skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even assuming that law was necessary (debatable), the idiotic thing was asking millions of websites to do this, instead of automatically in a handful of browsers. Not to mention absurdities like the fact that you need cookies to remember that the user doesn't want cookies, or even worse: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/633551359774691328
Linux creator explains why a truly secure computing platform will never exist
Good HTML Parsers typically use engines of browsers and will actually match websites very well. They'll let you use selectors and not regex and are a lot more accurate.

It also won't break if the website adds a single attribute or a quirky value.
What I find interesting, is that Bill Gates (and others) are doing literally this, giving large amounts of their wealth away to people other than their kids, and yet it doesn't seem odd in the slightest to most people.

The obvious retort is that he has more than enough, even after his charity, which then begs the question: how much is enough? In particular, does Bill Gates only have "enough" relatively, or is there some absolute level of enough.
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Did Dropbox and Evernote Heed the Lessons of Flip?
True, too bad I can't fix in the original comment

"The 16-bit segment selector in the segment register is interpreted as the most significant 16 bits of a linear 20-bit address"

However, Wikipedia has a funny quote on that

"Once the BIOS has found a bootable device it loads the boot sector to linear address 7C00h (usually segment:offset 0000h:7C00h, but some BIOSes erroneously use 07C0h:0000h"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#BOOT-LOADER
Or how about Google making a form of Adsense that doesn't track users?

I somehow have a feeling that large corporations intentionally are trying to make this law ridiculous. E.g. why blogspot pages would need such warnings? Please Google just stop tracking.
AlesForce Says It Doesnt Support CISA After Signing Letter That Suggested It Did
A big part of specifically why it is tolerated in many ways for the military is that politically nobody wants to even think about military spending cuts for fear of being labeled "anti-veteran" and "anti-America." So many voting US citizens are veterans (70+ years old) and almost as many come from an era when they were treated pretty ok following WW2 that they'd think quite poorly of military defunding given how much it's given to them. And somehow, today's military is drowning in debt servicing pensions and benefits for service members while all these scandals of poor treatment by the VA for cost cutting reasons show up.

The acceptance of a pro-military policy by so much of the country is a very important one to consider as a major differentiator for the US compared to most developed countries and why others tolerate the US politically and economically. Some view the US as what other countries allow to have a weight politically so they don't have to spend money on a military and instead on social programs for their citizens.
The Art of Handling a PR Implosion
Cookies are integral to the operation of every modern website. They offer security in the form of features like csrf protection or maintaining login state between visits. There is sufficient protection for cookies in the form of encryption and a laundry list of further details which have been added over the years.

There are far larger security related concerns on the web. The cookie warnings are on par with if you had to agree with Javascript running on any page you visit in the EU. So, yes, I want to auto-accept.

As a developer I feel like I'm not going to make special considerations that ensure you can use forms on my website without cookies enabled. And I'm not going to find another way to detect and re-instate your login state.
Sure, you could pack more people in, at the cost of quality of life for people who live there. But why would you want to destroy a nice city full of historic buildings just to cram more people in? It's ridiculous.

A forest of skyscrapers like the nastier parts of Hong Kong? No thanks. Besides, you can't increase the amount if road space or the amount of footpath available. And geography makes it an awful place for ultra high density, you can only get out in one direction.
Nor will regexes...
So, when engineering crazy things, many valuable lessons are learned that could help us all. Do we get any of that knowledge for this product WE paid for?
I suppose it depends what you want. I have a colleague who lives in youth hostels in Taiwan, working remotely. He loves it.

But I don't really understand the "give up basic privacy to pursue your dreams" thing. Seriously, programming is programming. You can do it any place in the world. If your goal is to strike it rich at a startup in SF... well... good luck is all I can say. Are these the new 49ers?
Yes, the model can be loaded onto your phone. Details are here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/21329845
Well sites like YouPorn, RedTube and PornTube etc, despite being ridiculously popular, haven't deployed any kind of TLS. They don't care about your privacy. It's low hanging fruit... far too tempting for the likes of GCHQ, with their capabilities, to just ignore.

If you don't want people spying on your porn habits then boycott sites like this. And if you're running a porn site, consider going HTTPS only, turning off access_logs (or purging them regularly), and providing a Tor hidden service.
Yeah, from a technology point of view, they're necessary.

The law is half baked and passed only to appease people who worry about their privacy. And it really doesn't do much...
> "Redis is very fast as long as you use O(1) and O(log_N) commands"

Well, like you say, to me that particular practice would be pretty obvious. More helpful would be a page that shows the time and space complexity of the various commands, akin to the following page for Python:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/TimeComplexity

Edit: Yeah, like the Redis documentation, lol. I think it says a lot for Redis that I almost never need to visit the docs, other than the single page that lists all the commands (back when it was red was the last time I actually needed to look at it). Once you know the commands, quickly reading the changelogs provides me with all I need. Anyway, all that to say I had no idea Redis already provided this complexity information, don't remember them having this back when I first used learned Redis (although maybe they did). Good to know.
So your rig will generate absolute zero in the middle of the day when the sun is above your head.
Hi HN, I'm the creator of this filter list.

If anyone can spare 5-10 minutes a week to help me and a couple of others maintain this list (testing and merging pull requests, closing issues, etc.), I'd be very appreciative!

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I'm curious what you found lacking; I've been using Elixir for personal stuff for a year now, and every time I've thought what you said, I've gone to Erlang and found an OTP module that either covers, or goes far beyond my use case. José's said that they deliberately kept the stdlib small for this reason, that unless there was a pressing need to wrap the underlying Erlang libs, they would be excluded from the Elixir stdlib

For a minor example, recently I was building a representation of a rectangular tiled game board, and after fighting with the stdlib and lists for a while, found I could just, out-of-the-box and with a bare minimum of effort, build a directed graph, with built in pathfinding and access.

What you get for free is phenomenal
> This guy believes in PROVING PSEUDOHISTORY. It's hard to understand what that even means, but let's look at specifics

No, he does not. He only said that a good book proving pseudohistory sounds totally convincing to a history layman like him, and so does a book disproving the previous book. Since he can't tell what is false from what is true without huge amount of effort into studying history (no one has time to study everything in that amount of detail), he concludes that his only solution to stay sane is to ignore both arguments and stay with the general science consensus.

> But it is utter nonsense to assign 100% probability to any of these (that's what proof means, it means 100% likely). These just aren't provable matters.

That's your implication, nowhere written in the text. The guy hangs out in rationalists circles, he knows better than to assign P=1.0 to stuff. I know because I read quite a lot of his articles.
From my experience, most of the sites that have this warning only have a single button: accept. No way to disallow the cookies that get stored regardless of how you react to that popup. This will just save me a click.
https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/3mfgix/new_project_jd...
I don't think the law specifies to use cookies to disable cookies and it's a good thing - lawmakers shouldn't care about technological solutions.
It would be nice if the iOS and Android built-in Contacts apps had better support/integration for all the various messaging apps that work on their respective platforms. Rather than trying to remember who uses which services, their contact card could simply contain the entire roster of their services and usernames, and you could initiate a conversation in that service from within the contact card. I know you can do this with the baked in messaging services for each platform (SMS/MMS and iMessage for iOS, SMS/MMS and Hangouts for Android), but I'm talking about a one-stop-contacts-shop for every major messaging platform. Maybe that would require too much cooperation between messaging app authors and the big OS vendors, but I think it would be possible.

An alternative solution would be a cross platform third party Contacts app that offers that kind of integration. I've seen multi-messenger apps (Trillian, IM+) for both platforms, but that's not quite the same thing and it inevitably leaves out important functionality from the official apps.
Gives me an idea for audacious and fearless entrepreneurs : go start a new city and make it the new high tech center of the world.

Actually, it's an obsession many countries had for the last 25 years : create the new silicon valley. Nobody has ever succeeded.

Now, another idea : instead of making this city in the real world, just create it virtually on the web. With all the people working from remote places, the physicial location doesn't really matter that much anymore... You'll need online universities, research labs, and places to hang out and meet people. That would be a fun project.
It's a free country. Lots of people want to live in SF. It seems rampantly unfair to say that only those who were lucky enough to be born there get to.
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this is actually in the command documentation: i.e.
http://redis.io/commands/exists

> Time complexity: O(1)
NeuCoin
Who says I care about historic buildings?
You mean, akin to the redis documentation?

http://redis.io/commands/sort

"Time complexity: O(N+M*log(M)) where N is the number of elements in the list or set to sort, and M the number of returned elements. When the elements are not sorted, complexity is currently O(N) as there is a copy step that will be avoided in next releases."
It could be useful to give publishers this option. It would also be interesting to see what difference it would make in terms of revenue?
My generous assumption is that the ridiculous home-delivery business model is designed to get people talking ahead of a fully intended pivot to selling the condoms in stores.

Or something. Otherwise it's a ridiculously terrible idea. The number of people needing condoms, yet wanting to wait an hour instead of popping down to the convenience store, is not something you can build a business around.
Jeez, I got to like operation 3. That said, I am surrounded by beer cans, so... yeah, don't drink and derive.
Yeah I like it too... as a character it's fun and silly and everything I like about being a developer. What I don't like about it is exactly as I said: too shifty looking. As you say, it's time to redesign and improve it. It doesn't have to go away and it could remain the company mascot if they wanted. I would hope it does. (also, I'm not sure it's a fox? is it?)

I actually feel a bit bad saying it and sad this is the top comment right now since it's a fairly minor point and way less important than what they are doing. I just think you have one chance to make a first impression about what your company stands for and the logo is a big part of that. In fact it's one of the parts that is most likely to end up representing your brand on other sites. Looking at their site, I think they care about that a lot and put a lot of effort into it so I hope this comes off in the best possible way.
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Yes as the Nature article says, the commenter who gave Tao the initial idea is Uwe Stroinski, who received a PhD in mathematics from the University of Tübingen.

Just repeating his name here because i think his contribution should not be missed.
One way to look at it as world-changing is a reduction in STD spread and a reduction in unwanted conception. Condoms are world-changers and this brings them closer to people who could make bad decisions because a condom is out-of-reach.

It's like Uber: taxi in an app. Think about all the lives saved because of the convenience of Uber when drinking. I was taxying about before Uber and it wasn't a pleasant experience: you always had to have cash on hand and 2AM calls were expensive. Now it's super convenient, no cash, no problems, no excuses and it saves lives - it just wasn't obvious at the outset that this is where it would lead to.

There is definitely some shit that won't make a difference, though. Condoms on demand is not one of those things that won't make a difference; whether that startup fails or succeeds comes down to delivery (specifically: how fast).
Painting robot follows your eyes to create art
This law aims to protect users from being tracked across multiple websites. There are exceptions in place and most websites would not need to display any message, unless they are in fact helping track their users.

If they include services like Google analytics they should absolutely display the message.
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For sure, I think the biggest problem (besides WebAudio kinda sucking still) is them basically open sourcing very fancy DSP algorithms by making them visible with "View Source".
I agree, it totally depends what you're after, and how much you value your privacy. It's like the difference between staying in shared hostel dorms vs. private hotel rooms when you're travelling. I've just been travelling for the past 6 or so weeks, mostly in hostels, and although I've missed having a private room, the money I've saved by being in shared dorms (not to mention the people I've met) has made it totally worth it. For me of course :).
Is someone maliciously downvoting OP's comments? Granted a few of them don't say much more than "thanks, will keep you posted" and OP has made 5 HN submissions on Gitcolony over a year (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gitcolony.com). But unless I'm missing something, I see nothing downvote worthy here.
> These laws are still evolving and changing. Different for every country. We don't have something international we can build standards upon at this point in time.

Not every country. This is EU legislation after all; any website hosted in one of the 28 member countries has to abide.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10281746
This stupid cookie notification law was actually the main reason why I had to enable cookies permanently. My browser used to delete all cookies at the end of the session (when I closed the browser) except for a few whitelisted domains.

Then these notices popped up everywhere. So where do the sites store the information that you've already seen the notifications? In the cookies of course! So if you're actually serious about your privacy and delete cookies you will the the notices every time...
People jumped down my throat, here on HN, whenever I brought up this very fact over the last couple of years so I find it interesting to see it reach the top. I guess we have to rotate targets more slowly over time.
Any use of the word "conservative" outside a quantitative comparison should at least be disregarded and at most set off alarm bells that a deceit is underway. In no case should you draw any further conclusions about the outcome based on some presumed directionality of such a qualitative modifier. "Conservative compared to what?"
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Give a try to kafka ! It worth the value and in practice zookeeper is not a big burden.
How about Sympy, http://www.sympy.org, https://github.com/sympy/sympy. Not sure if "good", but seems reasonably popular on Github.
As long as there is a significant portion of society willing to work 6+ hours a day, the remainder of society will have to live up to comparable conditions. The reason is because in a capitalist economic system, the gatekeepers of wealth will push up the prices of rent, loans, and other heavy-to-enter spheres, making the 6+ hours of work a requirement for basic sustainable living. When I say sustainable here, I am including the ever-increasing educational, technological, and other requirements for obtaining worthwhile employment. Sure, you could live in a hut without electricity or running water, but nobody is going to hire you; and this required level of "decency" grows with time.

Put another way, there is an ever-increasing "tax" being placed on society from those who exploit the masses. Increased production efficiency allows the bourgeoisie to increase this societal tax ever more.
I'm guessing the problem is not so much shared housing/youth hotels as the price asked for them.
Why block them? It's good that websites have to be more transparent with how they are tracking users.

It is however inconvenient for the websites. They could always stop using privacy-invading ad networks and external services which track users and then they wouldn't have to show any message.
I think they hoped this law would encourage sites that people don't expect to have cookies to not set cookies until necessary.
Like state sponsored news sites for example. I mean, really: why on earth does a site like that need to set cookies? To remember which videos I have watched?

The real problem here is probably Google Analytics.
I clicked on "Sign in" which took my to Github, where I confirmed. That took me to https://www.gitcolony.com/?error=not_found. When I explicitly revisit https://www.gitcolony.com, then I am still not signed in. The "Sign in" button is still there and if I click on it I am taken to https://www.gitcolony.com/?error=not_found again.
Frankly, the requirement of notice could (and should) be pushed on to user agents – not sites. For one, it would help standardize both the user experience of notices – and leave the UX of website specific notices alone – but also it would improve the current state of things where many (most?) sites in the EU simply don't care or know about the legislation.

The last thing we need is more cruft sent across the wire.
The reason that the EU cookie law broke down is that directly after the EU directive was issued, several lawyers from large companies changed their interpretation of an older 1995 directive that dictate how consent is given. The directive says that consent require "specific and informed indication", but lawyers from very large companies decided that the act of continuing using a website was the same thing as giving "specific and informed indication", thus users agreed to whatever policy or agreement that is linked in the banner.

I visited a conference during that time which had a panel where those lawyers was discussing this and even brought up a question if a person really could agree to 20 pagers of policy document from the mere fact of just continuing using the website, and their collective answer was yes (through one agreed that 30 pages would be too much). To my knowledge no legal case has ever tested this, and thus we got this ridiculous cookie notice system where things has gone from bad to worse after the 2002 directive.
Perhaps something is deeply wrong with the way companies approach the internet if millions of them have to display a notice that they are tracking their users.
I've said it before and I say it again:

- For security focused websites, it's a no go to include 3rd party domains for any content.

The fine folks at keybase responded well last time and moved the font files to their own servers (thanks!).

This time, they host images at S3 and therefore leak metadata about their visitors directly to Amazon.
"did not permit to re-raise exception"

BS.

>>> try:
... 1/0
... except ZeroDivisionError:
... print "oops!"
... raise
...
oops!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero

"did not allow you to replace the printing function"

More BS.

from __future__ import print_function

Poof! Now I can replace the printing function.

"had a range object which is not memory efficient"

And a range object called 'xrange' which is memory efficient.
While I'm loathe to agree with the conspiracy theorists out there, the only way this whole ordeal makes sense to me is if he (or an associate) had a massive short position on biotech. Shkreli is far too smart, and his actions were far too extreme, not to have anticipated this response. This article even mentions that he had previously attempted "to influence the FDA not to approve certain drugs made by companies whose stock he was shorting," and is arguing that he made "fatal" flaws in his handling of the controversy.
Dude is going to reap in the pussy from this discovery.
Hilton hotels in credit-card-stealing malware infection scare
There already existed a plugin for this https://cookiesok.com/, but it misses quite a lot. Hopefully this works better.
I don't know. I'd say London's 'Silicon Roundabout' and Medellin, Columbia have successfully given a crack at the startup scene and that's to name a few..

On your virtual city idea, I genuinely think with the success of second life, you're onto something here buddy ..
I'd join
The "real" technical solution here is to standardize a modern authentication system separate from cookies and have things like "do not track" actually work. The industry has, seemingly deliberately, failed to do that. So the EU has rightfully argued from "first principle" that privacy and data protection is more important than the status quo in the industry.
I call it the Tolstoy model:

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family
is unhappy in its own way"

You only need one value for success/true. But you need many to indicate the modes of failure.
I am probably missing something here, but if a delete happens asynchronously wouldn't that make the key still be available?
What happens if you check if that key still exists in a different operation as you're deleting it?

Also, how slow is an operation to rename it before you delete it?
A tongue lashing and a lashing are different. Is your day in court actual or metaphorical? Pick one instead of playing word games.

You are mistaken if you think people should only be taken to task within a court hearing.

In any case these guys are never going to court.
Why should we be ashamed of something that was done before we where born, should the Germans still be ashamed for world war two, should US citizens still be ashamed for what the US Army did, should the Italians be ashamed for what the Romans did, the French be ashamed for what Napoleon did?.

I accept our history, I'm not ashamed of it, it's history and I wasn't there.

However I am ashamed to be British for the things we currently do.
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