skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The EU is far less democratic

All the people in the controlling bodies (well at least the places that should be voted for. Voting for judges etc. is madness) in EU are appointed by the member nations (either by vote or appointed)

European Council: Heads of state of the member nations (president chosen by vote within)

European Commission: One member appointed by each country (so usually someone from the ruling coalition within each country). Sworn to represent the benefits of EU as a whole and not single countries. President proposed by the Council and voted on by the Parliament

European Parliament: Members chosen by vote from each country. President (speaker) voted within.

So both executive and legislative levels are voted in or representatives of a democratically chosen government. Looks like democracy to me.
So, who is rather able to defend privacy rights when the Chinese or American megacorporations come?

Iceland, with its 300'000 citizen? Or the EU, with 500'000'000 citizen, a GDP of 17 trillion?

The only way to police corporations is by having a state that is more powerful than them. And with corporations going multinational, superpowers are necessary.
> It's sad to see these washed-up 40 year olds drag the place under with their poor team work.

I haven't seen any evidence that the whole lone-wolf programming mindset has anything to do with age. Bad habits can develop over years for sure but I've seen plenty of teenage interns stubbornly refuse to adhere to coding styles/company practices despite plenty of reminders, for example.
The EU also has laws that prevent nation from doing mass-surveillance of their citizens, but countries like Denmark just ignore it, calling it "a central investigative tool".
I uh was too hungry to type it like that (it's lunchtime)
yes that is correct, actually 89k if you wanted to be precise, with 39k in development/opps and 11k in HR, legal, admin

of that 89k, it's important to know that i estimated 9k as being in marketing, sales dept finance, event organizing, CRM admin, etc

but yes, +80k that are calling customers, presenting slide decks, drafting legal documents and quotes globally (majority US and romania)
It is approved for humans actually. I had a hyaluronic acid injection my for knee injury. I didn't really notice that it did anything though. But I think it's generally supposed to help lessen the pain for cartilage damage that isn't a focal defect. Note that it doesn't do anything to improve the cartilage — it just helps the pain.
What about something like that for dimmable lamps, bulbs (triac instead of relay)?
This doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. I think countries in the EU are being incredibly stupid by allowing a foreign nation to maintain databases of pretty much all of their citizens movements, conversations, plans, history and relationships.
Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge as early as 6 years old
Why Hollywood is turning to books for its biggest productions
Abstract: Common stereotypes associate high-level intellectual ability (brilliance, genius, etc.) with men more than women. These stereotypes discourage women’s pursuit of many prestigious careers; that is, women are underrepresented in fields whose members cherish brilliance (such as physics and philosophy). Here we show that these stereotypes are endorsed by, and influence the interests of, children as young as 6. Specifically, 6-year-old girls are less likely than boys to believe that members of their gender are “really, really smart.” Also at age 6, girls begin to avoid activities said to be for children who are “really, really smart.” These findings suggest that gendered notions of brilliance are acquired early and have an immediate effect on children’s interests.
> So... one CA for each domain, leaving no competition? And which unwanted domain will LetsEncrypt be left with, then?

Domains can compete with each other, particularly given the big opening up of TLDs. We could have actual competition between CAs at the end-user-facing level because it'd be visible to the user who the CA was (the CA and the registry ought to be merged - at the moment they're two parallel sets of infrastructure for doing the same thing), and if particular domains/CAs had poor-quality identity checking users might actually start to notice. As opposed to today, where the only one who knows which CA a domain might be using is the domain owner, and so the incentive largely is for the CA to do as little checking as possible.

> Back in the real world, we have multiple CAs who have accountability for lots of overlapping domains. You can wish for some other non-existent situation, everyone else has to make the best of the situation as it stands.

There's a migration path. Enable DNSSEC/DANE with all CAs authorized for all domains initially, then allow countries / TLD owners to start restricting who can sign certificates for their domains. If Hong Kong moved to requiring only Hong Kong Post Office to sign their domains, we could see how well or badly that model works - if it reduces phishing / spying then other countries will follow the same, if it stifles innovative internet businesses then they'll move away from that. But 150+ entities all having the power to own every site on the internet can't possibly be the right model.
> - German comedian writes an insulting, profane poem about Erdogan; is prosecuted (at Turkey's behest) for insulting a foreign leader [1]

Wrong? Böhmermann was sued, and the court said "lolwat, Böhmermann is covered by the right to free speech".

Article 5, GG: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.ht...

> (1) Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing and pictures, and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.
Note to anyone not already familiar: in Elixir, character strings are all binaries from the start. Just to avoid the notion that Elixir follows the mistake of strings-are-linked-lists from Erlang.
There are trade offs to using pomodoro, but I find it's worth it. I get more work done with it than without it even taking into consideration distraction and switching costs.

I might be annoyed to be interrupted when I'm in the zone, but I don't procrastinate or lose focus during work intervals — being interrupted every 25 minutes is better than spending those 25 minutes scrolling through Reddit or HN.

Also, if a session ends and I'm really focused, I just ignore it and carry on working. Pomodoro is a framework, not a straitjacket.
> But I've never heard of it used for professional athletes.

That's because stem cell therapy is not generally approved for use yet. It is still in the research stage. There was one company that did it for a while in Colorado, but nobody could really figure out whether they were legit or a scam, and the FDA ended up putting a halt on their stem cell injections.
Oh look at what is happening to this antiquated law: http://www.dw.com/en/berlin-abolishing-slander-law-on-insult...
Maybe I phrased it poorly, I didn't mean it such that all 40yo+ progammers are like this, likely just a coincidence that they are all 40+.
That was my intuition, thanks.
The EC has already gone on record saying that this EO does not apply to the Privacy Shield.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/26/trump_blows_up_tran...

One of the provisions for the EU to agree to the Shield was that the Privacy Act would be extended to citizens of the EU plus certain non-EU European countries. The Shield and the Privacy Act extension goes into effect Feb 1.

That said, I don't think this executive order will alleviate the concerns of ordinary European consumers giving American internet companies
I think there might be few small historical reasons why you can't say that...
That's a good caveat. Still: Being litigated means the US is trying to achieve a state which is explicitly unsafe. Which for me means already that AWS-Frankfurt is not safe. Especially for something like medical data. The potential danger is way too big, especially since we know that the US-agencies will siphon the data anyway, regardless of what the court rules.

Think business: Do you really want to face the media backlash when your competitor lances the story that the medical data you collect goes directly into the tiny little hands of Trump, and to the NSA?
I was talking about Dialyzer when mentioning that but I wrote it that way because I didn't want to derail into an explanation of Dialyzer and how it works. I did link to a talk on it though.

It's such an automatic part of the stack with no drawback to using it that it's why I wrote it that way. Check that talk though, it's really interesting.
Privacy in data storage might end up requiring owning your hardware in the long run, regardless of your location. One company doing interesting work in this field is protonet, founded in Germany - https://protonet.com/company/about-us/.

I'm not sure why it seems harder for companies to take off in the EU. It does seem like funding is harder to come by here, but to be honest it seems like it ought to be _easier_ to start here than in the US. If I fail in most EU countries, I'm not worried about dying in a gutter like I am if I fail in the US.
Will it happen one day: you open HN in the morning then...
Didn't Feynman famously conclude that Challenger was largely to the blame of a culture that didn't respect safety over timeline and budget? That part felt a lot like Apollo 1. I recall reading that there was a fundamental ignorance at critical levels of management t on how risk is even measured.
I remember CLU said, "Acknowledge" but I can't remember if the MCP said, "End of transmission" or "End transmission."

From now on every time I Ctrl-d I want to think the voice of the Master Control Program.
I'm sure I'm not the only one waiting for it :)
The so called "Privacy Shield" was from the start just a renaming of the previous existing contract between the US and the EU. Thus it did not protect anything more than it was protected before.

Until the EU stops to make such "show politics" for the masses, nothing will change and we will get such contracts that essentially have no effect at all.
+1. Had a couple bad experiences. What bothered me more was the complete lack of response by Airbnb on both. Have decided it not worth occasional hassle for what these days doesn't seem to be a big saving unless traveling in a group.
"[November 15, 2007], the Sterling Money Markets Liaison Group [...] including bankers from Barclays, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Holdings and Lloyds. Eight attended from the Bank of England, including Tucker.

According to the minutes, "Several group members thought that Libor fixings had been lower than actual traded interbank rates throughout the period of stress."

http://reuters.com/article/idUSBRE86114M20120703
Thanks for the link. Jives with my intuition overall, but the speed comparison is jaw-dropping.
Rings – A horror movie
Europeans don't want liberal democracy anymore, that is the problem. It has failed people in its form and if leaders don't wake up now, the EU will be doomed and who knows what that brings next. Brexit, Le Pen etc. are consequences, not the reason.
I'd like to know where he's getting his figures about Rails from. As someone who left a Rails job (no React) fairly recently and has now switched to a React-centric role, while I was job-hunting there didn't seem to be a great demand for developers who knew React and Rails. It's almost like they're suggesting that people from a Django background will be worse off, which I disagree with. Regardless, I do agree that Full-Stack Rails developers should learn React.
It's amazing how pleasant the Internet can be when you cut out Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google/YouTube, et al. "Social Media" has become a cesspool.

I stick to the my trade (tech) and hobby related sites. Political discourse creeps in occasionally but for the most part the discussion is more constructive.
We don't have operations in France as of yet. Thank you for the heads-up.
Rants are totally uninformative (whatever your political persuasion) and there's a channel for them on Reddit (I gather). How is your comment related to 'Trump order, could nix EU-US data flows'?
The EU suffers from typical problems of federal governments. It feels distant and disconnected from the population. It compounds this with a democratic disconnect, where lots of officials aren't directly elected.

However, having said this, governance is actually quite good. In my opinion, EU central powers actually correct many of the blunders that national politicians do. Not that it couldn't be better, but one must acknowledge EU institutions are net positive, and not bad at all. Europe is much much better with the EU than with disparate national governments
It's the US view of absolute free speech which is borderline idiotic.

Absolute free speech can have real consequences, here's a sad example from the Rwandan Genocide (copied from Wikipedia):

> The Power groups also believed that the national radio station, Radio Rwanda, had become too liberal and supportive of the opposition; they founded a new radio station, Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLMC), which broadcast racist propaganda, obscene jokes and music, becoming very popular throughout the country.[89] One study finds that approximately 10% of the overall violence during the Rwandan genocide can be attributed to this new radio station.
Hired based on a trial week
'This week three men have been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of raping a woman in an apartment in Uppsala, about an hour north of Stockholm. It wasn’t difficult for the police to find the suspects because they broadcast the alleged assault on Facebook Live.'

Why do they still use those words when the entire point of the article is that they filmed themselves doing it?
Rails developers, ie web developers having appetite for nice, industrialization ready technologies, may prefer Ember...
+1

PS: Hey victor :)
I don't know this sales rep and I haven't looked up her online presence, but I would say it's unlikely oracle made her sign an NDA or non compete, even at her position (field sales on a key account i think? which is as high as you can get at the company)

oracle would definitely never hire her back considering the legal history between them, because oracls is relentless and ruthless in replacing "outspoken" employees with cheap obedient ones on a systematic basis

I do think some other competitor that sells old world enterprise tech to enterprises would have some reservations about her background as a "litigator" (that stigma wrongly exists in sales)

but clearly she is excellent at her job and i would be surprised if she was having a hard time finding another sales job
At this point I'm starting to wonder what doesn't constitute a fundamental right these days.

It's not unreasonable for an employer to expect their employees not to spend their time at work working/advertising/recruiting for a separate business. Of course no such protection exists for conversations had down the pub after work.

We've no real idea what the case in question involves - it may be that tesla cannot make it stick. It's all about context
Why would you want a CPU that can't get rid of its heat?
如何折叠衣服非常快的只需10秒钟
What is libel? What is calling fire in a packed theater? It's up to the courts.
I agree. I should have about the same age of cyberferret and I won't do anything serious with sinatra or padrino. Too much work to do. I don't have the time for that and my customers don't have the money. I wrote web apps from scratch in C (not ++) and Perl in the 90s but I don't want to reinvent the wheel every time, and after 10 years and many developers Rails is a much better wheel than anything I can build myself. Replace Rails with any other comparable framework, even if any other framework I've seen requires to do more work.
Air Engine Made of Wood (Matthias Wandel)
Alibaba’s Ant Financial Buys MoneyGram for $880m
Form Feed would actually cause the printer to feed to the top of the next page. Original line printers had a carriage control tape that indicated to the printer where the top of the page was.

Also line printers using standard paper were 132 columns across and 66 lines down, which was 11 inches at 6 LPI. This matched the US portrait paper height and allowed for about 10 character per inch plus margins for the tractor feed and perforations.
The event happened 23:31:19 UTC, Jan 27 1967. Please calculate when it was for the place you lived, then compare, maybe the interruption you remember happened before prime-time, that is, before 7:30?
Please read what I wrote again.

Saying "I hate the left" is not hate speech, as politics is meant to affect you — it is meant to affect the whole world, after all.

Saying "I hate muslims" is hate speech: practicing Islam is not meant to affect you. That doesn't mean you can't discuss it however: a discussion is not a verbal attack. You can even say "I hate the Jehovah's witnesses that knock on my door", as the group you are referring to directly affects you.
Makes sense.

Even in areas where they do match up tech-wise Auto, Nokia, Airbus/Ariane etc maybe they need a Elon Musk type to do some ass kicking.
Is Google at risk from the growing popularity of voice-enabled devices?
As soon as somebody invokes "values" , I know we're done.

They're mostly irrelevant. They're mostly post-hoc rationalizations. They are just-so stories. They are given the role of axioms in supposed geometries of governance, and it simply doesn't work.

Culture is what matters. Culture isn't necessarily conscious. It's emergent. And the mechanisms for enforcing and controlling culture are just messy. It, effectively, cannot be changed. A culture has to play itself out. This is why new firms are important.
The problem in Europe for start ups is rarely the supply side, it's the buy side; large EU companies don't buy start ups at the rate that large US companies do. This restricts the volume of exits, and therefore restricts the available funding; organisations that fund VCs normally get their money back in 5 to 10 years, but with less exits that means that VCs don't raise as often (which over averages means collectively they don't raise as much) because they don't get back as often.
At this point I can't take any Trump news seriously. Everything is "could" or "might". I can't even tell what's real and who's just working their Trump derangement out.
Figurit, entity-based content discovery and media monitoring
At this point, why not use a plain text editor for everything? I expect some minimal features from a todo app (time and/or location based reminders/notifications, ability to quickly add new items and check existing items, items classification, etc.), some of which cannot be achieved by using spreadsheets. Using a spreadsheet for this purpose sounds more like "everything is a nail" syndrome.
Semi-similar: when I was younger, I really wanted to move to the states and work in SV or similar.

Sadly, I hadn't researched labour-laws in the US (or healthcare, or... well, many things). Seems like a bad deal, now - though a few of my friends have moved out there, I don't particularly envy them.
> I'd prefer shorter sentences for non-violent drug offenses.

:)

I'd prefer much more reasonable drug policies- how growing a plant can be deemed illegal?

(pharma, alcohol, tobacco industries are not happy)
I'm pro-EU but there's plenty to be unhappy about. For example the European Parliament can't introduce legislation... that power is reserved for the European Commission, which seems to use it in a particularly pro-lobbyist manner.
> I'm happy to have gotten mostly rid of this. Gone are the days of choosing motherboards based on the LPT support, and praying that the JTAG drivers would work on an OS upgrade.

It's still there, and not going anywhere - the only thing that's past is LPT. Last time I used a Linux-grade Atmel SoC, it had a USB-CDC interface but the chain was still the same: boot from mask ROM, get minimal USB bootloader, load a bootstrap binary to SRAM, use that to initialize external DRAM, then load a flashing applet to DRAM, run it, use that to burn u-boot to flash, and then fire up u-boot's Ethernet & TFTP client to start a kernel from an external server and mount rootfs over NFS. Considering the amount of magic, it worked amazingly well. The whole shebang was packaged into a zip file with a single BAT to double-click and let it do the magic.

As for COM and LPT - FTDI and J-Link changed the embedded landscape forever, and thanks for that.
Nextcloud*

AFAIK most core developers of owncloud left that boat a while ago to continue working on the software in a more sensible way.
In that discussion, see the comment of "19670127", he first say he remembered "Batman" to be interrupted on ABC with the news. Then he discovered that "Batman" wasn't in ABC's Friday prime time schedule. Is it possible that the described interruption happened before the prime time?

The event happened 23:31:19 UTC Jan 27 1967, says Wikipedia.
Show HN: Median for Mac (data studio for analytics)
"Fit" is more or less a pantload. Now, if you are, say, a C shop you probably don't want some Smalltalk guy moaning 7 hours a day about how crude the environment is, but that's not what's meant here, is it?

If the narcissism of small differences wasn't a thing, I might agree.
The ‘Five Safes’ – Data Privacy at Office for National Statistical
That comparison was way better than I was expecting it to be. Go is still on my to-do list, but Elixir parts seem to be quite thoroughly described and without major mistakes. I also like the conclusion and to be honest this is how I always felt about the two. Definetly recommend reading this is if you're new to any of the two.
you can try a demo here:
https://figur.it/auth/login
user: demo@figur.it
pass: demo3000
Especially since the 'big five' has five (independent) metrics and MB has four...any mapping would be lossy.
Actually for me, React fitted me well as a jacket! Until a friend asked me why there was and advantage to spend an extra minute taking on and off that jacket instead of using a simpler jacket(vanillajs) that fitted just as well but that I could take on and off in seconds.

My conclusion today is that the massive hype around React, Angular and so on, is a similar story as The Emperor's new clothes.
Because until it's proven in a court of law, it's appropriate to do so.
I'm a bit of a special case--I'm an American military brat. I was born in the US but lived overseas before I could form a memory until I was a teenager.

I, too, had dreams of America being a beacon of progress and freedom. It was my nominal homeland but one I'd never experienced. I was proud of it and loved that other nations looked up to us.

But now that dream is dead. We're perfecting the surveillance state I was told would be impossible.

Now I look at Europe, and while I disagree with a great deal of its economic policies, I wonder if the grass just might be greener on the other side.
One pleasant upside of such systems is that the protocols are usually so simple you can reverse engineer them in a couple evenings. I can't count the times I ended up deriving the serial protocol from some undocumented, baroque source code (or sniffer dumps) and writing a quick & dirty implementation in a few dozen lines of Python.
Previous discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205057
This is an inspiring point of view for those of us who would like to do business internationally as well I think. Personally, I'm stuck on the idea that the Internet is capable of helping citizens transcend national barriers (and timezones) to live more meaningful lives not strictly defined by the pens of politicians.
Static pages vs something like WordPress?
Implementing defer()