skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that a takeaway? The article didn't even mention climate change (and it's impossible to definitively attribute a single event to climate change.

How is a big wet storm a "defense mechanism"? Why would the earth even have active "defense" mechanisms? What it is it defending?

It doesn't seem like a very effective defense mechanism, so far reports are that there were only 20 - 30 confirmed deaths due to the floods out of 6 million in the metro area. While tragic in the real sense, more people than that must die of natural causes in the Houston area every day.
Presumably: that you are allowed to use it during exams in the USA. That's what has kept TI's offerings competitive.

The hardware has an "exam mode" that it is non-trivial to get out of (https://www.numworks.com/resources/faq/)

I do expect that to be hacked, though. The FAQ says:

"How to exit the exam mode?

Simply plug your device to a computer using the supplied USB cable. you will then be prompted to exit the exam mode."

It wouldn't surprised if one could fake that computer by powering a USB plug with a small battery. If not, the OS source is available, so a backdoor for leaving exam mode likely isn't far away.
Parent comment is talking about the cost of compliance, not fines for non-compliance.
Vid is fine, looping is not the marquee feature.

Apple calls them live photos, I like it.
Using things like stackalloc, malloc, and local-only references, It is possible to implement algorithms in C# which can run at blazing-fast speeds, sometimes hundreds of times faster than idiomatic C#. C#-style arrays would not make the cut.

The optimal thing to do would be to memcpy several KB of data at a time from your heap-based memory, into your stack-allocated memory, do your processing in the optimized inner-loop, then commit the data back to the heap. I had to do this once to increase the throughout of a cluster of image processing servers.

I often scoff at the idea that C# isn't a good choice for performance-intensive tasks.
It should be noted that, on iPhones, there is no 64gb model offered. It's 32gb, 128, and 256. On the Jet Black, it starts at 128.
NuCypher (YC S16) is hiring a senior designer
Pouring petroleum products on the ground is what is generally known as a "HAZMAT SPILL" and requires EPA reporting, remediation of soils and watersheds, etc.

Even in Texas it is banned by the TCEQ, which as with most Texas regulatory agencies exists primarily to prevent any regulations from being promulgated or enforced.

Edit: Just want to add, a single gallon of diesel fuel spilled can contaminate a million gallons of drinking water in a reservoir, stream, or aquifer. It's not a great idea.
To be honest, the Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google of this world aren't the one that have been leaking the most personal data. It's the smaller companies and startups that have been leaking personal data at an alarming rate. What we are beginning to see now is the regulatory backlash. Regulations are inconvenient, expensive, create barriers to entry (ask bankers!). But the current pace of gathering then leaking of personal information is just unacceptable and unsustainable. Between the two evils, I am not sure I prefer the current statu quo.
We shouldn't forget that an SD card slot would solve this problem. And while we are at it, allow disk and memory upgrades on Macbooks.
Yes.

If you process the personal data people in the EU then you have to comply:

Article 3

Territorial scope

1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not.

2. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:

(a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or

(b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

3. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data by a controller not established in the Union, but in a place where Member State law applies by virtue of public international law.
By my math, if that were a single spherical water droplet, it would be almost 3.7 miles in diameter.

If you have trouble visualizing this (as I do), the height of the Empire State Building is 0.2 miles. So imagine a sphere of water 20 times taller than the Empire State Building falling on New York.

Of course, the area and rate it falls on is crucial, but as a way to think about the scale of it I found this useful.

Edit: just saw this was done nicely by the article dreamcompiler linked to!
Verify user phone numbers in Ruby on Rails with the Authy verification API
That is a recommended form if everyone has life preservers on (especially if you have small children -- they float in the middle of the group), but like the others have said, without additional flotation devices, it doesn't work.
I wasn't comparing Google Phones to iPhones, but to the rest of the fragmented Android market. iPhones don't come with bloatware and crapware either. But what issues did your Nexus 5 give you?
I make and fettle software.

Mostly bioinformatics/genomics in practice, but not especially wedded to that field.

Have never been especially comfortable with the "software engineer" label, although it seems to be what a lot of people go by these days.

How about "hacker"?
It would have been a shame if the OSes on which Firefox runs had similarly limited access to shared memory to one particular "safe" style in the spirit of paternalistic caution.

Would Rust/Servo have been possible without access to the raw rope?
Presumably the voters would make changes if they wanted to.
That's policing actions, not the content of the messaging. Obviously setting fire in a movie theater is something policed, because it's not a purely communicative action.
_Zero_ revenue?

That's not a startup, that's a hobby.
> Google might want to look at the history of Standard Oil and the old US wide singular Bell Telephone.

Those companies made their owners very, very wealthy, and the companies' decedents remain extremely wealthy and powerful. The CEO of one of the decedents, Exxon, is now the U.S. Secretary of State, for example.

Google may think that's a very acceptable downside risk.
> "The linker removes code in your application and dependent libraries that are not reached by any code paths. It is effectively an application-specific dead code analysis."

Putting aside the discussion on whether this is a good practice, I assume this would remove methods that are only called dynamically, or via reflection.
Patrick has been consistently posting in-depth articles about his code base and business for years. People like him and his rational advice the same way we like the Candy Japan guy.
High tech low life.
We are still too early in the bubble cycle. The returns are higher every year but they are linear. Wait until the public comes (free money?) and discover this; and then you get a parabolic market run and a subsequent crash.
But the parent is one lookup and the children are 1000. Thats why.
Software developer, more specifically back-end software developer, even more specifically DBMS developer.
Oklahoma has always been on the short list of "poorest states", even before the dust bowl.
> First of all, it should be common sense that no one has the right to force legitimate news articles to disappear because they don't like the content, but that is what the EU has ruled should happen.

No, it is about deleting personal data attached to your user account, not "news articles". This thing intends to make the "delete my account" button to actually, you know, "delete my account", instead of fake-deleting it by setting a "deleted" flag and telling me that everything is gone now while still keeping gigabytes of data associated with me in your database.

> [...] meaning you need a way to ensure that "forgotten" users never get restored.

If this is considered to be a hard problem, then I assume storing some list of deleted users in a separate place and immediately purge those users from the backup after restore must be some kind of rocket science.

> There is a good chance your little startup that isn't cash flow positive will have to spend $1 million of its VC money on becoming GDPR compliant.

I wouldn't call it "to become GDPR compliant", I would call it "to build a sound database structure". Because if you are unable to purge all data associated to one of your users' accounts from your system without destroying the integrity of the rest of your data, then you obviously have a half-baked system at your hands that lacks a core feature - to actually delete accounts. And you surely should spend some of your money to refactor this crap into a long-term viable solution while you are still small and agile enough to do that. Because it's only going to be way more expensive later on...
You should "just accept it as a part of the cycle of the earth" if you believe these cycles are supposed to happen on a period on the order of a century.
I don't find corruption (to a certain degree) shocking, but it is offensive and should be minimized and we should find ways to reduce it over time. Murder isn't shocking - it happens all the time - but absolutely should be minimized.

Do you think it's not a story, that the NY Times shouldn't have published it?
64gb is hardly a middle tier these days. Not when Apple wants us to take high resolution (and live) photos and movies, and watch movies and games on our devices. 32 GB is closing in on unusable for a modern phone with a few dozen apps.

I'd consider 64GB to be the bottom tier, with 128 and 256 or 512 the next two tiers. And based on the specs on the pro devices (even the mini 4), Apple seems to agree.
Wow, eagle eyes. Thank you. Any tips on how to deal with quotes around variable expansions in general? Should I quote each usage of a variable or does it depend on context?
How I saved myself 3-months of frustration by fixing a vendors bug
https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/216/review

Bitfinex is closed for US customers.
Please no ad-hominem. You should only discuss his article in question.
How to show all-important humility in leadership without being a doormat
> There is at least one possible upside: Fire ants love to eat ticks

So what we need is a bio-engineered species of fire ant that requires some harmless environmental additive to survive. Then we breed them, release them over a tick-infested area, and let them breed long enough to kill off the ticks. Then quit spraying or watever the additive they need and let them die off.

What Could Go Wrong.

But seriously, screw ticks and fire ants.
Hashcash was still missing a major piece: the idea of the blockchain as a solution to Byzantine fault tolerance.
Leaking PII isn't the main issue. Processing of PII is. And Facebook et. al. do a lot of that.
It feels like the reaction of a VW engineer complaining that CO2 emissions regulations are making his job complicated.

Yeah, if you want the data, you need to be able to handle the data in a compliant way. The other solution is to not collect the data. Keep in mind that this is targeted at user tracking. Don't expect me to be sympathetic to the troubles of backing up all of that tracking data.
I really do wonder where Bloomberg got all this predictions from and looking forward to the 9/13 when they have to update this article.

Either the author didn't know about future tense or he just tried to give his employer some traffic.

It's just stupid to pretend that you details which of course are well secretly kept.
Seems like this article is inflammatory and totally unnecessary.

It is written in a way to pin a blame on someone (Raymond H) and also looking at python-dev (and even on the github issue) the decision was made month earlier (July) to go with the optimization[1], and Raymond complied[2].

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-July/14860...
[2] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-July/14861...
I agree with your statements.

But it has nothing to do with Agile or Scrum. It all has to do with company culture. It reminds me of my favorite Henrik Kniberg quote "If your company doesn't like the truth, than maybe Agile isn't for you". Very few companies realize value from script kiddies on a constant death march (great quote BTW) and that prevents no one from trying.
True. And I think that's a recognition of the fact that 128GB is actually the sweet spot, not 64GB. Meanwhile there is a sizable number of people who don't really need any storage at all, which is why the 32GB model exists.
Will the McLaren 570GT Survive an Off-Road Camping Expedition?
So, great, you've identified some problems.

That's the easy part.
Might be easier for small niche companies with no offices in the EU but willing EU customers to ask for payment via a cryptocurrency.

It just seems to me in the long run, more and more laws like this will pop up, and using cryptocurrencies will get easier/ more familiar.
When you register a new asset, the Edgemesh backend downloads it from origin itself to validate the hash you've calculated. And on replication the destination recalculates it on the payload (to make sure the asset replicated correctly).
That wasn't the key insight -- it was the idea that you could get a working solution under the assumption that 50%+1 of the hashing power is from honest nodes as long as those nodes agreed to coordinate on the ledger with the most proven work invested in it.
You're discounting all the people who basically don't use storage on their devices.

I guarantee you my grandmother has no need for 64GB of space.
> "Satoshi" (or this group of people) must have worked months or a year on this before putting it up on source control.

In one [0] of his emails to Mike Hearn [1] Satoshi Nakomoto wrote that he worked on Bitcoin for two years before releasing the paper and code:

> I must admit, this project was 2 years of development before release, and I could only spend so much time on each of the many issues.

His emails to Hearn and others make clear that his creative process consisted mainly of writing code until he was convinced things worked. In my opinion, Satoshi Nakomoto was a lone hacker.

0. https://pastebin.com/wA9Jn100

1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2080206.0
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It isn't, and the answer is "you can't get good data". A good example would be immunotherapy for cancers, which has to be tested alongside treatments with adverse impact on immune function
I wonder what the balance of local work in the ICD is to RPC. I wouldn't have thought to proxy OpenGL to an IP network for anything interactive, but their example given is KSP.
CC-BY-NC-ND is a very strange choice of licenses, especially with "contributions welcome".
Iraqi Sniper, an American Sniper-Impel Is in Plan
> We shouldn't forget that an SD card slot would solve this problem. And while we are at it, allow disk and memory upgrades on Macbooks.

Aside from the fact that an SD card slot would make it much harder to charge a premium markup on the hardware (which is where Apple makes most of its money), there are genuine usability concerns with putting SD cards on mobile phones.

They're not insurmountable, which is why Samsung and other manufacturers do it, but Google and Apple both avoid it for their flagship devices, because from their perspective, forcing the user to have to think about the difference between internal and external storage is an anti-pattern.

Power users may not like that answer, but beyond the revenue, that's the other reason they do it.
Yeah but they have the resources to deal with these regulations. The parent comment complains about smaller companies having to deal with these regulations.
> None of these corporations can feasibly avoid that without exiting EU markets altogether.

Ultimately if the fines or compliance costs get too high that's exactly what happens. A company that does no business in the EU is not subject to EU rules. But because it is such a large and wealthy market the threshold is very high. If Kazakstan passed a similar law it'd be a very different story.
My "most" claim was more generic, in that they are situational, triggered by emotions (and lack of emotional control), and most often between people that know each other. Him making a pass at her is merely my conjecture of how that might have happened in this particular case, based on the circumstances that have been reported.
Something, something....horseshoes....hand grenades....
What's the Best Live TV Streaming Service?
You can already buy single use phone chargers at convenience stores which, while ecologically horrifying, also speaks to how the economics of mass manufacturing work.

Then again, are single use phone chargers any more ecologically horrifying than non-rechargeable AA batteries or have they simply been around for much longer and have become mundane.
So cool! well done :)

I found a minor bug, if you go to https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/ (note the slash at the end), then the server gives 500.
Perhaps just redirect the user to https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes for a better UX.
Bloomberg hired the author (Mark Gurman) from 9to5Mac last year. https://www.recode.net/2016/6/1/11835514/bloomberg-mark-gurm...

He was a senior editor there. His 9to5Mac bio shows quite a stellar track record

https://9to5mac.com/author/markgurman/
Canada beats the US in just about every metric you can imagine... From infant mortality to overall patient (and doctor) satisfaction.
Dirk Hohndel Brings Open Source to VMware
I misworded these hypothetical scenarios, making them seem like they would actually happen today. I don't recall that it asks you for bank account numbers before you even begin. It probably doesn't. I have used turbotax for years and had pretty much the same bank accounts during that time. It does ask for the numbers at reasonable times. If you don't give them you can still use Turbotax to take care of business.
These regulations aren't all that onerous, to be honest.

Take a look at this link, for example: https://iconewsblog.org.uk/2017/08/25/gdpr-is-an-evolution-i...
Not even close. Let's pick Canada as an example. If you make $95k USD (household) you're better off in the US.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/23/heres-how-much-the-average-a...

We spend a little more than $10k USD on medical expenses or $13k CAD.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/price-of...

Around $120k CAD is the tipping point where you spend more than the average person in the US which is about $95k USD.
Does that mean you avoid services like facebook or google?

Plenty of us do.
> You need to research the right to be forgotten as it applies to news articles, it doesn't work in the way you describe.

I was referring to Google vs. Costeja, which I realize isn't GDPR, but an EU court did rule that way.

> You don't need a compliance officer, but you do need a security officer

I strongly believe that compliance and security are two very different things, that are only slightly related. They come at it from a very different perspectives. A security engineer should be doing threat modeling and protecting against threat vectors. A compliance officer may consult a security engineer, but ultimately their job is to check boxes to make sure regulations are followed. I think compliance staff are more appropriately part of a legal team than an engineering team.

That isn't to say compliance officers aren't useful. Having a strong compliance voice can be great. I've seen companies without a compliance officer reduce security because an auditor told them regulations required something. A good compliance officer would have been able to push back against the auditors, pointing out what regulations actually require, and working with the security engineers to come up with a solution that meets regulations and actually improves security.
Yes, but again this adds complexity.
If you use USB you can also emulate one as an MMC device.
But overall wifi is simple and guaranteed to work.
If this was a product then going the SD card or a "proprietary" protocol is the way to go.
But if you are using Ethernet then wifi or wire is simpler.
In this case it's also less to worry about electro-mechanical connections.
It doesn't strictly pertain to his hypothesis, but presumably you would like data on false positives and negatives as well as overall outcome percentages.
With which ubuntu release did/does Wayland start? Wayland obsoletes Xorg? Or complements it?
I'm in the US and my health insurance costs $1600/month for a family of three.

Luckily, my employer picks up half of that tab.

Even with that amount of expense we still have a $2000 deductible each!
If it's anything like the KitKat situation, no money exchanged hands, but both companies used it as a cross branding deal.
He forgot the mumble talker in his list of people that come to the Daily Stand Up.
Agreed. For products in Amazon above a certain star threshold (say, 3+), I evaluate given the shape of the review histogram, particularly minimizing the size of the bump down at 1-star and 2-star.
"Mindfulness in Plain English" is similar:

http://www.vipassana.com/meditation/mindfulness_in_plain_eng...
Looks like it's controlled through webdriver..

I'm guessing you can lookup the webdriver spec to see what you can do...
I make red lights green, and sometimes I on break a light with a hammer so that it gets replaced with something better.
From the last time this was asked, they asked permission. With KitKat, they paid - someone linked a citation for it but it's not in my history.
Diversity is an Innovation Metric
Spot on. I'm still using a 16GB iPhone and plenty happy with it. Really don't get why so many people want me to have to pay for a higher spec I won't use.
Is common yes but not as easy you can't easily setup file transfer over serial, in this case a simple FTP to a pre determined folder that the screen grabs the gifs from is a heck of a lot easier to setup than sending a binary file over serial.
Things like this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-executive-arrested-in-...

The advantage of having armies and police forces is that you can lock people up who don't adhere to your rules. Good luck having any employees in Europe if you decide to ignore their regulations!
No Xeon W is a fully baked core i9 where’s the I series is gimped for mainstream use
>>> Rights exist for humans regardless of whether or not they are being governed

I don't know, I mean rights as we know it didn't exist until relatively recently when they were recognised and enforced by governments.

I don't see how "free speech" can exist without something protecting that right. Yes, I know, technically the person shutting you up is technically violating your right. But without an objective arbiter such as society, they were just exercising their right to shut you up, which, in their view, is their god given right, who's to say.
Samsung, to be fair, stopped doing it on flagships for a while, too, bringing them back on last years S7 and Note7.
Users wouldn't be forced to think about the difference between internal and external storage. They could ignore the SD card slot and pretend it doesn't exist. Those who want to put up with the hassle could use it.

There's an advantage in saving space and cost, and a major advantage for Apple in forcing people to buy absurdly expensive upgrades from them, but it's not about making the experience better somehow.
Ya, I fail to see the benefit of this (for IoT) over using any other widely-available technology for secure communication (SSH, etc)
And potentially more desperate, which can result in collective punishment, various civil rights violations, and expensive lawsuits.

This is about what you expect from kakistocracy.