skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting use:

https://vimeo.com/157990864

This library lets visitors rearrange the books organically (if you pull out multiple books on a topic, you're encouraged to put them back on the shelf together instead of finding their old homes). The books are tracked with RFID so that they remain easy to find individually.
They have an investigatory arm of their own and have been known to go after corporate data, particularly email, as part of looking into what they believe may be tax fraud.

One could reasonably question why this isn't a department or division of another agency, perhaps NCA, but I think it's a fair statement that forensic accounting and investigation is a somewhat specialised skill.
I remember my musical teacher mentioning me about Mozart being over-solicited in his childhood and that that affected his adult life. He died young, after years of health issues.
I hate when they generalize the EU as Europe.

Just because the EU does not get their shit together does not mean other european countries are in the same boat.
As a non-native speaker this sentence actually got me a bit unsure (perhaps because I looked too much at it):

"Buy one, get the second half off."

Is that meant as the second unit you buy, you get half off? Don't know if this is a common way to phrase a discount like that in the US..
I suspect that the op is not a normal SV resident I suspect that they come from a culture where child labor is stil Dickensian.
Bruce Lee played it very smart and attained a guru status in the West, but there's no evidence he was a world-class fighter, only unsubstantiated claims by his entourage.

As for JKD, people are drawn in by its oriental esotericism, but there's no evidence it is an especially effective fighting style, or that it has something that (kick)boxing does not.
I've seen executive disconnect work the other way too. I'm currently sitting in an empty room because the rest of my team resigned in the last 5 months thanks to a short-sighted executive directive.
> ...the overall structure of the algorithm - MCTS, deep neural nets, reinforcement learning - is very general.

It is general in the sense that humans can apply those algorithms to different problems (and have been doing so for decades). It isn't general in the sense that we can't apply AlphaGo to other problems unmodified. AlphaGo can't even play chess badly. It is not really even a step toward strong AI. (Note that "strong AI" is a term with a specific meaning. [1])

> The other is that what you asked for is completely unreasonable.

That's tantamount to saying strong AI is unreasonable.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI
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This is a slightly different situation since it's within the realm of possibility for companies to implement security measures which make it difficult (or impossible) for interception of data by LEO.

That isn't really true in the case of houses so there's no need to legislate for "TSA locks" (master key system). Obtaining a warrant is still required but once you have authority, you can bash in the door, drill the lock, etc.
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I am non-UK citizen living in the UK. People will not respond. The government and business can literally do anything here regarding sharing of private data with whomever they chose and barring a few "miscreants trying to stir up trouble", the general population will bend over, twice if you say please. Mustn't grumble!
Something tells me you will see this report on FB all day today. Nothing goes viral like controversy over a health matter.

Nvm, whatever celebrities are doing goes more viral.
If you're baking a cake, and have never done so before, you don't wade in and try to make the multi-layer chocolate scratch cake with ganache first.

You buy the box of Pillsbury Funfetti mix[1], measure out the cup of oil and crack two eggs in and mix it up and pour it into a 13x9 pan. Bake it up and throw some canned frosting on top.

Is this going to be the greatest cake in the world, no; it's ceiling is maybe 80% (or maybe higher, depending on how nostalgic you are for Funfetti). But it's hard to really screw it up.

[1]http://www.pillsburybaking.com/products/funfetti-1378
Where this analogy breaks down is that the people sent to track you are invisible and can't be seen without the aid of special technology. So what you end up telling people is that they are being followed everywhere by invisible ghosts, who's only desire is to change what ads appear in their newspaper. And it appears that the reaction of most people is about what you'd expect.

If a store has policy of "If you come into our store, we'll have employees follow you home" and you don't like that policy, then don't go to that store. That simple. It doesn't make sense to go into the store and have your goons beat up their employees. That might mean that you can't go to the stores you want to go to, but that's how it goes. It seems as clear online as it does in the physical world.

(tldr without the analogy: The overwhelming majority of people don't care about being tracked online because there are no obvious ill effects. The problem with ad blockers is that it makes more sense to just avoid sites that show ads, but most people don't want to do this because it would exclude their favorite sites.)
I wonder if most of the politicians in the UK actually understand what they're doing here? Some research have shown that in order to recognize brilliance, you basically have to be brilliant yourself:

http://www.livescience.com/18706-people-smart-democracy.html

In another story on Hacker News today, I find the following: "She offers a sample math problem from the test: You go to the store and there's a sale. Buy one, get the second half off. So if you buy two, how much do you pay? "High school-credentialed adults, they can't do this task — on average," says Carr."

http://wamc.org/post/americas-high-school-graduates-look-oth...

Clearly, the majority of the voters in a democracy aren't very intelligent. This probably means that most of the politicians in a democracy, such as the UK, aren't very intelligent either.
These things also have a habit of growing arms and legs - so another issue is the number of people with the key. I can almost guarantee that at some point the number of people with the key will grow (police forces, councils...)

Yet another issue is oversight of those with the key (who watches the watchers)
Exactly. I am using the same analogy to explain non-technical people about tracking, ads, surveillance etc. so that they can relate. Otherwise the abstract technical concepts seem like coming out of a science fiction story to them.
It's not "perfectly fine online". In fact, much of it is already illegal in most civilized countries, and has been long before internet was a big thing.

However, any attempt to execute and finetune legislation and regulation to explicitly include the online is generally either ridiculed (example: the EU "cookie law", which is actually a "don't track without explicit permission" law) or portrayed as anti-American protectionism on forums like HN.
I can figure out multiple implications. Apparently some of them contradict each other.
It's not just banking. How can sites be so credulous to include 3rd party javascript into their login form pages? It's an invitation to steal your users' credentials!
If you really must rely on a 3rd party captcha service put the captcha into an iframe or put it on a separate page.
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Not if the result of the trial is predetermined with a sentence to death or life in prison.
How does it compare to Python or Ruby?
If that's all you got from it then I should really do my best to write better. One of the key parts - to me - is that the data silos start trading your data as if it is theirs to whoever pays for it, and that goes a lot further than a real time bidding on ad space, even if that was the initial drive to collect that data.
> remember non-compliance — whatever the immediate consequences to yourself — is the only acceptable course of action

Seriously, can we get away from these fine-sounding (but otherwise utterly useless) slogans and clarion calls? There has to be a better response than a scorched-earth policy.

I'm a software developer based in the UK currently working on an app which will probably be affected by this bill. Apart from destroying the product and/or risking jail-time, are there any sensible options? Can I incorporate somewhere else in the EU and run everything from overseas? What if I am not a UK company but a DE company and everything happens from there?

I realise it's early days, but I'd hope HN could come up with some informed suggestions.
It is funny how things change when you use the physical world metaphor. There was a campaign recently by the Dutch regulatory agency that made people aware of the implications of allowing permissions in "free" apps.

They made an (anecdotal) video by promising a free cup of coffee in exchange for your contact list on your phone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYXM56YJWSo (Dutch unfortunately)
The problem with AirBnB is that they want you to scan your id card and send it over the internet. Which is illegal here in Germany. I would not use a company that wants me to do illegal things in the first place.

Additionally they want access to your Facebook account, which I find offensive as well.

I travel a lot in Europe. Since I prefer to stay in apartments over staying in hotel rooms, my approach is to look up local apartment rental sites. Usually I find good deals this way. I only stay in hotels if I absolutely must. Apartments are so much nicer.
If you carry a proximity card in your rear pocket, that's pretty much the same thing except that there's no surgery and it's easy to swap out or discard when no longer useful.

Source: the door-opening sensors at my college, many years ago, were all located at the right height for a key in the back pocket to activate them. I referred to it as the "buttprint identification system".
Allow me to please add another dimension to this discussion. First a couple of facts, South Africa is in top five set of unequal societies in the world (the rich are really rich, the poor very poor). Less than 1% can afford personal trainers. Obesity related illnesses now take up bulk of health budget. Not to discount the value of personal trainers but in certain countries/scenarios it is just best to get on with exercising.
Where do you live that road construction is efficient?

It might just be that I live too close to Massachusetts, but we have a whole repertoire of "How many road workers does it take to change a light bulb?" jokes around here.
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"Those will not be a career path for much longer."

How can you tell?

EDIT: Swift being dependent for the most part on someone's ecosystem - maybe, but Python?
Don't forget the complete absence of any kind of error reporting. Typos, syntactic errors, semantic errors are all silently swallowed. Bugs in your layout are basically impossible to diagnose without altering your layout at random and trying to reverse engineer the underlying layout algorithms.

Not to mention that the layout model itself is painfully limited. The other day I tried to implement a card layout --- that is, a box containing a bunch of components all arranged in the same place, with the box itself being the maximum size of the components inside. As far as I can tell this is simply impossible in HTML without explicitly sizing your layout, which rather defeats the point.

I'm currently working on a web app based on Polymer. This helps a lot, as it gives me a nice modular framework with composeable components and local namespaces, which takes a lot of the edge off some of the pain of CSS. But that just casts the pain of trying to design UIs in HTML into stark relief.

...I did once find a pure Javascript layout engine; it didn't use HTML layouts at all, and positioned everything using code (and CSS transforms). They claimed to be actually faster than stock HTML.
"the only acceptable course of action".

In your opinion, perhaps, but my gut is that most people would comply rather than spend several years in an 8x10 cell.

https://twitter.com/nixgeek/status/708267763089989632

I'd be interested to see how the numbers turn out on that!
can you elaborate on how that happened and when?
> For that last 20%, they just get in the way and cause more problems than they solve.

This is why my preferred measure of an ORM is how effectively one can write your own SQL with it, and what you get out from your database call when you do so (do you still get "real" business objects or just key-value pairs?)

That said, I've found you can trick even a rather recalcitrant framework into making sophisticated queries by setting up a database view and tell your ORM that the view is just another table...
No. My response will be one of two things:

1) Shut the company down, lay off 50 employees, leave 100 clients without revenue, damage the UK economy to the tune of £300M/yr.

2) Go public, go to jail, and (1) will then happen anyway.

So frankly throwing the towel in looks like the only sane course of action, unless you have a magic wand to affect government policy.
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With Airbnb you usually get a kitchen where you can cook your own food and save lots, compared to staying at a hotel and eating out every day.
What is meant by "populist" in this critique?
>If a store has policy of "If you come into our store, we'll have employees follow you home" and you don't like that policy, then don't go to that store ... That might mean that you can't go to the stores you want to go to, but that's how it goes.

Actually that depends on the laws of the country the store is in.
The test checked literacy, numeracy, and IT skills. US did fine on literacy, so-so on numeracy, and last on IT skills. Which is interesting given where most tech comes from.

Here's an example of the sort of task you had to complete (http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2016/2016039.pdf):

> Level 3: Meeting rooms (Item ID: U02) Difficulty score: 346
This task involves managing requests to reserve a meeting room on a particular date using a reservation system. Upon discovering that one of the reservation requests cannot be accommodated, the test-taker has to send an e-mail message declining the request. Successfully completing the task involves taking into account multiple constraints (e.g., the number of rooms available and existing reservations). Impasses exist, as the initial constraints generate a conflict (one of the demands for a room reservation cannot be satisfied). The impasse has to be resolved by initiating a new sub-goal, i.e., issuing a standard message to decline one of the requests. Two applications are present in the environment: an e-mail interface with a number of e-mails stored in an inbox containing the room reservation requests, and a web-based reservation tool that allows the user to assign rooms to meetings at certain times. The item requires the test-taker to “[u]se information from a novel web application and several e-mail messages, establish and apply criteria to solve a scheduling problem where an impasse must be resolved, and communicate the outcome.” The task involves multiple applications, a large number of steps, a built-in impasse, and the discovery and use of ad hoc commands in a novel environment. The test-taker has to establish a plan and monitor its implementation in order to minimize the number of conflicts. In addition, the test-taker has to transfer information from one application (e-mail) to another (the room-reservation tool).

Basically, users are given an intentionally badly designed user interface in which they receive no training, and a task that is impossible to accomplish within the obvious constraints of the interface, and asked to accomplish a goal. It simulates the experience of being a low paid customer service rep in the third world using crappy software and seeing if you can handle it or not. If one has common sense, intelligence, and a sense of valuing their own time, they will recognize this tasks as useless BS and refuse to cooperate further in the test.
Three of those were plugins and the last was proprietary to Internet Explorer only, although I'll admit it was also worse than Javascript. "Javascript: It's better than VBScript!"

And despite being an (awful) plugin with an IDE that cost $600, Flash won in the pre-iPhone/V8 era.
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If you physically move to Germany, perhaps, but it appears you would need to discontinue all operations in this country. Nobody employed here, no bank accounts, etc.

Another person posted a somewhat insightful excerpt from the draft which covers this situation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11265963
Not just any "other countries". PIAAC measures against other European and East Asian countries.

To put it politely, the US has much greater demographic diversity, with its associated implications for IQ and consequently, all associated g factors.
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Following on from my question about Langewiesche's analysis, my understanding is that aside from losing propulsion, the aircraft was largely undamaged. Given decent visibility and somewhere to put it down, an unpowered landing of an airliner would be considered challenging but doable with a high probability of success, even without control-system automation - see the Gimli Glider.
> Can I incorporate somewhere else in the EU

In case you want "Europe, but without EU law and surveillance", there is Switzerland.
Most folks in the UK support this bill, support the UK leaving the EU, support the scrapping of all human rights legislation.

It's a pretty regressive, insular country, ruled by fear.
The solution would be a decentralization. Tracking is a real threat when we only have 1 search engine, 2 social networks, 1 retailer and a single ad network. The web has created global-scale monopolies faster than before , and it seems like the centralization of VC capital and IT talent is permanent. Tracking becomes less of a problem when they are unable to follow you everywhere.
I find it interesting that a lot of content producers have feel entitled to users' participation in analytics at all.

Sure, it may be frustrating when a user blocks tracking tools (especially self hosted ones) but that's the their choice.

We got by for decades without analysing user habits (even in a local only context, without correlation with third party data). There are so few examples of cases where analysing user behaviour was a make or break factor in a store's survival. Sure, it can be useful to know what a user looked at and, as you suggest, how difficult it is to find the eggs. But there are better ways.

Physical stores at one point (and still now, in many cases) respect that user choice. Want to participate? Get a loyalty card. We'll watch how you spend, but we'll give a little something back to participants.

On the web, the solution is simple. Do it on your application servers back end. Have your request handler (which should probably know a lot more about your user in the context of your application than any third party tool) log user requests and actions. You'll be able to tie data gathered to a logged in user and their local purchase or browsing history.

You'll get to know your user better and you'll avoid third party tools that creep out a growing proportion of your users.

You're not entitled to participation in analytics.
Isn't this what Elasticsearch is doing now? Security is deliberately left out of the offering unless you purchase a very expensive support contract that give you access to Shield? I'm not sure I would call them a winner, its unclear how well they are doing. I think they are mostly running on VC money at the moment. I agree "Open Core" should be regarded with some suspicion.

Do you have a link to the MongoDB WSJ article? They are pretty terrible, even with a support contract bugs have a way of not being resolved or addressed.
I agree. This analogy is good up to the point where you consider that these trackers don't really know or care who you are. To them you're an anonymous hashed id.

Yes, they 'follow' you around, but they are essentially invisible and mostly aim to improve the targeting of ads/information.

It's easy to forget that a lot of this technology is very new and for a while there will be cases where it's seen as intrusive. Things will only get better over time.
Not a native speaker either, but I spent a fair amount of time in the US and Canada; and I don't think I've ever heard that phrase. Usually it's "buy one, get one free" or some variation of that.

The phrase you mentioned would mean that you receive 2 units and pay for 1.5.
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A pricing model that scaled with usage and was more inexpensive at the low-end would, in my opinion, better serve your company and customers. That way you pull more people into the product and increase the overall size of the pie.
No, they do think and know (2) will happen, and are probably hoping it does, as they realise that when it happens they can use it as an argument as to why they need MORE surveillance powers and MORE backdoors because "the bad guys" are STILL getting through, so more surveillance powers will be needed to keep you safe from the evil without, and to help you keep your British values good and strong.
I think (but I'm far from an expert) that it would be easy to filter out this fake information. Especially if it's obviously fake like "I've been all over the planet." A bit like spam vs "real" emails.
Don't create start-ups based in the UK.

Register overseas (if possible). This is going to harm the UK economy a lot more than they think.

Founders will think twice and will only add to risk and burdens when you are already competing in an international, competitive, start-up space.

Remove the offending country from the equation by relinquishing legal responsibilities. I know a few founders who have talked about doing this so I hope the UK reverses this or never becomes a prolific start-up space (which would be a shame).

I hope avoidance becomes common practice, the UK is not the only country that incentivise start-ups. Others do and thankfully don't have draconian laws such as this.
It's already a war - not only according to the article.
> To them you're an anonymous hashed id.

You wish.
> That's just incendiary nonsense. Trump is no more fascist than Bernie Sanders. -gozur88

Troll much?

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an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
More than 2 people, usually yes.
This is honestly the road to 1984.
I think you underestimate quite how much of a principled idiot I am.
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OK, now try doing that with $100MM of chips.
Uhh ... some source on that please? I couldn't find anything related