jam it'll cost me $500?). Not saying it's a perfect system, but it seems like a start in addressing the legitimate concerns people have about victimless crimes.
While I am aware that warden and things like it can scan the memory of processes, I don't think they are granted full access to read everything on your system. I believe their are restrictions like the file must actively be reading / writing your processes memory before you can scan it.

There is definitely 0 reason that they should be scanning all of the files on your computer and storing them in some sketchy gibberish registry settings. Who knows what else they are looking at.

This is no different then Sony putting rootkits on their audio CD's in order to "prevent piracy". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
My opinion is, first, that this development is fueled for political and national security gains mainly and the commercial aspects of it are lower on the list. And second, if you try to measure the richness of those countries in dollars, they might be poor because they don't have dollars nor totally free access to markets where to obtain those dollars but still their natural resources, the work force and their political support (for the Russian interests) are valuable assets.
A choice I'm sure they will regret in a few years...
I love this stuff. I'd love a heat map superimposed over the code that represents the range of the values and the likelihood or risks of sub expressions overflowing or underflowing.

I'd like to capture the execution flow of a method, visualize it and then watch those visualizations diverge from the old code to the new code.

The runtime could collect a minimal representative set of function invocations and then use that in a visualization during the edit,debug cycle one could see exactly how the new code diverges (kinda like having a column of inputs in a spreadsheet).
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That doesn't make much sense. As a competitive runner in school, I was under a 5% body fat percentage without really lifting. Now I do lift and I'm at about a 23% body fat percentage (and nearly 3x the arm strength I once had). Runners tend to have a significant lower body fat percentage than lifters, even at a professional level.

More likely is that the OP just isn't doing enough. Running 25 miles a week is enough to bring about significant benefits in health and fitness along with moderate weight control benefits. 25 miles a month is just a waste. Going up from 1-2x per week to 3-4x makes a huge difference.

Most likely is that it's a dietary issue. While living in Asia, I knew many, many non-exercising people at healthy weight levels just because they didn't overeat like Americans tend to. The OP probably doesn't eat like them.
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A fitting cartoon analogy for cartoon logic.

I am reminded of an Alan Moore quote:

“In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic book that would detail the murky history of the C.I.A., from the end of the second world war, to the present day. Covering such things as the heroin smuggling during the Vietnam war, the cocaine smuggling during the war in Central America, the Kennedy assasination and other highlights.

What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slog through in order to accomplish this, was that yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists, and ham fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the C.I.A., you really have nothing to worry about. If however you have a name similar to someone on a list targeted by the C.I.A., then you are dead?

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening.

Nobody is in control.

The world is rudderless...”
I think the key here is that the CEO of EA (or whoever at EA decides these things) does just that: "Create a new Fifa game that dramatically increases how easy it is for people to control players around the field." Then suddenly different division of programmers and designers go off and have meetings, decide details and over a year or so put together the next version which is then beta test it with the stakeholders.

When we have AI, why should we expect it to be so different? Just because the search space is vast, doesn't mean that it is impossible to find a solution, it just means that there is a vast solution space as well.
Honestly, though I actually use and like Steam, I absolutely hate how the walled garden / vendor lock in approach is making its way into PC gaming. There are games I 100% would have bought except for the fact that they force you to buy it through Origin. The only way to play without it is to use a pirated version.

Part of me wishes they could outlaw these types of things, but I don't really see any way you could logically force someone to make their platform available to competitors.
It's not easy at all to enter into a contract with a large number of employees. Nobody wants to do things that way, including the employees. Individual contract negotiations happen only on a small scale; as you stated, typically only for executives or sports teams, which may total <= 30 individuals.

I've personally tried to negotiate a contract in an at-will employment state with a company when I accepted a directorship there. They refused to budge on it. It was at-will or nothing, and their excuse was "We've only ever heard of that kind of thing for C-levels". I would've been giving up a lot of flexibility too, and most employees wouldn't be ready for that or willing to do it.

>Every dollar going to the staff is a dollar that isn't available to the executive team.

That's not how corporate structure works, especially corporate structure in a progressive startup like Pixar used to be. Yes, there are performance bonuses for executives, but there are also profit sharing bonuses and stock options for rank-and-file employees, which creates an interest in the company's welfare beyond the universal "I don't want to lose my job". It's silly to act like there's a direct inverse correlation between dollars spent on wages and dollars forwarded to executives' personal bank accounts.

At this point I'm convinced this thread is just an anti-capitalist, anti-business crusade by misguided justice warriors. Pretty disappointing for a platform that's supposed to be intended for entrepreneurs.
If you are somewhere that network connectivity is an issue, there are usually free parking spots and no laundromats. I guess oasis vending machines could feasibly be an issue, but you're now hoping that some niche market solves some of bitcoin's problems around being a better solution than existing options.

Cryptocurrency's design targeted the libertarian dystopia related to the interdependent nature (and potential abuse) of governments and their currencies. Given that the dystopian context doesn't exist strongly enough, other options will continue to have advantages within the current context.

You're more likely to show benefits with this when you can provide oppressed peoples' crypto-wallets with balances that can be converted into subversive tools. This, of course, will gain more of certain types of attention than a young currency could want.

Paying for parking is easy as it is. Same with paying to wash clothes. If you can't get cities and coin-op owners to upgrade to card swipe technology, good luck with selling them on immature digi-currencies.

Cryptocurrency needs to think less about catching up in various verticals and more on creating the killer value app... and the problem is nobody is seeing big $'s around the things that today's currency transfer technology has trouble with. We're on the cusp of IoT. Internetless internet-based currency?
Scientists develop material so dark you can't see it
I have developed a game. Can you give me shell access to your box?
Real Estate is sexy; Real Estate Tech isn't
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Isn't evil as undefined as good?
Isn't it nice how you can make most things sound evil if you just use the right wording. What you wrote reminds me of cases where law enforcement takes terms like "subversion" used by an engineer and extrapolates evil plots out of them.
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Some pesticides are pretty harmful some are really not.

The burden of proof is on the advocates of pesticides.

I'm utterly exhausted by the endless hair splitting and PR campaigns. As a consumer citizen, I do not have the resources or wherewithal to determine which pesticides might be acceptible. When negative information is routinely buried, such as the brouhaha over honey bee colony collapse disorder, I've completely lost my patience and confidence in agribiz and its captured regulators.

They can all rot.
Ok - then I'm angry about dumb politicians taking no action because of dumb political opinions that are untested unverifiable or just plain dumb

Did I mention dumb?

:-)
Let's see... he's a human with his opinions, knowledge, and internet access. He can claim whatever he wants.

It's the same thing that gives you the right to ride quixotically in to win the internet for billionaires everywhere this fine day.
Likely as a result of the DMCA takedown request that has blocked access to their repo: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-07-11-MPAA.m...
What do you think of the work that Philip Guo [0] is doing? Specifically the youtube video.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8002839
Are we going to witness another Clinkle sotry (http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-story-of-clinkle-2014-...)?
> I’ll use “Final Fantasy 7″ but you can mentally replace that with whatever suits you.

The author is not making a distinction between "art" and "programming". The translation of natural language to a program is arguably much easier than the translation of natural language to a work of art (drawings, animations, music, etc.) because there are fewer assumptions about the world that the machine has to make.

Also, it's probably going to be very hard to reach a point where natural language can be translated to a work of art, but it's not impossible by any means - just envision a large machine that has all the inner workings of a human brain (hopefully a human who was good at making art). All you have to do is tell it "make something good", and it can do it.
Interesting: as mentioned elsewhere, jaywalking used to be called 'walking'. Car companies marketed the idea that pedestrians didn't belong in the road with cars, which up to then had actually been built for pedestrians to walk in.
Why is "everything on steam" a perfect world scenario? Give all the power to one system that already has significant problems with DRM and offline play?

We learned monopolies are bad this decade, again. Or is that again again? Or again again again? Or maybe it was again again again again again. I can't keep track. But we have a large portion of our population clamoring for every game to be on Steam or every house to be on Google fiber.
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US sends military draft notices to men born in 1800s
They likely can't vote to make specific decisions, but Google is accountable to its shareholders nonetheless and could be held legally liable if they were to do something detrimental to shareholder interests.

Not sure how much of a remedy that really is, but it's at least there.
This is a very bad argument. To add to what 3pt14159 (and the very first blog commenter) said: it's clear that distinct English sentence don't correspond to distinct possible programs; that's silly. A much more sensible way to think about it is to consider the mapping between distinct English sentences to the sets of programs that a human speaker would consider to have fulfilled the request embodied in those sentences. Those sets define a partition of the space of all programs (i.e. equivalence classes), and you can think about the challenge of automating programming as creating a function that maps English sentences to at least one member of the corresponding equivalence class.

Of course, that doesn't help you solve the problem much, but at least it will keep you from getting confused like the OP is.
I actually don't worry too much about them.

It's if/when these massive tech companies go bankrupt and monopolistic control crudely goes to the highest bidder (likely some leveraged buyout organization) that I worry about.
Y2K bug finally strikes!
This reminds me of when Blizzard did the same thing to us Diablo 2 players almost ten years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warden_(software).

They did so very openly, although you clearly couldn't play the game without submitting to the requirements.

Of course, this was back when things like having the government surveil our library history was considered a big deal in privacy. Culture's changed quite a bit since.
Spare me.

We hear a constant litany of people complaining about being disrupted. You can't also claim no disruption is happening.

Examples: giant taxi strikes and regulatory fights, the "Google bus" protests in the bay area, cities fighting against AirBnB, a restaurant suing Google for putting them out of business, France passing another law to try to stop Amazon's growth there, proposed laws against drones.

Of course there are lots of silly little startups like "Yo", but that's just noise. You only hear about them because they're easy fodder for the media. Everybody in startup land knows that 99% of them amount to nothing. That doesn't mean the other 1% won't change everything.
I've not used popcorntime and didn't really believe it would work with a smooth experience (and when you've got Netflix why bother?).

But this: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-07-11-MPAA.m... ... this is great marketing for popcorntime. It shows it working and giving an experience that looks very much like Netflix.

Seems like the MPAA have given popcorntime some free marketing.

Reading the DMCA notice though, does it really apply to a repo of code?

Their argument is that it can access infringed content (but so could a web browser, or network media player, etc) and that MGM vs Grokster means that "the distribution of a product can itself give rise to liability where evidence shows that the distributor intended and encouraged the product to be used to infringe". But if Github can be considered the distributor of the product (rather than just the hosting company for source code) then I'm not sure Github have ever intended or encouraged use of the product to infringe, or indeed whether Github have any interest in the use of code hosted in repositories by them.

Do Github just roll over on DMCA requests? Or will they challenge ones like this where an entity is requesting a takedown even though the code itself contains no infringed content and Github have not encouraged use of the code to infringe?
This is a huge win for improving the usability of foreign data wrappers. The initial setup today is a bit pain and convenience tools as this will get many more people using them. Though as 9.5 is at minimum a full year a way you could get some similar result of this from the query below. The query will create SQL to run on the one you're trying to create the foreign table to, to establish all tables in the DB as foreign ones.

SELECT
'CREATE FOREIGN TABLE '
|| quote_ident('#{prefix}_' || c.relname)
|| '(' || array_to_string(array_agg(quote_ident(a.attname) || ' ' || t.typname), ', ') || ') '
|| ' SERVER #{prefix}_db OPTIONS'
|| ' (schema_name ''' || quote_ident(n.nspname) || ''', table_name ''' || quote_ident(c.relname) || ''');'
FROM
pg_class c,
pg_attribute a,
pg_type t,
pg_namespace n
WHERE
a.attnum > 0
AND a.attrelid = c.oid
AND a.atttypid = t.oid
AND n.oid = c.relnamespace
AND c.relkind in ('r', 'v')
AND n.nspname <> 'pg_catalog'
AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'
AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'
AND pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(c.oid)
GROUP BY c.relname, n.nspname
ORDER BY c.relname
What is power consumption telling us about the US economy?
Crash into a pedestrian, and you go to jail for 3 extra months?

I am biased because I lost a parent to this, but unlike, say, smoking weed in your house, driving under the influence has a near 100% chance of endangering people around you. Just like how people need a license to drive a car,it's not unreasonable to ask you to not be so selfish as to endanger those around you just because you got wasted and want to drive home in your 3 ton machine.
"and when you've got Netflix why bother?)"

Because Netflix takes forever to get the latest movies, and is filled with terrible straight to dvd movies! :)
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You sound very unlike someone concerned about trans issues and very much like a pedant with poor intentions.
There is testing, science etc for things like pesticides and residue. The burden has been born and carried to a conclusion. Its new claims that the testing was not good enough that have a burden - its easy to call foul or claim hidden problems, then be conveniently too exhausted to do anything about it. Sometimes its not that problems are buried; sometimes they're not real.
Actually the UserAssist reg key is meant for windows explorer usage tracking and does the ROT13 encoding automatically. You can turn off the encoding or tracking in general. Source-http://www.aldeid.com/wiki/Windows-userassist-keys
Fun with rendering timezones
Come on.

The article specifically ends with this after setting up the scenario:

>I’m not saying that Page is going to abuse his power. I am saying that he could. And that, should make us uneasy. If the old saying is true, that power corrupts, then perhaps Larry Page has too much power for one man.

The point is obviously that Google has far too much power in our society, in excess of just about any other organization, even some governments, and that the Google motto shouldn't make us trust them with it. No one should be trusted with the power Google has. The people at the helm are only human.
Not acceptable at all. Whoever came up with that scheme is a psychopathic criminal for all I care.

But then again, once you start using proprietary software you expect there is a gorilla holding your banana and with him comes the jungle.

Not even once.
Looks interesting, kinda like Snapchat's My Story on steroids. I would suggest redoing the voiceover with a better mic and less gain, there is some obvious clipping going on there. Also, cut the music track down a bit, and maybe pick one without vocals. It was kinda hard to understand at points, but maybe that's just my rock-concert ears.
Ugh I really hate articles like this.

For one it asserts that we should have an issue with others getting rich. Even if the net gain for society is 0, what is the problem with other people getting rich? Does it impoverish you in any way? Maybe you could make a case for price rises hurting the poor - but the author doesn't mention it and I don't think that's his/her angle.

There's also an incredible elitism about what a company "should" be.

> Are our kids going to say we boldly explored the range of human possibility by putting a million dollars into a mobile app that sends a pointless text message saying “Yo”?

Guess what? People like emojis and filters and flappy bird. The author doesn't have a problem with the "startup scene", he/she has a problem with humanity.
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Which wording do you speak of? About the only loading used here is "Lex", which was borrowed from the article. The remainder is a fairly plain depiction of reality
The UserAssist registry key was meant for tracking Explorer stats. EA is just reading a reg area that windows is already tracking. Also, you can turn it off. Source- http://www.aldeid.com/wiki/Windows-userassist-keys
It's not a question if someone with too much power will abuse that power. It always happens, always. It's not a question of if it will happen or not, it's a question of when and under what circumstances.

That's why we have the division of power in governments, that's why we have countries, because too much power concentrated by too few individuals will always get abused. If not by the individuals themselves, someone else or another organization, the NSA comes to mind, will find a way to abuse that power at some point in time when the conditions are right.
Dijkstra reduced it to a couple of sentences:

> Hence, computing science is —and will always be— concerned with the interplay between mechanized and human symbol manipulation, usually referred to as "computing" and "programming" respectively. An immediate benefit of this insight is that it reveals "automatic programming" as a contradiction in terms.

From https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...
Interesting notion; but you quickly get into a situation like those Genie stories, where the Genie is always doing something you didn't expect. Imagine a computer trying hard to optimize its response to a spoken sentence. "Show me all the records with my name in them." {Ok, I'll delete all the records with his name in them, and show an empty list} and so on.
> If this is what EA is doing then they had better have a really good explanation.

Or?